I will keep doing, but not worth it! The 2016 Presidential Primary Voting Thread

i was wincing watching Christie destroy Rubio

back in good ol' (sorta) Democratic theft:

"In Grinnell Ward 1, the precinct where elite liberal arts college Grinnell College is located, 19 delegates were awarded to Bernie Sanders and seven were awarded to Hillary Clinton on caucus night. However, the Iowa Democratic party decided to shift one delegate from Sanders to Clinton on the night and did not notify precinct chair J Pablo Silva that they had done so. Silva only discovered that this happened the next day, when checking the precinct results in other parts of the county."

In the old days, when Democrats knew how to do politics right, a change like this would have required a substantial bribe of whiskey and strippers, as well as a decent county job for the idiot nephew of the county chairman. To paraphrase George C. Scott in Patton, god, how I hate the 21st Century.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a41894/democratic-party-iowa-caucus-delegate-shift/

hey, unlike Henry K, this war criminal is tubthumping for Hil, and bringin' the sisterly guilt.

Madeleine Albright, campaigning for Hillary Clinton: "Remember, there's a special place in hell for women who don't support other women."

https://twitter.com/LailaLalami/status/696120756577566721

http://gawker.com/watch-bernie-sanders-joke-about-his-shtick-and-anti-sem-1757592781

Madeleine can fuck right off with that shit. so if Hillary was in favor of letting bloodthirsty genetically enhanced gorillas in the street to thin the population, we'd still need to vote for her?

actually i'm not so sure I don't support that

Taking out copyright on "The Stepford Candidate" as a Rubio nickname.

also it's kinda sad that Steinem has signed up with the nitwit branch of American feminism

https://www.thewrap.com/gloria-steinem-slammed-for-suggesting-young-women-support-bernie-sanders-to-chase-boys/

Debbie Wasserman Schultz--bless her heart--calls out the GOP for hiding their debates on big weekend nights, thus reaping the whirlwind (apologies for Vox link, I know):

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/6/10928904/debbie-wasserman-schultz-weekend-debates

apologies for positive Wasserman-Schultz story too

apologies for positive Wasserman-Schultz story too

http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/12642938_1260892267260248_8697065297061840503_n.jpg?oh=f20ad615bf4f53ec834f3cc1f5ea2d3f&oe=57681A1B

https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/694391179492868096

Something I believe now that I didn't believe a year ago: if Elizabeth Warren had run, she would've won the Democratic nomination

huh, good chance this is true

Steinem apologized:

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/696389854154919937

https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/694391179492868096

Something I believe now that I didn't believe a year ago: if Elizabeth Warren had run, she would've won the Democratic nomination
huh, good chance this is true

― k3vin k., Sunday, February 7, 2016 1:09 PM (2 minutes ago)

although i guess if we accept that the demographic gap is what will ultimately propel clinton to the nomination, i'm not sure how warren necessarily closes that

p4reene addressed the dubiousness of that last week. BS has won 14 elections, EW what, one? It's no fait accompli.

Isaac Matson ‏@citizenXIV 26m26 minutes ago
@CaitlinPacific @maggieNYT @AthertonKD "What I said was misinterpreted. What I meant was [entirely different words]."

It's great that Steinem has apologised, even if it's hard to see an explanation for what she said. It won't stop right-wingers and anti-feminists from quoting that forever.

"I apologize for what's been misinterpreted" isn't much of an apology.

how about "I'm sorry i had an opinion"

Well, if she was voicing an opinion she stands by, there's no need to apologize at all.

she's not sorry about anything, i'm quite sure

"I apologize for what's been misinterpreted"
"I'm sorry you took it that way."

"I'm sorry you were offended by what I said."

"I'm sorry I have to waste my time explaining myself to morons like you."

no we understood you the first time, you superannuated clown

i thought she made a lot of good points sticking up for the role of feminism in the muslim world. i guess that doesn't get the clicks

sticking up for the role of feminism in the muslim world

Albert Brooks, no?

The things people need to apologize for these days. Everything about this is so stupid.

On a FB thread today, I basically apologized in advance because a celebrity death has never brought me to tears.

not even tim horton's?

When they stopped making blueberry fritters, yes, but that doesn't really count.

She's getting really ridiculously easy to hate

@froomkin
Clinton Sarcastically Says She’ll Release Speech Transcripts When Everyone Else Does

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5a12wCSwuw

You were having a hard time before?

https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/696444846089830401

marc loi peter daou wants to know why this was never an issue with male presidential candidates????

"On a FB thread today, I basically apologized in advance because a celebrity death has never brought me to tears."

You need to be properly gutted! We'll find someone who guts you, don't you worry...

bill james still has some years left in him

really k3v? that's yr take?

(xpost) The Favorite Toy gives him another 19.3 years. I'll be gone.

yeah, ok, cheap shot. obviously plenty of the opposition to hillary is gender-based, conscious or not. still think that guy's a dork tho xp

not very cute either

I'm actually kind of anxious watching the Clinton campaign fucking up so bad right now, going on the attack against the VOTERS and not just their candidate, you know, those same voters we hope don't stay home if Clinton gets nominated. Anxious because I assume she's still the presumptive nominee, although it's starting to look less inevitable, and if this is her strategy to win nationally -- the people who don't support me are young and dumb -- then I fear for her candidacy as well as for the likelihood of Democrats being able to mobilize young voters in general.

Rubio doing such a great job on his Freshman Introduction to Communications speech

― gaz coombes? yo he don't got NUTHIN ta prove! (Neanderthal), Saturday, February 6, 2016 8:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

funny enough, i'm going to use rubio's repeating the same scripted lines three times as a bad example of extemporaneous speaking in my speech class this week

Fury of Bubba unleashed

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-clinton-bernie-sanders_us_56b7d00de4b04f9b57da0d2f

the Screaming Lobster of Hope is back!

ugh

"vicious trolling"

"And through the strength of my personal friends [....] I picked up like, I don't know, 12 or 14 points in three days. The rest is history," Clinton said.

Oh, so you understand the problem, then.

that is one ballsy euphemism

I'm actually kind of anxious watching the Clinton campaign fucking up so bad right now, going on the attack against the VOTERS and not just their candidate, you know, those same voters we hope don't stay home if Clinton gets nominated. Anxious because I assume she's still the presumptive nominee, although it's starting to look less inevitable, and if this is her strategy to win nationally -- the people who don't support me are young and dumb -- then I fear for her candidacy as well as for the likelihood of Democrats being able to mobilize young voters in general.

I wouldn't waste too much energy worrying about the Clintons' ability to campaign in the general election and I especially wouldn't worry with the current crop of opposition candidates

funny enough, i'm going to use rubio's repeating the same scripted lines three times as a bad example of extemporaneous speaking in my speech class this week

That's pretty cool - the clip below suggests* he tries again a fourth time, reworded slightly, and, it being the first time after Christie points it out, he gets booed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNRNHgi1RzU

*I didn't see the debate, I'm taking it on honour that the clips in the video are in the right order (and indeed from the same debate)