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

apologies for positive Wasserman-Schultz story too

apologies for positive Wasserman-Schultz story too

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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)

Rubio really should have prepared a second index card.

The whole exchange is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_Gg6ggghoI

Keep it going to the end, it's pretty horrible.

why wd anyone watch that

Nice Lamar! shirt WJC has on in that huffpost link.

Classic ending to Frederik's clip with "Gov. Bush, I'll mention your name..."

A FB friend of mine has made 21 pro-Bernie/anti-HRC posts in the last 24 hours

that 6 minutes should finish rubio's campaign.

Of course Rubio and his manager were all over TV Sunday saying they were just "staying on message." Much like Laurence Olivier stayed on message in Marathon Man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-OviftusB8

As horrible as Christie & Trump are it's super enjoyable to see them using their bullying tendencies to show up this field of chumps