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

yeah, an acquaintance who works as a homeless advocate says that for whatever his good intentions are or are not, di blasio is so hapless as a manager that she'd rather have bloomberg back

― mookieproof, Friday, February 12, 2016 3:42 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

From my experience so far with UPK, I'd agree with this.

good ad. Bernie's rhetoric on the topic is kinda leaden, unfortunately.

― Οὖτις, Friday, February 12, 2016 12:12 PM (5 hours ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbhAf62wfgE

lol u been waitin all day to drop that

nah i just got off work.

anecdotal data point: was talking to a christian co-worker who is perpetually convinced the end times are next week. he said the only person he could see himself bothering to vote for this time out is bernie. "i don't agree with any of his policies, but i like him," he said. he said if bernie wasn't running he'd probably stay home.

(i will, of course, eat my hat if he actually votes for bernie.)

looks like sady doyle thinks HRC "won" that kissinger exchange

https://twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/697985744678289408

She seems like a crazy person.

who'd have thought, someone who became 'famous' from typing in all caps

debate seemed like a draw to me. they both came across well. sanders scored some points on the kissenger thing that made up for a fumbling response to the foreign policy question about russia.

sad, but at least he gave the world Kate Bush

Made my day!

surprised not more ppl have pointed this out but very few presidents have any foreign policy experience before coming to the white house. i mean bill clinton sure didn't have any. the only one from the last 50 years i can think of who had any significant f-p experience before becoming president were nixon and bush sr.

Obama was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

but yeah idk if that counts as "significant"

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/12/1484056/-Celebrated-Photographer-Yes-That-Is-Bernie-Sanders-Time-Magazine-Is-Lying

Danny Lyon, one of the great photogs of the 20th century, just busted Jonathan Capeheart and Time. Stay classy, Team Hil!

maybe ford? house subcommittee on defense, minority-leader meddling in vietnam. nothing where you'd say "oh he set the agenda there" but probably actually knew more about what the state department and pentagon got up to than, say, your average governor.

That Ted Cruz ad, holy shit

Well there ya go, Jeb's team trashing Rubio for liking NWA. It's 1988!

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/02/12/team-jeb-rubio-is-a-phony-on-family-values-given-some-of-the-hip-hop-he-listens-to/

I saw Trump earlier was going on about how he's not going to use "bad words" while he's campaigning in South Carolina. Can already see it:

"Well, I've been saying I wasn't going to use any bad words, but now I hear Ted Cruz, he's - and I like Ted, Ted's a good guy but Ted does not get it, if you know what I mean. He's crazy, this guy, I think. Don't you think so? Like, koo-koo, crazy. And I guess, I haven't seen it but they're telling me Ted has got an ad out now where it keeps saying, over and over, it says 'Damn.' Damn! Damn, damn, damn, damn. Ted Cruz. Well, that's in the Bible, that's not such a bad word. But, but - - - hold on. Hold on now. This lady in front, she's excited, and I'm excited too. But that's not all. People are going to notice this. It says 'Damn, it feels good to be a Clinton?!' Now what does that mean? It feels good to be a Clinton, and I can't say a bad word? Now I don't know about this stuff, but my staff, they tell me it has something to do with gangster rap. It's gangster rap about Hillary Clinton, and maybe it says something bad about her but I don't listen to that stuff. So that's Ted Cruz for ya. Gangster rap and it feels good to be a Clinton. Well, we're gonna win and I'll tell you one thing, the gangster rap, that's over, that's outta here."

how does Rubio feel about Sister Souljah tho

rubio gets the gas face

omg lol i made up that whole spiel without knowing that jeb bush and marco rubio are going at it over what the kids are calling the gangster-rap. these guys!

Where's Tipper Gore!?!?!

yeah, an acquaintance who works as a homeless advocate says that for whatever his good intentions are or are not, di blasio is so hapless as a manager that she'd rather have bloomberg back

― mookieproof, Friday, February 12, 2016 2:42 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i know very little about bloomberg, but i do worry that as good as sanders's policy positions are, that he'd make a terrible manager. i just can't /see/ him as president, and it's not just because the last few years decades centuries have made me conflate the presidency with egotistical coldblooded alpha males.

JEB! what's on yr spotify playlist

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "Even the Losers"

Air Supply "I'm All Out of Love"

Drake "No New Friends"

"Danny Lyon, one of the great photogs of the 20th century, just busted Jonathan Capeheart and Time. Stay classy, Team Hil!"

Woah.

i guess bernie was a decent small-city mayor? which is practically nothing, but still more executive political experience than obama had

oh yeah being a mayor is a breeze /s

Unsympathetic rich GOP types are bitter they are not buying enough votes/voters.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/gop-megadonors-fundraising-freeze-219228

it's almost touching how graft and corruption is unable to overpower ignorance and racism

Warms the cockles etc

yes let's just guess about 'managerial' qualities in the White House, if we have a disappointing vision let's go on with the plunging wages, endless war, rising waterline etc

the Punditocracy of the Voter, what a shitshow

bernie should pick morbs as secretary of state

confirmation hearings would be amazing

two-state Palestinian solution like *that*

as you know, reading of ILX transcripts would finish me

Dr. Morbius, the American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn ILX posts!

o man if i were better at photoshop

Let's dispel with this fiction that Dr. Morbius doesn't know what he's doing - he knows exactly what he's doing!

Likable enough.

i know very little about bloomberg, but i do worry that as good as sanders's policy positions are, that he'd make a terrible manager. i just can't /see/ him as president, and it's not just because the last few years decades centuries have made me conflate the presidency with egotistical coldblooded alpha males.

What makes you say this? What suggests that he has bad managerial skills? Arguably he's run the best campaign (out of like 4933 candidates) this year, so that seems like a point in his favor.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbES_e4W4AApVnt.jpg

getting real hackman-as-luthor vibes off of that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRWowww2lEI

Bernie is hard to imagine as President because he seems to be operating out of something other than a naked thirst for power or accumulation of wealth and prestige for himself and his cronies. OTOH, he's running for President, so...

looking for a reason not to vote for someone who isn't entirely from the asshole cookie-mold: classic liberalism

People on my FB feed not crazy about Bernie naming that racist wad Churchill as a hero.

this strikes me as a rather bullshit press conference/headline

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/politics/john-lewis-bernie-sanders-civil-rights/

“It is a blessing to the party,” Priebus said on Fox News’ “Happening Now.”

“It is helpful to us," he continued. "Happy for him to grab a ticket and get on board.”

Only fifteen minutes later, the RNC chair made the same point to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

“I don’t view it as a third party,” Priebus said. “I view it as another Democrat so you'll have two Democrats running and splitting their vote. Look, he's been fighting and pounding away at Republicans for how long now? He wants to tax slurpees and sodas. The guy is a liberal Democrat so great, if they want to have two Democrats run and split their vote and let us compete in places like Connecticut and New Hampshire and Maine—places we used to win 20 years ago—we'll take it. Honestly it's no skin off our back.”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/priebus-bloomberg-2016-run

looking for a reason not to vote for someone who isn't entirely from the asshole cookie-mold: classic liberalism

People on my FB feed not crazy about Bernie naming that racist wad Churchill as a hero.

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius)

dividing the world up into Good People and Bad People: classic progressivism

a great timesaver when the cunts make it obvious