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GOP Primary: Mass Hysteria

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    I can't believe the talking heads were calling Trump "more presidential" after the debate last night

    The guy behaved himself reasonably well for a couple of hours, that does not make him presidential

    It's like when my kids get grounded from video games for being super shitty to each other and then 5 minutes later they ask to play them again because they haven't punched each other in the face in that span of time

  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    You can just see the letters of WHITE have different pixelation artefacts and don't curve with the person's body. It's a shop and not a good one.

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
  • PhyphorPhyphor Building Planet Busters Tasting FruitRegistered User regular
    Richy wrote: »
    You can just see the letters of WHITE have different pixelation artefacts and don't curve with the person's body. It's a shop and not a good one.

    So what you're saying is you've seen a lot of shops and can tell from the pixels

  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »

    This person lives in a different reality than the rest of us

  • MancingtomMancingtom Registered User regular
    edited March 2016
    Mancingtom was warned for this.
    Atomika wrote: »
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    So Trump is backing up about a hundred years in terms of rhetoric, repeating the old Gospel of Wealth lines about how the rich are better people because if you're poor its your own fault, and yet people still like him because they feel like he's a breath of fresh air?

    The cognitive dissonance of it all...

    I'm at the point right now where I simply cannot understand what the massive appeal is anymore.

    Appeal to burning it all down? I guess?

    Trump makes a lot more sense when you realize that many conservatives are very, very stupid.

    Jacobkosh on
  • MilskiMilski Poyo! Registered User regular
    Trump is appealing to the same base that has internalized hatred of the poor Others getting free shit and been told that government strangulation via regulation of the rich is why things are wrong. Of course he'd brag about how coming from poverty makes you a lesser person than being from a family genetically predisposed to success like he is.

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  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    edited March 2016
    New Poll Shows that Cruz Would Likely Beat Trump Heads Up in California
    "The top line result of the poll is this: Trump 24%, Cruz 20%, Rubio 18%, Kasich 15%. If you imagine a race in which Kasich and Rubio are gone, all Cruz would have to do would be to pull in Rubio/Kasich voters at a 60/40% split and he would beat Trump."

    What kind of fucked up math are we working with here.

    This rabid fight is crazy town.

    zepherin on
  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    zepherin wrote: »
    New Poll Shows that Cruz Would Likely Beat Trump Heads Up in California
    "The top line result of the poll is this: Trump 24%, Cruz 20%, Rubio 18%, Kasich 15%. If you imagine a race in which Kasich and Rubio are gone, all Cruz would have to do would be to pull in Rubio/Kasich voters at a 60/40% split and he would beat Trump."

    What kind of fucked up math are we working with here.

    This rabid fight is crazy town.

    You must not read America's Finest News Source

  • Irredeemably IndecisiveIrredeemably Indecisive WisconsinRegistered User regular
    Oh god damnit, there's a Trump rally in Chicago today at 6pm. I'll be leaving here around 2 to get to a spot a few blocks north of the rally around 5pm. An already shitty day of Chicago traffic just got even worse.

  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    zepherin wrote: »
    New Poll Shows that Cruz Would Likely Beat Trump Heads Up in California
    "The top line result of the poll is this: Trump 24%, Cruz 20%, Rubio 18%, Kasich 15%. If you imagine a race in which Kasich and Rubio are gone, all Cruz would have to do would be to pull in Rubio/Kasich voters at a 60/40% split and he would beat Trump."

    What kind of fucked up math are we working with here.

    This rabid fight is crazy town.

    Better yet, if you assume Trump drops out of the race, then Cruz beats him easily!

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  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    Then Carson is asked what role God played in his decision to support Trump.

    “I prayed about it a lot” and got a lot of signals of which way to go, Carson says.

    These included people he hadn’t’ talked to in a long time calling him up and saying things like, “I had this dream about you and Donald Trump. It’s just amazing.”

    Carson guided by dreams, warns of coming crisis in which you try to run but you can't and something awful is behind you and then your teeth fall out or something.

  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    Then Carson is asked what role God played in his decision to support Trump.

    “I prayed about it a lot” and got a lot of signals of which way to go, Carson says.

    These included people he hadn’t’ talked to in a long time calling him up and saying things like, “I had this dream about you and Donald Trump. It’s just amazing.”

    Carson guided by dreams, warns of coming crisis in which you try to run but you can't and something awful is behind you and then your teeth fall out or something.

    He walked into a familiar room in his house, tried to turn the lights on, but they didn't...

    Then suddenly, he was in school, and abruptly remembered that he had forgotten to get dressed that morning, and it was also the final exam, but he hadn't been coming to school the entire semester and was woefully unprepared to take it.

  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    Then Carson is asked what role God played in his decision to support Trump.

    “I prayed about it a lot” and got a lot of signals of which way to go, Carson says.

    These included people he hadn’t’ talked to in a long time calling him up and saying things like, “I had this dream about you and Donald Trump. It’s just amazing.”

    Carson guided by dreams, warns of coming crisis in which you try to run but you can't and something awful is behind you and then your teeth fall out or something.

    "So I wondered if I should go take that exam at school wearing clothes or naked..."

    But at least this explains why he always looked like he'd fall asleep at the podium in the debates.

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  • MancingtomMancingtom Registered User regular
    Good. Now Carson can slink back into complete obscurity, emerging only for "remember when that nutjob ran" conversations.

    Just like Hermann Cain.

  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    milski wrote: »
    Trump is appealing to the same base that has internalized hatred of the poor Others getting free shit and been told that government strangulation via regulation of the rich is why things are wrong. Of course he'd brag about how coming from poverty makes you a lesser person than being from a family genetically predisposed to success like he is.

    Yeah, but don't all the GOP nominees do that?

  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    Obama calls out Cruz during state dinner with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau:
    We see this in our current presidential campaign. Where else could a boy born in Calgary run for president of the United States?

    Heh.

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »

    This person lives in a different reality than the rest of us

    It's okay

    That guy might be a terrorist

    Anybody might be a terrorist

    Better punch 'em all

    Just in case

  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    Atomika wrote: »

    This person lives in a different reality than the rest of us

    It's okay

    That guy might be a terrorist

    Anybody might be a terrorist

    Better punch 'em all

    Just in case

    The Jack Bauer Philosophy

  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    Atomika wrote: »

    This person lives in a different reality than the rest of us

    It's okay

    That guy might be a terrorist

    Anybody might be a terrorist

    Better punch 'em all

    Just in case

    I want to be the very worst

    Like no one ever was

    Gotta punch 'em all

  • HakkekageHakkekage Space Whore Academy summa cum laudeRegistered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    So Trump is backing up about a hundred years in terms of rhetoric, repeating the old Gospel of Wealth lines about how the rich are better people because if you're poor its your own fault, and yet people still like him because they feel like he's a breath of fresh air?

    The cognitive dissonance of it all...

    I'm at the point right now where I simply cannot understand what the massive appeal is anymore.

    Appeal to burning it all down? I guess?

    Appeal to resentment, motivation from perceived humiliation

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  • QanamilQanamil x Registered User regular
    Guy just called into On Point (NPR show) and said Trump stumbled around policy questions like a butcher trying to be a florist.

    I've never heard that idiom and I really like it.

  • TheCanManTheCanMan GT: Gasman122009 JerseyRegistered User regular
    Hakkekage wrote: »
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    this is a shop, right

    Yes

    Still not inaccurate

    All that proves is that one of them is a photoshop, not necessarily which one though. :tell_me_more:

  • Linespider5Linespider5 ALL HAIL KING KILLMONGER Registered User regular
    TheCanMan wrote: »
    Hakkekage wrote: »
    BiDzcsol.png

    this is a shop, right

    Yes

    Still not inaccurate

    All that proves is that one of them is a photoshop, not necessarily which one though. :tell_me_more:

    I'm must disturbed that it would appear Trump is selling Trump hairpieces as wearable merchandise at his rallies. Is that what I'm seeing? What's with the weird blonde attachments on their not-blonde hair?

  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Qanamil wrote: »
    Guy just called into On Point (NPR show) and said Trump stumbled around policy questions like a butcher trying to be a florist.

    I've never heard that idiom and I really like it.

    It's hard to have nuanced policy positions when you speak at a third-grade level.

  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    Qanamil wrote: »
    Guy just called into On Point (NPR show) and said Trump stumbled around policy questions like a butcher trying to be a florist.

    I've never heard that idiom and I really like it.

    It's hard to have nuanced policy positions when you speak at a third-grade level.

    I love that this isn't simply a baseless insult, it's based on data.

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
  • ToxTox I kill threads they/themRegistered User regular
    Also super late on the Trump rally incident.

    But while the protesters were being escorted out / attacked.

    Trump was up on the podium.

    Using the word "individual" as an insult.

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    I know I heard Trump use the word "disaster" a lot last night, so I did a Google search to see if anybody had counted, and, well

    50 things declared a disaster by Donald Trump

    The list includes Leona Helmsley, being 50 years old, President Ronald Reagan's 1986 tax rate cuts, and the 91-second Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks boxing match of 1988.

  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited March 2016
    http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/12/us/politics/donald-trump-trump-university.html?referer=

    To the surprise of no one, the evaluations Trump uses to claim Trump University was great are heavily based on shit designed to influence scores.
    At the conclusion of every program, teachers instructed attendees to complete surveys, rating the experience on a scale of one to 5. But, in what academics and experts said were unusual practices, Trump University did not explicitly offer students anonymity on the forms, often asked them to complete the documents in the presence of instructors and, according to internal Trump University documents made public in litigation, asked students to submit the surveys in exchange for their graduation certificates.

    Couscous on
  • VeagleVeagle Registered User regular
    edited March 2016
    Veevee wrote: »
    Oh god damnit, there's a Trump rally in Chicago today at 6pm. I'll be leaving here around 2 to get to a spot a few blocks north of the rally around 5pm. An already shitty day of Chicago traffic just got even worse.

    Thanks for the warning. Looks like Cruz is also doing doing something in Chicago.

    Edit: Oh Christ, I had almost booked a reservation at the hotel Cruz is speaking at!

    Veagle on
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  • SkiddlesSkiddles The frozen white northRegistered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/12/us/politics/donald-trump-trump-university.html?referer=

    To the surprise of no one, the evaluations Trump uses to claim Trump University was great are heavily based on shit designed to influence scores.
    At the conclusion of every program, teachers instructed attendees to complete surveys, rating the experience on a scale of one to 5. But, in what academics and experts said were unusual practices, Trump University did not explicitly offer students anonymity on the forms, often asked them to complete the documents in the presence of instructors and, according to internal Trump University documents made public in litigation, asked students to submit the surveys in exchange for their graduation certificates.

    I look forward to President Trump instituting the same sort of "unusual practices" at the ballot box for 2018/2020.

    Something like "An armed polling official will watch you fill in your ballot and ensure you deposit it into the correct ballot box."

    Just...you know...to prevent ballot box fraud where people drop multiple ballots in, and also voting fraud where they vote for someone who is not named Donald Trump.

  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    I know I heard Trump use the word "disaster" a lot last night, so I did a Google search to see if anybody had counted, and, well

    50 things declared a disaster by Donald Trump

    The list includes Leona Helmsley, being 50 years old, President Ronald Reagan's 1986 tax rate cuts, and the 91-second Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks boxing match of 1988.

    But to be fair, it also includes George W. Bush, Jeb Bush's campaign, Hewlett-Packard under Carly Fiorina, and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts.

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    Richy wrote: »
    I know I heard Trump use the word "disaster" a lot last night, so I did a Google search to see if anybody had counted, and, well

    50 things declared a disaster by Donald Trump

    The list includes Leona Helmsley, being 50 years old, President Ronald Reagan's 1986 tax rate cuts, and the 91-second Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks boxing match of 1988.

    But to be fair, it also includes George W. Bush, Jeb Bush's campaign, Hewlett-Packard under Carly Fiorina, and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts.

    Yeah, when you basically declare everything under the sun to be a disaster, you're gonna be right some of the time.

  • SynthesisSynthesis Honda Today! Registered User regular
    edited March 2016
    Richy wrote: »
    I know I heard Trump use the word "disaster" a lot last night, so I did a Google search to see if anybody had counted, and, well

    50 things declared a disaster by Donald Trump

    The list includes Leona Helmsley, being 50 years old, President Ronald Reagan's 1986 tax rate cuts, and the 91-second Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks boxing match of 1988.

    But to be fair, it also includes George W. Bush, Jeb Bush's campaign, Hewlett-Packard under Carly Fiorina, and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts.

    He included former president of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin.

    As I've said, in the context of "...for Russian people," yeah, he was a catastrophic political and economic disaster. Claiming otherwise requires either an extremely myopic or even fantastical view of the period.

    For a different party--for example, NATO--it would actually be quite a boon. And it's not an exaggeration to say that the United States president is more invested in NATO than Russian civil society.

    On the other hand, I think he paid for that 1988 boxing fight, and as I understand it, 91 seconds is rather short for a match.

    Broken clock, twice a day, and so forth.

    Synthesis on
  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    I just fell down a YouTube hole and...remember when that woman at a McCain rally said Obama was Muslim, and right to her face McCain was like "no, no ma'am. Hes a good Christian and a father."

    I don't have any more to add. Just that I came across that clip as a story about Trump saying "we need more people punching back" at his rallys was playing.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    mxmarks wrote: »
    I just fell down a YouTube hole and...remember when that woman at a McCain rally said Obama was Muslim, and right to her face McCain was like "no, no ma'am. Hes a good Christian and a father."

    I don't have any more to add. Just that I came across that clip as a story about Trump saying "we need more people punching back" at his rallys was playing.

    The loss in 08 opened the floodgates.

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Brolo wrote: »

    This worst thing is that this is old news, and people made a fuss when it happened months ago.

    Didn't stop anything.

  • ViskodViskod Registered User regular
    Its associations like this that make me wonder why the GOP is more afraid of Trump than Ted Cruz being their nominee. Donald Trump can be bought. He is totally for sale.

    Ted Cruz thinks he's doing gods work so all of his ideas and intentions are inherently infallible to him.

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