On CNN today, Jake Tapper asked Donald Trump three times if he would disavow David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan, who have endorsed him. Trump refused to do so, claiming he knew nothing about Duke or the KKK.
Why would Trump risk alienating a huge block of his supporters on the eve of Super Tuesday?
Bet you his poll numbers go up again.
But on Friday at the Chris Christie press conference, they asked him and he said “I disavow it!” in the same tone of voice that he would say “Shut the fuck up!”
We cannot be a party that nominates someone who refuses to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan.
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 28, 2016
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
“…we can, however, get all whistful and nostalgic about the Lost Cause, and hang with Neo-Confederates at CPAC, and the textbooks we get from Texas are amazingly circumspect about the whole KKK burning/bombing/lynching thing.
Dammit, we have to have standards.”
re: #6 The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork
“…we can, however, get all whistful and nostalgic about the Lost Cause, and hang with Neo-Confederates at CPAC, and the textbooks we get from Texas are amazingly circumspect about the whole KKK burning/bombing/lynching thing.
Dammit, we have to have standards.”
Exactly.
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
.@marcorubio If it has come to THIS to take down your leading candidate, there is no hope for the #GOP.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) February 28, 2016
Rubio is near here right now. I know we all don’t love Bernie but my Dad shouted “Betnie, Betnie” at the Rubio supporters. We’re in a conservative part of a purple county in purple Va.
Really sad. @realDonaldTrump you’re better than this. We should all agree, racism is wrong, KKK is abhorrent. https://t.co/dn2D74c5dl
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 28, 2016
re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Dude you said there should be 100 Jesse fucking Helms. So Ted no credibility there at all.
Hate groups have no place in America. We are stronger together. End of story. -Johnhttps://t.co/KtFvFSu4DP
— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) February 28, 2016
I’d rather this happened after he was nominated.
re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth
But queers, now there’s something we can agree on.
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re: #14 stpaulbear
But queers, now there’s something we can agree on.
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Yep that’s something they and the KKK agree very much on and “illegals.”
re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth
“We must follow the ways of Buckley, Nixon, Atwater and Reagan, who taught us that the first rule of Republican Racism Club is that you don’t talk about Republican Racism Club.”
Good article at Daily Beast from last July about people and places Trump has sued or threatened to sue over the years. My fave paragraph:
Trump sued New York State in 1995 when a video game, Quickdraw, based off the casino game Keno, was introduced in New York restaurants and bars. The game presented a rival to Trump’s Atlantic City casinos where Keno was played, but he claimed he was really just worried that the game’s presence in New York would bring “tremendous amounts of crime” and “destroy businesses in New York,” according to CNN, because gambling addiction would render residents unable to pay their rent.
Nothing from Ben Carson.
Must still be his afternoon nap time.
The only people who deny that #Trump is a white supremacist are the people who deny that they’re white white supremacists
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 27, 2016
re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth
That is going to cost you votes @tedcruz
Don’t you realize that you and @realDonaldTrump are running as Republicans?— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 28, 2016
#DonaldTrump is rolling out a new campaign slogan. pic.twitter.com/DPWHp1RFsy
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) February 28, 2016
re: #16 EPR-radar
“We must follow the ways of Buckley, Nixon, Atwater and Reagan, who taught us that the first rule of Republican Racism Club is that you don’t talk about Republican Racism Club.”
Yep racism Atwater subtle with a wink and smile and talk about “small government.” None of this open stuff. We’ve got standards goddamn it.
Remember: this is the same guy who said “we need a hundred more like Jesse Helms” https://t.co/rZf1ucNiMi https://t.co/HGJgY6h3yf @tedcruz
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 28, 2016
re: #25 Charles Johnson
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Thank you Charles. I don’t do Twitter. Thanks for remembering that. This is a man who said that we needed 100 Jesse Helms and Jesse Helms inspired his first political donation. Ted’s just jealous because Duke’s not supporting him.
Part of me thinks this is another desperate attempt by Trump to blow his campaign up and get the hell out of dodge…
re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg
Part of me thinks this is another desperate attempt by Trump to blow his campaign up and get the hell out of dodge…
I keep on thinking that but I think this is very real.
my surprise…
Phylis Schlafly: ‘Marco Rubio Betrayed Us All’ https://t.co/nmXmLDQuaa
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 28, 2016
Any media effort to suggest Trump has not disavowed David Duke is just wrong. He has clearly disavowed the racist. News media should move on
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) February 28, 2016
re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg
Part of me thinks this is another desperate attempt by Trump to blow his campaign up and get the hell out of dodge…
This is becoming like “The Mouse That Roared”. I really think that Trump is trying to find an exit strategy. The problem is, no matter how insane he gets, his base is already past that point.
RBS
Bernie: I’ll Do Better With Black Voters Who Don’t Live In The Deep South https://t.co/IJ6PIIpkLQ
— Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) February 28, 2016
good grief…
Oooops
I never fall for scams. I am the only person who immediately walked out of my ‘Ali G’ interview
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 30, 2012
re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Talk to your own party’s candidates Newt instead of bitching about the media wuss.
re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth
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good grief…
What’s his excuse going to be when he loses African-American voters here in the commonwealth on Tuesday? Man Bernie is really going out of his way to frustrate me with this.
re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg
Part of me thinks this is another desperate attempt by Trump to blow his campaign up and get the hell out of dodge…
I think Trump is just trying to find out how far he can go before it will cost him. At that point, he’ll pull back a bit, and skirt that edge. And in the Republican party, being an open racist isn’t hurting him.
For the last 50 years, the party has been teaching its voters that all their problems are caused by blacks and Mexicans. Trump is just the first major party person to put all those words in the same sentence.
This election will be about race. Blacks know it. Latinos. Republicans know it. Can the rest of the white Democrats figure it out?
So if Southern blacks won’t support Bernie or the GOP…they’re all going to vote for Hillary?
re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth
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good grief…
Blacks outside the south have never experienced racism. It’s all economic issues with them.
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I hate having to use sarc tags with someone on our side.
Oh, and he thinks he can win New York.
re: #38 Belafon
I think Trump is just trying to find out how far he can go before it will cost him. At that point, he’ll pull back a bit, and skirt that edge. And in the Republican party, being an open racist isn’t hurting him.
For the last 50 years, the party has been teaching its voters that all their problems are caused by blacks and Mexicans. Trump is just the first major party person to put all those words in the same sentence.
This election will be about race. Blacks know it. Latinos. Republicans know it. Can the rest of the white Democrats figure it out?
re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Nice try Newt. Aren’t you the guy who said anybody who quoted you was a liar?
re: #41 Reality Based Steve
Can I just say it here. Ann Coulter’s messages on race are really no different from Duke’s only they’re more socially acceptable to the GOP.
I probably would be more worried about Trump as the nominee if he had been politically active in the past, outside of his business interests. If he had a history of political activism like the Kochs and was this close to the nomination, I’d be much more worried.
I think his whole campaign started as an ego trip, nothing more. He saw the acclaim Romney got as a successful businessman and thought “Hey! I’m a success! That should be me they’re fluffling!” and he ran with it. He’s never really shown any grand plan or theme for his campaign; he’s just kind of running from day-to-day surviving not on his desire to win or brilliant strategy, but on the sheer horribleness of the GOP base. He’s tapped into the hate and is staggering along with it.
I don’t think he ever had any intention or desire to be a politician, he just couldn’t stand to see another business guy get public acclaim without trying to grab some for himself.
Even if he were to be elected, I don’t see Trump as someone with ambitions to transform America. Is he a racist? Undoubtedly. A blowhard and a bully? Definitely. Does he have authoritarian, even fascist tendencies? Yes. But I’m really not concerned with his goals for America because, quite simply, I don’t think he has any.
re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg
So if Southern blacks won’t support Bernie or the GOP…they’re all going to vote for Hillary?
Apparently Bernie is listening to the Sandbaggers, because all they’ve been saying since NV is “The South doesn’t matter.” In a week, it’ll be “Red states don’t matter!” His entire strategy seems to be about arguing that he’s winning the people that matter, which is increasingly appearing to be the young white college crowd who show up for rallies but never at the polls.
re: #31 Reality Based Steve
This is becoming like “The Mouse That Roared”. I really think that Trump is trying to find an exit strategy. The problem is, no matter how insane he gets, his base is already past that point.
RBS
And they love him more the more openly racist, bigoted, and crazy he gets.
re: #45 Targetpractice
Apparently Bernie is listening to the Sandbaggers, because all they’ve been saying since NV is “The South doesn’t matter.” In a week, it’ll be “Red states don’t matter!” His entire strategy seems to be about arguing that he’s winning the people that matter, which is increasingly appearing to be the young white college crowd who show up for rallies but never at the polls.
Calling Nevada a red state is stupid anyhow.
re: #47 HappyWarrior
Calling Nevada a red state is stupid anyhow.
It’s the same with Iowa, where he was left trying to hype a razor-thin loss as a boost to his campaign.
Increasingly it’s apparent to me that Bernie does not do well in racially diverse states. That’s a real problem for him. Hlilary is I concede struggling with younger voters but I’d rather a a candidate struggle with a demo that doesn’t show up to vote consistently than with one that does.
Trump supporters are all over Twitter, spewing denials and insults at anyone who says he refused to disavow the KKK.
re: #48 Targetpractice
It’s the same with Iowa, where he was left trying to hype a razor-thin loss as a boost to his campaign.
Right. Most states aren’t bright blue like Vermont is and I’ll add that Vermont wasn’t always that way. He really needs to improve his message and his tone is honestly gettign on my nerves.
Disavowals mean more when you don’t constantly repeat their ideology and support the advancement of their cause https://t.co/QCKoUYs4Hj
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 28, 2016
re: #50 Charles Johnson
Trump supporters are all over Twitter, spewing denials and insults at anyone who says he refused to disavow the KKK.
But I thought they were all boycotting.
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I believe old man Trump had KKK connections in the 20’s.
re: #38 Belafon
I think Trump is just trying to find out how far he can go before it will cost him. At that point, he’ll pull back a bit, and skirt that edge
Don’t be surprised to find that it’s turtles all the way down. In other words, the GOP is a bottomless pit of depravity, hatred, and racism. Short of vowing to become a disciple of Obama, there is nothing Trump can say or do that will make the mouth-breathers turn against him.
LOL! pic.twitter.com/Mr43ENKQLb
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 28, 2016
(from previous thread downstairs - I’m a bit behind today) I clicked through to the link on the Gawker story, got immediately, depressed, and then clicked through to this link of a guy running the 40 in the NFL combine, stopping and doing a headfirst dive because his dick came out of his shorts.
I don’t know what diabolical algorithm put that next to a story about Trump basically stepping on his dick, but kudos to you, Googlian Overlords! That’s some cool-ass synchronicity you’ve got programmed into The Machine these days.
re: #60 Charles Johnson
Gosh and here I thought the other side were the oblivious ones.
re: #57 HappyWarrior
I believe old man Trump had KKK connections in the 20’s.
I feel like I remember something to that effect——-and I want to check it out so I can find out whether or not I ever really heard that or if it is something that I just want to believe. I know people can fool themselves, myself included.
re: #45 Targetpractice
Apparently Bernie is listening to the Sandbaggers, because all they’ve been saying since NV is “The South doesn’t matter.” In a week, it’ll be “Red states don’t matter!” His entire strategy seems to be about arguing that he’s winning the people that matter, which is increasingly appearing to be the young white college crowd who show up for rallies but never at the polls.
It’s just that his appeal has gotten more selective.
re: #63 KerFuFFler
I feel like I remember something to that effect——-and I want to check it out so I can find out whether or not I ever really heard that or if it is something that I just want to believe. I know people can fool themselves, myself included.
washingtonpost.com
This is uh interesting.
re: #56 Lidane
Know your fascists. #Trump pic.twitter.com/wqmvAeg3pk
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 19, 2015
Otherwise it says nearly as much about Rubio as it does for Trump
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 28, 2016
re: #64 stpaulbear
It’s just that his appeal has gotten more selective.
They’re now out there on Twitter, trying to pat themselves on the back because Bernie won the SC voters who use the Internet. They truly do they think they’re special little snowflakes.
Trump says “I know nothing” about the KKK four times. This phrase has a history behind it. https://t.co/CWFj2iIULL pic.twitter.com/F1goQQzNVf
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) February 28, 2016
re: #67 Kragar
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Exactly. If this really bothers Marco so much, say you’ll refuse to support him if he’s the nomination. Oh? Is that the sound of Marco’s cowardice and being stuck to a big fat elephant’s ass?
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I actually thought of that a little when he kept on saying “I know nothing.”
re: #66 Kragar
They even look similar. Scary.
I broke my own rule. First comment on the story about Trump’s KKK Daddy was BILL AYERS and OBAMA and then some freak out about Benghazi. I have to say even if the Ayers stuff is true, the KKK was a hell of a lot worse for this coutnry than the Weather Underground ever was.
re: #65 HappyWarrior
So I checked around——-Trump’s dad was arrested in a KKK brawl in 1927 in NYC. And he never outgrew his prejudices apparently:
Presidential Candidate Donald Trump joined his father’s real estate company in New York in 1971, and only two years later, the company was served with a civil rights lawsuit that was filed against the Trump organization because it refused to rent to Black people. The Urban League got wind of the racist rental policy and actually sent both Black and White people in to apply for apartments that belonged to complexes owned by the Trumps. What they proved, was that Black people were denied rentals across the board, and only Whites were approved.
re: #70 HappyWarrior
Exactly. If this really bothers Marco so much, say you’ll refuse to support him if he’s the nomination. Oh? Is that the sound of Marco’s cowardice and being stuck to a big fat elephant’s ass?
That right there is the GOP establishment’s dilemma. GOP candidates need high turnout from their heavily racist base in order to win. But they don’t want to have to say in public the racist crap this part of the base wants to hear for fear of alienating other voters.
GOP-leaning independents become flight risks when their delusions about the GOP are shown to be false.
Therefore dog-whistling.
Trump is destroying this entire filthy game, and it is glorious.
Boom
.@tedcruz criticizes @realDonaldTrump for KKK endorsement yet he welcomed Troy Newman’s endorsement@WillMcAvoyACN pic.twitter.com/flH6TjfKeD
— Maggie Jordan (@MaggieJordanACN) February 28, 2016
re: #77 KerFuFFler
So I checked around——-Trump’s dad was arrested in a KKK brawl in 1927 in NYC. And he never outgrew his prejudices apparently:
I remember hearing about this.
re: #76 HappyWarrior
I broke my own rule. First comment on the story about Trump’s KKK Daddy was BILL AYERS and OBAMA and then some freak out about Benghazi. I have to say even if the Ayers stuff is true, the KKK was a hell of a lot worse for this coutnry than the Weather Underground ever was.
I met someone about 10 years ago who served years in prison for his involvement with the Weathermen. Funny thing is now he is a rabid, rabid conservative. Some people just have to be extreme.
re: #78 EPR-radar
That right there is the GOP establishment’s dilemma. GOP candidates need high turnout from their heavily racist base in order to win. But they don’t want to have to say in public the racist crap this part of the base wants to hear for fear of alienating other voters.
GOP-leaning independents become flight risks when their delusions about the GOP are show to be false.
Therefore dog-whistling.
Trump is destroying this entire filthy game, and it is glorious.
That right there is why i sort of appreciate Trump. He’s showing the country how ugly and racist the GOP really is. It’s something many of us have known for a while.
re: #81 KerFuFFler
I met someone about 10 years ago who served years in prison for his involvement with the Weathermen. Funny thing is now he is a rabid, rabid conservative. Some people just have to be extreme.
That’s my observation and it’s honestly part of why I never go too extreme. Well, I’m a pragmatist too but it really does seem to me that many former far lefties end up becoming eager far righties. i.e this person you met and David Horowitz. I also remember reading that the CA Democratic Party thought Reagan was too radical to run for an office in the 40’s or early 50’s. And of course all the former Trotskyists in the Neo-Conservative community.
THEIR NOT BEING FAIR TO ME1!!!! THERE BEING MEAN TO ME!!!!1!!!!
Donald Trump whines: Republican Party “not treating me right” https://t.co/Y4rYE9QySl #tcot #UniteBlue https://t.co/yBVoWabrNQ
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) February 28, 2016
Trump’s performance as “Guy Pretending To Not Know David Duke Because He’s Afraid Of Upsetting His KKK Base” is getting early #Oscars buzz.
— Danny Zuker (@DannyZuker) February 28, 2016
Regarding the original post, I think the big story here is someone in the MSM actually fucking pushed back on Trump’s racism to his face.
Thinking about trolling Chuck Todd about this.
Because fuck Chuck Todd and the Magic Balance Fairy he rode in on.
And also because it’s Sunday.
re: #85 FormerDirtDart
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I’m still holding out hope this is Sasha Baron Cohen’s character that he’s spent a lifetime creating.
Bring back what specifically? Jim Crow laws? Segregation? Open abuse of gays and minorities? @BigBobbaLouie @WillMcAvoyACN
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 28, 2016
re: #84 The Vicious Babushka
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I’m still holding out hope for Trump to go third party.
re: #86 Mattand
Regarding the original post, I think the big story here is someone in the MSM actually fucking push back on Trump’s racism to his face.
Thinking about trolling Chuck Todd about this.
Because fuck Chuck Todd and the Magic Balance Fairy he rode in on.
And also because it’s Sunday.
re: #88 Kragar
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re: #82 HappyWarrior
That right there is why i sort of appreciate Trump. He’s showing the country how ugly and racist the GOP really is. It’s something many of us have known for a while.
This education is occurring in some surprising places. For example, a very small fraction of the anti-Trump comments at RedState are along the lines of “With Trump, everything the liberals say about conservatives/Republicans would become true” in terms of racism etc.
So close and yet so far. One more step (i.e., realizing that Trump is not some outside event inflicted on the GOP, but is instead a perfectly logical result of 40 years of Republican coded racism) and these people would have to leave the party or explicitly own their own racism.
re: #78 EPR-radar
That right there is the GOP establishment’s dilemma. GOP candidates need high turnout from their heavily racist base in order to win. But they don’t want to have to say in public the racist crap this part of the base wants to hear for fear of alienating other voters.
GOP-leaning independents become flight risks when their delusions about the GOP are shown to be false.
Therefore dog-whistling.
Trump is destroying this entire filthy game, and it is glorious.
For decades, the GOP has relied upon soft racism to get their voters to the polls, playing up the “urban vote” and talking about “welfare cheats” with the popular image of the young buck driving up to the supermarket in a brand new Caddy with chrome rims and decked out in designer clothes. Playing up the image of the white farmer who’s losing to Big Ag hiring up a mess of illegals to do the same job, portraying Democrats as busing in illegals to rig votes in red states.
Now here comes Trump, saying “Enough with this dog whistle shit, I’m gonna rig up an air raid siren and run it 24 hours a day. I’m gonna retweet white supremacists and neo-Nazis alike. I’m going to do all those things that guys like Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are too scared to do.” And the voters love him for it, because it’s the steady diet of red meat they’ve craved for years while the GOP has parceled out bite-sized servings whenever they needed some votes.
How does the GOP respond in a way that doesn’t destroy them with their base or wipe out their chances in the general election? The answer is there isn’t any, which is why they’re now desperately talking about a brokered convention, anti-Trump ads, and even running against their own nominee in the general in order to preserve their Senate seats.
re: #89 Mattand
I’m still holding out hope for Trump to go third party.
The Know-Nothing Party has a nice ring to it.
re: #93 Stanley Sea
Seymour died. :(
I’m sorry to hear that. It’s always tough to lose a companion.
RBS
re: #91 EPR-radar
This education is occurring in some surprising places. For example, a very small fraction of the anti-Trump comments at RedState are along the lines of “With Trump, everything the liberals say about conservatives/Republicans would become true” in terms of racism etc.
So close and yet so far. One more step (i.e., realizing that Trump is not some outside event inflicted on the GOP, but is instead a perfectly logical result of 40 years of Republican coded racism) and this person would have to leave the party or explicitly own their own racism.
It would be nice if they would admit that we’ve been right all along. All Trump is doing is what Nixon, Reagan, and other Republicans have said in politer language. But I fully expect that will happen if Trump is nominated and loses, they’ll claim he really wasn’t a conservative and act like Rubio and Cruz and the others weren’t a part of the problem as well. Their whole ideology is a racist shitstain on our nation. Not conservatism as a whole but American conservatism as it presently exists is a racist ideology.
re: #93 Stanley Sea
My condolences. I know he was part of your family for quite a while.
re: #84 The Vicious Babushka
This is what happens when someone used to getting what they want every time doesn’t get what they want.
re: #84 The Vicious Babushka
THEIR NOT BEING FAIR TO ME1!!!! THERE BEING MEAN TO ME!!!!1!!!!
He’s rested, he’s spray tanned, he’s ready!
Ridiculous or creepy? We report, you decide./
90 seconds of stone cold truth from @KillerMike. The editor mashed this up well. Powerful stuff.https://t.co/p0jUDQjVof
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) February 28, 2016
re: #97 Whack-A-Mole
My condolences. I know he was part of your family for quite a while.
My friend’s actually. But I’ve known him for 18 years.
wah
re: #88 Kragar
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Just checked out DND’s Twitter timeline. It’s heavy on the “twit” part.
Looks like he’s one of those people who go into vapor lock when you point out Obama oversaw a rebounding economy, low unemployment rate, low gas prices, and surging stock market.
oh….
Rio 2016 update: organisers will charge athletes for mosquito nets to combat zika and a human arm has been spotted at the sailing venue.
— Owen Gibson (@owen_g) February 28, 2016
Bam!
Trump has attacked Muslims, journalists, scientists, immigrants and Iowans, but needs to research the KKK before condemning them.
— Tom the Dancing Bug (@RubenBolling) February 28, 2016
Break out the steak sauce, the cannibalism has begun
It begins pic.twitter.com/zBcwD9E8EU
— Arthur Chu (@arthur_affect) February 28, 2016
Thanks guys. We’re having a celebration of life next weekend.
re: #96 HappyWarrior
It would be nice if they would admit that we’ve been right all along. All Trump is doing is what Nixon, Reagan, and other Republicans have said in politer language. But I fully expect that will happen if Trump is nominated and loses, they’ll claim he really wasn’t a conservative and act like Rubio and Cruz and the others weren’t a part of the problem as well. Their whole ideology is a racist shitstain on our nation. Not conservatism as a whole but American conservatism as it presently exists is a racist ideology.
Agreed. As it stands, US movement conservatism combined with the Republican party is pretty much a cancer on society.
Instead of trying to argue for lower tax cuts on the rich using reality based arguments, the Republicans and conservatives have been getting votes on the cheap by exploiting all available resentments. They have been doing this for so long that they have no other way of operating.
So apparently #Trump has hired a new PR guru to deal with the David Duke situation https://t.co/L80x2xqcnM
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 28, 2016
Well in a OT politics break I got kind of a cute story. So I’m talking with my mother today. I’m planning a trip to Europe with my youngest brother next summer. We know we want to visit Germany, Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Country number 5 is puzzling us so I say Switzerland or Denmark. She says Switzerland and tells me about how much she loved Heidi growing up and it was one of her favorite books. Well we were talking to my other brother and my niece today. And yep my niece was watching Heidi. She’s developing some personality. Loves to throw stones into the lake but also really likes to choose her clothes carefully. Hard to believe she’s going to be two in a couple weeks.
re: #113 Jenner7
I’m in bed with billionaires…
Hey…where’s all my money???
I’m still awaiting my Soros check.
re: #102 Nyet
I was almost the target of a massive YouTube pile-on yesterday because I pointed out that Bernie Sanders was using Killer Mike to shore up his poor reputation with the black community.
re: #110 Stanley Sea
I am sorry to hear that.
Excellent point.
Let’s ask GOP Majority house whip Steve Scalise about David Duke. pic.twitter.com/aBPGhBeTqK— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) February 28, 2016
re: #109 b.d.
There’s a very short and simple answer to any idiot that thinks personal purity arguments about being or not being a member of the ruling class are worth anything at all.
FDR.
The only way I stopped what was starting to be a massive outrage-fest was to go back and delete all the tweets I posted about it.
I am not paying too much attention today to the web. Local PBS station WHYY is having a Downton Abbey Marathon today. :)
Calm down, folks. It’s all under control.
@seanspicer @gop pic.twitter.com/EOSeXsghja
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) February 28, 2016
re: #117 Charles Johnson
I think your opponent yesterday didn’t grok your sarcastic comment about K.M. not helping Bernie, taking it at face value (as if you ever believed K.M. could convince black people about Bernie). Sometimes hard to express nuance o the internets.
Trump did disavow Duke two days ago:
So why didn’t he mention this when Tapper asked him about it?
It all started when an African American woman decided to imply I was a racist because I said Killer Mike didn’t help Sanders much in South Carolina.
Go to @speechboy71 ‘s timeline.
re: #126 thecommodore
Trump did disavow Duke two days ago:
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So why didn’t he mention this when Tapper asked him about it?
his excellent memory failed him…
re: #129 b.d.
oh brother
BUT ROBERT BYRD!!!
I have to say, Byrd apologized and felt profound guilt about it. Meanwhile as recent as the early 1990’s, Jesse Helms was vowing to make life miserable and to make an African-American woman colleague cry. I really wish Jesse Helms had lived to see Obama become President. I really wish I could have seen the reaction of that hateful bastard when all that he worked for his entire life was ruined the day this country elected an African-American man as its president.
re: #130 Big Beautiful Door
I’m at the KIA dealer getting a new car before we cruise down to Orlando for Spring Break.
Car buying (& the DMV) were pure hell before cell phone & the internet.
What are you getting?
re: #133 Stanley Sea
Car buying (& the DMV) were pure hell before cell phone & the internet.
What are you getting?
A Sedona so we have enough room for the trip.
re: #127 Charles Johnson
I have no problem with people with…different ideas of fun, since I have different ideas of fun. Although it is a bit of a surprising switch to go from one subject to the other.
But, yeah, objective reality does intrude. KM actually was not helpful in SC.
Both “establishment” Republicans and Trump need to cool it and close ranks to fight real enemy. Trump, Rubio, Kasich could all win general.
— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) February 28, 2016
Yeah, man, like cool it daddy-o
re: #137 De Kolta Chair
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That’s the thing. The “real enemy” i.e. liberals and Democrats is worse than the “fake enemy” the KKK and David Duke. Rupert’s a pimple on this country’s fine ass.
Trump the Statesman/Diplomat
I had forgotten the Pattinson episode in the annals of Trumpiana. https://t.co/adKMpQSGMw pic.twitter.com/cgoyw53NgB
— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) February 27, 2016
Those kinds of episodes on Twitter are extremely frustrating. When the pile-on starts it doesn’t matter what your history is, or what you’ve tweeted in the past. Just a big mob of people getting angry about things they have no idea about. Irritating.
Why would Sanders, or any candidate for that matter, want the endorsement from someone called “Killer Mike”. Just sayn….
OT: Something fun coming up in just over 2 hours.
Tracking towards a 6:46pm ET launch attempt today; watching upper-level winds closely. pic.twitter.com/8HqAtnyDKt
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 28, 2016
Lest We Forget, Donald Trump’s Father Was Reportedly Arrested Near a KKK Rally
After the Republican presidential frontrunner professed his willful ignorance of the KKK and former leader and current Trump supporter David Duke on Sunday, an interview was unearthed that shows that Trump has passionately spoke about the KKK in the past. Jason Horowitz, a reporter at The New York Times, asked Trump about a 1927 article in that same newspaper which said that his father, Fred C. Trump, was arrested along with a group reportedly at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Queens. It wasn’t clear what sort of role the senior Trump played in the rally, but according to the younger Trump, it never happened at all.
re: #142 Dr. Matt
Why would Sanders, or any candidate for that matter, want the endorsement from someone called “Killer Mike”. Just sayn….
If he had standing in the African American community, plenty of reasons. Just saying….
Ben Carson wakes up, criticizes political correctness (at least Fox says that’s what he was doing), falls back onto the sweet comfy bosom of slumber
.@RealBenCarson says that people are giving away ‘values and principles’ in exchange for ‘political correctness.’ pic.twitter.com/bskRhzO2Hz
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 28, 2016
re: #109 b.d.
Break out the steak sauce, the cannibalism has begun
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@arthur_affect - You’re quoting someone anonymously to smear the millions of Americans who support Bernie Sanders for president.
— Eric J (@EricJafMN) February 28, 2016
re: #142 Dr. Matt
Why would Sanders, or any candidate for that matter, want the endorsement from someone called “Killer Mike”. Just sayn….
Was thinking the same thing. Apparently he’s an activist, so it’s cool, but dude, what’s up with the nickname?
re: #145 gwangung
If he had standing in the African American community, plenty of reasons. Just saying….
Does he?
re: #147 No Depression
*Sigh*
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Yup. Another BernieBro with friendly fire. (Arthur is a Sanders supporter).
Charles, a question…
What kind of demands can you as a seller of advertising space make on the ad companies? Within the last couple of pages, the loads the ads on your page places renders my computer unusable for any other purpose than reading your page, and this is a decent gaming rig I’m on right now.
I’m not currently adblocking on your site, but I may have to, simply to regain usability of my computer.
re: #151 Teukka
Charles, a question…
What kind of demands can you as a seller of advertising space make on the ad companies? Within the last couple of pages, the loads the ads on your page places renders my computer unusable for any other purpose than reading your page, and this is a decent gaming rig I’m on right now.
I’m not currently adblocking on your site, but I may have to, simply to regain usability of my computer.
There’s yet another option to get rid of the ads…
The Oscars are today! You know, the awards show where Leonardo DiCaprio is “overdue” but black people can “wait till next year.”
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) February 28, 2016
re: #148 Nyet
Was thinking the same thing. Apparently he’s an activist, so it’s cool, but dude, what’s up with the nickname?
I hate the buzzword cliche’ of “optics”. But, when someone’s nickname includes the word “Killer”, sometimes it makes sense.
re: #150 gwangung
Yup. Another BernieBro with friendly fire. (Arthur is a Sanders supporter).
@elizabethforma hasn’t tweeted since January.
Questioning this tweet.
re: #151 Teukka
Charles, a question…
What kind of demands can you as a seller of advertising space make on the ad companies? Within the last couple of pages, the loads the ads on your page places renders my computer unusable for any other purpose than reading your page, and this is a decent gaming rig I’m on right now.
I’m not currently adblocking on your site, but I may have to, simply to regain usability of my computer.
I paid to support the site and get rid of the ads, which is a bargain.
re: #149 Dr. Matt
Does he?
Well, now…you’re at the Sanders level of doing your homework….which I think was the point
(To be clearer….if he had substantial standing within the black community, it’d be fine. Even if hadn’t, he still could have been useful if he were prepped with approaches and talking points that took into account the attitudes of the black community. Letting him run with an essentially anti-Obama message was just totally clueless….you can critique the Obama administration, but promise to extend their legacy, which would have resonated with the black community).
re: #152 Nyet
There’s yet another option to get rid of the ads…
Not minding the ads if they’re not intrusive, what I do mind is the load the place on my computer, and the bandwidth they consume if I’m mobile.
Just thinking that it might be in the advertising companies interest not to provide incentives for people to adblock.
re: #155 Dr. Matt
I hate the buzzword cliche’ of “optics”. But, when someone’s nickname includes the word “Killer”, sometimes it makes sense.
Side note: I hate “optics”. Optics is not “how something looks like”.
Optics is the branch of physics which involves the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it.
Holy crap….have ya’ll seen this: Trump Tells Christie To ‘Go Home’
That was Donald Trump’s message for Chris Christie just moments after the New Jersey governor endorsed the bombastic billionaire at a Texas rally on Friday
“Get in the plane and go home. It’s over there. Go home,” Trump was heard telling his newest supporter, who had apparently overstayed his welcome in the company of “the Donald.”
re: #137 De Kolta Chair
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Rupert didn’t get the memo on #NeverTrump.
The hashtag #NeverTrump is the right wing effort to prevent a Trump GOP nomination, or to create an anti-Trump 3rd party. (The link is another delicious read btw)
Mobs have been lynching people in this country for a long time… let’s go back to 1630:
Hangings began in the U.S. pretty much at the same time that settlements began to be formed in the “New World.” One of the first was a man by the name of John Billington who arrived with the original band of pilgrims at Plymouth Rock on the Mayflower in 1620. Allegedly, Billington was prone to blasphemous language, and during the journey over the ocean, the ship’s captain, Miles Standish, had Billington’s feet and neck tied together as an example of a sin-struck man possessed of a Devil’s tongue. But, that’s not what got him hanged, rather, it was but an unpleasant experience for the blasphemer. However, ten years later, Billington became the prime suspect in the murder of another settler by the name of John Newcomen. Soon, the man was summarily hanged by an angry mob of pilgrims in 1630.
Once a mob starts down a path it’s awfully hard to turn them back.
re: #160 Nyet
Side note: I hate “optics”. Optics is not “how something looks like”.
Words can have multiple meanings: dictionary.reference.com
noun
1.
(used with a singular verb) the branch of physical science that deals with the properties and phenomena of both visible and invisible light and with vision.
2.
(used with a plural verb) the way a situation, action, event, etc., is perceived by the public or by a particular group of people: The optics on this issue are pretty good for the Democrats.
Administrators worry about the bad optics of hiring new staff during a budget crisis.
re: #161 Dr. Matt
It was part of the Tennessee rally of Trump’s yesterday. I watched the whole video. This little happenstance didn’t, and still does not, strike me in the manner that many people want to make it appear.
re: #164 Belafon
Words can have multiple meanings
Really? Thanks for this new and exciting bit of information.
re: #158 gwangung
Well, now…you’re at the Sanders level of doing your homework….which I think was the point
(To be clearer….if he had substantial standing within the black community, it’d be fine. Even if hadn’t, he still could have been useful if he were prepped with approaches and talking points that took into account the attitudes of the black community. Letting him run with an essentially anti-Obama message was just totally clueless….you can critique the Obama administration, but promise to extend their legacy, which would have resonated with the black community).
You’re not clear. Does Killer Mike have standing with the Black (or any) community or not? As someone who has been politically statue for 3 three decades, I had to google Killer Mike to find out who he was.
BREAKING: Trump won’t condemn cross burning on lawn. “Fires happen often and sometimes crosses are in the way. They’re wood too. It’s sad.”
— Dan Ewen (@VaguelyFunnyDan) February 28, 2016
It’s wrong to use Trump’s father’s KKK membership against him when Donald has worked tirelessly to become a horrific racist on his own terms
— Dan Ewen (@VaguelyFunnyDan) February 28, 2016
re: #161 Dr. Matt
Holy crap….have ya’ll seen this: Trump Tells Christie To ‘Go Home’
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He did the same to Sister Sarah. Although that made more sense.
re: #146 De Kolta Chair
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Just stop bitching about political correctness already.
re: #170 HappyWarrior
Just stop bitching about political correctness already.
Better yet, just stop.
re: #115 HappyWarrior
Well in a OT politics break I got kind of a cute story. So I’m talking with my mother today. I’m planning a trip to Europe with my youngest brother next summer. We know we want to visit Germany, Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Country number 5 is puzzling us so I say Switzerland or Denmark…..
We loved Denmark! Switzerland, not so much. Maybe we were just unlucky there. For one thing, when we were returning our rental car there they tried to scam us $380 (the exact amount of the deductible!) for a tiny, tiny dimple dent on the bumper. I knew we had not done anything to the car and started taking pictures of the “dent” saying quietly but audibly something about suing. After 40 minutes of nonsense they found in their “records” that the car already had a small dent there. Something about the clipboard wielding officiousness of their staff epitomized our experiences there.
re: #169 Stanley Sea
He did the same to Sister Sarah. Although that made more sense.
Sister Sarah’s “endorsement” was nothing but a carefully planned diversion from her son’s run-in with the law. And sadly, the librul media fell for it.
Trump can’t piss off Duke/the KKK. He’d lose his biggest bloc of voters.
Meanwhile in the theofascist state of Iran:
nytimes.com
TEHRAN — A group of hard-line Iranian news media organizations says it has raised $600,000 to add to a bounty for the killing of the British novelist Salman Rushdie.
Iran’s former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, in 1989 calling for Mr. Rushdie to be killed because of his book “The Satanic Verses,” which the ayatollah found to be blasphemous and insulting toward Muslims. Mr. Rushdie has since then been living largely out of sight and under the protection of bodyguards.
The semiofficial Fars news agency, one of the organizations involved, reported that the new reward money was gathered during a trade fair called the Islamic Republic’s Digital Media Exhibition. It quoted the secretary of the exhibition saying that the $600,000 had been announced last week to mark the anniversary of the 1989 fatwa.
The Iranian government distanced itself from calls for Mr. Rushdie’s death under former President Mohammad Khatami, a reformist who declared in 1998 that the fatwa had ended. But the religious authorities said it could not be withdrawn by anyone other than Ayatollah Khomeini, who died four months after issuing it. His successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said in 2005 that the fatwa remained valid.
Had a delightful surprise today. The 7yo and I went for a drive then a walk. Came up to the Kennedy Presidential Library and I jokingly asked her if she wanted to go in. She actually said yes. Had a great time, lived near it for a decade and first time in!
re: #173 freetoken
Trump in Alabama, massive crowd, starting soon:
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Oooh. This won’t be a charged up group, will it?
re: #177 Nyet
Bernie:
What we’ve got to do is move as aggressively as we can to normalize relations with Iran. … Can I tell you that we should open an embassy in Tehran tomorrow? No, I don’t think we should. But I think the goal has got to be, as we’ve done with Cuba, to move in warm relations with a very powerful and important country in this world.
I will be making a big surprise announcement to the massive crowd assembled in Huntsville/Madison Alabama! Landing now! #Trump2016
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 28, 2016
Jeff Sessions is going to endorse him.
Style looks familiar for some reason… /
RBS
re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Jeff Sessions is going to endorse him.
Freepers are busy having trumpgasms soon as the news came out.
RBS
re: #184 Reality Based Steve
Conspiracy idiot: Image: f57.jpg
Hillary Clinton on Trump not condemning KKK/David Duke: “Oh, that’s pathetic”
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) February 28, 2016
re: #185 Reality Based Steve
You could chase me a long way, looking and sounding like Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, or whatever he is….
re: #174 KerFuFFler
We loved Denmark! Switzerland, not so much. Maybe we were just unlucky there. For one thing, when we were returning our rental car there they tried to scam us $380 (the exact amount of the deductible!) for a tiny, tiny dimple dent on the bumper. I knew we had not done anything to the car and started taking pictures of the “dent” saying quietly but audibly something about suing. After 40 minutes of nonsense they found in their “records” that the car already had a small dent there. Something about the clipboard wielding officiousness of their staff epitomized our experiences there.
Damn sucks. Denmark seemed neat since it’s one of those places I don’t know a whole lot of people who have gone. I like going to places that not a whole lot of people go. Did you stay in Copenhagen? My usual travel stuff includes culture i.e. museums and that sort of thing but also some fun.
re: #186 Nyet
Which reminds me of this Nazi cartoon: Image: Liberators-Kultur-Terror-Anti-Americanism-1944-Nazi-Propaganda-Poster.jpg
This is the school stadium in Alabama hosting today’s Trump rally. The line to get in is literally miles long. pic.twitter.com/JKMwMmY5Al
— Jose A. DelReal (@jdelreal) February 28, 2016
Miles long to hear a racist.
Sigh….
re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Jeff Sessions is going to endorse him.
You guessing or hearing this?
@realDonaldTrump claims Trump University got an “A” rating from the Better Business Bureau. Actually it was D- & F https://t.co/uuIYmmW5WS
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) February 28, 2016
re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth
both
Ah okay. Makes sense Sessions is out of Hollywood central casting to play an old condescending Southern unrepentant bigot.
re: #190 Nyet
Which reminds me of this Nazi cartoon: Image: Liberators-Kultur-Terror-Anti-Americanism-1944-Nazi-Propaganda-Poster.jpg
that is so ugly.
re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Ted, looks like Sessions isn’t standing with you.
re: #191 Jenner7
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Miles long to hear a racist.
Sigh….
I’ve posted this fairly recently, but St. Paul had a 1.6 mile line to see Obama the day that he secured the dem nomination.
re: #197 Stanley Sea
The Nazis critiquing the US for being a KKK country is somewhat ironic, I guess.
re: #196 HappyWarrior
Ah okay. Makes sense Sessions is out of Hollywood central casting to play an old condescending Southern unrepentant bigot.
With a great-sounding Foghorn Leghorn name.
So Trump beats back KKK contro with endorsement from guy denied a federal judgeship for calling black atty “boy” and telling Klan jokes
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 28, 2016
re: #191 Jenner7
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Miles long to hear a racist.
Sigh….
Its Bama, what do you expect?
re: #201 Decatur Deb
With a
great-soundingFoghorn Leghorn name.
I know, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions the third. Perfect. Faulkner is kicking himself somewhere for not coming up with this name.
re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #200 Nyet
The Nazis critiquing the US for being a KKK country is somewhat ironic, I guess.
The Star of David loincloth & the god forsaken record album stood out.
“The conservative soul of the US Senate”….
hot dog! via @DRUDGE pic.twitter.com/sngUVayEpy
— andrew kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) February 28, 2016
from #NeverTrumpI do not remember the GOP offering ANY solutions in the past 8 years
re: #206 Stanley Sea
The Star of David loincloth & the god forsaken record album stood out.
Not sure what it was about with the album, but I suppose jazz.
re: #208 Ming5000
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I do not remember the GOP offering ANY solutions in the past 8 years
Being the party of “conservative solutions” is being the party of hate and anger at this point.
re: #208 Ming5000
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I do not remember the GOP offering ANY solutions in the past 8 years
They’re ‘conservative’ solutions, in that they are very conservative about offering solutions to anything.
white white white crowd
Romney for VP sign here in Trump world. pic.twitter.com/rjvyBWLya4
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) February 28, 2016
A protester might get hurt here…..probably the Romney sign holder.
re: #208 Ming5000
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Better not. Extreme conservatives… solutions… No, better not.
Urf. Had a primary throwdown with a colleague and his girlfriend this afternoon, both of whom are adamant Sanders supporters. I had not previously disclosed* my favorable views towards Clinton, and they literally physically recoiled with their “Really?!”.
When I explained, among other things, how I feel that Clinton’s executive experience at State is critical experience for somebody seeking to lead the country, I was met with the counter that well Sanders was a mayor you know!
Jesus, y’all.
* yes, this is how young white middle-class people talk about their Clinton support with their friends. They disclose it, because that’s how obnoxiously vitriolic their friends likely are with their support of Sanders.
The fact that Trump is now starting to get some serious endorsements is very troubling to me. One of the things that Nate Silver puts a lot of weight to is number and type of endorsements that the candidates receive. For President, IIRC, the endorsement of Governors carry the the most weight (which makes sense).
I think that we may be hitting the “Trump Horizon”, that point where enough of the GOP will start to favor him, so they won’t be left out in the cold if he gets elected. That leads to more support in general, which can lead to more endorsements.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m afraid that Trump-net has become sentient.
RBS
re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth
“The conservative soul of the US Senate”….
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Contradiction of terms in there….
Is this the “big surprise” coming up at the Trump rally in Alabama?
EXCLUSIVE: SEN. SESSIONS TO ENDORSE TRUMP https://t.co/KcJ0tXkKRh
— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) February 28, 2016
Apparently the old man has jumped on the Convention of States bandwagon… Sigh.
re: #219 bratwurst
He is lining up as many Republicans as he can so he can get more votes.
re: #215 Testy Toad T
Urf. Had a primary throwdown with a colleague and his girlfriend this afternoon, both of whom are adamant Sanders supporters. I had not previously disclosed* my favorable views towards Clinton, and they literally physically recoiled with their “Really?!”.
When I explained, among other things, how I feel that Clinton’s executive experience at State is critical experience for somebody seeking to lead the country, I was met with the counter that well Sanders was a mayor you know!
Jesus, y’all.
* yes, this is how young white middle-class people talk about their Clinton support with their friends. They disclose it, because that’s how obnoxiously vitriolic their friends likely are with their support of Sanders.
“Bernie was a mayor” is the “I can see Russia from my window” of the ‘16 Dem primaries. The man has zero foreign policy experience, and virtually no experience outside his time as mayor ever being leader of anything. If they try to boost his time as mayor again, bring up the time Mayor Sanders decided he was going to support dumping nuclear waste in a poor Hispanic community in Texas.
re: #213 Lidane
Yes. This.
[ Because he serves evil by direct and intelligent choice - while showing us that he can see well enough to have chosen differently.]
That goes for so many more than just George Will. I even (probably mistakenly) sort of accused D_F of it.
re: #215 Testy Toad T
And my answer to that is that while it’s more experience being an government executive than the existing Republican contenders, meaning it would definitely help me being OK with voting for Sanders in the general, it doesn’t match up with the experience that the president of the United States needs as well as Secretary of State.
Guessing Trump endorsements have larger strategy. Gingrich’s w/ domestic policy bona fides, Sesssions vouch for judicial. Who’s the FP guy?
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) February 28, 2016
Vladimir Putin https://t.co/6TYcbUpVRY
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) February 28, 2016
re: #217 Reality Based Steve
I think Redstate ( I previously called them Red State. See how much I follow them?) is anti-Trump.
There seems to be a growing #NeverTrump movement which includes, it seems, both left and right.
Fox is not on Trump’s side, right?
I know we have Freeper monitors here. What is the mood there?
re: #227 Ming5000
I think Redstate ( I previously called them Red State. See how much I follow them?) is anti-Trump.
There seems to be a growing #NeverTrump movement which includes, it seems, both left and right.
Fox is not on Trump’s side, right?
I know we have Freeper monitors here. What is the mood there?
In the tank for Trump.
re: #227 Ming5000
The SalemCommunications folk are the religious right, who are quite upset that many self declared “evangelicals” are supporting Trump, because Trump supports PP.
#JusticeForFlint livestream
re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth
“The conservative soul of the US Senate”….
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Jefferson Beauregard “Jeff” Sessions III
Was he named after Jefferson Davis?
Nice name to trot out when you’re fighting back KKK talk.
re: #228 Targetpractice
In the tank for Trump.
Are they? I remember a pretty large Cruz bloc over there.
The GOP is now the Know Nothing Party.
With Sergeant Schultz as chairman.
Idiots just love this shtick.
Trump on Sweet Home Alabama: “I could listen to that music all day long.”
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) February 28, 2016
re: #234 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
The GOP is now the Know Nothing Party.
With Sergeant Schultz as chairman.
Those Trump FEMA camps will be luxurious and beautiful.
This primary season has been educational for me. At the risk of sounding like I’m MBFing, it’s shown me that the far left can be just as vitriolic, factually-challenged and prone to conspiracy theories as the far right. And I say this as someone who is probably to the left of most mainstream Democrats.
re: #233 Lidane
Are they? I remember a pretty large Cruz bloc over there.
There was a post here last night about how the management has cracked down on Rubio supporters and is now dropping it’s previous ban on birtherism, especially that aimed at Cruz. They’re not outright endorsing him just yet, but they’re allowing the floodgates to quietly open.
re: #227 Ming5000
I think Redstate ( I previously called them Red State. See how much I follow them?) is anti-Trump.
There seems to be a growing #NeverTrump movement which includes, it seems, both left and right.
Fox is not on Trump’s side, right?
I know we have Freeper monitors here. What is the mood there?
It’s weird there. (ok, weirder than normal). They are basically in a state of Civil War between the Cruz and Trump factions, and it’s a bloody one. JimRob had come out early from Cruz, and any positive mention of any other candidate was sure to bring you heat. Once Trump started to catch fire, things changed. Now both factions are at each others throat and things are being said that won’t easily go away.
As for Rubio or any of the rest, any idea of supporting them (all liberal RINOs in their view) is going to get somebody a time-out at the very least.
Both factions are maintaining that the other’s candidate is actually a Liberal and can’t be trusted. I can’t make this kind of stuff up.
This particular announcement is viewed as the ‘kiss of death’ for Cruz by the Trumpettes, and the Cruizers view it as proof that Sessions is a sellout and no true conservative.
RBS
RBS
A good compare-and-contrast moment:
Two approaches to elections. (1/2)
1) @HillaryClinton to white millennials after losing NH.https://t.co/ZoB4m9WKV2 pic.twitter.com/1emzI4L6N0— Dean Barker (@deanbarker) February 28, 2016
Compare and contrast. (2/2)
2) @BernieSanders on African-Americans after losing SC.https://t.co/A26RcHbtLy pic.twitter.com/gpIqYMh4AA— Dean Barker (@deanbarker) February 28, 2016
re: #238 b.d.
Those Trump FEMA camps will be luxurious and beautiful.
Yes but the guards will be goofy, bumbling but lovable.
Of course, it was also bernsplained to me that well the FBI is going to indict Clinton over EMAILZZZZ and so Sanders is really the more electable candidate in the general anyway and and and
God fucking damnit, my head hurts. I guess this is what happens when you don’t remember the ’90s.
I just think Obama really got this shambling corpse of a democracy heading on the right track and so I’d like a general continuation of his policies. Is that so much to ask?
For shits and giggles, here’s David Brooks’s take after the Iowa caucus:
re: #245 Testy Toad T
That’s another thing that pisses me off about Sandbaggers: aping RWNJ memes to attack Hillary. Do they realize we’re all on the same side here?
re: #146 De Kolta Chair
Ben Carson wakes up, criticizes political correctness (at least Fox says that’s what he was doing), falls back onto the sweet comfy bosom of slumber
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Ben has sweet dreams of dancing fruit salads and pyramids full of grain while he and Jesus take selfies. Must be really tough for him to wake up from that.
Sen Jeff Sessions takes the stage w Trump: “This isn’t a campaign. It’s a movement”
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) February 28, 2016
re: #247 No Depression
That’s another thing that pisses me off about Sandbaggers: aping RWNJ memes to attack Hillary. Do they realize we’re all on the same side here?
Some of them don’t see us on the same side unfortunately.
re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’ve had movements that look a lot like Trump’s candidacy, yeah.
re: #243 freetoken
Sessions is currently getting eaten alive on his Facebook page. Lots of unhappy people:
Pick a post at random and read the comments. His constituents are NOT happy.
Now he is going to berate the fire department for limiting the crowd to a safe number?
Really?
re: #252 HappyWarrior
Was Dixie playing when Sessions was introduced?
Well, certainly not the Dixie Chicks…
re: #253 Lidane
Sessions qualified his endorsement with “nobody is perfect but…”
re: #66 Kragar
Wow. Didn’t realize my photo captioning there got to be so popular.
re: #256 freetoken
Sessions qualified his endorsement with “nobody is perfect but…”
Honestly, I thought Sessions would endorse Cruz. They’re more in line with each other policy wise. Guess even Sessions hates Cruz that much.
Probably not the endorsement you want when you’ve been denying the KKK honest.
re: #246 worldknot
For shits and giggles, here’s David Brooks’s take after the Iowa caucus:
The only reason I’ll click on a David Brooks link is to read the ‘Reader’s Choice’ comments tearing him to shreds. He’s such a pompous ass; not good for my blood pressure.
I’m reading some stuff about how AI and robot tech could make 90 million jobs disappear in the next 10 years. We all know how serious the environment is to make a high priority.
Trump is talking about ending the EPA to save money to cut taxes and all but fully supporting racism. This is Trump and the modern GOP.
These people don’t have the qualifications or serious minds needed to lead a nation in to high tech future or any future IMHO.
Trump secures Keebler Elf vote:
RT @cnnbrk Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama endorses Donald Trump. https://t.co/5WWnUYZMCZ— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) February 28, 2016
I’d take arguments for Sanders a lot more seriously if his backers admitted there were weak spots in his resume or imperfections in his campaign. Some sort of circumspection and weighing of pros and cons.
Right now they all just sound like they’re in a fucking cult. Sanders cannot fail, he can only be failed.
re: #254 bratwurst
Now he is going to berate the fire department for limiting the crowd to a safe number?
Really?
Where in the Constitution does it state that my freedom to assemble is limited by the arbitrary whims of some unelected fire marshal. Nowhere!!!! That’s where!!!!
Flashback: Sessions apologized for saying he thought members of KKKK “were O.K. until I found out they smoked pot.” https://t.co/SfJqKoXa1V
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) February 28, 2016
re: #208 Ming5000
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I do not remember the GOP offering ANY solutions in the past 8 years
No, the GOP passed those crossroads way back in 2008 and has never looked back.
re: #258 Lidane
Honestly, I thought Sessions would endorse Cruz. They’re more in line with each other policy wise. Guess even Sessions hates Cruz that much.
No Senator likes Cruz.
Which is kind of amazing, really.
Sessions endorsement is an absolute kidney punch for Cruz. He frequently cites his team-up with Sessions on immigration.
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) February 28, 2016
re: #265 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’s ok to be a racist, just not ok to be a mellow racist ///
RBS
re: #268 freetoken
No Senator likes Cruz.
Which is kind of amazing, really.
It really is.
Lindsay Graham clearly wasn’t joking when he said you could kill Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate and no one in the Senate would convict you for it.
re: #227 Ming5000
I know we have Freeper monitors here. What is the mood there?
The owner of the site loves him now, so the Freepers better love him to or else!.
re: #271 Lidane
It really is.
Lindsay Graham clearly wasn’t joking when he said you could kill Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate and no one in the Senate would convict you for it.
Hey, remember how the KKK thing was going to stop the flow of officeholder endorsements toward Trump? Like five hours ago?
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) February 28, 2016
re: #245 Testy Toad T
Of course, it was also bernsplained to me that well the FBI is going to indict Clinton over EMAILZZZZ and so Sanders is really the more electable candidate in the general anyway and and and
God fucking damnit, my head hurts. I guess this is what happens when you don’t remember the ’90s.
I just think Obama really got this shambling corpse of a democracy heading on the right track and so I’d like a general continuation of his policies. Is that so much to ask?
I am seeing a lot of references to “Espionage Act violations” over on the right. Sorry, I mean ESPIONAGE ACT VIOLATIONS!!
#Trump is talking about #BLM activist crashing #Bernie in Seattle… ” No mic is gonna be taken from me, he looked so weak”
— officialERICA GARNER (@es_snipes) February 28, 2016
As an amateur legerdemainist, I’m going to let you all in on a little secret about how magic works. Actually, it’s the entire secret of how magic works:
re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth
Save that one to forward to the Bernie supporters.
Sessions on why he is endorsing Trump cites “masters of the universe” pic.twitter.com/FpQRfIbTse
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) February 28, 2016
The GOP needs a new logo. Here’s one I think Prince Rebus should seriously consider for the organization he leads.
Trump just yelled “All Lives Matter” at his rally in Alabama, this where we’re headed people, don’t be stupid for the love of God
— Cess (Adam) (@_Cesspardo) February 28, 2016
The last time Trump and Sessions rallied together in Alabama, someone yelled “White power!” from the audience. https://t.co/BJxFFKgEOZ
— ¡Gabe! Ortíz (@TUSK81) February 28, 2016
re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Uh Oh, now Trump has done it! The Butthurt Bernie Brigade will not let this stand!
re: #284 b.d.
Maybe if Trump pisses them off enough, they will vote for Hillary…
re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump is definitely going to wind up with an Altamont moment at one of his rallies before summer is over.
re: #285 GlutenFreeJesus
Maybe if Trump pisses them off enough, they will vote for Hillary…
Whatever it takes.
re: #286 stpaulbear
Trump is definitely going to wind up with an Altamont-type moment at one of his rallies before summer is over.
I’m afraid of that happening.
Trump is barely coherent in his Alabama rally speech. Try following it.
— Jonathan Karp (@karpjonathan) February 28, 2016
re: #290 Backwoods_Sleuth
Seems like the usual Trump to me.
re: #286 stpaulbear
Trump is definitely going to wind up with an Altamont-type moment at one of his rallies before summer is over.
It won”t be Trump’s fault it will be the fault of those ________________(insert topical scapegot here)
re: #292 Stanley Sea
It’s just that we’ve heard it all so many times already…
Please join me in calling bullshit on this: https://t.co/SLuZaRQZ2S pic.twitter.com/Mv8aL53p7E
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) February 28, 2016
re: #284 b.d.
Uh Oh, now Trump has done it! The Butthurt Bernie Brigade will not let this stand!
You’re right, they’ll not take this lying down. They will immediately…declare that Bernie could so beat Trump in the general and that’s why people should support him over Hillary or else they’re gonna go stay home and let Trump win.
re: #286 stpaulbear
Trump is definitely going to wind up with an Altamont moment at one of his rallies before summer is over.
If he does, the election is over and Trump will win. That’s exactly what his supporters are hoping for.
No one will ever accuse Trump of being profound.
heh
There have long been hot take wars about what fraction of Republican Partyism is sublimated racism. On Tuesday we’ll get actual data!
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 28, 2016
To think that I made this as a joke when Trump announced his candidacy. Never thought it would actually be so damned accurate.
Rebranding!re: #294 freetoken
It’s just that we’ve heard it all so many times already…
Trump is on tv again in Alabama. Is he talking about issues? No, he is talking about sweating, weakness, big ears, losers, polls, liars,
— Janice Luscher (@leeleslan) February 28, 2016
re: #299 freetoken
No one will ever accuse Trump of being profound.
Or nuanced, or analytical, or consistent. The best you can say for him is that he appears to have mastered the Art of the Long Con.
RBS
re: #239 No Depression
This primary season has been educational for me. At the risk of sounding like I’m MBFing, it’s shown me that the far left can be just as vitriolic, factually-challenged and prone to conspiracy theories as the far right. And I say this as someone who is probably to the left of most mainstream Democrats.
I’ve never thought there is real difference in the level of kookiness to be found in the fringes of the far left and the far right.
The true difference between the two parties is that the RWNJ fringe is pretty much running the show on the GOP side, while the LWNJ fringe has little influence and less power.
Rubio’s “con man” attacks struck a nerve with Trump that Jeb & others didn’t quite hit. He spends half his speech savaging “Little Marco.”
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) February 28, 2016
“He’s not cool, he sweats too much and I don’t want him negotiating for us.” @realDonaldTrump on @marcorubio #welp
— Sarah Boxer (@Sarah_Boxer) February 28, 2016
Glenn Beck is claiming that he is holding up the original golden ticket from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” at a Ted Cruz rally in OKC
— Katie Zezima (@katiezez) February 28, 2016
Well…that is…you know…something, right?
re: #305 EPR-radar
I’ve never thought there is real difference in the level of kookiness to be found in the fringes of the far left and the far right.
The true difference between the two parties is the the RWNJ fringe is pretty much running the show on the GOP side, while the LWNJ fringe has little influence and less power.
Tricorne hats > giant puppets
Hahahahaha:
Trending on Twitter right now: 1) #oscars 2) David Duke. pic.twitter.com/gY1urWoAvJ
— Jenna Johnson (@wpjenna) February 28, 2016
Both of them are looking out for white people. https://t.co/cm3z5QUGKy
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) February 28, 2016
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
We cannot be a party that nominates someone who refuses to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan.
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 28, 2016
No joke: Rubio was introduced by George “Macaca” Allen.
Trump: “Why is there a fire hazard when you’re standing outside?”
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) February 28, 2016
re: #310 De Kolta Chair
And he was introduced by George “Macaca” Allen.
Of course you can, Marcobot, and you will. And you’ve pledged to support him.
Nice job, numbnuts.
Poor Leo 😂 “@aarxns: OMG HAHAHAHA pic.twitter.com/FPymkesSeP”
— Maps Maponyane (@MapsMaponyane) February 28, 2016
re: #295 Lidane
Ross Douchehat is in a perpetual competition with David Brooks for the title of worst NYT columnist.
re: #309 b.d.
Fun Fact: More white actresses have won #Oscars for playing Asians than actual Asian actresses have won. Period. #OscarsSoWhite
— Angry Asian Man (@angryasianman) February 28, 2016
You don’t have to live in Flint to care about Flint. —Dr. Mona #JusticeForFlint
A reminder that Cruz name-checks Jeff Sessions in nearly every speech to prove his own bona fides on immigration. Let’s see if he still does
— Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) February 28, 2016
Trump on stage just said he wants US leaders to treat the American people the way Chinese leaders treat the Chinese people. 😳 #NeverTrump
— Kevin Lawson (@TheRealKLawson) February 28, 2016
ROFL:
@EWErickson whatever follows the GOP has the advantage of leaving out sessions, christie, etc. a fresh start
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) February 28, 2016
re: #321 Lidane
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Are his brain and his mouth on any kind of speaking terms with each other?
re: #323 Lidane
This twitter exchange is like watching two Neanderthals try to operate an iPhone.
Utterly clueless in all aspects of the discussion.
re: #321 Lidane
Up to and including sending in the army to massacre unarmed protestors?
Every time I think to myself, “This race couldn’t possibly get any more bizarre,” I am proven wrong in new and disgusting ways.
Stop the world, I want to get off.
“MacArthur…”
I’m pretty sure that this is a whistle for the Birchers.
Even Trump isn’t dumb enough to have missed that MacArthur is the one that engineered the Japanese Constitution that keeps them from doing the very thing that Trump wants the Japanese to do.
re: #323 Lidane
Those all sound like positions that Erick would be happy with. What’s his problem?
re: #321 Lidane
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Check out this guy’s Twitter page. Major Bible thumper, who most likely has been voting GOP for decades and is now SHOCKED at what the party has become.
I’m also still trying to parse the Trump quote. I’m wondering what the context was, although with Trump, up is down; etc.
re: #332 Skip Intro
Those all sound like positions that Erick would be happy with. What’s his problem?
Inadequate levels of Christofascism, basically.
CBS YouGov Texas Poll:
Which candidate are you most likely to vote for in the Texas Democratic Presidential primary in 2016?
Asked of Democratic primary voters
Hillary Clinton …………………………………………………..61%
Bernie Sanders …………………………………………………37%
No preference ……………………………………………………2%
Which candidate are you most likely to vote for in the Texas Republican Presidential primary in 2016?
Asked of Republican primary voters
Ben Carson ……………………………………………………..4%
Ted Cruz ……………………………………………………… 42%
John Kasich ……………………………………………………. 4%
Marco Rubio ……………………………………………………19%
Donald Trump …………………………………………………. 31%
No preference ……………………………………………………0%
So Ted will live to see another day.
re: #334 EPR-radar
Inadequate levels of Christofascism, basically.
What, Pat Robertson and Franklin Graham aren’t good enough for Erick?
re: #335 b.d.
CBS YouGov Texas Poll:
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So Ted will live to see another day.
Yeah, but if Rubio doesn’t get up above 20%, he may be gone for good.
re: #323 Lidane
ROFL:
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lol, from July
Yes, I Would Vote for Donald Trump For President http://t.co/vil2lH4q0S
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) July 22, 2015
re: #335 b.d.
Most polls have Cruz leading in Texas. If he wins, Cruz will be emboldened to go to the end.
But Trump will probably win every place else.
Well, it’s hard to tell with the MN caucus. Evidently Minnesotans don’t talk to pollsters. You betcha.
re: #335 b.d.
CBS YouGov Texas Poll:
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So Ted will live to see another day.
The Dem version of those projections got me thinking: if HRC takes TX and CA, would it be game over for Sanders at that point? Admittedly, much of this speculation revolves around the fact I have no idea what states are involved in Super Tuesday.
re: #335 b.d.
CBS YouGov Texas Poll:
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So Ted will live to see another day.
If Rubio doesn’t make the 20 percent threshold in Texas, Cruz will easily get more delegates on Tuesday.
re: #336 Skip Intro
What, Pat Robertson and Franklin Graham aren’t good enough for Erick?
No. The Redstate party line on those endorsements is that Robertson and Graham are being sell-outs.
It is exceedingly bizarre to see televangelist grifters like these two be hammered for what they are at Redstate.
re: #338 Targetpractice
Yeah, but if Rubio doesn’t get up above 20%, he may be gone for good.
A 3rd for Marco is as good as a win for anybody else
re: #341 Mattand
The Dem version of those projections got me thinking: if HRC takes TX and CA, would it be game over for Sanders at that point? Admittedly, much of this speculation revolves around the fact I have no idea what states are involved in Super Tuesday.
CA doesn’t have its primary until June.
re: #343 EPR-radar
The riff raff don’t realize that the whole true-believer gimmick is only for the marks, but the guys on top can do whatever they want.
re: #341 Mattand
The Dem version of those projections got me thinking: if HRC takes TX and CA, would it be game over for Sanders at that point? Admittedly, much of this speculation revolves around the fact I have no idea what states are involved in Super Tuesday.
Sanders will win Vermont and maybe MA on Tuesday, Clinton will sweep the other states (including TX) and it will be over. CA doesn’t have their primary until much later in the year - June I think.
re: #344 b.d.
A 3rd for Marco is as good as a win for anybody else
If a third place win is good enough for Ted Cruz it should be good enough for Marquito.
re: #348 KingKenrod
Sanders will win Vermont and maybe MA on Tuesday, Clinton will sweep the other states (including TX) and it will be over. CA doesn’t have their primary until much later in the year - June I think.
I expect Sanders to narrowly take Minnesota as well. White, liberal, well-educated. We’ll see.
re: #339 b.d.
lol, from July
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LOL, Erickson was down with Trump as long as he was shitting on Mexicans and Musiims, but refusing to call white supremacist is where Erick draws the line.
Because if there’s one thing white supremacists never do, it’s shit all over Mexicans and Muslims.
These fucking people…
re: #350 Testy Toad T
I expect Sanders to narrowly take Minnesota as well. White, liberal, well-educated. We’ll see.
I’ll take that bet.
I love data:
If you heard a candidate described as an “establishment Republican” would it make you…?
Asked of Republican primary voters
More likely to vote for them ………………………………………..5%
Less likely to vote for them ……………………………………….48%
It doesn’t affect my vote ………………………………………….39%
Never heard the term ……………………………………………. 8%
The only new thing in today’s version of this speech is that Sessions endorsed Trump.
re: #343 EPR-radar
No. The Redstate party line on those endorsements is that Robertson and Graham are being sell-outs.
It is exceedingly bizarre to see televangelist grifters like these two be hammered for what they are at Redstate.
I just can’t tell the Christofacists apart. I guess you have to be one to do that.
re: #355 b.d.
I love data:
They forgot a category: My grasp of politics is equal to that of a wallaby on bath salts.
re: #351 Mattand
LOL, Erickson was down with Trump as long as he was shitting on Mexicans and Musiims, but refusing to call white supremacist is where Erick draw the line.
Because if there’s one thing white supremacists never do, it’s shit all over Mexicans and Muslims.
These fucking people…
I don’t think that’s the real reason. Erickson and Redstate don’t like Trump mainly because he is insufficiently doctrinaire as a conservative. They also don’t think he can win in the general.
Opposing overt white supremacy is a convenient reason to give out for this opposition, but is probably at best a distant third in their reasons to oppose Trump.
re: #360 EPR-radar
I don’t think that’s the real reason. Erickson and Redstate don’t like Trump mainly because he is insufficiently doctrinaire as a conservative. They also don’t think he can win in the general.
Opposing overt white supremacy is a convenient reason to give out for this opposition, but is probably at best a distant third in their reasons to oppose Trump.
Right.
And as said Cruz who Etickson likes openly admires Jesse Helms.
I’ve seen people saying that Sanders is “competitive” in 5 of the states Tuesday, so I’m sure there will be one or more surprises. But after yesterday, the clock on his campaign has begun to wind down. He needed an upset in SC, a narrow loss or even a narrow victory, to convince people that he could win outside of his New England comfort zone. He instead got so thoroughly blown out of the water that he’s been left trying to make excuses, which have only furthered the idea that the man doesn’t know how to engage anybody whose skin is darker than a paper bag.
re: #321 Lidane
Trump on stage just said he wants US leaders to treat the American people the way Chinese leaders treat the Chinese people. 😳 #NeverTrump
— Kevin Lawson (@TheRealKLawson) February 28, 2016
Trump wants to emulate the Chinese on how they treat dissenters?
Censorship, exile, imprisonment, violent retaliation against family members, and summary execution of anyone who speaks out too loudly?
Son of Erick doesn’t like Trump because Trump is not a True Christian.
That’s it.
Yes, Son of Erick and his ilk are applying a religious test.
This is not a racism test. This is not a bigotry test.
Son of Erick dresses up his rejection as a racism-test. But that is a lie.
It’s a religious test.
re: #365 Bill and Opus for 2016!
Trump wants to emulate the Chinese on how they treat dissenters?
Censorship, exile, imprisonment, violent retaliation against family members, and summary execution of anyone who speaks out too loudly?
That sounds about right to me. That’s exactly what I envision a Trump presidency to be.
re: #366 freetoken
Son of Erick doesn’t like Trump because Trump is not a True Christian.
That’s it.
Yes, Son of Erick and his ilk are applying a religious test.
This is not a racism test. This is not a bigotry test.
Son of Erick dresses up his rejection as a racism-test. But that is a lie.
It’s a religious test.
Yes.
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re: #365 Bill and Opus for 2016!
Trump wants to emulate the Chinese on how they treat dissenters?
Censorship, exile, imprisonment, violent retaliation against family members, and summary execution of anyone who speaks out too loudly?
Don’t forget about the organ harvesting. That’s a real business opportunity. ///
re: #360 EPR-radar
I don’t think that’s the real reason. Erickson and Redstate don’t like Trump mainly because he is insufficiently doctrinaire as a conservative. They also don’t think he can win in the general.
Opposing overt white supremacy is a convenient reason to give out for this opposition, but is probably at best a distant third in their reasons to oppose Trump.
Heh, because only Cruz with his strong moderate streak can win over independents.
Again: these fucking people. It’s like reading a version of “The Little Train That Could” as written by Newt Gingrich: “I know Cruz can win, I know Cruz can win…”
Trump’s dog whistle is very loud and incredibly close.
Know Nothing From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American Party
Citizen Know Nothing, image of the Know Nothing party’s nativist ideal
Citizen Know Nothing: The Know Nothing Party’s nativist ideal.
First Leader Lewis Charles Levin
Founded 1845
Dissolved 1860
Split from Whig Party
Succeeded by Constitutional Union Party
Headquarters New York, New York, U.S.
Secret wing Order of the Star Spangled Banner
Ideology American nationalism
Anti-Catholicism
Republicanism
Nativism
Religion Protestantism (Temperance)
Colors Blue, red, white
(American colors)
Politics of United States
Political parties
ElectionsThe Native American Party, renamed in 1855 as the American Party, and commonly known as the Know Nothing movement, was an American political party that operated on a national basis during the mid-1850s.
The movement arose in response to an influx of migrants, and promised to “purify” American politics by limiting or ending the influence of Irish Catholics and other immigrants, thus reflecting nativist and anti-Catholic sentiment. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, whom they saw as hostile to republican values, and as being controlled by the Pope in Rome. Mainly active from 1854 to 1856, the movement strove to curb immigration and naturalization, but met with little success. Membership was limited to Protestant men. There were few prominent leaders, and the largely middle-class membership was fragmented over the issue of slavery.
The Donald bows slightly as he enters the Great Hall of Birmingham. Lord Sessions sits, hunched forward, on the Crimson Chair. Conservative and moderate lords and ladies line the walls of the hall. All wait for Trump to speak.
“Listen, I’m going to build a wall. Ten feet higher now, OK? Pfizer is moving to Mexico, Ford moving to Mexico, it’s disgraceful. Terrible. So, you know, we’re— the wall, it’s going to stop the drugs, the gangs, what the hell good does it do if we lose the jobs, lose the taxes, the companies? I will tell you. And then you’ve got little Marco, and that liar Cruz, and I don’t know. I want to Make. America. Great. Again. Do you?”
The words hang in the air for a long moment. Then Lord Sessions leans forward.
“My friend Ben came to Iowa a guest. He ate Lord Cruz’s bread and salt, and hung his sword upon the wall to feast with friends. And they murdered him. Murdered, I say, and may the Establishment choke upon their fables. I drink with McConnell, jape with Rubio, promise Graham a place in my beloved Senate … but never think that means I have forgotten. The Base remembers, Lord Trump. The Base remembers, and the mummer’s farce is almost done. The Donald is home.”
re: #366 freetoken
Son of Erick doesn’t like Trump because Trump is not a True Christian.
That’s it.
Yes, Son of Erick and his ilk are applying a religious test.
This is not a racism test. This is not a bigotry test.
Son of Erick dresses up his rejection as a racism-test. But that is a lie.
It’s a religious test.
The term I see is “Christian Constitutionalist”
#bernorbust is a thing. A really lame thing.
Yeesh, talk about sanctimonious.
re: #358 Great White Snark
Downrange monitoring issued a hold at T- minus 1:33. Since they are on a 90-minute window they might be be able to reset and launch hopefully. Nothing wrong with the craft this time.
It’s the end of the conservative world as we knew it.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) February 28, 2016
Evening Lizards….Anybody besides me think Ted Cruz is just Richard Nixon without the moral center?
Trump on the other hand is either the logical outcome of 30 years of the GOP creating a party that doesn’t know the difference between reality and underpants on head craziness or a reality show pilot.
Really good write up on this in Talking Points Memo about the stupidity debt that the GOP has built up and why Trump is the logical result:
The GOP’s Stupidity Debt
re: #375 De Kolta Chair
#bernorbust is a thing. A really lame thing.
Children throwing temper tantrums. “Daddy, I want my pony! If you don’t give it to me, I’m gonna hold me breath until I turn blue!”
re: #377 SpaceJesus
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Whaaaa! It’s not they haven’t been building up to this for decades.
You built this!
re: #377 SpaceJesus
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End of the conservative world? God I hope so. Maybe then the GOP can get back to being true conservatives instead of radical reactionaries.
re: #378 Schroedinger’s Dog
Evening Wizards….Anybody besides me think Ted Cruz is just Richard Nixon without the moral center?
Trump on the other hand is either the logical outcome of 30 years of the GOP creating a party that doesn’t know the difference between reality and underpants on head craziness or a reality show pilot.
Really good write up on this in Talking Points Memo about the stupidity debt that the GOP has built up and why Trump is the logical result:
Ouch. How much of a monster do you have to be in that you make freaking Nixon looks like a saint?
re: #377 SpaceJesus
Dammit…this is the ONE thing I like about Trump: he makes the ostensible adults in the GOP tent cry.
re: #377 SpaceJesus
Oh, bull. It’s not the end, it’s the logical conclusion.
Where did Frum think a movement full of morons and racists was going to go?
@davidfrum Let us celebrate.
— free token (@freetoken) February 28, 2016
re: #379 Targetpractice
Children throwing temper tantrums. “Daddy, I want my pony! If you don’t give it to me, I’m gonna hold me breath until I turn blue!”
Verbatim!
re: #376 Bill and Opus for 2016!
Downrange monitoring issued a hold at T- minus 1:33. Since they are on a 90-minute window they might be be able to reset and launch hopefully. Nothing wrong with the craft this time.
“Fouled range.”
Someone/something within an area where they/it shouldn’t be.
re: #369 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #386 Mattand
Ouch. How much of a monster do you have to be in that you make freaking Nixon looks like a saint?
Cruz is worse than Nixon in that he pretends to have one that’s better than everyone else’s.
Cruz reminds me of nothing more than Robert Tilton.
LinkRobert Tilton needs your money more than you do
re: #379 Targetpractice
Children throwing temper tantrums. “Daddy, I want my pony! If you don’t give it to me, I’m gonna hold me breath until I turn blue!”
And, as with the tantrums my kids throw, I won’t give them the attention they want, and they can keep throwing it until they get tired. If they were my kids, they’d be doing it from their rooms, but since they are not, they can vent from their locations.
re: #393 Teukka
Yep. Apparently a boat strayed into the no-go zone. They’ve reset the countdown clock to T-minus 10:42 (just before automatic sequence starts) and it looks like they are going to give it another try.
My caller ID just said “Bernie 2016.” I’m not big on answering the phone unless it’s a person I actually know, so I didn’t pick it up.
re: #398 Belafon
My caller ID just said “Bernie 2016.” I’m not big on answering the phone unless it’s a person I actually know, so I didn’t pick it up.
“Have you heard the word of Sanders?”
“I love KFC!”
“Uh, we’re talking about Bernie Sanders.”
“Oh…well, I don’t like spam. *click*”
re: #399 Targetpractice
“Have you heard the word of Sanders?”
“I love KFC!”
“Uh, we’re talking about Bernie Sanders.”
“Oh…well, I don’t like spam. *click*”
Sanders chicken…That tastes just like aligator.
re: #389 Skip Intro
Oh, bull. It’s not the end, it’s the logical conclusion.
Where did Frum think a movement full of morons and racists was going to go?
Seems obvious now
re: #360 EPR-radar
2020, Cruz will run again and he will lose the party nomination for being too liberal.
Now I get it. It’s Satan and has been all along.
I just saw that Jeff Sessions endorsed @realDonaldTrump. I’m dumbfounded. This is a time of satanic deception like no other. #LosingAmerica
— DavidJeffersGroup (@FLADaveJ) February 28, 2016
Silly me.
This is what keeps me up nights, because I’ve seen it before (like in 2014).
Democrats Should Be Very Nervous About Their Terrible Turnout Numbers
In primary after primary this cycle, Democratic voters just aren’t showing up. Only 367,491 people cast a ballot for either Clinton or Sanders on Saturday. That’s down 16 percent from the 436,219 people who came out in 2008 for Clinton and Obama. Factor in the 93,522 people who voted for John Edwards back in the day, and you can see the scope of the problem. Democrats in 2016 are only getting about two-thirds of the primary votes that they received eight years ago.
Republican turnout in the South Carolina primary, by contrast, was up more than 70 percent from 2008.
South Carolina’s turnout numbers are not an anomaly. They’re consistent with other primaries to date. Republicans are psyched. Democrats are demoralized.
For some reason, Democrats just can’t be bothered to vote, while the Republicans are showing up in record numbers. There’s another disaster in the making here.
re: #403 b.d.
“This is a time of satanic deception like no other.”
I think it’s got a nice ring to it. It describes the current republican experience pretty well.
re: #403 b.d.
Now I get it. It’s Satan and has been all along.
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Silly me.
From Spawn
Clown: How come God hogs up all the good followers, and we’re left with the retards?
re: #404 Skip Intro
Lots of people don’t care about voting if they feel like their vote won’t matter. Lots of votes didn’t matter in the two primaries the Democrats have had, and caucuses always have such low turnout that drawing judgements from year-to-year variability is an exercise in studying noise.
It’s a concern, but it’s a concern every cycle. The sky isn’t falling.
re: #404 Skip Intro
For some reason, Democrats just can’t be bothered to vote, while the Republicans are showing up in record numbers. There’s another disaster in the making here.
I’m chalking it up to the Dem primaries really not being a contested primary race (sorry berniacs)
I hope
re: #408 Great White Snark
Countdown resumes..
back to 9 minutes. Cool, it sure got dark there in a hurry.
THEY ARE COMING….
Ben Carson to hold Lexington town hall Monday https://t.co/GPDZcwEooI pic.twitter.com/FS2TKG5hx3
.@marcorubio is in Knoxville tomorrow. No public events announced beyond Super Tuesday yet. #KyCaucus is up Saturday.
— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) February 29, 2016
(that would be Knoxville, Kentucky)
Trump want the USA to be more like Chyna:
Donald Trump on Tiananmen Square, 1990 https://t.co/bUdX5lbYb8 pic.twitter.com/DFCk0U1MKE
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) February 28, 2016
re: #404 Skip Intro
This is what keeps me up nights, because I’ve seen it before (like in 2014).
Democrats Should Be Very Nervous About Their Terrible Turnout Numbers
For some reason, Democrats just can’t be bothered to vote, while the Republicans are showing up in record numbers. There’s another disaster in the making here.
We also had three candidates in ‘08, and there was a serious distinction between those candidates. This year, it’s only really been a two person race, and on most subjects the two are only differentiated by the degree to the left they lean. It’s not the sort of primary season that inspires huge turnouts.
WW2 analogies: @hughhewitt is Switzerland; Trump tweets Mussolini; his appeasers are Austria. Fine. We simple conservatives will be Britain.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) February 28, 2016
re: #413 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump want the USA to be more like Chyna:
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He no doubt wants our wages to be Ike theirs too.
Countdown continuing. Lift off in 3:20
re: #413 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump want the USA to be more like Chyna:
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There will be no protesters in Trump Plaza. Guards, open fire! //
RBS
re: #409 b.d.
For the last time I’m going to post this, because it was right on the money back in 2014 and it doesn’t look like much has changed to me. Just my opinion.
re: #420 Skip Intro
For the last time I’m going to post this, because it was right on the money back in 2014 and it doesn’t look like much has changed to me. Just my opinion.
Our base needs to be engaged the way the Republican one is.
When Ronald Reagan was endorsed by the KKK, here’s what he said https://t.co/GwaSviAlUy pic.twitter.com/ng4xvZKwQf
— Justin Green (@JGreenDC) February 28, 2016
And yet he deliberately declared his candidacy in the birthplace of the Klan. Go figure!
re: #415 Lidane
That doesn’t make any sense at all to me.
Launch abort, some kind of an engine problem. They are safeing the systems right now.
RBS
re: #417 Maxwell Not So Smart
Countdown continuing. Lift off in 3:20
Well that didn’t go so well. At least it didn’t crash or blow up.
re: #417 Maxwell Not So Smart
Countdown continuing. Lift off in 3:20
Abort at 0:00. The rockets actually had started to fire when it shut down.
re: #422 De Kolta Chair
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And yet he declared his candidacy in the birthplace of the Klan. What a country.
A minor quarrel but Reagan did not declare his candidacy in the birthplace of the Klan, he did however open his campaign in the town where three civil rights workers were kidnapped and murdered by the KKK with a speech about states rights. And shame on him for doing that along with his remarks about “young bucks and t-bones” and the “welfare queen.” Reagan was a bigot.
Well, here in the middle of this massive el Nino it’s time to run the AC again. Pushing 80 degrees in the house now.
re: #427 Bill and Opus for 2016!
Never seen that happen before. Looked like they fired up then shutdown. SpaceX coolest company on the planet.
re: #415 Lidane
Well, I guess “simple conservatives” works for me, but probably not the way Kristol intended it.
re: #404 Skip Intro
This is what keeps me up nights, because I’ve seen it before (like in 2014).
Democrats Should Be Very Nervous About Their Terrible Turnout Numbers
For some reason, Democrats just can’t be bothered to vote, while the Republicans are showing up in record numbers. There’s another disaster in the making here.
Maddow hit on this the other day as well.
Pretty funny to see all these conservatives acting outraged about Trump’s white supremacist pals. He’s just a little too open about it.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 29, 2016
For years I’ve watched conservatives deny any racism at all in their party. Suddenly, here’s Trump laying it right out in their faces.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 29, 2016
All this phony outrage is more than a little late. The real problem for them is that Trump stripped away their deniability.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 29, 2016
re: #432 Mattand
Well, I guess “simple conservatives” works for me, but probably not the way Kristol intended it.
I like how this is what set them over the edge against Trump not the whole past year. I mean don’t get me wrong. Fuck him for refusing to denounce Duke or the KKK but conservatives who denounce him over this are being hypocritical weasels. They did NOT denounce him over his comments about Mexican-Americans, his comments about Muslims, etc. They’re mad at Trump I think for a single reason and it’s because they feel he’s making their precious conservatism look bad rather than looking within and realizing that conservatism as they know it has been a fucked up ideology for a long time now.
re: #421 HappyWarrior
Our base needs to be engaged the way the Republican one is.
I think you mean enraged.
re: #436 Charles Johnson
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Yes, that. It was all right with them when Reagan and Bush I had Lee Atwater pushing racist crap but oh no Trump’s open about his right wing ideology being about racism. Newsflash conservatives, your ideology has pretty much always been about that in our country whether it was preserving slavery, preserving legalized lynching, and then Jim Crow. Don’t insult our intelligence. Oh and the “great” Reagan opposed a holiday for MLK’s birthday, the same MLK you now pretend to admire and claim as one of your own.
re: #375 De Kolta Chair
#bernorbust is a thing. A really lame thing.
Yeesh, talk about sanctimonious.
The Veruca Salt wing of the party.
re: #431 Maxwell Not So Smart
Never seen that happen before. Looked like they fired up then shutdown. SpaceX coolest company on the planet.
One huge advantage that liquid-fuel rocket engines have over SRBs. Once a solid booster is ignited, it can’t be shut down until all fuel is exhausted.
re: #431 Maxwell Not So Smart
Never seen that happen before. Looked like they fired up then shutdown. SpaceX coolest company on the planet.
The Space Shuttle had two or three aborts-after-ignition in its service life. Videos of those are on Youtube… And one of the early rocket programs had a hang-fire which had to be checked out in person by a pad worker, I remember reading the story.
It’s OK, I’ve had a dry fire on the 2nd attempt a couple of times… Just need to wait a few minutes. *cough*
Damn! Now the Directv box overheated and shut down.
This is nuts.
Let me point out on another thing. In history and I think history will prove me right here in 20-30 years, American conservatives have been on the wrong side of most every major issue. Of course, the response to that is to claim to have supported it all along which they didn’t.
re: #445 Skip Intro
Damn! Now the Directv box overheated and shut down.
This is nuts.
That SpaceX satellite was going to fix that.
Sorry Skip Intro.
re: #431 Maxwell Not So Smart
Never seen that happen before. Looked like they fired up then shutdown. SpaceX coolest company on the planet.
STS-41D pad abort (6-26-84)
STS-55 pad abort (3-22-93)
STS-51 pad abort (8-12-93)
STS-68 pad abort (8-18-94)
re: #447 b.d.
That SpaceX satellite was going to fix that.
Sorry Skip Intro.
While they’re up there maybe they could deploy an umbrella to shade my house.
re: #448 FormerDirtDart
Interesting. As I said never seen that happen before.
I’m thinking of Miles O’Brien. Used to love seeing him at NASA. He was always excited about this stuff. Such a loser just like me.
re: #315 EPR-radar
Ross Douchehat is in a perpetual competition with David Brooks for the title of worst NYT columnist.
Hey—can’t MoDo get a little love?
re: #450 Maxwell Not So Smart
Interesting. As I said never seen that happen before.
I’m thinking of Miles O’Brien. Used to love seeing him at NASA. He was always excited about this stuff. Such a loser just like me.
Yeah, O’Brien seems like the last journalist that actually knew anything about the space program. Now it’s just the talking heads asking inane questions to whatever rented expert they have for the day.
There seems to be a bunch of Thinness and Blinding Whiteness in my news feeds, for some reason.
There’s something like 455 Republican delegates up for grabs on Tuesday. Trump will get at least half of them.
Trump will still have a long way to go to get to 1237, but now it is looking like Trump will win both winner-take-all states of FL and OH on the 15th. That will give Trump a YUUUUUUUUGE lead in delegates.
That is why Sessions bowed down to Trump today.
From the same CBS Texas poll, Republicans REALLY hate their party
Democratic Party Representation
These days, do you feel the Democratic party represents you…?
Asked of Democratic primary votersVery well
23%
∗
Somewhat well
47%
∗
Not too well
9%
∗
Not well, but more than theRepublicans
20%
∗
Totals
100%
Republican Party Representation
These days, do you feel the Republican party represents you…?
Asked of Republican primary votersVery well
5%
∗
Somewhat well
34%
∗
Not too well
24%
∗
Not well, but more than the Democrats
37%
Totals
100%
Damn! What a hateful bunch.
re: #454 The Vicious Babushka
There seems to be a bunch of Thinness and Blinding Whiteness in my news feeds, for some reason.
Along with lots of boob-jobs and overly-whitened teeth, too, I bet.
re: #455 freetoken
There’s something like 455 Republican delegates up for grabs on Tuesday. Trump will get at least half of them.
Trump will still have a long way to go to get to 1237, but now it is looking like Trump will win both winner-take-all states of FL and OH on the 15th. That will give Trump a YUUUUUUUUGE lead in delegates.
That is why Sessions bowed down to Trump today.
Trump beating Rubio in FL would be uuuuuuuuuuuuge.
re: #455 freetoken
There’s something like 455 Republican delegates up for grabs on Tuesday. Trump will get at least half of them.
Trump will still have a long way to go to get to 1237, but now it is looking like Trump will win both winner-take-all states of FL and OH on the 15th. That will give Trump a YUUUUUUUUGE lead in delegates.
That is why Sessions bowed down to Trump today.
Sessions also wrote Trump’s immigration “plan”.
re: #456 b.d.
From the same CBS Texas poll, Republicans REALLY hate their party
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Damn! What a hateful bunch.
They want their party to be more far right.
Al-Qaeda attacked us on 9/11 and must be defeated. Obama won’t bomb them in Syria. Putin did. #neverforget911
— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) October 1, 2015
This is who is endorsing Bernie.
Wha???
re: #460 HappyWarrior
They want their party to be more far right.
They want their party to start killing people they don’t like. They think Trump will do that.
re: #461 Jenner7
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This is who is endorsing Bernie.
Wha???
Head scratcher for sure.
Thirty-four minutes until Trump tweets:
Chris Rock is the worst host in the history of the Oscars. Not funny at all and very unfair to me. Bring back Bob Hope!
re: #462 Skip Intro
They want their party to start killing people they don’t like. They think Trump will do that.
Yes.
It was 60° today. 60°!!!
#miwx #nwsdtx pic.twitter.com/U7J2Hjr551
— NWS Detroit (@NWSDetroit) February 29, 2016
re: #464 De Kolta Chair
Trump tweets will contain the words “disgusting”, “disgraceful”, “no class”, and “they should have hired me”.
Democrats in 2016 are only getting about 2/3rds the turnout of 8 years ago.
— Spry Guy (@SpryGuy) February 28, 2016
Republican turnout, by contrast, is up more than 70% from 2008.
re: #404 Skip Intro
This is what keeps me up nights, because I’ve seen it before (like in 2014).
Democrats Should Be Very Nervous About Their Terrible Turnout Numbers
For some reason, Democrats just can’t be bothered to vote, while the Republicans are showing up in record numbers. There’s another disaster in the making here.
Don’t totally discount the r*tfucking aspect of Dems who are happy with either candidate and voted in the Repub primary the week before. SC is an open primary state and the Repub contest got a WHOLE lot more hype.
re: #466 The Vicious Babushka
It got that high around here too. forecast.weather.gov
Share of voting-eligible population to have voted Trump:
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) February 28, 2016
IA: 2.0%
NH: 9.7%
SC: 6.5%
NV: 1.8%
A few passionate supporters can go a LONG way.
re: #466 The Vicious Babushka
It was 60° today. 60°!!!
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I’ve seen weirder. On March 4 last year, the temperature reached 80 degrees during the day and it snowed that night.
re: #471 jaunte
But… I wonder if Nate did that for Hillary, what her numbers would be?
re: #471 jaunte
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This is why I wish that the press would provide the number of voters and not just percentages when reporting on primaries. Puts things in perspective.
Don’t put Mass. in the Bernie column quite yet:
Clinton leads Sanders in new Mass. poll
Clinton draws 50 percent of the vote, while Sanders picks up 42 percent, and eight percent remain undecided, according to the Suffolk University poll released Sunday. The poll was conducted Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
bostonglobe.com
And this was done before the SC blowout…
Some are trying to make a big deal about this:
Congresswoman quits Democratic National Committee, endorses Bernie Sanders
Democratic National Committee Vice Chair Tulsi Gabbard resigned from her post on Sunday to endorse Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, following months of rising tensions within the group.
“I think it’s most important for us, as we look at our choices as to who our next commander in chief will be, is to recognize the necessity to have a commander in chief who has foresight, who exercises good judgment,” Gabbard, a U.S. representative for Hawaii, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Gabbard, one of five vice chairs, and her committee colleagues have butted heads over a thin debate schedule in the months leading to Democratic voting contests for the party’s nomination, with Gabbard calling for the group to add more debates to the calendar.
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re: #476 freetoken
Some are trying to make a big deal about this:
Congresswoman quits Democratic National Committee, endorses Bernie Sanders
Well, bye.
Nate Silver is still trying to save face after his early dismissal of Trump.
Since this morning, I’ve had right wingers in my twitter feed categorically stating that Trump’s rise in the GOP is a direct result of open polling and Democratic party shenanigans.
Right. Every frickin’ poll shows Trump decimating the GOP field - head-to-head, 3-way races, and the current clown bus (short version). Every candidate who drops out inures benefits to Trump.
The next talking point is that Trump isn’t getting endorsements. That has changed in a serious way this weekend as 3 governors - Christie, Brewer, and LePage, 2 Congresspersons, and Jeff Sessions endorsed him - Sessions being important since he’s as conservative and right wing as they come.
One by one, the GOP talking points of “no true conservative” fall apart regarding Trump.
Heck, it’s hilarious watching the NRO extremists complaining about Trump’s racism and white supremacist tweets, when they’ve repeatedly hired (and subsequently fired after months or years) racists and white supremacists. But those hires (and fires) were the crypt-racist variety - just lurking under the surface.
Trump’s racism is out in the open, and his repeatedly tweeting racists, neo Nazis, and white supremacists (trolling or otherwise) shows just where he’s coming from. His language signals the racism, the xenophobia, the misogyny, and hate.
You could have seen this months ago when he went after Megyn Kelly.
You could have seen this when he went full-metal Islamophobe wanting to ban all Muslims from the country (including Muslim-Americans).
You could see it by how he wants to gut the 1A.
On and on it goes.
re: #476 freetoken
Some are trying to make a big deal about this:
Congresswoman quits Democratic National Committee, endorses Bernie Sanders
Bye Felicia.
re: #476 freetoken
Hard to miss someone you never knew was there. That goes for the other four vice chairs too, whoever they are.
re: #473 freetoken
Probably a similar number given the way that so few people actually vote in the primaries.
re: #473 freetoken
But… I wonder if Nate did that for Hillary, what her numbers would be?
Trump outpolled Hillary in New Hampshire 100,735 to 95,334, while Hillary outpolled him in South Carolina 271,367 to 240,882. Estimated from Iowa and Nevada have Hillary receiving about 85,000 votes to Trump’s 45,429 and about 44,000 votes to Trump’s 34,531. (The nature of the Democratic caucuses is such that we’ll never know the exact numbers; this is going from estimated turnout and Hillary’s delegate share.)
re: #478 freetoken
Nate Silver is still trying to save face after his early dismissal of Trump.
To be fair a lot of people did.
re: #479 lawhawk
I bet Trump could shoot someone on 5th avenue and the twitter “true conservatives” would blame “Democratic party shenanigans”.
re: #404 Skip Intro
This is what keeps me up nights, because I’ve seen it before (like in 2014).
Democrats Should Be Very Nervous About Their Terrible Turnout Numbers
For some reason, Democrats just can’t be bothered to vote, while the Republicans are showing up in record numbers. There’s another disaster in the making here.
Welcome to white privilege.
re: #466 The Vicious Babushka
It was 60° today. 60°!!!
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re: #478 freetoken
Nate Silver is still trying to save face after his early dismissal of Trump.
When you make predictions with 95% confidence intervals, sometimes you’re going to get the other five percent. I don’t see how “these numbers are small” and “here are the reasons the numbers told us things that turned out to not be the case” needs to be couched in such loaded language as “save face”. Sometimes people are wrong, and by analyzing how and why we are wrong we can try to be less wrong in the future.
So apparently, Trump got up a couple hours ago and said in a very pissy tone “Okay, I disavow it.”
re: #483 Brian J.
Yes, similar numbers.
But as I noted, Silver is still trying to save face over so quickly dismissing Trump, then repeatedly dismissing Trump.
So now Silver is trying to suggest that not that many people are into Trump.
All the while Trump keeps winning.
re: #489 JDRhoades
So apparently, Trump got up a couple hours ago and said in a very pissy tone “Okay, I disavow it.”
That’s pretty close. You could tell he was really restraining himself not to add “happy now, asshole?”
re: #479 lawhawk
Since this morning, I’ve had right wingers in my twitter feed categorically stating that Trump’s rise in the GOP is a direct result of open polling and Democratic party shenanigans.
Right. Every frickin’ poll shows Trump decimating the GOP field - head-to-head, 3-way races, and the current clown bus (short version). Every candidate who drops out inures benefits to Trump.
The next talking point is that Trump isn’t getting endorsements. That has changed in a serious way this weekend as 3 governors - Christie, Brewer, and LePage, 2 Congresspersons, and Jeff Sessions endorsed him - Sessions being important since he’s as conservative and right wing as they come.
One by one, the GOP talking points of “no true conservative” fall apart regarding Trump.
Heck, it’s hilarious watching the NRO extremists complaining about Trump’s racism and white supremacist tweets, when they’ve repeatedly hired (and subsequently fired after months or years) racists and white supremacists. But those hires (and fires) were the crypt-racist variety - just lurking under the surface.
Trump’s racism is out in the open, and his repeatedly tweeting racists, neo Nazis, and white supremacists (trolling or otherwise) shows just where he’s coming from. His language signals the racism, the xenophobia, the misogyny, and hate.
You could have seen this months ago when he went after Megyn Kelly.
You could have seen this when he went full-metal Islamophobe wanting to ban all Muslims from the country (including Muslim-Americans).
You could see it by how he wants to gut the 1A.On and on it goes.
It’s that famed conservative personal responsibility again where personal responsibility means taking none for yourself.
re: #468 jaunte
Democrats in 2016 are only getting about 2/3rds the turnout of 8 years ago.
Republican turnout, by contrast, is up more than 70% from 2008.— Spry Guy (@SpryGuy) February 28, 2016
It’s a completely BS comparison.
There was high turnout for Democrats in 2008 because almost all of the primaries were competitive, while on the Republican side, after February 5, they were for the most part meaningless.
In 2008, the Democratic primaries were neck-and-neck between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama until just before the Democratic Convention. Also, Super Tuesday was almost a full month earlier in 2008 (February 5) than it is this year (March 1). On Super Tuesday 2008, the Republican campaign was all but over, with McCain getting a huge number of delegates. Every other candidate except for Ron Paul (who never got more than 5% in non-caucus states) dropped out of the primaries, and the primaries were a mere formality.
re: #384 De Kolta Chair
As much as I’d like to, I don’t believe that for one second.
Drive a stake through it, decapitate it, burn it to ashes, mix them with holy water.
re: #127 Charles Johnson
Truth be told, Killer Mike is incapable of “helping” Sanders win the votes of most blacks in America, myself included. What some of the persons claiming he will don’t understand about the way we vote is that we tend not to look to alleged celebrities for political advice. We look at the issues and analyze which candidate most fits our view of the way the U.S. government should operate. Unlike some others who align themselves with celebrities because they are celebrities, we tend to think for ourselves. At least, this is the way most of the blacks I meet decide for whom to vote. I don’t even know who Killer Mike is, and I couldn’t care less what he has to say about any politician. I like Sanders and HRC, but I plan to vote for HRC here in GA’s primary on Tuesday primarily because above all else, I’m a pragmatist.
re: #494 Decatur Deb
Drive a stake through it, decapitate it, burn it to ashes, mix them with holy water.
When you burn it, don’t forget the 10 kg of garlic.
re: #149 Dr. Matt
Hell, no. I don’t support KM, and neither does the many other blacks I know here in GA. If asked about him, they’ll likely ask, “Who is Killer Mike?”
re: #495 majii
Truth be told, Killer Mike is incapable of “helping” Sanders win the votes of most blacks in America, myself included. What some of the persons claiming he will don’t understand about the way we vote is that we tend not to look to alleged celebrities for political advice. We look at the issues and analyze which candidate most fits our view of the way the U.S. government should operate. Unlike some others who align themselves with celebrities because they are celebrities, we tend to think for ourselves. At least, this is the way most of the blacks I meet decide for whom to vote. I don’t even know who Killer Mike is, and I couldn’t care less what he has to say about any politician. I like Sanders and HRC, but I plan to vote for HRC here in GA’s primary on Tuesday primarily because above all else, I’m a pragmatist.
I’ve said since day one that if Bernie is still going when Wisconsin’s primary is held in April, I’ll vote for him as my way of getting my socialist-lite fix (to me as a real hard lefty, he’s not really all that socialist though he’s the closest thing to run _For_Real_ in America since Debs went to prison). Wish Mike Harrington were still alive to slap some sense into Bernie.
But otherwise? It’s all Hillary, all the way. Reality has priority in the long run.
And I really do hope they’re friendly enough afterwards for him to be the Robert Reich of this Clinton administration.
re: #497 majii
Hell, no. I don’t support KM, and neither does the many other blacks I know here in GA. If asked about him, they’ll likely ask, “Who is Killer Mike?”
Was he even a personality before he surfaced with Bernie? Same question about Diamond and Silk.
re: #398 Belafon
My caller ID just said “Bernie 2016.” I’m not big on answering the phone unless it’s a person I actually know, so I didn’t pick it up.
I’m just glad the Bernie campaign is honest about who’s calling. I’ve gotten calls from Cruz, Trump and Clinton campaigns that were spoofed to appear like calls from family members.
re: #432 Mattand
Well, I guess “simple conservatives” works for me, but probably not the way Kristol intended it.
It’s like simple syrup except that you use crystal derp rather than sugar.
re: #500 Stephen T.
I’m just glad the Bernie campaign is honest about who’s calling. I’ve gotten calls from Cruz, Trump and Clinton campaigns that were spoofed to appear like calls from family members.
Sat in with some Bernie activists last night, and their phonebanking technology and philosophy came up. I won’t tell tales out of school (I was a guest there) but the technology that produces the “Bernie 2016” ID is impressive. I don’t think the applications it’s serving are very effective, however.
re: #495 majii
I’ve got to think this is especially true of primary voters (no matter the color of their skin).
The vast majority of November voters are not paying attention at all right now.
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
