2016 USA Presidential election thread I: The warm-up

[Marootsoobutsu]

His media attention has gone from "look at how great his poll numbers are! look at how entertaining he is! look at his rejection of "politics as usual!" to "look at how bad his polling is! look at how poor his campaign is! look at the important people in his party abandoning him!"

I simply don't see much positive coverage anywhere, and he's fully saturated the "he says what's on his mind" voting bloc already.

It's almost as if the bulk of the media wanted him to win the primary and lose the general.

[Krandor]

I know right? The way they're acting you'd think they'd have some kind of financial stake in making sure Hillary wins.

Which is funny in a way, since Trump brings ratings to all the news networks.

[6souls]

Trump names Michele Bachmann to evangelical 'advisory board'

Spoiler: show

https://www.google.com/search?q=mich...chmann+corndog

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/06...chele-bachmann

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. and Faith and Freedom Coalition leader Ralph Reed as well.

[Zealot]

Trump just lost my vote.

I've felt very strongly in the vein of "eh, what's the worst that could happen?" regarding a Trump Presidency, but the idea of Bachmann having the ear of a sitting President in any capacity sent a legitimate little thrill of terror down my spine.

Might just write in Dwayne Johnson. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-actually-win/

[Dantrag]

lol... now we know he's really just trying to lose on purpose...

[Rooney]

The thing is that he's doing everything Republicans think a candidate should do (minus courting the big donors). Playing to faith, racism, homophobia, etc while also trying to play the victim. He's just being overly blunt about it, which the main party leaders don't want.

[archibaldcrane]

Shit. Rubio just announced that he's going to campaign for re-election in the Senate. That turns a lean-D seat into a likely-R.

[Zealot]

If Democrats mount a strong campaign against him there's still a chance. He didn't walk away from the primaries in great shape.

[Melena]

Was listening to Liquid Metal on XM the other day and this wonderful song came on the radio.

[Melena]

Saw on twitter that Democrats are doing a sit in on the house floor so Speaker Paul Ryan is not allowing cameras in there.

[Zealot]

Turned off their microphones as well, no broadcasting any of what's happening. Mr. Rangel is broadcasting live so I assume others are as well, because people still have phones and Paul Ryan is a moron.

[Melena]

Wow, one step closer to a police world state.

[archibaldcrane]

I had no idea the leadership in the house could block tv broadcasts. Wild.

[kuronosan]

They're not supposed to.

Confirmed Trump is closet dem.

[Zealot]

C-SPAN has tweeted that they have no control over the House cameras. Apparently our government is only freely broadcast until they decide not to be.

[archibaldcrane]

Supposedly the cameras turn off during "recess" and since the Republicans called a recess they're off, even though dozens of people are in the chamber.

[Krandor]

Didnt watch because I'm at work but was reading the transcript, Trump actually gave a pretty good speech today.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...lection-224654

[Ksandra]

Didnt watch because I'm at work but was reading the transcript, Trump actually gave a pretty good speech today.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...lection-224654

That really is a good speech. It makes me sad, too. If he wasn't such a fucknut and I believed he could bring factories back I'd vote for him in a heartbeat. But it's not a good idea to do that while burning bridges to everyone else, which he's already managed to do.

[Andalusian girls]

stealing Bernie's rigged economy rhetoric, repeatedly calling Hillary a murderer, and suffusing the text with misinformation and lies while offering zero substantive details as to how one is going to bring manufacturing jobs back or how retarding globalization will help the economy grow is what qualifies as a pretty good speech now eh

[Niiro]

It wasn't overtly violent or racist, I mean, that's pretty good by Trump standards.