Countdown to Extinction: The 2016 Presidential Election

[knight66]

Thanks Brian, she is expounding a plan. If she gets in I assume she would have to fight to get that funding passed. I think that Sanders single issue approach will catch up on him soon. I had not grasped that the Bill magic had in reality held good for Hillary. But I am not month by month close enough to understand what activities the various machines are rolling out and where they are making an impact.

I wonder if anyone is likely to start a thread on what is kicking off in the UK? Depressing on so many fronts.

Mike

[Todd]

Also, black voters are not progressives

It's actually simple.  Progressivism focuses on economic justice, not racial justice.  Despite what Progressives like to pretend, the two are not the same. 

The Clintons know this.  They tailor their politics accordingly.

[(poco) Sforzando]

It's actually simple.  Progressivism focuses on economic justice, not racial justice.  Despite what Progressives like to pretend, the two are not the same.

Perhaps not the same, but surely related, in that blacks have been among the most economically deprived of all groups.

[Todd]

Perhaps not the same, but surely related, in that blacks have been among the most economically deprived of all groups.

Of course economic justice and racial justice are related, but they are not the same.  Sanders doesn't pay enough attention to non-economic racial issues.  And sometimes when he does, he just makes up numbers and fantasy-land outcomes like he did with incarceration rates.

[Brian]

Somehow I missed this when it happened, but here is an amusing video of Jeb! asking one of his audiences to please clap for him.

[Todd]

Somehow I missed this when it happened, but here is an amusing video of Jeb! asking one of his audiences to please clap for him.

Jeb ruins the whole Arrested Development analysis for this cycle.  Obviously, Jeb is Gob, but George Sr said to Buster as it pertained to sports, "You were just a turd out there", and that obviously holds - I mean held - true for Jeb on the campaign trail.

[Brian]

Jeb ruins the whole Arrested Development analysis for this cycle.  Obviously, Jeb is Gob, but George Sr said to Buster as it pertained to sports, "You were just a turd out there", and that obviously holds - I mean held - true for Jeb on the campaign trail.

Gob isn't Trump?!

I would go with something like

Trump - Gob
Kasich - Michael
Jeb! - Buster
Cruz - Lindsay
Carson - Oscar and/or Ann
Rubio - ?
Gilmore - Gene Parmesan

[Todd]

Gob isn't Trump?!

Come on!


(Gob = George Oscar Bluth; Jeb = John Ellis Bush)

[Todd]

Rubio's eligibility to serve as President is now being challenged.  (Is Richard Carter just a cranky old white guy?)  Trump then gets in on the action, raising the bar for shamelessness yet again. 

[knight66]

A sort of pre-natal birther movement perhps?

Mike

[Gurn Blanston]

Rubio's eligibility to serve as President is now being challenged.  (Is Richard Carter just a cranky old white guy?)  Trump then gets in on the action, raising the bar for shamelessness yet again.

More properly, I believe he is lowering the bar for shamelessness yet again, as every move he makes seems to make it easier to reach...

[(poco) Sforzando]

On a personal note, a little 10-minute play of my own on the subject of the presidency was given two staged readings yesterday at Urban Stages in New York City. A spoof on the vagaries of constitutional interpretation, the play is about a Venezuelan-born, naturalized US citizen who argues that he is constitutionally more eligible to run for president than Lincoln, Reagan, or LBJ. The play was one of six given readings out of about 65 submissions.

[Karl Henning]

How large a cast? Congratulations!

[(poco) Sforzando]

How large a cast? Congratulations!

Three characters.

[Karl Henning]

May I read the script? I'll PM you.

[Brian]

Hey Jeb!

[(poco) Sforzando]

Hey Jeb!

This is what people spend $500 for orchestra seats?

[(poco) Sforzando]

I'm sure discussion will pick up once the Nevada caucus comes in, but trust me, Brian, I envy you having seen the hottest ticket on Broadway. I try every once in a while (always in vain) for the $10 lottery, but I expect that in a year or so when the fuss dies down, you'll be able to walk right in. Miranda will probably be gone by that point, but word has it he's planning to film the whole show with the original cast.

[(poco) Sforzando]

My God, Trump has taken Nevada with 46%, practically doubling Cruz and Rubio. The country has lost its mind.

[Karl Henning]

That's the state which brought forth the Bundys, right?