That is an amazing name.
That is an amazing name.
I seriously hope so. I'm giving up on conventional wisdom at this point. I was sure Trump would wipe out at the nomination stage, so I'm clearly not reading the situation even remotely well.Originally Posted by Bernanke
That's the incredible thing about this race, genuinely nobody can predict it.
It looks like Trump has won Florida, and I think Rubio agreed to drop out if that happened, so it might be lights out for Little Marco. When I saw him at the first debate I really thought he was the nominee, and quite possibly the next president. Missed opportunity imo.
He'll probably need to leave it a couple of cycles before trying again, I'd say. Probably run for the governorship (if there's a vacancy) to try and build EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE.
Governors have a *terrible* record at the moment, though. None of Clinton, Sanders, Cruz or Trump have any experience like that and of all the serving governors to run in the primaries, Kasich is the only one to win even a single state. I don't think anyone cares about that any more. Rubio's better off spending 4-8 years figuring out what, precisely, it is that he stands for and actually practicing articulating that.
From 538. With Clinton destroying Sanders tonight as well, it looks like the race is basically over for both parties.Here’s my gut takeaway from tonight’s primaries: It’s more difficult to see how Trump DOESN’T get to 1,237 delegates from here. He’s beating Cruz in red states, and he’s likely to beat Kasich in future blue states. Most of the delegates at stake from here on out will come from winner-take-all states. Whether #NeverTrump forces realize it or not, they are losing.
Who do Rubio's delegates go to? Or do they just float in the netherworld from now on?
I think each state sets its own rules on how delegates bound to a candidate who has withdrawn from the race should vote.
I remember reading that Rubio voters generally move 3:1 to Kasich so his plan is to stop Trump from winning an outright nomination and then hope the establishment backs him at the convention.
Fucking Hillary though. I would vote Trump over her, she is quite possibly the most dishonest, untrustworthy woman out there. Doesn't help that she has a face that looks like the Wicked Witch of the West got briefly sprayed with a sprinkler.
This Merrick Garland nomination for SCOTUS is Obama going full House of Cards.
One of Harold's favourite newsites, Brietbart, is falling apart after one of their staff was apparently man-handled by Trump's staff - and the senior brass backed Trump rather than their own journo.
Once Rubio's team selects their delegates and that is who is able to attend the convention. Most delegates selected through primaries and caucuses are only bound to vote for him on the first vote. Super delegates can always vote for who they want to. I don't get why that seems so controversial - Farage can't just run as a Tory because he thinks it gives him the best chance to win.
Candidates can release their delegates but I'm not entirely certain how that works. Clinton delegates here in Arizona were asked by the Clinton camp to stay home and let Obama send his people for the sake of party unity. I don't know if Obama's people used their vote or if the votes just came out as unanimous because only Obama delegates were in attendance to vote.
It seems a bit mad that you vote for people to go and vote for your candidate, there would appear to be a superflous layer of dicking about in there.
It really is because it generates a default level of misunderstanding and lack of transparency that either will be abused or will lead to the appearance of abuse.
How exactly does a party leader get selected in the UK? Does everyone in the party get to vote or only a few party elders?
It varies, the Tories restrict it to the parliamentary party but anyone can vote for the Labour leader if they join the party, hence how they got lumbered with a clot like Corbyn.
The Tory MPs get it down to the final 2 and then all the members vote on them.
One for Pepe:
Oof.It (his quitting speech) was a masterpiece of bullshit, combining the Rubio experience's two true and constant outcomes: a text any follower could have reasonably assembled from the greatest hits, and one whose philosophical aspirations were invalidated by the person voicing them.
They don't seem to like him very much.
Farewell little Marco.
The Gawker piece on his candidacy back when it was announced is brutal, too. It's linked in that article but if you didn't read it, it's amazing.
His hairline has bothered me for a while, and I've just realised why. It's a fucking combover isn't it?
Remember when I said Trump would win the nomination and ultimately the general.
I'm smarter than pundits / understand America better
She's Honduran and anti-Trump, video evidence largely debunked her claims.
Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump are going to be the next President of my country lololololololololololololololololololololololololo lololololololololololololololololololololololololo lolololololololololololololololo
Trump wants to pull the US out of NATO and Asia.
Bloomberg should really launch a campaign. He'd be way better than either of these twats.
He would, but he won't win and you have to wonder if it's really worth his while.
Barack Hussein Obama in Cuba is interesting, if only for an insight into the deranged, paranoid mindset that the critics of the visit are burdened with. It's fucking Cuba.
American exceptionalism doesn't get as far as it used to, does it? If Cuba is going to take us down.
Is American exceptionalism still a thing beyond campaign rhetoric?
Yes, it is just silly forced home team nonsense. I have heard some extremely weird versions here in the west. At one business meeting between one of our entrepreneurs and their suppliers they ended it with "and remember, we live in America." I don't know what that means.
Outstanding.
But I would never respond to the question "Where are you from?" with America so I'm not the best person to ask.
Out of curiosity, where are you from?
New Orleans
This was common barely-ironic fare in our fraternity; 'Lol at those poverty countries without freedom', 'Thank God we live in America the greatest freest nation on Earth and don't have to deal with that bullshit', 'This is America, we invented freedom/democracy/liberty/capitalism/etc, that pussy limpwristed European socialist shit can gtfo'.
I own this shirt and will wear it at least once a week to the gym in France this summer:
Strictly speaking, so are France.
As well as Canada, Australia and pretty much every other Commonwealth country.
As well as China and Russia. Heck, even Japan and Italy went one for two.
EDIT: Turkey stayed neutral in WW2 until February 1945, when they came out on the Allied side. Good work there, guys.
Shame they couldn't roll with 'Undefeated in the 20th Century' on that gimpy vest.
Not really, given they surrendered like wankers in June 1940 and left us to it.
I'll give you World War One, where our navy and their blood sacrifice won the war.
I bet France still fought for longer than the Americans if you add the two together. The Commonwealth wins, followed by the Serbian people. Everyone else is rubbish.
Indeed.
We (the great and bountiful British Empire) were fully involved for all of the combined ten years of both wars. Where one looks at the respective 'records' of other nations therein. We kept going back for more against Napoleon until we got the bastard as well.
We're probably the single greatest contributor over two centuries to smashing totalitarianism in mainland Europe.
More like four centuries, lest we forget the Spaniards. I think we only really dropped the ball in the Thirty Years War, pissing about giving money to Ernst von Mansfeld when Gustavus Adolphus would have actually won battles with it, but even that worked out.
France are back to back World War champions in the same way that Hilario has won everything there is to win in the club game.
It won't look as good when a 20 stone fat as fuck Turkish boy is wearing it. Will it?This was common barely-ironic fare in our fraternity; 'Lol at those poverty countries without freedom', 'Thank God we live in America the greatest freest nation on Earth and don't have to deal with that bullshit', 'This is America, we invented freedom/democracy/liberty/capitalism/etc, that pussy limpwristed European socialist shit can gtfo'.
I own this shirt and will wear it at least once a week to the gym in France this summer:
Edit: You in the gym. Fuck off.
I didn't realise GS had been in the trenches.
I don't see the issue with referring to your country as 'we'.
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