MASSIVE Erection Thread 2016 - Lizard has the advantage. Trump is spiraling towards defeat.

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All discussion of the candidates, updates and results should go here

For example- here's a video of Ted Cruz vying for world domination.

Also Hilary Clinton is a crook and nobody should have sex with her.

Discuss

(Note- The title will change as we get nearer the election, previous titles will be archived in the OP)

 

[*Asterisk*]

Republican guy running with female VP? Because it worked so well for McCain, I'm assuming.

It was a ploy for Hillary voters. H.W. did the same thing with Dan Quayle back in '88 to alleviate concerns that him and his crew were too old.

Both ideas weren't bad on their own. The issue was that Quayle was a himbo and Palin made Quayle look like Stephen Hawking. H.W. was just lucky enough to be running against Michael Dukakis.

 

[DZ 305]

Surely there's another republican woman who would be a better pick? Fiorina wasn't all that popular.

Well, moderate women in the GOP is somewhat hard to come by, and wouldn't gel with Cruz' reputation as an unrelenting cuck conservative. Nikki Haley is loved by tea partiers, which could theoretically eat into Trump's demographics. Meg Whitman is a businesswoman who actually didn't fuck her company over (eBay from the late 90's to 2007, I think), that would nip the 'managed to shit up a tech company' argument in the bud. Representative Diane Black was the first one to introduce a bill to repeal provisions in the ACA, so big points there. Fiorina is a nobody who has to deal with the baggage of HP, and contend with the fact she is basically Cruz with a vagina.

 

[Ruin]

Well, moderate women in the GOP is somewhat hard to come by, and wouldn't gel with Cruz' reputation as an unrelenting cuck conservative. Nikki Haley is loved by tea partiers, which could theoretically eat into Trump's demographics. Meg Whitman is a businesswoman who actually didn't fuck her company over (eBay from the late 90's to 2007, I think), that would nip the 'managed to shit up a tech company' argument in the bud. Representative Diane Black was the first one to introduce a bill to repeal provisions in the ACA, so big points there. Fiorina is a nobody who has to deal with the baggage of HP, and contend with the fact she is basically Cruz with a vagina.

How about Mia Love? Then he could knock out both the black and wymn cards.

 

[DZ 305]

How about Mia Love? Then he could knock out both the black and wymn cards.

Her on record support in cutting entitlements is a kiss of death. Possibly her support of cutting foreign aid too, especially if Israel was on the receiving end of such cuts

Can I say I love this picture, and should replace

 

[Pikimon]

Sanders did the best a 75 year old socialist atheist jew could do against Hillary Clinton.

One was a woman with 20 years of name recognition and the former president as her husband, the other is a relatively unknown politician from Vermont.

For what it was, Sanders at least gave Hillary a run for her money, and barring an indictment its unlikely Sanders will get the nomination.

Still voting for him in the California primary though.

 

[Ariel]

Ok come to Sunnyvale, you'd like it here
You could be jail cover for the boys

Put a fucking shirt on Randy!

 

[Randy Lahey]

Put a fucking shirt on Randy!

I DON'T WEAR SHIRTS, NOT EVEN IN WINTER!

 

[Ariel]

I DON'T WEAR SHIRTS, NOT EVEN IN WINTER!

FUCK OFF RANDY! You won't get a rash!

 

[JU 199]

Mabye this is why cruz picked her

Ted Cruz May Be Too Conservative To Stop Trump

The moderate/liberal wing of the Republican Party simply hasn’t taken to Cruz’s campaign. You can see this in the entrance and exit polls. In the 25 states that have voted so far and have exit or entrance poll data, Cruz has won an average of just 13 percent of voters who identify as either moderate or liberal. That is terrible. Leave Donald Trump aside for a second; Cruz’s other main rivals, first Marco Rubio and then John Kasich, have done much better with those groups.

Cruz could have made up for his weakness among moderates/liberals if he had been stronger with the center of the GOP — the voters who identify as “somewhat conservative.” ...Cruz, however, has struggled with this group. He has won an average of just 20 percent of “somewhat conservative” voters in the states with entrance or exit poll data thus far.

Put it all together, and it’s hard not to conclude that Cruz is simply a factional candidate. The media, including FiveThirtyEight, has focused a lot on Trump’s inability to cobble together a majority of the vote in most states, but Cruz’s weaknesses have been understated. If Trump does win the nomination, it’ll be, in part, because no other candidate could unite non-Trump voters across the ideological spectrum, canceling out Trump’s inability to win a majority of the vote.

 

[Womacker]

It was a ploy for Hillary voters. H.W. did the same thing with Dan Quayle back in '88 to alleviate concerns that him and his crew were too old.

Both ideas weren't bad on their own. The issue was that Quayle was a himbo and Palin made Quayle look like Stephen Hawking. H.W. was just lucky enough to be running against Michael Dukakis.

Quayle wasn't as idiot as much as a goofball. He was practically like a younger Biden but saying stupid comments rather than innapproprate ones.

Plain though was a disaster. That's what you get for gambling on a newbie.

 

[Ahffline]

What are the chances that the Cruz/Kasich attempt to derail Trump by forcing a brokered convention will succeed? And what about the RNC? It's clear that Trump isn't the candidate they want. Do you think they'll pull some convention shenanigans to get someone else on the GOP ticket?

 

[Hummingbird]

Personally, I'm going with an independent this year since I don't like either side. (Sanders has his heart in the right place, though.) So far, Scott Smith doesn't seem too bad. Besides, a wasted vote is one that you don't use.

 

[VLAD]

What are the chances that the Cruz/Kasich attempt to derail Trump by forcing a brokered convention will succeed? And what about the RNC? It's clear that Trump isn't the candidate they want. Do you think they'll pull some convention shenanigans to get someone else on the GOP ticket?

At this point, not likely. There's no chance for Cruz to reach the delegate threshold of 1,237 that he needs to secure the nomination. And Trump's completely erased his loss in Wisconsin, sweeped all the latest primaries in the Northwest, and is on track to keep racking up most of the delegates remaining. If he reaches the magic number before the convention, it's all but assured that he'll be the nominee.

 

[AN/ALR56]

The American election process is just too autistic to me.
Can't you guys just make party conventions, select the nominees, put said nominees campaings to official electoral courts to be allowed to run, then put said nominees on the ballot six months later for a direct vote by citizens?

 

[VLAD]

The American election process is just too autistic to me.
Can't you guys just make party conventions, select the nominees, put said nominees campaings to official electoral courts to be allowed to run, then put said nominees on the ballot six months later for a direct vote by citizens?

What, and turn our fucking broken-ass system into an actual democracy? Not on your life.

 

[Morbid Boredom]

The American election process is just too autistic to me.
Can't you guys just make party conventions, select the nominees, put said nominees campaings to official electoral courts to be allowed to run, then put said nominees on the ballot six months later for a direct vote by citizens?

What, and turn our fucking broken-ass system into an actual democracy? Not on your life.

There's lots of bugs in the US process. We would have a lot more satisfied voters if we used instant runoff voting. You could vote for your preferred candidate and the pragmatic candidate would still get your vote.

Other problems are harder to fix, such as the circus that is political journalism. The election cycle gets longer every year.

 

[Emiya Kiwitsugu]

The American election process is just too autistic to me.
Can't you guys just make party conventions, select the nominees, put said nominees campaings to official electoral courts to be allowed to run, then put said nominees on the ballot six months later for a direct vote by citizens?

No, the circus is too much fun

 

[AnOminous]

Cruz just came to Indiana to call a hoop a "basketball ring."

Man's queer as a football bat. That's going to win him no love from Hoosiers.

 

[VLAD]

Cruz just came to Indiana to call a hoop a "basketball ring."

Man's queer as a football bat. That's going to win him no love from Hoosiers.

On top of that, retired Speaker John Boehner described him as "Lucifer in the flesh" in a recent interview.

“I have Democrat friends and Republican friends," he said. "I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”

Lucien Greaves of The Satanic Temple objected to the comparison.

“I think he is a real disaster. I think he is possibly one of the worst. I think we have been on a race to the bottom for a long time now, and you keep thinking it can’t get worse and people would wise up after a clown like [Sarah] Palin or George Bush. But then you see people lining up around Ted Cruz.”

Cruz 2016: Literally Worse Than Satan.

 

[waffle]

Will a hillary goverment improve immigration?
In 6 years I intend to leave for America for good,will it be easier to me if hillary wins now?
My degree will be a stem one.

Hilliary probably will make it the same or a little easier to get an H-1B visa, which is what a STEM graduate with a job would get. Trump wants to keep the quotas the same IIRC, but also add a requirement to it that the H-1B jobs have to pay prevailing wage in the sector so foreigners don't depress wages.