30 thoughts on “Fail and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, 2016”
But the emerging field of Republican candidates for the 2016 presidential election is something else altogether. Of the dozen or so people who have declared or are thought likely to declare, every one can be described as a full-blown adult failure.
It's almost as if these Adult Failures are hand selected and installed in government specifically to fuck things up. The Failure Feature.
(Gen X blues?) Shit, Dukakis came to my high school in my senior year, but I was one year shy of votin' age..
Hey snow, if'n you ever wonder 'bout the blues, |start here|
Well, that's good to know. Honestly, whatever levels of Fail we may have in all our lives don't hold a candle to the Olympian quality Failure these folks exhibit. It's truly awe-inspiring. I think they're stock bred somewhere, like pedigreed race horses.
"Everybody else's problems are better than mine"
I've always considered myself more of a PG-13 failure. Most of my failures weren't racy enough for R. This is a failure in and of itself.
I imagine your failures to be explosive. (Do you still have skin on your face?)
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
I was also a childhood failure, with higher aspirations. #win!
Long Read, but well worth it. This has really crystallized that nagging suspicion I've had, in the back of my mind, that none of these candidates could possibly do the job.
What baffles me is the mental hoops that our right-wing fellow citizens must jump through to live in denial and vote for these buffoons. Maybe it isn't denial but it's something.
I have this corny idea that someday that mindset will have a specific psychological DSM diagnostic code.
Why do you think these people hate so, and do you think it can be stopped? I don't hate people. I get disappointed in them, and myself, from time to time. Hate is the enemy.
Fear of anything slightly different added on with having a major political party and news source reinforcing their views? That's my best guess, but without being in the same mindset as they are it's impossible to know for sure.
Statistically it is pretty incredible they can not produce just one semi-reasonable candidate. Just goes to show how fucked up our political process is — R > L.
But the emerging field of Republican candidates for the 2016 presidential election is something else altogether. Of the dozen or so people who have declared or are thought likely to declare, every one can be described as a full-blown adult failure.
It's almost as if these Adult Failures are hand selected and installed in government specifically to fuck things up. The Failure Feature.
shit, I've always been an adult failure.
But at least you didn't vote for any of these people so you can't be too bad!
(Gen X blues?) Shit, Dukakis came to my high school in my senior year, but I was one year shy of votin' age..
Hey snow, if'n you ever wonder 'bout the blues, |start here|
It's okay, I was two months short of being able to vote for Obama '08. Does that count as similar?
Thank god Obama doesn't have to live anything down, he got complete shit on a platter and made absolute good of it.
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When are you declaring? There's not much time, you know. Need a road manager?
prolly 17-39. I'm okay now, I think. Thanks, though.
Well, that's good to know. Honestly, whatever levels of Fail we may have in all our lives don't hold a candle to the Olympian quality Failure these folks exhibit. It's truly awe-inspiring. I think they're stock bred somewhere, like pedigreed race horses.
"Everybody else's problems are better than mine"
I've always considered myself more of a PG-13 failure. Most of my failures weren't racy enough for R. This is a failure in and of itself.
I imagine your failures to be explosive. (Do you still have skin on your face?)
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
I was also a childhood failure, with higher aspirations. #win!
That subtitle says it all. Can't wait until I get back from going out with some friends to read the rest of this!
Long Read, but well worth it. This has really crystallized that nagging suspicion I've had, in the back of my mind, that none of these candidates could possibly do the job.
"The Long, Close Read Goodnight"
They're all less qualified than Limberbutt McCubbins, so what's the point of this election anyway?
What baffles me is the mental hoops that our right-wing fellow citizens must jump through to live in denial and vote for these buffoons. Maybe it isn't denial but it's something.
I have this corny idea that someday that mindset will have a specific psychological DSM diagnostic code.
It's hate. It's just hate. They're blinded by it and nothing else matters.
Learned, too which is really sad.
Why do you think these people hate so, and do you think it can be stopped? I don't hate people. I get disappointed in them, and myself, from time to time. Hate is the enemy.
Fear of anything slightly different added on with having a major political party and news source reinforcing their views? That's my best guess, but without being in the same mindset as they are it's impossible to know for sure.
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Why do I get the feeling it'll be a long time before another Mormon speaks at Liberty University?
Statistically it is pretty incredible they can not produce just one semi-reasonable candidate. Just goes to show how fucked up our political process is — R > L.
Don't you mean "R > C"?
R >>> L?
I guess I’d need an RCL meter to be sure.
Does the name "Chris Lehma" ring a familiar bell?
[Ana Marie] Cox was married to Chris Lehmann, formerly of The Washington Post, New York, and Congressional Quarterly. They divorced sometime in 2011.
<img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71z8JMLgqkL._UX250_.jpg"> Oh.