Tomorrow is a big day in the race, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio vote for the Republican primary. It is probably also the most important date since Super Tuesday when the madness really got rolling, Ohio and Florida are the main states to watch, both strongholds for candidates and both contested, or in FL's case, dominated by Trump in most of the polling, and also winner take all states with rather a lot of delegates.
If Trump wins both, he will almost certainly be the nominee barring the most obvious screw job in the history of American politics.
If Trump wins either, or none of them, his path to being the nominee outright is pretty hard, but no one threatens his majority, so we go to the convention with the possibility that the screw job needed could be a little less obvious.
Either option is pretty shitty for the party and I honestly have no idea what the voters are going to decide, and even less of an idea what the RNC will do at the convention, and even less what Trump and his goldshirts will do in reaction. Anything, up to and including organized violence is on the table, it's kinda terrifying and kinda awesome at the same time.
I don't have much more to add at the moment so I thought I would share with you some of my favorite images from the campaigns up to this point, unlike my previous pictures, many of these are not official campaign materials but most of the creators are lost to the web, none are my own, I possess no skill at image editing and no software to do it with.
From way back almost a year ago now, this is how Trump introduced himself as a candidate: By riding an escalator down in the lobby of Trump Tower to a crowd of people paid fifty bucks each to be there and act like supporters, his announcement speech included the "Some, I assume, are good people" line and we were off to the races.
This is Dr. Harold Bornstein, Donald Trump's personal physician, he went on record saying
"Donald Trump would be the healthiest president in history," to my knowledge this image hasn't been altered in any way. He literally looks like he's the opposing council from an episode of Perry Mason.
It is important to remember that while JEB!'s failure was spectacular, it was preceded long before that by Scott Walker, who blew through tens of millions of dollars in the first months of campaigning and forced the Koch brothers to find a new candidate to back, a quest they are still on to this day.
Marco Rubio tweeted this something like seven years ago now, I promise you this is not made up and not a photoshop, I do not know why he did so, it isn't relevant to anything current, and I do not know what lavenous means, nor will I look it up because the word just bothers me for some reason.
In December Sarah Palin jumped in the race to endorse Trump, the above picture is from the 2012 campaign, I sorta want that shirt though lord only knows what I would do with it. She has since returned, first being scheduled to a rally in Florida, then canceling the rally when her son got injured in a snow mobile accident, then going anyway because I guess this was more important, that happened like yesterday.
There are no pictures of JEB! looking presidential, but this one is probably the most viscerally unappealing of the lot, just think of JEB!'s lips hovering over yours, slowly lowering, they will make contact any second...
Rubio meanwhile can look pretty decent, but if he isn't paying attention he looks like a suffocating fish, sweats a shitload too, also caught on camera during debates and speeches at least twice now taking pills of some variety.
This painting actually exists, and Ted Cruz owns it, that the most unlikable and least photogenic human in America is a solid second says literally nothing good about the Republican electorate.
Ben Carson sent these mailers out to people, both in thanks for and to ask for more donations, it was a strategy that kept him in the race up until about a month ago despite only spending a couple weeks polling above ten percent and possibly being the stupidest person in the race, yes I know he's a neurosurgeon, you can be skilled at one thing and still stupid, and he is.
Trump's "speech" the man speaks from hand written primitive notes laid out in a more or less stream of consciousness manner on the page and diverges from the pretty much at will, yes, the vast majority of his material is not prepped, it may be his secret to success and his sounding genuine, but it means he never has any real facts to command, not that he has needed them to date.
For some reason a meme has started that Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer, I buy it, I mean the killings happened before he was born, but that just means the mantle was passed onto him.
Rounding out our tour of failure and sociopathy, Rand Paul, shown here at an average sized event waiting for someone, anyone, to show up, had the closest thing to a sane foreign policy in the race, but his Libertarian views on everything else sunk him. I believe he was mostly running to get the approval of his father, and with his abject failure, lost his chance at that forever more, which is kind of sad if you think about it, or if you don't, it's pretty sad no matter what, you know Ron is one of those Libertarians who believes that anything given away was stolen, and demands absurd payments for little things like saying "I love you" he probably hasn't hugged Rand since he was a baby. And never shall again.
I have no pictures of Carly Fiorina that don't terrify me, and the others like Graham and Huckabee never did anything really interesting so this is what we are left with.
Tomorrow I'll talk about primary results, it'll be fun I promise.
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