I don't know whether to laugh or cry....

[vanillalime]

Jesus, this race for the Republican nomination for president is just so bizarre. I just can't believe the shit that is going on between these crazy idiots. And while I generally don't post about this kind of stuff here, there was a new incident of mind-boggling absurdity that I actually related to fandom. So!

Marco Rubio, an actual member of the United States Senate, made these comments at a campaign rally in Salem, Virginia last night:

In response to [Donald Trump] calling him “little Rubio,” Rubio conceded that Trump was taller than him. However, the Florida senator suggested Trump had small hands for his height.

“And you know what they say about guys with small hands,” Rubio said with a smile, prompting stunned laughter from the crowd.

After a brief pause he added: “You can’t trust ‘em!” The crowd responded with applause.

YES, that's right... Marco Rubio implied that Donald Trump shouldn't be president BECAUSE HE HAS A SMALL DICK. And NOT, you know, because he is a insane narcissist with no principles who is working to destroy everything that this country stands for. Good God.

American politics has sunk to THIS level. And THIS is the kind of crap that people on the Republican side of the fence are responding to.

However, part of me is giggling uncontrollably, as I keep thinking back to my "Dick Measuring Contest" prompt from this year's oz_magi exchange. Having such a contest in Oz is one thing; using it as a determining factor in a U.S. presidential election is another.

Comments

[red-titan.livejournal.com]

I'm really scared if Trump ever does win. Between him and Bush, I'd rather have the latter. Too bad he already dropped out :/ What are the chances of Bern winning?

God, American politics. *rolls eyes*

[vanillalime]

At least JEB! acted like an adult. I have to assume that even if Trump gets the nomination, there's no way he would actually be elected president. But, WHAT IF I'M WRONG?

[mazephoenix.livejournal.com]

Oh man that's a new low..between that and the KKK endorsing Trump I'm terrfied.

[vanillalime]

Trump, Rubio, and Cruz are all acting like toddlers. There's always been a dirty side to American politics, but usually it's not this blatant. Maybe it's better that it's all out in the open for everyone to see.

[macaroncey.livejournal.com]

I just have read this on facebook.
"Hello America!
I'm Italian, pizza spaghetti & poor english, so don't grammar nazi me, please.
I'll go straight to the point.
Thank you all for Donald Trump, I mean it: thank You from the bottom of my heart.
For two decades, wherever I went, everyone who was not italian that I met around the world asked me a question, and I felt silently ashamed facing that simple question: "Why Berlusconi?".
Everywhere.
Italian? Why Berlusconi?
Even in Argentina, in a small gas station in the middle of nothing in Patagonia, a place without Internet, without sat channels, without newspapers: "Italianos? Berlusconi! Las fiestas con las niñas!".
That was awful.
Now, with Donald Trump you will receive from us the Olympic Torch of political silliness, you will rewrite THAT question, you will set us free, at last. Worldwide.
God bless America."

From the outside it's really a little bit fun (really? The dick's problem?) but if you think that this is real...well I'm scared.

[vanillalime]

Oh, that story is just great. I really don't want the new slogan for the USA to be: "The leader of our country is crazier than yours!" *bites fingernails*