Trump 2016
Still an asshole.
Yep, nothing gets you elected like alienating undecided voters.
The protesters weren't the only ones ejected from the event. Trump's security turned away anyone who refused to pledge their allegiance to the billionaire businessman – even undecided voters.
"We have more than 20,000 people that showed up for 1,400 spots. I'm taking care of my people, not people who don't want to vote for me or are undecided," Trump said in a statement, according to NBC News. "They are loyal to me and I am loyal to them."
Yep, nothing gets you elected like alienating undecided voters.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Still a dick.
Picture from the scene:
Despite her silence, Trump supporters around her began chanting Trump's name -- as instructed by Trump campaign staff before the event in case of protests -- and pointed at Hamid and Marty Rosenbluth, the man alongside her who stood up as well.
Picture from the scene:
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Trump misses all the concussions and major head injuries football used to have.
He also thinks N. Korea's dictator is an awesome guy.
North Korea just arrested another American on suspicion of spying today, too.
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Trump lamented the rise in penalties for head-on-head collisions and praised players such as Dick Butkus, Lawrence Taylor and Ray Nitschke, who used to regularly deliver such hits. "You used to see these tackles, and it was incredible to watch," Trump said. "Now they tackle -- 'Oh, head-on-head collision, 15 yard' -- the whole game is all screwed up. You say, 'Wow, what a tackle.' Bing. Flag. "Football's become soft. Football has become soft." Trump then said football was representative of America as a whole becoming soft
He also thinks N. Korea's dictator is an awesome guy.
Trump has heaped praised on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, saying the dictator is "incredible" and deserves "credit" for killing off his political rivals. Trump made the comments during a campaign rally in Ottumwa, Iowa on Saturday, in response to the Communist state's recent alleged hydrogen bomb test. "If you look at North Korea, this guy, he's like a maniac, OK? And you've got to give him credit," he said. Trump said North Korea's desire to be a nuclear power meant the United States could not "play games" with the rogue state. "This guy doesn't play games. Because he really does have missiles, and he really does have nukes," he said
North Korea just arrested another American on suspicion of spying today, too.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
The GOP rebuttal speech, like the actual SotU one, made thinly veiled allusions to Donnie Douchebag. The pachyderms are self-destructing right now and I only expect the explosion to get bigger the closer Donnie the Retard gets to the nomination.
That party has every reason to hate itself right now. It's being shattered and polarized by a spoiled, selfish reality TV show prick who blows so much hot air up your ass with every blustery sentence that you expect to ascend into the stratosphere before the final word is reached.
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CNN commentator Amanda Carpenter, a former Cruz aide, described her response as "GOP self loathing."
That party has every reason to hate itself right now. It's being shattered and polarized by a spoiled, selfish reality TV show prick who blows so much hot air up your ass with every blustery sentence that you expect to ascend into the stratosphere before the final word is reached.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Trump is a dipshit.
People watch Jerry Springer and listen to Howard Stern, not necessarily because they agree with them.
Trump channels the spirit of Reagan the same way a toddler clings to his blankey.
"If you think about it, if you take a look at what I've done, I've brought millions and millions of people to the Republican Party, and to the conservative party, because, as an example, the debate had 24 million people. If I wasn't in the debate, would it have had three, or four, or two, or what would it have been?"
People watch Jerry Springer and listen to Howard Stern, not necessarily because they agree with them.
Trump channels the spirit of Reagan the same way a toddler clings to his blankey.
As Donald Trump searched for a historic comparison for his massive crowds and unexpected popularity, he settled on a revered Republican superhero: Ronald Reagan.
“Now, Reagan had a little bit of this, but I don't think to the same extent,"
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Child cult performs at Trump rally.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Trump forgets economics
First, in the span of a few sentences, he insisted that he’d impose a 35 percent tax on businesses producing goods overseas while claiming to support free trade. At the end of his rambling, decidedly non-MLK-themed speech, he said this:
“We’re going to get Apple to build their damn computers in this country instead of other countries.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Wow, I knew he was an idiot, but I didn't know he was that much of an idiot. How does someone so successful in NY real estate not pick up some basic fundamentals about how business works along the way?
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"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
How does someone so successful in NY real estate not pick up some basic fundamentals about how business works along the way?
He's been riding his daddy's coattails and finances since forever. His daddy even set him up with his first protected monopoly. However, it appears he was stupid as far back as school.
He told a biographer in 2015 that NYMA gave him "more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military".
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Shittiest VP candidate in a long time supports shittiest prez candidate in a long time.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Bob Dole endorses Trump by bashing Cruz.
Ouch.
“I don’t know how he’s going to deal with Congress,” he said. “Nobody likes him.”
Ouch.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
TPRJones wrote:Wow, I knew he was an idiot, but I didn't know he was that much of an idiot. How does someone so successful in NY real estate not pick up some basic fundamentals about how business works along the way?
How Donnie Douchebag made his dollars.
Over time, the LeFraks came out ahead of their competitors. LeFrak is worth $7 billion today, and he's 181st on Bloomberg's list of the world's richest people. Bloomberg puts Trump's wealth at just $2.9 billion -- far less than Forbes's estimate. He doesn't even make the list
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Using Trump's preferred estimates of his wealth, he has still performed worse than our hypothetical Main Street retiree. He told The New York Times he was worth $200 million in 1976, an amount that would be worth $12 billion today.
"That a purely unmanaged index fund’s return could outperform Trump’s hands-on wheeling and dealing calls into question one of Trump’s chief selling points on the campaign trail: his business acumen," writes S.V. Dáte in National Journal.
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Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, built his real-estate business on federal subsidies
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At other times, Trump has relied not on taxpayers but on banks and private concerns. Firms under his control have gone bankrupt on four occasions, but those catastrophes aren't fully reflected in Trump's net worth today, since his lenders absorbed the losses. The LeFraks, by contrast, have avoided imposing losses on their creditors, while still finding a way to turn a profit.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
As a counterpoint to Malcolm's setthing hatred of him, I am going to post this, which I saw somewhere else:
One thing has struck me recently, which is that YouTube allows us to catch out misrepresentations and media bias.
In previous years, we would *only* have the media interpretations of current events. My parents, for instance, would read the newspaper article about some incident or other, and have no way to judge whether the opinions and position were in any way correct.
Nowadays we can easily dig down to the source, and verify what we are told.
As an example that everyone knows about, we can look to some of the things said about Trump [salon.com]:
- The New York Times: “Trump’s claim that illegal Mexican immigrants are ‘rapists.”
- Time Magazine: “Trump’s comment that Mexican immigrants are ‘rapists.’”
- Associated Press: “Trump called Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals”
- CBS News: “Trump defends calling Mexican immigrants ‘rapists.’”
- L.A. Times: “describing Mexican immigrants as ‘rapists.’”
- Fortune: “in a speech branding Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists.”
- Hollywood Reporter: “he referred to Mexican immigrants as ‘rapists.’”
- Huffington Post: “He called Latino immigrants ‘criminals’ and ‘rapists.’”
- The Washington Post: “He referred to Mexicans as “rapists.”
What he actually said:
They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists, and some, I assume, are good people.
An accurate representation of what he said was "some illegal immigrants are criminals", which is true simply by the law of averages, with the implication that if they went through a vetting procedure we could perhaps filter out the criminal portion.
This was taken so completely out of context that WaPo rephrased it as "He referred to Mexicans as “rapists.", with the implication that he insulted the entire population of another country, and a fair portion of our own citizens.
It's highly interesting to me that, as individuals, we now have the ability to find the evidence and come to our own conclusions, rather than blindly listen to the pronouncements of the elite.
And a little bit, I think that's why Trump's supporters are so immovable. When the MSM cries "but he's a *racist*!", most of the people who were at the rally think "he didn't actually say that".
It's definitely interesting the effect that YouTube has had on the political landscape.
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For the past decade or so we (ie - Slashdot readership) have lamented the high-level of corruption in politics, and have identified the root cause as campaign contributions in return for political favours(*). A games-theory analysis shows that any normal political candidate will end up catering to the wishes of corporate interests in order to get elected.
As an example, consider [then] Senator Obama's flip flop on telecom immunity [politifact.com] six months before the election, and for which he received generous campaign contributions that allowed him to win the presidency.
We've often wished for a candidate who can avoid the soul-selling and do things in the interests of the people. In this election, we have two: Trump and Sanders.
I'm a fan of both. Having a Trump/Sanders election would be the best thing for this nation, and serve as a wakeup call to the elites.
The people are tired of corruption in politics, and want something in return for their votes.
(*) I'm referring to American politics, but it probably applies in other places, such as Canada, the UK, and Australia.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists, and some, I assume, are good people.
An accurate representation of what he said was "some illegal immigrants are criminals", which is true simply by the law of averages, with the implication that if they went through a vetting procedure we could perhaps filter out the criminal portion.
No. An accurate representation of what he said is "most illegal immigrants are criminals and rapists." At least, I infer some to mean a minority.
It's not me, it's someone else.
I'll take Cruz over Trump. At least Ted's got a brain, albeit one programmed badly. Donnie Dickweed has the logical capacity of a drunken frat prez.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Which is still completely different from what was reported.TheCatt wrote:They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists, and some, I assume, are good people.No. An accurate representation of what he said is "most illegal immigrants are criminals and rapists." At least, I infer some to mean a minority.An accurate representation of what he said was "some illegal immigrants are criminals", which is true simply by the law of averages, with the implication that if they went through a vetting procedure we could perhaps filter out the criminal portion.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."