Donald Trump Jumped the shark. Place your bet.

[feralkid]

When you hear clinton speak that is thousands of manhours worth of work in preparing what she says.

That, and she's not some fascist with the moral compass of a 5 year old.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

That, and she's not some fascist with the moral compass of a 5 year old.

well she started it.

 

[TheSlamma]

I wish I had enough faith in this country to be confidant about your last line.

You allow for way too much fear and sensationalist news in your life.

I seriously can't consider people to even be rational if they think the numbers can possibly add up to him winning the POTUS. The math simply isn't there, just like Obamas second term numbers, there was no chance of the repubs winning none at all and it will be the same again, the country simply isn't growing in right wing numbers.

It's pretty embarrassing for you lefties cause now you have joined the right in being a bunch of fear stooges.

 

[MongGrel]

well she started it.

:sneaky:

:biggrin:

 

[schneiderguy]

she's not some fascist with the moral compass of a 5 year old.

Can't tell if this is a troll post or not.

I hope no one actually believes this.

 

[TheSlamma]

Can't tell if this is a troll post or not.

I hope no one actually believes this.

Fascist thing, no not at all, just an overused term for anyone people hate politically.

5 year old moral compass, yeah I think that is about right. Selfish selfish selfish, that is Clinton without question.

 

[sportage]

Anyone notice???
Donald did a Freudian slip of the tongue when being interviewed Tuesday morning by the press.
Trump said when interviewed and I quote, "We're doing really well. I have not heard anything about the inner fightings of a campaign. You know, we have a very SICK - cessful campaign going, and I think we're going to keep it going."
Donald's "SICK CESSFUL CAMPAIGN"

I loved that Donald Trump Freudian slipper-roo.
And tells you what Donald has been privately discussing with his staff that morning.
Or more likely, yelling at his staff.

And after Donald's huge loss last night in WI, Trump released a statement that should tell us everything we need to know about his potential plans.
Reading between the lines in that statement, Donald is quite prepared and indeed more than willing to run third party if that is what it takes.
If that is what it takes to show the republican establishment they had better not mess with The Donald. If they keep it up, there will be a price to pay.
And he can and certainly WILL bring them down if needed.
Donald is unashamed to do exactly that if that is what it takes.

Ever wish time would just fly by?
I simply can't wait for that RNC convention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u06DpcFXc4U&list=RDu06DpcFXc4U#t=0

 

[swamplizard]

Greetings sportage,

Yeh, I noticed that slip too. I had to chuckle, even my dog licked his chops!

best regards,
swampy

 

[compuwiz1]

There are too many rat bastards in both parties, who have had their bread buttered for far too long. These elections have become a joke. Anyone who thinks our votes really count, well, you'd best believe, that if they did, they would find a way to not let us vote. The sham has never been more apparent to me, than in this election cycle, and I've been through a lot of them in my 56 years. We've lost democracy and it's now become a benevolent dictatorship of the good ol boys and gals. Why bother to vote?

I feel disenfranchised by........EVERY ONE of our elected officials.

 

[woolfe9998]

Editorial from David Gergen saying that Cruz will be the likely GOP nominee after this drubbing that Trump just took in Wisconsin:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/06/opinions/presidential-race-after-wisconsin-opinion-gergen/index.html

Also, that Cruz and Trump have enough delegates to uphold a rule which will block all other candidates but those two.

 

[compuwiz1]

Editorial from David Gergen saying that Cruz will be the likely GOP nominee after this drubbing that Trump just took in Wisconsin:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/06/opinions/presidential-race-after-wisconsin-opinion-gergen/index.html

Also, that Cruz and Trump have enough delegates to uphold a rule which will block all other candidates but those two.

So, what the fuck is Kasich doing? He's a bullhead who recently said that "rule 40 is so yesterday" and he's going to continue.

 

[zinfamous]

Can't Wisconsin be washed out by an overwhelming win in NY and PA? I'm still holding out for Drumpf and his newly-enfranchised gamersgate caucus of women-hating virgins to take the GOP back into the Bronze age.

:thumbsup:

Still better than Cruz.

 

[disappoint]

People were bound to catch on sooner or later.

 

[disappoint]

Fuck it. I would vote for Trump if he rode shark skis over a bunch of sharks while sucking his own johnson.

"Sometimes I bend down and tuck. That's just how I roll." -Trump probably.

"Remember when famous quotes led to epiphanies? Pepperidge Farm remembers" -Family Guy after Trump is elected probably.

 

[swamplizard]

Editorial from David Gergen saying that Cruz will be the likely GOP nominee after this drubbing that Trump just took in Wisconsin:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/06/opinions/presidential-race-after-wisconsin-opinion-gergen/index.html

Also, that Cruz and Trump have enough delegates to uphold a rule which will block all other candidates but those two.

Greetings woolfe9998,

If I remember right a select committee meets a week before the convention to establish the new and improved rules.

 

[Hugo Drax]

Word on infighting and issues inside the Trump campaign team. Looks like the whole Abortion thing was Trumps Operation Barbarossa.

 

[Jhhnn]

People were bound to catch on sooner or later.

Voting for Cruz over Trump isn't exactly catching on.

 

[flexy]

Donald is quite prepared and indeed more than willing to run third party if that is what it takes.
If that is what it takes to show the republican establishment they had better not mess with The Donald. If they keep it up, there will be a price to pay.
And he can and certainly WILL bring them down if needed.
Donald is unashamed to do exactly that if that is what it takes.

Ironic how the Reps see the Cruz win as the begin of how the party is to be united. How I evaluate Trump's personality, yes he WILL run third party...so could we say this is the beginning of the end of the Rep party?

The other ironic thing that I saw yesterday, those Trump supporters who (possibly justified) complained about Cruz being their unliked "establishment candidate"...are now pretty much in the same boat as the Sanders supporters w/ their stance against Hillary.

I am sure among those last persons who would support Trump, but if what he does serves to break up that corrupt system (which it looks it will, either way)..then it's a good thing.

T. likely knows he CAN not win as ind either, but he'll do it just to cause max damage

Now the question is...how to deal similar blows to the Dem party to break up corruption on their site, symbolized for anyone clearly by Hillary.

A Trump independent run that would merely result in basically Hillary guaranteeing this election (which, in some way, already is the case)...isn't the best outcome either.

What an incredible circus/charade this is..and it's still months to go...just blows my mind

 

[Hugo Drax]

Well Cruz is the stealth establishment candidate. The Bush family are working on his campaign and the same lobby groups are behind the scenes. A Cruz win also guarantees a Hillary win as well. No one wants Shaira law in addition to another lobbyist controlled candidate.

At least with Hillary you do not get the Shaira law part.

 

[zinfamous]

Now the question is...how to deal similar blows to the Dem party to break up corruption on their site, symbolized for anyone clearly by Hillary.

A Trump independent run that would merely result in basically Hillary guaranteeing this election (which, in some way, already is the case)...isn't the best outcome either.

What an incredible circus/charade this is..and it's still months to go...just blows my mind

Aye, there's the rub. I don't see Bernie running 3rd party in a 4-candidate race (would essentially lead to a brokered general election and House Teabaggers choosing the worst possible candidate for Pres, very much against the will of the USA), and Bernie would not like that result. I also don't see him going for VPOTUS, because that is the most useless position created by humanity, so he is better off remaining in senate, or just starting his own foundation and anti-lobbying the lobbyists or something.

I think the best, yet still very sad option for the country right now is a one-term Hillary and a fracturing/fractured Dem party facing re-imagined Republican party, minus the yahoo teabaggers and psychopaths by then, in 2020.

 

[zinfamous]

by the way--people really should remember to start making their polls time-locked. This thing was so lopsided last week, and now you have dummies voting after yesterday's Wisconsin primary, essentially saying "gee, look how smert I am!"

It's as bad as those Superbowl threads where you have a vote that is 85/15 the two weeks before the game, suddenly evening out by the 4th quarter and after the game.

 

[Blackjack200]

Can't tell if this is a troll post or not.

I hope no one actually believes this.

For starters, Lavine agreed that understanding authoritarianism must be part of understanding Trump’s appeal. When you have voters who describe themselves as Evangelicals, but who prefer the non-Evangelical Trump over Evangelical candidates like Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum and most relevantly Ted Cruz (who was deemed to be the hot candidate this year for Evangelical voters), you have to ask yourself what is the underlying appeal of Trump to these voters. “It has to be the authoritarianism,” Lavine said. Here’s how he defines the term:

“Authoritarianism is essentially a personality trait, partially heritable, that describes a basic way by which people differ from one another,” Lavine said. The substance of this trait “revolves around one’s propensity and ability to comfortably deal with differences and diversity of people, of ideas and of behaviors. Authoritarian voters are low in this ability….”

https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2016/04/why-donald-trump-appeals-authoritarian-voters

Behold your fellow Trump supporter: http://www.vox.com/2016/4/4/11346078/donald-trump-support

Bright bunch.

Edit: Also this gem from the Minnpost piece:

“Certainly for the past several decades, the country has evolved toward a norm of racial egalitarianism, a norm that was for a very long time one of racial inegalitarianism. And so racial communications shifted from being explicitly to implicitly racial.”

Gee, where have I seen people using implicitly racist language and then getting sarcastic and indignant when called out on it? Hmmmm...

 

[Jhhnn]

It's hard to say how it'll work out on the Repub side. Just remember that they eat their own. I'm sure it's clear to them that their chances of winning the presidency are slim short of some miracle or massive shakeup occurring. Paul Ryan may rappel in from the ceiling or ride in on a white charger waving Old Glory for all we know.

One thing is for sure- they'll be fucking themselves some Donald if they can so as to limit the damage. In a party rife with arrogant narcissism, his is more than even they can endure.

 

[BurnItDwn]

You allow for way too much fear and sensationalist news in your life.

I seriously can't consider people to even be rational if they think the numbers can possibly add up to him winning the POTUS. The math simply isn't there, just like Obamas second term numbers, there was no chance of the repubs winning none at all and it will be the same again, the country simply isn't growing in right wing numbers.

It's pretty embarrassing for you lefties cause now you have joined the right in being a bunch of fear stooges.

Trump isn't running on a purely right wing platform though. He is much more to the center than the rest of the Repubs on many issues.

He acknowledges that problems do exist with the trade imbalances and with international labor competition hurting prospects for American workers. He is generally not concerned with many social issues, though in order to cater to the repub base, he says stupid things about abortion rights.

I simply see trump having a large appeal because people will forgive him for stuff they don't like if he says enough things that people do like, and since he changes his position on things often, he manages to get a lot of people following him.

He has charisma and connects to peoples emotions.

The numbers in the polls might not be there, but, we will have to see what happens.

 

[Hugo Drax]

by the way--people really should remember to start making their polls time-locked. This thing was so lopsided last week, and now you have dummies voting after yesterday's Wisconsin primary, essentially saying "gee, look how smert I am!"

It's as bad as those Superbowl threads where you have a vote that is 85/15 the two weeks before the game, suddenly evening out by the 4th quarter and after the game.

I noticed this as well. I do not get it, the poll is anonymous so its not like people are going to know you voted wrong. I should have added a time lock.