Is Trump playing us for suckers?

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Thump553

Lifer
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I was watching the CBS morning show today and they reported a poll they had just done that said 72% of Americans don't think Trump will run.

If the average person is that perceptive, why in the world are all the news organizations following this publicity hound around like lemmings?
 

wuliheron

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I was watching the CBS morning show today and they reported a poll they had just done that said 72% of Americans don't think Trump will run.

If the average person is that perceptive, why in the world are all the news organizations following this publicity hound around like lemmings?


What? You think people actually watch the news to learn the facts?
 

Siddhartha

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I was watching the CBS morning show today and they reported a poll they had just done that said 72% of Americans don't think Trump will run.

If the average person is that perceptive, why in the world are all the news organizations following this publicity hound around like lemmings?

It points to how little there is to talk about the GOP POTUS nominee race right now.
 

Thump553

Lifer
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It points to how little there is to talk about the GOP POTUS nominee race right now.

You have a good point. They also surveyed (Republicans only time time) asking which potential GOP candidate gets you highly excited? "None" won in a landslide at 54%. Of the rest only Huckabee (how isn't even announced) got into double digits at 14%.

It still burns me how much attention is paid to Trump, however. Even if I could ignore that horrible dyed comb-around perched on his head, his "ideas" have as much substance as something Joe Bob blurts out at the bar after being parked on his stool all night.
 

wuliheron

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You have a good point. They also surveyed (Republicans only time time) asking which potential GOP candidate gets you highly excited? "None" won in a landslide at 54%. Of the rest only Huckabee (how isn't even announced) got into double digits at 14%.

It still burns me how much attention is paid to Trump, however. Even if I could ignore that horrible dyed comb-around perched on his head, his "ideas" have as much substance as something Joe Bob blurts out at the bar after being parked on his stool all night.


But you keep watching don't ya! Just like people keep voting for the assholes who drove us into debt. An alcoholic's gotta have that next drink, a gambler's gotta take that next bet, and the American voter is somehow sure if they don't watch the news and vote they'll go insane.
 

jonks

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WHAMPOM

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With all his experience in multiple bankruptcies the attention hog should run and screw all the countries creditors like he does in his personal finances.