steggyD Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 I don't know what his end game is, but the guy is pure genius. Some say he is only running to pave the way for Hillary. I can almost see that happening. He is so front page news that we all forget about the other Repub candidates, well, I do hear about Carson here and there.Come election time, down to Trump and Clinton, well, most people are going to use their brain, and pick against Trump. It'll bite him in the ass though, if Sanders is in the running instead of Clinton.Remember, there are some strong Trump and Clinton ties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 I don't know what his end game is, but the guy is pure genius. Some say he is only running to pave the way for Hillary. I can almost see that happening. He is so front page news that we all forget about the other Repub candidates, well, I do hear about Carson here and there.Come election time, down to Trump and Clinton, well, most people are going to use their brain, and pick against Trump. It'll bite him in the ass though, if Sanders is in the running instead of Clinton.Remember, there are some strong Trump and Clinton ties.I don't think the xenophobia is genius. It's playing to the lowest common denominator and stands against everything we as a country are supposed to be for.It's the new "southern strategy" and it's sad to me that he is leading with such a frankly racist strategy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steggyD Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Southern strategy? I don't like that term. Spend one day in upstate NY, and tell me where all the rednecks live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 maybe but i didnt coin it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Dub Posted December 11, 2015 Report Share Posted December 11, 2015 Southern strategy? I don't like that term. Spend one day in upstate NY, and tell me where all the rednecks live. Imagine if upstate New York were, say, everything east of El Paso/south of Denver. It's called that for a reason. For exhibit A, I present the state flag of Mississippi Fortunately for us, you can't get elected in 2016 as a frothing-at-the-mouth racist dumbshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted December 12, 2015 Report Share Posted December 12, 2015 The fact that this man is being taken seriously as the leader of our country should be a wake up. The right is desperate because the past doesn't sell. The left is desperate because they are mostly incapable.Trump is what this country deserves. Who's exceptional now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Skins Posted January 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2016 http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/Obama-on-Donald-Trump-Talk-to-me-if-he-wins-364969261.htmlOn the eve of his last State of the Union address, President Obama rejected the message Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has capitalized on in his campaign. "The message that Donald Trump's putting out has had adherence a lot of times during the course of our history. You know, talk to me if he wins. Then we'll have a conversation about how responsible I feel about it," he told "Today's" Matt Lauer in an exclusive interview Tuesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelWeston Posted January 15, 2016 Report Share Posted January 15, 2016 I grow more and more uncomfortable each day living in a country where this many people support Trump.America is already great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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oldschooler Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 Trump wins SC. They said every one that has won NH and SC has went on to be the nominee. I can't believe the sad state of a big portion of this Country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Dub Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 I can't believe the sad state of a big portion of this Country. I don't know, man. You could see the country leaning more and more towards fascism post-9/11, all he's done is given it a voice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschooler Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 I don't know, man. You could see the country leaning more and more towards fascism post-9/11, all he's done is given it a voice. Hell that was 15 years ago. If it was 2008, yeah I could understand it more. But I think not having a Right-Wing direction for the past 8 years while gay marriage has became legal,police abuse is more exposed, marijuana more accepted and a host of other "progressive" things, while the Countryhas been led by a Democratic black President, has caused a vocal minority to lose their minds and show their asses.The part that is hardest to believe is they might actually be able to push him towards the nomination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschooler Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 Saw these on Bill Maher and had to take pics to share ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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|Montana Bengal| Posted February 24, 2016 Report Share Posted February 24, 2016 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-nix/an-open-letter-to-my-frie_2_b_9293694.html?An Open Letter to My Friends Who Support Donald TrumpI'm cool with you removing me from your friends list if you don't like this post. You can even disown me if you like. But Donald Trump isn't a good person, nor would he be a good president. I can understand a difference in politics. I can understand if you don't like a government run by Democrats. I can understand if you don't like certain ideologies, like Socialism. But I can't understand why you would support someone as hateful, sexist, racist and ignorant as Donald Trump.How do you support him so blindly? Ask yourself, are you a racist, sexist, hateful and ignorant person as well? I hear his supporters saying they like him because he tells the truth, because he's so rich he can say whatever he feels like with no apologies. Just because Trump is saying these things doesn't suddenly make them right. It's not okay to discriminate against an entire religion based on a small percentage of its followers who have become terrorists by twisting the words of the religion to fit their crazy ideals. It's not okay to marginalize an entire race of people, saying things like all the Mexicans are lazy, that they are all stealing our jobs and bringing drugs into our country.White people also have bad apples. So does every race of people. We're all human. Some humans are really bad people. Some are really good. And it doesn't matter what color they are, it makes no difference whatsoever. Trump says he is just telling the truth. But whose truth? There are lazy people in every race and there are dangerous violent people in every race and every religion. Kicking all Muslims out of the country is not the answer, nor is it the acceptable behavior of a person in an extremely powerful position, like the President of the United States.The Japanese Internment camps were wrong, Segregation was wrong, Slavery was wrong. We fought wars amongst ourselves to rise above racism and hatred. In WWII more than 60 million people died worldwide. Why? Because of twisted people who were whipping up the population into a frenzy and making ridiculous statements, killing innocent people simply because of their race or religion. The United States lost more than 400,000 lives fighting in that war, against the same ideas that Trump is pushing. The idea that certain religions are more dangerous than others and the idea that people should be judged based on the color of their skin rather than the content of their character.We're still healing from the damage inflicted by the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Iraq and the War on Terror. And it isn't just ISIS or Al-Qaeda. It's our own people in this country killing their fellow countrymen over differences of opinion, like whether or not you believe abortion is okay or what kind of political ideology you support. And then there are just the plainly insane people who finally snap and go on shooting rampages for no discernible reason at all. They just went mad.The kind of leadership Trump is displaying is irresponsible and dangerous. His virulent ideas are seeping into the brains of his supporters. Supporters who think it's okay to say things like "light the mother@!$%#er on fire" while a protester is being dragged out of one of his rallies. Maybe the protester was wrong to be where he was at the time, but no matter what he did, there was no reason to set him on fire. In fact, there is NEVER a reason to set anyone on fire. Unless it's because they are dead and they wish to be cremated.Trump's supporters are angry, and anger is infectious. I can tell you as a non-supporter of Trump I am just as angry. We need the kind of leader that seeks to bring us together, not tear us apart. Why do we have to fight against helping each other, against common sense, against a united Nation? The American Dream is a nightmare and we are feeding it, making it worse every day. Trump is a bully, a loud mouth, ignorant, sexist, racist, disgusting example of how horrible humans can potentially be.He is the crazy person at your dinner table who won't stop running his mouth. The only reason he is allowed to carry on with his ugly hateful rhetoric is because you have too much respect for Grandma to get into a fist fight in her home. He's the guy you have to endure until he leaves, all the while hating every minute that you have to occupy the same space. Lucky for us, this isn't Grandma's house, so feel free to punch him in the mouth in the form of getting out and making your vote count.They always say it's so important to make your voice heard, to get out and vote. But I'm not sure if it's ever been more important than now. Differences of political ideals are one thing, I can agree to disagree on many matters across a wide array of topics, but racism isn't one of them, neither is hate, neither is the belittling of women or the judgment of others based on their appearance or their disability, or their sexual preference.By supporting Trump do you think things will go back to the way they were? Back when gay people had to hide in fear, back when people of any other color than white had to worry about getting lynched, back when it was okay to openly hate? Do you think empowered women will suddenly quit their jobs and go back to the kitchen ? Because electing Trump won't make any of that come true. We're past that as a nation, or at least I thought we were.If you're not a racist, bigoted, misogynistic jerk then voting for Trump simply because you don't like Democrats is wrong. If you are one of his supporters and you're just a racist and you don't care who knows it then vote for him, but know that the good people of America will not stand for it and he will never win a fair election. And please consider pursuing an education and work on your empathy toward your fellow human beings. Whatever led you to believe that racism is okay can be unlearned if you open your mind. I'm sorry that you were raised to believe that you deserve better treatment than the rest of the people on the planet that have different views than yours, worship different gods than you and have skin that isn't white.To all the people, of all the races and religions that Donald Trump stands against, to all the women that don't meet his standards of beauty, to all the good Muslims, and Christians, Mormons and Catholics and Jewish, Italians, Irish and Asians, to the African-Americans and Native Americans, to anyone who has ever been persecuted, belittled, made to feel inferior or bullied based on ignorance like the kind that Trump is spewing, please, I implore you to get out and vote against him. Don't let the progress of this great nation be halted. We've come too far.In this country we FIGHT and DIE for freedom, for Truth and Justice. We fight for what's right. And what Trump is doing and saying isn't right. Abraham Lincoln said:"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and cause me to tremble for safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in High Places will follow, and the Money Power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic destroyed."And he couldn't be more right. Trump IS the one percent, he IS working on your prejudices, and he WILL destroy the Republic if he is elected, make no doubt about it.If you don't believe me, just look at the level of crazy coming out of his own mouth:"[I am] calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on" - Donald Trump. That's religious discrimination."An 'extremely credible source' has called my office and told me that Barack Obama's birth certificate is a fraud" -Donald Trump. That's an outright lie."Ariana Huffington is unattractive, both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man - he made a good decision."- Donald Trump. This is sexism, and just plain rude."You know, it really doesn't matter what the media write as long as you've got a young, and beautiful, piece of @!$%#." - Donald Trump. This is misogyny at its finest."I will build a great wall -- and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me -- and I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words." - Donald Trump. The words of an arrogant hate monger."When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best. They're not sending you, 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." -Donald Trump. Racist."Our great African-American President hasn't exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore." - Donald Trump. Racist."If I were running 'The View', I'd fire Rosie O'Donnell. I mean, I'd look at her right in that fat, ugly face of hers, I'd say 'Rosie, you're fired." - Donald Trump. The words of an @!$%#."The beauty of me is that I'm very rich." - Donald Trump. So Vain."It's freezing and snowing in New York - we need global warming!" - Donald Trump. Ignorant."My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body." - Donald Trump. Gross."I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I'm more honest and my women are beautiful." - Donald Trump. Sexist. As if women are possessions rather than people. And also a lie. A lie about how honest he is.How can you support this man? 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Jamie_B Posted February 26, 2016 Report Share Posted February 26, 2016 I think Marco Rubio is an empty suit, but I loved his line about if Trump hadn't inherited his money he would be selling watches in Manhattan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Dub Posted February 27, 2016 Report Share Posted February 27, 2016 This man is the leading Republican candidate for President. OF THE UNITED STATES. Not the Waffle House Fan Club. The USA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Dub Posted March 5, 2016 Report Share Posted March 5, 2016 ol' Mittens took the gloves off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted March 15, 2016 Report Share Posted March 15, 2016 Ben Carson: I Didn’t Want To Endorse Trump, But He Promised Me A PositionDr. Ben Carson, who endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy on Friday, appears less than enthusiastic about that decision. And the real reason the unsuccessful GOP presidential hopeful endorsed his former rival could be a violation of federal law.Carson told the conservative online site NewsMax TV on Monday that he backed Trump based on a practical calculus.“I didn’t see a path for [John] Kasich, who I like, or for [Marco] Rubio, who I like. As far as [Ted] Cruz is concerned, I don’t think he’s gonna be able to draw independents and Democrats unless has has some kind of miraculous change… Is there another scenario that I would have preferred? Yes. But that scenario isn’t available.” Pressed to clarify, Carson said he meant he’d prefer to have backed one of the other candidates.Carson then said that Trump had promised him a role in his administration, “certainly in an advisory capacity.” Asked by NewsMax’s Steve Malzberg whether this meant a cabinet position, Carson declined to “reveal any details about it right now, because all of this is still very liquid.”Federal law expressly prohibits candidates from directly or indirectly promising “the appointment of any person to any public or private position or employment, for the purpose of procuring support in his candidacy.” The penalty for violations could include fines or a year in jail — two years if the violation was willful.http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/15/3760261/carson-offered-position-by-trump/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhodeIslandFan Posted March 16, 2016 Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/15/3760261/carson-offered-position-by-trump/Secretary of education most likely. Carson has done quite a bit of work in that sector. Dirty move but likely offer if deal was madeSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Dub Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 Yes let's make a religious kook Secretary of Education. Maybe after that we can make Chris Christie Secretary of Health. Hulk Hogan can head the Treasury, I mean fuck it why not. If we're going to elect Trump we may as well put my neighbor's cat in office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValleyBengal Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 I would see Carson as Sec of Health, if god forbid Trump wins the General Election. Someone who believes that Pyramids were built by the Biblical Figure of Joseph to store grain has no place presiding over our educational policies.Now that I think of it, he also believes homosexuality is a choice, not a trait you're born with. So Health is probably not a good place for him either.Maybe Donald Trump can create a new cabinet position. Something like "Czar of Sleep Walking" ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Dub Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 He may get rid of the cabinet positions entirely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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