The Donald-thread

[DRSB]

[pErvinalia]

Virtual dictator asks people trust him that he's telling the truth. Righto.

[Animavore]

Huh?

Trump is clearly an idiot sprouting empty rhetoric. That's not even open to debate.

You'd think that, but yet -

[Hermit]

Garry Trudeau is back.

[Animavore]

Trump continued his paranoid rant about the fire marshal in front of the crowd, “I have to tell you that the fire marshal they turned away thousands of people. They turned away thousands of people, look at the size this place. They were given orders no more than a thousand people…Is the mayor a Democrat? Is he a Democrat? That’s what I heard. He ought to be ashamed of himself.”

Donald Trump is falling apart. He really believes that there is a Democratic conspiracy to use fire marshals to prevent him from winning this election. How the fire marshals are preventing him from winning is something that is only understood in the mind of Donald Trump. What Trump doesn’t get is that television ratings don’t equal winning. Rally attendance doesn’t equal winning if it Democrats would be running Bernie Sanders as their nominee. Votes are what decide elections.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/01/ ... shals.html

Implode a bit faster, you gobshite.

[Animavore]

Fucking arsehole.

An official adviser to the Trump campaign has escalated the attacks on Khizr Khan, the gold star father who was critical of Trump at the Democratic convention, baselessly accusing him of being a “Muslim Brotherhood agent.”
The adviser, Al Baldasaro, tweeted a link to an article from Shoebat.com, a fringe anti-Islam conspiracy website. The article also suggests (without any evidence) that Humayun Khan, who was awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze, was a jihadist who joined the military to kill Americans.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/ ... otherhood/

[Animavore]

Fuck Trump.

I like authenticity, especially as compared to survey-tested or heavily spun. I am prepared to let a candidate say something that I don’t completely agree with and still support him or her. I think the need to be politically correct has gone too far. I also think the media often hypes and slants stories to the point of being untruthful.

I think a prosperous middle class is the key to the American success story, both economically and politically, and that lobbyists have way too much sway. I am very much a pragmatist, so much so that I like compromise more than I like ideology. I like deals, especially those that are win-win.

So Donald Trump is my candidate, right? He is NOT!

In 1987, when I was 35 years old and he was 41, Donald Trump hired me to be his attorney on a major northern New Jersey project, a shopping center, which like everything else, was to bear his name, Trump Centre. It was a big deal that he picked me and a high honor for me just a couple of years after I started my law firm, which is now over 30 years old. This was at a time when Trump still built things, having recently finished Trump Tower.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/don ... n=politics

[Animavore]

Stupid, ugly piece of shit.

Two weeks ago, in the midst of controversy over the fact his wife, Melania, had plagiarized passages of her convention speech from Michelle Obama, Donald Trump tweeted that "all press is good press."

That seems to be the mindset the Republican presidential nominee was embracing Monday morning as he continued to pick a fight with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of an Army captain killed in Iraq. Khizr Khan delivered a powerful speech criticizing Trump at last week's Democratic National Convention.

Trump's sustained hostility toward the Khans has made other Republican candidates and officeholders deeply uncomfortable. On Monday morning, Arizona Sen. John McCain, whom Trump once mocked for being shot down and captured during the Vietnam War, issued a nearly 700-word statement denouncing Trump's critiques of the Khans.

"In recent days, Donald Trump disparaged a fallen soldier's parents. He has suggested that the likes of their son should not be allowed in the United States — to say nothing of entering its service. I cannot emphasize enough how deeply I disagree with Mr. Trump's statement," McCain said. "I hope Americans understand that the remarks do not represent the views of our Republican Party, its officers, or candidates."

[Animavore]

There's no depths he won't reach and his obnoxious fans won't excuse.

In a USA Today opinion piece, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told Fox’s Kirsten Powers that women should “‘find another career’” if they are sexually harassed by their employer, referring to former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson’s allegations against ousted Fox CEO, and current 21st Century Fox consultant, Roger Ailes.

Trump previously defended Ailes during a Meet the Press interview, telling NBC’s Chuck Todd that Ailes has helped the women who are “complaining,” and noting that the women have said “wonderful things about [Ailes].” Trump went on to say the situation is “very sad … I’ve always found him to be just a very, very good person.” Trump also has consulted with Ailes throughout the campaign, including the week that he announced his departure from Fox News. When asked if he would consider bringing Ailes on the campaign in an official capacity, Trump said he would consider it, and called Ailes “a very capable guy.”

In a phone interview with Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers, Trump doubled down on his defense of Ailes, suggesting Carlson wouldn’t have said “fabulous things” about her former boss if she was had been harassed. Powers asked Trump what his daughter Ivanka would do if she was in Carlson’s position. Trump responded that he would “‘like to think she would find another career or … company if that were the case.” From the August 1 opinion:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/08/01 ... -or/212084

[pErvinalia]

Trump says he was "viciously attacked" by Kahn. What a fucking hypocritical glass-jawed loser he is. He's happy to call anyone and everyone names and abuse them etc, but when someone points out how disrespectful he is he claims he was "viciously attacked". Piece of trash.

[Animavore]

Finally a bit of sense.

In the wake of the Republican and Democratic national conventions, voters are more likely to support Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.
While 36 percent of adults are more likely to support Trump coming out of the GOP’s four-day event, 51 percent are less likely to vote for the real estate mogul afterit. The minus-15 net rating is the worst mark for the Republican nominee coming out of the party’s convention since Gallup began asking the question in 1984, though the 1984 and 1992 GOP conventions were excluded.
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Last month’s Republican convention, however, is the only time respondents were overall less likely to vote for the candidate who was nominated. Previous lows for the Republican nominee were plus-2 with Mitt Romney in 2012 and plus-3 with President George W. Bush in 2004.
The convention has also shaped the views of the Republican Party. Fifty-two percent of those surveyed said they have a less favorable view of the GOP now, while 35 percent see the party more favorably.
After the Democratic convention, 45 percent of adults said they were more likely to back Clinton, though 41 percent said they’re now less likely to do so. While the percentage of respondents more inclined to vote for Clinton coming out of the convention is on par for Democratic nominees over the past two decades, the 41 percent who are less likely to vote for Clinton represents the highest mark since 1984.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/p ... z4GAWEIxOl
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[Animavore]

Trump says he was "viciously attacked" by Kahn. What a fucking hypocritical glass-jawed loser he is. He's happy to call anyone and everyone names and abuse them etc, but when someone points out how disrespectful he is he claims he was "viciously attacked". Piece of trash.

He can give but can't take. He really is a loser piece of crap.

[Animavore]

Idiot.

[pErvinalia]

It's truly staggering that a modern society could even contemplate electing a person such as him. It really speaks to the disaffection that modern politics is causing.

[Brian Peacock]

It's not so much that the Trumpinator says things that other politicians won't say, he's says things that politicians would never say, and indeed should never say. He's looking more like a Brexiteer in as much as he's claiming that the failure of the political system is the fault of those who have little to no influence over it - a clever ruse which may see him ensconced in office and, if the rhetoric is to be believed, wielding the power of that very same political system to punish the powerless for the problems they've apparently caused the system. If you want to get some insight into the motives behind the rhetoric follow the money - as with the Brexiteers, asset-strippers are to the fore.