Donald Trump is a first-rate ass clown, but...

September 18, 2015, 09:44 AM

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Originally posted by maximus_flavius:
Faux News has really upped the ante on the Trump attacks. The last couple of days, every talking head, all the time. It's so obvious they are anti Trump, & they will push Carson or Fiorina all day.

What a shame that we can't get fact based reporting from ANYBODY.

Fact based reporting doesn't attract eyeballs. Controversy does. "Let's you and him fight!"

Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown

September 18, 2015, 09:52 AM

justjoe

I think it's very possible that the question about Muslims was a set up intended for Trump to say something off the wall about Muslims, or Obama as a Muslim terrorist. So Trump handled the question well-- he recognized that the training camps might be a problem, and then went vague. While making clear that there were a "lot of things" he would be looking at.

Life is unpredictable. Who would have thought that Fox would not only not be far enough right--but would become the enemy. That's what they are now. They are trying to foist Jeb the Tool on us, while undermining at every opportunity the only candidate committed to the problems that are destroying America. In a way, they are worse than MSNBC and CNN because everybody knows they are megaphones for progressives and commies. Fox has the veneer of being on the right, or at least in the center. They are the John McCain of network news.

September 18, 2015, 10:02 AM

justjoe

quote:
Originally posted by maximus_flavius:
Faux News has really upped the ante on the Trump attacks. The last couple of days, every talking head, all the time. It's so obvious they are anti Trump, & they will push Carson or Fiorina all day.

What a shame that we can't get fact based reporting from ANYBODY.

They are not really behind Carson as the nominee. They are pushing Carson -- hard -- now to take out Trump. This is how Rove operates. He tried for a while flogging Rubio to take out Trump, but Rubio didn't get the traction. Once it is Carson and Jeb, who will be hanging on-- remember he has 100 million dollars-- they will flip on Carson, (remember how the MSM flipped on McCain? Same kind of thing) and -- we get Jeb. They think.

In the process of doing all this they have outed themselves for who they really are. I have no respect for any of them-- and contempt for most of them. I can't stand to look at Megyn Kelly making her frozen pretty face into the camera. Or Krauthammer pontificating from inside the cocoon of his wealthy privilege.

There are only two figures on the national stage capable of turning things around, Trump and Cruz.

September 18, 2015, 10:57 AM

coloradohunter44

And we have how many months of this shit to put up with? It's gonna be a long winter. 3/4 of those "candidates" just need to go crawl in a hole or disappear. All the media outlets are so biased anymore NONE of them are worth watching.

September 18, 2015, 11:13 AM

chellim1

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Trump and Cruz

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor

September 18, 2015, 11:24 AM

Ackks

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They are not really behind Carson as the nominee. They are pushing Carson -- hard -- now to take out Trump.

I think they realize Carson can't do it and have moved onto Fiorina.

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It's disgusting and pathetic how Fix News keeps trying to make something out of nothing. When Trump made his "face" remark about Fiorina, Fix News ran a headline of "THE LAST STRAW??".

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Carly Fiorina earned a round of applause at the CNN debate when she responded to Donald Trump's recent comment about her appearance, but Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Fiorina's opponent in 2010, recalled on Wednesday a time when the former Hewlett Packard CEO made fun of her hair.

Before the debate on Wednesday night, Boxer spoke with MSNBC's Chris Matthews about her Senate race against Fiorina in 2010. Boxer criticized Trump's comment about Fiorina's "face," but the senator also noted Fiorina's own comments about Boxer in 2010.

"That’s so off base, I can’t even go there," Boxer said of Trump's comment before pivoting to Fiorina. "But she should have realized that when she attacked me because my hairstyle was, quote, 'So yesterday.'"

In 2010, Fiorina was caught on an open mic commenting on Boxer's hair as she was prepping for an interview with CNN affiliate KXTV. Fiorina told her staff that someone saw Boxer on television and "said what everyone says, 'God what is that hair?' So yesterday!"

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/l...ly-fiorina-hair-face

September 18, 2015, 11:40 AM

a1abdj

I borrowed a photo that Para posted and adjusted it for accuracy.

September 18, 2015, 12:06 PM

Z06

September 18, 2015, 12:07 PM

Tonyny

^^^^ All the way! As soon as that commie fuck is out the better!

September 18, 2015, 12:17 PM

justjoe

I just clicked on Yahoo and there is an ugly photo of Trump-- mouth open as if yelling-- caption, "Trump does not correct assertion that Obama is Muslim" (something like that). If you take a few steps back and look at this scene, America, September, 2015-- it's kind of amazing. Everywhere you look in the MSM-- literally-- the networks, all the cables, including Fox, major newspapers, the left and right pundits-- everywhere-- you see the massive attack on Trump. And they are dropping all pretenses, they are just letting fly-- photos, video clips, articles, blogs-- it is astonishing.

Here is what I draw from this.

The Ruling Class is scared shitless by Donald Trump.

September 18, 2015, 12:19 PM

stickman428

Wow! Flipping back and forth between Fox as CNN and it's becoming obvious they are scared shitless of Trump and sound almost the same. In a span of 5 minutes they both played nearly identical sounding analysis attacking Trump for not saying Obama is not Muslim? WHAT THE FUCK FOX NEWS!?

September 18, 2015, 12:21 PM

Ackks

Good job, Donald. This will go away.

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Donald Trump says he is the victim of a "double standard" after comments he made about Carly Fiorina's looks - pointing out that she has also made remarks about the appearances of her female rivals.

On Hannity on Thursday night, he said Fiorina had called California Senator Barbara Boxer's hair "so yesterday" during her failed Senate bid in 2010.

Hannity asked: “Do you think there's a bit of a double standard in terms of people make fun of you all the time?”

Trump said: “Well, it’s not only a double standard, it's being politically correct. Last night I was very nice to her [during the debate] and some people thought I was being sarcastic.

“But actually if you look back at the records on Carly, she was brutal on Barbara Boxer. She was very nasty. She was running against Barbara Boxer. She lost in a landslide but during the run she was really horrible about Barbara Boxer's looks."

The billionaire added: “She’s playing the game herself.”

Fiorina was caught making the remark on a microphone.

When Greta Van Susteren asked her about the incident, Fiorina said, “I was quoting a friend of mine. My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.”

Read: Trump Insults Carly Fiorina: 'Look at that Face! Would Anyone Vote for That?'

Trump recently came under fire for saying of Fiorina: "Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?

“Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?! I mean, she's a woman, and I’m not supposed to say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?"

He later claimed he was talking about her "persona" and at the debate on Wednesday, he added: "I think she's got a beautiful face and I think she's a beautiful woman" - which also elicited an icy cold response.

Fiorina is gaining ground following her feisty performance in the Regan Library debate on Wednesday night.

One Michigan poll puts her neck with Trump each with 22 percent support from likely Republican voters.

http://news.yahoo.com/trump-po...ammed-153020587.html

September 18, 2015, 12:22 PM

Crom

That does it!
I am voting for Trump NO MATTER WHAT!!!!

September 18, 2015, 12:25 PM

a1abdj

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That does it!
I am voting for Trump NO MATTER WHAT!!!!

I'm still bouncing back and forth between him and Jeb.

September 18, 2015, 12:35 PM

DrDan

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
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That does it!
I am voting for Trump NO MATTER WHAT!!!!

I'm still bouncing back and forth between him and Jeb.

Isn't that a Jib-Jeb?

September 18, 2015, 12:35 PM

ersatzknarf

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Good job, Donald. This will go away.

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One Michigan poll puts her neck with Trump each with 22 percent support from likely Republican voters.

I have to agree with the sarcasm, however a Michigan poll of "likely Republican voters" sounds awfully fishy to me. That's pretty much a unicorn hunt. You can't swing a dead cat in this part of the state without hitting a dimbulbocrat. I have heard that the rest of the state is almost all red, and I would rather live there, but have a bad feeling that poll was not conducted in that part of the woods.

Okay, say that DT does (finally) implode. Who is going to pick up the torch for all those who appreciate that he is not part of the establishment that has been screwing us for so long?

As Joe said, "The Ruling Class is scared shitless by Donald Trump." I really think that has to mean something worth noting well.

Who will fill the void?

Is it Cruz? Is he not at least in part of the same said establishment?

September 18, 2015, 12:40 PM

46and2

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The Ruling Class is scared shitless by Donald Trump.

for all his shortcomings, his being a blunt political outsider and having the effect it's having is a glorious thing to witness, a rude awakening for those half-ass, double standard, bullshitters who behave that way, who think for a second that they know better or are better or are immune to the same laws they subject us to, those ineffectual assholes in D.C. who ride the taxpayer teet no less nor no less destructively than every crack whore and lazy fuck on welfare combined.

one can only hope the momentum continues.

imagine a world where no one was a professional politician, where good men and women went to D.C. briefly, and did their level best to help improve this country, not to enrich themselves (in that specific capacity, I don't care how successful or not they are otherwise), more like volunteer work, more like a Mormon mission even, more like a Soldier, Sailor, Airman, or Marine, paid just enough to not be absurd, where the focus and expectation is on true service to country, then they went home after a tour or two, tired, feeling satisfied and proud, and so on...

what we have now has become a joke.