Church of Trump

[CosmicCowboy]

:lmao

Boo is really upset about Trump going to Scotland on business.

[boutons_deux]

:lmao

Boo is really upset about Trump going to Scotland on business.

I couldn't give less of shit, but Trash's self-destruction is as hilarious as your fervent support for Trash.

Trash taking a business (and this trip is REALLY REALLY necessary) is just like your favorite knitter Carson going a book tour $$$ ! while running for President.

[boutons_deux]

Confident. Incorrigible. Bully: Little Donny was a lot like candidate Donald Trump


https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2016/06/21/Style/Images/Trump61466538190.jpghttps://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/young-donald-trump-military-school/2016/06/22/f0b3b164-317c-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html?wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1

[DMX7]

you fucking misogynist

https://i.gyazo.com/d8b5139303110ee59901c5c97089255d.png

No, I cherish women.

[spurraider21]

No, I cherish women.
You called her calculating and ambitious. That makes you sexist

[CosmicCowboy]

You called her calculating and ambitious. That makes you sexist

What a bitch reply.

I think Ted Cruz is calculating and ambitious.

Does that make me sexist too?

[spurraider21]

Ur retarded

[CosmicCowboy]

Ur a little bitch

[SpursforSix]

Ur a little bitch

Did you seriously not understand what he was posting?

[spurraider21]

Did you seriously not understand what he was posting?
Of course not. He's retarded. Probably from incest

[Aztecfan03]

What a bitch reply.

I think Ted Cruz is calculating and ambitious.

Does that make me sexist too?

Can you not see that he was making fun of SJW bullshit?

[Spurminator]

Triggered.

[ducks]

JerryJrFalwell: "I was so impressed by [@realDonaldTrump's] speech yesterday. He was the best I've ever seen him."

[ducks]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/transcript-trump-speech-on-the-stakes-of-the-election-224654

[ducks]

:lmao

Boo is really upset about Trump going to Scotland on business.

not to bussy twitting

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5E serp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

[CosmicCowboy]

Can you not see that he was making fun of SJW bullshit?

My apologies. Thought he was serious. That would be a common sentiment from the PC bitches in here.

[ducks]

Trump forgives $50 million in loans to his campaign: Trump finance chief
oh but he is broke LOL

[boutons_deux]

Trash is lying about this wealth, which is why he won't publish his income tax info.

[spurraider21]

Trash is lying about this wealth, which is why he won't publish his income tax info.
You need to think it over and come up with a more clever nickname for donny

[boutons_deux]

Trump Falls Apart When Asked For Proof To Backup Claim That Clinton Server Was Hacked

When Donald Trump was pressed for evidence to back up his claim that foreign governments hacked Hillary Clinton's email server, Trump fell apart and offered nothing but vague promises.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/06/23/trump-falls-asked-evidence-backup-claim-clinton-server-hacked.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

[boutons_deux]

"We don’t know what Trump pays in taxes because he is the first Presidential nominee in 40 years to refuse to disclose his tax returns.

Maybe he’s just a lousy businessman who doesn’t want you to find out that he’s worth a lot less money than he claims—we can’t know for sure.

But, here’s what we do know.

The last time his taxes were made public, Donald Trump paid nothing in federal taxes—ZERO.

Zero taxes before, and for all we know he’s paying zero taxes today.

And he’s proud of it.

A few weeks ago he said he’s more than happy to dodge taxes because he doesn’t want to throw his money “down the drain.”

http://www.salon.com/2016/06/21/watch_elizabeth_warren_reveals_the_one_lie_that_he lps_sum_up_what_donald_trump_is_all_about/

[boutons_deux]

Donald Rumsfeld, who served as Defense secretary under President George W. Bush, said Wednesday he will vote for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in November.

“I’m a Republican, and there’s not any doubt in my mind how I’ll vote,” Rumsfeld said in an interview with DailyMail.com. He said he agrees with Trump on issues such as reforming NATO and keeping Syrian refugees out of the U.S.

Trump had to say (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-takes-his-biggest-big-risk-date) just three weeks later during a nationally televised debate:


“I want to tell you, [Bush administration officials] lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction, there were none. And they knew there were none. There were no weapons of mass destruction. […]

“How did he keep us safe when the World Trade Center, excuse me, I lost hundreds of friends. The World Trade Center came down during the reign of George Bush. He kept us safe? That is not safe. That is not safe.”


Rumsfeld praises Trump …

Trump accused Rumsfeld’s former colleagues of lying the country into a war …

Trump then lies about his opposition to that war (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-most-impressive-boast-brazen-lie) …

then Rumsfeld endorses Trump’s presidential candidacy.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/donald-rumsfelds-curious-taste-presidential-candidates?cid=sm_fb_maddow

[boutons_deux]

The Donald Trump Story You’re Not Hearing About

there has been remarkably little interest shown in some of Trump’s less-than-savory connections.

One of the exceptions is Johnston, who, over the course of 27 years, has had ample occasion to pay attention to Trump’s finances and mob ties. He was not the first investigative reporter to do so. In 1992, Johnston favorably reviewed (http://articles.philly.com/1992-01-07/business/26035256_1_trump-plaza-condos-donald-trump-casino-executives) the longtime Village Voice reporter Wayne Barrett’s highly unauthorized biography, Trump: The Deals and the Downfall (http://www.nationinstitute.org/featuredwork/books/1283/trump%3A_the_deals_and_the_downfall/), which, in Johnston’s words, “asserts that throughout his adult life, Donald Trump has done business with major organized-crime figures and performed favors for their associates.”

As Barrett said (http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/31/politics/trump-mob-mafia/) not long after Trump declared for the presidency last year, Trump’s life “intertwines with the underworld.” Barrett updates his treatment of Trump in a new digital (https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Greatest-Earth-Downfall-Reinvention-ebook/dp/B01ECUXPIM) edition called Trump, The Greatest Show on Earth (http://books.simonandschuster.com/Trump/Wayne-Barrett/9781942872979): The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention.
Barrett’s quote appeared in a July 31, 2015, CNN online piece by investigative reporter Chris Frates (https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=chris+frates+trump+scrutiny&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8), who added:

The allegations are getting new scrutiny as Trump runs for president, largely on his record as a successful and extraordinarily wealthy businessman. As Trump cements his leads atop the polls, questions about how he made his billions, and who helped him make them, are starting to take center stage.


While the story ran on CNN’s website, it never got any air time on the cable network. I tried to ask Frates why his investigation didn’t get onto TV, but didn’t hear back from him. In any event, nearly 11 months later, those questions about Trump’s financial life have still not reached that elusive center stage. The question is why.

Unlike its TV competitors, ABC News has raised some questions about Trump’s mob relations. Last December, a Good Morning America piece by the network’s investigative master Brian Ross (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/memory-lapse-trump-seeks-distance-advisor-past-ties/story?id=34600826) touched on one tendril: Trump’s relationship with a twice-convicted felon, the Russian émigré Felix Sater, who (along with several other felons (https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Greatest-Earth-Downfall-Reinvention-ebook/dp/B01ECUXPIM)) occupied office space in Trump Tower. On air, Ross (https://grabien.com/story.php?id=43342) reported that Donald Trump had testified under oath in a civil lawsuit that Sater “helped develop the Trump SoHo hotel and condominium in New York City.”

Online, in a simultaneous piece (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/memory-lapse-trump-seeks-distance-advisor-past-ties/story?id=34600826) co-written with Matthew Mosk, Ross noted that in 1991, Sater got into an argument with a commodities broker at the bar of a New York restaurant, smashed a margarita glass and with the broken-off stem, slashed the man in the cheek and neck, breaking his cheek and jaw, severing nerves and lacerating his face and jaw. The victim required 110 stitches (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/nyregion/17trump.html). Sater was convicted of first-degree assault and sent to prison in 1993.

Then, in 2000, he pleaded guilty to federal racketeering charges for running a $40 million “pump and dump” stock scam and for, as Mosk and Ross wrote, “collaborating with members of four New York mob families.” Sater served no time, however, because the FBI testified at his sentencing hearing that he was “an important witness on both mob-related and national security matters.”

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_donald_trump_story_youre_not_hearing_about_201 60623?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+Truthdig+Truthdig%253A+Dril ling+Beneath+the+Headlines

[DMX7]

Trump Falls Apart When Asked For Proof To Backup Claim That Clinton Server Was Hacked

When Donald Trump was pressed for evidence to back up his claim that foreign governments hacked Hillary Clinton's email server, Trump fell apart and offered nothing but vague promises.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/06/23/trump-falls-asked-evidence-backup-claim-clinton-server-hacked.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

No, he heard it and he's going to get back to us.

[boutons_deux]

Trump baffles with bizarre appearance in Scotland


http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/styles/ratio--3-2--1_5x-1245x830/public/ap_361598370311.jpg?itok=clfpQkbB


“Just arrived in Scotland. Place is going wild over the vote. They took their country back, just like we will take America back. No games!”


What Trump may not realize, or really even be able to fully understand, is that Scotland is “going wild” because Scottish voters overwhelmingly voted against leaving the E.U. Locally, people aren’t celebrating – because they see this as a disaster.

Trump proceeded to hold a press conference in Scotland, against the backdrop of one of the most important political moments in the modern history of the United Kingdom, where he spoke at great length, and in great detail, about his new golf resort. The Republican candidate boasted about refurbished holes on his course, plumbing, putting greens, and zoning considerations.

Even by the low standards of Donald J. Trump, it was among the most baffling press conferences anyone has ever seen. The entirety of Scotland is reeling; the future of the U.K. and the continent is uncertain; and an American presidential candidate arrived to deliver a testimonial about a country club and how fond he is of the design of a golf course.

Wait, it gets worse.

Asked about economic turmoil and the degree to which the Brexit results are undermining the value of the British pound, Trump relied that the market decline is good news – for him (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNloguvdjaw&feature=youtu.be).

“If the pound goes down, more people are coming to Turnberry, frankly,” he said, referring to the location of his resort. “For traveling and for other things, I think it very well could turn out to be positive.”

In a generational moment for the United Kingdom, Trump’s principal concern is what this means for Trump.

He added that as far as he’s concerned, golf courses are like countries (https://twitter.com/American_Bridge/status/746308480378736640). Trump wasn’t kidding.

When NBC News’ Katy Tur asked (https://twitter.com/alivitali/status/746299263404097536) the presidential candidate whether he’s traveling with any foreign policy advisors who’ve spoken to him about Brexit, Trump replied that he’s been in touch with his team – but “there’s nothing to talk about (https://twitter.com/wpjenna/status/746299598751178754).”

He then suggested yesterday’s vote was President Obama’s fault (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-blames-obama-brexit-takes-credit).

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-baffles-bizarre-appearance-scotland?cid=sm_fb_maddow

Trash! :lol

Trash supporters! :lol

[CosmicCowboy]

Maddog doesn't play golf?

[CosmicCowboy]

Maddog doesn't play golf?

His prepared comments were strictly about the golf course that they were formally opening.

The political questions were tossed at him afterwards. If you consider the opening was practically at the same time as the Brexit results were being announced it is somewhat understandable that he didn't know how specific areas of the UK including Scotland had voted.

[boutons_deux]

His prepared comments were strictly about the golf course that they were formally opening.

The political questions were tossed at him afterwards. If you consider the opening was practically at the same time as the Brexit results were being announced it is somewhat understandable that he didn't know how specific areas of the UK including Scotland had voted.

:lol CosmicParasite defending his boy Trash. :lol

[Th'Pusher]

:lol CosmicParasite defending his boy Trash. :lol

I'm not a Trumps supporter, but...

[CosmicCowboy]

I'm not a Trumps supporter, but...

Don't be a dumb ass. The guy made that speech at 5:30am our time after just stepping off the plane. They had just announced the overall Brexit vote an hour earlier.


do you really think it would be reasonable for him to know exactly how Scotland had voted?

It perfectly reasonable to point out that criticizing that is some really unreasonable Monday Morning Quarterbacking from Maddow, a partisan hack.

I don't think Hillary killed Ambassador Stevens either.

[boutons_deux]

What Donald Trump’s New Communications Director Really Thinks Of Donald Trump, In 11 Deleted Tweets

Donald Trump is having trouble putting together a full-fledged presidential campaign. Trump has a staff of little more than 70 people, compared to more than 700 for Hillary Clinton.

The problem: many experienced Republican operatives do not want to work for him (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f873962acf334563a1ec585cab0766c4/need-help-trump-finds-few-willing-work-him).

Today Trump was able to fill a key role. Jason Miller, a senior communications adviser for Ted Cruz, signed up to be Trump’s communications director (http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-28/trump-hires-communications-director).

Before Miller signed on, however, he had some cleaning up to do. Miller deleted dozens of harshly anti-Trump tweets from his Twitter account, many of them authored just a few weeks ago.

ThinkProgress was able to recover cached versions of Miller’s deleted anti-Trump tweets.

Any member of a rival’s staff is likely to have some negative things to say about their opponents. But Miller’s tweets about Trump frequently drip with contempt and disgust. Here are some highlights:

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/06/27/3793360/11-anti-trump-tweets-trumps-new-communications-director-tried-delete-anyone-noticed/

[boutons_deux]

Investigation Finds Only $10k in Charity Donations by Trump Over Last Seven Years, Despite Bragging About Millions

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/investigation-finds-only-10k-charity-donations-trump-over-last-seven-years-despite

Trash is mentally ill, a disordered personality. Growing up privileged and wealthy fucks up most people, eg, "affluenza". Even decent people who get really wealthy often get fucked up psychologically, sooner or later.

Trash supporters! :lol

[CosmicCowboy]

alternet believers! :lol

[boutons_deux]

alternet believers! :lol

Trash-banned WaPo did the research. CosmicParasite is a Trash supporter, can't handle the facts. :lol

[ducks]

Name one one member of congress not born in a wealthy family

[boutons_deux]

Trump is spamming Scottish MPs with fundraising emails — which isn’t even legal

A Scottish member of parliament couldn’t resist sending a sharp reply in response to fundraising messages sent by GOP candidate Donald Trump and his son, the Scotsman reports (http://www.scotsman.com/news/natalie-mcgarry-publicly-rebuffs-donald-trump-fundraising-plea-1-4164192).

Real estate mogul Trump sent the emails to Scottish MPs last week, prompting Glasgow parliamentarian Natalie McGarry to question whether his campaign bought emailing lists, calling it “bizarre for a grassroots campaign.”

The Scotsman reports the donation requests went largely ignored — until McGarry fired off her response, which came after a follow-up plea from Trump’s son.

“Quite why you think it appropriate to write emails to UK parliamentarians with a begging bowl for your father’s repugnant campaign is completely beyond me,” she responded. “Given his rhetoric on migrants, refugees and immigration, it seems quite extraordinary that he would be asking foreign nationals for money; especially people who view his dangerous divisiveness with horror.”

McGarry then said American elections are for the American people to decide — but she hoped voters would reject him come November.

“The thought of his reactionary type of politics and apparent ignorance of world affairs having access to a seat at the world table is both surreal, and terrifying,” she wrote. “The above is a long way to say No, and do not contact me again.”

Further, it is illegal for Trump to both solicit and take campaign contributions from foreign nations.

“The Federal Election Campaign Act (http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/foreign.shtml) (FECA) prohibits any foreign national from contributing, donating or spending funds in connection with any federal, state, or local election in the United States, either directly or indirectly.

It is also unlawful to help foreign nationals violate that ban or to solicit, receive or accept contributions or donations from them. Persons who knowingly and willfully engage in these activities may be subject to fines and/or imprisonment.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/trump-is-spamming-scottish-mps-with-fundraising-emails-which-isnt-even-legal/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Trash! :lol Trash supporters! :lol

[rmt]

Got my first email from Trump requesting donation yesterday - donated my itsy bitsy $25.

[RandomGuy]

His prepared comments were strictly about the golf course that they were formally opening.

The political questions were tossed at him afterwards. If you consider the opening was practically at the same time as the Brexit results were being announced it is somewhat understandable that he didn't know how specific areas of the UK including Scotland had voted.


Donald Trump expected he was going to be treated like royalty when he waltzed into the Scottish town of Balmedie. Donald Trump wanted to build a golf course on an environmentally sensitive part of the North Sea coast. Donald Trump was instead met with considerable opposition by local farmers.

Not everyone in this sleepy coastal town welcomed Donald Trump. When locals started yelling, “Yankee Go Home!” Donald Trump began using a practice he used to chase his African-Americans tenants out of his buildings in New York. He started a campaign of shadowy intimidation and smear. His New York style of bullying just angered the local farmers even more.

A Scottish filmmaker James Trosh also posted his short film, “Fighting Trump” on Youtube. Trosh’s film shows Trump blatantly lying to local towns people and the people who opposed him.

ADecI4xw-yg

But hey, he's a great businessman... made lots of money... so it's all ok, right?

[RandomGuy]

Trump is spamming Scottish MPs with fundraising emails — which isn’t even legal

A Scottish member of parliament couldn’t resist sending a sharp reply in response to fundraising messages sent by GOP candidate Donald Trump and his son, the Scotsman reports (http://www.scotsman.com/news/natalie-mcgarry-publicly-rebuffs-donald-trump-fundraising-plea-1-4164192).

Real estate mogul Trump sent the emails to Scottish MPs last week, prompting Glasgow parliamentarian Natalie McGarry to question whether his campaign bought emailing lists, calling it “bizarre for a grassroots campaign.”

The Scotsman reports the donation requests went largely ignored — until McGarry fired off her response, which came after a follow-up plea from Trump’s son.

“Quite why you think it appropriate to write emails to UK parliamentarians with a begging bowl for your father’s repugnant campaign is completely beyond me,” she responded. “Given his rhetoric on migrants, refugees and immigration, it seems quite extraordinary that he would be asking foreign nationals for money; especially people who view his dangerous divisiveness with horror.”

McGarry then said American elections are for the American people to decide — but she hoped voters would reject him come November.

“The thought of his reactionary type of politics and apparent ignorance of world affairs having access to a seat at the world table is both surreal, and terrifying,” she wrote. “The above is a long way to say No, and do not contact me again.”

Further, it is illegal for Trump to both solicit and take campaign contributions from foreign nations.

“The Federal Election Campaign Act (http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/foreign.shtml) (FECA) prohibits any foreign national from contributing, donating or spending funds in connection with any federal, state, or local election in the United States, either directly or indirectly.

It is also unlawful to help foreign nationals violate that ban or to solicit, receive or accept contributions or donations from them. Persons who knowingly and willfully engage in these activities may be subject to fines and/or imprisonment.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/trump-is-spamming-scottish-mps-with-fundraising-emails-which-isnt-even-legal/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Trash! :lol Trash supporters! :lol



Saw that.

Not sure if true, (I give it less than 50/50) but wouldn't be entirely surprised.

[boutons_deux]

Benghazi Ambassador Chris Stevens’ Family Just Made Donald Trump Look Like an Even Bigger Fool

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/745304731346702336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

When asked who she blames for the attack that took her brother’s life, this is what she had to say:

I do not blame Hillary Clinton or Leon Panetta. They were balancing security efforts at embassies and missions around the world. And their staffs were doing their best to provide what they could with the resources they had. The Benghazi Mission was understaffed. We know that now. But, again, Chris knew that. It wasn’t a secret to him. He decided to take the risk to go there. It is not something they did to him. It is something he took on himself.

She was then asked what she thought of Hillary Clinton’s conduct on Benghazi:

She has taken full responsibility, being head of the State Department, for what occurred. She took measures to respond to the review board’s recommendations. She established programs for a better security system. But it is never going to be perfect. Part of being a diplomat is being out in the community. We all recognize that there’s a risk in serving in a dangerous environment. Chris thought that was very important, and he probably would have done it again. I don’t see any usefulness in continuing to criticize her. It is very unjust.

Here’s what she had to say about whether or not she felt her brother’s death had been politicized:

Yes! Definitely politicized. Every report I read that mentions him specifically has a political bent, an accusatory bent. One point that seems to be brought up again and again is the accusation that the attack was a response to the video. I could understand why that conclusion would be made, because it was right after the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Egypt. But, frankly, it doesn’t matter that that was the thinking, that night, about why the attack occurred. It’s irrelevant to bring that up again and again. It is done purely for political reasons.


Dr. Stevens also went on to say that it’s “not appropriate” for some (mostly Republicans) to use her brother’s death as an election issue and that he had “a lot of respect” for Hillary Clinton.

She also said that this new report recently released didn’t “look like anything new” and that what Republicans found was what we had already known.

http://www.forwardprogressives.com/benghazi-ambassador-stevens-family-just-made-donald-trump-look-like-a-fool/

[mrsmaalox]

I'm not a Trumps supporter, but...

Actually the quote is "I'm no Trump fanboy but....." I admit I believed it the first 10 times I read it :lol

[Trill Clinton]

Actually the quote is "I'm no Trump fanboy but....." I admit I believed it the first 10 times I read it :lol
:lol

[Splits]

:lol standing in front of a wall of trash

https://d508l827lzpfo.cloudfront.net/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/06/28/donald-trump-garbage-candidate-speaks-in-front-of-a-wall-of-garbage/jcr:content/image.crop.800.500.jpg/48905881.cached.jpg

[CosmicCowboy]

:lol standing in front of a wall of trash

https://d508l827lzpfo.cloudfront.net/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/06/28/donald-trump-garbage-candidate-speaks-in-front-of-a-wall-of-garbage/jcr:content/image.crop.800.500.jpg/48905881.cached.jpg

Do you have something against recycling or the honest workers that work in recycling plants? You certainly are prissy.

[pgardn]

Don't be a dumb ass. The guy made that speech at 5:30am our time after just stepping off the plane. They had just announced the overall Brexit vote an hour earlier.


do you really think it would be reasonable for him to know exactly how Scotland had voted?

It perfectly reasonable to point out that criticizing that is some really unreasonable Monday Morning Quarterbacking from Maddow, a partisan hack.

I don't think Hillary killed Ambassador Stevens either.

Then think ahead and don't make a speech unless you know, how about? He shoots off his mouth before engaging his brain, kinda like slick Willy liar and his beef injector.

[boutons_deux]

Move over, ‘Trump U,’ the new scandal is the ‘Trump Institute’

But as it turns out, there’s a new, related controversy surrounding the “Trump Institute,” which is something else. The New York Times reports (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/us/politics/donald-trump-institute-plagiarism.html) today that the Republican candidate “lent his name, and his credibility” to this seminar business, which offered Trump’s “wealth-creating secrets and strategies” for up to $2,000.

The truth was something else altogether (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/us/politics/donald-trump-institute-plagiarism.html).

As with Trump University, the Trump Institute promised falsely that its teachers would be handpicked by Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump did little, interviews show, besides appear in an infomercial – one that promised customers access to his vast accumulated knowledge. “I put all of my concepts that have worked so well for me, new and old, into our seminar,” he said in the 2005 video, adding, “I’m teaching what I’ve learned.”

Reality fell far short. In fact, the institute was run by a couple who had run afoul of regulators in dozens of states and been dogged by accusations of deceptive business practices and fraud for decades. Similar complaints soon emerged about the Trump Institute.

Yet there was an even more fundamental deceit to the business, unreported until now: Extensive portions of the materials that students received after forking over their seminar fees, supposedly containing Mr. Trump’s special wisdom, had been plagiarized from an obscure real estate manual published a decade earlier.


All things considered, when Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) referred to Trump as a “con man,” the senator may have been on to to something.

Consider the revelations from recent weeks:

* Those who ran “Trump University” have faced credible allegations of stuffing their own pockets (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/even-trumps-defense-trump-university-raises-questions) by preying on the vulnerable, selling unsuspecting students snake oil at indefensible prices and through misleading claims.

* Trump has boasted at great length about the millions of dollars he’s given away through charitable donations – though many of these donations don’t appear to exist (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-may-have-promised-millions-charity-did-he-deliver) and many of the promises he made publicly went unfulfilled.

* A considerable chunk of Trump’s campaign fundraising went to Trump corporate products and services (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-giving-new-meaning-self-funded-campaigning), giving rise to a new word for the political lexicon: “scampaign (https://newrepublic.com/article/134667/conservatives-groomed-perfect-suckers-trumps-epic-scam).”

* And now the “Trump Institute” is facing allegations of being yet another fraudulent operation, complete with bogus claims, shady characters, and “the theft of intellectual property at the venture’s heart.”

The Times’ report added (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/us/politics/donald-trump-institute-plagiarism.html):

The institute was another example of the Trump brand’s being accused of luring vulnerable customers with false promises of profit and success.

Others, besides Trump University, include multilevel marketing ventures that sold vitamins and telecommunications services, and a vanity publisher that faced hundreds of consumer complaints.
Mr. Trump’s infomercial performance suggested he was closely overseeing the Trump Institute. “People are loving it,” he said in the program, titled “The Donald Trump Way to Wealth” and staged like a talk show in front of a wildly enthusiastic audience. “People are really doing well with it, and they’re loving it.” His name, picture and aphorisms like “I am the American Dream, supersized version” were all over the course materials.

Yet while he owned 93 percent of Trump University, the Trump Institute was owned and operated by Irene and Mike Milin, a couple who had been marketing get-rich-quick courses since the 1980s.


http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/move-over-trump-u-the-new-scandal-the-trump-institute?cid=sm_fb_maddow

:lol Holy shit.

Trash!

Trash supporters!

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Trash-banned WaPo did the research. CosmicParasite is a Trash supporter, can't handle the facts. :lol

Then why not post the Washington Post article instead of the biased site?

[boutons_deux]

Then why not post the Washington Post article instead of the biased site?

WaPo, after having been banned by Trash, is hardly unbiased about Trash.

[Splits]

Do you have something against recycling or the honest workers that work in recycling plants? You certainly are prissy.

Ridiculous. I recycle and compost waaayyyyy more than I send to the landfill.

Obviously the hilarity is Boot's nickname being validated via an economic speech backdrop.

[Splits]

Then why not post the Washington Post article instead of the biased site?

I actually prefer people to not post WaPo or NYT articles since you only get 5 per month unless you remember to open them in a private browser window.

[pgardn]

I actually prefer people to not post WaPo or NYT articles since you only get 5 per month unless you remember to open them in a private browser window.

Its 10 for me for some reason.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

WaPo, after having been banned by Trash, is hardly unbiased about Trash.

alternet and nakedcapitalism, the boutox way.

[pgardn]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/30/briton-charged-in-us-after-assassination-attempt-on-donald-trump

The British are coming to get the Donald.
And they are practicing at gun ranges.

[boutons_deux]

Trump flunks Supreme Court arithmetic
On Monday, the Supreme Court handed down arguably the most important abortion-rights ruling in a generation, prompting the Republican presidential hopeful to say … literally nothing.

To the consternation (http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/06/29/evangelical_christians_are_not_happy_about_trump_s _silence_on_the_texas.html) of some of his social-conservative allies, Trump acted as if the court’s decision didn’t exist, offering no response in speeches, interviews, or social media.

It took a few days, but this morning the presumptive GOP nominee broke his unexpected silence in an interview (https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/748544416118349824) with conservative radio host Mike Gallagher.


“Now if we had Scalia was living, or if Scalia was replaced by me, you wouldn’t have had that, OK? It would’ve been the opposite.”


Actually, no, it wouldn’t have. This week’s ruling was actually a 5-3 decision (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/supreme-court-strikes-down-texas-abortion-restrictions). Yes, Antonin Scalia’s passing meant the Supreme Court was down one justice, but it doesn’t take a mathematician to know 3 +1 does not equal 5.

Remember, the decision was on Monday, and today’s Thursday. Trump and his team had three days to come up with the candidate’s response to a major court ruling, and this is what they came up wit

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-flunks-supreme-court-arithmetic?cid=sm_fb_maddow

:lol

[boutons_deux]

Polling roundup: Trump is doing so badly, even Georgia is a battleground state (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/30/1544058/-Polling-roundup-Trump-is-doing-so-badly-even-Georgia-is-a-battleground-state)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/06/30/1544058/-Polling-roundup-Trump-is-doing-so-badly-even-Georgia-is-a-battleground-state?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

[boutons_deux]

The World Doesn’t Think Donald Trump Would Make a Great President, Poll Finds

https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/donald-trump-pew.jpg?quality=75&strip=color&w=1100

People across Europe and Asia strongly believe presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump (http://time.com/4384038/donald-trump-immigration-position-shifting-policies/) would do a poor job of world affairs as U.S. President,

85% of the Europeans surveyed doubted Trump’s ability to do the right thing regarding world affairs. Among them, 92% of Swedes and 89% of Germans said they had no confidence in Trump’s ability to handle the international aspect of the presidency. Some 87% of Australians and 82% of Japanese agreed.

The mogul enjoys slightly higher levels of support in China, where only 40% said they had no confidence in his leadership. He also rated comparatively better among European’s Euroskeptic or anti-immigrant parties. In the U.K., 30% of rightwing U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) voters said they had a positive view of Trump. In Germany, people who hold a favorable view of right-wing and anti-refugee party Alternative for Germany (AfD) were more likely to hold confidence in Trump.

The poll showed that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (http://time.com/4384981/hillary-clinton-millennials-tech/)inspired confidence from the majority of countries surveyed. Across the 10 E.U. nations polled, 59% have faith that she will do the right thing in world affairs. Greece was the notable exception, where 78% say they have no confidence in her ability to deal with world affairs.

http://time.com/4385496/pew-donald-trump-barack-obama-hillary-clinton-world/

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump Wants Consequences for GOP Rivals Not Endorsing Him

told a crowd on Wednesday that he isn't happy that some of his former rivals aren't endorsing him — and the way he sees it, there should be consequences.

Trump called those 2016 candidates who have yet to endorse him in accordance with the RNC pledge "sore losers" who "should never be allowed to run for public office again." Among those names yet to officially and explicitly endorse Trump are Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Names that could, come next election cycle, be back in play once again.

For his part, Trump says he "would have honored the pledge" if the roles were reversed. "I wouldn't have gone crazy, I wouldn't have had 'Let's yell it from the loudest building,' but you know what, I would have honored the pledge."

Sources from both Kasich and Cruz camps told NBC last month that they aren't expecting to speak at the July convention in Kasich's home state of Ohio.

But Trump's fights with fellow conservatives didn't end there.

Taking on the traditionally GOP-friendly Chamber of Commerce, Trump repeatedly attacked the group, calling them "totally controlled by the special interest groups" and "various groups of people that don't care about you whatsoever."

The chamber tweeted against (https://twitter.com/USChamber/status/747863742839390208) Trump's anti-NAFTA message in the aftermath of his first major trade policy speech, saying that "NAFTA has NOT been a disaster for the United States."

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-wants-consequences-gop-rivals-not-endorsing-him-n601406?cid=sm_fb_lastword

:lol

Trash! :lol

Trash supporters! :lol

Repug "party" ! :lol

[CosmicCowboy]

Boo likes NAFTA?

[clambake]

damn boo, you think any of this matters this time around?

[boutons_deux]

damn boo, you think any of this matters this time around?

USA, the world has decided: they know Trash when they see it.

It's great entertainment, the Trash supporters supporting a personality-disordered asshole.

[clambake]

USA, the world has decided: they know Trash when they see it.

It's great entertainment, the Trash supporters supporting a personality-disordered asshole.

now...when you say trash....could you be more specific as to which one you are referring to?

[hater]

Trump is getting boring tbqh. He needs to drop a bitch or niga soon or lots of his voters will just move on to monster trucks and meth tbqh :lol

[boutons_deux]

Trash's team vetting Wall St Fatboy for veep! :lol

New poll shows Christie approval in New Jersey at lowest point

http://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2016/03/new-poll-shows-christie-approval-in-new-jersey-at-lowest-point-031842

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12274644_10205808040703311_641725987996340730_n.jp g?oh=0bf863f5c2cf5a9b6db5ce5d477f95de&oe=57FF5080

[Winehole23]

listserv solicitation of foreign politicians:

http://lawnewz.com/politics/this-might-be-the-trump-campaigns-dumbest-legal-move-yet/

[pgardn]

listserv solicitation of foreign politicians:

http://lawnewz.com/politics/this-might-be-the-trump-campaigns-dumbest-legal-move-yet/


The art of making a deal applied to the campaign by some of his brilliant staffers.

No matter that they got a list of people most unlikely to give and that the letters read like an incompetent public radio station pitching for funds.

rmt if you read this, you need to be doing more than working phones and stuffing envelopes for this particular campaign.

[rmt]

The art of making a deal applied to the campaign by some of his brilliant staffers.

No matter that they got a list of people most unlikely to give and that the letters read like an incompetent public radio station pitching for funds.

rmt if you read this, you need to be doing more than working phones and stuffing envelopes for this particular campaign.

LOL - I never got a matching email - when I found out about it, I went back searching to see if I'd missed it. I only got a solicitation email a few days later for the first time - surprised it took them so long to ask. I hope he doesn't get in trouble. He really isn't a politician at all.

[Th'Pusher]

LOL - I never got a matching email - when I found out about it, I went back searching to see if I'd missed it. I only got a solicitation email a few days later for the first time - surprised it took them so long to ask. I hope he doesn't get in trouble. He really isn't a politician at all.

This excuse only works for so long. He is the presumptive nominee. At this point in the game his inability to surround himself with a competent staff is alarming.

[rmt]

This excuse only works for so long. He is the presumptive nominee. At this point in the game his inability to surround himself with a competent staff is alarming.

Both campaigns are making unforced errors - unfortunately for Hillary, her own husband made a pretty big one. Still this is not the worst thing Trump has done (unless criminal charges are brought) to his campaign - the judge with Mexican heritage was :-( Don't think he can recover from that one.

Edit: bolded added for clarity

[Shastafarian]

Both campaigns are making unforced errors - unfortunately for Hillary, her own husband made a pretty big one. Still this is not the worst thing Trump has done (unless criminal charges are brought) - the judge with Mexican heritage was :-( Don't think he can recover from that one.

You think questioning the objectivity of a person is worse than suggesting the United States incorporate a religious exam to enter the country? Can you please go back wherever it is you came from?

[pgardn]

This excuse only works for so long. He is the presumptive nominee. At this point in the game his inability to surround himself with a competent staff is alarming.

This is important.

The first level of entering politics in San Antonio is often the school board. If you make stupid decisions here you can hurt a lot of kids. And you can hire your uncle to supply the food for the entire district and get kickbacks (see SAISD)
Incompetent Trump worries me more than Trump the narcissist. Government is NOT a business and should NOT be run like by a sleazy real estate mogul. This is probably one of the worst background jobs I can think of for a presidential candidate.

[Reck]

You think questioning the objectivity of a person is worse than suggesting the United States incorporate a religious exam to enter the country? Can you please go back wherever it is you came from?

:lol

rmt really is terrible at this.

In the same breath rmt is condemning one person while basically letting the other off the hook because "it isn't the worst" he has done.

[Shastafarian]

:lol

rmt really is terrible at this.

In the same breath rmt is condemning one person while basically letting the other off the hook because "it isn't the worst" he has done.

She used the same "logic" to try and support the notion Rick Scott has been a good governor.

[rmt]

:lol

rmt really is terrible at this.

In the same breath rmt is condemning one person while basically letting the other off the hook because "it isn't the worst" he has done.

As long as there are no criminal repercussions, the donation email is just a little blip compared to all the others Trump has made. The incident with Bill and the AG in effect forced the AG out of the decision-making process regarding the investigation - it now all rests solely on Comey's decision - taking away a possible out/lessened outcome by AG for Hillary.

[boutons_deux]

Trash supporter very concerned about 'these hibby-jobbies they wear at TSA' (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/1/1544266/-Trump-supporter-very-concerned-about-these-hibby-jobbies-they-wear-at-TSA)

"Why aren't we putting our retiree, our military retirees on that border or in TSA, get rid of all these 'hibby-jobbies' they wear at TSA -- I've seen them myself?" Cathy Chevalier of Hudson, New Hampshire asked Trump, referring to the head coverings worn by some Muslim women.

Trump did not provide a definitive answer, responding, "Okay, you know, and we are looking at that, and we are looking at that, we're looking at a lot of things." It was unclear if Trump's answer was referring to hiring more military retirees or getting rid of TSA Muslim employees who wear the hijab.

More than 25 percent of TSA’s total workforce has prior military experience and as the military’s drawdown continues, the armed forces are expected to separate a million service members over the next several years. TSA is committed to reaching that talented pool by supporting the employment of veterans.


For another thing, there are nearly 6,000 self-identified Muslims in the U.S. military (http://abcnews.go.com/US/5000-muslims-serving-us-military-pentagon/story?id=35654904).

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/07/01/1544266/-Trump-supporter-very-concerned-about-these-hibby-jobbies-they-wear-at-TSA?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/07/01/1544266/-Trump-supporter-very-concerned-about-these-hibby-jobbies-they-wear-at-TSA?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

[rmt]

You think questioning the objectivity of a person is worse than suggesting the United States incorporate a religious exam to enter the country? Can you please go back wherever it is you came from?

The judge comment was more HARMFUL to his campaign (sorry I was not clear in my previous statement/have corrected) than the muslim ban. Seems like 53% of America is in favor of the Muslim ban and 59% that "using profiling techniques to increase government surveillance on certain types of individuals" would make the country safer.

http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/07/02/poll-more-half-americans-support-profiling-temporary-muslim-ban

I guess you would rather that I, who has been legally in the country for almost 30 years (most of them as a citizen), leave than bringing in thousands of Syrian refugees, some of whom might be/become terrorists? Think about what you are suggesting in light of the tolerance and diversity that liberals say they espouse. I guess that tolerance only holds if I agree with your political views. Maybe the 53% of the country who agree on a temporary ban should leave too?

[boutons_deux]

The judge comment was more HARMFUL to his campaign (sorry I was not clear in my previous statement/have corrected) than the muslim ban. Seems like 53% of America is in favor of the Muslim ban and 59% that "using profiling techniques to increase government surveillance on certain types of individuals" would make the country safer.

http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/07/02/poll-more-half-americans-support-profiling-temporary-muslim-ban

I guess you would rather that I, who has been legally in the country for almost 30 years (most of them as a citizen), leave than bringing in thousands of Syrian refugees, some of whom might be/become terrorists? Think about what you are suggesting in light of the tolerance and diversity that liberals say they espouse. I guess that tolerance only holds if I agree with your political views. Maybe the 53% of the country who agree on a temporary ban should leave too?

:lol Holy Shit

[DMX7]

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12274644_10205808040703311_641725987996340730_n.jp g?oh=0bf863f5c2cf5a9b6db5ce5d477f95de&oe=57FF5080

where is that?

[boutons_deux]

How Trump Threatened an Investigative Reporter, Attempting to Bribe Him With a Free Apartment

Wayne Barrett, Donald Trump's biographer, recalls an unusual offer from the billionaire mogul.

"So he said to me, 'Wayne, you don't have to live in Brownsville. I have plenty of apartments,'" Barrett recalls.

"And so, then, at another time, he started talking to me about how he had broken this other journalist by suing him and driving him into bankruptcy."

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/how-donald-trump-threatened-investigative-reporter-attempting-bribe-him-free-apartment

[CosmicCowboy]

*

[boutons_deux]

The Egregious Human Rights Record Of The Dictator Trump Praised Last Night

At a campaign in rally in North Carolina on Tuesday, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump revived his oft-repeated praise (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/06/trump-saddam-and-why-people-mistrust-the-media/) for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. In a line he has used many times since he launched his bid for president last summer, Trump said Hussein should have been left in power because he “killed terrorists” without due process.

“He did that so good,” he said. “They didn’t read them the rights.”

He went on to claim, incorrectly (http://www.factcheck.org/2016/02/donald-trump-and-the-iraq-war/), that he always opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Hussein’s regime was a financial and political state supporter of terrorism (https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/infocus/iraq/decade/sect5.html).

His government sponsored suicide bombers,

invaded Kuwait,

backed assassination attempts on foreign leaders,

killed more than 500 journalists (http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/infocus/iraq/decade/sect4.html), and

offered shelter to several known terrorist groups responsible for the killings of thousands of people.

Hussein also ordered the bombing of the Iraqi Kurdish community with chemical weapons (http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/03/remembering-halabja-chemical-attack-160316061221074.html) — in violation of international law — and

authorized the use (http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-prove-america-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran/) of chemical weapons after the 1980 invasion of Iran.

The use of these illegal gasses caused these communities to suffer from infertility, birth defects, cancer, and other ailments for many years after the attacks.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/06/3795711/trump-saddam-hussein/

Trash! :lol

Trash supporters! :lol

[CosmicCowboy]

Boo, you can't have it both ways. You constantly say we shouldn't have invaded Iraq and overthrown Hussein. You obviously approved of him as well.

[boutons_deux]

Boo, you can't have it both ways. You constantly say we shouldn't have invaded Iraq and overthrown Hussein. You obviously approved of him as well.

:lol What's obvious is how fucked up your are by my bitch slappings.

[CosmicCowboy]

:lol What's obvious is how fucked up your are by my bitch slappings.

Just an observer of your hypocrisy and shitting out of RSS feeds.

[boutons_deux]

Just an observer of your hypocrisy and shitting out of RSS feeds.

Nope, you can't stand the voluminous evidence I post that shreds your beloved Repug politicians and you Repug voters.

[CosmicCowboy]

Nope, you can't stand the voluminous evidence I post that shreds your beloved Repug politicians and you Repug voters.

:lmao

You are the most pitiful poster ever in this fucked up forum which is a really low threshold.

You should get out of your momma's trailer more.

[boutons_deux]

:lmao

You are the most pitiful poster ever in this fucked up forum which is a really low threshold.

You should get out of your momma's trailer more.

... I rest my case.

[Reck]

Bob Corker takes himself out of the VP vetting process. :lol

No one wants to run with him. lmao

[DMX7]

Bob Corker takes himself out of the VP vetting process. :lol

No one wants to run with him. lmao

He wasn't going to get picked and he didn't want to have to answer questions about Trump.

[boutons_deux]

Wall St Fatboy and Neut Gingrich, serial adulterer, are apparently the short list.

Wall St Fatboy just cut $100M from public employees' health plans.

[DMX7]

I think he is going to pick Mike Pence.

[CosmicCowboy]

I think he is going to pick Mike Pence.

That would be a good choice.

[Fabbs]

Wall St Fatboy and Neut Gingrich, serial adulterer, are apparently the short list.

Wall St Fatboy just cut $100M from public employees' health plans.
Does Fat B still have monies and favors owed to him for getting The Donald out of the Mobs Atlantic City casino mess?

Only logical explanation I can come up with.

[rmt]

Don't think Gringrich wants to be VP as this age - said on an interview that he likes writing books, columns, etc. The impression I got was that VP was a lot of work - time he'd like to spend with his wife.

What a comeback for Federer from 2 sets down - the drive for #18 is still alive. NUGT is one crazy stock - hit 169 today (up from 17 in Jan).

[boutons_deux]

http://images.dailykos.com/images/271232/story_image/1295ckCOMIC-trump-con-man.png?1467860224

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump's History of Praising Dictators

Saddam

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump made headlines Tuesday night when he praised Saddam Hussein (http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-praises-saddam-hussein-s-approach-terrorism-again-n604411) for his counterterrorism strategy while maintaining that the former Iraqi dictator was a "really bad guy."

"We shouldn't have destabilized Saddam Hussein, right?" Trump asked his supporters on Tuesday. "He was a bad guy, really bad guy, but you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good."

Vladimir Putin

After Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Trump (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/donald-trump-praised-talented-russias-vladimir-putin-n481696) as "talented" and the "absolute leader" in the GOP race for the White House back in December, Trump said that "sure" he liked Putin's remarks about him.

"When people call you 'brilliant' it's always good, especially when the person heads up Russia," Trump told the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

When reminded that Putin is a U.S. adversary who kills journalists, silences political foes and invades countries, Trump still did not criticize him (http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/trump--putin-is-a-leader--unlike-our-president-588186691983).

"He's running his country and at least he's a leader, you know, unlike what we have in this country," Trump said. "I think our country does plenty of killing, also."

Kim Jong Un

The Republican presumptive nominee seemed to laud North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-north-korean-leader-kim-jong-gotta-give/story?id=36198345) at an Iowa rally in January for his ability to oust political enemies.

"If you look at North Korea, this guy, I mean he's like a maniac, okay?" Trump said. "And you've got to give him credit. "How many young guys — he was like 26 or 25 when his father died — take over these tough generals, and all of a sudden ... he goes in, he takes over, and he's the boss," Trump said. "It's incredible. He wiped out the uncle, he wiped out this one, that one. I mean this guy doesn't play games.

And we can't play games with him."

Benito Mussolini

Trump defended his decision to re-tweet a Mussolini quote (http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/trump-mussolini-is-mussolini-what-difference-does-it-make-633021507605) on NBC's "Meet The Press" in February, saying that "I want to be associated with interesting quotes" and that the origin of the quote did not make a difference.

"It's okay to know it's Mussolini," Trump said. "Mussolini was Mussolini... It's a very good quote. It's a very interesting quote... what difference does it make whether it's Mussolini or somebody else?"

Moammar Gadhafi

When asked last October if he believed the Middle East would be better today if Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein were still in power, the outspoken Republican said, "100 percent" (http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/25/politics/donald-trump-moammar-gadhafi-saddam-hussein/) and that "it's not even a contest." (http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/trump-middle-east-would-be-more-stable-hussein-and-qaddafi) Trump reversed his stance (http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/what-donald-trump-s-position-libya-n586141) in June to say that he would have supported Gadhafi's ousting with "surgical" U.S. airstrikes.

"I was for something, but I wasn't for what we have right now," Trump said on CBS's "Face The Nation."

The business mogul has also boasted that he "made a lot of money" from Gadhafi, whose regime was a known sponsor of terrorism.

1980s Chinese Communist Party

Trump made waves in March during a GOP presidential debate when he called the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, in which hundreds of protesters were killed as the People's Liberation Army enforced martial law, a "riot."

While he insisted (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432043/donald-trump-praised-tiananmen-square-massacre) that he did not endorse the killings of the pro-democracy demonstrators, he called the Chinese government "strong." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/03/11/trump-just-called-tiananmen-square-a-riot-the-communist-party-will-be-pleased/)

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-s-history-praising-dictators-n604801?cid=sm_fb_lastword

[boutons_deux]

Sheriff Joe Arpaio attending Republican National Convention in Cleveland

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio confirmed that he will attend the Republican National Convention in Cleveland later this month.

"I will be there to watch Donald Trump's back," Arpaio told ABC15 on Wednesday.

http://www.abc15.com/news/state/sheriff-joe-arpaio-attending-republican-national-convention-in-cleveland

the Orange Turd attracts flies and maggots! :lol

[boutons_deux]

Trump creates more controversy with congressional GOP meetings


Donald Trump’s attempts to win over skeptical Congressional Republicans grew tense Thursday when Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake confronted the presumptive GOP presidential nominee over his incendiary comments about Sen. John McCain, according to a source familiar with the closed-door meeting.

Flake stood up for his fellow Arizona lawmaker by introducing himself to Trump as “the other senator from Arizona, the one who didn’t get captured,” :lol referring to Trump’s criticism of McCain’s time as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.

“Listen, I’m not part of this never Trump movement,” Flake said, according to the source, “But I’m in a very uncomfortable position where I can’t support you yet.”


According to the Washington Post’s account (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/07/07/trump-meets-with-hill-republicans-as-controversy-over-star-of-david-tweet-continues/), Trump was the one who picked the fight, complaining about Flake’s criticisms. After their heated back and forth,

Trump reportedly threatened to go after Flake publicly and ensure his defeat in 2016 – which led the Arizona senator to remind Trump that he’s not actually going to be on the ballot in 2016. :lol

While the gathering was not recorded, and we can’t say with certainty exactly who said what, Flake later told NBC News’ Hallie Jackson on camera that the story of the meeting “was reportedly accurately.” He added that his confrontation with Trump “was pretty intense.”

Remember, this was supposed to be a nice, friendly chat among Republicans, helping the party feel more comfortable with its presidential candidate. But even an informal get-together between GOP senators and Trump can be the basis for a new controversy.

After the meeting, several GOP senators were seen (http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/trimp-meeting-senate-republicans) “emerging from an alley next to the gas station,” :lol suggesting they weren’t exactly proud of their attendance at the Republican gathering.

Wait, it gets worse.

Trump’s meeting with Senate Republicans may have gotten a little ugly, but maybe he had better luck impressing House Republicans? The Washington Post’s report (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/07/07/trump-meets-with-hill-republicans-as-controversy-over-star-of-david-tweet-continues/) added this gem:

Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) left the meeting worried about Trump’s grasp on the basics of the Constitution. At a lunch with reporters afterward, he recalled that the candidate did not seem to know what he was promising to defend.

“I wasn’t particularly impressed,” Sanford said. “It was the normal stream of consciousness that’s long on hyperbole and short on facts. At one point, somebody asked about Article I powers: What will you do to protect them? I think his response was, ‘I want to protect Article I, Article II, Article XII,’ going down the list.”



There are seven articles to the U.S. Constitution. There is no 12th.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-creates-more-controversy-congressional-gop-meetings?cid=sm_fb_maddow

:lol I bet Repugs take the Trash out to the dump at convention.

[ducks]

Jeff flake is terribe
I live in az and it is a good thing for him he is not up for relection this year
I do not thing he would get relected.
both of the republican sentators needs to go

[ducks]

I wonder how many people in congress actually know the whole Constitution.
I doubt even 1/4 of them do that includes all not just one party

[Shastafarian]

I guess you would rather that I, who has been legally in the country for almost 30 years (most of them as a citizen), leave than bringing in thousands of Syrian refugees,
Oh my god yes. How can we expedite?

[boutons_deux]

Trump Cut Off By Bulk Email Vendor for Epic Spamming

Who could have imagined this? As we noted a week ago, the Trump camp's massive fundraising blitz ending up hitting legislators in numerous foreign countries as well as spamming a seemingly limitless number of victims around the world.

According to ReturnPath (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/email%20in%20question%20has%20raised%20serious%20s ecurity%20and%20legal%20concerns%20among%20Adestra %20and%20other%20industry%20leaders), 79% of Trump fundraising emails were caught in spam filters, an extremely high rate by industry standards, seemingly because Trump was using purchased or rented lists rather than ones the campaign had grown organically through campaign-related supporter sign ups.

In any case, this led to problems.

At least one of the bulk email platforms Trump's campaign was using to send between 50 and 60 million emails moved rapidly to suspend his access because the "email in question has raised serious security and legal concerns among Adestra and other industry leaders."
From Campaign and Elections (https://www.campaignsandelections.com/campaign-insider/growing-pains-for-trump-s-email-effort) ...


Adestra, a U.K.-based email service platform, confirmed to C&E that within the last 48 hours it suspended service to Paramount Communication Group, the Beltway-based company working directly with Trump’s digital team who was reselling the platform's services.“Adestra, a leading global provider of innovative marketing technology software and services, has suspended services to one of its agency clients, which recently sent an email on behalf of the Trump Campaign,” Henry Hyder-Smith, co-founder and CEO of Adestra, said in a statement. “The email in question has raised serious security and legal concerns among Adestra and other industry leaders.”

Hyder-Smith added: “If we believe that a client is misusing the platform or not adhering to the high standards to which Adestra is committed, we may exercise our contractual option to suspend their service from sending email while still allowing them access to our products and their data.”


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/oh-nos-trump-cut-off-by-bulk-email-sender-for-epic-spamming?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29



Trash "hires the best people" :lol

Trash! :lol

Trash supporters! :lol

[ducks]

http://www.allenbwest.com/michellejesse/heres-the-trump-tweet-about-dallas-the-media-dont-want-you-to-see




heres-the-trump-tweet-about-dallas-the-media-dont-want-you-to-see

[ducks]

https://www.facebook.com/ChristianConservativeAndNotAfraid/photos/a.254362961349268.60315.254361774682720/979978142121076/?type=3&theater

[Spurminator]

http://www.allenbwest.com/michellejesse/heres-the-trump-tweet-about-dallas-the-media-dont-want-you-to-see

heres-the-trump-tweet-about-dallas-the-media-dont-want-you-to-see


Here are a few media stories referencing Trump's tweet that Allen West doesn't want you to see. (Source: Google)

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-politicians-reaction-dallas-shooting/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/us/politics/clinton-trump-shooting-reaction.html?_r=0
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trailguide-updates-donald-trump-decries-mounting-racial-1467985394-htmlstory.html
https://mic.com/articles/148152/donald-trump-responds-to-dallas-police-shooting-with-prayers-and-condolences#.4vx7uhjrv
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/latest-clinton-biden-team-pennsylvania-outing-40427720
http://fortune.com/2016/07/08/dallas-shooting-reactions/
https://www.romper.com/p/donald-trumps-reaction-to-dallas-police-shooting-is-surprising-13918
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-donald-trump-miami-speech-20160708-story.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/in-response-to-dallas-attack-trump-shows-rare-restraint/
http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clinton-postpones-rally-with-vice-president-joe-biden-1467982837
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/08/donald-trump-racial-divisions-have-gotten-worse-not-better/
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/07/08/dallas-police-shootings-bring-presidential-campaign-temporary-halt/v4lEI2A7oDEQ7UoRfUuohO/story.html
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-dallas-shooting-225279

[Spurminator]

If you read a website that uses headlines like "Here is (*THING*) That The Media Doesn't Want you To See" and you can find countless examples of (*THING*) in the media with a simple Google search, you should stop reading that website because they have no respect for you.

[Reck]

Then again Trump wanted to take advantage of this tragedy for political gain.

Thanfully, New York Police chief shot the clown down.


"Our interest is staying out of the politics of the moment, not to provide photo ops," Bratton said in response to a question from a reporter. "If Mr. Trump wants to speak to me, I would be happy to brief him on what we’re doing.

:lol

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/08/nypd-turns-down-request-for-donald-trump-to-address-officers/

[boutons_deux]

Wharton Students to Trump: You Do Not Represent Us

some members of the Wharton community are fed up with their famous alumnus.

A recent open letter (https://medium.com/@whartonopenletter/you-do-not-represent-us-an-open-letter-to-donald-trump-94cf73ce11d8#.s1my9dk2g), penned by current and former Wharton students and directed at their own brethren as well as the public at large, has a stern and unequivocal message for the real estate mogul: "You do not represent us."

"At the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, students are taught to represent the highest levels of respect and integrity.

We are taught to embrace humility and diversity. We can understand why, in seeking America's highest office, you have used your degree from Wharton to promote and lend legitimacy to your candidacy," the open letter reads.

"As a candidate for president, and now as the presumptive GOP nominee, you have been afforded a transformative opportunity to be a leader on national and international stages and to make the Wharton community even prouder of our school and values.

However, we have been deeply disappointed in your candidacy."

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wharton-students-trump-you-do-not-represent-us-n605871?cid=sm_fb_lastword

The handful of Wharton grads aren't the 10Ms of dumbfucks that Trash is conning.

[boutons_deux]

Every damn Repug is a LYING PIECE OF SHIT

Fallin: Trump ‘trying to campaign as a racial healer’



http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/government/fallin-trump-trying-to-campaign-as-a-racial-healer/article_c129d00f-26ff-5797-824b-b40222e83293.html

[RandomGuy]

He wasn't going to get picked and he didn't want to have to answer questions about Trump.

Who in their right mind would want to have to be the Great Explainer.

"What he really meant was..."

[RandomGuy]

http://www.allenbwest.com/michellejesse/heres-the-trump-tweet-about-dallas-the-media-dont-want-you-to-see




heres-the-trump-tweet-about-dallas-the-media-dont-want-you-to-see


"the media"

LOL

booga booga booga

[RandomGuy]

http://www.allenbwest.com/michellejesse/heres-the-trump-tweet-about-dallas-the-media-dont-want-you-to-see




heres-the-trump-tweet-about-dallas-the-media-dont-want-you-to-see




Last night’s horrific execution-style shootings of 12 Dallas law enforcement officers – five of whom were killed and seven wounded- is an attack on our country. It is a coordinated, premeditated assault on the men and women who keep us safe.

We must restore law and order. We must restore the confidence of our people to be safe and secure in their homes and on the street.

The senseless, tragic deaths of two people in Louisiana and Minnesota reminds us how much more needs to be done.

This morning I offer my thoughts and prayers for all of the victims’ families, and we pray for our brave police officers and first responders who risk their lives to protect us every single day.

Our nation has become too divided. Too many Americans feel like they’ve lost hope. Crime is harming too many citizens. Racial tensions have gotten worse, not better. This isn’t the American Dream we all want for our children.

This is a time, perhaps more than ever, for strong leadership, love and compassion. We will pull through these tragedies.

I guess, he does sound vaguely presidential, and pedestrian. Boring and doesn't sell well, I can see why "the media" treated it like a bowl of leftover oatmeal.

Funny that Trump says "two people", and glosses over the issue.


FWIW:

I mourn for the officers shot while doing their sacred duty to protect peaceful protesters, for their families & all who serve with them. -H

Also pretty much expected, and boring.

So what does "the media" pick up on? Outrage, because that is what sells.



Mrs. Clinton has not put as much emphasis on the issue of criminal justice in the general election campaign. That approach is expected to change after the deaths of Mr. Castile and Mr. Sterling and the killings in Dallas.

If Mr. Trump intended to project a measured reaction to the shootings, his campaign’s state chairman in Virginia, Corey Stewart, went sharply in a different direction.

Mr. Stewart, who is also reported to be planning a run for governor in Virginia in 2017, posted on Facebook as news of the shooting was developing, explicitly blaming Mrs. Clinton for the deaths.

“Liberal politicians who label police as racists — specifically Hillary Clinton and Virginia Lt. Governor Ralph Northam — are to blame for essentially encouraging the murder of these police officers tonight,” Mr. Stewart wrote in a post that he later deleted.

Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, said, “Corey does not speak for the campaign, and this is not something we agree with.”

[boutons_deux]

Trump Is Falling Into Hillary Clinton’s Trap By Picking Loser Mike Pence For VP


It is being reported that there is a 95% chance that Trump will name anti-gay extremist Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate on Tuesday. If Trump picks Pence, Hillary Clinton couldn't have made a better choice herself.

Gov. Pence is only known nationally for his “religious freedom” law which was nothing more than a bill to discriminate against gay people in Indiana. (http://www.politicususa.com/2015/04/30/indiana-gop-governor-mike-pences-anti-gay-extremism-threatens-bring-2016.html)Pence isn’t known nationally, and what is known about him is likely to push more voters towards Hillary Clinton.

The reality is that the kind of Republican who could have helped Trump wouldn’t be caught dead on his ticket, so the GOP nominee was forced to pick a running mate that could have been cast by Hillary Clinton herself.

Pence is a red state governor with an extremist political history who does nothing to help Trump nationally, or with any key voting constituencies.Trump wanted a star for his VP. Instead, he got Mike Pence.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/10/trump-falling-hillary-clintons-trap-picking-loser-mike-pence-vp.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

[boutons_deux]

Republican Despair Grows As Instead Of Campaigning Trump Is Hate Tweeting CNN

Donald Trump is supposedly running for president, but instead of campaigning after a horrible week of shootings, Trump is sitting on his butt at home sending hate tweets to CNN.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/10/republican-despair-grows-campaigning-trump-hate-tweeting-cnn.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

[boutons_deux]

INDIANA GOVERNOR STUNNED BY HOW MANY PEOPLE SEEM TO HAVE GAY FRIENDS

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Governor Mike Pence is “stunned and amazed” that so many people appear to have gay friends, Pence has confirmed.

Speaking to reporters in his office in Indianapolis, Pence said that he made the astonishing discovery about gay friends late last week.

“A lot of everyday people have gay friends, and they’re not afraid to call and/or e-mail you to tell you that,” Pence said. “To be honest, I’m still trying to process it all.”

Pence said that from what he has been able to gather thus far, the phenomenon of “ordinary folks” having gay friends “has been going on for years.”

“You could be walking down the street, and without you knowing it, this person is friends with gays and that person is, too,” he said. “It really seems to be pretty widespread.”

“It’s the darnedest thing,” he added.

While Pence acknowledged that he has “no gay friends personally,” the growing popularity of being friends with gays has made him question whether he has been “missing the boat on this.”

“When I see so many people having gay friends, it makes me wonder if I should go out and get one,” he said. “But I guess that would be kind of hard for me to do now.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/indiana-governor-stunned-by-how-many-people-seem-to-have-gay-friends (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/indiana-governor-stunned-by-how-many-people-seem-to-have-gay-friends)


Indiana is just as nasty of a hate state as any slave state

[boutons_deux]

Eric Trump swore dad gave ‘hundreds of thousands’ to his charity — now he’s not so sure


http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/a11-800x430.jpg

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump still refuses to release his tax return, so there is no way of knowing just how much the Trumps’ donate to charity.

But Trump’s son Eric isn’t as sure as he once was about how much they give away.Trump has stated from the campaign podium that he gives “millions” to charity each year.

He’s sworn to donate earnings from “The Apprentice,” Trump Vodka, Trump University, as well as several books.

According to David Fahrenthold’s dogged investigation (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-promised-millions-to-charity-we-found-less-than-10000-over-7-years/2016/06/28/cbab5d1a-37dd-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html) for the Washington Post, Trump should have given over $8.5 million.

Yet, when Fahrenthold called over 200 major national charities, he found only $10,000 in charitable donations from Trump.

In fact, the investigation shows that Trump himself hasn’t given since 2008 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/06/five-questions-we-still-cant-answer-about-donald-trumps-charity-donations/).

Eric said that his father gives “millions and millions and millions” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/06/eric-trump-my-father-gives-millions-and-millions-and-millions-to-charity/) to charity. In fact, the younger Trump said that his father gave “hundreds of thousands” to his own charity. He couldn’t give exact figures but swore he would get back to WaPo.

“I’m sure there have been but without going back through 10 years, I wouldn’t remember check for check off the top of my head,” Eric Trump wrote in an email.

He was unable to name a single instance when Trump gave to the charity.

“I have a lot going on — I just don’t have the time. Good luck with the story,”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/eric-trump-swore-dad-gave-hundreds-of-thousands-to-his-charity-now-hes-not-so-sure/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

:lol Trash is as Trash does.

[CosmicCowboy]

INDIANA GOVERNOR STUNNED BY HOW MANY PEOPLE SEEM TO HAVE GAY FRIENDS

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Governor Mike Pence is “stunned and amazed” that so many people appear to have gay friends, Pence has confirmed.

Speaking to reporters in his office in Indianapolis, Pence said that he made the astonishing discovery about gay friends late last week.

“A lot of everyday people have gay friends, and they’re not afraid to call and/or e-mail you to tell you that,” Pence said. “To be honest, I’m still trying to process it all.”

Pence said that from what he has been able to gather thus far, the phenomenon of “ordinary folks” having gay friends “has been going on for years.”

“You could be walking down the street, and without you knowing it, this person is friends with gays and that person is, too,” he said. “It really seems to be pretty widespread.”

“It’s the darnedest thing,” he added.

While Pence acknowledged that he has “no gay friends personally,” the growing popularity of being friends with gays has made him question whether he has been “missing the boat on this.”

“When I see so many people having gay friends, it makes me wonder if I should go out and get one,” he said. “But I guess that would be kind of hard for me to do now.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/indiana-governor-stunned-by-how-many-people-seem-to-have-gay-friends (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/indiana-governor-stunned-by-how-many-people-seem-to-have-gay-friends)


Indiana is just as nasty of a hate state as any slave state



Bookaki does it again. Posts false unfunny "humor" shit and hides the link in tiny white script.

[boutons_deux]

Asked about race, Donald Trump gives the wrong answer



O’REILLY: There [are] still some black Americans who believe that the system is biased against them. The American system because they’re black, they don’t get the same kind of shot, they don’t get the same kind of fairness that whites do. What do you say to them?

TRUMP: Well, I have been saying even against me the system is rigged when I ran as a, you know, for president, I mean, I could see what was going on with the system and the system is rigged.


When the host told the candidate this sentiment probably won’t lift anyone’s spirits, Trump responded, “No, what I’m saying is they are not necessarily wrong. I mean, there are certain people where unfortunately that comes into play. I’m not saying that. And I can relate it really very much to myself.”

Asked if he believes he can understand the African-American experience, Trump added, “You can’t truly understand what’s going on unless you are African-American. I would like to say yes, however.”

for Trump to believe his experiences winning the Republican nomination helps him “relate” to African Americans is so painfully bizarre, it would do real and lasting harm to a normal presidential candidate.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/asked-about-race-donald-trump-gives-the-wrong-answer?cid=sm_fb_maddow

[boutons_deux]

Jeffress Says He Backs Trump Because It's 'Biblical' To Support A 'Strongman'

‘Pastor, don’t you want a candidate who embodies the teaching of Jesus and would govern this country according to the principles found in the Sermon on the Mount?’ I said, ‘Heck no.’ I would run from that candidate as far as possible, because the Sermon on the Mount was not given as a governing principle for this nation.

“Nowhere is government told to forgive those who wrong it, nowhere is government told to turn the other cheek.

Government is to be a strongman to protect its citizens against evildoers.

When I’m looking for somebody who’s going to deal with ISIS and exterminate ISIS, I don’t care about that candidate’s tone or vocabulary, I want the meanest, toughest, son of a you-know-what I can find, and I believe that’s biblical.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jeffress-says-he-backs-trump-because-its-biblical-support-strongman

evildoers? that's dubya baby talk.

Jeffres wants an authoritarian, dictator strongman, because he loves America so much.

[boutons_deux]

Trash Seeks To Block Release Of Trump University Testimony

A federal judge who has been a target of Donald Trump's unending scorn must decide whether to release videos of the presumed Republican presidential nominee testifying in a lawsuit about the now-defunct Trump University — images that Trump's attorneys worry will be used to tarnish the campaign.


U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel faces Trump's attorneys Wednesday for the first time since he permitted the release of unrelated documents in a class-action lawsuit alleging fraud, a move that led Trump to intensify his unusual attacks on the judge that included mention of his Mexican heritage.

The lawsuits allege that Trump University, which wasn't accredited as a school, gave seminars and classes across the country that were like infomericals, constantly pressuring students to spend up to $35,000 for mentorships and, in the end, failing on its promise to teach success in real estate.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/curiel-trump-seeks-to-block-release?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

[RandomGuy]

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/

Current odds:
5:2

Hillary at 70% chance.

[boutons_deux]

Bully in action, where the bully's interests are more important than the Presidency

Trump picks an odd time to sue a former staffer


Donald Trump is seeking $10 million from a former aide he accused of leaking confidential information about a public spat between two senior campaign staffers, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

Trump claimed that fired campaign consultant Sam Nunberg went to the press with confidential information in violation of a nondisclosure agreement, which the real estate mogul requires nearly all staffers for his campaign and businesses to sign.


http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-picks-odd-time-sue-former-staffer?cid=sm_fb_maddow

[boutons_deux]

How Donald Trump Tried to Cash In by Dumping Sewage Into the Hudson River

Donald Trump is loud and boastful on camera, but sometimes he operates more quietly off screen, like when he needed to solve a sewage problem beneath the streets of Manhattan—a problem that mysteriously evaporated one day in 1994, allowing a flood of cash that saved Trump from drowning in debt.

This is a little-known aspect of how Trump bungled the chance to make billions of dollars building on the largest developable tract of land in America’s largest city, a story the late actor Christopher Reeve called “the American dream gone berserk.” (http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/watch-1991-documentary-donald-trump-didnt-want-anyone-see)

That was a little problem for Trump. His big one was sewage.

As recently as 1986 most of the sewage generated in Manhattan flowed raw into the Hudson River, almost as if the city was the New Amsterdam of the 17th century with a few million more people emptying their chamber pots in the streets each morning. The city partially solved this problem by building a new sewage treatment plant. It was originally intended for the boat basin at 79th Street, but politically savvy and affluent Upper West Siders got their effluent pumped north to the Harlem waterfront, where the smell was godawful.

About 200 million gallons of sewage came in each day to the sewage treatment plan, well above its design capacity of around 170 million gallons per day. So on dry days, about 30 million gallons of raw sewage continued flowing into the Hudson River. Rainy days swelled the volume.

Messinger, the Coalition for a Livable Upper West Side, and others stood firm. No Trump project would proceed until sewage inflows matched treatment capacity.

Then something strange happened, something that would have gone unnoticed but for one Princeton-trained civil engineer checking the weekly city sewage flow reports.

The document showed 24 million gallons less sewage on the Upper West Side. Rich Herschlag, Messinger’s chief borough engineer, thought it an inside-the-bureaucracy joke. It was, after all, April Fool’s Day 1994.

When the next weekly report came Herschlag realized this was no joke.

Day after day, rain or shine, the official sewage flow meter readings stayed about the same. Holidays, big events that drew people into the city, weekends when people left town—none of that influenced the effluent flow.

“It was as if 150,000 Manhattanites just vanished,” Herschlag told me last week.

Eventually Herschlag was forced out of his job, his final paycheck held up until he could be told that were he to consult with the Coalition for a Livable Upper West Side, which opposed the Trump project, he could be prosecuted for violating a city charter ethics rule.

That’s when the best reporter in New York City, Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice, and one of his acolytes, Denise Kiernan, got on the story. On April 11, 1995, they published an article about “Ruth and Donald’s Artful Deal” (PDF (http://0101.nccdn.net/1_5/158/0e8/2a6/Ruth-and-Donald-s-Artful-Deal.pdf)).

They exposed connections between Trump and various elected and appointed city officials that were as complex, and hidden, as the sewer lines running beneath city streets.

For example, a former city councilman from the West Side named Ed Wallace registered as a lobbyist for Trump Management. New York’s Parks Council, which would have to approve a park for Trump’s project to proceed, was packed with officials and spouses on the Trump payroll.

Messinger did a complete reversal, becoming an advocate for the Trump project that she had once so firmly opposed since there was no longer, or so it seemed, a problem of overloading the already overloaded sewage treatment plant with more wastewater. Indeed, she said in February 1995 that she had not called for preventing sewer hookups at the proposed Trump project.

Mary Jo White, the federal prosecutor who is now chair of the federal Securities & Exchange Commission, dropped her inquiry. She has never been willing to answer questions about what motivated her reversal, including whether any instruction flowed down to her from the Bill Clinton White House, which at the time Trump courted and publicly supported.

Herschlag believes someone tampered with the plant intake meter, but neglected to fudge the collector-pipe meters so their numbers would match, either out of hubris—what are the odds someone would compare the two?—or laziness.

He later wrote a novel, The Interceptor (https://www.amazon.com/Interceptor-Richard-Herschlag/dp/0345417429), about “a sly real estate mogul with a $4 billion deal at stake, a ruthless candidate for mayor in a heated election year and a lone civil engineer who uncovers a secret that could rock the lives of seven million New Yorkers.” It sold about 45,000 copies, an amazing number for a thriller about sewers. You can still buy a copy, for a penny plus shipping.

The end of the story came in 1997 when Trump sold most of his interest in the land to Hong Kong investors. No one would have paid a penny if the land could not be developed because there was no place for it in a sewer system that was already full—showing once again how Trump speaks the truth when he talks about how a businessman who delivers campaign cash and favors gets politicians to do what he wants.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/13/how-donald-trump-tried-to-cash-in-by-dumping-sewage-into-the-hudson-river.html

[boutons_deux]

Fox News Just Made Donald Trump Look Like A Fool As Everything Goes Wrong For The GOP

As Donald Trump proclaimed to Fox that he is winning, Fox News made him look like an idiot by releasing a poll that showed Trump losing to Hillary Clinton.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/13/fox-news-donald-trump-fool-wrong-gop.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

[boutons_deux]

Trump creates an imaginary crime wave to justify his law and order chest thumping (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/12/1547605/-Trump-creates-an-imaginary-crime-wave-to-justify-his-law-and-order-chest-thumping)

"Donald J. Trump (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)✔@realDonaldTrump (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)

Crime is out of control, and rapidly getting worse. Look what is going on in Chicago and our inner cities. Not good!"

http://images.dailykos.com/images/273165/large/crime_rate.jpg?1468347538

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/07/12/1547605/-Trump-creates-an-imaginary-crime-wave-to-justify-his-law-and-order-chest-thumping?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

[Th'Pusher]

Bookaki does it again. Posts false unfunny "humor" shit and hides the link in tiny white script.
At least he posts the link. When you're embarrassed of your source, you simply don't post the link.

[ducks]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/287695-poll-trump-leads-clinton-by-7-points

[boutons_deux]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/287695-poll-trump-leads-clinton-by-7-points

Rasmussen famously GUARANTEED, a few days before the election, a Bishop Gekko landslide :lol

Rasmussen is Repug "polling" outfit.

[CosmicCowboy]

At least he posts the link. When you're embarrassed of your source, you simply don't post the link.

ignorant dipshit. The only time I don't post a link is when it is self evident that anyone with an IQ over 80 and a TV or radio or internet access would already know it. I don't need to post a link to "the sun rises in the East".

[ducks]

CBS/NYT Poll: Trump, Clinton Tied last poll they did she was ahead by 6

[boutons_deux]

Trump Shaping General Election Strategy With Team Of Most Trusted Erratic Impulses

NEW YORK — In a private conference Wednesday in his Trump Tower residence, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump reportedly began shaping his general election strategy with a team of his most trusted erratic impulses.

“Every decision and course of action I have taken in this campaign has been made in consultation with my loyal team of volatile impulses, and I will continue to work closely with these base, capricious urges to devise a comprehensive plan of attack to defeat Hillary Clinton in November,” said the business mogul, adding that he had the utmost confidence in the direction provided by the influential group of haphazard whims, wild compulsions, and aggressive outbursts that have been advising his actions for decades.

“On domestic issues such as immigration, women’s rights, and race relations, I will rely heavily on the exceptional recommendations of whatever just pops into my head.

Though I will likely lean on my most dependable impulses, irrational fear and baseless accusation, to lay out a foreign policy agenda that really speaks to the American people.”

At press time, Trump’s team of erratic inclinations was reportedly delegating tasks to be carried out by a collection of the GOP candidate’s most feverish knee-jerk reactions.

http://www.theonion.com/article/trump-shaping-general-election-strategy-team-most--53212?utm_content=Pol&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing (http://www.theonion.com/article/trump-shaping-general-election-strategy-team-most--53212?utm_content=Pol&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing)

[ducks]

Analysis: Clinton Would Barely Win If Election Held Today

And trump has not even started

[RandomGuy]

Analysis: Clinton Would Barely Win If Election Held Today

And trump has not even started

Odds per fivethirtyeight:

66.2% for Clinton
33.7% for Trump

Good perspective:
Election Update: When To Freak Out About Shocking New Polls
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-when-to-freak-out-about-shocking-new-polls/

Very good article about how to approach polls.

[RandomGuy]

And trump has not even started

Literally, he has.

ROFL..


"I have a very good brain and I've said a lot of things

@Literally Trump

Trump’s Puzzling Mid-Campaign Lawsuit
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/07/14/Trump-s-Puzzling-Mid-Campaign-Lawsuit


http://video.newsserve.net/v/20160706/1108821353-Trump-tweet-sparks-controversy-is-it-anti-Semitic.jpg


If you think he hasn't gotten started... I wonder what he will do/say once he does get started. :wow :lmao

[RandomGuy]

http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-25-at-6.55.31-AM.png

pure gravitas. :lol

[RandomGuy]

http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/trumpobama.png

... because Americans are too dumb to figure out that one guy is not representative of an entire population? :wow :bang

[RandomGuy]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/55/94/34/5594340b8fe1a883969dd54af5f35603.jpg

:wow

[RandomGuy]

http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Donald-Trump-Twitter.jpg

[RandomGuy]

http://crooksandliars.com/files/vfs/2012/08/donald.jpg

[RandomGuy]

Nasty and venal.

This is presidential material?

[boutons_deux]

Nasty and venal.

This is presidential material?

and by some polls show he's not that far behind Hillz. 10Ms of trashy supporters support this Trash bag of shit.

Trash is emotionally arrested at mid/late-teen.

[ducks]

The Wall Street Journal reports that digital marketing firm Fluent conducted the survey, in which 46 percent of respondents said they'd seen ads supporting Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, while 52 percent have seen Hillary Clinton ads.



but trump has no money and Clinton is spending atleast half a million a day on tv ads

[ducks]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/55/94/34/5594340b8fe1a883969dd54af5f35603.jpg

:wow
they give the shot to monkeys and they get it it is try

[ducks]

http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Donald-Trump-Twitter.jpg

trump did not treet it it was to him

[ducks]

Nasty and venal.

This is presidential material?
people said so has more then 13 million votes with 17 running

more then anyone else ever

[boutons_deux]

Maybe Trump should come with a parental advisory warning

The Washington Post noted the significance (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/14/hillary-clintons-new-attack-ad-paints-trump-as-a-bad-role-model/) of the spot called “Role Models.”

Hillary Clinton released her campaign’s newest attack ad against Donald Trump, a brutal, minute-long reprisal of some of his most controversial statements as seen through the eyes of children.

The sharply negative spot comes a day before Trump is expected to announce his vice-presidential running mate and several days before the Republican Party’s convention.


http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maybe-trump-should-come-parental-advisory-warning?cid=sm_fb_maddow

[ducks]

New Clinton Ad Paints Trump as Bad Role Model for Children

like anyone would want my children to be like Clinton!

THE QUESTION WOULD BE WOULD BOUTONS?

[boutons_deux]

Who Is Mike Pence?


http://i.onionstatic.com/onion/5377/0/original/1600.jpg

Indiana governor Mike Pence will reportedly be Donald Trump’s running mate on the Republican ticket in the 2016 presidential election. Here’s what you need to know about Pence:



Current Residence: Real America

Little-Known Fact: All

Strengths: White, red-faced

Weaknesses: Overt prejudices against homosexuals, Syrian refugees, immigrants, welfare recipients, and abortion patients doesn’t bring anything particularly new to Trump campaign

Occupation: Former, future talk radio host

Inspirational Background Story: Somehow overcame growing nationwide biases against white, heterosexual, Christian men to become governor of Indiana

Level Of Social Conservative: Extra staunchy

Views On LGBT Rights: Believes gay couples are entitled to the same respect as perverted, devious straight couples

Accomplishments As Governor: Shifted Indiana from oft-overlooked state to lightning rod for condemnation

Gubernatorial Campaign Motto: Leviticus 20:13

Favorite Sexual Position: Non-penetrative

Title Of Future Autobiography: Running For Dear Life: My Hellish Four Months Inside Trump’s Fractured Mirror-World



http://www.theonion.com/graphic/who-mike-pence-53218

[tlongII]

Nasty and venal.

This is presidential material?

You might want to include the dates of all those Twitter tweets. I know you think it doesn't make a difference, but I think it does.

[boutons_deux]

You might want to include the dates of all those Twitter tweets. I know you think it doesn't make a difference, but I think it does.

:lol Trash has been spouting nasty, TIMELESS shit for decades

you Trash ass-lickers are hilarious.

[boutons_deux]

Some people think politics is a game or excuse to party

http://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/media/trumpwallgood5785c4761a000024006fa16e.jpg

[ducks]

:lol Trash has been spouting nasty, TIMELESS shit for decades

you Trash ass-lickers are hilarious.
Clinton has from public office for decades

[cd021]

Didn't really matter who Trump picked as VP. He's getting smashed in November, its just that simple.

[ducks]

Didn't really matter who Trump picked as VP. He's getting smashed in November, its just that simple.

right now Clinton barely wins
Clinton is not winning in a landside right now

[Dirk Oneanddoneski]

Odds per fivethirtyeight:

66.2% for Clinton
33.7% for Trump

Good perspective:
Election Update: When To Freak Out About Shocking New Polls
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-when-to-freak-out-about-shocking-new-polls/

Very good article about how to approach polls.

538 Nate (((Silver)))

http://i.imgur.com/aY0kl5G.jpg

[Reck]

right now Clinton barely wins
Clinton is not winning in a landside right now

The national polling averages has her up by 4 points. If that holds, that will translate into a landslide win.

[Dirk Oneanddoneski]

Didn't really matter who Trump picked as VP. He's getting smashed in November, its just that simple.

Then why haven't you joined the ELE bet?

[boutons_deux]

Republican Convention lineup fails to match the hype

now that party officials have finally released (http://www.nbcnews.com/card/speakers-gop-convention-include-outsiders-trump-family-n609136) the list, a whole new set of questions come to the fore.

The lineup of speakers at next week’s Republican National Convention will include

Donald Trump loyalists,

Washington outsiders,

entrepreneurs and even

a former “General Hospital” actor. […]

A senior Trump official said the “impressive lineup” represents a “cross-section of real people facing the same challenges as every American household.”


I suppose “impressive” is a subjective term.

There’s plenty to chew on here. The full list of speakers, for example, includes

Newt Gingrich and

Chris Christie,

which sure does make it seem as if Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) will be Trump’s running mate.

We can also note that six people with the last name Trump –

the candidate, his wife, and four of his kids – will deliver remarks at the convention,

which means the number of Trumps will match (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/14/the-very-odd-list-of-speakers-at-the-republican-national-convention/?postshare=6761468507602541&tid=ss_tw) the number of sitting senators who’ll address the GOP delegates. :lol

It’s also genuinely extraordinary that Republicans have decided the first night of their convention should have a “Benghazi focus (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/us/politics/republican-convention-speakers-donald-trump.html),” :lol Benghazi! :lol

even after all of the party’s – and Trump’s – ridiculous conspiracy theories about the deadly 2012 attack have been discredited.

We could also note that

there are five living former GOP presidential nominees – including two former presidents – and four of them have said they will neither speak to nor attend the party’s gathering.

(Bob Dole is the exception, announcing in May he plans to go.)

But even if we put all of that aside for a moment, we’re left with a different kind of problem: Trump promised us a powerful all-star lineup, and he clearly isn’t delivering one.

In early June, the presumptive GOP nominee said this year’s Republican convention is going to be “a little different (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/us/politics/donald-trump-republican-convention-sports-celebrities.html),” because he intended to spotlight cultural figures, most notably sports “champions,” not just politicians.

And yet, here we are. The AP report (http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-07-14/more-establishment-than-celebrity-in-trump-convention-lineup) noted this morning,

“Noticeably absent from a speaker list obtained by The Associated Press early Thursday are many athletes or A-List celebrities that Trump’s team long suggested would help make his presidential nominating convention unlike any other.”
Tim Tebow, who was a backup on several NFL teams before quietly exiting the league a few years ago, will apparently be on hand, along with

former underwear model Antonio Sabato Jr. :lol

professional golfer Natalie Gulbis.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/republican-convention-lineup-fails-match-the-hype?cid=sm_fb_maddow

http://herbrasize.com/natalie-gulbis/ :lol

[RandomGuy]

they give the shot to monkeys and they get it it is try

No, it isn't.

There is not a single shred of scientific evidence that vaccines cause autism.

The original claim was made by a doctor paid to say something bad about vaccines by a lawyer for a lawsuit. The doctor eventually had his license to practice medicine pulled over it, because the doctor review panel found him to be dishonest and unethical.

If you like, I can provide you with a rather large amount of actual good science on the subject.

[RandomGuy]

538 Nate (((Silver)))

http://i.imgur.com/aY0kl5G.jpg

It is a very good point.

The quants are looking bad over this.

[boutons_deux]

It is a very good point.

The quants are looking bad over this.

what demographics will Trash win?

other than (old) pissed off, uneducated white men paranoid about women, queers, and foreigners?

women? no

blacks? no

Hispanics? no

LGBTQ? no

Muslims? no

Jews? no

Asians? no

18 - 34? no

[boutons_deux]

Tim Tebow Dumps Trump’s Convention And Bails On Speaking In Cleveland

Sopan Deb (https://twitter.com/SopanDeb)
(https://twitter.com/SopanDeb)✔@SopanDeb (https://twitter.com/SopanDeb)

Tim Tebow, in Facebook video, says he will NOT be speaking at the RNC: http://bit.ly/29GV3uO (https://t.co/ipDKleM7TM)
8:01 PM - 14 Jul 2016 (https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/753756316770922497)

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/14/tim-tebow-dumps-trumps-convention-speaking-republicans-cleveland.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

You Trash supporters are like Kardashian fans. American shits a big turd, and you people slurp it up! :lol

[hater]

Nice attacks have guaranteed a Lord Trump win.

Lets accept it and move on folks. On to the Trump inauguration. Nigga will probably make it a PPV event :lol

[RandomGuy]

people said so has more then 13 million votes with 17 running

more then anyone else ever

Soooo I guess the nasty venal people have their candidate.

Let me know how that works out.

[RandomGuy]

You might want to include the dates of all those Twitter tweets. I know you think it doesn't make a difference, but I think it does.

You have come out and stated that you have only a passing commitment to intellectual honesty.

Why should I care what you say you think?

How can I trust that you are telling me the truth, or care about what the truth is?

The dates are far less relevant than the fact that they were made in the first place.

[boutons_deux]

radioactive Trash Effect

Republican Convention finds itself in need of a bailout

The target was to raise $64 million, but GOP organizers, spurned by corporate allies, are far short of their goal. Politico reported (http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/rnc-begs-adelson-for-6-million-to-cover-convention-shortfall-225571#ixzz4EQYlFXaz) yesterday that Republican National Convention officials have turned to billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, looking for a $6 million bailout.

In a letter addressed to the Adelsons, obtained by POLITICO, the Cleveland 2016 Host Committee revealed the names of more than two dozen prominent corporations and individuals who have reneged on a collective $8.1 million in pledged donations.

The letter represents the most public acknowledgement to date that Donald Trump has directly cost convention organizers millions of fundraising dollars.


The letter, dated Tuesday, said “negative publicity” surrounding Trump led a variety of sponsors to back out from their financial commitments to the convention.

Indeed, the document named names: FedEx, Pepsi, and others planned to make six- and seven-figure contributions, only to change their minds because of Trump.

Remember when RNC officials insisted (http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/donald-trump-cleveland-convention-republicans-brand-218297) Trump wouldn’t cost the party major donors? Those assurances now look kind of silly.

So, what happens now? There’s little doubt that Adelson could bail out the convention – as the Politico report added, he’s worth an estimated $25 billion. The primary question is whether or not he will get his checkbook.

Keep in mind, Adelson is a longtime fan of Newt Gingrich, who appears to have been passed over for the party’s vice presidential nomination. It makes the Republican pitch that much more difficult: “Yeah, sorry your guy didn’t make the ticket, but would you give us $6 million anyway?”

And then, of course, there’s the second question: what will Republicans do if Adelson says no?

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/republican-convention-finds-itself-need-bailout?cid=sm_fb_maddow

[ducks]

Soooo I guess the nasty venal people have their candidate.

Let me know how that works out.
blacks have 2400 less per year under current president
more people on food stamps
less jobs
more attacks
sure working great under the current president could it get worse?

[hitmanyr2k]

That VP pick is a vanilla choice and a shitty one at that. Either Trump is trying to lose or no one reputable wanted to be his VP so he had to scrape the bottom of the barrel with Newt, Christie and Pence.

[tlongII]

You have come out and stated that you have only a passing commitment to intellectual honesty.

Why should I care what you say you think?

How can I trust that you are telling me the truth, or care about what the truth is?

The dates are far less relevant than the fact that they were made in the first place.


You distort and post incomplete statements attributed to Trump yet you speak about intellectual honesty. :lol

[rmt]

Pence is the safe pick to bring in the conservatives and probably influenced by Mannafort. I would have preferred Newt - I have doubts about Pence - wish-washy, not glib like Newt and not long time friends like Christy and Newt. But Newt is old and Pence is only 59. Also Newt and Christie will still help Trump in some other capacity while Pence would go back to running for governor - so no real "loss."

[boutons_deux]

Mike Pence gained national attention hating gays, but became governor attacking Planned Parenthood (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/14/1548324/-Mike-Pence-gained-national-attention-hating-gays-but-became-governor-attacking-Planned-Parenthood)

Abortion-rights advocates and abortion-rights opponents don’t see eye to eye on much, but they do agree on this: Nobody hates Planned Parenthood quite as much as Mike Pence.

The Indiana Republican is on a one-man crusade to deny all federal funding to the group — not just the money it gets for reproductive health and family planning services, but every penny it gets for anything. [...]

This week, Pence went even further, introducing an amendment to the continuing resolution that would strip Planned Parenthood — and Planned Parenthood alone — of all federal funding.


Republican Gov. Mike Pence signed a bill into law Thursday making Indiana the second state to ban abortions because of fetal genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome. [...]

The bill has been criticized by a national group of gynecologists and several female Republican members of the GOP (http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/politics-government/republican-party-ORGOV0000004-topic.html)-dominated Indiana Legislature, who say it goes too far in telling women what they can and can't do.


That’s Mike Pence. The most radical point of the anti-choice moment.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/07/14/1548324/-Mike-Pence-gained-national-attention-hating-gays-but-became-governor-attacking-Planned-Parenthood?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

Petty Pence epitomizes what is one of the nastiest of the nasty red states.

Trash makes wonderful choice to pander to the LGBTQ haters, the War on (poor) Women, Christian Taliban.

[ducks]

so boutons post most in the church of trump thread

[boutons_deux]

 Mike Pence Is a Smooth-Talking Todd Akin

The guy who led the crusade against Planned Parenthood and signed anti-abortion laws will drive more women to Hillary Clinton.

There had been lots of reporting that he wanted Newt Gingrich (why not, God, why not? and, despite New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s legal baggage (plus Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s mortal grudge against Christie for sending his father to jail), it seemed like Trump found in Christie a kindred soul/bully as well. But he was by most accounts scheduled to introduce the white-haired establishment favorite, Mike Pence, at an event in Trump Tower on Friday.

If Trump thinks he’s getting a running mate who can appeal to the center and swing voters, he’s wrong about that. Pence is so far right when it comes to women’s and LGBT issues, he makes Trump look like a Democrat. Frankly, he’s a smooth-talking Todd Akin.

 In Congress, Pence co-sponsored a bill that would have redefined rape and limited federal funding for abortion to women who suffered “forcible rape”—what Akin famously described as “legitimate rape”

when he doomed his 2012 Senate bill. Pence is also the guy who began the GOP’s ugly and so far unsuccessful crusade to defund Planned Parenthood, back in 2007.

“He’s the only one I know of who has been so completely obsessed with Planned Parenthood,”

Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards said back then (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pence-reproductive-rights-abortion_us_5787cc73e4b0867123e036a1). “This just seems to be an enormous focus of his.” Of course, Pence got more company in the Tea Party Congress of 2011, and that year

he threatened to shut down the government (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/08/964824/-GOP-congressman-vows-shutdown-unless-Planned-Parenthood-defunded) over continued Planned Parenthood funding.

Since becoming governor in 2013,

Pence has signed various anti-abortion bills and succeeded in defunding Planned Parenthood in his state.

That helped lead to a devastating resurgence of HIV/AIDS, since Planned Parenthood was one of a few providers of HIV testing in the state.

Also, Trump has promised to punish women for getting abortions (and then flip-flopped); Pence has actually done so. I

n Indianapolis, 30-year-old Purvi Patel was prosecuted for using the pills doctors prescribe for early pregnancy termination allegedly later in her term. Her conviction is being appealed.

Pence is an odd choice, for many reasons:

He’s got low approval ratings in his home state and faces a tough reelection battle.

He supports free trade and opposes Trump’s Muslim ban.

The Indiana governor endorsed Texas Senator Ted Cruz just before the state’s crucial primary in May,

but said wishy-washy nice things about Trump, too. When Trump crushed Cruz in Indiana, Pence got on the Trump train. He was ready to move up front and sit alongside the leader.

https://www.thenation.com/article/mike-pence-is-a-smooth-talking-todd-akin/

[spurraider21]

Pence is awful but most of his key positions are barred by SCOTUS so he's not as big a threat as baby face newt

[boutons_deux]

Pence is awful but most of his key positions are barred by SCOTUS so he's not as big a threat as baby face newt

Nearly every lie Trash is conning his suckers with is unConstitutional.

[boutons_deux]

FURIOUS CHRISTIE REFUSES TO PICK UP TRUMP’S DRY CLEANING

NEW YORK — Governor Chris Christie, of New Jersey, angrily refused to pick up Donald Trump’s dry cleaning during a tense encounter between the two men on Friday, campaign sources confirm.

The ugly scene unfolded at the billionaire’s offices in midtown Manhattan, shortly after Trump revealed that his Vice-Presidential pick would be Governor Mike Pence of Indiana.

According to Trump aides, Christie stomped into the presumptive Republican nominee’s office and hurled a dry-cleaning ticket onto his desk, telling Trump, “You can pick up your own damn dry cleaning.”

The New Jersey governor then stormed out, and has not been seen by Trump or his staffers since.

Trump’s press secretary, Hope Hicks, warned the media against making too much of the apparent rift between the billionaire and Christie.

“In the long hours of a campaign, emotions can sometimes get a little raw,” she said. “We are confident that Governor Christie will pick up Mr. Trump’s dry cleaning going forward.”

Reached later by reporters, Governor Christie issued a brief statement: “Get away from me. Just get away from me, you bastards.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/furious-christie-refuses-to-pick-up-trumps-dry-cleaning

[CosmicCowboy]

Your shit isn't funny Bookaki.

[Sportcamper]

I have been working 6 days a week all summer & I was feeling a bit down…After reading all of the Anti-Trump posts I realize how happy & blessed I really am…Perhaps some of you Republican haters could use a break from MSNBC & this political forum…:toast

[Reck]

Why did boutons highlighted the source white and put it in tiny fonts? :lol

This was a lame joke article..literally it was meant as a joke.

[SpursforSix]

Why did boutons highlighted the source white and put it in tiny fonts? :lol



God, I wish he would do all of his posts like that.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Why did boutons highlighted the source white and put it in tiny fonts? :lol

This was a lame joke article..literally it was meant as a joke.

Cause it annoys CC it would seem.

[boutons_deux]

Team Trump struggling with the easy stuff

once a running mate is chosen, everything is supposed to get much easier. Schedule an announcement, register a website, design a logo, and prepare for the convention. Piece of cake. Candidates for national office deal with a variety of demanding tests; this isn’t one of them.

So how in the world is Donald Trump managing to screw this up so badly?

On MSNBC today, Kelly O’Donnell reported (https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/754020430415933440) on details that further undermine confidence in the presumptive Republican nominee:

“Even last night, when Donald Trump was in California, he was making some phone calls to try to assess if he was locked in to the [Mike] Pence choice or if he could make a change…. Sources said he was reaching out, looking for a way to make a change.”


Now, it’s worth noting that campaign officials have pushed back against these reports. Then again, it’s clear that sources close to the candidate are telling several major news organizations about Trump’s uncertainty – and desire as recently as last night to undo what was done.

Is there anything about this process that’s reassuring? Trump made a decision, then wondered if he could get out of it.

Trump scheduled an announcement, then delayed it, then made the announcement anyway (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/pence-becomes-the-most-far-right-running-mate-modern-history). The logo is the subject of ridicule (https://twitter.com/JohnDingell/status/753985891459297281).

The campaign neglected to register (https://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/here-are-7-ways-donald-trump-absolutely-butchered-his-vp-pick-announcement/) the necessary url domain names.

Even the convention’s finances (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/republican-convention-finds-itself-need-bailout) and speakers’ list (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/republican-convention-lineup-fails-match-the-hype) is a mess.

Has any of this gone right? This is the kind of administration voters can expect for four years?

Of course, it’s not just today.

Trump’s staff (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-picks-odd-time-sue-former-staffer) is a mess.

His field operation (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-campaign-offices_us_57866c42e4b03fc3ee4ed0be?f8g833di) is an embarrassment.

His campaign finances (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-june-fundraising-report) aren’t much better.

It’s usually at about this point when conservative readers ask, “Oh, yeah? Well if Trump’s entire campaign operation is such a joke, why is he only trailing Hillary Clinton by a few points? Shouldn’t this be a blowout if he and his team are so incompetent?”

These are perfectly legitimate questions, and

the truth is, the vast majority of Americans don’t know or care that Trump is a bad candidate who’s completely incapable of overseeing a functioning political operation.

Much of the mainstream has some sense of Trump’s message and they’re either prepared to support it or not.

The fact that Trump can’t even introduce his running mate without slipping on a banana peel may be a very bad sign, but for much of the country, it’s also political minutiae.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/team-trump-struggling-the-easy-stuff?cid=sm_fb_maddow

:lol

Trash! :lol

Trash supporters! :lol

... just more proof that America is fucked and unfuckable.

[rmt]

I have been working 6 days a week all summer & I was feeling a bit down…After reading all of the Anti-Trump posts I realize how happy & blessed I really am…Perhaps some of you Republican haters could use a break from MSNBC & this political forum…:toast

Not sure this political forum is the place to come to get cheered up. I've already suggested they listen to Rush for 6 weeks to hear the other side. Cheer up and have a good weekend.

[boutons_deux]

Social Security Advocacy Group Slams Mike Pence As He Prepares To Be Trump’s VP Pick

The Democratic Party, on the other hand, just finished drafting a 2016 platform that vowed to expand Social Security.

One Social Security advocacy group, Social Security Works, is especially upset with Trump’s likely choice, issuing a tough statement on Wednesday about the Indiana governor.Statement:

“Governor Pence has a long history of fighting to cut and privatize Social Security.

In 2005, he was the leader of a group of House Republicans who criticized (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/feb/4/20050204-113831-7251r/) George W. Bush’s Social Security privatization plan for not being extreme enough!

He supports (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/08/boehner-pence-social-security-retirement-age_n_674793.html) raising the retirement age and

other cuts to Social Security benefits.

This despite the fact that the nation is facing a looming retirement income crisis, which is likely to be harshest for younger Americans.

Pence has shown his desire to dismantle Social Security brick by brick, or even faster.

He insultingly calls our Social Security system an “entitlement” rather than the earned benefit that it is.

This attitude towards Social Security, the people’s pension, fits in perfectly with Donald Trump’s outrageous claim (https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trump-on-social-security-in-his-2000-book-a-ponzi-scheme-we) that Social Security is an illegal Ponzi Scheme.

This name calling is an insult to every worker and Social Security beneficiary. It is an insult to all of us.

Poll (https://www.nasi.org/sites/default/files/research/Americans_Make_Hard_Choices_on_Social_Security.pdf ) after poll (http://www.people-press.org/2016/03/31/campaign-exposes-fissures-over-issues-values-and-how-life-has-changed-in-the-u-s/) shows that voters — regardless of age, race, gender, ethnicity, or political party — support expanding, not cutting, Social Security.

The reported Trump-Pence ticket is radically out of step with the American people.”

The orange-skinned man at the top of the ticket repeatedly said during GOP primary debates that he wouldn’t cut Social Security, but he seems to have changed his tune since becoming the presumptive GOP nominee.

In May, a campaign adviser said Trump is now open to taking the ax (http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-adviser-says-hes-open-to-entitlement-program-changes-1462997756) to both Medicare and Social Security.

Trump is officially onboard with the standard Republican policy toward the social safety net, and his likely VP pick of Mike Pence is even further evidence of that.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/14/pro-social-security-group-slams-mike-pence-prepares-trumps-vp-pick.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29 (http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/14/pro-social-security-group-slams-mike-pence-prepares-trumps-vp-pick.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29)

Dems will use the Trash/Pence policy "cut SS, cut Medicare, cut Medicaid" to swing even the old white pissed-off white people to Hillary.

[ducks]

New Clinton Ad Paints Trump as Bad Role Model for Children

like anyone would want my children to be like Clinton!

THE QUESTION WOULD BE WOULD BOUTONS?

[Pelicans78]

Big mistake by Trump.

[ElNono]

That VP pick is a vanilla choice and a shitty one at that. Either Trump is trying to lose or no one reputable wanted to be his VP so he had to scrape the bottom of the barrel with Newt, Christie and Pence.

Yeah, I don't get the pick at all. It's not like he wouldn't get the GOP base, evangelical vote anyways, considering your average republican would commit seppuku before voting blue, especially Clinton.

Reminds me of Romney picking Paul Ryan to try to entice a demographic that was voting for him anyways.

[MultiTroll]

Let me guess.
Trump would have ended the coup by saying "This is really really bad. This has to stop. And we've got a president that's not doing anything. And Hillary Clinton is a crook who did not stop the coup. Vote for me."

[boutons_deux]

Ben C is delusionally lost in his own head, as always

BEN CARSON CONFIDENT THAT TRASH WILL CHOOSE HIM AS V.P.

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/borowitz-ben-carson-trump-vice-president-1200.jpg

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — The retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson told reporters on Saturday that he is “extremely confident” that Donald Trump will choose him to be his Vice-Presidential running mate.

“I’m not a betting man, but I would bet a million dollars it’s going to be me,” he told reporters at his residence, in West Palm Beach. “There are times in life when you’re just positive about something, and this is one of those times.”

Carson did not indicate how he had determined that he would be Trump’s pick. “Let’s just call it a strong feeling I have,” he said. “I don’t want to say anything now that might jinx it.”

As he awaits the all-important call from Trump, Carson said that he and the billionaire would be a “dream team” for the Republican Party in 2016.

“Donald is great at going out and getting people excited, and I’m more grounded and in touch with reality,” he said. “Together, we will be unstoppable.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/ben-carson-confident-that-trump-will-choose-him-as-v-p?mbid=nl_160716_Borowitz&CNDID=43758549&spMailingID=9211046&spUserID=MTQzNTk4MTA2MDYxS0&spJobID=961230200&spReportId=OTYxMjMwMjAwS0 (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/ben-carson-confident-that-trump-will-choose-him-as-v-p?mbid=nl_160716_Borowitz&CNDID=43758549&spMailingID=9211046&spUserID=MTQzNTk4MTA2MDYxS0&spJobID=961230200&spReportId=OTYxMjMwMjAwS0)

[spurraider21]

carson is delusional because of boroshitz report?

[boutons_deux]

GOP Establishment Relieved After Conventionally Abhorrent Beliefs Make Way Onto Presidential Ticket

http://i.onionstatic.com/onion/5377/9/16x9/1200.jpg

NEW YORK — Following Donald Trash’s official announcement that he had picked conservative Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate, prominent members of the GOP establishment reportedly expressed their relief Saturday that conventionally abhorrent beliefs would be represented on the Republican presidential ticket.

“Gov. Pence is truly committed to the GOP’s most cherished, longstanding hatreds, so we couldn’t be happier to see him chosen as our party’s vice presidential candidate,” said Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint, :lol adding that the selection of someone with so many years of experience engaging in traditional discrimination against gays and women had eased the fears of Republican officials worried by Trump’s more unorthodoxly regressive views.

“Don’t get me wrong; it’s great that Trash is bringing in millions of bigoted new voters with his fresh ideas for narrow-minded and detestable policies.

But at the same time, there are certain awful beliefs that have helped to guide the conservative movement for decades, and the inclusion of Pence on the ticket is proof that those intolerances still have a place in today’s GOP.”

DeMint added that he hoped Trash would also balance out his own crackpot fiscal proposals by choosing a few cabinet members with more conventionally discredited economic theories.

http://www.theonion.com/article/gop-establishment-relieved-after-conventionally-ab-53224

[Splits]

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39391/tp_logo.gif

[boutons_deux]

Trash’s Pence introduction takes 2016 in even weirder direction

But it’s fair to say we haven’t seen anything quite like the scene this morning (http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/indiana-gov-mike-pence-accepts-donald-trump-s-vp-invitation-n610836) in New York.

By the time Donald Trump ushered Mike Pence on stage Saturday, 29 minutes had gone by – mostly Trump talking about Trump, not his new running mate.


Perhaps this was to be expected. Maybe, given Trump’s odd waffling and indecisiveness – culminating in

widely reported second thoughts (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/team-trump-struggling-the-easy-stuff) about the Indiana governor :lol

– it shouldn’t be too surprising that this morning’s introduction would be so bizarre.

But the Republican presidential ticket had plenty of time to get this right. They didn’t.

About half-way through a

long, rambling, self-indulgent diatribe that largely ignored the man who was supposed to be the subject of the speech,

Trump told his audience:

“Back to Mike Pence. :lol

So one of the primary reasons I chose Mike was I looked at Indiana, and I won Indiana big. Remember, Indiana was going to be the firewall.

That’s where Trump was going to – they agreed I’d win New York, I’d win Pennsylvania, I’d win all these places.

But Indiana was going to be the firewall. So I got to study Indiana, and I got to study New York and a lot of other places, and I saw how NAFTA, signed by Bill Clinton, has drained our manufacturing jobs, just drained us like we’ve never been drained before.

NAFTA, again, signed by Bill Clinton. NAFTA is the worst economic deal in the history of our country. Manufacturing down in some states 55 percent, 60 percent. It’s a horror show, moving to Mexico, moving to other places.”


“Back to Mike Pence” was a fascinating realization that Trump apparently forgot the point of this morning’s event, but note that Trump didn’t actually transition to talking about Pence at all. Rather,

he talked about his own primary campaign, before complaining about NAFTA – a trade deal that Mike Pence enthusiastically supports. :lol

Even when introducing his running mate to a national audience,

Donald J. Trump really only wanted to talk about his favorite subject: Donald J. Trump.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-pence-introduction-takes-2016-even-weirder-direction?cid=sm_fb_maddow

holy fuck, Trash! :lol

Trash supporters! :lol

[rmt]

Ben C is delusionally lost in his own head, as always

BEN CARSON CONFIDENT THAT TRASH WILL CHOOSE HIM AS V.P.

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/borowitz-ben-carson-trump-vice-president-1200.jpg

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — The retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson told reporters on Saturday that he is “extremely confident” that Donald Trump will choose him to be his Vice-Presidential running mate.

“I’m not a betting man, but I would bet a million dollars it’s going to be me,” he told reporters at his residence, in West Palm Beach. “There are times in life when you’re just positive about something, and this is one of those times.”

Carson did not indicate how he had determined that he would be Trump’s pick. “Let’s just call it a strong feeling I have,” he said. “I don’t want to say anything now that might jinx it.”

As he awaits the all-important call from Trump, Carson said that he and the billionaire would be a “dream team” for the Republican Party in 2016.

“Donald is great at going out and getting people excited, and I’m more grounded and in touch with reality,” he said. “Together, we will be unstoppable.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/ben-carson-confident-that-trump-will-choose-him-as-v-p?mbid=nl_160716_Borowitz&CNDID=43758549&spMailingID=9211046&spUserID=MTQzNTk4MTA2MDYxS0&spJobID=961230200&spReportId=OTYxMjMwMjAwS0 (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/ben-carson-confident-that-trump-will-choose-him-as-v-p?mbid=nl_160716_Borowitz&CNDID=43758549&spMailingID=9211046&spUserID=MTQzNTk4MTA2MDYxS0&spJobID=961230200&spReportId=OTYxMjMwMjAwS0)




How old is this article? Carson was one of the people helping Trump to choose a VP. He knew that Trump needs an insider with congressional, political experience which rules himself out.

[boutons_deux]

How old is this article? Carson was one of the people helping Trump to choose a VP. He knew that Trump needs an insider with congressional, political experience which rules himself out.

Dear Trash Supporter.

Star Date: "JULY 16, 2016"

Sincerely,
The Great Trash Supporter Bitch Slapper

[rmt]

Dear Trash Supporter.

Star Date: "JULY 16, 2016"

Sincerely,
The Great Trash Supporter Bitch Slapper

boutons, the author Andy Borowitz:

In the late 1990s, Borowitz began e-mailing humorous fake news stories to friends. In 2001, he founded The Borowitz Report, a site that posts one 250-word news satire every weekday. The site led to greater fame and widespread attention for Borowitz as a political satirist. The Wall Street Journal devoted a page-one story to him and his site in 2003 and readership ultimately grew to the millions.

[Th'Pusher]

boutons, the author Andy Borowitz:

In the late 1990s, Borowitz began e-mailing humorous fake news stories to friends. In 2001, he founded The Borowitz Report, a site that posts one 250-word news satire every weekday. The site led to greater fame and widespread attention for Borowitz as a political satirist. The Wall Street Journal devoted a page-one story to him and his site in 2003 and readership ultimately grew to the millions.

:lol

[boutons_deux]

boutons, the author Andy Borowitz:

In the late 1990s, Borowitz began e-mailing humorous fake news stories to friends. In 2001, he founded The Borowitz Report, a site that posts one 250-word news satire every weekday. The site led to greater fame and widespread attention for Borowitz as a political satirist. The Wall Street Journal devoted a page-one story to him and his site in 2003 and readership ultimately grew to the millions.

:lol And here, all along, I thought Borowitz was Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist. I feel so stupid. Thanks for the heads up (your ass)

[boutons_deux]

"Earlier this year, VP hopeful Newt Gingrich spoke at a closed-door meeting of the Republican State Leadership Committee. The former House speaker praised Donald Trump's skills as a politician and negotiator, but offered a candid assessment on the keys to his success."

"Recording: Behind closed doors, VP hopeful Newt Gingrich compared Trump to the Kardashians and said he speaks to voters “at the lowest level of any candidate.” Here's a few more things he said:"

https://www.facebook.com/propublica/?fref=nf

Trash! :lol

Trash supporters, lowest common denominator, BUt BUT BUT they can divide by zero! :lol

[boutons_deux]

At GOP convention, toy guns are banned, but real guns are not


Cleveland officials said Wednesday that they will uphold the right of protesters at the Republican National Convention to carry firearms even as they expressed opposition to the state’s open carry laws.

Speaking to reporters in advance of the Republican National Convention next week, both Cleveland Mayor Frank G. Jackson and police Chief Calvin Williams they were bound by the state’s laws allowing people to carry guns even if they disagreed with them.


The same report added, however, that city officials have already banned “a wide array of items inside a broad zone in downtown Cleveland around the convention site, including water guns, toy guns, knives, aerosol cans, rope, tennis balls and others.”

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-convention-toy-guns-are-banned-real-guns-are-not?cid=sm_fb_maddow

:lol

I wish Coal Bear and Jon Stewart were covering the Repug clown circus for the Comedy Channel.

[ducks]

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2016/07/12/westmoreland-co-home-trumps-all-others-this-election-season/


House painted with flag lol

[DMX7]

I don't think this was a good pick but I knew he would be the guy. I think John would have been better.

[rmt]

:lol And here, all along, I thought Borowitz was Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist. I feel so stupid. Thanks for the heads up (your ass)

boutons, would you just please give me a straight answer. I don't know this author - I admit total ignorance - what I posted is off wikipedia - everything comes up that he's a comedian. But I know what type of man Ben Carson is and he would not have been saying such a thing the day when everyone knew the VP was Pence.

[rmt]

Really, boutons, you expect my ancient eyes to see that small (whatever color) font? Don't pull these stunts or I'll just not read your posts.

[Th'Pusher]

boutons, would you just please give me a straight answer. I don't know this author - I admit total ignorance - what I posted is off wikipedia - everything comes up that he's a comedian. But I know what type of man Ben Carson is and he would not have been saying such a thing the day when everyone knew the VP was Pence.

Borowitz writes satire pieces for the New Yorker. BD frequently posts them and has recently started "hiding" the link with font size and color.

Most people who frequent the political forum know this. Since you're a tourist here for the presidential election, it's an understandable mistake :lol

[boutons_deux]

Really, boutons, you expect my ancient eyes to see that small (whatever color) font? Don't pull these stunts or I'll just not read your posts.

I don't expect your ancient brain to distinguish fantasy from reality. eg, your conned self supports Trash.

[ducks]

ABC/WashPost Poll: Clinton Losing Ground Among Women


By
Sunday, 17 Jul 2016 10:21 AM


Hillary Clinton has a narrow lead of just 4 points over Donald Trump in a new national poll released Sunday.

Clinton is backed by 47 percent of voters nationally in an ABC News/Washington Post poll. Trump is at 43 percent.

But that's a steep drop from a late June version of the same poll. Back then, Clinton held a 12-point lead, 51 to 39 percent.

And while Clinton in June held a 22-percent lead among college-educated white women, pollsters found that demographic is evenly split between the two candidates.

Clinton had a double-digit lead over Trump on handling race relations, an international crisis, immigration and helping the middle class.

Trump has a 15-point edge over Clinton among white voters, while 89 percent of blacks and 74 percent of Hispanics support Clinton.


The ABC News/Washington Post poll, conducted July 11-14, has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.

[boutons_deux]

Art of the spin: Trump bankers question his portrayal of financial comeback

Donald Trump, who often says he only likes winners, tells one grand tale of loss:

In 1990, he nearly went bankrupt and was forced to ask dozens of banks to whom he owed money to change the terms on their loans and forgive some of his debts.

It was, the real estate developer admits in his 1997 book "The Art of the Comeback," the darkest period of his professional life. In his telling, it's a story of redemption, of resilience, and proof of his exceptional negotiating skills and shrewd thinking.

Six people who participated in the loan workout negotiations have a different recollection, raising questions about a key part of the personal narrative that many of Trump's supporters have found compelling as he campaigns to be the next president of the United States on Nov. 8. On the campaign trail he has portrayed himself as a survivor and a master negotiator.


The six bankers and lawyers involved in the talks say the bailout wasn't based on any overture Trump initiated with the banks - and the terms of the deal were dictated by what was best for the banks, not Trump.

Three of the participants say Trump didn't acknowledge he had a problem until his lenders reviewed his books, realized he was on the brink of collapse, and summoned him for debt restructuring talks.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-bankruptcies-insig-idUSKCN0ZX0GP?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28Reu ters+Politics+News%29

:lol

[boutons_deux]

Pence: Disney’s ‘Mulan’ was propaganda designed to lure women into military combat roles

While working as a talk radio host in Indiana, Mike Pence railed against “mischievous liberal” Disney film Mulan in an op-ed in which he asserted that the film was attempting to influence the debate on women serving in the military.

The op-ed, which was uncovered by BuzzFeed News (https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/mister-ill-make-a-man-out-of-you?utm_term=.rhPo66Zm3X#.isVaNNQmyo), not only discounts the animated character’s abilities but sexualizes and diminishes her based on her appearance.

“I suspect that some mischievous liberal at Disney assumes that Mulan’s story will cause a quiet change in the next generation’s attitude about women in combat and they just might be right,” he continued.

“(Just think about how often we think of Bambi every time the subject of deer hunting comes into the mainstream media debate.)”

He believes that Mulan’s romance with a higher ranking officer was a perfect example of why women should not be allowed to serve in the U.S. armed forces.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/pence-disneys-mulan-was-propaganda-designed-to-lure-women-into-military-combat-roles/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

yup, Trash has enlisted a extreme rightwingnut paranoid misogynist, as selected by the Repug establishment to "unite the GOP" :lol

[rmt]

So, boutons, you believe women should be in military combat roles? Would you want your daughter to have to sign up for the draft (because that's what's coming)?

[boutons_deux]

"Tony Schwartz: 'The Art of the Deal' Ghostwriter Criticizes Donald Trump, Says He 'Put Lipstick on a Pig'

“I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is," Schwartz told The New Yorker."

https://www.facebook.com/groups/FAREweirdAUSTIN/permalink/1717632138501017/?comment_id=1717669055163992&reply_comment_id=1717670928497138&notif_t=group_comment_reply&notif_id=1468847657783566

iow, just like the bankers who protected themselves from Trash's financial disasters rather than ignorant-of-his-financial-disasters Trash "artfully dealing" himself out of disaster, Schwartz is saying:

TRUMP LIED

[boutons_deux]

So, boutons, you believe women should be in military combat roles? Would you want your daughter to have to sign up for the draft (because that's what's coming)?

women are already in combat roles, in at-risk combat zones, eg getting injured, blown up driving around in Repug bullshit, unwinnable wars for BigOil. How is that working out now?

Registering for the draft is not the same being as forcibly conscripted under penalty of prison.

There won't be another forcible draft. It's politically toxic for any politicians who push it.

And a draft is unnecessary now.

Wars now are no longer state-to-state massive ground wars like WWI and WWII, needing Ms of young men to face off as expendable cannon fodder.

[boutons_deux]

Trump Thinking Of Beginning RNC Speech With Sexist Tirade He Was Saving For Special Occasion

http://i.onionstatic.com/onion/5378/0/16x9/1200.jpg

NEW YORK—As he made his final preparations for this week’s Republican National Convention, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump told reporters Sunday he was considering leading off his headlining speech with an exceptionally offensive sexist tirade he had been saving for the perfect occasion.

“Let me tell you, this vulgar, chauvinist rant that I’ve been keeping in my back pocket for months now is one of my best ever,” said Trump, adding that he could never waste such an incredibly insulting diatribe against women’s intelligence and individual agency on an ordinary stump speech.

“I’ve worked hard on this; it belittles women’s efforts at equality, repeatedly objectifies them, and really puts them in their place.

You know, maybe I should hold onto it — it would be perfect to throw in Hillary’s face on election night, or even at my inauguration. It’s so, so fantastic.”

At press time, sources confirmed that Trump had decided to debut the derogatory tirade alongside a “really incredible” new epithet for Mexicans in his opening remarks at the first presidential debate.

http://www.theonion.com/article/trump-thinking-beginning-rnc-speech-sexist-tirade--53225 (http://www.theonion.com/article/trump-thinking-beginning-rnc-speech-sexist-tirade--53225)

[Fabbs]

Rip off tard reportedly has a long history of burning people.

Trump's failed Baja condo left buyers feeling betrayed and angry

[email protected]

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-baja-snap-story.html

[ducks]

Outside Cleveland, thousands of Democrats are becoming Republicans
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/18/politics/cleveland-youngstown-ohio-democrats-republicans-political-anthropology/index.html

[RandomGuy]

You distort and post incomplete statements attributed to Trump yet you speak about intellectual honesty. :lol

Be happy to supply context, and clarify anything you think is an outright distortion.

Name an example. Unlike you, I care about the truth, and am willing to be as intellectually honest as possible.

[RandomGuy]

So, boutons, you believe women should be in military combat roles? Would you want your daughter to have to sign up for the draft (because that's what's coming)?

Yes.

and

Yes, although I don't have any daughters.

My platoon sergeant was an excellent NCO. Found out she is buried in Arlington, and married her "roommate" after "don't tell" was lifted, and she lived in a state that allowed same-sex marriages.

[hitmanyr2k]

Damn :lol

Art of the Deal ghostwriter says book is a work of fiction and he feels a great sense of remorse for writing it: Calls Donald Trump a sociopath who cannot distinguish truth from lies (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/us/politics/trump-book-tony-schwartz.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur)

Full story: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

[DMX7]

Damn :lol

Art of the Deal ghostwriter says book is a work of fiction and he feels a great sense of remorse for writing it: Calls Donald Trump a sociopath who cannot distinguish truth from lies (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/us/politics/trump-book-tony-schwartz.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur)

Full story: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

I don't buy it!

The Art of the Deal is the second best book ever written -- second only to the bible!

Someone less talented than Mr. Trump couldn't possibly have written it. :lol

[boutons_deux]

Trump sees himself as a leader, not a reader

http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/styles/ratio--3-2--1_5x-1245x830/public/gettyimages-518048510.jpg?itok=IN6C4UwA

There’s a memorable scene in “The Simpsons Movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462538/)” from 2007 in which President Schwarzenegger is told there’s a crisis in Springfield. His aide presents him with five folders, each of which includes a different response. Schwarzenegger can’t be bothered to review any of them.

“I was elected to lead, not to read,” he said (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wooGSr7k1-s) before choosing folder #3 without opening it.

Four years later, in November 2011, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain :lol was pressed to explain his incoherence and alarming ignorance about international affairs. Cain not knowing details isn’t important because, as he put it (http://washingtonmonthly.com/2011/11/17/quote-of-the-day-8/) at the time, “We need a leader, not a reader.”

Now, life is imitating art once more. The Washington Post reported (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-doesnt-read-much-being-president-probably-wouldnt-change-that/2016/07/17/d2ddf2bc-4932-11e6-90a8-fb84201e0645_story.html) today that Trump doesn’t much care for reading, and while he has a variety of magazines on his desk – each of which has Trump’s face on the cover – the Republican candidate does not have shelves of books in his office or a computer on his desk.


He said in a series of interviews that he does not need to read extensively because

he reaches the right decisions “with very little knowledge other than the knowledge I [already] had, plus the words ‘common sense,’ because I have a lot of common sense and I have a lot of business ability.” :lol

Trump said he is skeptical of experts because “they can’t see the forest for the trees.” He believes that when he makes decisions, people see that

he instinctively knows the right thing to do: “A lot of people said, ‘Man, he was more accurate than guys who have studied it all the time.’” :lol


The article added that Trump believes he “absorbs the gist of an issue very quickly,” leading him to skip past long documents. He also apparently

intended to read some presidential biographies – since he’s, you know, running for president – but decided he didn’t have time. :lol

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-sees-himself-leader-not-reader?cid=sm_fb_maddow

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Trash's star

https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/13724909_10154018358572663_4944014902477007137_o.j pg

[ducks]

who has more post in this thread people who agree with trump on some things or boutons?

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“NATO RIP”: Journalists Horrified By Trump Waffling On Security Guarantees

Media figures across the political spectrum reacted with dismay and disbelief after The New York Timesreported that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “called into question whether, as president, he would automatically extend the security guarantees” to members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) if they were attacked by Russia.

In a July 20 interview (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/us/politics/donald-trump-issues.html?_r=0) with the Times, Trump “said that he would press the theme of ‘America First,’ his rallying cry for the past four months, and that he was prepared to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada if he could not negotiate radically better terms.”

Trump also suggested that he would not honor America’s treaty obligations to defend members of NATO from attack:

He even called into question whether, as president, he would automatically extend the security guarantees that give the 28 members of NATO the assurance that the full force of the United States military has their back.

For example, asked about Russia’s threatening activities that have unnerved the small Baltic States that are the most recent entrants into NATO, Mr. Trump said that if Russia attacked them, he would decide whether to come to their aid only after reviewing whether those nations “have fulfilled their obligations to us.”


Several journalists have documented (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/donald-trump-working-for-russia.html) the close ties (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/vladimir_putin_has_a_plan_for_destroying_the_west_ and_it_looks_a_lot_like.html) and apparent affinity (http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/12/18/cnns-peter-beinart-trumps-relationship-with-put/207600) between Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/07/20/nato-rip-journalists-horrified-trump-waffling-security-guarantees/211772?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair+%28Media+Matters+for+America+-+Blog%29

Trash! :lol

Trash supporters! :lol

Watch Trash supporters come in and defend Trash's saying he will not be bound by NATO, that he could let Russia invade any NATO Trash didn't like.

[boutons_deux]

The people who seriously believe that Trash

can destroy ISIS,

fix immigration, and

improve the economy

must think that it is easier to be President than to keep a minor steak company from going out of business.

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So far, the only things I've agreed with at this convention were the things Michelle Obama said.

https://www.facebook.com/andyborowitz/?fref=nf

[ducks]

Republican pollster Frank Luntz turned to Twitter late Thursday night to predict that the Republican National Convention would propel Donald Trump ahead of or near Hillary Clinton in the polls within a few days.

"Mark my words," Luntz tweeted, "This speech will put Trump even or ahead of Hillary in polls by Monday, when the Democratic convention begins."

Luntz's prediction came after Trump formally accepted the Republican nomination for president in his Thursday-night speech.

[DMX7]

The people who seriously believe that Trash

can destroy ISIS,

fix immigration, and

improve the economy

must think that it is easier to be President than to keep a minor steak company from going out of business.

===

So far, the only things I've agreed with at this convention were the things Michelle Obama said.

https://www.facebook.com/andyborowitz/?fref=nf

756505357065662466

The BEST speech this person has ever heard... from a presidential candidate.

BEST EVER!!!

[DisAsTerBot]

So, boutons, you believe women should be in military combat roles? Would you want your daughter to have to sign up for the draft (because that's what's coming)?

so you have no concern with your son signing up for the draft? daughters life > son's life ??

[DMX7]

So, boutons, you believe women should be in military combat roles? Would you want your daughter to have to sign up for the draft (because that's what's coming)?
I don't think women should have to sign up for the draft but I believe they should be allowed in military combat roles if they want to be and can prove they are able.

[boutons_deux]

BAR OFFICIALLY CANNOT BE LOWERED

MINNEAPOLIS — A group of scholars who have been monitoring the descent of the bar over the past few decades have concluded that the bar can no longer be lowered, the scholars announced on Friday.

The academics, led by Professor Davis Logsdon, of the University of Minnesota, published their conclusion after their research definitively found that the bar had finally dropped to its lowest possible position.

“For those who thought the bar still had room to be lowered, our findings resoundingly contradict that assumption,” Logsdon said. “The bar is now essentially flush with the ground.”

Logsdon acknowledged that he and his fellow scholars have come under fire in the past for claiming that the bar could not be further lowered,

specifically when they issued a paper to that effect after the selection of the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee in 2008.

“We got that one wrong,” he said. “Clearly, the bar still had a way to go.”

Now that the issue of whether the bar can be further lowered has been settled, Logsdon and his colleagues plan to examine the question of whether there is anything left to scrape at the bottom of the barrel.

“Our findings are preliminary, but it appears that the answer is no,” he said.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/bar-officially-cannot-be-lowered

[CosmicCowboy]

756505357065662466

The BEST speech this person has ever heard... from a presidential candidate.

BEST EVER!!!

Well, at least he didn't promise to make the ocean levels fall.

[boutons_deux]

With the convention over, Trump returns focus to Cruz’s dad

In early May, .... the GOP candidate called in to Fox News to take a literally unbelievable shot (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-latest-conspiracy-theory-doozy-even-trump) at Ted Cruz.

“His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald’s being – you know, shot. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous,” Trump said.

“What is this, right prior to his being shot, and nobody even brings it up.

They don’t even talk about that…. I mean, what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death?

Before the shooting? It’s horrible.”

Offered an opportunity to walk it back the next day, Trump refused (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/donald-all-i-know-whats-the-internet-trump). The JFK-related story was in theNational Enquirer, Trump said, so it shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand. :lol

This morning, Trump, joined by running mate Mike Pence, hosted an event with supporters in Ohio, where the presidential hopeful decided to return to the story about Ted Cruz’s father. Vox posted (http://www.vox.com/2016/7/22/12257388/donald-trump-ted-cruz-jfk-assassination-lee-harvey-oswald) the jaw-dropping transcript:

“All I did was point out that on the cover of the National Enquirer there was a picture of him and crazy Lee Harvey Oswald having breakfast.

Now, Ted never denied that it was his father…. This was a magazine that frankly, in many respects, should be very respected.

They got OJ, they got Edwards. If that was the New York Times, they would’ve gotten Pulitzer Prizes for their reporting.

I’ve always said, ‘Why didn’t the National Enquirer get the Pulitzer Prize for Edwards, and OJ Simpson, and all of these things?’

“But anyway, so they have a picture, an old picture, having breakfast with Lee Harvey Oswald.

Now, I’m not saying anything. :lol

Here’s how the press takes that story. This had nothing to do with me. Except I might have pointed it out, but it had nothing to do with me, I have no control over anything. :lol

I might have pointed it out. But nobody ever denied – did anyone ever deny that it was his father? It’s a little hard to do, because it looks like him.”


This is just an excerpt, by the way, Trump kept going, including another riff on the National Enquirer’s “credibility,” which the candidate considers impressive.

This is the first day of Donald J. Trump’s general election campaign. :lol

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-convention-over-trump-returns-focus-cruzs-dad?cid=sm_fb_maddow

All y'all's Donny Trash is one sick motherfucker.

[CosmicCowboy]

:lmao Bookaki cockslobbering for Cruz.

[boutons_deux]

:lmao Bookaki cockslobbering for Cruz.

You Wish, You Lie

Your nutcase Trash gonna get his tiny dick kicked in come November

[rmt]

so you have no concern with your son signing up for the draft? daughters life > son's life ??

Call me old fashioned but if I'm in a burning house and injured, I'd rather see a male firefighter come through that door than a female one. Yes, I expect my husband and over 6' son to protect us - my petite 5' daughter wouldn't even be able to climb over that wall in that movie An Officer and a Gentleman. If a woman wants to join, sure, go ahead, but I don't think think they should have to sign up for the draft.

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[RandomGuy]

mNiqpBNE9ik


It is rather shameless how much the Fox "news" bunch have to backflip when all their critiques of Obama through the years are directly applicable to Trump.

[DisAsTerBot]

Call me old fashioned but if I'm in a burning house and injured, I'd rather see a male firefighter come through that door than a female one. Yes, I expect my husband and over 6' son to protect us - my petite 5' daughter wouldn't even be able to climb over that wall in that movie An Officer and a Gentleman. If a woman wants to join, sure, go ahead, but I don't think think they should have to sign up for the draft.

so it depends how tall they are. got it. your logic is mesmerizing

[rmt]

Trump just couldn't keep his mouth shut about Cruz, could he? Cruz was doing a good enough job hanging himself.

[RandomGuy]

"raging narcisist who has no grip on reality"

Trump or Obama?

:lmao

[RandomGuy]

"thin skinned narcissist"

Trump or Obama?

[RandomGuy]

"most divisive leader ever"

Trump or Obama?

[rmt]

so it depends how tall they are. got it. your logic is mesmerizing

Are you implying that most men are not bigger, faster and stronger than women. You want men at home while their women possibly go fight before them? I guess equality has gone so far that it isn't women and children first - it'd be give me that life jacket.

[RandomGuy]

Sean Hannity on Obama's love of the Teleprompter:
"He can't talk unless he has one..."

Sean Hannity on Trumps use of teleprompter:
"really well done for someone who has never done it before"

:lmao

What a fuckstick.

[CosmicCowboy]

Are you implying that most men are not bigger, faster and stronger than women. You want men at home while their women possibly go fight before them? I guess equality has gone so far that it isn't women and children first - it'd be give me that life jacket.

These sissymen in here would love for your daughter to go fight for them.

[RandomGuy]

on Obama the elitist:

"Obama is anything but mainstream, sitting in his million dollar home, claiming to be for the people, we have to wonder how in touch he is with the regular american people"

wow...

[RandomGuy]

Are you implying that most men are not bigger, faster and stronger than women. You want men at home while their women possibly go fight before them? I guess equality has gone so far that it isn't women and children first - it'd be give me that life jacket.

Yes, humans are a sexually dimorphous species.

I have no problem with women physically capable of jobs doing them.

Implying that no women can be as capable... is to sell those that are a bit short.

[RandomGuy]

Hannity on Obama ordering a burger with dijon mustard:

"what a fancy burger"

Hannity on a guy sits on a literal golden chair, with his name in gold letters, at the top of a tower named after him, eating pizza with a knife and fork:

"you once called your dad a blue collar billionaire"

um... yeah.

[DisAsTerBot]

These sissymen in here would love for your daughter to go fight for them.

yes the idea of women in the draft pool is in lieu of men. god you are a dumbass

[rmt]

Yes, humans are a sexually dimorphous species.

I have no problem with women physically capable of jobs doing them.

Implying that no women can be as capable... is to sell those that are a bit short.

Maybe you missed the part where I said that if a woman wants to join, go ahead. I have no problem if they WANT to go. I do have a problem with forcing women to sign up for the draft.

[tlongII]

Hannity is an idiot. Who gives a shit what he thinks.