Church of Trump

[RandomGuy]

Hannity is an idiot. Who gives a shit what he thinks.

Far too many conservatives do.

What does that say about conservatives?

[rmt]

yes the idea of women in the draft pool is in lieu of men. god you are a dumbass

Isn't there some kind of sign up order - that women already in the pool would go ahead of 18 year old males just joining? So my husband who is "too old" would stay home while his daughter goes to fight for him?

[DisAsTerBot]

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.

what do you think happens when men are drafted that are physically or mentally incapable of serving?

[RandomGuy]

http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/02/sean-hannity-is-now-number-two-at-fox-news-ahead-of-megyn-kelly/


ENTERTAINMENT
Sean Hannity Is Now Number Two At Fox News, Ahead Of Megyn Kelly [VIDEO]


According to Nielsen Media Research, Hannity received 2,078,000 viewers (up 35 percent) with 460,000 viewers in the key 25-54 demographic, (a 21 percent increase) in the month of May. Hannity had the biggest year-to-year increases for all of FNC.


the biggest ratings at the main conservative news network.

Looks like quite a few people care what Sean Hannity thinks.

... and conservatives wonder why us liberals don't take the conservative media bullshit seriously...

[spurraider21]

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.
President Poupon

[ducks]

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has pulled nearly even with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for the first time since May, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken over the course of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week.

The July 18 to 22 national online poll found that 41 percent of likely voters supported Clinton, while 38 percent supported Trump. Given the poll's credibility interval of about 4 percentage points, Trump and Clinton should be considered to be about even in the race.





Just before Republicans opened the convention on Monday, Trump had trailed Clinton by nearly 10 percentage points in the poll.

[tlongII]

Meh, they're both way behind O'Reilly.

[rmt]

what do you think happens when men are drafted that are physically or mentally incapable of serving?

I would guess that there's some kind of physical test that they have to go through before serving eg. my youngest son has severe food allergies - how in the world could he go into combat if he can't eat the food? I would expect that there would be some kind of exemption for people like him.

[DisAsTerBot]

I would guess that there's some kind of physical test that they have to go through before serving eg. my youngest son has severe food allergies - how in the world could he go into combat if he can't eat the food? I would expect that there would be some kind of exemption for people like him.

BINGO!
or women who are not physically or mentally capable. Fucking christ took forever to lead you to a simple point.

[rmt]

BINGO!
or women who are not physically or mentally capable. Fucking christ took forever to lead you to a simple point.

I am not talking about anyone (whether male or female) who has some physical problem - I am talking about healthy young women. That physically-able males would stay behind (e.g. my "too old" husband) while women fight for them is abhorrent to me.

[boutons_deux]

A Third Woman Alleges She Was Sexually Assaulted By Donald Trumphttp://www.alternet.org/election-2016/third-woman-alleges-she-was-sexually-assaulted-donald-trump

[boutons_deux]

Everyone Creeped Out By Donald Trump Touching His Daughter (http://crooksandliars.com/2016/07/everyone-creeped-out-donald-trump-touching)

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/07/everyone-creeped-out-donald-trump-touching?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=im

She's knows where he's been before and she is recoiling.

Remember when he said he would date (fuck) her if she weren't his daughter?

[boutons_deux]

MSNBC Warns Sensitive Viewers Before Showing Anti-Hillary Buttons

http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2016/07/triggered-msnbc-warns-sensitive-viewers-before-showing-anti-hillary-buttons/

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Trump Promises Paul Ryan That He’ll Sound Slightly Less Like Hitler


WASHINGTON — In what is being hailed as a productive closed-door meeting between two leaders of the Republican Party, Donald J. Trump promised House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday that he would try to sound slightly less like the former German Chancellor Adolf Hitler.

Speaking to reporters at the U.S. Capitol after the meeting, the presumptive G.O.P. nominee said that Ryan had expressed concern that so many of the billionaire’s public utterances were reminiscent of the Third Reich.

“Paul basically said, ‘Can you help me out here? Can you not sound like Hitler all the time?’” Trump said. “And I was like, ‘Paul, I can absolutely do that for you.’”

As an example, Trump said,

“Instead of saying I am going to round up people based on their religion, I’ll say that’s just a suggestion. Just like that, I’m fifty per cent less Hitlerish.”

Trump acknowledged that the

challenge for him will be to sound somewhat less like Hitler to please congressional Republicans while still sounding enough like Hitler to avoid alienating his key constituencies of Nazis and white supremacists.

“Figuring out just how much like Hitler I’m going to be at any given time is the kind of thing I’ve always been fantastic at,” he said.


http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-promises-paul-ryan-that-hell-sound-slightly-less-like-hitler (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-promises-paul-ryan-that-hell-sound-slightly-less-like-hitler)

[boutons_deux]

That didn't take long

Donald Trump is a unique threat to American democracy

By Editorial Board (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-posts-view/) July 22 at 3:59 PM

The real estate tycoon is uniquely unqualified to serve as president, in experience and temperament.

He is mounting a campaign of snarl and sneer, not substance.

To the extent he has views, they are wrong in their diagnosis of America’s problems and dangerous in their proposed solutions.

Mr. Trump’s politics of denigration and division could strain the bonds that have held a diverse nation together.

His contempt for constitutional norms might reveal the nation’s two-century-old experiment in checks and balances to be more fragile than we knew.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-is-a-unique-threat-to-american-democracy/2016/07/22/a6d823cc-4f4f-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html?wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1

Will any major newspapers endorse Trash?

55% - 45% minimum spread

Any tie or lead now is pure campaign puff up to keep audiences' interest (and ad $$ flowing)

[boutons_deux]

Trump Tries to Stiff Small Business – Gets Nailed for $300,000 in Attorney’s Fees

Trump stiffed The Paint Spot $34K, claiming it had been “paid enough” regardless of the contract he had signed

The Miami Herald reported (http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/jose-lambiet/article91353232.html)Friday that “Circuit Court Judge Jorge Cueto, presiding over a lawsuit related to unpaid bills brought by a local paint store against the Trump National Doral Miami golf resort, ordered the billionaire politician’s company to pay the Doral-based mom-and-pop shop nearly $300,000 in attorney’s fees.

”Yes. Another example of Donald Trump stiffing those who do work for him. Not paying his debts. You know, managing money – the thing of which he says he is the master.Apparently The Paint Spot did a job for Trump and Trump failed to make a final payment of $34,863 on a $200,000 bill for paint used at the resort.

The guy who thinks he is immune to all laws – and indeed, the United States Constitution – figured The Paint Spot had been “paid enough” regardless of the contract his company had signed.

(http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/23/trump-stiff-small-business-nailed-300000-attorneys-fees.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29)http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/23/trump-stiff-small-business-nailed-300000-attorneys-fees.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

Trash is gonna "stiff" Trash supporters by NEVER delivering the bullshit he's suckering them with.

[boutons_deux]

Benghazi victim's mother calls on Trump to stop invoking son's death

The mother of the U.S. ambassador killed in the 2012 Benghazi attacks called on Republicans to stop invoking her son on Friday, blasting their references to his death as “opportunistic and cynical.”

“As Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens’s mother, I am writing to object to any mention of his name and death in Benghazi, Libya, by Donald Trump (http://thehill.com/people/donald-trump)’s campaign and the Republican Party,” Mary F. Commanday wrote in a l (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/opinion/a-mothers-complaint-about-a-cynical-use-of-benghazi.html)etter to the editor (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/opinion/a-mothers-complaint-about-a-cynical-use-of-benghazi.html) published in the New York Times Friday.

“I know for certain that Chris would not have wanted his name or memory used in that connection,” she continued. “I hope that there will be an immediate and permanent stop to this opportunistic and cynical use by the campaign.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/288981-benghazi-victims-mother-calls-on-trump-gop-to-stop

Trash uses pop songs without permission or royalty, so I figure he has 4 months to keep using Stevens' name.

[boutons_deux]

NPR jumps onto the pile of fact-checkers trashing Trash

FACT CHECK: Donald Trump's Republican Convention Speech, Annotated

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/21/486883610/fact-check-donald-trumps-republican-convention-speech-annotated?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160724&utm_campaign=bestofnpr&utm_term=nprnews

[clambake]

thanks boo. that alls seems very appealing!

[boutons_deux]

Trump says his speech was very posistive, because he's say he's going to fix all the nightmares he listed

:lol

Repugs are so fucked!

[boutons_deux]

Trump says US could pull out of World Trade Organization if he is president


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/trump-says-us-could-pull-out-of-world-trade-organization-if-he-is-president/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[DeadlyDynasty]

Cosmored uses more reputable sources than you^

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White supremacists feel inspired by Trump’s 2016 campaign


“I don’t think people have fully recognized the degree to which he’s transformed the party,” said Richard Spencer, a clean-cut 38-year-old from Arlington, Virginia, who sipped Manhattans as he matter-of-factly called for removing African-Americans, Hispanics and Jews from the United States.

Like most in his group, Spencer said this year’s convention was his first. On his social media accounts, he posted pictures of himself wearing a red Trump “Make America Great Again” hat at Quicken Loans Arena. And he says he hopes to attend future GOP conventions.

“Tons of people in the alt-right are here,” he said, putting their numbers at the RNC this week in the dozens. “

We feel an investment in the Trump campaign.”

It’s not just Trump’s own racist rhetoric that raises concern; it’s also the

white supremacists who were elected as Republican delegates (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-nominates-then-dumps-white-supremacist-as-a-gop-convention-delegate/2016/05/11/20281480-17a1-11e6-924d-838753295f9a_story.html) (who were later forced out by party officials);

the racist social-media accounts whose messages were promoted (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rnc-displays-white-nationalist-tweet-as-trump-accepts-nomination) at the Republican convention (they were later dismissed as an accident); and

even Republican convention speakers who, as recently as the weekend,endorsed (https://www.buzzfeed.com/talalansari/flynn-tweet?utm_term=.dvZ3lejAgv&bftw=pol#.vvDOgqjDPK) anti-Semitic comments (this, too, was later described as an accident).

“Would you support a Democrat over David Duke if that was what was necessary to defeat him?”

Trash replied, “I guess, depending on who the Democrat is, but the answer would be yes.”

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/white-supremacists-feel-inspired-trumps-2016-campaign?cid=sm_fb_maddow

Trash and his Trash-y supporters.

I expect Trash to take his campaign in the next 90 days closer and closer to 1930s Germany.

[ducks]

his son in law is jew
I doubt this
oh and presidents half brother who is black is voting for him

[boutons_deux]

Is Donald Trump a Racist?

Donald Trump was then president of the family real estate firm, and the government amassed overwhelming evidence that the company had a policy of discriminating against blacks, including those serving in the military.

To prove the discrimination, blacks were repeatedly dispatched as testers to Trump apartment buildings to inquire about vacancies, and white testers were sent soon after. Repeatedly, the black person was told that nothing was available, while the white tester was shown apartments for immediate rental.

A former building superintendent working for the Trumps explained that he was told to code any application by a black person with the letter C, for colored, apparently so the office would know to reject it.

A Trump rental agent said the Trumps wanted to rent only to “Jews and executives,” and discouraged renting to blacks.

Donald Trump furiously fought the civil rights suit in the courts and the media, but the Trumps eventually settled on terms that were widely regarded as a victory for the government. Three years later, the government sued the Trumps again, for continuing to discriminate.

Yet even if Donald Trump inherited his firm’s discriminatory policies, he allied himself decisively in the 1970s housing battle against the civil rights movement.

Trump stepped in, denounced Mayor Ed Koch’s call for peace and bought full-page newspaper ads calling for the death penalty. The five teenagers spent years in prison before being exonerated. In retrospect, they suffered a modern version of a lynching, and Trump played a part in whipping up the crowds.

“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor. … They put us all in the back.”

Trump as criticizing a black accountant and saying: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”

Trump’s suggestions that President Obama was born in Kenya;

his insinuations that Obama was admitted to Ivy League schools only because of affirmative action;

his denunciations (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/07/08/donald-trumps-false-comments-connecting-mexican-immigrants-and-crime/) of Mexican immigrants as, “in many cases, criminals, drug dealers, rapists”;

his calls for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States; his dismissal of an American-born judge of Mexican ancestry as a Mexican who cannot fairly hear his case;

his reluctance (http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/28/politics/donald-trump-white-supremacists/) to distance himself from the Ku Klux Klan in a television interview;

his retweet of a graphic suggesting that 81 percent of white murder victims are killed by blacks (the actual figure is about 15 percent);

Trump has also retweeted messages (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/us/politics/donald-trump-white-identity.html?_r=0) from white supremacists or Nazi sympathizers,

a man who for more than four decades has been repeatedly associated with racial discrimination or bigoted comments about minorities, some of them made on television for all to see. While any one episode may be ambiguous, what emerges over more than four decades is a narrative arc, a consistent pattern — and I don’t see what else to call it but racism.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/opinion/sunday/is-donald-trump-a-racist.html

iow, Trash is the PERFECT GOP candidate.

[ducks]

if trump is racist would it not have came out years ago?
it is not like he is not known

[DMX7]

:depressed

757565892146454532

[boutons_deux]

if trump is racist would it not have came out years ago?
it is not like he is not known

read the fucking article, it goes back 45 years, up to present. ducks is a Trash supporter

[boutons_deux]

Team Trash eyes new super PAC – to target Republicans

sources close to Trump were saying Trump intends to (http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-07-22/trump-would-fund-super-pacs-aimed-at-taking-down-cruz-kasich-iqybu9m1) “create and fund super-PACs specifically aimed at ending the political careers of Ted Cruz and John Kasich should either run for office again.” On “Meet the Press” yesterday, the Republican nominee confirmed those plans (http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-july-24-2016-n615706) to NBC’s Chuck Todd.

“Look, what’s on my mind is beating Hillary Clinton. What’s on my mind is winning for the Republican Party. With that being said, yeah,

I’ll probably do a super PAC, you know, when they run against Kasich, for $10 million to $20 million, against Ted Cruz. And maybe one other person that I’m thinking about.”


Asked who the other Republican might be, Trump told the host, “I won’t tell you that.”

Ted Cruz and John Kasich are still Republicans in good standing, but they’re not comfortable with Trump – so the GOP nominee is plotting to end their careers.

As Business Insider’s Josh Barro put it (http://www.businessinsider.com/a-few-thoughts-on-trumps-apparent-threat-to-fund-super-pacs-against-cruz-and-kasich-2016-7),

“Not that we needed more evidence, but this is a demonstration that Trump acts out of pique and will pursue non-strategic vendettas. How might that work out when Trump feels disrespected by a foreign leader and has the ability to launch nuclear weapons?”

A week from now, it’s entirely possible Trump will pretend none of this happened, and when asked, he’ll deny ever having talked about this super PAC idea at all. He’s that kind of candidate.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/team-trump-eyes-new-super-pac-target-republicans?cid=sm_fb_maddow

Trash!

[DMX7]

Team Trash eyes new super PAC – to target Republicans

sources close to Trump were saying Trump intends to (http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-07-22/trump-would-fund-super-pacs-aimed-at-taking-down-cruz-kasich-iqybu9m1) “create and fund super-PACs specifically aimed at ending the political careers of Ted Cruz and John Kasich should either run for office again.” On “Meet the Press” yesterday, the Republican nominee confirmed those plans (http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-july-24-2016-n615706) to NBC’s Chuck Todd.

“Look, what’s on my mind is beating Hillary Clinton. What’s on my mind is winning for the Republican Party. With that being said, yeah, I’ll probably do a super PAC, you know, when they run against Kasich, for $10 million to $20 million, against Ted Cruz. And maybe one other person that I’m thinking about.”


Asked who the other Republican might be, Trump told the host, “I won’t tell you that.”

Ted Cruz and John Kasich are still Republicans in good standing, but they’re not comfortable with Trump – so the GOP nominee is plotting to end their careers.

As Business Insider’s Josh Barro put it (http://www.businessinsider.com/a-few-thoughts-on-trumps-apparent-threat-to-fund-super-pacs-against-cruz-and-kasich-2016-7),

“Not that we needed more evidence, but this is a demonstration that Trump acts out of pique and will pursue non-strategic vendettas. How might that work out when Trump feels disrespected by a foreign leader and has the ability to launch nuclear weapons?”

A week from now, it’s entirely possible Trump will pretend none of this happened, and when asked, he’ll deny ever having talked about this super PAC idea at all. He’s that kind of candidate.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/team-trump-eyes-new-super-pac-target-republicans?cid=sm_fb_maddow

Trash!




Are you a Ted Cruz supporter? Is that why you're mad?

[ducks]

read the fucking article, it goes back 45 years, up to present. ducks is a Trash supporter



why did it not come out tell now?
I mean tv shows hired him for years

[boutons_deux]

why did it not come out tell now?
I mean tv shows hired him for years

:lol

[DMX7]

Mr. Trump is not a racist. How ridiculous. Just because you disagree with his politics that doesn't mean you have to go and call him a racist. It's so old, and quite frankly, it's sad, it's very sad... if you wanna know the truth.

[boutons_deux]

Mr. Trump is not a racist. How ridiculous. Just because you disagree with his politics that doesn't mean you have to go and call him a racist. It's so old, and quite frankly, it's sad, it's very sad... if you wanna know the truth.

He's a racist, going back 45 years. He's attracting racists, xenophobes, white nationalists because of his non-dog-whistled, BLATANT appeals to racism, stealing the dog-whistled hate of the party of racism.

[DMX7]

He's a racist, going back 45 years. He's attracting racists, xenophobes, white nationalists because of his non-dog-whistled, BLATANT appeals to racism, stealing the dog-whistled hate of the party of racism.

Xenophobic? He ran the Miss Universe pageant for Christ's sake! With contestants from all around the world! Two of his three wives were foreigners! He has hired thousands of minorities!

Look, successful businessmen (especially salesmen) can't afford to be racist. They need all the prospective buyers they can get. Mr. Trump has been involved with hundreds of business dealings for decades and almost no one is coming out of the woodwork to say that he is a racist or ever acted racist. It's really a disgusting tactic to call him a racist and it's one of the many reasons I find myself distancing myself from the democratic party... because of people like you.

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Trump campaign believes job numbers are ‘massaged’

Late last week, as Donald Trump made claims about the U.S. crime rate that were demonstrably untrue, many began to wonder why the campaign was presenting fiction as fact.

Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman, said the FBI’s data may show a steady decline in the crime rate, but Americans shouldn’t necessarily trust the FBI (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/team-trump-has-no-use-reliable-crime-data). Federal law enforcement, Manafort argued, is “suspect these days.”

Three days later, Don Trump Jr. appeared on CNN in his official capacity as a campaign surrogate, and Jake Tapper reminded him that not only has the crime rate improved, but “unemployment is much, much lower than when President Obama took office. Trump Jr. wasn’t impressed (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/24/sotu.01.html).

“These are artificial numbers, Jake. These are numbers that are massaged to make the existing economy look good and make the administration look good when in fact it’s a total disaster.”


It prompted the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein to note (https://twitter.com/samsteinhp/status/757207235206361089),

“So, to be clear, the Trump campaign trusts the National Enquirer but not the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”

When introducing Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) as his running mate, Trump had one talking point he was especially proud of (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/republicans-accidentally-boast-about-obama-era-economy): “Indiana, their unemployment rate has fallen, when he was there, when he started, 8.4% when he was governor, when he took over, to less than 5% in May of 2016.”

what’s the source of those Indiana numbers with which Trump is so impressed? That would be the Bureau of Labor Statistics – the same government agency Trump Jr. accused of “massaging” data and releasing “artificial numbers.”

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-campaign-believes-job-numbers-are-massaged?cid=sm_fb_maddow

[ElNono]

757719728072847360

:lol

[spurraider21]

757719728072847360

:lol
:lmao snowden shitting bricks... if trump gets elected putin would send his ass over tbh

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Mr. Trump is not a racist. How ridiculous. Just because you disagree with his politics that doesn't mean you have to go and call him a racist. It's so old, and quite frankly, it's sad, it's very sad... if you wanna know the truth.

:lol now you're starting to phrase like him.

[Spurminator]

:lmao snowden shitting bricks... if trump gets elected putin would send his ass over tbh

You think?

If Trump gets elected, it could largely be attributed to some of the information Snowden helped make public.

[spurraider21]

You think?

If Trump gets elected, it could largely be attributed to some of the information Snowden helped make public.
if snowden and trump were on good terms, he wouldn't call him a cuck on twitter

[ducks]

Despite distaste for Clinton, Patel said many delegates are afraid of Trump's growing strength in the polls. "I've knocked on literally thousands of doors and made thousands of phone calls for Sanders -- Democrats' doors and phone calls -- and it's terrifying how many of them have said they will vote for Trump. These are Democrats -- and I live in a swing state."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/26/politics/bernie-sanders-supporters-react-dnc/index.html

[ElNono]

if snowden and trump were on good terms, he wouldn't call him a cuck on twitter

Frankly, he can't possibly be in good terms with either... Shillary is basically Barry bis, Trump represents 'Murica...

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TRUMP SAYS HE HEROICALLY AVOIDED CAPTURE IN VIETNAM BY STAYING IN U.S.

AMES, IOWA — Presidential candidate Donald Trump revealed a little-known episode of personal heroism from his youth on Saturday, telling an Iowa audience that he narrowly avoided capture in Vietnam by remaining in the United States for the duration of the war.

“The Cong were after me,” Trump said, visibly stirred by the memory. “And then, just in the nick of time, I got my deferment.”
The former reality-show star said he had never shared his record as a war hero before because “I don’t like to boast.”

He said that he only disclosed the episode now because “the way this nation treats our deferment veterans is a disgrace.”

Trump complained that he received no official commendation or medal for his heroism, calling the lack of recognition “shameful.”

“Those brave Americans who, like me, avoided being captured by not serving at all—we are the true heroes,” he said.

Trump’s tale of valor appeared to move many members of his audience, some of whom waited in line after his speech to thank him for his lack of service.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-says-he-heroically-avoided-capture-in-vietnam-by-staying-in-u-s (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-says-he-heroically-avoided-capture-in-vietnam-by-staying-in-u-s)

[Spurminator]

if snowden and trump were on good terms, he wouldn't call him a cuck on twitter

I don't necessarily think they're on good terms but Snowden's asylum doesn't present any tangible danger to a Trump Presidency. If anything, he's another liberal bogeyman for Trump to use to increase state surveillance.

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The death of one party, the birth of another

Nicolle Wallace, a longtime GOP strategist, had a memorable exchange (https://mediamatters.org/video/2016/07/22/nbcs-nicolle-wallace-republican-party-died-room-tonight/211815) with NBC’s Chuck Todd.


WALLACE: [T]he Republican Party that I worked for for two decades died in this room tonight. We are now represented as a Party by a man who believes in protectionism, isolationism, and nativism. And those were the forces that George W. Bush, and I believe John McCain too, were most worried about during their times as the leaders of the Republican Party.

CHUCK TODD: Striking comment. You believe the party died tonight?

WALLACE: Well, the voters picked this guy. This is where the Republican Party is now. They now are attracted to those forces of isolationism and protectionism. But the party I was part of for two decades is dead.


Avik Roy, a Republican health care wonk with whom I’ve disagreed many, many times, has been deeply involved in GOP politics for many years.

He spoke to Vox (http://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12256510/republican-party-trump-avik-roy) yesterday about the state of his party and the degree to which, as Vox put it, Republicans are “driven by white nationalism rather than a true commitment to equality for all Americans.”

“I think the conservative movement is fundamentally broken,” Roy tells me. “Trump is not a random act. This election is not a random act.” […]

“Conservative intellectuals, and conservative politicians, have been in kind of a bubble,” Roy says. “We’ve had this view that the voters were with us on conservatism – philosophical, economic conservatism. In reality, the gravitational center of the Republican Party is white nationalism.”


New York’s Jon Chait made a related point (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/trump-to-transform-gop-into-white-identity-party.html) last week, reflecting on the GOP convention, explaining Trump’s rise as part of the Republican Party’s transition from a conservative party into an explicitly ethno-nationalistic, “white-identity-politics” party.

Clare Malone recently argued something similar at FiveThirtyEight, explaining the degree to which the GOP’s small-government ethos has been completely replaced by the politics of “racial and cultural resentment (http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-end-of-a-republican-party/?ex_cid=538twitter).”

When Republicans talk about the death of their party, I think this is ultimately what they’re referring to. Sure, some of these trends and ideas have been part of the GOP’s diaspora for years, but what’s new – what marks the death of one party and the birth of another – is the way in which Republicans in 2016 have come to define themselves, not by principles of equal opportunity and the free market, but by the ethno-nationalistic tenets the party has traditionally tried to suppress.

Those efforts have failed. It’s a new Republican Party now.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-death-one-party-the-birth-another?cid=sm_fb_maddow

The proof of any "death of the Repug mob" will be in November, how many Repug Congressional, state, local incumbents are re-elected

My guess:

Trash will be crushed, the Repug/VRWC/1%/BigCorp establishment will resume total control, and the preferences of Trash's supporters will be ignored, as always for all voters.

[boutons_deux]

George Will raises possible Trump link to Russian oligarchs
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/289241-george-will-raises-possible-trump-link-to-russian-oligarchs

[hater]

Snowden is going HAM on US police state. Why in the would would Putin stop that? :lmao

[ducks]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CoT4wKoXgAAofUY.jpg

[Splits]

51k posts and still can't embed an image

[boutons_deux]

USA Freedom Kids, formerly viral Trash supporters, now suing Donald Trash. Sad! (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/26/1552670/-USA-Freedom-Kids-formerly-viral-Trump-supporters-now-suing-Donald-Trump) Very Sad!


http://images.dailykos.com/images/278835/story_image/GettyImages-540315214.jpg?1469551799

The USA Freedom Kids rocketed to a kind of creepy viral stardom back in January after appearing at a Donald Trump rally, but now they’re joining the long, long list of people and businesses who’ve felt duped and stiffed by Trump — and they’re suing (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/26/the-creator-of-the-viral-pro-trump-act-usa-freedom-kids-now-plans-to-sue-the-campaign/?postshare=2561469542879678&tid=ss_tw).

The campaign made a counter-offer: How about a table where the group could pre-sell albums? Popick took the deal.When they arrived at the venue, though, there was no table, Popick says. The result was "complete chaos," he said. "They clearly had made no provisions for that."

In addition to costs spent on promotional materials for the non-existent table, Popick says, he also lost several promotional opportunities due to confusion over his relationship with the campaign.

Later, they were invited to Trump’s veterans fundraising event (the one to cover for the fact that he was too scared of Megyn Kelly to appear at a Fox News debate), only to have their appearance canceled after they’d paid for plane tickets and hotel rooms.

you can’t ignore the pattern: Trump breaks promises to small businesses (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/06/10/1536990/-Deadbeat-Donald-Trump-doesn-t-pay-his-bills) all the time, at great cost to those small businesses. In this case, he and his campaign broke a promise to a fervent public supporter—and to children.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/07/26/1552670/-USA-Freedom-Kids-formerly-viral-Trump-supporters-now-suing-Donald-Trump?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

Deadbeat Donald—Trump doesn't pay his bills (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/10/1536990/-Deadbeat-Donald-Trump-doesn-t-pay-his-bills)

Donald Trump often portrays himself as a savior of the working class who will "protect your job." But a USA TODAY NETWORK analysis found

he has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades

— and a large number of those involve ordinary Americans …

who say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them.

The big glass lobby around the Trump Tower? Yeah, Trump didn’t pay for that.

Or the carpet.

He stiffed his plumber.

Shorted the painters.

Regularly under-pays the hourly workers at his resorts.

Trump didn’t even pay the real estate brokers who moved his million dollar apartments.

He didn’t even …. Well, this is kind of amazing. Among those he didn’t pay?


Several law firms that once represented him in these suits and others. :lol


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/06/10/1536990/-Deadbeat-Donald-Trump-doesn-t-pay-his-bills

[DMX7]

:lol now you're starting to phrase like him.

WAPO: 47 things that have made Donald Trump ‘sad’ since he launched his campaign

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/03/47-things-that-have-made-donald-trump-sad-since-he-launched-his-campaign/

[CosmicCowboy]

USA Freedom Kids, formerly viral Trash supporters, now suing Donald Trash. Sad! (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/26/1552670/-USA-Freedom-Kids-formerly-viral-Trump-supporters-now-suing-Donald-Trump) Very Sad!


http://images.dailykos.com/images/278835/story_image/GettyImages-540315214.jpg?1469551799

The USA Freedom Kids rocketed to a kind of creepy viral stardom back in January after appearing at a Donald Trump rally, but now they’re joining the long, long list of people and businesses who’ve felt duped and stiffed by Trump — and they’re suing (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/26/the-creator-of-the-viral-pro-trump-act-usa-freedom-kids-now-plans-to-sue-the-campaign/?postshare=2561469542879678&tid=ss_tw).

The campaign made a counter-offer: How about a table where the group could pre-sell albums? Popick took the deal.When they arrived at the venue, though, there was no table, Popick says. The result was "complete chaos," he said. "They clearly had made no provisions for that."

In addition to costs spent on promotional materials for the non-existent table, Popick says, he also lost several promotional opportunities due to confusion over his relationship with the campaign.

Later, they were invited to Trump’s veterans fundraising event (the one to cover for the fact that he was too scared of Megyn Kelly to appear at a Fox News debate), only to have their appearance canceled after they’d paid for plane tickets and hotel rooms.

you can’t ignore the pattern: Trump breaks promises to small businesses (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/06/10/1536990/-Deadbeat-Donald-Trump-doesn-t-pay-his-bills) all the time, at great cost to those small businesses. In this case, he and his campaign broke a promise to a fervent public supporter—and to children.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/07/26/1552670/-USA-Freedom-Kids-formerly-viral-Trump-supporters-now-suing-Donald-Trump?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

Deadbeat Donald—Trump doesn't pay his bills (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/10/1536990/-Deadbeat-Donald-Trump-doesn-t-pay-his-bills)

Donald Trump often portrays himself as a savior of the working class who will "protect your job." But a USA TODAY NETWORK analysis found

he has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades

— and a large number of those involve ordinary Americans …

who say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them.

The big glass lobby around the Trump Tower? Yeah, Trump didn’t pay for that.

Or the carpet.

He stiffed his plumber.

Shorted the painters.

Regularly under-pays the hourly workers at his resorts.

Trump didn’t even pay the real estate brokers who moved his million dollar apartments.

He didn’t even …. Well, this is kind of amazing. Among those he didn’t pay?


Several law firms that once represented him in these suits and others. :lol


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/06/10/1536990/-Deadbeat-Donald-Trump-doesn-t-pay-his-bills



Boo, explain to us how you can sell real estate and not have the title company hold back the real estate commissions due at closing. Do you know what a closing statement is?

[boutons_deux]

Boo, explain to us how you can sell real estate and not have the title company hold back the real estate commissions due at closing. Do you know what a closing statement is?

CosmicParasite, you're oh so clever.

Do you dispute the above history of Trash stiffing his suppliers?

[Quetzal-X]

Red fucker trump has been duping motherfuckers a long ass time.

[CosmicCowboy]

CosmicParasite, you're oh so clever.

Do you dispute the above history of Trash stiffing his suppliers?

Actually I do. Less than 60 in 30 years were contract disputes. The majority were casino lawsuits collecting from credit line stiffs.

If you got off your hyperventilating RSS feeds you might hear a few more facts. Hillary as usual was full of shit.

[CosmicCowboy]

The balance were related to the bankruptcies. Chapter 11's suck. No doubt. Settling for 88 cents on the dollar sucks but it happens. I as a contractor have been stiffed in bankruptcies too.

[boutons_deux]

The balance were related to the bankruptcies. Chapter 11's suck. No doubt. Settling for 88 cents on the dollar sucks but it happens. I as a contractor have been stiffed in bankruptcies too.

While other AC casinos continued, Trash, knowing about running casinos, ran his casinos into bankruptcy, while paying himself $160MM. He's as big a grifter as pitbull bitch, Creflo Dollar, John Hagee, etc.

[boutons_deux]

Trash campaign: No tax returns for you

Since Watergate, every presidential candidate, Democrat or Republican, has released his or her tax returns. It’s not required by law, but there’s a tradition of disclosure that Americans have come to count on: candidates for the nation’s highest office are expected to release information related to their personal health and their tax filings.

In 2016, Donald Trump will only meet one of the two standards. In December, his campaign released an unintentionally hilarious letter (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-doctor-candidate-astonishingly-excellent-condition) from someone claiming to be Trump’s personal physician. But this morning, the GOP candidate’s campaign chairman said we can pretty much stop waiting (http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/289400-aide-trump-will-not-be-releasing-taxes) for the tax documents – because they’re not coming, tradition be damned.
A top aide to Donald Trump said Wednesday that the Republican presidential nominee “will not be releasing” his taxes.

“Mr. Trump has said that his taxes are under audit and he will not be releasing them,” Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort told “CBS This Morning.”

As recently as mid-May, Trump said (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-donald-trumps-tax-return-defense-isnt-working) that he’d “like to” disclose the tax documents, “hopefully before the election,” but he’s waiting for the end of an IRS audit. Manafort’s on-air comments this morning, however, suggest there will be no scrutiny of the documents before voters head to the polls.

As for the “audit” excuse, the fact remains that this rationale has never made any sense: an IRS auditdoesn’t preclude someone from sharing their returns (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/irs-donald-trump_us_56d083b5e4b0871f60eb2c06).

( IOW, Trash is LYING )

there’s probably never been a major-party nominee whose tax returns are more in need of public scrutiny. Donald J. Trump has been caught up in so many financial controversies –

his bankruptcies,

his lawsuits,

his alleged ties to Russian financiers,

his dubious claims about charitable work that appear to be brazen lies, et al –

that the New York Republican has the added responsibility to tell Americans the whole truth before the cast their ballots in the fall.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-campaign-no-tax-returns-you?cid=sm_fb_maddow

[CosmicCowboy]

While other AC casinos continued, Trash, knowing about running casinos, ran his casinos into bankruptcy, while paying himself $160MM. He's as big a grifter as pitbull bitch, Creflo Dollar, John Hagee, etc.

Newer legalized Indian casinos closer to New York City killed Atlantic City.

[boutons_deux]

Newer legalized Indian casinos closer to New York City killed Atlantic City.

were they there in the '80s and '90s when Trash's casino's were?

[boutons_deux]

The Ironclad Case for Trump Releasing Tax Returns Yesterday

The maximal case is that Trump’s views of NATO, Russia and Putin are a product of an implicit or even covert arrangement with Putin, which is reinforced by Trump’s business dealings, that in exchange for Trump accepting, in effect, Russia’s sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, Putin will do what he can to help Trump win the election.

I have my doubts about this.

Trump’s views about NATO and free-riding go back at least to 1988 when he made a one-day foray into presidential politics.

My suspicion is that there is no deal here, that Trump embraces a hyper-realist view of Russia and Eastern Europe and that because Trump holds this view, Putin would like to see him win the election and Clinton lose.

Russia’s role in hacking the Democratic National Committee computers can at the least be attributed to hostility toward the Democrats.

But even the

slightest suspicion that there is a connection between Trump’s business interests and his stands on Russia and Putin strengthens what is already an ironclad case for demanding that Trump disclose whatever financial interests he has that relate to Russia –

and in particular any debts or obligations that he might have to the Russian business or government. It’s about conflict of interest.

Every member of Congress and most state or even local legislators are subject to rules about conflict of interest and have to disclose their holdings so that it can be seen whether these interests have affected his decision-making.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/putin-trump-taxes?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

So, Trash-fellators, how do YOU defend Trash not releasing his tax returns and total financial picture for him and his businesses?

[CosmicCowboy]

were they there in the '80s and '90s when Trash's casino's were?

The Indian Gaming Act passed in 1988 killed Atlantic City.

[boutons_deux]

The Indian Gaming Act passed in 1988 killed Atlantic City.

which Indian casinos were operating contemporaneously with Trash's disasters?

[CosmicCowboy]

which Indian casinos were operating contemporaneously with Trash's disasters?

Fuck off Bookaki. Just admit you don't know shit about gambling in the Northeast and move on.

[boutons_deux]

1993: Mashantucket Pequots open Foxwoods Resort and Casino in Ledyard, Conn.

1997: Mohegan tribe opens Mohegan Sun Casino in Montville, Conn.


http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20070724/CASINO/707240303 (http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20070724/CASINO/707240303)


================

How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atlantic-city.html

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump to Russia: Please Hack Hillary!

And other highlights of a truly bonkers Trump press conference.




http://www.motherjones.com/files/imagecache/top-of-content-image/ap_16209542384913.jpg

Donald Trump encouraged Russian hackers to find Hillary Clinton's deleted emails during a bizarre press conference on Wednesday in Miami.

"Russia, if you are listening, I hope you are able to fid the 30,000 emails that are missing," Trump said, referring to the emails that were not handed over to investigators from Hillary Clinton's private email server. "I think you'll be rewarded mightily by our press."

The call for foreign hackers to take down his opponent was only one of the many strange moments in the press conference. Other highlights included:



Trump claiming "I don't know anything about him" when asked about Russian President Vladimir Putin and the growing amount of evidence that the DNC hack was carried about by Russia. Trump has in fact praised Putin for years andsaid in November (https://twitter.com/DanielSchulman/status/758317238688546816) of Putin that "I got to know him very well."
A repeat of the claim that American Muslims don't report terror plots to authorities. FBI Director James Comey said last month (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-shooting-cooperation-idUSKCN0Z213U) after the terrorist attack in Orlando that "some of our most productive relationships are with people who see things and tell us things who happen to be Muslim."
Trump appeared to confuse Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton's running mate, with former New Jersey Gov. Tom Keane.
He said that he wouldn't go to France, which has been the target of several recent terror attacks. "France isn't France anymore," he said, likely referring to the number of immigrants who now live in France. The French Embassy declined to comment.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/07/donald-trump-russia-please-hack-hillary-clinton

Y'all's boy TRASH is a fucking sicko.

He is as detached from reality and truth as the worst of Christian Taliban evangelical grifters.

[rmt]

Donald Trump to Russia: Please Hack Hillary!

And other highlights of a truly bonkers Trump press conference.




http://www.motherjones.com/files/imagecache/top-of-content-image/ap_16209542384913.jpg

Donald Trump encouraged Russian hackers to find Hillary Clinton's deleted emails during a bizarre press conference on Wednesday in Miami.

"Russia, if you are listening, I hope you are able to fid the 30,000 emails that are missing," Trump said, referring to the emails that were not handed over to investigators from Hillary Clinton's private email server. "I think you'll be rewarded mightily by our press."

The call for foreign hackers to take down his opponent was only one of the many strange moments in the press conference. Other highlights included:



Trump claiming "I don't know anything about him" when asked about Russian President Vladimir Putin and the growing amount of evidence that the DNC hack was carried about by Russia. Trump has in fact praised Putin for years andsaid in November (https://twitter.com/DanielSchulman/status/758317238688546816) of Putin that "I got to know him very well."
A repeat of the claim that American Muslims don't report terror plots to authorities. FBI Director James Comey said last month (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-shooting-cooperation-idUSKCN0Z213U) after the terrorist attack in Orlando that "some of our most productive relationships are with people who see things and tell us things who happen to be Muslim."
Trump appeared to confuse Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton's running mate, with former New Jersey Gov. Tom Keane.
He said that he wouldn't go to France, which has been the target of several recent terror attacks. "France isn't France anymore," he said, likely referring to the number of immigrants who now live in France. The French Embassy declined to comment.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/07/donald-trump-russia-please-hack-hillary-clinton

Y'all's boy TRASH is a fucking sicko.

He is as detached from reality and truth as the worst of Christian Taliban evangelical grifters.



It was a friend who said he wouldn't go to France.

boutons, don't you think Hillary holds some responsibility for putting her emails on a private server and leaving them open to hackers? Curious minds (and not just repubs - I'm sure Bernie fans too) want to know what was deleted.

[ducks]

A new national poll released Wednesday shows Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton by 7 points.

The USC Dornsife/LA Times Presidential Election Daybreak Poll shows:

Donald Trump: 47 percent
Hillary Clinton 40 percent
The poll surveyed 3,000 Americans by the Los Angeles Times and the USC Dornsife Center.

Trump's skyrocketing numbers come just three days after the same poll, which is updated daily, showed Trump leading Clinton 45 percent to 41 percent.
And they arrive just hours after Clinton was officially anointed as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee during Day 2 of its convention in Philadelphia.

Trump was tapped the GOP nominee at last week's Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

[CosmicCowboy]

Polls this time of year don't mean shit.

People don't really start paying attention until after Labor Day.

[hater]

Polls this time of year don't mean shit.

People don't really start paying attention until after Labor Day.

And sometimes they don't give a shut at all. That's how Dubya got elected :lol

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump's Top Ten Giveaways to Vladimir Putin


The number of pro-Putin positions that Donald Trump has taken has assumed quite remarkable proportions:


He wants to reduce America's commitment to NATO and reorient its activities to the Middle East. This is perhaps Vladmir Putin's greatest foreign policy desire.
http://www.motherjones.com/files/blog_trump_russia.jpgSays America has no moral standing to complain about human and civil rights violations.
Welcomed Russia's incursion into Syria.
Considers Putin a great leader.
Would consider eliminating sanctions against Russia and recognizing their annexation of Crimea.
Wants to weaken American ties to its allies by insisting that he will walk away from them unless they pay us more for our military protection.
Never mentions Russia in his otherwise endless litany of countries that are taking advantage of us.
Opposes sending arms to Ukraine.
Is pro-Brexit.
Isn't sure he would defend the Baltics if Russia attacked them.


Have I missed anything? I probably have. It's hard to keep track.

Most of these are defensible positions on their own. I don't support sending arms to Ukraine, for example. Plenty of conservatives are pro-
Brexit.
And plenty of lefties would like to see us reduce our military footprint worldwide.

But even if you personally agree with an item or three on this list, the whole thing adds up to something unprecedented for an American candidate for president.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/07/donald-trumps-top-ten-giveaways-vladimir-putin


"candidate for president. " he's JOKE for President.

[ducks]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/border-patrol-illegal-families-crossing-border-set-to-double-51152-so-far/article/2597842

[boutons_deux]

Trump sees Geneva Convention as ‘out of date’

Donald Trump made quite a bit of news this morning. At a press conference, the Republican nomineecalled for Russia (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/donald-trump-calls-russia-help-elect-him-president) to use its espionage services to obtain Hillary Clinton emails, apparently in the hopes that the Putin government would help Trump win the U.S. election.

And while that’s a career-ending moment for normal candidates in normal parties in normal election cycles, in Trump’s case, it wasn’t only notable exchange (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/27/donald-trumps-falsehood-laden-press-conference-annotated/) from this morning’s event.

QUESTION: Do you think the Geneva Conventions are out of date?

TRUMP: I think everything’s is out of date. We have a whole new world.


Pressed further, Trump added, “I am a person that believes in enhanced interrogation, yes. And by the way, it works.”

In reality, it doesn’t “work” at all, but Trump too often doesn’t seem to care about pesky details like facts and evidence.

(When the Senate Intelligence Committee examined the Bush/Cheney administration’s “enhanced interrogation techniques,” investigators found (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/intel-committee-releases-report-bush-era-torture) torture was

ineffective,

illegal,

brutal,

and “provided extensive inaccurate information.”

Trump, in other words, has no idea what he’s talking about.)

Republicans, in particular, need to recognize that their presidential nominee is now hostile towardsNATO (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/mr-trump-nato-is-an-alliance-not-a-protection-racket/2016/07/25/03ca2712-527d-11e6-88eb-7dda4e2f2aec_story.html), the United Nations (http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/04/02/donald-trump-tells-crowd-hed-be-fine-if-nato-broke-up/), the World Trade Organization (http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/07/24/trump-threatens-to-pull-u-s-out-of-world-trade-organization/), and now the Geneva Conventions.

He also, by the way, argued (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/24/donald-trump-eu-was-formed-to-beat-the-us-at-making-money) the other day that the European Union was created “to beat the United States,” which in no ways reflects reality.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-sees-geneva-convention-out-date?cid=sm_fb_maddow

[boutons_deux]

Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein: Trump’s Russia remarks a ‘disqualifying event’
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/veteran-journalist-carl-bernstein-trumps-russia-remarks-a-disqualifying-event/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

yes, but, Trash has 10Ms of ignorant, stupid, Repug-screwed supporters.

[boutons_deux]

Fact-Checking Trump's Press Conference

The stunning headline from Donald Trump's Wednesday news conference was that he asked Russia to find Hillary Clinton's missing emails. "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," he said. "I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press."

But that's not all he said about Hillary Clinton and the Democratic convention.

TRUMP'S CLAIM: "You look at what's happened with ISIS, which isn't even mentioned. You look at what's happening with law and order,
they don't even mention our police. They mention everybody but our police" - seeming to refer to the Democratic convention

THE FACTS: On Tuesday at their convention, the Democrats featured Pittsburgh's chief of police. And in his primetime speech, Bill Clinton specifically praised the police. "If you're a young African American disillusioned and afraid, we saw in Dallas how great our police officers can be, help us build a future where nobody is afraid to walk outside, including the people that wear blue to protect our future."

TRUMP'S CLAIM: "If I would've used language like they used about religion, about race, about everything else that they discuss in those e-mails I would've had to run and hide and probably drop out of the race."

THE FACTS: Trump was referring to an email exchange where top Democratic National Committee aides were questioning Bernie Sanders' Jewish faith. Yet Trump himself has directly questioned his rivals' faith multiple times.


On Ben Carson: "I'm Presbyterian. Boy, that's down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist I don't know about."
On Mitt Romney: "Are you sure he's a Mormon, are we sure?"
On Hillary Clinton: "We don't know anything about Hillary in terms of religion. Now, she's been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there's no — there's nothing out there."


TRUMP'S CLAIM: "By the way, yesterday for the first time she said she wants to renegotiate trade agreements. First time, yesterday. Well, all because of me."

THE FACTS: On Tuesday, the president of the United Auto Workers said that Clinton told him she'd promise to rewrite NAFTA (http://www.freep.com/story/news/2016/07/26/uaw-head-convinced-clinton-would-renegotiate-nafta/87575718). But this isn't the first time: In an NBC debate during the 2008 presidential, Clinton called to renegotiate NAFTA. I will say, we will opt out of NAFTA unless we renegotiate it, and we renegotiate it on terms that are favorable to all of America," Clinton said back then, per the Los Angeles Times (http://articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/27/nation/na-debate27).

TRUMP'S CLAIM: "I never met Putin, I don't know who Putin is."

THE FACTS: In 2015, Trump bragged about the time he spent as "stablemates" with Putin before a 60 Minutes interview. "But, as far as the Ukraine is concerned, and you could Syria — as far as Syria, I like — if Putin wants to go in, and I got to know him very well because we were both on 60 Minutes, we were stablemates, and we did very well that night," he said during a GOP debate in Milwaukee in Nov. 2015.

The implication seemed to be that the two met in a CBS greenroom. Rival Carly Fiorina picked up on that during the debate, saying "One of the reasons I've said that I would not be talking to Vladimir Putin right now, although I have met him as well, not in a green room for a show, but in a private meeting." Turns out that even Fiorina was overstating the extent of the Trump-Putin meeting. While the two did appear on the same episode of "60 Minutes," they were interviewed in separate countries.

TRUMP'S CLAIM: "And I'll release [the tax returns] when the audits completed. Nobody would release when it's under [audit] -- I've had audits for 15 or 16 years. Every year I have a routine audit. I'm under audit, when the audits complete I'll release them... And as far as the tax returns, as soon as the audits complete, like any lawyer would tell you, Greta Van Susteren she was going over it a while ago, she's a lawyer. She said well no lawyer would let somebody release a tax return when they're under audit."

THE FACTS: While Trump is correct that lawyers might not recommend it, former President Richard Nixon released his tax returns while under audit (http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/flashback-richard-nixon-released-tax-returns-while-under-audit-n573036). And he was a lawyer.

TRUMP'S CLAIM: "[Tim Kaine is] not popular because he asked for tax increases. Big tax increases in Virginia. Big. And also the unemployment went up, I think it doubled or close to doubled during his tenure."

THE FACTS: The unemployment did go up during Kaine's tenure as governor (2006-2009), but that was largely a function of the Great Recession. When he entered office, Virginia's unemployment rate was 3.2 percent, and it increased to 7.3 percent by the end of 2009. But that was well below the national average of nearly 10 percent.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/fact-checking-trump-s-press-conference-n618046?cid=sm_fb

[ducks]

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/13668953_10157383854915725_1146200470994170344_n.j pg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=e5c3866168d064cd94ab255c354e802d&oe=5814F3BF

[ElNono]

Gallup: Trump, Clinton have identical, low favorability ratings

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton now have identical favorability ratings, according to a new Gallup poll, and the average American does not look fondly upon either one of them.

The new poll, conducted July 18-25, found 37 percent of Americans have favorable ratings of the two nominees, while 58 percent have unfavorable ratings. This is the first time Clinton’s favorable rating was not higher than Trump’s.

For Trump, however, Gallup reported his speech at the Republican National Convention received the least positive reviews of any speech the group has tested after the fact, with 35 percent of Americans saying it was excellent or good. Barack Obama’s 2008 speech, which 58 percent of Americans said was excellent or good, is the highest-rated speech to date.

Gallup also found the net impact of the GOP convention was negative, with 51 percent of Americans saying the convention made them less likely to vote for Trump and 36 percent saying they were more like to vote for him.

“At this point, we can say that although Americans' views of the Cleveland convention were not at all positive after it ended, the underlying trend data show that over the last week or so, Trump has managed to reach a milestone in his campaign: His image among Americans is now identical to that of his opponent,” Gallup wrote.

The poll was conducted via telephone among 3,544 adults. The overall margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/gallup-favorability-clinton-trump-226295

[boutons_deux]

Trump’s ‘assault on the Constitution’ startles experts

As MSNBC’s Benjy Sarlin summarized (http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-conventions/donald-trump-s-plea-russian-hackers-roils-campaign-n618061), “The charge that Donald Trump has effectively allied his campaign with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin would sound like a crackpot conspiracy theory if it didn’t come from Trump’s own mouth.”

The New York Times reported (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/world/europe/russia-trump-clinton-email-hacking.html?_r=0) today:

There is simply no precedent for this: A presidential candidate publicly appealing to a foreign adversary to intervene in the election on his behalf.

“This is unprecedented — it is one of those things that seems to be genuinely new in international relations,” said Paul Musgrave, a University of Massachusetts professor who studies American foreign policy.

After a long pause, Mr. Musgrave added, “Being shocked into speechlessness is not the sort of thing you’re really used to in the business of foreign policy analysis.”



Musgrave isn’t the only expert who seems gobsmacked. Dr. Eliot A. Cohen, a veteran of the Bush/Cheney State Department, told the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent Trump’s comments were “appalling (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/07/27/trump-urges-russia-to-help-expose-clintons-emails-when-will-this-be-too-much-for-republicans/).”
William Inboden, who served on George W. Bush’s National Security Council, told Politico the comments were “an assault on the Constitution (http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-russia-clinton-emails-treason-226303).”

The same article quoted Philip Reiner, a former National Security Council official in the Obama administration, saying of Trump’s rhetoric, “Of course it’s a national security threat.”

Michael Hayden, the former head of the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency under George W. Bush, told BuzzFeed what Trump said was “incredibly stunning” and “very dangerous (https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/former-bush-nsa-cia-chief-trump-russia-comment-an-incredibly?utm_term=.lsg0jLYBJR#.ojDwDZn91G).”


For his part, Trump’s defense, as articulated this morning on Fox News, is that this was some kind of attempt at sarcastic humor (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-sarcastic-russia-emails) – which, he believes, observers on the left, right, and center misunderstood.

But even if taken at face value, the explanation is hardly exculpatory.

The aforementioned Paul Musgrave told (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/world/europe/russia-trump-clinton-email-hacking.html?_r=0) the New York Times that the rhetoric itself can weaken norms.

“Trump is legitimating behaviors that nobody ever thought could be legitimated,” Musgrave said, calling the incident “one of those reminders about how fragile norms are.”

Jeremy Shapiro, a Brookings Institution scholar of foreign policy, who “sounded physically exhausted by Mr. Trump’s comments,” added (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/world/europe/russia-trump-clinton-email-hacking.html) that the Republican candidate “has no sense of what an extraordinary statement that was.”

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-assault-the-constitution-startles-experts?cid=sm_fb_maddow

I think Trash should shoot somebody in daylight on a busy sidewalk to test his boast that Trash supporters would still support Trash.

[DMX7]

People are saying that Mr. Trump is really gathering momentum and that he could actually pull this off and win! If you wanna know the truth -- I think they're right! Just so you understand, his ideas may seem crazy, but they may actually be crazy enough to work. I'm back in for Trump! That, I can tell you.

[ducks]

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are neck-and-neck, according to FiveThirtyEight, but it depends on how the polls are measured.

Nate Silver, founder and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, uses a polls-plus forecast which accounts for much of Trump's gain following the Republican National Convention last week and still gives Clinton a 60 percent chance of victory in November.





However, a polls-only forecast excluding the post-convention bump gives Clinton only a 53 percent chance of winning. If the election were held today, the data shows Trump would be the favorite, with a 55 percent chance of taking the White House.

The New York Times' election prediction model gives Clinton a 69 percent chance of beating Trump. The Princeton Election Consortium puts Clinton's prospects of winning at 80 percent.

The difference comes from multiple variables, such as including third-party candidates Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party and the Green Party's Jill Stein, who are often excluded from polls, but when included usually draw more support away from Clinton than Trump.

According to Silver, most differences occur because of "how quickly the models adjust to new polling data." Clinton has been on a steady decline throughout July, so how should projections take that into account?


Going by analyses of previous campaigns, Silver and his staff found that a conservative "loess regression," which is a method of finding trends in data, produces a more accurate depiction further from the election, while an aggressive loess regression is better closer to Election Day.

Another problem is applying national polls on a state level. For instance, determining if Clinton will carry Pennsylvania is difficult if there haven't been any recent statewide polls to go by.

"Although there are other factors that matter around the margin, our models show better numbers for Trump mostly because they're more aggressive about detecting trends in polling data," Silver concludes.

"For the past couple of weeks — and this started before the conventions, so it's not just a convention bounce — there's been a strong trend away from Clinton, and toward Trump."

[boutons_deux]

Trash will get trashed, adding to his infamy and notoriety as a fraud, cheat, con man, liar, LOSER, 60 - 40, if not 65 - 35.

[boutons_deux]

Dems suggest scrapping Trump’s intelligence briefings

A few weeks ago, in an unusually silly display, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) formally urged (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/house-republicans-find-new-partisan-toy-play)Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to block Hillary Clinton’s intelligence briefings ahead of the election. It didn’t take long for Clapper to dismiss the appeal (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/paul-ryans-anti-clinton-gambit-comes-empty) as nonsense.

But the practice of providing intelligence briefings to the major-party nominees remains very much on the political world’s mind.

Trash, for example, during his ridiculous press conference yesterday, argued that Clinton shouldn’t have access to sensitive information because her top aide, Huma Abedin,

“is married to Anthony Weiner, who’s a sleazeball and a pervert…. I don’t like Huma going home at night and telling Anthony Weiner all of these secrets, OK?”

Remember, this was an actual argument, presented publicly, by the Republican Party’s national nominee.

Soon after, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told the Huffington Post that Trump’s Russian ties create an alarming complication when it comes to these pre-election briefings. “I would suggest to the intelligence agencies, if you’re forced to brief this guy, don’t tell him anything, just fake it, because this man is dangerous,” Reid said (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/harry-reid-trump-fake-briefings_us_57991916e4b01180b5317f6e?cp1gwyxt8dnw 5ewmi). “Fake it, pretend you’re doing a briefing, but you can’t give the guy any information.”

Soon after, a House Democrat took the additional step of formally requesting the executive branch “withhold classified materials and briefings from Donald Trump.” Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the move in a press release late yesterday:

“The Republican nominee’s call for hostile foreign action represents a step beyond mere partisan politics and represents a threat to the republic itself.

It suggests that he is unfit to receive sensitive intelligence, and may willingly compromise our national security if he is permitted to do so,” wrote Cicilline.

“With this in mind, I respectfully ask that you withhold the intelligence briefing to Mr. Trump in the interests of national security.”


The letter went on to say Trump’s volatile actions

“warrant a re-examination of his access to this sensitive intelligence. [Yesterday’s remarks from Trump] reflect more than just a lack of good judgment – it is an explicit call for intervention from an adversarial foreign power to undermine the American democratic process, and represents an action just short of outright treason.”

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/dems-suggest-scrapping-trumps-intelligence-briefings?cid=sm_fb_maddow

:lol Dems throwing hardball, derogatory, mocking shit back at the Repugs. :lol

[rmt]

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are neck-and-neck, according to FiveThirtyEight, but it depends on how the polls are measured.

Nate Silver, founder and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, uses a polls-plus forecast which accounts for much of Trump's gain following the Republican National Convention last week and still gives Clinton a 60 percent chance of victory in November.





However, a polls-only forecast excluding the post-convention bump gives Clinton only a 53 percent chance of winning. If the election were held today, the data shows Trump would be the favorite, with a 55 percent chance of taking the White House.

The New York Times' election prediction model gives Clinton a 69 percent chance of beating Trump. The Princeton Election Consortium puts Clinton's prospects of winning at 80 percent.

The difference comes from multiple variables, such as including third-party candidates Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party and the Green Party's Jill Stein, who are often excluded from polls, but when included usually draw more support away from Clinton than Trump.

According to Silver, most differences occur because of "how quickly the models adjust to new polling data." Clinton has been on a steady decline throughout July, so how should projections take that into account?


Going by analyses of previous campaigns, Silver and his staff found that a conservative "loess regression," which is a method of finding trends in data, produces a more accurate depiction further from the election, while an aggressive loess regression is better closer to Election Day.

Another problem is applying national polls on a state level. For instance, determining if Clinton will carry Pennsylvania is difficult if there haven't been any recent statewide polls to go by.

"Although there are other factors that matter around the margin, our models show better numbers for Trump mostly because they're more aggressive about detecting trends in polling data," Silver concludes.

"For the past couple of weeks — and this started before the conventions, so it's not just a convention bounce — there's been a strong trend away from Clinton, and toward Trump."

Well, he only needs 269 electoral votes (in a tie, the House decides). So FL, OH, NC, NH, IA, NV would do it - no need for PA. So even the polls-only method, he squeaks by with 269. With the now-cast method, he wins also. Of course, I expect a big bump for Hillary from the convention so all this is moot.

[Warlord23]

People are saying that Mr. Trump is really gathering momentum and that he could actually pull this off and win! If you wanna know the truth -- I think they're right! Just so you understand, his ideas may seem crazy, but they may actually be crazy enough to work. I'm back in for Trump! That, I can tell you.

Look, frankly, I have many people asking me if I am going to post on this thread. Many people. We have a problem in this forum, a big problem, and I want to make this forum great. I have thousands of people reading my posts, maybe tens of thousands. I am going to post, and it's going to be a terrific thread, really terrific. It's going to be a tremendous, winning post, and we're going to win with this great post. To be completely honest, I'm doing very, very well with my posts, and a lot of people have given me credit for my posts. That I can tell you.

[InRareForm]

Might bet on trump 2 to 1 odds so I'm happy either way tbh...

[boutons_deux]

Look, frankly, I have many people asking me if I am going to post on this thread. Many people. We have a problem in this forum, a big problem, and I want to make this forum great. I have thousands of people reading my posts, maybe tens of thousands. I am going to post, and it's going to be a terrific thread, really terrific. It's going to be a tremendous, winning post, and we're going to win with this great post. To be completely honest, I'm doing very, very well with my posts, and a lot of people have given me credit for my posts. That I can tell you.

We can see that you're tired of winning, so much winning, head-spinning winning, winning ALL the time. Sad, so sad, ok?

[ducks]

Donald Trump was omitted from a Google search of presidential candidates earlier this week because of a "technical bug" in the search engine's information mapping system used for filtering top results.

"We found a technical bug in 'Search' where only the presidential candidates participating in an active primary election were appearing in a Knowledge Graph result," a Google spokesman told Snopes.com on Wednesday. "Because the Republican and Libertarian primaries have ended, those candidates did not appear.

[boutons_deux]

Trump Sick And Tired Of Mainstream Media Always Trying To Put His Words Into Some Sort Of Context

NEW YORK—Emphasizing that the practice was just more evidence of journalists’ bias against him, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stated Thursday that he was sick and tired of the mainstream media always attempting to place his words into some kind of context.

“The corrupt news media is constantly taking the things I say and putting them within the larger context of politics and global events

— it’s absolutely sickening what they do,” said Trump, adding that many of the comments he has made

— including his call yesterday for Russia to hack into the emails of his presidential opponent Hillary Clinton and publish the contents

— had been repeatedly and unfairly contextualized with relevant facts about the world and pertinent information about the situation in which they were stated.

“It’s completely shameful to take words I’ve spoken or written and try to connect them to some kind of objective reality.

I say something, and the next thing I know, a crooked reporter is telling everyone what I said along with a fact-based explanation of what its implications are and why it matters.

It’s ridiculous, and it has to stop.”

Trump added that he would not hesitate to ban any news organization from his campaign that continued to twist his statements by implying they held any specific meaning about or relation to the world we inhabit.

http://goo.gl/qzk0M3

[boutons_deux]

Trash Supporters! :lol

VOTERS WHO FAVOR BORDER WALL CANNOT IDENTIFY BORDER ON MAP

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Borowitz-Voters-Who-Favor-Border-Wall-Cannot-Identify-Border-on-Map-1200.jpg

WASHINGTON — Amid the growing debate over building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, a new poll shows that voters who strongly favor building such a wall cannot successfully identify the border on a map.

Additionally, the more enthusiastic voters are about building a wall, the less likely they are to know where the border is actually situated, the poll finds.

Voters who could not correctly identify the U.S.-Mexico border provided no fewer than fifteen alternative locations for it. Nearly twenty per cent of respondents located it along the United States’ border with Canada.

Being told that they had incorrectly identified the U.S.-Mexico border did not in any way dampen voters’ enthusiasm for building a wall there, however.

To the contrary, voters believed that it would be easier to locate the border once it had a twenty-foot wall.

Among voters who could not correctly identify the border, there was strong support for the Presidential candidacy of the billionaire Donald Trump.

Ninety per cent of those voters “strongly agreed” that Trump knew where the border was, as opposed to only four per cent who said that about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.

http://goo.gl/0vLB7Y

[boutons_deux]

Trash’s antics compared to ‘a child playing with matches’

the Post’s editors announced who they won’t endorse.

In a rare, full-page editorial (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-is-a-unique-threat-to-american-democracy/2016/07/22/a6d823cc-4f4f-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html), the Washington Post published a piece that described Donald J. Trump as “a unique threat to American democracy.”

It was a rather brutal indictment, shining an unflattering light on the Republican nominee’s “politics of denigration and division” and “his “contempt for constitutional norms.”

The paper went on to describe the GOP candidate as “a peril,” who, if elected, “would be dangerous for the nation and the world.”

The Post concluded that Trump is “a unique and present danger,” who “represents a threat to the Constitution.”

And while such language is certainly fair under the circumstances, it’s also unexpected. The editorial board of the Washington Post does not have a reputation for being overtly partisan or incendiary. Sunday’s editorial is a reflection, not of editors who see an unqualified candidate, but of Americans who appear to be quite frightened.

And they’re not alone. CNN’s David Gregory, a veteran of Republican and Democratic White Houses,said (http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/07/27/media-widely-condemn-trumps-mindblowing-call-russian-government-cyberattack-hillary-clinton/211941) this week that Donald Trump is like “a child playing with matches who doesn’t understand how badly he and the country can get burned. It’s a very serious thing.”

The New York Times’ Timothy Egan argued (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/opinion/make-america-hate-again.html?ref=opinion&_r=0) last week that Trump’s candidacy should cause “fear” among Americans – “for the republic, for a democracy facing its gravest peril since the Civil War.”

Vox’s Ezra Klein wrote a compelling piece (http://www.vox.com/2016/7/21/12218136/donald-trump-nomination-afraid) last week on the degree to which Trump has left him, on a very personal level, feeling scared. The night of the Republican’s convention speech, Ezra said he felt “genuinely” afraid for “the first time since I began covering American politics.”

Ezra added yesterday (http://www.vox.com/2016/7/27/12298512/donald-trum-dnc-hack-russia), after Trump’s bizarre press conference in which he called for Russian intervention in the U.S. election,

“It’s weird to keep saying this, but this is not okay. This is not a man with the temperament, the steadiness, the discipline to be president. The issue here isn’t left versus right, or liberal versus conservative, or Democrat versus Republican. It’s crazy versus not crazy.”

What’s striking about all of this is how unusual the tenor and tone are.

But not since Goldwater in 1964 has so much of the American political mainstream felt compelled to say with striking clarity, “Wait. Stop. This is different. This isn’t normal.”

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-antics-compared-child-playing-matches?cid=sm_fb_maddow

Thanks, Repugs! :lol

[boutons_deux]

Trump’s Lies About Ties to Vladimir Putin Exposed on Today Show

"I spoke indirectly and directly with President Putin, who could not have been nicer...And I got to know him very well"

Trump has shown an increasing likelihood to be busted by mainstream media for his many inconsistencies and lies. This morning on NBC’s The Today Show, his many lies about his ties with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, were exposed (http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/07/29/nbcs-today-exposes-trumps-inconsistencies-about-his-relationship-russias-vladimir-putin/212020)for all to see.

...

There you have it, in Trump’s own damning confessions, including 2013’s admission that he has a relationship with Putin, despite his later claim that he never met him even though they met on 60 Minutes.

Heck, Trump says he spoke directly with him and that he “could not have been nicer.”Trump loves Putin.

Trump knows Putin.

Except when it’s not convenient for Trump to know Putin.

Then he knows nothing about it.

And this is the Republican candidate for president.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/29/trumps-lies-ties-putin-exposed-today-show.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

[boutons_deux]

Trump on DNC: 'I Wanted to Hit Those Speakers So Hard'

At a rally in Davenport, Iowa, GOP nominee Donald Trump weighed in on the third night of the Democratic National Convention, saying

"I wanted to hit a couple of those speakers so hard…so hard their heads would spin they'd never recover."

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-on-dnc-i-wanted-to-hit-those-speakers-so-hard-734351427900 (http://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-on-dnc-i-wanted-to-hit-those-speakers-so-hard-734351427900)

Trash! :lol

Trash supporters! :lol

Repugs are SO FUCKED! :lol

[boutons_deux]

Trump Says He’s Not Being Pressured to Release His Taxes

I’ve had very, very little pressure.

— Donald Trump explaining (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-tax-returns-no-pressure) to Fox host Greta Van Susteren why he won’t release his taxes.

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2016/07/29/trump-says-hes-not-being-pressured-to-release-his-taxes/

Trash! :lol con man, fraud, liar

The candidate of choice by the 10Ms in Repug base! :lol

[boutons_deux]

Here are 20 times Dem speakers at the DNC left Trump a smoking crater in the ground


1. Jennifer Granholm transposing Trump’s “I, alone can fix it” speech into other stirring American words to see how it works.

“Imagine Donald Trump’s version of the Constitution: “I, the person, in order to form a more perfect union…”
Or, centuries later, “I, shall overcome.”
Or, “Ask not what I can do for my country, ask what my country can do for me!”
Donald: You’re so vain, you probably think this speech is about you.”

2. Tammy Duckworth: “Donald Trump, I didn’t put my life on the line to defend our democracy so you could invite Russia to interfere in it.”

3. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Hello everyone. I’m Michael Jordan and I’m here with Hillary. I said that because I know that Donald Trump couldn’t tell the difference.

4. Jennifer Lim: “In Donald Trump’s America, it doesn’t matter that I’m an accomplished attorney and a policy expert, it just matters how attractive I am on a scale of one to 10.”

5. Michael Bloomberg: “Trump says he wants to run the nation like he’s run his business. God help us.”

6. Cory Booker: When Trump spews insults and demeaning words about our fellow Americans, I think of the poem by Maya Angelou. You know how it begins: ‘You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies, / You may trod me in the very dirt / But still, like dust, I’ll rise.”

7. Michelle Obama: “[W]e explain that when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.”

8. Joe Biden: “His lack of empathy and compassion can be summed up in a phrase that I suspect he’s most proud of having made famous, you’re fired. I mean really, I’m not joking. Think about that. Think about that. Think about everything you learned as a child, no matter where you were raised. How can there be pleasure in saying, you’re fired? He’s trying to tell us, he cares about the middle class, give me a break. That’s a bunch of malarkey.”

9. Lena Dunham: “Hi, I’m Lena Dunham and according to Donald Trump, my body is probably a two.”

10. America Ferrera: “And I’m America Ferrera and according to Donald Trump, I’m probably a rapist.”

11. Tim Kaine: “I will tell you, to me, it just seems like our nation, it is just too great to put in the hands of a slick-talking, empty-promising, self-promoting one-man wrecking crew.”

12. Anastazia Somoza: “Donald Trump has shown us who he really is and I honestly feel bad for anyone with that much hate in their heart. Donald Trump doesn’t see me, he doesn’t hear me and he definitely doesn’t speak for me.”

13. Xavier Becerra: “At every stage in his life, Donald Trump has exploited America’s laws to put himself first. He uses lawsuits the way my mom uses coupons to drive down prices. He uses bankruptcies – six of them – like a wealthy man’s get-out-jail-free card. I can’t tell you if this man has ever had a callous on his hands. Does he know the price of a gallon of milk or a loaf of bread? And why won’t he release his tax returns? What is he hiding? Why won’t he show the American people who he is?”

14. Gavin Newsom: “What Trump presented last week wasn’t political discourse, it wasn’t even political incorrectness. What Trump presented last week was defeatist and retreatist. Never has a speech been so long, with so little substance, science, humanity, humor, or hope. His hostile takeover of the American Dream is built on two fundamental lies: That America is a dark and desperate place, and that he has any kind of a plan to make it better. Trump strangled the sunny optimism of Ronald Reagan and replaced “tear down that wall” with the cynical bigotry of “build that wall.”

15. Elizabeth Warren: “Trump’s entire campaign is just one more late-night Trump infomercial: Hand over your money, your jobs, your children’s future, and The Great Trump Hot Air Machine will reveal all the answers. And, for one low, low price, he’ll even throw in a goofy hat.”

16. Sarah Silverman: “This Democratic primary was exemplary. No name calling, no comments about the size of candidates’ hands or ethnicity,or how much they sweat or if they go to the bathroom. Inside secret: they do. That stuff is for third graders. Like c’mon, major arrested development stuff, that’s I’m-still-emotionally-four-and-calling-people-names-from-my-gold-encrusted-sandbox-because-I-was-given-money-instead-of-human-touch-or-coping-tools stuff. But I digress.”

17. Al Franken: “Now, of course, Trump University wouldn’t be Trump University without its business school. Their bankruptcy program in particular is known throughout the real estate/investment community for its creativity. The most popular course, Bankruptcy 101, or, “How to Leave Your Partners Holding the Bag,” is taught by the cardboard cutout itself.”

18. Barack Obama: “You know, the Donald is not really a plans guy. He’s not really a facts guy, either. He calls himself a business guy, which is true, but I have to say, I know plenty of businessmen and women who’ve achieved remarkable success without leaving a trail of lawsuits, and unpaid workers, and people feeling like they got cheated.”

19. Cheryl Lankford: “Here’s a guy who was born rich and who has all the money in the world and there’s nothing wrong with that. In fact, I signed for Trump University because I thought I could learn something from him. But when he decided to make himself even richer by cheating working people who had nothing to spare. What kind of a man does that?”

20. Kzihr Khan: “Let me ask you: have you even read the United States constitution? I will gladly lend you my copy. [he pulls it out] In this document, look for the words ‘liberty’ and ‘equal protection of law’.

Have you ever been to Arlington Cemetery? Go look at the graves of brave patriots who died defending the United States of America.

You will see all faiths, genders and ethnicities.

You have sacrificed nothing and no one.”


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/here-are-20-times-dem-speakers-at-the-dnc-left-trump-a-smoking-crater-in-the-ground/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[boutons_deux]

Trump Shows Signs Of Mental Illness By Inventing Imaginary Sanders Supporters Who Support Him

Even though the polls show that the opposite is occurring, Donald Trump is saying that Bernie Sanders supporters are flipping to him.

=====================

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

Wow, my campaign is hearing from more and more Bernie supporters that they will NEVER support Crooked Hillary. She sold them out, V.P. pick!
12:03 PM - 29 Jul 2016 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/759071976182861824)

===========================

Over the past month, polling has shown that the Sanders supporters are taking Bernie’s advice and rallying around Hillary Clinton.

The margin varies depending on the poll, but roughly 80%-90% of those polled who supported Sen. Sanders will be voting be voting for former Sec. of State Clinton.On Monday, Pew released a poll that found that

90% of consistent Sanders supporters would be voting for Hillary Clinton.

According to Pew, (http://www.people-press.org/2016/07/25/in-clintons-march-to-nomination-many-democrats-changed-their-minds/) “Despite a sometimes contentious primary process, support for Clinton in the general election is high among even the 20% of Democratic voters who consistently backed Sanders through the primary and caucus season:

Among this group, just 8% prefer Trump in the general election, while 90% favor Clinton.

”Trump is only getting 8% of the Bernie supporters, but in his mind, there is are a wave of Sanders supporters who are going to vote for him on Election Day.

Donald Trump has crossed the boundary from liar to potential mental illness.

The Sanders backers that he claims are crossing over to him do not exist.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/29/trump-shows-signs-mental-illness-inventing-imaginary-sanders-supporters-support.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29 (http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/29/trump-shows-signs-mental-illness-inventing-imaginary-sanders-supporters-support.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29)

[ducks]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-ratings-hillary-clintons-dnc-915706
trump trumped Clinton!

[Reck]

Hillary and Tim are already hitting the road on buses while Trump and Pence sit around flying in planes. :lol

What a shitty campaign they're running.

[DMX7]

Trump on DNC: 'I Wanted to Hit Those Speakers So Hard'

At a rally in Davenport, Iowa, GOP nominee Donald Trump weighed in on the third night of the Democratic National Convention, saying

"I wanted to hit a couple of those speakers so hard…so hard their heads would spin they'd never recover."

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-on-dnc-i-wanted-to-hit-those-speakers-so-hard-734351427900 (http://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-on-dnc-i-wanted-to-hit-those-speakers-so-hard-734351427900)

Trash! :lol

Trash supporters! :lol

Repugs are SO FUCKED! :lol




He wanted to hit them figuratively! Mr. Trump is taking the gloves off! No more Mr. Nice Guy!

[Reck]

He wanted to hit them figuratively! Mr. Trump is taking the gloves off! No more Mr. Nice Guy!

He's just miffed. They all got under his thin skin.

I think must of his insults will backfire on a woman.

Imagine Trump telling Hillary to shut up in the debates or calling her disgusting and those nasty names he uses. :lol

[DMX7]

He's just miffed. They all got under his thin skin.

I think must of his insults will backfire on a woman.

Imagine Trump telling Hillary to shut up in the debates or calling her disgusting and those nasty names he uses. :lol

Imagine if she uses the restroom... Then Trump will strike hard.

[ducks]

Donald J. Trump
Donald J. Trump – Verified account ‏@realDonaldTrump

As usual, Hillary & the Dems are trying to rig the debates so 2 are up against major NFL games. Same as last time w/ Bernie. Unacceptable!
8:03 PM - 29 Jul 2016

[Reck]

Donald J. Trump
Donald J. Trump – Verified account ‏@realDonaldTrump

As usual, Hillary & the Dems are trying to rig the debates so 2 are up against major NFL games. Same as last time w/ Bernie. Unacceptable!
8:03 PM - 29 Jul 2016

Why does he care? Already afraid of her. :lol

[Reck]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ColUVziWAAAEtH8.jpg
Yeah this nigga is already running scare. :lmao

[beirmeistr]

Look, frankly, I have many people asking me if I am going to post on this thread. Many people. We have a problem in this forum, a big problem, and I want to make this forum great. I have thousands of people reading my posts, maybe tens of thousands. I am going to post, and it's going to be a terrific thread, really terrific. It's going to be a tremendous, winning post, and we're going to win with this great post. To be completely honest, I'm doing very, very well with my posts, and a lot of people have given me credit for my posts. That I can tell you.

excellent immitation of trump. well done, warlord23

[ElNono]

Look, frankly, I have many people asking me if I am going to post on this thread. Many people. We have a problem in this forum, a big problem, and I want to make this forum great. I have thousands of people reading my posts, maybe tens of thousands. I am going to post, and it's going to be a terrific thread, really terrific. It's going to be a tremendous, winning post, and we're going to win with this great post. To be completely honest, I'm doing very, very well with my posts, and a lot of people have given me credit for my posts. That I can tell you.

This post is a disgrace. I could totally destroy it so bad, it would make heads spin. But I've got a call from ChumpDumper and said, don't worry about that nobody, don't do it. So I could completely destroy this post, but I won't do it, so I'm not doing it. It's just an absolutely terrible post. Sad!

[DMX7]

Who wants to see Jill Stein in the debates?

[Trainwreck2100]

9. Lena Dunham: “Hi, I’m Lena Dunham and according to Donald Trump, my body is probably a two.”


she's at most a 4 anyway

[Harry Callahan]

Can there be a negative rating for the liar Lena D. She's truly disgusting.

[djohn2oo8]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ColUVziWAAAEtH8.jpg
Yeah this nigga is already running scare. :lmao

https://media.giphy.com/media/ZLpVNgQHN2d4Q/giphy.gif

[florige]

He wanted to hit them figuratively! Mr. Trump is taking the gloves off! No more Mr. Nice Guy!


He hasn't taken the gloves off yet? How low can this guy sink?

[HarlemHeat37]

If you have a sense of humor, I don't see how you wouldn't vote for Trump, considering the alternative sucks, tbh:lol..how can you resist seeing the worldwide reaction to a Trump victory? It would be one of the most glorious events we have ever witnessed, from a comedic POV..

I find it kind of sad that people aren't being clowned for supporting Hillary, though..there's a stigma with being a Trump supporter(and rightfully so, since most of them are backwards hillbillies), yet minimal backlash for people openly supporting an evil woman and an equally terrible candidate..it's not like she has even an ounce of charisma, either:lol..100, though, I don't know how anybody can proudly discuss their Hillary support..

[boutons_deux]

Trash is pure garbage

Donald Trump’s slander of Captain Humayun Khan’s family is horrifying, even for TrumpDonald Trump’s slander of Captain Humayun Khan’s family is horrifying, even for Trump


"If you look at his wife, she was standing there," he said (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-father-fallen-soldier-ive-made-lot/story?id=41015051), on national television. "She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. You tell me."

This wasn’t a slip of the tongue. In an interview (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/opinion/trumps-thunderbolts.html?_r=0) with Maureen Dowd, Trump took the same tack. "I’d like to hear his wife say something," he said.

Let’s be very clear about what Trump is doing here: as ABC wrote, he’s suggesting "Khan’s wife didn’t speak because she was forbidden to as a Muslim." This is bullshit. It is flatly, verifiably, false. But that’s almost beside the point.

Trump listened to a speech by the bereaved father of a fallen Muslim soldier and used it to slander the fallen soldier’s family. That was his response. That is his character.

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/30/12332922/donald-trump-khan-muslim

character? Trash has not a milligram of character. He's a fucking sicko.

[boutons_deux]

Trash is pure garbage

Trump Wishes Clinton Would Have Congratulated Him In Her DNC Speech

During a rally in Colorado Springs, Trump said he tuned in to Clinton's speech "out of curiosity" to see if Clinton would mention his name and was disappointed she didn't congratulate him for winning the GOP nomination.

"I was curious to see whether she'd do a class act and not mention my name," Trump said.

"Or mention it with respect, like, say, 'I'd like to congratulate my Republican opponent for having done something that nobody has ever done in the history of politics in this nation.'"
Trump went on to say that he has been the more civil one in campaigning against Clinton because he does not join in on chants of "lock her up" when people yell them at his rallies, but that his kindness has run out.

"Every time I mention her, everyone screams 'lock her up, lock her up'," he said.

"And you know what I do? I've been nice. :lol

But after watching that performance last night, such lies, I don't have to be so nice anymore. I'm taking the gloves off, right? Yes? Take the gloves off. Take the gloves off. Right? Taking the gloves off. Just remember this, Trump is going to be no more Mr. Nice guy." :lol

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-wished-clinton-congratulations?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

Dems totally Trash Donny Trash, so now he's stops being "nice guy". :lol

He's a fucking sicko.

[boutons_deux]

http://www.truthdig.com/images/made/images/cartoonuploads/[email protected]

[boutons_deux]

http://www.truthdig.com/images/made/images/cartoonuploads/[email protected]

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump insults parents of fallen soldier, says he's made sacrifices too (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/30/1554608/-Donald-Trump-insults-parents-of-fallen-soldier-says-he-s-made-sacrifices-too)

In his first response to a searing charge from bereaved Army father Khizr Khan that he’d “sacrificed nothing” for his country, Donald Trump (http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/donald-trump.htm) claimed that he had in fact sacrificed by employing “thousands and thousands of people.”

Trump said:

“I think I've made a lot of sacrifices.

I work very, very hard.

I've created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures.

I've had tremendous success.

I think I've done a lot.”

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/30/1554608/-Donald-Trump-insults-parents-of-fallen-soldier-says-he-s-made-sacrifices-too

Done so much he must hide is tax returns to keep everybody from knowing how much "tremendous success".

[boutons_deux]

Could Candidate Donald Trump Be Denied National Security Briefings?

Can Donald Trump - or any presidential nominee - lose access to briefings on national security?

In short, yes.

The national security briefings are "a courtesy" and a "tradition," according to David Priess, the author of "The President's Book of Secrets," about the president's intelligence sessions.

The briefings, usually numbering one or two at a mutually agreeable secure location any time between the nominating conventions and Election Day, are given at the discretion of the president and not mandatory or required by law.

They began in 1952 under President Harry Truman, who offered the service to Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower. Truman, who felt completely unprepared when he entered office in the middle of a war, believed no future president should be ignorant of intelligence matters.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/could-candidate-donald-trump-be-denied-national-security-briefings-n619156?cid=sm_fb_lastword

[Reck]

Trash is pure garbage

Donald Trump’s slander of Captain Humayun Khan’s family is horrifying, even for TrumpDonald Trump’s slander of Captain Humayun Khan’s family is horrifying, even for Trump


"If you look at his wife, she was standing there," he said (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-father-fallen-soldier-ive-made-lot/story?id=41015051), on national television. "She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. You tell me."

This wasn’t a slip of the tongue. In an interview (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/opinion/trumps-thunderbolts.html?_r=0) with Maureen Dowd, Trump took the same tack. "I’d like to hear his wife say something," he said.

Let’s be very clear about what Trump is doing here: as ABC wrote, he’s suggesting "Khan’s wife didn’t speak because she was forbidden to as a Muslim." This is bullshit. It is flatly, verifiably, false. But that’s almost beside the point.

Trump listened to a speech by the bereaved father of a fallen Muslim soldier and used it to slander the fallen soldier’s family. That was his response. That is his character.

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/30/12332922/donald-trump-khan-muslim

character? Trash has not a milligram of character. He's a fucking sicko.




This is presisely the problem with Trump. He speaks before having all the facts.

The parents of the soldier that died went on MSNBC Chris Mathews and they both speak. She explained why she didn't.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqZirz12x-8

[dbreiden83080]

This is presisely the problem with Trump. He speaks before having all the facts.

The parents of the soldier that died went on MSNBC Chris Mathews and they both speak. She explained why she didn't.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqZirz12x-8

He is not going to win because everything that comes out of his mouth stinks of EGO and often ignorance. He has no soul or feelings for anything but money and power. Hillary sucks as a candidate IMO, but Trump will lose more and more ground because he can't stop his mouth.

[ducks]

http://www.infowars.com/proof-twitter-is-censoring-donald-trump-to-block-fundraising-efforts/
so twitter is censor trump Facebook is google has but trump is still close in race

[ducks]

Khan’s dad I feel bad he lost his son but so do other people and he is trying to use it for political gain
if trump lost his son in war and used it in a political speech people would be all over it

[Reck]

http://www.infowars.com/proof-twitter-is-censoring-donald-trump-to-block-fundraising-efforts/
so twitter is censor trump Facebook is google has but trump is still close in race

Did you have a stroke?

[Splits]

This is presisely the problem with Trump. He speaks before having all the facts.

The parents of the soldier that died went on MSNBC Chris Mathews and they both speak. She explained why she didn't.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqZirz12x-8

"If you look at his wife, she was standing there," he said (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-father-fallen-soldier-ive-made-lot/story?id=41015051), on national television. "She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. You tell me."

What. A. Fucking. Cunt

[FuzzyLumpkins]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ7_bo74VMA

[Splits]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CoqDD3wXYAAHMBe.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CooR95UXEAAj8UY.jpg

[ducks]

"If you look at his wife, she was standing there," he said (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-father-fallen-soldier-ive-made-lot/story?id=41015051), on national television. "She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. You tell me."
Her
What. A. Fucking. Cunther son has been dead for years she needs to go to get help if she can not get over it

[pgardn]

This post is a disgrace. I could totally destroy it so bad, it would make heads spin. But I've got a call from ChumpDumper and said, don't worry about that nobody, don't do it. So I could completely destroy this post, but I won't do it, so I'm not doing it. It's just an absolutely terrible post. Sad!

We got talent.
Warlord and Nono

[pgardn]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CoqDD3wXYAAHMBe.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CooR95UXEAAj8UY.jpg

The roundhouse finds its mark.

[spankadelphia]

If you have a sense of humor, I don't see how you wouldn't vote for Trump, considering the alternative sucks, tbh:lol..how can you resist seeing the worldwide reaction to a Trump victory? It would be one of the most glorious events we have ever witnessed, from a comedic POV..

I find it kind of sad that people aren't being clowned for supporting Hillary, though..there's a stigma with being a Trump supporter(and rightfully so, since most of them are backwards hillbillies), yet minimal backlash for people openly supporting an evil woman and an equally terrible candidate..it's not like she has even an ounce of charisma, either:lol..100, though, I don't know how anybody can proudly discuss their Hillary support..

https://i.imgur.com/4FSigEk.pngPerhaps you haven't heard, friendo. The Democrats are now patriotic nationalists.

[dbreiden83080]

Khan’s dad I feel bad he lost his son but so do other people and he is trying to use it for political gain
if trump lost his son in war and used it in a political speech people would be all over it

The father is not running for anything. He is simply saying trump is a total and complete piece of shit. Which Trump is.

[ducks]

He acts like his son is the only one that died in war and can not get over it
He needs to seek mental help

[ducks]

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump
Nielson Media Research final numbers on ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: TRUMP 32.2 MILLION. CLINTON 27.8 MILLION. Thank you!

[ElNono]

If you have a sense of humor, I don't see how you wouldn't vote for Trump, considering the alternative sucks, tbh:lol..how can you resist seeing the worldwide reaction to a Trump victory? It would be one of the most glorious events we have ever witnessed, from a comedic POV..

I find it kind of sad that people aren't being clowned for supporting Hillary, though..there's a stigma with being a Trump supporter(and rightfully so, since most of them are backwards hillbillies), yet minimal backlash for people openly supporting an evil woman and an equally terrible candidate..it's not like she has even an ounce of charisma, either:lol..100, though, I don't know how anybody can proudly discuss their Hillary support..

Actually, the meltdown that would follow yet another presidential election loss for the GOP, especially against such a terrible candidate like Shillary, and following 8 years of conservative public enemy #1 OBarry, would be incredibly hilarious, tbh, and probably gloriously epic ... :lol

[dbreiden83080]

He acts like his son is the only one that died in war and can not get over it
He needs to seek mental help

He didn't act that way at all. He's speaking to trumps racism quite frankly. Banning Muslims from coming into this country will only strengthen the case for them to hate us. It is one of trumps most stupid ideas. The vetting process needs to be vastly improved. Not banning them.

[ducks]

Banning Muslims is not racism! He wants to stop all illegals not just Mexicans! If he just wanted to stop Mexicans illegals that would be racist
They are the ones killing people
U do not invite your enemy in and ask them to come over for dinner do u?

[ducks]

Trump wants to stop people coming in tell venting process improves u even agree on that

[ducks]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3716280/Yes-boys-sex-slaves-Outrage-British-Muslim-cleric-mosque-Cardiff-jihadis-radicalised-tells-teenagers-captives-permissible-Islam.html

[dbreiden83080]

Banning Muslims is not racism! He wants to stop all illegals not just Mexicans! If he just wanted to stop Mexicans illegals that would be racist
They are the ones killing people
U do not invite your enemy in and ask them to come over for dinner do u?

Hillary is not inviting all of the illegals to come in either. Trump gives a lot of speeches spouting a lot of bullshit. Building a wall and acting like Mexico is going to pay for it is hilarious and utterly stupid to anyone who buys it.

[ducks]

Mexico will pay for it one way or another
Charge more for people coming in
Charge to bring goods in from Mexico

If u do not want a wall you could patrol it and people coming in illegal to arrest and lock them up
U do not realease them and say see in in court in two years

[ducks]

Hillary is not inviting all of the illegals to come in either. Trump gives a lot of speeches spouting a lot of bullshit. Building a wall and acting like Mexico is going to pay for it is hilarious and utterly stupid to anyone who buys it.she is saying if u are here illegally u are welcome stay I do not care what the law says you are not breaking the law which they because they are here illegally

[ducks]

Yuma Arizona is bad for jobs because Mexicans are taking the jobs and working for less!

[hitmanyr2k]

Banning Muslims is not racism! He wants to stop all illegals not just Mexicans! If he just wanted to stop Mexicans illegals that would be racist
They are the ones killing people
U do not invite your enemy in and ask them to come over for dinner do u?

How is it possible that you miss the hypocrisy that's going on here? There are thousands of Muslim Americans serving in our armed forces and it's backwards to have thousands of Muslim Americans fighting for "freedom" and freedom of religion, except their own. We're basically telling these troops and their families that they can die for their country in the name of "freedom" but people who practice their same religion? Yeah, they're not allowed. Republicans like to portray themselves as ultra-patriotic with their "rah rah we support the troops" bullshit and then turn right around and spit on those same troops and the Constitution and not give two fucks about it because they're a bunch of fuckin cowards who are afraid of their shadows. As soon as a little adversity comes their way they tuck their tails and abandon what they think makes the country so great.

[Reck]

Ducks going all kinds of full retard in here. Holy fuck. Stop

[Warlord23]

I know Trump is something of a compulsive liar, but I don't get why he chooses to lie about things that are (a) unimportant and (b) very easy to check and refute. Here he claims that the NFL sent him a letter stating their dissatisfaction with the Presidential debates coinciding with NFL games. Of course, someone checked with the NFL and they exposed Trump's BS.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/nfl-denies-it-sent-letter-trump-over-debate-schedule-n620391

[Warlord23]

For example, the other lie that Trump told yesterday about the Koch brothers wanting to meet him and Trump refusing is at least a somewhat useful lie. Never mind that it was Trump who wanted to meet and the Kochs telling him to take a hike.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/kochs-donald-trump-226451
759479059046883328

There is a chance that GOP voters might believe him because it's his word against the Kochs. But the NFL lie is stupid as hell. Trump needs a competent therapist

[boutons_deux]

Trump is already creating jobs ... for foreign guest workers (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/28/1553588/-Trump-is-already-creating-jobs-for-foreign-guest-workers)

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and Trump National Golf Club, Jupiter are looking for 78 servers, housekeepers, and cooks.

But instead of making sure those jobs go to Americans, he is seeking to import foreign workers for the positions, which pay $10.17 an hour for housekeepers, $11.13 an hour for servers, and $12.74 for cooks. He filed applications this month claiming he couldn’t find enough Americans to do that work, and is seeking (https://icert.doleta.gov/index.cfm?event=ehLCJRExternal.dspJobOrderView&frm=PJR&task=view_job_order&view=external&lcjr_id=98177) temporary (https://icert.doleta.gov/index.cfm?event=ehLCJRExternal.dspJobOrderView&frm=lcjr&task=view_job_order&view=external&lcjr_id=98181) visas (https://icert.doleta.gov/index.cfm?event=ehLCJRExternal.dspJobOrderView&frm=lcjr&task=view_job_order&view=external&lcjr_id=98189) to bring in 65 workers at Mar-a-Lago along with another seven (https://icert.doleta.gov/index.cfm?event=ehLCJRExternal.dspJobOrderView&frm=lcjr&task=view_job_order&view=external&lcjr_id=98132) waiters and six (https://icert.doleta.gov/index.cfm?event=ehLCJRExternal.dspJobOrderView&frm=lcjr&task=view_job_order&view=external&lcjr_id=98133) cooks at the golf club.


A director at a local career services agency tells Buzzfeed that his agency:

… has a database of 1,327 Palm Beach County residents interested in server, cook, and chef positions. He said local hotels are currently seeking his agency’s help to fill more than 856 such jobs.

Mar-a-Lago does not appear to be among those that contacted the agency directly, he said, adding that he could not immediately provide information about the Jupiter golf club.


The H-2 visa program Trump is seeking to bring workers in under requires that employers first try to find American workers to fill jobs.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/07/28/1553588/-Trump-is-already-creating-jobs-for-foreign-guest-workers?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

[boutons_deux]

Why Recent Child Rape Case Against Trump Should Not Be Ignored: Victim Has A Witness (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/29/1543742/-Why-Recent-Child-Rape-Case-Against-Trump-Should-Not-Be-Ignored-Victim-Has-A-Witness)

Jane Doe reports she was raped more than once by Donald Trump when she was 13 years old. The entire piece is worth a read because it cites other rape cases filed against Trump (link below).

However, in this diary I want to focus on the recent Jane Doe case because, as Bloom points out: “It is exceedingly rare for a sexual assault victim to have a witness.”

From article:

Two unusual documents (https://www.scribd.com/doc/316341058/Donald-Trump-Jeffrey-Epstein-Rape-Lawsuit-and-Affidavits#fullscreen) are attached to Jane Doe’s complaints - sworn declarations attesting to the facts. The first is from Jane Doe herself, telling her horrific story, including the allegation that Jeffrey Epstein also raped her and threatened her into silence, and this stunner:

Defendant Epstein then attempted to strike me about the head with his closed fists while he angrily screamed at me that he, Defendant Epstein, should have been the one who took my virginity, not Defendant Trump . . .

And this one:

Defendant Trump stated that I shouldn’t ever say anything if I didn’t want to disappear like Maria, a 12-year-old female that was forced to be involved in the third incident with Defendant Trump and that I had not seen since that third incident, and that he was capable of having my whole family killed.

The second declaration is even more astonishing, because it is signed by “Tiffany Doe”, Mr. Epstein’s “party planner” from 1991-2000. Tiffany Doe says that her duties were “to get attractive adolescent women to attend these parties.” (Adolescents are, legally, children.)

Tiffany Doe says that she recruited Jane Doe at the Port Authority in New York, persuaded her to attend Mr. Epstein’s parties, and actually witnessed the sexual assaults on Jane Doe:

I personally witnessed the Plaintiff being forced to perform various sexual acts with Donald J. Trump and Mr. Epstein. Both Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein were advised that she was 13 years old.

It is exceedingly rare for a sexual assault victim to have a witness. But Tiffany Doe says:

I personally witnessed four sexual encounters that the Plaintiff was forced to have with Mr. Trump during this period, including the fourth of these encounters where Mr. Trump forcibly raped her despite her pleas to stop.

Tiffany Doe corroborates, based on her own personal observations, just about everything in Jane Doe’s complaint: that twelve year old Maria was involved in a sex act with Mr. Trump, that Mr. Trump threatened the life of Jane Doe if she ever revealed what happened, and that she would “disappear” like Maria if she did.

Tiffany Doe herself says that she is in mortal fear of Mr. Trump to this day:

I am coming forward to swear to the truthfulness of the physical and sexual abuse that I personally witnessed of minor females at the hands of Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein . . . I swear to these facts under the penalty for perjury even though I fully understand that the life of myself and my family is now in grave danger.


In relation to why the media is avoiding this story, Lisa Bloom is fair handed. But I don’t think the MSM deserves a fair shake. In my opinion, the media wants to keep Trump viable to create a high-tension, general election horse race and anything that threatens Trump’s viability is ignored.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/29/1543742/-Why-Recent-Child-Rape-Case-Against-Trump-Should-Not-Be-Ignored-Victim-Has-A-Witness

[InRareForm]

Trump is a douche bag... Can't even shut up about things. Always has to put his stupid rants on twitte on Every topic basically. Can't believe repubs are in support of this clown

[boutons_deux]

Trump Admits That He Will Lose The Election If He Releases His Tax Returns



STEPHANOPOULOS: Is there something…

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: George, it is very simple. Yes, but they’re all linked. It’s called the link.

It’s very simple, if my audit is finished, that’s great.

Now, I have to tell you.

I watched Mitt Romney four years ago.

He waited until September to give them, just before the election.

They made him look so bad, it was so unfair, I actually think he didn’t lose because of the 47 percent, I think he lost because of a couple of really minor items in tax return where he did nothing wrong.

So it is unfair.

But I will say, when I’m finished with the audit, I’ll do it.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Richard Nixon released his even though his were under audit.

TRUMP: I don’t use Richard Nixon as necessarily the guide, OK.

I mean, you know, it’s an interesting person to use, but don’t use it.

Trump admitted that there is something in his tax returns that will cause him to lose the election.

His reference to his own belief that something in Romney’s tax return cost Republicans in 2012 was about as close to an admission as voters are going to get from Trump.

Donald Trump defended his tax returns as legal, but that doesn’t mean that it’s right.

What Trump is most likely hiding is the fact that he hasn’t paid any personal income taxes for decades. Trump isn’t paying his fair share of taxes. That is what he is hiding.

Donald Trump is trying to pass himself off as some sort of blue-collar billionaire while he is manipulating the system in a way that no working class American ever could.Anyone with an ounce of knowledge knows that being compared to Richard Nixon is not good, but Trump considers Nixon “interesting.”

Trump knows that if his tax returns come out, he’ll lose the election.

The reason why he hasn’t released his returns has nothing to do with an audit or Mitt Romney.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/31/trump-admits-lose-election-releases-tax-returns.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

Trash! :lol

Trash supporters! :lol

Repugs are so fucked! :lol

[Spurminator]

If you have a sense of humor, I don't see how you wouldn't vote for Trump, considering the alternative sucks, tbh:lol..how can you resist seeing the worldwide reaction to a Trump victory? It would be one of the most glorious events we have ever witnessed, from a comedic POV..

Your choice for President of the United States is based on who brings more of the lolz?

Do you ever get out of the house?

[pgardn]

Boots.

From the rape article

In relation to why the media is avoiding this story, Lisa Bloom is fair handed. But I don’t think the MSM deserves a fair shake. In my opinion, the media wants to keep Trump viable to create a high-tension, general election horse race and anything that threatens Trump’s viability is ignored.



Do you really believe this?

[djohn2oo8]

https://mediamatters.org/video/2016/07/31/cnns-brian-stelter-shuts-down-trump-campaigns-attempt-spin-attacks-khizr-khan/212045

Christ :lol

[djohn2oo8]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/us/politics/khizr-khan-ghazala-donald-trump-muslim-soldier.html

Trump really cannot go one day without fucking up

[spankadelphia]

:lolShitlibs walking into yet another one of Donald's traps.

The new rally point is Mr. Kahn, the father of the muslim soldier KIA who held up a (pristine) pocket Constitution and challenged Trump to read it and discover the inviolable Zeroth Amendment which guarantees limitless immigration to the U.S. for shitskins. According to the DNC, Kahn's son was one of 14 killed on the American side in the first Gulf War (this represents a 0.3% KIA rate for American Muslims compared to the total).

If I had the time to research it, we could probably come up with 1.) the number of American Mohammedans killed fighting against the U.S. and/or for terrorist entities which likely exceeds 14; and, 2.) the number of Muslim U.S. serviceman who turned on the U.S. while in uniform (Nidal Hassan, Hasan Akbar, etc...) which is not insignificant, and whose body count in the aggregate likely exceeds 14. It's probably a significant net negative in either event and blows the proposition that Mr. Kahn was trying to establish out of the water.

https://i.imgur.com/1IkLzQc.pngLET THEM IN BIGOTS! ALMOST HALF OF THE SOLDIERS FIGHT FOR THE USA INSTEAD OF AGAINST IT!

[djohn2oo8]

:lolShitlibs walking into yet another one of Donald's traps.

The new rally point is Mr. Kahn, the father of the muslim soldier KIA who held up a (pristine) pocket Constitution and challenged Trump to read it and discover the inviolable Zeroth Amendment which guarantees limitless immigration to the U.S. for shitskins. According to the DNC, Kahn's son was one of 14 killed on the American side in the first Gulf War (this represents a 0.3% KIA rate for American Muslims compared to the total).

If I had the time to research it, we could probably come up with 1.) the number of American Mohammedans killed fighting against the U.S. and/or for terrorist entities which likely exceeds 14; and, 2.) the number of Muslim U.S. serviceman who turned on the U.S. while in uniform (Nidal Hassan, Hasan Akbar, etc...) which is not insignificant, and whose body count in the aggregate likely exceeds 14. It's probably a significant net negative in either event and blows the proposition that Mr. Kahn was trying to establish out of the water.

https://i.imgur.com/1IkLzQc.pngLET THEM IN BIGOTS! ALMOST HALF OF THE SOLDIERS FIGHT FOR THE USA INSTEAD OF AGAINST IT!

What the actual fuck is this shit? :lmao

[djohn2oo8]

:lol liberal trap when Republicans are criticizing him too :lol

[spankadelphia]

The stats are: Nidal killed 13 and Akbar killed 2, for 15 American soldiers killed by Muslim-American soldiers. There's been at least one terrorist plot planned by a Muslim-American soldier (Hason Edmonds) thwarted. If you were willing to hammer it home, you could add the Beltway Sniper.

The number of Muslim-American servicemen killed in combat is supposedly 14, a number that was reported out of the House Homeland Security Committee by Chairman Peter King in 2011.

I actually have some doubts about the 14 number, but whatever. The point is still valid... more American soldiers (15) have been killed by Muslim-American soldiers, than Muslim American soldiers have died in combat (14).



http://i.imgur.com/HsAb3bq.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/IQbAP.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/HsAb3bq.gif

[djohn2oo8]

The stats are: Nidal killed 13 and Akbar killed 2, for 15 American soldiers killed by Muslim-American soldiers. There's been at least one terrorist plot planned by a Muslim-American soldier (Hason Edmonds) thwarted. If you were willing to hammer it home, you could add the Beltway Sniper.

The number of Muslim-American servicemen killed in combat is supposedly 14, a number that was reported out of the House Homeland Security Committee by Chairman Peter King in 2011.

I actually have some doubts about the 14 number, but whatever. The point is still valid... more American soldiers (15) have been killed by Muslim-American soldiers, than Muslim American soldiers have died in combat (14).

Real patriots!
No wonder Trump appeals to retards.

[spankadelphia]

"Clinton Foundation? Never heard of it."

"What's La Raza? Never heard of it."

"Lolita express?"

"Nasan who?"

"When did the cold war start back up?"


https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRcGle8jDIfe_IKP6DaB2pOzE38QyXmf s05U3zfEptaVrCRLMSPu4wN_bw


Everytime the media spergs out about something he says, there's always some juicy nugget lying beneath the surface.

[ElNono]

:lol it's actually pretty hilarious to see conservatives twisting and turning over this... from 'Murica exceptionalism, freedom isn't free, etc... to have to support a "former" democrat, "former" pro-choice guy...

that's why I keep saying he better win this shit, or the meltdown is going to be epic :lol

[djohn2oo8]

In an interview with George Stephanopoulos on the ABC News program “This Week (http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek),” Mr. Trump said that if he were president, President Vladimir V. Putin (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/vladimir_v_putin/index.html?inline=nyt-per) of Russia would not send his forces into Ukraine. He then he backpedaled when Mr. Stephanopoulos pointed out that Russian troops had been there for nearly two years.

“He’s not going into Ukraine, O.K., just so you understand,” Mr. Trump, the Republican nominee, said when the issue came up. “He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want.”

“Well, he’s already there, isn’t he?” Mr. Stephanopoulos interrupted.

:lol

[Spurminator]

http://i.imgur.com/qLy0h3F.png

[Pelicans78]

The stats are: Nidal killed 13 and Akbar killed 2, for 15 American soldiers killed by Muslim-American soldiers. There's been at least one terrorist plot planned by a Muslim-American soldier (Hason Edmonds) thwarted. If you were willing to hammer it home, you could add the Beltway Sniper.

The number of Muslim-American servicemen killed in combat is supposedly 14, a number that was reported out of the House Homeland Security Committee by Chairman Peter King in 2011.

I actually have some doubts about the 14 number, but whatever. The point is still valid... more American soldiers (15) have been killed by Muslim-American soldiers, than Muslim American soldiers have died in combat (14).



http://i.imgur.com/HsAb3bq.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/IQbAP.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/HsAb3bq.gif

Why the fuck would have doubts about that hillbilly?

[Pelicans78]

Banning Muslims is not racism! He wants to stop all illegals not just Mexicans! If he just wanted to stop Mexicans illegals that would be racist
They are the ones killing people
U do not invite your enemy in and ask them to come over for dinner do u?

It doesn't matter that he wants to ban Muslims. It's not possible unless there's a constitutional amendment which won't happen. So get over it.

[spankadelphia]

Why the fuck would have doubts about that hillbilly?

Deflecting and resorting to name calling instead of addressing the point directly, are we?

Lawgic Status = TRAPPED

[Pelicans78]

Deflecting and resorting to name calling instead of addressing the point directly, are we?

Lawgic Status = TRAPPED

I can say whatever I want to you, but instead of providing facts, you made a blanket statement about having doubts that the number of 14 so maybe you should address that point directly asshole.

[Fabbs]

It is so surprising that Melania Trump is not really a college graduate as the RNC claimed.

Melania Trump's RNC bio incorrectly says she graduated from college

Melania Trump didn't receive a college degree in design and architecture at the university in Ljubljana, Slovenia, which her biography in the Republican National Convention program claims she had obtained.

The convention program reads, "After obtaining a degree in design and architecture at University in Slovenia, Melania was jetting between photo shoots in Paris and Milan, finally settling in New York in 1996." This was a direct quote from her website.

Julia Ioffe, in a profile of Trump for GQ, first reported in April that she dropped out after a year, when she decided to move to Milan, Italy to launch her modeling career.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/melania-trump-didnt-actually-graduate-from-college/

[Dirk Oneanddoneski]

:lolShitlibs walking into yet another one of Donald's traps.



https://i.imgur.com/1IkLzQc.pngLET THEM IN BIGOTS! ALMOST HALF OF THE SOLDIERS FIGHT FOR THE USA INSTEAD OF AGAINST IT!

http://i.imgur.com/fOHh9lC.jpg

[Splits]

For as long as I’ve been aware of American politics and the differences — real and perceived — between our two major parties, I’ve also been aware that the GOP has been touted as the party for grown-ups. For serious (White) men and the women those serious (White) men were married to. The solid and sober and solemn oak trees of America, that stood stubbornly and valiantly steady while the winds of social change swayed anything unfortunate enough to be unsettled. No, you would not find many new ideas floating around them. Or platforms. Or concepts. Or even new types of people. In fact, not only would you not find these things, they’d be openly antagonistic towards them, regarding them as distractions. Weeds. Flotsam. But at least — at the very least — their performative grownassness was reliably reliable.Yet, as I’ve watched both the RNC and the DNC over the past week and a half, listening to each party’s litany of speakers and celebrities and alphas, one theme has been a bit more stark and unambiguous than the rest: The Democrats are led by grown-ups. Which is something the Republicans can no longer say about themselves after collectively deciding to rally behind a half-baked soufflé of analog cucumbers.

Regardless of what you say about Hillary Clinton — and there are many, many, many, many uncomplimentary things you could say about her (and be right) — you can not deny that she’s a serious woman. With a serious career. And serious ideas. Who has devoted her life to doing serious things. And who is comfortable in a room with equally serious people. Basically, she’s a fucking grown up. As is our President and Vice President. And Hillary’s husband, the former President. All men who could and should be criticized and held accountable for decisions they’ve made. But all fucking grown ups.

Our amazing First Lady? A fucking grown up. Bernie Sanders? A fucking grown up. Jill Biden? A fucking grown up. Shit, Tim Kaine isn’t just a fucking grown-up. He’s a computer-generated conglomeration of every dad from an 80’s teen movie. If someone today replaced Tim Kaine as Hillary Clinton’s running mate with Tim Allen, I doubt we’d even notice until September. Of 2018. If Donald Trump was born on third base, Tim Kaine was born in the driver’s seat of a Dodge Caravan.

This all stands in stark contrast to the cacophony of unripe fuckshit we witnessed during the RNC, which was less political convention and more post-lunch recess at a charter school with no gym. None of the tenderfoot motherfuckers they paraded in front of America could reasonably be called a “serious” person. Wicked? Perhaps. Uncouth? Maybe. A gotdamn clownfraud? Definitely. But serious? A fucking grown-up? Hell no. Forget about running a country, would you trust Donald Trump to even babysit a cashew? Are you 100% confident that if you gave Melania Trump a Starbucks order, she’d come back with actual coffee instead of a picture of someone drinking coffee? Are we certain Chris Christie lives in an actual house and not a Trump University pull-out folder or a 14-story sugar cookie?

Of course, none of this is funny. Actually, let me qualify that. It is funny. It’s funny as fuckright now. It’s fucking hilarious that the party which has attempted (rather successfully) to brand itself as the adults in the room has put its future in the hands of the underdeveloped Cheeto at the bottom of a bag of Cheetos. The oak trees have been uprooted and replaced with Fruit Roll-Ups. It becomes exponentially less funny, however, when you realize the cheeto is a hair away from leading the country.

Which is why, when November comes around, I implore you all to just do what your parents taught you to do when you were six years old: listen to the grown-ups. Which in 2016 just means “vote for the Democrat.“

[spankadelphia]

The next time you see a non-white mudsplaining the Constitution or what the U.S. represents ("this is not who we are") which they do often when criticizing Trump, remember the words of H.P. Lovecraft.



Americanism


http://i.imgur.com/O7EmHmi.jpg


By H.P. Lovecraft

It is easy to sentimentalise on the subject of “the American spirit”—what it is, may be, or should be. Exponents of various novel political and social theories are particularly given to this practice, nearly always concluding that “true Americanism” is nothing more or less than a national application of their respective individual doctrines.

Slightly less superficial observers hit upon the abstract principle of “Liberty” as the keynote of Americanism, interpreting this justly esteemed principle as anything from Bolshevism to the right to drink 2.75 per cent. beer. “Opportunity” is another favourite byword, and one which is certainly not without real significance. The synonymousness of “America” and “opportunity” has been inculcated into many a young head of the present generation by Emerson via Montgomery’s “Leading Facts of American History.” But it is worthy of note that nearly all would-be definers of “Americanism” fail through their prejudiced unwillingness to trace the quality to its European source. They cannot bring themselves to see that abiogenesis is as rare in the realm of ideas as it is in the kingdom of organic life; and consequently waste their efforts in trying to treat America as if it were an isolated phenomenon without ancestry.

“Americanism” is expanded Anglo-Saxonism. It is the spirit of England, transplanted to a soil of vast extent and diversity, and nourished for a time under pioneer conditions calculated to increase its democratic aspects without impairing its fundamental virtues. It is the spirit of truth, honour, justice, morality, moderation, individualism, conservative liberty, magnanimity, toleration, enterprise, industriousness, and progress—which is England—plus the element of equality and opportunity caused by pioneer settlement. It is the expression of the world’s highest race under the most favourable social, political, and geographical conditions. Those who endeavour to belittle the importance of our British ancestry, are invited to consider the other nations of this continent. All these are equally “American” in every particular, differing only in race-stock and heritage; yet of them all, none save British Canada will even bear comparison with us. We are great because we are a part of the great Anglo-Saxon cultural sphere; a section detached only after a century and a half of heavy colonisation and English rule, which gave to our land the ineradicable stamp of British civilisation.

Most dangerous and fallacious of the several misconceptions of Americanism is that of the so-called “melting-pot” of races and traditions. It is true that this country has received a vast influx of non-English immigrants who come hither to enjoy without hardship the liberties which our British ancestors carved out in toil and bloodshed. It is also true that such of them as belong to the Teutonic and Celtic races are capable of assimilation to our English type and of becoming valuable acquisitions to the population. But, from this it does not follow that a mixture of really alien blood or ideas has accomplished or can accomplish anything but harm. Observation of Europe shows us the relative status and capability of the several races, and we see that the melting together of English gold and alien brass is not very likely to produce any alloy superior or even equal to the original gold. Immigration cannot, perhaps, be cut off altogether, but it should be understood that aliens who choose America as their residence must accept the prevailing language and culture as their own; and neither try to modify our institutions, nor to keep alive their own in our midst. We must not, as the greatest man of our age declared, suffer this nation to become a “polyglot boarding house.”

The greatest foe to rational Americanism is that dislike for our parent nation which holds sway amongst the ignorant and bigoted, and which is kept alive largely by certain elements of the population who seem to consider the sentiments of Southern and Western Ireland more important than those of the United States. In spite of the plain fact that a separate Ireland would weaken civilisation and menace the world’s peace by introducing a hostile and undependable wedge betwixt the two major parts of Saxondom, these irresponsible elements continue to encourage rebellion in the Green Isle; and in so doing tend to place this nation in a distressingly anomalous position as an abettor of crime and sedition against the Mother Land. Disgusting beyond words are the public honours paid to political criminals like Edward, alias Eamonn, de Valera, whose very presence at large among us is an affront to our dignity and heritage. Never may we appreciate or even fully comprehend our own place and mission in the world, till we can banish those clouds of misunderstanding which float between us and the source of our culture.

But the features of Americanism peculiar to this continent must not be belittled. In the abolition of fixed and rigid class lines a distinct sociological advance is made, permitting a steady and progressive recruiting of the upper levels from the fresh and vigorous body of the people beneath. Thus opportunities of the choicest sort await every citizen alike, whilst the biological quality of the cultivated classes is improved by the cessation of that narrow inbreeding which characterises European aristocracy.

Total separation of civil and religious affairs, the greatest political and intellectual advance since the Renaissance, is also a local American—and more particularly a Rhode Island—triumph. Agencies are today subtly at work to undermine this principle, and to impose upon us through devious political influences the Papal chains which Henry VIII first struck from our limbs; chains unfelt since the bloody reign of Mary, and infinitely worse than the ecclesiastical machinery which Roger Williams rejected. But when the vital relation of intellectual freedom to genuine Americanism shall be fully impressed upon the people, it is likely that such sinister undercurrents will subside.

The main struggle which awaits Americanism is not with reaction, but with radicalism. Our age is one of restless and unintelligent iconoclasm, and abounds with shrewd sophists who use the name “Americanism” to cover attacks on that institution itself. Such familiar terms and phrases as “democracy,” “liberty,” or “freedom of speech” are being distorted to cover the wildest forms of anarchy, whilst our old representative institutions are being attacked as “un-American” by foreign immigrants who are incapable both of understanding them or of devising anything better.

This country would benefit from a wider practice of sound Americanism, with its accompanying recognition of an Anglo-Saxon source. Americanism implies freedom, progress, and independence; but it does not imply a rejection of the past, nor a renunciation of traditions and experience. Let us view the term in its real, practical, and unsentimental meaning.

>from the United Amateur, July 1919

[Dirk Oneanddoneski]

More Bernie bro fall out

http://www.thedailystar.net/world/north-america/clintons-support-drops-16-among-youth-one-year-1262161

Gallup tracked the presidential candidate's appeal over the month of July and found that only 31 percent of 18-to-29-year-old Americans had a favorable view of Hillary Clinton.
That is a drop of 16 percentage points from a year ago, when the same age group gave her a 47 percent favorability rating, which was higher than that given by other age groups.

standing room only for the Clinton's in Pennsylvania
https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/clinton-kaine-pa-1-mitchell-tweet.jpg

[Reck]

Trump has more dirty than Hillary. As more and more shit comes out the less pull he'll have among the evangelicals. He'll keep people like ducks and spankadelphia though. The hillbilly retards are his bread and butter.

[Dirk Oneanddoneski]

Trump has more dirty than Hillary. As more and more shit comes out the less pull he'll have among the evangelicals. He'll keep people like ducks and spankadelphia though. The hillbilly retards are his bread and butter.

Dude have you watched this yet, is cenk being serious here or is it all just an act? I don't watch the young turks

0WVfDpVYahE

[Reck]

Dude have you watched this yet, is cenk being serious here or is it all just an act? I don't watch the young turks

0WVfDpVYahE

I dont watch them iether. Ask FkLA. He's an avid fan. :lol

[CosmicCowboy]

Hillary is almost sure to come out with a 4% or 5% lead in the polls next week. Then 98% will forget about it until after Labor day and then the debates start. As shitty a speaker as Hillary is she will probably be very effective in the debates because she will have a hundred prepared and focus grouped one liners and Trump will probably just wing it. As much as I dislike Hillary I have to admit she has been practicing this shit for 25 years and rarely goes off script even if I disagree with the script. If Trumps handlers put a shock collar on him and zap him every time he goes off script he might have a punchers chance against her down to the wire.

[ElNono]

Hillary is almost sure to come out with a 4% or 5% lead in the polls next week. Then 98% will forget about it until after Labor day and then the debates start. As shitty a speaker as Hillary is she will probably be very effective in the debates because she will have a hundred prepared and focus grouped one liners and Trump will probably just wing it. As much as I dislike Hillary I have to admit she has been practicing this shit for 25 years and rarely goes off script even if I disagree with the script. If Trumps handlers put a shock collar on him and zap him every time he goes off script he might have a punchers chance against her down to the wire.

She got easily tripped by Bernie on progressive issues, and the more she speaks, the less people like her, tbh... the fact that there's only going to be 3 debates is bad news for Trump, he should be pushing for 5-6.

The only thing Trump really needs to worry about is to make sure he doesn't come out as a misogynist pig, which, granted, is not a given...

[Splits]

She got easily tripped by Bernie on progressive issues, and the more she speaks, the less people like her, tbh... the fact that there's only going to be 3 debates is bad news for Trump, he should be pushing for 5-6.

The only thing Trump really needs to worry about is to make sure he doesn't come out as a misogynist pig, which, granted, is not a given...

Totally disagree.

She's going to demolish him in that format. He was fine standing around with 7 others on the stage. 1-on-1 against one of the most seasoned debaters is a total different ballgame.

I doubt he even participates in more than 1 debate. He may skip them altogether. He's already laying the groundwork (:cry Hilary is fixing the debates just like against Bernie :cry)

[djohn2oo8]

Totally disagree.

She's going to demolish him in that format. He was fine standing around with 7 others on the stage. 1-on-1 against one of the most seasoned debaters is a total different ballgame.

I doubt he even participates in more than 1 debate. He may skip them altogether. He's already laying the groundwork (:cry Hilary is fixing the debates just like against Bernie :cry)
Pretty much. Trump is wayyyyy too thin skinned to debate with her.

[ElNono]

Totally disagree.

She's going to demolish him in that format. He was fine standing around with 7 others on the stage. 1-on-1 against one of the most seasoned debaters is a total different ballgame.

I doubt he even participates in more than 1 debate. He may skip them altogether. He's already laying the groundwork (:cry Hilary is fixing the debates just like against Bernie :cry)

The Donald is a guy that loves the limelight, whereas Shillary, I think, takes a hit from exposure. They're both liars, and get away with it.

Trump is going to declare victory on a tweet basically 1 min after the debate ends, tbh :lol

Shillary probably going to mention how she pushed a key to remote control the M-16 that killed OBL... :lol

I actually think the VP debate will be more entertaining, tbh...

[ElNono]

Pretty much. Trump is wayyyyy too thin skinned to debate with her.

That's exactly what I mean when I say he's going to have to be careful. There's a line there, and I alluded to it before, he can't pull another Megan Kelly this late in the race, IMO.

[Splits]

The Donald is a guy that loves the limelight, whereas Shillary, I think, takes a hit from exposure. They're both liars, and get away with it.

Trump is going to declare victory on a tweet basically 1 min after the debate ends, tbh :lol

Shillary probably going to mention how she pushed a key to remote control the M-16 that killed OBL... :lol

I actually think the VP debate will be more entertaining, tbh...

He can't even get through a 15 minute interview without sticking his dick in his mouth (i.e. today, Russia has not invaded Ukraine)

She will slaughter him. Manafort's only focus over the next two months is how to keep him from getting on that stage.

[z0sa]

Trump is a douche bag... Can't even shut up about things. Always has to put his stupid rants on twitte on Every topic basically. Can't believe repubs are in support of this clown

Trump saves literally millions upon millions posting rants or followups on twitter that the media, his supporters and his haters then gobble up. Not defending him or his comments in any way, but he is the most popular (statistically speaking, not his favorability ratings) person in America, possibly the world - and at a fraction of the cost compared to Shillary. And that is thanks in no small part to those little 140 character rants. Love him or hate him, win or lose, he has already written the book on using social media to not only increase name recognition, but keep your average Joe emotionally involved in the day to day events of a political campaign. If he wins the presidency (wont happen), it will have been perhaps the greatest feat accomplished by a single man in the history of politics. How powerful freedom of speech and the press really can be, hmm?

[CosmicCowboy]

Trump saves literally millions upon millions posting rants or followups on twitter that the media, his supporters and his haters then gobble up. Not defending him or his comments in any way, but he is the most popular (statistically speaking, not his favorability ratings) person in America, possibly the world - and at a fraction of the cost compared to Shillary. And that is thanks in no small part to those little 140 character rants. Love him or hate him, win or lose, he has already written the book on using social media to not only increase name recognition, but keep your average Joe emotionally involved in the day to day events of a political campaign. If he wins the presidency (wont happen), it will have been perhaps the greatest feat accomplished by a single man in the history of politics. How powerful freedom of speech and the press really can be, hmm?

Good point. And we will be so saturated with Hillary's 2 billion dollar bombardment of attack ads we will just turn mentally them off.

[Reck]

She got easily tripped by Bernie on progressive issues, and the more she speaks, the less people like her, tbh... the fact that there's only going to be 3 debates is bad news for Trump, he should be pushing for 5-6.

The only thing Trump really needs to worry about is to make sure he doesn't come out as a misogynist pig, which, granted, is not a given...

It was a tie tbh..

She owned Bernie in the first few debates. It wasn't until much later that Hillary got shook by Bernie's popularity and talking points.

You have to remember Bernie hadn't ever done debates one on one before. She had that going for her. But he later got the hand of it and destroyed her with the release the speeches lines.

[boutons_deux]

Boots.

From the rape article

In relation to why the media is avoiding this story, Lisa Bloom is fair handed. But I don’t think the MSM deserves a fair shake. In my opinion, the media wants to keep Trump viable to create a high-tension, general election horse race and anything that threatens Trump’s viability is ignored.



Do you really believe this?

Of course. USA's perversely elongated Pres campaigns are primarily a $2B+ business, employing 100Ks, media selling ads to sell BigCorp products.

Trash is trash, has NO chance of winning, but the seasonal "campaign industry" has to keep LYING that there are two a really competitive campaigns so people keep watching the ads.

[boutons_deux]

The Kahn's were so TOTALLY DESTRUCTIVE of Trash, that the entire Repug/rightwing hate media absolutely must destroy the Kahns

Mike Pence Releases Breathtakingly Cynical Statement On The Khan Family

STATEMENT FROM REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, GOVERNOR MIKE PENCE
Donald Trump and I believe that Captain Humayun Khan is an American hero and his family, like all Gold Star families, should be cherished by every American.

Captain Khan gave his life to defend our country in the global war on terror. Due to the disastrous decisions of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, a once stable Middle East has now been overrun by ISIS. This must not stand.

By suspending immigration from countries that have been compromised by terrorism, rebuilding our military, defeating ISIS at its source and projecting strength on the global stage, we will reduce the likelihood that other American families will face the enduring heartbreak of the Khan family.

Donald Trump will support our military and their families and we will defeat the enemies of our freedom.

- Governor Mike Pence

https://www.facebook.com/mikepence/posts/10153921668637862

[boutons_deux]

Everything You Need to Know About Trump's NFL BS

In his first effort to scuttle (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/no-certainty-debates-will-happen-at-all) the Fall presidential debates Donald Trump has suggested that Hillary Clinton is trying to rig the debates by scheduling them during must-watch NFL games.

Is this true? Not a trick question! Since it's come up a lot I want to lay out some basic facts about Trump's latest claim.


1. Did Hillary Clinton do this?

No, of course not. The Commission on Presidential debates has overseen all presidential debates going back to the 1980s. The commission is bipartisan (co-chaired by one Republican and one Democrat) and announced the dates (http://debates.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=57&cntnt01origid=15&cntnt01detailtemplate=newspage&cntnt01returnid=80) for this year's debates on September 23rd, 2015. This year's NFL schedule was announced (http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000617300/article/2016-regularseason-schedule-to-be-revealed-thursday) in April 2016.

2. How many days are there in a week?

Well, seven of course. But some have suggested that even though the exact schedule wasn't known until April, the commission knew what days and nights the NFL schedules games. Here's where calendar knowledge comes in. Friday and Saturday are historically low TV viewership nights. If the debate commission wanted high viewership those two nights are out. Since 2006, the NFL has scheduled games on three nights a week, in addition to the main Sunday afternoon play: Sunday, Monday and Thursday. If the commission wants to work around the NFL schedule they are limited to two days out of the week: Tuesday and Wednesday.

3. Has the debate commission ever done this before?

Of course it has. The four 2012 debates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_debates,_2012) were held on a Wednesday, Tuesday, Thursday and Monday. The four 2008 debates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_debates,_2008) included two Thursdays Fridays, one MondayWednesday and one Tuesday.

4. Did Donald Trump get a letter from the NFL complaining about the schedule?

No. He lied about that. Earlier this week Trump told ABC News: "It's against two NFL games. I got a letter from the NFL saying, 'This is ridiculous.'"

An NFL spokesman said categorically that the NFL never sent a letter about the debates to Trump.


(https://twitter.com/mikesisak)Mike (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=7591)sisak @alexweprin (https://twitter.com/alexweprin) While we'd obviously wish the Debate Commission could find another night, we did not send a letter to Mr Trump.

— Brian McCarthy (@NFLprguy) July 30, 2016 (https://twitter.com/NFLprguy/status/759514507844673536)


The Trump campaign now says (http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/07/31/trump-retreats-from-claim-that-nfl-sent-letter-regarding-debates/) "“Mr. Trump was made aware of the conflicting dates by a source close to the league."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-trump-s-nfl-bs?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

[boutons_deux]

Trump brags that he snubbed Koch brothers — but they say they never asked for a meeting

conservative mega-donors Charles and David Koch kick off their biannual summit with their extensive network of donors, Donald Trump lobbed a pre-emptive shot, claiming he had rebuffed the industrialists' request for a meeting.

But top officials to the Koch operation threw cold water on that Saturday afternoon, saying they had no knowledge of a meeting request.

"I know a meeting didn't happen. You'll have to talk to him about what his facts are," said Mark Holden, a top official for Freedom Partners,

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/trump-brags-that-he-snubbed-koch-brothers-but-they-say-they-never-asked-for-a-meeting/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[DMX7]

Trump brags that he snubbed Koch brothers — but they say they never asked for a meeting

conservative mega-donors Charles and David Koch kick off their biannual summit with their extensive network of donors, Donald Trump lobbed a pre-emptive shot, claiming he had rebuffed the industrialists' request for a meeting.

But top officials to the Koch operation threw cold water on that Saturday afternoon, saying they had no knowledge of a meeting request.

"I know a meeting didn't happen. You'll have to talk to him about what his facts are," said Mark Holden, a top official for Freedom Partners,

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/trump-brags-that-he-snubbed-koch-brothers-but-they-say-they-never-asked-for-a-meeting/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29




Of course they would say that...

[Reck]

Of course they would say that...

Knowing how cheap Trump is, you know he went begging for money and got rebuked.

[boutons_deux]

Of course they would say that...

:lol You boy Trash is dead in the water, sinking like a rock. Only the media is keeping his campaign credible, competitive. :lol

[z0sa]

:lol You boy Trash is dead in the water, sinking like a rock. Only the media is keeping his campaign credible, competitive. :lol

:lol neither campaign has any semblance of credibility. And just like during the primaries, Hillary is struggling to make any kind of real gains amongst voters against far lesser competition.

I wonder how it feels, knowing you will win the most powerful office on earth based more upon vitriol towards the opposition than anything else? Knowing Hillary, it probably doesnt make any difference at all. She created her own reality long ago, one where private email servers dont explicitly violate policy, one where her two tone half screech doesnt immediately provoke negative reactions from all who hear it, a reality where she really did come under sniper fire in Bosnia.

People talk about Donald being insane. Well, he is. But so is Hillary.

[djohn2oo8]

759915863600304128

[djohn2oo8]

760070280932982784

:lol meltdown

[djohn2oo8]

760074526059270144

christ :lol

[boutons_deux]

:lol neither campaign has any semblance of credibility. And just like during the primaries, Hillary is struggling to make any kind of real gains amongst voters against far lesser competition.

credibility is irrelevant. Electability is all that counts. Trash is unelectable.

Hillary's "gains"? Her bounce has her at +15. I expect her to keep that lead or near to until the election, where it may be +20.

Trash's trashing the Kahns very probably is the kind of suicidal shit he will keep doing, has been doing all along.

[z0sa]

credibility is irrelevant. Electability is all that counts. Trash is unelectable.

Hillary's "gains"? Her bounce has her at +15. I expect her to keep that lead or near to until the election, where it may be +20.

Trash's trashing the Kahns very probably is the kind of suicidal shit he will keep doing, has been doing all along.

Her bounce is surely among voters who were leaning or registered D anyway. What about Hillary makes you think she has any ability to unite the country?

And before you pose a false dichotomy, leave Trump out of your reply. Focus on Hillary and why I should vote for her rather than a 3rd party.

[boutons_deux]

Of course they would say that...

... get back to us when the Kock Bros and other billionaires give Trash anything. They all know the WH is lost.

They benefit, profit most only from owning, corrupting Congress and the states, and capturing regulators.

[Splits]

lol picking a fight against the parents of a dead soldier. And he just can't let it go after 4 days.

[boutons_deux]

Longtime Trump confidant smears Khan family as members of the Islamic Brotherhood


http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roger-Stone-800x430.png


While Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence was posting a Facebook statement (http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/mike-pence-tries-to-clean-up-trumps-khan-family-mess-reaffirms-muslim-ban-instead/)claiming Donald Trump “cherishes” the Khan family, a close confidant and advisor to Trump was calling the grieving father a “Muslim Brotherhood agent helping Hillary.”

http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roger-Stone-tweet-360x430.png

The link Trump friend Roger Stone tweeted goes to a conspiracy theory website, that claims Khan’s son was killed before a secret mission was finished.

“Is it likely that Khan’s son was killed before his Islamist mission was accomplished? Only another type of investigation will determine that,”

the author writes.

“Do they ever mention how many soldiers have died because of Muslim traitors? Do they ever bring up how many Christians in the US military were killed? Yet the modernists and homosexuals continue to attack Christians.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/longtime-trump-confidant-smears-khan-family-as-members-of-islamic-brotherhood/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[djohn2oo8]

Here comes McCain
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/mccain-statement-226495

[z0sa]

Trump's not a fan of Muslim and illegal Mexican immigrants, so I hear.

[Splits]

Here comes McCain
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/mccain-statement-226495

Next breathe.

"So, who are you going to vote for John?"

"Oh, Trump of course"

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/s960x960/13641261_10158020128075206_2745595067256623687_o.j pg

[boutons_deux]

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/melania_-_copie_2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1280

[boutons_deux]

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/melania-pics1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=775

[z0sa]

Next breathe.

"So, who are you going to vote for John?"

"Oh, Trump of course"

This is a perfect example of why voting your heart is a taboo in this country.

[z0sa]

So much for boutons faux feminism.

[boutons_deux]

So much for boutons faux feminism.

as usual, your takes suck

[Reck]

What about Hillary makes you think she has any ability to unite the country?

You're right. She's not uniting shit.

At least not without leg work.

She will have to overturn a lot of shit for people to even give her the benefit of the doubt. Right now, she cant even unite the younger democraphics that make up the loan sum of Bernie's supporters. And I doubt that happens right now--not until she becomes president and delivers on some of her new promises.

Citizens United has to go. First thing she has to do is that. I think that will buy her some much needed trust among the hardcore liberals.

Appointing Liberal supreme justice judges should be on the first page of the to do list, so that will go a long ways. Then implementing the progressive platform that Bernie helped forge into action.

That's a lot to expect from someone like Hillary but like I said..if she does half that, I think that's a way to gain back the trust and buy some good graces by the people.

[Reck]

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/melania_-_copie_2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1280

Damn Melania looked good back in the day. She reminds me of my all time favorite Lucy Lawless.

[Splits]

Dayum


August 1, 2016
Donald J Trump
725 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10022

Mr. Trump,

We are all Gold Star Families, who have lost those we love the most in war. Ours is a sacrifice you will never know. Ours is a sacrifice we would never want you to know.

Your recent comments regarding the Khan family were repugnant, and personally offensive to us. When you question a mother's pain, by implying that her religion, not her grief, kept her from addressing an arena of people, you are attacking us. When you say your job building buildings is akin to our sacrifice, you are attacking our sacrifice.

You are not just attacking us, you are cheapening the sacrifice made by those we lost.

You are minimizing the risk our service members make for all of us.

This goes beyond politics. It is about a sense of decency. That kind decency you mock as "political correctness."

We feel we must speak out and demand you apologize to the Khans, to all Gold Star families, and to all Americans for your offensive, and frankly anti-American, comments.

We hope you will hear us.

[ducks]

his family is 1 of 7000
he knows trump attacks people that attacks him
Hillary voted for the war trump said NO
but he goes to dnc to attack trump and then goes on tv

[ducks]

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/289932-khizer-khan-was-tricked-into-smearing-donald-trump

Khizr Khan was tricked into smearing Donald Trump

[clambake]

thanks boo!

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump’s recent ‘erratic behavior’ has medical professionals questioning his mental health

"Donald Trump is not of sound mind.”

Trump “appears haunted by multiple personality disorders.”

“Donald Trump is not a well man.”

These are the comments of dismayed conservative political analysts

“There is something definitely off about him.” Stevens said.

“At best, this is a very damaged person.

And there’s probably something more serious going on.”

“He’s a liar,

he’s a bigot,

he makes bad decisions,

he’s erratic and unpredictable.

That’s what we need to know. Do we need to then extend a diagnosis to go along with that, to make it really objectionable?”

“Putting his name on everything, talking about himself all the time: this is beyond the pale,” said McAdams, who wrote about Trump for The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771/).

“I don’t want to argue that it’s a clinical condition :lol

… but if there’s a continuum, in terms of narcissistic personality characteristics within a relatively normal population, he’s really way off on the extreme end.” :lol

“I don’t think he’s out of touch with reality, :lol


I think he knows what he’s doing, he probably doesn’t hear voices or have delusional thinking.”

He did, however, pose a question voters should ask themselves.

“Is this individual’s narcissism so high that it might be at the upper end of the curve where it’s no longer just healthy self-confidence, which is probably good to some degree, or is it at the point where it could really cause problems?”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/donald-trumps-recent-erratic-behavior-has-medical-professionals-questioning-his-mental-health/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

People feel obligated to say "he's not fucking crazy, nor fucking clinically ill" but but but ..... he's obviously very fucked up! :lol

Wonderful thanks for that! :lol

[boutons_deux]

What we know about Donald Trump and his taxes so far

Trump once declared that there’s “nothing to learn” from the returns, which was Four-Pinocchio false (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/05/12/trumps-false-claim-that-theres-nothing-to-learn-from-his-tax-returns/?postshare=4251469673197061&tid=ss_tw).

Vice-presidential nominees also have routinely released their tax returns. Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Tim Kaine have not yet released their returns.

1970s

The earliest record of Trump’s publicly revealed income tax information dates to the late 1970s, when Trump paid no federal income tax for at least two years. Trump’s tax returns, examined by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission in 1981 (https://www.scribd.com/doc/301761265/Report-on-Donald-Trump-to-Casino-Control-Commission), showed that he paid $0 in federal income taxes in 1978 and 1979, The Washington Post found (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-income-tax-returns-once-became-public-they-showed-he-didnt-pay-a-cent/2016/05/20/ffa2f63c-1b7c-11e6-b6e0-c53b7ef63b45_story.html). During those two years, he had no federal income tax liability primarily because of the losses he incurred operating his rental properties.

In 1975, 1976 and 1977, Trump did pay federal income taxes, it showed. The breakdown:



1975: $76,210 in income; $18,714 in taxes
1976: $24,594 in income; $10,843 in taxes
1977: $118,530 in income; $42,386 in taxes
1978: -$406,379 in income; no taxes
1979: -$3,443,560 in income; no taxes


1980s

The next record available is from 1984, when Trump also reported no income. In a Daily Beast article (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/15/new-evidence-donald-trump-didn-t-pay-taxes.html), David Cay Johnston wrote about rulings in two tax appeal cases (Trump lost both) that shed new light on Trump’s finances in 1984. (The judges’ rulings in the two cases are embedded at the end of this factcheck.)

In one case, Trump contested whether he was subject to a city business tax on his gains from selling a condominium unit in 1984. A New York City administrative law judge found that Trump (https://www.scribd.com/document/319579468/Trump-NYC-Tax-Appeal-ALJ-Tillman) had reported no personal income in his 1984 federal income tax but reported a $2,365,352 capital gain from the sale and total deductions of $626,264. Yet Trump had not provided documentation justifying the deductions.

That year, Trump reported his principal business activity as “consulting” — but reported no income or receipts from this activity, the judge wrote. He reported a negative taxable business income of $619,227.

“The record does not explain how Petitioner had significant expenses without any concomitant income from his consulting business,” the judge wrote.

Trump provided a photocopy of

his tax return, which had the signature of his longtime accountant, Jack Mitnick. But Mitnick testified that neither he nor his firm prepared the tax return and that he did not know who did.

Johnston wrote: “Among the issues raised by Mitnick’s 1992 testimony is whether Trump or someone acting on his behalf substituted a return that he or someone else prepared and then transferred Mitnick’s signature using a photocopier.”

The judge ruled that Trump was “engaged in a taxable trade or business” and was, therefore, subject to the business tax. The judge didn’t buy Trump’s complaint that he was being double-taxed. The judge said, “The problem at issue is not one of double taxation, but of no taxation.”

The second case (https://www.scribd.com/document/319579488/Trump-tax-case-NY-State) also involved Trump’s business activities and whether he took deductions without providing proper documentation.

Mitnick testified that Trump paid no federal income tax in 1984 — yet he tried to use a tax credit against his income tax liability.

“Mr. Mitnick has prepared Donald Trump’s income tax returns for the last 20 years and testified that Mr. Trump had no income tax due against which the credit ‘could have been applied,’” the judge in that case ruled.

1990s

There were at least two years in the early 1990s when Trump appeared to have paid zero, or nearly zero, personal income taxes, Politico reported (http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-no-taxes-224498).

This was not illegal but due to losses from his hotel and casino in the early 1990s. (Ultimately, he would declare bankruptcy on those properties.)

Politico reviewed documents covering Trump’s tax liability in 1991 and 1993, as maintained by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement and the Casino Control Commission. The report showed that in 1993, Trump had a net operating loss that was great enough to prevent him from owing federal income taxes. Creditors limited Trump to a $450,000-a-month allowance (about $750,000 in 2016 dollars)

His debts in 1991 also shielded him from tax obligations, Politico found, citing the document: “As various lenders cancel all or part of DJT’s debt, he will in all likelihood realize taxable gains. However, given the [redacted] in carryforward net operating losses (“NOLS”), any tax resulting should be minimal, if any.”

Trump offered a response through a spokeswoman to Politico’s question about not paying income taxes in the early 1990s: “Welcome to the real estate business.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/08/01/what-we-know-about-donald-trump-and-his-taxes-so-far/?wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1

:lol A True Patriot, "sacrificing" for the Greater Good of America.

[boutons_deux]

VFW slams Trump with a blistering statement after he berates parents of slain Army hero

“Election year or not, the VFW will not tolerate anyone berating a Gold Star family member for exercising his or her right of speech or expression,” said VFW Commander-in-Chief Brian Duffy.

“There are certain sacrosanct subjects that no amount of wordsmithing can repair once crossed.

Giving one’s life to nation is the greatest sacrifice, followed closely by Gold Star families, who have a right to make their voices heard.”

In addition to the VFW, 17 other Gold Star families also denounced Trump’s attack on the Khan family on Monday.

“When you question a mother’s pain, by implying that her religion, not her grief, kept her from addressing an arena of people, you are attacking us,” the Gold Star families wrote in an open letter to Trump.

“When you say your job building buildings is akin to our sacrifice, you are attacking our sacrifice.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/vfw-slams-trump-with-a-blistering-statement-after-he-berates-parents-of-slain-army-hero/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[dbreiden83080]

Longtime Trump confidant smears Khan family as members of the Islamic Brotherhood


http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roger-Stone-800x430.png


While Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence was posting a Facebook statement (http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/mike-pence-tries-to-clean-up-trumps-khan-family-mess-reaffirms-muslim-ban-instead/)claiming Donald Trump “cherishes” the Khan family, a close confidant and advisor to Trump was calling the grieving father a “Muslim Brotherhood agent helping Hillary.”

http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roger-Stone-tweet-360x430.png

The link Trump friend Roger Stone tweeted goes to a conspiracy theory website, that claims Khan’s son was killed before a secret mission was finished.

“Is it likely that Khan’s son was killed before his Islamist mission was accomplished? Only another type of investigation will determine that,”

the author writes.

“Do they ever mention how many soldiers have died because of Muslim traitors? Do they ever bring up how many Christians in the US military were killed? Yet the modernists and homosexuals continue to attack Christians.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/longtime-trump-confidant-smears-khan-family-as-members-of-islamic-brotherhood/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29




That's just fucking disgusting. So this is what it comes down to now for some people? All muslims are up to something. Pathetic.

[Reck]

That's just fucking disgusting. So this is what it comes down to now for some people? All muslims are up to something. Pathetic.

This Roger Stone guy is the most disgusting piece of shit I have ever seem. Makes Alex Jones look decent in comparison.

[Quetzal-X]

Xinga 2 RReputizima perrrrra madre OGT de Donald trump.

[djohn2oo8]

Jeb Bush's top advisor voting for Hilldawg.

[ducks]

shows why his campaign sucked

[Splits]

lol meltdown

https://i.imgur.com/4StwRpf.png

[Splits]

The Trump campaign

759849913052127232

[djohn2oo8]

760186557747826688

[ducks]

poor Cuban he is afraid wallstreet would go down if trump gets in office because they do not want an outsider
he will lose his money poor poor baby
if he is smart he would sell what for it to go down and then buy and make money but Cuban is not that smart
he has no loyality you win title for him he will not resign you he will blow the team up

[boutons_deux]

Trash Surrogate Pushes Pro-Putin Line That Russia Hasn't Seized Crimea

A surrogate for Donald Trump’s campaign argued on Sunday that Russia has not seized Crimea from Ukraine, even though Vladimir Putin seized the region more than two years ago.

While discussing the GOP nominee’s recent remarks (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-ukraine-crimea) about Putin on CNN Sunday, campaign surrogate Boris Epshteyn said, “First of all, Russia did not seize Crimea.”

“We could talk about the conflict that happened between the Ukraine and Crimea, it’s an ongoing conflict, but there was no seizure by Russia. That is an incorrect statement, characterization of what happened,” he continued.

An unauthorized referendum after the Ukrainian revolution led Russia to formally annex Crimea in 2014. Putin has repeatedly (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/04/vladimir-putin-interview-five-untruths) insisted (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/04/vladimir-putin-interview-five-untruths) that Russia has no military operations in the region.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/boris-epshteyn-russia-crimea-trump?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

Putin apologetics! :lol

[boutons_deux]

Shocking Poll Finds That GOP Convention Made Voters Less Likely To Vote For Trump

For the first time in Gallup's history, the Republican Party's convention made voters less likely to support Donald Trump.

According to Gallup (http://www.gallup.com/poll/194084/americans-positive-democratic-gop-convention.aspx?g_source=Election%202016&g_medium=lead&g_campaign=tiles):Americans are evenly divided on whether they view the Democratic Party more favorably (44%) or less favorably (42%) after the party’s national convention last week.

However, their ratings of the Republican Party after the GOP convention two weeks ago were significantly worse, with 35% saying they viewed the party more favorably and 52% less favorably.….

Gallup has asked this question about Democratic and Republican national conventions since 1984, with the exceptions of the 1984 and 1992 Republican conventions.

The 2016 Republican convention is the first after which a greater percentage of Americans have said they are “less likely” rather than “more likely” to vote for the party’s presidential nominee.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/01/shocking-poll-finds-gop-convention-voters-vote-trump.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

Trash! :lol

Trash's (diminishing) supporters! :lol

Repugs are SO FUCKED! :lol

[boutons_deux]

Trump Surrogate: Trump Sacrificed Two Marriages To Create Jobs!

Trump hit back over the weekend, saying (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-khan-abc-interview)that he's "made a lot of sacrifices," like creating jobs.

During a CNN panel discussion Sunday, Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes defended Trump's comments.

"Mr. Trump was responding to the fact of sacrificing. Nowhere ever did he ever say that his sacrifice was equivalent or more or even close to what the Kahn’s had given up," she said.

CNN host Fredricka Whitfield then asked, "Is creating a job considered a sacrifice?"

"You know what, creating jobs caused him to be at work, which cost him two marriages,” :lol Hughes said in response. “Time away from his family to sit there and invest.

Clinton surrogate Bernard Whitman jumped in to say, "infidelity cost him." :lol

"No, actually being away from his family, he’s admitted it,” Hughes insisted. "That is the spin of the media and ongoing bias."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/scottie-nell-highes-trump-sacrificed-marriages?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

"he’s admitted it" !!! Trash's Truthiness! :lol

[ducks]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3718763/Trump-blasts-fire-marshal-political-interference-thousands-left-outside-rally-despite-massive-spaces-inside.html
mass chairs empty but firemarshall says NO MORE BULLSHIT

[ducks]

people who do not own businesses do not know the sacrifices people make to keep them going

[boutons_deux]

Powerful Koch brothers rebuff big donors' calls to back Trump for White House

The billionaire industrialist Koch brothers rejected pressure over the weekend from dozens of big donors in their sprawling political network to back U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying that their money was better spent trying to influence congressional races.

The rejection deprives Trump, a New York businessman who has never previously run for elected office, of a major source of fundraising and reflects how his unorthodox White House bid has sparked some disarray among fundraisers who would normally be squarely behind a Republican nominee.

The Kochs, with a nearly $300 million political warchest, have earned a reputation as powerful allies in Republican politics.

Charles Koch, the dominant player in his political partnership with brother David Koch, told attendees at a bi-annual donor retreat at a luxury resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado: “At this point, I can’t support either candidate” for the White House.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-koch-idUSKCN10C2W8?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28Reu ters+Politics+News%29

but Kock Bros will continue to parachute $100Ms into state, municipal, even school board elections.

[ducks]

Koch brothers are very liberal

[dbreiden83080]

shows why his campaign sucked

Jeb had no business running IMO. He had been out of the political game for a long time, and nobody wanted another Bush anyway.

[boutons_deux]

Caught in a fib, Trump hedges on debate schedule

All of which leads to questions about whether the Republican nominee may ultimately balk at the agreed upon schedule.

On “Face the Nation” yesterday, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was asked directly whether the candidate will agree to show up for the scheduled debates. Manafort replied (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-transcripts-july-31-2016-sanders-manafort-priebus/),

“He said he wants to participate in it, but just like we discovered in the hack of the DNC, Mrs. Clinton likes low audiences watching her debates.”

He added, “So, we’re going to sit down with the commission in the next week or so and we’re going to start talking to them.”

In other words, it sounds as if Team Trump sees the existing schedule as the starting point for negotiations – which may include recommendations for significant changes.

And if those “talks” don’t go the way the Trump campaign wants? No one can say for sure exactly what might happen at that point.

Hillary Clinton has already agreed to participate in the three scheduled debates. It’s a safe bet that if Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson qualifies, he’ll be there, too.

Trump, the first nominee to suggest without proof that the process itself is “rigged,” will soon be

confronted with a decision:

would it be worse to appear cowardly by skipping some or all of the debates, or

by showing up and doing poorly?

Or is this some kind of elaborate expectations-setting game, in which Team Trump tries to set the bar for success so low that if the GOP candidate shows up and avoids collapsing, he and his allies will declare him the winner?

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/caught-fib-trump-hedges-debate-schedule?cid=sm_fb_maddow

[boutons_deux]

Trump’s “Fact-Free” Comments On Russia's Annexation Of Crimea Roundly Condemned


Donald Trump: Putin Is “Not Going Into Ukraine. Just So You Understand, He’s Not Going Into Ukraine. All Right?”

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump appeared to admit that he would recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea, according to a Washington Post report. On July 27, Trump said “we’ll be looking at” “recogniz Crimea as Russian territory” as president.

Huffington Post’s Sam Stein: “Donald Trump Appears Either Unfamiliar With Russia’s Annexation Of Crimea Or Directly Supportive Of The Intrusion.”

Huffington Post senior politics editor Sam Stein blasted Trump’s comments on Crimea as either “ignorance of a major geopolitical crisis or favoritism to Russia’s incursion” into Ukrainian territory. From the July 31 article:

[I]NY Times: Trump’s Comments On Crimea “Were Significant Because Mr. Trump Has Seemingly Embraced Mr. Putin.”

In an article titled “Donald Trump Gives Questionable Explanation of Events in Ukraine,”The New York Times’ David Sanger and Maggie Haberman called Trump’s response “a muddled explanation of his views about the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia.” They wrote that it “is difficult” to discern “what [Trump] understands about the current status of Ukraine, a former Soviet republic, and how it would change in a Trump administration.”

The Atlantic: Trump’s Comments Are “Likely To Spread Much Cheer Through Russia,” And “Dread In The Former Soviet Republics.”

The Atlantic senior editor Krishnadev Calamur wrote that Trump’s “response is likely to spread much cheer through Russia” and “could spread at least an equal amount of dread in the former Soviet republics.” Calamur added, “In a matter of two weeks, the man who could become the next American president has not only questioned the utility of NATO, thereby repudiating the post-World War II security consensus, he also has seemingly removed whatever fig leaf of protection from Russia the U.S. offered the post-Soviet republics and Moscow’s former allies in the Eastern bloc.”

On CBS This Morning, General Michael Hayden Called Trump’s Crimea Comments “A Fact-Free Description Of What’s Going On In The Ukraine.”

Former Director of both the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency Gen. Michael Hayden called Trump’s comments a “fact-free description of what's going on in the Ukraine." When asked if the statements make Trump “unfit and unqualified to be commander-in-chief,” Hayden responded, “That would add to a body of evidence that would actually draw one towards that conclusion.” Hayden said that Trump’s comments were “devoid of facts and divorced from traditional American and traditional European policy.”

The Daily Beast’s Michael Weiss: “Not Even China Is Willing To Recognize The Annexation Of Crimea. But Trump Is.”

BBC's Kim Ghattas: Trump’s Rhetoric About Crimea “Is Very Troubling Because … This Is The Kind Of Language That Mr. Putin Himself Has Used.”

BBC journalist Kim Ghattas called Trump’s comments on Crimea “very troubling,” adding that Trump’s rationale “is the kind of language that Mr. Putin himself has used” to justify Russia’s illegal annexation of Ukrainian territory.

CNN's Peter Beinart: "It Is Quite Likely" That Trump's "Understanding Of What Actually Happened In Ukraine Is Quite Thin."

CNN political commentator Peter Beinart pointed to the "larger context" of Trump's previous foreign policy blunders, including not knowing "what 'Brexit' meant" or "what the nuclear triad was," to suggest that "it is quite likely in fact that his understanding of what actually happened in Ukraine is quite thin."

http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/08/01/trump-s-fact-free-comments-russias-annexation-crimea-roundly-condemned/212070?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mediamatters%2Fresearch+%28Me dia+Matters+for+America+-+Research%29

Trash! :lol

[boutons_deux]

Trump Sets Ominous Stage for November: ‘I’m Afraid the Election’s Going to be Rigged’

Today, Trump proceeded to talk about how managed to run through his Republican primary competitors,

though he expects that the “totally rigged” system will again try to thwart him in favor of Clinton.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-sets-ominous-stage-for-november-im-afraid-the-elections-going-to-be-rigged/

iow, the only way Trash can lose is through somebody ( maybe Repugs? ) rigging the election for Hillary.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN10C2GO

U.S. Republican Donald Trump's presidential campaign appealed to Capitol Hill for support on Monday as his attacks on the Muslim parents of a decorated American soldier killed in Iraq drew sharp rebukes from fellow party members.

Trump's criticism of Khizr Khan and Ghazala Khan, who took the stage at last week's Democratic convention, sparked growing concern and dismay from Republican lawmakers responding to the latest Trump outburst to blindside his party colleagues.

Republican Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war and the most prominent veteran in Congress, along with the commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, joined the chorus of condemnation, reflecting the highly regarded place the military and its veterans hold with many in the United States.

Trump's dispute with the Khans has dominated the White House campaign in recent days and underlined the uneasy alliance between many leading Republicans and the party's freewheeling, unorthodox nominee for the Nov. 8 election.

Rob Wasinger, a onetime congressional candidate who has been working for the Trump camp on congressional outreach, sent an email to senior Senate aides saying, "We want to get several member statements out today on this, and would really appreciate your help."

[dbreiden83080]

He can't bring himself to ever say he is wrong. Too many years of people kissing his ass..

[djohn2oo8]

760189141199970304

Dude is really melting down

[Splits]

760189141199970304

Dude is really melting down

:cry the fire marshall is a shill for Hill :cry

:lol what a small, pathetic man

[pgardn]

people who do not own businesses do not know the sacrifices people make to keep them going

So your son died for his country while running your business?

[SnakeBoy]

760189141199970304

Dude is really melting down


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3718763/Trump-blasts-fire-marshal-political-interference-thousands-left-outside-rally-despite-massive-spaces-inside.html

[ducks]

So your son died for his country while running your business?

you work more hours can not go on vacation no vacation pay no income when you are on vacation

[DMX7]

Damn Melania looked good back in the day. She reminds me of my all time favorite Lucy Lawless.

She has kind of an evil look to her.

[djohn2oo8]

lol Ryan
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/01/politics/donald-trump-paul-ryan-paul-nehlen-election-2016/index.html

[Reck]

The Trump campaign

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Holy shit this guy was a retard. Did he dieded? :lol

[Reck]

Koch brothers are very liberal

You're crazy. Take it down a notch.

If the Cuck brothers are liberal than I'm a hardcore far right extremist.