Church of Trump

[boutons_deux]

Mitt Romney "47% of Americans are poverty slugs" or whatever it was he said

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what...who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims. ...These are people who pay no income tax. ...and so my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

[boutons_deux]

Donny T hustling, scamming, and buying, evangelicals, and hustling and money are the primary values of evangelicals, so a lot of them love him as a con man as much as their preachers are con men.

Evangelicals love Donald Trump: How a thrice-married New York braggart won them over — and why it’s so scary

The Donald isn't exactly a natural fit for the religious right -- but his outreach shows he's crazy like a fox

Trump explained that evangelicals love him, and he loves them. And he loves the Bible more than anything, even his own book, “The Art of the Deal,” which he loves very, very much. He declined to identify his favorite Bible passages, because he says the Bible is so intensely personal to him, but he was more forthcoming awhile back when pollster Frank Luntz asked him if he’d ever asked God for forgiveness.

“I am not sure I have. I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don’t think so. I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don’t bring God into that picture. I don’t…” Trump said. “When I drink my little wine — which is about the only wine I drink — and have my little cracker, I guess that is a form of asking for forgiveness, and I do that as often as possible because I feel cleansed. I think in terms of ‘let’s go on and let’s make it right.'”

His piety and spirituality are very moving.

The funny thing is that while it may not be quite correct that evangelicals “love” him, they are, so far, supporting him over the other candidates in the race. Last month a Washington Post poll had him at 20 percent support among evangelicals, followed by the far more doctrinaire Walker and Huckabee at 14 and 12 percent respectively.

Trump has surprisingly been cultivating the religious right for several years, making substantial donations to various Christian organizations and reaching out to Christian leaders and groups. All the way back in 2012, he spoke at Liberty University, where Jerry Falwell Jr. called him “one of the great visionaries of our time” and praised him for his leadership and political skills in “singlehandedly forcing President Obama to release his birth certificate.”

they seem to be impressed with the only kind of evolution they believe in: the evolution from pro-choice to pro-life, which Trump has embraced with the fervor of the recently converted.

the right has a very different way of looking at hypocrisy than the left. They actually appreciate it when someone respects their power enough to pander to them and pretend that they believe something they don’t. Perhaps the conservative Christians in particular see religious hypocrisy in terms of the old cliché that it’s “the tribute vice pays to virtue,” and feel that a blatant phony like Trump might actually be more likely to follow through on his promises to them,

http://www.salon.com/2015/08/28/evan..._its_so_scary/

leading among evangelicals with only 80%? the other 80%??

"There's a sucker born every minute", and evangelicals are above all suckers for creationism, Bible as unchallengeable science, history, cosmology, and for their huckster, money-grubbing pastors hustling their flock of sheep.

[spurraider21]

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump Goes Willie Horton on Jeb Bush

Donald Trump's latest attack on Jeb Bush may strike a familiar chord for those who remember the 1988 presidential race.

On Monday afternoon, Trump released a video on Instagram that assails Bush for a supposedly lenient stance on undo ented immigration. The video cites a 2014 quote from Bush in which he referred to people who illegally cross the border: "Yes, they broke the law, but it's not a felony; it's an act of love." Then the attack ad flashes pictures of three undo ented immigrants, all charged with murder. (Only one of the trio has been convicted.)

The ad is reminiscent of the infamous 1988 Willie Horton ad, aired by George H.W. Bush supporters, that accused Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis of being soft on crime by supporting a state program that allowed weekend passes for prisoners. (Horton, who was a convicted murderer serving a life sentence in Massachusetts, raped a woman while out on a furlough.) The ad sparked a controversy, with critics claiming it exploited—or fueled—racist sentiments.

Here's the new Trump ad:

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015...-willie-horton

[CosmicCowboy]

Boo pretending to dislike Trump so he can secretly link pro Trump advertising.

We see what you are trying to do Boo.

[boutons_deux]

[boutons_deux]

Not Satisfied With His War On Immigrants, Trump Picks A Fight With Native Americans

It was a show of respect to Native Americans when President Obama on Sunday restored the name of the nation’s tallest mountain, formerly called Mount McKinley, to Denali. So it makes a lot of sense that presidential candidate Donald Trump didn’t like it.

On Tuesday, the Republican front-runner promised that he would reverse Obama’s decision if elected president. Restoring the mountain’s name to Denali, he said, was a “great insult to Ohio,” because former President William McKinley was born there. To be clear, Denali is located in Alaska, about 3,000 miles away from Ohio.

It’s unsurprising that Trump did not express concern for insulting Alaska Natives, who have been calling the mountain Denali for thousands of years.

The billionaire has a historically hostile relationship with Native Americans, largely stemming from the fact that his casino business competes with tribe-owned casinos. But it was never solely business dealings that soured the relationship — it was Trump’s willingness to invoke offensive, sometimes racially-charged language to come out of those dealings on top.

The most egregious example of this came in 2000 in upstate New York, when Trump began bankrolling an ad campaign to stop a casino from being built in the Catskills. As the New York Times reported last month, the local newspaper ads showed “hypodermic needles and drug paraphernalia … [and] warned in dire terms that violent criminals were coming to town.”

http://thinkprogress.org/election/20...te+Progress%29

[Blake]

Looks like something Avante would say

[DMX7]

Lincoln couldn't have said it any better.

[in2deep]

the gringo version of Cantinflas

our prayers have been answered

[Clipper Nation]

He doesn't use a teleprompter (unlike Obama, who's totally dependent on one), and he goes off on tangents. So what? At least his speeches aren't a borefest.

[Blake]

He doesn't use a teleprompter (unlike Obama, who's totally dependent on one), and he goes off on tangents. So what? At least his speeches aren't a borefest.

Because incoherent babble is entertaining

[Spurminator]

Entertaining speeches are obviously top priority for who we want as leader of the free world.

[ChumpDumper]

Trump supporters are impressively defensive.

[Clipper Nation]

Trump supporters are impressively defensive.

What was your name as a woman, David?

[ChumpDumper]

What was your name as a woman, David?

See what I mean?

Multiple stolen shticks and massive insecure defensiveness. That's our little CN.

[Clipper Nation]

See what I mean?

Multiple stolen shticks and massive insecure defensiveness. That's our little CN.

It's a legitimate question that you're dodging.

[ChumpDumper]

It's a legitimate question that you're dodging.

It is not a legitimate question and you will do anything in your power to make me the subject of any thread.

I'm living in your child sized head rent free.

Go ahead, try to make this thread about me again.

lol

[Clipper Nation]

David making the thread all about him as usual with his cuckposting.

[ChumpDumper]

David making the thread all about him as usual with his cuckposting.

Nope, you tried going off topic and you're still trying, tiny cuck.

[Clipper Nation]

Nope, you tried going off topic and you're still trying, tiny cuck.

Sure thing, Gertrude.

[ChumpDumper]

Sure thing, Gertrude.

So basically, you're entire krew is into trannies.

Sorry to disappoint and permanently upset you.

[Spurminator]

http://www.theonion.com/article/fren...view:1:Default

Frenzied Trump Supporters Admit They’d Be Just As Happy Tearing Him To Pieces

‘We’re Just Mad And Want To Destroy Something,’ Say Candidate’s Backers

[boutons_deux]

several Spurstalkers and ....

How White Nationalist Groups Found Their Candidate In Donald Trump

OSNOS: So I was going out and talking to all of these different groups. So, for instance, I was in Alabama meeting with a group called the League of the South, which intends to secede from the United States. And they, of course, support the Confederate flag, and they are also a white nationalist organization. And what surprised me was when I showed up, they were talking about Donald Trump. And they were talking about how Donald Trump had galvanized them and had given a forum - a way of expression for their ideas - that they hadn't had in a very long time.

And so they were going through a period of great energy this summer. They were feeling organized and galvanized in a way that they hadn't been before. And then into that moment dropped Donald Trump, who was a national figure with an existing celebrity. People already knew who he was. And to their astonishment, frankly, he was talking about the - as they would put it, the threat posed by immigration not only to the American economy, but also to this much vaguer sense of American culture. And that, for them, was really powerful.

OSNOS: He is. He's giving them a sign - a kind of permission - that their ideas have a broader audience than they might have imagined. And it's worth being clear - you know, I think that the ideas that somebody like Richard Spencer endorses and that other members of the self-identified white nationalist groups endorse - those ideas really are repellent to most people. And that's a generalization, but I think a fair one, and I can sort of defend that. What is going on beneath it - and one of the reasons why I think it's even worth talking about what these guys believe - is that they are, in some sense, the most acute public expression of an anxiety that exists in lesser form, you know, on a much broader basis.

And so Richard Spencer, in saying that - what he's getting at is the sense that there are people - and I encountered this in half a dozen states as I went around talking to people. And I would say, well, what is your number one issue? What's the thing that you care about most of all? And people would say over and over, I care about immigration. I'm afraid that, as they put it, illegals are coming into this country and taking our jobs and sucking our country dry. And what surprised me about it was that this was in places where the idea of immigration - the actual practical effects of it - are very remote, very abstract. I was in New Hampshire, for instance, and walked up to somebody at a diner. Immigration was what they said was the biggest thing on their minds. Immigration, of course, in New Hampshire is - it's not something that you see every day. It's not like talking about it in Texas, where people have a much more explicit sense of it.

OSNOS: Yeah, there is this very clear sense - and you hear this concept floating around in the white nationalist crowd - is that by the middle of this century - so demographers predict somewhere around 2042 - that non-Hispanic whites will no longer be the largest ethnic racial group in America. And that moment has taken on a symbolic power for people who feel that they're losing influence. And, you know, beneath all of this, there is a real economic phenomena going on, and that's that particularly men - low-skilled men without much of an education - have, in many ways, fallen out of step with America's economic progress. You see this reflected in the numbers very clearly that if you're a man without a college degree, that your income over the last 30 years has dropped by about 20 percent in real terms, whereas for women, it has gained about 3 percent. And so if you're somebody in that position and you look around and you see your own world as dwindling and shrinking and your opportunities are falling away, then you're looking for an explanation. And in some ways, Donald Trump has provided that explanation.

about whether or not to call these groups white supremacist groups or white nationalist groups. And there are times when I go back and forth. I think we're certainly not captive to what it is that they want to be called themselves. They prefer to be called white nationalists. Some of them don't even embrace that term. They want to be called iden arians or other things. But that's - the terminology, in some ways, can be a bit of a disguise from the fact that there is - there's an enduring element of this, which is a sort of race-based division that is at the essence of their beliefs.

http://www.npr.org/2015/09/03/437195...n-donald-trump

white men afraid they're losing influence to non-Euro-Americans? illegal immigrants is a smokescreen by the Repugs.

The real loss of influence, the real loss of incomes, wealth, job security, comes from BigCorp/VRWC/1% that run the country, that buy the govt actions that protect, enrich themselves, effectively disenfranchising Human-Americans, while screwing blue and white collar employees, for decades.

How many jobs bills, employee protection bills have Repugs passed since they took control of Congress?

But they talk and propose incessantly about killing OSHA, EPA, Medicare/Medicaid (and refuse to expand Medicaid to their poor states), public schools, Social Security, etc.

[hater]

The Donald's is destroying another reporters career for asking him disrespectful questions

Bad mofo