Church of Trump

[djohn2oo8]

That'll make a whole lot of difference, not like Trump ousted two heavily endorsed candidates already (Cruz and Rubio) with just Sessions and fatass christie in tow.

Kasich being in the race screwed both Cruz and Rubio. Anyway, that was a primary. A general election is a different animal.

[Mitch]

Kasich being in the race screwed both Cruz and Rubio. Anyway, that was a primary. A general election is a different animal.

Cruz didn't lose New York, Pennsylvania or Indiana because of Kasich and Trump would have won Ohio if he wasn't in the race. Rubio was an unpopular senator as well.

The general election will be no different in this respect because the people who care about republican endorsements aren't going to pull a different lever. Look at all the Ryan got from his own party for hesitating in his endorsement and Trump is attack republican governors and congressmen left and right

Nobody cares, this cycle will be about who appeals to the people not the party.

[Reck]

Reminds me you never responded when i showed you it was an online poll, tbh

Yeah I did.

I pointed out how it was with 1500 registered voters.

[djohn2oo8]

Cruz didn't lose New York, Pennsylvania or Indiana because of Kasich and Trump would have won Ohio if he wasn't in the race. Rubio was an unpopular senator as well.

The general election will be no different in this respect because the people who care about republican endorsements aren't going to pull a different lever. Look at all the Ryan got from his own party for hesitating in his endorsement and Trump is attack republican governors and congressmen left and right

Nobody cares, this cycle will be about who appeals to the people not the party.

There will be plenty of Republicans/Independents staying home or voting for Hillary. The general election is different. Trump, or Hillary cannot win without the minority vote.

[Mitch]

Yeah I did.

I pointed out how it was with 1500 registered voters.

You said "online poll?" and I sent you Reuters polling procedure

The registered voter tid-bit was before that.

[Mitch]

There will be plenty of Republicans/Independents staying home or voting for Hillary.

[djohn2oo8]

Like I said, the general election is about winning independent vote and the minority vote. Both of which Trump will fail to do.

[Reck]

You said "online poll?" and I sent you Reuters polling procedure

The registered voter tid-bit was before that.

What are you talking about?

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...=1#post8613381

[Splits]

You see the new poll, bro? PA is in play
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/p...e_PA_60816.pdf

I will bet you $500 Trump loses PA by 5 points or more

Pennsylvania is a great microcosm of the issue Clinton faces in winning overSanders fans. Among people who support Sanders in a head to head match upwith Trump, only 72% support Clinton in the general. 10% would go to Trump,6% to Stein, 4% to Johnson, and 9% are undecided. If Clinton could win overeven just half of those Sanders supporting hold outs her lead over Trump wouldgo from a tenuous 41-40 to a comfortable 47-40. Whether it's possible for her todo that time will tell.

[Splits]

Again with the straw man, Splits? I said special occasions, not victory speeches - winning the final set of primaries is a special occasion as is his AIPAC, foreign policy and energy speeches. You're starting to sound like Botox Deuce, tbh

He's been the nominee for over a month. Last night was meaningless, other than the fact that the highest elected official in his party called him a racist earlier in the day.

He was neutered.

[djohn2oo8]

Trump's own lawyer donated to Hillary

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...onation-224047

[boutons_deux]

The GOP Owns Trump University's Sleaze: Republicans Have Been Tolerant of Con Artists for Decades

Republicans want distance from Trump U, but their party's long acceptance of grifters makes the stigma stick

“My decision to approve the request to investigate and to devote state resources to that investigation was made without regard to the fact that the company was associated with Donald Trump,” Morales told the Texas Tribune. “To be clear, I did not discuss this matter with General Abbott.”

Morales’ statement is probably the end of this particular kerfuffle, barring any new information linking Abbott to this decision. But the whole thing shows how deep and scalding the water that Republicans find themselves in truly is.

Abbott’s communications director, Matt Hirsch claimed his boss is exonerated because, “Trump U was forced out of Texas and consumers were protected.” Which, while the word “fraud” wasn’t used, amounts to a tacit admission that they know Trump U is fraudulent, so much so that it had to be forced out of the state to protect Texans from Trump’s economic predation.

The governor of Texas has basically admitted, in public, that the presidential nominee of his own party is a grifter who was running a fraudulent business that had to be strong-armed out of the state. Trump is so undeniably corrupt that even his own party members are having to admit it and just try as hard as they can to keep their distance.

Republican nomination is that the party has spent decades being tolerant, even welcoming, to all manner of grifters and frauds who, for whatever reason, see the conservative base as a bunch of easy-to-exploit marks for their shady money-making schemes.

From Glenn Beck to Mike Huckabee to Sarah Palin, the entire Republican party is full of sleazy operators who use hyperbolic reactionary rhetoric as a sales tactic to push all manner of snake oil.

SarahPAC, the political action committee run by Sarah Palin, that fundraises by promising donors that the money will help elect more conservative politicians into office. The problem is that almost none of the money raised goes to candidates, and instead seems mostly to be spent on promoting Palin’s brand, leading to more book sales and paid appearances for her.

“Of the 417 leadership PACs that made at least one contribution in that cycle,” Open Secrets reported in October 2014, “SarahPAC was one of only 19 to give less than 10 percent of its total expenditures to candidates, other PACs or party committees.”

SarahPAC spent $2.7 million overall. Only $150,000, or 5.5 percent, actually went to candidates. The rest went to paid consultants, buying Palin’s books for giveaways, travel for Palin and her staff and other activities that are more properly understood as “advertising Sarah Palin” than fundraising for candidates.

Scam PACs are a major problem on the right, with dozens and possibly hundreds of groups rising up, claiming to be there to help elect Republicans, but actually just taking most of the money for themselves instead.

Newt Gingrich appears to be making a mint of his direct mail scams, which include sending out fake awards and charging people fees ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 to collect them.

Mike Huckabee’s email list is always hawking fake “cures” and other shady products.

Glenn Beck has been deeply involved in a gold-selling scam through the company Goldline.

Multiple conservative outlets and even former senator Scott Brown have been outed for pushing fake Alzheimer cures.

Ben Carson’s presidential campaign was structured more like a direct mail scam than a legitimate campaign.

Trump’s grifter tendencies cannot be understood as a departure from regular Republican politics. Instead, this is just another case of Trump taking something that already existed in conservative circles and turning the volume up dramatically.

http://www.alternet.org/election-201...mp-con-artists

[Reck]

Trump's own lawyer donated to Hillary

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...onation-224047

You have to wonder why he didn't run as a democrat. Trump has more democratic ties than republican.

He probably knew he had zero chance running with a D next to his name so he decided to hijack the republican party instead.

[boutons_deux]

Humanitarian Donald Trump Tried To Open A ‘Homeless Shelter’ To Drive Out Tenants. What a Guy!

Mother Jones takes us back to a little-remembered moment in Donald Trump’s infamy, when he was already widely despised in New York and just starting to be known as a colossal jerkwad on a national scale. Having already destroyed New York architectural history, Trump found himself with a dilemma:

He’d bought a whole bunch of old luxury buildings overlooking Central Park and wanted to tear down the lot of them to put up another goddamn glass monstrosity with “TRUMP” all over it, but there were some stubborn tenants in one building, 100 Central Park South, who not only didn’t want to vacate, but were actually protected by New York’s fascist/socialist/unfair to rich developers rent-control laws. What’s a budding real estate baron to do when people get in his way and think they have “rights”?

The problem was of his own making. “I didn’t fully understand until much later…that it’s almost impossible to legally vacate a building filled with rent-controlled and rent-stabilized apartments,” he noted in his 1987 bestseller, The Art of the Deal. But that didn’t mean he didn’t try. He sent eviction notices and cut off heat, hot water, and other services, according to lawsuits filed against him. None of that worked, so he tested another solution.

“By the summer of 1982 — about a year after I took over the building — the problem of the homeless in New York was beginning to get a lot of attention,” he recalled in the book. “One morning, after passing several homeless people sleeping on benches in Central Park, I got an idea. I had more than a dozen vacant apartments at 100 Central Park South. Because I still planned to demolish the building, I had no intention of filling the apartments with permanent tenants. Why not, I thought, offer them to the city for use by the homeless, on a temporary

Trump described the tenants he wanted to evict as “multimillionaires living in rent-controlled apartments” who were taking advantage of him by getting in his way

As for those “millionaires living in rent-controlled apartments,” Schanberg did a little digging, and learned that in reality,

while some of the tenants in the 15-story Central Park South building are quite rich, many are elderly people living on fixed incomes, such as Social Security checks, who have made their homes there for 20 years or more.

Imagine that! Would you believe that even back in the 1980s, Donald Trump was a pathological liar?

Yes, we too are shocked, gentle readers.

Ultimately, the city turned down Trump’s beautiful plan for a benevolent place where homeless people could be housed until they drove out the troublesome existing tenants, because city government was full of Mexicans, no doubt, or at least short-sighted functionaries who didn’t appreciate the Art Of The Deal.

And that was the end of what Schanberg dubbed the “Trump Chateau For The Indigent.” You can see why Donald Trump hates politicians.

http://wonkette.com/602722/humanitar...nts-what-a-guy

[boutons_deux]

Just your typical Trash supporter, slave state version

Black Father Assaulted By White Trump-Supporting Hospital Volunteer Speaks Out

North Carolina resident Isaiah Baskins’ two-month-old daughter was born with a heart condition and has already undergone two surgeries. So when he took her to see a doctor at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center on April 14, he was already stressed.

His wife decided to take their infant into the appointment while he watched his two older sons in the hospital’s family waiting room. That’s when a white volunteer approached him and his sons.

“Get your black kids out of here,” she yelled, according to his attorney. “Do you even have a job? Do you know what a job is, n—? This is what Donald Trump’s talking about, people like you.”

"It was a very stressful situation because I was already in the hospital because my daughter had heart surgery twice, so when this happened, it was unexpected," he told ThinkProgress. "I was embarrassed. My children were scared."

"I felt like I was back in 1950 or 1967, you know?" he continued. "I never thought this would actually happen to me or my family. I've seen it on TV, seen it in movies, but I never thought it would happen to my family."

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/20...donna-bridger/

the video is hilarious, Trash-y people supporting Trash

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump once backed urgent climate action. Wait, what?

As negotiators headed to Copenhagen in December 2009 to forge a global climate pact, concerned U.S. business leaders and liberal luminaries took out a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for aggressive climate action. In an open letter to President Obama and the U.S. Congress, they declared:

“If we fail to act now, it is scientifically irrefutable that there will be catastrophic and irreversible consequences for humanity and our planet.”

One of the signatories of that letter: Donald Trump.

Also signed by Trump’s three adult children, the letter called for passage of U.S. climate legislation, investment in the clean energy economy, and leadership to inspire the rest of the world to join the fight against climate change.

http://grist.org/politics/donald-tru...ew-york-times/

[Mitch]

I will bet you $500 Trump loses PA by 5 points or more

Remind me, Splitsy, how much did Romney lose PA by... remember Romney had very little evangelical support and wasn't a popular candidate.

Hillary's coal comments and Trump's support by the Teamsters (wtf a union supporting a republican? ) are pointing to PA being a much closer state than last cycle.

But I mentioned before, if you want to bet on the winner I'll take you on a fun bet (you never responded to my accepting your challenge btw.)

[Mitch]

What are you talking about?

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...=1#post8613381

#4157

You never responded after I clarified your question "Online poll?"

[Reck]

#4157

You never responded after I clarified your question "Online poll?"

I thought it was settled.

[Mitch]

I thought it was settled.

Alright

[Splits]

Remind me, Splitsy, how much did Romney lose PA by... remember Romney had very little evangelical support and wasn't a popular candidate.

Hillary's coal comments and Trump's support by the Teamsters (wtf a union supporting a republican? ) are pointing to PA being a much closer state than last cycle.

But I mentioned before, if you want to bet on the winner I'll take you on a fun bet (you never responded to my accepting your challenge btw.)

Pussy. Just like your coward candidate and the rest of his cowardice cult. I give you 5 points and you STILL won't take the bet.

[Mitch]

Pussy. Just like your coward candidate and the rest of his cowardice cult. I give you 5 points and you STILL won't take the bet.

You're the only pussy here, Splitsy - you wanted to bet that Trump won't win the election and I accepted and offered my terms.

[Splits]

You're the only pussy here, Splitsy - you wanted to bet that Trump won't win the election and I accepted and offered my terms.

pussy. Probably haven't ever had $500 cash in your pathetic life. Probably went $35k in debt to Trump U

Link your offer, I didn't see it

[Th'Pusher]

You're the only pussy here, Splitsy - you wanted to bet that Trump won't win the election and I accepted and offered my terms.

You can't really call him a pussy when you offer a "fun bet on the winner". Put up some $ if you're willing to stand behind a trump win. He gave you 5 points in PA.

[Reck]

Do it Mitch.