Church of Trump

[rmt]

OT: proud Jamaican here - go Bolt!

[boutons_deux]

Trump Could End Up In Prison As He Continues To Solicit Illegal Foreign Donations

Calls for a full Justice Department investigation into the Trump campaign are growing as the Republican nominee continues to illegally solicit foreign donations.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/...iticus+USA+%29

[Reck]

They did say the Trump campaign has raised over 120 millions in the past 2 months. That is a quick turnaround given that no big donors from the US is giving him signifant amount of money.

Makes you think.

[boutons_deux]

Bigotry Backfires On Republicans As Millennials Reject Trump And Flock To Hillary Clinton

A new poll of Millennials reveals that Donald Trump is getting historically low levels of support as voters under age 35 are flocking to Hillary Clinton.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/...iticus+USA+%29

[boutons_deux]

Like all Trash supporters, Trash is dumb as

[boutons_deux]

Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief

Handwritten ledgers show $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments designated for Mr. Manafort from Mr. Yanukovych’s pro-Russian political party from 2007 to 2012, according to Ukraine’s newly formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau.

Investigators assert that the disbursements were part of an illegal off-the-books system whose recipients also included election officials.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSo urce=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

"Many people are saying" : "how deeply indebted is Trash to Russian oligarchs?"

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Trump’s 5 Biggest Lies




1. His supporters are the only “real Americans.”

Trump is doing worse with white voters, suffering unprecedented losses with college-educated Republicans and Republican women.

Still, somehow, Trump has convinced America’s loudest, angriest, and most ungrateful minority that they’re silent and a majority.

“Most Americans are white, most are Christian, most don’t have college degrees, and most live in the South or Midwest Census Bureau regions,”FiveThirtyEight‘s Nate Silver wrote.

“And yet, only about 1 in 5 voters meets all of these descriptions.” America’s working class is increasingly diverse.

While Trump has endeavored to do something Republicans have failed to do for generations — empathize with the pain of American workers who’ve been displaced by globalization


2. He was against the Iraq War.

Trump’s one foreign policy credential is a lie. Unlike Barack Obama, Trump was for the war when it was hardest to be against it. And he was for the withdrawal that he now blames for the creation of ISIS.

3. He would help workers.

Trump completed his evolution to full Romneyism/ Bushism/ Rubioism while maintaining his trademark racism.

It’s the same old tax breaks that mostly or only help the rich, matched with… nothing to help workers.

“If such policies were effective, we would remember George W. Bush’s presidency as one of great prosperity, instead of a period of stagnant wages for blue- and white-collar workers,”

4. The press is killing his campaign.

Trump’s act used to feature him bragging about polls and acting awed over his success.

Now that the stench of failure follows him like a dazed Mike Pence, he’s stuck ranting against the ins ution that made his rise possible — free media.

The Washington Post‘s Greg Sargent points out that while Trump’s “dominate all media” strategy worked in the GOP primary, he was completely unprepared for how “the coverage and scrutiny are inevitably getting a lot harsher, at precisely the moment when Trump is devolving into his worst bouts of depravity and unhinged behavior yet.”

5. Society is rigged against a fortunate son who’s relied on government help his entire career.

Trump’s rich daddy gave him every advantage known to man, which helped Trump avoid the draft and launch his business.

The courts protected him from creditors — over and over again.

City government and tax breaks fueled his first development projects.

Powerful lobbyists keep him from paying taxes.

Conservative media gave him a platform.

Cable news desperate for relevance let him exploit their airwaves to perform informercials of hate.

his escalating wrath comes from knowing that as rigged as his success has been,

he’s facing the greatest failure of his life, perhaps the most resounding defeat suffered by any candidate in a generation.

And he’s losing fair and square. Sad!

http://www.nationalmemo.com/trumps-5-biggest-lies/

Sad!

SO SAD!

[DMX7]

Like all Trash supporters, Trash is dumb as

Mr. Trump went to the Wharton School of Finance. He's like a really smart person.

[boutons_deux]

TRUMP BLAMES BAD POLL NUMBERS ON EXISTENCE OF NUMERICAL SYSTEM

YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO — Donald J. Trump lashed out a new target on Monday, blaming his bad poll numbers on the existence of the numerical system.

In sometimes rambling remarks at an outdoor rally in Ohio, the Republican Presidential nominee called the numerical system “rigged” and unleashed a torrent of abuse on numbers themselves, calling them “disgusting” and “the lowest form of life.”

“It’s why I won’t release my taxes,” he said. “They’re full of goddam numbers.”

While Republican candidates in the past have attempted to exploit their supporters’ distrust of math, Trump is believed to be the first nominee to call into question the numerical system itself.

Behind the scenes, G.O.P. insiders fretted that, in attacking the very existence of numbers, Trump was veering wildly off message.

“He should be talking about Hillary Clinton, and instead he’s going off on integers,” one insider said.

Officially, aides remained upbeat about the campaign and denied reports that Trump was spending an increasingly large portion of each day angrily muttering to himself and chewing on paper.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-blames-bad-poll-numbers-on-existence-of-numerical-system

[Reck]

Trump is getting his clock cleaned by Hillarity today.

And Joe hasn't even come up to speak yet.

[DMX7]

Trump is getting his clock cleaned by Hillarity today.

And Joe hasn't even come up to speak yet.

Mr. Trump will be giving a major policy (maybe?) speech today on the fight against terrorism.

[ducks]

Monday, August 15, 2016 -

​Youngstown, OH

Donald J. Trump

Youngstown State University

2:00 PM

[RandomGuy]

Like all Trash supporters, Trash is dumb as

the media is out to get me.

.

Let me ask one question, what would his supporters think a truly neutral media would say about something so ed?

[boutons_deux]

Mr. Trump went to the Wharton School of Finance. He's like a really smart person.

probably father bribed admissions, happens a lot with wealthy people.

even dubya went to Yale and Harvard on "affirmative action"

[RandomGuy]

TRUMP BLAMES BAD POLL NUMBERS ON EXISTENCE OF NUMERICAL SYSTEM

YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO — Donald J. Trump lashed out a new target on Monday, blaming his bad poll numbers on the existence of the numerical system.

In sometimes rambling remarks at an outdoor rally in Ohio, the Republican Presidential nominee called the numerical system “rigged” and unleashed a torrent of abuse on numbers themselves, calling them “disgusting” and “the lowest form of life.”

“It’s why I won’t release my taxes,” he said. “They’re full of goddam numbers.”

While Republican candidates in the past have attempted to exploit their supporters’ distrust of math, Trump is believed to be the first nominee to call into question the numerical system itself.

Behind the scenes, G.O.P. insiders fretted that, in attacking the very existence of numbers, Trump was veering wildly off message.

“He should be talking about Hillary Clinton, and instead he’s going off on integers,” one insider said.

Officially, aides remained upbeat about the campaign and denied reports that Trump was spending an increasingly large portion of each day angrily muttering to himself and chewing on paper.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-blames-bad-poll-numbers-on-existence-of-numerical-system

Seriously, you have to read more than a sentence or two of these to be able to see if it is satire or not.

What does that say?

[Reck]

Seriously, you have to read more than a sentence or two of these to be able to see if it is satire or not.

What does that say?

He knows. That's why he puts a white link with super tiny fonts in there.

Dont know why he wastes his time with these though.

[RandomGuy]

Mr. Trump went to the Wharton School of Finance. He's like a really smart person.

I’m telling you, I used to use the word incompetent. Now I just call them stupid. I went to an Ivy League school. I’m very highly educated. I know words, I have the best words...but there is no better word than stupid. Right?

"I've got words."

I am going to strain my eyes rolling them before November.

[RandomGuy]

Trump trolling the oven dodger media


Here’s the set-up:

1. The mainstream media knows they are smarter than Donald Trump. They see evidence of this truth all the time, although much of that evidence is confirmation bias.*

Then…

2. Trump does something smart – accusing Obama and Clinton of being*“founders” of ISIS. This is a clever way to get the world to debate Clinton and Obama’s ineffectiveness during a time when ISIS expanded. In other words, it is brilliant media manipulation, and it worked.

3. CNN and other Clinton supporters interpret Trump’s statement about ISIS as absurd and uninformed because they can’t imagine a scenario in which Trump does something brilliant. Trump being brilliant isn’t one of the options, as far as they know.

The reality of Trump’s clever persuasion is crystal-clear to anyone who thinks Trump is smart. Trump was clearly joking about the*“founder” part to get people squawking, and it worked. Total success. Brilliant technique.

Now the media has a big problem. They can’t admit that they were extraordinarily dumb in this situation and Trump was brilliant. That reality is invisible to them because it doesn’t fit their worldview.

So…cognitive dissonance happens.*

This is a textbook set-up for cognitive dissonance. The facts we observe (Trump is smart, the media is gullible) is opposite of the media’s worldview in which they are smart and Trump is uninformed. So what do they do?

They act as if Trump is the dumb one in this situation. Because that fits their worldview.

And…they…fact-check his claim.

Meanwhile, the unhypnotized laugh themselves into a stupor watching this spectacle of cognitive dissonance. Humor aside, it is a marvelous and incredible thing to behold.

One of my smartest friends just emailed me to say he thinks Trump really believes that Obama and Clinton*“founded” ISIS. My friend has a very high IQ and he’s well-informed. But cognitive dissonance isn’t influenced by intelligence. He believes whatever fits his worldview. Just like the rest of us.

The fun part is that we can see cognitive dissonance when it happens to others – such as with my friend, and CNN – but we can’t see it when it happens to us. So don’t get too smug about this. You’re probably next.*

I think this story will end up in psychology textbooks. You rarely see such a clean example of cognitive dissonance in public.

Oh, and Trump hates babies, and he also wants a 2nd amendment supporter to assassinate his opponent. As long as the media is being dumbasses, they might as well fact-check that stuff too.

I have never been so entertained.

Eyup. +1

I am somewhat in awe of the way he is manipulating media to try and control the narrative and dominate coverage. It is working well.

He says stuff with juuust enough plausible denial to say "I wasn't really serious", but which resonate with angry disillusioned white people, then gets to play the "liberal media" card.

That Right there though pinpoints what is Trumps greatest failing:

His massive ego, and overconfidence. He got so pumped up in the primaries, where what he said didn’t really have to be smell tested by independents, or worry about riling up Democrats, that he set his own strategy up in his mind as a winning one that doesn’t need to be changed.

The datapoint that his ego won’t let him see is that he is creating his opponents narrative for her. His ego also doesn’t want to admit that he is part of a larger en y, the Republican party.

He is NOT a team player. The same eschewing of social norms that is causing Republicans down-ticket to not just back away from him, but to actively disavow their top-ticket nominee, will not play well on the world stage either. Countries and alliances are not too unlike individuals in that regard. Trump’s presidency would see our great country turned into a pariah, and actively hand our enemies constant propaganda victories about an unstable, unreliable superpower that can’t be trusted.

Trump’s strategy is working and is, in its limited way, brilliant. It is also going to fail spectacularly in November when it comes to producing votes. It is a brilliant way to win media coverage, but an utter failure at getting votes.

The reality TV star with the outsized ego will be unable to see that. I would offer the fact that he didn’t pivot, and every day he doesn’t try to get the bilge pumps working is a day closer to that.

Trumps candidacy will have damaging effects long after the election is over, and we have sworn in the first woman president. It will play into the overall Democratic narrative of “too erratic and radical to be trusted with government” narrative.

[RandomGuy]

Who will win the presidency?
Chance of winning

FiveThirtyEight
Hillary Clinton
89.0%
Donald Trump
11.0%
FiveThirtyEight

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/...ex_cid=rrpromo

It will be harder and harder for his supporters to explain away these numbers as "poll bias".

You can put your thumb on the scale only so far, but it is hard to really do much to affect the measurement with your thumb when you are weighing an elephant.

[Reck]

Eyup. +1

I am somewhat in awe of the way he is manipulating media to try and control the narrative and dominate coverage. It is working well.

He says stuff with juuust enough plausible denial to say "I wasn't really serious", but which resonate with angry disillusioned white people, then gets to play the "liberal media" card.

That Right there though pinpoints what is Trumps greatest failing:

His massive ego, and overconfidence. He got so pumped up in the primaries, where what he said didn’t really have to be smell tested by independents, or worry about riling up Democrats, that he set his own strategy up in his mind as a winning one that doesn’t need to be changed.

The datapoint that his ego won’t let him see is that he is creating his opponents narrative for her. His ego also doesn’t want to admit that he is part of a larger en y, the Republican party.

He is NOT a team player. The same eschewing of social norms that is causing Republicans down-ticket to not just back away from him, but to actively disavow their top-ticket nominee, will not play well on the world stage either. Countries and alliances are not too unlike individuals in that regard. Trump’s presidency would see our great country turned into a pariah, and actively hand our enemies constant propaganda victories about an unstable, unreliable superpower that can’t be trusted.

Trump’s strategy is working and is, in its limited way, brilliant. It is also going to fail spectacularly in November when it comes to producing votes. It is a brilliant way to win media coverage, but an utter failure at getting votes.

The reality TV star with the outsized ego will be unable to see that. I would offer the fact that he didn’t pivot, and every day he doesn’t try to get the bilge pumps working is a day closer to that.

Trumps candidacy will have damaging effects long after the election is over, and we have sworn in the first woman president. It will play into the overall Democratic narrative of “too erratic and radical to be trusted with government” narrative.

If his strategy is working why are more and more people distancing themselves from him?

They're not working for the voters and they're not working for his brand.

Many of his hotels are now tanking. No bookings.

It has gotten so bad they had to lower their prices.



https://priceonomics.com/bookings-at...otels-plummet/



Also here's a list of the companies that have already dumped the Trump.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/compa...ry?id=32162703

This guy is going home a bigger loser than how he came in.

[boutons_deux]

Polls: Clinton Running the Table in Key Battlegrounds


http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016...sm_fb_lastword

[DMX7]

Actual Quote by Mr. Trump on Tim Kaine:

"I actually think he is going to be a negative in Virginia, not a positive. I really do, I really do. Hey, you know what? I wish him luck, I wish him luck. Whatever. Whatever."

[da_suns_fan]

Eyup. +1

I am somewhat in awe of the way he is manipulating media to try and control the narrative and dominate coverage. It is working well.

He says stuff with juuust enough plausible denial to say "I wasn't really serious", but which resonate with angry disillusioned white people, then gets to play the "liberal media" card.

That Right there though pinpoints what is Trumps greatest failing:

His massive ego, and overconfidence. He got so pumped up in the primaries, where what he said didn’t really have to be smell tested by independents, or worry about riling up Democrats, that he set his own strategy up in his mind as a winning one that doesn’t need to be changed.

The datapoint that his ego won’t let him see is that he is creating his opponents narrative for her. His ego also doesn’t want to admit that he is part of a larger en y, the Republican party.

He is NOT a team player. The same eschewing of social norms that is causing Republicans down-ticket to not just back away from him, but to actively disavow their top-ticket nominee, will not play well on the world stage either. Countries and alliances are not too unlike individuals in that regard. Trump’s presidency would see our great country turned into a pariah, and actively hand our enemies constant propaganda victories about an unstable, unreliable superpower that can’t be trusted.

Trump’s strategy is working and is, in its limited way, brilliant. It is also going to fail spectacularly in November when it comes to producing votes. It is a brilliant way to win media coverage, but an utter failure at getting votes.

The reality TV star with the outsized ego will be unable to see that. I would offer the fact that he didn’t pivot, and every day he doesn’t try to get the bilge pumps working is a day closer to that.

Trumps candidacy will have damaging effects long after the election is over, and we have sworn in the first woman president. It will play into the overall Democratic narrative of “too erratic and radical to be trusted with government” narrative.

Im pretty sure theres no "strategy". Even if there was one, Trump would never follow it. He just tries to get the crowds in front of him all riled up and get the applause he wants and says stupid things.

Then when the media report on it he says he a victim and some people say he's "brilliant".

I wouldnt trust this guy with my grocery list. He would come back from the store empty handed and claim I never gave him my grocery list. After pressing he would say the store didnt have any groceries. After pressing more he would say all the groceries were junk etc.

[da_suns_fan]

Actual Quote by Mr. Trump on Tim Kaine:

"I actually think he is going to be a negative in Virginia, not a positive. I really do, I really do. Hey, you know what? I wish him luck, I wish him luck. Whatever. Whatever."

Of course my grandpa loves the guy.

[spurraider21]

Seriously, you have to read more than a sentence or two of these to be able to see if it is satire or not.

What does that say?

It says that you're slow