Swan Song for the Donald? GOP Party Bosses Plan to “Take Out” Trump
In one short 20-second exchange, the brash Trump revealed the quid pro quo that assures that the coffers at both the Democrat and Republican headquarters remain full-to-the-brim. He said:
“I was a businessman. I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me. And that’s a broken system.”
Dear reader, there are things you can say in America and there are things you cannot say. You can criticize the government, support torture, applaud the racist arrest and incarceration immigrants looking for work, and cheerlead the bombing of civilians in the many countries around the world where the US has launched its vicious wars of aggression.
But you cannot stand in front of an audience of 24 million Americans on national Television and explain in excruciating detail how the political system really works, how the tycoons and moguls pay for favors from the sock-puppet politicians, how the politicians do whatever they are told to do, and why the system is a complete and utter fraud.
The people who own the system will not allow that, after all, it is their system, a system which they created, which they control, and that provides the very foundation upon which their wealth and power depend.
They have no intention of allowing a loudmouth, upstart casino operator to seriously threaten the credibility of their precious system by blurting out all kinds of insider information that exposes the rot at the heart of the machine.
That’s not something they want to hear, and that’s not something they’re going to hear.
Donald Trump is about to be crushed and destroyed in ways he never could have imagined.
He’s about to discover a painful truth, that the vindictive and merciless people who run this country are not to be trifled with.
One day he’ll be playfully sparring with the press corps on the front steps of his Manhattan penthouse, and the next thing you know he’ll be frog-marching across Times Square in handcuffs and leg-irons.
You can bet on it.
Trump’s got to know what’s coming next.
He’s a smart guy and he’s seen this play out many times before.
The bottom line, is that if you fu** with these guys, you’re going to wind up “sleeping with the fishes.”
It’s that simple.
He ought to know that by now.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/...ake-out-trump/
Last edited by boutons_deux; 08-11-2015 at 04:28 PM.
Bull .
Obama has been singing that song for 8 years.
We have a boken system this, we have a broken system that. He won thanks to that.
You're full of dude
How Roger Ailes Picked Trump, and Fox News’ Audience, Over Megyn Kelly
Eventually, as I reported yesterday, he made the same choice he always does: follow the ratings, and mend fences with Trump.
But that process has meant that Fox has had to mute its defense of Kelly, who is now watching uneasily as the Fox audience turns on her:
According to one high-level source, Kelly has told Fox producers that she’s been getting death threats from Trump supporters.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...ushpmg00000003
Trump destroys Rand Paul:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/p...oset-democrat/Rand Paul is doing so poorly in the polls he has to revert to old footage of me discussing positions I no longer hold. As a world-class businessman, who built one of the great companies with some of the most iconic real estate assets in the world, it was my obligation to my family, my company, my employees and myself to maintain a strong relationship with all politicians whether Republican or Democrat. I did that and I did that well.
Unless you are a piece of unyielding granite, over the years positions evolve as they have in my case. Ronald Reagan, as an example, was a Democrat with a liberal bent who became a conservative Republican.
Recently, Rand Paul called me and asked me to play golf. I easily beat him on the golf course and will even more easily beat him now, in the world in the politics.
Senator Paul does not mention that after trouncing him in golf I made a significant donation to the eye center with which he is affiliated.
I feel sorry for the great people of Kentucky who are being used as a back up to Senator Paul’s hopeless attempt to become President of the United States--- weak on the military, Israel, the Vets and many other issues. Senator Paul has no chance of wining the nomination and the people of Kentucky should not allow him the privilege of remaining their Senator. Rand should save his lobbyist’s and special interest money and just go quietly home.
Rand’s campaign is a total mess, and as a matter of fact, I didn’t know he had anybody left in his campaign to make commercials who are not currently under indictment!
Rand is a disappointment to his father's legacy, tbh. Trump is right on the money as usual.
Why Trump Is the Pied Piper for the Huge Number of Republican Woman Haters
Donald Trump is a misogynist. This has been indisputable for decades, but many Republican leaders are finally starting to agree there might be something, you know, bigoted about Trump’s eagerness to use every sexist trope in the book to attack women he takes issue with.
Specifically, Republicans are "offended" that Donald Trump made a gross crack about Fox News host Megyn Kelly after Kelly dared ask him some tough questions during Thursday night’s Republican primary debate.
Conservative posturing about the evils of misogyny is sheer opportunism; that is hardly in dispute. Trump has been a pig as long as he’s been in the public eye, calling Rosie O’Donnell a “fat pig,” saying women from Gail Collins to Arianna Huffington are ugly because they disagree with him, and suggesting Anne Hathaway is a golddigger. That his hateful at ude toward women suddenly offends Republicans has little to do with sincere objections to misogyny and everything to do with the fact that Republican leadership wants Trump to end his stunt race now, before his antics do any further damage to the Republican brand.
But while Republican leaders have started to express disgust about Trump’s misogyny, Trump denies the charge, claiming, “I cherish women. I want to help women."
That Trump pulls this card is hardly a surprise. You’ll have more luck finding a talking dog than a misogynist who openly cops to hating women. The dictionary may define misogyny as “hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women” but it’s usually a little more complex than that.
Your average misogynist, like Trump, often claims -- may even believe -- that he loves women. But that supposed love comes with a caveat, which is that he expects a woman to be subservient and know her place. If a woman steps out of line by disagreeing with the misogynist, rejecting his instructions on how to live her life, or behaving or dressing in a way he doesn’t like, that’s when the anger and hatred come pouring out.
Misogyny is more about male en lement than anything else. It’s a direct result of men feeling en led to women’s obedience, submission, silence, fawning adoration, or some combination of all of these. When the misogynist claims he loves women, he means women who are deferential to him and his desires. Incidentally, this also explains why there are so many female misogynists — women who have absorbed the message that women should be deferential to men and attack any women who disagree.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...ter1040825&t=6
A lot of misogyny, women as inferior to men, based on Bible humpers interpretation of the OT. Remember Bible humper/Christian supremacist Bachmann saying she deferred to her husband. QuiverFull is women as nothing but holes.
^ SJW got ^
Democrats throwing hoping something, anything sticks
Uhh, no. There's nothing better for the blue team right now than the continued success of The Donald. He's a horrific candidate, will never be elected, is making the entire red team look like total clowns, and is drowning out any message they may have that doesn't appeal to the 1%. Trust me, Dems are rooting HARD for The DonaldDemocrats throwing hoping something, anything sticks
You'd think that.
But then why the avalanche of anti Trump jbberish from Democratic media???? Makes no sense.
Either they are really scared of him or they are to stupid to realize they need to root for him.
Please point me to the "anti-Trump jibberish from the Democratic media".
All the articles posted by boutons
Rand Paul is doing so poorly in the polls he has to revert to old footage of me discussing positions I no longer hold. As a world-class businessman, who built one of the great companies with some of the most iconic real estate assets in the world, it was my obligation to my family, my company, my employees and myself to maintain a strong relationship with all politicians whether Republican or Democrat. I did that and I did that well.
Unless you are a piece of unyielding granite, over the years positions evolve as they have in my case. Ronald Reagan, as an example, was a Democrat with a liberal bent who became a conservative Republican.
Recently, Rand Paul called me and asked me to play golf. I easily beat him on the golf course and will even more easily beat him now, in the world in the politics.
Senator Paul does not mention that after trouncing him in golf I made a significant donation to the eye center with which he is affiliated.
I feel sorry for the great people of Kentucky who are being used as a back up to Senator Paul’s hopeless attempt to become President of the United States--- weak on the military, Israel, the Vets and many other issues. Senator Paul has no chance of wining the nomination and the people of Kentucky should not allow him the privilege of remaining their Senator. Rand should save his lobbyist’s and special interest money and just go quietly home.
Rand’s campaign is a total mess, and as a matter of fact, I didn’t know he had anybody left in his campaign to make commercials who are not currently under indictment!
Wow, that took a while to read.
First, Ronald Reagan spent 20 years as a conservative before running for President, not twenty minutes. He changed out of conviction. He campaigned for Goldwater in 1964 giving one of the great conservative speeches of all time, setting the intellectual agenda for a generation of conservatives.
Donald Trump couldn't set the intellectual conservative agenda of anything, not even the tiniest rooms, never mind a country. He is devoid of ideas other than he likes the idea of power and getting attention for foolish statements and bluster.
Rand Paul is the one following in the footsteps of Reagan, setting the intellectual agenda for a conservative movement of change. Rand stands for principle. He has detailed plans to end our debt by balancing the budget in 5 years. He has a detailed flat and fair tax that would be a huge tax cut for Americans while ending the corporate welfare gravy train for people like Donald Trump. He has real plans to defeat the Washington machine like term limits and forcing Congress to read the bills.
While he appreciates Donald's golf skills, I will note that [the game] was on his home course that he plays often. And he does sincerely appreciate Donald's generosity to the eye clinic. In fact he has mentioned it often, including in his op-ed and speeches this weekend.
The fact is, Rand is running to fight the big business, big government establishment. Donald Trump already represents one end of that problem. Now he wants to represent the other. It won't work.
Donald Trump’s foreign-policy platform is so catastrophically bad that world leaders are now taking the time to pan it: “It reflects an enormous ignorance”
Mexico won't pay to build a wall on its border with US, nor will military "bomb the " out of the Middle East
In an interview with Bloomberg’s Sean Martin on Wednesday, however, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto’s spokesman Eduardo Sanchez said, in no uncertain terms, that Mexico would do nothing of the sort.
“Of course it’s false,” he said of Trump’s claim. “It reflects an enormous ignorance of what Mexico represents, and also the irresponsibility of the candidate who’s saying it.”
“Mexicans in the U.S. work with passion, they do their jobs well,” he added. “His comments reflect an enormous lack of knowledge of the reality in the U.S.”
As for Trump’s other plan — that the United States should solve the crises in the Middle East by “bomb[ing] the out of” Iraq, Iran, and ISIS, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond T. Odierno said Wednesday that he couldn’t disagree more with the real estate magnate’s proposed plan.
“That is not where we are today,” he said. “What we want to do is try to stop a group that is potentially attempting to be a long-term influence in the Middle East, that is clearly promoting extremism and frankly suppressing populations in the Middle East. In order to resolve that, you need countries of the Middle East and those surrounding the Middle East to be involved in the solution.”
When asked directly if that means he disagrees with Trump’s plan, Gen. Odierno said “I do, I do, right now, I do.”
http://www.salon.com/2015/08/13/dona...ous_ignorance/
Talk is CHEAP, like classless, trashy Trump himself.
I'm sure that closer to the election we get the Repugs will feel more and more stupid to put their support behind Trump when polls inevitably show the democrat candidate 20% ahead of that buffoon.
Martin O'Malley could beat that clown!
Trump is in it to win it in Iowa:
http://wapo.st/1L9cCf3
And these got s decide who gets to run for presidentIt showed up at a country music concert in Cherokee and at a bacon festival in Ottumwa.
Trump Is the Authoritarian Ruler Republicans and Some Dems Have Been Waiting For
How far can a truly authoritarian leader go in America?
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, who has a very good crystal balls for predicting presidential contenders and races, has broken the massive GOP want-to-be field into five tiers to establish who is and who is not a viable potential. Professor Sabato’s first tier GOP candidates are (alphabetically): Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker. Donald Trump, who is currently leading in the polls, ranks in lowest—or fifth—tier by Professor Sabato, who labels Trump a “gadfly.”
I looked closely at authoritarians in Conservatives Without Conscience, and the information I developed and shared in 2006 is equally, if not more, relevant today. Actually, Trump is far more aggressive in his authoritarianism than his predecessors. To understand the Trump phenomenon, it is essential to appreciate political authoritarianism, as well as its limits and boundaries.
Political Authoritarians—The Followers
Americans were introduced to “the authoritarian type” in a 1951 book that was controversial from its publication: The Authoritarian Personality by Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, and Daniel J. Levinson. While the book had its flaws, time has also shown much of the analysis was accurate, if not prescient, in explaining this type of personality. When studying these personalities I discovered the later work of an American-born professor at the University of Manitoba, Bob Altemeyer, whose book The Authoritarian Specter updates, expands upon, and solidifies the work of Adorno’s team
To cut to the bottom line: I can envision a number of scenarios where Trump could capture the GOP nomination, and they all start with him making respectable showings in New Hampshire and South Carolina. If Trump is going to decide to go home and stop playing the game due to it being a waste of money, it will be after South Carolina. If he is in play at that time, he could win the nomination.
But I can find no scenario in which he could win the White House. Too many voters still remember Nixon, Agnew, Bush, and Cheney, who ranked high on the authoritarian leaders scale, albeit not as high as Donald Trump.
Should it happen that Trump wins the GOP nomination, he will surely all but finish the destruction of the Republican Party, which began with the ascendency of the religious right and Southern conservatives leaving the “Big Tent” Democratic Party to make the GOP their unspoken racist home. The authoritarian base of the GOP has been steadily growing, and Trump could test its strength.
Of only one thing am I absolutely certain: Donald Trump will never be President of the United States, so rest easy. Authoritarians remain a minority in America, thankfully.
http://www.alternet.org/election-201...e-been-waiting
Let them have this - there's literally nothing else to do ever in Iowa.
And these got s decide who gets to run for president
The emphasis on Iowa CAUCUSes (not even full electorate) is one of the huge perversions in American politics.
3M people
4M cows
pigs, chickens, etc, etc.
and LOTS of .
the authoritarian wealthy capilatlist reaching out to the working class
Donald Trump to Detroit autoworkers: you make too much money
Donald Trump has something to say to Detroit autoworkers: you make too much money. Talking about U.S. vehicle manufacturers moving production to Mexico in an interview with The Detroit News, Trump said this:
He said U.S. automakers could shift production away from Michigan to communities where autoworkers would make less. “You can go to different parts of the United States and then ultimately you’d do full-circle — you’ll come back to Michigan because those guys are going to want their jobs back even if it is less,” Trump said.
“We can do the rotation in the United States — it doesn’t have to be in Mexico.”He said that after Michigan “loses a couple of plants — all of sudden you’ll make good deals in your own area.”
See? The problem we have is that Michigan autoworkers are getting paid too much. We need to destroy their jobs and starve them until they are willing to go back to work at a lower wage.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...y?detail=email
UAW assembly line (basically repe ive unskilled labor) wage averages compensation of $70 an hour after including benefits and legacy retirement costs. Trump does have a point that it is not compe ive with other markets. That's pretty hard to argue.
It is what it is.
President trump , get used to it folks
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