Author Topic: Donald Trump (Read 11759 times)

wmenorr67 · « **on:** July 01, 2015, 01:39:43 PM »

Anyone actually following the issues that he is having after saying what he did about illegals?

Latest I saw is that Macy's is dropping his clothing line.

SADShooter · « **Reply #1 on:** July 01, 2015, 02:36:07 PM »

State a controversial opinion, be immediately castigated and ostracized. Brave New World.

roo_ster · « **Reply #2 on:** July 01, 2015, 02:41:01 PM »

Better than many/several/majority? or the other GOPer potential POTUS candidates.

HankB · « **Reply #3 on:** July 01, 2015, 09:09:34 PM »

Quote from: wmenorr67 on July 01, 2015, 01:39:43 PM

Anyone actually following the issues that he is having after saying what he did about illegals?

Latest I saw is that Macy's is dropping his clothing line.

Good to know that Macy's is "pro ILLEGAL alien" so I can avoid shopping there.

RoadKingLarry · « **Reply #4 on:** July 01, 2015, 10:17:20 PM »

Quote from: SADShooter on July 01, 2015, 02:36:07 PM

State a controversial opinion, be immediately castigated and ostracized. Brave New World.

The thought police are here.

I'm a little surprised we haven't seen a huge outcry to have the 4 dissenting SCOTUS Justices removed from the bench and jailed for their racistbigotedhomophobicmisogynist opinion on gay marriage

grampster · « **Reply #5 on:** July 01, 2015, 10:23:22 PM »

The thing is, Trump's comments, if you listen carefully, are accurate. Sign of the times. You get crucified for telling the truth. Though that's not the first time it's happened.

SADShooter · « **Reply #6 on:** July 01, 2015, 10:24:35 PM »

Quote from: RoadKingLarry on July 01, 2015, 10:17:20 PM

The thought police are here.

I'm a little surprised we haven't seen a huge outcry to have the 4 dissenting SCOTUS Justices removed from the bench and jailed for their racistbigotedhomophobicmisogynist opinion on gay marriage

The rest of us benighted troglodytes are shielding them for the moment. The eyes will eventually turn.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #7 on:** July 02, 2015, 12:39:56 AM »

He apparently came in second in NH and Iowa? I did not expect that.

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 02, 2015, 07:55:53 AM »

Quote from: grampster on July 01, 2015, 10:23:22 PM

The thing is, Trump's comments, if you listen carefully, are accurate. Sign of the times. You get crucified for telling the truth. Though that's not the first time it's happened.

Nor going to be the last.

roo_ster · « **Reply #9 on:** July 08, 2015, 04:00:47 PM »

I sure do like the way Trump is slapping around the media whores and GOPer drones. And reading how JEB! is personally offended was delicious.

Quote from: http://www.unz.com/imercer/no-trump-apology-tour/

CNN anchor Don Lemon conducted an interview with Donald Trump. It went very well, for Mr. Trump, that is. So well that Lemon’s scoop is difficult to locate on CNN’s website. Instead, Mediate.com scooped the telephonic exchange.

Lemon was at a loss. He got more sour-looking by the minute, as Trump bulldozed him with the force of his convictions and personality. There was no interrupting Trump’s train of thought. The “builder-businessman” was going to say his piece.

Americans have been listening intently. “A CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday,” reported National Journal, “showed Trump had 12 percent of the vote among Republicans and Republican-leaners, second only to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who earned 19 percent.”

Trump’s retort: “I’m not happy being behind Jeb Bush.” ...

Trump’s strength is that he keeps coming back to the stuff of life: business, economics, making a living. Politics is the stuff that kills all that.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/youre-getting-clobbered-cnns-don-lemon-faces-off-with-donald-trump/

Quote from: http://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/trump-and-the-gop-border-war/

Trump’s success comes from the issues he has seized upon — illegal immigration and trade deals that deindustrialized America — and brazen defiance of Republican elites and a media establishment.

By now the whole world has heard Trump’s declaration:

“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. … They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

Politically incorrect? You betcha.

Yet, is Trump not raising a valid issue? Is there not truth in what he said? Is not illegal immigration, and criminals crossing our Southern border, an issue of national import, indeed, of national security?...

Trump intends to exploit the illegal immigration issue, and the trade issue, where majorities of middle-class Americans oppose the elites. And he is going to ride them as far as he can in the Republican primaries.

In the coming debates, look for Trump to take the populist and popular side of them both. And for Cruz to stand by him on illegal immigration.

Quote from: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-steamrolls-nbc-reporter-takes-shots-at-krauthammer-and-jonah-goldberg/

On Charles Krauthammer, who called him a “rodeo clown”: He’s “a totally overrated person that dislikes me personally. I’ve never met him. He’s a totally overrated guy, doesn’t know what he’s doing.”

On Jonah Goldberg, who compared him to a “failed man”: “I’m worth a fortune. You know, it’s interesting. I went to the best school, got great marks, everything else. I went out, I made a fortune, a big fortune, a tremendous fortune… bigger than people even understand. […] Then I get called by a guy that can’t buy a pair of pants, I get called names?”

From Goldberg's column:

Quote from: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420851/trump-gop-president-mexicans

Meanwhile, too many of Trump’s GOP primary competitors, afraid of angering his fans, stand mute or mumbling. Republicans are fielding the best candidates in a generation, but Trump is poised to make them chumps by association.

Krauthammer:

Quote from: http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/06/not-serious-politics-krauthammer-dismisses-rodeo-clown-donald-trump/

“And the pity is this: this is the strongest field of Republican candidates in 35 years,” Krauthammer declared. “You could pick a dozen of them at random and have the strongest cabinet America has had in our lifetime, and instead, all of our time is spent discussing this rodeo clown.”

Goldberg and Krauthammer need to put down the bong. Yep, Trump may not be for real, but he is highlighting important issues and making the GOPer weenies pay attention.

lupinus · « **Reply #10 on:** July 08, 2015, 04:06:37 PM »

He is great just for pure entertainment value, and not being shy about pissing people off when the right answer isn't the PC answer. If he's serious but doesn't get the nod I vote we at least make him secretary of something. State would be fun to watch.

zxcvbob · « **Reply #11 on:** July 08, 2015, 04:13:07 PM »

Quote from: lupinus on July 08, 2015, 04:06:37 PM

He is great just for pure entertainment value, and not being shy about pissing people off when the right answer isn't the PC answer. If he's serious but doesn't get the nod I vote we at least make him secretary of something. State would be fun to watch.

Or ambassador to the UN.

(Sec State would be better)

lupinus · « **Reply #12 on:** July 08, 2015, 04:14:18 PM »

Ambassador to Mexico

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 08, 2015, 05:10:40 PM »

I'm going to apply to be the ambassador to Cuba.

Scout26 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 08, 2015, 05:23:34 PM »

What was it someone said about speaking truth to power?

Here's the thing. Last fall the American got good and pissed off and voted to send a whole bunch of R's to Congress for one express purpose: Stop Obama.

Stop his bringing in illegals by the trainload.
and
Stop Obamacare.

Those were the two big things that were literally "on the ballot".

And the first thing the R's did after the election.

Vote to fund both of them.

So now, Trump comes along and says what the majority of the people are (and have been) thinking and everyone wonders why he's surging in the polls?

Quote from: lupinus on July 08, 2015, 04:14:18 PM

Ambassador to Mexico

I would like to make Richard Hammond Ambassador to Mexico, but sadly, he's British....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6uhxH924ao

SADShooter · « **Reply #15 on:** July 08, 2015, 05:28:55 PM »

And a bomb-throwing radical, to boot, pandering to all the bitter-clingers in flyover country. Poor benighted souls led astray by the hollow, hopeful promises of a charismatic demagogue. Uh, wait...

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #16 on:** July 08, 2015, 06:07:57 PM »

I've never paid attention to this guy, and I'm still not. All I know about him is that he lost a lot of money a few times, he builds things (sorry, Mr. Obama), and he had* a TV show where he fires people.

Is this guy worth all this adulation? I don't understand.

*I guess he still has the show, since these stupid reality shows never flipping die.

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #17 on:** July 08, 2015, 06:35:41 PM »

Quote from: grampster on July 01, 2015, 10:23:22 PM

The thing is, Trump's comments, if you listen carefully, are accurate. Sign of the times. You get crucified for telling the truth. Though that's not the first time it's happened.

You see, nuance has no place in modern politics. Ron Paul was lambasted for stating that the civil rights act was a mistake. He made the point that it took away private businesses rights to decide who they wanted to do business with. And that the free market should decide. He also stated that the government should never be allowed to discriminate. But all the media heard was "civil rights=bad!"
Rand suffers from the same intellectual bug a little bit, he can get a little nuanced in his statements. Doesn't make for good soundbites unless they want to denigrate him. The Donald, though....he makes great soundbites....

Quote from: scout26 on July 08, 2015, 05:23:34 PM

So now, Trump comes along and says what the majority of the people are (and have been) thinking and everyone wonders why he's surging in the polls?

He's not the only one. Cruz has mentioned both issues. He wants full repeal of Obamacare, no namby pamby defunding, btw.

Scout26 · « **Reply #18 on:** July 08, 2015, 06:47:25 PM »

Quote from: jamisjockey on July 08, 2015, 06:35:41 PM

He's not the only one. Cruz has mentioned both issues. He wants full repeal of Obamacare, no namby pamby defunding, btw.

Yes, but Ted doesn't have the same flamboyant personality that Trump has. Plus I think the MSM likes going to get what he says because he'll say something they think is completely outrageous (in soundbite form no less) and then mock him mercilessly as the "prototypical R candidate". Notice how they are going around asking the other candidates for their opinion of what Trump said. Which is their way of saying "Agree and we mock you, disagree and we mock you for agreeing with Obama/Hillary." The press likes presenting no win options to R candidates.

Trump doesn't care. He has "*expletive deleted*ck You" money, and he thinks he can do the job. Hell, at least we know he's not afraid to fire people. While I love Ted Cruz, I would rather pull the lever for Trump then Hillary, Bernie, or any other clowns the D's choose to run.

brimic · « **Reply #19 on:** July 08, 2015, 07:03:03 PM »

I'll vote for Trump if it means 4 8 years of liberal heads imploding.

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #20 on:** July 08, 2015, 07:09:00 PM »

Quote from: scout26 on July 08, 2015, 06:47:25 PM

Yes, but Ted doesn't have the same flamboyant personality that Trump has. Plus I think the MSM likes going to get what he says because he'll say something they think is completely outrageous (in soundbite form no less) and then mock him mercilessly as the "prototypical R candidate". Notice how they are going around asking the other candidates for their opinion of what Trump said. Which is their way of saying "Agree and we mock you, disagree and we mock you for agreeing with Obama/Hillary." The press likes presenting no win options to R candidates.

Trump doesn't care. He has "*expletive deleted*ck You" money, and he thinks he can do the job. Hell, at least we know he's not afraid to fire people. While I love Ted Cruz, I would rather pull the lever for Trump then Hillary, Bernie, or any other clowns the D's choose to run.

Cruz impressed me most during the Q&A at CPAC. He would fillet Hillary in a debate.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #21 on:** July 08, 2015, 07:21:18 PM »

Quote from: jamisjockey on July 08, 2015, 07:09:00 PM

Cruz impressed me most during the Q&A at CPAC. He would fillet Hillary in a debate.

Which would never matter.

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #22 on:** July 08, 2015, 07:29:26 PM »

Quote from: fistful on July 08, 2015, 07:21:18 PM

Which would never matter.

True.

I remember when BHO was elected. It was all about "history". The first black man elected to the Presidency. I suspect when it boils down to it, a lot will vote for Hillary to make "history" too.

MechAg94 · « **Reply #23 on:** July 08, 2015, 08:09:56 PM »

Yes, Cruz would be very effective in a debate. I think it would matter if he got to the point of getting the nomination. Romney looked good in his first debate with Obama then fell flat trying to be Mr. Nice Guy later.

Tallpine · « **Reply #24 on:** July 08, 2015, 08:32:39 PM »

Quote from: brimic on July 08, 2015, 07:03:03 PM

I'll vote for Trump if it means 4 8 years of liberal heads imploding.

At least we could fire him after four years

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Author Topic: Donald Trump (Read 11759 times)