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Trump 2016: Yes. We. Can.

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Honey Bear, Aug 5, 2015.

  1. leroy

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    What's truly sad about last night's results is that it gives Drumph the ability to accept the support of the KKK and other hate groups without consequence. It's a sad time in the GOP.
     
  2. ipaman

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    leroy, you're smarter than that. the kkk thing is pure agenda media/gop propaganda to try and stop the donald. it didn't work because folks are really sick and tired of the establishment. so who's fault is that? maybe let's not blame the people for being so angry but the useless dirty politicians who don't fight and support their constituents. maybe you don't agree with the angry mobs candidate choices (bernie&trump) but give the people credit for trying to make changes instead of doing nothing. i see that as progress and perhaps a wake up call for these politicians to get their heads out of their assess and start working for the people again or watch out!!!
     
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    Wait, is that really your takeaway from all this? You don't think this was all a ruse by the old guard of the GOP to try and rustle up Trump's jimmies?
     
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    Bernie Sanders ‏@SenSanders
    The purpose of scapegoating, setting whites against blacks, native born against immigrants, is to deflect from issues that could unite them.
     
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    Do you like beauty contests?

    hot girls in bikinis who inevitably release a threesome sex tape. yes please.

    Like scapegoating people who work in finance.
     
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    Yes, those poor victims in the finance industry. Thank goodness you were able to shine light on where the real struggle is. Keep strong financial banks, Keep strong!
     
  13. MadMax

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    This is called cult of personality. Dangerous stuff.
     
  14. Deckard

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    We see its influence on a small group here every day. Not just from those swept away by Trump's demagogic rhetoric, but by those seduced by Ted Cruz's Joe McCarthy imitation, a Joe McCarthy rerun that has clearly been embraced by Mr. Trump. The two candidates are running on a strategy that is based on appealing to the worst elements of American society, both in and out of the GOP. And it is working. Why? Because the Republican Party has been captured by a "tea party" that they invited into the GOP themselves, intending to use it's adherents for their own ends. Then a "funny" thing happened. It turns out that this "tea party" has its own agenda, and while it is a minority of Republican extremists, they actually vote in the primaries. What a bummer for two groups, the folks that run the GOP, and the majority of Republicans who are shaking their heads right now, asking themselves, "What in the Hell happened?"
     
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    Many have tried, but all have failed to stump him. Most have wound up stumped or even schlonged for their boldness.
    First there was Jeb. Despite the massive amount of money spend and establishment support, Donald reduced him from former nominee apparent to a guac bowl meme.
    Kasich tried his hand around the same time. It got him nowhere but laughed at as Trump pointed out his colossal incompetence at Lehman Brothers.
    Rand Paul wound up being, in essence, dismissed as a manlet.
    Clinton tried to play the gender card to stump him. To others, it would have been seen as a landmine to dodge. Trump saw it for a softball to lean in to and called her out for badmouthing bills accusers. Hillary shut her mouth because she's rather not see that pinata burst open.
    The right wing media went after him with Glenn Beck getting chatty about Donald, but got blown the **** out on live TV.
    Now, Ted Cruz, who once found himself in the enviable position of likely Trump veep pick, decided he felt froggy. Trump unzipped his fly, and whipped out fourteen veiny inches of September 11th ****. A South Carolina crowd burst into a frenzy of applause for New York values. It might have been the most complete schlonging we've seen so far. Ted Cruz, in the span of about a minute went from being on the attack to applauding Trumps response. At this point, he may as well pack it in and run for prime minister of Canada next election. Hillary Clinton, herself a fan of the 911 card, even praised Trump on twitter. The whole ****ing fiasco reads like a 4chan greentext.
    When the left wing media went hard with the Hitler ad hominems for his comments on Muslims, instead of his popularity going down it sky rocketed as Americans see what is happening with unchecked Muslim immigration in Europe. The mainstream media thought they had him stumped, yet once again he schlonged them hard. So they switched it up and tried with the KKK/racist ad hominems, they got blown the **** out yet again. Trump won 7 of the 11 states last night and the left wing media is on suicide watch.
    When the Pope said building walls wasn't Christian, Trump pointed to the giant wall around the Vatican built to repel Muslim invaders, and the Vatican quickly shut up and put out a press release saying they weren't talking about Trump specifically. Literally not even God can stump him at this point.
    Trump is absolutely winning it right now. He is way up in the polls.
    When Hillary takes the DNC nomination, which she likely will since nobody wants to elect a socialist atheist like Bernie, we will see the most beautiful ****show in the history of modern US politics. Now the dems opinion is that Hillary sweeps it because he has alienated women and minority voters. They think women will rally around Hillary like black voters rallied around Obama. But that's not true, Hillary is counting on enthusiasm she doesn't have. People are expecting Obama tier turnout for her and it isn't realistic. If this email thing gets serious, a lot of independents and even some dems will stay home.
    Trump is going to go places that other candidates wouldn't dream of going against Hillary, and she is not at all prepared to deal with it. Look at how terribly she is handling Bernie's relatively civilized criticisms. Trump is going to air out every scrap of dirty laundry he can find on her. Stuff that's way over the line. Stuff like paying off Goldman Sachs employees in to breaking NDAs and going on record about what she said at her speeches. Digging up Bills accusers and putting them on stage. Bringing up bill and hillarys connection with Jeff Epstein. Airing out all her skeletons from the Whitewater and Watergate scandals, going to people who she paid off to keep quite and getting them on stage. A lot of people are going to eat that up.
    He is going to bait Hillary. Now, Hillary is better than most at not getting her jimmies rustled, but I'm willing to get that if anybody can rustle her jimmies, it is Trump. That's what he does, and he might be one of the best of all time. If it happens, and Clinton loses her cool, her likability goes down the toilet. And she has absolutely nothing on Trump she can use. Anytime she calls him a racist, he just starts pulling out the thousands of minority employees whose livelihoods he is personally responsible for and whose brown children he is putting through college. Anytime she calls him a sexist, he pulls up a huge stream of women he has put in high up senior positions in his company. Anytime she calls him a meanie head to illegal immigrants, she just makes him look more alpha and like he's protecting America.
    The GOP establishment will start to come around to Trump. Expect billions of dollars spent on attack adds. Expect GOP voter turnout numbers to reach all time highs. Expect record numbers of supporters coming out for rallies. Expect his numbers to continue rising every time they throw a "he's racist" ad hominem at him, his bluntness just making him look even more appealing to a nation tired of political correctness, safe spaces and constant white guilting. Expect a sweep and a Trump presidency for 8 glorious years. Expect Hillary to be immediately arrested and handcuffed personally by Trump himself once he's in office. Expect Redditors clogging the suicide watch phonelines. Expect TYT, Huffington Post and Slate to shut down from butthurt. Expect Glen Beck to blow his brains out on live TV. Expect millions of boners once Trump walks out to do his victory speech with his wife and Ivanka.
    Expect a frenzy of high energy sex on January 20th, 2017 as America becomes great again.
     
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    ^^^^^

    Nice copy and paste job from Reddit. Trump idiots can't even come up with their own verbal diarrhea.
     
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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Trump Your Enthusiasm <a href="https://t.co/cPeweKwgVD">pic.twitter.com/cPeweKwgVD</a></p>&mdash; Seinfeld Current Day (@Seinfeld2000) <a href="https://twitter.com/Seinfeld2000/status/704890084881883136">March 2, 2016</a></blockquote>
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  18. JuanValdez

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    [Random] I think it'd be a mistake for Republicans to run against Trump as a spoiler on a third party ticket. Trump might be taking the party in a direction party leadership doesn't want to go, but by forming a third party challenge, they essentially cede the Republican party to Trump and the populist elements they want to oppose. The Party would shift from being establishment-conservative to being populist, and the so-called true conservatives would self-deport to a third party that isn't big enough to be nationally competitive. They would be better off taking their lumps with Trump and try to work within the party to steer the platform back to where they want to go in a post-Trump world. If they think they can get back their base by sabotaging Trump, I think they will be disappointed. Trump-supporters will be madder than ever if their will is subverted either at the Convention or in the general election.
     
  19. justtxyank

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    The party is burning no matter what they do and I think many of them see it. The party saw it after the last election when they articulated internally serious concerns about being the "stupid party" and taking hard right social issues, ignoring minorities, etc. The leadership knows they don't have a winning coalition right now for a national presidential election.

    The reality for the Republican party is that it is now a tent that covers people who have no real shared interest.
     
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