However, there are more than enough of these people in particular concentrations to thoroughly ruin the lives of everyone in the same municipality/county/state as them. Sure, if “only” 35% of the electorate prove themselves to to jack-shit crazy come November, that seems like a great big win for progressive values. . . but it still leaves a ton of people locked in with the nutjobs.
And curiously enough, being stuck in those places is highly correlated with not ever making enough money to escape, either, , ,
Yeah, that’s the thing. In the general, you have to go toward the middle. If you’re in the general, it means you’ve already secured your respective side of the political spectrum.
The Donald keeps going for the crazies. He’s not interested in the middle.
Quaro
1788
Hillary at 80% is still way too low. I really worry that our Democratic institutions would not survive a Trump presidency.
ShivaX
1789
When Trump supporters compare Clinton and Trump you could literally replace Trump with a crazy hobo talking to street lights and their comparison would be the same.
Just saw a thing on Facebook where everything for Trump was “said mean things” and everything for Clinton was the worst possible view of any mistakes she made. Only… here’s the thing: Trump has never been in power so of course he hasn’t made any mistakes. Neither has the crazy hobo. Neither of them have ever had the opportunity to get anyone killed or leak sensitive information or whatever. I’m also pretty sure the dude fucking a garbage can in broad daylight shouldn’t get that opportunity.
rshetts
1790
Do I think he will win in November? No, hes disenfranchised too many voter blocks. That is not what I meant by getting away with it. I guess we have different points of view in regards to what “getting away with it” means. I have never seen any candidate in my life time say anything remotely close to the things Trump says daily, without being run out of the race. In the past, a man yelling Yee-Haw! enthusiastically was enough to tank his campaign. Now some will say Howard Dean was toast before that point, but that was absolutely the nail in his coffin. Meanwhile, Trump is still in the race and theres no indication that anyone is willing to do anything about his antics. Now what if in early November, some 2nd Amendment person decides to take Trumps advice and Hillary doesnt make it til election day? Would Trump “get away with it” then?
What a toad.
Trump touts child care programs, but they’re for guests only
The first came months ago in Iowa, when the eventual Republican nominee touted his own record as a business owner during a candidate Q&A, telling voters he provided on-site child-care service for his employees.
There is no evidence, however, that any such programs exist.
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“It would make it much more easy to take our kids to day care at work,” she said and laughed when told of Trump’s comments from Iowa about child care. “If they have child care, at least they should tell us.”
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Asked directly whether Trump’s businesses offered child care to employees, his presidential campaign responded with a statement from Jill Martin, vice president and assistant general counsel at the Trump Organization.
“The Trump Organization is very proud of the family-friendly environment it fosters throughout its portfolio,” she said. “The policies and practices allowing employees to enjoy a healthy work-life balance vary from property to property. We take an individualized approach to helping employees manage family and work responsibilities.”
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One wonders how the people involved in this ridiculous circus sleep at night. Same way the financial industry does, I suppose.
magnet
1792
Well, it’s not like Dean was kicked out of the DNC immediately after The Scream. He went on campaigning for more than a month, lost a bunch more primaries, and then quit. If he had clinched the Democratic primary before The Scream, he certainly would have continued until November.
Now, you may wonder how Trump got past his primary whereas Dean didn’t. But I think it’s clear that winning the GOP primary this year was not like winning the Dem primary. It was more like winning a third party primary, with similar advantages (more forgiving constituency) and disadvantages (smaller constituency).
Canuck
1793
Donald Trump is now live re-tweeting.
Oh sweet, prop comedy! I wonder if he’ll smash a watermelon.
https://forum-cdn.quartertothree.com/uploads/default/original/2X/1/125d08db847434dfb52fe942cfa3165d738600d4.jpg
Someone posted that VOX analysis of how Trump answers questions recently and this is a perfect example of it. Look at how he uses his bizarre sentence structure to end on the words he’s trying to implant in the brains of listeners:
Absolutely
Troops
Gone in
nobody cared
Iraq
Iraq
mistake was made
mistake
country
Middle East
years
founder
award
Hillary
too
Iraq
ISIL
term
not
ISIS
ISIL
so was she
cofounders
Some will point to this as brilliance but I think it’s just the reflexive pattern of a sociopathetic manipulator/salesman.
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Who knows, though. It’s all a word salad and I’m losing interest in harming my brain cells by trying to parse his incoherence. I like my brain cells.
Also, Racter for president![/quote]
Well then, you should be a fan of Deep Drumph:
MikeJ
1797
I’m sure he’s would like to disenfranchise many more voting blocks. Rolling the franchise back to the 1856 rules would do wonders for his chances.
I’m going to use that :).
nKoan
1799
“They don’t write good. They have people over there, like Maggie Haberman and others, they don’t — they don’t write good,” he said. “They don’t know how to write good.”
But Trump knows how to write good.
RichVR
1800
I wonder if he thinks ISIS and ISIL are different groups.
Interviewer: Who do you think is the greatest threat? ISIS or ISIL?
Trump: Well, ISIS is bad, that’s who Obama and Hillary created. But ISIL is bad too. They probably made them too. They are terrible. Very bad. So sad.
Oh, he knows. His theory is that Obama says ISIL just to annoy everyone and to show off how smart he is.
HeHe, you and I are having the same fantasy dreams. Trump calling his supporters stupid.
I actually think that might be true…
JFrazer
1804
ISIL is the actual correct term and is what they are called in the Middle Eastern countries that they inhabit. Using ISIL is a way to point out that they are bigger than just Iraq and Syria. ISIS = Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. ISIL = Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. Levant is the traditionally accurate term for the region before Europeans came in and drew a bunch of artificial lines to denote nations that had never existed before. Essentially, by calling them ISIL, Obama is expanding the region they are considered “active” in. He can drone-strike in Lebanon or Libya without having to worry about a backlash saying “but they are only in Iraq and Syria!”
Not sure why Trump considers it a big deal. It’s like the difference between someone correctly saying “The United States of America” while another person would just say “America”. Both are technically correct, but “United States of America” is the accurate name.
I found this BBC article interesting.
Isis, Isil, IS or Daesh? One group, many names
But the term “Daesh” (or Da’ish) has also gained currency, both in the Middle East and further afield, and has been used as a way of challenging the legitimacy of the group due to the negative connotations of the word.
Daesh is essentially an Arabic acronym formed from the initial letters of the group’s previous name in Arabic - “al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil Iraq wa al-Sham”. Although it does not mean anything as a word in Arabic, it sounds unpleasant and the group’s supporters object to its use.
Daesh also sounds similar to an Arabic verb that means to tread underfoot, trample down, or crush something.
So in the same way that I call members of Westboro Baptist, crazy nutcases, I called Myanmar, Burma to piss off the Junta, and I call Trump, Drumpf, I’ll be calling them Daesh in the future.
