Donald Trump, the road that might not lead to the White House!

[Idris2002]

I wouldn't be shocked to find out that he and Bill Clinton were out grabbing pussies together last week.

And if you discovered that gambling was going on here?

 

[xenon]

US football is rife with rapey shit. Not in the 70's now.

There's nothing that surprising about Trump's attitudes, given the context. "alfa male" self agrandising, self mitholigising, privileged rich white American cuntbag.

 

[existentialist]

You think that the Trump camp wouldn't like to have covered this up, and that they don't think it hurts their chances?

I imagine that they are facepalming their noses out of the backs of their heads. But I don't think we've ever had quite the level of macho posturing amongst business leaders or politicians that the US achieve, and Trump's a serious outlier even by that standard.

What I do wonder is how much of this has come as a total surprise, or whether someone did some due diligence and was just frantically crossing everything crossable that it wouldn't come out.

 

[bimble]

I wonder how many people there are telling pollsters theyre 'don't knows' because it's now a bit embarrassing for them to state their intention to vote Trump.

 

[existentialist]

I wonder how many people there are telling pollsters theyre 'don't knows' because it's now a bit embarrassing for them to state their intention to vote Trump.

That'll be somewhat skewed by the fact that a lot of Trump supporters seem only too delighted to revel in his unpleasantness. Although I grant you that a big slice of his voters will probably be smarter than that, and keep stumm.

 

[bimble]

Yep. Wouldn't be very surprised if that's the main impact of pussygate, more people lying to the pollsters.

 

[gosub]

I've not seen either of the debates but if someone goes up on stage and spends their whole time sniffing there is usually a simple explanation.

get a feeling his media wranglers have told him to breath in before speaking so he gives himself half a second to think about what he's saying

 

[editor]

 

[Teaboy]

get a feeling his media wranglers have told him to breath in before speaking so he gives himself half a second to think about what he's saying

Yeah I've just watched some of it on youtube and it does seem to be more of a tick or a short thinking time thing. Bit weird all the same though.

 

[Poot]

I sometimes find John Oliver a bit cringey but he totally hit the nail on the head. I especially liked the bit about the women being "someone's sister or daughter" and being revered. Spot on.

 

[pesh]

Yeah I've just watched some of it on youtube and it does seem to be more of a tick or a short thinking time thing. Bit weird all the same though.

i thought i noticed he did it when it seemed like he was running out of air after a bit of a prolonged rant... i remember wondering last night if it was the result of some cosmetic surgery or something.

 

[danny la rouge]

i thought i noticed he did it when it seemed like he was running out of air after a bit of a prolonged rant... i remember wondering last night if it was the result of some cosmetic surgery or something.

I wondered if it was a result of snorting cocaine.

 

[pesh]

Think there'd be more leakage if he was hoofing it to that degree. It's a very dry sniff.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

William S Burroughs once again proves prescient

“Who else can restore to this nation the spirit of true conservatism, that imposes itself on any human solution? And at a time when this great republic is threatened by enemies foreign and domestic? Actually, there can be only one candidate: The Purple Better One, your future President!”

To The Battle Hymn Of The Republic, an American flag is drawn aside to reveal a purple-assed mandrill. (thunderous applause) Led to the mike by secret service men in dark suits that bulge suggestively here and there, The Purple Better One blinks in bewilderment.

<snip>

The Simian bares his canines, shits on the deck, and wipes his ass with Old Glory. A phalanx of blue-helmeted cops shoulders its way through the crowd. They stop in front of the deck. The lead cop looks up at A.J. and demands: ” Let’s see your permits for that purple-assed son of a bitch.”

“Permits? We don’t have any stinking permits. You are talking about the future president of America.”

the coming of the purple better one (wm burroughs)

 

[ViolentPanda]

He didn't say that. He said he'd appoint a prosecutor to look into her email shenanigans.

Is Kenneth Starr available?

 

[8den]

Is Kenneth Starr available?

Even Starr thinks the Hillary witchunt is bullshit

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/us/politics/ken-starr-impeachment-bill-clinton.html?_r=0

 

[2hats]

get a feeling his media wranglers have told him to breath in before speaking so he gives himself half a second to think about what he's saying

Now he has the extra half a second he just needs to work on the other part.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Is Clinton not allowed to mention him raping his ex-wife? If he's gonna play dirty about Bill's antics surely that should be on the table.

Clinton pulled back on a kill shot for a reason: Keep Trump on the ticket

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

the Goldwater 1964 campaign ( "In your guts you know he's nuts" ) is the analogy of choice amongst the bien-pensant cognoscenti I believe..... funnily enough an election in which Hilary Clinton was a Young Republican supporting Goldwater against LBJ....

Hillary Clinton didn't last long on that side of the political spectrum, however, reporting that "By the time I was a college junior, I had gone from being a Goldwater Girl to supporting the [1968] anti-war campaign of Eugene McCarthy."

The meme shown above (circulated on social media in conjunction with the Martin Luther King Day holiday) plays on that brief period of Ms. Clinton's early political interest, claiming that she both "actively campaigned" and "voted" for Goldwater, a candidate who sought to "overturn the Civil Rights Act" and "re-segregate the nation." Those statements are highly exaggerated versions of what Clinton and Goldwater actually thought and did, however.

Although Hillary Clinton may have been a Goldwater supporter in 1964, saying she "actively campaigned" for him implies a more substantive role than the one she actually played. She was a mere 16-year-old who wasn't a member of the Goldwater campaign staff in any way, nor did she even meet the candidate — she related in Living History that she had to persuade her father to drive her and a friend to hear Goldwater speak when the GOP nominee made a campaign swing by train through the Chicago suburbs. And although Hillary Clinton might have wanted to vote for Barry Goldwater in 1964, the fact is that she didn't: she turned 17 just a few weeks before the election and thus wasn't eligible to vote for anyone, as the minimum voting age at the time was 21.

Goldwater Girl

 

[Poot]

Now he has the extra half a second he just needs to work on the other part.

The previous seventy years you mean? Yes, it's a fair point.

 

[8den]

Clinton pulled back on a kill shot for a reason: Keep Trump on the ticket

It'd be extremely unlikely Trump could be replaced by Pence at this junction. For starts theres literally no precedent for removing the top name on the ticket.

The RNC would have to have a national meetings and vote to remove Trump, and they're not even sure they can do that. Secondly because of the ridiculous electorate college system on Nov8th you're not actually voting for your candidate technically you're voting for the guy/girl who will cast your ballot on Nov 17th. That and the fact that because of early and absentee ballots are not just out, they've been cast and returned, these would have to be nullified.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

If Donald quit the race in a petulant funk, the RNC would have to figure something out.

 

[8den]

If Donald quit the race in a petulant funk, the RNC would have to figure something out.

Quite yes. They'd have to. But removing Trump from the ticket was the question.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

This latest revelation makes me wonder what the Democrats are holding back for release in the last week or two before the election.

Well, here it comes...

Trump tapes: British producer of The Apprentice under pressure to release footage amid claims Donald Trump 'used the N-word'

 

[J Ed]

Well, here it comes...

Trump tapes: British producer of The Apprentice under pressure to release footage amid claims Donald Trump 'used the N-word'

I wonder if this would change the mind of a single person who is already committed to vote for Trump.

 

[existentialist]

Well, here it comes...

Trump tapes: British producer of The Apprentice under pressure to release footage amid claims Donald Trump 'used the N-word'

I must admit that I haven't really carefully explored the farther reaches of political incorrectness, but where do boasting about groping women and using the N-word (given that his racism is no surprise anyway) sit alongside each other in the pantheon of repellence?

 

[Yossarian]

I wonder if this would change the mind of a single person who is already committed to vote for Trump.

I think Ben Carson and possibly Mrs Carson are the only black people committed to voting for Trump - maybe Don King too, if felons are allowed to vote in his state.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I wonder if this would change the mind of a single person who is already committed to vote for Trump.

Good chance that a lot of the deplorables use the N word all the time themselves: so no.

At this point, smearing Trump is about nailing down any undecided voters, or ensuring that anti-Trump voters actually go out to the polls and vote.

Trumps core supporters are committed to him, no matter what.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I must admit that I haven't really carefully explored the farther reaches of political incorrectness, but where do boasting about groping women and using the N-word (given that his racism is no surprise anyway) sit alongside each other in the pantheon of repellence?

They're both repellent.

 

[existentialist]

They're both repellent.

Well, quite. I suppose what I was getting at was "how much worse do revelations that he may have used the N-word actually make things?".

Which is not to diminish the offensiveness of the term, nor his use of it...just that we must be getting into incremental appallingness by now. Or maybe that's only significant because I'm neither female nor black.