Donald Trump ... You're Fired !!!!!!

[HotHotHeat]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

And the Donald just dropped Lindsey Graham's personal phone number as he was attacking him. At this point he seems a lock to be a third party candidate seeing as there's no way the GOP will actually nominate him as he seems intent on destroying the party. Yet him going third party basically hands it to Hillary. I still don't see what the end game here is beyond his ego getting what it needs, but if he's truly concerned about the GOP winning, he needs to withdraw already. Obviously though that's not what he's concerned about.

Why would he withdraw his name? He's leading...

[Senator Clay Davis]

Withdraw his name? Well for the GOP's sake he should, but he isn't going to be welcome to run for the GOP at all (based off the responses he already isn't). He's going to be disqualified from running for them soon enough. But rather than go quiet, he's gonna go third party and keep this crazy train rolling. Which is good for us, and utter doom for the Republicans as he's guaranteed to steal 20% of the vote and make it easy for Hillary.

But he will never be the GOP nominee, and after 1 debate he's probably finished at that point, unless a debate of calling the other candidates losers, stupid and overrated is going to somehow propel him forward.

[corporatejay]

This is amazing.

[CaptainCrunch]

He wants to be on the stage for that debate. He's positioning himself as the ultimate rebel against the establishment now. Whether this is the impetus for the GOP to reform itself or not is another question.

The sad thing is that no matter who wins the presidency its going to be a bad choice.

[Quincy Egg]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Right Wing America: So mad a (half)black guy got elected twice, they will nominate a horrible racist, bigoted jingoistic xenophobic billionaire blowhard in protest.

So just because you're anti illegal immigration, you're a racist?

Weird.

[Puppet Guy]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

He wants to be on the stage for that debate. He's positioning himself as the ultimate rebel against the establishment now. Whether this is the impetus for the GOP to reform itself or not is another question.

The sad thing is that no matter who wins the presidency its going to be a bad choice.

The new word for today: Kakistocracy:

noun, plural kakistocracies.
1. government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power

Word Origin and History for kakistocracyn. 1829, "government by the worst element of a society," coined on analogy of its opposite, aristocracy, from Greek kakistos "worst," superlative of kakos "bad" (which perhaps is related to the general IE word for "defecate;" see caco- ) + -cracy.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kakistocracy

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by Quincy Egg

So just because you're anti illegal immigration, you're a racist?

Weird.

Don't troll me broham, it's like spitting on a fish.

[peter12]

Originally Posted by Quincy Egg

So just because you're anti illegal immigration, you're a racist?

Weird.

The only viable response against illegal immigration is concern for the American worker, and the subsequent negative effect that said immigration has on the price of his labour.

Unfortunately, Trump has always shown his willingness to exploit the American worker for his own ends.

It is funny because the illegal immigration debate is essentially dead right now in America.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/18/op...tion.html?_r=0

[peter12]

Originally Posted by Puppet Guy

The new word for today: Kakistocracy:

noun, plural kakistocracies.
1. government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power

Word Origin and History for kakistocracyn. 1829, "government by the worst element of a society," coined on analogy of its opposite, aristocracy, from Greek kakistos "worst," superlative of kakos "bad" (which perhaps is related to the general IE word for "defecate;" see caco- ) + -cracy.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kakistocracy

You guys know that Richard Nixon used to be President, right?

[Coach]

Originally Posted by Quincy Egg

So just because you're anti illegal immigration, you're a racist?

Weird.

No. You're a racist if you say racist things. Like saying black people are lazy. Or that Mexicans are rapists.

[Thor]

Originally Posted by peter12

I hate it when people assume that they are qualified psychiatrists and make diagnoses that turn people's political views into pathologies. Extremely intolerant. Almost as bad as Trump.

Trump is a standard demagogue.

Good selection on various authors musing on Trump over at the conservative National Review.

http://www.nationalreview.com/postmo...gustine-lawler

You disagree? Sorry but he is not just your standard demagogue. He is not your normal boisterous famous personality. He was a democrat before, and believe me I would not hesitate to label him the same.

Now obviously a professional would need to diagnose him, but the list of symptoms are all Donald Trump, in fact a person who knows him well, Penn from Penn and Teller said something to that fact last year at TAM to a number of friends of mine.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by peter12

You guys know that Richard Nixon used to be President, right?

Up until Nixon was eating by his paranoia with watergate, he was probably one of the better presidents in terms of domestic and foreign policy.

Domestically

Ended the draft
Founded the EPA and created the clean air, water and Marine Life protection acts
Pretty much reformed the Supreme Court
Signed Title IX into law removing gender bias against females in universities
Initiated and executed desegregation in southern schools
beat the crap out of organized crime by creating special task forces to target it
Ended forced assimilation of Indians and returned sacred lands.
Increased the funding of cancer research.
Space program wise he pushed for the Apollo-Soyuz hand shake in space, funded NASA to go from the Apollo missions to the Space Shuttle Missions


Foreign Policy
Participated in SALT 1
Oversaw the ABM treaty which helped Soviet American relations
Visited China,
Signed the Paris Peace Accords ending the Vietnam war (forced Vietnam back to the negotiating tables with the bombing campaigns)
Did a lot of work to bring home POW's
Pretty much saved Isreal during the Yom Kippur War by providing massive aid.


He was a crazy paranoid #######, but he was also very effective.

But he shouldn't have been pardoned, but was due to the destruction that a trial would have caused to the US domestically and internationally.

[nik-]

He was also behind torpedoing the original Paris peace accords to help him get elected. Contributing to the deaths of multiple thousands more people.

Nixon did some good things, but overall he was a giant #######.

[Burke Salad]

I hope he selects Noel Gallagher as his running mate!

[peter12]

Originally Posted by Thor

You disagree? Sorry but he is not just your standard demagogue. He is not your normal boisterous famous personality. He was a democrat before, and believe me I would not hesitate to label him the same.

Now obviously a professional would need to diagnose him, but the list of symptoms are all Donald Trump, in fact a person who knows him well, Penn from Penn and Teller said something to that fact last year at TAM to a number of friends of mine.

Obviously.

[peter12]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Up until Nixon was eating by his paranoia with watergate, he was probably one of the better presidents in terms of domestic and foreign policy.

Domestically

Ended the draft
Founded the EPA and created the clean air, water and Marine Life protection acts
Pretty much reformed the Supreme Court
Signed Title IX into law removing gender bias against females in universities
Initiated and executed desegregation in southern schools
beat the crap out of organized crime by creating special task forces to target it
Ended forced assimilation of Indians and returned sacred lands.
Increased the funding of cancer research.
Space program wise he pushed for the Apollo-Soyuz hand shake in space, funded NASA to go from the Apollo missions to the Space Shuttle Missions


Foreign Policy
Participated in SALT 1
Oversaw the ABM treaty which helped Soviet American relations
Visited China,
Signed the Paris Peace Accords ending the Vietnam war (forced Vietnam back to the negotiating tables with the bombing campaigns)
Did a lot of work to bring home POW's
Pretty much saved Isreal during the Yom Kippur War by providing massive aid.


He was a crazy paranoid #######, but he was also very effective.

But he shouldn't have been pardoned, but was due to the destruction that a trial would have caused to the US domestically and internationally.

I was speaking more to the general Trump hysteria/smugness in the thread.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Thor

I keep saying this, and I am not the only one but its pretty clear Donald has Narcissistic Personality Order:

LOL, that's hilarious, and I couldn't agree more.

Me and my old man were talking about him the other night, and I said. "The dude needs a mental evaluation, he clearly has Narcissistic Personality Disorder."

I have trouble watching him talk he is so cringe worthy. He somehow causes me second hand embarrassment, like when people are failing miserably on American Idol or something.... but unfortunately, according to the polls, he's not failing.

Personally though, I think he dug his grave with this McCain fiasco. The polls just aren't reflecting it yet.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

The sad thing is that no matter who wins the presidency its going to be a bad choice.

What do you expect from a country where two of the characters of Predator (Arnold and Jesse the Body) ended up as governors?

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

What do you expect from a country where two of the characters of Predator (Arnold and Jesse the Body) ended up as governors?

Less of an Illegal Alien problem?

Sorry I had to, it was just right there man.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

What do you expect from a country where two of the characters of Predator (Arnold and Jesse the Body) ended up as governors?

And I'll never be convinced Al Frankin isn't some sort of Martian.