The New American Politics thread

[Senator Clay Davis]

Also Trump's pissing and moaning about the media is predictably in contrast to something he said previous. From a Nightline interview in 1987, on how Presidential candidates should be covered:



I wonder how many positions Trump holds that he didn't once think the opposite of.

[HotHotHeat]

https://action.trump2016.com/trump-mms-survey/

I tried filling it out, looks like they make you donate before your results are counted. Hopefully enough people donate a dollar just to skew the results.

[Senator Clay Davis]

It's just like his "election observers" thing, it ended by taking people to a donation page. Grifters gonna grift...

[GGG]

So what are the rules with keeping money donated to the campaign. Could all this be one giant business transaction? If he doesn't spend money on ads, and his main campaign team is family, and he spends all his money on his own businesses, could he be just imbezzling 100 million dollars to himself.

[Gozer]

Originally Posted by GGG

So what are the rules with keeping money donated to the campaign. Could all this be one giant business transaction? If he doesn't spend money on ads, and his main campaign team is family, and he spends all his money on his own businesses, could he be just imbezzling 100 million dollars to himself.

Who does he think he is? Ben Carson?

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...a-scam/470715/

[Senator Clay Davis]

Well for instance Trump claims he raised more than $80 million in July, had cash on hand at the start of July $20 million, and had cash on hand of $37 million on hand at the end of July. So $63 million got spent somewhere, but as we know none of that went to TV ads. The forensic breakdown of where all the money in the Trump campaign ultimately went should be fascinating. Haven't seen any FEC fillings in a bit, nor have we seen any proof besides his word that he forgave the $50 million in loans he made to his campaign. If it's proven he didn't forgive the loan, then it's obvious this is all a scam.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Lol

[nik-]

haha. Yeah, he's not getting work because of Trump.

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Well for instance Trump claims he raised more than $80 million in July, had cash on hand at the start of July $20 million, and had cash on hand of $37 million on hand at the end of July. So $63 million got spent somewhere, but as we know none of that went to TV ads. The forensic breakdown of where all the money in the Trump campaign ultimately went should be fascinating. Haven't seen any FEC fillings in a bit, nor have we seen any proof besides his word that he forgave the $50 million in loans he made to his campaign. If it's proven he didn't forgive the loan, then it's obvious this is all a scam.

In an interview a year from now:

"There are these stupid people that say Trump lost the election. I didn't lose. I personally did very well. Hundreds of millions, that's all I'm saying. How can you lose when you make hundreds of millions? That's winning, folks. And that's the sort of winning that America would be getting if they had voted for me."

[Drak]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Lol

Who?

[MissTeeks]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Lol

Oh yeah, this is just a stellar list of credits for the last four years.

[Itse]

Originally Posted by MissTeeks

Oh yeah, this is just a stellar list of credits for the last four years.

So, he's been working just as much this year as previously and already has work lined up for next year?

How exactly is he blaclisted?

[KelVarnsen]

[Senator Clay Davis]

Manafort must have personally ordered this one up

[Gozer]

Meme doubling at its finest.

[Thor]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Hey, it's Thor's idea for Iceland from the "regressive left" thread!! Thor, you've got a supporter in Donald Trump

Way to take that out of context, I only suggested that ideals which are against our values of equality are a problem for political Islam in the west. I would never go to the lengths Trump and his supporters go, but when the only ones speaking to the issue are the crazy right while the left is silent, guess who's ideas spread.

We can't even let reformers within Islam speak out, because many on the left will attack them, this is the issue I have.

But thank you for making my point, just having a discussion about how the left can deal with political Islam is usually answered with calls of bigotry by others on the left...

[CaptainCrunch]

This election has gone so far over to the crazy side that its almost not fun though there are sparks of comedy.

The whole Hillary's fading health thing is the latest thing that conspiracy minded Trumpites are banking on.

She's goofing around with reporters, and suddenly she's having seizures and isn't fit to be president, well the bottom line is to me neither's all that fit to be president anyways.

But Trumps doctor's note that he's tested positive for everything (really?) and would be the healthiest president in history (come on man) is such an obvious forgery that its insane, either that or his doctor is doctor Nik.

And they had this Trmp supporter on CNN this morning and she came across like a 9/11 truther in that Hillary is mentally and physically broken, while Trump is an overman come back through time to save us all (ok I made that last part up but its trump approved).

Man If I was in the States I would be looking at the Libertarian Candidate hard right now because I wouldn't be able to vote for either of those two idiots.

[CaptainCrunch]

btw

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...al-report.html

While it’s clear he means to say everything was normal, the word “positive” is an odd use of the term in medicine. Rather, it typically means that some result or finding was present—and those findings aren’t always great news (think testing positive for a disease). The wording is clearly chosen more for rhetorical effect than clear medical communication—and that choice left some experts scratching their heads.

“It’s very odd for a doctor to say, ‘He’s had a complete medical examination that showed only positive results,’” said Jonathan Moreno, a professor of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania. “Normally a positive result in the language of medicine is not a good thing. Nonetheless, I will not accuse Dr. Bornstein of not writing his own letter.”

Bornstein also describes Trump’s “laboratory test results” as “astonishingly excellent” (without noting which tests were run). That is a weird thing to say, as not many doctors would describe themselves as “astonished” at their patient’s lab results.

Didn't Monty Burns have every disease known to Mankind and they kept him alive?

[Senator Clay Davis]

Here's the whole thing for the lol's. Obviously written by Trump John Barron John Miller Meridith McIver his doctor

[Izzle]

Lol.. did anyone google Harold Bornstein?

One of the first pictures is this bug-eyed male Sybill Trelawney. Imaging that guy doing your tests? I'd laugh so much.