Republican Clown Car

The biggest effect of Lindsey bowing out is that now John McCain will be able to throw his weight behind another candidate.

 

Last night, Trump made unfunny jokes about killing liberal journalists. This is an all-time new low that I never thought I would live to see from a mainstream party's leading candidate. From this point, it isn't a big step to start making semi-serious comments about murdering other liberals.

 

Yes they are...

and a small portion of the extreme right wouldn't mind killing some liberals/Muslims/Mexicans/whatever. If their hero stands for it they may just start doing so. There's about year left to go before the election, things could really begin to get ugly.

 

At a typical rally, the media is on an elevated platform, surrounded by supporters whipped into a frenzy. I suppose if Trump provokes a violent event and somebody gets seriously hurt, he'll say the press brought it on themselves by not being nicer to him. Clearly, he wants them to fear him. Last week, he singled out Katy Tur of NBC as being a terrible person, and NBC has had to reduce her involvement in the coverage out of concern for her safety and her lack of opportunity to broadcast from events anymore without Trump supporters shouting out nasty things.

 

And so it was with the Brown Shirts in Germany in the 1930s.

This demagogue asswipe is getting scarier and scarier. Not just him (Hitler couldn't do shit by himself) but for all the mindless, hateful masses who cling on his every outrageous word.

 

I think I'm 91.848483883% positive trump is a Clinton plant, but if he is he is taking it to the extreme

 

One big difference in our favor is that we don't have a parliamentary system with three parties where somebody can come to power without ever getting >50% of the vote in any election. Hitler never did get 50%+ in a free general election, and neither will Trump.

Now, Trump is talking about what he considers to be Hillary's "disgusting" bathroom habits. WTF? Have we all fallen into a time warp where everybody is perpetually stuck in the seventh grade? What's next for this guy? Maybe an anti-Hillary bumper sticker that says, "We need a President who can shit quickly."

I can enjoy vulgar, profane, and pornographic stuff just as much as anybody else, but I can't imagine anybody thinking that his approach has a place in a serious, public discussion about important political issues, in front of a live audience and on TV. What a huge embarrassment to the Republican Party, that he is their leader. How far they have fallen.

Bathroom comments in a political speech? REALLY? :dizzy2: :bomb: And does he honestly not have any idea why it takes women longer in the bathroom? If he actually was a seventh grader, I can understand why he might not know. Maybe his wife can explain it to him.

 

The thing about Trump, he's making the other lunatics ( though only slightly more moderate) seem somehow sane.
Cruz, with his extremist views and evangelical constituency could prove a more dangerous prez than even the Donald, me thinks.

 

I think they would be equally as bad, just in different ways.

It's between some weird cross between Biff Tannen and President Camacho against the impish nephew of the creepy preacher from Poltergeist.
Either way, yer fucked.

 

I'm not talking about a fraction of a percentage point here or there, caused by the way the math is done in the Electoral College. The most common form of the Parliamentary system is a lot more fucked up than that. In some countries, you can win with 34%. Not here.

 

That's what I have been saying for awhile. Everybody gets their panties in a bunch about trump, while Cruz stealthily glides by.
I am not gay, but I find his views on homosexuality very disturbing

 

Trump is good for the GOP.

 

There have been plenty of Presidents who didn't get 50% of the popular vote. G.W. Bush in 2000, Rutherford Hayes and Benjamin Harrison got fewer popular votes than their opponents. John Quincy Adams won neither the popular vote nor the electoral vote. In twelve other presidential elections, the President won with a plurality but not a majority of popular votes, most recently the '68 election of Richard Nixon,and the the1992 and 1996 elections of Bill Clinton. Considering that there have been only 44 Presidents and 55 presidential elections in our history that means 30% of the time we've had a minority president.

 

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Massively interesting (for real!). Maybe the US could make a coalition government work after all as well? (as we dutchies among other countries would only accept a minority president in a coalition government)

 

I skimmed through something this morning about Trump getting angry with Virginia for requiring a signed form for anyone wanting to vote Republican. This is in addition to whatever forms you fill out when you register to vote I think. Interestingly Trump feels it will scare away votes from independents who will not want to sign the form. He said something on Twitter about it. Here is a link to the article. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/on-twitter-donald-trump-blasts-virginia-gop-for-loyalty-pledge/ar-BBnYn9h?li=BBnb7Kz

 

Trumps a republican. I don't see the problem.

 

Webb is a Democrat who is thinking of running as an Independent. A little on the right of the line, so he is definitely not in favors with the Party as a whole.

I have no pref in Dem or Rep; I just vote for the best option for the country. The person who can lead by example and takes it on the chin when they F*** up.

To others, Nye is just comic relief as a VP candidate. No seriousness to an actual bid.

My OP for other posts; condensed to avoid replying to all other posts.

Trump is a distraction with no real bid to win. As I stated in another post: 'Trump is the awesome action movie that will never win the academy award for best picture'.

Global warming is a sham. Climate change is inevitable; the earth has her own schedule.

The money you 'earn' is just payment for your own personal loss of freedom; which in turn you prostitute yourself for the right to purchase the newest and greatest Tech or toy or clothing. Consumerism: The death of freedom and happiness.