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Guest Post: Why Donald Trump Surged in the Polls (And Why It Matters)
Submitted by Robert W. Merry via The National Interest,
Donald Trump is not a pleasant man. He is egotistical, vain, bombastic, often mean-spirited. He revels in his financial superiority, which he conflates with human goodness. When he contorts his mouth into a kind of tube as he talks, you brace yourself for something outrageous—and it nearly always emerges as expected. His likability quotient, at least in terms of his public persona, is down somewhere in single digits.
And yet he has just taken hold of the American political system by the neck and doesn’t seem inclined to let go anytime soon. The political elites don’t know what to do or say about his sudden rise in the polls. The elite media default to their favorite hobby horse of political analysis—that any backlash to the current wave of immigration will simply destroy the Republican Party earlier than it would otherwise be destroyed, which is inevitable anyway so why bother?
The latest poll [4], by The Economist and YouGov, has Trump leading the field of GOP presidential candidates with 15 percent, four percentage points ahead of former Florida governor Jeb Bush. Though the YouGov polling methodology is sometimes criticized, this result matches other polls, including a recent North Carolina survey that has Trump at 16 percent, again four percentage points ahead of Bush. There is widespread speculation that Trump ultimately will initiate an independent presidential candidacy and shake up the country’s politics in the general election.
So here we have a hard-working, conventional Republican candidate in Jeb Bush, who has amassed a strong record as a serious politician over many years and has the benefit of a hallowed political name. And suddenly he finds himself second fiddle to an upstart industrialist with an acid tongue, no political record, and a penchant for offensive remarks.
What’s going on here?
First, let’s stipulate that Donald Trump is not going to be president. Neither is he going to get the Republican nomination. But he has a capacity to be a serious political spoiler in the looming presidential campaign, and he seems bent on spoiling as much of the political establishment as he can. And that explains his current standing. Large sectors of the American electorate are disgusted with the political establishment and will welcome any force that takes it on.
This disgust stems from one highly emotional issue and a cluster of other issues that add up to a crisis of the old order. And yet the political establishment doesn’t want to address the highly emotional issue in any serious way and operates as if there is no gathering crisis of the American system.
The highly emotional issue is, of course, immigration. Consider the state of play on this issue as the presidential campaign looms: Americans have nearly 12 million illegal immigrants in their midst, people who violated our laws to come here and violate them further every day that they stay. We have a president who granted many illegals legal status through a contorted series of executive actions, considered by many to have been unconstitutional. The governmental elite has been intermittently hapless and complacent in the face of this crisis, and large segments of the cultural elite welcome with great enthusiasm this turn of events, either because of humanitarian impulses or because they cherish the idea of a major political realignment in the country (or both).
And, quite aside from illegal immigration, many Americans see large waves of legal immigration as a threat to the country’s capacity of absorption and to its cultural heritage, since most of the immigrants come from regions far removed from the European homeland that spawned the American political and cultural identity.
The issue has four components.
First, there are the economic implications—the impact of such widespread immigration on jobs and salaries.
Second, there is the question of sovereignty—whether a nation that can’t control its borders is truly a self-respecting nation.
Then there are the political implications—the growing concept that white Americans, declining in relative terms as a population segment, are going to be overwhelmed by people of color, who are expanding inexorably, in large measure because of immigration but also because of differential birthrates.
Finally, there are the cultural implications—the idea, shared by many Americans, that the country’s cultural identity will erode progressively in the face of the immigration inundation.
Of these components, the economic implications get most of the attention. Sovereignty is largely ignored or pooh-poohed by the cultural and journalistic elites. But many Americans feel that a country that can’t control its borders is, to that extent, a diminished country; and that citizenship in such a country is of diminished value. As for the political implications, most of the media and the country’s political elites, including growing numbers of Republicans, view the outcome as now determined. Republicans will have to soften their immigration stance, they are told, if they want a sufficient share of the Hispanic vote to win elections. But of course this will simply result in growing numbers of people in the electorate with a disinclination to vote Republican.
But the most significant component—and the most emotional—is the cultural issue. For many Americans, the fate of America’s cultural identity is not a matter of mere frivolous concern, as many liberals argue. It is fundamental, which is why it unleashes strong emotions in many part of the country. And these emotions are heightened by the phenomenon of more recent immigrants being increasingly reluctant to shed their own distinctive elements of heritage and increasingly inclined to shun the concept of assimilation.
What we see here is a huge gap in the sensibilities of large numbers of voters and the sensibilities of the elites charged with setting the direction of the country. When the people no longer trust their elites, you can bet that serious political and societal disruption is on the horizon. In a democratic system such as ours, that will translate into rebel candidates connecting with populist voters.
And that’s what we see in the emergence of Donald Trump, coming forth in all his bombast and crudity to slam the elites for having allowed this immigration crisis to gain ever greater force in the American polity and drive a wedge through the nation. It may seems surprising that such a man could have any kind of impact on the early presidential race, for however brief a time, but viewed in the context of the broader immigration crisis it isn’t surprising at all.
But Trump is getting further traction with his vicious attacks on our era’s conventional politicians, particularly Bush and Hillary Clinton, as representing elites that are entirely vested in the nation’s current political and economic system and who will never break down the structures contributing so powerfully to the country’s current intertwined problems.
The slow-growth economy, the burgeoning inequality crisis, the growing global threat of Islamist extremism, America’s declining position in the world, expanding public debt, the looming threat of governmental unfunded liabilities—all these are products of the country’s current elites on Wall Street, in Washington, in public employee unions, in the mainstream media. They arose on the watch of the country’s post-Cold War politicians, most notably Hillary Clinton’s husband and Jeb Bush’s brother. Are these the people, many Americans are asking, to lead us out of the current political morass?
Trump says no. He says no with his usual crude rhetoric and with copious uses of words such as “stupid” and “stupidity” to bring home his point. But he’s getting his point across nonetheless because of the perceived failures of the nation’s elites.
He will fade in the primaries eventually, of course, though he will generate a lot of political pyrotechnics in the process. If he runs as an independent candidate in the general election, he will pull perhaps 12 percent of the vote, well below Ross Perot’s 19 percent in 1992 and even below George Wallace’s 14 percent in 1968. But in the meantime he will be speaking what many Americans will see as truth to entrenched power. And it is that entrenched power that is generating the concerns and angers that are fueling this unanticipated political whirlwind.
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the don will surely sue you for that one
Donald Trump, the trumpet of Revelation. God's plan for America.
God bless Donald Trump and keep him and his family safe from harm.
At least Trump isn't a career politician. Have you ever tried to have a meaningful conversation with a career politician? They talk a little, but say NOTHING, and yet afterwards you still feel like you need to take a shower in bleach.
Trump cannot be the next (CEO) president of the UNITED STATES as to take that position for this corporation sole you must be related to the royal family in some way shape or form and he is not period.
God will prevail against the Western Elites that rule the nations.
The Elites will never let Trump win. By hook or by crook he will be stopped. They're just waiting for the right time. Then hello yet another Bush.
egotistical, vain, bombastic, often mean-spirited
Well thank god Hillary and Jeb aren't like that.
His likability quotient, at least in terms of his public persona, is down somewhere in single digits.
Which speaks volumes about the rest of the field
>>>> THE DONALD !
>>>> HITLERY !
"he’s getting his point across nonetheless because of the very real failures of the nation’s elites."
FIFY
Declaring he will fade may be too presumptive - because the failures are extremely real and serious.
The fact that the "elites" can't "handle" him is just ANOTHER display of their incompetence.
The federal government has way overstepped its constitutional authority. The few areas that it is responsible for, it has been a miserable failure...national defense and protecting our borders.
Here is the whole speech. Watched a few minutes and yes the establishment should be terrified. There are more than a few liberals who now realize what a mistake they made with 0bama, and though they wouldn't tell anyone might just pull the lever for The Don to atone.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls3m7NUOqxs&app=desktop
Good point, six million liberals did not vote a second time for Obama, that was the news in the last election nobody would report.
So here we have a hard-working, conventional Republican candidate in Jeb Bush, who has amassed a strong record as a serious politician over many years and has the benefit of a hallowed political name.
That's where I stopped reading.
There's a whole lot of America that looks at each other and says, 'Well, there's 340 million people living in America. Isn't there somebody other than a Bush or a Clinton who can be president in these modern times?'
Jeb Bush
So here we have a hard-working, conventional Republican candidate in Jeb Bush, who has amassed a strong record as a serious politician over many years and has the benefit of a hallowed political name.
I think I'm going to puke..
this is nothing but pre-show hype for the politic/media circle-jerk known as the presidential election.
The Democrats will counter the anti-illegal sentiment with the carefully measured words of: RACIST!
As much as I agree that Trump is egotistical, vain, bombastic, and mean-spirited, here is what he isn't, (and it makes all the difference in the world). He isn't owned, or a member of, the Trilateral Commission or the Council on Foreign Relkations. Because of this he can and does make bombastic, over-the-top statements that shock and mortify. The only issue with his outlandish statements is that they are a) true and b) dead on target. And this resonates with the "Silent Majority", who have had just about all that they can take from the One-Worlder, radical socialist "progressives".
I venture that there is a backlash coming. It may be that Trump can marshal it, or maybe Ted Cruz, or even Rand Paul, (though I doubt the latter has the fire-in-the-belly to pull it off). Whoever does get the bull by the horns better know that it isn't they themselves who the people are rallying about. It is the angst and anger of the majority of Americans who have had enough of Obama-Bush-Clinton socialism and are ready to reset the whole table.
The problem with any backlash is that it is usually in direct proportion to the sentiment of dissatisfaction created. If the folks back home feel like they've been run over by a Mack truck, they are going to have a Mack truck attitude in their reaction. This will and does promise to become very ugly as culture wars go. But as oft whispered under one's breath, "Enough is enough."
Enough is coming.
Why do people like Trump? He talks like a Human, not a lawyer and he isn't afraid to hurt the feelings of criminals (both inside and out of the government) with what he (and many others) perceives to be the truth.
Exactly....my reflex response was...'FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE!!!!'
has the benefit of a hallowed political name.
Yes - not everyone has S&B/Occult CIA bloodlines and can benefit from having an operator like Marvin for a brother...
How did this crap even get onto ZH in the first place. Hmmm?
Man!............there's a conspiracy behind every click bait.
"no political record"
Let that one sink in for a minute. How well has electing hacks with a political record been working out for ya?
We see "political record" and think "rap sheet".
Donald Trump is not a pleasant man. He is egotistical, vain, bombastic, often mean-spirited. He revels in his financial superiority, which he conflates with human goodness. When he contorts his mouth into a kind of tube as he talks, you brace yourself for something outrageous—and it nearly always emerges as expected. His likability quotient, at least in terms of his public persona, is down somewhere in single digits.
Substitute 'Hillary Clinton' for 'Donald Trump,' and 'Moral' for 'Financial.'
A political record really doesn't matter.
They are all psychopathic pieces of shit trying to appeal to moronic pieces of shit.
Fuckin polls 16 months before the election are about as useful as a Greek budget document. Trump is a decade early. When things really get bad, americans will take a chance on someone unusual.
I'm hoping an Elite Military Unit liquidates DC.
For the elites and those on welfare, it has worked out just fine. That is why people like Ross Perot, Ron Paul, and Donald Trump will never have any real influence.
No kidding. This author has swallowed a lot of establishment cock.
12,000,000 illegal aliens was 2003's number. Have they stopped coming?
They haven't, we've just legalized the difference!
Your govt has modified the formula like it did for unemployment.
Trump will win because he is not a typical politician...
America wants a change.
Trump was put there so that Hilliary, who otherwise would not have a snowball's chance in hell, can now win all the marbles.
You think the NWO is bad now? Just wait until that thing is annointed Dictator.
You mean dicktaster..........
oh right, she's a lesbian, so I guess she becomes............
splitlicker.
Well, I don't know if this is true or not.
But I will agree that this is what the elites wish/think will happen.
I've never seen him with an "I voted" sticker.
God has his own agenda and his own timeline, which have little to do with the selfish and vain pursuits of mankind.......
humans are part of the god system. NEVER removed from the god system for a nano-second. relative simultaneity.
I have had several conversations with Donald Trump going back 20 years.
I have never seen his television show.
He is a real guy with real experience and real opinions of his own.
He is very intelligent and honest.
He isn't my perfect candidate, but he just might get elected President.
He is the only candidate that might keep me from voting Libertarian in 2016.
"He is a real guy with real experience and real opinions of his own."
Why he cannot be a successful American politician. :)
I am not so sure. Trump knows how to drive a bandwagon, and he can even afford one.
I so damn sick of the media and lefty bashing of people like Donald Trump and Sarah Palin.
I'd take Sarah Palin for president over any one who has run or been elected in the last 40 years.
These snotty arrogant fucking people. And their snotty arrogant faggoty fucking left wing suicidal agendas.
First day in office, either Trump or Palin would lock that fucking border down tighter than a crab's ass ( watertight, by the way), just to show it CAN be done.
Him for President, her for Vice President. I could care less, in the face of all we are TOLD to tolerate, about her unwed daughter's kids. They can appoint Bristol Palin for attire general for all I care. How could she do worse?
"While living in Jamaica Estates, Trump attended the Kew-Forest School in Forest Hills, Queens, where Fred Trump, Donald's father, was a member of the Board of Trustees. Some of his siblings also attended Kew-Forest. At age 13, after behavior problems led to his dismissal, his parents sent him to the New York Military Academy (NYMA), hoping to direct his energy and assertiveness in a positive manner. [25] At NYMA, in rural New York, Trump earned academic honors,[citation needed] and played varsity football in 1962,[citation needed] varsity soccer in 1963,[citation needed] and varsity baseball from 1962 to 1964[citation needed] (baseball captain 1964).[citation needed]"
Well, anyone that bucks the 'system' at age 13 might actually be O.K.. Better than becoming a 'choom-boi', huh?
"Trump attended Fordham University in the Bronx for two years, before transferring to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, because Wharton then had one of the few real estate studies departments in US academia.[26] He graduated in 1968, with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and anthropology.[27]"
WHAT? Where's the 'law degrees'?
WE CAN'T HAVE A CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER WHO ACTUALLY STUDIED ECONOMICS!
The estimate of ILLEGAL ALIENS within the CONUS as of 2012 was 45 MILLION.
As far as PALIN goes, REMEMBER that she has allied with John ('Songbird') McCain (the 'McManchurian Candidate') as of 2008. FUCK HER (HE did!).
Palin and Trump do not belong in the same sentence or the same room, unless it is to "Compare & Contrast".
Only a HickTard would take Palin seriously. I do not identify with or relate to Banksters, but I identify with and relate to HickTards even less -- as it offends my sense of human evolution: Dumb, primitive and malleable is no way to go through life.
Where do Donald trump and Sarah palin stand on abolishing the federal reserve? Where do they stand on the war on drugs? What about NSA spying? What about the never ending 'war on terror' ? What about the 1000 military based around the world? What about ending unconstitutional welfare programs? What about ending govt run Ponzi schemes like social security?
No different than the rest of them. If your two most important issues you are worried about are illegal immigrants and pointless social issues, by all means, support them. But if you want someone who is actually going to address the real issues that are driving us to bankruptcy and destroying our liberties, they are no better than the rest.
"First day in office, either Trump or Palin would lock that fucking border down tighter than a crab's ass ( watertight, by the way), just to show it CAN be done."
That you even fucking believe this shows how deluded you truly are.
He understands the meaning of the term "persona" first off...so ABSOLUTLEY he's "dangerous" in the sense that folks trying to portray him in this way might be "playing right into his hands."
Already he is being called a "demogogue" which of course...moves him up the political ladder even more.
Ironically there is no way he became this successful in business by being this way...so being labeled as such seems toe says "you've just been Trumped."
Very good news for the electoral process that's fer sure.
"Send the Posers packin'...
This extremely early talk of him running as third party candidate smacks of clear communication to the Republican apparatus that if they use their machinations to shut him out then he will run as such and Hillary will walk to the WH in an easy win.
Accordingly, this tactic establishes him at the very least as the default VP candidate on the Republican ticket no matter who gets the nod as the Republican candidate for President.
Trump is all about litigation (civil, political, financial) leverage and will use whatever capital he has available to expand his position.
Amen Broutha
So... Are you Fuck-Buddies?
Sorry to not fulfilll your gay fantasy.
Trumps ex-wife, Marla Maples, is way more my style.
Beautiful, athletic, natural, classy, and intelligent. Very similiar to Mrs_Horseman.
I don't know his new European model. Not really my type.
hmmmm
so where does this Mrs Horseman like to hang out
looooky
no touchy
Trump's Tower
Nice nut sack .....or am I seeing things..
"...way more my style." "Not really my type."
You contradict yourself, faggot!
I don't know his current wife, Melania, who is from Europe. She is not my type.
Sorry, I thought that was clear. Is English not your native language?
HH, sounds like you still have some Hopium left in you, if you still think that voting for one Presidential candidate over another makes a difference to the US or to the Globalist Banksters. ;-)
OTOH, he is pretty tight with the latter group, and his daughter married into the Tribe.
I can see it now: "Trump -- the first Oligarch POTUS"
;-)
We don't know that he isn't related, and there won't be any more of that reserch done on Ancestry.com. That got fixed.
Maybe one needs to be related in order to be a billionaire. Hard to say.
But I disagree with his only getting 12 percent as an Independent. He's going to get far more than that, and Bernie is going to do as well or better with the liberals.
It's going to be like the Greek vote. The people will vote, and they will find out it doesn't matter at all. Not just the cynics here, but all of them.
Neither trump nor sanders would break 10% in the actual election if they ran as independents. They may get those numbers in opinion polls, but on Election Day, most people are scared into voting for the party candidate once it's time to actually cast the ballot.
In my state of Florida, adrien Wylie (libertarian party)was polling over 6%, sometime 8% leading up to the elevation, a lot of which is because most people in Florida really don't like rick Scott, but wee so sick of Charlie Crist that they voted for him anyway instead of the libertarian party candidate just to keep Crist out of office. The same would happen if it came down to bush/Clinton again.
You would think after the 2014 elections and the Republican/SCOTUS betrayal that they would have already gotten the message.
Isn't the definition of insanity to do the same thing over and over again hoping for different results each time?
Voting for Republicans in 2016 is like choosing which wolf gets to devour you.
I can only assume Hitlarity is the foil being used to once again drive the voters to vote Republican just to keep her out of the White House.
The 2014 elections should have shown everyone that voting Republican or Democrat is really against your best interets, unless of course you're a member of the FSA.
Yes but everyone falls for the 'experts' claims that is different this time until they hit about 50.
" afterwards you still feel like you need to take a shower in bleach."
I feel like that just from seeing Trump's face, he may not be a politician, but he certainly has the right stuff for it!
I sincerely hope he makes all your dreams come true.
1) Trump Loves the USA
2) I believe he really wants to make this country great again
3) If you are amongst the majority of Americans which are against illegal immigration, don't be afraid to show support for Trump. This does not make you a racist, and you are not wasting your vote.
4) I believe most Americans are sick of career politicians.
5) If elected, I believe he would put the interests of the American People first in any action he takes.
6) He believes that we shouldn't have to pay countries to be our friend, they should have to pay us for our protection.
7) Time is running out before we are a complete welfare state, this may be the last time your vote will count.
The majority of informed Americans are sick of career politicians. The braindead masses want more of the same. Why do you think the world is so fucked up?
I'll bet that doing biz with him is no different than with Mawell or Murdoch.
And I did take a shower after meeting those two.
He has the same penchant for suing everyone like Maxwell did, to hide his house of
cards in Maxwells case, wonder what Donalds is ?
Yes, I've spoken to Martin O'Malley, former guv'nah of Maryland....or rather he spoke AT me following a question for which I did not get a response.
Fuck O''Malley. I'm from Maryland. I warned you all about this particular cunt.
Didn't need a warning, sir.
At least Hogan seems to be working out. Mein Gott, if only the Baltimoreans and the white-guilt-ridden liberals would catch on!
The guilt ridden liberals will only catch on after they've been cold-cocked from behind by a street thug.
Funny, if you remove "bombastic" from the first sentence, could be describing Obumnuts. Immigtation is just one more example of the lawless society we have become. Five -six years ago, I was undecided about what to do with the 12,000,000. No more. Anyone who is here illegally, has to be taken to the Embassy or Consulate of their nation, and deposited on the doorstep. If the Feds can violate Posse-Comitatus by "practicing" against the civilians in Texas, they can control the goddamn, unprotected borders. Who the hell were all those adult women, in the photos of the "unaccompanied minors" last year? Enough is enough. BTW, I'm finished with the cowardly, ineffective Republicans. GOOOO DONALD!
Trump would do a better job than anyone remotely connected to the the first Bush disaster and the next one. Both of them will be known for blowing up the Middle East, destroying our rights, and supervising a fake attack on our nation that cost 3,000 lives leading to another war which is still on. And getting our servicemen killed for nothing. No way would Trump participate in that.
Can anyone really argue Clinton was great? A great psychopath, maybe. Or that his wife will be any better? She is so obnoxius that she openly defies an order to turn over her/our emails pertaining to the Benghazi disaster, and she defies the order knowing she is immune from the law, unlike those she would rule.
Trump is an outsider, he has run businesses, and he does not kowtow to our pseudo royal wannabes. That's where Trump really differs from the others. It is also why so many voters identify with him, and perceive him as the voice they do not have.
WTF?
"So here we have a hard-working, conventional Republican candidate in Jeb Bush, who has amassed a strong record as a serious politician over many years and has the benefit of a hallowed political name. And suddenly he finds himself second fiddle to an upstart industrialist with an acid tongue, no political record, and a penchant for offensive remarks."
Sombody's nuts
Jeb!'s paymasters want low cost labor. Trump is working an opposing message that we can only hope nukes RNC candidates who have the slightest record of weakness on third world immigration reform.
DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!
This is why the Republicrats did NOTHING about illegal immigration for the 6 Years Bush held the Whitehouse and Republicrats held the House and Senate...
Red meat is what sells best Knuk
I am pretty friggen conservative...I am to the right of Ghengis Khan, wayyy to the right....
If you paid me 10 million $, I still would not vote for Bush or Christie or ANY establishment tool.
Immigration both legal and illegal immigration is way tooooooooo HIGH. Immigration makes every problem the USA has, worse. More overcrowding, more wear and tear on infrastructure, higher medical costs, higher education costs, more energy useage, more use of already strained to the breaking point social services....
We NEED to Secure our Border! If a pregnant 18yr old girl with a 6th grade education can cross our border, then ANYONE can. Drug dealers, murderers, rapists, some terrorist, who knows, who cares? SECURE the Border for REAL!
Immigration is my #1 issue, so yes I would consider voting for him....
Although I like his message, its easy to point out the problems.
If he gets elected, does he have the nutsack to close the southern border and start the deportation process.
None of this self-deportation bullshit. Who would leave if they thought they could hide out for four years in the hopes that another open-borders candidate gets elected next time.
Since the majority of the American public wanted no part of the North American Union the owners of USA Inc decided to flood the country and replace the current population with more malleable constituents.
Eventually they'd have their Hispanic majority that would gladly vote for a Union with Mexico.
Hmm, so offer a reward for turning in "Illegals," then? [edit:] Even better, offer amnesty to any "illegal" that turns in another "illegal!"; let's watch progressive-socialists' heads explode!
Illegal immigrants get FICA taxes withheld from their paychecks (just like everyone else!). One of Social Security's dirty little secrets is that THEY are relying and budgeting in those funds!
Bingo!! Jeb Bush is a bumbling mediocrity with nothing to say - an obedient tool for the financial elites.
Ain't just Jeb...
The whole God damned Federal Government can be seen in this light actually.
Needless to say no problem getting backing from the Realtors Association.
There have been other 'articles' similar to this one and there will be many more so long as Trump is leading or close to the top. He scares the hell out of the establisment and so the hit pieces just keep on coming. Theres always the classic damning with faint praise, but it looks like they have already skipped that part and just went straight to talking about the 'fact' that he could never get enough votes to be elected. And then here comes the savior, the 'serious' and 'legitimate' candidate Jeb to save the day. They are laying it on so thick these days its too easy to see it. I swear they used to be better at the propaganda in the past and that it wasnt so blatant. These day's its like they arent even really trying.
Trump does NOT scare the Business Establishment.
He scares the Liberal Establishment.
This one will come down to Liberal Zionists vs Conservative Zionists. The former got Obama, the latter got "W".
p.s.
"The first step toward Wisdom is to give up all Illusions, Pretenses and Myths." - Kirk
It is always interesting to me the "Down arrow" people. You people that hit "Down arrow" on this thread hiding behind your machine....Jeb...is that you?
More likely hiding in their government union jobs and/or government freebies.
standard Gop methods of operation. the donald is only here to send up trial balloons so the stupid party can guage just how far the chosen candidate can or can not go. what with twenty something candidates on the loose, lots more stupid to go before the election. just watch how the stupid stick is passed from one candidate to another over the following months. lots more outrageous comments to come. testing the level of stupid in the usa. stupid will reach a level to the power of ten.....what with the unchecked billions from psychotic overlords. let the stupid began
The Stupid has been running the place since at least the 90's bro. Or at least running interference for The Evil.
Trump is a fucking cunt. He only thinks of the $$$$ he wants to make:
https://youtu.be/ADecI4xw-yg
More info
Are you serious....
IRS audit of Trump in 3, 2, 1.......
Oh and fuck you Obama for politiciising the IRS
They are scared to death....I hope you get a chance to listen to his hour long speech last night. After the speech...CNN is scared shitless. Look.
https://youtu.be/tj6UzJorQE4
+1 Hilarious! Trump has the lizards runnin' scared. Priceless.
All the more reason to vote for him. Here's a couple more:
FULL Donald Trump Press Conference with families of people killed by illegal aliens.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsokVoqSOA8
Donald Trump's #StandWithTrumpAZ Phoenix Event on Illegal Immigrationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMQYzKhsnGM
I had to have a cigarette after that. Whew!
"First, let’s stipulate that Donald Trump is not going to be president. "
I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than ... The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. -J.B.S. Haldane
Last I knew, it was only a $500 fine for an electorate to vote against the people in their district. 535 X 500= $267,000.
There is only one reason Chump made it in the polls and that is because he is a showman. The butt-lickers who want to perpetrate the charade called an election use goofs like Chump to add some PR noise to a campaign that would be as boring as watching paint dry. I will bet btc that the race/charade will be between Jeb and Hillary any takers?
Well, those Liberal Technocrats supporting HRC, had better hope she does not keep tripping up, other wise they will be looking in a old folks home for another prime candidate.....
If you see my tone being off, just do a little visual exercise. Place Trump VS HRC in a live national debate......
IMHO, Trump would eat the arms and legs of the stumblin, bumblin, heapin, helpin wicked witch known as the Democratic front runner.....
I bet she would cry before the end of that debate.
You're implying she's a normal woman with feelings.
She has a lot of sympathy for herself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl-W3IXRTHU
Crocodile (reptoid) tears.
I sincerely doubt Hitlarity makes it past the South Carolina primaries. She might be a hit in Commiefornia and Jew York but outside those democrat plantations she's a walking disaster area.
I want to see Bernie vs Hitlery. That's going to be the show of the decade.
Although Carly vs. Hitlery would be just about as tasty. A real catfight, Carly screaming about all the laws Hitlery's broken and Hitlery screaming it doesn't matter! If they made that PPV, it would make millions!
It surpriese me that the true believers are so deluded to think Chump has even a slim chance. To further the delusion many still do not understand or know that thing called an election in nothing more than a charade. Just the facts, the election is a charade, it is run like a high school popularity contest for class president, it is a f'n joke. Good luck, the dream is long since dead and living the lie won't change the fact. Have a great day. :)
Donald has the same understanding Ross Perot did and Ross was VERY correct. I choose Trump anyday.
I like Ross and Trump too; both have that same common sense imo. If Perot had chosen someone else for his VP he might have won.
The Elites will take out Trump, just like Perot. Who the heck quits a week before the election when they're winning, unless someone "tells" them to. We are an Oligarchy, period.
perot didnt want to win, he just wanted to screw his industry nemesis. I am glad it happened that way because clinton bush, same nwo animals.
Bill did give us some european flair for entertainment value.
Puke on all of it. im calling bush clinton with clinton edging out bush.
argh puked again.
write in rand or if trump jumps ship to independant, id go there. anything but sos.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2015/07/11/donald-trump-meets-with-f...
If President Trump will see Obama and his cronies locked in a federal prision then he has my vote.
"NOW lets see that f*****g birth certificate!" Would love to see Obummer being Trumped.
That's going to come out sooner or later...
they released an unflattend obvious forgery in like 2011, i used to have a copy of it but i guess it's been deleted and my backups are missing, the new image now on the .gov site appears to be a flattened .pdf image
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certific...
So, they actually changed it huh... there must be millions of copies of the 1.0 version, which opens in layers, still out there. Now there is a 2.0 version?... that's just par for the course in Obama administration la la land... I swear it's like a room full of fun-house mirrors. Funny to think though, how many people, world wide, experienced the same sense of absolute, jaw dropped, incredulity on downloading that sucker from .gov and then opening it in Fireworks to view the layer history. You know some tech minion showed it to Putin and Lavrov etc etc. Classic moment for so many. LOL.... can't believe they actually changed it... frikkin la la land.
Going after entitlements that subsidise the corporate slave wage and hispanics (the future mercenaries) won't please Fraud Street.
I'm glad somebody else see's it. The Latino's are going to be the new cannon fodder in the 21st Century.
They get amnestied and then drafted and sent to die in some foreign war.
So, when they get amnestied and Uncle Sam starts a new war, what are they all going to do, run back to Mexico?
Would that (run back to Mexico) surprise you?
Middle Class People voted for Barry not because they liked him; it was a strong vote aganst Bush. Of course, he carried the FSA, far left socialist an dcommunists and the black an dHispanic votyes because ....
Now, the Middle Class and some others [including even the unions] are tired of Barry who seriously disappointed [and butt-phucked] just about everyone except the MIC and Wall Street and portions of the FSA who grew bigger, fatter and greedier.
Unless Trump quits [which I do not think he will] he will win by a landslide, as a major expression of the feelings/stress/anxiety/disappointment of the Middle Class.
If nothing eles he's a fascinating candidate who actually has real-life experience unlike some of the past POTUSes..
"Middle Class People voted for Barry not because they liked him; it was a strong vote aganst Bush. "
If only it were true. They're still holding contests to determine who likes him the mostest around dinner tables across America, every day.
MSM also still adores him.
They voted for free shit
In watching trumps honest convictions towards what we ALL are concerned about along with his sense of humor, hubris, business experience etc. All i could think about was Him debating Hillary...my gawd that would/will be EPIC...
Sir...you are so right. I would be glued to the set. I think she will drop out before that happens...let Sanders take the hit. If it did happen...I would be very grateful. I am ordering a TRUMP sticker today off of Ebay. That should get me some big fingers here in Oregon....a Sanctuary state.
And not just Hillary..I pity the fool...they are ALL shitting their pants contemplating the spectacle of him in the debate candidly saying
"YOURE FIRED" lmao
That's why so many Republicans are jumping in the race, to dilute Trump's airtime at the debates. He won't get to finish a sentence before someone will interrupt.
Probably will have that midget George S as the moderator.
Same why a few Dems are getting in, to dilute Bernie's time at the mike against Hitlery. She is so fucked debating Bernie.
They did that to Ron Paul also...they placed him on the far outside so the camera would never see him, and never gave him a real question...he was always interrupted because he is wayyy too nice. Trump really needs to fuck these people up. I am actually excited about him. The only problem that takes the wind out of my sail is that the Democrats have it all locked up.
#1 Give Gays their marriage.
#2 Give the illegals amnesty..
#3 Promise the Free Shit Army more Free shit..
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Men...these 3 categories outnumber the working folks...so we are fucked. It will still be a good show. See you in the FEMA camp.
NOTE: I am not being racist or judgemental...just the facts. They hurt sometimes.
Also...I lost my password to my original account that I have had for 6 years...So now I look like a newbee...LOL
#2. Not just amnesty, but the right to vote. Getting steam all across the land.
Okay, but does anyone really truly think he'd be worse than any other president we've had since Jefferson?
Anyone?
Anyone??
I sure as shit wish no one was that stupid. but ... both Dubya and O pulled it off twice.
(If you think this is an endorsement...)
The people voted for Bush not once but twice!
The people voted for Barry, not once but twice!
I don't have much confidence they will vote with any sense this time either.
Jenny McCarthy has my vote but I doubt she would run even if asked.
I'll give Jenny some hard thought and see what comes up.
I hear they already voted for Hillary...Twice.
She doesn't have to run; she could just jog in place. That would be fine with me.
Nobody voted for anyone.
It was all determined by who counts the Electoral College votes.
And even that is probably optimistic.
Trump has taken on the biggest lie tactic of the left: That conservatives "hate" when they oppose liberal policies. This "they hate xxx" accusation is a lying tactic first put forth by Alinsky:
"Power is not only what you have, it's what the enemy thinks you have."
The left now BELIEVES they can lie about conservatives hating others, because most people still think the left is honest about these claims. They are not - I exposed their mass lying in "Atlas Shouts." http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shouts-Modern-Patriot-Action-ebook/dp/B00OLR...
(While they hide MASS ACTS OF EXPLICIT CONTEMPT AND HATE among their black constituency. "White Girl Bleed A Lot" ).
Trump has openly confronted these lies by disregarding them. Socialism rewards these lies, and too many conservatives and Republicans imagine the left is being honesty when they say them. They are FULLY AWARE they are lying folks.
Trump's life is about to become miserable since he told exposed a big hate lie they use frequently. Tax audits, contracts canceled, permits delayed. The socialist economy has many means for supressing the truth.
Trump hmm whats to be said the bush clinton or trump Ill take trump but considering he is a clown i will just leave Obozo was bad enough and I should have left maybe Ill go to Greece if they leave the Eurotrash
12 Million? More like 50 million by my reckoning.
Trump is an egotistical dickhead and will never change, but he really has nothing to lose. He can say what he wants and do what he wants and he's got the beltway insiders scared. All the wannabe nominees who work like hell at avoiding saying anything that might mean something don't know how to handle somebody who will still be filthy rich no matter what. Welcome to 'Celebrity Apprentice: Political Edition' .......
Some of these media reports would have you believe somehow the vast majority of Americans don't view Donald Trump as a national embarrassment.
Your assuming the reality TV generation cares about the nation......
I do not believe there is a "vast majority of Americans" that hold similar views on any topic.
Besides, could Trump possibly be a much bigger national embarrsament than Hillary or Obama, or Bush, or Cheney, or.... weil let's just say we have a regular Daytona 500 for national fuck-ups.
The entrenched elite are feeling the effects of the internet and social media; it's similar to taking a large growth of mold from a dark, damp location out into the bright sunshine of a summer afternoon...Change is coming just as when the Church was no longer the sole dispenser of knowledge after the invention of the printing press...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-DSfvYCKwY
Better than any comedy show. Katy was ready to give his children by the end of the interview.
How many times do we have to be set up by the establishment?
Let us count the "ways"...
Donald Trump got his start when the Urban Development Corporation handed him the right in 1976 to re-develop the Commodore Hotel by the Grand Central Station. Out went all the stores and businesses with long term leases, thanks to eminent domain. The Commodore Hotel was no decaying property, it was fully rented at amrket rates. Thanks to Fred Trump, the Donald's father, and Governor Hugh Carey, the Brooklyn Mafia's man in Albany, Donald Trump got everything he wanted. Witha 40 year tax abatement from New York City, the first ever granted a commercial property, Trump had no problem getting the Hyatt hotel chain to partner with him on this project. And there were no problems with asbestos removal or workers' wages at this hotel or other Trump projects since, as one of his acts in office, Carey dismantled the agencies handling worker protection covering wages and worker safety. Those criminals Trump talks about includes himself, allowing undocumented Polish workers to remove asbestos without safety gear at his trump Tower project.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/08/trump-tower-was-built-o...
oh! He just lost my vote!
Fuck that. What standards are you applying to his psychopath opponents? Is this supposed to dq him?
I actually appreciate he posted the Daily Toast clip. It gives me just one more reason to look at Trump hard. We actually might have a candidate running with real work experience for a change. Not a Community Organizer with a expired birth certificate, or a International Foundation Casino Excexcutive, or a outspoken Independant Socilist.
Daily Beast is terrible