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How many rings, do we have in the Election Circus ?

In this ring, we have Trump and his hair!

*tip of the hat, to the GB poster that mentioned the carnival barker

11/15/2012

"Please understand and appreciate that Macy's marketing and merchandising offerings are not representative of any political position,” Lundgren wrote to Angelo Carusone, the man behind the petition, in a letter. “Ours is a free society compromised [sic] of a wide range of viewpoints.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2137035.html

July 1, 2015

"It was Macy's decision,"(to drop Trump) a spokesman said in an email to CNN

@realDonaldTrump

boycott Macy's
They are weak at border security
& stopping illegal immigration.

June 30, 2015

NBCUniversal on Monday cut ties with Miss Universe owner Donald Trump because of comments he made about Mexican immigrants during his June 16 presidential announcement.

After the NBC announcement, Trump fired back through his Instagram account. He threatened to sue the network and called NBC weak and politically correct.

http://theadvocate.com/news/12783921...es-it-wont-air

Mexican media giant Televisa said it will no longer air the Miss Universe pageant and won’t do business with Trump on any other communication project.


Trump's anti-Mexican, anti-immigrant and xenophobic remarks first prompted the Spanish-language broadcaster Univision to drop the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants (Trump owns them) and then NBC followed suit.

http://gothamist.com/2015/07/01/now_...ump_for_be.php


NPR's Andrew Limbong reports that Trump is seeking $500 million, and that in the suit, Trump claims Univision is attempting to suppress his freedom of speech.

In an email to Politico, Univision spokesperson Monica Talan called the complaint "both factually false and legally ridiculous."

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...5/donald-trump-sues-univision-for-500-million
 
Trump "The Donald" is a Loon bordering on being a Lunatic.

That he would stay in the race even to the nominations was laughable.
 
You will be saying President Trump in two years. Get used to it. :cool:

That said, I do fear his potential foreign policy. On domestic issues, it will be fun. :D
 
Trump "The Donald" is a Loon bordering on being a Lunatic.

That he would stay in the race even to the nominations was laughable.

That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it but for fuck sake he's currently second in the polls. Which sure it doesn't mean anything but I think he's got a unique super power. Usually gaffing that hard hurts you in the polls. If all Trump has to do to surge is listen to Rush Limbaugh and say it in his best Chris Christie voice he can dominate anything.

You will be saying President Trump in two years. Get used to it. :cool:

That said, I do fear his potential foreign policy. On domestic issues, it will be fun. :D

President Trump. Shit I'll change my handle if Trump wins.

It'll be a fun eight years.
 
Trump's Appeal? G.O.P. Is Puzzled, But His Fans Aren't

"...the question that is giving so many Republicans heartburn today is how a man so few took seriously is suddenly a leading presidential contender."

" Listening to Mr. Trump as he campaigned across the country over the past week, and talking to the people shouting “U.S.A! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” who crammed into halls and ballrooms by the hundreds and sometimes thousands, shed some perspective on his appeal, and on the void he is filling in Republican politics."


Mr. Trump’s attacks on Mexicans seems politically shortsighted, many Republicans say. Every month for the next two decades, 50,000 Hispanics turn 18 and will be eligible to vote.

In Las Vegas, he lamented: “We don’t have victories anymore. We used to have victories. We used to be great.”

In Phoenix, he said: “We have stupid leaders. The American dream is dead. But I’m going to make it bigger, better and stronger.” To chants of “U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” he vowed: “Don’t worry, we’ll take our country back. Very soon.”

The implication is that he will take the country back from incompetent leaders and undocumented immigrants. And this is where there is a darker side to his promises to make America great again, one that many critics, including Republicans, say feeds on xenophobia and racist caricatures of immigrants.

New York Times
July 17, 2015
Politics
Jeremy W. Peters


Forgetting, that John McCain ditched his dignity, during the end of a debate with Presidential hopeful Obama. McCain followed Obama, as they exited the stage. McCain mimed that he was so overcome by the odor of Obama's farts, that he was reduced to retching, and was overcome and weakened.

Forgetting that G.W. Bush clowned for his adoring public, with antics that were more appropriate for a child in grade school.


Forgetting, that the GOP have been using a false narrative, for a very long time.

To avoid niggling fact-checkers, in 1987, President Reagan’s FCC abandoned the Fairness Doctrine, a decision that meant that public broadcasters were no longer required to provide their audience with opposing viewpoints. Within a year, talk radio had taken off, with hosts like Rush Limbaugh hammering home the vision of a nation gone to ruin, awaiting redemption from the latest Movement Conservative candidate. In 1992, Limbaugh began to broadcast a television show, produced by Roger Ailes, to take the story to viewers. By 1994, the show was carried by 225 television stations. Two years later, Ailes would become the CEO of a new media channel, Fox News, which used the same formula—albeit updated—that Ailes had used to package Nixon’s story almost 30 years before.


By the time of the George W. Bush administration, the Movement Conservatives had erased the line between image and reality. In 2004, a senior adviser to Bush famously dismissed “the reality-based community” to journalist Ron Suskind.

Gone were the days when politicians could find solutions based on their observations of the careful study of discernible reality. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore…. When we act, we create our own reality…. We’re history’s actors… and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do,” he said.



http://republicanclowncar.blogspot.com/
 
A very large number of Americans have concerns about immigration, concerns that most politicians try to suppress. These Americans know that immigration depresses wages while raising prices, especially the price of a place to live. They know that Hispanics have a higher crime rate than whites, and burden the public sector of the economy. Donald Trump is speaking to these concerns.

Condemning John McCain was a mistake that Trump is too arrogant to acknowledge, but millions of ordinary Americans like what else he is talking about.

Donald Trump is becoming a powerful politicians for the same reason George Wallace became a powerful politician during the late 1960's. During the election of 1964 Wallace was an insignificant irritant. By 1968 he had been proven right about civil rights. Millions of whites were concerned about the rise in crime, and especially the rise in black crime, and the black ghetto riots.

The political establishment told white blue collar workers who were endangered by black social pathology that the real problem was not black crime; it was their racism. Wallace told white blue collar workers that the real problem was black social pathology, and the liberals who pretended otherwise.

George Wallace was not elected president. He did change the temper of American politics. Donald Trump is having the same effect on American politics. Because of him it will be possible for people to deny that "diversity is our strength," and keep their jobs. It will be possible to say that race is not a social construct; it is an important difference between human beings. Some races create better societies than others.
 
The billionaire race.

It looks like he is playing the racist card to get his votes.
 
Donald Trump reads Lindsey Graham’s cell phone number in over-the-top South Carolina stump speech

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reportedly read rival GOP candidate Lindsey Graham’s cell phone number during a speech in the South Carolina senator’s home state.

After Graham called Trump a “jackass” on Monday for insulting Sen. John McCain’s war record, Trump appeared at an event in Bluffton on Tuesday an almost immediately told the crowd that their senator was a “stiff” and an “idiot.”

CBS News also confirmed that a cell phone number that Trump gave out on stage during the event belonged to Sen. Graham.

“Maybe the whole world has that number already,” Trump spokesperson Michael Cohen later explained to CNN. “He is certainly their representative and they have every right to reach out to him.”

Lindsey was incorrect. Donald is a jack-off-ass
 
See starting with the teahadists the GOP turned to a bunch of people it couldn't control (and paid for that pleasure!) and this sad sack of "presidential" "candidates" is exactly what happens.
 
Am I the only person watching Trump and then looking at the GOP as a whole and hearing Alfred talk to Bruce about the Joker in Dark Knight?
 
Trump went forward with the trip despite a last-minute revocation of an invitation from a local border patrol union that initially offered to host the real estate tycoon's tour of the border.

In a statement Thursday morning, National Border Patrol Council Local 2455 said: "After careful consideration of all the factors involved in this event and communicating with members of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) at the National level, it has been decided by Local 2455 to pull out of all events involving Donald Trump."


http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/201...-arrives-u-s-mexico-border-ahead-tour-n397316

"Thursday afternoon, GOP presidential hopeful and adult blobfish Donald Trump was like a kid in a candy shop of intolerance as he took a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border that he wasn’t actually invited to."
 
Republicans say he’s trashing the brand. But he is the brand, to a degree, a byproduct of all the toxic elements they’ve been throwing into their brew.

Timothy Egan
Trump Is the Poison His Party Concocted
NY Times
Opinion
July 24, 2015

Trump is a byproduct of all the toxic elements Republicans have thrown into their brew over the last decade or so — from birtherism to race-based hatred of immigrants, from nihilists who shut down government to elected officials who shout “You lie!” at their commander in chief.

President Obama was barely into his first months in office when Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina shouted “You lie!” at him in a joint session of Congress. For hurling that insult, Wilson was widely praised in conservative media circles.

Trump also stoked the humiliating lie about President Obama’s citizenship. He began that crusade, he claimed, because so many Republicans still believe it, and have encouraged him to keep it alive.

Now, the only way to trump Trump is to act like a fool in public.

(gsgs comment- and Rand Paul tried to trump Trump's cell phone in a blender, with the tax code destroyed by a woodchipper, a chain saw and a fire. Violence and destruction. The first choice of the Republican party ? What will be the next image used in the escalation ? Automatic rifles ? Explosives ? A missile ? )

All of this overshadowed the entry into the race of Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, a sensible conservative who could beat Hillary Clinton. But he won’t get any traction until Republicans destroy Donald Trump and the vulgar, nativist element in their party that they nurtured — until it became a monster.


gsgs comment-

What is the image the major new media outlets are using to represent Trump's influence ?

Trump's shadow, expanded until it is larger than Godzilla's shadow.
 
The killing of a beloved lion named Cecil by a trophy hunting dentist from Minnesota has an outraged American public asking: What kind of monsters would kill a majestic big cat for fun?

Unfortunately for one Republican presidential hopeful, the answer is: his sons.


Donald Trump was forced to weigh in on the issue this week after a gory photo of his trophy hunting sons resurfaced online, tying his family to the very practice that has sparked fierce backlash in recent days. When asked for his response at a press conference in Scotland this week, Trump was reportedly far from condemning of the fact that his sons had a hobby of killing innocent animals.




"My sons love to hunt," The Telegraph and The Daily Mail report Trump said, though he reportedly refused to directly address shooting endangered animals. "They are members of the NRA, very proudly. I am a big believer in the Second Amendment. But my sons are hunters, Eric is a hunter and I would say he puts it on a par with golf, if not ahead of golf. My other son, Don, is a hunter. They're great marksman, great shots, they love it. I em, like golf. I don't do that."


While the senior Trump has stated before that he's not a believer in hunting, his unwillingness to discourage the practice outright given the chance stands in contrast to the reaction of other public figures.

https://www.thedodo.com/trump-speaks-on-sons-hunting-1275724124.html
 
(Trumps's attention whoring for FOX TV is a complete success! Highest ratings!)

John Stewart called it, before he said good-bye

Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus on Thursday’s Daily Show, pointing out that Priebus’ best efforts to make the party more broadly accessible were being derailed by the
“abusive, Cheeto dust-faced elephant in the room” — Donald Trump.
(George Hamilton never looked so orange! Is HD makeup that horrible ?)

“This Trump guy is a rich, crazy, egotistical monster,” Stewart said. “People like him are supposed to buy the candidates, not be them. In our system of government, one branch has the money, and the other branch does what the branch with the money tells them to do.”

Instead, he said, Trump was worrying not just his fellow candidates, but the GOP’s most important constituency: the “six Horsemen of the Cashpocalypse.”

Two years after Priebus delivered his election post-mortem saying Republicans had to overcome the perception of being a racially-intolerant party beholden to the rich, the host argued, Trump — “the living embodiment of everything Republicans were trying to exorcise from their party just escalated down on their parade” — has bounded his way to a commanding lead in early GOP polls.

gsgs comment-

(Trump is who the FOX TV fans want! Here he is, Mr. Right Wing America. Sarah Palin must hand over her crown, as she is no longer Mrs. Right Wing America.)

/end gsgs comment
 
What I noticed about Trump, is that he will attack anyone.
(I avoided paying attention to him in the past, as I found him to be unpleasant.)
He will cross any line. No one is off limits.
He will say anything. He has no filter.

Did Trump understand what taking part in a debate involves ?

He reacted with attacks. What did he do, when there was a backlash ?

I don't recognize those words whatsoever," Trump said.

"Not that I'm an angel, by the way. But I don't recognize those words, so you know, she was spewing out these words, and I'm sitting there."

Denial.

"I fired him." (The aide quit.)

Lies.

This does not match the image of him as a fearless, courageous, and transparent contender.

If Trump has no intention of serving as President, why is he participating ?
If Trump has no need to seek campaign funds, why did he start a funding site ?
If Trump is rich enough to stand alone, why send fundraising letters ?
If Trump has no need to be indebted to others, why does he have a Super PAC ?

(Shades of Sarah Palin- Collecting money for a campaign that she never intended to win.)


Is Trump a sexist ?


In the book, Trump declared that, "All the women on 'The Apprentice' flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected."

And he had this to say about women's victories on the show: "It's certainly not groundbreaking news that the early victories by the women on 'The Apprentice' were, to a very large extent, dependent on their sex appeal."

On some occasions Trump appears to have recognized he's gone too far. In April, he retweeted, then deleted, a tweet that read, "If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?"

http://mashable.com/2015/08/08/donald-trump-sexist-attacks-fox-news-megyn-kelly/

gsgs comment- What is something that we might witness, in the future, while watching Trump campaign ? Past behavior is a good predictor.

I spent this past week reading eight of his books — three memoirs, three business-advice titles and his two political books, all published between 1987 and 2011 — hoping to develop a unified theory of the man, or at least find a method in the Trumpness.

Instead, I found . . . well, is there a single word that combines revulsion, amusement, respect and confusion? That is how it feels, sometimes by turns, often all at once, to binge on Trump’s writings. Over the course of 2,212 pages, I encountered a world where bragging is breathing and insulting is talking, where repetition and contradiction come standard, where vengefulness and insecurity erupt at random.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...t-books-by-donald-trump-heres-what-i-learned/


gsgs comment- An enormous amount of Right Wing Republican candidates serves the purpose of hogging all the attention, and makes it difficult for the Democrats to get their message out. Trump is in the public eye, and inviting comparisons between his public presence, and the public presence of "legitimate" Republican candidates.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/08/06/early_republican_debate_audience_small.html

So strange, that only thirty people were in the audience to witness the debate.
How many people were witness to John McCain making a fool of himself, following presidential hopeful Barack Obama off the stage of the debate ?
 
Trump! trolls Black Lives Matter to call attention to himself


"I would never give up my microphone. I thought that was disgusting. That showed such weakness, the way he (Bernie Saunders) was taken away by two young women (Black Lives Matter) — the microphone; they just took the whole place over," Trump told reporters, according to CNN. "Two young women!"

"That will never happen with me. I don’t know if I’ll do the fighting myself, or if other people will. But that was a disgrace."

"I felt badly for him, but it showed that he was weak. You know what? He's getting the biggest crowds, and we're getting the biggest crowds. We're the ones getting the crowds. But that's never going to happen to Trump."

http://gothamist.com/2015/08/12/trump_black_lives_matter.php

WGBH discussion on Trump- "Using his own name, in the third person points to a level of narcissism."
 
Donald Trump will be reporting for jury duty in New York on Monday. I feel sorry for anyone who ends up in a jury with him.
 
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