Trump upset that no one in WH has asked about his "foolproof" plan to defeat ISIS

[Gulo Blue]

I didn't know there was block of voters who specifically self-identified as "the racist block."

EDIT: Is the "racist vote" specifically limited to whites who hate minorities? Or can blacks who hate whites and smug superior Asians who think they're better than everybody join? What about the Mexicans? Are they even a race? People have been calling them that...

They all go to the same "racist block voter" meetings? Or do the racists voters all meet separately based on race?

They probably don't self-identify that way, and I wouldn't stop there anyway. Lock down the Grover Norquist followers, the climate change deniers, and anyone that thinks threatening to default on our debts is good governing.

 

[Gulo Blue]

I can just see the meetings of the multi-racial "racist block" voters...

"We come together, a varied people from many places, and all races, united in one common belief, and that is our belief in the pursuit of racial strife, and civil disharmony..."

Or how about the war room meetings of the candidate and his advisers as they consider openly pursuing the "racist voter" block...?

"It's tricky, PC (Presidential Candidate). While the racist block can be a powerful voting block, the problem with going after their vote too directly is that people might label you a racist..."

The real problem is lack of Wall Street backing. Hang on...I might have to do a 180? here. That's not a negative, that's a positive. Would I support the racist party if their candidate wasn't beholden to big corporate entities? Maybe... how much damage could they really do? If you assume it's 'none', then it might be worth it.

No...mostly it would be ok, but if they got to appoint a Supreme Court justice or two it would be a tragedy. Almost worth considering the idea though.

 

[Michchamp]

...

"We come together, a varied people from many places, and all races, united in one common belief, and that is our belief in the pursuit of racial strife, and civil disharmony..."

...

they could use this line: "You can hate whoever you want, blacks, whites, hispanics, Armenians, French, Australian Aborigines, whatever. But the point is you must hate some identifiable sub-group within the human race. You can't hate everybody or nobody at all."

 

[tinselwolverine]

They probably don't self-identify that way, and I wouldn't stop there anyway. Lock down the Grover Norquist followers, the climate change deniers, and anyone that thinks threatening to default on our debts is good governing.

aka, the Hannity audience.

 

[Gulo Blue]

they could use this line: "You can hate whoever you want, blacks, whites, hispanics, Armenians, French, Australian Aborigines, whatever. But the point is you must hate some identifiable sub-group within the human race. You can't hate everybody or nobody at all."

 

[Michchamp]

Letterman came out of retirement to do a Top Ten list about Trump.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Letterman came out of retirement to do a Top Ten list about Trump.

Was Letterman down in Texas to buy guns?

 

[Michchamp]

Was Letterman down in Texas to buy guns?

not sure... where did he retire to? Indiana has incredibly lax gun laws.

 

[tinselwolverine]

There's a link on the Letterman Trump Top Ten list link where you can see Aly Raisman doing gymnastics naked.

 

[turok]

Duh Donald continues to make his RNC presidential primary campaign a laughingstock and humiliating national embarrassment.

Tweeting is HARD...especially when you hand it over to paid interns.

This was a blatantly preemptive tweet to impose Godwin's Law before anyone else could in a thread...>

Donald Trump tweets image of Nazi soldiers inside the U.S. flag,
then deletes tweet

 

[Michchamp]

...

Donald Trump tweets image of Nazi soldiers inside the U.S. flag,
then deletes tweet

it's not as bad as I thought. Initially I figured it was intentional, and he was playing into those recent Texan fears that the US Military is going to seize control to portray them as nazis.

now it appears one of his not-too-bright campaign interns assumed that a search for "WWII soldiers" would return only images of American soldiers, and added the first pic that popped up through their catalog of licensed images. Instead the first pic was a group of Waffen-SS troops. Heh. honest mistake I guess... but given Trump's recent xenophobia and racism, it's a fitting reference.

 

[turok]

it's not as bad as I thought. Initially I figured it was intentional, and he was playing into those recent Texan fears that the US Military is going to seize control to portray them as nazis.

now it appears one of his not-too-bright campaign interns assumed that a search for "WWII soldiers" would return only images of American soldiers, and added the first pic that popped up through their catalog of licensed images. Instead the first pic was a group of Waffen-SS troops. Heh. honest mistake I guess... but given Trump's recent xenophobia and racism, it's a fitting reference.

Maybe a "trial balloon?"

I believe that it was unintentional, but I also think that Duh Donald only took a cursory glance over the image before tweeting it, then when the "mistake" was spotted and retweeted by others, he then deleted it.

The Waffen SS troops were from a WWII reenactment that the owner-photographer captured in order to provide royalty-free or non-copyright images for download.

 

[TheVictors]

Larry Kudlow was a featured speaker at an event I attended the past few days and took some pretty funny shots at Trump and his bid for the Presidency, all the while maintaining his allegiance to the right in general..

Do any serious Republicans want Trump and his circus as part of the campaign trail and primaries?

 

[turok]

Do any serious Republicans want Trump and his circus as part of the campaign trail and primaries?

According to some of the latest polls, Trump has surged to the lead over Jeb! by a 3% margin, 17% to 14% and no other primary candidate besides those two are in the double-digits.

I suppose that many might be hoping that he eventualy does or says something that will derail his campaign or cause it to self-destruct, but he is really just blatantly blurting out loud what most, if not all of the other GOP candidates likely agree with.

 

[tigersofjustice]

According to some of the latest polls, Trump has surged to the lead over Jeb! by a 3% margin, 17% to 14% and no other primary candidate besides those two are in the double-digits.

I suppose that many might be hoping that he eventualy does or says something that will derail his campaign or cause it to self-destruct, but he is really just blatantly blurting out loud what most, if not all of the other GOP candidates likely agree with.

When did overt bigotry become the voter base of the GOP hard liners? That's going to be tough going forward.

 

[Thumb]

When did overt bigotry become the voter base of the GOP hard liners? That's going to be tough going forward.

I don't think it's the more intelligent part of the base, but a large part of the right has always been very xenophobic. Trump is playing the tune they want to hear, soon when real issue come in to play Trump is going to stumble, and get lost in the back of the pack. But right now he could shoot up another 10 points over everyone else if he said something bad about Arab-Americans, or Muslims in general.

 

[Spartanmack]

When did overt bigotry become the voter base of the GOP hard liners? That's going to be tough going forward.

When did illegal immigrants become a race? His comments were about illegal immigrants from Mexico, not Mexicans in general

I can't stand Trump and will not be voting for him for many reasons but nothing he said was either xenophobic or racist. It was about illegal immigration and the significant problem of crime related to illegal immigration, which itself is of course a crime.

When will the left ever stop setting up straw men and falsely framing issues in order to preen their moral vanity and smugly denigrate others?

 

[Spartanmack]

Larry Kudlow was a featured speaker at an event I attended the past few days and took some pretty funny shots at Trump and his bid for the Presidency, all the while maintaining his allegiance to the right in general..

Do any serious Republicans want Trump and his circus as part of the campaign trail and primaries?

cokehead kudlow is an establishment, crony capitalist Republican - cut from the same cloth as the Boehners, McConnells, of the world. He's the personification of the Wall St Republican all the lefties love to hate while hypocritically loving the Clinton, Reid and Pelosi types who enrich themselves in the very same corrupt ways.

 

[TheVictors]

Yeah, I didn't pay to see him ...and he delivered a very predictable line.

He's also editor at National Review, so not some token 'NBC conservative

A few funny Reagan - James Baker - Bush Oval Office stories. Mentioned being a 20yr drug and alcohol addict in recovery, too.

Apparently my coworkers brother attends AA with him in CT

 

[Michchamp]

When did illegal immigrants become a race? His comments were about illegal immigrants from Mexico, not Mexicans in general

...

I would say it's racist because: 1.) it's absurd to consider the relative trickle of people coming across the border (of all things) as big of a problem as he seems to, having more or less made it his #1 campaign issue thus far; 2.) he's mainly (if not completely) blaming the immigrants themselves, not the companies here who hire them (including his own), or the economic circumstances that compel them to enter the country illegally; and 3.) at least here in Chicago and some other places around the midwest, you're likely to encounter (and probably employ) illegal immigrants from Eastern Europe if you hire a maid, babysitter, nanny, etc. than you are Mexicans/Central Americans, but he's not going after white illegal immigrants.

I have to admit though, I'm only aware of his statements and the backlash they create that other people reference on my twitter feed. I generally try to avoid listening to his idiocy... maybe he's not as much of a racist POS as others are claiming?