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Re: Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #25 on: February 25, 2016, 01:18:01 PM »
Aside from claiming he doesn't like illegal immigration, what exactly is ANY actual redeeming quality of the man?

Dude bemoans corporations moving US jobs overseas, and then does the same thing. His clothing line is made overseas. His resorts apparently use the hell out of temporary work-visa programs to bring in foreign workers. He claims government using its power of eminent domain to violate the property rights of it citizens, then when he tried using the same thing for personal profit. He supported the AWB. He wants a single payer healthcare system like Canada, which puts him left of Hillary Clinton. Who he regularly donated money to. Hilarious part is he's cut checks to the Dems for at least 20x the amount he's given to Republicans.
He's a UNIVERSE  class con man. Bypasses Galaxy class.


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Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #26 on: February 25, 2016, 01:18:55 PM »
The party of limited government...

Which one would that be?  

I'm not whining.

Well, "caps-lock eleventy-raging while making unsubstantiated, foul-mouthed, and impolite accusations of desperation and blindness" is hard to rope into a cheese quip.  

So, I'll take it, and the cheese, back.

Don't worry it will be after he secures the nomination, thus delivering the presidency to his good pal Hillary.

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« Reply #27 on: February 25, 2016, 01:23:58 PM »
Trump. The guy whose clothing line is made overseas

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Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #28 on: February 25, 2016, 01:49:08 PM »
Unfortunately that target group is revealing their lack of critical thinking skills and knowledge of historical examples of charasmatic leaders taking advantage of an exasperated populus.

So, pretty much the ideal target voters for every successful candidate in living memory.

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Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #29 on: February 25, 2016, 02:08:22 PM »
So, pretty much the ideal target voters for every successful candidate in living memory.

Yes. Even Cruz supporters!!
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Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #30 on: February 25, 2016, 02:37:11 PM »
Yes. Even Cruz supporters!!

Nope!  Unfortunately Cruz isn't charismatic.

I'm voting for him, and I am disgusted with Republicans voting for this Trump sleazebag.

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Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #31 on: February 25, 2016, 02:40:52 PM »
Nope!  Unfortunately Cruz isn't charismatic.

I'm voting for him, and I am disgusted with Republicans voting for this Trump sleazebag.

Your vote. Cast it for who you want.   You do realize that Cruz is peddling the same *expletive deleted*it, and relying on "useful" folks to support it.  Just like all the others.
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Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #32 on: February 25, 2016, 02:44:10 PM »
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Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #33 on: February 25, 2016, 02:52:50 PM »
Trump's business savvy sensed a market.  A market of fed up, lied to, disenfranchised conservative voters.  He threw together some weakly constructed talking points which have taken wing with his target group.  Unfortunately that target group is revealing their lack of critical thinking skills and knowledge of historical examples of charasmatic leaders taking advantage of an exasperated populus.

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Now, examine Trump's history, the New York facts, not the Hollywood hype.  
Finally ask yourself what Trump really wants,to do with that power, and how he might apply it.

He's a dangerous choice.

And,  of course, none of     the others are trying to obtain power..... ???
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Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #34 on: February 25, 2016, 03:21:21 PM »
I'm not whining. Trump's supporters have almost nothing of substance to offer in his favor, besides him being "anti-establishment" (which is effing hilarious, btw. How delusional do you have to be to call Trump anti-establishment), and "HE SAYS WHAT HE MEANS" (How that alone is a plus, is beyond me.)
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Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #35 on: February 25, 2016, 04:41:35 PM »
So, pretty much the ideal target voters for every successful candidate in living memory.

I was thinking specifically of a sucessful German candidate's target voting bloc approximately 90 years ago.
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Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #36 on: February 25, 2016, 04:46:39 PM »
 :lol:   [popcorn]
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Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #37 on: February 25, 2016, 07:33:14 PM »
As some other pundit observed, the voters are now willing to bite the hand that slapped them.

Why Trump? Name recognition, and an attitude among voters that says "Trump may be an <expletive>, but he's not YOUR <expletive>."
Trump won in 2016. Democrats haven't been so offended since Republicans came along and freed their slaves.
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Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #38 on: February 25, 2016, 07:41:16 PM »
As some other pundit observed, the voters are now willing to bite the hand that slapped them.

Why Trump? Name recognition, and an attitude among voters that says "Trump may be an <expletive>, but he's not YOUR <expletive>."

well, actually he is their *expletive deleted*hole.

But that doesn't matter. The thing about Trump is not what he is, but how he's figured out what the masses what to hear and he's giving it too them. Obama did it, too (and Bernie is doing it as well, although I think he's actually stupid enough to believe his own patter)

The GOP has it's head in the sand. So does the DNC. Save the popcorn for the next election cycle, because it will be interesting to see if they end up learning something from this cluster *expletive deleted*ck or not.*

*if we actually make it to another election cycle...
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Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #39 on: February 25, 2016, 09:22:02 PM »
well, actually he is their *expletive deleted*hole.

But that doesn't matter. The thing about Trump is not what he is, but how he's figured out what the masses what to hear and he's giving it too them. Obama did it, too (and Bernie is doing it as well, although I think he's actually stupid enough to believe his own patter)

The GOP has it's head in the sand. So does the DNC. Save the popcorn for the next election cycle, because it will be interesting to see if they end up learning something from this cluster *expletive deleted*ck or not.*

*if we actually make it to another election cycle...

Trump gives himself a special title.  Like, oh, "Leader".
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Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #40 on: February 25, 2016, 09:43:53 PM »
Trump gives himself a special title.  Like, oh, "Leader".

I wonder if he gets his topee's from the same place Kim Jong gets his bowl cuts.
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Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #41 on: February 25, 2016, 10:14:04 PM »
Trump gives himself a special title.  Like, oh, "Leader".

"Law-giver" "Deal-maker."
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Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #42 on: February 25, 2016, 11:23:06 PM »
I wonder if he gets his topee's from the same place Kim Jong gets his bowl cuts.
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Or the same place Rubio got his lady boots.  :rofl:
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« Reply #43 on: February 26, 2016, 05:24:15 AM »
Which one would that be?  

Well, "caps-lock eleventy-raging while making unsubstantiated, foul-mouthed, and impolite accusations of desperation and blindness" is hard to rope into a cheese quip.  


Supposedly, the republican party. People all over who claim to dislike "government" in their lives are supporting a statist. This is objective fact.

As for the rest, Wasn't raging, wasn't all in caps, and although foul-mouthed, it certainly isn't unsubstantiated. if my language hurts your poor widdwe feelings, I can adjust.
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Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #44 on: February 26, 2016, 06:05:41 AM »
I can't help but wonder if Trump's run for the nomination is really a way for him to jam a thumb in the eye of the Republican party.  He wins the nomination, loses the general to HRC, and the next day we hear Trump do his best Nelson imitation "Ha, ha!" to the Republican leadership as he wanders back home to run his businesses.  Mission accomplished.
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Re: "Dear Establishment" epic rant.
« Reply #45 on: February 26, 2016, 07:38:37 AM »
well, actually he is their *expletive deleted*hole.

But that doesn't matter. The thing about Trump is not what he is, but how he's figured out what the masses what to hear and he's giving it too them. Obama did it, too (and Bernie is doing it as well, although I think he's actually stupid enough to believe his own patter)

The GOP has it's head in the sand. So does the DNC. Save the popcorn for the next election cycle, because it will be interesting to see if they end up learning something from this cluster *expletive deleted*ck or not.*

*if we actually make it to another election cycle...

They haven't learned over the past 20 years or so, why should they now?
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