Donald Trump Presidential Campaign Thread

[Mulligan2]

3 thumbs-up from a Bernie supporter who is not voting for Donald J Trump.

Good to hear.

 

[Crossbones]

I previously posted about Bill Kristol and the independent bid. Well it appears to be a National Review writer and lawyer called David French:

foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/31/kristol-looking-at-national-review-staff-writer-david-french-for-independent-presidential-run.html

This has not been confirmed though it it looks like he would be the candidate of there is an independent bid.

Guy Benson, who I don’t think is the biggest fan of Donald Trump tweeted:

twitter.com/guypbenson/status/737766503047630848

Ron Fournier did say though on Special Report with Bret Baier, “might not need a huge name to make a difference in this campaign”

And the world goes collectively, “Who?”

 

[Crossbones]

Well, I guess we can now see why Trump didn’t want this made public:

theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/31/donald-trump-university-playbook-real-estate-courses

 

[Thorolfr]

Well, I guess we can now see why Trump didn’t want this made public:

theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/31/donald-trump-university-playbook-real-estate-courses

I like this quote from their playbook:

As one of your mentors for the last three days, it’s time for me to push you out of your comfort zone. It’s time for you to be 100% honest with yourself. You’ve had your entire adult life to accomplish your financial goals. I’m looking at your profile and you’re not even close to where you need to be, much less where you want to be. It’s time you fix your broken plan, bring in Mr. Trump’s top instructors and certified millionaire mentors and allow us to put you and keep you on the right track. Your plan is BROKEN and WE WILL help you fix it. Remember you have to be 100% honest with yourself!

Now just put our $34,995 Gold Elite three-day package on your credit card. Don’t worry about all that credit card debt. You’ll be a millionaire before you know it:

Do you like living paycheck to paycheck? … Do you enjoy seeing everyone else but yourself in their dream houses and driving their dreams cars with huge checking accounts? Those people saw an opportunity, and didn’t make excuses, like what you’re doing now.

 

[Giggly_Giraffe]

St Joseph, Terror of Demons, pray for US.

 

[Thorolfr]

I can’t wait to talk to one of Mr. Trump’s “certified millionaire mentors”. If I could only come up with $34,995!

 

[didymus]

‘I Can Watch It on TV’: Excuses for Republicans Skipping a Donald Trump Convention

A wave of prominent Republicans have announced their intention to skip the party’s national convention in Cleveland this summer, the latest sign that Donald J. Trump, who last week secured the delegates needed to clinch the Republican presidential nomination, continues to struggle in his effort to unite the party behind his candidacy.
The list of those who have sent regrets includes governors and United States senators — almost all facing tough re-election fights this year — and lifelong party devotees who have attended every convention for decades. Some are renouncing their seats like conscientious objectors.

“I could not in good conscience attend a coronation and celebration of Donald Trump,” wrote one Indiana delegate, Josh Claybourn, in a blog post resigning his position.
The coolness toward Mr. Trump amounts to a remarkable rebuke. A broad range of party leaders are openly rejecting the man who will be their nominee. And the July 18-21 convention, usually a moment of public catharsis for political parties after contentious primaries, is shaping up to be another reminder of the disarray and disunity that is still rocking the Republican Party after a bitter 17-way fight for the nomination.

I don’t blame those who are not going, I wonder how things will play out in the general. Trump has bashed the party establishment & vice versa. He has said he doesn’t need party unity to get elected. Maybe not. But given Trump’s penchant for bashing GOP elected officials he doesn’t like he may damage a lot of senatorial and congressional campaigns.

 

[GaryTaylor]

Anyway past the daily medic circus, this is what I find disturbing today and its called education…

breitbart.com/video/2016/04/14/hillary-i-want-white-people-to-recognize-that-there-is-systemic-racism/

Thursday during CNN’s Democratic primary debate, when asked if she regrets her advocacy for her husband former President Bill Clinton’s 1994 crime bill that has been blamed for the large amount of American minorities in prison on non-violent drug offenses, party presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said she wants “white people to recognize that there is systemic racism.”

Clinton said, “Look, I supported the crime bill. My husband has apologized. He was the president who actually signed it, Sanders voted for it. But I’m sorry for the consequences that were unintended and that have had a very unfortunate impact on people’s lives. I’ve seen the results of what has happened in families and in communities. That’s why I chose to make my very first speech a year ago on this issue. Because I want to focus the attention of our country and to make the changes we need to make. I also want people, especially I want white people — I want white people to recognize that there is systemic racism. It’s also in employment. It’s in housing, but it is in the criminal justice system as well.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Feagin

This type of divisive agenda is based on pseudo science and unsubstantiated claims of theory where the attempt is to make existing statistics fit a conspiracy. None of it is based on practical experience and is completely lacking facts. This is the same theory proposed by Obama and Hillary and Holder and has proven to be a complete failure aside from the divisive implications it has bought and continues to. Look at the reality of the DOJ for the past 3-years and their investigations.

vanguardnewsnetwork.com/v1/index60.htm

An we would talk about conspiracy theory? Comical really. Take a good look at the racist thinking of this party before projecting your own issues on others…like Hillary.

 

[Thorolfr]

I saw in the news that Donald Trump has guaranteed that his secret tax returns are the hugest ever: "They’re very big tax returns. I guarantee you this, the biggest ever in the history of what we’re doing. . . . But we’ll be releasing them.”

And about his penis: “I guarantee you, there’s no problem. I guarantee you.”

Donald Trump is such a modest man

 

[GaryTaylor]

I saw in the news that Donald Trump has guaranteed that his secret tax returns are the hugest ever: "They’re very big tax returns. I guarantee you this, the biggest ever in the history of what we’re doing. . . . But we’ll be releasing them.”

And about his penis: “I guarantee you, there’s no problem. I guarantee you.”

Donald Trump is such a modest man

This isn’t democratic politically correct, if fact its sexist, if your want to pretend to believe that bs of this corrupt party at least in some odd way it should be indicated via assimilated behavior. Problem is we can’t find that existing model anywhere its like a Unicorn. But then in my reading thats what the Democrats are all about, narrow minded double standards.

 

[ProVobis]

He also had no chance of becoming the Republican nominee around this time last year

I actually thought at one time he’d have a better chance as a Democratic nominee. Those who think he’s a bona fide Republican are only kidding themselves. He’s only in it because he’s run out of investors for his business failures.

 

[tee_eff_em]

ASIDE: I probably shouldn’t participate in this thread – Moves way too fast and hot. Anyway]

Had to look for your post and clear something off.

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It

happens often.

I guess the question, to paraphrase a president of recent memory, is: “What the meaning of it is?”

Originally I thought you were expressing that the president is often elected to face a congress controlled by the opposition. Now I am not so sure?

But in any case: It did not used to matter, back when we were served by *politicians *-- People schooled in the art of compromise, of give and take – Rather than partisans. I don’t know which side started it, or if it was simultaneous, but I blame both sides. Because I vivdly remember:

The Democrats won the whitehouse and said: “You have to do what we say.”
And the Republicans said: “We don’t have to do one bloody thing you say.”

And that is why I am upset with the establishment, because they are partisans instead of politicians. And the gridlock is worse than ever.


tee

 

[ProVobis]

"Other than that how was the play, Mrs Lincoln?

Didn’t the Donald contribute to the Clinton campaign(s)?

What makes people think he’s a true conservative, I’m curious.

 

[_Abyssinia]

GOP Voters Are Rallying Behind Trump As If He Were Any Other Candidate

fivethirtyeight.com/features/gop-voters-are-rallying-behind-trump-as-if-he-were-any-other-candidate/

 

[estesbob]

Didn’t the Donald contribute to the Clinton campaign(s)?

What makes people think he’s a true conservative, I’m curious.

I am faced with What Trumps says he will do vs what his detractors says he “might” do vs what his opponents have said they will do . Given that ill go with option 1

 

[GaryTaylor]

I’m curious.

He’s not, no need to pretend, he was a pro-choice Democrat-New Yorker far as I can see. The question is with all this leaning and promise’s in the other direction I think people are believing in his intention. I’m waiting to hear his dialogue with the evangelicals June 21st. But by large his choice of justices was well received by the conservatives.

Pretty dire because Donald imho can’t win the women or hispanic crowds, in other words he is basically tied with Hillary and needs to be humble. I’m not sure that could happen.

 

[TMC]

GOP Voters Are Rallying Behind Trump As If He Were Any Other Candidate

fivethirtyeight.com/features/gop-voters-are-rallying-behind-trump-as-if-he-were-any-other-candidate/

I agree that is what is happening. I am not convinced it is the best thing for Trump. If Trump ends up being just another Republican, he will simply be Romney with higher negatives and a worse electoral map. For Trump to have a chance he needs to continue to be an outsider who has hijacked the process. That is what got him this far. Being a regular candidate won’t work for Trump. He knows that, which is why he continues to behave the way he does.

 

[qui_est_ce]

I am faced with What Trumps says he will do vs what his detractors says he “might” do vs what his opponents have said they will do . Given that ill go with option 1

That works for me.

 

[Theo520]

Many of the people not going would normally get sweet speaking roles and be heroes of the convention, which won’t happen this cycle.

I think they are acting like sore losers, petulant children.

‘I Can Watch It on TV’: Excuses for Republicans Skipping a Donald Trump Convention

I don’t blame those who are not going, I wonder how things will play out in the general. Trump has bashed the party establishment & vice versa. He has said he doesn’t need party unity to get elected. Maybe not. But given Trump’s penchant for bashing GOP elected officials he doesn’t like he may damage a lot of senatorial and congressional campaigns.

 

[Thorolfr]

Many of the people not going would normally get sweet speaking roles and be heroes of the convention, which won’t happen this cycle.

I think they are acting like sore losers, petulant children.

Or maybe they just can’t stand Donald Trump and think that he is totally unfit to be president.