trump is serious!!!!!

[Econoline]

This is all just a plot to get Jon Stewart to stay, right?

[wesw]

I watched the actual interview where carson was asked if he would consider trump as VP if nominated, he laughingly avoided the question, then, when pressed, he laughingly said that all thngs are possible...

so, another misrepresentation of dr carson.....

[Scooter]

Another misrepresentation? When was the first one?

And how was this a misrepresentation? Why say "anything's possible", why not just say flat out, "no, the guy's an idiot"?

If Carson wants to play the game of giving mealy mouthed answers so as not to offend potential supporters, then he's going to have to live with the consequences. He's trying out for the big leagues now; if he's not up for it he should fade back into the obscurity from whence he came.

[wesw]

Smearkat.

eta- or maybe.... sneerkat.

does your sneer come naturally or do you practice in front of a mirror?

is it better than Elvis'? nah....

....elvis had the best sneer.....

[wesw]

why don t you take a trip to Damascus?

worth a shot, right?

[Scooter]

so, you got nuthin' , and resort to attack and deflection

Pot, meet kettle.

[wesw]

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q= ... 3O6qAWr5mg


scooter the smeerkat

[Scooter]

wes continuing to hoist himself on his own petard

[Guinevere]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/pos ... ?tid=sm_fb

This guy is so hilarious he needs his own tv show. Oh. Wait....

[RayThom]

... the Republican party is getting exactly what they deserve. They can't help themselves.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

[wesw]

well if I hoist myself on my own petard , I will at least be secure In the knowledge that I am well hung.....

[rubato]

None of the Republicans have had the character to repudiate Trump. They're all moral cowards.


yrs,
rubato

[Guinevere]

I'm not sure how many times I can write "hilarious" in one thread, but the laughs keep rolling in:

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2015/ ... i-soldiers

I get that Trump probably doesn't put eyes on everything that goes out under his name (although he is such a control freak I wouldn't bet against it), but if so, he needs better people, and to not blame the "intern".....

[RayThom]

... in his best Sgt. Schultz voice, "I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!" What a buffoon.

It's so sad that the Trumpster will never hear his name called out as the nominee at the Republican presidential convention in Cleveland. My opportunity for nonstop "Fuckface Von Clownstick" humor will be snuffed out -- possibly forever.

Trump: let's do to America what I did to Atlantic City!

[Scooter]

Why Donald Trump will die in a mysterious "accident" before primary season is over:

Projection shows Clinton defeats Donald Trump 419-119 on Electoral College map

[Big RR]

As I once recall someone writing about Nelson Rockefeller's failed bid for the presidency:

Money is honey
My little sonny
And a rich man's jokes
Are always funny

Even if the rich man doesn't get the joke.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Trump: let's do to America what I did to Atlantic City!

Atlantic city boomed because it was the only game in town (other then Nevada). It is failing now mainly because many more casinos have opened up throughout the northeast. People no longer need to travel to AC to get their gambling fix. Other casinos are much closer to home for a good number of former AC trippers.

[Gob]

He was 21 years old and handsome with a full head of hair. He avoided the Vietnam War draft on his way to earning an Ivy League degree.

He was fond of fancy dinners, beautiful women and outrageous clubs. Most important, he had a job in his father's real estate company and a brain bursting with money-making ideas that would make him a billionaire.

"When I graduated from college, I had a net worth of perhaps $US200,000 ($271,000)", he said in his 1987 autobiography "Trump: The Art of the Deal," written with Tony Schwartz. "I had my eye on Manhattan."


Nearly 13,000 kilometres away, John McCain sat in a tiny, squalid North Vietnamese prison cell. The Navy pilot's body was broken from a plane crash, starvation, botched operations and months of torture.

As Trump was preparing to take Manhattan, McCain was trying to relearn how to walk

The stark contrast in their fortunes was thrown into sharp relief on Saturday when Trump belittled McCain during a campaign speech in Iowa. "He's not a war hero," Trump said of McCain. "He's a war hero because he was captured," Trump said sarcastically. "I like people that weren't captured."

McCain famously followed his father and grandfather - both admirals - into the Navy.

Growing up in Queens, Trump's role models were more ... theatrical.

"Two of the people I admired most and who I kind of studied for the way they did things were the great Flo Ziegfeld, the Broadway producer, and Bill Zeckendorf, the builder," he told the New York Times in 1984."

McCain enlisted in the Navy in 1958. Around the same time, Trump was sent to the New York Military Academy to straighten him out after his own youthful transgressions. "He was a pretty rough fellow when he was small," his father told the Times in 1983.

But the similarities stopped there. Despite a successful stint at the military school, Trump doesn't seem to have been eager to enlist. It was 1964 and the Vietnam War was escalating.

Instead Trump attended Fordham for two years before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania, where he took economics courses at its famed Wharton School.

As Trump was enjoying the Ivy League and avoiding the war, McCain was about to become one of its most high-profile casualties.

The lieutenant commander had been flying for months, conducting targeted strikes on North Vietnam. He had already been injured in an aircraft carrier fire that killed 134 fellow sailors.

As he flew into Hanoi on October 26, 1967, his jet's warning lights began to flash. "I was on my 23rd mission, flying right over the heart of Hanoi in a dive at about 4,500 feet (1400 metres), when a Russian missile the size of a telephone pole came up - the sky was full of them - and blew the right wing off my Skyhawk dive bomber," he wrote in a 1973 account of his ordeal. "It went into an inverted, a most straight-down spin. I pulled the ejection handle, and was knocked unconscious by the force of the ejection."

McCain regained consciousness when his parachute landed him in a lake. The explosion had shattered both arms and one of his legs. With 50 pounds (22 kilograms) of gear on him and one good limb, he struggled to swim to the surface.

North Vietnamese dragged him to shore. They stripped him to his underwear and began "hollering and screaming and cursing and spitting and kicking at me".
"One of them slammed a rifle butt down on my shoulder, and smashed it pretty badly," he wrote. "Another stuck a bayonet in my foot. The mob was really getting up-tight."

He was interrogated for four days, losing consciousness as his captors tried to beat information out of him. But he refused to talk.

As the voluble Trump was already making a name for himself sweet-talking deals for his dad's real estate developing company, McCain was clamming up in his filthy prison camp.

And as Trump drove around Manhattan in his father's limo, McCain was refusing to mention his dad for fear of handing valuable intelligence to the enemy.

McCain might have died from his injuries had the North Vietnamese not found out on their own that his father was an admiral. Instead, they moved him to a hospital and performed several botched operations on him. They sliced his knee ligaments by accident and couldn't manage to set his bones.

"They had great difficulty putting the bones together, because my arm was broken in three places and there were two floating bones," he wrote. "I watched the guy try to manipulate it for about an hour and a half trying to get all the bones lined up. This was without benefit of Novocain."

That Christmas, as Trump was celebrating the holiday with his family, McCain was starving in a prison camp called "The Plantation".

"I was down to about 100 pounds (45 kilograms) from my normal weight of 155," he wrote. "I was told later on by (cellmate) Major Day that they didn't expect me to live a week."

McCain survived, however, slowly regaining his strength. By the spring of 1968, he had taught himself to walk again. Not that there was anywhere to walk. He was in solitary confinement inside a hot, stifling, windowless cell.

Trump, meanwhile, had already made a small fortune - $US200,000 then is almost $US1.4 million today - working for his father during college.

"I'd just graduated from Wharton, and suddenly here I was in a scene that was violent at worst and unpleasant at best." The danger? Collecting rent.

Meanwhile, McCain languished in a genuine hell. When he wasn't being tortured - several times his interrogators re-broke his mended bones - he was battling everything from dysentery to hemorrhoids.

He saw several fellow prisoners beaten to death, yet McCain refused to sign the confession that would have granted him a speedy release (and a publicity coup to the North Vietnamese).

Trump was living large - maybe not by today's Trump standards but larger than most Americans. He ate in New York City's finest restaurants, rode in his father's limousines and began hitting the clubs with beautiful women.

As McCain remained in solitary confinement, tapping messages on the filthy walls to his fellow POWs in Morse code, Trump was out partying at Studio 54.

McCain refused to meet with most visitors for fear of being used as a puppet by the North Vietnamese. But back in the US, Trump was too eager to manipulate the press.

"At one point, when I was hyping my plans to the press but in reality getting nowhere, a big New York real estate guy told one of my close friends. 'Trump has a great line of s---, but where are the bricks and mortar?'" he wrote. "I remember being outraged when I heard that."

Trump went on to build a fortune in the billions.

McCain, in contrast, received a Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross. He would become a US senator and unsuccessful presidential candidate.

Whether Trump can triumph in politics where McCain came up short remains to be seen.

Washington Post

[BoSoxGal]

I hope Trump's huge ego leads him to bankrupt himself (personally, for once!) in self-financing a losing campaign.

eta: What he said about McCain?

[Lord Jim]

Trump is like the kind of guy that I'm sure most people here have met at a bar, or at a cocktail party...

A loudmouth with no filtering mechanism; at first he seems amusing, and maybe even refreshing...

but who after a few minutes of listening to his non-stop gasbaggery, he has you looking around the room, checking your watch, desperately trying to find a way to get away from him....