Is The Trump Thing Serious?

[coffin_dodger]

'Trump' over here in Blighty language can mean flatulence.

Warm, (sometimes hot) smelly gas, accompanied by the noise generated by said gas being forcefully ejected through the rectum and beyond.

Welcome to a USA run by Trump.

[Lord Balto]

OK I'll start...

His election rallies will be called "wig-outs"
He will come within a hairpiece of winning

Another wignut running for president.

"Comb over to my rally!"

"My opponent is a bald faced liar."

[Lord Balto]

'Trump' over here in Blighty language can mean flatulence.

Warm, (sometimes hot) smelly gas, accompanied by the noise generated by said gas being forcefully ejected through the rectum and beyond.

Welcome to a USA run by Trump.

"To which her bum plaid double-bass
And made such thund'ring as she trump'd,
Both Ajax and Achilles jump'd."
--Bridges, Homer, 1774
(via Slang and its Analogues, 1890)

[seemslikeadream]

the crabs had not gotten to his eyes..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFVC3qYGYiE

Neil Young to Donald Trump: Don't play my music
USA TODAY NETWORK Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY 10:04 a.m. EDT June 17, 2015

Donald Trump's day-old campaign is already getting doused in hater-ade. On Tuesday, hours after the real-estate magnate and reality TV star played Neil Young's Rockin' in the Free World as he bounded on stage, announcing he'll seek the Republican nomination for president (he means it this time!), Young had a message for him: Quit it.

A statement from Young's rep Rick Gershon reads:

"Donald Trump was not authorized to use Rockin' In The Free World in his presidential candidacy announcement. Neil Young, a Canadian citizen, is a supporter of Bernie Sanders for President of the United States of America."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvtdbfI1sqQ

[coffin_dodger]

"To which her bum plaid double-bass
And made such thund'ring as she trump'd,
Both Ajax and Achilles jump'd."
--Bridges, Homer, 1774

Love it. So beautifully put.

[Iamwhomiam]

'Trump' over here in Blighty language can mean flatulence.

Warm, (sometimes hot) smelly gas, accompanied by the noise generated by said gas being forcefully ejected through the rectum and beyond.

Welcome to a USA run by Trump.

Did not know that. Nor did I the ditty Lord Balto's posted.

Such a worldly education I'm getting from reading RI!

[Lord Balto]

"To which her bum plaid double-bass
And made such thund'ring as she trump'd,
Both Ajax and Achilles jump'd."
--Bridges, Homer, 1774

Love it. So beautifully put.

Doing a little further research, this is from vol. 1 of Thomas Bridges' A Burlesque Translation of Homer. The 1797 revision is here.

If you would make a speech, or write one,
Or get some artist to indite one,
Don't think, because 'tis understood
By men of sense, 'tis therefore good;
But let your words so well be plann'd,
That blockheads can't misunderstand.

[seemslikeadream]

[stillrobertpaulsen]

That is so damn ugly it is, perversely, a thing of beauty.

[82_28]

Jesus I can't wait for Colbert to get back on the air. He will pillory all wingers at any given time and also out of character.

[seemslikeadream]

NBC Cuts Business Ties with Donald Trump Over Immigration Remarks

Trump Says His Immigration Views 'Much Different Than the People at NBC' 0:46
NBC is ending its business relationship with Donald Trump over his recent comments about Mexican immigrants.

"At NBC, respect and dignity for all people are cornerstones of our values," NBC said in a statement. "Due to the recent derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants, NBCUniversal is ending its business relationship with Mr. Trump."

The network will no longer air the annual Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants that were part of a joint venture with Trump, the statement added. Its relationship with "Celebrity Apprentice" will continue, as Trump ceased his involvement with the reality show during his presidential bid.

The real estate mogul and 2016 presidential candidate has faced criticism for comments he made during his announcement speech earlier this month.

"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best," he said. "They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."

Univison previously announced that it would cease its relationship with the Miss Universe Organization over the comments. Trump has said he will sue that network for breach of contract and defamation.

Trump responded to the news after an appearance in Chicago, telling reporters: "I think as far as ending the relationship, I have to do that because my view on immigration is much different than the people at NBC."

In a written statement, he added: "If NBC is so weak and so foolish to not understand the serious illegal immigration problem in the United States, coupled with the horrendous and unfair trade deals we are making with Mexico, then their contract violating closure of Miss Universe/Miss USA will be determined in court."

[Wombaticus Rex]

[8bitagent]

Haha, forgot I called it on bin Laden in this thread a month before the raid. There's another thread where I speculated he's probably being safehoused in a mansion by Pakistani ISI, tho turned out to be a crappy concrete structure...just all the Ayman al-Zawahiri videos seemed to be filmed in an opulenet mansion study.

Also fuck Trump...not that he's any LESS of a proper candidate than the 2008/2012/2016 GOP clown car of candidates

It does not seem that the powers that be are finished with Obama yet. Think about his story arc as we were predicting it to play out from 2004 to 2016. The message we were sent with his presidency is not yet completed; and we've predicted it accurately thus far.

I also suspect one of these days they'll also wrap up the bin Laden saga as well, perhaps even producing the real man himself.

Obama, Osama...a coincidence? There's been no other two polar opposite/polarizing figures used within a decade media cycle before. Osama is the devil! Obama is the lightbringer! Only Obama get get Osama.

[RocketMan]

It appears that the answer to the question posed by the OP currently stands at a resounding FUCK YEAH!

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/ne ... d-20150714

A new national poll from USA Today/Suffolk University finds that Donald Trump is leading the Republican field.

It's hilarious enough that a billionaire bigot who's slandered Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals, and who makes Reddit trolls appear statesmanlike by comparison, is leading the GOP field.

What's even more riotous is that Trump is running laps around GOP senators who have built national reputations on their supposed resonance with the party's activist base.

Trump is polling at 17 percent. The top three Senate candidates in the GOP field — Ted Cruz of Texas (6 percent), Marco Rubio of Florida (5 percent) and Rand Paul of Kentucky (4 percent) — combine for a paltry 15 percent. You'd have to add the backers of New Jersey's wildly unpopular Gov. Chris Christie (3 percent) to defeat The Donald.

[Wombaticus Rex]

Excellent piece on Trump: http://www.nationalmemo.com/21-question ... ald-trump/

I have covered Donald Trump off and on for 27 years — including breaking the story that in 1990, when he claimed to be worth $3 billion but could not pay interest on loans coming due, his bankers put his net worth at minus $295 million. And so I have closely watched what Trump does and what government documents reveal about his conduct.

Reporters, competing Republican candidates, and voters would learn a lot about Trump if they asked for complete answers to these 21 questions.

So, Mr. Trump…

1. You call yourself an “ardent philanthropist,” but have not donated a dollar to The Donald J. Trump Foundation since 2006. You’re not even the biggest donor to the foundation, having given about $3.7 million in the previous two decades while businesses associated with Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Entertainment gave the Trump Foundation $5 million. All the money since 2006 has come from those doing business with you.

How does giving away other people’s money, in what could be seen as a kickback scheme, make you a philanthropist?

2. New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman successfully sued you, alleging your Trump University was an “illegal educational institution” that charged up to $35,000 for “Trump Elite” mentorships promising personal advice from you, but you never showed up and your “special” list of lenders was photocopied from Scotsman Guide, a magazine found at any bookstore.

Why did you not show up?

3. You claimed The Learning Annex paid you a $1 million speaking fee, but on Larry King Live, you acknowledged the fee was $400,000 and the rest was the promotional value.

Since you have testified under oath that your public statements inflate the value of your assets, can voters use this as a guide, so whenever you say $1, in reality it is only 40 cents?

4. The one-page financial statement handed out at Trump Tower when you announced your candidacy says you’ve given away $102 million worth of land.

Will you supply a list of each of these gifts, with the values you assigned to them?

5. The biggest gift you have talked about appears to be an easement at the Palos Verdes, California, golf course bearing your name on land you wanted to build houses on, but that land is subject to landslides and is now the golf course driving range.

Did you or one of your businesses take a tax deduction for this land that you could not build on and do you think anyone should get a $25 million tax deduction for a similar self-serving gift?

6. Trump Tower is not a steel girder high rise, but 58 stories of concrete.

Why did you use concrete instead of traditional steel girders?

7. Trump Tower was built by S&A Concrete, whose owners were “Fat” Tony Salerno, head of the Genovese crime family, and Paul “Big Paul” Castellano, head of the Gambinos, another well-known crime family.

If you did not know of their ownership, what does that tell voters about your management skills?

8. You later used S&A Concrete on other Manhattan buildings bearing your name.

Why?

9. In demolishing the Bonwit Teller building to make way for Trump Tower, you had no labor troubles, even though only about 15 unionists worked at the site alongside 150 Polish men, most of whom entered the country illegally, lacked hard hats, and slept on the site.

How did you manage to avoid labor troubles, like picketing and strikes, and job safety inspections while using mostly non-union labor at a union worksite — without hard hats for the Polish workers?

10. A federal judge later found you conspired to cheat both the Polish workers, who were paid less than $5 an hour cash with no benefits, and the union health and welfare fund. You testified that you did not notice the Polish workers, whom the judge noted were easy to spot because they were the only ones on the work site without hard hats.

What should voters make of your failure or inability to notice 150 men demolishing a multi-story building without hard hats?

11. You sent your top lieutenant, lawyer Harvey I. Freeman, to negotiate with Ken Shapiro, the “investment banker” for Nicky Scarfo, the especially vicious killer who was Atlantic City’s mob boss, according to federal prosecutors and the New Jersey State Commission on Investigation.

Since you emphasize your negotiating skills, why didn’t you negotiate yourself?

12. You later paid a Scarfo associate twice the value of a lot, officials determined.

Since you boast that you always negotiate the best prices, why did you pay double the value of this real estate?

13. You were the first person recommended for a casino license by the New Jersey Attorney General’s Division of Gaming Enforcement, which opposed all other applicants or was neutral. Later it came out in official proceedings that you had persuaded the state to limit its investigation of your background.

Why did you ask that the investigation into your background be limited?

14. You were the target of a 1979 bribery investigation. No charges were filed, but New Jersey law mandates denial of a license to anyone omitting any salient fact from their casino application.

Why did you omit the 1979 bribery investigation?

15. The prevailing legal case on license denials involved a woman, seeking a blackjack dealer license, who failed to disclose that as a retail store clerk she had given unauthorized discounts to friends.

In light of the standard set for low-level license holders like blackjack dealers, how did you manage to keep your casino license?

16. In 1986 you wrote a letter seeking lenient sentencing for Joseph Weichselbaum, a convicted marijuana and cocaine trafficker who lived in Trump Tower and in a case that came before your older sister, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry of U.S. District Court in Newark, New Jersey, who recused herself because Weichselbaum was the Trump casinos and Trump family helicopter consultant and pilot.

Why did you do business with Weichselbaum, both before and after his conviction?

17. Your first major deal was converting the decrepit Commodore Hotel next to Grand Central Station into a Grand Hyatt. Mayor Abe Beame, a close ally of your father Fred, gave you the first-ever property tax abatement on a New York City hotel, worth at least $400 million over 40 years.

Since you boast that you are a self-made billionaire, how do you rationalize soliciting and accepting $400 million of welfare from the taxpayers?

18. You say that your experience as a manager will allow you to run the federal government much better than President Obama or Hillary Clinton. On Fortune Magazine’s 1999 list of the 496 most admired companies, your casino company ranked at the bottom – worst or almost worst in management, use of assets, employee talent, long-term investment value, and social responsibility. Your casino company later went bankrupt.

Why should voters believe your claims that you are a competent manager?

19. Your Trump Plaza casino was fined $200,000 for discriminating against women and minority blackjack dealers to curry favor with gambler Robert Libutti, who lost $12 million, and who insisted he never asked that blacks and women be replaced.

Why should we believe you “love” what you call “the blacks” and the enterprise you seek to lead would not discriminate again in the future if doing so appeared to be lucrative?

20. Public records (cited in my book Temples of Chance) show that as your career took off, you legally reported a negative income and paid no income taxes as summarized below:

1975
Income: $76,210
Tax Paid: $18,714

1976
Income: $24,594
Tax Paid: $10,832

1977
Income: $118,530
Tax Paid: $42,386

1978
Income: ($406,379)
Tax Paid: $0

1979
Income: ($3,443,560)
Tax Paid: $0

Will you release your tax returns? And if not, why not?

21. In your first bestselling book, The Art of the Deal, you told how you had not gotten much work done on your first casino, so you had crews dig and fill holes to create a show. You said one director of your partner, Holiday Inns, asked what was going on. “This was difficult for me to answer, but fortunately this board member was more curious than he was skeptical,” you wrote.

Given your admission that you used deception to hide your failure to accomplish the work, why should we believe you now?