17rump for prez!

11/24/2015 9:21:17 AM

Fuck yeah

Jeb outsmarted by an undergrad

https://www.facebook.com/NowThisNews/videos/829537633803029

11/24/2015 10:11:45 AM

Grandma Bush got pissed.

11/24/2015 10:50:53 AM

he didn't get outsmarted rather he just declined to the challenge, which is almost just as bad. Karl Rove probably would have destroyed that poor girl. Bush is just being totally exposed as a terrible performer, and his track record at Florida ain't that great either, so, I really don't see the hype behind him.

[Edited on November 24, 2015 at 11:46 AM. Reason : h]

11/24/2015 11:42:54 AM

Some good perspective for those of you who actually think (and want) Trump will win the Republican nomination. For a board that needs a lot of perspective:

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"Right now, he has 25 to 30 percent of the vote in polls among the roughly 25 percent of Americans who identify as Republican. (That’s something like 6 to 8 percent of the electorate overall, or about the same share of people who think the Apollo moon landings were faked.) "

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dear-media-stop-freaking-out-about-donald-trumps-polls/?ex_cid=538twitter

11/24/2015 11:51:12 AM

If you think only one quarter of this country identifies Republican, you sir, are in for a serious letdown.

11/24/2015 12:36:17 PM

that's not an opinion....

11/24/2015 12:37:49 PM

a 1/4 of people might "identify" as republican, but we know about half are republicans in their hearts.

11/24/2015 12:56:18 PM

^^^This is not a new trend.

Also, missing the point. Trump is only a serious contender to people that want to see Trump win the republican nomination. So liberals, mostly.

[Edited on November 24, 2015 at 3:15 PM. Reason : Check the link.]

11/24/2015 3:14:14 PM

Quote :

"Donald Trump swears he’ll close all mosques and force American-Muslims to carry special ID cards. Marco Rubio wants mosques as well as places where Muslims gather such as cafes, diners shut down. Ben Carson has referred to Syrian refugees as “rabid dogs.” Ted Cruz wants refugees to be subjected to a religious litmus test to cherry pick Christian asylum seekers. The Rhode Island Sen. Elaine Morgan wrote in an e-mail forwarded to her colleagues, to the effect refugees should be segregated in camps because “the Muslim religion and philosophy is to murder, rape and decapitate anyone who is non-Muslim.”"

That's some upright people right there!

11/24/2015 3:25:40 PM

^ not sure about the others, but Rubio is being taken a little out of context there.

11/24/2015 6:16:04 PM

Quote :

"I am probably the least racist person on earth. -- Donald Trump"

Video: http://mic.com/articles/129144/even-bill-o-reilly-is-calling-out-donald-trump-on-his-totally-wrong-racist-tweet

11/24/2015 6:54:44 PM

this is great!

http://mic.com/articles/129022/democrats-just-attacked-republican-rhetoric-on-islam-using-the-last-person-you-d-expect

11/25/2015 1:56:54 AM

^^^ Not to defend these dipshits, and not that there isn't a major problem with the GOP stance, broadly, on refugees and immigrants, but most (all?) of them are being taken somewhat out of context and/or exaggerated.

I mean, fuck 'em regardless, but why resort to spin and bullshit? Their actual statements, taken in their entirety, verbatim, and in context, are plenty appalling.

11/25/2015 9:39:08 AM

http://www.funnyordie.com/articles/b4b1743180/the-gop-s-proposed-christian-test-for-syrian-refugees?_cc=S4d___&_ccid=dub38s.lk0sru&utm_content=buffere36fb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[Edited on November 25, 2015 at 1:20 PM. Reason : ]

11/25/2015 1:20:22 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/27/politics/cj-pearson-conservative-teen-renounces-republicans/

That conservative kids all your older right wing friends shared on Facebook is splitting with GOP over racism issues, tacitly admits facing the Obama tweet, and rejected an offer to visit the Whitehouse.

11/28/2015 12:53:54 PM

http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/the-planned-parenthood-shooting-and-the-republican-candidates-responses

11/29/2015 8:46:07 PM

as i said in another thread:

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"And to call him a fucking protester and throw this shit at BLM? Fuck that bitch."

11/29/2015 10:51:01 PM

^
x1000

I really try hard not to demonize these politicians, but they make it really hard sometimes.

11/29/2015 11:50:51 PM

Quote :

"That conservative kids all your older right wing friends shared on Facebook is splitting with GOP over racism issues, tacitly admits facing the Obama tweet, and rejected an offer to visit the Whitehouse."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/27/politics/cj-pearson-conservative-teen-renounces-republicans/index.html

Yeah that's great and all, but where is the video? All that dude does is churn out videos. That's what he's known for. Where is the video announcing this change in direction?

11/30/2015 1:06:56 AM

Heidi Cruz is coming to town this evening to have coffee with you.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/christmas-coffee-with-heidi-cruz-tickets-19732436248

11/30/2015 11:45:51 AM

All republicans sure are stupid and racist!!!! Huh guys!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com

See, you don't have to suspend me, I can join the Echo-Chamber!!!!

11/30/2015 1:47:19 PM

11/30/2015 2:52:47 PM

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-12-01/ted-cruz-excoriates-marco-rubio-on-foreign-policy-and-links-him-to-hillary-clinton

cruz making very progressive foreign policy ideas...

12/1/2015 1:12:53 AM

I recall George W Bush also purporting to be a non-interventionist when he ran for president.

12/1/2015 11:06:34 AM

12/2/2015 4:57:41 PM

12/4/2015 12:25:28 PM

12/4/2015 7:46:28 PM

http://www.vice.com/read/ted-cruz-coaching-his-family-through-a-campaign-ad-is-awkward-as-hell-122

In this case I'm going to hate the game and not the player (Ted Cruz sucks and scares the shit out of me, but jumping through hoops is hardly his fault). Our system is so damn broken.

12/6/2015 7:59:32 PM

12/7/2015 1:08:28 PM

I'm relieved trump isn't in the leaD.

I don't see Cruz winning a general election though.

12/7/2015 1:39:36 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/07/politics/donald-trump-muslim-ban-immigration/
Trump: Ban all Muslim travel to U.S.

12/7/2015 6:17:38 PM

Maybe this was the psychotic bomb he's been waiting to unleash to force himself out of the race and go back to television.

Or maybe he'll win by a fucking landslide.

12/7/2015 10:19:47 PM

^ hopefully it works, or trump just normalized a hell of a lot of dangerous ideologies.

12/7/2015 10:23:38 PM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/07/27/donald-trumps-surge-is-heavily-reliant-on-less-educated-americans-heres-why/

Some interesting stats there. Unsurprisingly, Trump supporters are dumb. Surprisingly (not really to me honestly), when it comes to Mexicans, the south is the least racist in terms of viewing them as "undesirable" (probably because all the blacks are in the south and they don't mind Mexicans).

White people and Republicans dislike immigrants at about the same rate or more as people with only a high school education, with all other groups liking immigrants more. Even still, a slim majority of whites have a pro-immigrant perspective.

Blacks as a group are more likely to be against immigration than democrats as a group (but still less likely than republicans), so i think there's some possibility for Republicans to peel away black voters, if they could fix the other anti-black tenants of their platform.

12/8/2015 1:51:30 AM

are there party mechanisms to remove someone from running under your party? is there nothing a party can do if a candidate slips into full-on no-apology fascism to protect the rest of the party?

12/8/2015 10:35:23 AM

^ wasn't there some controversy last time where they used a voice vote to keep Paul out by just saying the yelling went the other way? Hasn't the DNC changed rules to block people before? Seems like they could weasel something. Considering all the pundits now finally seem to have turned on trump, it'll be interesting how the polling shifts.

I did notice for the first time on Facebook, a "low information" person posting an anti trump meme. A Christian conservative friend posted an anti trump article "why Christins should denounce trump". So it seems average people from across the spectrum are now willing to denounce trump socially.

12/8/2015 10:51:05 AM

The only good thing that can come from the Trump debacle is the sinking of the GOP.

12/8/2015 12:14:27 PM

he's been the perfect mechanism to get a sizable chunk of the base to tell on themselves in a very public way

they've always been there under the surface, he's just the first to truly empower them

12/8/2015 12:35:28 PM

Quote :

"Trump Spokeswoman destroys CNN anchor. Trump 2016!!"

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

I would say she did best him by just confidently and loudly asserting false information, it takes a more seasoned anchor to counter this kind of crazy.

12/8/2015 1:07:49 PM

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"loudly asserting false information"

Such as?

12/8/2015 2:25:41 PM

he's up to 31% in NC - http://www.twcnews.com/nc/triad/news/2015/12/8/new-ppp-poll--nc-s-support-of-donald-trump-at-highest-level-yet.html

12/8/2015 2:37:59 PM

Quote :

"Blacks as a group are more likely to be against immigration than democrats as a group"

Well duh! Having people of other minority groups move to the US dilutes their status as the top minority and the spotlight. Plus when immigrants from other ethnicities move here and succeed blows away the whole "victimization" and white privilege argument, that the "system" is holding them back.

12/8/2015 3:28:18 PM

Wow.

12/8/2015 3:39:00 PM

Yeah... Native Americans Mexicans are having a shit time so clearly the system doesn't have anything specifically against black people.

12/8/2015 5:06:18 PM

‘Vacuous sloganeering, outright lies, fake hair’: White House launches unprecedented personal attack on Donald Trump, saying his call for a Muslim entry ban ‘disqualifies him from serving as president’

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"'Let me just step back and say that the Trump campaign for months now has had a dustbin-of-history-like quality to it. From the vacuous sloganeering to the outright lies, to even the fake hair, the whole carnival barker routine that we've seen for some time now.' The president's spokesman said not only is Trump's rhetoric 'offensive,' it 'disqualifies him from serving as president.' And it exempts any other Republican candidates for the Oval Office, too, who doesn't go back on their oath to support him if he wins the GOP nomination, he said. 'That in and of itself is disqualifying.' "

12/8/2015 5:47:42 PM

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/joe-scarborough-cuts-off-trump-216531?cmpid=sf

they're getting vicious. Hard to tell if the Trump base will rally, or will they realize they're idiots.

12/8/2015 6:18:22 PM

Apparently trump supporters think it's a legitimate defense to point out the Japanese internment (i'm guessing they just learned about this?). Also seeing references to Carter's embargo of Iran as the same thing what trump is calling for.

12/8/2015 10:49:17 PM

OK, he is mentally challenged. He doesn't know how the internet or the real world works.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-wants-to-ban-the-internet-will-ask-bill-gates-to-close-it-up-a6764396.html

Donald Trump wants to ban the internet, will ask Bill Gates to ‘close it up’

Quote :

"In a campaign speech last night, for example, Trump not only repeated his declaration that Muslims should not be allowed into the country, he said that the United States might have close to down the Internet in some places in order to stop terrorism. "We have to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that internet up in some ways. Somebody will say, 'Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people.""

12/8/2015 11:33:26 PM

true story: http://theslot.jezebel.com/the-media-is-locked-in-a-disgusting-human-centipede-wit-1746970380

12/9/2015 1:25:58 PM