Half-baked Republican Presidential Fruitcakes (and fellow confections)

robindch

robdonn wrote: »

https://twitter.com/TheNardvark/status/694968109040586754

The burn is strong with that one.

robindch

Questions are being raised about the ability to lead of the current, increasingly small, field of Republican presidential fruitcakes when they make a mess of stepping out from behind a curtain.

Confusion starts at 0:30.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR1kV2hBaGY

looksee

robindch wrote: »

Questions are being raised about the ability to lead of the current, increasingly small, field of Republican presidential fruitcakes when they make a mess of stepping out from behind a curtain.

Confusion starts at 0:30.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR1kV2hBaGY

Well now, in fairness it looked more like the organisers and announcers made a mess of it rather than the speakers.

recedite

Poor Carson got left standing there behind the curtain due to a mix-up. The organisers should have called his name again. He shouldn't be expected to come sneaking out later announced, behind one of the others, like some second-rate candidate.

Fair play to Trump, he was the only one to stand there in solidarity with Carson, refusing to pass him out.

robdonn

recedite wrote: »

Fair play to Trump, he was the only one to stand there in solidarity with Carson, refusing to pass him out.

That was actually a nice move by Trump, can't stand the guy but that was a decent thing to do.

recedite

IMO you can discover more about the true character of a politician from something like that, which is totally unrehearsed, than from all the pre-scripted speeches delivered with a beaming tooth-whitened smile.
That's the thing about Trump, what you see is what you get; there is no fakeness to the guy. Its that unusual feature that will either make him or break him as a presidential candidate.

robindch

robdonn wrote: »

That was actually a nice move by Trump, can't stand the guy but that was a decent thing to do.

Hard to know - Trump might not have been able to hear what was going on either!

In any case, it was certainly fun to see Cruz + Jeb shake their heads and continue on past - can't say that there seems to be too much love lost amongst the candidates.

recedite

robindch wrote: »

Cruz + Jeb shake their heads and continue on past -

They were focused solely on the holy trinity; Me, Myself and I.

robdonn

Rubio made an absolute fool of himself up against Chris Christie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_Gg6ggghoI

Bristolscale7

Now this is funny. Two guys tried to perform an exorcism on Ted Cruz.

"He’s very hard to be in the same room with. We had to exorcise some sort of disgusting evil spirit. There’s a reason that the body is so haggard and disgusting, and the face, and it’s all so weathered and gross and hard to look at. And it’s because he’s possessed by a demon. Being in the room with evil so close, it’s just hard to even comprehend. The evil is so deep rooted and maybe if it had to confront itself..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-exorcism_us_56b9669ae4b08069c7a89847

robindch

Following Trump's public spat with Pope Frank last week, the New Yorker proposes a few new parables:

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/donald-trumps-parables-for-the-pope

The New Yorker wrote:

The Hair Stylist

Jesus continued to his disciples, “There was a hair stylist in a town who was known for giving good haircuts. A man went to him and said, “Please help me, for what is going on on the top of my head is an abomination unto God.” The hair stylist sat him in a chair. For hours, the stylist worked tirelessly on the man’s hairdo—combing, blow-drying, and snipping. When it was finished, the stylist told the man to look in the mirror. “It still looks like garbage,” the man said. “Like someone has melted a fox and poured it over a waterfall.” “Yes,” the stylist said, “your hair is an abomination unto God. But the true abomination is in your heart. That is what you must fix.” The man spat on the floor, threw five hundred dollars at the stylist, and left.

Shrap

This is nice. Some lovely video editing going on here!

Game of Thrones: Winter is Trumping
https://www.facebook.com/whitetrash/videos/1022098647843437/?fref=nf

Can't find it on youtube so you'll have to click the linky. Well worth it

robindch

The New Yorker looked at Trump last year, and didn't much like what it saw:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/31/the-fearful-and-the-frustrated

robdonn

Highlights from the recent Republican debate. A noticeable lack of Carson and Kasich.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj3QFBX9P_c

JPNelsforearm

robdonn wrote: »

Highlights from the recent Republican debate. A noticeable lack of Carson and Kasich.

The Donald is such a hero, unstumpable.

robdonn

JPNelsforearm wrote: »

The Donald is such a hero, unstumpable.

Un-shut-up-able.

JPNelsforearm

robdonn wrote: »

Un-shut-up-able.

If you are going to bury someone, or trying to, you cant go about it half heartedly as as the likes of Rubio and Cruz do. They just end up looking weaker for it.

He called Cruz a "crazy zealot" to his face, he's hilarious. No one else would call out these religious headbangers like that.

robdonn

JPNelsforearm wrote: »

If you are going to bury someone, or trying to, you cant go about it half heartedly as as the likes of Rubio and Cruz do. They just end up looking weaker for it.

He called Cruz a "crazy zealot" to his face, he's hilarious. No one else would call out these religious headbangers like that.

That's all well and good when they are just attacking and weakening each other, but what has actually happened is that they have driven out all the moderate candidates. There isn't a single non-crazy zealot (of some sort) left on the stage.

Rubio got some fairly good digs in at Trump but was just shouted over. The only thing that a Trump nomination is good for is getting another Democrat president.

JPNelsforearm

robdonn wrote: »

That's all well and good when they are just attacking and weakening each other, but what has actually happened is that they have driven out all the moderate candidates. There isn't a single non-crazy zealot (of some sort) left on the stage.

Rubio got some fairly good digs in at Trump but was just shouted over. The only thing that a Trump nomination is good for is getting another Democrat president.

What is Trump a zealot about? Take away the bluster and electioneering he's a smart guy. He has the least baggage out of any candidate left running.

I disagree about a "moderate candidate", all the "moderate" candidates were establishment shills, a load of neo cons like Jeb!.

robdonn

JPNelsforearm wrote: »

What is Trump a zealot about? Take away the bluster and electioneering he's a smart guy. He has the least baggage out of any candidate left running.

I disagree about a "moderate candidate", all the "moderate" candidates were establishment shills, a load of neo cons like Jeb!.

He is a zealot about himself, he thinks he's god's gift. Take away his bluster and electioneering and he is a just a bad business man, which is a huge thing since his entire platform is based off his business experience. Rubio said it well when he said if Trump hadn't received his million dollar loan from his dad, he'd be selling watches on the streets of New York.

They are all shills, even Trump only ran in the first place to build the Trump brand, but there were moderate candidates. Christ Christie was probably the best candidate in the running because he was the only one right-of-centre. As much of an ass as he could be, he was also a reasonable person. He conceded when he needed to. You always hear American politicians talking about "reaching across the aisles" for important issues, he was the only one that ever actually did that. So even though I'd prefer a Democrat president, if the Republicans had won I would have wished it was to him.

JPNelsforearm

robdonn wrote: »

He is a zealot about himself, he thinks he's god's gift. Take away his bluster and electioneering and he is a just a bad business man, which is a huge thing since his entire platform is based off his business experience. Rubio said it well when he said if Trump hadn't received his million dollar loan from his dad, he'd be selling watches on the streets of New York.

They are all shills, even Trump only ran in the first place to build the Trump brand, but there were moderate candidates. Christ Christie was probably the best candidate in the running because he was the only one right-of-centre. As much of an ass as he could be, he was also a reasonable person. He conceded when he needed to. You always hear American politicians talking about "reaching across the aisles" for important issues, he was the only one that ever actually did that. So even though I'd prefer a Democrat president, if the Republicans had won I would have wished it was to him.

You do know Trump studied at Fordham and then Wharton school of business, cmon, he wouldnt be selling watches, joke of a line, as Trump says, he's employed tens of thousands of people, blue collar jobs, the people on the stage have neither created nor employed anyone.
The painting of Trump as some idiot is laughable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rksd80-FCAw

robdonn

JPNelsforearm wrote: »

You do know Trump studied at Fordham and then Wharton school of business, cmon, he wouldnt be selling watches, joke of a line, as Trump says, he's employed tens of thousands of people, blue collar jobs, the people on the stage have neither created nor employed anyone.
The painting of Trump as some idiot is laughable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rksd80-FCAw

And George W. Bush was in the National Guard but that doesn't make him an example of a serviceman. My aunty graduated from Trinity but now she's a truck driver.

Yes, he has built big businesses but he has also destroyed big businesses. The Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts and Trump Entertainment Resorts. All run into the ground. Granted, not entirely his fault, but he is also not blameless.

PopePalpatine

Donald Trump has just retweeted a quote from Mussolini.

recedite

Its not a bad quote (unless you're a sheep)
They have been trying to "entrap" The Donald since last year, and now they are pi$$ing themselves with excitement because he has finally retweeted one of their tweets. A sad existence really. Maybe that's what was meant by "living your life as a sheep".. spending 6 months trying to bait a lion?
And in the end, all they have to criticise him with is an ad hominem logical fallacy as an "argument" to use against him.

Last year, we set a trap for Trump. We came up with the idea for that Mussolini bot under the assumption that Trump would retweet just about anything, no matter how dubious or vile the source, as long as it sounded like praise for himself.

the sheep say

Custardpi

The fact that they think that that sort of smart alec "gotcha" trick would be in any way damaging to Trump shows how little they understand the Trump phenomenon. I mean ffs the guy has been saying ludicrous, deeply offensive stuff throughout the entire campaign & it hasn't done him a bit of harm. Quite the opposite in fact. The people who will laugh at his gaffe are the ones who weren't going to vote for him anyway.

robdonn

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

orubiru

robdonn wrote: »

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

That was amazing.

The audience are so annoying though. Squealing like eejits because they've come up with an anti-Trump hashtag. Cringe.

I wonder if that is something that actually builds up Trumps popularity?

Custardpi

orubiru wrote: »

That was amazing.

The audience are so annoying though. Squealing like eejits because they've come up with an anti-Trump hashtag. Cringe.

I wonder if that is something that actually builds up Trumps popularity?

Looking at what Trump supporters are saying online I reckon that's a big factor. American politics has got incredibly polarised in the last decade or so & the thought of some goatee sporting, skinny jeans wearing chai latte sipping (insert other stereotypes as preferred) leftie self-righteously retweeting the tag on his ipad is probably enough to make many on the fence about Trump commit more firmly to the cause.

Nodin

Not sure if this will show up, however it seemed appropriate given recent statements by one candidate in particular....

Bristolscale7