HIRALLY CLIMPS FOR PRESIDETN • US presidential elections part VII

oops missed the close-quote

Just a great debater except he lost in every single poll in every single debate.

Sometimes his double-speak is legitimately hilarious.

This is intended to be funny, though.

Wondering what Trump is doing on the first day of the General Election? Currently, he's insisting that Ted Cruz's father may have killed JFK
— Kevin Feeney (@KevinMFeeney) July 22, 2016

trump still being preoccupied with cruz fits trump's personality to a tee. the more you see of him, the more obvious it is that his neuroses are in the driver's seat

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/03/donald_trump_has_one_core_philosophy_misogyny.html

this is a good piece

The joy he takes in humiliating women is not something he even bothers to disguise. He told the journalist Timothy L. O’Brien, “My favorite part [of the movie Pulp Fiction] is when Sam has his gun out in the diner and he tells the guy to tell his girlfriend to shut up. Tell that bitch to be cool. Say: ‘Bitch be cool.’ I love those lines.” Or as he elegantly summed up his view to New York magazine in the early ’90s, “Women, you have to treat them like shit.”

If Cruz actively continues to needle him and cause him to fly off the rails then I will honestly become a Ted Cruz fan

If you go to that Crooks and Liars Ana Navarro link, you've got to look at Van Jones' face before you hit play on the clip.

While he celebrates his own sexuality, he believes that female sexuality has spun out of control and needs to be contained. The best example of this view is a reality show called Lady or a Tramp, which Trump developed for Fox but never aired. The premise of the show was that Trump would take “girls in love with the party life” and send them off for a “stern course” on manners. “We are all sick and tired of the glamorization of these out-of-control young women,” he told Variety, “so I have taken it upon myself to do something about it.”

Lady or a Tramp was based on a British show called Ladette to Lady, here's the Variety comparison of the two shows.

"[On Ladette to Lady] Girls are required to wear tweed skirts and pearl necklaces, and taught the finer points of skills like flower arranging and needlework.

Contestants then face challenges in those areas, with one girl expelled from the school at the end of each episode.

'Tramp' will follow a similar format and also show ample footage of the girls partying."

I've been surprised at the sheer volume of stupid and crass things associated with Trump

As someone whose physical being is comprised of pure id, I'm genuinely baffled at his general ability to have maintained just enough self-control during this election season to refrain from publicly using any of the big pejoratives that would effectively end his campaign. I guess he still has a little while.

his end goal is to keep being on tv for the next 10 years, so he knows his boundaries I think

jesus christ @ that Vox transcript

also wow Ana Navarro was mad

To be fair, that idiot Trump guy she was arguing with, every time I've seen him speak I've wanted to punch him in the face.

the washington post has seen enough

I'm glad she shut down that "What is wrong with having sympathy for people who are murdered?" line, that truly is disgusting

Wow, that Post non endorsement. When was the last time something like that ran in a major paper? Will it be the last we read this season?

doubt it

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cn_weyrWIAARlM4.jpg:small

my local paper, which is a gannett publication, has really stopped giving a fuck about the "cover both sides" bullshit that has plagued journalism recently and has been publishing mostly editorials with the general tone of "this guy is really fucking horrible and dumb"

HuffPo has its problems, but I respect its policy of closing every article that mentions Trump with the disclaimer:

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims ― 1.6 billion members of an entire religion ― from entering the U.S.

Personal note: I come from a family of journalists, I went to journalism school, I've worked for newspapers and magazines for 20 years. I am reasonably well-versed in the principles of the profession. Balance, fairness, "objectivity" - those don't mean that Both Sides Do It has to be the default angle, or that the truth must be precisely halfway between the positions of major political parties. The "On the other hand, Mr. Hitler contends..." style is just tedious and I see no good reason to continue it. Especially since the right is not ever going to believe that the media is anything other than hopelessly biased against them, so why try?

That "lady and tramp" show existed, just without Trump - it was on VH1 and it was called Charm School.

How's Trump going to take people going after him in primetime for 4 days straight next week?

By tweeting?

he's probably going to either call into one of the networks or otherwise try to do some sort of direct counterprogramming.

cable networks, I mean,

The "On the other hand, Mr. Hitler contends..." style

over 100 edits to tim kaine's wiki page in the past week: https://twitter.com/nicktheandersen/status/756475346220908544

wonder who the biggest name republican to publicly declare for hillary will be

schwarzenegger

some desperate ass senator in a close race

i'd be desperate too if i were an ass senator

some centrists will jump ship like i cld see a blue state senator like collins or whoever but im looking for a v srs conservative to flip out of shear disgust and fear

I could see Graham or McCain.

i'd be desperate too if i were an ass senator

― mookieproof, Friday, July 22, 2016 4:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

an ass senator...in the sexual congress

bush wld be awesome "this guys nuts and my paw dont like him either" pappy vaguely gestures from his chair

they still want george p bush to be president one day, so they will not be disloyal to the party that way imo

the bush family name is dirt forget abt bushes its over no one likes you

I could see Graham or McCain.

― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF)

mccain? the guy who thinks that obama literally supports terrorists? fuck no.

yeah, no way McCain is jumping ship, that guy's only a "moderate" on like 2 issues. He's really just a guy who excels at getting media attention by seeming like the "reasonable" conservative. Also, he's up for re-election this year, and he needs the deep red xenophobic base of Arizona to win.

I say this as an AZ resident, he's in a race he will win, but one that will be tighter than previous races. There's no benefit for him to back off of Trump, who he's already endorsed

McCain is the dude that some Dems inexplicably say they like cos of some things he said in 2000 that were supposedly coherent but weren't actually that big of a deal

the guy is also going to die next year. I suspect Poppy Bush will die before this year's election and tip the election Hils' way.

The only thing McCain has done recently that I approve of is apologizing (mildly and years too late) for his egregious pandering to South Carolina racists and confederate flag lovers during the 2008 primary election.

cld see mcain flipping hes a major grumpus "doesnt suffer fools" wld help him in the general in a big latino state + prob his last race, trump insulted his sacred war hero status

he's going to form the Oldpublican party and we'll be back to a three major party system

I wasn't suggesting either of these dudes was a reasonable person or a moderate.

Never 4get the '88 GOP primary:

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/republican-presidential-hopefuls-pat-robertson-robert-j-dole-jack-f-picture-id50361812

Al Haig!