HIRALLY CLIMPS FOR PRESIDETN • US presidential elections part VII

Jungle primary!

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jungle primary is just "no primary with a 2-way runoff if necessary", right?

dumb: tech/media people trying to figure out why right-libertarian weirdo gay billionaire peter thiel is such a trump fan. he HATES IMMIGRATION. it's right in front of us. duh. the blindness about it seems like a retread of the early primaries where the media couldn't get a handle on trump's support. IMMIGRATION. DUH.

ugh didn't he say his parents came to the us when he was one? fuck these people. they all get successful then want to pull the ladder up behind them so nobody else can.

LOVE this thread title, let's keep it until the election

weird: one of trump's hand gesture tics, the "a-ok" circle w/ 3 fingers up, has become a kind of "gang sign" among far right dudes.

It always looks like he is pulling an imaginary zipper up and down to me

looking forward to facebook et al finally distancing themselves from thiel on grounds of technical details of H-1B policy, not that he's a nihilist crank who rolls with fascists

I wonder if Mike Pence literally prayed about his potential VP role and then, confident in God's vision, joined the ticket blind, without even meeting Trump. And now that he's hitched to the Trump train, he's privately reevaluating his relationship with God. I mean, his reported Trumpdar sounded more than a little like Bush's looking into Putin's eyes and seeing his good soul.

ugh didn't he say his parents came to the us when he was one? fuck these people. they all get successful then want to pull the ladder up behind them so nobody else can.

― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Friday, July 22, 2016 11:43 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

peter thiel, and presumably his parents, are white

"The Night I Fired Donald Trump"

I run over. He’s up there again! I go (gives the come here gesture). We go into the hallway. I said, “Donald. You lied. You broke your promise. One of two things is going to happen. You’re going to leave the building and, at 6:40, The Rolling Stones are going to speak on CBS News, or you’re not going to leave the building and I’m going to go on and do an interview to explain to the world why the pay-per-view was canceled. I know it’s your building and…” – and in my head I’m going, this is so crazy, right? I’m trying to throw Donald Trump out of his own building.

But, anyway, the bottom line is I look at Donald and said, “You and Marla (Maples) have to go. You’re fired.” He looks at me and goes berserk.

“You don’t know anything! Your guys suck! I promote Mike Tyson! I promote heavyweight fights!” And I notice the three shtarkers he’s with, in trench coats, two of them are putting on gloves and the other one is putting on brass knuckles. I go on the walkie-talkie and I call for Jim Callahan, who was head of our security, and I go, “Jim, I think I’m in a bit of trouble.” And he says, “Just turn around.”

I turn around. He’s got 40 of the crew with tire irons and hockey sticks and screwdrivers.

“And now, are you gonna go, Donald?”

And off he went.

And that was the night I fired Donald Trump.

http://www.pollstar.com/news_article.aspx?ID=819781

the most interesting thing i heard trump say last night was something about tearing up trade deals or whatever, deals that were thousands of pages long and no one in this country understands. we're idiots, i get that, but still that's a little insulting!

Over at his blog, The Resurgent, RedState.com founder Erick Erickson wrote that "Cheeto Jesus" effectively killed the "spirit of entrepreneurship" and American exceptionalism in his speech accepting the GOP nomination.

"I’m sure in the original German the speech had some nuances that were commendable," he wrote. "The Republican Party is officially now the party of Trump. Instead of happy warriors, they are angry, bitter bigots...That anger is not going to attract anyone, so they will bully and browbeat."

ok fuck erick son of erick forever but "cheeto jesus" is hilarious.

Cruz's thing about Trump disrespecting his wife and father gives Cruz a (fleeting) Gary Cooper gravitas, and leaves Trump looking like Jack Elam.

― woke newt (stevie), Friday, July 22, 2016 11:52 AM (27 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dont know who any of those ppl are are they canadian politicians?

― lag∞n

ok you asked for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcBBemS-HRk

anybody want to place odds on whether pence will make it on the ticket until november?

http://i.imgur.com/BkSi5Vh.jpg

trump doing romney numbers

does that count online streaming?

idk

tho it does say broadcast

that might just reflect continued decline in audience for broadcast TV

trump doesn't realise there's any news media other than cable news and the major networks though, so that's got to hurt

Jungle primary, O E O E O

streaming prob still p small for something like this thats available everywhere

Gotta say Clinton retweeting Martin Shrekli's endorsement of Trump in the middle of his speech was pretty genius

her tweet team is def on fleek

the instareadout on youtube last night during his speech only had a couple few hundred thousand viewers

I think that's a strategy that's going to do well for her, deal with him using humor and give the impression that you don't take him seriously. You almost can't hit the guy on policy, because he doesn't have any.

I don't think it would work for her (bc misogyny), but during the primary, Jeb! might've had a fighting chance if he went to one of the debates and just said "Go fuck yourself, Donald."

"Shut the fuck up, Donnie!"

(bc misogyny)

I think it would work for her and I don't get what you mean here.

wow

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/22/12258324/trump-attack-ted-cruz-transcript

xp Women's anger reads differently to men's.

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

Sometimes his double-speak is legitimately hilarious.

Two other things, just to finish with Ted because I like Ted. He’s fine.

Again, I don’t want his endorsement. If he gives it, I will not accept it. Just so you understand. I will not accept it. It won’t matter. Honestly, he should have done it because nobody cares and he would have been in better shape for four years from now if he’s gonna— I don’t see him winning anyway, frankly. But if he did, it’s fine.

Although maybe I’ll set up a super PAC if he decides to run. Are you allowed to set up a super PAC, Mike, if you are the president to fight somebody?

[Mike Pence shakes his head and mouths the word ‘no’]

ahh, this is the good stuff:

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/07/ana-navarro-rips-trumps-disgusting-speech

that vox thing... is that parody or transcript? i honestly cannot tell.

because nobody cares and he would have been in better shape for four years from now if he’s gonna— I don’t see him winning anyway, frankly

uh, is he saying that he's going to lose so cruz will be running again in 4 years?

I think he's imagining a Cruz primary challenge to Presidetn Trump 2020. In his mind, he's already won this election, it's the bag, the ratings were through the roof.

Ana Navarro is a hack who would love to marry Marco Rubio tho

Thanks for the dn, Vox transcript.

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.