The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

[Defiant]

Funny, from the videos I've seen, I thought they were chanting "Build the Wall" and "Lock her up". And possibly "Eat at Moe's"

[tgb]

Funny, from the videos I've seen, I thought they were chanting "Build the Wall" and "Lock her up". And possibly "Eat at Moe's"

The only "USA USA!" chants I've heard on videos from Drumpf rallies are coming from protesters being ejected.

[YellowKing]

Mike Pence is holding a rally in town today, and the local headlines keep saying, "Expectations are high for Pence rally!"

Expectations are high for what? That he won't imply assassinating his opponent like Trump did when he was here?

[Moliere]

Again, who says this guy isn't a good businessman?

Donald Trump Used Campaign Donations to Buy $55,000 of His Own Book

Donald Trump used his campaign funds to buy thousands of copies of his own book at retail cost, simultaneously diverting donor money back into his pockets while artificially boosting his sales figures. It’s a tactic that may be illegal, campaign finance experts say.

On May 10, the Trump campaign paid Barnes & Noble $55,055, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission. That amounts to more than 3,500 copies of the hardcover version of Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again, or just over 5,000 copies of the renamed paperback release, Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America.

A spokesperson for the Republican nominee told The Daily Beast the books were purchased “as part of gifting at the convention, which we have to do.” Sure enough, delegates in attendance at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July were given canvas tote bags, stamped with the Trump slogan, and filled with copies of Crippled America, as well as Kleenex and Make America Great Again! cups, hats, and T-shirts. Delegates were also given plastic fetus figurines.

[El Guapo]

Delegates were also given plastic fetus figurines.

Of course they were.

[Defiant]

Actually, IIRC, don't a lot of politicians buy their own books to put them on the best-seller lists? I remember hearing about a number of candidates that had in 2012 or maybe 2008.

[Defiant]

Campaigns and publishers both profit when candidates buy their own books

[Isgrimnur]

Delegates were also given plastic fetus figurines.

Of course they were.

Mashable (pics at the link)

[The Post and Courier journalist Emma] Dumain also tweeted a photo of a large plastic bag full of tiny plastic fetuses, which contained a slip of paper bearing the words: "Some people think that life begins at birth but my life's journey began long before I was born." Only one plastic fetus is given each gift bag, Dumain told Mashable over Twitter.
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The Precious One figurine, as it's called, depicts a 11 to 14 week old fetus and is described by one distributor as "the most realistic fetal model ever developed." Its "beautiful detail, softness and weight can really move hearts and change minds," they added.

[Holman]

Campaigns and publishers both profit when candidates buy their own books

The candidates' own books often come from respectable publishers, who know that name sells.

But if you look at the NYT hardcover nonfiction list today, the #3 through #6 slots are all anti-Clinton screeds:

3. ARMAGEDDON, by Dick Morris. (Humanix)
4. HILLARY'S AMERICA, by Dinesh D'Souza. (Regnery)
5. CRISIS OF CHARACTER. (Center Street)
6. LIARS, by Glenn Beck. (Threshold)

If you've never heard of Humanix, Regnery, Center Street, or Threshold, it's because they are small right-wing publishers who put out these kinds of books and only these kinds of books. These titles are bought in bulk by right-wing think-tanks and media groups precisely to make them appear on best-seller lists, which are seen as a battlefield of the culture war. (Liberal-leaning titles tend to come from established publishers that stay afloat on their own without shenanigans.)

For a time the NYT tried to correct its lists for publishers known to operate this way, but it came under fire for "bias" and reverted to pure sales reporting. Everyone in the book industry knows that the HC NF lists are bogus.

[tgb]

[The Post and Courier journalist Emma] Dumain also tweeted a photo of a large plastic bag full of tiny plastic fetuses, which contained a slip of paper bearing the words: "Some people think that life begins at birth but my life's journey began long before I was born." Only one plastic fetus is given each gift bag, Dumain told Mashable over Twitter.
...
The Precious One figurine, as it's called, depicts a 11 to 14 week old fetus and is described by one distributor as "the most realistic fetal model ever developed." Its "beautiful detail, softness and weight can really move hearts and change minds," they added.

If I ship a box of used condoms to the RepubliKlan National Committee for the 2020 convention can I write it off as a political donation?

[GreenGoo]

I was thinking jars from donor clinics, but used condoms are probably cheaper.

We could also ship used sanitary napkins. That might be even more to the point. Hell, it might even contain fertilized eggs, depending on random chance.

[El Guapo]

[The Post and Courier journalist Emma] Dumain also tweeted a photo of a large plastic bag full of tiny plastic fetuses, which contained a slip of paper bearing the words: "Some people think that life begins at birth but my life's journey began long before I was born." Only one plastic fetus is given each gift bag, Dumain told Mashable over Twitter.

Only one?!

[GreenGoo]

Only one?!

If you ask around, some people will let you have theirs. That's how I got my shelf full. They make an interesting topic of discussion over tea.

[Kraken]

Actually, IIRC, don't a lot of politicians buy their own books to put them on the best-seller lists? I remember hearing about a number of candidates that had in 2012 or maybe 2008.

Back in my bookselling days, Scientologists used to buy up copies of Dianetics to keep it on the list. They would later return them because only the original sale counted in compiling the bestsellers. After my employer figured that out and dropped the book from its bestseller lists, the sale/return cycle quickly died away.

Never saw politicians do that back in the day, but Elron pioneered the scheme AFAIK.

[Rip]

[hepcat]

That's not how email servers actually wor....you know what, nevermind. Enjoy!

[GreenGoo]

It's still funny.

[Moliere]

It's still funny.

Funnier because it doesn't have a security protocol.

[hepcat]

I didn't realize it was real. I thought it was just a mock up. Yeah, I give them credit for that one.

[em2nought]

Trump must be raking in the donations from the common man if he needs more copies of his book. He must have sent mine media mail, we must be cut from the same cheapskate, gun totting, tax cutting, homophobe, racist, narcissist, wall building, import taxing, cloth. Well, according to sheeple anyway.

[hepcat]

I don't remember anyone accusing you of being a cheapskate.

[em2nought]

I don't remember anyone accusing you of being a cheapskate.

I definitely am, go see the Chipotle thread.

[GreenGoo]

It's still funny.

Funnier because it doesn't have a security protocol.

That's the funny part.

[Defiant]

Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, argued that polls showing her candidate losing are missing the “undercover Trump voter” who is embarrassed to admit support for the Republican nominee.

Trump campaign manager: Here’s why we think the polls are wrong

Maybe their campaign slogan should be "Says who?"

[em2nought]

Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, argued that polls showing her candidate losing are missing the “undercover Trump voter” who is embarrassed to admit support for the Republican nominee.

Trump campaign manager: Here’s why we think the polls are wrong

Maybe their campaign slogan should be "Says who?"

I'm not sure he should have hired her. It's not embarrassment, it's fear of retaliation in one form or another. After all, us gun totters are the most law abiding folks around http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/10/repor ... an-police/ I wouldn't want to have to shoot somebody coming at me brandishing a knife after vandalizing my Trump bumper sticker.

[Alefroth]

Trump made the cover of Time Magazine again.

Spoiler:

[GreenGoo]

God I hope so.

[Blackhawk]

Is that his pillow in the morning?

[Isgrimnur]

From the Tammy Faye Baker School of Cosmetology.

[geezer]

Who donated 100k to the Clinton Foundation? Donald Trump did.

[tgb]

Says who?

[Chaz]

Are we sure this isn't just another one of those times when he says he donated money to charity, except he really didn't?

Actually, I wonder how many of those times he claimed to but didn't wound up being reported on his tax returns. We should take a look whenever his audit is done and the IRS lets him release them.

[El Guapo]

Who donated 100k to the Clinton Foundation? Donald Trump did.

This is well written. My favorite part:

If your hit man is arrested for murdering who you hired him to murder, you're probably going to be in some hot water too, you see. You can't argue that you're just super great at knowing who needed murderin'. It is either a reprehensible perversion of governance over which the American people should be outraged, or, you know, it isn't. Degrees of culpability exist, but absolution is laughable.

Yet that's where we are. One of the candidates for President is demanding the other be condemned and investigated criminally for participation in a mutual transaction between the two of them. And his supporters think it's fine because she was selling while he was merely buying. It really is an absurd situation. Very 2016.

[malchior]

"Interesting" development in the Drumpf world Wednesday night as he finally gets the hint that his rambling ways undermined his candidacy. At the end of August. Now we get to see if anyone buys his *massive* backtrack on immigration complete with a major speech about his new immigration plan coming next week. There are hints that his path to legal might involve paying back taxes. How would this work? Just make up a number I guess. Does it still involve building a yuge wall and making Mexico pay for it? Does anyone believe a word he says when his central, defining issue is yet another he just blows with the wind on?

Also Coulter had a massive meltdown on Twitter over all this. To be fair, she was literally launching her pro-Drumpf book where she says he can change his position on anything except immigration.

[gilraen]

Hitler Finds Out Trump Supports Amnesty (I'm not a big fan of "Downfall" mashups but this was still pretty funny)

But not as funny as equating Coulter's "twelve New York Times bestsellers" to actual...you know...literature.

[malchior]

(I'm not a big fan of "Downfall" mashups but this was still pretty funny)

This is one of the funniest I've seen in quite some time.

[Defiant]

Trump calls Hillary a bigot. It's more and more obvious that he will consistently use the "I'm rubber you're glue" method of responding to criticism.

BTW, keep an eye on the woman on the left when he says it. Her reaction is hilarious.

[tgb]

BTW, keep an eye on the woman on the left when he says it. Her reaction is hilarious.

So Steven Tyler is a Trump supporter?

[GreenGoo]

Again google points me at a breitbart article and again I click on it. It's full of disinformation and logic gaps and general rah rah Trump. No surpises. A poll showing trump behind by 3% is really a poll that shows a tie because the margin of error 4.9%. No mention that it could also mean Trump's behind by almost 8%.

Anyway, as usual, I take a look at the comments. I was surprised to see some Clinton supporters in there mixing it up. Some sounded almost sane. The best part though, was the cannibalism over Drumpf walking back his immigration policies. Former Drumpf supporters were savaging him and his supporters over immigration, and other Drumpf supporters were busy spinning the change to keep Drumpf acceptable.

It was awesome.

If the shining beacon of Drumpf support at breitbart is showing the strain, I'm hopeful.

[geezer]

BTW, keep an eye on the woman on the left when he says it. Her reaction is hilarious.

So Steven Tyler is a Trump supporter?

Don't be ridiculous. That's Paula Abdul.