The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Fri Sep 02, 2016 3:01 pm

tgb wrote:
Zaxxon wrote:Elect Trump, or you may end up in the horrible, terrible, no-good, very bad situation of a taco truck on every corner.

Or, you know, what I picture heaven to be.
Actually I'm pretty sure taco trucks are more of an American thing. In all of my forays across the border I've never seen one. Taco stands are a lot more ubiquitous.

Is the guy on the left using a vomit bucket?

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Fri Sep 02, 2016 3:34 pm

Possibly. There is only a finite amount of space for an infinite amount of awesomeness.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Fri Sep 02, 2016 3:40 pm

Jeff V wrote:Is the guy on the left using a vomit bucket?

Seasoning bucket.

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Fri Sep 02, 2016 3:47 pm

Zaxxon wrote:Elect Trump, or you may end up in the horrible, terrible, no-good, very bad situation of a taco truck on every corner.

Or, you know, what I picture heaven to be.

I'm surprised nobody had called him a traitor to his race yet.

(The speaker is Marco Gutierrez)

Not to mention Washington Post calculated that as it takes 3 guys to run typical taco truck, if there really is a taco truck on every corner, America would be at full employment.

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Fri Sep 02, 2016 4:17 pm

Kasey Chang wrote:
Not to mention Washington Post calculated that as it takes 3 guys to run typical taco truck, if there really is a taco truck on every corner, America would be at full employment.

That's the point. They won't be staffed by Americans.

I know very few chefs who've even heard of a US born citizen coming in the door to ask for a dishwasher, night clean-up or kitchen prep job. Until that happens--let's at least try to be honest when discussing this issue.

Anthony Bourdain

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Fri Sep 02, 2016 4:56 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote:
Rip wrote:
I'd bet it stops way more than a couple silly gun control laws that you guys are more than happy to throw money at.
What guys?

The Wall is an absurd idea. It was novel when Hadrian tried, you know, like 2000 years ago. We have the internet, space travel, and self driving cars now. But our solution to cross border immigration and smuggling is to build a fucking wall. I just hope we can make enough gladii and scuta for the DHS officers walking the parapets. Javelin training is going to take foreeeever..

Yea, it was so ineffective for Greece that they are building another one.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Fri Sep 02, 2016 5:20 pm

How? did Germany lend them some more money?

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Fri Sep 02, 2016 5:29 pm

GreenGoo wrote:How? did Germany lend them some more money?

No idea, but it isn't just Greece.

Bulgaria

Norway

But lets ask Senator Clinton.

But what about the poor immigrants, you ask? Well let's ask her that.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Fri Sep 02, 2016 7:23 pm

Holy shit, a 660 foot fence? Did they get this idea from examining the current miles of fencing in the US and how well that's working?

That's exactly the same thing as a 2,000 mile long, 50 foot high concrete wall.

You win dude, the wall is a good idea, have at it.

Smutly · Post by **Smutly** » Fri Sep 02, 2016 7:34 pm

GreenGoo wrote:Holy shit, a 660 foot fence? Did they get this idea from examining the current miles of fencing in the US and how well that's working?

That's exactly the same thing as a 2,000 mile long, 50 foot high concrete wall.

You win dude, the wall is a good idea, have at it.

Racist.

Combustible Lemur · Post by **Combustible Lemur** » Fri Sep 02, 2016 8:05 pm

tgb wrote:
Kasey Chang wrote:
Not to mention Washington Post calculated that as it takes 3 guys to run typical taco truck, if there really is a taco truck on every corner, America would be at full employment.
That's the point. They won't be staffed by Americans.

I know very few chefs who've even heard of a US born citizen coming in the door to ask for a dishwasher, night clean-up or kitchen prep job. Until that happens--let's at least try to be honest when discussing this issue.
Anthony Bourdain

Actually, someone asked him to cover a shift. Not the other way around. At least that's what he said when visiting Jersey for his show.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Fri Sep 02, 2016 9:44 pm

Rip wrote:
GreenGoo wrote:How? did Germany lend them some more money?
No idea, but it isn't just Greece.

Bulgaria

Norway

But lets ask Senator Clinton.

But what about the poor immigrants, you ask? Well let's ask her that.

Those are fences. There's a difference between a fence and a wall. Fences just encourage people to find another yard to trespass into, usually a neighbor with a lower fence. We want to build a 2,000 mile fence? Is that what Trump is calling for?

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 12:01 am

LawBeefaroni wrote:
Rip wrote:
GreenGoo wrote:How? did Germany lend them some more money?
No idea, but it isn't just Greece.

Bulgaria

Norway

But lets ask Senator Clinton.

But what about the poor immigrants, you ask? Well let's ask her that.
Those are fences. There's a difference between a fence and a wall. Fences just encourage people to find another yard to trespass into, usually a neighbor with a lower fence. We want to build a 2,000 mile fence? Is that what Trump is calling for?

Good luck going around that.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 1:20 am

Rip wrote:Good luck going around that.

Covenant72 wrote:

Fox News

Kurdish forces have discovered a 440-yard long tunnel dug by Islamic State group militants near the Turkish border with Syria, a spokesman for the militia said Monday.

Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, discovered the half-completed tunnel after they captured the border town of Tal Abyad last week, spokesman Redur Khalil said. He said it wasn't clear whether it was eventually meant to lead into Turkey as the tunnel splits into two different directions at one point.

A tunnel linking Turkey to IS-held territory might offer some insight into the many ways in which Muslim radicals from around the world have slipped across the Turkish border to reach the fanatical group, whose territory straddles Syria and Iraq.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 1:24 am

If only someone had invented an easily portable tool that allowed force multiplication. I can just imagine it. Super human feats of strength where even thick gauge steel wire is cut like twine. But that's science fiction.

These guys just use a car jack, leaving the fence intact.

car jacking border fence

Google will happily show you zillions of images of refugees and illegal immigrants breaching all sorts of barriers. Including walls that are tens of feet high. Nobody has spent the money to make their breachable wall 50' high yet, as far as I can tell, so maybe that's the magic number that thwarts people.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 1:52 am

The thing is, if ever the terrestrial border became too difficult to cross, air and water would just increase to pick up the slack.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 1:57 am

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 2:01 am

WaPo

Donald Trump paid the IRS a $2,500 penalty this year, an official at Trump's company said, after it was revealed that Trump's charitable foundation had violated tax laws by giving a political contribution to a campaign group connected to Florida's attorney general.

The improper donation, a $25,000 gift from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, was made in 2013. At the time, Attorney General Pam Bondi was considering whether to investigate fraud allegations against Trump University. She decided not to pursue the case.

Earlier this year, The Washington Post and a liberal watchdog group raised new questions about the three-year-old gift. The watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, filed a complaint with the IRS — noting that, as a registered nonprofit, the Trump Foundation was not allowed to make political donations.

The Post reported another error, which had the effect of obscuring the political gift from the IRS.

In that year's tax filings, The Post reported, the Trump Foundation did not notify the IRS of this political donation. Instead, Trump's foundation listed a donation — also for $25,000 — to a Kansas charity with a name similar to that of Bondi's political group. In fact, Trump's foundation had not given the Kansas group any money.

The prohibited gift was, in effect, replaced with an innocent-sounding but nonexistent donation.
...
On Thursday, Jeffrey McConney — senior vice president and controller at the Trump Organization — said that after being notified, Trump filed paperwork informing the IRS of the political gift and paid an excise tax equal to 10 percent of its value.

McConney said that Trump had also personally reimbursed the Trump Foundation for $25,000, covering the full value of the improper gift. McConney blamed a series of mistakes, all of them unintentional. McConney said there had been no attempt to deceive.

"It was just an honest mistake," McConney said. He added: "It wasn’t done intentionally to hide a political donation, it was just an error."
...
Trump started the Donald J. Trump Foundation in the late 1980s, to give away proceeds from his book, "The Art of the Deal." He remains the foundation's president, but — in recent years — Trump has stopped putting his own money into its coffers. Tax records show no gifts from Trump himself to the foundation since 1988; it has instead received donations from a smattering of Trump's friends and business associates.

The Trump Foundation has no paid staff and relatively little money for a superwealthy man's personal charity: At the end of 2014, it had $1.3 million in the bank. The foundation's giving is small and scattershot, with its gifts often sent to people whom Trump knows, or charities that hold their galas at his properties in New York and Florida.

At least donations to Clinton's foundation actually produces results.

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 7:50 am

Hillary Goddamn Clinton

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 7:54 am

You should only whip that out when Rip's talking.

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 8:06 am

Isgrimnur wrote:

The improper donation, a $25,000 gift from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, was made in 2013. At the time, Attorney General Pam Bondi was considering whether to investigate fraud allegations against Trump University. She decided not to pursue the case.

At least donations to Clinton's foundation actually produces results.

I'd say it produced exactly the result Drumpf was hoping for.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 10:03 am

Rip wrote:
LawBeefaroni wrote:
Rip wrote:
GreenGoo wrote:How? did Germany lend them some more money?
No idea, but it isn't just Greece.

Bulgaria

Norway

But lets ask Senator Clinton.

But what about the poor immigrants, you ask? Well let's ask her that.
Those are fences. There's a difference between a fence and a wall. Fences just encourage people to find another yard to trespass into, usually a neighbor with a lower fence. We want to build a 2,000 mile fence? Is that what Trump is calling for?

Good luck going around that.

30km and what, 70km? Yeah, can't imagine anyone traveling 30km to go around. Ever. Especially not after they've traveled a few thousand already. They'll just curl up and give up, right?

And surely they can't figure out bolt cutters. They don't speak English, afterall.

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 10:12 am

hepcat wrote:You should only whip that out when Rip's talking.

Sorry. Got my shit mixed up.

Wilhelm · Post by **Wilhelm** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 10:54 am

It's gotta be URANIUM.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 11:55 am

Unless, of course, Trump puts armed guards every 50 years on top of the wall, then extends it across the Gulf of Mexico. And to Hawaii.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 12:01 pm

That should be easy for the country that built 48 miles of canal one time over a century ago.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 6:54 pm

Finally, Trump's doctor breaks his silence:

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Sun Sep 04, 2016 11:55 am

Which minority are you most excited about oppressing?

I loves me some Triumph. I'll have to make time to watch the whole series later.

em2nought · Post by **em2nought** » Sun Sep 04, 2016 12:46 pm

tgb wrote:Which minority are you most excited about oppressing?

I loves me some Triumph. I'll have to make time to watch the whole series later.

When Republicans paint faces it's orange. Those Racist Democrats paint faces and dresses white.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:44 am

I look forward to you posting a third Monica joke picture in the ISIS thread, a fourth in the old Cruz thread, and a fifth in PC Gaming somewhere.

Chaz · Post by **Chaz** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 11:33 am

Monica jokes are so topical and with it! Yeah, boyeeeeeeee!

em2nought · Post by **em2nought** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:07 pm

Chaz wrote:Monica jokes are so topical and with it! Yeah, boyeeeeeeee!

Blame Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, he brought up face painting. How could I resist that?

NickAragua · Post by **NickAragua** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 7:41 pm

em2nought wrote:
tgb wrote:Which minority are you most excited about oppressing?

I loves me some Triumph. I'll have to make time to watch the whole series later.
When Republicans paint faces it's orange. Those Racist Democrats paint faces and dresses white.

Wait, is this a headline from ten years ago?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 8:57 pm

He's writing these posts...FROM THE PAST!

That actually explains a lot.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 6:21 am

OK, polls can start mattering now.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/06/_politics ... index.html

Trump tops Clinton 45% to 43% in the new survey, with Libertarian Gary Johnson standing at 7% among likely voters in this poll and the Green Party's Jill Stein at just 2%.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 7:15 am

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:47 am

I actually saw a few Trump bumper stickers on cars today and was lucky enough to hear two 50-something year old women talking about the election while I was standing in line at the supermarket this morning. They were both gushing over Trump (and Jesus) while also commenting on how much they hate Hillary. It was surreal.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:52 am

Anyone on their third wife should probably not be mentioned in the same sentence as Jesus.

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:55 am

Smoove_B wrote:I actually saw a few Trump bumper stickers on cars today and was lucky enough to hear two 50-something year old women talking about the election while I was standing in line at the supermarket this morning. They were both gushing over Trump (and Jesus) while also commenting on how much they hate Hillary. It was surreal.

I was behind a couple of guys at the bank a while back who were discussing Hillary's plans to continue the Obama war on Caucasians. I can only assume that, like Nixon's forays into Cambodia, the War on Christmas has expanded. Kissinger is probably involved with this, too.

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 10:10 am

I hear Trump talk/Clinton hate all the time at my gym. The other day two older dudes were talking about how badly the stock market would crash if Clinton is elected, which makes no sense to me. If Clinton is a continuation of Obama (as is often the charge by Republicans) and the stock market is at its highest levels ever, why would it suddenly crash if she were elected?

In any case, the conversation ended after one of said "Hillary is a ....." and then leaned into to whisper presumably stuff vile enough that even he didn't want to say it too loudly.

What's a bit worrisome, though, is that I've probably seen hundreds of Trump bumper stickers/signs over the last few months, but until this weekend I hadn't seen on Clinton bumper sticker or sign. North Florida is a pretty conservative place, but still.