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Defiant wrote:

Anonymous Bosch wrote:Stick a fork in it, the #NeverTrump movement is officially done.

Err, the #NeverTrump movement wasn't just about putting up a third party conservative candidate.

Defiant wrote:

Anonymous Bosch wrote:Stick a fork in it, the #NeverTrump movement is officially done.

Err, the #NeverTrump movement wasn't just about putting up a third party conservative candidate.

em2nought wrote:

Defiant wrote:

Anonymous Bosch wrote:Stick a fork in it, the #NeverTrump movement is officially done.

Err, the #NeverTrump movement wasn't just about putting up a third party conservative candidate.

It was about forming the shape of an "L" with your thumb and index finger, placing it on your forehead, and then walking around in de Nile until you're up to the shirt tail of your Kirkland brand dress shirt from Costco(gotta relate to everyday Americans), meanwhile a crooked crocodile with Bill in tow gobbles up your country.

em2nought wrote: It was about forming the shape of an "L" with your thumb and index finger, placing it on your forehead, and then walking around in de Nile until you're up to the shirt tail of your Kirkland brand dress shirt from Costco(gotta relate to everyday Americans), meanwhile a crooked crocodile with Bill in tow gobbles up your country.

He’s bored with hotels and casinos,
Sated with golfing and pinots,
His tag-line, “You’re fired!”
So passé, so tired,
Why not run to appoint the next Nino?

So he gathered his legions of fans,
Who basked in his livid sun-tan,
“No low-energy Jeb (!),
He stands for the plebs!
Hey, have you seen the size of his hands?”

A style reminiscent of Jackson’s—
All the rage amongst Angles and Saxons
(Not with “Mexican rapists,”
Or women, or papists)—
True conservatives sounded their klaxons.

A xenophobe’s platform of spite:
“Build a wall, make them pay, future bright!
David Duke, KKK,
Sure beats me, who are they?”
Could this brute be the Geist of our Zeit?

Let’s concede what a beauty his wife is,
But lest that bare fact should entice us,
His disdain for the fair sex
(And his pair of fair ex-es)
Gives him something in common with ISIS.

Not Ted Cruz with his “lies and deceit,”
Nor Lil’ Marco’s “diminutive feet,”
Nor Carly (“her face!”),
Nor Ben Carson (“his race!”),
With The Donald could scarcely compete.

To millions he may be a hero,
To others a policy tyro,
But pals like Chris Christie
Endorse and insist he’s
The best fiddlin’ ruler since Nero.

Next to Cleveland to blow up the Party
Of Lincoln and Taft and…McCarthy,
Enraged delegates,
Just like in ’68!
The first ballot: a new Buonaparte?

While this boor merits only a pillory,
Who’s left to us then…just Hillary?
If we cannot endure her,
Must we vote for der Führer?
Why must suffrage result in such misery?

Joseph Cinque, the academy’s president and CEO, personally presented the award to Trump in Scotland. It was one of many similar honors Cinque has bestowed upon him in the past decade. Cinque, who has been described by the academy as one of Trump’s “dear friends,” is also a convicted felon who reportedly survived a murder attempt, was associated with the infamous mob boss John Gotti and went on to earn the nicknames “Joey No Socks” and “the Preppy Don.”

“Joseph Cinque, President of The AAHS, has been attending Mr. Trump’s party for the past 16 years,” the article said. “It is somewhat of a new Years Eve tradition for him and of course, he has become dear friends with the Trump family.”....

...Trump indicated he didn’t know much about the academy’s board of trustees — on which he, two of his sons and multiple members of his organizations have served. He also claimed he doesn’t know Cinque well.

“He may have set up a board of trustees. I don’t know. I don’t know that my sons are involved with that, actually,” Trump said, adding, “But he’s a very nice man. I don’t know him well. I don’t know him well, but I have found him over the years to be a very nice man.”

Donald Trump says he is “not a big believer in global warming.” He has called it “a total hoax,” “bullshit” and “pseudoscience.”

But he is also trying to build a sea wall designed to protect one of his golf courses from “global warming and its effects.”

The New York billionaire is applying for permission to erect a coastal protection works to prevent erosion at his seaside golf resort, Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Ireland, in County Clare.

A permit application for the wall, filed by Trump International Golf Links Ireland and reviewed by POLITICO, explicitly cites global warming and its consequences — increased erosion due to rising sea levels and extreme weather this century — as a chief justification for building the structure.

Consultants acting for Donald Trump have warned that if the US billionaire doesn't secure planning permission for a 200,000-tonne 'wall' of rock armour to protect his Doonbeg golf resort, it risks potential closure.The stark warning is contained in new plans lodged by the Trump International Golf Links and Hotel with Clare County Council for the construction of a €10m, 2.8km-long wall of limestone rock armour on Doughmore Beach at the golf resort. The wall is being put in place to prevent the golf course from being washed away by future Atlantic storms. In the planning application, Trump resort consultants told the council that "in the medium term, the 'do nothing' scenario will bring the viability of the entire resort and its potential closure into question". They state that "this would result in a permanent and profound negative economic impact" upon Doonbeg and Clare. They add: "The failure to protect this asset would have a profound adverse and permanent effect on the local economy." The stakes are high for West Clare, as consultants for Trump's firm TIGL Ireland Enterprises Ltd are forecasting a €38m bonanza for the local economy in the years from 2017 to 2024 from the resort, pictured above.

hepcat wrote:Good grief, the bar for mob nicknames just gets lower and lower, doesn't it?

Archinerd wrote:Trumps solution for everything seems to be, "Build a wall".

Rip wrote:

Archinerd wrote:Trumps solution for everything seems to be, "Build a wall".

Almost as insightful as blaming everything that is wrong on Climate Change.

Just politicians doing what politicians do.

Carpet_pissr wrote:

hepcat wrote:Good grief, the bar for mob nicknames just gets lower and lower, doesn't it?

Possibly one of my favorite Simpson exchanges:

"Joey...Joe Joe Junior...Shabadoo!"

Rip wrote:

Archinerd wrote:Trumps solution for everything seems to be, "Build a wall".

Almost as insightful as blaming everything that is wrong on Climate Change.

Just politicians doing what politicians do.

Because, as writers, we are particularly aware of the many ways that language can be abused in the name of power;
Because we believe that any democracy worthy of the name rests on pluralism, welcomes principled disagreement, and achieves consensus through reasoned debate;
Because American history, despite periods of nativism and bigotry, has from the first been a grand experiment in bringing people of different backgrounds together, not pitting them against one another;
Because the history of dictatorship is the history of manipulation and division, demagoguery and lies;
Because the search for justice is predicated on a respect for the truth;
Because we believe that knowledge, experience, flexibility, and historical awareness are indispensable in a leader;
Because neither wealth nor celebrity qualifies anyone to speak for the United States, to lead its military, to maintain its alliances, or to represent its people;
Because the rise of a political candidate who deliberately appeals to the basest and most violent elements in society, who encourages aggression among his followers, shouts down opponents, intimidates dissenters, and denigrates women and minorities, demands, from each of us, an immediate and forceful response;
For all these reasons, we, the undersigned, as a matter of conscience, oppose, unequivocally, the candidacy of Donald J. Trump for the Presidency of the United States.

hepcat wrote:To put things right again, watch Trump's lawyer get the smack down on why Trump defended Bill Clinton in the 90's, but is now attacking him for the very same things he defended.

It's an uncomfortable few minutes as the host just goes after him like a pit bull.

TheMix wrote:

Rip wrote:

Archinerd wrote:Trumps solution for everything seems to be, "Build a wall".

Almost as insightful as blaming everything that is wrong on Climate Change.

Just politicians doing what politicians do.

I thought the whole "deal" with Trump is that he isn't a "politician". So now he's just another one of "them"?

tgb wrote:

hepcat wrote:To put things right again, watch Trump's lawyer get the smack down on why Trump defended Bill Clinton in the 90's, but is now attacking him for the very same things he defended.

It's an uncomfortable few minutes as the host just goes after him like a pit bull.

Link?

tgb wrote:

hepcat wrote:To put things right again, watch Trump's lawyer get the smack down on why Trump defended Bill Clinton in the 90's, but is now attacking him for the very same things he defended.

It's an uncomfortable few minutes as the host just goes after him like a pit bull.

Link?

Donald Trump reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president Thursday, completing an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and set the stage for a bitter fall campaign.

Trump was put over the top in the Associated Press delegate count by a small number of the party's unbound delegates who told the AP they would support him at the national convention in July. Among them is Oklahoma GOP chairwoman Pam Pollard.

"I think he has touched a part of our electorate that doesn't like where our country is," Pollard said. "I have no problem supporting Mr. Trump."

"I think he has touched a part of our electorate that doesn't like where our country is," Pollard said

Alefroth wrote:I feel like he's touched a part of me that I don't like where it is.

El Guapo wrote:It's interesting that they are counting the unbound delegates in stating that he has 'clinched' the nomination. If you count unbound superdelegates, then Clinton will very likely similarly 'clinch' the nomination by winning New Jersey, without even counting California. So I wonder whether the AP will similarly announce that for Clinton as well.

Though Trump has no opponents left to dispute the 'clinching', unlike Clinton.

GreenGoo wrote:

Alefroth wrote:I feel like he's touched a part of me that I don't like where it is.

I figure a few people would prefer that he just stop touching them altogether.

Max Peck wrote:

El Guapo wrote:It's interesting that they are counting the unbound delegates in stating that he has 'clinched' the nomination. If you count unbound superdelegates, then Clinton will very likely similarly 'clinch' the nomination by winning New Jersey, without even counting California. So I wonder whether the AP will similarly announce that for Clinton as well.

Though Trump has no opponents left to dispute the 'clinching', unlike Clinton.

Bear in mind that the AP article is counting unbound delegates that are saying they will support Trump, not all unbound delegates, and they spell out that by "clinch" they mean he now has a total of 1238 delegates (either bound or declaring support for him), which puts him one over the magic number to avoid a contested convention. Given that he will undoubtedly gain more delegates in the remaining primaries, it sounds legit to me.

Max Peck wrote:

El Guapo wrote:It's interesting that they are counting the unbound delegates in stating that he has 'clinched' the nomination. If you count unbound superdelegates, then Clinton will very likely similarly 'clinch' the nomination by winning New Jersey, without even counting California. So I wonder whether the AP will similarly announce that for Clinton as well.

Though Trump has no opponents left to dispute the 'clinching', unlike Clinton.

Bear in mind that the AP article is counting unbound delegates that are saying they will support Trump, not all unbound delegates, and they spell out that by "clinch" they mean he now has a total of 1238 delegates (either bound or declaring support for him), which puts him one over the magic number to avoid a contested convention. Given that he will undoubtedly gain more delegates in the remaining primaries, it sounds legit to me.