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Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 9:35 am
by Rip
hepcat wrote:Today Trump is supposed to be giving a real policy speech. One in which he will answer questions about his plans for the economy.

What are the odds he just repeats the same narcissistic crap he's been spewing all along about how he'll fix things and we shouldn't worry about it because he's got the best mind?
Just the anticipation of it is pushing stocks back up.

:D

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 10:13 am
by hepcat
:lol:

Wait...you were making a joke, right? :oops:

Ah hell, it had to be a joke.

:lol:

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 10:20 am
by El Guapo
hepcat wrote:Today Trump is supposed to be giving a real policy speech. One in which he will answer questions about his plans for the economy.

What are the odds he just repeats the same narcissistic crap he's been spewing all along about how he'll fix things and we shouldn't worry about it because he's got the best mind?
eh, it depends. Trump does give a few prepared, pre-written speeches meant to give a presidential vibe, mixed in with all the improv[] bigotry. I'm guessing this will actually be more of a standard GOP nominee policy speech, especially what with the professional campaign guy (Manafort) firmly in charge now.

That won't stop him from spewing his bile again in a couple days, of course.

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 10:23 am
by Jaymann
El Guapo wrote:all the improve bigotry...
But he already has the best bigotry!

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 11:59 am
by Max Peck
hepcat wrote:Today Trump is supposed to be giving a real policy speech. One in which he will answer questions about his plans for the economy.

What are the odds he just repeats the same narcissistic crap he's been spewing all along about how he'll fix things and we shouldn't worry about it because he's got the best mind?
That depends on whether or not he uses a teleprompter.

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 2:34 pm
by Rip
Make America Wealthy Again.


As stocks shoot even higher.

:twisted:

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 2:36 pm
by hepcat
We all know that stocks are shooting up after the release of the report clearing Hillary of all wrong doing in Benghazi.

:twisted:

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:00 pm
by Carpet_pissr
Rip wrote:Make America Wealthy Again.


As stocks shoot even higher.

:twisted:
What are you suggesting? Actually, I'm not sure I want to know. There is no good answer here.

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:42 pm
by Zarathud
I have come to the realization that Rip lives in a Bizarro-like alternative reality. And that hepcat is mxyzptlk with better hair.

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:46 pm
by hepcat
Except you don't have to say Mxyzptlk to get me to appear...just utter the name Rip. :twisted:

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 10:21 pm
by Skinypupy
Trump literally gave his speech today in front of a pile of garbage. No, really.

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My favorite reaction was this one:

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 10:50 pm
by tgb
Camouflage.

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 11:00 pm
by Blackhawk
tgb wrote:Camouflage.
No, contrast. They were told to make him look good.

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 11:08 pm
by Rip
I thought he was showing off the first few feet of the wall.

Suddenly producing the most trash in the world is a good thing.

Just for good measure they will line the inside with a layer of nuclear waste, making it easier to track those that have crossed illegally.

:idea:

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 9:47 am
by hepcat
If Mexican immigrants have the same powers as The Vision from the Avengers, Trump's fucked.

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 9:50 am
by Grifman
Skinypupy wrote:Trump literally gave his speech today in front of a pile of garbage. No, really.

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Doubling down on talking trash.

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 12:34 pm
by Holman
So now the Trump campaign appears to be spamming members of foreign governments with fund-raising email. It's not just a few random people; they're systematically filling the inboxes of, for instance, every member of the UK Parliament. The UK, Iceland, Australia, Denmark, Canada are confirmed targets so far.

It's a weirdly incompetent move: how do screw up your campaign email list to include the Icelandic Althingi?

Also, knowingly soliciting donations from non-U.S. citizens is illegal.

Also also, in what universe would the campaign believe Trump is anything but repellent to educated foreigners?

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:23 pm
by Fitzy
Trump was jealous of Clinton's email scandal. Now he has one. And it's way better better than Clinton's!

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:41 pm
by tgb
My Dear Mr. David Cameron:

Hello my good friend. Please be allowing me to introduce myself. I am known in my country as the Donald Trump, and you may have heard of me by that name or perhaps just The Donald. Recently it has come to my attention that the Mr. Ted Cruz who recently passed away was a distant relation of yours.

In going through some papers left behind as part of the Mr. Ted Cruz estate, we discovered that he bequeathed to you the large sum of $500,000 (372, 586 of your Pounds). As you I'm aure are aware, tranfer of Funds of such a Large Quantity is a complicated procedure, with many misundersanding rules.

We would like to Transfer these funds into your Bank account. Would you please be so kind as to Repond in like with the Account Number and Address? There is, of course, a slmall Transfer Fee of $50,000, which, due to International Law and Laws of the Unted States, can only be paid by way of a deposit into the Trump for Persident Campaign.

Please be so kind as to send a Money Order for $50000 along with your banking Information so that we may tranfer these funds forthwith.

Thanking you, My good friend
Donald J. Trump, Esq.
P.O. Box 57823
New York, NY 11235

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:50 pm
by Unagi
Holman wrote:knowingly soliciting donations from non-U.S. citizens is illegal.
Isn't that a serious deal? Like actually considered treasonous or something?

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:02 pm
by Rip
Unagi wrote:
Holman wrote:knowingly soliciting donations from non-U.S. citizens is illegal.
Isn't that a serious deal? Like actually considered treasonous or something?
In a world where mis-handling Top Secret info isn't, does it matter?

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:02 pm
by Sepiche
It's definitely illegal if they are knowingly sending those out... knowingly being the key word.

It's so over the line in fact I'd have to guess they just got so desperate for fund raising they bought a bunch of lists that included foreign MPs and didn't do anything to scrub the lists before spamming them, but then if that were the case it's hard to believe they would so thoroughly be spamming all the MPs from every major (and minor) European power.

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Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:03 pm
by LordMortis
Unagi wrote:
Holman wrote:knowingly soliciting donations from non-U.S. citizens is illegal.
Isn't that a serious deal? Like actually considered treasonous or something?
Wasn't that a Yuge deal during the Clinton administration? Or was that another witch hunt?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Unit ... ontroversy

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:48 pm
by GreenGoo
Rip wrote:
Unagi wrote:
Holman wrote:knowingly soliciting donations from non-U.S. citizens is illegal.
Isn't that a serious deal? Like actually considered treasonous or something?
In a world where mis-handling Top Secret info isn't, does it matter?
Depends on whether you think foreigners buying the US government is more or less serious than the Secretary of State's itinerary for her week in Russia falling into "enemy" hands.

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 4:00 pm
by Rip
GreenGoo wrote:
Rip wrote:
Unagi wrote:
Holman wrote:knowingly soliciting donations from non-U.S. citizens is illegal.
Isn't that a serious deal? Like actually considered treasonous or something?
In a world where mis-handling Top Secret info isn't, does it matter?
Depends on whether you think foreigners buying the US government is more or less serious than the Secretary of State's itinerary for her week in Russia falling into "enemy" hands.
Sorry but the SecState itinerary isn't TS/SI, discussion of and photos of NK nuclear facilities is in the particular case.

So you really think all those foreign donors giving to the Clinton Foundation were buying the government? Yea you are probably right, since they did in fact get favorable decisions from their donations.

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 4:03 pm
by Defiant
tgb wrote:

We would like to Transfer these funds into your Bank account. Would you please be so kind as to Repond in like with the Account Number and Address? There is, of course, a small Transfer Fee of $50,000, which, due to International Law and Laws of the Unted States, can only be paid by way of a deposit into the Trump for Persident Campaign.
Well, if you're going to break one fundraising rule, you might as well break them all. Might want to add in that they should donate now, while the pound is still worth more than the dollar, to get more bang for the, err, shilling.

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 7:33 pm
by tgb
More about our proposed Grifter-in-Chief.
Unbeknownst to customers at the time, though, even the printed materials handed out to seminar attendees were based on a lie. The Trump Institute copyrighted its publication, each page emblazoned with "Billionaire's Road Map to Success," and it distributed the materials to those who attended the seminars.

Yet much of the handbook's contents were lifted without attribution from an obscure how-to guide published by Success magazine in 1995 called "Real Estate Mastery System."

At least 20 pages of the Trump Institute book were copied entirely or in large part from "Real Estate Mastery System." Even some of its hypothetical scenarios — "Seller A is asking $80,000 for a single-payer residence" — were repeated verbatim.

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 12:08 pm
by Rip
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... ouse_watch
The tables have turned in this week’s White House Watch. After trailing Hillary Clinton by five points for the prior two weeks, Donald Trump has now taken a four-point lead.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds Trump with 43% of the vote, while Clinton earns 39%. Twelve percent (12%) still like another candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided.

Last week at this time, it was Clinton 44%, Trump 39%. This is Trump’s highest level of support in Rasmussen Reports’ matchups with Clinton since last October. His support has been hovering around the 40% mark since April, but it remains to be seen whether he’s just having a good week or this actually represents a real move forward among voters.

Trump now earns 75% support among his fellow Republicans and picks up 14% of the Democratic vote. Seventy-six percent (76%) of Democrats like Clinton, as do 10% of GOP voters. Both candidates face a sizable number of potential defections because of unhappiness with them in their own parties.
Finally a poll that matters.

:wink:

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 12:12 pm
by Max Peck
Judging by their 2012 track record, they just called the election for Clinton. ;)

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 12:45 pm
by hepcat
Max Peck wrote:Judging by their 2012 track record, they just called the election for Clinton. ;)
Rip wrote: It's too early for polls to matter then.

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 12:52 pm
by Fitzy
I'm impressed by how for every positive thing someone says about Clinton, Rip finds something negative. That's fast turn around and good customer service. It does say something sad about this election though.

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 12:53 pm
by hepcat
If you go back over his posting history, you'll see large gaps of days at a time during which he was waiting for something he could use though.

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 8:34 pm
by Holman
Trump on SCOTUS's Texas abortion decision:
Donald Trump wrote:Now if we had — Scalia was living or if Scalia was replaced by me, you wouldn’t have had that. Okay? It would’ve been the opposite.
The decision was 5-3. With zombie Scalia it would have been 5-4.

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 8:40 pm
by Chaz
Trump's appointment would be so good, he'd get three votes, so it would've been 6-5.

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 2:05 am
by Defiant

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 9:01 am
by malchior

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 9:13 am
by hepcat
Can Christie even fit on a short list?

:whistle:

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 9:53 am
by Defiant
hepcat wrote:Can Christie even fit on a short list?

:whistle:
He's shorter than Gingrich and Trump, so... yes?

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 9:54 am
by tgb
hepcat wrote:Can Christie even fit on a short list?

:whistle:
Yes, but not a narrow one.

Re: The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 10:14 am
by Rip
Not sure but he can decimate a short stack.