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    ThePriceofEggsinMaltaMelissa Cronin
    5/21/16 12:33pm

    Putting aside the bigoted aspect to Trump’s cult of personality, and his ridiculous ability to get away with repeatedly spouting demonstrably false information, his capacity to rally his supporters behind his various fantasies without providing an iota of substance is what troubles me the most.

    I’m not saying this particular bullshit volley will win any minds. And I absolutely realize that most of the specifics and actionable plans politicians give for their platforms are usually unfeasible, impossible, or actively counterproductive anyway. But at least with normal politicians you get some inkling of how they plan to back up their claims. It’s like Trump is taking Nixon’s idea (promising a secret plan to end the Vietnam war) and extending it to literally everything.

    It’s just “we’re going to do X, it will be just great. You won’t believe how great it will be. We’re going to win at X. We’re going to win at X so hard we’re America great again.”

    And people are cheering for it.

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      Deadly the EternalThePriceofEggsinMalta
      5/21/16 12:43pm

      “Show, don’t tell” really is dying in this country. I learned that back in elementary school, but I understand that some of his supporters may still be working on that.

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      jcsmith2ThePriceofEggsinMalta
      5/21/16 12:48pm

      The Washington Post had an article awhile back about how useless it was to fact check He, Trump. Basically he lies about so many things and even when those things get fact checked the campaign just ignores it and carries on.

      We continue to inch closer to Idiocracy...

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    TakahashiMelissa Cronin
    5/21/16 12:18pm

    Give Trump some credit here. At least he figured out that brown people can vote so he’s backpedaling.

    Santorum never figured out that women got the right to vote almost 100 years ago. Bless that ignorant, consistent moron.

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      LaBrava RadioTakahashi
      5/21/16 12:27pm

      Give Trump some credit here.

      No.

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      stuckinthegreyswithyouTakahashi
      5/21/16 12:29pm

      You're giving him way too much credit. Someone probably had to inform him about this, probably John Miller.

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    Masshole JamesMelissa Cronin
    5/21/16 12:20pm

    Trump might not get Hispanics but he might just get the gay vote because he wants to appoint a gay porn star to the Supreme Court. Seriously.

    (NSFW! Might not be safe for home either! If your wife walks in on you while on this site, you’ll be saying “honey, I swear I’m not gay” a lot.)

    http://thesword.com/justice-bill-p…

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      Masshole JamesMasshole James
      5/21/16 12:23pm

      I thought this part of the story was really interesting.

      Perhaps most troubling of all is reports that the secrets in Pryor’s past actually helped his judicial career–that he was nominated to the bench so he would be vulnerable to blackmail, ensuring that he would steer cases to outcomes favorable to conservative interests. Here’s how we described it in a December 2014 post: In fact, our sources say conservative forces pushed George W. Bush to make the appointment, not because of any legal expertise on Pryor’s part, but because his secrets make him controllable. [Journalist Wayne] Madsen calls Pryor a “gatekeeper” for Republican interests. Others have called him a “fixer,” that he protects Karl Rove’s agenda on the bench. Rove once served as Pryor’s campaign manager in a race for Alabama attorney general.
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      JapaneseJustinBeiberblowupsexdollMasshole James
      5/21/16 12:27pm

      Lol. The Franklin Cover-up is totally real. The Republicans promote sleazy gays and child touchers to high positions in order to blackmail them. I wonder if Hunter S. Thompson really did film.a snuff film at Bohemian Grove. I am going to say yes.

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    bobie love burgersMelissa Cronin
    5/21/16 12:30pm

    The thing is that tweet is not incorrect. 28% of violent crime arrests for people over 18 and 32% of under 18 were black in 2012 according to the FBI. In 2014 13% of the population was African American. What are the underlying causes? Well that’s to nuanced for a tweet so bad on Trump. What were the conviction rates? I’m to lazy to look it up. And that’s why he has appeal despite all the arm waving by the media and Gawker commenters.

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      jimdixondrinksbobie love burgers
      5/21/16 12:51pm

      So, for an article on Hispanics, you feel the need to mention crime rates for African-Americans. You probably even think this makes you intellectually courageous. African-Americans are an economically disadvantaged population. Nonetheless, punching down makes you right wingers feel like tough guys.

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      Burner45bobie love burgers
      5/21/16 1:01pm

      You’re “to” lazy to learn basic grammar. Nobody gives a shit about what you have to say.

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    Cyber Mind GrrlMelissa Cronin
    5/21/16 12:23pm

    Yeah, Trump is going to “take care of them” alright. I’m sure he’s working on a solution for the Hispanic “problem”. A final solution, if you will.

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      Deadly the EternalCyber Mind Grrl
      5/21/16 12:41pm

      He’s going to make them all eat his horrible “Hispanic” food? D:

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    jezbannedMelissa Cronin
    5/21/16 1:10pm

    Uhhhh...excuse me.

    The lamestream liberal media (lol) has been telling me for a year now that Donald Trump is not a serious candidate, that he has no serious policy proposals, that he doesn’t know what he’s doing.

    This hastily assembled cell phone video, conveniently shot in portrait mode, where he reads from a piece of paper, over the roar of airplane engines, such wonderful, detailed, and brilliant policy proposals as “We’re going to have all good schools and some great ones” and “We’re going to solve the minority unemployment problem once and for all” and “It will be great” belies the notion that Mr. Donald J. Trump is not a political heavyweight. And he even remembered to sprinkle some “Hispanics” in there, showing he really knows politics and the electorate. No, despite what the writers at fascist-socialist “Gawker media” tell you, Donald Trump is a serious intellectual force to be reckoned with.

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      1Pompadourjezbanned
      5/21/16 4:25pm

      Donald Trump an “intellectual force?” He is an intellectual FARCE. He discovered how to baffle with bullshit many years ago; probably in school, when he realized that he was not “book smart.” Now, when people point out his deficits in vocabulary, abstract reasoning, memory, and other elements of true intelligence, his supporters reflexively defend him. They don’t wish to believe or admit that they have fallen for an immature, dull-witted man. So they disparage intelligence itself as not a valid measure. Or insist that Trump displays a “different kind” of intelligence. Trump may be a force of nature, the way Hitler was, but he is intellectually null.

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      jezbanned1Pompadour
      5/21/16 4:53pm

      Good points all around!

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    Jeb! & The HologramsMelissa Cronin
    5/21/16 12:21pm

    We’re gonna win Hispanics!

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      Armageddon T. ThunderbirdJeb! & The Holograms
      5/21/16 12:29pm

      Collect the whole set!

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      Deadly the EternalJeb! & The Holograms
      5/21/16 12:44pm

      Like a prize at an amusement park!

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    CharitybMelissa Cronin
    5/21/16 3:16pm

    Didn’t he once compare Carson to a child molester? And Carson is now ne of his biggest boosters. Trump has the power to bring anyone to his side; at this stage I wouldn’t be shocked if he was endorsed by the Council of American Islamic Relations. Anything can happen next and none of it will make any sense.

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      catki86226Charityb
      5/22/16 12:54am

      That’s what republicans do. They fall in line. Unfortunately they usually win.

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivescatki86226
      5/22/16 1:39am

      Not in recent presidential elections, and especially not in the popular vote. The last two Republicans to win the popular vote were both named Bush and each only once.

      I’m really getting tired of this reflexive doom-and-gloom from the left with little evidence for it.

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    EatTheCheeseNicholsonMelissa Cronin
    5/21/16 12:19pm

    “National. Hispanic. Christian. Three great words.”

    He always speaks as if he’s having a stroke.

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      Kung Fu PunditEatTheCheeseNicholson
      5/21/16 12:21pm

      In both senses of the word

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      Mary-GraceEatTheCheeseNicholson
      5/21/16 12:27pm

      I like that he has to read from his notes just to promise the standard political promise triad: more jobs, better schools, less taxes.

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    jrfunkensteinMelissa Cronin
    5/21/16 4:30pm

    Wonder how long this gutless fraud can hide out to avoid answering for his three whoppers last Friday?

    Guess he can’t face any media about why he lied about his racist psycho butler, his ludicrous aliases and his shady ass taxes.

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      bt890jrfunkenstein
      5/22/16 3:48pm

      Not to mention that he literally gave one of the alias as a name to one of his sons! And I’m pretty sure he’ll have his sons up on the stage a lot, including his alias namesake.

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      jrfunkensteinbt890
      5/23/16 3:41am

      Might as well have named that kid ‘Scampaign.’

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