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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou deserve him and I hope that he wins your bloody primary.
You deserve every slight against service, every racist utterance and every look at me I'm fucking rich, you're all little people.
That your base laps up this unadulterated vileness is your own damn fault. When it served your nefarious purposes, it was all well and good.
Now that it is thrown back in your face, you whine.
You deserve him and I hope that he wins your bloody primary.
He is the conscience of the conservative
Deal with it.
You own it.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/23/1405023/-Republicans-Deserve-The-Sh1t-They-Stirred-Up-rant
And much like the poor unsuspecting residents of Altair IV, he will wipe the Republican party as we know it off the map. Unlike that tempest tossed race, the party sees it coming, and knows that their only defense is a past denial of those characteristics... and that past does. Not. Exist. They'll scrub websites, try to re-word and re-spinning the past, but those damn videos and audio records will pop up to remind everyone from just whose Ego the wild toupee'd one was born.
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1405023/57016996#c46
Cosmic Kitten
(3,498 posts)He's driving a WEDGE into the
republican party.
Even the republicans are freaking out
about Trump, hence his threat to
run as a third party spoiler.
His tactics are textbook WEDGE POLITICS
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12779544
AND, wasn't The Donald once a Democrat???
He seem to think so....
(CNN)Before Donald Trump was a front-running Republican presidential candidate, the real estate mogul believed that the nation's economy ran better when Democrats were in control and that Hillary Clinton would be a strong negotiator with foreign nations.
"In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat," Trump told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in a 2004 interview. "It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans. Now, it shouldn't be that way. But if you go back, I mean it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats. ...But certainly we had some very good economies under Democrats, as well as Republicans. But we've had some pretty bad disaster under the Republicans."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/21/politics/donald-trump-election-democrat/
Politics make strange bed fellows
daleanime
(17,796 posts)makes strange bedfellows.
Cosmic Kitten
(3,498 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)Cosmic Kitten
(3,498 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)The CCC
(463 posts)Reagan was once a democrat.
Cosmic Kitten
(3,498 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Isn't there a primary? Don't WE THE PEOPLE have a voice in the primary, or are the only ones voting in this the mainstream media, and big corporations?
Cosmic Kitten
(3,498 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Cosmic Kitten
(3,498 posts)I'm holding strong at #19
daybranch
(1,309 posts)Big money has their Main stream media trying to create a circus to take our attention from the faults of Hillary. She is their candidate of choice as illustrated by her allegiance to the billionaires ( Non-support for re instituting Glass-Steagall, non-opposition to Citizens United, failure to call out her donors for their oppression of our people, and a wimpy economic plan).
She somehow thinks voters actually care about her hair, when families are under the gun financially and economically all across the USA. The empress is finding out we can see she has no clothes. Her smarmy statements let us know she is very very rich and puts her own rich class first.
90-percent
(6,829 posts)Not a criticism, more a point of information.
Citizens United wanted to air a film critical of Hillary Clinton, which triggered the Supreme Court case "Citizens United vs. the Federal Election Commission".
Just wondering why she wasn't opposed to a decision that went against her? And I'm far from an expert on the subject, but the origins of Citizens United seem interesting.
-90% Jimmy
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)So much for Beltway conventional "wisdom."
akbacchus_BC
(5,704 posts)He might be polling high but he is an asshole, no way he will get the conservative vote to run. Hope his ass gets kicked just like Palin, two effing morons on the same stage but different years.
Cosmic Kitten
(3,498 posts)Both Hillary and The Donald
are widely know brands.
Neither has any actual policies
just pandering and pablum.
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)worked. First, the tea party took over the party exploiting that vulnerability, and now Trump.
Good enough for them. Fuck 'em.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)I think the culmination was the Bundy militia standoff. A group of right-wing radical terrorists train their automatic weapons on American government agents and no one is arrested.
I don't think that could have happened pre-Reagan.
turbinetree
(24,710 posts)this............... there was one Sean Hannity supporting and bloviating on national t.v condoning that illegal act of pointing guns at federal agents, and now a right wing legislature in Nevada do what, nothing--------------- and everyone should be reminded of that fact he (Hannity) supported and encouraged the breaking of law and of scum pointing guns at federal agents.
In the aftermath and continuing saga, two of these Bundy supporters decided to go into town and murdered two officers in a pizza shop and then draped the Gadsden flag on one of the bodies, and not one peep from this right wing hypocrite Sean Hannity and his fix noise cohorts.
And when old Ronnie said the government was the problem, we see and saw the dismantling of the ATF by the right wing--no director for 4 years I believe
http://www.newshounds.us/is_sean_hannity_too_chicken_to_talk_about_the_las_vegas_shootings_06102014
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/04/sean-hannity-trying-provoke-bloody
http://www.salon.com/2014/05/02/sean_hannitys_post_bundy_hero_meet_vigilante_killer_byron_smith/
If you or I were to do that, we would now be frog stepping into a court room trying to explain this act.
There are no pictures of the Bern with Trump-----------correct-----------
Clinton's on the other hand have a problem
Honk----------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)He should have been impeached when it was found out what he did in the arms for hostages deal.
Most of the people here in the US got duped by one of the worst actors we have ever seen.
And to boot, he was such a puppet, he had alzheimers' when in office, and they STILL elected him for a second term!
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)That's a LOT more than republicans that voted him in... The water in the US must have been drugged with something..
Odd thing is, I supported him as well back then.. looking back, I have no idea what the hell was wrong with me, but at the time, I most ashamedly admit.. I did.
valerief
(53,235 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)There were plenty of people who voted against Raygun in 84. I know, I was one of them. Ronnie Rat won a lot of states by very small margins, and in those places there was evidence of Tom-Foolery going on with the elections. Yes the electoral votes matter, but you should see the actual popular vote, it was not as much of a rout as is pictured in this map. I know that a lot of folks got duped into voting for the Bedtime For Bonzo co-star, but I wasn't one of them, and I will not be duped by their propaganda... EVER.
ancianita
(36,130 posts)sendero
(28,552 posts)... that you are supposed to use dog-whistle phrases, you know like the Republican party has been for 30+ years. You're not supposed to say it out loud, you have to have plausible denyability!
It's fun to watch the Republican's racism, jingoism and other unpleasant isms bite them in the butt. They earned it.
JHB
(37,161 posts)If they're going to pile on the idiocy, there's no reason to not make use of the whole pile.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,188 posts)Seeing that the brain is losing blood, while the trumpsquito is biting its butt...
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)Rich, Racist, and Exploitative.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Initech
(100,097 posts)He is a clueless, egomaniacal, absurdly greedy billionaire who has absolutely no idea how the rest of the world works. That's who created the modern Republican party and that is what they stand for.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)3catwoman3
(24,026 posts)...than I am. He misses no opportunity to remind everyone how rich he is, as if that were the most important thing about him.
Well, BFD, Donald. You may be rich monetarily,and materially, but you are living below the poverty level in terms of class, dignity, grace, compassion, empathy, sensitivity, elegance, and basic good manners.
The Roux Comes First
(1,300 posts)Paid and bought for.