2016 Postmortem
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Donald J. Trump has now driven home, in a way no apologist, enabler or timid analyst can plausibly deny, that he is far too nasty, immature and frighteningly undisciplined to be president.
And thanks to Hillary Clinton for the assist: By using the first debate to bring up the case of a Miss Universe who, Trump decided, had put on too much weight, the Democratic nominee unleashed the ugly inner Donald the man whom the candidate and his handlers have been trying to hide.
This should be a wake-up call to political analysts who have gone out of their way since Trump announced his candidacy to pretend that he was the ingenious creator of a political special sauce who deserved our respect for speaking his mind. No, Trump all along has been a clinically self-involved con man who never took the issues, the presidency or the future of our country seriously. Can there be any doubt that his campaign is a branding exercise gone, quite literally, mad?
Trumps gift to voters was a series of tweets he started sending out at 3:20 a.m. Friday morning. His behavior gives new meaning to the old ads about 3 a.m. phone calls questioning how a would-be president might respond to crisis. Beware any human being who feels an impulse to send out angry tweets at that hour.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/thank-you-trump-for-exposing-your-ugly-inner-self/2016/10/02/e7051490-8745-11e6-92c2-14b64f3d453f_story.html?utm_term=.af09df02dcc5&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1
longship
(40,416 posts)Happy to R&
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)must become a badge of shame.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)BootinUp
(47,156 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Time to focus on the districts that will flip the majority and put Pelosi back in charge of enacting our platform.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Bucky
(54,014 posts)I assume Trump is God's second whack at putting his designated savior pro tem in charge of the Executive Branch. Really, God, I always assumed You had more game than that.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)not that he would win in 2016... but, that if somebody without all the baggage and with a better temperament comes along, what will happen in 2020, 2024 or 2028? Is there another Trump brewing out there that is maybe in his 30s or 40s now?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Last edited Mon Oct 3, 2016, 10:56 AM - Edit history (1)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512463195HipChick
(25,485 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)right now, Ivanka is the only one that has gotten generally positive overall reviews from the RNC and in general. And, she is supposedly a Democrat.
I think if the media has really turned on trump and he ends up losing big, I think the Trump boys will be finished politically.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)mgardener
(1,816 posts)ALL the people that supported Trump and make sure they are never/ not elected to office again.
In my mind anybody that supported Trump has NO morals, ethics, or plain common sense. They don't care about the US, they are in it for themselves.
hibbing
(10,098 posts)He wasn't conservative enough, or was not a true conservative.
Peace
Beartracks
(12,814 posts)When you think of something Hannity might say, do you hear it in his whiny voice?
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hibbing
(10,098 posts)I hear either that or when he goes into his what I like to call "academic role" where he tries to make all the putrid bile he is spewing sound so definitive, like when he's talking to his fellow MENSA member Newt.
Peace
vinny9698
(1,016 posts)Do you really believe that this will be his worst week, I've got a news flash, you ain't seen nothing yet. Trump is just getting warmed up. This are his stretching moves. The real deal is coming in a few weeks. Each week will get progressively worse that the prior week. Then we get the big climax. BOOM.
sheshe2
(83,785 posts)Sure ripped into Trump with that piece! Good.
Hamlette
(15,412 posts)Those that haven't turned on him can't. They have to ride it out. My fantasy is his business suffers, maybe he even goes broke. Maybe no one will do business with him. But we need the press to keep it up with all his past sins. Fingers crossed.
randome
(34,845 posts)(I guess Trump reminds me of old and insipid Japanese monster movies from childhood. Sniff.)
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Tweeted.