You wouldn't think it would be possible. It took eight years, but somebody finally came along to get
Bush off the hook.Now everything will be Trump's fault.
AWWWW, poor little alloak's feelings are hurt. Everyone is picking on poor Donnie.
Actually, it won't be his fault because he won't be elected. He MAY be responsible for the demise of the Republican Party, but that fault rests on the people who blindly support him. You know, low info voters.
The demise of the Republican party will actually be Obama's fault as well. Damn Obama!
Which "demise?"
We've heard this all before.
These predictions have been about as accurate as Global Warming predictions.
Republicans sure seem to win a lot of elections. Why?
Demise?
Dream on.
The demise has already happened. The GOP is unrecognizable from what it was even a few years ago.
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Trump's paid campaign staffers have declared on their personal social media accounts that Muslims are unfit to be U.S. citizens, ridiculed Mexican accents, called for Secretary of State John Kerry to be hanged and stated their readiness for a possible civil war, according to a review by The Associated Press of their postings.
That laughable Goober. I'm no Reagan fan, but even I know Trump is no Ronald Reagan. Trump is much more akin to Goldwater than Reagan, and we all know what happened to Goldwater.
I think 2016 will probably be another election which results in an electoral landslide that magnifies the poular vote differential. In 1980 the results were:
Reagan: popular vote: 51%, electoral votes 489
Carter: popular vote: 41%, electoral votes 49
Anderson: popular vote: 7%, electoral votes 0
If you leave the numbers alone and just change the names you'll probably be as close as anyone predicting this year:
Clinton: popular vote: 51%, electoral votes 489
Trump: popular vote: 41%, electoral votes 49
Johnson: popular vote: 7%, electoral votes 0
Trump has stepped on his dick way too many times already to have even a remote chance to beat Hillary. And, as stated previously by Bhawk, Hillary was very beatable.
It's a shame that such a corrupt and dishonest person will occupy the White House, but I accept at this point that there is really no way to prevent it.
I am not buying party supplies yet either, but you have to acknowledge that the first debate will be critical for Trump/Pence. There is a huge part of the populous that is enjoying their summer and have not tuned in yet and will not focus until the debates.
I bet if you went into the "anything goes" section and did a poll, there are probably a lot of members that do not know (or don't care) who the VP is for each party.
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I am not buying party supplies yet either, but you have to acknowledge that the first debate will be critical for Trump/Pence. There is a huge part of the populous that is enjoying their summer and have not tuned in yet and will not focus until the debates.
First sensible thing you've posted here in months. Personally, I am really hoping that Johnson/Weld gets into the debates so that they might have some substance to them, otherwise I'm afraid all we'll get is mudslinging.
I am not buying party supplies yet either, but you have to acknowledge that the first debate will be critical for Trump/Pence. There is a huge part of the populous that is enjoying their summer and have not tuned in yet and will not focus until the debates.
I think that's incredibly wishful thinking. I don't know one person who hasn't been completely tuned into this, enjoyable summer or not. And given the media saturation, I don't know how one could not be tuned in.
If you leave the numbers alone and just change the names you'll probably be as close as anyone predicting this year:
Clinton: popular vote: 51%, electoral votes 489
Trump: popular vote: 41%, electoral votes 49
Johnson: popular vote: 7%, electoral votes 0
Johnson will get more than 7%.
I don't know one person who hasn't been completely tuned into this
Well now you do. Aside from just enough to make me sick, which is a few soundbites on AM radio news, I have not been wasting time on this circus.
I would buy party supplies for the debate(s). That is gonna be some very interesting viewing.
I am not buying party supplies yet either, but you have to acknowledge that the first debate will be critical for Trump/Pence. There is a huge part of the populous that is enjoying their summer and have not tuned in yet and will not focus until the debates.
I think that's incredibly wishful thinking. I don't know one person who hasn't been completely tuned into this, enjoyable summer or not. And given the media saturation, I don't know how one could not be tuned in.
I pay close attention whenever Ms Clinton faces media questions and holds a press conference.
I am not buying party supplies yet either, but you have to acknowledge that the first debate will be critical for Trump/Pence. There is a huge part of the populous that is enjoying their summer and have not tuned in yet and will not focus until the debates.
I think that's incredibly wishful thinking. I don't know one person who hasn't been completely tuned into this, enjoyable summer or not. And given the media saturation, I don't know how one could not be tuned in.
I pay close attention whenever Ms Clinton faces media questions and holds a press conference.
Criticism of HRC's failure to face the media is fair. So is criticism of Trump's failure to release tax returns. Both need to happen.
The demise has already happened. The GOP is unrecognizable from what it was even a few years ago.
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Thank God for that. A few years ago they were handed power on a platter and acted like losers, did little or nothing with it and broke some big promises.
The demise has already happened. The GOP is unrecognizable from what it was even a few years ago.
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Thank God for that. A few years ago they were handed power on a platter and acted like losers, did little or nothing with it and broke some big promises.
Thank god for being even worse now? Ok, whatever floats your boat I guess.
The demise has already happened. The GOP is unrecognizable from what it was even a few years ago.
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Thank God for that. A few years ago they were handed power on a platter and acted like losers, did little or nothing with it and broke some big promises.
Thank god for being even worse now? Ok, whatever floats your boat I guess.
The GOP is now morphing into what is currently being labeled as the "alt right". If anyone thinks that represents a "postive" for the party, have at at. If anyone thinks Trump will have short term or long term benefits to the party, have at that also.
Bobby Jindal - where are you and maybe you need to repeat your now famous line re: the GOP?
The demise has already happened. The GOP is unrecognizable from what it was even a few years ago.
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Thank God for that. A few years ago they were handed power on a platter and acted like losers, did little or nothing with it and broke some big promises.
Thank god for being even worse now? Ok, whatever floats your boat I guess.
The simple fact that you consider them worse gives me reason to be hopeful. I'd never expect a thumbs up, but if you gave one I'd really be worried. Crossing the aisle to help pass Democratic agenda items, caving in, and giving Democrats largely whatever they want might cause you to lighten your stance? No thanks.
The demise has already happened. The GOP is unrecognizable from what it was even a few years ago.
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Thank God for that. A few years ago they were handed power on a platter and acted like losers, did little or nothing with it and broke some big promises.
Thank god for being even worse now? Ok, whatever floats your boat I guess.
The simple fact that you consider them worse gives me reason to be hopeful. I'd never expect a thumbs up, but if you gave one I'd really be worried. Crossing the aisle to help pass Democratic agenda items, caving in, and giving Democrats largely whatever they want might cause you to lighten your stance? No thanks.
Almost sounds like you think the R's have been working with the Ds too much...if so, you must be living in a parallel universe or something because that's certainly not what's been happening. In any case, I've voted for more people with R next to their name than D in the last few elections, so I guess you've got me figured out alright. lol
In any case, I've voted for more people with R next to their name than D in the last few elections, so I guess you've got me figured out alright. lol
It is funny. Just like The Goober labeling me a liberal who "carries water" for HRC when in fact I've never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in my life, and I've voted in every election since 1972.
The demise has already happened. The GOP is unrecognizable from what it was even a few years ago.
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Thank God for that. A few years ago they were handed power on a platter and acted like losers, did little or nothing with it and broke some big promises.
Thank god for being even worse now? Ok, whatever floats your boat I guess.
The simple fact that you consider them worse gives me reason to be hopeful. I'd never expect a thumbs up, but if you gave one I'd really be worried. Crossing the aisle to help pass Democratic agenda items, caving in, and giving Democrats largely whatever they want might cause you to lighten your stance? No thanks.
Almost sounds like you think the R's have been working with the Ds too much...if so, you must be living in a parallel universe or something because that's certainly not what's been happening. In any case, I've voted for more people with R next to their name than D in the last few elections, so I guess you've got me figured out alright. lol
They appear to put up a fight for a while, then cave. Too scared to "shut down" the government. Too
scared to be called racists. Too scared about what the media would say. They were given the power of the purse and the debt continued to skyrocket, but they put on a good show.
So, John Boehner didn't get 98% of what he wanted when he welcomed us all to divided government?
Hmmm. Have to go back and check that. Coulda sworn...
Lest you think Mike Pence is the sane and stable one on the GOP ticket...
Mike Pence Wrote An Article Urging Employers Not to Hire Gay People
Mike Pence, Donald Trump's running mate in this year's presidential election, published articles urging employers not to hire gay employees while he was head of the Indiana Policy Review in the 1990s.
One such article published during Pence's tenure reads: "Homosexuals are not as a group able-bodied. They are known to carry extremely high rates of disease brought on because of the nature of their sexual practices and the promiscuity which is a hallmark of their lifestyle."
Pence also argues in the piece that homosexuality is a "pathological condition." Read the full article here.
Pence has also fallen under scrutiny for publishing work in 1993 criticizing gay military members.
Last year as governor of Indiana, he signed the "Religious Freedom Restoration Act," which allows companies to discriminate against LGBT employees and customers based on firmly held religious beliefs. And he's proposed cutting funding for HIV treatment and using the money for "gay cure" therapy.
Trump’s history of corruption is mind-boggling. So why is Clinton supposedly the corrupt one?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/09/05/trumps-history-of-corruption-is-mind-boggling-so-why-is-clinton-supposedly-the-corrupt-one/
The Donald has court dates coming up on Oct 14th for a hearing about his alleged rape of a 13 yr old girl and another on Nov 28th for his fraud case about "TRUMP UNIVERSITY"....HRC is not the only "corrupt" politician running for president...
Here’s a partial list of Trump's corruption exploits:
- Trump’s casino bankruptcies, which left investors holding the bag while he skedaddled with their money
- Trump’s habit of refusing to pay contractors who had done work for him, many of whom are struggling small businesses
- Trump University, which includes not only the people who got scammed and the Florida investigation, but also a similar story from Texas where the investigation into Trump U was quashed.
- The Trump Institute, another get-rich-quick scheme in which Trump allowed a couple of grifters to use his name to bilk people out of their money
- The Trump Network, a multi-level marketing venture (a.k.a. pyramid scheme) that involved customers mailing in a urine sample which would be analyzed to produce for them a specially formulated package of multivitamins
- Trump Model Management, which reportedly had foreign models lie to customs officials and work in the U.S. illegally, and kept them in squalid conditions while they earned almost nothing for the work they did
- Trump’s employment of foreign guest workers at his resorts, which involves a claim that he can’t find Americans to do the work
- Trump’s use of hundreds of undocumented workers from Poland in the 1980s, who were paid a pittance for their illegal work
- Trump’s history of being charged with housing discrimination
- Trump’s connections to mafia figures involved in New York construction
- The time Trump paid the Federal Trade Commission $750,000 over charges that he violated anti-trust laws when trying to take over a rival casino company
- The fact that Trump is now being advised by Roger Ailes, who was forced out as Fox News chief when dozens of women came forward to charge him with sexual harassment. According to the allegations, Ailes’s behavior was positively monstrous; as just one indicator, his abusive and predatory actions toward women were so well-known and so loathsome that in 1968 the morally upstanding folks in the Nixon administration refused to allow him to work there despite his key role in getting Nixon elected.
Ok... but, other than that , a pretty decent sort, right?
Trump’s history of corruption is mind-boggling. So why is Clinton supposedly the corrupt one?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/09/05/trumps-history-of-corruption-is-mind-boggling-so-why-is-clinton-supposedly-the-corrupt-one/The Donald has court dates coming up on Oct 14th for a hearing about his alleged rape of a 13 yr old girl and another on Nov 28th for his fraud case about "TRUMP UNIVERSITY"....HRC is not the only "corrupt" politician running for president...
Here’s a partial list of Trump's corruption exploits:
- Trump’s casino bankruptcies, which left investors holding the bag while he skedaddled with their money
- Trump’s habit of refusing to pay contractors who had done work for him, many of whom are struggling small businesses
- Trump University, which includes not only the people who got scammed and the Florida investigation, but also a similar story from Texas where the investigation into Trump U was quashed.
- The Trump Institute, another get-rich-quick scheme in which Trump allowed a couple of grifters to use his name to bilk people out of their money
- The Trump Network, a multi-level marketing venture (a.k.a. pyramid scheme) that involved customers mailing in a urine sample which would be analyzed to produce for them a specially formulated package of multivitamins
- Trump Model Management, which reportedly had foreign models lie to customs officials and work in the U.S. illegally, and kept them in squalid conditions while they earned almost nothing for the work they did
- Trump’s employment of foreign guest workers at his resorts, which involves a claim that he can’t find Americans to do the work
- Trump’s use of hundreds of undocumented workers from Poland in the 1980s, who were paid a pittance for their illegal work
- Trump’s history of being charged with housing discrimination
- Trump’s connections to mafia figures involved in New York construction
- The time Trump paid the Federal Trade Commission $750,000 over charges that he violated anti-trust laws when trying to take over a rival casino company
- The fact that Trump is now being advised by Roger Ailes, who was forced out as Fox News chief when dozens of women came forward to charge him with sexual harassment. According to the allegations, Ailes’s behavior was positively monstrous; as just one indicator, his abusive and predatory actions toward women were so well-known and so loathsome that in 1968 the morally upstanding folks in the Nixon administration refused to allow him to work there despite his key role in getting Nixon elected.
Oh please. This is just further proof that he's cut his teeth in the business world. And clearly...he deserves a shot as the highest ranking government official in the world.
Trump’s history of corruption is mind-boggling. So why is Clinton supposedly the corrupt one?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/09/05/trumps-history-of-corruption-is-mind-boggling-so-why-is-clinton-supposedly-the-corrupt-one/The Donald has court dates coming up on Oct 14th for a hearing about his alleged rape of a 13 yr old girl and another on Nov 28th for his fraud case about "TRUMP UNIVERSITY"....HRC is not the only "corrupt" politician running for president...
Here’s a partial list of Trump's corruption exploits:
- Trump’s casino bankruptcies, which left investors holding the bag while he skedaddled with their money
- Trump’s habit of refusing to pay contractors who had done work for him, many of whom are struggling small businesses
- Trump University, which includes not only the people who got scammed and the Florida investigation, but also a similar story from Texas where the investigation into Trump U was quashed.
- The Trump Institute, another get-rich-quick scheme in which Trump allowed a couple of grifters to use his name to bilk people out of their money
- The Trump Network, a multi-level marketing venture (a.k.a. pyramid scheme) that involved customers mailing in a urine sample which would be analyzed to produce for them a specially formulated package of multivitamins
- Trump Model Management, which reportedly had foreign models lie to customs officials and work in the U.S. illegally, and kept them in squalid conditions while they earned almost nothing for the work they did
- Trump’s employment of foreign guest workers at his resorts, which involves a claim that he can’t find Americans to do the work
- Trump’s use of hundreds of undocumented workers from Poland in the 1980s, who were paid a pittance for their illegal work
- Trump’s history of being charged with housing discrimination
- Trump’s connections to mafia figures involved in New York construction
- The time Trump paid the Federal Trade Commission $750,000 over charges that he violated anti-trust laws when trying to take over a rival casino company
- The fact that Trump is now being advised by Roger Ailes, who was forced out as Fox News chief when dozens of women came forward to charge him with sexual harassment. According to the allegations, Ailes’s behavior was positively monstrous; as just one indicator, his abusive and predatory actions toward women were so well-known and so loathsome that in 1968 the morally upstanding folks in the Nixon administration refused to allow him to work there despite his key role in getting Nixon elected.Oh please. This is just further proof that he's cut his teeth in the business world. And clearly...he deserves a shot as the highest ranking government official in the world.
Amen, brother!