Republican Election 2016 - Donald Trump Megathread [OFFICIAL]

[alexw]

Or he wants to appear crazy enough to do something absurdly disproportionate, to give himself more bargaining room.

You heard it folks. We should all assume he is just pretending to be insane instead of him actually being insane. After all its only the fate of the planet and the human race we'd be gambling on here.

[Wells]

You heard it folks. We should all assume he is just pretending to be insane instead of him actually being insane. After all its only the fate of the planet and the human race we'd be gambling on here.

Never mind basically everyone who knows him who doesn't rely on him financially saying that this act is who he really is. Let's take a gamble!

[Fahrenheit]

American Nazis endorse Trump, "Could be a real opportunity for white nationalists"

One of the comments was spot on. The GOP is the big tent party, big enough to hold the Nuremberg rally.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...f846b#comments

[GennGreymane]

American Nazis endorse Trump, "Could be a real opportunity for white nationalists"

One of the comments was spot on. The GOP is the big tent party, big enough to hold the Nuremberg rally.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...f846b#comments

Yeaaahhhh its getting to that point.

[PACOX]

American Nazis endorse Trump, "Could be a real opportunity for white nationalists"

One of the comments was spot on. The GOP is the big tent party, big enough to hold the Nuremberg rally.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...f846b#comments

i really don't care if a controversial group decides to endorse another, but I do care about how the endorsed handle said endorsement. Just like an endorsement is a public declaration to support a candidate, said candidate can also make a public declaration to reject the endorsement. Its the best way to brush off any unsavory press from the controversial group endorsing you.

Will the Trump can't denounce the endorsement? Probably not.

Trump might not be a bigot or a racist, but his policies favor the ideals or bigots and racist and he doesn't do anything to separate himself from them. Thats one of his biggest follies.

Trump could regain some GOP voters if he would just make the smallest effort to distance himself from unsavory groups.

[Orbitus]

Ok well see this is the very ignorance I was talking about.

People have just bought into these media memes so hard that they're completely blinded to actual fact.

Its a self-reinforcing delusion.

I googled a familiar name with Bob Beckel and there is no way that he is a "democrat". He is just a yes man on the five show that he is on.

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I kinda feel bad now for Trump supporters. How far in your own delusions one has to be to believe stuff like this :
http://i.imgur.com/vKwk4kz.jpg

Lol at fox new being biased against trump

And this:
https://i.redd.it/qdhy6fl1pzdx.png

LOL at the social media proving that he will win in a landslide victory. Someone on this very site tried to use that bullshit excuse and then I kindly pointed out the fact that millions of people are probably from other countries like his buddies from Russia. Not to mention the fact that he has the most paid bots following him. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...-the-most-sad/

[GennGreymane]

any truth to this story?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...icle-1.1433096

Nearly a third of Louisiana Republicans think President Obama is to blame for the federal government’s notorious response to Hurricane Katrina, a new poll revealed.

The only problem, of course, is that Katrina, the dreadful 2005 storm that left more than 1,800 people dead and caused more than $100 billion in damage, occurred more than three years before Obama even took office. (The future president was then just eight months into his term as junior senator from Illinois.)

Despite that critical fact, 29% of Republicans in the Bayou State blame Obama for the federal government’s sluggish and sloppy response to the 2005 hurricane, according to left-leaning polling agency Public Policy Polling (PPP).

Another 28% blamed it on President George W. Bush, whose administration oversaw the federal response to the storm, which turned out to be the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The remaining 44% of poll respondents weren’t sure who to blame, the poll results, first published on political website Talking Points Memo, showed.

Bush, as well local government and Federal Emergency Management Agency officials, fell under harsh criticism for their preparedness for and response to the epic storm.

Because if this is true, this is lul.

[Merkava]

I honestly don't get why you find this schtick fun. He offered a list of mediocre intellects and faux liberals. I pointed it out and said Fox News does that a lot. You demanded evidence, though said evidence was the topic of the discussion.

You're constantly concerned more with some shitty notion of one upmanship than actual discussion.

No. I'm concerned with you taking drive by bullshit shots at other people's posts by making blanket statements and offering no evidence to back it up. And then declaring the conversation boring when asked to provide evidence for your claims.

The issue at hand was whether those people followed Fox's narrative and clearly they don't. You just don't like them because you think they're not smart enough. Well, that wasn't the discussion or the point that Zombergy was making.

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I googled a familiar name with Bob Beckel and there is no way that he is a "democrat". He is just a yes man on the five show that he is on.

See, that's the thing. You had to Google it. You had no idea who he was, you're uninformed, you get other people to tell you what to think, and then you get on a forum and act like you're knowledgeable.

[NYC17]

No. I'm concerned with you taking drive by bullshit shots at other people's posts by making blanket statements and offering no evidence to back it up. And then declaring the conversation boring when asked to provide evidence for your claims.

The issue at hand was whether those people followed Fox's narrative and clearly they don't. You just don't like them because you think they're not smart enough. Well, that wasn't the discussion or the point that Zombergy was making.

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See, that's the thing. You had to Google it. You had no idea who he was, you're uninformed, you get other people to tell you what to think, and then you get on a forum and act like you're knowledgeable.

I don't have to Google Beckel, and I know he's a shit example of a Democrat. How many points does that get me in whatever lameass game is taking place in this thread?

[Nadiru]

Seems like what North Korea has been trying to do but we all just make fun of him.

While paying exorbitant amounts of "humanitarian aid" to a country which has explicitly stated that it will not reform itself. The US got suckered into throwing money into a black hole on that one.

You heard it folks. We should all assume he is just pretending to be insane instead of him actually being insane. After all its only the fate of the planet and the human race we'd be gambling on here.

You can assume - and vote - whatever you please. I would not be surprised if people decide to vote for the potentially crazy person over the decidedly corrupt person.

[NYC17]

While paying exorbitant amounts of "humanitarian aid" to a country which has explicitly stated that it will not reform itself. The US got suckered into throwing money into a black hole on that one.



You can assume - and vote - whatever you please. I would not be surprised if people decide to vote for the potentially crazy person over the decidedly corrupt person.

Where does this thought process come from that Trump is free of corruption? Is it residual bullshit from Trump's emanating of pure bullshit that his followers absorb?

[Tijuana]

any truth to this story?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...icle-1.1433096



Because if this is true, this is lul.

Hard to tell when tabloids get lucky and one is true. This one could be. But, it seems like they would at least cite their source of the poll in some way, if this were true.

[Bollocks]

Where does this thought process come from that Trump is free of corruption? Is it residual bullshit from Trump's emanating of pure bullshit that his followers absorb?

It becomes more cleat the moment you realise that Trump economic advisors are his top donors.

[Lenonis]

ASKING when you don't know is strength. Acting like you know everything all the time is weakness.

That's a pretty harsh condemnation of Trump right there.

Given how many things he's just made up rather than admit he doesn't know. For instance, Crimea as the most recent example.

[NYC17]

Hard to tell when tabloids get lucky and one is true. This one could be. But, it seems like they would at least cite their source of the poll in some way, if this were true.

It's an old poll from 2013 I believe. It was done by PPP and supposedly was an exclusive for Talking Points Memo. The link to the poll no longer works due to something about suspected copyright infringement.

[Barnabas]

What a racist?

http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/117...2BzVCItg%3D%3D

or a republican?
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...ticle-1.136213

to be honest, unless you are in his close circle, I don't think anyone truly knows "what he is". Aside from someone who beat out all other Republican candidates with no prior political party experience while going against the whole party he was running in. The media portrayal of him doesn't help this either

He is a product of the media. The left wing media basically praised him until the nomination and now they are all calling him an asshole constantly. The whole election process is bullshit.

[NYC17]

That's a pretty harsh condemnation of Trump right there.

Given how many things he's just made up rather than admit he doesn't know. For instance, Crimea as the most recent example.

Russians defending Trump's potential use of nuclear weapons. Seriously, fuck this election.

[Lenonis]

Soooooooooooooo whenever I go visit my parents they have Fox News on all day.

When Fox reports the news they do it just like every other channel. The problem is a LOT of Fox's lineup is commentary and such and quite a lot of the stuff I've heard on there or things the guests say that go unchallenged is wildly inaccurate and easily disproven by 2 seconds on google.

If you want to do the "both sides do it" dance then fine, but let's not pretend Fox News goes anywhere near the truth when they decide to meander away from reporting the news. Which they do. A lot.

[NYC17]

He is a product of the media. The left wing media basically praised him until the nomination and now they are all calling him an asshole constantly. The whole election process is bullshit.

Wait, "the left wing media" praised Trump through the nomination process now? Haha, Jesus Christ.

[Nadiru]

Where does this thought process come from that Trump is free of corruption? Is it residual bullshit from Trump's emanating of pure bullshit that his followers absorb?

And if Trump were branded as corrupt, that might be relevant. But he got branded as crazy. I know, you're thinking "well, he can be both" and I'm pointing out that corrupt hasn't stuck with Trump the way it has with Hillary, but crazy has. "Crazy" Trump might even win Clinton the election, but "Corrupt" Trump probably wouldn't.