What's Trump Done This Time Catch-All

I'm becoming immune to the fear his candidacy creates in me.

It's just what life is now.

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Headlining over on reddit:

Trump asks why US can't use nukes: MSNBC

Chaz wrote:

I'm also not a big fan of trying to segregate the Trump antics from the main election thread. In past elections, I agree that this kind of "gaffe" stuff would be worth separating. In the Before Times, the gaffes were only happening occasionally, and were relatively minor incidents that got spun up to be more by the opposing party. The candidates responded, then pivoted back to talking about their policy proposals.

It was only four years ago that "49%" and "binders full of women" were huge gaffes that tanked Romney's support, and yet Trump says worse things than those literally every day.

Re: Nuclear weapons: It's cool, I wanted my recurrent nightmares about nuclear armageddon to come back, thanks Republican party.

The other forums I frequent have separate Trump threads, so this is great. Recently, Trump called the capital of my home state a "war zone."

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...

I mean, it's not the greatest city ever, but c'mon now...

The hero image justifies this thread.

Roo wrote:

Signing up the old fashioned way to the thread.

Anyone curious if this stuff makes the national news in Greece?

It does.

And yes of course the daily Trump antics make the U.S. look bad. The Simpsons' 3am spoof received equal screen time to Trump antics, btw, getting a full screening on evening news and highlights on late news...

It surely does.
It is awkward, picking fascist megalomaniacs was our thing. It is really the one thing Europe has been consistently good at - we don't even need to look to the past. But nooo, US can't let us have that either!
Not sure even Trump could get elected here. I mean, in terms of how dangerous and awful he is, sure, he would be very electable. But I want to believe the crazy clown part would really hurt him.
At least our racists and dictators seem to be competent (which admittedly, is likely worse in the end).

Demyx wrote:

Re: Nuclear weapons: It's cool, I wanted my recurrent nightmares about nuclear armageddon to come back, thanks Republican party.

Oh well I like to think positively about this whole nuclear situation with Trump...at least I'll be able to play Fallout 4 in real 3D without spending even a dime (or a bottlecap!)

bekkilyn wrote:
Demyx wrote:

Re: Nuclear weapons: It's cool, I wanted my recurrent nightmares about nuclear armageddon to come back, thanks Republican party.

Oh well I like to think positively about this whole nuclear situation with Trump...at least I'll be able to play Fallout 4 in real 3D without spending even a dime (or a bottlecap!) :)

I'll be forced to get more than an hour into it then.

Well, the graphics quality is likely to be exceptionally good. I imagine the rule system won't be a lot of fun, though.

Malor wrote:

Well, the graphics quality is likely to be exceptionally good. I imagine the rule system won't be a lot of fun, though.

Also, most of us will be NPCs. Or decorative corpses.

Shadout wrote:
Roo wrote:

Signing up the old fashioned way to the thread.

Anyone curious if this stuff makes the national news in Greece?

It does.

And yes of course the daily Trump antics make the U.S. look bad. The Simpsons' 3am spoof received equal screen time to Trump antics, btw, getting a full screening on evening news and highlights on late news...

It surely does.
It is awkward, picking fascist megalomaniacs was our thing. It is really the one thing Europe has been consistently good at - we don't even need to look to the past. But nooo, US can't let us have that either!
Not sure even Trump could get elected here. I mean, in terms of how dangerous and awful he is, sure, he would be very electable. But I want to believe the crazy clown part would really hurt him.
At least our racists and dictators seem to be competent (which admittedly, is likely worse in the end).

That's not fair, we've picked plenty of fascist megalomaniac dictators! It's just that in the past we've picked them for different countries...

Malor wrote:

Well, the graphics quality is likely to be exceptionally good. I imagine the rule system won't be a lot of fun, though.

Maybe investing in a lot more beds before all of this happens would be wise.

Trump Allies Plot Candidate Intervention After Disastrous 48 Hours

Republican National Committee head Reince Priebus, former Republican New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich are among the Trump endorsers hoping to talk the real estate mogul into a dramatic reset of his campaign in the coming days, sources tell NBC News.

The group of GOP heavyweights hopes to enlist the help of Trump's children - who comprise much of his innermost circle of influential advisers - to aid in the attempt to rescue his candidacy. Trump's family is considered to have by far the most influence over the candidate's thinking at what could be a make-or-break moment for his campaign.

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Tanglebones wrote:

Trump Allies Plot Candidate Intervention After Disastrous 48 Hours

Republican National Committee head Reince Priebus, former Republican New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich are among the Trump endorsers hoping to talk the real estate mogul into a dramatic reset of his campaign in the coming days, sources tell NBC News.

The group of GOP heavyweights hopes to enlist the help of Trump's children - who comprise much of his innermost circle of influential advisers - to aid in the attempt to rescue his candidacy. Trump's family is considered to have by far the most influence over the candidate's thinking at what could be a make-or-break moment for his campaign.

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This one belongs in the election thread, it's not something Trump has said/done himself and it has to do with his status as a candidate.

I guess I could have called this thread "Stupid sh*t Trump Says" to be more clear, but here we are.

Having his children as his closest advisers seems to fall into the 'stupid sh*t' category!

I feel like I understand P&C so much better after this conversation over the splitting up of the election thread.

Was the full Washington Post interview posted here yet?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...

oh god, I'm 30 seconds into it.

It's kind of like being at a demolition derby.

Oh wow, these cars keep crashing. It's not surprising they're crashing since that's kind of why I'm here but I find the frequency of crashes to be kind of alarming.

Hillary needs to figure out how to sneak a TV into the debates to make Trump lose focus.

I'm pretty sure tossing shiny pennies in front of his podium every few minutes would make him lose focus.

Sure, but he cant comment on it like TV. "Oh look that is friendly Kim Jong-un. Nobody tells him he can't use nukes", "Oh look,that is my hot daughter" etc.

oilypenguin wrote:

oh god, I'm 30 seconds into it.

It's kind of like being at a demolition derby.

Oh wow, these cars keep crashing. It's not surprising they're crashing since that's kind of why I'm here but I find the frequency of crashes to be kind of alarming.

I didnt get the part about the county he was in.. until I read this

http://gawker.com/donald-trump-had-n...

wow.. just wow.

Having trouble linking the images but this is pretty hilarious:
http://donaldmaroney.tumblr.com/

NathanialG wrote:

Having trouble linking the images but this is pretty hilarious:
http://donaldmaroney.tumblr.com/

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Season 6, Episode 21

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Season 7, Episode 3

That last one is my favorite!

Edit got it:

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Republicans nominate dangerously insane person to lead America, then panic when he proves he’s dangerously insane:

But this elides the many deeper weaknesses that bedevil Trump’s candidacy. There is no question that Trump’s current follies are likely very damaging. But Trump has long harbored a range of traits and qualifications — or lack thereof — that already render him a very compromised candidate, both in a political sense and in the sense that Republicans should not have nominated him because he is a unique menace to the American experiment.

 
Trump’s pathologically abusive tendencies, his hair-trigger overreaction to criticism and slights both real and imagined, and his mental habit of sorting the world into the strong and the weak — the dominant and the submissive — render him temperamentally unfit for the presidency. He lacks basic knowledge of the world and doesn’t appear burdened by any curiosity about the complexities of foreign affairs or domestic policy. He is at worst a genuine bigot and at best a charlatan who has actively sought to stoke reactionary hostility to culturally and demographically evolving America. He is indifferent to the inner workings of the American system and instead promises authoritarian glory.

Trump’s basic vision of the country as an apocalyptic hellscape — in which we’re existentially threatened by skyrocketing crime, dark hordes flooding up from the south, and refugee-terrorists menacing us from the east — is based on exaggerations, distortions, and lies. His policy agenda to “fix” things is pure fraudulence. He promised mass deportations that will never happen and would be hideously cruel if he could actually carry them out. He proposed a religious test for entry into the United States — a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country — and then modified that proposal to include a suspension of immigration “from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism,” which is even more absurd. As Ari Melber reports today, experts say his proposal would essentially destroy our immigration system.

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What’s really happened in recent days is that Trump’s ongoing battle with the Khan family only made all of these traits — the unhinged response to criticism, the bigoted attacks on Muslims, the naked abusiveness directed at a grieving family — more glaringly obvious. By extension, this has made nominating this man even more impossible politically for Republicans to defend. But Republicans knew who they were nominating. They themselves had repeatedly acknowledged that his personal traits were alarming and had castigated many of his positions as cruel and at odds with fundamental American values. Voices from all across the political spectrum, from liberals to centrists to Never Trump conservatives, warned that he would only get worse.

Now Republicans want to stage an intervention?