The Trump Candidacy

[420seriouscat69]

I'm just happy all the major holidays are over until the election. I don't know if I can fake agree about Donald Trump with the fannings. 

i have to go to a family vacay to Myrtle Beach this summer, and my step mom's family are all from South Carolina and huge Trump supporters, its going to be fantastic.

Oh man. 

[Rage Against the McKee]

I'm just happy all the major holidays are over until the election. I don't know if I can fake agree about Donald Trump with the fannings. 

Maybe he'll win and get worked into the Fanning Thanksgiving prayer.

[SkinnyBenny]

Hillary is going to moonwalk into the oval office

[sonofdaxjones]

I'm just happy all the major holidays are over until the election. I don't know if I can fake agree about Donald Trump with the fannings. 

i have to go to a family vacay to Myrtle Beach this summer, and my step mom's family are all from South Carolina and huge Trump supporters, its going to be fantastic.

MB in the summer   

[chuckjames]

I'm just happy all the major holidays are over until the election. I don't know if I can fake agree about Donald Trump with the fannings. 

i have to go to a family vacay to Myrtle Beach this summer, and my step mom's family are all from South Carolina and huge Trump supporters, its going to be fantastic.

MB in the summer 

yea its not ideal at all, but my step mom is from MB so my dad rents a beach house down there for a week every summer. and altho the beach sucks its better than a Kansas beach. and the people watching can be quite entertaining.

[pvegs]

I'm just happy all the major holidays are over until the election. I don't know if I can fake agree about Donald Trump with the fannings. 

i have to go to a family vacay to Myrtle Beach this summer, and my step mom's family are all from South Carolina and huge Trump supporters, its going to be fantastic.

Oh man. 

I have one Trump-supporting family member who lives in Louisiana. She's my aunt, the type of person who posts memes on Facebook such as, "Like if you think people with sagging pants should face criminal charges." Also, not incidentally, the only person I've ever unfollowed on Facebook.

[420seriouscat69]

I mean, you guys know I'm conservative, but I can't watch this happen. Wtf is wrong with this rough ridin' party?!

[chuckjames]

I mean, you guys know I'm conservative, but I can't watch this happen. Wtf is wrong with this rough ridin' party?!

the party allowed dog whistle politics and accepted the racists that came along with them to win elections for too long.

[sonofdaxjones]

Words vs actions:

Trump = perceived racism

Clinton's = oversaw one of the worst public education system states in the country which disproportionately hurts minorities,  signed into law one of the harshest criminal sentencing laws in U.S. history, a law which disproportionately hurts minorities.

[stunted]

Hillary is going to moonwalk into the oval office

vegas disagrees

[Mrs. Gooch]

Looks like I'm going to have to vote for Hillary now.

You were going to vote for Cruz?

No. I might have voted for Gary Johnson but now I have to do everything I can to keep Donald out of the White House.

[SkinnyBenny]

Clinton's = oversaw one of the worst public education system states in the country which disproportionately hurts minorities

Would love to hear specifics on what you think they're responsible for here, i.e. what did they cause? What did they allow to continue? What should they have done differently, and how would that have realistically changed the situation?

[star seed 7]

Words vs actions:

Trump = perceived racism

Clinton's = oversaw one of the worst public education system states in the country which disproportionately hurts minorities,  signed into law one of the harshest criminal sentencing laws in U.S. history, a law which disproportionately hurts minorities.

Misogynist

[Dugout DickStone]

Will Trump finally denounce the KKK?

[wetwillie]

He is going to renounce and denounce tons of crap between now and November. 

[sonofdaxjones]

Clinton's = oversaw one of the worst public education system states in the country which disproportionately hurts minorities

Would love to hear specifics on what you think they're responsible for here, i.e. what did they cause? What did they allow to continue? What should they have done differently, and how would that have realistically changed the situation?

LOL at SB wanting specifics now?    First off, why did she make teachers the scapegoats for Arkansas' education problems, which she quite clearly did with her mandatory skills test?   Bill Clinton held the Arkansas legislature financial hostage on a budget deal unless they passed the teacher testing legislation.   So, you're going to attack the teachers first in a state that had historically under funded education?   Fascinating.  Of course the usual suspect publications all praise what she did. 

Then when the teachers did very poorly on the test, the Clinton's,  with eye's on even bigger prizes where they knew they need the NEA, backed off substantially, selling their own reform out. 

[sonofdaxjones]

Words vs actions:

Trump = perceived racism

Clinton's = oversaw one of the worst public education system states in the country which disproportionately hurts minorities,  signed into law one of the harshest criminal sentencing laws in U.S. history, a law which disproportionately hurts minorities.

Misogynist

I agree, with the way Hillary et. al have attacked women who come forward to discuss their abuse at the hand (or cigar) of her husband.

[SkinnyBenny]

Clinton's = oversaw one of the worst public education system states in the country which disproportionately hurts minorities

Would love to hear specifics on what you think they're responsible for here, i.e. what did they cause? What did they allow to continue? What should they have done differently, and how would that have realistically changed the situation?

LOL at SB wanting specifics now?    First off, why did she make teachers the scapegoats for Arkansas' education problems, which she quite clearly did with her mandatory skills test?   Bill Clinton held the Arkansas legislature financial hostage on a budget deal unless they passed the teacher testing legislation.   So, you're going to attack the teachers first in a state that had historically under funded education?   Fascinating.  Of course the usual suspect publications all praise what she did. 

Then when the teachers did very poorly on the test, the Clinton's,  with eye's on even bigger prizes where they knew they need the NEA, backed off substantially, selling their own reform out.

Links plz, I wasn't really paying attention to issues relating to Arkansas' educational climate when I was 9 and in Kansas. Will read them all, though. Genuinely interested.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

A lot of you missed the ass whooping Hillary took in Indiana last night. Who would have thought she'd be mired in a primary after the pub candidate? 

She isn't skating to anything. She's awkward, awful, and has opposed every position she's currently planking.

[Panjandrum]

I keep thinking that Trump will make this competitive, but how many Latino voters will come to the polls to vote against him in Arizona and Florida?  African-American voters in Pittsburgh and Philly?  How many Ohio soccer moms will pull that lever for Donald Trump?

You can mobilize 500k angry white people in Indiana to go vote for him in a primary, but in a general election does his support really scale?

And I'm not going to get into a debate about Hillary.  None of this, to me, is about her.  You could put a cardboard cutout of Howdy Doody up there, and people are going to debate whether or not they're really going to pull that lever for Donald Trump.

I'm still not convinced that some establishment Republicans won't throw some third party candidate out there just to siphon off some of his votes.

[Dugout DickStone]

Aren't there enough olds and racists in Florida?

[wetwillie]

forgot about pubs running a third party to split the vote and get the congress to elect Paul Ryan.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

I wouldn't be surprised if more people voted against Donald than for Hillary. The dems are going to have to play more on the irrational fears of people than ever, because hillary probably couldn't inspire a vote from Bill.

[MakeItRain]

I'm sadly old enough to remember when Ronald Reagan was going to start WWIII and everybody alive at the time was going to die, so that means some of you would have never been born.   When in reality, Ronnie may have turned out to be the most non interventionist president since WWII (Oh yeah, a nod to Whackadoodle who will chime in with some factoids that everyone knows about Central America, a place where more then one U.S. president has meddled).   

What about the Caribbean island he invaded that is roughly the same size as Lincoln, Nebraska? How many presidents have done that?

[sonofdaxjones]

I'm sadly old enough to remember when Ronald Reagan was going to start WWIII and everybody alive at the time was going to die, so that means some of you would have never been born.   When in reality, Ronnie may have turned out to be the most non interventionist president since WWII (Oh yeah, a nod to Whackadoodle who will chime in with some factoids that everyone knows about Central America, a place where more then one U.S. president has meddled).   

What about the Caribbean island he invaded that is roughly the same size as Lincoln, Nebraska? How many presidents have done that?

Well, give or take you can probably start with McKinley, that is if you're talking just the Caribbean.