The Trump Candidacy

[Asteriskhead]

Hey dax, maybe just shut the eff up for a while.

[ChiComCat]

That's gonna happen regardless.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/presidential-polls-hillary-clinton-donald-trump/index.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+(RSS%3A+CNN+-+Top+Stories)

And when it does, and Hillary does The Worm right into the White House like I've been saying all along, I'll get my popcorn and sit back and watch a minimum of four more years of 'pub butthurt
 

You would just be proving to him that the system is rigged.

[Mrs. Gooch]

[star seed 7]

Oh, here's a video of Donald J trump getting angry because he keeps getting turned away from voting in the wrong spot

https://www.accesshollywood.com/videos/donald-trumps-election-day-disaster-a-look-back-2004/

[chum1]

[sys]

this kinda intersects with the money/two party discussion from yesterday as well as trump's rigged comments (and the same from bernieites).  i think it's important to recognize that much of what people complain about is structural, not corruption, special interest groups, faithless actors, stupidity or many of the other facile explanations frequently on offer.  people play the game they're given to play.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-political-process-isnt-rigged-it-has-much-bigger-problems/

[sys]

https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/760876772078616576?lang=en

[chum1]

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/melania-trump-immigration-donald-226648

[sys]

oh, that's great.

[sonofdaxjones]

For $500K she could have had Khan Citizenship.   Not Saudi tho

[sys]

she could have gotten a work visa, but she didn't want to stand in line like everyone else.  it's the legal immigrants that are hurt by this.

[SkinnyBenny]

For $500K she could have had Khan Citizenship.   Not Saudi tho

Hey dax, maybe just shut the eff up for a while.

[sonofdaxjones]

For $500K she could have had Khan Citizenship.   Not Saudi tho

Hey dax, maybe just shut the eff up for a while.

  @ SB

[wetwillie]

I feel a SB meltdown coming on

[The1BigWillie]

Wouldn't you probably recommend that your candidate NOT say "the election is probably rigged" BEFORE the actual election?  I mean... is he TRYING to discourage people from voting for him?  "Just stay home Cletus, the election is probably rigged anyway."   

I wish I had more time to watch/listen to EVERYTHING Trump.

[wetwillie]

You must have missed the reports of trumps camp staging an intervention and his staff being suicidal

[Mrs. Gooch]

So the Pubs are making a plan in case Trump drops out. How does that work? Do some high level Pubs just get to pick whatever candidate they want?

[sys]

what a ridiculous notion.  if you complain that the election is rigged after the election it sounds like sour grapes.  only by complaining before the election can you explain that your defeat was not your fault.

[sys]

So the Pubs are making a plan in case Trump drops out. How does that work? Do some high level Pubs just get to pick whatever candidate they want?

mini-convention with 3 peeps from each state voting.  votes are weighted by the number of delegates per state, not one state/3 votes.  but it's just a fantasy to help them feel better about not doing something 6 months ago.

[The1BigWillie]

what a ridiculous notion.  if you complain that the election is rigged after the election it sounds like sour grapes.  only by complaining before the election can you explain that your defeat was not your fault.

ahhh... makes sense now.  Carry on.

[Gooch]

what a ridiculous notion.  if you complain that the election is rigged after the election it sounds like sour grapes.  only by complaining before the election can you explain that your defeat was not your fault.

The oscar Weber doctrine.

[ChiComCat]

The schedulemakers already screwed him on the debates

[Dugout DickStone]

The schedulemakers already screwed him on the debates

trip to Hawaii

[Rage Against the McKee]

A few members of the Big 12 Republican Party are talking about leaving.

[sys]

Donald Trump really, really wants to win Loudoun County—the absurdly wealthy Northern Virginia county where the rally Rahimyar protested took place. Trump even said so in his speech. And he should; George W. Bush won it in 2000 and 2004, and Barack Obama picked it up in 2008 and 2012. Loudoun voters predict presidents. Trump seems to get that.

“Loudoun County is so important,” he told the crowd at the offset of the rally.

But—evidenced by his speech—he doesn’t understand it. At all. And if he wants to compete there, he’s going to have to learn quick.

Loudoun is the richest county in America. That’s due in part to the enormous amount of money the federal government spent on the War on Terror in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The place is replete with defense contractors, engineers, and rocket scientists. And it’s recession-proof; while the rest of the country struggled through the Great Recession, Loudoun kept sprouting up neighborhoods of McMansions, seemingly with a swimming pool in every backyard.

But Trump seems to think it’s part of the Rust Belt. Toward the end of his speech—to an atypically preppy, professional, clean-cut audience—the candidate bashed the county economy.

“You’re doing lousy over here, by the way, I hate to tell you,” he said.

That is empirically false.

He then listed a number of factory closures, including Ball Corp., which was five hours away in Bristol, as far from Loudoun as you can get without leaving the state. And he mentioned the closure of a Smithfield Foods Inc.

“Anybody used to work for Smithfield?” he asked the crowd.

It’s almost certain none of them did. The Smithfield plant that closed was in Hampton Roads, Virginia—three hours from Ashburn, in the southeast corner of the state.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/03/trump-tells-virginia-town-it-s-failing-cites-the-wrong-place.html