Trump the Drumpf covered in weaksauce

[phrodeau]

Good news. Now people and corporations can influence Donald Trump with their contributions.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/a...nald-trump-to-seek-donations-to-fund-campaign

Money Matters

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is building a finance operation that will raise money for the general election, two people familiar with the plan said.

The finance team will seek to raise money for the Trump campaign directly, as well as under the auspices of a joint fundraising committee, or JFC, with the Republican National Committee, once both sides settle on the terms of the venture.

“I’ll be putting up money, but won’t be completely self-funding, as I did during the primaries,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal in an interview confirming his decision.

Top aides suggested he would need to raise about $1 billion to take on expected Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. The much-needed funds will come with certain political risk for Trump, whose political ascent was largely built upon his argument that he self-funds his campaign and therefore is not beholden to anyone.

"The fact of the matter is that if Trump’s campaign committee participates in a JFC, Trump is raising private funds—because his committee will receive a portion of the funds raised by the JFC," said Paul Seamus Ryan, deputy executive director of the Campaign Legal Center. "To the extent Trump is raising funds for a JFC, he’s not self-financing.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Good news. Now people and corporations can influence Donald Trump with their contributions.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/a...nald-trump-to-seek-donations-to-fund-campaign

LMFAO

http://www.commdiginews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/trumpClinton.jpg

 

[sr71plt]

He never was completely self-funding. He has taken contributions through his Web site all along. I think at one point it was a third of what he was spending.

 

[phrodeau]

He never was completely self-funding. He has taken contributions through his Web site all along. I think at one point it was a third of what he was spending.

Trump lied to the WSJ then.

 

[phrodeau]

John McCain says that Trump's candidacy could mean his job.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/trump-latinos-mccain-222810

“If Donald Trump is at the top of the ticket, here in Arizona, with over 30 percent of the vote being the Hispanic vote, no doubt that this may be the race of my life,” McCain said, according to a recording of (a fundraiser in Arizona last month) obtained by POLITICO. “If you listen or watch Hispanic media in the state and in the country, you will see that it is all anti-Trump. The Hispanic community is roused and angry in a way that I've never seen in 30 years.”

The 2008 GOP presidential nominee is certainly the favorite in his race to win a sixth term in the Senate. But his remarks about the party’s presumptive nominee expose a deep well of concern about how Trump might damage the GOP’s chances in the battle for Senate control — especially in states like Arizona, Nevada and Florida, where Latinos make up a big chunk of voters. Republicans are defending two dozen seats this year, many in blue and purple states, vs. just 10 for Democrats — a daunting landscape even without Trump atop the ballot.

 

[dan_c00000]

Trump lied to the WSJ then.

You should see his casinos. They're definitely, as the Donald himself would say, #sad!.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Trump the Drumpf Weaksauce of the Week

Trump needed to add to his private stash of cash.
He killed two birds with one stone.
He took advantage of Cinco de Mayo.
A part of Mexican history.
His blurt on twitter about loving Hispanics included a pic.

As is usual with Trump, the tweet was not straight forward.
Trump accuses others of being crooked, but his path is never straight.

It does not matter when Trump's picture was taken, or where he ate a bland, mediocre, taco bowl. Trump got what he wanted.

Free advertising for Trump Tower, and the awful food that they serve there.
Is there anything that Trump has touched, that is not a scam ?
The Trump Steak represents what Trump is.
Meat remnants with meat glue, cheap cuts mechanically tenderized. Kept in plastic pouch with liquid. A mushy wet steak is served.
Others may waste money on customers by serving a real whole steak and searing the surface until it is appetizing and delicious.
Not Trump. He promises the best, and serves the worst.
Everything inferior and disappointing.
Pay the premium price for what is promised.
Get scammed, for believing that promise.

Hmmm, someone noticed something about those steaks...

Trump appeared in his Mar-a-Lago resort to insist Trump Steaks were indeed a going concern. “Do we have steaks? We have Trump steaks. He said the steak company, and we have Trump steaks. And by the way, if you want to take one, we’ll charge you about, what, 50 bucks a steak?” It was not only a blatant lie, but a lie that required no sophistication at all to see through. One did not need a grasp of economics or public policy to understand that Trump Steaks is a no-longer-extant product. There are no advertisements for these steaks. They are not available for purchase anywhere. They do not exist. Trump simply had his staff purchase a bunch of steaks at a supermarket and display them on a table, and call them “Trump Steaks.” But — and here is the most incredible detail of all, the one that reveals just how blunt the Trump con is — his campaign did not even bother to completely remove the wrappers from the steaks they purchased. The steaks still had the labels from the local butcher from which they were purchased.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/05/trump-has-won-and-the-republican-party-is-broken.html

The sad part, is Trump Tower stands on a place where there was a historic landmark.Trump promised the artwork to a museum,and disregarded the agreement. His imported workers destroyed the artwork.

His (Trump's) first media spectacle, in 1980, focused on the then-33-year-old developer destroying a pair of Art Deco reliefs that were part of the facade of the Bonwit Teller Building in midtown Manhattan, which Trump tore down to build his Trump Tower. The Metropolitan Museum of Art wanted the reliefs for its collection, as the Washington Post recalled in a bit of retrospective reporting recently, and Trump agreed to donate them, if the cost of their removal wasn’t prohibitive. It wasn’t, but Trump’s construction crew destroyed the works anyway. Trump later told the New York Times that he was concerned for “the safety of people on the street below…If one of those stones had slipped, people could have been killed.” The Times also reported that no one involved with the construction of Trump Tower even bothered to ask the Met how the sculptures could have been removed safely.


http://www.artnews.com/2016/04/04/absolutely-gross-degenerate-stuff-trump-and-the-arts/

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

A billion dollars is now worth more than the virtue that was paraded, and boasted about ?


May 5, 2016

For a year, Donald Trump has piously insisted that he couldn’t be bought or sold because he was a rich man, dependent on no one and beholden to no one. To prove it, he covered most of the cost of his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination out of his own deep pockets and didn’t actively raise money from
donors.

By loaning his campaign money and not donating it, Trump stands to potentially recoup his investment. The interest-free loans don't have to be repaid until at least Dec. 31, 2016, and Trump could ultimately decide to write them off. Voters view Trump as working without special interests. Him contributing eight figures to his own campaign and operating without outside groups, like a super PAC, makes that claim appear more legitimate. We just hope the next time he drops the self-funding line, he doesn't ignore the $7 million he's received in outside donations.


https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog...lly-self-financing-his-presidential-campaign/

He (Trump) saw that ordinary people feel they are being ignored in favor of special interests that can afford to buy access and influence, and he knew he could win votes by claiming to be unbuyable.

But now that the cost is rising, he doesn’t want to put his money where his mouth is and spend $1 billion of his own money on November’s election. In retrospect, perhaps he believes that being bought and sold is not as bad as it first appeared. Welcome to the game, Mr. Trump.


http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ol-trump-fundraising-flip-flop-20160505-story.html

 

[sr71plt]

I don't see anything wrong to expect a party to start picking up a bulk of the campaign expense once someone is the formal candidate of that party.

 

[BotanyBoy]

I don't see anything wrong to expect a party to start picking up a bulk of the campaign expense once someone is the formal candidate of that party.

Especially ones that are such partisan knob jobbers and step in line to keep the 'fuck the people, fuck them as hard as we legally can' party they have enjoyed for some time now going.

But the GOP ain't giving Trump a fuckin' dime

 

[lovecraft68]

The only thing that can save this country's future is a double assassination of Trump and Clinton. If the shooter really wants to do everyone an extra favor he can strike a blow for women all over the country and get Bill too.

 

[sr71plt]

Beyond that, I don't think anyone should be permitted to personally fund (or loan) more than 50 percent of the cost (or maybe even 25 percent) of a senatorial or higher office campaign, even a primary campaign. They should command at least that much outside support to be making a national run. Allowing them to do so is letting the super rich buy their offices.

 

[phrodeau]

The only thing that can save this country's future is a double assassination of Trump and Clinton. If the shooter really wants to do everyone an extra favor he can strike a blow for women all over the country and get Bill too.

Gun rights! NRA! Second Amendment! Hoo-ah!

 

[Beco]

February 29, 2016

After the interview by
CNN State of the Union


During the interview with NBC "Today"

Trump the Drumpf has a new whine.

Wahhhh! My earpiece is broken. It is not my fault that I did not man up, and tell my adoring, and not so adoring public that I did not not denounce the KKK, because I do not want to pisss off members of the KKK, and people who support and agree with the KKK.

It is my dysfunctional earpiece's fault!

"I could not hear what Jake Tapper was saying."
- Trump the Drumpf

Is Trump the Drumpf trying to tell the American public that there are individual groups associated with the KKK, that are acceptable ?

Savannah Guthrie nailed Trump's foot to the floor, when she reminded Trump about the 2000 Reform Party ticket. Trump had passed on it because he did not want to associate himself with a Grand Wizard and the KKK.

What a great thread. The guy beat all odds and here he is....I'm not sure he'll become President, but I wouldnt bet against it.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Beyond that, I don't think anyone should be permitted to personally fund (or loan) more than 50 percent of the cost (or maybe even 25 percent) of a senatorial or higher office campaign, even a primary campaign. They should command at least that much outside support to be making a national run. Allowing them to do so is letting the super rich buy their offices.

I'd go way harder.

They get paid like a mother fucker, have full access to any military PAC flight they want and numerous publicly funded media outlets among other services.

They need to be cut the fuck off. They are public servants and they need to be made as such again. If the public services, full benefits/privileges and 180k a yea or w/e it is they get paid aren't enough then they are point blank too fucking greedy for the office.

Nancy Pelosi shouldn't have her own jet...she needs to ride the same bum piss stank fuckin' bus or extra comfy C-130 the peasants/slaves ride around in.

 

[sr71plt]

Well, that was irrelevant--as well as being your usual bitter rant. The topic was people campaigning for the office, not people who held the office.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'd go way harder.

They get paid like a mother fucker, have full access to any military PAC flight they want and numerous publicly funded media outlets among other services.

They need to be cut the fuck off. They are public servants and they need to be made as such again. If the public services, full benefits/privileges and 180k a yea or w/e it is they get paid aren't enough then they are point blank too fucking greedy for the office.

Nancy Pelosi shouldn't have her own jet...she needs to ride the same bum piss stank fuckin' bus or extra comfy C-130 the peasants/slaves ride around in.

and have to take the same AFA insurance as the people.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Well, that was irrelevant--as well as being your usual bitter rant.

No it's not and there is nothing bitter about wanting public servants to live on the public level instead of being objects of power for the wealthy to purchase via huge sums of money.

Now I know that concept sounds bitter to an elitist like yourself but for those of us outside the congress critter/billionaire circle jerk club that concept/sentiment of getting our public servants back is growing among the public every day.

The topic was people campaigning for the office, not people who held the office.

You must not understand what holding office has become then.

What do you think people who hold office in DC do with the majority of their time?

Currently pretty much all US politicians do is campaign and fund raise for their campaign, that is to say they whore their power out to the highest bidders instead of serving the public interest like they are supposed to be doing.

This is going to sound like venom and hate to you, #1 (R)odhamfan, but a LOT of people think we just might see some improvement if we got rid of that and forced them to go back to work as public servants again. No hate, folks just want their government back....

and have to take the same AFA insurance as the people.

Same everything, they shouldn't be getting special shit except maybe a security detail if needed. They are government employees not fuckin' royalty/nobility.

GS whatever/time in service, fair is fair.

 

[sr71plt]

I see no reason to answer this (besides that you are just bitterly ranting). My post was on the financing of campaigns for candidates running for office and yours is on office holders. If you can't see the difference between those, you are dumb as a rock. But then you are just fuming so much that reason has nothing to do about it. I think you're going to explode in impotent rage. That's fine with me--especially when you are completely off topic.

 

[BotanyBoy]

I see no reason to answer this (besides that you are just bitterly ranting).

Yet here you are.

My post was on the financing of campaigns for candidates running for office and yours is on office holders. If you can't see the difference between those, you are dumb as a rock. But then you are just fuming so much that reason has nothing to do about it. I think you're going to explode in impotent rage. That's fine with me--especially when you are completely off topic.

Says the guy who STILL doesn't realize that the office holders spend most of their time running for that office, and thus an inseparable part of the topic.

Congrats SR, you've never looked so ignorant and hateful in your entire Lit life.

 

[sr71plt]

Guess you can't even admit when you've been irrelevant to the topic. I can just feel your seething, impotent anger. It must be very stressful to bounce around the room with all this hate that you can't do anything about other than post irrelevantly to a porn discussion board.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Guess you can't even admit when you've been irrelevant to the topic.

How is incumbency campaigning irrelevant to the the topic of campaigning for office?



I'm betting a lot of shit talk/name calling because elitist like yourself NEVER admit they were wrong/mistaken....no sir your shit NEVER stinks!

LOL into it for your hatred and bitterness so deep backpedaling now isn't even an option anymore is it?

 

[sr71plt]

You're tiresome. Which I guess is what you're going for. Turning you off now.

 

[BotanyBoy]

You're tiresome. Which I guess is what you're going for. Turning you off now.

That's what the fuck I thought.

(D)emocrat version of Vetteman everyone.......

 

[JackLuis]

Ex-McCain aide: ‘Assh*le’ Trump might literally go insane when he starts losing to Hillary

Mark Salter, who worked for the Arizona senator’s 2008 campaign and co-authored his books, discussed his intense dislike of Trump during an interview with Politico.

“He’s just an assh*le,” Salter said. “I mean, you don’t want a guy like that for a neighbor, for a friend, for a member of your church, for a colleague, for a boss. You wouldn’t want — really, you wouldn’t — you know, if he had a flat tire, you wouldn’t pull over and offer to help.”

Salter pointed to Trump’s comparison of trying to avoid venereal disease 1980s to the Vietnam War as an indicator of his character.

“It just shows you what a vainglorious, foolish, ignorant, low-character, bum of a guy Trump is,” he said.

Salter said he’s confident Trump will lose badly, obviously and early — and he said that realization will psychologically destroy him.

Keeping it in is bad for you, let it out and you'll feel better.