Trump

[phrodeau]

I didn't think it was possible, but after reading Trump's plan to get Mexico to pay for "the Wall", I'm now convince that Trump is even more stupid than Perry. Extort your neighbor and throw them further into economic chaos. Good plan Donald.

The Donald has spoken out against the new Ford plant in Mexico.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2016/04/05/ford-new-mexico-plant/82649976/

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday slammed Ford Motor Co.’s decision to build a $1.6 billion assembly plant in Mexico as an “absolute disgrace” that would not happen if he becomes president.

“Our dishonest politicians and the special interests that control them are laughing in the face of all American citizens,” Trump said in a statement on the day of the presidential primary in Wisconsin – a rust-belt state that, like Michigan, has lost manufacturing jobs. “These ridiculous, job-crushing transactions will not happen when I am president.”

 

[Beco]

No, he really didn't ever have a shot. He started with a 60% unfavorable rating and it's only getting worse the more Trump keeps being Trump.

His views, his speeches, his stance on immigration and such, changed this election. Whoever wins is going to be in the shadow of what Trump has preached....Hillary, et al, is always going to have Trump over her shoulder...especially on immigration, her dealings with ISIS although she can handle herself, and the economy.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Drumpf got his 30% (more or less) and Cruz took better than 50%. That is a decent beating for the front runner.

 

[srgreene]

Maybe there is hope that Republicans will not go over the cliff with this blowhard. I find it astonishing that American faces the real possibility of serving up Hillary vs Trump in the general election. I think it speaks very forcefully about the inadequacy of our democracy.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Hillary is perfectly adequate. You couldn't realistically hope for more than her in an actual democracy.

 

[sr71plt]

I'm sorry to say that I'm less scared to see Trump in the White House than Cruz. At least with Trump it would be sweet revenge on him and his supporters to see how badly he'd fuck up. But he'd been so obviously about it that the bureaucracy would manage to neutralize him. Cruz would try to establish a religious state, and there are enough fundamentalist out there to help him with that.

What is forming up for Trump is a convenient "out" for him. He can declare that he would have won the presidency if a small conspiracy of people wasn't unfairly denying him his right and the "people's choice" (which makes him sound like some of the posters on this forum ) and he could take his marbles and go home with his ego and fantasies about himself intact.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Hillary is perfectly adequate. You couldn't realistically hope for more than her in an actual democracy.

Oh yea you could....

You can't hope for more than her in the plutocracy/corporate oligarchy we currently exist in.

I'm sorry to say that I'm less scared to see Trump in the White House than Cruz.

I'd have to agree with SR....Trump is scary because brash loudmouth asshat.... but Cruz is like baby eating psycho pastor scary.

And at the end of the day I would rather deal with a patrioraging clown concerned with keeping Mexicans out and bombing Muslims than a Theocratic psychopath who's top concern is what I'm doing with my dick and putting in my pipe.

 

[JackLuis]

Chinese-manufactured Trump scarves just recalled for putting 20,000 Americans at risk for burns

A federal agency recalled around 20,000 scarves made under the Ivanka Trump brand on Wednesday for failing to meet flammability standards, the Houston Chronicle reported.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission’s decision affects Trump’s Brushstroke Oblong and Beach Wave scarves, both of which are made entirely of rayon.

The scarves, which bear her name, “do not meet the federal flammability standards for clothing textiles, posing a burn risk,” the agency said.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the scarves are also made in China. Trump’s father, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, has been criticized for following similar business practices, saying it is “impossible” to manufacture clothes in the US because China and other nations like Mexico devalue their currency.

The commission stated that customers will be entitled to a refund following the recall. The scarves sell for anywhere between $12 and $68.

 

[RjThoughts]

Chinese-manufactured Trump scarves just recalled for putting 20,000 Americans at risk for burns

Out-Source Donny

 

[JackLuis]

Wisconsin Republican gives up the game: Voter ID law will help defeat Democrats in November

A Republican congressman has openly said that Wisconsin’s new voter ID law can tip the scale in November for this key presidential swing state.

Rep. Glenn Grothman made the comment to the local NBC affiliate, in an interview at Ted Cruz’s primary victory party in Milwaukee.

“Take me forward to November — you know that a lot of Republicans, since 1984 in the presidential races, have not been able to win in Wisconsin,” said local reporter Charles Benson. “Why would it be any different for Ted Cruz, or a Donald Trump?”

“Well, I think Hillary Clinton is about the weakest candidate the Democrats have ever put up,” Grothman said, before then adding: “And now we have photo ID — and I think photo ID is gonna make a little bit of a difference, as well.”

Wisconsin’s voter ID law, in effect for the first time this year after surviving a series of court challenges since its passage in 2011, contributed in part to massive lines at college campuses to vote in Tuesday’s primary.

 

[Hypoxia]

GOPs know their positions are repugnant to a majority of USAnians, that they cannot win free and fair elections, and so necessarily resort to gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, voter suppression including physical intimidation, ratfucking, vote-count fraud, and likely some black masses and demonic invocation too.

But I'm not bitter.

 

[patient1]

Just imagine President Trump, sitting in the Trump House, or flying on Trump 1
"MY WORDS ARE BACKED BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS!"

 

[Beco]

Just imagine President Trump, sitting in the Trump House, or flying on Trump 1
"MY WORDS ARE BACKED BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS!"

It's motivating, fo show

 

[dan_c00000]

Wisconsin Republican gives up the game: Voter ID law will help defeat Democrats in November

They don't need to admit what's obvious.

 

[JackLuis]

Early signs of trouble for Donald Trump in California

Donald Trump hasn't put California über alles—focusing instead on his home state of New York—a move that could spell trouble for the Republican front-runner in June, when 172 delegates from the Golden State come up for grabs in the Republican presidential primary.

A new Field poll shows that, while Trump leads statewide, he trails Senator Ted Cruz 40 percent to 29 percent in Los Angeles County, where 18 of the state's 53 congressional districts are located.

California awards the majority of its delegates on a winner-take-all basis by congressional district. Each of the state's 53 districts have three delegates to award, for 159 total. The remaining 13 delegates are awarded winner-take-all by statewide totals.

If Cruz's lead in Los Angeles County holds until June, he could walk away with 53 delegates, or about a third of the state's total allocation. According to the poll, Cruz also leads Trump 42-33 in the state's Central Valley and High Sierra regions. Those areas have fewer delegates to award than L.A., but Cruz could still squeeze delegates in the double-digits from them.

 

[patient1]

Early signs of trouble for Donald Trump in California

Nice to know, but I can't fault Trump for trying for a big win in his home state. If he can't do that, he'd be in the same boat as Marco Rubio, and his own words will come back to bite him.

After all, if the people who have known him the longest and best don't want him to be President, wouldn't that send a message to California and the Convention delegates from the rest of the country? He'd be seen as the guy who only wins the Red states. A loser in the national popular vote polls, and a loser in the electoral college.

He has to protect his base first.

 

[JackLuis]

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Newspaper’s fake Sunday cover warns darkly of riots and a failing economy in a Trump presidency​

The Boston Globe will publish a fake front page on Sunday to accompany its upcoming editorial, “Stop Trump,” Politico reports.

The satirical front page is a collection of headlines that suppose the current GOP front-runner, Donald Trump, wins the general election in November. They include headlines like, “Deportations to begin: President Trump calls for tripling ICE force; riots continue” and “US soldiers refuse orders to kill ISIS families.”

The column leads off with, “Donald J. Trump’s vision for the future of our nation is as deeply disturbing as it is profoundly un-American.” It then explains, “The satirical front page of this section attempts to do just that, to envision what America looks like with Trump in the White House.”

The headlines are all riffs on campaign promises Trump has made, including vows to round up and deport all of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. and “take out” the families of terrorists.

 

[Hypoxia]

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Newspaper’s fake Sunday cover warns darkly of riots and a failing economy in a Trump presidency​

I recall the ONION's headline just before GW Bush's 2001 inauguration: OUR NATIONAL NIGHTMARE OF PEACE AND PROSPERITY IS OVER. Be careful what you satirize; it may come true.

 

[JackLuis]

Cruz wins big in Colorado shutout

Ted Cruz has swept the Colorado GOP convention, winning all 13 of the state’s at large delegates.

And after also winning all 21 delegates awarded at the congressional district conventions throughout the week, Cruz leaves Colorado with a complete shutout of his opponents.

In a statement Saturday night, Cruz said that the win proves that Republicans are coming together behind him.

"Today was another resounding victory for conservatives, Republicans, and Americans who care about the future of our country," Cruz said in the statement. "Utah, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and tonight’s incredible results in Colorado have proven this: Republicans are uniting behind our campaign because they want a leader with real solutions who will bring back jobs, freedom, and security."

The victory offers a glimpse into the Cruz campaign's organizational advantages over GOP front-runner Donald Trump, who has struggled, facing staff tumult and reports of inadequate delegate preparation that kept some picks off the ballot.

Speaking at the convention, Cruz touted his recent wins and the delegates he had already secured ahead of the event.

Cruz crushes Trump in Colorado!

 

[JackLuis]

Adding insult to injury:

Trump campaign accidentally diverted votes to Cruz in Colorado ballot error

All three presidential campaigns – those of Cruz, Trump and John Kasich – handed out sample ballots, providing a slate of names with the number to each candidate.

The problem for the Trump campaign was that they put out sample ballots featuring wrong numbers. The campaign first put out a sample ballot with wrong numbers for seven delegates. That was corrected, but there were still four numbers wrong.

 

[Hypoxia]

Adding insult to injury:

Trump campaign accidentally diverted votes to Cruz in Colorado ballot error

Tromp's campaign strength is his visceral ability to arouse discontent. His campaign weakness is his lack of organization -- hardly any campaign team.

A candidate for high office is only a front for the team the've assembled. Obama raised and spent record piles of $$$ building an efficient organization; Clinton seems to have taken over much of that infrastructure. Sanders' backers are building a very different but quite effective organization. And Tromp -- he has not bothered. Roger Stone is issuing veiled threats of mob violence at the GOP convention. Are Tromp's team all thugs?

 

[JackLuis]

Tromp's campaign strength is his visceral ability to arouse discontent. - Are Tromp's team all thugs?

Pretty much, they are competent only when the can 'fire' dissenters. Tact is not their strong suit.

 

[Adre]

Two of Trump's children are too dumb to register to vote in the primary, and Trump is too dumb to figure out how Cruz is grabbing delegates. Maybe we don't need Trump genes running the free world.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump complains after Cruz’s Colorado delegate sweep: GOP system is ‘crooked’

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump lashed out at what he called the party’s “rigged” delegate selection rules on Monday after rival Ted Cruz swept all of Colorado’s 34 delegates over the weekend.

The New York billionaire, who has been outmaneuvered by Cruz in a series of recent state meetings to select national convention delegates, said the process was set up to protect party insiders and shut out insurgent candidates.

“The system is rigged, it’s crooked,” Trump said on Fox News on Monday, alleging the Colorado convention results showed voters were being denied a voice in the process.

“There was no voting. I didn’t go out there to make a speech or anything, there’s no voting,” Trump said. “The people out there are going crazy, in the Denver area and Colorado itself, and they’re going absolutely crazy because they weren’t given a vote. This was given by politicians – it’s a crooked deal.”

Trump finally figured it out. Any party that would allow him to run has to be crooked.

 

[magicalmoments]

As an interested overseas observer I have to say I'm looking forward to a Trump presidency.