Donald Trump

[Selene]

1 minute ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Adam,

I have suspected this for a long time. Not only do I think Newt is among his political advisors, I think many constitutional conservatives are, too.

If I had to designate a source where people could dig to see who these people are, I would say look at Sarah Palin and the folks who stand by her. Check out the Breitbart news organization, Stephen Bannon and the people who surround them, then work out from there. I don't know this 100% because part of the game plan has been to cover these relationships over with a veneer of universal appeal, but I keep seeing them together. 

I also expect Trump to do something I believe is dear to his heart. I expect him to help rehabilitate Sarah Palin's public persona from the massacre the mainstream media did to it. Why? I honestly think he sees her as a victim of a massive injustice and wants to give her a present no one else can. And why would he want to do that? Because, in his mind, it's the right thing to do.

I believe that.

Like I have said elsewhere, I believe Donald Trump is one of the most principled men ever to run for the presidency. He doesn't just talk his principles. He lives them.

Michael

 

I agree with you. 

He is one of those principled folks who does what is right when people aren't looking.

The Sarah issue has been one of my, and your passions, because what was visited upon her was just wrong.

A...

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Here's a far different view of Trump, one of the finest I've seen so far.

If people what to accept anti-Trump propaganda as their view of Trump's reality, they should at least look at pro-Trump material for a check:

 

Michael

[Peter]

Oh, the slings and arrows of outrageous defeat . . . I just saw a couple of polls showing Marco Rubicon losing ground to Trump, not gaining, REB.

Real Italian, Adamo wrote about Trump: However, he is of the understanding that Trump will get it quickly, or, he will take hits . . . . He is one of those principled folks who does what is right when people aren't looking. end quote

And Michael explained about The Teflon Don and then added: Even more, he's a son-of-a-bitch to the right people . . . .  Here's a question for you. Who is Carly going to influence except establishment Republicans and sundry people who hate Trump? end quote

Smart women, short women, gals who climb on rocks. Women. Gentlemen, you are Perceptive with a Capitalist P but Trump has given enough evidence to us, to make the Pro Trump vote very leery. The fact that so many do not distrust Trump is/maybe is delusionary. In the general election Trump could and should have enormous negatives from what he has said and what is unknown about his intentions. How can I vote for him? I vacillate between the libertarian candidate, nobody, and Trump. Saying no to Hillary or Bernie is one thing but come on! If you were considering a business deal with Trump would you not be suspicious as hell? How would you explain Trump to your father? Do you think you could convince him you are not being juvenile? Ouch. In advance.

Peter       

[william.scherk]

I sure would like to overhear a conversation between Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump. I am half-way to thinking Trump pays him no nevermind now or later.

Newt has been loquacious on the subject of the candidate, and not afraid to appear before the cameras over the campaign, and now seems a kindly  Old Pal. So add him to the drone of pundit/sages. What sticks out is that Newt offers the same advice as Melania (according to Trump in Concord posted earlier) -- does anybody think Gingrich is going to get Trumped like everyone else, not least choke artist liar Mitt Romney.

Trump took that rich old fuck to the woodshed, artfully if not presidentially, but he hasn't uttered peep since Newt began channelling Melania ...

I try to keep up and watch a selection of Trump rally videos as they are posted at Right Side Broadcasting. The art of the appearance becomes more detectable with repeat experience.  I propose that the stump remarks remain running on rails laid down in his book last winter: Crippled America (although Trump's stump style allows vast extemporizing on topics du jour -- and recursion upon recursion to the five main issues sounded at every appearance). The first chapter sounds like a Manifesto, or the Manifesto. If you haven't read it yet, no worries, the Robots at the studio are preparing an aural-visual delight ...  

-- I almost think I could do a ten-minute stump speech in Trump guise. It is getting deepy drilled into me.

Knowing his rally points really helps on my few excursions on Callfire, stumping for Trump on the phone. As I honed my pitch-query closer to Trump's, I get immediate Hot or Cold. It saves time to mimic or distill his punch points and suggestive phraseology.  The Trump leaners tend to eat it up, perhaps because it effectively delivers Scott Adams-noted hypnotic techniques.  Hypnosis is of course based on suggestion.  Trump is expert on his own ground in suggestions.

Anyhow,  not a soul Callfired today gave a shit about Gingrich's remarks -- if they leant Trump. If they didn't ... they lean to the Melania/Gingrich position:  Less talking, more listening, more error-handling excellence, more learning. Presidential!  

I kind of get the feeling that Gingrich would like to be in the Trump Kitchen Cabinet as it self-assembles under the Trump apex.  I kind of laugh at his presumption.  Oh well. 

(I am getting better at 'tagging' my Youtube versions. This sweet pastoral distillation of Gingrich's remarks had 30 views before I decided to post it here, which I think means folks were searching for Newt and Trump after his Fox appearance with Gyneco-Megyn Bloodclot, and landed up with my wee offering here ...)

I will post excerpts from Trump's memorable press encounter after he picked up 72 delegates in Idaho, Hawaii, Michigan and Mississippi, but those who cannot wait can feel the hypnotic effect at their channel. The full 40 minutes already has a bazillions views, wouldn't you know.  Connoisseur's of Trump's rhetoric and the structure of his suggestions can compare this instance against the earlier press encounter after winning Louisiana and Kentucky.

 

 

Edited March 9, 2016 by william.scherk
Added MP3 ...

[KorbenDallas]

1 hour ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Here's a far different view of Trump, one of the finest I've seen so far.

If people what to accept anti-Trump propaganda as their view of Trump's reality, they should at least look at pro-Trump material for a check:

 

Michael

Go Trump!

 

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Just in from Breitbart:

EXCLUSIVE: Jon Voight Endorses Donald Trump for President

And Jon Voight is quoted in the article:

Jon Voight

I, Jon Voight, can say, without hesitation, that Donald is funny, playful, and colorful, but most of all, he is honest. When he decided to run for president, I know he did it with a true conviction to bring this country back to prosperity. He is the only one who can do it. No frills, no fuss, only candid truths.

There are many Republicans fighting to keep him from winning the Republican nomination. You know why? Because he has no bull to sell, and everyone will discover the bull most politicians spew out is for their own causes and benefits. They never dreamed they would be losing control.

I am very disappointed at the talk show hosts, also spewing out lies and propaganda against Donald. Why, I wonder? The only thing I can think of is he represents a form of freedom none of them ever saw before, and they are bewildered about it, and frightened about it.

That's pretty perceptive.

I do feel the fear he talks about in the air. Some people, afraid of true freedom, prefer the Obama master we now have (they even say they will vote for Hillary) to the possibility of freedom under Trump simply because they have no idea what real freedom looks like. 

They know the words and the catechism, but not what freedom looks like in their own lives.

The fact they insist on lying shows how committed they are to connecting their words to reality when they get afraid--that is, not at all. 

Some people in our subcommunity are deathly afraid of something else--a system where they will have to build stuff instead of attack an enemy all the time. They are afraid that the stuff they build will not be as good as their attacks on others and they will lose prestige. What's worse, they will lose prestige in their own eyes. Building is all the harder when all you know how to do is attack.

The good news is, under Trump everybody will experience freedom, not in words, but in their own lives. I believe most people will not just like this freedom, they will love it.

To elitists who need big government with a ruling class so they can look down their noses at others, go to hell. But to the other anti-Trump people who hate Trump and, by extension, hate Trump supporters, we don't hate you. So go ahead and vent.

(We don't even hate elitists. We just think they are morons when they try to do stuff. They always botch everything.  )

It's going to be OK and you're going to be OK. You're going to be proud of America before too long. And proud you are in it. 

Really proud.

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

This is syndicated all over the place on the Internet, so I'm going to publish the whole thing--with the backlink, of course: 

Springtime For Pundits
Ann Coulter
March 9, 2016

Ann Coulter said:

If you're into self-dramatization, Donald Trump’s candidacy is perfect for you. 

Half of the Washington political class is vowing to vote for Hillary -- even Stalin! -- over Trump; psychologists (and massage therapists) report they are treating patients for "Trump anxiety"; lengthy thought-pieces on Trump have no room to mention his signature issue, immigration, but get prolix on George Wallace, Mussolini and Hitler. (Never Mao, Stalin or Lenin, curiously.) 

You're going to have to act quickly if you hope to be among the first 200 princesses to feel the pea under 15 layers of mattresses. 

To save you time, I will provide the prototype. Do not be surprised if the following turns up, word for word, under the byline of David Brooks, Stephen Hayes, Cokie Roberts, every single writer for Salon, Gawker, National Review, Commentary and The Huffington Post. And then, of course, Fareed Zakaria will steal it. 

** ** ** 

"J'accuse Donald Trump” 

Watching the candidacy of Donald Trump, I am continually struck by his resemblance to a man who came to power in a far-off land nearly 85 years ago, a historical epic that I had naively hoped was well buried in the past. 

Consider the following: 

-- Adolf Hitler held gigantic rallies, where he inspired millions with rousing speeches. Donald Trump holds gigantic rallies, where he inspires millions with rousing speeches. 

-- Adolf Hitler talked about making his country great again. Donald Trump talks about making his country great again. 

-- Adolf Hitler promised military victories. Donald Trump promises military victories. 

-- Adolf Hitler had a loyal and overweight henchman, Hermann Goering. Donald Trump has a loyal and overweight henchman, Chris Christie. 

-- Adolf Hitler blamed a specific group of immigrants for all the nation's problems (Ed: Jews weren't immigrants -- Close enough!). Donald Trump blames a specific group of immigrants for all the nation's problems.

-- Adolf Hitler vowed to build a wall (Ed: Wait a minute -- when did Hitler talk about a wall? Shhhh! Nevermind!) Donald Trump vows to build a wall. 

-- Adolf Hitler was a teetotaler. Donald Trump is a teetotaler. 

-- Adolf Hitler had a hobby that he enjoyed very much (painting). Donald Trump has a hobby that he enjoys very much (golf). 

-- Adolf Hitler had an opulent home in the city as well as a country home, "The Berghof" in Berchtesgaden. Donald Trump has an opulent home in the city as well as a country home, "Mar-a-Lago" in Palm Beach. 

-- Adolf Hitler was involved with a woman from Central Europe, Eva Braun. Donald Trump is married to a woman from Central Europe, Melania Knauss. 

-- Adolf Hitler had a pact with the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1941; Donald Trump said nice things about Russian president Vladimir Putin. 

-- Adolf Hitler required all non-Jewish, German civilians to greet one another with a rigid right-arm salute, while exclaiming "Heil!" or "Heil Hitler!" Donald Trump has asked audiences to promise to vote for him by raising their hands, which is the PRECISELY same thing. 

-- Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian; Donald Trump has never smoked. 

-- Adolf Hitler forcibly annexed Czechoslovakia. Donald Trump tried to merge two casinos in Atlantic City. 

-- Adolf Hitler invested hundreds of millions of dollars on German aviation to upgrade the Luftwaffe. Donald Trump has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in private jets. 

-- Adolf Hitler never had any children, but if he had, they would probably have been blond. Both of Donald Trump's daughters are blond. 

-- Adolf Hitler's favorite food was liver dumplings, a dish very similar to meatloaf. (Ed.: They're not remotely similar. No one knows that.) Donald Trump's favorite food is meatloaf. 

-- Adolf Hitler had light hair and a moustache. Donald Trump has light hair and a moustache. (This has not been definitively established, but some who knew Trump in the 1970s recall that he had a moustache, albeit a fuller, longer one.) 

-- One of Adolf Hitler's idols was World War I fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen, also known as "the Red Baron." Donald Trump's son is named Barron. (It's spelled differently, but sounds the same.) 

-- Adolf Hitler liked Eva Braun because she was very attractive; Donald Trump's wife, Melania, is very attractive. 

-- Adolf Hitler vowed to exterminate entire races; Donald Trump has vowed to exterminate ALL Mexicans and Central Americans. (Mr. Trump has yet to call for this, but if he had, it would be an amazing parallel and speak very ill of his character.) 

-- One of Adolf Hitler's favorite desserts, not his No. 1 favorite, but one he enjoyed several times a year, was chocolate ice cream. Donald Trump has talked about formerly liking Oreos. (Recently, he vowed never to eat Oreos again because Nabisco moved its factories to Mexico. This does not negate his previous position on the cookie.) 

-- Adolf Hitler was known for erecting concentration camps – surrounded by walls to keep people out, particularly Mexicans. (Ed: That's not true.) Donald Trump wants to build a wall. 

-- Allowing Adolf Hitler to come to power was a horrible mistake for an entire nation; allowing Donald Trump to come to power will be a horrible mistake for an entire nation. 

In conclusion, [dramatic music plays] I have covered American politics for 30 years. For the first time in my life I am afraid for my country. Very afraid. Very, very afraid. Very, very, very afraid.

Gotta love Ann...

Michael

[Selene]

26 minutes ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Gotta love Ann...

Michael

When I read this at about 2 PM today, I wanted to cut and post the entire column which is brilliant, particularly her play on Springtime For Hitler, with Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars and Dick Shawn.

It was one of her best ever.

A...

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Here's an amusing story for those who are bewildered about my support for Trump and want a chuckle at my expense.

About 5 days ago, in the emotional thralls of election enthusiasm, I finally caved and went to the Trump volunteer site. I signed up.

When I filled out the form, one of the questions centered around my previous experience in political campaigning (which I took to mean in the US). I said I worked for the Joel Pollak campaign when he ran against Jan Schakowsky. I went around with Kat and distributed flyers door to door, but I hated it. I wouldn't do that ever again.

I mentioned the thread here on OL and said I was willing to write, do social media, etc. They sent an email back with a link. They said they were inviting me to do cold calling on the telephone and to hand out flyers door to door.  They didn't use those terms (they said "dial for Donald" and knock on doors  ), but it's the same goddam things I swore I would never do in politics again.

I don't think they understood the spirit of my volunteerism.

 

I didn't click on the link so they could "get me started."

What the hell. This thread and my posting around is good enough to contribute my one small voice to help elect Trump.

And it's a hell of a good thread.

I have a life and my own projects... I know me. If I start going down these rabbit holes, I will piss away all my time and get extremely irritated. 

Michael

[Selene]

46 minutes ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

 

What the hell. This thread and my posting around is good enough to contribute my one small voice to help elect Trump.

And it's a hell of a good thread.

I have a life and my own projects... I know me. If I start going down these rabbit holes, I will piss away all my time and get extremely irritated. 

Michael

Of course, it would be a complete waste of your skills.

You also assumed what they meant by "political campaigning."

I assume you speak Portuguese?

Outreach with social media to these types of groups is where you digital knowledge would be maximized.

http://www.meetup.com/BraziliansInChicago/

A...

[BaalChatzaf]

4 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

This is syndicated all over the place on the Internet, so I'm going to publish the whole thing--with the backlink, of course: 

Springtime For Pundits
Ann Coulter
March 9, 2016

Gotta love Ann...

Michael

But Adolph lived in a time  a place where the engines of law,  order and restraint ceased to function as they should.  It was despair that made Adolph the Fearless Leader.  And it was gutless cowardice  outside of the Germany that permitted him  to take his violence and evil  far abroad. 

[merjet]

Another amazing likeness -- both names have 11 letters!  Adolf Hitler, Donald Trump.  

[tmj]

Korben

Did you place the 'play' button there ?

[merjet]

I am doing a little catching up. I observed the video here of Molyneux on Sowell on Trump.

At about 8:40 Molyneux jumps on Sowell writing that Trump has no principles except to make self-serving deals. He proceeds to describe two categories -- win-win (the free market, voluntary) and win-lose (involuntary, coercive). At 10:40 Molyneaux says Sowell has created a third category -- self-serving -- which Molyneaux proceeds to trash and portrays as Sowell denying his (Sowell's) own life's work.

I'm stunned that he can't conceive what Sowell likely meant. Has he never heard of trades involving fraud or other sorts of dishonesty, e.g. misrepresentation and excessive hype.  Bernie Madoff did not coerce others. He wasn't self-serving? Used-car dealers selling lemons lacking honesty don't need to coerce the buyer. They aren't self-serving?  

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

For those interested in Camille Paglia's take on Trump:

I was wrong about Donald Trump: Camille Paglia on the GOP front-runner’s refreshing candor (and his impetuousness, too)

Michael

[merjet]

1 hour ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

For those interested in Camille Paglia's take on Trump:

I was wrong about Donald Trump: Camille Paglia on the GOP front-runner’s refreshing candor (and his impetuousness, too)

"From my perspective as a fervent supporter of the ruggedly honest and principled Bernie Sanders ..."  Please pass me the salt.

[Jon Letendre]

Hillary was terrible last night.

She failed to blurt out "no" when asked if she lied to Benghazi families.

She spoke first of how much sympathy she has for them. She's so disgusting it should be easy, except that it is still 8 months away and the American public has a bad record of succumbing to media droning.

Only Trump has proved he can disrupt that.

Only Trump has proved he can obtain a pass to use the language required to properly take her apart publicly, week after delicious week, after month after month.

Look at Little Rubio this week. "My wife didn't like it." when he got in the gutter with Donald J. Trump, but I am to believe he will do it anyway when an old woman needs telling over and over what she is?

Only Trump can confront the enormous forces against turning this country around and away from more and more federal power. Every other candidate will wilt right when it matters, just like "Maybe Trump has secrets in his tax filings" piece-of-shit-mitt.

[merjet]

On 8/8/2015 at 2:16 PM, Backlighting said:

I had some stock in Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts (THCR) which went into bankruptcy in 2004.

I was notified by mail that I would receive an amount per share which was about 25% higher than I had paid for it a few years earlier. Not bad I thought...the company didn't forget its shareholders. This guy understands business.

When did you buy? Prices?

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

More on Carly and Ted.

Trump posted this to his Facebook account.

Carly- I agree with you!

Posted by

Donald J. Trump

on 

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Trump has the best sense of comic timing of anyone I have ever seen in politics.

Michael

 

[Jon Letendre]

Trump has created many enterprises.

That some will fail is obvious.

The way that Little Marco and Ted have avoided commercial bankruptcies was by going to law school and creating nothing new. That's fine, it's not to say they have never done anything productive. But their profession is mostly thwarting enterprise today, instead of fighting for its liberties. (And their profession ALWAYS gets paid their WHOLE tab in bankruptcy payouts.

It's just not a winning point against Trump, it reminds his supporters of too many other associations.

[Selene]

This is their real serious problem, they can't stop this type of bleeding...

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There’s even a title for the movement. It’s called “Ditch and Switch” and calls for lifelong Democrats to abandon the party, register Republican, and help ensure Trump’s place in the general election.

Professor of Public Affairs at Franklin and Marshall College, Dr. G. Terry Madonna, tells the paper he has a theory behind the switch.

“With the increase in support in exit polls for Trump among working class, blue-collar Democrats, it is my belief that these are people who fall into that genre,” said Madonna.

The numbers are similar in other states as well.

The paper says in Massachusetts, as many as 20,000 Democrats have gone from blue-to-red this year with Trump cited as a primary reason. And in Ohio, as many as 1,000 blue collar workers have promised to switch parties and vote for Trump.

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2016/03/10/report-46000-pa-democrats-become-republicans-due-to-trump/

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A website launched by two North Carolina sisters calling on Democrats to switch political parties and embrace Trump says, "For many years the Democratic Party has promoted agendas that most Americans did not agree with. Our country is deeply divided, and the silent majority has been bullied into silence by political posturing and underhanded agendas that favor the few while excluding the majority."

 

http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/03/ditch_and_switch_trump_may_be.html

[Backlighting]

On 3/9/2016 at 5:44 PM, Selene said:

1 hour ago, merjet said:

When did you buy? Prices?

Yep, and I can confirm that mine were treated viciously by the Irish also.  Throwing rocks at my grandmother.  One of their sons had to literally run a gauntlet through certain Irish "neighborhoods" to get to school.

It is always fascinating to realize that there is a right of passage that all immigrant groups have to prevail through.

One of the reasons that I try not to disrespect someone who is an immigrant. 

Nice to have such good genetics isn't it...lol.

A...

Merjet,

Without doing some time consuming research I can not give you an accurate answer to your question(s). Additionally, what I didn't include in the original post was that prior to receiving the notice/ payment from THCR, I spoke with a representative from the law firm handling the bankruptcy via the phone. Obviously, I was  quite concerned with the status of my account. This individual asked me my name, how many shares (which was significant) I had and the purchase price. Was this a deciding factor as to what I received? I don't know. -J

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

There's a kind of curse Trump mentions at times. He never calls it a curse, but he talks about it in a way to keep building his persona legend (the winner thing).

He says when someone goes after him hard, that person falls away.

Curse or no curse, it's true often enough to be real at this point in time. Think Perry, Jindal, Pataki, Graham, Bush, Fiorina, Rubio and probably others.

This curse applies outside the candidates, too. I keep seeing people talk about Glenn Beck's business tanking. I always considered that hype, but I look at my own behavior.

When Beck became a prophet leading the chosen people in the name of the Almighty to successfully complete God's experiment to see if man can govern himself, I started getting worried. When he started attacking Trump nonstop, but it was still semi-rational, I and oodles of others tried to reason with him (at his request in a few cases where he invited comments on social media). When he started making outright dishonest manipulations of his public to sway folks against Trump, I started losing respect. (For an example, months after everybody stopped that boneheaded idea that Trump was a Hillary plant, Beck brought it out as if it were a new idea. Now he's calling Trump a Nazi.) Then he started laying hands on Cruz saying this was God's chosen, the new George Washington, that God took Scalia so people would vote for Cruz, etc., I had enough.

I let my subscription to his online TV service run out. I stopped posting comments on TheBlaze. Now I rarely go to TheBlaze to read the articles.

It occurs to me I might not be alone.

Anyway, there has never been good blood between Beck and Alex Jones. Now the gloves are off for real.

Alex says he has been approached to buy Beck's cable channel. That's probably true. 

Alex says some things at the end of the video below about Beck being blackmailed by the White House. That sounds like his typical conspiracy stuff, but he says he has sources and he is generally solid on sources. (Not so good on at times on interpreting the information, but the information generally exists.)

So, in my view, there probably is some dirt out there that Beck does not want to see made public. I don't doubt the White House would use it if it could, but I don't see Beck as falling prey to blackmail by people he despises. He doesn't need any help to be dishonest when he wants to be. He follows a little voice in his head he believes to be God. I don't think he would ever betray that voice although he will betray you and me if the little voice tells him to.

This is where Alex doesn't grok Beck. Alex's demon to explain Beck's meltdown is not fanatical Christianity and total belief in the Mormon core story (as Beck tells it to himself). It is New World Order creeps channeled through the White House. 

Once again, with Alex, look at the information, not at the interpretation.

 

 

When Alex Jones thinks you are unhinged, maybe it's time to take a breather and reevaluate.

Or, who knows?

Maybe it's the Death Curse of The Donald.

 

Michael

[merjet]

1 hour ago, Backlighting said:

Without doing some time consuming research I can not give you an accurate answer to your question(s). 

OK. Then here is my hypothesis. You bought after THRC stock had already crashed. Your previous conclusion ("Not bad I thought...the company didn't forget its shareholders. This guy understands business.") was a non sequitur. 

P.S. I suggest fixing your previous post. It includes stuff written by Selene that you were not responding to.

[william.scherk]

On 3/9/2016 at 2:36 AM, william.scherk said:

	TRUMP		CRUZ		RUBIO		KASICH
MICHIGAN (59)	36.5%	25	25.9%	17	9%	0	24.3	17
MISSISSIPPI (40)	47.3%	24	36.3%	15	5.1%	0	8.8%	0
IDAHO (32)	28.1	12	45.4%	20	16%	0	7.5%	0
HAWAII (19)	42.4%	11 10	32.7%	7 6	13.21%	0 2	10.6%	0
		72		59		2		17
UPDATED GRAND TOTAL		461 460		360 359		154 156		54

It looks like Marco Rubio picked up two delegates from Hawaii.