Donald Trump

[Jon Letendre]

Peter, 

First, no I don't gotta have evidence. Neither I nor any other voter needs evidence that would be allowed in a court, we don't need to find a preponderance, we don't need to follow any procedure, before changing our view and voting differently than we polled a week ago. You grasp this, right?

Second, there is evidence. There are his heavy on attack and light on denial responses. He still has not said I did not have these affairs. He said its slimy. He said it has no place in politics. He hasn't said "I did not do it." All those are evidence, even if you are deaf to it.

Ted is fini.

[Selene]

6 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

There's a characteristic of Cruz's speech pattern I don't like. He overuses the dramatic pause. (Incidentally, that's when he tends to shift his gaze from right to left or left to right.) This makes him come off inauthentic and stilted to a lot of people. Certainly not spontaneous.

Michael

Agreed.  Except in the video that Jon has in his post, it is constant and unending, 

Left, right, left...hell you could use this for close order drills in boot camp.

A...

[Jon Letendre]

 

[william.scherk]

22 minutes ago, Selene said:

Shouldn't this crap clever material be in the Trump humor thread?

I'll ask Ms Manners.

But, yeah, The Bidinotto article might strike some people as crap whereas I am hit and miss clever funny.   We will let the power of the people decide, nu?  

Edited March 28, 2016 by william.scherk

[Selene]

1 minute ago, william.scherk said:

I'll ask Ms Manners.

Nah, that doesn't work Phil no longer posts on OL!

Sometimes I do miss his incredibly passive aggressive personality.

A...

[Jon Letendre]

Finished. Or maybe it's finis. Whatever. I had a teacher in high school who would walk over and angrily lift my writing arm and take exams away from me because I kept working and he was mad I didn't stop when told. (Everyone could have done like me, but no, of course they didn't.) It was our thing, he wasn't really mad, after a few times. He learned to walk over to me first.

As he ripped it away, "Tu fini!!" He was French and English speaking, but I don't know any French, just English. This Italian recording sounds close enough to how he pronounced it.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

3 hours ago, Peter said:

Jon wrote: Ted is innocent until proven guilty, in a court. I am not a court. And he doesn't need to be guilty - he's still fini. end quote

Well my friend, ya gotta have evidence. If ya smells a rat, ya gotta be able to smell that rat! You can’t say the rat is dead if the rat’s still polling. You can’t IMPLY the man’s a rat unless the Vet says it’s a rat. Zingers? And you sir, are no John Kennedy. That wasn’t proof of anything in that campaign but it still swayed a lot of those easily swayed. Not me! No emotionalism for me. Cripes now I can’t get that song out of my head.

Michael wrote: Are those the pollsters you mean? end quote

Beeeep! This is a test of the emergency notification system. Trump’s a loser. Beeeep! Sure, Michelangelo, polls are not exactly scientific, but at least I don‘t believe everything in the National Enquirer or brag about how often that rag is right. If the shoe of evidence were reversed you would be scoffing at me. And your feet would be getting pinched. I listen to polls and totally believe the vote count plus or minus 2 percent.  

Peter,

OK.

Here's a dirty rat poll for you.

For some reason Matt Drudge is not putting the National Enquirer expose on his main site, but he is putting it on his Facebook feed. Here is his latest Facebook entry about it:

Matt Drudge said:

BAD NEWS FOR TED CRUZ...

And he linked to the following online poll at Conservative Outfitters:

POLL RESULTS: WE ASKED 30,000 VOTERS IF THEY THOUGHT TED CRUZ HAD AN AFFAIR

About 66% said yes, but go there and vote if you like. 

So tell me, do you "believe the vote count plus or minus 2 percent"?

Now how do you think that is going to reflect in the next round of "official" polls, hmmmm?

 

The fact that Drudge is doing this tells me something is cooking in the background with the media and it ain't good for Cruz. When it comes time for Drudge to put this Cruz horn dawd thing on his front page, I have a feeling there will be a lot more to the story.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Here's a site that has a whole lot of anti-Cruz stuff in one place. I don't know if it is regularly updated, but I suspect it is.

Ted Bush for President

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

For those elite-minded people who are still challenged at understanding Trump supporters, I found a perfect description of what binds them all--and all demographics. White, black, Asian, women, gay, rich, poor, conservative, liberal, all of them. It comes from mah mayann, Joe Dan. I'm embedding his video below, but you don't have to watch it all since it analyzes the election situation of March 10. It's a little dated.

However, the opening analogy is a perfect description of what motivates Trump supporters. Joe Dan said imagine you have a beautiful house and go on vacation. When you come back, you discover that your house has been invaded by a bunch of mean nasty racoons. Not the cute bandity cuddly little things, but vicious ones that bite.

You call the city and they say they'll help, but they don't do anything. You call other government agencies. They say they'll help, but they don't do anything. You start calling around to professional pest control firms. They all say they'll help, but they don't do anything. Meanwhile, the racoons are destroying your house.

Finally, you come across a mean badass raccoon killer. He's ugly, but he's the kind who gets the job done, so he's the guy you're going to hire. You don't care if he cusses, smells bad, whores around, has bad credit, believes or not in God, or has a whole slew of disgusting bad habits. That's all fine. You just want the damn raccoons gone. 

 

That, I submit, is what drives Trump supporters. Not anger. Not authoritarianism. Not low information. Not emotionalism. Not any of those boneheaded theories out there. 

If you adhere to one of those boneheaded theories, here's a hint. Unless your theory includes racoon killing, you're going to keep embarrassing yourself as your predictions and assertions keep failing.

If you like the sort of thing below (I sure do), enjoy.

Get on down, Joe Dan.

I'm becoming a fan.

Michael

[Brant Gaede]

Analogies are for illustration, not arguing. But what if your raccoon killer makes a deal with the raccoons and moves in with them for the next four years and you still have to pay the taxes, the utilities, the mortgage, the raccoons and the "killer"?

Didn't you say Donald Dump was a builder; a lover, not a fighter--something like that? And didn't he write that book, The Art of Dealing with Raccoons?

--Brant

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

34 minutes ago, Brant Gaede said:

But what if your raccoon killer makes a deal with the raccoons and moves in with them for the next four years and you still have to pay the taxes, the utilities, the mortgage, the raccoons and the "killer"?

Brant,

But that's what's there already (along with the hogs). There are plenty of professional raccoon killers who don't kill raccoons.

So we gotta try something.

Doing the same damn thing ain't gonna fix the problem.

Will the raccoon killer we found kill raccoons? That's your question?

Well, he's killed lots of raccoons elsewhere with his "You're fired" gun, so it's a good bet he'll do it here.

At any rate, I say it's more likely than expecting the hogs we now have to kill raccoons.

Don't vote for a hog just because you don't like how the raccoon killer smells. The hog really doesn't smell any better. You're just used to hog stink so it only seems more comfortable.

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

The media went crazy when Michael Savage said he was thinking of not supporting Trump anymore.

Here's the predictable result of that. Savage is a Trump groupie (like me  ). And he always will be.

Let me tell you, this video wasn't that easy to find. YouTube is doing weird stuff with my searches now. For instance, they're saying not one video with the keyword Trump was posted today. 

Michael

[Selene]

Here is another "way to stop Trump" from 538!!

Quote

The Republican Party may be on the verge of an irrational break. Donald Trump continues to rack up delegates at a dizzying pace, but he looks less electable against Hillary Clinton by the day. Meanwhile, two-thirds of the way through the delegate chase, the #NeverTrump movement is a flailing strategic fiasco. John Kasich refuses to exit the race, and a frustrated Ted Cruz has declared that a vote for Kasich is a vote for Trump.

Cruz and Kasich would be odd bedfellows within today’s GOP. But the truth is, if they want to thwart Trump, their only hope may be to coordinate a last-ditch, two-front assault on the front-runner. If they don’t start divvying up turf, Trump is much more likely to prevail on the first ballot in Cleveland.

It’s possible, as Sean Trende has persuasively argued, that Kasich’s continued candidacy helps Trump much more than it hurts him. We may never know. But even after being mathematically eliminated from winning 1,237 delegates, Kasich seems to have made up his mind. And rather than piling on with calls for Kasich to drop out, #NeverTrump forces might be better off considering Kasich’s usefulness in the later stages of the race.

Even Rafael knows that Kasich helps Trump.

My prediction is that he really hurts Rafael in Wisconsin which is an open primary.

This character has maps and all sorts of magic tricks. 

This is the "consultant class," I have known a few and they are cut throat in this market.  There is always an internal battle inside a campaign for control of the purse and access to the money.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-a-two-front-war-to-deny-trump-the-nomination-could-look-like/

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

I think these two should seriously consider being a duo on their own variety/interview TV show.

I have no doubt it would be a hit with all kinds of different demographics.

Michael

[Peter]

Jon wrote: Trump will decimate Hillary and anyone else the Democrats might put up. end quote

Michael posted: POLL RESULTS: WE ASKED 30,000 VOTERS IF THEY THOUGHT TED CRUZ HAD AN AFFAIR.

Berry Berry funny. And if a majority thinks Ted killed Christ, is that proof? Luckily for us a new interview is coming out from your Magazine, The National Enquirer.

Good evening. This is David Pecker of The National Enquirer and I am here to interview Presidential candidate Donald Trump. Good evening, future Mr. President. Is there anything you want to get off your chest before we begin?

Yeah, David. I still say Obama was born in Kenya or Indonesia or somewhere outside the United States. I will have the CIA look into that and waterboard those people in Honolulu who faked his birth certificate.  And he was raised a Muslim. His Black Power Christian Church was just a sham to get elected. Just look at his name. It’s obviously not American. And for Christ’s sake everybody knows the book title, “Dreams of My Father” was a stolen title. It was Mitch Album, not Barack Obama who wrote, “Dreams of My Father.”

What about the Socialist candidate, President Trump?

Did you see that bird with Bernie? He’s the pied piper of those loser birdbrains out there. What is Silly Hilly up to today? You know who I mean. Is she still getting her fat ass kicked by Bernie?

Yes sir. She lost five out of six states and Bernie is making an appeal to her Super Delegates to switch over to a winner like Bernie Sanders.

I heard they are talking to her people, David, the ones who helped her break the law with our nations secrets. She’s next. She should be wearing orange and be working on a chain gang. They still have them in Arizona and The South. It will do her good.  

What do you like to bring with you on the campaign trail Mr. Trump?

I like Fuji apples. I bring about ten where ever I go. Many people think these apples were named after some stupid mountain but I know it was named after the old Fuji Film Company, and that in turn was named after Akio Fuji. That name means “glorious hero.” My Japanese mistress told me that. Don’t print the part about the Jap mistress. Here’s a stumper for you, David. What is a Red Rose called? Give up? Pete. Get it? Peter Rose played for the Reds. Must have been before your time.”

How will your campaign change after you win the nomination, Mr. Trump?

Well, JFK said, “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” My slogan is “America First, and ask what you can to for Trump.”     

That sounds like a great chant for the convention, Donald. What kind of kid were you?

I was a germaphobe when I was younger. Which is also known as Mysophobia which causes a pathological fear of contamination and germs. Except I am not afraid of anything. I cured myself by kissing my Melania in all the wrong places. Now I can’t get enough of it. Now they seem like the right places, so I’m cured and Melania loves it if I have shaved. And I stopped washing my hands all the time so I no longer think I have obsessive-compulsive disorder either and I will sue Lying Ted if he says I do. In my mid teens I was a Goth. I was rebelling against my Dad I suppose. I liked The Doors and  industrial deathrock music.  New Goths call guys like me, Batcavers, but I don’t think it has anything to do with the Batman franchise. And no shit, I loved Edgar Allen Poe growing up and then the Adams Family and The Munsters, and Ann Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles. How did I look? Kind of the Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees, cept I was a guy of course. Great eye make up. Lots of piercings but no tattoos so I never got hepatitis.

Thank you Mr. Trump for a great interview. American will get to love the real Donald Trump.

[Peter]

We are Anonymous International and we back Charlie Hebdo in its fight for liberty against that TOOL of oppression, Donald Trump. We will not be silenced.  If Trump sends American troops to arrest the staff of Charlie Hebdo for their satiric interview of Donald Trump conducted by David Pecker of The National Enquirer we will release his teenage Goth photos. He was very pretty. Ha Ha. Beware our wrath. We are everywhere.

Anonymous

An emblem commonly associated with Anonymous. The "man without a head" represents leaderless organization and anonymity.[1]
Individuals appearing in public as Anonymous, wearing Guy Fawkes masks
Formation	c. 2004
Type	Multiple-use name/avatar Virtual community Voluntary association
Purpose	anti-cyber-surveillance anti-cyber-censorship Internet activism Internet vigilantism
Region served	Global
Membership	Decentralized affinity group

 

Thank you Anonymous. Trumps stifling of dissent must stop here. NOW! This shall not stand. Charlie Hebdo (or Charlie Weekly as you Americans might call it) is a French satirical weekly magazine. Charlie Hebdo first appeared in 1970 as a companion to the monthly Hara-Kiri magazine, after a previous title was banned for mocking the death of former French President Charles de Gaulle.  In 1981 publication ceased, but the magazine was resurrected in 1992. We feature cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes. Irreverent and stridently non-conformist in tone, the publication describes itself as above all secular and atheist, far-left-wing, and anti-racist publishing articles about the extreme right (especially the French nationalist National Front party and the Fascist Donald Trump), religion (Catholicism, Islam, Judaism), politics and culture. The magazine has been the target of two terrorist attacks, in 2011 and 2015. Both were presumed to be in response to a number of controversial Muhammad cartoons it published. In the second of these attacks, 12 people were killed, including publishing director Charb and several other prominent cartoonists. We warn you running dog Trump. A lawsuit against us or a commando raid on our offices will result in you looking like the world’s Biggest fool. We are Charlie Hebdo.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Matt Drudge is still drip feeding things out about Cruz infidelities to Heidi on his Facebook account that are not making it to his main site.

Here's the latest. His Facebook post linked to the following:

TED CRUZ DODGES QUESTION FROM REPORTER ABOUT HIS MARRIAGE, FIORINA DEFENDS
Conservative Outfitters
March 29, 2016

From the article:

Quote

WISCONSIN - Ted Cruz declined to answer a question from the DailyMail on Monday in Wisconsin about whether he has ever been unfaithful to his wife Heidi Cruz. Carly Fiorina defended Cruz while blaming Donald Trump for the #CruzSexScandal media coverage. What do you think?

There's a video of Cruz and Fiorina speaking to the reporter from The Daily Mail at the link. It only embeds on Facebook so you have to go there to see it (it's quite short).

But, yes. Ted Cruz actually dodged the question. That is, after Fiorina ran interference at first. Go see the video.

The reporter asked point blank if he had ever been unfaithful to Heidi as alleged in the National Enquirer story. Fiorina barged in with a standard pivot (that's not important, this other stuff is important).

Then Cruz said he would answer. He really will. After all, he just said he would. And that means he will. Don't forget, the question was if he had ever been unfaithful to Heidi.

Cruz said here comes the answer. Are you ready for it? Ready? Ready for the answer? To whether he was unfaithful to Heidi? Here it comes...

He said the article was garbage.

 

For Drudge to be toying like this, there has to be some solid something or other they are going to spring on the public right before voting time.

Drip drip drip...

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

btw - I don't care who Cruz slept with. Whatever he did, I hope he had a good time.

It's all those Evangelicals who say they want to vote for him because he was anointed by God that I'm wondering about...

Oy vey... and all those Mormons who have faith he is the fulfillment of the Mormon prophesy...

Michael

[KorbenDallas]

41 minutes ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

He said the article was garbage.

I think Ted was speaking truthfully here.  Did he think the article was garbage?  Yes--but for what reason?

He wanted us to think he thought the article was garbage because of what's in it, its context, that the allegations are false.

But the real reason Ted thinks the article is garbage is because it contradicts what he is trying to do.  And for that reason, Ted spoke truthfully here: the article is garbage because it contradicts him trying to win the republican nomination.

Deceit.  Faking reality... and because he did this, he largely avoids a raise in blood pressure, an increase in respiration, and keeps the adrenaline down to a manageable level so he can keep his countenance, his mannerisms, causations, etc.

TrusTED?

Lyin' Ted.

Go Trump!

 

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Korben,

Or maybe he thought the article was garbage because he thought it was poorly written...

Friggin' lawyers...

 

Michael

[Peter]

Dallas wrote: Deceit.  Faking reality... and because he did this, it largely avoids a raise in blood pressure, an increase in respiration, keeps the adrenaline down to a manageable level so he can keep his countenance, mannerisms, causations. end quote

The CIA has been searching for a human lie detector for decades and they have found three, who all are excellent in their jobs if the subject speaks English. They have other interrogators who are fluent in other languages and cultures but they are not as good as those three (who have English as their first language) lie detectors. I don’t think you are one of the three. If they used their power in public someone might think they were reading their mind and shoot them.

Peter

[KorbenDallas]

7 minutes ago, Peter said:

Dallas wrote: Deceit.  Faking reality... and because he did this, it largely avoids a raise in blood pressure, an increase in respiration, keeps the adrenaline down to a manageable level so he can keep his countenance, mannerisms, causations. end quote

The CIA has been searching for a human lie detector for decades and they have found three, who all are excellent in their jobs if the subject speaks English. They have other interrogators who are fluent in other languages and cultures but they are not as good as those three (who have English as their first language) lie detectors. I don’t think you are one of the three. If they used their power in public someone might think they were reading their mind and shoot them.

Peter

Ah yes, since I have not been shot, then I must not be one of the human lie detectors!  Very good observation (modus tollens).

 

[Ellen Stuttle]

5 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Doing the same damn thing ain't gonna fix the problem.

Reminds me of a Nathaniel Branden aphorism I like:

"Doing more of what doesn't work, doesn't work."

Ellen

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

6 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

There's a video of Cruz and Fiorina speaking to the reporter from The Daily Mail at the link. It only embeds on Facebook so you have to go there to see it (it's quite short).

But, yes. Ted Cruz actually dodged the question. That is, after Fiorina ran interference at first.

The video now appears on RCP Video, and I traced it to YouTube.

Not good.

Even Carly doesn't look so good in this one...

Hmm hmm hmmmmmm...

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Since one of my things is the study of persuasion, the following article is extremely interesting to me:

BREAKING: Political Operative Speaks Out on ‘Cuban Mistress Crisis’
by Jim Hoft
Mar 28th, 2016
The Gateway Pundit

This is a phone interview with an anonymous political operative speculating on what's really going on with the Cruz Sex Scandal.

The gist is a persuasion mechanism that when you see something big, then see something small, the small thing doesn't look so bad. (Marketers are always offering you something high-priced, then something low priced immediately after. This works.)

The anonymous operative calls this "anchoring" in the interview.

He believes Cruz probably had an affair 6 years ago with a lady, one he speculates was inferred in the National Enquirer article, but who is the only one not to make any comment so far. But she is getting pissed because of all the scrutiny she and her hubby are getting so she could blow at any time. And he believes Ted and Heidi dealt with it and are over it. Then Jeff Roe came into Cruz's life because he knew of it and, behind closed doors, told Cruz this was something that would come out so it needed to be handled beforehand. (He also thinks the $500k Super PAC payoff to Carly is involved with this, but that is a detail.)

So this operative believes it was Cruz's own people who shopped the article to the National Enquirer to make an outrageous splash that is easily debunked in the media by most of the women speculated about, then after Wisconsin, Cruz can have a public mea culpa, say he made a mistake 6 years ago, but he's been forgiven, this is painful, yada yada yada, and be in front of it. The National Enquirer splash will make this "thing in the past" be perceived as too tame to be much of an issue.

It's a very interesting theory...

Michael

 

EDIT: That, to me, would explain Drudge's drip feeds instead of just featuring the story. He wants to remove his site's impact from getting entangled with the The Enquirer story (getting anchored to it) and let the real story have it's correct impact when it finally comes out. These guys are not pros for nothing.