Trump

[morepork]

Trump says:

"your mother sucks cocks in hell!"

[WaspInWales]

Trump also says:
I will beat ISIS within 30 days of being elected president.

He also says that he will expand all areas of the US military; more troops, more planes, more boats and promises 'peace through strength'.

This is the kind of rhetoric that gives many Americans hard ons even though it's likely to result in higher taxes. Beadle hands reckons the expansion can be paid for by 'cutting government waste, collecting uncollected taxes and slimming down the federal workforce'.

Polls are narrowing so he must be doing something right.

[rowan]

Polls are narrowing so he must be doing something right.

Probably more just a case of Hillary doing everything wrong

[WaspInWales]

Polls are narrowing so he must be doing something right.

Probably more just a case of Hillary doing everything wrong

Well there is that but it easy to associate Trump's rhetoric with some of the American electorate.

[Digby]

Did Donald ever come back on his notion that the Russians hadn't invaded Ukraine, although they had but that didn't matter because Ukraine wanted an invasion to resolve the issue over Crimea rather than nogotiations, and that were he elected he'd let Putin do as he wants as he and his advisors do as they're told by the Russians and see the return of the Soviet Union as being a popular idea in the USA?

[Mellsblue]

Possibly the most erudite and incisive critique of Trump to date:
http://www.itv.com/news/2016-10-07/hes- ... -on-trump/

[Sandydragon]

Possibly the most erudite and incisive critique of Trump to date:
http://www.itv.com/news/2016-10-07/hes- ... -on-trump/

Can't argue with any of that.

[kk67]

Trump also says:
I will beat ISIS within 30 days of being elected president.

From last night it seems his solution is either bombing Mosul to oblivion or sending assassination teams into Mosul.
Given that the US are sh*t at covert ops I'm assuming he'll go for the bombing solution.

[Digby]

Trump also says:
I will beat ISIS within 30 days of being elected president.

From last night it seems his solution is either bombing Mosul to oblivion or sending assassination teams into Mosul.
Given that the US are sh*t at covert ops I'm assuming he'll go for the bombing solution.

Given it's Trump the people of Moseley should be warned

[kk67]

Trump also says:
I will beat ISIS within 30 days of being elected president.

From last night it seems his solution is either bombing Mosul to oblivion or sending assassination teams into Mosul.
Given that the US are sh*t at covert ops I'm assuming he'll go for the bombing solution.

Given it's Trump the people of Moseley should be warned

proper LOL...yup.
If they bomb Newport Pagnelll then the fall out will be terrible.

[Lizard]

I would like to see Trump's plan to defeat ISIS in 30 days. I wonder what colour crayon he did it with?


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[morepork]

With the power of his intellect, of course:

[kk67]

I'd be amazed if his IQ broke 100.......mind you,... anyone who uses the Eyesenk Nazi quotient is clearly a brain dead twat.
So that's not a problem.

[Lizard]

So the Republicans are tearing themselves apart, as they trip over their own feet in a rush to unendorse Trump, and some are now calling for Mike Pence to be made the GOP nominee. Hahahahahaha.


Also, Mark Burnett, who produced The Apprentice, is under pressure to release the "much worse" that Bill Pruitt (who worked as a producer on the earlier seasons of the US version of that show) referred to in a tweet he made when the "grab them by the pussy" tape was leaked. The much worse, according to another former member of the production team involves Trump either referring to someone as, or casually using the word "nigger."


Oh, and Rosie O'Donnell called him an "orange anus" in response to Trump namedropping her in a disparaging fashion again.

I'm calling it now. The "n-word" tape (if it exists) will be leaked about 2 days before the next debate.

[rowan]

It's been quite a charade!

[Sandydragon]

So the Republicans are tearing themselves apart, as they trip over their own feet in a rush to unendorse Trump, and some are now calling for Mike Pence to be made the GOP nominee. Hahahahahaha.


Also, Mark Burnett, who produced The Apprentice, is under pressure to release the "much worse" that Bill Pruitt (who worked as a producer on the earlier seasons of the US version of that show) referred to in a tweet he made when the "grab them by the pussy" tape was leaked. The much worse, according to another former member of the production team involves Trump either referring to someone as, or casually using the word "nigger."


Oh, and Rosie O'Donnell called him an "orange anus" in response to Trump namedropping her in a disparaging fashion again.

You could name your price if you happened to have that in your possession.
I'm calling it now. The "n-word" tape (if it exists) will be leaked about 2 days before the next debate.

[Lizard]

I know about the $5M penalty clauses. I'm not expert enough on US law to know how enforceable that is. Enforcing that would at least require identifying the source of the leak, which might not be straight forward. The PR angle would be difficult to deal with as well, if the footage is as damning as rumoured.

There's also this, https://www.gofundme.com/sunlightfund, which would seem to put the organisers at risk of an inducement to breach contract suit.


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[kk67]

It's all wank, Rowan is right,....it's just a cheap patsy.

[Digby]

Both barrels have been emptied by the Donald now, and that's going to be some limp

[rowan]

It's all wank, Rowan is right,....it's just a cheap patsy.

I knew it was a set-up as soon as it became apparent who the candidates were going to be. This election, if nothing else, is really showing up how the media is manipulated in the US, and how stupid the public really can be. What is clear is that the public would far rather engage in juvenile egg-throwing at a made-up candidate due to his sexist (I'm not fashionable enough to use Greek words like "misogynist" in place of plain old English ones) views and behavior. Meanwhile the most sexist nation on earth is massacring civilians (including many women and girls) in Yemen with weapons America and Britain sold to them; the Democratic nominee having served as an 'agent' for the former. But do we hear anything about this from the public? Is it just that they don't know, lack the brains to figure it out, or really just don't care?

The new evidence provided by Wikileaks’s Podesta files makes a convincing case that the Clinton team wanted extreme Republicans as the best possible opponents. They wanted not rational discourse but exactly the kind of mean-spirited bigotry that Trump has delivered so well.

The Wikileaks documents are a window into the soul of power. We can see how the Clinton machine played the strategy of triangulation on the level of action and tactic.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/11/elevating-trump/

This also sums it up well: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/11/ ... oap-opera/

[Lizard]

"Sexist" is Latin, not English...


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[rowan]

"Sexist" is Latin, not English...


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No, it's actually American-English, coined by a Pauline M Lee in Pennsylvania in 1965. Sex is Latin - the word, not the concept - but the Romans never accused each other of being sexists or sexistas every time they wanted to win an argument...

[Lizard]

"Sexist" is Latin, not English...


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No, it's actually American-English, coined by a Pauline M Lee in Pennsylvania in 1965. Sex is Latin - the word, not the concept - but the Romans never accused each other of being sexists or sexistas every time they wanted to win an argument...

Did ancient Greeks accuse each other of "misogyny" then?

[Coco]

"Sexist" is Latin, not English...


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No, it's actually American-English, coined by a Pauline M Lee in Pennsylvania in 1965. Sex is Latin - the word, not the concept - but the Romans never accused each other of being sexists or sexistas every time they wanted to win an argument...

Did ancient Greeks accuse each other of "misogyny" then?

Only when they wanted to win an argument.

[Lizard]

No, it's actually American-English, coined by a Pauline M Lee in Pennsylvania in 1965. Sex is Latin - the word, not the concept - but the Romans never accused each other of being sexists or sexistas every time they wanted to win an argument...

Did ancient Greeks accuse each other of "misogyny" then?

Only when they wanted to win an argument.

I actually read a very interesting book recently about how Greeks argued. To be fair, none of the classical figures of rhetoric discussed involved accusations of sexism/misogyny.