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EarlG

(21,948 posts)
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 11:23 AM Jul 2015

Pic Of The Moment: Trump Climbs To Second Place In Republican Primary Poll



Trump defends inflammatory comments, asks 'Who is doing the raping?'

WaPo: As Donald Trump surges in polls, Democrats cheer


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Pic Of The Moment: Trump Climbs To Second Place In Republican Primary Poll (Original Post) EarlG Jul 2015 OP
criminal gangs, people traffickers, other migrants or corrupt officials,” underpants Jul 2015 #1
Your fancy book-learning and liberal facts are no match for old-fashioned folk-wisdom. DetlefK Jul 2015 #3
*sigh* underpants Jul 2015 #4
Sadly, this might help him win the Republican nomination IronLionZion Jul 2015 #2
You can pin it down to an exact date: DetlefK Jul 2015 #6
that may have been the point of no return, but they were surely crazy long before then. unblock Jul 2015 #10
maybe the crazies became the majority around that time? NewJeffCT Jul 2015 #25
12/12/2000--when 5 republican-appointed justices abrogated the constitution and anointed niyad Jul 2015 #17
+1 daleanime Jul 2015 #24
Nah, it was the '94 Contract On America Congress. valerief Jul 2015 #19
I think 911 just gave them the confindence to be racist in public. nt C Moon Jul 2015 #23
I think this is why the powers that be are putting him out of buisness. gordianot Jul 2015 #7
Not all of them. brer cat Jul 2015 #13
Good. Arkana Jul 2015 #14
Hell yeah! I hope he gets the nomination IronLionZion Jul 2015 #27
Either that, or jeb winds up with the nomination and Trump's caused so much damage with calimary Jul 2015 #36
Can't wait for the GOP to get all rapey again. onehandle Jul 2015 #5
They love how that word rolls off the tongue am not sure they know what it literally means. gordianot Jul 2015 #8
I think it's Trump who is doing the raping... And the rest of the top 1%. Helen Borg Jul 2015 #9
Boom! You got that right. nt valerief Jul 2015 #20
the silence is deafening central scrutinizer Jul 2015 #11
So noted! Anybody speak up to refute that, within that tribe? calimary Jul 2015 #40
The PTB of the GOP are having anginas... monmouth4 Jul 2015 #12
I HAVE to post this here.... Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2015 #15
thank goodness I had not eaten anything yet!! niyad Jul 2015 #18
Donald Trump (R) Racist. Fixed it. nt bunnies Jul 2015 #16
Sorry, I've never like Lemon. louis-t Jul 2015 #21
He's changing his name to T-Rump RoccoR5955 Jul 2015 #22
And he's a dinosaur, a dinosaur's ass, that is aint_no_life_nowhere Jul 2015 #37
"Who's doing the raping?", really?!!! SpankMe Jul 2015 #26
Trump knows silenttigersong Jul 2015 #28
So all rapists are illegal Mexican immigrants LynneSin Jul 2015 #29
Somebody never told him awoke_in_2003 Jul 2015 #30
Every time a Republican mentions rape, they dig themselves a hole. thesquanderer Jul 2015 #31
"Well, whoever it is, YOU'RE FIRED!" n/t jtuck004 Jul 2015 #32
Keep it up, Donald! calimary Jul 2015 #33
Don Lemon didn't do a very good job of countering Trump aint_no_life_nowhere Jul 2015 #34
Good tymorial Jul 2015 #35
Yup. d_legendary1 Jul 2015 #38
Republican men just love explaining to us all how rape works. tclambert Jul 2015 #39
That sounds like a tagline for a horror movie. Initech Jul 2015 #41

underpants

(182,803 posts)
1. criminal gangs, people traffickers, other migrants or corrupt officials,”
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 11:28 AM
Jul 2015

it says so right in the Fusion article

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
3. Your fancy book-learning and liberal facts are no match for old-fashioned folk-wisdom.
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 11:40 AM
Jul 2015

He knows it. He just knows it. And you will never convince him otherwise.

IronLionZion

(45,442 posts)
2. Sadly, this might help him win the Republican nomination
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 11:36 AM
Jul 2015

that whole party has lost their minds long ago.

unblock

(52,229 posts)
10. that may have been the point of no return, but they were surely crazy long before then.
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 12:05 PM
Jul 2015

electing shrub was not the act of a sane people.

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
25. maybe the crazies became the majority around that time?
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 01:56 PM
Jul 2015

They always had more than their share of the crazies, but there were a few sane conservatives and a few moderates that got drowned out after that, or else joined the crazies in going off the deep end. McCain seemed a sane conservative back in 2000, but then went off the deep end afterwards in attempting to appeal to the loonies. (Topped off by choosing Palin for VP)

niyad

(113,306 posts)
17. 12/12/2000--when 5 republican-appointed justices abrogated the constitution and anointed
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 12:43 PM
Jul 2015

the drunk as president--

gordianot

(15,238 posts)
7. I think this is why the powers that be are putting him out of buisness.
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 11:49 AM
Jul 2015

The broke rich business man will not fly. This is what happens to the rich and elite when they let the dirty ignorant self righteous peasants in the front door.

brer cat

(24,565 posts)
13. Not all of them.
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 12:27 PM
Jul 2015

Some I know have made a huge point of announcing they have changed their affiliation to Independent. I haven't a clue how they will ultimately vote, but they sure as hell do not want to be identified with republicans any more.

Arkana

(24,347 posts)
14. Good.
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 12:29 PM
Jul 2015

He'll get steamrolled by either Bernie or Hillary--a Trump nomination has the potential to be a reverse-Reagan.

IronLionZion

(45,442 posts)
27. Hell yeah! I hope he gets the nomination
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 02:12 PM
Jul 2015

A windbag real estate developer whose father started their family fortune through government housing contracts vs a socialist is something that America really needs to see to show the difference between the parties.

I hope he goes bankrupt (again!) on this campaign.

calimary

(81,267 posts)
36. Either that, or jeb winds up with the nomination and Trump's caused so much damage with
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 03:57 PM
Jul 2015

Latino voters that jeb will never be able to stanch the bleeding, even if he chooses his Latina wife as his running mate.

But it's far more important that Trump trashes the brand.

BECAUSE he's running (shit - I can't believe I'm even saying that. It's like - a clown gets into the Oval Office - . Oh wait.), the very fact, exquisite as it is, that he's running with the professional political pack rather than just sitting on the sidelines with the cameras and glitz and bombastic, carnival-barker showmanship! The very fact! Is just freakin' GOBSMACKING. FLABBERGASTING. CHIN-ON-THE-FLOOR. Barnum, Bailey, & Bullshit! Okay, I've seen a few presidential campaigns in my 62 years. This - DAYUM - sorry for the shouting but sometimes it makes me explode! I'm just marveling at it all with mouth agape. Just agape.

I hope he SHITS the brand.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
5. Can't wait for the GOP to get all rapey again.
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 11:48 AM
Jul 2015

The ladies, who will be overwhelmingly voting for Hillary, love that talk!

gordianot

(15,238 posts)
8. They love how that word rolls off the tongue am not sure they know what it literally means.
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 11:55 AM
Jul 2015

They proved that last couple elections.

central scrutinizer

(11,648 posts)
11. the silence is deafening
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 12:19 PM
Jul 2015

None of the other umpteen dozen Repug candidates are denouncing his hate speech so they own it as well. Wear it proudly, you dicks.

calimary

(81,267 posts)
40. So noted! Anybody speak up to refute that, within that tribe?
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 04:31 PM
Jul 2015

That kind of silence when there should very urgently be some sort of comment condemning the reprehensible statements and/or behavior. Somebody in that clown car actually does need to speak up.

The last time that really blew a trombone into my ear for me on this order was during one of the 2012 GOP debates. The format included having questions posed to the candidates by "regular-Joe" types. Live or Skyped or whatever. One of 'em was a soldier IN IRAQ. Live from center stage outside the Green Zone. In Ground Zero of a hot war. And he identified himself not only by his name and rank but also said he was gay. And he asked about changing policy as it affected gays. And guess what happened? As soon as he began to articulate the question, some people in the audience booed. They BOOED. You could hear it clearly. It was a disgusting, disgraceful, embarrassing, shameful, reprehensible moment. In public live on television in prime time. And then somebody onstage fumbled an answer that was entirely forgettable because A) you knew it was gonna be a bullshit answer and B) you were still damn near transfixed by having witnessed a bunch of selfish shits back home BOOING a soldier ON the battlefield, IN harm's way, IN an active, shooting war, LIVE from the field. How fucking DARE they.

But that wasn't the worst of it. "Shame On Them, The Sequel" coming right up.

The WORST and most galling and most repulsive thing about it was that not one of the candidates up there on that stage stopped and said - "hey, with all due respect to everyone here, I just have to say 'WAIT A MINUTE!' Since when do we boo our troops in the field who are out there with their butts on the line, in the line of fire, no matter WHAT subject they want to bring up??? I'm sorry, but SOMEBODY up here has to say something about that! You DO NOT BOO our troops who are out there risking their lives for our way of life back here at home. You do NOT blaspheme that level of sacrifice. Under ANY circumstances. We're always saying we support our troops. So why don't we prove it?"

NOBODY said that - or even anything remotely close to that. As a matter of fact, nobody said ANYTHING. Nobody stepped up. Nobody said Word-One about the detestable and utterly unconscionable booing of one of our troops. If our side did that, they'd be putting it on in the morning, trimming it with blinking neon lights and honking horns, and wearing it around all day, every day, for months. But not in this case. The debate moved on. To other matters of great consequence.

And to this very day, I have yet to hear, find, or read any concession of fault or apology, no admission of guilt, no expression of remorse, no appeal for forgiveness. Nobody brings it up. No former candidates. No members of that audience - either that night in "post-game show" coverage or since. No columnists or TV panelists or anybody. Or if they have, it's been so minimal or consistently low-profile for so long that I haven't seen anything. If one were to ask any of them at this late date, I'd expect they'd mostly claim they don't remember.

I'm wondering if this qualifies, from Catholic school anyway, as a sin of omission. You didn't speak up when you should have. NOBODY spoke up then - or since. Frankly, that fact alone tells me all I need to know about that side of the aisle. All I need to know. And none of it good.

SpankMe

(2,957 posts)
26. "Who's doing the raping?", really?!!!
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 02:03 PM
Jul 2015
YOU're doing the raping, Donald Trump you middle-class-raping, tone-deaf billionaire mother fucker. I don't begrudge you your billions - I wish I was there myself. But, your temperament, insensitivity, racism, homophobia, general ickiness - and what you're doing with those billions - make you one of the world's great assholes. I want to vomit every time I see or hear you.

Frankly, I hope you win the nomination. That'll embarrass the crap out of the Republican party and will make a Democratic victory a cake walk.

silenttigersong

(957 posts)
28. Trump knows
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 02:22 PM
Jul 2015

if anyman with his ,amount of money can get away with rape depending on the victim .He really is clueless.Not only that immigrint women are at higher risk of rape.Donald trump the eppitomy of the "UGLY AMERICAN"

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
29. So all rapists are illegal Mexican immigrants
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 02:39 PM
Jul 2015


ster·e·o·type/ˈsterēəˌtīp/
noun
1.a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
34. Don Lemon didn't do a very good job of countering Trump
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 03:40 PM
Jul 2015

Obviously Trump was referring to the men who accompany women across the border. Don Lemon sounded dumb in pretending not to understand. Instead, Don Lemon should have armed himself with statistics and facts. I think that's too much to ask of a TV "journalist" these days, however. The article in Fusion states that 80% of women crossing Mexico to get to the U.S. are dealing with criminal gangs, human traffickers, coyotes and other no-goods. The article doesn't state that it's the typical Mexican male immigrant who rapes all these women but it's the traffickers, who often ask for sex in exchange for getting across. These criminals are not representative of male migrants who enter the U.S. The ones doing most of the raping and abuse stay on the other side of the border, as parasites on the poor people who want to cross. If Don Lemon had not embarrassed himself by being totally unprepared to interview the Trump creep it might have been good TV for a change

tymorial

(3,433 posts)
35. Good
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 03:53 PM
Jul 2015

I love it. Let him have the nomination. He couldn't be a John Edwards in a general election let alone Clinton, Sanders or O'Mally.

tclambert

(11,086 posts)
39. Republican men just love explaining to us all how rape works.
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 04:20 PM
Jul 2015

And their explanations always make them look très stupide.

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