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underpants
(182,803 posts)it says so right in the Fusion article
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)He knows it. He just knows it. And you will never convince him otherwise.
I just don't know about THE RAPING like he does.
IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)that whole party has lost their minds long ago.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)9/11/2001
After that day, they just went crazy.
unblock
(52,229 posts)electing shrub was not the act of a sane people.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)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)the drunk as president--
valerief
(53,235 posts)C Moon
(12,213 posts)gordianot
(15,238 posts)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)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.
He'll get steamrolled by either Bernie or Hillary--a Trump nomination has the potential to be a reverse-Reagan.
IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)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)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)The ladies, who will be overwhelmingly voting for Hillary, love that talk!
gordianot
(15,238 posts)They proved that last couple elections.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)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)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.
monmouth4
(9,705 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)niyad
(113,306 posts)bunnies
(15,859 posts)louis-t
(23,295 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)as in T-Rex, because he's a big ass!
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)SpankMe
(2,957 posts)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)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)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.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)the Rule of Holes.
thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)Will they ever learn...
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)calimary
(81,267 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)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
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.
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)And welcome to DU!
tclambert
(11,086 posts)And their explanations always make them look très stupide.
Initech
(100,076 posts)"Who is doing the raping? Find out July 2nd!"