Nominate THE DONALD!!!
Some people have bad hair days. Donald Trump is having a bad hair life. Have you ever noticed that?
What I love the most about The Donald - and why I cherish his presence in the national train wreck so completely - is the man's genius at being clueless. In fact, if lacking in self awareness were considered a human virtue, Trump would have received the Nobel Prize decades ago. It's bad enough that this nitwit takes himself so seriously, he's delusional enough to think that intelligent people take him with anything other than a grain of moldy salt. It really is rather touching and pathetic when you think about it.
My first experience with Donald Trump was not through the media, but up close and personal. Back in the early eighties I was doing a brass and marble restoration gig in the newly-opened Trump Towers. He stormed into the lobby of the place, barking orders, making belligerent comments to and fro, walking around like he owned the joint - which he did of course. I thought at the time that his complete and total lacking in any humility was a bit unbecoming. At the time I had never heard of him before, nor did I have a clue who the heck he was. Not that I cared.
When he asked a co-worker (an Italian immigrant named Frank Amato) what type of chemical he was using on the marble, Trump's lackey told Frank that, when answering "Mr. Trump's" question, that he should not direct the answer to The Donald, but to the lackey instead. In other words, don't look Mr. Trump in the eye. I was hoping that "Mr. Trump" had a question-or-two for me. I would have stared him down just to spite the contemptible little twit. Alas, he did not.
When he asked a co-worker (an Italian immigrant named Frank Amato) what type of chemical he was using on the marble, Trump's lackey told Frank that, when answering "Mr. Trump's" question, that he should not direct the answer to The Donald, but to the lackey instead. In other words, don't look Mr. Trump in the eye. I was hoping that "Mr. Trump" had a question-or-two for me. I would have stared him down just to spite the contemptible little twit. Alas, he did not.
And now, Trump says that in three days he'll be announcing whether or not he'll be a candidate for the GOP nomination in 2016. I really do hope he goes for it, but my gut instinct tells me that, like 2012, dipping his toes in the stagnant waters of our national political conversation was merely for show and nothing else; another silly and wasted attempt by The Donald to "up his brand" so to speak. He's even gone as far as hinting that he has a secret plan to eliminate ISIS - but that he's not going to reveal it until he's sitting snugly inside the Oval Office. RIGHT! He can blow to kingdom come an organization that is murdering hundreds of innocent people every week but he's going to wait a year-and-a-half before he shares the plan with anyone!
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If they ever build a Hall of Fame of Unintentional Comedians, I propose that they give Donald Trump a wing dedicated exclusively to him. This jackass is the rib-tickler supreme. That's what makes the political situation in America such a delight: For an insanity junkie such as I, the current crop of Republican wannabes are too weird to be believed. I sometimes want to pinch myself just to be sure that this isn't a dream-come-true. I so want this guy to make a run for it that I can almost taste it. I know that he's probably going to let me down again, just like he did in 2012. All I have are my dreams.
Maybe he'll surprise me. A Trump-for-pres campaign would be such a gut-busting thing to behold that I'm getting a mild case of the giggles just thinking about it. Oh, please, Donald, please!
I just had a wild thought: Wouldn't it be a hoot if, one day, The Donald held a press conference and revealed to us that for the past forty years, his entire act has been a piece of performance art? That it was all a big joke and that he's been putting us on all these years, and that he's been emulating his secret hero - ANDY KAUFMAN? What an incredible practical joke that would be on us - and so perfectly logical!
Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
SUGGESTED LISTENING:
Happy Days Are Here Again
by the Jack Hylton Orchestra (1930)
Ken Burns and company used this 1930 recording of Happy Days are
Here Again for the closing credits of episode four of The Roosevelts.
Considering it's 85 years old the fidelity is amazing. But what I like
most about this record is merely how freakin' catchy it is. Check out those xylophones!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW-0kbIcf1E
As FDR himself would have said, "I LOVE IT!"
UPDATE, 6/16/15, 1:55 PM:
The Donald announced his candidacy a little over an hour ago. Life is beautiful.
UPDATE, 6/16/15, 1:55 PM:
The Donald announced his candidacy a little over an hour ago. Life is beautiful.
posted by Tom Degan @ 4:42 AM
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66 Comments:
Tom, that was an interesting personal revelation about The Donald. Tell me, was your coworker, Frank, also told to genuflect when responding?
Now that's presidential material!
Simon Maloy @SimonMaloy
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "I paint a fake tunnel entrance on a rock wall. Very classy. Very nice. Then I get ISIS to chase me, and they hit the wall."
I have noticed that nothing gives comedians more joy than finding out his Trumpness is running for POTUS. Bill Maher was close to giddy about it last night. You can just see that comedians, upon hearing that Trump is in the race are thinking, "YES! One more of my kids can go to college!"
One has to wonder though, why a man of his alleged wealth would put himself through the humiliation.
He almost reminds me of a guy I went to school with, who thought he was God's gift to women. If you wanted a date with the hottest girl in the room, all you had to do was wait until he started talking to her (which was inevitable) After a few minutes all you had to do was walk up to her and say "Hey, you wanna get out of here?", and you were in. You were her savior. This poor guy had no clue he repugnant he was to women. Trump has no idea how repugnant he is to the American voter, on BOTH sides of the political coin. He actually drives voters to other candidates.
Wow, where is the Boy Troll and his distractions?
Uncle Bernie has a better chance of winning his party's nomination than Trump does his.
What's there to discuss?
The story about Rachel Dolezal is more interesting that The Donald
Nah, his secret plan is to hosts a free tupperware and swords party. All the bad guys will show up, but they won't know it's a sting. Easy, but only someone of supreme intelligence like Donald could come up with it.
Hey, your capcha is pretty fun.
In an official press statement, DNC National Press Secretary Holly Shulman said this morning, “Today, Donald Trump became the second major Republican candidate to announce for president in two days. He adds some much-needed seriousness that has previously been lacking from the GOP field, and we look forward hearing more about his ideas for the nation.”
What Happened?
"The idea of infinite or unlimited growth, which proves so attractive to economists, financiers and experts in technology ... is based on the lie that there is an infinite supply of the earth's goods, and this leads to the planet being squeezed dry at every limit."
"A very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system. ... A number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity."
"We need to reject a magical conception of the market, which would suggest that the problems can be solved simply by an increase in the profits of companies or individuals."
Account must also be taken of the pollution produced by residue, including dangerous waste present in different areas. Each year hundreds of millions of tons of waste are generated, much of it non-biodegradable, highly toxic and radioactive, from homes and businesses, from construction and demolition sites, from clinical, electronic and industrial sources. The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish. Industrial waste and chemical products utilized in cities and agricultural areas can lead to bioaccumulation in the organisms of the local population, even when levels of toxins in those places are low. Frequently no measures are taken until after people's health has been irreversibly affected.
Even as the quality of available water is constantly diminishing, in some places there is a growing tendency, despite its scarcity, to privatize this resource, turning it into a commodity subject to the laws of the market. Yet access to safe drinkable water is a basic and universal human right, since it is essential to human survival and, as such, is a condition for the exercise of other human rights.
In the meantime, economic powers continue to justify the current global system where priority tends to be given to speculation and the pursuit of financial gain, which fail to take the context into account, let alone the effects on human dignity and the natural environment. Here we see how environmental deterioration and human and ethical degradation are closely linked. Many people will deny doing anything wrong because distractions constantly dull our consciousness of just how limited and finite our world really is. As a result, "whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenceless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule."
- Pope Francis
Ask the fans of the Polish Pope how well a controlled market provided for the Polish people for another point of view.
Tom Degan is the biggest jackass on the planet earth.
Poor OrphanBoyTrollSoreLoserAlSharptoonHarryTheClimateChangeWallingford.... even the Pope disagrees with him.
"A Guy"
Yeah, like all Popes have disagreed with the right to murder a baby in a mothers womb.
What does the Pope and the Boy Troll's obsession with abortion have to do with Trump?
Blame Bush
What does the Pope and the Boy Troll's obsession with abortion have to do with Trump?
Wait... you mean there are rules here? No going off topic allowed?
Okay, back to Trump. He's the perfect GOP candidate. If he wins the nomination there'll be hell toupee.
Trump is the inevitable result of 40 years of political conjuring, mainly by Republicans, but abetted by far too many Democrats as well. He is the inevitable product of anyone who ever argued that our political institutions should be run "like a business." (Like whose businesses? Like Trump's? Like Carly Fiorina's Hewlett Packard?) He is the inevitable product of anyone who ever argued why the government can't balance its books "the way any American family would." He is the inevitable result of the deregulated economy that was deregulated out of a well-cultivated wonder and awe directed at the various masters of the universe. Sooner or later, all of this misbegotten magical thinking was going to burp up a clown like Donald Trump. Sooner or later, the conversion of the institutions of the national legislature into vehicles for polite ratfucking was going to burp up a Trey Gowdy, who will interrogate not the actual Sid Blumenthal, but the one that exists in thousands of fundraising letters and chain e-mails. The politics of this country have dedicated themselves to the pursuit of hallucinations today. Wish I could say I was surprised. - Charles Pierce
I don't think he should run. Rather, I think he should stage a season of "The Presidential Apprentice" with the top 10 Reps and 10 Dems participating. Now THAT would be cool.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Donald Trump used the services of a casting agency to hire background actors to cheer him on at the recent rally where he announced his presidential candidacy, paying them each $50 for about three hours of work.
I like HarleyA's idea. That WOULD be cool !!
See??? He's already creating jobs.
$50.00 an hour?
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Donald Trump used the services of a casting agency to hire background actors to cheer him on at the recent rally where he announced his presidential candidacy, paying them each $50 for about three hours of work.
Americans have lost faith in our government and our financial system. We know that our leadership is beholden to other "interests" and not us. We know that the economy is in shambles despite the propaganda coming out of Washington and from the "press". We understand Main St. is hurting while Wall St. is (for now) flying high on the mountains of Fed induced debt. And, we know the façade is about to crumble - both right and left sense it. And, both are looking more and more to the "atypical" solution.
The allure of an economic savior (real or imagined) may prove to be more in favor of Donald Trump than you might believe today. He may not be as much a joke as we think. Time will tell...
$50.00 an hour, did he get his money's worth?
Pope Francis is definitely an expert climate change scientist.
He is almost as good as Al Gore who predicted in 2008 that the polar caps would be gone in 2013.
Hail Pope Francis!
Hey Jame the Pope IS a "scientist". At least he has a degree in chemical engineering. That is not to say he's a climatologist, but at least he agrees with those people that ARE, and 98% of them say climate change is REAL.
So why do you disregard the experts, and side with a bunch of oil barons, for whom acceptance of global warming would be a BIG DOWNER to the ol profit margin?
Oh, and Al Gore never said what you claim he did. Sorry.
As for Trump, I think Bill Maher is right about his parentage. At least to date Trump's never shown evidence to the contrary.
Now come Greeks bearing the gift of confirmation that Margaret Thatcher was right about socialist governments: “They always run out of other people’s money.”
Greece, from whose ancient playwrights Western drama descends, is in an absurdist melodrama about securing yet another cash infusion from international creditors.
This would add another boulder to a mountain of debt almost twice the size of Greece’s gross domestic product.
This protracted dispute will result in desirable carnage if Greece defaults, thereby becoming a constructively frightening example to all democracies doling out unsustainable, growth-suppressing entitlements.
In January, Greek voters gave power to the left-wing Syriza party, one third of which, the Economist reports, consists of “Maoists, Marxists and supporters of Che Guevara.”
Voters chose Syriza because it promised to reverse reforms, particularly of pensions and labor laws, demanded by creditors, and to resist new demands for rationality. Tsipras immediately vowed to rehire 12,000 government employees. His shrillness increasing as his options contract, he says the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund are trying to “humiliate” Greece.
How could one humiliate a nation that chooses governments committed to Rumpelstiltskin economics, the belief that the straw of government largesse can be spun into the gold of national wealth?
Tsipras’s approach to mollifying those who hold his nation’s fate in their hands is to say they must respect his “mandate” to resist them. He thinks Greek voters, by making delusional promises to themselves, obligate other European taxpayers to fund them.
Nothing to say about the church shootings, GeorgeWillSoreLoserAsshole?
Your silence speaks volumes.
Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s finance minister, is an academic admirer of Nobel laureate John Nash, the Princeton genius depicted in the movie “A Beautiful Mind,” who recently died.
Varoufakis is interested in Nash’s work on game theory, especially the theory of cooperative games in which two or more participants aim for a resolution better for all than would result absent cooperation.
Varoufakis’s idea of cooperation is to accuse the creditors whose money Greece has been living on of “fiscal waterboarding.”
The E.U. has a flag no one salutes, an anthem no one sings, a president no one can name, a parliament whose powers subtract from those of national legislatures, a bureaucracy no one admires or controls and rules of fiscal rectitude that no member is penalized for ignoring. It does, however, have in Greece a member whose difficulties are wonderfully didactic.
It cannot be said too often: There cannot be too many socialist smashups. The best of these punish reckless creditors whose lending enables socialists to live, for a while, off of other people’s money. The world, which owes much to ancient Athens’ legacy, including the idea of democracy, is indebted to today’s Athens for the reminder that reality does not respect a democracy’s delusions.
“When Mexico sends its people, they are not sending their best. They are not sending you. They are sending people that have lots of problems, and they are bringing those problems to us. They are bringing drugs and they are bringing crime, and they’re rapists.” Donald J Trump
“I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.” Dylan Roof
"Rumpelstiltskin economics, the belief that the straw of government largesse can be spun into the gold of national wealth?"
LOL LOL LOL George on big government economics: Rumpelstiltskin economics!!!
Thats Obama's economic policy! If Obama ran a McDonald's it wouldn't make money.
Harry
IP address 192.168.3.41
Pope Francis frames his argument in favor of a heavy-handed environmentalism around the idea that climate change hurts the poor the most.
Yet he seems to have little notion of what has helped the world’s poor more than anything: namely, the march of markets and technology, which has lifted billions out of destitution.
Instead, Francis rails against those who “doggedly uphold the myth of progress,” the “modern myth of unlimited material progress,” and the “myths of modernity,” including “unlimited progress.”
Yet after levying these warnings against progress, the pope calls for a bigger effort to develop sources of renewable energy. Exactly how will this be accomplished, except through giant advances in technology?
Maybe if the Pope wants to help the poor he can start selling all the gold and art in the Vatican instead of talking through his ahole.
Notice how the OrphanBoyTrollHarryFacts posts comments in clusters like this? A few days of silence, and the the bullshit flows steady, under a variety of pseudonyms.
Let's hear your thoughts on the church massacre. You've got an opinion on everything, so why the silence on that particular subject?
The shooter was indoctrinated by the Council of Conservative Citizens. The “political arm” of the KKK. Hmm, "conservative" council. YOU'RE a conservative, aren't you? Are you a member?
How is your platform different from the CCC? Simple question. It's not a lie if you believe it.
The first black man to live in the White House, long hesitant about doing anything bold on the color divide, could make one of the most simple and dramatic moves of his presidency: apologize for the land of the free being, at one time, the largest slaveholding nation on earth.
And Dylan Roof must have been a member of the KKK just like that long serving Democrat Senator Robert Byrd who probably rode his white horse on the streets of Washington.
Climate change is REAL, it's happen before in the earths history like the Ice Age.
What has yet to proved is climate change due to the actions of humans?
The temperatures have not increased in the past 10 years, is that due to human behavior, or is this the start of another ice age?
Sun spot actively has been lower than normal, is that due to the actions of humans?
Anonymous 3:54 PM You support Uncle Bernie a socialist, the CPUSA says they are socialist, are you a communist?
Most Americans look at what happened in Charlestown and are saddened by the act of a deranged young kid.
Obama looks at it and sees an opportunity to try an push for more gun control and grasp for more power.
After 60 years of Democrat promises to lift the black man, he is going to blame those who cling to their bibles and guns?
Head to Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Newark, LA, Detroit..where black men kill other black men every week in astounding numbers. All these cities are run by DEMOCRATS waging their expensive perpetual War On Poverty which feeds not only the dependent ignorant LIFs but those who administer it who feed like pigs at the trough.
How many black people will die in Chicago this weekend?
McDonald's, in an effort to be more politically correct, has just launched a new $5 Hillary Clinton chicken dinner.
It consists of two fat thighs, two tiny breasts and two left wings.
Word is it is not selling well, just like her recent book.
non dare da mangiare al troll
1. What is radicalizing white men to commit such acts of domestic terrorism and mass shootings? Are Fox News and the Right-wing media encouraging violence?
2. Is something wrong with the white family? Why are their sons and men so violent?
3. What should law enforcement and white politicians do about white crime?
4. Is the Charleston mass shooting just one more sign that America needs sensible and reasonable gun control policies?
5. Where are the white fathers in the white home?
6. When will white leadership step up and stop white Right-wing domestic terrorism?
7. Is White American culture pathological? Why is White America so violent?
8. Are there appropriate role models for white men and boys? Could better role models and mentoring help to prevent white men and boys from committing mass shootings and being seduced by Right-wing domestic terrorism?
http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2015/06/white-right-wing-domestic-terrorist.html#disqus_thread
I think $50 an hour was a good deal if he indeed paid a crowd to be there.
At least it is better than the candidates who are for sale for $5,000 a plate.
Gotta love conservatives who never miss a chance to defend a WHITE RACIST murderer, and BLAME a Black man for the crime.
I see the Boy Troll is still making up names.
"I think $50 an hour was a good deal if he indeed paid a crowd to be there. "
What about the Hildebeast?
She had people planted at all her recent scooby doo van stops.
Did she pay them for their time? Probably no, and she probably made them pay for their breakfast. What else would you expect from the Clintons who removed (i.e. stole) as much as they could from the White House when Slick Willie's last term was over. They are a class act.
McDonald's, in an effort to be more politically correct, has just launched a new...
That’s an old joke; usually referencing KFC.
Why you'd change it to mcdonald’s i have no idea but then again the sort of yardsleepers who push this dreck around the internet are not known for their clever joke craft.
Walleye (Boy Troll) is full of it. Hillary does not have to pay people to show up. She's not only a viable candidate, she's the clear frontrunner. Why would she have to pay people to show up?
"Walleye (Boy Troll) is full of it. Hillary does not have to pay people to show up. She's not only a viable candidate, she's the clear frontrunner. Why would she have to pay people to show up?"
Can you name any non bullshit accomplishments of hers besides erasing email servers?
She is now flip flopping about the trade bill:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/15/politics/45-times-secretary-clinton-pushed-the-trade-bill-she-now-opposes/
For a good chuckle go read Maureen Dowds NYTimes column:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-trade-winds-blow-ill-for-hillary.html
Hey Ellis D, we know you are another of Tommy D's sock puppets lol!
Here's one for YOU Walleye(Boy Troll) Name ONE GOOD THING THE ENTIRE GOP HAS DONE FOR THE POOR OR WORKING CLASS THE LAST 50 YEARS.
Hillary Clinton was the FIRST LADY
She served as a NEW YORK SENATOR
She served as SECRETARY OF STATE
Anybody who votes for the TPP should be removed from office and given a life sentence in a federal pen. The TPP is the height of treason and should be teated as such.
FIRST LADY, and that qualifies her for for what, marrying the right guy? Sexist.
Did she compete her term as a Senator or was she a quitter?
What did she do as Secy of State? Raise money for the Clinton slush fund.
Actually she's over qualified for the nomination for the Democrats.
Boy Troll, the only way you could be dumber is to be bigger. Clinton has way more experience working IN, or WITH the White House than any GOP candidate you care to name.
You just hate her because Bill Clinton was a great President, and you KNOW Hillary will continue to bring America back from the brink of disaster caused by the GOP.
OH, and I noticed you couldn't come up with ONE THING REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE FOR THE POOR AND MIDDLE CLASS THE LAST 50 YEARS.
OrphanBoyTrollWalleyeHarrySharptoonWitherspoon said "FIRST LADY, and that qualifies her for for what, marrying the right guy? Sexist." First of all, that's classic projection from the BoyPig, reducing HRC's accomplishments to "marrying the right guy" and then calling Mozart sexist!
Here's a good joke: Bill and Hillary Clinton are driving near her home town. They stop to get some gas, whereupon Hillary recognizes the station attendant as a high-school boyfriend. After they drive off, Bill tells her, smugly, “See, if you’d married him, you’d be working at a gas station.” Hillary smartly replies, “If I’d married him, he’d be President.”
Still waiting for the Boy Troll to tell us what conservatives have done for the poor and middle class the last 50 years.
The latest news is that the TPP will now pass, the Reps and a few shitty Dems are going to turn the US into a third world hell hole in the next few years. It does not matter who is the new president in 2016, we are fucked!
Mozart,
I've noticed you haven't come out of your basement in months.
US NEWS & WORLD REPORT
No Lie
"Bob Woodward throws cold water on the left's claim that Bush lied the nation into war with Iraq."
www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2015/05/26/bob-woodward-bush-didnt-lie-to-start-iraq-war
OrphanBoyTrollSharptoonHarryClimateVanessaSoreLoser:
Funny how you try to create a scandal over donations given to the Clinton Fund...
but not a PEEP out of you about GOP candidates taking money from racists like the Council of Conservative (aka White Supremacist) Citizens.
They’re only giving back the CCC’s donations because of the bad publicity generated by Roof.
And how are your "conservative" beliefs different from the CCC? It's not a lie if you believe it, OrphanBoyTrollSoreLoser.
GOP candidates taking money from racists like the Council of Conservative (aka White Supremacist) Citizens.
How about a list of these candidates.
What's funny about the Clinton Fund breaking the law?
Is the TPP Obama's idea?
from the NYTIMES:
The campaigns of Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum and Rand Paul accepted money from a white supremacist
Now why would a white supremacist donate to GOP candidates? hmmm....
And how are your conservative beliefs different from the Council of Conservative Citizens?
Where do you differ?
List, please.
You list for me as it's your barking that I hear. I dont have to respond to claim that is not true. You see, Uncle Bernie says he's a socialist, as does the CPUSA.
The GOP candidates you listed do not say the are white supremacist, unlike Uncle Bernie who says he's a socialist, it is you who make that claim because of the money the CCC gave them, which you admit they have returned. If you want to find out why the CC gave money, you should ask them.
Nice try but your logic and attempt to paint the GOP as holding the same views as the CCC and therefore being racist and white supremacist fails, totally.
BTW, what are my Conservative beliefs?
Dylann Roof, a white racial terrorist who left a manifesto, photos of himself in white supremacist regalia and holding the Confederate flag, before killing 9 black people in a church in a state where said flag is still flown, is a lesson in the semi-permanence of white racism in the Age of Obama.
Dylann Roof is so perfect in his throwback racist Right-wing, white supremacist evil that he is a system shock. Intentionally or not, Roof further exposed the moral rot of today's Republican Party as they ran away from how he is their monster, and his rampage was racist and not "anti-Christian" as the GOP's propagandists originally suggested. Roof's murder spree has also, and again, demonstrated how the commercial mainstream corporate news media is incapable of having an adult, mature, and intelligent conversation about white supremacy and domestic terrorism.
http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2015/06/a-car-wreck-corporate-news-medias.html
Headline:
Tennessee Republican: If state stops honoring KKK founder, US will be like ISIS
Donald Trump is Archie Bunker with money.
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