Thread: 2016 Democratic US Presidential Candidates

Originally Posted by slackula

Trumpf can't go 11 minutes without jumping onto twitter to retcon anything he doesn't like.

#TrumpTwitterBleats

Originally Posted by cyrille

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Reminds me of the thread bsnub started about anti-intellectualism ... nobody is better at it than Trump.

No argument there.

Do you think the Hilary camp started off hoping Trump would get the nomination because they believed Clinton would beat him comfortably?

Or have they always dreaded Donald?

Everyone dreads debating Donald because the gloves are off. I think he will destroy Hillary because things will be getting down to the wire and Hillary has given him so much ammunition. Trump also has some weaknesses and Hillary will exploit them to the max.

It will all boil down to whether the voters like a tough, no holds barred debater, or a repeat of what they have heard for the last 50 years from politicians. It would be a tough bet to place in Las Vegas as to who will win that debate when, and if, it happens.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Originally Posted by slackula

Trumpf can't go 11 minutes without jumping onto twitter to retcon anything he doesn't like.

#TrumpTwitterBleats

Speaking of which...

Oops – Donald Trump retweeted a quote from the founder of fascism
Joseph Patrick McCormick 28th February 2016, 5:09 PM


Donald Trump retweeted the quote from Mussolini

Donald Trump maybe went a little bit too far with that last retweet.

It turns out that the Republican frontrunner retweeted the quote from a fake account set up with lines from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.


Trump tweet

After a furore about the tweet, which read: “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep,” it has been revealed that Trump was set up.
News site Gawker set up a fake account called ‘ilduce2016’, named after Mussolini’s dictatorship until 1943.

The site claimed responsibility for the Twitter account on Sunday, revealing it created the “Mussolini-quoting Twitter bot to see if @realDonaldTrump was dumb enough to re-tweet it.”

It turns out he did.

Gawker says it created the account last year to answer the question “Is Donald Trump a fascist?”

Social media wouldn’t let Trump get away with the retweet with many taking to Twitter to ridicule him for the embarrassment.
GOP Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Campaigns In Greenville, South Carolina



Mr Trump told Fox News he would likely back a plot to overturn equal marriage, just days beforetelling the lesbian journalist he would “move forward” on LGBT rights.
When challenged on the contradiction in a third interview, Mr Trump attempted to maintain both contradicting views simultaneously.

He promised evangelicals last week: “I think [evangelicals] can trust me on traditional marriage.”

It's things like this which are why Trump will be eviscerated on the national debate stage for President.

Not so much the tweet faux pas but when he's called to task over his incoherent and inconsistent statements.

At that point simply ignoring questions about things like how he intends to balance and pay for a $10 trillion tax plan or abusing reporters or threatening to punch people won't cut it.

The German High Command had a rep for getting things done.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

It's things like this which are why Trump will be eviscerated on the national debate stage for President.
Not so much the tweet faux pas but when he's called to task over his incoherent and inconsistent statements.

Or even the consistent and coherent ones like bringing back waterboarding and worse and abolishing the Department of Education.

I think Trump has six gears when it comes to debating. He is only in third gear right now and saving sixth for Hillary. Will he crash and burn? We will have to wait to see what kind of road course Clinton hands him.

Originally Posted by Humbert

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

It's things like this which are why Trump will be eviscerated on the national debate stage for President.
Not so much the tweet faux pas but when he's called to task over his incoherent and inconsistent statements.

Or even the consistent and coherent ones like bringing back waterboarding and worse and abolishing the Department of Education.

Yep, those too.

I really don't buy into this whole Trump the Master Debater mythology (unless those last two words are contracted ).

If he gets the nomination - likely by the looks - all those things are going to come back to haunt him. It's partly why the GOP establishment doesn't want him to achieve the nomination in the first place. They know that the Dems will pounce on every single one of his shady utterances and dealings.

Couple that to his less than conservative conservatives credentials and even the Jesus Wheezers may struggle to find him palatable.

Originally Posted by rickschoppers

Will he crash and burn?

Well he was certainly flustered and on the defense when Rubio took him on in the last debate. He will come apart if he is challeged on his dubious past. Hillary has had a lot of practice answering her adversaries attacks and hitting back hard.

^
That was Trump shifting into third gear. Up to this last debate, he was only in second

Originally Posted by rickschoppers

I think Trump has six gears when it comes to debating.

Trump is incapable of debating. Way too big of a "King Complex" to even consider debating. Kings don't debate ... they give orders and expect to be obeyed without question. This is the most dangerous type of person you could ever imagine in the White House ... Everybody afraid to lose their job if they disagree with him.

Trump: "We should nuke Australia!"

Everybody who works for him: "Absolutely!"

Originally Posted by spliff

The German High Command had a rep for getting things done.

True, but that is not generally what they are most remembered for so even if the 11:15 express from Munich to Belsen was never late that is kind of beside the point...

Originally Posted by Humbert

Well he was certainly flustered and on the defense when Rubio took him on in the last debate. He will come apart if he is challeged on his dubious past. Hillary has had a lot of practice answering her adversaries attacks and hitting back hard.

I think that will be the key.

He gets so angry when he's pressed and just shouts over anyone who's talking.

That isn't debate, it's Fox News, it's what Bill O'Reilly does when a guest is making him look stupid.

In a Presidential Debate, and I have to say it looks like it's going to be Trump vs Clinton, it's going to boil down to the hard questions, and if his answer on the Nuclear Triad is anything to go by, he's fucked.

He just looked like someone speaking any old words until he could think of something to say.

He looked even more stupid than he does already.

The trouble is, poorly educated people are too stupid to realise it.

That's why he loves them.

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Originally Posted by rickschoppers

I think Trump has six gears when it comes to debating.

Trump is incapable of debating. Way too big of a "King Complex" to even consider debating. Kings don't debate ... they give orders and expect to be obeyed without question. This is the most dangerous type of person you could ever imagine in the White House ... Everybody afraid to lose their job if they disagree with him.

Trump: "We should nuke Australia!"

Everybody who works for him: "Absolutely!"

Possibly, but similar to the presidents's cabinet who also mimicks "absolutely."

Originally Posted by rickschoppers

That was Trump shifting into third gear. Up to this last debate, he was only in second

Has he got one of those 3-speed boxes made when America was great and needed a 5 liter engine to get a land yacht up to walking speed to deliver little Ricky and Lurleene to Sunday school?

So this one must only have 1st gear.https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...tar20073_5.gif

Anyone but Hillary.

I support Trump.

Of course you do, Snaffy. No surprises there.

I really don't buy into this whole Trump the Master Debater mythology

I concur - sloganeering & gainsaying are not debating, and loving everything is not really a rational basis for the development of coherent policies. The Donald's nomination as the Republican candidate is not a certainty, even if he does win the most delegates. The RNC will still have to ratify it, and that is by no means a rubber stamp exercise. He could end up running as an independent, which would merely result in the Republican vote being split in the general election. As it is, Rubio & Cruz are only succeeding in splitting the opposition to the Donald.
It's jolly good fun though.

Originally Posted by Black Heart

Anyone but Hillary.

I support Trump.

Congratulations Waffleman. Usually you don't have the balls to admit to your idiotic positions.

This election is certainly becoming quite the Twit, Twat, and Chump festival.

Hillary the twat. Trump the chump, and all us twits who watch!

Fucking hilarious.

Originally Posted by JayZee

I concur - sloganeering & gainsaying are not debating, and loving everything is not really a rational basis for the development of coherent policies.

Exactly.

Trump's nothing more than a demagogue. He panders to base anger and hate.

Originally Posted by JayZee

It's jolly good fun though.

Have to agree there also. It's like a circus. A free circus!

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

A free circus!

Trust me PeeWee, you are paying for it dearly!
We all are!

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

A free circus!

Trust me PeeWee, you are paying for it dearly!
We all are!

Yeah. The Republican Implosion is bringing the country down.

Thanks, Obama.