Trump - Make America Great Again!

[IndySteel]

Breathe deep libtards!

 

[Spike]

The more they protest, the more we win - Trump in Phoenix

 

[Spike]

Trump: Sanders 'waiting for the FBI convention' to nab nomination from Clinton

Washington (CNN)

At a Las Vegas rally, Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, implied that Sanders is waiting for Clinton to be indicted so he can then claim the Democratic nomination himself at the party's convention in Philadelphia.

"Crazy Bernie," Trump said of the Vermont senator. "He's crazy as a bed bug, but he doesn't quit."

"He's waiting for the FBI to do what everybody thinks they're going to do," Trump added. "I think he's saying, 'Let's hang in there because its ultimately called the FBI... We'll see if the right thing happens. Everybody knows what the right thing is."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/18/politics/donald-trump-conscience-clause/index.html

 

[Spike]

That is awesome!

Go Bernie bots!


Bernie Supporters Practice Getting Arrested At The Democratic Convention

In the basement of The People’s Summit, progressives simulated what they called “direct action.”

In the basement of the Lakeside Center, where the Summit was held, some of those younger Sanders supporters prepared for what they called “direct action” — loud, consistent, and perhaps disruptive protest outside the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Several dozen of them attended a training on how to march, how to follow a chant, how to defy police orders to disperse by sitting and locking arms in what’s called a “human chain,” and how to conduct themselves when the police stepped in and physically removed them.

Thousands of Sanders supporters have already signed a Facebook petition promising to protest the Democratic convention.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/...-the-democrati?utm_term=.mtqor24Kz#.oeaOG9wny

 

[Ron Burgundy]

The Bernie Bots are only figuring out now that the 2016 election has been rigged for Hildebeast since 2008? Well, I guess intelligence was never their strong suit.

 

[Tibs]

The Trump Train picking up steam....heading right off a cliff.

More Companies Opt to Sit Out Trump’s Coronation in Cleveland
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/a...pt-to-sit-out-trump-s-coronation-in-cleveland

A growing number of prominent U.S. corporations are opting to drop or scale back their sponsorship of the Republican national convention next month in Cleveland, as the nomination of Donald Trump promises a level of controversy rarely seen in such gatherings.

Among those to signal in recent days that they won't sponsor the convention this year are Wells Fargo & Co., United Parcel Service Inc., Motorola Solutions Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Ford Motor Co., and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. All of those companies sponsored the previous Republican conclave, in Tampa, Florida, in 2012.

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[Tibs]

I guess the donors that are pulling out are simply seeing the reality of the situation, unlike the Trumpsters here on the board.

The brutal numbers behind a very bad month for Donald Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-a-very-bad-month-for-donald-trump/?tid=sm_fb

 

[Spike]

 

[Spike]

And it is hilarious when the socialists eat their own.

The Bernie vs Hillary fans war is gonna be EPIC!


Beans for Hillary!

Light a match!

 

[diver]

I guess the donors that are pulling out are simply seeing the reality of the situation, unlike the Trumpsters here on the board.

The brutal numbers behind a very bad month for Donald Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-a-very-bad-month-for-donald-trump/?tid=sm_fb

Maybe you are right. On one hand I believe polls are no longer used to gauge public opinion but instead are used to form it, you cannot outright dismiss them, either. However, if true, and if Obama really has a 52% approval rating, we are finished as a country. We have jumped the shark. And maybe that is the way it is supposed to be.

I will never forget in the late 80s early 90s we would go to the church my wife grew up in. The preacher there was very into prophecy, which to be honest I would tune out on. How the hell does anybody know? But around the time of the first gulf war, he would do prophecy sermons, and on more than one occasion stated that he feels the USA will be a non-entity in the end times, for whatever reason, maybe losing sight of God, or economic calamity, losing influence in the world or whatever. I have thought of this often lately, and wonder maybe it is just going to get worse and there isn't a whole hell of a lot that can be done.

 

[Troglodyte]

But around the time of the first gulf war, he would do prophecy sermons, and on more than one occasion stated that he feels the USA will be a non-entity in the end times

Ah man, if we don't even have that to look forward to, is life even worth living?

 

[diver]

Ah man, if we don't even have that to look forward to, is life even worth living?

Hey, I am of the belief it can get better. I do not have that thinking, but on occasion I remember it.

I won't get better with Hillary Clinton, I know that. I am unsure about Trump, for sure. But right now he represents something different. The same old, same old isn't working anymore, which is exactly what it will be with Clinton or what it will be with any Repub save Trump and maybe Cruz.

Is there a risk with Trump? Oh, yea. But I can't abide by this crap that is going on right now.

 

[Spike]

No wonder blacks hate Bernie

WAR!!!



Sanders collides with black lawmakers

The Congressional Black Caucus 'vehemently' opposes Sanders' call to abolish superdelegates.

In a letter sent to both the Sanders and Hillary Clinton campaigns, the CBC is expressing its resolute opposition to two key reforms demanded by Sanders in the run-up to the Democratic convention: abolishing the party’s superdelegate system and opening Democratic primaries up to independents and Republicans.

"The Democratic Members of the Congressional Black Caucus recently voted unanimously to oppose any suggestion or idea to eliminate the category of Unpledged Delegate to the Democratic National Convention (aka Super Delegates) and the creation of uniform open primaries in all states," says the letter, which was obtained by POLITICO.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/...ck-caucus-superdelegates-224502#ixzz4C4MEuhAS

 

[Spike]

And it is hilarious when the socialists eat their own.

WAR!


Hillary Who? Progressive activists not ready for Clinton

Chicago (CNN)Hillary Clinton may be the presumptive Democratic nominee, but the fight to unify the party and its traditional allies in the wake of an unexpectedly long and contentious primary is poised to go on much longer.

The more than 3,000 Bernie Sanders supporters and progressive activists gathered here at the "People's Summit" have engaged in little open talk about Clinton, preferring instead to plot a path forward in the wake of the Vermont senator's defeat -- and questioning the motivations of the Democratic Party and the legitimacy of its nominating contest.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/18/politics/peoples-summit-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-unity/

 

[Spike]

Hillary rally

Trump rally

 

[Tibs]

Keep going Spike, you gotta keep the faith in all the sheep. Still have months to go, gotta keep finding some way to rally the diminishing, demoralized troops.

 

[Steeltime]

My take:

 

[Spike]

Keep going Spike.

Keep Bernie going!

ha ha


Philly is gonna be AWESOME, you haven't given up have you?

Maybe you missed this...


World’s Largest ‘Fart-In’ Is Planned for Hillary Clinton’s Acceptance Speech in Philadelphia

Philadelphia: Cheri Honkala, the leader of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, announced that her group was organizing the world’s largest “fart-in” to be held on July 28 at the Wells Fargo Center during Hillary Clinton’s anticipated acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination.

“We will be holding a massive bean supper for Bernie Sanders delegates on American Street in my Kensington neighborhood on the afternoon of July 28,” she said. “We are setting up a Clintonville there, modeled on the Hoovervilles of the 1930s where the poor and unemployed built shanty towns.The Sanders delegates, their bellies full of beans, will be able to return to the Wells Fargo Center and greet the rhetorical flatulence of Hillary Clinton with the real thing."

Honkala said she would issue an invitation to Sanders to join the bean supper, which she is calling Beans for Hillary. She has asked donors to send cans of beans to 1301-W Porter Street, Philadelphia, Pa., 19148.

http://www.truthdig.com/eartothegrou...e_speech_in_ph

 

[ZonaBurgh]

My take:

Yep, a choice of being mauled by a lion or bitten by a shark. Sucks for all of us.

 

[Tibs]

This is true on so many levels.

Communicator-in-chief: Where Obama’s rhetoric illuminated a complex world, Trump’s deceptive dialect dumbs down
http://www.salon.com/2016/06/19/com...ex_world_trumps_deceptive_dialect_dumbs_down/

You only have to read the first words of "Dreams from My Father" and "Crippled America" to see the stark difference

In America’s slow and steady move from a literary culture to an audio-visual culture with literary accessories like Twitter feeds and text messages, much of the nation has lost its appreciation for eloquence. Language is communicative, but in political or artistic context, it is also aspirational. The poetic grandeur of Lincoln’s “House Divided” address to the Illinois State Legislature, the sermonic beauty of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and the anthemic triumph of Kennedy’s inaugural address map a future of better and boundless possibility not merely with content, but with style of articulation. If Marshall McLuhan was right with his now clichéd proclamation that the “medium is the message,” it is not too damnable a distortion to apply his theory to rhetoric itself, and make the determination that political leaders have a message, and are able to delineate a vision of the world, not only with what they say, but the way in which they choose to say it.

In a devolution that puts to bed fanciful notions of progress, America has transitioned from eight years of one its most elegant and intelligent presidents to consideration of a man who, according to several studies, speaks at a fifth grade level. The right wing, often unable to recognize the sound of a sophisticated voice, consistently mocks Barack Obama for his use of a teleprompter, as if he is the first politician to give prepared remarks or that the teleprompter itself, as opposed to words printed on paper, is somehow worthy of ridicule. To actually gain insight into the rhetorical gifts of the current president, along with the insipid ramblings the Republican nominee for president, Americans should turn to the written word.

Barack Obama began his memoir “Dreams from My Father” with the following paragraph:

A few months after my twenty-first birthday, a stranger called to give me the news. I was living in New York at the time, on Ninety-fourth between Second and First, part of that unnamed, shifting border between East Harlem and the rest of Manhattan. It was an uninviting block, treeless and barren, lined with soot-colored walk-ups that cast heavy shadows for most of the day. The apartment was small, with slanting floors and irregular heat and a buzzer downstairs that didn’t work, so that visitors had to call ahead from a pay phone at the corner gas station, where a black Doberman the size of a wolf paced through the night in vigilant patrol, its jaws clamped around an empty beer bottle.

The paragraph reads like a passage from a fine novel. It describes a world of complexity and irony – not fit for simple explanations or prescriptions – but one where questions outnumber answers, and individuals must engage in the art of self-discovery, always turbulent and painful, to even hope to find clues in the intractable mysteries of life. It is literature. “Dreams from My Father” follows in similar style, and joins the tradition of memoir and novel attached to coming of age, formative experience, and individualistic transformation.

Donald Trump begins his latest book, charmingly titled “Crippled America,” with the following “sentences”:

Some readers may be wondering why the picture we used on the cover of this book is so angry and so mean looking. I had some beautiful pictures taken in which I had a big smile on my face. I looked happy, I looked content, I looked like a very nice person, which in theory I am. My family loved those pictures and wanted me to use one of them. The photographer did a great job. But I decided it wasn’t appropriate. In this book we’re talking about Crippled America—that’s a tough title. Unfortunately, there’s very little that’s nice about it. Hence, the picture on the cover. So I wanted a picture where I wasn’t happy, a picture that reflected the anger and unhappiness that I feel, rather than joy. There’s nothing to be joyful about. Because we are not in a joyous situation right now. We’re in a situation where we have to go back to work to make America great again. All of us. That’s why I’ve written this book. People say that I have self-confidence. Who knows? When I began speaking out, I was a realist. I knew the relentless and incompetent naysayers of the status quo would anxiously line up against me, and they have.

The world Trump depicts is simple, and for the simple-minded. The state of the country, and the world, is static and categorical. It is bad. It is terrible. He can make it good. Only he can make it good. He will make it great (the style is contagious).

Trump’s appeal is an indictment of the public education system of America, and the American cultivation of an anti-intellectual culture suspicious of eloquence and learnedness. It dates back to the 1950s when many American voters mocked and derided Adlai Stevenson as an “egghead,” as if having an educational pedigree was a liability. It is important to remember that Stevenson’s populist opponent was Dwight Eisenhower, a former general whose rhetoric reads like Shakespeare in comparison to the childlike incoherence of the average Trump speech.

Many defenders of Trump’s blather claim that he is speaking directly to his poorly educated constituency in a language that they can understand and appreciate. In that sense, Trump sympathizers will claim, it is a truly democratic act of charity for a man who has an Ivy League education to communicate, by design or default, with an elementary school style. Those who make this argument confuse pandering with leadership. Leaders should challenge, not coddle their audiences.

Trump’s dialect is deceptive, because it implies that complicated institutions need only the right authority figure to work smoothly in favor of the general public, and that the world is not always at contradiction, but that it is rather straightforward – like a formulaic television series. The continual debasement of language in American culture played right into Trump’s miniature hands. To track the preferred method of Internet argument from the popularity of blogs to the ubiquity of Twitter is to monitor a culture increasingly accustomed to short and simple explanations and rebuttals.

 

[Troglodyte]

Hey, I am of the belief it can get better. I do not have that thinking, but on occasion I remember it.

But isn't it bizarre to contemplate if the U.S. will be an active participant in the apocalypse? I mean, what does it matter? And it's not like the bible refers to the U.S. anywhere.

 

[jitter77]

At some point you have to wonder if Trump is even trying to win. The media has backed off his exposure a bit and Trump seems to have no campaign. He should be ramping his campaign up, but either it is totally unorganized or he just does not care and expects to get by. The Republican party is not helping. It is time he changed his ways or he will get absolutely destroyed by whoever he runs against. Hopefully Hillary will be in jail so I won't have to look at / listen to her voice for 4 years.

 

[oneforthebus]

This is true on so many levels.

Communicator-in-chief: Where Obama’s rhetoric illuminated a complex world, Trump’s deceptive dialect dumbs down
http://www.salon.com/2016/06/19/com...ex_world_trumps_deceptive_dialect_dumbs_down/

You only have to read the first words of "Dreams from My Father" and "Crippled America" to see the stark difference

I doubt either one of them actually wrote those.

 

[diver]

But isn't it bizarre to contemplate if the U.S. will be an active participant in the apocalypse? I mean, what does it matter? And it's not like the bible refers to the U.S. anywhere.

Yea, probably. Again, I would tune out to that stuff for the most part but perked up when he mentioned the USA. And it stuck with me is all I am saying. Anyway, the way we are going, the economy is ****, we keep bringing more people in here even though there are 90+ million Americans out of the labor force, there is no manufacturing, we don't want to be leaders in the world anymore and so on. The world is blowing up and we are having discussions on whether or not a 43 year old man who feels like a woman today can use the same bathroom as a 7 year old girl. Lastly, maybe there is a reason the Bible doesn't refer to the USA. Why refer to something that isn't relevant?

 

[Ron Burgundy]

This is true on so many levels.

Communicator-in-chief: Where Obama’s rhetoric illuminated a complex world, Trump’s deceptive dialect dumbs down
http://www.salon.com/2016/06/19/com...ex_world_trumps_deceptive_dialect_dumbs_down/

You only have to read the first words of "Dreams from My Father" and "Crippled America" to see the stark difference
In America’s slow and steady move from a literary culture to an audio-visual culture with literary accessories like Twitter feeds and text messages, much of the nation has lost its appreciation for eloquence.

Right, and who has been running the educational system from top to bottom for the last 50 years?