I still cannot believe that a guy like Trump is even in this race, much less the front runner for GOP Nomination.
It just plain boggles the mind.
And the lies in his twitter account. That is some next level mental dissonance going on. Like the guy can't tweet without revealing himself as a compulsive liar/Narcissist.
I want to go wake up people, but the phrase has been so overused by crazy people(in its shepple form) that I feel crazy even thinking it.
His ability to blatantly ignore facts that counter what he's say borders on the pathological.
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That smooth mother...
First he says "Yeah the government should focus on security, education and healthcare" but THEN he goes "Top three focuses of government should be security security security" so he can diversify but still create an easy soundbite.
First he says "Yeah the government should focus on security, education and healthcare" but THEN he goes "Top three focuses of government should be security security security" so he can diversify but still create an easy soundbite.
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Trump's strength? He is a motormouth. When you constantly fire a shotgun, you'll hit something.
He's constantly sending out feelers - he starts talking about NATO and now suddenly he's saying "NATO bad because not focus on terrorists". That's a much better soundbite and explainer - he can say "NATO should be rejiggered and made cheaper by focusing on terrorism, the main threat to the US" and that Makes Sense to a lot of voters.
Mr. Trump invented most of the English language, which is the best language on the planet, and he invented it.
It does have the best words. Great words. You wouldn't believe the words it has
Linguistic aside: That's because the English, having no shame, did not hesitate to steal all the good words from French they could get their hands on.
All that to create a language where "Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo." is a sentence.
Sentences have coherent structure. Trump is like Palin with a few deep breathing exercises and a third-grade English textbook.
I was referring to the Buffalo buffalo sentence, but it looks like I got...
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From what I've heard, angry, yelly Kasich is default Kasich and this kinder, gentler, can't we all just get along Kasich is just a mask that the people who know him are astounded that he's been able to keep up this long.
From what I've heard, angry, yelly Kasich is default Kasich and this kinder, gentler, can't we all just get along Kasich is just a mask that the people who know him are astounded that he's been able to keep up this long.
Yeah this is a guy who tells a story about an idiot cop when it turns out he's an asshole and a liar about the incident.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
From what I've heard, angry, yelly Kasich is default Kasich and this kinder, gentler, can't we all just get along Kasich is just a mask that the people who know him are astounded that he's been able to keep up this long.
This seems plausible.
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I just realized that Trump reminds me of the protagonist of A Face in the Crowd. I wish that movie were available on Netflix for a rewatch.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
the dem thread is concerned with enthusiasm for hillary/bernie? here's all the enthusiasm I'll ever need.
This is why I follow this thread and not the democratic primary thread. I don't care... Bernie has great ideas but I'm not sure he could get them passed. Hillary is not exciting but shes pragmatic and maybe she can move some legislation but will likely be blocked as bad as Obama because arglebargle.
I'm concerned with the republican side because they're all horrifying and I want to know what nightmare I have to worry about voting against. I would love it if I had a rational choice between two(or more!) parties...
TRUMP: She was grabbing me. And just so you understand, she was off base because she went through the Secret Service. She had a pen in her hand which Secret Service is not liking because they don't know what it is, whether it's a little bomb or -
TRUMP: Right? I stick up for people when people are unjustly accused. And in my opinion, unjustly accused. She's grabbing me. He walks in to stop it. She walked through Secret Service. She had a pen in her hand, which could have been a knife, it could have been just a pen, which is very dangerous. She should not have been doing that.
You can make a comedy show purely out of unaltered Trump statements now. Will Trump be banning pens, which are very dangerous, from his press conferences now?
In terms of highlights from the interview, the part about nuclear proliferation is especially insane gibberish.
COOPER: But, I mean, there's problems in a lot of different countries, problems in the United States. How can you solve the problems all the way over in Pakistan when the Pakistanis, themselves, are struggling with it?
TRUMP: Look, look, Pakistan is a very, very vital problem and really vital country for us because they have a thing called nuclear weapons. They have to get a hold of their situation.
When I see that and when I see it put in a park because it was mostly Christians, although many others were killed other than Christians, I think it's just absolutely a horrible story.
But I'm talking about radical Islamic terrorism. I will solve it far better than anybody else running.
COOPER: Let's talk about nuclear issues because you talked about this in a really interesting article in The New York Times.
TRUMP: One of the very, very big issues. I think maybe the biggest issue of our time.
COOPER: That's what you said to The New York Times. You said you worried about the proliferation of nuclear weapons…
TRUMP: Right.
COOPER: … the most. You also said, though, that you might support Japan and South Korea developing nuclear weapons of their own. Isn't that completely contradictory?
TRUMP: No, not at all. Look, you have North Korea has nuclear weapons. And he doesn't have a carrier yet but he has got nuclear weapons. He soon will have. We don't want to pull the trigger. We're just - you know, we have a president, frankly, that doesn't - nobody is afraid of our president. Nobody respects our president.
You take a look at what's going on throughout the world. It's not the country that it was.
COOPER: But if you're concerned about proliferation, letting other countries get nuclear weapons, isn't that proliferation?
TRUMP: No, no. We owe $19 $trillion, we have another $2 trillion because of the very, very bad omnibus budget that was just signed. It's a disgrace, which gives everything that Obama wanted. We get nothing. They get everything.
So that's going to be $21 trillion. We are supporting nations now, militarily, we are supporting nations like Saudi Arabia which was making during the good oil days which was a year ago, now they're making less but still a lot, $1 billion a day.
We are supporting them, militarily, and pay us a fraction, a fraction of what they should be paying us and of the cost. We are supporting Japan. Most people didn't even know that. Most people didn't know that we are taking care of Japan's military needs. We're supporting…
(CROSSTALK)
TRUMP: Excuse me, excuse me, we're supporting Germany. We're supporting South Korea. I order thousands of television sets because I am in the real estate business, you know, in my other life, OK.
COOPER: It has been a U.S. policy for decades to prevent Japan from getting a nuclear weapon.
TRUMP: That might be policy, but maybe…
COOPER: South Korea as well.
TRUMP: Can I be honest are you? Maybe it's going to have to be time to change, because so many people, you have Pakistan has it, you have China has it. You have so many other countries are now having it…
COOPER: So some proliferation is OK?
TRUMP: No, no, not proliferation. I hate nuclear more than any. My uncle was a professor was at MIT, used to (AUDIO GAP) nuclear, he used to tell me about the problem.
COOPER: But that's contradictory about Japan and South Korea.
TRUMP: (AUDIO GAP) Iran is going to have it very - within…
COOPER: But that's proliferation.
TRUMP: Excuse me, one of the dumbest I've ever seen signed ever, ever, ever by anybody, Iran is going to have it within 10 years. Iran is going to have it. I thought it was a very good interview in The New York Times.
COOPER: So you have no problem with Japan and South Korea having…
TRUMP: I thought…
(CROSSTALK)
COOPER: … nuclear weapons.
TRUMP: At some point we have to say, you know what, we're better off if Japan protects itself against this maniac in North Korea, we're better off, frankly, if South Korea is going to start to protect itself, we have…
COOPER: Saudi Arabia, nuclear weapons?
TRUMP: Saudi Arabia, absolutely.
COOPER: You would be fine with them having nuclear weapons?
TRUMP: No, not nuclear weapons, but they have to protect themselves or they have to pay us.
Here's the thing, with Japan, they have to pay us or we have to let them protect themselves.
COOPER: So if you said, Japan, yes, it's fine, you get nuclear weapons, South Korea, you as well, and Saudi Arabia says we want them, too?
TRUMP: Can I be honest with you? It's going to happen, anyway. It's going to happen anyway. It's only a question of time. They're going to start having them or we have to get rid of them entirely.
But you have so many countries already, China, Pakistan, you have so many countries, Russia, you have so many countries right now that have them.
Now, wouldn't you rather in a certain sense have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons? And they do have them. They absolutely have them. They can't - they have no carrier system yet but they will very soon.
Wouldn't you rather have Japan, perhaps, they're over there, they're very close, they're very fearful of North Korea, and we're supposed to protect.
COOPER: So you're saying you don't want more nuclear weapons in the world but you're OK with Japan and South Korea having nuclear weapons?
TRUMP: I don't want more nuclear weapons. I think that - you know, when I hear Obama get up and say the biggest threat to the world today is global warming, I say, is this guy kidding?
The only global warming - the only global warming I'm worried about is nuclear global warming because that's the single biggest threat. So it's not that I'm a fan - we can't afford it anymore. We're sitting on a tremendous bubble. We're going to be - again, $21 trillion. We don't have money.
COOPER: So you have no security concerns…
TRUMP: We're using all of the money…
COOPER: … about Japan or South Korea getting nuclear weapons?
TRUMP: Anderson, when you see all of the money that our country is spending on military, we're not spending it for ourselves; we're protecting all of these nations all over the world. We can't afford to do it anymore.
COOPER: It has been a U.S. policy for decades to prevent Japan from getting a nuclear weapon.
TRUMP: That might be policy, but maybe…
COOPER: South Korea as well.
TRUMP: Can I be honest are you? Maybe it's going to have to be time to change, because so many people, you have Pakistan has it, you have China has it. You have so many other countries are now having it…
COOPER: So some proliferation is OK?
TRUMP: No, no, not proliferation. I hate nuclear more than any. My uncle was a professor was at MIT, used to (AUDIO GAP) nuclear, he used to tell me about the problem.
COOPER: But that's contradictory about Japan and South Korea.
TRUMP: (AUDIO GAP) Iran is going to have it very - within…
COOPER: But that's proliferation.
TRUMP: Excuse me, one of the dumbest I've ever seen signed ever, ever, ever by anybody, Iran is going to have it within 10 years. Iran is going to have it. I thought it was a very good interview in The New York Times.
COOPER: So you have no problem with Japan and South Korea having…
TRUMP: I thought…
(CROSSTALK)
COOPER: … nuclear weapons.
TRUMP: At some point we have to say, you know what, we're better off if Japan protects itself against this maniac in North Korea, we're better off, frankly, if South Korea is going to start to protect itself, we have…
COOPER: Saudi Arabia, nuclear weapons?
TRUMP: Saudi Arabia, absolutely.
COOPER: You would be fine with them having nuclear weapons?
TRUMP: No, not nuclear weapons, but they have to protect themselves or they have to pay us.
TRUMP: She was grabbing me. And just so you understand, she was off base because she went through the Secret Service. She had a pen in her hand which Secret Service is not liking because they don't know what it is, whether it's a little bomb or -
TRUMP: Right? I stick up for people when people are unjustly accused. And in my opinion, unjustly accused. She's grabbing me. He walks in to stop it. She walked through Secret Service. She had a pen in her hand, which could have been a knife, it could have been just a pen, which is very dangerous. She should not have been doing that.
You can make a comedy show purely out of unaltered Trump statements now. Will Trump be banning pens, which are very dangerous, from his press conferences now?
In terms of highlights from the interview, the part about nuclear proliferation is especially insane gibberish.
COOPER: But, I mean, there's problems in a lot of different countries, problems in the United States. How can you solve the problems all the way over in Pakistan when the Pakistanis, themselves, are struggling with it?
TRUMP: Look, look, Pakistan is a very, very vital problem and really vital country for us because they have a thing called nuclear weapons. They have to get a hold of their situation.
When I see that and when I see it put in a park because it was mostly Christians, although many others were killed other than Christians, I think it's just absolutely a horrible story.
But I'm talking about radical Islamic terrorism. I will solve it far better than anybody else running.
COOPER: Let's talk about nuclear issues because you talked about this in a really interesting article in The New York Times.
TRUMP: One of the very, very big issues. I think maybe the biggest issue of our time.
COOPER: That's what you said to The New York Times. You said you worried about the proliferation of nuclear weapons…
TRUMP: Right.
COOPER: … the most. You also said, though, that you might support Japan and South Korea developing nuclear weapons of their own. Isn't that completely contradictory?
TRUMP: No, not at all. Look, you have North Korea has nuclear weapons. And he doesn't have a carrier yet but he has got nuclear weapons. He soon will have. We don't want to pull the trigger. We're just - you know, we have a president, frankly, that doesn't - nobody is afraid of our president. Nobody respects our president.
You take a look at what's going on throughout the world. It's not the country that it was.
COOPER: But if you're concerned about proliferation, letting other countries get nuclear weapons, isn't that proliferation?
TRUMP: No, no. We owe $19 $trillion, we have another $2 trillion because of the very, very bad omnibus budget that was just signed. It's a disgrace, which gives everything that Obama wanted. We get nothing. They get everything.
So that's going to be $21 trillion. We are supporting nations now, militarily, we are supporting nations like Saudi Arabia which was making during the good oil days which was a year ago, now they're making less but still a lot, $1 billion a day.
We are supporting them, militarily, and pay us a fraction, a fraction of what they should be paying us and of the cost. We are supporting Japan. Most people didn't even know that. Most people didn't know that we are taking care of Japan's military needs. We're supporting…
(CROSSTALK)
TRUMP: Excuse me, excuse me, we're supporting Germany. We're supporting South Korea. I order thousands of television sets because I am in the real estate business, you know, in my other life, OK.
COOPER: It has been a U.S. policy for decades to prevent Japan from getting a nuclear weapon.
TRUMP: That might be policy, but maybe…
COOPER: South Korea as well.
TRUMP: Can I be honest are you? Maybe it's going to have to be time to change, because so many people, you have Pakistan has it, you have China has it. You have so many other countries are now having it…
COOPER: So some proliferation is OK?
TRUMP: No, no, not proliferation. I hate nuclear more than any. My uncle was a professor was at MIT, used to (AUDIO GAP) nuclear, he used to tell me about the problem.
COOPER: But that's contradictory about Japan and South Korea.
TRUMP: (AUDIO GAP) Iran is going to have it very - within…
COOPER: But that's proliferation.
TRUMP: Excuse me, one of the dumbest I've ever seen signed ever, ever, ever by anybody, Iran is going to have it within 10 years. Iran is going to have it. I thought it was a very good interview in The New York Times.
COOPER: So you have no problem with Japan and South Korea having…
TRUMP: I thought…
(CROSSTALK)
COOPER: … nuclear weapons.
TRUMP: At some point we have to say, you know what, we're better off if Japan protects itself against this maniac in North Korea, we're better off, frankly, if South Korea is going to start to protect itself, we have…
COOPER: Saudi Arabia, nuclear weapons?
TRUMP: Saudi Arabia, absolutely.
COOPER: You would be fine with them having nuclear weapons?
TRUMP: No, not nuclear weapons, but they have to protect themselves or they have to pay us.
Here's the thing, with Japan, they have to pay us or we have to let them protect themselves.
COOPER: So if you said, Japan, yes, it's fine, you get nuclear weapons, South Korea, you as well, and Saudi Arabia says we want them, too?
TRUMP: Can I be honest with you? It's going to happen, anyway. It's going to happen anyway. It's only a question of time. They're going to start having them or we have to get rid of them entirely.
But you have so many countries already, China, Pakistan, you have so many countries, Russia, you have so many countries right now that have them.
Now, wouldn't you rather in a certain sense have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons? And they do have them. They absolutely have them. They can't - they have no carrier system yet but they will very soon.
Wouldn't you rather have Japan, perhaps, they're over there, they're very close, they're very fearful of North Korea, and we're supposed to protect.
COOPER: So you're saying you don't want more nuclear weapons in the world but you're OK with Japan and South Korea having nuclear weapons?
TRUMP: I don't want more nuclear weapons. I think that - you know, when I hear Obama get up and say the biggest threat to the world today is global warming, I say, is this guy kidding?
The only global warming - the only global warming I'm worried about is nuclear global warming because that's the single biggest threat. So it's not that I'm a fan - we can't afford it anymore. We're sitting on a tremendous bubble. We're going to be - again, $21 trillion. We don't have money.
COOPER: So you have no security concerns…
TRUMP: We're using all of the money…
COOPER: … about Japan or South Korea getting nuclear weapons?
TRUMP: Anderson, when you see all of the money that our country is spending on military, we're not spending it for ourselves; we're protecting all of these nations all over the world. We can't afford to do it anymore.
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a pen is a good guy with a pen.
Does Donald Trump know what the word "proliferation" means? Maybe he's thinking of profiteroles, everyone likes pastries.
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His ability to blatantly ignore facts that counter what he's say borders on the pathological.
First he says "Yeah the government should focus on security, education and healthcare" but THEN he goes "Top three focuses of government should be security security security" so he can diversify but still create an easy soundbite.
Cooper is trying to nail him down.
You can't nail down pomade.
He's constantly sending out feelers - he starts talking about NATO and now suddenly he's saying "NATO bad because not focus on terrorists". That's a much better soundbite and explainer - he can say "NATO should be rejiggered and made cheaper by focusing on terrorism, the main threat to the US" and that Makes Sense to a lot of voters.
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Audience: *Claps and cheers*
Cooper: "Just some free advice"
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
That's OK, we have CNN.
oh well. I'm sure we're not gonna learn anything.
I do love that anderson cooper line!
did Cooper actually say that?
The 2nd part was verbatim, I may have slightly editorialized the first part.
if the entire thing was for verbatim Cooper would be my hero
I like Kasich but his style is not going to get him anywhere. Relax buddy. Breathe.
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I was referring to the Buffalo buffalo sentence, but it looks like I got...
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Yeah this is a guy who tells a story about an idiot cop when it turns out he's an asshole and a liar about the incident.
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This seems plausible.
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nothing happened
something happened but it wasn't a big deal
something happened but she started it, wah I'm the victim
human trash
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
also, political correctness is turning america into a third world nation
stop treating me unfairly which includes ever telling me I'm wrong to treat others unfairly
I can't wait to see him lose. I don't care when it is but I cannot fucking wait til either the convention or the general.
the dem thread is concerned with enthusiasm for hillary/bernie? here's all the enthusiasm I'll ever need.
This is why I follow this thread and not the democratic primary thread. I don't care... Bernie has great ideas but I'm not sure he could get them passed. Hillary is not exciting but shes pragmatic and maybe she can move some legislation but will likely be blocked as bad as Obama because arglebargle.
I'm concerned with the republican side because they're all horrifying and I want to know what nightmare I have to worry about voting against. I would love it if I had a rational choice between two(or more!) parties...
link?
edit:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-heads-wisconsin-candidates-converge-state-133507246--election.html
Everyone who is surprised, raise your hand.
Really?
No one?
Yeah, me neither.
I'm more of a fan of "James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher" myself.
I kind of am
That kind of give the GoPe the excuse to really take the kid gloves off in a way
Easier to go to a convention when the guy you don't want anyway is telling you to screw off.
In terms of highlights from the interview, the part about nuclear proliferation is especially insane gibberish.
>.<
*head explodes*
He's against nuclear proliferation. He just thinks more countries should have nukes. Except not. But they should.
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a pen is a good guy with a pen.
The perfect Quantum Candidate, holding all, and yet no positions all at once.
Nothing... and everything to everyone, and no one