Countdown to Extinction: The 2016 Presidential Election

[kishnevi]

Sarge

BTW, notice the bottom story.  Sarah says her son has PTSD and it is Obama's fault for not supporting the troops.

[Karl Henning]

BTW, notice the bottom story.  Sarah says her son has PTSD and it is Obama's fault for not supporting the troops.

Yes.

You can't make this stuff up.

[Todd]

Not one, but two NY billionaires in the running?  A Sanders, Trump, Bloomberg debate could quite possibly be the most entertaining spectacle in the history of American politics - and that includes Bryan ending his Cross of Gold speech in the Christ pose.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Trump's latest bon mot, evidence of both his insensitivity and megalomania :  "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."  But the truly sad aspect of it is that he is right.  His supporters are blind to the sickness that is Donald Rump; all they see is someone who will "take on" a government they revile.  A national disgrace. 

[Todd]

Trump's latest bon mot, evidence of both his insensitivity and megalomania :  "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."

I'm disappointed in The Donald.  I would have hoped for more something more outrageous, something to top the Edwin Edwards classic: "The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy."  If you're going for the top job, and you're going this route, I say do it right.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

I'm disappointed in The Donald.  I would have hoped for more something more outrageous, something to top the Edwin Edwards classic: "The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy."  If you're going for the top job, and you're going this route, I say do it right.

!  No doubt Rump is just warming up - sigh no more, i'm certain he will best any previous idiocy with something more outrageous and ensure we are the laughing stock of the world.

[Mirror Image]

The problem with Donald Trump is that he's Donald Trump. The guy is absolutely disgusting and people who support him are doing so because he tells people supposedly what they want to hear. The fact of the matter is Trump is in it for himself and he's, first and foremost, mainly concerned with building his empire. It has nothing to do with righting wrongs from the alleged incompetence of the Obama administration and administrations past. This is not someone you want rubbing his finger over the nuke button. He's a hot-head and changes positions to fit whatever the current political mold happens to be faster than he can run his comb through that orange weave he calls a hairdo.

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Go watch Idiocracy, and cry when you see that the president of our future idiot nation (some things never change) is actually more articulate, makes more sense, and has a greater command of the English language than Sarah Palin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGUNPMPrxvA

Trump, like Hillary is a gigantic whore, who will say anything that is expedient. The difference is that while Hillary lusts for the presidency, Trump is just playing a game.

[The new erato]

Trump, like Hillary is a gigantic whore,

Of course that is the ultimate result of any market where everything is for sale, including political support.

[Turner]

I guess the story is pretty well documented in US media. But not over here - Trump campaigners used photos of Soviet veterans when campaigning for the neglect of US ones, not realizing the difference:
http://www.rferl.org/content/trump-veterans-soviet-soldiers-campaign-ad-removed/27506388.html

[Todd]

I guess the story is pretty well documented in US media. But not over here - Trump campaigners used photos of Soviet veterans when campaigning for the neglect of US ones, not realizing the difference:
http://www.rferl.org/content/trump-veterans-soviet-soldiers-campaign-ad-removed/27506388.html

This happens from time to time.  The DNC did something similar in 2012, using pictures of Russian warships at an event saluting the troops.  Fact checking is tough stuff for members of both major parties.

[Todd]

The Double Whammy.

(This is for Trailer Park Boys fans.)

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

A Lump of Trump Rump (from the National Review, and no, I don't look at it as a general rule).

[Brian]

Trump is boycotting the next debate. I think this is likely to backfire on him - attention is his oxygen, and if he's not onstage, he's not getting as much attention.

Of course, that could change if the Fox moderators decide to ask everybody else lots of Trump-themed questions.

[Karl Henning]

It will backfire on El Tupé, if now the debaters focus on issues . . . that will make a sharp contrast with the frontrunner.

Not that it will make any difference to his adoring fans . . . .

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Nope, sorry guys, his followers will see it as yet another way in which he is " bucking the system." Indeed, it should redound to his discredit, but like all or most of what trump does, it will not.

[drogulus]

Trump is boycotting the next debate. I think this is likely to backfire on him - attention is his oxygen, and if he's not onstage, he's not getting as much attention.

Of course, that could change if the Fox moderators decide to ask everybody else lots of Trump-themed questions.

     I'm not sure that Trump thumbing his nose at Fox works against him. It could make him look bigger, he doesn't need Fox as much as the network needs him. From the network standpoint a declaration of independence carries an implicit threat.

     Imagine Trump owing nothing to the Repub establishment or its Ministry of Propaganda. I think he might appreciate the room to freewheel.

[Karl Henning]

Nope, sorry guys, his followers will see it as yet another way in which he is " bucking the system."

I'm sure you're right.

[drogulus]

     Then there is the matter of Cruz and the Lilliputians. Do they attack the absent frontrunner? Do they engage each other in "substantive debate"?

     If I'm a little guy I'd ignore Trump and launch Cruz missiles to fluster the Great Debater and raise my profile.

[Todd]

Finally, an unbiased analysis.