Countdown to Extinction: The 2016 Presidential Election

[Todd]

If he were writing "The Art of the Deal" today, Schwartz said, it would be a very different book with a very different title. Asked what he would call it, he answered, "The Sociopath."[/i]

The New Yorker?  Mr Schwartz knows his audience. 

[snyprrr]

Hillary's Quote of the Day:

(to 'Black People'): "Being in a gang is like being in a family."

[Todd]

Hillary's Quote of the Day:

(to 'Black People'): "Being in a gang is like being in a family."

Oh, come on, that is so April.

https://www.youtube.com/v/DRdu0tKMaJo

Of special interest to me is what, precisely, constitutes a "positive" gang.  The Democrat Party, perhaps?

(Note that "Hannity" emblem.  This is part of the vast right wing conspiracy.  Her highly intelligent comments are being taken out of context.  And she is a good campaigner.)

[Karl Henning]

But she's not a natural politician!

[Brian]

I'm most certainly the only GMGer who has attended a Trump rally AND read "The Art of the Deal". Here are my thoughts on the book, but I'll quote a couple highlights:

"I bet you're thinking Trump: The Art of the Deal would be outrageous, or cringe-inducing, or full of Trump saying outrageous things. It's not. It is tedious as shit. Imagine your dream book. How many times do you want to read the phrase "tax abatement" in your dream book? Only, like, 5 times, right?"

"But the Trump we all know and love/hate still pops up in The Art of the Deal, sometimes. Like his description of a translator at a business meeting: "She was a true Latin beauty, and all of us were somewhat distracted." Or his description of his house: "While I can't honestly say I need an eighty-foot-long living room, I do get a kick out of having one.""

"Edmund Morris once said of Theodore Roosevelt, "he had a love for the first-person pronoun that bordered on the erotic." If that's the case, then Donald Trump has a love for the first-person pronoun that borders on that kind of porno where seven guys take the same girl from different angles. There was a lot of the word "I" in the book. In fact, the word "I" appears in Trump 2,726 times. I counted."

[Todd]

I'm most certainly the only GMGer who has attended a Trump rally AND read "The Art of the Deal". Here are my thoughts on the book, but I'll quote a couple highlights:

Good god, man, you are a masochist.  I'd entertain the idea of reading a Trump Casino flyer were it under my windshield wiper, but that's as much as I could take.

[Sergeant Rock]

AND read "The Art of the Deal"

My condolences. On the plus side, now that you know how to be a successful deal maker, you'll soon be a billionaire just like him 

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

My condolences. On the plus side, now that you know how to be a successful deal maker, you'll soon be a billionaire just like him 

Sarge

Hey, I've just enrolled at Reinhart University!

[North Star]

Hey, I've just enrolled at Reinhart University!

The first thing we do, lets paralyze the third and fourth fingers from your fretboard hand.

(Wait, you didn't spell Reinhardt with a d...)

[Karl Henning]

(Wait, you didn't spell Reinhardt with a d...)

Site of a Henningmusick performance! In Waleska.

[Brian]

(Wait, you didn't spell Reinhardt with a d...)

(And neither did my father's family )

[Pat B]

Imagine a Bush v Gore type scenario.

Now we have no hope of replicating such a paragon of non-partisan impartiality.

[Todd]

Now we have no hope of replicating such a paragon of non-partisan impartiality.

My heart swooned at the possibility of a 4-4 decision in such a case, causing further turmoil in the post-November landscape, and forcing a vote on the next POTUS by the House, which would be sober, serious, and devoid of any and all partisan rancor. 

(Of course, this would require Trump to win a few key battleground states first, but daydreams are occasionally fun.)

[Karl Henning]

If it weren't for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton would be the most disliked major-party presidential nominee in recent American history.

[Todd]

I take umbrage with this line:

"That qualifier, of course, is important here. Clinton doesn't need to be liked; she needs to be liked slightly more than Trump in what will very likely boil down to a two-candidate race."



It should read:

"That qualifier, of course, is important here. Clinton doesn't need to be liked; she needs to be disliked slightly less than Trump in what will very likely boil down to a two-candidate race."

[Karl Henning]

I did see there was some unclaimed umbrage lolling about, and I'm glad to see it's found a home 

[Karl Henning]

Click the highlights and read Chris Cillizza's annotations.  Can't laugh for crying.

Donald Trump's interview with '60 Minutes' was eye-opening. Also, Mike Pence was there.

[snyprrr]

read Chris Cillizza
[/quote

reeeally Karl?

[Brian]

"oops"

[Karl Henning]

read Chris Cillizza

reeeally Karl?

Well, you go read The Art of the Deal, and see if you have half as much fun.

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