âWell, In this particular election year, that by definition canât be Hillary Clinton,â Gingrich said. âIn a very strange way for a guy who is a Princeton-Harvard graduate, he backed into, âyou have to be for Trumpâ because by Ted Cruzâs own standard there is no other candidate who fits the criteria Ted Cruz set-up.â
and just like that Cruz just became BrutusâŚ
Better start recruiting a coterie of former beauty pageant contestants to act out each dayâs Presidential Daily Briefing in bikinis, because apparently Trump is unable or unwilling to read words that are put in front of him.
He will reliably lie about it later, though.
During a mere 3 days, Trump missed two big disasters that a competent person would have seen coming-Melaniaâs plagiarism and the âodious weaselâsâ blatant betrayal. Both by not reading what was readily available to him. And he could become the President.
This has to be fakeâŚitâs all just too outlandish.
Even Vince McMahon is shocked by this. I mean whoâs the heel now?? And whoâs the baby face?? Iâm so confused!!
So Trump planned all this? Made sure the story of the day is âCruz pisses all over Trumpâ? That is pure genius!
Yet another stunning demonstration of political acuity on the part of Drumpf. This is a totally big deal. The leader of the conservative right has just pissed all over his party, meant in both senses of the word (party). He has told the world, more or less, DUCK! Itâs sort of like the head of the Air Force telling the Commander-in-Chief, fuck this, Iâm outta here.
Think Littlefinger, the Knights of the Vale, the Battle of the Bastards â and Littlefinger doesnât show up.
It will mean less votes for Drumpf. A lot less votes for Drumpf. Both directly, because the odious weasel has influence in some quarters, and indirectly, because the Grand Old Partyâs grand old show of unity is now officially and irremediably broken. Two incidents â Melaniaâs Mistake and Cruzâs Double-Cross â will be what this convention is remembered for, in the months ahead and for all time.
Popcorn. Yum!
I see no way that Trump knew that Cruz was going to do this, but he canât admit to having been played. Heâs planning on payback tonight. Trumpâs speech, which no one, absolutely no one, thinks is actually written, will be a stream of consciousness rant of score settling, Hillary bashing, âLyinâ Tedâ excoriating, press blaming, clock ignoring madness. It will be interesting to see how he enters tonightâperhaps flown in via a harness like the second coming of Christ. I considered the possibility that he will have a traditional speech, with a teleprompter and an actual released text, but I just donât see it. He may deliberately plagiarize something/someone just to prove that he can (âI still believe in a place called Abandon all Hope.â). The campaign will claim that all of the plagiarism is actually a literary allusion. The RNC staff is, even now, drawing straws to see who has to spin this as a success.
I saw his speech two hours early(didnât read it since as my ghost writer told you I never read anything), but let him speak anyway.
Donald Trump Brushes Off Ted Cruzâs RNC Diss: 'No Big Deal!'
No big deal because it was scriptedâŚ
I donât understand all this surprise regarding the fact that the Ted-ster was allowed to say what he said at the convention. Tronald Dump is not running a campaign ⌠this is a Pro Wrestling tour. Every Pro Wrestling match needs a villain, even if there is no hero. Someone has to interview a Pro Wrestling script writer, there are such people, and ask them to analyze whatâs come before and what they predict next for Tronald. All that was missing was metal folding chairs used as weapons ⌠maybe THATâS next.
Certain media personages claiming Trump planned his own golden Cruz shower illustrate the tarpit suck of dead-end, unregulated corporate, by the numbers, brain-dead neo journalism.
Trump must have a ghost readerâŚ
Donât forget, there is still one more night!! And given the interview Trump did with the NYT on foreign affairs yesterdayâŚI think the odds are pretty good he will stage a scandal that will dwarf both of these.
But, assuming for the moment that he doesnât, you are absolutely correctâŚparticularly the Melenia plagiarism issue. They have colored his fall campaign for its entirety now. Remember the âWe built thisâ nonsense of '12 and how that dogged Romney for the rest of the campaign? This will be 1000x worse, and rest assuredâŚTrump WILL lose it as the memes and ridicule start piling upâŚjust adding more fuel to that fire.
Good thing Mrs. Greenspan packed her asbestos A lineâŚ
Davey, I was waiting for your take on this.
Your post and that of philp_marlowe had me thinking about the great Muhammad Ali, with that unique tenor voice intoning:
âFor allllll timeâŚ!â
âFor alllllllllllll TIMEâŚ!!!â
Exactly. And he has no actual counterattack, so heâs reduced to pretending itâs no big deal. Of course the rest of the scampaign never got the memo and think it is a big deal.
Agree 100000000000%
The Dumpsterâs idea of negotiation of a business deal is that there must be winners and losers. He always must be the winner and what better way to be a winner than to script the loser. The Donald may not have know the exact scenario but you can place bets that this was planned. It shows that he is a winner, it shows that he can take a punch because he just stood there, etcâŚall a game.
This is all a game, look what everyone is talking about today. It sure is not the latest nonsense from The Dumpster such as essentially telling Putin that he has a free hand in the Baltic.
Iâll place bets today that we can expect every single day next week that The Donald will come up with shit. Will not matter what, just so long as everyone is talking about him the next day and not what occurred at the Democratic convention. Spotlight must be on him 100% of the time, he does not care one whit if it is positive or negative as long as the MSM is talking about him and not Hill. You can also place bets that the likes of ABC and other outlets, not just Faux, will be all over themselves in following along.