I don’t know, that might require a lot of patience. The Plague lasted 7 years, roughly the equivalent of the coming two Trump terms.
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I thought is was gold paint on plywood.
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You just got in a long line.
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Open letter to the Media
RE: Trump coverage
If Trump’s off doing his own thing? Make him buy his own air time.
Stop covering his random appearances for free!
Thank you.
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My bet would be on Santorum and Huckabee, or maybe, Fiorina. But to call any of them “candidates” is stretching it a bit.
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“Rubberduck ? We got a convoy…”
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I suppose any semi-legitimate excuse to free yourself from the company of Ted Cruz should be accepted.
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Fiorina and Huckabee.
In the age of advanced technology, is there a way that I can set it up to visit websites and have them “Trump Free,” “Kardashian Free,” “Glenn Beck Free,” etc. You get the idea. If not, why not??
multiple levels of sarcasm about the least relevant ‘candidates’ being the ones completely missed. I’ll try harder next time.
No. This is good. Need to keep the great unwashed low information GOP voters confused.
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This is pretty risky though. I hope TPM is following up on this. Probably not, probably just wait for someone else to do the work. But it would be nice if they called all the candidates (that’s what like 11 phone calls?) to see if there is any truth, if all 11 say no, then Trump has another problem.
The media needs to start doing what they should have done 8 months ago and stopped letting him just say things. Because this is what he does, he just says things and they eat it up. Examples:
He said he would know more about the situation in the middle east on day one than anyone else.
Then he said he knows more about the situation in the middle east then our military commanders.
He said he would repeal Obamacare and replace it with “something great.” What that is? Still no answer. And no one is questioning him on this.
He said he said he would build a wall and have Mexico pay for it. How?
He said he would deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. How?
The list goes on.
If this was any other candidate, they would demand substantive answers. Why is the frontrunner in the GOP with a 10-20 point lead in all national polls being handled with kid gloves?
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No. They’re the interrogators.
There is an old film called The Blue Angel which was released in 1959. In it, an otherwise ordinary professor comes under the spell of an enchantress (played by May Britt) and his obsession with having her costs him his dignity. The last cabaret scene with the professor was so heart-wrenching that I still remember the pathos on his face…in the pull of a force to obey the enchantress.
The pull? To “possess” a woman to whom he was the equivalent of a worm.
Sort of like the “pull” for a 2016 GOP candidate (surely the equivalent of a worm to Donald Trump) to appear at HIS Presidential debate. The pull to “possess” some sort of political upside for a campaign which would have as much chance of improvement as the May Britt’s professor getting intimate with her.
The capacity for self induced shame in American politics seemingly knows no bounds.
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Because with very few exceptions, mainstream American “journalism”—especially broadcast and cable—is irredeemably degenerate, craven, lazy, shallow, ignorant, and cretinous.
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Many of the GOP candidates are grilled by interviewers about their vague promises and policy proposals, only to be rebuffed, ignored or lied to. Trump isn’t unique in this. Carson is confronted with the fact his tax policies have been analyzed by dozens of fiscal experts and found wanting of any basis in reality. His reply? They have their math wrong. All of them. All of them are going to defeat ISIS their first day in office. They’re going to repeal the ACA on day one, with no replacement in place. They’re going to shut down the IRS, with no replacement to administer tax functions nationally in place. Fiorina is going to make it possible to file even the most complicated tax return on an index card. Every damned one of them is going to cure every ill we have, yet not one of them will be pinned down as to how. They are all Donald Trump.
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If he wins, he will destroy you…
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Note that he did not say anything about these necessarily being Presidential candidates. Merely candidates
Is this the making of a third party? Or merely the disintegration of the GOP? Or both?
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