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thrawn527
Mar 27, 2004

Thrawn/Pellaeon
Studying the art of terrorists
To keep you safe

DaveWoo posted:

Scoff at Trump all you want, but this CNN analyst makes a valid point:

Don't you go ruin my fun day by making him winning some sort of outside possibility. Not today...

...not on Donald Trump day.

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Wicked Them Beats
Apr 1, 2007

Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded.

Reagan, just some B-list actor (and the Governor of California who addressed the 1976 Republican Convention, but who's keeping track?)

Drastic Actions
Apr 7, 2009

FUCK YOU!
GET PUMPED!
Nap Ghost

DaveWoo posted:

Scoff at Trump all you want, but this CNN analyst makes a valid point:

Reagan actually served in public office and had the ability to kinda talk on stage. Something Trump lacks.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Donald Trump : Ronald Reagan :: Larry Flynt : FDR

I mean, hey, they're both in wheelchairs. Basically the same guy!

Sulphagnist
Oct 10, 2006

WARNING! INTRUDERS DETECTED

thrawn527 posted:

Don't you go ruin my fun day by making him winning some sort of outside possibility. Not today...

...not on Donald Trump day.

Ronald Reagan had done a few other things besides act with a chimpanzee by 1980. We're still far far away from Donaldtopia.

And beaten like Ronnie in the 1976 convention

Three Olives
Apr 10, 2005

Don't forget Hitler's contributions to medicine.

DaveWoo posted:

Scoff at Trump all you want, but this CNN analyst makes a valid point:

People like chimps and movie actors while the vast majority of people openly despise Trump.

fade5
May 31, 2012

by exmarx
So did Donald Trump say anything more about his mysterious and secret 100% guaranteed "strategy" to defeat ISIS in his announcement?

Also holy poo poo he's actually running, that is hilarious.

Alter Ego posted:

Wait, there's actually going to be a kiddie table debate? :stare:

They're actually going to do it? I thought that was just a rumor. So the Fiorinas and Patakis and Jindals of the race have their time to shine? Is that it?
This is amazing, there are so many candidates that even the stragglers get a debate. I thought the free market was supposed determine who makes it into the debates, and that if you weren't popular enough to get into a debate well then too loving bad, Lord High Almighty Free Market (PBUH) has spoken.

fade5 fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Jun 16, 2015

Fried Chicken
Jan 9, 2011

Don't fry me, I'm no chicken!

Joementum posted:

Game: Changed!



Huh, originally he had a B- for substance, mockery must have gotten Halperin to change it

Drastic Actions
Apr 7, 2009

FUCK YOU!
GET PUMPED!
Nap Ghost

Donald Trump posted:

They don't even have a chance. They are controlled fully. They are controlled fully by the lobbyists, by the donors and by the special interests, fully. Hey, i have lobbyists i have to pay. I have lobbyists that can produce anything for me. They are great. But do you know what? It won't happen. It won't happen because we have to stop doing things for some people but for this country it is destroying our country. We have to stop and it has to stop now.

"It won't happen because we have to stop doing things for some people but for this country it is destroying our country."

:psyduck:. Can someone diagram this sentence for me?

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

fade5 posted:

So did Donald Trump say anything more about his mysterious and secret 100% guaranteed "strategy" to defeat ISIS in his announcement?

Here are the times he mentioned ISIS in the speech.

quote:

And, I can tell, some of the candidates, they went in. They didn’t know the air-conditioner didn’t work. They sweated like dogs.

They didn’t know the room was too big, because they didn’t have anybody there. How are they going to beat ISIS? I don’t think it’s gonna happen.

quote:

They just built a hotel in Syria. Can you believe this? They built a hotel. When I have to build a hotel, I pay interest. They don’t have to pay interest, because they took the oil that, when we left Iraq, I said we should’ve taken.

So now ISIS has the oil, and what they don’t have, Iran has. And in 19— and I will tell you this, and I said it very strongly, years ago, I said— and I love the military, and I want to have the strongest military that we’ve ever had, and we need it more now than ever. But I said, “Don’t hit Iraq,” because you’re going to totally destabilize the Middle East. Iran is going to take over the Middle East, Iran and somebody else will get the oil, and it turned out that Iran is now taking over Iraq. Think of it. Iran is taking over Iraq, and they’re taking it over big league.

quote:

Now they’re going militarily. They’re building a military island in the middle of the South China sea. A military island. Now, our country could never do that because we’d have to get environmental clearance, and the environmentalist wouldn’t let our country— we would never build in an ocean. They built it in about one year, this massive military port.

They’re building up their military to a point that is very scary. You have a problem with ISIS. You have a bigger problem with China.

quote:

Nobody would be tougher on ISIS than Donald Trump. Nobody.

I will find — within our military, I will find the General Patton or I will find General MacArthur, I will find the right guy. I will find the guy that’s going to take that military and make it really work. Nobody, nobody will be pushing us around.

So, from what I can tell, the plan to defeat ISIS is to create an island in the middle of the ocean and build a hotel with air conditioning on it using interest-free loans. Then hire General MacArthur to guard it.

Evil Fluffy
Jul 13, 2009

Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.

DaveWoo posted:

Scoff at Trump all you want, but this CNN analyst makes a valid point:

No it doesn't. If Trump had Reagan's charisma and history of holding public office? Yeah I'd be terrified because he'd cruz to victory with his money.

Log082
Nov 8, 2008


Joementum posted:

So, from what I can tell, the plan to defeat ISIS is to create an island in the middle of the ocean and build a hotel with air conditioning on it using interest-free loans. Then hire General MacArthur to guard it.

ISIS checks in... but they don't check out.

bpower
Feb 19, 2011
Does Trump ever get on the Sunday talk shows? If not, will he now?

Communist Bear
Oct 7, 2008

*goes to adjust doomsday clock to 1 minute to midnight*

Communist Bear fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Jun 16, 2015

Supraluminal
Feb 17, 2012

Drastic Actions posted:

"It won't happen because we have to stop doing things for some people but for this country it is destroying our country."

:psyduck:. Can someone diagram this sentence for me?

Not without summoning Cthulhu!

Scrub-Niggurath
Nov 27, 2007

I couldn't watch the announcement today, is it worth seeing?

A Tin Of Beans
Nov 25, 2013

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

I couldn't watch the announcement today, is it worth seeing?

It is a hilarious must-see, yes.

Von Sloneker
Jul 6, 2009

as if all this was something more
than another footnote on a postcard from nowhere,
another chapter in the handbook for exercises in futility
He orchestrated the merger between UNICEF and Smith & Wesson!

He went public with his own buttocks and made 7 million!

He rode the escalator to his presidential announcement!

He has a toenail on the end of his penis!

To DOOOOOOONALD TRUMP(sky)

Third World Reagan
May 19, 2008

Imagine four 'mechs waiting in a queue. Time works the same way.
I am voting trump

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Too soon :(

RIP in peace Dusty

Phosphene
Aug 11, 2008
I'M NOT TRYING TO GET BIG AND BULKY OKAY WE ALL FAIL DIFFERENT GOALS
I just heard on NPR that trump is polling higher than Santorum and Fiorina so if that keeps up he'll make the debates. wrt morning show publicity, trump will have no problem buying his way into them or really being invited just for the ratings. Even if people don't vote for him they'll want to see him talk about how easy it is to make america great when you're rich.

A3th3r
Jul 27, 2013

success is a dream & achievements are the cream

CannonFodder posted:

Too soon :(

RIP in peace Dusty

Lotsa potential in that one for sure

LloydDobler
Oct 15, 2005

You shared it with a dick.

Good god the depths of cluelessness exceed even Paul Ryan's declaration that he loves a socialist rock band.

Only in America can a republican enter a room to announce his candidacy for president while proudly blasting a song about homeless people and dead crack babies written specifically to criticize republican policy.


"I don't feel like Satan, but I am to most of you!" *crowd cheers*

baw
Nov 5, 2008

RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
I still can't believe he is actually running

quote:

According to Donald Trump, a 2016 ticket of Trump for president and Oprah Winfrey for vice president would be a lock for the White House.

"I think Oprah would be great. I'd love to have Oprah," Trump told ABC News. "I think we'd win easily, actually."

site
Apr 6, 2007

Trans pride, Worldwide
Bitch

Somewhere Oprah is laughing her rear end off.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
:ughh:

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

site posted:

Somewhere Oprah is laughing her rear end off.

Yeah, like she'd play second fiddle to that rear end in a top hat. He'd be lucky to be 20th on the list for her VP.


That's it. I know the Republicans are hiding a reanimation station somewhere. Trump blurted it out and will be castigated, but the big reveal is Ayn Rand running on the Libertarian ticket, with Rand Paul as VP.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


LloydDobler posted:

Good god the depths of cluelessness exceed even Paul Ryan's declaration that he loves a socialist rock band.

Only in America can a republican enter a room to announce his candidacy for president while proudly blasting a song about homeless people and dead crack babies written specifically to criticize republican policy.


"I don't feel like Satan, but I am to most of you!" *crowd cheers*

Still less dumb than Reagan using Born in the USA

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

bpower posted:

Does Trump ever get on the Sunday talk shows? If not, will he now?

He's on State of the Union this Sunday with Jake Tapper.

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc
How is Rand Paul less competent than his father? It's amazing to watch, but really the guy is inept at campaigning. If he didn't have the base of PronHaul supporters he'd be at Kasich levels.

mandatory lesbian
Dec 18, 2012

A Tin Of Beans posted:

It is a hilarious must-see, yes.

is it just him talking or is there something for people who get bored watching people talk

neonnoodle
Mar 20, 2008

by exmarx

Absurd Alhazred posted:

the big reveal is Ayn Rand running on the Libertarian ticket, with Rand Paul as VP.
No way the GOP would nominate an atheist Jewish woman (not mention she was born in Russia)

DivineCoffeeBinge
Mar 3, 2011

Spider-Man's Amazing Construction Company
Oh man, Trump really is happening.

I want to see a Trump/Cain ticket. I want it so bad.

illrepute
Dec 30, 2009

by XyloJW
Cain was great because with him I really got the feeling that if he'd held out long enough he'd actual reveal himself to be the actual biblical Cain, the first murderer, coming out from occlusion in this the final age of man.

ponzicar
Mar 17, 2008

neonnoodle posted:

No way the GOP would nominate an atheist Jewish woman (not mention she was born in Russia)

The place where she is raised from the dead will count as her second birthplace.

MaxxBot
Oct 6, 2003

you could have clapped

you should have clapped!!

Sir Tonk posted:

How is Rand Paul less competent than his father? It's amazing to watch, but really the guy is inept at campaigning. If he didn't have the base of PronHaul supporters he'd be at Kasich levels.

He'd have been better off if he had stayed a libertarian purist like his father instead of trying to get broader appeal, he's alienated a lot of Ron Paul supporters and hasn't really gotten anything out of it in return.

SatansOnion
Dec 12, 2011


But...of course Rand Paul's gonna be for Rand Paul, why did he bother with a special hashtag just to say so :confused:

Intel&Sebastian
Oct 20, 2002

colonel...
i'm trying to sneak around
but i'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps alerting the guards!
1) I would very much welcome a Bush/Cheney style presidency with Trump/Oprah.

2) Is this new Jeb quote going around on W and privatizing social security as bad as it looks? Because it looks really loving bad. Im sorry i dont have it because Im on my phone but he referred to W's scheme and said the next president needs to "try that again"

Vienna Circlejerk
Jan 28, 2003

The great science sausage party!

illrepute posted:

Cain was great because with him I really got the feeling that if he'd held out long enough he'd actual reveal himself to be the actual biblical Cain, the first murderer, coming out from occlusion in this the final age of man.

Nothing so sinister. Cain is and always shall be the Godfather Pokemaster of Uzbekibekibekistanstan.

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Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

A3th3r posted:

Lotsa potential in that one for sure

Ten years ago we had Jobs, Hope, and Cash. Now the American Dream is dead. Join me in restoring America.

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