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AsInHowe
Jan 11, 2007

red winged angel

Jewel Repetition posted:

The only part of that to bother Trump will be "alleged billionaire."

Edit: beaten.

It's going to be amazing when the Clinton campaign drops a throwaway line about Trump having a small dick right before the Republican convention, and Trump blows up all of the convention plans to loudly brag about his genitalia for four straight days on national broadcast television.

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euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

The Clinton ad was extremely slick.

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!




lmao

shiksa
Nov 9, 2009

i went to one of these wrestling shows and it was... honestly? frickin boring. i wanna see ricky! i want to see his gold chains and respect for the ftw lifestyle
I'd say h h Holmes is actually more emblematic of the American dream as he truly did start from nothing and ended up pursuing his dream.

egon_beeblebrox
Mar 1, 2008

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.



Zwabu
Aug 7, 2006

Trump's a mess!

Rasczak
Mar 30, 2005

Trump's a waste!

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



Trump is such a loser.

Mystery Goomba
Jun 4, 2011
actually trump is big, beautiful, and strong, and as such fits my platonic conception of the perfect man

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

this is a funny bit from that nyt article

quote:

By December 1990, when Mr. Trump needed to make an $18.4 million interest payment, his father, Fred C. Trump, sent a lawyer to the Castle to buy $3.3 million in chips, to provide him with an infusion of cash. The younger Mr. Trump made the payment, but the Casino Control Commission fined the Castle $65,000 for what had amounted to an illegal loan.
boy i bet that fine for 2% of the value of the illegal loan really hurt

shiksa
Nov 9, 2009

i went to one of these wrestling shows and it was... honestly? frickin boring. i wanna see ricky! i want to see his gold chains and respect for the ftw lifestyle

oystertoadfish posted:

this is a funny bit from that nyt article

boy i bet that fine for 2% of the value of the illegal loan really hurt

Lol trump in peak trump years getting bailed out by daddy owns a lot

Trumps Baby Hands
Mar 27, 2016

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

crazy cloud posted:

I bet lots of people were gonna vote Trump but read a hit piece in the NYT and change their minds

Three Olives posted:

Your average Trump supporter is an idiot and has been conditioned by years of far right wing crazy to believe that the NYT has some sort of massive left wing agenda in it's hard news and is not an incredibly respected journalistic institution.

The business people, moderate right and other establishment Republicans that Trump needs to turn out and vote and more importantly write checks is freaked out about this


oh okay good, thanks for setting him straight three olives

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

Questioning Trumps wealth is like telling him he has a small penis

ass cobra
May 28, 2004

by Azathoth
There's no problem here I guarantee you

AsInHowe
Jan 11, 2007

red winged angel

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Questioning Trumps wealth is like telling him he has a small penis

Both lead to hilarious over-reactions from Trump, I agree.

Venom Snake
Feb 19, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo
So i was out registering people to vote today and ran into a guy wearing a MAGA hat who unironically said to me "This election has been very good for meme diversity".

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc
https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/741692518849511424
https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/741696461558009857

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Trumps Baby Hands posted:

I've long held this vision, wherein at his final speech/press conference on election night, win or lose, Trump starts singing Tiny Dancer, Almost Famous style. Slowly, everyone in the room, supporters and press alike, all start singing with him, and all the people at home and rallies across the nation, republicans and democrats and independents all start humming along to the simulcast, and right when the chorus finally, hits every man woman and child in the nation tearfully yells out, "HOLD ME CLOSER TINY DANCER. COUNT THE HEADLIGHTS ON THE HIGHWAY."

Only then can our nation heal.

That's an odd way to say 'throws an epic tantrum, blames the audience while foaming at the mouth, storms off the stage, and then has a massive coronary.'


Holy poo poo, Clinton bought some Daily Show writers and is going to use them throughout the whole loving summer. Goddamn.


Because the first thing you want to do as the party's nominee is waste manpower bashing your own party because......um.....

AsInHowe posted:

It's going to be amazing when the Clinton campaign drops a throwaway line about Trump having a small dick right before the Republican convention, and Trump blows up all of the convention plans to loudly brag about his genitalia for four straight days on national broadcast television.

Nah, that'll be at the end of October. November 1st is when they'll start talking about how many spouses/girlfriends he has beaten and/or how many of them aren't 'white' in the Republican definition of the word.

SHY NUDIST GRRL
Feb 15, 2011

Communism will help more white people than anyone else. Any equal measures unfairly provide less to minority populations just because there's less of them. Democracy is truly the tyranny of the mob.

Venom Snake posted:

So i was out registering people to vote today and ran into a guy wearing a MAGA hat who unironically said to me "This election has been very good for meme diversity".

Let's hope in the end it's good for people diversity too

nachos
Jun 27, 2004

Wario Chalmers! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Has anyone directly asked Ryan if it's worth passing the house agenda in exchange for supporting an openly racist society because he's been allowed to dance around this poo poo for too long

FabioClone
Oct 3, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
You're all pathetic. While you were busy shitposting, Trump destroyed the Republican Party (that stumped Hillary and Obama for years), made memes a powerful and essential political tool, and gave you literally hours of the funniest poo poo anyone's ever done. Yet all you can do is mock and insult him. How about a little gratitude?

And it's only just begun...

Caros
May 14, 2008

shiksa posted:

Hh Holmes built his famous murder hotel by promising to pay workers then refusing payment because he declared it wasn't up to his standards, makes you think.

And much like Donald Trump almost everything about the famous murder hotel turns out to be completely false when you look deeply into it.

Also much like Trump's fortune his number of murder victims is massively overstated.

Ted Cruz on the other hand...

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!

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

trump hasn't cost a single republican member of congress their job yet, unless you count the only one he endorsed losing a district that was drawn to kick her out of congress

even in november he'll probably only be responsible for cutting their majority to an even less workable margin

edit: admittedly the senators will probably be pissed about having to go in the minority for two years (until the anti-hillary midterm wave on an extremely-republican friendly map very likely gives them their majority back in 2018) but without looking things up off the top of my head id guesstimate the democrats have to get like +9 in this election to have a midterm-safe majority which seems unlikely

the hundreds of gop legislators in dc who really embody the gop at the national level are much more resilient than most people give them credit for, in spite of everything they do to try to reduce their own job security, and their state-level equivalents even more so

oystertoadfish fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Jun 11, 2016

MaxxBot
Oct 6, 2003

you could have clapped

you should have clapped!!
I'm glad to see that Trump hasn't eased up on Jeb!, I hope he never ever stops.

https://twitter.com/bethreinhard/status/741671216927379456

Karl Sharks
Feb 20, 2008

The Immortal Science of Sharksism-Fininism

No Mans Land 5 posted:

Overall I think he has shown through word and deed that he is willing to put America first ahead of international corporate capital and foreign interests (Saudi Arabia, Israel even, endless military defense of Europe and Asia at our own expense).

okay, i had a much longer post written but lost it

anyways, the crux of my question, which i sincerely hope you will answer honestly and in good faith, do you trust donald trump to make the right decisions if he's president and has to prioritize which policies he wants passed? since he has already put forth an extremely regressive tax plan that would cause an estimated 10 trillion in added debt over 10 years, do you not think he would offer that, or other detrimental policies he's supported at one point in time, as a bargaining chip to the GOPe to get his wall built? or to affect our foreign policy re: bases?

Three Olives
Apr 10, 2005

Don't forget Hitler's contributions to medicine.
Just finished the NYT article and it is a pro-read, absolutely brutal.

blue squares
Sep 28, 2007

I just wish the NYT didn't require a subscription

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Karl Sharks posted:

okay, i had a much longer post written but lost it

anyways, the crux of my question, which i sincerely hope you will answer honestly and in good faith, do you trust donald trump to make the right decisions if he's president and has to prioritize which policies he wants passed? since he has already put forth an extremely regressive tax plan that would cause an estimated 10 trillion in added debt over 10 years, do you not think he would offer that, or other detrimental policies he's supported at one point in time, as a bargaining chip to the GOPe to get his wall built? or to affect our foreign policy re: bases?

His tax plan is regressive compared to what we have now, but not regressive in an absolute sense. Also I don't think congress would need to approve the wall, since it's already lawful to have border fortifications and he could just make an executive order to USCIS or some other agency in DHS.

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

blue squares posted:

I just wish the NYT didn't require a subscription

Learn to delete cookies pal! (with an addon that does it automatically)

Deteriorata
Feb 6, 2005

Jewel Repetition posted:

His tax plan is regressive compared to what we have now, but not regressive in an absolute sense. Also I don't think congress would need to approve the wall, since it's already lawful to have border fortifications and he could just make an executive order to USCIS or some other agency in DHS.

He would need an appropriation from Congress to pay for it, despite his claims to the contrary. The cost will run in the billions, easily. Trillions, if it's going to be the bestest, most bigly and beeeyutiful wall ever.

mrmcd
Feb 22, 2003

Pictured: The only good cop (a fictional one).

Homeless Friend posted:

Learn to delete cookies pal! (with an addon that does it automatically)

or just right click > open link in incognito window.

Karl Sharks
Feb 20, 2008

The Immortal Science of Sharksism-Fininism

Jewel Repetition posted:

His tax plan is regressive compared to what we have now, but not regressive in an absolute sense.

yeah think that word slipped out, should have said that is favors the wealthy

quote:

Also I don't think congress would need to approve the wall, since it's already lawful to have border fortifications and he could just make an executive order to USCIS or some other agency in DHS.

wouldn't they need to approve the budget? iirc the expert estimate was around 25b, surely that couldn't be approved by the president alone?

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Deteriorata posted:

He would need an appropriation from Congress to pay for it, despite his claims to the contrary. The cost will run in the billions, easily. Trillions, if it's going to be the bestest, most bigly and beeeyutiful wall ever.

Expert estimates put it in the low double digit billions, but you're right, I forgot about appropriations.

Karl Sharks
Feb 20, 2008

The Immortal Science of Sharksism-Fininism

Jewel Repetition posted:

Expert estimates put it in the low double digit billions, but you're right, I forgot about appropriations.

is 20b+ considered low double digits now? and ofc that is just construction costs, not including the maintenance costs which would equal that in 7-8 years

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Karl Sharks posted:

is 20b+ considered low double digits now? and ofc that is just construction costs, not including the maintenance costs which would equal that in 7-8 years

The estimates I've read are 12-25 which are low double digits, yeah.

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

expert estimates put the price of A Wall in the 20-30 billion range, but Trump has talked about the thing like he wants to build it 50 feet high, "huge and beautiful, with a door in it" so realistically the stupid thing will cost at least 100 billion just in construction, and then that much again every year to fix all the holes the cartels blow in it for fun and damage from the thing eroding away in the empty desert, several billions more to build a bunch of cargo-capable roads or railways through the massive portions of the border that currently have neither so anyone can get there in the first place, probably at the least a billion or two more to buy out all the private property that exists right along the border (unless the Trumpenreich just eminent domains it away, which if they've come this far is definitely happening) and then they've still got to pay human beings to either stand along this thing for several thousand miles or pay human beings to sit in a strip mall and pilot the predator drones that will fly along it

it's not happening

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

The Trump wall would cost as much as our entire Interstate system every year, would provide absolutely no benefit to anyone, and would incite racial tension on a border that already has plenty of problems from all the guns we sold across it and the drugs coming back

SHY NUDIST GRRL
Feb 15, 2011

Communism will help more white people than anyone else. Any equal measures unfairly provide less to minority populations just because there's less of them. Democracy is truly the tyranny of the mob.

Jewel Repetition posted:

The estimates I've read are 12-25 which are low double digits, yeah.

For some lovely cinderblock garbage sure

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Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

https://twitter.com/washtimes/status/741687106385399809

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