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The Revenant
Feb 2, 2016

by Lowtax
I've heard rumors in YCS that trump was encouraged to run by Big Billy Clint. They've been seen in pictures caroming around the golf course. I'm wondering is there actual evidence that Trump is an "inside man?" Who will "throw the game"?

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Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
if Hillary somehow pulled Trump off, she deserves to be president

Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx

Al! posted:

if Hillary somehow pulled Trump off, she deserves to be president

Pretty much how I feel

Cracked_Gear
Nov 4, 2013

Been wondering that for months. might have started out that way but Trump is clearly enjoying himself and I think he's serious now

Bruegels Fuckbooks
Sep 14, 2004

Now, listen - I know the two of you are very different from each other in a lot of ways, but you have to understand that as far as Grandpa's concerned, you're both pieces of shit! Yeah. I can prove it mathematically.
This is the night Trump decided to run...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8TwRmX6zs4

Jared Kush
Mar 4, 2015

by zen death robot
Hillary Clinton is a devious criminal but I don't think she is depraved enough to rig the election by getting a much better candidate with a platform that isn't neoliberal cuckservative poo poo to run against her and intentionally lose somehow.

The Revenant
Feb 2, 2016

by Lowtax

T r a v i s posted:

Hillary Clinton is a devious criminal but I don't think she is depraved enough to rig the election by getting a much better candidate with a platform that isn't neoliberal cuckservative poo poo to run against her and intentionally lose somehow.

I think she's 100% depraved enough OP

Elephanthead
Sep 11, 2008


Toilet Rascal

The Revenant posted:

I think she's 100% depraved enough OP

No way her lovely campaign organization could ever come up with or pull it off though.

Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx
The fact that America picked a black dude and considered an old Jewish socialist over Hillary should demonstrate just how inept she is at campaigning. She's like the total inverse of her husband who was a master campaigner.

EngineerSean
Feb 9, 2004

by zen death robot
14.2%

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

Alucard Nacirema posted:

The fact that America picked a black dude and considered an old Jewish socialist over Hillary should demonstrate just how inept she is at campaigning. She's like the total inverse of her husband who was a master campaigner.

Obama was a super good campaigner. Bernie wasn't one but that's why he's getting wire-to-wire solidly beat.

slave to my cravings
Mar 1, 2007

Got my mind on doritos and doritos on my mind.
It'd be funny if he was a plant but even funnier if she lost the GE to him.

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


The Revenant posted:

I've heard rumors in YCS that trump was encouraged to run by Big Billy Clint. They've been seen in pictures caroming around the golf course. I'm wondering is there actual evidence that Trump is an "inside man?" Who will "throw the game"?

Trump, who attacks every motherfucker in sight, barely says anything about Hillary who is the lowest hanging fruit imaginable.

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

Lord of Pie posted:

Trump, who attacks every motherfucker in sight, barely says anything about Hillary who is the lowest hanging fruit imaginable.

Has he said anything about either Hillary or Bernie?

Bruegels Fuckbooks
Sep 14, 2004

Now, listen - I know the two of you are very different from each other in a lot of ways, but you have to understand that as far as Grandpa's concerned, you're both pieces of shit! Yeah. I can prove it mathematically.

Lord of Pie posted:

Trump, who attacks every motherfucker in sight, barely says anything about Hillary who is the lowest hanging fruit imaginable.

quote:

"Let's assume that Hillary becomes president — oh, my God. Oh, she'll be the worst," Trump said. "Is that a president? You saw her the other day, in all fairness. You saw it the other day. You saw the debates where they hide them between football games. Let me just tell you: I may win. I may not win. Hillary, that's not a president."

quote:

"I haven't started with Hillary yet," Trump said. "What happened to her? I'm watching the debate and she disappeared. Where did she go?! Where did she go?! I thought she quit! I thought she gave up! Where did she go? Where did Hillary go? They had to start the debate without her. Phase two. I know where she went. It's disgusting. I don't want to talk about it. No, it's too disgusting. Don't say it. It's disgusting."

quote:

I hope Bill Clinton starts talking about women's issues so that voters can see what a hypocrite he is and how Hillary abused those women!

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

yea Trump hasn't gone after Hillary because he hasn't had to and because while she'll probably beat him in the general he still has a better chance against her than against Bernie

Hillary attacked Trump hard once, he slapped her down by bringing up her slut shaming women who came forward about being raped by Bill

people here like to talk about how the GOP has thrown everything at Hillary over the years, but they haven't, they've thrown everything that's inside the box of acceptable public discourse

Trump doesn't use that box

ohrwurm
Jun 25, 2003

Q: The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion: You Are Racist > Your Candidate Sucks > (Serious thread) what are the odds that Trump is actually a Hillary plant?

A: lol

Xenophanes
Nov 8, 2015
Trump started the race as half a Hillary plant. Trump is an egomaniac, he's flirted with the presidency before, through a mode of "who the hell cares, I have name recognition in a huge way," but never really considered it. Last spring, Hillary asks of him a favor: "do our centrist-corporatism a solid, distract all the Looney-Tunes for a few months and give them a reality-TV campaign." Trump shrugs and says yes, figuring that he will get a slightly larger talk-show footprint than even birtherism gave him in terms of free "content-ads" for his reality-TV empire. 3 months later, Trump is finding things way easier than he expected, thinking "man, I can get so much free branding from just shouting randomly about republicans," leading to a slow segue into "this Presidency shtick is the greatest ROI my advertising has ever seen!." 3 months later, roughly into last November: "I think this whole President thing might actually stick, what the hell am I supposed to do about that? I guess that'll make sure I'm hugely and historically remembered, let me try and figure out a real strategy."

The point is, Trump is unpredictable precisely because he is not a politician, and he did not enter the race with the intent of becoming one. Trump has become a politician because the Hillary campaign does not know that a parodic representation of what it intends to fight is in fact the most popular vision for the future of America. Trump is stuttering in Rubio-mode because he is a barking dog with no idea what to do with the car now that he's caught up to it. The future is bright.

Xenophanes has issued a correction as of 04:47 on Mar 16, 2016

Fast Luck
Feb 2, 1988

It's an actual fact that Trump called the Clintons and asked them if they thought he should enter the race.

I think that just means he's friendly with them and he wanted their advice. I also think that's why he's largely held off on attacking Hillary so far.

I don't think he's a Clinton plant.

Mc Do Well
Aug 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
I can see the conversation quote clearly now. This is a scripted rerun of Goldwater / LBJ

Xenophanes
Nov 8, 2015

McDowell posted:

I can see the conversation quote clearly now. This is a scripted rerun of Goldwater / LBJ

LBJ's allies were in a Congress with more than a 4 percent approval rating.

Despera
Jun 6, 2011
How do you attack someone you paid to come to your wedding?

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Despera posted:

How do you attack someone you paid to come to your wedding?

Very carefully

greatn
Nov 15, 2006

by Lowtax
If Trump is a Hillary plant he is Audrey II from little shop of horrors, the original ending.

Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx

Bip Roberts posted:

Has he said anything about either Hillary or Bernie?

At the beginning of the campaign he talked about how Hillary and Bush were both boring candidates and then spent a day talking about Uma and Weiner the pervert but then stopped. He did tease that "I haven't even started on Hillary yet" so there's that.

Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx

Wheeee posted:

yea Trump hasn't gone after Hillary because he hasn't had to and because while she'll probably beat him in the general he still has a better chance against her than against Bernie

Hillary attacked Trump hard once, he slapped her down by bringing up her slut shaming women who came forward about being raped by Bill

people here like to talk about how the GOP has thrown everything at Hillary over the years, but they haven't, they've thrown everything that's inside the box of acceptable public discourse

Trump doesn't use that box

Wyld Thang
Feb 23, 2016
I can't believe this is even a question in March 2016.

Under the vegetable
Nov 2, 2004

by Smythe
hes not a plant but their daughters are friends and hang out all the time and they probably call each other and have chats on occasion

Under the vegetable
Nov 2, 2004

by Smythe
my serious question is why people are calling trump hitler and an antisemite when he has a jewish daughter and son in law that he loves and supports

Minera
Sep 26, 2007

All your friends and foes,
they thought they knew ya,
but look who's in your heart now.

Under the vegetable posted:

my serious question is why people are calling trump hitler and an antisemite when he has a jewish daughter and son in law that he loves and supports

calling bad thing hitler easier than saying why you hate bad thing

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Under the vegetable posted:

my serious question is why people are calling trump hitler and an antisemite when he has a jewish daughter and son in law that he loves and supports

because this particular strain of neofascism isn't anti-semitic? i mean unless you're using it in the classical sense, which does include muslims

in re: the op's question, i have a sneaking suspicion trump entered the race for similar $$$ and media motives as ben carson, and as a fringe benefit figured he could claim the clintons owed him a favor later (not outside the realm of possibility if his candidacy cratered, you must admit). but now that he could Literally Become the President, he's in for the long haul

R. Guyovich has issued a correction as of 09:07 on Mar 16, 2016

Under the vegetable
Nov 2, 2004

by Smythe
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/israeli-journalist-watches-in-horror-as-trumps-rise-mirrors-hitler-the-echoes-are-getting-much-too-close/

While Burston had long been comforted by the phrase uttered by many in regards to the Holocaust, “never again,” that assurance has been evaporating.

“I figured they were right,” he notes. “Until this week. Until I began to hear reminders of the observations of the Jews who’d once placed hopes in Hitler. How a leader like that could bring stability, restore a broken country to greatness. How you shouldn’t pay too much heed to what he says – it’s just what politicians need to do to get elected.”

He adds, “Any Jew who votes for Donald Trump is voting for an anti-Semite.”

Dr. Arbitrary
Mar 15, 2006

Bleak Gremlin
Any other year I'd say you're a loving lunatic.
This election season... you're probably wrong.

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



Under the vegetable posted:

https://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/israeli-journalist-watches-in-horror-as-trumps-rise-mirrors-hitler-the-echoes-are-getting-much-too-close/

While Burston had long been comforted by the phrase uttered by many in regards to the Holocaust, “never again,” that assurance has been evaporating.

“I figured they were right,” he notes. “Until this week. Until I began to hear reminders of the observations of the Jews who’d once placed hopes in Hitler. How a leader like that could bring stability, restore a broken country to greatness. How you shouldn’t pay too much heed to what he says – it’s just what politicians need to do to get elected.”

He adds, “Any Jew who votes for Donald Trump is voting for an anti-Semite.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...65ce_story.html

The Czech-born Jew lost her parents and most of her siblings in Hitler’s death camps. Now, when she hears about plans to register Muslims and to ban Muslims from entering the United States, “I’m worried about the tone of this country,” she said.

To Weiss, the ugly political environment in 2016 has an ominous precedent in Weimar Germany. “It has echoes, and maybe more so to me than to native-born Americans,” 

“It’s really frightening,” said Al Munzer, hidden as an infant in the Netherlands with a Dutch family and their Muslim nanny. “When you see these mass rallies that Trump is able to attract, you really wonder: How are they buying into this message of hate?”

Under the vegetable
Nov 2, 2004

by Smythe
its sad to me that some people don't realize this isn't a sentiment being created by trump, a vast percentage of america is just mostly evil racist gently caress idiots and has been for the nations history

Uncle Wemus
Mar 4, 2004

That would required bush 911 levels of planning

Mother of god....

Necroneocon
May 12, 2009

by Shine
No, because the Illuminati picks both candidates. Get your facts right, OP.

They're also holding Half-Life 3 hostage until Gaben joins them (he's a resistance fighter).

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Uncle Wemus posted:

That would required bush 911 levels of planning

Mother of god....

https://www.facebook.com/browearecommunist/videos/1771147686446466/

Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx

Under the vegetable posted:

my serious question is why people are calling trump hitler and an antisemite when he has a jewish daughter and son in law that he loves and supports

Same reason people called Obama Hitler. Most americans are stupid, confused, and have no idea how to express their anger.

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Bear Retrieval Unit
Nov 5, 2009

Mudslide Experiment
Zero chance. It's all real and it's all terrifying.

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