Roger That!
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All he is doing is pandering to his base’s mentality that HRC is untrustworthy. He has repeated over and over again that she is a liar, which his base believes completely regardless of the fact that HE IS A BOLD FACE LIAR.
So now he moves to stage 2. She is not only a liar, but she is a cheater too!
HRC is the New England Patriots of politics. Doesn’t matter what the truth is, public opinion has found her guilty so she must be.
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This morning, Trump was on the radio bragging about his generous donors, who “average $69 apiece”, and his wealthy corporate donors who have given many many thousands of dollars to his campaign.
Meanwhile, this video is still prominently displayed on his campaign website.
I’m sure his followers won’t understand why this is an issue.
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It won’t be official until he bursts into tears and threatens to take his (most luxurious, really the best) ball and go home.
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Well, I think Websters (and assorted other dictionary publishers) finally has enough information to properly label the term, “Whiny Privileged Man-Baby”.
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4th grade isn’t far off. One of his biographers traced this behavior back to age 11, when his father finally got fed up with his misbehaviour and sent him to military school. Up to that point his mother had protected him from punishment, but in order to survive at school he had to develop the empty bluster and con artistry we still see now.
Narcissist, textbook case of arrested development, natural-born grifter: ladies and gentleman, the 2016 Republican nominee for President.
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Signed by Ty Cobb, of course.
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I think it was limiting to suggesting that the opposition was in league with the devil, and not the devil incarnate. Or, in the case of Kennedy, in league with the Pope, all though for some, that’s basically the same. (That’s another old mudslinging trick, which we are now even using against Trump–that the candidate is in league with a foreign power or religious authority–it was used against Kennedy, against Romney, and even against Sanders (some grumbling that as a Jew, he’d be taking orders from Israel) to a lesser extent.)
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Meanwhile, Trump adviser Roger Stone has been explaining to Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos exactly how the vote will be rigged. It seems that it all hinges on Diebold voting machines. Potential irregularities with voting machines have long been a concern of the techno-mostly-left, with the Republican attitude to repeated disclosures about the machines’ flaws and insecurities being generally along the lines of “There there, don’t you worry your little heads about it, everything’s just fine.”
But now, suddenly, voting machines are a clear and present danger threatening the just and inevitable election of the people’s champion, Donald J. Trump. Sound the alarms! As “evidence” of the threat posed, Mr Stone claims that Kerry should have beaten George W. Bush, but Diebold delivered the election for Bush (because the Bushes are major investors in Diebold). More interestingly still, Stone alleges that Karl Rove had actually paid Diebold to deliver Ohio for Romney, and then Obama swooped in at the last minute with a better offer. Shenanigans!
Sadly, we don’t even have time to feel properly outraged at the idea of a crooked voting machine company that won’t stay bought, dammit, before Stone moves onto his next topic, which is that when the inevitable vote-rigging happens, the Trump partisans “won’t stand for it”, and that Trump will put the government “on notice” that the election is illegitimate, at which point there will be “a bloodbath”. Not a violent bloodbath, he is quick to stress, but “civil disobedience”. Very very civil, and also bloody. But civil. If you follow me.
The whole bizarre mess is on Breitbart if you care to look for it.
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Oh, come on! That’s a completely unrealistic scenario.
You couldn’t build a bunker under Mar-a-Lago; it’d flood.
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He probably will lose, but no need to rig anything.
Is it really “unprecedented?” I haven’t checked, but did the GOP show restraint in talking about Obama? Or Kerry? Or ever?
In 2008, I bought a mug from some GOP website that had an “O” with devil horns emblazoned on it. I suppose technically, it doesn’t have the words 'Obama is the devil" printed on it. . .
Trump is stupid, and thin-skinned, and psychotically self-involved. But he’s no worse than Sarah Palin, or George Bush or even Reagan.
This is the GOP.
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Today’s nowcast is even more damning.
Though I loathe Trump and his horde of troglodyte supporters.I actually do mistrust electronic voting machines. Perhaps that’s because I’m techno-mostly-left. I would be pleased if this election causes the abandonment of these vulnerable machines. I’d be less pleased if we wind up with riots, but no new voting equipment.
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Look for the narcissist. The most obvious target in today’s lineup is, of course, Donald Trump. When he looks at a glass, he is mesmerized by its reflection. If Donald Trump were shaped a little differently, he would compete for Miss America. But whatever the depths of self-enchantment, the demagogue has to say something. So what does Trump say? That he is a successful businessman and that that is what America needs in the Oval Office. There is some plausibility in this, though not much. The greatest deeds of American Presidents — midwifing the new republic; freeing the slaves; harnessing the energies and vision needed to win the Cold War — had little to do with a bottom line.
William F. Buckley
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It’s a legitimate concern to mistrust electronic voting machines, just as doubting the neutrality of the DNC establishment was legitimate. When it comes to trying to create an atmosphere of FUD and undermine larger democratic institutions in the U.S. and the West, any good FSB handler and his well-paid operatives would tell you that pointing out true instances of corruption is just as important as having a useful orange idiot make stuff up out of whole cloth.
Stone probably has no idea on whose behalf he’s really working here. He (and his interviewer Yiannopoulos) are just looking to foment civil unrest for fun.
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It’s fitting that you mention grade school, since that seems to be Trump’s emotional level. He’s a spoiled child who has never been told “no” or gotten his hand slapped.
Plus, he knows his audience; paranoid, anti-government types who latch onto any conspiracy theory put forth by Fox News or Alex Jones.
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If I were John Kasich, I’d be on high alert right now.
Our favorite petulant man-baby is laying the groundwork for an exit. It would be totally in keeping with his character to beat the “rigged” drum incessantly, then withdraw before the debates (which he MUST realize will expose him as a know-nothing).
At that point, there will be a vacuum on the GOP side. During the primaries, Kasich established himself as an adult who could discuss issues in a reasonable manner (I’m talking about presentation, not the ideas themselves). After a year and a half of a toddler with zero impulse control, his image would play VERY well. A Kasich/Pence ticket could actually win, Cthulhu help us.
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