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This could be one of my favourite things ever...
Nine Tales of Trump at His Trumpiest
And these just scratch the surface
It's from February, but there's still stuff in there that I hadn't heard before. Like this:
And these just scratch the surface
It's from February, but there's still stuff in there that I hadn't heard before. Like this:
My personal favorite, however, has to be the time Trump went after Julius and Eddie Trump (no relation to Donald) for having the misfortune of sharing his last name. As Crain's tells it, back in 1984, the non-megalomaniacal-billionaire Trumps had bid on a drugstore chain, their company name being the Trump Group. But a letter was mistakenly sent to the (Donald) Trump Organization from the publisher of Drug Store News, welcoming the wrong Trump to the industry.
The next day, Trump's pitbull lawyer, the late and legendary Roy Cohn, demanded that the other Trump Group change its name by the following day or there would be blood. Trump filed suit, alleging of the other Trumps, who were born in South Africa, that they were, as Crain's put it, "nothing but a pair of late-arriving immigrants trying to piggyback on his good name."
The "impostor" Trumps pointed out that they were formidable Trumps, too. They'd been profiled by Forbes in 1976, well before most people had any idea who Donald Trump was. Before they registered "the Trump Group" in 1982, the only companies that turned up in their search were those connected with mollusk pesticides, nut candy, and toilet paper.
After the case lingered for five years, a state judge smacked down The Donald, essentially telling him his name wasn't the special snowflake he thought it was. If Donald Trump had only demanded to see the birth certificates — which he's since become adept at doing — he'd have realized that the other Trumps had been using their last name longer than he has.
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The man should know to do his research.
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I have no idea how someone so emotionally overwrought, so ignorant and proud of his own ignorance has gotten to where he is. And in fact he wouldn't have without a very rich father to bankroll him - and no doubt a support system to prop him up. Otherwise he'd be nothing more than a two-bit, low-level gangster.
This is who America wants as its next president. Brilliant - do people realize how our goverment actually works? THat the congress actually writes and passes legislation, that Trump can't just go in their and do whatever he wants? That the presidency is not the same as being CEO? That he has to work with people he disagrees with, that he has to keep a cool head in the presence of foreign leaders?
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Apparently he has the speech impediment of ten year old. Although that doesn't say much when there are children who think and speak better than him.
He wasn't a great business man either. Why is this man allowed in politics?
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Let Me Remind You Fuckers Who I Am
by Hillary Clinton well not really but still
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And I think you meant "speech patterns" rather than "impediment"?
As to "how" - I guess we can draw a straight (or meandering) line from Ronald Reagan to Jessie Ventura to Sarah Palin to today. The continual dumbing down of politics and the electorate; schools run on rote memorization (thanks at least in part to funding cutbacks and No Child Left Behind act); and yes, the American people feel angry and left out of the conversation but I don't understand how electing billionaire elitist (while still filling Congress with career politicians) is supposed to solve that.
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And here's one from Sady Doyle addressed to white male "progressives"
http://sadydoyle.tumblr.com/post/138860699828/progressive
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Adam Hills from "The Last Leg" is way better at being articulate than me, since my brain will choose the wrong words.:D
The politics here in Australia has its own issues and its scary how some of these "politicial parties" are voted in. So much for accepting diversity.
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Stacey
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Yyyyeah. Weird how that keeps happening, no matter which "progressive" movement you're talking about... It's kind of almost the same way white people talk about racism; of course we're against it, but it's not like it'll ever be a problem for us, so it's treated as an optional second-tier question.
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If one thought the campaign couldn't become stranger. I read the news (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-01/trump-deepens-attacks-on-former-beauty-queen-alicia-machado/7894912) this morning and wondering if I had woken up on another planet.
I hope he keeps going, I really do. Heck, he can spend the entire election campaign attacking Alicia. She'll take him to pieces.
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But it was quiet a while ago, so thank you for the reminder.
The best part of the debate was when she basically said some of this herself. (Stamina!!)
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For better or worse, Trump has forced the issues out into the open. No one can deny the double standard being applied. #womancard
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(And really, all those hotels should say 'Drumpf' so...)
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(Also I posted another chapter of George earlier in the week. In case you didn't see it.)
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He is white, male (rich) privilege taken to its logical conclusion.
Marco Rubio had it right ('If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now? Selling watches in Manhattan.') >:)
Brilliant - do people realize how our goverment actually works?
No, and they don't care. Did you read this? Depressing, but rings very true.
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*HUGS*
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