(05-04-2016 07:10 PM)Libertas Wrote: First they said he wasn't gonna run.
Then they said he would "flameout" and wouldn't make it to voting.
Then they said he wouldn't win a single primary.
Then they said he wasn't gonna get 1,237. THERE'S GONNA BE A CONTESTED CONVENTION!
Now they say HE WON'T WIN!
I'm a bit worried he's going to have to ask for donor money (there's rumblings on this now), but I really hope he doesn't. Do the crowdfunding route like Sanders. DON'T TAKE THE COCK BROTHERS MONEY DONALD!
(05-04-2016 07:32 PM)Deepdiver Wrote: Now for the rest of the TRUMP effect to begin:
Mexico: Bincentee Fox and Company offer to pay for the Wall if Trump Agrees to eliminate their illegal Drugs revenues (-$20B USD) but not the illegal workers RIA/WU/MG remittances ($25B USD), NO Foreign Aid ($10B USD), Agree to re-negotiate NAFTA $55B Trade Surplus with the USA before Trump uses Executive Orders to slap on WTO currency manipulation Tariffs and balanced Environmental and Labor/Safety countervailing regulation enforcement.
China: STOP Currency Manipulation, $505B Trade Surplus, Balanced Environmental and Labor Regulations, Cyber Warfare and IP "Harvesting", South China Sea claims vs ASEAN Neighbors, Contain and De-nuke North Korea or immediate countervailing WTO claims for all the above.
JAPAN/KOREA/VIETNAM: STOP Currency manipulation and they build factories to manufacture at least 50% of their US Imports end product in the USA creating as many USA jobs as possible and they use Trade Surpluses to pay for the cost of their own Defense including their own Nuclear Arsenals to really eff with the arrogant Communist Red Chinese Army unless the Commies and their ASEAN neighbors agree to fair and equal trade and currency float to market values versus artificially low manipulated exchange rates against USA/CAN and OZ dollars... Help our Anglosphere allies a bit here.
Russia: If we can trade to the effect of $505 Trade Surplus with COMMUNIST RED CHINA then we can normalize relations with somewhat Democratic Russia even though Putin will not turn over his Banks to the Globalist Neocon Banksters.
Latin America: Same as Mexico no more illegals flooding the USA and shut down Drugs Narco Terrorist Gangs and their illegal Poisons transshipment routes.
EUrabia: 28 European NATO members not paying for NATO - WTF we have a US Debt of $21 Trillion USD and US Unfunded Liabilities of $200 Trillion... Time to look at NATO from a ProRated Population Basis - every country pays on their Population ProRated per person including all of the Illegal Middle East Islamo sympathizing Migrants. They all pay Equally with the USA PRO-RATED!!!!!
Saudia Arabia and Iran: STOP ISIS, Hamas and Hezbollah funding or see the USA seize their Oil Fields as Reparations for 9-11 and all the Iranian IEDs and EFDs used against US Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Put their population and strategic military and trade assets on the USA's strategic Nuclear Targets lists and make sure they frigging know it.
Middle East United Nations Peacekeepers from Muslim countries take over Sharia peacekeeping roles in all Middle East Muslim Countries from Mali to Syria-Iraq and Talibanistans and US Troops come home from EMEA to guard the US Mexican Border and put Latin American Drugs Narco Terrorists out of Business.
Canada: Allows Americans to Move and Work in Canada as easily as Canadians allowed to Move to and Work in the USA - especially to handle all the expatriation of all the Bernie Berners and Hillary Hystericals to move out of the new Trump Free Markets Low Tax Business Paradise - capitalizing upon all of the lovely socialism in Canada attractive to Bernie and Hillary disciples.
USA: Round UP all Illegal Alien Felons and DEPORT Them for NON Violent Felonies - and - for Violent Felons - Murderers Rapists Armed Robbers and Drugs Thugs get a special Mexican Dantes Inferno Prison on one of their Islands surrounded by Sharks paid for by their Wall Funds. Stop automatic birth anchor baby citizenship - for those that have US Citizen Children with no felonies and homes not on Welfare implement family reunification. Implement Biometric Border screening Face and Voice and Finger Prints along the Mega Mexiwall crossing gates and as well for back door terrorists trying to enter via Canada and all Airports for Visa Overstayers.
Implement Trump business trade taxation and regulatory reform plans to Make America Great Again...
Create a new feelz gooders FEELZ (Feminist Equality Empathetic Love Zone) corps to ship the Bernie Berners and Hillary Hystericals off to third world hell holes to save humanity - permanently. Quietly undo all of the SJW LGBTQ Trannie pedo nonsense that the Obamunists tried to institutionalize.
Media organizations that attempt to glorify deviant depraved degeneracy get quietly bought up and sold off at deep discounts to family values production entrepreneurs. Eliminates the deviant media fungus among us.
Please do feel free to add whatever I may have missed or overlooked.
Great list, but you're forgetting the most important one: The retaking of Constantinople.
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox, he who denounced Trump and said that Mexico wasn't going to pay for the f***ing wall…
has apologized to the Donald. "Forgiveness is one of the great human traits…"
Moreover, he invites Trump to come to Mexico and "see what Mexico is about."
Cherry on top of the Indiana sundae.
The situation with Vicente Fox re-enforces one of my favorite quotes: "Let them hate us so long as they fear us." The Mexican political oligarchy thought there was no way Trump would win the nomination. Let alone have a decent shot at being president. So they engaged in populace shit talking. Now that he's the Republican candidate, and betting markets are showing a 40% chance of him winning the presidency they're shitting their pants. America could financially or militarily crush Mexico with one hand behind it's back; and there's a 40% chance that the man they've been publicly trashing will command arguably the most powerful military in the world. A military that just happens to be sitting right next door, and would be free from any logistics constraints that come with projecting military power over long distances.
Republican insiders are not taking Trump's victory well.
Over at Fox News, former Bush Administraion "staffer" David Ross Meyers wrote an opinion piece saying that his fellow Republicans "will not be trusted again" if they support Trump.
So, in other words, sending thousands off to die and get disabled in a useless war was fine with this man...but vote for someone he doesn't like and you won't be "trusted." OMG! How could I ever live with myself then?
One paragraph in particular stands out, and I hope it's not indicative of how Republicans will behave in the coming months. Get ready for this:
"While I disagree with many of Hillary Clinton’s policies, she is clearly qualified to be president. She possesses judgment and self-restraint. She does not have a track record of irrational, risky, and unsound business decisions and public comments. She has a long record of public service. She can be trusted with controlling our military and nuclear weapons. Mr. Trump cannot."
The comments section seems to be in total disagreement with him, which is a good sign.
(05-04-2016 10:13 PM)Last Parade Wrote: Taiwanese animation video before the Indiana results came in. The sick bants and meme magic are out of control.
I have Taiwanese family staying with me right now. They shrug their shoulders and just say "of course he will be president".
(05-04-2016 07:32 PM)Deepdiver Wrote: Now for the rest of the TRUMP effect to begin:
Mexico: Bincentee Fox and Company offer to pay for the Wall if Trump Agrees to eliminate their illegal Drugs revenues (-$20B USD) but not the illegal workers RIA/WU/MG remittances ($25B USD), NO Foreign Aid ($10B USD), Agree to re-negotiate NAFTA $55B Trade Surplus with the USA before Trump uses Executive Orders to slap on WTO currency manipulation Tariffs and balanced Environmental and Labor/Safety countervailing regulation enforcement.
China: STOP Currency Manipulation, $505B Trade Surplus, Balanced Environmental and Labor Regulations, Cyber Warfare and IP "Harvesting", South China Sea claims vs ASEAN Neighbors, Contain and De-nuke North Korea or immediate countervailing WTO claims for all the above.
JAPAN/KOREA/VIETNAM: STOP Currency manipulation and they build factories to manufacture at least 50% of their US Imports end product in the USA creating as many USA jobs as possible and they use Trade Surpluses to pay for the cost of their own Defense including their own Nuclear Arsenals to really eff with the arrogant Communist Red Chinese Army unless the Commies and their ASEAN neighbors agree to fair and equal trade and currency float to market values versus artificially low manipulated exchange rates against USA/CAN and OZ dollars... Help our Anglosphere allies a bit here.
Russia: If we can trade to the effect of $505 Trade Surplus with COMMUNIST RED CHINA then we can normalize relations with somewhat Democratic Russia even though Putin will not turn over his Banks to the Globalist Neocon Banksters.
Latin America: Same as Mexico no more illegals flooding the USA and shut down Drugs Narco Terrorist Gangs and their illegal Poisons transshipment routes.
EUrabia: 28 European NATO members not paying for NATO - WTF we have a US Debt of $21 Trillion USD and US Unfunded Liabilities of $200 Trillion... Time to look at NATO from a ProRated Population Basis - every country pays on their Population ProRated per person including all of the Illegal Middle East Islamo sympathizing Migrants. They all pay Equally with the USA PRO-RATED!!!!!
Saudia Arabia and Iran: STOP ISIS, Hamas and Hezbollah funding or see the USA seize their Oil Fields as Reparations for 9-11 and all the Iranian IEDs and EFDs used against US Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Put their population and strategic military and trade assets on the USA's strategic Nuclear Targets lists and make sure they frigging know it.
Middle East United Nations Peacekeepers from Muslim countries take over Sharia peacekeeping roles in all Middle East Muslim Countries from Mali to Syria-Iraq and Talibanistans and US Troops come home from EMEA to guard the US Mexican Border and put Latin American Drugs Narco Terrorists out of Business.
Canada: Allows Americans to Move and Work in Canada as easily as Canadians allowed to Move to and Work in the USA - especially to handle all the expatriation of all the Bernie Berners and Hillary Hystericals to move out of the new Trump Free Markets Low Tax Business Paradise - capitalizing upon all of the lovely socialism in Canada attractive to Bernie and Hillary disciples.
USA: Round UP all Illegal Alien Felons and DEPORT Them for NON Violent Felonies - and - for Violent Felons - Murderers Rapists Armed Robbers and Drugs Thugs get a special Mexican Dantes Inferno Prison on one of their Islands surrounded by Sharks paid for by their Wall Funds. Stop automatic birth anchor baby citizenship - for those that have US Citizen Children with no felonies and homes not on Welfare implement family reunification. Implement Biometric Border screening Face and Voice and Finger Prints along the Mega Mexiwall crossing gates and as well for back door terrorists trying to enter via Canada and all Airports for Visa Overstayers.
Implement Trump business trade taxation and regulatory reform plans to Make America Great Again...
Create a new feelz gooders FEELZ (Feminist Equality Empathetic Love Zone) corps to ship the Bernie Berners and Hillary Hystericals off to third world hell holes to save humanity - permanently. Quietly undo all of the SJW LGBTQ Trannie pedo nonsense that the Obamunists tried to institutionalize.
Media organizations that attempt to glorify deviant depraved degeneracy get quietly bought up and sold off at deep discounts to family values production entrepreneurs. Eliminates the deviant media fungus among us.
Please do feel free to add whatever I may have missed or overlooked.
Great list, but you're forgetting the most important one: The retaking of Constantinople.
Trump will absolutely have the respect of Putin. In fact, he will be WIDELY respected by world leaders because its obvious hes not the kind of man you even attempt to take advantage of unlike Obama. He is a true man and he will demand respect and those who don't "treat us right" will face consequences. We see this regularly in one form or another, the latest being the Mexican who now wants forgiveness.
(05-04-2016 07:32 PM)Deepdiver Wrote: Now for the rest of the TRUMP effect to begin:
Mexico: Bincentee Fox and Company offer to pay for the Wall if Trump Agrees to eliminate their illegal Drugs revenues (-$20B USD) but not the illegal workers RIA/WU/MG remittances ($25B USD), NO Foreign Aid ($10B USD), Agree to re-negotiate NAFTA $55B Trade Surplus with the USA before Trump uses Executive Orders to slap on WTO currency manipulation Tariffs and balanced Environmental and Labor/Safety countervailing regulation enforcement.
China: STOP Currency Manipulation, $505B Trade Surplus, Balanced Environmental and Labor Regulations, Cyber Warfare and IP "Harvesting", South China Sea claims vs ASEAN Neighbors, Contain and De-nuke North Korea or immediate countervailing WTO claims for all the above.
JAPAN/KOREA/VIETNAM: STOP Currency manipulation and they build factories to manufacture at least 50% of their US Imports end product in the USA creating as many USA jobs as possible and they use Trade Surpluses to pay for the cost of their own Defense including their own Nuclear Arsenals to really eff with the arrogant Communist Red Chinese Army unless the Commies and their ASEAN neighbors agree to fair and equal trade and currency float to market values versus artificially low manipulated exchange rates against USA/CAN and OZ dollars... Help our Anglosphere allies a bit here.
Russia: If we can trade to the effect of $505 Trade Surplus with COMMUNIST RED CHINA then we can normalize relations with somewhat Democratic Russia even though Putin will not turn over his Banks to the Globalist Neocon Banksters.
Latin America: Same as Mexico no more illegals flooding the USA and shut down Drugs Narco Terrorist Gangs and their illegal Poisons transshipment routes.
EUrabia: 28 European NATO members not paying for NATO - WTF we have a US Debt of $21 Trillion USD and US Unfunded Liabilities of $200 Trillion... Time to look at NATO from a ProRated Population Basis - every country pays on their Population ProRated per person including all of the Illegal Middle East Islamo sympathizing Migrants. They all pay Equally with the USA PRO-RATED!!!!!
Saudia Arabia and Iran: STOP ISIS, Hamas and Hezbollah funding or see the USA seize their Oil Fields as Reparations for 9-11 and all the Iranian IEDs and EFDs used against US Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Put their population and strategic military and trade assets on the USA's strategic Nuclear Targets lists and make sure they frigging know it.
Middle East United Nations Peacekeepers from Muslim countries take over Sharia peacekeeping roles in all Middle East Muslim Countries from Mali to Syria-Iraq and Talibanistans and US Troops come home from EMEA to guard the US Mexican Border and put Latin American Drugs Narco Terrorists out of Business.
Canada: Allows Americans to Move and Work in Canada as easily as Canadians allowed to Move to and Work in the USA - especially to handle all the expatriation of all the Bernie Berners and Hillary Hystericals to move out of the new Trump Free Markets Low Tax Business Paradise - capitalizing upon all of the lovely socialism in Canada attractive to Bernie and Hillary disciples.
USA: Round UP all Illegal Alien Felons and DEPORT Them for NON Violent Felonies - and - for Violent Felons - Murderers Rapists Armed Robbers and Drugs Thugs get a special Mexican Dantes Inferno Prison on one of their Islands surrounded by Sharks paid for by their Wall Funds. Stop automatic birth anchor baby citizenship - for those that have US Citizen Children with no felonies and homes not on Welfare implement family reunification. Implement Biometric Border screening Face and Voice and Finger Prints along the Mega Mexiwall crossing gates and as well for back door terrorists trying to enter via Canada and all Airports for Visa Overstayers.
Implement Trump business trade taxation and regulatory reform plans to Make America Great Again...
Create a new feelz gooders FEELZ (Feminist Equality Empathetic Love Zone) corps to ship the Bernie Berners and Hillary Hystericals off to third world hell holes to save humanity - permanently. Quietly undo all of the SJW LGBTQ Trannie pedo nonsense that the Obamunists tried to institutionalize.
Media organizations that attempt to glorify deviant depraved degeneracy get quietly bought up and sold off at deep discounts to family values production entrepreneurs. Eliminates the deviant media fungus among us.
Please do feel free to add whatever I may have missed or overlooked.
Great list, but you're forgetting the most important one: The retaking of Constantinople.
Trump will absolutely have the respect of Putin. In fact, he will be WIDELY respected by world leaders because its obvious hes not the kind of man you even attempt to take advantage of unlike Obama. He is a true man and he will demand respect and those who don't "treat us right" will face consequences. We see this regularly in one form or another, the latest being the Mexican who now wants forgiveness.
I don't think Trump has so much respect from Putin at this time. The word Putin used translates at "flamboyant or brilliant" as in ostentatious, as opposed to being "really really smart".
Quote: The word he used was ‘yarkii’ (яркий), which can mean bright or brilliant, but not in the sense of intelligent; it can also be translated as colorful, vivid or flamboyant.”
Also, Trump made a commercial of Hillary barking and Putin laughing, and that seemed to piss Putin off. Don't get me wrong, I think it is salvageable but let's not put words in Putin's mouth as some sort of endorsement of Trump that never happened. The potential is there though.
(05-04-2016 11:04 PM)Kickb Wrote: Do you guys think it's bad that Trump is no longer self funding?
I have mixed feelings on that. If he wants to win, he will need more funding, if he does not match the billion dollars in attack ads that the democrats will use, then he will lose. Also, that money can be used to fund the other campaigns for the House and Senate seats that are up for grabs in November. If he is not going to spend a billion dollars of his own money, and I can't really blame him for that, then he will have to stop self funding.
(05-04-2016 07:32 PM)Deepdiver Wrote: Now for the rest of the TRUMP effect to begin:
Mexico: Bincentee Fox and Company offer to pay for the Wall if Trump Agrees to eliminate their illegal Drugs revenues (-$20B USD) but not the illegal workers RIA/WU/MG remittances ($25B USD), NO Foreign Aid ($10B USD), Agree to re-negotiate NAFTA $55B Trade Surplus with the USA before Trump uses Executive Orders to slap on WTO currency manipulation Tariffs and balanced Environmental and Labor/Safety countervailing regulation enforcement.
China: STOP Currency Manipulation, $505B Trade Surplus, Balanced Environmental and Labor Regulations, Cyber Warfare and IP "Harvesting", South China Sea claims vs ASEAN Neighbors, Contain and De-nuke North Korea or immediate countervailing WTO claims for all the above.
JAPAN/KOREA/VIETNAM: STOP Currency manipulation and they build factories to manufacture at least 50% of their US Imports end product in the USA creating as many USA jobs as possible and they use Trade Surpluses to pay for the cost of their own Defense including their own Nuclear Arsenals to really eff with the arrogant Communist Red Chinese Army unless the Commies and their ASEAN neighbors agree to fair and equal trade and currency float to market values versus artificially low manipulated exchange rates against USA/CAN and OZ dollars... Help our Anglosphere allies a bit here.
Russia: If we can trade to the effect of $505 Trade Surplus with COMMUNIST RED CHINA then we can normalize relations with somewhat Democratic Russia even though Putin will not turn over his Banks to the Globalist Neocon Banksters.
Latin America: Same as Mexico no more illegals flooding the USA and shut down Drugs Narco Terrorist Gangs and their illegal Poisons transshipment routes.
EUrabia: 28 European NATO members not paying for NATO - WTF we have a US Debt of $21 Trillion USD and US Unfunded Liabilities of $200 Trillion... Time to look at NATO from a ProRated Population Basis - every country pays on their Population ProRated per person including all of the Illegal Middle East Islamo sympathizing Migrants. They all pay Equally with the USA PRO-RATED!!!!!
Saudia Arabia and Iran: STOP ISIS, Hamas and Hezbollah funding or see the USA seize their Oil Fields as Reparations for 9-11 and all the Iranian IEDs and EFDs used against US Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Put their population and strategic military and trade assets on the USA's strategic Nuclear Targets lists and make sure they frigging know it.
Middle East United Nations Peacekeepers from Muslim countries take over Sharia peacekeeping roles in all Middle East Muslim Countries from Mali to Syria-Iraq and Talibanistans and US Troops come home from EMEA to guard the US Mexican Border and put Latin American Drugs Narco Terrorists out of Business.
Canada: Allows Americans to Move and Work in Canada as easily as Canadians allowed to Move to and Work in the USA - especially to handle all the expatriation of all the Bernie Berners and Hillary Hystericals to move out of the new Trump Free Markets Low Tax Business Paradise - capitalizing upon all of the lovely socialism in Canada attractive to Bernie and Hillary disciples.
USA: Round UP all Illegal Alien Felons and DEPORT Them for NON Violent Felonies - and - for Violent Felons - Murderers Rapists Armed Robbers and Drugs Thugs get a special Mexican Dantes Inferno Prison on one of their Islands surrounded by Sharks paid for by their Wall Funds. Stop automatic birth anchor baby citizenship - for those that have US Citizen Children with no felonies and homes not on Welfare implement family reunification. Implement Biometric Border screening Face and Voice and Finger Prints along the Mega Mexiwall crossing gates and as well for back door terrorists trying to enter via Canada and all Airports for Visa Overstayers.
Implement Trump business trade taxation and regulatory reform plans to Make America Great Again...
Create a new feelz gooders FEELZ (Feminist Equality Empathetic Love Zone) corps to ship the Bernie Berners and Hillary Hystericals off to third world hell holes to save humanity - permanently. Quietly undo all of the SJW LGBTQ Trannie pedo nonsense that the Obamunists tried to institutionalize.
Media organizations that attempt to glorify deviant depraved degeneracy get quietly bought up and sold off at deep discounts to family values production entrepreneurs. Eliminates the deviant media fungus among us.
Please do feel free to add whatever I may have missed or overlooked.
Great list, but you're forgetting the most important one: The retaking of Constantinople.
I truly believe that Trump's ascendency is nothing less than divine providence. In Greek mythology, Trump perfectly represents Nemesis - who exacts divine retribution against those who have angered the Gods with gross displays of hubris. The political and media establishment had been gaming the system for years, exploiting and abusing it for their own ends. The American people were being played for fools. The arrogance of the elite was at an all-time high. They were due for a reckoning.
The magnitude of Trump's accomplishment - winning the nomination of a major party as a total outsider and political novice - is something we haven't yet wrapped our heads around. We're still too close to it at this point in time. But this is entirely unprecedented in the modern era. This was supposed to be impossible. The entire political/media/financial apparatus was designed specifically to make such a feat impossible. This is why the cucks and leftists were left dumbfounded time and time again as Trump not only survived their attacks, but continued to win and climb in the polls. The enemies of Trump have been in denial for months. They simply cannot process what happened because it goes against everything they knew about the corrupt political/media system they though they controlled.
And it should have been impossible. I believe it would have been impossible for literally any other man in the United States. This is why I regard Trump as one of the handful of historic men of destiny - perfectly, impossibly well-suited to their times, such men leap on the stage of history and lay waste to their opponents, leaving onlookers in a state of stunned awe. We're used to such men of destiny being warriors, kings and generals - and most have been. But we live in a different age. Men of destiny were supposed to be extinct, relics of a bygone era when contests were won by sword and hoof. But the battlefield in our day is not a physical landscape, but an abstract one. The war is not fought with guns and swords, but with words and ideas. Given such a system, those who control and operate the media have an enormous - seemingly insurmountable - advantage when it comes to controlling the public discourse. And in this manner they are thus able to control society and the country as a whole, through the manipulation of public opinion and the consequent power over political hopefuls this engenders. All politicians were thus forced to acquiesce to the demands of these controllers, or else face utter destruction by the media monster they could unleash at will. But then came Trump.
The only man with the sufficient fame, wealth, charisma, intelligence, confidence, gravitas and energy to single-handedly defeat the establishment. His media savvy is unprecedented - Scott Adams has only skimmed the surface of Trump's genius in this regard. And yes - we are witnessing genius here. Trump is an artist, and salesmanship/public relations is the canvas on which he paints. Like Jordan created art on a basketball court and Fischer created art on a chessboard, each through the combination of brilliant talent and an indomitable will to win - so Trump's artistry in the media sphere is equally as impressive. This man defeated not only sixteen direct opponents arrayed against him, but the entire corrupt media apparatus. They'd played this game hundreds of times before and had never lost. No one could stand against them. Except Trump.
In hindsight it becomes clear that everything in Trump's life was leading up to this point. This was his destiny all along, as impossible as it seems. A brash New York real estate developer and reality TV show star somehow possessed the perfect combination of traits necessary to be raised up by divine providence as a mighty hammer, and swung down with relentless fury to shatter the corrupt and rotten political/media establishment, finally bringing hope to the masses after years of abuse and exploitation at the hands of the elite.
Only Trump could have done this. The Man of Destiny. The American Nemesis. The Divine Hammer of Retribution.
(05-05-2016 12:23 AM)scorpion Wrote: I truly believe that Trump's ascendency is nothing less than divine providence. In Greek mythology, Trump perfectly represents Nemesis - who exacts divine retribution against those who have angered the Gods with gross displays of hubris. The political and media establishment had been gaming the system for years, exploiting and abusing it for their own ends. The American people were being played for fools. The arrogance of the elite was at an all-time high. They were due for a reckoning.
The magnitude of Trump's accomplishment - winning the nomination of a major party as a total outsider and political novice - is something we haven't yet wrapped our heads around. We're still too close to it at this point in time. But this is entirely unprecedented in the modern era. This was supposed to be impossible. The entire political/media/financial apparatus was designed specifically to make such a feat impossible. This is why the cucks and leftists were left dumbfounded time and time again as Trump not only survived their attacks, but continued to win and climb in the polls. The enemies of Trump have been in denial for months. They simply cannot process what happened because it goes against everything they knew about the corrupt political/media system they though they controlled.
And it should have been impossible. I believe it would have been impossible for literally any other man in the United States. This is why I regard Trump as one of the handful of historic men of destiny - perfectly, impossibly well-suited to their times, such men leap on the stage of history and lay waste to their opponents, leaving onlookers in a state of stunned awe. We're used to such men of destiny being warriors, kings and generals - and most have been. But we live in a different age. Men of destiny were supposed to be extinct, relics of a bygone era when contests were won by sword and hoof. But the battlefield in our day is not a physical landscape, but an abstract one. The war is not fought with guns and swords, but with words and ideas. Given such a system, those who control and operate the media have an enormous - seemingly insurmountable - advantage when it comes to controlling the public discourse. And in this manner they are thus able to control society and the country as a whole, through the manipulation of public opinion and the consequent power over political hopefuls this engenders. All politicians were thus forced to acquiesce to the demands of these controllers, or else face utter destruction by the media monster they could unleash at will. But then came Trump.
The only man with the sufficient fame, wealth, charisma, intelligence, confidence, gravitas and energy to single-handedly defeat the establishment. His media savvy is unprecedented - Scott Adams has only skimmed the surface of Trump's genius in this regard. And yes - we are witnessing genius here. Trump is an artist, and salesmanship/public relations is the canvas on which he paints. Like Jordan created art on a basketball court and Fischer created art on a chessboard, each through the combination of brilliant talent and an indomitable will to win - so Trump's artistry in the media sphere is equally as impressive. This man defeated not only sixteen direct opponents arrayed against him, but the entire corrupt media apparatus. They'd played this game hundreds of times before and had never lost. No one could stand against them. Except Trump.
In hindsight it becomes clear that everything in Trump's life was leading up to this point. This was his destiny all along, as impossible as it seems. A brash New York real estate developer and reality TV show star somehow possessed the perfect combination of traits necessary to be raised up by divine providence as a mighty hammer, and swung down with relentless fury to shatter the corrupt and rotten political/media establishment, finally bringing hope to the masses after years of abuse and exploitation at the hands of the elite.
Only Trump could have done this. The Man of Destiny. The American Nemesis. The Divine Hammer of Retribution.
(05-05-2016 12:23 AM)scorpion Wrote: I truly believe that Trump's ascendency is nothing less than divine providence. In Greek mythology, Trump perfectly represents Nemesis - who exacts divine retribution against those who have angered the Gods with gross displays of hubris. The political and media establishment had been gaming the system for years, exploiting and abusing it for their own ends. The American people were being played for fools. The arrogance of the elite was at an all-time high. They were due for a reckoning.
The magnitude of Trump's accomplishment - winning the nomination of a major party as a total outsider and political novice - is something we haven't yet wrapped our heads around. We're still too close to it at this point in time. But this is entirely unprecedented in the modern era. This was supposed to be impossible. The entire political/media/financial apparatus was designed specifically to make such a feat impossible. This is why the cucks and leftists were left dumbfounded time and time again as Trump not only survived their attacks, but continued to win and climb in the polls. The enemies of Trump have been in denial for months. They simply cannot process what happened because it goes against everything they knew about the corrupt political/media system they though they controlled.
And it should have been impossible. I believe it would have been impossible for literally any other man in the United States. This is why I regard Trump as one of the handful of historic men of destiny - perfectly, impossibly well-suited to their times, such men leap on the stage of history and lay waste to their opponents, leaving onlookers in a state of stunned awe. We're used to such men of destiny being warriors, kings and generals - and most have been. But we live in a different age. Men of destiny were supposed to be extinct, relics of a bygone era when contests were won by sword and hoof. But the battlefield in our day is not a physical landscape, but an abstract one. The war is not fought with guns and swords, but with words and ideas. Given such a system, those who control and operate the media have an enormous - seemingly insurmountable - advantage when it comes to controlling the public discourse. And in this manner they are thus able to control society and the country as a whole, through the manipulation of public opinion and the consequent power over political hopefuls this engenders. All politicians were thus forced to acquiesce to the demands of these controllers, or else face utter destruction by the media monster they could unleash at will. But then came Trump.
The only man with the sufficient fame, wealth, charisma, intelligence, confidence, gravitas and energy to single-handedly defeat the establishment. His media savvy is unprecedented - Scott Adams has only skimmed the surface of Trump's genius in this regard. And yes - we are witnessing genius here. Trump is an artist, and salesmanship/public relations is the canvas on which he paints. Like Jordan created art on a basketball court and Fischer created art on a chessboard, each through the combination of brilliant talent and an indomitable will to win - so Trump's artistry in the media sphere is equally as impressive. This man defeated not only sixteen direct opponents arrayed against him, but the entire corrupt media apparatus. They'd played this game hundreds of times before and had never lost. No one could stand against them. Except Trump.
In hindsight it becomes clear that everything in Trump's life was leading up to this point. This was his destiny all along, as impossible as it seems. A brash New York real estate developer and reality TV show star somehow possessed the perfect combination of traits necessary to be raised up by divine providence as a mighty hammer, and swung down with relentless fury to shatter the corrupt and rotten political/media establishment, finally bringing hope to the masses after years of abuse and exploitation at the hands of the elite.
Only Trump could have done this. The Man of Destiny. The American Nemesis. The Divine Hammer of Retribution.
When the story of this election is finally committed to book, let this be the intro.
My only regret was that I hadn't put on some appropriate music before reading it - something by Mark Petrie or Hans Zimmer, most probably.
Seeing the weight of the machine against Trump has led me to think on more than one occasion that we are seeing providence at work here.
In the UK we've seen the exact same thing happen with Leicester City winning the Premiership. I wouldn't normally compare sporting events with such important events as the election, but take it from me, we have watched much the same thing happen when a team of underdogs broke the grip on the league by the same few clubs, all of whom probably spent more on their reserve squads than Leicester did on their first. And here, no one can figure out how they did it. Their tactics were nothing special, their manager had no track record of cup-winning, yet no one managed to figure them out.
David Icke said back in 2010 that he didn't see the end of the system coming in 2012 but "maybe in 2016, or the years immediately thereafter". What we've seen this year alone has brought me back to this quote again and again.
(05-04-2016 02:31 PM)Avarence Wrote: Mitt Romney only won 23% of Hispanics.
And that was without Illegal Immigration/Rapists/The Wall being a centerpiece of his campaign.
I think we're realistically looking at 10-15% for Trump as it stands now.
One of many reasons Hillacunt is entering as the favorite.
You are dead wrong. Trump will beat the Romney vote, I guarentee it. Remember that many of the Hispanics here don't or can't vote and many of the ones who can vote do not think the wall is all that bad.
Higher class Mexicans, especially those with lighter skin often try their best to hide the fact that they are Hispanic. Many of their kids don't even speak Spanish.
He probably won't win the Hispanic vote but he will do a hell of a lot better than 10-15%. Lay off the media and their bs talking points. They have been dead wrong all along the way.
Would you like to bet on that?
I'd rather you provide reasoning on why you believe he will only get 10-15% of the hispanic vote. Lets have a discussion. I don't need an ego boost from a bet.
(05-04-2016 11:04 PM)Kickb Wrote: Do you guys think it's bad that Trump is no longer self funding?
I have mixed feelings on that. If he wants to win, he will need more funding, if he does not match the billion dollars in attack ads that the democrats will use, then he will lose. Also, that money can be used to fund the other campaigns for the House and Senate seats that are up for grabs in November. If he is not going to spend a billion dollars of his own money, and I can't really blame him for that, then he will have to stop self funding.
Do you guys have a link on that? or the scoop from a rally maybe?
(05-06-2016 08:59 PM)captain_shane Wrote: My main concern is that Trump seems to be somewhat naive on certain people's intentions, and that by bringing in these people into the mix, it can be incredibly dangerous. People like Chris Christie and Jeff Sessions are not to be trusted, and I hope he's only using them to help himself get elected.
Trump's issues on the 4th Amendment are known and have been discussed at length already.
The US is in an existential situation, where if we don't have borders, we don't have a country, and anybody else's stance on the 4th is then a moot point.
Which brings me to Sessions. Sessions drafted Trump's immigration platform, which is the entire basis for his campaign. And followed this with Trump's Second Amendment stance, and his America First foreign policy.
Sessions IS Trump's platform, full stop. Trump is the direction, Sessions is the implementer. If you don't trust Sessions, get off the Trump Train.
I didn't disagree with Sessions immigration stances. But these aren't Trump's platform, and if you believe so, YOU can get off the Train.
Voted NO on repealing tax subsidy for companies which move US jobs offshore.
Voted YES on increasing penalties for drug offenses.
Voted YES on enlarging NATO to include Eastern Europe.
Voted NO on favoring 1997 McCain-Feingold overhaul of campaign finance.
Voted NO on negotiating bulk purchases for Medicare prescription drug.
Voted NO on implementing the 9/11 Commission report.
Voted NO on restricting business with entities linked to terrorism.
Voted YES on confirming John Roberts for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Voted NO on investigating contract awards in Iraq & Afghanistan.
Dangerous Donald may be the single best nickname Trump's opponents has come up with so far, for better or worse. Can you think of something better?
Remember when Cruz tried to brand Trump 'Sleazy Donald'?
It didn't work. It didn't work because it runs counter to the overwhelming dominant public perception of Trump. For most people, Trump is a blunt, unfiltered candidate who is not afraid to speak his mind - whether or not they consider it a good thing. If they don't like what he says, they consider him a shameless, unabashed bigot, a barbaric redneck caveman who lacks the prudence and filter that civilization requires - he speaks his mind, but what an ugly mind he got. If they like what he says, then he is truthful warrior who fearlessly speaks truth to power, who tells it like is in defiance of political correctness. Or maybe he is just a really honest, candid, lovable old-school folksy guy who says what he means and means what he says, with whom you sometimes disagree but can have a beer. In popular opinion, Trump is anything but sleazy.
It also didn't work because, Cruz, like the the establishment and mainstream media, failed to create a consistent narrative about Trump. At one point he coined the term trumpertantrum to imply that Trump is a juvenile, petulant, impulsive manchild - and he also repeatedly stressed that Trump is less well-behaved than his two small kids. This may ring true to some people, but then how can a juvenile manchild be sleazy? On one hand, Trump's opponents tried to portray him as a blithering idiot who cannot possibly muster a coherent, intelligent thought. On the other hand they attempted to pain him as a con artist, snake oil/used car salesman who is deviously deceiving America. The two narratives contradict each other and ultimately speak little more than their hatred for Trump. To the people, they are just desperately spouting whatever they can come up with to badmouth the anti-establishment front-runner.
Meanwhile, Trump's attacks are effective in part because he has managed to be consistent in his narrative. Jeb is a low-energy mess, Ted is a nasty liar, Marco is a sweaty nervous greenhorn, politicians in general are all talk and no action, incompetent, bought and paid for, totally controlled puppet, the media is disgusting dishonest, Trump-bashers are desperate; America is going to hell because our leaders are stupid and getting played by foreign leaders; we are no longer great because we have become weak and blame America first; to be great again we must get tough, dispense with political correctness and put America first.
What about the nickname Dangerous Donald then? Is it any improvement from past attempts by Trump's opponents?
It is clearly intended to play many people's visceral horror at the prospect of a Trump's presidency - the infamous Trump anxiety, a fear that has risen to psychological condition requiring professional therapy. Trump's biggest obstacle, as identified by Scott Adams, is that he scares half the country shitless. And this nickname, if anything, is certainly not helping him improve his scary image.
This nickname also fits in with whatever interpretation people have about Trump. If they (baselessly) believe him to be an impulsive, hot-headed, mercurial simpleton, then it's clearly dangerous to entrust the nuclear button to such a person - this bumbling fool will accelerate economic decline, ruin foreign relations, anger foreign leaders, accidentally start WWIII and bring America to inevitable doom. If on the other hand if they (also baselessly) believe that he is a deceitful, Machiavellian, unhinged demagogue with dark authoritarian ambition, he may abuse his power and endanger innocent people all over the world.
The nebulous character of the nickname also makes it appealing to Trump supporters, creating room for a favorable interpretation that resonates with people who like Trump. Dangerous to whom? They take it to mean Trump is a real, serious threat to the corrupt establishment. Hence they proudly embrace the nickname, spread and repeat it everywhere, inadvertently associating Trump with danger in the subconscious minds of many, and for those who don't like him, it means danger to the country.
The upside is that it also sounds cool, creating cool visual play, cool association with popular badass anti-hero. But even then it renders his image as more of a rogue warrior than a presidential statesman. Being a rogue warrior has been Trump's appeal up until now, but this is the stage when he pivots to being presidential.
I don't think this is enough to seriously harm Trump's chance or anything. With some luck it may even help Trump, as some guys have suggested, if the cool factor triumphs and overwhelms the rest. But personally it is not a nickname that I would embrace.
^I'm surprised the Republican candidates didn't brand him as Donald the Barbarian. That would have stuck more, but then again that sounds too close to Conan the Barbarian.
I would love to see Trump's head photoshopped to Conan's head in the picture with all the Republican nominee's heads photoshoppped on the corpses at the bottom.
"Dangerous Donald" is a nickname coined by people with a tin ear. It won't work because it's cutesy and alliterative. It sounds like a cartoon character. In addition, he already has the most obstreperously abstract and immutable nickname associated with his first name: THE Donald. It's impossible to displace that.
Notice that none of Trump's monikers have any alliteration in them, because he instinctively grasps that the ear wants the opposite of that: it wants a certain kind of flowing complementarity. Neither the consonants nor the vowels in the adjective should be too similar to the ones in the name:
Low Energy Jeb Bush
Lyin' Ted Cruz
Little Marco Rubio
Crooked Hillary Clinton
And the latest, which is perhaps his most inspired and brilliant of all and will stick like glue:
Goofy Elizabeth Warren
No cutesy alliteration or word play in any of them, but an easy and staining flow. Trump has a natural, inspired and, indeed, poetic feel for the English language. We'll see what the other side can come up with, but so far they've got nothing.