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Seriously, Trump Derangement Syndrome in the house. I haven't seen this much bile since W was President and the left was frothing.

The derangement comes from his supporters.

There you go. Stand firm.

I mean, how much damage could he do that Obama didn't already do?

There's still the nuclear option.

I mean, how much damage could he do that Obama didn't already do?

Ask the south how much more rockin' Andrew Johnson was compared to Lincoln.

Trump is confronted by a competent businessman, then completely disregards or misunderstands common terms:

The @washingtonpost loses money (a deduction) and gives owner @JeffBezos power to screw public on low taxation of @Amazon! Big tax shelter

So, no.

But Amazon doesn't own The Post; Nash Holdings, Bezos's private investment company, does. The two entities are taxed separately. The Post's business performance, therefore, does not affect Amazon's taxes.

That would have to be in play. I mean, what wouldn't be in play?

Hillary's pending indictment for treason is not in play, for some reason.

GORDON wrote:Hillary's pending indictment for treason is not in play, for some reason.

At the very least, using a private server for anything beyond sending your holiday e-cards is stupid and she ought to be reamed if she did anything official. However, even if she's guilty, I trust her more than Trump. There's not a hell of a lot she can do to be a worse candidate than Donnie "nobody reads the Bible more than me unless you ask me to quote it" Trump.

"Nobody will read the laws better than me!"

"Nobody will read the treaties better than me!"

"Nobody will veto laws better than me!"

"Nobody builds a better wall than me!"

If he had to get the hooker vote, "Nobody sucks a better cock than me!"

Malcolm wrote:

GORDON wrote:Hillary's pending indictment for treason is not in play, for some reason.

At the very least, using a private server for anything beyond sending your holiday e-cards is stupid and she ought to be reamed if she did anything official. However, even if she's guilty, I trust her more than Trump. There's not a hell of a lot she can do to be a worse candidate than Donnie "nobody reads the Bible more than me unless you ask me to quote it" Trump.

"Nobody will read the laws better than me!"

"Nobody will read the treaties better than me!"

"Nobody will veto laws better than me!"

"Nobody builds a better wall than me!"

If he had to get the hooker vote, "Nobody sucks a better cock than me!"

Know the difference between Trump and Obama? Obama let everyone else think of him as a god.

You have to be kidding me. They're both leaders of cults. As is Mrs. Bill. Damn, I wish that guy could run again.

I never thought I'd miss Bill.

Maybe I don't.

Clinton could pick Cosby as VP and destroy either his wife or Drumpf the Douche.

While reading this fucking psychosis...

Pickens agreed with Trump’s controversial plan for a complete shutdown of Muslims entering the country.

... I was reminded of the fact I just paid about $100 to see a Muslim comic and would like to see him again if he decides to leave the country and attempt a return. Anyhow, here's his unbelievably bad reasoning which seems to underpin most the gamble most Dumpy Drumpf supporters are making:

“Yes, I’m for Donald Trump. … I’m tired of having politicians as president of the U.S.,” he said, according to The Wall Street Journal. “Let’s try something different.”

Donnie Dickbag obviously has some secret anti-political influence pills he takes with every meal.

When is comes to being a career politician, would you say Trump is more of one, less, or about the same as Hillary?

To pull a Bill, what do you mean by "politician?"
1) A half demagogue, half sophist, all lying, cheating asshole that only looks to their own reelection, self-interest, and poll numbers?
2) The other bullshit definition everyone's taught in school and the dictionary?

In general, Tiny Balls Trump is a businessman, and not a very good one at that. Down to specifics. Let's get the second case straight out of the way because it's easiest. His command of legal and economic knowledge is laughable and worse than Hillary's. His ability to negotiate a treaty or deal with any other country is even lower and the gap wider. His grasp of the international geopolitical scene is shittier than Hillary's. He might put on a fine dog-and-pony show, but his loose hodgepodge of drunken 3 AM ideas that have been gorilla glued together into his "platform" is shallow, hollow, weak, sparse, ill-conceived, and goddamn near ethereal. I've never seen anyone running for prez with less of a plan. He makes Ross Perot look prepared.

In the first case, I'd say he's been successful when competing against the Republican version of the Washington Generals that limped along in the primary like flaccid slugs floundering on the salt flats of Utah. As far as Hillary goes, I recoil in disgust at the thought of her. I get that same feeling around Trump. However I then get the followup feeling of not just wanting him to go over a cliff in a flaming locomotive, screaming all the while writhing in pain, held fast by some kind of Saw-style trap that shoots a couple of these fuckers up his underdeveloped dick, but that I might chip in $50 or a c-note towards the effort.

Malcolm wrote:To pull a Bill, what do you mean by "politician?"

Meaning your official paycheck is written by the US Treasury, and it is up to you to graft and receive bribes* in exchange for government favors to the best of your ability. You can protect your business model by actually shaping the laws that allow and/or protect it.

*donations to your campaign fund

That is what people are tired of, in case you've missed it.

That is what people are tired of, in case you've missed it.

Trump would eBay this country if he could.

Malcolm wrote:

That is what people are tired of, in case you've missed it.

Trump would eBay this country if he could.

And a lot of people feel Obama has already given it away, so eBay would be a step up.

GORDON wrote:When is comes to being a career politician, would you say Trump is more of one, less, or about the same as Hillary?

My problem is that they are both crony capitalist progressives that return to the trough of big government for the solution to every problem. I think we're nearing a tipping point. Both are going to oversee an expanding federal government. We are now at the point where a massive central government is about to tell all the states that they will suspend all belief in science and a biological difference between males and females in their schools. This is Orwell's "newspeak".

The influence of America as a positive entity in the world that people aspire to is dying. And no one is rising to take our place. We are entering a new dark age.