Trump runs for POTUS/ Trumped Up! Part VI

[pgwenthold]

Trump is a moron. Not only does he keep the focus on the sexual assaults, he makes it worse for himself by suggesting they aren't attractive enough for his attention. I just saw pictures of 7 of 8 accusers. All of which look pretty damn attractive.

His references to appearance only alienates women. The man just keeps digging his own grave.

The problem now isn't that he is alienating any more. The problem is that this is not the way to reclaim those driven away. He's lost, he needs to win votes, not continue as is

 

[Stacko]

There's almost no chance this ends with him conceding and little violence now, is there?

“If she’s in office, I hope we can start a coup. She should be in prison or shot. That’s how I feel about it,” Dan Bowman, a 50-year-old contractor, said of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee. “We’re going to have a revolution and take them out of office if that’s what it takes. There’s going to be a lot of bloodshed. But that’s what it’s going to take. .*.*. I would do whatever I can for my country.”

...

“Watch your polling booths,” he warned.

His supporters are heeding the call.

“Trump said to watch you precincts. I’m going to go, for sure,” said Steve Webb, a 61-year-old carpenter from Fairfield, Ohio.

“I’ll look for .*.*. well, it’s called racial profiling. Mexicans. Syrians. People who can’t speak American,” he said. “I’m going to go right up behind them. I’ll do everything legally. I want to see if they are accountable. I’m not going to do anything illegal. I’m going to make them a little bit nervous.”

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“We’re going to have a lot of election fraud,” said Jeannine Bell Smith, 65-year-old longtime teacher in a red Trump shirt with a bucket of popcorn under her arm. “They are having illegals vote. In some states, you don’t need voter registration to vote.”

After a prayer is said and the national anthem sung, she leans in.

“We can’t have that lying bitch in the White House,” she said.

“If Hillary wins, it’s rigged,” said Judy Wright, who is from Illinois but took off work recently to come volunteer for Trump in Ohio.

She sighs at what seems to her an unfathomable outcome.
“All I know is our country is not going to be a country anymore,” she added. “I’ve heard people talk about a revolution. I’ve heard people talk about separation of states. I don’t even like to think about it. But I don’t think this movement is going away. We don’t have a voice anymore, and Donald Trump is giving us a voice.”

He just keeps pouring gasoline on this fire.

 

[Puppycow]

After failing to seduce Nancy O’Dell, Trump reportedly tried to have her fired

More Trumpholery.

 

[Jrrarglblarg]

Just to be clear (I'm a bit fazed post-migraine) : the Trump campaign has explicitly embraced Gilberthorpe? He hasn't just inserted himself inappropriately into the story?

He reached his hand right up the story's skirt with out asking. I suspect it was a uninvited strategic preempt of the actual witness "fronting up."

 

[acbytesla]

The problem now isn't that he is alienating any more. The problem is that this is not the way to reclaim those driven away. He's lost, he needs to win votes, not continue as is

Apparently he doesn't understand that he can't win without women. The gender gap in this election will be deeper that the Grand Canyon. Women may be 50% of the population, but they make up around 54 percent of the voting public. Trump has to hope that not only won't women turnout for the opportunity to vote for the first woman president in history, they won't turnout to vote against a man that epitomizes what women hate most about men.

His war against Mexicans and Islam has morphed into his war against women. Not smart Donald.

 

[Jrrarglblarg]

Trump is a moron. Not only does he keep the focus on the sexual assaults, he makes it worse for himself by suggesting they aren't attractive enough for his attention. I just saw pictures of 7 of 8 accusers. All of which look pretty damn attractive.

His references to appearance only alienates women. The man just keeps digging his own grave.

I'll take this moment to mention that the miss universe he was fat-shaming had ballooned up to normal human weight of 160 pounds, after using anorexia and bulimia to maintain ~115 pounds.

 

[Craig4]

For the record, if you go to a polling place to make someone nervous, you are breaking the law.

 

[Regnad Kcin]

160 lbs? A remarkable coincidence, seeing how that's about the size of Trump's fat head.

 

[acbytesla]

I'll take this moment to mention that the miss universe he was fat-shaming had ballooned up to normal human weight of 160 pounds, after using anorexia and bulimia to maintain ~115 pounds.

From my understanding she gained 16 pounds.

 

[Trebuchet]

You sing. We will do the shearing man.

I have to confess I've had a crush on Catherine Jenkins for years

Me too.

I've met her. She's only little. Smiles a lot.

I'm green with envy.

She is just pretending to smile.

Bravely knowing she hasn't met me, Mr Right yet

Michael Gambon.

 

[Stacko]

Isn't this lunatic part of the government?

 

[a_unique_person]

Just to make it clear, Gilberthorpe has a huge amount of previous form in unreliable claims. Back in the 80s he sued a couple of red top newspapers for libel. He was awarded £50000 because they had falsely reported he was being forced out of his council job for being gay. They appealed and won because they were able to prove their source for the published claims was Gilberthorpe himself.

Bizarrely he later announced his engagement to a US fashion designer and widely publicized the details. Turns out she had never heard of him.

He once offered his place as a discreet pad for a politician friend of his to meet a mistress. Turns out he had hidden cameras installed in the bedroom and sold the pictures to a tabloid.

He is a guy happy to betray his friends for money, make up ludicrous lies for money and make up ludicrous lies apparently purely for egotistical fantasy.

Even if he were telling the truth about the Trump incident (and I will happily bet money that he isn't,) Trump should never have produced him as a witness for the simple reason that everyone who knows who Gilberthorpe is will automatically assume he is lying. They will then conclude that Trump consciously recruited him because he is a notorious publicity hound and liar for money, specifically for the purpose of offering Gilberthorpe money to lie for Trump. That is certainly my conclusion. I will be amazed if Gilberthorpe was even on the plane.

That is so bizarre I can only assume you just made it all up. Or is this just a normal day in the Trump Zone?

 

[acbytesla]

That is so bizarre I can only assume you just made it all up. Or is this just a normal day in the Trump Zone?

"Normal and Trump" is kind of mutually exclusive. The man thrives on chaos. Every day, I keep thinking it couldn't get any more crazy and most days he keeps raising the crazy bar. I'm a political junkie and I can't remember any election that comes close to being as nuts as this one.

I hope I never see one again.

 

[Ladewig]

There's almost no chance this ends with him conceding and little violence now, is there?

“I’ll look for .*.*. well, it’s called racial profiling. Mexicans. Syrians. People who can’t speak American,” he said. “I’m going to go right up behind them. I’ll do everything legally. I want to see if they are accountable. I’m not going to do anything illegal. I’m going to make them a little bit nervous.”​

He just keeps pouring gasoline on this fire.

Several months ago, I heard some claim that the country has not been this divided since the 1870s. I have no way to argue against such a claim. Especially now that citizens are announcing that they will do the same things that were done in the 1870s.

 

[jimbob]

That is so bizarre I can only assume you just made it all up. Or is this just a normal day in the Trump Zone?

You know the answer - every so often something so stange arises that I realise I haven't lost my capacity for surprise.

40% of Florida Trump supporters apparently think that Hilary Clinton is literaly a deamon (which you can tell from the smell of Brimstone). 42% are sure that she is not.

Google: Clinton demon PPP poll if you want to find it.

 

[CapelDodger]

Trump is a moron. Not only does he keep the focus on the sexual assaults, he makes it worse for himself by suggesting they aren't attractive enough for his attention. I just saw pictures of 7 of 8 accusers. All of which look pretty damn attractive.

His references to appearance only alienates women. The man just keeps digging his own grave.

He's fighting this thing, not the election. Women's votes? Hey, if he wins this thing they'll come flooding back to his silver-backed alpha-maleness.

This thing is now the Gilbethorpe thing, so instead of Trump: liar or abuser? we have Gilbethorpe : liar or paedophile pimp? Could not be made up.

 

[ddt]

Isn't this lunatic part of the government?

Isn't that the sheriff who recently had someone die in his jail from dehydration? And similar cases in previous years?

 

[CapelDodger]

I don't know if we should paint with such a broad brush the liberty university student body rejected him.

Good for them. We might perhaps define a subset of envalegicals : political evangelicals, who are as much of Mammon as of God. If not more.

 

[CapelDodger]

You know the answer - every so often something so stange arises that I realise I haven't lost my capacity for surprise.

I'm amazed at how often that's been happening this last few months. Really. I'm in my seventh decade and I've never seen anything like it, tripping regularly or not.

 

[CapelDodger]

He's lost, he needs to win votes, not continue as is

Trump needs to win this thing, I think. It's the immediate thing, and everything's about the immediate for Trump, an emotional infant.