Spindrift
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He's counting on that. He wants to blame the GOP establishment for Trumps failure. If only they had fully backed Donald from the beginning...
It's a continuation of not going right enough.
Trump runs for POTUS/ Trumped Up! Part VII
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He's counting on that. He wants to blame the GOP establishment for Trumps failure. If only they had fully backed Donald from the beginning...
It's a continuation of not going right enough.
Minoosh
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Yeah, well, there are some white nationalists. And quite a few white people who accept that their privilege will wane somewhat as demographics shift.
dudalb
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There is a vast difference between building a ground game and organizing a few demonstrations.
Anyway, way,way,way, too late for a Ground Game for Trump. His total disinterest in a ground game is one of the things about him that drove GOP officials crazy.
You discount how loopy the base is.
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dudalb
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Or going a specific Angle of Right. IMHL Bannon probably does not give a damn about Abortion or the Debt or many other traditional conseravite issues. He is all about the "Angry White Man".
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Trump's giving a very odd speech at the NY Catholic charity dinner. A few stupid jokes but he also started with something along the lines of ''people used to be my friends until I joined the Republican Party and now they are hateful...'
Foolmewunz
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Stone? He couldn't organize his left shoe and right shoe if they don't have L and R etched inside.
Stone is a guerrilla warrior. The fact that his crap has traction at all is simply because the GOP let the big orange idiot into the club house. Stone, Bannon et al don't even actually represent the Tea Party wing, but are conveniently riding the wave.
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Maybe but the real world may be holding its own. There are anti-Trump rap songs out, anti-Trump corridas coming out. Among young people who are very tuned in to social media. I don't know if they have a ground game but they certainly have awareness of Trump's vulnerabilities.
Wonder how many "Young Republicans" are going to the mat on today's college campuses.
CapelDodger
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I'm thinking longer term, beyond Trump.
So, not even Dennis Miller would ghostwrite jokes for him?
Spindrift
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Little does he know that they were probably hateful before.
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And once again I propose that the very idea of Donald Trump having a real friend is laughable.
newyorkguy
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What I was most surprised about was my friend saying Trump personally attended some of the condo director's meetings and was very personable. Most landlords I've had got pretty defensive -- often borderline abusive -- when tenants had any kind of complaint at all. Of course I lived in buildings that were middle-class (barely) rentals.
I have looked at some estimates of Trump's annual net income and most financial sources (Bloomberg, Forbes, Wall Street Journal) came up with guesstimates in the $120 million to $150 million. Awesome income but that doesn't make Trump a billionaire. Plus you don't know what kind of money he spends every year. What kind of personal debt he could be paying down. Might not be much left.
The sources I looked at all agreed (and this was back last spring) that Trump was not going to self-finance his campaign -- as he was boasting he would do; remember the "I'm a billionaire, I don't anyone's money" -- for the simple reason he wouldn't be able to afford it.
I also recall the story that came out that Trump had applied to New York City for a break on school tax payments available to people making less than $500,000 a year. He got the exemption too. His spokesperson at the time basically said Trump gave the city false figures and the city must not bother to check. The city responded that they did check and the applicant had to submit a current IRS form to get approved.
You would imagine someone in the city's tax department then double-checked Trump's applications to make sure they did include a valid IRS form. And probably check with IRS to have them verify it. If they had discovered Trump made a fraudulent filing I would have expected them to seek a criminal penalty.
The fact none of that happened suggests to me that maybe Trump's income IS under $500,000 a year. The city would probably be prohibited from announcing that on privacy grounds. Which is fine. But it sure explains why Trump won't release his tax returns.
CapelDodger
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We'll see how slick his Operation Poll Watch turns out to be. The danger may not be him but somebody younger and smarter riding his wake.
I think there's potential for a smart Nazi to carve something out of the crowd that Trump's called together. As a result I may be looking too hard, but these things are easy to miss.
The Tea Party concept, never very substantial, seems to have been blown away in the storm. All is chaos in the Republican Party. Dangerous, perhaps, but still extremely gratifying. So much for Karl Rove's ambitions of making the GOP the "natural party of government" in perpetuity.
CapelDodger
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I absolutely agree.
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So does NY Times columnist (and token conservative) David Brooks.
Politics is an effort to make human connection, but Trump seems incapable of that. He is essentially adviser-less, friendless. His campaign team is made up of cold mercenaries at best and Roger Ailes at worst. His party treats him as a stench it can’t yet remove.
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Imagine if you had to go through a single day without sharing kind little moments with strangers and friends.
Imagine if you had to endure a single week in a hate-filled world, crowded with enemies of your own making, the object of disgust and derision.
You would be a twisted, tortured shrivel, too, and maybe you’d lash out and try to take cruel revenge on the universe. For Trump this is his whole life.
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Imagine if you had to go through a single day without sharing kind little moments with strangers and friends.
Imagine if you had to endure a single week in a hate-filled world, crowded with enemies of your own making, the object of disgust and derision.
You would be a twisted, tortured shrivel, too, and maybe you’d lash out and try to take cruel revenge on the universe. For Trump this is his whole life.
ETA: My dictionary doesn't seem to recognize "shrivel" as a noun.
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Is Trump really the landlord? Typically a condo developer sells the units to the owners, who then form a condo association with a board of directors that hires a management company to maintain it. The owners don't have a "landlord." The developer's connection to the project is then ended. When you read of problems with established condos, unless they're caused by construction flaws, they are usually the result of the association mismanaging money, particularly hiring bad managers or not maintaining sufficient reserves. So what is Trump's connection to the project after 15 years? If the board is paying him to manage it, then he sure better be responsive to their concerns; that's what he's getting the big bucks for. If that's not his role, it's hard to understand why he'd be there at all.
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Note that what those states offer are restricted licenses, often called something else, intended to ensure that people who are actually driving have basic skills. But they can't be used for federal identification, and they certainly don't prove citizenship or eligibility to vote.
http://dmv.dc.gov/node/1119117
https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/dmv/node/48731/
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0208-immigrant-drivers-licenses-20160208-story.html
Etc.
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Of course, and some of his nutter followers are going to get violent.
Not that surprising.
Aren't they already?