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Trump took the stage today to the music of the big show tune from Les Miserables in front of a projected graphic adapted from the musical poster by some guy on the Internet named Keln.

I haven’t found an ideal video of it yet. Most of the videos shot by audience members have contrast and other problems inherent in shooting a video of a screen.

 
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  1. The look on Trump’s face! How good is that?

    • Replies: @boogerbently
    @Paul Walker Most beautiful man ever...

    Cheshire cat

    , @whorefinder
    @Paul Walker Most beautiful man ever...

    Fucking brilliant. That's the fucking grin of victory.

    And the entire thing? Great song, fits perfectly his campaign theme, owns an insult and amplifies?

    The Trump campaign gets an A+ for political theater this campaign. Absolutely stunning. Anyone who thinks this guy is a buffoon is in complete denial.

    Replies: @The preferred nomenclature is...

    , @No_0ne
    @Paul Walker Most beautiful man ever...

    Feels good, man.

  2. The saying that politics is show business for ugly people shows new meaning today as Trump shows that the 2nd tier talent of political campaigns can’t really match real show business/marketing talent in terms of effectiveness.

    Trump turned the Basket of Deplorables into marketing gold, now with his own anthem and the symbolism of fighting a revolution for good.

    Here is video.

    • Replies: @MC
    @TangoMan

    I'd argue that it shows that full-time political professionals can't compete with mischievous meme-generating randos on the Internet acting in their spare time.

    Replies: @TangoMan

    , @Anonymous
    @TangoMan

    Thanks for the video!

  3. Genius!!

    Will you be strong and stand with Trump?

    Do you hear the people sing?
    Singing the song of angry men?
    It is the music of the people
    Who will not be slaves again!
    When the beating of your heart
    Echoes the beating of the drums
    There is a life about to start
    When tomorrow comes.

    Will you join in our crusade?
    Who will be strong and stand with me?
    Beyond the barricade
    Is there a world you long to see?

    • Replies: @415 reasons
    @Chrisnonymous

    Lawsuit from left wing writer incoming in 5... 4... 3...

    Replies: @Chrisnonymous, @newrouter

    , @International Jew
    @Chrisnonymous

    I'm on board with everything but the "crusade" part!

    Seriously, the really encouraging thing about this is that it might mean Trump is taking advice from smart people.

    Because otherwise, the amateurishness makes me want to cry. I sent him a contribution and now I get twice a day solicitations to enter raffles for the privilege of a lunch with one of his children. Sheesh!

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @iSteveFan

  4. • Replies: @Chrisnonymous
    @Lot

    Except it's more like Charles X leading the people against Lady Hillary.

    , @Cagey Beast
    @Lot

    That painting was from the revolution that brought in the July Monarchy. The new king called himself "the King of the French" rather than "King of France" to recognize he represented the French people rather than ruled them as peasants living on his land. Maybe Trump will call himself "President of the Americans"?

  5. @TangoMan
    The saying that politics is show business for ugly people shows new meaning today as Trump shows that the 2nd tier talent of political campaigns can't really match real show business/marketing talent in terms of effectiveness.

    Trump turned the Basket of Deplorables into marketing gold, now with his own anthem and the symbolism of fighting a revolution for good.

    Here is video.

    https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/776910237747904512

    Replies: @MC, @Anonymous

    I’d argue that it shows that full-time political professionals can’t compete with mischievous meme-generating randos on the Internet acting in their spare time.

    • Replies: @TangoMan
    @MC

    But Trump had the right gut instinct to use the material, while Hillary's people or Hillary herself, decided to launch a jihad against a cartoon frog.

  6. @Lot
    Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People

    Replies: @Chrisnonymous, @Cagey Beast

    Except it’s more like Charles X leading the people against Lady Hillary.

  7. It seems every single internet troll is behind Trump. What a glorious spectacle! I am in my early 40s and I have waited my whole life for an election like this. It’s fashionable in some circles to bemoan the choices before us this year but to hell with those circles.

    MEME MAGIC IS REAL! PRAISE KEK!

    • Agree: Kylie
    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @blah blah blah blah

    Agreed... publicly I pretend that I don't like either candidate ("It's a choice between a criminal and a lunatic") but in reality I am loving every minute of this.

    We've lived in the PC world that these assholes run every minute of every day for as long as I can remember. Now the shoe is finally on the other foot and they can feel what it's like to be out of step with the zeitgeist for once.

    The butthurt comments all over social media are just icing on the cake.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @The preferred nomenclature is...

    , @Je Suis Charlie Martel
    @blah blah blah blah

    I as well. Same age. How many times I have wanted some politician to just get up there and say unpleasant truths!
    Wasn't there a Warren Beatty movie in our youth where he thought he was going to die and so said impolitic things out loud while running for office?

    Replies: @Harry Baldwin, @Percy Gryce

    , @boogerbently
    @blah blah blah blah

    Every voter that's ever railed against the system has waited their whole life for an election like this.
    Why don't they all recognize it ?

    End constant military intervention, stop the illegal immigrant invasion, nationalize not globalize (it isn't working anywhere in Europe), negotiate international deals that are better for Americans NOT American corporations, end the PC environment, force the "news media" to tell the truth.

    , @artichoke
    @blah blah blah blah

    I'm in my late 50's, and this is new for me too. Reagan wasn't like this. For one thing, the orthodoxy wasn't as well developed or pervasive then, so he wasn't fighting quite as strong a monster. Yes even though the Cold War was still going on.

    The Soviet Union probably never had nasty designs on us like Hillary Clinton and crew do.

    Replies: @The Last Real Calvinist

  8. I don’t think it’s that great to be invoking Les Mis. It’s better to be known as racists than as poor losers.

  9. @MC
    @TangoMan

    I'd argue that it shows that full-time political professionals can't compete with mischievous meme-generating randos on the Internet acting in their spare time.

    Replies: @TangoMan

    But Trump had the right gut instinct to use the material, while Hillary’s people or Hillary herself, decided to launch a jihad against a cartoon frog.

  10. The illegal alien activist who was pissed about Trump saying illegals are rapists has just been charged with rape.

    Trump makes meme magic real.

    • Replies: @iSteveFan
    @Jack Hanson

    Here is a link

    Shouldn't this guy now be deported?

    Replies: @Warner, @bomag

    , @Hell_is_like_newark
    @Jack Hanson

    Link to story?

  11. Question:

    Is it beneath a president to rickroll the press corps? I hope not… [rubs hands together mischievously…]

  12. @Paul Walker Most beautiful man ever...
    The look on Trump's face! How good is that?

    Replies: @boogerbently, @whorefinder, @No_0ne

    Cheshire cat

  13. @Chrisnonymous
    Genius!!

    Will you be strong and stand with Trump?

    Do you hear the people sing?
    Singing the song of angry men?
    It is the music of the people
    Who will not be slaves again!
    When the beating of your heart
    Echoes the beating of the drums
    There is a life about to start
    When tomorrow comes.

    Will you join in our crusade?
    Who will be strong and stand with me?
    Beyond the barricade
    Is there a world you long to see?

    Replies: @415 reasons, @International Jew

    Lawsuit from left wing writer incoming in 5… 4… 3…

    • Replies: @Chrisnonymous
    @415 reasons

    Those are the lyrics to the Les Mis song. I'm not claiming them as my own.

    Replies: @415 reasons

    , @newrouter
    @415 reasons

    former/current? trump tenant.

  14. @Lot
    Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People

    Replies: @Chrisnonymous, @Cagey Beast

    That painting was from the revolution that brought in the July Monarchy. The new king called himself “the King of the French” rather than “King of France” to recognize he represented the French people rather than ruled them as peasants living on his land. Maybe Trump will call himself “President of the Americans”?

  15. Anonymous • Disclaimer says:
    @blah blah blah blah
    It seems every single internet troll is behind Trump. What a glorious spectacle! I am in my early 40s and I have waited my whole life for an election like this. It's fashionable in some circles to bemoan the choices before us this year but to hell with those circles.

    MEME MAGIC IS REAL! PRAISE KEK!

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Je Suis Charlie Martel, @boogerbently, @artichoke

    Agreed… publicly I pretend that I don’t like either candidate (“It’s a choice between a criminal and a lunatic”) but in reality I am loving every minute of this.

    We’ve lived in the PC world that these assholes run every minute of every day for as long as I can remember. Now the shoe is finally on the other foot and they can feel what it’s like to be out of step with the zeitgeist for once.

    The butthurt comments all over social media are just icing on the cake.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Anonymous


    publicly I pretend that I don’t like either candidate (“It’s a choice between a criminal and a lunatic”) but in reality I am loving every minute of this.
     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arZdeg_fL-I
    , @The preferred nomenclature is...
    @Anonymous

    Had a late dinner last night with a few guys I've known for awhile but was not close with. Come to find out the old (70+) retired judge that I always suspected of being light in the loafers (although divorced and has offspring) is a HUGE Trump guy and he I both believe a good president.

    You should have seen and heard him when 3 ME women walked by wearing hijabs (sp?).

    The medical trial attorney that is from good 'ol boy country and still shoots quite a bit on the family ranch used the old 'this is the best we can come up with' line. And thinks the Dond will lead to WWIII.

    Replies: @Desiderius

  16. @415 reasons
    @Chrisnonymous

    Lawsuit from left wing writer incoming in 5... 4... 3...

    Replies: @Chrisnonymous, @newrouter

    Those are the lyrics to the Les Mis song. I’m not claiming them as my own.

    • Replies: @415 reasons
    @Chrisnonymous

    No, no, I meant that the left wing writer of Les Miserables will probably sue Trump for using the song without permission

    Replies: @snorlax

  17. @blah blah blah blah
    It seems every single internet troll is behind Trump. What a glorious spectacle! I am in my early 40s and I have waited my whole life for an election like this. It's fashionable in some circles to bemoan the choices before us this year but to hell with those circles.

    MEME MAGIC IS REAL! PRAISE KEK!

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Je Suis Charlie Martel, @boogerbently, @artichoke

    I as well. Same age. How many times I have wanted some politician to just get up there and say unpleasant truths!
    Wasn’t there a Warren Beatty movie in our youth where he thought he was going to die and so said impolitic things out loud while running for office?

    • Replies: @Harry Baldwin
    @Je Suis Charlie Martel

    That was Bulworth, but in the usual Bizarro world of Hollywood, the "truths" he was speaking were the usual liberal bromides. Sort of a Bernie Sanders type.

    Replies: @Je Suis Charlie Martel

    , @Percy Gryce
    @Je Suis Charlie Martel

    Bulworth

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulworth

  18. @blah blah blah blah
    It seems every single internet troll is behind Trump. What a glorious spectacle! I am in my early 40s and I have waited my whole life for an election like this. It's fashionable in some circles to bemoan the choices before us this year but to hell with those circles.

    MEME MAGIC IS REAL! PRAISE KEK!

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Je Suis Charlie Martel, @boogerbently, @artichoke

    Every voter that’s ever railed against the system has waited their whole life for an election like this.
    Why don’t they all recognize it ?

    End constant military intervention, stop the illegal immigrant invasion, nationalize not globalize (it isn’t working anywhere in Europe), negotiate international deals that are better for Americans NOT American corporations, end the PC environment, force the “news media” to tell the truth.

  19. @Chrisnonymous
    @415 reasons

    Those are the lyrics to the Les Mis song. I'm not claiming them as my own.

    Replies: @415 reasons

    No, no, I meant that the left wing writer of Les Miserables will probably sue Trump for using the song without permission

    • Replies: @snorlax
    @415 reasons

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license#United_States

    They can't — Repubs before Trump just traditionally cucked out when leftist singers denounced the use of their songs.

    Replies: @Alfa158, @Clyde

  20. This is beautiful.

    Donald Trump, age 70, is successfully riding and nurturing a wave of cool that stands against what is tired and old. This promises to attract the young, the mischievous, the new cool people, the new generation, if you will.

    Trump is the new hipster. I’m too old myself to even know what younger people would call it now, but I think it could be happening.

    Oh yes, it’s punk. It’s alternative. It’s whatever that will be called now.

    • Replies: @iSteveFan
    @Buzz Mohawk

    This clip of Jimmy Fallon messing Trump's hair should play well with the younger set.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk

    , @Cagey Beast
    @Buzz Mohawk

    Trump is kind of the American Salvador Dali the way he makes self-promotion into an art form. Trump and his kids are driving a full spectrum, weaponized hype machine right over top of Hillary and her media friends. They don't know what to do about it.

    , @BenKenobi
    @Buzz Mohawk

    To quote the the younger version of Heroin Bob from the end of SLC Punk!:

    "It's new."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaD3aMF1XNQ

  21. Politics IS downstream from culture.

    Finally, some proper – hilarious – kick-back against Cultural-Marxist hegemony.

    Bloody marvellous!

  22. @Paul Walker Most beautiful man ever...
    The look on Trump's face! How good is that?

    Replies: @boogerbently, @whorefinder, @No_0ne

    Fucking brilliant. That’s the fucking grin of victory.

    And the entire thing? Great song, fits perfectly his campaign theme, owns an insult and amplifies?

    The Trump campaign gets an A+ for political theater this campaign. Absolutely stunning. Anyone who thinks this guy is a buffoon is in complete denial.

    • Replies: @The preferred nomenclature is...
    @whorefinder

    Exactly. I think he is going to make a great president.

  23. @Jack Hanson
    The illegal alien activist who was pissed about Trump saying illegals are rapists has just been charged with rape.

    Trump makes meme magic real.

    Replies: @iSteveFan, @Hell_is_like_newark

    Here is a link

    Shouldn’t this guy now be deported?

    • Replies: @Warner
    @iSteveFan

    OUT OUT OUT! REMOVE HIS COAT!

    , @bomag
    @iSteveFan


    He is the director of Proyecto Latino de Utah and he was director of Utah’s Hispanic Affairs Office and has had several Hispanic-affairs radio shows... He regularly organized protests.
     
    This highlights that there is money and careers to be made agitating for the replacement of traditional America. It is astonishing, and it is in many respects a criminal enterprise, illustrated by this guy.
  24. Anonymous [AKA "Schwann"] says:

    Do you know what Trump is? A scamp.

  25. @415 reasons
    @Chrisnonymous

    Lawsuit from left wing writer incoming in 5... 4... 3...

    Replies: @Chrisnonymous, @newrouter

    former/current? trump tenant.

  26. Anonymous [AKA "Flounder"] says:
    @Anonymous
    @blah blah blah blah

    Agreed... publicly I pretend that I don't like either candidate ("It's a choice between a criminal and a lunatic") but in reality I am loving every minute of this.

    We've lived in the PC world that these assholes run every minute of every day for as long as I can remember. Now the shoe is finally on the other foot and they can feel what it's like to be out of step with the zeitgeist for once.

    The butthurt comments all over social media are just icing on the cake.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @The preferred nomenclature is...

    publicly I pretend that I don’t like either candidate (“It’s a choice between a criminal and a lunatic”) but in reality I am loving every minute of this.

  27. The “Les Mis” song makes for a nice rousing introduction, but the song played when Trump finishes speaking has downer lyrics: the Rolling Stones song “You can’t always get what you want.” What’s the thinking behind this song selection?

    • Replies: @e
    @Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY)

    But if you try sometimes you just might find....you get WHAT YOU NEED."

    ie. Trump isn't the smooth talker (ie, like Obama, what you WANT); he's what you NEED.

    Trump's background, a builder, a guy that gets things done is what you need, a builder, a doer, a producer. So much for pretty talkers blowing smoke up your ass.

    Replies: @Je Suis Charlie Martel

    , @CK
    @Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY)

    Brilliance coming in
    brilliance going out.
    Smooooooth like butter
    cool like the underside of the pillow
    You too might find that you can get what you need.

  28. @Buzz Mohawk
    This is beautiful.

    Donald Trump, age 70, is successfully riding and nurturing a wave of cool that stands against what is tired and old. This promises to attract the young, the mischievous, the new cool people, the new generation, if you will.

    Trump is the new hipster. I'm too old myself to even know what younger people would call it now, but I think it could be happening.

    Oh yes, it's punk. It's alternative. It's whatever that will be called now.

    Replies: @iSteveFan, @Cagey Beast, @BenKenobi

    This clip of Jimmy Fallon messing Trump’s hair should play well with the younger set.

    • Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
    @iSteveFan

    Yes, the younger set is always concerned with hair.

    They have so much of it.

    I like that clip very much. I should definitely help. It's his saxophone moment.

  29. How long before the producers of Les Miserables demand Trump stop using their stuff?

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @iSteveFan

    "How long before the producers of Les Miserables demand Trump stop using their stuff?"

    I don't think it really matters. The impact from the song has already had the intended effect.

  30. @Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY)
    The "Les Mis" song makes for a nice rousing introduction, but the song played when Trump finishes speaking has downer lyrics: the Rolling Stones song "You can't always get what you want." What's the thinking behind this song selection?

    Replies: @e, @CK

    But if you try sometimes you just might find….you get WHAT YOU NEED.”

    ie. Trump isn’t the smooth talker (ie, like Obama, what you WANT); he’s what you NEED.

    Trump’s background, a builder, a guy that gets things done is what you need, a builder, a doer, a producer. So much for pretty talkers blowing smoke up your ass.

    • Replies: @Je Suis Charlie Martel
    @e

    Yes. It's a response to the Flight 93 essay. The author says Trump isn't whom he would have picked to deliver this message/campaign. But he's the only one doing it, so... "You get what you need"
    Trump's probably the only one who could have done this though...

  31. @415 reasons
    @Chrisnonymous

    No, no, I meant that the left wing writer of Les Miserables will probably sue Trump for using the song without permission

    Replies: @snorlax

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license#United_States

    They can’t — Repubs before Trump just traditionally cucked out when leftist singers denounced the use of their songs.

    • Replies: @Alfa158
    @snorlax

    I didn't get from that link whether this is a compulsory licensing issue. Based on what little I know about creative property rights, once a musician registers their work with ASCAP, no one needed permission to play a recording of their music as long as they paid the licensing fees laid out by ASCAP and under the limitations thereof. I always wondered why politicians on the right backed off whenever Bruce or whoever squeaked about using their music. I had been under the impression they could just say, too bad, here is your check for $62.18 or whatever.

    Replies: @Boomstick

    , @Clyde
    @snorlax

    "Can Always Get What You Want" by the Rolling Stones was played at the same Miami Trump rally where Les Deplorables made its debut. Mick Jagger has been objecting to the Trump org playing Stones tunes to no avail...lol....screw you Jag.

  32. @blah blah blah blah
    It seems every single internet troll is behind Trump. What a glorious spectacle! I am in my early 40s and I have waited my whole life for an election like this. It's fashionable in some circles to bemoan the choices before us this year but to hell with those circles.

    MEME MAGIC IS REAL! PRAISE KEK!

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Je Suis Charlie Martel, @boogerbently, @artichoke

    I’m in my late 50’s, and this is new for me too. Reagan wasn’t like this. For one thing, the orthodoxy wasn’t as well developed or pervasive then, so he wasn’t fighting quite as strong a monster. Yes even though the Cold War was still going on.

    The Soviet Union probably never had nasty designs on us like Hillary Clinton and crew do.

    • Replies: @The Last Real Calvinist
    @artichoke


    The Soviet Union probably never had nasty designs on us like Hillary Clinton and crew do.

     

    As C S Lewis so presciently said:

    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
  33. @Chrisnonymous
    Genius!!

    Will you be strong and stand with Trump?

    Do you hear the people sing?
    Singing the song of angry men?
    It is the music of the people
    Who will not be slaves again!
    When the beating of your heart
    Echoes the beating of the drums
    There is a life about to start
    When tomorrow comes.

    Will you join in our crusade?
    Who will be strong and stand with me?
    Beyond the barricade
    Is there a world you long to see?

    Replies: @415 reasons, @International Jew

    I’m on board with everything but the “crusade” part!

    Seriously, the really encouraging thing about this is that it might mean Trump is taking advice from smart people.

    Because otherwise, the amateurishness makes me want to cry. I sent him a contribution and now I get twice a day solicitations to enter raffles for the privilege of a lunch with one of his children. Sheesh!

    • Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
    @International Jew

    Did you get the letter that offers you the choice to contribute "$1,000, $2,500, $5,000, $10,000, $15,000, $20,000, or even the maximum allowed of $36,100" ?

    Are you now therefore a member of the Trump Make America Great Again Committee?

    Hey, the party's gotta raise money "To keep pace with Hillary Clinton's billion-dollar money machine..." So they're "calling on our Party's very best -- individuals like you, International -- to get involved at the highest level..."

    Don't ask me how I know this.

    Regardless, we're going to win in November, and then the real work begins.

    , @iSteveFan
    @International Jew


    I’m on board with everything but the “crusade” part!
     
    I don't get why the word 'crusade' is becoming bad. Even Ike used the word 'crusade' in his speech to the military men about to land at Normandy. Later he wrote his memoirs, Crusade in Europe

    Now, however, it would be controversial for him to use such language. Why? And exactly who decided it was in bad taste?

    Replies: @newrouter, @snorlax

  34. @artichoke
    @blah blah blah blah

    I'm in my late 50's, and this is new for me too. Reagan wasn't like this. For one thing, the orthodoxy wasn't as well developed or pervasive then, so he wasn't fighting quite as strong a monster. Yes even though the Cold War was still going on.

    The Soviet Union probably never had nasty designs on us like Hillary Clinton and crew do.

    Replies: @The Last Real Calvinist

    The Soviet Union probably never had nasty designs on us like Hillary Clinton and crew do.

    As C S Lewis so presciently said:

    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

  35. Je suis deplorables!

  36. @TangoMan
    The saying that politics is show business for ugly people shows new meaning today as Trump shows that the 2nd tier talent of political campaigns can't really match real show business/marketing talent in terms of effectiveness.

    Trump turned the Basket of Deplorables into marketing gold, now with his own anthem and the symbolism of fighting a revolution for good.

    Here is video.

    https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/776910237747904512

    Replies: @MC, @Anonymous

    Thanks for the video!

  37. @e
    @Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY)

    But if you try sometimes you just might find....you get WHAT YOU NEED."

    ie. Trump isn't the smooth talker (ie, like Obama, what you WANT); he's what you NEED.

    Trump's background, a builder, a guy that gets things done is what you need, a builder, a doer, a producer. So much for pretty talkers blowing smoke up your ass.

    Replies: @Je Suis Charlie Martel

    Yes. It’s a response to the Flight 93 essay. The author says Trump isn’t whom he would have picked to deliver this message/campaign. But he’s the only one doing it, so… “You get what you need”
    Trump’s probably the only one who could have done this though…

  38. @International Jew
    @Chrisnonymous

    I'm on board with everything but the "crusade" part!

    Seriously, the really encouraging thing about this is that it might mean Trump is taking advice from smart people.

    Because otherwise, the amateurishness makes me want to cry. I sent him a contribution and now I get twice a day solicitations to enter raffles for the privilege of a lunch with one of his children. Sheesh!

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @iSteveFan

    Did you get the letter that offers you the choice to contribute “$1,000, $2,500, $5,000, $10,000, $15,000, $20,000, or even the maximum allowed of $36,100” ?

    Are you now therefore a member of the Trump Make America Great Again Committee?

    Hey, the party’s gotta raise money “To keep pace with Hillary Clinton’s billion-dollar money machine…” So they’re “calling on our Party’s very best — individuals like you, International — to get involved at the highest level…”

    Don’t ask me how I know this.

    Regardless, we’re going to win in November, and then the real work begins.

  39. The DNC and Hillary just cannot win this time around, can they.

    No wonder. The people were so unhappy with Hillary in 2008 the voted for Obama.

  40. Between this and his successful trolling of the media today with his birther speech, Trump is probably the strongest he has ever been and his poll numbers, rigged as they are, keep going up. He really found the right leadership with Bannon and Conway. Meanwhile Hillary and Robby Mook are desperately hoping for another Curiel or Khan moment now that dredging up the birther BS failed to move the needle and the “basket of deplorables” has now turned against them and is now used to mock them. They also know that she won’t be able to last an entire debate. Will they try to force a shorter debate, try to postpone, or just outright cancel it?

  41. @Buzz Mohawk
    This is beautiful.

    Donald Trump, age 70, is successfully riding and nurturing a wave of cool that stands against what is tired and old. This promises to attract the young, the mischievous, the new cool people, the new generation, if you will.

    Trump is the new hipster. I'm too old myself to even know what younger people would call it now, but I think it could be happening.

    Oh yes, it's punk. It's alternative. It's whatever that will be called now.

    Replies: @iSteveFan, @Cagey Beast, @BenKenobi

    Trump is kind of the American Salvador Dali the way he makes self-promotion into an art form. Trump and his kids are driving a full spectrum, weaponized hype machine right over top of Hillary and her media friends. They don’t know what to do about it.

  42. WD-40: Not Just for Rusty Hinges

    Not only is WD-40 great for your squeaky doors, turns out it’s also great for pumpkin preservation. How and why does it work? The company famously keeps its ingredient list a secret.

    Don’t hire Snowden WD-40 or trust Putin! Keep Jack fresh and your lantern lit!

    • Replies: @Johan Schmidt
    @WITCH DOCTOR

    We've got the FBI's top cryptologists working 24/7 to figure out what the hell you just said.

  43. @iSteveFan
    @Buzz Mohawk

    This clip of Jimmy Fallon messing Trump's hair should play well with the younger set.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk

    Yes, the younger set is always concerned with hair.

    They have so much of it.

    I like that clip very much. I should definitely help. It’s his saxophone moment.

  44. @iSteveFan
    How long before the producers of Les Miserables demand Trump stop using their stuff?

    Replies: @Anonymous

    “How long before the producers of Les Miserables demand Trump stop using their stuff?”

    I don’t think it really matters. The impact from the song has already had the intended effect.

  45. • Replies: @Kylie
    @anon930

    "Laugh and the world laughs with you."

    I hope Trump laughs all the way to the White House.

    Replies: @Perplexed

  46. Trump’s jujitsu on the media today to get a half hour of free airtime was hilarious.

    • LOL: BenKenobi
    • Replies: @Big Bill
    @Boomstick

    The rally was amazing! One huge, 90 minute rickroll.

    The MSM just sat there, listening, filming, broadcasting general after general, to the freaking world.

    And at the very end he blew them off in, what, 30 seconds?: Obama was born in the US. Period. No discussion. No chit-chat. No follow up. No cross examination. Sayonara, Baybee!

    Replies: @Old fogey

  47. All of a sudden there is so much Alt-Right material on Youtube:

    • Replies: @Big Bill
    @The most deplorable one

    What has happened to the left in the last fifty years? It was the left--Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman the Yuppies and the Merry Pranksters--that was "culture jamming" the Establishment and driving them crazy with silly crap like this.

    Now the left is marching humorlessly in lockstep behind warmongers like Hillary. Somewhere along the line they lost their soul and their sense of humor. It sure does make politics fun, though. Poor Hillary must be feeling like poor Judge Julius Hoffman these days. She keeps banging her gavel and nothing happens.

    Trump needs to bring back "Hair" as his next rally song.

    Replies: @Desiderius, @Kylie, @ben tillman

  48. @Je Suis Charlie Martel
    @blah blah blah blah

    I as well. Same age. How many times I have wanted some politician to just get up there and say unpleasant truths!
    Wasn't there a Warren Beatty movie in our youth where he thought he was going to die and so said impolitic things out loud while running for office?

    Replies: @Harry Baldwin, @Percy Gryce

    That was Bulworth, but in the usual Bizarro world of Hollywood, the “truths” he was speaking were the usual liberal bromides. Sort of a Bernie Sanders type.

    • Replies: @Je Suis Charlie Martel
    @Harry Baldwin

    Yes. Liberal bromides to be sure!

  49. @iSteveFan
    @Jack Hanson

    Here is a link

    Shouldn't this guy now be deported?

    Replies: @Warner, @bomag

    OUT OUT OUT! REMOVE HIS COAT!

  50. @Je Suis Charlie Martel
    @blah blah blah blah

    I as well. Same age. How many times I have wanted some politician to just get up there and say unpleasant truths!
    Wasn't there a Warren Beatty movie in our youth where he thought he was going to die and so said impolitic things out loud while running for office?

    Replies: @Harry Baldwin, @Percy Gryce

  51. @International Jew
    @Chrisnonymous

    I'm on board with everything but the "crusade" part!

    Seriously, the really encouraging thing about this is that it might mean Trump is taking advice from smart people.

    Because otherwise, the amateurishness makes me want to cry. I sent him a contribution and now I get twice a day solicitations to enter raffles for the privilege of a lunch with one of his children. Sheesh!

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @iSteveFan

    I’m on board with everything but the “crusade” part!

    I don’t get why the word ‘crusade’ is becoming bad. Even Ike used the word ‘crusade’ in his speech to the military men about to land at Normandy. Later he wrote his memoirs, Crusade in Europe

    Now, however, it would be controversial for him to use such language. Why? And exactly who decided it was in bad taste?

    • Replies: @newrouter
    @iSteveFan

    well jihadi is cool and groovy

    , @snorlax
    @iSteveFan


    who decided it was in bad taste?
     
    Osama bin Laden
  52. @Buzz Mohawk
    This is beautiful.

    Donald Trump, age 70, is successfully riding and nurturing a wave of cool that stands against what is tired and old. This promises to attract the young, the mischievous, the new cool people, the new generation, if you will.

    Trump is the new hipster. I'm too old myself to even know what younger people would call it now, but I think it could be happening.

    Oh yes, it's punk. It's alternative. It's whatever that will be called now.

    Replies: @iSteveFan, @Cagey Beast, @BenKenobi

    To quote the the younger version of Heroin Bob from the end of SLC Punk!:

    “It’s new.”

  53. @anon930
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEiTKloMgBg

    Replies: @Kylie

    “Laugh and the world laughs with you.”

    I hope Trump laughs all the way to the White House.

    • Replies: @Perplexed
    @Kylie

    Right and succinct. Bravo!

    Replies: @Kylie

  54. @Boomstick
    Trump's jujitsu on the media today to get a half hour of free airtime was hilarious.

    http://i.imgur.com/2h14ULh.jpg

    Replies: @Big Bill

    The rally was amazing! One huge, 90 minute rickroll.

    The MSM just sat there, listening, filming, broadcasting general after general, to the freaking world.

    And at the very end he blew them off in, what, 30 seconds?: Obama was born in the US. Period. No discussion. No chit-chat. No follow up. No cross examination. Sayonara, Baybee!

    • Replies: @Old fogey
    @Big Bill

    The amazing thing to me was that the CNN panel which followed that event were so furious that they had been "played" (their word) by Trump in such a fashion. And then to see in the NYT that Trump's questioning Obama's birth place, after Obama had sold his books on the basis of his having been born in Kenya and raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, was considered by the esteemed editors a "lie." I never knew that one could "lie" by asking a question.

  55. @iSteveFan
    @International Jew


    I’m on board with everything but the “crusade” part!
     
    I don't get why the word 'crusade' is becoming bad. Even Ike used the word 'crusade' in his speech to the military men about to land at Normandy. Later he wrote his memoirs, Crusade in Europe

    Now, however, it would be controversial for him to use such language. Why? And exactly who decided it was in bad taste?

    Replies: @newrouter, @snorlax

    well jihadi is cool and groovy

  56. @The most deplorable one
    All of a sudden there is so much Alt-Right material on Youtube:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR7VhRq2yns

    Replies: @Big Bill

    What has happened to the left in the last fifty years? It was the left–Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman the Yuppies and the Merry Pranksters–that was “culture jamming” the Establishment and driving them crazy with silly crap like this.

    Now the left is marching humorlessly in lockstep behind warmongers like Hillary. Somewhere along the line they lost their soul and their sense of humor. It sure does make politics fun, though. Poor Hillary must be feeling like poor Judge Julius Hoffman these days. She keeps banging her gavel and nothing happens.

    Trump needs to bring back “Hair” as his next rally song.

    • Replies: @Desiderius
    @Big Bill


    Now the left is marching humorlessly in lockstep behind warmongers like Hillary. Somewhere along the line they lost their soul and their sense of humor.
     
    They set out on a long march through the institutions.

    Turned out the institutions marched through them instead.

    Replies: @Je Suis Charlie Martel

    , @Kylie
    @Big Bill

    "What has happened to the left in the last fifty years? It was the left–Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman the Yuppies and the Merry Pranksters–that was “culture jamming” the Establishment and driving them crazy with silly crap like this.

    Now the left is marching humorlessly in lockstep...."

    The left always marched humorously in lockstep. The pranks those guys pulled seemed mean-spirited whereas Trump's stunts are more good-natured. They wouldn't have called their followers "deplorables"--that's what they would have called the squares or straights. They laughed at the Establishment but they didn't laugh at themselves. They were full of righteous indignation thinly overlaid with smug humor. It was obvious to me as a teenager that in the left's eyes, all people were equal but some people were more equal than others.

    The left hasn't changed at all.

    , @ben tillman
    @Big Bill


    Now the left is marching humorlessly in lockstep behind warmongers like Hillary. Somewhere along the line they lost their soul and their sense of humor. It sure does make politics fun, though. Poor Hillary must be feeling like poor Judge Julius Hoffman these days. She keeps banging her gavel and nothing happens.
     
    I guess Judge J. could have learned something from Pete Townshend, huh? "John Sinclair's rotting in prison!" Thwack!

    "Hair"? Hilarious thought!
  57. @snorlax
    @415 reasons

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license#United_States

    They can't — Repubs before Trump just traditionally cucked out when leftist singers denounced the use of their songs.

    Replies: @Alfa158, @Clyde

    I didn’t get from that link whether this is a compulsory licensing issue. Based on what little I know about creative property rights, once a musician registers their work with ASCAP, no one needed permission to play a recording of their music as long as they paid the licensing fees laid out by ASCAP and under the limitations thereof. I always wondered why politicians on the right backed off whenever Bruce or whoever squeaked about using their music. I had been under the impression they could just say, too bad, here is your check for $62.18 or whatever.

    • Replies: @Boomstick
    @Alfa158

    Yeah, Limbaugh has used "My City was Gone" as his bumper music for decades. I don't think Chrissy Hynde is a a Limbaugh fan.

    The risk for the politicians is that the musician will raise a stink that the media will conjure into some sort of idiotic "story."

    One of the ancillary benefits of this campaign is that the media seems to be bent on torching any of their remaining brand value. Trust in the news media by conservatives is approaching single digits. It's about 30% among independents. Unbundle cable channels and in five years the cable news channels and sports networks will be penniless.

  58. @Alfa158
    @snorlax

    I didn't get from that link whether this is a compulsory licensing issue. Based on what little I know about creative property rights, once a musician registers their work with ASCAP, no one needed permission to play a recording of their music as long as they paid the licensing fees laid out by ASCAP and under the limitations thereof. I always wondered why politicians on the right backed off whenever Bruce or whoever squeaked about using their music. I had been under the impression they could just say, too bad, here is your check for $62.18 or whatever.

    Replies: @Boomstick

    Yeah, Limbaugh has used “My City was Gone” as his bumper music for decades. I don’t think Chrissy Hynde is a a Limbaugh fan.

    The risk for the politicians is that the musician will raise a stink that the media will conjure into some sort of idiotic “story.”

    One of the ancillary benefits of this campaign is that the media seems to be bent on torching any of their remaining brand value. Trust in the news media by conservatives is approaching single digits. It’s about 30% among independents. Unbundle cable channels and in five years the cable news channels and sports networks will be penniless.

  59. Anonymous [AKA "Economic refugee from Venice Beach"] says:

    OT– I watched CNN and Fox News for the Medal of Honor winners and generals’ endorsements and the very brief Trump comments. Wow. Afterwards, tuning in to Fox again I thout that the woman interviewer of Trump’s advisor and the squirrely frat boy that comes on in the afternoon went overboard saying that Trump’s crediting HRC’s campaign with the birther issue was a “falsehood”. F ’em and God save Trump.

  60. @Big Bill
    @The most deplorable one

    What has happened to the left in the last fifty years? It was the left--Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman the Yuppies and the Merry Pranksters--that was "culture jamming" the Establishment and driving them crazy with silly crap like this.

    Now the left is marching humorlessly in lockstep behind warmongers like Hillary. Somewhere along the line they lost their soul and their sense of humor. It sure does make politics fun, though. Poor Hillary must be feeling like poor Judge Julius Hoffman these days. She keeps banging her gavel and nothing happens.

    Trump needs to bring back "Hair" as his next rally song.

    Replies: @Desiderius, @Kylie, @ben tillman

    Now the left is marching humorlessly in lockstep behind warmongers like Hillary. Somewhere along the line they lost their soul and their sense of humor.

    They set out on a long march through the institutions.

    Turned out the institutions marched through them instead.

    • Replies: @Je Suis Charlie Martel
    @Desiderius


    They set out on a long march through the institutions.

    Turned out the institutions marched through them instead
     
    Brilliant. Need to steal this!

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

  61. Language shapes perceptions. Check out this BBC report on Trump’s press conference:

    The latest comments came just hours after Mr Trump was forced to reverse his long-held position that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

    Trump is weak for having been forced to do something. Who forced Trump?

    Deeper into the report comes this:

    But he went on to accuse Mrs Clinton of starting the so-called birther controversy

    “Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it,” he said.

    There is no evidence to link Mrs Clinton to the birther conspiracy.

    There is plenty of evidence of just this being reported in multiple media outlets.

    • Replies: @Perplexed
    @TangoMan

    Birtherism is about a lot more than where O. was born. Trump sent investigators to Hawaii, so I guess they found evidence that he was born there, or at least couldn't disprove it. That doesn't resolve the questions about his forged birth certificate, his forged Selective Service card, his Connecticut Social Security number and multiple SSNs, and what might be on his school records. He has been lying all his life. He was the one who said he was born in Kenya. This isn't over.

    Replies: @Old fogey

  62. @Big Bill
    @The most deplorable one

    What has happened to the left in the last fifty years? It was the left--Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman the Yuppies and the Merry Pranksters--that was "culture jamming" the Establishment and driving them crazy with silly crap like this.

    Now the left is marching humorlessly in lockstep behind warmongers like Hillary. Somewhere along the line they lost their soul and their sense of humor. It sure does make politics fun, though. Poor Hillary must be feeling like poor Judge Julius Hoffman these days. She keeps banging her gavel and nothing happens.

    Trump needs to bring back "Hair" as his next rally song.

    Replies: @Desiderius, @Kylie, @ben tillman

    “What has happened to the left in the last fifty years? It was the left–Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman the Yuppies and the Merry Pranksters–that was “culture jamming” the Establishment and driving them crazy with silly crap like this.

    Now the left is marching humorlessly in lockstep….”

    The left always marched humorously in lockstep. The pranks those guys pulled seemed mean-spirited whereas Trump’s stunts are more good-natured. They wouldn’t have called their followers “deplorables”–that’s what they would have called the squares or straights. They laughed at the Establishment but they didn’t laugh at themselves. They were full of righteous indignation thinly overlaid with smug humor. It was obvious to me as a teenager that in the left’s eyes, all people were equal but some people were more equal than others.

    The left hasn’t changed at all.

  63. @Big Bill
    @The most deplorable one

    What has happened to the left in the last fifty years? It was the left--Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman the Yuppies and the Merry Pranksters--that was "culture jamming" the Establishment and driving them crazy with silly crap like this.

    Now the left is marching humorlessly in lockstep behind warmongers like Hillary. Somewhere along the line they lost their soul and their sense of humor. It sure does make politics fun, though. Poor Hillary must be feeling like poor Judge Julius Hoffman these days. She keeps banging her gavel and nothing happens.

    Trump needs to bring back "Hair" as his next rally song.

    Replies: @Desiderius, @Kylie, @ben tillman

    Now the left is marching humorlessly in lockstep behind warmongers like Hillary. Somewhere along the line they lost their soul and their sense of humor. It sure does make politics fun, though. Poor Hillary must be feeling like poor Judge Julius Hoffman these days. She keeps banging her gavel and nothing happens.

    I guess Judge J. could have learned something from Pete Townshend, huh? “John Sinclair’s rotting in prison!” Thwack!

    “Hair”? Hilarious thought!

  64. @snorlax
    @415 reasons

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license#United_States

    They can't — Repubs before Trump just traditionally cucked out when leftist singers denounced the use of their songs.

    Replies: @Alfa158, @Clyde

    “Can Always Get What You Want” by the Rolling Stones was played at the same Miami Trump rally where Les Deplorables made its debut. Mick Jagger has been objecting to the Trump org playing Stones tunes to no avail…lol….screw you Jag.

  65. @WITCH DOCTOR
    WD-40: Not Just for Rusty Hinges

    Not only is WD-40 great for your squeaky doors, turns out it's also great for pumpkin preservation. How and why does it work? The company famously keeps its ingredient list a secret.

    Don't hire Snowden WD-40 or trust Putin! Keep Jack fresh and your lantern lit!

    Replies: @Johan Schmidt

    We’ve got the FBI’s top cryptologists working 24/7 to figure out what the hell you just said.

  66. @Harry Baldwin
    @Je Suis Charlie Martel

    That was Bulworth, but in the usual Bizarro world of Hollywood, the "truths" he was speaking were the usual liberal bromides. Sort of a Bernie Sanders type.

    Replies: @Je Suis Charlie Martel

    Yes. Liberal bromides to be sure!

  67. @Desiderius
    @Big Bill


    Now the left is marching humorlessly in lockstep behind warmongers like Hillary. Somewhere along the line they lost their soul and their sense of humor.
     
    They set out on a long march through the institutions.

    Turned out the institutions marched through them instead.

    Replies: @Je Suis Charlie Martel

    They set out on a long march through the institutions.

    Turned out the institutions marched through them instead

    Brilliant. Need to steal this!

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Je Suis Charlie Martel

    I shall, Oscar, I shall.

    Replies: @Desiderius

  68. @Je Suis Charlie Martel
    @Desiderius


    They set out on a long march through the institutions.

    Turned out the institutions marched through them instead
     
    Brilliant. Need to steal this!

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    I shall, Oscar, I shall.

    • Replies: @Desiderius
    @Steve Sailer

    Oscar?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA6wa_tM7LI

  69. @iSteveFan
    @International Jew


    I’m on board with everything but the “crusade” part!
     
    I don't get why the word 'crusade' is becoming bad. Even Ike used the word 'crusade' in his speech to the military men about to land at Normandy. Later he wrote his memoirs, Crusade in Europe

    Now, however, it would be controversial for him to use such language. Why? And exactly who decided it was in bad taste?

    Replies: @newrouter, @snorlax

    who decided it was in bad taste?

    Osama bin Laden

  70. @Kylie
    @anon930

    "Laugh and the world laughs with you."

    I hope Trump laughs all the way to the White House.

    Replies: @Perplexed

    Right and succinct. Bravo!

    • Replies: @Kylie
    @Perplexed

    Thank you!

    But I should have credited Max Bialystock for the quote.

  71. @TangoMan
    Language shapes perceptions. Check out this BBC report on Trump's press conference:

    The latest comments came just hours after Mr Trump was forced to reverse his long-held position that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
     
    Trump is weak for having been forced to do something. Who forced Trump?

    Deeper into the report comes this:

    But he went on to accuse Mrs Clinton of starting the so-called birther controversy

    "Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it," he said.

    There is no evidence to link Mrs Clinton to the birther conspiracy.
     
    There is plenty of evidence of just this being reported in multiple media outlets.

    Replies: @Perplexed

    Birtherism is about a lot more than where O. was born. Trump sent investigators to Hawaii, so I guess they found evidence that he was born there, or at least couldn’t disprove it. That doesn’t resolve the questions about his forged birth certificate, his forged Selective Service card, his Connecticut Social Security number and multiple SSNs, and what might be on his school records. He has been lying all his life. He was the one who said he was born in Kenya. This isn’t over.

    • Replies: @Old fogey
    @Perplexed

    Thank you, "Perplexed" for your astute comment.

  72. One very under appreciated thing about Trump, maybe or maybe not having anything to do with his electoral prospects: he is freaking hilarious !
    Maybe it’s just me?
    Am I the only one who feels this?

    • Agree: Mike Sylwester, Kylie
    • Replies: @Kylie
    @pepperinmono

    I think Trump is deliberately and naturally very funny.

    His comment to the effect that Hillary probably paid PR guys $2 million but he came up with "Crooked Hillary" all by himself for free tickled me no end.

    I thought SPY Magazine's characterization of him as the "short-fingered vulgarian was funny. But he's much funnier than they were.

    And as adaptable and resilient as he's proven himself to be under the relentless, unfair and dishonest onslaught by the left, I bet he's pretty healthy psychologically. Certainly healthy enough to be POTUS.

  73. @Anonymous
    @blah blah blah blah

    Agreed... publicly I pretend that I don't like either candidate ("It's a choice between a criminal and a lunatic") but in reality I am loving every minute of this.

    We've lived in the PC world that these assholes run every minute of every day for as long as I can remember. Now the shoe is finally on the other foot and they can feel what it's like to be out of step with the zeitgeist for once.

    The butthurt comments all over social media are just icing on the cake.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @The preferred nomenclature is...

    Had a late dinner last night with a few guys I’ve known for awhile but was not close with. Come to find out the old (70+) retired judge that I always suspected of being light in the loafers (although divorced and has offspring) is a HUGE Trump guy and he I both believe a good president.

    You should have seen and heard him when 3 ME women walked by wearing hijabs (sp?).

    The medical trial attorney that is from good ‘ol boy country and still shoots quite a bit on the family ranch used the old ‘this is the best we can come up with’ line. And thinks the Dond will lead to WWIII.

    • Replies: @Desiderius
    @The preferred nomenclature is...


    The medical trial attorney that is from good ‘ol boy country
     
    The "from"s will be the last to get with the program.
  74. @whorefinder
    @Paul Walker Most beautiful man ever...

    Fucking brilliant. That's the fucking grin of victory.

    And the entire thing? Great song, fits perfectly his campaign theme, owns an insult and amplifies?

    The Trump campaign gets an A+ for political theater this campaign. Absolutely stunning. Anyone who thinks this guy is a buffoon is in complete denial.

    Replies: @The preferred nomenclature is...

    Exactly. I think he is going to make a great president.

  75. topkek is a religion of peace

  76. @Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY)
    The "Les Mis" song makes for a nice rousing introduction, but the song played when Trump finishes speaking has downer lyrics: the Rolling Stones song "You can't always get what you want." What's the thinking behind this song selection?

    Replies: @e, @CK

    Brilliance coming in
    brilliance going out.
    Smooooooth like butter
    cool like the underside of the pillow
    You too might find that you can get what you need.

  77. @Steve Sailer
    @Je Suis Charlie Martel

    I shall, Oscar, I shall.

    Replies: @Desiderius

    Oscar?

  78. @The preferred nomenclature is...
    @Anonymous

    Had a late dinner last night with a few guys I've known for awhile but was not close with. Come to find out the old (70+) retired judge that I always suspected of being light in the loafers (although divorced and has offspring) is a HUGE Trump guy and he I both believe a good president.

    You should have seen and heard him when 3 ME women walked by wearing hijabs (sp?).

    The medical trial attorney that is from good 'ol boy country and still shoots quite a bit on the family ranch used the old 'this is the best we can come up with' line. And thinks the Dond will lead to WWIII.

    Replies: @Desiderius

    The medical trial attorney that is from good ‘ol boy country

    The “from”s will be the last to get with the program.

  79. Jimmy Fallon doesn’t want to catch anything from Hillary:

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/09/wow-jimmy-kimmel-dons-surgical-mask-greet-hillary-tonight-show/

    He is not doing her any favors.

    • Agree: Kylie
    • Replies: @The most deplorable one
    @The most deplorable one

    And here, he makes fun of Clinton:

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/09/hah-jimmy-fallon-loses-cracking-latest-hillary-clinton-joke/

    Even before the election they are making fun of Hillary, but they never did that with Obama.

  80. @Perplexed
    @Kylie

    Right and succinct. Bravo!

    Replies: @Kylie

    Thank you!

    But I should have credited Max Bialystock for the quote.

  81. @pepperinmono
    One very under appreciated thing about Trump, maybe or maybe not having anything to do with his electoral prospects: he is freaking hilarious !
    Maybe it's just me?
    Am I the only one who feels this?

    Replies: @Kylie

    I think Trump is deliberately and naturally very funny.

    His comment to the effect that Hillary probably paid PR guys $2 million but he came up with “Crooked Hillary” all by himself for free tickled me no end.

    I thought SPY Magazine’s characterization of him as the “short-fingered vulgarian was funny. But he’s much funnier than they were.

    And as adaptable and resilient as he’s proven himself to be under the relentless, unfair and dishonest onslaught by the left, I bet he’s pretty healthy psychologically. Certainly healthy enough to be POTUS.

  82. Know your meme is really gonna see a spike in traffic if journalists keep trying to decipher every single meme alt-righters spam at them on Twitter. http://forward.com/opinion/national/342905/decoding-an-anti-semitic-meme-donald-trump-supporters-took-from-anime/
    It’s only a matter of time before we get a 60 Minutes report on the Cult of Kek.

  83. @Jack Hanson
    The illegal alien activist who was pissed about Trump saying illegals are rapists has just been charged with rape.

    Trump makes meme magic real.

    Replies: @iSteveFan, @Hell_is_like_newark

    Link to story?

  84. @iSteveFan
    @Jack Hanson

    Here is a link

    Shouldn't this guy now be deported?

    Replies: @Warner, @bomag

    He is the director of Proyecto Latino de Utah and he was director of Utah’s Hispanic Affairs Office and has had several Hispanic-affairs radio shows… He regularly organized protests.

    This highlights that there is money and careers to be made agitating for the replacement of traditional America. It is astonishing, and it is in many respects a criminal enterprise, illustrated by this guy.

  85. The article made Instapundit today. I sent it to my peeps with the heading, “Illegals doing the jobs American won’t do”.

  86. @Paul Walker Most beautiful man ever...
    The look on Trump's face! How good is that?

    Replies: @boogerbently, @whorefinder, @No_0ne

    Feels good, man.

  87. @Big Bill
    @Boomstick

    The rally was amazing! One huge, 90 minute rickroll.

    The MSM just sat there, listening, filming, broadcasting general after general, to the freaking world.

    And at the very end he blew them off in, what, 30 seconds?: Obama was born in the US. Period. No discussion. No chit-chat. No follow up. No cross examination. Sayonara, Baybee!

    Replies: @Old fogey

    The amazing thing to me was that the CNN panel which followed that event were so furious that they had been “played” (their word) by Trump in such a fashion. And then to see in the NYT that Trump’s questioning Obama’s birth place, after Obama had sold his books on the basis of his having been born in Kenya and raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, was considered by the esteemed editors a “lie.” I never knew that one could “lie” by asking a question.

  88. @Perplexed
    @TangoMan

    Birtherism is about a lot more than where O. was born. Trump sent investigators to Hawaii, so I guess they found evidence that he was born there, or at least couldn't disprove it. That doesn't resolve the questions about his forged birth certificate, his forged Selective Service card, his Connecticut Social Security number and multiple SSNs, and what might be on his school records. He has been lying all his life. He was the one who said he was born in Kenya. This isn't over.

    Replies: @Old fogey

    Thank you, “Perplexed” for your astute comment.

  89. @The most deplorable one
    Jimmy Fallon doesn't want to catch anything from Hillary:

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/09/wow-jimmy-kimmel-dons-surgical-mask-greet-hillary-tonight-show/

    He is not doing her any favors.

    Replies: @The most deplorable one

    And here, he makes fun of Clinton:

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/09/hah-jimmy-fallon-loses-cracking-latest-hillary-clinton-joke/

    Even before the election they are making fun of Hillary, but they never did that with Obama.

  90. While only tangentially on the subject, it is interesting to me that the Dornsife LA Times USC poll, which consistently shows Trump ahead, uses anonymity in its methodology. This probably explains its “pro Trump bias”. At present, it is showing a 7-6 Trump lead, which would translate into a Dukakis-like defeat of the Harpy. It is also interesting that the exit polls in the Berlin “Land” election in Germany showed AfD (Alternativ fuer Deutschland) a nationalist-populist anti-establishment party at 11% in the election for the provincial (also city) legislature. The actual results which came out showed a 14% vote for the populists, indicating a similar reluctance to own up to pollsters that one is supporting the populist choice. The other party which gained in the result was the Linke (post Communists or non-sellout socialists) who take an anti-US anti establishment position.
    More locally, I suspect that the turn-out models used by pollsters, based on 2012 where Obama was the candidate, are predicting a greater turnout among blacks than will likely occur with the harpy, who is now the proven originator of the “birther” movement through her crony Sid Blumenthal, as the candidate.
    She is toast unless Trump makes some extraordinarily serious unforced error, something which does not seem as likely at the moment.

  91. Looks like the Empress of Chappaqua may have handed the sword to The Don.

  92. I still see Trump as more a cultural phenomenon than a candidate for president but what do I know? No matter, ya gotta love the guy. He is getting it all thrown in his face and he”s sending it back like a human manure spreader. If Trump is elected this guy Keln should be his press secretary.

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