If Donald Trump could point out in front of a partisan military-oriented Republican crowd in the South, that George Bush and his administration made up lies about Iraq's WMD to justify the war which ruined the country, claimed untold thousands of lives and destabilized the Middle East, advantaging Iran - and he ought to be impeached, he is definitely a remarkable candidate, no matter what you think of him otherwise. Most Democrats don't have the guts to speak the truth quite like that, although Sanders comes close - and certainly Hillary cannot since she and many other Democrats and the NYT supported it.
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I didn't even watch the debate. Trump is a carnival barker who should go back to his tacky hotels and be the next Apprentice. Also, his wig seems to be wearing out. Dump Trump!!!
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don't get it what does the super bowl has to do with being president, and funny how he likes to insult everyone else but wants to sue for comments made about him. i can just imagine what he's going to do or come up with if he doesn't get the nomination, and for Trump who is suppose to be financial genius, he shouldn't have had to claim bankruptcy so many times, just to get out of paying his own debts. I don't think he has any moral values except for his own personal gain.
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Donald Trump learned well all the "crude language" needed for being president of the United States at the knee of Richard M. Nixon.
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Nixon, at the very least, had the civility not to use them in public and never, ever on videotape or television.
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Except, of course, when Nixon didn't know his tapes would go public. His tapes are full of the most horrible profanities.
At least Trump speaks his mind in public. Nixon was the vilest of hypocrites, always speaking publicly with his forked tongue, while behind doors he seethed with venom against the world [1,2].
1. http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2008/12/02/4429073-nixon-tapes-ruthle...
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jct3m-6EIqI
At least Trump speaks his mind in public. Nixon was the vilest of hypocrites, always speaking publicly with his forked tongue, while behind doors he seethed with venom against the world [1,2].
1. http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2008/12/02/4429073-nixon-tapes-ruthle...
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jct3m-6EIqI
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Hurray for the Denver defense and Superbowl 50! Great game for football fans who actually remember that Denver gave up 43 points only two years ago. Trump is so self obsessed that he has no sense of history, and his supporters have no sense of self.
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Hair Trump is just as courageous today as he was,
When he dodged the Viet Nam draft.
When he dodged the Viet Nam draft.
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I'm waiting for the article that analyzes Donald Trump by a psychiatrist. Because somebody should before it's too late.
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To be fair to the Donald, that Super Bowl did stink.
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Cam Newrton's fault.
It took a team effort to lose like that...and I was for Carolina!!!
While the Republican candidates make one despair for the future of mankind in general, and western civilization in particular, one may take solace that physicists detected gravitational pull that confirmed Einstein's theories. So not everyone is a dolt, or revels in anti-intellectualism. Amazingly, intellectually curious people have survived thoughout the ages. I only hope those physicists take time from their research to vote in November.
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Who cares?
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Where's Tom Lehrer when we need him? The mind boggles at what he'd come up with with the likes of Trump and Cruz. I'm no Tom Lehrer, but fools rush in to sing what wise men dread to hear, and I gave it a shot myself. Check it out on you tube by searching for
Trump, Trump... Trumpicana Uber Alles
Trump, Trump... Trumpicana Uber Alles
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No...Tom Lehrer would not be able to handle the likes of Trump and the other candidates because Lehrer is a decent man who practiced gentle humor. Trump and the other candidates are so vulgar and outrageous that they're already satires of what we perceive as politicians. They're impossible to satirize further. The only way to satirize Trump is to imaging a version with decency.
I can't even imagine what Mort Sahl is thinking.
It's too bad Jon Stewart didn't stick around another year, but I watched Samantha Bee's new show and I laughed so hard, I hurt myself.
I can't even imagine what Mort Sahl is thinking.
It's too bad Jon Stewart didn't stick around another year, but I watched Samantha Bee's new show and I laughed so hard, I hurt myself.
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The NYT is "cruisin' for a bruisin" by continuing to smugly cover Trump's Tweets. Have you ever heard of karma?
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You have to be kidding. Right?
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Trump is the only honest candidate. If people interpret his honesty as insulting, well that confirms the above statement. He presents equal opportunity...I can't think of one priveleged group he has not insulted. The Press, the Zionists, women, LGBT, the leach-countries that have been siphoning US economy, Muslims, Mexicans, etc, etc. We have gone too far in being PC. If Trump can reverse only China's MFNTS, he will live up to his message.
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Just because Trump vomits every idiot thought that comes to his mind at the maturity level of an immature junior high school boy (with apologies to junior high school boys) doesn't make him honest. It just makes him someone with no filter. If that makes someone qualified for office, then I know a bunch of three-year-olds who should be running.
In fact, he's completely dishonest because he has no plan and no way to implement anything he's been talking about. He will have far less support in Congress than Obama has since Trump is hated by both parties. He won't be able to get a single piece of legislation passed and he either already knows that or is in complete denial about how the legislative system that is part of our Democracy works. In either case, that makes him completely unqualified and a liar.
In fact, he's completely dishonest because he has no plan and no way to implement anything he's been talking about. He will have far less support in Congress than Obama has since Trump is hated by both parties. He won't be able to get a single piece of legislation passed and he either already knows that or is in complete denial about how the legislative system that is part of our Democracy works. In either case, that makes him completely unqualified and a liar.
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Mr. Yahoo, I believe your name tells us all we need to know about your judgement.
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You equate mean-spirited boorishness and the intellectual dexterity of a schoolyard bully with honesty? You need to wipe the mud off your glasses.
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This is news or interesting?
Trump is obviously a genius if he can get NYT coverage just for having a underling type out some innocuous comment that surface skimming liberals can get 'outraged' over. The biggest 'outrage' of all is that someone is getting paid good money to catalog this stuff. Congratulations.
Trump is obviously a genius if he can get NYT coverage just for having a underling type out some innocuous comment that surface skimming liberals can get 'outraged' over. The biggest 'outrage' of all is that someone is getting paid good money to catalog this stuff. Congratulations.
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In fairness to Trump (and I am a card carrying, tree-hugging liberal), the Cruz campaign was "sleazy and dishonest" in:
- sending those mailers and
- in announcing Ben Carson had dropped out and actively spreading that story.
It's crazy to me that there has been more focus on Cam Newton's press conference (or lack thereof) than of the outright fraud in a presidential campaign.
- sending those mailers and
- in announcing Ben Carson had dropped out and actively spreading that story.
It's crazy to me that there has been more focus on Cam Newton's press conference (or lack thereof) than of the outright fraud in a presidential campaign.
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Einstein said that insanity was repeating the same behavior and expecting a different result. The NYT obviously is not familiar with this universal truth. Your ad nauseum repetitions of Trump Twitters can only have a positive effect on his followers. And your misguided attempt to call Trump out only adds fuel to his fire.
Keep it up. Free PR is infinitely more powerful than advertising.
Keep it up. Free PR is infinitely more powerful than advertising.
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Donald Trump is campaigning to be president of the United States and in case you haven't noticed his campaign style is somewhat juvenile at best, and thus comical when parsed. So, if he wants to park his Clown Car at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue he has to be continually vetted during the run-up to election night.
And since Mr. Trump has taken to using Twitter to display his political acumen, ahem!, I believe a critique of what he's saying on Twitter is news-worthy because Twitter is such that it limits his nonsensical ramblings and spares us so much of his dribble and allows us to move on.
And since Mr. Trump has taken to using Twitter to display his political acumen, ahem!, I believe a critique of what he's saying on Twitter is news-worthy because Twitter is such that it limits his nonsensical ramblings and spares us so much of his dribble and allows us to move on.
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Trump reminds me of Jack E Leonard , a comedian of the late 50s and 60s . He , like Trump , was bald but didn't do a combover . He did the insult stuff , in my opinion , funnier and better than Don Rickles . Trump must have watched Professor Irwin Corey too on TV back in those days like I did . Trump obviously cut a lot of classes and sat around watching these guys . He is a combo of all them from those daze and with his facial gyrations added into the mix of insults seems just as funny and unbelievably nutty too ! Trump's wife always standing there too looking bored and bewildered only adds onto the slapstick nature of the whole scene , like the girl assisting a magician onstage ! What a show the next for years will be . I never thought Reality TV would take over the Oval Office !
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Superbowl was a pathetic bore. The problem often is that Trump is right. He just has a provocative way of saying things sometimes. And, no wonder, it seems to be working for him.
Sanders is hardly an different--only different bogeymen and empty promises.
Sanders is hardly an different--only different bogeymen and empty promises.
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Every time I hear another of his insults it reminds me that so much of his bile is aimed at the lowest common denominator. Trump excels at nothing except extolling his own virtues (as he sees them). He has nothing positive to say. He plays to peoples fear and their base instinct. I don't agree with Marco Rubio on much but his description of Trump as 'to crude for the office of President', may be the most sensible thing he's said yet.
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On a GOP debate stage next to Jeb, no less.
Why does it take a Trump to speak truth the whole country knows but politicians ignore? Maybe that's partly why we have such an unusual clown car this GOP primary. Politicians are not getting why people are furious with them.
Kudos to Trump for the times truth breaks out of him. No PC indeed.
Go Bernie.