OK, but what if the fucker actually won? What you kids need to do sometime today -- and we do mean today; don't put this off -- is to go read Paul Solotaroff's terrific profile of Donald Trump in Rolling Stone, which hit the web Wednesday evening and should leave you feeling more than a little unsettled. It's a serious look at a ridiculous human being who is convinced that he will be president of the United States, and the horror of the article is that, more than any other piece we've read about the Ferret-Haired Boy, it makes us begin to wonder if this bombastic shithead might actually get himself elected. Man, are we ever going to be relieved when we turn out to be dead wrong to have worried at all. But what if the bastard pulls it off?
Reagan was a new type of president, a nice thick straw man who was hollow inside. Dubya was built in the manner of Reagan, except he was hollow on the outside, too.
Now, Donald Trump is a micron thick balloon of a president, kept inflated with natural hydrogen sulfide, known as bad egg gas.
Not to underestimate the gullibility of the American electorate, but there is also an undercurrent of cynicism. Reagan tapped it by promising a tax-free supply-side utopia. People may be more jaded now, since that failed. Trump has rallied the hold-outs who still believe that crap, even though he doesn't preach it. His is essentially a vanity campaign, though his capture of the base is impressive, and he is already moving to center. It's a good strategy, but he is still offends a lot of people every time he opens his mouth. I see him holding a solid minority.
Nope, it's harder to come here than New Zealand and we have a dickhead at the helm at the moment, (he'll be gone within 6 months though I predict.) New Zealand at least has gay marriage and a shiny new flag!!
I wouldn't call turning the tax code over to the financial services sector, gutting environmental regulations, exploding the deficit, and turning militaristic jingoism into a national fetish "not doing shit."
i don't think there's a god. but i think if one did exist. and it made everything and all that jazz. that god is sitting somewhere with its face in its hand and utter this one word, "shit."
I do not like Trump and won't even stay in his hotels, but check back after November 8, 2016, on your 20% number. In my estimation, Trump could beat Reagan, dead, or alive. Sickening, I know.
That is fucking ADORABLE, and much more palatable, visually, than Trump.
A rabbit on a bad hare day.
Reagan was a new type of president, a nice thick straw man who was hollow inside. Dubya was built in the manner of Reagan, except he was hollow on the outside, too.
Now, Donald Trump is a micron thick balloon of a president, kept inflated with natural hydrogen sulfide, known as bad egg gas.
Probably not. Most of what Trump is proposing is impossible anyway. Even if he wins he probably won't do shit, just like Reagan.
Not to underestimate the gullibility of the American electorate, but there is also an undercurrent of cynicism. Reagan tapped it by promising a tax-free supply-side utopia. People may be more jaded now, since that failed. Trump has rallied the hold-outs who still believe that crap, even though he doesn't preach it. His is essentially a vanity campaign, though his capture of the base is impressive, and he is already moving to center. It's a good strategy, but he is still offends a lot of people every time he opens his mouth. I see him holding a solid minority.
Nope, it's harder to come here than New Zealand and we have a dickhead at the helm at the moment, (he'll be gone within 6 months though I predict.) New Zealand at least has gay marriage and a shiny new flag!!
Ebola is arguably better than being eaten alive by hyenas.
Now, THIS is a better face of the president, if the new president is Donald Trump.
This is how Arnie got into the Governor's spot. Of course, first thing once he was there...
Actually, no. First thing he did was to "borrow" $3B from education, iirc.
I wouldn't call turning the tax code over to the financial services sector, gutting environmental regulations, exploding the deficit, and turning militaristic jingoism into a national fetish "not doing shit."
not sure where there was an inference that Reagan was classy, the whole exercise was the comparison
i don't think there's a god. but i think if one did exist. and it made everything and all that jazz. that god is sitting somewhere with its face in its hand and utter this one word, "shit."
I do not like Trump and won't even stay in his hotels, but check back after November 8, 2016, on your 20% number. In my estimation, Trump could beat Reagan, dead, or alive. Sickening, I know.
Consider Santiago, Chile and Montevideo, Uruguay, seriously.
Keep in touch. Maybe we will become neighbors.
"Nope, it's harder to come here than New Zealand"
wait, you can't just commit a crime?