Pic Of The Moment: The Donald Divide

[EarlG]

Trumped: How The Donald's Comments Are Dividing the 2016 GOP Field

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[femmocrat]

1. First rec!

[SoapBox]

2. Ugh...he is so full of HATE!

[RufusTFirefly]

3. Unrec

With all due respect, I don't understand the obsession with Trump, who, mark my words, will never get anywhere near the White House. He is a serious distraction from core issues whose principal role is to make normally radical politicians seem level-headed in comparison. Frankly, I regret that I even wasted some of my time commenting on this tabloid buffoon but the prevalence of these stories is difficult to ignore.

[alp227]

7. He's dangerous. He's exposing the Republican base for what it is.

He's rising in Republican primary polls. He's doing a frick ton to drive the bigots and regressive thinkers to the polls in 2016.

[SoapBox]

11. Agreed.

[Initech]

14. He's the candidate approved by everyone's racist uncle.

[Saviolo]

13. I thought that, too...

But now I fear he may turn into a modern Reagan.

Saw a clip on TYT about how people are reacting positively to his belligerence. Definitely something that we're seeing here. He's got name recognition, which seems to be a huge key. He's built his brand for so long, and people like it.

I'm hoping it's not going to be true (and I don't really think it is), but there's this outside chance that his fame will work for him in that way.

Symptom of a sickness in the system.

[MADem]

16. If you don't understand the focus, you don't understand American media.

Media loves to focus on 1) The horse race (even if there isn't one) and 2) The outliers. Weirdos and No-chancers are like spices in a bowl of bland rice.

There are no "serious distraction(s)" from "core issues" at this stage of the game. We won't be going to the polls to pick a President for well over a year. The primaries are well in the distance, so are the debates (which is when people start to focus) and "inattentive summer" is here, where no one wants hard news and everyone is on holiday.

Trump is like a soup simmering on the back burner of the stove--always ready to serve up at a moment's notice.

Of course, ignore is your friend if you can't bear him. I regard him as the GOP harbinger--even more so when some of those idiots openly embrace him.

Kucinich didn't have a hope in hell of getting anywhere near the White House, either, but that didn't stop him from eating up a shitload of bandwidth here. People like to chat--it's amusing. And there's no one funnier than Loudmouth "The Donald" who also manages to make one realize that money doesn't buy everything.

[47of74]

4. Yeah, the reich wing talking sacks of s--t on Faux "News" were going on about it this morning.

I'm having my car worked on and they had it on in the waiting room. Andrea Tantaros and the rest of the reich wing windbags were going on about the shooting in California and about how Donald Trump had a point. I turned it to local news the first chance I got. First because we may have some severe weather around here and I wanted to see the weather, and second because I want to see actual news, not a televised Klan rally.

[LibDemAlways]

18. At a 4th of July get together at a friend's

house, a couple of R's were going on and on about how they plan on voting for Trump because he's the only one willing to take on the "illegals" and how the "liberals" and Obama (of course) have "blood on their hands" for the SF shooting.

Judging by comments I've seen in news articles about the shooting, I'd say there is a sizeable contingent of people who'd be likely to vote for Trump on this issue alone. Yes, he's a noxious, oportunistic windbag, but the racist message he's spreading is one that, unfortunately, represents the view of many R primary voters.

[liberal N proud]

5. Jeb is wrong, Trumps views are widely held by Republicans and the Republican Party

[Fred Sanders]

6. The only solution to this Republican predicament is to revise recent history and claim the GOP always treated

openly racist Trump as the Crazy Uncle.....but then how come there are still so many Welcome! mats outside the "big tent"?

CNN, you on this?

Amnesia has always been the GOP's best friend, but erasing the recent memory of Trump is gonna take some heavy lifting.

[calimary]

8. The only problem though, as I see it, it gives jeb bush an opening to be the "reasonable" one.

And he gets to be the victim because of his wife. Turns him into a more sympathetic character. And THAT we do NOT need.

I have been loving Donald Trump's trashing of the brand. But now I'm wondering if maybe it isn't time for him to STFU. DO NOT give any of these assholes, ESPECIALLY jeb bush, a chance to climb up out of the muck and look like either an "innocent" victim or a sympathetic character, or even a hero. RULE # ONE!!!

[RufusTFirefly]

9. +1. You are exactly correct. n/t

[yuiyoshida]

10. gah! Could you imagine this guy

winning the Nomination for his party? We would have to think, "The Republicans have totally lost it, gone over the edge.. crashed and burned..without knowing it!"

[d_legendary1]

15. I'll be rubbing my hind legs if Trump gets the nom!

It will ensure that a Democrat gets to the White House. Guaranteed!

[niyad]

20. you are assuming an intelligent voting population, and incorruptible voting machines and counting,

no gerrymandered districts, no ken blackwell/kathleen harris tricks, yes?

[d_legendary1]

24. If that's the case then we're stuck with President J. Bush already

Why bother going to bat for our Democratic candidates if you're going to throw in the towel before election day?

[niyad]

25. do you deny the reality of the obstacles I mentioned? it is not

"throwing in the towel" to acknowledge that we face some serious challenges.

[d_legendary1]

28. Not every state is illiterate or fixed

You can't throw out the baby with the bath water. Send the right message to the massess and the will respond in kind. We saw that during Obama's bid for the White House. Why do you think its impossible now?

[niyad]

29. do not put words in my mouth. nothing that you said is what I said, but nice try.

[d_legendary1]

30. I didn't put anything in your mouth (not yet anyway)

But if you don't want to have a meaningful conversation then just say so. All I'm saying is don't count the people out.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. The alien symbiant that lives under his scalp and whose tentacles we see on his head

is an illegal alien. It jumped on for the ride as Trump was departing from his sojourn on Mars.

[PersonNumber503602]

17. Cruz is such a lump of shit.

Trump is a clown, but that is all he is. I know I'm missing the point of this graphic, but I really despise Cruz.

[47of74]

19. That's insulting....

...to lumps of shit.

[Midnight Writer]

22. Your comment resonates with me

I have apparently been saying loudly "You Piece of Sh*t!" at the television whenever Ted Cruz appears.

I didn't realize it until I saw my small terrier dog cowering in the corner of the room. I guess when I shouted he thought it was meant for him.

[Grown2Hate]

21. C'mon, you have to give him SOME credit...

You're conveniently leaving out what he said RIGHT after that... he does ASSUME that SOME Mexicans are good people! I mean, he's not 100% SURE (like he is about the rape, and all), but he assumes that some HAVE to be good people (probably strictly statistically speaking). So lay off the Don.

Oh, for god's sake, do I REALLY need this? Ugh... just in case...

[XRubicon]

23. I bet he employs undocumented workers at his properties

I wish some reporter would take 5 minutes out of their busy day with a camera outside one his properties.

I'd love to hear his excuses.

[libdem4life]

26. He doesn't need to excuse...they would be just the very few "good ones". Easy peasy.

[arcane1]

27. "Surprise! Some Workers Building Trump’s Newest Hotel Reportedly Came to U.S. Illegally"

Despite his recent statements about the types of undocumented Mexicans who come over the border, and his stubborn refusal to walk those statements back as he’s seen business deals crumble, a Washington Post article on Tuesday revealed that Donald Trump may be reliant upon undocumented-immigrant labor to construct his latest real-estate development.

The Post interviewed several construction workers and day laborers working on Trump’s new $200 million Washington, D.C., hotel, and discovered that some were undocumented immigrants, afraid for their jobs in light of Trump’s announcement. Others, who agreed to be interviewed on the record, said they were once undocumented immigrants who obtained legal status, and expressed “disgust” at Trump’s disparaging comments.

“The majority of us are Hispanics, many who came illegally,” Ivan Arellano, a mason who originally came from Mexico and eventually gained his legal status through marriage, told the Post. “And we’re all here working very hard to build a better life for our families.”


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http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/07/illegal-immigrants-donald-trump-hotel



His clothing line is made in China, too