Forget Everything Donald Trump Said. His Real Message Was The Guy Standing Behind Him.

[Snarkoleptic]

Carl effing Paladino!

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/04/19/3771086/forget-everything-donald-trump-said-his-real-message-was-the-guy-standing-behind-him/

But Trump made a more subtle incendiary statement by choosing to deliver his victory speech while standing next to 2010 New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino. Paladino, a real estate developer who rode the tea party wave to a surprising victory in that year’s Republican primary before he was trounced by Democrat Andrew Cuomo in the general contest, is mostly remembered for a series of ridiculous and offensive things he said and did (during and before his campaign), including:

— Saying he’d transform some New York prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients, where they could work in state-sponsored jobs, get employment training and take lessons in “personal hygiene.”

“Instead of handing out the welfare checks, we’ll teach people how to earn their check. We’ll teach them personal hygiene… the personal things they don’t get when they come from dysfunctional homes,” he said.

— Forwarding emails containing racial messages about President Obama, birther claims, pornography, and bestiality. When confronted about his emails, Paladino blamed Democrats.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Good catch. Thanks. . . nt

[Snarkoleptic]

18. Thanks, this increasingly bizarre side show keeps moving on somehow.

[malaise]

2. I saw that

Birds of a feather

[baldguy]

3. What position in the Trump Adminstration will KKKarl get?

The very thought is horrifying.

[FighttheFuture]

16. HHS (Health and Human Services) Secretary, obviously!

Big plans for those Prisons, err... dorms.

[Snarkoleptic]

17. Perhaps a new cabinet level position?

Secretary of baseball bats and intimidating journalists?

[ReRe]

4. There you go...

... I knew his evil face, but couldn't remember his name. One more reason we must defeat Trump.

[Fla Dem]

5. Trump has attracted the worse of the worse. nt

[annabanana]

19. yeah.. His shout-out to Carl Icahn made me cringe. . . .n/t

[Paladin]

6. Paladino is a racist piece of shit.

Rachel Maddow did an ass-kicking segment on him a few days ago. He and Trump deserve one another.

[NewJeffCT]

7. he blamed Democrats

because he forwarded racist emails about Obama?

What happened to the Party of Personal Responsibility? Shouldn't it really be the Party of No Responsibility as long as you have a Fat Wallet?

[Jitter65]

8. Hope Bernie and Hillary are putting this info in their primary message banks for the GE. nt

[BlancheSplanchnik]

9. Paladino...vomit

I remember that one. Ugh!

[randr]

10. The blonds are coming, the blonds are coming

Just needed some comic relief.

[Hekate]

14. No kidding. I just about needed to wear my sunglasses due to all that blondness arrayed by Trump...

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Take out stock in Lady Clairol!

Edited to add: Not the photo in the OP, the footage shown this morning on tv. Yikes.

[silvershadow]

11. i saw him. Vile. nt

[maxsolomon]

12. Is this the assclown who was interviewd on NPR this morning around 6:30 am?

That guy was a piece of work. Obama "doesn't care about the country" because "he's so into himself". Meanwhile, Trump's flaws (one of which is that he's an Egoist) don't matter because "you don't care who the exterminator is; you just want the raccoons out of the attic".

Yeesh.

[MADem]

13. That is a fair point to be made--I didn't follow that campaign closely but I do remember the

whole "jails" thing--one of the papers did a big write-up on it.

Figures that birds of feather....

[Blue_Tires]

15. So in four years, Paladino has gone from

fringe extremist to establishment GOP... Brilliant