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I think the Chimp thing was about W. I don't recall nobody calling names the rest of his family.

 

So his daughters never were chastised?

 

Party girls and were on a lot of memes. Almost sure they were not compared with animals.

Chelsea was called a dog.

 

So now it's degrees.

 

His was humorous...her's was racial!

 

Dude, Michelle Obama has been subject to 8 years of vile racist attacks. Trying to deny or defend it does not make you look very intelligent.

 

So getting back to the Donald. Today's Washington Post has an opinion piece saying that linguistic analysis shows that Trump speaks at a third grade level when he is out campaigning. And then there is another article by a political scientist pondering why Trump has such widespread support among Virginia evangelicals.

They are leaving it up to us to connect the dots.

 

https://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks/videos/10153447163439205/

You left one key element out...

 

A really ingenious prank would be to have lights on in the shape of someone taking a dump on Trump.

 

Quote one post where I either defended or denied anything of the sort. One f-ing post.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/fir...ld-trump-declines-to-disavow-david-duke/?_r=0

I'm surprised that the media isn't hit this one hard.

Actually, no I'm not surprised. They'll hit it hard come presidential election.

 

"You lie!!!"

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35682844

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has retweeted a quote widely attributed to Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini.

The tweet, created by a parody account and including Mr Trump's handle, read: "It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep."

The account is named @ilduce2016 after Mussolini's Italian title, the Leader.

Asked about the tweet in a TV interview, Mr Trump said he wanted "to be associated with interesting quotes".

"Mussolini was Mussolini... What difference does it make?" Mr Trump said when asked about the retweet on NBC's Meet The Press programme. "It got your attention, didn't it?"​

Like I said elsewhere, it would be nice if we could say it was an unexpected turn of events but... well, that's not really true, is it.

 

What might be worrying is that he makes a transition to main stream. I'm starting to see some acceptation among right wing acquaintances..

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ted-cruz-speculates-donald-trumps-taxes-show-mafia/story?id=37242130

Where was Cruz during the debates with bringing up this kind of stuff? He seemed more than happy to sit back and watch Rubio do all the mud slinging during the last debate, yet in his interviews he tries to be Mr. Hardcore with the attacks.

3 more days until Super Tuesday and it appears things are going to to get really fun.

 

Never did I say anything of the sort, it's you reading that into my comments, as you are prone to do.

I started this whole tangent by stating hatred will be spewed by both sides and you are now trying to say I don't think the comments about her aren't racist?

What's wrong with you?

 

How do we account for the rise of Trump, at least according to NYT columnist Ross Douthat? Let's just say this could be cross-posted in another thread by a certain no-longer-with-us poster who liked to tag all his posts woth the catchphrase, "Another Obama Failure" ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/o...-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

What it hasn’t inspired is much in the way of self-examination, or a recognition of the way that Obama-era trends in liberal politics have helped feed the Trump phenomenon.

Such a recognition wouldn’t require letting the Republican Party off the hook. The Trump uprising is first and foremost a Republican and conservative problem: There would be no Trumpism if George W. Bush’s presidency hadn’t cratered, no Trumpism if the party hadn’t alternated between stoking and ignoring working-class grievances, no Trump as front-runner if the party leadership and his rivals had committed fully to stopping him before now.

But Trumpism is also a creature of the late Obama era, irrupting after eight years when a charismatic liberal president has dominated the cultural landscape and set the agenda for national debates. President Obama didn’t give us Trump in any kind of Machiavellian or deliberate fashion. But it isn’t an accident that this is the way the Obama era ends — with a reality TV demagogue leading a populist, nationalist revolt....

<snip to conclusion, wluding some valid critiques of the current president, and some really dumb assumptions as well>

...He is the Republican Party’s monster, yes. But what he represents is also part of the Obama legacy — a nemesis for liberal follies as well as conservative corruptions, and a threat to both traditions for many years to come.​

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