Donald Trump is destroying everybody so far in Nevada polls. God damn. Smh

[futureshock]

Dis nigga here

One of our front-runners for president of the United States, Donald Trump, brags about his extramarital conquests. No, really, he actually said: “I have too much respect for women in general, but if I did (write about my sex life), the world would take serious notice. Beautiful, famous, successful, married — I've had them all, secretly, the world's biggest names . . .” And he is the likely candidate for the party that professes to believe that marriage is between one man and one woman.


Why Donald Trump Is A Bad Man And Would Be A Bad President
By: streiff (streiff (Diary) | January 27th, 2016 at 11:30 AM | 80




Back in August 1992, Secretary of Labor Lynn Martin gave one of the nominating speeches on behalf of George H. W. Bush. It was the typical dross one hears at a convention save one prescient line:


“You cannot be one kind of man and another kind of president.”

The point was very simple and very telling. Democrats were telling us that Bill Clinton’s sexual escapades and Hillary Clinton’s grifting were private failings and that those failings had no bearing whatsoever on how they would act once ensconced in the White House. Martin’s point was that character is character. And she was proven correct, in spades. Under the Clintons the White House became a device for grubbing money from all sources. Pardons were sold. Enemies invented and punished. Female staff were used as party favors. The grifting Rodham clan virtually moved their double-wide onto the South Lawn.

“You cannot be one kind of man and another kind of president.”

And we are now at that juncture again. A point where the GOP seems poised to nominate a man to be president who actually favors those things many of us have spent our political lives agitating against. Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse had tweeted out a number of questions for Trump, who has studiously ignored them. You really should read them all. To me, though, the linchpin is Sasse’s question number four.



Indeed.

Trump has been typically braggadocious about his adultery and philandering. For instance, these come from his various literary works:

“If I told the real stories of my experiences with women, often seemingly very happily married and important women, this book would be a guaranteed best-seller (which it will be anyway!). I’d love to tell all, using names and places, but I just don’t think it’s right.” (“Trump: The Art of the Comeback”)

and

“I have too much respect for women in general, but if I did [write about my love life], the world would take serious notice. Beautiful, famous, successful, married — I’ve had them all, secretly, the world’s biggest names…”

If you are a supporter of Trump (let me say here, that even as I write this, if Trump is the nominee I will crawl over broken glass to vote to keep Hillary Clinton the hell out of the White House) at some point you have to ask yourself if Trump views a sacred vow like marriage, the epitome of the really big deal, as a minor impediment to him if he wants another man’s wife, then what chance do you have in dealing with him?

At his core, Trump is a very bad man. Not “bad man” in terms of being a criminal, but a bad man, a man devoid of manly virtues. And he is a corrupter who has learned to use his wealth to corrupt anyone who opposes him. How else to explain a self-admitted serial adulterer who has never seen reason to ask God for forgiveness being held up as aparagon of Christian living by the head of a religious university:

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. defended Donald Trump’s remarks at convocation Monday morning, telling Fox News that Christians should be more concerned about the candidate’s personal character than his Biblical expertise.

“He may not be a theological expert and he might say two Corinthians instead of second Corinthians, but when you look at the fruits of his life and all the people he’s provided jobs, I think that’s the true test of somebody’s Christianity not whether or not they use the right theological terms,” Falwell told Sean Hannity Monday night.

Seriously? You look at the fruits of Trump’s life and you see a witness for Christianity? The abuse of illegal workers on his construction projects? Using the force of government to take a widow’s house? The sham bankruptcies that ruined small vendors? The massive debt owed to every bank on the North American continent? The casual slander of people who disagree with him? His sucking up to racists? The support of partial birth abortion? The using of women as sexual objects? The prideful adulteries?

When you add this to his policy preferences and his admiration for Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Chuck Schumer you have a very ugly picture.

“You cannot be one kind of man and another kind of president.”

 

[phanatic]

In his victory speech this fool actually told the people who voted for him - "I Love The Poorly Educated"

no way in hell cacs across america are this stupid as fuck is it

Even the dumbest cac still thinks they're better than the smartest brother. We have lawyers on here, and there's some middle america trailer park cac that thinks they're better as they're drinking a bud and working on a shitty pick up truck

 

[Art Vandelay]

you're not basing this idea on any historical precedent, information, facts, or recent events. Obama won TWICE in a ROW, remember? what, he didnt piss off those "so many people" before now? those supposed people ARENT ENOUGH to elect a president in the general. and lets face it, REPUBLICANS hate Trump.

Obama would win a third term so easily it's funny. No Dem could successfully primary him and he would crush Trump so much harder than Clinton or Sanders possibly could. (And he'd demolish Cruz or Rubio as well.)

 

[Art Vandelay]

Kerry lost Ohio. He was just a 'blah' candidate. Democrats don't do well with those candidates. The last two democratic presidents were superstars that got people excited. The democratic party is throwing the guy who gets young people excited under the bus. Sanders supporters see the fuckery, and who knows how they act in the general.

This shit is just ugly. "Experts" just said that Bush dropping out would fuel Rubio then Nevada happened and they can't explain shit once again.

Citizens United is literally on the ballot. Sanders supporters will get in line.

 

[Art Vandelay]

Sanders has a huge fight on his hands. The numbers he is putting up are amazing considering the push Hillary has received. I think more black voters stay home if Hillary wins. Just so much baggage with her. People are underestimating the number of democrats who will stay home. Even Sanders is a huge letdown after the excitement Obama gave us.

Online comments tell the story. The "I voted democrat last time, but I hate what's happening" crowd seems to be growing. CAC gets fired, next thing you know it's 'Go Trump!"

Voter ID problems in a republican election is fucking hilarious.

Is there any state where Sanders is winning the black vote? I know he's getting crushed in South Carolina and nationally.

Hillary won Nevada because black people backed Clinton more than 3 to 1. Sanders actually won Latinos... by eight points! (According to entrance polls which Clinton's side disputes-- either way, she was supposed to beat him soundly with Latinos and they were the group everyone was watching). Nevada could be the beginning of a downward spiral for the Sanders campaign and it was the black community that decided the result there.

Sanders seems to have the academic class with blacks and that's about it-- Clinton has the political establishment and the masses. It seems to all be on the basis of Bill Clinton's reputation and Obama making her Secretary of State in 2009. That seems to be a wall Sanders just can't break through. I don't know what more he can do.

 

[Art Vandelay]

That they may be. Show me the last politician that won on a platform that they were going to raise everyone's taxes....

That's why Sanders wins on trustworthiness. Since George H.W. Bush said "Read my lips, no new taxes," there are few if any examples of politicians running on raising taxes except for the wealthy (and with Republicans, almost universally, not even then). Yet taxes have gone up plenty of times.

You're right that it's new-- a breath of fresh air, to many. The Obama Democratic party of preserving Bush tax cuts for people making a quarter million a year and pretending that's the middle class is not the Democratic many want to see. It's not hard to get real middle class people who pay taxes and bills that they'll pay x amount in taxes and save y amount in premiums to get on board with a policy where x is less than y. Especially knowing that wealthier people are paying more to make up that gap. It's a winning message.

 

[totto]

Any other candidate was this hot with multiple marriages? I read something like Donald is the first guy to be married like 3 times lol.

 

[rebel]

After March 1, 52 percent of Republican delegates will be awarded on a winner-take-all basis, keeping alive the possibility that a large early Trump delegate lead could be erased quickly by modest losses later. March 15 is truly the GOP’s “day of reckoning,” and Florida may be the most pivotal state on the entire calendar. If Trump defeats Rubio in his winner-take-all backyard, it would be game over. But if Rubio wins over enough of Jeb Bush’s old supporters to claim Florida’s 99-delegate jackpot, it could mark a long-awaited turning point in the race. At the very least, he could leverage such an outcome to try to prevent Trump from winning a majority of delegates by June.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republicans-last-ditch-hope-to-stop-donald-trump/

 

[D Town Redd]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republicans-last-ditch-hope-to-stop-donald-trump/

Isn't trump leading in FLA?

 

[SPECTRE1]

You need to vet the candidates charater, after determining they would be successful at being president. President Nixon is a perfect example, he had character issues that should have red flagged him.

Once they get in, they can do some serious damage.

Other countries have better choices of candidates, this election cycle is weak in the U.S.

 

[Art Vandelay]

Is there any state where Sanders is winning the black vote? I know he's getting crushed in South Carolina and nationally.

Hillary won Nevada because black people backed Clinton more than 3 to 1. Sanders actually won Latinos... by eight points! (According to entrance polls which Clinton's side disputes-- either way, she was supposed to beat him soundly with Latinos and they were the group everyone was watching). Nevada could be the beginning of a downward spiral for the Sanders campaign and it was the black community that decided the result there.

Sanders seems to have the academic class with blacks and that's about it-- Clinton has the political establishment and the masses. It seems to all be on the basis of Bill Clinton's reputation and Obama making her Secretary of State in 2009. That seems to be a wall Sanders just can't break through. I don't know what more he can do.

Black thinkers like Bernie Sanders. They've studied the Clintons' true cost
Steven W Thrasher

Spike Lee is the latest black public intellectual to endorse Bernie Sanders and to question the sanity of black voters and politicians pledging their allegiance to the Clintons, who have done as much harm to black America as any living political couple. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I am mystified by robust black support for Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing helped me wake up about race in America when I first watched it as a teenager. That’s why I was delighted to read that Spike Leeencouraged South Carolina democrats to “wake up” in a radio ad on Tuesday and to vote for “Brother Bernie”.

Bill Clinton governed through playing to white fears by hurting, locking up or even executing black Americans. He left the campaign trail in 1992 to oversee theexecution of Ricky Ray Rector, a black man so mentally incapacitated, he reportedly did not eat the dessert from his final meal because he was “saving it for later”. When in office, Bill Clinton ended welfare for poor children and destroyed countless black families through a crime bill even he now admits made mass incarceration worse, while Hillary Clinton would go out and whip up support for this accelerated disenfranchisement and marginalization of black America, even when it meant referring to children as “superpredators”.
The case against Clintonian neoliberalism is compelling. I am glad to see black thinkers making a case for Sanders’ democratic socialism and its potential to address structural racism as an alternative. If anyone is smart enough to effectively make Sanders’ case to black America, it would be the intellectual leaders who have endorsed him thus far.

Take Spike Lee. He is one of the contemporary black geniuses who have helped the nation (and me personally) reconsider race in transformative ways – and the latest to be feeling the Bern. Or Cornel West, who has been stumping for “Brother Bernie” for months. Just as I understood race differently after watching Crooklyn and Jungle Fever, I grew to understand black liberation theology and the radical potential of Christianity by reading West’s books – his influence been immeasurable. And, like much of America, I learned how to better think about the case for reparations after Ta-Nehisi Coates made it in the Atlantic. That’s why it matters so much that he said he would vote for Sanders.

Similarly, much of the country first got woke about the scale and racism of mass incarceration when they read Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Alexander has not endorsed Sanders or any candidate – “I endorse the revolution” she wrote– but she has offered the most skewering critique on why “Hillary Clinton doesn’t deserve the black vote” in the Nation. She has also reminded black voters that“we are not checkmated” – that we can approach politics with a sense of possibility.

No one speaks for “the black community” or the mythical “black voter”. But the Black Lives Matter movement has upped the level of discourse and critique in racial politics. So, it’s fantastic to see such serious black minds from American film, letters and academia making their cases in public with insight and heft. And, given their decades of deep intellectual work on race (along with Sanders’ commitment to universal public college tuition and healthcare and his aversion to Wall Street and private prisons), their cases for Sanders are sound.

Much less intellectually sound are the arguments of Clinton’s black surrogates. When she was endorsed by the corporate-funded Super Pac of the Congressional Black Caucus (not by the CBC itself or by its members), the only reason seemed to be political expediency. The black members of congress seemed intent on maintaining their relationship within the Clinton power structure, no matter how deeply invested it may be in white supremacy. Like Clinton, much of the CBC isbeholden to Wall Street. So Sanders – with no connection to Wall Street or to aglobal foundation ripe for harvesting political chits – offers CBC members little possibility of power except by way of his gamble for the White House.

To me, Sanders is not only appealing because he marched with Martin Luther King Jr or was arrested fighting racism (though I like the idea of a president who has been arrested for social justice). Sanders is most interesting because he offers black Americans a real possibility for change, thanks to his willingness to genuinely critique capitalism. You don’t get to take millions in speaking fees over the years as Hillary Clinton has done – much of it from banks – and get to critique capitalism.

This critique is not without specific implications for black Americans. Malcolm X infamously said: “You can’t have capitalism without racism.” The Clinton machine is the friend of unfettered capitalism, which makes them the friend ofracial capitalism, too. Sanders and his dreams of democratic socialism are the enemy of cowboy capitalism – and the racist system in enables.

This is just one of the many intellectual arguments to be made in his favor. As more black geniuses feel the Bern, our arsenal of arguments in favor of the revolution will only grow. For those of us longing for change, they could not have spoken out at a better time.