Is Trump Making Gaffs? Or Being Brilliant?

Discussion in 'Elections & Campaigns' started by longknife, Aug 14, 2016.

  1. Natty Bumpo

    Natty Bumpo Well-Known Member

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    Email protocol just doesn't have the lurid, prurient, tabloid allure of hallucinating about "thousands and thousands" of denizens of New Jersey cheering terrorism, labeling American POWs "losers", demeaning the parents of a soldier who gave his life for his country, mocking the disabled, advocating religious discrimination as immigration policy, etc. etc., etc.

    The reality tv performer is not a media darling without reason.

    Show business is show business!

    Unfortunately for the reality tv performer, there are other considerations in the disparate realm of elective politics.

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  2. bwk

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    Are you familiar with two dimensional thinking? I didn't think so. But just in case you're interested, it's actually buried the Republican party. How? Because, the party has abused it for one, and they think no one else understands it but them. And that's been their big downfall. Your post is prime example.
     
  3. Lil Mike

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    Can you honestly not read? If you think I am lying, please point out specifically where I lied.

    As an aside, I do admire the way you are trying to cover your embarrassment of not even being aware of your queen's earliest campaign promise. It's a good tactic...normally.

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    Then you don't even know what the topic of the thread is! Sad!
     
  4. akphidelt2007

    akphidelt2007 New Member Past Donor

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    I'm asking you to explain it yourself. What part of the 1st amendment does she want to amend? Simple question.
     
  5. Lil Mike

    Lil Mike Well-Known Member

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    I'm curious why you are asking me when I'm not the one campaigning on a constitutional amendment to amend the First Amendment. You're the Hillary girl here, why don't you tell me?



    Oh that's right! Because you didn't even know Hillary was running on that! I had to actually inform you of it! Better figure out what the old girl is running on!
     
  6. bwk

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    We'll, I do now. It's been re-titled thanks to you; "Hillary wants to amend the First amendment, except I can't explain what parts".
     
  7. akphidelt2007

    akphidelt2007 New Member Past Donor

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    So you're gonna play childish games and not act like a grown up. Trump loves people like you, lol. All you have to do is explain yourself. Shouldn't be that hard to do, lol.
     
  8. bwk

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    We would, except we can't, because your two dimensional thinking doesn't make any sense.
     
  9. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    Do conservatives ever stop to think that all this nonstop slander might backfire? That people might start to feel some sympathy for the person attacked, and/or say that nobody can be THAT bad and start to really look into the allegations, only to find out they are nearly all either unsubstantiated or outright lies?

    Then again most of us are not conservative. We're actually capable of feeling sympathy for someone, instead of admiring the person who attacks war heros, gold star familiies and every minority on the planet
     
  10. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    I didn't know she was running on that either. In fact, I don't think she is.

    Please elaborate on that, or I and most others here will consider it bull(*)(*)(*)(*)
     
  11. Lil Mike

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    You mean, you won't look up what parts your own candidate wants to amend.

    You're welcome for the correction by the way.
     
  12. Lil Mike

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    There is nothing childish about you requesting a source for one of the principal planks for your own candidate and me providing it. The childish part is you wanting me to break down and explain your own candidate's position. A position by the way, that you apparently never heard of until yesterday.

    You really should grow up.

    No, for the questions you've been dodging, why do you think it's my responsibility to explain your own candidate's position to you?

    And since you've accused me of lying, please point out where exactly I've lied?
     
  13. Lil Mike

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    Although you have provided zero intelligent content to this thread, I think with this post you are actually going into the negative. Although I realize your goal, along with [MENTION]alphidelt2007[/MENTION] was to derail the thread. On that you two seem to be successful. It's very unusual to derail a thread about Trump to a much more boring (Hillary) topic.
     
  14. Lil Mike

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    I've already provided the link, but I'm astounded that yet another Hillary person self identifies as not even knowing one of the main parts of her platform.
     
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    Sympathy? For Miss "we came, we saw, he died ..... hah-hahaha!!!"???

    Not in a million years.

     
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    So let me get this right, you want a robot as a president?
     
  17. Lil Mike

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    ****???****
     
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    "Trump is running a brilliant campaign, luring Clinton and the Dems into a false sense of security, by being inept and alienating mainstream voters!"


    :D
     
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    In Trump's true goal.

    He's not trying to be president. He's trying to get those big audiences because they feed his ego. Watch trump's speech to the NHBA last Thursday not for the content but for his persona.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HBZQnL_aIQ

    The crowd was relatively small and polite but obviously not Trump "maniacs" and his delivery was absolutely flat. "Low energy" as he would say about Jeb.

    Now a rally yesterday...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh85FiRr3Cg

    See the difference in his body language, tone of his delivery and the like.

    I don't use youtube as a content source but as a visual aid in reading a person's personality it can be helpful.

    Trump feeds off his audiences and the louder they get the wilder he gets on stage.

    Now, why do people come? Well who doesn't want a front row seat to a train wreck?
     
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    Yeah you dont think much.
     
  21. yardmeat

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    He's basically said in The Art of the Deal that this is his exact strategy. It is a little brilliant for a celebrity, but I think it is coming back to bite him as a politician.
     
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    IDK but even right wing media outlets are talking about this.... some people think he's tanking his own campaign on purpose for a clinton win.. do you guys think this is likely? even rush Limbaugh got a call about it from one of his listeners: http://tinyurl.com/vennTrumpCampaignConspiracy I am really not sure if his "gaffes" are real or calculated
     
  24. TomFitz

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    She didn't say anything about amending the First Amendment. You made that up.

    I see that you're childishly trying to play games with that fact, and push the dishonest right wing meme that unlimited secret campaign cash is a first amendment right.
     
  25. pol meister

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    Yes, it worked well for Trump in the primaires. The rino establishment types he was running against in the primaries were sitting ducks, it was easy for Trump to make them look like the paid-for establishment politicians they were. All he needed was the exposure to do so.

    But Trump needs more than media exposure to defeat Hillary. He needs to counteract the rhetorical games that liberals always play. Here is an example of what Trump should be saying:

    "You know I want to build a big wall, with a big door in it to secure our borders, and to legally enforce an immigration system that works for America, not one that works for everyone else.

    Hillary says she wants to build a bridge. Yeah, she wants to build a bridge all right! A bridge into your wallet, a bridge to higher taxes, a bridge to more outsourcing of jobs, a bridge into your constitutional freedoms, and a bridge to more illegal immigration; along with the crime, drugs, and costs that come from it. So when Hillary says she wants to build a bridge, be very wary of what that bridge is leading us into."


    Trump has to learn to effectively counteract the false messaging of the left. He hasn't done so, so far.
     

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