Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/10/2015 07:11 -0500
Donald Trump, GOP frontrunner and self-styled anti-establishment candidate, knows how to entertain.
He also understands that he has built a political brand which garners momentum from the very type of controversy that would sink any other candidate in the field.
When you put those two things together, you have a recipe for bombastic rhetoric designed to hold the electorate in a perpetual state of shock and embed a tiny voice that says “you know, maybe he’s right” in the back of voters’ collective mind.
The genius of Trump is that he’s been remarkably adept at making voters question whether what he says is actually crazy or just sounds that way because Americans have been conditioned to recoil at anything that breaks decorum or sounds like it might not be “PC.” And that plays right into his message. He makes you wonder if it’s you that’s the crazy one. Perhaps you’ve been put in a stupor by years of watered down stump speeches and Trump is just speaking plainly and saying what everyone knows is true but is too scared to say in public. If that’s true, he’s a kind of nationalistic Morpheus trying to pull you out of a dangerous, misplaced multiculturalism Matrix. Or at least that’s what he wants you to think. It could be that he is exactly what his detractors say he is: a demagogue that’s stark raving mad.
As we said earlier this week, voters will ultimately decide what Trump is or isn’t and render their judgement at the polls and make no mistake, the Donald’s controversial suggestion that Muslims should be banned from entering the country has resonated with large swaths of the electorate and a new poll shows that in South Carolina, Trump has opened up a commanding lead since creating a firestorm on Monday.
“It’s no wonder Trump is leading,” GOP mouthpiece Fox News (which has had its differences with Trump this year) says. “He’s ahead among both those who prioritize national security and economic issues. He’s the top pick among voters on the two most important candidate qualities — strong leader and, to a lesser degree, honest and trustworthy. Plus, he’s considered the most electable — by a lot.”
The poll surveyed 437 likely Republican primary voters by phone from December 5-8. Here are the numbers at a glance:
- Trump: 35%
- Carson: 15%
- Cruz: 14%
- Rubio: 14%
- Bush: 5%
Don’t even ask about the rest of the field.
Here’s more from Fox:
There’s no gender gap in Trump’s support, as about a third of men (37 percent) and women (32 percent) GOP voters make him their first choice.
The favorites among white evangelical Christians voting in the GOP primary are Trump (34 percent), Carson (18 percent), Cruz (15 percent) and Rubio (12 percent).
Trump holds a wide lead among voters who say national security is their top issue. He receives 32 percent — twice the support for Carson, Cruz and Rubio, who each get 16 percent among national security voters.
And those who prioritize economic issues back the same four candidates: Trump (32 percent), Rubio (14 percent), Carson (12 percent) and Cruz (12 percent).
[In a] 48 percent landslide, Trump got [the nod] when GOP primary voters are asked which Republican candidate is “most qualified” to handle the economy. No other candidate even garners double digits on this measure. The next closest are Bush and Cruz at 9 percent each, followed by Rubio at 8 percent.
Strong leadership is the top trait GOP primary voters want in their party’s nominee (26 percent).
Voters who say strong leadership is the most important trait are most likely to support Trump by a wide 23-point margin.
GOP primary voters think Trump is the Republican most likely to beat Clinton in the general election next year. Some 42 percent feel that way. Next is Rubio at 14 percent.
As for the Democratic ticket, the poll showed that as far as South Carolina voters are concerned, Clinton is essentially running unopposed.
And the punchline: “It looks like his [Muslin ban] comments helped him in South Carolina. Support for Trump increased eight points after his statement — from 30 percent the first two nights vs. 38 percent the last two nights.”
Trump is also surging in the national polls. According to the latest New York Times, CBS poll, Trump’s support among Republican primary voters has gained 13 pts to 35%, his highest level yet.
It’s hilarious how consistently low Bush polls. He won’t even rate a footnote in this election cycle.
I think what drives Trump’s popularity is the perception of authenticity. People are craving, starving even begging for a politician to come along who says what he/she means, even if we disagree with it. All we’ve had since Reagan are these vacuous poll-driven assholes who say one thing (usually what the majority of people want to hear) then do another. He’s the only one running with even a modicum of credibility that he believes what he says and will do what he says.
Besides Trump, I’, leaning to Cruz.
Trump’s idea is a good start. However, we don’t need ANY immigration for the foreseeable future. None from anywhere!
“you know, maybe he’s right”
“If that’s true, he’s a kind of nationalistic Morpheus trying to pull you out of a dangerous, misplaced multiculturalism Matrix.”
Because by all measures how could America be any better than it is right now, right?
It is simply amazing how years of prosperity and indolence has so numbed a population to the degradation of their culture that they no longer recognize just how deeply ill the population has become, from the obesity to the pharmacological stupor, to the epidemic of broken homes and rampant vulgarity at all levels of society to the endless conflicts and deep debt that can never be paid off to the colleges that churn out illiterates, to the world’s most expensive surveillance society that requires grannies in wheelchairs to strip off their Depends for women wearing hajibs, to men sawing off their healthy body parts so they can be faux females- What could possibly be wrong? It’s all swell, everything’s coming up roses.
The big problem is anyone noticing it. That would have dire consequences. Check.
Trump “coincidentally” expands his far-Right rhetoric after Le Pen’s triumph in France!
http://bit.ly/1QxAwEM
1 Samuel 8:5 When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as Israel’s leaders.They said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have.”
1 Samuel 8:11 He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots.”
1 Samuel 8:18 ”When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”
Every time the Left and Media attacks him he gains ground.
That -leftist and MSM attacks- is probably the best endorsement he can have.
I was talking about the very same thing with my wife last night. The best thing the media could ever do if they really hate this guy (unless this is an elaborate Punk’d campaign- Got ya! It’s just a new reality show called “YOU’RE INAUGURATED!”) is stop reporting on him. You guys make stuff disappear down the memory hole every single day. Treat him like he’s the statistics on race and violent crime and people will be walking around in a Xanax haze three weeks from now going, “Wasn’t there another guy running for President a couple of months ago?”
It’s true, every word out of his mouth generates a BRAND NEW OUTRAGE THAT MUST NOT BE TOLERATED AND DISQUALIFY HIM!!! followed by a two point uptick in the polls.
Hint to media, they aren’t voting him in, they’re voting you out.
Trump is up 8pts in South Carolina.
I/S points out how low Bush polls but if you go back in the way back machine, TPTB picked the Repuke candidate with the rock bottom lowest numbers in the primary to run against Clinton while they were setting Perot up for the third party dog and pony show to pull votes away from the Repukes. The fix was in for the Clintons then and the fix is in for the Clintons now . Same set up ,same scenario.
I would almost bet the farm Jeb will be the Repugnant candidate, Trump will be the third party candidate and Hitlery has already written her speech for her victorious win on election night.
I stand with Rand. Still the only one that makes any sense. South Carolinians are morons through and through. We will see what Iowa will bring.
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Bea, I have a suspicion you are right. Hope not, though.
The media has always lied but they jumped the shark in the last 8 years. The crap they feed us is so outrageously untrue I believe NOTHING they say anymore. Admin is right, this election means nothing. This baby is going down. I just hope the Marxists,mohammedans and cum swallowing media whores get theirs when it happens.
Will be good to hear Trump tell the current POTUS: “You’re fired you SOB!”.
Overthecliff
I went back in the way back machine to see if the cum swallowing media whores were ever dealt with……….alas no……..we are still fucked.
Here is something that may give you hope, it is what I have dedicated my life to for years,TRUTH.
As I stroll around different blogs on the internet and check out the comments, I am seeing more and more comments calling out the matrix/ news /fake everything for the BIG LIE that it is. Could a true awakening be happening……I am giddy at the prospect. Stucky needs to put out moar articles about the fake world in which we live.
To Stucky & the rest of you monkeys who are even considering voting for Trump…keep in mind he wants to HANG SNOWDEN.
Trump Takes Nation By Storm: More Americans Agree With Muslim Ban Than Reject It
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/10/2015 19:50 -0500
In case you were confused how it is that Donald Trump’s polling numbers could increase following his Muslim-ban comments (which have beeen widely denigrated by any and all talking head who can fog a mirror – from The White House down…), here is the “surely not us?” answer.
As The Hill reports, a new post-Trump survey by Rasmussed finds that 46% of likely voters would favor a policy preventing Muslim immigrants from entering the country until tighter screening procedures can be implemented, while only 40% would oppose such a measure.
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In direct opposition to what The White House said (that Trump’s proposal is “totally contrary to our values as Americans,”) it is apparent from this survey that the Obama Administration does not know its ‘constituents’ as well as it may have thought.
Simply put, based on this poll, more Americans – republicans and democrats – support Trump’s idea of banning the entry of Muslims into America than oppose it, and now that it is ‘polling’ as a populist idea, we await Hillary Clinton to jump on the bandwagon.
Westy, think of snowden this way. He’s the brave motherfucker who jumped on a grenade to save the rest of us. His story ain’t over till it’s over. In the mean time, we got work to do.
Trump. He’s a real man, not owned by anyone and knows the Media are weasels. The real Americans support him because he tells it like it is. He doesn’t care what anyone thinks. He doesn’t grovel for forgiveness from the Liberals.
http://woundedamericanwarrior.com/muslim-savages-koran-terrorist
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7151/britain-islamization
◾Hospitals across Britain are dealing with at least 15 new cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) every day. Although FGM has been illegal in Britain since 1984, there has not been a single conviction.
◾At least 1,400 children were sexually exploited between 1997 and 2013 in the town of Rotherham, mostly by Muslim gangs, but police and municipal officials failed to tackle the problem because they feared being branded “racist” or “Islamophobic.”
◾There has been a 60% increase in child sexual abuse reported to the police over the past four years, according to official figures.
◾British intelligence are monitoring more than 3,000 homegrown Islamist extremists willing to carry out attacks in Britain.
◾A Muslim worker at a nuclear power plant in West Kilbride, Scotland, was removed from the premises after he was caught studying bomb-making materials while on the job.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/germany-stunned-by-rash-of-new-years-sex-assaults/ar-AAgnBTP?li=BBnbcA1