“Good news guys I’ve figured out how the Trump campaign ends”
The tweet links to a video clip from the 1983 movie The Dead Zone, which features a character played by Christopher Walken attempting to gun down a political figure played by Martin Sheen.
In the plot, Walken’s character tries to kill the US Senatorial candidate (played by Sheen) because he has visions of him becoming president in the future and starting a nuclear war. Sheen’s character holds up a baby as a human shield during the assassination attempt, destroying his credibility.
While joking about an assassination attempt on any public figure is crass, it’s particularly relevant with Trump because he faces a very real threat of being targeted.
As we previously highlighted, according to his former advisor Roger Stone, Trump now wears a bullet proof vest at all public appearance due to the sheer volume of death threats he receives on a regular basis.
Trump first began wearing the vest in October last year after after reports that the world’s most wanted drug lord El Chapo had put a $100 million bounty on his head. He also received Secret Service protection at around this time.
Following his controversial comments on Muslim immigration back in December, Twitter exploded with death threats aimed at Trump.
Reaction to Douthat’s Twitter quip from Trump supporters was forceful.
Douthat bills himself as a conservative, but in his latest column for the New York Times he concludes that “President Hillary” would be a better choice for America than “our own nuclear-armed Berlusconi”.
Attacks on Trump from conservatives and members of the Republican establishment have picked up in recent days, with Mitt Romney remarking yesterday that the billionaire’s tax documents could be hiding a “bombshell” revelation.
Just love the establishment politicos and establishment media attacking Trump. Regardless of your political leaning and likes/dislikes, the major reason to vote Trump – he is not part of the career establishment in politics.
What the hell was wrong with Berlusconi?
The reality is that Trump isn’t going to hide behind a child, he carries a gun and wears a bullet proof vest should such a situation arise.
And a failed attempt, particularly if Trump participated actively in its failure, would guarantee him the Presidency.
And I have no doubt he would participate actively in its failure if his security doesn’t prevent it in their efforts to protect him.
Then there’s this from the war-whore rag National Review ….
“The Republican party is infected with a virus, and that virus can be expunged only by direct action. Donald Trump isn’t going to go away. He’s not going to say anything stupid enough to deter his legions. The magical unicorns of “political gravity” aren’t going to save the Republican party from nominating a man who is antithetical to everything the party has stood for since Barry Goldwater won the nomination in 1964. He has to be defeated. He has to be exposed. He has to be humiliated on national TV in front of 25 million people.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431893/cruz-rubio-trump-debate
AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!! The establishment is in P-A-N-I-C (!!!!!!) mode. hahahahaha Goddamn, that’s truly fucking enjoyable to behold.
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The Donald owns a nice pussy.
But, Berlusconi owns MOAR …. lots moar.
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The Official GOP Debate Drinking Game Rules, Pt. 10
Thursday night’s GOP debate in Houston may be the last one that will have any kind of impact on the nomination. Super Tuesday is screaming down upon us, and the whole deal might be wrapped up at that point.
That means this may be our last chance at a pre-apocalypse laugh. The rules for this GOP debate drinking game:
TAKE A SHOT:
1. The first time (and first time only) one of the candidates compares himself to St. Ronald Reagan.
2. When Ben Carson complains that nobody’s calling on him.
3. At the phrases “Great state of Texas,” “Don’t mess with Texas,” or “Everything’s bigger in Texas.” Double if that last one comes from Trump in a suggestive tone. Triple-shot if Trump says “Everything except Marco is bigger in Texas.”
4. If Cruz mentions he’s from Texas more than five times. Take an additional shot for each time after that.
5. Every time someone jokes about Jeb Bush no longer being there. Double if the essence of the joke is that it’s hard to tell the difference.
6. When Kasich makes a speech or comment whose essence is, “Well, excuse me for being sane, but…” Drink also if a moderator calls Kasich a “moderate.”
7. When anyone calls anyone else a “liar.”
8. Whenever any of the non-Trump candidates calls him a “closet Democrat” or “not a conservative.”
9. Whenever anyone mentions Cruz’s “dirty tricks.”
10. When Carson recites lines from the Bible or the Constitution.
11. When any candidate mentions being the son/grandson of a hardworking bartender/mail carrier/housecleaner/etc. and therefore is not just a believer in the American Dream, but a product of it.
12. Whenever Trump mocks someone’s poll numbers.
BONUS DRINK:
Players may want to make side-bets as to what happens more often: Cruz reminding the audience that he’s Texan, or Trump reminding them that Cruz is from Canada. We can have a bonus shot if Cruz mentions his Texan-ness only to have Trump immediately call him a Canadian Texan.
Lastly, I propose we create a toast in honor of the recently fallen. Instead of saying “Cheers” or “Prost,” we might say, before drinking, “Chris Christie was a federal prosecutor.”
You notice on public radio that Trump is always the most feared opponent. That tells you something right there.
He might lose. But you know he is going to say something. Those say something’s willl irrevocably damage a Clinton presidency. Youth civil unrest and another bank bailout that goes unpunished will result in the law in the hands of the street.
Nothing on the Huffington Post regarding Russ Douchethatbag today but they do have this as their lead post currently:
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/56cf4437e4b0bf0dab31222f
I’d rather lose with Trump than win with Rubio, but the truth is that Trump would crush Hillary like a bug and Rubio would get crushed like Rick Lazio.
Imagine the shit-storm if someone had said that in ’08 when our H1/2NIC was running.
@Stucky
If we play (drink) by your rules we will likely all be passed-out by the third commercial. I could drink like that in college, but not anymore.
It’s my worry. We get a guy like this who has the gut’s to go up against the establishment – and tell them to their faces that they are corrupt pieces of shit. This is a guy who openly says Obama is our worst president.
Additionally the MSM only reports on the liberal agenda. They never acknowledge that 65% of the people want the Niggers to go to work and get off welfare.
Yes, he’s bombastic, but he’s expressing everything we don’t get to say.
Leftist believe in and practice tolerance for all , or so I’ve been told.
Iska @ 4:22 pm says: “I’d rather lose with Trump than win with Rubio, but the truth is that Trump would crush Hillary like a bug and Rubio would get crushed like Rick Lazio.”
Limp wristed, feminine posture and sexy man boots. What could possibly go wrong? After all, it’s not like Marco is a homo or anything, ya know?
Have faith in the GOP establishment. They know what they are doing.
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Anon was I above.
haha
Finally decided to check my email. I got this email from Ted Cruz last week. I hit unsubscribe. When it asked me for a reason I typed —–> “Because, you, Ted are a dick and I hope you choke on a bag of dicks. Now fuckoff and never contact me again.” heh
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Ted Cruz (urgent, personal) Unsubscribe
Dear Nick,
This won’t be my typical email to you. I hope you will take a moment to read it.
If you are like me, you are probably getting a little tired of all the noise and media frenzy around this campaign. The personal attacks and outright false claims are staggering.
There is so much misleading information flying around on cable TV, the internet and the so-called “mainstream” media — it’s enough to make good people abandon this process and just turn it off altogether.
But, Nick, despite how frustrating this process is — it is of critical importance. I will never give up fighting for Americans and working to win this campaign because so much is on the line.
I hope and pray you won’t give up either.
In fact, I’m so committed to winning this campaign I want to make you a personal commitment today (and in a second I’m going to ask you to make a commitment in return).
First, my commitment to you:
I will always be a consistent conservative — both in word and deed. You will never have to worry about me caving to the Washington establishment.
I will always shoot straight with you. I will tell the truth. I will apologize when I make a mistake.
I will run an honorable campaign. I will discuss the difference between candidates, but I will not engage in personal negative attacks. And when I’m personally attacked, I will not respond in kind with vicious below-the-belt revenge attacks.
I will be a good steward of your support and financial investment in me. I want you to know your support is faithfully used.
I will work as hard as I can, make personal and professional sacrifices to win this campaign, and reignite liberty in our nation.
I don’t make these commitments lightly. They are my heartfelt vows to you.
If you accept these commitments as my open pledge to you, then I’m hoping you will make a commitment to me as well.
Your commitment would mean a great deal to me, as I am just days away from the votes being cast in South Carolina, and the stakes are incredibly high.
YES, I COMMIT
Honestly Nick, to win this campaign, I’m going to need your commitment because I cannot do it alone.
That’s why I hope you will make the following commitment to me:
Commit to pray. In the words of our savior Jesus Christ, where two or more gather, He is there. And while I am blessed with an incredible prayer team, I hope I can count on your prayers as well.
Commit to vote. No matter which state you live in, your vote will have the power to help shape this country, and I hope you will commit to vote for me.
Commit to support to this campaign and make an important donation when I need it most.
Our campaign is coming up against the most brutal opposition only days before the next primary votes are to be cast, and to overcome it, I need the renewed commitment of each and every supporter of my campaign — no matter the size.
YES, I COMMIT
Nick, thank you for taking the time to read my rather lengthy email. And thank you for considering making a commitment to my campaign.
This is our time, and together we can reignite liberty across America.
Heidi and I are forever grateful for you support.
For liberty,
Ted Cruz
Stuck – at least he was nice enough not to refer to you by your full name!
Stucky @ 4:55 pm:
This is why I love Stucky. He stands up for what he believes and is fearless in sticking it to a Goldman Sachs little bitch of a candidate.
Beware to those whom wish to bullshit Stucky. The words of warning from the webs claim he is near seven feet tall. This means, with Heir Stuckmeister, EVERYTHING is bigger. Especially, his brain and heart.
It reminds me of the age old fable as follows:
A stranger walks into town and seeking refreshment, he goes into a bar. Inside, everyone is in a panic finishing their drinks in a hurried manner in order to get home, gather their families and get out dodge.
Unconcerned, the stranger asks the bartender for a drink.
The bartender replies in a nervous and shaky voice:
“Gotta’ run. This is the time to swallow your pride and run and hide. None of us here should mess around. Very soon, Stucky is coming to town”.
The stranger shrugs, pours his own drink, leaves some money on the bar and watches as the entire town vacates.
Soon, while enjoying his drink, the stranger hears terrible sounds from outside the bar. Somewhat frightened he goes to the window, looks outside and sees a giant of a man with flinty eyes like Clint Eastwood but with the body of Arnold Schwarzenegger except on ten times the steroids.
The stranger watches the man knock down buildings and overturn cars like they were mere toys.
In no time, this Herculean man crashes through the front of the bar, stomps inside and looks around.
Fearing for his very life, the stranger, now hiding in a corner, and with a weak and trembling voice, he asks this human force of nature now towering above him: “Can, can, can I pour you a drink?”
The man looks down at the stranger and replies in a booming bass voice that rattles the rafters overhead and causes some shingles to fall off the roof of the bar:
“Gotta’ run. This is the time to swallow your pride and run and hide. None of us here should mess around. Very soon, Stucky is coming to town”.
🙂
Don’t you know, you all are a bunch of “fearful, frustrated white Nationalists!” [/sarc]
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/31/the-fearful-and-the-frustrated
Long read. Final paragraph:
Trump’s candidacy has already left a durable mark, expanding the discourse of hate such that, in the midst of his feuds and provocations, we barely even registered that Senator Ted Cruz had called the sitting President “the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism,” or that Senator Marco Rubio had redoubled his opposition to abortion in cases of rape, incest, or a mortal threat to the mother. Trump has bequeathed a concoction of celebrity, wealth, and alienation that is more potent than any we’ve seen before. If, as the Republican establishment hopes, the stargazers eventually defect, Trump will be left with the hardest core—the portion of the electorate that is drifting deeper into unreality, with no reconciliation in sight.
Unquestionable
Well, dahum!! I guess you’re not the one giving me down votes. heh heh Thanks, man.
Loved the “story”. Arnold is also Austrian, as am I, and yes — I am built just as powerfully, if not more so. Just ask the folks who went to the NYC party. They’ll tell ya … if they know what’s good for them.
“Yes, Virginia, if you read it in The New Yorker, it’s so.”
Stuck – In reading it again I can see how some might interpret is as sardonic. But that was not my intention. I thought your reply regarding the Cruz letter was hilarious. Plus, I’m a little bored right now and sometimes all the doom and gloom gets tedious. Just goofing around. I’m glad you didn’t take it the wrong way. Rock on…
If Cruz had an autocorrect then the letter could have been addressed:
Dear Butthole,
See Stuck, I never forget little tidbits.
For most of TBP that will not make sense – it is an inside joke. Which Stuck does not find very funny. Which is of course why I do it now and then. Gotta stir the big fella up now and then. Otherwise he gets bored.
Unquestionable ——— Take it the wrong way? No way! I was quite flattered, actually. TY
Llpoh … yeah, you can still get me riled up. But, I generally don’t like getting into shit-fests with you. You’ve been a “brother” here for so many years now … as have several other long timers … and Big Dog bashing has lost some of its novelty.
I’d rather fuck-up NEW BLOOD, new assholes, …. and we’ve had quite a few lately.
Ohmigod!! Two thumbs down on the Berlusconi titty pic??
You two are jerkoffs. Do you even know what that means?
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Wanted to make it 3 Stuck, but I just couldn’t.
Trump has secret service protection, so did that asshole NYT columnist get a visit from them?
Dangit! After considering the political establishment, the Dems, the GOP, Rubio, etc and Frank Zappa from another TBP thread here today, I just now can’t now get this song out of my head:
Trump just got my vote.
“Al Sharpton might ‘get out of here’ if Trump wins”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/al-sharpton-might-get-out-of-here-if-trump-wins/article/2584260
From Esquire Magazine, February 2016.
See:
There Is Only One Way to Stop Donald Trump Now
by Charles Pierce, February 24, 2016
Pierce compares Trump to Huey Long, a Louisiana populist Senator, who planned to run for the presidency in 1936 but was assassinated in 1935.
About Trump, Pierce writes, “There does not appear to be any way to stop him now. Unless something completely untoward happens, he, Trump will be the Republican nominee for president.”
Pierce does not advocate that Trump be assassinated but the juxtaposition of Trump with Long and the conclusion that there is only one way to stop Trump, makes one wonder what Pierce’s message really is.
Several references to “Secret Service” protection above. Anyone know which federal department they work for? Anyone? And which non-governmental entity that agency seems to be beholden to?
We’re so far down the rabbit hole that I wouldn’t trust the SS to really protect someone like Trump. If I were Trump I’d have SS on the outer cordon but my own privately paid and trusted men as my real guards.
Times endorses Trump! Chinese endorse Trump! Vincent’s Fox endorsed Trump today. I don’t trlkust Trump but these endorsements are beginning to sway me.
..oh yeah, Mitt Romney endorsed him today . Good enough for me.
Overthecliff says: [Vicente] Fox endorsed Trump today.
Next you’ll claim I absolutely LOVE I-S.
Anybody watching the debate this evening?
Brutal. Or, is the word “lively”?
Cruz and Rubio battering Trump on every occasion. Cruz and Rubio are NOT going after each other.
Rubio is a Cuban Cunt. Don’t know how Donald keeps from reaching over and chocking that faggotfuk piece of shit.
Rubio and Cruz brought up something I forgot about …….. Trump University and all the lawsuits against that failed endeavor. They are both correct … it really was a fucking scam.
I’m not saying Donald is losing this evening. But he sure as shit isn’t scoring a lot of points, imho.
There’s only one blond guy up there, I guess any more and it would look like an accountant reunion.
Kasich! would spare us a lot of the drama of Trump, Rubio or Cruz.
Persnickety, I think the SS was in on Kennedy’s murder. Also, beware of vice presidents.