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On May 06 2016 06:58 ticklishmusic wrote:


FWIW that vid is old and the guy asked a question that supported that inference

On May 06 2016 07:07 Plansix wrote:
The Trump taco bowl is the highlight of my twitter feed right now. So much will be made of this.

On May 06 2016 07:08 Mohdoo wrote:

It's exactly what xdaunt and I were both saying. As soon as he needs to, doing absolutely everything to salvage the Latino vote. And I bet he'll salvage a ton of it.

On May 06 2016 06:56 andrewlt wrote:


Which posters can I imagine as Trump or Lucifer?

And please let's not discuss feminism in this thread. We're all guys. The discussion gets extremely stupid when it's discussed with a 100% male group.

On May 06 2016 07:23 Lord Tolkien wrote:

Hrm? So you're saying cis-gendered heterosexual males (which is a false assumption, I can assure you) cannot discuss feminism at all, or understand it?

On May 06 2016 07:26 andrewlt wrote:
His "I love Hispanics" made me remember his "I love the uneducated" comment.

As a Chinese American, I'm waiting to be pandered to with a picture of him eating orange chicken in a Panda Express. Pretty please?

On May 06 2016 07:23 Lord Tolkien wrote:

Hrm? So you're saying cis-gendered heterosexual males (which is a false assumption, I can assure you) cannot discuss feminism at all, or understand it?

On May 06 2016 07:16 Plansix wrote:

Are you being sarcastic? You do know that taco bowls are not Hispanic in any way, right? There are so many levels to that tweet. Like that he is from New York and has unlimited access to authentic Latin American food, but decided to go with the a taco bell invention. This will be received with a bemused confusion as to why the white man is trying to cater to them by eating food that they do not make.

On May 06 2016 07:26 andrewlt wrote:
As a Chinese American, I'm waiting to be pandered to with a picture of him eating orange chicken in a Panda Express. Pretty please?

On May 06 2016 06:57 Mohdoo wrote:
Trump is eating taco bowls and Bernie is assuming a Hindu is Muslim. I hope this election never ends.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/728297587418247168?lang=en

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hjVD9JKufA&feature=youtu.be&t=1m28s

On May 06 2016 07:33 oBlade wrote:

Those things would happen anyway, it's just that if it weren't a presidential election, people would recognize they're not noteworthy.

On May 06 2016 07:39 ticklishmusic wrote:


Yeah, except it wouldn't be blatant pandering to a certain demographic in that case

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Thursday he cannot at this time support or endorse Donald Trump, the presumptive presidential nominee of his own party.

“I’m just not ready to do that at this point. I’m not there yet,” Ryan said in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. “I hope to and want to. What’s required is that we unify the party.”

The speaker said he wants to endorse his party’s nominee, but that more needs to be done to unify the GOP before he can do so. He added that the GOP needs a “standard-bearer that bears our standards” before he can make an endorsement.

Nearly all previous GOP presidential nominees are sitting out the party’s convention in Cleveland — including President George H.W. Bush, President George W. Bush, Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who mounted a fierce but ultimately unsuccessful campaign against Trump earlier this year.

“I think it’s possible but we’re not there right now,” Ryan added of the prospect of uniting his party.

Trump responded to the speaker’s comments in a statement Thursday afternoon.

“I am not ready to support Speaker Ryan’s agenda,” the presumptive nominee said. “Perhaps in the future we can work together and come to an agreement about what is best for the American people. They have been treated so badly for so long that it is about time for politicians to put them first!”

Eager to seize on the dramatic fissure between two of the GOP’s top leaders, the campaign of Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton emailed Ryan’s remarks to reporters immediately after he made them, adding his name to a “growing list of conservatives rebuking Trump.”

In the immediate aftermath of Ryan refusing to endorse Trump on Thursday, lawmakers contacted by HuffPost were unwilling to give their reactions on the record.

On May 06 2016 07:39 ticklishmusic wrote:


Yeah, except it wouldn't be blatant pandering to a certain demographic in that case

NEW YORK -- Hillary Clinton’s supporters in recent days have been making a furious round of calls to top Bush family donors to try to convince them that she represents their values better than Donald Trump, multiple sources in both parties told POLITICO.

The moves come as Clinton and the Democratic Party try to take advantage of deep unease among establishment Republicans on Wall Street and elsewhere with Trump’s emergence as the presumptive Republican nominee.

Top targets for the Clinton team include people like Woody Johnson, Jeb Bush’s former finance chair and the owner of the New York Jets. In recent days, Bush’s brother and father, former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, have said they plan to skip Trump’s nominating convention.

One person close to Clinton said supporters of the former secretary of state drew up a list of Wall Street donors who supported Jeb Bush and other unsuccessful Republican candidates months ago but wanted to wait until Trump locked down the nomination before beginning to make the calls.

“When you think about it there is no downside to making these calls, including for Hillary herself to make then,” this person said. “They may say no but they will talk to her for half an hour about their view of the world and probably say nice things when asked about her publicly. And they might stay away from Trump.”

Clinton spokesman Josh Schwerin did not deny the calls were happening. “There's no official outreach from the campaign but I would not be at all surprised if our supporters are doing it on their own.”

One big Clinton donor on Wall Street said that Bush donors are prime targets and that "we're a big tent." Potential sources of support for Clinton could include people like Jack Oliver, who also served as a top fundraiser for Jeb Bush. Both Johnson and Oliver did not respond to requests for comment.

On May 06 2016 08:02 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
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