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On July 19 2016 23:43 KwarK wrote:

We replaced it with Shania Law. You stand before Shania Twain and try and impress her with your eloquent defence of your actions. If that don't impress her much, bullet to the back of the head. It's tough but we find it fair.

Does anybody else have the sense that Donald Trump is slipping off the rails? His speeches have always had a rambling, free association quality, but a couple of the recent ones have, as the Republican political consultant Mike Murphy put it, passed from the category of rant to the category of full on “drunk wedding toast.”

Trump’s verbal style has always been distinct. He doesn’t really speak in sentences or paragraphs. His speeches are punctuated by five- or six-word jabs that are sort of strung together by connections that can only be understood through chaos theory: “They want the wall … I dominated with the evangelicals … I won in a landslide … We can’t be the stupid people anymore.”

Occasionally Trump will attempt a sentence longer than eight words, but no matter what subject he starts the sentence with, by the end he has been pulled over to the subject of himself. Here’s an example from the Mike Pence announcement speech: “So one of the primary reasons I chose Mike was I looked at Indiana, and I won Indiana big.” There’s sort of a gravitational narcissistic pull that takes command whenever he attempts to utter a compound thought.

Trump has also always been a little engine fueled by wounded pride. For example, writing in BuzzFeed, McKay Coppins recalls the fusillade of abuse he received from Trump after writing an unflattering profile (he called Mar-a-Lago a “nice, if slightly dated, hotel”).

Trump was so inflamed he tweeted retaliation at Coppins several times a day and at odd hours, calling him a “dishonest slob” and “true garbage with no credibility.” The attacks went on impressively for over two years, which must rank Coppins in the top 100,000 on the list of people Donald Trump resents.

Over the past few weeks these longstanding Trump patterns have gone into hyperdrive. This is a unique moment in American political history in which the mental stability of one of the major party nominees is the dominating subject of conversation.

Everybody is telling Trump to ratchet it down and be more sober, but at a rally near Cincinnati this month and in his Pence announcement speech on Saturday, Trump launched his verbal rocket ship straight through the stratosphere, and it landed somewhere on the dark side of Planet Debbie.

On July 20 2016 00:22 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:


I agree. Trump and his campaign just seem to have no idea how to not make a tiny problem into a big problem.

Former President George W. Bush in April privately revealed his concerns that Donald Trump could permanently bring down the Republican Party, according to a new report.

“I’m worried that I will be the last Republican president,” Bush said at a reunion for his administration in Dallas, Politico Magazine reported Tuesday morning.

Most members of the Bush family have been outspoken critics of Trump.

Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, both skipped the Republican convention this year, and former Florida governor Jeb Bush said he would not vote for Trump in the general election.

Jeb Bush was favored last year to win the Republican presidential nomination. Trump seemed to especially delight in tearing into Bush as he ascended past him in the polls en route to winning the nomination. He also blamed George W. Bush's administration for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Bob Dole is the only living former GOP presidential nominee to attend this week's convention. In addition to the Bushes, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Mitt Romney are both staying home.

On July 20 2016 00:42 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Scott Baio ladies and gentleman believes that William Bradford broke the US out of a Socialist system called the Commonwealth and started Capitalism.

Fuck me...

On July 20 2016 00:11 Plansix wrote:

The GOP, using music from bands that would never allow them to use their music. Election after Election.

On July 20 2016 01:09 biology]major wrote:
Idk why republicans don't just blame a speech writer for a fuckup, defend his wife and just get on with it. Poor strategy here. Doubling down is not always the best way to go about things, especially if it is so blatantly obvious and not really that big of a deal.

On July 20 2016 00:47 Dan HH wrote:
Looks like it's not the first time his staff did this

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