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thunderlips11 says

As for Trump, nobody runs multi-billion dollar businesses with hundreds of companies and investment vehicles and god knows how many tens of thousands of contracts for everything from usage of IP to steel girders to tile floors without legal battles.

Plenty do, and still have friends in town. Plenty also do not routinely refuse to pay for services rendered, whereas Trump is known for being an unreliable account.

Whatever Hillary says or does has no bearing on the facts about Trump.

I am aware that Trump is known to hate immigrants more than Hillary - although you seem to believe she hates minorities, which for some reason hurts her in your eyes, though if Trump said those things it would only enhance his aura.

Have you so internalized the GOP talking points about Hillary that Trump is off- limits to criticism? Can't they both suck?

Trump secured ~35k votes in Nevada, or am I looking at the wrong things

That's hardly data upon which to draw any grand conclusion over, in a nation of 330 million

Trump wants to carpet bomb isis
The Clintons are literally in bed with The bank of ISIS

They can both be pieces of shit, but gun to your head, how could anyone vote for the rotund and hairy, menopausal piece of shit. (Hilary not trump, in case that wasn't clear ;)

HydroCabron says

I am aware that Trump is known to hate immigrants more than Hillary - although you seem to believe she hates minorities, which for some reason hurts her in your eyes, though if Trump said those things it would only enhance his aura.

I don't think Hillary hates minorities, but she is happy to dogwhistle whites on black crime and defending the slashing of affordable housing and massively expanding the prison complex.

HydroCabron says

Have you so internalized the GOP talking points about Hillary that Trump is off- limits to criticism? Can't they both suck?

Yes - they can both suck. My school-prison pipeline and welfare reform dogwhistling criticism against Hillary was coming from the Left, not the Right.

When you see it....

Hey Thunder. When I first looked at your picture, I couldn't figure out what was wrong with her right boob. it seemed a bit misshapen. And then I'm thinking... and why are her boobs right under her chin? Talk about a breast lift gone wrong! And then, I realized I was looking at her right shoulder.... and it all made sense again.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/270580-trump-picks-up-first-congressional-endorsement
Trump gets first lawmaker endorsements

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has secured his first two endorsements from members of Congress following his big win Tuesday in Nevada's caucuses.

Reps. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) and Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) on Wednesday both endorsed Trump, who looks increasingly likely to become the party's nominee.

Trump has struggled to win support from officeholders, who have been reluctant to embrace the man who has shaken up the GOP presidential race like no one before him.

Not a single member of Congress had endorsed Trump before his win in Nevada, though this week has seen a flurry of endorsements for Marco Rubio, who has yet to beat Trump in any contest.

Collins complimented Trump's policies on national security and trade in announcing his endorsement.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/270566-trump-1-point-behind-cruz-in-texas-poll
Trump within 1 of Cruz in Texas poll

Cruz has 29 percent support in Texas, followed closely by Trump, at 28 percent, and Marco Rubio, at 25 percent, according to an Emerson College poll released Wednesday. John Kasich takes 9 percent support, with Ben Carson at 4 percent.

Great. Just reported on @FoxNews that many people who supported @JebBush are now supporting me. I knew that would happen, pundits didn't!

thunderlips11 says

tatupu70 says

Also--I would love for him to scrap NAFTA. The shitstorm that would cause in DC would be fun to watch.

C'mon Tatupu, pull the lever for Trump if Bernie doesn't win. You KNOW Hillary would never dare (or want), even if it was clear the President could abrogate treaties without Congress

It's going to be very difficult to vote for someone who falls for the conspiracy nut theories(Obama's birth certificate), repeats email forwards as if they are true (dipping bullets in pigs blood), etc., and has an ego the size of Texas. A lot of it is a charade, certainly, but all of it?

While I like some of his policies and I definitely enjoy voting outside the establishment--I'm not sure I can pull the lever for Trump.

tatupu70 says

While I like some of his policies and I definitely enjoy voting outside the establishment--I'm not sure I can pull the lever for Trump.

Worth it for the entertainment value.

zzyzzx says

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/270566-trump-1-point-behind-cruz-in-texas-poll

Trump within 1 of Cruz in Texas poll

Cruz has 29 percent support in Texas, followed closely by Trump, at 28 percent, and Marco Rubio, at 25 percent, according to an Emerson College poll released Wednesday. John Kasich takes 9 percent support, with Ben Carson at 4 percent

Interesting, the tX folks were panicking saying 500k votes were already in and probably support Cruz. I wonder if there are some early polls-looks like Trump is gaining steam, wonder if he can take TX?

tatupu70 says

While I like some of his policies and I definitely enjoy voting outside the establishment--I'm not sure I can pull the lever for Trump.

Tat, you will be able to pull that lever after you see and remember more of the IHL and she's on TV/Radio daily after August.

thunderlips11 says

Tat, you will be able to pull that lever after you see and remember more of the IHL and she's on TV/Radio daily after August.

I can guarantee you that I won't be voting for Hillary. If it comes to Trump vs. Hillary, I'm going to be in a tough spot.

Sounds like he's qualified for washington...
Thanks for the validation.

HydroCabron says

whereas Trump is known for being an unreliable account.

I cant wait to see the final battle.

The Trump video game would be awsome, if not have an awkward soundtrack.

You guys ready?

Man isn't even President yet, and already China is getting nervous their one-way trade gravy train is about to end.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters in Beijing that “we are following with interest the U.S. presidential election.”

Hua was asked about China’s response to a possible Trump presidency and his announced plan to punish China for currency manipulation with a tax on Chinese goods.

“Since it belongs to the domestic affair of the U.S., I am not going to make comments on specific remarks by the relevant candidate,” she said.

“But I want to stress that China and the U.S., as world’s largest developing and developed countries, shoulder major responsibilities in safeguarding world peace, stability and security and driving world development,” the spokeswoman added.

“The sustained, sound and steady growth of China-U.S. relations serves the fundamental and long-term interests of the two countries and benefits the world. We hope and believe that the U.S. government will pursue a positive policy toward China in a responsible manner.”

A fair, two-way lower tariff regime is positive. One way trade with a decade-after-decade lopsided import-export ratio is not.

Fucking Alpha, man.

"@ChatteringTeef: @BornToBeGOP @realDonaldTrump @MittRomney hates to see Trump's success when he was so pathetic

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2016

turtledove says

Hey Thunder. When I first looked at your picture, I couldn't figure out what was wrong with her right boob

I see the optical illusion you speak of. Tri-tit, hot! I suspect none of the guys on here saw it that way initially. I sure didn't. However, after I complimented thunderlips on that picture I googled Trump's latest wife. As hot as his daughter is and from what I can tell from afar his wife is actually sexier. IMHO of course.

thunderlips11 says

China is getting nervous

I hear last week China put some of their nukes on operational standby. Up until that point only Russia/USSR and the US kept their nukes ready to fire. Everyone else (except perhaps Israel) manages 'fail-safe' by keeping their missiles disassembled. Prevents some lone human from starting a nuclear war that way.

At any rate, now there are 3 nations for the first time in history holding guns to each others heads. Cold war II is warming up...

tatupu70 says

I can guarantee you that I won't be voting for Hillary. If it comes to Trump vs. Hillary, I'm going to be in a tough spot.

It really might not matter where you live, or where I live.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ohio-poll-hillary-clinton-trump-kasich-2016-2

Quinnipiac released a poll Wednesday that showed various hypothetical general-election matchups in Ohio.

Clinton lost every one. She trailed GOP frontrunner Donald Trump by two points. Meanwhile, she fell 3 points behind Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, 5 points behind Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, and 19 points back of John Kasich, the Ohio governor.

Dragging down Clinton was her low level of popularity in the state. Just 37% of Ohio voters said they viewed her favorably, while 57% said they saw her in an unfavorable light.

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the challenger to Clinton in the Democratic primary, fared slightly better. He tied Trump and beat Cruz by 2 points, but he lost to Rubio by 2 points and to Kasich by 19 points as well.

No candidate has won the presidency without carrying Ohio since John F. Kennedy did in 1960. That's a streak of 13 consecutive elections.

The poll had a margin of error of 2.5%.

zzyzzx says

Clinton lost every one. She trailed GOP frontrunner Donald Trump by two points. Meanwhile, she fell 3 points behind Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, 5 points behind Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, and 19 points back of John Kasich, the Ohio governor.

I like what Trump said, if he can't beat her then they must really be trouble.

Guess what just happened?

thunderlips11 says

Guess what just happened?

I've been expecting this ever since Christie dropped out.

PREPARE YOUR WALLET MEXICO!

Someone wants to be VP?

tatupu70 says

Someone wants to be VP?

My guess is Kasich.

Our local news said something about Governor Rick Scott being floated, they can't be serious. That would make me sit the general election out.
There's no way in hell I would elect that bastard.
What Rick Scott has done to the Insurance industry of everytype he turned the Insurance commisioners office of Florida into a glorified buiness direcotry and a pro Ins Ind lobbyist in the Statehouse.

I'm paying my mortgage off within 5 years, because I've been told the way its going now expect minimum $10,000 a year premiums for any house built before 2000, in about 5 years.
Even though they don't expect any major huricane storms for at least another 10.

If Rick Scott gets in there, I would garuantee what ever a Trump administration does with Obamacare that has Rick Scott on the same team.

Will be a trillion times worse than Obamacare already is.

Rick Scotts only gripe Obamacare is that it does not charge nearly enough(in his oppinion) and will bankrupt his precious Insurance companies.

No way in hell would I vote for a Trump administration that has Rick Scott anywhere around.

I'll probably feel the same way about most Republican offerings. With the exception of Sessions.