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[Iceblaster]

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made you guys some thread art (resemblances are a product of your mind!!)

FTFY

Anyways, hehe. I like :3

[Loud Whispers]

If it's a wall it better be a proper Chinese or Israeli wall and not just some cheap crappy chainlink fence. It better be sexier than a Roman Colosseum spliced with an Arabian mountain Fortress surrounded by Mongolians.

Though perhaps the Mexican government will fund this wall when they realize it will keep trump out.

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[Evilsx]

Posting to watch this grand train wreak of the trump

[RedKing]

"Legends say The Wall was first built by Donald the Trump, to keep the Wanderers at bay. In their hellish land of ever-summer, where the trees bear swords for fruit and the rapists and drug dealers prowl the land. Where our youths adventure for their rite-of-passage, testing themselves in the wild lands of Cancun.

Remember well the motto of our House: Spring Break is Coming."

[Cthulhu]

Donald Trump says Kim Davis shouldn't have fought over gay marriage and calls it hte law of the land

It's kind of refreshing.  He doesn't give a shit, he's got no filter.  He says exactly what he's thinking at any given moment, even if it means pissing off his base.

[Arx]

When Trump looks reasonable, you know something's screwed up.

[miauw62]

If it's a wall it better be a proper Chinese or Israeli wall and not just some cheap crappy chainlink fence. It better be sexier than a Roman Colosseum spliced with an Arabian mountain Fortress surrounded by Mongolians.

Though perhaps the Mexican government will fund this wall when they realize it will keep trump out.

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rip in rare peperonis my sides ;~;7

[Sheb]

I'm actually starting to be vaguely hopeful that Trump will break the kind of crazy run rightward the GOP was stuck on. He's an asshole and a clown, but he doesn't feel that need to try to outconservative everyone, and is doing good in the polls, it might make some Republicans more willing to play the moderate in primaries.

[SirQuiamus]

The Trump goes on... the Trump goes on...

I'm actually starting to be vaguely hopeful that Trump will break the kind of crazy run rightward the GOP was stuck on. He's an asshole and a clown, but he doesn't feel that need to try to outconservative everyone, and is doing good in the polls, it might make some Republicans more willing to play the moderate in primaries.

I've been trying to avoid anything Trump-related lately, but that sounds like wishful thinking in the light of everything I've seen so far. Dirty Don's shit-fucking-fuckinsane immigration policies have driven other GOP candidates further right in that department, and his classical populist "centrism" has hardly made any impression on his contenders.

Here's a nifty illustration of left-right orientation shifts in tribalistic partisan politics:


EDIT: Here's a bit of comedic entertainment about the Don's foreign Palincy [sic].

[scriver]

Fasting to baste

[SirQuiamus]

Also, here's a piece on Trump's Teabagger base and his expected-but-unexpected success with traditional populism:

In domestic policy, Trump’s rejection of orthodox conservatism is just as dramatic. The establishment right supports cuts in Social Security and the voucherization of Medicare; Trump does not. No apostasy on Trump’s part is more unforgiveable to the conservative elite than his heresy on taxes. Conservative orthodoxy holds that the rich—no matter how they make their money—are by definition “wealth creators” and “job creators” and that the best way to grow the economy is to lower their taxes further. Trump, however, favors progressive taxation and despises “paper-pushers” on Wall Street: “The hedge fund guys didn’t build this country. These are guys that shift paper around and they get lucky…. But a lot of them—they are paper-pushers. They make a fortune. They pay no tax. It’s ridiculous, ok?”

A Marist poll of April 18, 2011, proves that Trumpist populism was a fully fledged worldview among Tea Party voters years before Donald Trump announced his run for the Republican presidential nomination. In the survey, 81 percent of self-identified Tea Party supporters opposed raising the federal debt ceiling. But majorities of Tea Party supporters also favored reducing the federal debt by raising taxes on those with incomes over $250,000 (53 percent) and opposed cuts to Medicare and Medicaid (70 percent).

To reiterate: Trump is not a progressive or a moderate, but rather a prototypical rabble-rouser from the tar pits of political prehistory. His social policies are irresistible to the Teabagger base, but anathema to the GOP establishment – they will only drive orthodox conservatives further right, if anything.