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Author Topic: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée  (Read 1570482 times)

SirQuiamus

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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #15225 on: March 22, 2016, 03:21:31 pm »

The only way to destroy Trump is to destroy the media, and that ain't gonna happen any time soon.

Or he loses the election, stops being interesting and goes back to reality TV.  If he loses once, no one is going to give a shit about him the second time.
I don't think Trump can really lose at this point. He's already been "winning" enough to turn every subsequent loss into a legitimate anti-Trump conspiracy in the minds of his supporters. Just like the Iowa caucuses, remember?

I mean, if the GOP nomination goes to Not-Trump because of a brokered convention, that is definitely a Trump-win because "CUCKSERVATIVES STOLE NOMINATION TRUMP 4EVA NEVA 4GET" (...and RIP GOP as a hilarious (un)intentional after-effect).

If Trump loses the general election to Hillary, that's definitely a "DIMMYCRATE ELITE STOLE PRESIDENCY TRUMP 4EVA NEVA 4GET" situation (...and say hello to American politics with more than two parties).

It's a 10/10 win/win for Trump in any case. Very well played, even for a professional reality TV celeb with five decades of experience in playing the media.

EDIT:
Scott has written a funny/depressing review of Trump's magnum opus.
Spoiler: choice quote (click to show/hide)
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #15226 on: March 22, 2016, 03:29:07 pm »

"Someting Bad Happens Somewhere" ---> "CLOSE MEXICAN BORDER REMOVE ILLEGAL MEXICAN MUSLIM IMMIGRANT TERRORIST FROM THE PREMISES"
REMOVE FALAFEL TACO
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #15227 on: March 22, 2016, 03:46:35 pm »

I just spent two hours against my better instincts arguing economic policy with a Trump supporter.

I have stared into the abyss of Donald Trump's America, and 20th-century Argentina gazed back into me.
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #15228 on: March 22, 2016, 03:55:26 pm »

I just spent two hours against my better instincts arguing economic policy with a Trump supporter.

I have stared into the abyss of Donald Trump's America, and 20th-century Argentina gazed back into me.

Could you explain the reference, and which decade because a century is a long time?
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #15229 on: March 22, 2016, 03:59:05 pm »

I just spent two hours against my better instincts arguing economic policy with a Trump supporter.

I have stared into the abyss of Donald Trump's America, and 20th-century Argentina gazed back into me.

Could you explain the reference, and which decade because a century is a long time?
I'm assuming Juan Peron. Also a populist demagogue who embraced corporatism and rejected traditional Left/Right politics, and was considered by many to be a quasi-fascist dictator.
Also, his followers were drawn most heavily from the popular masses, the descamisadoes or "shirtless ones".

Since Redcaps doesn't seem to be catching on the way I hoped, maybe we should refer to his followers as "Mad Hatters"?
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #15230 on: March 22, 2016, 04:03:42 pm »

I just spent two hours against my better instincts arguing economic policy with a Trump supporter.

I have stared into the abyss of Donald Trump's America, and 20th-century Argentina gazed back into me.

Could you explain the reference, and which decade because a century is a long time?
I'm assuming Juan Peron. Also a populist demagogue who embraced corporatism and rejected traditional Left/Right politics, and was considered by many to be a quasi-fascist dictator.

It's not so much that- although, yeah, Perón and Trump do have some noted similarities. In the mid-1910s, Argentina was the richest country in the world, per capita...and then it basically got stuck there for the course of the 20th century. It's basically the only major country that's gone from first world to third world in the modern era, in no small part due to protectionism gone horribly wrong (though a history of political instability, including Washington-backed coups, certainly didn't help).

My debate partner, who wants to apply the corporate death penalty to any American firm that outsources, should flip through a history of the place, is all I'm saying.
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #15231 on: March 22, 2016, 04:06:11 pm »

If half-remembered bits of JL Borges serve me correctly, Peron is the one who took Argentina's promise to be a nation of the future and ran it into the mud.

E: yeah; what FJ said.
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #15233 on: March 22, 2016, 09:54:21 pm »

CURRENTYEAR had several acccounts registered etc.  I just clipped it out since there was too much there to figure out what should be kept.  Doubt this is the last of it, the usual, etc.  Please try to stay on topic etc.
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #15234 on: March 22, 2016, 09:55:55 pm »

CURRENTYEAR had several acccounts registered etc.  I just clipped it out since there was too much there to figure out what should be kept.  Doubt this is the last of it, the usual, etc.  Please try to stay on topic etc.

HA! I knew that guy had to have been a puppet, but who?....

Also, we DID get back on topic.

What I was going to post when it got locked:

Hm, some reports of voter suppression in Arizona: http://usuncut.com/news/arizona-polling-disaster/

Don't know how substantial it actually is, but something to keep an eye out for I guess. Haven't seen it mentioned on CNN or elsewhere though, besides a couple asides in the 538 liveblog sidebar.

edit: fixing terminology.
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #15235 on: March 22, 2016, 09:56:05 pm »

Well....that was. A thing.



Anyways......should be seeing primary results coming in any minute now for Arizona. Trump and Clinton both up by about 10 in the polls, though the 'Zona polls are a bit for the Dem race.
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #15236 on: March 22, 2016, 09:56:54 pm »

CURRENTYEAR got banhammered then? Farewell our Trump supporter; we hardly knew ye.

Although you were probably a sock puppet of an older poster, so maybe we did know ye. Hmm.
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #15237 on: March 22, 2016, 09:57:54 pm »

That was surprisingly civil for someone making sock puppets.
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #15238 on: March 22, 2016, 09:58:26 pm »

That was surprisingly civil for someone making sock puppets.
That sounds like something somebody with sock puppets might say.....j/k  :P

I was actually worried someone had seriously reported you for sockpuppeting because of the jokes. What would I do without without a forum frenemy?
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #15239 on: March 22, 2016, 10:01:43 pm »

Hm, some reports of voter fraud in Arizona: http://usuncut.com/news/arizona-polling-disaster/

"Voter fraud" really shouldn't be the correct terminology here because it implies fraud by individual voters, which is very rare.

If it's deliberate, something like ballot tampering or vote suppression would be more appropriate.
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