To be posted the evening of November 8 2016 after Trump Loses… (Guest Post)

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As an eyewitness to history, I can see how things are currently trending and how the current path should be clear to all.. but isn’t…But no matter, I will just leave this here for you to carefully consider since I see no point in waiting for the inevitable to play out.

Donald J. Trump conceded the race to Hillary Clinton tonight

With almost an air of relief Donald thanked his supporters and begrudgingly congratulated Ms Clinton on her win. But in a final twist of fate, the erstwhile target of his wrath and persecution turned the tables on him in her victory speech. Donald had threatened to prosecute Clinton, now it was Hillary making the threats.. and now she has the power of the Federal government to carry them out.

In recent weeks indications of the resulting landslide result was shaping up in the polls, so despite rumblings and rumors of lawsuits over tonight’s return, it became obvious that the victory was so slanted as to make these actions seem superfluous at best.

While Trump’s style of bluster won him many acolytes in the primaries, these same mannerisms only served to drive most people away in the general contest. His once successful tactics of lawsuit threats and shutting down opponents with shouts of Liar had the opposite effect outside his cloistered rallies..

And while Hillary still has to clean up the lose ends of her legal troubles, it’s a fair bet that future supreme court justice Obama will serve to be the deciding factor in any legal case brought before the court.

Many are looking back wondered why they did not see the danger earlier, and still many more nodded their heads at the phrase ‘we told you so.’

While a formal postmortem on the failed Trump candidacy is still to be conducted, many have already began piecing together the early signs of his ultimate defeat tonight.

After the Convention.

The enthusiasm in the first few events after the Trump Convention were palpable as excitement ran high. His expected after convention bounce put him in the lead over Hillary Clinton and the recurring theme of Trumpmentum seemed to be manifest and expectations mounted that he would run away with the race.

But then the stories of his past began flooding the airwaves. The accusations of fraud many ignored in the spring bubbled to the surface, and Trump’s only passing flirtation with the truth started to plague him on the trail.

For many it was a very new experience enduring the phenomena for Trump of ever falling poll numbers. Still Many more were dumbfounded that Trump’s usual approach of bombastic bullying only made the numbers drop even faster.

The Debate debacle

Towards the end the series of presidential candidate debates sealed the fate of Trumpmentum. Tactics that has served him well in the spring began backfiring in a spectacular fashion.

Instead of seeing a candidate ‘standing up for himself’, the general electorate saw a bully trying to shout down his opponent. While in the past his vague policy proposals protected him, this time around they became a liability. It became painfully obvious to all but his most ardent supporters that he would lose and lose big.

Worse yet, he had nothing in his bag of tricks to stop the slide – they only served to accelerate it further. Trump’s attempts at intimation only served boost Hillary’s sympathy vote. His accusations that she is a liar redounded badly as she pointed out all of his lies and flip flops.

In a final twist of the rhetorical knife that brought down the house, Hillary ended her victory speech with ‘Donald J, Trump.. You’re Fired!’

One final note… Please dispense with wasting your time responding with any manner of strident invective that seems to becoming increasingly endemic to those who support the subject matter of this predictive exposition.

Suffice it to say that If you can reply with forthright and intellectual arguments they will be well received and responded to, but not if your mannerism are that of the 3rd grade schoolyard.

 

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@Redteam:

So then why are you perpetuating this right-wing fantasy & fancy?

right wing? are you implying that only the ‘right’ tells the truth?

Are you implying you don’t understand what I actually am asking? Or are you purposefully obfuscating and avoiding answering the question?

“Right-wing” because this attack generally comes from the right side of the political spectrum in regards to Obama being “foreign-born” and “muslim”.

So please answer the question: Why do YOU perpetuate this fantasy removed from reality, that Obama is foreign-born and a muslim?

What makes him foreign?

A person that is not a US citizen is foreign. I’d thought you knew that.

Again side-stepping the question. I asked what makes HIM- Obama- foreign in your estimation. According to your criteria, then, Obama is a U.S. citizen.

What makes him Muslim?

Birth, education, practices, habits and customs. Other than that………..

In other words- He’s American and he’s not a Muslim. Only in your fevered conspiratorial beliefs, devoid of any factual basis.

Thank you, once again, RT.

@Wordsmith: Word, first of all, no one knows for sure where Obama was born. We certainly have never seen a birth certificate of his birth. I’m not referring to the bogus one that was distributed for the press a couple years ago. The most likely one is the one of him being born in Kenya, but I don’t make the claim he was born in Kenya. His ‘grandmother’ thinks he was, but what does she know. I’m sure your grandmother likely has no clue where you were born, for example.
But then when a citizen gives up his US citizenship, as he did when he was young and became a citizen of Indonesia and then does not give up that citizenship and does not apply for American citizenship, then he remains a foreigner.
As far as Muslim, do you deny he was raised as a Muslim? Do you deny that he has never repudiated that religion? Do you deny that he has never joined another religion? Attending that anti-American church in Chicago was hardly qualification for Christianity. Born a Muslim, raised a Muslim, never repudiated the religion. Guess what?

Only in your fevered conspiratorial beliefs, devoid of any factual basis.

So, now whip out your proof of factual basis that he is something other than Muslim. Or your ‘factual basis’ that he is an American.

@Redteam:

Just refresh yourself here. You may enjoy inhabiting fA’s comment threads with back-and-forths that never evolve or go anywhere. I understand you are retired. I am not. Arguing and debating with you is like reasoning with a 9/11 Truther and conspiracist. No amount of contradictory facts or evidence will ever be sufficient to quell a belief system of conspiracy confirmation bias.

OMG! RT! You are so right! Here’s proof-positive of Obama’s Islamic ways! He’s bowing toward Mecca on his circular U.S. Seal Oval office prayer rug-and teaching a toddler the ways of the Quran, to boot!

(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) 6 4 2015

Why has no one pointed this out before?! He must do this 5 times a day, everyday! There must be more secret sightings. Do you think the Secret Service are closet Muslims, protecting him from being outed for praying 5 x day?

@Redteam: Word is the sanest person on this thread. Are you calling him a troll because he questions your absurd asertions?

@Richard Wheeler: Ok DA, where and when did I call Word a troll? I know you didn’t learn English and grammar in school, but I would think hanging with the Rainbow crowd you might learn.

@Wordsmith: I especially enjoy when you use ‘factcheck.org’ as a source, so reputable. Almost like asking Obama himself for proof. Funny how you have so much detail about what went on in an elementary school in Indonesia back in the 60’s. I’d suspect you don’t even recall that much about the elementary school you went to here in the US. Wonder if that’s because ‘someone’ wants you to ‘know’ what went on in that school? Probably not. I’m sure that much is known about all activities at all the elementary schools there in Indonesia. Right?
So can you also tell me if your grandmother knows which hospital you were born in? Heck, I’ll even bet you that both of your grandmothers remember where and when you were born. But you will note that even Obama’s mother didn’t remember which hospital he was born in. Now, I don’t claim that Obama was not born in Hawaii, but I will ‘claim’ that no one can prove he was. If they could, it would have been done long ago. Ask Mrs Fuddy about her knowledge.
As far as religion, usually only the person involves know their true religion. There is no record of Obama being baptized as a member of that Anti American church that he attended. Strange how that works, isn’t it.
As far as threads that don’t go anywhere. Isn’t that the way it’s supposed to work when the subject is being hidden?
For example, I’ll bet you think Obama got a degree from Columbia Univ. if so, while you know it, Columbia will not confirm it. There is not one human in the world that will testify under oath that they ever saw him inside a classroom at Columbia Univ. Well, let me say that if there is someone, they have not come forth prior to today’s date. I can name several people from my college graduating class, strange how no one recalls the future president being in their class.

As for your photo above, it appears to me that he is playing with a baby on the floor, why do you want to put some other meaning on it? I certainly wouldn’t

@Wordsmith:

Arguing and debating with you is like reasoning with a 9/11 Truther and conspiracis

Incidentally, I don’t know any 9/11 truthers. My belief is that Osama bin laden’s boys flew those planes into the WTC, if you know otherwise, please share.
Conspiracy’s? There certainly is such a thing, for example, I certainly believe that the murder of JFK was a conspiracy. Of whom I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure LHO was the patsy in the deal. RFK was likely also a conspiracy. MLK, not sure, haven’t read enough about it.
I guess, by your statement, that you don’t believe in conspiracies. Everyone acts alone?

@Wordsmith:

No amount of contradictory facts or evidence will ever be sufficient

If there were just ‘some’ contradictory facts or evidence. I’m sure we’ll eventually see all that after he’s out of office.
Just for the record, I can name the hospital and city where my children were born. And I even have a birth certificate for each to prove that.
My children also have Social Security numbers that correspond to where they were born and the numbers had not been issued to anyone before them. Some people get original SS numbers, some don’t (I guess).

Redteam Yet you can’t name just one that is better than Trump.

I already did – why don’t you try some other approach that doesn’t rely of childish games based on semantics

Redteam And, so far, you haven’t been able to name a issue that plagues Trump.

tickety-boo – stand by.
Where did you get that strawman argument?

Redteam No problem, right after you name your super special ideal candidate that you keep referring to.

Again, Where did I specify That criteria?
[Expect me to repeat that assertion until you comprehend its meaning]

Redteam Typical troll, demanding that I answer a question when you refuse to do so yourself.

I’ve often noticed those who use that word are quite often projecting.
I answered your question, you have to answer mine.

Redteam You are one strange dude, you post a link, I quote from it, you ask where it’s from, I tell you the link that you provided and you still can’t find it. Well, it’s there, check it out.

No, there were two references – Now Please post an except of that data you supposedly obtained.

@Redteam:

Donald Trump Against the First Amendment
It’s always a touch futile trying to parse Donald Trump’s public statements — from what I can tell, he goes where the wind is and has given no more thought to his positions than does your average salmonberry — but this tweet interested me nevertheless:

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
Love making correct predictions. National Review is over.
https://t.co/tEHJTl6tNA

This is classic Trump. For a start, we are reminded once again the man has some of the thinnest skin that has ever been seen on a public figure. Being almost entirely without principle or compass, Trump determines his attitude toward anyone and anything by what it can do for him. Because we don’t support him, National Review must not only be a “failing paper,” but it must be driven out of business forever, by any means necessary. As far as I can see, nobody can go near the guy without inviting such a dismissal, which is odd for a self-identified tough guy and a supposed opponent of “pc.”

More interesting, though, is that Trump is willing to jump into bed with any progressive cause that might temporarily annoy his critics. The link next to his hysterical “National Review is over” claim goes to a piece by Damon Linker, over at The Week. And the subject of that piece is a lawsuit that National Review, CEI, and Mark Steyn are fighting against Michael Mann, a rather nasty little character who believes that the court system exists to settle the political disputes in which he has found himself embroiled. Naturally, I have my own professional and political interests in seeing this case resolved in National Review’s favor. But, those interests to one side, it is indisputable that the Mann case has significant First Amendment implications, which is why a wide array of journalists and civil rights groups have filed amicus briefs that express support for the defendants.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/430271/donald-trump-would-destroy-first-amendment-get-revenge-against-his-critics

@Redteam:

Donald Trump: The Business Resume
GLENN: As a rule, losers don’t have their names on things, and that is one reason Donald Trump has always loved to put his name to everything.

GLENN: That’s why there has been at one time or another, the Trump Tower, the Trump Plaza, the Trump Place, the Trump Palace, Trump Shuttle, Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, Trump Casinos, and Trump University, just to name a few. Yet, because of his father’s fortune, Trump was worth about 40 million in about 1974. Another future billionaire, Warren Buffett, was also worth about 40 million in 1974. Today, Forbes lists Trump’s wealth at 3.9 billion. Bloomberg has it at 2.9. Had Donald Trump done nothing with that seed money from his father except invest it in an index fund based on the S&P 500 index and reinvested the dividends, he would be worth twice as much as reported by Bloomberg and 50 percent more than Forbes, or about $6 billion today.

GLENN: But one of the dangers of putting your name on everything is that, if that one thing with your name on it fails, everyone knows it. Trump, the game, didn’t sell. It was discontinued in one year. Trump Airlines, the Trump Shuttle, which he purchased from Eastern Airlines, never turned a profit and defaulted on its loans and ceased operation in three years.
[…]
GLENN: Trump was able in this case to secure a bank bailout, however, over the years, Trump has racked up $4.7 billion in bankruptcies. He says it’s a successful way to use the system. And over the course of his professional life, it is estimated that Donald Trump has lost up to $6 billion. Financing wasn’t the only issue Trump has encountered in Atlantic City. When he wanted to expand Trump Plaza and build parking lots for limousines, there was a slight problem in his way. A little elderly woman named Vera Coking. She owned the home for 35 years, right where Donald Trump envisioned putting a parking lot.

GLENN: Donald Trump is obviously not the worst businessman in America. He has also had many huge businesses and personal successes. However, he has claimed that he should be president because he always wins and will continue to win every time. Trump has spoken about the national debt of $19 trillion, yet he was willing to risk everything he had on junk bonds.
Source: http://www.glennbeck.com/2016/02/09/donald-trump-the-business-resume/?

@Redteam:

Feel The Bern: Donald Trump Copies Sanders On Drug Price Controls
Election ’16: At a rally in New Hampshire over the weekend, Donald Trump spent a good deal of time complaining about how much the government spends on drugs. Too bad his math, and his facts, were all wrong.
[..]
Phony numbers aside, what’s most troubling is that Trump’s proposal is word for word out the Democrats’ playbook.

Bernie Sanders, like Trump, says he wants to “require Medicare to use its bargaining power to negotiate with the prescription drug companies for better prices — a practice that is currently banned by law.”

What Sanders means, however, is price controls on drugs, since he knows that the government doesn’t negotiate prices, it dictates them.

We are hard pressed to think of a previous GOP presidential candidate — much less the front-runner in what is supposed to be a conservative party — who has openly advocated price controls on a major industry. We live in interesting times.

Feel The Bern: Donald Trump Copies Sanders On Drug Price Controls

@Redteam:

Liberal Writer: Don’t Worry, Trump’s A Liberal
New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait has penned an interesting piece, titled: “Why Liberals Should Support a Trump Republican Nomination.”
I’ll save you the time of reading it, and just tell you that he presents three arguments:

1. Trump “would almost certainly lose” the General Election.
2.Trump’s nomination “might upend his party” based on “how little he or his supporters seem to care about [conservative] anti-government ideology.”
3. Lastly, if elected, Trump would govern like former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who, Chait reminds us, “compromised with Democrats on the budget, raising taxes and funding new public infrastructure.”

So there you have it. Chait is suggesting that liberals should like Trump because he would probably lose—or (even if he won)—he would govern like a liberal.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/05/liberal-writer-dont-worry-trumps-a-liberal/

@Tor: He could only find enough negatives on Trump to produce 3 paragraphs? How many paragraphs has he produced on Hillary’s escapades? That tell you anything.

@Tor:

Liberal Writer: Don’t Worry, Trump’s A Liberal

You sure like to quote liberals. Can’t you find someone that writes that’s not a liberal. Why I’ll even bet that Hillary could find some negative things to say about Trump if someone should ask her.

@Tor: 111

Redteam Yet you can’t name just one that is better than Trump.

I already did

I don’t believe you. Which ‘one’ did you name and in which comment?

Again, Where did I specify That criteria?
[Expect me to repeat that assertion until you comprehend its meaning]

Oh gee, what to do, what to do? I have got to answer your question, oh me, oh my.
So just why do you ‘think’ I have to answer your question and at the same time feel as if you have no obligation to answer my question.
So tell me again, who is that one special guy waiting in the wings that is so much better than Trump? Just one. No list. Oh and I’m not gonna answer your questions until you answer that one. oh me, oh my.

I’ve often noticed those who use that word are quite often projecting.
I answered your question, you have to answer mine.

You did? tell me the comment number that one special super duper person is that you named?

Redteam You are one strange dude, you post a link, I quote from it, you ask where it’s from, I tell you the link that you provided and you still can’t find it. Well, it’s there, check it out.

No, there were two references – Now Please post an except of that data you supposedly obtained.

LOL, too funny. You post a link, I quote from it and you demand I tell you what was in the link you posted. If you can’t read the link and understand it, then why did you post the link? I think your problem is that you were just parroting someone else and don’t have a clue what was in it. Tell your ‘troll research’ person he needs to get on the ball or Soro’s is not gonna send his check. Though Soro shouldn’t expect more from a person in the troll business.

@Redteam: That was an excerpt – Try addressing the content of the posting.

@Redteam: And again you are dodging the point of that excerpt -Try again.

@Tor:

That was an excerpt – Try addressing the content of the posting.

While I did recognize that you had a typo, I ignored it and addressed the question.
I don’t see how I’m dodging anything. I referred to a link you posted. You had no clue what I was talking about. I then, basically, said that you were only posting a link supplied to you by a Soro’s PAC troll info supplier and that you didn’t have a clue. From now on, when you’re going to post a link, read it first and be sure you understand what’s in it, then you won’t be embarrassed so badly.

Does Soro’s pay according to how good his trolls are, or does he just hire whoever is available for minimum wage?

Donald Trump: The Chameleon
Part III: Donald Trump: A man for all issues For as firm a stance as Donald Trump has taken on current issues, he’s just as likely to have held completely opposite opinions in years past. A political chameleon of sorts, Trump has managed to change party affiliations five times. He first registered as a Republican before changing to Democrat and then joined the Reform Party and later became an Independent — only to return to the Republican Party.

While Trump blusters about Obamacare, he is for universal health care for all citizens. He has flip-flopped on abortion, first being very pro-choice and then switching to pro-life. He hates the idea of guns but has a concealed carry permit and owns two pistols.

While he comes off as strong on the border and illegal immigration, he supports a pathway to citizenship. He has contributed to liberal candidates many times, including his would-be opponent, Hillary Clinton. Trump has even said both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were doing a great job. Now that he’s running for president, his opinion of their performance has changed.
http://www.glennbeck.com/2016/02/11/donald-trump-the-chameleon/

Donald Trump Is No Revolutionary, He’s Just a Democrat
Saturday’s GOP debate finally clarified the Donald Trump phenomenon. After months of dominating the polls and millions of words of analysis, the grueling slog of the primary race is finally bringing the facts into sharp relief. Donald Trump isn’t a revolutionary. He’s not a conservative. He’s not even a populist. He’s a Democrat.

In the Greenville, S.C., debate, Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz both got under Trump’s skin, and he cracked. He shouted his true feelings, and they were ugly to see. Regarding the Iraq War, Trump made it quite plain that he believes the fever-swamp “Bush lied, people died” narrative of the radical Left.
[..]
These are standard Democratic talking points, intentionally designed to obfuscate the fact that when you pump hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into a business, you help the entire business — not just the portion funded. He knows that. Everyone involved in the debate knows that.

Where’s the Jacksonian populism in those three statements? Where’s the political revolution? That’s angry leftism, nothing more.
[..]
But after Saturday’s debate, it’s clear there’s a Democrat in the GOP field. Trump doesn’t threaten the Republican establishment because he’s too conservative or too populist. He threatens the Republican establishment because he belongs in the other party. He’s hid it well until now. But as his family Bible says — in the same Testament as Two Corinthians — “There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.”

Donald Trump has been revealed. The ball is in your court, South Carolina. Will the state that prides itself on picking the Republican nominee select the GOP’s first Democrat?
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431320/donald-trump-conventional-democrat

Donald Trump says he’s ‘very similar’ to Bernie Sanders
Donald Trump got tripped up by a description of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at a Wednesday night town hall in Charleston, South Carolina when he mistook the Democratic presidential candidate’s defining traits for his own.

“The candidate is considered a political outsider by all the pundits. He’s tapping into the anger of the voters, delivers a populist message. He believes everyone in the country should have healthcare,” Mika Brzezinski, moderator and co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, said to Trump. “He advocates for hedge fund managers to pay higher taxes. He’s drawing thousands of people at his rallies and bringing in a lot of new voters to the political process, and he’s not beholden to any super PAC. Who am I describing?”

“Or of any special interests or any donors,” Trump added. “You’re describing Donald Trump.”

“Actually,” Brzezinski replied, “I was describing Bernie Sanders.”

“Oh, that’s good,” Trump replied, before conceding that he and Sanders actually do have some things in common. “There’s one thing we’re very similar on: He knows that our country is being ripped off big-league — big-league — on trade.”

Trump was quick to emphasize the differences between him and the socialist senator, however. “The problem is he can’t do anything about it,” Trump said. “He doesn’t understand what’s happening.”
http://theweek.com/speedreads/606692/donald-trump-says-hes-similar-bernie-sanders

Donald Trump really said this: I like the Obamacare MANDATE
Donald Trump was on CNN tonight and told Anderson Cooper, when asked about the Obamacare mandate, that he liked the mandate. Really, he said that.
Watch:

Here’s the question in case you missed it:
http://therightscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/trump_mandate_obamacare.jpg
After he said he likes the mandate he goes into how he doesn’t want people dying on the streets and so forth. You can listen to his full answer below, but tell me, how is forcing people to buy health insurance conservative? He says he’s conservative, yet he’s for a mandate? C’mon, that’s about as anti-freedom as you get.
http://therightscoop.com/donald-trump-really-said-this-i-like-the-obamacare-mandate/

Donald Trump As Protester Is Removed From Las Vegas Event: “I’d Like To Punch Him In The Face”

Donald Trump As Protester Is Removed From Las Vegas Event: “I’d Like To Punch Him In The Face”

Donald Trump: Rich Family Donating Money Against Me Better Watch Out, I Know All Their Secrets…

http://www.weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Cb54NXWUMAA6eYu-1-550×380.jpg

Donald Trump: Rich Family Donating Money Against Me Better Watch Out, I Know All Their Secrets…

11 reasons this conservative would never, ever, ever vote for Trump
1. Trump has no actual political record, but his previous political persona is liberal
Typically, a major function of primaries is spent exploring the candidates’ records and past statements and comparing them against what they’re saying on the campaign trail. The reason is that politicians will say anything to get elected, so whatever they say during the campaign season is among the least important in judging how genuine or committed they are to principles. In Trump’s case, he has neither a governing record nor a voting record. So all we have to go on are his past statements. And he has a history of taking extreme liberal positions on issues of core importance to conservatives such as myself, as outlined below, on top of his history of donations to Democrats.
2. He’s been a supporter of socialized medicine
In his 2000 book The America We Deserve, Trump described himself as a “liberal” on healthcare and suggested the U.S. should look to Canada’s socialist system as a “prototype.” During a Republican presidential debate, he said the socialist systems in Canada and Scotland worked well.
3. He thinks government should be empowered to trample on private property rights
Back in November, when I pressed Trump on his record on private property rights, he said it was a “stupid” question and went on to defending government seizing private property from the little guy on behalf of big business. Property rights are a central pillar of a free society and any notion of human liberty.
4. He will perpetuate the federal government’s war on youth
5. He won’t respect gun rights
At a time when gun owners are facing a major threat, with Democrats eager to impose more and more restrictions and the deciding Supreme Court vote up for grabs, Trump wouldn’t have respect for gun rights. In his book, The America We Deserve, Trump actually chastised the Republican Party for not embracing stricter restrictions on gun rights. “The Republicans walk the NRA line and refuse even limited restrictions,” he wrote, and then went on to declare, “I support the ban on assault weapons.”
6. Trump doesn’t care about protecting the unborn
7. I don’t want Republicanism that’s served with an entree of racism and sexism
8. I don’t want to spend more money because of his promised trade war
9. Trump doesn’t care about policy
10. He’s a megalomaniac who doesn’t understand constitutional limits on executive power
Trump spends an inordinate amount of his speeches talking about his sheer awesomeness. It’s tiresome and easy to mock, but it’s also a troubling character trait for somebody seeking the most powerful office in the world.
11. He won’t appoint judges who will interpret the Constitution based on its original meaning
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/11-reasons-this-conservative-would-never-ever-ever-vote-trump/article/2584098

Trump Mortgage failed. Here’s what that says about the GOP front-runner.
As some economists and Wall Street traders began to sense danger ahead of the crippling housing market collapse of 2008, Donald Trump waved away the worries and offered a concrete expression of confidence in the industry.

“I think it’s a great time to start a mortgage company,” Trump told a CNBC interviewer in April 2006, adding that “the real estate market is going to be very strong for a long time to come.”

Within 18 months, as the experts’ worst fears began to pan out and home prices began to dip, Trump Mortgage closed, leaving some bills unpaid and a spotty sales record that fell short of Trump’s lofty predictions. Trump distanced himself from the firm’s demise, saying at the time that he had not been involved in the company’s management and that its executives had performed poorly.
[..]
As it sought a toehold in the residential market, Trump Mortgage offered residential mortgages with promises of quick approvals. It recruited a team of aggressive salesmen.

Jan Scheck, the national sales director for Trump Mortgage, hired teams of specialists around the country and helped the new firm as it sought to obtain licenses in multiple states. Like Trump, Scheck thought at the time that the new company could be a major player.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-mortgage-failed-heres-what-that-says-about-the-gop-front-runner/2016/02/28/f8701880-d00f-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html?

20,000 Massachusetts Democrats switch parties before Super Tuesday
Thousands of Massachusetts Democrats have denounced their party affiliations since January 1 to jump across the aisle and join the ranks of Independent or Republicans.

Nearly 20,000 Bay State Democrats, or 1.3 percent of the party’s Masachussetts population, left to vote in the Republican primary Tuesday. More than 16,300 of that group have “unenrolled” or become Independent voters, while 3,500 have joined the GOP.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/20000-massachusetts-democrats-switch-parties-before-super-tuesday/article/2584573

A Vote For Trump is a Vote For Hillary Clinton: Why Trump Is A Sure Loser | RedState http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2016/03/01/vote-trump-vote-make-hillary-clinton/

Donald Trump’s Internet Brigade Troll Ted Cruz With Drop Out Rumor | RedState http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/03/01/donald-trumps-brigade-troll-ted-cruz-drop-rumor/

Reuters: Media calculates financial damage from giving Trump free air time
For ’tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard. Donald Trump’s meteoric rise in the GOP nomination fight has come in large part from his skillful use of “earned media” — free coverage, in other words, by media outlets. Trump’s campaign has spent almost no money on advertising, at least so far, in large part because they don’t need to do so. Their candidate gets wall-to-wall coverage thanks to his outrageous statements and larger-than-life persona, while other candidates have to spends tens of millions hoping in vain to keep up.

Now that other candidates (Jeb Bush especially) have packed it up, suddenly media outlets are looking at the cost of giving the milk for free rather than selling the cow. Reuters reported yesterday that “Trump’s low advertising spending weighs on U.S. broadcasters.” No kidding!
[…]
Small wonder, then, that those who see the media as a malevolent force love the impact that Trump has had on the industry. He’s managed to get them to eat themselves by pursuing his outsize persona as a ratings draw. Instead of covering the circus, so to speak, they joined the circus — and now they’re paying a big price for it. There is a lesson to be learned from this, but so far, it doesn’t appear that the mainstream media has begun to learn it yet.
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/03/02/reuters-media-calculates-financial-damage-from-giving-trump-free-air-time/

What the left doesn’t grasp is that not every business venture is successful. However, it is fundamental that you can’t win the game if you are not in the game and that means that when things go south, you pick up the pieces and try something else. People who took the risks with you pick up whatever they are entitled to, which may include losses, and to on with their lives.

Contrast a business failure with getting rich on political graft which is exactly how the Clintons, Biden and yes, Obama gathered their lucre. Being paid vast sums for access and political favors may sit well with the left, but it is despicably below trying and failing from my point of view.

Disturber

2012 TRUMP ON ILLEGALS: “We have to have SOME compassion, we can’t just throw everybody out”
Donald Trump sounded quite different on illegals already in the country back in 2012, saying we have to have some compassion, that we just can’t throw everybody out. He called it a human issue.

Now to be fair, Trump was against Obama’s amnesty proposal in 2012 and said that something has to be done on illegal immigration, agreeing that we have to secure the border. He says multiple times we have to have a solution to our immigration problem, one that’s permanent.

But with respect to the 11 million illegals already here in the country, he was much much softer than he is now:

You have people who’ve been here for 20 years, they speak the language. Some of them don’t even speak Spanish. But they speak the language. It’s very very tough on a human basis and a lot of other bases to be throwing people out…

For people that have been here for years that have been hard workers, have good jobs, are supporting a family, it’s very very tough to just say by the way, you know 22 years you gotta leave, get out.

When asked about all the new work permits associated with Obama’s amnesty proposal, Trump said this:

The concept is that you throw everybody out and everybody else gets a job but it doesn’t work that way. A lot of the jobs these people have, a lot of other people don’t want. You know that and I know that. You see it all the time, whether it’s picking grapes or doing something else, you have jobs that a lot of people aren’t going to want.

Watch the interview for yourself. It’s the first half:
Read more: http://therightscoop.com/2012-trump-on-illegals-we-have-to-have-some-compassion-we-cant-just-throw-everybody-out/

Opinion: It’s worse than you think: Trump’s business disaster
Donald Trump ran his public company into the ground, but pocketed millions for himself

http://ei.marketwatch.com//Multimedia/2016/03/03/Photos/ZH/MW-EH105_casino_20160303160414_ZH.jpg?uuid=7c978d4e-e183-11e5-93ee-0015c588e0f6
Why is Donald Trump getting a pass for his disastrous and incompetent track record of running a public company?

The Republican front-runner has made much of his supposed “success” in business and says he now wants to do the same for America.

But the only part of his business track record for which we have the full picture shows that Trump wasn’t a successful executive but an absolute catastrophe.

For 10 years between 1995 and 2005, Donald Trump ran Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts — and he did it so badly and incompetently that it collapsed into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. His stockholders were almost entirely wiped out, losing a staggering 89% of their money. The company actually lost money every single year. In total it racked up more than $600 million in net losses over that period.

Trump was chairman of the board throughout the entire time, and CEO as well for about half of it.

Donald Trump ran the worst performing casino company on the stock market. This isn’t a matter of “opinion.” This isn’t speculation or politics. It’s a matter of plain fact.

However, one person associated with Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts did make money:

Donald J. Trump.

A review of the company’s public filings show that over that period, while his ordinary investors were getting hosed, Trump himself was siphoning millions out of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts through salary, “bonuses” — yes, really — and cozy “service agreements” or side deals with his private corporations.

Check out the relevant page from the 2003 public filing, for example:
http://ei.marketwatch.com//Multimedia/2016/03/03/Photos/ZH/MW-EH104_ARENDS_20160303155804_ZH.jpg?uuid=a00887c0-e182-11e5-9e43-0015c588e0f6
Now his supporters want to put him in charge of the federal government. They actually hope he will do for America what he’s already done for his business.

Heaven help us all.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-worse-than-you-think-trumps-business-disaster-2016-03-04

Anyone still doubt that Tor is a paid troll? I didn’t read any of that stuff. I’m sure he didn’t either, it appears to all be standard troll news service prepared material. I tested him the other day in referring to a link he had posted and he didn’t recognize anything in it. That was TNS (troll news service) prepared material. He must be getting paid by ‘volume’ not value. I’m sure he could have posted all x’s and he wouldn’t know the difference.
TOR, troll on retainer?

@Disturber: Yes, we all know that the clinton’s didn’t have the proverbial pot when they got into politics and now they are worth at least a hundred million and none of the positions they’ve held paid that much.

Voicemails Reveal Donald Trump’s Cozy Relationship With the Liberal Media
Early Thursday morning, Gawker received an anonymous email with an attachment that purported to contain recordings from Donald Trump’s voicemail inbox. Among the recordings were messages left for Trump by various celebrities—most notably, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Tamron Hall.

While Gawker was unable to independently verify their authenticity, the recordings certainly appear to be genuine. In addition to those from the MSNBC personalities, there were messages from longtime Barack Obama advisor David Axelrod, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, and boxing promoter Don King, all of whom spoke to Trump in a friendly and familiar manner.

Donald Trump’s primary rivals for the Republican nomination, Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, have both called on Trump to authorize The New York Times to release a transcript or recording of an interview he conducted with the newspaper, a portion of which was off the record. They think the recording will reveal that Trump is not the version of himself he presents to Republican voters—politically incorrect and unafraid of offending liberal elites—but in fact that the authentic Trump is a creature of elite Manhattan society, who counts among his personal friends many members of the decadent liberal media, and whose natural habitat is an Upper East Side cocktail party. As Cruz has put it, Trump has “New York values.”

These voicemails buttress that argument. They indicate that Trump maintains friendly personal relations with members of the elite political press, even as he demonizes them. While Trump and some of his journalistic interrogators play oppositional roles on the public stage, the voicemails suggest that they are in fact favor-trading pals when the cameras are off.
http://gawker.com/voicemails-appear-to-reveal-donald-trumps-cozy-relation-1762690660

Redteam

So you make up a false narrative and make up another false narrative to confirm it.

Do you understand that such accusations are MEANINGLESS?

And that anyone could use the same tactic?

BTW, why are you complaining in the first place – didn’t you demand that I post those items in the first place?

Why don’t you respond to those items instead of making things up.

@Troll On Retainer: You forgot to give TNS credit for that release, it seems to be quite old though, is that what happens to new guys? They have to print all the old releases before they can get the newer ones.
I didn’t read it past the headline. I would advise you to get newer material, but apparently you’re looking for volume and not value.

@Troll On Retainer:

Why don’t you respond to those items instead of making things up.

At least I put in the time to be original, I don’t just offer reprints from the TNS.

@Redteam:

Is that your new attack plan; to call anyone who points out that The Donald is a self-serving fraud, just as Hillary is, a troll?

Perhaps it is you who should get new material.

Bulldozing Property Rights Won’t Make America Great Again
Trump’s Kind of “Winning” Requires Other People to Lose
Everyone complains about government, and real estate magnate Donald Trump is promising to fix it and make America great again. But no one can help the economy by encouraging the government to take people’s property. The Soviet Union, Cuba, and Venezuela have tried it without success.

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court, in the 2005 Kelo v. City of New London case, gave the government the right to take people’s property for any economic development project, a process called “eminent domain.” Susette Kelo’s house was seized so that New London could build housing, office space, and stores. Kelo’s house was destroyed, but the city’s project was never started. It’s yet another case of government planning gone awry.

Encouraging eminent domain leads to corruption and cronyism, where friends keep their property and enemies lose it. It opens the door to bribery and extortion of campaign contributions.

Trump loves eminent domain. The most famous case of Trump trying to take away private property occurred in the mid-1990s. Vera Coking, an elderly widow, lived next to the Trump Plaza hotel and casino in Atlantic City, NJ. Trump wanted to build a parking lot for limousines on that property and several neighboring ones. When Coking refused to sell, Trump appealed to the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority to seize it via eminent domain.
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America cannot prosper by doing away with people’s property rights. To the contrary — it is only by solidifying property rights that people will be encouraged to take risks and make investments. And it is private investments that lead to economic growth and that will make America great again.
http://fee.org/articles/bulldozing-your-home-for-casino-parking-wont-make-america-great-again/

Well now. It looks like Tor didn’t need my help at all to find Trump bashing links. I think he lazily just wanted me to do the work for him.

@Redteam:

I don’t believe you. Which ‘one’ did you name and in which comment?

Tor doesn’t want to state precisely which ‘one’ Republican candidate he supported. Neither did Retire. If they actually had a specific candidate they were supporting, it makes no sense that they would be so reluctant to say so. You and I (and others) have made it clear that Trump was not our favorite choice, but that we would support him if he won the nomination. Incidentally, Paul Ryan finally has seen the writing on the wall and came out in support of Trump: Paul Ryan: Donald Trump can help make reality of bold House policy agenda

Both Trump and Sessions have been talking about maybe having the senator for a VP running mate. I think it is an excellent idea, having a staunch conservative like Sessions, whose opinion Trump trusts, there to help guide him. It also puts Sessions in an ideal position to run against a Democrat candidate in a future presidential election.

@Ditto:

Tor doesn’t want to state precisely which ‘one’ Republican candidate he supported. Neither did Retire. If they actually had a specific candidate they were supporting, it makes no sense that they would be so reluctant to say so.

Why are you so concerned who I supported in the primary? There were many choices in my state’s primary and I picked the one who I thought would most strictly adhere to the Constitution. It wasn’t Trump.

Redteam has metioned a number of times he did not vote for Trump in his state’s primary. Perhaps you can get him to tell you who he did vote for. And while you’re at it, you can tell us who you voted for in your primary.

I think it is an excellent idea, having a staunch conservative like Sessions,

If you mean “staunch” as in someone like Mike Lee, Sessions falls short.

With GOP nomination looming, Trump slated to take witness stand in fraud trial

Here’s a part of the political calendar that nobody in the Republican Party seems to have noticed: This spring, just as the GOP nomination battle enters its final phase, frontrunner Donald Trump could be forced to take time out for some unwanted personal business: He’s due to take the witness stand in a federal courtroom in San Diego, where he is being accused of running a financial fraud.

In court filings last Friday, lawyers for both sides in a long-running civil lawsuit over the now defunct Trump University named Trump on their witness lists. That makes it all but certain that the reality-show star and international businessman will be forced to be grilled under oath over allegations in the lawsuit that he engaged in deceptive trade practices and scammed thousands of students who enrolled in his “university” courses in response to promises he would make them rich in the real estate market.

Although the case has been winding its way through the courts for the past five years — and Trump has denied all wrongdoing — the final pretrial conference is now slated for May 6, according to the latest pleadings in the case. No trial date has been set, but the judge has indicated his interest in moving the case forward, the pleadings show.

“This is pretty amazing,” said Scott Reed, a veteran Republican Party consultant, about Trump’s upcoming due date in federal court. “Usually, you clean this stuff up before you run for president.”
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/with-gop-nomination-looming-trump-slated-to-take-191550876.html?

@Ditto: A). I’ve got a plethora of articles detailing the reasons Trump is the worst possible candidate. Those are merely the beginning of the list from approximately 3 months ago – items informed voters knew about already.

Where you aware of all of these issues? Yes or No

B). My point was that most of the other candidates would have been infinitely better than Trump. I’m not buying into the strawman argument postulated by Redteam .

@retire05: Given that ‘Redteam’ doesn’t know the meaning of the word Projection I find this new tack of hers to be interesting to say the least.

The people who most vociferously oppose Trump are those grounded in Conservative principles because he has indicated he has only a passing interest in such concepts.

Conversely, by at least some policy positions the manifestations are that Trump is a closet leftist (at the moment) he was ‘out’ in that regard in the past.. but I digress..

Given that he’s either a stalking horse for Hillary and wants to lose or he is just as bad a leftist as her it’s curious why someone would project such attributes on others.
Bottom line: The likelihood is that leftists would tend to support the man.

Trump’s Yuuge Lies
Among South Carolina Republicans who preferred above all else a candidate “who tells it like it is,” 77 percent voted for Donald J. Trump. That is astonishing, given that Donald Trump’s entire life has been an extended exercise in deception.

Start with his wealth. How much is Donald Trump worth? $1.7 billion? $6 billion? “TEN BILLION DOLLARS,” as he claimed in his presidential filing? Tim O’Brien, then a reporter for the New York Times, wrote in his book TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald, that in one 24-hour period, Trump claimed two different net worths differing by $3.3 billion. He has never permitted an independent, third-party audit of his finances. The closest anyone has come is Deutsche Bank, which in 2005 estimated that Trump was worth . . . $788 million. Several sources with knowledge of Trump’s finances have put the number significantly lower.

And, as my colleague Kevin Williamson recently documented, Trump has lied expansively about his (count ’em!) four bankruptcies. Then there are Trump’s lies about his personal life. How was it that the star athlete at the New York Military Academy received a deferment for bone spurs in both heels? And how is it that those maladies seem to have disappeared, a miracle otherwise unknown in medical history? Presumably Trump’s affair with Marla Maples during his marriage to his first wife involved some serious deception, as did the affairs he claims to have had with married women. (Or is he lying about those affairs?)

And, now, there are Trump’s political lies. Was Trump actually against going into Iraq, as he has claimed on multiple occasions over the past months? No. When Howard Stern asked him in 2002 if he was “for” invading Iraq, he answered, “I guess so.”

A president with a higher tolerance for the truth would be a welcome change.

But there is no reason whatsoever to think that Donald Trump would be such a president. Trump’s entire personal and professional history is Obama-esque: When it serves his interests, Trump lies. He has lied to business associates, employees, friends, spouses, and now to millions of prospective voters. Anyone who thinks that Trump will not lie to them, or that he will at least tell the truth about “important things” — immigration or ISIS or whatever — is deluding himself. When it becomes expedient for Trump to lie, he will. “You can’t con people, at least not for long,” Trump wrote in The Art of the Deal. “If you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.” His supporters may prove otherwise.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431755/donald-trumps-huge-lies

Clinton just launched her first serious torpedoes. It’ll be interesting to see how Donald Trump responds to a direct, focused, clearly articulated, highly personal attack. He’s been dishing it out himself for months.

@Troll On Retainer:

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court, in the 2005 Kelo v. City of New London case, gave the government the right to take people’s property for any economic development project, a process called “eminent domain.”

Geez fellow, eminent domain has been around since the 1700’s at least. Just a little research shows that the states ALWAYS used it, and it was officially recognized by the US in the 1800’s. If TNS is blaming all this on the Donald, you should get a different clipping service.

@Greg: Sounded like the babbling idiot that she is. She should stop watching Obama attempt to read from teleprompters, it’s not working well for her.