Politics Thread

It's even funnier that it's in no way doctored.

I'd say it goes deeper than that honestly.

Trump is no fool, nor is he an idiot. But he is, however, a vacuous demagogue and a crooked used car salesman who sees reality in terms of dollar signs. Trump has no set of beliefs or moral values; everything is in direct relation to profit and image. He's completely unscrupulous, hence the unprecedented number of lawsuits that have been filed against him.

There is a reason as to why he's changed so radically from just a few years ago when he was praising the Clintons. He has simply changed his attitude to match the political climate. Regardless of how wrong he is on a subject, people will take him seriously and believe him because he sounds impassioned and his image has been so carefully sculpted that he seems like one of "us". One of the Fox News anchors even called him a "blue collar billionaire"....

I'm honestly confused by all the people saying he's not stupid, a fool or an idiot.

Anyone who's spent more than 10 minutes on a college campus could tell you that.

Their son died in 2004, before cellphones were that smart, unless you had a Blackberry.

Given how proud they are about their sons service, I'm guessing he's had that pocket constitution since before then. I can see it, kinda like how people still wear dress watches.

Odd, old school, but kinda cool.

I really hope Trumps disgraceful treatment of the Khan's is the straw that gets more traditional Republican voters to break rank. It's promising seeing so many prominent Republicans condemning him for it.

I guess I get why the Khans would have one, I didn't really mean to make it about them so much as to use that as a launching pad since pocket constitutions are sort of in the zeitgeist right now.

In my experience the people who walk around with those things are less like the Khans and more like... I don't know, the kinds of people who would get into an argument for an hour over someone cutting in line or something. There's kind of a very specific type of person I tend to associate the little things with, generally not my favorite personality type.

To be honest, this story is unverifiable due to the secrecy of the subject matter but I wouldn't put it past him.


Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can't use nuclear weapons three times in one hour, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on the air, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee.

Bill Maher: Why don't you hack Donald Trump's tax return?
Wiki Leaks: We're working on it.

Donald Trump:

Watch. Clinton will be so ahead in the polls that they won't show up to vote.

Just like Bart Simpson losing class president.

I'm wondering if there will even be any debates.  Drumpf has already demonstrated a willingness to forgo them.  If he does decide to participate in a debate, I suspect there will be only one.  When he gets on stage, Clinton is going to hammer him about his continued refusal to release his tax returns, links to Putin, bankruptcies, law suits, Trump University, foreign policy ignorance, bigotry, etc.  Meanwhile, Drumpf is just going to stand there are scream about Benghazi, which the Republican investigating committee cleared Clinton on already.  He's going to scream about email security, which the FBI has cleared Clinton of already.  Then he's going to say something that's a flat out lie, and the moderator is going to call him on it.  Since he's Drumpf, he's double down on the lie instead of conceding the point.  Once it's all over with, he'll insist that the moderator was biased and had blood shooting out of their where ever, and that the entire debate was rigged against him.

Trump will concede before this month is out.

I suspect that Trump's ego won't allow him to drop out of the race.  When he loses, rather than giving a concession speech, he'll denounce the entire process as rigged.

Now it's looking as though Trump may lose North Carolina, a highly conservative state that's drawn national attention due to it's racist voter ID laws, bigoted "bathroom laws" and constant gerrymandering.