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stopbush

(24,396 posts)
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 02:54 PM Jan 2016

Trump Sounds More & More Like A Caricature of a False Flag Operative

He has gotten so outrageous as the campaign goes on that I'm starting to think he's a D operative whose job is to bring out THE ugliest aspects of the R party and R voters, and to give them enough racist and bigoted rope to hang themselves, not just for this year, but forever.

This is a person who - while being a huge asshole - never voiced many of these outrageous ideas before, at least not in public. In fact, he was something of a liberal/conservative hybrid in many respects.

I can imagine him winning the R nomination, then getting up to give his acceptance speech, which would cut the party and its followers to shreds for their bigotries and hatred.

Then again, maybe I'm giving him way too much credit. He is so power hungry and so believing of his own PR that winning the nomination will probably have the opposite effect - he'll run with it whole hog, because he'll realize that, "hey, after all, I really do want to be the president."

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sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
2. It would be the most incredible dirty trick
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 03:15 PM
Jan 2016

in the history of political dirty tricks if someone managed to make this work.

Trump is far too unbalanced to be able to keep his mouth shut and the number of people needed to play it out pretty much guarantees that it wouldn't work for very long before it came out.

Person 2713

(3,263 posts)
3. You are just in disbelief on what a crazy racist asshole long time birther who spent a lot of money
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 03:18 PM
Jan 2016

sending lawyers to Hawaii to in some delusional attempt to unseat the president and deny his presidency, misuser of bankruptcy law for greed and not so good employer, hitler loving and wrote about it years ago, megalomaniac that he is .
This is nothing new for Trump.
I find I often have to remind people he didn't just turn into a hater
I think it's because they watch TV and only know him as a celebrity
All celebrities seem entertaining
His hater crowd if you've been their target you would know are not new either

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
6. There's no proof Trump spent even a dime sending people to Hawaii to investigate Obama.
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 03:40 PM
Jan 2016

That's just more BS. Has he ever produced a single piece of evidence or identified a single person doing the investigating?

 

WhaTHellsgoingonhere

(5,252 posts)
5. If Palin couldn't tear the Republican Party apart
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 03:28 PM
Jan 2016

I don't know how successful Trump will be. Sarah appeals to that flank of the Party because she's perceived as genuine. I think Trump appeals to them because he makes deals and can get anything done. They both play to the lowest common denominator. Together, not in coordination, they will blow up the Republican Party. I've never taken Trump serious. He tried to get Hillary elected in 2008 when he attacked Obama over his birth certificate.

cheyanne

(733 posts)
7. What's scary about a Trump presidency?
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 03:51 PM
Jan 2016

He has no advisers.

He can run a campaign by himself with his money, but that just means that he hasn't built up a team dedicated to winning that actually can advise him on how to govern. As nominee, he will have to show that he can pick credible people. Not gonna happen. .

Of course, the Republican party will soon realize that they have to get someone who can try to manage him, but no reputable republican will want to put his reputation on the line by being on Trump's fantasy team.

My worst fear is that Cruz will ooze his way into his cabinet, but it could be any of the campaigning grifters.

The upshot of a Trump (or any other Republican) presidency is that they will have won on promises that they can't keep, ensuring that their backers will eventually turn on him.

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KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
8. Garrison Keillor had a bit: Trump and Bill Clinton have a bet going>>>
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 04:17 PM
Jan 2016

Trump bet the Republicans would NOT nominate him.

So now he's stuck trying to get out of it.

Sort of like The Producers.

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