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[autisticdragonkin]

Trump is a glimmer of hope in a world of darkness. I fear that Pandora may have just opened her jar again though.

I don't really understand why people are rating this post like this.
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@Randy Lahey I have no idea what your political positions are but I think you understood what I was saying

 

[Lackadaisy]

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@Randy Lahey I have no idea what your political positions are but I think you understood what I was saying

You are just precious.

 

[AN/ALR56]

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Trump is a necessary evil

 

[Pikimon]

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Because the work of Donald Trump's father isn't his own work.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

Because the work of Donald Trump's father isn't his own work.

Trump's father did not create Trump's political campaign which is what I was referring to as hope/elpis

 

[JU 199]

I'm not really a big Trump person, but I imagine that most of the people who criticize Trump's failed business ventures the harshest do not have their names hanging on any skyscrapers.

Nah, Trump's good at marketing his own image but in the end that's it.

Having a craft or vocation where you put solid effort in and make something really good may not get dollar rolling in but at least you're not a lazy prick who sells their own bullshit image. I respect creativity and effort more then some lazy, wannabe fascist's name on a skyscraper.

Also here's some news. The orange fucker was caught red-handed (tho it wont make much of a difference)

Big Trump checks to vets groups sent on day of media report

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/44c4...9/trump-detail-fundraising-veterans-charities

NEW YORK (AP) — More than a dozen big checks flowed out of New York last week, bound for veterans' charities from Donald Trump. On Tuesday, he announced he had made good on his promise of last January to give the groups millions of dollars from a highly publicized fundraiser.

The announcement by the presumptive Republican presidential candidate came in the midst of a 40-minute rant against "dishonest" and "sleazy" reporters who have been pressing the issue.

The largest donation, a $1 million check dated May 24 and drawn from Donald J. Trump's personal account, was addressed to a small Tuckahoe, New York, group that provides scholarships to the children of fallen Marines.

Trump had been interviewed that same day by The Washington Post, which for weeks had been raising questions about where the promised money was, urging him to disclose recipients of the millions raised during a splashy telethon-style fundraiser he held in Iowa in January in place of a Fox debate he was boycotting.

At a news conference Tuesday, Trump released a list of 41 groups he said had received $5.6 million.

"Most of the money went out quite a while ago," Trump said. "Some of it went out more recently. But all of this has gone out."

Throughout Tuesday's confrontational event, Trump repeatedly slammed the media as "unbelievably dishonest" for its treatment of the issue and dismissed an ABC reporter as "a sleaze." He said many times that he didn't want credit for the fundraising but seemed peeved that he wasn't thanked for it.

"Instead of being like, 'Thank you very much, Mr. Trump,' or 'Trump did a good job,' everyone's saying, 'Who got it? Who got it? Who got it?' And you make me look very bad," Trump complained, taking on reporters in the room. "I have never received such bad publicity for doing such a good job."

The Associated Press spoke or left messages with each of the organizations Trump named. Of the 30 groups that responded by Tuesday, about half said they had received checks from Trump just last week.

Several said the checks were dated May 24 — the same date as Trump's interview with The Post, and shipped out overnight express.

Among them was the big check from Trump himself, written to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation. Trump's campaign had previously told the newspaper that his promised $1 million personal donation had already been distributed.

Though the foundation had received a $100,000 check from Trump's charity in March, last week's $1 million donation came as something of a surprise.

"It is obviously a wonderful donation," said Sue Boulhosa, the group's executive director and sole employee. She said the group had "an inkling" that more might come but the amount was a happy surprise.

Trump has a longstanding relationship with the group, which Boulhosa said typically raises a total of between $2 million and $3 million a year. The foundation had presented Trump with an award at its 2015 gala held at a New York hotel.

Appearing on CNN Tuesday, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said she was glad that Trump had given out the promised money.

"The problem here is the difference between what Donald Trump says and what Donald Trump does," Clinton said. "He's bragged for months about raising $6 million for vets and donating $1 million himself, but it took a reporter to shame him into actually making the contribution."

Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski had originally told the Post that the event had raised about $4.5 million — less than the $6 million originally announced by Trump — because some who'd pledged had backed out. Lewandowski also said all the money had been given out.

Trump had claimed during the fundraiser that he'd raised $6 million through a combination of pledges from wealthy friends, the public and $1 million from himself.

But the campaign refused for months to disclose which charities had received the money, leading to questions about whether the money raised was less than he had said.

"It was very unfair that the press treated us so badly," Trump complained Tuesday.

He suggested he had hoped to keep the donations private. However, Trump hadn't appeared shy about giving away poster-sized checks at campaign events in the weeks after the fundraiser.

On Jan. 30, just before the campaign's leadoff caucuses in Iowa, he gave a $100,000 check to the Puppy Jake Foundation, which provides service dogs to wounded veterans. Representatives from the foundation, accompanies by several service dogs, accepted the check at the Adler Theater in Davenport, Iowa, where Trump was being interviewed on stage by Jerry Falwell Jr.

The next day, in Council Bluffs, Trump presented another check, also for $100,000, to Partners for Patriots, which also provides service dogs to disabled veterans.

The public presentations trickled off within days, though some of the groups contacted by AP did report receiving checks in February, March and April.

But the biggest batch appeared to have gone out May 24, with several of the groups saying they had no contact with the Trump organization before that.

Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks denied Tuesday that timing had anything to do with questions from the media.

"Mr. Trump's team worked very hard to complete this lengthy process prior to Memorial Day Weekend," she said. The campaign also said it had taken months to carefully vet each of the groups receiving money.

 

[Picklechu]

I read a few hours ago that David French, a writer for the National Review, is apparently Bill Kristol's independent presidential candidate. I'm kind of underwhelmed.

I predict that within a decade, "unelectable" will be removed from the dictionary.

I'm torn, because on one hand, principles, but on the other, it makes my job a lot easier...

I've literally never been less surprised in my life.

He's originally from Trussville, AL (which is how I know people who went to high school with him), moved to Pennsylvania for awhile, came back to Birmingham, and then went to New Hampshire with all of the crazy Free State Project people. There used to be a pretty full history of him online (possibly from a past bid for political office), but I couldn't find it when I looked a few days ago.

 

[Pikimon]

Trump's father did not create Trump's political campaign which is what I was referring to as hope/elpis

But Trump's alleged business acumen is dragged out every 10 seconds as some kind of qualification for Trump's presidency when it's painfully obvious that

A) Trump's entire fortune would've never gotten off the ground without a handout from daddy

B) Most of Trump's business ventures are either scams, flops or just selling his name.

 

[Hat]

I read a few hours ago that David French, a writer for the National Review, is apparently Bill Kristol's independent presidential candidate. I'm kind of underwhelmed.

He's one of the better writers on the site, but he's no politician. Considering all the hype, you'd think that Kristol and company would at least try to support someone that the average American recognizes by name.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

But Trump's alleged business acumen is dragged out every 10 seconds as some kind of qualification for Trump's presidency when it's painfully obvious that

A) Trump's entire fortune would've never gotten off the ground without a handout from daddy

B) Most of Trump's business ventures are either scams, flops or just selling his name.

The hope that he can Make America Great Again is nothing to do with him being a businessman it is to do with him being a good orator (which is an accomplishment of his). Trump is able to make people buy into a highly convincing mass delusion that America can be made Great Again. This is completely impossible as America (and the west as a whole) is in such a terminal state of decline that it has no chance of regaining its greatness and any such effort is futile or at the very least it would require a lengthly civil war with massive casualties on a scale not seen in recent memory

 

[Picklechu]

He's one of the better writers on the site, but he's no politician. Considering all the hype, you'd think that Kristol and company would at least try to support someone that the average American recognizes by name.

I think they were having trouble getting someone--an actual politician--to risk their career and reputation on something like this. The "hype" was more about them trying to recruit Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, etc, etc. Now, though, they can't back down without losing face, so... David French.

Unless he really proves himself, raises an at least semi-decent amount of money, and gets a fantastic running mate, I'm inclined to vote for Gary Johnson.

 

[Joan Nyan]

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@Randy Lahey I have no idea what your political positions are but I think you understood what I was saying

I didn't see how it was critical of Trump.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

I didn't see how it was critical of Trump.

In the story of Pandora's Box Pandora opens the box and releases all evils into the world except for hope. This is because whereas all the other evils in the world are outside of human control humans are able to give up hope and just fight as hard as they can to achieve victory. Hope leads to failure and extended suffering as you are disappointed as well as afraid to take all necessary risks

 

[AN/ALR56]

If trump loses I'm gonna donate all my good bo

In the story of Pandora's Box Pandora opens the box and releases all evil's into the world except for hope. This is because whereas all the other evils in the world are outside of human control humans are able to give up hope and just fight as hard as they can to achieve victory. Hope leads to failure and extended suffering as you are disappointed as well as afraid to take all necessary risks

What the fuck you tried to say?
I'm not sure if my English teaching covered autistic word salads like that.

 

[XYZpdq]

Hope leads to failure and extended suffering as you are disappointed as well as afraid to take all necessary risks

This is from those zany bootleg Engrish Star Wars subtitles, right?

 

[Joan Nyan]

In the story of Pandora's Box Pandora opens the box and releases all evil's into the world except for hope. This is because whereas all the other evils in the world are outside of human control humans are able to give up hope and just fight as hard as they can to achieve victory. Hope leads to failure and extended suffering as you are disappointed as well as afraid to take all necessary risks

That's dumb.

 

[APerson]

The hope that he can Make America Great Again is nothing to do with him being a businessman it is to do with him being a good orator (which is an accomplishment of his). Trump is able to make people buy into a highly convincing mass delusion that America can be made Great Again. This is completely impossible as America (and the west as a whole) is in such a terminal state of decline that it has no chance of regaining its greatness and any such effort is futile or at the very least it would require a lengthly civil war with massive casualties on a scale not seen in recent memory

Trump is a good orator? Have you heard the man speak?
Also, on what basis are you declaring this decline? Psychohistory? Is your real name Hari Seldon? Because America's always longer for the glorious great days. Heck, even as far back as 1812 they decided to fight another anti-British war because they felt that that had been the previous generation's noblest struggle.

 

[DZ 305]

Trump is a good orator? Have you heard the man speak?
Also, on what basis are you declaring this decline? Psychohistory? Is your real name Hari Seldon? Because America's always longer for the glorious great days. Heck, even as far back as 1812 they decided to fight another anti-British war because they felt that that had been the previous generation's noblest struggle.

Don't mind him. He's been reading fringe blogs and is parroting whatever bastardization of philosophy and political science, but we still love him because he's our autist

 

[AnOminous]

Don't mind him. He's been reading fringe blogs and is parroting whatever bastardization of philosophy and political science, but we still love him because he's our autist

He's like a Markov bot that spits out garbled versions of the last thing he read mixed with everything else that was already there.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

Trump is a good orator? Have you heard the man speak?
Also, on what basis are you declaring this decline? Psychohistory? Is your real name Hari Seldon? Because America's always longer for the glorious great days. Heck, even as far back as 1812 they decided to fight another anti-British war because they felt that that had been the previous generation's noblest struggle.

My evidence is declining fertility rate and immigration and #blacklivesmatter. I don't know whether to believe that America as a state is in decline but America as a nation is. (I am unsure as to whether there ever was America as a nation though but if it weren't for the new left might have accomplished it by now)

He's like a Markov bot that spits out garbled versions of the last thing he read mixed with everything else that was already there.

Isn't that just all humans though