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Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#140902: Sep 28th 2016 at 8:39:20 PM

Also, for anyone wanting an incomplete history of Trump's...less than stellar track record when it comes to treatment of women, here you are.

Here are some choice bits:

Bette Midler, too, has come under fire from Trump. In the space of six minutes on 28, 2012, he tweeted at the singer and actress twice, first calling her "grotesque", then adding: "While @Bette Midler is an extremely unattractive woman, I refuse to say that because I always insist on being politically correct.

[..]There is a pattern. The future GOP nominee offered this assessment in his 1997 book "Trump: The Art of The Comeback":

"Women have one of the great acts of all time", he wrote. "The smart ones act very feminine and needy, but inside they are real killers. The person who came up with the expression 'the weaker sex' was either very naive or had to be kidding. I have seen women manipulate men with just a twitch of their eye - or perhaps another body part."

What he said to the face of "Celebrity Apprentice" contestant and former playboy playmate, Brande Roderick, during a 2013 show left her blank-faced.

"It must be a pretty picture", Trump said. "You dropping to your knees."

In July 2015, attorney Elizabeth Beck told CNN's Alysin Camerota that trump a few years earlier had suffered an "absolute meltdown" after she requested a break to pump breast milk.

"He got up", Beck said. "his face got red, he shook his finger and he screamed 'You're disgusting, you're disgusting,', and he ran out of there.

I'm sorry if I'm just pointing out the obvious here, but all of this makes one thing perfectly clear: Trump has all the maturity of a 14 year old on 4chan. It's really fucking disturbing that a person can be so incredibly immature at 70 years old.

edited 28th Sep '16 8:42:05 PM by Draghinazzo

Lennik (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#140903: Sep 28th 2016 at 8:44:48 PM

Duh. There's a reason 14-year-olds on 4chan love him so much.

That's right, boys. Mondo cool.
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#140904: Sep 28th 2016 at 8:46:53 PM

It's really fucking disturbing that a person can be so incredibly immature at 70 years old.

[awesome]

Do not obey in advance.
PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#140905: Sep 28th 2016 at 8:55:29 PM

Trump has all the maturity of a 14 year old on 4chan.

When you consider his base, it's kinda fitting, isn't it?

Ninja Challenge.

edited 28th Sep '16 8:56:19 PM by PhysicalStamina

i'm tired, my friend
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#140907: Sep 28th 2016 at 9:00:15 PM

[up]Aw, snap! [lol]

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GameGuruGG Vampire Hunter from Castlevania (Before Recorded History)
Vampire Hunter
#140908: Sep 28th 2016 at 9:06:30 PM

Yeah, I know 14 year olds who act more mature than 4chan or Trump.

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kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#140909: Sep 28th 2016 at 9:09:03 PM

@140871: "Unfortunately, for too many Americans, the American Dream is now out of reach..."

What else is new?tongue

The 'American Dream' has always been out of reach. It's only now that most people are beginning to acknowledge it.

edited 28th Sep '16 9:09:19 PM by kkhohoho

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#140910: Sep 28th 2016 at 9:10:47 PM

"Women have one of the great acts of all time", he wrote. "The smart ones act very feminine and needy, but inside they are real killers. The person who came up with the expression 'the weaker sex' was either very naive or had to be kidding. I have seen women manipulate men with just a twitch of their eye - or perhaps another body part."

He reminds me of my father. I hate my father.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
thatguythere47 Since: Jul, 2010
#140912: Sep 28th 2016 at 9:40:46 PM

I'm wondering exactly when america was great. When it was engaging in political witch hunts? When it was on the brink of nuclear annihilation? When black people weren't really people? When you could just lock up japanese people and steal their shit?

Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#140913: Sep 28th 2016 at 9:41:49 PM

Yep, why do you think they're so eager to get back to that?

Trump's campaign has it's roots entirely in white supremacy.

Oh really when?
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#140915: Sep 28th 2016 at 9:49:45 PM

I feel like I have a lot to say about the whole Make America Great Again slogan, but I'm going to exercise Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgment here.

[up][up][up][up]Basically voiced a lot of my thoughts already.

edited 28th Sep '16 9:51:40 PM by BearyScary

Do not obey in advance.
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#140916: Sep 28th 2016 at 10:13:31 PM

It needs to be said again, there are white people in this country who hate minorities, specifically black people, so goddamn much they're willing to turn the nuclear codes to a narcissistic thin skinned manchild with no impulse control or intellectual curiosity just for the CHANCE that he'll screw people of color over en masse.

Like...how the fuck?

New Survey coming this weekend!
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#140917: Sep 28th 2016 at 10:18:06 PM

[up]X5 It's the last two as far as such people are concerned.

[up]X3 Fox has editorial standards? Since when?

edited 28th Sep '16 10:18:46 PM by Silasw

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#140918: Sep 29th 2016 at 12:56:44 AM

[up][up]Cash, a mortgage and a car tends to do pretty well as a shield.

If they don't think that forcibly suppressing every minority doesn't reduce competition for those three things, they think that some vague definition of "great again" will make life easier for them on those fronts.

An interview with Matt Furie, creator of Boys Club and by extension Pepe the Frog, literally on the day the ADL officially listed racist Pepes as a hate symbol.

He's still not entirely sure of what he can do about the attention now directed at racist Pepes. He's voting for Hillary, though, after supporting Sanders in the primaries.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#140919: Sep 29th 2016 at 4:07:10 AM

Donald Trump attacks 'biased' Lester Holt and accuses Google of conspiracy

...Uh... What?

Donald Trump has gone on the offensive after his underwhelming debate performance by criticizing debate moderator Lester Holt as biased and accusing Google of a conspiracy to rig search results in favor of Hillary Clinton.

He also had surrogates attack his Democrat rival for her husband’s infidelities while suggesting she wants to “strip [the United States] of its status as a sovereign nation”.

The Republican nominee launched the latest salvo of attacks in an interview with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly where he claimed Holt “was much, much tougher on me than he was on Hillary”. Trump said that while initially “I said good things right after the show” he had changed his mind about Holt’s performance “after seeing the way he badgered and even the questions I got”.

...

*eyeroll*

"Yup. That tasted purple."
NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#140920: Sep 29th 2016 at 4:42:29 AM

As for why he used that conspiracy theory

The fervor surrounding the conspiracy theory died down in less than a week, after news outlets provided their fact checks, but this month, Sputnik News, a website run by the Russian government-controlled news agency Rossiya Segodnya, resurrected the study, prompting more headlines from Breitbart, the website once led by Stephen K. Bannon, the chief executive of Mr. Trump’s campaign.

Mr. Trump’s comment sounded like an off-the-cuff line, and he has been known to float falsehoods frequently in his stump speech, often in riffs of his own. But the conspiracy was in the first paragraph of his prepared remarks for delivery.

Oops!

nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#140921: Sep 29th 2016 at 5:03:39 AM

Is it just me, or is Trump getting a tad desperate?

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#140922: Sep 29th 2016 at 5:04:13 AM

The guy's losing and he knows it. His Russian friends are trying to feed him things and hack what they can too.

Oh really when?
nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#140923: Sep 29th 2016 at 5:10:10 AM

[up]Now if only Trump could just learn the art of subtlety when pulling all this at once, he might not attract all suspicion towards him..........Just most of it.

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#140924: Sep 29th 2016 at 5:16:45 AM

538 update: Clinton's up to 61.3% on Polls-Only and has flipped Florida. She's also at a knife's edge from getting North Carolina and Nevada.

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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#140925: Sep 29th 2016 at 5:27:09 AM

It's almost refreshing: Trump has a propaganda machine working for him that controls the information environment of fully 40% of the U.S. population, plus foreign governments disrupting our political process, and he still can't overcome his inherent awfulness.

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