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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Didn't Trump cheat on his wives? Plus the whole rape thing which is surprisingly going unreported.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?Ironically, for someone trying to make a big deal out of someone else's adultery, Trump and his most prominent supporters, Gingrich and Giuliani, all have a history of adultery
, with a shared total of nine marriages between them.
The other forum i'm on calls it IOKIYAR, short for "It's okay if you're a Republican." It complements the "Clinton Rules," although those only target the Clintons specifically, where normal things politicians do become major scandals if Clinton does it, while oft-scandalous things are fine if a Republican is doing them.
So, Trump's reason for attacking Hillary's marriage is to try and turn women against her. The Clinton campaign seems to be using it as evidence that he's unhinged, and Clinton herself seems to be responding from the angle that he's trying to bully her into stopping her support for that Miss Universe woman.
So, it looks like Trump will be using this subject in his next debate, and Clinton's response seems to be to use it as an example of her claims that Trump is a bully. I can see why Republicans don't want Trump to use Bill's affairs. It might blow up in his face.
Don't know how reliable the NY Times is, but the clearest quote
is in there at the moment.
“She’s nasty, but I can be nastier than she ever can be,” Mr. Trump said.
“Hillary Clinton was married to the single greatest abuser of women in the history of politics,” he added about Mr. Clinton. “Hillary was an enabler, and she attacked the women who Bill Clinton mistreated afterward. I think it’s a serious problem for them, and it’s something that I’m considering talking about more in the near future.”
Mr. Trump said he believed that his own marital history did not preclude him from waging such an attack. He became involved with Marla Maples while he was still married to his first wife, Ivana, who divorced him in 1991. He married Ms. Maples in 1993; they were divorced in 1999. He married his current wife, Melania, in 2005.
Mr. Trump’s sharply negative attacks on the Clintons, and on Ms. Machado, pose a significant political risk to his own appeal: Two-thirds of voters already see him unfavorably, according to polls, and he is struggling to win over female voters — including white women, a majority of whom have historically supported the Republican candidate in presidential elections.
Mike Pence is very much like Heinrich Himmler.
- Not in the limelight and not fond of being out there.
- Prefers putting his works in place without publicity or acclaim.
- stands behind the boss and does the actual horrid work.
- holds the most of the actual power (Trump has talked about giving Pence all the day to day work, probably not thinking what sort of power that would give Pence).
- enjoys enforcing Heteronormative Crusader laws and functions as revenge against those who he feels are either slighting him as a person or as a class. (he most likely refused to release that innocent black man as a way of saying "Black Lives Matter? Not to me they don't.")
- Believes in nothing insomuch as his own advancement.
Did Pence really say that Black lives don't matter to him?
I kinda thought that Trump would hand over a lot of work to his VP.
Now I think there's something really vile about the apathy encouraged towards potential vice presidents. It takes away some of your own political power. You should care who your VP may be, in case of anything happen to the POTUS, God forbid.
Do not obey in advance.I really hope Trump keeps to his word and brings up Bill's affairs, because it will make the second debate an even bigger slaughter. And Clinton has skin of iron, she won't even flinch.
You can't win the White House if women won't vote for you in sufficient numbers. End of story.
edited 1st Oct '16 6:36:27 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.NYT gets Trump's 1995 tax documents, might have avoided taxes for two decades
The 1995 tax records, never before disclosed, reveal the extraordinary tax benefits that Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, derived from the financial wreckage he left behind in the early 1990s through mismanagement of three Atlantic City casinos, his ill-fated foray into the airline business and his ill-timed purchase of the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan.
Tax experts hired by The Times to analyze Mr. Trump’s 1995 records said tax rules that are especially advantageous to wealthy filers would have allowed Mr. Trump to use his $916 million loss to cancel out an equivalent amount of taxable income over an 18-year period.

On Trump bringing up Bill's affairs. IT WAS TWENTY YEARS AGO DUMBASS!!
Also how can he think bringing up Bill's cheating will hurt Hillary? Unless he's doing it for the sole purpose of hurting her on a personal level which I would not put past him.
Trump delenda est