Posts Tagged ‘donald trump’
Team Trump pretty much calls for civil war
Written By: - Date published: 8:02 am, August 3rd, 2016 - 168 comments
Team Trump is pretty much calling for civil war if they don’t get their way. We are through the looking glass.
Trump RNC Acceptance speech – protecting LGBTQ and more
Written By: - Date published: 1:57 pm, July 24th, 2016 - 217 comments
Does the US Left understand what it is up against in Donald Trump? Watch him and decide for yourself if he is going to take November. His team have done their homework well.
Trump reaction
Written By: - Date published: 11:15 am, July 23rd, 2016 - 16 comments
Featuring a strong endorsement from the KKK.
Drumpf LIVE!
Written By: - Date published: 2:44 pm, July 22nd, 2016 - 31 comments
Establishment candidate and billionaire Donald J Trump is delivering his acceptance speech at the RNC. It’s chockfulla cliches, but hey …
YOOO ESSS AYYYY, YOOO ESSS AYYYY!
Has Hillary Clinton hired Bernie Sanders’ social media team?
Written By: - Date published: 9:56 am, July 21st, 2016 - 18 comments
Overnight Hillary Clinton’s campaign team has released a video that not only elegantly mimics and repeats the 1964 classic campaign ad “Confessions of a Republican” but involves the same actor who for exactly the same reasons has decided he cannot support the Republican candidate for the presidency.
Republican circus
Written By: - Date published: 2:28 pm, July 19th, 2016 - 52 comments
The Republican convention circus is under way, a four day parade of ignorance and prejudice.
Tweets from a Donald Trump meeting
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, June 17th, 2016 - 88 comments
Jared Yates Sexton tweets about a recent experience he had when attending a Donald Trump meeting. We should all be worried.
Warren on Trump (and the Republicans)
Written By: - Date published: 8:42 am, June 11th, 2016 - 33 comments
Elizabeth Warren, who is positioning herself as Clinton’s potential VP, rips in to The Donald (and the Republicans) in a speech to the American Constitution Society (ACS).
Trump In, Bern Out, Hillary Home and Hosed?
Written By: - Date published: 11:18 am, May 27th, 2016 - 196 comments
Donald Trump has finally got the last Republican delegates need to secure his candidacy. Bernie Sanders has lost his race (but is being pressured to stand as an independent). Now that the candidates are all but confirmed, the sideshow is over. It’s Clinton vs Drumpf in the most entertaining election in a generation.
William Gibson on Donald Trump
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, May 24th, 2016 - 30 comments
William Gibson of Neuromancer fame thinks that Donald Trump may be the real American fascist deal.
Trump 41%, Clinton 39%
Written By: - Date published: 12:03 am, May 6th, 2016 - 103 comments
A US-wide poll shows Trump leading Clinton 41% to 39%. The poll was taken before Trump won the nomination. His numbers will have strengthened now.
Indiana vote
Written By: - Date published: 11:55 am, May 4th, 2016 - 151 comments
Keep an eye on the Indiana US primary vote today. Trump has crushed all opposition and Bernie is going to pull off an upset win.
Update: Rumours that Cruz is dropping out of the race! Update: True – Cruz is gone.
Sanders is down but not out
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, April 3rd, 2016 - 66 comments
The parties are over half way through the primaries and Bernie Sanders still has a chance of pulling off what would be a dramatic victory.
Republican circus
Written By: - Date published: 8:34 am, March 26th, 2016 - 50 comments
And now we have accusations of a sex scandal. Stick a fork in the Republicans, they are done.
Latest primaries – Rubio gone
Written By: - Date published: 1:44 pm, March 16th, 2016 - 95 comments
Results are coming in from Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio in the US primaries. Trump and Clinton take Florida, Rubio drops out.
Rachel Maddow on Donald Trump’s campaign strategy
Written By: - Date published: 9:06 am, March 14th, 2016 - 97 comments
Rachel Maddow sets out a timeline suggesting that Donald Trump has engaged in calculated escalation of violent rhetoric and action which is causing damage to the US society and how this marks a new low for the Republican Party.
Trump Chicago rally cancelled amid protests
Written By: - Date published: 2:56 pm, March 12th, 2016 - 62 comments
Seems like not everyone in America is going to roll over for Trump.
Economic anger and political madness
Written By: - Date published: 7:28 am, March 11th, 2016 - 66 comments
History clearly shows us that when people are economically stressed they turn to extreme action and extreme leaders. Economist Jared Bernstein argues that the Trump ascendancy is another example of this.
The destruction of the Republican Party
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, March 5th, 2016 - 49 comments
It appears that the party of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Regan are having problems.
Super Tuesday
Written By: - Date published: 9:35 am, March 2nd, 2016 - 30 comments
Strange days indeed.
The left should take lessons from Donald Trump
Written By: - Date published: 7:31 am, February 28th, 2016 - 107 comments
Ad on why the left should look at Trump’s populism and adopt some of the better parts.
The difference between decent folk and complete idiots
Written By: - Date published: 10:17 am, February 19th, 2016 - 34 comments
For a change I’m not going to have a rip at our local idiotic politicians. The most extreme case recently being the now infamous Dildo Baggins. Lets have a look offshore where they are often even worse…
Trump and post reality-based politics
Written By: - Date published: 2:03 pm, January 25th, 2016 - 20 comments
Trump has stated that he could shoot someone in public and still not lose any voters. He might not even be be wrong. We seem to be moving beyond an old fashioned “reality-based” politics of consequences and accountability.
Talk like Sarah Palin
Written By: - Date published: 2:41 pm, January 22nd, 2016 - 11 comments
A new leader in the GOP establishment to make America great again. God bless the work ethic that you’re putting relationships on the status quo has spent his life looking up main thing, the main thing, and he doesn’t get to keep us safe economically and militarily.
Sanders vs Trump
Written By: - Date published: 1:21 pm, January 20th, 2016 - 132 comments
Sanders is increasing his lead over Clinton in early states. Trump has just been endorsed by Palin. A Sanders vs Trump face off doesn’t seem as unlikely as it used to.
Donald Trump does not like muslims
Written By: - Date published: 11:54 am, December 8th, 2015 - 64 comments
Donald J Trump may have reached peak craziness or peak political opportunism with his call to ban all Muslims from entering America.
Please don’t go there America
Written By: - Date published: 11:56 am, November 20th, 2015 - 27 comments
Donald Trump won’t rule out “tracking Muslim Americans in a database or giving them “a special form of identification that noted their religion””. Brings to mind an F word.
Go Trump Go!
Written By: - Date published: 8:31 am, July 21st, 2015 - 41 comments
For entertainment purposes we could do no better than having Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for the US presidential election.
Sanders vs Trump
Written By: - Date published: 7:03 am, July 3rd, 2015 - 15 comments
It will probably turn out to be Clinton vs Bush of course. But wouldn’t Sanders vs Trump be more fun? And wouldn’t Sanders be a fascinating POTUS?
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