Trump for President...

[Darren Dirt]

...of the United States of Amockery!

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/06/17/latenight-hosts-bash-donald-trumps-presidential-did

[Mr. Analog]

C'mon there's always JEB BUSH

who has also thrown his hat in the ring

[Thorin]

If you're going to do that, do it right.  It's JEB!  Apparently the exclamation mark is important because it makes people realize he's serious.

[Darren Dirt]

for the lazy, these are the 3 Youtube videos in the article above

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFVC3qYGYiE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uff1HKrXRM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nZnfqFEwx8



BTW I don't know how I got confused, but felt a weird "wtf?" moment when I saw that Mr. Colbert is already behind the Letterman desk for example, this which reminded me of Conan during the writer's strike (since, duh, he had his last show already ... seriously me so confused, why did I not put 2+2 together... )

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig/videos <-- official YT channel

EDIT: oops, I jumped the gun (so whew I guess I'm not quite losing my mental faculties...) since https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Show_with_David_Letterman says "...which is scheduled to premiere on September 8, 2015"...

[Mr. Analog]

If you're going to do that, do it right.  It's JEB!  Apparently the exclamation mark is important because it makes people realize he's serious.

My bad, I forgot

[Tom]

Wait... I saw some Jeb! stuff in my twitter feed, and since I mostly only follow minecraft stuff on twitter, I assumed it was jeb_... And wondered why the hell there was a stage with Jeb! posters all around. lol.

[Mr. Analog]

LOL

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[Darren Dirt]

The only good thing about Trump running (and all his insane-can't-be-real sound bites ALREADY!) is that it got me to check out a few clips from James Corden's hosting duties post-CraigyFerg... and guess what? HIS "BAND LEADER" IS REGGIE @%&#ING WATTS! So... yeah, watched like 20 clips. "Reggie's Queston" ftw!

[Tom]

The good thing about all of these people running is that it splits the conservative votes, like it did last time. loool.

[Mr. Analog]

The same thing is happening on the Democrat side as well, there are Hillary supporters and Bernie Sanders supporters.

BUT as we've learnt with the Obamanator it doesn't matter who sits in the Oval office it matters who owns Congress

[Tom]

The same thing is happening on the Democrat side as well, there are Hillary supporters and Bernie Sanders supporters.

BUT as we've learnt with the Obamanator it doesn't matter who sits in the Oval office it matters who owns Congress

Well, we learned with the Obamanator that if the president gets c*ck blocked too much, (s)he can just sign whatever executive order he wants. Or if he just want's to hide it like that bush spy order that Obama kept around and used /a lot/.

[Mr. Analog]

lol, too true

[Darren Dirt]

Almost 4 months have passed, and other candidates are dropping like flies. So it's pretty clearl this guy is not a short-run "novelty candidate" in it for ego or greed or whatever other speculations during the summer... But what's his secret to being so enduring and yet being so... rude? What has allowed him to be "bulletproof" despite his many verbal gaffes? Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, objectively and dispassionately deconstructs the linguistic wizardry of Citizen Trump:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a-BI0bcC4c
( very recent video clip -- 07Oct2015 -- from reason.tv )

[Darren Dirt]

But what's his secret to being so enduring and yet being so... rude? What has allowed him to be "bulletproof" despite his many verbal gaffes? Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, objectively and dispassionately deconstructs the linguistic wizardry of Citizen Trump:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a-BI0bcC4c
( very recent video clip -- 07Oct2015 -- from reason.tv )

Following up on the "master wizard" theorizing, Dilbert's Scott Adams watched Bill Clinton's interview with Colbert, and now has a "prediction" of sorts...

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/131021852431/who-will-bill-clinton-vote-for

If you think Bill Clinton wants Hillary to be president, you are either a woman who doesn?t know anything about men, or not paying attention. A Hillary Clinton presidency would thoroughly ruin Bill Clinton?s happiness. In my opinion, as a spouse-free male who can speak freely, there is not the slightest chance that Bill wants Hillary to be president. And as a trained hypnotist, and a student of linguistics, I would say he confirmed it to Colbert.

Cliffs: There's nothing gained by Bill if his wife wins. And plenty of losses.

[Darren Dirt]

Every US presidential election that I can remember, the candidates that get attention first never make it past the prelims.

At first I also expected that kind of familiar info-tainment novelty-fading pattern to recur, but with Trump like no other candidate in recent history they have kept a close watch on every single damn poll (and CNN will jump on any increase in a competitor with almost glee) ... yet those polls have been compared to previous election cycles and from what I have heard/seen nobody after this long a time has held on to a double-digit "popularity" in any of those previous pre-convention circuses.

There was even one news site I can't remember right now, they had a week-by-week line chart for each of the better known ones from 2000 onward, showing each of those previous poll "leaders" who eventually fizzled out -- but all of them fizzled out by now, relatively speaking (compared to either the # of days since they announced their candidacy, or the # of days before the actual selection of the party leader).


Seems like Trump has tapped into the common man's zeitgeist of "all politicians are corrupt insiders playing a game full of lies and wallet-stuffing that I am not welcome to play, always saying the opposite of what they actually think if they believe that will boost their polling numbers". While they see Trump as clearly willing to say what he thinks even if he risks dying of Foot In Mouth Disease -- and as a bonus he is not needing the $ of corporations and billionaires in order to get his "word" out to the masses. Even rich man Romney had hundreds of million in "donations" that were clearly favor-laden had he gotten voted in.

Sure he's likely appealing (pandering?) to the "middle class" who feel oppressed by the current close-minded elite that have been running things most of the last decade or two. But if you wonder if it will work in the end -- should maybe ask fans of Trudeau Jr... 

Three months ago, this writer* sent out a column entitled, "Could Trump Win?" meaning the Republican nomination.

Today even the Trump deniers concede the possibility.

In a year when a huge slice of the nation is disgusted with political correctness, wants to dethrone the establishment, wipe the slate clean and begin anew with someone fresh, Trump is in the pole position.

His issues -- secure the border, send illegal immigrants back, renegotiate rotten trade deals that shipped our jobs abroad -- are more in tune with the national mood than pro-amnesty, Obamatrade or NAFTA.

* ^ the "writer" is Pat Buchanan -- yes, that's right, the long-time "establishment" Republican. And his analysis seems to not be focusing on a previous pattern of polling numbers of leaders, but rather on what is actually being said and done by the politician... and how time and time again the public is responding (including to the gaffes -- it really isn't costing him any popularity).