I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE BOTTOM IS • US presidential elections part VIII

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I honestly don't understand what Donald Trump thought he had to gain by running for president. He never wanted the job, he set himself up to become a target of the media that had previously and confusingly fawned all over him for decades, his businesses are taking a bruising as a result... I don't see how, by November, he isn't worse off on a number of levels. But, hey, I guess he has a congregation of the worst people in the country gathered around him now. Who wouldn't want that. Such a tragic combination of narcissism and base stupidity.

And the thing that is clearly his biggest fear, the revelation that the emperor has no money, is likely to be public knowledge in the coming months.

running in 2012 gave him a little bit of notoriety and got his name out there again. I would imagine he thought the same thing was going to happen this time around.

Does anybody think Ted Cruz would have been looking for an excuse to dodge a debate with Clinton? He’d have been asking for 40 of them.

the things nightmares are made of

flirting with running in 2012, in fairness.

I honestly don't understand what Donald Trump thought he had to gain

he is as much an idiot as he is a terrible and unsuccessful businessman

Meanwhile ... Ivanka Trump is vacationing in Dubrovnik with Rupert Murdoch's ex-wife ...

http://www.people.com/article/ivanka-trump-wendi-deng-murdoch-croatia

... who is supposedly also now Putin's girlfriend ...

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/rupert-murdochs-ex-wife-wendi-deng-is-dating-vladimir-putin-w200077

http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/trumpshockreuters-800x430.jpg

the abyss stares back

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/347191326112112640

^^^this is hilarious

oh man

fwiw Deng has denied even having met Putin and has been 'romantically linked' to everyone from Tony Blair to Charlemagne.

xps

What the hell is he getting at?

that's from three years ago

doesn't make it any less funny

new theory: everything about the trump campaign, including trump himself as well as all of the apparent supporters, is CGI

http://i.imgur.com/9Dm0UK3.png

deng is currently MVP in long-game post-feminist bond-villain world-domination speculation

derka-derka talk-radio land

Does he mean "herda hadda"?

― how's life, Monday, August 15, 2016 9:13 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao if only

what the hell is this

https://action.trump2016.com/trump-mms-survey/

woah that cant be real

omg lol

dying @ this one:

Contrary to what the media says, raising taxes does not create jobs.

Yes
No
No opinion

what was the question?

click yes to make america great again

someone was paid to build that poll which is the thing and probably also someone else was paid to sign off on it

too much internet for team donald

American history is being rewritten by “social justice” activists.
Yes
No
No opinion

I like how every question is #1.

because America is #1!

I like how it accepted my heywoodjablo✧✧✧@ya✧✧✧.c✧✧ e-mail address w/out confirming it

i wonder if it's even wired up, like a real working form, to a database or if they'll just invent their own results

someone was paid to build that poll which is the thing and probably also someone else was paid to sign off on it

Yeah, but it obviously exists solely to harvest contact info to ask for donations.

^^^^

Well, the answers probably sift respondents into different tiers of credulousness.

Or a free month on a new News Network!

they could do it easier by having a one question survey that said "DO u want to give me money? Yes/definitely/Uh huh"

looking forward to this

Trump is also expected to propose creating a new, ideological test for admission to the country that would assess a candidate's stances on issues like religious freedom, gender equality and gay rights. Through questionnaires, searching social media, interviewing friends and family or other means, applicants would be vetted to see whether they support American values like tolerance and pluralism.

Full Employment immediately!

the test will be administered by moderators of /r/the_donald

Well, the answers probably sift respondents into different tiers of credulousness.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, August 15, 2016 11:41 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If the options are 'Trump utilized forethought and careful planning and intelligence in making this decision and has strategic plans for moving forward' and 'Trump just kinda pulled something out of his ass and has no idea what his next step is', always always always employ Occam's razor.

The finest trick that the devil ever played was convincing anyone that he wasn't a drooling idiot.

Counterpoint: Occam's razor def. favours "People around Trump are on the make, can spot marks in the wild".

In the corral, I mean.

People around Trump are too busy fabricating the last several months of their resume to care about anything else.

September 2015 - November 2016: In a coma

Trump is also expected to propose creating a new, ideological test for admission to the country that would assess a candidate's stances on issues like religious freedom, gender equality and gay rights. Through questionnaires, searching social media, interviewing friends and family or other means, applicants would be vetted to see whether they support American values like tolerance and pluralism.

Can we make this test retroactive to people who are already here?

nothing says tolerance and pluralism like "ideological test for admission to the country"

also apparently a pillar of trump's domestic anti-terorrism platform is the honor system

Yeah, that's the most obvious WTF out of this steaming pile of WTF. But I guess we're living on Bizarro Earth now and Trump supporters probably consider themselves hugely tolerant and engaged in fervent celebration of all peoples.

xpost

Although, yes, honor system is pretty glaringly WTF.

All potential immigrants will be fitted with a mood ring which will determine their love of American values.

that questionnaire is on about the same level as some of the push polls done by partisan groups close to election time

I put a valid email in, but used the gmail trick where you can add a + and additional text to your address. Curious what kind of spam the Trump campaign will sell my address to.

(for anyone wanting to do something similar on any site, you do myaddress+whatever @ gmail dot com)