Ex-HP boss Carly Fiorina sacked one week into new job Carly Fiorina's astonishing career trajectory into oblivion remains on target tonight after her bid to be US Vice President was cut mercifully short. Just seven days ago, the ex-HP boss was chosen to be the running mate of Texan senator and Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz. On Tuesday evening, crushed into a sad paste …
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Trump 2016: Making Republicans unelectable again
Trump trails Clinton by around 6% in polls and trails significantly in the electoral college system by around 250 vs 170 based on expected voting patterns with projections showing 300+ for Clinton.
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@TRT "Great America" is the name of a huge, loud, expensive amusement park in Gurnee, Illinois USA. Entry is expensive, the rides are spectacular but the wait times for them are onerous. Food overpriced and not nutritionally balanced. Seems to be very much in keeping with the USA as a whole, and the Trump campaign in particular.
AC because I live in a very Republican area. I am a Bernie Sanders supporter, but don't have a bumper sticker on my car. I don't want to have the car keyed, or attract the intense scrutiny of local law enforcement, since they will assume I am a dangerous drug-toting terrorist on that basis.
I don't really know what Trump is all about and as I have no vote in this election I don't really need to.
But the impression I get is best communicated by Kenny Everett's General Cheeseburger:
First, its a bit ingenuous to say she was sacked 1 week in to a new job. She didn't have a job until Cruz won the nod and he didn't. So it was a tentative offer at best.
Second, Kasich is still in the race. He's the anybody but Trump. Take Cruz, Rubio and Kasich's delegates, and he's a lot closer to Trump than you think.
Both Kasich and Sanders will have had the election stolen from them.
Sanders because HRC will be indicted and the DNC will parachute in a Biden / Warren ticket at the last minute.
Kasich because he's been completely ignored by the Press from day one. He won Ohio and if its a contested election between him and Trump, he has a very good chance. But the media finds a "GOP pundits eat crow" story more appealing than talking about candidates.
That's the sick thing about the US and probably other Governments. We don't know how much our opinions are influenced by the press.... er... actually we do, thanks to Facebook who experimented on their pleebs....
Go figure. I wonder if NZ or AU are far enough away to survive this potential melt down....
We're utterly dependent upon the media for the factoids upon which we are forced to act. They in turn actually just want attention, and depend on anyone who will tell them something startling, preferably while making it seem nearly plausible. If it involves the end of the world, even better (I'm thinking of ISIS, not 'civilization' drowning; the first is war, the second is real and with real inertia). For all we know, Trump is actually a computer-generated joke half the time. 42
When is the next ship to Mars, I want off this rock as fast as fekkin possible.
*FacePalmGroan*
This planet is doomed. We're all screwed. Doomed & screwed, screwed & doomed.
I'd run around singing the Gir "Doom" song but this shite isn't even remotely amusing anymore.
Is that ship ready yet? FFS I'll even go on the B Ark if that's the only thing available.
Vogons, we're being ruled by Vogons.
Go ahead and say it: President and Supreme Commander Donald Trump.*
As to the next ship to mars you might want to get in touch with SpaceX:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/02/spacex_adds_mars_haulage_to_its_price_list/
* Yes, the phrase "May you live in interesting times" is indeed a curse.
I'm not sure why everyone is so worried about Donald Trump. He's just doing what every other presidential candidate does. He's saying whatever it takes to get elected, he means none of it, and we're none the wiser as to what his policies actually are.
He's no different to Hilary, except that Goldman Sacks are not funding his campaign.
I'm still hopeful he picks Sarah Palin as his running mate. That would be really funny.
He won't of course. Everyone saw the look of disgust on his face as he watched her endorse him.
He's saying whatever it takes to get elected, he means none of it, and we're none the wiser as to what his policies actually are.
I'm not sure what the scariest aspect of that is -- that people elect candidates that they know to be lying, that the things Donald Trump has been saying are appealing to the electorate, or that people elect candidates whose true policies they do not know.
Or, for that matter, that DT may not actually have any policies, but just wants to lie his way into the job and wing it from there.
There has been quite a few interviews where people are saying things along the lines of, "yeah he says a lot of crazy things but I'm sure he will calm down when he gets elected". It seems they have the opinion that once you elect a politician he becomes less of a shit. Refreshing change of attitude, nuts admittedly.
There has been quite a few interviews where people are saying things along the lines of, "yeah he says a lot of crazy things but I'm sure he will calm down when he gets elected". It seems they have the opinion that once you elect a politician he becomes less of a shit. Refreshing change of attitude, nuts admittedly.
Ok, at the risk of invoking Godwin's law, I'm pretty sure that is what they said when they elected Chancellor Schicklgruber in the 1930's
Being a "'Merican," I hear folks discuss who they're supporting for president a fair bit. I like to listen to WHY they prefer a certain candidate. Most Trump supporters I've heard aren't for him because they expect him to dig a moat between the US and Mexico, set up death camps for illegal immigrants or invade Canada, etc. I mainly hear two reasons for supporting Trump:
1) He has enough money of his own that he can't easily be bought.
2) People are so sick of our federal government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations that they feel it might not be a bad idea to smash it up and start over. They think that Trump might make a good wrecking ball.
To me (1) seems somewhat reasonable, but as for (2), I think Trump would find that Washington has a lot more inertia than one person can overcome. If he wins in November, I guess we'll see -- we'll certainly have to HOPE that he's been talking a lot of bollocks.
1) He has enough money of his own that he can't easily be bought.
It used to be that politicians were mostly self-made, independently-wealthy people, meaning they were less likely to be "bought". However that's no guarantee as you have to look at someone's history to see how they came by their wealth and weather it was made by having certain connections. Trump may not be as clean and independent as you think.
"I'm still hopeful he picks Sarah Palin as his running mate. That would be really funny.
He won't of course. Everyone saw the look of disgust on his face as he watched her endorse him".
It was like watching the AntiChrist trying to endorse the Devil.
WOO !!! SATAN !!! WOO !!! HOTTER SULPHUR PITS FOR ALL !!! WOO !!! GO SATAN !!!
Trump won't pick Palin for a running mate for two simple reasons;
- she's a she.
- she has almost as big a deluded ego as he has. And if there's one thing a deluded egotist can't stand is another deluded egotist.
If she was only one of the above she might have been in with a chance. But two? No chance.
Trump will pick a female non-entity who he thinks appeals to to the little women-folk, and exceeds in the ability of making herself scarce once the voting is over. .. Hang on.. doesn't that sound like..
I'm not sure why everyone is so worried about Donald Trump. He's just doing what every other presidential candidate does. He's saying whatever it takes to get elected, he means none of it, and we're none the wiser as to what his policies actually are.
The scary thing is, people truly believe this in spite of the evidence that politicians actually keep a majority of their promises, suggesting they're not quite as disingenuous as we all think they are. I'm not sure what I'm more scared of in this case, that Trump is lying about everything and we have no idea what he would actually do as el prez, or that he's telling the truth. Either way, Trump 2016 makes me long for Canada 2017.
(Recent analysis of politicians and their promises to support my comment here: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trust-us-politicians-keep-most-of-their-promises/)
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