For fifty years, Trump has played the same horrible vaudeville act.

[shockey80]

No matter what Trump was doing in life, buying real estate, bankrupting casinos, playing a reality TV show host, playing a president. He played the same act. The same script, same routine, same lies, same vengeance, same blackmail, same suit, same tie, same hair style.

What is so bizarre about Trumps 50 year vaudeville act is this. You would think the American people would have said long ago, OH, I seen this show before, It's terrible, I will never watch that again.

[empedocles]

1. Longer than 50 years - his whole life

[dalton99a]

2. A well documented act.

But he's the world's best businessman, the best negotiator, the best TV star, the best Christian, the best military genius, etc.

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. THAT is a great piece of art. n/t

[shockey80]

8. That is a great picture.

I want to put that on a t-shirt.

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. Trumpy latched on to the greatest propaganda machine in history. His con game hit the jackpot.

He's got two TV channels and 600 radio stations perpetuating his lies for him, every hour of every day. As a lying machine, he inherited an embarrassment of riches. The reason that he can commit murder and still command the admiration of millions is because he's backed to the hilt by the RW media. THEY push him as the new Christ, no matter what he does. Limbaugh is his supporters' daily bread. FNC is their 5 course dinner. Every day. People love propaganda. They are told everything that they want to hear for the cost of turning on their media devices. It becomes their reality, and it fits them like a glove.

So the Southern whites and their governments will invite more disease and death, and Limbaugh, even on his last days on earth, will push his listeners into their graves. He'll drag them all into the ground with him.

[BComplex]

7. That post says it all! So friggin' true.

The RW media is responsible for all of this mess.

[Lock him up.]

18. Sums it up.

Add Faux Noi$e 24/7/364.25

[Mike 03]

5. Razzle dazzle

[niyad]

15. So completely apropos.

[heckles65]

23. Please...

I liked Billy Flynn!

[Moostache]

6. I managed to watch 15 minutes of Hannity last night...

He said "Media Mob" at LEAST 25 times (I wasn't keeping count)...

His ENTIRE A-Block was a recitation of Trump's rally/presser. He is literally the president's piss poor hype man and personally ball sucker.

This level of propaganda would have made Goebbels blush...

[JHB]

9. Well, they HAVE seen this show before, and they just LOVE it

The Southern Strategy, losing in Vietnam because "the liberal media stabbed us in the back", "welfare queens and young bucks eating T-bone steaks", "secular humanism", "tree huggers", "gay plague", RW talk radio ranters tag-teaming for hours on end, subscription newsletters "telling it like it is", dial-up BBSs doing the same, FOX News "We report, YOU decide", etc. etc. etc.

For some people, few things are as pleasurable as grinding axes and going on about what fools other people are, and they'll eat it up when they get outside validation and amplification.

Trump (and Vlad) simply tapped into an apparatus conservatives built up over 50 years to give them the electoral numbers they needed to push an agenda the axe-grinders wouldn't necessarily support on is own.

[maxrandb]

12. It's worse then that

Listen to Hate Radio on election day. The coordination with wingnut Koch brothers and Federalists Society backed jacknut candidates is evident.

Talking about which blocks of local streets and neighborhoods they need more turnout in.

I'm telling you, take down Hate Radio and Retrumplicanism and the party that once thought Sarah fucking Palin should be vice president DIES!

[GWC58]

25. To our detriment, in the 1980's,

“The Fairness Doctrine” was shelved.. It was the advent of “hate radio.” Much of the hatred of today was fomented in the mid-80’s/90’s.

[musclecar6]

10. People who grew up around the NYC area

Including Conn, NJ, Philly, Mass, RI, all see thru this bull shit artist the first time he opens his mouth. Now some may still vote for him cause they are just like him with some or all of his awful qualities, but they know a what con man liar and cheat he is.

Ya know what the best part is ? Trump has nothing but contempt for all these MAGA hat wearing simpletons from the red states especially the south where he thinks they are just a bunch of dumbass rednecks. Hell he already told them how stupid his 5th ave groupies are, when he told them he could shoot somebody on 5th ave and they would still vote for him. What he left out ( but what he was obviously saying) was that they were so STUPID they would still vote for him.

[Totally Tunsie]

17. Yup - born in SW Connecticut, and grew up hearing about this shill and his antics.

That's why it came as a real surprise that many in the U.S. didn't know of him until The Apprentice came on the scene. I'll always blame Mark Burnett for this oaf being in the WH...he was the one who introduced Chump to the masses.

Your MAGA point is spot on.

[mopinko]

11. a dear friend worked for a law firm in nyc in the '80's that was

cursed w twitler as a client.
handled the deal for the park hyatt, iirc. how they didnt want to sell it to him, so he put someone else up to buy it and flip it to him. they had jacked up the price to discourage him, but it didnt help.
his shill bidder paid that jacked up price, then got about a 10% premium out of the deal.

he was so f'ing proud of himself. he brought sushi for the staff of about a dozen people. she said he covered their entire conference table. to celebrate his self own.

yup. one trick pony. bully, bully, bully.

[Caliman73]

13. He probably defaulted on the loan he used to purchase the property too.

That is also part of his strategy. Take his cut up front and default on the debt. When they try to collect, settle for pennies on the dollar, which is why no bank in the US would lend to him after awhile and he had to go to Europe and eventually to Russia.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Not Default

Just suckered another bank to lend him $ to pay off the first loan.
I believe that on final liquidation, that organization with be worth under a half billion. 10% of claimed net value.
If I'm, right, it would make PINO the worst investor ever.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

14. Perhaps P.T. Barnum summed it up best when he said,

"There's a sucker born every minute."

[Lulu KC]

16. time for the hook

https://gfycat.com/favoriteindolentaurochs

[Aussie105]

19. Trump is a blank page with no personality of his own.

Easy to project whatever you want on the man.

Want him to be a rich successful businessman?

Sure, just listen to the right bits of his projections.

Want him to be a superior human being?

Sure, just look at the ways he puts down others.

Want him to be a successful womanizer?

Sure, just look at his history, his current trophy wife.

Want him to be a strong leader?

Sure, just look at how easily he fires and controls people.

Just ignore his internal inconsistencies, the 'fake news' stuff about how he gets things wrong, how he changes his mind so often, and you can vote for him.

[malaise]

20. And it always ends the same way

bankruptcy

[EarthFirst]

22. A one trick pony. nt

[Nitram]

24. You have to admit, though, the Trump has done an excellent job of keeping interest up by finding

ways to provide increasingly shocking, unbelievable, and crass actions and statements. Every time we think Trump can't say or do something worse, he manages to do so. It's not vaudeville - it's reality TV.