Tue Jun 16, 2015, 07:21 PM

monmouth4 (9,052 posts)

Just heard Tweety and Michael Steele discussing the RNC telling

the donald thanks but no thanks. Joan Walsh was on also and was aghast at Trump's egoist remarks...She says he is dangerous, I agree.

36 replies, 2448 views

Thread info Bookmark this thread Trash this thread

Reply to this thread

Always highlight: 10 newest replies | Replies posted after I mark a forum

Replies to this discussion thread

36 replies	Author	Time	Post
Just heard Tweety and Michael Steele discussing the RNC telling (Original post)	monmouth4	Jun 2015	OP
I agree with Joan	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2015	#1
I dunno. He's only famous for being	hifiguy	Jun 2015	#5
I am sure many of the GOP is discounting him too	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2015	#7
Meh, no need to make him into a boogie man	LordGlenconner	Jun 2015	#15
Please, do not insert words into my mouth	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2015	#16
He's not going to be their nominee	LordGlenconner	Jun 2015	#17
Did I say that? No	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2015	#22
Oh the I didn't say that game	LordGlenconner	Jun 2015	#24
No need to expand on any serious analysis	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2015	#25
That's fine	LordGlenconner	Jun 2015	#26
Please feel free to have the last word	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2015	#27
Ok	LordGlenconner	Jun 2015	#28
George Wallace couldn't crack fifteen percent when this nation was much more racially polarized...	DemocratSinceBirth	Jun 2015	#19
I will not expand on DU where his danger comes from	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2015	#23
There is no scenario where he gets the nomination and gets a plurality or majority of the votes ...	DemocratSinceBirth	Jun 2015	#29
You keep trying to put words in my mouth	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2015	#30
If he's unelectable then he isn't a threat...	DemocratSinceBirth	Jun 2015	#32
Have the last word, please	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2015	#33
I watched the same show...	DemocratSinceBirth	Jun 2015	#34
At least...	DemocratSinceBirth	Jun 2015	#20
Exactly right	LordGlenconner	Jun 2015	#21
He's dangerous to the Republicans but he is a godsend to us.	DemocratSinceBirth	Jun 2015	#2
I echo your sentiments.	demosincebirth	Jun 2015	#8
Imagine if he runs Third Party	DemocratSinceBirth	Jun 2015	#12
I am communicating with some of the brain dead as we speak and they believe Trump	randys1	Jun 2015	#3
So far, one former classmate on Facebook is swooning over him.	arcane1	Jun 2015	#4
He is very bright but he conceals it...	DemocratSinceBirth	Jun 2015	#6
Maybe, W graduated a major university as well, doesnt necessarily mean anything	randys1	Jun 2015	#9
He really is a bad guy...	DemocratSinceBirth	Jun 2015	#11
Are you referring to Michael Steele or Trumpy?	FSogol	Jun 2015	#13
The latter...Michael Steele is your typical party functionary. /NT	DemocratSinceBirth	Jun 2015	#14
In public he clearly conceals it	hifiguy	Jun 2015	#10
I sure would like some of the drugs Donald takes	olddots	Jun 2015	#18
another homerun!	Backwoodsrider	Jun 2015	#31
he is dangerous, but i think the majority of voters see him as a novelty act	spanone	Jun 2015	#35
Dangerous to Repugs, not to us, not at all...He is a gift to us...	DemocratSinceBirth	Jun 2015	#36

Response to monmouth4 (Original post)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 07:22 PM

nadinbrzezinski (154,021 posts)

1. I agree with Joan

I said as much. He cannot be underestimated since he alone has the money to finance the campaign on his own.

Reply to this post

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 07:27 PM

hifiguy (33,688 posts)

5. I dunno. He's only famous for being

a nasty, egotistical dumbass of world class proportions. Will Rogers never met The Dumpster.

Reply to this post

Response to hifiguy (Reply #5)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 07:28 PM

nadinbrzezinski (154,021 posts)

7. I am sure many of the GOP is discounting him too

I would not.

I will not expand on my reasons... but I would not.

Reply to this post

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 07:47 PM

LordGlenconner (1,348 posts)

15. Meh, no need to make him into a boogie man

He's a carnival barker. That's it.

Let's see if he's actually still in the race when the votes start getting counted. I have my doubts.

And his money won't buy it for him. Nelson Rockafeller, Ross Perot, Pete DuPont, Steve Forbes and Willard Romney all had access to piles of money and couldn't get it done.

Im sure if you wanted to go back beyond the 70s there would be others.

they all threw away their money. Don Don will be no different.

Reply to this post

Response to LordGlenconner (Reply #15)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:00 PM

nadinbrzezinski (154,021 posts)

16. Please, do not insert words into my mouth

I know and understand enough of US History to know why he cannot be under estimated. He is not a carnival barker, he falls in a very specific U.S populist tradition that should never be under estimated.

I will leave it at that. I do not do much analysis here anymore. Suffice it to say, Joan Walsh understands that tradition as well. She is also far more of a partisan than I am as well.

Reply to this post

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #16)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:04 PM

LordGlenconner (1,348 posts)

17. He's not going to be their nominee

And he's not going to be President.

Feel free to bookmark. I know I will.

If you view his candidacy with any level of seriousness I'm not sure your analysis is something I'm terribly interested in anyway.

Reply to this post

Response to LordGlenconner (Reply #17)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:18 PM

nadinbrzezinski (154,021 posts)

22. Did I say that? No

please do refrain from inserting words into my mouth.

Thank you.

Reply to this post

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #22)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:20 PM

LordGlenconner (1,348 posts)

24. Oh the I didn't say that game

Look, you think he's a serious candidate for their nomination or you don't. No need to be so mysterious about it.

Reply to this post

Response to LordGlenconner (Reply #24)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:21 PM

nadinbrzezinski (154,021 posts)

25. No need to expand on any serious analysis

on DU, period, end of discussion, period, we are done.

Have an excellent day.

It is not my interest to expand HERE on those thoughts.

Reply to this post

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #25)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:22 PM

LordGlenconner (1,348 posts)

26. That's fine

Frankly it's probably not very interesting anyway.

Reply to this post

Response to LordGlenconner (Reply #26)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:24 PM

nadinbrzezinski (154,021 posts)

27. Please feel free to have the last word

I simply do not do that here any more. And people who know me OUTSIDE of DU find it interesting. Here. some folks made sure I don't care to do it any longer.

Though I do agree with Joan Walsh, she gets it. And lord knows she is coming from a far more partisan place than I am.

Reply to this post

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #27)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:25 PM

LordGlenconner (1,348 posts)

28. Ok

Reply to this post

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #16)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:11 PM

DemocratSinceBirth (98,829 posts)

19. George Wallace couldn't crack fifteen percent when this nation was much more racially polarized...

So Trump sits on a ton of dough...

David Ogilvy, the father of modern advertising wrote that the best way to kill an inferior product is to advertise it because people will buy it, learn it's defective,and never buy it again...

If he's a danger to anybody he's a danger to Republicans.

And the reason the populist movements of the nineteenth century died is because at the end of the day race trumped class...

Reply to this post

Response to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #19)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:19 PM

nadinbrzezinski (154,021 posts)

23. I will not expand on DU where his danger comes from

suffice it to say, he is not precisely in Wallace's tradition.

And that is as far as I intend to go with this on this site.

Reply to this post

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #23)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:25 PM

DemocratSinceBirth (98,829 posts)

29. There is no scenario where he gets the nomination and gets a plurality or majority of the votes ...

There is no scenario where he gets the nomination and gets a plurality or majority of the votes necessary to get 270 Electoral College Votes...Even Ross Perot didn't get one Electoral College vote and for all his idiosyncrasies he looks absolutely staid next to Donald Trump...

Donald Trump poses a mortal danger, to the GOP.

Reply to this post

Response to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #29)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:26 PM

nadinbrzezinski (154,021 posts)

30. You keep trying to put words in my mouth

'bout a nomination. Please do proceed governor... this is reason umpty squat why I no longer discuss anything of substance here.

Reply to this post

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #30)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:30 PM

DemocratSinceBirth (98,829 posts)

32. If he's unelectable then he isn't a threat...

So he gives a voice to nativist sentiment...Nativists have been with us since the beginning of the republic.

First it was the Chinese then the Irish then the italians then the Jews and now Latinos.

And the beauty of this nation is they are all now accepted, for the most part, as Americans.

Reply to this post

Response to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #32)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:32 PM

nadinbrzezinski (154,021 posts)

33. Have the last word, please

I am beyond done. I do not know how many times you have to be told I have zero interest to discuss this beyond agreeing with Joan Walsh, as far as DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND is concerned.

Have the last word and an excellent day.

Reply to this post

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #33)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:36 PM

DemocratSinceBirth (98,829 posts)

34. I watched the same show...

So he follows in the footsteps of demagogues like Father Coughlin, Strom Thurmond, and George Wallace. None of those clowns sniffed the presidency...

There's nothing enigmatic, cryptic, or mysterious about him or his appeal other than he is loaded and consequently has a megaphone to air his reactionary views.

Reply to this post

Response to LordGlenconner (Reply #15)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:14 PM

DemocratSinceBirth (98,829 posts)

20. At least...

At least Nelson Rockefeller, Ross Perot, Pete DuPont, Steve Forbes and Willard Romney came off as serious men...

Reply to this post

Response to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #20)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:18 PM

LordGlenconner (1,348 posts)

21. Exactly right

He'd be better off if he had $9 billion, was a relative unknown and didn't have such an absurdly grating personality.

Most republicans I know like him a lot but want to win so badly they'd never consider voting for him as their party's nominee.

That's one of the reason those speaking about him on this thread in hushed tones like he's some kind of threat to democracy are so easy to laugh at.

Reply to this post

Response to monmouth4 (Original post)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 07:24 PM

DemocratSinceBirth (98,829 posts)

2. He's dangerous to the Republicans but he is a godsend to us.

He will tarnish every Republican who shares the dais with him on a debate stage.

As a stalwart Democrat and a Christian I am going to thank God for the gift he has given us.

Reply to this post

Response to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 07:29 PM

demosincebirth (12,377 posts)

8. I echo your sentiments.

Reply to this post

Response to demosincebirth (Reply #8)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 07:34 PM

DemocratSinceBirth (98,829 posts)

12. Imagine if he runs Third Party

Can you imagine any Democrat voting for him ?

Whatever he gets will come right out of the Republican's hide.

Reply to this post

Response to monmouth4 (Original post)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 07:25 PM

randys1 (16,286 posts)

3. I am communicating with some of the brain dead as we speak and they believe Trump

is a genius and would make a great president.

I am not kidding

I would love to see him get the nomination, but he doesnt want it, he is doing this for the publicity.

Reply to this post

Response to randys1 (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 07:26 PM

arcane1 (38,613 posts)

4. So far, one former classmate on Facebook is swooning over him.

But she's catching hell for it

Reply to this post

Response to randys1 (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 07:28 PM

DemocratSinceBirth (98,829 posts)

6. He is very bright but he conceals it...

You don't get to be second in your class at Wharton by being a dummy.

Reply to this post

Response to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #6)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 07:30 PM

randys1 (16,286 posts)

9. Maybe, W graduated a major university as well, doesnt necessarily mean anything

In his case, Trump, I think you are right.

But he is such a greedy piece of shit, and what pisses me off isnt what he is, I expect him to be that, given who he is, it is the millions who aspire to be him, they really piss me off

Reply to this post

Response to randys1 (Reply #9)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 07:32 PM

DemocratSinceBirth (98,829 posts)

11. He really is a bad guy...

The braggadocio is kind of funny but his nativism and birtherism is anything but.

Reply to this post

Response to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #11)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 07:35 PM

FSogol (44,390 posts)

13. Are you referring to Michael Steele or Trumpy?

Reply to this post

Response to FSogol (Reply #13)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 07:35 PM

DemocratSinceBirth (98,829 posts)

14. The latter...Michael Steele is your typical party functionary. /NT

Reply to this post

Response to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #6)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 07:30 PM

hifiguy (33,688 posts)

10. In public he clearly conceals it

beneath a mass like unto that of Jupiter. That much is certain.

Reply to this post

Response to monmouth4 (Original post)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:07 PM

olddots (10,237 posts)

18. I sure would like some of the drugs Donald takes

he is in another dimension .

Reply to this post

Response to monmouth4 (Original post)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:28 PM

Backwoodsrider (764 posts)

31. another homerun!

Trump has to have attention so this is a great chance for everyday people to see just how friggin crazy the right wing fringe has got! Just think what me might say to a national audience. Bet the RNC pays millions to shut him up. Truths gonna come out

Reply to this post

Response to monmouth4 (Original post)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:47 PM

spanone (133,777 posts)

35. he is dangerous, but i think the majority of voters see him as a novelty act

the comic relief

would NEVER get elected to any office. never has been....never will be

Reply to this post

Response to spanone (Reply #35)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 08:50 PM

DemocratSinceBirth (98,829 posts)

36. Dangerous to Repugs, not to us, not at all...He is a gift to us...

The better he does the better we do...

In fact I suspect most plutocrats disdain him too...He screams nouveau riche...

Reply to this post

General Discussion (Forum)