sticky thread for funny shit republican presidential hopefuls say

[el jefe]

He thinks he's relevant is my guess.

yeah. his lack of self-awareness is as bad as anyone's you'll ever see in presidential politics. he doesn't see how people see him.

he is talented at real estate investing, and decent at grabbing media attention. he has extrapolated that to a belief that he is good at everything, when in fact he has never shown any competence at anything else.

[rednoise]

yeah. his lack of self-awareness is as bad as anyone's you'll ever see in presidential politics. he doesn't see how people see him.

he is talented at real estate investing.

he's not even good at that, right? i thought many of his business ventures were complete failures or struggling.

[Testycalibrated]

Well, depending how you define good at". He's made a fair chunk of money doing it.

[el jefe]

I think at one point around 1990 he was underwater by like half a billion. but he came back from it and now he's worth like 9 billion. whatever the details, he is good at making money.

[Linus]

It is too simple to say that Donald Trump is rich because you think he’s rich. He is, above all, a skillful developer, a highly creative thinker, and an extraordinary deal maker. Yet over the years, Trump’s image—the public perception that he has a Midas touch—has become increasingly important to his ability to make money. Paradoxically, as his business dealings themselves have grown more cautious and risk-averse since his earlier flirtations with, yes, bankruptcy, his bluster has become more essential—and he has missed few opportunities to turn up the volume.

He said the implication that he was worth much less had hurt him. “And that was huge negative impact on me, for obvious reasons: for deal reasons, for psychological reasons,” he said. “I’m in a very big business—$150 million in my business is not very much when we’re building buildings that are worth, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars. And when somebody sees ‘Trump is worth $150 million,’ that is very damaging to me.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...-trump/309261/

I suppose a vanity presidential run is one way to promote the image that you're filthy rich and name-recognition for a brand of luxury real-estate. The debates might be fun if he's still very touchy about what he thinks are outrageous (under)estimates of his net worth...

[Calilasseia]

Wonder how that braggadocio will come back to haunt him when it's time to fill in his IRS forms?

[nostrum]

flash in the pan

who was that other billionaire who ran a while back?

[Testycalibrated]

Oh my
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/rick...f-our-country/

[el jefe]

who was that other billionaire who ran a while back?

Ross perot. he was less ridiculous than trump.

[SkepticTank]

he's not even good at that, right? i thought many of his business ventures were complete failures or struggling.

Meh, multipole bankruptcies aren't an indication of failure. Just a less-than-ideal exit strategy.

[Testycalibrated]

Heh.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/n...mp-340068.html

NBC says ‘You’re fired’ to Donald Trump
Wednesday, July 01, 2015
By Mae Anderson

NBC is ending its relationship with business magnate Donald Trump because of comments he made about Mexican immigrants when announcing his Republican presidential campaign.

[rednoise]

http://gawker.com/citing-first-amend...-50-1715051971

this is going to be a weird election.

[Spode]

http://gawker.com/citing-first-amend...-50-1715051971

this is going to be a weird election.

They're all weird.

[daap-umop-bnp]

Good lord they're a fucked up bunch of people.

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.s...ed_rested.html

"Tanned. Rested. Ready."

That's the slogan on Gov. Bobby Jindal's first official campaign shirt. And yes, "tanned" is supposed to be a reference to Jindal's brown skin tone.

"The liberal media that developed this week was disgusting: Apparently Bobby isn't brown enough for them," wrote Timmy Teepell, Jindal's campaign manager, in an email to supporters.

"Well, this will make the left even more upset. We are now selling the first limited edition t-shirt of the campaign, and I want you to know about it."

[daap-umop-bnp]

SHIT I HATE THAT HES NOT BROWN ENOUGH

[el jefe]

I think they're referring to the "Bobby jindal is so white" hashtag, which took off the other day and is hilarious. not sure what it has to do with the media. it's a bunch of americans of South Asian background making fun of him for working so hard to distance himself from his upbringing.

[el jefe]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/sahilrizwan/...own#.addb7NMdL

...and on an incidentally similar note, the askbobby hashtag, started by his superpac, didn't go well:
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/30/who_...e_a_good_idea/

[el jefe]

twitter is not his friend

[rednoise]

twitter Q&As never seem like a good idea, for anyone.

[SkepticTank]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/sahilrizwan/...own#.addb7NMdL

...and on an incidentally similar note, the askbobby hashtag, started by his superpac, didn't go well:
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/30/who_...e_a_good_idea/

Awesome.

[praying]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/sahilrizwan/...own#.addb7NMdL

...and on an incidentally similar note, the askbobby hashtag, started by his superpac, didn't go well:
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/30/who_...e_a_good_idea/

OMG ....LOL the tweets

[el jefe]

jesus christ

Donald Trump appears to have deleted a tweet he quoted that suggested Jeb Bush has to like “Mexican illegals” because of his wife, Columba, who is Mexican,*The Wrap*reports.

http://politicalwire.com/2015/07/06/...cause-of-wife/

this guy is making ted cruz look like michael dukakis

[daap-umop-bnp]

We might have to split off a whole new thread for Trump.

[el jefe]

yeah

[Testycalibrated]

o i dont know.:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_7739270.html

sometimes the huff makes me chuckle.

In the dispatch, Friess cites the backing of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and Chicago Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts. "Would you join the effort to inspire a more civil way of making their points?" Friess wrote. "If they drift off the 'civility reservation,' let's all immediately communicate that to them."

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oh. Well, I like huff's headline better but the article is from csmonitor:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2015/07...-call-for-calm