Political version of reality tv. Y’all go shopping, y’hear?

Model of a Trump presidency?

Try Silvio Berlusconi and Italy, only far more corrupt, and dangerous.

Gets rich shuffling things around. Doesn’t make anything, leaves disaster in his wake. The perfect Republican.

Hey fans of Teabaggery (“intellectuals” like Rand Paul included ;-) ). Here’s your “man of the people”. Now get on your knees and line up behind him. He has some plunderin’ to do, doncha’ know.

Watching these CPACers trying to out-crazy each other would be amusing if the potential consequences weren’t so tragic. But when the man in the White House screws working people at every opportunity, does it really matter who is doing the screwing. Depriving people of home heating assistance is something straight from the CPAC playbook.

Trump, US has become, “laughingstock of the world,” and he intends to keep us number one. Apparently he should know by June whether or not some of that lobbyist cash would start trickling in to his coffers or not.

Love a good laugh to start my day. Thanks Attaturk.

Now get on your knees and line up behind in front of him.

Just a little editing…

Did you hear that the self-proclaimed self-made man who was the son of a really really wealthy guy spoke before a bunch of conservatives yesterday?

Wow the list of those little pricks is long and why not after all their daddies own the bloody country.

Un-effin-believable…I was trying to find info on the teevee this morning re. Egypt and I found that “news” in the morning is truly banal, trite and is read by pretty boybots and girlbots that love themselves over all others. It had absolutely nothing to do with news. Any way 10 minutes of changing channels to find real people informing me with real news and I gave up. Who knew that it was possible to trivialize the Revolution in Egypt and giggle about the on going recession.

Watching teevee to find a way out of this mess is like reaching for the bottle to cure a hangover. Gotta put down the duckie.

CNN was reporting that the military has issued communique #2 to the effect that it will make sure Mubarak does what he said, but is sticking with the plan to keep what they label stability over the demands of representation. Should be a busy Friday.

I have never understood men like Trump.
Why do some men (and women) need to acquire such wealth, are they compensating for something they are missing?

In my book, Donald Trump is just another Merchant gone mad.

The U.S. is being ruled by Merchants gone mad. Somewhere back in the 1970s, the merchant class in the U.S. decided they were the superrace. This sometimes happens with business types, who are nice enough people, but who have egos the size of the Crab Nebula. It’s not hard for them to believe the free market is the perfect system (hey–it’s their system, so it must be perfect, right?) and that money will trickle down to the Lower Orders, and so on.

To give credit where it’s due, they managed to game the system in their favor to an appalling degree. Unless it’s just a coincidence that the business class are making out like bandits while the rest of us starve.

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/comedy/watch/v20773202meR3kbwb

Disregard.

OT: Change Grade inflation we can believe in:

DNI James Clapper Gives Intel Community ‘B+’ on Egypt

problem is, trump might be the very best candidate the reepukes have to offer

There’s a really good Op-Ed by El Baradei, entitled “The Next Step for Egypt’s Opposition,” in the NYT this morning:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/opinion/11elbaradei.html?ref=opinion

Every time I hear the name Trump, I only think of Glen Beck. These guys are twins with just different idealogies. Crazy is what crazy does. Trump as President. ROFLMAO.

Here’s the brain bleach. Never even attempt to deal with the talking hairdos in the morning. It can ruin your whole day.

Indeed, never again. Surely, if they want us to buy into the propaganda, they would do better to have news readers with a little less preen and smarm.

CPAC has been successful in inching the country ever rightward. There meme’s dominate the media and talk around the water cooler. The result is the right is now considered the “center” and the Democrats continue to follow the lead of the right. Look at Obama, he has more admiration and more in common with Reagan than FDR. It’s at the point where Republicans don’t even need to win the Presidency when the Democrat appropriates their philosophy.

I can’t decide if Trump is a problem for Republicans, or for Dems.

Let me put this out there. We elected a snake-oil salesman in our last election. A real smooth talker, who happened to go to Harvard, was a “Constituional lawyer (unclear at this point WHICH Constitution),” and a “community organizer. And no history of what he stood for, or how he would run things, or his having done anything substantive in his life.

Donald Trump is, obviously, the son of a rich man who really hasn’t created much, but manages to put deals together for real estate that has his name on it. Also, beauty pageants with his name on it. And T.V. shows with his name on it. But he knows how to make deals, and he’s from Queens, so both of those qualify him to deal with some pretty rough people.

Who are we to scoff at the notion that he might be patriotic? That he might have SOME common sense, and SOME real-life experience? And that he might actually push to end the wars in the Middle East, or possibly not be beholden to AIPAC? That he might actually care about bringing jobs back for the American people, and not about placating foreign countries.

At the very least, we wouldn’t be stuck with someone who acts like the Wizard of Oz, while his minions pretend he’s playing 11th Dimensional Chess. Pretty much, what you see with Donald Trump is what you get. That might be a change people are looking for.

great point and it’s not only “the right” it’s the “far” right

if obama is re-nominated I am not that far away from voting for a republican if it means getting obama out of the damaging position he is in, it just depends on which republican

it seems to me any man who called bush miserable and challenged his decision to go to war, this man is on the right track

if obama is re-nominated I am not that far away from voting for a republican if it means getting obama out…

Same here. Ron Paul supporters booed Rumsfeld and Cheney at CPAC. I wonder if the Obama worshippers would have done that in a similar situation. After all, they follow Obama’s lead and “look forward.”

The “far right” is now considered the “right” and the former “right” is now the “center.”

There is now difference in a Bushbot or an Obamabot. They both are mindless followers, dipshits and sycophants.

I’d have a hard time pulling the lever for a Republican, but I have no problem whatsoever sitting home on Election Day if Obama is the only alternative to their candidate. I’ve got plenty of other things to do, and almost all of them would benefit me a lot more than voting in that charlatan again!

Why perris, I imagine that YOU had some strong opinion of Bush, that you opposed the wars – and said so. Would that be correct?

Doubtless millions of men and women were also on that same track?

Donald Trump, like Bush, has never built, made, or contributed ANYTHING of worth to society. Like Bush, he is a pampered ego, given to strutting and crowing and the only reason that anyone knows about Trump is that he is connected to money – and to the very worst aspects of a manipulated, fraudulent economic “system”, designed to keep wealth and power concentrated in the hands of an elite composed of such as Trump and Bush.

I suspect Trump would be no more interested in protecting your interests, the ones you have mentioned more than once, than Bush, Obama, or Clinton.

Indeed, the mendaciious mediocrities who have “held” this nation’s highest office for sixty-odd years are not noted, generally, for their humanity, but for their pettiness.

Frankly, Trump is more of the same.

Though I will say that leftown’s comment @ 26 is powerfully spot-on, especially “looking forward”.

DW

of course I said that and of course I believe I am far more capable for correcting this country then either obama or trump

but as far as obama, he has to go, he can do far more damage being a republican dressed in blue then a republican dressed in red

if the president is going to pass republican agenda I want him wearing their uniform, it’s far easier to opose their corporate legislation

trump will be better then obama for not doing as much damage, this I am sure

Oh I imagine Trump could manage as much damage as Obama.

The PTB expect such a “level” of “progress” from all whom they allow to reign from the “People’s House” …

;~DW

Equating Trump to Bush is a mistake.

Trump is “Real Estate Money.” “Real Estate Money” is not the same as “Banking Money” (although they do make deals together), nor is it considered, in any way, part of the Aristocracy of America. He is not from an Old New York Family, nor from an Old East Coast (Boston) Family,” and no one in the Trump family has ever served in Government as so many of the Elite’s sons and daughters have.

There is a hierarchy in the Monied Classes, and believe me, Trump is not anywhere near the top, like George Herbert Walker Bush was. Nor does he seem to be in the thrall of power and the powerful, like our current President. Maybe it’s just my nativist New Yorker pride talking, but I honestly think he, unlike many people who came out of the Ivy League (no, going to Wharton doesn’t really count), wouldn’t just agree to be spoon-fed whatever Larry Summers is feeding them. Does he have an interest in maintaining the status quo on Wall Street? That’s the only real question.

At the very least, it would be fun to watch him call Bullshit on the rest of Washington.

Okay. Trump merely benefits from the perfidity of his “betters”.

Trump has benefited from an economic system which does exactly and precisely what I said it does.

Rather than maximizing the potential of all of us, of increasing the well-being of all of us, as an economic system can and should do, our “system” uses moralistic bombast, “The gummint is like yer household, ya got ta live withinh yer budget”, when as a sovereign nation, ours can and does print any amount of money it wishes, it could invest in the well-being of the people of this nation, so none are “wasted” as the Austrailain economist Bill Mitchell suggests, instead everything is “invested” in maintaining an inequitable and unsustainable “status quo” …

Trump may be but a mere wannabe. But he sure as hell wouldn’t mind following in the footsteps of GHWBush. For ALL of these folks, ALL of them, money AND power matter more than other people or even the planet.

And ego-wise, Trump is a match for ANY Bush.

You think he would call “bullshit” on DC?

I think he would find some “accommodation” that he could “tolerate” and I rather doubt that it would offend Citizens United, SCOTUS or the precious few who call the shots.

Trump, underneath the hair, is about as “mavericky” as John McCain.

DW

Have to agree with you.

I watched the full CPAC speech and saw nothing out of the ordinary for a Republican. The guy supports business first and foremost (he supports a “business” solution to health care deficits). He even donated to Rahm Emanuel’s mayoral campaign, if that gives you any further indication where his allegiances rest. This guy is a 100% establishment hack.

People who think he’ll be anything substantively different are falling for the same product under a different brand name.

My only point is that the Bushes are entrenched American Aristocracy with a cold-blooded, calculating will to keep “their kind” rich, entitled, and in power.

Trump doesn’t have that kind of lineage, or historical power-base, and he’s not a groveler like Obama, the boot-licker, who aspires to it. There is a certain amount of “FU” to Trump, who does what he wants regardless of what society (even as it is comprised in New York) thinks. Yeah, he’s an ego-maniac, which is why he thinks he can be President. No one who says they want to run for that job is NOT an ego-maniac. But since he’s an out-sider to both parties, he doesn’t owe the usual suspects anything. That has to count for something.

Seriously, are we in the mess we are in today with Obama because we thought the world was so complex we needed someone with finesse? We’ve been finessed to the verge of extinction. Maybe it’s better to have someone like Trump who says”I want America to be the best brand in the world” and just go for it.

Uh-oh! I just watched the whole speech too, and I have to say, I’m not sure we could stand four years of that!

Simplistic doesn’t even begin to describe Trump’s vision of the world.

And the hair! That may be the deal-breaker.

I just have to say, this list of comments are one of the biggest piles of bullshit I have ever read on FDL. Have a nice day, everyone.

We is in complete agreement, dhfsfc.

And I don’t disagree with your assessment of Trump as small potatoes compared to the “royalty” which the Bush clan believes itself to be.

“Simplistic” is close enough for our purposes.

DW

Will the bumper sticker read

“Trump / Hair Piece, 2012″?

What a ticket that would be!