Donald Trump To Run For President in 2016!!!!!!!!

[dante1]

Knowing the history of this country with muslims and muslims in political power in other countries, it would be insane for this country to elect a known Muslim. If the guy tricks half the sheep out there like Obama did that is one thing but it absolutely the citizen's business which God their president preys to.

"which God their president preys to"

how many errors can an idiot make with six words. No wonder you and Dwightie are best friends. Hey moron check out the constitution concerning this issue. I am so glad that the God I "pray" to created all the idiots with a propensity to wear red.

I pray to my god that donnie becomes the R nominee. I will ask for nothing else in the year 2015.

[brooks85]

"which God their president preys to"

how many errors can an idiot make with six words. No wonder you and Dwightie are best friends. Hey moron check out the constitution concerning this issue. I am so glad that the God I "pray" to created all the idiots with a propensity to wear red.

I pray to my god that donnie becomes the R nominee. I will ask for nothing else in the year 2015.

I'm using a phone you moron haha, nice job showing how desperate you are

hilarious I've noticed that is all you liberal chumps can get on me; typos


also checking the constitution is irrelevant, try opening a history book and obtaining some real facts; something you are always without as your post history shows.

[dante1]

I'm using a phone your moron haha, nice job showing you desperate you are

hilarious I've notice that is all you liberal chumps can get on me; typos


also checking the constitution is irrelevant, try opening a history books and obtaining some real facts; something you never have clearly.

don't care what you are using you are still an idiot>


how about a Republican saying the constitution is irrelevant. How about that for irony.

[brooks85]

don't care what you are using you are still an idiot>

lol deference

the moment when you realize the guy using typos is still smarter than you. Our post history doesn't lie dante nor will saying anything change that.




As mentioned, anyone using logic would know it would be wrong to think it is not the business of a nation who their leader prays too. That doesn't even factor in our history with muslims or muslims political agenda in other countries.

[dante1]

lol deference

the moment when you realize the guy using typos is still smarter than you right. Our post history doesn't lie dante nor will saying anything change that.

Well maybe you can display some of that past history Mr Brooks. I would bet my two testicles you used the wrong word because you are an idiot, you proved that over and over and over. You idiots always have a bs excuse for your lack of a basic education, lack of understanding the constitution, lack of reading ability, low IQ and just about everything else. This latest post not only exposes your 5th grade education but also the fact that you never ever even read the constitution.

BTW, mr Brooks I am done with you, I exposed you again. Now I relax, you may have all of the last remarks. An idiot like you needs 100 words to my 1. So enjoy yourself Mr Brooks, be assured I will not even read it so you need not be afraid of exposing yourself again

[brooks85]

Well maybe you can display some of that past history Mr Brooks. I would bet my two testicles you used the wrong word because you are an idiot, you proved that over and over and over. You idiots always have a bs excuse for your lack of a basic education, lack of understanding the constitution, lack of reading ability, low IQ and just about everything else. This latest post not only exposes your 5th grade education but also the fact that you never ever even read the constitution.

more deference, nothing of substance in there whatsoever but that is who you are isn't it? Again, post history does not lie chump. Just because you ran away doesn't mean I've forgotten you.

And you realize how stupid you sound? If my IQ is low what does that make you lol I'm the one who would prove you wrong over and over. I'd bet good money you're khicks, scumbag or muldoon. You all exhibit the say cowardly traits in the face of logic and facts.


And just for some icing on the cake of how stupid you are, you bring up the constitution which is completely irrelevant to anything mentioned. Talk about desperate liberal logic, textbook stuff.

BTW, mr Brooks I am done with you, I exposed you again. Now I relax, you may have all of the last remarks. An idiot like you needs 100 words to my 1. So enjoy yourself Mr Brooks, be assured I will not even read it so you need not be afraid of exposing yourself again

oh I see you added some extra deference in there. I love making liberals run.

[d2bets]

Knowing the history of this country with muslims and muslims in political power in other countries, it would be insane for this country to elect a known Muslim. If the guy tricks half the sheep out there like Obama did that is one thing but it absolutely the citizen's business which God their president preys to.

The less religious the president the better. This is why I'm not comfortable with Biden. And it's actually one of Trump's better qualities -- that he could care less about religion (even when he tries to claim otherwise not that he's a politician). I'm looking forward to the first (modern) atheist president -- that will be true progress.

[Andy117]

ya its booming alright. Record number of people on food stamps, over 93 million out of the work force, 19 trillion debt, slowest recovery from a recession since WWII, 71% of Americans are either dissatisfied or extremely dissatisfied in the direction of the country while only 2% are satisfied in the direction of the country.

Ya great job Obama lol. Worst president in US history,

Why do you still use the 93 million stat? It's total nonsense.

[Mr KLC]

Cruz and Santorum did a good job addressing these sharks in the media looking for a headline:

[d2bets]

Cruz and Santorum did a good job addressing these sharks in the media looking for a headline:

God, the way Cruz talks makes my skin crawl so bad. I literally cannot listen to him. At least Trump is entertaining. Cruz is just creepy as penetrate.

[rkelly110]

Must be a slow news day. Trump being blasted for NOT addressing/ defending our Muslim in chief that a question
a supporter asked him. Also blasting Carson on the subject of a Muslim Pres.

Also agree with Trump about Carly. Listening to her for more than 5 mins gives me a headache.

[Thor4140]

Well maybe you can display some of that past history Mr Brooks. I would bet my two testicles you used the wrong word because you are an idiot, you proved that over and over and over. You idiots always have a bs excuse for your lack of a basic education, lack of understanding the constitution, lack of reading ability, low IQ and just about everything else. This latest post not only exposes your 5th grade education but also the fact that you never ever even read the constitution.

BTW, mr Brooks I am done with you, I exposed you again. Now I relax, you may have all of the last remarks. An idiot like you needs 100 words to my 1. So enjoy yourself Mr Brooks, be assured I will not even read it so you need not be afraid of exposing yourself again

LOL the 2032nd poster on this site that has thrown up their hands to this jackoff. Dante u ever see a guy who thought he was right on everything? Now remember this is a union card holder with far right beliefs. I put him on ignore months ago. He fights with everyone and anyone in every post. You can't find one post of his that isn't a rebuttal with an insult in it. I doubt if he ever started a thread unless he is calling someone out just to fight with them.

[d2bets]

Must be a slow news day. Trump being blasted for NOT addressing/ defending our Muslim in chief that a question
a supporter asked him. Also blasting Carson on the subject of a Muslim Pres.

Also agree with Trump about Carly. Listening to her for more than 5 mins gives me a headache.

Carly is good for a short, stern, serious lecture.

Cruz would good for torture to Gitmo prisoners.

Trump is entertaining as hell, but dangerous in any real position of power.

[DwightShrute]

You can't find one post of his that isn't a rebuttal with an insult in it.

how delusional you are.

Try and find one of your political posts with a rebuttal from you without an insult in it. No, not when you're jerking off dante1 (or muldoon because they are the same person) or your fellow lefty sheep either. And what makes is even more sad/funny, how many other sites are you known for being the rudest dumbest poster? I know of at least four.

[DwightShrute]

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[DwightShrute]

I see Jindal making hay with it. But yes, turn it into a Hillary thing lol.

Why wouldn't they?

Almost identical situations. Both GOP guys fielding town-hall type questions.

Both asked similar racist/bigoted questions.

Both gave voice in their campaign (McCain by selecting Palin, Trump by being Trump) to the stormfront crowd who have been waiting for the next David Duke to come along.

Both gave quite different responses.

MEDIA SMEARS TRUMP, IGNORES FACT THAT HILLARY CLINTON STARTED BIRTHER MOVEMENT



While our corrupt media frenzies over the fact that Republican frontrunner Donald Trump did not defend Barack Obama at a campaign event last night, there is one teensy-weensy detail the media is choosing to hide from everyone: It was Hillary Clinton who started the Obama-Is-A-Muslim rumors.

The reason this is pertinent is due to the fact that our feckless media is (again) trying to crucify Trump, his time for not vouching for Obama’s Christian faith after a questioner at a campaign event accused Obama of being a Muslim.

This is more bubbled overreach from our stupid media. Nobody cares that Trump didn’t defend Obama. It’s a stupid headline: Trump Doesn’t Defend Most Powerful Man In The World - a tempest in The Acela Teapot.
But the media is telling a huge lie of omission.

And they know it.

The root of the Birther/Obama-Is-A-Muslim movement can be found in Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign.

That’s a fact.

That’s science.

Hillary Clinton is the grandmother of the Birther movement.

Nevertheless, although they are well aware of this, hack reporters like NBC’s Andrea Mitchell aren’t asking Hillary about her clear responsibility here. Nope. Instead, today Mitchell chose to ignore this fact and instead ask Hillary three questions teeing up Trump as the villain.

It wasn’t Trump who sent the photo above to everyone.

All he did was blow off a loon.

The campaign that sent out the photo above (which is not a fake — it was taken during a visit to Africa) was the Hillary Clinton 2008 campaign.

At the time, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said,

“[This is] the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we’ve seen from either party in this election”. Obama has had to spend much of the campaign stressing he is a Christian not a Muslim and did not study at a madrassa.

See, I’m not asking you to believe me. Team Obama said so.

The Clinton’s smear campaign went even further.

In a rare moment of intellectual honesty, the left-wing Politico told the truth: [emphasis mine]

Where did this idea come from? Who started it? And is there a grain of truth there?
The answer lies in Democratic, not Republican politics, and in the bitter, exhausting spring of 2008. At the time, the Democratic presidential primary was slipping away from Hillary Clinton and some of her most passionate supporters grasped for something, anything that would deal a final reversal to Barack Obama. …
The original smear against Obama was that he was a crypto-Muslim, floated in 2004 by perennial Illinois political candidate and serial litigant Andy Martin. Other related versions of this theory alleged that Obama was educated in an Indonesian “madrassa” or steeped in Islamist ideology from a young age, and the theories began to spread virally after Obama appeared on the national stage – to the casual observer, from nowhere – with his early 2007 presidential campaign. …
Then, as Obama marched toward the presidency, a new suggestion emerged: That he was not eligible to serve.
That theory first emerged in the spring of 2008, as Clinton supporters circulated an anonymous email questioning Obama’s citizenship.
“Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy. She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth,” asserted one chain email that surfaced on the urban legend site Snopes.com in April 2008.

When asked by a reporter if Obama was a Muslim in 2008, she replied, “There’s nothing to base that on … as far as I know.”

The media is nothing but a bunch of left-wing liars.
And what’s wrong with being misidentified as a Muslim?
It’s a helluva lot better than being identified accurately as someone who spent 20 years in a racist church, which is Obama’s true (and very troubling) religious history.

[d2bets]

MEDIA SMEARS TRUMP, IGNORES FACT THAT HILLARY CLINTON STARTED BIRTHER MOVEMENT



While our corrupt media frenzies over the fact that Republican frontrunner Donald Trump did not defend Barack Obama at a campaign event last night, there is one teensy-weensy detail the media is choosing to hide from everyone: It was Hillary Clinton who started the Obama-Is-A-Muslim rumors.

The reason this is pertinent is due to the fact that our feckless media is (again) trying to crucify Trump, his time for not vouching for Obama’s Christian faith after a questioner at a campaign event accused Obama of being a Muslim.

This is more bubbled overreach from our stupid media. Nobody cares that Trump didn’t defend Obama. It’s a stupid headline: Trump Doesn’t Defend Most Powerful Man In The World - a tempest in The Acela Teapot.
But the media is telling a huge lie of omission.

And they know it.

The root of the Birther/Obama-Is-A-Muslim movement can be found in Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign.

That’s a fact.

That’s science.

Hillary Clinton is the grandmother of the Birther movement.

Nevertheless, although they are well aware of this, hack reporters like NBC’s Andrea Mitchell aren’t asking Hillary about her clear responsibility here. Nope. Instead, today Mitchell chose to ignore this fact and instead ask Hillary three questions teeing up Trump as the villain.

It wasn’t Trump who sent the photo above to everyone.

All he did was blow off a loon.

The campaign that sent out the photo above (which is not a fake — it was taken during a visit to Africa) was the Hillary Clinton 2008 campaign.

At the time, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said,

“[This is] the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we’ve seen from either party in this election”. Obama has had to spend much of the campaign stressing he is a Christian not a Muslim and did not study at a madrassa.

See, I’m not asking you to believe me. Team Obama said so.

The Clinton’s smear campaign went even further.

In a rare moment of intellectual honesty, the left-wing Politico told the truth: [emphasis mine]

Where did this idea come from? Who started it? And is there a grain of truth there?
The answer lies in Democratic, not Republican politics, and in the bitter, exhausting spring of 2008. At the time, the Democratic presidential primary was slipping away from Hillary Clinton and some of her most passionate supporters grasped for something, anything that would deal a final reversal to Barack Obama. …
The original smear against Obama was that he was a crypto-Muslim, floated in 2004 by perennial Illinois political candidate and serial litigant Andy Martin. Other related versions of this theory alleged that Obama was educated in an Indonesian “madrassa” or steeped in Islamist ideology from a young age, and the theories began to spread virally after Obama appeared on the national stage – to the casual observer, from nowhere – with his early 2007 presidential campaign. …
Then, as Obama marched toward the presidency, a new suggestion emerged: That he was not eligible to serve.
That theory first emerged in the spring of 2008, as Clinton supporters circulated an anonymous email questioning Obama’s citizenship.
“Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy. She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth,” asserted one chain email that surfaced on the urban legend site Snopes.com in April 2008.

When asked by a reporter if Obama was a Muslim in 2008, she replied, “There’s nothing to base that on … as far as I know.”

The media is nothing but a bunch of left-wing liars.
And what’s wrong with being misidentified as a Muslim?
It’s a helluva lot better than being identified accurately as someone who spent 20 years in a racist church, which is Obama’s true (and very troubling) religious history.

Here's the full quote of Clinton, and this was from an interview with Steve Kroft during that campaign:

KROFT: “You don’t believe that Senator Obama’s a Muslim?”
CLINTON: “Of course not. I mean that’s, you know, that, there is no basis for that. You know, I take him on the basis of what he says, and, you know, there isn’t any reason to doubt that.”

KROFT: “You said you take Sen. Obama at his word that he’s not a Muslim.”

CLINTON: “Right, right.”
KROFT: “—You don’t believe that he’s a Muslim.”
CLINTON: “No! No! Why would I? There’s nothing to base that on. As far as I know.”

Now, what the hell are you talking about? I think her full answer, in context, was pretty clear and unequivocal.

[brooks85]

LOL the 2032nd liberal poster on this site that has thrown up their hands to this jackoff. Dante u ever see a guy who thought he was right on everything? Now remember this is a union card holder with far right beliefs. I put him on ignore months ago. He fights with everyone and anyone in every post. You can't find one post of his that isn't a rebuttal with an insult in it. I doubt if he ever started a thread unless he is calling someone out just to fight with them.

he forgot the key word


also, childish insult excuse doesn't work. The words stupid, moron, idiot etc all have real meanings so the name calling excuse just doesn't work. When you enter discussions without the facts and without logic you will be labelled appropriately. When you have been proven wrong, as many times as you have, you don't get the respect of not being called what you are; stupid.

[ACoochy]

Fiorina has this...

[DwightShrute]

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[muldoon]

This guy sounds like a kid trying to fake a report on a book he didn't read.

[Thor4140]

Boy im thinking of voting for Trump more and more. He is the reason that piece of shit Walker drop out of the race. No Trump this shitbag prolly has some ground with this shit field.

[DwightShrute]

[Andy117]

Fiorina has this...

She's good on the debate stage. That's about it.

[d2bets]

Fiorina has this...

Fiorina has a much better chance than Trump.

[Mr KLC]

Fiorina has a much better chance than Trump.

She's a temporary bump like just about every Republican candidate except Romney in 2012. Media can tear her up about her past without breaking a sweat. The only thing that can stop the Republican establishment from doing it is if they want to keep her in there to split some of the vote Trump might otherwise get. Trump has practically had everything but the kitchen sink thrown at him, and he's still standing. They haven't even started anything hardcore on Fiorina yet.

[muldoon]

She's good on the debate stage. That's about it.

It's a weird dynamic. Fiorina went into it (Debate 2) having been "slighted" by Trump for his superficial comments. I don't think anyone really wanted to go after her for fear of getting dragged into that mess.

If she gains more traction, watch the big guns go after her. From her record of not bothering to participate and actually vote in elections, to her company dealing with Iran illegally under her watch. These things are getting minor mention now (plus for the moment she's the darling of Fox News) - but she'll be a pretty easy target for super-pacs.

[d2bets]

She's a temporary bump like just about every Republican candidate except Romney in 2012. Media can tear her up about her past without breaking a sweat. The only thing that can stop the Republican establishment from doing it is if they want to keep her in there to split some of the vote Trump might otherwise get. Trump has practically had everything but the kitchen sink thrown at him, and he's still standing. They haven't even started anything hardcore on Fiorina yet.

He's standing, for now, because he gets all the attention and all the TV time. It's the "any press is good press" idea.

[d2bets]

It's a weird dynamic. Fiorina went into it (Debate 2) having been "slighted" by Trump for his superficial comments. I don't think anyone really wanted to go after her for fear of getting dragged into that mess.

If she gains more traction, watch the big guns go after her. From her record of not bothering to participate and actually vote in elections, to her company dealing with Iran illegally under her watch. These things are getting minor mention now (plus for the moment she's the darling of Fox News) - but she'll be a pretty easy target for super-pacs.

Chrisite went after her. He's desperate for attention. He could be the next to dropout.

[ACoochy]

http://www.alternet.org/what-people-around-world-think-america-after-trumps-bewildering-rise

What People Around the World Think of America After Trump's Bewildering Rise
'Trump represents the America we love to hate.'

Americans are no strangers to embarrassing exports (sorry for "Grey’s Anatomy" and Papa John’s pizza, Planet Earth!). And our political nutbaggery is no exception. But when it comes to Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, we may have outdone ourselves. The GOP frontrunner is a woman-hating reality TV star whose campaign has mostly focused on his lust for ethnic cleansing.

The global reaction to Trump mania has been a sense of disgust; Trump is the native son of a country that worships selfishness above empathy, corporate interests over justice and notoriety over prestige. As French author Marie-Cecile Naves put it to Politico, “Trump represents the America we love to hate…He is our negative mirror image, a man we see as brutal, who worships money and lacks culture — someone who lets us feel a bit superior about being European."

In short, the rest of the world seems as flabbergasted about Trump’s rise as we should be. Here’s how seven other countries have reacted to his befuddling popularity.

1. Mexico

Mexicans have a special right to resent Trump, given his well-documented disdain for them. He’s pushed blackmailing Mexico into paying for a border fence, called undocumented Latinos “rapists” who are “bringing drugs and crime,” and even vowed to implement a mass deportation of millions of undocumented people and their American children. One July issue of Mexican comic book El Peso Hero featured its hero slugging Donald Trump in the mug on its cover, just as Captain America once socked Hitler. Not to be outdone, Mexican artist Dalton Javier Avalos Ramirez designed a special Donald Trump piñata so people can fulfill their dreams of bashing Trump with a stick.

2. France

France’s Liberation Newspaper didn’t go for subtlety in its August 27 cover story, “Trump: The American Nightmare.” Text that ran alongside his pink grimace declared him to be “vulgar and opportunistic.” Resentment against Trump has long been brewing in the land of brie and berets: back in January, he sparked widespread outrage when he blamed the Charlie Hebdo murders on strict gun laws. (Say quoi?!) More recently, Trump’s nationalism and tendency to make outrageous comments in the media led a columnist at Le Figaro to dub him the American Le Pen, a comparison to Jean-Marie Le Pen, the notorious patriarch of France’s far-right. Le Pen could also give Trump a master class on how to alienate practically everyone with reactionary bullshit: over the past year, Le Pen has gone off the deep end by denying the Holocaust and singing the praises of Nazi-collaborationist Vichy government occupiers who deported thousands of Jews during WWII.

3. Venezuela

The Latin American country has come under fire for draconian anti-trafficking policies that critics say amount to abuses of Colombians, including sealing their shared borders and deportations. Some observers couldn't help but notice that President Nicolas Maduro’s vicious anti-immigration policies are awfully similar to the vitriol that’s been stewing from the Donald. Opposition politician Saverio Vivas thinks the shoe fits: “Maduro criticizes Donald Trump, but his acts against Colombian immigration are worse than the magnate's words." But Maduro takes issue with the comparison. As he said during an August TV spot, “They’re saying Maduro is like Donald Trump. Imagine! I don't even have his hairstyle, and least of all his bank account.” Um, fair enough, but nothing says “unpopular” quite like being more offensive than human rights violators.

4. China

Trump has made no secret of his distaste for China. He’s grumbled about how America keeps losing to China, in contrast with Trump’s record of “always beating [them.]” He claimed the Chinese are “ripping us off left and right,” and their diplomats ought to be taken to McDonald’s instead of to state dinners. As the Washington Post reports, the Chinese are beginning to snark back. Besides mocking Trump’s hair (“This guy’s hair is so strange. I thought it was photoshopped at first!” one Chinese national quipped on social media) the Chinese have become increasingly critical of Trump’s flaunting of his wealth. One state newspaper put it this way: “The theme of Trump’s speech for running for president: I really am very rich.” Spokespeople for the Chinese government have been dismissive, rebutting his claims that Chinese policies swipe jobs and saying that they care more about the opinions of those who actually matter.

5. Germany

Much has been made of the fact that Trump’s anti-immigrant rabble-rousing discounts his own family history. Not only did Trump descend from immigrants, he also married two of them. (His first spouse Ivana was born in the Czech Republic, and he is currently married to Melania, from Slovenia.) But less is said of the fact that his Grandpa Drumpf, after building up a nest egg, actually tried to move back to his native Germany and was denied. As Deutsche Welle reports, Drumpf’s propensity for self-serving corner-cutting seems to have resulted in a grandson bent on erecting 100-story golden calves into the skyline of any city whose legal limits he can push. It’s exactly that flamboyance that fuels German distaste for “The Trump Show,” as his soundbite-optimized campaign was called by the tabloid Bild. A few weeks after Trump announced his candidacy, Suddeutsche Zeitung was feeling lost: “Weird, egomaniac, racist…yet he leads in the polls; how can that be?” the paper asked. Wunderbar question.

6. Russia

Given the fact that Trump’s venom has spared practically no one, it’s notable that he’s been less critical of Russia and President Vladimir Putin than practically any other global politician. (“I was over in Moscow two years ago, and I will tell you — you can get along with those people…you can make deals with those people. Obama can’t,” he recently explained.) Trump has tacitly sided with Russia in the Ukraine conflict, having affirmed his indifference over whether or not Ukraine enters NATO, and landing on an "enemies list" in Ukraine for his pro-Russia comments in the press. Pro-Russian publication Russia Insider even recently suggested a Trump presidency could be good for Russia, since Trump will negotiate based on pragmatics instead of emotion or ideology. The Kremlin-friendly pub also praised the fact that Trump “harbors none of the ridiculous and hysterical Russophobia, which of course is a hallmark of every other Republican candidate.”

7. Australia

Down under, some people have a cynical, sarcastic reason to root for Trump: it distracts the planet from the awfulness of their own prime minister, Tony Abbott. As one bloke put it to the Unaustralian, “Trump would take the heat off Abbott so no Australian ever needs to pretend to be a New Zealander ever again.” Another claimed electing Trump “would be so embarrassing for America, they’d all be like ‘ugh, we elected this guy? Awkward.'" Fair enough. But why are Aussies so disgruntled at Abbott, anyway? Sidney Morning Herald columnist Julie Szego wrote that both represent ugly aspects of conservative values, particularly a high-profile disrespect of women. Trump’s center-stage battle against Megyn Kelly at the first Republican debate caused decent human beings to recoil in horror, as they do toward what Szego calls Abbott’s “inability to self-censor his natural tendency to link women with domesticity.”

[brooks85]

http://www.alternet.org/what-people-...wildering-rise

What People Around the World Think of America After Trump's Bewildering Rise
'Trump represents the America we love to hate.'

Americans are no strangers to embarrassing exports (sorry for "Grey’s Anatomy" and Papa John’s pizza, Planet Earth!). And our political nutbaggery is no exception. But when it comes to Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, we may have outdone ourselves. The GOP frontrunner is a woman-hating reality TV star whose campaign has mostly focused on his lust for ethnic cleansing.

The global reaction to Trump mania has been a sense of disgust; Trump is the native son of a country that worships selfishness above empathy, corporate interests over justice and notoriety over prestige. As French author Marie-Cecile Naves put it to Politico, “Trump represents the America we love to hate…He is our negative mirror image, a man we see as brutal, who worships money and lacks culture — someone who lets us feel a bit superior about being European."

In short, the rest of the world seems as flabbergasted about Trump’s rise as we should be. Here’s how seven other countries have reacted to his befuddling popularity.

1. Mexico

Mexicans have a special right to resent Trump, given his well-documented disdain for them. He’s pushed blackmailing Mexico into paying for a border fence, called undocumented Latinos “rapists” who are “bringing drugs and crime,” and even vowed to implement a mass deportation of millions of undocumented people and their American children. One July issue of Mexican comic book El Peso Hero featured its hero slugging Donald Trump in the mug on its cover, just as Captain America once socked Hitler. Not to be outdone, Mexican artist Dalton Javier Avalos Ramirez designed a special Donald Trump piñata so people can fulfill their dreams of bashing Trump with a stick.

2. France

France’s Liberation Newspaper didn’t go for subtlety in its August 27 cover story, “Trump: The American Nightmare.” Text that ran alongside his pink grimace declared him to be “vulgar and opportunistic.” Resentment against Trump has long been brewing in the land of brie and berets: back in January, he sparked widespread outrage when he blamed the Charlie Hebdo murders on strict gun laws. (Say quoi?!) More recently, Trump’s nationalism and tendency to make outrageous comments in the media led a columnist at Le Figaro to dub him the American Le Pen, a comparison to Jean-Marie Le Pen, the notorious patriarch of France’s far-right. Le Pen could also give Trump a master class on how to alienate practically everyone with reactionary bullshit: over the past year, Le Pen has gone off the deep end by denying the Holocaust and singing the praises of Nazi-collaborationist Vichy government occupiers who deported thousands of Jews during WWII.

3. Venezuela

The Latin American country has come under fire for draconian anti-trafficking policies that critics say amount to abuses of Colombians, including sealing their shared borders and deportations. Some observers couldn't help but notice that President Nicolas Maduro’s vicious anti-immigration policies are awfully similar to the vitriol that’s been stewing from the Donald. Opposition politician Saverio Vivas thinks the shoe fits: “Maduro criticizes Donald Trump, but his acts against Colombian immigration are worse than the magnate's words." But Maduro takes issue with the comparison. As he said during an August TV spot, “They’re saying Maduro is like Donald Trump. Imagine! I don't even have his hairstyle, and least of all his bank account.” Um, fair enough, but nothing says “unpopular” quite like being more offensive than human rights violators.

4. China

Trump has made no secret of his distaste for China. He’s grumbled about how America keeps losing to China, in contrast with Trump’s record of “always beating [them.]” He claimed the Chinese are “ripping us off left and right,” and their diplomats ought to be taken to McDonald’s instead of to state dinners. As the Washington Post reports, the Chinese are beginning to snark back. Besides mocking Trump’s hair (“This guy’s hair is so strange. I thought it was photoshopped at first!” one Chinese national quipped on social media) the Chinese have become increasingly critical of Trump’s flaunting of his wealth. One state newspaper put it this way: “The theme of Trump’s speech for running for president: I really am very rich.” Spokespeople for the Chinese government have been dismissive, rebutting his claims that Chinese policies swipe jobs and saying that they care more about the opinions of those who actually matter.

5. Germany

Much has been made of the fact that Trump’s anti-immigrant rabble-rousing discounts his own family history. Not only did Trump descend from immigrants, he also married two of them. (His first spouse Ivana was born in the Czech Republic, and he is currently married to Melania, from Slovenia.) But less is said of the fact that his Grandpa Drumpf, after building up a nest egg, actually tried to move back to his native Germany and was denied. As Deutsche Welle reports, Drumpf’s propensity for self-serving corner-cutting seems to have resulted in a grandson bent on erecting 100-story golden calves into the skyline of any city whose legal limits he can push. It’s exactly that flamboyance that fuels German distaste for “The Trump Show,” as his soundbite-optimized campaign was called by the tabloid Bild. A few weeks after Trump announced his candidacy, Suddeutsche Zeitung was feeling lost: “Weird, egomaniac, racist…yet he leads in the polls; how can that be?” the paper asked. Wunderbar question.

6. Russia

Given the fact that Trump’s venom has spared practically no one, it’s notable that he’s been less critical of Russia and President Vladimir Putin than practically any other global politician. (“I was over in Moscow two years ago, and I will tell you — you can get along with those people…you can make deals with those people. Obama can’t,” he recently explained.) Trump has tacitly sided with Russia in the Ukraine conflict, having affirmed his indifference over whether or not Ukraine enters NATO, and landing on an "enemies list" in Ukraine for his pro-Russia comments in the press. Pro-Russian publication Russia Insider even recently suggested a Trump presidency could be good for Russia, since Trump will negotiate based on pragmatics instead of emotion or ideology. The Kremlin-friendly pub also praised the fact that Trump “harbors none of the ridiculous and hysterical Russophobia, which of course is a hallmark of every other Republican candidate.”

7. Australia

Down under, some people have a cynical, sarcastic reason to root for Trump: it distracts the planet from the awfulness of their own prime minister, Tony Abbott. As one bloke put it to the Unaustralian, “Trump would take the heat off Abbott so no Australian ever needs to pretend to be a New Zealander ever again.” Another claimed electing Trump “would be so embarrassing for America, they’d all be like ‘ugh, we elected this guy? Awkward.'" Fair enough. But why are Aussies so disgruntled at Abbott, anyway? Sidney Morning Herald columnist Julie Szego wrote that both represent ugly aspects of conservative values, particularly a high-profile disrespect of women. Trump’s center-stage battle against Megyn Kelly at the first Republican debate caused decent human beings to recoil in horror, as they do toward what Szego calls Abbott’s “inability to self-censor his natural tendency to link women with domesticity.”

You would love this show called The View; birds of a feather.

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Fiorina has a much better chance than Trump.

In 2008, she was a top economic adviser for John McCain.
And before McCain picked his running mate “Fiorina, for her part, couldn’t be any
more plain about her vice presidential ambitions without taking out an ad.”

Let us not forget, after all, that when she was an advisor to the McCain presidential campaign,
she embarrassed the candidate twice and was dropped like a rock.

When Fiorina was asked whether she thought vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin could run
a corporation, Fiorina replied, "No, I don't.." She followed that up in an interview on MSNBC,
saying that John McCain, Barack Obama and Joe Biden also weren’t qualified to run a business.
The comments got her shoved to the sideline for the final push to the election.

What was someone who was one of the worst CEO's in American history, commenting as though
she was some kind of big time expert on what it takes to excel as an CEO? Demeaning the
candidate she was working for in the process!

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Rubio sneaking another drink.

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Jeb Bush argued Tuesday that the United States is "creeping toward multiculturalism" and described it as "the wrong approach."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/22/politics/jeb-bush-multiculturalism-iowa/

good for jeb, guy has no chance tho for other reasons but he is right here.