Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Conditional surrender was the reason World War I festered and eventually became World War II.

When you fight a world war situation, there needs to be no doubt for the losers that they lost, or they'll be back at you a decade or so later.

You could even extend this comparison to the Civil War: a lot of the problems we've had since the 1950s or so up until now are due to the fact the South wasn't impressed strongly enough with the concept they lost the fuckin' war.

Japan's surrender at the end of WWII was "unconditional" enough that in 71 years there's been no serious talk about Japan rearming, until a fucking idiotic pig named Trump started yammering about how they should get nukes.

If Japan decided they wanted nukes, in 90 days they could have 100 of them. And they've got rockets.

It doesn't do Japan jack shit to have one nuke or five nukes; if they're going to have nukes at all, they've got to have enough to be a serious threat to China and Russia, which would mean they could potentially be a threat to US, which would mean the days of Japan snapping to attention any time the U. S. snapped its fingers would be all over.

Suppose Japan nukes up as The Pig has suggested. Then suppose Japan gets taken over by a bombastic loudmouth Prime Minister who vows to Make Japan Great Again, who rails against Japan "taking orders from foreigners for 70 years," etc etc etc.

Never thought about that either, eh, pig?

 

Don't blame Trump. Blame Tom Clancy.

 

Smallpotatoes would feel welcome at a Libertarian Party convention. BTW, Johnson wins the nomination.

The Libertarian Party Is In Turmoil Over Its Vice Presidential Nominee

 

#peakedat6 #orwasit10

 

In keeping with the ceasefire, I will refrain from criticizing the current administration.
And instead attack the piece of shit running for the Republican Party. I think we can all agree that's cool? So yeah, let's do that.

Here's why Donald Trump is such a piece of shit, members and moderators.
After 16 putrid years of [redacted], we had an opportunity to have a real discussion in this country.

To go over what's been happening.
To go over where in the hell we're heading.
To go over what needs to be done to turn things around.

Instead we get a daily barrage of personal attacks, stupid comments, general buffoonery, a demonstration of an inability to lead, a daily demonstration of the complete lack of mind and judgment required to be president.

And nothing of any substance at all.

Does anyone really think Trump is in any way ready- or could ever be ready- to lead an administration, be commander-in-chief, be top diplomat, be top judicial head, be vanguard legislator, set the tone for the country, make the proper appointments for federal courts, rein in the Fed, say the right things during time of mourning?
Does any of that shit sound like Donald Trump?

And all the while the left-wing media ate it up, crowded out everyone else, knowing the only way [redacted] could possibly win is to have this asshole as her opponent.

 

The scarier thing to me is that Trump won all these states. That doesn't say very good things about the voters.

And I firmly believe he can win in November.

 

We could always throw our official SJ endorsement toward this guy:

 

The right-wing media's nonstop fellating The Pig for a year and giving him $2 billion in free air time (soon to be $10 billion) is why he's the nominee.

 

Give Trump credit. He knows how to work the media. He throws out all sorts of shit that is simply designed to get attention and win the media battle for the day, and enough outlets pick it up and try to analyze his nonsense that it works. He throws red meat to his followers, he throws out insults and a pack of lies to piss off the Democrats so that they talk about him too.

Hillary really does not know how to fight it, since he lies all the time but no one seems to care when his lies are exposed. Then again, no one from either party seems to have figured out how to deal with him. Elizabeth Warren hit back at him pretty well last week but I don't think she wants a full time job as Hillary surrogate and Trump debunker.

 

She doesn't need to fight it. She only needs to worry about bringing Sanders voters back to the fold. And honestly she shouldn't worry about that too much, it'll happen just like Never Trump fizzled. The moment the Democrats consolidate, there is a 51% lock on this election that the Republican candidate can't hope to break.

Trump isn't a mad genius that nobody knows how to handle. He is a moderately skilled attention whore who is in way over his head but was fortunate enough to find a series of plurality victories, and the party that worships individual self-interest couldn't solve the collective action problem of vote-splitting until it was too late to prevent him from winning the nomination despite the majority of voters not wanting him.

Trump is the Tim Tebow of politics, and much like Mr. Tebow, there doesn't need to be some innate winnerness or tough to deal with talent that explains his brief period of success. It is simply a fluke, and he will be gone to cover the SEC and do home improvement shows soon enough.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/b...ves-dont-give-to-trump.html?ref=business&_r=1