Trumpled (Alternative Leading)

[Mav]

And The Simpsons has tried to imagine how Clinton and Trump would take the 3am national security call:

[flash=200,200]https://youtu.be/tLSy8Tl2bjs[/flash]

[Baggers]

Probably one of the better perspectives re the imminent choice facing America. Just ignore the 'we're the greatest nation on Earth stuff.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7DOYVEkQjA

[Mav]

Yep, his speech impressed Trump so much that he said he wants to hit the little guy.  But Rudy Guliani, only an inch taller, is a huuuuge guy in Trump's mind.

Changing the topic again, we've been assuming that ISIS attacks will play into Trump's hands.  But it looks like ISIS may well end up being a winning issue for Hillary: Get Ready for Obama’s ‘October Surprise’ in Iraq: If Iraqi and Kurdish troops—with stepped-up U.S. support—retake Mosul as planned, it could be a big boost for Hillary, Politico, 1/10/16.

[Mav]

Hillary is lucky she's up against Trump who lies every day.  But Hillary, knowing she has a problem with trust, continues to make unforced errors.  She is receiving poor reviews over an interview she gave to FoxNews.  When asked by Chris Wallace about the emails, she said that Comey had said that she was telling the truth over the emails.  WTF?  When I saw that clip, I was stunned.  Everyone knows his statement and subsequent testimony weren't a glowing endorsement of her.  Why didn't she just say that Comey's entitled to his view but she was telling the truth as she believed it to be at the time?  Why put words in Comey's mouth when that can be clearly disproved? 

Oh boy.  She's lucky that Trump is obsessed with his battle with the Khans at the moment. 

[DJC]

An Australian politician who made as many gaffes as Trump, was continually caught out for embellishing the truth and who engaged in wars of words with members of the public would have a very short career.

It's water of a duck's back for Trump though  :

[PaulP]

An Australian politician who made as many gaffes as Trump, was continually caught out for embellishing the truth and who engaged in wars of words with members of the public would have a very short career.

It's water of a duck's back for Trump though  :

He's just giving the Yanks what they expect, and quite possibly what they want. Given enough time, for some people familiarity breeds fondness, oddly enough.

[Lods]

Trump reckons Hillary is the Devil.

I just get the feeling some of these things are starting to bite (Khans , Putin) and he's starting to crack....But I've thought that before. :

[Mav]

The attack on Khan might finally have been too much.  Previous outrageous attacks have been against politicians and media figures and that means the public's sympathy with the victims would be limited.  But Khizr Khan isn't a public figure at all.  He seems to have reacted simply because Trump's attack on Muslims was an indirect attack on his deceased son.  Rather than being a stirrer artfully poking the bear, he has demonstrated an endearingly naïve civility.  I doubt he foresaw or desired the crapstorm that would come his way.

Trump's responses have been disgusting enough but his campaign staff and surrogates have taken it even further.  So far, Trump has insinuated that Mrs Khan was forced to remain silent on stage because of repressive Islam and that Mr Khan was motivated by a desire to prevent Trump stopping Radical Islamic Terrorists[sup]TM[/sup] entering the US.  Mr Khan has been declared as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood without any basis and claims have been made that his son was actually a Radical Islamic Terrorist[sup]TM[/sup] who was blown up before he could execute his attack.  Mr Khan has also been accused of trying to implement Sharia law in the US.  Others used a small section in Mr Khan's legal firm's online legal writings that dealt with immigration by businessmen to allege that he's worried about his own pocket.  The fact that this site was taken down was used to show he had something to hide.  A bemused Mr Khan called on Trump and his surrogates to show empathy and said that he has no time for Sharia law which in his view is merely a hotch-pot of British and French laws mixed in with local religious beliefs.  He also noted that he'd never had any clients in immigration matters as rich businessmen seeking to immigrate go to big firms and the website was only taken down as its host complained that it was being buried by hatemail and they advised that it should be taken down until things quieten down. 

The strangest nonsense to come out of Trump's camp is that Capt. Khan died as a result of the ridiculous rules of engagement imposed by Clinton and Obama.  It didn't worry them that Capt. Khan died in 2004/5, well before Obama came to power.

Outside of Trump's base, how will voters react to Trump's attempts to orchestrate a hate campaign against a Gold Star family?

[Lods]

Outside of Trump's base, how will voters react to Trump's attempts to orchestrate a hate campaign against a Gold Star family?

When Bill O'Reilly tells you that you may have gone too far..chances are you've walked off a cliff

[LP]

Trump doesn't want the job, he's going to profit significantly from all this and money is all he cares about.

He'll make more money in the next term from a near miss than he ever could from a clear win, and he knows it!

Money Monster was a fictional story that sits uncomfortably close to the truth in how stocks are manipulated to rise and fall. Trump's Money Monster isn't a platinum mine, it's a corrupt US political system and the mindless masses led by the media!