Trump is supposedly giving serious consideration to retired Lt. General Michael Flynn for the vice-president spot.
People within the campaign are still pushing for a “traditional” pick (Gingrich, Pence, etc) but Trump is – per the stories – jazzed up on the idea of Flynn and doesn’t feel he needs a choice that appeals to mainstream Republican types.
From the link.
Maybe adds a little curl to the “Y” in Flynn. And the hyphen is a happy face.
And it’d rhyme with pumpkin!
Flynn’s chief qualification seems to be that he hates Obama for firing him.
He’s also a general which Trump feels will be important when we have “national unrest” – doesn’t that make you feel better?
Maybe he needs a military liaison for convincing the troops to murder terrorist families and violate the Posse Comitatus Act.
Trump is now joking (?) that if he gets elected, he may not serve.
Typical comment of a narcissistic egomaniac.
I might be giving him too much credit, but: imagine folks who’d oh-so-very-much love to cast a protest vote, but who are hesitating because, well, he’s Trump.
What could reassure them that, no, it’s cool; you don’t really think he’d serve, right?
Don’t you mean Blumpkin?
I was just going for “orange”, but, yeah, okay, sure.
Last one who promised that burned the South.
Well, parts of Georgia and South Carolina, anyway - but years before he said it.
I never asserted he was competent much less that his policies were good. Nonetheless, the fact remains he does have a set of policy views and it’s not as if (again) mainstream Republicans are any less terrible in their socioeconomic policies considering their obsession with destroying the New Deal and Great Society.
The problem with those criteria is the way you are applying them, they are broad enough to pretty much include any even mildly authoritarian regime. For example, Stalin’s USSR would have checked off all of these except #9. Actual fascists go much beyond what you list-plenty of democratic countries (including us) have had government make efforts to suppress the media (often far more blatantly then Trump’s threats to free up libel suits) and have held corrupt elections. The difference is that actual fascist regimes went beyond these indirect and amateurish methods to simply outlawing any meaningful opposition in the press or politics.
I suggest you look up his statements from far back as Art of the Deal. His complaints about the US getting ripped off in trade with China is as much a trait of him as his hair or sexual conquests.
You do have a point about the Mormons. On the other hand, he’s shown that most Republicans weren’t voting for the party for guest worker programs, abolishing Medicare/Social Security, or Weekly Standard-approved foreign wars.
Trump’s Curtis LeMay. Also quite the Russophile.
On Friday Mark Shields, the Avatar of Frumpy, said Trump was “an egomaniac with an inferiority complex”. David Brooks said some stuff too.
The last thing I heard out of Brooks’ whine-hole was a demand that a successful Democratic government destroy its ability to govern by attempting to compromise with the party of government shutdowns and other temper tantrums:
One of the biggest tools the Republicans have right now is denial of context: In isolation, Brooks’ jeremiad seems reasonable. In context, it’s him advocating that we try to continue to talk sense with a party which has demonstrated that it’s willing to go to the mat with ridiculous demands and elect people who refuse to be politicians. Trump is one thing, but Cruz and everyone who supports Cruz is evidence of an even worse dysfunction. Saying this is all Trump is ignoring the actual issue.
Republicans don’t want disagreement. They want total capitulation or they want a fight. Our only hope is to shove them out of power long enough for them to figure out that that isn’t how it works.
Preach it!
Before this is left behind, thanks to all the bad news and no indictment of Clinton, the spam operation of Trump’s campaign needs a mention.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/oh-nos-trump-cut-off-by-bulk-email-sender-for-epic-spamming
Leave to Trump to not discourage racists, bigots and antisemites in his mist, but to also welcome spammers? Ye gods! Release the Kraken! Pandora’s mailbox has to be protected! 
I have a mailing list for my blog. 79% is incredibly high for an opt-in mailing list. I’d get kicked out so fast I wouldn’t know what hit me.
That must be bad even by spammer standards, but that is outside my area of expertise.
There’s spam and then there’s spam.
The “Penis So Big It Scares Nigerian Princes With Hot Barely Legal Offshore Herbal Bank Accounts” spam, the clearly criminal stuff which absolutely everyone filters for, is probably going into spamtraps 99+% of the time, because the big free email providers filter it. (Cite: I actually look through my Gmail Spam folder. It isn’t there. It’s getting stopped before it even reaches me, because it damned sure still exists.) That crap’s being sent by criminal cartels from Third-World Internet cafes and compromised machines in the Free World. Whole sections of the global Internet (China, mostly) are blocked by ISPs around the rest of the (non-China) world because of this kind of spam and malware botnets scanning for vulnerable computers to turn into spambots.
The “Buy Gold Special Deal 4 U” spam, the stuff which is probably “barely legal” in the business law sense of the term, is more likely to make it through. A 79% spamtrap rate might actually be bad for them, I don’t know.
Anyway, this is Trump being Trump and cheaping out on an essential part of the process. He puts 90% into the show and 10% into the backroom, where it should be the exact opposite. Even Vegas knows better than that, which must be why his casinos tend to fail.
He’s all sizzle and no steak, and the best part is that the sizzle is actively racist, misogynistic, and otherwise blatantly offensive.
What do you expect from a party whose supporters seriously argued that keeping the other party from doing literally ANYTHING except at the price of “doing what we want” was “compromise”? Because see, they’re compromising by letting any action happen to begin with! It’s those evil Democrats who are being stubborn!