Trump can’t catch a break. He is doing everything he can to throw this campaign, but the mooks are eating it up and won’t let him out. It’s like The Producers, with twitter.
I get all the jokes, but I have to say my first thought about the new Trump/Pence logo wasn’t that it was sexually suggestive. Just seemed bleh.
AS the convention is about to start, and that will move the polls one way or another, we probably wouldn’t noptice a Pence bounce anyway.
He is hideously boring, to be sure. Just what Trump wanted. Someone to do his bidding.
Am I the only person who thinks of the tricket as “Trumppence”? It sounds like a British word for some obscure coin or monetary unit back when they had the weird non-decimal system I still don’t understand. “I say, Clusterfield, nip on down to the Gorn and Scrimble and fetch us some spotted dick, won’t you? Theirs is marvelous, and is but four Trumppence!”
ETA: “Tricket” was a typo, but like “scampaign” it suits them.
Why not? He’s their top recruiter already; why not go the whole hog (!) and recognize them as legitimate?
No. He does not. And he will be very, very shocked when someone dares to tell him.
And then during his State of the Union Tweet, he’ll complain how liberal politicians have ruined this country by preventing him from actually doing anything to fight the war on terror. Sad.
And then his followers will rise up in revolt against…something. Probably dark-skinned people who may or may not look Muslim.
For a while, when I used to wear a tie to work, I always called it a Manly Pointer. My wife never found that nearly as hilarious as I did. If she had read “Good Country People”, though, she would have seen the brilliance of my humor. Or not.
It seems the consensus is yes. I speak French, so I’m never sure how non-French-speaking Americans pronounce things like that (“sans”, for example, is apparently pronounced to rhyme with “cans”, and I cannot bring myself to do that).
If I were not a paycheck-to-paycheck person, I would make a big enough bet to do that for sure. But I can only scrape up like thirty bucks to bet with.
What you are describing is only agreed to by a majority of white Americans. Nonwhites see a much brighter future than that. I’m white (except for my Omaha/Pawnee grandmother, who had a white mother who died young; my grandma was raised by her father on the Omaha reservation), but I agree with the nonwhites on this point.
I’ll put up $30 to win $10. Not that I don’t think the chances are better than that, but betting on favorites just doesn’t provide much to get excited about if the odds are too long against the underdog.
I saw this right away, before seeing this post or any commentary (saw the logo on Facebook). I guess I just have a dirty mind. 
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Apparently Trump’s team overlooked a few things before announcing - like grabbing certain domains, now owned by squatters (trumppence.com, trumppence.gop) and update some pinned tweets and websites.
The logo is gone from sight… So is Pence. This campaign has been a thing, all right. If a candidate this terrible could win, then we deserve him.
Ohio, hosting the RNC, gets a downgraded floor spot: 2016 Republican National Convention delegate seating chart released - cleveland.com
He’s not wrong, though…
Did they seriously play “You can’t always get what you want” before Trump’s speech announcing Pence as the running mate?
That’s what I’ve read, but can’t find any video. I also read that this song is in rotation at Trump rallies, but it seems poor timing to play it just before you make your official veep announcement, especially after all the reports that have been leaked about Trump’s waffling over Pence the past 48 hours.
Tell that to people (like me) who rely on Social Security to, you know, not starve.
Uh, okay, sure: Republicans want to kill Social Security, but they can’t say it, because they’d lose in massive landslides, and I’m surprised that Trump had the awareness to know that, and actually argued it to a sitting member of Congress.
As one of several songs, according to this - Trump announces Pence as running mate and 'partner' to rebuild U.S.
During a 60 Minutes joint interview, Lesley Stahl asks Mike Pence, who’s previously written about why he dislikes negative campaigning, how he justifies Trump’s habit of calling his rivals names.
Pence answers - well, he doesn’t answer at all,because Trump cuts him off to rant at Stahl about “crooked Hillary”.
I’m already starting to feel a little sorry for Pence, loathe his policy positions as I do.
Mark my words: a few more of these assaults on police officers, and Donald J Trump will be the president of the United States. This plays right into his narrative. And while a lot of whites will say the right things in the office, on Facebook, in front of their friends, and even in phone surveys, they will go to the polls to respond to what they feel is the last chance to save their country. This is shaping up to be 1968 all over again. A time when progressives could and should have won but were held back by extremists among them.