# Trump's Republican primary campaign **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 3, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828 "2015-09-03T18:00:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3218
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3218 "2016-04-06T07:49:48Z")
> [@Hank\_Beecher](#): > > Yes yes. Hysterical incredulity. So original. Works every time. Until it doesn’t. Then it becomes [the biggest joke on the internet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvfhmhITkYY). Okay, I clicked that, and then I was kind of dumbfounded. I felt like a fuddy-duddy, not being familiar with this kind of video remix. So I looked at the comments, and someone included a link to the original source video, which I went to peruse to try to figure out WTF this was all about. And I must say, now I’m really glad to have gone down that rabbit hole, as I have now found the most hilariously ignorant Sanders supporter [starting at 3:37](https://youtu.be/YU3vcvGpALQ?t=217) (watch for 37 seconds, until about 4:14). “I have done my research. I have done my research.” He was doing fine, of course, for the first twenty seconds or so. I thought he might actually be a smart anticapitalist who knew what the fuck he was talking about. But then…SMH. “Those were capitalists!” Oh dear. :smack: > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > East Germany had army troops all along the border with the BRD. Much more expensive than building a wall and providing an Immigration patrol, and we’re talking about a much longer border. I wonder if the ratio of length to population is that much different. Or to GDP. And you have to put your troops somewhere anyway, and we’ve got a lot of them. Again, I’m by no means advocating this, but the “it can’t be done!” talk seems defeatist. > [@Hank\_Beecher](#): > > Wow. A Tourette’s Syndrome outburst of virtue signalling. > > Here is what I see: You, polishing your halo. Meanwhile, Trump is way smarter than nearly everyone, way more successful, and much more in touch with the sentiments and concerns of the average American than you or any of the other candidates. And better at communicating with them. That’s why he is winning. > > But just keep repeating to yourself what a poopie head he is. If he’s so smart, how come it appears he knows about as much about President Lincoln (the one president he said he wouldn’t be able to outdo in greatness) as Sarah Palin knew about Supreme Court decisions or newspapers when Katie Couric interviewed her? > [@Bayard](#): > > I apologize if this was already mentioned (hard to search from my mobile). But Trump has stated that he will eliminate the national debt, currently about $19 trillion dollars, and he will do so in **eight years**. Yep. He’ll dig about $2.5T out of the couch cushions every year of his administration and apply it straight to paying down the debt. > > Now, some economists might call his plan “nuts”, “crazy”, or “mathematically impossible”, but that’s just because they’re total losers. Sad! > > [http://www.marketplace.org/2016/04/04/economy/trump-debt](http://www.marketplace.org/2016/04/04/economy/trump-debt) Nice Drumpf attack haiku. Yes: in any normal year, the absurdity of this proposal would incite a media firestorm. But this year, people aren’t even talking about it much because it’s only the 178th stupidest/craziest thing Drumpf has proposed. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828)._