As long as Trump gets free media coverage for saying offensive things and has his own wealth to support the rump of a campaign that he needs, I don’t see why he needs billionaire money to be successful.
You do realize Trump himself is a billionaire right and has consciously run his campaign on the fact that he is financially independent? So this is great news for Trump (not that he’s even relying on lameass, Viagra pharmaceutical ad style TV spots in the Year of Our Lord 2015 but rather on social media like all the cool kidz) if anything, since it shows he’s not a Koch cuck.
He’s valued at 4.1 billion in 2014. Pocket change to Adelson, the Kochs and Super pocket change to Super PACs. Bankruptcies in real estate, success in television. Like voting for Andy Dick.
Out of goodness, I’ll extend his republican campaign’s existence through January.
But Trump is an expert at getting publicity for free. Who needs to buy ads when your latest blurt is on all the news shows - nationwide and in a place that people can’t fast forward through.
If he gets into trouble it is because he hasn’t set up a ground game yet.
Today, Donald Trump spoke at the Republican Jewish Coalition 2016 candidate forum. Highlights included:
A while back, I read someone compare Trump to an insult comic. If you imagine Don Rickles saying 75% of what Trump says, it almost becomes sort of humorous.
By way of our good friends at CrooksandLiars
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Now We Have To Worry About Copy-Cat Trumps**
The gist of this appears to be that the Republican leadership (such as it is) is trying to adjust to the prospect of a Trump nomination. Much has been said about their ongoing reaction to that prospect (shock, horror, dismay), but this appears to be an effort to glean some good from the disaster by adjusting their approach. If Trump wins, then that must mean that his approach to the public is effective and politically valid. Therefore, in order to avoid a down-ticket catastrophe, other Republicans should echo his views (with some wiggle room to keep their “moderate” boney-fidos).
Sorta “Go along with his crazy ass shit, but hold back just enough so that you don’t get cray-cray all over yourself”.
What’s their plan? Russians don’t take a Trump, son, without a plan!
One thing that was interesting in the memo (full version here) is the contention that Trump’s supporters “believe he can’t be bought”. Trump’s whole argument is that he should be President because he is good at making deals. He has spent the past 25-30 years trying to convince us how good he is at accumulating money. He seems to have very few principles or goals apart from the acquisition of wealth. Of all the candidates, he strikes me as the one most likely to be bought. Sure, maybe your run-of-the-mill lobbyists can’t afford him, but as the saying goes, now we’re just haggling over price.
Donald Trump appears on Alex Jones’ radio show.
If that doesn’t disqualify a candidate from being taken seriously, what does?!
You never go full Trump.
It is like he is getting support from Lord Hee-Haw. *
- **Not **Lord Haw-Haw, Jones is more like a talking ass than a talking Nazi…
I’m not quite cynical enough to think that Republican primary voters are moved solely by the greater exertion of soulless Capital when they have the far more technologically savvy and certainly far more of a nationalist and populist candidate in the form of Trump. The Establishment has constantly predicted Trump’s demise yet he has done nothing but steadily gain support and every evidence indicates his continuing success so I have no more reason to trust those who predict this anymore than the same Establishment commentariat who boldly proclaimed the need for “entitlement reform” and screamed hysterically of a “budget crisis”. May the ghosts of Huey Long and Archie Bunker lead him to absolute triumph in his final struggle against plutocratic Beast and the Whores of Babylon who ride upon it.
Haven’t you heard; getting rich is now considered a public service. Just think of the jobs he could create with a couple hundred billion in bribes and corruption.
Hookers, bartenders, limousine drivers…
Are private jets made here in the States or overseas?
Back when I worked for the properly wealthy we dismissed people like him as “gappers.” Enough money to fill in gaps in the schedule, but not our real customers.
You left out the best part of his speech. Trump said that he’s a deal maker. And because of that, he expects to be able to broker a deal between Israel and Palestine and bring peace to the Middle East.
But he’s no miracle worker.
Then again.
After all, he has a plan.
Donald Trump on Israel-Palestine rift: ‘I can put both sides together’
I’m going to laugh so hard when the Democrats win by a landslide and Trump turns around and reveals all along he’s just been working for the dems just seeing how crazy he can make the republicans go. I can see it now:
Nov 8th 2016: Trump with his big goofy grin to the GOP “You’re fired!”
On the other hand, it might just be that the Republican leadership figures they got no power to affect events anyway. If down-ticket Pubbies see Trumps coattails as the ticket to ride, they will most likely do it. Might as well pretend it was a decision they made and pretend they were obeyed.
Candidates always move back to the centre after they win the primary and concentrate on the general election. But in this case any candidate that’s been following on Trumps coat-tails is going to be so far out there that any swing back to the centre is going to beyond belief.
Trump is the best thing to happen for the Democrats in 20 years, whether or not he intends it that way.