Amateur Hour Running Wild!

[Minimalist]

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-co...ut-n612446

Trump Campaign Struggles to Manage Melania Trump Speech Fallout

"It's piss-poor staff work," a source within the campaign told NBC News. "Melania has been humiliated. No doubt heads are going to roll."
Top Trump aide Paul Manafort responded erratically to the news, framing the story as overblown, as unimportant to the candidate, and later as part of a partisan conspiracy targeting Mrs. Trump.
Manafort first told CBS News there was "no cribbing" of Obama's speech and minimized the issue's relevance.
"Certainly there is no feeling on [Melania's] part that she did it," Manafort said. "What she did is use words that are common words."

The trouble is she used those "common words" in exactly the same order as Michelle Obama did 8 years ago, asshole.

[vorlon13]

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-co...ut-n612446

Trump Campaign Struggles to Manage Melania Trump Speech Fallout

"It's piss-poor staff work," a source within the campaign told NBC News. "Melania has been humiliated. No doubt heads are going to roll."
Top Trump aide Paul Manafort responded erratically to the news, framing the story as overblown, as unimportant to the candidate, and later as part of a partisan conspiracy targeting Mrs. Trump.
Manafort first told CBS News there was "no cribbing" of Obama's speech and minimized the issue's relevance.
"Certainly there is no feeling on [Melania's] part that she did it," Manafort said. "What she did is use words that are common words."

The trouble is she used those "common words" in exactly the same order as Michelle Obama did 8 years ago, asshole.

"Mrs." Trump  ???


What would Jesus say ??



Seriously, what would Jesus say about that ??



I'd like to have a christer here imagine they are explaining Jesus Holy plan for "one man, one woman, once" marriage in regards to their (presumed) vote for Trump in the upcoming election to their own children and then share that explanation with the rest of us.


And if a Presbyterian could weigh in on the Presbyterian position on open and notorious adultery, divorce, and remarriage, I'd love to hear it too.


And then, to complete the trifecta here, why is there controversy about what Melania said, and no controversy at all amongst the religious folks the republicans are pandering to so shamelessly about adultery, philandering, publishing accounts of ones own cheating and multiple marriages and divorces ??

The religious  right has a lot of splainin' to do and they need to get started on it IMMEDIATELY.

[Minimalist]

You have to remember the particular crowd of fucks you are talking about.

[Crossless2.0]

"Mrs." Trump  ???


What would Jesus say ??



Seriously, what would Jesus say about that ??



I'd like to have a christer here imagine they are explaining Jesus Holy plan for "one man, one woman, once" marriage in regards to their (presumed) vote for Trump in the upcoming election to their own  children and then share that explanation with the rest of us.


And if a Presbyterian could weigh in on the Presbyterian position on open and notorious adultery, divorce, and remarriage, I'd love to hear it too.


And then, to complete the trifecta here, why is there controversy about what Melania said, and no controversy at all amongst the religious folks the republicans are pandering to so shamelessly about adultery, philandering, publishing accounts of ones own cheating and multiple marriages and divorces ??

The religious  right has a lot of splainin' to do and they need to get started on it IMMEDIATELY.

One of the things I'm most curious to see is the eventual exit poll numbers concerning self-described conservative Christians who vote for Trump. Sure, they rallied around the three or four water heads who pandered to them during the primary, as one would expect. But the real proof of how desperate they are to cling to their last vestiges of power (not to mention how utterly full of shit they are about promoting their 'Biblical moral' agenda) will be the percentage of them who jump on the Trump bandwagon, even though he demonstrates virtually every day that he's not one of them. Yes, he's already been endorsed by many of the usual suspects among Evangelical and Baptist "leaders", but we all know how slimy and power-hungry those fuckers are. The real test will be how many of the rank-and-file -- you know, the sheep -- vote for him.

Maybe . . . just maybe, there might be a distinct split between what the professional Christians (the Falwells and others like him) want and what ordinary folks are willing to put up with. This could be the first chink in the armor of conservative Christian lockstep politics. If this were to lead to a breakdown of the conservative Christian political machine, we could have the impious Orangutan-in-Chief to thank for setting things in motion.

[ApeNotKillApe]

The religious  right has a lot of splainin' to do and they need to get started on it IMMEDIATELY.

One of the things I'm most curious to see is the eventual exit poll numbers concerning self-described conservative Christians who vote for Trump. Sure, they rallied around the three or four water heads who pandered to them during the primary, as one would expect. But the real proof of how desperate they are to cling to their last vestiges of power (not to mention how utterly full of shit they are about promoting their 'Biblical moral' agenda) will be the percentage of them who jump on the Trump bandwagon, even though he demonstrates virtually every day that he's not one of them. Yes, he's already been endorsed by many of the usual suspects among Evangelical and Baptist "leaders", but we all know how slimy and power-hungry those fuckers are. The real test will be how many of the rank-and-file -- you know, the SHEEP -- vote for him.

Maybe . . . just maybe, there might be a distinct split between what the professional Christians (the Falwells and others like him) want and what ordinary folks are willing to put up with. This could be the first chink in the armor of conservative Christian lockstep politics. If this were to lead to a breakdown of the conservative Christian political machine, we could have the impious Orangutan-in-Chief to thank for setting things in motion.

Addressed your own point there. They'll do what they're told.

[The Grand Nudger]

Forgive me for breaking character, for a single moment...by suggesting that they won't.  The republican establishment -knows- that...that's why they were so desperate to rid themselves of him.  He puts the lie to what they have labored so hard and for so long to maintain. They aren't the party of christendom, after all. They cannot control christian voters.

Turn your dial to afr, if you want to hear what the sheep think of the donald. They aren't pleased.

[Minimalist]

David Frum is a republicunt strategist and frequent conservative sacrificial lamb on Bill Maher's Real Time panel.  Let him explain what last night's fuckup means.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arch...rs/492038/

Ten Reasons Why Melania Trump’s Speech Will Have a Lasting Impact

The blunder by the Republican nominee’s wife underscores a campaign rife with problems.

5) Trump has just vividly demonstrated that his campaign—never mind the campaign, he himself—have zero skill at crisis management. Confronted with this comically absurd failure, their instinct is not only to lie, shift blame, and refuse responsibility, but to do so in laughably unbelievable ways. It’s all a big joke when the crisis in question is a plagiarized speech by a would-be first lady. It won’t be so funny when a President Trump tries to manage a truly life-and-death crisis in the same blundering, dopey, and cowardly way.

[Gemini]

The trouble is she used those "common words" in exactly the same order as Michelle Obama did 8 years ago, asshole.

That's just what white assholes do. Appropriate black culture. And intellectual property. 

Given the cultural poverty of privilege, where else are they going to get inspiration?

[SteelCurtain]

Seriously, "Yeah, sorry, Melania was nervous and looked to other examples of speeches by aspiring First Ladies. Apologies all around."

It's out of the next news cycle for the most part if they did that. With the exception of RawStory and sites like it that would squeeze everything they could out of it, you wouldn't hear about it again.

Instead, you hear the Trump people blaming Hillary for this, quoting My Little Pony, saying this "common words and phrases" bullshit, and outright denying that anything even happened. And so it remains in the news, because it is comical and just shows once again that Trump and his campaign have no fucking clue what they're doing.

[ApeNotKillApe]

I love how this trivial shit is the thing the media has decided to focus on, out of all the obscene nonsense that's come out of the convention.