Ben Carson Swallows Dignity; Endorses Trump

If I were a tree what kind of Trump voter would I be?

This type of free form  associative polling really chaps my ass. What does it add up too, all these bullshit questions.  This kind of  focus group bullshit chaps my ass; who you gonna vote for should focus the fucking group, not "what kind of tree would I be:"

"The veteran pollster who conducted the focus group, Peter D. Hart, has a knack for drawing out voters’ deep thoughts with “What Kind of Tree Would I Be”- type questions and exercises, though the voter who offered “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” as Mr. Trump’s theme song admitted with a laugh and a shrug that she could not quite explain why.  (emphasis added; quotes reordered.

The stupid but high paid pollster gets to voters' feelings in a roundabout way by asking them to write post cards to the candidates:

Cassandra Westerhold, 33, an independent who works in the oil and gas industry, wrote, “I believe that you are a bully and misogynist and I am ashamed to have you as the front-runner for the Republican Party.”

Aron Smith, 45, who works in technology for a large financial institution and supports Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, tried to strike an evenhanded tone. “While I appreciate your business acumen in the boardroom and believe it suits you well as the head of a huge business conglomerate,” he wrote, “I do not believe your crass and cavalier attitude fits the role of president.”

The pollster veers into insanity with these questions where he might accidentally veer into meat of the matter, that our society and especially the media value style over substance, a potentially fatal mistake when giving a man the keys to a vast nuclear arsenal.

[There were deep reservations about Mr. Trump, too. But in their comments — and their answers to probing questions like what song best described him and what they imagined he was like as a fifth grader — some voters suggested that their concerns were less about substance than about style, and that just a little attitude adjustment was all the billionaire needed.]

Attitude adjustment for a man with his finger on the nuclear trigger!  You gotta be freakin' kidding me!
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/24/us/politics/postcards-to-donald-trump-show-deep-support-and-reservations.html

Washington Post: 5 Pack of Trump Blasts

The Post’s View: Is Mr. Trump a threat to democracy?

The Post’s View: To defend our democracy against Trump, the GOP must aim for a brokered convention

The Post’s View: GOP leaders, you must do everything in your power to stop Trump

Danielle Allen: The moment of truth: We must stop Trump

We met with Donald Trump. Electing him will still be a radical risk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-met-with-donald-trump-electing-him-is-still-a-radical-risk/2016/03/21/bfbe5498-ef90-11e5-85a6-2132cf446d0a_story.html?tid=sm_tw&ncid=newsltushpmg00000003

The Donald: Failed Businesman Extrodinaire

Didja hear 'bout Trump's Intenet endeavour?  Probably not.sonce it died stillborn:
[Donald Trump was apparently about to dip his toes into the ISP world back in the summer of 1998, announcing that the newly formed Trump New Media would “wire his 20,000 residential apartments with high speed $30 monthly access.”

And sure, Trump could have gone with something vaguely within his realm of expertise—but why break with tradition? A local announcement at the time wrote that “Trump admits he’s hardly the man to head a new media firm. ‘I’ll tell you what I know about it: Absolutely nothing.’” He partnered with Freelinq Communications to launch the firm, but after getting shut out by his more competent competition, the endeavor failed to ever take off.]emphasis added

What else does he know nothing about?  Politics and compromise.

For me, who'll drink anything with alcohol, I'd like to try Trump Vodka. Make mine a Trump and tonic!

http://gawker.com/a-complete-list-of-donald-trump-s-business-disasters-1764151188

Trump Calls Poor People Morons

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/11/the-daily-show-digs-up-trump-quote-on-poor-people-they-re-morons.html

A Merkin for My Gerken?

Washington Post reports in "16 things you missed in the Oscars" that someone made merkin joke.

Had to look up merkin: a pubic wig.

Could use a regular but will order a size up: XL, a codpiece in chain mail.

Maybe even the Donald has an orange merkin for his gerkin, made from hair from an endangered species, like his wig.

Curt Schilling, dumber than Donald Trump?

http://deadspin.com/and-now-curt-schilling-with-some-cool-thoughts-about-m-1726385341


Curt also has really cool collection of Nazi memorabilia, including SS troop uniforms, because nuthin' sez fun like playing dressup for a good game of Nazi death camp guard versus all that is good and Holy.

Bill Maher: Anti-Immigrant The Donald Marries Furriners

[“Nobody brings this up about Donald Trump, who is always on about, ‘We can’t have foreigners coming into this country!’” said Maher. “His first wife is from Czechoslovakia. His current wife is from Slovenia. So, if you think crawling under a wall is the most disgusting way to become an American, somewhere there is a Panamanian woman hiding in a truck full of chickens with ten pounds of heroin-filled condoms in her stomach who’s thinking, ‘Well, at least I didn’t have to blow Donald Trump.’”]  (Emphasis added for comedic value)
www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/22/bill-maher-slams-anti-immigrant-donald-trump-for-having-immigrant-wives.html