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Title: Dilbert Creator: Trump ‘Invulnerable’ If Beats Disability Flap
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URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern ... able-if-beats-disability-flap/
Published: Nov 27, 2015
Author: Joel B. Pollak
Post Date: 2015-11-27 18:37:01 by cranky
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Views: 12506
Comments: 74
Dilbert creator Scott Adams said Friday afternoon that if Donald Trump survives the ongoing controversy about whether he made fun of New York Times reporter’s disability, he will be a lock to win the presidency.
“If he survives this one, he’s invulnerable,” Adams said.
Adams took to Periscope on Friday afternoon to promote his new book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, and answered questions from fans.
Recently, Adams has written about his conviction that Donald Trump will win the presidency, based on his use of sophisticated techniques of public persuasion. Adams told Reason magazine that Trump uses perceived insults to beat back opponents:
“What I [see] in Trump,” says Adams, is “someone who was highly trained. A lot of the things that the media were reporting as sort of random insults and bluster and just Trump being Trump, looked to me like a lot of deep technique that I recognized from the fields of hypnosis and persuasion.”… Similarly, where the media see random insults, Adams sees Trump creating a significant polling gap between those who attack him and those who compliment him, resulting in chilled aggression from his opponents. Trump, says Adams, uses “anchors,” which are big, visual thoughts that drown out any other argument. Think, for example, of the billionaire’s florid descriptions of a Mexican border wall.
Trump stands accused of having mocked the Times‘ Serge Kovaleski, in a spat originating in a dispute over whether “thousands” of Muslims had cheered the Sep. 11, 2001 terror attacks from Jersey City. Trump maintains he did not mock the reporter and has demanded that the Times apologize to him rather than the other way around.
None of the past controversies seems to have dented Trump’s lead in the polls, especially as broader news events, such as the Paris terror attacks, seem to be boosting his national lead in the Republican race. (1 image)
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Trump has to be better than the other, anti-Americans who are running.
Psalm 37 PRAY FOR PARIS
#2. To: Don (#1)
In comparison Trump is ... red - white - blue --- the anti obomba - mush !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
#3. To: Don (#1)
Trump has to be better than the other, anti-Americans who are running.
I just don't believe Trump will ever be the RNC's first choice.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
#4. To: cranky (#3)
I'm thinking Independent.
Psalm 37 PRAY FOR PARIS
#5. To: cranky (#3)
" I just don't believe Trump will ever be the RNC's first choice. "
No, he will not. Typically, TPTB, the GOPe, select who they want, and ram them down our throats, and if we do not like it, TS. This time, the base seems to be going for Trump, over their objections. And the base is telling them TS. They do not like that.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
There are no Carthaginian terrorists.
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” - George S. Patton
#6. To: Don (#4)
I'm thinking Independent.
Ballot access laws vary wildly across the fifty states and DC.
It hard to get on every state's ballot without being a Republicrat.
I don't think any other party did in 2012.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
#7. To: cranky (#6)
The politicians have made the laws they needed to solidify their hold over the political machine.
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#8. To: cranky (#3)
I just don't believe Trump will ever be the RNC's first choice.
If they think he is the Teflon Don and will beat Hildebeeste, they might embrace him.
After all, Trump is basically a big-government lib like most of the GOP elite is. None of that nasty small-government stuff they don't really like.
#9. To: TooConservative (#8)
After all, Trump is basically a big-government lib like most of the GOP elite is.
If that's so, it's going to disappoint many of his followers.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
#10. To: Don (#7)
The politicians have made the laws they needed to solidify their hold over the political machine.
I believe that's true.
It's a rigged game.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
#11. To: cranky, A K A Stone, Vicomte13, tomder55, sneakypete (#9)
If that's so, it's going to disappoint many of his followers.
Does anyone really believe Trump is a small-government conservative? He's not even necessarily a low-tax Republican. He is friendly to unions, has few problems with buying off packs of local pols when he tries to start a big new real estate project or leisure venue, etc. To Trump, these things just are and, while undesirable or inconvenient at times, are in Trump's view just a part of the cost of doing business in a heavily regulated locality. And, with his use of and enthusiasm for aggressive use of eminent domain laws, he also has found substantial advantages in liberal big-government policy.
It is easy to make the case that Trump is and has always been a big-government liberal, even if he might be a big-government northeastern liberal Republican at heart. This is part of his appeal to voters and I think at least 5%-10% of his support comes from big-government Republican types spread around the country. As I recall it, there were about 9% of registered Republicans who voted for Obama and you can't exactly call a Republican who voted for Obama any flavor of "conservative". These would be Republicans in the sense that David Brooks of the NYSlimes is a Republican, which mostly consists of taking the Dem side in most every policy divide while sneering at other Republicans who don't agree with the liberal position. Brooks is a tame "house conservative" at the Slimes, even more so than an Alan Colmes or a Juan Willians would be "house liberals" at FoxNews.
Is Trump so different from a Nelson Rockefeller, in his era the gold standard for the rock-ribbed northeastern liberal Republican?
#12. To: cranky (#3)
"I just don't believe Trump will ever be the RNC's first choice."
Their votes don't count.
#13. To: TooConservative (#11)
Does anyone really believe Trump is a small-government conservative?
I wouldn't know.
But I do know some people who believe he'll stop the illegal invaders from coming to their hometowns and stealing their limited resources.
And that's enough for them to turn out and vote for him. Or so they claim.
Tme will tell.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
#14. To: misterwhite (#12)
Their votes don't count.
We'll see.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
#15. To: TooConservative (#11)
"Does anyone really believe Trump is a small-government conservative?"
The right question is, "Will Trump reduce overall government spending?" I think he will.
But let's keep in mind that if he spends more or if he spends less, he needs a complicit Congress.
#16. To: TooConservative, cranky, A K A Stone, Vicomte13, sneakypete (#11)
Is Trump so different from a Nelson Rockefeller, in his era the gold standard for the rock-ribbed northeastern liberal Republican?
That would be a generous description . He also has been a strong proponent for liberal social causes too . He to this day supports universal-single payer health care .Until recently he was for an 'assault rifle' ban. He publically supported pro-choice until recently (he claimed to be pro-choice in his book 'The America We Deserve' ,and in interviews around 2000).He then switched position in 2011 ;about the same time that he decided to run as a Republican). He has in fact comfortably switched from one party to the other in the course of his public life.
Any one of his liberal positions would've sunk any other Republican candidate .
Yet he still leads while taking these positions : 1 in favor of a progressive income tax instead of a flat tax. 2 has said he would not change entitlements. 3 he is in favor of the status quo funding of Planned Parenthood. 4 has stated in the past that he favors legalizing drugs.(yes some libertarians who align with Republicans believe that too ) 5 He praised the emperor and his stimulus package in 2009.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
#17. To: tomder55 (#16)
"He to this day supports universal-single payer health care."
Only for the poor.
"TRUMP: As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It could have worked in a different age. What I'd like to see is a private system without the artificial lines around every state."
-- Aug 6, 2015
#18. To: tomder55 (#16)
Any one of his liberal positions would've sunk any other Republican candidate .
Giuliani, even with his I'd-pay-for-my-daughter's-abortion and his photos with HCI and Brady gun control nutjobs (not to mention his lurid cross-dressing with Teh Donald) was considered too liberal in 2008. But in 2016, Trump is The Guy?
There is something wrong with the voters when a Giuliani with a strong record of governing a large complex Dem stronghold is too liberal for GOP voters but Teh Donald is just fine.
You notice a few of the Trump fanbois are already leaping to Donald's defense, even when I describe him -- fairly accurately -- as the second coming of Nelson Rockefeller, a description you bolstered with a recitation of facts about Trump's public positions.
#19. To: misterwhite (#17)
Yes his great plan would be the expansion of Medicaid for the poor(or create another large government program) .He’s going to “make a deal with existing hospitals” and “the government’s gonna pay for it” ...aka Medicaid. .. and a private plan where "people are going to be able to go out and negotiate great plans with lots of different competition with lots of competitors." Sounds almost like the same lines the emperor used when selling Obamacare .
Under which universe is his plan to expand government guarantees a conservative plan ?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
#20. To: cranky (#6)
Ballot access laws vary wildly across the fifty states and DC.It hard to get on every state's ballot without being a Republicrat.
I don't think any other party did in 2012.
Ross Perot did it. So can Trump.
We the people would help.
#21. To: TooConservative (#8)
Itis a lie to say Trrmp is a liberal. He may not be the conservative you want. But his positions are mostly conservative.
I haven't heard Hillary talking about deporting the enemies within.
#22. To: Don (#1)
Trump has to be better than the other, anti-Americans who are running.
He's not. He's just like them,but insane,for those who like a little extra flavor.
He knows that himself. After all,he has the "best memory in the world".
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
#23. To: cranky (#9)
After all, Trump is basically a big-government lib like most of the GOP elite is.If that's so, it's going to disappoint many of his followers.
Not really. Most of them are delusional,and will never even notice.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
#24. To: misterwhite (#15)
The right question is, "Will Trump reduce overall government spending?" I think he will.
You do understand this is a guy whose business model is bankruptcy,right?
He makes his money busting up companies and selling their assets.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
#25. To: sneakypete (#22)
Maybe, it takes some insanity to beat back the gains the Left has made in this country.
Psalm 37 PRAY FOR PARIS
#26. To: A K A Stone (#20)
Ross Perot did it.
So did Buchanan in the next election.
Both were Reform Party, iirc.
I don't think the Reform Party managed that before or since, at least, not in my lifetime.
But I really don't care enough to research it.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
#27. To: A K A Stone (#21)
Itis a lie to say Trrmp is a liberal. He may not be the conservative you want. But his positions are mostly conservative.
He would be no more conservative than Kasich. At best. And there is a lot in Trump's record of holding various hardcore liberal positions over the years that you can't claim that Kasich held.
OTOH, Trump never proposed a mass amnesty like Rubio.
You've really drank the koolaid if you can't see that Donald's history of past positions raises some real questions.
#28. To: Don (#25)
Maybe, it takes some insanity to beat back the gains the Left has made in this country.
I think we have already suffered through decades of insanity,and a strong dose of sanity is what we need.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
#29. To: sneakypete (#28)
Where will we get that strong dose of sanity?
Psalm 37 PRAY FOR PARIS
#30. To: Don (#29)
Where will we get that strong dose of sanity?
Good question.
I wish I had a positive answer,but I don't think it's coming at this late date. The game is fixed and the players are not going to allow any interference.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
#31. To: cranky (#3)
I just don't believe Trump will ever be the RNC's first choice.
He may end up being their only choice.
The establishment types will go to him if he takes NH, and SC.
Face it, Trump is in this with his own money at least through the March primaries. I think he will be in the top two after the majority of the votes in the primary are counted.
He's crazy if he goes third party. He knows that would be a waste of his money.
If he truly wants to be president he has to do it through the GOP.
"I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, And I will glorify Your name forevermore. For great is Your mercy toward me, And You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol." Psalm 86:12-13
#32. To: redleghunter (#31)
He may end up being their only choice.
There's always Hildebeest or O'Malley (I don't think the big donors to the DNC particularly want Sanders but who knows).
If Trump isn't a bigger, more intrusive, less sovereign government guy who's on board with open borders, man-made global warming and population reduction, I don't think either national committee wants him.
It's not as though the RNC or the DNC have to give voters a choice. Their candidates tend to be largely interchangeable, regardless of gender, religion, skin pigmentation or ethnicity.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
#33. To: sneakypete (#30)
Unfortunately, that is all true.
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#34. To: redleghunter (#31)
Face it, Trump is in this with his own money at least through the March primaries.
Let me know if he actually spends any of his own money other than on the jet/chopper/limos. He even got S.S. protection so he doesn't have to pay for that either.
I don't think Trump has actually spent any money at all. He's used the chopper/jet/limos for years, just part of his ongoing expenses. His leased bus in Iowa? Put up for sale for $15K on eBay, complete with the Trump campaign paint job.
#35. To: redleghunter (#31)
Face it, Trump is in this with his own money at least through the March primaries.
Not really. He's running it as a cost of doing business tax write-off,at least for the time being.
For example,there was a report last week that he had charged his campaign 700 grand so far for the use of his private jet.
Just because that is the only angle we have seen made public so far,doesn't mean it is the only angle. I'm betting he is billing his campaign for the hours he is away from Trump,Inc,too.
Trump keeps talking about how the others need to be more creative,when the truth is he creates nothing but bankruptcies and tax write-offs,and the truth is he doesn't even really do that. His accountants and lawyers are the ones doing the heavy mental lifting.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
#36. To: cranky (#32)
It's not as though the RNC or the DNC have to give voters a choice.
That is the last thing they ever want to see happen.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
#37. To: TooConservative (#34)
I don't think Trump has actually spent any money at all. He's used the chopper/jet/limos for years, just part of his ongoing expenses.
You think he has spent his own money to operate,maintain,and use his own helicopter,jet,or limo?
WRONG! Trump Inc bills his campaign for those expenses. Within the last week or two he has billed his campaign 700,000 bucks for the use of his private jet. We don't know the amounts of the bills he is hitting his campaign for to pay for the helicopter or the limos,but you can bet it is top dollar.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out he is billing his campaign for the hours he spends away from Trump,Inc,as well as for consulting fees for consulting with himself.
The only thing Trump ever creates are bills and bullshit.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
#38. To: sneakypete (#37)
You think he has spent his own money to operate,maintain,and use his own helicopter,jet,or limo?WRONG! Trump Inc bills his campaign for those expenses. Within the last week or two he has billed his campaign 700,000 bucks for the use of his private jet. We don't know the amounts of the bills he is hitting his campaign for to pay for the helicopter or the limos,but you can bet it is top dollar.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out he is billing his campaign for the hours he spends away from Trump,Inc,as well as for consulting fees for consulting with himself.
The only thing Trump ever creates are bills and bullshit.
How retarted of you.
#39. To: A K A Stone (#38)
How retarted of you.
The truth about your idol can be painful.
BTW,you misspelled "retarded".
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
#40. To: sneakypete (#35)
Trump keeps talking about how the others need to be more creative,when the truth is he creates nothing but bankruptcies and tax write-offs,and the truth is he doesn't even really do that. His accountants and lawyers are the ones doing the heavy mental lifting.
Socialists whot think Bernie is a conservative are envious covetous bastards.
#41. To: A K A Stone (#40)
Socialists whot think Bernie is a conservative are envious covetous bastards.
Probably,but I don't know any of your friends.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
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