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Trump participates in Operation Chaos 2016 by agreeing to debate... Bernie Sanders! Sanders was happy to sign up, since being the Democratic dragonslayer or at least having the brass to try ought to boost his image.

No I've never seen a cross-party debate like this, so I would say we are now moving out of the foothills as we continue the 2016 ascent towards Peak Crazy.

Maybe they can debate why Hillary is still sitting on her Goldman Sachs speeches, since her original ludicrous objection was that other candidates on the Republican side where being held to a different standard. Is that still operative - Bernie has no payday speeches to release and my impression was that Kasich, not Trump was the Republican holdout.

The NY Times editors pounded the table for the speech transcripts a while back but will be fully in the tank for Hillary now. After tut-tutting her email debacle they will forget about that, too. But there is a lot for Bernie and The Donald to debate!

Comments

[henry]

I like the Iowahawk twitter assault on stock photos...

"I am man enough 2 vote 4 a woman" is the actual Hillary text. So far he is goofing on the photos.

The pictures look more like "I am man enough 2 pee in the little girls room" to me.

[Jack is Back!]

A Trump - Sanders debate only needs one moderator: narciso.

[Jack is Back!]

Also, both AP and Fox reporting The Donald has reached 1,237.

Kasich hardest hit.

[Miss Marple 2]

henry,

I saw that this morning. If you ask me, the model used is what a gay guy THINKS a masculine guy looks like!

"He needs good hair. Oh, and a beard. Make it a neat beard, not one of those low-class Duck Dynasty types. Oh, tattoos! We mustn't forget tattoos! Yes, that should draw all those guys in to vote for her!"

[henry]

Miss M, that plus a complete lack of muscle definition in the dude's arms. A complete beta or possible gamma male to boot. Then a second model showed up... just as bad.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I am man enough not to be nagged in2 voting 4 a woman.

[And How]

"@elizabethforma Goofy Elizabeth Warren, sometimes known as Pocahontas, bought foreclosed housing and made a quick killing. Total hypocrite!"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/735444721716199424

[And How]

"His tweet came after Warren accused Trump on Tuesday of profiting off of the 2008 housing market crash.

“Donald Trump was drooling over the idea of a housing meltdown, because it meant that he could buy up a bunch more property on the cheap,” she said at the Center for Popular Democracy’s annual gala in Washington, D.C.

“What kind of man does that? Root for people to get thrown out on the street? Root for people to lose their jobs? Root for people to lose their pensions?”

Trump’s response references reports claiming that Warren potentially benefited from a housing crisis herself."

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/281181-trump-warrens-a-total-hypocrite-on-housing

[sbw]

That ain’t no lumbersexual. Lumbersexuals look like Iggy.

... whatever Iggy looks like.

[And How]

"Reports emerged during Warren’s Senate campaign in 2012 that she profited off her native Oklahoma City’s volatile market in the 1990s.

Warren reportedly loaned money at high interest rates to relatives and purchased foreclosed properties at bargain prices. The Boston Herald reported that Warren took part in about 12 Oklahoma real estate deals.

Warren's office on Wednesday said there was nothing wrong with those transactions.

"Senator Warren and her husband Bruce are fortunate to be in a position where they have been able to help relatives buy their homes and in some cases make a living by fixing up houses and managing rental properties," Warren press secretary Lacey J. Rose said in a statement."

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/281181-trump-warrens-a-total-hypocrite-on-housing

[Miss Marple 2]

henry, I just saw this:

https://twitter.com/DANEgerus/status/735838581835456514

The bearded model was used in an anti-syphilis ad!!

Bwahahahaha!

There HAS to be a saboteur in Hillary's campaign.

[Dave (in MA)]

#SyphiliticEnough4Hillary

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

So what happens if Hillary loses California?
I see a lot more rumblings, across the board, that her inevitability is increasingly evitable.

Bernie?
Or do they risk all out war by installing the Lone Stranger Sherruf Joe and his trusty sidekick Toto the Cherokee Terrier?

[henry]

I don't know if hipsterSTDguy is man enough 2 vote 4 plugs.

[jimmyk]

Pretty soon the Dems will be pleading with Comey and Lynch to indict Hillary. Surely SloJo must be licking his chops right now.

[Miss Marple 2]

Ignatz,

If they install Sheriff Joe it will enrage Bernie supporters.

1968 redux, with Joe being the Hubert Humphrey character.

[Miss Marple 2]

I am interested in the Bernie/Trump debate.

That's an amazing opportunity for Trump to portray himself as a good second choice to Bernie voters.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

As if by magic;
After Hillary Drops Out... What?
Trump already has "Crazy Bernie" cued up.
What will he name SloJoe?

[Buford Gooch]

MM, you are right about the Bernie voters. If the party installs anyone besides Bernie to replace Hillary, there will be hell to pay.

[Old Lurker]

Seems like the one sure investment this year is Popcorn.

[Beasts of England]

Set Trump Hillary Trolling Phaser to 'Awesome'.

[Beasts of England]

lol, JiB!! I second narciso's nomination!

[maryrose]

Daddy
Care to double down On our wager now that Bernie is within 2 points of Hillary in California.
That debate with Trump could put Bernie over the top.

[Miss Marple 2]

Buford,

In 1968 I was young and expecting my first child as an AirForce wife in West Berlin. I was a democrat.

Words cannot t ell you how awful it was when RFK was assasinated, and our only choice then was Humphrey. I had friends who were despondent and angry and wanted someone else.

While my friends didn't riot, they didn't show up at the polls.

[Old Lurker]

The RFK-Humphrey thing was different. That was "just a crazy guy doing what crazies did to Kennedy's" and Humphrey got the nod.

This is shaping up and a shameless force feeding of a known crook by the Dem Machine.

[Lurker Susie]

Good article

A De-Sexed Society is a De-Humanized Society

https://shar.es/1dz31X

[Appalled]

Trump's political instincts continue to impress me. His policy, on the other hands....well....

[Dave (in MA)]

I prefer "Comrade Bernie" over "Crazy Bernie", but that's just me.

[Captain Hate]

Surely SloJo must be licking his chops right now.

There must be an open paste jar nearby.

[Captain Hate]

The wheezing squaw should know better than to try and match insults with a non tomato can. I've been waiting to say something like that since 1988.

[Miss Marple 2]

Old Lurker,

Yes, you are right, except the disappointment was there, which will be much worse when the substitution is done not due to Fate, but to machinations of the high-up dems.

[Captain Hate]

That's an amazing opportunity for Trump to portray himself as a good second choice for Bernie voters

The file marked "Effective Strategies Not Learned at the GOPe Finishing School" has gotten really full.

[buccaneer morgan]

Thanks, of course they will pick a Harwood or an f Chuck to moderate.

[Captain Hate]

That was "just a crazy guy Palistoneager doing what crazies subhuman vermin did to Kennedy's"

[cheerleader]

There should be two moderators, one picked by Mr. Trump and one picked by Crazy Bernie.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--There must be an open paste jar nearby.--

LOL

[Porchlight]

Trump is playing 5D Korean Starcraft while Hillary is playing Chinese checkers with Huma as a "call a friend" option.

[jimmyk on iPhone]

"That's an amazing opportunity for Trump to portray himself as a good second choice to Bernie voters."

Has to weigh that against the possibility that Hillary is done.

"The wheezing squaw"
Is that Hillary or Fauxcahontas?

[Dave (in MA)]

Hillary stepped on her crank.

Again.

[Porchlight]

--There must be an open paste jar nearby.--

LOL

Double LOL

[Beasts of England]

An interesting story about one of our local landmarks: a 47' high by 154' wide glass tile mosaic on the facade of the First Baptist Chuch, which we like to call 'Jesus on an eggbeater in outer space'. And if that's not good enough, there's a 250' Saturn V-inspired carillon immediately to its left.

Great photography.

http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2016/05/deteriorating_eggbeater_jesus.html

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I was going to scold Chester for eating one of those "do not remove under penalty of law, except by consumer" tags on a pillow, when I realized the guy who eats it is the consumer a lot more than the guy who bought it.

[Buckeye]

But narciso, as long as we can find a JOMer to translate, you would be the best!

[cheerleader]

I think Paul Ryan is also playing Chinese Checkers, he just doesn't know it.

[centralcal]

About that debate - I heard on talk radio as I drove to work, that there wouldn't be any Trump v. Bernie debate because Trump said he was only "kidding around" on late night TV.

[Captain Hate]

The latter, jimmyk. When I was visiting my daughter last year she inflicted state radio on me and high cheekbones sounded as asthmatic as the Searchlight Strangler when his inhaler prescription is out of refills.

[Buckeye]

Hillary stepped on her crank.

Again.

Naw, she pulled it out and stomped on it.

[centralcal]

This is just amazing and wonderful:

RTÉ News Verified account
‏@rtenews

Canadian Ambassador to Ireland Kevin Vickers tackles protester at ceremony to honour British soldiers killed in 1916

Don't know how to link the embedded video.

[BlueOx]

Someone needs to explain to me how Donald calling Bernie's ideas crazy, stupid, etc. will help him convince Bernie voters to move to him in the general.

Or how not tearing into Bernie's ideas as crazy, stupid, etc. will help him with GOP voters.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Well, which is he doing?
It can't be both.
Oh wait, it's Trump so he can...and people don't seem to care.
Welcome to 2016.

[cheerleader]

He says Bernie's figured out some of the problems, but he doesn't know how to solve them.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

In 2016 there is one enemy; the Uniparty with its media and financial cronies.

The only idea that matters in 2016 is wreck the enemy. Bernie voters will move to Trump because wreckage; real or imagined.

[Captain Hate]

Someone needs to explain to me how Donald calling Bernie's ideas crazy, stupid, etc. will help him convince Bernie voters to move to him in the general.

"Look, I think your policies are wrong for these reasons but at least you adhere to them because you believe them unlike Crooked Hillary who only believes in enriching herself and her pervert husband."

[cheerleader]

Paul Ryan, married to a Democrat lobbyist, symbolizes the Uniparty.

[Porchlight]

BlueOx,

If the debate happens, Trump will focus on areas of agreement (Hillary SUX. Washington is CORRUPT. The Uniparty is beholden to donors and special interests and unresponsive to voters' needs. Etc.) and downplay areas of disagreement. He will get a few gentle zingers in.

Trump is playing both Hillary and Bernie. He knows Sanders won't be the nominee. This is a way to further the Dem internal rifts and possibly capture Bernie supporters (many of whom he's already captured) while he's at it.

Also, ratings gold. Also, he and Bernie can set the terms of the debate since they came up with it. Thus letting the networks know once again who's driving this train.

Win-win-win.

[cheerleader]

He's also siding with Bernie on the rigged election question.

[sbw]

Vickers was the same person who personally took down the scum in the Ottawa chambers when he was Sgt. at Arms.

Yay!

[Porchlight]

They also would be coming together to debate for charity.

Hillary, empress of fake charitable foundation engineered to funnel funds directly to Herself at the expense of national security, left out.

Hillary will also be emasculated (heh) by Trump debating the underdog and leaving the presumed nominee out in the cold.

It works on so many levels.

[sbw]

Vickers link.

[Threadkiller]

I sent an email to Danube. He replied that he has no interest in talking to me.

That is too bad.

I wish him well. Anyone who wants to go back in thread time will find a different story than what has been portrayed.

I wish you all well. The drama here is like a 7th grade girls academy.

Hopefully all your favorite commenters will return.

My email friends I hope to keep.

[sbw]

From the Daily Caller [h/t and emphasized by Insty]:

GOODBYE, #PAJAMABOY. Hello, #ClapChap.

Heh!

[Comanche Voter]

Over at Instapundit they are picking up tweets referring to this new Hillary campaign model as "Chap Chap". I'm waiting for Hillary to embrace him. Reminds me of the old 19th century British politicians trading of insults. Pol # 1 tells Pol #2 that "You will die on the gallows or die of the pox (syphilis)". Pol #2 replies, "That depends upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."

As for a Bernie Trump debate--I predict there will be a lot of verbal wham bam thank you mam. You go boys--have a good time. She is a target rich opportunity. Stick an arrow or two in for me.

[Threadkiller]

Here is some of what was going on the month DOT Left:

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2015/04/april-fools-open-thread.html

But remember, I am to blame...

God bless you all.

[Porchlight]

TK, I think you've made some excellent contributions here. I don't see a need for you to leave. If that is the decision you've made, however, I wish you well.

[Porchlight]

Scott Adams covers pretty much everything re: Trump-Sanders debate:

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/144955383691/the-sanders-debate-gambit

[Beasts of England]

If the burning times ever arrive, I'll be on Team Threadkiller - that much is certain.

[new lurker]

There seem to be a lot of "thin-skinned" people around here. What a shame as I love lurking and reading all with the exception of one poster.

[lyle]

With great personal disappointment, I must issue a correction of one of my comments yesterday. I posted a link revealing the [redacted] dishonesty of Leni Riefenstahl's Perky Katie's new agitprop film where on that link, the writer referred the reader to South Park's appropriation of Katie's last name in one episode as nomenclature regarding the weight of human excrement. I erroneously wrote that one "Couric" = 1.5 ounces of human excrement. The correct value of one "Couric" is actually two and a half pounds of human excrement.

I regret the error.

[buccaneer morgan]

Well doc brown not knowing how to break up banks, was an eye opener.

[lyle]

I stand with TK.

[cheerleader]

I didn't like it when TK was taken to task for calling Bobby Jindal by his real name. I was only lurking but I was on TK's side.

[Beasts of England]

It's not a function if thin skin, new lurker - it's a function of frustration. One group sees the severity of the political dynamic and the urgency of defeating the enemy. The other group thinks that everything will be alright if we just listen to our betters and keep our togae clean...

[new lurker]

One thing I don't understand from just lurking mostly is why do you regular JOMers get so upset when a poster leaves. There are plenty of good posters here, why worry about those who want to leave? I wouldn't want people to be here if they don't want to be.

[BlueOx]

A Trump Sanders debate hands Bernie's people the only lifeline they have left - a chance to show how he has what it takes to beat Donald. Why would he roll over and help Trump snipe at Hillary?

It's pretty easy to see how this blows up.

"Look, I think your policies are wrong for these reasons but at least you adhere to them because you believe them unlike Crooked Hillary who only believes in enriching herself and her pervert husband."

You're right, Donald, unlike them, and unlike YOU, I'm not concerned with enriching myself so I can bag "the world's best women".

They also would be coming together to debate for charity.

Here's an interesting quote from the last charity Donald promoted -

"In a classic fraud move, made himself look good to the public, by lying to the American people, and veterans, about how much he raised for veterans' groups, when he hid behind them to get out of the GOP debate"

etc., etc., etc.

[Captain Hate]

I'm hoping TK comes back at some point. He's been here a long time and has been called a stain on the blog more than once. He has a wicked sense of humor which a lot of posters don't get or appreciate.

[Buckeye]

That post a few minutes back that let me know for the first time that Paul Ryan's wife is a Democrat lobbyist said it all for me.

We really do need to burn the [redacted] down.

[Manuel Transmission]

Don't know if anyone linked this LUN, but it was pretty breathtaking.

Dolly Kyle: Hillary the Other Woman: A Political Memoir

The takeaway:

The dowdy-looking woman stepped up beside him. I could see then that she was of our generation, not middle-aged as I first thought.

I couldn’t imagine why Billy would haul such a person in the plane with him in public. She was wearing a misshapen, brown, dress-like thing that must have been intended to hide her lumpy body. The garment was long, but stopped too soon to hide her fat ankles and her thick calves, which, to my astonishment, were covered with black hair.

As a properly raised lady of the Old South, Kyle comments that she knew Bill Clinton would want his “Pretty Girl” – his nickname for Kyle – to look her best, so she put on a new aqua and white dress with a jacket that she had only worn once.

Kyle writes that on examining Hillary closely, she noticed her eyes “bulged out of focus and seemed to glare at me behind coke-bottle-glasses.” The “heavy, dark frames” competed with “thick eyebrows that seemed to stretch from one side of her forehead to the other.” Kyle says that in that moment “I noticed that the woman emitted an overpowering odor of perspiration and greasy hair. I hoped that I wouldn’t gag when she got into my car.”

[lyle]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/bb-kings-estate-war-15-897351

15 kids from 15 different mothers and one hell of a fight over his estate!

Lucille!

[Porchlight]

"In a classic fraud move, made himself look good to the public, by lying to the American people, and veterans, about how much he raised for veterans' groups, when he hid behind them to get out of the GOP debate"

Oooh noes, some pledges didn't come through. It ended up being 4.5 million (including 1 million of Trump's own money) instead of the 6 million pledged.

Go ahead, Bernie, try it. Trump will knock it out of the park, since unlike you, he understands math. Also your fraud wife ran a college into the ground.

[Beasts of England]

Sounds like Blue Ox is on loan from Patterico.

[lyle]

That's why I've stopped dropping by Patterico. And NRO. And mostly WSJ...

[Beasts of England]

Now c'mon, lyle, don't you want to be Macho Grande? :)

[cheerleader]

Mr. Trump has forced clarity, and it's better that way. I never before read Don Surber and some others.

[buccaneer morgan]

You need the @macho Grande.

[lyle]

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/05/26/trickery-katie-couric-edits-interview-with-gun-rights-group/2/

The documentary's director, Stephanie Soechtig, said in a statement: “I never intended to make anyone look bad and I apologize if anyone felt that way.”

[Buckeye]

MT, the Dolly Kyle interview was damn fine!

I think if the Hog with fat ankles and thick calves gets elected, Dolly is in for some serious harassment.

[Miss Marple 2]

https://www.facebook.com/KFYRtv/videos/10153628258249103/

Live feed of Trump plane landing. Reporter is commenting on how much bigger it is than the usual planes that land in Bismark.

[cheerleader]

Da plane! Da plane!

[Miss Marple 2]

You guys who live in states which get a lot of attention during campaigns cannot imagine what a BIG DEAL it is when a presidential candidate comes to a state like North Dakota!

I am happy they get to participate in the campaign.

[lyle]

I noticed that the woman emitted an overpowering odor of perspiration and greasy hair.

As if The Hag™ needed to sew up the lesbian vote even further...

[Janet S.]

Well, which is he doing?
It can't be both.
Oh wait, it's Trump so he can...and people don't seem to care.
Welcome to 2016.

People don't seem to care when Dems change. Maybe Trump is just doing what Dems have been doing since...well...forever.
Against redefining marriage, for redefining marriage.
Stop illegal immigration, let everyone in. Release those military records, maybe later.
High gas prices bad, high gas prices good.
National security is #1 we must check EVERY container entering the U.S., let's have open borders.

[cheerleader]

I love watching the Trump Force One plane landings.

[James D]

TK, please stay!

[lyle]

https://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/obamas-gift-to-trump/3/

There may be reasons to vote against Trump, but at least spare us the outrage that he is somehow uniquely demagogic, crude, or ill-informed in a manner that we have not seen over the last eight years from Trump’s greatest enabler.

Yup.

[Buford Gooch]

"Hillary stepped on her crank."
Lots of funny stuff gets posted here. I'm just glad I wasn't taking a drink when I read this one.

[Beasts of England]

I need the Comfy Chair. ;)

[Truthbetold5]

TK

Stay, go. Don't care. Just stop being a drama queen!

[Captain Hate]

Just One Online Safe Space

[BlueOx]

Oh please, people.

If you want to actually win an election, you don't volunteer yourself for a chance to step on your own dick.

An enormous storm cloud is hanging over Hillary. The Washington Post is even piling on. So naturally, Trump takes the opportunity to slam the head of the Republican Governors Association. A Hispanic woman from a state he absolutely needs to increase his chances in the general. Let's all join in and call her GOPe and a RINO 'cause that how we win!

I will vote for him, as there is no alternative. To win, he's going to need A LOT of voters who think like me.

[Frau Schadenfreude]

"Hillary stepped on her crank."

I hate love it when that happens."
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