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Crybaby Donald Trump Calls For NBC Debate Boycott But Still Wants To Host SNL

Posted by on October 31, 2015 at 3:19 am. 4 Comments :

Following the debate fiasco on CNBC, the Republican candidates announced that they would be meeting to discuss how they could could strong arm the media into producing debates that weren’t so hard on their fragile and weak-kneed candidates. They are exposing themselves as the cowards that they are and responding like bullies, as cowards often do. I wrote a more detailed analysis of this situation yesterday, but there is a new development that requires attention.

The chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, announced that he would punish NBC for what took place on CNBC by suspending the agreement to have NBC host a GOP debate that was scheduled for February. It’s another act of Republican cowardice with a side of revenge. And shortly after this announcement, Donald Trump’s campaign came aboard saying that he “supports the RNC’s decision to suspend the debate on February 26th due to the total lack of substance and respect.”

What a pompous act of hypocrisy. If a “total lack of respect” is sufficient justification for the RNC to cut NBC’s debate, then it’s more than sufficient for NBC to cut Trump from hosting Saturday Night Live. Trump’s disrespect to Latinos (and so many others) is far worse than anything that happened at the CNBC debate. And now that he is attacking NBC and Telemundo, they should respond in kind. What obligation do they have to allow him to host their program while he is advocating a boycott of their network?

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Trump should not be surprised if NBC decides to do the right thing and cancel his SNL hosting gig. After all, he is currently forbidding any reporters from Univision (another Latino news outlet) to cover his campaign events. The nonsensical reason he gives is that he is suing the network’s entertainment division because it canceled their contract to broadcast his Miss Universe pageant after he disparaged Latinos as murderers and rapists. He says it would be a “conflict of interest” – a phrase he apparently doesn’t know the meaning of – to admit Univisions’s reporters. Don’t try to figure that out, it’s the Trumpian anti-logic that he uses to justify his bigotry.

The invitation to host SNL came after NBC had broken business ties with Trump due to his “derogatory statements” about Latinos. NBC said such rhetoric was contrary to their values. Have their values changed? Is it now acceptable to do business with the same noxious blowhard who’s pushing a boycott of your network? What’s more, Latino groups are appalled that SNL would allow an overtly racist hate monger like Trump to appear as host, especially considering the fact that there are zero Latinos in the current SNL cast, and only two in the whole forty-one year history of the program. What message does the network send by embracing Trump?

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In conclusion, if it’s OK for Trump to banish Univision’s Latino reporters from his campaign events, and to advocate a prohibition of Republican debates on NBC and Telemundo, then it is more than justified for NBC to retract their offer to let him host SNL, and they should do so immediately. [There is a petition to urge NBC to rescind the offer here.] The question is, do they have the principles and the backbone to do it, or will they kneel before The Donald in utter disgrace?

Dictator Donald Trump Calls On All Presidential Candidates To Surrender The Election To Him

Posted by on October 24, 2015 at 5:13 pm. 3 Comments :

In the spirit of great tyrants like Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini, who commandeered their electoral systems in order to insure near unanimous support, Donald Trump has stumbled into a scheme that would cripple the campaigns of his political rivals.

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The Billionaire Don was recently caught allegedly violating election laws by coordinating his campaign with a SuperPAC operating on his behalf. The “Make America Great Again PAC” is run by a close associate of Trump’s campaign manager and Trump held fundraisers for the PAC before he announced his candidacy while it was still legal to do so. However, the Washington Post reports that principals connected to the PAC were regular visitors to Trump’s campaign office and communicated with his staff. Trump’s campaign manager was even caught lying when he denied knowing a key PAC official, but later was forced to admit that he did.

The result of this budding scandal was that Trump made a public announcement denouncing all PACS and disassociating himself with those operating in his name. But he went even further than that.

Trump: I have disavowed all Super PACs, requested the return of all donations made to said PACs, and I am calling on all presidential candidates to do the same.

Taken at face value, that could be seen as a magnanimous gesture to remove unaccountable, big donor contributions from the political system, a worthy goal. But coming from Trump, further scrutiny is required. First of all, the only reason Trump is saying this is because he was caught cheating. He regularly accuses his opponents of being beholden to wealthy donors and has avoided taking any responsibility for his own obligations. But the real hypocrisy in this is his demand that other candidates ask any PACs supporting them to return all the money they’ve collected.

This would amount to a unilateral disarmament because Trump is the only candidate in the race that can self-finance his campaign. Consequently, he said nothing about candidates contributing unlimited amounts of their own money to electing themselves. In effect, Trump is asking every candidate to accept only the permitted donations for federal office (maximum $2,700.00), except for himself. A few candidates (i.e. Bernie Sanders) can generate significant sums from large numbers of small-dollar donors. Everyone else would be severely disadvantaged. What’s more, not many people could generate funds by pitching their branded campaign swag the way Trump does. He recently tweeted “Remember, official campaign merchandise (hats, apparel etc.) can only be bought at http://www.donaldjtrump.com . Be careful, don’t get ripped-off.” He is more Snake Oil salesmen than candidate.

The only way for Trump to fairly suggest this course of action would be if he were to also promise not to self-finance. Then all candidates would have to rely on building grassroots support. Then the country could have an honest democracy that wasn’t dominated by clandestine elites or wealthy megalomaniacs who buy their way into power.

Of course, that is not what Trump wants. He wants to be the only candidate with sufficient funds to mount a credible campaign. He wants to kneecap everyone that can challenge him. It is the sort of suggestion that would make Stalin blush. It is how dictators insure that they win elections with ninety-five percent of the vote. And combined with Republican efforts to suppress access to voting and to gerrymander districts to favor themselves, they might just approach that level of electoral corruption.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Trump is exhibiting these despotic tendencies. It is the lifestyle of privilege and entitlement that he has known his whole life. It is evident in his public commentaries that disparage minorities and women and the poor, while simultaneously embracing power structures that favor corporations and the imposition of government mandates on personal choices and religious practices.

Trump’s aspirations to monarchy are also apparent in his treatment of the press. He just held a rally in Florida where he barred any Univision reporters from attending. Univision is the nation’s largest Spanish language network. He said that because he is suing the network over their dissolution of a business arrangement with his Miss Universe pageant, it would be a “conflict of interest” to allow them into his campaign events. Apparently he has no idea what “conflict of interest” means. Nor does he have any understanding of the concept of freedom of the press. And this isn’t his first run-in with Univision.

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All of this is typical Trumpery. He lambastes other politicians for things he does routinely, then he blames anyone but himself when his corruption is uncovered. He displays a flagrant streak of superiority, but reverts to being a shameless crybaby when he doesn’t get his way. He’s an unrepentant narcissist who is convinced that he deserves special privileges. And somehow he has conned some really dumbass Americans into supporting him, much the same way religious hucksters dupe their followers into believing the End Times are beginning next Thursday.

Boycott Trump: The Donald Declares A War On Latinos That He Can’t Possibly Win

Posted by on June 27, 2015 at 4:35 pm. 26 Comments :

Well, there can be no more doubt about. Donald Trump is the most pathetic ignoramus in the Republican Presidential Clown Car Primary. If it wasn’t bad enough that his laughably embarrassing announcement speech was riddled with falsehoods, or he claims to have a foolproof plan that will “bring ISIS to the table or, beyond that, defeat ISIS very quickly,” but he refuses to say what it is, he is now launching a trade war against Latinos, the fastest growing demographic in the American electorate.

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The war was instigated after Trump insulted Mexican immigrants by saying that “they’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” And although he probably thinks that he was being complimentary with his appended assumption, it certainly wasn’t taken that way by those he was insulting. Subsequent to his remarks, the Spanish-language TV network, Univision, announced that they would no longer partner with Trump on his Miss USA Pageant, and would cease all business relationships with Trump.

Univision was not alone in condemning Trump. Many other Latino celebrities, executives, and politicians cited Trump’s vile comments and pledged to avoid associations with him. In one instance that crossed the line of civility, a Univision exec retweeted a photo juxtaposing Trump with Charleston killer, Dylann Roof. The Tweet was quickly deleted despite the obvious similarities in appearance and expression. But not before the poor attempt at humor pierced The Donald’s thin skin.

The war, now raging, saw Trump escalate to threats of lawsuits against Univision. But even more frightening, Trump declared that Univision execs would not be permitted on Trump’s golf courses. That’s a pleasant bit of imagery. Trump is now running restricted country clubs that prohibit Latinos. Somehow, I don’t think that any of them are losing any sleep over not being able to play on Trump’s lawn.

Perhaps the most absurd volley in this battle is Trump’s attempt to get the Republican National Committee to cancel the GOP presidential primary debate on Univision. It’s absurdity rests on the fact that Univision is not scheduled to be hosting a debate, and was explicitly snubbed when the RNC put together their debate plans. RNC Chair Reince Priebus called Univision “a long-term enemy of the Republican Party.” Instead, the RNC went with the number two Spanish-language network, Telemundo, which has half the viewers of Univision and is owned by the GOP-friendly (?) NBC network. So Trump’s temper tantrum to terminate Univision is just another figment of his dementia.

Not surprisingly, Trump has gotten some support from the Wingnut Echo Chamber. One of those digging deep to defend him, Breitbart News, leaped face first into the dump Univision shallow end. An article by their editor, John Nolte, began by agreeing with Trump’s insult to Mexicans saying that “What Donald Trump said about illegal aliens and rape and crime was not untrue.” So Nolte is also a racist who believes that there are eleven million Mexican criminals and rapists in America. As for the Univision debate, Nolte agrees that the broadcast should be removed from the schedule that it already isn’t on. But his brilliant alternative is to have the fictional debate moved to Fox’s Spanish-language network, MundoFox. Nolte apparently thinks that the MundoFox audience of about 170,000 is a better platform for the GOP Comedy Hour than Univision’s 2.1 million (more than ten times greater).

With Trump banishing Univision from his country clubs and trying to get his party to nix a debate that doesn’t exist, he is begging for retaliation. This is something that he would surely regret if Latinos en masse responded by ditching the Trump brand. They could all boycott his golf courses, and his hotels as well. They could refuse to buy his ties, cologne, or other cheesy consumer goods. That includes the Trump line at Macy’s (who should also feel the heat of partnering with a racist). They could shun his real estate properties. And this economic backlash could extend to anyone who is repulsed by Trump’s overt racism. Asians, Saudis, Europeans, and American consumers can and should withhold patronage from him on the basis of his prejudice. And if he thinks he can prevail by blackballing all of them from his golf course, then his reality blind-spot is even bigger than his ego (and that may not be possible according to the laws of physics).

[Update 6/29/15: NBC has announced that they have cut all business ties with Trump. This includes the Apprentice programs and the pageant broadcasts. And while Univision is not a debate host, NBC’s Telumundo is. Will Trump now lobby the RNC to cancel that debate? Stay tuned]

Donald has always been a fraud who is more adept at promoting himself than any business venture. For a sampling of his tendency to fail, take a look at these 12 Donald Trump businesses that no longer exist. There is a reason he embarrasses himself by hosting a TV game show. Can you think of any other billionaire who has the time to do that? Obviously he needs the money. He is no more a businessman than Kim Kardashian.

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What’s more, Trump is a way too obnoxious to get anywhere in politics. It is simply idiotic to say that Mexico “is not out friend,” when they are one of America’s biggest trading partners (second biggest market for exports and third biggest for imports).

The fact that he suffers from Doofus Tourettes Syndrome doesn’t help either. How else do you explain his birtherism, or his recent declarations that “America is a hell hole,” and that “the American dream is dead?” These are not the bumper-stickers of a winner. But they do define the cretinous, narcissistic, anti-personality of Donald Trump. And Democrats couldn’t be more thrilled that he is among those who want to be the banner carriers for the Republican Party in 2016.