Month: March 2016

Because I set up a uniquely glitchy system for picking, I ended doing some auto picking for Delaware Dem based on the chalk last year when we made our picks. Surprisingly Jeb! remained on the board late into the drafting. Less surprisingly, so did Donald Trump. Nobody paid much attention to Trump back then as the result of his threats to run in three prior Presidential races. My hand hovered over my keyboard and I literally said, "I can't do that to him" when I passed on Trump and gave Del Dem Bush instead. Sorry about that DD, but who knew? Flash forward 12 months and Trump is about to wrap up this thing up and if picked, would be sitting on 365 points. Crazy old world. I'll update the standings sometime tomorrow. In the meantime, if you want to sit on the edge of your seat, consider this: If Rubes crashes and burns in Florida (as expected) and quits prior to (around) March 29th - then I win. If he drags his ass into April, then Newton wins.

A week of Trump's lies: a brutal takedown from Politico.

“With the GOP front-runner scooping up delegates in a march toward the Republican nomination, Politico subjected a week’s worth of his words to our magazine’s fact-checking process… The result: more than five dozen statements deemed mischaracterizations, exaggerations, or simply false – the kind of stuff that would have been stripped from one of our stories, or made the whole thing worthy of the spike. It equates to roughly one misstatement every five minutes on average.” “From warning of the death of Christianity in America to claiming that he is taking no money from donors, the Manhattan billionaire and reality-show celebrity said something far from truthful many times over to the thousands of people packed into his raucous rallies. His remarks represent an extraordinary mix of inaccurate claims about domestic and foreign policy and personal and professional boasts that rarely measure up when checked against primary sources.”

When Trump follows up a statement with "It's true," and he does that often, it is guaranteed he just lied to you.

[Editor's Note: I floated this idea on my FB page last night.  I grant that is it naive, so it is abundantly trollable.  But my question is an honest one. …

The New York Times says Trump decided to enter politics after Obama mocked mercilessly at the White House Correspondent's Dinner back in late May 2011. That night was also the night Obama personally ordered the mission to kill Bin Laden. “That evening of public abasement, rather than sending Mr. Trump away, accelerated his ferocious efforts to gain stature within the political world. And it captured the degree to which Mr. Trump’s campaign is driven by a deep yearning sometimes obscured by his bluster and bragging: a desire to be taken seriously.” “That desire has played out over the last several years within a Republican Party that placated and indulged him, and accepted his money and support, seemingly not grasping how fervently determined he was to become a major force in American politics. In the process, the party bestowed upon Mr. Trump the kind of legitimacy that he craved, which has helped him pursue a credible bid for the presidency.” Mein Fuhrer Trump is a very vain man, and he has very little to be proud about, what with his small hands and many failed businesses and many bankruptcies.