So, here’s some of what Bobby Jindal came up with:
“Donald Trump is for Donald Trump. He believes in nothing other than himself. He’s not for anything, he’s not against anything. Donald Trump is a narcissist and he’s an egomaniac. That may sound like a serious charge to make, but everyone knows it to be true.”
Like I predicted, I agree with Jindal here. I’m not sure what good it will do, but at least someone is willing to say it.
…and the Koch Brothers throw him a puppy biscuit.
Did you see what else Kenneth the Page said today? Jindal self-owns like the best of them. You asked it before. Why is he even running?
What did I mean? This:
http://twitter.com/saladinahmed/status/642128757579493376
So wait. Jindal implied Trump was a fool for giving Jindal money?
I guess that makes Jindal a whore.
I guess that makes Jindal a crappy investment, which is much worse.
Trump has been re-manufacturing accusations of narcissism and ego into the marketing model of a largely fictitious but steadily growing business empire since the Seventies. Get with it, Bobby. Next.
Somehow I don’t think this is going to make Bobby “Am I Still Polling Better Than Jim Gilmore?” Jindal relevant again.
That’s the most sensible thing I ever heard out of Bobby Jindal.
It’s also a very fine piece of projection. The two things are not mutually exclusive!
This one is better:
Too bad the Bible thumpers are one GOP segment that’s not currently on board with Trump.
Now that is a genuinely funny line. Good on you, Piyush.
Yes, the GOoPer prez race definitely needs a “debate” on Biblical literacy! A pity Jindal will be stuck at the kiddie table…but I can see it now:
Megyn K: “Mr. Trump, why did Jesus call the Syrophoenician woman a dog? How many times did he cross the Sea of Galilee? And what’s the official count of miracles performed?” Trump: “Megyn, I’ve been nice to you, you obnoxious slut!” [wild applause]
And all GoOPer prez hopefuls must sign another RNC pledge: “I have read the Bible cover to cover”. That’ll get rid of Trump!
That can get rid of all of them.
We have 16, 17, 18 republican candidates. They all believe that Gawd wants them to carry the football and be the King of the free world. We have 4, 5, 6 Democrats, same deal, except I don’t think they believe in the wishes of divine providence.
Now, if you are telling me that one of these 22-24 is more egocentric than another, I am gonna have a fit of the giggles. Running for POTUS is a mental disorder that some persons have. I don’t think that any of them are more self-absorbed than any others. Except McAfee. That guy is a genuine insane clown.
If I’m Trump, I totally ignore Jindal. Also, if I’m me.
I’m not sure Donald Trump is capable of ignoring someone who’s publicly taken a swing at him. I’m curious to see if and how he responds in the next few days.
Hmpff…
Nobody seems to be acknowledging the basic truth about Trump:
Precisely the elements that we all find objectionable are what his supporters like.
Every attempt to “reveal” his “weaknesses” just strengthens him. There isn’t a single reprehensible Trump attribute that his supporters don’t see as a strength.
It’s all about race.
Trump has other things going for him than race, of course, things other Republicans can’t easily provide. But if Trump wasn’t repeatedly slamming the racial panic button he wouldn’t be doing anywhere near as well as he is right now.
Trump may not be able to wield a simple majority of GOP voters. We’ll see. But I’m willing to bet that unless Trump betrays the base on the issue of racial revanchism and/or some other GOP candidate can credibly carry that banner higher and more proudly, he’s not going to fall much further than he already is.
It’s absolutely all about race.
BRRRPP!
Wrong.
You folks simply do not get Trump, and do not understand anything about his appeal. By playing the “racist” card, you simply demonstrate a total lack of understanding of Trumpism.
Race is a small part. I won’t deny that some of his supporters are racist.
But it has a lot more to do with being mortally offended at the flouting, the absolute disregard, of the rule of law. Either we have laws or we do not, and the laws define our society. Illegals simply flout the law, and that mortally offends many, myself included.
No, the people who are flouting the law are the employers, and anybody who “opposes illegal immigration” but is not in favor of stiff penalties on businesses that employ them is acting out of racism. Especially since I never hear these people complaining about the large numbers of undocumented Irish and other white Europeans. And of course, you’ve been living in a cave for the past few months so you’re honestly unaware of Trump’s many racial slurs against Mexicans, amirite?
Feh. dataguy is one of those rare people who blames the employers more than the immigrants themselves.
But don’t think for a moment that this isn’t about race. Trump said that he’d deport actual citizens along with their families. And let’s not even get into his and the GOP’s recent ‘let’s end birthright citizenship!’ jags that xenophobes in Italy, Turkey, and Japan use as the linchpin to create a permanent North African/Korean underclass in order to defend their failing and dwindling cultures.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t hear Trump blaming the employers.
Right, just like Trump waves away questions about why he makes all his products (neckties, hats, etc.) in China by saying “I’m a businessman” (despite all of his anti-China rhetoric).
Like all plutocrats, Trump doesn’t believe employers have any responsibilities beyond maximizing profit.
A lot has been written about this, specifically: the self-serving fiction that companies are “legally required” to prioritize shareholder value above every other concern:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/01/myth-maximizing-shareholder-value.html
But my specific point is that nobody is allowed to criticize employers for anything except not making money, which is one of the amazingly convenient and self-serving rationales of American business that Trump wholeheartedly subscribes to.
If I was morally but non-xenophobically outraged over illegal immigration, I don’t see what good it would do me to be in denial about the naked bigotry of the Trump movement. I would be seriously annoyed, actually, because they’d be making me look bad.
Another tell is that no legal remedy or penalty short of actual deportation (however impractical) is acceptable to those who so love the law. As Trump says, “They gotta go!”
Big Gub’mint for immigration issues, but none for, say, land usage or pollution, haha.
Race isn’t the whole story, but it’s definitely part of it.
Honestly, it feels like Trump is a throwback to a time fondly remembered by his followers: childhood. He is the perfect candidate for people who don’t want to acknowledge the realities of the adult world — Trump offers no compromises, no concessions. And that means no disappointments, as people imagine him. And he’s a terrifically effective bully, to boot. Characters like this have tremendous appeal, not only in modern times, either.
Here’s the thing, though. You might not deny that some of Trump’s supporters are racist, and yet you will deny that “illegal” is a racist term. In fact, I will give you enough benefit of the doubt to assume that you loathe and fear and despise Irish illegals every bit as much as you do Mexican ones.
But Donald Trump has also attacked Jeb Bush for having the temerity to speak Spanish in the United States. And he basically insulted the entire audience of Univision when he threw Jorge Ramos out of his press conference. And to be quite frank, people who aren’t bigots have a serious problem with that kind of shit.
I’d have more sympathy for the rule of law argument if the primary solution being proposed was something other than pretending that the 14th amendment to the Constitution doesn’t exist.
Yep. Jindal’s (or any other GOP critic of Trump’s) problem is that all possible attacks on Trump sound like they come from outside the right-wing bubble of epistemic closure. Trump’s supporters inside the bubble reflexively reject everything that comes from outside. Any attack on Trump that might get through to the bubble people risks blowing up the long con they’ve been running for decades. Trump is quite a conundrum for the GOP establishment.
Good Heavens, a narcissist! And an egomaniac! In a prez race! I am shocked, shocked to find that is gambling is going on in here!
The pot(s) calling the kettle black ain’t gonna do a thing, especially from Jindal the Nobody.
Trump will laugh in Jindal’s face, as his tweets already show.
This is actually the kettle calling the pot black. Yes, all the candidates are egomaniacs, but Trump surpasses them all.
To mix metaphors, though, this kettle is brewing very weak tea.
Apparently not.
Obviously not.
The key word here…the key word in almost all “politics”…is the word “everyone.”
What?
That Obama was born in Hawaii?
No.
That Moscow is the capital of Russia?
No.
That Barack Obama is nothing more than a slick PermaGov centrist wrapped up in Democratic sloganeering?
No.
Etc., etc., etc.
“Everyone that we agree with” is the “everyone” of political rhetoric.
Jindal looks like a freshly hatched chicken. God only knows what kinds of machinations got him the governor’s chair in Louisiana. “Agree” with him? Why? He is as wrong as is almost every professional pol in the business of getting elected. He’s not even a gnat on Trump’s massive neck.
FUGGEDABOUDIT!!!
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