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2016 Postmortem

RandySF

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7. Reminds me of another set of historical speeches

Reply to nolabear (Original post)

Thu Dec 1, 2016, 07:55 PM

Dec 2016

But I will be polite and not compare Trump to that figure.

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Oh God. It's real. He's holding a rally just like those damned speeches. [View all] nolabear Dec 2016 OP

He comparing himself to Andrew Jackson! MattP Dec 2016 #1

And there goes the first "Lock her up!" No response. nolabear Dec 2016 #2

Andrew Johnson MFM008 Dec 2016 #41

No - Andrew Jackson - The Atlantic has an excellent comparison of the two csziggy Dec 2016 #45

The rub it your face tour! vrguy Dec 2016 #3

Same vague rhetoric. I despise him. nolabear Dec 2016 #5

He is addicted to the adulation. He can't survive without constant feeding of his ego. Bigly feedi SharonAnn Dec 2016 #26

Yeap, just a class less uponit7771 Dec 2016 #28

He's not answering their chants to lock her up... Satch59 Dec 2016 #4

"... they separate us by race... " lofl uponit7771 Dec 2016 #6

Yeah. He's a uniter all right. nolabear Dec 2016 #8

you have a typo... djsunyc Dec 2016 #15

+1 uponit7771 Dec 2016 #30

Good one! montana_hazeleyes Dec 2016 #44

Reminds me of another set of historical speeches RandySF Dec 2016 #7

Yeah, he said it had never happened before. I can think of once. nolabear Dec 2016 #10

he needs reassurance that the idiots who DesertFlower Dec 2016 #9

Who knew he was so pro-worker! nolabear Dec 2016 #11

He says every foreign leader is glad he won and respects America now. nolabear Dec 2016 #12

+1, and only the dead brained in that crowed believe that bullshit uponit7771 Dec 2016 #13

Bullshit! 3catwoman3 Dec 2016 #18

Get ready for four years of this shit. His ego demands it. Arkansas Granny Dec 2016 #14

Trump's idiocy scares the hell out of me. .99center Dec 2016 #16

Jesus, he's attacking the press. Ridiculing Martha Radditz. nolabear Dec 2016 #17

DPutin has no class, ridiculing someone like that... a classless person uponit7771 Dec 2016 #19

They're booing their own governor. And he continues to belittle the press. nolabear Dec 2016 #20

How many of the M$M will wall to wall this gloating?! How many of those cowardly punk ass's allow uponit7771 Dec 2016 #21

Pence promised more trade deals in his prelude...eom Kolesar Dec 2016 #22

The electors better be watching... Satch59 Dec 2016 #23

He's a fool, but MichMary Dec 2016 #24

... cause they're about as classless as he fuckin is... this man is a disgrace, gloating isn't going uponit7771 Dec 2016 #25

I saw one Nazi salute. They stayed on the guy a long time. nolabear Dec 2016 #38

Oh, dear Dog! MichMary Dec 2016 #40

This is the sound of America going down the drain Va Lefty Dec 2016 #27

Isn't there any law that says a clinically insane sociopath cannot be president? mtnsnake Dec 2016 #29

I fear that he's hoping for something like this: The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2016 #31

He mentions "inner cities" and crowd goes silent... fuck him uponit7771 Dec 2016 #32

He's a failure Marthe48 Dec 2016 #33

Unbearable C_U_L8R Dec 2016 #34

Oh, the promises. The unkeepable promises. nolabear Dec 2016 #35

I refuse to watch his orange ass NoGoodNamesLeft Dec 2016 #36

You know he might just speak for hours. He's already repeating himself. nolabear Dec 2016 #37

Which One of Our Cable Channels otohara Dec 2016 #39

Oh I expect all the cable news stations are. Of course they're all dishonest, right? nolabear Dec 2016 #42

Pretty Much otohara Dec 2016 #43

Tells us what he's in it for. Orsino Dec 2016 #46