Trump’s latest brag, that he could have told Mitt Romney to “drop to his knees” as part of Romney’s endorsement, is pushing us further into the homoerotic territory first explored by Marco Rubio with his comments about Trump’s hands (by which he meant, of course, his dick). The last time a penis figured so prominently in our politics was the Clenis, but that popped up in a heteronormative context. In other words, the Donald’s wang and his concern about its measure, as well as his contemplation of jamming it into Mitt Romney’s smug piehole, is leading us into uncharted waters for a national campaign.
How far do you think this will go? Will the Donald regale us with thoughts about other places he’d like his member to occupy? Will he challenge others to whip out their manhood during tonight’s debate? Is Trump’s cock bigger than Putin’s, and if it isn’t, how can he be expected to run our foreign policy effectively?
We must not allow a penis gap!
ArchPundit
It takes Brass Balls to sell Real Estate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FWfKoc-MKM
ArchPundit
And with that, we need Baldwin on SNL to do an impersonation.
SFAW
On the other hand, it’s better than Rushbo’s bizarre “anal poisoning” rant(s).
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
This is Obama’s fault.
SFAW
I heard some of Mittens’s “speech.” What a buffoon. Were I his target audience, I would have said “You know that old line about ‘Make my enemies ridiculous’? That’s you, dumbfuck — ridiculous.”
SFAW
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
Clinton’s, too.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
I blame the Bork hearing.
debbie
@SFAW:
But who, exactly, is his target audience? With whom has he any credibility?
Betty Cracker
We won’t have all this dick-swinging bullshit in a Hillary Clinton administration.
JCT
Meanwhile, does Mittens have a PLAN to finally fulfill the revelation?
Sure, this ought to work
Origuy
Anyone else here play Civilization V? There’s a Donald Trump’s America mod.
For those who don’t, Civ V is a strategy game where you play as the ruler of one of a number of historical civilizations. Each ruler is a historical figure (Elizabeth I, Genghis Khan, etc.) George Washington is the ruler of the United States in the standard game. Some of the features of this mod:
bluehill
The repubs are in an obvious jam. They are starting to stand up to Trump, but they can’t lay out a rational or an emotional case for why voters should pick Cruz, Rubio or Kasich. Their policies are pretty similar except Trump’s delivery is better and embodies the anger that the party leaders and conservative media have fomented.
The bigger problem is using Hilary as a threat. I think it makes it more likely that Trump becomes the nominee because Hilary is portrayed as such a monster that voters will think that Trump is the one strong enough to take her on.
It will be interesting to see if they will continue to stand against Trump if/when he becomes the nominee. If they don’t, that will destroy their party. If they do, they will also destroy their party. Fun times.
gogol's wife
@bluehill:
Good analysis. I too find it funny that he’s offering Cruz and Rubio as some kind of palatable alternative. Oh, THEIR economic plans WON’T result in a prolonged recession?
ETA: I’m referencing Romney’s speech.
Hoodie
It’s interesting to note the metaphors are not just homoerotic, they tend towards dominance stuff, like ramming something down someone’s throat and, now, this.
Ready
More crude third grade remarks from Trump.
He’s going to take it on the chin tonight from #LosHermanosCubanos
Baud
Bend over for Baud!
cokane
Carlin nailed this back in the HW Bush admin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qqARrbi1h8
Def NSFW
MattF
The winger id is really going hot and heavy now. It’s remarkable. Are there any BJ Freudians around to give us the classic interpretations?
Mai.naem.mobile
Hitler had a m1cr0pen15 and 1 te5t1c1e. Just wanted to add that to the conversation.
Hal
Was anyone, anywhere thinking; “Gee, what does Mitt Romney think about this election?” Who gives a fuck about his opinion?
trollhattan
@Ready:
You misspelled Pollos.
Ruviana
Ooooh, Ready is here! Are the possible exploits of the Hedge Fund Boys this year’s version of Unlimited Corporate Cash?
Barry
The Daily Show has been talking about Trump and his daughter for a long time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H6zQEqbFC0
Rommie
@Ready: But they are in Detroit – you can’t fight there!
trollhattan
@Hal:
Willard chiming in will hurt Trump exactly as much as the Palin endorsement helped him. Tellingly, each made about as much sense, only Willard had much less “personality.”
Brachiator
Hot oil man on man frolic by the middle of the debate.
Ben Carson will regret sitting this one out. He’s got great hands.
Chyron HR
Isn’t it a bit telling that the people who spend all day howling about how much they hate anyone who doesn’t love Sanders never have a harsh word for dingus here when he shows up to shill for
PawlentyRomneyJEBRubioAnyoneButTrump?inventor
@Mai.naem.mobile:
Hit-ler…on-ly had one ball!
Goering…had two, though small!
Himmler….had something simmler…
and Goebbels had no balls at all!
Don Kasak
Related Onion article from 2012:
Donald Trump Stares Forlornly At Tiny, Aged Penis In Mirror Before Putting On Clothes, Beginning Day
Amir Khalid
@Mai.naem.mobile:
Reminds me of a song …
ETA: @inventor:
Pout.
Gimlet
Via the Guardian
A group of masked men used a pickup truck to break into a gun store in Houston, Texas, clearing the shop of at least 50 weapons and dropping more in their hurry to escape before police arrived. As many as 10 individuals are thought to have been present during the burglary, which was caught on surveillance video
Mike J
@debbie:
People who say, “America, fuck yeah!”
Ripley
Gentlemen! You can’t fuck in here – this is the War Room!
Steve in the ATL
@Mike J:
A strong contender for Post of the Day!
beltane
When my twins were three, they used to get into shouting matches that went like this: “You poopy butt!”. “No, you poopy butt.” Already they were too highbrow for the GOP.
SFAW
@Ready:
Hey, moron, you keep spelling “Pendejos” rong – it doesn’t start with “H.”
trollhattan
@Gimlet:
Guns just want to be free!
Kay
That’s why I think Clinton v Trump will be fun. I don’t know what he does with her. Trump’s whole thing will just be bizarre with a female opponent. I imagine her just looking at him and raising her eyebrows. I don’t even think she has to say anything.
Adam L Silverman
@Gimlet: How many times do we have to tell you: link!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD-HB_dMsfY
TallPete
@Amir Khalid: or this song
Baud
I can’t believe to going to miss this debate.
Mnemosyne
@Gimlet:
Hopefully unrelated to the Bundy arrests in the thread above.
gf120581
@Kay: I’d say her conduct during the Benghazi farce is a pretty good indication. Just that expression she had on her face through most of it.
SFAW
@debbie:
Salt of the earth, common clay of the new west. You know – the Trump-curious.
Outside of Ready/RtR, it’s tough to say. Maybe Ann or Josh or Tagg or the Other Sons of Mitty Elder.
SFAW
@Kay:
He’s got it under control — he just brought in Robert Morrow to handle Wimmins Outreach for the campaign. (I was going to call it something else, in keeping with Morrow’s classy approach, but I didn’t want to offend any women here. Well, no more than I usually do.)
Gimlet
http://www.wapt.com/news/central-mississippi/jackson/attack-ads-take-aim-at-donald-trump/38317094
Civil rights activist Charles Evers said he supports Trump because he believes he will make America great again.
Wiki
James Charles Evers (born September 11, 1922) is an American civil rights activist. Evers was known for his role in the American Civil Rights Movement along with his younger brother Medgar Evers.[1] He was made the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) State Voter Registration Chairman in 1954. After his brother’s assassination in 1963, Evers took over his position as field director of the NAACP in Mississippi. As field director, Evers organized and led many demonstrations for the rights of African Americans
Evers endorsed Ronald Reagan for President of the United States during the 1980 United States presidential election.[11]
SiubhanDuinne
@Mai.naem.mobile:
Oh thanks. Now I’m not going to be able to get the “Colonel Bogey March” out of my head.
Just Some Fuckhead
Does Trump have enough time launch an independent bid and get on all the state ballots if he gets screwed out of the Republican nomination on July 19th? From my reading of the state by state rules, it doesn’t appear so. You need a party (the Americazi Party?), a bunch of signatures and there are filing deadlines months before election day in many cases.
I suppose he could be the nominee of a party that already exists but who would want him?
Eric S.
@Baud: And now an entire train full of people are staring at me for laughing and sputtering out loud.
Kay
@SFAW:
She can make him look like a fool in a way the GOP men can’t because they have to engage in the manly-man contest (or they believe they do). She doesn’t have to.
beltane
@Just Some Fuckhead: The Lyndon Larouche party? I forget the name of it.
SiubhanDuinne
@inventor:
@Amir Khalid:
Dammit.
SiubhanDuinne
@Kay:
If she just gives him the look she perfected and held steady for ELEVEN HOURS in that stupid Benghazi hearing, that will be more than sufficient to wither him. Assuming he’s witherable, of course.
cmorenc
For once, the media is hopelessly stuck promoting the unavoidable meme REPUBLICANS IN DISARRAY! instead of their natural inclination to push “democrats in disarray!”. Except this object is so shiny and delicious they’re calling it what it is, all-out civil war within the Republican party, in which the various factions have no way to resolve the situation without severely damaging their prospects in the general election. The Trump supporters aren’t going to take the establishment hijacking the nomination away from Donald with anything remotely close to sporting good grace, and too many establishment figures have gone past the point of no return in trying to bring Trump down ahead of March 15th. It’s a complete monkey poo-flinging shit-show the entire electorate is witnessing.
Roger Moore
@Kay:
I figure she’ll be in for some of the same misogyny that Megyn Kelly and Carly Fiorina got. There will be lots of slams against her appearance, suggestions that as a woman she’s too flighty and hysterical to do a good job, etc. I don’t think it will be as effective- his attacks on Kelly and Fiorina were less effective than against most of the men he attacked- but he’ll still try.
Kay
@SFAW:
I know women are supposed to think it’s great that Trump brings Planned Parenthood up randomly and out of context and completely opportunistically but it grosses me out. I don’t even want him fretting over me. Just…don’t give it another thought, buddy. We’ll be FINE.
Gimlet
@Roger Moore:
The Donald will go for the jugular and mention Goldman Sachs, the Clinton Foundation, Benghazi and the emails.
Kay
@Roger Moore:
Oh, I hope so because that’s just not credible. Say what you will about her “flighty and hysterical” doesn’t fit. She doesn’t even have to respond to that. It will be better if she just lets it sit there.
Mnemosyne
@Roger Moore:
He’ll try, but there’s a bit of a gravitas gap between Kelly/Fiorina and Clinton. Like, one the size of the Grand Canyon.
Mnemosyne
@Gimlet:
Hillary sat in front of Congress for 13 hours while they yammered on about Benghazi and she made them look like fools. I’m pretty sure she can handle Trump.
Villago Delenda Est
@debbie: His target audience is deluded offal like “Ready”, aka “Right To Rise”, who is our pet GOP Establishment troll.
Gimlet
@Mnemosyne:
I wouldn’t underestimate him. He’s a pretty skilled heckler.
Villago Delenda Est
@debbie: His target audience is deluded offal like Ready, aka Right To Rise, our pet GOP Establishment troll, for whom UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH insured the election of aforementioned Mittens to the WH back in 2012.
Kay
@Gimlet:
The GOP candidates were scared of him, though, and media promoted him. He hasn’t run into anything near real opposition yet.
A month ago they were all kissing his ass. He’s had one month of incompetent opposition from people who can’t alienate his voters and still seem frightened and off balance.
MomSense
@Mai.naem.mobile:
Yes and it looked just like Cruz’ nose.
Ew
SiubhanDuinne
The classic song from BLR’s first GOP debate seems particularly apt here (starts about 4:05):
?I see one wittle wee-wee,
Every mouse has a weenie,?
And if we could catch a little mouse man
?Then we could see some little feet too.?
Chyron HR
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Rules? What do rules have to do with anything? He’ll say he’s running and either the election agencies will put him on the ballot or
be killedhe’ll tell his followers to write him in. And if they don’t count the write-in votes he’ll declare himself President anyway.bluehill
I don’t think Trump will change his approach with Hillary, which is a good thing. His supporters expect it and will love it. I think Hillary can take advantage and position herself to appear relatively more trustworthy to independents, “moderate” republicans and some bernie PUMAs.
SFAW
@Kay:
No argument, but that wasn’t the point (such as it was) of my comment.
RSR
…adds the Pixies – Gigantic to the BJ playlist…
beltane
Right now there is a large protest going on outside the theater where the debate’s being held.
The Sheriff Endorses Baud 2016
@Gimlet: “And how many Nazis and Klansmen have you retweeted this week, Donald?”
LAO
@Gimlet: he is very skilled, but heckling women is difficult. Men usually come off as prats.
Chyron HR
@beltane:
“What do we want?”
“WE DON’T KNOW!”
“When do we want it?”
“NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW!!!!!”
beltane
@Chyron HR: The protesters are from Fight for $15 and Black Lives Matter. I hope they are safe.
bluehill
@Chyron HR:
“What do we want?”
“̶W̶E̶ ̶D̶O̶N̶’̶T̶ ̶K̶N̶O̶W̶!̶”̶““WHITE POWER!”
“When do we want it?”
“NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW!!!!!”
JustRuss
@LAO: It will be interesting to see how Trump does with conservative women. They’ve been programmed to think of Hilary as the devil, but they all know guys like Trump who just can’t help dumping on women when they get the chance. I could see a lot of them saying “screw you” and voting for Hilary.
Matt McIrvin
@Kay:
In 2008, I remember Pat Oliphant drew a cartoon showing Hillary Clinton going weepy and flustered in the face of some international crisis. It had so nothing to do with Hillary Clinton, or even with people’s standard caricatures of Hillary Clinton, that it just came across as pure sexism; there was no reason to portray her that way other than her being a woman.
LAO
@JustRuss: religious conservative, who believe they’re inferior won’t care. The others, I think/hope you are right.
Villago Delenda Est
@Gimlet: And then the Clinton campaign will mention The Donald’s contributions to the Clinton Foundation.
Calouste
@Just Some Fuckhead: Trump can just get on the ticket of one of the minor parties. Even if they already have a candidate, the attraction of money, publicity, votes, and the future ballot access it will bring will be too tempting to say no to. Would you rather be the Presidential candidate of Party X and get 0.2% of the vote and having to sleep in Motel 6 during the “campaign”, or the VP candidate to Trump and get somewhere in double digits, and sleep in Trump hotels?
Mnemosyne
@LAO:
This. One of the things that sunk Rick Lazio when he ran against her for NY senator was that he looked like a bully beating up on a girl. That’s still a very powerful cultural taboo that people respond to negatively.
The Golux
@Don Kasak:
I have to say, that’s magnificent. It needs to go viral.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
Obama has long fingers and big feet. Why do you think Michelle’s smile comes so easy?
Why do you think Trump’s not a fan of Barack?
Steeplejack
C’mon, that thread-title song is so catchy it must be posted.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Moderation! FYWP. FYWP up your stupid ass.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Jesus, still in moderation?! The link was to the song quoted in the post title: Violent Femmes, “Blister on the Sun.”