Donny Trump took time out from battling Mexican drug lords today to order Boston voters to oust Marty Walsh because Walsh objects to his racist comments about Mexicans and vows to block the serial bankruptcy filer from building a hotel in Boston (which raises the question of whether Trump was even thinking of doing that).
Neighborhoods:
Topics:
Free tagging:
Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!
Ad:
Comments
Is the headline about Walsh
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 7:03am
Is the headline about Walsh or Trump? It's so hard to tell pompous blowhards apart.
Hey this is our damn city. If
By Fitz
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 8:22am
Hey this is our damn city. If we wanna tell the mayah to screw, we'll do it when we wanna do it. That's how it works here.
We've got way better reasons
By Marco
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 8:52am
to vote out Marty Walsh than his thoughts on the GOP's latest cartoon character presidential hopeful. Trump is just happy to be getting his name into anyone's ear that will listen, for any reason, love or hate. It's the Howard Stern approach to popularity.
Walsh is done next election. If not Bostonians are idiots and will get what they deserve.
Adam this headline is Dvdoff like..
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 9:49am
Trump is that guy who give that 45 year old white guy from the burbs a boner much like Scotty Brown and Mitt.
Since when are racist
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 10:03am
Since when are racist stereotypes acceptable?
/check your privledge
That is NRO like
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:21am
outrage.
ever notice that
By aging cynic
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 3:41pm
people who claim to hate old/racist/suburban people tend to evolve into them eventually?
So you live in
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 7:11pm
the suburbs.
No
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 7:19pm
Not really.
à propos de rien
By Malcolm Tucker
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 10:50am
The only people I know who actually, unironically support Trump are my (literally brain-damaged) uncle and his friends - all rabid, uncomprehending Tea Party supporters.
P.S. Never forget this gem, that Donald Trump actually said, regarding Ivanka Trump appearing in Playboy magazine:
“It would be really disappointing — not really — but it would depend on what’s inside the magazine. I don’t think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice figure. I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”
Trump is trash! Pass it on!
Here's my theory on Donald
By PeyoteEatingWat...
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 10:50am
Here's my theory on Donald Trump: I think that the Clintons asked him to enter the Republican primary as a mole, making a fool out of himself by conducting himself in an outrageous manner all the while making all of the other Republican nominees look even worse than they already are by refusing to denounce him as he skyrockets in the polls amongst the tea party set which would then guarantee a Clinton victory in the general election, as payback for Bill Clinton appointing Trump's sister Judge Maryanne Trump Barry to a federal judgeship back in 1999. The problem here is that if Bernie Sanders ends up beating Hillary in the primary all bets are of and we might actually be stuck with President Trump.
Hold on
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:00am
Do you really think that Trump is more appealing than Bernie?
REALLY?
The electorate is not made up of 65-year old men with low education levels. In fact, new voters are going to be the game changer in this one (and Trump is not their man)
The only reason Trump is getting so much GOP attention in early voting states is the huge exodus from the party is concentrating the crazy.
Bernie v Trump
By PeyoteEatingWat...
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:57am
Personally, I like Bernie Sanders & plan on voting for him in the primary, but if it ends up being Sanders v Trump in the general election I wouldn't be surprised if Trump wins. I think Sanders has a better shot against Jeb Bush, Walker, or any of the other 15+ people currently in the running for the Republican nomination. Like it or not, Trump is saying what a lot of the tea party crowd wants to hear and he'll probably use his own $$$ to fund his candidacy. Have you been to the South or the Midwest lately? A lot of baby-boomers & what's left of the WW2 generation are eating up what "The Donald" is cooking.
Tea party "crowd"
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 12:27pm
That might win him Kansas.
They aren't a crowd in most states, and they are dying of old age/complications of poor health in droves.
Sure, it seems like that from
By chaosjake
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 2:59pm
Sure, it seems like that from up here in liberal New England, but that Tea Party rhetoric gets a lot of traction between Newark and Sacramento. If anything, it's shocking how opinions and positions that would formerly have existed on the far right wing have been normalized within the Republican party. Hell, if they ran on their records today, Dick Nixon and Ronald Reagan might be too liberal to get the Democratic nomination.
and
By Malcolm Tucker
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:59am
Trump is the loudest, by far. Once the field thins a bit, and people start paying more attention to the substance of candidates' arguments instead of the volume, Trump will go back to engaging in Twitter wars with The Daily Show.
Bernie Sanders is the new Ron
By gotdatwmd
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 12:44pm
Bernie Sanders is the new Ron Paul. Kids love him because "student loan forgiveness!!!" "jobs for my gender studies degree!!!" and "socialism now!" and "make the white people apologize for slavery!!!"nonsense. He's very hashtagable
Or an advance on Howard Dean.
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 2:07pm
I'm fine with him or Hilary. The important thing is denying the executive to the GOP for another 8 years as it'll probably finish them.
Progressives and tea baggers are like heads and tails of a coin although teabags are usually more skillful at getting their goons elected.
Progressives are usually too self absorbed to bother to persuade people who aren't like minded of the merits of their outlooks. The usual attitude is that the unwashed suck for failing to recognize progressive dazzle.
The GOP clown car is already swerving wildly and now they'll have to waste energy throttling hair pie.
Here's a typically astute piece fresh from the 538 oven from Nate, himself, regarding the matter.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-bernie-san...
Nate should have been in Chatham
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 9:59pm
That piece is more astute than the previous dreck he published on the subject, which did not incorporate any new information on voter enrollment amongst a large generation, many of whom will be eligible to vote for the first time. All the same, he's still basically pulling 2008 out of his pocket to predict 2016, and he really should know better!
Nate is falling back on "conventional wisdom", and that is a far cry from the elegant bayesian modeling and interpretation that he is known for. This piece is certainly more interesting and better analyzed than the previous one where his regulars took him to task on the sloppiness, but he's mainstream now and lapsing into the familiar is to be expected.
Let's hope he continues to improve with more information, and look for the unexpected as he did when he became famous.
He called 2012 well.
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 10:53pm
A part of your argument is like typical Gen X hipster complaints. "That band was much better before it went mainstream.."
And the rest is like a fit of pique because you weren't told what you wanted to hear. Enrollment will matter if ground operations get people out. Otherwise, it's a fad gadget.
If progressives didn't have such a sucky track record at prevailing in anything, they'd have more credibility. Warren won as much for the qualities of her personality as for the value of her argument. It makes her kind of unique, because progressives are usually utter eye glaze inducing stiffs when they are not being graceless finger wagging scolds.
Purity politics really are pretty toxic to a more congenial basis for relations. This is especially galling when the pure abet losses. The vicious right wing pure are highly motivated and have now laced congress with their dim bullshit. They have an easier job appealing to innate selfishness, but it probably helps that they engage and persuade.
You lost me at "Gen X hipsters"
By adamg
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:10pm
Gen Xers are too old to be hipsters dude.
You're kidding, right?
By boo_urns
Fri, 07/17/2015 - 12:34am
You're kidding, right? Otherwise the word's been around for at least 60 years. I've at least seen it in some beat era literature. Besides, pretentiousness is a timeless personality characteristic.
And s/he's right about Silver calling 2012's election just about as accurately as 2008.
With both you and Swirly on 95% of things, but sometimes you gotta call them like they are.
Translation
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 3:18pm
OMFG MILLENIALS!!!!11!!111!!!! GIT OFF MAH LAHHNNNN!
Which is about 50% of your comments.
You clearly don't pay attention to much outside what the boys at the KofC rant about, do ya?
Agreed I'm sorry we should
By gotdatwmd
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 4:29pm
Agreed I'm sorry we should just sue banks for not giving loans to at risk individuals. what could possibly go wrong
You're talking about Trump,
By boo_urns
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 6:39pm
You're talking about Trump, with his bankruptcy record, right?
65 year old 'men' with low education levels?
By anon
Thu, 07/16/2015 - 7:14am
Another troll? How about substituting unmarried, single women, with low education levels? Or is that 'mean spirited'? Or how about 'dreamers' with low education levels, or is that too mean spirited and 'racist'? Actually, I think I just described the Democratic Party's targeted demographics. Yes, I agree, that was a mean spirited thing for me to say, but I'm trying to make a point about hypocrisy.
I get the impression some people will readily give a pass to some people in life, and willing attribute 'racism' and 'sexism' (patriarchy), etc. But if some 'deprived' individual is a man, or worse a 'privileged' white man, he has nobody to blame but himslf if he's '65 and un-educated', or homeless, or fill-in-the-blank undesirable situation. I always get this nagging feeling some posting on here, who claim such superior empathy and morality, aren't really totally sincere, unbiased, have rhat proverbial chip on their shoulder (Full Disclosure: I have a bit of one myself....but unlike many, I'll admit to it, and try my best to supress it and choose rational thought over emotion).
Donald Trump
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 2:55pm
...is proof that can have everything handed to you, have every opportunity available, and still turn out to be a complete loser.
Aw, don't be so hard on Trump; he's useful,
By MC Slim JB
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 3:24pm
in the same way that the Confederate battle flag is useful. Voicing your support for either lets us know you're a bigoted simpleton straightaway, so you can be safely be given a wide berth and then ignored.
Pages