President Oprah Winfrey?

[3rdnlng]

Just now, Buftex said:

Ok...but I think you the one with a short memory...you've taken me to task for things I never said before...not even that long ago.  

I freely admitted at the time that I mistook you for another poster. He was stupid too.

[KW95 - JA17]

I can't wait till she's President.  I be cheering that her acceptance would go something like this:  

 

" AMERICAN PEOPLE, LOOK UNDER YOUR SEATS " 

 

 

 

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7 minutes ago, KW95 said:

I can't wait till she's President.  I be cheering that her acceptance would go something like this:  

 

" AMERICAN PEOPLE, LOOK UNDER YOUR SEATS " 

 

In a hypothetical Trump vs Winfrey Presidential race, if Trump were to win he should pull a stunt like this.  But instead of a car or a freebie, it's a card with the number $63,005 (current number, i'm sure it will go up significantly by January 2021)

 

Congratulations America.  That's your share of the National Debt!

[Deranged Rhino]

 

Edited January 9, 2018 by Deranged Rhino

[B-Man]

 

 

 

[Doc Brown]

Saw this floating around online.  I wonder if going with Pence instead will come back to bite him.

 

 

The larger-than-life character New Yorkers know simply as The Donald wants America to think of him as The President.

Donald Trump, the builder, casino operator and beauty pageant mogul, already has decided on Oprah Winfrey as his dream running mate.

"She's popular, she's brilliant, she's a wonderful woman," he said of the talk show queen. "I mean if she'd ever do it; I don't know that she'd ever do it. She'd be sort of like me. I mean, I have a lot of things going; she's got a lot of things going," he told CNN's Larry King

Trump shook up the presidential sweepstakes yesterday, announcing he is forming a committee to help him weigh a White House bid on the Reform Party ticket.

 

"The only thing that could interest me is if I could win. I'm not talking about the nomination, I'm talking about the whole megillah," Trump said.

Even some of Trump's pals are not quite sure what the master of real estate and of self-promotion is up to. But in a whirl of interviews with the Daily News and other media, he insisted he's serious.

 

"This is obviously very serious. It was all started by tremendous polls," he told The News. "The polls have been enormous. . . .The National Enquirer came out with incredible polls. Other people came out with incredible polls.

"That and the fact that a lot of people, including myself, are very unhappy with what they see out there. The spirit of the country is wrong. It's been four years of turmoil. It's been terrible, and Washington has just been a terrible place."

 

He said he would make a decision by January, a time frame that just so happens to dovetail with the December publication date for his next book.

Whatever Trump's ultimate intentions, some members of the Reform Party, including pro wrestler-turned-governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota, are urging him to seek the presidency.

 

Ventura, who was to dine with Trump last night at a local hotel, said: "Do I like him for the Reform Party? It depends if he likes the Reform Party."

Ventura is seeking a candidate he can back in what is shaping up as a fracas for the Reform Party's nomination. Conservative Republican Pat Buchanan is expected to bolt his party to seek the Reform Party nod, but Ventura and others oppose his candidacy. Buchanan declined to comment.

 

A new poll of 500 likely Reform Party voters by a Washington firm shows Buchanan leading Trump, 32% to 29%. A CNN-Time poll in July showed Trump with 7% when matched with Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Gore. The Enquirer poll was an unscientific survey of 100 people.

Reform Party Chairman Russell Verney said he has had no contact with Trump, but added: "I welcome him, and anyone else who wants the nomination."

 

Trump, a registered Republican, said he supports tax cuts, abortion rights and universal health care, but not gun control.

As for the man he would replace, he said President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton "really got ripped" on their $1.7 million deal for a house in Westchester's Chappaqua. "The house is right next door to one of my golf courses, and I just wish maybe I could have represented him in buying the house," he said with characteristic self-effacement, "because I think I could have saved them $600,000 or $700,000."

 

Unlike most exploratory committees, Trump's would provide political advice but not raise cash. "The good thing about this is I don't need the money," he said.

 

Edited January 9, 2018 by Doc Brown

[row_33]

Spy Magazine has the full published archive online, for which approx 1986 to 1996 is chock full of Trump’s utterances and public foibles, along with titanic NYC folk like Leona, Tisch,  the KKR takeover crew and many other fun characters. 

 

now if only Julie Burchill and Toby Young’s Modern Review could also get the full scanning.....

 

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7 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

 

Maybe before killing them we should try to redeem them by educating them into the proper Groupthink.  There will probably alot of people like this so we'll need camps to re-educate the people.

7 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

 

Get your blue MASA hat!

[Mike in Syracuse]

16 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

It's three years away, but the Dems can't expect another Obama type figure to come out of nowhere and win by nearly 10 million votes like in '08.  Whatever you do if you're the Dems, don't push for impeachment and don't let Hillary anywhere near a rally or tv screen.

Good points.   I'm not a big Trump fan but the Democrats seem particularly lost in the woods.      Hillary is toxic and every time she opens her mouth she hurts the parties chances.

If the Dems were smart they'd let the Mueller investigation run it's course and keep their mouths shut.   They wont.

[njbuff]

19 hours ago, Tiberius said:

Trump in 2020: "Please vote for me so I don't have to go to prison!!" 

 

My God, you are a bleeping moron.

 

What exactly is Trump going to prison for again?

[keepthefaith]

My wife was on the Oprah show about 20 years ago as a guest.  Not as a member of the audience, but the actual subject of the show.  The show was about neighborhood security and we were portrayed as poor examples of security.  Things like leaving keys in the car in the garage, doors unlocked and unsupervised kids running amok around the neighborhood were shown as what not to do.  We live in an exceptionally safe area. 

 

She came home and said Oprah was all business off camera and not very nice.  Oprah barked a few things at the guests prior to going on the air and said almost nothing to them afterward, not even a thank you.  A staffer gave my wife a coffee mug when done and sent her on her way.  Oprah has the reputation for being very self absorbed and egotistical so she'll fit right in to politics if she runs. 

1 hour ago, njbuff said:

 

My God, you are a bleeping moron.

 

What exactly is Trump going to prison for again?

He's not going to prison.  It's just a narrative chosen by the left and supported by the media.  Like running and end around on 3rd and 25. 

Edited January 9, 2018 by keepthefaith

[row_33]

42 minutes ago, keepthefaith said:

My wife was on the Oprah show about 20 years ago as a guest.  Not as a member of the audience, but the actual subject of the show.  The show was about neighborhood security and we were portrayed as poor examples of security.  Things like leaving keys in the car in the garage, doors unlocked and unsupervised kids running amok around the neighborhood were shown as what not to do.  We live in an exceptionally safe area. 

 

She came home and said Oprah was all business off camera and not very nice.  Oprah barked a few things at the guests prior to going on the air and said almost nothing to them afterward, not even a thank you.  A staffer gave my wife a coffee mug when done and sent her on her way.  Oprah has the reputation for being very self absorbed and egotistical so she'll fit right in to politics if she runs. 

He's not going to prison.  It's just a narrative chosen by the left and supported by the media.  Like running and end around on 3rd and 25. 

 

I accept that busy people can't always be nice when they are on a tight schedule.

 

It would be nice if they did show some decency, but they can't always do that.

 

[Tiberius]

2 hours ago, njbuff said:

 

My God, you are a bleeping moron.

 

What exactly is Trump going to prison for again?

Assuming he does not pardon himself, once he leaves office he very well could face charges ranging from Obstruction of justice, money laundering, engaging in a criminal conspiracy dealing with stolen goods (DNC emails) and violations of other federal laws. This is what it appears the Mueller is looking into. Of course, you are not a Trumpbot (ya right) so you think the Mueller investigation is not a witch hunt, because that's what Trumpbots are arguing 

 

This is also assuming a sitting President cannot be charged with a crime 

[3rdnlng]

10 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

Assuming he does not pardon himself, once he leaves office he very well could face charges ranging from Obstruction of justice, money laundering, engaging in a criminal conspiracy dealing with stolen goods (DNC emails) and violations of other federal laws. This is what it appears the Mueller is looking into. Of course, you are not a Trumpbot (ya right) so you think the Mueller investigation is not a witch hunt, because that's what Trumpbots are arguing 

 

This is also assuming a sitting President cannot be charged with a crime 

Obama may be charged with aiding and abetting the enemy, collusion with Russia, facilitating drug deals and bribery. No pardon for him.

[DC Tom]

Just now, 3rdnlng said:

Obama may be charged with aiding and abetting the enemy, collusion with Russia, facilitating drug deals and bribery. No pardon for him.

 

Don't forget gun running.

[Tiberius]

2 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

Obama may be charged with aiding and abetting the enemy, collusion with Russia, facilitating drug deals and bribery. No pardon for him.

Let's give the right wing media credit here. They have created a false narrative to give the real criminals breathing space. When real crimes are committed the right can muddy the waters of public discourse with trash that is not important. Hillary's stand down order, for example. Or emails, or travelgate, or birth certificates, whatever 

[B-Man]

 

 

I’m not sure that Oprah — whose natural constituency doesn’t lie far outside Hillary’s, if at all — is the candidate Hollywood thinks she is.

She may even win the popular vote, for our progressive friends who think that means something.

 

 

 

 “Golden Globes Fiasco: Hypocrisy, Preening, No Self-Awareness:”

 

FTA:

NBC, Oprah: The juxtaposition of those two brands is too perfect to pass without notice. If your memory stretches back even three months, you’ll recall that it was NBC that quashed a series of blockbuster scoops by its correspondent Ronan Farrow that, when he finally was forced to take them to The New Yorker, reported that Harvey Weinstein was a serial rapist. By coincidence, the president of NBC News, Noah Oppenheim, moonlights as a screenwriter who wrote Jackie — the kind of arty, Oscar-bait fare that Weinstein often produced and shepherded to Oscar glory (or at least Golden Globes semi-glory).

NBC’s late-night jokesters, Meyers included, were curiously slow to make jokes about Weinstein when the scandal initially broke October 5. Winfrey — whose kiss of Weinstein at a Globes-style awards show a couple of years ago went viral as she spoke, and who worked for Weinstein on his 2013 movie, Lee Daniels’s The Butler — appears also to have been used as starlet-bait by the reprehensible producer. Only via Hollyweird logic could she be cast as the anti-Weinstein or the anti-Trump: The world’s leading proponent of the concept “your truth,” a phrase she used again in her speech, is not the antidote to Trumpian deceit.

 

 

[3rdnlng]

4 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

Let's give the right wing media credit here. They have created a false narrative to give the real criminals breathing space. When real crimes are committed the right can muddy the waters of public discourse with trash that is not important. Hillary's stand down order, for example. Or emails, or travelgate, or birth certificates, whatever 

Pallets of cash. Is that a false narrative?

[Tiberius]

6 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

2 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

Pallets of cash. Is that a false narrative?

You know it was their money, right? 

 

You understand that the Iranian people were expecting the regime to use that money to improve the country, right? 

 

And the Iranian people are now pissed at who? Obama? Or the Iranian leaders? 

[3rdnlng]

10 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

You know it was their money, right? 

 

You understand that the Iranian people were expecting the regime to use that money to improve the country, right? 

 

And the Iranian people are now pissed at who? Obama? Or the Iranian leaders? 

The pallets of cash was not their money. It was, all told, 1.7 billion in ransom. The 150 billion or so was released assets.

[Deranged Rhino]

15 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

Pallets of cash. Is that a false narrative?

 

Just to add to that: 

 

Pallets of cash - flown in multiple planes and not every one of those planes landed in Iran. 

 

Where did the other planes land? If you answer that, you will see just how !@#$ed 44 and his team actually are if they decide to go hard on them.

 

[Tiberius]

1 hour ago, 3rdnlng said:

The pallets of cash was not their money. It was, all told, 1.7 billion in ransom. The 150 billion or so was released assets.

Congrats, you have changed the subject. Feel better? 

 

Trump is still the one under investigation, not the good president 

[Deranged Rhino]

4 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

Trump is still the one under investigation, not the good president 

 

This is false. 44 is under investigation right now by both the DOJ and congress.

Read: Hezbollah scandal. 

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/22/obama-hezbollah-iran-review-doj-jeff-sessions-317403

Edited January 9, 2018 by Deranged Rhino

[3rdnlng]

I heard that Obama was getting a tailored orange jumpsuit.

[Deranged Rhino]

1 minute ago, 3rdnlng said:

I heard that Obama was getting a tailored orange jumpsuit.

 

I didn't think 45 would go after 44. POTUS privilege and all that (it would do unspeakable damage to bring down a former POTUS - that would be the argument against).  

 

I'm rethinking that opinion now.

[Deranged Rhino]

[Nanker]

That Oprah is the new darling of the Left in terms of a potential Presidential candidate is quite telling. 

 

They have NO bench. The viable talent within the Democrat party is paltry. There are no heavyweights on that side of the isle.

 

All they can do is reeeeeeeeach deep into their bag of identity-politics stereotypes for any possible candidate that can walk and chew gum simultaneously. 

[outsidethebox]

12 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

That's just gross!!

[Deranged Rhino]

2 minutes ago, westside said:

That's just gross!!

 

I agree. 

[sherpa]

If the Oprah thing ever gets any traction, there are going to be thousands of people who have "experienced" her who are going to come forward.

Just a nasty, nasty woman.

[frostbitmic]

14 hours ago, njbuff said:

 

My God, you are a bleeping moron.

 

What exactly is Trump going to prison for again?

Grabbing Oprah by the kitty ?

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7 hours ago, frostbitmic said:

Grabbing Oprah by the kitty ?

I don't think anyone has grabbed Oprah by the kitty for several decades.  More likely she may have grabbed a few.

[row_33]

lets keep it real because I am keeping it real

 

 

 

 

[Dorkington]

I'd rather see a candidate with political experience, especially at the federal level. I don't know why we always want to prop up celebrity candidates. 

[row_33]

they didn't play the usual drop about Oprah on Howard Stern yesterday.... I'm sure it was running through Fred's and every listener's mind....

 

 

[Tiberius]

15 hours ago, sherpa said:

If the Oprah thing ever gets any traction, there are going to be thousands of people who have "experienced" her who are going to come forward.

Just a nasty, nasty woman.

Worse than Hillary already? Or do we have to wait till she is actually running? 

18 hours ago, Nanker said:

That Oprah is the new darling of the Left in terms of a potential Presidential candidate is quite telling. 

 

They have NO bench. The viable talent within the Democrat party is paltry. There are no heavyweights on that side of the isle.

 

All they can do is reeeeeeeeach deep into their bag of identity-politics stereotypes for any possible candidate that can walk and chew gum simultaneously. 

We love her so much because she has a brain, I guess. Trump doesn't. He is just really stupid. His bigotry made him loved and adored by the right, certainly not his brain. 

 

Oprah would just be a better president, simply because she has a working brain. 

[sherpa]

Contrasting every potential candidate with Trump is a fool's errand.

We can do better.

And Oprah's "brain" has never been tested.

How she treats others has been on display for decades though, and it aint good.

 

[Tiberius]

13 minutes ago, sherpa said:

Contrasting every potential candidate with Trump is a fool's errand.

We can do better.

And Oprah's "brain" has never been tested.

How she treats others has been on display for decades though, and it aint good.

 

No, comparing to Trump, you know, the probable opponent, is exactly what you do

Yes, for sure we can do better than Trump

Oprah talks and makes sense and understands things, that makes her brain better than Trumps

Whatever

[Deranged Rhino]

[Tiberius]