Whither Trump?

[Razgovory]

Huh.  What do you know.  His whole article was bunk.

[FunkMonk]

I suddenly remember that any person elected to the White House will have access to the nuclear weapon launch codes.  Maybe I am paranoid, but somehow the thought of Mr Donald Trump putting his fingers on the buttons/briefcase/codes or whatever that is makes me a bit uncomfortable 

I'm not particularly worried since Trump apparently doesn't even know what the nuclear triad is.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

I suddenly remember that any person elected to the White House will have access to the nuclear weapon launch codes.  Maybe I am paranoid, but somehow the thought of Mr Donald Trump putting his fingers on the buttons/briefcase/codes or whatever that is makes me a bit uncomfortable 

I'm not particularly worried since Trump apparently doesn't even know what the nuclear triad is.

probably some Hong Kong mobster gang :p

[Norgy]

And your daily dose of Trump from CNN.com:


Poll of Polls: Trump dominates nationally, in NH; tight in Iowa

The tightness in Iowa's got be Yi either answering questions with more questions or getting propositions from males during karaoke night.

[mongers]

Donald Trump - Not enough hot air to reverse direction of wind farm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-35106581

[KRonn]

Donald Trump - Not enough hot air to reverse direction of wind farm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-35106581

He'll have to move his golf course.     We had similar with attempts put a wind farm off of Cape Cod - Ted Kennedy and others were against it. It still hasn't gone through, probably mainly due to costs associated with the electricity it would generate, especially since we could buy wind energy cheaper from Canadian land based wind farms.

[The Minsky Moment]

I suddenly remember that any person elected to the White House will have access to the nuclear weapon launch codes.  Maybe I am paranoid, but somehow the thought of Mr Donald Trump putting his fingers on the buttons/briefcase/codes or whatever that is makes me a bit uncomfortable 

I'm not particularly worried since Trump apparently doesn't even know what the nuclear triad is.

You only need one to cause a big problem.

[Syt]

http://moviepilot.com/posts/3676177

As excitement grows for the highly-anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the stars of the film have been out and about on the usual promotional trail, garnering more buzz for the film. This means that the legendary Harrison Ford is wandering about Australia at the moment, giving wonderfully sardonic interviews and getting flat tyres on his bicycle rides around Sydney.

During an interview with Angela Bishop for Studio 10, Bishop tells Ford that Donald Trump (just his name is enough for Ford to begin mocking him) is a big fan of his and of the way he "stood up for America in Air Force One."

Harrison Ford's perfect response:

http://images-cdn.moviepilot.com/images/c_limit,h_280,w_480/t_mp_quality_gif/newrw79rbljvmirwgbyt/donald-it-was-a-movie-watch-harrison-ford-make-fun-of-donald-trump-747880.mp4

[Syt]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35131725?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook

Donald Trump 'honoured' by Vladimir Putin's compliments

US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has said it is a "great honour" to receive a compliment from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The property tycoon hailed Mr Putin as a man "highly respected within his own country and beyond".

It comes after Mr Putin said Mr Trump was a "very colourful, talented person" during his annual news conference.

The two men, both known for their blunt manner of speaking, do not know each other personally.

After hearing President Putin's comments on Thursday, Mr Trump released a statement praising the Russian leader.

"It is always a great honour to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond," he said.

"`I have always felt that Russia and the United States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating terrorism and restoring world peace, not to mention trade and all of the other benefits derived from mutual respect."

'Closer relations'

Mr Trump is currently widely regarded as the frontrunner in the race for the Republican presidential ticket, a race where other candidates have made no secret of their wariness of Mr Putin.

"I suppose [Putin] sympathises with Trump without knowing him well in person but he is following him closely, what he does and says, just because he is not a kind of usual Western politician," Alexander Baunov, an analyst at the Moscow Carnegie Center, told the Associated Press news agency.

President Putin made his remarks during his televised annual news conference at which he used crude language to lash out at Turkey, a Nato member and key US ally in the conflict in Syria.

But he had warm words for Mr Trump, telling viewers: "He says that he wants to move to another, closer level of relations. Can we really not welcome that? Of course we welcome that."

In October, Mr Trump told US TV network CBS that he and Mr Putin would "probably get along... very well".

During one presidential debate, he said: "If Putin wants to go and knock the hell out of ISIS [the Islamic State group], I am all for it, 100%, and I can't understand how anybody would be against it."

One of Mr Trump's rivals for the Republican ticket, Jeb Bush, criticised his response to the Russian leader's remarks on Thursday.

"A true freedom-loving conservative wouldn't be flattered by praise from a despot like Putin," he wrote on Twitter.

The cordiality between two of the world's most visible politicians was mocked in some quarters of the US media.

"The two men share a love for spectacle and an appreciation of its ability to move low-information voters," Christian Whiton wrote on CNN, while the New York Times detected a "long-distance bromance".

[garbon]

I wonder how that will play with supporters.

[Jacob]

I wonder how that will play with supporters.

I wonder if Trump will be able to get a sense of Putin's soul?

... but I think it'll play well with Trump's supporters. There are plenty of people outside of Russia who appreciates Putin's style and wish their own leaders were more like him.

[DGuller]

Time to bump the "Is Trump a fascist" thread, looks like.

[The Minsky Moment]

I wonder how that will play with supporters.

I predict well.

[Admiral Yi]

... but I think it'll play well with Trump's supporters. There are plenty of people outside of Russia who appreciates Putin's style and wish their own leaders were more like him.

I've never talked to or read anything by anyone in the US that thinks Putin is swell.

I'll be interested to see how this plays as well.

[Jacob]

I've never talked to or read anything by anyone in the US that thinks Putin is swell.

I'll be interested to see how this plays as well.

According to the Atlantic, Putin was the 10th most admired man in the US in 2014: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/vladimir-putin-the-10th-most-admired-man-in-america/384085/