Trump encourages audience participation
Trump was touting his hardline stance against terrorists from the Middle East when he mentioned Cruz’s response during the debate Saturday on the use of waterboarding.
“Honestly I thought he’d say, ‘absolutely’ ”“ and he didn’t,” Trump said, suggesting that Cruz was concerned about how some might take his answer on the subject.
“She just said a terrible thing,” Trump said, stopping his own remarks at the arena in Manchester and pointing out a woman in the audience, beckoning her to raise her voice.
“You know what she said? Shout it out, ’cause I don’t want to,” Trump continued. “OK, you’re not allowed to say ”“ and I never expect to hear that from you again ”“ she said … he’s a pussy.”
“That’s terrible, terrible,” Trump said as the audience erupted into a mix of laughs and cheers and he threw his hands into the air and moved away from the microphone.
I can’t imagine why half of America says it would be embarrassed if Trump were to become president.
Here’s Trump on Rubio:
Trump also went after Marco Rubio during the rally for “sweating like a dog” at the debate Saturday night…
Cats, dogs.
And lest you say to me “neo my dear, the word ‘pussy’ in that context has nothing whatsoever to do with cats, and everything to do with female private parts,” I actually looked it up, and the derivation for the term meaning “coward” (which is how the Trump-surrogate used it) is unclear. Could be both, could be either—could even, according to the more pedantic among us, be derived from “pusillanimous.”
As for dogs and sweating: they don’t. Even I knew that, although I didn’t know all the details:
A dog’s skin is quite different, which is why you have never seen a dog with sweaty underarms. Most of the dog’s sweat glands are located around its foot pads. That is why, when a dog is overheated, you will sometimes see a trail of wet footprints that he has left behind as he walked across the floor.
Rather than relying upon sweat, the principal mechanism that a dog uses to cool himself involves panting with his mouth open. This allows the moisture on his tongue to evaporate, and the heavy breathing also allows the moist lining of their lungs to serve as a surface from which moisture can evaporate. In this way the dog can manage a significant cooling of his body temperature.
Another mechanism that dogs use to try to cool off in involves dilating or expanding blood vessels in their face and ears. If it is not too hot outside, this helps to cool the dog’s blood by causing it to flow closer to the surface of the skin. This mechanism works best if the overheating is due to exercise, rather than a high outside temperature.
And speaking of pussies and Donald Trump, I had no idea until just now that there’s a vogue for making your cat’s hair into some sort of supposed facsimile of Trump’s and posting a photo of it at #trumpyourcat. For example:
And of course dogs, too:
Trump’s mention of Rubio sweating made me think of this:
America may have noticed Nixon sweating; pundits certainly did. But young neo, who was watching back then, didn’t notice a thing about it. Nor would I have thought a thing of it—didn’t everybody sweat?
Of one thing I am fairly sure: Kennedy wasn’t going to mention it. Candidates might sweat, but they were also expected to maintain a certain verbal decorum, at least in public. For example, in private LBJ may have been the possessor of an extraordinarily foul-mouthed wit, but in public he would never have displayed it, even against an opponent. Voters expected more of their leaders back then.
Name calling. It’s what my wife and her family does. They are Mexican.
I’ve tried to get my wife to stop. It gets worse then.
It’s a disease.
I could NEVER support Trump (Obama) due to their propensity to name call.
Oh. I made the mistake of trying to have my first political discussion 4 weeks ago with them at their dads birthday. It was about 10 pm and there were many who said how much they love Obama.
So i said, I don’t put my faith in a single man but i know which ideology is not helpful is liberalism because it removes personal responsibility from the equation and inserts the government and during the last 7 years we have gone from 10 trillion dollars in debt to 18 trillion.
That is when the fireworks started.
I got a barrage of white privilege comments
Yeah me. I made a mistake. Never again.
The Democrats just had to wait until welfare and death had claimed America’s moral roots. Then the dead would vote Democrat, so they didn’t have to bad mouth people back then as much.
Yeah me. I made a mistake. Never again.
Breitbart went around countering Leftists verbally, even though it put him into their poisonous aura.
Poison is a matter of tolerance and dosage. People learn to build up a tolerance over time and experience. It’s not something they were born with.
Ymarsakar Says:
“Breitbart went around countering Leftists verbally…”
Yes, I’ve seen video of him wading into crowds of protesters, taunting them. If he were alive, he would be having a grand time facing off with BLM, the SJWs, the Occupiers, et al, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. He had all the toughness, brashness and audacity of Trump but backed by solid conservative core principles. He was also turned from the Dark Side, like neo, but in a much shorter time frame.
He is sorely missed.
If he had run for POTUS, I would have voted for him in a heartbeat. Speaking of heartbeats, I always wondered about his death, coming precisely when his popularity among conservatives was soaring. I’m no conspiracy nut, but sometimes coincidences appear just too well timed.
Doesn’t Trump make himself a pussy by hiding behind some anonymous woman used as a shield? That is, if he wants to call Cruz a pussy then he could just do that, rather than wait to seize the words of someone else and then point a finger at the person he chooses to quote. Kinda cowardly, ain’t it? I mean, just askin’.
geokstr – A friend of Breitbart reported that he’d had a heart condition.
Neo – Two days with no Trump articles! Not bad.
Nick, I’m well aware he had a heart condition, but they can strike at any time, or never at all.
For me, it’s like the 2008 economic collapse, which could easily have occurred a year before or a year after when it did, it’s just so darned convenient to the left’s agenda that it happened in mid-September just after Palin’s choice as VP had put McCain in the lead in the polls for the first time. It’s not like Lehman was forced to declare bankruptcy for strictly financial reasons at just the right moment for the left, was it?.
Trump thinks he is running for seventh grade class president at Queens PS #1.
Pathetic.
Really disappointed to hear Rush defending Trump this morning. He most have a lot of listeners that love that idiot.
geokstr. if we want to steer our national conversation toward a more rational politics, we have to be very careful to avoid this kind of speculation. There are too many people these days who want to believe in fringe theories. We need a consistent rational voice.
Nick:
I’m not saying we should push for some conspiracy investigations on these two particular happenings, but given the amount of money now arrayed on the left, the levels of power that they are very close to controlling, and that Alinsky and others considered honesty, honor, principles, morals and ethics weaknesses in the fight for Marxist domination, I wouldn’t put even a lot more than that past them.
Trump does not seem to understand why we have health costs as high as they are and why we had the best health innovation and cancer survivor rates than other countries.
His last debate gave an answer to a health question leaving Trump to the left of Kasich.
The problem is government involvement and Carson’s answer was the BEST
The best cartoon of Trump I’ve seen on Facebook is the one showing Dennis the Menace as a young Trump. A definite look alike.
geokstr – That’s where you lose credibility with me. What percentage of such speculations do you think turn out to be true? Better, what percentage turn out to be publicly proven to be true? How much harm is done by each of the speculations that don’t turn out to be publicly proven to be true?
Nick:
I already stated I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but if you don’t think that Marxists will do anything to get and keep power, I can refer you to about a hundred million people who would disagree with you. If they could still talk, of course, which they can’t.
And, gosh, I’ve lost your faith in my credibility? Color me devastatingly unconcerned.
Let’s not forget that Barack Obama gave both Hilary Clinton and then John McCain the finger during the 2008 campaign, while pretending to stroke his cheek (the crowd cheered; they knew what he meant).
As for Rubio “sweating like a dog,” at least no candidate has yet brought up certain other rumors about that Senator from Florida, from when he was a young man.
Kira would take my hand off if I tried to do that.
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Why worry about Trump who hasn’t got a prayer in any event. I am still calling it for Sanders.
Maybe he could appoint Trump White House spokesman?