Sunday, July 31, 2016

Even the elevators are turning against Trump. Or is it his security detail?

Courtesy of ABC News:

The Colorado Springs Fire Department says that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had to be rescued from an elevator that was stuck between the first and second floors of a resort. 

In a statement released Saturday, the department says that it was called at 1:30 p.m. Friday to rescue about 10 people, including Trump, trapped inside the elevator at The Mining Exchange, A Wyndham Grand Hotel & Spa resort. 

The department says the firefighters opened the top elevator hatch and lowered a ladder into the elevator. Trump and the others used the ladder to climb out of the elevator to the second floor. The department says no injuries were reported.

I don't usually like to take joy in the suffering of anybody else, but I have to admit that I am taking a little joy here.

Just the image of Trump having to haul his huge ass up a ladder to get out of a contained space with nine other people is an image that I find quite enjoyable.

Made even more so by the fact that this was NOT a mechanical failure.

Trump's security team was given control of the hotel's elevators during the event, said Perry Sanders Jr., an attorney who co-owns the hotel. 

"The party were model guests but security insisted on having manual control of the elevators," Sanders said. 

After the occupants were rescued, technicians for the company that services the elevator determined that the machine became stuck because someone turned the manual key while the car was in motion, Sanders said.

So somebody working directly for Trump, left him stranded in an elevator stuck between floors.

And with that the image just became even more enjoyable.

P.S. By the way the "security team" they reference may or may not be the Secret Service, but if it is the SS they might be rebelling against Trump's treasonous attitudes and attacks on the military.

95 comments:

  1. Irishgirl11:09 AM

    I am laughing so hard.

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  2. Anonymous11:21 AM

    Evidently Field Marshal err Fire Marshall Trump doesn't understand building occupancy numbers. They are not up for conversation. 1500 people was the maximum the building could safely evacuate in case of a fire based on fire exits, extinguishers and other criteria. Trump knows this from his NY buildings alone. But he chose to make it a political argument instead.

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    1. fromthediagonal1:33 PM

      You may be giving him too much credit for knowledge about building codes, or anything else for that matter!

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  3. Anonymous11:26 AM

    Elevator Rap, could it be that Trump and his men were too heavy like these football players were?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWRoKEE_gnM

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  4. Anonymous11:26 AM

    Oh, my! I knew about them being stuck, but did not know about the manual override.
    ROFLMHOPIMP!!!!!

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    1. Anonymous12:55 PM

      I thought he only hired really, really smart people.

      If he hires these peabrains for security can you image his staff?

      Also I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in that elevator.

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    2. Anonymous2:49 PM

      Re "fly on the wall": Yes, please please please somebody wgo was in that elevator: Please give us the word-by-word dialogue. The comforting calm words of Little T helping everyone to relax and make the best of it. LOL: not!!!!

      I will bet my silk pyjamas that T went hysterical, ugly, petulant, me-first-y, and sweat a lot. And shouted.

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    3. Anonymous3:19 PM

      LOL! I assume that there were no Mexicans in that elevator. Otherwise, it would have been fun, if they had eaten some beans before...

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  5. Anonymous11:27 AM

    Well, according to Trump he has the greatest people...
    I am looking forward to hear Tim Kaine in Richmond VA tomorrow evening!

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  6. Anonymous11:27 AM

    I'm hoping someone in the Secret Service detail will "take one for the country." I'm sure the press will hail him as a hero for putting an end to the madness.

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  7. Anonymous11:31 AM

    I'm surprised that he didn't break the ladder. Something very Kafka-esque to be stuck in an elevator with Donald Trump. One would have nightmares for years after.
    Beaglemom

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    1. Anonymous2:37 PM

      I hope he passed gas as he was climbing the ladder.

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  8. Anonymous11:33 AM

    According to a new story in the New York Times, the campaign and the RNC have taken stock of the situation and reacted accordingly. To quote from the article;

    Donald J. Trump, confronting a daunting electoral map and a significant financial disadvantage, is preparing to fall back from an expansive national campaign and concentrate the bulk of his time and money on just three or four states that his campaign believes he must sweep in order to win the presidency.

    Those three magic bullet states are Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. This not a comforting thought. A Suffolk University poll, taken on 7/28, before the DNC had ended showed Clinton up by 9 in Pennsylvania. Not an easy lift for Trump, and based on the general opinions of the convention, and the bus tour she and Tim Kaine are on right now, I would be surprised if the margin doesn’t widen. Recent polling in Ohio shows the race a basic tie. There hasn’t been an RCP aggregate poll in Florida in about a month, but the last one on 6/27 showed a statistical tie. Even a 7/29 St. Louis Dispatch poll shows Clinton +1. Tim Kaine’s Spanish fluency should help in Florida, and Kasich supporters in Ohio may well punish Trump for his slandering of their Governor. But guess what? It may not matter.

    This whole three legged coffee table depends on one simple premise, Trump holding home serve. And it doesn’t look like he’s doing it.

    http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/31/1554717/-Trump-downsizes-his-Master-Plan

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    1. Anonymous12:31 PM

      Allow me to be the voice of calm for IMers. Call me deluded if you want to.
      Hillary WILL win, and not by a tiny margin either. Don't be afraid!

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    2. Anonymous1:31 PM

      @12:31 I will call you the ''voice of calm"...
      :-)

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    3. Thank you! 12:31
      You may talk calm smack to me anytime.

      I will no longer search for my 1950's Weekly Readers that show what a fallout bomb shelter should look like.

      Instead, I will work my ass off from the bottom up on the Democratic ticket right here in MN!

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  9. Anonymous11:34 AM

    "The 3am Call" campaign ad Simpsons-style
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLSy8Tl2bjs

    "Make Chris Christie eat a worm, just for laughs"

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  10. Anonymous11:35 AM

    Trump's nervous breakdown is right on schedule.

    Trump tweet this morning:

    I was viciously attacked by Mr. Khan at the Democratic Convention. Am I not allowed to respond? Hillary voted for the Iraq war, not me!

    The more people “attack” him, the more he will respond with even more outlandish behavior. His narcissism can’t deal with any criticism whatsoever and he simply was not able to imagine that people wouldn't respond to his candidacy with worship and admiration.

    Don’t bother being shocked by anything he does because he’ll keep escalating until he devolves into a gibbering sack of spray-tanned rage and spittle.

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    1. Anonymous12:01 PM

      I highly suggest that no one visit the pee pond. Those people are so off that it's not even fun anymore.

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    2. Anonymous12:39 PM

      Why even waste your time going there, 12:01 PM?

      They and the Palins are getting less and less coverage, or viewership, nationally and it's such a pleasure to see.

      Trump will be the next to go down the tubes!

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    3. Anonymous12:58 PM

      Sociopaths have no empathy for others.

      He doesn't get it, you don't attack the parents, especially the mother of a fallen solider or victim of violence for that matter.

      Even turtle head McConnell is trying to run away from Donnie.

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    4. Anonymous2:28 PM

      Anonymous12:01 PM
      I highly suggest that no one visit the pee pond. Those people are so off that it's not even fun anymore.

      I was just over at the "pond"
      looks like ole' DrLager was playing with the retards for a couple of hours before the ban happened, they were besides themselves... it was funny as hell

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    5. Anita Winecooler5:02 PM

      IF Trump thinks what Mr and Mrs Khan said was "A vicious attack" and he had the right to defend himself, put him in a room with my husband. I guarantee Trump will know "Vicious Attack", but my husband respects himself too much to use mma to prove a point. Donald wouldn't pass a purdue chicken test, that's why he's a bully.

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  11. Anonymous11:36 AM

    I can't even visualize his lard ass having to go up a ladder. He looks so out of shape. I'll bet his security folks had to 'push' his ass up in order for him to get out of the elevator!

    Too bad it didn't fall to the bottom and stymie him forever.

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    1. Can't you just imagine the headlines?

      "A Cheeto Face Fatally Hits A White Lard Ass In Colorado Springs Elevator"

      Talk about a mining exchange!

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  12. Anonymous11:38 AM

    BREAKING--Clinton bouncing in PPP Poll

    PPP's new national poll, taken completely after both party's conventions, finds that Hillary Clinton emerged with a much more positive image than she had a month ago. Donald Trump meanwhile is just as unpopular as he was before the conventions.

    Clinton's net favorability improved by 9 points over the last month.

    http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2016/07/clinton-image-improves-following-conventions-leads-trump-by-5.html

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    1. Anonymous2:48 PM

      It really bothers me that people say Hillary can't be trusted. Why not? Has anyone asked these Fox-watching drooling morons for specifics?

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  13. Anonymous11:40 AM

    A conservative's reaction to Trump on Khizr Khan

    ...He put up an 11- part twitter storm in response to what Donald Trump said to George Stephanopoulos when questioned about the remarks of Khizr Khan. This IS a must read, so I reproduce it in its entirety:

    http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/30/1554637/-A-conservative-s-reaction-to-Trump-on-Khizr-Khan

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    1. Anonymous1:32 PM

      and here's another one...

      And not one of the "leaders" of the fetid corpse of the Republican Party will stand up and tell Trump he's a fucking disgrace. Those are the words: "Fucking disgrace."

      How much more shit can you swallow? How much more are you willing to own, tattooed on your soul when Trump gets worse? And he will.

      http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/30/1554752/-Another-Republican-anti-Trump-Twitter-storm

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  14. Anonymous11:40 AM

    Right after the firemen rescued all the people in the elevator from the perfumed orange man, Trump spend minutes bashing the fire marshal at his rally, chastising him for not letting in more people than the law stipulates.

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    1. Crystal Sage12:57 PM

      Exactly. Way to show appreciation to the local first responders. The hall didn't look too full from the picture I saw. The local fire marshal handled it perfectly: no big deal.

      Too bad no one took a picture of lard ass climbing/being pushed up the ladder. Probably why he was so upset; the local fire department saw him at his worst - whining like a baby.

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    2. Anonymous1:51 PM

      My father's favorite insult was "lardass." Fits Drumf perfectly.

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  15. Anonymous11:41 AM

    There are lots of naked, near naked and ? pictures of "Malabnorma" on the internet but the NY Post put these out today. Good thing her hands are bigger than Drumpf's:

    http://nypost.com/2016/07/30/melania-trump-like-youve-never-seen-her-before/

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    1. Anonymous1:06 PM

      People have told me, Melanomia is really a transvestite, a Russian spy agent working for Putin.

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    2. Anonymous1:52 PM

      She kinda looks like a dude, just like Sarah Palin, oh and that freak Caitlyn Jenner, he's so busted it's not even funny any more.

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    3. Anonymous1:56 PM

      OMG! Soooo FLOTUS, no? How will Trump keep these photos from the media? Decent people do not want to see the FLOTUS in sexy nude photos. Gross!!!

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  16. Anonymous11:42 AM

    You left off the best part!


    After he got out of the stuck elevator thanks to the firefighters, he went to the talk he was supposed to give in a large room at the hotel, and the first thing he did was blast/insult the Fire Dept Chief because the FDC's office had denied some part of an entrance permit when the room was supposedly going to be packed too full per fire codes.

    The FDC's next quote sounded genial and experienced -- that people often don't like it when he has to enforce rules for their safety, but he doesn't care or take it personally.

    I liked that part even better.

    Time for someone to put together a video of recent Trump events: Three Stooges all in one person.

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  17. Anonymous11:43 AM

    He should take the stairs anyway. Lazy orange ass!

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  18. Anonymous11:44 AM

    I bet Trump was first out, rather than last out.

    Meeeeeeee first!

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    1. Anonymous12:03 PM

      I hope he didn't crop dust everyone while climbing the ladder.

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  19. 66gardeners11:45 AM

    "So somebody working directly for Trump, left him stranded in an elevator stuck between floors."

    So this was intentional, i.e., leaving him stranded? LOL

    Looking forward to late night show scripts of Trump's reaction while stranded in the elevator.

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  20. Anonymous11:45 AM

    What a great oppty to praise the excellent firefighters who got there so fast, etc.

    A MISSED oppty.

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  21. Anonymous11:50 AM

    Way back, when Bernie looked a lot better, I was going over some criticisms I had of Hillary. Boy has my thinking changed: yes, Hillary is not perfect, but at this point she seems near-perfect to me compared with the toddler/clown/idiot truly unfit person she is running against. Who has turned this into a no-brainer landslide victory for Hillary, I am betting, esp as stuff like this keeps adding up.

    Didja see the comedian say Trum is running for pres because he needs the money? Even though he does not pay his fair share of taxes (I.e., I bet he paid zero with all the conniving he can do with his fancy deals and accountants.)

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    1. Anonymous12:18 PM

      I have no doubt he's running for the money, and the publicity. His businesses are flailing, nobody wanted to lend to him and he was is debt. He was little more than a joke after Obama got through with him at that Dinner!

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    2. Anonymous12:23 PM

      Honestly? Down deep, everything else aside, I want to see him beat by a woman. Handily.

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    3. Anonymous12:35 PM

      Remember that Donald Trump has always had the 'free' press and media coverage due to their building of him and support of him run day in and day out and still is!

      CNN and MSNBC have been blatantly against Hillary Clinton and still are! Thank God, the majority of American voters are no longer listening to their baloney!

      The constant coverage of Trump was done to increase their ratings and financial status. Great to see the ratings of cable, specifically CNN and MSNBC, drop as to their viewership. I'm one that has chopped them!

      They did nothing but lie to America to building up the asshole Donald Trump!

      Vote Hillary Clinton and stop watching CNN and MSNBC! They truly have fucked the nation!

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  22. Anonymous11:51 AM

    C'mon, be honest.

    Didn't America feel a LITTLE bit greater again when Drumpf was stuck in the elevator and a little less so when he was eventually released to scuttle about the country freely?

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    1. Anonymous12:27 PM

      Yep, sort of how the state IQ of Indiana goes up whenever Pence leaves...

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    2. Anonymous12:39 PM

      Funny you mention that--I felt a ripple in the Force today, and THIS explains it.

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  23. Anonymous11:53 AM

    tRump campaign:
    Perpetual state of derpitude.

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  24. Anonymous12:11 PM

    Bet someone heard him "bitchin, bullying about the crowd, so "stuck him" in the elevator for a good LOL. His cheep perfume smell was him Peeing his depends with his tiny dick.

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  25. Anonymous12:13 PM

    So let’s recap. Someone who is so thin-skinned that he can’t move on from a slight. Someone who refuses to accept reality and then act accordingly. Someone who has a form of attention-deficit disorder, in which he constantly craves attention. Someone who is constantly boasting about past glories, like an ROTC officer describing his last weekend-warrior experience. Someone who can’t control his language and constantly belittles and bullies everyone he doesn’t like by flinging insults such as “loser,” “stupid,” “worthless,” “fat,” and “slob.”

    Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422298/trump-teenage-bully-john-fund

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  26. Anonymous12:15 PM

    And this could be our new First 'Lady'?

    http://nypost.com/2016/07/30/melania-trump-like-youve-never-seen-her-before/

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    1. Anonymous1:12 PM

      Yay! I am so glad all the pics have finally made it into the mainstream media. And this was in 1995, a year before she moved permanently to the US and just 2 1/2-3 years before she and Trump met, and sometime between Sept. of 1998 and during 1999 they became a couple. She was 25 at the time of the shoot and moved to NY in 1996, the year after the shoot, and he met her in 1998 and wanted her but she delayed because he was still married and dating other people. Yes she was in her mid-20s when posing nude (and in her mid-late 20's when she had her thing with Trump) and it could be said that she was young, but she was no innocent and she made so many decisions that were about not just getting ahead but about putting vereything into a relationship with a guy 24 years her senior who was rich and would keep her in at least millions of dollars for the rest of her life (if they divorced). I have no sympathy anymore for Melania or for any of the Trump offspring (except for Barron). They all lie as a daily way of life and are so selfish. That latest picture out there of the sons posing with a dead leopard--they hunt leopard and are all for hunting elephants (but I don't know if they've actually killed any elephants) makes me sick. Ivanka comes across well, but of course so much of that is learned and part of Ivanka the businesswoman trying to act as if she's not a shark.

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    2. Anonymous2:09 PM

      another good link:

      http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/298677/melania-trump-nude-ny-post/

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    3. Anonymous3:58 PM

      "Ok, this is where we make a deal. What if I traded that old bag, who, believe me, doesnt look that good anymore, believe me. And got a younger, hotter first lady with a round ass and full natural breasts, like my daughter? Believe me, she is hot. Hot! Believe me. Win win for America and me. The country, which isn't so hot lately, to be honest, Obama, right? Disgusting! Obama... Maybe another Soviet bloc chick. Man, they are SO hot when they're young! The HOTTEST!! In the world! Believe me! So hot. So hot. And a younger first lady. Incredible. For the country. Women looking up to her. Envying me. And men looking up to me. Also envying me. Yeah, I'm banging her. So incredible. Classy. Very hot and classy. The best! It'll be so hot, believe me, you won't believe it! What a hot ass. And breasts. Amazing. Amazing. The shape, the size. You can't even believe it! Believe me."

      This stream of consciousness prattle brought to you by Team Drumpf. Taking over the world, one hot chick at a time.

      Drumpf 2016! Just Like It Sounds.

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    4. Have they issued a denial yet that it is indeed a prospective GOP First Lady? I mean, who are you gonna believe Trump or your lying eyes?

      Well, in the words of a favorite philosopher of mine, "Woman's got to use whud she got, to git jes what she wonts." - James Brown, Hot Pants, 1971.

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    5. Anita Winecooler4:51 PM

      Yeah, there's a thin line between modelling and pornography. Notice her eyes ACTUALLY open and she's not pumped with silicone yet. She'll be the "copy and paste first lady" while donald fantasizes about Mariska Hargitay, a natural beauty.

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  27. Anonymous12:32 PM

    In 2000>"Look for the narcissist. The most obvious target in today’s lineup is, of course, Donald Trump. When he looks at a glass, he is mesmerized by its reflection. If Donald Trump were shaped a little differently, he would compete for Miss America."
    2016
    Or, are we looking at merely this season’s reenactment of a ritual that began when Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton were quarreling before their conclusive encounter at Weehawken?

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  28. Anonymous12:36 PM

    I watched that Colorado Springs rally and of course there was no mention of the elevator incident. Unlike other people, he didn't use it as a funny anecdote, I thought before seeing G's post here today. Trump hates looking foolish--like when in CA the protesting made him have to get out of his car on the highway--and so I thought it wasn't mentioned for that reason. But now I realize that there was even more to the story and it was his own fault. And now that we know the whole story, we know that he wasn't just making his usual complaint about the # of people wanting in at his convention being kept out, but we know that his remarks about the fire marshal also reflected his frustration about how Trump and his own people got his ass stuck in that elevator and so he was late to the speaking engagement. I also watched the early morning news Saturday and an anchor very specifically asked a reporter in CO about that Friday rally. Yes the # of people were limited and there were people outside, but the reporter made it very clear that the # of people wanting to attend were nowhere close to what Trump is used to. It sounded as though the crowds might start getting smaller--we'll see.

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    1. Anita Winecooler4:43 PM

      On AMJoy today, she told the rest of the story, I relayed it further down. Trump was pissed that the sheriff wouldn't allow more than the legal occupancy numbers in one room, and the spill over were sent to a room with a tv to watch, hoooooge tv. The same Sheriff who carefully lived little hands, bad hair guy up a ladder to the safety and fresh air on the second level. Trump's so thin skinned, he probably thinks the sheriff was a plant from the DNC. Why so paranoid, Donnie boy?

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  29. Anonymous12:53 PM

    Trump just can't stop lying about every little thing. Just these past few days he has lied about having turned down the Koch bros for a meeting (they refused to have contact), about the NFL sending him a letter (and then he lied and said, vaguely, that it was something said by someone word of mouth), and he keeps lying about the convention viewership numbers. On Friday he was saying that "millions" more and "millions and millions more" watched his speech over Hillary's. He said nothing about the fact that on the other three nights the Dems walloped the GOP. The numbers for those days range from 5 million to 7.2 million more votes. Only on day four did more watch the GOP convention. 1.2 million more watched Trump's speech, but he is out there lying about the numbers even still, even today, on Twitter. And by the way, although the Nielsen # doesn't include PBS, C-SPAN and YouTube, more Dem days were watched on YouTube and i think it's very safe to say that more Dems watched on PBS, and probably C-SPAN too.

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    1. Anonymous1:41 PM

      You were thinking along the same lines I was:

      - His treatment of the Kahn family
      - His unawareness that Russia has already invaded the Ukraine (national tv)
      - Lying about the NFL sending him a letter protesting the debate schedule
      - Keeps lying about his relationship with Putin
      - His newest reason for not releasing his tax returns is that is what sunk Romney

      If this keeps up - all we have to do is watch. He is such a disaster. Sarah - are you listening? You did good.

      Pat Padrnos

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    2. Anonymous1:44 PM

      I forgot something very important - ISIS is now praising Trump for attacking the Khan family. Wow

      Pat Padrnos

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    3. Anonymous2:11 PM

      Wow, I'd not heard about that Isis comment. Here's a good article for anyone who wants to get the Trump-Putin stuff clear in their minds where it involves Ukraine:


      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/30/donald-trump-paul-manafort-ukraine-russia-putin-ties

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  30. Anonymous1:01 PM

    Palin curse, Donnie!
    Having fun yet?

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    1. Anonymous1:45 PM

      Sarah Palin ='s the 'kiss of death' to any candidate she endorses.

      Don't forget that she first came out in support of Cruz (as did the State of Alaska!) and he's gone!

      And then she endorsed Donald Trump! She thought she'd be a part of his ticket and that is the ONLY smart thing he has done in his life - making the decision NOT to include her as his VP running mate!

      The handwriting is on the wall that he will lose this race!

      Vote for Hillary Clinton! She'll get the job done, already having the experience and knowledge to do so.

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    2. Anonymous1:50 PM

      I know I watched via C-Span because I didn't want the interruptions and commentary being done on the other cable networks.

      Most especially that of Rachel Maddow and the old guy she appeared with on MSNBC and CNN with its panels! It was great getting it unfiltered via C-Span!

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  31. Anonymous1:07 PM

    The Houston Chronicle has already formally endorsed Hillary. Yay!

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    1. Anonymous1:37 PM

      This story appeared in my Facebook feed and I thought it was a powerful testament to Hillary Clinton’s true character and conviction. I’m particularly interested in dispelling the myth of her apparent cold/calculating/manipulative/shill persona.

      There are so many similar stories out there about HRC it’s unfortunate we don’t hear them more often, which is why I wanted to share this one here. Click to read James Grissom’s entire Facebook post—it’s well worth it and may serve to encourage some who are on the fence about Hillary.

      PS: as of this posting, the original FB post has already been liked >68K and shared >34K times.

      http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/30/1554706/--Sorry-I-looked-away-for-a-time-But-now-you-can-deal-me-in

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    2. Anonymous1:51 PM

      Wow, a TX paper, and already. Thanks for this good tidbit!

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  32. Anonymous1:12 PM

    "I don't usually like to take joy in the suffering of anybody else"
    You don't read your own writing G.

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    1. Anonymous1:23 PM

      I do! And he doesn't.
      You can come here every day and whine your life away. It matters not.

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    2. Anonymous1:37 PM

      He said "usually", not "never".

      And one wonders--what might those exceptions be, and why?

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    3. Anonymous3:04 PM

      Gee, I don't know. Maybe because he has his own convictions and you are here WHY?

      I've been here eight years. You are a waste of time to even disparage him. HIS blog; start your own. Sheesh.

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    4. Anita Winecooler4:36 PM

      It's the "G" never does this, "G"never does that, "G's" wrong bell ringer. Blogspot has TONS of blogs, why visit one you don't like, then whine about it. Gryphen isn't making fun of your misfortune, so why should you care?

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    5. Anonymous5:34 PM

      I see, echo chamber only. God forbid a different view might show up. Be a Kool-Aid drinker, I'm not.

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  33. Anonymous1:27 PM

    Little hands still won't release tax returns, so basicaly.....paid no income tax. gave nothing to charity, made far less than he says, and is worth far less than he says, and I'm sure won't pay Russia back.

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  34. Anonymous1:29 PM

    There are plenty of everyday folk that rationalize everything that trump does and spin all that he says .
    "Trump has a good heart because he forgave the person that plagiarized Michelle Obamas speech"instead of firing him.
    Folks are buying onto this bs! We must be vigilante and make sure everyone votes. I started making reoccurring contributions to Hillary. Never give up! In spite of all of the trump ineptitude, many many ignorant folks will be in his corner.I see it everyday.It is frightening.

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    1. Anonymous5:30 PM

      There is no person who wrote Melabnorma's speech. That staff person they say apologized does NOT exist. She is a made up persona and they created a brand new Facebook page etc. two days after the debacle. Just like John Barron that Drumpf made up and used that name to call news outlets and promote himself years ago. Sick!

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  35. Anonymous1:38 PM

    Every time I see one of those photos of Trump (like the above!), I want to knock his teeth out! Detest the piece of shit. He is scum upon this earth as has been no other in recent history.

    Vote Hillary Clinton for POTUS. Send Don the Con crawling back to his tower on his knees!

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    1. Anonymous1:58 PM

      OK. Take a breath and tell us how you really feel. (Whatever it is I agree.)

      Pat Padrnos

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  36. Anonymous1:44 PM

    Miss Teen fits right in with dRumpf and FOX my...:
    http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/07/31/miss_teen_usa_karlie_hay_seems_to_have_used_the_n_word_on_twitter_a_lot.html

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  37. "The party were model guests but security insisted on having manual control of the elevators," Sanders said."
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    The utter contempt contained in this sentence for the so-called "security" team is striking.

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  38. Anonymous2:06 PM

    Well, hotel elevators are just SO complicated. I mean, you have to figure out which floor you want to go to, then push a button with that number on it. Really, you can't expect Donald Trump to figure out anything so complicated. Be fair. He's a idiot.

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  39. Anonymous2:12 PM

    Trump Humiliates Himself On National TV By Not Knowing Russia Is Already In Ukraine

    Trump obviously isn’t studying his briefing books. When asked a question about a global conflict that he knows nothing about Trump resorted to his usual empty bluster, and it completely backfired.

    Donald Trump humiliated himself on national television.

    It is easy to see why Putin wants Comrade Donald to be the next US president. If Trump wins, Putin will have a clueless stooge leading the world’s only superpower who can be easily manipulated and pushed around.

    http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/31/trump-humiliates-national-tv-knowing-russiaukraine-conflict.html

    Trump Is So Afraid Of Hillary Clinton That He Is Making Up Reasons Not To Debate Her

    Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to trying to dodge debating Hillary Clinton, and the Republican Party announced that they are standing with Trump.

    ...The American people have seen this movie before. Trump pulled the same tricks to get changes in the Republican primary debates. Here is what is going to happen next. Trump is going to threaten the bipartisan debate commission with not showing up for the first presidential debate. Trump is going to demand changes to the debate location, format, and date. Trump is going to want a studio audience. If all of his conditions aren’t met, Trump will threaten to hold his own event on debate night.

    The problem is that Donald Trump is losing, and he needs the debates way more than the debates need him.

    http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/31/donald-afraid-hillary-clinton-making-reasons-debate.html

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  40. Anonymous2:14 PM

    "Utter contempt" for the security team???
    Guess I missed something in your comment.

    Pat Padrnos

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  41. Anonymous2:15 PM

    John Oliver on RNC Convention, Destroys Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsw1vUpc6Ug&feature=share

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  42. Anonymous2:35 PM

    KARMA often waits some time to strike. Seems cheeto jeebus is SO bad that KARMA has no choice but to strike while the iron is hot.

    I hope more and more of these things happen 'out of the blue' to the tiny handed vulgarian.

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  43. Anonymous2:47 PM

    I hope everyone realizes that Trump feeds the ongoing madness with the media and press by constantly putting out statements that are lies!

    He states them daily and is showing how corrupt and devastating he is as a human being!

    This keeps him from telling the country what his policies would be should he ever be elected POTUS.

    The guy is playing games and he's so transparent. He has no more a clue as to what he'd do in the office than fly a kite!

    But, it is foreseeable if elected as POTUS, that he'd RULE AS A FASCIST DICTATOR and FIX everything all by HIMSELF!

    Vote Hillary Clinton in November! She is our OUTSTANDING chose for POTUS in January, 2017!

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  44. Anonymous3:01 PM

    The Republican Nominee owes our Veterans and slain soldiers an apology! Busted on Vietnam Wall Lie

    Donald Trump is trying to take credit for getting the Vietnam War memorial built when he didn’t even bother to show up for the meetings. Trump is no friend to our vets, and if Trump is elected president, he will treat vets the same poor way that he has treated them for entire adult life as a private citizen.

    Donald Trump, Trump lied about getting Vietnam War Memorial built, vietnam war memorial

    On behalf of every slain soldier who died on foreign soil and every family member who has suffered that loss and for every veteran who looks to the Memorial for healing and comfort, The Republican Nominee owes you an apology.

    http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/31/1554994/-The-Republican-Nominee-owes-our-Veterans-and-slain-soldiers-an-apology-Busted-on-Vietnam-Wall-Lie

    Trump’s grabbing of “Law and Order” as a campaign theme is right out the Nixon playbook. Playing the fear card works when your followers are disposed to be paranoid. Capitalizing on fear for political gain would take on new urgency in the age of Global Terror. Here’s a blast from the past (1968).

    http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/31/1553362/-Donald-Hillary-And-War

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  45. Anonymous3:03 PM

    White, Male, Veteran - Why I won't vote for Trump

    I am a white, male, Christian, military and law enforcement veteran, with a high school diploma (some college), now in my early 60’s and in senior management, financially successful living in the suburbs of a major city. By all demographics, I should be voting Republican.

    I will never vote for Donald Trump. I love my country too much to do that. I will not betray my fellow American’s that way.

    He is an embarrassment to my race, my gender, my faith, my military and work experiences. He has dishonored our country, embraced foreign entanglements in our political system, disrespected women, people of faith, working class Americans, and insulted military veterans and their parents. His blatant and overt bigotry has even disgraced and embarrassed other Republicans and conservatives. He has lied, bullied, intimidated and cheated people and institutions throughout his life, and is proud of it. He is not, in any way shape or form, representative of true leadership.

    http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/31/1554987/-White-Male-Veteran-Why-I-won-t-vote-for-Trump

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  46. Anonymous3:04 PM

    The Gish Gallop is an effective debating technique when used in front of laypeople who don’t know the facts, or believers who simply don’t care. Trump is not the first politician to use it effectively, and he probably won’t be the last. But Trump has elevated rapid-fire lying to angry mobs to heights not seen in presidential politics since the days of George Wallace.

    Just since the first draft of this article midweek, Trump has encouraged Putin to hack democratic servers, then downplayed it saying he was kidding, moved on the dissing the Khan’s, and either revealed a secret base in Saudi Arabia, or more likely, simply made one up. And that’s just the major items over the last few days.

    Most journalists do value accuracy and there are a number of resources for untangling the lies and setting the record straight. But it remains to be seen if Trump’s bullshit can be successfully countered for the benefit of the undecided voters who will make the difference in this election.

    http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/31/1551828/-Trump-perfects-the-Gish-Gallop-leaving-media-overwhelmed-in-trying-to-correct-his-many-whoppers

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  47. Anonymous4:18 PM

    I'll bet he tries to get out of paying the bill at Wyndham.

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  48. Anita Winecooler4:28 PM

    I love it! He was pissed off at the sheriff for not allowing more than the legal occupancy, and the spill over had to watch on tv in another room. The same Sheriff who helped retrieve the moron from the aforementioned stuck elevator. He felt the guy had it out for him from the very beginning, poor Trump, it's everyone's fault but his and the morons he surrounds himself with.

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