Courtesy of Raw Story:
“After I heard that, there was no way I could continue to be part of a prop apparatus for Mr. Trump,” Monty told MSNBC on Thursday. “So, I resigned. And it’s a sad day because I am no fan of Hillary Clinton.”
As for why Trump had doubled down on inhumane immigration policies, Monty said that it was possible that Trump “listens to whoever talks to him last.”
“The other possibility is that maybe he does not want to win,” he added. “Maybe this is a media play. And I feel serious about that.”
“You can usually count on someone’s self-preservation instincts,” Monty explained. “Not only is this the right thing to do, this is the only way that he can win the White House. And that he didn’t follow it suggests to me that maybe winning is not part of the game plan. Maybe this is part of a media play where he wants to create a media empire that will focus on the millions nativists that believe that the country needs to control immigration.”
“And if that’s his play, it will be good and he’ll have millions of followers. But he won’t win the presidency.”
Okay I've heard this media thing several times now.
What do you think? Is starting Trump News really the end game here?
Great read, Gryphen!
ReplyDeleteThe Revenge of Roger’s Angels
How Fox News women took down the most powerful, and predatory, man in media.
It took 15 days to end the mighty 20-year reign of Roger Ailes at Fox News, one of the most storied runs in media and political history.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/09/how-fox-news-women-took-down-roger-ailes.html
Would that they had done this in year one, before he nearly destroyed this country with his propaganda network, not to mention mad 'starts' of O'Reilly, Hannity and the entire sick crew, including the women he abused. Face it, attorney Megyn and Miss America Carlson would not have been pseudo-journalists anywhere else. Shame on all of them.
DeleteTrump's Blood Libel & Press Failure
ReplyDelete...Watch Trump's speeches, with the yelling, the reddened face, the demand for vengeance and you see there's little to distinguish them from what we see at Aryan Nations or other white hate rallies that we all immediately recognize as reprehensible, wrong and frankly terrifying. This isn't 'rough' language or 'hard edged' rhetoric. It's hate speech. Precisely what policy solution Trump is calling for is almost beside the point. Indeed, it wouldn't be hate speech any less if Trump specified no policy solution at all.
This isn't normal. It was normal in the Jim Crow South, as it was in Eastern Europe for centuries. It's not normal in America in the 21st century. And yet it's become normalized. It's a mammoth failure of our political press. But it's not just theirs, ours. It's a collective failure that we're all responsible for. By any reasonable standard, Donald Trump's speech on Wednesday night should have ended the campaign, as should numerous other rallies where Trump has done more or less the same thing for months. There's a reason why the worst of the worst, the organized and avowed racists, were thrilled and almost giddy watching the spectacle. But it has become normalized. We do not even see it for what it is. It's like we've all been cast under a spell. That normalization will be with us long after this particular demagogue, Donald Trump, has left the stage. Call this what it is: it is hate speech, in its deepest and most dangerous form.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-s-blood-libel-press-failure
I'm not responsible. I have voted liberal since casting my first ballot! I'm disgusted with the course this country has taken. I'm sick of biting my tongue in polite society while having to listen to some repugnant bloviate. I'm going to tout my liberal views from now on.
DeleteI am not responsible either, I have been saying from the beginning little Donnie is a sociopath and his tactics are just like Hitler's.
DeleteOf course he will start a network, Roger is already on board.
Trump will do anything for money, in fact he will have his own state owned network if he wins, with Trump propaganda 24/7.
Traitor Trump has probable already sold all the info from his security briefing to the highest bidder and why they allowed Bannon to participate is beyond me.
Absolutely (and I think most of us have known it from the beginning that this was his plan all along) - trump wants a media empire that he can be king of (to get all the ego stroking and attention he craves) - I don't think he thought he'd get this far and actually be the nominee - but all the better for more free air time and more followers - just look at his so called "campaign" staff - they are all hard right conservative media folks (not experience with a political campaign) - and his ego is bursting at the seams that he made it this far - if by some "russian hack" or end of the world mishap and he was elected - he'd turn the white house into a media circus and trump money making machine for himself
ReplyDeleteThere's no plan. There's just an idiot bent on revenge who got lucky when he hopped on stage and was greeted by 30 years of corporatized media.
DeleteEvery time they play that "And when I get into the Oval Office, in the first hour, THEY will be gone!" clip, I say, "What's he going to do, just vaporize a million people?" Good lord. Anyone buying into this crap needs to move to Syria.
DeleteOn Mika and Morning Joe>
ReplyDelete“Just heard that crazy and very dumb @morningmika had a mental breakdown while talking about me on the low ratings @Morning_Joe. Joe a mess!”
EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump stayed silent when his dad said 'I don't rent to n-----s' in rejecting black tenant's bid for Queens apartment in 1963, ex-employee claims
ReplyDelete... “I asked him, ‘What do you want me to do with this application?’ He said, ‘You know I don’t rent to n-----s. Put it in your desk drawer.’ Donald was alongside of him. He was maybe 16, 17 years old at the time. He was learning the business of his father. He was right at his side."
Donald, Leibowitz said, had “no reaction” to his father’s use of the slur.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-dad-don-rent-n-s-1963-article-1.2774947
‘No Vacancies’ for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias
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Of course not. Precious Donnie had probably never met a black person, let alone gotten to know any. HE went from his toney white prep school to his expensive white military high school, and then on to U Penn, where he pretends he received a Wharton MBA (he did not, and neither did his sons or daughter..they all have BS degrees in BS.) Black people? Oh dear. They are only fit to clean his posh hotels and cook for him and his many wives. He is such an ignorant, awful, hateful man. I am ashamed that so many in this country think exactly like he does. At least they are all crawling out from their sewers so we can take a look at them. They don't even bother with the hoods now.
DeleteHe was sued for his discrimination too, back in the day, and had to pay!
DeleteDonald Trump IS a racist!
SallyinMI
Delete"They don't even bother with the hoods now."
Exactly!
Too bad jobs are hard to find, it would be great if every minority that works for his companies quit !!!
DeleteI have always thought his agenda did not include winning the presidency. Whatever it is though, you can bet it includes adding to his bottom line.
ReplyDeleteTrump backer’s threat of #TacoTrucksOnEveryCorner backfires online — big time
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/can-i-vote-now-trump-backers-threat-of-tacotrucksoneverycorner-backfires-online-big-time/
Hey! I'm a white American that loves finding one of their taco trucks. They make yummy food!
DeleteI wish we had taco truck in Indiana....
Delete"I wish we had taco truck in Indiana...."
DeleteVote for Hillary and your dreams may come true
The Faux News ship is sinking fast and the Drumpf can see it. He has Ailes and he has the captive audience. Let the games begin.
ReplyDeleteI've been saying for a year now that Trump's 'presidential run' is a grift.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm not certain that the end payoff is Trump News...
If it IS, however, then it will go the way of Trump Airlines,
Trump casinos,
Trump wine
Trump steaks
Trump University
etc.
...and he will lose not a dime.
Oh, his investors will - no doubt - but Donald will make millions if not billions.
And he'll walk away laughing at all the losers: those that voted for him, those that invested in his 'media empire', every single fool that believed he was what he is not.
EXACTLY! But maybe
DeletedRumpf's final performance should be when we put him in deter prison for the rest of his existance and watch him on a live cam collapse like a burnt marshmallow.
He added this
ReplyDeleteFUCKdrump. He added in a ad-lib last second statement to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN> a TWITTER TALK-back.
the Journal writes. “So Mr. Trump hurriedly inserted a new sentence in his immigration speech… adding,
‘They don’t know it yet but they’re going to pay for the wall.'”
Yeah, and he said that during the scattered applause, almost under his breath. I could tell it was not part of what he was reading.
DeleteYep. Trump is in debt up to his beady eyeballs and he has lawsuits from here to there. If the purchase of America fails, Trump TV will be his next business venture. Will his followers support it? doubtful. Liquidation of assets to pay debt/lawsuits would be more honorable for him and his family to heal their souls and lifestyle.
ReplyDeleteI read something earlier today that totally made sense to me.. Trump is still out there campaigning and doing rallies because he thinks he can still win the popular vote, but not the electoral votes. He wouldn't have to do the hard work of being, nor be called a loser.
ReplyDeletehe can't win the popular vote. The white natiotionalists are a small minority of us. TEENY. Once Hillary is beside him next Wed., filling his hate speech full of holes, people will come around to the right choice.
DeleteGreat post Gryphen. Donald Trump's end game is "nothingness" as written in an op-ed by Garrison Keillor in the Chicago Tribune. He does not have one. It describes Trump's Queens background and bigotry with such wannabe narcissism to a tee. Pun intended. Trump isn't even a respectable golfer.
ReplyDeleteAs only Keillor can, the read describes Trump's dumbass hat as that of a parking valet and not even a trustworthy one at that!It will make your day!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-donald-trump-losing-garrison-keillor-20160831-story.html
Reminds us of Snooki Snowdrift's wild aspirations.
drumpf is a habitual liar, cheater, even to himself. There was Rick Reilly, who said Trump is an “11 on a scale of one to 10" when it came to golf cheating. There was the aging rocker Alice Cooper, who once answered a question about the “worst celebrity golf cheat” by saying “I played with Donald Trump one time. That’s all I’m going to say.”
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There were awful comments on that wonderful Keillor piece..just sick stuff about Garrison and his show and Hillary. Pitiful.
Delete7:50 Glad you brought that little nugget up. Cheating and lying is the only thing that Don The Con does well. He has accomplished nothing on his own. Hired hands have done all the work of 'building' his empire while he struts around taking credit for any 'success' that pops out of his cheesy schemes.
DeleteAll too often the efforts end in failure, ridicule or bankruptcy. These he simply glosses over and stomps off into yet a new scheme denying any failure beyond blaming problems on those in his stable.
He shouldn't be allowed to be a 'businessman' much less elected to the highest office in the land.
Pay attention to this TRUTH:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.salon.com/2016/08/31/the-drudge-factor-in-2016-providing-the-rumors-scandals-and-chatter-the-press-is-all-too-eager-to-eat-up/
Of course, now Alex Jones is the important factor, news source. Just as Sarah.
DeleteI sure hope Alex Jones is staying on top of pickle jargate and not allow Jimmy Kimmel to let Hillary lie about her health and open a peanut butter jar next time !!!
DeleteDon the Con is a media whore. After he loses he is not going to admit if at some point he got caught up thinking he would be president. His initial purpose was probably to enhance his media power. He may have had a plan A and B. Possibly more. Whatever, he will be a winner.
ReplyDeleteOne way or another he is determined to control media.
Were the sheep like Sarah Palin and Dakota Meyer suckers who believe he is all about being a leader of a country?
If the devil suddenly appeared we would see Palin holding his hand and Meyer walking behind them with a shovel. It's what they do. Latch on to anything or anybody they think will have them. Yes, they are suckers but worse, they are sucker cheerleaders luring the naive into their flaming tent of misery. Money spends no matter how heinous and ugly the method of getting it is to these pure grifters.
DeleteAnd Sarah Palin, grifter supreme, walked right in to his trap. Talk about naive.
Delete“David Bossie is so craven and maniacal that in the heyday of the overreaching, Gingrich-era Congress, the top Whitewater conspiracy theorist in the House had to fire him for doctoring evidence. He has devoted his career ever since to trying to tear down Hillary Clinton. For months now, Citizens United has been acting as an arm of the Trump campaign, and this hiring of Bossie now makes it official. This is just the latest sign that Donald Trump has put the most extreme elements of the right-wing fringe in the driver’s seat of his campaign.”
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2016/09/02/trump-craven-maniacal-david-bossie-clinton-character-assassin.html
of course he is hiring the worst of the right wing. no one else wants the jobs.
DeleteAll the evil will come out when they realise he is not paying them!! He is taking any $$$ and giving it to himself and his "kids"
DeletePresident Obama is Officially America’s Greatest Job Creator President
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2016/09/02/pres-obamas-record-setting-total-job-grown-streak-continues.html
I have never thought he actually wanted to be President. This was just his latest "pay attention to ME, ME, ME!!!" ploy. Donald Trump is a joke on the GOP. This is how deep their bench actually is. Donald Trump, a thin-skinned, tiny-hands, baby man, is now their candidate for President. He is the king of the know-nothings. I hope the country doesn't fall for him.
ReplyDeleteHe floated doing The Apprentice from the Oval Office. So, yeah, based on who is now surrounding him, Trump Media is a real possibility. Hopefully it'll be as successful as Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, and Trump University.
The only thing that gives me hope is we did reject John McCain and the Grifter. We ALL need to get off our butts and VOTE.
Trump must think he has 'enough' Americans that would make him successful in a media endeavor. Know I'd never listen or watch anything he puts out there!
DeleteDetest the hunk of fat!
The Clinton campaign put out a new video Friday morning that is a brutal take down of Donald Trump’s disastrous visit with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. Its end is rather devastating, “As a candidate, Donald Trump has already embarrassed us on the world stage. Imagine him as president.”
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2016/09/02/hillary-clinton-busts-donald-trump-embarrassing-world-stage.html
She is so right! Vote for Hillary Clinton as our next POTUS! She has my vote and support!
DeleteLittle Donnie is already running some crappy ad about creating jobs here in Michigan.
DeleteI don't think I can take watching it until Nov. I guess my remote is going to get a workout.
Colin Kaepernick has been taking a whole lot of heat since he made the decision to sit during the national anthem in protest of the way people of color are treated in the United States. On Thursday night, Kaepernick once again refused to stand while the Star Spangled Banner was sung, but this time, he wasn’t the only one.
ReplyDeletehttp://addictinginfo.org/2016/09/02/colin-kaepernick-is-not-alone-anymore-fellow-athletes-join-his-protest-images/
I support Mr. Kaepernick! He has the freedom and right to make his statement as he is. I detest the cops that are so horrible to the minorities - and, yes, they are the 'bad' cops!
DeleteBless our minorities! Many of them could use help and protection from all of us!
Colin Kaepernick Pledges $1 Million to Social Justice Groups as More Players Sit
Delete"I've been very blessed to be in this position and make the kind of money I do, and I have to help these people. I have to help these communities"
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/02/colin-kaepernick-pledges-1-million-social-justice-groups-more-players-sit
@8:28 AM "Bless our minorities"? Do you claim ownership of other human beings? Was that a slip of the tongue?
DeleteColin Kaepernick National Anthem Protest Continues As Other Players Join
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@9:20 AM, yeah that one threw me for a loop too, I'm like WTF??
DeleteTrump Legally Prohibits Volunteers From Saying Anything Bad About Him — Forever
ReplyDeleteEven Trump’s volunteers must agree to a strict nondisclosure agreement.
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-requires-volunteers-sign-nondisclosure-agreement-bb240eb080f6#.emsz5fv1s
I don;t think it's legally binding. If they are volunteers, he can't hold them to anything.
DeletePretty sure you can sue anybody for a contract violation, so maybe this will help head off tell-all books & articles. But good luck stopping the leaks, Dirty Donny.
DeleteAccording to some guy that called Glen Beck... Trump Supporter Tells Glenn Beck That If Trump Doesn't Build A Wall, 'We're Going To Come After Him Personally'
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/trump-supporter-tells-glenn-beck-if-trump-doesnt-build-wall-were-going-come-after-him-person
Trump is going to be Trump. I doubt he thinks anyone can touch him in anyway. The wall meme is vital to him one way or another. Only if Mexico pays for it! Hiring vets and US citizens as Don will be negotiating.
http://images.memes.com/meme/924233
This is why we love Joe Biden. He’s a man of the people.
ReplyDeletePowerful Moment Between Biden And Protester Ends Up With Invitation Backstage (VIDEO)
http://addictinginfo.org/2016/09/01/powerful-moment-between-biden-and-protester-ends-up-with-invitation-backstage-video/
WATCH: Stephen Colbert ridicules ‘Oompa Loompa’ Trump’s screaming banshee immigration speech
ReplyDeleteThe Republican presidential nominee’s speech was so terrifying that Colbert ducked to the floor in fear, poking his head up only after Trump’s panicked litany of dreadful warnings had ended.
“Is the bad man gone?” Colbert said. “Do I have time to change my pants? Because I am in code brown right now.”
Colbert said you couldn’t really call that Wednesday night horror show a speech, since Trump screamed all of his awful predictions about chaos and lawless violence, so he proposed calling it a screech.
“I don’t understand how he changes emotions so quickly,” Colbert said. “He went from Mr. Cool in Mexico to thermonuclear in, like, an hour. I’m starting to think there might be more than one Donald Trump.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/watch-stephen-colbert-ridicules-oompa-loompa-trumps-screaming-banshee-immigration-speech/
I have always thought he never wanted to win, this was just a grift and to get all the free air time he could. I am sure he never expected to win and look at what he got away with? Trump needs constant stroking, the only thing equal to his ego is his thin skin....we all know bullies are actually cowards. I have read so many articles about how his rise in hate fame has given him a new objective, a media empire. Timing is everything in life...Fox is done for with Murdoch's sons taking over and Ailes is out and looking for a new gig. He has the masters of hate working for him and a legion of new followers that will not go away when he loses...its perfect. What better way to stay on the national stage and keep the anti Clinton fires stoked, just like Fox has done with Obama since day 1. Ever the grifter, he has made millions during this campaign along with his family funneling all the donors money into his many businesses. Overcharging everything and "loaning" his own money to the campaign which is paid back with donor money plus how many fees? All of this in plain sight...every bankruptcy, every lawsuit ending with him making money as the banks or small businesses lose millions. The most ludicrous is the immigration bullshit which he abused every chance he could. All his buildings used undocumented workers, the model agency....talk about the emperors new clothes. I am convinced there is nothing no matter how obscene or dishonest that will change the minds of his true believers, the next wave of Fox devotees are ripe for the picking totally immune to facts.
ReplyDeleteDid he mention the bobby pins? That photo is hysterical..Trump's thin hair being held back with bobby pins.
ReplyDeleteTrump DISTRAUGHT
Deletehttp://bipartisanreport.com/2016/08/31/breaking-trump-distraught-after-leaving-bobby-pins-in-hair-during-mexico-speech-image/
'And here's all the news unfit to print from the Cheeto Jebus". I think the Murdochs (ugh!) will put him in his place. Just like the voters will.
ReplyDeleteI have suspected this from outset that Donald wants attention and ratings more than anything. Pretty clever to use the presidential run to have the media wrapped around his little finger. He wants to win like it's the Miss Universe Pageant. He doesn't actually want to be president. After he loses he may be arrogant enough to eventually admit that his presidential run was better than the greatest reality TV show the world had ever seen. Just like he admitted that he could shoot someone and his followers would still vote for him.
ReplyDeleteMany low-info paranoid TrumpFanatics will never care and follow him to the end of the world. Donald says he loves the uneducated. But the so-called serious pundits,supporters & politicians are going to be very red-faced when they realize how much Trump fooled the right wing populace and took them for a ride. It will be fun to watch them sputter and squirm. The ones that are jumping off the Trump train and denouncing him early on are wise to do so.
There will be factions on the right that will turn rabid against him once it dawns on them how they've been had. Angry ex-supporters/gun-nuts/racist hate groups may turn their wrath on him and then Trump will be forced to pay for his own lead vests and security everywhere he goes. My advice to him is that after he loses he better be very, very careful about what he admits to publicly.
I haven't read The Art Of The Deal but I believe his real deal is the mind-set of a crap-shooter (in more ways than one). He's a gambler and takes advantage of his losses (bankruptcies & lawsuits) but wins enough to keep afloat robbing Peter to pay Paul. His lawyers have every loophole covered. To Trump this is all about gaming the system and the gambles are worth it. THAT is his real "art" of the deal.
'Angry, Snarling, Terrifying': Trump Confirms Nightmarish Immigration Vision
ReplyDeleteTrump's speech in Arizona "couldn't have been clearer: If you live without papers in America, you should live in fear"
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/01/angry-snarling-terrifying-trump-confirms-nightmarish-immigration-vision
HRC Documentary>
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/hillary-clinton-painful-white-house-moments-227682
Holy moly, the spin will make you dizzy!
ReplyDeletehttp://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/09/did-trump-happen-because-liberals-are-too-mean.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/opinion/campaign-stops/crying-wolf-then-confronting-trump.html
Lawrence O'Donnell had a very interesting take on the AZ speech. He pointed out that, after you strip away the venom, the 10-point plan did back away from the central pledge, long touted as the centerpiece of his tough-guy image, to deport 11M illegals *immediately*. The details of his plan are mostly the current policy, with a few details that would never get through Congress, plus the pledge to build a wall. In short, it was a softening of his earlier stance. O'Donnell's point is that he wrapped the substantive points up in especially venomous rhetoric to keep his based riled up and be able to point to "liberal outrage" against proposals that were materially more reasonable than they sounded. Like I said, an interesting take. Yet another tRump attempt to have his cake and eat it too?
ReplyDeleteOf course that doesn't mean the ploy worked. The tone of the speech was so well-steeped in anger and hate; like his convention speech, a pretty big turn-off to people who aren't already die-hard supporters. If the point of the Mexico trip was to look like a Statesman, a 72-minute red-faced, spitting-mad speech sure undid any gains in a hurry. And his approval ratings with blacks and Latinos certainly seem to be approaching zero. So it's hard to see what the ploy actually accomplished, with the possible exception of riling up the nutcase base that ain't never gonna carry the day in November.
I'm thinking the very same thing! This presidential run is a foundation for a money making media empire.
ReplyDeleteTrump actually said at a rally that him starting his own media empire after the election sounded like a great idea.
ReplyDeleteTHIS IS HAPPENing NOW>
ReplyDelete"“If the decision is not overturned, it will be the first time in this country’s history that a noncitizen on U.S. soil would not have access to a federal court to challenge the legality of their removal,” LAWS ARE WHAT MATTER.
https://thinkprogress.org/22-mothers-are-fasting-inside-an-immigration-detention-center-d02d42c956d#.tuv1ystht
The media empire is Trump's bailout plan if he quits during campaign & backup plan WHEN HE LOOSES.
ReplyDeleteTrump desperately needs an excuse for losing. It's obvious he knows nothing and listens to no one, whatever his next business venture turns out to be is destined to lose as well.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad that our politicians play these games and nothing good gets done in America. I mean on the Republican side. Democrats are always fighting for the underdog on very little funds. Meanwhile, the Republicans waste away taxpayer funds by first investigating Bill Clinton getting a blowjob, and now Hillary's email. On and on. Watching ABC news now and they just repeat what the Right wants them to. It's boring. Turning off the T.V. now. I don't need to be fed.
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