What's new
Fantasy Football - Footballguys Forums

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

Official Donald Trump for President thread (5 Viewers)

Status
Not open for further replies.
Courtjester said:
OMG Trump is eating a taco salad and he hired some finance guy.  Outrage  :hot:   :hot: . 

Will the Left learn? 
Click to expand...


Trump: Hillary uses Super-Pacs!

Hillary: So do you.

Trump: Crooked Hillary!

Hillary: The head of your Super-Pac was just convicted of fraud and you're under investigation by the state of NY.

Trump: Speeches! Transcripts!

Hillary: Your whole campaign is run by a Goldman Sachs hedge fund manager. And oh by the way you did speeches, so hand over your transcripts and also your tax returns while you're at it.

Trump: Soros leftists!

Hillary: Your finance manager used to work for Soros.

:confused:

 
Rick James said:
Florida is in play for trump. Yes, Trump will most likely lose the Hispanic Vote. They vote 75/25 D/R. Even George W. Bush only won 44% of the vote. However, this does not matter. Trump does not need CO, NV or NM to win the presidency. CA, AZ and TX are not swing states. So the only Hispanic vote that matters is in FL. From what I understand that state is mostly LEGAL Cubans and Puerto Ricans, not Mexicans. To reiterate the Mexican vote will not be a factor in the general election.
Click to expand...
Older Cubans are dying and younger Cubans are voting Democrat in large numbers. They support Obama's policy toward Cuba. Many poor Cubans who came recently from Cuba benefit from Obamacare. The largest growth in Florida Hispanics has been Puerto Ricans in Orlando and Colombians in South Florida. About 1,000 Puerto Ricans arrive every month. Most of them think Trump is a racist. The New Florida Majority was planning to register 1,000 new voters every 2 months in Miami, but because of the Trump rhetoric they are registering 5,000 predominantly anti-Trump voters every 2 months. When Trump insulted Mexicans, most Hispanics in the USA took it personally. 

 
trogg78 said:
Any decent person thinks, "Wow, that's so racist!  I don't want to be associated with that".
Click to expand...
Millions of Americans go out to bars and parties every year to drink margaritas and eat enchiladas to celebrate this fake Mexican holiday, documenting it all over social media. 

Now all of a sudden we are supposed to be offended by it and claim it is racist, just because Trump posts a picture on social media?

Is he pandering? Of course. Is this racist? Only to an idiot.

 
SaintsInDome2006 said:
Well, Hillary's aides were just interviewed by the FBI so naturally Donald made sure everyone was discussing his menu choices today.
Click to expand...
I think this says more about our media and our culture than Trump. Apparently they would rather talk about his lunch choice than Hillary's security issues. 

This is why Hillary will win in November, barring an illness or indictment.

 
Courtjester said:
And it does absolutely nothing in the big picture. See the MSM is still playing by the old rules where they could run a bunch of hit stories and that person would fold and be torched. Trump has already shown, he can spin all that vitriol into votes.

The whole taco salad story is a perfect example Coeur is all excited about it. Squis thinks this somehow has an impact on California--guess what, the people that hate Trump still hate him. The people that love him still love him and the independents and undecided see this story and think "Wow, why is this even newsworthy," and are more likely to be drawn to him because of them seeing the MSM as the one doing the bullying with such a stupid story.
Click to expand...
No I don't :lol:

I said that "Somehow I doubt California is in play now"...Trump didn't have a shot at beating Hillary before this, but he probably did lose a few more percentage points with Hispanics with this photo and his tone deaf remarks.

 
The General said:
I didn't look there. Just went and there is a giant picture of Hillary and her FBI interview and about 20 other links of other stories.
Click to expand...
The CNN page is busy for sure, it's part of the lead story with the even bigger picture which is about Ryan, with links to tacogate, Perry endorsing Trump, and Romney skipping the convention.

 
RBM said:
You really want to align with basket cases that go nuts over a taco salad tweet?
Click to expand...
No one is going nuts over it. But we are having a lot of fun with it.

Frank Conniff ‏@FrankConniff 4h4 hours ago


Are Trump Grill Taco Bowls at least partially responsible for the diarrhea of the mouth affliction that Donald suffers from?

 
RBM said:
You really want to align with basket cases that go nuts over a taco salad tweet?
Click to expand...
No. My point was I didn't see anything about the taco salad but in here I was getting the impression it was the lead story everywhere.

To me it was just an odd, dumb tweet. The picture of the ex-wife in the bikini underneath it is weird.

 
Walking Boot said:
How many people are on Hispanic social media? You think it's like 1-in-5 on El Twitter or RostroLibro or whatever? How many people watch Univision anyway?
Click to expand...


The evidence keeps piling up, as more studies confirm that U.S. Hispanics lead the general population in social media, mobile and e-commerce adoption.
Click to expand...
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/220256/hispanics-lead-stats-in-social-media-usage.html

- The value to Hillary of a twitter meme that will not die the entire election cycle with a core group?

PRICELESS.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
Walking Boot said:
How many people are on Hispanic social media? You think it's like 1-in-5 on El Twitter or RostroLibro or whatever? How many people watch Univision anyway?
Click to expand...
Univision last year was the 5th largest network in the country in week-to-week ratings only behind ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX

http://corporate.univision.com/2015/10/univision-network-grew-week-to-week-ratings-and-ranked-as-the-5th-largest-network-in-the-country-for-the-5th-consecutive-week-regardless-of-language-among-key-demos/

 
Last edited by a moderator:
Walking Boot said:
Hey geniuses, "1 in 10" is the same as 10%. You people are bad at math.
Click to expand...
And the 5th largest network in ratings is still the 5th largest. You want to cherry pick one show or two, fine, but this is the network that Hispanics watch and discuss among themselves.  To dismiss it and the impact that Hispanics will have on this election as insignificant, may, in retrospect, turn out to be a fatal miscalculation for the Trump campaign (although with the antipathy of women voters against Trump, it might be a moot point)

 
Last edited by a moderator:
Walking Boot said:
From your link: "11.1% of Hispanics use Twitter". So they're 15% of the population, and if this Taco Storm is happening on twitter, only 11.1% of the 15% of the population is seeing it. That's 1.66% of the US population.

So I guess I was being overly generous when estimating the reach of Hispanic Social Media compared to the size of the population as a whole.
Click to expand...


Boot, the idea that "we don't need ______ voters" is a campaign strategy is really a lousy way to win an election. Good luck with that.

 
Walking Boot said:
:lmao:

You people still are terrible at math.

Let's say, hypothetically, that every Hispanic person in the country participates in Hispanic Social Media. They don't, but whatever, let's say they do. That's 15% of the country. I said 10%. Is that really that far off?

In order for my comment to be outlandishly wrong, the number of people participating in Hispanic Social Media would have to be 33% larger than the total number of Hispanics in the country. Are you all claiming that tens of millions of non-Hispanics are actively participating in Hispanic Social Media? Really? That, not only, is every Hispanic person active, but, a third as many non-Hispanics are active too in the same social media spheres?

Come on, that's just ridiculous. And, if it were true, if 1/3rd of Hispanic Social Media was non-Hispanics, wouldn't it cease to be Hispanic Social Media?
Click to expand...
This is 2016. Social media bleeds into mainstream media and if you aren't aware of that, you aren't paying attention or are unaware of how the two are interconnected.

 
Courtjester said:
And it does absolutely nothing in the big picture. See the MSM is still playing by the old rules where they could run a bunch of hit stories and that person would fold and be torched. Trump has already shown, he can spin all that vitriol into votes.

The whole taco salad story is a perfect example Coeur is all excited about it. Squis thinks this somehow has an impact on California--guess what, the people that hate Trump still hate him. The people that love him still love him and the independents and undecided see this story and think "Wow, why is this even newsworthy," and are more likely to be drawn to him because of them seeing the MSM as the one doing the bullying with such a stupid story.
Click to expand...
I agree with you up until the part about it drawing in more support for Trump. 

 
Walking Boot said:
Nice backpedal. I'm only talking about the size of activity in "Hispanic Social Media" compared to the population as a country as a whole, here. "1 in 10, tops" is still uncontested. You said I "must be joking." I was not. The size of 'Hispanic Social Media' compared to the size of the US population is still within the realm of my estimate, and you've yet to challenge that.

Just say you were wrong, kiddo, and go back to the JV thread.
Click to expand...
Er this is the JV thread. The big kids hang out in the "Wall" thread in case you didn't know.

The point is about underrating the spread of this thing. Fine, you want to say it's "maybe 10% of the country, tops, will be exposed to its virality", fine, your math is unbeatable.

 
timschochet said:
How about Vichy Republicans? I kinda like that one. 

Seriously though, moderate or centrist Republicans who know better are betraying their principles if they proceed to support this embarrassment. 
Click to expand...
- Next!

Frank Luntz Verified account ‏@FrankLuntz


Add Rand Paul to the list of Donald Trump opponents-turned-endorsers too.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/natemcdermott/rand-paul-on-trump-ive-always-said-ill-endorse-the-nominee?utm_term=.lqZPDOGVy#.jbev1PV5j
Click to expand...

 
Last edited by a moderator:
Walking Boot said:
What's the logic here? Is anyone thinking there's some Hispanic guy out there somewhere who said to himself today: "Hmm, I was really considering voting for this Trump guy who promised to deport me and make me pay to build a wall to keep me from coming back, but his blatant pandering by eating a taco bowl has totally soured me on him."

I don't know what reality you people are participating in, but it's not the real world's.
Click to expand...


The logic in an election would be gaining more votes than the other guy, er person.

 
Walking Boot said:
A lot of Republicans, Republican voters, and Independent voters don't support Speaker Ryan's agenda. This could only get him more votes, not less.
Click to expand...


.... Like what issue specifically will Trump oppose Ryan on, I mean which you agree with Trump on and oppose Ryan? Aside from immigration?

I can see why you wouldn't want to have a GOP presidential candidate follow a GOP Congressional agenda, I mean they have been really unpopular recently.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
Walking Boot said:
Your link says 80% of those use social media, which the article includes stuff like 'YouTube', not necessarily "Hispanic social media" separate from mainstream social media.
Click to expand...
I would like to hear more about what Walking Boot thinks the difference between "regular" social media and "Hispanic Social Media" is. Because I can't really fathom that someone could be 21st century enough to know what social media is, and simultaneously 19th century enough to assume that it's segregated by race.

 
It's been fun to listen to conservative talk radio over the past few months. Glenn Beck was especially hurt by Ted Cruz's exit from the race, as Beck is personal friends with Cruz. Today Beck was calling Trump "insane" and actually uttered the following sentence (word for word): "Hillary Clinton may be a liar...but at least she is a SANE liar."

 
Walking Boot said:
Don't ask me, ask Squizz, he's the one who claimed the taco bowl was "going viral on Hispanic Social Media." 
Click to expand...
I never said it was segregated by race. But there is social media devoted to certain ethnic groups. For example, Black Twitter:
 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Twitter

Black Twitter is a cultural identity[1] on the Twitter social network focused on issues of interest to the black community, particularly in the United States.[2]Feminista Jones described it in Salon as "a collective of active, primarily African-American Twitter users who have created a virtual community ... [and are] proving adept at bringing about a wide range of sociopolitical changes.
Click to expand...
And there is a distinct Latino/Hispanic social media:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jose-aristimuno/when-it-comes-to-social-m_b_2832257.html

When It Comes to Social Media, Latinos Can’t Be Ignored

When discussing the power of social media and how it can be used to impact communities in positive ways, Latinos simply cannot be ignored.
Latinos, who have been recorded as the group with the highest rate of early adopters are continuously embracing technology faster than any other demographic in the United States.
According to a report by Pew Internet and American Life Project, 18 percent of Latinos online are Twitter users, a greater percentage than their counterparts in every other category.
On Facebook, Latinos are also using the social media platform at a higher rate than their counterparts, with 54.2 percent of Latinos online regularly using Facebook, just above non-Latino blacks at 47.7 percent and non-Latino whites at 43 percent, according to marketing company Big Research.
Successful organizations such as United We Dream and Latism have been able to implement positive change within their communities because they not only understand Latinos, they also know how to successfully engage them. To give you an idea of their reach, United We Dream has 4,911 Twitter followers and over 13,000 “Likes” on Facebook, and Latism has over 23,000 Twitter followers and over 150,000 “Likes” on Facebook.
 
[scooter] said:
It's been fun to listen to conservative talk radio over the past few months. Glenn Beck was especially hurt by Ted Cruz's exit from the race, as Beck is personal friends with Cruz. Today Beck was calling Trump "insane" and actually uttered the following sentence (word for word): "Hillary Clinton may be a liar...but at least she is a SANE liar."
Click to expand...


The General said:
No. My point was I didn't see anything about the taco salad but in here I was getting the impression it was the lead story everywhere.

To me it was just an odd, dumb tweet. The picture of the ex-wife in the bikini underneath it is weird.
Click to expand...


SaintsInDome2006 said:
Lord you were not kidding.
Click to expand...


Can we get back to this? What in the hell is Donald doing with a Marla in a bikini pic on the desk underneath the taco bowl?

 
Last edited by a moderator:
SaintsInDome2006 said:
Can we get back to this? What in the hell is Donald doing with a Marla in a bikini pic on the desk underneath the taco bowl?
Click to expand...
The internet slueths say it was a People magazine article about his ex-wife. You know he was only reading it to get to the parts where they talk about him :lol:  

What a complete dooshnozzle.

 
There were also many prominent conservatives in 2008 who refused to support McCain-then he chose Palin and that unified the party.

 
timschochet said:
There were also many prominent conservatives in 2008 who refused to support McCain-then he chose Palin and that unified the party.
Click to expand...
As of now, this rejection of Trump by prominent party elders is far more severe than anything McCain experienced.  In McCain's case you could see that the opposition was just demanding that he make a nod in their direction.    Trump is in completely new territory:  the most striking aspect is that many of the party elders have taken a unretractable position, leaving no possibility for reconciliation.  

This doesn't doom the Trump candidacy by any means, but it does mean that the GOP is moving closer to fracturing.   My guess is that many of the party leaders (as distinct from the mostly retired party elders) want Trump to fail, and to fail badly, so that they can regain control of the GOP narrative.  

I think Trump easily brushes the party elders aside.   He's a media star, and they're a bunch of has beens.  This will only acerbate the situation.

As always, following the money trail will provide the best picture for what's happening inside the party.  How the GOP raises and allocates money should be a very hot topic over the summer.   

:popcorn:

 
The Future Champs said:
As of now, this rejection of Trump by prominent party elders is far more severe than anything McCain experienced.  In McCain's case you could see that the opposition was just demanding that he make a nod in their direction.    Trump is in completely new territory:  the most striking aspect is that many of the party elders have taken a unretractable position, leaving no possibility for reconciliation.  

This doesn't doom the Trump candidacy by any means, but it does mean that the GOP is moving closer to fracturing.   My guess is that many of the party leaders (as distinct from the mostly retired party elders) want Trump to fail, and to fail badly, so that they can regain control of the GOP narrative.  

I think Trump easily brushes the party elders aside.   He's a media star, and they're a bunch of has beens.  This will only acerbate the situation.

As always, following the money trail will provide the best picture for what's happening inside the party.  How the GOP raises and allocates money should be a very hot topic over the summer.   

:popcorn:
Click to expand...
Unfortunately for them, they still don't realize the party has past them by.

 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

Yo Mama
**** OFFICIAL FFA 2025-2026 Fake NBA Draft **** - Happy Ranks-Giving!!
19 20 21
Replies
1K
Views
14K
Master of Subservience
Master of Subservience
DA RAIDERS
Pick a fantasy team for the Tour de France. There will be prizes!
Replies
35
Views
3K
DA RAIDERS
DA RAIDERS
kutta
***Official 2025 Footballguy T-Shirt Exchange - OCT 12 SHIPPING DEADLINE (extended 2 weeks)***
3 4 5
Replies
226
Views
7K
Dennis Castro
Dennis Castro

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 2 (members: 0, guests: 2)
Back
Top