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6/4/2016

I’m Guessing Trump Isn’t Winning Over Too Many Black Voters This Weekend

Filed under: General — Dana @ 11:33 pm



[guest post by Dana]

The mad tweeter re-tweeted this today:

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He really should have known better than to re-tweet anything from Don Vito:

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Apparently he’s a slow learner. The family in the tweet is the Perry family from Cincinnati and the photo was taken at a family reunion last year.

Eddie Perry said the picture of his family that Trump shared was “misleading” and “taken out of context.”

“I’m not saying there aren’t black families who endorse Trump,” he said, “however, this black family didn’t endorse anyone.”

Trump also caused a stir at a campaign stop in California on Friday when he pointed to a black supporter in the audience, saying, “Look at my African American over here”.

The man singled out by Trump was Gregory Cheadle, a Republican running for Congress. He appeared unoffended by Trump’s comments and surprised by those who were:

“The overwhelming majority of people felt offense, which kind of startled me. Wow, we’re so polarized and sensitive in this country now. It’s frightening,” Cheadle said Saturday.

Cheadle added he was glad Trump is giving attention to black issues, pointing to Trump’s pledge to bring down unemployment among African-Americans.
“I was thrilled that he gave blacks positive press by talking about one of the (supporters) that was at his event … a black guy who beat up a white guy at his rally,” Cheadle said.

Speaking of Trump and black male voters (or non-voters, as the case may be), I read an interesting essay over at The Federalist by John Gibbs, who believes that since “Donald Trump’s focus on American workers is in fact a black jobs policy,” black voters should support the nominee:

As an American who is black, I’m supposed to hate Donald Trump. They say he’s a racist demagogue. They say he hates Mexicans. They say he hates women. They say he’s mean. Yes, I’ve heard it all. But I believe that above all the sensationalist name-calling, there is a strong case for black support for Trump.

They say when white people catch a cold, black people get pneumonia. Nothing illustrates this better than the trends of automation, globalization, and immigration, which have left many black people in the dust even while lifting many immigrant groups and other races into the middle class.

Indeed, until about midway through the twentieth century, a black man with only a high school education could earn a good enough living to buy a home and support a family on a single income. Today, that is much more difficult. Research from the nonpartisan, nonprofit policy analysis group Young Invincibles shows that “holding all else equal, an African American male needs some college credit to have a similar probability of employment as a white male high school dropout.” The unemployment rate for black men with only a high school education is 9.6 percent, more than twice as high as the white male rate for that education level.

While the forces of globalization and automation that have contributed to this situation cannot be stopped, some policy solutions warrant consideration…

–Dana

UPDATE BY PATTERICO: I always enjoyed the comment by Seth Meyers: “Donald Trump says he gets along really well with ‘the blacks.’ But unless “The Blacks’ is the name of a family of white people, I think he’s mistaken.”

84 Responses to “I’m Guessing Trump Isn’t Winning Over Too Many Black Voters This Weekend”

  1. Oh boy.

    Dana (0ee61a)

  2. Yes. Trump is supposed to WIN black voters. Right?? This blog is beyond repair. Patterico, why don’t you go BLOW ACE. You are 2 of a kind. You’re a joke.

    GUS (30b6bd)

  3. Patterico, you aren’t smart enough to ‘get it”. You’re clownish blog is your INCOME.
    Smirk you pathetic fukwad. I won’t come here again. Say hello to ACE, you pathetic fukwad.

    GUS (30b6bd)

  4. I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that The Donald is stealing their pants again. This was the setup. The left goes wild. Then The Donald puts out an ad with a picture of Carson and a few other accomplished black men and women in suits and the caption “These are my black friends”. Then comes a picture of the looting in Ferguson with the caption “These are Hillary’s”.

    Roy Lofquist (6e7240)

  5. I wonder how far Trump will get when the press that carried him this far has unceremoniously dumped him — as we all said it would. Fox doesn’t count, nor do blogs.

    If the MSM doesn’t cover you the unconvinced don’t hear it. What they will hear is “Donald Trump said something awful again today!” Every day.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  6. Patterico, you aren’t smart enough to ‘get it”. You’re clownish blog is your INCOME.
    Smirk you pathetic fukwad. I won’t come here again. Say hello to ACE, you pathetic fukwad.

    GUS (30b6bd) —

    Patterico didn’t write this post.

    It’s not his real income.

    You’re asking him to literally sell-out.

    You’ll be back.

    Dustin (2a8be7)

  7. There must be fifty ways to leave your blogger.
    Just slip out the back, Jack
    Make a new plan, Stan
    You don’t need to be coy, Roy
    Just get yourself free.

    Hop on the bus, Gus
    You don’t need to discuss much
    Just drop off the key, Lee
    And get yourself free.

    .

    papertiger (c2d6da)

  8. GUS is Perry during other phases of the Moon, but he is still less demented than Trump.

    nk (dbc370)

  9. The unemployment rate for black men with only a high school education is 9.6 percent, more than twice as high as the white male rate for that education level.

    Someone’s probably going to give me shit for even asking this, but does this number account for the differences in criminal records between the typical “black man with only a high school education” compared to a “white male with only a high school education”?

    If that’s not allowed for, then that alone could readily explain such a difference. It’s flat out generally harder to get a job with a criminal background, especially in tough economic times, and there’s no question this is far more common among black males than white males. Not because they are black but because of the embrace of “thug culture” among blacks.

    IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses." (225d0d)

  10. We are going to learn that, at the very least, there are a lot of black people are going to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. This is going to mean vitng Trump for the wall but down ballot Dems to keep whatever urges there are to mess with their share of federal largesse in check.

    urbanleftbehind (847a06)

  11. You’re clownish blog is your INCOME.
    Smirk you pathetic fukwad. I won’t come here again. Say hello to ACE, you pathetic fukwad

    Two things:
    1) Wrong choice of “your”/”you’re”. I don’t normally Grammar Nazi, but when you’re insulting someone else, you look like a complete fuckwit when you make bonehead grammar errors.

    2) Notice that word: “fuckwit”. It’s how it’s spelled. You look like a truly MASSIVE fuckwit when you can’t even figure out how to spell the word “fuckwit” as you’re trying to use it against someone else…

    Read the Latin below and find someone to translate it for you. It’s you it’s about.

    IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses." (225d0d)

  12. Actually his is nothing like perry.

    narciso (732bc0)

  13. Except trump has been friends with quite a few prominent African Americans.

    narciso (732bc0)

  14. GUS is a fruitcake, and Exhibits #1 and #2 are at the top of the thread.

    Trump may have black friends, the way Donald Sterling had a black mistress, but he also has had one of the biggest violations of the federal Fair Housing Act for racial discrimination.

    nk (dbc370)

  15. I guess he likes HIS African Americans. I LIKE my Nissan Altima.

    nk (dbc370)

  16. Can we stop with the vapors, there aren’t enough couches.

    narciso (732bc0)

  17. NeverHillaryTrump.

    WarrenPeese (1df851)

  18. Nissan Altima!?!? How nondescript can a guy get? May as well drive a refrigerator.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  19. It’s like a Mel Brooks script

    SPQR (a3a747)

  20. WILL 2016 BE THE YEAR THE RUNAWAY TRAIN IS FINALLY STOPPED?”I think it is more important to stop the trends initiated by Obama and the increasingly radical Democrats than to attempt any serious foreign policy initiative,” Michael Kennedy writes at the Chicago Boyz econo-blog. “I have been using the analogy of pulling the cord to stop the train when it is headed for the cliff, even if you don’t know what happens next. I see that Richard Fernandez has now adopted the analogy.“

    https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/will-2016-be-the-year-the-runaway-train-is-finally-stoppedi-think-it-is-more-important-to-stop-the/

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  21. “NOTHING GETS PAST THE GRAY LADY: NY Times: Say, People Are Just Barely Getting By In Obama’s Economy.

    Hey, Obama’s operatives with bylines promised America a new FDR in 2008; they just didn’t realize that it was a warning, not a compliment.”

    https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/235507-2/

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  22. Take the fight to the enemy. Wake up!!!

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  23. “I wonder how many protesters really fear the backfire potential of a Trump victory. If they knew for a fact that beating on Trump fans makes a Republican win in November more likely, would that discourage or encourage them? Trump winning would “heighten the contradictions” between left and right more than Hillary winning would. They’ve spent eight years suppressing the impulse towards “direct action” because mainstream Democrats aren’t going to go along with mass protests on Obama’s watch. With Trump in power the left will be united against a common enemy, and that unity will help to foster greater acceptance of radicalism, however uneasy liberals like Chait might be about tactics. Naturally, that radicalization will encourage people on Trump’s side to radicalize in response and then it’s off we go towards a more European society. That’s another reason why well-meaning people on both sides were so dejected about the riot last night. It’s easy to see where this is going and it’s plain that some on each side want it to go there. What can you say to people like that?”

    — Allahpundit

    https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/235456-2/

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  24. Yes. Trump is supposed to WIN black voters. Right?? This blog is beyond repair. Patterico, why don’t you go BLOW ACE. You are 2 of a kind. You’re a joke.

    GUS (30b6bd) — 6/4/2016 @ 11:40 pm

    Two minutes later:

    Patterico, you aren’t smart enough to ‘get it”. You’re clownish blog is your INCOME.
    Smirk you pathetic fukwad. I won’t come here again. Say hello to ACE, you pathetic fukwad.

    GUS (30b6bd) — 6/4/2016 @ 11:42 pm

    Heh.

    So I guess “GUS” won’t be here to read me saying that this is probably his first time here, and that he has the potty mouth and spelling and grammatical errors typical of faux-outraged Trumpanzees that come here from out of nowhere. And how creative is he? It’s not everyone who can use “pathetic fukwad” in consecutive sentences. As I mentioned a week or so ago, in 2008 we had a higher class of troll when Obamabots would show up here.

    They actually made a movie about “GUS.”

    L.N. Smithee (e92da8)

  25. And some where in teh cesspool of the People’s Republic of teh Bay Area, a noble keyboard warrior sets ’em straight.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  26. Nothing illustrates this better than the trends of automation, globalization, and immigration, which have left many black people in the dust even while lifting many immigrant groups and other races into the middle class

    No serious economist will tell you tha, although Barack Obama has been known to complain about automation. What serious economists will tell you is that the core problem is the minimum wage, which chops off the bottom rungs of the economic ladder. The effects take time to materialize, but materialize they do.

    An additional problem maybe is having no contacts in the labor market.

    As an attempted substitute for low wage jobs, and no help from family or friends, we have very expensive and non-job related “job training” which can only affect a very small minority of people in any case, and below zero wages, otherwise known as universities.

    Sammy Finkelman (eb1481)

  27. “The daily, relentless attacks on Trump have an interesting effect. Meant to set the agenda and discredit him, the stories make Trump the focus of the campaign. This works on the minds of the punditry in Washington who think income tax returns matter (they don’t; we know he’s rich and doesn’t like to pay taxes). But there is a bigger arc at work here.”

    http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2016/06/trumping-washington-post.html?spref=tw

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  28. people say happy you’re a strong black woman, why you hoping so bad Mr. Trump will beat that nasty mean stinky old woman?

    and I tell them it’s cause of Mr. Trump is the best choice!

    happyfeet (831175)

  29. Trump, if it really NEEDS to be pointed out, is full of it yet again. I wanna see this video of Trump saying “Be very gentle, please don’t hurt him…if he punches you in the face, smile…be very very nice….”

    Also, after suggesting that attendees to his rallies are peaceful and so unlike the thugs in San Jose, he praises the African-American “great guy” who “cold-cocked” a protester in a KKK outfit, as if he had some right to do so. Then Trump suggested media coverage presumed the man was against Trump! Not only is that patently false, it doesn’t even make sense. But that doesn’t matter when your campaign is all about attitude, facts be damned.

    L.N. Smithee (e92da8)

  30. UPDATE BY PATTERICO: I always enjoyed the comment by Seth Meyers: “Donald Trump says he gets along really well with ‘the blacks.’ But unless “The Blacks’ is the name of a family of white people, I think he’s mistaken.”

    Patterico (305171)

  31. “The daily, relentless attacks on Trump have an interesting effect. Meant to set the agenda and discredit him, the stories make Trump the focus of the campaign.

    This assumes that the convincable center reacts the same way the right does. Sure, the MSM beating up on Trump — not to mention gangs of illegals beating up whitebread trump fans — makes even critics like me more favorable. But if the apolitical thirtysomethings only hear “Donald Trump stepped on his crank again today” in a way that the MSM will get right WAY before the election, then it’s hopeless. It will be just like doddering Dole, Daddy Bush and the supermarket scanner and W and the Katrina rape gangs. Whatever spin they want is all people will hear.

    They made him, and they can break him. That was the plan all along.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  32. Good old GUS. Does he not realize ACE is on the Trump Train now? So are Dr. K and Instapundit, both mentioned above. I think they all present themselves as reluctant about it to differing extents, but pleased about the political correctness and the thing. Trump’s rank dishonesty and con artistry clearly bothers them less than it bothers me.

    Patterico (305171)

  33. Yes. Trump is supposed to WIN black voters. Right?? This blog is beyond repair. Patterico, why don’t you go BLOW ACE. You are 2 of a kind. You’re a joke.

    GUS (30b6bd) — 6/4/2016 @ 11:40 pm

    Gus, why not stop the flouncing and leave already if that’s your view of a website that doesn’t belong to you? Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on your way out, dude. Bye now.

    Bill H (971e5f)

  34. Indeed, until about midway through the twentieth century, a black man with only a high school education could earn a good enough living to buy a home and support a family on a single income. Today, that is much more difficult

    What happened in 1951 was that Social security and the minimum wage was extended to many more jobs than were previously coveredby it, although that may not be the key date.

    https://fee.org/articles/the-minimum-wage-law/

    Martin Feldstein described matters clearly: “The minimum wage law has an unambiguously harmful effect on some young workers. Even if an individual were willing to ‘buy’ on-the-job training by taking a very low wage for six months or a year, the minimum wage would not permit him to do so…. For the disadvantaged, the minimum wage law may have the ironic effect of lowering lifetime incomes by a very large amount.” (The Public Interest, Fall 1973) …

    https://fee.org/articles/minimum-wage-hurt-the-young-low-skilled-almost-as-much-as-the-recession/

    Several strengths set the Clemens study and its predecessor (coauthored by Michael Wither) apart from a large body of research on the minimum wage. Not least among them is its time frame. The paper covers a seven-year period from 2006 to 2012, unlike other studies such as the oft-cited 1994 paper by David Card and Alan Krueger. That paper, which found no negative effect of the minimum wage, only looked at a period of eleven months.

    The time frame is critical because the damaging effects of minimum wage increases are often delayed. Immediately after a wage hike, businesses usually do not wish to significantly alter their business plans. Instead of laying off workers, they might raise prices or cut back on fringe benefits. But after one or two years, fewer businesses will open, existing businesses will close faster, and fewer jobs will be available.

    Sammy Finkelman (eb1481)

  35. “Look at my African American over here”.

    Theer are two rather obvious problems with this:

    1) It implies he has only got one.

    2) The word “my” makes him sound like an employee (but not a slave!)

    Sammy Finkelman (eb1481)

  36. Nissan Altima!?!? How nondescript can a guy get? May as well drive a refrigerator.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 6/5/2016 @ 8:39 am

    Herr Oberst, I see you your Nissan Altima, and raise you a Toyota Camry.

    /yes, I drive something a little different

    Bill H (971e5f)

  37. They made him, and they can break him. That was the plan all along.

    Kevin M (25bbee) — 6/5/2016 @ 9:31 am

    This was obvious in the debates. They must have let him talk more than any other candidate. He may have been asked literally twice as many questions as Cruz. The significance of that was, of course, totally lost on the Trumpists (along with about a dozen other things).

    Gerald A (7c7ffb)

  38. “Look at my African American over here”.

    Theer are two rather obvious problems with this:

    1) It implies he has only got one.

    2) The word “my” makes him sound like an employee (but not a slave!)

    Sammy Finkelman (eb1481) — 6/5/2016 @ 9:40 am

    It also has that awkward “Some of my best friends are black!!” vibe.

    Bill H (971e5f)

  39. “WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF VIOLENCE? A Weekend in Chicago: Where Gunfire Is a Terrifying Norm.

    Maybe it’s because Chicago politicians are in bed with the gangs. Shockingly, there’s no mention of that in the NYT story.”

    https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/235511-2/

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  40. I see over 50 references to Trump on Instapundit’s front page right now, all favorable.

    He’s aboard.

    Patterico (86c8ed)

  41. No, he’s explaining the phenomenon.

    narciso (732bc0)

  42. Asked a guy what he wanted to be
    He said “doofus, can’t you see
    I wanna be a lawyer, make a case afore a judge
    and save teh skels from packin’ fudge”
    nk, you can drive my ride
    Save you from the mundane side
    nk, you can drive my car
    An Altima’s beneath you

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  43. ted cruz and his sacky woulda gotten their unlikable creeper butts kicked so hard by hillary

    with Mr. Trump at least we have a chance to turn this tugboat around for the american way!

    this is something me and Mr. Instapundit understand on an almost intuitive level

    i wonder if we’re related

    happyfeet (831175)

  44. “He’s aboard.”

    He’s aboard the Trump Clickbait Express along with the rest of the media. The main feature of the Trump Gaffamatic is its proven short term ability to generate clicks for income, having a political farce as the face of the GOP runs a very close second. I agree with KevinM regarding Trump being a planned creation by media but the income side was Job 1.

    Check Levin, Limbaugh, Hannity, Trumpbart and any of the other hair on fire howlers for confirmation. They bought the first tickets on the Clickbait Express. WaPo, NYT, LAT, ABC, NBC, CBS jumped on at the first stop.

    Rick Ballard (5b8f0b)

  45. I find it worth taking the time to explore the reasoning behind the opinions these fence-sitters share.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  46. Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 6/5/2016 @ 10:59 am

    “Beep-beep, beep-beep, yeah!”

    felipe (429749)

  47. An Altima’s beneath you

    Colonel, my wife and I gave my niece a new 2016 last year for her 18th birthday. I thought it was a nice little car for a young lady. I wanted to get her a Mustang but my sister would have none of it.

    Rev. Hoagie© (734193)

  48. It also has that awkward “Some of my best friends are black!!” vibe.

    Oddly, some of mine are unlike leftists who live in gated communities and vote Hillary!. And there’s nothing “awkward” about it except to a left wing racist.

    Rev. Hoagie© (734193)

  49. @Haiku Look, at least the New York Times noticed. Of course other people called attention to it first.

    Chicago politicians are in bed with the gangs

    Are they really in bed with the gangs?

    They may be objectively pro-criminal, though, and Barack Obama was one of those people, no doubt about it.

    Sammy Finkelman (eb1481)

  50. If we sit on our hands in November, enabling Hillary to become President, then America will endure four years of left wing policies that they’ll never forget.
    And then they’ll respond by electing a “real” conservative in 2020.
    You know, just like they were supposed to do in 2012 after four years of Barack! (LOL)

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  51. All of my “black friends” dispise illegal immigration.
    Why can’t anybody here understand this is the only reason
    Trump is gonna be the next president?

    And why Cruz and umpteen other RINOs flamed out!

    Kobeclan (04a945)

  52. Gus has a point. This is Buzzfeed type of bullshot “Republicans are racists” story.

    IN Redding Ca. if you saw an African American, chances are good you were looking at my 2nd cousin Aaron.

    papertiger (c2d6da)

  53. nonono they’ll respond by electing a “real” conservative they rejected in 2016

    duh

    this is obvious to anyone who is willing to do the analysis

    happyfeet (831175)

  54. Mr happyfeet,

    You’re conflating the word “electing” with “nominating.”
    If we couldn’t win the election in 2012 and we can’t win in 2016, we’ll never win in 2020, no matter what all the holier-than-thou sanctimonious “pure principled conservative!!!!” a**holes try to convince us otherwise.

    To quote Elvis, “it’s now or never.”

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  55. Caitlyn Jenner considering ‘de-transitioning’ ‘in the next couple years,’ author claims.

    The idea that Jenner has had apprehensions over the life change is nothing new. Back when Jenner graced the cover of Vanity Fair, the former Olympian described a panic attack following the transition.

    The Vanity Fair profile detailed: “During the first full day of recuperation… She was undergoing something that had never happened before in 65 years of life: a panic attack… The panic attack lasted about 15 seconds, but a single thought continued to course through her mind: ‘What did I just do? What did I just do to myself?’”

    Halperin claims the transition has been “very hard” for the star.

    “She’s thrilled she has raised awareness about how transgender people have long been discriminated against but I think there’s a chance she’ll de-transition in the next couple years,” the writer said. “I don’t think it would surprise anybody in her inner circle. It has been much harder than she anticipated. “

    papertiger (c2d6da)

  56. CS
    Coffee importers next to the Harbor Grill is a great place for coffee and breakfast so so so delicious

    mg (85eaa8)

  57. I have a medical question. Is it possible to have your GOP reattached after it’s been severed?

    Is it sprinkler city afterward?

    papertiger (c2d6da)

  58. Mr. Elvis is very smart

    plus he drives a really nice car (cadillac) plus his wife is very very pretty like how Mr. Trump’s is

    also a lot of people name signature pancake dishes after Mr. Elvis, usually containing bananas and sometimes peabnut bubber

    also he’s super best friends with Mr. Nixon

    happyfeet (831175)

  59. Congratulations Col.

    mg (85eaa8)

  60. Patterico 59:

    I see over 50 references to Trump on Instanpundit’s front page right now, all favorable.

    He’s aboard.

    He probably is but right now the positive Trump entries — and there are several — are all by Ed Driscoll. The only positive comment I see about Trump in the first 50 entries that Glenn Reynolds wrote or linked is this one:

    But the uproar over Trump’s behavior as compared to Obama’s is precisely why he’s the safe choice for President — he won’t get the pass that Obama has, and that Hillary will.

    It doesn’t convince me but that’s a valid point.

    DRJ (15874d)

  61. Papertiger, no. But I’m sure you are already comfortable sitting to pee.

    SPQR (a3a747)

  62. DRJ,

    Did you read his recent USA Today piece?

    I think there is a contingent of folks — Insty, Ace, and Michael Walsh, whom I have teased about it personally at dinner — who do nothing but criticize Trump supporters and make pro-Trump comments. Some of these folks, like Walsh, deny being Trump supporters. That’s because they’re smart and they know there’s a good chance Trump will screw up and there will be a backlash.

    But I still notice all the support.

    Patterico (86c8ed)

  63. He probably is but right now the positive Trump entries — and there are several — are all by Ed Driscoll.

    Now that shows personal growth, and an appreciation for the difference between nominating a candidate and winning an election.

    papertiger (c2d6da)

  64. I use a squatty potty. (YouTube)

    Good to get that out. Let it breathe a minute.

    papertiger (c2d6da)

  65. Mr. Driscoll is a trump hater

    he’s filled with trump hate

    his soul is stained with the acid burns of trump hate incarnate

    i pray for him every night

    happyfeet (831175)

  66. mg,

    There’s a place called “Jack’s” over on Del Prado which is supposed to be pretty good. I can’t speak for it, since I’ve never been there.
    By the way, there’s some pretty good representation in Congress in that area. It’s part of Darrell Issa’s district. It’s like a “safe space” from the left wing lunacy which infects most of CA.

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  67. plus he drives a really nice car (cadillac) plus his wife is very very pretty like how Mr. Trump’s is

    So, taking your imagery to it’s logical conclusion, you see Trump dead on the toilet.

    Bill H (971e5f)

  68. no. I see a defeated stank, and many many happy children, with bright futures.

    happyfeet (831175)

  69. Thanks CS I’ll put it on the list I have about 10 in front of it hopefully I’ll get there

    mg (85eaa8)

  70. I guess I hadn’t realized the degree to which Instapundit has outsourced the content of his blog to Ed Driscoll.

    Patterico (86c8ed)

  71. Yes, I read his USA Today article and it surprised me, although I don’t know why because the signs have been there. That’s why I think your impression that he is on board with Trump is correct. But most of Reynolds’ posts involve other topics, especially medicine and education.

    DRJ (15874d)

  72. I assume you are talking about this article. Frankly, it’s as much about education (colleges) as it is about Trump. I wonder if he thinks an entertainer like Trump, who can appeal to shallow college students, is worth a try.

    DRJ (15874d)

  73. happyfeet,

    What are you talking about? Ed Driscoll is linking positive Trump stories and comments at Instapundit.

    DRJ (15874d)

  74. no he hates him

    i read instapundit several times every day especially now that hot air is so sucky

    i will find a link for to help you see

    happyfeet (831175)

  75. here read the comments for example this one

    leishman_md • 3 days ago

    Ed, Buddy, as I’ve said before. Your running of the inverted-Obama-to Trump logo is getting tiresome, as well as no longer original. You’re like the second-grader making fart noises at the back of the room. As long as maybe one person laughs, he keeps doing it. Do you think your continuing to run this is cute?

    and here is another one

    jckluge Michael Hazz • 3 days ago

    People like Ed can’t move on. They are like the liberal media with Obama only in reverse. They have invested so much of their personal self worth in the idea that Trump is a mortal threat to the Republic that taking even one step back is impossible. Their only hope now if for Trump to lose. Then they can always live in the counterfactual of “my God it would have been so much worse had he won.” If Trump wins and then turns out to be nothing like they have claimed he is let alone a successful President, they will be left with the impossible choice of pretending reality is not what it is or admitting the claims they had staked their reputations and personal self worth on were absurdly wrong.

    Ed is very passive aggressive so you may be missing it

    happyfeet (831175)

  76. I didn’t realize comparing Trump and Obama makes someone a passive-aggressive “Trump hater incarnate,” but I defer to your superior knowledge of hate and passive-aggressive behavior.

    DRJ (15874d)

  77. yes yes you can trust me I wouldn’t mislead you I promise

    happyfeet (831175)

  78. I love pattericos pontificaters

    mg (b08c57)

  79. the comparisons are not the same in part because of the role of the likes of miss buel,
    part of the democracy alliance, media matters, clinton foundation, zyzgy.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/06/6_4_2016_23_38.html

    narciso (732bc0)

  80. It should be clear to all that no one [Campaign staff included] can make this many mistakes over the time period of the past few days.

    There is only one valid explanation for the man’s inexplicably bad PR decisions – Trump’s intent is to LOSE to the leftists.

    Is there any other rationale for what the man is doing to himself and those that support him?

    Tor (654698)

  81. Insta is a limp and late arriving Trump train ticket holder. He rues Chuck Schumer for having manched Rubio (according to Dr. Reynolds, Schumer could give a damn whether Gof8 passed so long as Rubio’s future was ruined by association).

    urbanleftbehind (f3c999)

  82. Uh oh. Trump’s African-American Escapes

    Shoulda used a better knot.

    Rick Ballard (5b8f0b)

  83. NOTHING GETS PAST THE GRAY LADY

    I prefer to call it THE RED ARMY CAMP FOLLOWER, Coronelly. I think it’s more descriptive.

    Steve57 (e33d44)


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