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ForgoTheConsequence

(4,868 posts) Mon Jul 6, 2015, 01:53 PM Jul 2015

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Call me a conspiracy theorist but I think this whole Trump/Bush thing is manufactured.

A little good cop/bad cop.

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Call me a conspiracy theorist but I think this whole Trump/Bush thing is manufactured. (Original Post) ForgoTheConsequence Jul 2015 OP

the right is playing chess while we play checkers, or maybe tiddly winks... luvspeas Jul 2015 #1

You are EXACTLY right. Le Taz Hot Jul 2015 #2

Yep. ForgoTheConsequence Jul 2015 #3

Kabuki Theater. Le Taz Hot Jul 2015 #9

Repub friend thinks Trump is running to make The Republicans look bad - that he is secretly a Dem. patricia92243 Jul 2015 #4

I think he's running to make Republicans look moderate. ForgoTheConsequence Jul 2015 #5

Yep...now the goalpost for "Republican moderate" creeps ever more to the right, even closer to the proud racists. Fred Sanders Jul 2015 #6

There is a bunch of stuff going on marym625 Jul 2015 #7

Exactly what I was thinking. world wide wally Jul 2015 #8

You're a conspiracy theorist brooklynite Jul 2015 #10

I don't think they're controlling anything. ForgoTheConsequence Jul 2015 #12

A lot of people here pointed out from the beginning Warpy Jul 2015 #11

luvspeas

(1,883 posts)

1. the right is playing chess while we play checkers, or maybe tiddly winks...

Reply to ForgoTheConsequence (Original post)

Mon Jul 6, 2015, 01:55 PM

Jul 2015

it's all possible.

Le Taz Hot

(22,271 posts)

2. You are EXACTLY right.

Reply to ForgoTheConsequence (Original post)

Mon Jul 6, 2015, 01:56 PM

Jul 2015

Nailed it.

Trump is NOT a serious candidate and he knows it. This is for the $$ because there's a lot of money to be made running for president.

ForgoTheConsequence

(4,868 posts)

3. Yep.

Reply to Le Taz Hot (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 6, 2015, 01:58 PM

Jul 2015

And Bush gets to look like a defender of Hispanic Americans (even though his policies will be terrible for them).

Le Taz Hot

(22,271 posts)

9. Kabuki Theater.

Reply to ForgoTheConsequence (Reply #3)

Mon Jul 6, 2015, 02:05 PM

Jul 2015

We've seen this movie before. Over and over and over ...

patricia92243

(12,595 posts)

4. Repub friend thinks Trump is running to make The Republicans look bad - that he is secretly a Dem.

Reply to ForgoTheConsequence (Original post)

Mon Jul 6, 2015, 01:59 PM

Jul 2015

ForgoTheConsequence

(4,868 posts)

5. I think he's running to make Republicans look moderate.

Reply to patricia92243 (Reply #4)

Mon Jul 6, 2015, 02:00 PM

Jul 2015

If he represents the racist, rich bastard side, Bush looks like a moderate.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

6. Yep...now the goalpost for "Republican moderate" creeps ever more to the right, even closer to the proud racists.

Reply to ForgoTheConsequence (Reply #5)

Mon Jul 6, 2015, 02:02 PM

Jul 2015

Never let a crisis go to waste.

marym625

(17,997 posts)

7. There is a bunch of stuff going on

Reply to ForgoTheConsequence (Original post)

Mon Jul 6, 2015, 02:04 PM

Jul 2015

I think is manufactured

world wide wally

(21,740 posts)

8. Exactly what I was thinking.

Reply to ForgoTheConsequence (Original post)

Mon Jul 6, 2015, 02:05 PM

Jul 2015

They are trying to make Bush a sympathetic figure to Mexicans and other Latinos

brooklynite

(94,486 posts)

10. You're a conspiracy theorist

Reply to ForgoTheConsequence (Original post)

Mon Jul 6, 2015, 02:06 PM

Jul 2015

If "they" were controlling the political process, they wouldn't have Bush wait two weeks to criticize Trump.

ForgoTheConsequence

(4,868 posts)

12. I don't think they're controlling anything.

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #10)

Mon Jul 6, 2015, 02:08 PM

Jul 2015

But excuse me for thinking a BUSH from FLORIDA might be up to something a little shady. There certainly isn't any precedent for that.....

Warpy

(111,232 posts)

11. A lot of people here pointed out from the beginning

Reply to ForgoTheConsequence (Original post)

Mon Jul 6, 2015, 02:08 PM

Jul 2015

that tRump was urged to run by a lot of people who wanted him in the race to make Jebbie look sane by comparison. His candidacy is a joke to everybody but tRump, himself, and the angry white males who are keeping him in second place.

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