dRumpf mastering the art of going in polar opposite directions, simultaneously.

1) It's not actually fooling anyone around here, but this tactical phenom has been manifested in a pronounced way since the 'Amplification of slash expansion of slash contraction of' his Muslim ban in late July:

"Donald Trump said his latest proposal to stop immigration "from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism" is an "expansion" of his blanket ban on Muslims, in an interview aired Sunday.

"I actually don't think it's a rollback. In fact, you could say it's an expansion," Trump told NBC's Chuck Todd on "Meet the Press." "I'm looking now at territory. People were so upset when I used the word Muslim. Oh, you can't use the word Muslim. Remember this. And I'm OK with that, because I'm talking territory instead of Muslim." " From TomCaDems's 7/24 o.p.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1529709

He and his merry band of campaign surrogate mutants take both sides of the issue. He wants credit for not being insane and unconstitutional, and wants to tell the people who love him for being insane and unconstitutional that he's still on their side, is as crazy and anti-democracy as ever before.

2) Does he ever apologize, or feel like he needs to apologize? Yes. And No. He's stated frequently that he never has, never will, and doesn't think he has anything to apologize for. He tells it like it is, blunt unvarnished truth. His fans love it. Then he apologized on the campaign stage, to a generic anyone (everyone) who feels offended by any of the zillion sheisskopfian things he's said. He's winking and nodding at the fans who love his take no prisoners approach, while neither he or his campaign can think of one particular example that he feels bad about. He 'apologized' and not one of his campaign mutants will admit to one single thing he did wrong that the apologizing is about, hours of tv discussion with zero clue offered by any surrogate as to where l'il donnie thinks he stepped a bit over the line. He'll never apologize, and he made a total complete blanket apology, about nothing -- at the exact same time. He's running on never apologizing and his fans want him to have credit for apologizing, simultaneously. Sure to sway the independents, right?

3) He's on the record as saying that Putin will never go into Ukraine, believe him, write it down. And they're already in Ukraine, in Crimea, he definitely already knows that, it's horrible and it's all Obama's fault, because the dems're horrible. And he's in favor of Russia taking over Ukraine, because that's what the people want, so the Crimean annexation is great. And he loves Putin, and doesn't know him at all. He's fake rattling his saber at Russia while parroting Putin pravda talking points, simultaneously.

4) He loves Putin, and runs on wanting to attack the entire world, his followers are on board with the second part, aquiescent about the first part. He has a ton of opaque relationships with Putin, and has issued tons of belligerent hyper aggressive statements about a dRumpf foreign policy for everywhere except for Russia, North Korea, killers from Chinese Tiananman Square, and the now dead Saddam Hussein. But now, SIMULTANEOUSLY, we get to hear that the real danger is Clinton's financial ties to Putin, his opponent is besties with Putin, not him, though, he doesn't trust Putin, doesn't want Putin's influence exerted inside our government. Nevertheless, we're getting to also hear SIMULTANEOUSLY about the extreme danger Clinton's belligerent anti-russian stance is to world peace, he's got a kinder gentler foreign policy, diplomacy is always best, and she's going to start a war with Russia due to her overheated cold war rhetoric, but she's weak, don't forget THAT. She's going to start a nuclear war, sez the guy who wants to give Japan and Saudi Arabia nukes, and who wants to know why we can't use them if we have them. Russia is good when it's with him, it's evil when it influences Clinton, Clinton is bad because she's too strong on foreign policy, but she's bad because she's too weak on foreign policy. Her diplomacy is bad, her lack of diplomacy is bad. Her financial ties make her a pawn of Putin, who dRumpf thinks is the greatest thing since sliced wonder bread, and also he's fully within his rights to have hundreds of hinky financial connections to Putin's russia, that he won't disclose. He's sticking to his guns on that.

5) Campaign expansion, or Manafort out? How about both. How bout we give you a woman campaign manager, who spends all her time attacking womens' rights? Tax returns released? Yes. And No, never. Debates? He can hardly wait, and might just skip them. He wants the Black and Hispanic vote, while doing everything possible to reassure his 'aryan' base simultaneously.

I could dredge some more of these up from the recesses of my memory, but the concept is solid enough without more examples. He wants to present a rorschach image for his flunky followers where they can see exactly what they want when they look at him and his statements, and simultaneously wants to betray everything his followers love about him, to reassure extremely low info independents, so they can look at rorschach donnie and see what they need to see to back him, too.

The schroedinger's cat campaign, from the uncertainty-principled politician. Gee, he sucks. And so do they.

Yeah, but dRumpf is a dirty hippy.

Think about it.

Constantly bad mouths our country.

Encourages violence and lawlessness in the streets.

Is out to destroy America.

Has close connections to communist Russia.

Associated with the worst underground/underworld elements in the nation.

Non-standard hairdo.

Made love not war during Vietnam.

Appears to be on a wide variety of mind altering drugs.

Looks physically dirty. That orange coloration is possibly from brick dust floating around whatever Manhattan tenement he's currently squatting in without paying rent.

Face it, he's one pair of daisy-patched jeans away from being the fourth fabulous furry freak brother.

It's like Chief Wiggum says: 'It's time for a good old fashioned hippy bashing.'


(By the way, the Beach Boys recorded a Manson song, entitled 'Cease to Exist', the Boys called it 'Never Learn Not to Love'. The Boys covering his song was significant, because Manson styled himself a musician, so getting a song of his published by them helped him confirm his self-styling.)

I've just been itching to get into the physiological psychology he was displaying.

I've seen some crooked mouthed repug mouthpieces before. Larry Speakes comes to mind, or Dick Morris' / Dick Cheney's Burgess Meredith like Penguin impersonations. But looking at Mickey's performance with Ms. Keilar on Blitzer, several times, I was really struck by how his mouth was always dropping down to his right, and his left shoulder would come up as his head shrugged to the left. Like his courtroom style is that he's used to truculently shrugging off inconvenient pieces of reality based evidence.

It was fascinating in a way, because I found myself using body english hoping his mouth, head and shoulder would all straighten out to be facing the American public head on. Willing his mouth to straighten out, then it would, but only because his head and shoulder went crooked to his left. Willing his head and shoulder back into normal line, then watching disheartened as his mouth dropped hard to the lower right. It was especially disconcerting watching his body motions as he shared a split screen with Briana Keilar. Who knows how to sit on camera, and how to verbalize without looking like a mutant.

The Scots had a surname that describes the Cohen phenomenom -- camp bell.

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Treason for sure.

Here's one enemy of the US that I wouldn't mind seeing in Gitmo, getting the 'lot worse than waterboarding' treatment that dRumpf is currently advocating.

Manafort organizing russian gov goons, to whip up a mob to attack US marines, in a Nato exercise in Ukraine. Repugs are traitors.

He's running on a 'jobs campaign'. Naturally, he goes to a depressed rustbelt area and talks about

foreign policy, instead. Because he is promising those ignorant yahoo fans of his exactly zero on jobs.

And the line 'while we can't choose our friends' is a great starting point for a repug foreign policy pronouncement. Sounds vaguely folksy, like an old Mark Twain saying or something. Then you look at it for two more seconds and think 'that's the stupidest f--ing statement I ever heard. Mind numbingly stupid.' And transparently false. He's picking his friends -- Putin's Russia, Russian and Chinese communist state capitalists, wiseguys and white supremacists in the US -- and choosing to un-friend NATO.

Thanks for the info, Marc.

I liked seeing 'warrior' Paladino's performance during the Vietnam war--3 months active duty at Ft. Bliss, TX, 9 years as a weekend warrior, after graduating from ROTC in '68.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-collins/carl-paladino-is-no-gi-jo_b_736660.html

I just saw Manafort on CNN denying that he's even seen or heard anything about N.Y. Trump campaign manager Paladino attacking the Gold Star family again. The reporter on 'State of the Union' pushed back by finishing the interview with telling Manafort 'your NY Trump campaign manager is attacking a Gold Star family.' Like he was saying 'oh, you don't know? Well, now you know.'

dRumpf's campaign performance reminds me of the Bismarck.

Getting pounded on all sides, shells and torpedoes hitting it, burning and exploding all over, the klaxons alarms going off, sirens whoop whooping as it lists to the side, rudderless, capsizing. We've got to keep pounding it until it sinks.

I am sorry about what happened to the enemy sailors on the actual Bismarck. But they should have emigrated to dodge the draft, like l'il donnie dRumpf's grand dad did.

His response to George's follow up question 'But you said you might recognize that (taking Crimea)'

was 'I'm going ta take a LOOK at it, but you know the people there, from what I heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were (part of Ukraine).' The same thing that Putin's Politburo is saying.

'Obama's horrible. He let the Russians into the Ukraine. Which I think is great. And so does Putin, who I think is great. And I don't know him.'

Did he earn his purple heart at the Battle of Harrisburg?

The McCain repugs pulled the same kind of tone-deaf gambit in '08 in Pittsburgh. They had Ashley Todd pretend to get pole-axed by a scary Black guy, in a strongly Italian neighborhood. They thought the right wing would rally around the white 'victim' against the 'criminal Black', the 'prejudiced' Italians in the neighborhood would get furious at Black people and the Black Prez candidate.

Instead, the neighborhood got furious at the idea that they had a dangerous neighborhood where crimes like that could occur, right on the main drag. dRumpf is making the same bad move, it's just a question of whether his Harrisburg area yahoo followers get to hear that he dumped on their city.