{"id":182574,"date":"2015-08-06T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/06\/it-now-appears-that-we-have-seen-the-political-troll-of-the-2016-election\/"},"modified":"2015-08-06T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T22:33:00","slug":"it-now-appears-that-we-have-seen-the-political-troll-of-the-2016-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/06\/it-now-appears-that-we-have-seen-the-political-troll-of-the-2016-election\/","title":{"rendered":"It Now Appears that We Have Seen the Political Troll of the 2016 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has now been revealed that before he decided to really run for President, <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/592601\/looks-like-we-all-owe-bill-clinton-a-hummer-now\">he and Bill Clinton discussed this, and Clinton gave him some advice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow I think that the current situation, where the the bigotry, xenophobia, and \u2026\u2026\u2026 well \u2026\u2026\u2026 batsh%$ insanity of the Republican base has been revealed as &#8220;The Donald&#8217;s&#8221; poll numbers continue to skyrocket:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">You do not have to love Bill Clinton, or even like him just barely, to agree that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/bill-clinton-called-donald-trump-ahead-of-republicans-2016-launch\/2015\/08\/05\/e2b30bb8-3ae3-11e5-b3ac-8a79bc44e5e2_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this right here<\/a> is amazesauce awesomeballs THE BEST:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Former  president Bill Clinton had a private telephone conversation in late  spring with Donald Trump at the same time that the billionaire investor  and reality-television star was nearing a decision to run for the White  House, according to associates of both men.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">Four Trump allies and one Clinton associate familiar with the  exchange said that Clinton encouraged Trump\u2019s efforts to play a larger  role in the Republican Party and offered his own views of the political  landscape.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Do we think that The Big Dog himself  sincerely believes America would benefit from Donald Trump hogging all  the Republican primary limelight to proclaim which someones are doing  the raping, and how he will make Mexico pay for his fence, by kicking  its ass, right in the butt? Or do we imagine the former president making  that jerking motion with his hand while he tries not to crack up on the  phone as he fondles Trump\u2019s YOOOGE ego right into the race, to the  detriment of the GOP, say hello to Madam President? (It\u2019s the second  one, we think, what do YOU think?)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Guys. GUYS. Do you know what this means? It means we might <i>all<\/i>  owe Bubba, for gently and oh so subtly nudging&nbsp;The Donald in the general  direction of&nbsp;the White House, wink wink, and thereby humiliating the  entire Republican Party so much, for being Republicans, that <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/591946\/new-poll-shows-republicans-starting-to-realize-they-suck\">even they hate themselves<\/a> right now.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not a fan of Bill Clinton&#8217;s Eisenhower Republican policies, but I do have to admit that he is a master of politics and of people.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that Clinton knew that Trump would be the turd in the Republican punch bowl, and he encouraged Trump to run, even while convincing Trump that it was his idea.<\/p>\n<p>Whether intentional or not, this is an <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Epic<\/span><\/b> troll.<\/p>\n<p>Well played, William Jefferson Clinton, President of Trolls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has now been revealed that before he decided to really run for President, he and Bill Clinton discussed this, and Clinton gave him some advice. Somehow I think that the current situation, where the the bigotry, xenophobia, and \u2026\u2026\u2026 well \u2026\u2026\u2026 batsh%$ insanity of the Republican base has been revealed as &#8220;The Donald&#8217;s&#8221; poll &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963,978,977,996,979,1085],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-trolling","category-wanker","category-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}