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Speak softly and act like a big dick

Thursday night’s Republican debate broke new ground in the history of political rhetoric: it turns out that GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s dick is big enough, or so he claims. In front of a global audience — with the entirety of mankind as witness to US shame — Donald Trump responded to Marco Rubio’s jibes about his small hands by holding up his hands to show that they are plenty big, and that means his penis is big too.

“[Rubio] referred to my hands. ‘If they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee.

The word penis was suddenly in mainstream headlines: “Donald Trump defends size of his penis,” CNN said. Others went with “dick.” Republicans around the country were shocked, and non-Republicans too. Mitt Romney said he hoped that children weren’t watching. “Depressing, horrific, a circus… awful,” said David Brooks.

“The end of the modern conservative movement,” said Rubio. Though after all it was Rubio who started it by questioning the size of Trump’s hands in the first place. “And you know what they say about guys with small hands,” he said last week, during a stream of the most personal attacks on Trump’s hair, skin, and continence, in order to try to climb back in to contention. Rubio even went after Trump for plastic surgery, saying “he should sue whoever did that to his face.” He called Trump’s plane “Hair Force One.”

It reminds us of a famous Republican line, Teddy Roosevelt saying in 1901, when he was vice president: “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” Wikipedia says that line, delivered at the Minnesota State Fair, defined Roosevelt’s realist foreign policy: “the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any likely crisis”

It is now engraved in US political history. A fate we do not wish on Trump’s penis moment.

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Trump is a laudmouthed, vulgare idiot, however I just love what he is doing!
He is destroying that crusted Republican party, the establishment is running scared, Israel-first billionairs are moving over to the Democrats. The leaders of the party are sending all their storm troops to destroy the integrity of their own leading candidate, first time in history.

Now we need all the dirt the investigators can dig up on Hillary to make my day perfect. Perhaps we can start to reform those parties to serve only american interests.

Sadly, an apt if vulgar illustration of a disturbing moment. But I would suggest that the headline for this piece should read “Speak loudly, and act like a big dick.”

It needs to be said that no one had a problem with Trump before all this. People went to his parties, his weddings, appeared on his tv shows and took his money. Now all of a sudden he is person non grata, a horrible man with horrible ideas! Yes, I’m sure he never elaborated about his world view at any of his weddings, parties or visits to the green room. This is all perfectly new to everyone. In fact name one thing Trump as advocated that has not been mentioned by any other republicans, even some democrats. Trump has the elites in fits because he’s not “playing by the rules” and that has them concerned. I think they fear he cannot be controlled and that is what they are really afraid of, not being in control.

I think the badge on the elephant has a minor mistake.

It should read “GOPe” not “GOP.”

RE: “Speak softly and act like a big dick”

MY COMMENT: Personally, Trump reminds me more of a “slop-jar” than a “big dick”!

slop-jar
English
Noun
slop-jar ‎(plural slop-jars)
(US, dated) A container used for urinating or defecating when it is not possible or convenient to use a bathroom or toilet; a bedpan, a chamber pot. Commonly used in hospitals, where it is normally called bedpan. Formerly used in private residences that were without an indoor toilet or bathroom.

Translations
• a chamber pot

Synonyms:
• bedpan
• slop-basin
• slop-bowl
• slop-pail
• chamber pot
• loo

SOURCE – https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slop-jar