I thought it was the feet
I cringe that this is my country. (I’m not very cis-American.) Donald Trump talks about the size of his penis in campaigning for president.
It’s “yuge” — or at least that’s what Donald Trump wants you to believe.
The leading contender in the GOP’s race for president made sure the size of his hands — and his manhood — were front and center during the Fox News debate on Thursday night.
“Nobody has ever hit my hands before. Look at those hands,” Trump said while holding them up, spread-fingered in a bid to address previous suggestions by rival Sen. Marco Rubio. “He referred to my hands — if they’re small, something else must be small.”
He added: “I guarantee you there’s no problem.”
Make it stop.
I’m surprised he didn’t have his doctor make a statement…
Well, okay, maybe more disappointed…
Okay, no, I guess that’s not the word, either.
Should I perhaps be grateful he’s taking about his genitalia as opposed to normalizing speech that used to be largely constrained to ‘white power’ groups and the occasional drunken racist asshole on his way out of the bar after being denied service?
Either way, I guess, I’m gonna get flashbacks to elementary school locker rooms.
I had that thought, actually. Better ludicrous than vicious and harmful. BUT WHY DO WE HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THOSE TWO?
Not that I even want to get into this kind of subject, but isn’t it also nonsense? They used to say Chaplin was “well-endowed” and he had tiny hands.
Anyway:
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1132640620087731/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1132755770076216/?type=3&theater
Re ‘why do we have to choose’, I figure the essay-length answer would probably have to cover a lot of ground. The general vulnerability of most political systems to demagoguery. How generally difficult it is to maintain democracies especially absent reasonably high standards in generally available education and absent economic equality…
This all assuming it’s not a pained, rhetorical cri de coeur, in which case I apologize for answering at all. Or failing to say, in commiseration: there is always someone like this, riding the crest of people’s worst instincts. What varies is their success. What it says when they do succeed is bad news.
And here in the UK we thought Nigel Farage was an amazingly stupid example of someone who thinks he’s a politician.
Got to hand it you, America, Your big things are bigger, your loud things are louder, and your loonies are definitive loonier.
And, alas, your dangerous things are more dangerous.
If all’y’all wanna metrics competition, just pull yer thumps out, willya?
Over here, you see, we use meters, not feet. >3 times better.
Or better yet, use actual arguments, curls inside the cranium.
Then again, that’s hard. And Things go better with Coca-Cola. Or oil. Or coconut oil.
No, but seriously: Is the US Prez Election Chimpain really reduced to just another three-ring media circus? Very harmful for the Animals. Please dilute.
Oooo…I can’t resist. It was the King Kong cartoon that pushed me over the edge.
Trump is boasting about the size of his penis. But here’s the thing: the size of the penis is determined by the number of sex partners that…wait for it…the females have.
In species where the females have lots of sex partners, there is selective pressure on the males for a big penis, so that they can deliver lots of sperm against the competition.
Gorillas are a counter-example. They live in troops with one alpha (dominant) male and a harem of females. The males fight–with huge teeth and muscles–for control of that harem. But only the winner has sex, so gorillas don’t need a big penis: there is never any competition at that point.
As it happens, H. Sapiens is towards the high end of the scale (penis size relative to body size) for both primates and mammals. And there is no reason to think that Trump has anything other than the usual endowment for a member of his species. But that doesn’t tell us much about Trump’s prowess. Rather, it tell us that his female forebears had many sex partners.
It’s nothing personal: evolution applies to species, not individuals. Still, can you picture it? Trump gets up on stage, grabs his crotch, pulls out his schlong, whips it around it a circle, says, “See this! Yuuuuge! My mother, she slept with the whole football team. My grandmother, half the navy. And her grandmother before her, every man in the county.”
Possibly not the message he meant to convey…
… unless he wants to f**k the WHOLE PLANET 111ELEventy !!
Oh. THAT’S his plan?
Bu-but but whatabout his own honeycomber?
He’s still confused though. As are his electorate. And the rest of us.
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It’s a puzzle Ophelia, given the huge population of the US, there should be better candidates than buffoons like Trump. Since America claims to be the ‘leader of the free world”, people who are not to citizens of the US really should be able to veto the loonier presidential candidates.
I know. I don’t understand how this can be happening. I didn’t understand it with Bush 2 either. It makes me feel sick.
It’s actually very funny. He’s got a small penis, or is very anxious about it anyway, and now everyone knows it. Others in the same situation might drive a hummer, or some other compensatory vehicle. It might explain his personality, really.
It’s really not the kind of thing most people want to know about a politician.
@12 or not. I really don’t want to speculate about the sex organs of any of the candidates. Nether do I want to continue the tired old idea that to be a great man you have to have a huge dick.
Of all the presidential campaigns I’ve followed over the years, this one has by far the greatest schwing.
I can’t wait for the face-off between Clinton and Trump.
This ride will be so bumpy a mere seat belt won’t do.
It’ll take a body harness.
Only in America!!
@Steven #7
Alas, that argument refers to testicle size, not penis size. Chimpanzees (especially the Bonobos) are way more promiscuous than most humans and have smaller penises (relative to body size) than we do.
You don’t need a large penis to deliver oodles of sperm – you need larger testicles to produce and store the oodles. As long as the penis is lengthy enough to deliver a bumper payload in the right place it can be any size.
Suggestions for why humans have the largest willies (relative to body size) of all of the species who are our close relatives (Gorillas, Chimps, Bonobos and Orangs) seem to lie in the region of signalling to other males, or female choice which I find a bit suspicious as, again, there aren’t many size queens amongst the female sex.
And Trump’s idiocy would seem to bear this out as it certainly wasn’t the ladies he was impressing with that little stunt.
Rubio actually started this.
…unless you’re a hemaphroditic flatworm, for whom “penis fencing” is a Very Real Thing. Hey maybe we could hold penis jousts to keep these sorts of fellows occupied while folks who’d rather concern themselves with things like how best to run a country can get on with that?
Penis bragging in politics. Brought to you by the guy that schlonged Hillary.