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It is, tragically, no shock that our country has among its choices for the Presidency: a Criminal, a Socialist, and a pandering, demagogic Pragmatist.
Regarding the 69 year old Prince of "They are so mean to me", it's surprising how many people give him a pass and just accept whatever he says. These same people would Never tolerate his degree of double-speak, innuendo, rumor, insult, and 'thin skin' in any other candidate.
I despise the Clinton political machine; but I fear for the Republic if it elects someone that feeds on popularity just to enhance his power. Our country will rue the day if it decides to elect Trump; it will make putting up with Obama seem like child's play.
DT would redefine the "bully pulpit" of the Presidency. He is unafraid of 'torching' anyone or anything, public or private, if he thinks it will translate into more popularity/power. He is also a master of the "Big Lie". Listen to how many times he spews "I heard", "I think, maybe", "they say", or "it could be". The deniable smear or the unfounded 'truth'...he twists it to suit the moment.
I implore anyone considering voting for him to put your finger down your throat and throw up the koolaid. Take a closer look at what you could lose, if he wins. A mirage has no substance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU-TS...
However, his words and actions "make it so"—no matter how much your faith in his persona.
Weakly pointing to two other unacceptable candidates is not a positive defense of a demagogue.
Again, you echo your lack of a Trump defense.
Personally, I think the Republican base, whatever the hell that is, may be a tad more intelligent than the intelligentcia of politics and media think they are and have had enough of the games. It's time to blow it to smithereens, maybel
Those that have made attempts at pointed attacks on him - Jeb!, Rubio, Romney, however, do get responses.
Be mindful of your assumptions of what Trump would do. Or not do.
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/...
Donald Trump's ideological inconsistencies are a result of his personal philosophy. He makes many statements, each of them attractive to some assortment of individuals who read themselves into the rest of the story.
Politics is like that. You find a party you "mostly" agree with, and accept the rest of the agenda while at the same time expecting that this party reflects all of your values. When they do not, you might try to reform them internally - giving money; becoming active - or you might accept that as part of the game, which it is.
Donald Trump reminds me of the opening scenes of Citizen Kane. He's a communist... A menace to every working man in this land...Kane's a fascist... " Donald Trump is a pragmatist in the sense that you and I understand that. He has no moral compass.
You want to ask him questions? Dagny Taggart had one: "What's your plan for the day after tomorrow?"
Put in a $12/hr minimum wage and I can tell you a LOT of people will lose their jobs as business gets rid of all jobs not worth $12/hr. Our small manufacturing company will have to let go TWO our of our FIVE assemblers and move the work to China somehow if $12/hr comes into play.
I am already automating as much as possible and shifting as much as possible to china in anticipation of Hillary taking over.
There is so much hatred for Trump out there, its disgusting, and those people will have to endure much worse than Trump could ever deliver if Hillary gets into power.
The very fact that the establishment hates Trump says a lot right there- they want to keep their power over us all.
The fact that the establishment is afraid of Trump should not cloud your vision---you should be able to draw your own conclusion(s) independent of what the Establishment wants. The two viewpoints are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Ask yourself why you are automating as much as possible. Dig down to the basics and you will then be able to ask whether Trump will benefit your company's situation or not. I believe he will not be as beneficial as many hope.
Trump, like Obama, purposely leaves a 'blank slate'. Hope and Change was an open page---and Obama's believers filled that blank space in with whatever they 'hoped' he would do for them. Free healthcare. Elimination of racism. .. and so on. The end result: he has operated just as one would expect a 'Present' voting senator from the staff lounges of a university to do. Disappointment City.
'Hope & Change' has an eerily similar feel to 'Make America Great Again'. Ted says it, but few listen. Its a blank slate for the unsuspecting individual to fill in... and how can the individual be wrong? Would you fill in such a sentiment with position counter to what you would hope America to become? Does an individual aspire to see rainbows or tornadoes?
And with those that voted for Obama, regretting it openly later was a hard pill to swallow. Its so much easier to blame those Republicans for screwing it up, rather than face the reality that their own Hope for Obama to change what they sought did not come to fruition. The same will become of those now supporting Trump; he's drawing masses because of his artful attempt to leave the slate blank while coaxing the emotions of the masses.
Good luck with your choice. I truly DO hope he pans out. Obama's shown us what typically happens with 'Hope and Change'. America Hopes while Obama and his friends keep the Change. Given Trump's close alliance with casinos and his history with the mob, can you say, "House wins"?
As to making America great again, I discount that as puffery. Making America Great is done by each of us, NOT the government. All Trump could do to help in this would be to get government off our backs, and I am not sure any president can really do much of that
There are too many embedded politicians who make quiet back room cronyism deals that hurt us all. They need to be exposed, and I think the establishment's hatred for Trump comes from his saying what he thinks- and that might expose whats going on.
We have a group of dolts--both from the left & right--that are so afraid of responsibility that they have become absolutely numb to winning. I'm beginning to wonder whether Mitt Romney ever intended to actually win in 2012. Maybe he did, but not winning wasn't going to ruin his career. Ditto for McCain and Dole-drums.
What does winning mean for the Establishment? It means they have to take responsibility; it means they can no longer pass the 'buck' to the Dems. Look how hard they twist and contort to give Obama wants and explain why they can't oppose him. "It'd be racist". "We'd be called obstructionists." "We'd ruin our chances in 2016 if we did such."
They're not worried about Trump winning because he's conservative. They're deathly afraid of having to DO something and be responsible for it. However, with Trump, they'll still have an out for his EGO. "Donald made us do it" will be the mantra of the day come 2017. Good or bad - Donald mandated it.
Ted Cruz worries them all-the-more because Ted WILL force Congress to take back its roll as defined in the Constitution. That is why Ted is detested in so many corners of Washington, D.C. Ted WILL make them accountable for their action or inaction.
Right now, the Establishment is coming to terms on how to deal with Trump.
・ Case A Trump loses to Hillary, they blame Trump for being flamboyant and arrogant; they are safe to continue being inactive, irresponsible, and get to blow back at the electorate for being so stooopid as to nominate Trump.
・ Case B Trump beats Hillary. For all the negative things they said during the campaign that Trump just ignored but still won regardless, they are again Hands Free because, now its all up to Trump to dictate. They just have to rubber-stamp what he wants, while grumbling about it all the while to the media. "Yeah, we'd love to not pass this, but we can't; Trump has mandated it and, well, we dare not go against the Jedi."
Either way - do you understand now why the Establishment is anti-Trump? Either way, they win their cause to exist without responsibility. Look what's happening with Hillary's email scandal. Hillary should have EASILY been put behind bars by now; all they had/have to do is 'pull the trigger' and indict her. But they won't... they've been dragging this out for YEARS now. They even put Trey Gowdie on it. What a show they've made. They've shown they're darn serious about it; doing nothing while being extremely thorough. Look at the Cromnibus bill or any of the federal budgeting - any cuts? Ever? They have both houses of Congress, yet, they refuse to filibuster a single issue Obama wants. Why? They do not want responsibility. Plain as that.
Plausible deniability is the game in DC.
You want to see them squirm? Put Ted Cruz in the Oval Office in 2017.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content...
You are only hearing from Donald Trump what resonates with your values. That is essential to coalition politics. The fact remains that you have an operational contradiction if you support Donald Trump and lay off American workers by sending their jobs to China.
If you are facing foreign competition, then perhaps you need a tariff. I am pretty sure that President Trump would listen to that proposal from a loyal supporter.
Bernard Sanders: Capitalists and their whole unfair system have been screwing up this country for too long. The problem isn't government; it is that government needs much more power and to use it aggressively.
Donald Trump in his general content, emotional tone, and language:
Your government and the cowardice of your politicians have screwed up your country but good.
The politicians and crony capitalists and politically correct professors and left-wing media have screwed up your own personal life.
They have screwed up your economy so badly and for so long that your children will inherit economic catastrophe, decades of stagnation, and not much capitalism.
In short, they have screwed up a once great country, either out of political cowardice or because they never liked that country's greatness.
And in doing this, they consistently have served themselves exceedingly well at your expense, at the expense of the future, at the expense of your children's prospects.
They deserve only anger and contempt, not "polite" consideration or respectful treatment. They deserve to have their asses kicked.
Now, admittedly these are broad general messages--conveyed by content to some extent, by very general proposals and criticisms, by emotional tone, and by language--but who is speaking the truth?
The guy who is winning.
Who is freaked into gibbering fear? The politicians, the establishment businessmen, the media, and the professors.
Oh, dear...
Discuss with specific examples. You will be graded on spelling and presentation as well as content. Good luck.
She once had her hairdresser locked up in a small cage so word would not get out about her having dandruff.
Why would I be reminded to think of that? As First Lady, there were reports of Hitlery treating her staff and the Secret Service very badly.
Right now I've some place to go but I'll be back.
A son giving me a Mad Max Fury Road DVD in the evening brightened me up.
I'll watch it (again for having rented it like Black Mass) one evening after working on taxes for positive psychological reasons.
When my dad (passed away last June) spoke of diversifying investments decades earlier, I had no idea of what I'd be inheriting. Talk about DIVERSITY!!!
Watch it all go south when the stock market crashes. That would likely be after I pay taxes on all of it.
May his love , his guidance , his forgiveness for you stay with your heart and be passed along to your son.
I also have a stepson. My son and I spent the first part of this afternoon being fed a dinner followed by a birthday cake at his home.
When my stepson was a kid, we'd really butt heads. So I was very surprised when he made me his best man at his wedding.
That's when I realized I had done something right.
Dwight D. Eisenhower did not. He was an empty suit politically. Richard Nixon was the conduit from the power brokers to the Oval Office. That role is played now by V.P. Joseph Biden, because President Obama was an empty suit: he had no power of his own, no political career to call upon, no favors accumulated. Dick Cheney filled the same role for George W. Bush. "W" was completely his father's tool.
Ronald Reagan's administration was clearly a 50-50 split between the "Cowboys" and the "Yankees" with George H. W. Bush holding the inside track for his own power base, built on his father's connections.
It is quite likely that Hillary Clinton's role in the Bill Clinton White House was to be a conduit between the power brokers and Oval Office, along with Al Gore who probably represented different interests entirely. Bill Clinton likely had very little political capital of his own. The same was true of Jimmy Carter, for whom Walter Mondale was the senior advisor.
That Hillary Clinton sold her soul to the Devil is quite likely. But that she is a merely an empty suit standing in for others is unlikely. Do not underestimate her.
Having grown up like that, current affairs are pretty easy, and, yet, somehow less satisfying. I wonder what a time travel story would be like with Donald Trump Now dropped on 1958. He would know what to buy, but I doubt that he would be considered presidential material.
But he was not active in civilian politics. Nixon, Johnson, and others also served in World War II. But for them, that was a page or an episode. They were politicians, men of the people, friends of the powerful, and all that. That was why Eisenhower needed Nixon in the White House.
But, again, thanks for the recommendation.
Hillary would be a continuation of things as they are, and its time for it to be different. No more back room deals with the power brokers. Bring it all to the light.
Do you really believe that Trump is ABOVE such just because he's a billionaire? Wow.
He has said he hates all the deals we've made - NAFTA, TPP, the Cuban ordeal, and the Iranian ordeal. He has not, however, said what he'd actually do. And, I seriously doubt he'd go around blaming people---it does nothing for him, it accomplishes very little.
Trump - when he sees a goal he wants to attain - finds ways to get to that goal. That's an admirable quality. However, does the American public want to go where Trump does? That is a question NO ONE can answer. Trump is a complete Wild Card. Could be black, could be red. Might be even. Maybe odd. Are you willing to gamble? (Trump's a casino man, you know... best not to mess with the House.)
It occurred to me that if liberals had their way, polygamy would/should be legal... and, in effect, it already is. Its just not announced as such. A muslim man will have one wife, and on his tax return, every other wife & child is marked as a 'dependent' and wallah, no need to pay taxes. Ever.
It didn't look like he was getting nagged from 4 different directions either. Maybe that is the ultimate on earth - polygamy & sharia law in the U.S.
Ol' fuddy-duddys like me grew up in an era where marriage was one man & one woman. And only boys signed the Selective Service cards upon reaching age 16... because only men went to war to protect the women and children of this nation.
I should tell my wife to pick out 3 more wives for us. I'm sure she'll be thrilled at the idea.