He knows he’s running as a Republican, right?
The poor simply need to learn how to do things smarter. For example, they need to plan better. Like Trump, they should plan to get a $200,000 gift as soon as they graduate from college. This wise planning should enable them to start a business. In addition, the poor people should plan to inherit a $200 MILLION real estate business. This should be a help to them.
Really, the poor just need to plan better.
You know all those changing weather patterns that we thought were being caused by global warming?
Or ask him why they are necessary any more.
He’d make Apple pay for it!
Rick Santorum has a gift in store for the undocumented: deportation! Yaaaaayyyyy!
Not a stupid idea, but an evil idea.
Jeb: Hand over the milk money, Feds.
Feds: I’m afraid I can’t do that, Jeb. I’m just not sure you’ll spend it on milk.
Yeah I’m sure if given the option the states won’t do something else with that money. Like give it to ‘job creators’ under the auspice they’ll employ those people in need of assistance.
He’s running as a cynical populist. Insane protectionism fits right in.
Indeed, Trump’s campaign doesn’t really align with the Republicans as much as it disaligns with reality and in recent decades, the Republican Party has been more receptive to that approach. I could picture Trump running as a Democrat in the Civil Rights era and getting a similar level of support from southern whites who think he’s great because he’s “telling it like it is!”
But telling Apple it’s not allowed to build overseas isn’t protectionism, it’s state control of private industry. I realize the Pubbies are fine with the government controlling our sex lives, but historically they’ve favored letting industry do whatever the hell it wants.
Stupid Republican idea: always fighting the last war:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/2016-gop-primary-crazier-than-you-think-213542
Yesterday, a group of teenagers visiting Washington’s state Capitol asked a Republican legislator to support expanded insurance coverage for birth control.
The legislator’s response? Accuse the teens of not being virgins and then lecture them on the benefits of abstinence.
I guess it depends how “telling Apple isn’t allowed to build overseas” works in practice. Legislatively it would be hella easier to pass “tax on consumer electronic products built overseas +5000%” than “the Apple corporation specifically is hereby ordered to bring its workshops back home”; but it boils down to the same thing in practice. Ultimately protectionism *is *state control of private industry albeit via indirect means.
True, but it may only control some of them to the benefit of others (domestic manufacturers). Although in this case, there are probably no makers of phones and tablets in the U.S. at all anyway.
You’re talking about this like there’s any fucking thought in Trump’s mind beyond “tell the pissed off people I’ll solve their problems magically.”
There is no legislation formulating in his brain.
Different levels of conversation 
I was addressing TonySinclair about protectionism in the abstract - of course Trump doesn’t know how, intend to or even give a single flying fuck about the issue in actual practice.
Well, maybe not, but his staff are coming up with some kind of crap to offer. They did the same thing with his “make Mexico pay for the wall” nonsense. The plan was to basically cut off all exchange of funds with Mexico, private and public, if they didn’t pony up. It’s an absurd idea that would never work, but it is an actual proposal. Trumps supporters don’t have the smarts to see how ridiculous the idea is and don’t much care. So if Trump simply says he’ll slap a 35% tarriff on Apple products coming from overseas, that’s a plan. He said the same thing about U.S. car manufacturers earlier in the campaign. He makes it sound so simple and his supporter lap it up. The possibility that nobody has done it because it’s actually not so simple, and a completely idiotic idea, never occurs to them.
What exactly do you have against what Dan Savage did? Someone’s telling him he’s like a pedophile or animal fucker, supports legislation that makes his activities in the bedroom illegal and bar him from marrying. And Dan asks his readers to make up an insulting name for him? Where’s the bad that Savage did? I really can’t see it.
Bill O’Reilly hates American soldiers! You heard it here first folks!
Is the president not allowed to carry a gun? I’m seriously asking, it sounds just plausible enough to be true but still crazy