That quality you guys are responding to is called “charisma”. And she’s got it in spades. She’s also poised, dignified, intelligent, a multi-tasker and a leader in her own right. It wouldn’t surprise me if she doesn’t wind up president herself one day.
As I said before, that might actually be what Donald is going for with this race. To increase Ivanka’s national profile, as well as get the GOP base more interested in her brand of politics, which are not necessarily conservative.
Really - can I have a cite on them “bragging” that the “sold a lie” to the public?
Personally I don’t see it with Obama - I see him as a thoughtful, intellectual President who’s able to highlight and describe the benefits of a policy…
Anyway - I doubt you and I will see eye to eye on the matter - after all,
His “you didn’t build that” and “you can keep your doctor” are both, to me, accurate representations…
Yeah, from time to time I’ve had a suspicion that he’s either trying to set her up for a career in politics or perhaps set up all his kids for careers in politics. The potential is there for them to become sort of a right-wing Kennedy clan.
Bullshit. No one gets this pissed off because Biden didn’t break an ashtray on The Late Show.
A dynasty of outsiders; makes as much sense as anything else they’re peddling.
Clinton’s immigration policy may be weak, but “zilch about border security,” at least, is the correct value. “Border security,” in the present context, is a fantasy. The United States is already past the point of diminishing returns on physical-interdiction spending on the southern land border. The more any current politician invokes “securing the border” as a meaningful step in their immigration policy, the less serious that policy is. Trump’s Wall is the ultimate expression of the bullshit–vastly expensive and almost irrelevant in real added effect–but all calls for increased Border Patrol are similarly ignorant. Obama has maintained near-record staffing and funding levels despite dramatic decreases in illegal immigration since he entered office.
Come to think of it, at 70 Trump may be thinking he won’t want to do 8 years and that if he does a good enough job with the presidency it would position Ivanka very well to be elected president in 2020. If such were the case we could all breathe a lot easier about his presidency. He’d be striving for popularity and approval, rather than utilizing shoot-from-the-hip impulse and engaging in the sort of harshness that would entail torture, going after terrorists’ families and things like that.
You missed “the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end.”
Quick question from a non-local : is she definitely eligible? It may be silly, but I read a throwaway comment somewhere else that said she wasn’t as her mum wasn’t a citizen when she was born - what’s the dope? Ta.
Part of me wants to believe that. But he’s such an egotistical, self-aggrandizing narcissist that I can’t see him being altruistic, even for his family.
Sorry, but I think you’re wrong here.
What Trump supporters hate most is the feeling of not being able to exert real control over their lives.
Trump just helps them out by directing their anger and frustration (to where it will do him the most good, natch) and let’s face it, ‘the other’ has been a compelling bogeyman for all of human history.
Yes, she’s definitely eligible. The idea that US-born children of non-citizens are ineligible was invented by white supremacists within the last eight years. It was the backup theory after Obama released the second copy of his birth certificate.
(The comment might have also been meant as a joke. Her father was the most high-profile birther for a while, and by one of that movement’s theories she is ineligible. So, actually, is he. Although I don’t think he personally ever advanced any theory except that Obama wasn’t born here.)
Trump is a guy who’s extremely skilled at making the seemingly impossible happen. The fact that he’s now the Republican nominee for president is evidence enough of that. I agree with Harry Reid that underestimating him rarely works out well, and that if anybody could pull all that off, my opinion is that Trump could. The big question for me is, will he actually attempt it, given that none of us really has any idea what he’ll do once in office.
My opinion is that most of that is just an act.
Vox did a nice job of showing what a con this is, although I wish they had resisted the temptation to gild the lily by starting the overall US murder graph at 4 to make the current rate look even more dramatically low than it is. The other graph, showing the murder rate in big cities, though, more honestly starts at 0 and you can see that 17% jump that #whinylittlebitch Donald Trump described. It’s there, but it’s also laughable in the larger context.
Wait, he named one of his kids after his publicist?
Maybe his “publicist” is the real father…
It’s amazing the rationalizations that Trumps fans will go to to explain why he won’t do exactly what he’s said he’s going to. He’s the first politician to court votes from people who hope he’ll break his promises.
If so, then Trump has been running a con longer than anyone believed possible. It’s not just recently that he’s been that way. Watch the old Phil Hartman characterization of Donald Trump; it’s evident there.
Link? I loved Phil Hartman (sigh), but I don’t remember this.
Here’s another nice graph that shows immigrants are less violent than native-born Americans: x.com