I have conceded multiple times (at least thrice and you already know it and yet you bring it up) that I don’t agree with his thoughts on climate change (he thinks its long natural cycles rather than man made), on abortions and on (temporary) ban on Muslims.
And those should be deal breakers anyhow. You can ignore a lot, but even what you do notice are not small flaws. It is then really not reasonable to ignore those when one declares that “Donald Trump is by far the best leader that America has produced in the last 25 years”. One only has to look at that clip and realize that Trump is only willing to mislead the American people.
This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read on this board.
Trump is incredibly thin skinned, and his behavior on the campaign trail indicates that, even if he decides he’s going to act “presidential”, it lasts 24 hours or less, before he goes off-script, and starts throwing insults.
He has literally decades of history of taking offense at any perceived slight, and pursuing vendettas via lawsuits and insults. He’s already spent time on the campaign trail insulting various other countries. It’s the exact opposite of cordial, and I have an incredibly difficult time picturing a Trump presidency in which he doesn’t manage to burn bridges with other countries on a regular basis.
The issue is that these things are not simple, despite the fact that his supporters would love for them to be. His portrayal of the issues as simple, and his promises that he (and only he) can provide simple and effective solutions, are flat-out lies to his supporters.
Even if he, personally, is not (arguable, but possible), he is very clearly and intentionally tailoring his messages to those who are.
This is simply incorrect. Again, there are decades of his own statements which clearly show otherwise.
Heather Digby Parton nails it: “He is a proto-fascist demagogue who doesn’t even know what those words mean.”
No, Trump proposes cutting taxes on corporations and the wealthy while ballooning the military. The disruptive changes that could address the debt involves raising revenues, not cutting them, and shrinking the military, not growing it.
Hillary won’t cut it either on this issue. If it is “hope” for solving these problems you are after, Bernie is the only candidate in the race to consider.
What’s anyone got against Lena Dunham or Miley Cyrus? The worst thing one can honestly say about either is that Cyrus is a bit overrated.
Yes, it is, and no, it isn’t. Government is no more a simple common-sense matter than science or technology is.
Over the lunch hour today I was listening to Trump give a speech somewhere or other. I was interested in what he had to say and if he had any more details about his positions or how he would get things done.
It pretty much amounted to:
-Foreign relations: He’s going to get every country in the world to respect us. Our enemies and our allies. He’s going to accomplish this by being tough and strong.
-Terrorism: He’s going to defeat ISIS and get rid of terrorism all together. This will be accomplished by being tough and strong.
-Foreign trade: He’s going to make deals with other nations. Great deals. Deals that benefit the US. If other countries don’t like these deals he’s ready to be tough and strong and walk out on the deals.
-Jobs: He’s going to create millions of new jobs. Again, all it takes is being tough and strong.
-Immigration: Build the wall and have Mexico pay for it OR ELSE! Let the good immigrants in and keep the bad immigrants out.
Take-a-ways: Vote for Trump because all the other candidates are very, very weak. And he is very, very strong.
Sorry but do you mean cordial?
Not to mention, it’s not like either of them living in Canada means you’ll see a reduction in whatever your experience of them is.
That's so core to his appeal, and a central element to the value system of his fan base--strength! Problem is, his brand of it can be flipped, becoming an exploitable weakness. For instance, anyone who wants to provoke a reaction from him can obviously do it with little to no effort (he gets punched he "punches back"--his words to that effect). So if such a reaction suits oh, say, a nation's political or diplomatic strategy, then a few well-aimed digs and Trump's cheap-seats-cheering form of "strength" becomes a huge deficit.
Honestly, this guy's rise in the Republican Party and I can't get out of my head the vivid parallels to how primates establish dominance among themselves (and maintain it). I don't mean "he's an ape" in the casual sense, but that his whole act could come straight out of a primatalogist's field notes.
As he advances through the nomination process he may "get wise" and throttle some of his monkey-brained tactics back (maybe already is), but what's to say he doesn't drag them out again at some horribly innoportune, crux-ish moment? ("Well, if it worked over here so well in the corporate jungle, or here with the cheap seats (they love me, after all), they why not...?" For example, I can just see him coming out of some failed negotiation with Chinese diplomats, and in front of the US press seeing fit to make a mocking "Chinese face" and shooting off a few words in pidgin. The fact that even seems plausible is nuts for a world leader.)
I found this article on the Jacksonian Tradition in America incredibly insightful. While geared mainly towards foreign policy, Mead does a superb job of describing the attitudes of “Jacksonian America” in general really well and as a result probably provides the best explanation of why TRUMP is so popular in this election cycle. Nor is this merely a theory being written to fit the evidence as the article was written in 1999.
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Broward County Florida GOP CEO: “Hillary will go down like Monica Lewinsky.”
Thanks, I’ll have a Drambuie.
While debating Trump, he says?
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Og will punish you for propagating that mental image, Mr. Sutton.
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If Trump debates Clinton, he will go down like Peter McNeely. (Now there’s a mental image we can all appreciate!)
I just find them annoying. And if they and maybe Bieber’ll move to Canada, that’s hyuuuuge in my book.
Though I’ll admit I’m not being very co-ordial…