Well, it’s certainly going to cause him to lose support.
When the people in your link say “if he’s a Muslim or not” they mean if he has claim to be one from birth. He can’t be forced to be a Muslim. As said before, religion is not genetic.
“Go Trump! Yeah! Make America great again! Law and order! Build that wall! Keep the . . . wait, what?!” :eek:
I was thinking more along the lines that only people under the influence of strong intoxicants could be supporting Trump at this point.
One might use strong intoxicants to stem the panic at the prospect that this screaming idiot might actually hold power some day. One might.
Now Trump is turning into Gordon Gekko. He want’s to be greedy for America - to make America great
I come to the conclusion that Trump has figured it all out. He understands the reality of the political / governance system versus the high school Civics version . And he’s willing to play the game with real hardball, not the pulled-punches version most politicians of both parties usually do.
Here’s my thesis:
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How many of us have ever said something like “Politician’s lie to get elected. Their campaign promises don’t mean much.” Answer: all of us. We’ve said or thought it with varying degrees of vehemence or cynicism, but we all agree the idea has at least a grain of truth inside our varying-sized snowball of rhetoric.
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Other than in very extreme actually illegal cases, how much recourse do we voters have if someone governs differently than they campaigned? Approximately zero. The standard answer is: “If you don’t like a pol’s actions, vote him/her out next time.” An unstated implication is that the fear of losing re-election is a constraint on a pol’s behavior during his/her current term. IOW, they have to service what they sell AKA deliver some decent fraction of what they promised.
Putting these two ideas together, we see that a campaigning politician is selling pure vaporware, and there is absolutely no guarantee or warranty. Once you’ve bought it, you’re stuck with it for the whole term; however well or bad it performs as long as it remains (mostly) legal.
Trump plans to be a one term President. And he’s taking the pure huckster approach to campaigning. There is zero need for what he says to be true, doable, consistent, fair, internationally acceptable, or any other conventional measure of political merit.
The one and only thing it needs to do is peg the applause meter today for the crowd he’s in front of today. So they vote for him in each primary as they happen and in November.
It’s the pure content-free campaign. And by being utterly free of any of those constraints, it’ll run rings around anyone running a conventional campaign on the conventional combo of optimistic but plausible promises and mostly-factual assertions with careful hedge words surrounding the sharpest bits.
We know pretty girls sell beer. I’ve been buying beer for 40 years now and not once has a pretty girl popped out of the six-pack. But still the ads are full of pretty girls and my hope springs eternal each time I reach into the fridge.
Advertising works. What sells a product is not the attributes you’re actually buying. It’s the ones you wish you could buy. Trump is simply the best (or most scruple-free) advertiser in this years’ campaign.
IMO it will work up to November. It’s got a decent chance to work past that.
That’s not my preferred outcome. But it the one I think the facts lead us to.
Right. I think this has been pretty obvious for a long time now, and I’ve been saying it here for just as long.
His con game is as American as Apple pie, from Professor Harold Hill to Lyle Lanly.
I agree with your entire thesis except this.
Gods forbid, should he become president, he can campaign in two years on another approach. “You didn’t really know me in 2016, but you took a chance, and look what I’ve accomplished in the last year and a half.*”
*Assuming the 2020 campaign starts in 2018.
Nah; not even close.
A well done ribeye? The man’s a philistine! No wonder he lost Iowa.
To be sure he’d rather be a two-term president. My point was that 2020 is our first opportunity to change horses if he doesn’t deliver what we want. IOW, he’d get 4 years with zero requirement to deliver anything. It’s only if he wants 8 that he needs to deliver something. But that something could itself be a lot of smoke, mirrors, and entertainment rather than governance and leadership.
guys,i am the chinese in china ,
i dont know about your election and politics
but i know ,when it was many years before ,
the movie called harry poter : the Goblet of Fire reach screen
boys ,girls happy ,they come to the cinema to see the film.
those days ,there is a unknown person ,in a internet forum ,message me
,he said , he is from the future with time machine ,and i question him ,who is president of usa in
your time . he says , trump
and now i know there is really a trump there ,just know it somedays before .
Well I’m convinced. Thank you for your message from the future.
Oh, that was just a time travel robo-post. All the candidates do that. I got one from Kim Kardashian for the 2024 election just last week.
Nah, that wasn’t from Trump. That was just Joe Biden screwing around again.