# Would you vote for Donald Trump for POTUS?

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**Created:** [August 17, 2015, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054 "2015-08-17T06:08:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/366 "2019-01-01T12:19:40Z")

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😛 I see I’m not the only one who thought to bump this thread when poor widdle **contradancer** whined today about Trump trying to impoverish American families.

En route, I found this exchange particularly amusing:

> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> [QUOTE=contradancer]  
> I want all of them out. Along with their children. If any aliens want to come into our country they have to follow the rules. Canada does it. Why can’t we?

American Exceptionalism. Don’t you watch Fox News? They talk about it all the time. America is special, so things that work in other countries, like universal health care, would never work here. Why do you want to make America another Canadian hellhole?  
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These Trumpistas need to synchronize their babblings. Here’s one who does understand that destroying government should be high priority:

> [@living paycheck to paycheck](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-paycheck-to-paycheck/827004/7):
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> On the other hand, if the government stays shut down for a long time, eventually those people will find other work, and the positions may even be eliminated. That could save all taxpayers some money in the long run, and a lot of people could \*stop \*living paycheck to paycheck.

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