OMG... that's exactly what's wrong with this country and people!?!?! We overlook all of the terrible **** you just wrote (blowing my mind) but don't you dare user rhetoric during a heated campaign or tell a dick joke because THAT is unpresidential!!! They're all scum, all monsters, everyone needs to admit it. Trump is not a special monster or scum, he's just like them, nothing different. Why is everyone acting like he's something we've never seen before?!?!? Fact of the matter is that someone who actually behaves and acts presidential in their lives would never actually run for president.
I can't even tell what this post means, but to the extent you're saying we should discount what they say about their ludicrous foreign policy musings, I say, never discount the ability of bad foreign policy ideas, particularly military ones, to become reality when the GOP (or anybody, really) is in charge. Spoiler
But you have no issues with all of the cheating, lying, and deleting the clintons did and are doing now? That's why you have no credibility around here. You're basically bizarro world BigTexx.
Couple of things 1. You can't compare Trump to any legitimate president or presidential candidate from the past, none of them were the scumbag that Trump is and if they were, they wouldn't have made it anywhere in politics. The ONLY thing pushing Trump forward is his celebrity and that wouldn't have happened in a more sane period of time. 2. Rubio and Cruz lost a LOT of credibility last night with their answer to the very last question. You can't very well say (rightly) that Trump is a con man and that he must be defeated at any cost one minute and then turn around and say you'll support him if he's given the nomination. It just doesn't follow.
This is one of the most disingenuous and common argument techniques in the D&D, from all sides. I've done it myself, via "you didn't care when Bush did it." Separate from a thread topic (e.g. Trump), other posters must suddenly care equally about a different topic (e.g. any of the Clintons), to have any credibility. This is especially lame when we're comparing basic public vulgarity, promises of torture, and clear racism to more "normal" and typical forms of politicians lying and manipulating. Razor-blade-laced apples to rotten oranges here, folks. There's a reason history has a special pantheon for true evil bastards like Il Duce and Pol Pot. Their absurdist, violent rhetoric was given power, and then they used that power to inflict brutality. We can guess and hope that Trump would never actually do the things he's talked about, but you also have to consider taking a candidate at their word when their words are this extreme. People are confusing politics and entertainment to a dangerous degree, and the glee you see in the media is frankly disgusting, perhaps the most disgusting part of the whole phenomenon.
I think some of the worst parts for Trump last night is that he was exposed any time he tried to cite numbers or specifics. He said he'd cut 300 billion from a program that only spends 78 billion, he said Trump University had a 98% approval rating by those who took classes, yet 33% demanded their money back. He said Trump University had an A from the BBB, yet it really had a D-. It's pretty clear that there's no substance to ANYTHING Trump says. He's just saying what he thinks people want to hear with no real plan to make any of it happen....hell he might not even have a desire to make half of what he says happen. Any time he's called on his BS, like a good con man, he just tries to lie his way out of it hoping that no one will check up on it. For the most part, it has worked thus far.
WRONG. He stated the 300 billion figure included cuts in other programs, not just the one that the moderator was referencing. The moderator didn't want to hear that though, since he believed he had a zinger lined up. He didn't. As for the BBB rating, he walked over during a break and handed the moderators proof that Trump University did have an A rating at the time it ceased doing business. BBB ratings are dynamic and go up and down. Companies with low ratings are able to improve them by resolving complaints with customers.
It's the only way to vette posters (like politicians) and their positions/opinions to determine if they are objective and trustworthy. If they turn it off and on they you know their position/opinion is compromised and no point in debating someone like that.
LOL, why does it not surprise me that you would be going out of your way to defend Trump when he made a total ass of himself by not knowing what the hell he's talking about and quoting figures that make no sense? As for the BBB rating, the last public figure was D- and there is a class action lawsuit accusing it of being a scam....which it was. Thank you for doing your best to defend the indefensible, but facts and logic don't have your back....or Trump's
Bobby they're all CONMEN and CONWOMEN!!! Why single out Trump, he's nothing special in that regard. Expect Sanders and Kasich, their records are very consistent. They are the actually the special ones in this group who unsurprisingly have very little chance of winning. That's an indictment on the voters and the parties not the conmen/women.
That's EXACTLY what a con man would have you believe. In reality, except for Trump, they are all politicians which isn't THAT much better than a con man, but there's a difference. When it comes to winning, both Sanders AND Kasich have a much better chance of winning a national election than your favorite con man. Trump got absolutely destroyed last night because he made the mistake of trying to talk substance for a little while and he's simply not equipped to do so. The guy is a total and complete joke even if his cult like following can't seem to grasp that.
No, the candidates private lives are private. What anyone thinks about that is up to them. If I didn't complain about a president's private life before, but all of a sudden complain about Trump's private life that would make me a hypocrite. However, we are talking about Trump's behavior when he is engaged at statesmen like functions/public appearances/and debates. It isn't like Trump just slipped up in the heat of the campaign and said something crass one time. He's been doing it repeatedly all along. If you don't care that the leader of the nation is seen as as someone who can't hold the respect of every other nation in the world, then that's up to you. But don't be upset because not everyone else buys into it. It doesn't make anyone a hypocrite. But
How you act in private is your true character, not when the cameras are on. So for me they both matter.
Dude, you don't have sex when the cameras are on you... unless you are a p*rn star. For government positions, your personal private life is not that important unless it shouldn't be personal and private.
Sure they both might matter if you like them as a person, but only one of those two situations pertains to the job of being the President of the United States.
Trump Organization LLC is a private company so since it's private it's hands off? Now, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts is a public company and lost **** ton of money mostly in Atlantic City. So you are suggesting that only is public company be used to analyze his leadership but we can't touch his private management. Seems arbitrary. I believe both tell the story and should be fair game. Regarding sex in the bedroom, I don't care. I'm concerned with TRUST. If you cheat and lie on the love of your life, what the fack are you going to do to me?!?!
Coworker of mine said something I though worthwhile about Trump. The money he did make was primarily NYC real estate. He's tried and failed at many other businesses. The argument here is not that he's a bad businessman though. The argument is that Trump has a high appetite for risk. It worked for him in business when he made a big bet and won. Surely, we don't want a president who is afraid to take risk. But, we don't want someone foolhardy either, that will bet the welfare of a nation without regard for the idiosyncratic risk that gamble takes on. You can see this risk-taking in his campaign too. Opening by saying Mexicans are a bunch of rapists was a big risk. If people reacted differently, he could have been done before he even started. Instead, it launched him into notoriety. And he's running with it, even though it will probably mean his defeat in the general election. While other candidates look ahead and avoid doing things they'll regret later, he says whatever he wants now with no regard to the future.
Yeah but have you ever seen Republicans have a news conference denouncing a leading candidate as a fraud? I don't think moderate republicans will vote for him.
