You must live in a Republican bubble. If Trump is the nominee, the real world will be thrust upon you November 8th.
Seriously, it's a joke now. I mean it was at first but now it's no longer funny. He was asked about the guy that got punched in the face at one of his rallies and he sat up there and pretended as if he never encouraged such a thing. He put on this sincere tone and everything. Then the moderator pulled some of his quotes out for him and he immediately back tracks saying something like "You should know, that was a bad guy blah blah blah!" This along with his comments about Putin and China being "Strong" should have any rational person terrified of this man being president.
As for putin, Trump doesn't respect (or hasn't said) Putin for what he's done or his political stances, but he respects his intelligence. Whereas the current administration could be seen as thinking less of Putin's ability and actually not reading into the things he does. I think Trump see's that the two of them are smart enough to come to economical benefits for both countries and team up to battle enemies of both countries and the world at large. With that, I'm sure he would stress ways to benefit our populous for teaming with them as well as do everything he can to try to influence him in bettering the lives of people in his country and countries he supports
The scary thing is that people are still treating this like a joke. Like we have this great system in place that's so awesome and then this bozo comes along and cons people into something else. Everyone has said Trump is a joke. You know what is the actual joke? That the same people who claim to be "smart" "informed" "knowledgeable" have allowed a government that barely functions and has an approval rating anywhere from single digits to barely 50%. Trump is not the problem. He's the symptom of the the true problem which is that the American government has become exactly the way the Simpsons mocked it with the Aliens pretending to be Clinton and Dole. Except now people voting for that "3rd party." The desperation that forces people to choose someone even as terrible as Trump just speaks how terrible the alternatives are. Yet so few are talking about it. People give lip service to how the government isn't working, and then go back and vote in the same people who were running the show over and over and over. Senators and Representatives are basically lifetime appointments these days, and recent presidents have been all 2 termers. I know this sub complains about the government all the time. Except when the election comes by, and suddenly they are true leaders who will make the country great, unlike this charlatan Trump and his empty words and lack of focus on issues, things that clearly true politicians would never, ever do.
People that feel powerless with the status quo often accept the contrarian position even against their best interests, regardless of it's rationality. It's their only choice for self-definition and against capitulation. It's common for every rebellion from high school to ISIS. Give me liberty or give me death.
I see. I misunderstood; re-reading it, you were referencing Nafta. My bad. Agreed with you here on Nafta. I don't think of Nafta as actual free trade.
He's not popular. He loses badly to every Republican candidate one on one and has the highest negatives of any presidential candidate in polling history (and that's before the hellfire that's awaiting him in the general).
Drugs flow through POE's mostly. Building a wall will just means traffickers will push the drugs through POE's even more and air and sea. It won't impact the amount of drugs being brought into this country at all. The danger of trump is not as the Republican nominee, it's if he runs as a third party candidate and splits the vote 3 ways. That's why it is so important that Bloomberg decided not to run. He correctly foresaw that he would be potentially handing the presidency to Trump.
If Trump takes Ohio and Florida, you can probably put a fork in this sucker. Florida is 100 delegates, winner take all...... Ohio 66 delegates, winner take all.
Think Trump takes Florida and Kasich wins his home state. Marco drops out and all of sudden, Kasich is within striking distance from Cruz. Beats me. After yesterday's showing, Kasich is pretty crazy too.
It doesn't matter whether or not Trump is racist. His message brings in racists and thugs. Trump's message has appealed to white supremacist groups. Trump's supporters have pushed and shoved protestors, and now they sucker punch them as well. Add to that his own staff has been charged with assaulting a reporter. The guy is an embarrassment.
The real losers are the morons that go protest at Trump rallies. The are literally waiting in line for hours so they can get into a place strictly to get kicked out. That is their motivation. Then this somehow proves Trump is racist when Sheriffs physically remove them? Good luck with that 5 minutes of fame idiots.
I will take Trump over Cruz. I KNOW what Cruz believes and wants to do. I don't know what Trump really believes or wants to do.
First of all, you act like the reverse doesnt happen. I used to work on political campaigns and I saw plenty of Republican bozos out to make noise and disrupt events. They'd harass our candidates in some of the stupidest ways. Hell the Koch brothers foundation in Colorado literally funded 3 idiots to fly around the state and follow a candidate I worked for. They'd do all kinds of insane things that were far worse than what these people ever did. And you know what? We politely asked them to leave every time and just escorted them out like adults. Every campaign knows that there will be people from the opposite side that will try and disrupt things. That's the nature of the business. What isn't normal is that Trump is more or less encouraging supporters to commit violence? You dont see stories like this at any other campaign. And yes there are people trying to crash Ted Cruz events too but at least they have a competent set of staff who know how to properly handle these things. Trump just seems to outsource the job to his supporters who are free to act like vigilante maniacs.
Well there is your problem. These people have a goal to be carried out by several police. Otherwise they don't have a shot to get in the news. Yours were just paid to shout. These have get famous at any cost motivation.
