The image of Trump getting “carpet bombed” …carpet being a certain comb over…was very amusing. I had an image of dozens of lady finger fire crackers dropping from above and going off.
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He’s wrong sometimes. He’s right most of the time, and he’s really funny, last night’s monologue was crazy funny.
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When all you’ve got is a thousand dollar bill, then everything looks like income.
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Trump is like Godzilla with worse manners and goofy hair. He isn’t getting stronger, the rest of the Republicans are getting weaker. He literally sucks…the energy out of the Party.
Godzilla walked through the middle of town, picked up a bus and through it back down. (Blue Oyster Cult)
Trump throws everyone under the bus on the phone.
Trump’s heart may be more democratic leaning but his business gut knows that the Democrats would laugh him out of town. He is running as a Republican because they are Trump rich targets. The Repub Party and Faux have broken the base down into mindless saps that feed off of lies and bluster and have no appetite for actual policy or a functioning government. Prime, Trump, targets!
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Though this ‘blurb’ reads like it should…
In total, Trump gave more than $476,000 to Democratic candidates and committees and more than $452,000 to Republicans, according to New York State Board of Elections and Federal Election Commission campaign records. “Donald’s career has been undergirded by all of these political relationships to such a degree that I call him a state capitalist,” says Wayne Barrett, a longtime investigative journalist in New York who published a book on Trump in 1992.
Sometimes the Sphinx riddle is a difficult riddle to gauge. However if an observer were to adjust its ‘fitting’; it would suit the current GOP front runner’s biography rather well.
Thank you.
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In regards to Vietnam, I can’t find anything that suggests he was a conscientious objector. Now he received educational deferments while in college, until the 1-Y deferment that placed him out of harm’s way.*
*said courteously.
However I will agree that we shouldn’t have went to Iraq. Trump however supports a new Mexican war and that’s something that he needs to be asked about.
Trump backed away from a single-payer plan, as well as another of his proposals from a decade earlier, a surtax on the wealthiest Americans.
‘‘We had a much different country when I proposed those two things,’’ he said, according to the New York Times reporter.
That link also leads to several links including a NYT article that has him being against same-sex marriage. The following is the explanation that he gave to the reporter about being a ‘traditionalist’.
“It’s like in golf,” he said. “A lot of people — I don’t want this to sound trivial — but a lot of people are switching to these really long putters, very unattractive,” said Mr. Trump, a Republican. “It’s weird. You see these great players with these really long putters, because they can’t sink three-footers anymore. And, I hate it. I am a traditionalist. I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist.”
Now I’m not sure about most on here and frankly I’m not a fan of being into a nosy person in regards to the fine folks on here (or any other forum) opinions about social issues. However using that example further, I don’t have a problem with same sex marriage on account of at least one reason alone: equality in regards to all aspects have to matter in this country or else there needs to be a reason why inequality should continue to carry the day.
The last man to advocate such a claim used the Etch-a-Sketch as reason enough for hope. Now his client wasn’t elected president, but there were other reasons for that.
Either he is a Reagan Democrat or he is an opportunist. Again, he hasn’t voted in any presidential election since W’s father was a candidate. If he is the former, then I (and I’m slightly certain that I am not the only one) would like to know why he was a Reagan Democrat. However again, until its revealed who he voted before '92, what is known is the following: Clinton, Bush and Obama won their elections and Trump didn’t vote in none of those cases.
Trump is one of the primary antagonists in regards to the birther movement. He had two opportunities to vote as well contribute to like minded candidates. He often chose the latter.
While the jury should be out on Sanders, Trump’s words and actions approach a weak sauce level of demagoguery. If he were to face Sanders in the general election, he would get badly thumped. Hillary doesn’t need to be a populist, because Trump is suddenly ‘every man’ to an aggravated voting class.
She needs to prove why she is better than the men (and one woman) who are currently her opponents.
Ronald Reagan was a celebrity, too.
Sure I can.
Why?
Like Fiorina, Trump’s contributions to ‘his candidates’ leans to a strong belief that money equals power. Now in regards to the local leaders being bought, he is often one of their biggest fans.
As for him and the idea of truth. If he was poor, he wouldn’t stand a chance in making his opinion count. His opponents would dig so hard into his private life that everything from his first minute on this planet would be known to those who actually care.
However he is a rich man who has skated judgement, because men like him need to be respected by his lessers.
I don’t need to hear that ‘the sky is falling’ from him. Chances are he wouldn’t tell the whole story anyway.
Whether or not it was David Hannum or Phineas T.Barnum who said it…
Donald Trump proves it.
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How do those qualifiers – which I agree with – change the fact that he occasionally utters the truth (albeit not the whole truth) and what people are thinking; truths that “regular” (Republican) politians avoid?
Huh?
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Bill’s wrong. Trump isn’t like Godzilla. He’s The Blob, absorbing everything, getting bigger and he’s unstoppable!
Yep Reagan was a celebrity. But Reagan had worked behind the scenes in California politics from the early 1950’s up until he ran for governor in the 60’s. He put in 20+ years in politics before he ran for President learning the craft. Learning how he wanted to govern. And being Governor he learned how to govern a large and diverse state. What political office had Trump been elected to? What Trump has is name recognition, bluster, and a whole bunch of money. And zero political experience. If you were in need of a medical doctor which would you go to…the guy who has 20 years experience or the 1st year medical student? That’s what we are faced with here and also that’s IF I would vote for a GOPer…which I will not. In this recent debate Trump showed us much. He dispensed with a debate coach and any preparation and he dove headlong into a debacle of an answer to the 1st question saying he could not say he wouldn’t run as a 3rd party candidate. After ward he had his now famous blood moment. He’s a celebrity in this race for publicity and profit. He doesn’t care about being president.
These are all fair points, although to be fair (to myself) I tried to craft my answer carefully enough to avoid those traps. For example, I didn’t write that Trump opposed the Vietnam war, but that he says he did. And by God, that’s exactly what he says, and it gives him a foreign policy position and attitude that a lot of Democrats could - and probably do - agree with.
And if you’re looking for one more bit of evidence, just take Trump’s statement this morning on the Iran deal:
"Unlike most of his fellow rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, real estate mogul Donald Trump would not rescind President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. “I’ve heard a lot of people say, ‘We’re going to rip up the deal.’ It’s very tough to do when you say, ‘Rip up a deal,’” Trump said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” Instead, the businessman who is currently leading GOP polls in the race for the White House promised to “police” Iran to make sure the country doesn’t break the terms of the agreement.
Well, isn’t this exactly the position of most Americans? Take the deal and police it? So, I continue to believe that behind the bluster and bravado there is a complicated and calculating political personage, who is smarter and tougher than all his Republican opponents.
Your welcome.
Nope.
now when i typed into the Google machine
donald trump’s thoughts on the vietnam war
The articles that came up, either dealt with military schools, educational and school deferments or medical ones.
Now when i typed this into the Google machine
did donald trump oppose the vietnam war
i got this article that is filled with way too many links in regards to Trump’s interaction with the draft board.
Now say what you will about Al Gore, but Gore went to Nam. Now it wasn’t out of altruism, but he went and he knew that he could have gotten more deferments as opposed to going over there.
Gore is a Democrat, right?
How?
Experts told us that even if Congress rejected the nuclear deal – thus maintaining current U.S. sanctions – other countries could stop enforcing their own sanctions anyway. As a result, Iran would be able to access at least some of its assets that have been frozen under international sanctions. However, experts said it’s highly unlikely that this would amount to $150 billion, the maximum estimate of how much Iran could benefit by the lifting of all international sanctions without regard to Iran’s outstanding financial obligations. Without United States participation, the best estimate we could find was $40 billion.
n he is still against the deal. Its just that he has to find a way to ‘police’ it. So how is he going to police that deal?
because to Trump, truth is a convenient device that can be pulled out when needed and thrown away when one is done with it.
Actually (and depending on who most rely on), most Americans are of the opinion that the agreement needs to be rejected. Now those numbers split along the usual lines, but it goes back that same question: how is he going to police an agreement, that most of his supporters have still have an issue with?
Actually Trump is akin to Antaeus.