I am a hard working American citizen, but Trump isn't "my voice". My voice is not a xenophobic, racist, loose with the facts, out of control dictator. No, I'M WITH HER. She is the voice of reason, clarity, vision and success for the country.
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Trump is a terrorist's best PR man. He drives home their hurt on us like a big box retailer selling back to school foolery. How can I respect authority if the AG and Top Cop are corrupt, fearful leaders? Donald doesn't respect them, so why do the kidz have to?
I have known the world was nutz since I could guess Oliver North passed the money from jet parts he sold to Iran over to the Contras who Congress had cut funding for cutting things off of El Salvador's citizens, and look at that mess, NOW. Dad thought I was being too cynical, then the news dropped for my13th B-Day! Eat my cake, Dad.
Nixon sent my Father to Nam, and for that alone he's a hard man to forgive. Donald would have no problem blowing off tac nukes like fireworks. Mind you, we've never dropped one since Japan, not intentionally, anyway. With Donald, expect three in the first 100 Dayz.
I have known the world was nutz since I could guess Oliver North passed the money from jet parts he sold to Iran over to the Contras who Congress had cut funding for cutting things off of El Salvador's citizens, and look at that mess, NOW. Dad thought I was being too cynical, then the news dropped for my13th B-Day! Eat my cake, Dad.
Nixon sent my Father to Nam, and for that alone he's a hard man to forgive. Donald would have no problem blowing off tac nukes like fireworks. Mind you, we've never dropped one since Japan, not intentionally, anyway. With Donald, expect three in the first 100 Dayz.
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It is nice to know that Trump can be ‘humble and grateful’ instead of "proud" and "I told you so". Nah! still not buying it.
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Many Clinton supporters, including the Times, characterize the Trump campaign as a "campaign of fear". They then go on to tick off all the bad things (bad Supreme Court appointments, for example) likely to happen in a Trump Administration. They then conclude that this must be avoided at all costs, even if it means electing Hillary, warts and all.
Sounds to me that it is the Clintonistas who are conducting a "campaign of fear".
Sounds to me that it is the Clintonistas who are conducting a "campaign of fear".
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I know it's easy to get confused when you support Trump, but the reason we're afraid of him is because of all the crazy stuff he says. He's a fascist with no plan, no experience, and very little knowledge of the world. We are right to fear his presidency.
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So you are willing to take the certainty of an ethically challenged, war mongering Wall Streeter instead?
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@rm
ARE YOU LISTENING TO WHAT TRUMP IS SAYING????....it's all about fear.
And doom. And gloom...No one is making that up except for him (and maybe Rudy Giulliani).
Trump basically creates the problem -- then presents himself as the cure,
and that has nothing to do with the NYT or the Clinton campaign.
ARE YOU LISTENING TO WHAT TRUMP IS SAYING????....it's all about fear.
And doom. And gloom...No one is making that up except for him (and maybe Rudy Giulliani).
Trump basically creates the problem -- then presents himself as the cure,
and that has nothing to do with the NYT or the Clinton campaign.
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How is he going to pay for the upcoming war with ISIS, helping with student loans, updating infrastructure, increasing the size of the military, implementing his "law and order" and paying down the national debt while simultaneously implementing the largest tax cut in US history. Wake up people. He will cost this country... a fortune. You think the debt now is high, just wait until he tries to implement all this stuff. The only way it will work is to destroy social security. Do we want to destroy social security?
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OK, VP's daughter is freaking adorable! She's got Shirley's dimples and a great smile, too! I will instantly resent anyone who makes digs at her since she's got to hang around a plastic modeling contest. She and her father would make a GREAT couple of smilers!
Trump would never stand for it.
Trump would never stand for it.
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Trump is a bully with a bat, with a belfry full of bats. The longer this guy is treated as sane, the more insane the US looks to the whole rest of the world.
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My husband said Trump never said a word about his VP. I can't believe he could be THAT craven, but is my husband right? Do I have to watch the whole nightmare over again, tonight? He said it's my punishment for not seeing some sanity in the crackup.
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Where's the accountability?
More spending on the military, veterans, inner cities, healthcare etc and a reduction in taxes; while the nation is $20 trillion in debt.
Surely Trump, as a businessman, must realize that this doesn't add up. The virtual absence of any debate on this issue by either the Convention speakers, the press or those commenting on the Convention is strange - or maybe a result of the seemingly cavalier attitude we now take towards the business of Government.
More spending on the military, veterans, inner cities, healthcare etc and a reduction in taxes; while the nation is $20 trillion in debt.
Surely Trump, as a businessman, must realize that this doesn't add up. The virtual absence of any debate on this issue by either the Convention speakers, the press or those commenting on the Convention is strange - or maybe a result of the seemingly cavalier attitude we now take towards the business of Government.
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Trump's message to America:
"There's a monster in your closet and a bogeyman under your bed.
And only I can save you from certain demise!"
"There's a monster in your closet and a bogeyman under your bed.
And only I can save you from certain demise!"
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Little does he know that no one can protect you from John Wick.
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The moral of this sad story is if it wasn't Trump it would be someone else to boldly seize on the disenfranchised. Apparently many people work from the gut without questioning or researching propaganda. The vulnerable are mercilessly being tapped. This is total revenge on Obama and his decent legacy. The destruction being touted is a self-fulfilled prophecy.
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We've had 16 years of bad presidents both republican and democrat. Where do you go for your research to come to the conclusion that Obama was decent? He was not and neither was Bush. Bill Clinton was ok, but also we are paying right now for some of his errors.
The vulnerable are being mercilessly tapped by the system and Trump is speaking truth to power. You may not agree and the message does not resonate with you. Bless your soul then for not being one of the people getting exploited and going backwards while the DJIA is a record 18K+
If anyone thinks a HRC presidency will bring back the good days of the '90's they are delusional. This country will either fold like Scotland or make a bolder choice like Britain. Either way, we deserve what we get in the end for the American people being asleep at the wheel and letting this country get hijacked from us.
The vulnerable are being mercilessly tapped by the system and Trump is speaking truth to power. You may not agree and the message does not resonate with you. Bless your soul then for not being one of the people getting exploited and going backwards while the DJIA is a record 18K+
If anyone thinks a HRC presidency will bring back the good days of the '90's they are delusional. This country will either fold like Scotland or make a bolder choice like Britain. Either way, we deserve what we get in the end for the American people being asleep at the wheel and letting this country get hijacked from us.
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Americans who react with horror at Donald Trumps’ proposed to temporary suspend travel and immigration from Muslim countries recognized as terrorist hotbeds should recall the horror they felt when the airliners slammed into the Twin Towers. Much of the opposition to the proposal seems based on the false assumption that such a ban would be unconstitutional. U.S. Code § 1182 (Inadmissible Aliens) states: “Whenever the president finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.” If terror attacks that have cost thousands of Americans their lives doesn’t justify a temporary suspension, what would? Congress has provided presidents the power to shutdown immigration detrimental to the United States by proclamation.
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People seem surprised and alarmed by Trump's ability to arouse passion, not only in his loyal supporters but now also a fair number who were on the fence till last night ( their change of heart is reflected in some comments here today).
I am not a Trump supporter. But how did it come to this,with him so close to the Presidency, with a real possibility of being elected ? The answer is the same as it has been throughout history: the economy, combined with growing fear among Americans.
Add a demagogue to the mix, one who is skilled in exploiting and magnifying those fears and who can provide sweeping promises to solve them, and that's a powder keg set to explode. When people feel threatened by circumstances beyond their control, that is when bullies and bigots can seize the moment, whether in America or elsewhere.
A large number of our population, especially the working and middle class, feel very frightened - and justly so. Their dollars don't go nearly as far as they once did. The educational system is failing their children. They can't cover the soaring costs of health care ( even with insurance) .They fear for their jobs -and their jobs don't pay enough to leave room for sufficient retirement savings.
When fear and anxiety prevail, people are far less likely to look closely at the man behind the curtain who is fooling them so well.
I am not a Trump supporter. But how did it come to this,with him so close to the Presidency, with a real possibility of being elected ? The answer is the same as it has been throughout history: the economy, combined with growing fear among Americans.
Add a demagogue to the mix, one who is skilled in exploiting and magnifying those fears and who can provide sweeping promises to solve them, and that's a powder keg set to explode. When people feel threatened by circumstances beyond their control, that is when bullies and bigots can seize the moment, whether in America or elsewhere.
A large number of our population, especially the working and middle class, feel very frightened - and justly so. Their dollars don't go nearly as far as they once did. The educational system is failing their children. They can't cover the soaring costs of health care ( even with insurance) .They fear for their jobs -and their jobs don't pay enough to leave room for sufficient retirement savings.
When fear and anxiety prevail, people are far less likely to look closely at the man behind the curtain who is fooling them so well.
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It would be interesting to know which books have had the most influence on Donald Trump. "If I Ran the Circus" must be right near the top.
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I do believe he kept a copy of mein kampf on his nightstand.
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The Audacity of Hope. He's trying to learn what not to do.
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It's nice to see Trump return to his usual self today after his family spoke so glowingly about him and he read so well from a teleprompter: "In defending his suggestion that Mr. Cruz’s father might have had a role in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, citing a report in The National Enquirer - “This is a magazine that frankly in many respects should be very respected,” Mr. Trump said of the tabloid." And this is the man who went to Wharton and wants to be President. If he is elected, this country will have gotten exactly what it deserves - one that values fiction over fact, treats fact as a nuisance, is hateful, negative and champions ignorance and tabloids. If we're going to start praising faux news I'd much rather everyone read The Onion. At least we'll get some laughs out of it.
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Let's review a few things. On the day following being battered by the yelling and the spewing of vitriol for over an hour, the resonant echoes that linger are "law and order" and "enforcement". The issue of the police killing black men without clear justification was never addressed. A choice was made and it was all on the side of the enforcement and police and nothing about police needing to obey the law as well.
The one moment of decency for me was when he quelled the mob when they started into their "lock her up" chant. However what that reminded me of is that it is not just Trump but it is the republican party as well. I ask you to consider the following thesis. The republicans spent over two years setting up the email and Benghazi investigations to they could smear her right at election time. However when they feed this red meat to the faithful they took the next step with their prison chant. And what does that remind us of? Well many regimes in South America and Eastern Europe have a history of locking up political opponents when they know they cannot defeat them in a fair democratic election. Republicans ignored the autopsy of their loss, and have in effect refused to broaden their appeal. So when you know you can't win due to demographic political suicide what do you do? Maybe you resort to inventing pretexts to lock up your political opponents... After all, they took years to set up the indictment.
The one moment of decency for me was when he quelled the mob when they started into their "lock her up" chant. However what that reminded me of is that it is not just Trump but it is the republican party as well. I ask you to consider the following thesis. The republicans spent over two years setting up the email and Benghazi investigations to they could smear her right at election time. However when they feed this red meat to the faithful they took the next step with their prison chant. And what does that remind us of? Well many regimes in South America and Eastern Europe have a history of locking up political opponents when they know they cannot defeat them in a fair democratic election. Republicans ignored the autopsy of their loss, and have in effect refused to broaden their appeal. So when you know you can't win due to demographic political suicide what do you do? Maybe you resort to inventing pretexts to lock up your political opponents... After all, they took years to set up the indictment.
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At first I was going to dismiss NYT as another media outlet working to smear Trump. If people don't see the smear campaign from the MSM painting Trump to be a person we should fear and turn away from as devisive and not up to task then I won't bother spending time to convince them otherwise.
Reading the comments on this article gives me hope. There looks to be enough people who are actually listening to Trump's speeches and using their own objective reasoning to make a choice.
I don't see how any person can use objective reasoning and come up with a decision to vote for HRC after everything that is known about her time and again. She is criminally corrupted and literally sick in the head with power - and seeking the highest office in the nation. What is wrong in people's heads to support that??
Reading the comments on this article gives me hope. There looks to be enough people who are actually listening to Trump's speeches and using their own objective reasoning to make a choice.
I don't see how any person can use objective reasoning and come up with a decision to vote for HRC after everything that is known about her time and again. She is criminally corrupted and literally sick in the head with power - and seeking the highest office in the nation. What is wrong in people's heads to support that??
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Where is Anonymous with the tax returns? We could sure use a peek behind the curtain at this guy, I am sure is it REALLY SCARY!
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Keep at it. Maybe you'll garner a real response by late November.
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The deployment of "dark" to characterize Trump's speech makes it seem like the Clinton campaign emailed talking points to their media sycophants before his speech even ended. Or did a hundred talking heads coincidentally pick the exact same adjective out of thin air?
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Maybe it's because the speech was actually dark, but then that would paint your candidate in a bad light so let's blame it on HRC, like we blame her for everything else.
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I hope the New Zealand embassy doesnt lose my application. There is going to be one heckuva line of people streaming for the exits if Mussolini-Lite somehow gets elected.
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I hope they don't lose your application either.
It will be nice to have people streaming for the exits for once instead of illegally entering our country.
It will be nice to have people streaming for the exits for once instead of illegally entering our country.
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Dems are always promising to ex-patriate if xyz candidate wins. The problem is that they never do so. The candidate they disdain takes office and yet they remain in place........sigh. Now, even, the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginzburg is so threatening. If Trump wins, that scenario would translate to yet another SCOTUS appointment. Rational? I don't think so. I like and admire Ms Ginzburg but if she leaves for New Zealand, that would be just fine with me. While I admire her (and wish only the best for this remarkable woman), I do not much admire her political and judicial thinking.
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These are darks times. Growing darker.
An attack has just taken place in Munich, Germany -- and already there are cries for the right-wing nationalist party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) to take over...Now, multiply that a million times over and you have Donald Trump's "solution" to every world problem.
And once America starts down that same path, there's no turning back.
Think about it.
An attack has just taken place in Munich, Germany -- and already there are cries for the right-wing nationalist party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) to take over...Now, multiply that a million times over and you have Donald Trump's "solution" to every world problem.
And once America starts down that same path, there's no turning back.
Think about it.
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Did anyone notice the difficulty that Trump had in pronouncing the letters LGBTQ, both times. It was clear that this zone was completely alien to him and that he was dealing with them for the first time. Obviously, they were introduced into the speech as an adornment rather than as a conviction.
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Trump has trouble pronouncing most words.
Did anyone notice the crowd applauded and gave a standing ovation to an openly gay Republican and that Trump, after stumbling over the letters, broke script and THANKED the convention delegates for acknowledging the LGBTQ community?
Or are silly, petty libs too busy nitpicking to acknowledge something that has NEVER happened at a GOP convention before?
Seriously liberals, what's wrong with you?
Or are silly, petty libs too busy nitpicking to acknowledge something that has NEVER happened at a GOP convention before?
Seriously liberals, what's wrong with you?
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Yeah well it's hard to keep up with all the letters. Now they've added Q.
Maybe someone can explain what that's all about?
Maybe someone can explain what that's all about?
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I'm ready to vote for Ivanka. She sounded like Hillary, without the pandering.
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It seems the Kool-Aid has taken the desired effect....
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Hopefully most Americans retain the common sense to reject this inexperienced and dangerous demagogue. He is capitalizing on anger over economic woes but wrongly projected onto immigrants, a trade imbalance, NATO, etc.
Economic hardships for most Americans stem from policies that Trump will continue and is NOT addressing, because they are Republican priorities.
1. Enormous wealth inequality has been systematically engineered over the last 40 years by tax cuts & loopholes, corporate inversions, bad banking regulations and oversight, malfeasance, coupled with laws that undermine unions and the average worker - most pushed for by Reagan, then Bush 1 and 2. The top 1% of Americans now control 40% of the country's wealth.
2. The very wealthy and large corporations dictate tax and corp policies, regulations, trade laws to enrich themselves by buying politicians.
1 and 2 are reciprocally reinforcing and if not stopped will lead to an economic and political disaster.
3. A bloated military budget with nearly a 1000 bases overseas. We spend as much on "defense" as the next 10 countries combined. Every Republican candidate for President in the last 50 years says our military is falling apart. This is a lie.
Solutions:
- Public financing of elections. Pols are then responsible to us.
- Reform the tax code. Tax the wealthy & corporations appropriately.
- Bring military spending into an affordable range.
- Invest in American cities, technology, infrastructure, health & education.
Economic hardships for most Americans stem from policies that Trump will continue and is NOT addressing, because they are Republican priorities.
1. Enormous wealth inequality has been systematically engineered over the last 40 years by tax cuts & loopholes, corporate inversions, bad banking regulations and oversight, malfeasance, coupled with laws that undermine unions and the average worker - most pushed for by Reagan, then Bush 1 and 2. The top 1% of Americans now control 40% of the country's wealth.
2. The very wealthy and large corporations dictate tax and corp policies, regulations, trade laws to enrich themselves by buying politicians.
1 and 2 are reciprocally reinforcing and if not stopped will lead to an economic and political disaster.
3. A bloated military budget with nearly a 1000 bases overseas. We spend as much on "defense" as the next 10 countries combined. Every Republican candidate for President in the last 50 years says our military is falling apart. This is a lie.
Solutions:
- Public financing of elections. Pols are then responsible to us.
- Reform the tax code. Tax the wealthy & corporations appropriately.
- Bring military spending into an affordable range.
- Invest in American cities, technology, infrastructure, health & education.
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Fair point, but...
"Trump is great at identifying the problems ,,, but he has no solutions. Destroy ISIS in a few weeks, how exactly?"
I agree that attacking ISIS won't work. They'll inevitably win the terrorism competition. But if we stay out of Middle East wars (which Clinton is less likely than Trump to do), ISIS attacks might decrease.
Many will call that "retreating." I prefer to call it "minding our own business."
"Trump is great at identifying the problems ,,, but he has no solutions. Destroy ISIS in a few weeks, how exactly?"
I agree that attacking ISIS won't work. They'll inevitably win the terrorism competition. But if we stay out of Middle East wars (which Clinton is less likely than Trump to do), ISIS attacks might decrease.
Many will call that "retreating." I prefer to call it "minding our own business."
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Overt fascism looms ... frightening. Not just the man, and his psychopathology, but the numbers of people who support him. The Senators, Governor's and Congressional representatives who stand behind him are complicit in this tragic farce and should be ashamed. What an awful folly. What a threat to this nation this man is.
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Trump is a joke of a Dictator, of course. Hillary is as inspiring as a rock. But at least Bill will be back in the White House.
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Trumpism…how do we stop it? First of all stop making him seem as if he is a new phenomenon. He isn’t. He can be looked at historically where he emulates any number of Dictators. He can be looked at through the lens of psychology where Trump is a narcissistic, sociopath. Whole sections of bookstores are dedicated to his DSM diagnosis. Trump did not rise to power, the GOP created the environment from which Trump crawled from the primordial, greed driven, political soup. The environment created by the GOP was one where they played upon the fears of specific group’s people, those paranoids in their varying forms, and then told those paranoids that the GOP will quell their fears. Trump, being a narcissist actually believes in his superiority and it is his money that feeds his ability to project his faux sense of being better than everyone else. It is his understanding of mass hypnosis and lessons from reading “Hitler’s Speeches” that has allowed him to take to an even further degree, the control of those well-conditioned paranoids. How do you stop it? Understand who he controls. Remove their fears…with blatant truth. The media must stop giving him the free exposure to project his form of control. Get the democrats out to vote even if it means spending some of that campaign money to get them the right documents and a ride to the voting booth.
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What a speech ! I have been waiting decades to hear a speech such as this from a Presidential candidate. FINALLY , a candidate that really is for the rights of ALL Americans not just a select group. We have been lied to so much, for so long, by so many, few believe anything our government says anymore. And with good reason ! We have been sold out by BOTH political parties for exactly the same reasons. BOTH have the same agenda, just different ways of achieving their goal. Along comes Trump and blows the corrupt lid off all of them ! Trump has my vote.
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Maybe, its time to elect a builder to see if a man who has made real money and not gotten rich off his or her position as an elected official can solve some of the horrendous social and economic problems facing most Americans (especially those who do not hold government jobs).
A year ago I thought Trump vulgar and his persona off putting. BUT...
1. He won big in the face of unrelenting ridicule and dismissal from the pundits and *experts*.
2. The absurd attempt to make the *6 pointed star* into an anti Semitic issue. (I have a Texas Ranger badge in front of me; its star has six points)
3. The difference between the manner in which the media I read or hear, except for Bloomberg, treated the issue of Mrs. Trump's speech. Bloomberg said: *......the controversy about the similarity in words between Mrs. Trump's and Mrs. Obama's convention speeches* Everyone else shouted *plagiarism* for two days and counting. (Watch out, VP Biden and Pres. Obama, the word vigilantes are aroused)
4. Ivana Trump reminds me of my daughter. Hard working mothers who take pride in their appearance and succeed in the male dominated world of business without rancor and bitterness.
5. The assertion that Trump pays men and women equally in his businesses. He does not see gender or color. He sees ability. The media exposed that neither the Clinton and Obama operations follow that practice.
6. I have not heard Trump talk *down* or lecture to anyone.
A year ago I thought Trump vulgar and his persona off putting. BUT...
1. He won big in the face of unrelenting ridicule and dismissal from the pundits and *experts*.
2. The absurd attempt to make the *6 pointed star* into an anti Semitic issue. (I have a Texas Ranger badge in front of me; its star has six points)
3. The difference between the manner in which the media I read or hear, except for Bloomberg, treated the issue of Mrs. Trump's speech. Bloomberg said: *......the controversy about the similarity in words between Mrs. Trump's and Mrs. Obama's convention speeches* Everyone else shouted *plagiarism* for two days and counting. (Watch out, VP Biden and Pres. Obama, the word vigilantes are aroused)
4. Ivana Trump reminds me of my daughter. Hard working mothers who take pride in their appearance and succeed in the male dominated world of business without rancor and bitterness.
5. The assertion that Trump pays men and women equally in his businesses. He does not see gender or color. He sees ability. The media exposed that neither the Clinton and Obama operations follow that practice.
6. I have not heard Trump talk *down* or lecture to anyone.
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Excellent. Literally, you haven't made a single true claim.
Here's one example:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/06/04/donald-trump-campai...
Here's one example:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/06/04/donald-trump-campai...
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You might want to read the news stories about how many people Trump has refused to pay after they provided goods and services for him.
Trump has stated that he doesn't like black men counting his money and that black people are lazy.
You really need to read some actual news.
Trump has stated that he doesn't like black men counting his money and that black people are lazy.
You really need to read some actual news.
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You do realize that Trump was born into money, right? He wasn't born into a blue collar family and then made something out of himself. He was born with a golden spoon in his mouth and has the sense of entitlement to prove it.
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For over a year now, I have half heartedly joked that I would leave this country and not look back, if Trump were elected.
Now that joke is becoming reality. I could not accept a Trump presidency under any circumstances. The man is a buffoon and a demagogue. Unfortunately if he becomes POTUS, I doubt that anywhere in the world will be a safe place to live!
Now that joke is becoming reality. I could not accept a Trump presidency under any circumstances. The man is a buffoon and a demagogue. Unfortunately if he becomes POTUS, I doubt that anywhere in the world will be a safe place to live!
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Listening to Trump rave on is reminiscent of watching Hitler on the History channel. Hitler blaming the Jews and Trump blaming the Muslims, a distinction without a difference. Trump's anger and rage is quite spectacular-makes him an excellent candidate to meet with world leaders-nice to know he's in touch with his emotional intelligence. Between he and Pence, we are all surely doomed if they prevail.
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Does Bernie get to decide?
"Sanders said his supporters would never vote for Trump."
Most won't -- they'll cave in and vote for Clinton. But some will, or so they've said. And some will vote third-party.
If Clinton picks Warren, she'll probably nail down most Sanders supporters. But that doesn't appear likely. If she picks Kaine, as appears likely, who knows? To me, that would say she's more concerned about not getting upstaged (by Warren) than she is about picking the running mate that's most likely to win her the election.
"Sanders said his supporters would never vote for Trump."
Most won't -- they'll cave in and vote for Clinton. But some will, or so they've said. And some will vote third-party.
If Clinton picks Warren, she'll probably nail down most Sanders supporters. But that doesn't appear likely. If she picks Kaine, as appears likely, who knows? To me, that would say she's more concerned about not getting upstaged (by Warren) than she is about picking the running mate that's most likely to win her the election.
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@cents
If Sanders' supporters don't recognize the true danger of having Trump in the White House by now, they NEVER will.
At this point, the ongoing security of this country is the only thing that should matter -- which is something we won't have with Mr. Trump's "thin-skinned" hands on the Nuclear Codes.
If Sanders' supporters don't recognize the true danger of having Trump in the White House by now, they NEVER will.
At this point, the ongoing security of this country is the only thing that should matter -- which is something we won't have with Mr. Trump's "thin-skinned" hands on the Nuclear Codes.
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How can Trump be trusted to protect America if he speaks for Putin's Russia and his campaign manager has taken millions for promoting Russian interests?
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/07/clinton-trump-p...
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/04/paul_ma...
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/07/clinton-trump-p...
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/04/paul_ma...
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I once thought the email scandal was overblown, but I've been troubled by Clinton's handling of it:
"... Hillary Clinton made a blunder by using her personal email account. ... [We] do not know for sure if her act has compromised national security."
Clinton insists there's no evidence that foreign governments hacked her emails. True, but Charlie Rose pointed out that good hackers often cover their tracks, so that the "hackee" doesn't plug the hole.
Frankly, I'm disappointed that a US Secretary of State would send and receive official emails over a private server. (Despite Clinton's vague claims to the contrary, no previous SOS ever used his or her own server.) I'm also amazed it's even possible. I'm not impressed by Clinton's "defense" that there's been no "evidence" that she was in fact hacked. Charlie Rose was correct about that: good hackers cover their tracks.
Nor am I impressed that Clinton emailed 300 "careful" officials, none of whom complained about her use of a private server. I'll wager that some of those "careful" officials wondered, but assumed that Clinton had checked it out. We now know she hadn't, of course, but they probably assumed she had.
"... Hillary Clinton made a blunder by using her personal email account. ... [We] do not know for sure if her act has compromised national security."
Clinton insists there's no evidence that foreign governments hacked her emails. True, but Charlie Rose pointed out that good hackers often cover their tracks, so that the "hackee" doesn't plug the hole.
Frankly, I'm disappointed that a US Secretary of State would send and receive official emails over a private server. (Despite Clinton's vague claims to the contrary, no previous SOS ever used his or her own server.) I'm also amazed it's even possible. I'm not impressed by Clinton's "defense" that there's been no "evidence" that she was in fact hacked. Charlie Rose was correct about that: good hackers cover their tracks.
Nor am I impressed that Clinton emailed 300 "careful" officials, none of whom complained about her use of a private server. I'll wager that some of those "careful" officials wondered, but assumed that Clinton had checked it out. We now know she hadn't, of course, but they probably assumed she had.
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Memo to Three cents: Secretary of State Colin Powell used his own personal email account for official business.
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Are you aware that as Clinton said, none of the emails were marked Classified at the time? There were a very few marked Confidential, which in no way should have compromised national security even if there were any evidence whatsoever (which therein't) that they were hacked.
And are you as upset as other previous government officials -- for instance, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice-- having used private servers? And what about this?
http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/web-video/missing-white-house-emails
And are you as upset as other previous government officials -- for instance, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice-- having used private servers? And what about this?
http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/web-video/missing-white-house-emails
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Mark,
Au contraire. Powell had an AOL account, which he admits he used, but insists he switched to the official SOS system for sensitive emails. Reportedly there were a few (half a dozen?) whose "sensitivity" was questionable, but that's it.
Clinton, by contrast, never used the SOS system. She didn't even have an SOS email address! She used only her private server. As I wrote earlier, no earlier SOS (or later SOS, for that matter) ever used a private email server. She was the one and only SOS who ever did that.
Au contraire. Powell had an AOL account, which he admits he used, but insists he switched to the official SOS system for sensitive emails. Reportedly there were a few (half a dozen?) whose "sensitivity" was questionable, but that's it.
Clinton, by contrast, never used the SOS system. She didn't even have an SOS email address! She used only her private server. As I wrote earlier, no earlier SOS (or later SOS, for that matter) ever used a private email server. She was the one and only SOS who ever did that.
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I have yet to hear Trump say what era he is talking about when he says "Make America Great Again"? Maybe his supporters can enlighten everyone. As far as I have checked every era has had it's problems, there has not been a golden age for ALL Americans. Today is nearer a golden age for ALL than it has been. Society has evolved, democracy has evolved, it is more inclusive than before. Yes, it has its problems. But, to want to go backwards to some time in the past - when was America Great for everyone? - is magical thinking. "We're off to see the Wizard the Wonderful Wizard of Oz".
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The more I ponder the statement, "I am your voice," the more creepy it sounds. As if Trump could be inside one's mind, could read it or control it. Speak for it.
I've met people who believed they "heard" voices, but "I am your voice" - well, that is an extremely invasive statement. A domineering statement. A crazy statement!
Trump has already given ample evidence of severe psychopathology: character disorder and frankly delusional ideas - of grandeur and paranoia. But with this statement from yesterday, we are in uncharted territory. A man, already accorded power within one (of only two )main political parties (with the explicit aid and comfort of powerful party leaders!) expressing frankly domineering statements, seeking compliance and sycophancy. Brutally attacking his opponent, openly inviting mob chanting against her.
We're this an ordinary citizen, alarm bells would be ringing. We would be inviting police action, to protect society.
But it's "business as usual" and a dangerous sociopath is one of two people, running for president.
I'm a retired clinical psychologist. And I'm alarmed! On your behalf.
I've met people who believed they "heard" voices, but "I am your voice" - well, that is an extremely invasive statement. A domineering statement. A crazy statement!
Trump has already given ample evidence of severe psychopathology: character disorder and frankly delusional ideas - of grandeur and paranoia. But with this statement from yesterday, we are in uncharted territory. A man, already accorded power within one (of only two )main political parties (with the explicit aid and comfort of powerful party leaders!) expressing frankly domineering statements, seeking compliance and sycophancy. Brutally attacking his opponent, openly inviting mob chanting against her.
We're this an ordinary citizen, alarm bells would be ringing. We would be inviting police action, to protect society.
But it's "business as usual" and a dangerous sociopath is one of two people, running for president.
I'm a retired clinical psychologist. And I'm alarmed! On your behalf.
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Strangely missing from his acceptance speech (and Amtrak is certainly relieved!):
Trump did not promise to make the trains run on time.
Well, at least not yet...
Trump did not promise to make the trains run on time.
Well, at least not yet...
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That's because, unlike Europe, the US has no reliable widespread national train system which links our states.
Our government gives too much of our money away, so we have no money for our own transportation/infrastructure.
Our government gives too much of our money away, so we have no money for our own transportation/infrastructure.
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Using the deaths of police officers to further his political ambitions? Sick. But while we are here let's look at the list of his qualifications that make him, as he claimed he is, the law-and-order candidate:
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Memo to Bill Wilkerson:
Trump has swindled thousands with Trump University alone and now calls himself the "law and order" candidate?
Trump has swindled thousands with Trump University alone and now calls himself the "law and order" candidate?
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Republicans use the deaths of police officers killed by black men to promote their agenda. The Democrats use the deaths of black men killed by police to promote their agenda.
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Reminds me of Pablo Escobar trying to get himself elected before the Colombian's indicted him. Didn't he pay the FARC to take out their supreme court so no one could extradite him?
No journalist who fails to discuss the fascist ingredients and techniques of Donald J. Trump and his campaign is doing his/her job properly, honorably and properly.
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Oops! Two "properly"s. For the second one, please substitute "patriotically."
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It can get a little old, so may I recommend the Croix de Feu?
anti-imCross burners to perfection! France's dirty anti-immigrant militia secret, but Tarantino made them sound Austrian in his Inglorious roast.
Not gonna get Palmed if you mention their fascion problem, Galliano. Dior were some real stinkers, but most fell for the CF's special brand of Fascism, ala "Corporatism." They bottled that in 1935, and Mussolini sued immediately for trade mark violations.
anti-imCross burners to perfection! France's dirty anti-immigrant militia secret, but Tarantino made them sound Austrian in his Inglorious roast.
Not gonna get Palmed if you mention their fascion problem, Galliano. Dior were some real stinkers, but most fell for the CF's special brand of Fascism, ala "Corporatism." They bottled that in 1935, and Mussolini sued immediately for trade mark violations.
There is a discrepancy between the distributed text of Trump speech and the speech that he actually delivered. In his delivery several times Trump use the phrase believe me. This is what we call a tell. He is unconsciously asking The listeners to believe him because he's lying. Not a good poker player, not a good salesman not a good liar just a plain boldfaced liar
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Agree.
When people say believe me, or frankly, or to tell the truth, or I'll be honest, etc., they're lyin'.
Crooked Donald. Lyin' Donald.
When people say believe me, or frankly, or to tell the truth, or I'll be honest, etc., they're lyin'.
Crooked Donald. Lyin' Donald.
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It's actually a persuasion (sales) technique - it does not infer lying.
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"19 trillion of debt (almost half of it accumulated by Obama)"
Fair and unfair.
True that half of our $19 trillion debt arose during Obama's presidency. But he "inherited" most of that.
The key fact remains that we have $19 trillion in debt. That's a lot. We can't keep kicking that can down the road.
Fair and unfair.
True that half of our $19 trillion debt arose during Obama's presidency. But he "inherited" most of that.
The key fact remains that we have $19 trillion in debt. That's a lot. We can't keep kicking that can down the road.
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Trump is great at identifying the problems (notwithstanding his exaggerated descriptions of most everything) but he has no solutions. Destroy ISIS in a few weeks, how exactly? If it was so easy why hasn't anyone in the many countries fighting ISIS (and other Islamic terrorists) thought of it before? Send tens of thousands of US troops to Syria and Iraq? The public would never stand for it (and Trump claims we can't afford it). End crime in the streets, how exactly? The federal government has little or no impact on crime control/crime rates which is almost exclusively a state, county, and local responsibility. He would need most every governor, mayor, city and county executive to align with whatever crime control programs he will institute. Or he will need to send the military or federal law enforcement into every community. Conservatives and everyone else will never stand for it. Leaving aside the Constitutional issues, it plainly cannot be done. Does he think that current elected officials don't want to reduce crime? Where will the money come from? Provide a decent education for every child; a lofty goal. But how? Right now every Republican governor (& many Democratic ones) are trying to get the federal government out of education, does Trump think he can override state and local control of education. Clinton, Bush, & Obama have all tried and haven't gotten much traction. None of Trump's promises can be achieved absent a dictatorship & police state.
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Not tens of thousands. Hundreds of thousands. To occupy Iraq, Syria, and Libya, and that's just for starters.
"None of Trump's promises can be achieved absent a dictatorship & police state." Trumph has stated that he is somewhat of an admirer of Saddam Hussein, at least in his treatment of terrorists. Who is he going to define as a terrorist, commenters to this article? At least his sons are more polished than Uday and Quesay , one of whom was head of Saddam's internal security police.
Not my voice, not now, not ever.
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Listening to Ivanka introduce her dad you'd think she grew up in a single-parent household without a mom. She did have a mom, didn't she? I think she was married to the dad, at one time. Whatever happened to her? We never really hear about her anymore.
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Ivanka did grow up in a single-parent household ... one without a father.
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She DID grow up in a single-parent household. Her parents separated when she was 9, and her mother, Ivana, pretty much raised her. Donald Trump has not denied that he had very little to do with the raising of his children, even when he was living in the same household. It has been made clear that his relationships with his children have developed mostly during their adult years when they've come to take their places in the family business. He'll never be confused with Ward Cleaver.
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We need Trump now more than ever. Another terror attack in Germany. Ho Hum. Obama spoke for 34 seconds on it. All under control. Not Islamic radical terrorism. Just a recurring coincidence.
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And what would the small-handed one do to stop the terrorism? Oh, he has a plan, but he won't tell anybody what it is because it is so great. Maybe we need someone better than Obama to handle this, but we certainly don't need a gold-plated buffoon to handle it.
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I am genuinely sorry that the President of the United States of America, acting out of the principles of reason and thought upon which the country was founded, thinks that it is wise to know what actually happened, to offer help, and simply to decry violence, before he goes shooting his mouth off.
Of course it's much easier and more fun to blat whatever you heard on Dead Breitbart just as fast as you can, but that's kind of well, irresponsible and un-American. See, when the PRESIDENT behaves that way, bad things can happen.
Hey, I know. While we're waiting to find out what we're talking about, how 'bout you remind everybody who carried out the world's record for Single Mass Murder and why he did it?
Of course it's much easier and more fun to blat whatever you heard on Dead Breitbart just as fast as you can, but that's kind of well, irresponsible and un-American. See, when the PRESIDENT behaves that way, bad things can happen.
Hey, I know. While we're waiting to find out what we're talking about, how 'bout you remind everybody who carried out the world's record for Single Mass Murder and why he did it?
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I haven't heard anybody say that it's not terrorism.
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Trump needs everyone's support to win in particular from Texas and Ohio. Just to say he does not care endorsement of leaders from those states is not appropriate. He has to reach out to all and show his humbleness and flexibility. If he said wrong things against those leaders specially about their parents or wives he should have come forward to apologize-these are American ethics.
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"He has to reach out to all and show his humbleness and flexibility."
Humbleness? Donald Trump? That's funny.
Humbleness? Donald Trump? That's funny.
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Does that mean everyone in every other state doesn't have to bother voting for him too??? -- No problem.
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Interesting how commentators label the speech as "Dark". Goes along with the narrative of "Scary" and "Dangerous" the Democrats have been using to predefine Trump to appeal to our basic human instincts to get us to run away from him. I listened to the entire speech; It wasn't dark in my view. Focus groups with independent voters found it to be a good speech. We have many problems currently - 19 trillion of debt (almost half of it accumulated by Obama), an open border policy, terror attacks domestically and all over the world, a healthcare plan with ridiculous premiums (if you make more than $80k annually and happen to use the ACA), a crumbling military, policemen targeted on our streets...
If Trump perfect? No... But I would never trust someone who was extremely careless with national security documents (just so she can avoid FOIA requests). Classified material is classified whether it's marked or not - a Secretary of State should know that.... I would never trust someone who blamed a terror attack 8 weeks before an election on a silly homemade video just to win an election. I trust him more than her....
If Trump perfect? No... But I would never trust someone who was extremely careless with national security documents (just so she can avoid FOIA requests). Classified material is classified whether it's marked or not - a Secretary of State should know that.... I would never trust someone who blamed a terror attack 8 weeks before an election on a silly homemade video just to win an election. I trust him more than her....
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So you do not trust Colin Powell and Condolezza Rice? As well as George Bush who deleted 20 million+ emails? What of lying to start a false war in Iraq that gave birth to ISIS?
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Please stop lying about Condaleeza Rice. She never used an outside e-mail account. As for Colin Powell, he's an odious person and deserves any punishment he were to get.
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Memo to Dan M:
Boy, you have bought the "con" from Trump hook, line, and sinker! We spend almost $700 billion per year on national defense. One blogger stated we have 10 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and the next closest nation is India with two. We have 3,500 combat aircraft with the F-22 stealth fighter as the world's only 5th generation fighter! We have the largest drone force in the world by far! Our military is NOT crumbling!
Boy, you have bought the "con" from Trump hook, line, and sinker! We spend almost $700 billion per year on national defense. One blogger stated we have 10 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and the next closest nation is India with two. We have 3,500 combat aircraft with the F-22 stealth fighter as the world's only 5th generation fighter! We have the largest drone force in the world by far! Our military is NOT crumbling!
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Donald Trump is playing into doomsday prepper and survivalist imagery and belief system. He has brought out from what can only be described as thinking that once existed only on the extreme fringe of our society to the front and center of Republican political thinking. There’s no way to equivocate a thought and belief system that is clearly from the fringe and made a part of mainstream Republican policy with anything on the Democratic side. Mr. Trump brought into the heart of the Republican party, doctrines from darkest and most extreme recesses of the hard, fringe Right.
Trump’s campaign has stated that it is patterning itself after Richard Nixon’s 1968 “law and order” campaign. No matter what you think about Nixon, Nixon didn’t come anywhere near Trump’s level of darkness or the degree that it catered to extreme rightwing thinking … of a society rocked by savagery, lawlessness, terrorism and disorder. Nor do I recall Nixon portraying himself as the savior, as the only person who can make things right. Champion of “law and order,” yes; a savior, no.
Trump’s views should frighten anyone who is well-grounded in reality. But what is even more frightening is that Mr. Trump has millions of true believers and followers. They believe no matter the evidence to the contrary that Trump can “save” America. No dictator can be a dictator without the hordes of believers … and that is the most frightening thing of all.
Trump’s campaign has stated that it is patterning itself after Richard Nixon’s 1968 “law and order” campaign. No matter what you think about Nixon, Nixon didn’t come anywhere near Trump’s level of darkness or the degree that it catered to extreme rightwing thinking … of a society rocked by savagery, lawlessness, terrorism and disorder. Nor do I recall Nixon portraying himself as the savior, as the only person who can make things right. Champion of “law and order,” yes; a savior, no.
Trump’s views should frighten anyone who is well-grounded in reality. But what is even more frightening is that Mr. Trump has millions of true believers and followers. They believe no matter the evidence to the contrary that Trump can “save” America. No dictator can be a dictator without the hordes of believers … and that is the most frightening thing of all.
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This was the party of Make America Hate Again!
Make America Jail Again!
Make America Lie Again!
Who wants to join to the lowest of these?
Make America Jail Again!
Make America Lie Again!
Who wants to join to the lowest of these?
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At the beginning, I discounted all of the Republican candidates at the beginning of the primaries, mocking them for their lack of US and International history knowledge. Each created their own version of history and I was derisive.
Trump, to me, was the most ludicrous choice for candidate--someone with no credentials in government, and an ability to insult every human being on the planet except for unemployed white men. He seethed with viciousness.
But evidently, much like the ancient Romans and their fighting pits, it seems Americans, at least half of them, prefer a good show promising lots of carnage to someone with a plan to fight unemployment, improve education and affordable medical care, lower incarceration rates, create a workable immigration plan and fight terrorists of all beliefs and ethnicities.
Trump wants law and order. When I heard him say these words with such vehemence, all I could envision was that the police would have a free hand to beat, kill and incarcerate without oversight of the law.
He spoke of attacks on US police. Murder is a deplorable act. Killing police is wrong and moreover, it will not resolve the blue corp's institutional violence and racism.
Trump's only plan is to win--by tapping into his supporters' fear and uncertainty, then providing law and order as the cure. If his police state comes to be, his supporters, and everyone else, will fearfully look out for the "blue shirts". US problems will go unresolved. Bullies will rein.
Trump, to me, was the most ludicrous choice for candidate--someone with no credentials in government, and an ability to insult every human being on the planet except for unemployed white men. He seethed with viciousness.
But evidently, much like the ancient Romans and their fighting pits, it seems Americans, at least half of them, prefer a good show promising lots of carnage to someone with a plan to fight unemployment, improve education and affordable medical care, lower incarceration rates, create a workable immigration plan and fight terrorists of all beliefs and ethnicities.
Trump wants law and order. When I heard him say these words with such vehemence, all I could envision was that the police would have a free hand to beat, kill and incarcerate without oversight of the law.
He spoke of attacks on US police. Murder is a deplorable act. Killing police is wrong and moreover, it will not resolve the blue corp's institutional violence and racism.
Trump's only plan is to win--by tapping into his supporters' fear and uncertainty, then providing law and order as the cure. If his police state comes to be, his supporters, and everyone else, will fearfully look out for the "blue shirts". US problems will go unresolved. Bullies will rein.
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The problem is that many Americans are looking for a candidate that actually cares about them.
Yes, Donald Trump is an egotistical buffoon. His ascendancy to the top of the Republican field this year virtually assured the Democrats of a relatively-easy victory in November. All we had to do was to nominate someone that could at least reasonably fake an interest in the well-being of the American people. Someone who most Americans could talk themselves into maybe trusting. Someone like - oh, I don't know - any Democrat not named Hillary Clinton.
So, in our infinite wisdom, who did we nominate? The one Democrat actually named Hillary Clinton. And, now, we're looking at a serious chance of having that egotistical buffoon as our president. Yay, Democrats!
Yes, Donald Trump is an egotistical buffoon. His ascendancy to the top of the Republican field this year virtually assured the Democrats of a relatively-easy victory in November. All we had to do was to nominate someone that could at least reasonably fake an interest in the well-being of the American people. Someone who most Americans could talk themselves into maybe trusting. Someone like - oh, I don't know - any Democrat not named Hillary Clinton.
So, in our infinite wisdom, who did we nominate? The one Democrat actually named Hillary Clinton. And, now, we're looking at a serious chance of having that egotistical buffoon as our president. Yay, Democrats!
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@ryan
Sorry. Your logic somehow escapes me -- but one thing that didn't escape me, is that you omitted 'racist' from your description of Mr. Trump....And I imagine not too many Americans are looking for that in a candidate.
Sorry. Your logic somehow escapes me -- but one thing that didn't escape me, is that you omitted 'racist' from your description of Mr. Trump....And I imagine not too many Americans are looking for that in a candidate.
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It's all coming to a head-- if Trump wins this election, we will all learn lessons the hard way.
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I thought the same thing in 2008 when Obama got elected. Yet other than the rich being richer, the poor being poorer, and racial discord being as bad as it has been in the last 50 years, everything is just fine.
So relax. Everything will be fine.
So relax. Everything will be fine.
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@ein
There is no way that ANY President could ever correct ALL the problems in this country in two terms -- not when the problems have been there so much longer ... and definitely not with a Congress tripping you up at every step.
There is no way that ANY President could ever correct ALL the problems in this country in two terms -- not when the problems have been there so much longer ... and definitely not with a Congress tripping you up at every step.
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My last word..............
Over 2700 comments, mostly people in despair after viewing the Trump speech. The overwhelming consensus is one of fear of him winning.
My comment, out of thousands, will have no impact. You, the NYTimes, should recognize that we readers will have no impact and it is incumbent upon you to keep your finger on the pulse of your readers and represent the majority opinion in your writing as a public service, of which you are relied upon for. Don't just rubber stamp our comments. Be our advocate.
Be a democracy that our government is not.
Over 2700 comments, mostly people in despair after viewing the Trump speech. The overwhelming consensus is one of fear of him winning.
My comment, out of thousands, will have no impact. You, the NYTimes, should recognize that we readers will have no impact and it is incumbent upon you to keep your finger on the pulse of your readers and represent the majority opinion in your writing as a public service, of which you are relied upon for. Don't just rubber stamp our comments. Be our advocate.
Be a democracy that our government is not.
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It is not the obligation of the Times to represent the majority opinion, though in its obligation to report the News, it can state, if it knows any relevant statistics, what those statistics seem to suggest.
I am not a journalist, but the Times is highly respected - around the world - for fair reporting. People sling all sorts of attacks against the Times, but I notice it gets attacked from both right and left.
Comments come from all sides on these threads. But are no more a statistical sample than crowds walking on a New York street.
I am not a journalist, but the Times is highly respected - around the world - for fair reporting. People sling all sorts of attacks against the Times, but I notice it gets attacked from both right and left.
Comments come from all sides on these threads. But are no more a statistical sample than crowds walking on a New York street.
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Given Trump's self-absorbed nature and his cynical view of how business is done, is it possible that he would operate the US Government for his own self-aggrandizement and financial benefit? Why would he change these basic character attributes once he steps into the Oval Office?
I don't have in mind any concrete moves he might make for those purposes but as a cunning manipulator of other people, he certainly has the ability to maneuver the course of action to his liking and with his disregard of the separate powers of the three branches, he also has the power to effect the whims and desires of his ego.
I hope he does not get the chance to try.
I don't have in mind any concrete moves he might make for those purposes but as a cunning manipulator of other people, he certainly has the ability to maneuver the course of action to his liking and with his disregard of the separate powers of the three branches, he also has the power to effect the whims and desires of his ego.
I hope he does not get the chance to try.
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"I don't have in mind any concrete moves he might make for those purposes"
We are not shocked by the fact that your speculation is purely that.
We are not shocked by the fact that your speculation is purely that.
I'd hate to be the person in the federal government who oversaw investigating ethics violations. Then again, in an attempt to streamline the obese federal bureaucracy, that position will most likely be deleted, or as Donald likes to exclaim : You are fired. Good luck America, I'm heading North if things get too bad here.
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A vote for Trump is a vote for the "status quo" of the Reagan years. A vote for Trump is a vote for cutting taxes. Mostly cutting taxes for the rich. Cutting taxes for corporations. A vote for Trump is a vote for removing almost all regulations on corporate America. A vote for Trump is a vote for another massive military build-up (despite the fact that our own military outspends all other national militaries combined).
A vote for Trump is a vote for the historically disproven supply-side economic model. I.e. the "trickle down" economic strategy ... where corporations and the wealthy are given massive tax cuts and breaks while the middle class and working class must wait for that money to find its way into their hands via purchases and labor. Unfortunately, history and even current examples (Kansas budget meltdown) reveal supply-side economics as a complete and total myth.
Apply this to an entire general approach to all other problems that Americans are beset with (as Trump himself is doing) and it is easy to see how a vote for Trump, is indeed, a vote for this mythical American "city on a hill ... long-promised, by Ronald Reagan, but never delivered on.
The Trump campaign is a campaign built on hate and fear and ... with a vague, nationalistic ... promise that is delivered on a hat.
A vote for Trump is a vote for the historically disproven supply-side economic model. I.e. the "trickle down" economic strategy ... where corporations and the wealthy are given massive tax cuts and breaks while the middle class and working class must wait for that money to find its way into their hands via purchases and labor. Unfortunately, history and even current examples (Kansas budget meltdown) reveal supply-side economics as a complete and total myth.
Apply this to an entire general approach to all other problems that Americans are beset with (as Trump himself is doing) and it is easy to see how a vote for Trump, is indeed, a vote for this mythical American "city on a hill ... long-promised, by Ronald Reagan, but never delivered on.
The Trump campaign is a campaign built on hate and fear and ... with a vague, nationalistic ... promise that is delivered on a hat.
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Almost all regulations? Really? Are we getting rid of the FAA, the FCC, the USDA, the ATF, and the FDA? Has anyone proposed that?
As my grandmother used to say - haven't I told you a million times not to exaggerate?
As my grandmother used to say - haven't I told you a million times not to exaggerate?
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I suppose I shouldn't be terribly surprised that Trump's lackeys have no idea what he actually says about stuff, but I must confess, I am.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-epa-dept-of-education
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-epa-dept-of-education
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In fact, we have no idea what a vote for Trump means. He is a congenital prevaricator who changes his facts and his stance minute by minute. Other than the wall, he offers no solutions whatsoever, so there is no way to predict what he might propose once in office.
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The republican convention' last part seemed like the last episode of Trump's TV show -you are fired. The only business success he claims he has is only in real estate and that is also shoddy because of 4 bankruptcies. The country however is multinational in business and other areas. There is no surety that he will be able to make the country great again.America is already great and just nees touch up. Hillary on the other hand had a name sake presence just to get the title in various departments of the government. She has been a complete failure. It is so sorry to sea that a country filled with so many talented people cannot find the right person to lead it. Problem clearly is in the election process where rich and influential carries the day.
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Abraham Lincoln filed for personal bankruptcy twice.
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I don't recall that Lincoln ran around bellowing about what a great businessman he was. Do you?
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Don't you folks in the confederate states hate Lincoln?
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It was a dark, but frightening speech given by a frightening, and lying demagogue who learned much of his truly anti-social behavior as a young man from his attorney and mentor, Roy Cohen. The man is a fraud but has the financial means to hire enough people to cover it up.
It is very telling that Don Junior offered Gov. Kasich the job of vice president, taking responsibility for domestic and foreign affairs while his father busied himself Making America Great Again. It's almost laughable.
It is very telling that Don Junior offered Gov. Kasich the job of vice president, taking responsibility for domestic and foreign affairs while his father busied himself Making America Great Again. It's almost laughable.
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The comments are frightful. "Trump is Hitler, Trump is Mussolini, trump is the anti Christ, I hate Trump, I am scared, Trump supporters are all evil stupid white people." These are just a few comments that sound exactly Trump-like. Do not get me wrong, I will not vote for anybody this time because I want no responsibility for putting either candidate in office. I just find it sad that people who are well educated and smart can not come up with arguments that are superior than those used by stupid, mean and uneducated white racist bigots who support Trump.
It makes one wonder, does it not?
It makes one wonder, does it not?
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Yeah. It makes me wonder what's so difficult about jumping on Hillary Clinton's website, taking a look at her proposals, deciding that it's better to have an imperfect candidate whose arguments generally make sense than a nutjob running the countey, and understanding that staying out of voting is actually voting.
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This election more than any is one where your vote would count. Please don't throw it away. You are letting one of the stupid, mean and uneducated white racist bigots who support Trump select the American president.
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It's the way of the liberal. If someone disagrees with you, just claim you are intellectually superior to them. It has worked this way for generations.
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Mr. Trump is merely repeating the fearful headlines brought to us every day by the media. Is the media concerned that it will have to stake out new territory for its future reporting?
Let's not make this campaign about which candidate has the worst traits (it would be a close race), rather which can make some positive improvement in our society.
Let's not make this campaign about which candidate has the worst traits (it would be a close race), rather which can make some positive improvement in our society.
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Perhaps you'd like to list a few of Trumpy's "positive," proposals.
Or explain how you've accentuated the positive and e-liminated the negative in, say, having the government go through everybody's records, calling out the army to go door to door, rounding up eleven million people, stuffing them into holding tanks, blowing off their due process rights, shipping them wherever, abruptly chopping the labor they supply and the money they send home.
By the way, has it ever occured to you to think about what happens if you chop off the money immigrants send to Mexico, and dump a few million unemployed and homeless into a country like that?
Or explain how you've accentuated the positive and e-liminated the negative in, say, having the government go through everybody's records, calling out the army to go door to door, rounding up eleven million people, stuffing them into holding tanks, blowing off their due process rights, shipping them wherever, abruptly chopping the labor they supply and the money they send home.
By the way, has it ever occured to you to think about what happens if you chop off the money immigrants send to Mexico, and dump a few million unemployed and homeless into a country like that?
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This man is very very articulate. He made a very good speech. I don't agree with him at all, and he scares me. But his ability to articulate, turn a great line, and talk to the voters very clearly, is just phenomenal. Nothing about that can be taken from him or should be underestimated.
I thought this speech was amazing. He could win with that level of control in how he delivers the messages, which are very well-honed.
It is pretty terrifying, but you have to give him his due.
I don't like to make the comparison because I think it is pretty cheap, but Hitler was also an amazing speech maker. I just hope, really hope, that people can understand that there is a difference between sounding great and saying very appealing things, and governing. I have no idea how on earth he plans to deliver on these promises. Who will pay for them?
It is really an amazing political story, this guy and his rise to the nomination.
Hilary should worry a bit and figure out something in her talking to people on the campaign trail in during the convention speech.
I thought this speech was amazing. He could win with that level of control in how he delivers the messages, which are very well-honed.
It is pretty terrifying, but you have to give him his due.
I don't like to make the comparison because I think it is pretty cheap, but Hitler was also an amazing speech maker. I just hope, really hope, that people can understand that there is a difference between sounding great and saying very appealing things, and governing. I have no idea how on earth he plans to deliver on these promises. Who will pay for them?
It is really an amazing political story, this guy and his rise to the nomination.
Hilary should worry a bit and figure out something in her talking to people on the campaign trail in during the convention speech.
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you took the words right out of my mouth....thank you for stating things so clearly
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Articulate? Are you trying to be funny?
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All these comparisons to Hitler stem from the fact that Trump has German heritage. Those who make this comparison are as racist as those they claim to despise. Most likely without even realizing it.
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There's an NYT Pick comment from someone who proclaims to be an Independent, proclaims to have a gay son with a minority, illegal immigrant family member, and is a woman Trump supporter, without any reason.
Let us be clear - if you are ANY of the above and you are voting for Trump, you are VOTING against yourself. Yes you are absolutely free to vote for Trump, but understand that the problems that you associate with "everything that's wrong with this country" is likely the result of voters like you who has consistently voted against your self interest when it actually matters.
The failure in logic of this election season is that "any change is good change", much like "any press is good press. Pure bananas.
Let us be clear - if you are ANY of the above and you are voting for Trump, you are VOTING against yourself. Yes you are absolutely free to vote for Trump, but understand that the problems that you associate with "everything that's wrong with this country" is likely the result of voters like you who has consistently voted against your self interest when it actually matters.
The failure in logic of this election season is that "any change is good change", much like "any press is good press. Pure bananas.
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How do you know what that person's self interest is Sam?
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A silly rabbit hole.
As special as we'd all like to think we are, our common humanity dictates that we have fundamental common interests that shape our lives: economy, gender, race, and religion, to name a few. I think it's quite clear what the GOP represents, and the rights of woman, LGBT, minorities, unemployed, are not on that list.
There are no special snowflakes. People simply vote against themselves.
As special as we'd all like to think we are, our common humanity dictates that we have fundamental common interests that shape our lives: economy, gender, race, and religion, to name a few. I think it's quite clear what the GOP represents, and the rights of woman, LGBT, minorities, unemployed, are not on that list.
There are no special snowflakes. People simply vote against themselves.
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When Trump is elected president and the bombs start flying and the wars increase and the violence in the country intensifies, we can always take out pictures of Trump's cute children and look at them.
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his children are african trophy hunters
i loathe them more than i do trump
i loathe them more than i do trump
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I pity them. He's had control over their minds much longer than he's had control over the Trump fanatics.
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Yes, I got on the Internet to view the pictures of "Don the Con Junior" and his brother Eric as the great hunters killing defenseless tigers and elephants with high-powered weapons and a picture of Little Don the Con Jinior with a knife in hand holding the tail or trunk of an elephant! Absolutely disgusting!
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This speech was much like a sales pitch for his "University". No details to speak of. The constant reference to himself sounds like those heard in the 1930's in another time and place. 'I will take care of you'. No thanks. He seems to forget that he needs Congress for any and all major actions. Didn't happen often for Mr. Obama did it?
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The Republican convention
has now reached its pinnacle
with “The Donald” putting all his
aberration on display.
Mr. Trump appeared on stage
as highfalutin as before
but behind him we could hear
the growling of the dogs of war.
With his dark and gloomy message
he incited qualms and fears
for which he then drew applause
and over- enthusiastic cheers
I would tell you how I feel
about this messed-up spectacle,
but my crude opinion on the
matter is not printable.
has now reached its pinnacle
with “The Donald” putting all his
aberration on display.
Mr. Trump appeared on stage
as highfalutin as before
but behind him we could hear
the growling of the dogs of war.
With his dark and gloomy message
he incited qualms and fears
for which he then drew applause
and over- enthusiastic cheers
I would tell you how I feel
about this messed-up spectacle,
but my crude opinion on the
matter is not printable.
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Will Trump also walk on the water in which he is now under?
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This morning on the radio I heard an interview with a woman at the convention. She and her husband sell ranches. She talked about how much she loves billionaires. A former Ted Cruz supporter - because she's a Christian (not that Trump isn't, she hastened to add) - she's now all for Trump because "he's going to shake things up". I haven't heard a single Republican say anything indicative of any understanding about the realities of government or all the other countries in the world. They all sound like simple-minded, easily deluded sheep.
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Same thing I thought about those who bought into the whole "hope and change" thing in 2008. And the only thing that has changed is that the rich are richer and the poor are poorer. So I guess he fulfilled that campaign promise. There has indeed been change.
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Perhaps the Congress which declared openly its intention to make him a one-term President and block every single thing he proposed might have had something to do with the increasing economic inequities.
4
It will be interesting to observe if a neo-southern strategy, strongly flavored with a near absence of morality, will be successful in the USA of 2016.
Trump is a litmus test, a test that will tell us what kind of a nation we are.
Trump is a litmus test, a test that will tell us what kind of a nation we are.
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"[Trump] mentioned that our NATO allies should pay their fair share [of defense costs]."
Mitch McConnell referred to this position as "a rookie mistake." The US wouldn't and shouldn't refuse to defend a NATO ally just because it hasn't contributed to defense costs. That's a fair point, but only in the short run. In the longer run, isn't Trump correct about that?
Mitch McConnell referred to this position as "a rookie mistake." The US wouldn't and shouldn't refuse to defend a NATO ally just because it hasn't contributed to defense costs. That's a fair point, but only in the short run. In the longer run, isn't Trump correct about that?
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Yes, he is. He said he just wants to cover cost. What's so scandalous about that? The Left loves to scream "pay your fair share", so what's not to like? I really doubt we'd hang a NATO nation out to dry, but what's wrong about collecting from nations that have an ability to pay?
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The US was already on the road to fascism with the Patriot Act, the National Security Agency, police with tanks and the belief that it can bomb or invade any country. Hilary Clinton has supported all of the above. Trump is just the culmination.
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You didn't listen to his speech.
1
I find what Don Trump is saying resonates with me, a registered Democrat. What his team is saying gets very convincing when the News media does not tells us what he said but what it means.
I am not saying he's right, I'm saying the news media needs to report the news.
The media has to get out of politics and start reporting in stead of telling me what you think. I can think for myself.
I am not saying he's right, I'm saying the news media needs to report the news.
The media has to get out of politics and start reporting in stead of telling me what you think. I can think for myself.
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If what Donald Trump says resonates with you I find it highly unlikely you can actually think for yourself.
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What Hillary says resonates with many people, including what she said the last 12 months about the email server. Is it highly unlikely they cannot think for themselves?
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Scott - Do you know the definition of resonate?
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Americanization not globalization and the crowd roared; as they had for Hitler.
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Hillary's convention theme song is: "Don't worry; be happy".
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The land of the misfit toys comes to mind.
Like her husband's cabinet with Reno, Begala, Reich, Riley etc.
Not to mention James Carville.
Carnival freaks.
Like her husband's cabinet with Reno, Begala, Reich, Riley etc.
Not to mention James Carville.
Carnival freaks.
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Make America Hate again.
Vote for Donald J. Trump for President.
A big mistake. A very big mistake.
Vote for Donald J. Trump for President.
A big mistake. A very big mistake.
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That is the same thing we thought about Obama in 2008. And now I am richer than I was back then. Of course the poor are poorer, more live below the poverty line, and racial discord is as bad as I have ever seen it. But I have fared better than I would have originally thought.
If Trump gets elected it won't be the end of the world so relax.
If Trump gets elected it won't be the end of the world so relax.
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No it will be the beginning of the end of the world. And who says I thought the way about President Obama?
That's very presumptuous of you.
Trump is an arrogant schoolyard bully with no clue.
He has no concept of public service and
cares only about himself and "making the deal".
If he is elected President it will be a complete disaster.
Hopefully by the time the end begins and Trump is in
his third term and about to declare himself Emperor
I'll be relatively safe in New Zealand and you if you stay
you will probably be living in or near a prime nuclear attack target. Good luck because you'll need it.
Trump of course will be safe and sound in his bomb proof bunker surrounded by heavily armed guards. If Trump can imagine a dystopian, broken world so can I.
That's very presumptuous of you.
Trump is an arrogant schoolyard bully with no clue.
He has no concept of public service and
cares only about himself and "making the deal".
If he is elected President it will be a complete disaster.
Hopefully by the time the end begins and Trump is in
his third term and about to declare himself Emperor
I'll be relatively safe in New Zealand and you if you stay
you will probably be living in or near a prime nuclear attack target. Good luck because you'll need it.
Trump of course will be safe and sound in his bomb proof bunker surrounded by heavily armed guards. If Trump can imagine a dystopian, broken world so can I.
Mr. Trump said: "I am your voice".
Mr. Trump, you do not speak for me.
Mr. Trump, you do not speak for me.
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"If you fear Trump, do not be comforted by NYT reporting. The speech was mesmerizing."
I certainly didn't find his speech "mesmerizing," but I agree strongly with the first sentence. Too early to tell about this election. It could be a blow-out win for Clinton, as many predict, but it could be just the opposite, or close.
Whatever the result, the echo-chamber complacency reflected in many Times-reader comments isn't helping Clinton's cause.
I certainly didn't find his speech "mesmerizing," but I agree strongly with the first sentence. Too early to tell about this election. It could be a blow-out win for Clinton, as many predict, but it could be just the opposite, or close.
Whatever the result, the echo-chamber complacency reflected in many Times-reader comments isn't helping Clinton's cause.
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He is not my voice. Nor will he ever be.
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Tough to watch. Thirty years of Republican/conservative policies nearly brought down the country in 2008, yet Mr. Trump blamed the Democratic Rescue Committee, a.k.a. President Obama and his team. Never mind the GOP did it's best to stop President Obama from doing his job.
Have they no shame?
Have they no shame?
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No they have no shame. None whatsoever.
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What nearly brought this country in 2008 was loose mortgage lending practices encouraged by Democrats and Republicans in the belief that high home ownership was a good thing; not 30 years of Republican/conservative policies - remember Bill Clinton was President in this 30 year period and presumably did a good job.
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That's what conservatives want you to believe. The conservative hallmark policy of deregulation/non-regulation had a lot more to do with it. Plus 30-years of pro-capital as opposed to pro-labor policies, which resulted in record income inequality by 2007.
For example, we allowed the investment banks to lever up without limit, and allowed multiple bets to be stacked on the same house via derivatives; Michael Lewis referred to the latter as the "Doomsday Machine" in his book "The Big Short". Thus homes became speculative assets rather than financial bedrock.
Further, we weakened the middle class by shifting more power and income from labor to capital. From free trade with low-wage countries, to anti-union "right to work" laws to failure to break up obvious monopolies, to big tax cuts for the rich.
All pro-capital, conservative policies.
For example, we allowed the investment banks to lever up without limit, and allowed multiple bets to be stacked on the same house via derivatives; Michael Lewis referred to the latter as the "Doomsday Machine" in his book "The Big Short". Thus homes became speculative assets rather than financial bedrock.
Further, we weakened the middle class by shifting more power and income from labor to capital. From free trade with low-wage countries, to anti-union "right to work" laws to failure to break up obvious monopolies, to big tax cuts for the rich.
All pro-capital, conservative policies.
1
Donald Trump's bit promising "to do everything in my power to protect our L.G.B.T.Q. citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology’’ is puzzling. Shouldn't this be a GIVEN? Why did Trump feel the need to make a separate promise to protect LGBTQ persons from terrorism? Trump is merely providing the illusion that the GOP is inclusive when in fact it is not. What's even more disturbing is what we didn't hear but is clearly outlined in the GOP's platform: that the GOP has made it its mission to dissolve the newly found rights of LGBTQ individuals as well as harm LGBTQ children by encouraging parents to put them in conversion therapies. Anyone who supports LGBTQ persons should know that Trump is pulling another con. (This clearly doesn't apply to Peter Thiel, the Log Cabin Republicans and their ilk.)
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Well, I knew we'd be invading SOMEPLACE. I just didn't think it'd be Alabama.
3
Hey, I was impressed that he remembered to add the Q; he clearly has his finger on the pulse of the language police.
There's a lot wrong with the US. A lot wrong with hollowed out flyover country. A lot wrong with hopeless inner cities. A lot wrong with our embarrassing subways, bridges, airports and public schools.
I'm left leaning but I refuse to vote for the status quo this time around. I'm rolling the dice on 'Daddy' Trump.
—moderate millenial
I'm left leaning but I refuse to vote for the status quo this time around. I'm rolling the dice on 'Daddy' Trump.
—moderate millenial
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Memo to TB:
Who do you think refused to fund a jobs program to rebuild our infrastructure or find our schools? The Greed Over the People party lead by Don the Con?
Who do you think refused to fund a jobs program to rebuild our infrastructure or find our schools? The Greed Over the People party lead by Don the Con?
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I want a seasoned politician that can speak in full sentences without using the words huge, beautiful and awesome one thousand times.
If you still need a 'Daddy' you might want to just move back in with your parents.
If you still need a 'Daddy' you might want to just move back in with your parents.
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8, th hard way
2
If you think our nation is in crisis now, go back in time to 2008 and read your history. That was a crisis! The president has pulled us up and out of a very close call for which the GOP is totally responsible. When Trump says make America great again, he means only for the rich one percent. The American people are like sheep being lead to the slaughter. The people succumb so easily to all the Trumped-up fear and threats and roll over so effortlessly to hate. Remember, you always get what you deserve in the end.
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You and the people of this country were also responsible. You enjoyed the income from sugar high boom times supported by liar loans that Democratic and Republican congressmen encouraged and loved that over inflated home prices, caused an artificial housing bubble and created the mortgage crisis that brought this country and many people of small financial means to the precipice of total ruin. No, you are wrong, the GOP was not totally responsible.
3
I beg to differ. My family's income stagnated in the early 1990s and is just beginning -- beginning -- to recover. There was no "income from sugar high boom times" for us.
3
Not sure how you are differing. At least you were not brought to the precipice of financial ruin, or to financial ruin, like many of my friends.
"I do not want Trump as President, but the reason he appeals to many voters is the majority are not doing great."
It's been striking to see just how dissatisfied most people are. Trump's popularity reflects this. I'll confess I didn't recognize it.
It's been striking to see just how dissatisfied most people are. Trump's popularity reflects this. I'll confess I didn't recognize it.
5
The people that are dissatisfied feel that way because they've been told to, day after day, week after week, year after year. But if they took an (honest) inventory of all they have to be grateful for I know they'd feel differently. I won't hold my breath though.
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It's not the problem, it's the false solution. Most people will be a whole lot worse off, dangerously so, if Trump is elected.
9
Jen,
That is an offensive comment. It shows that you live in an elite bubble or aspire to. There are plenty of people struggling out there. Give me a break.
That is an offensive comment. It shows that you live in an elite bubble or aspire to. There are plenty of people struggling out there. Give me a break.
3
Donald Trump's speech was based on the assumption that Americans are a bunch of backwoodsmen and rednecks. He is wrong. This grifter, deadbeat and cheat will be buried by a landslide in November and then declare bankruptcy.
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Are Americans so stupid that they cannot see the obvious contradictions in what Trump is saying? He says respect for America has diminished, but he acts, talks and behaves in ways that draw criticisms, contempt and disrespect for the US and the kind of leadership it fosters or elects.
In some ways Trump is patriotic for another country that does not like the US. Why else would a Presidential candidate behave this way?
I do not know where he is going with all this, while claiming to be a super duper smart man, but I hope he is better for the world than the US....which is a declining idiotic nation that Hillary or Trump cannot fix. The people of America, in certain parts, are the problem...with their total lack of self awareness, real relevant knowledge, humility, global awareness and a stupid arrogant belief that America is special, superior and made up of the chosen people or something. America was once exceptional...because it grew economically rapidly, unlike all other countries, including Europe, because immigrants with talent, determination and hope built it. What we now have is a lot of White trash who do not know their history or their own stupidity. They want to be rulers of the world, and other than fighting or picking fights they cannot seem to be able to manage anything else. How different are these monkeys to the ones in the Middle East. What difference is there? US has become like the Middle East in its culture and values. So, stop.
In some ways Trump is patriotic for another country that does not like the US. Why else would a Presidential candidate behave this way?
I do not know where he is going with all this, while claiming to be a super duper smart man, but I hope he is better for the world than the US....which is a declining idiotic nation that Hillary or Trump cannot fix. The people of America, in certain parts, are the problem...with their total lack of self awareness, real relevant knowledge, humility, global awareness and a stupid arrogant belief that America is special, superior and made up of the chosen people or something. America was once exceptional...because it grew economically rapidly, unlike all other countries, including Europe, because immigrants with talent, determination and hope built it. What we now have is a lot of White trash who do not know their history or their own stupidity. They want to be rulers of the world, and other than fighting or picking fights they cannot seem to be able to manage anything else. How different are these monkeys to the ones in the Middle East. What difference is there? US has become like the Middle East in its culture and values. So, stop.
12
"Are Americans so stupid that they cannot see the obvious contradictions in what Trump is saying?"
Yes. Yes they are.
Yes. Yes they are.
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It was amazed me that D. Trump's speech was such a titanic lie to the Republic Convention and to the American people. He has no any experience in his resume to approve he has the ability to do those he promised in his speech, such as national security/order.
He has never showed any his card to the public regarding his true wealth and his way of doing business not by cheating. He has not even show us his tax return in the past to approve he told the truth.
To me, Donald Trump is a titanic marketing cheater and very dangerous to the country. He makes rumors, such as the story about Cruz Father; he told magic stories and big promises without evidence that he has done in his life. We should expose his dirty business trick practice to the fullness, avoiding the country falling into his hand!!
He has never showed any his card to the public regarding his true wealth and his way of doing business not by cheating. He has not even show us his tax return in the past to approve he told the truth.
To me, Donald Trump is a titanic marketing cheater and very dangerous to the country. He makes rumors, such as the story about Cruz Father; he told magic stories and big promises without evidence that he has done in his life. We should expose his dirty business trick practice to the fullness, avoiding the country falling into his hand!!
13
The new Republican party is like professional wrestling with all the bluster and shouting with a faker for a candidate. Republican party leaders have been bamboozling the undereducated for years with their repeal Obamacare and lets not raise the minimum wage mantras. Republicans love the NRA and will never put any gun control laws into effect which would help to stop police shootings. No one really needs an AR-15 rifle or any automatic pistol with a large bullet clip. Donald J. Trump the law and order candidate. What a joke, but then again the Republican Party has become a joke.
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We could make the ownership of guns illegal in this country and it would have no impact on police shootings. Shooting a policeman is currently illegal.
How about enforcing the laws already on the books before passing more laws that won't be enforced.
How about enforcing the laws already on the books before passing more laws that won't be enforced.
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EinT - Nice try but other countries don't have the number of shootings we have and it's because they don't have the number of guns that we have.
8
Other western countries don't have the violent inner cities that we have, and which account for the difference in murder statistics between the US and Europe. However, recent events and Angela Merkel show that they are trying hard to catch up with us.
"The failure to enforce law"? id you make that up? Where the heck is that happening in America?
I think you meant failure to enforce human rights while being "the other".
I think you meant failure to enforce human rights while being "the other".
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Here is one example. Convicted felons are not allowed to own guns. If we enforced that one law, how many lives would be saved?
3
Oh, no. Not "the other." You are scaring us. You should have issued a "trigger warning," or giving directions to a "safe space" (where we can be free of empty progressive political jargon)
1
Trump indeed passed up an opportunity to "reinvent" himself. But let's not forget that he's never seen the need to do so, and so far he's been correct. Nearly everyone predicted he'd self-destruct during the primaries, but he didn't. Now nearly everyone predicts he'll self-destruct against Clinton if he doesn't "re-invent" himself.
We were all wrong last time -- what makes us so sure we'll be right this time?
We were all wrong last time -- what makes us so sure we'll be right this time?
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Even if you agree with every criticism and complaint Donald Trump made, the thing that should scare everyone is that he says he "Alone" can make changes - Either that indicates a total blindness (willful or not) to the fact that America's government is organized into 3 separate branches which need to work together or it indicates a person who thinks he can radically expand the powers of the President - both scary ideas in a Presidential candidate. What is he going to do the first time Congress doesn't vote on one of his proposals or even votes it down? I really don't want to find out the answer to that.
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Donald Trump, the chaos candidate, promising law and order is as much as a bull in a china shop promising velvet touch.
He is promising to solve a problem that does not exist('people are dying in the streets') while breaking the two things that actually make america great:
- Security alliances: We will provide them security if they pay their bill shows how much he has to grow up from being a landlord.
- US Dollar: 'Negotiating' US debit. Shows how much he needs to grow up from being a casino bankruptcy king.
Considering he is already 70, there does not seem to be much scope for this for him in this lifetime.
Maybe it is not possible to teach an old bull new touches(he is indeed a bull considering what he spews around).
He is promising to solve a problem that does not exist('people are dying in the streets') while breaking the two things that actually make america great:
- Security alliances: We will provide them security if they pay their bill shows how much he has to grow up from being a landlord.
- US Dollar: 'Negotiating' US debit. Shows how much he needs to grow up from being a casino bankruptcy king.
Considering he is already 70, there does not seem to be much scope for this for him in this lifetime.
Maybe it is not possible to teach an old bull new touches(he is indeed a bull considering what he spews around).
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Anyone but Clinton and that's Trump. its time for a change people and if we vote for her there will be no change.
5
The Reign of Terror was a change, as were the Brown Shirts and SS. What kind of change are you suggesting?
7
Fair enough. I'll get started on polishing my old jackboots.
4
Good.
The last time we had a know nothing rightist in the white house he broke the world.
A third Obama term is this country's only chance.
The last time we had a know nothing rightist in the white house he broke the world.
A third Obama term is this country's only chance.
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"I am your voice?" that could mean just about anything
or nothing at all.
all this bluster and rhetoric leads me to but one conclusion.
way too short on know how for the job.
or nothing at all.
all this bluster and rhetoric leads me to but one conclusion.
way too short on know how for the job.
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Think about this for a minute. That one of the only positive things spoken at this convention was stolen from Michelle Obama.
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The sociopathic personality of the bully--externally aggressive, internally diffident--is the prerequisite for the dictator. All the narcissistic bluster of Self-Lovin' Don showed itself for the house of cards it was and is when it was revealed that his team had asked Ted Cruz for an endorsement. An endorsement from "Lyin' Ted" Cruz? From someone who, as the name would imply, cannot be taken at his word (a phenomenon that certainly cannot be foreign to Self-Lovin' Don)? Apparently, since Donald needs to be told, repeatedly, that "they really seem to like me." The narcissist, the bully, the liar--which constitute the outline and natural course of Donald's career trajectory, built on walking over others in order to assure himself that he is, in fact, better than they are, but always with a consuming doubt since he himself needs to be reassured of this "fact" incessantly and compulsively--is the key to his embarrassing invitation of "Lyin' Ted" to speak at the convention--and the key to Don. Self-Lovin' Don wanted--needed--someone who he knew was his intellectual superior and most formidable adversary to "acknowledge" what Don himself doubts: that he is better than others, that he is not just the product of lucky birth circumstances and unsavory business practices. To Cruz's credit, no such acknowledgement was forthcoming. But the real spectacle was not Cruz's speech, but Trump's unconscious compulsion to require external validation: which is what every dictator needs.
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Under Obama and Clinton's watch we see genocide against Christians and Yazidis in ISIS controlled territory. We have almost weekly terrorist attacks. We have a president entertaining black hate groups calling for the death of police officers.
I would say Trump is getting it right, it is time for a change.
I would say Trump is getting it right, it is time for a change.
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When you say "we have almost weekly terrorist attacks" are you referring to this country? Because that just isn't true. And if you're talking about other countries, do you actually believe that the any president of this country controls/decides the security for those other countries?
Show me one instance of a black hate group calling for the death of police officers. Yeah, you can't, because no one has said anything like that.
On top of all that utter nonsense you accuse Obama and Clinton of being complicit in the genocide of Christians.
Do you actually know what you're saying or are you just repeating what you've heard from the GOTP propaganda machine?
Show me one instance of a black hate group calling for the death of police officers. Yeah, you can't, because no one has said anything like that.
On top of all that utter nonsense you accuse Obama and Clinton of being complicit in the genocide of Christians.
Do you actually know what you're saying or are you just repeating what you've heard from the GOTP propaganda machine?
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It was so much better when George W Bush was president. 3,000 dead at the World Trade Center. An unprovoked invasion of Iraq which caused tens of thousands of deaths, and destabilized the region. Ah, the good old days when America was great.
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"The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist organizations, said it counted 180 groups last year that it considered to be black separatist hate organizations, a 59 percent increase from the previous year."
from today's NYT
from today's NYT
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I didn't care for Trump's shouting delivery, but I thought overall he did just fine.
More interesting to me than the speech itself was the reaction to it by the large group of commentators in the CNN studio.
An African American male and a Latino female were just livid about the speech. Darkest thing they had ever heard in politics. Very divisive and offensive, they felt.
Now he did talk about public safety, law and order and enforcing the existing rules we have regarding immigration. He expressed empathy for families that had had loved ones murdered by illegal immigrants.
He talked about the problem of black unemployment and the need for jobs in areas such as Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Ferguson.
He mentioned that our NATO allies should pay their fair share and that he was against regime change and nation building.
Apparently he feels strongly about our current trade agreements as being unfair for us. He says he is against special interests, money in politics and companies that move overseas to lower their taxes.
Now don't misunderstand me. Trump has an arrogant, narcissistic personality. He is a bully.
What I find most discouraging though is the partisan nature of the many subgroups of our society. It is utterly hopeless that our country could make any progress on the numerous big problems we face when people who listen to that speech can't find a single thing that they can agree with.
Aren't we all Americans after all? What happened to civility? I'm very disheartened.
More interesting to me than the speech itself was the reaction to it by the large group of commentators in the CNN studio.
An African American male and a Latino female were just livid about the speech. Darkest thing they had ever heard in politics. Very divisive and offensive, they felt.
Now he did talk about public safety, law and order and enforcing the existing rules we have regarding immigration. He expressed empathy for families that had had loved ones murdered by illegal immigrants.
He talked about the problem of black unemployment and the need for jobs in areas such as Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Ferguson.
He mentioned that our NATO allies should pay their fair share and that he was against regime change and nation building.
Apparently he feels strongly about our current trade agreements as being unfair for us. He says he is against special interests, money in politics and companies that move overseas to lower their taxes.
Now don't misunderstand me. Trump has an arrogant, narcissistic personality. He is a bully.
What I find most discouraging though is the partisan nature of the many subgroups of our society. It is utterly hopeless that our country could make any progress on the numerous big problems we face when people who listen to that speech can't find a single thing that they can agree with.
Aren't we all Americans after all? What happened to civility? I'm very disheartened.
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Trump happened to civility, that's what.
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The "hysterical," Latina is, Ana Navaro, and has always been, a Republican conservative.
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Yes I saw the African-American commentator who was absolutely disgusted- and no one was sure why. It appears that he took offense at criticism of the Obama Administration and alluded to the "Obama coalition" as feeling insulted by Trump's remarks. Not sure why. But definitely, he did not appreciate any apertures any comments by Trump to reach out to the African-American community. That's a realm that clearly he wants in the Clinton camp.
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The emotional appeal of Trump to a very large segment of the nation's population outweighs rational thought about what he actually says or, at this point, does. And now that national politics has truly become just another form of entertainment, Trump stands a very good chance of being elected. We are in uncharted waters this election season. It is scary.
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Trump became huge because the electorate had seen Obama carrying out Saul Alinsky's dream of devastating the American economy and soiling our reputation overseas. EVERY bit of this was intended, A to Z - long ago.
The politically Right half of the country gave up on ''in-the-system'' Republicans with losers like Romney, Ryan, McCain, etc.
When they saw a guy whose main deal was NOT being politically correct, that was all they needed to hear. This gave conservatives FITS!
But the 80% of the new media desperately wants only Democrats to be in Power. You have to understand that THIS is why hey are trying to scare you about the Trump phenomenon.
Remain curious. Read more newspaper sites, and avoid anything not actually published because ''there be crazy folks there.''
Why do they need you FEELING, and not just knowing?
The politically Right half of the country gave up on ''in-the-system'' Republicans with losers like Romney, Ryan, McCain, etc.
When they saw a guy whose main deal was NOT being politically correct, that was all they needed to hear. This gave conservatives FITS!
But the 80% of the new media desperately wants only Democrats to be in Power. You have to understand that THIS is why hey are trying to scare you about the Trump phenomenon.
Remain curious. Read more newspaper sites, and avoid anything not actually published because ''there be crazy folks there.''
Why do they need you FEELING, and not just knowing?
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You lost me at "Saul Alinsky dream"... Trump trades on FEELING. Not the media.
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Trump's speech was nothing but apocalyptic demagoguery that was all about division. His platform and supporters are full of fear and misguided hate. Our country is better than that.
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Since you haven't seen or heard it, I ask you to go read it. You can't see that hair if you read it.
NEVER just assume you are supposed to hate people because they are hated by your sources. You were given a mind for a reason.
NEVER just assume you are supposed to hate people because they are hated by your sources. You were given a mind for a reason.
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L'Osservatore - The same can be said about you.
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Reality check blaming others wont impress american people we want to see real answers to problems like spending on imports government does .repeal nafta an laws that prohibted our governmnet from buying imports at the cost amercan jobs. We dont want to rule world or other nations ecomonys by exploiting there people an causing globel warming any more. We have largest economy here in usa but we produce lest then 10 percent of what we consume. American people want those answers or voting for democrat is answer
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I do not want Trump as President, but the reason he appeals to many voters is the majority are not doing great. President Obama has made the situation in the Mid East worse, increased violence in our cities, and even worsened racial tensions.
The best way to defeat Trump is to point out that he has no experience, and therefore we have no reason to believe he can handle the demands of being President.
And then the media should do everything in its power to hold Hillary Clinton accountable once she becomes President. Too often, the media enabled Obama's shortcomings, which has hurt the American people and caused many missed opportunities.
The best way to defeat Trump is to point out that he has no experience, and therefore we have no reason to believe he can handle the demands of being President.
And then the media should do everything in its power to hold Hillary Clinton accountable once she becomes President. Too often, the media enabled Obama's shortcomings, which has hurt the American people and caused many missed opportunities.
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I would argue that he appeals to people that are afraid of 'The Others' - whether or not they're doing great really doesn't matter.
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Barack didn't have any experience - but we weren't supposed to notice.
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L'Osservatore - I forgot Obama wasn't in the senate. Thanks for clearing that up.
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Do you want to be Germany? Do you want to be France? Trump is the only candidate politically incorrect enough to save us from this world terrorism.
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It is absolutely hilarious to see right-wing white guys who can't utter a word without checking with Rush or Dead Breitbart complain anbody anybody else's PCness.
The only thing that's funnier is listening to you guys whine about how picked on you are.
The only thing that's funnier is listening to you guys whine about how picked on you are.
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Actually I've lived in Germany and France for many years. They are both amazing countries. They have in place many policies that the USA could learn from. I think America is a great country, but it need to continually evolve.
It's funny that your comment is only about "political correctness." People make better decisions when they're educated, have traveled the world, and have experienced life.
It's funny that your comment is only about "political correctness." People make better decisions when they're educated, have traveled the world, and have experienced life.
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Saying racist, sexist, bigoted things, making fun of people with disabilities and stating that you'd date your own daughter if you weren't related to her is NOT being politically incorrect. It's racist. It's sexist. It's bigoted. It's cruel. It's vile. It is all those things and more, but one thing it certainly is not is politically incorrect - no matter how much you wish it to be.
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It's lovely to see all the trolls hiding as normal voters. That said, this roadshow has tainted us to the world. I wonder which country is being talked about here. I wonder which Hillary Clinton they are talking about. Evil lurks everywhere I guess and when you have no ideas on how you will do these things you promise, as Trump has proposed, your only weapon is attack, attack, attack even to the point of sounding unhinged.
Mesmerizing? I think a Presidential hopeful that is so dark and angry is dangerous. He is dangerous for this country, for the world and to those who believe in him. He cannot accomplish much. He will only have paranoia to rely on.
Things are not perfect, that is something difficult to obtain but the world is changing and we are not going to win anything as isolationists. I fear a paramilitary state coming where those who dissent will be dealt harshly with. Such is the message I hear from Trump. Angry and vindictive is the message. Blame everyone else and you don't have to step up.
We are better than that. At least we used to be until winning at any cost became the way of offering a plan of vapor and nobody would demand substance because if you hear it on TV it must be true. How very sad...
Mesmerizing? I think a Presidential hopeful that is so dark and angry is dangerous. He is dangerous for this country, for the world and to those who believe in him. He cannot accomplish much. He will only have paranoia to rely on.
Things are not perfect, that is something difficult to obtain but the world is changing and we are not going to win anything as isolationists. I fear a paramilitary state coming where those who dissent will be dealt harshly with. Such is the message I hear from Trump. Angry and vindictive is the message. Blame everyone else and you don't have to step up.
We are better than that. At least we used to be until winning at any cost became the way of offering a plan of vapor and nobody would demand substance because if you hear it on TV it must be true. How very sad...
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I want a female president one day, but not sure if Hillary should be in office with Bill anywhere close. Obama was a great first black president, but he should have stayed only for the first term since he wasn't truly prepared for the mess of the country. Wealthy liberals are optimistic people that will look away from the poverty problem in America or live in expensive neighborhooad away from all the troubled people. High taxes won't solve anything if the money is dumped on silly, unrealistic projects they thought would work. If Hillary is elected and nothing really changes for the forgotten Americans Trump is appealing to, well, it's time to vote for Trump-like or some unconventional president. Even though he practices hate speech sometimes, he's really a moderate republican anyways. By the time he actually want to build that wall, I'm sure some awful terrorist attack will happen and prevent that big project. If you think about it, any house has some kind of locks, fences, or gates, to block off intruders. Rich liberals that live in gated communities with security guards probably understand this concept of a wall much better than us normal folks.
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Not that you'll care, but the highest taxes bit is total nonsense.
http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2015/oct/20/donald-trump/t...
http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2015/oct/20/donald-trump/t...
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In an arguably bombastic manner Trump manages to identify genuine, seemingly intractable problems. Maybe you hate his delivery but he is right that our foreign policies are a shambles, unfair trade has ruined millions of lives, racial relations are horrible, and on and on. The US does appear to be at a division in which some are doing fabulously well economically from a rising stock market; unfortunately the middle class isn't and no one including the rich benefits from the divisions which are rocking the country.
Trump for all his faults has his sight on the right problems - problems which have received inept or poor leadership from this administration. America does not feel great right now - and arguably isn't. Hillary, who promises to be Obama 2.0, thinks otherwise. Based on that - who will get your vote?
Trump for all his faults has his sight on the right problems - problems which have received inept or poor leadership from this administration. America does not feel great right now - and arguably isn't. Hillary, who promises to be Obama 2.0, thinks otherwise. Based on that - who will get your vote?
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A culture of fear motivates Rambo wannabes to join the police force with the sole purpose of rounding up anyone they do not like, putting good cops like my brother in even more danger.
Be mad at Hill and Barrack and draw all kinds of false causals for your problems all you want to, GOP, but where is the evidence that Trump has all the answers?
Be mad at Hill and Barrack and draw all kinds of false causals for your problems all you want to, GOP, but where is the evidence that Trump has all the answers?
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There once was a President of the United States who successfully led his country out of a Great Depression and through a World War to victory, telling its citizens, "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself."
Or so I'm told.
Now, a Presidential candidate tells Americans, "We have to fear." Where will that lead us?
Or so I'm told.
Now, a Presidential candidate tells Americans, "We have to fear." Where will that lead us?
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How dark does the world need to get before we stop pretending it is business as usual? It is total spin to pretend, as John Kerry says, that ISIS is on the run. If ISIS is running they are just scoping another location to kill as many innocent people as possible! Stateside we have almost daily reports of police brutality of followed by the murder of innocent officers just performing their jobs. What will it take before everyone understands things aren't that bright?
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One thing is constant with the Obama Administration. Terrorism is ALWAYS on the decline right before an election.
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A sociopath, self observant, selfish, fearful demagogue is the face of a party that suppose to be part of the democratic experience, yet its reflecting some of the most fearful and harmful regimes in history (to name a few the fascistic parties in Italy Spain and Germany, the communist parties in Russia and North Korea.
the question is what ignite voters to support such a fearful and awful entity?
the question is what ignite voters to support such a fearful and awful entity?
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The answer: Hatred for The Other.
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Meanwhile, Warren Buffett, an actual success and modest, honest, decent person, tells us that today's American babies are the luckiest people ever to be born. Even though I am slightly older than a baby, I know that everything I need, I have; if I fall on hard times, I know there will be help; I know that I am more likely to choke on a peanut than to be killed by anyone with any weapon, and that no foreign aggressor will ever, ever, ever storm these shores and put me in chains. I will always have my vote, and it will be counted. I am so incredibly lucky to be where I am, when I am.
People who buy this American Apocalypse schlock are like Munchausen sufferers.
People who buy this American Apocalypse schlock are like Munchausen sufferers.
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"I know that everything I need, I have; if I fall on hard times, I know there will be help; I know that I am more likely to choke on a peanut than to be killed by anyone with any weapon."
That's great for you, but this isn't true for many Americans. Many Americans, if they fall on hard times, will be out on the street because their minimum wage job doesn't pay enough for them to build up a cushion. And they certainly don't have everything they need, because again their minimum wage job doesn't give them an adequate living. A car breaking down or a medical emergency would literally bankrupt them. And here in Chicago, on our South and West sides, citizens are killed by weapons almost daily.
So, while I appreciate your sentiment, it just isn't true for many Americans.
That's great for you, but this isn't true for many Americans. Many Americans, if they fall on hard times, will be out on the street because their minimum wage job doesn't pay enough for them to build up a cushion. And they certainly don't have everything they need, because again their minimum wage job doesn't give them an adequate living. A car breaking down or a medical emergency would literally bankrupt them. And here in Chicago, on our South and West sides, citizens are killed by weapons almost daily.
So, while I appreciate your sentiment, it just isn't true for many Americans.
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Why would anyone listen to Buffett? He has invested in a number of companies that have filed for bankruptcy.
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I would love Buffet or Bogle to be a Presidential candidates or at least a Treasury secretaries. But I am pretty sure HRC will bring us a Geithner redux - she has to pay back the favors.
I understand that many people don't like his tone. However, in a truly civilized country all a police officer should need is a whistle.
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A truly civilized country isn't awash in guns.
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I am living in Hayden Lake, Idaho; the reddest of red areas in the world. Normally I don't openly engage in banter about being a liberal. At the grocery store yesterday, a millennial grocery store clerk struck up a conversation and I was shocked to hear he had watched the GOP convention the night before. I said it was terrifying. This young man said: "What is really terrifying is the crowds and mobs of people in that audience that are buying it. It's like a lynch mob. Well, what I've read about lynch mobs. Sick." This was coming from a millennial in Idaho. I hope the rest of America is that smart. And that scared.
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Idaho will vote republican. Who cares?
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Indeed, Trump is the candidate "savior" of many frightened people who are rather desperately resisting the inexorable natural evolution of America. His overblown emphasis on physical security helps belie, and simultaneously manipulates, the deeper insecurity of his constituents over our inevitable demographic and cultural evolution. Trump is using people who are very afraid of this change, and their confusion about it, to serve his own narcissism. THIS is what is really dark in America now.
America's true greatness is revealed through its irresistible "long arc of justice", the slow, progressive letting go of old forms that it has outgrown, while moving to newer, better ones - it is in this progression is where REAL patriots are found.
America's true greatness is revealed through its irresistible "long arc of justice", the slow, progressive letting go of old forms that it has outgrown, while moving to newer, better ones - it is in this progression is where REAL patriots are found.
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I'm taking a look at third-party candidates, like Gary Johnson. I don't agree with everything he says, but he seems smart and likeable. I know the arguments: "You'll throw your vote away," and "Vote for the lesser of two evils," but I'm tired of hearing them. They are arguments that keep us in this broken, two-party, system. With neither party representing many American voters.
Vote for whomever you want, as is your right. Please keep in mind, however, that a vote for a third-party candidate is a vote for Donald Trump.
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The Third Reich Convention with Demagogue as its leader. TP/GOP (Taliban) activists have created a very scary, theocratic platform that should make ALL thinking Americans cringe.
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What scares me are the people who believe in Trump and those in government, like my own senator, Rob Portman, who must see the danger, but value their own careers and power more than the very future of our democratic republic, which would be at risk in the hands of this ignorant, vengeful, narcissistic demagogue. If his words, "I alone..." didn't make their stomachs churn, I don't know what would.
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It is shocking to me to read the vitriol against Trump and his "hateful" speech. Where was the hate? We pay lots of taxes and work hard to support the country, yet Obama wants hard working Americans to give more money away to those who do not work, and goes around the world apologizing for America's interventions that have (mostly) brought freedom and security to this world. And then there's Hillary, who lies and is guilty of destroying emails to protect her own interests while she rakes in money made off of her political fame, and has the audacity to tell us that she is for "everyone" (everyone who commands 250,000 per speech) and again that the rich need to "pay more" and give their "fair share."
I am an educated man who is sick and tired of being told that my upper tax bracket is still "not my fair share" and that I need to pay for those who ignore personal responsibility. I am sick and tired of giving money to other countries for their own defense, while their economies flourish more than ours. I am sick of being told that I "didn't build" my own success.
Wonder where Trumpism came from? Look in the mirror, Obama voters. Take away the takers, and I do not think the democrats have a chance. If only the people who pay taxes could vote, the election would be different. Not that I am advocating that, but people Bill Clinton said work hard and follow the rules, are very much sick and tired of what we have and what Hillary offers.
I am an educated man who is sick and tired of being told that my upper tax bracket is still "not my fair share" and that I need to pay for those who ignore personal responsibility. I am sick and tired of giving money to other countries for their own defense, while their economies flourish more than ours. I am sick of being told that I "didn't build" my own success.
Wonder where Trumpism came from? Look in the mirror, Obama voters. Take away the takers, and I do not think the democrats have a chance. If only the people who pay taxes could vote, the election would be different. Not that I am advocating that, but people Bill Clinton said work hard and follow the rules, are very much sick and tired of what we have and what Hillary offers.
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According to the Left, if you're a Trump supporter you cannot possibly be educated. I'm sick and tired of that, too. You nailed it, Jeff R.
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It's not just that you're not educated, it's that you are closed minded and ignorant.
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Ivy - It's not just according to the Left, it's according to anyone with critical thinking skills - republican, independent and democrat.
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I have proof Trump is from Angola, that he has three children by illegal Mexican women immigrants, that he despises Hillary for slapping him when he groped her, that Melania is an illegal immigrant, that his women are blondes because he owns a peroxide company, and that his focus on "hands" is because he can't find his magnifying glass.
How do I know it's all true? I heard it from Rush Limpo himself, and anybody with a $50 million/year contract must be telling the truth.
How do I know it's all true? I heard it from Rush Limpo himself, and anybody with a $50 million/year contract must be telling the truth.
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This begin as a joke but now is serious buisness. I am dead worry about what will happen to this country if this con man gets elected. i still have trust in the good judgment of the majority of us but even a 1% chance that he could become president is not acceptable. ( his chance are evaluated at 25% currently) freithening! Everybody has to vote in November so that the con man has absolutely positively no chance to Win.
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I'm very concerned when Trump speaks on LGBTQ struggles abroad when he and the Republican party fail to address them domestically. Peter Thiel himself, who I struggle to identify as LGBT, stated that "no one cares about bathroom bills" even when these very bills have a huge sway on the livelihoods of so many LGBTQ.
To say I am disappointed in the way the Republican party looks now would be a lie. Donald Trump is only the physical embodiment of the hateful and intolerant characteristics that they've tried to hide. In some ways, I'm grateful he's here as a cautionary tale to future generations.
To say I am disappointed in the way the Republican party looks now would be a lie. Donald Trump is only the physical embodiment of the hateful and intolerant characteristics that they've tried to hide. In some ways, I'm grateful he's here as a cautionary tale to future generations.
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Donald Trump did an amazing job on his speech and he covered everything! Great job Trump!! <3 We love you too!
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"Everything" - except for climate change (real and the most serious problem the world faces), gun control (no manufacturer should control laws and research on gun violence), the millions without health insurance, crushing student loan debt, lack of affordable housing and oh yeah, a real, workable plan for anything.
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It's exasperating to see so many people want to vote for Trump for the sake of change. Don't they realize that change can be for the worse. If they think they've hit rock bottom, may I recommend some travel outside the country.
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Yeah!
People in America voting for the sake of change?
Thank God we've never done that before...
No seriously liberals...seriously.
People in America voting for the sake of change?
Thank God we've never done that before...
No seriously liberals...seriously.
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Actually we voted because we preferred the President's ideas, ideals, policies and behavior, and just took the stuff about "change," as a campaign slogan.
But since you ask, well, it was kinda nice to get away from a crashed economy, demented approaches to running things like FEMA, and unnecessary and incompetently-run war that's killed 5000 Americans and over an hundred thousand Iraquis and cost about three tril so far, stuff like that.
i'd add that to us, "change," does not mean "move to bellowing stupidity and mouthing hate-filled slogans to try and gussy up your ignorance and crackpot plans."
But since you ask, well, it was kinda nice to get away from a crashed economy, demented approaches to running things like FEMA, and unnecessary and incompetently-run war that's killed 5000 Americans and over an hundred thousand Iraquis and cost about three tril so far, stuff like that.
i'd add that to us, "change," does not mean "move to bellowing stupidity and mouthing hate-filled slogans to try and gussy up your ignorance and crackpot plans."
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Yeah!
Let's change from a Democracy to an Authoritarian Regime. Yeah, that's the ticket!
Let's change from a Democracy to an Authoritarian Regime. Yeah, that's the ticket!
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The US is doing pretty well but we are facing crime, economic and international challenges all of which have roots in income inequality, lack of family planning and Wall street based foreign policy. All of which a Trump administration would exacerbate.
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Of course the NYT would slam a decent speech by Donald Trump. They didn't like Bernie and hated Donald, but they are quaking with fear that if they can't get their ridiculous memes and mindless false negatives to stick to Donal Trump, their anointed, the defender of all things globalist, open borders and elite, will lose. And deservedly she shall lose.
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Would Trump help the white working class and small business people as he says he would?
Well, we don't know because he doesn't have any correct ideas about how to ameliorate the situation.
Protectionism is not the answer. Look at the different between import substitution industrialization of Indian protectionism versus South Korean export led industrialization (with exposure to the world market) and you will see that the latter proved to be the superior method of economic development in the period of late late industrialization.
Since protectionism isn't the answer and Trump hasn't identified any other mechanism of developing the US economy, we just don't know if he would support the kind of measures that would aid American economic development.
So those who find the Donald appealing because of his gesture to the white working class, it is only that, a gesture. And those who like his renunciation of political correctness, will find that he is indeed politically incorrect, does not understand economic policy that could aid economic development, and his lack of political correctness on this score means that you just don't know if he would, even he knew, support the right measures.
But since he does not read, does not study, does not consult the scholars who do know something about augmenting advanced industrialization and advanced development, the likelihood of his doing something helpful is nil.
Those who bank their hopes on him, will get fraud.
Well, we don't know because he doesn't have any correct ideas about how to ameliorate the situation.
Protectionism is not the answer. Look at the different between import substitution industrialization of Indian protectionism versus South Korean export led industrialization (with exposure to the world market) and you will see that the latter proved to be the superior method of economic development in the period of late late industrialization.
Since protectionism isn't the answer and Trump hasn't identified any other mechanism of developing the US economy, we just don't know if he would support the kind of measures that would aid American economic development.
So those who find the Donald appealing because of his gesture to the white working class, it is only that, a gesture. And those who like his renunciation of political correctness, will find that he is indeed politically incorrect, does not understand economic policy that could aid economic development, and his lack of political correctness on this score means that you just don't know if he would, even he knew, support the right measures.
But since he does not read, does not study, does not consult the scholars who do know something about augmenting advanced industrialization and advanced development, the likelihood of his doing something helpful is nil.
Those who bank their hopes on him, will get fraud.
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There is a terrorist attack going on in Munich right now following an axe attack on a German train, Nice, Paris, Baton Rouge, Dallas Orlando and San Bernardino (all of which palls into insignificance to the mayhem in thge Islamic world), but according to the liberal press a dark mood is inappropriate. I suppose Hillary's campaign slogan will be "get over it"
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There sure are a lot of "lone wolves" out there, right? The Dems will say the West has brought this upon itself and we must start apologizing to the terrorists for the havoc we've caused them. Yeah....let them use that "logic" over and over and over.....
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The world is indeed a dangerous place. But what exactly has Donald Trump offered as a strategy or policy to defeat terrorist organizations? What has he proposed specifically to protect Americans? While Trump has argued vociferously that we are "under attack!" he has yet to offer a single tangible domestic policy or foreign military proposal to deal with terrorism. His plan to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico with Mexico footing the bill is fantastical.
Beyond that, Trump has nothing ... save for some implied threats to take direct military action to the terrorists. Yet on the other hand, Trump is promising to not take America into another ground war. He is also promising to not back European N.A.T.O. countries if they are attacked.
No, the only tangible approach Trump has to combat terrorism is 1) bombing sorties and 2) drone attacks and limited special forces engagements to take out high leaders. These policies strike an extraordinary resemblance to long-running Obama policies which are all but destined to continue with a Clinton administration administration.
The only difference for Trump would be a return to terrorism. A tactic long-dismissed by military interrogation experts as ineffective
Beyond that, Trump has nothing ... save for some implied threats to take direct military action to the terrorists. Yet on the other hand, Trump is promising to not take America into another ground war. He is also promising to not back European N.A.T.O. countries if they are attacked.
No, the only tangible approach Trump has to combat terrorism is 1) bombing sorties and 2) drone attacks and limited special forces engagements to take out high leaders. These policies strike an extraordinary resemblance to long-running Obama policies which are all but destined to continue with a Clinton administration administration.
The only difference for Trump would be a return to terrorism. A tactic long-dismissed by military interrogation experts as ineffective
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After the ham-fisted military antics of the Obama years, the rest of the world could do with a jolt of good old-fashioned Republican isolationism - at least it will ground the drones He attacks Hillary Clinton for bringing “death, destruction and weakness” to the Middle East, citing the interventions in Iraq, Libya and Syria. He invites are allies to take more of a role on their own defence.
As to the much maligned wall, instead of building bridges Hillary and Obama both voted for a 700 mile wall at San Diego. Not to mention Obama's ban on immigration from Iraq because of the security threat. Yes there are things you can do that make sense except in an election year.
As to the much maligned wall, instead of building bridges Hillary and Obama both voted for a 700 mile wall at San Diego. Not to mention Obama's ban on immigration from Iraq because of the security threat. Yes there are things you can do that make sense except in an election year.
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To those Republicans shaking their heads in disbelief, - well who else are you going to vote for? Basically, you are captive and no longer matter, it is only those who might vote either way, or importantly those who do not vote at all, "because it makes no difference", to whom Trump must appeal.
Those who were debating Trump's speech in the aftermath on CNN, who were saying, - "why was he talking about [this or that] because that isn't what most Republicans see as the main platform" just didn't get it, the World has turned and all their political analysis learned at university is useless. What Trump was doing is called Segmented Targeting, targeting a mass market via Differentiated Segmentation, - providing something for everyone; it worked for GM against Ford in the late 20's, now it just might very well work for Trump.
The poorer middle classes and the half educated non PC Proletariat have had enough, and Trump just may be their perceived champion.
Those who were debating Trump's speech in the aftermath on CNN, who were saying, - "why was he talking about [this or that] because that isn't what most Republicans see as the main platform" just didn't get it, the World has turned and all their political analysis learned at university is useless. What Trump was doing is called Segmented Targeting, targeting a mass market via Differentiated Segmentation, - providing something for everyone; it worked for GM against Ford in the late 20's, now it just might very well work for Trump.
The poorer middle classes and the half educated non PC Proletariat have had enough, and Trump just may be their perceived champion.
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Trump said he would “to do everything in my power to protect our L.G.B.T.Q. citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology.’’ But I guess that the domestic hatred and oppression by "christian" conservatives is OK.
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The American Trash reality nightmare will continue, not just on TV but in our daily lives. This is the most craven bid for power, money and attention since Putin's consolidation. Way to go Republicans, your dog in our race is a menace, and spreading disease at an accelerating pace.
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I think Donald Trump loaded his speech with doom and gloom and dark warnings to scare folks into believing he has all the answers and in turn, we should vote for him to lead the way out of this mess. However, just the opposite was accomplished with this staunch Republican - I don't like to be bullied or scared nor manipulated into thinking fear filled rhetoric is the way to go to get my vote. Last night's speech convinced me that Donald Trump will NEVER get my vote. Nice going Donald.
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Mr. Trump knocked it out of the park, a home run if you will. Congrats.
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Those who know nothing at all about the world today might think that, sure. Or people predisposed to support tyrants out of mindless fear.
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Again, Trump is so far out of touch with everything and everybody. Have people forgotten he is being sued for his Trump Univ sham? He took $$$ from stupid people. This is a man who wants to be President? Now, the judge in that case is under pressure from Trump lawyers to not release the videos because it might hurt Trump. What about all the people he scammed?
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The statistics on poverty and median earnings were fact checked. But I think one interesting angle is where is this poverty. It would be interesting for Upshot to tell us whether Democratic or Republican statehouses, with the different tax philosophies, did better or worse creating jobs and improving poverty. I've seen the Wisconsin vs. Minnesota meme, for example, where Wisconsin has a well know tea party style government, and this philosophy has not been shown to create jobs, but just the opposite ... they lose jobs as infrastructure and public education suffer - it's not a place that attracts companies. Some of the poorest states in the country are the most conservative ... are statistics from those states dragging everything down?
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Donald Trump’s speech was optimistic, not dark and gloomy. He envisioned a transformed America no longer haunted by the fear of terrorist attacks, no longer swamped by a tsunami of illegal immigrants and no longer bankrupted by unfair trade agreements. He pictured an American in which black neighborhoods are crime free, minority students attend high quality schools, and college students are unburden by debt. He envisioned an American in which members of American labor unions regain their middle class status. And he promised all this would come about shortly after he takes the oath of office. Only pessimists who doubt Trump’s ability to make this happen would vote against him.
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"Pessimists" would include anybody who prefers plans to postures, experience to naivety, and steady character to easily-manipulated, thin-skinned egotism. With luck, that's about 10 million more voters than believe his fairy-tale. Oh, yeah, and who believe that he cannot do half of what he claims because the US Constitution will not let him.
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Only uneducated, culture-limited Americans succumb to a spiel they'd reject outright as empty of substance; well, that is, unless those Americans were blinded by bigotry, feelings of worthlessness, and suspending their God-given intelligence.
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Mr. Case - while I applaud your optimism, hope and faith in Donald Trump's words, candidates like him NEVER enlighten the voter with how the things he envisioned will be accomplished. Such broad strokes of things people want and need to hear, yet no concrete plan of action is ever laid out. What you described sounds more like MLK's "I have a dream" speech. Every new presidential candidate has such high hopes of what he or she wants if elected president, however, it's the rest of the government that either progresses or stalemates the running of the country. But your comment is a lovely one. Thank you for sharing.
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The resounding question is how many low-information, supporters of a racist, misogynist, ignorant and dangerous narcissist will go to the polls in November and pick Trump. In other words how self-destructive is the American electorate?
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Don't worry, there are that many Hillary voters.
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I would splain why that's silly, but I try to maintain some compassion for people who are stuck with Sam Brownback.
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My wife and I saw both Donald Trump's speech and his Daughter's warm up speech, in their entirety, live on UK (BBC) television, despite the time difference.
Yes it may have had a 'dark' tone but to people who read of the USA in in the media and see reports on CNN and other international sources, the picture Trump paints seems quite accurate. True that if one visits America, and confines oneself to the microcosm of likeminded outward looking educated people, then one gets an entirely different view. But to the ordinary Joe and Joan in the streets of America whose only knowledge of 'goings-on' outside their own local community is that gleaned from the local media and national TV, their perceptions will not be very much different from those outside the USA and thus Trump's speech will have great resonances for them.
We had a recent referendum in the UK over whether to remain in the EU or leave it, most of those who understood the issues voted to remain, but the majority neither understood nor cared about such involved and complex issues spoken about by career politicians and economists whom they no longer trusted, all they cared about was that they did not want their communities and towns and cities being invaded and changed by alien cultures with whom they had little perceived commonality. It was a triumph of emotion over logic with those showmen who understood how the masses 'think' (or rather - 'feel') being able to carry the day. This is what is happening in America now!
Yes it may have had a 'dark' tone but to people who read of the USA in in the media and see reports on CNN and other international sources, the picture Trump paints seems quite accurate. True that if one visits America, and confines oneself to the microcosm of likeminded outward looking educated people, then one gets an entirely different view. But to the ordinary Joe and Joan in the streets of America whose only knowledge of 'goings-on' outside their own local community is that gleaned from the local media and national TV, their perceptions will not be very much different from those outside the USA and thus Trump's speech will have great resonances for them.
We had a recent referendum in the UK over whether to remain in the EU or leave it, most of those who understood the issues voted to remain, but the majority neither understood nor cared about such involved and complex issues spoken about by career politicians and economists whom they no longer trusted, all they cared about was that they did not want their communities and towns and cities being invaded and changed by alien cultures with whom they had little perceived commonality. It was a triumph of emotion over logic with those showmen who understood how the masses 'think' (or rather - 'feel') being able to carry the day. This is what is happening in America now!
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There's that word 'resonate' again. Seems like everyone got their talking points this morning.
Oh, and if you live in the UK you have absolutely no idea if the picture Trump paints is accurate. Just like I have no idea if what I'm told about average Britons is accurate because I live in New Jersey.
Oh, and if you live in the UK you have absolutely no idea if the picture Trump paints is accurate. Just like I have no idea if what I'm told about average Britons is accurate because I live in New Jersey.
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Just got back from lunch here in Washington DC!
Are Obama liberals insulting Trump personally (as his message continues to resonate across the country and gain voters) yet?
Keep it up.
We will be at the brand new Trump International Washington DC on election night cheering President-Elect Trump because liberals thought calling other Americans stupid and making fun of Trump's hair would help Hillary win.
Are Obama liberals insulting Trump personally (as his message continues to resonate across the country and gain voters) yet?
Keep it up.
We will be at the brand new Trump International Washington DC on election night cheering President-Elect Trump because liberals thought calling other Americans stupid and making fun of Trump's hair would help Hillary win.
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Your comments used to be good, DCB, but they've deteriorated badly. I think you see the writing on the wall. Trump is a lewzer.
I hope you come to your senses and leave the lewzer behind and vote for Hillary. You know in your heart, mind, and conscience which one deserves your support and your loyalty. Throw off your shackles and chains.
I hope you come to your senses and leave the lewzer behind and vote for Hillary. You know in your heart, mind, and conscience which one deserves your support and your loyalty. Throw off your shackles and chains.
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interestingly, your newspaper ran a 'fact check' on Trump's rhetoric and had to agree with nearly all of them. Truth hurts, huh, liberals?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/us/politics/donald-trump-fact-check.ht...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/us/politics/donald-trump-fact-check.ht...
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I guess it's how one interprets the facts. I found just the opposite to your conclusion, which is that Donald distorted the facts. And you miss the point of the fact checking here. The piece largely points out that DT used emotional rhetoric, which is not easily fact checked. Conclusion: light on facts and details and heavy on half truths and emotional hyperbole.
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Apparently reading is not your strong suit.
1. Sorta true, but cited only one "preliminary study," left out drops up to 25% in cities like NYC.
2. Sorta true, but nothing in the cited data says that DC and Baltimore are higher than usual. No pattern at all, in fact.
3. Almost entirely true of Chicago, if you include the greater metropolitan area.
4. Flat wrong or a lie: no visible increase in cop deaths since last year. (Addendum: cop killings have been dropping since their peacks in the 1920s and 1930s)
5. Yes, there are 180, 000 illegal immigrants walking around who've been charged with crimes. However, few of those are violent crimes.
You can do better than this, I think.
1. Sorta true, but cited only one "preliminary study," left out drops up to 25% in cities like NYC.
2. Sorta true, but nothing in the cited data says that DC and Baltimore are higher than usual. No pattern at all, in fact.
3. Almost entirely true of Chicago, if you include the greater metropolitan area.
4. Flat wrong or a lie: no visible increase in cop deaths since last year. (Addendum: cop killings have been dropping since their peacks in the 1920s and 1930s)
5. Yes, there are 180, 000 illegal immigrants walking around who've been charged with crimes. However, few of those are violent crimes.
You can do better than this, I think.
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One was true, one was an out and out lie, the rest were sort of, maybe, somewhat-true, somewhat-false, largely but depends of how you cherry pick, aka dissembling. It's a far more devious way of misleading and confusing people without having to tell a blatant lie.
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Unless one is brain dead, anyone who can still fog a mirror must realize that The Clintons have used and abused their powerful positions, have been bought by the banksters, and feel they are above the law. And for the record, I voted for Obama twice. While Trump is not a perfect candidate, no one ever is. Knowing that Trump cannot be bought and is not part of the Political Class is sufficient for me to vote for him and do everything I can to help him defeat Clinton.
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Are you appalled by this man?
Good.
Now let me tell you how we defeat Trump.
And ask yourself if you have the courage to… wait for it…
sit comfortably in your home and make phone calls.
Well, do you?
Elections are like a ground war.
You take one foot of ground at a time.
You make one outreach call to a potential Democratic voter at a time.
You get on the Clinton website and follow easy instructions for making voter outreach calls. You make calls for as long as you want. An hour a day or an hour a week. You just need your computer or smartphone and a way to make phone calls.
You just do it.
And 100,000 others do it… maybe a million others.
And on November 8 you sit back satisfied when Trump loses and you get to see his contorted face as he concedes defeat.
That is assuming he would actually do the normal concession. (Have you noticed he's not normal?)
Get on the Clinton site and get on the phone.
Stop worrying, complaining, fretting.
Get on the phone and we'll get rid of Trump.
Good.
Now let me tell you how we defeat Trump.
And ask yourself if you have the courage to… wait for it…
sit comfortably in your home and make phone calls.
Well, do you?
Elections are like a ground war.
You take one foot of ground at a time.
You make one outreach call to a potential Democratic voter at a time.
You get on the Clinton website and follow easy instructions for making voter outreach calls. You make calls for as long as you want. An hour a day or an hour a week. You just need your computer or smartphone and a way to make phone calls.
You just do it.
And 100,000 others do it… maybe a million others.
And on November 8 you sit back satisfied when Trump loses and you get to see his contorted face as he concedes defeat.
That is assuming he would actually do the normal concession. (Have you noticed he's not normal?)
Get on the Clinton site and get on the phone.
Stop worrying, complaining, fretting.
Get on the phone and we'll get rid of Trump.
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Frankly, I find it more effective to approach every young person of Color and every service-person I encounter in normal daily contacts, and simply ask, "Are you registered to vote?..."Do you know the stakes, this year?"
The phone bank is far too scripted for my taste and, frankly, if not for clear recognition of the fraud that is Trump, I'm not sure I wouldn't write-in Jon Stewart.
The phone bank is far too scripted for my taste and, frankly, if not for clear recognition of the fraud that is Trump, I'm not sure I wouldn't write-in Jon Stewart.
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Trump is the voice of fascism. And voters should know that he will dismantle social security. Oh yes he will.
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To all those who support Trump:
You are supporting an authoritarian, a man who has more in common with the leaders our soldiers bravely fought in WW2 than he does with our founders.
Just know what you're doing.
This ain't a game.
And know we'll blame you "big time" for any further damage this huckster does to the nation.
You are supporting an authoritarian, a man who has more in common with the leaders our soldiers bravely fought in WW2 than he does with our founders.
Just know what you're doing.
This ain't a game.
And know we'll blame you "big time" for any further damage this huckster does to the nation.
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To all those who are voting for Trump because they are tired of the status quo, or because he's something new on the political scene, well, I don't like my car, at all, but driving over a cliff isn't going to solve the problem.
Trump has baldly stated that he is going to rule as an authoritarian, and the US will be under martial law, a police state. He is destabilizing international safety for us and others as we speak by sending signals to Putin and Kim Jong-un that their expansionist aggressions are a-ok with him. He encourages violence against his opponents. He has promised to dismantle the free press. Sound familiar? It's happening in Turkey right now. He is in fact creating the unstable situation at home and abroad that he claims he is going to fix.
Trump has baldly stated that he is going to rule as an authoritarian, and the US will be under martial law, a police state. He is destabilizing international safety for us and others as we speak by sending signals to Putin and Kim Jong-un that their expansionist aggressions are a-ok with him. He encourages violence against his opponents. He has promised to dismantle the free press. Sound familiar? It's happening in Turkey right now. He is in fact creating the unstable situation at home and abroad that he claims he is going to fix.
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Dark is an understatement.
His tone was ugly and his accusations deeply dishonest. His record of cheating and taking advantage goes right back to his earliest deals, when he was allowed to inflate the situation to get huuge government subsidies. His gold encrusted billionaire privilege is not a guarantee for anyone but his fellow conmen.
Four bankruptcies, numerous stiffed contractors, 3500+ lawsuits, and the beat goes on.
His tone was ugly and his accusations deeply dishonest. His record of cheating and taking advantage goes right back to his earliest deals, when he was allowed to inflate the situation to get huuge government subsidies. His gold encrusted billionaire privilege is not a guarantee for anyone but his fellow conmen.
Four bankruptcies, numerous stiffed contractors, 3500+ lawsuits, and the beat goes on.
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Jobs are important. And the U.S. economy is recovering, however slowly, and U.S. jobs are likewise being created for those that have the skills and experience required.
One area of opportunity for general job growth is public infrastructure spending. Building bridges, roads and fixing water plants and similar development and repairs would create substantial work locally across America.
"... over the next 50 years, the United States will add nearly 100 million people, requiring system expansion in order to meet growing demand for mobility, clean water, and flood control, to name only a few areas."
One wonders why Infrastructure redevelopment was not top of the agenda over the past several years?
"Yet, for too long, Congress has failed to provide robust funding to meet our national needs. This has left state and local governments without a strong federal partner. "
http://goo.gl/wlTG7x
Who controls Congress?
One area of opportunity for general job growth is public infrastructure spending. Building bridges, roads and fixing water plants and similar development and repairs would create substantial work locally across America.
"... over the next 50 years, the United States will add nearly 100 million people, requiring system expansion in order to meet growing demand for mobility, clean water, and flood control, to name only a few areas."
One wonders why Infrastructure redevelopment was not top of the agenda over the past several years?
"Yet, for too long, Congress has failed to provide robust funding to meet our national needs. This has left state and local governments without a strong federal partner. "
http://goo.gl/wlTG7x
Who controls Congress?
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A vote for Hillary is a vote for More Of The Same. Naturally the staff of the NYTimes, who are doing quite well for themselves with the status quo, are all in favor of more of the same.
The Times should be ashamed of itself for its shameless bias in what should be news reporting. I can hardly wait to read the immoderate "delight" which will greet Hillary's acceptance speech, regardless of what she actually says. Like Hillary herself, the Times is apparently bought and paid for.
The Times should be ashamed of itself for its shameless bias in what should be news reporting. I can hardly wait to read the immoderate "delight" which will greet Hillary's acceptance speech, regardless of what she actually says. Like Hillary herself, the Times is apparently bought and paid for.
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Yeah, who wants 'more of the same' democracy? Let's have authoritative rule instead! Wee!
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Seeing as the GOP elders are running from even a slight association with Trump, how do you market a candidate that even the party despises? I guess you use trolls on comment boards to pay him false compliments - but you work overtime to tell lies about Hillary Clinton. We know your game and we know you are paid to write the garbage, so keep doing it - we know what you are up to.
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Wow I wish I was getting paid! Who do I apply to for my check?
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After listening to what was a truly disturbing speech, it's quite apparent that Trump is unstable and a threat to the country. During the 75-minute speech, I don't remember him referring to working with Congress on anything. HE is our saviour. HE is the only one who can right the country's wrongs.
So Trump's speech and the RNC Convention provided enough flesh-crawling moments for me that, although Bernie Sanders has been my candidate and I vowed that I could not vote for Hillary, I'm doing to do what it takes to ensure Trump is not only defeated, but pulvarized. I can't really say that Hillary is my candidate of choice, but she is my candidate by necessity.
So Trump's speech and the RNC Convention provided enough flesh-crawling moments for me that, although Bernie Sanders has been my candidate and I vowed that I could not vote for Hillary, I'm doing to do what it takes to ensure Trump is not only defeated, but pulvarized. I can't really say that Hillary is my candidate of choice, but she is my candidate by necessity.
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And what is Hillary's reply? Things are going great?
Our security situation is far more precarious now than it was in 2009. On top of this, this unchecked illegal immigration has sown the seeds of our economic collapse.
Trump's tone was over the top but he spoke the truth in many ways.
Our security situation is far more precarious now than it was in 2009. On top of this, this unchecked illegal immigration has sown the seeds of our economic collapse.
Trump's tone was over the top but he spoke the truth in many ways.
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Oh my GAAAAWWWWDDDDD!!!!
If the Republican nominee gets elected the whole world is going to end!
We just HAVE to elect the Democrats. They're evil too, but not as much.
Oops! I plagiarized that from the 2012 election, where I plagiarized that from the 2008 election, where I plagiarized that from the...
OK, isn't it about time we stopped voting out of fear for the lesser of two evils, and stop wondering why we always end up with an evil government? Isn't it time to stop the madness of thinking we can produce different results from doing the same thing?
instead, elect a third party candidate who is not beholden to the global corporate elite fascist oligarchy?
I'm voting for Bernie Sanders or Jill Stein, NO MATTER WHAT!!!
If the Republican nominee gets elected the whole world is going to end!
We just HAVE to elect the Democrats. They're evil too, but not as much.
Oops! I plagiarized that from the 2012 election, where I plagiarized that from the 2008 election, where I plagiarized that from the...
OK, isn't it about time we stopped voting out of fear for the lesser of two evils, and stop wondering why we always end up with an evil government? Isn't it time to stop the madness of thinking we can produce different results from doing the same thing?
instead, elect a third party candidate who is not beholden to the global corporate elite fascist oligarchy?
I'm voting for Bernie Sanders or Jill Stein, NO MATTER WHAT!!!
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This isn't about a *republican* nominee. This is about an authoritarian megalomaniac and if he were on the Dem ticket I'd be screaming The Emperor Has No Clothes! just as loud.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson warned us not to mistake a popgun for the crack of doom. Donald J. Trump insists that a popgun IS the crack of doom.
The Dark Lord of Trump Tower does the devil's work by instilling panic in as many Americans as possible, and it is the panicked who end up running off of cliffs. Those of us who keep our heads will continue to live our lives in safety and peace.
The Dark Lord of Trump Tower does the devil's work by instilling panic in as many Americans as possible, and it is the panicked who end up running off of cliffs. Those of us who keep our heads will continue to live our lives in safety and peace.
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The United States as Leader of the Free World? That notion was badly damaged when we set the Middle East ablaze. It is now gone forever. No country on earth will ever again trust a nation that has nominated this man for its president. It matters little who wins or loses the election. The United States is finished as a trusted world leader.
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I have to chuckle at the many comments who equate Trump's speech to the beginning of the doom and gloom of Fascism or Nazism. I assume it is the case because Trump wants the laws of the land in place to be followed and upheld; the borders to be secured, and halting the weakening of our Armed Forces.
I also assume that it is the case because he wants to prosecute those who incite and call for the killing of police officers, reverse the murder rate increase in many American cities. provide law in order in all our communities.
I will also assume that the same people much prefer open borders, lawlessness and are not too concerned with the recent rise of murder and the killing of police officers.
Perhaps these people read a "secret memo" in which Trump is planning a coup! burning the Capitol and then blaming the liberal democrats? freezing all civil rights, incarcerating all the liberal elite and deporting millions of people? But, never mind, in Obama's watch as we speak we may be witnessing the seize of power in Turkey by a leader who wants an Islamic regime, has already arrested thousands, has given himself executive powers without the need of Parliament's approval. What have we heard from the Obama Admin in this regard? Ad lib Sc'y Kerry said "We hope the Turkish government will show restraint and respect Human Rights" The takeover of Turkey by an Islamic regime will have profound consequences. Another result of this Administration " brilliant" Foreign policy.
I also assume that it is the case because he wants to prosecute those who incite and call for the killing of police officers, reverse the murder rate increase in many American cities. provide law in order in all our communities.
I will also assume that the same people much prefer open borders, lawlessness and are not too concerned with the recent rise of murder and the killing of police officers.
Perhaps these people read a "secret memo" in which Trump is planning a coup! burning the Capitol and then blaming the liberal democrats? freezing all civil rights, incarcerating all the liberal elite and deporting millions of people? But, never mind, in Obama's watch as we speak we may be witnessing the seize of power in Turkey by a leader who wants an Islamic regime, has already arrested thousands, has given himself executive powers without the need of Parliament's approval. What have we heard from the Obama Admin in this regard? Ad lib Sc'y Kerry said "We hope the Turkish government will show restraint and respect Human Rights" The takeover of Turkey by an Islamic regime will have profound consequences. Another result of this Administration " brilliant" Foreign policy.
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Trump is being taken to court for illegal activity, he has advocated for illegal violence (assault and murder). Trump knows nothing about the law and has no respect for it.
2
I'm glad to hear Mike Pence has signed up to fully protect the LGBTQ community. I hope Trump gives Pence full responsibility for implementing this protection,... and then holds him to it. I can't wait to hear the stump speeches from Pence. He will over time deeply regret his decision to run as #2, I believe.
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Trump is an empty suit. If media would press him on his taxes and on the issues, this bullying, blustering, bloviating buffoon would deflate into the air...
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Sorry, Betty, the Empty Suit award was long retired by its holder of the past 8 years, Barack Obama. Who coincidentally is also the holder of the Empty Chair award.
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Mr. Trump is largely supported by those voters, with limited educations, who are looking for an authoritarian president to immediately solve all of the fears and problems that they perceive face our country. The term 'strong man' has been used to describe that sort of leadership, by people like Putin and various third world dictators. Recently the term 'strong man' has been applied to Trump by the media. Our constitutional system was deliberately set up to prevent a 'strong man' from ruling the country. It will be interesting to see, in the unlikelihood of his election, just how much of his 'program' Trump will attempt, let alone accomplish, using 'strong man' tactics, before there is economic collapse and civil strife. Perhaps that is what the Republican establishment is counting on. A year or two of Trump mismanagement followed by impeachment or resignation followed by a Pence presidency. For my part, I prefer the continuity of a second Clinton administration.
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Obama owes his both terms to the unprecedented turnout his campagn achieved with the full support of the Liberal MSM of the largest group of low info, no info voters in American election history. Trump should include some sort of American history and/or civics test as a prerequisite to vote among his intiatives because the Founding Fathers of this great country are surely spinning in their graves at the mass of free stuff people, career welfare recipients and other assorted social misfits and weirdos who comprise a large segment of Democrat voters.
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Jacob handelsman - Education, health care, infrastructure etc. are things we all need and things that benefit all of us. We pay taxes and are entitled to those services.
Do you really prefer handing your tax dollars over to millionaires and billionaires?
Do you really prefer handing your tax dollars over to millionaires and billionaires?
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Love him or hate him, Trump has been the daily topic of conversation here and all over the web and television for quite a while. People are constantly talking about him. Don't really hear people talking about Hillary. Not a Republican either, but Hillary feels like yesterdays news. People know her and her shifty dealings all too well. Obviously, Trump is NOT presidential material but he's really captured ALL the attention. And when Hillary speaks publicly she is measured and CANNED.
Let's see what happens!
Let's see what happens!
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Trump stuck to the teleprompters to the relief of his handlers. But his relentlessly bombastic style was monotonous. About 90% of the speech was shouted at the top of his lungs even though his sound system was working fine (I think ...?). He offered no drama, no poetry, no inspiration, no reflective questions, no historical references, no optimism, and no faith whatever in the American people who were consistently portrayed as helpless victims awaiting rescue by the great Mr. Trump -- the one man who can do all of the countless things listed with equal weight in his interminable mind-numbing diatribe.
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I found his daughter's comments quite interesting in light of the fact that he paid his former wife Ivanka a salary of $1.00 when she was the CEOof the Plaza Hotel. Not quite equal pay for equal work. Trump is actally quite terrifying. There are too many echoes of the demogogues of the past. Anyone Who says he alone has the solution to a nation's problems is in the way to becoming a dictator. We can only hope that people will see through his bombast and lies before the election in November.
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If you have some spare time this weekend read Jane Mayer's article in the New Yorker about Trump's so-called ghostwriter of "The Art of the Deal", and also search for ESPN's 2009 documentary about Trump's role in destroying the United Sates Football League in the mid 1980's. The statement "Animal's and their stripes" reinforced.
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And, while you're at it "this weekend", take some time and look around for one or all of those 30,000 plus emails Hillary's lawyers blasted from her basement server, "destroying" Obama's credibility for competence--and that of his State Department of "the United States" of America.
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His tone dark? I think that Trump gave us great hope in what has become a dark world and a gloomy life in the U.S. We have Obama to thank for the darkness and gloom. Hillary will continue that good and doom if elected. The Democrat Party, as it exists today, thrives on keeping people in a dark place.
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Obama to thank? Not hardly. Try two off-the-books wars (funded by loans from China) started by the Republicans, a housing market melt-down (caused by Wall Street shenanigans, prior to Obama's taking office), the worst recession in 30 years (caused by Republicans), a Gov't shut-down (caused by Republicans), and a legislative agenda largely blocked by -- guess who -- the Republicans. Oh, yeah, and a Republican controlled Congress that will to nothing to regulate (not ban) firearms, leading to more and more gun violence. Blame Obama? Not really.
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Thankfully, we have had Republicans to control the runaway Obama administration
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Take mostly true statements and sprinkle them with the false context and serve them up as honest gospel truth is hallmark of a sociopath.
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The speaker drew me in, but the speaker was only an actor who acted out his own fabricated reality of what he- Donald Trump- would "be" as our President. The day to day job of President of the United States requires a a different "character" than Trump possesses, and also knowledge that relates to what happens on a day to day in governmental leadership. Feeling was of a good TV show & a "we want more"/"just tell me someone will do it" mentality. I hope the American people out of stupidity, do not "buy" a rude awakening to their own ignorance and vulnerability.
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Trump and all of his henchmen do not speak for me and my family. Nor my friends, as I can no longer be friends with anyone who would support this narcissistic, lying, NRA-bought, hate-filled racist.
Someone please tell Ivanka she was at the wrong convention. Republicans have voted down every piece of legislation that addressed equal pay, paid maternity leave, and the Equal Rights Amendment. Additionally, Daddy Trump's VP selection tried while in Congress to shut down Planned Parenthood and he is not an LGBT supporter. Please check his record as a Governor and Congressman, Ivanka.
Someone please tell Ivanka she was at the wrong convention. Republicans have voted down every piece of legislation that addressed equal pay, paid maternity leave, and the Equal Rights Amendment. Additionally, Daddy Trump's VP selection tried while in Congress to shut down Planned Parenthood and he is not an LGBT supporter. Please check his record as a Governor and Congressman, Ivanka.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_E._Neuman
It just occurred to me that Trump bears a striking resemblance to ALFRED E. NEUMAN, from Mad magazine. I looked him up on Wiki and recalled that he too, ran for president!
Trump has that goofy smile, but what gets me is his WHAT ME WORRY slogan. That's Donald, to a T. People are attracted to him because he does not seem to be worried about anything.
I believe it is this total confidence of Trump that attracts voters. But I worry that if he becomes president, the ECONOMY will be a risk. "It's the economy, STUPID." People will lose confidence in Trump and in the economy.
What if we saw an (Alfed E. Neuman) Trump as president?
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It just occurred to me that Trump bears a striking resemblance to ALFRED E. NEUMAN, from Mad magazine. I looked him up on Wiki and recalled that he too, ran for president!
Trump has that goofy smile, but what gets me is his WHAT ME WORRY slogan. That's Donald, to a T. People are attracted to him because he does not seem to be worried about anything.
I believe it is this total confidence of Trump that attracts voters. But I worry that if he becomes president, the ECONOMY will be a risk. "It's the economy, STUPID." People will lose confidence in Trump and in the economy.
What if we saw an (Alfed E. Neuman) Trump as president?
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The U.S. Trade Commission paper - June-2014, surveyed the affects of NAFTA on U.S. Wages and the result was a nominal immaterial change or a benefit. There were more relevant U.S. labor issues that were a result from non-NAFTA trade:
"David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson estimate the effect of import competition on local U.S. labor market outcomes in a 2013 article titled “The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States.” Overall, they find that rising imports, most notably from China, have resulted in higher unemployment, lower labor force participation, and lower wages in the United States." (Pg. 6, 2nd Para.)
https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/ec201406a.pdf
As for Canadian-USA trade balance: "The U.S. goods and services trade surplus with Canada was $11.9 billion in 2015."
https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/canada
NAFTA is a US Trade Commission drafted agreement that was designed to favor "U.S. interests". American voters can decide who are the beneficiaries of "U.S. Interests".
"David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson estimate the effect of import competition on local U.S. labor market outcomes in a 2013 article titled “The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States.” Overall, they find that rising imports, most notably from China, have resulted in higher unemployment, lower labor force participation, and lower wages in the United States." (Pg. 6, 2nd Para.)
https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/ec201406a.pdf
As for Canadian-USA trade balance: "The U.S. goods and services trade surplus with Canada was $11.9 billion in 2015."
https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/canada
NAFTA is a US Trade Commission drafted agreement that was designed to favor "U.S. interests". American voters can decide who are the beneficiaries of "U.S. Interests".
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I repeat, we have 95 million of our fellow Americans unemployed (the most EVER), we have approximately 50 million in poverty (10 million, approximately) MORE than when Obama took office, and 40 million, approximately, on welfare.
The burden has fallen disproportionally. on our minorities.
Socialism has failed, yet once again.
The Democrat Party's desire for an undereducated, poor, and taxpayer supported "underclass" (just for votes) is failing right in front of every American's eyes.
We may be slow, but we are not stupid.
The burden has fallen disproportionally. on our minorities.
Socialism has failed, yet once again.
The Democrat Party's desire for an undereducated, poor, and taxpayer supported "underclass" (just for votes) is failing right in front of every American's eyes.
We may be slow, but we are not stupid.
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@tpaine - We don't have socialism -- or did Congress pass universal health care and free tuition at state colleges and I somehow missed that?
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics as of June 2016, your numbers are extremely inaccurate, you can find the info below. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
And if you think for one minute that Donald Trump cares at all about the average person, you're very mistaken. He doesn't even pay his bills and sues people if they expect full payment. From the Wall Street Journal:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-business-plan-left-a-trail-of-...
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics as of June 2016, your numbers are extremely inaccurate, you can find the info below. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
And if you think for one minute that Donald Trump cares at all about the average person, you're very mistaken. He doesn't even pay his bills and sues people if they expect full payment. From the Wall Street Journal:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-business-plan-left-a-trail-of-...
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You are indeed slow, you seem to have missed the great recession and the toll it took on this country. You have also missed the fact that Republicans have done nothing to help this country and quite a bit to harm it.
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If Donald J. Trump had an employee that only presented him with problems on a construction site with no solutions, he/she would be fired. Mr. Trump's speech last night only dwelled on what he thought was America's major problems and offered no solutions to fix them. In a hour and fifteen minutes he continued to repeated himself about law and order and the threat of ISIS. Is Donald J. going to have storm troopers in every city and state to stop shootings of police or catch undocumented immigrants. Trump likes fantasies (like Obama being from Kenya) so he probably will want to establish a clairvoyant police department, like the one in the movie Minority Report, in order to catch a perpetrator before he commits a crime. Doesn't the United States have the largest and greatest military force in the world? Aren't we constantly bombing ISIS' strongholds? How is Trump going to end the war with ISIS quickly? Maybe he wants to use a nuclear weapon. As an aside, Mr. Trump mentioned he wanted to improve America's infrastructure, but didn't the Republican Congress block President Obama's efforts to improve America's infrastructure. The speech was dark and full of platitudes with no substantial content. Donald J. Trump reflects today's Republican Party of the undereducated and the very wealthy who only want big tax cuts. This is just scary stuff.
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Trump the Phony lifted the Charles Foster Kane rally straight from the movie. That's what we'd get in a Trump presidency, all fiction and lots of drama. Rosebud!
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I am no fan of Trump or any politicians and the establishment media creations that they are. Every honest knowledgeable person from anywhere on the political spectrum knows in their heart that the country is in a tight spot. Reason tells us that, even if it is a long shot and unlikely, that Trump represents the only chance for meaningful change. We all know what HRC is and that she is the establishment corporate candidate. You know, the people deeply invested in globalism, low wages, illegal immigration and corporate cronyism and corporate welfare. In short under HRC nothing will change accept that our deterioration as a nation and our government's alienation from the people will accelerate. That's not hyperbole it is an honest, fact and history based analysis. Why would anyone expect anything else from her? What is she even running on?
Having said that, is Trump the devil he is painted as daily by the Times? The Times, like most of our corporate media has moved from the merely ridiculous, through the ludicrous to the current grotesque parody of a newspaper. What a shame and a loss to the people it should be serving through fair, objective reporting and analysis.
Having said that, is Trump the devil he is painted as daily by the Times? The Times, like most of our corporate media has moved from the merely ridiculous, through the ludicrous to the current grotesque parody of a newspaper. What a shame and a loss to the people it should be serving through fair, objective reporting and analysis.
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@William Boyer - If by "chance for meaningful change" you mean a dictatorial, prejudiced, isolationist kind of country, then your comment is right on. But if you had something more positive in mind, nope.
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Even if he doesn't win (and don't count him out), the fact that this con man has come this far is a very, very bad omen for the future of this country. We have slept while our citizens have become less and less educated, to the point where large numbers of people can be swayed by this demagogue. This is the most consequential election of our lifetimes, folks, and I urge you all to go out there and stop this man.
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I am your voice. Give a break. As a woman in my 60s whose has had to deal with men like this all of my life, why would I want to return to the 1950s? I am better off today and I have made my own life financially and without a "man." No way do I want to see this man in power.
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Amen.
I am married, to a wonderful man who insisted that I keep my own name and who helped take care of our kids so I could build my career. He would never, ever speak for me and we would never, ever vote for someone like Trump.
I am married, to a wonderful man who insisted that I keep my own name and who helped take care of our kids so I could build my career. He would never, ever speak for me and we would never, ever vote for someone like Trump.
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Trump is now veering solidly into demagoguery. His speech played on unreasoning fear while throwing a few sops to nice-nice rhetoric on LGBTQ communities. What was he going to say after gay mogul Peter Thiel endorsed him? The Pledge of Allegiance was led by homophobe Tony Perkins from Focus on the Family.
Trump supporters have lost all discretion and reason. They are now so lobotomized that they accept statements from him that directly contradict each other. Don't they realize that he would not have the independent power to do 99% of what he promises? I can only hope that the American public wakes up to this very dangerous person who will be a disastrous leader.
Trump supporters have lost all discretion and reason. They are now so lobotomized that they accept statements from him that directly contradict each other. Don't they realize that he would not have the independent power to do 99% of what he promises? I can only hope that the American public wakes up to this very dangerous person who will be a disastrous leader.
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How is this orange man going to fix everything? Stand on every corner at the same times and make sure nothing bad happens, like 9/11?
The only problem with this country is, under Republican rule 80% of the wealth was distributed to the top 1% through derivatives. The top 1% with their greed has to have everything. If Obama hadn't been in office we would be living through austerity like the UK and Greece.
You Trump supporters believe a person who stands on a stage and says 'he is the ONLY person on this planet that can fix all these problems'? What the heck is wrong with all of you! He is a demigod and megalomaniac, nothing more.
The only problem with this country is, under Republican rule 80% of the wealth was distributed to the top 1% through derivatives. The top 1% with their greed has to have everything. If Obama hadn't been in office we would be living through austerity like the UK and Greece.
You Trump supporters believe a person who stands on a stage and says 'he is the ONLY person on this planet that can fix all these problems'? What the heck is wrong with all of you! He is a demigod and megalomaniac, nothing more.
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As a gay man I noticed Mr. Trump's intentional inclusion of LGBT persons, and I think he means it. But I don't accept -- civil rights is not a buffet to pick and choose. GOP please let us know when you accept the concerns of women, people of color, Muslims, Mexican Americans and of course African American's treatment by law enforcement.
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If you read the fine print from Trump's interview, buried under the headlines from yesterday's NYT headlines, you learned that Trump is contemplating a strong isolationist/detached foreign policy shift. I note many of the current political participants/pundits/purists (a.k.a. "usual suspects") dismiss or openly scoff at such a suggestion. But what I have not learned: why is this bad? What is this insistence on the US supporting an immense budget to keep millions of soldiers, contractors, diplomats and various other support personnel stationed at the far flung corners of the globe? My suspicion is that this idea has a lot, A LOT of people from the aforementioned groups worried, and not because it diminishes US security. What I sense is anxiety that the end of the gravy train is in sight. The Military Industrial Complex, well, it is very obvious why they'd oppose this. NATO/W. Europe is terrified at this thought. The corporatist/globalists worry because this would mean no more US military presence looming all over the globe, safe guarding their access to "emerging markets" they wish to continue exploiting. It also dampens the prospects for the globe trotting elite and ex-pats, given that US isolationism would mean they could no longer count on the long shadow of Uncle Sam's soldiers wherever they travel. Ask yourself who benefits from the US's exorbitant expenditures on foreign adventurism, and why they'd oppose Trump's plan.
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Well stated Mike. This should be NYT's pick.
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When Bernie Sanders was still in the thick of it, one of the biggest criticisms he faced was the unlikelihood of getting the legislation through Congress and the Senate to effect the changes. Does Trump not face the same challenges? I mean, is it not possible that a significant number of Republican legislators would not support his initiatives? Or, worse still (for Trump), both Houses turn over and are controlled by the Democrats mid-way through his term?
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So after last nights convention wrap up, as a Democrat who has never voted for the GOP, I think Hillary should be fearful in a tight race. She is a safe bet if we want the same ole same ole with a slow decline of our economy/average wealth, in comparison to the world at large. He is a wild and scary roll of the dice. Trump may have earned my vote, just not sure. He promises to do something about immigration, while she promises to do her best to make it worse. Hillary promises to rub it in the face of the millions of immigrants who worked patiently and legally through the process to get residency and citizenship her in the country by giving others a pass after breaking the law.
The NYT editorial board has been telling all of us for many months that Trump has a miniscule amount of support across the country. Over and over the editors have reinforced this view letting us know that only the uneducated and ignorant could buy into his views. I am not sure how many negative, condescending articles I have read today about his speech last night but think I watched a different speech than what has been presented by the talking heads here today. He promised the world on many things he cannot deliver on, but at least the conversation is moved into the correct direction.
The NYT editorial board has been telling all of us for many months that Trump has a miniscule amount of support across the country. Over and over the editors have reinforced this view letting us know that only the uneducated and ignorant could buy into his views. I am not sure how many negative, condescending articles I have read today about his speech last night but think I watched a different speech than what has been presented by the talking heads here today. He promised the world on many things he cannot deliver on, but at least the conversation is moved into the correct direction.
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It's all true that he is a pandering demagogue performing before a bunch of stupid people united by their blithe sense of entitlement. It was particularly creepy that, given what he has said in the past about Ivanka, he put his hands on her hips.
Anyone who questions Thiel's devotion to a party soaked in bigotry, should remind him or herself that Thiel is superrich and many people in that economic situation don't like paying taxes.
Anyone who questions Thiel's devotion to a party soaked in bigotry, should remind him or herself that Thiel is superrich and many people in that economic situation don't like paying taxes.
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Ideally the Republican Party and the Democratic Party should be about different ways to serve the general population, especially the middle class and those most needy. Unfortunately, both fail. Both have served the elites, whether in business or government. I think Donald and Bernie both got the message that the general population is fed up with the way government has behaved in the past. I also believe that Donald and Bernie both got the message that social media is no longer a tool for the politicians to run their show, such as how Obama did so successfully with his two elections, but instead social media is now a tool for the general population to voice their opinion. We are seeing this emerging around the globe at various levels of success and it will continue to grow. That is why I believe that Trump has a very high possibility to be elected. He has been much more successful than Hillary at identifying and riding the wave of the general population. Hillary still has the old vision that social media is a tool for her promotion.
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News is breaking now that there is an active shooter situation at a shopping center in Munich, Germany.
And you want our wannabe leaders to adopt a cheerful, everything-ok tone?
Liberals don't get it.
And you want our wannabe leaders to adopt a cheerful, everything-ok tone?
Liberals don't get it.
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Sir, I don't think YOU get it. As the article states, Trump is not Presidential material due to his fear-mongering, which does no good. Action is good, fear-mongering is shameful.
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Something wicked this way comes hisses Chicken Little. Imploring, please pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! Vote for me or fear flying monkeys abound in Central Park. Vote for me and you will never have to fear flying monkeys again!
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The funniest part of the whole speech was the bit where he thinks about the little guy each and every day, and how he can improve their lives. If any single person in the world believes this, we are living in an alternate reality.
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Obviously, human beings have an animal side, and Trump has thoroughly and successfully shut down all reason and stimulated the darkest side of humanity.
It's an easy place to go to,but it never leads to anything good.
Trump has reduced humans to nothing more than animals.
It's an easy place to go to,but it never leads to anything good.
Trump has reduced humans to nothing more than animals.
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Phony Don says, "I alone can fix it."
Donald, can you just do it alone and leave us alone?
But I digress.
There's story circulating about why Trump ran for president in the first place.
It's simple.
It's his best chance of not going to prison for fraud.
Trump University has his hands all over it.
It's conception, it's execution.
If there was fraud committed on unwitting people who were swindled, it's Donald J Trump who committed the crime.
Fraud is a serious crime.
People go to prison.
So, knowing the trial would be happening this Fall, Trump made a decision last Summer.
In his head he calculated that if he ran for president, it gave him an outside chance to win and thus have some leverage to deflect the charges and be above the trial. It helps to be elected to the highest office if an indictment is possible.
If he didn't run, well, he's just common citizen Trump and that's his worst play if he wants to stay out of prison.
Trump University was a scam.
The trial WILL find criminal intent.
Probably from Trump.
So, he took a chance on being successful with his run and so far so good. This has never been about being president.
It's about saving his skin. It's about prison.
If he loses to Clinton, he's cooked.
So, expect his biggest con job sales pitch ever to try and avoid that fate.
The only question is- who among us is dumb enough to buy it?
Donald, can you just do it alone and leave us alone?
But I digress.
There's story circulating about why Trump ran for president in the first place.
It's simple.
It's his best chance of not going to prison for fraud.
Trump University has his hands all over it.
It's conception, it's execution.
If there was fraud committed on unwitting people who were swindled, it's Donald J Trump who committed the crime.
Fraud is a serious crime.
People go to prison.
So, knowing the trial would be happening this Fall, Trump made a decision last Summer.
In his head he calculated that if he ran for president, it gave him an outside chance to win and thus have some leverage to deflect the charges and be above the trial. It helps to be elected to the highest office if an indictment is possible.
If he didn't run, well, he's just common citizen Trump and that's his worst play if he wants to stay out of prison.
Trump University was a scam.
The trial WILL find criminal intent.
Probably from Trump.
So, he took a chance on being successful with his run and so far so good. This has never been about being president.
It's about saving his skin. It's about prison.
If he loses to Clinton, he's cooked.
So, expect his biggest con job sales pitch ever to try and avoid that fate.
The only question is- who among us is dumb enough to buy it?
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So full of hate... I am sad and scared for my country. She is no saint, but we MUST elect Hillary Clinton in November.
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it is astonishing how the Republican party, the party of "rugged individualism" is so terrified that it is running to an aspiring dictator to protect them from their fears. Which, if you look at the data, are unjustified. We have a lot less violence now than we had 20 years ago (12 of those under Democratic presidents), we just have a more lurid press that dwells on the less frequent events longer and more often. If you are skeptical about this, read Stephen Pinker's book, The Better Angels of Our Nature.
(For those who dismiss him as a liberal apologist -- he isn't. He is just as critical of the foundations of political ideology among liberals as he is of conservatives (see his other book, The Blank Slate)
(For those who dismiss him as a liberal apologist -- he isn't. He is just as critical of the foundations of political ideology among liberals as he is of conservatives (see his other book, The Blank Slate)
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Don't forget it‘s just the convention. Poll numbers always rise following these gloat-fests.
Let‘s see how he holds up in a debate -- (not that it would sway his brown shirts - OOPS I meant his fans).
Let‘s see how he holds up in a debate -- (not that it would sway his brown shirts - OOPS I meant his fans).
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Someone please tell the Imperial Ronnie Trump that he has no clothes...
The cautionary tail of the King Has No Clothes... Is very app here. But here in this rendering the charlatan Tailor and the King are both played by this guy named Trump...
The make believe garments are spun from his wealth which started from his father and then a very sizable inheritance...
He did not become wealthy by his know how... he started out wealthy
His business acumen is proof of his qualifications to run the country:
Really...
He added to his wealth through defrauding investors as he intentionally ran his businesses into the ground, while pulling out vast sums of money for himself, he then ran like a little scared boy to the bankruptcy courts.
You can trust and believe in him to do the right thing
Oh say more...
He ripped people off with his Trump University Scam. Telling people that he would make them wealthy just as he is now telling us that he will fix all of America's problems. We then find out that the course materials were plagiarized and his staff was instructed on how to bilk people even more after they enrolled.
I may not have all the facts right here... but what I do see is a thin skinned school yard bully who is fabricating a story about his greatness...
He is spinning garments from fabrications, theft, lies, and deceit...
Please remember that Hitler was amusing until he was not...
The cautionary stories do have a point. Let us please remember them.
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The cautionary tail of the King Has No Clothes... Is very app here. But here in this rendering the charlatan Tailor and the King are both played by this guy named Trump...
The make believe garments are spun from his wealth which started from his father and then a very sizable inheritance...
He did not become wealthy by his know how... he started out wealthy
His business acumen is proof of his qualifications to run the country:
Really...
He added to his wealth through defrauding investors as he intentionally ran his businesses into the ground, while pulling out vast sums of money for himself, he then ran like a little scared boy to the bankruptcy courts.
You can trust and believe in him to do the right thing
Oh say more...
He ripped people off with his Trump University Scam. Telling people that he would make them wealthy just as he is now telling us that he will fix all of America's problems. We then find out that the course materials were plagiarized and his staff was instructed on how to bilk people even more after they enrolled.
I may not have all the facts right here... but what I do see is a thin skinned school yard bully who is fabricating a story about his greatness...
He is spinning garments from fabrications, theft, lies, and deceit...
Please remember that Hitler was amusing until he was not...
The cautionary stories do have a point. Let us please remember them.
I
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The nation, our beloved motherland is weakened, our pride has been humiliated!!..RISE UP for our once glorious past !!
All that was missing were the armbands.
All that was missing were the armbands.
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Trump's speech was scary, very scary. But here's the thing: it was also very powerful. It's going to fire up his base, and that's going to improve their turnout. Clinton shouldn't take this man lightly. Hope she too is able to fire up the liberal base. Selecting Elizabeth Warren as her VP would be a good start.
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I cannot believe the number of people posting here who have been duped by the narcissistic con artist demagogue Trump. He is following the classic Nixon formula of pandering to fear and prejudice; it's like watching the re-run of a bad movie. His heros are Putin and the current North Korean despot. He would like to have their power which is within the realm of possibility with a compliant Congress and Supreme Court. Wake up America!
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Just remember who helped him write that speech: Paul Manafort, master of demagogues.
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And on the other extreme, I just checked another news website and the breaking news at the top said "Several dead in shooting at Munich shopping mall... Stay in your homes" while the story underneath was Obama saying "Trump's doom and gloom doesn't match reality."
I believe there is common ground which both candidates should be trying to address.
I believe there is common ground which both candidates should be trying to address.
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Where were you when our school children were being gunned down? Republicans cried a few crocodile tears, muttered something about a moment of silence and then cozied up to the NRA.
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I dare Mel Brooks to make a better spoof movie that eclipses the reality of the GOP nominating convention in terms of the ridiculousness that we have witnessed over the last few days. Fiction would definitely be hard put to trump reality.
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When I heard Trump say the phrase "Americanism, not Globalism, will be our credo" in his acceptance speech I realized Trump is an American form of Tory and he is proposing an American form if Brexit.
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Trump, no matter how hard he tries will never have credibility. He has no knowledge of the issues of the day. All he spouts is fear and negativity and how he will change everything (not likely). Of course he always injects into his so called speeches how everyone loves him and how he so wonderful and rich. I think he is a mental case. It is also interesting to watch how he has used the convention as an infomercial to publicize his family. Sadly, this rhetoric does play well to a certain segment of the population. Fortunately it will not be enough to get him elected.
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Ha, y'all think you're being really harsh on The Donald here. I tell ya, I've fumed in about 25 submitted comments thus far, and not a single one is deemed printable. Haven't even been cursing. I guess they don't want me to be as venomous as The Donald.
But I'd like to point out, the reason for my crazed venom is that I'm terrified for my nation and the world. Like the author of "The Art of the Deal" said, Tony Schwartz himself, there is a strong possibility that if the sociopathic Trump gets into the White House, he will end civilization through nuclear war. That's what's at stake, so I think my venom is reasonable. I think resorting to polonium tea might be reasonable at this point.
But I'd like to point out, the reason for my crazed venom is that I'm terrified for my nation and the world. Like the author of "The Art of the Deal" said, Tony Schwartz himself, there is a strong possibility that if the sociopathic Trump gets into the White House, he will end civilization through nuclear war. That's what's at stake, so I think my venom is reasonable. I think resorting to polonium tea might be reasonable at this point.
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Trump's game is clear: (1) promise to fix all of our problems as only he can do (with NO details about how); (2) blame all of our problems on Hillary/Obama/the Democrats. It's always easier to find fault for shortcomings than it is to take credit for not allowing things to be even worse. So if Hillary's campaign is simply: "let's stay the course" she'll lose. Her message, the message from the whole Democratic party has to be: Yes, we have some problems, but here's the primary reason why: the Republicans have blocked everything Obama tried to do for the past 6 years. Give a short list, and then say: If you want to fix the country, you have a choice: turn it over to a strong man dictator without a clue, or dump the Congressional Republicans and let our government work again.
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...show me your tax returns, you know Donald: money talks, and you know what walks...
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I am struck by how all candidates in these campaigns conveniently forget the existence of Congress; Congress makes law, not the White House, which has limited options of veto and persuasion. That is why it is called the Executive Branch.
I am also disgusted by the naked political agenda-pushing now informing all journalism, as well as how few lessons have been learned about the response of the Great Unwashed to same: the more outlets like the TIMES push, the more the electorate seems to resent it and go its own way. The response to urgings to let in all the migrants, the UK EU referendum, with its Project Fear campaign that included a threatening Obama, failed to do anything but make the UK working-class angrier. These should shown the media that all they are doing these days is shouting in echo chambers. The Op Ed piece yesterday, Men Who Marry Melanias But Raise Ivankas was a case in point: sneeringly comparing the marriages of Trump and Clinton, the writer totally omitted Bill Clintons chronic philandering, tolerated in traditional fashion by his allegedly feminist wife for political gain. The Lewinsky affair helped the Democrats lose in 2000. Capitol Hill has always has been a sink of powerful men doing what they have always done. Clinton a progressive marriage model? Not for me, thanks.
Hypocrisy informs the left and the right. And that is what the electorate sees that the media, if that Op Ed piece is anything to go by, is in denial about. Hence, the rise of Trump.
I am also disgusted by the naked political agenda-pushing now informing all journalism, as well as how few lessons have been learned about the response of the Great Unwashed to same: the more outlets like the TIMES push, the more the electorate seems to resent it and go its own way. The response to urgings to let in all the migrants, the UK EU referendum, with its Project Fear campaign that included a threatening Obama, failed to do anything but make the UK working-class angrier. These should shown the media that all they are doing these days is shouting in echo chambers. The Op Ed piece yesterday, Men Who Marry Melanias But Raise Ivankas was a case in point: sneeringly comparing the marriages of Trump and Clinton, the writer totally omitted Bill Clintons chronic philandering, tolerated in traditional fashion by his allegedly feminist wife for political gain. The Lewinsky affair helped the Democrats lose in 2000. Capitol Hill has always has been a sink of powerful men doing what they have always done. Clinton a progressive marriage model? Not for me, thanks.
Hypocrisy informs the left and the right. And that is what the electorate sees that the media, if that Op Ed piece is anything to go by, is in denial about. Hence, the rise of Trump.
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It's pretty dark - in a sewer - where that "voice" is coming from.
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Only one thing to do suspend his Secret Service protection now. And let the chips fall as they may.
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"I am your voice!"
So, the American voice is pathological lying at maximum volume?
So, the American voice is pathological lying at maximum volume?
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So, you think Don Trump is bombastic and dangerous now?
Imagine him when he is free of the restraints of campaigning carefully, and safely entrenched in the White House.
You ain't seen nothin' yet!
Imagine him when he is free of the restraints of campaigning carefully, and safely entrenched in the White House.
You ain't seen nothin' yet!
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Ivanka who sought to speak for women spoke only for herself - of course she was promoted within his organisation and of course she was given support during her pregnancy but it was not because she is a woman it is because she is his daughter - nepotism is as ugly as sexism.
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Trump's plans included a lot of government intervention and spending, this from the party that hates big government.
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RE "Let's put America First."
When has it ever been otherwise? This is a synonym for hegemony ...exerting social, cultural, ideological, and economic influence over others. This is the american way and has been since the Monroe doctrine. Its most recent manifestation is the so called Bush doctrine which saw the unilateral "pre-emptive" Iraq war, the unilateral withdrawal from the ABM treaty and the unilateral rejection of the Kyoto protocol. These are all "me first" american initiatives, and Trump is pandering to the same theme. There's nothing new here.
When has it ever been otherwise? This is a synonym for hegemony ...exerting social, cultural, ideological, and economic influence over others. This is the american way and has been since the Monroe doctrine. Its most recent manifestation is the so called Bush doctrine which saw the unilateral "pre-emptive" Iraq war, the unilateral withdrawal from the ABM treaty and the unilateral rejection of the Kyoto protocol. These are all "me first" american initiatives, and Trump is pandering to the same theme. There's nothing new here.
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The utter demise of America is a political theme park. Doesn't it happen every four years when one party tries to wrest control from the other?
Maybe if we had public campaign financing and a six month campaign, the candidates would focus on real policies instead of threatening us all.
Maybe if we had public campaign financing and a six month campaign, the candidates would focus on real policies instead of threatening us all.
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A junior high-school level speech where the speechwriter wanted Trump to come off like a combination of Nixon in '68 and Reagan in '80. Whether Trump actually believes any of it himself is not beside the point [he believes in almost nothing], that anyone could believe any of it is what might be so scary.
Whoever wrote this speech should be held liable for every false claim, hounded for every insult, and prosecuted for trying to yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theatre.
Whoever wrote this speech should be held liable for every false claim, hounded for every insult, and prosecuted for trying to yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theatre.
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After his speech last night, I went back and reread some detailed German history from post WWI through 1935. Trump's course in the primaries and his shift to candidate--in action and speech content are directly--directly and specifically--from Hitler's playbook. And that includes the careless dismissal of him as a crank by established parties. But we've gone far beyond the Beer Hall Putsch phase.
Mrs. Clinton may be smarter, more experienced, et. al., but I feel genuine fear that she may be the wrong candidate at the wrong time. In my heart of hearts, I wonder if Sanders' ideas and unconventional forthrightness would have stood us in better stead. Too late for that now.
And endlessly repeating all of the obvious objections to DT--he knows nothing about governing, he's an egomaniac-a sexist-a racist-a clod-a clown-a hothead-a criminal--just doesn't seem to matter. Loss of jobs and perceived loss of justice and national identity--that's the ticket. Look it up--it was the path to power 80 years ago in Germany, and, God help us, it's being trod again.
Mrs. Clinton may be smarter, more experienced, et. al., but I feel genuine fear that she may be the wrong candidate at the wrong time. In my heart of hearts, I wonder if Sanders' ideas and unconventional forthrightness would have stood us in better stead. Too late for that now.
And endlessly repeating all of the obvious objections to DT--he knows nothing about governing, he's an egomaniac-a sexist-a racist-a clod-a clown-a hothead-a criminal--just doesn't seem to matter. Loss of jobs and perceived loss of justice and national identity--that's the ticket. Look it up--it was the path to power 80 years ago in Germany, and, God help us, it's being trod again.
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How's he going to do all these things?
He's promising this and that and everything else, but how's he going to do it?
He hasn't said anything about his plans, other than cutting taxes for the wealthy.
How's he going to do it?
Oh: "Trust me" or "Believe me".
Well, where's the beef?
He's promising this and that and everything else, but how's he going to do it?
He hasn't said anything about his plans, other than cutting taxes for the wealthy.
How's he going to do it?
Oh: "Trust me" or "Believe me".
Well, where's the beef?
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A few reasons why Trump could win this thing in November:
1. Truth. I have read no fewer than 5,000 comments in the NYT alone from Obama liberals who wish for a 3rd term not because things are better or things aren't horrible, but because they fear Trump will be worse.
2. Respect. Obama and his supporters have done nothing over the last 8 years but denigrate, insult and ridicule ordinary Americans that they feel superior to. Those ordinary Americans are being heard and respected by Donald Trump. I am a Black lawyer in Washington DC, and I've been here since 2008. I've never seen Barack Obama treat a regular person with respect in this town when the cameras are off. Ever.
3. The electoral college. Just facts folks. No Democrat in the history of the electoral college has won the White House after losing OH, PA, FL, NC and VA. That's where Hillary sits, either tied or trailing Trump in those key battleground states.
So great. Trump's hair looks a mess. His wife speaks with an accent, his 10 year old kid doesn't tuck his shirt all the way in. Keep fixating on that liberals, and Trump will roll into town here in Washington DC in January with eviction papers for Obama in his hand.
1. Truth. I have read no fewer than 5,000 comments in the NYT alone from Obama liberals who wish for a 3rd term not because things are better or things aren't horrible, but because they fear Trump will be worse.
2. Respect. Obama and his supporters have done nothing over the last 8 years but denigrate, insult and ridicule ordinary Americans that they feel superior to. Those ordinary Americans are being heard and respected by Donald Trump. I am a Black lawyer in Washington DC, and I've been here since 2008. I've never seen Barack Obama treat a regular person with respect in this town when the cameras are off. Ever.
3. The electoral college. Just facts folks. No Democrat in the history of the electoral college has won the White House after losing OH, PA, FL, NC and VA. That's where Hillary sits, either tied or trailing Trump in those key battleground states.
So great. Trump's hair looks a mess. His wife speaks with an accent, his 10 year old kid doesn't tuck his shirt all the way in. Keep fixating on that liberals, and Trump will roll into town here in Washington DC in January with eviction papers for Obama in his hand.
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DC Barrister - Sorry, but no one believes you are really a lawyer in Washington DC (let alone a black lawyer), because you spend so much time telling everyone that you are. Who exactly are you trying to convince? Your commentary about "Obama and his supporters" is pure fiction.
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Mr. Trump has scared me so much about America that I am thinking of moving to North Korea as it seems it is already there where he wants America to be.
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There can be no doubt that the man says what he means and means what he says. Mr. Trump would shake up Washington like no other candidate before him.
It is unfortunate that the Democrats have chosen to run the disgraced former first lady against the Trump machine. Policy issues tend to fade into the background when explained in long winded diatribes that fail to connect with voters.
Alternatively, Mr. Trump speaks directly to the issues with heartfelt conviction much like Bernie Sanders. The media in particular has forgotten that leadership qualities matter first and foremost in the minds of the average voter. The nuts and bolts of policy discussions are boring at best and the average voter has little time to adequately digest the nuances and priorities as such.
We can only hope that Mr. Trump's children can somehow manage to keep his thinking on track. His daughter's speech was beautiful and spoke largely to policies embraced by Democrats. It is no wonder Republicans and Democrats are so upset with the Trump candidacy.
It is unfortunate that the Democrats have chosen to run the disgraced former first lady against the Trump machine. Policy issues tend to fade into the background when explained in long winded diatribes that fail to connect with voters.
Alternatively, Mr. Trump speaks directly to the issues with heartfelt conviction much like Bernie Sanders. The media in particular has forgotten that leadership qualities matter first and foremost in the minds of the average voter. The nuts and bolts of policy discussions are boring at best and the average voter has little time to adequately digest the nuances and priorities as such.
We can only hope that Mr. Trump's children can somehow manage to keep his thinking on track. His daughter's speech was beautiful and spoke largely to policies embraced by Democrats. It is no wonder Republicans and Democrats are so upset with the Trump candidacy.
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AUTHOR: Harry S. Truman (1884–1972)
QUOTATION: When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, “He’ll sit here, and he’ll say, ‘Do this! Do that!’ And nothing will happen. Poor Ike—it won’t be a bit like the Army. He’ll find it very frustrating.”
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Poor Donald, if he wins
QUOTATION: When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, “He’ll sit here, and he’ll say, ‘Do this! Do that!’ And nothing will happen. Poor Ike—it won’t be a bit like the Army. He’ll find it very frustrating.”
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Poor Donald, if he wins
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A supremely dark (which is typical for the GOP) eulogy for the GOP and America.
What a sociopathic con artist. The best we have ever seen.
I cannot feel sorry for the people that have bought into this clown's rubbish for the last year.
For all of the voters that believe in Drumpf's lies, I have oceanfront property
in the San Joaquin Valley to sell you.
What a sociopathic con artist. The best we have ever seen.
I cannot feel sorry for the people that have bought into this clown's rubbish for the last year.
For all of the voters that believe in Drumpf's lies, I have oceanfront property
in the San Joaquin Valley to sell you.
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I had to double-check the transcript, and it's true - Trump never once said the word "Congress." And yet "I alone will fix it." How does he intend to bypass an entire elected branch of government?
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I'm sure he intends to bypass it by declaring martial law and disbanding Congress and the Supreme Court. It's what Mussolini, Trump's hero, would do.
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Donald, you who will be indicted soon for committing fraud because you suckered people into attending the sham called Trump University, you most definitely are not my voice.
My voice is American.
Yours is something un-American.
It's disease that I studied in world history which our brave soldiers defeated in the 1940s.
You and yours will be similarly defeated.
Yours is not an American voice.
My voice is American.
Yours is something un-American.
It's disease that I studied in world history which our brave soldiers defeated in the 1940s.
You and yours will be similarly defeated.
Yours is not an American voice.
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Trump's fear mongering and false portrait of the incidence of crime in America, his lies about the state of the military, rants about trade agreements which, if cancelled, would never bring jobs back, his idiocy in believing that a million employees of Walmart want to stop the import of products from Asia and Mexico -- on and on, Trump is nothing more than Mr. Doomsday presenting as a clown. He has the persona of a court jester, not the leader of a nation; of a child who hasn't taken his first civics class, not a master of policies domestic and foreign. As for President Obama, he misses opportunities to undercut this clown's message: yesterday's NYT reported that 175 ISIS vehicles were destroyed and upwards of 300 ISIS fighters were killed -- we're doing our job, but Obama is silent, and that reticence feeds into Mr. Doomsday's lies. And as for Washington being broken, the GOP is in control of Congress. The failure of the US to address immigration, to wage a more aggressive war against ISIS, the state of the military (which, while very strong, is always in need of improvement), the care offered to veterans -- Congressional inaction, not the President, is responsible for these failures, if they are real. Hillary will, hopefully, lay these failures at the feet of a Republican Congress, and her presidency will be able to get things done with a Democratic Senate if not Senate and House.
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The Pied Piper of Mar-a-Lago has made an art of a deal alright - a pact with the devil in deceiving gullible American citizens. He trots his children out through smoke and mirrors to paint a rosy picture of his character. Suggest we go to publicly-silent ex-wives for the real story.
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I am voted Democratic for my entire life. Last night, after listening to Ivanka and Peter Thiel, I may vote Republican and that scares me. Hillary is corrupt, incompetent and entitled. She cannot be allowed to become president.
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You should probably be aware that Trump is far more corrupt, incompetent, and entitled than Ms. Clinton. Also I have a tremendous amount of trouble believing you ever voted Democratic. Nobody who plans to vote for Trump could have done so.
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Wonder what President Obama thinks about all this. If this isn't the definition of crazy I don't know what is.
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As a faithful neighbour, I have witnessed the unreality of your domestic decline, from the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK, to the elections of an actor and later a director of the C.I.A. and his half-baked son to office, but America how low you have sunk to be blindly contemplating a lying fascist for office. Where is the integrity of the media to unrelentlessly expose this fraud, where is the scrutiny of the people to see through this hypocrisy? The promise of law and order, of the creation of a police state while upholding the second amendment is sheer lunacy in the current state of civil strife, how large will the black and hispanic prison populations become under Trump? That said, the even greater fear is the global chaos he threatens to rain down upon us all through his ignorance and inexperience in foreign affairs. America did not beat Russia as he claims, the democratic foreign policy did not give rise to IS, look to the decades and decades of political and economic conquest to attempt to solve these very complex issues, not to empty rhetoric of the promise of eradication and greatness again. It is too easy to blame the Democrats for all your ills while ignoring the historical legacy of the Republican administration's two Gulf Wars and ruthless social cuts. Last night you looked oh so familiar to the dark promise of a fascist Germany. For the love of God and country, wake up America and rally round the greatness that you still possess.
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assuming Mr. Trump doesn't get elected and we avoid a self inflicted apocalypse on ourselves, our country and the world, how do our politic parties avoid irrational demagogues from being nominated again?
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Thom "Hippie" Hartman is worried that Trump would enforce the laws of this land by claiming to be 'law and order' president. I suppose liberals like lawlessness and lack of order in which they can thrive.
We are a nation of laws and ought to remain that way. Our current state of lawlessness and whatever must come to a necessary end.
We are a nation of laws and ought to remain that way. Our current state of lawlessness and whatever must come to a necessary end.
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Whether you like Trump or you hate him, it was a superb speech, the best any politician has delivered in a long time. Of some terrible leaders have been great speakers, but the speech made me lean toward the devil I don't know.
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If you think that was a "superb speech", you must have never listened to one before now. It was a garbage speech, a lot of marketing mixed in with some fear mongering and lies.
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Kudos, Donald. You're a master of saying things people want to hear, and you know it. You've got an audience eager to buy the empty promises you make and the accusations you're making against others. That strategy worked for men that took control of Germany, Italy, and Japan during WWII. They looked invincible for a while, but it didn't end well for any of them or the citizens of their countries. You're a dangerous man, Donald Trump.
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Please wake me up when this nightmare is over! Trump makes me feel like this is the end of days.
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Belligerence is an unattractive and undesirable quality in a President. Trump was thoroughly obnoxious when speaking about Mexico last night. President Obama hosted the President of Mexico today at the White House and their positive, supportive statements and respectful demeanor were in stark contrast to the rantings of the angry crank who would build a great wall on our shared border.
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Think about it. Picture Trump’s family being the billboard under which we must all live for four years.
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Trump: I alone will save you by getting us all killed.
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It is not a question of making America great again. It is a question of whether America is great enough now to not elect Donald Trump. Granted Hillary is not the best person to convince Americans to not choose Donald Trump. However, there are many great Americans who now need to stand up and say something regardless of party affiliation. If these great Americans sit back and don't stand up now, it may be too late and your country could make an irrevocable mistake. Having lived in the States for two years, most Americans are kind and decent people. I hope someone can convince most voters to express these virtues in your next election.
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I suppose after that speech Hillary can confess to anything in her acceptance speech and still get elected in a landslide. She can even say "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters"
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Like every other 'law & order' candidate who has èver run for office anywhere, Trump fails to grasp that civil unrest is always but a symptom of problems that run far deeper. We all want domestic tranquility; but many of us understand, in a way these law and order types never fo, that it cannot be attained merely by cracking down on civil unrest, and that such an approach will, likelier than not, serve to aggravate the issues that gave rise to the unrest in the first place.
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I truly can not understand the use of the USA chant at the RNC. It's not like they are competing against another Country. It is not just with Trump's campaign, but it has been a running thing for years. It reeks of Nationalism, to say the least. The most disturbing use of "USA" was used during a speech by a Puerto Rican Republican at a previous convention to shut her up. The Republican establishment, that mostly chose to stay away from the convention, and those that did show up were booed ( Mc Connell and Cruz,) should take all the credit for a Trump nominee. Mc Connell and Cruz lead the crazies to a frenzy that they could not even control. I compare it to someone who raises a Pit Bull, then it turns and attacks it's owner. The Republicans, by not reigning in the crazies, lost the party to the crazies.
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I'm currently in east Africa --- I was in Asia last month and spent one week in Europe prior to arriving in SA. People are worried about Trump -- they fear what could happen if he is elected. But -- they would vote for him if they were citizens of the USA .. most understand that The USA gets handed the bill and the criticism for world order. We use trade .. especially "most favored nation" for foreign policy goals not domestic needs/ wants.
People are delusional if they think this guy does not have support - or can not win.
People are delusional if they think this guy does not have support - or can not win.
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Fascists often have support and often can win. There's no underestimating the blind stupidity of the average voter.
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I think that the anecdotal comments here about how people living in Portland Oregon (where I am from) or gay or black or any group that have been totaly marginalized by the Republicans, and even legislated against, are suddenly going to vote for Trump? Trump and his unpredictable leadership who never even served on a school board?
Hysterical, actually.
And the demonizing of Hillary that seems to accompany every post supporting her? Lett me say as no fan of hers,lol? Wait until the saner alternative that outlines policies to deal with our leadership role in the world is articulated next week.
I think the Trump brand, surrounded by the hateful right wing and conservative Christian ideology would create such confusion in this country, should it come to pass.
I haven't given up on my fellow Americans and I would suggest they open up their ears next week and listen for the clear difference between the two conventions.
The Republicans had their chance and produced a nasty narrative that offered nothing except inexperienced bluster.
Let's listen to the tone and substance of the Democrats... If you really haven't made up your mind already..,
Hysterical, actually.
And the demonizing of Hillary that seems to accompany every post supporting her? Lett me say as no fan of hers,lol? Wait until the saner alternative that outlines policies to deal with our leadership role in the world is articulated next week.
I think the Trump brand, surrounded by the hateful right wing and conservative Christian ideology would create such confusion in this country, should it come to pass.
I haven't given up on my fellow Americans and I would suggest they open up their ears next week and listen for the clear difference between the two conventions.
The Republicans had their chance and produced a nasty narrative that offered nothing except inexperienced bluster.
Let's listen to the tone and substance of the Democrats... If you really haven't made up your mind already..,
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I couldn't stay up so late to see his speech. I had to go to bed early to get a good nights sleep so I could be prepared for tomorrow's doom and gloom. You know what they say: early to bed, early to rise, allows a pessimist, to see the worst through their eyes
Trump looks more childish than his eleven year old son in the picture accompanying the article. A picture is worth a thousand words.
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The lack of intellect at display in the Grand Old Party is beyond depressing. In order to uphold democracy one has to compete with these folks on a daily basis. All the while we're all being dragged down to sewers: A society commercializing an unprecedented level of stupidity, lacking in any and all reason based thinking and closing in on a dangerous level of religious fanaticism.
This party has become a Third World party. This convention was held at a Third World stage. This candidate is a Third World candidate. Love him or hate him, the distressing reality is that our society's standards and expectations will soon be (and some might say have been) lowered to a Third World level.
This party has become a Third World party. This convention was held at a Third World stage. This candidate is a Third World candidate. Love him or hate him, the distressing reality is that our society's standards and expectations will soon be (and some might say have been) lowered to a Third World level.
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It's very interesting that in all the rhetoric we have been exposed to in this Republican convention including comments and critiques of Melania's obviously plagiarized speech, not one column has offered the public a chance to comment. Why is that? And if this woman, in her overly embellished history in fine Trumpian fashion, speaks five languages, what are they? Have we ever heard her utter any? She certainly cannot be off limits due to her gender as HRC takes it on the chin every day.
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This morning I began thinking about about why so many Trump family members had been given major roles at the convention. At first I thought it was simply a way to fill out a roster notably lacking in party luminaries.
But now I'm wondering whether the family were props to underscore the role of Trump as paterfamilias. This role dovetails with the subtext of Trump's appeal--and especially of his speech last night: "You don't have to worry anymore, daddy's here now."
And just like daddies don't provide their kids with the details of just how they'll take care of them, Trump doesn't either. He just wants us trust daddy.
Ludicrous, but damn clever.
But now I'm wondering whether the family were props to underscore the role of Trump as paterfamilias. This role dovetails with the subtext of Trump's appeal--and especially of his speech last night: "You don't have to worry anymore, daddy's here now."
And just like daddies don't provide their kids with the details of just how they'll take care of them, Trump doesn't either. He just wants us trust daddy.
Ludicrous, but damn clever.
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It is simply astonishing the number of commenters who think Trump bombed last nite. More than anything it reinforces the delusional quality of most Liberal-Left voters. Like him or not, there is no denying that for anyone with functioning hearing and sight Trump's speech was received with boisterous applause and cheering. To borrow a show-biz adjective, Trump wowed the crowd.
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@mark - It might do well to remember that a good deal of that "boisterous applause" came from people who hate immigrants (ironic, in a nation of immigrants), want to build a wall along our border with Mexico, don't think it's a problem if the U.S. stands by if Russia should invade the Baltics (Trump's words in interview yesterday), or any other obligations we're committed to as a country if Trump doesn't care for them.
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Personally, I have never had any time for fire and brimstone speeches, the end of world is nigh, I am your savior. But to each his own, I guess.
I'll tell you who I'm really afraid of. The white guys on wall st. and others who run the economy and no longer care about average americans. They have shipped the jobs away, made every effort to maximize profit over people and really have made personal gain the priority over ALL ELSE! This is who I fear. They don't care and they have power. Talk about that DT not little people.
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PaAzNY,
Trump most certainly DID talk about "that"- I WAS listening, and here are some quotes I wrote down that won't appear in the NYT:
"...politicians put their purse ahead of the national good."
"When politicians sold out to corporate lobbyists for cash I cannot look the other way."
"We will fix trade deals that strip us of our jobs and our wealth as a country."
"I am going to turn our bad trade agreements into great trade agreements."
"...renegotiating NAFTA, and we will walk away if we don't get a good deal."
"Excessive regulation costs $2 Trillion a year...we will lift restrictions on production of American energy and product $20 trillion in jobs...our steel workers and our miners are going back to work again..."
In saying these things he declared war against the Repub and Dem elites and their corporate master; and he gave voice to and stood up for the working and middle class.
Commentators will revile and rebuke him for his message to them, dismissing him by saying he is a liar.
"Liberals" simply cannot believe that anyone would actually be serious about fair trade deals and jobs for the 10's of millions not living on the coasts , those of an economic class lower than those who read the NYT, that they must denigrate and dismiss him. And us.
Regardless of who wins the election, we millions in the rust belt are not going away.
Trump most certainly DID talk about "that"- I WAS listening, and here are some quotes I wrote down that won't appear in the NYT:
"...politicians put their purse ahead of the national good."
"When politicians sold out to corporate lobbyists for cash I cannot look the other way."
"We will fix trade deals that strip us of our jobs and our wealth as a country."
"I am going to turn our bad trade agreements into great trade agreements."
"...renegotiating NAFTA, and we will walk away if we don't get a good deal."
"Excessive regulation costs $2 Trillion a year...we will lift restrictions on production of American energy and product $20 trillion in jobs...our steel workers and our miners are going back to work again..."
In saying these things he declared war against the Repub and Dem elites and their corporate master; and he gave voice to and stood up for the working and middle class.
Commentators will revile and rebuke him for his message to them, dismissing him by saying he is a liar.
"Liberals" simply cannot believe that anyone would actually be serious about fair trade deals and jobs for the 10's of millions not living on the coasts , those of an economic class lower than those who read the NYT, that they must denigrate and dismiss him. And us.
Regardless of who wins the election, we millions in the rust belt are not going away.
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@Anna - Except all of that's baloney, you do know that right? Trump has no substance, just bluster.
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To read some of the comments in here you would think that people have never listened to a convention speech before. Yes, it makes the other side seem pretty awful, pins the blame for everything bad in the country on the other party, presents the speechmaker as the only solution to all those woes. It's called politics, it has been around for a very, very long time, and is practiced quite well by both sides. Do they think Hillary will not present dire images of Mr. Trump or the Republicans or the "dark" that will come from them? Accurate or not, it is just as manipulative and boosting to her supporters. It just happens that people in here may agree with her. But the over the top reaction to Trump's speech is laughable in it's "never before such gloom and doom" and "I'm so afraid" nonsense.
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Hillary may have a problem convincing the voters that she is the least unacceptable alternative.
Trump may just be able to out game her.
Trump may just be able to out game her.
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@Murphy's Law - Hillary Clinton is a highly qualified candidate.
This is the slow, twisting death of the Republican party. The elephant has walked away leaving a herd of lemmings in its place.
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We ceratinly don't need the press to tell us whether Trump's acceptance speech appealed to them. We LOVED his exceptionally right on speech. He hit on EVERYTHING that is poisoning us as a nation. The bell has tolled. There is no longer a tomorrow. There is no room for have been losers such as the Clinton disgrace. We need MAJOR change NOW! Bring on your best Mr. Trump!
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That was his best, lots of ranting with no solutions whatsoever.
Hillary in my opinion is going nowhere. If she gets nominated, this country is in for a rough ride. She rarely tells the truth. Trump should be put in a rubber room. His speech was surreal. As an independent, I believe America deserves the best, as we have a lot to give.
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The Trump phenomenon has gone from funny to scary to terrifying. The prospect of a Trump presidency presents the gravest danger to the country since the Cuban Missile Crisis. I can't believe I'm saying this, but should he be elected I would welcome a coup by our military; martial law could not be worse than a Trump presidency.
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A lot of Trump’s supporters say they like him because he's not afraid to “tell it like it is”. Well they'll love this comment, ‘cause I sure am going to “tell it like it is” in spades!
The reason why Trump has done so well politically is that a lot of stupid, ignorant, mostly working class white people who have been screwed over economically for the last 40 years by guys just like Trump, think that Trump will save their wretched behinds and take them all to glory by turning the U.S. into a fascist, racist state. They think that what didn't work for Italy and Spain in the 30's and 40's will somehow work for the U.S. in 2017. They think that putting the legal and social status of brown, yellow, beige and female Americans back where it was before the 1960’s will restore the great White race to its rightful place in society. That's why they’re stupid. They refuse to accept how much the world has changed.
It would be laughable if it weren’t so pathetic!
So get a clue, dumb white people! Get a clue! The only things Trump or anyone else in the GOP will do for you are send more of your “fold tab A. into slot B.” factory jobs to Asia and more of your sons and daughters to die in the Middle East. For once in your lives, try not to let the plutocrats and their lackeys play you for fools. Who knows, you might just enjoy the results.
The reason why Trump has done so well politically is that a lot of stupid, ignorant, mostly working class white people who have been screwed over economically for the last 40 years by guys just like Trump, think that Trump will save their wretched behinds and take them all to glory by turning the U.S. into a fascist, racist state. They think that what didn't work for Italy and Spain in the 30's and 40's will somehow work for the U.S. in 2017. They think that putting the legal and social status of brown, yellow, beige and female Americans back where it was before the 1960’s will restore the great White race to its rightful place in society. That's why they’re stupid. They refuse to accept how much the world has changed.
It would be laughable if it weren’t so pathetic!
So get a clue, dumb white people! Get a clue! The only things Trump or anyone else in the GOP will do for you are send more of your “fold tab A. into slot B.” factory jobs to Asia and more of your sons and daughters to die in the Middle East. For once in your lives, try not to let the plutocrats and their lackeys play you for fools. Who knows, you might just enjoy the results.
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The movie "Our Brand Is Crises" may have inspired Trump. He's not smart enough to use the strategy from "Wag The Dog". The Trump candidacy is a result of the media needing a sideshow to the pro Hillary propaganda. If the Fairness Doctrine were still in effect we would have a candidate capable of beating Trump. Thank you NYT, CNN, NPR et al for this horrible state of affairs.
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I couldn't watch because I found myself cowering on the sofa in a semi-fetal position saying, "please make him end it, please stop, please finish now." Then I thought, if elected, he would talk like this all the time. Thank god, the other option would make an awesome, thoughtful, hardworking president. He can rant and rave all he wants - from the sidelines.
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Trump gave the best political speech I've heard in a very, very, long time.
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Suggest you read his foreign policy address and his Hillary Clinton speech. Text of both are available online. I didn't read last nights speech, but the standard of his speeches, whoever writes them, have been beyond anything in American politics probably since Reagan. Obama is okay at speaking, but not as good as Clinton, Reagan and probably Trump. Unfortunately, people project hopes onto Obama, but that does not mean it is reality.
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Must be the first one you've ever heard then. But yes, it was strikingly similar to speeches of Assad, Saddam, Putin, Stalin, and Mussolini, Trump's heroes, and those all worked wonders at rallying the ignorant.
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You never fail to disappoint to show your bias NYT. Next week you will go to Philly and compliment everything HRC says and does. Even accepting Goldman Sachs and Saudi bloody money.
His tone Dark? Well since both candidates became presidential nominees for their party, we have had Orlando, Nice, Dallas, Louisiana, Turkey's coup, ISIS, attacks in Germany. Please do tell me where is brightness? The world is in a mess.
Our country is $20T in debt. We have bad trade deals. Our infrastructure is falling apart. Our politicians are owned by Wall Street. Our cops and innocent people are dying on the street.
The status quo politicians no longer work. They have failed. And a suffering middle class is the proof.
His tone Dark? Well since both candidates became presidential nominees for their party, we have had Orlando, Nice, Dallas, Louisiana, Turkey's coup, ISIS, attacks in Germany. Please do tell me where is brightness? The world is in a mess.
Our country is $20T in debt. We have bad trade deals. Our infrastructure is falling apart. Our politicians are owned by Wall Street. Our cops and innocent people are dying on the street.
The status quo politicians no longer work. They have failed. And a suffering middle class is the proof.
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75 minutes of blather. "I'm gonna this, I'm gonna that..." How Donald, how?
Why not start with something simple, like releasing your tax return from last year?
Why not start with something simple, like releasing your tax return from last year?
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I did find two interesting questions from the speech;
1. What is the verdict on globalization so far?
2. Aren't we already targeting "terrorist-prone" countries when it comes to immigration?
1. What is the verdict on globalization so far?
2. Aren't we already targeting "terrorist-prone" countries when it comes to immigration?
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The funniest thing about Trump's total immersion in politics, a complete insider since the 80's, is that it was all about money. His money, not yours. It was about access to power and influence. To further Donald Trump. There is no billionaire that is not a political insider. The Koch brothers are inside. Every billionaire is inside. Every massive corporation and enormous financial institution is on the inside. Is that not obvious? Even to republicans? Do the middle class voters think that any of this is about helping or advocating for them? Turn down the Fox News, for the love of mike, and wake up!
Take five minutes to read his wikipedia page. Presidential? Or not presidential?
He's not fit to run for the city council!
Of any city. He'd only get in to change a regulation, redistrict, maybe get access to a property to build on for nothing. Maybe move some "undesirable" people off the land he needs and say he's bettering the neighborhood. It's for the good of the neighborhood, good for the city. Then he'll declare the company bankrupt to refinance and restructure.
But a "rare political outsider?" Really, NY Times?
Take five minutes to read his wikipedia page. Presidential? Or not presidential?
He's not fit to run for the city council!
Of any city. He'd only get in to change a regulation, redistrict, maybe get access to a property to build on for nothing. Maybe move some "undesirable" people off the land he needs and say he's bettering the neighborhood. It's for the good of the neighborhood, good for the city. Then he'll declare the company bankrupt to refinance and restructure.
But a "rare political outsider?" Really, NY Times?
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I am not sure what parallel universe the pundits are living in when all of them called Trump's speech "dark"and "fear-mongering."(As an aside, there were lots of similar descriptions of the speech across channels. Was this plagiarism by the pundits or were they merely repeating Clinton talking points?)
The world IS in an incredibly dark place now, in large part because of the ineptitude of this administration. Indeed, it seems like the world is literally on fire. The middle east is in utter chaos, and, exacerbated by the Syrian refugee crisis, the disease and threat of ISIS has spread to Western Europe and even the US. No amount of talking by Obama and a servile media is going to change those facts. Perception is reality, and Americans are concerned. Why else would nearly 70% in poll after poll say that the country is "on the wrong path?" That is scarcely a resounding endorsement of the policies of the past 8 years.
The world IS in an incredibly dark place now, in large part because of the ineptitude of this administration. Indeed, it seems like the world is literally on fire. The middle east is in utter chaos, and, exacerbated by the Syrian refugee crisis, the disease and threat of ISIS has spread to Western Europe and even the US. No amount of talking by Obama and a servile media is going to change those facts. Perception is reality, and Americans are concerned. Why else would nearly 70% in poll after poll say that the country is "on the wrong path?" That is scarcely a resounding endorsement of the policies of the past 8 years.
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The middle east is in chaos because of the Bush/Cheney administration. The Bush administration - the gift that keeps on giving. ISIS formed when Bush, in all his wisdom, decided to dismantle Saddam Hussein's military. Just come out of a coma when Bush left office? I am sick to death of people like you that fall for these lies and fear-mongering from the right. Crime in America has been the lowest for decades. The people who say "this country is on the wrong track" are clueless and continue to vote against their own interests. Yet they still have money to spend on the latest Apple product and other stupid toys. Those people are the people you should fear. Uneducated voters.
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I would say the country is on the wrong track but it is TOTALLY due to the GOP Congress and to the GOP presidential candidates and GOOP state legislatures passing really stupid laws. So 70% of us say the country is on the wrong track, but we have very very different reasons for saying it.
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"And the dog ate my homework." Come on. The buck stops with the person currently in the oval office. Bush didn't create Syria and allow Assad to murder 400,000 Syrians. Bush didn't topple Qaddafi and create a nest for ISIS. Was Iraq a mistake? Yes. Get over it. So was pulling out of Iraq precipitously when the battle had been won. An executive must deal with the facts presented. Clearly, you are in the minority that think everything is hunky dory now--like Munich? More of the same will not work. It's the definition of insanity.
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Trump has done something very clear and difficult for Hillary: he has defined the parameters and the issues of the campaign. Faced with the power and directness of his message, HRC will pale. She is offering management; he is offering leadership. The choice could not be clearer. Democrats, be afraid, very afraid.
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@goodcubancigar - Trump hasn't defined any issues -- not sane ones, anyway. Building wall along the Mexican border, stopping all immigration immediately and not allowing protest demonstrations is not leadership. It's fear-mongering and bullying.
I listened to the whole speech from beginning to end. The last thing I would have characterized it was 'dark.' I thought Trump was right on and telling it like it is, so let's take off the rose-colored glasses. Our country is in chaos and our politicians are an embarrassment to the country they serve. Every time we pick up the papers, it's bad news. No, Trump is not dreaming, nor are we. I'm a registered Democrat and I'm probably going to vote Republican this time around, and I'm scared to death about it. Trump, at least, has conviction. So did Reagan. I'm fed up with the Democrats and crave some law and order.
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Aliwander - Mussolini had conviction, is that what you're aiming for? If you "crave some law and order", why not emigrate to North Korea...I hear they've perfected it to an art, although if you move a toe out of line you'll never be seen again.
Can we please just split the country in half - one half for the "PC crowd" and the other half for the "not-PC" crowd? Of course the PC crowd would have to build a wall to keep the not-PC crowd out, but we'd make them pay for it of course.
I just heard a portion of an interview with Trump, he claimed that the National Enquirer is a credible news source. Who would support anyone who believes this?
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Fox "News" viewers.
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The ability to impose a believed “reality” is a far more effective tactic for social control then the use of military might or police power (Peter Berger). When people are frightened, they are most likely to give up their civil liberties in exchange for perceived safety. This is a recipe for political power. The Republican Party has been using these strategies for years to further their objectives from the invasion of Iraq to the Patriot Act: impose a fearful reality in order to rationalize a sacrifice of personal liberty and gain control.
Recognize this as you are presented the world according to them, their platform, & their chosen candidate. Realize the civil liberties you are being asked to relinquish.
Recognize this as you are presented the world according to them, their platform, & their chosen candidate. Realize the civil liberties you are being asked to relinquish.
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Not my voice sir. You are an arrogant bully with no clue who only cares about making himself greater. You most definitely do not speak for me and millions of other honest Americans. And America needs no help from the likes of hucksters like you to be great because America is great, was great and always will be great. Go back to flim-flamming people and stealing money from old ladies to make yourself rich. You do not belong in the White House now or ever.
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Defining the speech as dark misses a sentiment that transcends much of our nation. The majority of Americans saw the speech differently. They saw it as a realistic assessment of where we are domestically and internationally. There are real problems and concerns that need to be addressed. If the speech said the situation is unchangeable and we are tied to this destiny - that would be dark. But acknowledging problems and at the same time assuring listeners that there are solutions is in fact hopeful. I believe initial polls gauging reactions to Trumps speech reflect this view.
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" I will restore law and order to our country"
Sounds like declaring martial law, first step towards a takeover of our democracy. When republicans control enough states they will begin changing the constitution against the will of the people.
Sounds like declaring martial law, first step towards a takeover of our democracy. When republicans control enough states they will begin changing the constitution against the will of the people.
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I was so reminded of Hitler's rise to power and his use of hateful speech as I listened to Trump's speech. It's surprising that no one has made this comparison.
I am terrified for this country if he becomes the President.
I am terrified for this country if he becomes the President.
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Dear NYT,
Please write an editorial outlining an aggressive campaign strategy for the candidate you have endorsed. If I were in HRC's position I will be in every red state pushing back against Trump.
In other words, HRC-please don't become the spoiler candidate.
Please write an editorial outlining an aggressive campaign strategy for the candidate you have endorsed. If I were in HRC's position I will be in every red state pushing back against Trump.
In other words, HRC-please don't become the spoiler candidate.
Trump/Pence as the standard bearers for the modern Republican party makes perfect sense.
They are both for and against free trade.
They are for and against LGBT equality.
They are both for and against NATO and a strong defense.
They are both for and against religious freedom.
They are both for and against torture.
Republicans 2016 - you pay yer money, you take yer chances!
They are both for and against free trade.
They are for and against LGBT equality.
They are both for and against NATO and a strong defense.
They are both for and against religious freedom.
They are both for and against torture.
Republicans 2016 - you pay yer money, you take yer chances!
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Anyone else notice the hypocrisy of promising to extract America from restrictive trade deals vs his claim of being a man who keeps his word (despite defaulting on several contracts by declaring BK)?
To DJT, a treaty is no different from any other contract: it's not worth the paper it is written on....
And with his offspring standing by his side (and his sons even proudly declaring DJT as their "best friend"), it's so refreshing to see a return to a core Republican family value: unfettered nepotism.
To DJT, a treaty is no different from any other contract: it's not worth the paper it is written on....
And with his offspring standing by his side (and his sons even proudly declaring DJT as their "best friend"), it's so refreshing to see a return to a core Republican family value: unfettered nepotism.
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Donald J Trump, what an average and awkward orator.
The more he goes the more he reminds me of Mussolini.
Be as nationalist and demagogic as you want, but please don't bring it to the rest of the World.
The more he goes the more he reminds me of Mussolini.
Be as nationalist and demagogic as you want, but please don't bring it to the rest of the World.
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@Louis - If by some long shot Mr. Trump wins, the people of the U.S. are counting on the people of France to help us with the revolution.
Law and Order? or Fear and Loathing
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The stage, with its panoply of flags and huge emblazoned "TRUMP" would have been perfect for a Mel Brooks farce. I fully expected dancing stormtroopers and "Springtime for Hitler" on the soundtrack.
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I didn't feel the tone of the speech was "dark". In contrast, it was rather motivating, one of the better convention talks I've heard (which was not at all a given).
He was addressing concerns that are those of the blue collar America (and, apparently, not NYT readership). Jobs, illegal immigration, Chinese theft of intellectual property, European terrorism perpetrated by unvetted immigrants, the appalling violence in the inner cities that is ignored by racialist agitators. These things needed to be said. If anyone can do something about them is another story.
He was addressing concerns that are those of the blue collar America (and, apparently, not NYT readership). Jobs, illegal immigration, Chinese theft of intellectual property, European terrorism perpetrated by unvetted immigrants, the appalling violence in the inner cities that is ignored by racialist agitators. These things needed to be said. If anyone can do something about them is another story.
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A coworker had a one sentence summary of the 73 minute acceptance speech last night. I thought it was perfect.
It’s midnight in America…AND YOU ARE ALL GOING TO DIE UNLESS YOU ELECT ME NOW!
It’s midnight in America…AND YOU ARE ALL GOING TO DIE UNLESS YOU ELECT ME NOW!
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Hillary is not perfect. But she is incredibly smart, caring, and will make a great president. Donald Trump is a fraud. See him for what he is. For the sake of our country, I urge you to support HRC.
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The Republican party has now been re-branded as the party of "TRUMP". If the Republican party was re-branded in the 1960s as the party of the "Southern Strategy", we all should have seen this coming years ago.
This entire process is a microcosm of what the entire Republican party wants to do with the United States. They wish for the country to be taken over by a private corporation.
This entire process is a microcosm of what the entire Republican party wants to do with the United States. They wish for the country to be taken over by a private corporation.
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So the next move is for Trump to find God. Although I suspect he looks in the mirror everyday and says hello to him.
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this guy does NOT speak for me!!
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I am not comfortable with all the screen time Judy Giuliani is getting. #ominous
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The fact that ,according to 8 separate Gallup polls over the last 27 years , 45% of US adults believe that the earth is less than 10,000 years ld & that evolution didn`t happen does not auger well for the trashing that Trump deserves in the November election.
Unfortunately the wrong candidate "won" the Debbie (AIPAC) Wasserman Shultz primary. Only Bernie is/has been trustworthy as a majority of citizens know. She may not be the Lesser of two Evils if she fulfills her many promises to AIPAC which include disrupting the P5+1 Iran nuclear agreement leading to another US war for Israel`s benefit. This time with Iran.
I wish my US friends good luck in he future. It appears that you will be needing it.
Unfortunately the wrong candidate "won" the Debbie (AIPAC) Wasserman Shultz primary. Only Bernie is/has been trustworthy as a majority of citizens know. She may not be the Lesser of two Evils if she fulfills her many promises to AIPAC which include disrupting the P5+1 Iran nuclear agreement leading to another US war for Israel`s benefit. This time with Iran.
I wish my US friends good luck in he future. It appears that you will be needing it.
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When Trump tells the truth and exposes what Obama has been doing and Hillary plans to do they are immediately attacked with headlines like "His Tone Dark, Donald Trump Take G.O.P. Mantle.
According to the polls at least half the country knows the truth despite the biased liberal media reporting.
According to the polls at least half the country knows the truth despite the biased liberal media reporting.
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"A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
The line (from William Shakespeare's Macbeth) used in another context, seems, to me, applicable in this case!
The line (from William Shakespeare's Macbeth) used in another context, seems, to me, applicable in this case!
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Il Duce has arisen!
Once again, the chief demagogue of the 7th Circle of Hell is upon the land.
Believe me, it's fabulous, when I say so. How? Who cares. I'll fix everything and any thing, now and forever. No need to fret or worry just believe in me and all good things will happen. All we have to do is vanquish that Benghazi Valkyrie of a crippled, private server, democratic government.
Once again, the chief demagogue of the 7th Circle of Hell is upon the land.
Believe me, it's fabulous, when I say so. How? Who cares. I'll fix everything and any thing, now and forever. No need to fret or worry just believe in me and all good things will happen. All we have to do is vanquish that Benghazi Valkyrie of a crippled, private server, democratic government.
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Sham editorial garbage. His tone was anything but dark. He explained our countries challenges and did it point blank. If that's "dark" to you... you might want to go find a safe space somewhere with puppies and cupcakes and leave the governing of a nation to those of us who are emotionally mature.
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If telling the truth, as Trump did in his acceptance speech last night, is a "dark tone", it stands to reason that the American people would be well served to elect new leaders, like Trump, who have the courage to face the truth, the integrity to tell the truth, and the ability to solve the problems, rather than lying and hiding from the truth the way Hillary does.
Based on the results of the post-speech polls and focus groups, Mr. Trump's powerful truth-telling speech was a big winner for him and the GOP.
Based on the results of the post-speech polls and focus groups, Mr. Trump's powerful truth-telling speech was a big winner for him and the GOP.
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No, Gov. Herbert! You will not be voting for Pence. You are voting for Trump and Pence is coming along, stuck outside of the package. You are just being a mainstream Republican who is endorsing but not endorsing Trump. Don't try to kid yourself or us for that matter.
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The choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is largely a choice between a candidate who promises to enforce laws passed by Congress and a candidate who promises to ensure laws passed by Congress are not enforced unless she agrees with them. Trump promises to enforce the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, which President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1996. This act, which passed with huge bi-partisan majorities in both houses, calls for the deportation of unauthorized immigrants and a crackdown on employers who hire them. Clinton promises to issue executive orders to shield illegal immigrants from deportation and has promise to stop ICE raids altogether. But it’s a constitutional issue, not just an immigration issue. The Constitution tasks president to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." While I prefer Hillary to Donald on most issues, I’m hesitant to vote for a candidate who plans to rule by executive order. Isn’t this the path toward dictatorship? What if a president issued an executive order denying asylum to all migrants who enter the country illegally?
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Case, Trump has never promised anything about the Constitution except to subvert it with a religious restriction on immigration, legalizing torture, and collateral punishment for the relatives of terrorists. Trump hates the Constitution and doesn't understand government. Don't delude yourself, you're too smart to support the fascist Trump.
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Donald Trump hasn't proposed a religious ban. He has proposed a temporarily suspension of travel from Muslim countries known for exporting terrorists until the Homeland Security Department can improve its methods of determining which travelers pose a threat. U.S. Code § 1182 (Inadmissible Aliens) states: “Whenever the president finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.” If terror attacks that have cost thousands of Americans their lives doesn’t justify a temporary suspension, what would?
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If I culd sum up DT and his speech in one word.
VOTE
VOTE
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trump will not release his tax returns, not only to show he pays no real taxes, but he gives no money to charity
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The GOP spent the last eight years trying to run down the USA in all of their comments and many of their actions. So this is what we get - Trump - whose appeal to the country is even more negativity, more fear, more mistrust, more hatred. How did we get to this point? Forget the party of Lincoln - the GOP transferred that legacy to the Democrats decades ago when they embraced the Southern strategy. Could the present-day GOP build the interstate highway system? Not a chance. Could the present-day GOP agree to a positive environmental agenda or Title lX? Not a chance. Could the present-day GOP attempt (even badly) to improve our nation's educational system? Not a chance. Could the present-day GOP attempt even to follow their own playbook to reach out to people of color to secure political power? Not a chance.
How did we get to this point? Why is the GOP the place where hope goes to die?
How did we get to this point? Why is the GOP the place where hope goes to die?
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Just a thought...
I was taught that a man should remove his hat in a building. What's up with the Texans. Again. Absurd, as usual.
Those hats are designed to shade the wearer, and now are used as ersatz boasts.
The day glow green caps didn't slip by me either. Or the curly earpieces in the wearers' heads.
I'm sure the scene will be similar next week; I'm just saying.
I was taught that a man should remove his hat in a building. What's up with the Texans. Again. Absurd, as usual.
Those hats are designed to shade the wearer, and now are used as ersatz boasts.
The day glow green caps didn't slip by me either. Or the curly earpieces in the wearers' heads.
I'm sure the scene will be similar next week; I'm just saying.
I will never understand if his supporters believe that he is going to be our national savior. How can I believe that he will be the defender of little people after we know his doggy business such as Trump University. Is he qualified to restore law and order? How can he be qualified to do that after what he said and done regarding Hispanics and African Americans and after what he did in his businesses. Is he going to be able to make America great again? Did he or his party ever mention about how he is going to achieve that promise? He didnt. What we could learn from his primaries and convention were only simple short meaningless statements 'I will win for you", "I will fight for you"... A sensible person wont buy those promises.
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The press has been MIA with respect to pressing Mr. Trump on details. Do they have the chutzpah to ask him the following questions:
1) What should the US do about climate change in the next four years? If you favor no action what facts or events if any would change your mind?
2) How should the United States prepare for the next infectious disease epidemic?
3) What do you propose as a Federal minimum wage, or do you suggest abolishing it?
4) Do you favor a minimum tax rate on incomes over $1 million per year? What would the rate be?
5) Without disclosing any other details of your tax returns, will you tell the American people: (a) The sum of your charitable deductions for each of the past five years, and the names of the organizations that received the money?
(b) The total amount of income tax you paid for each of the past five years?
6) Do you think that public school teachers are overpaid?
7) Do you advocate the elimination of environmental protection regulations? Which ones specifically?
8) Do you recommend changing the budget for the National Institutes of Health? In what way?
9) Do you support any restrictions whatsoever on the private ownership of weapons? Do you support open carry of firearms in schools and hospitals?
1) What should the US do about climate change in the next four years? If you favor no action what facts or events if any would change your mind?
2) How should the United States prepare for the next infectious disease epidemic?
3) What do you propose as a Federal minimum wage, or do you suggest abolishing it?
4) Do you favor a minimum tax rate on incomes over $1 million per year? What would the rate be?
5) Without disclosing any other details of your tax returns, will you tell the American people: (a) The sum of your charitable deductions for each of the past five years, and the names of the organizations that received the money?
(b) The total amount of income tax you paid for each of the past five years?
6) Do you think that public school teachers are overpaid?
7) Do you advocate the elimination of environmental protection regulations? Which ones specifically?
8) Do you recommend changing the budget for the National Institutes of Health? In what way?
9) Do you support any restrictions whatsoever on the private ownership of weapons? Do you support open carry of firearms in schools and hospitals?
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I find it incomprehensible that the NYT is spinning Trump to look good to the world with its yuuuuge handsome photo of him and yuuuuge, positive-in-tone, top-of-the-digital-fold headline in all caps, "TRUMP PLEDGES ORDER AND SAYS: ‘I AM YOUR VOICE’ and fear they are drowning out rational voices such as Patrick Healy's and Jonathon Martin's of this article.
Isn't his little friend (potential vice-president) a creationist? This alone is all the information you need about Trump and his phonies.
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There isn't a Republican candidate for any office that isn't a Chick Little. The irony is that we find ourselves in the difficulties that we are in because of Republican policies. If we are on the wrong track in this country it is because we have obstructionist running the House and residing in the Senate. Time to get rid of all Republican office holders; they are the root of the problem.
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Trump, if elected will be happy to stop campaigning and get back to what's important to him -- running his resorts, maximizing his profits and playing golf -- while de facto President Pense is put in charge of domestic and foreign policy.
Take a good look at Pense' record and see if that's what you want.
Take a good look at Pense' record and see if that's what you want.
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The question that this election will answer is, "how angry are you and at whom?" In recollecting Obama's first campaign, Republicans decried his doom-and-gloom speechifying; Trump's speech went beyond doom-and-gloom, portending a Mad Max-type of world. Thinking of recent successfully-elected Presidents, from Reagan to Obama, they all struck a tone of hope and conciliation (pointed out by the excellent NY Times Live Stream last night). Trump is not just feeding off of anger and hopelessness, he's tapping right into its vein. But maybe this extreme departure that's never really been seen before might get him the Presidency. So how angry are you?
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The NY Times did a fact check and found everything Donald said last night was essentially true. Wonder if they'll be able to say the same after Hillary's speech.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/us/politics/donald-trump-fact-check.ht...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/us/politics/donald-trump-fact-check.ht...
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The real question we face in this election is whether the amoral and delusional forces of Hillary--and her supporters--will triumph over the "dark" forces of The Donald and his "Make America Great Again" thesis.
If Hillary wins, no question it will be the triumph of her will that takes her to the White House and not the ethics of her recent past.
If Hillary wins, no question it will be the triumph of her will that takes her to the White House and not the ethics of her recent past.
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Fear and rage seem to be the only emotions Republicans have. Whip up fear and rage, and the masses with their pitchforks will jump on the bandwagon.
Do we really have to do this? Do we really have to go over the cliff for people to understand (again) how this approach never works? This isn't like Nixon. It's ilke Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini. According to the NYTimes, Trump will hand the real work to Pence and himself just occupy the White House and fly around being a celebrity. How is it that a section of the American populace has drunk the KoolAid? I do not want to be ruled by racist, misogynist bigots with something to prove. I want sanity, measured approaches to the complex problems of our world. I don't believe in saviors. I believe in cooperation and hard work.
I view Trump supporters as people who have gone mad, lost touch with the reality of being human in a human world. If we live through this, we will be holding all of you responsible. Unfortunately, none of you seem to be responsible types, preferring shouting to solution, and never ever being courageous enough to apologize. You're the same people who brought us the Iraq war, who brought us the subprime mortgage disaster that brought the world's economy to its knees. You are not leaders. You seek someone loud and bullying to follow, as though that demonstrated strength. I would feel sorry for you but you are poised to destroy us all. The whole display makes me feel ill.
Do we really have to do this? Do we really have to go over the cliff for people to understand (again) how this approach never works? This isn't like Nixon. It's ilke Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini. According to the NYTimes, Trump will hand the real work to Pence and himself just occupy the White House and fly around being a celebrity. How is it that a section of the American populace has drunk the KoolAid? I do not want to be ruled by racist, misogynist bigots with something to prove. I want sanity, measured approaches to the complex problems of our world. I don't believe in saviors. I believe in cooperation and hard work.
I view Trump supporters as people who have gone mad, lost touch with the reality of being human in a human world. If we live through this, we will be holding all of you responsible. Unfortunately, none of you seem to be responsible types, preferring shouting to solution, and never ever being courageous enough to apologize. You're the same people who brought us the Iraq war, who brought us the subprime mortgage disaster that brought the world's economy to its knees. You are not leaders. You seek someone loud and bullying to follow, as though that demonstrated strength. I would feel sorry for you but you are poised to destroy us all. The whole display makes me feel ill.
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Just because Trump says it's true does not make it so.
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In the country of Washington, Hamilton, Tubman, Lincoln, FDR, and King, Trump tried to sell the country a stew of the vilest paranoia and hatred. With the verve of a tin-pot dictator, he shouted for an ominous hour, lacing his spell with code phrases - the isolationists' "America First" was most chilling, following by Nixon's "Law and Order" - that evoked what I had thought were far darker and more dangerous times. In a nation of gloriously free speech, he encouraged the populace to be silent, shrieking "I am your voice."
Will we defeat this would-be strongman and the throngs that appear to be falling into lockstep behind him? Or will the minorities among us - Blacks, Latinos, Jews, LGBTQ, add your own - have to consider fleeing for safer shores?
Will we defeat this would-be strongman and the throngs that appear to be falling into lockstep behind him? Or will the minorities among us - Blacks, Latinos, Jews, LGBTQ, add your own - have to consider fleeing for safer shores?
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And he only added the Law and Order line in the last couple of weeks. He had not spoken about domestic crime until the police were killed. Then suddenly he is the Law and Order candidate!
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To continually portray Trump as the "rare political outsider" is preposterous. But that the remaining vestiges of the republican party think he's a viable candidate says it all in the realm of absurdity. It's a party that is as incoherent as it is incomprehensible.
He is the voice of no one...but Donald Trump. And he wants to be elected. That's it.
To quote (and paraphrase) the movie The American President:
"We have serious problems to solve and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you (Donald Trump) is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections. You gather a group of middle age, middle class, middle income (white) voters who remember with longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family, and American values and character, and you wave an old photo of (Hilary Clinton) and you scream about patriotism. You tell them she's to blame for their lot in life."
That, aside from the paraphrasing, was some great writing by Aaron Sorkin.
Trump is in every way unfit for office. While we most definitely need a change, we need a change for the better, not a disaster. It will be slow going. And starts with a change in congress. You don't need a hurricane to rebuild a town.
Please vote...to send this blowhard back to his penthouse.
He is the voice of no one...but Donald Trump. And he wants to be elected. That's it.
To quote (and paraphrase) the movie The American President:
"We have serious problems to solve and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you (Donald Trump) is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections. You gather a group of middle age, middle class, middle income (white) voters who remember with longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family, and American values and character, and you wave an old photo of (Hilary Clinton) and you scream about patriotism. You tell them she's to blame for their lot in life."
That, aside from the paraphrasing, was some great writing by Aaron Sorkin.
Trump is in every way unfit for office. While we most definitely need a change, we need a change for the better, not a disaster. It will be slow going. And starts with a change in congress. You don't need a hurricane to rebuild a town.
Please vote...to send this blowhard back to his penthouse.
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Hey Donald Trump and the rest of your merry band of brown shirts the year is 2016 not 1932. The place is the United States of America, not depression era Germany. Keep your voice confined to your own brilliant internal monologues.
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It's not too late for the Democrats to beat trump - Nominate Bernie. Clinton is too calculating, dishonest, unmotivating and right wing to win the election.
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Stop already, Bernie is out!
You're not my voice, Donald.
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The LGBT community faces more persecution from American Evangelical Ideology than it does the foreign kind.
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I watched Trump the con-man for about 60 seconds last night. That was enough. Pompous bluster. Who knows what he will actually do...he certainly doesn't. "Make America Great Again" means...make Trump President....nothing else is necessary. He really....really doesn't have to do anything...just being President will symbolically make America great again in his eyes and the eyes of his supporters. That's all they want...the appearance of being in charge. Anyone who believes Trump will actually accomplish anything of value is a fool.
The dark tone that Trump used is very appropriate. If he is elected...he could well plunge the world into recession/depression. He could end NATO. He could create a very dim future for the planet with his denial of man made climate change. This is the hottest year on record for the planet....but I expect everything to get much hotter under a Trump presidency.
And the funny part is...Trump = Palin on steroids. Palin only wanted the title...she didn't want to actually do the job. Trump doesn't want to do the job either...he just wants to bluster. Let the peons do the job....whomever that would be. And if the convention was any indication...Trump's peons are as clueless as he is.
The dark tone that Trump used is very appropriate. If he is elected...he could well plunge the world into recession/depression. He could end NATO. He could create a very dim future for the planet with his denial of man made climate change. This is the hottest year on record for the planet....but I expect everything to get much hotter under a Trump presidency.
And the funny part is...Trump = Palin on steroids. Palin only wanted the title...she didn't want to actually do the job. Trump doesn't want to do the job either...he just wants to bluster. Let the peons do the job....whomever that would be. And if the convention was any indication...Trump's peons are as clueless as he is.
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Does he really not know that the domain of the Secretary of State is international relations, not national affairs?
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Based on his past statements, there really isn't a GOOD answer to your question.
If he doesn't know, shame on him.
If he does know, shame on his party.
If he doesn't know, shame on him.
If he does know, shame on his party.
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He's ignorant about all aspects of government.
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No, Evan. Trump knows. The problem is that Hillary didn't...
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Did I miss the part when Trump revealed the findings of his Detectives in HI investigating the POTUS birthrights?
Or is he saving them for his Concession Speech?
Or is he saving them for his Concession Speech?
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As far as Trump's children speaking to help "round out" his profile as an allegedly great father and human: Why should we give his Barbie and Ken clones any credence? They are pawns to try to plaster over his display of brashly rough ego.
In another report, there is a comment about how his kids allegedly played with Legos and Erector sets at the foot of his desk while he worked in concrete and steel. Really? I'd have to see an undoctored photo of that to believe it. I simply cannot picture those toys scattered around his palatial trappings, and no nanny to contain the rugrats.
In another report, there is a comment about how his kids allegedly played with Legos and Erector sets at the foot of his desk while he worked in concrete and steel. Really? I'd have to see an undoctored photo of that to believe it. I simply cannot picture those toys scattered around his palatial trappings, and no nanny to contain the rugrats.
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Can't resist? Let's see if you are as scrutinizing with the presumptive queen next week...
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"I alone can do it."
Sounds Hitleresque.
Sounds Hitleresque.
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Yes, the last politician to shout nearly all of his speeches was Adolph Hitler. He was also the last to claim that HE alone would rescue the helpless German people without explaining HOW.
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A terrific speech. As an independent non-white, non-black citizen, I was so impressed and convinced - I think this focus on America first resonates.
The left-wing multi-cultural, open borders, every-problem-is-because-of-America, racially divisive crowd will emerge with cries of fascism, racism, and anti-poor illegals. And they will post this in the NYT. And the NYT will publish an article on this in an attempt to discredit Trump and his supporters.
The left-wing multi-cultural, open borders, every-problem-is-because-of-America, racially divisive crowd will emerge with cries of fascism, racism, and anti-poor illegals. And they will post this in the NYT. And the NYT will publish an article on this in an attempt to discredit Trump and his supporters.
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Trump doesn't need to be discredited. He just needs to speak.
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In FDR's first inaugural he said "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Quite obviously, Trump sees things differently. He has taken fear mongering to a new level. You would think that he is saying that we should be afraid of everything; he would have us be a nation of pluralistic paranoia.
History is replete with fascist, demagogic tyrants who used fear mongering and scapegoating to acquire power. We do not want that in America.
Trump does not state how he will cure all these ills that he has mostly conjured. He just says 'trust me." You should never trust anyone who says "trust me." That's the person who knows that they are untrustworthy and that what they are saying does not stand up to rational analysis. But that's Trump.
Here is the truth. The only thing we have to fear is Donald J. Trump. Of him we should be very afraid.
History is replete with fascist, demagogic tyrants who used fear mongering and scapegoating to acquire power. We do not want that in America.
Trump does not state how he will cure all these ills that he has mostly conjured. He just says 'trust me." You should never trust anyone who says "trust me." That's the person who knows that they are untrustworthy and that what they are saying does not stand up to rational analysis. But that's Trump.
Here is the truth. The only thing we have to fear is Donald J. Trump. Of him we should be very afraid.
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Reminiscent of Jimmy Carter's Malaise speech. We can hope for the same result. He lost.
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Sorry but the only alarm bells that go off when I read reader's comments is how busy they are proving their intellect by bashing Trump without seeing the real picture. Y'all fail to realize no matter what he says, he's now the number one candidate to win in November.
HRC will be on her heels because she's offensive when she goes on the attack. As a life-long Democrat, I certainly don't want a Trump presidency. As a mid-westerner by birth, I see the real threat. Wake up Democrats - HC is as reviled at DJT and he's better at whipping up votes. Stop trying to tear him down (we've seen how well that works) and figure out how to fix HC and the DNC before it's too late. You flubbed it when the super delegates gifted the nomination to HC over Bernie so now you better find a quick fix.
HRC will be on her heels because she's offensive when she goes on the attack. As a life-long Democrat, I certainly don't want a Trump presidency. As a mid-westerner by birth, I see the real threat. Wake up Democrats - HC is as reviled at DJT and he's better at whipping up votes. Stop trying to tear him down (we've seen how well that works) and figure out how to fix HC and the DNC before it's too late. You flubbed it when the super delegates gifted the nomination to HC over Bernie so now you better find a quick fix.
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Um, HC got more primary votes than Bernie. The same Bernie who now supports and endorses her.
Hillary, whatever her faults, is light years better than Trump.
Hillary, whatever her faults, is light years better than Trump.
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The mathematical odds of Trump winning are only one in three. Bombast and bluster without substance do not appeal to most.
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He made America sound like Mogadishu 2005.
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All empires eventually crumble. The United States is falling in line.
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So finally the Republican fighting festival is over. The superman, Donald Trump and his family team won all the crazy medals. The family played the major roll all 4 days and looks like they will play more important roll when the superman will occupy the White house. This unpolitical and un polite members will select almost all the office bearers making the best deal with them like his Dad. The superman will start dreaming for the deals with the several business leaders, political leaders, dictators and kings to fetch the highest price for the winner. And, then he will have plans to bankrupt others who did not bid or remained low bidders. His bidding war will start immediately. The entire family will be involved in personal business deals along with the deals for America for the best price; of course.
Now, the superman and his family will make the USA great by cutting rosy relations with the civilized nations, NATO nations and making better relations with the dictators, kings, autocrats, N. Korea and Russia too. His policy trademark will be to get maximum ransom from the friends and softer relations with the enemies around the globe.
Now, the superman and his family will make the USA great by cutting rosy relations with the civilized nations, NATO nations and making better relations with the dictators, kings, autocrats, N. Korea and Russia too. His policy trademark will be to get maximum ransom from the friends and softer relations with the enemies around the globe.
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Not my voice. If you think about it, Putin has rabid supporters. Kim Jong-un has loyal followers.
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Wow so deep.
Try to find a picture of a Donald Trump wearing a hard hat that isn't gold-plated and wasn't donned during this presidential campaign.
Good luck.
Good luck.
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Trump is a fringe candidate. This year more than ever I see that I am not a Republican but a Libertarian, the so called "fringe party".
Hey Dems, I know you are against guns, but if this guy gets elected, I would consider buying a couple of guns just incase somebody comes around asking why you have not pledged your loyalty to Trump.
Hey Dems, I know you are against guns, but if this guy gets elected, I would consider buying a couple of guns just incase somebody comes around asking why you have not pledged your loyalty to Trump.
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Anyone dumb enough to do that kind of work for Trump can't read a map. I feel pretty safe.
It was a solid speech.
Period.
Liberals here in Washington DC were freaking out because the speech was effective, reached the American people in very clear terms and really can't be refuted other than by calling Trump names.
Period.
Liberals here in Washington DC were freaking out because the speech was effective, reached the American people in very clear terms and really can't be refuted other than by calling Trump names.
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They call him vile names now, DC; next January, they'll be calling him Mr. President...
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Trump is the master; you are his servile puppy dog.
He's a master at name calling: lyin' Ted, ugly Heidi, low-energy JEB!, sweaty little Mario, etc. Do you like the name he calls Elizabeth Warren: Pocahontas? Insulting to the real woman and to Native American women and men today. Your master is an equal opportunity insulter.
His surrogates (aka servile puppy dogs) call people names, too. Lucifer?
He's a master at name calling: lyin' Ted, ugly Heidi, low-energy JEB!, sweaty little Mario, etc. Do you like the name he calls Elizabeth Warren: Pocahontas? Insulting to the real woman and to Native American women and men today. Your master is an equal opportunity insulter.
His surrogates (aka servile puppy dogs) call people names, too. Lucifer?
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The Trump family are formidable foes to those Americans who believe the American presidency is serious business. They offer a fantasy of wealth, beauty and excitement we can share for the next four years if we vote for their patriarch. They offer the delusion of a strong father who will make us all perfect children in an ideal world where problems are solved by sheer dominance and will. Like the salesman genius he is, Trump understands many Americans live virtually and vicariously in a fantasy reality show of celebrities and dreams, and he's providing one these folks apparently are feeling part of. Who wants more earnest, thoughtful, nuanced, sober adult leadership when you have the "Kardashian candidate"? Clinton has her work cut out for her, and each of us who sees this dangerous Trump train barreling down the track needs to get up and work to get out the votes to stop it.
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The GOP is changed. It's now the BNP (Brand New Party). Only time will tell if it's a "movement" or not.
The pundits have consistently been wrong in all their prognostications so far, so I am not inclined to start believing them now.
The pundits have consistently been wrong in all their prognostications so far, so I am not inclined to start believing them now.
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The GOTP hates government and America:
They support policies to lower wages and benefits to workers, while exalting the Rich and the profit making rights of big companies...
They obsessively work against any form of national healthcare system that would ever possibly benefit the common man...
They methodically dismantle much of America's already fragile Safet Net for the Poor and Disadvantaged...
They repress the rights of women as much as they possibly can...
They take Congress hostage for over five years, locking down the ability to work on the many overdue elements of the People's business...
They work hard to turn America into a divsive, dark country, with little of hope for those on the bottom of the ladder. For them, the few Rich Americans should have many more rights and entitlements than the rest of us...
Then, when the common man is locked out of a decent chance of a future, and is filled with rage and despair, they send up a demagogue who paints an even more divisive, bleak dystopian image of America - an new type of American Leader, a dictator who promises to fix all the things his party worked so hard to break in this country.
A bleak, dark future, with no hope, and only I can save you from the evil... This is how Hitler came to Power. This is how dictators emerge!
Who has controlled Congress? Who has obstructed and screamed "No!" for eight years? Who has hated government, and shut it down? The GOTP!
Trump and the GOTP are the Problem, not the Cure!
They support policies to lower wages and benefits to workers, while exalting the Rich and the profit making rights of big companies...
They obsessively work against any form of national healthcare system that would ever possibly benefit the common man...
They methodically dismantle much of America's already fragile Safet Net for the Poor and Disadvantaged...
They repress the rights of women as much as they possibly can...
They take Congress hostage for over five years, locking down the ability to work on the many overdue elements of the People's business...
They work hard to turn America into a divsive, dark country, with little of hope for those on the bottom of the ladder. For them, the few Rich Americans should have many more rights and entitlements than the rest of us...
Then, when the common man is locked out of a decent chance of a future, and is filled with rage and despair, they send up a demagogue who paints an even more divisive, bleak dystopian image of America - an new type of American Leader, a dictator who promises to fix all the things his party worked so hard to break in this country.
A bleak, dark future, with no hope, and only I can save you from the evil... This is how Hitler came to Power. This is how dictators emerge!
Who has controlled Congress? Who has obstructed and screamed "No!" for eight years? Who has hated government, and shut it down? The GOTP!
Trump and the GOTP are the Problem, not the Cure!
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Trump's speech reminded me of the old newsreels of Hitler yelling and ranting at rallies. Different time, different place, different targets of hatred, but still remarkably similar in tone.
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Donald Trump scares me. I hated his speech and kept asking how he plans on accomplishing solving the problem of crime, is he going to invoke martial law? How will he have power over local police departments? It is ridiculous. I thought Ivanka's speech was pretty good. I watched Donald in the fear that he will actually win this election, as frightening as I find that possibility. I was prepared to listen. If he had left out the fear mongering and stressed his strong suit, he is a businessman and not a politician, whatever you think about his business practices, he is different, I would have given him a chance. Tell us how he is going to reduce our national debt, to me that is a lot more scary than random acts of violence. His speech made me mad. It was like watching a high school pep rally spouting what he thinks people want to hear. Longer recess! And sadly it works. I hope and pray that it doesn't work with everyone.
Hilary is flawed. I would not choose either of these people for my president. But this is the choice we have. I am Republican but will vote for Hilary. My hope is that her presidency will emulate her husbands. He is ranked near the top ten is best presidents by many experts. Personally I can't stand him but as a president he was a success. I hope for the same result from HRC.
Hilary is flawed. I would not choose either of these people for my president. But this is the choice we have. I am Republican but will vote for Hilary. My hope is that her presidency will emulate her husbands. He is ranked near the top ten is best presidents by many experts. Personally I can't stand him but as a president he was a success. I hope for the same result from HRC.
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Watching this, I found myself thinking: Why are we in this handbasket and where are we going?
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I'm going to predict now that Trump will be elected. The two main reasons are:
1. The "liberal media" keep focusing the spotlight on Trump for good or ill. All people will see is him and his message. Since he promises everything to everyone, sooner or later a good portion of eligible voters will hear something that appeals to them and they will switch or align. And they will vote out of outrage and determination. Their anger will be their impetus to actually get up off their butts and vote.
2. Liberals will be lazy as usual and many will not vote out of inertia. By not voting, they will essentially vote for Trump. Every vote not cast is a vote for the The Donald.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
-Edmund Burke
1. The "liberal media" keep focusing the spotlight on Trump for good or ill. All people will see is him and his message. Since he promises everything to everyone, sooner or later a good portion of eligible voters will hear something that appeals to them and they will switch or align. And they will vote out of outrage and determination. Their anger will be their impetus to actually get up off their butts and vote.
2. Liberals will be lazy as usual and many will not vote out of inertia. By not voting, they will essentially vote for Trump. Every vote not cast is a vote for the The Donald.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
-Edmund Burke
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His tone is dark and foreboding but people will believe that message just as they have done throughout history.
Millions of people will vote for him even if it means authoritarian rule. His message last night is a preview of what is to come. While many claim that he was 'channeling' Richard Nixon on law and order, Trump makes Nixon look like a civil libertarian.
What should be troubling for a majority of Americans is that one political party is attempting to turn America into a place where fear dominates our political discourse.
Millions of people will vote for him even if it means authoritarian rule. His message last night is a preview of what is to come. While many claim that he was 'channeling' Richard Nixon on law and order, Trump makes Nixon look like a civil libertarian.
What should be troubling for a majority of Americans is that one political party is attempting to turn America into a place where fear dominates our political discourse.
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For everyone out there wondering after Trump's speech "How did the Republican Party end up like this?!" the answer is pretty simple; 20 years of over-the-top anger and empty-headidness from Fox News and especially the Rush Limbaugh clones on the radio. Nearly everything Donald Trump said in last night's speech (and all his past and future speeches to come) came from that scene. Sadly for our country it was only a matter of time till that hate filled ignorance became fully mainstream ideology.
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Maybe to the stalwart partisans Democrats this was a "dark tone" but it's reality.
Obama and his minions are living in a world that is a constructed safe space, a lie, full of warm and fuzzy talk, and devoid of any context of what is really happening in the world around.
The rest of us live in reality. The speech was good and relevant. I'm voting for him.
Obama and his minions are living in a world that is a constructed safe space, a lie, full of warm and fuzzy talk, and devoid of any context of what is really happening in the world around.
The rest of us live in reality. The speech was good and relevant. I'm voting for him.
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It is not just Trump I worry about. I worry about America, that a person like Trump could be even nominated
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Finally, it's over I hear. Luckily, there were other much more satisfying shows to see on TV, because I could never stomach even one second of that mangy Republican Convention in Cleveland. Though the thing that worries me is that the American people, in their infinite wisdom, may just elect this bad specimen of human being.
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Trump is full of himself. I hope and pray I will not have to live in the America depicted last evening in his long drawn out speech, with him "alone" fixing it. The GOP ticket is scarily un-American in the themes it espouses.
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I'd rather not listen too intently to his speech because I'm afraid he is going to convince me despite my dislike for the guy. I'm a registered democrat who cast his vote for Bernie in the primaries ...
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I'm voting for HRC, because I believe she is the most qualified candidate that will be on the ballot. But I just got a robo call from Donald Trump yelling, and I do mean yelling, that he is going to save us. I listened all the way to the end in hopes of getting an "unsubscribe" option. He begged for money twice, then said press 9 to unsubscribe. Then it immediately disconnected.
Deception to the core!!!!!
Deception to the core!!!!!
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What a nightmare! Is ther no single,sane republican in a country of 300 million people?
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The lieutenant governor in Vermont is a pretty nice guy. He's not a Trump supporter or a climate change denier. I don't agree with him on some things but he easily won here in Vermont because he is well liked and respected.
I think his youngest, Baron, knows something about daddy that we've all come to know.
Just look at his face in the main photo for this article.
Does that look like a Trump fan?
Just look at his face in the main photo for this article.
Does that look like a Trump fan?
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Dear Media,
Please stop normalizing his candidacy. You are doing a huge disservice to this country and, frankly, the world.
Please stop normalizing his candidacy. You are doing a huge disservice to this country and, frankly, the world.
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To be clear from the outset, I'm voting for Hillary and I have two signs for her at my place. I do think she's more steady than he. Having said that, Donald Trump **delivered** his speech superbly -- let me repeat -- his **delivery** was superb, in its emphasis, energy, enthusiasm, and absence of what we all know to be Trump's wild, jazz-like stream of consciousness. I personally dont agree with the content -- but I can see how middle-of-the-road undecideds might be intrigued enough having listened to this speech of his lifetime. It just means that this will be a close race after all -- unless Trump returns to that political jazz that I don't think middle of the road moderates like.
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“I have a message to every last person threatening the peace on our streets and the safety of our police: When I take the oath of office next year, I will restore law and order to our country.”
So what does that mean? The National Guard will be called out in full force in every major city in the country?
I used to think living through the '60s was the scariest time of my life with the assassinations of the Kennedys and MLK coupled with the Kent State shootings and all of the riots and unrest in Chicago, LA and NY. But after watching last night's scream and terror and anger fest by Candidate Trump, I'm believe he has finally crossed a line and rekindled those same fears in my heart. There's passion and then there's paranoia. The hostile tone and anger he evoked last night reminds me of another delusional individual from the 1930s. He is dangerous.
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So Donald Trump reflects the Republican's face in America. A snarling face, contorted by half truths and vengeance, a face that picks facts to suit an ambitious goal to control, and to gain his father's approval. His courtesy to the evangelicals to get their vote while supporting the National Rifle Association is a toxic formula for guns and violence... reflective of Middle East hatred. And blaming Hillary for everything shows his simple minded ignorance of complex issues that could replace our Golden Age of Democracy with destructive war, famine, disease, and death using modern technology as global climate warms. Is this America's future?
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Trump sounded like a wartime President because we are at war with a country called the Islamic State.
The Islamic STATE is a STATE. Complete with a capital, territory the size of Greece, taxation in the billions, courts, and an army. That state has declared war on the USA, specifically saying that it will strike NYC and DC. It has released videos showing a suicide bomber strap on his belt for denotation in Times Square.
Obama and Clinton have had their heads in the sand for the last few years, and we are now reaping the consequences: Orlando, Nice, Paris, Charlie Hebdo, Brussels, etc.
Wake up. We are at war. Trump not only recognizes it, he is going to defeat it.
The Islamic STATE is a STATE. Complete with a capital, territory the size of Greece, taxation in the billions, courts, and an army. That state has declared war on the USA, specifically saying that it will strike NYC and DC. It has released videos showing a suicide bomber strap on his belt for denotation in Times Square.
Obama and Clinton have had their heads in the sand for the last few years, and we are now reaping the consequences: Orlando, Nice, Paris, Charlie Hebdo, Brussels, etc.
Wake up. We are at war. Trump not only recognizes it, he is going to defeat it.
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Keep lying to sell fear, exactly what's expected of thoughtless Trump supporters.
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You might want to check the number of terrorists that been killed by President Obama's administration.
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In what world does blustering, bragging, threatening, but with-no-substance rhetoric defeat terrorists and win wars? Explain please.
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Hey Trump, enough of your hate filled, grandiose speeches about what you'll do with no details as to how you'll do it. Where are your tax returns??!!!
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It's weird. We seem to have several political Americas. The dark, discouraged, xenophobic, combative Trump world. The less dark, but still discouraged Bernie world. The serious but generally upbeat Obama world. The "what happened to our party?" Bush-Romney world.
And then there's Hillary. Who is going to show up next week? The vitriolic, conniving Hillary that so many seem to hate, the dedicated, experienced, steady but somewhat boring public servant, or some new version, maybe one who can inspire and unite?
And then there's Hillary. Who is going to show up next week? The vitriolic, conniving Hillary that so many seem to hate, the dedicated, experienced, steady but somewhat boring public servant, or some new version, maybe one who can inspire and unite?
"The only thing we have is Fear itself."
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Wow! Never imagined that our nation would observe live the operational example of Nietzsche's frightening "Will to Power" as the highlight of a once proud political party, the party of Lincoln and Ted Roosevelt, the originator of the progressive movement. Nietzsche recall was the proponent of the superman who justified, even glorified the emergence of such a personage as the authorities strongman, who accrued to himself the authoritative repository of western civilization. [Hitler savored this interpretation of Nietzsche as the philosophical underpinning of Naziism]. Trump's campaign for the nomination reflected his "will to power" and his acceptance speech embraced moral accordance of his personal assumption of that role; however, to observe the GOP delegates loudly and repeatedly chant, "Yes we WILL!" Frightening!
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I could not care less who wins the election at this point; Trump might scare many, but I can say that there were only two Presidents who had any concern for black people in my lifetime: Nixon and Johnson.
At 70 years of age I have lived thru many scary presidencies.
I was so hopeful with President Obama, but I lost faith in him when he endorsed Hillary.
Senator Sanders was my only hope for a better President in my lifetime.
At 70 years of age I have lived thru many scary presidencies.
I was so hopeful with President Obama, but I lost faith in him when he endorsed Hillary.
Senator Sanders was my only hope for a better President in my lifetime.
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Saw this quote in a Daily Kos piece:;
From Hermann Goering, a leader of the Nazi Party: “. . . . . it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peace makers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
It seems to me that Trump and his speechwriters are deliberately copying the Nazi playbook-scare everyone to death with exaggerated threats and claim all our current leaders and his opponent are trying to appease the "enemies" and are traitors, and only he can provide safety. It mesmerized a population then and can do it again.
From Hermann Goering, a leader of the Nazi Party: “. . . . . it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peace makers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
It seems to me that Trump and his speechwriters are deliberately copying the Nazi playbook-scare everyone to death with exaggerated threats and claim all our current leaders and his opponent are trying to appease the "enemies" and are traitors, and only he can provide safety. It mesmerized a population then and can do it again.
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Trump is the modern-day “Music Man.” Remember Robert Preston in the 1960s musical? He arrives in River City with a trainload of traveling salesmen, dressed in a pinch-back suit, a panama hat, and carrying a bag full of con man tricks. He scans the local rubes and then lays his plans for the sale of the century. He picks a non-existent problem: “We’ve got Trouble right here in River City, with a capital T that rhymes with P that stands for Pool!” He of course is the only one who can fix things by selling the gullible townsfolk all the musical instruments for a boys band. His plan is to pocket the money and hop the next freight out of town, but the play has a happy ending. He falls in love with Marian the Librarian and stays to face the music. In Trump, America is not so lucky. If he gets elected, his bag of con man tricks will not help him solve the non-existent problems he has dreamed up for gullible voters, nor will they help solve the very real ones we also face. If Trump is elected, America is in for a very rough ride indeed.
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The pundits who claim that Trump missed an opportunity to humanize himself in this speech just don't get it. Trump doesn't play by the normal political rules, and he's been enormously successful in flouting them. He knows his audience. If Hillary continues to play by the rules I'm afraid she'll lose the election. She needs to be bold (while retaining her rationality and intelligence). And in case Trump is reading this comment: Donald, you're not and never will be my voice, because I'm not a racist, misogynistic blowhard!
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Trump only appeals to a certain segment of the population and that isn't changing.
Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manger said to the Huffington Post: “He (Trump) needs an experienced person to do the part of the job he doesn’t want to do. He sees himself more as the chairman of the board, than even the CEO, let alone the COO.”
Trump’s son Donald Jr. said to a Kasich adviser that his father’s vice president would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy. When the adviser asked, would Trump be in charge of?
“Making America great again” was the only response.
Yet Trump is the man that millions of Americans want as President, Commander-in-Chief of our nation. His candidacy is the greatest con game in human history.
Trump’s son Donald Jr. said to a Kasich adviser that his father’s vice president would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy. When the adviser asked, would Trump be in charge of?
“Making America great again” was the only response.
Yet Trump is the man that millions of Americans want as President, Commander-in-Chief of our nation. His candidacy is the greatest con game in human history.
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I am no big fan of Hillary Clinton, but she is not frightening. Trump is waging a campaign based on fear mongering, hatred and self-aggrandisement, and his methods and "ideas" call nothing to mind as much as Hitler's rise in Germany. It is a sorry time for this country when such a man is even being considered for the office of President. The NYT estimate that he has only a 24% chance of winning if of very little comfort.
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No, it's not just Trump that is dangerous. Let's call it as it is--the GOP has become more than a do-nothing band of obstructionists.
The GOP party is a very real and immediate threat to the future of this country. It's up to rational people who believe in a safe world for their children to vote this November and send all GOP candidates, both on a national and local level, packing.
Maybe, just maybe, they'll finally get the message that they've long left the rail of sanity.
The GOP party is a very real and immediate threat to the future of this country. It's up to rational people who believe in a safe world for their children to vote this November and send all GOP candidates, both on a national and local level, packing.
Maybe, just maybe, they'll finally get the message that they've long left the rail of sanity.
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I love reading my new times every day. They have their own biases as well. I am an atheist and a liberal and have been most of my life. I will vote for Donald Trump because he's tackling two major issues that matter to me and most Americans. Millions of illegal aliens who are competing for jobs that should be given to American citizens first. I have personally witnessed reversed discrimination by Mexicans favoring their own over competent and skilled people. I have no problem with legal immigration. The other issue that also matters to me is unfair trade that literally destroyed the middle class in America. Americans cannot compete with Third World countries where minimum wage is pennies. These are facts . we cannot water them down or blur them with intense useless emotions. I know for a fact to that I was City Hall in Denver favors illegal immigrants over US citizens. I've had enough of this nonsense. All I want is fair play and decency.
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Another person claiming to be liberal in order to try and convince real liberals to vote for a fraud. Not gonna happen.
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Is this a Fox News tip for trolls? Pretend you're a liberal before spewing right wing hate speech?
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Agree that Trump sounded like a megalomaniac. Very frightening convention.
Has anyone mentioned the "Yuuuge" "TRUMP" sign over the stage? Apparently, the convention is not about the United States, not about the Republican party .... it's all about TRUMP uber alles.
Also, I am struck by the first photo in the slide show. Here we have the Trump family in their couture clothing. And in the middle of this is (apparently) Mrs. Pence in her polka-dotted dress and pearls. She looks like a nice lady. How did she get mixed up in this mess? Maybe this is a warning for the rest of middle America.....
Has anyone mentioned the "Yuuuge" "TRUMP" sign over the stage? Apparently, the convention is not about the United States, not about the Republican party .... it's all about TRUMP uber alles.
Also, I am struck by the first photo in the slide show. Here we have the Trump family in their couture clothing. And in the middle of this is (apparently) Mrs. Pence in her polka-dotted dress and pearls. She looks like a nice lady. How did she get mixed up in this mess? Maybe this is a warning for the rest of middle America.....
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Q: What are we going to build?
A: A wall!
Q: Who's going to pay for it?
A: We are!
A: A wall!
Q: Who's going to pay for it?
A: We are!
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I don't know about you, but a billionaire authoritarian standing in front of an overly nationalist display shouting about how only he can save us from "the problem" of Islam and make us safe is terrifying.
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Trump isn't the first or last billionaire to view the rest of America, below Trump Tower, as a dark and foreboding place full of violent and revolutionary people. Revolutions are notoriously bad for billionaires. Trump is feeling threatened, as are many of the nation's richest individuals. Trump's vision, like the pre-revolutionary French aristocracy, is about asserting control or "law and order" over this threatening force.
Trump also claims to understand that this dark and forbidding America only needs jobs to distract them from violence and the hard edges of a capitalism incapable of growing. But, what will Trump do, if he is incapable of creating more jobs? What will Trump do if his medicine of reforming trade agreements falls flat or causes more pain?
Trump's fallback plan is simply asserting more control and "order" over the least fortunate, set to divisive racial music, with autocratic overtones, and this sounds even more dystopic than present day. If Trump fails to create jobs by reforming trade agreements, is he more likely to admit failure or violently blame others? When choosing presidents, we have to seriously consider what they will be like if/when they fail. I can't imagine a more dangerous temperament than Trump. I wouldn't want to be around him, or governed by him, on the way down.
Trump also claims to understand that this dark and forbidding America only needs jobs to distract them from violence and the hard edges of a capitalism incapable of growing. But, what will Trump do, if he is incapable of creating more jobs? What will Trump do if his medicine of reforming trade agreements falls flat or causes more pain?
Trump's fallback plan is simply asserting more control and "order" over the least fortunate, set to divisive racial music, with autocratic overtones, and this sounds even more dystopic than present day. If Trump fails to create jobs by reforming trade agreements, is he more likely to admit failure or violently blame others? When choosing presidents, we have to seriously consider what they will be like if/when they fail. I can't imagine a more dangerous temperament than Trump. I wouldn't want to be around him, or governed by him, on the way down.
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Lots of aftermath ranting this morning. But Trump is only a problem because the Democratic Party picked a poor candidate. If the Dems had put forward a candidate who voters felt could be trusted to remedy our nation's problems, none of this would be happening. We're stuck with poor choices on both sides.
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The party of emancipation and the national park system is no longer the party of Lincoln or the party of Teddy Roosevelt. It is now the fascist, racist, hateful, deceitful, anti-intellectual party of Trump. So sad.
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Aw come on, you're just too PC. (s/)
Robert O. Paxton defines "mobilizing passions" which propel fascism as follows:
1.The primacy of the group
2.The belief that one's group is a victim
3. Dread of the groups's decadence under the corrosive effect of individualistic and cosmopolitan liberalism
4. Closer integration of the community within a brotherhood
5. An enhanced sense of identity and belonging
6. Authority of natural leaders (always male) throughout society
7. The beauty of violence and of will
Many, if not all of these passions, were, at least covertly, on display in Cleveland these past few days. Can it be that the horrors of last century have been already forgotten?
http://w3.salemstate.edu/~cmauriello/pdfEuropean/Paxton_Five%20Stages%20...
1.The primacy of the group
2.The belief that one's group is a victim
3. Dread of the groups's decadence under the corrosive effect of individualistic and cosmopolitan liberalism
4. Closer integration of the community within a brotherhood
5. An enhanced sense of identity and belonging
6. Authority of natural leaders (always male) throughout society
7. The beauty of violence and of will
Many, if not all of these passions, were, at least covertly, on display in Cleveland these past few days. Can it be that the horrors of last century have been already forgotten?
http://w3.salemstate.edu/~cmauriello/pdfEuropean/Paxton_Five%20Stages%20...
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And what definition of fascism will be asserted at the Democrat convention? Will it involve rule by corrupt politicians in concert with big corporations and banks using paid for experts, bureaucrats and a corporate/establishment media? What about that fascism?
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Republicans love America... It's the American People they hate.
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One hour and forty minutes of yelling, slow motion yelling. If I were a high school speech coach, and one of my students gave a speech with delivery that was that halting, angry, and unmodulated, I'd tell them to check out the track team...after they saw a good therapist.
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Ivanka Trump balanced her father's dark authoritarian solutions to America's domestic and foreign problems. She embraces optimistic future while he promises to provide Americans safe harbor in bygone "Mad Man" era - an impossibility. America and the Democrats are lucky that her father did not select her or someone like her to be his Vice Presidential choice. Such a team would have made this election a real contest.
Ivanka lives in an ivory tower. She has never had to worry about child care, health care etc.
Should we build walls around our homes to keep out Trump's list of undesirables? Should I distrust my neighbors who might have a different color or religion than I? I say never! Pence says he has found Jesus. We all know that Jesus walked with and ate with the Republican Party's so called undesirables. As for a wall, with one glance Jesus could bring down any walls separating one person, one country, from another.We must defeat this ticket that sees the worst in all of us instead of the best. And finally, we are all immigrants. My ancestors were from Ireland. i have their blood in my veins. Where were yours from? Speak out for the immigrants that built America....
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"Americanism, NOT globalism will be my credo." A great line that should be delievered by the democratic nominee. The fact that it's impossible now for PC reasons, that a democratic nominess for president can not use that phrase, is tells you why Trump democrats are emerging.
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The problem and central theme of Trump's speech, the word "I'm", (where have we ever heard that before). Fortunately that is not the way our Democratic/Republic works. 2nd, be afraid, be very afraid. This will get the nations unreasonably obsessed scardie cats and paranoid gun hugging NRA under their beds or into the nearest gun store. And finally if you are not an under educated American white male but are female, people of some other color, or immigrant, be quiet, very quiet and/or get out.
The new "I'm" Trump America
The new "I'm" Trump America
If people want a taste of how Trump would govern America, business experience doesn't really translate well; the best indicator? This disastrously run Republican National Convention, as I write here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-trump-would-run-us-convention-disaste...
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I am an American and you DO NOT SPEAK FOR ME
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His words only sound dark and ominous to westerners who cling onto egalitarianism.
For me, it is boiletplate political speech. For the American right, it might be even be encouraging.
For me, it is boiletplate political speech. For the American right, it might be even be encouraging.
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So you're saying this was a great speech from a totalitarian tyrant. Thanks for the perspective.
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The GOP is now bankrupt . . . of all morals, ethics, compassion, dignity, decency, tolerance, intelligence & power. The GOP's little bully just declared 5th BANKRUPTCY!
Well done, Speaker Ryan. Your "VOICE" is now muted. Permanently.
Well done, Speaker Ryan. Your "VOICE" is now muted. Permanently.
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With his draconian acceptance speech, once again Trump reminded America that it is darkest before it all goes black. My oh my, what apocalyptic visions Trump presented to the nation. Are you fearful enough, America? A slogan he left out last night should have been, "Making America Afraid, Again".
Good God. Trump also told us in no uncertain terms that he and he alone could fix the "problems" facing America. Fear, ego, and threats, what more could one want in a president?
I am sure we can fix the problem Trump spoke of last night. In November I will casting my vote for Hillary to bring back a sense of sanity and a dose of reality to the world. Problem solved.
DD
Manhattan
Good God. Trump also told us in no uncertain terms that he and he alone could fix the "problems" facing America. Fear, ego, and threats, what more could one want in a president?
I am sure we can fix the problem Trump spoke of last night. In November I will casting my vote for Hillary to bring back a sense of sanity and a dose of reality to the world. Problem solved.
DD
Manhattan
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Through its support of Hillary in the primary, possibly crippling the Dems, the NYT is among the most consequential forces propelling Trump to the White House. I will give the Times 25 percent credit for his success, should he win. Drudge, about 50. Bernie, the remaining 25.
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Time for a new face.... is right
As a Vietnam Veteran who has seen it all with disgust, the demolition of our middle class to the social ethics of a snake, it's time for a new face and a way to destroy the plans of the One World Order people.
For it just doesn't work... the Europeans buried their countries in millions of people from their former colonies to placate their feeling of having abused them, only to see the seething masses in France and Germany now evolving to be their worst nightmares.
Brexit was just the beginning.... and a warning to the others, people are tired of the tired, huddling masses coming to their countries. Let them build their own countries up... the blueprints are there, don't seek to come destroy ours with your cultural non compliance, make your stand and take care of business.
As a Vietnam Veteran who has seen it all with disgust, the demolition of our middle class to the social ethics of a snake, it's time for a new face and a way to destroy the plans of the One World Order people.
For it just doesn't work... the Europeans buried their countries in millions of people from their former colonies to placate their feeling of having abused them, only to see the seething masses in France and Germany now evolving to be their worst nightmares.
Brexit was just the beginning.... and a warning to the others, people are tired of the tired, huddling masses coming to their countries. Let them build their own countries up... the blueprints are there, don't seek to come destroy ours with your cultural non compliance, make your stand and take care of business.
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You mean if you weren't a veteran, you wouldn't have seen it all....? I don't understand your comment at all, other than that you seem to think your veteran status gives you some special wisdom. I was a Vietnam Veteran as well, but I don't have "VFW" on my license tags.
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it doesn't really matter all that much whether Trump or Clinton is elected.
As long as there is a Congress that is bought and paid for by the wealthiest, little will happen.
The only choice is between Clinton's same old, same old lies and Trump's new lies.
As long as there is a Congress that is bought and paid for by the wealthiest, little will happen.
The only choice is between Clinton's same old, same old lies and Trump's new lies.
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Have you really forgotten about SCOTUS?
Combat and defeat the American fascist Donald J. Trump.
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"I AM YOUR VOICE" - The vote is my voice, and my voice says "NO WAY!"
And my vote trumps Trumps ridiculousness.
Mine and every other Constitution loving American.
And my vote trumps Trumps ridiculousness.
Mine and every other Constitution loving American.
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Mitch McConnell, and Ryan along with most of the GOP have been blaming Obama for everything while offering nothing other than obstruction to America for years.
And now all the GOP has to offer America is Trump.
Sickening.
And now all the GOP has to offer America is Trump.
Sickening.
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If Mr. Trump is my "voice," precisely to whom is he going to be speaking?
-Just asking.
-Just asking.
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It is not hard this morning to imagine Native Americans standing on the shoreline of what would become the United States, as the sails of immigrants approached their land, and hearing them say:
"I only want to admit individuals into our country who will support our values and love our people. Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in our country and never ever will be."
The immigration crises has finally reached it's peak with the Party of Trump.
"I only want to admit individuals into our country who will support our values and love our people. Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in our country and never ever will be."
The immigration crises has finally reached it's peak with the Party of Trump.
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The Times and many readers still don't get it. They did not and do not understand the Sanders campaign and they don't understand the forces that created last nights spectacle. And while I do not subscribe to Trump's picture of grim reality I and many informed and not so informed people understand that we stand at the precipice of a broken world, philosophically, economically, and most importantly because we can't undo the damage, environmentally.
Many well off Democrats live in a state of non reality congratulating themselves on the pleasant life styles they have created and are content with their symbols of good personhood. Contributions to the right causes, positive thinking, political correctness, and the soul destroying "don't be negative. A new car and european vacations keep them tied to the gravy train blind in their comfort while the millions lower on the economic ladder struggle. Neither party cares a wit when it comes to creating anything like economic justice for all the people. They have convinced themselves against all evidence that as a nation we are on a sustainable track when everywhere one looks we are not. Clinton and her followers believe our American institutions are going to sustain us in the next chapter of US and world history even as we receive wake up calls on every front daily. Last night bookmarked the beginning of our modern era. It is time to wake up America because this ain't no Chicken Little story.
Many well off Democrats live in a state of non reality congratulating themselves on the pleasant life styles they have created and are content with their symbols of good personhood. Contributions to the right causes, positive thinking, political correctness, and the soul destroying "don't be negative. A new car and european vacations keep them tied to the gravy train blind in their comfort while the millions lower on the economic ladder struggle. Neither party cares a wit when it comes to creating anything like economic justice for all the people. They have convinced themselves against all evidence that as a nation we are on a sustainable track when everywhere one looks we are not. Clinton and her followers believe our American institutions are going to sustain us in the next chapter of US and world history even as we receive wake up calls on every front daily. Last night bookmarked the beginning of our modern era. It is time to wake up America because this ain't no Chicken Little story.
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Right on the money and sounds like so many people I know in CT.
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th question remains will trump fix th broken world, or further reduce it to rubble
ive seen nothing in him that indicates he has a clue as to how to proceed, even if he were inclined to do so, which i believe he is not
you see, his world gold and marble and luxury isnt broken--
th rest of humanity's is
nothing in trumps past indicates any empathy for anyone
The Donald's plan? Wave a magic wand, and everything bad will be instantly good again. Believe him. He can do it. Particularly in the Middle East where he's promised to eradicate the scourge of ISIS fast! He'll have nuclear weapons in his arsenal. That'll get the job done lickety-split.
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I am Venezuelan and I am frightened by how much Trump reminds me of Hugo Chavez.
Like Trump, Chavez came in riding on a disgruntled and uneducated populace that was rightly angered by their lack of mobility. Like Trump, Chavez broke all sorts of protocols: he shouted, used sexual braggadocio, mercilessly went after his enemies and he was a narcissist with an overinflated ego. He was the antithesis of a statesman: a snake oil charmer that told you one thing and did another.
Once elected, he dismantled the very democracy that he had used to ride to the top. Piece by piece, he destroyed the various checks and balances in government and limited the free press. He fired public servants who did not agree with him. He enacted legislation that, unthinkably, weakened the other branches of government until they were HIS to use as he liked. He used the law to extend term limits from 6 years to 16+.
Worse than that, he divided the halves and the have-nots. His decisions ultimately drove a million people out of the country and led to the current situation. He was the proverbial fox guarding the hen house and not a true socialist like you have been fed to believe.
It was all one giant con.
Think it can't happen here? Go ahead and elect Trump. The man is a greatest threat to the US than any Muslim. Forget Hitler, this guy is on an ego trip we are all about to finance. I am scared for my adopted country.
Sadly.
Like Trump, Chavez came in riding on a disgruntled and uneducated populace that was rightly angered by their lack of mobility. Like Trump, Chavez broke all sorts of protocols: he shouted, used sexual braggadocio, mercilessly went after his enemies and he was a narcissist with an overinflated ego. He was the antithesis of a statesman: a snake oil charmer that told you one thing and did another.
Once elected, he dismantled the very democracy that he had used to ride to the top. Piece by piece, he destroyed the various checks and balances in government and limited the free press. He fired public servants who did not agree with him. He enacted legislation that, unthinkably, weakened the other branches of government until they were HIS to use as he liked. He used the law to extend term limits from 6 years to 16+.
Worse than that, he divided the halves and the have-nots. His decisions ultimately drove a million people out of the country and led to the current situation. He was the proverbial fox guarding the hen house and not a true socialist like you have been fed to believe.
It was all one giant con.
Think it can't happen here? Go ahead and elect Trump. The man is a greatest threat to the US than any Muslim. Forget Hitler, this guy is on an ego trip we are all about to finance. I am scared for my adopted country.
Sadly.
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Mr. T needs to get down from his tower from where evidently everything among the little folk looks grim.
But in my neighborhood people of all colors, ethnicities, religions and gender attractions live and work together in cooperation, even as we have differences and disagreements.
My America is not the resentful, fearful place Mr. T describes. Of course there are problems locally and globally, but we believe that our future is secure, that our kids' future will be better, that opportunities for all will improve.
My America is not angry and antagonistic, my America is positive and progressive.
But in my neighborhood people of all colors, ethnicities, religions and gender attractions live and work together in cooperation, even as we have differences and disagreements.
My America is not the resentful, fearful place Mr. T describes. Of course there are problems locally and globally, but we believe that our future is secure, that our kids' future will be better, that opportunities for all will improve.
My America is not angry and antagonistic, my America is positive and progressive.
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Behold the power of Television.
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To imagine what a Trump presidency would be like, one only has to look back a few years and recall what the Bush presidency was like. Some Americans have the attention span of a gnat.
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And most Americans vote like they're rooting for their favorite sports team - that's the bigger problem I believe.
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I miss Bernie Sanders...
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Third world countries have an effective way to deal with situations where an ignorant and volatile rabble places a dangerous demagogue in the presidential palace: military dictatorship. After a reasonable period of adjustment, duly elected representatives get back in the driver's seat. I wonder if the Joint Chiefs of Staff are up to the task.
Trump the angry con man. It's increasingly clear that the well-paid, and by the way union jobs, using physical labor, are not being exported--they're increasingly gone forever due to the microprocessor and software. Ever seen the non-human robotics in automotive plants perfectly welding? How often do you physically go to a bank these days? The "white collar" jobs in banking are disappearing: money is electronic, so who needs a bank teller? I've actually seen the mythically wonderful but in fact mind-numbing assembly jobs "exported" to the NAFTA factories on the Mexican side. Or the same in China. Trump is bringing back coal mining jobs? This is delusional. He and his cult are a con. These jobs are not coming "back" because they are gone. Trump is our Putin.
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I'm sure the speech would have sounded better in the original German. (apologies to Molly Ivins).
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I hope liberal America listened to this speech, which will go down in history as one of the greatest acceptance speeches of all time, because it was warning of what's to come.
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Wait a second, I thought Trump was talking about the America right now. You mean to say he was just predicting the future?
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That's funny. I listened to the speech and all I heard was messianic delusion and apocalyptic waffle. No policy proposals. No plans. Just a lot of hot air.
Trump's content-free talk appeals to his followers because they "hear" whatever they like. They just want to nuzzle in the arms of some fascist strongman who will make them feel safe.
Trump's content-free talk appeals to his followers because they "hear" whatever they like. They just want to nuzzle in the arms of some fascist strongman who will make them feel safe.
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It sure was, a warning of the fascist Trump regime that would destroy America.
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They wanted someone with a little class to write about Trump's speech, and Healy & Martin have as little class as anyone. Is it any surprise that NYT would write anything positive? The Gray Lady is in the last stages of dementia, but it won't stop it from from being negative toward anything that appears to make America exceptional, let alone anything positive about the convention. Oh, it was positive about Cruz's speech.
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Reminds me of the politician in the Python Mr Hilter skit who goes on and on and on and on until he starts foaming at the mouth and falls over backwards.
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There is a reason Trump loves the uneducated. Those folks are blissfully unaware that hundreds of years ago, one of our founding parents addressed Trump's issue as well as it ever has been addressed. Benny Franklin said, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Both Hitler and Mussolini came to power on exactly the same platform of restoring safety to their countries. We know just how well that worked out for the Germans and the Italians. The entire tone of the GOP convention... with the calls to "lock her up" and "put her against a wall and shoot her"... could just have been right out of Hitler and Mussolini rallies the 1930s. It is exactly the same mentality. Unless those of us who understand that Fascism always comes in with a smiling face, promising "order" and "security" and invariably turns to brutality get engaged in this campaign we are looking at a very dark future.
Both Hitler and Mussolini came to power on exactly the same platform of restoring safety to their countries. We know just how well that worked out for the Germans and the Italians. The entire tone of the GOP convention... with the calls to "lock her up" and "put her against a wall and shoot her"... could just have been right out of Hitler and Mussolini rallies the 1930s. It is exactly the same mentality. Unless those of us who understand that Fascism always comes in with a smiling face, promising "order" and "security" and invariably turns to brutality get engaged in this campaign we are looking at a very dark future.
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I'm a white guy with money in the bank and I'm scared. Can you imagine how Afro-Americans, Mexicans, Muslims feel. This disaster is far from over.
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Even to Hillary supporters it should be clear that the United States of America is far worse off following her service then before. While her claim to having more experience is true her record for failure is also true. That list is so well known it does not have to be repeated here. If you couple here record with her support of Obama's record of a poor economic policy, bad race relations and eroding internal and external security you see the complete package. Hopefully, enough voters will not lose focus of these things by what they see on the GOP side and recognize we simply cannot withstand another 8 years of the the same. My worst fear is that Hillary supports are so entrenched that even if she robbed a bank on national TV they would blame the bank.
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"My worst fear is that Hillary supports are so entrenched that even if she robbed a bank on national TV they would blame the bank"
Kind of like how Trump supporters completely overlook how he scammed thousands with his 'Trump U' and sues businesses instead of paying them for work done.
Kind of like how Trump supporters completely overlook how he scammed thousands with his 'Trump U' and sues businesses instead of paying them for work done.
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I pity America. Being asked to choose between the Trump and Clinton is like deciding whether you'd prefer to be stabbed or shot.
To the writers and editors of this article:
How could you write a synopsis of this horrible, misleading speech and not emphatically state that this would-be-demagogue OFFERED NO SOLUTIONS to the very dark scenario he lied about. Even if many statements were true, how could you not point out the plain fact that he hasn't, and likely won't offer details regarding his plans. To those paying attention the only solution this wanna-be dictator is offering sounds like martial law. Good luck to all of us if he comes anywhere near the Oval.
Of late I have often been disappointed by the "paper of record," but never more so than this morning.
How could you write a synopsis of this horrible, misleading speech and not emphatically state that this would-be-demagogue OFFERED NO SOLUTIONS to the very dark scenario he lied about. Even if many statements were true, how could you not point out the plain fact that he hasn't, and likely won't offer details regarding his plans. To those paying attention the only solution this wanna-be dictator is offering sounds like martial law. Good luck to all of us if he comes anywhere near the Oval.
Of late I have often been disappointed by the "paper of record," but never more so than this morning.
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`This is the dark moment the United States began it's march towards fascism.`
Actually, that began when every sporting event became a showcase for mandatory unfurling of field-sized flags and rushing out soldiers and sailors to stand at attention for a few moments of hero worship.
Fascism-Lite. Tasted great. More easily accommodated.
However, the ugly head of real capital F Fascism is being cast upon us as millions of Americans are willingly and enthusiastically embracing it.
This is scary indeed. If only they realized the potential consequences. If only they realized how insulting it is to the memory of every soldier and sailor who helped defeat Fascism and Imperialism 75 years ago.
Actually, that began when every sporting event became a showcase for mandatory unfurling of field-sized flags and rushing out soldiers and sailors to stand at attention for a few moments of hero worship.
Fascism-Lite. Tasted great. More easily accommodated.
However, the ugly head of real capital F Fascism is being cast upon us as millions of Americans are willingly and enthusiastically embracing it.
This is scary indeed. If only they realized the potential consequences. If only they realized how insulting it is to the memory of every soldier and sailor who helped defeat Fascism and Imperialism 75 years ago.
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Sir Donald is channeling his namesake, tilting at windmills a la Don Quixote; but, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing? Hardly. The benign Senor Don Q rode a burro, while the DT would sit astride a nuclear arsenal. I prefer leadership tethered to reality.
O boy! For the first time, I'm glad I don't live in the USA!
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ill bet some folks are wishing bernie sanders hadnt been shoved out of th running
i told you youd miss bernie
didnt think it would be this soon
i told you youd miss bernie
didnt think it would be this soon
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Trump delivered! It's amazing how the biased media including the once venerable NYT are trying to paint Trump's speech as a dark, somber and pessimistic account of the current state of affairs. But that is to be expected.
Yet, many Americans will see his speech as a recognition of the problems we face and the promise of a new way to get things DONE. A new leadership that will insist on results and real change for the betterment of ALL.
His characterization of Clinton's performance as SOTUS was precise and the outcome of her decisions are there for everyone to see. Hillary Clinton is one of the main architects of our disastrous foreign policy. During her tenure as SOTUS she accomplished NOTHING, except apologizing snd recruiting donations from around the world for the Clinton's foundation, which increased almost exponentially as she became SOTUS. Coincidence?
Maybe the system is so corrupt that she is indeed above the law. Lets face it, anyone else who treated secret and top secret information the way she did would indeed face criminal charges. Anyone who would lie and delete State Dept. emails, obstructing the investigation, would face criminal charges. But not Hillary. Was she naive or carelessly incompetent? Do we really want her to be our next President? We already know her record in government and it is pathetic. She is the face of Status Quo. Just like Cruz she is blinded by ambition. Trump cannot be bought and I believe he will fight for ALL Americans.
Yet, many Americans will see his speech as a recognition of the problems we face and the promise of a new way to get things DONE. A new leadership that will insist on results and real change for the betterment of ALL.
His characterization of Clinton's performance as SOTUS was precise and the outcome of her decisions are there for everyone to see. Hillary Clinton is one of the main architects of our disastrous foreign policy. During her tenure as SOTUS she accomplished NOTHING, except apologizing snd recruiting donations from around the world for the Clinton's foundation, which increased almost exponentially as she became SOTUS. Coincidence?
Maybe the system is so corrupt that she is indeed above the law. Lets face it, anyone else who treated secret and top secret information the way she did would indeed face criminal charges. Anyone who would lie and delete State Dept. emails, obstructing the investigation, would face criminal charges. But not Hillary. Was she naive or carelessly incompetent? Do we really want her to be our next President? We already know her record in government and it is pathetic. She is the face of Status Quo. Just like Cruz she is blinded by ambition. Trump cannot be bought and I believe he will fight for ALL Americans.
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All I can, if Hillary did half the stuff the Republicans accuse her of she is one powerful lady!
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In watching Trump's demeanor, particularly at the end of certain passages, the image of Benito Mussolini -- a person I've thought almost nothing about for many decades -- came almost immediately to mind. But I guess one has to be of some vintage to be so reminded.
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Anyone noticed that during his pauses Drumpf (real name) did his best Mussolini impression? Only it wasn't an impression.
At 70, he is a hate-filled, pompous, delusional man playing the last card in his diminishing deck -- the fame card -- to stave off financial ruin and personal humiliation. His handful of loyal supporters are scared, uneducated and morally bankrupt racists. The rest, who have barnacled themselves to this rusted, sinking, stinking ship are Clinton haters and political opportunist. (Need a job, Christie?)
Fortunately, we live in the home of the free and the brave. Looking forward to Clinton's acceptance speech, when she will point out that America IS Great and the reasons it will continue to be great under her wise, positive leadership.
At 70, he is a hate-filled, pompous, delusional man playing the last card in his diminishing deck -- the fame card -- to stave off financial ruin and personal humiliation. His handful of loyal supporters are scared, uneducated and morally bankrupt racists. The rest, who have barnacled themselves to this rusted, sinking, stinking ship are Clinton haters and political opportunist. (Need a job, Christie?)
Fortunately, we live in the home of the free and the brave. Looking forward to Clinton's acceptance speech, when she will point out that America IS Great and the reasons it will continue to be great under her wise, positive leadership.
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I am so happy that finally a political candidate talks about what a disaster that globalization and free trade have been to wide swaths of the country. Even if Trump doesn't win, hopefully this now at least becomes something that's part of the national conversation.
I get it that life is good in Manhattan and Silicon Valley but most of the country is hurting. Trump could win.
I get it that life is good in Manhattan and Silicon Valley but most of the country is hurting. Trump could win.
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Well America, you can elect this extremely dangerous creep if you want to, but be prepared to see your economy implode, your influence reduced to nothing and your pre-eminent position in the world completely destroyed. By the time a Trump Presidency ends, the American and the World economy will be in tatters and the world will be infinitely more dangerous place.
Democracy empowers us with our most sacred trust. To elect the right leaders to guide our democracies. Donald Trump is the antithesis of everything to do with good leadership.
Democracy empowers us with our most sacred trust. To elect the right leaders to guide our democracies. Donald Trump is the antithesis of everything to do with good leadership.
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There is always Berkeley, California, where I live now, to seek shelter from the further blunderbuss words of Mr. Trump if he were to win the presidency. Or a hiatus in Paris, France, taking a chance with further attacks, but we of course have that threat here as well. Flying the Friendly Skies may have its intellectual advantages if I had to be exposed to such further hot air as last night over a period of years equal to one presidential term or two.
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Dear Mr. Trump,
My sincerest thanks for delivering an acceptance speech that did not bore us to tears with selective, autobiographical anecdotes from your formative years, which, by the way, the NYT thinks you ought to have done.
By now, we have learned that those character-building moments a President chooses to share with the electorate predict neither his style nor substance once in the oval office. Sure, Nixon grew up on a Lemon farm and he dreamt of bigger things. So, before you know it, he's President, standing on the wall with Mao, bombing Cambodia, assuring us he's not a crook, and then resigning. Just what were they putting in those lemons?
It's not that character isn't important. Indeed, nothing is more important. It's just that you don't learn about it from the proverbial "log cabin" stories spun out in acceptance speeches.
Thanks again!
My sincerest thanks for delivering an acceptance speech that did not bore us to tears with selective, autobiographical anecdotes from your formative years, which, by the way, the NYT thinks you ought to have done.
By now, we have learned that those character-building moments a President chooses to share with the electorate predict neither his style nor substance once in the oval office. Sure, Nixon grew up on a Lemon farm and he dreamt of bigger things. So, before you know it, he's President, standing on the wall with Mao, bombing Cambodia, assuring us he's not a crook, and then resigning. Just what were they putting in those lemons?
It's not that character isn't important. Indeed, nothing is more important. It's just that you don't learn about it from the proverbial "log cabin" stories spun out in acceptance speeches.
Thanks again!
If Trump wins I'm immediately putting my house on the market in hopes that I can sell it before our economy collapses. Then I'm off to any other country that will have me.
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I would rather have a narcissist who wants to be known for doing great things than a progressive ideologue who doesn't care what the world thinks of him/her. We've had that ideologue for nearly 8 years and what is the political issue of the day? Anyone who disagrees with him is racist, anyone who doesn't like Hillery is sexist, blah blah blah. Just look at the comments on this article, it reads like a 4th grade schoolyard.
Trump may have an inflated ego but his assessment of the state of the union was far more honest and reality based than the left wants to admit.
Hillary may decry Trumps braggadocios style but she is every bit the narcissist he is.
Trump may have an inflated ego but his assessment of the state of the union was far more honest and reality based than the left wants to admit.
Hillary may decry Trumps braggadocios style but she is every bit the narcissist he is.
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thank you.
Trump is fond of bringing out stories of "innocent citizens" killed by illegals. He seems not to have many of those accounts. Is it because there are far fewer "innocents" killed by "illegals" than there are innocents killed by the "legal" white, gun- toting segment of our society? Let Trump and his supporters supply the number of "illegal" killing cases they want to use to try to incite fear in the American public.
I live 20 miles from the Mexican border. I do not fear" illegals." The Border Patrol causes more problems with their intrusion on my private property; their noise from drones, helicopters and and ATV's which tear up my road. I was once "tracked" by them on a walk in my neighborhood.
I live 20 miles from the Mexican border. I do not fear" illegals." The Border Patrol causes more problems with their intrusion on my private property; their noise from drones, helicopters and and ATV's which tear up my road. I was once "tracked" by them on a walk in my neighborhood.
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He left out the part where he says " and I'm going to personally mail a crisp, new, $10,000 Bill to every man, woman, and child in the United States of America!"
Or maybe I dozed off when he said it.
Or maybe I dozed off when he said it.
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All they need now is a Leni Reifenstahl to document it for the general election.
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All that is needed to defeat Trump is a high turnout of voters, and preventing US citizens from voting and counting votes has been and is the Republicans' highest priority!!!
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We've seen this movie before -- and it doesn't end well. See Germany, 1930 -1945. Would-be Fuehrer Trump tells us to be afraid, be very afraid -- but He alone is our Savior.
With magnificent American confidence our great President Franklin Roosevelt said, "The only thing we have to fear...is fear itself!"
Yes, Mr. Trump, history is watching. I pray that America will not succumb to your fear-mongering and will instead rise up to proclaim "Never again!"
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.” – attributed to Edmund Burke
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." – Plato
"The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it." – Einstein
With magnificent American confidence our great President Franklin Roosevelt said, "The only thing we have to fear...is fear itself!"
Yes, Mr. Trump, history is watching. I pray that America will not succumb to your fear-mongering and will instead rise up to proclaim "Never again!"
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.” – attributed to Edmund Burke
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." – Plato
"The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it." – Einstein
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We have more to fear from Trump and his anxious supporters than we do from any foreign enemy. Trump supporters have given into fear, so they are vulnerable to the salesman who promises that only he can offer them a future, without one word of explanation about how he'll do that, or why they should trust him. They believe him because he tells them to believe him, and they are satisfied with that. But, Trump is a dangerous man who, like all dangerous men will use his followers weakness against them, because he loathes the very weakness that he cultivates in them. Democracy demands participation, but Trump followers want none of that and instead want their thinking done for them. They believe that they'll stay safe trapped behind his wall. Despotism develops because an easily-led, cowardly and weak populace gives itself over to a paternal figure who convinces them that he alone knows what's best for them. With Trump, that's the road we very well may be on.
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As a lifetime liberal I am going with Trump! Great speech, great family. I'll take my chances with new blood rather than trust Hillary! If the election is not rigged Trump will win!
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No way would a lifetime liberal be blind and deluded enough to vote for an ignorant fascist. Stands to reason though that a supporter of Trump would do nothing but lie.
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For you and all the rest claiming to be lifelong liberals/democrats - As soon as you admit you're voting for Trump everyone knows you're lying.
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As I watched Trump puff himself up last night, all I could think of was mating season in turkey country. He is the perfect Tom. Ben Franklin was right, the US national bird should be the eastern wild turkey.
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B b b b but Trumps's tax returns! To paraphrase Bernie, "I'm sick and tired of hearing about Trump's damn tax returns".
The same crowd that doesn't care about Hill's emails, Wall Street speeches, lies and scandals galore SURE DO all of a sudden care about a tax return. Oooooohh!
Next week we'll hear from a bunch of rich Hollywood 1%'s who'll tell us they know what's best for us, that is, if they're let out of rehab to appear. They'll tell us that the world is terrific right now and that global warming, open borders, peace, love and understanding terrorist concerns will bring us all together. Can't wait.
The same crowd that doesn't care about Hill's emails, Wall Street speeches, lies and scandals galore SURE DO all of a sudden care about a tax return. Oooooohh!
Next week we'll hear from a bunch of rich Hollywood 1%'s who'll tell us they know what's best for us, that is, if they're let out of rehab to appear. They'll tell us that the world is terrific right now and that global warming, open borders, peace, love and understanding terrorist concerns will bring us all together. Can't wait.
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If the scrutiny placed on the Hillary Clinton email scandal was applied to Trumps tax returns and business ventures, he would be most likely receive even more criticism for being a hypocrit.
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The Great Wall of China didn't do such a great job of protecting the guys in charge from foreign invasion. Ironically, the Great Wall now makes a lot of money for the Chinese government, as millions of foreigners pay to see it.
So don't be so quick to ridicule Trump's idea about a Great Wall protecting us from Mexico (they've been a military threat as recently as 1847). It may not keep individuals from crossing the border in search of a better life. But in 500 years, our descendants may thank us for having the foresight to have built one of the biggest tourist attractions of 2516.
So don't be so quick to ridicule Trump's idea about a Great Wall protecting us from Mexico (they've been a military threat as recently as 1847). It may not keep individuals from crossing the border in search of a better life. But in 500 years, our descendants may thank us for having the foresight to have built one of the biggest tourist attractions of 2516.
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After having promised the biggest tax cut in history Trump told his roaring and adoring crowd that he would rebuild our depleted military and all the bridges and roads. With what will he pay for all that after all the tax cuts?
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I do not doubt that Mr. Trump's candidacy represents what many Republicans feel and perhaps the rest of us feel as well. As I listened to his rambling diatribe I felt I had to ask: How are you going to do these things and how are you planning on paying for it?
As I observed this convention I cannot recall any previous one which named the yet-to-be-formally-nominated opponent more than their own standard-bearer.
We often hear and feel that the negativity in campaigning is wearing us down. Mr. Trump's characterization of our country's "ills" captures the news headlines' stories of pain, suffering, police brutality and brutality against the police but fails to capture what's mostly right about our country. His vilifying of Mrs. Clinton only serves to convince those that think bullying is the only way to get the job done. The rest of us properly feel that both candidates have flaws and must decide who has the best plan and who can execute that plan for the betterment of our society.
Mrs. Clinton has a chance to prove that although flawed, she and the other speakers at the Democratic convention can accentuate the positive and convince voters that she's the one who earns their vote in November.
As I observed this convention I cannot recall any previous one which named the yet-to-be-formally-nominated opponent more than their own standard-bearer.
We often hear and feel that the negativity in campaigning is wearing us down. Mr. Trump's characterization of our country's "ills" captures the news headlines' stories of pain, suffering, police brutality and brutality against the police but fails to capture what's mostly right about our country. His vilifying of Mrs. Clinton only serves to convince those that think bullying is the only way to get the job done. The rest of us properly feel that both candidates have flaws and must decide who has the best plan and who can execute that plan for the betterment of our society.
Mrs. Clinton has a chance to prove that although flawed, she and the other speakers at the Democratic convention can accentuate the positive and convince voters that she's the one who earns their vote in November.
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Holy Cow Batman!!! Didn't realize Gotham City needed saving!
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DARK TONE?...
.. LOL.. Liberals
.....
The Dark Tone:
More jobs
Low taxes
Better health care
Legal immigration
Law and Order
Better infrastructure
Better schools
Less debt
Strong military
Better relationships with Allies
Safer world
.. LOL.. Liberals
.....
The Dark Tone:
More jobs
Low taxes
Better health care
Legal immigration
Law and Order
Better infrastructure
Better schools
Less debt
Strong military
Better relationships with Allies
Safer world
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Fear? What I am most afraid of is Donald Trump getting to be President. That is truly terrifying. None of the things he mentioned (Mexicans, terrorists and so on) come close to scaring me as much as he does.
Besides, I simply don't feel like the nation is in a crisis. We do have issues but unemployment is low, the markets are high because the nation is strong. Our single big issue is cops randomly killing black people at traffic stops and he never mentioned that.
Besides, I simply don't feel like the nation is in a crisis. We do have issues but unemployment is low, the markets are high because the nation is strong. Our single big issue is cops randomly killing black people at traffic stops and he never mentioned that.
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After hearing all the threats against Hillary, they make you think you should worry more about voters backing Trump than ISIS. This speech was straight out of Russia.
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Mr. Trump hit a bases loaded home run last night. He addressed the issues of jobs , the economy and terrorism and the fact that America is hurting very badly today. He showed a resolve to stop the decline of our nation under the current politically correct regime. I have great hope now that we can now bring back the good jobs at good wages that have been sent to foreign nations while the American middle class suffers. America can now be restored to its former greatness through Mr. Trump who has shown us how to lead..
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He addressed nothing, mentioned no facts, made no policies to deal with anything. You just drank the kool-aid is all. Please don't vote for this fascist, really just don't vote.
It appears to me that you may have been drinking the Kool aid of liberalism for some time. Its time for a change when things become as bad as it has become. Trump seems to have offered some hope. So I am all for giving the Donald a chance. We tried Obama and Hillary and got a zero.
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The Republican Convention seemed more like a satire penned by Philip Roth than something that was actually taking place in 2016 United States. It *can* happen here, folks, in fact, it is.
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His is a fascist message that advocates violence and spreads fear.
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What a scary speech. That people can so easily toss aside common sense and support this "man" surprises and scares me.
2
If this country elects Mr. Trump, then we deserve everything--absolutely everything--that will ensue as a result. The fact that the dems haven't yet squashed him like a bug shows just how difficult it is to not hate Hillary. In some ways, this race reminds me of the Democrats' failure to fully capitalize on their power after Obama's first win, when they controlled both houses. The Democrats' inability to lead from a position of power is deeply troubling and frustrating. And it's happening again. I'm a lifelong Democrat, and I'm no longer proud of that.
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"I am your voice"....Trump sounded like Darth Vader except replacing "father" with "voice". Hearing this makes me scared for who our next President will be. Might as well vote for Captain America or someone from Ghostbusters.
2
Trump-led GOP seems to be against Hillary more than "for" anything: "We'll make America great again yada yada yada, but mainly vote for us because we're not Hillary"
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From a foreigner's perpective, it still is mind-numbing that Americans have allowed a personality like Trump to travel so close to being the most powerful person that POTUS is.
Before you say what business is it of mine to comment on your internal affairs, unfortunately the decisions and actions of your President do end up directly affecting us in the 'rest of the world'. We breathe easier if you elect the right person.
One is reminded of the author of 'Mein Kampf'. Coming to power on the platform of fear, hate and xenophobia, He made his dark philosophy plain to all who cared to know. Yet he was chosen and the rest is history.
Is Trump comparable to a dictator? Not yet. But is this the best America can up with? Is Hillary a great option? Maybe not.
But then you did elect George W. Bush. Twice. Almost a benign choice compared to Trump. The world barely survived Bush. So anyone, even Hillary, is a better choice than these two. Surely flawed, but certainly a much more stable and experienced hand at statecraft. You did show hope by electing Obama. We will have to wait a while for another such candidate. Meanwhile, Hillary will do.
Please...please America, for your own sake if not for the 'rest of the world'...wake up before it is too late.
Before you say what business is it of mine to comment on your internal affairs, unfortunately the decisions and actions of your President do end up directly affecting us in the 'rest of the world'. We breathe easier if you elect the right person.
One is reminded of the author of 'Mein Kampf'. Coming to power on the platform of fear, hate and xenophobia, He made his dark philosophy plain to all who cared to know. Yet he was chosen and the rest is history.
Is Trump comparable to a dictator? Not yet. But is this the best America can up with? Is Hillary a great option? Maybe not.
But then you did elect George W. Bush. Twice. Almost a benign choice compared to Trump. The world barely survived Bush. So anyone, even Hillary, is a better choice than these two. Surely flawed, but certainly a much more stable and experienced hand at statecraft. You did show hope by electing Obama. We will have to wait a while for another such candidate. Meanwhile, Hillary will do.
Please...please America, for your own sake if not for the 'rest of the world'...wake up before it is too late.
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Joy, hope, optimism, kindness, humility, honesty.
Dead.
Each one systematically stomped out of existence by the Republican Party's fascistic spectacle of anger and hatred in Cleveland.
Dead.
Each one systematically stomped out of existence by the Republican Party's fascistic spectacle of anger and hatred in Cleveland.
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"Joy, hope, optimism, kindness, humility, honesty"
Ugh, that's so PC! (s/)
Ugh, that's so PC! (s/)
It was a great speech from Mr. Trump. He spoke on the reality of our country's dire situation. Obama and Hillary were and are complacent on outside threats. ISIS has metastasized into a serious threat during their time in office. Immigrants are flooding the country (500,000 visa overstays alone last year) and are contributing to stagnant wages and unemployment for Americans. It's time to get our house in order and Mr. Trump is the person for the job,
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Keep delusionally repeating the lies of Trump then, see where it gets you.
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Apparently, the news outlets got their talking points from the White House since the daily theme is Trump's "dark" speech. Well, just after the Dallas police shootings, my liberal cousin commented how he thought our civil society was breaking down. Since then there have been more slaughters.
Most Americans, unlike the elite that live in gated communities or in secure high-risers in NY, are concerned about what is happening in our nation, and across the globe. We see political leaders thinking the law does not apply them, and why should they? After all, one will soon be the Democrat nominee for president while her husband rakes in millions of dollars via a questionable foundation and has discussions with the current Attorney General on a tarmac about their "grandchildren."
President Obama breaks or circumvents the law by simply ignoring it or issuing executive orders practically on a daily basis. He basically sanctions attacks on the police by first condemning the violence, then quickly follows with the proverbial 'but ...'
We see our inner cities as cesspools of daily violence and an entire world in chaos because our nation leads from behind and evil doers fill the vacuum. Our world has become a darker place the last 8 years, but the Obama administration and their stooges in the press desperately don't want you to believe it.
Most Americans, unlike the elite that live in gated communities or in secure high-risers in NY, are concerned about what is happening in our nation, and across the globe. We see political leaders thinking the law does not apply them, and why should they? After all, one will soon be the Democrat nominee for president while her husband rakes in millions of dollars via a questionable foundation and has discussions with the current Attorney General on a tarmac about their "grandchildren."
President Obama breaks or circumvents the law by simply ignoring it or issuing executive orders practically on a daily basis. He basically sanctions attacks on the police by first condemning the violence, then quickly follows with the proverbial 'but ...'
We see our inner cities as cesspools of daily violence and an entire world in chaos because our nation leads from behind and evil doers fill the vacuum. Our world has become a darker place the last 8 years, but the Obama administration and their stooges in the press desperately don't want you to believe it.
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You do realize that Trump lives in a very secure NY high rise, don't you?
Mark Cuban is right that Trump will lose the election but get richer from his campaign. I wonder how much of taxpayers' millions for this convention went to his or his family's companies as he did in the primary.
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Please, Mr. Trump, a few specifics. How exactly would you or any president actively prevent tragedies like San Bernadino, Orlando, Charleston, Fort Hood, Dallas, Minneapolis, etc., etc.? How exactly would cancelling free trade agreements and instituting tariffs not result in a 35% increase in prices of whatever is left on the shelves at Walmart and Target? How would that benefit the working class voters who support you? How would radical tax cuts not blow up the deficit? (More of that old GOP trickle-down mythology, perhaps?)
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Bad attitude. Though signs of senility have been evident all along, Mr. Trump may want to get checked for depression. Four bankruptcies, pending lawsuits over non-payment, suits over Trump University, the falling "Trump Brand", etc would catch up with anyone.
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Wow. If I didn't know better one would think we live in a dystopian landscape akin to a Mad Max film. If things are as bad as described- the Don surely can't "fix it." Everyone better start prepping for eminent grid failure when millions of criminal immigrant terrorists scale the wall and China demands all the money they've loaned us (with interest of course). Very comprehensive Mr. Trump, but you omitted the zombie epidemic and the plagues of frogs.
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If he loses, would he concede? And what happens if he doesn't?
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Well, Guantanamo is an option!
Oh, some network will give him a reality show I'm sure.
What is frightening about a Trump presidency is not any specific policy statements he spouts in his usual incoherent fashion, it is that he has no policies, no fixed position, no platform that can be assessed from one day to the next. He continues to promote fear and hatred without reason, without a single constructive proposal for the future.
Trump suffers from an intense narcissist personality disorder being unstable, having a bad temper and an incredibly inflated sense of personal genius. Trump is popular with those who cannot analyse his effluvia of pseudo-political marketing patter that gushes forth from his mouth, non-stop. He is the Republican Party. He is big money personified. He plays the same con game promising good things for the little guy, be it trickle-down nonsense or building a wall to keep out illegals. It is all fraudulent sound and fury.
In the course of his campaign he has promoted anti-Semitism; surrounded himself with people that want to murder Hillary Clinton; picked the most extreme Christian Taliban as a running mate; refused to release his tax returns; failed to attract even one meaningful endorsement; failed to demonstrate one single qualification as President, Commander-in-Chief.
Republicans chose Donald Trump as their nominee. They have disgraced themselves and our nation.
Trump suffers from an intense narcissist personality disorder being unstable, having a bad temper and an incredibly inflated sense of personal genius. Trump is popular with those who cannot analyse his effluvia of pseudo-political marketing patter that gushes forth from his mouth, non-stop. He is the Republican Party. He is big money personified. He plays the same con game promising good things for the little guy, be it trickle-down nonsense or building a wall to keep out illegals. It is all fraudulent sound and fury.
In the course of his campaign he has promoted anti-Semitism; surrounded himself with people that want to murder Hillary Clinton; picked the most extreme Christian Taliban as a running mate; refused to release his tax returns; failed to attract even one meaningful endorsement; failed to demonstrate one single qualification as President, Commander-in-Chief.
Republicans chose Donald Trump as their nominee. They have disgraced themselves and our nation.
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Summation of Trump's speech:
"The night is dark and full of terrors."
"The night is dark and full of terrors."
5
You know nothing, Donald Trump.
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Reality check forget the elections people being mrdered in our streets by felons left out jail to terrorize us in rochester ny . Government isnt doing its job to protect people here in usa .No one should be left out jail if they dont have job an can support them selves. Present adminstration is rewarding compnays who out source jobs to comunist countrys by millions. When will we learn to make our representives accountable
Somehow, we are all to believe that this complete con man and grifter, who has "built" his career on a series of failed, multi-bankrupt businesses and stiffed thousands of small businesses and his employees; who claims to "put America first" yet manufactures his own clothing line overseas, who has made a cottage industry out of fleecing people who believed his lies about real estate development, who has smeared, insulted, belittled women at every turn, who is proud of his total ignorance and blind to his infantile narcissism, is the "one and only answer" to the nation's challenges? That his venom and hatred, his reverence for thugs and tyrants, his ignorance and willful denial of our Constitution, the Geneva Conventions, NATO, and more, will "keep us safe?" This man is the greatest threat we have seen, not only to this nation, but to the entire world, in many decades. I can only hope that most Americans are far better than this miserable excuse for a rational, sober adult could ever hope to be.
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You should be writing editorials. Well done!
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Trump's speech was remarkable for giving his Republican audience permission to applaud for applause lines that have never been part of the Republican playbook and that Party leaders have fought tooth and nail against – LGBT rights, sticking it to Big Business, throwing out free trade agreements and more. I can't help thinking that Mitch McConnell, Jeff Sessions and Paul Ryan watched Trump's speech and said to themselves, "You've got something else coming, Bub!"
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Donald Trump says, "I am your voice". I think he is more like the bodily function at the other end.
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Most Americans, 64%, can’t come up with a $1,000 to meet an unexpected emergency, according to the National Foundation on Credit Counseling. Ninety percent of American households have experienced flat incomes since 1997. We’re entering the 13th year of mid-east conflicts that have cost Americans nearly 5,000 dead, 10s of thousands more injured, and trillions from our treasury poured into a sandpit with no end in sight.
The economy is so fragile that the Federal Reserve has held short term interest rates near zero since 2008 to sustain the weakest economic recovery since WWII. Oh, Wall Street is doing great, but where would Wall Street trade with normal short-term rates of 4%?
The New York Times and MSM spin Trump’s speech as “Dark.” “Dark” compared to what…more of the same that the Clintons offer?
Folks, Trump is what we’ll get if we keep ignoring the real economic and social problems and keep offering Americans the Clintons and more of the same.
The economy is so fragile that the Federal Reserve has held short term interest rates near zero since 2008 to sustain the weakest economic recovery since WWII. Oh, Wall Street is doing great, but where would Wall Street trade with normal short-term rates of 4%?
The New York Times and MSM spin Trump’s speech as “Dark.” “Dark” compared to what…more of the same that the Clintons offer?
Folks, Trump is what we’ll get if we keep ignoring the real economic and social problems and keep offering Americans the Clintons and more of the same.
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Franklin Roosevelt, in trying to calm an America going through much harder times than we ever will, told the country that "We have nothing to fear but fear itself". Well here's "fear itself" and he wants to be president of the United States!
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It is absolutely terrifying -- and that's not hyperbole, folks -- to know there are people in this country who support this man.
My god, the wounds you must have to embrace such hate...
My god, the wounds you must have to embrace such hate...
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It was long but this was his chance, without commercial interruption, to address a huge audience for the last time until the debates when he will have a skilled opponent debating him. The first poll, last night, on CNN showed he had scored big with those polled. It was also clever to speak at length so that people would go to sleep immediately afterwards and not hear him get skewered by TV Progressives.
Many of his facts will be challenged today by "fact-checkers" and critics but is there any question that Americans do not feel safe? Is there any question that world is not unraveling? Is there any question that Hillary Clinton dissembled about her server and exposed country to risks? Is there any question about Hillary Clinton's association with decisions about Syria, Libya, Russia, Iraq and the Iran Treaty? How do all those appear today?
Many of his facts will be challenged today by "fact-checkers" and critics but is there any question that Americans do not feel safe? Is there any question that world is not unraveling? Is there any question that Hillary Clinton dissembled about her server and exposed country to risks? Is there any question about Hillary Clinton's association with decisions about Syria, Libya, Russia, Iraq and the Iran Treaty? How do all those appear today?
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The crazed gene has fully emerged from the bottle as stupendously inflammatory and presumptively Messianic as anyone might have anticipated.
Mr Trump is likely the most dangerous prospect for the office of the President of the United State in the last 100 years, and we have had our share of consummately dangerous contenders.
The Republican party has profoundly and knowingly failed the American people for the sake of winner take all political expediency and a manic drive to destroy the opposition.
This war on the country began with the inauguration of Barack Obama, has persisted for seven plus years and now has thrust on the nation a political disaster of epic proportions.
Trump has the backing of a major party and an uncanny ability to manipulate our worst inclinations, frustrations and anger. His chances to take the Oval Office are at least 50% or better.
Mr Trump is likely the most dangerous prospect for the office of the President of the United State in the last 100 years, and we have had our share of consummately dangerous contenders.
The Republican party has profoundly and knowingly failed the American people for the sake of winner take all political expediency and a manic drive to destroy the opposition.
This war on the country began with the inauguration of Barack Obama, has persisted for seven plus years and now has thrust on the nation a political disaster of epic proportions.
Trump has the backing of a major party and an uncanny ability to manipulate our worst inclinations, frustrations and anger. His chances to take the Oval Office are at least 50% or better.
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As his whole violent, dark campaign suggested, Mr. Trump sees the U.S. as the Wemar Republic. There are other similarities to the leader that emerged there as well, but I won't harp on them. The fact is President's Obama's approval ratings are high, his stewardship has been firm, the economy is good and Trump bad temper and ugly temperament is looking for the dark soil to take root. The violence of the past few weeks has been disturbing, and we have to confront our persistent race issues. But this has to be done through honesty, not demagoguery. Trump can't even see the problems clearly from the top floor of Trump Tower or with his one-minute attention span, so he's in no position to fix them.
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Everything is wrong with the world due to Hillary Clinton and he, Donald Trump, will make it right come January 20. He doesn't tell us how he will make it right but trust him, he will. He will preside over a party that has just written one of the more hateful regressive platforms ever. He will have as his VP an evangelical straight out of the 1950s. What is different about the Republican Party other than a demagogue now runs it?
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I am your voice
Trump, endorsed by the American Nazi Party and the KKK.
Trump, endorsed by the American Nazi Party and the KKK.
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From my own experience of family and personal connection to working people in the States, it has never failed to amaze me how so many who are left out of the prosperity shill game of Republican economics ,never grasp that they are being played.
Survey after survey show the average American enduring declining quality of life and impediments to the broad government measures needed to improve their health, broadly-based prosperity and social environment.
Unfortunately, this dissociative habit is now entering a danger new phase of neo-fascism. Unless sufficient numbers of Americans can get beyond Trump's cant, boosterism and coded language of bigotry, fear and division, there WILL BE darker days ahead for all of those clamouring for entrance to the Republican vision of a past utopia.
Survey after survey show the average American enduring declining quality of life and impediments to the broad government measures needed to improve their health, broadly-based prosperity and social environment.
Unfortunately, this dissociative habit is now entering a danger new phase of neo-fascism. Unless sufficient numbers of Americans can get beyond Trump's cant, boosterism and coded language of bigotry, fear and division, there WILL BE darker days ahead for all of those clamouring for entrance to the Republican vision of a past utopia.
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Legos under the desk?
Since when has this guy ever been an architect?
In addition to copying parts of Hillary's speeches, nearly word for word regarding women, that comment was a red flag as to the lack of genuineness or reality in Ivanka's speech.
Still, she did a great job of delivering it.
There is an old expression about silver spoons.
I guess there should be one about gold shovels as well.
Since when has this guy ever been an architect?
In addition to copying parts of Hillary's speeches, nearly word for word regarding women, that comment was a red flag as to the lack of genuineness or reality in Ivanka's speech.
Still, she did a great job of delivering it.
There is an old expression about silver spoons.
I guess there should be one about gold shovels as well.
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There are three things that make politicians predictable - making promises that they don't keep, criticizing the other side to make themselves look like the best alternative and in particular, lacking honesty. This remarkably applies to Trump as well.
Trump presentation of himself from the start has proven to be one lie after another. He told us what a great businessman he is, yet he failed to tell us about the bankruptcies and other ventures that went sour, such as Trump University, Trump steaks, Trump wine, as examples. He told us about how well he treats people, yet he has hired immigrants, who were not paid a decent wage with no overtime pay and no benefits. He had work done by contractors and not even paid them. He has told us how wealthy he is and yet will not present his tax returns.
As a candidate for the presidency, he would have us believe he is not a politician, is his own man, self-funded, and will not take any campaign money. He has shown us what typical politicians do by outlining policies with big ideas, but lacking specifics, which leaves voters in the dark and be expected to simply go along with him. If he's his own man, why does he have advisors? If he is self-funded as he has stated many times, why is he prepared, for example, to take Wall Street money.
Yup, that's the kind of man of character we want as president.
Trump presentation of himself from the start has proven to be one lie after another. He told us what a great businessman he is, yet he failed to tell us about the bankruptcies and other ventures that went sour, such as Trump University, Trump steaks, Trump wine, as examples. He told us about how well he treats people, yet he has hired immigrants, who were not paid a decent wage with no overtime pay and no benefits. He had work done by contractors and not even paid them. He has told us how wealthy he is and yet will not present his tax returns.
As a candidate for the presidency, he would have us believe he is not a politician, is his own man, self-funded, and will not take any campaign money. He has shown us what typical politicians do by outlining policies with big ideas, but lacking specifics, which leaves voters in the dark and be expected to simply go along with him. If he's his own man, why does he have advisors? If he is self-funded as he has stated many times, why is he prepared, for example, to take Wall Street money.
Yup, that's the kind of man of character we want as president.
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Last Night, Donald Trump attempted to sound like the Messiah. He affirmed his audience and viewers only he possesses the necessary strength and knowledge to destroy Isis and his followers, that once and for all, America would become free of any harm here and abroad. Surprisingly, he sounded almost identical to the Democratic Party’s political platform.
How could he pretend to deliver more taxes to the rich and at the same time provide financial stability to the American people? He’s lying because mathematically the figures don’t match and he would be bankrupting this country. Although he’s an artful master in bankruptcy it wouldn’t work because our country isn’t a business enterprise.
Trump will get rid of all illegal immigrants because as far as he’s concerned, they are murderers, rapists and thieves hiding in the shadows of this country ready to commit a crime.
Donald Trump is either lying to the American people or doesn’t know that our Constitution gives Congress the power to be the ultimate deciders of American’s destiny; the vote in favor or against any and all legislations because a President has limited powers.
Martin Luther King said and I quote: “Nothing in the world is more dangerous that sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
How could he pretend to deliver more taxes to the rich and at the same time provide financial stability to the American people? He’s lying because mathematically the figures don’t match and he would be bankrupting this country. Although he’s an artful master in bankruptcy it wouldn’t work because our country isn’t a business enterprise.
Trump will get rid of all illegal immigrants because as far as he’s concerned, they are murderers, rapists and thieves hiding in the shadows of this country ready to commit a crime.
Donald Trump is either lying to the American people or doesn’t know that our Constitution gives Congress the power to be the ultimate deciders of American’s destiny; the vote in favor or against any and all legislations because a President has limited powers.
Martin Luther King said and I quote: “Nothing in the world is more dangerous that sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
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Mussolini, pouting and mugging at the Piazza Venezia....Hitler spreading hate and fear at Nuremberg....Trump, making them look like chumps at Cleveland.
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If Trump wins the election. he will use the first crisis we face as a nation to declare a state of emergency, enact martial law, imprison political opponents, suspend congress, and declare himself dictator, (temporarily of course...according to him, but it will never end).
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No he won't. Because he wouldn't be allowed, legally. Our Constitution prevents any such thing. Get some history.
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According to a recent article in the New Yorker, "Trump’s first wife, Ivana, famously claimed that Trump kept a copy of Adolf Hitler’s collected speeches, “My New Order,” in a cabinet beside his bed." Chilling.
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Well I guess I should feel lucky to have the Donald watching out for me. He's going to solve all our immigration problems by building a wall between us and Mexico. He's going to make America GREAT AGAIN! I've always wanted to live in a GREAT COUNTRY! I've always appreciated being told that someone else is my voice, especially when that someone else has no idea what I might say if he listened to my voice, or to my words.
Obama could say, if Trump is elected, "Apres moi, le deluge" and he'd be correct. President Obama acted like a president. He was every person's president. He didn't say we had to agree with him. He didn't deliberately select inept people to fill Supreme Court vacancies. He didn't waste money on false bravado. He didn't tell us to hate each other. He was a mensch, not a bully, before and during his presidency. What a shame it would be to replace him with a Donald Trump.
Obama could say, if Trump is elected, "Apres moi, le deluge" and he'd be correct. President Obama acted like a president. He was every person's president. He didn't say we had to agree with him. He didn't deliberately select inept people to fill Supreme Court vacancies. He didn't waste money on false bravado. He didn't tell us to hate each other. He was a mensch, not a bully, before and during his presidency. What a shame it would be to replace him with a Donald Trump.
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Granted that Clinton's decisions may have turned out to be wrong, that is, they didn't bring about the desired effect. However, to put on her shoulders the chaos that came about after the rebellions in the various Arab states, is not only wrong but patently absurd. It shows Trump's ignorance about the Muslims' religious enmity, the presence of tribal rivalries, the struggle among ambitious leaders, the lack of real governmental control, the absence of democratic institutions, the endemic corruption, the interference of other countries. He also ignores the horrendously dangerous situation created by Bush's war. One hopes that his charge is only a campaign ploy, but knowing Trump, he probably is not able to differentiate between political gambits and reality.
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Now HRC will try to scare voters into voting for her to stop Trump.
Pick your poison: Neo-fascist sociopath or criminal/war monger.
Either way, a nightmare in the offing.
Pick your poison: Neo-fascist sociopath or criminal/war monger.
Either way, a nightmare in the offing.
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False equivalence.
Well, Ms. Clinton's not a criminal or a warmonger, but aside from that you have a point. Far better to pick someone sane than a delusional fascist like Trump.
Hey, sit it out in your own nightmare.
So I watched his speech as I did laundry and sipped wine. I'm not voting for him but I was very curious to see what he'd say and genuinely hoped that he'd appeal to something bigger than himself, something loftier, more universal and compassionate. Boy was I disappointed!
His speech was calculated through some very shoddy logic and analogies to inspire fear, divisiveness, terror and mistrust, to appeal to our darker natures. No specifics were anywhere to be found about he would solve some of the many problems he raised, only the promise that on inauguration day he'd somehow flick his hands and all would be right here and abroad. He's a very savvy grifter indeed, and I felt a real chill at the prospect of his presidency quite possibly becoming a reality.
His speech was calculated through some very shoddy logic and analogies to inspire fear, divisiveness, terror and mistrust, to appeal to our darker natures. No specifics were anywhere to be found about he would solve some of the many problems he raised, only the promise that on inauguration day he'd somehow flick his hands and all would be right here and abroad. He's a very savvy grifter indeed, and I felt a real chill at the prospect of his presidency quite possibly becoming a reality.
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I didn't have the time or the stomach to watch the speech (knowing the media would give him free reign with sound bite replays the next day) but there is plenty of blame to go around for the creation of Donald Trump as candidate.
Both parties allowed the middle class to be hollowed out while they bent over backwards collecting money for the next election cycle. Both parties allowed wages to stagnate over the last 30 years that now limits opportunity for everyone except a small section of society. We the electorate also did our share by not paying attention as we stared dumbly into our smart phones. And let us not forget the tech crowd that sold us a grand vision of work for those at home while they brought in foreign workers gaming the H1B system.
People are scared (and it is not just white males) as they see little hope for the future because they have been lied to over and over by the political class who could care less about them until the next election. When people are scared they don't act rationally but hope against what is clearly impossible because there is nothing left to believe in and Donald Trump at least projects confidence. I'll be voting for Hillary but truth be told there is a small grain of truth in some of what Trump is using to become Strongman in Chief. So all should be proud because we each did our part to ruin this once great nation...
Both parties allowed the middle class to be hollowed out while they bent over backwards collecting money for the next election cycle. Both parties allowed wages to stagnate over the last 30 years that now limits opportunity for everyone except a small section of society. We the electorate also did our share by not paying attention as we stared dumbly into our smart phones. And let us not forget the tech crowd that sold us a grand vision of work for those at home while they brought in foreign workers gaming the H1B system.
People are scared (and it is not just white males) as they see little hope for the future because they have been lied to over and over by the political class who could care less about them until the next election. When people are scared they don't act rationally but hope against what is clearly impossible because there is nothing left to believe in and Donald Trump at least projects confidence. I'll be voting for Hillary but truth be told there is a small grain of truth in some of what Trump is using to become Strongman in Chief. So all should be proud because we each did our part to ruin this once great nation...
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Mr. Trump's "dark tone" is entirely justified. The fact that so many people gave him the nomination based solely on his outsider status should be a wake up call to the political, financial and media establishment. There is a rapidly widening gulf between the government and the governed -- between the "establishment" and everybody else. Until this issue is acknowledged and addressed, we are going to have candidacies such as this one and we may end up having these candidates elected to office.
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I can already tell after today's observations from the left they are in pain it that was a great speech but it wasn't what they want to hear so in typical political fashion they're goingto boo hoo anything this man does forget it guys it's over
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You do realize the same can be said about the fanatical rabid right wing, don't you?
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How is it that republican Judge Roy Moore down in Alabama is so adamant about putting the Ten Commandments in the halls of justice, a sentiment that is shared by so many in his party, and yet they celibrate and nominate a man whose middle name should be "False Witness?"
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Trump certainly has a handle on all the capital vices: Greed, Wrath, Lust, Envy, Pride, etc. Bragging about all his affairs and infidelities, rating women by their physical attributes, claiming that avoiding STDs was his Vietnam, bragging about tricking people, committing fraud, covering everything in his home in gold like some kind of third-world dictator with no taste, having to have beautiful, uneducated young women on his arm; having no more than a passing acquaintance with any sacred text, etc. The Golden Calf, maybe? Yet the evangelicals are worshipping him now.
That was really scary.
The delivery was undignified and ungentlermanly.
There were some good points, but no descriptions of what he will do about his perceived problems.
Don Trump, if elected, will be a dictator.
The delivery was undignified and ungentlermanly.
There were some good points, but no descriptions of what he will do about his perceived problems.
Don Trump, if elected, will be a dictator.
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I thought he did a better job when he delivered it in Nuremberg.
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The ghost of Richard Nixon is Donald Trump's guardian angel. Like Nixon, he will break laws. For example, the Logan Act which "forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments having a dispute with the U.S.,' which Nixon violated when he derailed the Paris Peace Talks. Between now and November, Trump is going to hold secret talks with foreign governments on matters where there are disputes in trade, military support, and occupation. He is first and foremost a real estate developer. Just as he heard cheering voices (probably in his head) when 9/11 happened, (for what real estate developer wouldn't see opportunity while somebody else's buildings collapse?), he will begin with his vision of the world as a bunch of sellable and developable lots and use secret diplomacy to enhance the instability of political foundations around the globe to attain that goal. He and Putin will get along very well, for they are land grabbers. Trump will not risk not having these opportunities diminished by waiting for November. He will begin messing with countries right away. This Iago is the one to watch. Remember, the man has told us that he hears voices. They are his own voices of greed spinning out of control.
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Donald Trump is, essentially, calling for a discussion on what rights, if any, non-Christians, non-Whites, women and LGBTQ people should have. Perhaps he should let us know if Muslim American soldiers, who have died in the service of our country, should continue to be buried in our national cemetery. After all, with his record of military service, I'm sure he has an opinion.
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We can't fix problems until we identify them properly. We are under much less threat from terrorism than from whackos with guns and other weapons. They mention a cause and phoom! everyone umps on that bandwagon! No! They are just crazy! And they have been able to get weapons! That is what we should fear the most.
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I am scared of this country and not necessarily because of Trump but rather because of his millions of followers. This country indeed is dying, "The Ugly American." So true.
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Donald Trump lives in a world I do not recognize. He and those who support him seemed mired in the past. He is not a student of foreign affairs, economics, domestic policy or amything else.and is totally unprepared to be President.
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Well, it's finally arrived. After "Morning in America," we have "Mourning for America" and "Darkness in America" with the simplistic A-B-C politics of Anger, Bigotry, and Callousness.
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Reading through the comments, it's obvious that most NYT readers don't think Trump is electable.
This sums up a common theme: even if people have misgivings about Hillary, fear of Donald will cause the masses to vote Democratic regardless.
Here are a few things to consider when making that argument: Hillary likes to state that she has been "vetted" meaning, I suppose, that there's nothing more to learn, no more skeletons threatening to topple out of the closet.
I beg to differ. How many Americans know anything about Hillary's response to the military coup in Honduras in 2009? Also, the MSM have done a terrific job of obscuring Hillary's real role in Libya.
If the masses start to process the facts of Honduras & Libya into their equation, Hillary's claims of competence suddenly look preposterous.
So far, Hillary supporters have been correct that the masses don't focus on foreign affairs. But my point is, Hillary is running on the basis of her "experience", and some of us who closely follow foreign policy think her experience as Secretary of State is precisely why she shouldn't be elected president.
Trump might also be a disaster, but at least Trump is still just a hypothetical disaster, while Hillary is a proven one.
Hillary may win, but building a campaign on competence might be a huge target of vulnerability.
She can't base her campaign on her character, so she'll have to resort to promising to maintain the status quo.
It's a risky bet.
This sums up a common theme: even if people have misgivings about Hillary, fear of Donald will cause the masses to vote Democratic regardless.
Here are a few things to consider when making that argument: Hillary likes to state that she has been "vetted" meaning, I suppose, that there's nothing more to learn, no more skeletons threatening to topple out of the closet.
I beg to differ. How many Americans know anything about Hillary's response to the military coup in Honduras in 2009? Also, the MSM have done a terrific job of obscuring Hillary's real role in Libya.
If the masses start to process the facts of Honduras & Libya into their equation, Hillary's claims of competence suddenly look preposterous.
So far, Hillary supporters have been correct that the masses don't focus on foreign affairs. But my point is, Hillary is running on the basis of her "experience", and some of us who closely follow foreign policy think her experience as Secretary of State is precisely why she shouldn't be elected president.
Trump might also be a disaster, but at least Trump is still just a hypothetical disaster, while Hillary is a proven one.
Hillary may win, but building a campaign on competence might be a huge target of vulnerability.
She can't base her campaign on her character, so she'll have to resort to promising to maintain the status quo.
It's a risky bet.
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Donald Trump is is the epitome of the worst caricatures of American politicians over the long span of time. To me, he is the embodiment of the "Buzz Windrip" villain of "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis. The behavior of the Republican Party stalwarts at the convention mirrrored the fascism depicted in that novel as well.
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Trump says "I am your voice!"
America answers: "We are speechless."
America answers: "We are speechless."
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This article is a great example.
Over the past 4 days I haven't seen one positive story on the Republican convention from the NYT or any other liberal media outlet. Surely Trump and the Republicans must have done something right.
My prediction is that we will see nothing but praise and adoration of Hillary at the Democratic convention.
Whatever happened to reporting the news fairly and accurately?
Over the past 4 days I haven't seen one positive story on the Republican convention from the NYT or any other liberal media outlet. Surely Trump and the Republicans must have done something right.
My prediction is that we will see nothing but praise and adoration of Hillary at the Democratic convention.
Whatever happened to reporting the news fairly and accurately?
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Dark??
I saw a bright young family with such refreshing ideas that I just don't know what Hillary can say as it has all been said before,, and has failed.
Most Republicans have been thinking the way ..as the Trumps talked this week.. its just that their elected officials have not had the you know what's to say it.
I saw a bright young family with such refreshing ideas that I just don't know what Hillary can say as it has all been said before,, and has failed.
Most Republicans have been thinking the way ..as the Trumps talked this week.. its just that their elected officials have not had the you know what's to say it.
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Trump clearly wants to shake away years of political ennui, as personified by Hillary, but also by the establishment Republicans who've offered no real answers to issues around American inequality (other than to exacerbate the gulf).
I believe that if he sticks to that approach, the Democrats had better have a yuge ground game in place to turn out minority and young voters because no matter what Hillary says, Trump has captured the overarching narrative of this Presidential race.
I believe that if he sticks to that approach, the Democrats had better have a yuge ground game in place to turn out minority and young voters because no matter what Hillary says, Trump has captured the overarching narrative of this Presidential race.
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"Only I can fix all these problems."
Care to tell us how?
Care to tell us how?
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How will HRC, the Wall Street candidate do it I wonder. More of the same? As bad as Trump may be is there a real alternative? If for no other reason I would rather look at Melania for four years then Stalin's housekeeper and the bulbous nosed old horn dog.
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Trump spoke for more than an hour and said nothing. Last night was his chance to finally propose solutions to the problems he has been harping about for the past year. Not surprisingly, it was just more of the same, only louder and more vicious than ever. He is a menace beyond words.
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Did anyone feel inspired by his remarks? I don't think so. If his aim was to convert those undecided and/or disgruntled Sanders supporters, he failed.
Fear/hate mongering only gets you so far.
I kept waiting for a cliffhanger and commercial break during this nearly 90 minute speech!
"Next time, on Trump's America..."
Fear/hate mongering only gets you so far.
I kept waiting for a cliffhanger and commercial break during this nearly 90 minute speech!
"Next time, on Trump's America..."
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I doubt there is anyone that can say with a straight face Hillary's overthrow of Gaddafi and Assad that unleashed ISIS on Mali, Niger, Chad, Iraq and Syria is a good thing. The Democrats put up a woman that never sees a war she doesn't like after Obama, the most war like president ever, is quite disturbing. Who needs neocon when Democrats love war.
Trump, on the other hand, promise to keep this country out of war including those started by our NATO attaché. That would be refreshing after 15 years of war wouldn't it?
Trump, on the other hand, promise to keep this country out of war including those started by our NATO attaché. That would be refreshing after 15 years of war wouldn't it?
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I am pleasantly surprised at how amazingly well the RNC went. For Democrats.
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Desperate for, you know, something to say, nominee Frankenstein rummaged around in the party's basement and dragged out that oldie but moldy tripe, "law and order". What's next? Diatribes against "outside agitators"? How about something against those dirty hippies and their long hair who all need a bath?
The Donald is inspired by George Wallace. The best. Believe me.
The Donald is inspired by George Wallace. The best. Believe me.
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Sure, in your twisted, fearful little mind America is George Wallace. You love America don't you....
Yes, you are correct. I do love America. And that is why I am praying the country doesn't hand over the keys to the greatest country on the planet to a deranged narcissist. You're not a deranged narcissist by any chance, are you?
I'm one of those who laughed up his sleeve whenever somebody spoke of Trump in the same sentence containing the word president. While much of what he says causes me to cringe or wince, the other stuff resonates.
Three quarters of us have been "sold down the river" by our present 'leaders' (Remember how Nafta and the amnesty were going to solve the illegal immigration problem and cause massive job growth here in USA?, not to subsequent trade deals that victimize both domestic and foreign workers; albeit not those who own the means of production). Trump himself won't be able to solve these problems, yet the political tremors his rise and, yes, eventual election to the office will have long lasting, positive effects upon the working and middle classes of USA, and perhaps those whom we collectively exploit by our consumer culture.
Think about it, the Democrats answer to Trump is Hilary Clinton. hahahha
Three quarters of us have been "sold down the river" by our present 'leaders' (Remember how Nafta and the amnesty were going to solve the illegal immigration problem and cause massive job growth here in USA?, not to subsequent trade deals that victimize both domestic and foreign workers; albeit not those who own the means of production). Trump himself won't be able to solve these problems, yet the political tremors his rise and, yes, eventual election to the office will have long lasting, positive effects upon the working and middle classes of USA, and perhaps those whom we collectively exploit by our consumer culture.
Think about it, the Democrats answer to Trump is Hilary Clinton. hahahha
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Well, Nafta goes back to Reagan, as does the acceleration of the gap between productivity and wages. Trump is the anti-Reagan?
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This piece is untypically full.
When are The NYTimes and the CNN consistently going to treat Mr Trump fairly, listen to his analyses in full when he speaks and report not caricatures of him but facts?
He is right on the downsides of globalisation for middle income and poor Americans; also correct about the need for proper law and order prevailing on US streets and most of all he realises, as Reagan did, that there is a need to lift the spirits of Americans again towards optimism.
Hillary does none of those things, with her manic waving at rallies and her unending platitudes.
When are The NYTimes and the CNN consistently going to treat Mr Trump fairly, listen to his analyses in full when he speaks and report not caricatures of him but facts?
He is right on the downsides of globalisation for middle income and poor Americans; also correct about the need for proper law and order prevailing on US streets and most of all he realises, as Reagan did, that there is a need to lift the spirits of Americans again towards optimism.
Hillary does none of those things, with her manic waving at rallies and her unending platitudes.
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Lie to support your fascist demagogue all you want, but the NYT treats him fairly enough. Objectively, he makes no sense, he's a demagogue, an adulterer, a liar, a con-man, and an ignoramus. That's the truth, and if you can't see it, you're just another fool who's bought his lies.
Plus you're in India apparently, so you thankfully can't vote in our election or donate. Worry about your own tyrannical elected leader.
Plus you're in India apparently, so you thankfully can't vote in our election or donate. Worry about your own tyrannical elected leader.
What is not going to cut it any more is "keep the status quo" policy relative to Saudis and the rest of wahhabi network, especially after the widely and strangely ignored publication of the 28 pages from 911 report.
Hillary needs to propose something effective in order to combat terrorism to get my vote.