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Spin Zone / Re: Question for the Trumpkins?
« on: March 11, 2016, 11:02:37 PM »It's cancelled. The protesters won. WTF is going on?I wonder - is this what the summer and fall will look like with a GOP nominee Trump?
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It's cancelled. The protesters won. WTF is going on?I wonder - is this what the summer and fall will look like with a GOP nominee Trump?
So is the right to keep and bear arms.RKBA doesn't require someone to treat you, or pay for your healthcare. Bernie's healthcare "right" requires someone to lose something so can have that "right."
Or the Veterans Administration, or many other government agencies. The profit motive drives better service.
This is a simple thing. The US spends more per capita on medical care than any of the industrialized nation. Yet we still see poorer outcomes nearly across the board. We spending more and getting less. I don't care if the cat is black or white, I only care if it catches mice.
Trump has in the past been for gun bans, and other restrictions on the 2A. That scares me about him.
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https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions
These debates are a joke if you are expecting anything of real substance to come out of them. I believe Trump understands what the value of the debates is, quick soundbites to get people interested enough to do their own research. The man is a performer who knows how to create, hold and grow and influence an audience.
The level of detail present in the debates is a deliberate decision on his part IMO, not a lack of intelligence, preparation or definition - he is choosing not to go as deep as the other guys and using the debates to meet his desired outcome instead of the desired establishment or media outcome.
Just because it does not meet your (or my) expectation of what should happen in a debate does not mean it is not working as he intends it. The debates themselves have been a mockery of the process for several cycles now (but have become unwatchable this cycle and last), they ceased to be of value for evaluating the candidates many year ago IMO.
Do you guys think he makes multi-million dollar deals on the sheer force of his personality? Do you think he is some megalomaniac who can't address difference of opinion and conflicting goals or work within the confines of the law and contracts?
Trump is a very shrewd, intelligent and well prepared professional who has been successful across a number of different industries for several decades- it makes no sense to assume he would approach this campaign or a potential Presidency with any less. And unlike any candidate the Republicans have had since Reagan he is able to connect to the American people at will, especially as compared to not just the last couple candidates (McCain and Romney), but even more so than his remaining competition in the primaries.
We seem to forget the hostility that Reagan faced from the media and the Democrats as well as from the Party in '76 leading up to his nomination and win in '80. Many of the criticisms being leveled at Trump by folks on both sides now echo those same tropes rolled out against a man who ultimately became one of the best Presidents in the history of the United States. Do I think Trump is Reagan, no I don't. Do I think Trump would be considered among the best ever? Can't say, we live in an even more fractured and balkanized culture than ever, all the old rules seem to no longer apply.
I do believe he is serious. I know he has specifics. And I believe he can win the nomination and the general election. I also firmly believe that the Republican Party needs to undergo a foundational reformation and like him or not Trump has been a real catalyst for that, the Establishment having survived/outlasted/co-opted the Tea Party insurgency. I am not sure that the change I want to see will result but he has illuminated the real and pronounced schism between the Establishment and the people in a way that nobody has, again, since Reagan.
I no longer provide monetary or volunteer support for the Republican party having been shit on one too many times, and I won't change that, but as of now I will say I am Trump supporter.
I have substantive policy differences with several of his stated detailed positions, and I find his approach to certain press events to be pedantic/repetitive, but in the big picture I find him to be the least objectionable alternative and I believe he is the only person being considered who has the ability to connect to the people going around the kingmakers and mainstream media and that is what is needed to enact any real change for our nation.
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That's a great idea. Just start carpet bombing civilians again. We sure know how to win hearts and minds around the world.
Why is it that Americans crave warfare so much?? We just can't get enough of blowing people up and now that we can get bomb site footage on the nightly news, we're just giddy with joy. I swear, if ISIS didn't exist, we have to create them just to have somebody to bomb. Oh wait... we did pretty much create ISIS.
But but but.....don't they remember how that ended?
Progressives will be out in force chanting and celebrating her death.And, you were right. This is just a taste:
Wait for it.
Federal agencies serve at the pleasure of the President. He can shut them down legally. I'd start with Education. Remember, we are a COLLETION OF STATES FIRST.
I was never a waiter either, but I did bartend in college. If I hear Marco Rubio tell me his dad was a bartender again, I'm going to puke. Oh yeah, and Kasich constantly tells me his dad was a mail man. My dad was a dentist. Should I feel guilty?WHITE PRIVILEGE!!!!!!
I thought it was consensual
Let me see I have this right. The media, educational institutions and the government have brain washed half of America with poisonous ideas with nefarious intent of destroying America and the other half of America just knows what is right and true. So if we want a united people, we just need to force the media, the educational institutions and all the branches of government to espouse only what is right and true, then the misguided half of the country will come around and join the "right" side of the country.
"Special interest" groups seem to be the boogie man to people until it's one of their special interests, then it's a collective voice on capitol hill speaking for the people. Why would people need these groups in the first place? Now I see how unification works for conservatives, just get everyone on the left to think as they do and we'll all be unified. No compromise required.
Since the beginning of this country, there have been people on the left and people on the right. The founding fathers fought and argued all the time. It is believed that the majority of the people in the colonies in revolutionary times took the conservative position of sticking with the king and remaining royal subjects of the crown. It is those that we hold dear now that were the lefty progressives of that era. What a radical and dangerous idea, that people should have a say in government!!
I agree that the media and particularly the internet, has amplified and increased the intensity of our opinions. They do this because there is good money in conflict. Ultimately though, it is the people that choose to be divided. If there were no TV, radio, newspaper, or internet, we would still have differences of opinion, but likely be much closer together as our positions wouldn't be so extreme and inflexible. There are millions of people in the country like this now. They avoid politics and the political media out there and they are much more open to other ideas. They are those annoying swing voters, or worse yet, those that don't vote at all.
How in the world that a single individual is supposed emerge and overcome the power of the media and all the rhetoric to bring the country together is beyond me. A very tall order for a mere mortal that was placed in that position by practitioners of partisan politics in the first place.