Why I Can't Take Donald Trump Seriously

Discussion in 'Politics Discussion' started by FlyFish998, Sep 21, 2015.

  1. kgord

    kgord Senior Investor

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    I just saw an interview with Trump on 60 minutes. It was full of his usual bragging and unsubstantiated promises, how everything is going to be peachy keen with him at the helm, how he "gets along with politicians" It was pointed out to him, that he can't buy them. He has no realistic idea how anything in world affairs works or doesn't work. Plus he won't take the time to even study these issues now while he is a candidate so he understands what he is talking about. He is just a blathering idiot and narcisscist in my opinion. Let him stick to running his fading empire.
     
  2. tol3rd

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    you a smart person not taking trim seriously. he insults war heroes, women and any one lease who's not a war hero or woman. he's an entertainer and will be out of the running within 6 months.
     
  3. Profit5500

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    Donald Trump cannot run a country except to the ground with his mouth. I would not even want to rely on him in regards to anything government related. He is just someone wanting attention and that is that. I cannot even figure out why this guy is still alive.
     
  4. JR Ewing

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    ScooterBrandon Senior Investor

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    Ahh interesting thank you for clearing that up. Didnt come across that

    But I wonder what actually happened, if she said she felt "violated" there is a strong chance that consent wasn't given or consent was coerced. With all that's on the line for Trump I feel as if we won't get the full story.

    How exactly can someone so dumb as to utter the phrase "you cannot rape your spouse" get to be the special council to anything?
     
  6. FrankieD

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    Trump impressed me on a few fronts, and three of them in particular are very powerful I feel.

    One, he is not a politician and is more raw and honest. It's more than refreshing, it's probably what is really needed.

    Two, he is not hindered by special interest money, and is therefore more independent. I'm sick of our elected officials being corrupted by corporate sponsors.

    Three, I do think he has what it takes, better than the others, to improve various economic conditions. I think we will get better trade deals and business incentives for better job growth.
     
  7. baudwalk

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    Lessee... Donald vs Hillary. Who would I vote for? Sure as h--- it wouldn't be a liberal "the community should raise children" social progressive of the Alinsky-Cloward-Piven school who runs a private email server holding goverment confidential security documents (sharing said contents with Chine and Russia) and leaves ambassador/staff to due at the hands of a mob agitated by a video tape. Nuts. Pfft.
     
  8. SteakTartare

    SteakTartare Senior Investor

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    +1. She's absolutely unqualified for the highest office in the land. Heck, I'd vote for anyone in the GOP field over the Hildabeast. Granted, some would require some serious nose holding, but, still. And the Donald, well, say what you will about the man, he knows how to get things done. And he's not Hillary. ;)
     
  9. JR Ewing

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    Yeah, I don't know the whole story or context on that comment Cohen made, but it's pretty hard to defend such a dumb statement. I would fire (or at least seriously demote) any attorney of mine who would say such a thing - it's factually incorrect, and very bad PR for someone wanting to run for office. Even if he was somehow joking, it was a stupid thing to say.
     
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    My problem isn't with how he feels about immigration, or anything else. Everybody is entitled to their own opinions and I respect that. My problem is that Trump is appealing purely to emotion and not in the slightest bit to reason. While he is touching on something many Americans care deeply about, this doesn’t change the fact that he is proposing nonsense solutions to a complex, multi-faceted human rights issue. Ignoring the fact that only 52% of illegal immigrants are even Mexican, many of whom simply overstayed their legal visas, the problems with building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico are numerous and would severely outweigh the benefits. A wall would be extremely expensive (around four billion dollars, more than our entire current DHS budget). And that's not even mentioning the ecological impact, considering the Rio Grande and thousands of it's small subsidiaries run along the border. So a wall would either cause an environmental disaster, depriving many local communities of a water source, or there would have to be countless holes in it, defeating the entire purpose of a wall. And he's going to make Mexico pay for it... How is he going to do that? Force them? There's no way that would happen. And what exactly does he plan to do about the roughly six million illegal Mexican immigrants already in the county? Just deport them? That's a logistical nightmare and simply not possible, something even Reagan realized when he granted amnesty to 3.2 million illegal immigrants back in 1986. This is more than a little ironic, considering Trump stole Reagan's campaign slogan "make America great again".

    Not to mention that his idea of foreign policy, which is arguably one of the most important responsibilities of a president is a complete joke. Even Bill O'Reilly, one of TV’s most conservative pundits grilled him about his vague military strategy to "encircle and destroy" ISIS. This would not only require sending massive amounts of US ground troops into countries where there are currently none, violating the sovereignty of those nations, but it simply wouldn't work. We have learned repeatedly (Vietnam, Iraq) that we cannot effectively fight an enemy that blends into local communities and fights an unconventional war. In short, “The Donald” has no campaign platform, no experience in government, and no real policy ideas. He’s Reagan without Reaganism. He is a bloated, billionaire symptom of America's increasingly "winner-take-all economy", and is a cancer to our U.S. political system, which is already disassociated enough with reality. Although maybe the silver lining will be that he will crash and burn so hard he takes the entire Republican Party down with him.
     

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