There is a lot of time until the elections but I doubt it. Hispanics will vote against him in record numbers. The majority of women wont vote for him. The republican party wont be united behind him so I expect many republicans wont even vote. His only chance of winning will be to convince voters that Hillary is worse than he is and his master plan to do that involves reviving the Monica Lewinsky scandal. And lets not forget that he's treating the National Inquirer's story about Ted Cruises father being linked to the JFK assassination as possible fact. Why the hell is he even reading that? I just don't see how any self respecting republican can vote for him.
You guys obviously haven't paid enough attention to Trump's "economic plans"… http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/05/08/media-slam-trump-s-insane-plan-default-us-debt/210297 It's not going to matter if he penalizes companies for off-shoring jobs if they collapse the economy by defaulting on the debt. His economic ideas are total cr*p if you actually pay attention.
lol no I don't follow his policy plans on twitter. I'm sure he's already changed his mind a dozen times. People vote on emotion not actual policy, imo.
"Make America Great Again" = emotion "Build a wall on the Mexican border, ban Muslims, punish companies that offshore, torture terror suspects, default on U.S. debt" = policy.
Well apparently while eating his morning bowl of Cheerios he decided that nuclear proliferation is Asia would be a good thing. He wants to give South Korea and Japan their own nukes and then pull the US out of the area. I don't see how that could end poorly.
Except, defaulting... all of those attract an emotional response from his fan base. I don't believe Trump has an official policy. He is like an entertainer trying out new material, if it works he sticks with it. If it doesn't work he immediately abandons it and tries something else. The logistics of building a wall are ridiculous and it will never work as intended. But people don't care about the reality, having a wall makes them feel better.
Unfortunately, it's a variation of what the libertarian wing of the GOP has always wanted: use default to dismantle democratic government and replace it with autocratic rule. They're all closet monarchists, Trump included.
Trump seals the deal by getting 1238 delegates. Crooked Hiliary hasn't officially clinched it but will be the winner. Between a cartoonishly evil politician and a reality TV clown, I'm not sure the least worst candidate is obvious.
I'm not pro-Hillary but I think my aversion to news these days has made me miss the reason as to why she's been labeled as dishonest. At least more so than the average politician. Is it just the email server thing?
Big bucks from "speeches" to Wall St. banking and financial firms is one issue. The dishonest part there is that they try and pretend that there isn't any pay-to-play going on…that the person getting paid is just a really, really, really, REALLY good speaker and deserves millions for it.
Ah I get it. Sort of a way to get campaign donations without any accountability. She can't be the first person to do this.
It isn't anything new, but $153 million in 15 years is an eye-opener... http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/politics/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-paid-speeches/
I can understand why people voted for Brexit. I would not be happy if my government was sending billions of dollars to a government in Brussels I had no say in electing. Americans fought a war of independence against that kind of thing. I think people are also getting tired of living in a weak pussy country when Britain used to be a world spanning empire. I also would not want to be taking in a bunch of Syrian refugees. I know many of them are victims, but it is also so easy for ISIS to slip in agents and fuck shit up. Voting for Brexit is also a big fuck you to the world political establishment, which I can totally understand. I think people are underestimating Trump the same way they underestimated Brexit. A lot of people are extremely pissed off at the political establishment and see voting for a Trump as a way to say fuck you. I'm actually starting to lean towards voting for Trump. Not because I agree with him (I voted for Sanders in the primary), but because he would be a destructive, chaotic force that would send a message to the corrupt political establishment in Washington that we are tired of their bullshit. Don't want to listen to us? Fine, we'll vote in an orange reality TV clown who will burn everything to the ground. A vote for Hillary is a vote for more of the same. Sanders could have actually made things better, but the corrupt Democratic Party with their superdelegates and Wall Street donors made sure he was never going to happen, and I'd rather not vote than vote for Shillary. She's the embodiment of a crooked career politician with pockets full of dirty Wall Street money,
If you're fine with the potential destruction and chaos of a Trump presidency, what exactly is it about the corrupt politicians that bothers you?
Everything Let's start with how they only represent the wealthiest 1%. Why has no one who orchestrated the 2008 financial collapse gone to prison? Why don't we have universal healthcare? Why isn't college affordable or free? Why isn't housing affordable? Why are our taxes so high when they don't seem to help the average person in any way? Why do our schools suck so much when we pay such high taxes? Why is our military spending so wasteful? Why do we incarcerate so many non-violent offenders for such long sentences in mostly private prisons? Why are we carrying out multi-trillion dollar wars abroad when our country is falling apart? Literally because our infrastructure is old and collapsing. Why are corporations and the super rich getting tax breaks that they don't need? Why aren't companies who outsource American jobs to save a few bucks treated like traitorous scum, and punished severely? Why do we send so much money and aid to countries that hate us and do nothing for us in return? I could go on all day. Fuck our corrupt political establishment that no longer represents the common man. Maybe voting for an orange reality TV clown who shits on everything will finally make them listen. That he is bringing down the Republican Party who caused many of these problems in the first place is just an added bonus. We could have done things the right way with Sanders, but the establishment wouldn't let us have him. So it's time to do things the dirty way. Or you can vote for a career politician who thinks everything is just peachy, is basically a traditional establishment Republican in her views despite running as a Democrat, and wouldn't change a thing.
Trump is a business opportunist running as a nationalist whose posing as a republican. There's very little to agree with him on since at the end of the day he hasn't ever said much about anything. Republicans back him because they are afraid they'll lose their seats if they don't. What they may not realize is that Trump was never and will never be beholden to them. If he wins he'll use his term to grown his nationalist movement and diminish the republican party. At this point the best thing the republicans could do for their own party is loose the presidential election. Oh and sorry about the UK thing. Sounds like Ireland, Scotland and Wales will all leave soon. Whats left should probably fit in the back of my car. I'm no expert but it seems like the short term looks bleak but the long term is still open to a positive future. Who knows what will happen in 10 years. I just hope the rest of Europe doesn't got all retribution on you like a WW1 tribunal.
@alterego A Trump presidency would destroy the Republican Party once and for all and disrupt the political establishment in Washington. Both of those sound like wins for the common man to me.