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I've got a sick 10 yr old kid at home with really bad flu. Today was my turn to stay up all last night and stay home from work today. We have a baby monitor in her room because she is constantly sick to her stomach and we are being the usual over protective types. I'm so bored, I'm posting everywhere and just babbling. Sorry.
@chrisisall, you or somebody in you family has to order you this soon...
http://toyland.gizmodo.com/buy-the-first-bernie-sanders-action-figure-and-help-sup-1761009402
Trump is doing well with Evangelicals, as well as other groups that you wouldn't automatically think he would do well with, because a lot of the population has reached the point where voting against certain held beliefs doesn't outweigh the desire to have someone go to Washington and basically tear the government down from within and get it working again.
Trump isn't who the Evangelicals would normally vote for, at least not the majority of them if voting strictly from that perspective, but combined with the fact that block of voters has been catered to by an extremely weak and openly dishonest candidate (Cruz), that group of voters, along with a sizable chunk of the rest of the Republican electorate, is angry with their party and wants to hit the reset button. Trump is the only candidate that represents that reset button, as the rest of the candidates are very much the establishment, aside from Carson (and this also explains his rise to the top of the polls earlier in the process).
Super insightful article that I'd encourage you to read all the way through (it's pretty funny as well). I have newfound respect for Trump (not his bigotry, his ability) and newfound worry that if it's Clinton v Trump he'll crush her by running to her 'left' on things like prescription drugs, trade agreements, corporate influence, etc. Issues that the 'donor class' who contribute to establishment republicans and democrats feel one way on, but the vast majority of people feel another.
:-bd
They had nearly everyone except for "Mr. Trump". I spoke to the proprietor (a small Chinese lady who didn't speak too much English) and explained the error of her ways and the fact that she likely was losing a lot of sales by not having one of the famous figures in the world in her collection. She didn't seem impressed.
I also did a tour of the Woolworth building (I was the only guest so it was a one on one) and when I brought up Trump to the tour guide he almost lost it on me.
We see this more relaxed in Switzerland. For us this is all great entertainment like only the US can provide.
I almost wish Trump gets to the White House. Just to see the dumb faces of Angela Merkel, Monsieur Hollande and other European Leaders who think they are the best thing since sliced bread, when they are in fact destroying Europe faster than we realise.
Compared to the state Europe will be in, in 5 years, a Trump ruled US will look like paradise.
He has the exact opposite skill set to Obama, who is an intellectual with great public speaking skills but generally aloof and introverted. Trump will be able to get things done (he's a dealmaker and these guys always know how to bring people together when it counts due to their confidence and strength of personality).
I can appreciate how the rest of the world is panicking though, because there will be no pushing him around, unlike the current incumbent.
The European Project is a precarious one imho. I think it's going to be very difficult to hold that place together in its current form for too much longer given economic, demographic & cultural trends. They will have to go 'all in' or just break it up in my view. Or 'two tier' it.
From my perspective at least, I think Obama's halo was pricked during the infamous 'red line' incident on Syria WMD.
The Repubs made a big thing out of it (and him being weak and indecisive) even though he was smart not to launch an attack then (given he would have helped ISIL). Even worse, Putin came in and saved the day with the face saving disarmament proposition. Ever since then, I think a portion of the US public has been subconsciously craving a little toughness from their future leaders.
Enter Trump.
Didn't Clinton rent out the Lincoln bedroom?... Who knows what shenanigans happened there.
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/02/26/clinton.lincoln/
The late night guys will have a field day if Trump wins. Pity Jon Stewart is not in the game any more.
It's not gonna happen. And in the meantime, his supporters are not helping the liberal cause with their anti-Hillary rhetoric. The nom WILL BE Clinton's, and the Berners better get behind her or else we're stuck with Trump, Cruz, or Rubio, and four years of their SCOTUS appointments.
You're right. Bernie is not going to win. Most of the remaining primary states have large black populations and they are voting heavily for Clinton. She'll win most of the Super Tuesday primaries and she also has the unpledged delegates totally locked up and that is a very big block of votes that haven't been counted yet. I'm no fan of Clinton but on some issues like Bernie's plan to dump Obamacare and try to put up single payer Is just hopeless bad judgement, and like free tuition, it just ain't going to happen, even with a democratic congress. Sanders legacy will possibly be that congress will tighten up some crappy Wall Street abuses, but the US electorate is moderate, not left, and Sanders won't win the nomination, even against Clinton, who carries a lot of negative baggage. the Republucan debate tonight will be a food fight.
Hillary might slow the slide a bit, but she's a player. Even IF her heart's in the right place she OWES. Unless she's ready to piss off the Military Industrial Complex that funds her campaign (not likely) she won't change much.
By comparison the Republicans are OWNED.
Trump is a businessman NOT a person who understands the geo-political game. He will destroy us. Possibly literally.
Like I said, he's a BUSINESSMAN.
As has already been stated, Trump isn't financially beholden to any special interests and is a good dealmaker. In other words, he's not ideologically driven in the way that Cruz is. I think that, knowing that it would be a bad deal for himself and the US, he would ultimately back down from WWIII (or at least I hope he would). Cruz, I fear (with good reason), most likely would not.
True, Trump is better than Cruz by a long shot.
Like rabies is better than cancer.
The real fear with Trump is spending on military buildup, but not so much actual engagement. Big puppy at the end of the day.
I don't disagree, although I think that Trump is much better in comparison to Cruz than the given example.
If we had been having this discussion all the way back at the beginning of the campaign, when all (or most) of the 17 Republican candidates were options, then I think the conversation here would be much different.
Everything being equal, I think the Republicans would have been best off with one of the governors taking the nomination (Bush, Kasich, or Christie). My pick, in a field where everything was equal, would have been Kasich.
We're now down to a point where it's the usual vote between the lesser of evils. The way that most people seem to feel about Trump, I feel about Cruz. A Cruz presidency scares me. I'm slightly nervous about a Trump candidacy, but given his business acumen, I think there's a potential risk/reward possibility there that there isn't with Cruz. And Rubio is essentially the GOP's version of Obama, except for the fact that Obama at least went to work when he was in the Senate and did the job he was elected to do. Rubio has skated by on the taxpayer's dime by only going to 40% of the committee sessions he was supposed to attend, not to mention the countless votes that he's missed on the Senate floor.