Trumps: White Angry Middleclass

[peggy]

To reply to two different posts, for the first post, click on the 'Multi-Quote" symbol on the far right, then follow up with the "Reply With Quote" button for the second.

Months ago Trump stated that people would continue to vote for him even if he killed somebody. After all the gaffes he has made... I think he is right! He does not have to be diplomatic in any sense. Whatever he decides to spew from his mouth is ok by his followers. I just don't get it!

ETA ... Don't see where you can get both posts... the original was how can you condone him not being diplomatic in any way.....

OK, let see if this works.

OK Alan, i pushed the multi quote button and nothing happened. what's supposed to happen?

[peggy]

OH Ok I see now. when I pushed the button your quote didn't show up for me to type under but just added it to frugal-one's post after the fact, so to speak.
Now how can I quote you, add my comment then quote frugal-one, or anyone else and add my input underneath? know what i mean?

[peggy]

Some of Trump's proposed policies might be interesting to see. Much of what he wants is just hype to get media attention and will never get by the government system of checks and balances, even if he is serious. It's not so much his policies as his persona that are the most disagreeable. When ever I've done a fact checker on his statements, what he says is generally inaccurate. I've only to conclude that he is not very smart, or he is a liar. His arrogance is almost off the scale and not even close to being a good example for other people or children.

If he is elected, I don't think it will be a big disaster. I could see it as sort of like the alcoholic who won't start back up until he's reached rock bottom. It would be an example of what a failure our political system has become and maybe be the impetus for reform. The Republican party could be reduced to rubble.

See, this is just one of the many problems with Trump. He won't give in, or hit bottom or whatever. You think Obama has issued a lot of executive orders (although Bush/Reagan issued way more) Trump will rule by executive order. The first time he gets any push back from congress he will start issuing and won't stop. He is, after all, running for CEO of America and as CEO he expects his every whim to be fulfilled. His ego would not allow him to compromise.
To him, a bankruptcy is simply another opportunity to build it up again. Bankrupt a business, bankrupt a country...it's all the same to him. It really is a game for him. He's the drunk uncle at Thanksgiving who declares that if they would put HIM in charge he would fix everything.

[Ultralight]

The Trump presidency is going to be really fun!

[Alan]

OH Ok I see now. when I pushed the button your quote didn't show up for me to type under but just added it to frugal-one's post after the fact, so to speak.
Now how can I quote you, add my comment then quote frugal-one, or anyone else and add my input underneath? know what i mean?

You can multi-quote as many posts as you want. Each time you click on the multi-quote button, nothing will happen until you get to your final quotable post and activate the 'Reply With Quote' link. Then all the posts will show up in your Quick Reply box, formatted as individual quotes.
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[LDAHL]

I will admit I'd be interested to see what the Trump Presidential Library might look like.

[Ultralight]

I will admit I'd be interested to see what the Trump Presidential Library might look like.

Zing! LOL

[peggy]

Oh I don't know about leading the charge, but she did her best to sell it.

As did every Congress person when dealing with the folks back home. Everyone, save the few who didn't vote for it. Everyone else stood behind their President, assuming he wouldn't be so dishonest as to lie to them to enter a deadly, and expensive war. You do realize the Dems weren't exactly let in on the secret meetings and intelligence. plenty of Republicans weren't as well. They only let them see what they wanted them to see to bolster their assertions.
Bush, Chaney, Rice, Rumsfeld, and the few top republicans who did see ALL of the intelligence should be in prison. They are war criminals.
I will never forgive them, and every person who lost a loved one will never forgive them. Ever. Our men and women didn't die for this country, your freedom, or any other blah blah blah people try to sell. They died for no-bid contracts and oil. And revenge and ego. Period. They created Isis.

And they created Trump. He is simple the culmination of 30 years of hate, fear, lock and load second amendment solutions, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah palin, welfare queens, 47% takers, they're coming for your guns and bibles, dems hate America and freedom....and a ready supply of the not so bright to believe them.

Frankly, I find it amusing that the right is (acting) so shocked by the rise of Trump. He is everything they believe in. He just says it without code words and dog whistles.
Point by point, anyone could take any of Trumps positions and find a wealth of republicans who say/believe the exact same thing. Just not so crude about it. This is the real fear the right has of Trump. He exposes them for what they really are and what they really believe.

[Alan]

You do realize the Dems weren't exactly let in on the secret meetings and intelligence. plenty of Republicans weren't as well. They only let them see what they wanted them to see to bolster their assertions.
Bush, Chaney, Rice, Rumsfeld, and the few top republicans who did see ALL of the intelligence should be in prison. They are war criminals.

For your edification, and my amusement:

[LDAHL]

I think the Trump phenomenon pretty much came as a surprise to everybody. Some on the Left can now claim He's the result of years of coarse lies and hate-mongering that the Left's high standard of discourse was unable to counter. If everything else is ultimately GW Bush's fault, why not this as well? Some on the Right can say he's a reaction to a pusillanimous GOP establishment that failed to oppose the abuses of the Obama administration vigorously enough, as well as a popular revolt against increasingly aggressive political correctness in the culture at large.

Personally, I think it's foolish and simplistic to claim any particular set of forces "created" Trump like some kind of Frankenstein's monster. I think we are in a period where dissatisfied people express their frustration through demagogues making impossible and inconsistent promises and offering up plausible scapegoats like Trump or Sanders.