Fluffy

Trump is a one man wrecking crew who exposed the underbelly of electoral politics in the United States. He found the soft spot and I have gratitude for that, I really do. He articulated out loud what the republicans were afraid to say in public, and now he's got David Brooks and George Will clutching their pearls. So, yeah. He crashed the party. Good on him. Is he the one to carry the banner forward? In my opinion? No.

Just because Bernie is slightly more polite than Trump doesn't mean he hasn't done the same for the democrats. He won't be able to wrestle the nomination from Hillary's clutches, and that's a sad thing, because she's emblematic of all things wrong with our government. Once again, the feckless democrats have caved to the status quo. Schultz the fixer has fixed the whole thing, along with Obama's help. What do I have to say about Obama? A corporatist shill. I knew he was a conciliator long before he got elected. He's almost gone. Time to find a new scapegoat, a new water carrier for the big dick masters of the universe.

So, you ask who is going to pay for the leftward drift? Taxpayers of course. Hillary is in Wall Street's pocket. That's the problem on the left. Who do you think is going to pay for Trump's wall? Who do you think is going to pay for anything Trump wants to do? Good God man. He's got Sheldon Adelson bankrolling him at this point. What? You think Sheldon is okay with taxing corporations? Right-o, mate. These blowhard republicans think anything is going to be different under Trump? Dream on dude.

eden

Yes I understand plurale tantum but I deliberately used it in this context for reasons of style and practicality. Faeces flinging doesn't roll off the tongue as neat and satisfyingly as faece (or fece) flinging does. Also I would assume you would throw single faeces, as in one at a time to ensure better accuracy than grabbing a handful of them and lobbing the whole bunch which could result in some breaking up in flight and landing on yourself.

Loki Loc: Georgia

You appear to have me confused with an enthusiastic Trump supporter. Reluctant is more accurate. I would rather take a chance that he will accomplish at least part of what he promises, than take a chance on Hillary the Harridan accomplishing any of what she promises.
Of course Trump is at least partly in Wall Street's pocket. Until the campaign finance process is remodeled into something totally different from what we have now, all the candidates will be in Wall Street's pocket.
Taxpayers will not pay for the leftward drift, because they don't have the money. The middle class is shrinking. No nation that outsources it's manufacturing jobs, which is the foundation on which the middle class is built, can remain prosperous, especially with borders as porous as ours are, and the tsunami of illegals coming in to take "jobs Americans won't do." Why won't Americans do these jobs? Because they don't have to. When I was a child, no one would have dreamed of hiring a wetback gardener when there were so many high school kids looking for a lawn to mow. These same high school kids also fleshed out the ranks of the seasonal migrant workers. We put up many a bale of hay, and picked plenty of lettuce and other crops. The US is becoming a nation of an upper class of management, and a horde of poverty stricken illegals and marginalized former middle class manufacturing employees.
I believe it was Alexis de Tocqueville who said, in his book Democracy in America that we would survive until the electorate discovered they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. (That is a paraphrase, by the way, I don't have time to look up the exact wording ). Bread and circuses.

danang Loc: Florida

hey "tdsrnest" you take some left wing so called journalist copied comments and you expect us to take it as gospel? We just watched Trump make mincemeat out of the best and the brightest politicians the right had running (16 of them!) and you expect to give us a couple articles from journalists to tell us who he is? I don't care about comments made from one side or the other. His kids, he's employees, his friends, business friends, his childhood friends, Megan Kelly now speak about Donald Trump with distinctions and honor, this group is enough for me! He is smarter than the whole Senate and the House combined! They are arguing about wether he is worth 10 Billion or 4 Billion, cut me a brake, if you combine all of the crooked politician pukes who are exempt on insider trading are not worth 20 % of what he is worth!
Now to get to the meat of the story, if he does 50 % of what he promises I'm more than happy to vote on a second term for him and once he is done I hope he make 20 more Billian dollars! Also I don't care that he is a Egomaniac and a Braggart as long as he is on the right side of history!

These are the present POLLS for Donald Trump GO TRUMP GO!!!!!
Saturday, May 21.


Is Donald Trump Suited to Be Our Next President?

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1) Do you think Donald Trump is qualified be the next president of the United States?

Yes - 83.8% (207,811 votes)
No - 16.2% (47,920 votes)

2) How would you rate Donald Trump’s chances of winning the republican nomination?

Very Likely - 58.8% (168,714 votes)
Somewhat likely - 31.8% (83,334 votes)
Somewhat unlikely - 6.5% (17,522 votes)
No chance of winning the nomination - 2.7% (7,762 votes)

3) Do you agree with Donald Trump’s Policy on immigration?

Yes, I support his immigration policy - 77.9% (199,239 votes)
No, I do not support his immigration policy - 5.4% (15,728 votes)
I agree with parts of his immigration policy, but do not fully support it - 16.6% (46,862 votes)

4) Which candidate would you most like to see win the Republican nomination for President?

Donald Trump - 61.5% (163,606 votes)
Jeb Bush - 1.5% (3,276 votes)
Ben Carson - 8.3% (18,357 votes)
Chris Christie - 1.2% (2,118 votes)
Ted Cruz - 17.7% (47,776 votes)
Carly Fiorina - 1.8% (4,006 votes)
John Kasich - 1% (7,062 votes)
Rand Paul - 1% (2,411 votes)
Mike Huckabee - 1.3% (2,803 votes)
Marco Rubio - 3.3% (9,501 votes)
Other - 1.2% (3,725 votes)

5) Which Republican candidate do you think has the best chance of beating Hillary Clinton in the general election?

Donald Trump - 66% (178,266 votes)
Jeb Bush - 1.1% (2,394 votes)
Ben Carson - 6.2% (12,770 votes)
Marco Rubio - 2.9% (5,356 votes)
Carly Fiorina - 5.3% (14,718 votes)
Ted Cruz - 13.2% (39,135 votes)
John Kasich - 0.7% (4,693 votes)
Chris Christie - 0.6% (1,136 votes)
Mike Huckabee - 0.3% (712 votes)
Rand Paul - 0.5% (1,046 votes)
None. There isn’t a republican candidate who can take down Hillary Clinton - 2.4% (7,431 votes)
Other - 0.6% (1,910 votes)

Now put that in your pipe and smoke it!!!! He is going to chew up Hillary, Croked Hillary, Killary, Mrs Bullshit and Slick Willy and spit them out and go HOME!
This poll is from today from the LEAGUE of Power!
http://www.leagueofpower.com/surveys/donald_trump/stats.html

danang Loc: Florida

I fully agree with the first part of your writing, till you get to the point where you say, "Do you think that it"s gonna be different under D. Trump?" and I say to that, hell yes, that is the reason he is running! Corporate taxes will be down, or have you not read Trumps website? Please read It!
the newest POLL today!

http://www.leagueofpower.com/surveys/donald_trump/stats.html

Fluffy

I do not mistake you for an energetic Trump supporter. I am on the other end of the spectrum, but I have to agree that you make some valid points. People need good paying jobs that enable them to support their families. None of the policies of our government support this general idea. Ross Perot, for example, was right when he talked about the giant sucking sound of our jobs going south. Nafta totally screwed our economy. Every single trade agreement has screwed the middle class. One reason I support Bernie is that he realizes a high school education doesn't cut it any more. He thinks public education should be extended to community college. I agree. It's pretty clear the information economy has left behind millions of workers who now suffer from high suicide rates and drug addiction. Now it's true we have to figure out how to pay for not only the loss of jobs but also the retraining. Bernie's plan is to tax the wealthy, tax income the same whether it is from capital gains or physical labor. In fact, I think personally that labor being more precious and harder on people should be taxed less than capital gains. Some schlub sitting in a chair doing day trading pays less than a plumber? I don't think that's fair at all. And, people vary in their proclivities. Some are better with their hands, others with their brains. We cannot be a nation of all information workers and retail clerks, with an ever shrinking labor force due to automation. The whole thing needs to be rethought very carefully.

Look, our economy cannot survive without immigrants. I grew up on the border. Wetbacks, as you so ungraciously call them, are some of the hardest workers around. I went to high school with Mexicans. They were hard working respectful students. Some were gang members. None were perfect. Some people in my family married Mexicans. I speak Spanish. We had a Mexican American mayor who became the first Mexican American ambassador from the US. He was our representative in the OAS. Our Mexican American student body president lived across the street from us. He became a public school superintendent in California. You just cannot tell me anything about how I grew up. I taught Mexicans English as a second language. These people were avid learners and knew if they were going to get anywhere in the world they needed to learn English. I also taught at two community colleges and two universities. None of my students were as hard working as the Mexicans I taught ESL to. None. Sorry, but you are just wrong. Yes, there are some problems. They can be solved. Exporting guns, jobs, at the expense of our own people, is wrong. Exporting our war on drugs which undermined Central America is wrong. No doubt. But to characterize Mexicans as rapists is beyond the pale. So is calling them wetbacks. I know you are better than that. They comprise our entire southern border. Why would anyone want to antagonize them? Not a smart move on Trump's part. Do you screw with your neighbor? No.

Neither Hillary nor Trump have the inclination or ability to think this through. This is my opinion and I'm sticking to it.

Look, those jobs aren't coming back... How do you repair the economy? Frankly, the entire world economy is in shambles. Ours is in the best shape by far of all of them, but that doesn't mean much at this point. We're in flux. Who knows what it's going to look like in ten, twenty years? I've been reading Brad Delong recently. He thinks outsourcing is not such a bad thing. It's the policy mismanagement that sucked. Of course he's on the left so you might not agree with him. He's gotten me to rethink some of my assumptions though.

I could go on, but frankly I don't have the time. I gotta go.

Interesting convo tho.

Airforceone

I am not a democrat I just point out issue on the religious extremist on the right that are trying to take my civil rights away to create a theocracy. I am a fiscal conservative. 1981 well where are the rest of Trumps tax returns you guys have had a field day with Hilliarys tax returns. Let's find out how much Trump is worth and most of all wether he pays any taxes. Rumor has it he has paid zero taxes since 1981. Want to see where he is investing after all if you earn $400 million a year let's have a look. Ricko stop being a wise ass it's not very becoming of such an intellectually sound person.

Fluffy

There seems to be no room in the Republican Party for a fiscal conservative, which is kind of sad because most of my conservative friends are in the same boat as you. Perhaps you are more of a libertarian?

Loki Loc: Georgia

The last time there was a huge tax on "the rich" was in the 1950's, if I am not mistaken. Do not make the mistake of believing that this was a tax on their total income. Most of that was safely socked away in shelters. If I have a thousand bucks, and $990 of it is in a tax shelter, why should I care if you tax the remaining $10 at 90%? Anytime "the rich" stand to take a soaking, amigo, they will cover their butts. They did not get so wealthy and stay that way by being idiots.

I, too, grew up in the Southwest, in a town that was more than 50% Latino. Hablo español también. Everyday, there are thousands of Mexicans who cross the border, transact their legitimate business for a day or a week or whatever, and go home. These people are not the problem, nor are they wetbacks. Migrant workers are not the problem either. The people who sneak into this country, and immediately start scamming our sieve-like entitlement programs, who have no intention of assimilating into our culture or becoming citizens or even learning English, but are simply here for whatever they can scam ARE the problem. More than a third of our Federal prison population are illegal Mexicans. You don't go to Federal prison over a parking ticket.
When I say "wetbacks," I refer to the illegals who fall into the latter categories of people I described. As a matter of fact, the first time I ever heard the term was from one of my Latino classmates in school. Right now the family two houses down the road from me are naturalized US citizens from Mexico. They are very good neighbors, and they don't like wetbacks very much either. They also use the term as does another member of their family who owns the insurance agency I use.

Loki Loc: Georgia

Actually he is more of an ignorant, obnoxious, prevaricating troll.

Ricko Loc: Florida

tdsrnest-not to worry as long as Pres. Trump is presiding. He will appoint level headed justices who will adhere to the Constitution. Those who legislate from the Bench are more apt to be the liberals. As for congress, it is relatively ineffective as we speak with an approval rating worst than that of the Honest John car dealership. As long as we lack leadership in the Oval Office we will not see any changes beneficial to the country and its citizens. Hillary is a continuation of Obama with more taxes and more regulations which has stifled our economy. We need bold actions emanating from the White House and we will not get those from a consummate professional politician. We need term limits in Congress and the SCOTUS. Only an outsider will initiate such actions as insiders like it the way it is. Do not blame Citizens United for anything other than making an offer. Conversely, blame the person who accepts the offer. I do not believe they are all bought and paid for but I do believe that some are. How else would a person who is paid 175K annually become a multimillionaire in short order ? Meanwhile, do not be surprised if a third party is formed-The American Party or Party of the People which will embrace and absorb those elements of both parties who represent the will of the people . What will be left will be the establishments of both parties, who have been in the game for themselves for decades, which will be rendered essentially powerless. Are we ready for one party rule ? We can all agree that we need a house cleaning in Washington, D.C. and one always does a better job with a new broom. A good barometer is the reaction of foreign governments to a Trump presidency. They are fearful that the free rides will end with Pres. Trump so they prefer Hillary who will allow our country to continue being the patsy. Good Luck America !!!

Ricko Loc: Florida

tdsrnest-to cite a 35 year old tax return when Trump suffered more losses than he had gains is not an honest assessment. Trump has been audited every year for the past 10 or 15 years and if there is anything amiss the IRS will let us know. With some 400 plus businesses I would think some accountant, somewhere might make a mistake. If that happens Trump will be required to amend his return similar to what is happening right now to the Clinton Foundation who allegedly forgot to declare millions in foreign donations. I would bet that Trump pays millions in taxes. His income for the past 17 months was reported to be over 550 million which is an increase of 190million above expectations. One would be foolish to assume that Trump does not pay any taxes. PS. td we must inject some levity into the process. Pulling your chain gets an immediate reaction ! You will not get fiscal conservatism with Hillary or Bernie !! Good Luck America !!!

Airforceone

Are you kidding me he went on national TV and his justification for the Iraq war in his own words Saddem will attack us in the form of a mushroom cloud. Give me a break are you really that brain dead or were you living under a rock

archie bunker Loc: Texas

You are a fraud Thomas! You claim to live in a 1.5 million dollar house in the Woodlands,Tx. Yet every screenshot you post is from a time zone East of Texas. You live in Florida. I know this about you, and then some.

Airforceone

You all have trouble dealing with facts both left and right.