Posted on 08/15/2015 11:30:28 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
This thread isn’t about me.
It was the moment you posted it.
Refer to comment # 137.
Refer to comment #1.
Refer to comment #138.
You nicely make the point for why I wrote comment #1.
Thank you for your dogged assistance.
“As far as Solyndra goes, where Obama cynically punched 500 million into one of his bundler’s insolvent companies, i fail to see why you would even suggest Trump has done the same thing. But then you know that is a false comparison”
Wrong. It is a perfectly apt comparison. The CEO makes a sizable donation to a candidate’s campaign in exchange for favorable treatment by that candidate post-election. Trump even admits to buying influence through this method. You can deny it all you like, but the similarities are striking. What’s troubling is so many FReepers formerly called this “crony capitalism,” but now it’s “good business.”
As for Trump’s immigration manifesto, I’m all in favor of it as an overall objective, though in reality he’s going to achieve as much of it as hoped (remember, he doesn’t get to “fire” those in the Senate who keep him from reaching that needed 60-vote threshold). The question is.. will he still be for it when he’s addressing a different crowd? His chameleon-like nature on a host of other issues makes the odds of that 50-50 at best.
*in reality he’s NOT going to achieve...
Obviously missed the point. That Trump donated is not the point and is exactly the point he railed against having become involved in. The way it is set up not is that if one does not participate in the process you lose.
I had assumed that people had paid enough attention to what Trump is saying, without the emotion that got us Obama. It is early and Trump is bringing to the forefront the real issues that most of the other candidates are too afraid of to talk about. If it carries him to the office fine, but these are the things that need to be discussed and if no one is saying them we will remain it the same rut we have been in since Reagan.
Oh, I’m most assuredly paying attention to Trump’s words and am measuring them with his background. They just don’t match up; as such, he will not gain my trust.
And the fact Trump paid to play is very much the point. Call “good business” in 2015 what was called “crony capitalism” in the past as you wish, but Trump is getting a pass here, just as he has on the Kelo issue.
Haters gonna hate over anything. No body ever changes their mind. Bye. And by the way I’m not a Trump supporter.
Bye
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