Posted on 01/12/2017 3:26:48 PM PST by StormPrepper
I meant to say we attended our first Trump rally in September 2015.
The main complaint against Bush,Romney,McConnell, Boehner, etal is not that they are wrong on the issues. Their lack of a spine, lack of cajones in the face of PC is their major fault.
Many of us were not certain Trump was a real conservative. But we admired him for having cajones. A masculine man in an age when it was not politically correct to exude masculinity.
That he was not part of the Washington failure who kept trying the same failed programs and thinking this time they would work.
I heard more than a few Freepers express that idea, early in the primary, but I never could see the logic in it.
Why would any candidate who has the charisma and strength to "clear the way", do so for another candidate, and not for himself?
Logic dictates he wouldn't.
Conversely, if a candidate isn't capable enough, or strong enough to clear his own path, does that candidate deserve our votes?
The answer is obviously no.
“In like Flynn”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_like_Flynn
“Quinion also notes that the title of the film In Like Flint (1967) is a play on the term, and that has led to a malapropism where some speakers believe that is the original phrase.”
“COjones...”
His um....... backbone.
There’s man who tells it like it is and makes NO apology for it.
He’s strong and is a fighter and that is VERY appealing to me.
What did it for some people I know was his stand on the abortion issue in that third debate.
I was already in his camp and mr. mm wasn’t sure, but when we heard that, that put both of us SOLIDLY ion his side.
And it’s only been getting better since then. Mr mm was especially impressed with his plans for divesting himself from his business dealings to avoid the conflict of interest stuff.
THAT’S integrity.
Something we haven’t seen from a political leader in WAY too long.
Or maybe that is when the politically slow had their light bulb moment. There were many of us on the Trump train from day 1. He had me at wall.
Is a breath of fresh air.
And honestly, I know Putin is not popular here, but I have a LOT of respect for him for the exact same reason.
I may not agree with everything he says or does but he's a man's man.
I was savaging him myself, being a Ted Cruz person at the time. I viewed Trump as a threat to a Cruz nomination.
Then that happened, made me real damn sad and angry.
I cannot imagine what it must have been like to be either her or her dad on that day. I still can’t.
And then I began to listen to Trump, and he convinced me that he is sincere. Turning point.
I was thinking of James Coburn, and the movie, when I said that. Don’t know why, just popped into my head.
He has helped thousands, thousands who never asked and who never knew someone would help until he appeared. Think about that.
And his kids have followed in his footsteps.
The act of finding the homeless woman who tried to protect his sidewalk star was not a rarity. It is typical of Donald and his people. When they could not find her, they asked street vendors, storefront managers, other homeless and bums, until they tracked her down. And then they took care of her.
The press did not report it, but the Trump people acting on behalf of Donald Trump did it without seeking publicity or any benefit of publicity. They did it because he was taught it was the right thing to do by his mother and father.
Even the smear story about his abuse of eminent domain was in reality, an incredible offer to a stubborn lady who exercised her right to fight ED in court. And she won, but her family lost.
The real back story is that the ‘sharks’ (as he called them) in Atlantic City wanted to use ED to take Vera Coking’s home away from her but not before Donald interceded and asked that he first make her an offer. He offered her nearly $2 million and she stubbornly refused. Then the ‘sharks’ went after her while Donald distanced himself from them.
A few years later, Vera died and her family regretted that she was so stubborn because the Trump offer would have lifted a lot of them up a notch in society, would have paid for college educations for some of the young or helped start businesses. But the home sold for less than $250,00 and the estate taxes left the family with zero.
Donald is no Saint, not by a long shot. But he’s from the old school where he learned to treat people fairly as he walked through life. Look at all his family, all the ex’s and children, all of them were well taken care of. He took care of all of them.
Donald was made to work his butt off when growing up. When going to college, his father made him work weekends cleaning and replacing toilets in the apartment projects they worked on. His college buddies partied while he worked and worked. The only break he got was a few hours in Church on Sundays where he would listen to his pastor Norman Vincent Peale talk about the power of positive thinking and treating each human being in a fair manner.
When we investigate the background of Donald Trump, testimonies of people that knew him, of his early influences, it is not difficult to see why he acts as he does.
He has been a lady’s man. He cusses as any New Yorker does as a habit. He’s had to work with the mob in NYC construction or persons associated with them. But he has always had a strong moral compass and a work ethic and energy that are nothing short of astonishing.
He has had failures. He lost a fortune, all that his father built up over a lifetime. He lost it in the 1990s S&L crisis which I believe is at root in his feud with the Bush family who tend to screw up everything for others in the areas of financing and banking with everything they touch or fail to regulate.
During that time Donald was not overleveraged, he had done everything right. But the crisis left the market empty for buying his developments, and so they were devalued. They were so devalued that he was left owing hundreds of millions more than he was worth and his creditors wanted to ruin him for life.
People that were with him in those days of his having lost his family fortune remarked that he walked outside of a building where inside he had just finished a heated meeting with his creditors and bankers, and he looked on the sidewalk where a homeless man was sitting and fumbling a dollar bill. Donald was said to say “look at this fellow, he’s richer than me”.
But Donald refused to die, refused to give up. Rather than run away as a failure, he took it head on and turned it around to an even bigger success. All this comes from the spirit of his father Fred and his mother Mary Anne, and of Pastor Norman Vincent Peale.
Here is all the above in a short Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mO5cXCC8V4
There are many inspirational videos involving Donald Trump but this video shows what’s at his core and where it comes from.
And there have been times when Donald walked around a little lost in life. The S&L crisis and the loss of his family fortune left him in divorce, lonely, deserted by friends. He found ‘lust’ (as he called it) with Marla Maples and he married her when she was pregnant by him (again the right ‘moral’ thing to do) and he took care of her and the child and still does to this day. After he divorced her, he remained lost until he found Melania and she straightened him out. She is tough and strict and just what he needs.
Believe me, I tried to separate the myth of the man from the facts but all of the above came from people that knew him, many of who made the remarks when he was not even a star or not even thinking of political office. His life has been so public. There has been no real effort to erase parts that were unflattering because his MO has always been to make things right and treat people fairly.
Then there are old videos on YouTube where he is seen testifying before Congress on economics, tax reform, and regulatory reform. For those with an above par understanding of economics and business, there is not even a question that Donald Trump is a master of finance, banking, taxes, regulation, trade, investment. He simply has the right stuff. And yet, he’s able to talk respectfully to the trades people, the plumbers, carpenters, electricians and to admire their experience and talents. He actually feels more comfortable with such people than he does with high-profile titled people wearing expensive suits.
I searched and searched for so long to find the Achilles Heel of his life. I studied the allegations of the 13-year old who accused him of statutory rape, and all the others. In every case, it all pointed to shyster lawyers wanting to get a payoff. Even Schneiderman is a front for some real nasty sonsofb*tch shysters in NYC who can’t make an honest wage plying their trade, so they resort to various forms of legal extortion.
And Trump U? Later renamed Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, this was all about young entrepreneurs wanting to get sponsorship from Donald Trump himself to institutionalize his methods in real estate development in NYC which was going like gangbusters until a confluence of Wall St. greed, Federal Reserve malfeasance, and Bush 43 (yep, Bushies again) lack of enforcement brought the American economy down (see Michael Lewis’ non-fiction work The Big Short or see the film now on Netflix). “Hey! Mr. Trump! We built these things in the Village and sold it for a profit, and we improved this on the East end and profited and now we have all these people wanting to get into this and to have us show them how it’s done. We need you to help us start a training academy to show so many people how to do it. We have a business plan, will you please look at it?”
And Donald, when he sees talent, energy, and drive, he gets behind it 100%.
I don’t like hero-worship because 90%+ of the time there will be disappointment. But with Trump, I don’t expect disappointment because the man NEVER GIVES UP. He doesn’t back down, he plows ahead and doubles down or he solves problems and shows why he’s a turn-around artist.
In the above video link time 8:55:
“Above all, never give up!”
“Never never never give up!”
“The only time you will be a failure is if you quit trying.”
“Only losers quit.”
“The biggest losers in the world are quitters.”
That’s his father talking through him in the above.
So Trump is one in a billion and that is the danger. The real danger is we have an opportunity to have historic leadership but years after Donald has exited the White House, who in hell can follow such an act? That’s the problem. My take on that is we need structural reforms to make sure we don’t go again through years like Obama, Clinton, and even Bush 41, 43. We were precariously near to losing the Republic just two months ago. We must have safeguards to protect us from such corruption. We won’t always have a Donald Trump around the corner to come in to clean house.
I’ve met some Russian men who have come over from the old country and they are MEN!
NO comparison to most American men. I agree.
Thank you for sharing the video and your research.
We are blessed. Trump is a gift, but he is one man, for this time.
I pray that the demonic fog be lifted from this nation and that we will have a vibrant recovery, as individuals and as a nation. I pray that we triumph over the lethargy and corruption.
More people see the ugly behind The Left, as the mask has been removed. We have a lot of work, to reverse the damage of 70 years of heavy propaganda. However, we are in front row seats to a Period of Enlightenment or an Awakening. This is very exciting. And as Trump said in the video, “do not loose your momentum”.
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