Posted on 07/30/2015 8:48:15 AM PDT by Red Steel
I watched several seasons of Celebrity Apprentice several years ago, and was struck at the time of how deeply Trump is invested in bringing people's skills and talents to the fore. He had people on there who were nearly wacko mixed in with people who were masterfully competent, and he was quite even-handed about encouraging each person to use their strengths. Even when he fired people, there was never any animosity; just a clear, straightforward assessment of why their actions didn't advance the ball. I was also struck by how little bitterness has ever come out of people appearing on that show. People do see him as a regular American who made good and has something to teach them. The contestants just automatically call him "Mr. Trump" with a touch of awe. Wacky though he may be at times, his accomplishments do inspire respect among people willing to work.
Hey, it’s your life. You want to spend it jumping at every shadow, go ahead, no skin off my back.
“not drank, the kool-aid
-——it’s just like the lose, loose thing... drives me wild,”
I get it. The one that tips me over the edge is “Your welcome”
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You’re kind of new here, Wenn. Which of the other candidates are you click-farming for?
Trump has something to say. Most of the Republicans have something to hide.
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BAM!
I want The Donald to be a patriot for the people. Let’s pray that he is.
Let’s just be smarter this time. Let’s not be the braying sheep the Wall st demons believe us to be.
They pulled off a major coup with O.
The Dems know it - they’ve had buyers remorse ever since. [note the Paglia complaint]
Gopers don’t truly grasp the enormity of the charade, because they are too busy saying “told ya so!”
I want Donald to be everything he says he is. It’s the turnaround that has me skittish and a little paranoid.
here’s some legal adice ... get that phrase COPYRIGHTED today ... like “now” ...
I disagree. It should read,
"Trump has something to say. Politicians have something to hide."
It was also priceless when the "moderator" repeated the "rapist" word with special emphasis, asking if it bothered them, and everyone just shrugged.
Time will tell...We are all holding our breath...having a guy like him kick the establishment (media, parties) is almost too good to be true...We can hope....Nobody really knows how this Trump thing will turn out...but i’m at least enjoying politics again..after being bored to death with all these posers since Reagan...Thanks Donald! Even if you drop out, you made your mark :)
There is simply no comparison between a packaged racial product like Obama who has hidden his sketchy past and who came out of nowhere with an anemic resumé of fake accomplishments backed by a corrupt Chicago/Soros machine, and the history of Donald Trump, which has been an open book while he went about building his international empire employing hundreds of thousands of people and serving millions of consumers, leaving a 40-year trail of relationships and news items. Just no comparison at all.
The former was a deliberately and manipulately branded product. The latter brand emerged organically from all the verifiable and productive activity.
what is click farming? - now who is seeing conspiracy where there is honest patriotism?
I voted Perot, Perot, Buchanan, then stayed home, til O - for which I am duly ashamed. A vote for O - from anywhere on the political spectrum was date rape.
I wanted a street fighter, from either party, to storm the Justice Department and prosecute those who shorted airline stock in the weeks before the 9/11 surprise surprise... then use that discovery to empty the hornets nest once and for all. silly old woman that I am...
Bush was never presidential timber. He was a poseur, a Yale cheerleader, plucked for his name. Bush was merely a B Boy for the same monsters who groomed O and gave him his marching orders. But Bush I can forgive, he was clearly who he represented himself to be. Not so O - I will never EVER forgive Obama for the prepackaged felony that was his presidency.
That vote puts my paranoia in perspective and should be a red flag for conservatives who dismiss or minimize the power of professional branding in these races. I thought I was a politically savvy woman.
I like Ted Cruz’s starch, but the wife from Goldman Sachs is game over for me. Perry is an idiot. ditto for closeted South Carolina. Rubio is just hyper tokenism. Ditto for Carson. Carly interests me, she’s quick, and smart. I want to see her in the debates.
But it’s Trump I love.
Waiting for John Wayne...I guess.
Well then at worse he is just like every other candidate.
With the mess of traitors we now have in office, how is Trump's character any worse? He is up front about his stuff. And he has actually worked for his status with accountability for results, not just exploiting the taxpayers' dime like our "representatives" on the take in DC and the statehouses.
You seem more concerned about Trumps character than I am.
Cruz 2016
Excellent work! I hope Trump’s campaign staff see’s this.
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Most of the field of GOP candidates that Trump is running against consists of many Republicans who parse, pause and prevaricate to protect their own political records. Trump doesn't have this baggage. He is refreshingly clear in his opinions and seems more interested in solving problems rather than perpetuating them.
Politicians is a generic term that applies to both parties. I was focused only on the GOP side and the reluctance of some of them to speak plainly.
President Obama represents a new generation of lying Presidents. Bill Clinton lied, but he lied with “feeling,” wanting the American people to believe his lies, sort of believing them himself. He cared enough about us believing him that he even showed up for that Paula Jones / Lewinsky deposition or grand jury testimony.
But Barack Obama intends to lie and doesn’t even care that what he says is a lie. He doesn’t put any energy into getting people to believe him. He feels haughtily justified in the least believable stuff he says. He could give a poop about what the American people believe. He will never let himself be called on anything that he does or says, and no one with any pulpit does (outside of some internet and talk radio sites immediately dismissed as racist).
The outrage we felt at each new lie got old in 2007. We cannot sustain national outrage while the media continues to hold him up as a normal President.
But we all, on the medium left to the far right, ARE UTTERLY REFRESHED HEARING THE TRUTH AGAIN. It happens to be Donald Trump daring to speak it.
Look, let’s say you are right. Trump playing us for some insider Wall Street deals. All we have is what we see from the media. Well, you see the other candidates. Tell me what we have to lose.
Seriously. Cruz is NOT going to be the nominee. I guess there is a chance with Walker. But with the media ruling the election, with political correctness controlling the air that is breathed, the Dems will probably win. And they might still have Hillary the Murderous Felon as their nom. If the Pubs won with Heb!, how would that be any better? Our leaders would all be cowering behind advisors and handlers, with their number one goal each day not to be called a name.
Again. What do we have to lose? And Trump ALREADY has political correctness squirming on the mats.
Trump walks and acts like my dad sometimes. My dad didn’t get THAT rich, but he definitely did well for a penniless, stateless holocaust survivor. And he walked like it. He talked to people like it. He was curious about everyone from the cleaning gal to the extremely famous, and would ask great questions of them all, like Trump does. When my dad walked into a room, he was a presence, but a benign leader, friendly, presence. Not regal, just... A leader. Someone who made a difference.
(Dad is still alive but in late stage Alzheimers: again breaking records at how well he is doing at a stage where most are bedridden. And the people in his town love his innocent child like smile when he’s out and about with his caregivers.)
We have been bullied for 6 friggen years, we didn't build that, eat your freakin' arugula....
Eat your own dang arugula, we did build that, and yes we want something better, we want to succeed like Donald, not feel like we are cause of all the ills in the world.
If he pulls this off, it is gonna be a crappy 8 years for Mika and the rest of the chattering class...
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