Posted on 08/11/2015 7:39:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
You nailed it. He is a con-man multiplied many times over. But this is what a conjuror does until his sleight of hand shows.
I got conned into helping an allegedly reformed ex convict...ONCE.
Once bitten..NEVER AGAIN.
I can smell these people several miles away!
BTTT.
Very true. Let’s hope people begin to notice. Let’s face i, when someone begins voicing positions you’ve long held, it’s pretty exciting. It takes a while to know what he really is.
Chix luv badboys
I think I’m gonna have a lot of fun nine months or so from now (after our non-Donald nominee is chosen, during the doldrums of the pre-convention season) simply bumping all of the breathless, hyperbolic threads posted by the Trump True Believers. I’ll stick only to the ones that compare him to Reagan, Churchill, or Jesus...which should still keep us occupied and entertained for a few weeks.
Donald’s not Cruz, in the way the Marines aren’t the Army.
Different jobs.
All anyone is saying is that he’s not Army.
So what.
Is the Marines that hit the beach.
And that’s never pretty.
My opinion is that we are going to get a POS in the White House no matter who wins. If we get a POS who at least accidentally does some positive things for Americans, that will be an improvement over the POS we have now.
Excellent article. Trump really is the anger vote; he’s a populist who knows how to stir up the mob even without having any specific solutions or without even indentifying the problems. He does it simply by spewing an unfocused anger and letting the public fill it in with their own ideas of what he would or should do - none of which he has to specify.
A populist is not a conservative. He’s somebody who plays on anger and uses it to break and gain personal control over a political system. In Chavez’ case, and that of other populists the author mentioned, this was done with an ideological objective, but in Trumps’s case, it all seems to be about projecting his insane bloated ego. At the same time, the few things he has suggested have all been very leftist, but nobody seems to care. I was surprised, for example, when he was ranting in favor of single payer health care (the ultimate goal of Obamacare) and supposed conservatives just ignored it or even praised it.
Agreeing with this about Trump is probably the last thing I have to say about the subject. Glad to see I'm not the only one who arrived at the same conclusion as the author.
GO CRUZ!!!
Italy was aided in 2006 in winning the World Cup because they teed off a certain Zidane who made his famous headbutt after being provoked, Trump is talking more measured now though you wonder about anyone who flies off the handle to make some of these twitter remarks.
>> I’ll stick only to the ones that compare [DT] to Reagan, Churchill, or Jesus <<
Not enough. Don’t overlook the FR posts that have compared him to John the Baptist. Seriously!
>> a populist who knows how to stir up the mob even without having any specific solutions or without even identifying the problems <<
Seems like you’re referring to Huey P. Long or even Barack H. Obama!
Trump has good poll numbers, if we are looking at the poll numbers, NO SPIN, seems a lot of Americans are unsure about him as well... 62%, just saying. It would not stop me from voting for him as the nominee. That was brought up on Hannity as well last night.
Now, Trump corrected the understanding of his Planned Parenthood position but the Blaze and others, are just releasing their version before Trump talked to Breitbart.
Trump certainly would NOT win a number of States with what he was saying about PP that was applauded by PP.
A big-government, game-playing reality-TV populist spouts a bunch of slightly conservative soundbites, and all of sudden huge percentages of people are strapping themselves to his mahogany bandwagon like human shields. I thought we were smarter than this.
Is there anybody on earth who believes that government will shrink under The Donald? Does somebody believe he wants to take the reins of government so he can turn those reins back over to the people, where they belong? Not a chance in hell. It’s lunacy.
Reads like this GOPe pajama boy doesn’t want anyone derailing the federal criminal gravy train. It’s way past time to start smashing noses and running the fascist scum out of America.
Yes, exactly. You’ve got the references right. He’s popular because he’s saying FU, which is how many people feel, but he has no program. This is exactly why he washed out as a candidate for Mayor of NY. He had the money to support his own campaign, but he had no program and when push came to shove, he dropped out.
Fortunately, I don’t think Trump will have even that level of success once he gets out of the media driven level (that is, boosted for his freak value) and actually has to have a program and explain it.
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