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Trump is actually smarter than most anti-Trump people give him credit for. What they don't realize Trump is doing is he's using the Art of War. The greatest weapon is one you never have to use. That's what he's doing. People are taking him all literally that he's going to start WW3 and attack countries and bully them etc. What he's actually doing is what all great generals and leaders do, put on a game face and show the world that you are serious and mean business. He's talking the big game because he's intentionally trying to set the tone that USA will not be pushovers, walking mats, and wussies. He's saying all these tough guy things intentionally because he doesn't actually plan on ever using any military force at all. It's the Art of War. Think about it. How did he become a self-made billionaire? By being an idiot? He's obviously a master at communicating, understanding the mind, negotiations, and he never had to fire off a single gun to gain all the money and power and success he currently has. Now that is brilliance. See all the other Presidents who are regarded as strong and powerful. They've all had to do it by actually going to war and firing weapons and sending troops. Trump didn't even have to lift a finger. This is the Art of War. He's going to make for a great President if the secret powers actually allow him. Me still thinks the elections are rigged and Hillary will win because it was scripted decades ago for her to eventually win after the first "black" president, the first "woman" president will get the nod.
I think you are mistaking who is using the Art of War here. I am pretty sure it is Russia. Getting a moron in the White House is the best way for Russia to shit the balance of power. Why do you think Putin speaks so highly of Trump, because he thinks he would be good for the US? No, Putin is ex-KGB, he hates the US. He likes Trump because he knows he could provoke him. RT is pumping out anti-Hillary stories and promoting Jill Stein and the Bernie or Busters. Putin thinks Hillary is the worse opponent, that's why he is helping her opponents.
Now, about the billionaire thing. Give me 100 million dollars and I will make myself a "self-made billionaire". You should also mention that he is only an alleged billionaire. We have yet to have any proof besides his word, which is pretty unreliable. Given his stinginess with charity, I would actually be surprised to find out he has net worth above a billion. What billionaire creates a scam university? What billionaire stiffs his contractors? Why is he so scared to show his tax returns? Smells like a con.
Yeah, right. Vote for that idiot just to see what would happen.
Like some sort of science experiment, eh? And damn the consequences.
"Hmm...gee...let's see what happens if I combine this sulfuric acid with ammonia and then add a few cc's of gasoline to it and then drop a match in the bucket."
LOL.
It would be interesting to see. I know he'd probably get rid of affirmative action and screw over a lot of people.
He'd also get rid of socialized health care, and probably drive up the prices of everything.
I highly doubt he could ever get rid of AA. Although I surely would like to see it happen, since I have always been a firm believer that it is a terrible law, and amount to no less than reverse racism. I have never had a pro AA person explain to me satisfactorily how it is not.
I DO believe Trumpy could eradicate Obama Care. And again, I am for this. As a vet I don't have to worry about all that since I have full VA benefits. But still, I think it's unconstitutional and is a law that most Americans either don't want or do not understand.
But, I feel as if an era of hardship is necessary for historians to show how bad things can get, when people don't pay attention.
We have already bee through enough hardship, thanks just the same. What's the matter? Weren't Twelve Years in an ill-waged and misbegotten war in Iraq, as well as the economically crippling 2008 financial meltdown enough hardship for you?
And then we had a little thing called 9/11. And the fact that the Bush Administration exploited that event to create a Police State, and also rob us of about half of our civil rights.
No one seems to care anymore
Partially true, I admit. Voter apathy, especially among the young--those under 30--has always been a problem in this country. Most of those twits are too busy playing with their social media or trying to find Pokemon. And the little girls are too worried about not getting fatter and getting that elusive first orgasm.
Side note: Next time you feel stupid, just remember some idiot is outside trying to find Pokemon.
LOL
I know that Hillary would be safer, she is over qualified for the position, however, Trump has the ability to create so much.
Yes she would. So it's a good thing she's gonna win the election, right? As far as Trump Creating so much, you must remember: he has to work with Congress in order to get legislation passed. And I think he will be terrible at working across the aisle. As bad as ANY POTUS in history. The man simply breeds hate and hostility. Most of his own Party did not even want him in there.
He'd be like a dictator from old times. It would be like reliving history.
"Re-living?" Since when in history has the USA has a dictator? Answer: Never. We ARE a democracy, not a Monarchy. And anyway, again: Congress. Checks and balances. Limited powers; the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
No: Trumpy would just be a very bad and hot-tempered megalomaniacal POTUS, and would do far more harm than good, As well as make this country even MORE hated and mocked in the world. The very last thing we need.
The novelty of it is, I admit, interesting. But I only find it interesting because I'd be a member of one of the groups least effected by his presidency and policies. For the sake of those I know who are Hispanic or South Asian (primarily), I do not believe the novelty is worth it. Since his ascendance to presidential candidate, my wife and her parents (the latter of which came here from India) have faced explicit, blatant racial harassment, and have been told that Trump is going to kick their Muslim asses out of the country. They are catholic.
Aside from the social problems involved, his policies would have the same effect. Yes, it would be interesting to see what the effect would be when you end all visa programs, vacating thousands upon thousands upon thousands of jobs all across the spectrum and across the country. It would be interesting to see what the effect would be when you spend billions upon billions of dollars to build a border wall that would effect less than half of all illegal immigrants. It would be interesting to see the effect of us leaving the World Trade Organization and NATO.
But it wouldn't be interesting enough considering the unbelievable amount of damage all of that would do to us as a country.
Trump has no actual vision and actual plans. What he would do is start to systematically sell us out to whomever he wants to have business with after leaving office. And as the voices arose against him he would resort to the smears and insults and police state tactics.
Trump would ruin the US, ruin what it means to be an American, and piss on YOUR dreams unless you are wealthy.
Hey, you know what he would replace Obamacare with? Nothing. Nothing. His kind doesn't need safety net health insurance, so why would he support that? Nor Medicare/Medicaid, nor affordable steps to keep costs down like HMOs and PPOs. He'd probably even try to take away the requirement employers offer a health insurance plan (because that would save him money). You and the rest of us would end up dealing mano to mano with big insurance companies and paying full price for minimal coverage.
I think Trump is actually better than what most people think of him- the only problem with Trump is that he fails to differentiate between what's politically incorrect and what's rude, which is why he gets so much flak- I see him as a better candidate than Clinton and would preferably give him 4 years to run DC
You just said...."But, I feel as if an era of hardship is necessary for historians to show how bad things can get, when people don't pay attention.
No one seems to care anymore."
Exactly correct but what you missed is that we just lived through your example. We just had the most Liberal president in our lifetimes running our nation.
WE ARE OVER 19 TRILLION IN DEBT AFTER HE DOUBLED THE TOTAL COMBINED DEBT OF ALL PRIOR PRESIDENTS IN SUCH A SHORT TIME. We are spending 2.4 BILLION dollars every single day on the interest payments for that debt!
So tell me, did Democrats and all these low end voters learn anything? Did they pay attention? NO! They want MORE free stuff no matter our children's future will be bankrupcy. Did you pay attention?
Did you notice how all those Democrats at the convention did not seem to care any more?
Dependent people who have been conditioned to believe they have a right to demand charity from tax payers, could not care less about that huge debt. They will demand free stuff until the Government checks bounce.
I can't believe you had the nerve to say that Trump would driver up healthcare prices. LOLOLOLOL....OBAMACARE? HELLO? Premiums have skyrocketed. Deductibles have skyrocketed. The middle class can not even afford to have insurance but Obama forces them to buy his sick Obamcare so they can subsidise his low income voting block while the middle class can't afford their own family's health insurance!
I am so sick of being the cash cow for Democrats to buy votes! It is pure corruption!
I've never heard of a war that didn't put the country in debt. Have you? Since antiquity, its been known by royalty that war strains resources until the enemies resources are gained.
By free stuff, do you mean those investments in the future of the country (something conservatives do not do?)? For example, education, health care, sciences etc ...
The premium on health care is paid upfront due to all those untreated diseases floating around, and due to ... wait for it ... inflated medical salaries! The number 1 cost driver!
I've never heard of a war that didn't put the country in debt. Have you?
As a matter of fact, I have. And I am guessing you too have almost certainly heard of this war as well. You just don't know it.
I am speaking of WWII. Which not only did NOT put the USA in debt, it was the primary factor in propelling us out of the 10-year-long crippling Depression we were in at the time.
Granted, we were beginning to climb out of the Depression when Pearl Harbor occurred, but still, most economists agree that the War gave us more impetus to shrug-off the last remnants of the Depression than did even FDR's "New Deal" policies.
The first Gulf War, known as Desert Storm, also did not put us significantly further into debt.
I don't think Korea did either. Although technically it was termed as a "conflict." But to anybody with knowledge of Wars, that word was just a government euphemism, and Korea was every bit a real war.
But that wasn't necessarily the war itself. The industrial infrastructure created during WW2 would have been a severe economic handicap on the USA after the war if it weren't for the fact that much/most of Europe's industrial infrastructure was flattened, leaving us the sole industrial economic super-power in the world.
In this sense, it wasn't necessarily the war itself that helped us, it was the way the world was left after the war. Had WW2 taken place before globalization had as much of a chance to set in, we would have been left with an industrial infrastructure that would have far surpassed our needs, leaving a lot more Detroit-like locations across the country.
It was a matter of being at the right place at the right time.
Do you mean those untreated diseases floating around because the middle class can no longer afford health insurance for their families because of the INSANELY HIGH PREMIUMS AND DEDUCTIBLES FROM OBAMACARE?
Many in the middle class, and healthy young people are doing exactly what republicans said they would be forced to do. They would be forced to pay the penalty rather than the high price of obamacare. These people no longer have health insurance!
Do you mean those untreated diseases floating around because the middle class can no longer afford health insurance for their families because of the INSANELY HIGH PREMIUMS AND DEDUCTIBLES FROM OBAMACARE?
Except they couldn't afford them before ObamaCare, so blaming that act makes no sense.
Many in the middle class, and healthy young people are doing exactly what republicans said they would be forced to do.
No, they aren't. They are doing something that they were already doing before ObamaCare was ever enacted.
How little have you followed the Health Care and Health Insurance industry over the years?
I'm talking about the lower class and lower middle class. Better, they find a work around, rather than anyone not having access.
The costs are due to medical and insurance company corruption. Many other countries, offer health care for a fraction of the cost in the US, with the same or better quality.
You just showed your priorites as all good little Democrats. You care for the Democrat voting base, while the middle class can die for all you care.
There are no work arounds out there for the middle class. Everyone's insurance rates are skyrocketing and the only people being able to afford them are the ones who are subsidised on the backs of the middle class who can no longer afford their own insurance.
It's called socialism. It's called forcing all people into the same income class regardless the work effort put forth. I call it a commune where everyone is treated the same no matter their lack of work effort or lack of responsibility creating their problems.
In the Democrat's world, no one is at fault for their status in life. There is no accountbility for irresponsibility. Just vote for me & I will redistribute money to you!
Putting it in simple terms, you are rewarded for irresponsibility and punished for responsibility. The irresponsible will receive money taken from those who worked hard and succeded in life.
The hard working responsible people will have thir money taken and given to the irresponsible.
The system has been tried many times through out the ages. It does not work! It dumbs down a society and takes away all motivation to work hard and get ahead because when you do all the work, take all the risk and succede? Big Government takes it from you in the form of Obamacare and a thousand other taxes and fees for the successful.
I believe in a safety net for the poor. All able bodied people should stand in food bank lines(no food stamp credit cards) and learn that hard work is worth the effort. If you are an able bodied healthy person, we should make it uncomfortble for them to be on the dole. This way they will be encouraged to get jobs and get out of that food bank line.
The bleeding hearts on the Left hate such notions of personal responsibility. This is why the welfre roles are exploding and our lower income class keeps growing. This is the only reason Obama was elected twice and a criminal maybe getting elected next.
It's called pay for play! Or vote for your freebies.
A person's situation that they are born into more often than not, defines their learning opportunities, skill sets, job and financial opportunities. While work ethic is part of the picture, it isn't all of it.
People still are judged for how they look and where they come from. This is a deal breaker socially as well as in the workplace.
I do believe that the irresponsible shouldn't be rewarded. However, since diseases spread, this is something that cannot be played around with. Of all professions, medicine requires the highest levels of integrity due to the danger that mishandling of situations can cause. Even if this means higher costs.
We are talking about healthcare, not the other things. I believe there are issues with divorce laws, child care laws, social service laws etc ...
Trump is interesting, I'm reading his book, and he doesn't seem to be like the person he is portraying on TV. However, if I look at his executives, I've noticed that they aren't very multicultural (as well as his social circle growing up).
Now here is the thing, I've met brilliant, and I mean brilliant leaders of all races and cultures. So I've been wondering why they don't seem to rise or cooperate well together. It seems only western leaders really innovate publicly.
Especially, since he basis his business out of New York, the lack of diversity in his higher echelon is odd.
Furthermore, Trump wouldn't drop the fact that Obama wasn't born in America previously ... wasn't that odd?
I believe you and I might be able to come to an agreement on helthcare for the poor, but this extremist Democrat party refuses to compromise on any social programs they have created from the paychecks of hard working Americans.
The reason they refuse to do so is PURELY POITICS and buying their low income votes. The Democat party of no restriction abortions shows they have no true compassion for our most vulnerable, so therefore their pandering to low income people is based mostly on their election strategy.
Democrats lack true compassion for the needy. True compassion would be spending more time trying to get people off the degrading welfare system....not making it easier to stay on.
Parents love their children more than anyone wouldn't you agree? Do we give our children unconditional financial support forever? NO, we expect them to grow up and become responsible adults who can support themselves? That's true compassion for those we care for.
I have followed pollitics for decades. For many years Democrats have adamately refused to stop the rate of growth of social program spending (far above inflation) while our national debt grew non stop. They demonized the GOP every time they tried to slow the growth of social spending.
I knew democrats would one day create a welfare base large enough to buy most elections. That day has arrived! Today we even have commercials advertising social programs, trying to drum up more people on the Government dole (I mean voting block).
My idea of common sense healthcare for the poor would include a right for everyone to emergency medical treatment (life threatening situations), not the common cold, etc. etc.
I konw, I know, you will say preventative medicine, physicals, etc. will keep us healthier and maybe prevent more costly illness in the future. I say this is not the case AT ALL!
I want you to be honest with me and tell me which situtation would cost tax payers more....
Patient A, living off free healthcare has his free yearly physicals, check ups, etc. and catches his heart disease in it's begining stages. He goes through the surgeries, the expensive drugs, etc. and survives to an age of 80.
Living to older ages where we know healthcare costs to be their greatest. The costs of free healthcare for that patient all those added years are huge.
Patient B on the other hand did not get all the check ups, and has a heart attack at 60 years of age. He dies.
Which situation costs the tax payers the most? It is a joke that preventative medicine saves us money in the long run! We tax payers covered patient A's medical costs for another 20 years!
We will all die someday and it costs the most when we are old in nursing homes, etc. rather than a quick death from heart attack at a younger age, etc.
I would love to support everyone with free healthcare, keep them living into their ripe old age of 90, but it simply COSTS TOO MUCH! Life happens and we are destined to live a certain number of years. If we take care of ourselves, not smoke, etc. we might live longer. It's our choice to save our money for healthcare checkups, taking care of ourselves. Or we can choose to drink too much, spend our money on cell phones, casinos' etc.
It's our choice to take care of ourselves, not tax payers.
What did this vote buying Democrat party do with Obamacare? They ADDED EVEN MORE to their list of subsidised medicine..... free condoms, free abortions, free mental wellness, etc. etc.
The GOP said we could never afford all those free add ons and that it would cost the middle class and our nation TOO MUCH!
They were proven correct once again. The increases in our premiums and deductibles went up faster than any time in my lifetime.
The GOP was also correct about people simply not being able to afford the cost of Obamacre and would take the penalty instead, thereby leaving more people without insurance.
You know nothing about compromise. The Democratic Party did not but compromise on the Affordable Care Act, and people like you just screamed and screamed and screamed that they wouldn't.
You don't pay any attention to the topics you complain about, then you get angry out of ignorance.
Many parents love their children more ... not all. I've seen the exceptions, and they aren't pretty. Many children hide it.
By providing preventive health care, there would be less incidents of sick people while they are young as well as when they are old. Furthermore, they will take less sick days (consequently, contributing to the economy, rather than taking away from it).
Consequently, I'd have to go with Patient A's situation. Why?
Patient A will have more working days that generate money.
Patient A will spread disease less, and consequently, as a population, less people will need treatment.
Patient A may need health care in their old age, however, old people are more likely to volunteer and contribute to the economy. Those that don't do not have to be covered. Retirement benefits for people that aren't working anymore cost companies more money than health care, and most other social services, yet no one speaks up.
Healthcare costs are paid upfront, if they are going towards people, and not into people's wallets. Overall, the benefits to the economy include:
1) Less incidents of outbreaks which are expensive to contain (look at Africa)
2) Early identification of outbreaks, since sick people will be going to the doctor
3) Earlier creation of cures, since new diseases can be identified earlier
4) A healthier more efficient workforce, for professions that do directly contribute to the GDP
5) Better trained workforce in the future, since children will take fewer sick days.
As I have said before, contraception and condoms should be freely available and not taboo. The taboo of contraceptive means by the Catholic church in South Africa, contributed to the high rate of HIV transmission there.
Ok, I read all of your remarks and it matters not what you and I say. What matter are the facts to prove who is more correct.
Look at our nation's debt! If everything you said about the benefits of preventative medicine were true, we would be seeing savings in the costs of healthcare. THE COSTS OF HEALTHCARE ARE DRASTICALLY GOING UP! We would be seeing the strengthening of our family unit when it fact our families are falling apart!
Look at our nation's welfare roles FILLED WITH UNWED MOTHERS! With all your supposed education to birth control, free birth control etc. why are our welfare roles bloated with unwed mothers?
The facts don't lie! Things are getting worse! Our families are as broken as never before. The millions of fatherless children and getting worse! WHY? According to you we should be seeing all kinds of benefits from this socialist culture supposedly preventing all our problems.
I agree that preventative medicine is a good thing! WE CAN NOT AFFORD TO FORCE OTHERS TO PAY FOR IT!
It's up to each person to choose living responsibly, not spending his money on alcohol, drugs, casinos, cell phones, but rather saving that money for preventative check ups!
QUIT PUTTING PEOPLE'S IRRESPONSIBLE CHOICES ON THE BACKS OF OTHERS! It is not everyone's responsibilty to pay for other's irresponsible priorities.
Until this nation starts addressing the CORE PROBLEMS of poverty, unwed mothers, broken homes, etc. etc. it will only get worse. The core problem is a breakdown in our nation's moral values..... PERIOD! You can put a thousand bandaides on the symptoms, and things will keep getting worse! With all the broken families, there are no fathers providing healthcare for their children. CAN YOU GRASP THE SIMPLE TRUTH?
Nah, your only answer is bigger more expensive government supporting people from cradle to grave as we go bankrupt.
We are 19 trillion in debt with interest payments of 2.4 billion every single day.
It is proen that this progressive no fault sociaistic ideology IS NOT WORKNG!
We are going bankrupt and if you truly care for the poor, we better stop this insanity of debt spending before there is no longer any safety net for those who need it the most. Our disabled, our elderly, those who can not help themselves!
Holy crap you heartless fool. You dangerous heartless fool. You say you are an evangelical Christian, but you talk like you are Satan himself. You want to make people die at age 60 to save the money of billionaires and corporations.
Why wait for their natural death? Wouldn't it be more efficient to shoot everyone poor at the flat age of 45? Is that why you want to keep your guns?
And what do you want to use the money for? Killing isis? Building a wall? Selling bibles? Converting people? Buying guns?
You're going to hell, God hates you.
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Fromwithin, I didn't mean anything I said in this. I know the arguments were flimsy, that was on purpose. I want you to understand what everything you post seems like to people who disagree with you. Not only are your arguments unconvincing, the way you present them is quite hostile and makes people not even try to hear what you are trying to say.
Then, you hyperbolize and say "Democrats want (bad thing)". People get annoyed when someone who trashes them personally tells that person what they believe, which isn't true.
Listen, I respect you because you are very strong in your beliefs. It's people like you that keep a check on society and make sure we don't one day start mating with animals. However, there are some things that conservatives in the USA are too sensitive about and they negate some of the good conservative beliefs.
Your post was a perfect example of what people on the Left will say whenever someone speaks out on responsibility. You take every word from Conservatives, and rather than understand the entire premise of their words, you fixate on how Conservtives supposedly want people to die at 60!
I KNEW THERE WOULD BE FOOLS WHO WOULD DO THIS!
I would love for all people to live to 90 but that requires RESPONSIBILITY on their part! Government can not force others to play baby sitters to irresponsible people who REFUSE TO HELP THEMSELVES!
You see, fools will never ever care about the truth of the many problems in this nation caused by people's irresponsible immoral choices. They will NEVER hold them accountable. They only fixate on and judge any person who speaks out on the reality of what causes most of our problems in life.
To people on the Left, Government is the answer. To Conservatives and Christians, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY IS THE ONLY ANSWER! Yes of course we need safety nets for the truly needy. NO ONE DISPUTES THAT!!!!!
The Right understands that when you sanction irresponsible behavior, the behavior gets worse and more people will choose to live irresponsibly. The Right understands that giving the irresponsibe free stuff, makes it worse!
There must be accountability for our choices in life, otherwise our nation will fall into anarchy.
When people choose to spend their money on smoking, drinking too much, expensive cell phones, casinos, etc. etc. but refuse to save that money for preventative check ups, etc. etc.
This is not the tax payer's fought and these people are choosing to die at 60!
As Democrats keep forcing people to pay for Obamacare, the costs to the responsible tax payers keeps getting out of hand, and enables the irresponsible to continue their irresponsible ways. More social programs are not the answer!
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY IS THE ONLY ANSWER with safety nets for those truly in need.
The able bodied irresponsible can stand in food bank lines and live in shelters until they LEARN to stop choosing such damaging lifestyles!
I read the second half and if you had left out the first half, I might have taken you seriously.
The only people who constantly say how the GOP's message is not put forth in the propper manner to garner more support from others, is the same old rhetoric that instills the deceptive stereotype of Republicans.
A person has to be very very stupid to not understand the true Conservative message. Those who play dumb to my meaning after I have expained it a thousand times are not stupid. They are left wing progressives who do not like the very notion of personal responsibioity for one's choices in life.
It is not the job of tax payers to support and enable irresponsible able bodied people.
