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Old 03-15-2016, 11:27 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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If Hillary wins, Trump gets Cuba as his reward. Cuba is the next gold mine. Trump has the money to invest in hotels, airports, restaurants, casinos whatever is needed. Cuba will be the mecca that it was in the 50's with Trump going cha-ching.
lol what? Trump is not a big player in any of those industries..

The real dogs are ready.

AT&T, Starwood, Marriott working on Cuba deals ahead of Obama visit | Reuters
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Old 03-15-2016, 11:30 AM
 
Location: FL
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I have gone back and forth, over and over these last 8 months, thinking about whether he is a plant or not.

I don't think he is......... I don't think he would be having SO many rallies, and his kids there etc, if this was a stunt.

BUT I do think possibly he has an agenda......maybe to start his "own" party.....The Trump Party...?
Yeah. He can start a new University to teach only the best. Of course the best are the ones with the most money.
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Old 03-15-2016, 11:59 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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I think he does want to be president to feed his ego and to reap the benefits of accelerated crony capitalism. He does think he can win, and he may be right. You think he's going to turn over his "movement" to Hillary? Not a chance.
Perhaps not now. I think maybe that was the original plan, but nobody really expected him to get this far. Now that he has, yes a beast has been created that may not be so easy to take down.
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Old 03-16-2016, 07:05 AM
 
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I have a very serious question. To those of you who claim to be all about free speech and feel that Donald Trump's 1st Amendment Rights were violated.....what do you think that the 1st Amendment Protects individual's from with regard to free speech?

If the government threw Donald Trump in jail for what he said at one of his rallies...that would be a clear violation of his freedom of speech.

If protesters show up in larger numbers than supporters for a Trump rally and he decides not to show up (can't confront protesters in Chicago....but will supposedly defeat ISIS and make Mexico build a useless wall on their border...interesting)...that's not a violation of 1st amendment rights at all. In fact that's actually quite compliant with the 1st amendment; which also includes the right to protest. It's the same reason why people are allowed to protest at abortion clinics, funerals (Westboro Baptist Church), etc.

You can't just cherry-pick what counts as "freedom of speech" and claim that an individual's 1st amendment rights are infringed upon only when their views align with yours. That's not how the constitution works.
The leftist disrupters showed up at the Trump rally for the express purpose of denying freedom of speech ... paid for by Soros, on behalf of Clinton.

Neither Trump or his supporters are obligated to tolerate such crap, and if the media were honest, they'd report on the violent and inciteful behavior of that paid for gaggle of Democrat/Marxist brown shirts.

The fact is, you all on the left OWN this type of behavior. Do you see Trump supporters trying to disrupt Clinton or Sanders rallies? NO YOU DO NOT.

What a joke to have the left talking about freedom of speech. The same group that wants to ban half he words in the dictionary because they might offend someone
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Old 03-16-2016, 07:20 AM
 
Location: Somewhere flat in Mississippi
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Television news has been trumpeting Trump from the start with scads of free publicity.

Les Moonves, CBS, and Trump: Is TV's business model killing democracy? - LA Times
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Old 03-16-2016, 07:52 AM
 
Location: Tri STATE!!!
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Why isn't anyone stating the obvious??? There are millions and millions of people in this country of ALL races and Genders who are tired of Multiculturalism. They don't see the civil rights era as a win for this country. They see it as a huge loss. They are old enough to remember the days when they or their parents did not have to compete with Blacks, Jews and Hispanics and asians and Arabs and persians and (insert group)...... For them progress didn't work out . their children just can't compete anymore against the hungry masses coming in from other nations. Can your child really compete with the Asian kids in his class? Can you really outwork the west Indians and West Africans at your job who never take a day off and never get sick ? Can you keep your neighborhood homogenous when the Indian family can outbid you and your family ? Are you going to compete with the highly educated Jewish populace? The liberal progressive achievements leveled the playing field and made it HARD for those who had no competition in the 50s and 60s. A white uneducated male back then HAD his choice of jobs. And that job could feed his whole family and provide the American dream till the day he died. Now that very same job is occupied by some guy with a name you can't pronounce and him and his family are right next to you on line at Disney world . Trump is the embodiment of those angry folks on the right and center who have been feeling this way a very long time. Its gotta hurt to see your son living in the basement because he can't get a decent job but a man his age from another country is buying the house next door to you. I get it. I understand it. Americans pride themselves on hard work and pulling up by bootstraps well guess what? That formula does work and millions of immigrants have used it and they are outworking you. The Trump phenom is for real and the groundwork has been laid for others like him to rise in popularity . I don't believe you can put the genie back in the bottle and woman, blacks, Jews and other groups are here to stay and have the right to compete. I may not agree with the right wing but I understand their anger.
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Old 03-16-2016, 09:18 AM
 
Location: Somewhere flat in Mississippi
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Another reason for Trump's popularity could be that many people have such a low opinion of politicians that they at least want to have one who is entertaining, like Italians did with Silvio Berlusconi about 10 years ago.
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