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I don't get the lying. As an evangelican christian, it bugs me to no end and I just can't get behind the guy. Is it really that hard to be a good, normal human being who isn't spreading half-truths every day. When someone lies this much, it's likely they are trying to hide something major.
Yes, he has major problems to continually be so deceptive. Since he has likely been lying, bullying, etc., since early childhood and allowed to get away with everything, it is all such an ingrained habit that he wouldn't know how to stop and is a way of life for him. I blame his parents for allowing him to establish bad habits and causing his mental problems. It's too late now for him to change...and unbelievably, we are all having to put up with this. For now.
To be blunt, this is sort of how I feel about Trump and the whole "political correctness" stuff. A person can be honest without being a jerk. President Trump personifies jerk. The way he went after John McCain was disrespectful. I wouldn't go after a war veteran like that. Okay, John McCain disobeyed orders and got himself in alot of trouble for that. He still served his country. When his time came, he served. I have far more respect for McCain than I ever will have for Trump. Whenever someone says "I look soldiers who weren't captured", that is a slap in the face to those who did serve and became POW/MIA as a result.
And then the racial aspect of this. When the Baltimore riots took place, Trump tweeted "Our great African American President hasn't exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore!", I took that really personal as a Black man. Why? Well, Trump just singled out the President because of his race. According to Trump, Obama needed to be held responsible for stopping the riots because he's Black. Bigoted thinking.
And then another stupid stunt was his "look at my African-American over there". Who does that?
Something else that scares me. I believe he would violate the 4th Amendment. Unreasonable Search and Seizure. He said he would like to have a national stop and frisk policy. Based on the results seen in NYC, I don't think it will do much good. All it did was cause more racial profiling and violate so many people's rights. I value my rights.
What scares me is that if he is this reckless with his mouth and his behavior, and then he supports a draconian policing strategy, who knows what else he could do. I truly don't feel safe with him in office. And like you, I am more scared of those who will lick his boots.
Absolutely. Whenever I hear him saying these kinds of things, I cannot stand it and have been so disgusted for months. I have not been able to accept or understand how someone like this could have been allowed to run, let alone end up in the W H.
The hate and venom coming out of the hearts, minds and mouths of radicalized liberal leftists toward Trump is appalling. As an independent, I accept Trump...and could never have such hate in my heart as the liberals do toward Trump. Sure Trump is rough around the edges..we all know that. His tweeting and often his rhetoric is embarrassing much of the time. He still is the president. He still should be respected and given the chance to govern. He deserves that much. He's far from perfect...but that does not compel me to hate him or to spew hateful venom. The radicalized leftists are the ones who want wide open borders, war with Russia, they want the USA to let half of South America to pour across our borders...They want 100's of 1000's of middle eastern refugees to pour in. Pretty soon there won't be any space left in America if the left has their way. Trump wants to enforce those laws that the left hates due to their white guilt. I'm glad Trump is going against the grain....attempting to befriend Russia...enforcing immigration laws....and etc. About time we had someone with some balls. If he doesn't do great, then he's gone in 4 years. So be it. But he should be respected and allowed to govern. But the hate from the liberal media and the radicalized leftists is likely not going to let him.
I dislike him because he's a demagogue that has the ability to mesmerize a certain part of the population. While he claims to be the champion of the working class, he's just another Republican pushing the same Republican policies and philosophies -- tax cuts for the rich and regulation cuts for the corporations.
What Trump has done is sucker middle-class workers into thinking that the policies that are wanted by the corporate elite are the policies that will help workers. It's a sucker punch. An example of this is his healthcare rants. He said on the campaign trail that he "has" a plan that will cover everyone; cost a fraction and provide more coverage and was 'terrific.' Then when it's time to live up to replacing the ACA, it's clear he had no plan, and then he supports the House plan that is more expensive, throws millions off insurance and provides worse coverage.
He appoints Wall Street execs to high office -- the same people he denounced during the campaign. He favors huge tax cuts for the rich, is hostile to the minimum wage and regulation protection cuts that hurt workers. This should prove he's a BS artist.
Yes the hate from the radicalized liberal leftists
...knows no bounds. Oh well, glad to not harbor such hate in my own heart. I say best of luck Trump, hope he will have a successful presidency. May God be with him.
The media comes up with fake news stories about Trump being racist, sexist, etc... which he's not.
OH, DEAR LORD... some appear to never read, see, hear or comprehend what is going on (media, nothin').. Do you even listen to what your hero says?? All the nastiness and negativity comes from him. This is what some are reacting to, since many want a leader who is honest, straightforward, intelligent, fair, discerning, capable, aware, knowledgable, empathetic, mentally and emotionally balanced, etc., - not one having had an obvious trail of wreckage and a severely flawed personality, being unfit for the position.
The way he went after John McCain was disrespectful.
If I recall, McCain was going after him, and when Trump fired back, they criticized Trump for going after a "war hero", and Trump said, "He's a war hero because he was captured? I like people who weren't captured".
I get tired of people telling me that anyone who serves in the military is a hero. That if you served in any war ever, that you're a war hero. They even ramble constantly about how every single police officer is a hero. Even going so far as to say that police dogs are heroes.
Lets be honest hero, the mere act of serving in the military doesn't make you a hero. And the mere act of being a police officer doesn't make you a hero either.
The reason we worship the military and the police, is because we are told to, and attacked as unpatriotic if we don't.
Do I think McCain is a better man than Trump? I do. But that doesn't mean that I think he is a hero, nor does it mean that I want McCain to be president. I mean, I think Obama is a good man, but a terrible president.
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Obama needed to be held responsible for stopping the riots because he's Black.
Obama made race-relations worse during his tenure. Obama's racists in the justice department, made racial incidents, such as the Trayvon Martin affair, worse, by claiming everything was a hate-crime. In the case of Baltimore, it was a black-majority city, with a black mayor, and Obama and the other race-baiters in his administration, did everything they could to exacerbate the problem.
He should be held accountable.
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Originally Posted by green_mariner
He said he would like to have a national stop and frisk policy.
Not that I agree with such a policy, but does it violate the 4th amendment? It was on the books for years and never struck down as unconstitutional.
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Just because the media refuses to talk about certain things, or attacks anyone who dares mention them, doesn't mean that no one is thinking it, or even that they are the fringe.
The great fear the media had in regards to Trump, wasn't that he was making people believe the things he was saying, but that Trump was making it acceptable to say those things in public.
Obviously there is a stark difference between what people are willing to say anonymously/privately, and what they are willing to say in public. As many commentators have stated, racism hasn't gone away, it has been driven underground.
And if you join any anonymous forum, or even look at internet message boards, or the comments on youtube, you'll see a steady stream of what people are actually thinking.
The hate and venom coming out of the hearts, minds and mouths of radicalized liberal leftists toward Trump is appalling. As an independent, I accept Trump...and could never have such hate in my heart as the liberals do toward Trump. Sure Trump is rough around the edges..we all know that. His tweeting and often his rhetoric is embarrassing much of the time. He still is the president. He still should be respected and given the chance to govern. He deserves that much. He's far from perfect...but that does not compel me to hate him or to spew hateful venom. The radicalized leftists are the ones who want wide open borders, war with Russia, they want the USA to let half of South America to pour across our borders...They want 100's of 1000's of middle eastern refugees to pour in. Pretty soon there won't be any space left in America if the left has their way. Trump wants to enforce those laws that the left hates due to their white guilt. I'm glad Trump is going against the grain....attempting to befriend Russia...enforcing immigration laws....and etc. About time we had someone with some balls. If he doesn't do great, then he's gone in 4 years. So be it. But he should be respected and allowed to govern. But the hate from the liberal media and the radicalized leftists is likely not going to let him.
It's foolish to think that no one wanted him to succeed, it would be counter productive to root against your own president but he has done everything in his power to alienate the left instead of trying to unite the country. No one disagrees with the things you listed but solutions are complicated and he has not demonstrated an understanding of the nuances involved. We all thought he would take a turn and become more presidential, he is anything but that. I am not going to go through the litany of self inflicted problems he has already caused but Obama's largest mistake in his first year was injecting himself in the arrest of a Harvard professor. Trump has generated so many problems on many fronts that it is hard to even understand his message.
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Do you even listen to what your hero says?? All the nastiness and negativity comes from him. This is what some are reacting to, since many want a leader who is honest, straightforward, intelligent, fair, discerning, capable, aware, knowledgable, empathetic, mentally and emotionally balanced, etc., - not one having had an obvious trail of wreckage and a severely flawed personality, being unfit for the position.
