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Old 07-28-2016, 09:19 PM
 
Location: Caribou, Me.
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I love my Mom. Great lady. She's of totally sound mind (amazingly so). She's a pretty sharp person.
But let's just say that she, and people like her, are keeping lots of political-class operatives in the gravy this year. She's buying EVERYTHING they're selling in 2016!
Tonight, rather than just tease her about Trump (who I like and she absolutely detests), I actually picked her brain a bit. Here's some of what she said about him (quotes are actual):
First and foremost, "he ruined Marla Maples". This has been a sore spot for Mom for years. I don't even know what to think about this....I guess he did??? Who knows.
Second, he is "just like Milosevic". (When I said that's not really fair, she said, "don't worry, nobody even knows who he is".??). She says Trump is the reason America is just like 1933 Nazi Germany now.
Third, "he crushed a lot of people" in his rise to the top of his career. She doesn't know who, but she is CERTAIN of this.
Fourth, his children "are all terrified of him."
Fifth, he is very uncivilized.
Sixth, he has a big head and white areas around his eyes (she told me her theory about where they come from, but I can't remember what she said).
Seventh, he is SO devious that he chose Pence, who is someone right up my mom's alley. A sneaky move.
Eighth, he has many factories in Mexico (making his clothes), so "how could he ever make Mexico build a wall?? How could he keep paying all those poor Mexicans fifty cents a day to make his clothes??"
Ninth, he would immediately get us into World War 3.

Which leads to the sad part: my Mom is not a fearful person, but she is absolutely terrified of a Trump presidency. She has been picking up little snippets about him from the media...the usual drumbeat from the Dems and their media allies (BUT she is sure that there is nobody out there in the political field or in the media who is pushing any kind of anti-Trump message or trying to convince people to have a negative view of him; "they didn't even think he was going to get very far!!"... I guess to her that means that if you haven't started a negative campaign against someone by January, it's too late and you just have to skip ever doing it).
She tends to read our little local leftist daily, and watches CBS Evening News. That's mostly it.
And now she has added what she's "heard" about Trump this year to her longstanding antipathy against him (which we never really did get to the bottom of).
She promised me that NOTHING I or any one else could ever tell her would ever make her change her opinion of Trump in the slightest.

Hillary is hoping that there are a lot of people like her....
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Old 07-28-2016, 09:21 PM
 
Location: Phoenix
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Haters are going to hate. Which is worse, destroying the character of the women Bill raped or divorcing a woman?
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Old 07-28-2016, 09:27 PM
 
Location: Caribou, Me.
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Haters are going to hate. Which is worse, destroying the character of the women Bill raped or divorcing a woman?
And you know, that's the thing about my mother: she is absolutely not a hater. She's usually a sweet, gentle woman who loves almost every one a lot.
UNLESS they are someone truly evil; then she can really hate. It's just a few people, like Hitler, Milosevic, terrorists......and Trump. It's amazing.
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Old 07-28-2016, 09:33 PM
 
Location: Indianapolis
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I love my Mom. Great lady. She's of totally sound mind (amazingly so). She's a pretty sharp person.
But let's just say that she, and people like her, are keeping lots of political-class operatives in the gravy this year. She's buying EVERYTHING they're selling in 2016!
Tonight, rather than just tease her about Trump (who I like and she absolutely detests), I actually picked her brain a bit. Here's some of what she said about him (quotes are actual):
First and foremost, "he ruined Marla Maples". This has been a sore spot for Mom for years. I don't even know what to think about this....I guess he did??? Who knows.
Second, he is "just like Milosevic". (When I said that's not really fair, she said, "don't worry, nobody even knows who he is".??). She says Trump is the reason America is just like 1933 Nazi Germany now.
Third, "he crushed a lot of people" in his rise to the top of his career. She doesn't know who, but she is CERTAIN of this.
Fourth, his children "are all terrified of him."
Fifth, he is very uncivilized.
Sixth, he has a big head and white areas around his eyes (she told me her theory about where they come from, but I can't remember what she said).
Seventh, he is SO devious that he chose Pence, who is someone right up my mom's alley. A sneaky move.
Eighth, he has many factories in Mexico (making his clothes), so "how could he ever make Mexico build a wall?? How could he keep paying all those poor Mexicans fifty cents a day to make his clothes??"
Ninth, he would immediately get us into World War 3.

Which leads to the sad part: my Mom is not a fearful person, but she is absolutely terrified of a Trump presidency. She has been picking up little snippets about him from the media...the usual drumbeat from the Dems and their media allies (BUT she is sure that there is nobody out there in the political field or in the media who is pushing any kind of anti-Trump message or trying to convince people to have a negative view of him; "they didn't even think he was going to get very far!!"... I guess to her that means that if you haven't started a negative campaign against someone by January, it's too late and you just have to skip ever doing it).
She tends to read our little local leftist daily, and watches CBS Evening News. That's mostly it.
And now she has added what she's "heard" about Trump this year to her longstanding antipathy against him (which we never really did get to the bottom of).
She promised me that NOTHING I or any one else could ever tell her would ever make her change her opinion of Trump in the slightest.

Hillary is hoping that there are a lot of people like her....
She sounds like a smart woman.

Ted Cruz and John Kasich agree with her.
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Old 07-28-2016, 09:34 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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Well, that settles that....
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Old 07-28-2016, 09:36 PM
 
Location: Indianapolis
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the women Bill raped
When did Bill Clinton ever rape a woman?

Please don't come with accusations, just facts that were proven in a court of law, as every American is afforded a presumption of innocence.

When was he proven to be a rapist?
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Old 07-28-2016, 09:40 PM
 
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Please don't come with accusations
Yeah, ladies, get lost!
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Old 07-28-2016, 09:44 PM
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Cbs news and the local leftists, your answer. Every day hit piece on Trump.
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Old 07-28-2016, 09:45 PM
 
Location: Caribou, Me.
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She sounds like a smart woman.

Ted Cruz and John Kasich agree with her.
She's a pretty smart woman. (But she admitted tonight that the real reason she had JFK pictures up in our house for many years....in the prime locations.....was NOT because of his Catholicism or his sunny optimism, as she had always said. No, I had to grow up idolizing JFK because, at the end of the day, "he was just so handsome!")
As for Cruz and Kasich, she thought they were so-so.
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Old 07-28-2016, 09:47 PM
 
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I don't know her, so she might be extremely smart and it does nothing for me to bust on someone's mom, but no offense, it doesn't sound like she puts a lot of thought into politics.
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