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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Wed Sep 28, 2016, 06:40 PM Sep 2016

Trump? How Could We?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/opinion/trump-how-could-we.html

My reaction to the Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton debate can be summarized with one word: “How?”

How in the world do we put a man in the Oval Office who thinks NATO is a shopping mall where the tenants aren’t paying enough rent to the U.S. landlord?...

I am not enamored of Clinton’s stale, liberal, centralized view of politics, but she is sane and responsible; she’ll do her homework, can grow in the job, and might even work well with Republicans, as she did as a senator.

Trump promises change, but change that comes from someone who thinks people who pay taxes are suckers and who thinks he can show up before an audience of 100 million without preparation or real plans and talk about serious issues with no more sophistication than your crazy uncle — and expect to get away with it — is change the country can’t afford.

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Trump? How Could We? (Original Post) KamaAina Sep 2016 OP

I'll give Friedman kudos Skittles Sep 2016 #1

Oh, Tom gratuitous Sep 2016 #2

WOW. That spiel by Friedman is one of the most morally bankrupt statements I have ever heard! nt tblue37 Sep 2016 #4

The coward can't say it directly. ronnie624 Sep 2016 #6

it's a complete mystery to me. he's courted all the racist Obama, Hillary shits. spanone Sep 2016 #3

That's a question I still haven't received a good answer for CJohnson_LS Sep 2016 #5

Skittles

(153,111 posts)

1. I'll give Friedman kudos

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Sep 28, 2016, 09:19 PM

Sep 2016

that is an excellent assessment of Trump and his ridiculous supporters

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

2. Oh, Tom

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Sep 28, 2016, 09:24 PM

Sep 2016

You're so . . . innocent in the ways of the world, aren't you? Things happen, and you just have no earthly idea how things might have come to such a pretty pass. "I think [the Iraq war] was certainly worth doing." That was a nationally-syndicated columnist based at a newspaper that styles itself as THE paper of record.

How did we get Trump? Suck. On. This.

tblue37

(65,217 posts)

4. WOW. That spiel by Friedman is one of the most morally bankrupt statements I have ever heard! nt

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 28, 2016, 09:35 PM

Sep 2016

ronnie624

(5,764 posts)

6. The coward can't say it directly.

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 28, 2016, 10:01 PM

Sep 2016

Deep down, he knows it was wrong.

spanone

(135,791 posts)

3. it's a complete mystery to me. he's courted all the racist Obama, Hillary shits.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Sep 28, 2016, 09:30 PM

Sep 2016

they are not America.

outliers.

CJohnson_LS

(52 posts)

5. That's a question I still haven't received a good answer for

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Sep 28, 2016, 09:39 PM

Sep 2016

One reason is because a lot of Americans are just stupid. After all, they voted in GWB TWICE, despite the fact that the man couldn't speak a complete sentence to save his life.
Another reason is because they view Trump as someone who "defies" the "PC Police", despite the fact that he has called for the shutdown of media that doesn't agree with him.

It's all just madness.

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