[quote=joec]Trump’s a bully and mostly (like nearly ALL the candidates) looking out for himself, but calling him insane is a bit off I feel.
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He wasn’t insane until he started to campaign as such. For the most part, he appeared sane before his bid for the white house
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If he was truly insane, he would have squandered all his born wealth and would be a total failure with no marriages and living in a ditch or dead.
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Wrong. You equate financial success to sane people, and equate financial ruin to insane people. That can’t be further from the truth. There are plenty of evil people who are incredibly wealthy. Just look up David Duke. He’s richer than you are.
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From all data, I think it’s fair to say he was born a millionaire and made himself into a billionaire (how much, still over $1 bil)…more than what most people would amount to.
He also raised 3 kids which nearly all the press and people who know them state are decent and upstanding kids…especially Ivanka.
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Insane people are nice to their families and people who worship him. Name one nice thing that Trump said about anyone who isn’t white. You’re asian, I’m so surprised this doesn’t concern you. It might not be your fight for now, it will be.
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I think in the end, Trump is extremely calculating and has a good sense of what the mood/feel/whatever you want to call it is for people and uses it to make sure he’s getting his share/cut…and uses it to succeed.
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Yes calculated evil, and knowing exactly which buttons to push to get people so push forward his agenda. If I was religious, I would say he’s close enough to the anti-christ.
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It’s true he’s no conservative, but maybe that’s a good thing since there’s been ads against him for coming out and supporting universal health care
(my main concern in general) and other things “conservative” far right republicans would never support.
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People are mixing character with political viewpoint. Example: I might not like Obama. I might not even like Bernie for being a leftist socialist. However, Bernie doesn’t strike me as someone evil, not in what he says, not in what he does. Perhaps very misguided and what he would do would piss me off from a policy standpoint.
Trump lacks character. He takes paints himself a moderate for exactly the reasons that you just exhibit. To win you over on his political viewpoint, so he can get away with his agenda of his racist/devisive agenda, and with enough “moderate” people saying “well, he’s a moderate, and I agree with enough of his moderate viewpoints, hence he must be ok”.
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What I don’t get is why LEGAL immigrants want to support ILLEGAL immigrants who are probably affecting their financial and job prospects far more. Having more workers compete with you if you are legal doesn’t help you and I’d assume legal immigrants (Mexican, Asian, whoever) should be against all the freebees you see bantered about. Maybe it’s your family, but legal immigrants can bring them in legally as well…I don’t get this point.
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A lot of people keep saying illegals are hindering them financially. Let me ask exactly what did illegals do to hurt you personally financially? Welfare? What about the majority of welfare recipients being from southern states which are U.S. citizens? If we really want to talk about freebies, why not point the finger there. The percentage of welfare leeches from southern states is much larger than the freebies that illegals get. (I can’t believe as a republican, I just said that. But it’s true)
And let’s be frank, the reason why illegal alien exist is because of our government/social policies, not because of the illegal people themselves. If a politician really wants to solve the illegal alien problem, the solution is simple…stop giving financial incentives to people who come here who aren’t here legally. Get rid of welfare, healthcare, and entitlement benefits completely. Don’t blame the latinos, or asians, or what have you. Blame the policy and change the policy. In as much as why are people blaming H1-B people, when the blame should be directed at the few CEOs and companies that exploit the H1-B system?
I don’t know. If you aren’t white, be very very afraid right now. It might start with just illegal latinos, or muslims. But who’s to draw the line. There are already plenty of people pissed off at the H1-B blaming indians. There are plenty of people shut out of the housing market that are blaming the asians. If you enable Trump’s game, why do you think this sort of blaming is going to stop short of you, unless they don’t view you as a threat financially or socially. You aren’t white afterall. This is the entire problem I have with Trump’s supporters. Mix a bunch of mad people who are frustrated with being left behind, add a dash of racism to the mix, and you get a very scary bunch of people that want view you who isn’t white as a threat to their future who will do anything and back anything to “take you down”, even if it means to bully you over. And as an asian, you’ll get kicked around again.. Because once again, you wanted to play it safe, and didn’t think anything would happen to you. Asians get kicked around a lot, because a lot of asians let it happen.
You’ll always be a second class citizen no matter how successful you are, or how much money you have…no matter how much money you have, you won’t mind getting kicked around, and people will think you won’t mind getting kicked around.
