An excellent article, showing how the rest of the world views Trump's standing in our presidential election process, by showing actual quotes and headlines from the respective countries' newspapers.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/heres-what-people-around-the-world-think-of-america-after-trumps-bewildering-rise/
@snood,
NATALIE SHURE, ALTERNET
Bet she doesn't shave her legs or pits. $20?
@snood,
Pretty accurate as far as media goes.
The word on the street isn't as polite (at least in the countries where I talk to people for work).
Quote:“He’s popular because he strikes at almost anything that is politically correct,” Simpson told me. “People are sick of political correctness. … You can’t do anything without being accused of some gap in sensitivity. What the hell? And he’s hitting all those buttons. If you pretend that you’re goody-goody sweet pants, and never have had a serious feeling about a bias or prejudice about anything or anybody, you’re a lying son of a bitch.
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/an-establishment-under-siege-looks-back-wistfully-151404857.html?nf=1
Alan Simpson on Donald Trump
That is one big reason, yes.
Quote:If he were an engineer on the train, he wouldn’t know where the stop button was, or the start button on the engine or how to throw coal in it if it was coal-fired, but he sure knows how to play the buttons of emotion, fear, guilt and racism,” Simpson said. “He’s a bright guy, and he’s going to play the chords of discord, and he’s going to play the chords of political correctness.
Trump would be the train boss, and he would hire the right people to run the train. The elite do need to start understanding that the elites and their "expertise" has not served us well, so far as the little people are concerned now not being an expert means that it is more likely that you are the right guy for the job. just look at what Trump as already done for fucks sake, dont dump on Trump unless you can make a better arguement. And let us not forget that Simpson left Washington because he said that it was too broken to work, that he was wasting his time there. The Elite have had 20 years to fix Washington, and they did not. There opinion now is of limited relevance. Actions are more important than words.
@hawkeye10,
I made the last point not clearly:
We no longer believe that experts make the best leaders, there is no reason to expect that they should make the best leaders, and there is not a lot of evidence that they have been good leaders. Experts can get back behind their betters , representatives of the real people, the little people. Ya I know, democracy is a bitch, being forced to answer to the little people sucks. I dont give a ****.
I am so angry with how ******* dumb as bricks the elites are proving to be. These motherfuckers need some serious remedial education.
@hawkeye10,
The solution is simple: Let's vote for a filthy rich elite member who cons us into believing that he is a populist. Like that, nothing will change and we can all be angree at the elite forever... ;-)
@Olivier5,
Olivier5 wrote:
The solution is simple: Let's vote for a filthy rich elite member who cons us into believing that he is a populist. Like that, nothing will change and we can all be angree at the elite forever... ;-)
trump has a whole lifetime on the public stage. We think we know him. We think he is one of us. And that is all that matters, what we the little people think. Democracy means we get what we want.
This dog of yours will not hunt. Guilt has been massively overplayed during my lifetime, you need to try something else if you want to have a chance.
@hawkeye10,
Quote:filthy rich elite member
is definitely a part you are overlooking.
@roger,
roger wrote:
Quote:filthy rich elite member
is definitely a part you are overlooking.
So was FDR. You lose pal.
@Olivier5,
Well that shot right over his head.
The Roosevelts were an old money New York family--they were never "filthy rich," however. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., when his father died while he was still at Harvard, became the head of his family--which had a successful plate glass importing business. He soon discovered that although his father had been his generation's oldest son, the family was far from wealthy. He had to cut back on his own expenditures, and began writing books--a life-long source of extra cash--and after the death of his first wife, took up cattle ranching in South Dakota, hoping to repair his family's fortunes. He was able to reach the point where he was comfortably well-off, although his cattle ranching venture failed, but never rich, and his sister lived on an allowance from him all her life, and his brother failed in every business attempt and became an alcoholic, eventually being institutionalized.
Theodore's cousin, Franklin Roosevelt was the son of James Roosevelt, also a cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. James Roosevelt had interests in coal and railroads, but on his death in 1900, he left the bulk of his estate to his second wife, Sara Delano (also a cousin) and only a modest legacy to Franklin. Franklin was never rich, and lived for his early years on the short leash of his mother, a domineering woman, who decided to marry him off to Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, his cousin, and the daughter of Theodore's younger brother. Franklin's formidable mother kept them both in line, or attempted to. Eleanor nevertheless had a good relationship with her in the early years of her marriage. Sara Delano Roosevelt was given to extravagances, such as having two houses built in New York city, so that the newlyweds could move into one, and she could move in next door. The Roosevelts were a "society" family, they were never rich, filthy or clean.
As usual, Whackeye shoots his mouth off without knowing what the hell he's talking about.
@hawkeye10,
I'm not peddling guilt, just saying that Trump is from the elite. His scams are different from the classic ones, but he is just another con artist from the elite. More creative than most, I give you that. But what the victims of a grifter think he is and what he really is, are two different things.
Quote:It’s hard to conceive of “Donald Trump” at this point as anything other than a 69-year con created by God for the strict purpose of stopping a third Bush from becoming president. Trump doesn’t have to win the nomination to execute this trick; he’s done enough already by changing the contours of what Republicans want on a fundamental level. The Bush campaign came into the election knowing that it would have to address concerns about dynasty and being considered a member of the establishment. It likely didn’t expect a bombastic (to put it generously) figure like Trump to come along and seize polling front-runner status by amplifying these weaknesses through gaudy but attention-grabbing performance art.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/10/jeb_bush_sinks_to_4_percent_thanks_to_donald_trump.html
It is fun watching the Left begrudgingly admit how much Trump matters, how much he has done, while they continue on their marry way dismissing and demeaning him. This is what is called intellectual gymnastics, and they do it well, because if they did not they would need to deal with reality.
He is very rich and therefore powerful indeed. But I think, that there isn't enough people to like him. So, therefore I answer no, I don't think he is the future president.
@OregonFlyBy,
What does "there isn't enough people to like him" even mean? Are you claiming that only people who are for instance like Hillary will vote for her? Sure once upon a time politicians needed to make a personal connection with the voters and they needed to convince us that they care about the same things we do but that has largely gone by the boards. The people who demean Trump for being a performance artist miss that fact that according to the little people all of politics has long been a form of performance art, Trump at leasts is bringing the fresh air of honesty to the arena, he as is his want is the only one who "tell it as it is". This does not mean that professional politicians cant go back to being politicians rather than performers, but as long as they are all being performers we will take the one who with a wink communicates to us that he knows what is going on, and he will be honest with us.
@hawkeye10,
He simply meant that he didn't think there were enough people that like Trump to get him into the white house with their votes. What part confused you?
