Trump by name......

Ideological soundness. The only positives you've been able to list for Trump are that he conforms to your ideology, you have not articulated any good that he seeks to do. For a president who's proposing to wage a domestic war, well, the bar should be a little higher. Never mind that though, we are literally facing a threat to our species and nearly every other (tardigrades will be fine, thank the maker) in the form of ecological collapse and Trump proposes to eliminate the EPA (when he can name it). Do you think that this is a position a politician should take?

 

Prove me wrong. Give us one thing that you think Trump brought to the table that the other Republican candidates didn't.

Business Experience? Carly Fiorina is a much better business leader, who earned her way to the top, she didn't inherit it.

Domestic Policy? Lindsey Graham, Rick Santorum, Rand Paul all have more knowledge over domestic affairs

Foreign Policy? Marco Rubio has forgotten more about Foreign Policy than Donald Trump would care to know.

Executive Experience? Any of the governors in the race have executive experience.

So what is it that you think made Donald Trump the man to vote for?

I promise to engage constructively (but robustly) with any points you choose to make.

 

http://www.planetexperts.com/fed-gives-approval-harm-americas-known-jaguar/

This is the strength of US environmental law. We've decided that for the last US jaguar, blasting a copper mine in its territory is suitable conservation effort. This is the agency that Trump seeks to eliminate.

 

well you can add economics to something else trump doesn't understand.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/u...n-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=1

yet, he's going to "make america great again", by defaulting on our debt.

i wish i could make this stuff up.

i hope to get the chance to meet barack obama so i can personally thank him for not being an idiot.

 

Quick, perhaps off-topic, question for Gio and/or Philo.

When I check my FB and IG I see a lot of support for Sanders, I mean...huge amount of support for the guy. But, I use my social media for keeping up with music and the punk/ hardcore/extreme music scene has always been very liberal and left leaning.

So, is he actually popular or am I just in a bubble as such?

Of course...I could research and think myself, but I want people to tell me what to think...bit like a Trump supporter.

 

he is very popular among certain segments.

i think he's fine. he's not trump, so right there that's a win. i don't like his single payer plan; there are other reforms i'd rather see in the health care industry frankly. i agree that wealth inequality is a problem, but i think we have existing ways of addressing that with a higher top tax bracket and changing the capital gains tax. i also do not agree on his proposal for free higher education. those are just some highlights. there are other things that i agree with, some i don't. he's for empowering women to have access to their own health care, without government bureaucrat or religious interference. he's for the judicious use of our military. he's for lgtb equality as i am.

but he's not a conservative. in my book, a huge win.

either hillary or bernie would be fine executives of this country. especially compared to the alternative.

 

I think I'm kind of in the same bubble; Sanders has enjoyed widespread support from younger voters and really social media all over the place. At this point it looks like his campaign will not be successful at securing the nomination. A lot of people are really upset about the prospect of a second Clinton presidency, but I'm trying to remind myself that she will likely select supreme court justices who will be as liberal as those picked by Clinton and Obama.

 

I understand that you are running up against your capacities for understanding. That's ok. Let me distinguish for you the difference between and a tangible good and ideological agreement - it would be great if a politician affirmed for me that he or she disagrees with racism. We would be in ideological agreement. But there is no tangible good there without an implemented policy that actually combats racism. Let me know if you're still having trouble with this - I appreciate that the nuance is clear.

Your only reasons for dismissing the department of education is that you believe this should be done on a state by state level - this is an ideological basis for supporting the measure, it shows no goods that will come of such a thing. I have shown you that education quality suffers enormously under this (my opposition is based upon this tangible harm), you simply say that it is bullying to reject religious instruction and historical white washing in schools. So what tangible good do you see resulting from this measure? Does it compensate for the fact that he wants to kill hundreds of thousands of people and degrade our ability to protect our environment further?

 

You realise that every major Republican candidate was in favour of getting rid of the board of education, and that Trump's position was by far the most luke warm. Where people like Cruz, Rubio, Huckabee and Paul all said they would scrap the dept. Trump merely signalled that he would review whether or not to eliminate it or to slim it down.

So on the one concrete policy issue you have signalled agreement on, you've picked one that he was wishy washy on and that every other candidate agreed with you on.

 

This is pretty certain, isn't it? Most of the news that I have seen suggests that it is impossible for him to win the primaries now.

 

Trump loves the Clintons

 

Well, how anyone could be against a guy who has not one but two endorsements from the KKK is beyond me

"I am the king of debt, I love debt. I love playing with it.

[...]

I would borrow, knowing that if the economy crashed, you could make a deal, and if the economy was good, it was good. So therefore, you can't lose."

- Donald Trump.

- http://www.vox.com/2016/5/6/11607464/trump-haircut-default-debt

Trump haters are just afraid, because they're too weak to survive race war and global economic crisis.

 

You get the sense that he really formulated his theories on international economics from his bankruptcies.

 

Weirdly, running a countries fianaces is nothing at all like running a businesses finances, that's why all countries trying to cut their way out if debt are failing to thrive.
either way trumps approach spells disaster.

 

http://usuncut.com/politics/maine-democratic-party-just-got-rid-superdelegate-system/

Interesting developments for the democrats system.