Who's voting for Trump?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by achilles28, Apr 22, 2016.

  1. Ricter

    Ricter

    Drumpf is just awful. The ODS'rs won't see it, but the man is worse than useless.

    Trump at War

    "When Donald Trump launched his bid for the White House, one of his earliest initiatives was a promise to help Americans who had gone to war for their country. Or, as his campaign put it, to take care of “all Veteran complaints very quickly and efficiently like a world-class business man can do, but a politician has no clue.” Last summer, about a month after declaring his candidacy, Trump unveiled a hotline for veterans to share ideas about how to overhaul the bureaucracy that served them. A campaign aide said that Trump himself would personally respond to some of the messages. “I love all veterans and will help them finally lead the kind of lives that they should be leading,” Trump declared at the time.

    "Many of the veterans who called the hotline—855-VETS-352—say they were sent to an automated voicemail message telling them to email the campaign. Those who reached a live human were similarly instructed to send an email, or to mail their medical records to campaign headquarters at Trump Tower. It soon became evident that Trump had no actual plan in place to help anyone who contacted him through the hotline. Calling it a “publicity stunt,” one veteran wrote on PopularMilitary.com, “We are not sure what the estimated wait time is, but it is probably safe to say you should hold on to your [Veterans Affairs] card for now.”

    "This perfunctory effort was perhaps to be expected, since Trump has a long and colorful history of showing disrespect toward men and women in uniform. He did not serve himself, avoiding the Vietnam War via four education deferments, followed by a medical deferment for bone spurs in his feet. (His campaign notes that Trump received a high number in the draft lottery and was unlikely to ever be called up.) But on numerous occasions, he has dismissed the experiences of those who did. In the 2015 biography Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success, Trump is quoted as saying, “I always thought I was in the military” because of his time at the New York Military Academy, an expensive boarding school 60 miles north of New York City where Trump brought women onto campus so often that his yearbook nickname was “Ladies’ Man.” The author, Michael D’Antonio, writes that Trump believed the academy “provided him with more military training than most actual soldiers.”

    The damning, disrespectful statements from his own mouth continue >>
     
    #31     Apr 25, 2016
  2. wildchild

    wildchild

    Trump is a shithead, but nowhere near the shithead that Bernie Sanders is.
     
    #32     Apr 26, 2016
  3. That is pathetic. When a so called conservative stoops to the level of a common ordinary democrat and says (like they always do because they can't debate or think), "Our candidate is no worse than yours!"
     
    #33     Apr 26, 2016
  4. wartrace

    wartrace

    My libertarian vote is a small message to the two political crime families that I think they suck. I am being practical; I don't want anything to do with the two political crime families. Since Tennessee is going to vote for the republican in the general election by a wide margin my third party vote will not change anything.
     
    #34     Apr 26, 2016
  5. Sent that message a couple of times myself. It apparently fell on deaf ears... but I hear you. And I'm not trying to be critical... just offering a different way to look at things. If my state didn't have "Unafiliated" as a party choice, I'd pick Libertarian also.

    A vote for Trump will at least offset one Lefty vote. That's more than your vote will do.
     
    Last edited: Apr 26, 2016
    #35     Apr 26, 2016
  6. I doubt very many successful traders give a shit who is in power.
     
    #36     Apr 26, 2016
  7. Ricter

    Ricter

    We've heard a lot about unqualified presidents these past few years (which turned out to be false), but here in Drumpf we have a man who is openly, proudly anti-qualified to be president. He's "a soldier, too" because he fought to avoid STDs (his words) during his womanizing, draft dodging youth.
     
    #37     Apr 26, 2016
  8. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Clinton was quite the womanizer as well (Bill, obviously). But that didn't stop Democrats from cheering him.
     
    #38     Apr 26, 2016
  9. Ricter

    Ricter

    This time we know in advance. Thanks to... Drumpf himself.
     
    #39     Apr 26, 2016
  10. the absolutely pathetic and funny thing is you democrats are actually worried about Trump. Even resorting to subhuman Scataphoges intelligence and purposely misspelling his name. THERE! TAKE THAT REPUBLICANS! You guys really are pathetic. Nobody takes you seriously anymore. Your economic ideas have been proven a failure time and time again. But yet, every night on paid tv with operators standing by somebody spends $19.99 to lose weight without cutting consumption.
     
    #40     Apr 26, 2016