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I keep wondering (hoping) when they are going to slap the cuffs on him. And, of course, they aren't going to. The Trump acolytes, the TEA Partiers, the teeming right wing masses, are the children of Reagan who believe that "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" are the most frightening words in the English language. They hate government, they hate laws that get in the way of their ideology. They even hate their own party enough to supplant more qualified candidates with the likes of Trump in the hopes that he will, once and for all, destroy the government they hate and fear so much. Not that they were given much choice, not a single Republican hopeful in this election was genuinely qualified to be president, so why not Trump. He did, after all, say the things they wanted to hear even if he was lying through his teeth the whole time. Trump, to them, is simply not accountable for his actions, past or present. He was simply doing the same things they would have done if they were in his(expensive Italian) shoes. Cutting throats, stabbing backs, raping children, and trampling anyone or anything that got in his way. To them this is what makes America Great. Handcuffs? Pffffft...put a crown on his head and kowtow to the one who will take this country where they want it to be.
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You're confusing his supporters with the government they all hate so much. The government - of any party of the two major ones - does not want the likes of Trump near any position of power. They might want to discredit and embarass him.
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Wait, he seems to do that all by his little self: Donald Trump on Saturday deleted a tweet critical of Hillary Clinton after he came under fire for evoking anti-Semitic stereotypes with a graphic that included dollar bills and a six-pointed star.
Before deleting the original tweet, which also contained the words "most corrupt candidate ever," the presumptive Republican nominee tweeted the same graphic with a tweak: a circle instead of a six-pointed star, which evokes the Jewish Star of David.
The Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment about the decision to use a six-pointed star and whether they were concerned about the potential for the imagery to evoke anti-Semitic undertones.
But the backlash on Twitter was immediate.
"A Star of David, a pile of cash, and suggestions of corruption. Donald Trump again plays to the white supremacists," said Erick Erickson, a leading anti-Trump conservative.
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Donald Trump used money donated for charity to buy himself a Tim Tebow-signed football helmet Trump won, eventually, with a bid of $12,000. Afterward, he posed with the helmet. His purchase made gossip-column news: a flourish of generosity, by a mogul with money to burn. "The Donald giveth, and The Donald payeth," wrote the Palm Beach Daily News. "Blessed be the name of The Donald."
But Trump didn't actually pay with his own money.
Instead, the Susan G. Komen organization — the breast-cancer nonprofit that hosted the party — got a $12,000 payment from another nonprofit , the Donald J. Trump Foundation.
Trump himself sent no money. (In fact, a Komen spokeswoman said, Trump has never given a personal gift of cash to the Komen organization.) He paid the bill with money from a charity he founded in 1987, but which is largely stocked with other people's money. Trump is the foundation's president. But, at the time of the auction, Trump had given none of his own money to the foundation for three years running.
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Just as a side note. the Susan G. Komen organization pretty much sucks as well. Their spending breakdown is terrible, and the CEO (Susan's sister) takes home $684,000/year in salary!
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Interesting article that (at least for me) sheds some light upon Mr. Trumps fans and his allure to them: Yet a common thread among Trump’s faithful, even among those whose individual circumstances remain unspoiled, is that they hail from broken communities. These are places where good jobs are impossible to come by. Where people have lost their faith and abandoned the churches of their parents and grandparents. Where the death rates of poor white people go up even as the death rates of all other groups go down. Where too many young people spend their days stoned instead of working and learning.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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I liked this part: Yet so long as people rely on that quick high, so long as wolves point their fingers at everyone but themselves, the nation delays a necessary reckoning. There is no self-reflection in the midst of a false euphoria. Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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No, they'll never realize it because he will lose and will never get the chance to fail spectacularly and find himself impeached by his own party.
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Wayne Barrett has been following Trump for decades, and his book has been updated in spite of Wayne's failing health. If you want to see why this criminal should be in jail, read this book. Wayne Barrett began covering Donald Trump in the late 1970s. He continues today even though he is largely homebound due to lung cancer. "He’s really not qualified to run the Trump Organization. He’s not fit to run the Trump Organization. So he’s certainly not fit to run America,” Barrett said. "I think he represents not just a danger to America, but because we are such an influence in the world, it’s really a shocking threat to the world. And so, you know, I’m in a sick bed a lot, but he gets me up out of it." The new updated edition is available in e-book format: e-book
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In reading an article about Trump's run-in with Jeff Flake, while ostensibly on a mission to "unite" the GOP behind him, it occurred to me that The Donald will only degrade as a viable candidate from here on out. While he had very little in the way of a substantial platform during the primaries, he will now have progressively less.
His greatness has been affirmed by the nomination and the foremost task for his narcissistic self is now to protect his greatness against his enemies, many of whom are Republicans. Since he has no advisors except himself, and no campaign strategy or team, I expect his behavior to shift almost entirely to attacking his detractors. (Maybe that's not really a shift?)
In any case, the necessary pivot for him, as a contender, to real issues and to appearing Presidential, is not going to happen.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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