Donald Trump for our next President.

[MaddSkillz]

Pretty good article on Trump. Here!

"The fear in both the GOP and Democratic party is visible at the surface when it comes to Trump, and it's not that he's any of what they've accused him of. No, it's really much simpler than that, and both Republican and Democrat parties, along with the mainstream media, are utterly terrified that you, the average American, is going to figure out what underlies all of these institutions in America."

 

[CHenry]

The RNC is not going to let Trump in. Count on it. Not unlike was done with Ralph Nader and Ron Paul.

 

[CHenry]

Donald Trump just got a little more vault in his ceiling. Nationwide, the polling-obsessed Manhattan multi-billionaire and leading Republican presidential candidate broke into the 40s on Monday.
According to the results of the latest Monmouth University poll surveying voters identifying as Republican or independents leaning toward the GOP, Trump earned 41 percent, nearly tripling the support of his closest rival, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who took 14 percent.
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The poll underscores Trump's success at keeping voters fixated on his unprecedented presidential campaign. The latest national survey was taken after Trump landed another whopper, proposing in an emailed statement last Monday to temporarily ban all Muslims from entering the U.S. The statement gave Trump another boost of media attention, and some speculated it was designed to shift the conversation away from a Monmouth poll from Iowa released earlier that day that showed Cruz with a 5-point edge in the state.
Trump was still smarting from that poll last Friday, trashing it during a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, though he may change his tune after this latest result.

“What the hell is Monmouth?” Trump asked at the rally, adding, “I only like polls that treat me well.”
Monmouth's survey also held good news for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who moved up to 10 percent support and third place, and bad news for retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who plummeted from 18 percent in October to 9 percent in this latest survey. Other candidates, including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, polled within the margin of error, with 6 percent remaining undecided.
Trump celebrated the favorable findings with a series of tweets and a post on Facebook, featuring a graphic, that was shortly taken down after posting, without explanation.
"Looks like we just broke another polling ceiling," he wrote to his followers. "While the establishment schemes to nominate someone they control - the voters are clearly indicating that they want someone who will fix the broken political system in DC. Thank you for your support! We will ‪#‎MakeAmericaGreatAgain‬!"
Among various demographic groups, Trump picked up 13 points among those with a high-school education, earning 54 percent support with that group, and 11 points with those identifying with the tea party, earning 52 percent with that group. Cruz, however, picked up 15 points among tea party supporters, receiving 29 percent with that group. Trump's standing among women has fallen slightly, down four points since October (41 percent to 37 percent this time), though he has gained three points with men (41 percent to 44 percent). Among those with a college degree, support for Trump fell by 10 points, from 41 percent to 31 percent.
In terms of favorability, Cruz led the way with a net positive 40 points (58 percent favorable to 18 percent unfavorable), followed by Rubio at +37 points (55 percent to 18 percent) and Trump at +32 points (61 percent to 29 percent). For Trump, the latest results mark an improvement over the last two months in the Monmouth poll. In October, his favorability sat at 52 percent to 33 percent.

Regardless of whether they supported Trump, 30 percent said they would be enthusiastic if he were the nominee, compared to 37 percent who said they would be satisfied. Just 12 percent said they would be dissatisfied, while 16 percent said they would be upset.
Asked whether they agreed that Trump had the proper temperament to be commander-in-chief, 65 percent agreed to some degree, while 33 percent disagreed to some measure. Among voters not supporting Trump or Cruz, however, just 55 percent to 43 percent said Trump's temperament would be a good fit for the White House.
The numbers represent a boost for Trump after a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register survey of likely Iowa Republican caucus participants on Saturday found that Cruz held a 10-point advantage over Trump. A Fox News poll gave Cruz a 28 percent-to-26 percent edge. In still another Iowa survey released Monday from Quinnipiac University, likely caucus-goers again indicated an essentially knotted race, with Trump at 28 percent and Cruz at 27 percent, virtually doubling Rubio's 14 percent.
On Sunday, Trump took the gloves off on Cruz, days after The New York Times reported Cruz had told donors that the judgment of all candidates, including Trump's, should be evaluated. "I don't think he's qualified to be president," Trump said on "Fox News Sunday," remarking that Cruz has been "frankly like a little bit of a maniac" as a senator.
In response, Cruz tweeted a clip of the song "Maniac" from the 1983 movie "Flashdance."
The Monmouth poll was conducted Dec. 10-13, surveying 385 registered voters nationwide who identified as Republicans or independents who indicated that they leaned toward the Republican Party. The margin of error is plus or minus 5 percentage points.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/poll-trump-new-high-216741#ixzz3uKTsjyAY

 

[Larry Morgan]

Pretty good article on Trump. Here!

"The fear in both the GOP and Democratic party is visible at the surface when it comes to Trump, and it's not that he's any of what they've accused him of. No, it's really much simpler than that, and both Republican and Democrat parties, along with the mainstream media, are utterly terrified that you, the average American, is going to figure out what underlies all of these institutions in America."

Personally I've never bought into the idea that the government has a goal to intentionally strip the public of all its power and freedoms. I DO however, buy into the idea that many (certianly not all) politicians have grandiose ambitions of affluence, power, and status. You don't hear about the good ones, you hear about the bad ones. Power seeking, self aggrandizing, and usually (and unfortunately), situating themselves in a position to be made the prototypical perception.
This seems to be the case in many voluntary positions that give the person authority of some type.

I do think the loss of freedoms has been perpetuated by the government having been put in a no-win situation of being demanded to fix problems on a central level. Many people have demanded actions based on a narrow set of issues, not contemplating the ramifications it can have throughout the whole system. You see this all the time with people saying "Cut defense spending, blah, blah, blah". Yeah, on paper, it seems so simple to just quit spending that money and viola, surplus. But what about the thousands of people suddenly left jobless. What about the large corporations with military contracts that vanish. Nothing is ever as simple as the generalized America populace seems to believe..

The fear for me is that there is not enough economic prosperity anymore to smooth over and cover up the fact that we are spending massive resources to prop up many things that are not sustainable. There are large swaths of people who only see this as a narrow issue. But Donald Trump is giving them a voice, and because he is putting no more intelligent thought into it other than the grievances he knows, you see the raw disdain come out through him. And his growing acceptance only reassures it. Everyone else sees a potential destabilization of a rickety system brought out by people frustrated. Trump WILL NOT fix anything. But he might destabilize everything so much it gets fixed. But trust me, you will not like the fixing part. No one will...

 

[MaddSkillz]

Personally I've never bought into the idea that the government has a goal to intentionally strip the public of all its power and freedoms. I DO however, buy into the idea that many (certianly not all) politicians have grandiose ambitions of affluence, power, and status. You don't hear about the good ones, you hear about the bad ones. Power seeking, self aggrandizing, and usually (and unfortunately), situating themselves in a position to be made the prototypical perception.
This seems to be the case in many voluntary positions that give the person authority of some type.

I do think the loss of freedoms has been perpetuated by the government having been put in a no-win situation of being demanded to fix problems on a central level. Many people have demanded actions based on a narrow set of issues, not contemplating the ramifications it can have throughout the whole system. You see this all the time with people saying "Cut defense spending, blah, blah, blah". Yeah, on paper, it seems so simple to just quit spending that money and viola, surplus. But what about the thousands of people suddenly left jobless. What about the large corporations with military contracts that vanish. Nothing is ever as simple as the generalized America populace seems to believe..

The fear for me is that there is not enough economic prosperity anymore to smooth over and cover up the fact that we are spending massive resources to prop up many things that are not sustainable. There are large swaths of people who only see this as a narrow issue. But Donald Trump is giving them a voice, and because he is putting no more intelligent thought into it other than the grievances he knows, you see the raw disdain come out through him. And his growing acceptance only reassures it. Everyone else sees a potential destabilization of a rickety system brought out by people frustrated. Trump WILL NOT fix anything. But he might destabilize everything so much it gets fixed. But trust me, you will not like the fixing part. No one will...

I think the endless attempts at restricting the 2nd is evidence for a government working towards a more draconian existence. But I do agree that people seeking financial success in an entreprenerual venture should look into politics. That's all most of our politicians are after all... Businessmen building a business.

I know it's selfish of me... But even before I'd like to see things fixed... I'd like to see accountability and justice for those who took an oath to work for the good of their fellow man/woman but instead made their greedy desires paramount.

 

[Ace_on_the_Turn]

Remember when Trump said he was given a clean bill of health by his long-time personal physician, the respect Dr. Jacob Bornstein?

Turns out, the good doctor is dead. Has been for 5 years. Trump's long-time personal physician is the respect Dr. Harold Bornstein. He's Dr. Jacob Bornstein's son.

Trump, who has one of the great memories of history, can't remember his doctor's name.
Can't remember the face of a man that was employed by The Trump Org. as a senior advisory to Trump and who had an office on the same floor as Trump in Trump Tower.
Can't remember a BBC interview he walked out of.
Can't remember the broadcast where he saw "thousands and thousands" of Muslims cheering in the streets.

 

[jfssms]

Remember when Trump said he was given a clean bill of health by his long-time personal physician, the respect Dr. Jacob Bornstein?

Turns out, the good doctor is dead. Has been for 5 years. Trump's long-time personal physician is the respect Dr. Harold Bornstein. He's Dr. Jacob Bornstein's son.

Trump, who has one of the great memories of history, can't remember his doctor's name.
Can't remember the face of a man that was employed by The Trump Org. as a senior advisory to Trump and who had an office on the same floor as Trump in Trump Tower.
Can't remember a BBC interview he walked out of.
Can't remember the broadcast where he saw "thousands and thousands" of Muslims cheering in the streets.

How will you disqualify Trump ACE? the media has given its all, what do you have to add?

 

[CHenry]

How will you disqualify Trump ACE? the media has given its all, what do you have to add?

Lmao!

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[Glocktogo]

How will you disqualify Trump ACE? the media has given its all, what do you have to add?

Well it certainly won't be for failing to match Trump in the fiery rhetoric department! LOL

 

[Ace_on_the_Turn]

How will you disqualify Trump ACE? the media has given its all, what do you have to add?

Disqualify? Not hardly. He's never been qualified. Being a xenophobic, bigoted, lying hypocrite makes him more than well qualified in the eyes of his supporters. And no one else. What Trump does best is make his supporters feel like it's okay to be an...well, exactly what they are. It will play fine with his supporters but he will never be elected.