The Donald Trump Score Card

Jesus, he sounds like a used car salesman who will say anything to get your money.

 

Trump's control of the Supreme Court is starting to pay off. With Gorsuch's help, they just brushed off a Democrat challenge to North Dakota's new REPUBLICAN law which says all people who vote must present an ID which has a street residence address. The law forces homeless people and Indians who live on a reservation completely out of the process of representative government. Tens of thousands of Native Americans and homeless shelter residents can not vote this November. People who have a post office box on their driver license as an address can no longer vote. It's a red letter day for the Republicans. In Georgia, the Republican controlled state government is just simply HOLDING voter registrations--which have already been filled out and presented to the officials--so they could help Trump's buddies on election day. In 2016, Mike Pence had the state police raid the offices of a civil rights organization which had carried out a registration drive to get minorities to vote. The raid scared off enough colored people. The Republicans retained their control of Indiana.

 

Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen just registered to vote as a Democrat! This happened one day after Mayor Bloomberg switched his party affiliation to Democrat!

 

Trump is still fascinated by his rallies even if Fox News viewers aren't
By Michael D'Antonio
Updated 7:02 PM ET, Thu October 11, 2018

Trump is still fascinated by his rallies even if Fox News viewers aren't (opinion) - CNN

excerpt:

"As a man who struggles to appear presidential. Trump knows that he looks deficient in many of the roles commonly associated with the office. He meets high schoolers who are devastated by gun violence and needs crib notes on empathy. He visits natural disaster victims and throws paper towels at them.

Second to cheerleading, among the Trump presidential priorities, may be the pursuit of celebrity credibility. Although he frequently complains about Hollywood liberals, he craves the attentions of the famous. So it was that he welcomed Kanye West to the Oval Office, where he made a jabbering spectacle of himself. In his "Make America Great Again" hat, Kanye himself proved to be an enthusiastic cheerleader for the President, which explains why Trump indulged him."

 

At his rallies, Trump frequently engages in false and dishonest statements. I just saw him on TV claiming the Saudis are buying over a hundred billion dollars in military equipment. The official report on that one is way off. He also claimed that the Saudis invested 40 million into his hotel. Then he asked the crowd, "What do you expect me to do?" Apparently, he hasn't given the emoluments clause much thought. On global warming, he has decided to sell the oil company and coal company twist, while disregarding the thousands of scientists who have told him otherwise. And on the Russia investigation, Trump has claimed, "It is the Democrats who have colluded with Russia!"

 

A article published in 2016.


Trump's conflicts will be crippling
by Timothy P. Carney
November 22, 2016 09:26 PM

Trump's conflicts will be crippling

excerpt:

"Voters ought to worry about any politician whose business interests intersect and perhaps clash so much with his public duties. Americans are all in a partnership with Trump now, and he will soon act as our agent. Plenty of folks have come out of a partnership with Trump worse for the experience — just ask his creditors, his vendors, his beauty queens, his ex-wives or Chris Christie — while Trump has profited.

Without even positing bad intentions on Trump's part, we need to worry about the subconscious pull for him to consider his business interests when he should be focusing solely on the national interest.

With Trump, there's another reason to worry: He judges other people and determines how to treat them based on how they treat him. When asked to assess various public figures, Trump consistently uses this measure: I like him, he treated me well in a business deal. I dislike her, she lost me money.

So if a foreign leader wants to curry favor with the President could he pull it off by cutting a good deal with some Trump business? Forget about a bribe or a quid pro quo, President Trump may just say, That Erdogan has a bad rap, but I know he's a good guy because he treated my hotel well."

 

Another weird aspect of all this.

Is the Alex Jone’s camp, doesn’t really like the Saudi’s they think their behind 9/11, so it baffles me why the also support Trump, who seems to be giving them arms.

 

It must be difficult for you guys to have to share the country with so many stupid people, huh?

 

It's a chore,no doubt.

 

‘I like them very much:’ Trump has long-standing business ties with Saudis, who have boosted his hotels since he took office
By David A. Fahrenthold and Jonathan O'Connell
October 11 at 5:04 PM

‘I like them very much:’ Trump has long-standing business ties with Saudis, who have boosted his hotels since he took office

excerpt:

"Now, Trump’s administration is trying to get answers from Saudi leaders about the disappearance of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi — a critic of the Saudi regime who was allegedly abducted, and possibly killed, inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last week. The crisis has brought scrutiny to Trump’s business ties with the Saudis — and the complexity they add to an already complicated U.S. relationship with the kingdom.

“Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,” Trump told a crowd at an Alabama campaign rally in 2015. “Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.”"

 

Kanye says he wants Trump to fly a hydrogen powered aircraft so he can be a President who looks his best, the same Trump who walks up the steps with toilet paper stuck to his shoe.

 

I think Trump used Alex for every cent he's worth and then kicked him out to the curb after the election.

 

Excerpt from the Kanye West and Trump lunch meetup.


- West: You stopped the war.

- Trump: We really stopped the war. Saved millions of lives You know, Seoul has 30 million people You don’t realize how big Thirty million people who are right near the border; 30 miles off the border Millions of people would have been killed And I will say, Chairman Kim has been really good. Really good And we’ve made a lot of progress.

 

He's a legend in his own mind.

 

A philophical byproduct of business culture that preaches “fake it til you make it” which is double-edged advice. But it conditions the one who practices it to stroke their ego, and they don’t enter a psychological state of knowing how to balance themselves with humbleness.


Kanye has no education on how expensive hydrogen-liquid fuel costs to produce, nor that the main company who produces a hydrogen-compound liquid fuel is in China...a place that most surely would be tariffrd if you import that fuel.

If you want technologies based on Hydrogen you better understand physics and energy states and how they work on an atomic level, and then you better also THINK and ask yourself if hydrogen was so great, why did Tesla (Elon era) not invest in that route of car building instead of lithium-ion electric route? Come at this topic from different angles.

Let’s also not forgot Bush Jr. in his last months of his administration, visited a hydrogen-fuel cell refill station, and that was in 2008.....frankly it’s been over a decade now since prototypes have existed. Only Toyota and Honda have working fuel cell cars (Mirai, Clarity) lease only; not purchase.

Kanye and Trump get along because they speak in dreams; but don’t think things through and delegate to lower rank employees who they just expect to boss around to “make it happen”, they are the exact archetype of the boss you hate at work who has irrational expectations.

Make the connections.

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Also yes it is upsetting to know your those less intelligent than you feel like they got you argumentatively, and yet don’t realize their thesis statement against your views are still lacking.

Humbly intelligent people are just frustrated when their critics don’t logically debate yet or realize when they need to respect those who invested time and money into a BA, MA, or Ph.D. Titles confer respect per their field of study because it shows they brought their discipline to study, something you didn’t; they aren’t always right, but if you are to disprove them you better not oversimplify their arguments by rebuttals or dreams of innovation that surely someone thought of before you did.


And some of us feel your ignorance is a choice, we don’t all believe ignorance is forever, we believe you have the potential to be as knowledge and contribute as the rest of us, but we most often see people pretending to be smart and “woke” rather than those who are really going the full mile to understand complex topics or innovating ideas.

 

Good point. Anti-intellectualism is a prominent feature of right wing populism, which assumes that instead of actually gaining superior knowledge through study, reasoning, and careful consideration of evidence, these academic eggheads are just drawing on book larn'in to support their preconceived "librul" ideas.
Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America
American idiot: rethinking anti-intellectualism in the age of Trump
https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Real-Victims-of/241101
America dumbs down: a rising tide of anti-intellectual thinking
Anti-intellectualism is taking over the US
One of the more extreme proponents of this point of view, himself a prototype of a fuzzy-minded academic, is the libertarian psychologist Jordan Peterson. He warns of a conspiracy of "Post-modernist Marxists" who have supposedly taken over the universities and are out to undermine western civilization by leading youth astray. He even proposed (but abandoned) a website that would use an algorithm to determine which university course descriptions contained his idea of postmodern and Marxist language and warn students and their parents to stay away.

 

Which is ironic because now you have a situation where Alex Jones, Milo Yanopolis, and people who listen to them, really do try to attribute liberal arts degrees to the concepts of Marxism.

I’m a leftie but a center leftie who actually took time to listen to Milo, and to Alex Jones, and to be honest besides their digs at using only empirical evidenced when framing a debate, you must immediately recognize the flawed foundational environment they engage you on a topic. Some behaviors like proving a rape or addressing emotional crimes of trauma, have real affects on the brain, but unless you have special equipment you can’t justify that, it remains abstract evidence.

But there is truth behind the fact that NAFTA hurt some people, that’s legitimate complaint.

There also some really too idealistic lefties as well that NEED to acknowledge we don’t have free-energy yet, that reproducing wildly has a drag on and strains the collective resources we share, that natural isn’t always good, and that countries who have socialism like Venezuela are failing, as well as places like Brazil who is about to elect and extemist. Millennials are guilty of contributing to e-waste, lack significant IT security knowledge and expose themself to social media in both toxic and healthy ways, and the demarcation line is between social networking and social media; the former is healthy and building, the second is mindless content consuming the same as SOME TV’s.

It’s true that legalese language in many bills, laws, and treaties are confusing and they read scary, but you must have a lawyers understanding to know when wording is harsh only because of creating a legal buffer for interpretation should anything get argued in court, vs what someone really wants to start enacting upon.

I still think Alex has a point on 9-11, and why specifically the Solomon (building 7) went down without any impact. But there needs to be more proof than just a suspicion.

And if you want to really go to crazy town and hypothetically run with the concept that the .001% of elites are mind controlled cabal lizard non-humans, then you have to ask yourself the next question is what are Guns, even automatic guns gonna do against a threat that has psychokinesis, mindreading, telekinesis, and shapeshifting superpowers? 2nd amendment does squat in that scenario because those beliefs are tied to UFO-ET beliefs. Your faith in God is really the only thing you got at that point.

Makes no sense, and on the off chance it is true and I have to eat crow, everyone is screwed anyway.


And from the Christian’s perspective, why mix faith with something worldly like politics? It baffles me that Revelations clearly says people are judged by faith, and also their works in that faith on an individual level according to their own “book”. If that’s true then it doesn’t matter what earthly law says or how you change it, as long as earthly law isn’t forcing you to violate a religious tenet/principle then there should be no conflict. You can’t legislate morality you can only inspire it to stay faithful in a soft-influence kind of way. Those who fall by the wayside do so by choice.

Now if a law forces women to have abortion like China’s former one-child policy; that’s clearly a violation.

Florida also voted Trump and got no reprieve from God on the strength of Hurricane Michael, but from talking to some conservatives they seem to think voting Republican that legislates some Christian principles will win some of God’s sympathy upon our nation...cuz he controls the weather. The evidence shows otherwise.....no mercy from God based on politics, at least not the way the current right wing is interpreting it.

Perhaps maybe if sins of Greed and lying with impunity all for a lust for power, and for some politicians living a double sinful life, MAYBE if it was genuine, maybe the hypothesis of God’s mercy is correct. Maybe Republicans are falsely inconsistent and that’s why it there’s isn’t mercy from God, assuming God’s real.

Either way, Republicans are inconsistent in their ideology, yet vote as a block for different reasons yet market the party as a unified strength.

 

In yet another campaign rally to a whiter than white audience, Trump proclaims that Kanye West will get him the black vote..


Post-Kanye, Trump says 'we're going to get the African-American vote'
David Knowles
October 12, 2018

Post-Kanye, Trump says 'we're going to get the African-American vote'

excerpt:

"President Trump has a dream.

One day after rapper Kanye West, wearing a red “Make America Great” hat, delivered an incoherent rant in the Oval Office, Trump again set his sights on the long-shot goal of winning the African-American vote.

“I think we’re going to get the African-American vote,” Trump said Friday in Lebanon, Ohio, the second campaign rally the president has held since Hurricane Michael barreled into the Florida panhandle, devastating coastal communities before continuing its deadly rampage across the South.

“Kanye West, what he did was pretty amazing yesterday,” Trump said with a chuckle. “Pretty amazing.”""

 

At this point in time, I live in Indiana. I am surrounded with Republicans who think people with college degrees are stupid. And our former governor Mike Pence takes money from the manufacturer of Butt Putty, an anal sex lubricant.