He is erratic. Trump has been on so many sides of so many issues that attempting to assess his policy positions is like shooting at a moving target. A list prepared by NBC details 124 shifts by Trump on 20 major issues since shortly before he entered the race. He simply spouts slogans and outcomes (he’d replace Obamacare with “something terrific”) without any credible explanations of how he’d achieve them.
He is ill-equipped to be commander in chief. Trump’s foreign policy pronouncements typically range from uninformed to incoherent. It’s not just Democrats who say this. Scores of Republican national security leaders have signed an extraordinary open letter calling Trump’s foreign policy vision “wildly inconsistent and unmoored in principle.” In a Wall Street Journal column this month, Robert Gates, the highly respected former Defense secretary who served presidents of both parties over a half-century, described Trump as “beyond repair.”
He traffics in prejudice. From the very beginning, Trump has built his campaign on appeals to bigotry and xenophobia, whipping up resentment against Mexicans, Muslims and migrants. His proposals for mass deportations and religious tests are unworkable and contrary to America’s ideals.
Trump has stirred racist sentiments in ways that can’t be erased by his belated and clumsy outreach to African Americans. His attacks on an Indiana-born federal judge of Mexican heritage fit “the textbook definition of a racist comment,” according to House Speaker Paul Ryan, the highest-ranking elected official in the Republican Party. And for five years, Trump fanned the absurd “birther” movement that falsely questioned the legitimacy of the nation’s first black president.
Anthony Morgan
cont His business career is checkered. Trump has built his candidacy on his achievements as a real estate developer and entrepreneur. It’s a shaky scaffold, starting with a 1973 Justice Department suit against Trump and his father for systematically discriminating against blacks in housing rentals. (The Trumps fought the suit but later settled on terms that were viewed as a government victory.) Trump’s companies have had some spectacular financial successes, but this track record is marred by six bankruptcy filings, apparent misuse of the family’s charitable foundation, and allegations by Trump University customers of fraud. A series of investigative articles published by the USA TODAY Network found that Trump has been involved in thousands of lawsuits over the past three decades, including at least 60 that involved small businesses and contract employees who said they were stiffed. So much for being a champion of the little guy.
He isn’t leveling with the American people. Is Trump as rich as he says? No one knows, in part because, alone among major party presidential candidates for the past four decades, he refuses to release his tax returns. Nor do we know whether he has paid his fair share of taxes, or the extent of his foreign financial entanglements.
He speaks recklessly. In the days after the Republican convention, Trump invited Russian hackers to interfere with an American election by releasing Hillary Clinton’s emails, and he raised the prospect of “Second Amendment people” preventing the Democratic nominee from appointing liberal justices. It’s hard to imagine two more irresponsible statements from one presidential candidate.
Nathaniel Miller
cont He has coarsened the national dialogue. Did you ever imagine that a presidential candidate would discuss the size of his genitalia during a nationally televised Republican debate? Neither did we. Did you ever imagine a presidential candidate, one who avoided service in the military, would criticize Gold Star parents who lost a son in Iraq? Neither did we. Did you ever imagine you’d see a presidential candidate mock a disabled reporter? Neither did we. Trump’s inability or unwillingness to ignore criticism raises the specter of a president who, like Richard Nixon, would create enemies’ lists and be consumed with getting even with his critics.
He’s a serial liar. Although polls show that Clinton is considered less honest and trustworthy than Trump, it’s not even a close contest. Trump is in a league of his own when it comes to the quality and quantity of his misstatements. When confronted with a falsehood, such as his assertion that he was always against the Iraq War, Trump’s reaction is to use the Big Lie technique of repeating it so often that people begin to believe it.
We are not unmindful of the issues that Trump’s campaign has exploited: the disappearance of working-class jobs; excessive political correctness; the direction of the Supreme Court; urban unrest and street violence; the rise of the Islamic State terrorist group; gridlock in Washington and the influence of moneyed interests. All are legitimate sources of concern.
Jeremiah Myers
>>>/lampshadefactory/
Brody Butler
cont Nor does this editorial represent unqualified support for Hillary Clinton, who has her own flaws (though hers are far less likely to threaten national security or lead to a constitutional crisis). The Editorial Board does not have a consensus for a Clinton endorsement.
Some of us look at her command of the issues, resilience and long record of public service — as first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of State — and believe she’d serve the nation ably as its president.
Other board members have serious reservations about Clinton’s sense of entitlement, her lack of candor and her extreme carelessness in handling classified information.
Trump is a joke.
Jace Clark
@91140765 @91144009
wtf i love globalism now
Samuel Hughes
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Tyler Cox
>From the very beginning, Trump has built his campaign on appeals to bigotry and xenophobia Yeah, oddly enough that made me like him even more though. Especially when the other side tells me I should be ashamed of my skin colour and gender - women only make 70c for every dollar men make afterall, the fact that they contribute to less than 10% of workplace deaths has nothing to do with that though; it's all sexism!
I am now a #DildoForHildo
Leo Hall
eh quta e famila silencio
Nicholas Morgan
Too bad you can't vote, your say doesn't matter. Trump will win whether you like it or not...all you can do is watch from afar and scream, hoping someone hears you over all the static.
For your own sake, don't take it too personal. I'm not sure how long you'd last if you did
Xavier Morris
@91144324 @u/Shill4Hill
Am I doing this right? Cathy told me you'd be in this thread, but I'm not sure how 4tron works. When you get a second can you come over and help me? I'm in cubical 1488.
Parker Morales
Bigotry and xenophobia won't solve anything, but cause more problems in the future.
Josiah Sanders
There's no such thing as paid shills. Just because someone has a different opinion than you, doesn't mean he is paid by someone.
Gavin Bennett
@91141805
Fuck, how do I delete that post? I didn't mean to make it public.
Logan Wright
And how does it feel to know your opinion doesn't matter? That you have no direct say in this?
Tyler Nguyen
It might not matter in this pro-Trump board, but that still doesn't change the fact that Donald Trump has a low chance of winning the election.
Gabriel Moore
Don't be so hard on him. It's just a job for him. He's gotta eat like everyone else. It's not like Lithuania has a lot of options.
Josiah Reed
Guess what faggot? We would rather have an erratic racist as president,rather than a corrupt half dead whore.
Fuck you and all your bullshit. It's time to make America great again,you limp wristed cocksucker.
Michael Green
Too bad that he's gonna lose the election, since almost everybody does not like him in the US.
Oliver Carter
@91142564
>I still believe the "le trump is dumped" maymay
Jose Barnes
In the grand scheme of things, it's much bigger than Trump. Maybe you just don't see it though
No matter "who" exactly wins, the right wing gets the victory in the end. If Trump wins, they get more legislative power and start moving forward on their goals. If Hillary wins, the right wing grows stronger with those who are fed up with the system that Hillary is a part of. This election is close, and there's no denying that. This close election is the result of society's pushback against the left agenda, the globalist agenda, and Trump's supporters are a direct example of that. If he had numbers similar to Gary Johnson, then maybe you could make the case that the ways of the old are dying, but you can't.
Trump's numbers represent the rise of "the racists, the bigots, the xenophobes", and all they stand for. If you're having trouble comprehending, these things that you stand against will only grow stronger as a result of this election...and as said before, there's nothing you can do about it.
James Thomas
Bigotry and xenophobia may yet stop you faggots from letting the whole of Africa into the Western world, and turning it into another Africa.
Jaxon Perry
>bigotry >xenophobia >crude, unfit to be president, blah blah blah
Just out of curiosity do liberals have any arguments against Trump that aren't just broad spectrum ad hominems? This is the same kind of crap you people have been peddling since day one, and it's the same crap you fling at any Republican who's ever run for president.
Do you have any actual, concrete problems with any of his policy positions? Because from where I stand, Trump's plan to reduce taxes, secure the Southern border, vet immigrants and if necessary block immigration from regions where anti-American sentiment is high sounds pretty good. He wants to increase the size of our military while simultaneously reduce government spending. He supports police officers and condemns looting, rioting and lawlessness. He wants to renegotiate trade deals so they favor US interests instead of foreign interests and make it profitable for companies to invest in the United States.
That's why I'm voting for Trump. Can you present any arguments as to why I shouldn't, other than "He's a racist because John Oliver said so?" Didn't think so.
And for the record, I don't think you're a paid shill. You strike me as the kind of person who'd be dumb enough to shill for free.
Alexander Kelly
he still gonna win. because he talks at the level most sister fucking retard Americans understand: catchphrases.
all he has to do is say "you're fired™" at the next debate and he will win the election in a landslide. because Americans are inbred and stupid.
Thomas Bailey
>almost nobody likes him >Polling at 40-45% in even the most biased polls
Owen Scott
> >cont >(though hers are far less likely to threaten national security or lead to a constitutional crisis)
The FBI stated that there is no way to know who had access to her email server which contained classified information. She has already threatened national security. And she, herself, has said she would attack Russia with the military if they were ever suspected of hacking US servers.
She has also said she wants to shut down media sites like Breitbart and Alex Jones. She literally wants to violate two of the most important parts of the Bill of Rights: freedom of speech and of the press.
