Donald J. Trump - finally the new Leader of the Republican Party

The republicans just handed Hillary the White House.

Just heard a interesting news report on CNN. Old Navy (the clothing store) had an ad picturing an interracial family. White supremacists complained in droves that Old Navy was advertising the end of the world. Then a real Navy officer stood up for Old Navy and said that interracial families are part of the American way. The Navy Officer was Navy Lieutenant Jack McCain, son of a far more responsible Republican presidential candidate than the present one.

Trump-supporters: let's hear it! Trumpet the news. Stop posting anonymously like fraideycat liberals.

Make America strong again. Tell the world who we are.

JL

Aren't the Trump Trolls soooooooo adorable? They really think The Donald has what it takes to be the leader of this fair country.

Such delusional little trolls...

Oh but he's not racist, just #1 with all the racists.
Don't say we didn't tell you it would be a dumb idea.
-Republican

The Donald took on the biggest group of candidates ever - 17 of the best from the beltway and various places about.

He slew the dragon, now he will do the same to Clinton. Upon winning, he will fill the open supreme court seat, and maybe many more. This is history! Probably will find some New York judge that ruled in his favor on some deal.

Make America Great Again!!

He'd nominate Judge Judy for the empty seat.

It won't be a plutocracy, we will find ourselves in an idiocracy!

Judge Judy would make better choices than some of the current justices.

Tell the world!

JL

Ben Carson reports that Trump wiLloyd appoint Ted Cruz as AG, then appoint to SCOTUS.

Now, that is a game changer. No more elite beltway bull.

"Lying Ted" (per drumpf) Cruz, the most detested man in the senate, as AG?

Haha. Good luck confirming Lucifer in the flesh. Unless the senate decides to dump him there to get rid of a guy they unanimously hate.

A virtual civil war among establishment republicans on who donates to what fund, and who spends it, stepping on each others toes and hurting feelings in the process, all because The Donald has their (undergarment) in a wad.

My reaction to finally having a civil war among republican establishment types? Remember Kent Dorfman ('Flounder') in the parade scene in Animal House?

"Oh, booooy, is this great!"

Four seconds that stick in my mind whenever I think of what The Donald is doing to establishment republicans. Web Link

Make America Great Again!

The Donald just ordered 10,000 marbles; delivery FOB Cleveland, please.

Oh, booooy, is this gonna beeee great!

Is Trump still self funding, or just another lie?

There really needs to be a third party. As a lifelong proponent of the Republican party and its principals embraced by REAL Americans, I cannot stand behind what this ignorant, anti-American Trump buffoon is doing. I got scared when they embraced Sarah Palin, but the party marginalized her and her ignorance. My only hope is that REAL Republicans fight against Trump just as we begged for REAL Muslims to fight against the fanatical side of their religion.
You may find out I'm a Republican at the party, but don't come to me all proud about supporting Trump. I'll call you out as Anti American, right to your face. You cannot break this Republican's principals because they are based in truth justice and the American way.

Money taking over the political process, and ALL the candidates lying
have made the election process even more plain what it has been all
along, a media beauty contest leading to a big gamble on Presidential
candidates selected by big monopolistic monied interests that no longer
can do their jobs or representing the American people.

The difference is that now the country and the world is so small we
have only people that big money wants in political office to do something
for them, and usually against the American people ... and we can just
gamble on what these people really stand for. There is also no way to
get rid of someone who is incompetent or dangerous.

I admit, in a way Trump intrigues me, is he really just clown, or is he
smart behind it all. If my candidate loses I'd would not be against giving
the man a year's chance ... if we could vote no confidence and kick him
out if he is just what he sounds like. But really Trump is all over the map
and who knows what he stands for except being rude and obnoxious
as he stands for nothing, except making us so great again we'll have
to invent a new work for greater than great?

Example, a few minutes after the nomination fell to Trump he starts
to change his stands, first on minimum wage.

Hillary Clinton has been sidling over closer and closer to Bernie Sanders'
positions all along, as Trump will do.

So, why not get the real thing from a person who really stands for what
he says he stands for ... Bernie Sanders.

FEEL THE BERN

@Republican Against Trump - unfortunately for the fiscal conservative Republicans, the social conservative Republican base enjoys Trump's racist and anti-women positions. Even the KKK is endorsing Trump now. Some fiscally conservative, but socially moderate Republicans are switching to the Libertarian Party, but until FOX NEWS jumps on that bandwagon, no one will take them seriously. However, if FOX NEWS does join the Libertarians, that will just split the conservative vote and hand the election to Hillary. Local Republican candidates will likely feel the pressure to declare which side they are on, too, and thus hand local elections to the Democrats as well.

Now if John Kasich ran as an independent with Jim Webb as his running mate you could very well see the first election since their respective parties were founded that both the Democratic and Republican parties lost.

Jim Webb won a single race. Ha! Loser. Sorry Henry, Webb is a loser.

The Donald has loaned his campaign 40 million dollars. So yes, he is still self funding. I'm sure he will pay it back as the Republican standard bearer.

Make America great again!

You know, I really do not like to hear the epithet "loser" as some kind of
political argument. Who is it that is trying to sink political dialog in the
United States to the level of a bickering 7 year olds?

The real losers in our country over the past almost 40 years have been
the American people who do not know where to look or what to look at
to realize what has been going, and who are misled and misdirected by
the media and almost every other corporate sector industry.

All the economy is coming under the "rule" of the professional class,
the social and political elite, the sons and daughters of very rich
and entitled people who these days rarely interact with anyone else,
except as servants, menials or the disenfranchised. This is maybe
5% of the population, and another 5% of very talented special case
wanna-bes who rise to the top of whatever they do, school, athletics,
celebrity, entertaining.

There are no sole proprietor small businesses anymore, the chains have
taken over everything, and what the chains have not taken over the
Internet has, and whatever else has been missed has gone to
immigrants, both legal and illegal, or been shipped overseas.

Americans are a good people, and most of us do not resent some
fraction of our industry going overseas to provide competition or lower
prices. The US should not have it all, and I think most Americans get
that. But when way back in the 70s and 80s textiles and appliances
went overseas, and labor prices dropped so much ... prices never did
drop. So, the American worker and the middle class paid that price.

And so it has been with all the other changes, always on the backs of
average Americans, with no acknowledgement, no discussion, and no
policy changes or regulation, even as Republicans screamed louder and
louder against regulation. What Republicans were screaming so loud
about was the even possibility of regulation and having to give one
single penny up or pay taxes. And now, that is all chronic, the damage
has been done, the lies revealed.

Our status quo is exposed as a system that hates democracy, even though
it is one of our primary brags in the world, we do not do democracy anymore.
When we do the corporatocracy makes a mockery of it by handpicking the
candidates as used to be done in the USSR, and then guiding the discussion,
guiding it away from anything serious.

And even this, most Americans want to trust the people at the top, and
God bless'em, they have for the most part. Americans don't seem to
really mind leaving the big complicated decisions for the people who are
the so-called experts and going along with the media, a media that used
to be in the 60's the most trusted institution in the country and is not the
most distrusted.

What has happened is a vast betrayal of the people by the corporatocracy,
and the bad has swallowed the good. The corporate buy-outs, consolidation,
off-shoring, corruption and scandals of the 80's have grown and grown even
as this bad sector of the population has gained more and more in wealth and
power.

The problem is that they literally want it all. They want everything, and they
want to make sure there is no way they can ever lose it, and in fact what
are the newest ways to grow it. We are seeing a resurgence of fascism in a
covered up, way. Workers are monitored like machines, they are surveilled
and kept track of with huge data farms ... private data farms that they have
no control of or access to.

When you look at the amount of money and power of this corporatocracy,
it is almost chump change to provide for a social safety net and social
programs, education and health care, and yet they still have to cheat and
shirk their social responsibility ... even in the rich place like the Bay Area.

Google a late article about the Mayor of Cupertino talking about how APPLE
refused to pay taxes or contribute to the City of Cupertino and how corporations
hold trillions of dollars off-shore so they do not have to spend anything on
sustaining the very system that let them come into being, and the men and
women and their descendants who they thought they were fighting for in
WWI & WWII.

Bernie Sanders is right, the game is rigged, and the business of American
corporations is fraud. The one thing Donald Trump has shied away from is
any comments on this, and that is the main reason I find him unacceptable,
the boorish comments and irrelevant blather aside. Bernie is right, and has
been right for decades, and it is odd that just now as he is running Americans
are starting to look up from the grind and say ... you know, this guy may be
a socialist ... I prefer Red-Blooded American - New Deal Democrat, but his
interpretation of the facts cannot be denied, and his modeling of reality
explains more with less hand-waving than any other candidate's.

plane speaker:

sorry, but small businesses out number big busnesses in this country:

"Small business is BIG!

The 28 million small businesses in America account for 54% of all U.S. sales.

Small businesses provide 55% of all jobs and 66% of all net new jobs since the 1970s.

The 600,000 plus franchised small businesses in the U.S. account for 40% of all retail sales and provide jobs for some 8 million people.

The small business sector in America occupies 30-50% of all commercial space, an estimated 20-34 billion square feet.

Furthermore, the small business sector is growing rapidly. While corporate America has been "downsizing", the rate of small business "start-ups" has grown, and the rate for small business failures has declined.

The number of small businesses in the United States has increased 49% since 1982.

Since 1990, as big business eliminated 4 million jobs, small businesses added 8 million new jobs."

from here: Web Link


You're operating off an old narrative.

Menlo Voter, the number in absolute terms does not tell the story.
Most of those so-called small businesses are connected to and dependent on larger corporations, subsidiaries, and so are under the control, or contracting to larger corporations who offload financial liabilities that way. You see this all over from Silicon Valley to pic and chicken farms in the South Eastern US to Amazon.Com.
I am not trying to downplay small businesses or their importance, just to say that the power flows directly down from above in the majority cases.
Look at one sector, media consolidation and how 5 or 6 giant corporations control the broadcasting and publishing industries ... and Conservatives rail constantly about centralized control ... what a laugh.

The Donald will make our economy huuuuuge again!

Yesterday:

"I am the king of debt. I do love debt. I love debt. I love playing with it." Trump said.

Do you believe that we, in terms of the United States need to pay a hundred cents on the dollar, or do you think that there's actually ways that we can renegotiate that debt?

"Yeah, I think -- look, I have borrowed, knowing that you can pay back with discounts. And I have done very well," Trump said. "I would borrow, knowing that if the economy crashed, you could make a deal, and if the economy was good, it was good, so, therefore, you can't lose.”

The Donald is going to borrow lots of money to give tax breaks and then negotiate the debt down to pennies on the dollar. Time to run America like a business! He's going to borrow like the Bushes borrowed, but make it work this time!

Make America Great Again!!

@My Home Town: The only result of The Donald's harebrained scheme on dealing with the debt will be to turn the United States into a banana republic.

If that's fine by you, so be it. I have NO interest in living in those kind of circumstances...

Is Donald Trump the idol of Republican Assembly candidate Peter Otaki? How about former Republican turned Democrat R. Michael Kasperzak? What does the "R" stand for? Who is for Trump? Tell us now - not when it is too late.