TRUMP - Just because.....................Naw, I just can't say it!
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John Oliver explains how Donald Trump could fix our broken political system
Trump simply drops out and tells America his entire candidacy was a stunt, a satire designed to expose the flaws in the system. Trump has indeed pointed out serious flaws in the US political system, from campaign finance to media bias to his own voters’ embrace of disturbingly violent campaign rhetoric.
Oliver offered a roadmap for Trump using Dan Gutman’s The Kid Who Ran for President which contains a speech from the boy president that chastises “the grownups of America” for electing someone so clearly unfit for the presidency:
"America must be in really bad shape if you elected me president. You better get it together and find some qualified people to run this country or we’ll all be in big trouble."
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In a word................Brilliant!
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John Oliver explains how Donald Trump could fix our broken political system
Trump simply drops out and tells America his entire candidacy was a stunt, a satire designed to expose the flaws in the system. Trump has indeed pointed out serious flaws in the US political system, from campaign finance to media bias to his own voters’ embrace of disturbingly violent campaign rhetoric.
Oliver offered a roadmap for Trump using Dan Gutman’s The Kid Who Ran for President which contains a speech from the boy president that chastises “the grownups of America” for electing someone so clearly unfit for the presidency:
"America must be in really bad shape if you elected me president. You better get it together and find some qualified people to run this country or we’ll all be in big trouble."
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The consensus that voters are revolting against economic conditions ignores other ways that they expect Trump to protect America.
www.nationalreview.com/article/439048/trumps-nationalism-white-identit
y-politics-brand-name
To listen to both his defenders and critics, Donald Trump represents the U.S. version of a new “nationalism” popping up around the world. I’m not so sure.
“Nationalism” distorts more than it clarifies about what’s going on with Trump supporters in the United States.
The Trumpian “nationalist” right wants to stay focused on economics, because to be open about their cultural appeal would be to admit that they have surrendered to the logic of left-wing identity politics. Liberals are uncomfortable discussing economics; to do so would acknowledge how they failed the white working-class voters who were once the emotional heart of the Democratic Party but are now the core of Trump’s support.
Daily, I receive emails and comments from people who describe themselves as “nationalists” — but who are, in fact, making arguments for white culture as if whites were now an oppressed minority in need of an American government that zealously defends their interests. Right or wrong, many of them believe that Trump will protect white culture from the forces of multiculturalism, and Christianity from spreading secularism.
Which brings me back to why I think “nationalism” is a poor word to describe what we’re witnessing in this election.
If nationalism is supposed to do anything, it’s supposed to unify the country. When I look at these so-called nationalists, though, I don’t see a unifying force. I see the latest entrants into a decades-old game of subdividing the country into tribes seeking to yoke government to their narrow agendas.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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www.electproject.org/national-1789-present
For Republicans, Trump makes the case to Not Vote
www.vox.com/2016/8/23/12559378/hillary-clinton-lower-courts
Since the mid-19th century, millions more people have voted in presidential election years than vote in midterms when no presidential candidate is on the ballot. That gap has widened over the past few cycles. The general up and down of turnout is known, on average, to hurt Democrats whose base voters are disproportionately likely to forget to show up for midterm elections.
But turnout declines for both parties, and a reasonable strategy for Democrats is to try to convince Trump-skeptical Republicans to treat it like a midterm and not vote. It seems the charismatic qualities of a president you are excited about drive turnout far ahead of where the banal realities of congressional politics put it. Trump certainly has anti-charisma: he appears to suffer from some genuinely unusual deficits in terms of personal self-control and ability to build a professional campaign operation. He also brings to the table some highly unusual policy ideas, like converting NATO into some kind of mafia-style protection racket.
If Trump can achieve widespread demoralization of base GOP voters, he could make dozens of currently unwinnable House seats competitive while guaranteeing Democrats a Senate win. Maybe the Democrats could help Trump kill the enthusiasm of GOP voters to go out and vote.
Is it better to make the case against Trump or to attack the party that produced him? Liberals tend to prefer the latter argument, hoping to make a proactive case for a progressive vision of America. But Democrats don’t have to choose between Trump and making their case against Republicans. Trump is making it for them.
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NATO has helped keep the peace in the Northern Hemisphere for more than half a century. Donald Trump is threatening to dismantle it. Read more from Vox's Zack Beauchamp:
www.vox.com/2016/7/21/12247074/donald-trump-nato-war
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Donald Trump's calm and reassuring response to the Ebola crisis two years ago:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Ebola patient will be brought to the U.S. in a few days - now I know for sure that our leaders are incompetent. KEEP THEM OUT OF HERE!
9:04 PM - 31 Jul 2014
927 Retweets 735 likes
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/495027187381460992
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great-but must suffer the consequences!
8:22 PM - 1 Aug 2014
3,827 Retweets 1,948 likes
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/495379061972410369
This, of course, fits with Trump's apparent panic toward bodily functions of any sort, as well as his basic callousness. Definitely the kind of guy you want in the White House.
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Trump's Newest Position on Illegal Immigrants
Trump has now basically pivoted to the same position as every other Republican: no immigration police; work with the "good" illegal immigrants on a path to legal status; get tough on border security; and this absolutely positively isn't "amnesty" no matter how much it sounds like it. This is pretty much the position that Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz all had, and it's basically the position of the Gang of 8 a few years ago. Until today, Trump attacked this position as craven and weak. Now he's all for it. Gotta win all those exurban soccer moms, after all. The only thing left is for him to casually tell us that "build the wall" was meant kind of metaphorically all along, and most of it will end up being a "virtual wall" of drones and security cameras.
I've been wondering for months why the immigration hardliners were so sure Trump would stick to his guns on this stuff. After all, he's lied about practically everything and shown an eager willingness to change his positions any time he thinks it will benefit him. So what made them think he'd act any differently on immigration?
Beats me. But they're stuck now. They have to defend Trump because he's all they've got.
Hitler Finds Out Trump Supports Amnesty
Ann Coulter, Far Rightwinger, Goes to War with Trump And It Is Glorious
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/coulter-goes-to-war-with-trump-and
-it-is-glorious
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Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has warned Donald Trump of "massive disappointment" if he backs down on his plan to deport undocumented immigrants.
The Republican presidential nominee has signalled he will soften his immigration plan, which was a central plank of his primary campaign.
Instead of sending all 11 million people living illegally in the US, he now says only criminals will go.
Mrs Palin told the Wall Street Journal that "wishy-washy positions" on core positions would result in "massive disappointment".
"Parts of the message we heard in the last week are clearly not consistent with the stringent position and message that supporters have received all along," she said.
http://on.wsj.com/2bRsl7n
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Why Trump should release his tax returns
www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/why-trump-should-release-his-tax-return
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Yesterday, former IRS Commissioner Fred Goldberg (who held top tax positions in the administrations of both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush) urged Donald Trump to release at least the Form 1040 and Schedule A of his recent tax returns. It increasingly appears that Trump won’t. But he should.
Trump has argued that he cannot make his returns public while they are being audited by the IRS. But the IRS now audits, automatically, the president’s and vice president’s return annually. Nonetheless, the president and vice-president voluntarily release their returns to the public.
Trump’s excuses raise new questions. Last weekend, Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said Trump should keep his returns confidential because his audit is ”a serious matter.” But, if Mr. Trump’s audit is a serious matter, we need to understand why to assess his qualification for the presidency.
True, Trump’s disclosure of his tax returns might intrude on his personal and commercial privacy. And with an audit pending, citizen auditors might provide the IRS insights that the professional auditors at the IRS overlooked (although the IRS is pretty effective at auditing high net worth individuals).
But Trump is no longer merely a businessman. He has chosen to become a candidate for president. The public’s interest now outweighs his privacy concerns. During a campaign, tax disclosures help the public evaluate a candidate’s:
1) Finances. Is Trump truly a successful business person? Does he give generously to charity as he claims?
2) Conflicts. Would Trump’s tax proposals provide undue benefit for his personal interests? (He says he’d pay more, which seems unlikely, but it’s impossible to know for certain without seeing his tax return.)
3) Honesty. Did Trump lower his taxes through legal tax avoidance, or illegal tax evasion?
Trump asserts: “There’s nothing to learn from them.” But we would quickly learn a lot, including the bottom line: his effective tax rate. Of course, his tax returns are complicated: He operates his business through more than 500 LLCs. But there are plenty of experts who can help unravel the returns and explain the issues they raise, just as we recently assessed Clinton’s return. Or how we explained “carried interest,” which was spotlighted by Mitt Romney’s tax return in the last election.
Finally, if Trump will not release his tax returns now, will he do so after the election? President Nixon first released his taxes to quiet the public clamor over his reportedly low taxes (and invited the JCT to audit them after the IRS, reportedly, gave him a pass). President Nixon famously explained “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.” And from Nixon on, every president has voluntarily released his returns to the public—with the prospect of an audit pending.
Candidate Trump should follow the precedent set by every major party presidential candidate—and president--since Nixon and release his tax returns.
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Trump’s Doctor says “I'd go to a gastroenterologist too if bullshit was coming out of my mouth."
www.mediaite.com/online/sanjay-gupta-calls-bullsht-on-donald-trumps-qu
estionable-doctor-and-hyperbolic-letter-of-health/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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