TRUMP - Just because.....................Naw, I just can't say it!
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Hillary needs to show more empathy ...
That's not the problem, hon; and saying "But Donald! ..." isn't going to fix it.
First of all, Hillary's current favorable rating is a little under 42%, while her unfavorable rating is a little under 55% - in case you need help with the math, her unfavorable ratings exceed her favorable ratings by 13%.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/clinton_favorableunfavor
able-1131.html
So, since you refuse to honestly consider Hillary's problem, let me quote the people who explain what's wrong with Hillary.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-scarlet-clinton
-20160707-snap-story.html
Hillary Clinton pays a price for 'extreme carelessness' with emails
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/18/the-continui
ng-political-decline-of-hillary-clinton/
The continuing political decline of Hillary Clinton
But if voters are looking for change and to shake up the system, that's where Trump excels. When it comes to who could bring the "needed change to Washington," Trump leads by 11 points, 50-39.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hillary-clinton-polls-negatives-scorn-don
ald-trump-1.3659780
'We don't like Hillary as a package'
'She is not trustworthy'
What can Hillary do to reverse these opinions?
Let me just point out that the author left out vital relevant facts in the opinion piece. Doing that is known as cherry-picking. And whether you do that in the news, in discussion, in debate or in opinion, when you distort the facts, you've changed the nature of your communication into propaganda. But WE don't have any of THAT in the US, do we?!
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Quote:Nothing. If she lives long enough to be elected, if she doesn't die in the next 4 years, she will be in the same trouble in 2020. But she could make a break from her past by having Congress pass a second joint resolution. What resolution?
Originally posted by 1kiki:
What can Hillary do to reverse these opinions?
Remember the the joint resolution called "Authorization for Use of Military Force"? Everybody in Congress, except one, voted for it.
www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ40/html/PLAW-107publ40.htm
Worst resolution I ever read.
The one person voting against it wrote that the resolution “was a blank check to the president to attack anyone involved in the Sept. 11 events — anywhere, in any country, without regard to our nation’s long-term foreign policy, economic and national security interests, and without time limit.” She added: “A rush to launch precipitous military counterattacks runs too great a risk that more innocent men, women, children will be killed.”
www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Why-I-opposed-the-resolution-to-authori
ze-force-2876893.php
But this is what the majority of American voters want and pay hundreds of billions per year to get from the Defense Department, CIA, NSA, etc. The voters shall have what they want and no President will tell them they can’t. Not Hillary and not Trump. This is why the Constitution has an age limit for being President. Less than 35 years old and you're too young to make wise decisions. There needs to be an upper age limit, too, and all the candidates are too old and wisdom has not come to them with age.
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Quote:An editorial from the Houston Chronicle follows. Texas is overloaded with people like Trump. It is possible to make business deals with them, but you must confront them when they bullshit you. That is not happening to Trump. It is as if everyone interviewing him knows Trump is playing a fictional character and they don't want to interrupt a smoothly flowing TV show by being rude to that character.
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Originally posted by second:
We shouldn't read too much into what Trump is saying.
I assure you the only thing I infer from any Trump statement is you can't believe any Trump statement.
Trump’s ‘big liar’ technique is obvious
www.alternet.org/election-2016/paul-krugman-reveals-disturbing-consequ
ences-medias-inability-call-out-trumps-lies
Paul Krugman says the GOP candidate has repeatedly claimed he opposed Iraq War from the start. That is false.
Long ago, you-know-who suggested that propagandists should apply the “big lie” technique: make their falsehoods so huge, so egregious, that they would be widely accepted because nobody would believe they were lying on that grand a scale. And the technique has worked well for despots and would-be despots ever since.
But Donald Trump has come up with something new, which we can call the “big liar” technique. Taken one at a time, his lies are medium-size — not trivial, but mostly not rising to the level of blood libel. But the lies are constant, coming in a steady torrent, and are never acknowledged, simply repeated. He evidently believes that this strategy will keep the news media flummoxed, unable to believe, or at least say openly, that the candidate of a major party lies that much.
And Wednesday night’s “Commander in Chief” televised forum suggested that he may be right.
Obligatory disclaimer: No, I’m not saying that Trump is another Hitler. More like Mussolini. But I digress.
Back to the issue: All politicians are human beings, which means that all of them sometimes shade the truth. (Show me someone who claims to never lie, and I’ll show you someone who is lying.) The question is how much they lie, and how consequentially.
Not to put too fine a point on it, Hillary Clinton has been cagey about her email arrangements when she was secretary of state. But when you look at what the independent fact-checkers who have given her a “pants on fire” or “four Pinocchios” rating on this issue actually have to say, it’s remarkably weak: She stands accused of being overly legalistic or overstating the extent to which she has been cleared, but not of making major claims that are completely at odds with reality.
Oh, and it barely got covered in the media, but her claim that Colin Powell advised her to set up a private email account was ... completely true, validated by an email that Powell sent three days after she took office, which contradicts some of his own claims.
And overall, her record on truthfulness, as compiled by PolitiFact, looks pretty good for a politician — much better than that of any of the contenders for the Republican nomination, and for that matter much better than that of Mitt Romney in the last presidential election.
Trump, on the other hand, is in a class of his own. He lies about statistics like the unemployment rate and the crime rate. He lies about foreign policy: President Barack Obama is “the founder of ISIS.” But most of all, he lies about himself — and when the lies are exposed, he just keeps repeating them.
One obvious question going into Wednesday’s forum was whether Trump would repeat his frequent claim that he opposed the Iraq War from the start. This claim is demonstrably false: His only documented prewar remarks on the subject support the war, and the interview he likes to cite as evidence of his prescience took place more than a year after the war began. But he keeps saying it anyway; if he did it again, how would Matt Lauer, the moderator, respond?
Well, he did do it again — and Lauer, who used abou
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Both Trump and Hillary are liars.
Trump is what is called a "bullshit artist". I'm sure you've heard the term, and you know the type: Put a beer in his hand at the corner pub or bar, and he'll be regaling you with stories that you're 90% sure are 50% bullshit.
So Trump gets behind a podium, and he bullshits. And unfortunately, because he thinks he's the smartest man in the world, he doesn't seem to feel the need for pre-preparation for the job of President, when all of your words are carefully weighed and measured, he figures that he'll figure it out when he gets there.
BTW- SECOND, you can't have it both ways: You can't on the one hand claim that Trump is so loose in the head that he will be ineffective about everything, and then claim that he is Putin's tool. Putin is a smart man, just look at his Security Cabinet. I doubt Putin would choose Trump to do anything for him.
Also, the idea that Trump would cause the USA to be so consumed with its internal indigestion and so focused on its internal problems that it would be unable to act aggressively elsewhere... Hmmm.... yanno, I think it;s about time the USA focuses on its internal issues instead of poking its nose ... and its weapons ... into everyone else's business, don't you? What do you think "Russia" will do as a result of our internal gaze? Base missiles in Cuba? "Take over" the Mideast? (God help them!) Apparently, you can't think of any threat that Russia would pose, because when challenged you collectively couldn't come up with a single one:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=60755
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Hillary, OTOH, is a much more careful liar. Being a lawyer, it's not surprising that she takes a very lawyer-like approach to lying: as long as there are no records to prove her falsehoods then she's good to go. So her staff illegally removed records from her late aide's (Vince Foster's) office which were pertinent to an ongoing investigation and which "turned up" in Hillary's possession years later, and a torn portion of Foster's suicide note was given to the police by Hillary's staff weeks after his death. She aided her husband's predatory behavior (I'll bet she would have gotten rid of that semen-splotched blue dress if she had only known.) She maintained an ILLEGAL server and then not only erased 30,000 "private" emails but bleached the server, had the backups bleached, and "disappeared" the Apple Notebook, thumb drives, and over a dozen Blackberry phones on which she conducted State Department business.
The other thing she and her campaign lied about is "Russia's" role in the campaign. That's sure to make her future relations with Russia (assuming she's elected) much more difficult that necessary.
The one lie that she can't make go away is her failing health, because that's not a matter of making records disappear; it's a matter of her day-to-day performance and behavior which is videoed from multiple angles.
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I think it's time you disabused yourself of that pleasant little fairy tale about our fearless leaders being some sort of surrogate daddy or mommy, laying awake at night thinking about how to protect the kids. HA! In reality, they're thinking about who to sell them to so that they can get a few more shekels in their pockets.
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Trump gave an interview this morning that should be shocking — but we’re numb.
Trump went on CNBC this morning, and, over the course of a wide-ranging interview, once again reminded the world of the most fundamental fact about his candidacy — he doesn’t really seem to understand any aspect of American public policy.
Benefiting as he often does from a cable news format, he was allowed to ramble and dissemble across a variety of topics — including who sets interest rates, how monetary policy impacts the economy, and how his own money is invested, finding time for a racist personal attack against a rival politician.
"I believe it’s a false market," Trump said of the current state of American stocks. "I don’t even invest in the stock market."
Trump’s personal financial disclosures to the Federal Election Commission have been fairly skimpy given the complicated nature of his finances, but they clearly show that he does in fact own millions of dollars in stock.
What he thinks is false about the market is that he believes stock prices would fall if the Federal Reserve raised interest rates. He also thinks Fed Chair Janet Yellen should be "ashamed" of what she’s doing to the country with her low interest rate policy. Trump then offered the theory that this is all being done to somehow help out Barack Obama.
Versions of this kind of theory are pretty common in business circles, since business circles feature a lot of affluent white men who are generally ill-disposed toward the Democratic Party, but it doesn’t make any sense. After all the way low interest rates are allegedly helping Obama is by improving economic conditions. But improving economic conditions is what the Fed is supposed to do. Why would they be ashamed?
Then for good measure, he called Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas."
A few observations about all this:
In a normal election cycle, a candidate making an offhand racist remark about a sitting US senator would be a big news story.
In a normal election cycle, a candidate making an offhanded lie about the state of his personal finances would be a big news story.
To be totally honest, even in a normal election cycle a candidate exhibiting total confusion about the mechanics and merits of monetary policy probably wouldn’t be that big of a news story but it would at least get some attention.
Seriously. Stop. Take a breath. Now imagine if Mitt Romney had run exactly Mitt Romney’s campaign but then suddenly in mid-September went on television and called Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas for no reason. It would have been huge.
www.vox.com/2016/9/12/12887522/donald-trump-interview-shocking-numb
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Quote:The Fed
Originally posted by second:
Trump gave an interview this morning that should be shocking — but we’re numb.
Trump went on CNBC this morning, and, over the course of a wide-ranging interview, once again reminded the world of the most fundamental fact about his candidacy — he doesn’t really seem to understand any aspect of American public policy.
Benefiting as he often does from a cable news format, he was allowed to ramble and dissemble across a variety of topics — including who sets interest rates
Quote:It depends on how it is implemented
how monetary policy impacts the economy
Quote:I assume in his own real estate holdings, which are privately held
and how his own money is invested
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trump_Organization
Quote:If he called Warren "Pocahontas" because of her behavior of cozying up to those who would eventually destroy her people, then he's right, and it's not racist. You really ought to stop playing the "raciss" card.
finding time for a racist personal attack against a rival politician.
Quote:So do I. All you have to do is look at how the market behaves: the worse the economic data the higher the stock prices go, because speculators figure that The Fed will not raise interest rates while "the economy" is doing poorly. That's the excuse Janet Yellen gives, anyway.
"I believe it’s a false market," Trump said of the current state of American stocks. "I don’t even invest in the stock market."
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Trump’s personal financial disclosures to the Federal Election Commission have been fairly skimpy given the complicated nature of his finances, but they clearly show that he does in fact own millions of dollars in stock.
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But a closer look at Trump’s portfolio may suggest he’s not saying one thing and doing another. The types of stocks in Trump’s portfolio suggests that he is cautious about the stock market right now. And his portfolio is relatively well positioned to survive a drop....
... What’s more, Trump only has a small fraction of his wealth in the stock market. Just $91.5 million of his proclaimed $10 billion net worth is invested in the stock market. (We estimate Trump’s net worth to be just under $4 billion.)
http://fortune.com/2016/08/09/here-are-donald-trumps-14-biggest-stock-
market-investments/
Quote:He is correct on the first two points, absolutely.
What he thinks is false about the market is that he believes stock prices would fall if the Federal Reserve raised interest rates. He also thinks Fed Chair Janet Yellen should be "ashamed" of what she’s doing to the country with her low interest rate policy. Trump then offered the theory that this is all being done to somehow help out Barack Obama.
Quote:Because it's not working the way they're implementing it. The "free money" is going to the wealthy who then use it to speculate on whatever is "going up" at the moment ... in this case, luxury homes and stocks ... while the savers- pension plans and the like- get screwed.
Versions of this kind of theory are pretty common in business circles, since business circles feature a lot of affluent white men who are generally ill-disposed toward the Democratic Party, but it doesn’t make any sense. After all the way low interest rates are allegedly helping Obama is by improving economic conditions. But improving economic conditions is what the Fed is supposed to do. Why would they be ashamed?
Quote:If he meant that she is a betrayer of her people, he is correct.
Then for good measure, he called Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas."
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I think it's time you disabused yourself of that pleasant little fairy tale about our fearless leaders being some sort of surrogate daddy or mommy, laying awake at night thinking about how to protect the kids. HA! In reality, they're thinking about who to sell them to so that they can
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Donald Trump sure lies a lot for a guy who likes to call other people liars.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Hillary Clinton's latest transcript, judged by her stated criteria
I also felt the need to point out her many logical fallacies, that prey on emotion.
prejudice and paranoia
These apparently are bad things. Except when Hillary stokes paranoia about Vladimir. Then it's OK.
And he certainly doesn’t have any solutions
I'm not seeing any solutions from Hillary either, just a lot of feel-good platitudes. This expectation of Donald is just as unfilled with Hillary.
respect all Americans
Unless they're the 50%?
fever dream is about my health. All I can say is, Donald, dream on.
I put this here because I'm curious if this'll be proven to be a lie.
In times of crisis
More paranoia-stoking.
steady leadership … clear thinking … and calm judgment
Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine. State Department emails. DNC server hack. Free trade agreements.
loose cannon who can’t tell the difference between fact and fiction
Libya isn't a failure, it's an 'evolving situation'. And the email server was Powell's fault. Her staff's fault. AOL's fault.
Someone detached from reality should never be in charge of making decisions
Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine. State Department emails. DNC server hack. Free trade agreements.
cooler heads will be there
Not in Hillary's administration.
stoked anti-immigrant sentiments to win the referendum
You and Debbie had the same disdain for the primaries.
Hillary Clinton Remarks as Prepared for Delivery – Reno, Nevada
Thank you, Reno! It’s great to be back in Nevada…
My original plan for this visit was to focus on our agenda to help small businesses and entrepreneurs. This week we proposed new steps to cut red tape and taxes, and make it easier for small businesses to get the credit they need to grow and hire. Because I believe that in America, if you can dream it, you should be able to build it. We’ll be talking a lot more about our economic plans in the days and weeks ahead.
But today, I want to address something I hear from Americans all over our country. Everywhere I go, people tell me how concerned they are by the divisive rhetoric coming from my opponent in this election. It’s like nothing we’ve heard before from a nominee for President of the United States.
From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He’s taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America’s two major political parties. His disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly dangerous.
In just the past week, under the guise of “outreach” to African Americans, Trump has stood up in front of largely white audiences and described black communities in insulting and ignorant terms: “Poverty. Rejection. Horrible education. No housing. No homes. No ownership. Crime at levels nobody has seen … Right now, you walk down the street, you get shot.”
Those are his words.
Donald Trump misses so much. He doesn’t see the success of black leaders in every field … The vibrancy of black-owned businesses…Or the strength of the black church… He doesn’t see the excellence of historically black colleges and universities or the pride of black parents watching their children thrive … And he certainly doesn’t have any solutions to take on the reality of systemic racism and create
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Wow SECOND, the cornerstone of your video about how Trump lies repeats a lie about Trump's "relationship" with Putin? A snippet, repeated, context-free (which is how almost everything Trump says is reported)? The explanation, per Trump, is that Putin is interested in what's going on with Trump.
It's not that they have a "relationship" relationship, it's just that they happen to both be in politics, and Trump would like to think that Putin pays attention to him. And in fact, Putin probably pays attention to both Hillary AND Trump but that's something we'll never know for sure.
Except you and your vlogger, who knows everything for sure. 
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I think it's time you disabused yourself of that pleasant little fairy tale about our fearless leaders being some sort of surrogate daddy or mommy, laying awake at night thinking about how to protect the kids. HA! In reality, they're thinking about who to sell them to so that they can get a few more shekels in their pockets.
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Quote:One of Donald Trump’s 100 wackiest ideas is that climate change is a hoax fabricated by China to harm the United States.
Originally posted by 1kiki:
Logical fallacy - Post hoc ergo propter hoc
“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing uncompetitive,” Trump once tweeted.
He later said, unconvincingly, that he had been kidding about China, but he has emphasized that he does not believe in climate change and would end serious efforts to prevent it.
www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/opinion/sunday/temperatures-rise-and-were-c
ooked.html
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