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  • Posts: 6,124

    Lol

    You want me to dig through this thread to spit out to you what you have made abundantly clear?

    No.

    You keep gushing over Trump and how the people voted for change (he'll make everyone's wildest dreams come true... or America great again... or something like that) and I'll keep pointing out that Trump is an orange con man sex offender who's selection clearly defined the lack of values and/or intelligence across a nation.

    So again... a beat down. You're not here for the hunting are you?
    Yes...please dig...you will never see me "gushing over Trump" as you describe it. I'll help you out if you are too lazy though. I was never a Trump fan...said it on here 1000 times. What I said repeatedly is that there were two terrible candidates...one terrible candidate offered change while the other terrible candidate offered more of them same. I added to this that the metrics were saying this was a "change" election and all Trump had to prove is that he was an acceptable alternative and that people would take the plunge and vote for him. What happened is that in the final couple of weeks the large number of undecideds who had a low opinion of Trump decided that even with all his faults he was acceptable. That is hardly calling him a saviour or someone who would "make everyone's wildest dreams come true". AlL I ever said is that in a choice between two terrible people Trump has more potential upside. Hardly a ringing endorsement. So please go dig...show me where I said anything else. Come on...I need a beat down as nobody on here has ever been able to deliver.
  • BS44325 said:

    Yes...please dig...you will never see me "gushing over Trump" as you describe it. I'll help you out if you are too lazy though. I was never a Trump fan...said it on here 1000 times. What I said repeatedly is that there were two terrible candidates...one terrible candidate offered change while the other terrible candidate offered more of them same. I added to this that the metrics were saying this was a "change" election and all Trump had to prove is that he was an acceptable alternative and that people would take the plunge and vote for him. What happened is that in the final couple of weeks the large number of undecideds who had a low opinion of Trump decided that even with all his faults he was acceptable. That is hardly calling him a saviour or someone who would "make everyone's wildest dreams come true". AlL I ever said is that in a choice between two terrible people Trump has more potential upside. Hardly a ringing endorsement. So please go dig...show me where I said anything else. Come on...I need a beat down as nobody on here has ever been able to deliver.
    Fair enough with regards to your personal position on Trump. Thanks for the clarification.

    If you recall... we began to differ when you took exception top the fact that I essentially called Trump supporters (for lack of better terms at the moment) stupid or lacking in values.

    When you say, "... all Trump had to prove is that he was an acceptable alternative and that people would take the plunge and vote for him"... this supports what I am saying because at no point in this election did he ever prove he was an acceptable alternative in my mind. He proved beyond a doubt that he was completely inappropriate to maintain such a position and for people to vote for him anyways says much about that voter base.
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  • Posts: 6,124

    Fair enough with regards to your personal position on Trump. Thanks for the clarification.

    If you recall... we began to differ when you took exception top the fact that I essentially called Trump supporters (for lack of better terms at the moment) stupid or lacking in values.

    When you say, "... all Trump had to prove is that he was an acceptable alternative and that people would take the plunge and vote for him"... this supports what I am saying because at no point in this election did he ever prove he was an acceptable alternative in my mind. He proved beyond a doubt that he was completely inappropriate to maintain such a position and for people to vote for him anyways says much about that voter base.
    Ahhhh....so I guess the beat down has been called off. Ok. Now in terms of your point I do take exception to how you describe his supporters (if you can call them that because many of his voters did not think highly of him) because they did a calculation compared to the other candidate. Some people on here have failed to come to grips with how terrible and corrupt of a candidate Hillary Clinton was. There are voters who felt they would be sacrificing values in voting for her. My argument is and always has been there is no point in trying to argue which candidate is more terrible as it is pretty much irrelevant in a "change" electorate. The voters are not stupid or lacking in values by selecting one candidate over the other...they are simply making a calculation as to whether they want "change" or more of the same. Voters new which way a Clinton administration would go and they didn't like it. They may not have had an affinity for Trump but they felt he at least gave them the possibility of something different. Don't demean that choice.
  • San Diego USA Posts: 3,431
    At some point in my life I was told. Its not about winning or losing, it's about how you play the game. ESP is a just plain rotten player.
  • Posts: 6,124
    vaggar99 said:

    At some point in my life I was told. Its not about winning or losing, it's about how you play the game. ESP is a just plain rotten player.

    That thing they told you at some point in your life is usually what they tell some who traditionally loses.
  • San Diego USA Posts: 3,431
    dignin said:

    That's on the Donald voter. Just because he won doesn't mean he's smart, for proof look to the American public electing Bush Jr, twice.
    History repeats. Just wasn't expecting it so soon.
  • Posts: 6,124
    vaggar99 said:

    History repeats. Just wasn't expecting it so soon.
    I have zero idea if Trump will be an effective President but his campaign strategy warts and all was nothing short of genius. If you want to beat the man then don't underestimate the man.
  • Posts: 9,617
    vaggar99 said:

    At some point in my life I was told. Its not about winning or losing, it's about how you play the game. ESP is a just plain rotten player.

    Entitled Sexual Predator(s) is becoming big news!
  • San Diego USA Posts: 3,431
    BS44325 said:

    That thing they told you at some point in your life is usually what they tell some who traditionally loses.
    And hence we have ESP. If you think the man is a winner, he is. But that's all he is.
  • Posts: 6,124
    vaggar99 said:

    And hence we have ESP. If you think the man is a winner, he is. But that's all he is.
    Winners make policy.
  • San Diego USA Posts: 3,431
    They do. And he will. And America will be great. Got it
  • Posts: 6,124
    vaggar99 said:

    They do. And he will. And America will be great. Got it

    The jury is still out on America being great. My personal feeling is that it is too far gone. At least now you have the opportunity to take a couple of bold swings.
  • Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    BS44325 said:

    I have zero idea if Trump will be an effective President but his campaign strategy warts and all was nothing short of genius. If you want to beat the man then don't underestimate the man.
    it wasn't genius. it was normal. clinton's was terrible. she sat on her laurels hoping the media's polls were right.
    Hugh Freaking Dillon is currently out of the office, returning sometime in the fall




  • Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    BS44325 said:

    That thing they told you at some point in your life is usually what they tell some who traditionally loses.
    really. I certainly hope you are only saying this in the context of politics. Otherwise I guess I'm raising my kids to be losers.
    Hugh Freaking Dillon is currently out of the office, returning sometime in the fall




  • Posts: 6,124

    it wasn't genius. it was normal. clinton's was terrible. she sat on her laurels hoping the media's polls were right.
    There was nothing normal about what he did.
  • Posts: 6,124

    really. I certainly hope you are only saying this in the context of politics. Otherwise I guess I'm raising my kids to be losers.
    That's not for me too say.
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    BS44325 said:

    Some people on here have failed to come to grips with how terrible and corrupt of a candidate Hillary Clinton was. There are voters who felt they would be sacrificing values in voting for her. My argument is and always has been there is no point in trying to argue which candidate is more terrible as it is pretty much irrelevant in a "change" electorate. The voters are not stupid or lacking in values by selecting one candidate over the other...they are simply making a calculation as to whether they want "change" or more of the same. Voters new which way a Clinton administration would go and they didn't like it. They may not have had an affinity for Trump but they felt he at least gave them the possibility of something different. Don't demean that choice.
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  • BS44325 said:

    Ahhhh....so I guess the beat down has been called off. Ok. Now in terms of your point I do take exception to how you describe his supporters (if you can call them that because many of his voters did not think highly of him) because they did a calculation compared to the other candidate. Some people on here have failed to come to grips with how terrible and corrupt of a candidate Hillary Clinton was. There are voters who felt they would be sacrificing values in voting for her. My argument is and always has been there is no point in trying to argue which candidate is more terrible as it is pretty much irrelevant in a "change" electorate. The voters are not stupid or lacking in values by selecting one candidate over the other...they are simply making a calculation as to whether they want "change" or more of the same. Voters new which way a Clinton administration would go and they didn't like it. They may not have had an affinity for Trump but they felt he at least gave them the possibility of something different. Don't demean that choice.
    Possibility of something different? Lol.

    That's for sure: a con man sex offender with promises that had no substance.

    Again... take exception all you want. I'm right.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,596

    it wasn't genius. it was normal. clinton's was terrible. she sat on her laurels hoping the media's polls were right.
    I wouldn't call it genius but it wasn't normal either. He took his campaign to the gutter in ways we had never seen a nominee do before. He spoke directly to the masses via Twitter in a way we had never seen before. He rejected political norms such as releasing his taxes in a way we had never seen before.
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  • Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    BS44325 said:

    That's not for me too say.
    pretty sure an adult teaching our young people that winning is everything is the definition of a loser.
    Hugh Freaking Dillon is currently out of the office, returning sometime in the fall




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