For gods sake, it's sad I even have to do this, but if you must have a comparison spelled out for you:
Hitler: failed art student, anti-capitalist/socialist party support, never worked in his life aside from school and military service, praised WWI as the greatest thing ever, fucking asshole - wrote a book blaming everyone else for his problems
Trump: actually went to college and passed, strong capitalist, works hard as hell and owns many businesses, criticized the Iraq war/bush admin, NOT A FUCKING RACIST - wrote a book about being successful in business
Stop making this comparison - it not only makes you look like a raving fucking idiot, but its truly insulting to anyone involved in the holocaust.
Dont be a fucking idiot. Never make this comparison with anyone lightly else you undermine the atrocities of 1939-1945, which makes you a piece of shit.
First of all, trumps BUSINESSES have only gone bankrupt, not himself.
There are 9 failed businesses. When I counted the successful ones I came up with 282. With some margin for human error lets just estimate that at about 280. 9/280 = 0.032 This means that roughly 3% of Trumps business ventures fail. In other words, Trump has a 97% success rate. Now here's where it gets interesting. According to Forbes/Bloomberg, 8 out 10 or 80% of businesses fail within 18 months. The average business success rate is 20%, Trump's is 97%.
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/11/20/donald-trump-muslim-database-nbc-reporter-lee-sot-nr.cnn Trump is talking about surveillance and watchlists, which we already have, whereas the reporter is the one talking about a database (and it's not clear that he was talking about one for every Muslim anyways). https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/667777348029292544 - Donald's Twitter Response pointing out how the reporter is the one suggesting it, not Trump.
The wall has worked in many countries. In Israel, the wall on it's egyptian border has reduced illegal immigration by 99.6% In hungary, the wall on it's Serbian border has reduced illegal immigration by 99.7%
It is estimated that illegal immigrants cost the USA 113$ Billion per year, along with the driving down of wage levels. The wall will cost roughly 10 billion dollars to make, so the investment will pay off more than tenfold in one year.
Being anti illegal immigration is not racist nor against immigrants. Illegal Immigration is ILLEGAL and is therefore against the law. Being anti-illegal immigration is simply siding with the law.
You show me a 31-foot ladder, and I'll show you a guardsman standing on the other side of the wall waiting to arrest the person using it. The wall is not the only thing keeping people from entering. The wall has just two objectives: slowing the intruders and making them visible to members of the border patrol. The rest of the work is done by human beings. The height of the wall is also estimated to be as high as 55 feet.
Trump's own campaign manager Katrina Pierson is a mixed race woman. Would Trump really hire a women to be the representation of his campaign if he is so sexist? Trump also employs more female executives in his own company than men.
Trump has run over 200 businesses. If he was truly sexist or racist or homophobic, he wouldn't be as successful as he is now. It is simply not economical/smart to be discriminatory in the business world. If he only hired men for higher positions, this would eliminate women who would be just as good or even better than the men. If he didn't hire a person because he is gay, there would be a worse job candidate to replace him. Trump hired people based on MERIT and not sex/age/race.
There are a few things Trump says that are obvious pandering, and it's very easy to notice if you don't have brain damage. First of all when he talks about the Bible and Christianity. It's obvious he's not religious. And you'll notice he tries as hard as he can not to pretend and lie, which is why he prefers saying "Under President Trump people will say Merry Christmas again" rather than some of the actually threatening things other Republicans might say. But then, what about the core of his message? Fixing the abysmal trade deficit, taking back jobs and defending the country's interests when negociating deals, instead of working as the world police for the benefit of multinational corporations. He has been saying the exact same things for 30 years. During this interview for instance.
If you want the candidate with the highest probability of ensuring marijuana will be legal across the country, Donald Trump is your best option.
I know for many of you this news might be rather hard to digest. Granted Trump has never held political office, however his pro-marijuana stance surpasses that of any other candidate in the field.
In 1990, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune has Donald Trump on record claiming US drug enforcement is ‘a joke’ and all drugs should be legalized to ‘take the profit away from these drug czars.’ According to Trump, tax revenues from a legalized drug trade will be used to educate the public on the dangers of drugs.
It’s no surprise that Trump’s isolationist tactics of building a wall that divides Mexico and the US along with banning all Muslims from entering the country has spilled over to international drug trade. While Trump may not be the most detailed oriented candidate, he redundantly insists that our jobs are being taken away by China and Mexico -- including the esteemed title of ‘drug czar’.
Under President Trump, if drug lords are to be created, they better be made in the USA -- and how can you blame him? Our drug dealers have been outsourced to other countries for far too long. If America hopes to create the next Walter White, we must locally foster and create drug lords and keep them within our borders.
Trump also stated we're losing badly the war on drugs, and you have to legalize drugs to win that war. For a candidate that bases his entire brand on ‘winning,’ losing a war on drugs would severely chip away from the superhuman aura he’s manifested since he announced his run for president on June 16, 2015.
According to Trump, getting a ‘win’ against the war on drugs starts with complete legalization of all drugs.
Now that Trump has shifted from business man to a political Frankenstein created by the GOP and the media, his stance on marijuana has slightly shifted. In a November interview with GQ last year, Trump states ‘[marijuana for] medical purposes for medicinal purposes it’s absolutely fine.’
While his stance on marijuana may seem to change, his belief that the ‘war on drugs’ is a joke has not. On ABC’s ‘This Week,’ Trump told host Martha Raddatz that the country is doing a ‘poor job’ policing drugs; specifically, "We don't want to do anything. And if you're not going to want to do the policing, you're going to have to start thinking about other alternatives."
But it's not something that I would want to do. Don’t worry, I speak double-talk Trump -- let me translate. Donald Trump simply restated his 1990 position on the War on Drugs however the semantics have shifted to him exploring ‘other alternatives’ to alleviate this problem.
In that same statement, Trump insists that we (he) doesn’t want to do anything about the ‘war on drugs’ solely because he believes the enforcement isn’t working. Of course the only remaining ‘other alternative’ to his proposal is something that he’s reiterated in the past, complete drug legalization.
Presidential candidates tend to swing far right/left early on to appeal to their party’s core demographic in order to be their respective party’s nominee. Once the country is left with two candidates, both shift towards the middle to appeal to voters in the opposing field.
That’s just the way the political game has been operating for as long as any CNN talking head can remember.
Could Trump’s recent shift in his stance on marijuana be an objective attempt to garner key votes in his party? Of course it is.
In 2004, Trump told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that he identifies ‘more as a democrat’ and that it "seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans."
Therefore Trump dipping to a more liberal center if/when he becomes the Republican nominee doesn’t seem that unreasonable.
That tilt towards the center would also reflect his previously held stance on drug legalization. Compared to current field of presidential candidates, Trump has held the most radical stance against the enforcement of marijuana and other drugs for for the longest duration.
According to a 2012 RAND report commissioned by the White House, the organization found that $100 billion dollars a year is being generated by illegal drug trade in America, with $40 billion coming from marijuana.
As far as the failed drug enforcement that Trump has repeatedly talked about for decades, in 2010 the federal government spent $15 billion on the ‘war on drugs’ with states and local governments spending an additional $25 billion.
When it comes to the superfluous government spending that Trump denounces at his rallies and debates, $40 billion could be saved just from doing what he said he would do: stop the war on drugs. In fact, Trump would save 400% more from cutting federal and state level enforcement on drugs than he would from ending Common Core.
The real question is if elected, will Trump come through on the multitude of platforms he’s been promising the American people. That’s yet to be determined.
However, if Donald Trump’s words are to be believed as truth, then it’s clear that Donald Trump will be the biggest proponent for the legalization of marijuana in our country’s history.
The results of the general election are obviously predicted, as they are hundreds of days away, but there is a common misconception that Hillary Clinton will beat Trump easily in the general election. Right now, Trump is in the Primary election, trying to be the best Republican candidate, and is appealing to the republican base. As the general election starts, Trump will likely become more moderate and less reactionary, and thus increasing his appeal to the general population.
Voter turnouts decide elections. If you look at 50 democrats vs 50 republicans, likely Clinton will win as a portion of the Republican party will not vote for Trump and would rather vote for Hillary Clinton. This is how polling is generaly done. The voter turnout for many of the primary states shows that the turnout for the Republican party is increase by a large percentage, and the democrat is decreasing. Trump is bringing over a lot of fed-up democrats and independants, while Hillary Clinton is seen as a "same old same old" politician with nothing special.
Trump's strategy is to be on the offensive and be more aggressive towards other candidates and calling them out. Donald Trump effectively destroyed Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio with well orchestrated debate attacks and twitter attacks. Donald Trump hasn't even started on Hillary Clinton's past, and once the general election comes around, there will be lots of dirt for Trump to dig up.
Many polls are also showing a slow increase for Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton, lie in the latest reuters poll
Politifact has a known bias towards the democrat and are very often found giving biased ratings, and picking and choosing what to rate from each candidate to push their own political agenda. Here is an infographic debunking all of the "false" claims politifact has given Donald Trump:
A common myth about Trump is that he wont be able to get ANYTHING done in congress. He will likely face some obstruction from the opposition, but with a GOP majority and strong negotiating power from Trump, he will likely be able to modify his deals to appease the other side and get bills past. Comparing to other candidates, Hillary Clinton is roughly the same as Obama policy wise, and therefore would face the same obstructionism seen by Obama against the GOP House Majority. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham joked that "If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you". Ted Cruz is a hardliner who would likely not be ready to work across party lines. He has made many filibusters before and even the GOP House majority leader despises him. Speaker of the house Paul Ryan said that he would "Make Trump Work", showing that the Republican Establishment currently on the full offense against trump would still try and get his policies to work.
A common myth about Donald Trump and Republicans in general, is that they are "bad for the poor". Well looking at failure of Obamacare, almost anything could be better than that. Trump's healthcare plan abolishes the fee for NOT having healthcare, a massive 700$ fee that is horrible towards low income people. You can also look at his tax plan. For a low income, from 25-30 thousand dollars a year, you would pocket an extra 2090$ from tax cuts. Under Bernie Sander's tax plan, you would pay an extra $2630 dollars. Many people at this level of income are struggling to pay rent and purchase food. An extra $2630 per year could put many people below this line and put them on welfare or just not have enough money. Take a look at the tax plans for each candidate and determine who is benifiting the poor the most.