The whole Trump thing was funny at the
beginning. Now it’s slightly scary and even the other
Republicans are denouncing his extreme solutions (for political
points, possibly, but the point remains …).
The longer his campaign goes on, and the
more controversial things he says, you begin to wonder if he’ll
be derailed at all. The thing is that Americans are
disillusioned with the system the way that it is. And when that
happens, the downsides of electing someone like Trump can’t be
seen, because what could possibly be worse than what we have
now? But that’s exactly the problem; a lot could actually be
worse than current situations. This is why Trump is popular; he
plays to the fears of people that think the system doesn’t work
(as well as many quotes to the effect that the system isn’t
working), and is charismatic in his delivery of his rhetoric.
Would you expect anything else from a television personality.
I’ve heard many people say that Trump is
stupid. This is wrong. He’s a very smart man. You don’t make
$10bn in the business world without being smart. He seems able
to speak in an engaging way so that people will listen, whether
or not what he is saying is reasonable, factually backed up or
not [either one or both of those things]. Key policies include a
proposal reform trade agreements with China and to ban Muslims
from immigrating to the US and force Muslims already here to
wear badges. Sounds like what Hitler did with the Jews in WW2
(which is un-American; land of the free bahahahaha, and a breach
of Articles 1 and 3 of the Human Rights Declaration, as well as
similar to the Japanese internments;
http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/).
This is because it would prohibit Muslim migration from warzones
where they are not safe, and discriminate against these people
for their beliefs. Also it’s just generally a collosal dick move
fuelled by misinformation or under-information blasted at high
volume. Although, illegal immigration is definitely a problem in
America that needs sorting out, I’m not sure a massive wall
between the US and Mexico is the most cost-effective solution.
Trump seems to be able to say very controversial things and gain
in popularity (numerous comments against women, there might even
have been one against soldiers …).
Okay, so now I’ve illustrated my actual
point without balance at all, we can move on to some actual
debate.
Trump’s rhetoric addresses all the issues
facing America. And his ‘solutions’ would solve the problems
they are meant to address. In a manner of speaking. For
instance, illegal immigration is a *big* problem in the US.
Especially from Mexico. And building a wall *would* solve that
problem. But it would be costly, and seems oddly xenophobic for
a country. Similarly, his suggestion that Muslims should not be
allowed to migrate to the US until ISIS is sorted out is …
impractical and xenophobic, but again, a solution.
The main problem with Trump is that
with all the things he says he speaks the opening words to the
plan, and fails to follow up with a proper plan about how the
plan would become anything other than a plan. In the following
quote, it’s worrying because he seems to think he’s the one
that’s responsible enough to control the nuclear weapons.
Example; in one of the recent GOP debates), he said "Well,
first of all, I think we need somebody absolutely that we can
trust, who is totally responsible, who really knows what he or
she is doing. That is so powerful and so important," in relation
to US’ nuclear weapons.
Firstly, he doesn’t even have the
maturity of a pair of shoes. Here’s some quotes he’s actually
said about women to prove my point. "Beauty and elegance,
whether in a woman, a building, or a work of art, is not just
superficial or something pretty to see."
"You know, it
doesn't really matter what [the media] write as long as you've
got a young and beautiful piece of ass."
When confronted with
a woman pumping breastmilk; "He got up, his face got red, he
shook his finger at me and he screamed, 'You're disgusting,
you're disgusting,' and he ran out of there."
Not only is his
stance on women somewhat lacking, but he continues to blatantly
lie about the issues he’s talking about.
Examples; During a
press conference before a rally, reporters pressed Trump to
explain why he continues to say President Obama plans to
resettle 250,000 Syrian refugees in the United States even
though the administration has only publicly committed to
accepting 10,000. Trump said his larger number comes from a
"pretty good source" and is likely accurate because he has
correctly predicted a number of other foreign events, including
the rise of Osama bin Laden. "You watch," he said, "I'll be
right."
Frankly, I don’t even have the space
to explain why (even if you totally ignore his politics), he
lacks basic maturity and common sense to control even a small
country, much less the most powerful country on earth). But
perhaps spearheading a multi-billion dollar company, and running
a country are not so different?
Ultimately at this point in the post,
my serious argument with facts in has been done and backed up,
so I can just yell at Trump and how he looks (like he does with
women, immigrants and people that don’t agree with him …). So
here’s a selection of Trump jokes I wrote or found. So plentiful
are the Trump jokes that I can’t remember whether I wrote them
or found them. But here they are;
Trump seems to have a
buy-two-get-one-free deal on ex-wives. That joke is credit Savi
Mohan. I do at least remember that.
Shithead of the
year award goes to … actually I’m not sure. That one might be
Tony Abbott. But hey, whatever.
Which came first, the chicken
or the egg? Well, Trump seems to look like a hybrid of chicken
and egg, so …
He also seems to look like he’s got some
kind of ginger cat stapled to his head.
And here’s a quote
that I couldn’t find a place for it to go. "NBC News just called
it 'The Great Freeze' — coldest weather in years. Is our country
still spending money on the GLOBAL WARMING HOAX?".
See that’s the thing with global warming is that the colds get
colder as well, sweetie. Do a google. Use the hamsized plugs you
have stuck in your ears and do a google, darling. Yes, I mean
fingers, that’s their conventional name.
TL;DR: Trump is a
xenophobic trumpet of ‘simple’ solutions without an actual plan
to more complicated problems for which the solutions are not an
ideal fit … basically a racist, ignorant bigot. And supporters
seem to share these views with tacit support for the policy. I
take the phrase “… source?” as a victory. But even so, I
included some …
Sources;
http://presidential-candidates.insidegov.com/l/70/Donald-Trump
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases.
http://www.refinery29.com/2015/08/91867/donald-trump-offensive-quotes#slide