Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

People you disagree with are sometimes hypocritical, infantile response, grow the fuck up, yada, yada, ad infinitum, ad nauseum ...

 

That doesn't seem strange or hypocritical to me. I am, of course, more fearful of Trump assuming more power than I am of Obama doing the same, because Trump is an unalloyed idiot. The power's a problem. But the bigger problem is the latter one.

 

I love this too.

Trump was very specific about crime being an inner city problem. Does anyone deny this? You want to tell the folks living in crime infested neighborhoods that Trump is wrong?

And the fact is that jobs and economic opportunities will never come to high crime neighborhoods.

There's a reason why these neighborhoods are food deserts. Crime, and the costs associated with doing business in such a neighborhood, is too high.

And so the cost of living in the poorest neighborhoods is high.

 

Violent crime is half of what it was at the end of Reagan's second term.

 

YF, what are Trump's plans on combating poverty? It's a threshold issue in terms of improving education, crime, public health, employment and the economy, yet I don't recall hearing anything about his plans.

 

He'll just pander and not really do anything substantive. If he can get the votes, then he'll do nothing at all. That approach has proven quite successful for the Dems for about a half-century.

 

So what? It's still an issue in many places.

It is one of the main causes of unemployment among African-Americans. There aren't jobs where they live.

This was a big issue after Ferguson. But, jobs and investment are only going to come when crime is reduced. It's not going to happen the other way around.

 

Jobs.

 

That's gobshite!

 

These people are the worst.

Wanted to use Bernie's religion against him in West Virginia and Kentucky. I guess they think their base is anti-Semitic.

And, who were they planning on getting to ask him this? They must have assumed a friend in the press would be willing to coordinate with them on this.

 

Thing is, you don't always get a wise, well-intentioned president. You do, however, get all of his predecessor's precedents. Which is why, a few months back, when Obama was using executive orders and just telling Congress to go screw itself, it was such a concern to anyone paying attention. Democrats and liberals (and, admittedly, hardly anyone else) never conceived of someone like Trump getting a whiff of the presidency and never considered the consequences. It was rah-rah-rah, go Obama.
Now that there seems to be at least a 50-50 chance of Trump getting elected, the idea of a president doing whatever he wants is suddenly a lot more disconcerting. The power is a problem, but it should be a problem no matter who is wielding it.

 

The basic message I take away from Trump candidacy is:

Hate/discriminate against Muslims
Hate/discriminate against Mexicans
Hate/discriminate against blacks
Hate/discriminate against women

Is this what we want in our president? Not me and that's simply wrong.

Lastly, as I've consistently said, don't give me criticisms, give me solutions, what solutions is he profferring?