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MarkostheGnostic
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They're already fucking with the democratic voters in Nevada. There is a real possibility that this pathologically lying narcissistic sociopath who knows NOTHING about politics, governance, the subtleties of diplomacy, economics, constitution law, statesmanship, or even common decency will become POTUS! I've never been so worried, not even when the possibility existed of John McCain becoming POTUS, dying in office, and leaving Sarah Palin as POTUS!
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Re: Trump [Re: viktor]
#22929739 - 02/21/16 12:31 PM (7 years, 11 months ago) |
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viktor said: No, millions of third world immigrants coming to a country is almost guaranteed to make the standard of living lower.
I think Trump is dangerously insane, but as long as its Trump vs. Sanders I will be immensely entertained by either winner.
I love the Bern, but $14 Trillion over 10 years to pay for universal health care? There is NO way even according to liberal Democratic experts to pay for that. Our yearly budget is $4 Trillion. Then, free college? Sounds wonderful, but financially impossible. Denmark is a tiny non-diversified country who can manage universal health, we're not in the USA. I can't imagine what would ensue if Huge insurance carriers like United, Cigna, BC/BS,etc. were suddenly out of business, hundreds of thousands of people out of a job. Millions of health care providers even more confused than when the Affordable care Act came in and the moron office manager in my cardiologist's office told me "We don't take Obamacare." I ended up paying twice, having several phone calls, and my cardiologist abandoned his experiment with a private office and went back to the group practice he left. One tiny example of a cluster-fuck, but ultimately the Affordable health Care Act helps me and my wife as retirees without employer-supported health care..
I'm not a political person, but THIS election has shown me the extent of the "idiocracy" of the multitudes - choosing to believe what they want to hear instead of what is actually there. The Donald has never opened a Bible in his life, but he was waving it around like Jimmy Swaggart (another sociopath) claiming it's his favorite book. Trump is the most vulgar materialist in our culture. He trades in his wives for a younger, more beautiful model (preferably Eastern European apparently) every few years because they are obviously little more than animated objects of beauty, which highlights his misogyny. This buffoon should not have access to our nuclear codes under any circumstances! I can imagine him attempting to deploy low-yield tactical nuclear missiles in the Middle East and precipitating the biblical Armageddon in violation of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act of 1961, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978, and the world's trust in the USA. Trump is a fucking NIGHTMARE!
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Re: Trump [Re: viktor]
#22930009 - 02/21/16 01:39 PM (7 years, 11 months ago) |
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The other countries don't do it "with ease," they still struggle to deliver things they promise, and they don't have the robust economy that we do. I'm sure you haven't looked closely at the numbers. My wife actually enjoys politics and stuff like macroeconomics, so much of what I'm writing is parroting her (but she was a Government major at Cornell and she holds an MBA from U. of MD). The middle class would be taxed terribly here, not just the wealthy. Sander's proposals are even objected to by Liberal Democrats, forget Conservative Republicans. Sanders would never get anything past the Republican congress. It's not just the corporate elites and the military-industrial complex that needs to be overcome. The American people do not think like Scandinavian Europeans. YOUR taxes would would rise substantially without me having any idea of what they currently are.
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