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Where is/can Donald Trump take US (sic)?

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Melania and Ivanka looking a touch disappointed at Donald's views during the interview. And when Ivanka speaks, Donald seems a bit edgy and embarrassed about her liberal and compassionate attitude. It's hard to watch - she's so beautiful and intelligent and she just doesn't get heard by her father.

Overall, very impressive performance by all of them. But there's a male/female divide.
 
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To be fair Sifu, Bas would have prefer someone like Sanders. But to have to choose between Trump or Clinton, the lesser of two evil was a bit less painful.
 
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You hear how Trump said he's not going to draw a salary as president?

Trump knows too well that apprentices do not get pay for on the job training.

Zinger trademarked by me.
 
Mark Latham opens fire on bias
[video=youtube_share;u77Jmuf_Z1g]http://youtu.be/u77Jmuf_Z1g[/video]
 
Gringotts Bank said:
luutzu....

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You're fired!
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Firing is the third step in Trump's Business Model (TM).

First step was no pay for apprenticeship.

Second step: make crappy products and offer dodgy services at nose bleed prices.

Third Step: Bankrupt business and firing people.
 
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Second step: make crappy products and offer dodgy services at nose bleed prices.
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Everything he does is the highest quality. It's part of his brand.

But I can't figure out how he's going to pay for everything he wants to do re: infrastructure spending, especially with such big tax cuts. The only thing I can imagine happening is that his brand and symbolism (success/wealth/confidence) permeates society and people start to embody that attitude. Because that can work wonders.
 
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LOL. Have to hand it to Mark for best TV performances in the "manufactured indignation" awards.
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Yes, he was quite impressive.

And for the printed media awards:

NOT the Queensland University Students

and

NOT Bill Leak
 

I thought it's business model of late is simply to sell his name. Charge a fee for builders to stick "TRUMP" on their building, or their whatever.

A lot of "his" businesses have gone broke because he was just the front man. No quality checks, no idea what the business is... they just pay royalty for the Trump brand, and for a bit extra he'd even play the Chairman.

So he'll fit in perfectly in his new role as POTUS.

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Mexico could always pay for them. I mean they're already on the books for that new wall

Some smart guy was quoted as saying that US was at a turning point in 2009. Obama didn't make the turn. So they got themselves Trump.

if Trump doesn't make the turn, you don't want to think what a Trump replacement would be like.

The too big to fails that Clinton and Bush Jr. unleashed just got a whole lot bigger under Obama. The tax cuts to the rich just got a lot permanent under Obama. The couple of wars under Bush Jr. got blown to 8 wars and countless drone strikes under Obama.

The poor got poorer and the 20 richest American own half the dam place. With the top 1% owning more than the rest.

If Trump doesn't turn but instead accelerate the current trajectory - and it looks like he's doing just that from hearing the kind of people "he" is putting in place for his administration - it is not going to end well.

This kind of decay comes about from imperial hubris. Where the current generations of "statesman" just cannot remember their own history, or learn anything from history, and seriously believe that their country is great because it simply is great and that whatever it is that they do, it will always be great.

As FDR once said to a friend: If I fail, I will be the last president of the United States. So I will either be one of its greatest president, or its last.

He wasn't referring to the threat from Japan or Hitler's Germany.
 
If Trump backs out of the trade pact, it should be a salutary day for the Liberal Party supporters, given the Howard Govt's hatred of anything with a whiff of Hawke/Keating smell.

It was bad enough that a war time Labor PM enlisted the aid and USA over the Ol' Dart, but to subject the Lib donor class to capitalistic competition was a shocker.... almost as bad as trading and diplomatic relationships with the asian neighbourhood!!!

Thank goodness Bush Jnr came along and gave us the opportunity to go to war as the deputy sheriff of the barbarian hordes. No wonder Trump answered Malcolm's call two rings in.... that and using the mate's only number from Greg Norman.
 
Why is it through out the World the left are doing their best to destroy democracy?

Trump is only USA President elect and the left are already talking about assassinating him because they don't like the result.....They are doing their level best to make life hell for Trump.

It is the same here in Australia where the left go out of their way to disrupt our way of life when and where ever they can.....Socialism does not work.


http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...t/news-story/71216e4042afe22169f5bcfb55990e83


DONALD Trump has exposed the hypocrites. His win has so deranged the Left that it’s now proved that it is what it condemns.

No wonder disgusted voters turned against it, electing Trump the next president of the US.

Go through the checklist of the Left’s hypocrisy.




A University of Chicago student’s protest sign following the Trump win. Picture: Getty Images/AFP
The Left is the violence it denounces.

The Left attacked Trump for “inciting violence” and demonstrators now protesting his election carry placards declaring “Love Trumps Hate”.




Donald Trump speaks following his election victory. Picture: AFP
Yet Leftists violently disrupted Trump’s campaign rallies and bashed his supporters.

Since his election they have staged more violent demonstrations against him in several US cities, with one in Portland declared a riot.

In Chicago, a white man was filmed being bashed and robbed of his car while a black crowd shouted “Don’t vote Trump”.

Social media has meanwhile been flooded with calls to “assassinate Trump”, with Guardian freelance writer Monisha Rajesh tweeting: “It’s about time for a presidential assassination.”

She’s not alone in the media class. A Los Angeles Times freelance reporter, Steven Borowiec, tweeted: “I would rather see Donald Trump’s life end.” In June, an NBC producer praised a man who to tried to murder Trump as “a good guy with a gun”.

The Left here shares this hatred. In Sydney’s Newtown, so far Left that its state MP is a Green, the After School Klub at the Newtown Public School organised “art therapy classes” for students as young as five who, it confirmed, “were saying we should kill Trump”.

It is the Left that spawns the most political violence — from the Russian Revolution to the Red Brigades and now Black Lives Matter — and Trump has proved it.
 
Or... an alternative explanation that isn't highly politicised and seen through the left/right political spectrum is that people, no matter if they are left, right or somewhere in between, are and always have been, deposed to violence when their ideologies/desires are not met (see Will to Power).

Gee whizz, that kind of thinking doesn't sell newspapers though and certainly doesn't give pleasure to those with a big bout of good ol' confirmation bias.

It's any wonder people are angry, the politicisation of everything within the left/right spectrum is absolutely tedious. When it reaches this stage you know that politics has long become just another form of consumer entertainment replete with cheer squads for both sides.
 
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