In light of recent polls (here), I have decided to prepare myself for the conversation we’re going to have on November 9th. I think I need to be honest with you and let you know exactly how I feel about you and the choice you made for this country and I need to let you know that I hold you completely responsible for what will happen over the course of the next four years if Trump is elected. It’s a heavy burden to be so accountable for what he will do, but you should have thought about that before you voted for this man, and now you have to face the consequences of your actions. In fact, we all do. Thanks.
First, I want you to know that I don’t hate you. Your ignorance may not necessarily be your fault. Television news has numbed you and confused you, so you don’t know what to believe. And, because news is on a 24-hour cycle, you have become lazy and have chosen to do absolutely no thinking for yourself. Like a toddler being fed in their high chair, you don’t have to make any choices. You just have to open up and say, “Aaah” when the choo-choo comes around. You have accepted that complacence means happiness and that apathy means action. This is all a lie that you didn’t know was being told to you and you slurped it up like strained peas.
Second, I think you should know that Trump is not who you think he is. You think he’s a great businessman, despite the fact he has declared bankruptcy six times and has more failed businesses than I can count. He has business interests with Russia and owes a ton of money to China, the country he claims is killing jobs in the US, and he has ripped off numerous small businesses that did work for him. Sometimes they have gone bankrupt.
He also has ties to numerous racist organizations that have found a newfound strength with his candidacy. His supporters are by and large racist or have racist tendencies.
Trump is either a serial liar or he just has no idea what he’s doing since he flip-flops so much.
You think he will be good for the economy? Think again. His tax plan is estimated to cost the American public trillions of dollars in lost revenue. He just released a new tax plan, which seems to be irrelevant and not very well thought out and falls short of anything you can consider useful.
He seems like a strong candidate on national defense, but his policies and rhetoric actually make us less safe. ISIS has been hoping for him to win the presidency because it would help them recruit fighters. He has proposed waterboarding and bombing the families of terrorists, which is against international law, and he has even balked at declining to use nukes in Europe, as if Brexit wasn’t enough of a blow to them.
As for his key plank on immigration, besides his racist rhetoric (see above), he will build that damn wall come hell or high water. Of course, the wall will cost us billions since the Mexican President stated unequivocally he will not pay for it, despite what Trump says and how strongly he states it.
So, when all is said and done, you may not be a racist or a xenophobe or a misogynist yourself, but if you have not been paying attention to his policies, then you really are an ignoramus and “President Trump” is all your fault.
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“National Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council, the official union representing 5,000 federal immigration officers and law enforcement support staff made their first-ever endorsement of any candidate for any elected office.” I guess they’re all racist too?
Yes. According to them Tom. If it doesn’t fit the agenda, the words, the philosophy, it’s racist. It’s also bullshit too. It’s all they’ve got. Logic is out the window. Look around you. You can see what’s happened over the last 8 years. Trillions more in debt. Nothing gained. Employment if even somewhat reasonably reported is really at about 10 % youth unemployment, especially in minority youth is at least “30% I don’t like the last 8 years result. I don’t want 5 more. Not 22 now. Would a, should a, could a. I could care less about tax returns.… Read more »
If you change the names and dates and re-read it featuring Obama, it is not far off from what I felt in 2008 and why I left the country in 2012.
And with good reason, boris. The destruction is path this administration has accelerated is almost to the point of being unstoppable. Scary times. If I hear of anything like the nationalization of local jurisdictional police departments so that a standardized set of equality and fairness for all of us can be implemented I’m out of here. That will be the implementation of the American gestapo and the Russian police.
Are you referring to what Obama stated at the UN?
Actually no Tom. Brief commentary, there to be sure. Worried more about other things. . The UN. No comment there. They want world control. Better than average chance Obama becomes president of the UN. NOT PRETTY.
I had offered to debate Pont by point. You declined. You said nothing of import. Good. Saves me time. I won’t waste my breath on an idiot.
One could argue that just by writing this piece that I already started the debate. And, rather than actually engage in that discussion, you react like a frantic tween, critique my writing style, deflect to Obama and make assumptions about me without making one counterpoint. So, why the hell would I debate with you? You have now spent time on 3 posts without making a single relevant point. You reek of troll. You asked how old I was, but I have to ask you the same thing. What adult would seek to have an intelligent, rational discussion by starting off… Read more »
Yet another article on The Good Man Project written by a woman.
That feeble response tells me all I need to know about you.
Btw. How tf old are you anyway? Alinsky was an absolute asshole. I can see his philosophy in your writing. You offer nothing positive. At all. It’s people like you that are moving to trump. And I don’t even support him. Lol!
Have we ever met? Don’t think so, but you’re making a whole bunch of assumptions about me. And I feel no inclination to address any of them, especially for an obvious troll who thinks he knows more than he does.
OMG. OMG. All of this could have been written about the current holder of the presidency. You have no idea who you elected. Unless of course you approve of where he’s taken us. In that case you are a believer in the overall demise of America, and the rise of the world government. I can’t stomach that. At all. If you want me to debate your points, point by point, I will. Bring it man. You may not understand all this, but the fact in the end remains you have wrought destruction and fostered real hatred of freedom and upward… Read more »