I can and I did. I am right and you are wrong.
Why, because you say so? Why should I care again?
Is he? He seems more interested in long term profit. The Trump organization is privately held, not a publicly traded corp. CEOs of publicly traded corps are more concerned about the short term.
Privately held organizations are not immune to short-term ambitions, but I digress. You made the argument that he only cares about money and are now trying to redirect to some sort of principle that he has some sort of rational theory about money-making the dovetails with the good of the country, but at the same time he is doing things harmful to the country internally like manipulating bankruptcy laws. You are basically tying yourselves in knots to justify Trump's candidacy and you are insisting that he isn't your first choice. I'm sorry, I'm calling bullshit, feel free to complain and call me a moron to your heart's content, I'll simply repeat it if that's all I get from you.
So someone can't be concerned about both making money and the state of the country?
Not the way Trump has behaved. You don't care about a country by trying to use the government to ruin your competitors and small property owners, who are also part of the country. Again, trying to have your cake and eat it too.
Did I say he was a crusader? He's a guy who thinks he's awesome.
The way you've been talking about him, he's sounding less like a businessman and more like a Byronic hero. Apparently you seem to think he is about as awesome as he thinks himself to be.
He thinks he's done a great job running his operation and he thinks he could do a great job running America.
How, by manipulating bankruptcy laws at the federal level? We've done that for about a century now.
If he could leave the country better than he found it, that would be the ultimate ego boost for him.
I'm sure it would, but his business model mirrors what screwed up the entire economy, so his ego will probably have to rely on something else for a boost.
The only way that any President can leave the country better than he finds at this point is to put the brakes the elite establishment's plan to subsume America into a mere cog in a global system of medicority via mass immigration and "trade deals."
Spare me the malarkey please. You sound like a damned campaign ad for Trump's ego and you wonder why people are asking if Rand is your first choice?
Is Trump amoral in the way he is going about it? Absolutely. He's willing to lie and demagogue. We've all seen it. It's how he's winning.
So when Trump lies, it's cool. When Rand tries to pivot on issues and uses conciliatory methods, he's part of the problem. Who is your first choice again?
AFAIK, Rand has never been primarily concerned with making money; his primary concern has been curing people.
So he's basically just a step shy of being a monk and just barely breaks even and is taking the bus to every debate just like Mike Gravel did back in 2008?
Rand hasn't set up any multi-million or multi-billion dollar businesses which could be shut down by politicians with a few phone calls. He's a doctor, not a real estate developer.
It's pretty easy to get shut down if you're a successful doctor, in Pennsylvania we've got a whole slew of ambulance chasing parasites just itching to shut down entire medical practices and make bank on punitive damages. I don't know if Kentucky has it as bad as we do with this, but every state has its fair share of this bottom-feeders, and they all have political connections.
And again, you're making Trump out to be some sort of saint who is fighting the mighty state behemoth, when in truth the guy has used the laws to his advantage in manners not in keeping with free market principles, and these have not been solely acts of self-preservation.
No, it isn't.
It's not incumbent on you to trust anyone. It should be incumbent on you to have some discernment. It seems to me the more speeding tickets someone has, the more likely they would honestly be opposed to speed limits and checkpoints and cameras, regardless of his win-loss record in court.
My discernment tells me that you and several others are getting played by a two-bit conman with a sob story that I'm not buying. The thousands of speeding tickets represent the thousands of deals that involved using government favors in order to get deals, your analogy makes it sound like he made his fortune off of a scant number of developments that involved a slight help from government favoritism.
(And who are the quadraplegics in your analogy?)
The people on the losing side of the Kelo decision, the people who's loss of property was wholly supported by your hero.
And your counter-analogy doesn't even really hold here anyway. Trump isn't campaigning against bankruptcy laws. He isn't campaigning against eminent domain. He's not campaigning to outlaw casino gambling. Those are the kinds of laws relevant to his business.
Yes, he only campaigns about the things that benefit him. The contradiction is in your assertion that he cares about what happens to the country.
None of that has anything with the elite establishment program to deindustrialize and unemploy America. And neither does hiring a few Mexicans. Trump isn't campaigning on a platform that says no one should ever be allowed to hire a legal Mexican. He's campaigning against mass illegal immigration and the international "trade" deals that have been harming the country.
Yeah, the trade deals that his buddies The Clintons supported, I've heard this song and dance already, and it's starting to get incredibly boring.
This is still incredibly idiotic.
Boring.
Has he said anything about prison? Has he said anything about her many crimes? Or has Jeb just said she made a mistake?
He put the deaths of the 4 people in Benghazi on her, that's pretty cut and dry. If you want him to use the word "prison" or some other hyperbolic term like The Don, maybe you should send an email to his campaign, it would be a bit more productive than trying to convince me that Trump can turn dog-shit into diamonds, which for the record, isn't going to happen.
Only a total moron would deny this.
Boring.
