Oh sh!!t, I did it again.
I need to stop making effort-posts in the 2016 board.
Is there anything Trump can say that his supporters wouldn't call sarcastic or a joke?
Trump is the official douchebag "it's a joke, bruh" candidate.
It was a probably a joke, he shouldn't say that, but then again, this is a free country and you cannot censor free speech.
This is not a question of censorship, this is a question of giving this guy the highest office in the land--making him "leader of the free world." The national and international representative of the nation, the commander-and-chief of the largest military on earth, and the main director of governmental policy.
There are thousands and thousands of things people can say that are totally legal and maybe not even repulsive (as this is), but would make me (and should make any sane person) uneasy to give that person such an important position.
As someone who is a big supporter of free speech, I get incredibly annoyed when people conflate "free speech" with "let me say whatever I want and don't criticize me."
I don't know. He should not be dropped. If Trump is dropped by the GOP, the base will stay home. It's Trump or bust for them, I suppose.
What is "the base?" If it's Cruz-type ideological conservatives, they generally hate Trump. On everything outside of immigration, torture, and maybe "law and order" he's to the left of 95% of the Republican party.
It's not "base" vs. "establishment," unless Chris Christie is "base" while Ted Cruz and Glenn Beck are "establishment." if anything it's "establishment" vs. ideological conservatives vs. purely anti-establishment populists--the last faction is what gave Trump the nomination, but the former two loathe him.
I know this is slightly off-topic and it'll get buried, but I can't resist correcting misconceptions like that.
Just keeps getting worse. I can think of more than a few morons on this board who'd literally defend Trump no matter what he says, though. Very scary, really.
Yeah, a large faction of the Trump support is literally a cult at this point. I don't think I'm being hyperbolic--I try not to be, we have too much of that from all sides. But some people just blindly defend everything this guy says, and why? This is a politician--we're not supposed to serve them, it's supposed to be the other way around. This is a job interview--what kind of boss would defend such repulsive things from a prospective employee? In a functioning society we would've toppled the system of corrupt party establishments and a ratings-fueled media after they nominated probably the two worst candidates ever.
But even if we accept the two-party system, why can't Trump's supporters just reluctantly say "oh well, I guess he's better than Hillary"--why do they have to defend everything he says? Why do they have to compare him to Reagan (who wasn't anywhere near perfect, but in many ways different and in many ways better than Trump)? Why do they have to act like he's the savior of the country?
And before his cultists start foaming at the mouth "BUT HILLARY!!!" I should point out that I will not vote for either of them. There is no need to convince me to vote against Trump or Clinton, and you shouldn't waste your time trying to convince me to vote for either of those abysmal options.
