Interesting Theory
So I wonder what actual honest to God news story is going to happen that will shaken us and the media from our Trumpnosis. A Hurricane or some other natural disaster? The Iran Deal? Grexit?
Also, did you know (and I didn’t, for some shocking reason that is escaping me) that Donald Trump also ran for President in 1999? Did you know what positions he took back then? LOLz.
He was a Reform Party candidate. Remember that cute Ross Perot-Pat Buchanan 1990’s thing? As such, he was not beholden to the Republican Party base, and so he took some pretty interesting positions.
* He was “very pro-choice.”
* He endorsed single payer healthcare as the solution to the healthcare crisis.
* He was open-minded to supporting gay marriage
* He proposed erasing the national debt with a one-time wealth tax on the mega rich.
Trump, a prospective candidate for the Reform Party presidential nomination, is proposing a one-time “net worth tax” on individuals and trusts worth $10 million or more. […]
“By my calculations, 1 percent of Americans, who control 90 percent of the wealth in this country, would be affected by my plan,” Trump said. “The other 99 percent of the people would get deep reductions in their federal income taxes … Personally this plan would cost me hundreds of millions of dollars, but in all honesty, it’s worth it.”
The ads against Trump now write themselves, and these prior positions will be the death of him in the Republican primary. And Trump 2015 will be just like Trump 2011 and Trump 1999.
First… Love, love, love Jay Smooth!
Second, the real reason for Trump’s success is because the majority of Republicans (including GOP politicians and primary candidates) agree with what he is saying – they just don’t like how he’s saying it. If one of these GOP primary candidates actually took Trump on the narrative would change. But they won’t do that because they know that the Republican base agrees with Trump.
So many truths and lol’s in one short video.
In the era of celebrity chefs, celebrity shoppers, celebrity sex-tape stars, friends of celebrities who become celebrities, etc… it’s no surprise we have a celebrity real-estate developer. It’s a publicity stunt. There’s a very long history of novelty presidential bids. The fact the he’s “leading in the polls” is completely irrelevant. There’s no evidence people “agree with Trump.” People love trashy reality TV.
Political polling has been notoriously poor over the last several years. The main argument seems to be that as more of the population drop land-line phone service for mobile service the avenues to collect accurate data begin to disappear. No feeling about how true this is. Personally I no longer even answer calls. I have the entire mobile phone on silent. Just review missed calls and messages once or twice daily.
Last month the “polls” in Britain predicted nothing much accurately in the Parliamentary elections. The “polls” couldn’t predict the runaway no-vote in Greece. I think very soon the idea of putting up and examining graphs and joking about who’s “leading in the polls” will become a relic of the past. Also it’s incredibly boring – in the way the all the programming on MSNBC is incredibly boring.
Yes, Trump’s a publicity stunt, a game he’s played several times in the past with some success. Also as noted he’s saying what the Republican base wants to hear, hatred with a side of racism sums it up. Trump also represents what the Republican elite desperately wanted to avoid this election cycle, an ego maniac side show that detracts from what the “serious” candidates are saying. Problem is what they are saying is carefully reworded versions of what Trump says. Sit back, crack a cold one and enjoy the show while it lasts.
That’s the issue I have. The Donald show is like a hacky joke. Trump is a prop comic. His prop is the hair. There’s nothing entertaining or enjoyable about it. I’m not necessarily put off by it. I’m similarly not put off by the Kardashians or Home Shopping Network. It’s a big nothing. Like a caribou fart on the tundra. Meaningless.
People are drawn to freak shows. I get it. I’m just not certain why a person with a vocabulary greater than twenty words would waste a moment of attention on it.
You underestimate the number of Americans with a vocabulary of less than twenty words. 😉