oldviolin wrote: 

I endorse this post.

 Beaker wrote: 
He ain't wrong. 18? Candidates so far, the winnowing is going to be boring as hell, so the assholes will be the only ones making the evening news.

 Lazy8 wrote: 
I'm inclined to agree - and hope we're right.

 oldviolin wrote: 
Very much like a certain European country in the early part of the last century, don't you think?

buddy wrote:
"Ahead" is a little misleading. Trump has 24 points in the latest polls vs. 12 for second place Scott Walker. This isn't a majority, it's just the biggest in a crowded field.

I'd bet money that he never gets past 30%, and that his latest 15 minutes is about over.

It also wouldn't surprise me if most of his polling support is among political cartoonists and late-night tv show comics.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Maybe so, but the vein of frustration with the general state of things he's tapping into is very real. Doesn't matter how shallow his credible and applicable qualifications for the office. The current office holder was hired the same way. The 4th estate has become too much of a player in this whole party. Additionally, who is it that keeps them in business? Couldn't be the electorate could it? People still have the power. If we could only move past the grievance; past the soothe me now with gratification cult of personality and entertainment ...Otherwise and so fourth...

This thread is way more attention than he merits.

 Prodigal_SOB wrote: 
This just goes back to the assumption that rich people are smart. The old "If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?" joke really rings true with a lot of people. See also: Ross Perot.
Ross Perot: "I got 3 Billion dollars!*"
Don Trump: “I’m really rich!” 
 
 
*Paraphrase because I can't find the quote on Perot, but Trump did say that. 

 meower wrote: 
What % of the businesses he's owned is that?I'd say he's just a tad more successful than you or I.

 And this is how much attention I pay or care-in God's honest truth,I don't even know what party he belongs to.I assume it has to be the Republicans but none of it really matters.

Whoever the next President is going to be was determined about 5 years ago,and there isn't anything anyone can do about it except beat their fellow victims of a failed system up.

 And that helps.

 meower wrote: 
I think it depends on whether it's your own or other people's money that you're losing

 bokey wrote: 

four of his businesses went bankrupt. That's success these days eh?

 buddy wrote: 
 After what we've seen,it's Pavlovian.

However,Trump has a history of success and economic knowledge vs. the current failed POTUS.That is an equation that is so 1 sided and imbalanced it almost leads to the implosion of the universe.

 Not that I'd vote for either(or any) one.I learned my lesson in 2008.Thank God I will soon be able to put that horrible mistake behind me and try to forgive myself for my idiocy.

 It's not worth it and "they" have electronic voting anyway.

100% of the country could vote for somebody and any guy would win if that's what the "Powers that be" wanted.

To think otherwise is infantile.

Using the gas to go vote in a pre determined election is a win for the energy companies.

 meower wrote: 
It's always just name recognition that wins the early polls.

I don't understand how he can be so ahead in the polls. What do people see in him?

 hippiechick wrote: 



Nope it is simpler than that.

He cannot stand to not be the center of things.

He s nothing more than a spoiled child.

I really wonder what this guy's end game is? I guess he just fancies himself as some kind of "macher", someone who thinks he can be a political influence.

 oldslabsides wrote:  Who?

On the other side of the pond to trump means to fart.....
Enough said really

 oldslabsides wrote: 
  

 Manbird wrote: 
I'm afraid for the honorable folks populating either profession.