Official LRC President Donald J Trump Thread

Fat hurts wrote:

Sally Vix wrote:

Would America ever elect a two-lady candidacy?

Yes. Maybe 2020. Men vs. Women.

It would be easy to say, "Look at the mess that the men have made. It's time to give the women a shot."

Ha! Good one, needed that laugh

Did you have to quote two entire nested quotes to mention a misspelling of one word?

It's hard enough to scroll through these posts.

L L wrote:

Did you have to quote two entire nested quotes to mention a misspelling of one word?

It's hard enough to scroll through these posts.

Agree. Democrats are an obamanation.

Oh, and that's a pet peeve of mine.

All of these people making layers of nested quotes or quoting the very response before them to make a comment in reply.

It's usually not necessary.

Sally Vix wrote:

As a conservative, I just don't know who would support her. Blacks are not going to support her. Hispanics are no going to support her. Conservatives are not. She has some very liberal ideas and she looks frenetic when presenting her ideas. ...

A rewrite for you.

As a conservative, I just don't know who would support him {Trump]. Blacks are not going to support him. Hispanics are not going to support him. Moderates are not. He has some very crazy ideas and he looks frenetic when presenting his ideas.

Try reading your post and at the above. Yours you will defend as completely true. The rewrite you will full-on attack as being all lies.

Try to understand why you are a rabid Trumper. You are not close to a moderate conservative. You have fallen happily into Trumplandia.

L L wrote:

Oh, and that's a pet peeve of mine.

All of these people making layers of nested quotes or quoting the very response before them to make a comment in reply.

It's usually not necessary.

So noted.

Enjoyable read on Trump and his proclivities when playing golf: https://www.theringer.com/2019/4/2/18291074/rick-reilly-donald-trump-commander-in-cheat-golf-sports-illustrated-masters

... not that it matters .... my opinion is that, even though Trump is the worst president in the history of the united states (which is really saying something), I don't feel there is one democrat out there who will actually beat him.... even though all any democratic voter wants is to get rid of Trump.

They are all meh.... including Beto and especially Warren (nothing against either of them but... meh)... Bernie? I just don't see it in the long term.... Mayor Pete sounds the best to me but he's a bit young and I have no idea if he has a real understanding of foreign policy or how to get congress to work together instead of work against each other. (of course, Trump has zero understanding of foreign policy and does his best to keep congress working against each other so maybe that isn't important)

I feel Trump's base will just get out and vote ... once a democrat is selected via the primary process there will be all kinds of in-fighting within the D party which will cause voters to scatter and we'll get Trump for another 4 very sad years. He is awful... truly. He just wants to look like the tough guy which is why we all hear his rhetoric and bs. He's just about Making Trump More Money (MTMM)... that is all. This is fine except when you are the president of the United States.

It is so funny that this baffoon is leading the country because of like 120,000 people who live in PA, WI, & MI... crazy really.

My last opinion is that I wish the D's and the media would just ignore Trump's rants.... he only does it because he wants to stay in the lime light. I don't care if he cheats at golf or if he doesn't know where his father was born or if he had sex with a porn star. Drop it. We already know he is not the sharpest tool in the shed and he's full of crap so why continue paying attention to it???

agip wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

Yep...Alan is right about Beto. He is not far left...very moderate, at least historically. Would he become more liberal as time goes on? Perhaps. Obama did. HRC did. That is the way things are headed which is part of the reason (in addition to cheating and some other things) Trump won in 2016...was a last-ditch effort by mouth breathers to try to keep things from changing...fear that they would lose what little bit of privilege they have. Futile in the long run.

well yeah on voting record. But he seems to be for far left ideas like reparations, tearing down border walls, drug legalization, etc. it's a weird mix of stuff. Hard to classify, But I don't think it's moderate.

Meh. It’s the primary season. People say crazy things to get the nomination.

He’s skillful at saying just enough....

He said he’s in favor of a commission to “look into” reparations. I think reparations are a crazy idea. Who comes up with this stuff?

He said he’s in favor of tearing down the wall....in El Paso ;)

I think national marijuana legalization in some form is a bipartisan issue. Many on both sides are for it, especially medical marijuana.

He’s still more centered than Sanders, Harris, Warren and Booker. I think he’s somewhere to the right of them.

Again. Man it all depends on your definition. What’s the middle?

Trump can more easily paint those above as crazy cuckoo liberals. He can’t so much with Beto, Biden, Klobuchar.

Alan

Legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes will eventually be nationwide. The dispensaries for medical marijuana are ridiculous. We have dispensaries for medical marijuana already...they are called PHARMACIES. Why should marijuana have a separate place to get it in states where it is only available by prescription?

Also, legalization of marijuana is a very libertarian idea, so not necessarily a liberal one (bipartisan as you said, and even tripartisan).

No they have to cover it all. In Brazil the MSM decided to not cover Bolsonaro and it only made things worse. He accused them of ignoring the movement, of colluding to block him from gaining popularity, etc. The only people watching CNN and MSNBC are democrats anyway so the only effect it has it to fire them up even more. If you like Trump you aren’t watching those networks, you’re going to FOX where he is praised constantly. It’s all about which side gets fired up and motivated the most, the networks are just out there trying to catch as many of those people as possible.

I'd say two things:

1) as Alan has pointed out many times, take a look at how far and fast trump's approval ratings have fallen in MI WI PA. It's dramatic. Doubtful Trump can win those states again and without them he is doomed.

2) Dems have shown over the past 2 years that they will crawl over glass to vote against trump and Trumpism. This is new. They were just meh after 8 years of Obama. Now they are p-ed off and will vote. That will get them the 80,000 votes they lost by in 2016.

No one is ever happy with the choice of presidential candidates.

Look at the 2016 Republican choices:

Donald Trump

Jeb Bush

Marco Rubio

John Kasich

Chris Christie

Ben Carson

Ted Cruz

Carly Fiorina

Jim Gilmore

Lindsey Graham

Mike Huckabee

Bobby Jindal

George Pataki

Rand Paul

Rick Perry

Rick Santorum

Scott Walker

The Democrats were basically given one choice, though Bernie did put up a fight.

Republicans spent a decade assassinating the character of Hillary Clinton. It was all about hating her and voting agasint her.

Trump hatred is at that level but in bigger numbers.

agip wrote:

I'd say two things:

1) as Alan has pointed out many times, take a look at how far and fast trump's approval ratings have fallen in MI WI PA. It's dramatic. Doubtful Trump can win those states again and without them he is doomed.

2) Dems have shown over the past 2 years that they will crawl over glass to vote against trump and Trumpism. This is new. They were just meh after 8 years of Obama. Now they are p-ed off and will vote. That will get them the 80,000 votes they lost by in 2016.

Just to be devil's advocate here, midterm elections typically go the way of the opposing party, and so 2018 was in line with what was expected even IF the President weren't an unpatriotic serial lying criminal. Granted, it was a bigger win than normal for the opposing party, and the only reason Democrats didn't also take the Senate was just due to the election map that heavily favored Republicans.

Voters in Presidential elections typically DO look at "am I better off today than I was 4 years ago?" For those of us in the stock market, if only looking at that, the answer is yes. Now, it would have gone up about what it has (other than the artificial priming Trump gave it) no matter who was in office, Republican or Democrat, but still, the answer to that question for wealthy invested people is Yes. Will most of the people who voted for Trump be able to answer that way? Not sure. The unemployment rate has improved (though it would have not matter what), but some studies suggest lower-income and non-professional people have not benefited from the "Trump economy".

Since lots of Trumpers were on record saying their taxes had gone down even before that was in effect, I find it entirely believable that people will see what they want to see. Because of that and other reasons, like I have said before, at this point I am not sure Trump can't win again (IF he is eligible). I reserve the right to change my opinion on that as we see who the Democrat nominee is and how the economy is at that point and what other illegal/unethical things Trump does between now and then.

L L wrote:

Oh, and that's a pet peeve of mine.

All of these people making layers of nested quotes or quoting the very response before them to make a comment in reply.

It's usually not necessary.

Snipping is not a specialty at LetsRun.

Warren has no chance in the general election. I don't think the polls have it right at the moment and any poll at the moment is based on anyone but Trump which I think will dissipate as we get closer to the election of 2020.

agip wrote:

I'd say two things:

1) as Alan has pointed out many times, take a look at how far and fast trump's approval ratings have fallen in MI WI PA. It's dramatic. Doubtful Trump can win those states again and without them he is doomed.

2) Dems have shown over the past 2 years that they will crawl over glass to vote against trump and Trumpism. This is new. They were just meh after 8 years of Obama. Now they are p-ed off and will vote. That will get them the 80,000 votes they lost by in 2016.

Didn't the Dems flip a House typically a Republican stronghold seat in a PA special election yesterday? I thought I saw a headline saying such.

*House seat

Great post

No president in recent history has deserved and gotten this much bad press across the board. There were mediocre Dem candidates in the midterms that almost won. Texas almost flipped. So much of that is tailwind from Trump being a despicable person and terrible president. If Bush senior didn’t lose his re-election on that much when you look at Trump is up against. I live in a blue state so it’s hard for me to gauge sentiment in the whole country but the midterm results sure were telling.

Sally Vix wrote:

Would America ever elect a two-lady candidacy?

Of course, it elected a young black and relatively unknown candidate and then it elected the current excrement in the WH. So anything is possible.