320 Years of History
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Trump said during the debate:
This is where I stopped watching and typing because of the two candidates, "tell it like it is" Trump is the one from whom I expected to hear direct answers to the questions he was asked and he wouldn't give them. I expected to hear specific details of how he would do things, and he didn't give them.
There he stood, the only politician since "God only knows when" who can literally put forth any policy idea he wants to regardless of what "the establishment" thinks of it, and he didn't put forth any details. And seeing as he's been "detail light" for the past year and a half, I think tonight was high-time he put forth the detailed "what's" and detailed "hows" and summary estimates of "how much it's going to cost" of whatever initiatives he wants to implement. That's what business people do before they are going to implement something. That's the difference I'm looking for, and it's the difference I don't see. Because I don't see it, Trump's in my mind no different than any other politician. Yet he's purportedly running on a "change" theme, he's supposedly running on the "I'm not like all the rest of them" theme. BS. I hear him say he is, but I don't see the evidence of it in the nature of his remarks nor in the substance of his articulated "policies."
- Interrupted Mrs. Clinton essentially non-stop through the first 30 minutes and was yelling the whole time.
- Stop our companies from leaving the U.S. Yeah, that sounds like "freedom" to me. NOT!
- Second question/segment from Holt: How will you make American companies return to the U.S?
- Answer:
- Don't let them leave.
- Impose tariffs on companies that leave.
- How to bring them back? Not answered.
- Obama has topped over 230 years of debt. False. 1786 would be 230 years. The U.S. had no national debt under President Andrew Jackson in 1835. That's half a century of history he has missed somehow. 50 years is in fact ~20% of the 230 years he noted.
- Other unfounded assertions:
- You are going to regulate businesses out of existence.
- New companies cannot form.
- You are going to raise taxes "big league" -- by 1.3T.
- Answer:
- Next segment: Taxes
- Companies cannot bring their money back to the U.S.
- Say what? WTF? Even I've transferred money into and out of the U.S. I have no idea why he says that others cannot.
- Rebuttal to Mrs. Clinton's response
- Assertion after assertion; made claims about what's going on as he sees it, but not one word about how to correct it, other than the implicit "vote for me" solution.
- Companies cannot bring their money back to the U.S.
- Next theme: Trump tax return and finances
- Says he will release after the audit is complete.
- Says he's been under audit for 15 consecutive years.
- ??? Doesn't that mean essentially he'll never release them so long as he's being audited, particularly, if he continues to get audited while he's in the White House?
- Offered to give a list of banks. ??? Not sure what to make of that. I can give a list of banks too. I bet you all can. LOL
- Mentioned his Old Post Office project in D.C. I'll let you read about that on your own. Trump touts it as an example of how he'd "be" as President along with touting his business acumen. (I'm not denying he's got the acumen to get rich. That's not in question. What is in question is whether he'd make you rich and whether he'd manage the U.S. legally and ethically.)
- Donald Trump Won Control Of A Prized D.C. Landmark — Here’s How
- Trump sues the District over tax bill for Old Post Office project
- Labor Department investigating Trump's Old Post Office project
- So How Exactly Did Trump Win Control Of The Old Post Office?
- Trump Organization: Corporate Rap Sheet | Corporate Research Project
- Donald Trump Won Control Of A Prized D.C. Landmark — Here’s How
- Next theme: race relations.
- Opens by identify what's going on.
- Advocates "stop and frisk." Nevermind that it was found unconstitutional.
- You need S&F when you have 4000 people killed.
- You need better relationships with the police.
- We need law an order in the inner cities.
- Says "we have to know what we're doing." ??? Hugh? Well...duh! So what is he going to do? He didn't say.
This is where I stopped watching and typing because of the two candidates, "tell it like it is" Trump is the one from whom I expected to hear direct answers to the questions he was asked and he wouldn't give them. I expected to hear specific details of how he would do things, and he didn't give them.
There he stood, the only politician since "God only knows when" who can literally put forth any policy idea he wants to regardless of what "the establishment" thinks of it, and he didn't put forth any details. And seeing as he's been "detail light" for the past year and a half, I think tonight was high-time he put forth the detailed "what's" and detailed "hows" and summary estimates of "how much it's going to cost" of whatever initiatives he wants to implement. That's what business people do before they are going to implement something. That's the difference I'm looking for, and it's the difference I don't see. Because I don't see it, Trump's in my mind no different than any other politician. Yet he's purportedly running on a "change" theme, he's supposedly running on the "I'm not like all the rest of them" theme. BS. I hear him say he is, but I don't see the evidence of it in the nature of his remarks nor in the substance of his articulated "policies."
