July 20, 2015

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RUSH: No, no, no, Trump can survive this. Trump is surviving this. You know, this is a great, great teachable moment here, this whole thing with Trump and McCain. But it's not the most important thing happening out there today. Now, you wouldn't know it by looking at the Drive-By Media. If you're looking at the Drive-By Media, you think the only thing happening is Trump-McCain.

I just got my audio sound bite roster. You know how many audio sound bites I have today? I've got 18. Sixteen of them are about Trump. I have 18 audio sound bites, 16 are about Trump.

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RUSH: Now the McCain situation. You know, the McCain situation is interesting to me for a whole lot of reasons. There's a conventional wisdom out there, and this is generally how it goes. Public figure, slash, candidate, slash, political figure, makes politically incorrect statement that offends somebody.

The Washington establishment and media react in outrage. The media then replays whatever the offensive comment was over and over and over, news stories never ending about the outrageous statement that the public figure made. And then the establishment gets together with the media, and they all demand that the public figure immediately apologize, beg forgiveness, and either withdraw from whatever the public figure is seeking to accomplish, or to stay in properly chagrined and rendered irrelevant.

That conventional wisdom plays out practically every time this circumstance happens. And the reason it does is because people make the mistake of assuming one thing, and that is this. They make the mistake of assuming that the collective outrage of the Washington establishment and the media is reflective of American public opinion. That's an automatic conclusion that everybody draws.

So let's use Trump as an example. By the way, I'm no apologist for Trump, but I've looked at this. Sharyl Attkisson has written a great analysis of this, and it is a fact that Trump did not say what he's being reputed to have said. He said it one time, he was answering a question, and he said that McCain's not a hero, captured, and he changed and said four different times he is a hero, he is a war hero. McCain is a war hero. He said that four times.

The Washington Post, for example, did not report that at all, never reported that Trump said it once, much less four times. Anyway, see, the facts don't really matter in a circumstance like this. That's another thing. What actually was said by the offending party and the context in which it was said are purposely blurred, lied about, or ignored. Much like my ill-fated attempt at commentary on the ESPN Sunday NFL pregame show. I mean, that was a classic illustration of this. Take something that wasn't said, pretend it was said, blow it way out of proportion, attach a meaning to it that was never intended, blah, blah, blah.

Anyway, so Trump says what he says about McCain following McCain's insult of Trump's voters, or supporters, calling them crazies, people in his own state. This ticked Trump off. He doesn't want to think that people support him on immigration or anything else are a bunch of crazy wackos, and McCain characterized them as that. And nobody suggested McCain apologize to the American people. Nobody suggested McCain apologize for that characterization of American citizens, "crazies."

So the convention wisdom erupts into full bloom. The media, the Washington establishment, conservative and liberal both, immediately demand that Trump apologize. And then they add that Trump can't survive this, that we were all just waiting for this to happen. We knew it was gonna happen. We knew it was gonna happen 'cause Trump steps in it all the time. So now all these people are saying, "We knew it was gonna happen. We knew it was too good to be true. We knew Trump didn't have what it really took to run a campaign. We knew he was gonna say something totally embarrassing. He embarrassed himself and everybody that supports him. He's gonna have to apologize, and have to withdraw."

Except one thing hasn't happened. Trump hasn't apologized. Not only has Trump not apologized, he has doubled down and he has to added to his original criticism of McCain. He's calling McCain a bad guy. McCain's a lousy politician. McCain talks a lot but doesn't do anything, Trump says. The VA is a mess. Illegal immigration's a mess. Everything we hear McCain say he supports or cares about, it's all going to hell. He's a bad guy. He's not a good politician. I'm trying to save America. I'm not gonna apologize. This is Trump.

Well, now the architects of conventional wisdom don't know what to do, because by this time they've gotten their scalp. By this time, the guilty party has apologized, is begging for forgiveness. And Trump is not. Now, remember, there's a common assumption made every time one of these things happened. You know, I myself have stepped in it a couple times, folks, and each time -- oh, yes, I have. I've stepped in it a couple times. And each time, the point is that each time I did the Drive-Bys thought they had me, right? I mean, I can go through: Michael J. Fox, Sandra Fluke, whatever it was, they thought that they had finally gotten rid of me.

But they didn't. They didn't even come close. They never have come close. They're still telling lies about advertisers lost. They're still telling lies about every aspect of these incidents where they thought they had me. Why were they wrong? Because they made the assumption that the whole country was outraged at me as they were. And that's the key here with this Trump thing. This is the fascinating thing to me. This is something we're gonna learn.

When the reaction of outrage over Trump's comments came, Washington establishment, Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, the media, accompanying it is the assumption that the American people, a majority of the American people also find what Trump said unpalatable, unforgivable, unacceptable. That's one of the things that makes these work, is the assumption that the media is simply reflecting public opinion. But we never really know.

Now, in my case we know that the media is not reflecting public opinion, and I've said it countless times, folks. You know, I have survived all these controversial moments because of you, because you hang in there, because you know the drill. You understand this technique that the left and weak-kneed Republicans use to destroy people that they find objectionable or too effective, their opposition. You hung in there. You always have. That's why I owe you more than I ever will be able to repay you.

You have stayed tuned in. You have remained loud, admitted members of this audience and defied the conventional wisdom. Well, we're gonna find out now if Trump has made a similar connection to his voters. The polling data on this is gonna be fascinating in a week or two, or less, maybe, because, remember, the real key to this is this automatic assumption that everybody's outraged; that everybody wants Trump gone; that everybody finds this objectionable; that everybody thinks it's over the top; that everybody thinks Trump has gone too far. And that assumption is always erroneous, I think. But nobody stops to think about it.

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RUSH: Now, we do have some really early polling data out of Iowa, Monmouth College, that shows that Trump has not been hit yet. Scott Walker's still in first place at 22%. Trump is next at 13. It's not showing any damage to Trump on this, but it's early. I just want to see what happens here, because, again, the conventional wisdom is that Trump is finished with voters. That's what the media's trying to convey. When they claim they are outraged, and the establishment claims they are, they're really saying the American people are.

That's the thing that's always gotten me is this presumption that the media speaks for a majority of the American people. I know for a fact that's not true. A majority of the American people don't trust the media. A majority of the American people consider the media a problem. And, yet, here is this automatic assumption every time something like this happens. It's pretty much the case in every story they report. There's this presumption... Now, let's take gay marriage. Let's take a story in Indiana with that little pizza shop that got shut down.

largeThere's a presumption reporting it that the entire population thinks that that little pizza shop ought to go away. And it's part of the reporting. It's just as though this is what's normal, as though this is what is. By the same token, massive nationwide support for gay marriage. Anybody who doesn't is a kook, a minority so visible you can't even see 'em. That's how small they are. So, I want to see what happens here, 'cause they're doing everything they can to destroy Trump by acting like he's destroyed himself with voters.

Conventional wisdom is that Trump is finished with voters.

That is what presumes this new political reality, and I don't think it's the case. But it won't take long to find out. And just think how the conventional wisdom is going to be shaken upside down if Trump is not damaged. Polling data was by this. Can you imagine? I don't know what they'll do publicly. Maybe they'll talk about how stupid the American people are, how gullible, or maybe it's white angry men. They'll fall back on some caricature that they've used of crazy voters in the past to explain why Trump is still doing okay. They can't let this incident show them as being wrong about the fact Trump has to go, because he's just unacceptable. This is over the top, just don't let people talk this way, is not done, and so forth. So we'll see.

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RUSH: Okay. Time to check our own version of public opinion on the EIB Network. We head to the phones. This is Richard in White Plains, New York. Welcome, sir. Nice to have you. You got a heat wave up there today, right?

CALLER: Yeah, it's pretty hot and humid up here, Rush. Look, why is it that Joe Biden, aka Joe Bite Me, can get away with sticking his foot in his mouth and it's just Joe being Joe. Or Harry Reid can lie about Romney's taxes and the Drive-Bys ignore it. Nancy Pelosi can say, well, we gotta pass the bill to find out what's in it, and people go, "What did she say?" And Obama, you know, is called Liar of the Year by Politico, and all that goes by, you know, the wayside, but everything Trump says is Kryptonite.

RUSH: Well, now, I think you can answer that question. You sound like a reasonably smart guy. I know you're asking rhetorically and you're making a point by asking, but why don't you give it a shot here and answer your own question.

CALLER: I think that we are seeing something that we have never seen before, where you would normally see the liberal media and the Democrats beating up on the Republican candidates, you're also seeing, if you want to call them Republican media, pundits, whoever, beating up on Trump also, is there anybody who isn't?

RUSH: Okay. I'm gonna answer the question, because it's a great question. I mean, Joe Biden has insulted everyone. Joe Biden looks at a guy in a wheelchair, says, "Stand up, Chuck!" If a Republican did that he'd be Mr. Insensitive, Mr. Unfeeling, Mr. Boor. I mean, they would humiliate some poor Republican who told a guy in a wheelchair to stand up. And the same thing with insulting Indians that work at 7-Eleven and how you can't get a job there unless you are one, he knows 'em all, whatever. I mean, you can make an endless list of truly offensive, stupid, insulting things articulated by Democrats.

The answer to your question, why they're never called on it, there is a presumption again. And it's very, very simple. The Democrats are nice people and Republicans are mean people. Liberals are nice and compassionate, and conservatives are mean-spirited extremists, and they're mean. That is the presumption that exists before Donald Trump even gets in the race. Before any Republican gets in the race, they're all mean, they all care only about the rich, they don't care about the little guy. And if any party's become that, it's the Democrats.

So that's the opening presumption. And so when Biden says whatever he says, "Ah, that's just Joe. He didn't mean anything by it. He's a nice guy." But no conservative or Republican will ever get the benefit of that doubt because the Republicans are all mean people. It's really no more complicated than that. They're mean, mean-spirited, extremist, whatever, but they're mean people.

So a motive is always attached to these Republican faux pas that is never attached to liberal Democrat statements. As far as the left is concerned, there's not a mean bone in any leftist's body. There's not an ill intention in any leftist's body. But in every conservative, every Republican, they want to hurt people, they want to be mean to people, they don't know how to be compassionate.

Now, you mention the Republicans that are piling on Trump. There are quite a few. Wall Street Journal, not only piling on Trump, but piling on conservative media people that are defending Trump. And there have been some. There have been some media types on the right that have attempted to, you know, not join the bandwagon of savaging and criticizing Trump, and Wall Street Journal came down on all of them today.

So on the Republican side, it's no different than when you hear Republicans say, "I'm the guy that can cross the aisle. I'm the guy that can show the Democrats that I can compromise with 'em, work together with 'em." The translation for that is, "I'm not your average mean Republican like all my other guys are. I'm a nice Republican." That's what that means. And so Republicans piling on Trump -- and there are many facets here. Some of them are genuinely ticked off. Some of them really think this is horrible that this could ever be said, even if it is about McCain. And others are just taking this as an opportunity to tell everybody, "Hey, I'm a nice Republican, look at me, I think Trump's a (blank) too. That makes me a nice guy, so leave me alone next time. Don't attack me. See, I'm joining you. I'm agreeing with you. That makes me a nice guy, see?"

largeThe Republicans are always on defense on things like this. It aids this conventional wisdom I was describing in the previous half hour. The convention wisdom is that a statement like this is made by Trump, and everybody in the country's outraged by it, not just the media, not just the Democrats, not just Washington politician, but everybody. They're outraged in Boise. They're outraged in Tuscaloosa. They're outraged in San Francisco. They're outraged in Tijuana. They're outraged in Juarez. They're outraged in Mexico City. They're outraged in New York City, everywhere, Trump is hated universally, is the presumption, and therefore he's got to go.

He doesn't have a prayer because, as a Republican and as a confident braggadocio, he's a mean guy. The fact that he doesn't have a lot of public humility makes him a mean guy. Democrats are all nice people. Look, McCain has called Tea Party people hobbits, crazies, and in fact, let me find something here. I've got a Stack on all this stuff. Maybe it's the bottom one here. It's not the one I'm looking for. In 2008, seven years ago, Politico. Right here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. "Some on Left Target McCain's War Record." It's by Ben Smith.

"On Sunday, McCain's campaign issued a pair of outraged statements after retired general and Barack Obama supporter Wesley Clark," also known as Ashley Wilkes, "said he didn't think that McCain’s service as a fighter pilot and prisoner of war was relevant to running the country. ... But farther to the left -- and among some of McCain's conservative enemies as well -- harsher attacks are circulating. Critics have accused McCain of war crimes for bombing targets in Hanoi in the 1960s.

"A widely read liberal blog on Sunday accused McCain of "disloyalty" during his captivity in Vietnam for his coerced participation in propaganda films. ... 'A lot of people don't know ... that McCain made a propaganda video for the enemy while he was in captivity,' wrote Americablog.com's John Aravosis. 'Getting shot down, tortured and then doing propaganda for the enemy is not command experience.'"

Al Franken back in 2002, before he was running for anything, Al Franken said almost exactly what Trump said. There hasn't been any outrage at any of this that has been said about McCain by leftists, proving my point. When leftists attack McCain, they're perfectly warranted 'cause they're nice people, and they are compassionate people, and they're politically correct people.

Huffing and Puffington Post blog -- again, this is 2008 -- a former editor of Mother Jones magazine, Jeffrey Klein, wrote: "Some of the unreleased pages in McCain's Navy file may not reflect well upon his qualifications for the presidency." As to why, Klein speculated that from day one in the Navy McCain screwed up again and again, only to be forgiven because his dad and grandfather were four-star admirals. But here comes Trump, and you would think that nobody has ever said anything like this before about the revered and respect John McCain, and you would think that it's the end of the world. We can't tolerate this kind of brutal conversation. We can't permit this to happen. Trump has to apologize.

largeThen you have a bunch of Republican media types writing that finally, we knew this was gonna happen, now the end of the McCain campaign, our party is spared, our campaign is revived, Trump has to go. There's just one problem: Trump is not following the rules that targets are supposed to follow. Targets are supposed to immediately grovel, apologize, say something like, "You know, it wasn't me. That wasn't me. That's not the real me. That's not who I am. And I forever apologize. I have the utmost respect for Senator McCain, and I really regret saying it, and I don't know that I can go on."

And then everybody cheers that the target has seen the light and is now going to shrink away from public life, never to ever be heard from or seen from again. And that usually means another Republican has been taken out. And again, guiding all of this is the arrogant presumption that the majority American people are as outraged as all these media types are. So we shall see. Not only is Trump not following the rules, he's doubling down on the criticism.

The American people haven't seen something like this in a long time. I'm serious. They have not seen an embattled public figure stand up for himself, double down, and tell everybody to go to hell. What they've seen is an embattled public figure apologize and shrink away.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/07/20/trump_teachable_moment_how_come_liberals_can_savage_mccain_s_service

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2941803&forum_id=2#28380617)

Best negotiator

Best at marketing

Great speech maker

Can't be bought or bribed

Won't back down to media

Won't back down from lunatic social justice crowd

Would actually secure the border

The only negative is he's XO arrogant

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2941803&forum_id=2#28409406)

"Best negotiator" - how so?

"Best at marketing" - relevance to the position of president?

"Great speech maker" - relevance to the position of president?

Fair point on bought / bribed.

"Back down to the media" meaning....what?

Fair point on lunatic SJW.

Is securing the border entirely worth it? What do we gain from building a gigantic fence?

The other negatives are that he's bombastic, impulsive, temperamental, irrational, mean-spirited, toxically partisan and has literally no experience whatsoever in governance.

Also, out of curiosity, what's your education level? Serious question. I'm curious what demographic actually supports a person like Trump.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2941803&forum_id=2#28410093)

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n03/jackson-lears/we-came-we-saw-he-died

The GOP is a mess. They have been consistently losing to the Left since the Sixties. Look at the pathetic field. There's Mexico Jeb with his chalupa wife, as if we ever needed another Bush in office. A cuckold on immigration, a wimp on Iraq, a bought-and-paid-for mouthpiece. Marco Rubio's part of the Gangbanged Eight whose "comprehensive immigration reform" is still letting murderers and rapists across the border. Rand Paul's a libertarian sperg. Don't even get me started on Dick Perry or Lizzie Graham.

In the whole GOP field, the only two besides Trump that I have grudging respect for are (1) Ted Cruz and (2) Scott Walker. They're my second and third choices if Trump takes a bullet between now and March 15.

Trump is running a genuinely populist campaign, at a time when both establishment parties are discredited, corrupt, and weak. He's telling the truth about immigration, he's not afraid of criticism, he fights back when attacked. He's a known brand. He built a great company. Those are all leadership qualities this country needs.

2. Read the Art of the Deal. Trump has lived by his brand, he understands human psychology very well. America still has a strongest material position in the world (economy/military). The problem is our psychology. Our leaders think reactively, they spend too much time raising money and not enough time making America great again. TRUMP understands that you have to go in CONFIDENT & DECISIVE to get the best deals. The future belongs to the brave. Nice guys finish last.

3. Marketing matters. We are always being told by the Left that there's no military solution to the problems of the world, that we need to win hearts and minds. Like many things the Left says, this is a half-truth. We do need to win hearts and minds. What they forgot to tell you is that people don't respect an abject loser. They don't respect a chump. You don't win hearts and minds by being a nice quiet little cuckold. People respect a leader. Leadership is a lot about perception. So you have to understand what things people find attractive, you have to be willing to make a good pitch for the country FIRST, so that people trust you enough to follow your direction. Trump is not a great businessman because he knows all the squiggles and wiggles on the stock chart. He's not a man of numbers only. He understands that when you sell a building, you're selling a dream. You're selling a vision of what the other person desires. A guy don't walk on the lot lest he wants to buy. They're sitting out there waiting to give you their money. Are you gonna take it? Are you man enough to take it?

4. LOL, what? Of course the president needs to make good speeches. You realize most of what the president does is craft public perceptions, yes?

5. The media has its own agenda, which isn't good for the country. They whip up these SJW crusades to bully and intimidate people into toeing the party line. Witness the Duck Dynasty coverage. At a time when America needs to be paying attention to China and Russia and Mexico and all the other countries that are raking us over the coals, the media wants to conduct their little Stalinist witchhunts for wrongthinkers within. Trump refuses to bow down to the media. He has been a brand for many, many years and he understands all their little tricks, many of them he's done himself. Just like Joe Kennedy could bring Wall Street to heel, because it takes one to know one.

6. The border is the most important issue, bar none. A country that cannot secure its own borders does not deserve to survive. We are being flooded by illegal immigrants, who rape and murder our citizens. How is that not the most urgent issue? Rome fell because of illegal immigration. Building a fence will send the message: we are in charge of our country. You come here if you're invited. You respect our laws. Do you leave your door open to just let anyone come inside, fuck your girlfriend, eat your food, watch your TV? No, you don't.

7. Trump's bombastic. We need bombastic. He's (sometimes) impulsive. We (sometimes) need impulsive. He's irrational. The "rational" system is broken. He's mean-spirited. We need a tough, mean-spirited little bastard in there representing our interests. You want some nice guy going up against ISIS? Putin? Xi? You clearly don't what you're talking about calling Trump "toxically partisan"--he's given money to Democrats and Republicans over the years. He understands politicians, because they've been sucking his cock for years.

8. I went to one of the best colleges in this country, worked for a bit in the financial industry before heading to a truly prestigious law school, left biglaw to build a great practice on my own, but I grew up in a blue collar neighborhood, I like fighters and winners, and don't give a shit for "intellectuals", 99% of whom are pinko lemmings, cowards, cuckolds, and mentally unbalanced to boot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2941803&forum_id=2#28411165)

(1) religious kooks/moralists

(2) people who were born rich with huge advantages but want to believe they made it on their own

(3) people who were born poor, worked extremely hard, but refuse to admit that they were fortunate or that there were others like them who failed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2941803&forum_id=2#28411825)

1. Low IQ retard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2941803&forum_id=2#28411934)

I did work extremely hard, but yeah, I had lucky breaks too. I have no problems stipulating to that. Lot of people struggle in this country. We should do what we can to help them.

We shouldn't let illegal immigrants flood this country and take jobs from blue collar Americans.

We shouldn't let China manipulate its currency and Japan protect its exports while our workers lose out in unfair trade deals.

We shouldn't leave Americans in high crime areas totally defenseless without the guarantees of personal defense secured by the Second Amendment.

We should honor our veterans by actually taking care of them, instead of just using them as political props.

We shouldn't throw away good soldiers in bad wars we don't intend to win.

The weak cannot protect the weak. We need the strong in charge to make this country safe and prosperous and respected and fucking GREAT AGAIN.

TRUMP acknowledges we gotta help poor people out; you can't just abandon them. The Left was playing its usual gotcha game when they dug up this 1999 quote from the Donald on Larry King Live:

"If you can’t take care of your sick in the country, forget it, it’s all over. I mean, it’s no good. So I’m very liberal when it comes to health care,” he said. “I believe in universal health care. I believe in whatever it takes to make people well and better."

And he stands by that statement in 2015.

"“And if I lose votes for that, I don’t really care. Because you have to take care of poor people, you have to take — I mean, think of yourself. You’re really sick, and you’re not allowed to see a doctor; I mean, it’s almost like, sort of, that’s you’re being in hell. So we have to take care of people that are poor. We have to do it. And we can make a plan, we can work a deal — I can work a deal with hospitals that will be great for everybody, and they’ll be able to go there, and you’re not gonna want to do that, and it won’t be pretty, it won’t be as nice as the other, but at least they’re being taken care of."

So fuck off with your reductive political horoscopes. There are many, many kinds of conservatives in this country, not all of them fit into your little wrongthink bins, and lots of those folks will be with me voting TRUMP.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2941803&forum_id=2#28411945)

The world recoils in horror from trump, and you're arguing he will be able to market the US internationally? Lol.

Trump is a mediocre businessman at best. He could have invested his inheritance in an index fund and beat his current net worth handily.

How many crimes per year are committed by illegal immigrants? Estimates vary but it's not nearly enough to make it the most important issue facing the nation. And illegal immigrants make shit cheaper. That's a good thing.

Trump is a clown and I'm amazed anyone half intelligent supports him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2941803&forum_id=2#28411992)

Trump understands the prime directive of the political class, which is largely about getting elected. He's schmoozed with these guys, he's seen them as leaders (the public image) and also as supplicators (the private image). Will he be George Washington? Fuck no. Does it mean he can probably handle the political tightrope? Guy whose been in the public eye since the 1980s, good and bad, wet and fine? Yeah, I think he can handle it.

The world ejaculated over Obama. Where has that gotten us? We're losing in Iraq and Syria to ISIS. We get pushed around by China and Japan. Europe's a collapsing mess. We get nothing from Afghanistan, the longest-running war in USA history. We get fucked over and betrayed by Pakistan. We're paying Iran billions of dollars for defying the entire world on nuclear enrichment. The Russians are still in Crimea. We can't even secure our own border.

The world will grumble about Trump, but they'll respect an American President with BALLS and a SPINE for a change.

LOL, Trump started off wealthy, but not that wealthy. "Just do an index fund," he lisped. Donald Trump built his own brand.

You're an autistic sperg about illegal immigration. It's basic right-to-exclude property. We have a border. Just like I only let people in my house who are invited, people only should come into this country if they go through the legal process. You also have a retarded Econ 101 perspective on pricing. Illegal immigrants make shit--that's right, shit, not quality American goods--cheaper. They depress the price of everything, including wages (except for the compensation of the top 0.001%). Now if you don't mind living in an unpleasant serf economy like Mexico, that's fine. If you recognize that depressed wages are bad for long-term growth and that an economy runs on PRODUCING as well as CONSUMING, well, then you begin to understand why protectionism is a good strategy in many cases.

Trump may be a clown, but we're living in clown world.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2941803&forum_id=2#28412089)

How does understanding that getting elected is the prime directive for politicians make him capable of handling the complexity of the presidency?

ISIS isn't an issue, tbh. They haven't made any significant gains in months and they have almost no ability to project power beyond their sandbox. Who cares. Let them kill each other. I truly don't give a shit. The last Republican got 4,000 Americans killed and spent 3 trillion dollars to build up Iraq. Trump seems even more aggressive. I have no interest in more foreign misadventures.

The world has no respect for Trump. Can you show anything suggesting otherwise.

Can you refute my point about passive investments beating Trump's "brand", or do you just have an ad hom?

Depressed wages for shit like farming is fine by me. I like cheap produce and Americans aren't taking those jobs anyway. And second generation immigrants often start small businesses, which produce a significnat number of jobs. We have an aging economy, so immigration is important. Do you anticipate Republicans streamlining the immigration process? If not, then illegal immigration is a good thing. And let's be honest here, any Republican who proposed making legal immigration easier would be gutted by the insane GOP base.

Trump is absolutely a clown. I'm glad you agree with that. He would do horrible damage to this nation were he elected president. Fortunately he has literally 0 chance of being elected.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2941803&forum_id=2#28414361)

The Republican Party occasionally takes a milquetoast stand on cultural issues, but they eventually give into Leftist lunacy (look at how quickly they've collapsed on faggot marriage).

2. Have you ever pitched for money in your life? Major donors don't just write a check; they want to know what their money's going to do, who your other sponsors are, what obstacles you anticipate, etc. Politicians have come to him begging for money in the past. He's seen a different, more vulnerable side of them going into negotiations. He understands how they think, what challenges they face. Trump's seen the effective and ineffective ways they use his money. That's why we're talking about him right now; he's gotten media attention while spending very little of his own cheddar.

3. Right, ISIS is the JV squad. Whatever, Barry Soetoro. We wouldn't have been in this mess if we had listened to Trump when he said (1) don't do Iraq and (2) if you do Iraq, hang onto the oil (that's now funding ISIS).

But whatever, thanks for your assurance that a jihadist group that's already received pledges of allegiance from Nigeria to the Philippines is no big deal. The Confederate flag is the bigger threat.

Really dumb of you to cite the Iraq war as a knock against Donald. He said it was dumb idea at the time, and he was right.

4. The world's "respect" isn't an issue, tbh. The world respects power and strength. How did you graduate from any college without even a perfunctory acquaintance with the Melian dialogue?

5. Your math is off; you're probably quoting that shitty Daily Kos article that took the 1999 value of Fred Trump's investments and said, "Well, if Donald had invested in an index fund in 1970s, he would have been MANY times richer." Unfortunately, they didn't factor the costs of a fucking time machine in their calculation.

And even so, who cares? Nobody parks all their wealth into an index fund, not even Warren Buffet. Donald's father was very successful, he built on that success, end of story. As the Donald says, once you have a billion in the bank, life's good. Clearly he's not a wealth-maximizing sperg, or he wouldn't be giving up so many business opportunities to run for president.

6. We have cheap produce because of farming subsidies, not low wages, dumbass.

No one's opposed to legal immigration. Here's what some guy named Donald Trump had to say about the legal immigration process:

"It's not easy, and we should maybe make it easier, and faster, which I think is fine."

http://abcnewsradioonline.com/politics-news/trump-discusses-immigration-at-phoenix-rally.html

Another Republican who apparently will be "gutted by the insane GOP base" is Ted Cruz, who wants to increase the H1B visa cap and make legal immigration to this country easier. Take your reductive fantasies about the GOP base elsewhere.

Ultimately, though, we have controls on immigration to facilitate the assimilation of new Americans into the host society. This is because we live in a country populated by humans, not interchangeable production cogs.

7. As I said, we're living in a clown world. Tempora mutantur.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2941803&forum_id=2#28417074)

She's fucking garbage. She backed the Arab Spring, when anyone with any common sense could tell that the Islamic fundamentalists were going to take charge and that this would set off a massive civil war across the Arab world. Her "reset button" with Russia gives them a blank check to rape Ukraine in the ass. She launders money from shady foreign sources through the Clinton Foundation. She got pwned by Wikileaks when they released ALL OUR FUCKING CLASSIFIED CABLES. Our diplomats get LYNCHED on her watch. On top of that, she's fat and ugly and old.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2941803&forum_id=2#28412140)

Nobody anticipated the results of the Arab spring.

How did resetting relations with Russia give them a blank check to invade Ukraine? I don't see the causation there at all.

The laundering money is a debunked Fox News myth. Be honest - do you watch Fox News? No lies bro.

Wikileaks started before Clinton was in office. Are you retarded? Serious question.

Diplomats have been killed under every administration.

The personal attack on her shows that you're a partisan hack and not a serious observer of politics. Please kill yourself, TYIA.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2941803&forum_id=2#28414379)

180000000000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2941803&forum_id=2#34179594)

2 grad degrees, top 4% LSAT, 100K income

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2941803&forum_id=2#28411812)

You're getting obliterated ITT and we're all having a good LOL @ you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2941803&forum_id=2#28412144)

What metrics would you like to discuss?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2941803&forum_id=2#28414349)

burn in hell lib

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2941803&forum_id=2#34167676)