Politics Thread

oooooh boy

thehill.com/homenews/campaign/290892-trump-says-second-amendment-folks-could-stop-clinton

A public figure should never make a statement,joke or not, that some lunatics could run with like that.
High security professionals are united in saying that he would be dangerous for the office of the president.

Also, I am hoping that the people who bought his "I'm for you" bullshit realize the economic plan he outlined the other night is better for the rich, not them.

A tax cut for everyone including the people who get all kinds of deductions and loopholes and don't need it. The wealthy can afford to pay more. This will leave the national debt bigger.

Deregulation is what led to the Wall St idiots to play fast and loose with the world economy.

The so called "death tax" he wants to eliminate is the inheritance tax - that only applies to the top 2% and does nothing for the rest of us.

The deductions for child care is for people who have enough to itemize their deductions, and that's not poor people.
In fact, a rich person could conceivably use that to deduct something like the use of a private jet (just take the kids with you)

Nope Reagan Era.  Let the wealthy have all the money and it will trickle down to the lower classes.
That's already proven not to work. The rich got richer and kept it, it didn't trickle anywhere. Rich people usually horde money and pay as little as possible - that's how they stay rich.

Hard to really pick a point to which he'd take us back to with foreign policy. You could pick parts like the cold war, the rise of Hitler,
Isolationism, or other dangerous policies that will allow others to do what they want to smaller countries, and he's also repeatedly asked why we can't nuke people.

He is fond of making open ended statements that hint at violence - some of which would call for anyone else to be arrested.

No, he doesn't think all white people will vote for him.  Trump feels they will, though.  He doesn't think at all, since his feelings are preferable to what his brain would tell him if given half a chance.

I'm watching this documentary on Fusion about sex trafficking. The on-going debate is whether or not to legalize prostitution and create regulations and hopefully eliminate trafficking or at least dramatically reduce it.

They explain that 37% of women choose to be sex workers and 63% are sex slaves. 37% is high enough that a legal profession should at least be considered.

Now here's the counter-argument. Slavery used to be legal. What IF it had been regulated? What IF the government had said: no children, good food and great work conditions. At the end of the day, it's still fucking slavery. And those 63% of sex slaves are probably never gonna go away. They'll just adapt to a regulated world.

Interesting debate.

The solution, according to Sweden, seems to be: legalize the sale of sex but keep the purchase illegal. Meaning, sex slaves won't be scared to seek help. Not all of them will report things, cause it's a very complicated issue, but it'll help a great deal. It can reduce that 63%.

There's truth to all that but I think it's dangerous to assume Clinton has this locked up. Firstly we need to make sure no one assumes they don't need to turn out to vote and secondly I worry that those polls are being swayed by people who are too embarrassed to say out loud to a pollster that they support Trump.

Perhaps, but there seems to be a total double (nay, triple or quadrupal) standard in this election.  Trump says things that would have automatically disqualified pretty much anyone in a world that isn't upside down while Clinton gets berated for dumb shit like email servers.  

Clinton does get bashed for crap like the email server thing, but it doesn't seem to have had any impact.  The only ones to get vitriolic about it are those who either think Trump walks on water, or already hated Clinton so much that one more thing doesn't really matter.  I think one of the main reasons she's doing so well is because the standards of conduct have been brought so incredibly low this election.  The GOP have a candidate who have been sued more times than ALL former Presidential candidates combined, declines to renounce endorsements from white supremacists, belittles people with physical handicaps, belittles war heroes, belittles the families of war heroes, talks about things he wants to do as President which directly violate the US Constitution, etc...  Next to all that, almost any scandal on Clinton is going to look like small potatoes to the average voter.

I think the next big turning point in the election is bound to be the debates, regardless of if they happen at all.  Clinton has stated that she's game, any time, any where.  Trump is already grumbling about how he'll only participate if he gets everything his way, particularly regarding the moderator. 

Today Trump gets his first official security meeting, because when the candidates get closer to election day they brief both of them with the basics to get the winner up to speed on the day they take office.

How long do you think it will be before he spills the beans on something top secret on Twitter or in one of his ad-libbed speeches?

LMAO

DONALD TRUMP TESTS POSITIVE FOR EVERYTHING, ACCORDING TO HIS OWN DOCTOR

www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-health-doctor-490836?rx=us

Unjustifiably smug Trump crony Michael Cohen crashes and burns on national television in spectacular fashion.



I hope Cohen enjoyed his time on TV, because nobody is going to allow him to speak on behalf of any campaign ever again.