The Trump Presidency

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Trump is not a member of any party except his own Trumpettes. This is not about making America great again it is about making Trump great again.
It just so happens that the Republican agenda allows Trump to capitalize on their enthusiasm under the crafted disguise of being a "Republican" president.
You mistake loyalty for classification. Trump is a mainstream Republican politician, a solidly centrist representative of the ordinary Republican voter, if he never even bothers to register Republican as a voter.

If he were dignified rather than vulgar, he'd be the most similar to Reagan or Goldwater of all who ran in the Republican primaries, for example.

This is important, because the Republican Party is the main threat to the country here, and it is going to try to disown this guy as soon as the inevitable spinout happens from this Mussolini schtick hitting the road pretending to be rubber. That's their best hope of avoiding accountability for what they - the Republican Party - have done and are doing. That's how they off-loaded 9/11, the deficit, the unemployment, Katrina, and the Iraq War - it was all W, and then W was not a real Republican somehow, at least not in public.
 
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You mistake loyalty for classification. Trump is a mainstream Republican politician, a solidly centrist representative of the ordinary Republican voter, whether he even bothers to register Republican as a voter.
If he were dignified rather than vulgar, he'd be the most similar to Reagan or Goldwater of all who ran in the Republican primaries, for example.
I disagree, I think he's a far right Christian extremist. Politically, if not in personal commitment to the religion. He's definitely not a mainstream Republican.
 
You mistake loyalty for classification. Trump is a mainstream Republican politician, a solidly centrist representative of the ordinary Republican voter, whether he even bothers to register Republican as a voter.
If he were dignified rather than vulgar, he'd be the most similar to Reagan or Goldwater of all who ran in the Republican primaries, for example.
The ultimate betrayal by Trump of the American people has yet to happen. This I am most confident of...
and there is absolutely nothing anyone can do about it...
Example reasons:
Trumps betrayals that have been accepted and forgiven:
*Repeatedly Trump had promised to release his tax returns. In fact just about every public speech included this issue throughout the election process. It was the subject of much concern by all persons involved.
Trump is now forgiven for refusing to release the tax returns.
*Repeatedly Trump chanted "Crooked Hillary" "Jail Hillary" and promised countless times to pursue legal proceedings against her.
Trumps is now forgiven for declaring a sudden lack of interest in Hillary's incarceration.

The above issues were pivotal in gaining the Presidency.
I could list many more but I wont bother as it achieves little.
Is there any betrayal this "bad" boy can do that is not going to be forgiven?
 
Even his press secretary has been forgiven for such an outrageous display in his first press conference. Go figure... he lied to his employer the American people and is still lying in their face but is forgiven regardless.
The CIA and intelligence community have also forgiven Trump for his absurd attempts to discredit them and his totally unacceptable and pathetic display at their first public meeting
The USA ( aka the world ) hasn't got a hope in Hell and that is where we are heading..
and I might add Putin has no reason to be confident that he also will be betrayed (big time)....
 
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Can't obfuscate what you refuse to define.

LOL....

More obfuscation, I'm not surprised.

Just keep telling yourself whatever you need to to make yourself feel better, buddy.

LOL.

Pray tell, why would I need to feel better buddy? :)

Sure, most people live paycheck to paycheck, but "number one priority" doesn't magically equate to "full-time job". Seems you're trying to hedge your bets and backpedal a bit.
I guess it would make sense to you that a bum wouldn't draw unemployment benefits, huh? Just the kind of mental gymnastics you need so you can feel like your arguments actually work.

Hedge my bets, how so? What bets? What hedge? Yeah, most people don't have a lot of resources, and when they become unemployed, that introduces a lot of uncertainty into their lives whether you want to admit that or not. And the way to alleviate that uncertainty is to find another job. Most people would rather not be homeless. Most folks would like to have a place to live, and food in their bellies. And many people have families and children to support. So their number one priority would be to find another job and regain some sense of certainty in their lives and to be able to pay their bills. There's no mental gymnastics needed to understand this very basic issue.

What the hell dose a bum have to do with unemployment? It's that logic and common sense deficit which continues to vex you. If you are a bum, the odds are you haven't worked and therefore aren't qualified to receive unemployment insurance benefits. So what to bums have to do with unemployment? You are making shit up again buddy.

[sarcasm]Sure, buddy. I'm under a freeway during the winter, on my Alienware laptop with free wifi. [/sarcasm] Not sure where you'd get power, but you seem chock full of magical thinking.

I don't know where you are, and frankly, don't care to know where you are. You might be in Florida or Alaska. You might be in a library using a public computer. I have no idea. Once again for your edification: if you want to be a bum, that's your business. If you want to take off a year and be bum, that's your business, and it doesn't take a lot of money to be a bum. You might be living off of your family. I don't know and I don't care. I'm not sorry to tell you, it doesn't matter to me buddy. :)

Who said anything about "a period of unemployment"?! o_O Higher employee turnover just means there is a constant supply of job opening, hence easier job hunting. But just go right ahead and deny any data that doesn't fit your decades old experience. :rolleyes:

I think you need to go back and reread my last post. Higher employee turnover doesn't mean more job opportunities nor does it mean easier job hunting. Most firms, and all good firms, don't like employee turnover, because it's expensive. That's why employers like to keep their employees whenever possible. Employers have to find, hire, and train new employees. That's a significant diversion of resources and expense.

High employee turnover doesn't turn one job into two or three jobs. It's still a single job. It doesn't change the fact that for every opportunity there are several candidates for that job. It's perplexing why you think there is something magical about employee turnover. Every time a job turns over, the employment process begins anew. It doesn't change the fact job applicants have to do all the things I have previously elucidated, e.g. create or update resumes, cover letters, search for jobs, prepare for interviews, attend for interviews. It doesn't change any of that. And if you want to be employed, you do as much of that as possible as fast as possible until you have a job.

Of course you wouldn't understand the simple relationship between the tw:rolleyes:o.

Well if there is a simple relationship, then you should be able to elucidate it, but you haven't. Because that "simple" relationship doesn't exist.

Hey, you're the one who said the last time you were job hunting was decades ago.

I did, and I explained why that is relevant, and I explained why your attack was a non sequitur. You are obfuscating again buddy. :)

I already cited the links that prove it. So you're just hoping a big enough lie will be believed by someone. Sad and pathetic.

You have provided some links, but you haven't proven your case. Let's look at your case for employee turnover. You cited document which showed the average tenure had declined from 4.7 to 4.3 years. That has nothing to do with employee turnover. That's a whole other animal.

What that number says is there has been a lot of hiring over the course of the last few years, and that would make sense. Because the unemployment rate has fallen significantly: going from 10% to 4.7%. Millions of jobs were lost during the Great Recession. That statistic indicates those jobs have come back. That statistic indicates there has been a lot of hiring. It doesn't indicate there is a high rate of turnover....oops. A falling unemployment rate indicates there is a lot of hiring, and that fact is validated by the job tenure statistic you referenced. So if you are going to cite a statistic, you should understand that statistic, and clearly you don't understand your statistic and your reference. Unfortunately for you buddy, facts matter.

What you have done is obfuscate. What you have done is offer a plethora of illogical argument. Yes, it is sad and pathetic buddy. :rolleyes: But whose fault it that?
 
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I disagree, I think he's a far right Christian extremist. Politically, if not in personal commitment to the religion. He's definitely not a mainstream Republican.
he is indeed a "Charismatic" and one with a caliber the world has not witnessed before....
"Charismatic Christians believe that the gifts (Greek charismata χάρισμα, from charis χάρις, grace) of the Holy Spirit as described in the New Testament are available to contemporary Christians through the infilling or baptism of the Holy Spirit, with-or-without the laying on of hands.[5] Although the Bible lists many gifts from God through His Holy Spirit, there are nine specific gifts listed in 1 Corinthians 12:8-10 that are Supernatural in nature and are the focus of and distinguishing feature of the Charismatic Movement: Word of Wisdom, Word of Knowledge, Faith, Gifts of Healing, Miraculous Powers, Prophecy, Distinguishing between Spirits, Speaking in different Tongues (Languages), and Interpretation of Tongues." - wiki
 
I disagree, I think he's a far right Christian extremist. Politically, if not in personal commitment to the religion. He's definitely not a mainstream Republican.
The entire Republican Party is far right Christian extremist.

He's not far right in the Republican Party - he's well left of Ryan, for example. At least in what he says.

As for Christianity - Can you find some major difference between Reagan and Trump, "politically", in their Christianity?
 
Charisma:
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"The term charisma (/kəˈrɪzmə/; pl. charismata, adj. charismatic) has two senses: (1) compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion in others, (2) a divinely conferred power or talent.[1] As regards sense 1, scholars in political science, psychology, and management reserve the term for a type of leadership that is extraordinary;[2][3][4][5][6] in this field, the term "charisma" is used to describe a particular type of leader who uses "values-based, symbolic, and emotion-laden leader signaling.".[7] For some theological usages the term is rendered charism, with a meaning the same as sense 2.[8] Since the 1950s, the term has become widely used, with varying meanings, in religion, the social sciences, the media, and throughout Western societies."​

All people posses a degree of charisma.
on a scale of 1-10 even our most successful leaders would rate merely a 3 or 4.
Trumps Charisma is off the scale completely....
Forgiveness, devotion, worship are all things a true "Charismatic" will generate in any one who has contact with him or knowledge of him. Resistance is normally futile....or rendered futile.
The biggest issue they ( charismatics) face is ending up in their own "yellow submarine" surrounded by an echo of their own opinions leading to ego "blow out" and ultimately self destruction. They normally take a lot of people with them....
 
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The entire Republican Party is far right Christian extremist.

He's not far right in the Republican Party - he's well left of Ryan, for example. At least in what he says.

As for Christianity - Can you find some major difference between Reagan and Trump, "politically", in their Christianity?
Trump has never mentioned Jesus Christ in his diatribes. He is more Yiddish Cabal than Christian.
 
His irrational and overwhelming support of Israel is rather .....telling
research Trump and Judaism and form your own opinion...

"Trump appears to be smitten with Kushner, often referring to his “fantastic” son-in-law when boasting of his pro-Israel credentials. Kushner, an Orthodox Jew who lives with his wife and their three children on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, may have become a household name during the campaign, but he’s no stranger to the limelight. In 2006, at 25, he bought the Observer newspaper. Two years later he became CEO of his father’s company, Kushner Properties, four years after his father was sent to jail for tax evasion, illegal campaign donations and witness tampering. In 2015, Fortune named Kushner to its 40 Under 40 list, its “annual ranking of the most influential young people in business.”
src: http://www.timesofisrael.com/meet-the-jews-in-donald-trumps-inner-circle/

Credibility of source: unknown.

Trumps daughter Ivanka, apparently converted to Orthodox Judaism to marry Kushner.
 
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Trump is back on the "he would have won the popular vote were it not for all the illegal aliens voting" shtick. He is questioning the legitimacy of the election he and his fellow Republicans won? Now one would think that's kind of stupid move. But that hasn't stopped "The Donald" from repeatedly making it.

If Trump is to be believed, then the legitimacy of not only his election, but the election of congressional Republicans are at stake as well. If Trump truly believes his shtick, he should call for an immediate investigation. But he hasn't. Probably because he knows it pure bullshit. It's bullshit for his mushrooms.
 
The USDA has joined the EPA in the category of government agencies in which no research employee - on pain of their job - can talk to any member of the media or release any information about agency doings or their findings,

such as fact sheets about recent pest problems, or memos about planting times, storage, and fertilizer use relative to the upcoming weather expected in the local field office area,

without clearance from Washington DC headquarters. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/epa-agricultural-research-public-communications

That list is expected to grow. Research scientists have been a prime source of bad media for Republican administrations.
 
He intends to restrict "freedom of the press" by removing access to information. Breaching the constitution by default not directly.
Next he will purge universities and sideline USA intellectual freedom.

Standard "How to reinforce your dictatorship" 101
 
He intends to restrict "freedom of the press" by removing access to information. Breaching the constitution by default not directly.
Next he will purge universities and sideline USA intellectual freedom.

Standard "How to reinforce your dictatorship" 101

I equate the press as nuisance in many instances . Nixon at one point decided clamp down in the press for been nuisance, did he become a dictator ? No , he was going to be impeached.
 
I equate the press as nuisance in many instances . Nixon at one point decided clamp down in the press for been nuisance, did he become a dictator ? No , he was going to be impeached.
You keep referring to past events as if some how they mitigate events of today.
Trump is unprecedented, as is climate change. Suggesting that he is conforming to past republican behavior is only denying the unprecedented reality we face. No one will be able to impeach him. Such is his charismatic influence.

As an aside,
I would anticipate that this website (sciforums) and others like it will soon become inaccessible. Initially it will be directed at the browsing public but eventually the members them selves.
Nice knowing u guys. Thanks for 12 years or so.
 
I would anticipate that this website (sciforums) and others like it will soon become inaccessible. Initially it will be directed at the browsing public but eventually the members them selves.
Nice knowing u guys. Thanks for 12 years or so.
As paranoid and delusional as it may sound, I have to admit to second thoughts when posting "nastiness" about the Trumpster. For reasons similar to what you just cited.

Then I shake my head and say "Nah... This is America." Right?

Right guys? Guys? Hold on, someone's pounding on my door...
 
As paranoid and delusional as it may sound, I have to admit to second thoughts when posting "nastiness" about the Trumpster. For reasons similar to what you just cited.

Then I shake my head and say "Nah... This is America." Right?

Right guys? Guys? Hold on, someone's pounding on my door...
Well at least they are bothering to knock ...
 
I equate the press as nuisance in many instances . Nixon at one point decided clamp down in the press for been nuisance, did he become a dictator ? No , he was going to be impeached.
When did Reagan "clamp down" on the press?
 
When did Reagan "clamp down" on the press?
Among other times: during the invasion of Grenada, which Reagan described as "America's finest hour", no reporters were allowed with the American soldiers. That was the first time in the history of the country that no journalists had covered a regular US military action.
 
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