Donald Trump's appeal

Since it is apparent Donald Trump is going to be the Republican candidate for president, it’s time to consider what is his appeal. On who have the, as one pundit called them, “disgruntled conservative voters” pinned all their hopes. .

It is claimed Trump has hit a nerve among GOP grass-roots members with a message of we are fed up, especially with the GOP establishment.

Is that nerve the one that also desires to insult veterans, like Trump did with John McCain last July? If these grass-roots members are also military veterans, doesn’t it bother them that their candidate has so little regard for former prisoners-of-war? Or that when Trump had a chance to serve his country in the 1960s he claimed he got deferments for a bone spur in his foot. Yet when politely asked ‘which foot”, he fumbled a few moments and then said “It’s in the records. You’ll look it up in the records.” I can still remember which hand I broke (left) playing football when I was just a kid. But Trump can’t remember which foot had enough pain caused by a spur to keep him out of the military?

Why don’t those grass-roots members get fed up with Donald’s dishonesty, like claiming it wasn’t him posing as his publicist John Miller on a recorded phone call from the early 1990s that he later even admitted was a joke that spiraled out of control? Or his promise to release his tax records, as every presidential candidate has done since 1972, then reneging on it, saying not until after they are all audited (which won’t be until after November 2016) and besides, they would reveal nothing new. That doesn’t hit a nerve when he blatantly lies when confronted?

In Donald's defense, Genesis 19:30-36 says it's okay.

If any of those grass-roots members are female, how can they overlook Trump’s numerous instances of belittling women as dogs, pigs, fat-slobs, flat-chested malcontents, ugly-faced losers, and bimbos? Or when he calls women “basically aesthetically-pleasing objects”, that sexual assault in the military is to be expected, that women should rely on sex appeal, that pregnant women are monsters, or that breast-feeding in public makes a woman a horrible person? How do any of those comments miss a woman’s nerve?

This modest, humble and thought-provoking man tells anyone who’ll listen “The beauty of me is that I’m very rich”, “You can never be too greedy”, I’ll bring back a hell of a lot worse that waterboarding”, and that it doesn’t matter “what the media writes as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful piece of ass.” And yet his base of conservative voters aren’t fed up with such sexist, self-centered and shallow thinking.

Most astounding is the evangelicals who still support Trump. Here is a man who claims he doesn’t need forgiveness from a god because he hasn’t done anything to be forgiven for and referred to Second Corinthians as “Two Corinthians” when asked his favorite bible verse. He also cited the “Eye for an Eye” rule from Exodus 21 as being one that has guided him throughout his life, when that Mosaic Law was repudiated by Jesus in Matthew 5. Evangelicals, this is the man who will represent you to the world...and he claims his version of Christianity will have power when he’s in the White House. Not your interpretation of the bible...his interpretation. And you evangelicals are not going to like it. Because what he means is the Crusades power, Inquisition power, and unrestrained bigotry and oppression power. Is this how you want to be seen?

So much for Donald thinking the Clintons are horrible, dishonest people.

The GOP establishment that the disgruntled grass-roots members are fed up with is being encouraged to swallow its pride and do whatever it takes to keep Hillary Clinton from gaining the Oval Office because she’s a liar and proven deceiver. The patriotic thing to do is to instead put a lying, self-centered, thrice-married, flip-flopping semi-successful, crass, unapologetic sexist in the office. Yep…then the world will finally respect us!

As of May 19^th, Donald Trump has launched a media offensive to reset his campaign. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee is hoping to rehabilitate his image among voters who have been put off by his extreme rhetoric, and address the wrongs he has committed on the campaign trail. His main problem is still his take-no-prisoners style that has spurned Independents and moderate voters. His willingness to goad protesters, encourage violence, and hit below the belt in upending a culture he argues is spoiled by political correctness has also alienated most women, non-whites and moderate conservatives. Unless they all stay home November 8th, there aren't enough people left to get him elected.

Misunderstanding Trump

       He's number 1.....He's number 1.....He's number 1

          Poor, poor misunderstood Donald Trump. Here he is trying to steer the country back onto the right path after what he calls the failure of the Obama presidency, and everyone is instead distracted by his perceived verbal gaffs. It’s hampering his shot at the White House where he says he’ll ‘Make America Great Again’. Incidentally, that motto was plagiarized from Ronald Reagan who used “Let’s Make America Great Again” in the 1980s. Trump says he came up with the phrase on his own and that it has nothing to do with Reagan’s. But does anyone pay attention to his making America great…again? No. All people want to do is misquote him or knowingly misrepresent what he implied. He speaks his mind off-the-cuff-like, and then the media puts its own spin on it to make him look like a first-class jerk. That’s because what was recorded and what we heard was simply a misunderstanding of what he said. In other words, it’s our fault, not his.

        For example:

In a Sept. 2015 Rolling Stone interview, Trump is quoted saying about rival GOP candidate Carly Fiorina: "Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?" He claims he wasn’t talking about her looks, “I'm talking about persona," he corrected everyone. And we can believe him. When he uses the word ‘face’ twice, it’s simply our not realizing he meant a theatrical mask.

 At the Republican debate in August 2015, after moderator Megyn Kelly asked him about the sexist comments he’s made, such as calling some women "fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals," Trump retaliated later by saying she had "blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her, wherever…" He claims he meant her nose. Obviously. “Wherever…” always means nose. He even added the caveat "Only a deviant would think anything else" while also tossing in that Megyn was a “bimbo”. He wouldn’t stoop to saying anything sexist that might refer to her menstruation cycle, or compare woman to dogs, pigs, slobs…or bimbos. We can believe him because it was clearly a misunderstanding of where ‘wherever’ was located.

 Earlier this year, Trump retweeted — and then deleted — a tweet that said, "If Hillary Clinton can’t satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?” He said it was a staffer’s fault. It wasn’t him that tweeted it, even though it was just like his other comments. “Satisfy” wasn’t referencing anything sexual, it was simply misunderstood.

Trump says he loves bimbos...er, broads...that is, babes...you know, sex objects.

Trump consistently insults, belittles, and stereotypes women, having disparaged Sarah Jessica Parker, Katy Perry, Rosie O'Donnell, Cher, Bette Midler, Angelina Jolie, even Ivana when he was still married to her. He is quoted as saying women are essentially aesthetically-pleasing objects, that sexual assault in the military is totally expected, that women need to rely on sex appeal, and that women fawn over him because he’s rich and powerful. But those don’t really reveal his thinking on women. People are just misunderstanding the context of his comments.

The draft dodger and the POW

 Even people he has no quarrel with, like Senator John McCain, are Trump targets. “He’s not a war hero.” Trump snarled in an interview last July in Iowa with Republican pollster Frank Luntz. When called out several times on TV for it, Trump claimed he didn’t say it, then tried to backpedal by saying that he said McCain “WAS a war hero, but nobody wants to play that part” [of the interview]. He thinks the recording will exonerate him, where he clearly says McCain “wasn’t a war hero…Okay, he’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured, okay?” When he mocks a former prisoner of war, claiming he wasn’t a war hero because his aircraft was shot down over Hanoi and McCain could not avoid being caught by North Vietnamese forces because he broke both arms and one leg in the ensuing crash…that that actually counts as him saying McCain IS a war hero. His perspective was simply misunderstood.

Mexicans are drug runners, criminals and rapists, breast feeders are horrible people, free trade is terrible (except when he does it), the Chinese can be beaten only by him, it’s just stupid people who care about him previously filing for bankruptcy, that his pregnant wife Melania had become “a monster” (which he said was a positive statement about her), and that he got a draft deferment during the Vietnam War because he had a bone spur in his foot. When politely asked which foot, he stammered and then said “You’ll look it up in the records, it’s in the records.” He just couldn't remember, even with a 50/50 chance of getting it right.

Yes, Jesus loves lying, self-centered, sexist, thrice-married, white billionaires

 As The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart once asked about Trump “What the f*%k is wrong with him?” It’s a question that's being asked every day; because that’s at least the frequency the current GOP front runner makes a bombastic statement. The downside is he gets away with it. His supporters love the comments. They eat it up and demand more…and their numbers are growing. He is never held accountable for saying some of the most pig-headed, narrow-minded, and politically-damaging things as he runs for the highest office in the land. He’s just misunderstood. How clear does he have to say things, about bimbos and others, to be understood?

However, there IS one bimbo who is squarely in Trump’s corner… 

Of course...makes total sense!

If we end up with a President Trump, get ready for the rest of the world to wonder “Are the Americans just completely insane?” Below is already how the world sees candidate Trump, and it’s only going to get worse.

Jeb is as Dumb as Dubya - Why we don't need ANOTHER Bush!

            To paraphrase the old “pants/fat” joke…does the last name make him look like an idiot?

“I am asked sometimes whether I would ever allow my decisions in government to be influenced by my Christian faith. The simple and safe reply is no, never, of course not.”

The words of presidential hopeful Jeb Bush while giving the commencement address Saturday, May 9, 2015 at Liberty University, you know, the center of higher (that means Christian) learning started by Jerry Falwell. (Everyone remembers how tolerant, open-minded, and non-prejudicial Rev. Falwell was.) I am sure every student there breathed a sigh of relief that for once a candidate of Jeb’s stature wouldn’t be using the office of the presidency to expand his religious convictions, like, say, his brother George W. did. But when you read further, it’s obvious that’s exactly what Jeb would do.

                     The Senator made this statement in 1964. It has come to pass.

           

               The Bush article appeared in May 10^th newspapers across the nation and was entitled “Religious Freedom Defended at Liberty”. The problem is the title is incorrect, unless the word “freedom” has been flipped to mean the right to practice bigotry and intolerance.

              Expounding on what he views as an absolute religious right, he said “…as usual, the present [Obama] administration is supporting the use of coercive federal power. What should be easy calls, in favor of religious freedom, have instead become an aggressive stance against it. Somebody here is being small-minded and intolerant, and it sure isn’t the nuns, ministers, and laymen and women who ask only to live and practice their faith. Federal authorities are demanding obedience, in complete disregard of religious conscience – and in a free society, the answer [to obedience] is, ‘No.’”

                                Jeb looking confused, a typical Bush trait.

              Let me distill his gobbledygook so it’s clear what he meant. Business owners of faith want to discriminate against consumers based on a narrow-minded religious belief; and those who oppose that discrimination are being the “small-minded and intolerant” ones. The nuns, ministers, laymen and women living and practicing their faith should be allowed to use the power of law to continue their bigotry…because that’s what their holy book demands of them. We cannot allow that discrimination to be curtailed because without it, they cease to be true christians.”

             As usual, the clergy are allowed to select which parts of their holy books they’ll wield against the people they don’t like. Leviticus 11:9-12 states shellfish are an abomination but no church I know of demands government action against Red Lobster. And even though Leviticus 11:6-8 says don’t touch the skin of a dead pig, I have yet to hear, read, or see any person of faith ordering an end to American football games. But Jeb Bush wants to safeguard the religious bigotry of those who can’t abide gay marriage or the use of birth control. And he's considered the moderate GOP candidate.

             What is it about projection that is so appealing to politicians? Jeb wants to use the power of government so that people practicing their faith can continue to discriminate; not to use that power to grant all people the same rights. When it comes to religious bigotry, they deny there is any discrimination and instead claim it is those who are being discriminated against that are being small-minded and intolerant. Jeb drools over the ready-to-use accessibility of projecting religious discrimination. It’s the political version of "I know you are but what am I?".            

           Why should the government allow any loopholes for religious intolerance? Bigotry is bigotry whether it’s dressed up in the language of faith or not.