One of the many things about this campaign that surprises me is the degree to which some set of my fellow citizens are convinced that Donald Trump is a hero questing against the powers that have shaped their lives in ways they don’t like: political elites, banks, international trade partners, immigrants. In this narrative, Trump is the lone strongman, the sheriff facing the bad guys in defense of a town full of mostly cowards underserving of his heroism. He is HERO.
However, unlike the western sheriff facing down the gang of bad guys in the street, Trump isn’t actually defending weaker, less capable people against the strong. No, Donald Trump punches down. He mocks the weak and less capable and exploits his position of relative power to maintain and expand his privilege – whether privilege in the tax code, or privilege in abusing women at will.
Trump is thus a classic bully, a thug who identifies the weak and uses power to satisfy his own needs for dominance. But presented with an opponent with similar resources and capacities – say Hillary Clinton, for example – he wilts. He’s the guy who screams of his greatness and then explains, when his hat is handed to him, that the fight was rigged.
That might make him a good TV star. (I wouldn’t know: I never watched a millisecond of his show.) But it makes for a terrible president.
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Ana Navarro rips into a Trump defender: “You seem insane. … He is a bigot, he is a racist, he is a misogynist.”
Trump denied use of NC civil rights museum
The Trump campaign asked International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro to close while he was videotaped there, says museum CEO John Swaine.
And when permission was refused, the Trumpskyites started calling the place and threatening to burn it down.
John Swaine said the Trump campaign was trying to plan the Republican nominee’s visit to the historic museum Sept. 20, the same day he campaigned in High Point and Kenansville. Swaine said that campaign staff asked to videotape Trump walking around the museum and requested that the museum shut down for five hours to accommodate his visit.
“We made it known to Mr. Trump’s campaign that we were not going to grant a request of suspending our operations so he could somehow try to legitimize his ideological positions,” Swaine told The News & Observer. “The landmark is very important – it’s not just a political backdrop.”
He said that since news of the museum’s decision broke last week, museum staff members have received threats via phone calls and social media.
“The callers were threatening to come over and burn down the building and to shoot up the building,” he said. “They’ve lessened in frequency this week, but they’re still coming in.”
Kaine on Trump
That last gif though
This is the most genius thing i’ve seen in years. Thank you happytoast.co.uk 💯
This is the best thing I’ve seen all year.
Best fact-check of the night
This is what I was thinking too! How could her actions as Sec of State have caused ISIS to form* if it has been around her entire adult life? Was she 17 years old five years ago? Is he even paying attention to what he is saying?
Guys, the New York Times just dropped a bombshell regarding Trump and his tax returns. According to the Times in an article published today,
“Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years…the $916 million certainly could have eliminated any federal income taxes Mr. Trump otherwise would have owed on the $50,000 to $100,000 he was paid for each episode of “The Apprentice,” or the roughly $45 million he was paid between 1995 and 2009 when he was chairman or chief executive of the publicly traded company he created to assume ownership of his troubled Atlantic City casinos. Ordinary investors in the new company, meanwhile, saw the value of their shares plunge to 17 cents from $35.50, while scores of contractors went unpaid for work on Mr. Trump’s casinos and casino bondholders received pennies on the dollar.”
This man is nothing more than a fat cat criminal who scams people and doesn’t pay his fair share! Read the full article HERE and please please please, if you live in the US, go out and vote in November! We CANNOT allow this crook to get into the White House.