Does Trump's Temperament Make Him Unfit?

Posted by $ Snezzy 7 years, 10 months ago to Politics
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My dear wife seems to have discovered what it means when pundits suggest that Donald Trump may be unfit because he "does not have the temperament to be President."

She says that it's a political code phrase that means he cannot be bought.

DJT just might be better than we have thought.


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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You continue to confuse my comments about Trump assume kind of an endorsement of Hillary or socialism or something.
    I support Gary Johnson first and Trump second. I would vote Green Party before Hillary. I will vote for Gary Johnson, because 1) he is better than Trump, and 2) my vote doesn't count in MA, except to support the third party which needs supporting.

    It is cute to slip in the word "haters" as if it applies to me, but you can not make that stick. Trump is very simply giving the election to Hillary with his unnecessary volatile comments, and not taking her to task. He could easily have swept up the disenfranchised Berine people, and perhaps taught them something along the way, but nope.
    Regarding his inheritance, if Trump had simply invested in an S&P fund, he would have much more money that he does now. Period. What does that mean? It means, on average, Trump's investments were much poorer than the average in the market. Simple fact. The only interesting part of this history is that he was so bad, he lost almost everything, and then he earned what he has now from almost nothing. That supports his acumen somewhat...and "no" my "daddy" (another cute jibe, attempting to apply immaturity to me) did not give or lend me any money, closing a loan or other. I worked my way through college in three years on a summer internship I won as the #1 STEM student at my HS, and most of the rest was other academic scholarships, and I made more money my first year working as an engineer than my "daddy" did his last year as a physics teacher. What my "daddy" did give me was an awesome upbringing oriented in honesty, scholastics and hard work, far more valuable than money on average.

    Let me help you again. I suggested you needed to support Trump's communication skills. Being a billionaire, even one spelled with a "B", is not even remotely an argument for his communication skills. What you essentially are saying is that because Trump has more money than Andrew Dice Clay, he is a better communicator.

    Maybe you stop drawing conclusions before reading what I write, and actually respond with a logical argument instead of veiled adolescent insults and unsupported assertions about my positions.

    I hope we don't have to wait yet another week to see the next installment of this dogma.
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  • Posted by ChestyPuller 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Correct you are not the voting public..But, trying to use negatives to sway the voting public seems a goal for you, correct?

    As to being well versed in Communication; he works, and has worked, deal's that the left wing news decries were very good for him. He is a Billionaire [THAT'S WITH A "B"], unlike your Andrew Dice Clay; Ya Hear!

    Why do haters always point to the money his father gave him, your daddy to mean to ever lend or give you
    money? Hillary Clinton STOLE her money off the safety of the American people, Bernie Sanders stole his money directly from his supporters as did others.

    Maybe you should come clean about what your agenda here is; mine is saving the republic from Globalists. Globalists which by the way is why Galt's Gulch, in Atlas Shrugged, was created; each according to his own needs by his own hands.

    Smile, life is good when you work for yourself!
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  • Posted by TomSwift 7 years, 10 months ago
    The way Americans attempt to justify this lunatic is hilarious to us stinking foreigners. Clinton is a piece of work but for anyone to honestly contemplate Trump as anything more than a middling businessman with a possible mental illness is seriously delusional and in denial. His own party thinks he is a madman. Suck it up, realize you're not going to have a Republican president and work to build the Republican Party into something much less odious than it currently is.

    Seriously, is this the best America can do?
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  • Posted by gpecaut 7 years, 10 months ago
    I do know this. If Hillary is elected and a Democrat majority in both houses, I am going Galt. I will not support tyranny with my tax dollars.
    I would hope many other Objectivists would do the same.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am not the voting public. Do you hear that?

    Well-versed in the art of communication? You will need to defend that statement with some facts and logical connections. His about as well versed in comms as Andrew Dice Clay, who, by the way ( did you hear that?) actually made all his money without $100M from daddy or imminent domain.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hillary is by far. She has over 300 million in gifts from the crony establishment wanting governmental favors.

    Trump, if anything, is one who pays off the politicians to get them off his back. He doesnt GET gifts. In fact the crony establishment HATES HIM TO THE CORE.
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  • Posted by MinorLiberator 7 years, 10 months ago
    It's abrasive, aggressive, sometimes beyond the pale, and exactly the way Americans used to be able to talk to each other before the PC police showed up.

    Maybe I've just come to the "acceptance" stage that he's the candidate, but in retrospect while I consider Cruz perhaps more qualified and knowledgeable on issues, I now consider that Trump's temperament may be exactly what we need right now to really shake up a totally dysfunctional Federal government. I think Cruz or Rubio or some the other good ones would have stuck to the "gradual, piecemeal" approach to fixing things. Which never works.

    I don't expect miracles from Trump, if elected, just a better start and more done than any of the others could do.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 7 years, 10 months ago
    I have a good friend who "thinks outside of the box"
    largely because he doesn't see the box. . DJT is a
    person who disregards the box because it has only
    hindered him in the past. . this includes "political
    correctness," the battle cry of progressives who want
    to enslave us to their agendas. . we might say that
    DJT can neither be bought nor intimidated. . now,
    that is a new combination. -- j
    .
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  • Posted by $ jdg 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Trump is the crony establishment. Arguably the biggest player in it.
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  • Posted by lrshultis 7 years, 10 months ago
    Trump has a businessman's temperament. His main problems is for falling for little traps that make him look a bit undesirable for being a president.
    The latest trap is the my-sacrifice-is-at-least-as-great-as-yours-was. If as Rand indicates, sacrifice is the giving up of a greater value for a lesser value, then the comparing of sacrifices is a fool's game. I doubt that the heroic act of the dead solder was such a sacrifice. He considered the USA as a value of great importance which giving his life to protect if necessary was a choice worth making. Trump got sucked into believing that the choices he had made as a businessman were somehow to obtain values of lesser value than he already had. He was a fool to play that disgusting political game.
    In chess those sacrifices of giving up a greater value for lesser value are called sham sacrifices which the opponent does not foresee as a eventual loss of material or even the game.
    The sacrifice game gives the instigator the pleasure of a malicious joy of making his opponent look like a unfeeling cad.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That's a good comparison. Trump would be a good replacement for Hannity, Michael Savage, or Don Imus if and when they retire.
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  • Posted by ChestyPuller 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If that is the truly your argument, then you must be dead set against Hillary Clinton; she is not only being bribed, but bribing as well
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  • Posted by ChestyPuller 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The fact is Trump is well-versed in the art of communication; He makes deals worth Billions of Dollars..the real issue is that people think the media and those afraid of him are telling you what he says.

    He said Captain Khan was a hero; did you hear that?

    He said stop taking in muslims until they can be properly vetted; did you hear that?

    He said 'illegals' will be deported not all mexican's; did you hear that?

    You see, the real issue is you believe in the media as being moral; that's a problem
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  • Posted by ChestyPuller 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    LOL...it would seem you are a blind to the truth!

    On top of that, maybe reading clearly could help you; notice he told you when he wrote "..to enhance (her) career"

    LOL, keep digging
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  • Posted by ChestyPuller 7 years, 10 months ago
    Your wife is a very smart lady.
    My wife see's how the MSM is trying to derail Trump and she said to me; Trump must be a great man, otherwise the MSM, DNC and the Catholic Pope wouldn't be so afraid of him!
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  • Posted by Hot_Black_Desiato 7 years, 10 months ago
    Trump, in my opinion, demonstrated the most useful trait as a President.

    Unpredictable. Why do we want anyone as president you can completely predict what they will do, short of KNOWING if you hit me I will hit you 100 times harder.

    Not know how you will be hit or when makes the likelihood of testing him minimal especially since I have a feeling Trump would do the same thing Regan did to Khadafi when he claimed responsibility for the bombing.

    After Regan responded in VERY SHORT ODER and with complete decisiveness it was 30 years before that weasel popped his head out of the sand.

    Almost immediately when that weak-kneed blabbermouth Obama was elected everyone know how weak he was. Everyone in this world has been pushing and testing us since.
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  • Posted by jchristyatty 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yep they say that some doctors show you a picture of her looking that way whenever you have an adverse reaction to Viagra resulting in an erection that lasts longer than 4 hours. My understanding is its a very effective cure for that condition.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "... keeping the Senate red ..."

    It's amusing and maddening that the Republicans got stuck with the Communist red color. I wonder who made that red-blue allocation? It's so backwards. Gotta be deliberate.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 7 years, 10 months ago
    The only reason Trump can't be bought is that he has more money than most would-be bribers, so he's been the one paying the bribes.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Plus she was instrumental in trying to keep him from being re-elected a few years ago. Not to mention that she is a bit dishonest and cant even be trusted by Americans, let alone other countries.

    She would be scary in that its easy for misunderstandings to blow up into military conflicts if the other leaders dont trust you.
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