September 22, 2016
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“TC”:
Stephanie”look, I hope Trump finds something, I would grin with glee, however, yes, I do believe he would risk his reputation to make statements, he’s all about the impulsive garish statements, and he said if he’s wrong he takes it back.
Janiczek:
Um yeah….Again, Trump would not be involved in this if he already didn”t know something…….take it back? Yeah he knows perfectly well what it would look like. He”d pay for it the rest of his life.
“TC”:
OK here goes. Those of you so certain Trump has the goodies and would not risk his reputation to be wrong, if he does not have solid info, not rumor-based but solid info (which would remove Obama from office if he’s proven not born here), then you have to concede you were wrong. That’s the bottom line. If conservatives hate when libs can”t admit they are wrong then you/me have to be willing to concede if it’s proven wrong as well.
Actor Nick Searcy:
Obama is obviously hiding something, at great expense…And I would have more respect for people who put down birthers if they weren”t so condescending and cocksure about it.
A member I”ll refer to as “BB”:
Trump obviously knew something was provably wrong. Trump is far too vain to risk looking the fool. Like Gordon Gekko, he only bets on sure things.
“TC”:
Right, like that often bankrupt Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, or the Vegas skyscraper he abandoned for lack of sales.
And…scene. From that point on, the forum degenerated into the Trumpers beating up on poor little TC, a meek Jewish agoraphobic cat-lady neocon living in a small town on the ass end of the East Coast. But you know what? She was right. And everyone who was so damn certain that Trump “had the goods” was wrong. Dead wrong. Their trust, their faith, was unfounded. We now know for a fact, from Trump’s own fishmouth, that he never had “the goods” on Obama. But he counted on his faithful to assume he did.
Interestingly, former Capitol Hill aide Stephanie Janiczek, the most rabid of the “trust Trumpers,” has learned the wisdom of George W. Bush’s old Tennessee saying, “Fool me you can”t get fooled again.” She is now just as rabidly anti-Trump as she was pro-Trump four years ago. In fact, she runs one of the largest Rick Perry groups on Facebook, and anyone who posts even the slightest Trump-friendly comment gets banned. What can I say? Some people are really fond of extremes. But at least she learned her lesson about trusting Trump.
Quite a few others have not.
In the end, should Trump win, a lion’s share of the credit (or blame) will go to the folks on the left who popularized the “he’s literally Hitler” meme. Because implicit in the notion that Trump is Hitler is the belief that he has a plan, that he”ll do the things he says he”ll do. And ideology aside, that’s an attractive prospect for a great many voters. In 2008, Obama won independents by promising “change””i.e., by pledging to actually do something. The “literally Hitler” dolts have advanced the idea that Trump is to be feared because he will bring change. In a way, they”ve helped Trump become the new Obama, but with “hope and change” replaced by “fear and change.” However, what the “literally Hitlers” haven”t taken into account is that there’s more than enough voter discontent in the U.S. at the moment for the “change” part to overshadow the “fear” part.
The more you make people think Trump “has the goods,” the more likely the prospect of his victory becomes.
Me? I stand by what I told my little symposium in 2011, that Trump is just making shit up as he goes along, and that his promises of “trust me” are worthless. Trump proved my point on the birther issue, and if he’s elected, he”ll prove it again on the border wall and the mass deportations (and good riddance to the latter).
Still, if he throws up a decent SCOTUS candidate, that”ll be one thing more than Hillary would do. And with that in mind, I”ll vote for him (not that my vote matters in forever-blue California).
But trust him? Take his word for something? Assume that he”d never say anything he can”t back up? I”ll leave that to the Pepe the Frog crowd. My memory is just a tad too long.
