TRUMP - Some people think......... How do you feel?

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When services are under-funded, they're bound to slip up. They've been under-funded and falling behind for awhile. Even before this crisis. If money is suddenly poured into it, without a well thought out plan, they're also bound to slip up. When they slip up, people served, are not served properly, and can fall through the cracks. Then, we are failing them with attempts to help them. There are many things that need to be considered to ensure their well being. It is better to allow the time to plan and organize a bit better and do it right - so coordination is a bit more fluid across services. There's a confusing web of bureaucracy for newcomers to navigate in trying to get what they need. From housing, to healthcare to ESL, to community orientation and everything else. Most locals don't even know how it works and fits together. So, especially confusing for traumatized newcomers. So, JT did the right thing, in my opinion.
 
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just wanting to be nice and good - good intentions - wasn't good enough. It doesn't just work out all by itself because everybody wants to be nice. The reality is different, more complex, no matter how kind people want to be. There needed to be a bit more time and better planning.

...and this is in the wrong thread...there was some cross-over of topics. Sorry.
 
Hitler rose, essentially, because of his exploitation of racism - and because of his catering to big capitalism. (His party was called national socialist; but there was nothing socialist about it. In fact, American, Canadian, British and French big business leaders gave Hitler substantial support because he was the barrier against the spread of communism. He had that support long after his racism was well known. In fact, that's a major reason why the U.S. took so long to enter the war.)

Donald Trump stands for exactly what Hitler did - except his targets are Hispanics and Muslims. Harper was a weak imitation of Hitler and Trump. Bush governed on fear, hatred and racism. Another Hitler.

The reality, I think, is that almost all of us have been operating on the same principles as Hitler did for centuries. Us humans are much alike.
 
We are, but clearly there are more and less successful ways of organizing ourselves so as to avoid some of the worst of our flaws. You'd have to agree that Canada has, thus far in modern history, organized ourselves relatively successfully.
 
Co-operation cannot succeed in a competitive world in which only a singularity must exceed ... grate expectations!
 
You're right, I don't think pure capitalism can work in the long term, and must be replaced with a more co-operative/sustainable model. However, we are doing better than our neighbour insofar as we can discuss different models of taxation and leadership in a reasonably calm informed manner, without bizarre, ridiculous knee jerk claims of some sort of terrorist/socialist menace. Sometimes.
 
Do some people refuse to give of their gifts ... or are their gifts just not acceptable to the emotional paradigm?
 
Part of the larger colon of antes? Them that came before and we deny? How else to learn without the experience of pain ... except mental pain ... then is there is no mental machine ... what then?
 
There was an interesting discussion on CBC Radio's The Current this morning about whether Donald Trump is a fascist. Those who argued that he is saw more similarities with Mussolini than with Hitler.
 
That sounds like the story I read. And the characteristics they described had no particular connection to either fascism or naziism. They are quite common in almost all forms of government.
Those two, and words like culture or values, have become meaningless. There is no such thing as a culture in any static sense. And I have yet to see a list of what values Canadians have.
 
This happens when one disposes of the social factor ... that's generally the core po' real folk ... us ... where the corporate are virtually unreal as they just care about getting the job done and don't care about worrisome implications ... alien concerns as An incarnation ... something appearing as it isn't ...

These are all pore lye understood attributes ... not physical form and maas ...
 
Okay. People around the world are denouncing Trump, now. Including David Cameron - and in the US, several other GOP candidates and well known names. He's gone waaaay to far, it's awful. He went way too far already, I didn't think he could outdo himself. Unreal. Was it a political ploy to crash the Republican Party to have him run? Because, still sane Republicans and anyone who is from any minority group Trump has insulted and said hateful remarks about are going to vote for Hilary if he stays in the race. If he quits the Republicans and goes independent he'll split the vote on the right.
 
Trump has either lost his s**t or is playing to the crowd. I vote the latter. He's been too successful in business for too long to lose his s**t this badly. The guy's ego knows no bounds and I think he is playing to the crowd, just like he does on The Apprentice. He doesn't care whether he actually gets in the White House, he just wants to be heard and either reviled or worshipped for what people are hearing. Both are acceptable as long as the attention is on him. Most people grow out of that. Apparently he didn't. The problem is that this guy could end up in control of the world's largest economy (by GDP) and world's most powerful and technologically sophisticated military. Worst of all, he'll control enough firepower to send us back into the stone age if not into extinction.

My gut feeling is that he is toast as a serious contender for the White House but that he'll hang on in the race as long as he can, even if that means going indie and killing the GOP's chances in 2016 due to right wing vote splitting. His ego will accept no less.

(My alternative theory is that that God-awful hairpiece is really a mind-controlling alien using Trump to take over the world. The Doctor will show up at the last minute and unravel the whole thing so UNIT can put Trump out of our misery. :D)
 
He's said that Bill Clinton "endorsed" him. He must be playing political games. He can't be for real. Hilary's doing better than him as far as overall vote share, I think I read.
 
What effect, if any, will his losing his s**t have on his business? Is he Teflon?
 
Pr. Jae said:
What effect, if any, will his losing his s**t have on his business? Is he Teflon?
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Very little. As a property developer, he doesn't really have the public as a direct customer so it is not like there will be mass boycotts of his properties or anything. If he goes totally bats**t crazy, maybe he'll make some bad business decisions and bankrupt himself but crazy in politics does not automatically equal crazy in other areas.

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Why does it have to be either/or? It could just as easily be both/and.
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Possibly. Someone who is totally bats**t crazy wouldn't really be on the ball enough to play crazy like he is, though. He comes across as playing a character in a movie (the evil right wing populist in Stephen King's The Dead Zone, played by Martin Sheen in the movie version, comes to mind), not a real person.
 
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Very little. As a property developer, he doesn't really have the public as a direct customer so it is not like there will be mass boycotts of his properties or anything. If he goes totally bats**t crazy, maybe he'll make some bad business decisions and bankrupt himself but crazy in politics does not automatically equal crazy in other areas.



Possibly. Someone who is totally bats**t crazy wouldn't really be on the ball enough to play crazy like he is, though. He comes across as playing a character in a movie (the evil right wing populist in Stephen King's The Dead Zone, played by Martin Sheen in the movie version, comes to mind), not a real person.
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Well - I've heard it said that Ronald Reagan thought he was in a movie throughout his presidency. Maybe Trump thinks he's on a reality show.
 
His racist statements have not cost him. At all. What he has exposed, is how racist the GOP is. They've played that card subtly for years. Trump is saying things out loud. What's even more depressing, is that enough independents are sympathetic to his statements that he could win the nomination. Then all it take is the Democrat to implode, and it's President Trump.
 
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