08-11-2016, 08:42 PM
Anthony Thorne Wrote:Since everyone's laying their cards on the table, here are mine.
Trump is fine. He's an idiot, a blowhard, he has possible connections to the mafia - who gives a shit? He'll enrich his cronies and impose some mild domestic repression on the US for a few years. Big deal. I expect in any war situation he'll run things past his advisors and the Joint Chiefs, hardly anything different to the norm. He's said multiple times that he wants to improve relations with Russia, be friends with Putin. This is good for the world, and good for the US.
Clinton has all the Neocons in tow and wants to show how tough she is by fronting up to a war with Russia - her consistent love of warmongering could quite easily blow up the planet. Clinton also seems mysteriously cold and inhuman. Every time she opens her mouth seems to be a calculated lie. Give me Trump's bluster any day. I also find Trump's accent easier on the ear - when he gets going it's quite stirring.
The surreal side of this election is that I've found myself - a longterm lefty with parents who helped the Tasmanian Greens when my father acted as a council whistleblower for later Greens leader Christine Milne - agreeing emphatically with Fox News hacks like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, and nodding sagely during interviews with Newt Gingrich. Clinton is an arrogant danger to the world.
If Trump loses, Clinton will at least begin her Presidency thoroughly embattled, and her opponents have rich pickings to bring her down over the next couple of years, so at least that's something.
Seriously, Anthony, if you think Trump is "fine," you've haven't paid any attention to the man. He is a textbook sociopath, pathological liar, narcissist and abuser of women. He is so unstable he makes Nixon look like a mentally and emotionally healthy President.
You find Trump's accent stirring? WTF?