OT ...Trump...beginning of the end?

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  1. yankeesince59

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    ...^^^sad to watch actually...and so unnecessary.
     
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    Since when is Trump exempt from being considered "big money people"??? Or when did his own real estate ventures not come with "special interests", being His own.

    Since when is Trump not a big part of the so called "system".....

    I won't wait for an answer, cuz I don't have enough time to listen or read a dog and pony show answer, full of contempt for other Posters...

    So these skeletons just disappear? or those who never knew the facts remain ignorant and un-informed....???

    Here are some of the highlights:
    1. Lesson He Learned From Punching His Music Teacher: In a book he wrote in 1987, Trump admitted to punching his music teacher in the second grade. While many would look back at such an event as immature furor, Trump didn't seem reflective about it at all: “In the second grade...I punched my music teacher because I didn’t think he knew anything about music....I’m not proud of that, but it’s clear evidence that even early on I had a tendency to stand up and make my opinions known in a very forceful way.”
    2. Instant Missile Expertise: “It would take an hour and a half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles,” Trump boasted. “I think I know most of it anyway.” He claimed he should be in charge of nuclear negotiations with the Soviet Union.
    3. Less Than Perfect Understanding of the Working Class: Trump claimed that electricians “make a hundred and some odd dollars an hour. The concrete people just make fortunes. Laborers make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.”
    4. Attacking Lawyers for Stopping His Unlawful Evictions: A group of lawyers defended tenants at one Trump property who claimed they were being unlawfully evicted. When the courts sided with the tenants, Trump tried to launch a racketeering lawsuit against the lawyers, claiming they were trying to “prevent, frustrate, and inhibit” him from making profits. The courts dismissed Trump's case.
    5. Exploiting the Homeless, Bashing Refugees: Trump offered to put homeless tenants in his Central Park South building in a bid to try to drive the current tenants out so he could tear the whole thing down. The city offered to put Polish refugees there, but Trump countered he'd only allow “people who live in America now, not refugees.”
    6. Bashing Ronald Reagan: Although not particularly crazy sounding, this may be a crazy thing for a leader in the polls of the Republican presidential primary to say. He compared rival developers to Ronald Reagan because they were “people who talk a good game but don't deliver.”
    7. Telling the World African Americans Have It Easy: Spy quoted Trump telling reporters in 1989, “If I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.”
    8. Blaming Other People For His Business Failings: In the early 1990s, Trump made a deal with Poland's tourism minister to build a series of “hotels, shops and gambling casinos in Warsaw,” but two years after the $55 million payment was made, ground wasn't even broken. “They've been patient? I've been patient,” said Trump. “Did you ever try to get quality marble in Warsaw? It's pathetic.”
    What all this demonstrates is even though Trump may have changed his viewpoint on a number of things – such as his previous embrace of single-payer health care – one thing has not changed over the years. Trump remains an unrepentant blowhard, where it's 1985 or 2015.
     
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    some people just aren't happy unless they have something to always bitch about, based on revenge, grudges, contempt, hate, anger un-bridled....

    wait for it, and we will hear how fkn great the Packers were obtaining their Wild Card, and how they should of beat AZ.....
     
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    Time for Rubio to face reality in this race. It will take a loss in Florida for him to finally get out though.

    And yes that Arod spring training line has been beaten to death and don't pull out the Tiger Woods one out either because it's not any better.
     
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    ... the problem with Florida is that it's a "winner take all" state...and Trump is already showing a lead there...if Rubio were to bow out now and throw his endorsement to Cruz and if Cruz were to win the state, it could be a huge turnaround. (taking the delegates from Trump and giving them to Cruz)
     
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    Yeah, but I think it's clear Rubio plans to stay in and see Florida through. I can see on one hand that he owes it to his campaign but on the other hands he should notice that trailing in the polls badly in your own state pretty much sums up your campaign.
     
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    ...yup, he still honestly believes he can win Florida...I just don't see it. He was already shaky before the last debate began and after that debate he came off looking desperate and petty and weak.
     
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    Trump is trolling the GOP. Eom
     
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    ...bingo, at that's why I think he should swallow his pride and bow out now...but like you said, he probably won't
     
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    ...watched his news conference last night...I see he's still being a prick to reporters.
     
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    This has to be the most childish & annoying bullshit debates that I've even seen in my lifetime.
     
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    If Trump wins Florida and Ohio it will pretty much be over...unless of course, there's a blood bath in Cleveland, which is a real possibility.
     
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    ^^^ Holy crap !
     
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    Such as constantly rehashing and throwing up 3-5 year old contracts and mentionioning how Cashman should've kept this guy or that guy instead of this guy or that guy?
     
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    ...nice video, Matts.

    ...btw, does anyone else remember someone else obsessively and irrelevantly interjecting what ARod did last year into a discussion that is clearly about Trump ?
     
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    Yeah that kinda rings a bell.
     
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    :tiphat: My pleasure ....

    Nope, to interject A-Roid with a Post on Trump, is clearly a vain, feeble attempt at vindication, for what ... ??

    Only one person, has ever continuously blown A-Fraud's horn; and that person- is the same person incessantly, blowing #13's horn here on a Post that has nothing to do with baseball....
     
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    "A-Fraud was brought up to help indicate and portray how some people could be very wrong on high profile/ hot button issues .....the same "people" who are calling millions and millions of smart,educated and experienced people stupid and dumb because they are leaning towards Trump instead of a couple of one trick pony rigid ultra conservative candidates who have indeed been part of the "problem" in DC in one way or another and have led to a near revolt by the population of voters.

    I must say, for a smart guy who likes to post long-winded droning posts, you seem to have a bit of trouble reading between lines and seem to only comprehend by the numbers in a structured, controlled context.

    You know darn well I'm a favorite whipping boy for some on this board despite being (proven) "correct" just as often as most on issues (Yanks,MLB) and YES, I have also gotten some things "wrong" just like many others on this board......and of course we are all entitled to our opinions. It's all good!
     

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