Even a small percentage either voting blue or staying home would make a huge difference.
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"He blew it," : Coronavirus is surging in Florida — and so is anxiety over Trump's chances with senior voters
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Even a small percentage either voting blue or staying home would make a huge difference.
All these people who voted for Trump cause he's a "business man" just remind me that anyone who voted for Trump for those reasons, chose money over human rights.
If one percent of Trump's base votes for Biden and one percent stays home, he's toast. Heck, he's probably toast if everyone in his base votes for him again. Trump's path to victory is so incredibly narrow.
I don't think so.
The whole "businessman" appeal in politics is not something new. They were saying the same thing about GWB--also a failed businessman, but failure doesn't count in business it seems lol.
Conservative messaging in running governments as businesses is long-standing.
I can almost guarantee you that Romney will try to re-emerge on the businessman platform. Not as president since he's too old, but the Senate will try to use that narrative if Trump loses.
It's funny too, because if you look at the presidents generally considered to be "the best", most of them were lawyers. Not many businessmen. And also of course the republicans favorite president was an actor lol
Nah, they fucking knew he was a racist and a sexist and chose to ignore it cause "business".
As always Trump represents a poor and/or ignorant person's idea of what a rich man is like.
Trump actually excited these people more than a typical business-oriented republican precisely because he is so trashy.
Nah. These people voted for, and in some cases are still supporting, a man who not only hates them but actively tries to undermine their way of life.
Call it like it is.
When these people talk about running the country like a good business, they're talking about running it "efficiently", making people work rather than get hand outs from unemployment and have the country in control of its destiny. Its also about control and making people earn their living rather than get assistance from the government. Their idea of business is small business owner pushing poorly paid people around and trying everything to save time and a buck, not multinational company with million different departments and procedures.
That's the appeal of Trump, the guy who bullies and fires people on that reality TV. He always seemed in control on that show, seemed in control when he beat Clinton despite everyone saying he had no real chance of winning, seemed in control when he got North Korea to come meet him in Singapore, seemed in control when the stock market kept going up.
I'm actually relatively optimistic about Trump's erosion of support because coronavirus + BLM protests have shown that Trump isn't a master puppetmaster who has trapped North Korea and China in some deadly game. Coronavirus is out of control in certain states with no real end in sight and Trump was powerless to stop confederate statues from getting torn down and Mississippi from lowering the state flag. That's not a man in control of the country.
77 years of life experience and being so clueless. Not just on Trump(who's barely qualified as a businessman, and certainly not a successful one), but on how business functions and why the driving intent behind it never aligns with that of government.
These idiots see his name and face on steaks and TV and think no further. They are not to be trusted despite any concerns or ragret.
These idiots see his name and face on steaks and TV and think no further. They are not to be trusted despite any concerns or ragret.
LOL at the people who voted in a man that's bankrupted everything he's ever touched and are surprised he's doing it to America now.
Because the average American is a brain dead fucking idiot, which is by design
They lack critical thinking skills, which is one of the biggest reasons why the country is the shit-show that it is.
There aren't many lines of thought dumber than the "run the country like a business" one. And even if it was imagine thinking Trump, who is over his head in debt, would be the one you would put your faith in to do so.
But the TV said he was a successful businessman? He had an entire show based on how good of a businessman he is. TV wouldn't lie to me!
Some of them will die, a lot of them will be really hurt, and lot of them will lose friends/family, but I bet they'll still vote for him...
I have noted that other than Al Franken, most celebrities turned elected politicians run as Republicans (Trump, Arnold, Sonny Bono, Fred Thompson, etc) , so there definitely does seem to be a right-bias toward voting for name recognition instead of competency. When celebrities run as democrats, they tend to lose.
Exactly my thoughts. They can say all this, but when they're in that little booth, I find it hard to believe they will commit to switching.
Tom Hanks should run for President as a Democrat. Who would vote against Tom Hanks?
Not denying that.
Tucker Carlson is apparently rumored to make a Presidential run in 2024. Yeah....
A business man who's businesses filed for bankruptcy six times, and whose credit is so fucking toxic that shady foreign banks won't even give him loans anymore. Yeah, you picked a real winner there.
Domestic banks won't
Neither would foreign banks lol
The only foreign bank was Deutsch and they are a huge mess of an organization and incredibly corrupt.
My face right now...
On topics, countries are not businesses, that's why we have taxes. I try to imagine a truly 'corporate' country and all I can see is a social and environmental disaster.
If companies want to thrive and do well? Great, but they should never play by a different set of rules to the rest of society. What we are experiencing today is a result of that.
I'm hopeful this will be his undoing.
He's "hurting the wrong people".
He can't propaganda his way out of this like he normally does, people are sick and dying.
And he's out there golfing.
Pretty much. People who think running the country like a business would be a "good thing" don't know SHIT about businesses and corporations. Trump IS running the country like a business, where the low-level employees are expendable and those who rake in the most profit and benefits are the executives and stockholders. Exploit, exploit, and exploit, then make off like bandits... the corporate way!
All that god damn money that went to corporations in the stimulus and none to small businesses.
The same fucking party that claims to champion small business owners.
Romney's planning something, that's for sure. I'm morbidly curious to see what his first move will be post-Trump.
A lot of old people (not all, but many) aren't gonna vote for someone who wanted them to die for the economy...