Now, he may have (probably did) stiff workers in other ways.

He had an immense reputation for this for his whole career as a “businessman”. ^[1](https://usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/) ^[2](https://aflcio.org/2016/7/12/when-donald-trump-had-choice-he-chose-nonunion-labor-his-construction-projects-ibew)

I completely agree, which is why I was relishing her association hurting Trump’s chances.

Don’t know what you’re celebrating, the more time he spends with her the better as she’s both terrible and unpopular.

So the threat to people’s pets was not in fact Haitians but republicans themselves? Amazing.

The whole thing is probably out there somewhere but this is the classic clip.

I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong with that, I just wish she was more discerning when selecting her clientele.

Seeing her refuse to denounce Putin in the Mehdi Hassan interview sure was something.

Great points! The idea that Trump is a symptom, a logical function of a longer and deeper process is something I absolutely agree with and I think needs to be spoken of more. I guess my follow-up question would be, is Reagan really the seed or is he too perhaps an almost inevitable product of the American culture?

Trump’s brain operates on a fifth-grader level or so when it comes to concepts like these. A fifth-grader bully. He knows the biggest kid in the yard gets to take the smaller kids lunch money. Consequently he thinks America gets to do the same to other countries. There is literally no further thought put into the whole concept. Those consequences you speak of are far beyond the mind of someone who cannot conceive of the future and is barely capable of object permanence.

Sadly the world is full of morons. As the late, great George Carlin said:

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

It’s actually a tough judgement call I would say. You’re right about everything, but you shouldn’t underestimate the damage Trumpism has done (and is doing) to the American people and politics. Trump has managed to radicalise millions of people and as Germany will attest after the fall of Nazism, de-brainwashing cultists is a herculean task that will often fail - many Germans carried their indoctrinated beliefs with them until that whole generation died off.

Reagan still might be worse on balance, but it’s probably close.

Whatever you do, please make sure there is a photojournalist in the room when Trump is told Texas is blue.

I don’t want to link the same clip over and over but Bernie getting the whole Fox News Town Hall crowd to agree with him should have been the eye opener for the whole fucking party, not just mayor Pete.

It’s sad that the best response to Trump’s bizarre accusation of “she wants to give everyone health care” would be “fuck yeah I do!” but she for some reason thinks it will scare off swing voters and leans into the classic Dem instinct of tucking to the center.

Depends, what are their policies?

His followers don’t care. They probably didn’t even watch the debate anyway, and even if they did it’s been abundantly clear for years now that millions of Americans - for some inexplicable reason - will choose to believe Trump’s words over the evidence of facts, their own memories and even their own direct sensory input.

Besides the fact that macro- and microeconomics are vastly different, his multiple bankruptcies should give you ample evidence that economy is the last thing to trust him on. It’s amazing how little facts matter, and how many people take him at his word. I never realised ActLikeYouBelong would work on this scale, but apparently just claiming you’re a genius billionaire is enough for millions of people.

I know you’re trying to help Hillary but for everyone’s sake I think maybe just laying low until November is the play here.

It’s just on the other side of the current population’s attention span and short-term memory.

I’m not even sure this is them being actually dumb, or if it’s the case that they realised “Haitian” is just the perfect socially passable shorthand for “non-white” they’ve been looking for.