I would vote for Biden even if he was in a vegetative state to prevent the Republicans from gaining power

It's proven in the Steele Dossier. He paid hookers to pee on Obama's hotel bed!

Trump also is obsessed with appearing strong and assertive. Putin will have to play tough guy now. The context of their relationship has changed. Trump will get into office and he'll have to come up with a 'solution' and everyone will be like "just fund them for another year while Russia runs out of shit and then we'll have a better negotating hand" etc. Then it will never stop for 4yrs.

It's rude to discount the monumental boost in the high heeled men's shoe industry his primary run produced. He changed an entire industry overnight simply by existing. That's how fabulous he is.

Never bet against the US love for war, they love it more than Russia

Obama said he'd end the Iraq/Afghanistan war, pretty strongly. Then all he did in office was the surge and massively expanding the black war with drones strikes and CIA shit...

The GOP has policies, Donald Trump does not

I am once again asking !chuds and !nonchuds alike to read Playboy's March 1990 interview with Donald Trump. His policies are far more consistent than people give him credit for. He also had more foresight than people give him credit for, though that's declined with age and... Well, you'll see it in his own words.

Note: You should really read the whole thing, but here's a particularly relevant portion:

What were your other impressions of the Soviet Union?

I was very unimpressed. Their system is a disaster. What you will see there soon is a revolution; the signs are all there with the demonstrations and picketing. Russia is out of control and the leadership knows it. That's my problem with Gorbachev. Not a firm enough hand.

You mean firm hand as in China?

When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak ... as being spit on by the rest of the world—

Why is Gorbachev not firm enough?

I predict he will be overthrown, because he has shown extraordinary weakness. Suddenly, for the first time ever, there are coal-miner strikes and brush fires everywhere--which will all ultimately lead to a violent revolution. Yet Gorbachev is getting credit for being a wonderful leader--and we should continue giving him credit, because he's destroying the Soviet Union. But his giving an inch is going to end up costing him and all his friends what they most cherish--their jobs.

Besides the real-estate deal, you've met with top-level Soviet officials to negotiate potential business deals with them; how did they strike you?

Generally, these guys are much tougher and smarter than our representatives. We have people in this country just as smart, but unfortunately, they're not elected officials. We're still suffering from a loss of respect that goes back to the Carter Administration, when helicopters were crashing into one another in Iran. That was Carter's emblem. There he was, being carried off from a race, needing oxygen. I don't want my President to be carried off a race course. I don't want my President landing on Austrian soil and falling down the stairs of his airplane. Some of our Presidents have been incredible jerk-offs. We need to be tough.

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A favorite word of yours, tough. How do you define it?

Tough is being mentally capable of winning battles against an opponent and doing it with a smile. Tough is winning systematically.

Sometimes you sound like a Presidential candidate stirring up the voters.

I don't want the Presidency. I'm going to help a lot of people with my foundation--and for me, the grass isn't always greener.

But if the grass ever did look greener, which political party do you think you'd be more comfortable with?

Well, if I ever ran for office, I'd do better as a Democrat than as a Republican--and that's not because I'd be more liberal, because I'm conservative. But the working guy would elect me. He likes me. When I walk down the street, those cabbies start yelling out their windows.

Another game: What's the first thing President Trump would do upon entering the Oval Office?

Many things. A toughness of attitude would prevail. I'd throw a tax on every Mercedes-Benz rolling into this country and on all Japanese products, and we'd have wonderful allies again.

Would you rescue our remaining hostages in Lebanon?

Number one, in almost all cases, the hostages were told by our Government not to be there. If a man decides to become a professor at Beirut University, when he was told not to be there, and that person is captured—

He deserves it?

You feel very bad for him, but you cannot base foreign policy on his capture. With that being said, when they killed our Colonel Higgins, I would have retaliated militarily immediately. I would have hit something vital to them. And hit it hard. In any other case, I would let the takers of hostages know that they'd have one week to return that hostage. And after that week, all bets would be off. You would not have any more hostages taken, believe me. Weakness always causes problems.

Do you think George Bush is soft?

I like George Bush very much and support him and always will. But I disagree with him when he talks of a kinder, gentler America. I think if this country gets any kinder or gentler, it's literally going to cease to exist. I think if we had people from the business community--the Carl Icahns, the Ross Perots--negotiating some of our foreign policy, we'd have respect around the world.

What would President Trump's position on crime be?

I see the values of this country in the way crime is tolerated, where people are virtually afraid to say "I want the death penalty." Well, I want it. Where has this country gone when you're not supposed to put in a grave the son of a b-word who robbed, beat, murdered and threw a ninety-year-old woman off the building? Where has this country gone?

What would be some of President Trump's longer-term views of the future?

I think of the future, but I refuse to paint it. Anything can happen. But I often think of nuclear war.

Nuclear war?

I've always thought about the issue of nuclear war; it's a very important element in my thought process. It's the ultimate, the ultimate catastrophe, the biggest problem this world has, and nobody's focusing on the nuts and bolts of it. It's a little like sickness. People don't believe they're going to get sick until they do. Nobody wants to talk about it. I believe the greatest of all stupidities is people's believing it will never happen, because everybody knows how destructive it will be, so nobody uses weapons. What bullshit.

Does any of that fuzzy thinking exist around the Trump office?

On a much lower level, I would never hire anybody who thinks that way, because he has absolutely no common sense. He's living in a world of make-believe. It's like thinking the Titantic can't sink. Too many countries have nuclear weapons; nobody knows where they're all pointed, what button it takes to launch them. The bomb Harry Truman dropped on Hiroshima was a toy next to today's. We have thousands of weapons pointed at us and nobody even knows if they're going to go in the right direction. They've never really been tested. These jerks in charge don't know how to paint a wall, and we're relying on them to shoot nuclear missiles to Moscow. What happens if they don't go there? What happens if our computer systems aren't working? Nobody knows if this equipment works, and I've seen numerous reports lately stating that the probability is they don't work. It's a total mess.

And how would President Trump handle it?

He would believe very strongly in extreme military strength. He wouldn't trust anyone. He wouldn't trust the Russians; he wouldn't trust our allies; he'd have a huge military arsenal, perfect it, understand it. Part of the problem is that we're defending some of the wealthiest countries in the world for nothing.... We're being laughed at around the world, defending Japan—

Wait. If you believe that the public shares these views, and that you could do the job, why not consider running for President?

I'd do the job as well as or better than anyone else. It's my hope that George Bush can do a great job.

You categorically don't want to be President?

I don't want to be President. I'm one hundred percent sure. I'd change my mind only if I saw this country continue to go down the tubes.

More locally, one of your least favorite political figures was Mayor Ed Koch of New York. You two had a great time going after each other: He called you "piggy, piggy, piggy" and you called him "a moron." Why do you suppose he lost the election?

He lost his touch for the people. He became arrogant. He not only discarded his friends but was a fool for brutally criticizing them. The corruption was merely a symptom of what had happened to him: He had become extremely nasty, mean-spirited and very vicious, an extremely disloyal human being. When his friends like Bess Myerson and others were in trouble, he seemed to automatically abandon them, almost before finding out what they'd done wrong. He could think only about his own butt--not the city's. That was dumb: The only one who didn't know his administration was crumbling around him was him. Power corrupts.

You probably have more power than Koch did as mayor. And you're getting more of it all the time. How about power's corrupting you?

I think power sometimes corrupts--"sometimes" has to be added.

The biggest changes between 1990 and 2016 were changes in the country and the world, not changes in Trump. Running as a Republican rather than a Democrat because they became the party of working-class men, putting tariffs on China rather than Japan because they became the East Asian economic powerhouse threatening American industry, etc. Trump's actual attitude towards governance and perspective on policy hadn't changed a bit. He even unknowingly predicted his own downfall in 2020 when he described what would happen to Mikhail Gorbachev and what had happened to Ed Koch.

You're welcome to disagree with Trump's policies (Lord knows I do), but the suggestion he doesn't have any just isn't true. It's something the Democratic Party and their affiliated media outlets came up with because it was easier than trying to understand him, and people have been parroting it ever since.

good example of Trump Derangement Syndrome right here !chuds !nooticers

>His foreign policy is atrocious, just dull "America First" isolationism which is unsuitable for a global superpower like the United States

TRVKE

The only people who claim their country can be a superpower by being isolationists are r-slurs:

Rome and Britain became empires by good foreign policy (local governance and Pax Romana), Wakanda isn't real and Serbia won't become a world power by fighting with all their neighbors and making everything around them shittier.

True about his cabinet selection and being disorganized, he said he would've given weapons to Ukraine earlier, rather than Obama's blankets. Of course, that's his word, and I don't have the data on arms shipments to Ukraine from 2020-2024.

He does have a "don't frick with me" persona that's good for geopolitics and more aggressive types. Biden is as intimidating as a wet blanket.

The main thing that has me voting against Democrats is all the legal but gray area bullshit they throw on Trump starting with Russiagate and still ongoing. It strikes me as tampering with the result of the 2020 election, and it's a shit strategy for a liberal democracy in a first world country. Just take the L and work harder for the next presidential election. If they didn't pull all that shit, which contributed partly to his disorganization, I wouldn't be considering a vote this around.

!neolibs, the funny thing about the tariffs was that Biden never lifted them. They were dumb for Trump to do, but still

Trump has no morals nor scruples or politics beyond being the center of attention and being President just for the sake of it.

Accurate.

This is why all BPDmaxxers should vote for Trump

wingcuck alert

for instance he panders to evangelicals despite being probably an atheist

he panders! who else would do something so sick and depraved?

oh right: every single fricking politician in the history of the universe!

The way he handled his cabinet was extremely amateurish, incompetent and unprofessional.

True tbh.

>narcissist grifter

What politician isnt?

Cuck

reminds me of my boomer father and uncles whom are avid environmentalists and preservationists,

but because of hippies and Greens, it's like pivot their worldview in disgust to be contrarian, and now completely deny the very notion of climate change, to combat global warming hysteria

It wasn't this bad. Romney was the nominee in 2012 and he was a totally normal conservative. It's funny back then Romney even said Russia was the greatest security rival of the US and Obama had some zinger about the Cold War calling and wanting its foreign policy back, and all the lib media ate it up. It's crazy how everything has been turned on its head.

you went the opposite direction. you should have been a libtard when you were young, THEN you understand that rightoids are correct when you grow up !chuds

Reagan and Bush you can disagree with a lot but at least they didn't want to betray the country like Republicans now. That's something that really only came with Trump. Before him, loving Russia was considered, you know, kind of left-wing. But Trump praised Putin, Xi Jinping, etc. and the MAGAtards instantly threw away any principles they pretended to have and went full communist.

The Russians had funded a few politicians in the US before that, like Ron Paul, but they were always fringe weirdos until Trump.