The Real Failure of People Attacking Trump

I was reading this article in the Financial Times about how people running for the Republican presidential nomination needed to bow out so that a real contender could stop Trump and protect the Republican party. I guess the Financial Times only represents the Republicans according to their words. That is disgusting.

I also have read an article from CBS news which talks about how Trump said that talking garbage about him has not helped any candidate. Donald Trump warns opponents: It's "unlucky to attack me".
He is right, it is not appreciated when politicians or the system attack Trump and for good reason, they are insincere and we all know it. That is the part they don't get, it is not about Trump, he merely exposes their insincerity.

Presidential candidate Scott Walker has blasted Trump and then turned around and said we should consider building a wall between the United States and Canada. Huh? Why did it take the media and others so long to call him on that, they took on Trump immediately for saying we should do so with Mexico and then his opponents agreed with him, at least about the wall.

Here is what the Republicans don't get. Working people want answers that will help them. It is really that simple. The only answers the other Republicans have to helping America is outlawing gay marriage, decreasing taxes on the wealthy, decreasing welfare, social security and eliminating universal healthcare. Am I missing something? I don't think so, oh yeah and making abortion illegal again, like it worked before (and I am morally opposed to abortion). The Democrats are no better, they also only repeat promises that they didn't keep or that didn't work except for Sanders.

The message of every Republican candidate other than Trump is to turn back the clock. Increasing deregulation, increasing privatization and eliminating benefits for half of all Americans is their message while at the same time undoing everything that has occurred since the depression. The Republicans have threatened to shut down the government again, do we all benefit from that? Here is where Trump is different, he says the Iran deal is a bad deal; but, that he will make it work. He doesn't deny the present realities, he says, how can we work with it while the others try and turn back the clock.

My friends are just about all incredibly Republican and detest socialism. I am the outlier; but, like Trump, they know I mean exactly what I say and they also know I am liberal, not a Democrat, liberal. What we have in common is that we all care about Americans and America and we know the parties no longer represent our interests. I used to tell the people I mentored that when they were negotiating with someone the number one thing they should consider is what interests their opponent represented. It didn't matter if your opponent loved you, hated you, was rude, lied or whatever, in the end they would always do what took care of their interests. Look at politicians the same way, if they are funded by the financial institutions then they will make policies to protect those institutions even when they hurt the nation. That is politics. Trump benefits from real estate and that benefits when average Americans have jobs, are happy and secure and want to buy property. It is to his advantage to see America do well. There is nothing wrong with that, that you can count on in a politician, the others sold their souls to globalist interests and those are not American interests. The real failure of the other candidates is the failure to put American interests first and actually mean it.

Thoughts About The Media and Trump

The Pimpernel is neither Republican nor Democrat and neither left nor right. I personally am disgusted by the politicians of this nation and have been for quite awhile now. I am neither a pure capitalist or a communist, I am for all of America and all Americans. I don't believe in dogma over what is right. I believe that a society does best when it works together, I don't believe in everyone for themselves. I think the essence of selfishness is the essence of all sin. People that know me and have read my blog will tell you that it reads like I sound in person. The thoughts I have written about here are my true thoughts, at least when I wrote them, I have changed some of my perspectives over the years.

So, what does all of that have to do with Trump. Well, I couldn't imagine rooting for him 30 years ago. He is crass, obnoxious and not what I would want in a statesman. Yet, here we are with him being the only candidate on the right who I could consider voting for because all of the others are just actors who have sold their souls and their votes to the big money. Nothing the others say matters because it doesn't reflect what they will do.

You know why Jeb Bush promised to cut taxes for the wealthy? It wasn't to get more votes, it was because the rise of Trump has hurt his ability to get more from donors. Only days ago I read about how his money was no longer coming in. He is promising tax cuts to the wealthy so they will send him money for his campaign. Trump had previously said, he will tax the rich more. Just saying that for a Republican was an act of defiance to the system. Trump is for America first and that is what is refreshing because all of the others have proven they don't care about us.

Now we get to the press. Never before have I seen the left and right unanimous in being against a candidate. The liberal media should be focused on liberal candidates because the primaries are about to begin and their number one priority should be on their party; but, it is not, it is focused on Trump. Which Republican candidate other than Trump has the liberal media talked about in the last two months? I'll wait for the answer.

Jeb Bush Has Now Proven He Only Cares About the Rich

I was on the fence about Jeb Bush, I figured he was just another Bush; but, more boring. He has just announced his new tax plan. He wants to cut taxes to increase growth. Haven't we been doing that since Reagan and has it helped the average American? He also wants to cut the taxes on businesses by almost half and it would be half of what the rest of us pay; but, then again, many big companies are not paying any taxes now and few are paying taxes on the money they make overseas to the United States.

I should point out that while he would cut the corporate tax rate by almost half, he also want to give corporations more in deductions. He is convinced this will increase growth; but, for whom. Since the crash just about all the increases in wealth have gone to the top one percent while wages have remained constant and have not kept up with inflation. Wait, he also wants to allow companies that made money overseas to bring it back into the country without being taxed at all. Read that last sentence again, if they keep their money overseas for ten years, they get to bring it back into the US with no tax on it. He is a true man of the people, the wealthy people, not the American people. This guy cares less about average Americans than Twit Romney.

It is pretty simple. When Reagan pitched trickle down economics (the idea that giving tax breaks to companies and the wealthy would lead to more investment in industry in the United States), America thought, it is worth a try and we trust the guy telling us. It hasn't worked and I think we all know that 35 years later. Even more businesses have outsourced since being given tax breaks. Wages for American workers have not even kept up with inflation.

Yahoo - CNBC - Jeb Bush: My tax plan will push growth to 4%.

 I personally don't care about how much growth 1% of us see, I care about how much the nation benefits. Here is the question you should ask politicians, if we vote for you how will your policies increase wages and the number of middle class jobs. I like that question.

Rand and Ron Paul - Idiots

Huffington Post - Rand Paul: Income Inequality Comes From 'Some People Working Harder' Than Others.  He said that basically, the harder you work, the more you succeed. It would be great if the world worked that way. Is your job easier than it was ten or five years ago, are you working harder and are you making more? Has everyone worked less since the crash of 2007-2008, I mean the people that kept their jobs not the ones who lost their jobs. If you kept your job and are working harder are you making more. The stats say that we are working harder, productivity of the American worker has been going up for 40 years and pay has been flat, no increases as productivity has increased. Is Rand Paul unaware of this? Nope he knows, he just doesn't care.

The Pauls promote a form of libertarianism, one that believes there should be no government regulation and that it is everyone for themselves in this world. The only time we are supposed to work together is to protect ourselves from physical threats. What has Rand Paul had to say about exporting jobs to other countries?

Why couldn't Ron Paul get as much support as Donald Trump has? The more people get to know what the Pauls really believe, like no social services, the less people like them. Oddly enough, or maybe not, the more people listen to Trump, the more support he has received. Maybe we already knew he was a trash talker and pointing that out a hundred times is just stupid. I smoke, how many times do you think I have been told that smoking is bad for me? People probably know more about Trump than anyone else running for president. More people know who Trump is than any other candidate except Hillary Clinton. To most of the nation, Jeb Bush is just another Bush; but, was governor of Florida. Outside of Florida he is only known for being a Bush. As far as how he thinks, we saw him for years on television and may have even read his books. The media makes him out to be a buffoon and trouble maker who is not serious about winning. They never manage to quote anything from his books that would back up either of those things.

If the pollsters want a real question, I will offer one up. Which politician do you think will keep his promise if he makes it and you keep up your part of the bargain? Everyone other than Sanders and Trump have kept their word when they made promises. I support strengthening our border control; but, would not deport 11 million people; but, I would deport a percentage based on what they have done since moving her and based upon the amount of time they have been here. Having said that, I know that Trump honestly intends to and if elected would do everything he could to deport them, he is not just talking lies and everyone else knows it too. The truth is that when Trump said he wanted to deport the illegal aliens, nobody questioned if he meant it, not the other Republicans, not the Democrats and not the media. Instead they talked about why it was a bad thing or how he was extreme. Nobody doubted that he meant what he said. Think about it.

The Way To Get Rid of Trump

I was reading an article that said the way to get rid of Trump was to make fun of him. Nope, that is not going to do it and it shows a lack of understanding why the negative media coverage only helps him. Trump is not the Tea Party or the Occupy Movement, those were dealt with by the people who run this country. The Tea Party was subverted into the system and then prevented from making changes. The Occupy Movement was physically eliminated and arrested.

Here is the thing that nobody wants to really recognize, not the media or the politicians or the wealthy. The middle and working class has been getting taken advantage of for 40 years in an increasingly heartless manner and neither the media, politicians or wealthy have done anything to help; but, have in fact all benefitted from our loss of jobs to other countries and decreasing wages in the United States. The working people that built this country know that and don't trust those groups anymore. How else can this nation express it's outrage and seek representation if the apple cart is not overturned and you know what, any politician who has been in politics for more than 8 years and has not tried to stop these things with new ways, is not going to be trusted to do it now.

Trump may go away, it is early in the election; but, that will not change the sentiment that has given him his support, that anger is still percolating. Those who fail to learn from history and bound to repeat it. When is the last time that the nation was led by corrupt politicians who only worked for the benefit of themselves and special interests?  Hmm, that would be the early 1900s and eventually the people voted in the progressive Teddy Roosevelt and the other people committed to "good government" and that meant creating civil servants and letting unions rise and busting up monopolies.

The media does not understand that Trump is also increasingly showing how bought and sold they are. Everytime they trump up stories about Trump, it becomes increasingly clear that they are working against him; but, we already knew the media was a bunch of spin doctors and liars. There is a way to get rid of Trump before he wins without making him a martyr and making the public even more angry, change the laws to benefit the workers and not just the wealthy, level the playing field for all Americans and stop giving any tax breaks to companies that outsource work that could be done here. It is that simple and the current politicians and CEOs aren't going to do that and the media won't call for it because they don't care about American working people.

UPDATE:

This is too funny. I had just logged out of the blog and came across an article from Bloomberg titled, "Do the Math: The Rich Really Are Different".  The article starts by saying that extreme income inequality has been increasing since the 1980s and nobody really knows why. The author states that it could be lowering taxes (to the wealthy more than others should have been stated), technological advances or a basic problem with capitalism. That was the best the writer could think of. The author states that it has been mathematically proven that those things alone would not have increased income inequality as much as has occurred. The author then states that it might be the rise of people who are just better at investing, superstar investors and he claims to have math to prove that is possible.

Aside from the fact that IQs are not vastly different between the wealthy and non-wealthy, it is just stupid to believe that the last 40 years has created more supermen, this is not a comic book. How can the media continue to tell us that things are okay and it is all our fault if it is not okay when the politicians don't even vote for the policies we elected them to vote in regards to what really matters, jobs and opportunity for all.

Here is what the author didn't think about including in his equations. How much money was stolen by the big banks because they rigged all the financial markets (to which they have pled guilty and paid minimal fines). The author also didn't bother calculating how much the income inequality was caused by sending jobs and technology to China.

With all the things Trump has talked about regarding foreign nations, the one thing the media refuses to write about is the job losses to foreign countries. He didn't just talk about Mexican immigrants, he talked about American companies sending jobs to Mexico. I have not read one article about that.

UPDATE 2:

USA Today - Wolff: There's one obvious Trump slayer.  This article claims that people like Trump because he is openly a narcissist. The author then says that it is about us liking people who have been self made, movers and shakers. Finally the author concludes that billionaire Michael Bloomberg would beat him. Nope, not gonna happen and the point of Trump is once again lost, perhaps intentionally when nobody in the media can apparently see the obvious or at least admit to the truth. We all know that politicians are egomaniacs and narcissists. There are others who have given up on believing Hillary Clinton can win and are calling for Joe Biden to run. LOL. They refuse to want people to enter the race based on their policies and instead think they will find an opponent to Trump based on recognition or likeability, neither will be successful.

9/2015 Odds and Ends

Huffington Post - Associated News - Huckabee Compares Gavin Newsom To Kentucky Clerk, Sparks Twitter War. Here is the short story, back in the day the mayor of San Francisco issued same sex marriage licenses before the legislature or courts had made it legal. Those marriages were annulled by the courts later. Huckabee supports the clerk in Kentucky for refusing to issue licenses to gays and says that it is the same thing that the mayor of San Francisco did, ignoring the law and I agree with him on that issue. For me, they are both wrong because they are making up their own laws and ignoring their responsibility to implement the law of the land right or wrong.

Smithsonian - Melting Ice in Yellowstone is Revealing Ancient Artifacts Faster Than Researchers Can Handle. The article starts with these words, "As the climate changes" and then goes on to talk about how some of the ice in Yellowstone that is usually there during summer is melting and all sorts of artifacts are being found from hundreds of years ago to tens of thousands of years ago. Wait, hundreds of years ago, doesn't that mean that this has happened before in the last couple hundred years for the artifacts to be there?

More Garbage From Republicans About Trump

Yahoo - Business Insider - Donald Trump can't answer a simple question that's one of the fundamentals of his campaign.

Marco Rubio went after Trump for saying that he wanted to make America great again by asking whether or not Trump thought America was great. Trump explained what he thought was wrong with the country and Business Insider implies that he did not answer the question. The question is garbage because I think everyone really does understand what Trump meant. He meant that we are losing the standing that we held in the world and the opportunities that people used to have. We are falling behind and need to get back up is Trumps message.

I have voted for both Republicans and Democrats over the years and associate myself with neither party. I don't believe the parties represent liberals or conservatives, just big money. I disagree with Trump's approach in certain areas and with some of his policies; but, the sad thing is that he is the more moderate of the candidates. He is willing to compromise to get things done rather than promote gridlock. The rest of the Republican candidates are afraid to address the issues we are interested in in any meaningful manner. Rubio could have talked about Trumps stance on immigration or tax laws or Iran; but, instead he chose to play clever word games about Trumps four word slogan, not policies, his slogan. That is lame.