Thumbs Up: Ready to Fly or Least
Take Off
(On another wild tangent)
Proposed Trump Cabinet
(One-man/one-branch: Me, Myself, and I)
Introduction to the Trump Book of Pledges and Promises: No treaties,
no allies, no trade agreements, no military involvement anywhere (except here in CONUS), and basically just the
U.S. going it alone in world affairs. The source: The Trump Business Playbook. Now the latest.
From
this article verbatim … pretty
shocking stuff from Trump – which we’ve come to expect – this however, just
about take the proverbial cake (my emphasis included in
RED):
Donald Trump
raised doubts about whether the United States under his leadership would come
to the aid of its NATO allies in Europe in the event of an attack by
Russia, in an interview recently with The New York Times.
When specifically asked about his views of Russia, the newly-minted
Republican nominee said that if that country attacked some of the small Baltic
States, which are the most recent members of NATO, he
would decide whether to come to their aid only after reviewing whether those
nations “… have fulfilled their obligations to us.”
Note: NATO's collective
defense agreement requires all member countries to come to the aid of any
member state that is attacked.
Trump also said during the interview that as president he would
question the security agreements the United States currently has with the 28
members of NATO, and that he'd pull back troops
deployed around the world, citing economic reasons.
“We are spending a fortune on military in order to lose $800 billion. That
doesn’t sound very smart to me,” Trump said to the Times.
Trump elaborated on his foreign policy plans in the interview, saying
the United States has to “… fix our own mess” before trying to influence the
behavior of other countries.
“Look at what is happening in our country,” he
told The Times, referring to the recent mass shooting of Dallas officers earlier
this month. “How are we going to lecture when people are shooting policemen in
cold blood?”
Throughout Trump's year-plus long campaign, he has advocated to “Make America Great Again,” and has
bucked the Republican establishment by promising to “rip
up” free trade deals with Mexico and Canada. However, he told The Times that he'd like to continue existing agreements
only if U.S. allies “stopped taking advantage” of Americans.
~ End of that article
I would add in closing about his last comment:
So, the U.S. doesn’t take advantage of other countries and their
citizens, right, Mr. Trump? He seems to think he could run the country like one of his business
ventures – or so his words seem to prove that.
Related
and a footnote for fun added from this site – just for fun, yet sadly, truthful:
A short list of some of Trump’s most obvious
hypocrisies about his candidacy and his campaign.
1. He built a campaign centered on how terrible trade
deals are, even though many of his company’s products are made in Bangladesh,
China and other nations.
2. He’s the candidate for the party that claims it
stands for “Christian values” and for “preserving the sanctity of
marriage,” despite the fact he’s on his third marriage and has had at least one
affair.
3. He claims politicians are corrupt, unethical and
cannot be trusted, then admits to trying to buy politicians in the past so
they would unethically help him with his business dealings.
4. He brags about how he’s such a successful
businessman, yet refuses to show his tax returns to prove his success.
5. He calls Hillary Clinton a liar, when he’s the most
dishonest person we’ve ever seen run for public office.
6. He often calls other people “stupid,” yet
frequently speaks with the vocabulary of a spoiled 5th grader.
7. He says America isn’t great anymore, while he
almost constantly brags about how successful he’s become in this
country.
8. He boasts about how many votes he received
during the GOP primary, but never mentions that he got less than half the
vote and had more people vote against him than for him.
9. He calls Hillary Clinton “crooked,” yet was found
guilty of creating a fake anti-gambling front organization with the sole
purpose of slandering the Mohawk Native Americans in an attempt to prevent them
from getting approval to build a casino that would compete with his.
10. He calls President Obama divisive, while he
vilifies Mexicans, immigrants, Muslims, women and has managed to divide his own
party.
11. He talks about how much respect he has for our
military and our veterans, yet mocked the thousands of American POWs who’ve
served in our military when he said he doesn’t consider Sen. John McCain a
“hero” because he doesn’t like people who were captured.
12. He claims he isn’t a racist or a bigot, yet has
shared blatantly racist memes; has based a lot of his campaign on vilifying
minorities; and he once said, “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The
only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys wearing yarmulkes…
Those are the only kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else…Besides
that, I tell you something else. I think that guy’s lazy. And it’s probably not
his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks.”
13. During the 2012 election he said that Mitt Romney
should release his tax returns; four years later as he’s become the GOP
presidential nominee, Trump refuses to release his.
14. He says he’s going to be the “law and order
president,” however, on numerous occasions, he’s said he wants to commit war
crimes.
5. He claims he’s a great negotiator and a master at
making great deals, yet couldn’t convince any big-name Republicans to become
his running mate, ultimately settling for no-name Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.
There are much more – do the research for yourself … interesting
stuff. Shows how dumbed down those who support Trump really have lowered
themselves. Amazing in that regard, too.
As for me, I have great
concern about how Trump could win, and make no mistake he could under certain precise conditions. Consider the condition of scared angry voters coming out, believing
him, and voting out of fear like we saw in 2010 with the so-called TEA “party”
movement.
Remember what the result wrought on Congress ... the worst and most-divisive in
our history. For anyone who stays home and does not vote this cycle, somehow
thinking, “Oh, he can't win,” well let me say: Yes, he can. People cannot stay home and
not vote; not this time.
All the cards are on the table and Trump is about
to deal off the bottom of the deck. He wants to win, but mostly for himself and
not much else despite his slick slogans.
I say we can get a better deal and
better hand without him shuffling the cards (a weak analogy, but somewhat
apropos, too, right?).
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