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Thread: Trump’s Qualifications for the Presidency

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    Quote Originally Posted by RichardMZhlubb View Post
    You guys are brainwashed.
    You really have no room to talk though. Your party is nothing but a bunch of brainwashed zealots who worship at the alter of government.

    Future generations will see Trump for what he really is, an amoral charlatan.
    Most presidents are amoral charlatans, including Biden. Especially Biden. Stop pretending like you have real principles. We know you don't. We know your party is just a racket.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    It is interesting what people think qualifies an individual to run a country and be the president. Honestly, no one is qualified but some appear to have better qualifications than others. However, it seems more important to consider who that individual decides to place as their top advisors (the people who actually should be the top of the field for military/defense, healthcare, economy, science, climate, and so on).

    Spot on. No leader can do it all. one of the most important traits of leadership is the ability to assign the right tasks to the right people and then let them do their jobs.


    “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” - Patton

    “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” - Barry Goldwater

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cletus View Post
    Spot on. No leader can do it all. one of the most important traits of leadership is the ability to assign the right tasks to the right people and then let them do their jobs.
    Which is incredibly damning of Donald "only the best people" Trump, who was a miserable failure when it came to finding and nominating decent administrators and advisors.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RichardMZhlubb View Post
    I think the opposite is actually true. Right now, about half the country continues to view January 6 through hyper-partisan, pro-Trump blinders. As time goes by, more and more people will recognize that Trump’s actions leading up to that day and on the day of the insurrection were the most egregious attack on American democracy by a sitting US president in history.
    No, that would be Lincoln's murderous war on the south. Southerners basically voted to declare their independence, just like the founders did in 1776, and Lincoln organized an invasion of their lands and homes that resulted in an obscene amount of death and suffering. Talk about an attack on democracy. As the radical abolitionist, Lysander Spooner, said, "...the number of slaves, instead of having been diminished by the war, has been greatly increased; for a man, thus subjected to a government that he does not want, is a slave." And that - enslavement to government - is the true political legacy of the current US establishment, which you represent in your own small way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by carolina73 View Post
    As far as the Generals go; they prove their goal is job security by extending conflicts and not ending wars.
    So why do you believe these same generals when they all claim the US needs to confront Russia right on its own borders? Can't you see that US machinations in Ukraine are just another scheme of the same deep state that tried to remove Trump from the presidency? Obama and Biden's fingerprints are all over the corrupt government in Kiev. Why do you want to prop them up with our tax dollars?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cletus View Post
    Spot on. No leader can do it all. one of the most important traits of leadership is the ability to assign the right tasks to the right people and then let them do their jobs.


    “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” - Patton
    Was John Bolton the right person? You all thought he was when Trump first appointed him. Because Bolton runs his mouth and talks tough and is always trying to start another war, which is apparently all that is needed to impress some people. Of course, the little coward would never, ever fight in one of those wars himself. As loathsome as Bolton may be, he's not stupid. He's not about to risk his life fighting in a meaningless war for power and profit. He just likes tricking dumb teenagers into fighting the wars for him so he can sit around cashing his checks from the government and various lobbying groups.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RichardMZhlubb View Post
    Trump was never qualified, but that really doesn't make a difference. Enough people were fooled into thinking that he was that he was elected. He'll go down in history as one of the handful of worst presidents ever, but his cultists don't care. He's their guy.
    Gee Wally. That'll surely make a difference
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    Quote Originally Posted by RMNIXON View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cletus View Post
    I don't believe he will. When a little time passes and the hysterical Left rants give way to scholarly review of Trump's presidency, historians will find that despite incredible and continuous opposition and attempts to undermine him, he was a very effective President... far more effective than either his predecessor or his successor, both of whom will go down in the books as ineffective and destructive.
    Only if those “historians” are nationalists or far right conservatives. Otherwise, his legacy will be a cabinet filled with unprecedented corruption, a failed response to a pandemic, an enormous deficit, stacking the judiciary, the damaging of America’s image and its role as a global leader, unprecedented lies that included an attempt to overturn a legitimate election, and the resurgence of populism and a rejection of institutions and facts.

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