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yurbud

(39,405 posts)
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 12:46 PM Dec 2015

The one thing GOP candidates can't say will knock Trump out in first debate with a Democrat:

"You're an idiot. It's not just that you have bad ideas, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. Running for office may SEEM like a reality TV show or professional wrestling, but actually governing requires some knowledge and, yes, even at least SOME experience doing it.

Running your own company where people have to obey your every whim or be fired is NOT the same as dealing Congress and foreign leaders who you can't fire if they disagree with you.

You're fun to watch on TV in an "Ow my balls!" kind of way, but you running for president is like a dog chasing a car--if you won you wouldn't know what the fuck to do."

The problem is, it will ONLY work if done this bluntly.

If the Democratic nominee is at all polite or wishy washy about it, it will have no effect on Trump or more importantly, people who don't follow issues and have limited reasoning ability.

Our person MUST come across as an authority putting a spoiled five year old asking to drive the car in his place or it will fail.

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bowens43

(16,064 posts)
1. That would galvinize the trump supporters and the GOP , it would not stop them from voting for him.
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 12:50 PM
Dec 2015

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
5. actually, it might if Trump is gobsmacked and caught flat-footed
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 04:50 PM
Dec 2015

He is a pampered trust fund baby who surrounds himself with yes men.

He is probably rarely if ever criticized to his face.

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)
7. He's also the guy more people than many of us want to believe wants to be
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 07:30 PM
Dec 2015

USAers love big, audacious, devil may care rhetoric. More than that they love fame and money. It is is a guy who is not well educated- even better.

Hayduke Bomgarte

(1,965 posts)
2. people who don't follow issues and have limited reasoning ability.
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 01:20 PM
Dec 2015

I think that covers roughly half of the public at large. The Murkins.

kimbutgar

(21,130 posts)
3. I like your Idiocracy reference to Trump
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 01:22 PM
Dec 2015

I have watched that movie so many times that every time I re watch it I get nervous it's becoming true. Trump is president Camacho.

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