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joshcryer

(62,536 posts)
Fri May 27, 2016, 04:08 AM May 2016

His lobbying arm is very entrenched.

Which will be pointed out. He's not "new" to Washington. He's not anti-establishment, his lobbyists were actually investigated in 2000 for effectively bribing and he had to pay a $250k fine. Mind you, I know exactly what you're saying, but I don't think the American people are going to buy it. They're not going to buy the argument that the guy who knows how "things operate" is able to "fix it." Because it can't be "fixed" without legislation, and the guy doesn't even know where things are going wrong (it's not actually in lobbying, which is a constitutional right, redress of grievances, it's much more than that; it's in big money, citizens united, oligarchy united, which force politicians to be on a year round fundraising cycle just to stay afloat).

I don't think Trump has a shot in hell of becoming President. He's an embarrassment, a third rate candidate. This OP is literally about how his energy policy is a complete and epic joke, utterly misinformed (Wind is already competitive with coal, buildings and power lines kill more birds than turbines, and solar is going to be extremely cheap in a decade due to the DOE's SunShot Initiative; he's absolutely fucking clueless).

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