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The Trump Presidency | Biden Inaugurated
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What do you consider a high deductible amount?
Good choice. I pay about 250 dollars a month for a family of 3, with a 1500 dollar deductible. At worst, including premiums, I'll spend around 4500 in premiums, 1500 in deductible (including copay and other fees) and another 1500 in medical contribution. In total, that's 7500 per year. Doesn't include Dental. I also put a 1000 dollar FSA plan pre tax cover the deductible.
Yeah mate. Kindergarten(!) kids telling their hispanic classmate to go back to Mexico. Couldn't get sadder than that.
There they are, like a gaggle of walking condoms, and the other half is probably at home getting some interracial lovin.
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Steve Bannon being considered for Chief of Staff.Wonder what Anne Coulter is being considered for.
Race course?
I never said anything about his other voters. I specifically referred to why the KKK was supporting him. They favored him because of what he was preaching.
fecking serves them right for voting in Trump.
Only going through this thread now, so probably late with this but...
It's back up now: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-...mp-statement-on-preventing-muslim-immigration
It's back up now: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-...mp-statement-on-preventing-muslim-immigration
Plenty of non Trumpers that need protection in red states.
Was going to say that line never stops being funny but I think it actually has. It's now officially scary
He did more than enough to brand himself as that.
Well, I'm just pissed off at central USA ruining the world.
I've never understood why people have so much hatred in them towards other people they have never met
Even the grammar is bad.
The city went for her 78-20, is majority black and has a fairly liberal university at its centre. Hopefully it's some lone person's hidden frustration and not something larger.
you're not exactly wrong, but I think MSM went overboard in exaggerating his follies in order to try to make him look worse than he is.
I mean, comparing him to someone who actually killed 6 million people an started a second world war isn't exactly a good comparison regardless of how racist trump is. and an exaggerated comparison that a lot of people here lapped up and used against trump supporters as well in branding them racist, misogynist, homophobic, islamophobic, whatever-phobic, etc. which has probably increased the turnout of the silent majority.
My deductible is $5,500. Out-of-pocket annual max is $6,500.
Well we know now the bolded did not really happen. I do think the Hitler comparisons were over the top but, I am not going to ignore the fact that he spent the entire campaign promoting hate speech.
I don't think they went remotely close enough to showing the man he really is. Especially not during the primaries when they loved him and only ran positive reports and articles on him.
Final turnout will probably be a smidge higher than 2012, west coast ballots still being tallied.Turnout decreased from the previous election
Some of the reaction 
(mainly on twitter to be fair)
Hope he smashes it - maybe even flukes like a Middle East peace agreement and comes out a hero, it'd be hilarious!
(mainly on twitter to be fair)Hope he smashes it - maybe even flukes like a Middle East peace agreement and comes out a hero, it'd be hilarious!
You never know. Sometimes a 'great' president does little more than ride a wave and get people behind him. There is a decent chance of such a wave coming too, certainly economically and perhaps even in the Middle East and with Russia.
My feeling, though, is that Trump is actually quite inept and will not even manage this.
My feeling, though, is that Trump is actually quite inept and will not even manage this.
I hope he is a great president. I'm just not optimistic about it at all.Some of the reaction
Hope he smashes it - maybe even flukes like a Middle East peace agreement and comes out a hero, it'd be hilarious!
I have solace because he's a businessman at his essence and therefore by nature a problem solver and a black/white 'get things done' type guy.
The flip side of that is what happens if he's utterly pragmatic and abandons all the things he promised his electorate
For me, him doing that and being a good president would be hilarious... Maybe just not for the same reason as it would be for you
Some of the reaction
Hope he smashes it - maybe even flukes like a Middle East peace agreement and comes out a hero, it'd be hilarious!
The irony is, if it goes tits up most of posters here won't find happiness in saying 'I told you so' to you. Yea well, we'll find out soon enough.
The key of the Obama machine wasn't, after all, his appeal to minorities and younglings, it was his appeal to white voters outside Appalachia. Who'd have thought.
EDIT - And you can actually see the Bill Clinton effect! In Arkansas.
Hitler didn't actually kill 6 million people if we're being that picky.
Still can't believe that he's going to be in office. However his election campaign to get to this stage was absolutely phenomenal.
I'm not a trump supporter, but rather an admirer of his achievements of disarming the opposition and amounting his own defences to protect himself from the media and all those that opposed him to win.
He simplified himself to appease the majority that voted for him. His lack of political background a great weapon.
I would also consider him smarter than Hillary. Imagine if Hillary had the whole world against her, she would crumble In a second. With Trump he actually turned everyone's hatred and used it against them, his admirers loved him for that and people started to stand up for his realistic nature and so the votes came pouring in.
You don't become the president if you are dumb, you must have qualities that make you unique. Trump's was the master manipulator, appeasing himself to his demographic so much that so support was almost unconditional.
Hillary's main quality was the "I'm not the bad guy" look. A quality that meant she was never going to win the election as the bad guy soon made her to look like the fool.
However, Trump made some missteps in his campaign. Sometimes his outlandish views went too far, almost jeopardizing the campaign.
Although this happened, why I think he is so smart is that he made himself look like he was going to win, and not, at the same time. Let me explain.
If Trump looked serious to the public eye then the media really would've began to take Trump so seriously from the start that he would've been shut down instantly, e.g. The pussy video, that only appeared once it was fully realized that the man was becoming president.
However, his first batch of supporters were mostly southern Americans with a lack of an educated background that bought into Trump's image. The media did pick this up, but simply thought it was just 'rednecks' getting a bit giddy over a man that made them relatable. However what they didn't understand was not only were "rednecks" supporting Trump but also the average male white man of America, they simply dismissed these people as average southern men but it was much much broader than that.
I have no idea how well he will do when he starts his presidency but I do know this. The guy is smart, manipulative, and a bigger threat than you would think. He's not a silly face. He's not a comedian that makes funny statements. But he's a realist. This leads me to believing that he will get any job done at any cost, which could have positive or negative effects for America in the long term.
I'm not a trump supporter, but rather an admirer of his achievements of disarming the opposition and amounting his own defences to protect himself from the media and all those that opposed him to win.
He simplified himself to appease the majority that voted for him. His lack of political background a great weapon.
I would also consider him smarter than Hillary. Imagine if Hillary had the whole world against her, she would crumble In a second. With Trump he actually turned everyone's hatred and used it against them, his admirers loved him for that and people started to stand up for his realistic nature and so the votes came pouring in.
You don't become the president if you are dumb, you must have qualities that make you unique. Trump's was the master manipulator, appeasing himself to his demographic so much that so support was almost unconditional.
Hillary's main quality was the "I'm not the bad guy" look. A quality that meant she was never going to win the election as the bad guy soon made her to look like the fool.
However, Trump made some missteps in his campaign. Sometimes his outlandish views went too far, almost jeopardizing the campaign.
Although this happened, why I think he is so smart is that he made himself look like he was going to win, and not, at the same time. Let me explain.
If Trump looked serious to the public eye then the media really would've began to take Trump so seriously from the start that he would've been shut down instantly, e.g. The pussy video, that only appeared once it was fully realized that the man was becoming president.
However, his first batch of supporters were mostly southern Americans with a lack of an educated background that bought into Trump's image. The media did pick this up, but simply thought it was just 'rednecks' getting a bit giddy over a man that made them relatable. However what they didn't understand was not only were "rednecks" supporting Trump but also the average male white man of America, they simply dismissed these people as average southern men but it was much much broader than that.
I have no idea how well he will do when he starts his presidency but I do know this. The guy is smart, manipulative, and a bigger threat than you would think. He's not a silly face. He's not a comedian that makes funny statements. But he's a realist. This leads me to believing that he will get any job done at any cost, which could have positive or negative effects for America in the long term.
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He is not a good businessman though. Most of his business ventures have failed. He is successful as a property magnate which (sorry) anyone with good starting capital can be.
Easy to just say....
Arguably a hell of a lot more than that. Not sure what point you are making here?
Yep, I'd argue his success in recent years has been based much, much more in his celebrity appeal and status as opposed to business nous.
What does this mean? I am not just saying it, it is indisputably true. Start me off with a few million and hand over some real estate in New York in the 70s to me and I would be fabulously wealthy now even if I was totally incompetent in most of my dealings, as incidentally a number of people who worked closely with Trump for years have stated about him.
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