The man has the thinnest skin of any political candidate I've ever seen. The man attacks anyone and everyone that might have slighted him. This may be the number one reason not to vote for Trump. He has the temperament of a crazed toddler. Hillary Clinton knew just how to beat her opponent. Just tick him off and sit back and watch him commit political suicide.
Kelly Ann Conway has to think this is the worst gig she's ever had....Her sane approach brought Trump back from the abyss when he was hurtling towards it at light speed when he was attacking a gold star family. She brought discipline to the campaign and helped Trump close to within a couple of points. Only to see her efforts wasted.
I'd like to personally thank every Republican primary voter who made this idiot the nominee.
Did you see my quote of Liverpoolmiss on Badscience?
That's here #1 reason (she lists the top fiften and several other bad things that don't make it into the list).
From badscience, but again, Liverpoolmiss nails it.
Again, I'll let the autocensor do its work.
Subject: Indecision 2016
liverpoolmiss said:This post got lost a bit in the fun, but it's an interesting one. I think the following would explain why I'd vote for a sexual assaulter or a crook, if the alternative was someone who would be awful for the wider world.Bewilderd said:I don't know if this is quite what you are saying, but I saw a video of someone saying it should be impossible to vote for someone after they made the comments about grabbing a woman by the vagina. And I have to say I really disagree.
Imagine if this was Bill Clinton against Trump and it was Bill Clinton who had been caught on camera making the grabbing comment, but nonetheless he has the policy positions you'd expect, while Donald trump had run exactly the same campaign as he has but never made horrible sexist comments and wasn't caught on camera making that statement. Who do you vote for?
Or another example, imagine if the president can only act on issues to do with women's rights, including abortion (so triumph couldn't implement his ideas on foreign policy, immigration, security and couldn't introduce any anti-Muslims stuff) and you had to choose between Trump, having made these horrible remarks and demonstrated so many times that he is disgustingly sexist, and Pence. Pence may be a much nicer and more personable man to be around, but I think he would make much nastier legislation that would do a lot more damage to the lives of women. So would you choose him or trump?
I wouldn't say the character stuff is meaningless, especially not when it as extreme as it is with trump, but i think it is less of a problem than the actual hideous policies he has proposed and the kind of actions you can predict he will make if elected.
My top 15 reasons not to vote for Trump:
1) Unstable thin-skinned bully as Commander in Chief and in charge of nuclear weapons
What, how could anyone need more? Well OK then, loads of reasons why he’d be devastating for the world as a whole:
2) Would surrender to Putin on anything and everything, from Ukraine to invasion of the Balts to sanctions, and has continually attacked Nato and America’s Nato allies
3) He would overturn the Paris climate treaty and actively try to wreck the US renewables industry while giving fossil fuel industries anything they want
4) Happy for nuclear proliferation to Saudi etc
5) Eager to start conflict with Iran, make war on Middle East countries to “take all their oil”, has his own childish fantasies about crushing ISIS while ignoring the advice of generals
6) Wants soldiers to commit war crimes, murder terrorists and their families, and torture non-terrorists because they probably deserve it anyway
7) Would wreck the US economy, and with it damage the rest of the world economy, causing poverty and death for unknown numbers in the US and elsewhere. Suggested the US should default on its debt.
Then a whole bunch of reasons why he’ll be a disaster for America:
8. Deportation force to round up immigrants, put them in custody and deport them
9) Direct racist who seeks support from white supremacists and the KKK, wants to discriminate against African Americans and Hispanic Americans, including new police powers, stop and frisk and capital punishment for alleged rapists if they are black, even if later found innocent. Plus a delightful sprinkling of anti-Semitism
10) Direct Islamophobe who wants special surveillance and registers of Muslims, plus random nonsense about banning Muslims entering the country
11) A proven sexist who wants to discriminate against women in the workplace, particularly pregnant women
12) Wants “power of veto” over the media, loosening of libel laws, generally attacks free speech
13) Has called for special prosecutor to override law and the FBI and lock up his political opponent, and generally is obsessed with revenge and wants to use state institutions to pursue personal vendettas. Admires dictators and loves to threaten/encourage violence at his rallies, including hinting that gun nuts should assassinate his opponent. Suggested American civilians could be tried by military commissions at Guantanamo. Wants his thugs to “monitor” polling booths in “certain communities” to ensure “they” don’t rig the election
14) Wants to appoint extreme right wingers to the Supreme Court, including going along with Republican anti-abortion policies
15) Continual liar who is addicted to conspiracy theories, making him dangerously unpredictable
So I’m sorry to say his sexual assaults on women, and his boasting about sexually assaulting women, doesn’t even make the top 15. That’s just damage to individuals, rather active damage to the entire world and destruction of the USA.
A bunch of further reasons that didn’t make my top 15 involving the damage he has done to individuals:
- Sexually assaults women
- Voyeurism against young women, including under 18s
- Attacked the Muslim parents of a dead solider
- Personally insults distinguished public servants, generals, etc
- Mocks veterans and POWs, mocks the disabled, mocks women for their personal appearance, uses racist insults, uses belittling insults
A bunch of reasons that show he’s nearer a fraudster than a successful businessman:
- Cheats on his taxes
- Uses his “charitable” foundation for personal benefit and lies about his charity donations
- Business failures and bankruptcies
- Lies about how much money he’s got and how much his father gave him
- Trump University fraud
- Cheats small businesses out of the money he owes them
- Actively sought illegal immigrants to employ
- Ties to mafia
- Lied about offering child care to his employees
- Financial links to Russia, Colonel Gadhafi, China
A bunch of reasons to do with him being a pathetic individual who’s basically a nasty little ****:
- Obsession with TV ratings, how much applause his speech gets, size of rallies, uses fake polls to claim he’s winning or won debates
- Boasted during a debate about the size of his penis
- Lied about 9/11 and boasted it made his building the tallest
- Congratulated himself over terrorist attacks and again after an African American was murdered
- False boasts about predicting Brexit
- Dodged the draft
- Used pseudonyms to pretend to be his own press spokesman
- When introducing his own running mate, just talked about himself
- Called avoiding STIs his own personal Vietnam
- Lied about opposing Iraq war
- Family and close supporters retweet and spread extreme rightwing memes, lies and abuse, while Trump himself refuses to disown and occasionally join in
- Chose as his first campaign chief someone who got arrested for grabbing a reporter, second had close links to Russia and Ukraine dictator, third makes anti-Semitic comments and has been accused of domestic abuse
- Talks bollocks about a fantasy wall that Mexico will pay for
- Talks bollocks about ISIS and how scary it is
- Urged hacking by Russia of Democrats emails
- Probably fixed his Florida Trump University lawsuit by bribing the state AG
Failing to make any list
- Said the word pussy
I hate to point out that the reason America seems to be rejecting him seem to be the wrong ones. I suspect the awful horrific lewd word “pussy” changed a lot of votes, for ****’s sake you uptight ***** with an obsession with swearing. Then stuff about sexual assault. Then stuff about his taxes.
Too few Americans seem to care about what he would mean for America, let alone the wider world.
