[ExI] Donald Trump

[John Clark]

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Tomaz Kristan <protokol2020 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> I still remember 1980 elections. Reagan this, Reagan that, he is a
> nutcase, he will start the war, he has knowledge shortages ...
> Thankfully, he was elected and not that "genius" Carter.
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Yeah, we got "genius" Reagan who thought we could use 1983 technology to
make a X-Ray LASER  to shoot down all enemy missiles and "render
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nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete" when the fact is we STILL can't do
it with 2016 technology. And Reagan wasn't as big a ignoramus as Trump nor
was he a sadist like Trump but I would still much prefer to have somebody
like Carter in charge during the next Cuban Missile Crises (the closest the
human race has come to extinction in 74,000 years) than somebody like
Reagan.

  John K Clark







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> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 7:46 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Now that Donald Trump has won the nomination it looks like it's going to
>> be an interesting election for a number of reasons:
>>
>> *Trump is the most anti free trade presidential candidate from a major
>> party in my lifetime.
>> *Trump wants to impose restrictions on freedom of the press especially
>> when they say things about him he doesn't like.
>> *Trump wants to give a religious test to everyone who enters the USA,
>> Christian imbecility is OK, Muslim imbecility is not.
>> *Trump says vaccination causes autism
>> despite overwhelming scientific evidence that it doesn't.
>> *Trump wants to build a enormously expensive structure (that Mexico will
>> NOT pay for) that will prove no more effective than China's great wall was.
>>
>> *Trump says women who have had abortions should be punished, but the men
>> involved should not be.
>> *Trump believes that Barack Obama was born in Kenya despite a mountain
>> of evidence to the contrary.
>> *Trump believes that Ted Cruz's father killed president Kennedy.
>> *Trump wants to forcibly deport 11.3 million undocumented immigrants
>> within 2 years, something that would cost between 400 and 600 billion
>> dollars assuming it could be done at all,  which it can't be.
>>
>> Donald Trump would order the military not only to bring back
>> waterboarding (that was banned in 2009) but "I would bring back a hell
>> of a lot worse than waterboarding. *Even if it doesn’t work they deserve
>> it anyway*”.  And that would set the stage for the most serious
>> confrontation between the military and the presidency since the Civil War,
>> because when asked about this 4 star General Michael Hayden,  the only man
>> ever to have been head of both the National Security Agency and the Central
>> Intelligence Agency, said the CIA would flat out refuse to obey such a
>> presidential order and "If some future president is going to decide to
>> waterboard, he’d better bring his own bucket, because he’s going to have to
>> do it himself". Trump would also order soldiers to become war criminals and
>> to kill the wives and children of suspected terrorists, he said  “You have
>> to take out their families. They say they don’t care about their lives so
>> you have to take out their families.”  When hundreds of military officers
>> said they would disobey such a illegal order from their commander in chief
>> Trump said "They won’t refuse. They’re not gonna refuse me. Believe me. I’m
>> a leader, I’ve always been a leader. I’ve never had any problem leading
>> people. If I say do it, they’re going to do it."
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>> Donald Trump is a irrational sadistic nut with a hair trigger temper who
>> has demonstrated a propensity to act before he thinks, and yet millions of
>> people believe this would be the perfect man to hand the nuclear launch
>> codes to. I am afraid. Imagine what things would be like if Trump had been
>> president in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crises, today you and I wouldn't
>> be here and neither would civilization. It's true that Trump will probably
>> never be president, the betting market only gives him a 26.5% chance, but a
>> 26.5%  chance that you will be shot would still be cause for concern.
>>
>>   John K Clark
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