Warren Slams Trump

[_Kevin Graham]

Let’s be honest – Donald Trump is a loser. Count all his failed businesses. See how he kept his father’s empire afloat by cheating people with scams like Trump University and by using strategic corporate bankruptcy (excuse me, bankruptcies) to skip out on debt. Listen to the experts who’ve concluded he’s so bad at business that he might have more money today if he’d put his entire inheritance into an index fund and just left it alone.

Trump seems to know he’s a loser. His embarrassing insecurities are on parade: petty bullying, attacks on women, cheap racism, and flagrant narcissism. But just because Trump is a loser everywhere else doesn’t mean he’ll lose this election. People have been underestimating his campaign for nearly a year – and it’s time to wake up.

People talk about how "this is the most important election" in our lifetime every four years, and it gets stale. But consider what hangs in the balance. Affordable college. Accountability for Wall Street. Healthcare for millions of Americans. The Supreme Court. Big corporations and billionaires paying their fair share of taxes. Expanded Social Security. Investments in infrastructure and medical research and jobs right here in America. The chance to turn our back on the ugliness of hatred, sexism, racism and xenophobia. The chance to be a better people.

More than anyone we’ve seen before come within reach of the presidency, Donald Trump stands ready to tear apart an America that was built on values like decency, community, and concern for our neighbors. Many of history’s worst authoritarians started out as losers – and Trump is a serious threat. The way I see it, it’s our job to make sure he ends this campaign every bit the loser that he started it.

[_cinepro]

But consider what hangs in the balance. Affordable college. Accountability for Wall Street. Healthcare for millions of Americans. The Supreme Court. Big corporations and billionaires paying their fair share of taxes. Expanded Social Security. Investments in infrastructure and medical research and jobs right here in America.

So, after eight years with Obama as President, now we need to start getting really worried about these things?

Also, Trump has been very outspoken about "jobs right here in America". So if you're talking about trade barriers and economic protectionism, that's one of this strong areas.

[_The CCC]

But consider what hangs in the balance. Affordable college. Accountability for Wall Street. Healthcare for millions of Americans. The Supreme Court. Big corporations and billionaires paying their fair share of taxes. Expanded Social Security. Investments in infrastructure and medical research and jobs right here in America.

So, after eight years with Obama as President, now we need to start getting really worried about these things?

Also, Trump has been very outspoken about "jobs right here in America". So if you're talking about trade barriers and economic protectionism, that's one of this strong areas.

Few Americans oppose jobs right here in America. It is the methods proposed by Trump that are opposed.
SEE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU8dCYocuyI

[_Kevin Graham]

So, after eight years with Obama as President, now we need to start getting really worried about these things?

Since we're much better off now than we were 8 years ago, this makes sense.

[_Some Schmo]

But consider what hangs in the balance. Affordable college. Accountability for Wall Street. Healthcare for millions of Americans. The Supreme Court. Big corporations and billionaires paying their fair share of taxes. Expanded Social Security. Investments in infrastructure and medical research and jobs right here in America.

So, after eight years with Obama as President, now we need to start getting really worried about these things?

Some of those thing Obama did nothing about. Some of those things he took a stab at. The Supreme Court nominations were done. Likely most of those things he could never do anything about because of a GOP controlled congress.

But the point Warren was making was that all of those things are at risk with a Trump presidency to a much larger degree than with Obama.

Here's what I don't get; why are right wingers so quick to blame Obama for all the world's problems when clearly, the problem is with congress? The blinders are strong with these people.

[_Gunnar]

So, after eight years with Obama as President, now we need to start getting really worried about these things?

Since we're much better off now than we were 8 years ago, this makes sense.

This is not an inconsiderable point. As you have already pointed out in other threads, our economy has improved more than Mitt Romney promised to improve it if he were elected President--despite the incredible obstructionism of Republicans determined to prevent anything good from happening during Obama's presidency that might reflect well on him.

[_subgenius]

Elizabeth Warren the self-proclaimed native american to reap the benefits...a bastion of integrity she is not...so her opinion is rather like yours - full of self-entitlement and peppermint schnapps