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Really? Trump didn’t do the business. It was his general contractors, if at all.

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Bigger deal than the Rose law firm and the 100 things that were Clinton “scandals”.

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Trump; has played by the rules and agreed to forego an independent candidacy.

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His contractors bought concrete from companies owned by guys like Fat Tony Salerno. So what?

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If the GOP stiffs Trump, then I will have to assume that their candidate will be just a puppet of the GOPe and too much of another W. What the GOPe wants in taxes is too likely to result in another Great Depression and bloody riots in the streets. A GOPe in the WH and GOP majorities in both Houses would be a big threat.

In that case, as much as I dislike Hillary, I will eagerly vote for her. Why? She’s smart. She knows the issues. She’s determined. She won’t be a puppet of anyone. The Republican Congress would partly keep her in line. She will be able to borrow a lot of what Trump has been proposing, e.g., on health care, balance of trade, that is, if she can resist trying again for HillaryCare.

Why not vote for her? She’s nasty. She is usually close to the line, on one side or the other, on law and ethics. She’d rather lie than tell the truth. She’s no woman. She’s an OCD case and, thus, not in control of her thinking. Her judgment sucks. She could do the US a lot of harm. If we needed a real President for something important, with her bad judgment, she’d likely mess it up big time.

Ah, Romney just soiled his pants in public for no good reason. He fooled me in 2012 — he’s not fooling me this time. He is leading the GOPe on a one-way walk to the graveyard.

Yes, with that dress, night gown, or whatever want to call it, really, with her figure, at least at the age she was, she looks better with the usual support and a nice dress or tailored suit. Whatever about that picture, I do believe she is making a really good wife for Trump and will make a terrific First Lady. And she has a big advantage at state dinners: She can converse in a common language with anyone from Europe!

So, in business terms, the GOPe had left a big market opportunity. In football terms, they had neglected their defensive secondary. In military terms, they had left a gaping hole in their line.

So, Trump saw what the pissed off voters wanted that the GOPe was refusing to provide: (1) Enforce US immigration laws. Simple. Just the laws. Just enforce them. (2) Get the economy going, e.g., quit for whatever reasons letting other countries export their unemployment to the US. (3) Get the US back to a reasonable balance of trade with China, Japan, and Mexico, whatever some GOPe global strategy thinkers want. (4) Do make the US military stronger, but stop the absurd US foreign adventures. (5) Stop the nonsense of ObamaCare. (6) Let the US have locally run schools again. i.e., quit sacrificing US education to the goal of some politically correct, social engineering experiment of least common denominator education, i.e., teaching only to the bottom of the class, “no child left behind”, really all the children left behind, mandated and managed from DC. (7) Many other places, just apply good common sense — e.g., at least for a while, don’t let into the US people from Islamic countries too likely to be terrorists.

Then get angry, act angry, raise a stink, get a lot of media attention, hold rallies, an average of something over 1 a day, pounding on (1)-(7), to hundreds of thousands of people, and appeal to voters who are angry and “not going take it anymore”. When media and politician attacks come, attack back. Realize that much of the media, e.g., that put O into office twice, will attack viciously, so preemptively assert strongly at each rally that 75% or so of the media are low life, loser, dirt bag liars or some such.

Seems simple in retrospect. I’m still surprised how well it works until I look at the other candidates.

Right, it’s called democracy, not nearly new but discovered by the Greeks as a way to fight with votes at ballot boxes instead of with weapons in wars where only the crows do well.

One party? Too soon becomes unresponsive and hated by too many. So, there gets to be a second party. In parliamentary systems, can have lots of parties, but as we know with the US system a third party doesn’t work. So, presto, bingo, in the US it’s exactly two parties. Done. QED. That was fast.

So, in effect, I showed that there there will be a GOP. But, of course, nowhere in that argument did I show that the present GOPe will be running the GOP.

Good, now the Bush family can relax. Barbara can put little Jeb in a play suit, let him play “Save the World” with his toy soldiers in his backyard sand box, come in, have his bathy, eat his PB&J lunch, get into his jammys, and take his nappy.

And Kasich, he’s the one I want most to lose: He is just fixated on the idea that balancing the Federal budget is always the crucial, key, uniform, universal, totally optimal way to a strong economy. If he tried that in 2008, he would have thrown the US into the Second Great Depression, done much the same to the rest of the world, likely given us WWIII, this time with nukes and 5 billion people killed. Since the crash of 2008, the only thing keeping the US out of a second great depression has been massive monetary stimulus from the Fed and massive fiscal stimulus from the Treasury. And we still have about 25% unemployment rate.

But Big John Kasich is a true believer in the great, magic power of The Force of a balanced budget. Scary. Slave to a defunct economist.

Cruz wants a flat tax. Once “the little people” understand that, that is, not progressive at all, it will flop or there will be blood in the streets.

Robo Rubio knows just what he wants minute by minute as soon as the GOPe tells him.

Trump needs to read some Norm Matloff at UC Davis and the history of how the US and the NSF deliberately flooded the US with NSF paid for Master’s and Ph.D. degrees to students, not very good, from Taiwan and India, all for the usual purpose, to get cheap labor. Those students from Taiwan and India were able to pay full tuition and R&B at high end US research universities? From Saudi Arabia, okay. Taiwan and India? Nearly never. England, France, Germany, and Sweden? They have good universities at home. So, US tax payers struggling to pay tuition for their children got taxed to pay for tuition of students from Taiwan and India to compete with US children. Bummer. Big time big bummer.

The NSF did some econometrics to estimate how many new degrees to grant to flood the US so that STEM Master’s and Ph.D. degree holders would not be able to buy houses and then did so flood. The NSF wrote into research grants that so many grad students had to be supported, and to get those students, hint, hint, Taiwan and India.

So, good US students walked into class on the first day of grad school, saw that they were the only ones there with a good command of English, left, and went for an MBA, LLB, or MD.

It’s what happened, big time. Forced many thousands of US citizens to write off their graduate educations.

Once again, the US power elite attacking the careers and financial security of middle class US citizens.

Trump can stop it all with just a word to the NSF.