Quote from: Hoofer on April 17, 2016, 08:56:11 AM
A couple of months ago, I started wondering WHO took the Warton College tests that enabled Trump to graduate. 

Serious.

Rich people buy intelligence like a commodity, they need it to run a successful business - no fault in that at all.  When it comes to a hurtle too high, either lower the hurtle, or hire someone to clear it for you... or cheat and run around it.  Maybe he's one of those guys who said to himself at graduation, "Good, got that shingle, done with that education crap."  and meant every word of it.

The April 15th interview on SquawkBox with Ted Cruz, quite a delight to watch as Ted articulated his vision for a re-energized America with positive steps, lowering the tax rate and enticing companies to move back to the USA.  "...growth around the world cures almost everything" - started it out.  This is a must see, it's clear and full of positive vision.   Ted actually showed up in the studio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDu2fWId8CA

What a stark contrast to Donald Trump's tax-n-tariff, punish-da-world plan.  Where was this guy during the Reagan Revolution, chasing skirts?  Or the John Kennedy tax-cut plan to restart the economy?  Why does Trump default to the Democratic jack-up-taxes, pay-ther-fair-share, progressive tax plan?  I surmise the whole class envy "line" (that's all it is), plays well with the uneducated, low-information-voter... easier to digest than the Cruz / Reagan "un-lease the American Small Businessman" economic model.

Democrats (and Donald Trump) continue to push this "Economic PIE" idea, with businesses & wall street taking slices, and leaving the average American with the tiny piece.  The rich get richer, we get poorer.  Their wealth is built on the backs of the poor.  We need to punish regulate corporations and tax redistribute wealth - the bigger government idea.

Here's a Squawkbox interview with Donald Trump.  Donald was on-the-phone, at least we THINK it was Donald, people are good at impersonating media personalities, and who knows how many advisers were in the room with Donald during the interview.  Did you actually believe Donald is knowledgeable enough to go 3-1 with CNBC...?   Seriously....?  A "successful businessman" by himself, in the STUDIO explaining complicated business & fiscal ....  nevermind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=424ujo3yOTg

Trump gets softballs, butters up the interviewers, and defaults to negativism.  Then, the questioning intelligence / communication level sinks to a 3rd grade level, with the interviewers struggling to form the questions at a simpler and simpler level... trying to lower their questions to Trump's level.  Pound and pound negative lines, state the obvious, never get to any vision of a positive future.

Becky Quick: "Mr. Trump you're a businessman, how does this ...."
"This is a terrible, terrible ... blah, blah..." - nothing positive, no policy.

'What should US companies, US surveillance do?...'
Trump answers with how BAD our intelligence is, people dying, cold blooded nature of killing, etc., pound negative, negative - "shot these people at will"...  (no plan, no policy)

On the Clinton question:  "She's weak... ineffective... she caused... I was always against... lead to all the problems we have now..."  pound negative, negative.  (no plan, no policy)

ISIS question: "we don't know what we're doing...  dummies in the senate & congress... quagmire... wounded warriors... quagmire... are we better off than Libia?... absolute animals...  Assad is not our biggest problem... probably backing ISIS..."  (no plan, no policy)

"The message is resonating... leading big... tough talk... we're not gonna be stupid... "  (no plan, no policy)

Communication GAP or Communication GULF..?

And the Trumpaloons are totally blind to his shallowness.

Quote from: supsalemgr on April 17, 2016, 09:54:25 AM
And the Trumpaloons are totally blind to his shallowness.

I'll submit, and suspect, tough talking Donald Trump is afraid of an adversarial the media interview.  He stays in the Trump Tower (MEH) and probably surrounds himself with people slipping him notes - 'remember we're Pro-life, and pro-gun'.  They guy keeps defaulting to Democrat positions and points, and avoids solid Republican positions... maybe he just doesn't know how to argue positively for those positions...?  Oddly enough, the interviewers sound like they are afraid of Trump - are they getting private emails, "the goon squad would like to 'review' your questions for Trump, at your residence .... tonight"  or "my friends just called your child at xxxx school, he/she's OK for now..."?

Ted Cruz is smart enough the interviewer almost sound like they're agreeing with him, or coming around to his point of view.  One-2-3 of them, and Cruz engages them intelligently, understanding the issues, points out the positives of his position, in a logical way, and they start smiling and nodding their heads.

Trump says he can sound really, really "Presidential"... I'm waiting for that one.  The angry liberals who fill his ranks will escape to Bernie, a similarly "angry at companies", politician.  To hang on to those angry liberals, maybe a Bernie/Trump ticket is the answer.

He said in this interview we would need to give up some privileges we're used to.

Quote from: taxed on April 17, 2016, 01:42:54 PM
He said in this interview we would need to give up some privileges we're used to.

Trading in 'older models' for instance?  Oh, CARS, I meant CARS!

Quote from: taxed on April 17, 2016, 01:42:54 PM
He said in this interview we would need to give up some privileges we're used to.

All the liberals tell us that.