Donald Trump

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Is Trump the first president who’s never served in government prior to winning last time?

Washington, Taylor, Grant and Eisenhower were all generals prior to serving as President and never held elected office. Herbert Hoover was Secretary of Commerce and had served in a lot of bureaucratic roles in the 20s, but had never been elected to anything. But if you consider serving in the Army or being a bureaucrat "serving in the government", then yes.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

To go back to a subject long past (because I like this kind of shit!): “mathematics”. The plural morpheme is there because it's made up of several distinct fields of study (algebra, geometry and arithmetic being the most obvious). However, those fields are considered to make up, collectively, a whole, generally dealing with the field of numbers, so that whole is treated in English as an uncountable — or mass — noun, and logically takes the third-person singular as a following verb form.

It's just different ways of looking at it. By the way, in my “other” language, we say « les mathématiques », and that noun phrase therefore governs the following verb form, as in « les mathématiques sont très complexes ». And of course the adjective has to agree. However, in the distant past French did have « la mathématique », so it gradually evolved.
Anybody looking for pure logic in natural languages is going to find themselves on a wild goose chase, by and large. They just don't work like that, or only very imperfectly.

Now, Trumps and his politic. Where were we… ? (By the way, why do we say “Rodders?”)

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

To go back to a subject long past (because I like this kind of shit!): “mathematics”. The plural morpheme is there because it's made up of several distinct fields of study (algebra, geometry and arithmetic being the most obvious). However, those fields are considered to make up, collectively, a whole, generally dealing with the field of numbers, so that whole is treated in English as an uncountable — or mass — noun, and logically takes the third-person singular as a following verb form.

It's just different ways of looking at it. By the way, in my “other” language, we say « les mathématiques », and that noun phrase therefore governs the following verb form, as in « les mathématiques sont très complexes ». And of course the adjective has to agree. However, in the distant past French did have « la mathématique », so it gradually evolved.
Anybody looking for pure logic in natural languages is going to find themself on a wild goose chase, by and large. They just don't work like that, or only very imperfectly.

Now, Trumps and his politic. Where were we… ? (By the way, why do we say “Rodders?”)

I’ve no idea Del, you tell me.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Is Trump the first president who’s never served in government prior to winning last time?

But there you have it, you see! Trump presents himself as the “outsider”, and it works with his particular constituency. He is trustworthy, or considered as such by those people, precisely because he is not sullied by having been part of a distant apparatus in Washington, people who've been through Harvard Law School or suchlike before going into politics and are far,far from understanding the concerns of South Dakota or Iowa. Or indeed rural Pennsylvania. He is the outsider who understands the outsiders, the left-behinds.
It's populism. It's been around for a while. It's happened elsewhere. And it works. And it's worrying.

 

[KS55]

But there you have it, you see! Trump presents himself as the “outsider”, and it works with his particular constituency. He is trustworthy, or considered as such by those people, precisely because he is not sullied by having been part of a distant apparatus in Washington, people who've been through Harvard Law School or suchlike before going into politics and are far,far from understanding the concerns of South Dakota or Iowa. Or indeed rural Pennsylvania. He is the outsider who understands the outsiders, the left-behinds.
It's populism. It's been around for a while. It's happened elsewhere. And it works. And it's worrying.

It’s the deep state story.

 

[babyape]

I'm not sure we should be gloating too much. A substantial minority in the UK would love Nigel Farage as PM.

That's about as sane as wanting me to play centre-forward for City.

Do you track back?

 

[buckshot]

A huge number of Trump voters are probably insane to a degree. Millions of low information voters who just don't care enough or don't have the intelligence to question what they are seeing on fox and other shitty media outfits. But plenty of genuinely mentally flawed individuals who are intelligent but seem to be attracted to the weird narcissist.

You literally have to be nuts to support a guy whose own VP, SoS, SoD, WH spokesperson, niece and countless other associates/members of his party say he's a danger to America and American democracy.

 

[KS55]

Conservative Judge J. Michael Luttig’s 5-Page Endorsement of Kamala Harris | Bearing Drift

'This presidential election is a test of Americans' commitment to America's Democracy, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law. It is so because the former president and the Republican Party have shamefully made it so.'

bearingdrift.com

If you care about democracy, you must read this devastating document. It will become famous in American political history.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Washington, Taylor, Grant and Eisenhower were all generals prior to serving as President and never held elected office. Herbert Hoover was Secretary of Commerce and had served in a lot of bureaucratic roles in the 20s, but had never been elected to anything. But if you consider serving in the Army or being a bureaucrat "serving in the government", then yes.

Trump has never served anyone but himself.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Conservative Judge J. Michael Luttig’s 5-Page Endorsement of Kamala Harris | Bearing Drift

'This presidential election is a test of Americans' commitment to America's Democracy, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law. It is so because the former president and the Republican Party have shamefully made it so.'

bearingdrift.com

If you care about democracy, you must read this devastating document. It will become famous in American political history.

It will only become famous in American political history if Trump is defeated in November. If Trump gets in, you might as well forget it all.