Do you think Donald Trump would make a good...?

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president? why or why not? in terms of his policies, not his bombastic attitude and cheap remarks.

No he want's to run the country like a damn corporation..corporations are for profit, that is the goal. A society/government system needs to put the well-being of the people first before profit and materialism. His policies will just continue and maybe even contribute farther to the current issue of the wealthiest getting wealthier and poor getting poor as well as many of the middle class slipping into poverty. I imagine he'll do nothing about outsourcing of jobs and exploitation of people in poorer or 3rd world countries just to avoid paying a living wage and having to abide by rules designed to make working conditions safe and prevent employer abuse/manipulation of workers. His wall is a terrible idea...as I understand Mexico is not keen on the idea of paying for it either, which means the burden would be on the taxpayers here. Not to mention I was reading he said if Mexico refused to pay for the wall he would take 'extreme action'...I don't like the implications there.

actually, Sweetleaf, he said he would impose a 15% tax on outsourcing and a 20 % tax on imported goods

His actions just don't seem to match up with that sort of claim....he himself benefits from outsourcing. He may say that, I am just not so sure I trust that after all his very own clothing line is the product of outsourcing. You think he'd impose such taxes on himself?

What I think he would do is attempting to get congress to pass laws that will enable American plutocrats to make even more money so some of them will be the richest in the world instead of Russian and Chinese plutocrats. That would be his first priority.
Second would be promoting his beauty pageants.
Whatever's left would go to building the wall between US and Mexico.

He thinks he can bully all the authoritian megalomaniac leaders and it will blow up in America's face just as it did with Bush but worse. The man implied vaccines cause Autism based on one case during the debate. I am glad Ben Carson put him in his place on this matter.

Trump did say he wanted to slow down the vaccination rate.

Whether or not you trust Trump to follow thru with anything he says, he is better than your typical Republican economically. I think he is far more personality and bluster than ideological, he's further left than Hillary on a lot of issues.

I can't say Trump would be a bad president because because that would mean I am endorsing somebody as better and there really isn't if we're talking realistic(Rand Paul 2016 not looking good) I think Trump is probably competent, probably more of a pragmatist and politician of convenience.I think he'd probably be pretty effective leader, the question is character. Effective and evil would be bad bad news. We're only use to grossly incompetent evil.

Diplomacy I think is an area Trump will probably exceed in, he'll repair our relationship with Russia and he'll probably back us off the Saudis.

I don't believe half the **** he says to be honest, I can see he's playing a game and that's what all our elections are. Trump is a genius of self promotion and manipulating the media.

Neither does he.

Diplomacy seems to be one of his weakest points....also we need someone who can address the issues not manipulate the media in their favor. Better than the typical republican economically is not very impressive to me....since that still leaves out addressing the major wealth inequality, I prefer the candidate that wants to address that, as well as that college is largely a debt trap I don't hear Trump talking much about that.

Trump is closer to Bernie Sanders than he is your typical Republican probably, he's seized on a issue that the establishment of the GOP was completely out of step with its base on but other than that doesn't seem all that conservative. I think diplomacy wise his personality would mesh well with a lot of foreign leaders, people were afraid that Reagan would lead us to war but he was a very effective diplomatic leader.

i think trump would make a good doorstop.

I think Triumph the Insult Comic Dog said it best.

"For ME to POOP on!"

honestly a president that gets into twitter wars at 3am with anyone he doesn't like?

Things Trump will do or is:
Kick out all illegals with their families
Build an actual wall
Lower and less confusing taxes for the middle class
Not a puppet
More jobs for Americans
More stuff made in America
Stay out of Syria and let's ISIS and Assad duke it out
Not a believer in AGW and sees China snickering in the corner with the UN protocols
Will actually deal with Russia instead of letting Putin humiliate us
Thinks Blacklivesmatter is stupid
Create a real deal with Iran that frees the hostages, allows outside inspections and doesn't give so many billions to them.

I am curious what he means by "actual wall".

Given the number of tunnels under the border with mexico it would have to go pretty deep, right?

We're also talking about a border that is almost 2000 miles long. There are stretches of more than 300 miles with no civilization to speak of.

I think short of spending a trillion dollars or so the most we can do is inconvenience people trying to cross the border.

Kick out all the illegals? I think it is not hyperbole to compare this to some kind of hitleresq "final solution". We're talking about what, 11 million people? Are we going to load them onto trains? at gun point? How does this work?

Not a puppet? he's a real estate developer. Compared to the actually wealthy people in the world, he's a pikey.

"deal with russia" how? What pressure can we bring to bear on russia?