Do Trump supporters have a breaking point?

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  1. FreshAir

    FreshAir Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Republicans could care less, as long as he is a republican, if a dem did the same, they woudl be having a fit
     
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    #12 The one not caught by most folks: Every time donald mentions how the ratings of 'The Apprentice' is falling because of the poor performance by Arnold he's not telling you not to watch the apprentice, he's throwing out a teaser hoping you will check out what he's telling you and fatten his wallet a little more since he's the executive producer of the show.
     
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    Projection suits you.
     
  4. Durandal

    Durandal Well-Known Member Donor

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    Says the projectionist. I'm not partisan.
     
  5. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    How many millions of dollars did Obama make from sales of his book? His worth grew a lot during his 8 years.
     
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    What corruption? Where? Show me. If you have proof his family is corrupt, then they're corrupt. If not, then you're just spewing hate.
     
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    Profiteering by public officials is ok with Republicans unless their name is not Clinton. These people had absolutely no problem with Cheney and his buddies cleaning up on war profits while our guys were getting blown to bits over there and they will be fine with Trump using the White House to advance from being a mere billionaire to a trillionaire.
     
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    He campaigned on the premise of draining the swamp and ending corruption among other things. So far it seems that he is just filling the swamp up with his own brand of snakes and misquitos...
     
  9. Robert

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    My breaking point is if he quits doing the job.

    As to the report, it was on Market Watch which is well and good. I don't know of the author nor do I know his political party. But one can easily guess what party he supports.

    I guess at Market Watch they accept any and all opinions.

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    How did Obama get so rich when he was in the White House? And none of you people complained.
     
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    Nope, nothing . I do not care as long as he crushes progressive , liberal Democrats. And votes in young conservative second amendment justices. That's what I want.
     
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    Exactly right! Look at scummy Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi the Clintons. Just to name a few that made their fortunes in serving us. Lol. Yea ok. Corruption pays for Democrats.
     
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    He campaigned for better trade deals, more jobs(!), better immigration policies, corporate investment...well, you know. All the stuff he is doing. People who voted for him are thrilled with his job performance so far.

    Far from a breaking point, they want more of the same.
     
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    I expected this type of answer, "prove it." More than addressing what is obvious to anyone with critical thinking skills that trump is using his office to further his and his family's economic interests. Welcome to trump's America where any attack on him, no matter how strongly rooted in truth, is met with cries of fake news or the like.

    There will be no breaking point because they simply don't care. He would have to literally show up at their house and shut off their fox news for him to make a dent in their opinion about him.
     
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    I don't know the breaking point but I bet it's longer than three weeks into his presidency.

    You liberals are going to have a heart attack if you continue to flip out over every Trump Tweet, every Trump policy decision and every Trump executive order.

    Where as Obama spent his term playing golf and bowing to world leaders, Trump is getting things done. That's what you get for nominating the worst possible candidate to run against him. So suck it up, you lost and you're going to keep losing.
     
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    He's facing an entire system of grifters that are painting him as a grifter.
     
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    People already know how much the Democratic Party and most Democrats hate capitalism and business owners. So this is just blah, blah, blah "When are people going to accept socialism and join us Democrats in our war on capitalism and free enterprise" ranting.

    When is the government going to start billing Democrats in Congress who convert their Capital offices into their free apartments?
     
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    Yes. I wanted trades in Europe and America break alone. NATO's in Europe. But there is no perfect people in Europe some Middle Easts.
     
  18. PrincipleInvestment

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    Let me help you. See, I said EVEN IF TRUE, and then I go on to draw contrast betweem distasteful, possibly unethical, and criminal. Don't let perspective get in the way of your seething though.
     
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    Amen , we'll said.
     
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    But maybe is time for Clinton vs Cruz after Trump's upsaying contract in Supreme Court.

    :salute:
     
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    Probably not much more or less than Obama supporters had a breaking point for him. The avid Obama supporters were for him regardless and you should expect the same for the avid Trump supporters. Every politician, candidate, office holder has a number of supporters that will never leave them regardless of what they do or say. The threshold will vary, with Obama that threshold was 41%, the percentage of Americans that would never abandon him. His lower threshold. What is Trump's lower threshold, I don't know. I don't think we have hit it yet.

    One has to remember that on the day Nixon resigned, 24% of all Americans viewed him favorably, approved of everything he had done. There are those which their candidate, president, congressman, senator, elected official can never do one thing wrong. Whether its Trump, Hillary Clinton, G.W. Bush, Wiener, whomever, there will always be these type of people. The percentage varies, but they are there and are very real. I think the phrase, "Loyal to a Fault," applies to this type of people.
     
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    Miniscule? That seems to downplay it a bit IMO.

    And I'm glad you think it's unethical, as that's as good a place to start as any. Whether it's against the law or an impeachable offense shouldn't be where your dividing line is though. Hold your elected officials to a higher standard (or at least the same ones you hold the other party to. That goes for both sides)

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    I'd rather see Trump become a trillionaire rather than the Democrat's Soros. Trump builds things. Soros is just a money manipulator who builds nothing and just sucks money out of countries economies by money and stock manipulation as the purely corrupt leach.
     
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    I think the more important question is when are liberals going to stop their temper tantrum?
     
  25. PrincipleInvestment

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    Considering Trumps holdings, minscule I think is apropos. If you think about how much of his own money Trump put into funding his campaign, coupled with the losses to his business as a result of his running, the figures provided by the OP are frankly insignificant. Again, as a supporter I hope Trump examines the political downside, and makes some corrections, but these examples of "misdeeds" haven't persuaded me that Trumps corrupt, or unfit.
     

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