:lol: That qualifies as "policy?"

The coordinated GOP establishment attack on Trump, with bullshit talking points is just evidence the fear they have of him since Bush has been vanquished. This was always going to happen.

Sorry - that is not a policy. He says it will be similar to Canada and the UK on the one hand, but that it will NOT be a single-payer system. What does he think the british NHS is?

He is completely contradictory in this interview.

Is this shit serious??

Trump is going around claiming Princess Di was crazy and that he could have slept with her

How the fuck can this man potentially be a president of the United States??

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/12174179/Donald-Trump-claims-he-could-have-slept-with-Prinicess-Diana.html

Krispy Kreme endorsed Trump today

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/26/nj-governor-chris-christie-endorses-donald-trump-for-president.html

The mainstream can't control the narrative with trump

Newscorp smearing Trump. It must be another day.

meanwhile under Obama...


no wonder he's been labeled the food stamp president

I'm genuinely surprised by Christie's decision. He's clearly desperate to remain relevant and is angling for a cabinet post or a place on the ticket.

He's consistently justified his attacks on Rubio (and to a lesser extent, Cruz) by pointing to their lack of experience as first-term Senators - and yet now he endorses a man who's never held political office in his life. Cognitive dissonance at its most obvious.

If you had half a clue about anything you would not be surprised by this.
Keep reading those tabloids and filling your head with shit.

If Voters Keep Digging, They’ll Find Trump Buried Some Really Bad Deals
The Fiscal Times
By David Dayen | The Fiscal Times – Fri, Feb 26, 2016 10:15 PM AEDT

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One leading theory behind the triumph of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is that voters are attracted by the promise of having a successful businessman running the country. Government needs the discipline and accountability that only a take-no-prisoners CEO can provide, someone uniquely focused on, well, making America great again.
There’s a lot wrong with this theory: government isn’t a business, for one. But to accept it, you must first agree that Donald Trump is a successful businessman, which he’s said enough to will the nation into believing it. A cursory examination of just one part of Trump’s corporate empire reveals that he’s more like a late-night infomercial charlatan, exploiting the weak and the vulnerable for his own devises. He’s also not all that good at it.
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If you were to pick the worst possible time in American history to start a mortgage company, April 2006 would get a lot of consideration. That’s when The Donald held a press conference at Trump Tower for Trump Mortgage, right at the peak of the housing bubble. Just one month later, Ameriquest, one of the largest subprime lenders in the country, closed all its retail offices, an early warning of the collapse to come.
But that April, Trump was characteristically upbeat, vowing that Trump Mortgage would become the nation’s top home lender. He told Maria Bartiromo, “I think it's a great time to start a mortgage company,” adding, “who knows about financing better than I do?”
Trump hired as chief executive of Trump Mortgage a man named E.J. Ridings, a friend of his son Donald Jr. Ridings boasted on the corporate website of being a “top executive at one of Wall Street's most prestigious investment banks” with 15 years of financial industry experience. All of that turned out to be false; he was a registered stockbroker with Dean Witter Reynolds for a total of six days, and an entry-level loan originator at a boutique mortgage company for a little over a year. Ridings gamely ignored the embarrassing disclosures, telling Money magazine, “Trump Mortgage is going to be huge.”
Six top executives left Trump Mortgage in the first six months. An initial sales goal of $3 billion in the first year was soon downgraded to under $1 billion. By August 2007, Trump Mortgage closed, one of hundreds of failed lenders in the wake of the housing crash. Unsurprisingly, Trump distanced himself from the implosion, saying he only licensed his name to it, and that “the mortgage business is not a business I particularly liked or wanted to be part of in a very big way.”
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Despite that coolness, Trump allowed his name to be licensed by First Meridian Mortgage for a second company, renamed Trump Financial. That too went out of business; the company reverted back to its original name. First Meridian was subsequently accused of illegally fabricating mortgage assignments to foreclose on properties, and employing robo-signers to execute those faulty assignments.
Trump was not done with the mortgage collapse, however. Twenty years earlier, he helped save a woman’s farm from foreclosure. But a remarkable Los Angeles Times column in December 2007 shows that Trump saw the latest iteration of foreclosure crisis not as a tragedy, but a business opportunity.
Trump University, The Donald’s learning institute, touted in ads that “investors nationwide are making millions in foreclosures… and so can you!” David Lazarus, the Times author, attended a free seminar about the scheme (which was only a preview of a 3-day workshop costing $1,495). The instructor, himself a foreclosure victim, explained that students should scoop up soon-to-be-foreclosed properties from homeowners at a discount, and sell them to another buyer at a higher price, making a fortune.
This would be pretty terrible advice in normal times for anyone without a high level of working capital, in case they get stuck with one of the properties. But it’s completely insane advice to give in late 2007, when foreclosures were everywhere, buyers scarce, and nobody in their right mind would pay high prices for a foreclosed property. People who followed this tactic would be guaranteed to fail.
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And that’s apart from the moral atrocity of seeing a flood of foreclosures and immediately thinking of a way to get rich off it. “There are unbelievable opportunities for making money,” Trump himself told Lazarus. “There are very few buyers and lots of sellers,” he added, inadvertently explaining why a scheme predicated on eventually selling a home to another buyer is doomed.
Trump University held seminars and workshops like this all over the country as the foreclosure crisis raged, making $40 million in revenue from 2005-2010, $5 million of which went to Trump himself. Multiple allegations that Trump University ripped off clients led to three separate lawsuits, one by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and two class action suits in California. In fact, Trump will likely have to take the witness stand in one of these trials later this year; he already delivered a pre-trial deposition, which one plaintiff has used to prove that the GOP front-runner threatened to put her into financial ruin if she continued to pursue the case.
Practically everything that might concern you about a Trump presidency is available in these interlocking stories. There’s the poor instinct and business acumen; the partnerships with lying con artists and cronies; the denial of accountability for failure; the preying upon the weak, whether foreclosure victims or poor dupes that took his seminars; and the open threats of retaliation. And you can go beyond the mortgage industry to find these red flags in Trump’s corporate past, with millions in losses and questionable associates. About the only thing Trump is good at is getting on TV, and using that celebrity to license his name around the world.
If we’re going to believe that government would be better run as a business, we should at least look at the business of the man who wants to run the government. And what we end up seeing from Trump’s mortgage and foreclosure dalliances strikes me as so outstandingly awful it would be amusing – if it weren’t coming from someone with an even-money shot at the presidency.
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David Dayen is a democrat. Why copy and paste biased opinions?
Why not provide your own reasoning?

Are you saying the article is false or misrepresents the facts?

I'm saying its slanted and biased. You can spin 'facts' any way you want when you have an agenda.
You remove context, you leave out certain details - this is how the spin machine works.

Edited by TheFactOfTheMatter: 28/2/2016 03:15:40 PM

:lol: Don't trust the media, trust Ricey's deluded rantings instead.

You're an arts student at uni. You've never had a real job in your life.
You probably think "socialism" means socially aware - you're just a dumb drony kid delaying work.

So basically youre saying it's true, but you don't like it....

And what are you studying Ricey? Times tables?

I'm also not an Arts student, so you're wrong on that count as well.

Edited by JP: 28/2/2016 04:49:55 PM

Major Republican figures are already saying they'd vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. If he does win the nomination more and more Republicans will endorse Clinton. Moderate Republican voters will flock to Clinton and she'll win the Presidency in a landslide.

Edited by JP: 28/2/2016 04:49:12 PM

Hillary Clinton Wins Big In South Carolina – Fox Can’t Stop Talking About All The Ways She’s A Loser


Posted by Ellen -3098.80pc on February 28, 2016 · Flag


Even Fox News had to admit that Hillary Clinton’s South Carolina primary win (73.5%-26%) was resounding. So of course they went to work painting her as a loser.

The booking of Hillary-hater Ron Fournier as a panelist pretty much guaranteed a good dose of Hillary bashing no matter who won. And Fournier surely didn't disappoint the Fox producer who booked him. “This race is now hers to lose,” Fournier said of Clinton, and then immediately followed up by “just wondering” if she’ll be indicted. “Her biggest impediment really is the FBI primary, whatever comes out of the investigation, if anything.”

While he was at it, Fournier got in a dig about Obama. He noted there were fewer white voters in this South Carolina primary than in 2008, “maybe because how the party’s changed under Barack Obama.” But, he acknowledged, “Unless something really big changes, she’s going to be the nominee.”

Panelist Charles Krauthammer agreed. “The only thing that’s gonna stop her is gonna be the Comey primary, he’s head of the FBI. If there’s a criminal referral, that’s the lightning strike that would elevate somebody like a Sanders.”

Krauthammer went on to give Bernie Sanders some props (which would surely disappear should Sanders start looking like the nominee): “He’s got the money, he doesn’t have to go out and campaign from fat cats. He’s got the biggest and most successful internet fundraising machine ever which means he’ll be able to go everywhere and he will stay in it until the end. Even if he only ends up as the number two and will speak for a movement.”

Host Bret Baier brought up some elements “that are troubling” for Clinton. He cited the young vote going to Sanders 65/35. “White men, almost 70/30, there against Hillary Clinton.”

Panelist Stephen Hayes agreed that was “potentially troubling for Hillary Cinton in a general election.”

Hayes said Clinton “cleaned up” except with voters who said “honest and trustworthy” were the most important qualities where she won by 52/48.

Hayes also noted that Clinton beat Sanders on the issue of income inequality.

So Baier made a point of swiping at Clinton over her “Wall Street speeches.” They didn’t “seem to show up in these results, anyplace, yet,” Baier said, “but there are other states it could factor into.”

Panelist A.B. Stoddard got in her own dig. “What we’re gonna watch is how hard he [Sanders] pushes on the Wall Street speeches… As he slides down the tunnel walls, is he going to actually come out and really swing hard at her?”

Fournier apparently hoped so. “We have Sanders who really hasn’t come as hard on Hillary as he could and as he should if he really wanted to win,” he said, before adding, “and we have the entire Republican party hasn’t come as hard on Trump until these last few minutes, last few races. So we’re very likely to have a general election fight between Trump and Hillary Clinton, two of the most untrustworthy, disliked, most polarizing candidates in our lifetimes.”

Before long, Baier stepped in to defend Trump. “Obviously, there’s a groundswell of support for Donald Trump who do believe that he’s trustworthy and that showed up in entrance and exit polls in past contests,” Baier assured viewers.

But, hey, the gang must be slipping. Not one of them brought up Benghazi.

Read more at http://www.newshounds.us/hillary_clinton_wins_big_in_south_carolina_fox_can_t_stop_talking_about_all_the_ways_she_s_a_loser_022716#QemF6j86yiT5iIdw.99

You talk of experience, yet both Cruz and Rubio have done jack-dick as leaders of an organisation.

do you even know who Robert Kagan is you stupid cunt?

he's the guy that promoted the invasion of Iraq under the WMD lie

fuck you're dumb

just stop posting in this thread

liar

http://au.fourfourtwo.com/forums/default.aspx?g=posts&t=83167&p=39

I transferred to law, so I guess that makes me a law student.

Good to know you're paying such close attention to my life though Ricey :lol:

Edited by JP: 28/2/2016 10:20:30 PM

You've only studied arts idiot. The semester has barely started if at all.
You dont know shit about anything, you've never had a real job in your life.

You're the scumbag here who says people in the US who dont have college degrees are uneducated and all you've studied is arts and you didnt even finish it. You've never had a job.

You disparage tradespeople and other intelligent people, some of the richest most innovative people in the world dont have fucking uni degrees and you sit there like an upstart smartarse talking down to people who've actually done something in their lives.

:lol: Isn't it your job to rile other people? More and more it seems to be the other way round on here. Stay calm Ricey.

I work for a gardening business so that probably makes me a tradie too.

You mow lawns.

That is what gardening involves, yes.

But you'd never disparage tradespeople would you Ricey?

Mowing lawns is not a trade idiot. It doesnt take any skill or training.
You're the uneducated one. Who knew, and you sit there and talk down about people who are actually more highly qualified than you. Typical champagne socialist spoiled brat who thinks he's an expert on everything but knows nothing about anything.

:lol: Okay.