Wouldn't say I'm a big fan of Elvis, but I like some of his songs. His like his campy ass movies too
. I picked the name because I liked how it sounds.
I've seen that video linked before, but I never checked it out because I assumed it was some nutso infowars crap, but it's actually just a collection of primary source videos of Trump's positions over the years.
The video validates what I've been saying about Trump playing some sort of long game or putting on an act. Many of the positions that I have said are the cornerstones of his campaign are featured in the slideshow of Trump over the years, he's been talking about them for decades. This "mexican rapist" and "build the wall!" rhetoric debuted when he started his campaign, which leads me to believe they were part of a calculated strategy to win the Republican primary instead of some organic, unmasked views Trump deeply held. But even then, many of those clips and speeches in videos could easily be slotted into a contemporary Trump speech, and they're not Republican orthodoxy.
I think it's too late for this video to get Trump elected because the tide has turned too far, but yeah, the person in that video could have won a general election against Hillary Clinton. Not because of any differences in the policies of the Trump in that video and the policies of Trump of this campaign, of which the most unvarnished have been toned down for the general election (Muslim ban turned to temporary geographic restriction, wages too high turned to minimum wage hike, climate change not real turned to voters should be able to ban fracking at local and state level, etc) but because of his temperament, which has been handled foolishly. The media has done a bang up job covering this election in a manner unsurpassed in superficiality. Trump is a Russian secret agent! Trump hates babies! Trump hates Gold Star parents! Trump hates women! Trump wants to nuke the world! But Trump is at fault for this too because for some reason he never fully reverted to the palatable presentation we've seen from him over the years in that video. There was a period where he scaled it back after he locked up the nomination, but that Khazr Khan (over)reaction was really the beginning of the end for Trump in my estimation. It was of course another media hit job for clicks and views, but the Trump campaign's response was so godawful. They let the story fester for days before trying to respond. It could have been
so easily countered. It's possible by now that he doesn't actually want to be President. As of late, he's gotten incredibly sloppy and started to give the media a rope to hang him with (the 2nd Amendment comment). The campaign has made some truly baffling decisions, like continuing to face the press when his opponent went into hiding for an unprecedented amount of time, which was like Foreman tiring himself out while Ali rope-a-doped him.
Anyway, unfortunately the American body politic sustains itself on image, so they'll always favour presentation over policy. I, for one, welcome our new corporate, war hawk overlords
". Incredible. They are so desperate to turn this election into a superficial referendum on Trump's personality. Humiliation of Trump is their only strategy. I wanted to slap the shyt out of Wagner when she said "They've golfed together but they haven't been golfing together
face when that corpulent b*stard Barney Frank admitted to taking Wall Street money
. nikka...your name is on the fukking bill, chill with that shyt
. You sure you're not a secret Trump supporter?
Trump surely couldn't mean any of those things, because I like those things and I don't like Trump."
. I fully expect milquetoast libs to adopt a reactionary anti-Universal position now that Trump is pushing for it though.