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  1. Okay, first, I'll see if you can see the logic of a Trumpism: I'll start with Vindictiveness because this is a common thing that is given to Trump. If you've been paying heed to the negative press that Trump receives, you would have heard about Donald Trump's nephew... Fred III, son of Fred Jr... Donald's brother who died of alcoholism. You would also have heard the stories that Donald cut off medical insurance coverage to Fred III's son, William, who was born with a rare disease and fighting for his life. The news articles on this one is vicious. Trump is a child-killer cold-hearted vindictive sob... etc. So, here's the no-spin story. Fred Sr (Donald's father) died and left a will that divided the bulk of his estate to his 4 living children - no provision for Fred Jr, who was already dead at the time. The grandchildren also received equal shares of part of the estate. This included Fred III and his sister. Fred Jr's wife, received nothing. This is because Fred Sr. blamed his daughter-in-law partly for Fred Jr's problems. When the will was read, Fred III and his sister sued Donald and his siblings for 1/5 of the bulk of the estate as Fred Jr's share. They claimed that Donald and his siblings fraudulently influenced Fred Sr who was suffering with Alzheimer's to not recognize Fred Jr. in the will. Donald claims that Fred Sr only gave inheritance to the living children and this has always been his desire. William's medical coverage was provided for by the Trump Organization - Fred III, although a real-estate developer himself, is not part of the Trump Organization. So, when it was time to renew the medical coverage, Donald and his siblings decided not to renew it. Now, this is, of course, easily seen as cold-hearted and vindictive. This is Donald's view of it (paraphrased): Suing my dead father is cold-hearted. If they wanted more money, they could have just asked me or my siblings. We would have happily given parts of our share to Fred Jr's memory. Our decision to cut off medical coverage does not hurt William. Fred III and his wife are more than capable of paying for that medical coverage themselves even before they received their share of the inheritance. I have helped Fred III over the years. He can learn to fend for himself. Now, after that incident... Fred III did not get what he wanted out of the will. But Donald and his siblings continued their relationship with Fred including helping him out with his business. I'm thinking about this and if I was to be Donald, I don't think I'd do anything to the medical coverage. I'd renew it and teach Fred III the lesson in a different manner. But then I'm thinking about how this applies in the world stage... We're not going to hit ISIS because it will look cold-hearted.... And I start to think... maybe this is the kind of temperament that we need... somebody who doesn't care about the optics. Because, if I get over the initial pull-my-heartstring-effect of a baby with a rare disease losing medical coverage... I can actually see that William was never in any danger of not getting medical care. And then I can see how this brings Fred III back in line with Fred Sr's will. Discuss.
  2. I thought their Republican primary is in May??? Where have I been?
  3. Oh! You meant D.C! I thought you meant Seattle kind of Washington...
  4. Vort, does your State have polls out yet for expected voter turnout? You're like in the tail-end of the primary season but from how it is looking like... your State might just be the State that bumps a candidate past the 1237 mark... So, in that sense, your vote finally makes a difference this year...
  5. 1 - That is not my words. That was his classmates' words. I linked it. You can see for yourself. It's a Facebook post and many of his classmates posted in the comments. 2 - And I'm telling you he is not a high school bully... at any age.
  6. His classmates writing about their experience with Trump in high school is not valid? What is more valid than that? And sure, what he was in high school may not be who he is today. But, this is in response to you saying he's a High School Bully. Well, according to his classmates, he wasn't.
  7. I will agree with you on this much... he is a TERRIBLE communicator. He would have been so much better if he would hire speech writers. His AIPAC speech was a much better-tempered speech that still contained Trumpisms to connect with the crowd. It's impressive to see a skeptical-of-Trump crowd give him more standing ovations than Cruz who they already know and like. Hillary, on the other hand, decided to become a Republican. She even lowered her pitch to counter the media-critique that she sounds screechy. This made her speech sound like a Catholic Priest reading the Gospel. Now, I wouldn't say he is deliberately using anger, fear, etc. to drive his popularity. I've been following this election cycle closely (closer than previous cycles) because this election has some personal impact for me (long story). To tell you the truth, I don't think Trump is driving his own popularity. The Trumpsters are driving his popularity. And they glommed onto Trump rather than Carson (my guy - for much of the same reasons that Trumpsters support Trump) because Trump is impervious to the media whereas Carson is having a hard time getting through. He is the only one with the ability to go through the media and reach the people. He is the only one that can blow up the demagoguery plaguing American politics - where if you say "we don't want Illegal Immigrants" or "we're going to police Muslims", you get labeled a xenophobe and if you say "I support law enforcement" you're a racist... or if you say, "I want to punch the guy in the face" you're hateful. People are angry. People are fearful. That's the facts. And they have every reason to be. After the people handed over the government to their dyed-in-the-wool favored conservative and still nothing gets done and ISIS continues to march through Europe... the people are looking for a different solution. Trump rallies are different in that Trump gives voice to the audience. He allows them to move the rally forward instead of sticking to his own talking points. This has never been done in the US before. This happens in the Philippines all the time, so it's not new to me. The US political campaigns are focus grouped, politically analyzed and stylized complete with handing audiences the questions to give an image of a town hall. All answers have been previously prepared and focus grouped, etc. Trump has no political analyst staff, no handlers, no focus groups. He says what's in his head or what people tell him. In his clumsy communicator abilities. But it connects with the people. Because the people are made part of it. He doesn't tell people what they should feel, he doesn't tell people what they should think. He says his piece and you're free to feel and think whatever you want to feel or think about it. He says it all the time - "this is what I said, this is what I meant... if you took another meaning out of what I said, that's on you, not me."... which, I have to say, I say all the time too. I get this all the time speaking English that is not my native tongue and having people twist what I say just because I used different words than what they would have used. So, I get this. But yes, I do prefer prepared speeches over Trump speeches. Heck, I write a lot of them! A lot of thought goes into a campaign stump speech... just to make sure nobody can use snippets of it to torpedo your campaign! So, you kinda do it like how the Bible does it... you tell them what you're gonna say, then you say what you're gonna say, then you tell them what you just said. This is what you are used to. When a candidate gets mad, he has to decide whether it is better to say, "I'm disheartened... " or if it's more effective to say, "I'm deeply disappointed..." when what you really wanted to say was, "I wanna punch him in the face!"... so, the polished speeches that you're used to... it takes years to cultivate that. Hillary, Bernie, Rubio, Cruz, Kasich... they've been doing this for DECADES. A Trump speech... well, except for the AIPAC one... it's just something he really has to figure out how to learn to do. But I'd still take a Trump speech over your Hillary speech anyday. The woman is sooooo controlled none of the real Hillary shows through. And you know it!
  8. ... if you're Republican. For the Democrats in this forum, just move on to another thread. ;) So, I supported Romney in 2012 after he beat out my guy Gingrich. Okay, disclaimer - I'm Filipino, I can't vote in US elections. I had bad vibes on Romney from 2008 and also on 2012 against Gingrich because of his penchant for scorched-earth negative campaigns. I just do not like this tactic in a Presidential Primary. But yes, most everybody does it and the ones that claim they don't are usually passive aggressive. But, I supported him because he was a much better choice than Obama! So, I housed his campaign volunteers for a week and defended RomneyCare among other things. And he turns around and becomes a poster child for the Never Trump campaign. This is the guy that goes on the General Elections and he goes kid-gloves on Obama. No Never Obama campaign... I mean, can you imagine if all this effort he is putting on this Never Trump campaign he would have put on a Never Obama or even a Never Hillary campaign? He'd be choosing Scalia's replacement right now! It is so bad that he was willing to throw Rubio and Kasich under the bus and fund-raise for Cruz while insulting him by saying he likes Kasich better at the same time. That's a sleazy, only-politicians-will-understand character that is going to sink the Republican Party this year. And what about Hillary? Romney says - I won't vote for Hillary. I'd rather vote 3rd Party if Trump wins the nomination. That's, "I don't care if Hillary wins" code-speak guys. You really think a 3rd Party run will give Republicans the White House? This is just beyond crazy to me. So, I went and consulted the people I consider credible - Gingrich, who I supported in 2012, Carson, who I supported when the first RunBenRun! ad went out to convince him to run for Presidency, and went to the grandfather of conservatism - Rush Limbaugh. All 3 agree with me. So this year, I decided that I'm going to run an anti-NeverTrump campaign just in case he wins the nomination. LET'S GET ON WITH IT. HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT. HILLARY CANNOT... REPEAT... CANNOT BE PRESIDENT!
  9. And there's also Rush Limbaugh who has gotten to know Trump because of their common love for golf. Now, we all know Rush is an ultra-conservative who would love to see Cruz win this thing. Rush says the same thing about Trump that the Florida Attorney General said. And by the way... she endorsed Trump before Florida primaries. And no, she has never given an indication that she's gunning for governor. If she was, she would have gone the same way as Rick Scott - endorsed whoever won Florida. There's a reason Trump sweeped Florida even as it has both Rubio and Jeb in it.
  10. Okay, sure, that was High School. But then you have this interview from the Florida Attorney General just last month where she says she is endorsing Trump not because of anything you see on TV. She knows him personally and knows the people who work for him in Florida. All her experiences with Trump has been with a different guy than what she sees on TV. She said that she hasn't met anybody who works for him in Florida who has a bad thing to say about him. She said that kind of loyalty is impressive.
  11. I linked to you the source. His other classmates piped in. It's straight from the horse's mouth.
  12. All of his High School Class. ALL 99 of Them. Including the smallest kid... Trump was a big kid. Trump was the captain of the Company (Military Academy) that had the smallest kid. They would get into skirmishes (it's an All Boys School in the 60's. Fighting was allowed back then)... and the smallest kid would sometimes end up on the other side of Trump.. the smallest kid said on an interview that he learned to "not lose" because of Trump. Trump wouldn't give him an inch just because he's small - he says, you need to learn to use other ways to win a fight if you don't have the size. So the smallest kid beat Trump with a stick. And he said he had a tough time in High School but that he respected Trump. He's one of the 99. The difference with any other High School and the New York Military Academy is that regular High School is about reading, writing, arithmetic. NYMA, like all military academies, is about building character.
  13. You're hoping for Bill Clinton? BILL CLINTON? You think Bill Clinton wears the pants in that family??? Bill Clinton can't moderate Hillary. Have you seen him lately? Give me something about Trump that is the 20% difference with Cruz. And about Vindictiveness - Hillary Clinton trumps ANYBODY on Vindictiveness. By the end of the Clinton Oral Office scandal, Hillary has managed to make Ken Starr look like a greasy, disgusting pervert. You think Bill Clinton moderated THAT? What vindictiveness did Trump show? He trashed Ivana on his book, yes. Ivana was no lily-white princess, either. But he never reneged on his prenup with her - he simply prevented her from clawing more money beyond the prenup. But then he forgave her. He hosted her 4th wedding even! His core ideology does not align with major ideologies. He doesn't stick to pre-defined pre-labeled camps. Perfect example: He donated to Billy Graham Charities and then donated to Gay Men's Health Crisis. Both groups at their ideological throats. He himself is on the side of Billy Graham on gay marriage. But he doesn't care about the optics of donating to Gay Men being an anti-gay-marriage guy because he believes they need help with their health crisis. Any other politician - Cruz, Rubio, Jeb, etc. etc., will not be caught dead donating to Gay Men's stuff because it is not good optics for their ideology. So, what's his ideology? Whatever makes common sense to him. How do you know what that is? You gotta understand the guy. How do you do that? Well... his life is public record. He is a celebrity. It's a time investment, yes. But that's the only way to figure him out because he is a terrible communicator. For example - he doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, doesn't do drugs, even avoids coffee... it's not because some missionary told him about the WOW. Rather, his brother was an alcoholic, ruined his family, and died for it. He is hands on with his kids because that's what he learned from his father. He is pro-life because a close friend's child who is now doing great things with the Trump Organization was almost aborted. His experiences having to deal with NYC politics as well as all the other cities he's in and including internationally rounds up his views on politics. He's a political neophyte. But he's not completely unaware. He predicted 9/11 in the same way he predicted Brussels. He pays attention. Yes, what will define his Presidency is not necessarily what he knows but WHO he brings together to advice him. But then, his children has been saying he's really good at bringing the right people together well before he declared his candidacy. That Apprentice girl - Omarosa. She's been everywhere saying good things about Trump. Trump got interviewed and was asked if he'd hire Omarosa in the Trump Organization... he said, No. He says she backstabs people. She would be really great with Reality TV shows or those kinds of things where backstabbing is not an issue. And Omarosa says, yep, that's Trump - you can endorse him, doesn't mean he'll endorse you!
  14. YES. ALL. REALLY. 99 of them. And that interview... He is in favor of shutting down Mormon Churches IF THEY HARBOR TERRORISTS. He said he'll do the same thing for Mormon Churches what he will do for Mosques. So, are you trying to tell me that if a Mosque/Mormon Church is harboring terrorists, shutting them down is a ridiculous proposal? And yes, he has nothing against Mormons. He gave lots of money to Romney. He thinks it's an "alien faith" (Trumpism) just like Carson's 7th Day Adventist one. But that interview you are talking about where the interviewer was Mormon was not about shutting down Mormon Churches. That was an interview before he declared his candidacy - all the way back to 2014 - about why Romney lost the elections. Trump said to the interviewer that Romney lost because of his "alien faith" - which is not too far off into conspiracy theory land - my husband even believes this, that evangelicals stayed home because Romney is Mormon. When the interviewer said he's Mormon, he tried to recalibrate to the side of political correctness - which, in all cases with Trump, always sounds awkward. You gotta understand Trump-speak (called Trumpism) to understand the guy in the same manner that you have to get to know Ted Cruz to understand the guy. For a political hack like me (several family members are running for office this year including one who is running for Congress and so I'm busy campaigning), it is frustrating to listen to a Trump rally. I'd sit there preparing a campaign speech and here I listen to Trump giving one and I just sit there wishing he'd complete his sentences! But see, he talks to a crowd of 30-thousand and just treats everybody like his mates - that they all know what he's getting at and it doesn't have to be spelled out. He doesn't complete his sentences because his speeches move with the crowd. The not-as-great rallies that he holds - I call them the stump speeches - are your normal boring political campaign rallies... yeah, you cheer when he says "The Wall" and that kind of thing (same as what you would see in any of the other political rallies including Bernie Sanders - who has more rabid fans than most), but it doesn't have that same personal connection... you can feel it in his speech - when you know he's just doing the motions. In these "not his good day" speeches he completes his sentences. He just gave one of those "not his good day speeches" last week - in Arizona... in that rally where the freeway got blocked by protesters. And you'll have to give me a youtube video about that Billion thing. He said the wall will cost $10-$12 billion but if any of the other guys are going to build it, it will cost at least double that. The point is not about how much it cost. The point is that whatever it cost, he'll be the one to do it on time and on-budget while all the others - because that's how government has worked forever - will spend more to get less. This has been proven time and time again - exhibit A... Central Park Skating Rink. He got tired of looking at that bloated project and he decided to do something about it - delivered on time and under-budget. His campaign is a testament to this - least money, highest ranking. The Democrat media is shouldering the cost of his Republican campaign. Trumpism is not about the actual words used or even the actual figures used. Remember - he is not focus-grouped-scrubbed-teleprompted. He shoots from the hip. Just like when I would show up at my brother's house and tell him... holy molly batman, Messi just scored a thousand points! When all it was was a hatrick... and that's all because my point is not EXACTLY HOW MANY Messi scored. My point is that it was amazing! One thing you need to have to get used to to understand Trump - he doesn't speak like a politician. He speaks more like Howard Stern than Larry King. So, if you're gonna vote for Hillary because of that, then I can't help America.
  15. And here is the fallacy. That you can only know God through Church teachings. God is manifest through His creation. It is in one of the Primary Songs... "Whenever I hear the song of a bird or look at the bright blue sky..." So that, people who are born, raised, lived, and died in the Cordillera mountains untouched by Civilization having never heard of the word God, Jesus, or Holy Spirit is not barred from the Kingdom of Heaven just because missionaries haven't found their way in there yet. How they live their lives is also an agent of change. Whether they will follow the Light of Christ that is within each and every one of us - church-taught or not. Every single action leads us to enhancing the light or diminishing the light... each time we choose, it brings about change.
  16. Go to that Facebook link. Trump's classmates posted on the comments. In any case, you hear people say negative things about Cruz, you'd rather believe the ones that say positive things about him. You hear people say positive things about Trump, you'd rather believe the ones that say negative things about him. And the only reason I can see is that Trump is raw - unscrubbed, unpolished, uncontrolled. Of course he gives the impression that he is rude and a jerk.... put The Folk Prophet on that podium without a teleprompter and political campaign handlers, people would say the same thing. Heck - people say that about him here on lds.net and that's written! You have a backspace and delete buttons you can use! I don't believe The Folk Prophet is a jerk. He just comes out that way. But even if he's a real jerk in real life - you'd rather have the woman who trashed Juanita Broaddrick, lied to the face of Benghazi victim's families, and laundered political money through the Clinton Foundation, and showed no regard for national security with her emails? Because, she doesn't sound like a jerk? You're really rather give her Scalia's robes over the guy who Jeff Sessions and Jan Brewer believes can do the job? By the way, a good student according to one's Professor is entirely different from a classmate saying he's a creep. Lots of good students are creeps and are the reason MormonGator hated high school.
  17. Yet, all... ALL... EVERY SINGLE PERSON... in his High School graduating class like/respect him. Cruz, on the other hand, have high school and college classmates who say they don't like Cruz because he's a creep. Yes, if I was American and Cruz is the nominee, I'd still vote for Cruz against Hillary even if he's a creep. http://www.infowars.com/trumps-high-school-classmate-his-character-is-as-good-as-it-gets/
  18. I wrote a very long response to your post about voting Bush, Rubio, Kasich on another thread... it disappeared. Before I spend another 30 minutes of my time re-writing the thing... can you see if that post is sitting there in lds.net neverland?
  19. See this here... This is why I've been getting vocal about American politics even as I'm neck deep embroiled in the Philippine one. In that sentence there, you just ranked Trump beneath Clinton. So... it is HIGHLY LIKELY that Trump is going to win the nomination which... if the elections is up to Mormons, puts Hillary in the White House. You guys are crazy if you'd rather see Clinton on that seat than Trump. So yeah, Americans... .WHERE'S THE NEVERHILLARY MOVEMENT, HUH????
  20. In that case, I don't really know what you're talking about. The Trinity has always been the dividing line ever since well before the Protestants protested. As far as I know. And about the litmus test... yes, Mormons are Christians. But as far as other Christians not wanting to assign that label to us... do I care? No. I'd gladly admit I'm not Christian if their definition of Christian is different than mine. Stick and stones.... My favorite candidate for President is a devout Catholic. DUTERTE, Y'ALL!
  21. Told me his dad is sick (which is true), and that they need $200 for some medical procedure (which is also true). So, I gave it to him even when I knew he's a candidate for Rehab. $200 ended going up his nose. The idiot (me, not him). So yeah, how's that car fund going? Hopefully you've gone past $150 by now?
  22. Guys... this is really very simple. Christians do not want to give Mormons the label Christians because they're not Trinitarians. That's it. They don't hate you... well, maybe some do. They hate what the Mormons are doing to God that is, to them, the height of blasphemy.
  23. That is because there is only 1 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints while there are MANY Muslim faiths. Saying Muslim is like saying Christian... Who's the Spokesperson for all Christians? All Christians can't agree either. They can't even agree on who is Christian. They can't agree on whether homosexuality is a sin or not. They can't agree on whether to believe the Bible only or not... So what do they condemn? Easy... They all condemn Terrorism. All of them. So look here: ISIS is Sunni. Iran leadership is Shiite. Iran backs Assad in Syria - also Shiite. They are fighting against each other using the Sunni/Shiite differences to justify themselves. So... you got peaceful Shiite populace in Syria getting annihilated by ISIS and peaceful Sunni populace in Syria getting annihilated by Assad. The Kurds of Syria are getting annihilated by both ISIS and Assad... which is crazy as a lot of them are Sunnis... but they're not Arabs just like Iran is not Arab... but Iran is Shiite - Iran is also killing Iranians (non-Arab) who are Sunnis while ISIS is killing Sunnis who are not Arabs. Now, the King of Jordan is Sunni. But he got on a fighter jet and bombed Sunni ISIS. He is also anti Iran. He plasters himself in all news sources that would listen trying to condemn all Muslim terrorists and telling them how Jordanian Muslims are not terrorists even as they are Sunnis. There are 33 other Muslim nations in addition to Jordan who formed a coalition to fight ISIS. But no... that's not enough. Because, you know, American right-wing news especially Sean Hannity (I can't stand his idiotic statements against the Quran and Sharia) says nobody in the Muslim world is speaking against the terrorists that hijacked Islam.... But what can you do... your family are getting killed left and right and Americans think you're the terrorist. And you think Mormons have it tough.
  24. Test - like the multiple choice test at the end of a grading period to prove how much we have learned? Not really. Test... is simply the facilitator for change. We are given all the answers. Now, it's just a matter of whether we have the faith in God to change.