...Yeah Trump really said that (Lawrence O’Donnell video segment with Maria Teresa Kumar and David Corn). But what is worse, is that he actually means it. I know,.. hard to believe... Trump’s words matching his deeds, but so far, his hubris — “I don’t need your money”, another tall tale — seems to have been taken as a sign of competence by his groupies. That’s what is happening. None of it good.
In the non-reality-tv world, every promise made by the GOP presidential candidate is worthless; bringing back jobs & manufacturing, preserving Social security and Medicare. Trump is toothless, perhaps the weakest candidate for US president I’ve ever seen in action. To say that Trump is “compromised” barely scratches the surface.
In this recent article you’ll see some of what Joy Reid means :
The Carrier deal was a sham. Ivanka’s moving her shoe production out of China—and into Ethiopia. Wake up, people. You’ve been played
by Joy-Ann Reid | December 8th, 2016
Here is a small excerpt:
Dear Working-Class White Trump Voter,
You’re probably going to read this as sour grapes, and I certainly am sour about a family of kleptocrats moving into the White House because 80,000 of your votes in states that get more federal tax dollars than they put in trump 2.7 million of ours, even though we carry you financially, and California and New York could function just fine as our own countries, without you. [...]
You voted for Donald Trump, thinking that he was on your side; that he will save your jobs and your way of life, whatever you imagine that is. Well, you got played.
Over the course of his decades in business, Donald Trump has never given a damn about people like you. When he tore down the old Bonwit Teller building—where my Jamaican godmother was one of the few black women allowed to work as a cashier in the 1960s (her big claim to fame was meeting Troy Donahue)—to build Trump Tower, Trump used undocumented white laborers, mostly Polish, to do it. When his company forced them to work in deplorable, dangerous conditions and even failed to pay them the meager wages they were promised and they complained, Trump threatened to have them deported.
Joy Reid continues to demonstrate how, as United Steelworkers local 1999 President Chuck Jones put it, Trump "lied his ass off". It’s well worth the read, but Joy Ann Reid had more to say about Trump’s vulnerability.
In this article by Sean Conners covering the same Joy Reid article, is a video segment with Chris Hayes and Joy Reid discussing the dangers of a Trump administration. Trump, whether he agrees with the republican agenda or not, has so many flagrant conflicts of interests, he is beholden and can be ‘brought to heel’.
[Joy] Reid and [Chris] Hayes then discussed how Trump’s other cabinet appointments aren’t anything ‘revolutionary,’ just ‘plutocrats’ and ‘Chamber of Commerce’ Republicans who are for immigration reform (and like to hire immigrants on the cheap). Total opponents of labor through and through.
They are now paired with a Congress that is eager to ‘repeal the 20th century’ as Reid noted. Medicare privatization, Social Security cuts — the opposite of what Trump voters voted for.
Reid’s contention that this is a big scam holds more water with every move Trump makes.
Furthermore, Trump, at this point can be ‘brought to heel’ by that Congress who can threaten countless ‘conflict of interest’ charges if Trump steps out of line.
Reid also pointed out how many people Trump ‘owes’ including foreign banks and interests who can also make Trump ‘heel.’
In the end, she reiterated, it will be the working class base that voted him into office that will be ‘played.’
— emphasis added
Check out her outstanding analysis below;
(thank you Ryan Conners for the video. MSNBC management didn’t see fit to post this particular segment)
Despite the many claims by republicans on creating jobs, here is their actual record on that:
posted May 17th, 2016
Trump campaigned on bringing jobs back to America. Yet it is the GOP that has made it their agenda to out source those jobs in service to their corporate paymasters seeking a cheap unrepresented labor force, and tax breaks for the same corporations.
Thom Hartmann explains how republicans avoid facing any criticism or direct challenge:
Here is the GOP “jobs” agenda and their voting record — last 4 years:
• 99% of Republicans Voted To Protect Tax Breaks for Companies Who Ship American Jobs Overseas. [CTJ] [Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act, HR 1586, #518, 8/10/10] This bill became law over Republican objections. (PL 111-226)
• 99% of Republicans Opposed Legislation to End Tax Breaks for Companies Who Ship American Jobs Overseas. [American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act, H.R. 4213, Vote 324, 5/28/10]
• 98% of Republicans Twice Voted Against Cracking Down on Foreign Tax Haven Corporations [Small Business and Infrastructure Jobs Act, H.R. 4849, Vote 182, 3/24/10; Farm Bill, H.R. 2419, Vote 755, 7/27/07]
• 97% of Republicans Voted Against Cracking Down on Offshore Accounts for Corporations and the Wealthy [HIRE Act, H.R. 2847, Vote 90, 3/4/10; New York Times, 3/27/10] This bill became law over Republican objections. (PL 111-147)
• 99% of Republicans Voted Against Cracking Down on Overseas Tax Havens. [H.R. 4213, Vote 943, 12/9/09]
• 85% of Republicans Voted Twice to Protect a Tax Loophole for CEOs’ Deferred Compensation Paid by Offshore Companies. [H.R. 4351, Vote 1153, 12/12/07; H.R. 7060, Vote 649, 9/26/08] This finally became law, as part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (PL 110-245), despite Republican objections.
• 88% of Republicans Voted to Protect Tax Benefits for American Expatriates who Renounce their Citizenship [H.R. 3056, Vote 960, 10/10/07] This provision finally became law, as part of the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act (PL 110-245), despite Republican objections.
..with a lot more information on republican votes beyond what is posted here.
By now many people have gotten wind of the republican plan to gut Social Security despite the promises made by their presidential candidate. This is nothing new. For many years, the GOP agenda has been to undo most all of the social programs people rely on on. Outsourcing of jobs is another part of that same GOP platform.
In the last few weeks, I’ve become convinced that Donald Trump truly is far less qualified than merely unfit to hold public office, especially president of the United States of America. He is everything he has accused his rivals of.. only far worse. And he is weak; unaware of what he is up against or the challenges he faces
He is no ‘Maverick’, but a reality tv despot. An amateur compared to the multi-billion dollar corporate entities (and governments) he flirts with. A puppet that can be brought to heel in very real way, not just by a republican controlled congress, but by any number of “special interests” foreign and domestic that choose to call in their chips on him. Trump’s promises amount to precisely nothing. Zero.
Trump may not “need your vote anymore” but when he realizes what his own republican party and his ‘business associates’ can do to him personally in order to achieve their destructive agenda, he’ll need the help of the people he has attacked and marginalized (putting it as nicely as I can) more than ever. And for that he’ll have to beg forgiveness and prove he means it, first — as just a start
p.s. that last paragraph is in regards to the well being of this country , its people , critters, and the environment, and it’s as non-partisan as I get