'claig Please could you put some flesh on the bones of your vision of a glorious Trump presidency and provide some specific details? '
I said it at the beginning of teh thread. Trump is ending globalism, he is ending the control of the United States by the globalists and bankers. He is taking America back off them, scrapping the free trade deals that have gutted American industry and destroyed millions of well-paid jobs in Detroit and Michigan and elsewhere. He is restoring the American Dream where the working and middle class can thrive again. he is lowering taxes, rebuilding America's infrastructure and ending the trillions spent on wars abroad which suit the globalists and bankers and which America never wins but ends up paying for. He is putting the American people ahead of global corporations and banks. he is going to take a wrecking ball to K Street and the corrupt politicians who work for lobbyists. Some political crooks will likely be going to jail for what they have done. He is ending the cronyism and putting the American nation and people first
'“I am skeptical of international unions that tie us up and bring America down,” he claimed'
That is the whole reason he decided to stand for office. he doesn't need the abuse and the lies against him by the world's elites and their "bought and paid for" cronies, but he has done it because no one else has the courage to sort them out.
'What does "sort the Establishment out" mean? How will the Donald do it? '
He wil open up investigations, he will open up the 28 redacted pages of the 911 report, he knows all the business people and he knows all their tricks, he will get to the bottom of what happened in Syria and Libya and who profited etc. Some people will have to answer for what they did.
'When you say he will "end Davos and all the rest's dreams and schemes, expose all their lies and end them all, tear up their free trade deals" you seem to imply that he will single-handedly dismantle the world economy. How will he do that? '
Farage said the Euro elections were an "earthquake" and that Brexit was an "earthquake", but compared to a Trump Presidency, these things are just tremors. The entire world 's political class, the cronies and the servants, are terrified of a Trump Presidency because America is the stringest country on earth and if America withdraws support for their policies, it is all over for the lot of them, because it will set off a chain reaction where the cronies will be voted out of office all over the world. Brexit caused huge changes in our political system, with big faces who used to lecture us now gone. A trump Presidency will do that in spades across the planet.
'The US president cannot control what sovereign governments, global corporations, wealthy elites and other stakeholders choose to do. He cannot, alone, dictate the world order. If you think he can, please explain how?'
Without American support, the world order collapses. You can say bye bye to the EU if America doesn't support it. We don't know what Trump will do, but he is lukewarm towards it and was for Brexit. The US will favour countries that go along with its new Trumpian policies, those that don't will be left behind and their cronies will probably be voted out if they are left behind.
'Do you think his six bankruptcies resulted from any "dreams and schemes [and] lies" of his own? Have any of The People ever derived any benefit from Donald Trump's billions?'
Those businesses went bankrupt due to the mismanagement of the economy by the teams and the bankers who forced interest rates up and made the debt unserviceable. Some businesses fail, that is part of business, and they are restructured and survive to pay debt back when interest rates fall again. Trump has given employment to tens of thousands of people.
'How is a man incapable of discerning his own lies able to expose those of others?'
It is not that Trump is incapable, it is that he doesn't care because he considers them smallfry, but the big lies and mistakes is what he wants to expose and remove and is why he is running for President.
'Which "pointless wars" will he end? '
Interventions like Libya or backing of Jihadis in Syria etc. The trillions wasted in Iraq, he won't do that type of thing.
' How will he smash Isis within weeks? '
By seriously fighting them in alliance with Putin and NATO. They will be wiped out in weeks. Trump will bomb their oil facilities irrespective of the "environmental impact" which was one reason the Obama team gave for not doing so.
'Didn't Dubya tell us he had smashed Al Qaeda by starting a war he couldn't finish in Afghanistan? Didn't exactly put a stop to radical Islamic terrorism, did it? So how will Trump achieve it?'
Trump has top military advisers like Lt Col Michael Flynn who know what is really going on. Trump knows what is really going on. He will end it very quickly.
'How will "a bullshitter who makes mistakes and cuts corners" ... "bring common sense back to the entire world"? What does "common sense" even mean in this context?'
Because they are mutually exclusive. Common sense means policies the inverse of the ones made by Cameron and the team etc.
'I find your posts frustrating because you indulge in hyperbolic rhetoric rather than substantively addressing valid questions.'
I always try to answer every question, but it is not possible to give substantive policy because even Trump doesn't yet know. But that is not what matters because you can't believe the policy of the Remainers who are now out of office. What matters is intent and Trump has it, so as and when he is in office, he will gather the right people to sort things out.