Trump is the Republicans' worst nightmare. They promised themselves after the last Presidential election to focus on kissing up to the Latinos. Fair or not, the Republican Party is going to get the Latino backlash from guilt by association. The fact that Trump is actually increasing his approval rating among Republicans after the racist comments sort of tells you about their voter base already.
[–] FreeSpeachRocks [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
I'm a believer in freedom of association and am intolerant of intolerance. I like having bigots out in the open so I can avoid encounters, including doing business with them. It doesn't matter what kind of bigotry (SJW, religious fundamentalist, or extremists of any flavor) they engage in.
That said, I always will defend their right to be an asshole and to speak their mind freely.
[–] Unlucky13 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Meh, if your brand's success is determined by maintaining positive public opinion of you and your products/companies, then diving into politics is the worst thing you could do from a business standpoint. If you absolutely have to get involved, then there's plenty of opportunities to donate and support political candidates without putting your company name out there. The Koch Brothers have mastered this.
Trump went out there with the intention of saying controversial things that he HAD to know was going to make a lot of people upset. He's a pompous egotistical ass who the public has been dying to light on fire for years now, and he finally gave them a lighter to use against him. He's been saying controversial things for years with no repercussions. If anything, it's only raised his value and his profits. So how should people hold him accountable? His money. Go after his money and he may finally realize that he simply cannot make such tone-deaf statements, and perhaps let him know that he is way too out of touch of the average American to be an effective President.
[–] One_Wing_Angel 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Trump is being crucified and turned into a caricature, and his private businesses are not only being attacked, but become designated targets for half the country. If you're good, then you better not even do business with the bastard! /sarc
Politics is beginning to dominate our lives. It's not enough to vote the correct way, but you must also denounce the Opponent as evil, and then - It being evil - ostracize and destroy It.
This has always been the case on the fringes, of course, but it is now rapidly consuming the center of the left. This is a malignant development.
[–] Unlucky13 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
To be fair though, if he was serious about running for office than he should give up control of his businesses. Not doing so just opens him up to massive conflict of interest issues and makes him look like he's entering politics to promote his brand. You can't be surprised when people refuse to buy your products (which have your own name plastered all over them) when you're going around making controversial statements- right or wrong as they may be.
[–] Medwin 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
It seems like I'm sort of the whipping post because I bring it up. And I don't understand whether you are liberal or whether you are conservative or whether you are Republican, Democrat -- why wouldn't you talk about a problem?" Trump said Saturday. "The crime is raging. It's violent, and people don't want to even talk about it. If you talk about it, you are a racist. I don't understand it."
This right here. It seems like everyone else is either ignoring the issue or outright saying the issue doesn't exist. Trump is bringing up a very real issue, he may not have brought it up in the best way, but that doesn't change the problem.
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[–] RunsWithScissors ago (edited ago)
Your comment seems to imply that Mexico, and other Latin American countries, are perfect meritocracies.
Equating the net worth of immigrants with their worth as persons is probably more offensive than calling them rapists. By that standard, Paris Hilton is "the best" and Mother Teresa is a miscreant.
Having spent some time with illegal immigrants, of this I'm certain: as a whole, they are harder working, more decent, and honest than Donald Trump or any one of the presidential hopefuls from either party. If Trump spent a hour doing the job that an immigrant does 7 days a week, he would likely passout from exhaustion.
Trump just shot himself in the foot. The Republican party really needs to win the Latino votes, and while I believe the party itself will win the next election, it would help them to win the Latino vote. If he were to actually become the Republican candidate, it may cause future issues for him. I know he wants to run for election, but he does this every year. He has so much money it is just a fun game for him.
[–] JoshuaZ 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The Republican party really needs to win the Latino votes, and while I believe the party itself will win the next election, it would help them to win the Latino vote.
Why do you think the Republicans will win this coming election? (I presume you mean the Presidential election)? Can you estimate a probability for how likely you expect a Republican win to be about?
[–] PunchinMahPekaah 2 points 2 points 4 points (+4|-2) ago (edited ago)
This isn't about being punished for talking about something offensive. He was being purposefully inflammatory and outright wrong. Yes, we aren't getting Mexico's best, but Mexico's best isn't as desperate to start a new life. There is no data to suggest that any significant percentage of Mexican immigrants commit violent crimes, rape, or any of the like.
The only reliable data on rapists by demographic is 18 years old and does not support any statement that any significant percentage of Mexican immigrants are rapists, as Trump claimed.
The data on violent crimes doesn't suggest that a hispanic person is any more likely to commit a violent crime than a white person.
But this data is only about the demographics in genereal, not specifically Mexican Immigrants. And that's the issue I have with Donald Trump's statements. If there was any evidence to back up his inflammatory claims, I would think, "Ok, he was certainly crass but at least he's trying to tackle a problem with this country". There is no such data, however, he was just spouting what he thought to be true, and for a Presidential candidate that is not only inappropriate but the thought of him being in the White House is frightening to me. I want our next President to be someone who will fix the problems we are having without prejudice and with the knowledge of what is important and must be done, not someone who thinks something is a problem with no evidence to support it, then acts on it.
There's my two cents.
Edit: Formatting.
[–] CaptainWeaboo ago
Trump has as much tact as his hair is real.