Trump is Psycho Weird: Voting Rigged? … Hillary is the Devil?
More character defining moments of a psycho person.
He says if he loses Florida 3 months from now, because polls show him winning now… It is proof of voting fraud and there will be widespread civil disobedience and a constitutional crisis.
This guy is dangerous.
If Bernie made a deal with the devil by supporting Hillary, then maybe, just maybe, the republicans who are now supporting Trump against their own principles, in order to be good republicans, are also making a deal with the devil?
He is a reflection of what the republican party has become.
I think the republican party is banking on Trump going down in flames after which they can go back to business as usual. You can see that in Cruz’s convention performance – I will look prescient after November. Ryan and the other leadership are trying to do as little as possible to associate themselves with Trump without actually torpedoing the whole party.
If my link is correct, Mr. Lambert quotes the wrong person about the “rigging” business.
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/2/12350534/trump-warns-rigged-election-clinton
“”He needs to say for example, today would be a perfect example: ‘I am leading in Florida. The polls all show it. If I lose Florida, we will know that there’s voter fraud. If there’s voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate, the election of the winner will be illegitimate, we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government.’”
Donald Trump is surely a loud-mouthed ignoramus, but he is quite right to be concerned about election theft by means of the no-verify computer voting machines.
Thank you for the clarification Zachary.
Yes, Trump very much lacks the skills to be our leader. He will probably continue to self-destruct though, so… Hillary is our more serious problem.
Hillary could very well cause a great deal of irreversible harm. The problem is however complicated, something of a ‘perfect storm’ scenario. First, she now opposes the TPP which has the potential of being the leverage mechanism that will allow the USA to demand higher standards for the rights of foreign workers, and for environmental protections. There could of course be the typical corruption issues but at least the USA would have the option of closing its markets to violators, and thus, if ever we manage to get leaders who are not corrupt, we then make some progress on the ‘race to the bottom’ dynamic, and this would be a very big step toward some very meaningful progress on a very difficult issue.
Plus, the USA has been trying to get intellectual property rights protections since the GATT days.
The TPP also eliminates 18,000 tariffs and this will most certainly create jobs.
But most importantly, the TPP provides some protections for investors and this could eventually make investing in poor nations less risky. This being mostly facilitated by the provisions for ‘investor-state dispute settlements’ (ISDS), which, could give too much power to MNC’s, but, this could be offset by international boycotts of MNC’s made possible as the world becomes more connected via the internet. And this or some other method of bringing the MNC’s in line must occur regardless. So, when the power reaches some measure of equilibrium the TPP will provide the framework to solve some very important issues.
Instead of standing by her “gold standard” comment in regards to the TPP, Hillary has succumbed to the populist view that jobs are being lost to trade policies and off-shoring and etc. But trade-related issues are far from what is undermining jobs. A study by the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University shows that productivity growth caused 85 percent of the job loss in manufacturing between 2000 and 2010. Meanwhile, only 13 percent of the overall job loss resulted from trade-related dynamics.
So, while job-loss is mostly the result of machines doing more and more of the work, Hillary and her team argue that the very MNCs that support her are to blame due to these companies moving so many jobs abroad. Her solution then being many things but all of these misguided because she is not addressing the main cause of job loss.
To make matters worse though, she is also proposing a doubling of immigration levels along with a path to citizenship for undocumented workers. This will most certainly though cause a very significant population increase at just about the same time that our technology revolution reaches a more elevated level of maturity. Thus, a perfect storm that is mostly made possible by populist notions based on disingenuous efforts to win elections.
Ray:
You are not going to close markets even though we are still the largest consuming market in the world.
“that jobs are being lost to trade policies and off-shoring and etc.” Ever hear of Heckscher–Ohlin Jobs are off shoring and have been doing so since the sixties.
“job-loss is mostly the result of machines doing more and more of the work” and not because of improved throughput to to better processes and procedures or better factory layout?
“she is also proposing a doubling of immigration levels along with a path to citizenship for undocumented workers.” I agree the legal and illegal immigrants did it.
Run,
I fear you might have fallen behind some. Maybe the following is something that will break the regurgitation cycle that we are all subjected to.
http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2016/07/international-trade-as-scapegoat.html
Ray:
Tim and I have talked. Again Heckscher–Ohlin. Tim talks about recent and I am talking decades.
Run,
Told you.
It will become more obvious.
Oh, sorry. Little name change. Same guy.
Ray I reviewed Tim Taylor’s article which is only partly true. There are some mis conceptions in the Ball State study that could be challenged by the EconomicPolicyInstitute.com study and by the ProsperousAmerica.org which is not against trade per sa as you state but is more opposed to “free trade” (that is only one way trade) that needs to be modified (current TPP) to include currency manipulation, ISDS, sovereignty rights, intellectual property and worker-environmental protection rights…Free trade is not free and American workers have been sold out by the greedy-profit hungry oligarch corporations who actually have sold out America with phony pay-offs and revolving door appointments to high level gov. positions. The U.S is not taking political action to reduce its exposure to trade as you and Tim say but is promoting a more Fair and Balanced Trade Agenda in the new revised TPP that will benefit all Americans and not just the top 1% in wealth inequality. Part of what is happening to bring more re-shoring is the use of the TCO calculator from Harry Moser and the dramatic increased use of innovation and technology.. You .and many others at AB are again on the wrong side of history as HRC(the mail carrier for the oligarchs) will do none of this to make America a strong economic world trader again with balanced trade deficits. This is where you new better paying livable wage jobs will come from. Can you not connect the dots to see this along with stricter immigration policy will enable more “Americans” to work again at higher pay…This is what Joe Stegalitz says we must do to reign in wealth inequality and jobs growth disparity.
William,
Thanks for the response, I was beginning to wonder if anyone reads anything here. But, I’m still not sure if you actually read my comment because your argument seems non-sequitur. I don’t say anything about free-trade for example and I’m not an advocate for free-trade in the way that is commonly advocated by liberatarinians and etc.
I also understand the Triffin Dilemma so I doubt that eliminating our trade deficit is doable as long as we maintain our reserve currency status.
And I meant to suggest that the MNCs must have their power over us brought into balance so I don’t quite get your “wrong side of history comment”.
Plus I am not one of the regulars here so your lumping of me with “many others at AB”…”again”, is misguided. In fact, the childish comment just above yours is aimed at me and that should help you better understand my status here.