enviousdominous
Behold my diction
Lewandowski was only part of the problem. A huge reason Trump kept the guy was because he not only liked him but Trump also liked his strategies of just saying whatever he wanted no matter what. Trump's ego puts Vince McMahon's to shame and Vince does have a sense of maturity about him, whereas Trump has seemed like a highly petulant, thin skinned child at times who lashes out at anyone and anything that has anything negative to say about him and/or even slightly disagrees with him.
The damage to Trump has already been done; all of his offensive statements are out there with people being reminded of them ad nauseam with most of them being recorded either on film or during phone interviews. He's still sending out childish Tweets and making outlandish statements while not providing any real degree of depth as to how he plans to fix things that are wrong.
Both Trump and Clinton have big favorability problems as neither of them are particularly well perceived or trusted by the public, if the various polls that've come out this week are truly indicative of how people feel. Clinton is seen as a career politician that's part of what many perceive as a broken system while Donald Trump is seen as a loud mouthed buffoon without any real plan as to what he's doing.
Like many Americans, I'm not overly wild about Hilary and I'm certainly not wild about Trump, but she's the lesser of two evils in this situation, at least in my opinion. At least she does have plans laid out, ideas that she's telling people about, depth to her campaign and organization among her party, for the most part anyhow, whereas many people see Trump driving the Republican Party towards a cliff. I'm repulsed by Trump as a human being and I had no idea that he was such a poor businessman no matter what he otherwise proclaims. I mean...when you're someone who declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy 4 times, I have difficulty believing that someone is the business genius that he claims to be.
It's insane to me that Trump could ever let Corey go since they seemed like kindred spirits, and it's even more insane to me that Corey is apparently still loyal to Trump as he refuses to share his understanding of who Trump would be most likely to choose as a Vice President. I think that the biggest risk to Trump's campaign in all this is that he apparently thinks that his kids and their spouses can fill the void. Trump's been sitting behind desks wayyy too long.
Trump may have burned any bridges he may have had with people who can think far enough ahead to be appalled by his statements and judge his character thusly, but -- for enough people to make a difference -- the game is as simple as; you're never wrong so long as you identify with the color that represents your political party. Whatever damage we normal folk perceive as having happened to Donald's reputation only make him sympathetic to his cro-magnon voting base. Any explanation we give for why Donald Trump would be a terrible president is beyond the capability of his supporters to comprehend, even if we explained using sock puppets and fingerpaints.
It is such a tricky game when you present ideas, in regard to a how one would rate the character of a Presidential candidate, that are fair and even tempered. Outside of this forum of course, I think the WrestleZone forum is the most reasonable sanctuary of thought on the entire internet.
I give Trump that he hasn't filed for personal bankruptcy, but that company's bearing his supposedly lucrative name have filed for bankruptcy. So he's not lying when he says that he's never filed for bankruptcy. Then again, this is honestly the only defense I can make on his behalf. He has no social etiquette, humility or decency, and yet he's the type who would immediately attack someone else for their lack of any of those qualities.
Hillary is dealing with the whole e-mail thing, which from my perspective is so fucking stupid. This explanation is going to get lengthy, so I'll make it a spoiler and sum it up after;
In my line of work, I've had e-mail accounts that are designated as secret. The biggest flub you can make is to send an e-mail using that restricted account and allow that e-mail to be received by any other account that isn't restricted, though the content of that e-mail is taken into consideration when deciding how severe one should be punished. Most of the time, e-mails sent through the secret account consist of "Wings tonight?" with a response of "Can't, got the runs". Now, if John Q Poopypants up and accidentally CC'd his Aunt's Gmail account when he sent that, the US Government would laugh its ass off and assume that his explanation to his Aunt would be punishment enough. My point being; simply maintaining a private e-mail server through which you occasionally share secret or top secret information doesn't show that you can't govern effectively. She took an easy route that broke a rule, but to my knowledge didn't compromise national security. Nobody can give me any kind of tangible negative consequence of what she did except that it was a rule for her to only maintain an e-mail through a government server, and she didn't follow it.
I see myself voting for Hillary because she seems like the safer bet, the devil we know in other words. Donald would probably give me a huge raise to my paycheck if he gets elected, but while I have a lingering thread of self-worth I can't see myself helping him to be the President.