Howler63
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I am not a man given to wild speculation. I am firmly planted in reality with a healthy level of cynicism in the tank. However, after these past few months, I have a sneaking suspicion that the Trump campaign is either a Trojan horse meant to hand the election to Hillary on a silver platter, or the biggest gaggle of morons ever to grace the political arena.
On the one hand there is ample evidence that Trump and Clinton are either working together, or they're using him to secure the White House for Hillary. In the first case, he's an old family friend and they know each other very well. Not to mention that he's campaigning on the cheap, not assembling anything close to a ground game, and he is constantly firing off misstep, after misstep, after misstep.
In the second case, the Clinton's know Trump very well. They knew that his uncouth rhetoric and xenophobic hyperbole would play well with the reactive Republican base. They knew the right-wing factions would gravitate to a guy wanting to 'build a wall', 'deport millions' and institute a religious litmus test for immigration. They know how despised political correctness is among the 'Tea Party' groups and they knew that if they could just stoke the fires enough to get him past the primaries, then they would face a general election opponent with worse favorable's than Hillary.
On the other hand it could be possible that Trump and his apparatus are the largest collection of political Neanderthals since the Neolithic age. Is it possible that he's some sort of stupidity black hole? Drawing other idiots to him like retarded moths to a vacuous flame? Could anyone worth billions actually be that incompetent?
And here are our choices. Are they in collusion? Are the Clinton's using Trump? Or is Trump an idiot?
Truthfully, I'm torn. The evidence to suggest that Trump is in cahoots with the Clinton's, is pretty much the same evidence that it's all some horrible game of patty cake between simple minded children. I think I would feel better if it were collusion. Because anyone as stupid and ill prepared as Trump getting this far, says so much about a good portion of my fellow Americans that I'd rather not accept.
On the one hand there is ample evidence that Trump and Clinton are either working together, or they're using him to secure the White House for Hillary. In the first case, he's an old family friend and they know each other very well. Not to mention that he's campaigning on the cheap, not assembling anything close to a ground game, and he is constantly firing off misstep, after misstep, after misstep.
In the second case, the Clinton's know Trump very well. They knew that his uncouth rhetoric and xenophobic hyperbole would play well with the reactive Republican base. They knew the right-wing factions would gravitate to a guy wanting to 'build a wall', 'deport millions' and institute a religious litmus test for immigration. They know how despised political correctness is among the 'Tea Party' groups and they knew that if they could just stoke the fires enough to get him past the primaries, then they would face a general election opponent with worse favorable's than Hillary.
On the other hand it could be possible that Trump and his apparatus are the largest collection of political Neanderthals since the Neolithic age. Is it possible that he's some sort of stupidity black hole? Drawing other idiots to him like retarded moths to a vacuous flame? Could anyone worth billions actually be that incompetent?
And here are our choices. Are they in collusion? Are the Clinton's using Trump? Or is Trump an idiot?
Truthfully, I'm torn. The evidence to suggest that Trump is in cahoots with the Clinton's, is pretty much the same evidence that it's all some horrible game of patty cake between simple minded children. I think I would feel better if it were collusion. Because anyone as stupid and ill prepared as Trump getting this far, says so much about a good portion of my fellow Americans that I'd rather not accept.