I have had several people in the past few days ask me to
explain myself with regards to my demeanor towards the upcoming election,
particularly my attitude towards the president hopeful Mr. Trump. So, I have
put together as much of the truth as I can, in the hopes that people will
understand why I stand where I do. I know that this information will likely not
sway anyone, but the fact of the matter is, when I look back at this election
years from now, regardless of what comes from it, I want the records to show
that I did my best to stand for the truth. I do not identify with any
particular candidate, party, or “movement”. I go by the words of Abraham
Lincoln, “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with
anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with
him when he goes wrong.” The too short didn’t read version of this is: Mr.
Trump does not stand for the truth, and I cannot in good conscience stand with
him.
To start things off, lets dig into the topic of abortion.
Mr. Trump has, on many occasions, emphatically stated that he is pro-life.
Ignoring the fact that he conveniently changed from “very pro-choice” to “pro-life”
in 2011 (along with flipping on almost every other social and economic issue),
he has repeatedly defended the largest abortion facility in America, Planned
Parenthood. On several occasions, he has said that Planned Parenthood does, “great
things for women,” and should, “only be defunded if they continue with
abortions.” Not to mention the fact that is okay with abortions in the cases of
rape or incest. This is not pro-life. No one who is truly pro-life, who truly believes
that life begins at conception, is okay with killing a baby, regardless of the circumstances
in which that baby was brought into being.
Next up, we’ve got Mr. Trumps habits with the ladies. His
three wives aside, Mr. Trump never ceases to amaze with the next sexual comment
he can come up with. From saying he could have had sex with the Princess Diana ( www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3464039/Donald-Trump-claimed-Princess-Diana-crazy-said-slept-without-hesitation-supermodel-beauty.html ),
to saying he would date his own daughter, Mr. Trump has a very open history of
sexual innuendos (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/donald-trump-on-sex).
He even writes about it extensively in his book.
Then we’ve got the numerous lies that have spewed forth from
Mr. Trumps lips during his campaign. The most recent being that Mike Tyson wasn’t
a rapist (http://www.dailywire.com/news/5368/trump-says-mike-tyson-isnt-rapist-just-tough-guy-hank-berrien).
Not only did Mr. Trump deny the man was a rapist, in the same sentence he
accused the Cruz campaign of lying for saying he was (http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/02/watch-trump-lie-about-mike-tysons-rape-conviction/).
Sorry Mr. Trump, a simple wiki search reveals that Mike Tyson was convicted of
rape in 1992 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tyson)
and sentenced to six years in prison. And yes, Mr. Trump, you did know about
that, because you spent the entire time trying to defend him (https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/donald-trump-blamed-the-victim-in-mike-tysons-rape-case?utm_term=.sim3qDdez#.edPX93v2o).
Then we’ve got the reporter that was assaulted by his
campaign manager (http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/trump-campaign-manager-charged-with-misdemeanor-battery-2213361).
Trump denied the whole thing had ever happened. Denied he’d ever seen the
woman. Denied there was security footage. Denied Lewindowski had ever touched
her. And then a few weeks later, we find security footage, we find that she was
talking to Trump, and Lewindowski is indicted for assault. The worst part of
the whole thing is that, instead of just saying facts about what happened.
Saying he wasn’t aware of anything that had happened. That there didn’t appear
to be footage, he attempted to slander the reporter. Ruin her character and
integrity. This is not okay.
I’ve also heard so many times that Trump is self funded.
This is as naive as you can get. Go look at his website. It has a nice shiny “Donate”
button on it. Sorry bud, people who are “self funded” and only take “five
dollar donations from grandma” don’t put donate buttons on their website. There’s
also this ( http://www.ijreview.com/2015/11/469588-donald-trump-keeps-saying-his-campaign-is-self-funded-but-that-is-just-not-true/).
You can check this article for 101 other lies that come from
Mr. Trump himself (http://www.dailywire.com/news/4834/trumps-101-lies-hank-berrien)
Or you can take a look at this website (http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/pants-fire/).
What it all comes down to for me is simply this: I cannot
stand with a man who lies at such an astronomical level. Who slanders people
who disagree with him. I cannot stand with a man who objectifies women publicly, especially when he does the same to his own daughter. I cannot stand with a man who claims to be
pro-life, but praises the number 1 abortion provider in the nation.
Not only can I not stand with him, the man will never be
president. He loses in all but one poll against Hillary (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
) and he has the highest negativity rating of any president ever recorded since
1992 (Oh look, that includes Bill Clinton and both the Bushes). So, no, you can’t
choose the man that lacks the most integrity, the man that has no morals, and
then blame me for not wanting to vote for him. I refuse to cave on my morals so
that you can have your sick leader as president. I do not vote for a man
because he has an R in front of his name, I vote for him because he is the most
qualified. I have cast my vote, and you have chosen a man for whom I cannot
vote. That’s on you. Not me.
If you’re one of those people who appeals to my emotional
side, saying, “What are you going to tell your grandchildren when they ask
where you were when Donald ‘made America great again.’” Well, if by the grace
of God, Mr. Trump turns out to be the man he claims to be, and despite all the
evidence to say that he can’t, figures out how to “make America great again.”
My reply will be the truth, “I stood by the truth that I had. I didn’t vote for
him because of his past; because of his lies, because of his lack of integrity,
because of his sexual innuendoes, because of his character.” And I won’t feel
the slightest bit of remorse.
So you're going to let Hillary Clinton pack the Supreme Court with two to four liberal justices, all in the name of muh feelings of truth. http://time.com/4266700/donald-trump-supreme-court-nominations/
ReplyDeleteFor Mike Tyson, the person who accused him of rape has a history of false rape claims. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1290&dat=19930302&id=D1JUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mo4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4305,536569&hl=en A lot of jurors after the trial said they'd vote differently if given the chance, and Tyson refused a plea deal of six months probation because he wasn't going to plead guilty to a crime he didn't commit. https://youtu.be/eLqrYRXfR3M
Trump does not have a Super PAC, he does not have anyone giving him large amounts of money to help with his election besides himself. So what if the average American donates five dollars? Is he "bought" by the American people? People need to learn what nuance and the difference betweena general statement, "I'm self funded, meaning I'm not bought like the politicians" and a claim meant to be taken only literally. Trump is self funded. He has no person that he's beholden to besides the American people and himself. Don't be pedantic.
You voted for Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz lied about so many things. He "made a typo" that his wife was a baker, instead of what she really was, a banker working for one of the sleeziest banks in America, Goldman Sachs, who, by the way, funded Ted Cruz's senate run. Which he "forgot to disclose" on the campaign trail. http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/ted-cruzs-goldman-sachs-problem You've already supported a liar.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/337295/ Polls for the general election mean absolutely nothing right now, and Trump has been gaining ground on Hillary (the most recent poll showed her losing to him by a point)
Trump's won. The election is his. Everyone said, "Oh he has a ceiling" "Contested convention!" "He'll never hit 1237" "He's going to lose to Hillary!" Well, none of those things have happened. Hillary has the personality of a wet rag, and more scandals than I have fingers. She can't finish a Communist from Vermont, in a two person race. There's no chance she beats Trump. No chance. Trump's the next President of America. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, DEUS VULT, BUILD THAT WALL.
I'd rather her do it then a man who is supposedly "The Face of Conservatism" right now.
DeleteIf you want to stand with a man convicted of rape, who has admitted that he had a sex addiction, and who's manager said he was surprised it was the first time it had happened, then go right ahead.
Goldman Sachs thing is bogus and you know it: townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/01/14/sorry-nyt-cruzs-goldman-sachs-loan-was-disclosed-n2104684
www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/01/14/yes-ted-cruz-disclose-loan-new-york-times-just-didnt-report/
I've never even heard of the banker/baker thing but...who the hell cares and why the heck would he lie about his wife's occupation. A simple google search can reveal that.
Quit pulling at strings. Cruz lost. Why are you so hell bent on destroying his character to make excuses for your own support of Trump? At least find something new instead of ranting about how a man took a loan and that makes him a crony capitalist. Your dad probably took out a loan to buy the house he lives in, do you walk around calling him a fraud and a liar or a crony capitalist?
It's not the average American donating five dollars. Did you even read the article I posted?
"The most recent quarterly Federal Election Committee filings from Trump’s campaign shows the candidate funded just $100,780, whereas donors have given over $3.8 million to his candidacy. Furthermore, it shows that the candidate has previously loaned, rather than donated, an additional $1.8 million."
And why is it that a senator with barely anything can't take a loan from the bank his wife works at without being a crony, but everyone ignores the fact that Trump has taken loans from every bank out there (including Goldman Sachs) (http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/01/22/every-bank-wall-street-owns-donald-trump/). Who's owned by the banks?
Believe whatever you want. But you are going to be sadly disappointment in your candidate. And I know you don't see that, you probably never will, you'll just continue decrying people like me for trying to show you the truth. But there's nothing I can do for you.
I will, because I believe he was innocent. I trust the word of a man who has and that the truth is more important than my feelings. Isn't that the whole point of your blog, Peter? To tell the truth? Because you seem to be in denial. Yes, Mike Tyson had/has a sex addiction, but that doesn't mean he's a rapist. You could be addicted to donuts and McDonald's, but that doesn't mean you robbed a 7/11 just because someone said you did.
ReplyDeleteFor a man who claims to be against crony capitalism, taking a loan out from the bank your wife works is pretty suspicious. If my mother worked at a bank, and then my dad took out a loan to pay for a house from the same bank, and then claimed that bank was horrible and we should get rid of it, I'd think my dad lost all his marbles or that the message he is saying is completely undermined, because he was totally fine using that bank when it suited him. Ted Cruz is a crony capitalist because while he ranted about the banks being too powerful, those same banks sent his wife a paycheck. That's a major conflict of interest, buddy.
Pulling at strings? That's pretty funny, considering that's what your entire post about Donald Trump is about. Pulling at strings. You're defending Michelle Fields, who was fired from Breitbart for her lies. Corey Lewandowski was indicted, but he was never charged, because there was no possible way what Corey did was assault. And Trump, unlike every other politician, stood up for his man. That's loyalty. That's Donald J Trump, and that's the man who's going to President number 45. You're the one who's ranting, Peter, with your "Face of Conservatism" and "Trump's not self funded because people can donate!!!!!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"(That means Rematch, for those who lack Internet lingo ;) )
http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-03-09/trump-wont-repay-presidential-campaign-loans-manager-says
You're wrong.
Your feelings are getting in the way of the truth, Peter. Isn't that what this blog is supposed to stand for, the truth? Because it looks more like it's just for your crying. Don't cry, we'll give you a job when America is made great again. That should help stop the tears. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. DEUS VULT, GOD WILLS, BUILD THE WALL.
So, let me get this straight here. Ted Cruz, a man who's net worth is 3.5 million dollars, takes out a one million dollar loan from a company his wife works for to run his senate campaign (which he later pays off), and he is a crony capitalist because he says he's against wall-street. But, we're all cool with a guy who openly admits he's broken federal visa laws and employed Mexicans illegally to build his buildings, because that's just "good businiess." Well, by your standards, Cruz is just doing "good business." Utilizing a broken system that he clearly says he's going to fix. Isn't that what you told me Trump was going to do? He did all those bad things because he could but he knows they were bad and he doesn't think anyone else should do it so he's going to fix it? I'm having trouble seeing the difference here. Also, would you mind telling me where one would get a one million dollar loan if it wasn't from a big bank?
DeleteAlso, explain to me how taking a loan from the bank your wife works at is Crony capitalism. Is it crony capitalism for me to go to get my brother to buy me something from the store that he works at so that I can get a discount? Is it crony capitalism to go eat at the restaurant my sister works at and get a discount because she works there?
Oh, so Cruz's wife working at Goldman Sachs is a conflict of interest, as if that job would mean shizzle if he was president, but owning a 3.5 billion dollar corporation, and taking out personal loans of over 50 million dollars from every big bank for the last ten years isn't? Where's the logic in that?
And why are we talking about Cruz? He's gone.
Hmmm...I'm defending Michelle Fields, who repeatedly said she just wanted an apology and wouldn't press charges. I'm defending Michelle Fields, who was displayed on camera being grabbed and roughed by Lewendowski after he lied and said he'd never seen or touched her (oh and by the way...he was was demoted for what he did and has a prior history of rough housing people so I'm not quite sure why you're still defending him. I'd think you would be pointing out that Trump demoted him when the truth game out. But you're still caught up in the lie that Trump ran to notice that your night in shining armor did something good). And guess what happened to Breitbart after that? They tanked. Last I checked, good news sources don't tank.
DeleteLook, Joe, you can scoff at me all you want. You can decry me for what I'm saying. You can call me a cry baby and a goody two shoes, but it doesn't change the facts. I'm not sure why you can't see them, and I know I can't make you. You're losing focus of what really matters. Instead of discussing things with me, you want to invalidate me. Instead of being level headed you want to scream DEUS VULT at the end of every post, as if Trump is at the head of some crusade for Mother Church.
I've listened to you. I've read all of your articles. I've been polite in the face of your scoffing. Perhaps you should take a step back and do the same for me. If you truly care and want me to understand what you see as the truth, than you need to act like it. You need to respect me as I have respected you. From where I stand, my conscience binds me from voting for him, you of all people should understand that and the gravity of that.
And you know what Joe, I am crying. I weep for America, and I am not ashamed.
Rise above this Joe. Use your head. Stop putting blind and unfettered faith in a man. You don't have to believe me. But stop holding blindly to your candidate and be open to the idea that he might not be the Godsend from heaven you believe him to be. No candidate is perfect. Cruz isn't perfect, Rubio isn't perfect, and your refusal to admit Trump has any faults should be a cue to you that something is not right. But, don't listen to me, look for the truth yourself. If you're so convinced that I am wrong, than why argue? You say your candidate is unbeatable. So, what do you have to gain from this?
Et loquitur veritatem
This election, it seems to be about damage control. I have not yet decided on a candidate, let's just be clear.
ReplyDeleteThe difficulty is that I believe Hillary capable of a considerable amount of damage. Besides the fact that she's pro-death, her policy proposals are frightening. If you look back at all of the Clinton scandals (minus Bill's incident), she's behind them all.
None of the Republican candidates are a good choice, and I don't care how you defend them. I watched all the debates, and followed the campaign with diligence.
The reason I lean toward Trump is because the wall physically can't be built, and the illegals cannot be deported in the manner he suggests. Tell me on of his policies, and I'll probably find a way that it will not be implemented. This is because of checks and balances; the president does not rule the nation.
I have difficulty saying this, but because of Hillary's stance on abortion, homeschooling, and every other policy she endorses, I consider myself anti-Hillary.
How next to proceed, I am still praying.
I can respect that. I disagree with the idea that none of the candidates were good choices. I think they all had their problems, but that discussion is pointless at this point so I won't get into it.
DeleteHowever, if you don't mind, I'll ask you a question (or more :P ). You don't have to answer them 'cause I'm sure you're busy. But, perhaps they can help you in your discernment.
1. What has Trump done that has indicated he is any better than Hillary? He supported everything she did up until about 2010 when he decided to run for president (and even then said she was a great secretary of state a few times).
2. Are the Republicans more likely to fight Hillary, or their own candidate? This is the one that worries me the most. Yes, Hillary has horrible policies (assuming Trump's actual policies are any better) but Republicans will just hand him whatever he wants. I mean, that's basically what they did with Obama anyway, but they did fight him some because it just...looks good. It will get them elected. We can't say the same thing if a "R" is in the white-house.
3. Can you bring yourself to vote for a man who is pro-abortion? Because, he really is pro-abortion. Just look through his history of comments on the topic. He even praised planned parenthood for "doing great things for women" after we figured out they were dissecting babies.
I understand the damage control thing. But, sometimes the choice is not ours. America as a nation has chosen two evil people to be their leaders, sometimes it is better to be a voice in the darkness, crying out against the evil and bear the consequences of that. At what point do we stop compromising on our morals for the sake of a country that doesn't share them?