User blog comment:Marshal6000/Why I Support Donald J. Trump/@comment-Skully Of House Lannister-20160719150750

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1. He's actually a very poor businessman. He's started tons of business endevours that have failed miserably. He's declared bankruptcy numerous times. Here are a couple:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/donald-trumps-13-biggest-business-failures-20160314

Also, running a business and a country is very different. Businesses like Trump's are based on greed and the urge to make money, a government is about protecting and bettering the country for the sake of the entire population.

2. There are so many things wrong with this. First of all, to compare banning Muslims to banning Iranians in a time of war is so, so, SO wrong. It's suggesting that the US is fighting a war on Muslims. It is not. Just suggesting that is fodder for even more radicalization: there's a reason ISIS uses Trump as propoganda. The man alienates Muslims and acts as though the US is at war with a religion. Religious freedom is part of the constitution, you can't start banning people based on it. Finally, how would you even enforce a ban on Muslims? It's a person's faith. If a middle eastern man walks up to the border and says "Hey I'm not a Muslim", do you just let them in? Any terrorists will just tell the people at the border that they're an atheist or a Christian: bam, they'd get entry. The only solution for this is to ban people from entering the US based on their ethnicity and appearance: if they seem Middle Eastern, they wouldn't get let in, and hopefully you see how horribly wrong that is.

3. Okay, so first of all, abortions are hardly something worth asking him about. He's a lifelong liberal: he's been pro-choice all his life until he ran for president. He only switched to try and get the evangelical vote. And secondly, the video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Jpoecf0xY "Do you believe that there should be some form of punishment for abortion?" "Yes, there has to be some sort of punishment [for the woman]." Trump is already a massive sexist: he has a reputation of describing female contestants on his show by their breast size, he freaking owned Miss USA which is basically the formal objectification of women, there are videos of him saying "I'm not a sexist, but if my wife hasn't prepared my dinner by the time I get home I blow my top", and there are tons of other instances of him turning women into sexual objects. He's /awful/.

4. Hillary failed to act at Benghazi. She didn't kill those people. Did she make a mistake? Yes. But given Trump's lack of experience, his habit of of religious and racial discrimination, his total lack of experience, his hypocrisy on so many levels, his misogyny and sexism, there is no way in the world that he would be a better person to elect than Clinton.

5. ...he won the Republican north by a landslide. How is that relevant to his policies as a candidate?

6. How will he "make this country great"? Do you really think just because that's his slogan it automatically makes him a valid candidate? xD

7. Nationalism is silly. Should the border be secure? Yes. But American citizens also get foodstamps, welfare, and all the other things they do. The only reason Mexicans "take American jobs" is because they're willing to work harder for less pay because they don't believe their nationality entitles them to some sort of special treatment. Should they have to come in legally? Sure. Hell, Hillary voted for the border fence: she's supported more border control measures before. Given everything else stacked up against Trump, if this is the only thing he really has going against him, Hillary is still a better choice for that, given that her plan wouldn't cost insane amounts of money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlFi0QUboxs

8. He "speaks the truth"? If the truth is that religious and racial discrimination should be necessary, that the US needs to start a war on a religion, and that women should be treated as sexual objects then sure, that's your truth.

9. No one says he /hates/ women. That's a straw man. He treats women as sexual objects and objectifies them to a degrading and disturbing point. Even the woman he married is a lingerie model.

10. This argument makes very little sense. It doesn't matter if the guy is secretly a nice guy among friends. The fact is the person he shows himself as publically is a racist misogynist and the people supporting him are supporting him based on those values.

Thanks for your time.