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So what do we do? We can't go back in time.

You hid her face and made this front page news.
Very lousy!

We don't need polls to judge this, please.

It was glaring that the "real corrupt" donald was unveiled for the world to see.
What you would be seeing in the next week is the rundown - the complete destruction of donald.

Hillary is pretty good!

coccoduck:
just take a look at the statement in English language that an educated person made, grammatical errors every where and no punctuation marks.

You just came into this thread to take up space. I don't think you understand what is happening here. For you involving a dead organization "ipob" into this discussion shows how lousy you are, very lazy like your master, confounding your senses in senselessness when you have a chance to think right. donald is fighting to make U.S.A an isolationist country - a country that stops being the world leader, so why do you think the fool would ever want to know what "pob" is talkless of "ipob"? Are you that dumb?

There was so many highlights here that i could write out my points on 60 leaves of pages and there will still be more to be written on the "deplorable" donald.

One of the highlights was when Clinton attacked trump why he is not paying taxes and his reply? "I'm smart". So he admitted he does not pay taxes? ah ah That will be the new ad campaign before next week's newest donald trump corruption scandal.

Another point was when Hillary fired him repeatedly on his claim to wealth, taxes et, at a point he just stood silent and awful - i felt pity for him there .

byrron:
THE MOMENT WHEN HILLARY CLINTON CREMATED DONALD TRUMP ALIVE

Mr Trump is asked about a previous interview when he said Mrs Clinton "doesn't have the look" to be president.
He says "I don't believe she does have the stamina."

Mrs Clinton's response: "As soon as he travels to 112 countries, negotiates a peace deal, negotiates a ceasefire, the release of dissidents...or even spends 11 hours testifying in front of a congressional committee, he can talk to me about stamina."

This gets cheers from the audience.

EPIC RESPONSE TO A BULLY ASPIRING TO BE A PRESIDENT

That was a death punch - donald just stood speechless and shaking

Shym3xx:
Typical obtuse illiterate and uncouth/insolent village idiot. If ya parents never taught you manners and how to approach people in a civil way to initiate a civil discourse, stay the fvck off my mentions, you despicable oaf.

Run along and go quote the uneducated bells on your level, stupid sket.

That is what i expected from you.
I could also see donald exhibiting the same "please let me get out of here, i have nothing in my head to counter you - all i have is my hot temperament and senseless interjection" moment. I hope you wouldn't get angry and kill yourself because what you are going to be seeing in the donald drumpf show next week will be very revealing.

You should go check out how good your heart is before then.

Shym3xx:
Byrron

Lol. You're very funny. The fact that Crooked Hillary agreed with him on trade shows he won the debate about trade easily.

Typical of uneducated trump lousy deplorables
So what about the countless parts he agreed with "Secretary" Hillary? hmmm, so from your argument Hillary won him many times compared to the one time Hillary tried to offer so support as a Mother to a son who is on heat.

Shym3xx:
With economy, the point he made about NAFTA which was signed by Clinton administration and how it destroyed the manufacturing sector in middle America was the knockout punch he needed. Clinton cried about Trump not paying taxes but I don't think the people will care about.

You just wake up and make your decision become the word of millions of people. Yeah right, people would not care about his tax returns...really? How did you know that, celestial all knowing being? I bet you cringed at the part Hillary undressed him about his claim to being very very wealth, questionable foundation and his corrupt "charitable givings" (which is public knowledge now). I believe you were one of the people who lambasted Buhari and Osinbajo for not releasing tax returns earlier but now you are here saying that a private business man who has had 6 bankruptcies, maligned thousands of colored workers, ran a scam trump university, bought a self portrait with charity givings that where coming into his foundation (that same picture rests in a restaurant property he owns), paid off investigators with charity givings (investigators who were looking into his trump university scam), coupled with all sorts of corruption about to be revealed - should not release his tax returns so people can see that HE IS NOT GOING TO USE THE PRESIDENCY AS AN ESCAPE PLAN? THAT IT IS CLEAR HE HAS NO CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS ANYWHERE ELSE? That he is not owing $650 million dollars in debts to the wall street and bankers? that he is the financial pockets of corrupt business people worldwide? or maybe he doesnt want us to know where he occupies in the infamous PANAMA LEAKS!

Did you know what he said when he was asked if he would put his organization to Trust if he becomes president? He didnt even understand what trust is all about. He mentioned his kids will be running the show. He has no idea what he would need to forfeit if he ever gets to the WH, because he thinks life is a t.v show.

And you say people don't care if he releases his tax returns? Really, are you in good health?

Trump won the first 25 mins or so of the debate but he just lost his cool after that.

Shym3xx:
Trump won the first 25 mins or so of the debate but he just lost his cool after that.

A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man you can trust with the lives of 300 million people (most importantly the nukes)

coccoduck:
you are a Clinton supporter so I am not surprised you made such a comment, you guys hate Trump because ipob supports him, but with or without Trump Biafra will come.

This is the most stupid comment i have read this here anywhere online. Gawd, i don't think you are educated.

amordi:
Thank you for ur foolish advise . Kindly confirm from your keystone branch and get back to me.

scammer, when it bust hope you have backup money to pay those who you have foolishly deceived

[size=18pt]Many people's integrity are going to get burned very soon. This is the scam of MMM...

When you enter and invest little, you will get paid, sure but then try coming back with much larger funds and then...zap...your money is gone and the central management would not approve your payment.

Then this is the second way they scam, the nigerian boys that created this system are not fools, They have alot of proxy nigerian accounts that collects these "donations" from unsuspecting fools. Imagine they using one account to collect "donations" from 5 thousand fools! But they still can't detect it.[/size]

amordi:
Banks are already helping guys to promote MMM as you can see. Simply verify from your branch customer care unit . Are you interested in joining MMM and you need a professional advise on how to invest and when to withdraw from the system . Join me on whatsapp chat on zero.7. zero 38323608.

Dont be an idiot. Because a staff who is an unsuspecting fool, and who has the brain of a fish can decide to use an iron age keystone bank to pursue his greed is not a stamp to say the financial system supports this ponzi scheme. If you speak like this outside, how then are you different from yahoo boys who make false claims on why they steal from white people?

Many people's integrity are going to get burned very soon. This is the scam of MMM...

When you enter and invest little, you will get paid, sure but then try coming back with much larger funds and then...zap...your money is gone and the central management would not approve your payment.

Then this is the second way they scam, the nigerian boys that created this system are not fools, They have alot of proxy nigerian accounts that collects these "donations" from unsuspecting fools. Imagine they using one account to collect "donations" from 5 thousand fools! But they still can't detect it.

kasson:
MMM is not Nigeria's problem. Nigeria should find ways to solve it problems.

Unfulfilled Electoral Promises
Lack of Electricity
Unmployment
Budget padding
Unfunctional Health Facilities
Failing Educational System
Bad Roads
Non payment of Salaries
Corruption

Let Nigeria tackle the above problems and NOT MMM.

This is just like the same debate YAHOO BOYS make when asked why they dupe white people. Hear what they say that the white men came to plunder ancient egypt and stole our wealth, so they have to steal it back. Can you reason how low you sound now?

igwegeorgiano:
oga for ya mind you be big boy abi

Who is this? are you part of the mmm scam? poor boy

Nigerians are fools oh. They can only fool poor people from Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh but you can't find them in US, Europe or Asia because they know their worth

There is a lot of chatter that Trump faked his own medical records. Now details are emerging to the fact. Is it true Trump faked his records to cover a devastating health issue? This news will start making rounds in the media.

What do you think about this? faked or real?

I’m A Doctor. Here’s What I Find Most Concerning About Trump’s Medical Letter

Dr Jennifer Gunter OB/GYN, writer, sexpert, defender of evidence-based medicine, Canadian Spice
Carlo Allegri / Reuters

Donald Trump is talking about Hillary Clinton’s health, as are two doctors who have never evaluated Clinton. They have apparently diagnosed her with all kinds of ailments using the long disproven Fox-Drudge equation.

This attention on Clinton has renewed some interest in the letter Donald Trump released last year from his personal physician.

https://images.huffingtonpost.com/2016-08-17-1471444231-505975-trump.png

Many outlets have picked it apart, but I want to tell you as a doctor exactly how bad it is. I would never write anything this terrible for a jury duty excuse or a back to work note, never mind something that half the country (and possibly half the world) might see or could possibly end up one day in a presidential library!

There are so many issues with the letter I’m going to just start at the beginning:

1. The header has a non-working web address, and doctors don’t include e-mail addresses in letters.

https://images.huffingtonpost.com/2016-08-17-1471444266-8388552-trump2.png

It is incredibly rare for doctors to include an e-mail address in this kind of correspondence because we don’t want the person receiving the letter (e.g. the entire press corps or the place of work or the disability insurance company) to e-mail back with questions about our patient’s health. This could lead to a HIPAA (privacy) violation. Also, gmail is not a secure method of communication, so most doctors don’t want to use it for medical information. We doctors also don’t put our e-mail address in letters because we don’t want patients using unsecured methods of contact. I’m happy to have my patients e-mail me, they just need to do it through our secure server. The e-mail address is really odd, but then again it could be a fancy concierge doctor thing.

Except a fancy concierge doctor would probably have a working website. Really, you’re writing a letter for someone who wants to be President and this is what we get at http://www.haroldbornsteinmd.com, a weird website with a name and links to other services?

https://images.huffingtonpost.com/2016-08-17-1471444319-8827181-trump3.png


2. Lennox Hill has a Division of Gastroenterology, not a “Section,” and Dr. Bornstein isn’t listed on the website as a member.

https://images.huffingtonpost.com/2016-08-17-1471444348-8521445-trump4.png

Dr. Bornstein is affiliated with Lennox Hill, but he is not part of their Division of Gastroenterology. There also isn’t a Department of Medicine there is a Division of General Internal Medicine and Dr. Bornstein isn’t a member of that either. Having admitting privileges and being a division member are not the same thing. Many hospitals allow doctors to have admitting privileges and not be department or division members. And what’s with this made up “Section”?

It is also very odd for a doctor in a private practice to use their admitting privileges address under their signature if it is not the same as their practice address.


3. The letter starts with a typo.

https://images.huffingtonpost.com/2016-08-17-1471444413-9081360-trump5.png

I’m the typo queen so I’m not really one to judge, but if a patient of mine were running for president and needed a letter, I’d make damn sure it was typo-free.


4. No doctor describes tests as “only positive results” or “astonishingly excellent.”

https://images.huffingtonpost.com/2016-08-17-1471444442-1093881-trump6.png

“Only positive results” is gibberish. Some tests are good if they are positive and some are bad if they are positive. Some results are just not binary. For example, a hemoglobin (blood count) is a number and not positive or negative.

What are “astonishingly excellent” laboratory test results? I’m a doctor, and I don’t know. Is it astonishing that a 70-year-old man has normal results? All his results are exactly average which is good — but wait, I thought his tests are all positive?

And while we’re at it, doctors just don’t say “laboratory test results” that sounds like something on a soap opera.


5. Doctors don’t say “test score” — we just give the results.

https://images.huffingtonpost.com/2016-08-17-1471444468-3234796-trump7.png

The conventional way to reference PSA would be PSA 0.81 ng/ml (normal < 4 ng/ml). A test score is something that happens at the DMV.


6. How did Dr. Bornstein test Donald Trump’s strength and stamina?

Did he have him bench press in the office? Do a treadmill test? Doctor’s just don’t typically write vague, quasi-medical things in letters. I’ve also never heard of a stamina test.

An internist might test muscle strength as part of a physical exam, but the results are graded 0-5, and 5 is not secret code for extraordinary. It’s code for normal.


7. “The healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”

Every news site has pointed out how ridiculous this is. Dr. Bornstein is not a medical historian who runs a presidential health archive and, obviously ,Washington and Lincoln never had their PSA checked for comparison. The first blood pressure cuff was invented in 1881, so yeah.


8. There isn’t any useful health information.

Someone with Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s could have a normal blood pressure, normal PSA, take 81 mg aspirin and be on a “low dose” (we don’t know the exact dose or type) statin — so could someone with diabetes or someone who had a heart stent placed last year or who had a stroke four years ago.


Things I don’t find concerning:

That Dr. Bornstein is a gastroenterologist. Often when internal medicine specialists start out, they accept both general medicine and specialty patients. As the years go by, they stop accepting general patients, but often hang on to a few favorites or high-profile patients. It’s done less now, but in the ‘70s and ‘80s, it was more common. Bornstein may very well have been seeing Trump in that capacity. But yes, a healthy man would not need to see a gastroenterologist until the age of 50.

Newsweek pointed out the letter was made on Microsoft Word, but the header on my work letters is generated in the same type as the letter. Sadly, many doctors don’t use lovely heavy bond paper with nice letterhead anymore. But you know when I would? If I were writing a letter for someone who is running for president.

The signature. I hit return a lot for my huge signature and still sometimes scrawl all over the address. Hey, I’m a doctor.

It’s a terrible letter.

Did Dr. Bornstein write it? If so he should be embarrassed. It’s medically illiterate. If he doesn’t know his website doesn’t work or if that he’s not in the Division of Gastroenterology, that’s an issue.

Did Trump write it? He’ll never tell. It certainly reads like a letter written by someone with close to no knowledge of Dr. Bornstein’s practice or medicine.

All I can say is, typos and weird links and mentions of non-existent sections of gastroenterology and nonsensical medical information aside, the letter provides essentially no medical information.

***

After this was originally posted, someone mentioned that Dr. Jacob Bornstein died in 2010.

Was an old doctor’s letter used as a template with the person copying the letterhead not knowing or remembering that the elder Dr. Bornstein had passed away? Is this Dickensian six-year-old letterhead with the name of the deceased still at the top?

Source

Read The Republican Letter Calling For The RNC to Cut Donald Trump’s Funding

"This is the family trying to fix itself"

More than 70 top Republican elected officials and party operatives have signed a letter calling for the Republican National Committee to stop funding Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Former members of Congress, RNC staffers and other party insiders say the RNC should focus on Senate and House races where Republicans face tough elections.

The letter, first reported by POLITICO, says Trump has alienated “millions of voters” since the Republican National Convention with his repeated comments and gaffes that drew widespread criticism.

“Every dollar spent by the RNC on Donald Trump’s campaign is a dollar of donor money wasted on the losing effort of a candidate who has actively undermined the GOP at every turn,” the letter states. “The RNC should shift its strategy and its resources to convince voters not to give Hillary Clinton the “blank check” of a Democrat-controlled Congress to advance her big government agenda.”

The letter’s signatories include former New Hampshire Senator Gordon Humphrey, former GOP Congressmen Tom Coleman, Chris Shays, Mickey Edwards and Vin Weber. Shays has said he will vote for Clinton while Humphrey and Weber have said they would vote for her if the election was close. It also includes former heads of Communication, Grassroots Involvement, Digital and other departments at the RNC. A Wednesday report said several RNC staffers have left because they do not want to help elect Trump.

“This is the family trying to fix itself,” said Andrew Weinstein, a former press aide to Senator Bob Dole and House Speaker Newt Gingrich who works in communications consulting, who is circulating the letter. “This is an intervention by former RNC staffers and other GOP officials: ‘Please stop destroying yourselves and protect our Senate and House majorities.'”

Weinstein said he will send the letter to RNC Chairman Reince Priebus next week.

In 1996, the Republican party explicitly pulled support from Bob Dole’s presidential campaign to focus on down ballot races. A TIME cover story said Priebus told Trump he would consider shifting party funds away from the billionaire’s flagging presidential campaign.

Read the full letter: http://time.com/4449116/donald-trump-rnc-funding-gop/

LGDON:
How and where I choose to do the program is my decision.

I understand your sentiments, as a black man you are trying to protect your own

Am a black man too but I can't support a woman who after the assassination of Gaddafi went on CNN to monk us.."We came, we saw,he die''.like a sadist

This could happen to any Africa leader or any of us

The weapons they shifted to rebels in Libya that period proliferate into west Africa, of course you don't expect those rebels to return the weapons after the revolution.

Hundreds of thousands of innocent life has been wasted in Nigeria with these weapons

During her term as secretary of state and obama

If America was a sane society as you people claimed such person should not be contesting for presidency.

Like I said in another thread Obama is a war criminal

You make too much noise..


Read The Republican Letter Calling For The RNC to Cut Donald Trump’s Funding

http://time.com/4449116/donald-trump-rnc-funding-gop/

Take your time and read "propaganda"

Lucasbalo:
Yes, it deserves front page the mods here are rooting for Tramp, so don't count on it.

Really? i thought nairaland is politically neutral. why would they do that?

Lucasbalo:
This is what we call Tricke Down Economics. Republicans have been trying it since Reagan in the 80s and it never works and it won't now. George Bush tried it and almost bankrupt America . Tramp talking about taxes and he won't release his taxes after Hillary released 20 years of her taxes. This is unheard of from a presidential candidate of a major party. He's is not only a bigot, he's an hypocrite .

Actually he has an empty brain. All nonsense he said yesterday were not his own words at all, he was speaking because of donor money. The guy is a big phoney.

This is big news. Frontpage please

Is this the end game for Trump?

50 Republican National Security Officials Eviscerate Trump In Open Letter

Trump “would be the most reckless President in American history,” they write.

Dozens of the Republican Party’s most experienced national security officials will not vote for GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, they wrote in an open letter released Monday.

“We are convinced that [Trump] would be a dangerous President and would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being,” said the former officials, many of whom held top positions in the George W. Bush administration.

“Most fundamentally, Mr. Trump lacks the character, values, and experience to be President,” they added. “He weakens U.S. moral authority as the leader of the free world. He appears to lack basic knowledge about and belief in the U.S. Constitution, U.S. laws, and U.S. institutions, including religious tolerance, freedom of the press, and an independent judiciary.”

Signers include some of the best known intelligence, defense and security experts of the past two decades: Michael V. Hayden, the former director of both the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency; Michael Chertoff and Tom Ridge, both of whom served as secretaries of Homeland Security during the Bush administration; Dov Zakheim, a former under secretary of defense; John D. Negroponte, a deputy secretary of state and a former director of national intelligence; Eric Edelman, a top national security adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney; and Robert Zoellick, a former deputy secretary of state, United States trade rep and president of the World Bank.

The letter, which was first reported on by The New York Times, represents yet another blow to Trump’s ongoing effort to win over top Republicans. That job that has become significantly more difficult in recent weeks, as Trump has feuded with the family of a fallen soldier and threatened repeatedly to abandon NATO.

The missive also raises questions about who might agree to serve in a hypothetical Trump administration and offer the former reality TV star advice on national security issues.

Trump has repeatedly sought to distance himself from some of the most controversial policies of the Bush administration, such as the war in Iraq, which Trump claims he opposed in 2003. Even so, it’s safe to assume that Trump’s campaign would have welcomed support from top members of the national security apparatus.

The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment about the letter.

In closing, the 50 officials wrote, “We are convinced that in the Oval Office, he would be the most reckless President in American history.”

Download the letter below:

https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/NatSecLetter.pdf

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[size=13pt]Trump’s Big Economic Policy Address Is Short On Specifics, Other Than Help For Wealthy[/size]

His attempt to reinvigorate the campaign after a horrible week flopped.

Donald Trump is tanking in the polls, but his campaign reportedly hoped things would look up after his Monday speech.
After spending a week picking a fight with the parents of a fallen soldier, Donald Trump on Monday tried to reinvigorate his campaign with an economic policy speech that lacked detail and didn’t deviate much from his previously described plans.

Trump’s camp had hyped the speech at the Detroit Economic Club as a turning point after a week of slumping polls, with the goal of re-energizing the campaign. But in a scripted message, he offered a few variations on his previously proposed economic policies, along with a milder version of the dire message about a declining America that he’s been serving up for months.

Trump’s campaign on Monday pulled down his old tax plan from his website, and replaced it with the text of his Detroit speech. The original plan would have capped income taxes at 25 percent and long-term capital gains and dividends at 20 percent, while adding $12 trillion to the national debt.

In its place, Trump offered the same basic ideas, with some slightly shifted details. More details, he said, would be provided “in the coming weeks.”

He also offered some of his usual refrains: Trump lamented that the country had strayed from an “America First” policy; bemoaned that skyscrapers had been built in Beijing and refugees had been accepted into the U.S.; and called the unemployment rate a hoax.

“All of our policies should be geared towards keeping wealth inside the United States,” he said.

Trump is struggling in the polls after spending the last several days insulting the Gold Star family and refusing to endorse prominent Republicans for office.

On Friday, he rolled out an economic advisory team that was full of white men named Steve, ardent free trade advocates and campaign donors. While the group lacked the actual economists and tax experts you’d expect to develop a typical Republican presidential candidate’s policy plan, it had people who could at least be trusted to deliver a pretty good imitation of one.

The campaign hoped Monday’s economic policy announcement would offer something of a turning point. Trump’s speech contained plenty of good news for millionaires: He called for eliminating the estate tax, cutting regulations “massively,” halting any new federal regulation and cutting the business tax rate to 15 percent from just under 40 percent.

Trump did seem to offer a tiny concession to fiscal sanity by saying he would lower individual tax rates to a simplified system of 12, 25 and 33 percent. The 33 percent would be a big break for top earners, who are currently taxed at a rate of 39.5 percent. But it’s also a tax increase from Trump’s initially proposed rates of 10, 20 and 25 percent, which were far beyond what any Republican presidential candidate was proposing.

For good measure, Trump tossed in a child care deduction that would help wealthy people lower their tax bills, while not actually helping people who can’t afford child care.

In other words, for all the talk of Trump’s unique appeal to disaffected white men without college degrees, his new economic policy offers a heaping dose of what purportedly alienated them.

Trump’s speech didn’t include some of his most common rhetoric: racist and xenophobic threats that have engaged his base. He left out his trademark promise to implement huge new tariffs on goods imported from China and Mexico by American companies, as well as his astronomically expensive plans to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants, ban Muslims from entering the country and build a wall across the nation’s southern border.

Why would Trump fail to talk about his core economic policies in a speech that was supposed to morph his campaign into something more moderate and acceptable? A Bloomberg News section headline provided a terse explanation: “Donors Watching.

20. We must stand for something.

Donald Trump’s version of America does not include folks not like him. Instead, he is all about what Sarah Palin labeled “real Americans.” The fact that all us others seem to be utterly expendable is deeply troubling. Targeting an entire religion ― Islam, with 1.6 billion adherents, 3.3 million being U.S. citizens ― for extra scrutiny or worse is patently inconsistent with traditional American values, if not those of the “real Americans.”

It is also unconstitutional, and, beyond all this, incredibly counterproductive as it hardens the lines of controversy by wholesale moving of the allies we need to solve terrorist problems into the enemy camp. Other similar strategies championed by Donald, like waterboarding and other forms of torture, not to mention targeting families of an enemy, are not just illegal. They are, to use another one of his words, “stupid”. They do not work, very likely making situations worse and our enemies more numerous and passionate.

One has to wonder, what does the America of the “real Americans” look like? A bunch of intolerant, hyper aggressive, folks behind a big wall, isolated (not trading with anyone and thus with a sick economy and very expensive goods) and with a lot of enemies. No “Shining City on the Hill,” for sure. Hard to see anything but ruin ahead for such a place.

We can do so much better! For me, better comes easily in the form of former Senator and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. For those who do not come to that conclusion easily (I get it), this year it will have to be the lesser of two evils. No matter what, don’t even think about taking us into the abyss that is Donald Trump.

19. Rich and powerful guys have to play by the rules, too.

Let’s not kid ourselves. Trump University was not an academic institution, far from it. It was a get-rich-quick scheme by a guy selling a get-rich-quick scheme. It is not the first or the last of its type. Late night, cheap-advertising-time-television will always feature this fare. Donald’s efforts, however, were on so much a grander scale ― $35,000... “a university.” Really? What this was is an out-and-out fraud scheme by a man now trying to become the leader of our country and the free world.

We all know, or at least have read, that suckers are born every minute. But can’t we at least disrespect those who prey on these poor folks, and when they really go too far, sue them? “No,” says Donald Trump. The court case brought by a whole class of plaintiffs against his scam is only still in court, Donald says, because the long-time and distinguished federal judge is a “hater” not capable of giving him justice because his parents are from Mexico.

In Donald’s world, the only individual capable of judging him would not be Mexican or related to anyone from Mexico, likewise folks of the Muslim faith, and, oh yeah, likewise women. In this world rich, entitled, egotistical, ethically-challenged older white men should then only be judged by rich, entitled, egotistical, ethically-challenged older white men.

18. How will anyone effectively be president if we don’t at least respect the office?

In the 1960s during an unpopular war, we all endured a president adorning himself with a flag pin and declaring anyone who did not agree with him (which include a heck of a lot of young people on campuses all across America, including me) somehow un-American. Although political opposition is as old as our nation, we begin to slide down the slope of dangerous disrespect when disagreement is replaced with vilification.

This Republican nominee for the presidency thinks it is okay to accuse a former president of his own party of intentionally going to war on false pretenses and the current President of being in conspiracy with Muslim terrorists. Any thoughtful American of either party or no party, of any political philosophy must see that this must stop.

Truth, or at least a semblance of some, has to come back. Outrageous lies just have no place in meaningful discourse ― outrageous liars even less so. They cannot become the backbone of a point-counterpoint talking-head media circus that is so much more about ratings than truth.

17. Incoherent rants, often contradictory, does not a foreign policy make.

Convince Japan and South Korea to seek nuclear arms. Eliminate NATO. Crush ISIS but do it without Muslim allies and no troops on the ground. Sometimes attack Libya, sometimes not. Sometimes attack surgically, but don’t let it come out the way it did. Sometimes it’s good we attacked Iraq, sometimes not. Do not nation build, but fix Syria. Stop Iran by making better deals.

In fact, come to think of it, that is the solution to almost everything: “just make better deals” everywhere. Oh, yes and never apologize for anything. We are America, very, very rich and beholden to no one. Like us or else. Sound like someone we know?

16. Law and order.

Before it was an Emmy-winning TV show, “law and order” was a campaign theme used by Richard Nixon in 1968 to get himself elected in a year when our country had two very public assassinations and destructive demonstrations, even riots, in 110 U.S. cities. Nixon sought to mobilize what he called the “silent majority” around the need for more police. He also tapped into the racial and economic divide between black and white and working class and “elite Eastern liberals,” and the evil media that his vice president, Spiro Agnew, called “nattering nabobs of negativism.” Is Donald Trump seeking to bring this back? Of course yes, yet no.

Yes, he wants to separate and mobilize angry voters who feel left behind by an increasingly diverse culture. No, because his dystopian version of lawless, besieged, pitifully weak America is not what Nixon preached, nor for that matter Ronald Reagan. It is unique to him, at least in our country. It is, however, a textbook version of the rallying cry of countless dictators and strongmen. It is a demagogue’s basic tool, to gin up a problem then declare he is the “only one who can fix it.”

As bad as all this rhetoric is, what next? He tells us, “On January 20, 2017, the day I take the oath of office, Americans will finally wake up in a country where the laws of the United States are enforced... crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon―I mean very soon―come to an end.” How’s this work, Donald? Martial law? Does he honestly believe President Obama, and for that matter all of his 44 predecessors, would not have liked to have all laws effective and fully followed? If only wishing could make it so! However, since the states, not the federal government, hold sway over most criminal law, the president acting alone has no Constitutional power to do any such thing. What then? More of the water boarding and killing families of terrorists logic? “I alone can fix it!”

15. Bullies will always exist somewhere, but the White House should not be that somewhere.

What does a bully do? Most of all he or she seeks to intimidate, physically or at least verbally. So far this character trait of Donald’s has been exclusively verbal and aimed at business adversaries and more recently politicians and journalists ― and, of course, then ex-ghost writer of his book and ex-employees or contractors he cheated (those who do not have anti-disparagement contractual handcuffs) who dare to candidly assess his conduct.

What happens when this guy gets the world’s strongest army at his disposal, and a bully pulpit that guarantees him notice? Seem like a bad idea to anyone else?