Donald Trump, Bullying & the Very Very Rich

[Mass]

Excellent post, and something that anybody who believes that Trump is different should read. Trump is not different than any of the puppeteers that pilot the usual puppets we are used to see. He wants to same thing. So, it would be really nice if left wing bloggers did not fall for the populist veneer that Trump shows. He is not for the people.

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2015/09/donald-trump-bullying-very-very-rich.html

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Bullying in the World of the Wealthy

Play the clip at the top again (it's just over 40 seconds), and notice the sneering, the arrogance, the presumption of power. Notice also, at the 0:17 mark, how he uses just his lips to signal his — what, bodyguard? — to act like a goon squad and physically force Ramos out of the room. Trump sneers, smacks his lips to summon the goon, and the goon lays hands on the reporter.

This is exercise of power, presumption of power, and comfort with the presumption of power — all three — on Trump's part. It's a way of saying and showing, "I'm at the top, I deserve to be at the top, and I'm going to use all of what being at the top provides me."

At the tip of the pyramid, the very top of the U.S. (and international) food chain, this kind of sneering, bullying, and presumption of the right to bully, is almost the norm. This is really the way a surprising number of people in that position regularly act. The fact that we rarely see it, and therefore rarely associate them with this extreme arrogance, isn't a function of their not doing it. It's a function of their invisibility. Until Donald Trump.
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What's different about Donald Trump? He's not just the puppet, meaning the candidate — he's his own puppeteer. This means that for the second time in modern electoral history, a puppeteer has put himself on center stage. The first was Mitt Romney, he of the "47%" speech. Before him we've had just puppets, financed solely by others.

[spanone]

1. every so-called journalist in that room should have walked out

the only true journalist was expelled.

[Mass]

2. That was my reaction too,

but many of these so-called journalists somehow considered that asking questions was showing-off. The reactions were both amazing and disgusting.

For the record, it would seem that a reporter from the NewYorker walked all (according to Ramos). He seems to be the only one.

[randys1]

3. Try telling a teapartier who makes $15 an hour that he and Trump dont have a lot in common

THey think they do like they thought with W.

My problem is accepting adults can be this stupid.

It angers me.

do people here know who Trump does business with? who helped him throw old people in to the street so he could sell their buildings?

i cant say it , not safe to say it, but I hope everyone knows