It can be your "political opinion" that the government should be small, taxes kept low, and regulation to a minimum.
When you start bragging about sexually assaulting women, advocating violence against your opponents, and feeding the flames of racial tension you've moved well beyond mere opinion.
It's bewildering that Thiel would support such a character now given how Thiel won't "suffer" from Trump not being in the White House.
It was under Bill Clinton that this entire tech party got started: The commercialization of the Internet. Laws favorable to the start-up investment scene. Freeing up investment banks to allocate capital more freely.
I just don't get Thiel's motivation here. You don't want a total lunatic in power, you want someone you can talk to and persuade.
The only people who keep fuelling racial tensions are Democrats, notably Obama and Clinton, constantly telling black people they’re oppressed and that the police is racist. Trump had to cancel a rally in Chicago after democrats started rioting, he’s not the one instigating the violence, but whenever it breaks out, it’s always described as a “fight breaking out”, and never as democrats assaulting Trump supporters, which is what it is.
Trump doesn’t bring race to anything. He’s just called “racist” by people who don’t understand the term “illegal alien”, or that Islam is not a race.
Trump said these terrible things a decade ago. A decade ago Clinton and Obama were strongly, and publicly, against gay marriage. A decade ago Clinton praised sen. Robert Byrd as her “mentor”, a former KKK member, and noted racist. Go back further, and you have tapes of her laughing at the victims of her husband and destroying their lives. The thing with Hillary though, is that you don’t have to go that far with her, if you stop ignoring the fact she should be in jail right now, and not running for office.
Who cares who endorses which candidate, that’s out of their control. Hillary was endorsed by the Californian leader of the KKK, if you care, i don’t. I’m not making any assumptions. Hillary’s on tape calling Byrd her “friend and mentor” after his death.
My point is not that these things are or are not true, nor whether they matter or not. My point is that you’re labelling Trump as the worst human being in history based on such minuscule things, but ignore everything remotely questionable about Hillary Clinton.
The point of an election is not to find the perfect human being, it's to pick between the lesser of two evils.
The dirt on Clinton is well known: Her hawkish attitude to war, her enthusiastic use of drones, her embrace of free-trade policies like TPP, and so on.
The dirt on Trump is way, way worse, and more keeps coming to light: What has he paid in taxes? What is he hiding? Why do his businesses keep failing in a spectacular way? Why is he constantly being sued by thousands of people? Why does he flip out at the slightest provocation?
Trump isn't the worst human being in history, but he's the worst major party candidate for president in the last hundred years.
If Thiel was supporting Romney, Cruz, hell, any of the last round candidates in the last twenty years, nobody would be upset. Why he chose to get in bed with this particular turd, I don't know.
Most of the negative things you had to say about Trump are a part of being a high-profile entrepreneur. How does any of that come even remotely close to purging a private e-mail server you used for communicating top-secret documents while in office, or collapsing on a warm day is beyond me.
Maybe Trump is just like every other entrepreneur that has a trail of wreckage behind them, but when running for President there's different standards and the tradition has been, virtually without exception, that you release your taxes and a doctor's assessment of your health.
"Collapsing on a warm day" from pneumonia? Seriously? You've got some issues if you're busting on someone for making every effort to show up to an event relating to September 11th.
We all know why he won’t release his tax returns. He knows the system, he can fix it. Hillary can complain about that all she wants, but she didn’t do anything about it while in office. That’s been one of his main campaigning points since the beginning.
Why would you even talk about Trump’s health records as a Clinton supporter. First it’s not pneumonia, then it’s pneumonia. She collapses from it, then hugs a child after it miraculously gets through the Secret Service, even though the disease can be contagious. Pneumonia can cause serious complications, Clinton doesn’t tell you about it, and now you praise her for how strong she is? Why would you do that?
Who cares what Bush did. He’s not running for president, why would that be even remotely relevant to the discussion.
The only bad thing you managed to say about Trump is that he’s a wild card, while completely ignoring, or trying to awkwardly justify, that Clinton committed crimes, and showed utter incompetence while in office.
What Bush did, what Clinton did, what countless others have done is delete email. You want to hold her to account, sure, but you better be prepared to accept that others have done the same thing. If that's a crime, there's a long list of criminals.
The FBI, however, has concluded that there was no crime. So hey, take it up with them.
If you think Trump's the candidate to vote for that says a lot about your judgement. Many people are voting for Hillary simply because there's no reasonable alternative.
Might want to consider the wikileaks revelation of clinton campaign coordinating and paying protesters to start violence at his rallys.
Trump is an exceptionally flawed candidate, but I encourage everyone to consider that perhaps their perception of him is to some debatable degree (a big degree in my opinion) due to people out there trying very hard and spending a lot of money to portay him as "literally hitler"
When you start bragging about sexually assaulting women, advocating violence against your opponents, and feeding the flames of racial tension you've moved well beyond mere opinion.
It's bewildering that Thiel would support such a character now given how Thiel won't "suffer" from Trump not being in the White House.
It was under Bill Clinton that this entire tech party got started: The commercialization of the Internet. Laws favorable to the start-up investment scene. Freeing up investment banks to allocate capital more freely.
I just don't get Thiel's motivation here. You don't want a total lunatic in power, you want someone you can talk to and persuade.