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Because he has shown time and again that he thinks the rules do not -- and should not -- apply to him. A candidate running on a law-and-order platform who think

by exelius 10y ago

Because he has shown time and again that he thinks the rules do not -- and should not -- apply to him. A candidate running on a law-and-order platform who thinks he is above the law is essentially the textbook version of a dictator.

VLM 10y ago
"he has shown time and again" It should be very easy to list examples, then. I found the most stunning thing about the debate topics was everything Trump was being accused of was at most shady but legal, and everything Hillary was being accused of would send anyone but a Clinton to prison. The IRS is happy with his taxes therefore he must be a crook. His lawyers followed every bankruptcy law and the judge agreed he did nothing wrong therefore he must be a crook. The amount of money he paid in taxes is legal but Hillary thinks any tax rate below 100% is morally wrong therefore he's a crook. He should have known that in a decade he'd be running for president and made sure that a subcontractor of a subcontractor of a general contractor bought USA steel instead of perfectly legal Chinese steel therefore he's a crook. A billionaire supposedly molests a dozen women for as long as Bill Clinton has been in the news for doing worse, but they all forgot about the tremendous billionaire payday for decades until three weeks before the election, all at the same time, huh, what are the odds of that, I'm sure it must all be true? Oh and he might have used a naughty (but legal!) word a couple times in his life. Luckily we have an incredibly sanctimonious holier than thou candidate who despises half the country she supposedly wants to lead, is above campaign finance law, above confidential documents law, is a child rapist enabler both in home life and professionally as an attorney, her death count in the middle east must be a million or so, but "Hillary" so that makes it acceptable and magically somehow she's not above the law nor a dictator nor a madwoman because she's a globalist elite pawn. Clearly she is on the opposite of a law and order platform, we agree there. If she were a law and order candidate, to be self consistent she'd have to put herself and her husband in prison... So where's this "time and again"? An unpaid parking ticket, perhaps? An overdue library book? Anything at all?
- exelius 10y ago
  > thou candidate who despises half the country she supposedly wants to lead, Show me a candidate on either side who hasn't made these kinds of statements. This is more a symptom of our partisan divide than any one candidate. > is above campaign finance law You can't run for president without bending the campaign finance rules. Again, not ideal, but if we want to fix campaign finance let's fix it legislatively. Neither side wants to deal with it, so it never happened. > above confidential documents law, Again, she did no worse than any of the previous GOP administrations. Not saying we shouldn't hold her to a higher standard, but nothing she did here is truly shocking. > is a child rapist enabler both in home life and professionally as an attorney Ok, WHOA. I don't think either of these happened. You can't count professional work as a defense attorney because the lawyer is there to ensure that her client receives a fair trial. It's in everyone's best interests for her to mount a competent defense because it should clarify reasonable doubt. Just because she may have defended a child rapist doesn't mean she supports him -- she was an agent of the court playing a role in a system that ensures everyone has the right to a fair trial. Bill may be a horndog, but that's beside the point. It's not his wife's fault; nor is it any of your business how they handle their marital problems. And I don't recall any allegations of him ever assaulting anyone underage... > her death count in the middle east must be a million or so Ok, just stop. Even if you were to blame Hillary for every combat-related death in the middle east and north Africa during and after her tenure as Secretary of State, they don't even add up to more than 500,000. Exclude Syria (you can only criticize Hillary for inaction here - and what exactly do we have to gain getting involved in a proxy war between Saudi Arabia, Iran and Russia?) and Libya (not gonna touch it with all the hate from the Benghazi witch hunt where no wrongdoing was found after a few rounds of congressional investigations, but needless to say you're giving Hillary way too much credit if you blame the entire situation in Libya on her) you don't even get to 10,000. Yes, the refugee crisis is real, but there's not much we can do about it from the US. The EU has to figure that one out on their own, unfortunately. Honestly, the world is in an unprecedented period of peace right now. Major global conflicts are relatively low-burn affairs where the death count is measured in thousands per year rather than millions. Our goal should be to keep it that way, not go and start the next big war or escalate a smaller one.
  - 10y ago

by exelius 10y ago

VLM 10y ago

"he has shown time and again" It should be very easy to list examples, then. I found the most stunning thing about the debate topics was everything Trump was being accused of was at most shady but legal, and everything Hillary was being accused of would send anyone but a Clinton to prison. The IRS is happy with his taxes therefore he must be a crook. His lawyers followed every bankruptcy law and the judge agreed he did nothing wrong therefore he must be a crook. The amount of money he paid in taxes is legal but Hillary thinks any tax rate below 100% is morally wrong therefore he's a crook. He should have known that in a decade he'd be running for president and made sure that a subcontractor of a subcontractor of a general contractor bought USA steel instead of perfectly legal Chinese steel therefore he's a crook. A billionaire supposedly molests a dozen women for as long as Bill Clinton has been in the news for doing worse, but they all forgot about the tremendous billionaire payday for decades until three weeks before the election, all at the same time, huh, what are the odds of that, I'm sure it must all be true? Oh and he might have used a naughty (but legal!) word a couple times in his life. Luckily we have an incredibly sanctimonious holier than thou candidate who despises half the country she supposedly wants to lead, is above campaign finance law, above confidential documents law, is a child rapist enabler both in home life and professionally as an attorney, her death count in the middle east must be a million or so, but "Hillary" so that makes it acceptable and magically somehow she's not above the law nor a dictator nor a madwoman because she's a globalist elite pawn. Clearly she is on the opposite of a law and order platform, we agree there. If she were a law and order candidate, to be self consistent she'd have to put herself and her husband in prison... So where's this "time and again"? An unpaid parking ticket, perhaps? An overdue library book? Anything at all?

exelius 10y ago
> thou candidate who despises half the country she supposedly wants to lead, Show me a candidate on either side who hasn't made these kinds of statements. This is more a symptom of our partisan divide than any one candidate. > is above campaign finance law You can't run for president without bending the campaign finance rules. Again, not ideal, but if we want to fix campaign finance let's fix it legislatively. Neither side wants to deal with it, so it never happened. > above confidential documents law, Again, she did no worse than any of the previous GOP administrations. Not saying we shouldn't hold her to a higher standard, but nothing she did here is truly shocking. > is a child rapist enabler both in home life and professionally as an attorney Ok, WHOA. I don't think either of these happened. You can't count professional work as a defense attorney because the lawyer is there to ensure that her client receives a fair trial. It's in everyone's best interests for her to mount a competent defense because it should clarify reasonable doubt. Just because she may have defended a child rapist doesn't mean she supports him -- she was an agent of the court playing a role in a system that ensures everyone has the right to a fair trial. Bill may be a horndog, but that's beside the point. It's not his wife's fault; nor is it any of your business how they handle their marital problems. And I don't recall any allegations of him ever assaulting anyone underage... > her death count in the middle east must be a million or so Ok, just stop. Even if you were to blame Hillary for every combat-related death in the middle east and north Africa during and after her tenure as Secretary of State, they don't even add up to more than 500,000. Exclude Syria (you can only criticize Hillary for inaction here - and what exactly do we have to gain getting involved in a proxy war between Saudi Arabia, Iran and Russia?) and Libya (not gonna touch it with all the hate from the Benghazi witch hunt where no wrongdoing was found after a few rounds of congressional investigations, but needless to say you're giving Hillary way too much credit if you blame the entire situation in Libya on her) you don't even get to 10,000. Yes, the refugee crisis is real, but there's not much we can do about it from the US. The EU has to figure that one out on their own, unfortunately. Honestly, the world is in an unprecedented period of peace right now. Major global conflicts are relatively low-burn affairs where the death count is measured in thousands per year rather than millions. Our goal should be to keep it that way, not go and start the next big war or escalate a smaller one.
- 10y ago