But, but.... you said he had a good financial mind....... despite amassing hundreds of millions in losses. Just make sure I don't hire you as an accountant if that's the standards you hold.

Your post invites ridicule because you state you are sick and tired of dishonesty and corruption? Yet you support Trump who is the very definition of this. Totally bizarre. The pair of them are shite candidates, but your reasons for going against Clinton are contradictory.

And don't talk shite about Trump not being racist. It doesn't take a fucking genius to realise there has been dog whistle tactics applied in terms of Trumps comments. Subtle framing devices in headlines and speeches - and the general discourse of his speeches - make it clear there is racial aggravation there in slowly manipulating facts of the economy in order to lay the blame at the feet of 'others' leading to their demonisation. It's called propaganda. Plain and simple.

P.S. See Farage and Hitler for similar examples.

Like I said, state some actual facts that prove Donald is corrupt or has ties to special interest groups ie millions of dollars in donations. If you'd actually watch a single rally of his, you'd know that none of his speeches are racially motivated, he's made it clear from day one that it's only radicals he has problems with and is one of the only conservative politicians to actually mention that African Americans have been failed by the system, even though he gets shit cos of it off genuinely racist people in the Republican party. Yet you choose to listen to mainstream medias shit which to be frank, is pretty rich coming from a supposed fan of someone like the Smiths who were strongly opinionated but had their own assessments rather than swallowing the medias utter tripe. And like I said, millions are still a massive step from trillions that the US are currently owing.

See, the problem isn't that Trump says a few "silly things". We're talking about a megalomaniac who praises autocrats, condones sexual assault, threatens to imprison his opponent, invites foreign countries to hack into U.S. servers, picks fights with the parents of a deceased veteran, thinks vaccines cause autism, thinks women should be punished for having abortions, spews racist hate, entertains fringe conspiracy theories, gets into childish Twitter wars at 1:00 a.m., refuses to clear any conflict-of-interest accusations, and will not accept the will of the people. It's not a couple of gaffes we are talking about: this is a pattern of behavior that very clearly characterizes him as someone who should not be allowed near the Oval Office. It is delusional to see it any other way.

i'll just leave this here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/invoke-the-nazis-and-you-ve-lost-the-argument-8209712.html

www.huffingtonpost.ca/bernie-farber/jim-mcdonell-nazi_b_1875579.html

Nobody is saying she's perfect - far from it. But Trump is a different level of dangerous and nasty. In all aspects of his persona and in all aspects of his policy.

It is mad in as much that prior to these allegations in the run up to the campaign I would have said Hilary must have been secretly hoping for Donald Trump to get a nomination, because in all honesty how could anyone approaching it rationally think she would lose in that scenario?

For all of the questionable decisions, history and other parts of the Clintons, and I include Bill both for his presidency when Hilary was alleged to have been quite vocal on a number of matters and as Hilary's husband during this campaign, the prospect of Donald Trump must have been a great relief to them because even against all that the man came across as every possible negative political aspect you could hope to have in an opponent blown up into comical proportions. If it wasn't for having seen his campaign develop and grow from the start one might almost be forgiven for having a fringe theory along the lines of "Did the Democrats actually orchestrate events so this lunatic would be up against Hilary?" (I said almost   )

It's very much now anyone's guess as to what the eventual outcomes will be, not helped by one of the downsides to the digital age which is the easy spreading of disinformation and outright lies from all sides aided by politically aware or otherwise social media activity. The last one is by no means confined to the USA, see British newspaper comments, social media, etc. whenever a political event makes the front page/trending news.

The US election has already turned into kiddies corner.

Again, I'll make a few points. Most of those are baseless accusations, show me where he's openly said he's a supporters of autocrats, where has he ever said that sexual assault is ok? In fact he's made a point shaming Bill Clinton due to the amount of people who've accused Bill of assault. He never invited foreign countries to hack the country servers, he did however ever make off the cuff remarks at rallies saying if a country has any of the emails that Hillary deleted to come forward with them. The parent of the dead veteran is the one who instigated the fight by speaking for Hillary and making comments like Trump had a black heart and didn't understand the constitution. Donald had every right to respond to that. With the autism/vaccine controversy, he's expressed skepticism for sure so I'll half give you that one seeing as science has proved there's absolutely no link, however, he isn't going to rallies making speeches about not getting your kids injected. I'm not too sure about punishing women for having abortions but I have heard him say he doesn't agree abortion in advance stages of pregnancy. The race hate thing is completely bogus, as I said, he's one of the only conservative politicians to point out how African Americans in low income areas are being failed by the current system. And if you're referring to the ban all muslims comments, he's now made it clear he means the militant ones, which is fair. With whole deport all immigrants thing as well, he's always made it clear that it's only the ones who are there illegally he wants to get rid of but they're more than welcome to come back should they get the right documentation, which is fair seeing as less than half of illegals pay taxes. Now on the topic of conspiracy theories, the main one he's brought up is Hillary's emails. And you know what, she's been investigated now TWICE in the past year by the FBI due to the content of some of those emails. And if you think his rigging accusations are baseless, look at how the media have swayed to one side, look at how they've misquoted him and printed/published it as fact. The twitter thing I'll give you cos some of his tweets can get immature. And lastly, not willing to accept the will of the people? They're why he's running. He's the only candidate who's standard of living will be considerably worse by moving into the Oval Office.

It's disgusting that've you've written off anyone with an opposing view as delusional. I myself stated earlier that if everyone takes the facts and still thinks the Democratic party is the way to go then I'm cool with that. It's sad that it's come down to these two out of the 300+ million people but I'm not having them not being treated equally. Both should be open for scrutiny. Both should have their wrongdoings publicized as the people have a right to know what they're getting and sadly that's not what's happening. Instead what we have is one candidate being demonised by the media and holier than thou individuals like yourself bending over for them and treating their misinformation as fact.

If you want to vote Trump, vote Trump. If you want to vote Clinton, vote Clinton. But only look at the FACTS. They're always doing rallies, get your information from the horses mouth than the horses arse that is the mainstream media.

I'm off to Australia on the 9th Nov on holiday. As long as Trump doesn't nuke the world in November and I get my holiday, I'll be happy!

Have a safe and enjoyable trip

Regardless of my own disliking of both candidates I would bet money on it being Hilary launching a nuke, but there's little point in that as whichever launches one it will be difficult for a winner to collect 

Sid Vicious as Home Secretary,

Mark E Smith as Foreign Secretary,

Gary Glitter as Secretary of State for Education,

and Chris Martin, Damon Albarn and Thom Yorke in a job share as Secretaries of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.



Bit of dystopia to start yer Monday morning. 

Not defending Donald Trump in the slightest but I would like to point out the hundreds of millions of dollars losses that he has supposedly incurred going back to the nineties with his airline, Atlantic City casinos and Plaza Hotel from looking at the figures and information available appear primarily to be depreciation. This relates to a devaluation of assets over a period of time which may explain with the airline collapse and other assets falling in value how Trump was able to use this to create a "paper loss" (i.e. no actual money was lost) which reduces his tax liability by the amount he then recorded as a loss. It is also a rather catch all term being used in "All Other Income" which can relate to non-business, non-investment and non-wages losses including such things as gambling- Market Watch- Why Trump's Losses May Not Have Been a Cash Loss At All

I would if I was taking a moral stance as an opposition be less inclined to attack him for a supposed lack of business acumen over these losses, and perhaps more take a moral standpoint over his complex use of the tax system to avoid payments like his elite contemporaries and even the lesser rich (I refer to millionaires who are not within the elite multi billionaire category but still are able to use such systems to their advantage) in ways that are simply not available to millions of Americans who are left with the tax burden. I obviously have no dealings with the Clintons and their tax affairs so I do not know if Hillary would be skating on thin ice so to speak using this tactic or perhaps upsetting her own backers, which may be why she and her campaign have instead focused on first page only analyses of Donald Trump's Connecticut, New Jersey and New York State tax returns. 

These systems exist in many countries with revelations coming in from time to time with entertainers, footballers and prominent business people being caught up in such affairs. The important thing to note when railing against these types of things is that they are not illegal although they do have a barrier to entry in terms of minimum financial commitments that can easily run into the high millions, which is what annoys me somewhat when Government figures have joined in the hypocritical condemnation. David Cameron's late father for example was one of many who either established their own or other individual's offshore funds which for decades avoided UK tax- The Guardian- Cameron Father Bahamas Tax .

Where the ire of the people should be directed is against the financial institutes and Government legislators who are complicit in allowing these types of tax avoidance schemes to flourish, costing for example the UK an estimated £4,400,000,000 in direct lost receipts for the 2015 tax year which then has to be shouldered as a burden by increased takings from those who are subject to normal PAYE or Self Assessment rules as well as hitting the poorest hardest with cutbacks across a wide range of areas.