British Expats - 2016 Election

This is great! Trump vs. the Pope!

Pope Frank calls out Trump saying he's not a Christian if he wants to build walls.
Trump responds with: Frank would be praying for a Trump presidency if ISIS attacks the Vatican.

That should improve his standing with the Evangelicals then.

zargof

Feb 18th 2016 4:37 am

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Originally Posted by dc koop (Post 11871689)

There's nothing wrong in what he says are his agendas. The only thing I have a big problem with is how is he going to pay for it all? Where's the money coming from? If you were to tax every billionaire in the country 70 percent and raise the tax level of every American making over 200 K to 25 percent it still wouldn't cover half the cost.

Whacking the big corporations with heavy taxes will only succeed in making even more and more of them locate offshore

What we have is Sanders on one end telling us fairy stories and Trump on the other end doing the same. There's no sense of reality in any of it

I agree that Sanders' numbers are optimistic, but to say it can't be done is disingenuous as all he is proposing is already done in many European countries already. Like every other nominee's proposal, it's a starting point.

Reality has nothing to do with politics any more.

zargof

Feb 18th 2016 4:42 am

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Originally Posted by Giantaxe (Post 11871699)

That should improve his standing with the Evangelicals then.

True, but he's not going to win the hearts and minds of Catholics by going after the Pope.

Are Catholics Democrats? I don't know.

scrubbedexpat099

Feb 18th 2016 4:51 am

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Originally Posted by zargof (Post 11871700)

More than enough money sloshing around in the system, all about allocation.

sir_eccles

Feb 18th 2016 4:52 am

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For those that want the full word salad....

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-r...se-to-the-pope

scrubbedexpat099

Feb 18th 2016 4:54 am

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Originally Posted by zargof (Post 11871684)

The amusing thing is that the Papal Guard are basically Mercenaries and originate in the military nutters of the time.

Grandson!

username.exe

Feb 18th 2016 4:55 am

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Originally Posted by zargof (Post 11871709)

Are Catholics Democrats? I don't know.

Traditionally, I believe so (JFK etc.).

Pope should stay out of politics. If only the candidates would keep faith or of politics too.

zargof

Feb 18th 2016 4:57 am

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Originally Posted by Boiler (Post 11871718)

More than enough money sloshing around in the system, all about allocation.

True, you could probably pay for everyone in the country to get a four year degree with the amount of money that's been spent on the F-35.

zargof

Feb 18th 2016 4:59 am

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Originally Posted by sir_eccles (Post 11871719)

For those that want the full word salad....

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-r...se-to-the-pope

You went to Trump's website? I hope you took a shower afterwards...

sir_eccles

Feb 18th 2016 5:02 am

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Originally Posted by zargof (Post 11871736)

You went to Trump's website? I hope you took a shower afterwards...

I was following a thread on twitter where someone had posted a screen shot of it where the response was "is that real?". Rather than spread second or third hand information, I went to the source to confirm it (if only actual journalists did that!).

I apologize for any distress caused.

Giantaxe

Feb 18th 2016 5:02 am

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Originally Posted by username.exe (Post 11871725)

Pope should stay out of politics. If only the candidates would keep faith or of politics too.

The Pope was reasonably cautious in his remarks. His main comment was that Trump is "not a Christian", which I think is fair enough.

scrubbedexpat099

Feb 18th 2016 5:06 am

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Originally Posted by Giantaxe (Post 11871741)