Waatea 5th Estate – US Elections
Joining us to debate the US elections and their impact on NZ…
Professor Jane Kelsey – Free Market Expert
Professor Stephen Hoadley – Expert in American Politics
Chris Trotter – Political Commentator
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“sanguine” CT? (a description CT made in response to Professor Kelsey’s assessment of Trump). rofl, I think not. CT has been duped by Trumps circus rallies and has incorrectly given Trump way too much power that he doesn’t actually have. Doesn’t have a clue Donald Trump is a showman, and is all mouth, is a coward, and when push comes to shove, he’ll be completely hands off, step back and let others, despite their conflicts of interests, do the job for him, pretty much like what we have seen John key do here.
Professors Kelsey and Hoadley were spot on in their assessments, they had our full attention, but as CT rambled on, not once did he bring up toxic Republican administrations of the past like Bush etc, me and my friends found ourselves talking right through his “tired” warbling.
If Trump wins the Republican nomination then it is a shoe in for Hilary Clinton to become the next president. It’s a no brainer, and it’s certain that a number in the misogynist Republican Party will hold their noses and support her bid, and agree with Hoadley too, that there will be a number who won’t bother to vote at all.
Trump, a very bad, evil man, has been bankrupted 4 times, and is a hypocrite, a liar, and has been stealing money from people for years to maintain his wealth. Donald Trump never hires Americans, despite Americans applying for jobs in his businesses. He employs cheap foreign Labour, and imports Mexicans and cheap labour from around the world on temporary short term work visas. Trump has been sued by a large group of Polish people, (that Rump had imported), for exploitation and for not paying wages. Trump lost and was forced to pay out. Trump’s clothing line is made with cheap labour in China. Currently, Trump is being sued by people who have lost money in a bogus university scam that he had set up, and the case has been dragging out for 5 years now, good for Trump, but not for those with limited funds to pay for lawyers etc. This is the main reason why Donald Trump doesn’t like to do debates because his exploitations, rorts, dirty dodging dealings, not hiring Americans for work, his financial failings would all come to light. All Trump has to fight with are insults directed at others to deflect attention away from himself. Pretty much like what John key has done here for almost 8 tears.
So building a wall between the US and Mexico, and all the other redneck bashing he has done is just a lot hot air and bull, said to appease his ignorant redneck supporters. It will never happen. Trump will lose his revolving door of ongoing easily exploited cheap labour, and who will pick American agricultural crops? As it is cheap imported labour, primarily from Mexico, that do that kind of work.
Sad but true, as Jane says ‘ th winners will not be the American people.’ Unfortunately New Zealanders will not be winners either, if the fate of the TPPA lies with America. So much for ‘ for the people by the people.’ What a sham governments are.