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Richard M TysonJordan Sargent
3/30/16 10:09am
Just so over the whole Trump thing. First it was funny and then scary, and now it’s just this really annoying uncle who won’t leave even after everyone else has gone to bed. Someone needs to knock the stupid smirk off his face and send him home.
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  Myrna MinkoffRichard M Tyson
  3/30/16 10:17am
  Hadn’t thought of this until I read your post, but even if we assume he loses in the fall and we are spared President Trump (please let this be the case) we will NEVER be done with him now. After this much attention and having learned how to (more or less) build a political organization, he’s going to have his fat, Cheetos-Face in every political issue for the next however many years he’s alive.
  
  I am not prepared for this mentally.
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  Beet ArthurRichard M Tyson
  3/30/16 10:20am
  There does need to be just a solid 15 minutes a day where we discuss and think about him, and then leave the rest of the 23 hours and 45 minutes to things that really matter. Like sanity and happiness.
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puncha yo bunsJordan Sargent
3/30/16 10:05am
Exactly that thinking is the problem with this country...I didn’t start it.

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Buzzword, key phrase, two statements that have no link to each other. I feel like Trump is effectively making me both dumber and crazier by listening to him.
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  Brandonpuncha yo buns
  3/30/16 10:08am
  I feel like Trump is effectively making me crazier by listening to him.
  
  that means the plan is working, move along now, nothing to see here.
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  festivusazilipuncha yo buns
  3/30/16 10:09am
  People thinking that Donald Trump acts like a five year old is the problem with our country in the mind of Donald Trump.
  
  What I think he is actually saying (and it is just as stupid), is that we don’t hit back at people that say mean things about us. So not accepting “he started it” as an excuse is a sign of weakness.
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Quasar FunkJordan Sargent
3/30/16 10:08am

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  TopherQuasar Funk
  3/30/16 10:10am
  His first act as president will be to unilaterally declare that he is rubber and Anderson Cooper is glue.
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  EvenBaggierTrousers4Topher
  3/30/16 10:13am
  Followed by pointing his finger at North Korea and repeating, “I’m not touching you” several times.
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det-devil-ailsJordan Sargent
3/30/16 10:28am
The most interesting response was to a question asking, “Mr. Trump, what do you consider to be the 3 most important functions of the federal government?”

Trump’s reply: “Security, health care, and education.”

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  Corbettodet-devil-ails
  3/30/16 10:29am
  Followed, seriously, by “But really... security, security, security.”
  
  The man is a moron.
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  det-devil-ailsCorbetto
  3/30/16 10:41am
  That would’ve been more coherent than what he actually said! It was followed by even more gobbledegook which further helped solidify that Trump has no idea what the Federal government does.
  
  QUESTION: In your opinion, what are the top three functions of the United States government?
  TRUMP: Well, the greatest function of all by far is security for our nation. I would also say health care, I would also say education. I mean, there are many, many things, but I would say the top three are security, security, security.
  We have to have security for our country so that we can continue to exist as a country. We are in danger. Thousands and thousands of people are infiltrating our country. We don’t know who they are.
  There’s a very vicious world. We’re living in a very vicious world and we’re doing something that is against a lot of very smart people’s wishes. I can tell you, it’s totally against my wishes.
  COOPER: So top three, you’re saying, security.
  TRUMP: Security. I say all top three are security, but health care, education, would be probably three that would be top. And then you can go on from there.
  But the military and the secure country, so that we have a country. Believe me, we’ve never been in a position, in my opinion, where our country is so vulnerable. Our military is being eaten away.
  When General Odierno left recently, a year ago, I was watching him on maybe your show, one of the shows, and he said that the United States Army, the United States military forces have never been so — and I think he used the word depleted. But basically he said they’re exhausted.
  COOPER: So just to follow-up, though…
  TRUMP: And that’s a pretty — that’s a pretty sad commentary. And honestly, even though he was retiring at the time — and I had a lot of respect for him, good man, but even though he was leaving at the time, people shouldn’t say that because you’re giving the enemy ideas.
  But if I get in, our military will be bigger, better, stronger than ever before. It’s the cheapest thing we can do.
  COOPER: So in terms of federal government role, you’re saying security, but you also say health care and education should be provided by the federal government?
  TRUMP: Well, those are two of the things. Yes, sure. I mean, there are obviously many things, housing, providing great neighborhoods...
  (CROSSTALK)
  COOPER: Aren’t you against the federal government’s involvement in education? don’t you want it to devolve to states?
  TRUMP: I want it to go to state, yes. Absolutely. I want — right now...
  COOPER: So that’s not part of what the federal government’s...
  (CROSSTALK)
  TRUMP: The federal government, but the concept of the country is the concept that we have to have education within the country, and we have to get rid of common core and it should be brought to the state level.
  COOPER: And federal health care run by the federal government?
  TRUMP: Health care — we need health care for our people. We need a good — Obamacare is a disaster. It’s proven to be...
  COOPER: But is that something the federal government should be doing?
  TRUMP: The government can lead it, but it should be privately done. It should be privately done. So that health care — in my opinion, we should probably have — we have to have private health care. We don’t have competition in health care.
  The problem that we have in our country is we don’t have competition. It’s made because the politicians — by the way, I’m self-funding. I am self-funding. So the health care companies aren’t taking care of me. But they’re taking care of everyone else.
  Wait one second. We don’t have — we don’t have bidding. We don’t have competition in health care. And it’s a disaster. Obamacare, if you take a look at your premiums, they’re going up 35 percent, 45 percent, 55 percent, and the deductibles are so high, you’ll never get to use it.
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ThePriceofEggsinMaltaJordan Sargent
3/30/16 10:10am
“That’s the problem with our country” is the new last refuge of the scoundrel. It parlays anything—in this case, the very correct prerogative of a moderator to tell a candidate he’s acting like a buffoon—into some sort of patriotic challenge.

Roughly translated, it means “I don’t have any argument against what you just said, so I’m simply going to leverage the fact that the average American can’t pay attention for more than five seconds at a time. I’m just going to play on their persecution complex and associate you with the vague boogeymen they fear are ruining their way of life.”
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  Beet ArthurThePriceofEggsinMalta
  3/30/16 10:21am
  I thought it was - “the problem with this country is that I can’t just say outrageous things without people getting upset. Why should I have to clarify anything I say? I’m a white straight man, I should not be questioned”
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  ArmchairSophistThePriceofEggsinMalta
  3/30/16 10:23am
  “That’s the problem with our country” is a close cousin of non sequitur accusations of “political correctness”. Throw it out there in situations even where the phrase doesn’t make any sense but rely on how it strikes a chord with certain people enough to give you a pass on otherwise blubbering incoherent nonsense.
  
  e.g. “I’m not going to be politically correct about this - Barack Obama’s trade policy shows he doesn’t love America.”
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CorbettoJordan Sargent
3/30/16 10:05am
You guys do know that John Kasich spent a fun filled hour talking to Anderson Cooper last night too? I mean, he must have said something interesting to report on. I would tell you what those things might have been but he put me to sleep about five minutes in.
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  TheburnerabidesCorbetto
  3/30/16 10:07am
  Don’t start now
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  1standLongCorbetto
  3/30/16 10:08am
  he already won ohio; what’s there to talk about?
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FlazloJordan Sargent
3/30/16 11:21am
We are going to see how far a candidate can get on charisma, personality, and ad hominem, all without making a lick of sense on just about anything he discusses.

It should come as no surprise that a candidate like this got his start in the Republican party.
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  NathanDeGraafFlazlo
  3/30/16 12:45pm
  I thought he started as a Democrat in the ‘80s. I mean, it’s all the same companies that own both parties so I doubt it matters...
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  FlazloNathanDeGraaf
  3/30/16 12:57pm
  Is he a Democrat now? Is he running as a Democrat now? Is there anyone remotely like him, in any way, running as a Democrat?
  
  “I mean, it’s all the same companies that own both parties so I doubt it matters...”
  
  Setting aside whether or not that’s true, you have to ignore the policies, politics, behavior, and temperament of both parties in order to assert that they are the same.
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SpangarangJordan Sargent
3/30/16 10:07am
Cooper: But sir, with all due respect: That’s the argument of a five-year-old.

Really, all “due” respect would have been for Cooper to smack Trump upside the head.
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  SktroopSpangarang
  3/30/16 10:11am
  Or if Anderson sent him to stand in a corner for a time-out until he learns to behave...but Trump would just threaten to ~~tell his Mom~~ sue Cooper.
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  blameitonthecroutons goodbye tourSpangarang
  3/30/16 10:34am
  I wish people would stop using the phrase all together. No one ever really means it. It’s meant to make the speaker of the phrase look good, not the person receiving the phrase. Any time I hear someone say “with all due respect” I know two things: 1). they don’t respect that person and 2). they’re being a condescending dick.
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Bear BrianJordan Sargent
3/30/16 10:21am
“That’s the problem with our country.”

Every time he’s challenged, that’s his response: Not just, “He started it,” which absolutely is the argument of a petulant child, but that the one doing the challenging is the reason our country is in the shape it’s in, that they’re the cause and the problem. Can you even imagine him in any diplomatic situation? It’s honestly downright frightening.

Every time I think I couldn’t loathe him more, he manages to create a new low, another level of absolute muck. I’d love to see Cooper and the rest of CNN take an actual stand: an editorial in which they declare that he is a danger to this country and that other than group scenarios such as debates or town halls, they are no longer going to publicize his bullshit because this joke of a candidacy by a racist and misogynist just has to stop. And if he declines to be present at their events for this reason, that’s his fucking problem. I’d respect the hell out of that.
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  BlueTARDISBear Brian
  3/30/16 10:25am
  Donald Trump. That’s the problem with our country.
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  blameitonthecroutons goodbye tourBear Brian
  3/30/16 10:44am
  Or they could just actually make him prove a point for once. When he gets flustered or refuses to answer a simple question end the interview. Then let him go unhinged on Twitter and look more juvenile than he already does.
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det-devil-ailsJordan Sargent
3/30/16 11:14am
COOPER: Let’s talk about nuclear issues because you talked about this in a really interesting article in The New York Times.
TRUMP: One of the very, very big issues. I think maybe the biggest issue of our time.
COOPER: That’s what you said to The New York Times. You said you worried about the proliferation of nuclear weapons…
TRUMP: Right.
COOPER: … the most. You also said, though, that you might support Japan and South Korea developing nuclear weapons of their own. Isn’t that completely contradictory?
TRUMP: No, not at all. Look, you have North Korea has nuclear weapons. And he doesn’t have a carrier yet but he has got nuclear weapons. He soon will have. We don’t want to pull the trigger. We’re just — you know, we have a president, frankly, that doesn’t — nobody is afraid of our president. Nobody respects our president.
You take a look at what’s going on throughout the world. It’s not the country that it was.
COOPER: But if you’re concerned about proliferation, letting other countries get nuclear weapons, isn’t that proliferation?
TRUMP: No, no. We owe $19 $trillion, we have another $2 trillion because of the very, very bad omnibus budget that was just signed. It’s a disgrace, which gives everything that Obama wanted. We get nothing. They get everything.
So that’s going to be $21 trillion. We are supporting nations now, militarily, we are supporting nations like Saudi Arabia which was making during the good oil days which was a year ago, now they’re making less but still a lot, $1 billion a day.
We are supporting them, militarily, and pay us a fraction, a fraction of what they should be paying us and of the cost. We are supporting Japan. Most people didn’t even know that. Most people didn’t know that we are taking care of Japan’s military needs. We’re supporting…
(CROSSTALK)
TRUMP: Excuse me, excuse me, we’re supporting Germany. We’re supporting South Korea. I order thousands of television sets because I am in the real estate business, you know, in my other life, OK.
COOPER: It has been a U.S. policy for decades to prevent Japan from getting a nuclear weapon.
TRUMP: That might be policy, but maybe…
COOPER: South Korea as well.
TRUMP: Can I be honest are you? Maybe it’s going to have to be time to change, because so many people, you have Pakistan has it, you have China has it. You have so many other countries are now having it…
COOPER: So some proliferation is OK?
TRUMP: No, no, not proliferation. I hate nuclear more than any. My uncle was a professor was at MIT, used to (AUDIO GAP) nuclear, he used to tell me about the problem.
COOPER: But that’s contradictory about Japan and South Korea.
TRUMP: (AUDIO GAP) Iran is going to have it very — within…
COOPER: But that’s proliferation.
TRUMP: Excuse me, one of the dumbest I’ve ever seen signed ever, ever, ever by anybody, Iran is going to have it within 10 years. Iran is going to have it. I thought it was a very good interview in The New York Times.
COOPER: So you have no problem with Japan and South Korea having…
TRUMP: I thought…
(CROSSTALK)
COOPER: … nuclear weapons.
TRUMP: At some point we have to say, you know what, we’re better off if Japan protects itself against this maniac in North Korea, we’re better off, frankly, if South Korea is going to start to protect itself, we have…
COOPER: Saudi Arabia, nuclear weapons?
TRUMP: Saudi Arabia, absolutely.
COOPER: You would be fine with them having nuclear weapons?
TRUMP: No, not nuclear weapons, but they have to protect themselves or they have to pay us.
Here’s the thing, with Japan, they have to pay us or we have to let them protect themselves.
COOPER: So if you said, Japan, yes, it’s fine, you get nuclear weapons, South Korea, you as well, and Saudi Arabia says we want them, too?
TRUMP: Can I be honest with you? It’s going to happen, anyway. It’s going to happen anyway. It’s only a question of time. They’re going to start having them or we have to get rid of them entirely.
But you have so many countries already, China, Pakistan, you have so many countries, Russia, you have so many countries right now that have them.
Now, wouldn’t you rather in a certain sense have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons? And they do have them. They absolutely have them. They can’t — they have no carrier system yet but they will very soon.
Wouldn’t you rather have Japan, perhaps, they’re over there, they’re very close, they’re very fearful of North Korea, and we’re supposed to protect.
COOPER: So you’re saying you don’t want more nuclear weapons in the world but you’re OK with Japan and South Korea having nuclear weapons?
TRUMP: I don’t want more nuclear weapons. I think that — you know, when I hear Obama get up and say the biggest threat to the world today is global warming, I say, is this guy kidding?
The only global warming — the only global warming I’m worried about is nuclear global warming because that’s the single biggest threat. So it’s not that I’m a fan — we can’t afford it anymore. We’re sitting on a tremendous bubble. We’re going to be — again, $21 trillion. We don’t have money.
COOPER: So you have no security concerns…
TRUMP: We’re using all of the money…
COOPER: … about Japan or South Korea getting nuclear weapons?
TRUMP: Anderson, when you see all of the money that our country is spending on military, we’re not spending it for ourselves; we’re protecting all of these nations all over the world. We can’t afford to do it anymore.
COOPER: But isn’t there benefit for the United States in having a secure Europe. Isn’t there benefit for the United States in having a secure Asia.
TRUMP: There’s a benefit, but not big enough to bankrupt and destroy the United States, because that’s what’s happening. We can’t afford it. It’s very simple.
Now, I would rather see Japan having some form of defense, and maybe even offense, against North Korea. Because we’re not pulling the trigger. The bottom line on North Korea is china, if they wanted to, they’re a tremendous supplier of North Korea. They have tremendous power over North Korea. If they wanted to, if they weren’t toying with us, Anderson, China would be the one that would get in and could make a deal in one day, okay...

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  NathanZdet-devil-ails
  3/30/16 11:29am
  I lost 21 trillion brain cells reading this.
  
  Anderson Cooper has a tough job.
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  det-devil-ailsNathanZ
  3/30/16 11:32am
  21 trillion brain cells is a small price to pay for such classy, luxurious words. The best words, really. A bargain.
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