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mother earth

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6. That alone is a win, he'll even go so far as an independent run if he's not successful with the GOP

Reply to Betty Karlson (Reply #4)

Tue Aug 11, 2015, 01:24 PM

Aug 2015

nom. I say, go for it, and at the same time I get WHY that chunk of the GOP is fed up, they aren't being represented. The beauty of it may be that they are, maybe for the first time, realizing they never will be, not by a party that chooses Wall St. over Main St. every damn time.

You can't represent big money & be a champion for the people, one cancels out the other. Both parties are coming to that conclusion, finally...

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Ring of Fire: Voters Are Rejecting The Ruling Class – The 1% Are Running Scared [View all] mother earth Aug 2015 OP

Damn ROF, what a stupid thing to say. Donald Trump (a billionaire) is the epitome of "the 1%". Tarheel_Dem Aug 2015 #1

But Trump appears as a political outsider. He is about carefully crafting a phony image. Dont call me Shirley Aug 2015 #2

No one's arguing that, it's the unpredicatability, MSM can't frame it & can't keep up with it. mother earth Aug 2015 #3

On the right, businessmen are regarded as outsiders, which is why Betty Karlson Aug 2015 #4

That alone is a win, he'll even go so far as an independent run if he's not successful with the GOP mother earth Aug 2015 #6

I read the updated edition of Varoufakis' "Global Minotaur" Betty Karlson Aug 2015 #7

But Trump Can't be bought by the other Billionaires, They can't control him. Heather MC Aug 2015 #5

he certainly is in the 1% restorefreedom Aug 2015 #9

A shameless kick, right into the backside of the l%. nt mother earth Aug 2015 #8