Wait, I got it. Saakashvili - the Georgian President who was so surprised when the US wouldn't bail him out of a budget that wouldn't add up, and an oil dispute, by starting world war 3 with Russia - that he started eating his tie. Was close there for a while, though!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ02MlVRcMA Seriously, that one just never gets old. ^largest contributor of military forces from the Coalition of the Willing(tm). True story.
Kleetus: As an outsider to US politics, I'm amazed that the best candidate that the Republicans can find is Trump?
Seriously, of all the people available and the most suitable is him?
*shrug* There's.. a lot of resentment for the establishment involved with the Trump popularity. It doesn't really hang together, but the way a decent amount of people reason is that a president who isn't invested in the way campaigns are run, and then maintained by lobbyists and industry interests, will somehow be an improvement.
Over, say, preferring a candidate that specifically runs on a platform around campaign finance reform, in any specifics, while participating in the election at least with over 25% of the eligible population. And perhaps being involved in some specific legislation that may affect the state, like the Congress was meant to do.. bringing senators and congresspeople to Washington once in a while. But hey, I'm not making the rules that govern the US either.
Aand I'm not going to go into the whys and hows for the entire "only a complete buffoon can be both rich and independent in the US, and we all understand this intuitively for some reason" thing. But it is an element. Just as the whole "if you're rude and angry, you're also honest and speak the truth" effect. Not really sure where that comes from either. But if you listen to him talk without knowing anything about how US politics works, and without any critical sense, he's kind of cool. Says the first thing that pops into his head, and does it with a reasonable sounding voice. So from a campaign standpoint he's the kind of person who appeals to the homo-erotic gushing the commentariat has for strong male leaders (with tiny hands). And he also appeals to republicans who have now been spited and treated like idiots for the last 15 years. You don't hear all that much about this in the news, but a lot of the true believers who flocked to George W. are furious. Because they know they've been cheated, that the republican "stay on message and clap your hands" strategy isn't really for their benefit.
And this ties into the entire "Trump is so rich he is incorruptible" idea. And I don't doubt for a second that people will also prefer a very irate president who has no real agenda other than putting on a show, over someone like Hillary and the Clinton group folks. Frankly, I see a lot of democrats voting for Trump, or abstaining, rather than voting for Hillary. So there's a decent chance, actually, that he's going to get elected. And.. that it won't really be that much chaos as a result. That instead it'll be the opposite, since Trump is liable to spite his own party just as much as anyone else. Meanwhile, insiders on the right seem to be confident that Trump will be easy to control if he shies away from media-controversy, and so on. But he will of course not do that once he's actually elected. Then he won't give a damn what establishment wisdom says. So this opens up opportunities that may make things look like the Wild West for a while, but in reality it's likely that things will just slow down, and a lot of lobbying and campaigns will crash and burn.
Trump would be a fantastic boon for foreign policy stability around the world, too. "Yeah, we're not going jump head first into the nearest pit of fire Trump points out for us, no. Although that bottomless gorge Obama the saviour and messiah is pointing at looks great! Too bad he isn't president now, or we'd jump right now!". Even the righties won't object to some moderation then.
So if we can trust the State Department to not let anyone nuke a country at random, things... might work out pretty well for us. The US won't have healthcare, a decent minimum wage, insurance or loans that make sense, and everyone will be in debt forever - at least from the federal level. But on the other hand, the opportunities in the states that actually have some form of political participation will be much greater than they are now, with a, say, "non-aligned" president.
I mean, the guy is disgusting. But the last president to run and win while funding his own campaign was Truman.. you know.. That's a long time ago. So Trump as president sure is stupid. But it's not catastrophically stupid in the way that George W. was. In fact, much less so, if you don't listen to the high-pitched screams of the democrats who rend their clothes while predicting that a madman will sit with the finger on the nuclear suitcase, etc. Which is a problem. But we've survived much worse, seems to me.
