Trump tries to make peace with other debate candidates

To make peace with the other candidates, Donald Trump bought the other candidates early holiday gifts.

The Donald started off his shopping spree by buying himself several selfie stick he said he would need when he became president.

He bought the other candidates talking Donald Trump piñatas. Every time you hit the piñata, it says something different. Some of the phases:

“When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.”

"There are many, many people, tremendous numbers of people that are not satisfied [with President Obama's birth certificate]."

"I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created."

"If I were running 'The View,' I'd fire Rosie [O'Donnell]. I mean, I'd look her right in that fat, ugly face of hers, I'd say, "Rosie, you're fired."

"I will build a great great wall on our southern border and I'll have Mexico pay for that wall."

“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever”

When I was attacked viciously by those women, of course, it's very hard for them to attack me on looks, because I'm so good looking,"

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Opinion: Do you want a school yard bully in the bully pulpit?

Donald Trump is well-known for being an eccentric blow hard. He is a successful real estate developer, but hardly the most successful in NYC. The Durst organization, for example, is several times larger.

Trump pledged to Republicans in the first GOP debate Thursday night that he would run third party of he doesn't get the nomination.

He also mishandled Megyn Kelly's question about derogatory comments Trump has made about women. Trump knew the question was coming and fumbled it. He deflected the "fat pig" quote  with a one liner about Rosie O'Donnel,

He could have responded to the other inappropriate comments he's made about women with an apology, but that not "The Donald's style.

Donald Trump is a good example of what Lawrence Kohberg would describe as pre-conventional.  Looks at Trumps' comment his refusal to pledge to support the GOP nominee:

“Why should I give up that leverage? If they don’t treat me well, you know, you’re talking about the establishment Republicans. If they don’t treat me well Sean, why should I make that pledge?

This is an example of what  Lawrence Kohlberg would call pre-conventiaonl thinking. In other words, you rub my back and I rub yours. This is tit for tat thinking or what attorneys call quid pro quo.

Wikipedia described it this way:

The pre-conventional level of moral reasoning is especially common in children, although adults can also exhibit this level of reasoning. Reasoners at this level judge the morality of an action by its direct consequences. The pre-conventional . . . is solely concerned with the self in an egocentric manner. A child with pre-conventional morality has not yet adopted or internalized society's conventions regarding what is right or wrong, but instead focuses largely on external consequences that certain actions may bring.

Pre-conventionals  think right action consists of what instrumentally satisfies one's own needs. Vengeance is considered a moral duty. People are valued in terms of their utility. It's "An eye for an eye" philosophy. Kohlberg referred to such people as instrumental egoists.

Here is another example. Trump explains his donations to the Clintons. Trump invites them to come to his wedding as a joke, 

“they (the Clintons) did come to the wedding, but they came because I’m a donor. If I wanted something, I’ve never wanted anything, but if I wanted something — and I’ve contributed.  

Here is a third example of pre-conventional thinking:

"Honestly, Megyn, if you don't like it, I'm sorry. I've been very nice to you, although I could probably not be based on the way you have treated me. But I wouldn't do that."

Pre-conventional thinkers use prid quo pro thinking. You do something for me and I do something for you, Kohlberg called this simple reciprocity. 

The Donald could have retained low tones after the debate, but he called Megyn Kelly a "bimbo and a lightweight. Trump also said her questions were very unfair. He added injury to insult by saying on CNN:

You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever.

Trump later slammed Erick Erickson of the RedState Gathering for disinviting him. The event features GOP presidential hopefuls this weekend in Atlanta. Trump was scheduled to give the keynote speech Saturday night.

As for Erickson -- who is also a Fox News contributor -- Trump called him a "total loser" who "has a history of supporting establishment losers in failed campaigns so it is an honor to be uninvited from his event."

This is a typical pre-conventioanl repsonse. 

When Erickson told the gathering Saturday morning that Trump would not be attending, the news was greeted with a mix of applause and boos.

Folks, I've given Donald Trump a lot of latitude because he's not a professional politician. He's been a very blunt talker. I've said some dumb things in my life, then I've apologized for them,

Erickson continued. "I've got my wife here, I've got my daughter here, I've got 800 friends of mine here. It's a family-friendly program, and if he's not going to clarify that this isn't what he meant, I don't think I want him at my event."

Does Trump have a problem with women?  Penny Young Nance, the CEO and president of the conservative group Concerned Women for America, told CNN that Trump's "tantrum was even more enlightening than his original remarks she questioned."
  
Every presidential election since 1964 has been carried by women. Women don't like mean and we certainly won't vote for men or women we don't trust. Trump's biggest woman problem is how does he convince women to trust him. . . 

Trump does have a problem with women, who are 53 per cent of the electorate. In Trumps' first divorce, his wife refused to have sexual relations with him for 16 months and it was alleged in the divorce proceedings that Trump raped her while pulling out her hair, Later Ivana said the rape "was not in the criminal sense. 

Give thanks to Megyn Kelly for outing a man who is unfit to be president.  We don't need a bully in the bully pulpit. We do not need to a President who makes rash decisions because he is offended by someone or something in the international community. 

source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/27/ex-wife-donald-trump-made-feel-violated-during-sex.html

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Many Americans are confused about taxes

We are not surprised that so-called "Democrats" on a Fox News panel would buy into class warfare tax augments.

First of all, the idea of progressive income tax tables was advocated by Theodore Roosevelt, a progressive Republican.Most of the countries of the industrial world use such a tax system for income tax.

Second, most US taxes are flat or regressive. This includes both municipal and state property and sales taxes. Income tax is one of the few progressive taxes in the US.

Alf Franken said this about class warfare.

In her book A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Barbara Tuchman writes about a peasant revolt in 1358 that began in the village of St. Leu and spread throughout the Oise Valley. At one estate, the serfs sacked the manor house, killed the knight, and roasted him on a spit in front of his wife and kids. Then, after ten or twelve peasants violated the lady, with the children still watching, they forced her to eat the roasted flesh of her dead husband and then killed her.

That is class warfare.

Arguing over the optimum marginal tax rate for the top one percent is not.

In addition, Democratic tax plan will probably raise the marginal tax rate for Americans making more than $250,000 per year. These folks are not small business people. According to Chron:

Those with more than 10 years experience, on the other hand, earn upwards of $105,757 per year.

Likewise, the top marginal tax rate has become too low and it is probably the main reason that the US has the fifth most unequal income distribution in the world. We have a worse income distribution than Americans had in the Guilded age prior to the Great Depression.

After world War 2, the top tax rate was 90 per cent. JFK dropped the rate to 70 per cent. Ronald Reagan dropped the top rate to 50 per cent in 1981 and then 28 per cent in 1986. This created a huge revenue problem for the Reagan administration who had to raise taxes 11 times to counter the losses. 

It was also the beginning o the era of deficit politics and big increases to the national debt. 

Almost all of the GOP candidates have a tax plan such as the Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan or Newt Gingrich's 15 per cent flat tax. 

The Romney tax plan would eliminate taxes on interest, dividends and capital gains for taxpayers who make less than $200,000. It also calls for the elimination of the estate tax, and a reduction in the tax rate paid by corporations from 35% to 25%. He also wants to flatten the income tax table. 

Obama wants to rescind the Bush tax cuts if reelected and raise the capital gains tax to 30 per cent. This tax is now 15 per cent which is the reason Mittens paid approximately 15 percent on his 2011 return and 13.9 per cent the previous year. 

The  .001 per centers like Mittens don't work. They clip coupons and mail them in for quarterly stock dividends  that are taxed at a paltry 15 per cent. 

If you want to make the argument that changing the tax tables or US taxation system is class warfare, the GOP are masters of it. The US now has one of the lowest income tax rates of the industrial nations.

However, these wayward tax changes have greatly increased the national debt and also fractured the middle calls which has been shrinking since the era of Reaganomics. 

graphic source: http://helpthe99ers.blogspot.com/2012/01/chart-of-day-shrinking-middle-class.html

source: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/average-income-small-business-owners-5189.html

http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/25/news/economy/romney_economic_plan/index.htm

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Megyn Kelly peppersprays Charlie Brown

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FOD: Megyn Kelly's Pepper Spray Thanksgiving

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Megyn Kelly, Fox News, essentially compared pepper spray to food when discussing the UC Davis student protestors being pepper sprayed in the face.

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