thereare things I like about him on a personal level. I liked obama on a personal level to. If you just wanted to have an honest conversation with me I'd be happy to tell you all the things I wont agree with him or support him on. The problem is I have to spend all my time addressing retarded arguments here.
I'll tell you a story about something that happened in my life.
In the year... 2005 I think.. I saw the movie "War of the Worlds" starring tom cruise. I saw it with a bunch of my friends that have really shitty taste in movies.. hence why we went to that movie. I'm talking.. they would call me up to see harold and kumar, wedding crashes, dumb fucking comedies, lame action flicks, etc. My friends always picked shit movies but I sometimes went along because it's good to be social now and then. And predictably after every movie some people would think the movie was "meh" and I would be like "well what did you expect? Of course this movie was going to be low brow and retarded"... after a while I would skip a bunch of these outings because I have a much more refined taste in cinema.
Anyway I went to this movie. It was predictably bad/dumb/retarded/not interesting/boring/stupid/meh. Par for the course for my moron friends. However when we left the movie, they were SHITTING ALL OVER IT to an absurd degree. Completely trashing it. Now the thing is... they weren't wrong... but I was like "um... are you guys not paying attention to the category of movies you go to?"
So after a while of everyone shitting on this movie and calling it the worst movie they ever seen... I started defending it. Not defending it as a good movie mind you, but just not as the worst movie we had ever seen. "No... that part wasn't THAT bad you guys...", "this scene was ok...", "It was an ok cinema experience, it wasn't terrible... I was at least moderately engaged throughout the movie"
And you see, an interesting thing happened. I was spending my time defending a moronic movie to my retard friends who didn't have a clue. After a while, it clearly looked like I LIKED this movie, I spent all my time defending it, saying it wasn't that bad. We've seen way worse... this movie was about average according to my friends shit line up.
Made no difference though.
So then a year later people bring it up again and people were like "oh ... you liked that movie right?"
The moral of the story is, Trump is war of the worlds. He will be an average president, not a disaster. But I have to argue with idiots on JPP all day that because I don't think he is literally hitler that I must agree with him. Or love him. Or have him be my favorite president.
I am a very principled person and I take my beliefs seriously. I do not compromise them. The things I like about trump are his gravitas, his war against P.C. culture, some of his anti-globalist stances, the fact that he defeated hillary clinton, the fact that he is a proven winner and has massive swagger and can face the slings and arrows from massive opposition and come out the victor, I love that he is showing how to normalize a new reality and people can't just say "this is unacceptable, it's 2016, this is not who we are" only to be proven dead wrong. I like the fact that on paper, he seems to be anti-war (or at least less war-monger-y than the neo-con hillary clinton). Lastly, I support conservative justices on the court (usually). And that's a big big big win for me.
But in short, Trump passes the personality test for me. He passes the "would you have the beer with him test"
And yes, I think trump has the capacity to be an ok president in terms of performance. I can very easily see him making awesome deals and just winning and driving liberals crazy. But time will tell.
I do not support his stance on privacy rights, against possibly fucking with net neutrality, I am not a protectionist when it comes to free trade, I don't know what he'll do on the drug war but you know where I stand on that. If he starts an unprovoked war, I will not support that either.
So if you want to talk about issues, I am there for you. But if you just go "hurrrrrr durrrrrrrrr he said something offenthive on twitter oh my gaul it's 2016" then yeah I'm gonna tell you to get fucked