The thing is, Trump doesn't care what his detractors say. He can make just about any uninformed, ridiculously stupid comment and his fervent supporters will leap out of their seats, fists pumping, waving Trump signs, and screaming their approval. Trump knows this and just keeps feeding the fear fires. He doesn't need nor want to decree a solid plan devised to carry out his emotional rants. If he did slip up and provide some framework for one of his hair brained schemes, some of his supporters might actually expect him to put it into action, and he hasn't shown himself to be the kind of person that could follow through on that. His agenda is to rely on purely emotional issues and keep any substantive plans to solve problems hugely vague. The Republican Party members are the ones that are frightened. They are frightened on at least two levels: 1) That Trump actually wins enough delegates to secure the party's nomination. 2) Trump gets pissed off at the party because they don't support him to his satisfaction and he pulls out, ignoring his 'agreement' and runs as a third party candidate. If either scenario comes to fruition, the Republican Party loses the presidential election in 2016.

Last edited by Rongone (12/08/2015 4:09 pm)

Trump as a third party candidate?

Oh please, if there is a God, let that happen.
 

On a more serious note, I wanted to pass along an interesting thing that happened at work today that is somewhat Trump/Muslim related.

I'm an IT consultant. For the past year, I have been working on an IT support consolidation and outsourcing project for one of my clients. We recently decided on our new vendors and are in the contracting phase of the project.

So I'm in an afternoon long meeting with one of the vendors. A global IT managed service provider based out of India who has clients in over a hundred countries around the world. We're reviewing and discussing and negotiating the first draft of the proposed contract. Most of it very dry and boring. Until we get to one specific line in the document.

We get to the service level agreement section. Here, basically the vendor and my client agree on how we'll evaluate vendor performance and so forth. Then we get to the section of "exceptions" where the vendor cannot be held accountable to service levels. Things such as if the client's network went down and they couldn't access systems, or needed client resources weren't available, or the Help Desk mis-routed a ticket. And then there was this line:

i.    Miscellaneous items, such as, weather and political conditions that are out of control of Vendor

I've negotiated a fair amount of contracts in my time and I've seen the "Act of God" clause used often, but never saw the term "political conditions" in a contract I've worked on.

I said to the vendor's rep, "what do you call that, the "President Trump clause?"

And as I said that, it hit me, everyone in the room from the vendor side is Indian or Pakistani. And some resource (i.e. people) would be coming from India to work at the client site. 

And the vendor said, "Yes, our legal counsel asked us to include this in new contracts this week upon hearing some of the news in the U.S. I can tell you that the term, 'political conditions' is only used in countries where our company is working and there's a serious chance of a coup d'tat.

So that's what we've come to folks. .Businesses are now looking at the United States and are saying to themselves, "we may not be able to do business there because one of their leading presidential contenders could block our employees from entering the country because of their religion".

How anyone can seriously support DJT is beyond me.

And as I said that, it hit me, everyone in the room from the vendor side is Indian or Pakistani. And some resource (i.e. people) would be coming from India to work at the client site. 

And the vendor said, "Yes, our legal counsel asked us to include this in new contracts this week upon hearing some of the news in the U.S. I can tell you that the term, 'political conditions' is only used in countries where our company is working and there's a serious chance of a coup d'tat.

That about sums it up, doesn't it?  What a disaster this guy would be as president.