Rational Nation USA

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth America is angry. Angry at politicians, government, business (particularly Wall Street), fearful of Islamic terrorism and illegal immigration, concerned about our ballooning national debt, as well as host of other concerns. America is ripe for a change. A departure from business as usual in Washington DC. Folks are hungry for a leader that will promise them a change and restore the United States to greatness, The rise of Donald Trump and his nationalist populism is driven by the concerns of Americans noted above. It also explains the existence of the American Nationalist Party ( click here to go to their website ). Our purpose for posting the following is not to be taken as support for Donald Trump or an endorsement of The American Nationalist Party as it is neither. Rather it is posted for informational and educational purposes. Nationalism in its extreme is a very dangerous condition as we have seen throughout history. The formation o...

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth It is apparent the media, in this instance CNN, is a prime promoter of the narcissist and demagogue that is Trump. There certainly are far more qualified (and serious) republican candidates than Donald Trump yet none come even close to the exposure given the Donald. When the GOP candidates assemble on CNN's stage Wednesday night, they will be appearing on a network that has virtually ignored most of them, while spending vast amounts of time covering the now-frontrunner, businessman Donald Trump. SKIP To put that in perspective, Trump’s 580 minutes of coverage averages out to more than 25 percent of total programming for the ten days analyzed (after you subtract commercials, each hour-long broadcast takes up roughly 45 minutes). This study looked at prime time (7pm through 11 pm) weekday news coverage on CNN for the two week period from August 24 to September 4, including Erin Burnett OutFront, Anderson Cooper 360 and CNN Tonight wit...

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth The Donald has been talking about how if elected president he would protect (save) American jobs. Of course The Donald has not been clear on exactly how he would accomplish this; in fact he has given absolutely no specifics at all. From Reuters we learn just what The Donald has been up to with respect to filling jobs within his own companies. Donald Trump is staking his run for U.S. president in part on a vow to protect American jobs. But this month, one of his companies, the elite Mar-a-Lago Club resort in Florida, applied to import 70 foreign workers to serve as cooks, wait staff and cleaners. A Reuters analysis of U.S. government data reveals that this is business as usual in the New York property magnate's empire. Trump owns companies that have sought to import at least 1,100 foreign workers on temporary visas since 2000, according to U.S. Department of Labor data reviewed by Reuters. Most of the applications were approved, the...

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth It comes as really no surprise that The Donald would know how important it is to grease the wheels of government through personal relationships with government officials. After all, knowing when and how to butter both sides of your proverbial bread is important in business as well as politics. Given The Donald's wealth you can almost consider him a special interest. Yet we wonder why American politics and government is so GD screwed up. A small hint, looking into the mirror (collectively and thinking long and hard should give a clue. POLITICO - Donald Trump jumped into the crowded and rowdy Republican presidential field on Tuesday, but the business magnate has astutely played both sides of the aisle for years, and has been especially cozy — financially and personally — with Hillary Clinton. Clinton, the Democratic front-runner and former New York senator who had some say over policy that could have impacted Trump’s vast busines...

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth Donald Trump, or The Donald if you prefer, is all about, well, Donald . A blustery showman and political con man he is about as qualified as my next door neighbor to be president of these United States of America, his 9 billion notwithstanding. In fact his wealth should be a disqualifier because the dude hasn't got a clue what it's like to live like the middle class and average Americans. With The Donald the wealthy would become even more wealthy because the wealthy are his pals; not that there is anything wrong with that as long as everybody else shares in economic growth , but we all know that is unlikely don't we? Here's a good idea fof ya Donald, why don't you build a sound proof wall around yourself? Most of America is tired of hearing from you. Odds are he won't run, he just loves the limelight and patting himself on his back every chance he gets. The Latest Donald Story . Via: Memeorandum

By: Pamela D. Hart President Obama released his long form birth certificate yesterday and said , "This issue has been going on for two, two and a half years now. I think it started during the campaign. I have watched with bemusement, I've been puzzled at the degree at which this thing just kept on going." He’s correct, the issue has been going on since the campaign, and during that time-frame, no one, not even lawyers, have been able to get the President to release his birth certificate. Then, Donald Trump comes into the arena and the media gobbled up and promoted him and the Birther movement because he packaged it with a pretty bow and powerful words, which gave it serious momentum, and ultimately forced the President to release that mysterious piece of paper that those Birthers were certain had invisible script which proved Obama was an alien from outer-space. This entire Birther movement is ridiculous to me in more ways than one. First, I do NOT believe tha...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Birthplace of Independent Conservatism Trump at CPAC. H/T: the Left Coast Rebel . Sure is sounding like the Business Don is seriously considering running for President in 2012. I am not sure what I think about that, yet, but do know if he decides to make a run I can hardly wait to hear specifics behind his rhetoric. At this stage, until I know more, I gotts put my support behind Ron Paul, assuming of course he decides to announce. Rrincipals do indeed matter, as we have seen over the last 18 years. I just ain't convinced of the Business Don's principles beyond making billions. As much as government ought to be run like a business, and Donald Trump could certainly do that, governments are not businesses. Running a government will not be like running Trump Enterprises. He won't be able to fire those he disapproves of. Waiting to hear more, a whole lot more. Because if he decides to run, and his specifics are sound, he may be ...