Comments Thread For: Mike Tyson Sides With Donald Trump For President

[whitealltrac]

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I like Tyson but who in the world will side with anyone he will side with?
Just think of this for a minute.....his choice of "siding" got him broke, drugged, jailed, ended his carrier and tattoo'ed on his face. All bad choices!

NO!

[krazyn8tive]

Trump 2016

[Redeaux]

Firstly to preface, I'm not American but I do lean right politically.

It does annoy me that whenever a public figure comes out and supports a right-wing candidate, the barrage of criticism and commentary from people that follows is so condescending. People act like whatever said figure it is needs their hand held, or that somehow they've been duped and can't think for themselves just because they detracted from the default position in the media/entertainment industry, which is to lean left unless otherwise stated, as if you're breaking rank somehow.

Mike's entitled to believe what he wants.

[madsweeney]

Firstly to preface, I'm not American but I do lean right politically.

It does annoy me that whenever a public figure comes out and supports a right-wing candidate, the barrage of criticism and commentary from people that follows is so condescending. People act like whatever said figure it is needs their hand held, or that somehow they've been duped and can't think for themselves just because they detracted from the default position in the media/entertainment industry, which is to lean left unless otherwise stated, as if you're breaking rank somehow.

Mike's entitled to believe what he wants.

The funniest part is that Trumps views actually lean left yet they call him some hard-righty because he's been able to appeal to that base.

[PunchyPotorff]

Well the last thing we need is another socialist president with a vagina between his legs. I'll probably vote for trump if just to spite some of my whiny liberal friends. Funny that most of them collect some kind of social welfare. As a matter of fact, they're just acquaintances.

I wonder sometimes what the editors are thinking putting up a political article. On a boxing site. Yeah geez, what could go wrong? HA!

You, and all Americans, use socialism daily. And you like it, even if you don't realize it. Problem is, your news source(s) have confused you on the concept.

Socialism is taxpayer funds being used collectively to benefit society as a whole, despite income, contribution, or ability. And yes, the poor don't contribute as much, but as compared to percentage of income they contribute the most. And the rich contribute the least, again, as compare to percentage of income.

Here's some classic examples of scoialism that you use and enjoy daily....

Social Security, roads/bridges, fire/police dept, public libraries, student loans, postal service, the military, nat'l weather service, dept of education (public schools), OSHA, Amtrak, PBS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), unemployment insurance, disability insurance, sewer system, G.I. bill, free lunch for poor kids, museums, Veteran's (VA) Health Care, the list goes on.

If your hate of welfare cheats makes you hate socilism, most agree welfare fraud should be eliminated. And the govt should do more to eradicate it. But kids, elderly, disabled... they need assistance. And 85% of Americans agree that's a good thing to help them, jobs training, unemployment insurance etc. Now if we cracked down on corporate welfare, some of that money could help fund efforts to lessen individual welfare fraud... especially when you consider that huge corporations like GE pay no tax many years, big oil get subsidies they haven't needed in decades, and Walmart costs we taxpayers on average a million $ a year per store, just to get their employees up to a living wage.

As for Trump, not my choice, if for no other reason than the cowboy diplomacy of the previous administration made us hated in many nations worldwide. Now we have their respect back. And a Trump presidency wouldn't really do the middle class and poor much good... but it would fatten the wallets of the already rich. And no, trickle down economics has not worked, never did.

I'd vote for Bernie Sanders before any other candidate. He seems to be genuinely interested in helping the people, not Wall St. Martin O'Malley seems smart too. Lotta good ideas between the two of them.

Now, maybe we can get back to boxing.

[PunchyPotorff]

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Originally Posted by jcsuperfly01603 View Post
Maybe this is just your online persona - but this entire post makes you sound like a complete idiot. Without a doubt you fall within Trumps target audience

please explain.

Trump said years ago, more than once, that he could easily win the republican nomination, because republican voters are stupid. They'll believe anything grade school level. Not an exact quote, but close.

[PunchyPotorff]

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Originally Posted by sirron000 View Post
You do know social security, medicare and Medicaid are all socialist programs? Never mind I'm giving you too much credit.

And you do know all three are on the brink of collapse due to un-sustainability...right?

Not really, but thanx for playing.

[PunchyPotorff]

Carter is pretty unilaterally considered one of the worst presidents in US history. Good person, bad president. He caused ridiculously high unemployment,stagflation of 13.5%, ridiculous 21.5% interest rates, record gas prices, shortages and gas lines, a doubling of the deficit from $27 billion to almost $60 billion and the worst foreign policy in our history of which we are still paying for (current Iran issues direct result of Carter).

With that said, Regan turned things around, unlike Obama. I know Obama fans love to blame Bush for every short-coming of Obama but hes what 6 years into his presidency? Do you blame Bush or Clinton for Enron, 9/11, housing crisis? Obama supporters always fall to the blame Bush or "well Bush did it" strategies. I just don't get it.

FYI, Presidents don't introduce bills, congress does. Sure he can influence members of congress to introduce bills and provide support but lets remember what he did the first few years of his presidency when not only did he have the executive branch in his control, but also the legislative. What did they do with that power? They extended Bush's policies (bailouts) and ram-rodded ACA which is now causing further financial and employment issues as companies struggle to deal with huge increases in overhead.

And it was not Regan that repealed regulation, it was Clinton (along with the republican congress) that repealed glass-steagall which arguably led to the '08 collapse http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/...nancial-crisis. Also, as far back as '02 Bush was even trying to address the potential disaster of Fannie-mae and Freddie-mac but obviously, not enough was done not to mention the Dems stone-walling things after they re-gained congressional control (something the Repubs get criticized for doing to Obama).

Obviously, you are very uninformed in the world of politics which explains your viewpoints. I'm not saying Republicans are any better than Dems, my point is both have been with too much power for way too long and the corruption we deal with is the result. Open your eyes, Dems are ****ing you just as bad (if not worse).

Tough case to draw a direct line between Glass-Steiagall and the '08 collapse. Granted deregulation in general caused many issues, but not that one policy in general. As for your take on presidents, Carter was alot better than you portray him to be, and Reagan was alot worse.

Reagan cut taxes for the rich, increased taxes on the middle class. Unemployment soared after Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts to 10.8%, and it took years for the rate to get back down to its previous level. Meanwhile, income inequality exploded. Despite the myth that Reagan presided over an era of unmatched economic boom for all Americans, Reagan disproportionately taxed the poor and middle class, but the economic growth of the 1980’s did little to help them. Since 1980, median household income has risen only 30 percent, adjusted for inflation, while average incomes at the top have tripled or quadrupled. Not something I'm happy about, nor should you be. And Reagan nearly tripled the federal budget deficit, plus he raised taxes out the wazoo. Reagan grew the size of the federal government in a huge way, gave amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants, illegally funneled weapons to Iran, helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden, attacked unions and the middle class, ignored AIDS, he's the one who started the raiding of the Social Security Trust fund, helped kick the mentally ill out into the street and increase homelessness, embraced the apartheid regime in South Africa, caved in to terrorist demands, in general was weak on terrorism, launched the attack in Grenada to take attention away from the attack on troops in Beirut, supported brutal disctators if he didn't consider them communist, at least 138 Reagan administration officials, including several cabinet members, were investigated for, indicted for, or convicted of crimes. This is the largest number of any U.S. President.... many of whom were pardoned by Reagan or President Bush before they could even stand trial, vetoed a farm credit bill that would have given farmers some relief... thereby causing many farms to go belly up. So no, Reagan didn't really help the nation much at all.

As for Obama supporters blaming Dubya for the mess... it's a valid argument... whether you righties agree or not. The vast majority of noted respected economists agree, it took some years during his prez run to get the economy that bad, and it will take many to get it back. Or maybe you forget, 750K jobs lost per month in the last year of Dubya's run. And most of the months he had positive job growth it was miniscule... 5-10K jobs gained in a month for an entire nation is nothing really.

[Cinci Champ]

I got lot's of love for mike but he became a di** rider big time, he's siding with trump because he thinks he'll get a few bucks for it,tyson would do anything for money..just look at him making a fool of himself at talk shows especially at "the roast" on comedy central where you could tell he didn't like them "drilling him"

its more likely they are friends which they are and have been for awhile. lol im not voting for trump or any candidate i dont trust the lot on either side but its funny how people freak out at the name trump like well i liked mike but now i dont kind of thing. I guess its because of his immigration stance

[MagikLair]

Well

If you like weed. Have to go with either Trump or Clinton. Everybody else has some crazy thoughts on weed. I'll probably go with Trump.