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* That's the funny part. Despite the fevered wet dreams of tea baggers and the angry (scared) old white men, Trumps numbers just don't add up. Historic low numbers of women who support him (and remember women make up 51% of the population and are much more likely to vote than men) and abysmal (despite his declarations to the contrary) ratings with minorities. I just don't see enough angry, uneducated, white people to put him in the White House.
* "We have to have our Republicans either stick together or let me just do it by myself. I'll do very well. I'm going to do very well. OK? I'm going to do very well." Donald "Joffrey" Trump the Repeater of Phrases, Short of the Fingers, and Orange of the Thin Skin
* ... The guys who created Google are geniuses. Trump is a particularly ignorant scam artist.
* I can't believe he can't be qualified. The Orange Baby Fingered Vulgarian must be qualified because he said he knows words, big words.
* Donald Trump is a liar, a cheat, a narcissist, a fraudster, a coward, a quack, a shyster, a racist, a rapist and a flimflam man. He's New York trash from the slums that his father owned. Only a Republicon low life would support Donald Trump. I wouldn't be surprised if he wants to pardon Bernie Madoff and make him his financial Czar. Trump is the king of Bush(it)ers and the only policies he has is trash-talk !!!
* Do you really think Trump is going turn on his own kind. He already said he was going to lower taxes on the rich but somehow they will eventually pay more. The only person Trump cares about is Trump.
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One of Silicon Valley's most successful investors just eviscerated Donald Trump
By Rob Price, June 16, 2016
One of Silicon Valley's top venture capitalists has slammed Donald Trump, labelling him a "loser" and a "hustler" with "mediocre" business skills.
Writing in the Financial Times on Thursday, Michael Moritz, the chairman at the venture-capital firm Sequoia and a former member of Google's board of directors, slammed the caustic Republican presidential hopeful in a scathing column titled "To the bright and the rich of Silicon Valley, Trump is a loser."
The 61-year-old investor attacks Trump's business acumen, a subject the New York real-estate magnate and reality-TV star prides himself on and has made a cornerstone of his campaign.
"In Silicon Valley Mr Trump also fails to get more than a passing grade for his business skills because his actual performance, compared to the myth he has assiduously cultivated, is so mediocre," Moritz says, contrasting Trump with tech founders like WhatsApp's Jan Koum and Microsoft's Bill Gates.
Furthermore, Moritz argues, Trump's immigration policies would block future potential entrepreneurs from entering the country:
Silicon Valley winners are people who fashion something from nothing. Many of them are the sort of people Mr Trump wants to keep from entering America and are victims of prejudice and oppression. Jan Koum, the founder of WhatsApp queued with his mother waiting for food stamps when he came to America from Ukraine. Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo!, could only speak one word of English - "shoe" - when, as a 10-year-old, he came with his mother from Taiwan.The investor also critically contrasts Trump with New York billionaires including Michael Bloomberg and Stephen Ross, each of whom Moritz says has a far better track record in business.
"Compared with Mr Bloomberg and Mr Ross, Mr Trump seems little more than a hustler who takes from the rich (lenders he has short-changed, partners he has sued) and also takes from the poor (hapless students of Trump University, tenants whom he has allegedly bullied)."
Moritz does not openly back Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. But he has previously donated to the Democratic Party.
Trump's business credentials and past ventures have come under scrutiny during his candidacy, from the failed Trump Steaks to bankrupt casinos.
Trump University, a real-estate training program, has come up repeatedly during the presidential race, as it is the subject of class-action lawsuits. Trump came under heavy criticism recently after saying the judge overseeing Trump University cases could not do his job because of his Mexican heritage, a statement House Speaker Paul Ryan called "the textbook definition of a racist comment."
Trump has been criticised by many in the American tech industry, with few tech workers backing his campaign and influential investors like Marc Andreessen speaking out against him. Even Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, has taken a veiled dig at Trump.
But the presumptive Republican presidential nominee does have a spattering of support in the tech industry. Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist and early Facebook investor who made news recently for secretly funding a legal war against the news site Gawker, is a delegate for Trump.
Trump's campaign has been accused of outright racism by many, promising to ban noncitizen Muslims from entering the US, accusing Mexican immigrants of being rapists, calling for the US military to commit war crimes by targeting the families of terrorists and use torture as an interrogation technique, and laying out a plan to build a huge wall on the country's southern border.
You can read Moritz's full critique over on the Financial Times »
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