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Thinking of volunteering for Trump 2016 - Will this hurt my career?

Possibly? But definitely not because of "anti-conservative bias."

i don't think the majority of republicans even support this clown so it wouldn't really be "anti-conservative bias"

it would be more like "bias against volunteering to work on the campaign of a shit bird with weird hair"

Most conservatives think Trump is a joke. Even conservatives may laugh if they see that on your resume, so I don't think it would be due to "anti-conservative" bias, since Trump doesn't stand for anything that a principled conservative stands for.

kaiser wrote:Most conservatives think Trump is a joke. Even conservatives may laugh if they see that on your resume, so I don't think it would be due to "anti-conservative" bias, since Trump doesn't stand for anything that a principled conservative stands for.

I don't follow, what conservative principles has he 'violated?'
And isn't he the leading candidate in polls of registered Republican voters?

I think is like 70% likely to be a flame, but if you're serious, yes it will hurt you if you put on your resume because people, including conservatives, will question your judgment. Trump is absolutely considered a joke by most people in these circles.

Elston Gunn wrote:I think is like 70% likely to be a flame, but if you're serious, yes it will hurt you if you put on your resume because people, including conservatives, will question your judgment. Trump is absolutely considered a joke by most people in these circles.

OP here. I'm not flame. Trump legitimately appeals to a large segment of the population, myself included, and his views aren't out of the mainstream - just his tone is. There are genuine Trump supporters out there, even among republican leaders, but most are either supporting the Bush family for fear of losing their jobs, or support Rubio out of a misguided desire to win the hispanic vote. I resent that I'm not able to openly support the politician I believe in because the mainstream media and the Bush family have put a hit out on him.

this flame has potential

op please describe your life in trump's america

thx

smaug wrote:this flame has potential

op please describe your life in trump's america

thx

- not losing my job to an america-hating immigrant who I have to train to be my replacement
- not being shot randomly on the street by an illegal alien felon who should have been deported
- not having to pay the local government to police slums filled with illegals
- not having social services/education drained by illegals
- fewer prisons overflowing with illegals
- not signing trade deals with other countries that only benefit the rich and screw american workers

more overtly racist than i expected

yawn

Sure large swaths of the population like trump, but large swaths of the population believe that evolution isn't true as well. talking about how the earth is 6000 years old will not do you any favors if you want to work in big law, and if you hold that view, keep it to yourself until you've received an offer and shown yourself to be competent. Expressing views like "taxes should be lower" won't get you into trouble, but supporting an absolute clown or telling people that gays shouldn't get married will.

Edit: just saw your post. Not too many overt xenophobes in high paying legal positions. Your views are retarded, and if you say those things out loud people will judge you as retarded and a yokel. I say this as someone who voted Romney in 2012 btw.

Anonymous User wrote:

smaug wrote:this flame has potential

op please describe your life in trump's america

thx

- not losing my job to an america-hating immigrant who I have to train to be my replacement
- not being shot randomly on the street by an illegal alien felon who should have been deported
- not having to pay the local government to police slums filled with illegals
- not having social services/education drained by illegals
- fewer prisons overflowing with illegals
- not signing trade deals with other countries that only benefit the rich and screw american workers

Immigrants hate America?

smaug wrote:more overtly racist than i expected

yawn

so being in favor of compliance with national immigration laws makes me a racist?

Anonymous User wrote:

smaug wrote:this flame has potential

op please describe your life in trump's america

thx

- not losing my job to an america-hating immigrant who I have to train to be my replacement
- not being shot randomly on the street by an illegal alien felon who should have been deported
- not having to pay the local government to police slums filled with illegals
- not having social services/education drained by illegals
- fewer prisons overflowing with illegals
- not signing trade deals with other countries that only benefit the rich and screw american workers

The reason people will hold your Trump support against you is that it reveals that you have a simple mind probably incapable of performing quality legal analysis.

Anonymous User wrote:

smaug wrote:this flame has potential

op please describe your life in trump's america

thx

- not losing my job to an america-hating immigrant who I have to train to be my replacement
- not being shot randomly on the street by an illegal alien felon who should have been deported
- not having to pay the local government to police slums filled with illegals
- not having social services/education drained by illegals
- fewer prisons overflowing with illegals
- not signing trade deals with other countries that only benefit the rich and screw american workers

Have you ever even met one of these so-called "illegals"?

Any issues you care about other than "illegals"?

Elston Gunn wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:

smaug wrote:this flame has potential

op please describe your life in trump's america

thx

- not losing my job to an america-hating immigrant who I have to train to be my replacement
- not being shot randomly on the street by an illegal alien felon who should have been deported
- not having to pay the local government to police slums filled with illegals
- not having social services/education drained by illegals
- fewer prisons overflowing with illegals
- not signing trade deals with other countries that only benefit the rich and screw american workers

The reason people will hold your Trump support against you is that it reveals that you have a simple mind probably incapable of performing quality legal analysis.

It reminds me of a person I know who was all rah rah behind Scott Walker after he literally quoted Liam Neeson from Taken to talk about his approach to ISIS. What anyone of even relative intellect would hold against that person is not that he advocates an aggressive approach toward ISIS, but that it takes a quote from Taken to get through to him on the subject.

You could sort of say the same here. Its one thing to believe that we should take more firm steps to enforce our fed immigration laws, but its another to need to dress it up in this buffoonery, dripping with thinly-veiled racism and xenophobia, to get through to people.

Can someone explain what is so bad about supporting Trump versus, say, Bush, though? Other than resorting to calling him a "clown"?

pink_freud257 wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:

smaug wrote:this flame has potential

op please describe your life in trump's america

thx

- not losing my job to an america-hating immigrant who I have to train to be my replacement
- not being shot randomly on the street by an illegal alien felon who should have been deported
- not having to pay the local government to police slums filled with illegals
- not having social services/education drained by illegals
- fewer prisons overflowing with illegals
- not signing trade deals with other countries that only benefit the rich and screw american workers

Have you ever even met one of these so-called "illegals"?

Yup, doing pro bono work. Most of them were either gangbangers or neglectful parents. (I admit, it was a very biased sample.)

Anonymous User wrote:Can someone explain what is so bad about supporting Trump versus, say, Bush, though? Other than resorting to calling him a "clown"?

I'm sure some googling will find you the answer you want. It sounds like a lot of work for me to write that whole thing out.

Elston Gunn wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:Can someone explain what is so bad about supporting Trump versus, say, Bush, though? Other than resorting to calling him a "clown"?

I'm sure some googling will find you the answer you want. It sounds like a lot of work for me to write that whole thing out.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/d ... 19945.html

ok he's not a clown. he's a buffoon

i'm pretty impressed by his crinigerous thaumaturgy though

Anonymous User wrote:

pink_freud257 wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:

smaug wrote:this flame has potential

op please describe your life in trump's america

thx

- not losing my job to an america-hating immigrant who I have to train to be my replacement
- not being shot randomly on the street by an illegal alien felon who should have been deported
- not having to pay the local government to police slums filled with illegals
- not having social services/education drained by illegals
- fewer prisons overflowing with illegals
- not signing trade deals with other countries that only benefit the rich and screw american workers

Have you ever even met one of these so-called "illegals"?

Yup, doing pro bono work. Most of them were either gangbangers or neglectful parents. (I admit, it was a very biased sample.)

If this had worse spelling I would be convinced it was a DF thread.

As an immigrant...is this thread real life? Or did I accidentally take cold meds this morning again?

Pretty interesting how not a single person in this thread has actually engaged any substantive policy proposals of Trump's. All the posts are either ad hominem attacks or ginned-up outrage that I'm using the term 'illegal' to describe illegal aliens.