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When you quote a post, anything within it gets turned into italics, which makes point-by-point responses hard to do. Best thing to do is copy/paste the 'quote' tags inside the post, which is a pain.

Originally Posted by puckedoff

Italics are mine.

Symptom of big government, Clinton administration would also start to solve problems that don't exist yet (wasting your tax money!)

Not sure how this is a symptom of big government. Social media is damn cheap in terms of a cost/impact ratio. But the worrying thing is that if Clinton's people can goad Trump into predictable and exploitable behaviours, how easy is it going to be for other governments to do the same?

Obviously he is running a lean campaign, would also leave government positions vacant (small government! finally!)

There's a difference between carrying a small overall staff, and leaving key positions vacant. It would be like having no Director of the CIA, because you're trying to cut costs. Yeah, it's one job, but it's one of the most important jobs in the government. But it's not like Trump doesn't want to fill these jobs filled: ones like communications director, Trump had said for weeks he was going to fill. Others, like RNC coordinator, have been unable to be filled because of in-fighting between different factions of the campaign team.

Clearly does not beleive in buying elections. Wants to keep money from big interests out of politics. Pure integrity!

Well no, if he wanted to keep money out of politics, he wouldn't have started calling the donor list in the first place. Calling three names and then stopping sounds more like he didn't like what he was hearing on those phonecalls, and then gave up.

Loyal to his employees, shows he would be loyal to USA's trade partners

No, he's loyal to the hand-picked circle of people who are very close to him, like Lewandowski, who he'll unconditionally defend. Anyone further away then that, he'll throw under the bus at the first sign of trouble.

Anything that RNC is on board with is highly suspect. Being unlike RNC is a good thing.

Sometimes you need to negotiate and cooperate with people you disagree with. Trump has so far shown no ability to cooperate with anyone who is not a total yes-man. The reality of being President is being a concensus-builder. Nobody wants to build concensus with Trump more than the RNC, but he seems entirely unable to.

Contradicts your point from above, but he is holding people accountable.

But he's not holding anyone accountable or taking any steps to fix these problems in his organization. He's just publicly admonishing people who were legitimately trying to do their job, and then allowing the same problems to continue. The whole reason for emails being sent out that were off-message is the lack of communications roles filled and no clear hierarchy, which is entirely a problem of his own making, and is honestly shocking for a supposed good businessman.

There is a cost of making America great again, if you can't see that you are probably a cheapskate or you just straight up hate America.

Oh, wait, so now trying to get money that he's not entitled to is good, and a sign of not being a cheapskate, when earlier in this post, his inability to even talk with donors is a sign of integrity? There's a hell of a lot more integrity in taking the money of somebody willing to donate it to you then there is in trying to claim money that was donated for uses other than your campaign.