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Post by artraveler on Feb 17, 2020 10:37:23 GMT -8
Finally, to have the president start the race with a pace lap in his armored limo would be a lot of fun What would you have given to be the secret Service guy or gal driving the "Beast"? I wonder if they drew straws, or if President Trump picked his driver, seniority, or rotation. Being president pales to driving the pace car. I bet President Trump wanted to drive and they wouldn't let him.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 17, 2020 10:48:34 GMT -8
At the speed they were going, Trump could have easily driven this. There were limitations to their pacing. They were a ceremonial pace car and moved off the track at one point so the real pace cars could take over. The 20,000 lb. “beast” that Trump was in, it was said by the broadcaster, probably couldn’t drive on the oval.
But I seriously doubt that. I would imagine the car, despite the weight, can make some speed.
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Post by timothylane on Feb 17, 2020 13:08:10 GMT -8
You can be quite certain that they had a top Secret Service driver. A car accident under those circumstances would truly have been catastrophic. I wonder how their speed compared with what the car does when just traveling rather than parading. (Beforehand, I heard suggestions that they might reach 100 mph, which would have been a very different matter. Trump no doubt would have liked that. But who knows whether Melania would have?)
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 17, 2020 13:39:03 GMT -8
I had heard that the minimum they could do was 70 mph and have the cars behind them on the banked track. And 100 mph in the presidential limo is probably nothing.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 17, 2020 16:53:50 GMT -8
This is another reason people love Trump. Trump EconomyHe doesn't let the Obamanation's claims go unchallenged.
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Post by timothylane on Feb 17, 2020 17:04:01 GMT -8
This seems as good a place as any to mention an item from Glenn Beck's the Blaze. It seems a Demagogue in New Hampshire, who held the usual bigoted views about supporters of both parties, began to notice the way supporters of both came off on social media. So she decided to give the other side a chance and went to a Trump rally. The results surprised her.
There was a humongous line of people waiting to get in hours before the festivities would start. She waited in line with them, chatting and even admitting she was a Democrat. (They may have thought she was a convert, at least initially.) But no one threatened or gave her anything to fear. They were pleasant, ordinary people, not the vicious racist monsters she had been led to expect. And the rally was as much a gala as anything else, with people even dancing to music over the speakers.
She voted for Battygeek in the primary and no doubt still considers herself a liberal. But she did switch her registration to Independent, and came to the conclusion that Trump would win due to the enthusiasm of his supporters. And she said as much in her blog postings.
And this created problems. Naturally, the moment she said that Trump supporters weren't deplorables or whatever insult you care to spew, social media leftists blasted her. (Of course, there's a difference between social media Demaogogues and ordinary Demagogue voters. But I'm not sure how big that difference is.) Trump supporters reacted sympathetically, pointing out that they were used that sort of abuse. The link is:
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Post by timothylane on Feb 17, 2020 17:11:27 GMT -8
The current expansion did indeed begin under the Black God, but was a very weak recovery. In essence, we had the Bush recession followed by the Obama stagnation. Then Trump came in, and starting pushing lower taxes and regulation on business, and the rate of growth increased and brought with it rising incomes for ordinary Americans.
Furthermore, this happened despite the fact that the normal pattern is for expansion to slow the longer it continues until eventually it falls into recession. Trump hasn't repealed the business cycle; eventually there will be another recession even if he wins re-election. But he has taken the weak, nearly stagnant expansion that preceded him and actually juiced it up.
And that's what no Demagogue ever wants to admit to.
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Post by artraveler on Feb 17, 2020 19:10:15 GMT -8
The current expansion did indeed begin under the Black God, but was a very weak recovery. This is true only in that 2012 came before 2016. The argument could also be made that losing WW II was part of a clever plan in Germany and Japan to achieve freedom and economic independence. The profit from Hawaii is delusional, demented and destructive and those are his good points.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 18, 2020 9:18:20 GMT -8
LOL.
My take on it is that the mere presence of the anti-capitalist, anti-American Obama depressed the economy. And voting him out — even if Donald Duck were to take his place — would make things rebound. It is a known fact that capital retracts when some politician increases uncertainty, especially if that uncertainty is tilted heavily toward being punitive to business and the productive sector.
With Trump, he needn’t have done anything to improve the economy. He just needed to show up. Anyone in business knows that Trump doesn’t hate productive and prosperous people. And, of course, some of his policies (such as energy policies) have had a good effect on the economy.
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Post by kungfuzu on May 25, 2020 14:48:25 GMT -8
Here is a devastating add against Sleepy Joe Biden. Sleepy JoeMy only concern is that the Trump campaign is destroying Biden too early. If this continues, I cannot see the Democratic Bolsheviks letting Biden be their candidate. They will have to find someone else. If I were Biden I would have a food taster as part of my entourage.
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Post by Brad Nelson on May 26, 2020 9:11:43 GMT -8
LOL. That comment made me laugh even more than the truly excellent Trump ad. I love that ad. Again, can you imagine Romney or Jeb! doing that?
But your glass-half-empty comment really tickled my funny-bone. And it's not the inherent pessimism of it. It's that there could be some truth to that. I don't know the formula for how this works. But we certainly don't want Biden's idiocy to peak too early.
Food taster! Ohhhh....hahahaha. Rolling on floor. Probably going out of my mind due to social distancing but I'm still pretty sure I'm laughing because that's funny.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 1, 2020 9:03:48 GMT -8
This piece by Victor Davis Hanson is excellent. Enough with Twitter DonaldI couldn't agree more. Trump should take the gift the left is giving him and (pardon my French) shut the fuck up. It about more than you Donald!
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Post by artraveler on Jun 1, 2020 14:10:01 GMT -8
I find the use of Twitter to be a necessary evil for President trump. True enough twitter is filled with antagonistic brutal leftists, (the media) whose only reason for reading what transpires there is the destruction of DJT and his presidency. However, it is the only national platform for him to communicate directly to the millions who follow him. Short of creating his own platform, something he could do but doesn't seem to desire. Twitter is is the only place for this kind of unfiltered communication. He is using twitter in exactly the same way the left uses the mainstream media.
Does anyone think that if he gave up twitter the media would say, "well then we must allow you free access to our publications and airtime"? The most devious power the media has is the power to ignore. Like it or not they cannot ignore twitter and DJT tweets as much as they would like to.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 1, 2020 14:30:46 GMT -8
I understand the situation Trump is in and that Twitter has been an important outlet for him. I simply wish he would count to ten sometimes before sending out some of his more stupid messages. I know my wishes are count for nothing, but how great would it be if the man could control his language, just occasionally. I doubt this would cost him a single vote, but it might get him hundreds of thousands, maybe millions. Perhaps I am too naive'.
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Post by artraveler on Jun 1, 2020 16:56:45 GMT -8
how great would it be if the man could control his language, just occasionally. I fear the bad news for you is that he has restrained his most fundamental thoughts. What appears on twitter is the more reasoned thoughts. I am sure of this because my first impulse to the treason of the left is the always more vehement and violent then I put in print.
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Post by timothylane on Jun 1, 2020 17:29:07 GMT -8
My inclinations are extremely violent. Scenes like the ending of Caroline Cooney's Rear-View Mirror, in which a woman strikes her tormentor with a chair and keeps on hitting him (long after he was dead) until there's no broken part big enough to hit with, I find very emotionally satisfying. A reaction I've had many time in reading or hearing about violent riots (the first time I can recall ever having that reaction was when reading about the Oxford, MS riot when James Meredith went to Ole Miss) is to wish they had used some nice automatic weapons. (What do you call a thousand dead rioters? A good start.)
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 1, 2020 20:33:25 GMT -8
I have no problem with that. My thoughts are often extreme, but unfortunately, "shooting from the hip: is not the way to reassure those creatures who walk in the middle of the road. And they must be roped in, if one is to win elections.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 7, 2020 9:18:21 GMT -8
More proof that this is a coordinated attack against Trump by the deep-state-perpetual-war party. PowellAnyone who doesn't understand what is happening here is living in an alternate universe. Trump must be an existential threat to these people as they are rabid in their hate and determination to get him. What type of nuts would vote for Biden, except the type that knows they will be able to choose Biden's VP candidate and then get rid of old Sleepy-Joe should he actually win.
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Post by timothylane on Jun 7, 2020 11:33:35 GMT -8
Republican voters overwhelmingly support Trump, in fact by larger margins than they did the Bushes, the McCainiac, and Romney (which may be one reason for their jealousy). The GOP Beltway Bandits don't care because they've never really cared much about or for their own voters. As for Colon Bowell, he also supported the Black God in 2008 (Sarah Palin was just an ordinary Republican herself), which the article neglected to mention. I wouldn't be surprised if he also did in 2012, but I don't recall ever seeing any mention of it.
In essence, Republicans support Trump (some enthusiastically, some reluctantly because they know, as the Beltway Bandits never can bring themselves to do, what the alternative is now). RINOs are eager to be friends of the Demagogues no matter how often the latter kick us (and even the RINOs) in the teeth, so they don't. If it weren't for the possible political effect on other voters, I'd just say good riddance. I might say that even with those risks -- despite voting for Bush in 2000 and 2004 and Romney in 2012 (and not at all hesitantly in any of those years, as I was in 1992 and 1996). Technically I voted for McCain in 2008, but if Palin hadn't been on the ticket I might not have.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 7, 2020 17:21:54 GMT -8
This is the guy Bush, Romney and Powell say they are going to support. As the the old saying goes, "If you lie down with dogs, you get up with flees." So W, Mittens and Colorectum are each going to need to wear one of these, as Biden is a lying mangy mutt.
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