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Aug 17, 2022 7:51:07 GMT -8
Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 17, 2022 7:51:07 GMT -8
I very much agree with that balanced assessment. I may be a bit unbalanced (biased) in my thinking. I'm a bit cynical at this point. I've seen Lucy hold that football up for me to kick, but she always pulls it back at the last minute.
This is completely true. What the RINOs and Leftists have in common is the presumption that they ought to be the ruling class and we plebs had better just appreciate the crumbs they throw us.
This is why National Review is now a thoroughly corrupt and blinkered institution. They will not admit on their front page the real story: "Trump was elected because we RINOs kept pulling back the football after making all kinds of conservative-pleasing sounds."
They won't admit to it. They are now the problem, not the solution. Trump was a revolution within our ranks. And he was, of course, dirty and ugly enough for the Ruling Class RINOs to huff and puff and feel secure in their superiority. But one must never forget that they had exactly the same attitude over the much more presentable (and thoughtful) Ronald Reagan.
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Post by artraveler on Aug 17, 2022 10:24:18 GMT -8
But one must never forget that they had exactly the same attitude over the much more presentable (and thoughtful) Ronald Reagan. Forget Trump's brash, personality anyone growing up in NYC is bound to be very much the same if they are not of the so-called elite. Trump never has been and never will be one of the latte sipping crowd, even when he had his TV show he was always the uncouth outsider, just with a lot of money. I know I have said it before, but I feel I must remind people to look at the policy and the amount of those policies actually accomplished. If DJT can get the job done, or at least make impossible for the left to do more damage than he deserves my vote.
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Aug 17, 2022 13:39:14 GMT -8
Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 17, 2022 13:39:14 GMT -8
Trump is the kind of Nouveau riche that the British aristocracy, in particular, turn their noses up at.
As long as the reality of your wealth is filtered through a couple generations, you're alright. Funny how this is typically a staple of British period pieces and novels. That wealth had to come from somewhere, right?
This is the remarkable thing about the Left and, in particular, women voters: Who cares if things are good, if everyone has a job, if gas prices are cheap? HE TWEETED SOMETHING MEAN!
To get people to vote against their best interests, merely in support of some emotional peevishness, is truly a remarkable thing. But Democrats do that well. And that's why I'm not optimistic. What I think Conrad Black and his kind don't understand is just how denuded the average American is.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 17, 2022 13:39:35 GMT -8
We need Trump to go full "Joshua at the battle of Jericho" on the administrative state if/once he is re-elected in 2024. God raining hailstones on the scum would also be appreciated.
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Post by artraveler on Aug 18, 2022 10:21:04 GMT -8
We need Trump to go full "Joshua at the battle of Jericho" Indeed, the wall need to come crashing down, but it has taken over 150 years to build up the modern state as it exists today. If Trump could reform one agency, and one administrative function and close one the others it would set a trend for the next president to follow. Personally I favor reforms of Justice/FBI and closing the Dept. of Education. In reforming Justice we need to permanently fire everyone above GS-11 and eliminate the Senior Executive Service (SES) these are lifetime bureaucrats at GS-18 and above. The ones who make decisions regardless of who is president. The education Dept. is in my opinion unconstitutional and needs to be just shut down. The states can educate our children much better and are closer to the problem. This will also free up billions of dollars that ED wastes every year. If Trump could accomplish this things in four years then he will go down in history as the greatest reform president in American history. Make room a Mt. Rushmore.
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Aug 18, 2022 11:49:51 GMT -8
Post by kungfuzu on Aug 18, 2022 11:49:51 GMT -8
These would be my priorities as well, except I would close the FBI. Some of its functions might have to be exercised by different law enforcement agencies.
I have heard government employees speak about SES people as being know-nothings who would fail in the real world. One guy mentioned as SES who thought he was great and quit government service to go to work for some commercial firm. He was fired in less than 3 or 4 months, as I recall.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 19, 2022 8:08:41 GMT -8
Mike Davis has appeared on Bannon's show a number of times over the last few weeks. He is all for Congressional hearings should the Republicans re-take the House.
Impeachment is just a diversion. The House may vote to impeach them, but there is no way Wray or Garland can be found guilty of anything unless a Senate majority of 2/3 rds votes to convict them. If the Republicans are honest in their claims of wishing to clean up government, they will have to somehow get these men indicted for the crimes committed against the American People and then tried outside of D.C.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 19, 2022 9:55:31 GMT -8
Yes, I agree that impeachment (if only because of the Democrats recent ill use of it) would be a diversion. Good call. But if Trump is elected, he needs to fire a whole bunch of people and not just do an impression of Richard II: "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?" He needs to act as if he is in charge instead of complaining about the swamp. Drain it. Don't paint it with Richard II laments.
If the Republicans win the House and/or Senate, holding hearings and such is going to be perceived by the public as just political payback, not getting rid of crooks. So, yeah, if they can get someone outside of DC to try them, that sounds better.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 19, 2022 14:25:22 GMT -8
An indication that Ann Coulter is sinking further into paranoid TDS, has lost her edge or is intentionally disingenuous. It also shows she has less interest in protecting the laws and ideals of the USA than in venting her spleen on Trump. FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was not importantA few quotes from the article. Is Coulter really so dim as to miss the point that has the rest of us worried? It is not about Trump you dumb, disingenuous bimbo. It is about the FBI becoming the unlawful arm of the security state, a STASI. And to call it "Trump's FBI," considering the history of the Russian Hoax, is dishonesty of the highest order. Conservatives need to shun any intercourse with Ann Coulter. There are enough STDs out there without having to deal with her.
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Aug 19, 2022 16:20:12 GMT -8
Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 19, 2022 16:20:12 GMT -8
Well, technically I can't fault Coulter in her assessment of Trump. I do think he's a bum and a demagogue. But her dislike of Trump has blinded her to the dangerous historic importance of the FBI being used as a goon squad on a political opponent.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 19, 2022 17:18:44 GMT -8
I can, and your third sentence explains why. If a person's assessment of another becomes so vitriolic, so sulfuric that it blinds them to glaring truth, then that person's assessment is not only "not worth shit," it is much worse. It is worse than a distraction. It makes that person believe that her shit is Shinola, and risks convincing others of such nonsense as well. The application of which will not result in shinny shoes. This is one reason I tire of the constant harping on Trump. We are in a war, whether or not people understand this. There is enough fog and smoke in the air without our adding to it. Our side, I mean normal people with traditional values and a relatively conservative approach to life, has been getting its ass kicked for decades. In case readers didn't notice it, Reagan left office in January 1989 and we have been loosing the country since then, even though we have held the presidency almost as often as the Demonrats and I believe we have held more state offices across the country than the Demonrats, during that time. Since Reagan, the only "Republican" who did anything to halt or slow down the constant march toward globalism and the leftist destruction of our country has been Trump. Period. Finish. Basta. Let me make an analogy. The country is split into two baseball teams, one the woke-communists and the other the rest of us. The woke-communists' coach Joe Biden, is demonstrably incompetent, a corrupt criminal and a bum, but his team betrays no sign of this, to us, or the rest of the world. They constantly cheer him on, tell everyone how good his game plan is, how great he is and how they are going to stomp our ass, even though everything happening points in the other direction. We have Donald Trump as our coach (I see nobody else who will be able to displace him in 2024) who is gruff and vulgar, but has a pretty good game plan and is putting together a good team. But we constantly bitch and complain about the coach. We criticize him all the time, endlessly pointing out his faults, real or imagined, and go around with a losing attitude day-in-day-out. We never let up. We dislike our coach and advertise this everyday to anyone who will listen. We sow disharmony on the team. How smart is that? Interestingly, we don't seem to have the perspicacity to figure out that the Demoncrats clearly fear our coach and his game plan. Why else have they done everything possible to bring him down? Why for the last 7 years have they used the FBI, CIA, DOJ, MSM, judicial system and others to try to break/destroy him? (If one disagrees with this assertion, this and any further discussion is pointless) They certainly wouldn't do it just because they found him vulgar. Clearly they respect him more than some of us do. Then again, the Republicans are not called the stupid party for nothing. Most of all, they fear him because he is a solid unifying force for the deplorables. Save your ammunition and hate for the other side. I recommend everyone listen to this video by Tom Kligenstein, Chairman of the Claremont Institute. Trump's virtues
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 19, 2022 18:14:06 GMT -8
Sometime back, I came to the conclusion that Coulter is a dishonest provocateur. She goes all in for one or another person, disparaging all who compete with him. She then falls out of love with that same person and unleashes her spleen upon him. If this is not a calculated scheme to bring her attention and money, then she is incurably naive'.
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Aug 19, 2022 18:33:23 GMT -8
Post by artraveler on Aug 19, 2022 18:33:23 GMT -8
Coulter is a dishonest provocateur. Years ago, perhaps 20, Coulter worked for National Review. She was a a fire eater then but NR let her run until she was just out of control. WFB was still alive but in semi retirement. Coulter had run several articles that were clearly over the top and WFB finely fired her. I was among those who wondered about why it took so long to fire her. I figured it could be a contractual issue, I still think that was the initial reason. However, given her behavior over the last 20 years I am of the opinion that the real issue was Ann Coulter is just a crazy bitch.
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Aug 19, 2022 18:35:57 GMT -8
Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 19, 2022 18:35:57 GMT -8
I agree with Coulter that Trump is unreliable. But I don't agree with any personal dislike preventing one from assessing other aspects of what is going on, which I guess is the definition of TDS. I have TIAUJA syndrome (Trump is a useful jackass).
I believe that Trump is a serial liar and demagogue. It's hard for me to have Trump Love Syndrome simply because I don't trust the guy. What comes out of his mouth is near meaningless. He's a maelstrom wherever he goes. But he's better than Biden. He's better than Hillary,
And I haven't seen outrage from Trump regarding the FBI being sicced on him. He doesn't seem to be the man to drain the swamp. He's a man who simply talks about draining the swamp. And good on him for trusting someone else with his Supreme Court picks. If he runs again and wins, he needs to trust a lot of people like this...anyone other than his idiot daughter and idiot son-in-law.
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Aug 19, 2022 18:40:34 GMT -8
Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 19, 2022 18:40:34 GMT -8
Her job is to sell books and get appearance fees. Being controversial and hot-blooded is a way to do this. I didn't read the book, but I never thought for a minute that she meant "In Trump We Trust." She's selling books.
But she's not always wrong. And she constantly nails Trump for being a liar about "building the wall." Someone ought to hold this serial liar's feet to the fire. She does. And sometimes she goes over the top. But "over the top" is useful in her line of work.
But you have to filter. The benefit is that she might say something true and obvious (to us) that all the button-down Decorum Conservatives would never say or admit.
But, like Trump, she's a carnival act on the road. A three-ring circus. You can't take these people too seriously. They are both bullshit artists.
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Aug 19, 2022 18:44:04 GMT -8
Post by kungfuzu on Aug 19, 2022 18:44:04 GMT -8
He has been very vocal on Truth Social and elsewhere. Mike Davis, the ex-Gorsuch law clerk mentioned that a certain legal device (a 41G or something like that) needs to be demanded. After he said this, one of Trump's advisers/lawyers has said that a number of legal actions are coming shortly. Believe me, this will be used after Labor Day when the election campaign really starts. The madder people get, the more chance that Republicans will gain a lot of seats, which means that there is a greater chance for some sort of retribution.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 19, 2022 18:50:45 GMT -8
There are rumors going around that Jared and Ivanka are on the outs with Trump. It is hard to determine the veracity of such rumors, but one can hope.
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Post by artraveler on Aug 19, 2022 18:56:39 GMT -8
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 19, 2022 18:56:42 GMT -8
For decades, my position on Demoncrats vs. Republicans is the Dems are lung cancer and the Reps are double-pneumonia. Neither malady is pleasant, but I know which I would rather have.
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