Much, Much More Than Trump, by Robert Gore
As el gato malo recently observed, there are two types of Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS. One afflicts a subset of those who don’t like him; one afflicts a subset of those who do. Among the afflicted, mere mention of his name evokes either foaming-at-the-mouth rage or enraptured paroxysms.
Trump is the vessel for a lot of hopes and dreams, most of which won’t come true. Should he win, he would again be taking on a multi-trillion dollar totalitarian monstrosity (the term “Blob” is too benign), its remit every important aspect of life within the United States and around the world. Those trillions support millions of government employees, contractors, and beneficiaries. The monstrosity resists any challenge, even if that challenge is only rhetorical. Trump’s challenge the first time was exclusively rhetorical. The monstrosity was bigger, more powerful, more indebted, and more monstrous at the end of his term than at the beginning.
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Trump is the vessel for a lot of hopes and dreams, most of which won’t come true. Should he win, he would again be taking on a multi-trillion dollar totalitarian monstrosity (the term “Blob” is too benign), its remit every important aspect of life within the United States and around the world. Those trillions support millions of government employees, contractors, and beneficiaries. The monstrosity resists any challenge, even if that challenge is only rhetorical. Trump’s challenge the first time was exclusively rhetorical. The monstrosity was bigger, more powerful, more indebted, and more monstrous at the end of his term than at the beginning.
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Precisely why the dino will vote for the sadly flawed and imperfect yet highly respected Mr. Trump.
Should he beat the cheat and win he will only have four more years to dig us out of a pile of China Joe's (actually his Marxist handlers) heaped-on Schiff.
What gives me the creeps is what awaits us after that?!?!?!
Think it will likely be what will happen if a rigged election can beat the anticipated landslide.
He is NOT remotely as loathsome as those infected with TDS assert, and more importantly, the smooth talking politicians they support are simply that: smooth talking versions of things far more loathsome.
Trump is overwhelmingly the best option we have presently.
ANY HERE (this means EWE, with Rand-reading homework assignments, and droning babble) that publicly argue against reelecting Trump are either deranged, spiteful idiots, or clearly lying about any Objectivist or Libertarian views.
Millions of Americans sincerely love Donald Trump
They love him in spite of everything they’ve heard. They love him in spite of himself. They love Donald Trump because no one else loves them. The country they built, the country their ancestors fought for over hundreds of years, has left them to die in unfashionable little towns, mocked and despised by the sneering half-wits with finance degrees but no actual skills, who seem to run everything.
Whatever Donald Trump’s faults, he is better than the rest of the people in charge. Trump is a living indictment of the people who run this country. That was true when Trump came out of nowhere to win the presidency, and it’s true right now. Trump rose because they failed.
If the people in charge had done a halfway decent job with the country they inherited, if they’d cared about anything other than themselves, Donald Trump would still be hosting Celebrity Apprentice. But they didn’t. Instead, they were incompetent and narcissistic and cruel and relentlessly dishonest. They wrecked what they didn’t build.
They lied about it. They hurt anyone who told the truth about what they were doing. We watched.
America is still a great country, the best in the world, but our ruling class is disgusting.
A vote for Trump is a vote against them.
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The only way out for a free people isn't peaceful.
I agree with the points in your article with the exception of blaming any generation
of Americans for the actions of a few power mongers in D.C.
All generations of Americans have been trying to raise their families and hoping to
be left alone by all the governments and banksters trying to steal from them.
Eventually the people must respond or be enslaved.
D.C. NIFO
It would have to be done quickly and irreversibly or the politicians will reverse course as soon as there is any irrational excuse.
Up to 4 million unproductive fedgov employees (per 2022 census) would be unemployed and most unemployable by any profit
seeking business, not to mention all the 'consultants' and military 'industry' employees. (The largest number - 11 million - of
government employees are teachers working for local/state governments.)
Fedgov workers are even more worthless than the current crop of indebted college graduates with 'degrees' but can't do simple math.
Same for social security 'reform'. About 59 million are receiving ss 'benefits' totaling about $108 billion a year - about $1,800
per month per recipient. Cutting those payments would likely have a 10 fold effect on the economy since the money gets spent
repeatedly for goods and services.
Economically painful doesn't come close to describing the effects.
Of course, it must be done since the effect of doing nothing is disaster, but politicians will never make it happen. Never happen.
If reform is to happen, it will take millions of people willing to remove themselves and their families from the current slavery,
risking their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor.