Trump fever explained

Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 2 months ago to Politics
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Ann Coulter does the best job which I've seen so far
at explaining how our angry populace views The Donald.
read at your own peril, or to your own delight. -- j
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Clinton or Sanders would be far worse on the economy or the nuclear switch. FAR worse, and if you keep bashing Trump, you will wind up with Hillary most likely.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I was hoping for a good retirement, so thats why I wanted Trump. I thought he would at least slow down the decline more than the others.
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  • Posted by H2ungar123 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Not saying to trust the others,but why trust
    Trump when he wont/can't put his money
    where his mouth is. Stop with the boring bom-
    bast and give us "just the facts"
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  • Posted by H2ungar123 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Not saying we should trust the 'others' but why
    trust Trump to do what he says he will? Why
    doesn't he put his money where his mouth is?
    Put up or shut up. Stop the boring bombast and give us "just the facts, man."
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Jan, you couldn't have expressed it better. I even find myself enjoying the fact that the "powers that be" hate Trump. Oh, I know they'll win in the end, but I sure wish I could give them the finger.
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Freedom, I have often thought about how much am I willing to risk to fight for freedom? I honestly think I would risk it all (easier since my kids are grown and educated), but I would want to think there was a real chance of success.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 2 months ago
    The case for comparing Trump to the National Socialists of 1920's and 1930's comes from being a good student of history in general and and in particular following the path delineated in Ominous Parallels. It is, of course, not an exact parallel, but far to close to comfort when the other moods of the country are added.

    Trump is in fact whether he knows it or not, whether he cares or not a left wing socialist corporatist slash statist and an outsider which makes him very liberal by strict definiiton. Short version a looter.

    Remember.. I use real definitions not those of the corpus puerile or PC nor those of the left itself. it's easier to breathe without their enslaving chains and besides I don't like those with their nose in the air and still running over with s'not-hing useful.


    the right hand side bar column is now woefully behind the left hand main post column....apropos of nothing whatsoever except it makes it hard to address such fine statements and thank you it is one of my finest as Wicked Witch of the Left which gave still birth to WwOTL or waddle..and it's sister the Wicked Witch of the West who of coursde is Miss Lube Job of 1955 or whatever Comrade Nancy 'Call me Benita' Pelosillyni.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If either Hillary or Sanders gets it, then the USA is all over. I won't feel too bad since most of my days are done, but I fell sorry for my progeny. And whoever else is left in the remnants of America.
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  • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    what is said while on the campaign is not what happens if you win. All of what you list is NOT what I believe. Which of them would you like to see as pres. for me I think the job should stay vacant for the next 20 years.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think that was supposed to say , 'but in short i see three maybe four ways to go.'

    the fourth is a simple change vowels

    ballots drop a and o insert u and e.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think you better concede defeat on trying to convince some in this forum that Trump isn't Satan in a suit and tie. I ignore the demonization of the candidates unfavored by the established "enlightened nobility" in American political hierarchy and media pundits, and do my own research, which I'm not sure many people do.

    You don't become a billionaire by dumb luck. Trump got started from a loan (not a gift) he got from his father, and parlayed that by learning how to convince people his offers were a win-win. Does he know how to twist an arm when necessary to get what he wants? Without a doubt, but then the Washington political game isn't for the meek.

    Like you I live in the real world, rather than the philosophical. I don't want Gary Johnson as President, for one big reason: I wouldn't trust his choices for supreme court justices. I'm sure that position will trigger lots of responses, and I look forward to the exchange.
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  • Posted by ProfChuck 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's always a case of "Whose ox is being gored". Power in the hands of the "right people" is always acceptable... until it's too late to do anything about it.
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  • Posted by ewv 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That is unfair to Hillary. She doesn't just "shriek". She also barks, cackles and connives.
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  • Posted by ProfChuck 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You are assuming that politics, the quest for political power, and the mood of the electorate are logical and rational. I have seen little evidence of that.
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  • Posted by ewv 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hitler didn't "scratch a similar itch" against "too much power in the hands of too few". He openly espoused it. He was a 'compromise' National Socialist candidate between the communists and the religious conservative nationalists. There was no equivalent in Germany of the "American right" of individualism. The whole country was for statism, collectivism, and German nationalism, seeking a leader to impose it -- all on an altruist moral base of sacrifice accepted as the criterion of morality. That is the "ominious parallels"
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  • Posted by ewv 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If people were "plagued" by "too much power in the hands of too few" why would they gravitate to ideological central authority like Trump and Sanders?

    Trump is the centralized power, dictatorial "man on a white horse" promising to "lead" to "greatness" with his own Pragmatic "deals" for anything and everything. Sanders is an out of the closet, open socialist (not a "1960s liberal") promising to use government power to control and take far more than it is now as a matter of openly collectivist ideology, submission to it being claimed to be for our benefit. Neither one has any concern for the rights of individuals to be sacrificed to their grand vision.

    This isn't more of the same. It's the expected progression of even worse unlimited government power wielded by a self-appointed elite.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If not trump u will have dictator Hillary kidding over you. And we all know now a third Obama term is going to go. Trump wouldn't be anywhere as bad as that
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  • Posted by roneida 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    to freedom for all...I have no disagreement with your analysis or opinion of the 2 useless political parties in America nor with your thoughts on Gary Johnson. probably thousands of great men and women are better than any of the current candidates or the current occupier of our White House, BUT, we are facing an election that has existential consequences if it goes to any of the current contestants. RIght now Trump is the only one in contention that has any chance of bring in some change..the rest are hopelessly inept or as with Clinton visibly crooked. Which do you want.??Gary Johnson may be Christ incarnate for all I know, but until it is proven, we must find someone for 4 years that won't continue the terrible destruction Obama and his stooges have started. We don't have time for perfection, but we do have time for competence and fierceness and patriotism and zero tolerance for any more of the despicable political correctness and hatred of law and order. All lives matter. especially American.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think Michael A. got it right when he called the GOP the right side of the left or words to that effect.
    Under the Constitution the government was meant to be mainly an overall protective organization and not much more. As Franklin put it that they needed to "Hang together or they'd all hang separately." Instead even those who claim to espouse what the Constitution stands for automatically go along with meanings and attributions never intended by the founders.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    First of all, it's The Wicked Witch of the West.
    Other than that, I think you're right. If Trump gets the most powerful office in the world, based on past performance, he may well become a not-so benevolent dictator.
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  • Posted by SBilko 9 years, 2 months ago
    Trump is a buffoon and very dangerous. Many who support him are striking out in anger because he parrots some of their views, but in reality, Trump is a pragmatist just like Clinton, Obama and most other politicians. I shudder to think of his hand on the economy, or the nuclear switch.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    and screwed us over every time. That's that's the RINOPees. There are the others who if suipported might get somewhere and of them Cruz is the best chance...Never mind my preferences his greatest available pool of available votes is in the 46% disenfranchised. The trick is in getting them/us....it will take a public kind of stance and the balls to take that stand. Precisely because that party has screwed us over too many times no the least of which is becoming part of the left.
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