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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The "crybullies" so popular with the media today are unsettled by a strong figure who fights back against slander and innuendo. This comes from public school training that insists "It takes two to fight," and punishes the victim the same as the abuser. The media expected Trump to follow Mitt Romney's example of apologizing every time anyone accused him of anything, whether the accusation was credible or not, and were shocked when they discovered Trump doesn't put up with that nonsense.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Excellent comeback. You have clarified your statements to an unarguable point.
    So...what is you solution to the election of '16?
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  • Posted by 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Trump supported gun control until just before he announced his candidacy.
    Trump is a politician who will say anything to get the votes he needs to be elected, imo. (Much like the other GOP/Dem candidates.) No doubt Hillary would be worse for gun rights.
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  • Posted by 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Trump's actions and his unsupported insulting statements have proven him to be a bully. Trying to use government to force a property owner to sell property against their free will for his personal gain proves Trump is a bully. He insults people he does not know and has little knowledge of (usually after saying "I love so and so. He's a great guy.")
    Could Trump's alleged talents be useful to America? Possibly, but as a consultant, not as the most powerful person in the world. That title and the unequaled power is the reason Trump is running for president.
    Based on his actions, imo, Trump thinks he should be the only choice, and, if elected, he will do everything he can to make certain that Americans have no other choice. He will not be a benevolent dictator, but a vengeful one. The flaws in Trump's character evidenced by his past actions and political affiliations are more than enough to disqualify him from being president.
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  • Posted by 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The false choice of Hillary does not change the actions of Trump. He treats no one respectfully. He has used his government connections to try to force a homeowner to sell their property against their free will. Trump is a bully.
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  • Posted by 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Do you think that for a retiree today accepting social secutrity payments is welfare? My view is that from the baby boomers forward, retirees will not receive as much as they were forced to pay in FICA taxes (after accounting for a small return on funds stolen.). The so called greatest generation on the other hand sold out to the state and were paid ten times what they were forced to pay in FICA taxes. They became the biggest block of socialist voters for the Democrats as they retired. (I am not including medicare in this since it is a separate program.)
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  • Posted by 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No argument there, DrZ. Both Trump and Hillary are liars and bullies. Neither is worthy of your vote, and that was the point of the article, imo.
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  • Posted by 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Clearly you have never seen/heard Trump speak. Gentleman? Rubbish. Trump is insulting to anyone that can't give him something he wants, which puts him firmly in the class of looter.
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Check out. Canadian border security. Series on Netflix. People get after trump for his border strengthening comments. Canada is already doing it and worse. A conviction of almost anything will get you a denial of entry to Canada to even visit. DUI gets you a 5 year ban. Felony conviction gets 5-10 year ban. Not declaring items you are bringing in can get you a big fine, deportation, and an exclusion order for at least a year. If the border guard "suspects" you want to work in Canada without a permit, deportation and exclusion from entering Canada for 1-2 years will result. Makes me not want to even visit such a place, but keeps them safer from terrorism I suspect
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm going to go ahead where you left off and make federal case out of it with it's own discussion thread. Civics class resumes
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Not really we have a very large chunk of people who are voting for none of the above by not voting. In Political Science terms it's called the undervote and reflects the level of non participation or refusal of the existing choice or lack of confidence or sometimes just sheer laziness. In the not voting percentages it's found in 'didn't agree with issues or candidates' or 'in other' or both. Sheesh don't they teach civics anymore? Of course not to busy graduating sheep.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Klein vote for the most part. They don't mind at all if socialist fascism wins but seek to boost their green agenda in the public eye. if Klein does get a single delegate to the electoral college will she stand fast, trade it for Secretary of the Interior in competition with Johnson or just give it away. It's close enough that one electoral could make a difference. Johnson might get two or three. Depends on this winner take all business and the three states that don't use that system. But for sure it's ALL about electoral delegates the only one's that count. and pluralities don't win spit.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hadn't for a while but did and sure enough the first graphs showed the entire left wing of poltics from for the most part. Two stood out one entitled a True View and the othe from woody.typepad. com. The rest were strictly left wing spectrum
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  • Posted by lrshultis 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If you have not Googled political spectrum and gone to the images, it is a large area to investigate. I see the old World's Smallest Political Quiz has been made much more involved than when I took it decades ago, probably in Reason magazine.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It isn't. It's a objectivist site. We know no boundaries. As for the rest conservative and liberal are probably two of the most over used over re defined and useless words in the language as regards politics. They have no meaning worth bothering about .

    The reason for Republicans be judged that way is they are left wing using the true center which is not the center of the left but in a Constitutional Republic is the Constitution at best they are the right wing OF the left. which nicely explains their nasty habit of caving.

    Center therefore is for those who are Constitutionalists
    Left is for Sociaists in varying degrees

    Right is presently except for Anarchist way out there on the fringe of the right an area currently not in use but should be as it is the home of political power.

    Divine RIGHT of Kings emananated from that and was graphically used by the French assemblies sitting the Kings representatives to the right.

    Since we have no KING the definition from history of the citizens being the well spring of power and authority over government should be there or in the Center witih their Constitution instead of lap dogs of the left. Makes more sense than the current BS version and nicely configures and explains just about everything.

    But conservative only useful meaning is those in power set in their ways want to keep it that way and take make changes slowly if at all. Sounds like Democrat/Republican Government over Citizens Coalition to me.

    Liberals are those on the outside wanting immediate change now regardless of legality sometimes and are out of power. Well that's the citizens at this point. The rest is propaganda reframing, redefinition and media garbage.

    Subjectivism stands alone as a non-collective group with simiilar interests and a similar philosophy but without losiing independent thinking and reasoning abiltities.

    What you have is a flock of premises which are suspect from the get go. Treat them as such. Things get real clear very fast and that is the real treat!
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Correct August of 1935 and it's orignal purpose was to ensure life for the destitute people who had lost everything in the depression years including any chance of a retirement income. It's now ensures looting privileges for near half the nation. Actiually it's 65,636,000 according to the SSA or 19% of the nation and that does not count

    Welfare about one fifth of the population around 55-60 million. Those numbers often overlap with the first group. But my money says at least 25% draws one or more forms of welfare. Some would be destitute without it. Some of us would be living low on the hog if not moving in with the chickens.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The use of "don't complain" in an idiomatic manner is not to be taken literally but as more like an emphasis. It is an exclamation point in the form of words. It is akin to saying "Oh, stop" "You can't be serious." In both examples the person using those phrases doesn't want a person to stop and knows the person is serious.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Not everyone. 60,000 of us did not survive the Lyndon Butcher Johnson war. thanks for forgetting we're used to it.
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