Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[iam416]

[froot loops]

Did I say that Trump is more honest than the others? Nope. I said he is just like every other official either in or running for public office when it comes to digging up dirt on whomever might be running against them or is critical of them while in office. Nothing more ...... why do you expand the scope of the post I responded to? BTW under the Federal Law quoted by Chairman Weintraus is obtaining information from any source that casts dispersions on the character or behavior of an opponent in an election the same things as accepting a donation or something of value from them? IMO, No. Not even close.

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In what context have I said or even implied Trump is more honest than the rest? Where have I made a post that would lead you to believe I think openly insulting people by name = being more honest ........?



Trump IS his own worst enemy when it comes to his dumb-ass often infantile and narcissistic tweets and his frequent public statements that contradict officials within his administration. I think he is a buffoon and have made that clear on any number of occasions here. There should be no doubt about where I stand on Trump as a person and his lack of honesty or his often foolish and egotistical behavior.

Meanigless virtue signalling

[Dr. Strangelove]

Jeff, I believe he is too flawed to ever successfully implement whatever fundamental goals you think are critical for the nation.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Happy birthday to my favorite President!!

See, Jeff? I can be nice

He will be speaking with Fox & Friends at 8 AM. Enjoy!

[iam416]

Are the kids back in the in the Obama Concentration Camps, yet?

[iam416]

I disagree with some of Hannibal's decidedly pessimistic predictions, but I'm fairly sure he's right when it comes to "thought" policing. Love this piece on NYC: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/...ze-everything/

Some of my favorite points:

The workshops are run by Courageous Conversations, a division of the Pacific Educational Group. Their fee? $775,000. Extirpating whiteness can be good business.

No shit. Such a fucking racket. Can we count these bullshit fees as reparations and move the fuck on?

From the NYC Schools Chancellor on their Re-education Programs:

Good gawd.

I really like this:

Hmmm. If white folks promote perfectionism, the written word, individualism and objectivity (amongst others), then I assume those brown folks don't. LOL. The condescension and infantalization is perfect.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Jeff, I believe he is too flawed to ever successfully implement whatever fundamental goals you think are critical for the nation.

Each to his own. I can see why you think that. I think a case can be made that despite his prodigious personality flaws, this administration can retard the decent of America to a socialist nanny state. Hannibal might disagree and he's made it clear he thinks it's too late. He has a point. My point is that you have to keep pushing back against that trend to protect the founding father's vision of this republic, "property rights, free markets and sound money."* I'll get behind any politician, warts and all, that does that.

I've detailed my position on America's place on the international scene. In short, there is an ongoing battle, a competition, not some sort of cooperative village, between authoritarian regimes - highly socialistic by nature - and liberal democracies - predominantly and fundamentally capitalistic. Nation states defined by both of these governing and economic principals all seeking to establish spheres of regional and global influence if not dominance. The era of nations bound together by treaties espousing common beliefs, goals and cooperation - the post WWII, Liberal World Order - is over.

In my view, the Trump presidency and it's administration is the first since that of Ronald Reagan's to push back against a global trend to favor authoritarian socialism as a form of nation state governance. It has taken discernible steps to reassert America as the global leader in protecting liberal democracy. To be clear, I think there are inconsistencies in this administration's efforts to do that, sidling up to SA being the primary example. I can also justify that relationship as a matter of practical reality and have done so here.

At the same time and on the national scene, this administration has taken steps to assure the vitality of free market principals and fiscal conservatism - free trade, deregulation, low taxes and privatization. I can go down a long list of steps in the areas of trade, taxation and deregulation where this administration has done this. Essentially it is working to reverse a trend to the socialist, nanny state that has deep roots but in the modern era gained traction during the Clinton administration and later in the Obama administration. That Bernie Sanders has achieved the popularity that he has in America is more than an astounding reality demonstrative of how deceived by the liberal rhetoric of the day and off track the voting public has become.

I haven't seen a presidential race like the upcoming one where the two sides, the Democratic and Republican platforms, are more starkly different. There is little middle ground in either of them. If a Democrat is elected (and I'm excluding moderates like Biden among others who are not going to represent the D party), the slide to the nanny state will continue. Taxes will go up, regulation will exceed that which is necessary and government control of aspects of our daily lives which should remain in private hands will increase. That's the risk here, probably not recognized by many young voters, Millennials in particular, of thinking one is doing the nation a favor by voting to rid itself of an unpopular president, his lack of popularity based solely on his personality flaws.

* https://www.heritage.org/political-p...ee-markets-and

[Dr. Strangelove]

[Jeff Buchanan]

I've read most of the accounts of the attacks. There are a couple of versions ...... mines, torpedoes, drones firing air to surface missiles.

The video of the alleged Iranian boats with alleged IRCG personnel wearing their uniforms supposedly removing mines from the hulls of one of the attacked ships could easily be a ruse perpetrated by other parties. But it could be real. It's no secret moderate Iranians struggle for control with radical Islamists in the government. The attacks should also be no surprise if they did come on the orders of the Iranian government or factions within it.

I'm not exactly sure it is to the US's best interests to make the allegations they have made (Bolton?) publicly. If it turns out they were duped into running that video or it is shown the US manufactured evidence, credibility will be damaged and efforts to gain international support for the continued isolation of the Iranians along with continued efforts to cut off the flow of money they use to finance their regime might collapse.

It is a strange situation. Some think that the Iranians want to negotiate with the US but they need a bargaining chip and this may be how they are going to get one. This from Bloomberg:

Meanwhile, the regime may have calculated that the only way to secure some kind of negotiating position is blackmail: End the sanctions, or we take out some more tankers, and send oil prices surging

The link is pay-walled but you can still read some articles free. This one was free for me. Not all of them are:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-14/gulf-of-oman-tanker-attacks-iran-s-strategy

[Dr. Strangelove]

[froot loops]

A lot of the fields up in Michigan look like lakes.

[Dr. Strangelove]

[Da Geezer]

Each to his own. I can see why you think that. I think a case can be made that despite his prodigious personality flaws, this administration can retard the decent of America to a socialist nanny state. Hannibal might disagree and he's made it clear he thinks it's too late. He has a point. My point is that you have to keep pushing back against that trend to protect the founding father's vision of this republic, "property rights, free markets and sound money."* I'll get behind any politician, warts and all, that does that.

I've detailed my position on America's place on the international scene. In short, there is an ongoing battle, a competition, not some sort of cooperative village, between authoritarian regimes - highly socialistic by nature - and liberal democracies - predominantly and fundamentally capitalistic. Nation states defined by both of these governing and economic principals all seeking to establish spheres of regional and global influence if not dominance. The era of nations bound together by treaties espousing common beliefs, goals and cooperation - the post WWII, Liberal World Order - is over.

In my view, the Trump presidency and it's administration is the first since that of Ronald Reagan's to push back against a global trend to favor authoritarian socialism as a form of nation state governance. It has taken discernible steps to reassert America as the global leader in protecting liberal democracy. To be clear, I think there are inconsistencies in this administration's efforts to do that, sidling up to SA being the primary example. I can also justify that relationship as a matter of practical reality and have done so here.

At the same time and on the national scene, this administration has taken steps to assure the vitality of free market principals and fiscal conservatism - free trade, deregulation, low taxes and privatization. I can go down a long list of steps in the areas of trade, taxation and deregulation where this administration has done this. Essentially it is working to reverse a trend to the socialist, nanny state that has deep roots but in the modern era gained traction during the Clinton administration and later in the Obama administration. That Bernie Sanders has achieved the popularity that he has in America is more than an astounding reality demonstrative of how deceived by the liberal rhetoric of the day and off track the voting public has become.

I haven't seen a presidential race like the upcoming one where the two sides, the Democratic and Republican platforms, are more starkly different. There is little middle ground in either of them. If a Democrat is elected (and I'm excluding moderates like Biden among others who are not going to represent the D party), the slide to the nanny state will continue. Taxes will go up, regulation will exceed that which is necessary and government control of aspects of our daily lives which should remain in private hands will increase. That's the risk here, probably not recognized by many young voters, Millennials in particular, of thinking one is doing the nation a favor by voting to rid itself of an unpopular president, his lack of popularity based solely on his personality flaws.

* https://www.heritage.org/political-p...ee-markets-and

Good post.

[Kapture1]

He hasn't even announced his candidacy, and 0% of the democrat oppo research has dropped yet.

but lol at ABC doing what the left went crazy over Manafort doing, releasing internal polling data not just to Ukrainians, but the entire world

[Dr. Strangelove]

This poll wasn't taken months ago, before Biden announced

Trump trails Biden by 11 points in Michigan, early poll says

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/06/14/donald-trump-behind-joe-biden-michigan-poll/1446377001/