Australian Conservative Spectator, 20/01/2018
Somebody has to get real and oppose the Trump h**ers cry of a Trump Armageddon with a spray of t***h, that stuff the lefties believe is the same as pepper spray right in their eyes. Declan Mansfield writing in the Spectator has done just that as he joins the rising chorus of t***h sayers that can no longer be ignored.
Contrary to the latest fashionable dogma, character is not everything in politics. It has its place, of course. But character at an orgy is no fun. “Nothing human is foreign to me,” said the Roman playwright Terence. If character were the sole way of evaluating the decency of people and their positive contribution to the world, then we would all fail as human beings. We’re far more complicated than the puritans among us allow.
Donald Trump, it needs reminding, is a human being, strange as that may sound to the snowflakes among us. The Trump presidency will end and so too will the psychological trauma experienced by the easily offended.
“This too shall pass” is excellent advice from Buddhists and Alcoholics Anonymous to the hysterics who have lost the power to evaluate the world in a dispassionate manner. When his four or eight years in power end, Trump will leave a mixed legacy, just like every other American president. Only then can we assess the merits of his administration. History, to state a platitude, will be the judge.
Presidencies are memorable for one or two things. Barack Obama will be remembered for being the first black president and for being handsome. John F. Kennedy is remembered for the Cuban missile crisis and for being assassinated. The white noise that surrounds a presidency is forgotten, only to be remembered by historians and political tragics.
So far, the Trump presidency has been a success. The positives outweigh the negatives. Trump has accomplished two things in his first year as president that are the equal of the most successful administrations. And both accomplishments are deeply moral at their core, which gives the lie to character being the primary virtue in politics.
He has created thousands of jobs for poor Americans. And he has saved thousands of lives in the Middle East by destroying the barbaric regime of the Islamic State. If he does nothing else except call CNN f**e news, then his presidency will be a success.
Trump understood two simple things and he put that knowledge to perfect use.
He knew that people start a business to make money. He knew that taxation is a loss to a business and not a profit – if you lower taxes, jobs are created, thus boosting the economy. It is better to have a job than to be unemployed. From the dignity of work and self-reliance comes a host of other virtues. The simple act of looking a person in the eye and not feeling inferior because of your economic situation is priceless. And it is deeply moral to facilitate that t***sformation.
Trump knew that the American military could destroy ISIS if given the chance. He gave his generals 30 days to formulate a plan to defeat the Islamic State. And then allowed them free rein to accomplish the task. The results were immediate. ISIS retreated and lost 98 per cent of its territory. Lieutenant General David Deptula, the former head of U.S. Air Force intelligence, said that the American military could have defeated ISIS in three months if the Obama administration had not micromanaged the war. This would have saved thousands of casualties who were subsequently k**led.
Trump saved people who would have been murdered by ISIS. And he would have saved thousands more – who were murdered, and are now silent – if he had been in power during the early years of the Islamic State.
Talk is cheap. The rude, crude, earthy Trump is (can be) more moral than the metropolitan cool of generation quinoa any day.
slatten49 wrote:
Australian Conservative Spectator, 20/01/2018
Somebody has to get real and oppose the Trump h**ers cry of a Trump Armageddon with a spray of t***h, that stuff the lefties believe is the same as pepper spray right in their eyes. Declan Mansfield writing in the Spectator has done just that as he joins the rising chorus of t***h sayers that can no longer be ignored.
Contrary to the latest fashionable dogma, character is not everything in politics. It has its place, of course. But character at an orgy is no fun. “Nothing human is foreign to me,” said the Roman playwright Terence. If character were the sole way of evaluating the decency of people and their positive contribution to the world, then we would all fail as human beings. We’re far more complicated than the puritans among us allow.
Donald Trump, it needs reminding, is a human being, strange as that may sound to the snowflakes among us. The Trump presidency will end and so too will the psychological trauma experienced by the easily offended.
“This too shall pass” is excellent advice from Buddhists and Alcoholics Anonymous to the hysterics who have lost the power to evaluate the world in a dispassionate manner. When his four or eight years in power end, Trump will leave a mixed legacy, just like every other American president. Only then can we assess the merits of his administration. History, to state a platitude, will be the judge.
Presidencies are memorable for one or two things. Barack Obama will be remembered for being the first black president and for being handsome. John F. Kennedy is remembered for the Cuban missile crisis and for being assassinated. The white noise that surrounds a presidency is forgotten, only to be remembered by historians and political tragics.
So far, the Trump presidency has been a success. The positives outweigh the negatives. Trump has accomplished two things in his first year as president that are the equal of the most successful administrations. And both accomplishments are deeply moral at their core, which gives the lie to character being the primary virtue in politics.
He has created thousands of jobs for poor Americans. And he has saved thousands of lives in the Middle East by destroying the barbaric regime of the Islamic State. If he does nothing else except call CNN f**e news, then his presidency will be a success.
Trump understood two simple things and he put that knowledge to perfect use.
He knew that people start a business to make money. He knew that taxation is a loss to a business and not a profit – if you lower taxes, jobs are created, thus boosting the economy. It is better to have a job than to be unemployed. From the dignity of work and self-reliance comes a host of other virtues. The simple act of looking a person in the eye and not feeling inferior because of your economic situation is priceless. And it is deeply moral to facilitate that t***sformation.
Trump knew that the American military could destroy ISIS if given the chance. He gave his generals 30 days to formulate a plan to defeat the Islamic State. And then allowed them free rein to accomplish the task. The results were immediate. ISIS retreated and lost 98 per cent of its territory. Lieutenant General David Deptula, the former head of U.S. Air Force intelligence, said that the American military could have defeated ISIS in three months if the Obama administration had not micromanaged the war. This would have saved thousands of casualties who were subsequently k**led.
Trump saved people who would have been murdered by ISIS. And he would have saved thousands more – who were murdered, and are now silent – if he had been in power during the early years of the Islamic State.
Talk is cheap. The rude, crude, earthy Trump is (can be) more moral than the metropolitan cool of generation quinoa any day.
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Great piece of reasoning slat.It makes a guy fell better when he knows there is a thinker on the other side.
slatten49 wrote:
Australian Conservative Spectator, 20/01/2018
Somebody has to get real and oppose the Trump h**ers cry of a Trump Armageddon with a spray of t***h, that stuff the lefties believe is the same as pepper spray right in their eyes. Declan Mansfield writing in the Spectator has done just that as he joins the rising chorus of t***h sayers that can no longer be ignored.
Contrary to the latest fashionable dogma, character is not everything in politics. It has its place, of course. But character at an orgy is no fun. “Nothing human is foreign to me,” said the Roman playwright Terence. If character were the sole way of evaluating the decency of people and their positive contribution to the world, then we would all fail as human beings. We’re far more complicated than the puritans among us allow.
Donald Trump, it needs reminding, is a human being, strange as that may sound to the snowflakes among us. The Trump presidency will end and so too will the psychological trauma experienced by the easily offended.
“This too shall pass” is excellent advice from Buddhists and Alcoholics Anonymous to the hysterics who have lost the power to evaluate the world in a dispassionate manner. When his four or eight years in power end, Trump will leave a mixed legacy, just like every other American president. Only then can we assess the merits of his administration. History, to state a platitude, will be the judge.
Presidencies are memorable for one or two things. Barack Obama will be remembered for being the first black president and for being handsome. John F. Kennedy is remembered for the Cuban missile crisis and for being assassinated. The white noise that surrounds a presidency is forgotten, only to be remembered by historians and political tragics.
So far, the Trump presidency has been a success. The positives outweigh the negatives. Trump has accomplished two things in his first year as president that are the equal of the most successful administrations. And both accomplishments are deeply moral at their core, which gives the lie to character being the primary virtue in politics.
He has created thousands of jobs for poor Americans. And he has saved thousands of lives in the Middle East by destroying the barbaric regime of the Islamic State. If he does nothing else except call CNN f**e news, then his presidency will be a success.
Trump understood two simple things and he put that knowledge to perfect use.
He knew that people start a business to make money. He knew that taxation is a loss to a business and not a profit – if you lower taxes, jobs are created, thus boosting the economy. It is better to have a job than to be unemployed. From the dignity of work and self-reliance comes a host of other virtues. The simple act of looking a person in the eye and not feeling inferior because of your economic situation is priceless. And it is deeply moral to facilitate that t***sformation.
Trump knew that the American military could destroy ISIS if given the chance. He gave his generals 30 days to formulate a plan to defeat the Islamic State. And then allowed them free rein to accomplish the task. The results were immediate. ISIS retreated and lost 98 per cent of its territory. Lieutenant General David Deptula, the former head of U.S. Air Force intelligence, said that the American military could have defeated ISIS in three months if the Obama administration had not micromanaged the war. This would have saved thousands of casualties who were subsequently k**led.
Trump saved people who would have been murdered by ISIS. And he would have saved thousands more – who were murdered, and are now silent – if he had been in power during the early years of the Islamic State.
Talk is cheap. The rude, crude, earthy Trump is (can be) more moral than the metropolitan cool of generation quinoa any day.
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Excellent post... thanks for the insightful comments references and information.
vernon wrote:
Great piece of reasoning slat.It makes a guy fell better when he knows there is a thinker on the other side.
There are plenty of 'thinkers' on all sides, Vernon. It just so happens that those "on the other side" don't always view matters the same way. It is one reason I miss the debates/discussions between those of Buckley and Moynihan's class from the old 'Firing Line' series.
I learned long ago to respect and/or appreciate other's thoughts/beliefs even when I don't necessarily agree with 'em.
slatten49 wrote:
There are plenty of 'thinkers' on all sides, Vernon. It just so happens that those "on the other side" don't always view matters the same way. It is one reason I miss the debates/discussions between those of Buckley and Moynihan's class from the old 'Firing Line' series.
I learned long ago to respect and/or appreciate other's thoughts/beliefs even when I don't necessarily agree with 'em.
Agree... i remember those Firing Line debates... miss those types of discussions and related debates also.
slatten49 wrote:
Australian Conservative Spectator, 20/01/2018
Somebody has to get real and oppose the Trump h**ers cry of a Trump Armageddon with a spray of t***h, that stuff the lefties believe is the same as pepper spray right in their eyes. Declan Mansfield writing in the Spectator has done just that as he joins the rising chorus of t***h sayers that can no longer be ignored.
Contrary to the latest fashionable dogma, character is not everything in politics. It has its place, of course. But character at an orgy is no fun. “Nothing human is foreign to me,” said the Roman playwright Terence. If character were the sole way of evaluating the decency of people and their positive contribution to the world, then we would all fail as human beings. We’re far more complicated than the puritans among us allow.
Donald Trump, it needs reminding, is a human being, strange as that may sound to the snowflakes among us. The Trump presidency will end and so too will the psychological trauma experienced by the easily offended.
“This too shall pass” is excellent advice from Buddhists and Alcoholics Anonymous to the hysterics who have lost the power to evaluate the world in a dispassionate manner. When his four or eight years in power end, Trump will leave a mixed legacy, just like every other American president. Only then can we assess the merits of his administration. History, to state a platitude, will be the judge.
Presidencies are memorable for one or two things. Barack Obama will be remembered for being the first black president and for being handsome. John F. Kennedy is remembered for the Cuban missile crisis and for being assassinated. The white noise that surrounds a presidency is forgotten, only to be remembered by historians and political tragics.
So far, the Trump presidency has been a success. The positives outweigh the negatives. Trump has accomplished two things in his first year as president that are the equal of the most successful administrations. And both accomplishments are deeply moral at their core, which gives the lie to character being the primary virtue in politics.
He has created thousands of jobs for poor Americans. And he has saved thousands of lives in the Middle East by destroying the barbaric regime of the Islamic State. If he does nothing else except call CNN f**e news, then his presidency will be a success.
Trump understood two simple things and he put that knowledge to perfect use.
He knew that people start a business to make money. He knew that taxation is a loss to a business and not a profit – if you lower taxes, jobs are created, thus boosting the economy. It is better to have a job than to be unemployed. From the dignity of work and self-reliance comes a host of other virtues. The simple act of looking a person in the eye and not feeling inferior because of your economic situation is priceless. And it is deeply moral to facilitate that t***sformation.
Trump knew that the American military could destroy ISIS if given the chance. He gave his generals 30 days to formulate a plan to defeat the Islamic State. And then allowed them free rein to accomplish the task. The results were immediate. ISIS retreated and lost 98 per cent of its territory. Lieutenant General David Deptula, the former head of U.S. Air Force intelligence, said that the American military could have defeated ISIS in three months if the Obama administration had not micromanaged the war. This would have saved thousands of casualties who were subsequently k**led.
Trump saved people who would have been murdered by ISIS. And he would have saved thousands more – who were murdered, and are now silent – if he had been in power during the early years of the Islamic State.
Talk is cheap. The rude, crude, earthy Trump is (can be) more moral than the metropolitan cool of generation quinoa any day.
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The other side of that coin is - these things were happening without Trumps efforts. ISIS was already retreating before Trump was even sworn in and jobs numbers were on a steady incline and had been for years.
It isn't as though the US was the only power resisting ISIS and it isn't as though ISIS is the only problem in the Middle East. What has Trump done about the millions of displaced persons from the decades of war in the region? The negative economic impact on the global community cannot be minimized by any America first campaign, although it sells very well at the American poles. No amount of isolationist or populist ideology can truly shelter American commerce from feeling the pinch caused by the negative impact brought on by the millions of refugees.
Placing blame for failures and taking credit for successes, is the hallmark of all US Presidencies, so there's nothing new here. What is new, is manufacturing the appearance of successes while ignoring failures. How many times have we heard Trump whine about having to "deal with things that should have been dealt with long before"? Did he really think he could write a script for his Presidency, play golf all the time and not have to do any real work?
Here's one of those manufactured appearances of success; Obama tried to get the corporate tax rate reduced to 20% at least three times during his tenure, as well as other reforms, but was blocked by the GOP controlled Congress. Trump comes along and does it in his first term, and counts c**p, proclaiming he provided the whole idea and receives the accolades from that self same Congress for providing such genius, and leading America into economic greatness. Do they really believe people don't recognize a set up when they see one? The same is true for the Supreme court seat, which the senate Majority leader held open for 17 months - and for which Trump has taken a bow for as well.
One year of Trump has seen him take credit for actions begun or attempted by the previous administration, seen him gloss over failures as though they don't exist, ignore substantial and very real problems because there aren't any simple fixes, with no one to do the work needed to solve them anyway. Every President would be seen as a complete success...................if they are allowed to choose what gets on the list.......................and make the announcement themselves.
lpnmajor wrote:
The other side of that coin is - these things were happening without Trumps efforts. ISIS was already retreating before Trump was even sworn in and jobs numbers were on a steady incline and had been for years.
It isn't as though the US was the only power resisting ISIS and it isn't as though ISIS is the only problem in the Middle East. What has Trump done about the millions of displaced persons from the decades of war in the region? The negative economic impact on the global community cannot be minimized by any America first campaign, although it sells very well at the American poles. No amount of isolationist or populist ideology can truly shelter American commerce from feeling the pinch caused by the negative impact brought on by the millions of refugees.
Placing blame for failures and taking credit for successes, is the hallmark of all US Presidencies, so there's nothing new here. What is new, is manufacturing the appearance of successes while ignoring failures. How many times have we heard Trump whine about having to "deal with things that should have been dealt with long before"? Did he really think he could write a script for his Presidency, play golf all the time and not have to do any real work?
Here's one of those manufactured appearances of success; Obama tried to get the corporate tax rate reduced to 20% at least three times during his tenure, as well as other reforms, but was blocked by the GOP controlled Congress. Trump comes along and does it in his first term, and counts c**p, proclaiming he provided the whole idea and receives the accolades from that self same Congress for providing such genius, and leading America into economic greatness. Do they really believe people don't recognize a set up when they see one? The same is true for the Supreme court seat, which the senate Majority leader held open for 17 months - and for which Trump has taken a bow for as well.
One year of Trump has seen him take credit for actions begun or attempted by the previous administration, seen him gloss over failures as though they don't exist, ignore substantial and very real problems because there aren't any simple fixes, with no one to do the work needed to solve them anyway. Every President would be seen as a complete success...................if they are allowed to choose what gets on the list.......................and make the announcement themselves.
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Uh huh... and you're certainly entitled to your spin and perspective on President Trump's accomplishments and giving credit where its due.
lpnmajor wrote:
The other side of that coin is - these things were happening without Trumps efforts. ISIS was already retreating before Trump was even sworn in and jobs numbers were on a steady incline and had been for years.
It isn't as though the US was the only power resisting ISIS and it isn't as though ISIS is the only problem in the Middle East. What has Trump done about the millions of displaced persons from the decades of war in the region? The negative economic impact on the global community cannot be minimized by any America first campaign, although it sells very well at the American poles. No amount of isolationist or populist ideology can truly shelter American commerce from feeling the pinch caused by the negative impact brought on by the millions of refugees.
Placing blame for failures and taking credit for successes, is the hallmark of all US Presidencies, so there's nothing new here. What is new, is manufacturing the appearance of successes while ignoring failures. How many times have we heard Trump whine about having to "deal with things that should have been dealt with long before"? Did he really think he could write a script for his Presidency, play golf all the time and not have to do any real work?
Here's one of those manufactured appearances of success; Obama tried to get the corporate tax rate reduced to 20% at least three times during his tenure, as well as other reforms, but was blocked by the GOP controlled Congress. Trump comes along and does it in his first term, and counts c**p, proclaiming he provided the whole idea and receives the accolades from that self same Congress for providing such genius, and leading America into economic greatness. Do they really believe people don't recognize a set up when they see one? The same is true for the Supreme court seat, which the senate Majority leader held open for 17 months - and for which Trump has taken a bow for as well.
One year of Trump has seen him take credit for actions begun or attempted by the previous administration, seen him gloss over failures as though they don't exist, ignore substantial and very real problems because there aren't any simple fixes, with no one to do the work needed to solve them anyway. Every President would be seen as a complete success...................if they are allowed to choose what gets on the list.......................and make the announcement themselves.
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All valid points, Doc, none of which I would disagree. You might read the other side of the coin (so to speak) in another new thread of mine, 'Trump is no i***t.' I thought both it and this one merited reading in order to be 'fair and balanced.'
slatten49 wrote:
Australian Conservative Spectator, 20/01/2018
Somebody has to get real and oppose the Trump h**ers cry of a Trump Armageddon with a spray of t***h, that stuff the lefties believe is the same as pepper spray right in their eyes. Declan Mansfield writing in the Spectator has done just that as he joins the rising chorus of t***h sayers that can no longer be ignored.
Contrary to the latest fashionable dogma, character is not everything in politics. It has its place, of course. But character at an orgy is no fun. “Nothing human is foreign to me,” said the Roman playwright Terence. If character were the sole way of evaluating the decency of people and their positive contribution to the world, then we would all fail as human beings. We’re far more complicated than the puritans among us allow.
Donald Trump, it needs reminding, is a human being, strange as that may sound to the snowflakes among us. The Trump presidency will end and so too will the psychological trauma experienced by the easily offended.
“This too shall pass” is excellent advice from Buddhists and Alcoholics Anonymous to the hysterics who have lost the power to evaluate the world in a dispassionate manner. When his four or eight years in power end, Trump will leave a mixed legacy, just like every other American president. Only then can we assess the merits of his administration. History, to state a platitude, will be the judge.
Presidencies are memorable for one or two things. Barack Obama will be remembered for being the first black president and for being handsome. John F. Kennedy is remembered for the Cuban missile crisis and for being assassinated. The white noise that surrounds a presidency is forgotten, only to be remembered by historians and political tragics.
So far, the Trump presidency has been a success. The positives outweigh the negatives. Trump has accomplished two things in his first year as president that are the equal of the most successful administrations. And both accomplishments are deeply moral at their core, which gives the lie to character being the primary virtue in politics.
He has created thousands of jobs for poor Americans. And he has saved thousands of lives in the Middle East by destroying the barbaric regime of the Islamic State. If he does nothing else except call CNN f**e news, then his presidency will be a success.
Trump understood two simple things and he put that knowledge to perfect use.
He knew that people start a business to make money. He knew that taxation is a loss to a business and not a profit – if you lower taxes, jobs are created, thus boosting the economy. It is better to have a job than to be unemployed. From the dignity of work and self-reliance comes a host of other virtues. The simple act of looking a person in the eye and not feeling inferior because of your economic situation is priceless. And it is deeply moral to facilitate that t***sformation.
Trump knew that the American military could destroy ISIS if given the chance. He gave his generals 30 days to formulate a plan to defeat the Islamic State. And then allowed them free rein to accomplish the task. The results were immediate. ISIS retreated and lost 98 per cent of its territory. Lieutenant General David Deptula, the former head of U.S. Air Force intelligence, said that the American military could have defeated ISIS in three months if the Obama administration had not micromanaged the war. This would have saved thousands of casualties who were subsequently k**led.
Trump saved people who would have been murdered by ISIS. And he would have saved thousands more – who were murdered, and are now silent – if he had been in power during the early years of the Islamic State.
Talk is cheap. The rude, crude, earthy Trump is (can be) more moral than the metropolitan cool of generation quinoa any day.
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Excellent post there Slats thanks for the input and God bless President Trump.
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