Give me an asshole who can play!
This is a famous quote from an iconic drummer, Buddy Rich. Buddy only wanted the best on stage with him. He didn't care about their moral character or if they were pleasant to be around. He didn't even care if he, himself, liked them. He hired only guys who could burn the room down with him, not boy scouts who were mediocre. Hence, the famous quote.
President Donald Trump appears to be in trouble. A series of confessions and convictions, of and by people around him, are casting a strange, dark light on his presidency at the moment. There is a perception (at least) that shady stuff has gone on around this guy. And when shady stuff constantly goes on around someone in charge, you have to conclude that the guy in charge is okay with shady stuff.
Has he hung around tax evaders and money launderers? Clearly. Did he pay off porn stars and Playboy Playmates to keep their dalliances quiet? I think we can safely conclude that he did. Is he a petulant child in the Twitter-verse? One hundred percent. Does he say things in public my mother would slap me for saying? Literally, every day. Did he conspire with a foreign power to win an e******n? Maybe. Will any of this make a difference to his supporters? That's a complicated answer. Let me explain.
I have a theory that all p**********l e******ns are reactions to the sitting president at the time. I'm old enough to remember Jimmy Carter getting elected (in large part) because he was a wholesome, moral breath of fresh air in an atmosphere of corruption and scandal created during the Nixon years. I was only a kid, but I distinctly remember entire churches being excited to go out and v**e for an openly Christian man for president. Then, after four years of that disaster, I remember those same people breaking speed limit laws to get to the polls to v**e for Reagan as fast as they could.
The conditions that created a president Trump kinda started with Bill Clinton, who led to George W Bush who led to Barack Obama.
By the time we got to him, Mr. Obama was going to be the antidote to incompetence and corruption and war mongering and, yes even r****m. But a very strange thing happened during Mr Obama's presidency. R****m didn't end. Corruption didn't end. Wars didn't end. And incompetence might've actually gotten worse. My full day of talking to the customer service agent at the newly created healthcareexchange, did NOT leave me confident.
And what was discovered during Mr Obama's 8 years, was that in a free market nation, over-taxing, over-regulating and a leader who constantly berates the business community and supports policies that place more emphasis on celebrating the diversity of people groups than on law and order for every individual, and foreign policies that take everything but the nation you've been elected to lead into account, simply doesn't work.
What was also exposed in those 8 years was how feckless and weak Republicans had actually become in their opposition to such things. And with candidates literally talking openly about socialism and nationalizing private institutions, a guy like Trump comes along and promises to re-set the foundation of the nation the way Americans understand it and the way they want it. Is he really that much of a surprise?
I talk occasionally about the fourth revolution. And Donald Trump is the leader of it.
If you're appalled at the lewd behavior of your president, you're behind. That ship sailed when one was getting blow jobs by an intern half his age, in the Oval Office AND. NOBODY. CARED.
If you wish your president was decent and measured and refused to return fire at his critics, you're behind. We already had that guy and he was called a war criminal, who should be tried at the Hague (Rosie O'Donell's public announcement) and r****ded (Chris Rock's word DEFINITELY not mine), someone who should force his daughters to go to war (Matt Damon's suggestion) a monster who deliberately broke the levies in New Orleans to drown black people (Spike Lee's claim) and on and on and on AND. NOBODY. CARED.
If you wish your president was upstanding and righteous and said all the right things, you're behind. Mitt Romney already ran. AND. NOBODY. CARED.
If you wish your president was a humble and honorable true public servant, without moral blemishes, you're behind. Bob Dole (a man who gave his right hand to his country) and John McCain (a man who gave both arms to his country) already ran. AND. NOBODY. CARED.
Donald Trump was the last branch to grab before the nation hit the ground. But he has changed the game in some ways. Nobody believes a nice guy can get it done, anymore. We've had nice guys and nothing changed.
Cutting taxes and repatriating a trillion dollars was the right thing to do. And it's working. And only a guy who doesn't give crap about what people think of him could've gotten it done.
Moving the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem was the right thing to do. It sends a message to the rest of the middle east and, in turn, creates a stability hard to quantify. Presidents on BOTH sides of the aisle have promised to do it. It should've been done decades ago. But only a guy who doesn't give a crap about what people think of him could've gotten it done.
Taking Kim Jong Un on head-on is looking like it was the right thing to do. But only a guy who doesn't give a crap about what people think of him would've even attempted it.
While Mr Trump's lawyers and campaign people were perp-walking in and out of ivory towers, a teenaged girl in Iowa as middle-America a place as you can find was being murdered by someone in the country illegally. That creates real-world fear for Americans everywhere. We have enough fear of our own citizenry, breaking our own laws. And reasonable Americans don't think it's UNreasonable to ask people wanting to come to our country to sign the hell in. They don't see how that makes them r****ts. It simply doesn't compute. And the only elected leader giving them any cover is the flawed president.
So, did Donald Trump collude and conspire with Russians to win an e******n? What the media and his opponents (and even a lot of Republicans) STILL don't or can't or won't understand is that it doesn't matter. He didn't have to collude with anybody. He was going to win either way. He had millions of Americans at build a wall and cut your taxes and especially at, I don't give a crap what people think.
Donald Trump may get impeached or arrested or disgraced or unseated or wh**ever. But what people had better realize is that if he's gone, a large percentage of the population will be looking for something or someone JUST like him to replace him.
There's too much at stake; too many socialists on the horizon, too many empty suits looking for lifetime political gigs, too many nice guys with great smiles and weak spines, to take anymore chances.
We just want an asshole who can play. And with the economy roaring and North Korea neutralized and ISIS basically contained and defeated, it appears that despite all the weirdness that surrounds him, he can, indeed, play.
P.S. And now. the lowest unemployment in our adult lives; the new deal with Mexico re. trade - and the one to soon follow with Canada - and other countries; the highest stock market ever; etc., etc., etc. Impeach him for lack of morality? Go ahead!
Capt-jack wrote:
Give me an asshole who can play!
This is a famous quote from an iconic drummer, Buddy Rich. Buddy only wanted the best on stage with him. He didn't care about their moral character or if they were pleasant to be around. He didn't even care if he, himself, liked them. He hired only guys who could burn the room down with him, not boy scouts who were mediocre. Hence, the famous quote.
President Donald Trump appears to be in trouble. A series of confessions and convictions, of and by people around him, are casting a strange, dark light on his presidency at the moment. There is a perception (at least) that shady stuff has gone on around this guy. And when shady stuff constantly goes on around someone in charge, you have to conclude that the guy in charge is okay with shady stuff.
Has he hung around tax evaders and money launderers? Clearly. Did he pay off porn stars and Playboy Playmates to keep their dalliances quiet? I think we can safely conclude that he did. Is he a petulant child in the Twitter-verse? One hundred percent. Does he say things in public my mother would slap me for saying? Literally, every day. Did he conspire with a foreign power to win an e******n? Maybe. Will any of this make a difference to his supporters? That's a complicated answer. Let me explain.
I have a theory that all p**********l e******ns are reactions to the sitting president at the time. I'm old enough to remember Jimmy Carter getting elected (in large part) because he was a wholesome, moral breath of fresh air in an atmosphere of corruption and scandal created during the Nixon years. I was only a kid, but I distinctly remember entire churches being excited to go out and v**e for an openly Christian man for president. Then, after four years of that disaster, I remember those same people breaking speed limit laws to get to the polls to v**e for Reagan as fast as they could.
The conditions that created a president Trump kinda started with Bill Clinton, who led to George W Bush who led to Barack Obama.
By the time we got to him, Mr. Obama was going to be the antidote to incompetence and corruption and war mongering and, yes even r****m. But a very strange thing happened during Mr Obama's presidency. R****m didn't end. Corruption didn't end. Wars didn't end. And incompetence might've actually gotten worse. My full day of talking to the customer service agent at the newly created healthcareexchange, did NOT leave me confident.
And what was discovered during Mr Obama's 8 years, was that in a free market nation, over-taxing, over-regulating and a leader who constantly berates the business community and supports policies that place more emphasis on celebrating the diversity of people groups than on law and order for every individual, and foreign policies that take everything but the nation you've been elected to lead into account, simply doesn't work.
What was also exposed in those 8 years was how feckless and weak Republicans had actually become in their opposition to such things. And with candidates literally talking openly about socialism and nationalizing private institutions, a guy like Trump comes along and promises to re-set the foundation of the nation the way Americans understand it and the way they want it. Is he really that much of a surprise?
I talk occasionally about the fourth revolution. And Donald Trump is the leader of it.
If you're appalled at the lewd behavior of your president, you're behind. That ship sailed when one was getting blow jobs by an intern half his age, in the Oval Office AND. NOBODY. CARED.
If you wish your president was decent and measured and refused to return fire at his critics, you're behind. We already had that guy and he was called a war criminal, who should be tried at the Hague (Rosie O'Donell's public announcement) and r****ded (Chris Rock's word DEFINITELY not mine), someone who should force his daughters to go to war (Matt Damon's suggestion) a monster who deliberately broke the levies in New Orleans to drown black people (Spike Lee's claim) and on and on and on AND. NOBODY. CARED.
If you wish your president was upstanding and righteous and said all the right things, you're behind. Mitt Romney already ran. AND. NOBODY. CARED.
If you wish your president was a humble and honorable true public servant, without moral blemishes, you're behind. Bob Dole (a man who gave his right hand to his country) and John McCain (a man who gave both arms to his country) already ran. AND. NOBODY. CARED.
Donald Trump was the last branch to grab before the nation hit the ground. But he has changed the game in some ways. Nobody believes a nice guy can get it done, anymore. We've had nice guys and nothing changed.
Cutting taxes and repatriating a trillion dollars was the right thing to do. And it's working. And only a guy who doesn't give crap about what people think of him could've gotten it done.
Moving the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem was the right thing to do. It sends a message to the rest of the middle east and, in turn, creates a stability hard to quantify. Presidents on BOTH sides of the aisle have promised to do it. It should've been done decades ago. But only a guy who doesn't give a crap about what people think of him could've gotten it done.
Taking Kim Jong Un on head-on is looking like it was the right thing to do. But only a guy who doesn't give a crap about what people think of him would've even attempted it.
While Mr Trump's lawyers and campaign people were perp-walking in and out of ivory towers, a teenaged girl in Iowa as middle-America a place as you can find was being murdered by someone in the country illegally. That creates real-world fear for Americans everywhere. We have enough fear of our own citizenry, breaking our own laws. And reasonable Americans don't think it's UNreasonable to ask people wanting to come to our country to sign the hell in. They don't see how that makes them r****ts. It simply doesn't compute. And the only elected leader giving them any cover is the flawed president.
So, did Donald Trump collude and conspire with Russians to win an e******n? What the media and his opponents (and even a lot of Republicans) STILL don't or can't or won't understand is that it doesn't matter. He didn't have to collude with anybody. He was going to win either way. He had millions of Americans at build a wall and cut your taxes and especially at, I don't give a crap what people think.
Donald Trump may get impeached or arrested or disgraced or unseated or wh**ever. But what people had better realize is that if he's gone, a large percentage of the population will be looking for something or someone JUST like him to replace him.
There's too much at stake; too many socialists on the horizon, too many empty suits looking for lifetime political gigs, too many nice guys with great smiles and weak spines, to take anymore chances.
We just want an asshole who can play. And with the economy roaring and North Korea neutralized and ISIS basically contained and defeated, it appears that despite all the weirdness that surrounds him, he can, indeed, play.
P.S. And now. the lowest unemployment in our adult lives; the new deal with Mexico re. trade - and the one to soon follow with Canada - and other countries; the highest stock market ever; etc., etc., etc. Impeach him for lack of morality? Go ahead!
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Havent seen your post before so welcome to opp and hope you enjoy
Capt-jack wrote:
Give me an asshole who can play!
This is a famous quote from an iconic drummer, Buddy Rich. Buddy only wanted the best on stage with him. He didn't care about their moral character or if they were pleasant to be around. He didn't even care if he, himself, liked them. He hired only guys who could burn the room down with him, not boy scouts who were mediocre. Hence, the famous quote.
President Donald Trump appears to be in trouble. A series of confessions and convictions, of and by people around him, are casting a strange, dark light on his presidency at the moment. There is a perception (at least) that shady stuff has gone on around this guy. And when shady stuff constantly goes on around someone in charge, you have to conclude that the guy in charge is okay with shady stuff.
Has he hung around tax evaders and money launderers? Clearly. Did he pay off porn stars and Playboy Playmates to keep their dalliances quiet? I think we can safely conclude that he did. Is he a petulant child in the Twitter-verse? One hundred percent. Does he say things in public my mother would slap me for saying? Literally, every day. Did he conspire with a foreign power to win an e******n? Maybe. Will any of this make a difference to his supporters? That's a complicated answer. Let me explain.
I have a theory that all p**********l e******ns are reactions to the sitting president at the time. I'm old enough to remember Jimmy Carter getting elected (in large part) because he was a wholesome, moral breath of fresh air in an atmosphere of corruption and scandal created during the Nixon years. I was only a kid, but I distinctly remember entire churches being excited to go out and v**e for an openly Christian man for president. Then, after four years of that disaster, I remember those same people breaking speed limit laws to get to the polls to v**e for Reagan as fast as they could.
The conditions that created a president Trump kinda started with Bill Clinton, who led to George W Bush who led to Barack Obama.
By the time we got to him, Mr. Obama was going to be the antidote to incompetence and corruption and war mongering and, yes even r****m. But a very strange thing happened during Mr Obama's presidency. R****m didn't end. Corruption didn't end. Wars didn't end. And incompetence might've actually gotten worse. My full day of talking to the customer service agent at the newly created healthcareexchange, did NOT leave me confident.
And what was discovered during Mr Obama's 8 years, was that in a free market nation, over-taxing, over-regulating and a leader who constantly berates the business community and supports policies that place more emphasis on celebrating the diversity of people groups than on law and order for every individual, and foreign policies that take everything but the nation you've been elected to lead into account, simply doesn't work.
What was also exposed in those 8 years was how feckless and weak Republicans had actually become in their opposition to such things. And with candidates literally talking openly about socialism and nationalizing private institutions, a guy like Trump comes along and promises to re-set the foundation of the nation the way Americans understand it and the way they want it. Is he really that much of a surprise?
I talk occasionally about the fourth revolution. And Donald Trump is the leader of it.
If you're appalled at the lewd behavior of your president, you're behind. That ship sailed when one was getting blow jobs by an intern half his age, in the Oval Office AND. NOBODY. CARED.
If you wish your president was decent and measured and refused to return fire at his critics, you're behind. We already had that guy and he was called a war criminal, who should be tried at the Hague (Rosie O'Donell's public announcement) and r****ded (Chris Rock's word DEFINITELY not mine), someone who should force his daughters to go to war (Matt Damon's suggestion) a monster who deliberately broke the levies in New Orleans to drown black people (Spike Lee's claim) and on and on and on AND. NOBODY. CARED.
If you wish your president was upstanding and righteous and said all the right things, you're behind. Mitt Romney already ran. AND. NOBODY. CARED.
If you wish your president was a humble and honorable true public servant, without moral blemishes, you're behind. Bob Dole (a man who gave his right hand to his country) and John McCain (a man who gave both arms to his country) already ran. AND. NOBODY. CARED.
Donald Trump was the last branch to grab before the nation hit the ground. But he has changed the game in some ways. Nobody believes a nice guy can get it done, anymore. We've had nice guys and nothing changed.
Cutting taxes and repatriating a trillion dollars was the right thing to do. And it's working. And only a guy who doesn't give crap about what people think of him could've gotten it done.
Moving the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem was the right thing to do. It sends a message to the rest of the middle east and, in turn, creates a stability hard to quantify. Presidents on BOTH sides of the aisle have promised to do it. It should've been done decades ago. But only a guy who doesn't give a crap about what people think of him could've gotten it done.
Taking Kim Jong Un on head-on is looking like it was the right thing to do. But only a guy who doesn't give a crap about what people think of him would've even attempted it.
While Mr Trump's lawyers and campaign people were perp-walking in and out of ivory towers, a teenaged girl in Iowa as middle-America a place as you can find was being murdered by someone in the country illegally. That creates real-world fear for Americans everywhere. We have enough fear of our own citizenry, breaking our own laws. And reasonable Americans don't think it's UNreasonable to ask people wanting to come to our country to sign the hell in. They don't see how that makes them r****ts. It simply doesn't compute. And the only elected leader giving them any cover is the flawed president.
So, did Donald Trump collude and conspire with Russians to win an e******n? What the media and his opponents (and even a lot of Republicans) STILL don't or can't or won't understand is that it doesn't matter. He didn't have to collude with anybody. He was going to win either way. He had millions of Americans at build a wall and cut your taxes and especially at, I don't give a crap what people think.
Donald Trump may get impeached or arrested or disgraced or unseated or wh**ever. But what people had better realize is that if he's gone, a large percentage of the population will be looking for something or someone JUST like him to replace him.
There's too much at stake; too many socialists on the horizon, too many empty suits looking for lifetime political gigs, too many nice guys with great smiles and weak spines, to take anymore chances.
We just want an asshole who can play. And with the economy roaring and North Korea neutralized and ISIS basically contained and defeated, it appears that despite all the weirdness that surrounds him, he can, indeed, play.
P.S. And now. the lowest unemployment in our adult lives; the new deal with Mexico re. trade - and the one to soon follow with Canada - and other countries; the highest stock market ever; etc., etc., etc. Impeach him for lack of morality? Go ahead!
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Capt-jack! Damn! You nailed the reason the people who support President Trump do so. It's like at the UN when all the foreign leaders laughed at his opening statement about how good the first 2 years of his administration had been. 'Didn't Expect That Reaction, But That's OK'. He doesn't give a flying fk what the leaders of the world think about him. USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! ...
Capt-jack wrote:
Give me an asshole who can play!
This is a famous quote from an iconic drummer, Buddy Rich. Buddy only wanted the best on stage with him. He didn't care about their moral character or if they were pleasant to be around. He didn't even care if he, himself, liked them. He hired only guys who could burn the room down with him, not boy scouts who were mediocre. Hence, the famous quote.
President Donald Trump appears to be in trouble. A series of confessions and convictions, of and by people around him, are casting a strange, dark light on his presidency at the moment. There is a perception (at least) that shady stuff has gone on around this guy. And when shady stuff constantly goes on around someone in charge, you have to conclude that the guy in charge is okay with shady stuff.
Has he hung around tax evaders and money launderers? Clearly. Did he pay off porn stars and Playboy Playmates to keep their dalliances quiet? I think we can safely conclude that he did. Is he a petulant child in the Twitter-verse? One hundred percent. Does he say things in public my mother would slap me for saying? Literally, every day. Did he conspire with a foreign power to win an e******n? Maybe. Will any of this make a difference to his supporters? That's a complicated answer. Let me explain.
I have a theory that all p**********l e******ns are reactions to the sitting president at the time. I'm old enough to remember Jimmy Carter getting elected (in large part) because he was a wholesome, moral breath of fresh air in an atmosphere of corruption and scandal created during the Nixon years. I was only a kid, but I distinctly remember entire churches being excited to go out and v**e for an openly Christian man for president. Then, after four years of that disaster, I remember those same people breaking speed limit laws to get to the polls to v**e for Reagan as fast as they could.
The conditions that created a president Trump kinda started with Bill Clinton, who led to George W Bush who led to Barack Obama.
By the time we got to him, Mr. Obama was going to be the antidote to incompetence and corruption and war mongering and, yes even r****m. But a very strange thing happened during Mr Obama's presidency. R****m didn't end. Corruption didn't end. Wars didn't end. And incompetence might've actually gotten worse. My full day of talking to the customer service agent at the newly created healthcareexchange, did NOT leave me confident.
And what was discovered during Mr Obama's 8 years, was that in a free market nation, over-taxing, over-regulating and a leader who constantly berates the business community and supports policies that place more emphasis on celebrating the diversity of people groups than on law and order for every individual, and foreign policies that take everything but the nation you've been elected to lead into account, simply doesn't work.
What was also exposed in those 8 years was how feckless and weak Republicans had actually become in their opposition to such things. And with candidates literally talking openly about socialism and nationalizing private institutions, a guy like Trump comes along and promises to re-set the foundation of the nation the way Americans understand it and the way they want it. Is he really that much of a surprise?
I talk occasionally about the fourth revolution. And Donald Trump is the leader of it.
If you're appalled at the lewd behavior of your president, you're behind. That ship sailed when one was getting blow jobs by an intern half his age, in the Oval Office AND. NOBODY. CARED.
If you wish your president was decent and measured and refused to return fire at his critics, you're behind. We already had that guy and he was called a war criminal, who should be tried at the Hague (Rosie O'Donell's public announcement) and r****ded (Chris Rock's word DEFINITELY not mine), someone who should force his daughters to go to war (Matt Damon's suggestion) a monster who deliberately broke the levies in New Orleans to drown black people (Spike Lee's claim) and on and on and on AND. NOBODY. CARED.
If you wish your president was upstanding and righteous and said all the right things, you're behind. Mitt Romney already ran. AND. NOBODY. CARED.
If you wish your president was a humble and honorable true public servant, without moral blemishes, you're behind. Bob Dole (a man who gave his right hand to his country) and John McCain (a man who gave both arms to his country) already ran. AND. NOBODY. CARED.
Donald Trump was the last branch to grab before the nation hit the ground. But he has changed the game in some ways. Nobody believes a nice guy can get it done, anymore. We've had nice guys and nothing changed.
Cutting taxes and repatriating a trillion dollars was the right thing to do. And it's working. And only a guy who doesn't give crap about what people think of him could've gotten it done.
Moving the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem was the right thing to do. It sends a message to the rest of the middle east and, in turn, creates a stability hard to quantify. Presidents on BOTH sides of the aisle have promised to do it. It should've been done decades ago. But only a guy who doesn't give a crap about what people think of him could've gotten it done.
Taking Kim Jong Un on head-on is looking like it was the right thing to do. But only a guy who doesn't give a crap about what people think of him would've even attempted it.
While Mr Trump's lawyers and campaign people were perp-walking in and out of ivory towers, a teenaged girl in Iowa as middle-America a place as you can find was being murdered by someone in the country illegally. That creates real-world fear for Americans everywhere. We have enough fear of our own citizenry, breaking our own laws. And reasonable Americans don't think it's UNreasonable to ask people wanting to come to our country to sign the hell in. They don't see how that makes them r****ts. It simply doesn't compute. And the only elected leader giving them any cover is the flawed president.
So, did Donald Trump collude and conspire with Russians to win an e******n? What the media and his opponents (and even a lot of Republicans) STILL don't or can't or won't understand is that it doesn't matter. He didn't have to collude with anybody. He was going to win either way. He had millions of Americans at build a wall and cut your taxes and especially at, I don't give a crap what people think.
Donald Trump may get impeached or arrested or disgraced or unseated or wh**ever. But what people had better realize is that if he's gone, a large percentage of the population will be looking for something or someone JUST like him to replace him.
There's too much at stake; too many socialists on the horizon, too many empty suits looking for lifetime political gigs, too many nice guys with great smiles and weak spines, to take anymore chances.
We just want an asshole who can play. And with the economy roaring and North Korea neutralized and ISIS basically contained and defeated, it appears that despite all the weirdness that surrounds him, he can, indeed, play.
P.S. And now. the lowest unemployment in our adult lives; the new deal with Mexico re. trade - and the one to soon follow with Canada - and other countries; the highest stock market ever; etc., etc., etc. Impeach him for lack of morality? Go ahead!
Give me an asshole who can play! br br This is a ... (
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Well said and absolutely right.
Capt-jack wrote:
Give me an asshole who can play!
This is a famous quote from an iconic drummer, Buddy Rich. Buddy only wanted the best on stage with him. He didn't care about their moral character or if they were pleasant to be around. He didn't even care if he, himself, liked them. He hired only guys who could burn the room down with him, not boy scouts who were mediocre. Hence, the famous quote.
President Donald Trump appears to be in trouble. A series of confessions and convictions, of and by people around him, are casting a strange, dark light on his presidency at the moment. There is a perception (at least) that shady stuff has gone on around this guy. And when shady stuff constantly goes on around someone in charge, you have to conclude that the guy in charge is okay with shady stuff.
Has he hung around tax evaders and money launderers? Clearly. Did he pay off porn stars and Playboy Playmates to keep their dalliances quiet? I think we can safely conclude that he did. Is he a petulant child in the Twitter-verse? One hundred percent. Does he say things in public my mother would slap me for saying? Literally, every day. Did he conspire with a foreign power to win an e******n? Maybe. Will any of this make a difference to his supporters? That's a complicated answer. Let me explain.
I have a theory that all p**********l e******ns are reactions to the sitting president at the time. I'm old enough to remember Jimmy Carter getting elected (in large part) because he was a wholesome, moral breath of fresh air in an atmosphere of corruption and scandal created during the Nixon years. I was only a kid, but I distinctly remember entire churches being excited to go out and v**e for an openly Christian man for president. Then, after four years of that disaster, I remember those same people breaking speed limit laws to get to the polls to v**e for Reagan as fast as they could.
The conditions that created a president Trump kinda started with Bill Clinton, who led to George W Bush who led to Barack Obama.
By the time we got to him, Mr. Obama was going to be the antidote to incompetence and corruption and war mongering and, yes even r****m. But a very strange thing happened during Mr Obama's presidency. R****m didn't end. Corruption didn't end. Wars didn't end. And incompetence might've actually gotten worse. My full day of talking to the customer service agent at the newly created healthcareexchange, did NOT leave me confident.
And what was discovered during Mr Obama's 8 years, was that in a free market nation, over-taxing, over-regulating and a leader who constantly berates the business community and supports policies that place more emphasis on celebrating the diversity of people groups than on law and order for every individual, and foreign policies that take everything but the nation you've been elected to lead into account, simply doesn't work.
What was also exposed in those 8 years was how feckless and weak Republicans had actually become in their opposition to such things. And with candidates literally talking openly about socialism and nationalizing private institutions, a guy like Trump comes along and promises to re-set the foundation of the nation the way Americans understand it and the way they want it. Is he really that much of a surprise?
I talk occasionally about the fourth revolution. And Donald Trump is the leader of it.
If you're appalled at the lewd behavior of your president, you're behind. That ship sailed when one was getting blow jobs by an intern half his age, in the Oval Office AND. NOBODY. CARED.
If you wish your president was decent and measured and refused to return fire at his critics, you're behind. We already had that guy and he was called a war criminal, who should be tried at the Hague (Rosie O'Donell's public announcement) and r****ded (Chris Rock's word DEFINITELY not mine), someone who should force his daughters to go to war (Matt Damon's suggestion) a monster who deliberately broke the levies in New Orleans to drown black people (Spike Lee's claim) and on and on and on AND. NOBODY. CARED.
If you wish your president was upstanding and righteous and said all the right things, you're behind. Mitt Romney already ran. AND. NOBODY. CARED.
If you wish your president was a humble and honorable true public servant, without moral blemishes, you're behind. Bob Dole (a man who gave his right hand to his country) and John McCain (a man who gave both arms to his country) already ran. AND. NOBODY. CARED.
Donald Trump was the last branch to grab before the nation hit the ground. But he has changed the game in some ways. Nobody believes a nice guy can get it done, anymore. We've had nice guys and nothing changed.
Cutting taxes and repatriating a trillion dollars was the right thing to do. And it's working. And only a guy who doesn't give crap about what people think of him could've gotten it done.
Moving the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem was the right thing to do. It sends a message to the rest of the middle east and, in turn, creates a stability hard to quantify. Presidents on BOTH sides of the aisle have promised to do it. It should've been done decades ago. But only a guy who doesn't give a crap about what people think of him could've gotten it done.
Taking Kim Jong Un on head-on is looking like it was the right thing to do. But only a guy who doesn't give a crap about what people think of him would've even attempted it.
While Mr Trump's lawyers and campaign people were perp-walking in and out of ivory towers, a teenaged girl in Iowa as middle-America a place as you can find was being murdered by someone in the country illegally. That creates real-world fear for Americans everywhere. We have enough fear of our own citizenry, breaking our own laws. And reasonable Americans don't think it's UNreasonable to ask people wanting to come to our country to sign the hell in. They don't see how that makes them r****ts. It simply doesn't compute. And the only elected leader giving them any cover is the flawed president.
So, did Donald Trump collude and conspire with Russians to win an e******n? What the media and his opponents (and even a lot of Republicans) STILL don't or can't or won't understand is that it doesn't matter. He didn't have to collude with anybody. He was going to win either way. He had millions of Americans at build a wall and cut your taxes and especially at, I don't give a crap what people think.
Donald Trump may get impeached or arrested or disgraced or unseated or wh**ever. But what people had better realize is that if he's gone, a large percentage of the population will be looking for something or someone JUST like him to replace him.
There's too much at stake; too many socialists on the horizon, too many empty suits looking for lifetime political gigs, too many nice guys with great smiles and weak spines, to take anymore chances.
We just want an asshole who can play. And with the economy roaring and North Korea neutralized and ISIS basically contained and defeated, it appears that despite all the weirdness that surrounds him, he can, indeed, play.
P.S. And now. the lowest unemployment in our adult lives; the new deal with Mexico re. trade - and the one to soon follow with Canada - and other countries; the highest stock market ever; etc., etc., etc. Impeach him for lack of morality? Go ahead!
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Amusing post, I look forward to much more from you..
But, about all those things in the wonderful 2 years of the orange cloud..
You have President Obama and normal business progress to thank for all but one thing..
The record rise of the stock market, about 9 years now, is currently being driven by the mountain of cash given to the rich by the orange predator..
So as 94% of that cash is used to buy back stock and drive the price up. when it reaches what is felt to be the max, they will sell off and the bubble will burst..
As trump returned walstreet to the same lack of regulations that Bush jr let boil over, should we expect the money crowd to do anything other then what required the S & L bailout and then the bush bailout..
How many times are you OK with bailing out the money crowd by paying for the joys they play with>??
Had Hillary made it we might be a wasteland by not perma.
We had no choice...
McClain was a war mongerer too by the way...
okie don wrote:
Had Hillary made it we might be a wasteland by not perma.
We had no choice...
McClain was a war mongerer too by the way...
At least you are consistent with your bad ideas....
permafrost wrote:
At least you are consistent with your bad ideas....
These are the accepted stages of grief (slightly modified)
1. Denial: When you first learn of a loss (Trump over Hillary), it’s normal to think, “This isn’t happening.” You may feel shocked or numb. This is a temporary way to deal with the rush of overwhelming emotion. It’s a defense mechanism.
2. Anger: As reality sets in, you’re faced with the pain of your loss. You may feel frustrated and helpless. These feelings later turn into anger. You might direct it toward other people, a higher power, or life in general. To be angry with a loved one who
died and left you alone (sucked as a candidate and campaigned as if she was entitled) is natural, too.
3. Bargaining: During this stage, you dwell on what you could’ve done to prevent the loss. Common thoughts are “If only…” and “What if…” You may also try to strike a deal with a higher power (Bill Clinton? Obama?).
4. Depression: Sadness sets in as you begin to understand the loss and its effect on your life. Signs of depression include crying, sleep issues, and a decreased appetite. You may feel overwhelmed, regretful, and lonely.
5. Acceptance: In this final stage of grief, you accept the reality of your loss. It can’t be changed. Although you still feel sad, you’re able to start moving forward with your life.
permafrost, I'm really worried about you. You'll never make it to stage 5 if you don't get past stage 2.
Fit2BTied wrote:
These are the accepted stages of grief (slightly modified)
1. Denial: When you first learn of a loss (Trump over Hillary), itâs normal to think, âThis isnât happening.â You may feel shocked or numb. This is a temporary way to deal with the rush of overwhelming emotion. Itâs a defense mechanism.
2. Anger: As reality sets in, youâre faced with the pain of your loss. You may feel frustrated and helpless. These feelings later turn into anger. You might direct it toward other people, a higher power, or life in general. To be angry with a loved one who died and left you alone (sucked as a candidate and campaigned as if she was entitled) is natural, too.
3. Bargaining: During this stage, you dwell on what you couldâve done to prevent the loss. Common thoughts are âIf onlyâ¦â and âWhat ifâ¦â You may also try to strike a deal with a higher power (Bill Clinton? Obama?).
4. Depression: Sadness sets in as you begin to understand the loss and its effect on your life. Signs of depression include crying, sleep issues, and a decreased appetite. You may feel overwhelmed, regretful, and lonely.
5. Acceptance: In this final stage of grief, you accept the reality of your loss. It canât be changed. Although you still feel sad, youâre able to start moving forward with your life.
permafrost, I'm really worried about you. You'll never make it to stage 5 if you don't get past stage 2.
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??????? No one precious to me has died for years... I have no loss..
the most troubling loss in several years was my best coach and teacher from high school..
a vet of Korea frozen chosen and a fine Marine... he was indeed the best thing the come to the teen age me..
He, in his late 80s, was interred the same day McCain was laying in state ...
Felt very bad, but other then that i am fine and singing in the rain..
So...flash, what the heck are you trying to say???
You must be thinking a give a s*** about Lady Hillary..
The only thing I am PO about is the orange thing messing with my nation..
I really was not ever a fan of Lady Hillary... while she would be light years better then the useless lump of a criminal we have for now..
My dog tag would also have been much better then the dump...
and far more trust worthy...
permafrost wrote:
Amusing post, I look forward to much more from you..
But, about all those things in the wonderful 2 years of the orange cloud..
You have President Obama and normal business progress to thank for all but one thing..
The record rise of the stock market, about 9 years now, is currently being driven by the mountain of cash given to the rich by the orange predator..
So as 94% of that cash is used to buy back stock and drive the price up. when it reaches what is felt to be the max, they will sell off and the bubble will burst..
As trump returned walstreet to the same lack of regulations that Bush jr let boil over, should we expect the money crowd to do anything other then what required the S & L bailout and then the bush bailout..
How many times are you OK with bailing out the money crowd by paying for the joys they play with>??
Amusing post, I look forward to much more from you... (
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You are pathetic, after 60 years of your party screwing up most things, you want them fixed in 18 months, get real.
Capt-jack wrote:
You are pathetic, after 60 years of your party screwing up most things, you want them fixed in 18 months, get real.
How did you compute those 60 years???
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