Have some fun with this one......

Question:
What will Trump do if he becomes dictator? Dictator Trump!

Choices:
Paint the Whitehouse gold and rename it Trump Castle.
Change the name of the country to the "United States of Trump"
Create new currency with only his portrait (like British currency)
Reistate the draft and invade Canada and/or Mexico
OMG! All of the above and that's just the beginning!
None of the above. this is a riciculous poll. Dictator Trump is just Democrat fear propaganda.

 

Hmmmm, I'm not a Democrat, but I remember both the Trump Presidency and his behavior after he lost the election, that is enough for me to not want him back in office. Anyone who attempts to steal a Presidential election is not someone I can cast a vote for.

It is not fear, just my feeling that both the man and his policies are bad for the country. Listen to his budget plans, install high tariffs on all imports and do away with income tax, what a gift to the wealthy and a wonderful way to drive inflation. Trump's foreign policy of turning away from our post WWII strategic alliances is terrible, we are far stronger with our allies than alone. Same goes for his being "friends" with Putin and Kim Jong Un, just terrible.

No need for fear, just look to the past and see what the future may bring. No way I can support that man.

Amen.

WEll...tell us one thing Trump did as president that was bad for the country.

Now" Tell us one thing Biden has done that was good for the country

quote:

Originally posted by Duane Wiebe (CG&R):
WEll...tell us one thing Trump did as president that was bad for the country.

Now" Tell us one thing Biden has done that was good for the country

Trump:
[1] Tax cut with no spending cut.
[2] Moron's deal with Taliban.

I'll leave praising Biden for someone else...

quote:

Originally posted by Duane Wiebe (CG&R):
WEll...tell us one thing Trump did as president that was bad for the country.

Now" Tell us one thing Biden has done that was good for the country

Disbanding the Pandemic Response Team and failing to maintain the equipment in the Strategic stockpile cost a couple hundred thousand lives, downplaying the threat of COVID because the truth would hurt his poll numbers killed a couple hundred thousand more, his tax cuts for the rich ballooned the deficit and the National debt, both of his impeachments were well-grounded in demonstrable facts, he incited an insurrection to attempt to overturn the election he lost and politicized the Justice Department far beyond any President in our history. For starters.

President Biden averted the almost-universally predicted recession when he took office (without a transition because the petulant child obstructed it), got the pandemic he inherited largely under control, strengthened and expanded NATO, took the U.S. economy from a shambles to the greatest jobs generator on the planet with wage growth outpacing inflation, is actually repairing and building critical infrastructure instead of just talking about it, dramatically lowered drug costs for seniors and others, expanded health care for veterans with service-related disabilities and made the U.S. the world's largest energy producer. For starters.

Jefffive, then where is your outrage at Biden for releasing oil in the strategic petroleum reserves for the political purpose of getting gas prices down coming up on election time?

By the way, I know we were using things from the stockpile during the pandemic despite them being out of date.

The most outrage was sent over the lack of maintenance of ventilators. Those were later shown to actually be detrimental to COVID patients, you know, science based...

I don't think Biden or his policy averted a recession. Think WWII. They thought we would have a massive recession following the end of the war as well. Didn't happen.

After the pandemic there was a huge pent up economic demand to get back to normal. That causes inflation, not recession.

I don't disagree that Trump was not very helpful over NATO, but the real reason NATO is expanding and strengthening has nothing to do with Biden. It has to do with Putin attacking Ukraine and scaring the hell out of the Europeans who have been (insert your choice of curse word here) complacent regarding defense ever since the decline of the USSR. It looks like most of the western members of NATO (the original ones) still are sitting on their hands from a defense spending perspective.

quote:

Originally posted by crbutler:
Jefffive, then where is your outrage at Biden for releasing oil in the strategic petroleum reserves for the political purpose of getting gas prices down coming up on election time?

By the way, I know we were using things from the stockpile during the pandemic despite them being out of date.

The most outrage was sent over the lack of maintenance of ventilators. Those were later shown to actually be detrimental to COVID patients, you know, science based...

I don't think Biden or his policy averted a recession. Think WWII. They thought we would have a massive recession following the end of the war as well. Didn't happen.

After the pandemic there was a huge pent up economic demand to get back to normal. That causes inflation, not recession.

I don't disagree that Trump was not very helpful over NATO, but the real reason NATO is expanding and strengthening has nothing to do with Biden. It has to do with Putin attacking Ukraine and scaring the hell out of the Europeans who have been (insert your choice of curse word here) complacent regarding defense ever since the decline of the USSR. It looks like most of the western members of NATO (the original ones) still are sitting on their hands from a defense spending perspective.

Why, exactly would I be "outraged" that he released oil from the Reserve at $90/barrel, screwed OPEC so badly they increased production and brought prices down then refilled (mostly) the Reserve with $30 oil, turning a $600 billion profit, so far, and breaking OPEC's stranglehold on world oil markets?

If a Republican had done exactly what Joe did and got the same results ya'll would be chiseling on Mount Rushmore just for that.

quote:

Originally posted by TomP:

quote:

Originally posted by Duane Wiebe (CG&R):
WEll...tell us one thing Trump did as president that was bad for the country.

Now" Tell us one thing Biden has done that was good for the country

Trump:
[1] Tax cut with no spending cut.
[2] Moron's deal with Taliban.

I'll leave praising Biden for someone else...

That's smart of you...not a damn thing to praise

quote:

Originally posted by Jefffive:

quote:

Originally posted by Duane Wiebe (CG&R):
WEll...tell us one thing Trump did as president that was bad for the country.

Now" Tell us one thing Biden has done that was good for the country

Disbanding the Pandemic Response Team and failing to maintain the equipment in the Strategic stockpile cost a couple hundred thousand lives, downplaying the threat of COVID because the truth would hurt his poll numbers killed a couple hundred thousand more, his tax cuts for the rich ballooned the deficit and the National debt, both of his impeachments were well-grounded in demonstrable facts, he incited an insurrection to attempt to overturn the election he lost and politicized the Justice Department far beyond any President in our history. For starters.

President Biden averted the almost-universally predicted recession when he took office (without a transition because the petulant child obstructed it), got the pandemic he inherited largely under control, strengthened and expanded NATO, took the U.S. economy from a shambles to the greatest jobs generator on the planet with wage growth outpacing inflation, is actually repairing and building critical infrastructure instead of just talking about it, dramatically lowered drug costs for seniors and others, expanded health care for veterans with service-related disabilities and made the U.S. the world's largest energy producer. For starters.

Sounds like you careully studied the Soicalist/Democratic Party propoganda handbook

quote:

Originally posted by Duane Wiebe (CG&R):

quote:

Originally posted by Jefffive:

quote:

Originally posted by Duane Wiebe (CG&R):
WEll...tell us one thing Trump did as president that was bad for the country.

Now" Tell us one thing Biden has done that was good for the country

Disbanding the Pandemic Response Team and failing to maintain the equipment in the Strategic stockpile cost a couple hundred thousand lives, downplaying the threat of COVID because the truth would hurt his poll numbers killed a couple hundred thousand more, his tax cuts for the rich ballooned the deficit and the National debt, both of his impeachments were well-grounded in demonstrable facts, he incited an insurrection to attempt to overturn the election he lost and politicized the Justice Department far beyond any President in our history. For starters.

President Biden averted the almost-universally predicted recession when he took office (without a transition because the petulant child obstructed it), got the pandemic he inherited largely under control, strengthened and expanded NATO, took the U.S. economy from a shambles to the greatest jobs generator on the planet with wage growth outpacing inflation, is actually repairing and building critical infrastructure instead of just talking about it, dramatically lowered drug costs for seniors and others, expanded health care for veterans with service-related disabilities and made the U.S. the world's largest energy producer. For starters.

Sounds like you careully studied the Soicalist/Democratic Party propoganda handbook

If I got something wrong I invite correction, as always.

SAD... but if you read between the lines you can see it in these posts... I'll repost my comment from another thread to illustrate..

Gentlemen,

Herein lies the problem..

The democrats will support whatever stooge the DNC put up without question.. They are not voting for and individual, they are voting for an IDEOLOGY.

The Republicans, and most Independents vote for the individual, and will not support someone they don't like for whatever reason. Ego driven voters.

It is this attitude that will cause the next election to roll to the democrats.... again..

Until conservatives learn to set their ego aside and vote for the IDEOLOGY AND NOT THE MAN , [i]like the Democrats learned years ago , then we will get 4 more years of babbling Joe or his surrogate.

quote:

Originally posted by Duane Wiebe (CG&R):

quote:

Originally posted by TomP:

quote:

Originally posted by Duane Wiebe (CG&R):
WEll...tell us one thing Trump did as president that was bad for the country.

Now" Tell us one thing Biden has done that was good for the country

Trump:
[1] Tax cut with no spending cut.
[2] Moron's deal with Taliban.

I'll leave praising Biden for someone else...

That's smart of you...not a damn thing to praise

I am not a fan of Biden, either. I don't know why anyone would expect a reasonable person to take a side, here.

As Hunter Thompson observed, as long as we're willing to vote the the lesser of two evils, the evils will get worse.

quote:

Originally posted by Jefffive:
Why, exactly would I be "outraged" that he released oil from the Reserve at $90/barrel, screwed OPEC so badly they increased production and brought prices down then refilled (mostly) the Reserve with $30 oil, turning a $600 billion profit, so far, and breaking OPEC's stranglehold on world oil markets?

If a Republican had done exactly what Joe did and got the same results ya'll would be chiseling on Mount Rushmore just for that.

Weird, it's almost like you just make up stuff to spew on the internet ...

your salient point (get the liberian to help you look up the word, if you need to) is selling at $90 and refilling at $30 ...AND turning a "profit" (again, Gladis will be happy to help you) --

The last time crude was in the 30s was....

while trump was in office

https://www.macrotrends.net/25...-10-year-daily-chart
https://www.macrotrends.net/24...-10-year-daily-chart

I mean, i get it .. it sure SOUNDED good in your head .. that's it's almost a complete fabrication kinda ruins that ... the original purchase price was $95 a barrel, which we/he bought AFTER emptying the reserve in 2022 .. that had been previously filled at a substantially lower price...

just per the DoEnergy, again


Now, he's sold more (and bought more) strategic oil reserves that every other president combined

The weird part? Almost every other sale, other than "test sales" were made in response to national level emergencies impacting oil production

again DoEnergy
https://www.energy.gov/ceser/history-spr-releases

I mean, dang, dawg, it's like you are just spouting off half remembered things with outright fabrications

oh, just in case you want to be educated, here's just two pages of the planning and mission of the SPR ..
https://www.energy.gov/sites/d...et%20July%202022.pdf

that dang pesky department of energy AGAIN
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-...ent-combined-1754084

they refill prices was just 2.1 TIMES your stated number.. $79 per barrel average price
per the DoEnergy
https://www.energy.gov/ceser/a...-continues-replenish


oh, let's just rub a little salt into that (if you knew ANYTHING about the oil industry, you'd get the play on words there) --

Who established the SPR? That willey well known democrat, Gerald Ford

and, again that pesky department of energy
https://www.energy.gov/ceser/s...els%20of%20petroleum.

some light reading as to how biden reduced the SPR to lowest levels since 1982
https://www.reuters.com/plus/t...ic-petroleum-reserve

and gas is STILL $3 per gallon here, which is higher than anytime since Obama left office

https://www.statista.com/stati...d-states-since-1990/

quote:

Originally posted by Pa.Frank:
SAD... but if you read between the lines you can see it in these posts... I'll repost my comment from another thread to illustrate..

Gentlemen,

Herein lies the problem..

The democrats will support whatever stooge the DNC put up without question.. They are not voting for and individual, they are voting for an IDEOLOGY.

The Republicans, and most Independents vote for the individual, and will not support someone they don't like for whatever reason. Ego driven voters.

It is this attitude that will cause the next election to roll to the democrats.... again..

Until conservatives learn to set their ego aside and vote for the IDEOLOGY AND NOT THE MAN , [i]like the Democrats learned years ago , then we will get 4 more years of babbling Joe or his surrogate.

So it's the fact that Trump's a convicted felon, a serial adulterer, a many-times-over proven fraud and inveterate liar that you like about him?

what has biden done?
in all honestly, the PACT act .. great news for vets

i thought the $7.5 billion for charging stations and other EV infra was going to be hugely impactful -- and 2 years in, we've managed to build an amazing (let me check the spreadsheet) EIGHT charging stations...
8 ...
(rechecks spreadsheet) -- yep, 8
https://www.autoweek.com/news/...v-charging-stations/

Well, *I* had certainly hoped for more

quote:

Originally posted by jeffeosso:

quote:

Originally posted by Jefffive:
Why, exactly would I be "outraged" that he released oil from the Reserve at $90/barrel, screwed OPEC so badly they increased production and brought prices down then refilled (mostly) the Reserve with $30 oil, turning a $600 billion profit, so far, and breaking OPEC's stranglehold on world oil markets?

If a Republican had done exactly what Joe did and got the same results ya'll would be chiseling on Mount Rushmore just for that.

Weird, it's almost like you just make up stuff to spew on the internet ...

your salient point (get the liberian to help you look up the word, if you need to) is selling at $90 and refilling at $30 ...AND turning a "profit" (again, Gladis will be happy to help you) --

The last time crude was in the 30s was....

while trump was in office

https://www.macrotrends.net/25...-10-year-daily-chart
https://www.macrotrends.net/24...-10-year-daily-chart

I mean, i get it .. it sure SOUNDED good in your head .. that's it's almost a complete fabrication kinda ruins that ... the original purchase price was $95 a barrel, which we/he bought AFTER emptying the reserve in 2022 .. that had been previously filled at a substantially lower price...

just per the DoEnergy, again


Now, he's sold more (and bought more) strategic oil reserves that every other president combined

The weird part? Almost every other sale, other than "test sales" were made in response to national level emergencies impacting oil production

again DoEnergy
https://www.energy.gov/ceser/history-spr-releases

I mean, dang, dawg, it's like you are just spouting off half remembered things with outright fabrications

oh, just in case you want to be educated, here's just two pages of the planning and mission of the SPR ..
https://www.energy.gov/sites/d...et%20July%202022.pdf

that dang pesky department of energy AGAIN
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-...ent-combined-1754084

they refill prices was just 2.1 TIMES your stated number.. $79 per barrel average price
per the DoEnergy
https://www.energy.gov/ceser/a...-continues-replenish


oh, let's just rub a little salt into that (if you knew ANYTHING about the oil industry, you'd get the play on words there) --

Who established the SPR? That willey well known democrat, Gerald Ford

and, again that pesky department of energy
https://www.energy.gov/ceser/s...els%20of%20petroleum.

some light reading as to how biden reduced the SPR to lowest levels since 1982
https://www.reuters.com/plus/t...ic-petroleum-reserve

and gas is STILL $3 per gallon here, which is higher than anytime since Obama left office

https://www.statista.com/stati...d-states-since-1990/

You are correct, I conflated the price he bought at for the profit he made.

Watch This

quote:

Originally posted by Pa.Frank:
SAD... but if you read between the lines you can see it in these posts... I'll repost my comment from another thread to illustrate..

Gentlemen,

Herein lies the problem..

The democrats will support whatever stooge the DNC put up without question.. They are not voting for and individual, they are voting for an IDEOLOGY.

The Republicans, and most Independents vote for the individual, and will not support someone they don't like for whatever reason. Ego driven voters.

It is this attitude that will cause the next election to roll to the democrats.... again..

Until conservatives learn to set their ego aside and vote for the IDEOLOGY AND NOT THE MAN , [i]like the Democrats learned years ago , then we will get 4 more years of babbling Joe or his surrogate.

You mean like Trump setting his ego aside?

Come on Man. I've voted for Bush, McCain, Palin and conservative representatives and Senators for decades because of the person they were when I voted. I voted for the entire person, political ideology and/ or history, personal story, my impression of their integrity, honor,....

The last time I voted for the lesser of two evils "W" got elected and boy way that terrible.

How about "we"conservatives ignore Trump and his ego and front a candidate for executive that we can believe in.

As to what trump will do if re elected, he's previously suggested suspend the Constitution, a military tribunal for political opponents, a pardon for all convicted January 6th criminals and payback for opponents generally.

Why wouldn't I vote for Trump? He failed in Afghanistan and DPRK as well as with Corona.

I can't think of a time I can recall an employer replacing a terrible employee with a previous terrible employee.

quote:

Originally posted by Scott King:

quote:

Originally posted by Pa.Frank:
SAD... but if you read between the lines you can see it in these posts... I'll repost my comment from another thread to illustrate..

Gentlemen,

Herein lies the problem..

The democrats will support whatever stooge the DNC put up without question.. They are not voting for and individual, they are voting for an IDEOLOGY.

The Republicans, and most Independents vote for the individual, and will not support someone they don't like for whatever reason. Ego driven voters.

It is this attitude that will cause the next election to roll to the democrats.... again..

Until conservatives learn to set their ego aside and vote for the IDEOLOGY AND NOT THE MAN , [i]like the Democrats learned years ago , then we will get 4 more years of babbling Joe or his surrogate.

You mean like Trump setting his ego aside?

Come on Man. I've voted for Bush, McCain, Palin and conservative representatives and Senators for decades because of the person they were when I voted. I voted for the entire person, political ideology and/ or history, personal story, my impression of their integrity, honor,....

The last time I voted for the lesser of two evils "W" got elected and boy way that terrible.

How about "we"conservatives ignore Trump and his ego and front a candidate for executive that we can believe in.

As to what trump will do if re elected, he's previously suggested suspend the Constitution, a military tribunal for political opponents, a pardon for all convicted January 6th criminals and payback for opponents generally.

Why wouldn't I vote for Trump? He failed in Afghanistan and DPRK as well as with Corona.

I can't think of a time I can recall an employer replacing a terrible employee with a previous terrible employee.

We have an Executive position coming up for contract renewal.

The guy in the job now took over when the building was on fire and disease-ridden, our strategic partners were moving away from us and we were losing money. He's turned the company around, put out the fires, got the disease mostly under control, rebuilt and expanded our partnerships and added employees in all departments profitably.

He will accept a 4-year extension on current terms.

The other applicant is a former employee who was fired for cause, refused to leave until escorted off the property by security, set the building on fire and threatened the staff, employees, neighbors and random passerby. He has continually lied about his dismissal, in fact claiming he wasn't fired at all, lied about the company's performance during his tenure (and basically everything else he's said) and says if he's rehired he's going to tear down largely everything about the company to remake it like one of his casinos, all of which he bankrupted.

He has also been convicted of 34 felonies since he was fired.

We have a tough decision.

quote:

Originally posted by Pa.Frank:

Gentlemen,

Herein lies the problem..

The democrats will support whatever stooge the DNC put up without question.. They are not voting for and individual, they are voting for an IDEOLOGY.

The Republicans, and most Independents vote for the individual, and will not support someone they don't like for whatever reason. Ego driven voters.

It is this attitude that will cause the next election to roll to the democrats.... again..

Until conservatives learn to set their ego aside and vote for the IDEOLOGY AND NOT THE MAN , [i]like the Democrats learned years ago , then we will get 4 more years of babbling Joe or his surrogate.

I disagree with practically all of that.

There is no such thing as Bidenism.

Biden has not morphed the democratic party. Trump has, and his legacy will influence the party for a long time.

Trumpism is real and it encompasses GOPerism, and whatever ideology remains over there of what used to be conservativism. Trump has hijacked the republican party and apparently most GOP voters like it since he won the primary and is the presumed nominee. GOPers in congress do what he says and kowtow and lie disgustingly. In 2020, GOPers had no platform other than Trumpism.

So, Trump IS the GOP now, and the ideology, platform, etc. Project 2025 is intrinsic in it all. There is no separating Trump from GOPerism.

IOW you can't vote for the GOP party without voting for Trumpism. You may not think you are embracing it, but being complicit is the same as being explicit in this case.

That's not the same as with Biden.

The only monster in this race for POTUS is Trump. He's a monster personally, but his power is through owning the GOP machine.

=============================================

I had a wild thought.

It seems herein that many are not happy about what's happened with the GOP/Trumpism. Suppose that's representative of republicans on a broad scale.

Also presume that votes still count. The GOP can't be controlled any other way that I know of.

The wild thought is both ironic and counter intuitive.

The ONLY way we have to change the GOP, first by getting rid of Trump, is to vote for democrats this year.

Think about it.

OTOH, Trumpism presumes they can control if not change the democrats and the means is domination, Steve Bannon or Michael Flynn style, project 2025 style, 50,000 shock troops, exec powers like none before given to Trump.

How's that gonna work and for how long?

Guaranteed - that form of governance will feed turmoil and resistance, perhaps extreme. And in the face of failure, Trumpism knows only one thing - double down, and so forth.

How's that gonna work? You know darn well.

The only reason there is nothing called Bidenism is because the leftists folks in the media refuse to call it that.

You say that Biden isn't changing the Democrat party positions, and my response is someone ought to.

Open borders has been a colossal failure.

We are seeing more and more that his covid response that was supposed to be science based was not.

They have been spending money at an ever increasing rate, and despite saying tax increases must happen are not going to do anything even per them that will happen before they leave office.

Pushing DEI and items like reparations. You don't get rid of racism by pushing racism and sexism of the downtrodden side.

Your business about Trump and "shock troops" is identical to the left and their use of various social orgs and community organizers. The left's predilection to expand government results in a large number of people who's rice bowl is keeping government large.

Turmoil and resistance? Which side regularly riots, loots, and burns down cities? Yet the democrat's answer is to reduce law and order, and then be surprised when the expected outcome occurs and quietly try and ramp up law enforcement in a half-assed fashion.

Now, I agree that the only way that the GOP will change is by how folks vote, and the GOP is starting to morph into the democrats who always in the past were the party of the ends justify the means. I am seeing more and more of the GOP starting to toe this line as well. The problem as I see it is that the democrats, while maybe less personally morally objectionable are still morally objectionable.

It takes two to fight, and we are really walling ourselves into two camps.

https://youtu.be/h6k31r6nQWA?si=4A0z2D9cfGDX1tXy

Donald Trump - America's African President | The Daily Show Throwback

quote:

The only reason there is nothing called Bidenism is because the leftists folks in the media refuse to call it that.

And because 0biden isn't really in charge.

I don't know of an equivalent manifesto written by the left comparable to project 2025.

https://www.google.com/search?...6LAw&sclient=gws-wiz

Here's an example of Trump's lies about Steve Bannon.

Remember, it was Bannon who pushed the 20,000 shock troops idea that Heritage Foundation adopted in their 180 day plan.

https://www.independent.co.uk/...g-news-a7713536.html

Donald Trump says adviser Steve Bannon is ‘alt-left’ and ‘a very decent guy getting a bad rap’
President attempts to contradict popular assertion that former Breitbart editor is ideological power behind the throne

Tuesday 02 May 2017

President Donald Trump has dismissed widespread reports that his administration is riven by discord, saying he is sticking by his polarising chief strategist, Steve Bannon, calling him a “very decent guy” who is getting a “bad rap.”

Trump even revealed his own term for Bannon’s ideology: “alt-left,” a play on Bannon’s ties to the nationalist conservative movement sometimes called the alt-right.

Why alt-left? “Bannon’s more of a libertarian than anything else, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said Monday during an interview with Bloomberg News in the Oval Office.

Trump also said that Bannon and Trump’s senior adviser, son-in-law Jared Kushner, have managed to repair their relationship.

“Bannon is a very decent guy who feels very strongly about the country. Likewise, Jared. And they’re getting along fine,” Trump said, calling Kushner “a very brilliant young guy.”

quote:

Originally posted by Aspen Hill Adventures:

quote:

The only reason there is nothing called Bidenism is because the leftists folks in the media refuse to call it that.

And because 0biden isn't really in charge.

I think it's a perverted dream that Trump is actually in charge of the GOP. He owns it because "they" let him. It's convenient. Yea, they want a strong man by appearance, someone to take the heat and lie for them out front.

But I think it's a front.

Why do you speculate that Trump is trying to distance himself and team from Project 2025?

It's because the manifesto is too explicit. They can't actually disavow it because it's precisely the GOPer plan. Trump just wants to be sneaky about it. Don't say it out loud. If elected, he will follow the playbook and a lot more.

After all, the manifesto plan is Trumpism institutionalized, they said so, whether Trump is POTUS or some other GOPer.

They are planning a whole new approach to the deep state/administrative state, the elites and the political/economic power machine, supplanting the former with weaker loyalists for the specific benefit of the latter, also loyalists.

Magine, you have a lot of paranoia.

quote:

Originally posted by Aspen Hill Adventures:
Magine, you have a lot of paranoia.

Have you ever wondered about how you could post something herein, or research something specific - some key word, and lo and behold your computer feeds you more on the same topic?



“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

https://www.theatlantic.com/ma...-youre-crazy/407833/

IF YOU’RE NOT PARANOID, YOU’RE CRAZY
As government agencies and tech companies develop more and more intrusive means of watching and influencing people, how can we live free lives?

By Walter Kirn NOVEMBER 2015 ISSUE The Atlantic

But aside from that, Trumpism and project 2025 leaves little to the imagination. They are too explicit for that. All one needs to do is pay attention. They tell you who and what they are.

quote:

Originally posted by Duane Wiebe (CG&R):
WEll...tell us one thing Trump did as president that was bad for the country.

Now" Tell us one thing Biden has done that was good for the country

Trump/The attempt to undermine and overturn the election and The Federal Courts.

Biden: Infrastructure Bill signed, agreed to sign a border bill written with Conservatives, and signed Marriage Equality.

quote:

Originally posted by crbutler:

Open borders has been a colossal failure.

We are seeing more and more that his covid response that was supposed to be science based was not.

Your business about Trump and "shock troops" is identical to the left and their use of various social orgs and community organizers. The left's predilection to expand government results in a large number of people who's rice bowl is keeping government large.

Turmoil and resistance? Which side regularly riots, loots, and burns down cities?

Now, I agree that the only way that the GOP will change is by how folks vote, and the GOP is starting to morph into the democrats who always in the past were the party of the ends justify the means. I am seeing more and more of the GOP starting to toe this line as well. The problem as I see it is that the democrats, while maybe less personally morally objectionable are still morally objectionable.

It takes two to fight, and we are really walling ourselves into two camps.

Once upon a time there was a bipartisan border bill. Trump nixed it for political reasons.

An article about Fauci and covid is posted below. It's representative of the radical Right that I have been talking about.

There is nothing "identical" from the left regarding Bannon's shock troops. The left just want the government to be functional - that's all.

Yes, the so-deemed left has been known to have riots. They do not represent me nor IMO the majority of the left. OTOH, I don't know of an instance where the left has attempted a coup or insurrection, which BTW is still ongoing. It's now proudly called a Second American Revolution.

With your morally objectionable rationale, you are again making compulsively false equivalences.

It does indeed take two to fight. But of course as the head of the Heritage Foundation says, it could be bloodless if the left just submits and lets the Right have their way.

Here's the article I mentioned, which shows the true character of the Right:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/heal...8b9bc8c5110550&ei=81

The demonization of Dr. Fauci

Last month, Republican members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic blasted Dr. Anthony Fauci for his support of mask and vaccine mandates, lockdowns and school closures.

They alleged that Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) between 1984 and 2022, covered up U.S. government funding of research in a lab in Wuhan, China that produced the COVID-19 virus, brushing aside his assertion that such a result from this particular project was “ molecularly impossible .”

Following the subcommittee hearing, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) declared that “Mr. Fauci belongs in a prison. He should be tried for mass murder and crimes against humanity.” So many people hate him, Greene added, “because he is an a–hole and a liar.”
The attack by Greene is not an anomaly. In an op-ed published in July 2020, Peter Navarro, director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy in the Trump administration, maintained that Fauci “has been wrong about everything,” especially the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID. USA Today soon acknowledged that Navarro’s claims did not meet its “fact-checking standards.”

In November 2020, Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, posted a video proposing that Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be beheaded: “I’d put the heads on pikes. As a warning to federal bureaucrats. Either get with the program or you’re gone.”

In 2021, a Maryland man named Thomas Patrick Connally Jr., using an anonymous and encrypted account, sent emails vowing to make Fauci “pay with your children’s blood for your crimes.” And to drag Fauci into the street, break every bone in his body “with crowbars and sledgehammers” and set him on fire. In 2022, Connally was sentenced to three years in prison.

Fauci also appeared on the “hit” list of a man, “called upon by God to combat evil demons,” and possessing an assault rifle, ammunition and body armor when he was arrested. Death threats against Fauci became so common, a team of special agents accompanied him everywhere he went.

The demonization of Anthony Fauci strongly suggests that partisan polarization, contempt for expertise, coarseness, cruelty and a cultish propensity for conspiracy theories and violence have entered the mainstream of America.

Judged by any reasonable criteria, Fauci was an exemplary public servant. During his 50-year- long career at NIAID, Fauci played multiple roles, often simultaneously: research scientist; physician to individual patients; administrator, providing direction and support to thousands of infectious disease specialists; advisor to policy makers in the federal government, including seven presidents, on the threats posed by various communicable diseases, including COVID-19. He was the chief explainer to the American people about preventive measures, vaccines, treatments and diagnostics.

Between 1983 and 2003, Fauci was one of the most cited research scientists in the world. Fauci’s discovery of how to re-dose cancer drugs transformed a 98 percent mortality rate for individuals with the autoimmune inflammatory disease vasculitis into a 93 percent remission rate. NIAID research spearheaded by Fauci resulted in the development of drugs that enabled HIV-positive patients to live long and productive lives, while ensuring that they could not infect their sexual partners.

Convinced that the U.S. has “a moral responsibility as a rich nation to not have people suffer and die because of where they live and the circumstances in which they were born,” Fauci was also a prime mover in the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which distributed HIV drugs across Africa, saving millions of lives. In 2007, President George W. Bush awarded Fauci the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, for his contributions to public health.

Americans clearly were — and are — sharply divided about how to address the pandemic. That said, Fauci’s critics should acknowledge that he tried to follow the science during a fast-moving crisis where reliable information was in short supply. That the NIAID provided essential scientific and logistical support for the development of COVID-19 vaccines through Operation Warp Speed, the immensely successful initiative of the Trump administration. That Fauci did not have the authority to impose mask or vaccination mandates, order lockdowns or school closures. And that he was right that COVID-19 would not quickly “disappear,” hydroxychloroquine was not effective and ingesting bleach wouldn’t act “almost like a cleaning.”

Fauci could have made tens or hundreds of millions of dollars by joining the pharmaceutical industry. Instead, he remained a government employee. Fauci’s top annual salary, $480,654, with increases at federally mandated levels, is attributable largely to the length of his service as director of the NIAID. Instead of profiting from vaccines, as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) implied, Fauci made less than $200 a year from patent royalty payments. Fauci and his wife still live in the modest home they purchased in 1977.

Voter registration records confirm he is not affiliated with either the Democratic or the Republican parties.

Anthony Fauci should be lionized for his outstanding contributions to public health, not demonized.

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Also, I recently read that Stormy Danials fears for her life due to explicit death threats.

Sorry..about the tird sentence I lost interest...babbla babble

Former Trump Advisor Stephen Miller Denies Involvement With Project 2025, Ad Says Otherwise

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...55266a996b8b84&ei=88

‘Patently absurd’: Katyal reveals the dangers of SCOTUS enabling Trump’s Project 2025 agenda

MSNBC legal analyst Neal Katyal breaks down the dangers of the Supreme Court's recent immunity decision, following Donald Trump's efforts to distance himself from Project 2025

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...5od?ocid=socialshare

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Originally posted by Duane Wiebe (CG&R):
Sorry..about the tird sentence I lost interest...babbla babble

Just another example of him at his best.

Don't worry yourself too much. I realize you can't help yourself - your condition.

My posts are for those who can read and understand and have an attention span of more than a few seconds.

Just like the Special Olympics, you get credit for trying.

More leftist truth babble:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/mone...5pV?ocid=socialshare

Pro-Trump 'Project 2025' is panicking Japan, author says

William Pesek, author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades," says Japan suffered "collateral damage" from the Trump presidency and discusses how Asia is responding to the prospect of a second one.

Magine, this should worry you much more than orange man bad:

NWO

Darn it Ann, dear - another thing to worry about!

You know my paranoia is already in overload. Now you present another AH saying "force" is the answer.

He shouldn't have used that word. Persuade would have been better.

I don't know how to really compare globalist elites vs. Christian Nationalist elites or the elites/oligarchs and supportive loyalist deep-state that Trumpism would empower.

My guess is that they have one thing in common, which is to impose their worldview formula on us all. They seem to be competing for the imposition.

I do know the definition of globalization:

glob·al·i·za·tion
/ˌɡlōbələˈzāSH(ə)n,ˌɡlōbəˌlīˈzāSH(ə)n/
noun
The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

Globalization is a term used to describe how trade and technology have made the world into a more connected and interdependent place.

Globalization also captures in its scope the economic and social changes that have come about as a result.

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That Ole strategic genius is buying oil high again, at $77
https://www.foxnews.com/politi...-bailing-out-big-oil

Why didn't you have choices about what he did Last time he was in Office? You Know Like NO WARS and an EXCELLENT ECONOMY?

I went s paint the White House Gold.

Why?

1) That is what Trump has done with all brands that he has licensed his image or name to. To that affect I expect him to charge the Federal Government for the privilege of having a gold painted Trump Castle.

And

2) A gold painted White House is the perfect t symbol for the 2nd Gilded Age of American politics such a result of Dictator Trump would be.

Looking at Kamala’s, Bernie’s and the squad’s paradise of Venezuela, I’d be a little less lighthearted and worry a bit more about the Socialists winning in November.