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- In The Mailbox: 02.28.23 (Afternoon Edition) : The Other McCain on Hey, longtime pw readers…
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they look like mormon missionaries really
O/T: Dr. Demented update – http://tehdailysqueak.blogspot.com/2015/12/deborah-frisch-unchained1-homeless-bids.html
OT Pablo’s O/T: Did Trump just give his game away?
“I don’t think he’s qualified to be president. . . . I don’t think he has the right temperament, the right judgment. The way he’s dealt with the Senate, where he goes in frankly like a bit of a maniac. You never get things done that way. [. . . .] You can’t walk into the Senate and scream and call people liars and not be able to cajole and get along with people. He’ll never get anything done. That’s the problem[.]”
What I inferr from that is that Trump, unlike Cruz, doesn’t say what he believes, or believes what he says.
I don’t know, Ernst.
Trump reminds me of one of those ’50’s jazz musicians, like Bird or Chet Baker: they just riff a lot, none of it consistent.
Lincoln’s fooling people aphorism remains apt. Eventually all morons out themselves.
I thought Rush had a good take on it: It’s disappointing to hear Trump talking like an Establican.
Hopefully, Trump supporters agree.
But I doubt it.
peak trump
trump is a pooper a trashy trashy pooper
he’s quintessentially failmerica and a better man frankly better than this shit country deserves
he’ll at least try to be thought of as a good president
unlike the cunt you have in your white house now
babysteps
>unlike the cunt you have in your white house now<
well there's always the new/improved 2017 edition mr. swarmy pants;)
I’m thinking Trump is thinking people “get” the irony of Trump calling out a competitor for excessive bluster.
Like that makes him unfit to be president, as the attack du jour goes.
Honest question, does Cruz have a bedrock solid legal citizenship requirement that satisfies the constitution? ‘Cuz I’m waiting for Trump to go there, he’s hinted as much. If Cruz is solid I think that could be a flag for a lot of his supporters, a large number of which have Cruz as their second or even first choice, like me.
This, going after Cruz over the right temperament…its just too rich to be taken seriously.
If you can’t take this seriously, how are we supposed to take his talk about making Mexico pay for the border fence seriously?
And if we’re not meant to take that seriously, how can we take anythng he’s said about illegal immigration or national security seriously
My guess is that he does. Cruz doesn’t stike me as a guy running just to check the first President of X hyphenated-American descent box.
Unlike, say, the current occupant of the oval office.
On the other hand, the cynic in me can’t help but note that only Justice Kennedy knows for sure.
How do I KNOW?
Yeah, I don’t take that too serious either. Name me a Republican president that hasn’t sold us out in one way or another. Nixon gave us the EPA. Regain no fault divorce and amnesty. Bush H on taxes, and leaving Saddam alive after Gulf I. Bush W on a whole list from No Child Left Behind to Medicare D to unbridled spending to DHS.
I think Trump a good gamble in our current straights. And to be honest, I think him more electable than Cruz, due to “Trump Democrats”, if you see what I mean. I think he could totally steal the black vote from Hillary for example…
Don’t get me wrong, I think Cruz the best of the lot, but I also think people that turn up their nose at Trump are irrational and reacting out of emotion.
Thus spake mister moron missionary.
I’ve been thinking lately that our struggle moved beyond a contest between republicans and democrats, and even beyond consevatives vs. progressives, to something else entirely. We are in a fight between nationalists and globalists.
Call me kook, say I’m a nut, but the New World Order H. Bush spoke of is fast developing, and one of the last barricades is our second amendment. And while gun sales are surging, our children are being programmed that guns=evil. Like the kid that ate his pop tart wrong to the one today that couldn’t wear a Star Wars t- shirt.
So far, Trump has persuaded me he wants to make Anerica right again. I’ll not fear him as long as that is so.
What I hear you telling me Lee, is that you know Trump is a liar, but you don’t care, because all politicians lie, and his lies are the prettiest.
And I’m the irrational and emotional one? (Rhetorically, speaking. The people who, in their opposition to Trump, get irrational and emotional are the same people who got irrational and emotional* about Bush, to whit:)
Agree with you that there’s an international elite, at least in the sense that cosmopolitanism (Xenophilia, I saw it call earlier) is one of the identity markers of the ruling class. Christopher Lasch wrote about it way back in 1994.
*The problem here is the tendency to respond in kind, that is, irrationally and emotionally, to think that because “they” be agin’ him, we should be fer him.
No, I do not think Trump is a liar. I do not think he is conning me, nor do I think he is a stalking horse for Hillary. I think Trump has seen we are losing our country and has a unique skill set/position to save it.
I have little faith George Washington reincarnated could do much to turn around the levitation at this point, but I believe Trump a patriot, which is plenty enough for me in these rare times.
I agree with Schlichter and, to a lesser extent* Strassel
*I think that “disdain … for any code of civilized conduct” was a bit much.
Esau
Yeah, yeah, Trump is an evil demon fooling all us rubes and really just wants…well…more than he already has. Or something.
Trouble is, I don’t believe that. The man has been in the public spotlight my whole adult life, and by that I KNOW him like I know none of the others. So when people write articles like what you linked, I see they aren’t writing about Trump, but about their own fear and biases.
Plus, I’m immediately rejecting any writer that lies about Trump. Like saying he wants to throw all the Muslims out of the country when that isn’t even close to the very reasonable proposal he did make. That is an established media tactic of creating a bunch of smoke so people eventually start thinking there must be a fire.
Fuck that noise, homie ain’t playing that game no more.
Hillary Clinton is an evil demon.
Trump is the pied piper.
And my niece knows (or rather knew –she finally grew out of it–) Justin Bieber the same way you know Trump.
Your insults are stupid and only show you got nothin’.
It wasn’t meant to be insulting. I’m using sarcasm to make a point about the false familiarity of celebrity (“[t]he man has been in the public spotlight my whole adult life, and by that I KNOW him like I know none of the others”). Do you really know him, or do you just THINK you know him?
My then 12 yr old niece knew everything about Justin Bieber –part of the marriage prep, you see.
But we both know that she only knew what the publicists wanted her and a million other tweener girls to know.
I’m not a fan of Beiber, wouldn’t know a single song of his if I heard it. But even I know his life style, his arrests, his hedonistic lifestyle. I know who he is. Same with Trump. I never watched his shows, but I know he is a very successful man than builds actual things and employers thousands. I would be totally comfortable with my 15 y.o. niece spending a day with him. He’s never been in trouble with the law and has been a great asset to the country.
To me, people trying to tear him down just sound like happyfeet talking about Sarah Palin.
Even now, Trump has done more for conservatives this election cycle since anyone since Reagan, by frustrating the MSM and moving the Overton Window way right.
I laugh at the charge Trump is a stalking horse for Hillary. If anything, he’s a stalking horse for Cruz. The man is saying everything we’ve been wishing someone would say while giving a clinic on how to handle the press. When people on the right are attacking his character, what they are really doing is invalidating what he is saying, and I’m sorry, but what he is saying is dead on right, regardless how insincere you think the man. Which I disagree with.
Agree about the Overton Window.
Trump is a stalking horse for Cruz because Cruz needs the help: like learning how not to be a maniac challenging the illustrious Sen. McConnell, or failing to support subsidies to corn-based ethanol and get the country away from nasty nasty crude oil, or wringing out any admiration for that old racist Justice Scalia, or to stop admiring Gov. Walker’s debilitating work in Wisc., or giving due consideration to removing gun purchase privileges from people on no-fly or terrorist lists. Cruz needs to get his mind right, but if he makes the necessary adjustments, he might work out ok in the end. And too, Cruz could learn a thing or two from Trump’s frequent, spontaneous and extended disquisitions on the towering beauty, profundity and subtlety of America’s founding and framing political-philosophical documents, the Declaration, the Constitution, the Federalist Papers and more.
Well, Trump is is a contest with Cruz, and all of them have been saying all kinds a shit about each other. It ain’t personal, it’s business.
I’d be happy with a president Cruz, but if it’s Trump I have no problem voting for him. Perhaps someone with a different skill set is needed to fix what the super genius philosopher kings have fucked up so badly.
I almost would most wish for a president Trump and Vice President Walker, or maybe Jindel, and Supreme Court Justice Cruz. This would be an awesome outcome IMHO.
One other quick point about the false familiarity of celebrity. Trump has written like a dozen books (and oddly enough no autobiography) . The man is hardly an enigma.
Another bit I learned, Trump was a democrat before 1987, then he switched to republican until 2009, when he joined the reform party for a year then became a democrat until 2009 when he became a republican again, except for 2011 when he switched to independent for a year.
Safe to say I think, the guy ain’t no party first sort…
Safe to say I think that the guy’s guiding principle is what’s good for Donald?
Alas, I suffer the same guiding principle.
In my defense though, what’s good for LBascom includes what’s good for LBascom’s family, community, and country, so it’s not necessarily a bad thing.
That’s just what the Clintons and the Obamas think.
Not to mention about every other human on the planet.
The golden rule wouldn’t mean much otherwise.
I think we’re talking past each other because your golden rule comment doesn’t make any sense to me. I was trying to point out that what’s good for General Motors IS good for the country ain’t necessarily so.
I take it you mean that what’s in the best interest of the country is also in your best interest?
Bracing clarity.
** We’re Jew haters, so fuck off. **
Good to have that frankly out in the light.
Correct Ernst.
While I appreciate your reframing, I don’t think Clinton (either of them) Obama (either of them) or Trump think along the same lines you do.
I was reading this Charlie Martin piece earlier, and while I rarely read (and when I do, agree with him), I think he’s spot on here.
Trump is a deal maker, so if he becomes president he will make a deal with the Establishment. Because after the election is over, the Establishment will have something he wants, and you and I won’t.
At least not before 2020 we won’t.
Well, I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree about Trump.
I’ll admit, he’s a bit of a wild card, but then they all are. Take Rubio for instance, doing the opposite of what his position was on immigration as a candidate. Even Reagan gave us amnesty, Ginsberg, no fault divorce, and debt. I’ll also point out Cruz has done very questionable things that should give one pause, and I think he would have a harder go of it in the general.
I’ve given plenty of reasons why I support Trump over the weeks, but if someone tells me he’s lying and they don’t trust him, there’s not much I can say. We just have a difference of opinion.
Only time will tell, and maybe not even then depending on who gets the nomination.
One thing is safe to say, we live in I interesting times!