Galt's Gulch
15

Comparison between Rearden, Roark, Rockefeller, and Trump trials

Posted by $ jbrenner 5 months, 3 weeks ago to News
30 comments | Share | Best of... | Flag

I know that Trump is not getting a jury of his peers. Use this thread to compare and contrast the Hank Rearden, Howard Roark, John Rockefeller, and Donald Trump personalities and trials. They all were tried by a bunch of rotters (to use an Ayn Rand word).

Add Comment

FORMATTING HELP

All Comments Hide marked as read Mark all as read

    -
  • 12
    Posted by kddr22 5 months, 3 weeks ago
    We are officially living in a Banana Republic , as A no longer equals A in justice...
    Reply | Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink  
      -
    • Posted by $ jbrenner 5 months, 3 weeks ago
      Where is Judge Narragansett?
      Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
      • Posted by $ Snezzy 5 months, 3 weeks ago
        Anyone think that perhaps Rand chose the judge's name from the status of the Narragansett language and people? The language is extinct and the Narragansett people few in number.

        She once said that she chose names for characters based on the sound. Ellsworth Toohey comes immediately to mind. Some of the names appear to be jokes, such as Balph "can't spell his own name" Eubank.
        Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
    -
  • Posted by kddr22 5 months, 3 weeks ago
    We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

    AR
    Reply | Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink  
      -
    • Posted by $ jbrenner 5 months, 3 weeks ago
      We are now past that point of inversion.
      Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
        -
      • Posted by CaptainKirk 5 months, 3 weeks ago
        Agreed...
        This is what happens when you live on an Island. Hire a local gang to secure your home. And they realize it is self-sustaining for them if they kill you and your family, and just take it over.

        Clearly it is by brute force. Clearly they are Abusing BOTH the Legal System and the People.

        "No Prosecutor" would prosecute HRC.
        THAT was the warning shot we missed.

        Translation:
        "Because we control the Prosecutors. We control WHO will be prosecuted!"
        Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
          -
        • Posted by JakeOrilley 5 months, 3 weeks ago
          'when they secure your home and kill you and family - they are not able to keep the home (production, factory, business, anything viable) going and will soon have to look for another home - and start all over.... But yes. Soros controls the prosecutors - and right now they are showing their power. How to overcome that? Local people getting involved and not paying attention to the money (commercials). Can that realistically happen? Has there been enough pain for that to happen? Will find out in a few months..........
          Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
          • Posted by $ jbrenner 5 months, 3 weeks ago
            I am only partly insulated from the negative effects of looters and moochers in east central Florida, but it is about as good as I think I will be able to find.
            Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
    -
  • Posted by mhubb 5 months, 3 weeks ago
    Trump found guilty
    of nothing

    may those traitors that did this reap the whirlwind they let loose
    Reply | Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink  
    • Posted by CaptainKirk 5 months, 3 weeks ago
      Found Guilty of Nothing... 34 Times!
      With the choice of having to serve time CONSECUTIVELY.

      Nice timing on the sentencing.
      If I were Trump, I would move the Nomination to a few days before the July 10th.

      Side note: Clif High had said that in July, there is a HUGE release of Energy over a 2 day period. LIke we would be waiting for something, and then it would be "announced". LOL. Nice timing...
      Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
      -
    • Posted by $ jbrenner 5 months, 3 weeks ago
      The problem is that now there is officially no place to invest your value (treasure, hard work, etc.) where it will get rewarded ... unless someone invented a Galt's Gulch that I don't know about yet.
      Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
        -
      • Posted by freedomforall 5 months, 3 weeks ago
        Make 1oz .999 gold Gulch coins?
        Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
          -
        • Posted by $ jbrenner 5 months, 3 weeks ago
          Creating Gulch coins presumes that there is a Gulch to spend them on items of value in, with fellow people of like mind and virtue. Part of the problem with the final crumbling of America this past week is that there is nowhere to shrug to.
          Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
          • Posted by freedomforall 5 months, 3 weeks ago
            .999 gold will likely have value in any market that goods are available, and that value will increase against fiat.
            Perhaps a second passport that guarantees residency elsewhere is a good investment, too.
            Don't limit yourself to a tyrannical regime where your earnings are stolen to support your enemies.
            Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
      -
    • Posted by Argo 5 months, 3 weeks ago
      What a joke the Manhattan court is...have these jurors have no shame? If it wasn't so tragic it could be a comedy
      Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
        -
      • Posted by Ben_C 5 months, 3 weeks ago
        The problem, is that any dissenting jurist would receive massive intimidation in their community. Given their neighborhood is 90+% Democrat the persons life would become miserable - that is what New Yonkers do. And the judge and prosecutor are fully aware of this fact.
        Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
        • Posted by mccannon01 5 months, 3 weeks ago
          Indeed, the leftwing extremist control freaks have no fear or shame in intimidating anyone with a different view or steps out of line. Additionally, sending Trump to a gulag will swing the doors WIDE open for sending the rest of us by the trainload.
          Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
    -
  • Posted by katrinam41 5 months, 2 weeks ago
    If Trump could have acted as Reardon did, it would have made no difference at all. Today's situation is so far beyond where the fictional kangaroo-court stood that the antagonists aren't even pretending to uphold any civilized standard of law and justice. Bananas anyone?
    Reply | Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink  
      -
    • Posted by $ jbrenner 5 months, 2 weeks ago
      What in America is still worth saving?
      Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
      • Posted by VetteGuy 5 months, 2 weeks ago
        Having just returned from a 2-week trip from Alabama to Arizona and back, through the heartland, there are definitely parts of America WORTH saving.

        I'm not sure there is any chance of saving them, so I'm trying to see as much as possible while there is still time. Trying to Enjoy the Decline.
        Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
        -
      • Posted by katrinam41 5 months, 2 weeks ago
        I'm confused, jb. Where did I mention saving anything?
        Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
          -
        • Posted by $ jbrenner 5 months, 2 weeks ago
          Sorry, katrinam41, my question about "What in America is still worth saving?" is partly rhetorical and partly serious, but if you read VetteGuy's response to the same question, there are parts of America worth saving. The kangaroo courts are definitely worth jettisoning.
          Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
            -
          • Posted by katrinam41 5 months, 2 weeks ago
            Got it. I do agree with VetteGuy that there are some things worth saving and that if we want to see them before they sink into the ooze, now is the time. I also agree with you that most "intellectual" things are not worth the paper they're printed on. The thuggish, ugly culture of hate, destruction and self-loathing will pull everything not anchored in a moral, ethical and right-to-exist mindset into the bottomless muck of non-existence.
            Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  

FORMATTING HELP

  • Comment hidden. Undo