Trump: Only candidate speaking painful non-PC truth. Only candidate no one controls. Only candidate not begging for money. Only candidate who has ever done anything. Only candidate who might actually foil the foreign tyrants, entrenched politicians, and the regulators. Very smart, a Masters in finance from Wharton, best selling author, highly-rated TV personality, and one of the top 100 richest men in the world.
Certainly not George Washington, but he would definitely make the collectivists squirm.
But most people prefer politically-experienced liars?
I remember when they mocked Ronnie because he was only an actor. Only a cowboy actor. Until he backed the Soviet Union up and over the cliff and out of existence.
Hey, Washington was a rich guy. It seems that being rich, or being the boss somehow turns a person into a buffoon. They didn't get to being rich or being the boss by wearing greasepaint and a funny hat.
Trump is a loose canon with no government experience. While this could be a net positive, evidence of alternate credentials and staff plans to shore up gaps needs to be present, not just: "He is a rich guy; therefore, he is a great business man and leader". One can say Regan was an actor, but he was also an active politician and Governor before president!
I'm warming to Trump. The loose cannon idea certainly works when he's trying to make a splash. I have to believe that when he is actually negotiating something worth millions he is well aware of what he is doing.
I think he is motivated as a narcissist, like Putin and Obummer. Not sure what his real values are. Clearly he is not a socialist. I guess that is good. Does he really believe in freedom?
YES! AND no matter who says it, it remains - The Truth! The truth remains if it was said by Reagan, or fell from the lips of Carter, or for that matter, even (name of worst villain here).
LOL "America has more Mexicans than anybody needs, and then some. It certainly has more unskilled Mexicans than any country needs, including countries whose names begin with "Mex-" and end in "-ico". And it has far more criminal Mexicans than anybody needs, which is why they make up 71 per cent of the foreign inmates in federal jails. Just to underline that last point, a young American woman was murdered for kicks in a supposed "sanctuary city" on the eve of the holiday weekend by an illegal immigrant from Mexico."
This would have been garden-variety bigotry in the past, but now that computers and automation have globalized the world it just sounds like a bigot from an earlier time.
Last week after my son and I did some target shooting at an indoor range, we went to an Oriental restaurant that featured a buffet in Hoover on the south side of Birmingham. The receptionist was a pretty Oriental gal. I saw a couple more Oriental gals working the front side. After being shown to our table, my son and I went to the restroom to wash that gun range off our hands. En route, we looked into the kitchen and at six or seven busy cooks. All were young Hispanic dudes!
As for the Chinese they are following the standard path of immigration success. I had a Greek explain it to me in Ann Arbor Michigan five decades ago. The family sends over one or two. they work at whatever and get citizenship. They sponsor more of the aga family each getting more and more successful. The individual that told me this was a former Greek Air Force fighter pilot. When I knew him he was a restaurant owner ...three of them. He also hired UofM football players being a big fan. I worked at (then) Gelman Instruments the place that invented the filtering system for Coors Beer. At nights and weekends with nothing better to do I ran the dishwasher and bussed tables. The cooks were primarily Greek immigrants. The company that supplied them with expendables was owned by a cousin. The Chinese immigrants work in buffet restaurants while perfecting English and qualifying in other previously learned skills. I've had a qualified medical doctor bring me chopsticks. Until they passed the boards in the US. Same with the Irish and same with all the others.
The difference. Back then you learned English. Now it's considered demeaning. But down in Mexico the top students learn English and some do it on their own.
Guess which one is going to get a job when they cross the border. the functional illiterate whose trying to live on self esteem or the individual who has self respect?
The results of secular progressive liberalism. is the creation of class warfare.
I read Mark Steyn regularly. He is one of the few who seems to see situations for what they are, not how we would like them to be. Kudos to him for telling the truth.
Repeating facts is not bigotry. Ignoring reality in order to call someone a bigot is not only non-Objectivist, it's insulting to people of normal intelligence and perceptive ability.
Would you please care to elaborate on which specific items in the above statements have elicited from you the determination of "bigot"? I am assuming that facts cannot be considered under that label, as facts are facts, not opinions.
Great post Eud, I love Steyn. And he makes a great point: "But here's the funny and consequential thing. Trump is supposed to be the narcissist blowhard celebrity candidate: He's a guy famous for erecting aesthetically revolting buildings with his "brand" plastered all over them, for arm-candy brides, for beauty contests and reality shows. The other fellows are sober, serious senators and governors.
And yet Trump is the only one who's introduced an issue into this otherwise torpid campaign - and the most important issue of all, I would argue, in that ultimately it's one of national survival. And so the same media that dismiss Trump as an empty reality-show vanity candidate are now denouncing him for bringing up the only real policy question in the race so far.
What he said may or may not be offensive, but it happens to be true: America has more Mexicans than anybody needs, and then some. It certainly has more unskilled Mexicans than any country needs, including countries whose names begin with "Mex-" and end in "-ico". And it has far more criminal Mexicans than anybody needs, which is why they make up 71 per cent of the foreign inmates in federal jails."
I wonder, under a normal law abiding (hah-hah) administration, what percentage would they make up. But on the other hand I imagine a great number of them are due to the infamous 'War on Drugs'.
It's f$%^ing pathetic when the "best" candidate in the field is a disgusting sack of slime.
By the way, being willing to talk about a problem that the rest of the disgusting candidates are ignoring is not the same thing as having a viable solution.
Only candidate speaking painful non-PC truth.
Only candidate no one controls.
Only candidate not begging for money.
Only candidate who has ever done anything.
Only candidate who might actually foil the foreign tyrants, entrenched politicians, and the regulators.
Very smart, a Masters in finance from Wharton, best selling author, highly-rated TV personality, and one of the top 100 richest men in the world.
Certainly not George Washington, but he would definitely make the collectivists squirm.
But most people prefer politically-experienced liars?
I remember when they mocked Ronnie because he was only an actor. Only a cowboy actor. Until he backed the Soviet Union up and over the cliff and out of existence.
Steyn can be a bit biting for some, but I like his work.
Trump is a loose canon with no government experience. While this could be a net positive, evidence of alternate credentials and staff plans to shore up gaps needs to be present, not just: "He is a rich guy; therefore, he is a great business man and leader". One can say Regan was an actor, but he was also an active politician and Governor before president!
"America has more Mexicans than anybody needs, and then some. It certainly has more unskilled Mexicans than any country needs, including countries whose names begin with "Mex-" and end in "-ico". And it has far more criminal Mexicans than anybody needs, which is why they make up 71 per cent of the foreign inmates in federal jails. Just to underline that last point, a young American woman was murdered for kicks in a supposed "sanctuary city" on the eve of the holiday weekend by an illegal immigrant from Mexico."
This would have been garden-variety bigotry in the past, but now that computers and automation have globalized the world it just sounds like a bigot from an earlier time.
The receptionist was a pretty Oriental gal. I saw a couple more Oriental gals working the front side.
After being shown to our table, my son and I went to the restroom to wash that gun range off our hands.
En route, we looked into the kitchen and at six or seven busy cooks.
All were young Hispanic dudes!
(sarcasm)
The Yellow Peril Enslaves Hispanics!
The difference. Back then you learned English. Now it's considered demeaning. But down in Mexico the top students learn English and some do it on their own.
Guess which one is going to get a job when they cross the border. the functional illiterate whose trying to live on self esteem or the individual who has self respect?
The results of secular progressive liberalism. is the creation of class warfare.
Kudos to him for telling the truth.
More carbon change fraud, more criminals ,more violent crime.
"But here's the funny and consequential thing. Trump is supposed to be the narcissist blowhard celebrity candidate: He's a guy famous for erecting aesthetically revolting buildings with his "brand" plastered all over them, for arm-candy brides, for beauty contests and reality shows. The other fellows are sober, serious senators and governors.
And yet Trump is the only one who's introduced an issue into this otherwise torpid campaign - and the most important issue of all, I would argue, in that ultimately it's one of national survival. And so the same media that dismiss Trump as an empty reality-show vanity candidate are now denouncing him for bringing up the only real policy question in the race so far.
What he said may or may not be offensive, but it happens to be true: America has more Mexicans than anybody needs, and then some. It certainly has more unskilled Mexicans than any country needs, including countries whose names begin with "Mex-" and end in "-ico". And it has far more criminal Mexicans than anybody needs, which is why they make up 71 per cent of the foreign inmates in federal jails."
I wonder, under a normal law abiding (hah-hah) administration, what percentage would they make up. But on the other hand I imagine a great number of them are due to the infamous 'War on Drugs'.
By the way, being willing to talk about a problem that the rest of the disgusting candidates are ignoring is not the same thing as having a viable solution.