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Ben proves his expertise as a judge of character.
(Or HRM Donnie is exaggerating.)
the u.s. into the gulch. . except for ........... -- j
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I admit, I have a difficult time swallowing "NY Values"
I live next door in a wimpy state that isn't much better but hides it well.
Trump takes all the heat, and he really isnt that bad compared to the others. He tells it like it is (and he doesnt read speeches or spout prepped sound bites), he uses the various laws to promote himself and at the same time tells us to change them (like the campaign contributions that all the others take in exchange for promises and favors). He would pick good advisors ( getting rid of the idiots Obama has put in as AG and IRS heads).
Trump tells it like he feels the audience wants to hear it, not "like it is." You continue to compare Trump to other looters instead of the reasonable action of comparing him to an ethical candidate. But that would make him look like the clown he is.
They did waste their time building up their businesses which supported the POTUS that was there. Hank did pay off politicians to try to influence laws that were being passed to destroy him.
Electing Trump is, in my view, a way to slow down the process of destroying me and my future. He isnt going to change the philosophy of the country over to objectivism, but maybe he can inspire people to shed off the chains of political correctness- which is a good thing.
On the repub side, I would put Cruz next, regardless of what he claims. I dont know what to say about Rubio- teenage attack dog who would probably get us into all kinds of foreign affaris troubles. Then Trump- I do think he would slow down the movement towards socialism. Interestingly enough, I suspect Kasich would make the best (although totally unelectable) president. He seems to think about things at least quietly and with some fiscal responsibility. Maybe Trump will make him VP. Might make a good administrative team.
Trump's major shortcoming is that all his shit about tariffs and bringing jobs back to America are Protectionist themes more characteristic of unions and liberals/Democrats. That's his Disconnect from Economic Reality.
He needs better 'advisers' and Econ101 education, but businessmen like him with egos like his don't think they need ANY 'outside advice.'
I've worked with enough of 'em to recognize the flaw.
Good luck to us all!
The blather on walls and tariffs is for the Electorate!
Thanks!
not final ones. . if we threatened to suddenly hit china with
a 35 percent tariff, it would get their attention. . then, we
might get something done in the area of currency
manipulation or something else. -- j
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Ok, often.. :)
Yep, you're right... it's an opening gambit in Negotiations. Of course, I'm not the only one in the US to forget that, right? Like most of the Liberal Electorate and the Mainscream Media?
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by such a scheme. . he's above that, in my estimation. -- j
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outward fascist. . interesting, huh? -- j
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to be an honorable man who has the best interests of
the u.s. in mind. . he is confident that DT can be a positive
leader for the u.s. in this crazy world. . I have it on DVD. -- j
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after having worked in retail car parts for 35 years ...
there was even a tight curve in u.s.25w named for him,
"Beck's curve."
and I bet that Dr. Ben is giving us his critical estimate here,
both to pull the front-runner towards civility and to ask
the voters to consider a view of DT which he has seen.
while this is an odd combination, the general election
will need this kind of thing. . unusual election! -- j
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I have an intuition that DT has a better chance than Cruz. -- j
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"electability," it's like shaking my salt shaker and wishing
that there were eggs underneath. . no eggs. -- j
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which will ensure that we have good chickens in the future?!! -- j
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More evidence that supporting the GOP is foolishness.
as Hitler reincarnated. . he's so incredibly much
better than that, but you just can't see it. . sorry. -- j
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Rubio is a dead man walking.
As to Hildebeast, she is the definite enemy. She is socialist, but lies and hides things and is beholden to wall street for sure. Sanders is at least honest about his positions- and I have to give him credit for that-, but he is a real wacko philosophically.
I think that he might beat out Hildebeast in a fair primary battle, but HIllary is sneaky and probably will win the democratic nomination. She has bought off the powers that be as far as the indictment is concerned- I doubt that will come to pass.
Trump could take out Sanders easily, and it will be more difficult to take out Hildebeast. But he has the best shot of any of the repubs.
If it turns out to be Trump I will have to decide about degrees of evil. Since voting for Clinton or Sanders is totally out of the question I ask myself is Trump totally evil? Even Rand would have to admit that few things are just black and white. I see proclivities toward evil in Trump, but also several good points. I think that you have failed to take in the consequences of withholding your vote. There simply are no viable other candidates. If the glimmer of good in Trump can be fostered there is a possibility of steps in the right direction. A vote for the Libertarian at this juncture equals no vote at all.
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It all depends on your won individual values.In the end you are the only one who has to face the mirror.
method. . he dug and pushed and worked for it. -- j
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Exactly right! Thank you.
EDIT: Removed breake in a line.
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"Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
back from the brink. . it doesn't pull the ship at all. -- j
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I will rush to grab the child rather than trying to find
its parent to ask permission. . sometimes, pragmatism
is a good thing. -- j
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That said, If Hank or Dagny could have delayed the passage of 10-289, dont you think they would have? John Galt wouldnt, since he wanted the system to crash faster of its own weight. I am on the fence on that one, I have to admit. Maybe if Sanders wins, things will crash sooner. The problem with that is that things dont crash in a year or so, but will take maybe 20+ years of excruciating decline and government controls before the wealth of the USA is used up. And then MANY years to build things back up.
If you look at Venezuela's economy, it took many years to get where its at now under the tenets of socialism. And it will take a while for it to recover, even if they are able to change their government from socialism.
Trump is our best chance to secure change.
So, why do people hate Trump so much? Martin Armstrong explained yesterday in an article “Why Trump Haters Really Hate Trump.”
It’s not the hair.
Or the bad manners.
Or the “beautiful” wall he says he’ll build.
There’s a different, more subtle reason why the Republican establishment, donor class, political operatives, and the news media in general hate Donald Trump.
The reason can be found in a New York Times best selling business book, Stacking The Deck, by Wharton professor David Pottruck.
Pottruck, the Charles Schwab CEO who took the genial brokerage house online and into the big time, says that organizations hate change.
Hate it with a PASSION!
That’s because when there’s a new way of doing things, a new way of solving problems, a new way of relating to everything, they feel threatened as a deep personal-loss.
Change renders meaningless the value of their hard-won experience and know-how. In politics, it may mean family member lose their cushy jobs and perks.
Student loans of government employees get automatically paid off by government – TAX-FREE.
Those in government have done things one way forever. Change is NOT FAIR to them
Everything they have done to line their pockets is threatened. The rules of the game may no longer apply.
So they dig in their heels and will do whatever it takes to resist change.
They resist perpetually until forced otherwise.
They subvert any process that would lead to change.
Until they lose, it becomes open warfare against the people to sustain the establishment and its perks.
And so it is with Donald Trump.
Like him or not, he has completely rewritten the rules of Presidential politics.
He bypasses the media, taking his message, raw and unfiltered, to the millions of people who follow him on Twitter.
The party establishment went from underestimating him and laughing at him to fearing him and breaking out in night sweats.
They fear all their power and relevance will vanish into thing air.
Donors gave Jeb Bush $120 million and he came in dead last.
The money, like Jeb, is gone and it could not save their fiefdom.
Now wealthy donors have a choice. Oppose Trump and he wins and they are out in the cold. Understand there is a change in the wind and shift sides to the people.
How ironic. It took a billionaire to neuter the billionaire donor class.
Most of the media hate Trump to the core and dislike the fact they are no longer able to play kingmaker losing their power fearing they will be irrelevant with the internet displacing them.
The political class have lost the power to rule behind the curtain from paid operatives and cronies who cannot transition to the new world where the old rules of campaigning don’t apply.
Trump has spent more on hats than he has on polls so the pollsters also have lost their importance.
Diplomats worldwide are running scared because Trump will renegotiate everything from a business standpoint that cannot be bought like Hillary & her foundation.
The handwringing, the dire predictions of doom, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth have little to do with Donald’s positions, but their loss of power.
They complain Trump is bringing in new voters who are not Republican. And this is bad?
The Trump threat isn’t to the Constitution, to America’s standing in the world, or even to Republican Congressional candidates, it is to the establishment.
If you think Trump’s supporters are angry about the way the government and the business world colluded, you are right. The establishment fails to appreciate the anger.
They’re just furious. Even if Trump fails to win, there will be more in the wings. He is inspiring a change and he doesn’t even understand how profound.
As an aside, I doubt a real John Galt would even WANT to be president right now where government is based on taking from some and giving to others.
What incentive would anyone in China have to purchase more expensive goods from the USA?
When they call DT's "45% tariff" bluff, what then? Prices for goods in your local stores skyrocket? Although typical for Trump, is his governmental solution 'meddling' or a "great deal"?
The point is that DT wants to insert more government rather than get it out of the way of international trade.
His campaign and rhetoric don't inspire a stable business environment. Who looks forward to playing Trump roulette when you could be publicly torched because you call him out or disagreed with him?
This looter would redefine the "bully pulpit".
by taking him literally and failing to see the negotiator
in him in action. . he routinely exaggerates just like I would
in selling my seven-hundred-dollar boat -- I'll take two thousand
for it! . what's your counter-offer? -- j
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Obama is an idiot negotiator. Look at Iran. Give them 150 billion NOW and then perhaps they will do what they should do later? I think Obama should stay home and take his useless Kerry with him. THEY are the evil ones, not Trump. I would have expected on this forum a lot of talk about the evil in those candidates, but essentially nothing has come out. Only hatred for Trump.
I think many view him like their favorite team...woohoo...this isn't a game. Why forgive him what would not be tolerated in any other candidate?
The 'group think' which scoops all individuals that are against the 'reality show' host into a "Trump haters" bucket is the same rationale used by others driven by 'identity politics'.
Many of those defending Trump would never tolerate what they forgive him in another candidate.
My oath was and still is to the Constitution. I see no reason to change except use it instead of scrabbling after solutions with no answers that have a record of failure.
the following remark at least to my arrangement by conscious 1978 on identity politics only makes me more and more sure my oath was correct .....
as for potential. he's left of center by any definition being a Republican the word potential does not apply.
I find the only hate mongers are those stopping by on a drive by and they don't last.
But consider his words and line that up with the proper political organization...It's national socialism. Consider his past and his present rhetoric again national socialism for he is in fact a Republican therefore a socialist ill virtue of their stance with the democrats as those who want government over citizens by any means possible and corporatist no doubt there and has evidenced the requisite fascist tendencies.
I don't use the definitions of the left and fall into their trap.
Left is government over citizens, it is all socialist and socialism is all fascist in nature meaning control citizens by any means needed.
He is further left than regular Republicans and RINOs no doubt there. They are the right wing of the left. Trump therefore gets close to the unmentionable Ominous Parallel comparison and that particular group along with RINO DINOS are not the center except of their own bailwick
Center Constitution
Center of the left RINOS -DINOS
Center of the extreme left National and International Socialism
A much more useful and accurate way of populating the left with everyone and every political belief in it's proper place.
to complete the picture the right would be what Libertarians? Perhaps but those who believe in Citizens controlling government as citizens are supposed to be the divine power meaning ability to divine what is proper. That was the theory when the nation was founded. The extreme right are anarchists and forms of hermits.
Hate...that's for the left .....Pity would be accurate when we bother to categorize at all. Perhaps despicable in extreme cases.
Your definitions have been faulty for a hundred years.....I reject them ...
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in every transaction while doing business. -- j
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In other words, he often takes the unprincipled way out.
It looks pretty obvious to the dino.
Guess who wants to be vice president?
Chris Chistie? Yeah, but he ain't the one.
Sarah Palin? Maybe.
Hint: He used to do brain surgery for kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pinZ...
Kasich lacks Ben's ornamental black face but I agree.
I now can see how Kasich would add more value to Trump than a retired brain surgeon who speaks out against PC.
Way to go, term2!
I watched the democratic debates also. Sanders is honest at least, but a wacko in terms of philosophy. Hildebeast is just evil- lies, manipulates, changes positions more times than a chameleon changes colors. I didnt trust her after she said she would quit as sec of state IF Obama was RE-ELECTED (and she did). Now, she is promoting what a great job Obama has done.
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He might be thinking of Carson for something like FDA commissioner or something else medical. Christie was a prosecutor I think in a past life, and might be in line to be AG. Who knows. Trump is no dummy when it comes to surrounding himself with good people
words, a ferocious bigot and anti-semite, a nasty
person who surrounded himself with Dr. Mengele
and the like, carving on people for sport. . if you see
those characteristics in DT, I have a good eye Dr.
whom I would like to recommend. -- j
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Trump has taken advantage of the anti-establishment feelings so prevalent now, which I think is a good thing. He is also definitely against the politically correct chains people have been shackled with lately. I think he would be good for the USA for 4 years to shake things up and tell us when the emperor has no clothes. I am not thinking that he is a john galt with steadfast principles- but I think he is electable and a hell of a lot better than Hildebeast and particularly Sanders.
Think how great Carly would be with a goal of downsizing organizations!
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Carson was my choice as front runner at the beginning of the presidential race. He started to lose me when he spoke of tinkering with the second amendment (owning an AR-15) in an urban environment.
So wannabe some day POTUS Ben can only hope that The Donald does not
1 fail to chose him to play second fiddle
2. or lose this time or 4 years later
3. or take a bullet before being elected.
I do wonder if George Clooney, or Jerry Springer, or Raham Emanuel chose to run as a conservative under the R banner for President, how much time it would take spewing popular talking points to the Right/Conservatives, before they'd buy it? 6 months, a year?
was in-sincere, probably. . it's a sign of the times. -- j
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After giving this much more than a fair shot, I will return to this site ONLY when the platform it uses for Comments is far less obscure and annoying. As far as I can tell so far, members may reply to a new thread in common, but may not comment to a previous comment on the same thread.
-- Spike
who 30+ years ago did her first MA thesis on Rand and the Austrians, and still considers herself "a student of Objectivism."
Some other sites come close to doing this well, but this one could/should be better.
Hell, even Reason's comments sections don't permit ANY voting, which even FaceBook has recently improved! Up/Down voting clicks are cute and easy to tabulate, but don't allow for 'I agree/disagree' "nuances" at all, let alone "that's a good point/gee-that's-stupid."
Maybe some day. But hey, programmers and user interface designers fall in love with and marry and worship their creations and no outsider can possibly know better or suggest an improvement.
Been there, seen that for about 34 years in industry. Little difference here.
Standard human practice.
Check back once in a while and see if anything changes.
Cheers!
If "the management" here is accepting suggestions, Disqus is both flexible and robust. Users can both very easily post and reply to posts without tearing their hair out.
I, too, will check this site every couple of months to see whether or not the current aggravating list-management fiasco has been replaced with a much more user-friendly platform.
on the same thread. . it works well, it seems to me, and
Greetings back to you, Spike! -- john
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Let's agree to disagree. You are disturbing my retirement tranquility.
Let's discuss something inconsequential for a change -- like a GEICO commercial.
of little bikes and ends up on a harley! -- j
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neglect, and Obamacare will hire Dr. Mengele to do
surgery. -- j
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Again.
For 4 years, this is exactly what the country needs.
your lips to GOD's ears.
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considering how business deals are made during golf! -- j
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The whole discussion is only important to those who buy into the two party system crap when in rubber meets the road crap it's one left wing coalition.
Two do other than poke well deserved holes who take any of this seriously one had to be anti constitutionalist and support the notion that 'hopefully' one of these turncoats will turn the other way. What are the odds of any thing but a left wing socialist fascist thing being allowed on the final ballot?
My hundred says the end result is 95% of the votes go to left wing socialist fascists and the rest by a very faulty default. None of the arguments face the real issues and important questions but just sort of lie there and whine. If this is the best the country can offer you deserve what you are asking for.
But don't start pointing fingers after words your own words will come back to haunt you as you seek to justify your actions.
A better quote would be 'He was not afraid of the dark.'
The quote credit was probably not the best choice after some research I find it attributed to many people including Ghandi , JFK and others on different searches. I never spoke to Ghandi nor heard him talk . I had heard he said it somewhere and posted without verification.
It most likely is an old Chinese proverb or Confusius saying.
The meaning is --in the face of bad times or hopelessness it is more worthwhile to do some good however small in response.
Thank you for your comments.
No hazard in THAT kind of 'thinking,' right?
Right.
Not sure why Carson ran for president actually. He is way too soft spoken to be actually listened to once elected. Not to mention he seems to be a bit over the top with his religious stuff. But he does seem to have the capacity to think things through which is encouraging.
John Wayne, is accustomed to having people listen intently
because of his distinction and reputation. . it fits his character
and his temperament, too. -- j
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I would refuse dinner with Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and many others because they are useless evil people. Bernie Sanders is at least an honest wacko, but no dinner with him either.
Donald is a political outsider skilled only in buying votes
Carson is not.
Donald is popular
Carson is not
Donald is national socialist supremacist
Carson is not.
Marriage made in political heaven.
Candidates won't be 'perfect'. However, he has proven he will use political influence and power in disregard of others rights.