Thank You, Mr. Trump, by Robert Gore
There has been no shortage of commentators pointing out these facts—for years, even decades—but by definition, even if their audiences were in the millions they were “fringe.” Back in late 2014, immigration reform—a “path to citizenship,” de facto amnesty, and meaningless promises of tighter border security—was the prevailing mantra, chanted by both parties’ candidates, endorsed by all right-thinking pundits as necessary to secure the increasingly important Latino vote (support from Republicans was paradoxical—most immigrants vote for Democrats). There would be no immigration issue because dissenting views were marginalized or suppressed, and the “solution” to the problem was a done deal regardless of who was elected.
Then Donald Trump called Mexican immigrants rapists and proposed building a wall at the border, funded by Mexico. The epithet and proposal were outrageous, but the concerns of millions of Americans had been ignored or dismissed as racist and xenophobic. It took something outrageous to get those concerns on the table and force the Cloud People to pay attention. They did so not out of any solicitude for the unwashed, the Dirt People, but because Trump jumped to the top of the polls. Immigration will be a front burner issue through the general election, and attacks on Trump supporters by Mexican-flag-waving thugs will only help his cause. He doesn’t even have to say: “What did I tell you?” It’s implied.
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Then Donald Trump called Mexican immigrants rapists and proposed building a wall at the border, funded by Mexico. The epithet and proposal were outrageous, but the concerns of millions of Americans had been ignored or dismissed as racist and xenophobic. It took something outrageous to get those concerns on the table and force the Cloud People to pay attention. They did so not out of any solicitude for the unwashed, the Dirt People, but because Trump jumped to the top of the polls. Immigration will be a front burner issue through the general election, and attacks on Trump supporters by Mexican-flag-waving thugs will only help his cause. He doesn’t even have to say: “What did I tell you?” It’s implied.
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Here's the rub as I see it.
In Hillary, you have a hard core progressive Democrat from the Saul Alinsky school of thought whose inner belief system couldn't be further from my own. I believe she's also a criminal (with or without future conviction) several times over whether it be Whitewater, Vince Foster, Clinton Foundation or State Department email server related. There is one redeeming quality to Hillary as it relates to Donald Trump. She is utterly incompetent when it comes time to getting things done. Whether it was her own version of state managed health care back when Bill was president, her spectacular failures as Secretary of State, or he unbelievably poor showing against an old doddering fool like Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary. In short, no matter how much I loathe her politics, at least she has a proven record of failing to get her agenda done. The fact that she has all the personality of a doorknob probably has alot to do with that.
Donald Trump largely shares Hillary's politics no matter what lies he had to sling to win the GOP primary. You can't tell me that a guy who has leaned heavily Democratic for 69 years of his life is somehow all of the sudden some kind of reborn conservative on his 70th birthday.
Let me step back for a second and talk about Barack Obama, and I will draw that forward as to how it relates to Donald Trump. Earlier, I mentioned how much I despise Hillary Clinton's political views, so you can imagine the outright disgust that I have for Obama. That said, I do admire one thing about the man. However much I disagree with his ideals, I admire his neverending ruthlessness in getting his agenda canonized as law. Some people thing that B.O. is a weakling and a failure as president, but I suggest that he is doing exactly what he wants to do in order to "fundamentally transform America" into the statist, non-superpower of his imagination. Crushing debt, weak foreign policy and a massive expansion of the welfare state are all part of his agenda, and he has fought like hell to enact every bit of it, with or without the benefit of having constitutional backing.
Although Obama and Hillary share many of the same ideals, they do not share the same backbone and ruthlessness in getting the job done, however wrongheaded that "job" may be. Donald Trump, on the other hand, share an awful lot of Obama views, insofar as Trump has any principled beliefs at all, and he (Trump) is ruthless as hell, just like Obama.
Neither Hillary or Trump have any regard for the Constitution. In fact, if either has any feelings at all on the matter, it may be more in line with contempt for it. If both Hillary and Trump share many of the same political views and one is ruthlessly effective while the other is not, which of the two is the better bad choice?
As far thanking Donald Trump for bring this issue or that issue to the forefront, I'll pass. I couldn't care less what Trump has to say, because he is little more than a empty suit con man with a big cult of personality behind him. If he actually does manage to get that wall built, let alone have Mexico foot that bill, I'd be amazed. Even if it he did, what's the point of building a wall? Are Mexicans so dumb they don't know how to build ladders or dig tunnels? If they want to cross the border, they will cross the border. The real question has more to do with why they want to cross the border in the first place and how do we make that less desirable.
I know I'm rambling here, but the short version is that I cannot bring myself to support Donald Trump under any circumstances. He's a liar and a bully and a litigious thug. At the end of the day, I see him a being little different than the garbage currently occupying the Oval Office. I'd rather just write somebody in knowing my vote is lost than to have the support of Donald Trump weighing on my conscience for the rest of my life. At the end of the day, all I can do is to take care of me and mine and the government with all of their "help" can be damned.
Trump, like those supporting him, is an authoritarian who gets his way through bullying and physical force.
No matter how much you "want" something, you do not have the right to use force to achieve it, nor ask others to use force in your stead. Barring entry is a form of force as surely as punching someone in the face is.
The Republicans basically adopted a stealth strategy to win back the House and Senate in the 2010 and 2014 mid-terms, depending on the conservative base to turn out in off years when the voter turnout is low. When they won the House back, they kept saying "we can't oppose Obama with control of only one house." Then they won the Senate in 2014, they caved again, and gave the Dimocrats more than they expected in the 2015 budget. They have never stood up to Obama's abuses of power because they didn't want to be called racists or be blamed for a government "shutdown". They must have expected to win the 2016 presidential election by stealth means
Well, the American people got tired of waiting for the "party of limited government" to stop the out of control descent into tyranny, and decided to select Trump as the presidential nominee. The Republicans brought it on themselves by repeated failures to act according to their ideology (such as it is).
Showing suipport now does not couont as an election vote. My next ugov poll and the one's on town hall etc. now get a libertarian boost
Great point and thanks for that
If Trump only effects this by portraying it in the theater of the absurd, leading to revolt, he is doing us all a service. It would be even better if he offered an alternate plan.
I think that if he wins, I would rather him take some time to assess the lay of the land, look over the information that would be available to him as president, and then formulate a specific plan of action. Politicians today just make promises to get elected, and NEVER make good on them. Take a look at Obama and the war in Iraq for example. We are still there, and in AFghanistan too. Trump is going to shake things up in the government and put in some good people, as he has done in his business.
SC seeks a tariff of $10.
Assuming it's granted the consumer now must pay $20.
If they buy the import $10 goes to the government
If the buy local $10 goes to the SC system.
The question is who loses?
This is from Hazlitts Economics in One Lesson which all of you should have on your desk.
the anwer which no one posted is. All the othere businesses who didn't get the benefit of that extra $10. That's the question that's never asked when any form of taxation is proposed . Who loses?
You want $15 minimum wage TANSTAAFL no free lunch whose money pays for that increase? And whose business does not get that money as a result?
Works on any and every form of taxation.
Ask your Congressional that when he or she comes looking for votes? Maybe? Or his her campaigners are out passing leaflets?
Duuuuhhhhh is the answer you will get. The true way to put that is inflation results.Devaluation follows. WoW! it's another housing bubble and ethanol scam crisis!!!
Ready to see yiour buying power take another 30% uncovered by COLA nose dive?
Support $15 minimum it's a direct route to exactly that.
have tried the nice way -- quiet voting, the tea party --
and that didn't work. . DT will shake things up. -- j
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I believe there is much in what you say. It has gotten to the point where people would burn the house to the ground rather than see it further defaced and dishonored by the establishment. It is much like a messy divorce. We have irreconcilable differences.
Respectfully,
O.A.
where I didn't think I had any -- new places, new hurts,
new anguish. . the current process is much the same! -- j
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desks? . you got fifty slips to go to the yard and seek
forgiveness in solitude? . Corky was the name of one
of the girls and she caught you and beat you up? -- j
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and got caught, every now and then. . silliness! -- j
p.s. the charged capacitor in the back of the neck
was a favorite.
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in India ink. . such fun! . one of my personal favorites
was a little gizmo which made a siren sound. . first, a
long-distance whirr, then a whoosh! -- j
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"Wow your hair got caught in my desk! slamming it closed. Except for the time the teacher was standing behind me. We would get paddlings back then. ......Some years later she said she knew what was up but waited for the best moment when the teacher was in the back of the classroom. OUCH! Second Grade then I got one from the Principal and one from the pater at home. Cured me until fourth grade.
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It isn't the USA anymore and hasn't been unless you are old enough to predate Woodrow Wilson.. It's a progressive cancer waiting to take full control of a carcass.
It isn't Hamiltonian or Jeffersonian anymore it isn't any kind of American Dream unless your dreams were after a round of heavy Marxism and too much vodka.
It isn't 640 acres a mule and a plow or 100 and a cabin in the woods nor a a one acre housing lot with it's own 'in the city' garden plot, nor even a quarter acre with room for a one car garage, It's tin can houses stacked within arms reach yet costing more than the the home of The Beaver. or Ozzie and Harriet.
People aren't asked to vote for a bright future or a with some degree of hope but for a choice of degrees of despair and only the very young, innocent, and naive would think otherwise.
I'm of a mind today to liken the country as a whole to an oil field in Colorado. The residents finally shrugging and the whole waiting for the inevitable spark. The sign reads Here it is as I found it as the landscape burns horizon to horizon and ocean to ocean. And still those who think let's vote for so and so and he will slow the drift to the left as the vote for same old same old nothing new old give us another chance old - tired - useless - tinder.
And let's not forget the Polly Anna's Every time I hear them or read something they wrote I want to jack slap the crap out their empty heads as they offer move on nothing here to look at.
Turn out the light? No the last one should give the country a decent burial and put up a new sign. It's yours, leave it as you made it. Now live with it and deal with it.
We're at Left Over Station the end of the line. My watch the flock scatter, hunt and peck looking for some scratchings and finding only cinders.
I think I'll move down to free north America and prepare the next wave of immigrants. Plow, burro, and an appetite for work not excuses.
North America is there turn now.
As for me I'm sitting in a falapa quite near to Yelapa and find it more pleasing than a condo in Redondo.
Click!
Innocent until proven guilty unless it's an arrest by an excepted bureaucrat set of rules with their own police and courts or under 'suspicion of' laws.
Napoleonic is Possibly Guilty until proven Guilty and also possibly innocent so we keep all of you until investigation is over.
Which is what they did. Nevertheless, it was a hell of an adventure. Got to watch a few people die, two by stabbing, a few by overdose. Heroin and grass were plentiful because stoned people don't cause much trouble. Alcohol, cocaine, and "uppers" were harder to get because users might do something that would cause problems. And I might mention, it was as capitalist a society as you could find. Everything was available for a price, the suppliers were plentiful and negotiation was a way of life.
Compared to what it could have been, it was, as I said, a great adventure.
If he doesn't, Hillary is going to crush him like a bug.
"Today’s decidedly unfree world means that so-called free trade arrangements augment the power and wealth of governments and their cronies at the expense of everyone else, just as “open immigration” expands welfare states with resultant political and economic advantages for the few."
True. Trade and immigration policies have become tools of the politicos, cronies and power-brokers.
On these issues, Trump is much like McCarthy in that he is perhaps the wrong messenger, in-artfully pointing out some truths. It is his lack of tact and choice of words that undercut his message and may be his undoing.
I look forward to part 2.
Regards,
O.A.
He has brought attention to a number of issues like a deadly bomb going off in a public market highlights flaws in prevention and response. He's oblivious to, or unconcerned about, collateral damage.
The tragic irony is that many of his supporters are far more consistent on issues than he is.
I hear you. I like straight talk and have no use for PC. Unfortunately there are many politicos and media talking heads that will use every possible opportunity to take things out of context and read into one's words meanings not intended in order to distort and defame. I make it my business to try to ascribe no more meaning to a statement than the literal meaning without further implications until I have elaboration. Every day we are subjected to talking heads that go out of their way to look for the worst possible connotations and implications, if it serves their agenda. It is a propaganda tool used quite effectively by all sides.
Regards,
O.A.
I wonder if the following web sight is correct about crime?:
http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/spec...
If so, native born citizens need some improvement.
I'm in favor more open boarders. I support rules that make it easier for parts, merchandise, and workers to cross borders without gov't permission. I find it annoying that instead of opening our borders by having a debate we do it by secret agreements in remote locations and by just looking the other way from an underclass of 15 million undocumented people living here. I can only imagine the anger of people who do not want open borders. It's not like we had a debate and they lost. Rather we said, "sure we'll protect the borders," didn't actually do it, and just ignored the law.
So I think agree 100% with Robert Gore. I disagree with trade barriers, can't stand Trump, but there's more to Trump than just racism.
Clint Eastwood's character walks into a saloon and asks for a beer and a bottle.
Pulling a beer tap, the bartender says, "Ain't much good but it's all we got."
I would prefer a having walked the walk conservative like Ted Cruz.
Shortly after I voted for Cruz, he very disappointingly blamed Trump for rally violence he had to know was bought and paid for by George Soros and friends.
Must admit I was emotionally turned off about "Lyin' Ted! Lyin' Ted!" but "all Ted got" is now out of the "all we got" equation this time around.
Aside from the limited jobs issues, the legality and respect issues; I would of also pointed out that the World is Not ready for open borders and why the creatures that insist upon ruling over us, want open borders and don't care why it's not a good idea right now.
"You can't tell me that a guy who has leaned heavily Democratic for 69"
From the interviews I have watched of Trump over the last 30 years that is a false claim.
Trump Interviews
1988 Oprah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEPs1...
1988 GOP Conventions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usb0i...
2012 Piers Morgan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Iuq...
Trump raised and endorsed Romney, raised millions for him.
www.fec.gov show empirically that over 40 years over 80% of any campaign contributions went to GOP.
http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure...
Do not forget to sort through every super pac as well as direct donations to the candidate themselves.
If you review the government finances, Clinton, "balanced the budget" by raiding Social Security and issuing government IOU's there was never a balanced budget, it was the single biggest theft in world history.
Total all donations, donations to all candidates with an R, then those with a D, the use basic division.R = GOP and D= Democrat.
This will take you some time since you have to do each year seperately. Then while you are at it, go to each candidate, like Harry Reid, and sort each year dating back decades, and see how many contributions you see from Trump or Trump organization to him or Hillary and the quantities or total dollar amounts. You will find Ted Cruz was lying through his teeth with his claims, especially when it comes to Harry Reid.
That would be defined as empirical.
I appreciate the advise on the search methods. So R +D = total money of all types to pay for the Government Party's biannual charade. I think the left costs too much for what they produce or rather don't produce. No wonder they believe in zero sum gain.