To impeach, or not to impeach

[pbrower2a]

(10-07-2019, 01:33 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(10-06-2019, 11:47 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Donald Trump has the moral pathology of believing that rules are for fools, but not for him.

I assume that you've never had a woman come on to you or offer you obvious signs that she's sexually interested in you or she want's to get laid or she's open to having you (grab) or rub her crotch. I can relate to what Trump was talking about in the tape. I've had women make sexual advances towards me. I've had them flaunt their stuff in front of me. I've had them give me a crotch shot or create an opportunity so that I could get a very good look at them fully naked or partially naked or scantly dressed and so forth. I went through all kinds of training on what to do, what not to do and how to avoid sexual encounters/sexual involvement with women including an understanding all the negatives and legal consequences associated with sexual advances or having sex or having an affair with a female customer, coworker or subordinate. I'd say my age group was the first wave to enter the workforce post civil rights era where employee education was pretty common.

 

I have Asperger's. I do very badly at understanding non-verbal signals except perhaps by dogs. I don't trust the seduction of sex for its own sake. I expect that she shows signs of shared interests, without which any relationship is nothing more than a one-night stand. I have never had a one-night stand. 

Don't get me wrong. I want a woman for much more than sex. Intimate companionship? Doing delightful things together? I am well aware that at certain age, almost all females look better without than with clothes. The problem is that females that age rarely have anything in common with me. I would bore them if I tried to talk about pop culture of the 1960's and 1970's. My taste in music is as old-fashioned as it could be...maybe it is the historical cycle that makes education strictly utilitarian (preparation for work as opposed to preparation for life in all its potential richness) that ensures that young adults generally lack the patience for long pieces of music whose structure and contrapuntal writing are both magnificent. I have a long list of things that I would like to do, such as listening to the Chicago Symphony live. I did knock off a bottle of what may be the best beer available (Pilsner Urquell, a Czech beer with a nutty taste that I have never experienced in another beer -- too bad I can't drink anymore.  It's not my liver; one drink is ordinarily enough for me, in part because I can't hold liquor as I did when I was in my twenties). I want to see Gettysburg and the MLK historical site. I want to see Sleeping Bear Dunes in northwestern lower Michigan. Thus alcoholic beverages are off the list.  I'd love to witness a rocket launch. That's before I discuss delights overseas. Vegas? Last place I want to be, if that tells you anything. 

I can probably do these things because I have few bad habits that cost a fortune. I have no desire to buy the newest technology and experience the "new car smell". 200 channels of cable TV? Fifty are enough.      

Quote:I'm not making an excuse for Trump's mistakes but he's spent his entire adult life in big business, running a big business, negotiating with big business's, competing with big business's  being used to being the one who is in charge of calling all the shots. The private sector doesn't have rules when it comes to operating business and eliminating competition. As far as the floundering/bunging/foolish  competition named Joe Biden, all Biden needed a nail in his political coffin. I'm sure the power hungry greedy liberal bitches would love to have  a nail and would even use the nail IF they really want to be the President of the United States. Isn't there a federal law against claiming to be a native American when you're not? Another example of what a Democrat can do and get away with and still remain  in office and run for President.    I don't know, maybe Trump is tired of being President and tired of dealing with a bunch of clueless wack jobs and scum bag politicians that mindless fools and emotional twits seem to love and support.

Trump has spent his life ripping of subcontractors, schmoozing with politicians for tax breaks and zoning variances, finding ways to sell off businesses that have troubles but potential for expanding a marketplace, creating fecal mass entertainment, and grabbing attention only to make a fool of himself. Heck, the late Lee Iacocca saved what many thought was a doomed automaker, which is a bigger achievement than anything that Trump has ever done -- and he brushed off suggestions that he be President of the United States. Because a non-socialist government operates few things on a profit-and-loss basis, a businessman is typically irrelevant to running the federal government. Surely as a conservative you do not want the government running most of the productive enterprise of America! 

At least Lee Iacocca was a superb businessman, which is more than I can say of Donald Trump! To be sure, we had a failed businessman who became President, Harry Truman, and he took that in stride. He was a better politician than a businessman, and he knew it. This is not to say that the efficiency of government operations is not to be sought -- it is. But for all his shallowness as a person, Donald Trump lacks something that most Presidents have displayed even if they have troubled administrations: integrity. 

It will be up to the American people to decide which politicians founder politically and which ones succeed. The polling that I have seen suggests that Donald Trump seems to be a mistake to many who voted for him, and he is not getting new voters for him. 

It is no crime to misrepresent one's ethnic origins. 



Rather hot, don't you think? She might have gotten away with it if she weren't so crazy and dishonest about other things. I am satisfied that she had no loyalty to the white race, as is common among people that I have met who have similar skin and hair. If anything, people who look much like that usually have even more legitimate complaints about what white people have done to them -- such as white relatives who reject them. 

This was deliberate, and it was not a crime. This said... millions of people have heard false and misleading stories about their ancestry, whether to hide something inconvenient (I do genealogy, and I have suspicion that some of my ancestors may have been black) or to maintain a story that gets better the more that the genetic contribution gets diluted into irrelevance. 


It might be more satisfying than figuring that eighth-cousins or so may have included some Nazi war criminals. I would rather have connections to Holocaust victims than to Holocaust perpetrators. Indeed if I had such a choice, I would rather be a Jew than a Nazi because as a Jew I could maintain my culture and my moral values. 

Should I ever take one of those genetic tests and I find that I have some sub-Saharan ancestry in recent times I will deal with it with the maturity that I show about trivial things. Heck, if (in an unlikely scenario) I needed infusions of melanin to free me from Asperger's I would do it. 

And let's go back to an issue of race. You do realize that by almost every measure Barack Obama was an above-average President, do you not? Contrast the freedom from chaos and corruption in his Presidency, the perverse behavior, and the rigorous adherence to Constitutional norms to what we see in Trump. We have a President offending the core sensibilities of the CIA,  the Armed Services, and federal law enforcement, groups usually seen on the Right in political orientation. I am old enough to remember a leader who had such problems in his own country. His name was Salvador Allende.

Let's recognize the realities of Donald Trump:

1. He lacks the preparation to be President.
2. He lacks the temperament to be President.
3. He lacks the integrity to be President.
4. He prefers yes-men to wise advisers.
5. He has no respect for the American political heritage.