12-10-2020, 06:13 PM
(12-10-2020, 04:37 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(12-10-2020, 10:08 AM)David Horn Wrote:(12-10-2020, 07:47 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(12-10-2020, 04:00 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(12-09-2020, 02:38 PM)David Horn Wrote: I doubt Trump can do anything that would alienate his most loyal followers. He's right: he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it.
Scary, isn't it? That is a personality cult.
Scary, yes, but in any but the reddest state, his loyal followers are enough to make a politician who opposes him lose the primary, but not enough to win the general election. It creates an interesting dynamic.
Trump moved to Florida to make himself immune to rationality. Remember, this is the state that ran a raid on the home of a health researcher with guns drawn and children in the house: her crime was telling the truth.
Nothing is outside the bounds anymore.
Isn't that the same state that Clinton sent in a group of heavily armed Feds to enter an American home to seize a little Cuban kid and end a drawn out international custody dispute? Isn't that the same state that we watched the Liberal courts drag out an election result for months as it tried to change election laws after Gore lost the election? Isn't it also the state where a group of heavily armed Feds and a group of CNN reporters were sent to the home of an avid Trump supporter to be arrested on petty charges that had nothing to do with Russian collusion?
His mother brought him to America, only to drown in the process. Family law clearly states that custody goes to the surviving spouse unless abuse, neglect, or child endangerment intervenes. This applies just the same whether the surviving parent is in Cuba or Cyprus. That his father is a Commie does not constitute abuse.
The judge making the decision, a Reagan appointee, began his statement with "as much as I abhor the Castro regime"... Maybe the child would not be sent to a war zone, but Castro's Cuba is was not a war zone.
The Presidential election of 2000 did drag on in Florida... until not-so-liberal courts stopped the counting of ballots with "hanging chads" with Dubya leading.
Florida had a Trump supporter, Cesar Sayoc, allegedly making pipe bombs allegedly mailed by an active Democratic member of Congress. Making bombs? Count on the Feds hunting you down to make an example of you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_20...g_attempts
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.