09-17-2021, 09:41 PM
(09-17-2021, 06:53 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(09-17-2021, 12:21 PM)David Horn Wrote: There is no direct political solution to anything unless a large percentage of both houses of Congress and the Presidency are solidly left and willing to take of the glves and fight. Why? Because NO is always the default, and it's stronger now that the entire GOP has decided that voting for anything that the Dems want is some twisted version of treason. Some of the needed fixes are totally out of reach. The 2nd Amendment is still there, and I can't see any way that gets repealed. The SCotUS will remain far-right unless it's packed, which is unlikley though at least possible. Federalism limits what can be done in unison, and too many states aren't just obstructinist; they're outright antagonistic and oppositional.
I still fear this will be a next-2T fix. I just don't see the groundswell needed to make real change, but I hope I'm wrong on that.
You didn't have the groundswell needed in the first place. So, what's going on in your head? Why didn't you know that? I told you it was a bad idea to go along and elect a senile old man who couldn't think for himself and shouldn't have run to begin with.
We shouldn't have elected the President before him who leaves questions about senility and none about his gross immaturity. Trump is an intellectual mediocrity, but we have gotten away with that. This is a man who mocked someone for having been a POW and another for having a handicap. That's the sort of thing that one grows out of when one is in the high single digits in age. He has the emotional level of a typical fourth- or fifth-grader.
I am sure that you have never taken a college-level course on child development. There's plenty of juicy stuff in such a course. One is sexual development, and as a rule kids around ten years old typically have no sex drive. Good evolutionary reason exists for this. A terribly-immature person with a strong sex drive would be a rapist if a boy, and a nymphomaniac if a girl. That's not sexist. A ten-year-old is a child unfit for adult desires and responsibilities. Donald Trump is an immature, predatory sex fiend. Mature people know that some things are not worth getting away with -- like drunkenness, drugs, vehicular speed, and predatory sex. Genuine maturity suggests kindness (empathy), caution, and kindness, all of which Donald Trump lacks.
I asked the college teacher what sorts of people terribly immature people are like. Many are criminals, shady businesspeople, and despots. If one must choose between an IQ of 70 and an EQ of 100 (average) or an EQ (emotional quotient) of 70, and a mediocre (IQ = 100) then the IQ of 70 is preferable to the 70 EQ. The former might be someone who gets along in a menial job under close supervision. The latter is "smarter than the average crook", the sort of person clever enough to use date rape drugs to get unwelcome sex or who is a slightly-more-clever bank robber. As for senility, we have the example of Ronald Reagan, a coachable fellow who could be pushed into a largely-ceremonial role while competent people like Casper Weinberger and George Shultz set things up and the Vice-President took on many of the non-formal responsibilities of the President. If the mental state of President Biden fades, then I expect that to happen.
Immature people look out for themselves alone -- their gain, their indulgence, their power, and their self-esteem. Mature people recognize that a high income, an impressive job title, official recognition, bureaucratic power, and the discretion to break the rules as necessary are special privileges that serve some higher purpose. Those all end when one is no longer able to use such privileges for the advantage of one's organization.
Donald Trump is roughly nine years older than I am, so I have known him (at least through media) throughout most of my adult life. He has never impressed me. I have seen him as a hollow egoist as long as I have "known" him. His tenure at Trump Airline and the USFL never impressed me. His casinos lost money -- which is simply amazing. How can one lose money with a business that is nothing more than a money machine unless one is being bled (in gambling, that is called skimming). Vodka? Steaks? Please! His hotels are examples of bad taste that I associate with dictators who have come from nothing and achieved absolute power; I have a thread on that. Others with similar bad taste are gangsters like John Gotti and dope kingpins like Pablo Escobar and Carlos Lehder. I made a thread on that topic. Many of the images are no more, and I made much of the point that power does not induce bad taste. The residence of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is austere enough to be approachable. So if you are the Prime Minister and you meet a union official who knows from a tender age what a coal mine looks like you can relate. If you are Margaret Thatcher and much of your constituency is small-business owners, then you won't overawe someone who owns a mom-and-pop business. The Prime Minister of the UK has typically been one of the most powerful persons in the world. That has included Sir Winston Churchill, who could do about anything except murder a rival or opponent or bleed his country dry to enrich himself -- or change the interior design. Michelle Obama, a very middle-class person, could feel comfortable there. I question whether she would have felt comfortable at one of the palaces of Satan Hussein.
Good people can tolerate some austerity.
Quote:So, what do you think the repercussions should be now that most of America knows we were right? Biden is done dude. It's only a matter of time before America demands his resignation and the Democrat's are forced to let go of him and then forced to explain why he was able to become President in the first place.
Donald Trump is one scary person. Did you hear what General Milley had to say of him? Trump was willing to start a war of aggression with the People's Republic of China to preserve his failed Presidency. But even before that was exposed there was the Capitol Putsch that, had it worked, would have extended his term and negated a valid Presidential election. That is how dictatorships often begin: with the recently-elected leader extending his term.
Quote:I mean, it's not like he wasn't showing obvious signs to begin with before entering office. Biden is the biggest hoax the Democratic party and it's GOP allies have managed to pull off so far. I hope you're not to reliant on DC and the money that's currently flowing out of it because the bulk of it is most likely going to be diverted to the Red capital and redistributed to Red Americans. Now, you are fortunate because you are an American veteran and you know what Red America thinks about American veterans these days. As I've mentioned, you're the only one in the group who has a chance of coming out of this relatively unscathed at this point.
How can anyone still defend Donald Quisling Trump?
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.