09-23-2018, 09:22 AM
(09-22-2018, 06:14 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: ... I watched (Nixon) get on the plane while my mom was sitting on the couch sobbing. My mom liked Nixon. Nixon ended a war that she had determined that her present government wasn't willing to win. A war that her two sons may called upon to go over and continue fighting if it continued. He was pressured to resign for an obvious reason and then formally pardoned by Gerald Ford.
You are aware that Nixon prosecuted the war too, I assume. On this issue, there are no heroes. None. I will credit Ford with ending the misery, so maybe he qualifies.
Classic Wrote:I think Trump would be making a lot more money for himself doing what he did before he became president. His kids might be benefiting but not him as President. But, you're free to think whatever you want and believe whatever you want in America today. My view of Trump is this. Trump is very different as far as Republican politicians/presidents go, but he's not all that different as far as liberal politics goes today. It's nice to see a Republican who isn't afraid to fight back and slam liberals, who isn't afraid to lie to liberals like the liberals tend lie to themselves today and isn't afraid play dirty politics like the liberals prefer to play these days.
I suspect that Trump is broke or nearly so, and has been using his position to promote his own businesses as a way to get back above the line. He and his family have made a killing on the Trump Hotel in DC -- in direct contradiction of the contract for that facility. And as far as fighting back, where do you see that expect when it benefits him personally? He's all talk and bluster on the populist stuff, and all actin when he profits. His all-for-the-rich tax cuts are the quintessential example.
Classic Wrote:It's also nice to see a president who isn't afraid do things like imposing tariffs and meeting with the leader of North Korea and opening up diplomatic channels between the North and South Koreans and forcing Europeans to anti-up and contribute more to it's own common defense and actually trying to get a handle on the number of people who are legally/illegally entering this country.
What has actually happened on ay of these fronts that benefits the US? The tariffs are just starting to hurt us, but they will hurt more as time goes on. Note: exporting countries don't pay those tariffs, US consumers do. So this is a tax-shifting mechanism as well, since the poor and middle class spend a much higher percentage of their earnings on goods, and most will have tariff costs -- some directly, some imbedded in them and some will have both.
On North Korea: so far, Kim has done nothing about his nukes, and is only negotiating with the South to get a shot at running the entire show. But as Churchill noted, "Talk talk is better than war war."
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