08-09-2020, 11:39 AM
** 09-Aug-2020 World View: Hitler vs checks and balances
OK, I'll talk to my doctor about getting a frontal lobotomy, so that
when politicians start spewing piles of unbearable self-serving
crap then instead of being outraged I'll be placated like you and so
many others, and just smile and nod pleasantly.
No, my point is that Trump isn't a Hitler and never could be a Hitler,
for many reasons, including the fact that the US constitution contains
checks and balances that Hitler never had to cope with.
A better example for comparison is Barack Obama. He was a crazed
maniac with plans to try to bring peace to the world through
his unopposed policies.
In June 2008, he said, "I am absolutely certain that generations from
now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was
the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to
the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to
slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a
war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best
hope on Earth."
At the time he said this, I thought it was just the usual crazy
nonsense crap coming from politicians, but I was shocked later that
Obama actually believed it. In the 2008 campaign, Obama said that he
was going to heal the world as soon as he took office. He would be
guided by facts, not like President Bush, who had been guided by
ideology and ignored facts. He would cure global warming, close
Guantánamo island prison, become friendly with Iran and North Korea,
bring a two-state solution to Palestinians and Israelis, beat the
Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, impose strict gun control
policies, reflate the real estate and stock market bubbles and, of
course, provide universal health care.
Obama and his supporters actually believed this crap. Obama had the
same contempt for Bush that Hitler had for Paul von Hindenburg. Obama
would impose all his policies through force around the world, just as
Hitler had tried to do.
Fortunately, Obama was stopped by the checks and balances in the US
constitution. The Republicans and even many Democrats opposed his
nonsense.
Fortunately for all of us, catastrophe was averted by the US
constitution and its checks and balances. Every single one of Obama's
crazy policies -- from Guantánamo all the way through to universal
health care -- was a failure.
And that's a good thing. If Obama had had the same power as Xi Jinping,
then we would have been at war with North Korea, at war in the Mideast,
in a larger war in Afghanistan, and the American economy would have
been as thoroughly destroyed as Mao Zedong accomplished with China's
economy through the Great Leap Forward.
So the Democrats under Obama suffered one disastrous failure after another,
and then suffered another failure -- the failure to use the phony
Russia accusations to stop Trump. After the elections, Democrats
continued to try to overthrow America's democracy with the phony
Mueller investigation and the phony Ukraine impeachment.
After those humiliating failures, Democrats are moving on. They want
to send out 180 million ballot papers and let people vote through the
mail, so that they can use fraud to prevent Trump's reelection. And
they've put forward a candidate who is barely capable of speaking an
entire coherent sentence, with the obvious intention of having him die
or resign quickly and have his far-left vice president take office.
This kind of thing would be a dream come true for Hitler's supporters.
I don't know how the Democrats' criminal activity will pan out, but
I'm pretty sure that the US Constitution's checks and balances will
stop the worst of it, as they have in the past.
(08-08-2020, 11:25 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: > Acknowledged, but if you want to be taken more seriously than your
> average comic strip, you might not want to treat everything as a
> joke.
OK, I'll talk to my doctor about getting a frontal lobotomy, so that
when politicians start spewing piles of unbearable self-serving
crap then instead of being outraged I'll be placated like you and so
many others, and just smile and nod pleasantly.
(08-08-2020, 09:46 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: > Those examples don't seem encouraging. I guess what you are
> saying is that awakenings are followed by unravellings. After the
> protests demanding reform stop, you get an unravelling period that
> leads to a government of selfishness. Eventually you get a Hitler
> or a Trump out of it. I'm not sure this is what Lebanon
> needs.
No, my point is that Trump isn't a Hitler and never could be a Hitler,
for many reasons, including the fact that the US constitution contains
checks and balances that Hitler never had to cope with.
A better example for comparison is Barack Obama. He was a crazed
maniac with plans to try to bring peace to the world through
his unopposed policies.
In June 2008, he said, "I am absolutely certain that generations from
now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was
the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to
the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to
slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a
war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best
hope on Earth."
At the time he said this, I thought it was just the usual crazy
nonsense crap coming from politicians, but I was shocked later that
Obama actually believed it. In the 2008 campaign, Obama said that he
was going to heal the world as soon as he took office. He would be
guided by facts, not like President Bush, who had been guided by
ideology and ignored facts. He would cure global warming, close
Guantánamo island prison, become friendly with Iran and North Korea,
bring a two-state solution to Palestinians and Israelis, beat the
Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, impose strict gun control
policies, reflate the real estate and stock market bubbles and, of
course, provide universal health care.
Obama and his supporters actually believed this crap. Obama had the
same contempt for Bush that Hitler had for Paul von Hindenburg. Obama
would impose all his policies through force around the world, just as
Hitler had tried to do.
Fortunately, Obama was stopped by the checks and balances in the US
constitution. The Republicans and even many Democrats opposed his
nonsense.
Fortunately for all of us, catastrophe was averted by the US
constitution and its checks and balances. Every single one of Obama's
crazy policies -- from Guantánamo all the way through to universal
health care -- was a failure.
And that's a good thing. If Obama had had the same power as Xi Jinping,
then we would have been at war with North Korea, at war in the Mideast,
in a larger war in Afghanistan, and the American economy would have
been as thoroughly destroyed as Mao Zedong accomplished with China's
economy through the Great Leap Forward.
So the Democrats under Obama suffered one disastrous failure after another,
and then suffered another failure -- the failure to use the phony
Russia accusations to stop Trump. After the elections, Democrats
continued to try to overthrow America's democracy with the phony
Mueller investigation and the phony Ukraine impeachment.
After those humiliating failures, Democrats are moving on. They want
to send out 180 million ballot papers and let people vote through the
mail, so that they can use fraud to prevent Trump's reelection. And
they've put forward a candidate who is barely capable of speaking an
entire coherent sentence, with the obvious intention of having him die
or resign quickly and have his far-left vice president take office.
This kind of thing would be a dream come true for Hitler's supporters.
I don't know how the Democrats' criminal activity will pan out, but
I'm pretty sure that the US Constitution's checks and balances will
stop the worst of it, as they have in the past.
