The Trumpening
So, media reports say Trump wins Indiana. Not surprising, really.
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May 3rd, 2016 at 8:46 pm
..but Hillary can’t seal the deal?…..and they say republicans are in trouble….
May 3rd, 2016 at 8:51 pm
And Cruz just dropped out.
May 3rd, 2016 at 8:59 pm
Might be too late, but could it be that this Cruz exit sooner than we thought portends a “deal” with the artist of them?
I really hope so, this nation needs both of those guys.
May 3rd, 2016 at 9:03 pm
Man, I have trouble envisioning any deals being make after the verbal exchanges today….
May 3rd, 2016 at 9:16 pm
Trump will be too busy lining his own pockets to do the kind of damage the Hildebeast is capable of. Trump is the slow hand-basket.
May 3rd, 2016 at 9:37 pm
“Trump is the slow hand-basket.”
He’s to the left of Obama and Bush on bailouts, nationalizing the banking system, and single-payer “healthcare”, and if it’s possible he’s more arrogant and Narcissistic than Obama and has more of a sense of entitlement than JEB, but you believe whatever you want.
I’ve been pleading with the Trumpsters for months; “I really, really don’t want to have to say I told you so.”
What will be mildly and temporarily satisfying is that the media can, once Trump secures the nomination, finally unleash all the dirt they have complied on him. I won’t bother to point out what happened to McCain after the media helped get him nominated. This time it could be different though; since Trump is clearly a leftist (or more precisely, a national socialist) the media could, maybe, side with him over Hillary. Unlikely but not impossible.
May 3rd, 2016 at 10:45 pm
+1 for Lyle Trump is the same kind of scum as Hillary. I think Hillary is probably the bigger crook and Trump the bigger thug but it is close and could be the other way around. As for ideology, we know what Hillary is. Who knows what Trump is. I have three theories. He could be a latter day Williams Jennings Bryan, the second coming of Mussolini or just an orange Obama. Not fond of any of the options.
May 3rd, 2016 at 11:23 pm
The one hates you and wants you dead. The other might be hustling you.
What is known about HC Trumps the fuck out of what is unknown about DT.
May 4th, 2016 at 1:28 am
I am more willing to risk a chance of being snookered by Trump than a guarantee of being fucked over completely by Hillary.
May 4th, 2016 at 2:33 am
Vote for whoever you think can send a tingle up your leg, but I am no fool, and its far better to lose 4 years to a nitwit who will crush her party under a opposed senate and house than dare a full R ticket that then subsequently fucks everything up and sinks the only path to a republic based constitutional government.
We are a government of LAW not party, we ruled by LAW and not the will of the angry mob, Trump represents a change in the party that shifts republicans to a populist ideology just as Obama shifted democrats to a socialist ideology, TRUMP PUSHES US TO THE LEFT … NOT THE RIGHT.
It is far better to watch a centrist lefty fail than a leftist RINO succeed.
May 4th, 2016 at 7:55 am
I can’t figure out these supposed “conservatives” like National Review who lead a “stop Reagan” movement back in the Spring of 1980. Yet now, he’s their icon, even though he didn’t get us into unconstitutional no-win wars with open borders that is considered Republican “conservative” doctrine now. And these supposed “conservatives” of recent history supported Romney, McCain and Bush??? One wonders just what it was they were trying to conserve. When I review the Bush agenda, Obama has been virtually no CHANGE, only more.
And then there’s the “conservative” doctrine of “free trade” of which that paragon of Republican conservatism Henry Kissinger wrote in praise when NAFTA was being promoted: “It is not a conventional trade agreement, but an architecture for a new international system,
a creative step toward a New World Order.” George H.W. Bush couldn’t get it done so his step son, Bill, (according o Barbara), did.
May 4th, 2016 at 8:55 am
For those who argue better 4 years under Hilary with the idea what else can she do should reflect how much Obama did these last 7 years. No Trump is better than her.
May 4th, 2016 at 9:45 am
Hillary has said she wants to continue “the Obama Legacy”, especially intensifying the assault on gun owners as domestic terrorists.
May 4th, 2016 at 9:49 am
And this guy who y’all feel so superior to, just came in from the outside and skunked your Great Conservative Hope. By winning a majority of the votes. Over and over again.
Now: Will y’all learn any lessons from this? Or will y’all just stand around and play social-signal games with each other?
May 4th, 2016 at 10:07 am
“…we ruled by LAW and not the will of the angry mob…”
Law created and enforced to keep you broke and in your place, will doubled down by those who will replace you at the polls and remove from your hands your ability to defend against them and their mob.
An angry mob which is the heretofore silent, long-suffering majority who see than one or two more cycles of the same will remove their ability to make their anger be heard and enacted to undo the damage and change that is intended to remove us and our influence from the Republic that was and then finish off any vestige of that Republic and its guiding Constitutional principles.
No, YOU follow your LAWS, I and the rest of the ANGRY MOB will will kill them and their enforcers before they kill us.
May 4th, 2016 at 10:16 am
“No, YOU follow your LAWS, I and the rest of the ANGRY MOB will will kill them and their enforcers before they kill us.”
With all do respect, that dumbshit talk… and ironically the only reason you can say that, and the only reason you feel that you may have some chance in hell at defending yourself is BECAUSE of those laws.
But hey, its a free country… so far the “i’m a badass revolutionary” thing has worked out really well for folks, I am sure you will be fine.
May 4th, 2016 at 10:30 am
“I can’t figure out these supposed “conservatives” like National Review who lead a “stop Reagan” movement back in the Spring of 1980.”
Because they were right.
Reagan is a PERFECT example of why I won’t vote for trump. Reagan was a TERRIBLE president. Lets look at the facts shall we?
Banned Machine guns and restricted you gun rights with a law called “Fireowners Protection Act”
Created the government shutdown system that now is used like a stick to ensure that the house doesn’t actually own the purse.
COBRA – Created Omnibus spending bills further limiting the house on its spending restrictions…
Tripled the deficit
Funded and trained what would be Al-qaeda …literally
Raised Taxes 11 times in his administration.
OH and my favorite, Invented Amnesty for Illegals
Yeah he was a SHITLORD of a president who was more concerned about his legacy than the health of this country. May his withered soul burn in hell.
Its called facts people, its how trumPets get owned and how Trump is going to lose.
May 4th, 2016 at 11:02 am
Oh and “free Trade” is not really all that difficult to grasp.
While I understand that folks don’t understand global economics… because complex concepts are harder than scream “TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP” the fact remains that tariffs do little to help those in the middle class.
OH and your evil NAFTA… yeah the facts are that it did almost nothing to our manufacturing economy while at the same time crushed mexico’s framing industry.
Has our blue collar labor force been effected by free trade? Yeah sure, slightly but the effect has been far more caused by THE ABSENCE of free trade.
That’s something you and “the Donald” don’t seem to get. China has been pulling a FDR and using a relatively stable currency to devalue his workforce while forcing his internal proletariat to basically work for less than they are worth.
Can anyone guess how this will end?
For FDR is was a second depression, for china is becoming MUCH worse. The best thing we can do now is sit back and enjoy their collapse, and when their currency is valued at dirt …. drop the debt like its hot.
Its called a long game for a reason, don’t be so damn short sighted.
May 4th, 2016 at 12:48 pm
Justaguy,
Yes, Reagan signed the machine gun ban. He also got a law passed ending ATF record keeping of ammo sales and the Federal safe passage law for travelers with firearms.
He also dug us out of the Carter recession, started the longest sustained economic growth of the last century and made America a nation to be respected and taken seriously again.
Was he a perfect President? No but in considered opinion he was the best one in the past 50 years
May 4th, 2016 at 1:16 pm
Reagan did succeed in ending the primary existential threat to our nation, the Soviet Union, without a nuclear or conventional war.
Today and tomorrow and into the future we are and will be suffering the legacy of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, with their formerly somewhat disciplined satellite states and revolutionary partners and rather well organized revolutionary movements remaining in place and free to create as much havoc worldwide as possible.
Cleaning up the mess left across the entire globe from the existence of the Soviet Union is and will be the primary job of the 21st Century, and I include current Muslim issues as part of that mess. Hell, even China changed economic organization since 1989 despite maintaining the totalitarian dictatorship of the Party.
I remember doing duck & cover drills in elementary school, ineffectual & stupid as that seems now. Now that was a problematic time. Today all we have to do is say NO or maybe HELL, NO, DAMMIT, to Hillary and her sycophants, and keep the legislature from becoming a Socialism enabling Democrat stronghold. I think we can do this better with Trump in office than otherwise, if only because a Republican Congress is much more likely to show some spine against Trumps deviations from desired policy than what we know Hillary will ram through with every corrupt practice, lie, blackmail, or threats she has at her disposal, including the entire federal Executive Branch, which she won’t even have to tell to f@#k every Hillary non-supporter in the US six ways to Sunday.
I like a good IRS audit as much as anyone; I’d rather have them just auditing me for my taxes than my ideology.
May 4th, 2016 at 2:35 pm
“With all do (sic) respect, that dumbshit talk… and ironically the only reason you can say that, and the only reason you feel that you may have some chance in hell at defending yourself is BECAUSE of those laws.
My friend, you exhibit the same level of understanding of the difference between Constitutional protections and “laws” as you do your command of spelling and articulation.
May 4th, 2016 at 4:00 pm
We’ve yet to have a Constitutionalist as Prez, maybe since Jefferson and Madison. I’ve tried in recent elections by usually voting for the Constitution Party candidate. I reluctantly vetoed for George W. Bush in 2000, but learned soon afterward that he was not CONSERVING the Constitution. That’s my objective standard as a “conservative”, what is being conserved. And for me it’s the objective wording of the Constitution and all the Bill of Rights.
May 4th, 2016 at 4:16 pm
You have no idea what you’re talking about there.
May 4th, 2016 at 8:14 pm
Tam,
“You have no idea what you’re talking about there.”
You never cease to disappoint.
H.R. 4332 seeks to ammend 18 U.S.C. § 922 to add subsection (o):
(o)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), it shall be unlawful for any person to transfer or possess a machinegun.
(2) This subsection does not apply with respect to—
(A) a transfer to or by, or possession by or under the authority of, the United States or any department or agency thereof or a State, or a department, agency, or political subdivision thereof; or
(B) any lawful transfer or lawful possession of a machinegun that was lawfully possessed before the date this subsection takes effect.
Tell me again who has no idea what they are talking about ?
May 4th, 2016 at 8:19 pm
you exhibit the same level of understanding of the difference between Constitutional protections and “laws”
*facepalm* Constitutional Protections are enumerated by the BILL OF RIGHTS… and the constitution but honestly the bill of rights are not really binding until such time that they became signed into …
…. wait for it …
LAW
thus being ratified into the constitution.
I love how you got your ass handed to you and you best reply was “your spelling sucks and I am going to split hairs on my definition of the constitution”
That’s called losing the argument.
May 4th, 2016 at 8:34 pm
Mikee,
I first have to comend you on being the only person who managed to a) present a counter argument of merit, b) did so in the face of what, in all honesty was not my nicest prose (as you may have noticed I am a bit irritated at my fellow “republicans” eventually I will move past this… probably sometime in november when I am telling them “i told you so”)
Now to answer your points:
“Reagan did succeed in ending the primary existential threat to our nation, the Soviet Union, without a nuclear or conventional war.”
Man I want to give him credit for this, I really do, but … did he really? and if he did at what cost?
a) much of the military spending drove us into massive debt that we still have today
b) USSR was heading for full on collapse with or without him in most cases
c) Our intervention in afghanistan only seemed to come back and bite us in the ass later.
Then there is of course the china comparison.
Meaning, what would you say was better, reagan intervention that caused USSR hard collapse or china’s soft collapse.
I mean the moral argument of human rights is out the window considering putin is in power now.
But moving on, can we do better with trump…
well… possibly but it won’t matter. Trump won’t win.
Hell at this point the best we can hope for is a 3 way split.
May 5th, 2016 at 8:38 am
I live to disappoint you.
That is about 1/20th of the content of FOPA ’86, a rider that was added at the eleventh hour to a bill that contained otherwise nothing but pro-2A rollbacks of the original wording of GCA ’68.
Either you didn’t know that and you are ignorant, or you did know it and are intellectually dishonest.
Don’t bother replying, because I couldn’t care less which of those two it is.
May 5th, 2016 at 10:12 am
justaguy, there is no argument, you prove over and over that you are ignorant, deceptive, illiterate, attention-starved, and worst by far, a proponent of potus Hillary…yep, it’s right there in your blather upthread. And since you are so obviously challenged as to words and their meanings, I will save you the trouble of looking up “loser” and say that you can just find a mirror.
May 5th, 2016 at 11:15 am
Justaguy: Yes, it was Reagan, Thatcher, and John Paul II who brought down the USSR; it could have rolled on as a unstable threat for decades otherwise (after all, any number of eggs could have been broken to keep making that omelet). And they did it without millions dead, which is nice, in my opinion.
Debt can be managed; holes where cities used to be are more expensive by far.
I blame Clinton for the problems in Afghanistan. When one sees a real problem festering and ignores it for BJs, one gets the blame. And I blame Hillary for her role as defender and enabler of Bill.
May 5th, 2016 at 1:38 pm
@mikee, well said, and Reagan, doing it without wars for regime change and establishing democracy, would be labeled as a dangerous “isolationist” and unfit as a “conservative” according to the Republican establishment these days. But then the Republican establishment had their “stop Reagan” movement in the Spring of 1980.
May 5th, 2016 at 5:58 pm
Trump has stated that he wants to audit the Federal Reserve, sit down and talk with Putin and other leaders as opposed to bomb first policy, he has stated that he would appoint Judge Nepalitano to the supreme court, and as stated that he does not support globalism. If Trump holds to his promises, he might well be the next Reagan. It is a far reach from pro globalist Cruz whose Goldman connection, his wife’s signing on to the North American Union, and his push for pro illegal immigration would get us nothing but the status quo. While Trump leaves us with not knowing, at least we know what will not be going forward.