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17th May 2020, 11:53 AM | #81 |
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1. He'd never do that. 2. Okay but he's not currently doing it. 3. Okay but he's not currently technically doing it. 4. Okay but everyone does it. 5. He's doing it, we can't stop him, no point in complaining about it. 6. We all knew he was going to do it which... makes it okay somehow. 7. It's perfectly fine that's he's doing it. |
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17th May 2020, 12:48 PM | #82 |
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17th May 2020, 04:14 PM | #88 |
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His ideology. Ignorance and idiocy. Seriously,I can't remember a President that has made stupidity and ignorance a brand to follow like Trump has. It reminds of a joke that my father use to repeat. There is no problem, that brute force and ignorance can't overcome.
Science? What's that? Doh! It's like we made Homer Simpson President. |
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17th May 2020, 08:11 PM | #90 |
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By what political ideology do his supporters in Congress identify themselves? By what political ideology do his supporters at Fox News identify themselves? By what political affiliation do most of his supporters at web blog sites identify themselves? In fact, by what political affiliation does Trump identify himself and constantly seeks to present himself as the opposite of “liberals” and “socialists?”
But his is not a true Scotsman conservatism? Trump hijacked conservatism as previously defined and made it his. But the vast majority of those who were conservatives hopped on the new train willingly and continue to support him slavishly to this day. They must find him conservative enough for their tastes. More so, it may be a new conservatism but the old conservatism planted the roots and watered the ground for Trump. Old conservatism exploited racism for political gain starting with the Southern Strategy and continuing with dog whistles and nods and winks up until Trump appeared. It defined and laid the foundations for most of the memes used by Trump. It invited the right wing and evangelistic crazies into the tent hoping to exploit them, only to discover the accuracy of the camel nose metaphor. None of this was invented by Trump. Trump’s conservatism grew directly from and is what conservatism has become. But I do understand your desire to deny this. Interesting that so many of your posts are in support of Trump. Do you identify yourself as conservative? |
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"... the old conservatism planted the roots and watered the ground for Trump."
I'd characterize the old conservatism as spreading the fertilizer, so that Trump could put down a deep tap root. |
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Her’s the post that started the rent free accusation. Someone mentioned a record that had been set. Very often, when records are discussed, people speculate about who might break that record. Of all the people who want to be president, those two are closer than everybody when it comes to being as venal, corruptible, narrow-minded, self-centered, and Dishonest As President Trump. (I did limit myself to real people - there are cartoon villains and buffoons that come close to the president’s incompetence. Personally, I think the fact that I mentioned each of them no more than once in the past seven months is evidence that I am not doing the rent-free thingie. You may come to a different conclusion. |
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18th May 2020, 12:27 PM | #93 |
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I still cant digest seeing Donald Trumps name in such a list. Unbelievable....
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18th May 2020, 12:41 PM | #94 |
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18th May 2020, 02:23 PM | #95 |
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Actually he is. Sorry.
Socially, he is giving the evangelicals what they wanted... courts stacked with anti-abortion justices. Fiscally, he has given tax cuts to the wealthy, and has worked to roll back fiscal and environmental regulations. He also favors higher military spending (even if its at the expense of social programs.) That is pretty much text-book conservative there. The only place he might differ from conservatives is in his support for trade wars, but that is easily dwarfed by all other aspects of his policies. Now, you might complain that "He's just an opportunist", or "he hasn't held conservative beliefs for very long". But there is nothing about being "conservative" that requires any beliefs to be held particularly deeply. Like it or not Trump is currently the standard-bearer for conservative beliefs. |
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18th May 2020, 03:24 PM | #97 |
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The joke is there never has been an actual conservative POTUS. Youre not a conservative when you run staggering deficits like every Republican President since Hoover. This idea that cutting taxes on the wealthy and budget be damned does not make one a conservative. The only POTUS to balance the budget and in fact run surplus budgets was Bill Cilintin. That so called screaming liberal.
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Yes. I very well have missed some.
If anyone in this thread knows someone who wants to be president who is close to being as venal, corruptible, narrow-minded, self-centered, and Dishonest As President Trump, please let me know. One of the reasons I made that claim is that many people who have more than 5 sexual assault cases often say to themselves “this will make it extremely difficult to win primaries, therefore I will set aside my desire to be president.” The same applies to people who make money by bilking investors and like to keep their finances secret. But, I don’t want to derail the thread, so I withdraw my assertion, and I withdraw all my speculation about future presidents. ETA the other reason I will abandon the claim is that, as has been pointed out upthread, it is too soon to get an accurate picture of President Trump. |
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If it were any other president, I might agree.... its unknown how the long-term effects of an administration's policies might play out, things may change in the last month of a president's term.
I don't think any of that applies to Trump. We have seen time and time again how incompetent he is, so its unlikely that things might change between now and whenever he leaves office. And unlike other presidents, it is hard to find anything positive to say about his tenure.... everything he has done has been a failure... economic policy (skyrocketing deficit, trade wars), integrity (impeachment, constant lies), social policy (causing millions of people to lose health care). |
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Not to mention rolling back environmental safeguards in a time when the rest of the world has acknowledged Global Warming and impending disaster if things don't change. Then there's all the financial deregulations enacted after the financial crisis of 2008 to prevent a repeat.
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