I’ve had to put up with the Fake News from the first day I announced that I would be running for President. Now I have to put up with a Fake Book, written by a totally discredited author. Ronald Reagan had the same problem and handled it well. So will I!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2018
Reagan is remembered by millions of Americans as a great and beloved President, and Trump knows that, but I am sure he also knows that the anti-Trumpers will leap at the opportunity to say, but Reagan was senile and that's what we think you are too, ha ha.
I presume Trump not only knows that he is provoking that reaction but knows that reaction will backfire. It will backfire because: 1. Anyone who likes Reagan already rejects the idea that he was impaired by Alzheimer's Disease while he was President, 2. It's offensive to appropriate the misfortune of Alzheimer's Disease for making cheap political points, and 3. Many people have experienced immense pain dealing with Alzheimer's Disease, and that emotion can only be reshaped into a reason to hate Trump if you trample on that pain.
ALSO: Fake News... Fake Book is great rhetoric.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 215 of 215The interesting thing is that they would engage in such blatantly illegal acts without fearing repercussions.
They thought Trump would lose. None of this would have been revealed if Hillary had won.
Europe is not very socialist according to any reasonable standard … They do government better.
Hilarious. Not having to fund their own military forces while American troops protected them from the Soviet post-WW2 aggression left the Euros with a surplus which they used to finance their welfare state.
Wave goodbye because a European Europe is disappearing, along with its socialist “paradise.”
Its past was sometimes glorious, its present is an apology for terrorism and its future is state-supported sharia in a majority Islamic society as fast as Merkel and her ilk can make it happen.
Buwaya,
Sorry. Thought you were talking solar.
I've been a fan of nuclear power since I attended the navy's nuclear power school in 68
For those still frightened of niclear power I recommend te docudrama The China Syndrome with Jack lemmon, Wilfred Brimley and Hanoi jane.
Great pro-nuke movie.
Just blogged about it yesterday, in fact. Darkislandpr.blogspot.com
John Henry
The totally screwed up US medical system affects everywhere in the US, it is extremely costly, vs European standards, in every state. More in some than in others, but this is a national problem. It bloats private insurance costs even more than Medicare/Medicaid. And its been doing so for decades, the divergence vs Europe began, IIRC, back in the 1970s.
No matter how much people want to be let alone, they aren't being let alone. More, they may not realize how much they are being imposed upon. Taxation is sneaky. Often it takes the form of regulations that impose costs, transferring money to favored parties, without passing through the government. This is one reason why Euro-US comparisons vis "socialism" are very murky.
People have a hard time seeing out of their bubbles. It takes experience and an active curiosity to cross through.
So when will he start?
What do you care? Fools like you screamed for eight, solid years that Ronny Raygun was going to kill us all!!!!
And you were wrong. Consistently.
So wrong in fact, that you got your asses handed to you 49-1 in 1984.
Pull out your old Sane/Freeze signs and go stand on the corner.
“How the FBI helped Hillary and her cronies get away with breaking the law.”
Maybe the biggest unpublished news right now is how fast things are moving right now. As Dr K has suggested, I suggest reading every day:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/
“What do you care?”
I care because I want a President, not a buffoon in the Oval Office, unlike you, dummy.
So, Toothless,
Difference between you progressivism an National Socialism and/or Fascism?
Is there any?
Prefer not to say? I understand if you don't.
John Henry
Ah, the "mandate". The born unPlanned penalty tax. You were never viable. Thou shalt not be missed.
Reagan changed the world without elective regime changes, immigration reform (e.g. trail of tears, population replacement), and opening abortion fields.
I did, too, c2008-2017 but both choices were buffoons.
So, John,
Difference between you reactionary conservatism and Nazism and/or Fascism?
Is there any?
Prefer not to say? I understand if you don't.
Long John Schmendry
"difference between your reactionary conservatism and Nazism ..."
Interesting question, and worth exploring. A related, and more interesting question is the difference between any modern political system and fascism. The little problem here is that they, "reactionary" conservatism of a European flavor, fascism, "socialism", Euro or third-world variety, etc., are all born of the same roots, the 19th century reaction against big-L Liberalism and big-S Socialism. These are all "third way" systems that in one way or another attempt to split the difference. And in the modern world this is the default political compromise.
We are all Fascists now.
Moreover,
Out in the third-world there are hordes of Gabriele D'Annunzios, all nominally celebrated in left-wing American universities.
“The Commies and Communist were just as evil as the NAZIs and National Socialism. It is puzzling to me why the Left has never understood this.”
The Holocaust?
Read up on what Stalin did to the Cossacks, or to the Poles when he attacked Poland. Mao murdered more than thirty million of his peasants. Pol Pot murdered his intellectuals, over a third of the population. Every Communist takeover was immediately followed by mass executions, oppression and persecution.
What's a good Greek (or other) myth that covers this?
What? Is TTR referring to himself as an angel again. The leftist savior of the oppressed?
Virtue is easy, ritmo, when you don't actually do anything and your girlfriend is inflatable.
Ritmo. The internet virtue ninja.
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