“Think about that…”
Call me crazy, but I would have thought that in a country with a population of 340 million people, we could find a couple of candidates that exemplify intelligence and integrity along with the grit and boldness needed to run our country without destroying the basic concept of truth. And here I’m speaking to Hillary as well.
Hillary. Trump. Biden. What the everloving fuck, really?
And you’d think I’d be jaded doing the work I do, but it’s just the opposite. Maybe I’ve been phenomenally lucky, or maybe the evil and crazy don’t make it to second appointments so I never get to know them, but most of the people I work with are decent human beings, trying to break destructive patterns (destructive to self, mostly, though not always).
I don’t think of myself as naive at all. I have fairly high moral standards for myself and my children and would like my leaders to exemplify the same.
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Sorry, not to derail but I just had to ask…is it just me, or is Tulsi Gabbard sexy as hell? It’s not the “hot” that someone like Elle McPherson has (sorry, showing my age), it’s something I can’t quite identify. I don’t know what it is about her, perhaps her aggressive/tough talk, or her eyes, hell I don’t know but whenever I see her on TV she has my full attention.
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The bikini pics are not tulsi
We did, and Trump is uniquely qualified for this job. He seems to possess the traits you just mentioned.
Knowing what I know about local and state politics in Maine, the entire Democratic Party seems to have a built-in process for weeding out high intelligence, high integrity, and high achieving people. This also seems true on the Republican side, but to a much lesser degree. Laurel Libby is a good Maine example of how someone with the traits you seek can find political success, but she is merely a state representative.
Who in their right mind would want to spend a career swimming in those waters? Donald Trump hacked the machine without needing to be a corrupt career politician, and it is no coincidence that he experienced the machine’s wrath.
I would have liked it in Trumps first term if he were more measured, faithful to his wife, and more effective, but now I think that all of those traits are part of what makes him the bull in the China shop we actually needed.
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"You have frightened me several times tonight, but never in the way the servants of the Enemy would, or so I imagine. I think one of his spies would—well, seem fairer and feel fouler, if you understand.”
“I see. I look foul and feel fair. Is that it?”
If anyone is seeking a soothing salve about yesterday’s news, Heather Cox Richardson is there to explain why Gabbard’s press conference was an “unforced error” and that the entire Russian Collusion hoax the public was subjected to was an example of good media coverage and sound government functioning.
Maybe this is the first time she’s going to be proven correct in her decade or so of being a professional hack writer who has been wrong about everything, but I doubt it.
I think you have the wrong character.
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I don’t think I do. Aragorn, known as Strider, was perceived as a very disreputable character in the town of Bree. People speculating on his motivations tended to assume he was up to no good.
I don’t want to spoil the book for anyone, but it turns out that those rumors were FAKE NEWS.
Sauron gained power by appearing very fair and winning the trust of Celebrimbor, learning the secrets of ring making in the process. Few were able to see through the exterior to discern his true nature.
He ultimately forged his own doom in his deceitful scheme to dominate all life in Middle Earth. The One Ring made him more powerful than ever, but also more vulnerable.
I hate to break it to you, but nobody gets up in the political sphere that shows any of these qualities besides maybe intelligence and boldness.
Even those are questionable sometimes. You have to be in the “club”.
Trump is also in the club no matter how he has run on being an outsider of politics or not “political”. That is all bullshit. All politicians suck outside of maybe Massie at that level. He is the only one not bought by AIPAC.
Obama was 100% groomed for his spot and controlled like the rest as part of the club. My cynicism at this point with politics regardless of the letter beside their name tells me this is all a grand show - a movie. Nobody connected is going to jail.
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I think Trump was in “The Club” up until he won the nomination.
It seems to me that “The Club” has been hostile to him ever since, and his actions especially in this term have been observably destructive to “The Club’s” interests.
Of course many different clubs exist within “The Club” and outside of it. Who is in The Epstein Pedo Club is still the great unanswered question of our times.
I think these people have been doing this so long that it is all manufactured.
I am not saying “The Club” hasn’t taken shots at a rogue actor from their plan, but at this point I am leaning towards he is just more of the same.
You have to give the people a show every now and then like the Roman Arena.
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Those adrenochrome withdrawals are brutal, so I hear.
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I think you’re being overly cynical.
They definitely pulled off a very long Kabuki theater play on the public, but the machine that propelled the false or distorted narratives is running out of fuel and is increasingly being ignored.
Regardless of what happens with Trump as he finishes his term, MAGA is going to remain and grow stronger. We presently have the most conservative generation of men in history growing up, and the Dems have nothing to offer but more socialism.
Even here in Maine, with some of the most propagandized public school students in the nation, Trump won the statewide high school mock election by 11 points. That’s a hugely encouraging sign.
Government is such a leviathan that it takes an awful to change, but it appears to be happening in significant ways.
Plus Israel is less popular than ever in both major parties, at least among the voters themselves.
you’re not supposed to mention this part, remember?
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And it needs to be answered no matter who is on the Pedo list
and a growing number of people want this.
We’re headed for a reset.
We’ve become uncucked from israel?
Oh, right…
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I am getting forgetful and cranky in my older age.
The average voter has the IQ and memory of a goldfish and I am being generous. Politicians are still 99% bought and slaves to AIPAC.
I will be overly cynical until I am proven otherwise (hasn’t happened yet).
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