tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post1592705295724886025..comments2024-03-28T17:11:08.234-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: A circular firing squad?Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-15333014820073650532016-03-03T18:22:19.673-06:002016-03-03T18:22:19.673-06:00I'm from Arkansas and believe me, you don'...I'm from Arkansas and believe me, you don't want a Clinton in the White House. I'll not say more. Hope people do open their eyes to that truth.Gailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04219479223227928561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-70920638780752943492016-03-03T13:36:52.191-06:002016-03-03T13:36:52.191-06:00Have you seen the memes and articles going around ...Have you seen the memes and articles going around that compare Trump to Hitler and Stalin? <br />As the others have said, the GOP seems to believe that if they can't get one of their preferred (and malleable) scions nominated, they would rather lose the race and are pulling out all of the stops to destroy the front runner instead of try to work with him. <br />This fits with your article 2 days ago about the establishment, although in this case it is the DC based Republican part of it at work.Jonathan Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10476185257203343474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-5709714401751704362016-03-03T12:22:28.037-06:002016-03-03T12:22:28.037-06:00Part of the problem is the president just doesn...Part of the problem is the president just doesn't have the juice to fix what's broken (unless he ignores the constitution and everyone lets him (hmm that could never happen...again... Right?) So I think we're down to choosing who will screw things up the slowest. <br /> <br />I'd rather have Trump than Rubio and I'd rather have Cruz than either, but I'm not likely to get that option. I'm an Anarcho-Capitalist by inclination and practicing libertarian because I've got enough sense to know that human nature makes Anarcho-Capitalism untenable. We need rule of law, we need some government just to keep us from complete chaos, war lords, and tribal wars. <br /><br />I've given up on the idea of fixing anything - it won't happen, it's far too late. So, for me the question is which path to collapse is going to leave us in the best position to rebuild. Sadly, I'm not nearly smart enough to figure that out. Part of me just wants to sit back and watch it burn, maybe pull out the marshmallows and hotdogs. Part of me wants to speed it up - I suspect Trump might do that where Cruz might make it hobble along for another few years. Which is better? I wish I knew. Do I expect any of them to be able to improve anything - no. Not without completely breaking the system first - you know marshal law, become the dictator while you clean house (and senate). Of all of the candidates the only one I could see making that work would be Cruz, the rest of them would want to be dictator for life - maybe Cruz would too, I don't know, but I sure can't see Hilary, Bernie, or Trump doing anything else. <br /><br />If Trump takes the same "It's my toy, I'll do what ever the hell I want" approach as Obama then he might actually stop immegration of muslims, build his wall between us and mexico, nock some sense into the press - maybe. Will it help - sort of depends on whether a slow or fast collapse is better. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07644399899143537770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-4648360796696927162016-03-03T11:15:25.170-06:002016-03-03T11:15:25.170-06:00Tone-deaf and blinkered indeed. It's obvious b...Tone-deaf and blinkered indeed. It's obvious by now that the main promise Trump is making is that the sort of people who would sign a letter like this will, if he's elected, have no say in directing US policy. So <i>nothing</i> they can say will check Trump in the slightest; every condemnation they utter only stokes the desire to see them banished from public life forever.<br /><br />The only thing that could discredit Trump is proof that, if elected, he would fall in with the DC consensus and do nothing to change the federal government at all. I am convinced myself that that's exactly what would happen. But by the nature of things such proof could not be presented by anyone who subscribes to the DC consensus; it has to come from someone who's outside of it, ideally from one whom the consensus has rejected and condemned.Michael Brazierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07510942619007870591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-72215549326287661552016-03-03T10:46:53.155-06:002016-03-03T10:46:53.155-06:00I've read that the flow of money sent home by ...I've read that the flow of money sent home by Mexican workers in the US, both legal and otherwise, is second only to the flow of drug money in the same direction. And that both are now essential parts of the Mexican economy. I expect that Trump looks at just the yearly amount that the US gives Mexico in foreign aid and allows as how a small portion of it would pay for a very nice wall.<br />Since WWII most of our allies have maintained at best token armed forces, relying on US military might to defend them in time of conflict. This allows them to fund their vast social welfare programs. So, in actuality it is we the American taxpayers who make it possible for our European cousins to work short hours and take long extended vacations, or to simply exist on a government stipend and not work at all.<br />Cruz and Rubio should have gone into a closet and flipped a coin weeks if not months ago and decided who runs for president and who settles for vice. I would have supported either outcome over Trump. Since they obviously cannot bring themselves to doing so, I did not even bother to vote in the primary. I will vote for whomever the Republican candidate turns out to be, but if vested Republican interests and the other candidates somehow manage to ruin their chances with a hissy fit over Trump and give the election to that evil criminal witch, I am done with that party for all time.Uncle Larhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04008207593205949098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-64000309206166804302016-03-03T10:14:12.742-06:002016-03-03T10:14:12.742-06:00I guess they forgot that 'humble foreign polic...I guess they forgot that 'humble foreign policy' speech from Bush II. We all know how that turned out. <br /><br />http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2016/03/01/super-tuesday-funeral-neoconservatism-an-obituary/sth_txsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-30266294085632014112016-03-03T10:11:03.908-06:002016-03-03T10:11:03.908-06:00It's noting short of astonishing that they kee...It's noting short of astonishing that they keep sending out this sort of thing, when every single time they do it, his support *increases*.<br /><br />I guess it's true: those whom the gods would destroy, first they drive mad.Borepatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-67655384870177452016-03-03T08:45:16.225-06:002016-03-03T08:45:16.225-06:00His hateful, anti-Muslim rhetoric ...
Yeah, it...<i>His hateful, anti-Muslim rhetoric ... </i><br /><br />Yeah, it's just <b>terrible</b> how Trump wants to restrict immigration from countries seething with violence and anti-Americanism, but a commander-in-chief who orders the incineration of innocent civilians in Iraq and Syria is a wise and responsible leader. <br /><br />Got it.Mikehttp://mctuggle.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-89516601660467567022016-03-03T07:52:26.717-06:002016-03-03T07:52:26.717-06:00It is astounding to me how the establishment Repub...It is astounding to me how the establishment Republicans are pulling out all the stops to destroy one of their own candidates. We are told that today Mitt Romney will be dragged out to abase himself publicly by trying to trash Trump at the behest of the Republican elite.<br /><br />Whether Trump is a fraud or a liar or whatever makes him no different than any of the other running for office, he's just more blunt, and hasn't taken (so far)blood money from the rick and decadent scum that consider themselves our betters. They are offering us a Cuban and a Canadian, who, IMO, are not eligible to be the next American president. <br /><br />And now Romney is about to shoot himself in the face, in an attempt to derail a globalist wheeler-dealer. <br /><br />It has gotten to the point that I will not even admit to my friends that I was once a Republican. <br /><br />Not that the Democrats are any better. A worn out Communist and a lying power-mad bitch. What a choice they offer.<br /><br />I am beginning to agree that the whole damned batch needs cleaning out and replaced with some real Americans.<br /><br />I am glad I am 77 years old and will not be witness to tomorrows "America". Bobnoreply@blogger.com