Ive heard it said that politics is not a childs game. If true, why do so many politicians act like two year olds?
We may have to seriously think about a secessionist movement in some parts of the country, like Texas. Irreconcilable differences.
“Nice little country ya got ther.....be a shame if something were to happen to it now, wouldn’t it?”
These people are thugs and criminals. They need to be dealt with accordingly.
President Trump needs to act to make it very easy for the disgruntled to permanently leave the US. Right now the process is hard, time consuming and expensive. It should be as easy as getting a background check, getting some other country to agree to give you citizenship, and turning over your US passport to the US embassy in that country.
Of course it is a one way trip. Buh-bye.
“Trump may deserve to be the fifth white male on Mr. Rushmore if for no other reason than he forced the cabal out of the shadows. He has exposed the unholy alliance of scheming bureaucrats, political figureheads, intelligence operatives, military brass, contractors, second-rate academics, media moguls, and Hollywood airheads that presume to rule us.”
They hate him because they know that HE knows who and what they are, and because as a very wealthy member of the East Coast elite, Trump SHOULD be one of them (at least in their minds). Instead, he’s “turned” on them, he’s exposing them, he’s taking away their once-in-a-lifetime chance to really fleece the public and make their families permanent members of the elite. So, in the face of Trump’s on-target observations and attacks, the mask comes off and the true political animal, in all of it’s “glorious” corruption and hypocrisy, reveals itself to a shocked public.
Donald Trump is so gifted at doing this that it seems almost supernatural, almost like God Himself gave this gift to him and arranged for him to become POTUS, in order to bring down the uber-corrupt, uber-immoral, elites of this country...oh, and as a bonus, he’s putting a big hurt on China, Iran, etc.
He belongs on our coinage, our currency AND on Mt. Rushmore.
Some of the millions of Trump supporters have experience (sometimes first-hand, most often vicariously through previous generations of their family) with the type of people who have created the "gathering super tantrum" and the coming coup. Given those experiences, I sincerely doubt that they will peacefully accept the imposition of a dictatorship here - because they or their family escaped tyranny to come here to live in freedom; they're just not going to sit by and watch the same thing happen here.
A very good friend of mine had a grandfather (who I met a number of times) who escaped the USSR and came to our shores as a young man in the early 1920s, leaving behind his entire family except for a brother who lived in the US. He never saw his parents again, but did know that his father had his entire life's work stolen from him by the Communists - all except for his home. The stolen assets included a water delivery business employing nearly 50 men, and something like 14 houses that he and his sons had built, literally with their own hands, over the course of a couple of decades. Sometime in 1936, when my friend's great grandfather was in his early 70s and suffering from cancer (and thus unable to work to put food on the table - in the Ukraine, then being victimized by Stalin's engineered famine), he rented out most of his home (now the sole remaining fruit of a lifetime of extremely hard work) to earn a few rubles. Apparently, someone didn't like this state of affairs, and the NKVD came to visit and "invited" him to come with them. He was beaten mercilessly for many weeks, and then released. A few months later, sometime in 1937, now even sicker from the cancer, he was taken away by the NKVD again. This time they beat him so badly that they realized that he was going to die soon, so they released him to die at home. My friend's grandfather knew that his father had died in 1937 - there was a letter sent to report the fact, but the family in the USSR could not say why, lest they end up the same way. It wasn't until 1969 that the grandfather found out what had happened, when he went back to the USSR to visit those of his siblings who were still alive. My friend was very young at the time, but he remembers his grandfather crying like a baby when he came visit and tell about the trip. He didn't know why at the time, he only found out a couple of years ago after speaking with one of his father's cousins who got out of Ukraine after the USSR fell. He was very anti-Communist before then, but since then I can see his intensity when the topic comes up.
In my wildest dreams, I cannot imagine my friend sitting still while a very similar tyranny was imposed on this country, one that would likely affect him and his family in a very similar way as his great grandfather and his family was. I have heard him say words to the effect of "they may do this to me and mine, as they did it to my family 100 years ago, but this time it won't be for free." Oh, and by the way, about 100 of the people on the other side of his family were murdered by a different group of Collectivists, ones who spoke German instead of Russian. He's just not very keen on Collectivists, and I don't see him meekly submitting when he knows what is almost certain to happen.
Collectivists of all stripes, no matter what they call themselves, what symbols they adopt, what flag they fly, etc., are all the same deep down. Fundamentally, they deny free will and personal responsibility, and judge people to either be a victim or a villain (and thus deserving of power or deserving of punishment), based on what group that person is in - be it religious, racial, economic or something else. Be they Communists, Socialists, Democratic Socialists, Progressives or Nazis, the effects of what they do are the same - they destroy people by the tens of millions, they destroy families, they destroy nations and even many nations - all in a very short time frame. Collectivists speaking American English will be no different than those of the past century (and today) who spoke/speak Russian, German, Chinese, Korean, etc. We in this country have no immunity to the mindless stupidity, the incredible immorality or limitless brutality of Collectivism just because we're Americans - our soil does not contain magic pixie dust that protects us from bad ideas and bad people. This quote embodies the problem that we face, because we didn't listen to this man:
Neckbeard and bowtie do not mix.