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To: BlackElk

This “scripted and orchestrated” rebellion is nothing new - it is the latest manifestation of many attempts by the people to regain control over the political process, stretching at least as far back as the Republican Revolution in 1994. It’s what the Tea Party was about as well - note that none of the concerns that stoked that rebellion have been addressed in any way. All the grievances remain, and have gotten worse.

If any of this feels scripted to you, you are way way way out of touch with the average Joe.

People are pissed and recycling the same kinds of say-one-thing-do-another politicians who inevitably turn out to be anti-American globalists WILL stop, one way or the other.


66 posted on 04/18/2016 10:18:56 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: thoughtomator
Boy, are you in for a deep and crushing disappointment if Mr. Let's Make a Deal becomes POTUS. He is already bragging that he knows Pelosi and Schmucky Chewmer and that he can make "deals" with both. Be still my beating heart! He admires Putin (one autocrat to another).

This "globalist" label is another example of the used food emanating from SOME (not all) sectors of the Trumponic Plague. It is an old favorite of the isolationists among the John Birch Society. It was the theme of the America First Committee which resisted WWII until smacked up side of the head by a Japanese 2 X 4 at Pearl Harbor, and it was a favorite theme of PaleoPaulie (that would be Ron Paul) and the libertarian looney tunes who adore the cowardly memory of Neville Chamberlain.

I grew up on a conservatism that justified American military intervention (unilateral, if possible) whenever it served the legitimate best interests of the USA and its allies. In war, as Douglas MacArthur observed, there is no substitute for victory (not Let's Make a Deal). I would withdraw from the UN tomorrow and abrogate most or all of the treaties that it promulgated, get rid of sovereignty sapping "trade deals" and multilateral "defense" organizations like NATO that are merely a cover for Uncle Sucker to pick up the defense bill for every socialist satrapy in Europe and elsewhere.

The State Department would be a ghost town and its pampered, perfumed, privileged and futile diployakkers would be a shameful memory, like most of the Injustice Department.

I am no globalist or, more properly, no internationalist. The only legitimate argument is between discredited isolationists and noble interventionists. Both are patriotic but the isolationists are tragically unable to transcend the necessarily isolationist foreign policy of this republic in its weak infancy. We are now grown up and need a grown up foreign policy of enlightened self interest and a very muscular military led by real men like now retired 1st Division Marine Corps General Mad Dog Mathis. Bring him out of retirement, make him Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, give him the authority to choose all of his high subordinates in all of the services and give him the authority to lead. That's a small but vital part of my script.

Being pissed, in and of itself, solves nothing. Revenge is a dish best served cold. Those who are soooooo pissed would do well to sit down, take a deep breath and plan tye restoration of the republic under competent and non-narcissistic leadership. Scott Walker comes immediately to mind. Those of us who were involved in Reagan's campaigns would ask the question: What's flat, black and glows in the dark? The answer was: Teheran by the end of Inauguration week unless those hostages are in the air as Reagan is being sworn in. Reagan was credible, so credible that his public determination to build High Frontier (aka Star Wars) brought down the soviet empire by words alone. Trump lacks that kind of credibility.

81 posted on 04/18/2016 11:57:27 AM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Society: Rack 'em Danno!)
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