Posted on 05/10/2016 10:17:35 AM PDT by maggief
Most Canadians, who went to the Harvard Law School, wouldn't have the slightest idea of how to relate to regular folk Americans. Nor would they really want to learn how!
After all, approval of their 1787 Constitution relied on the ratification process in the States, and any future Amendment to that Constitution, by the Constitution's own provision, requires the assent of "the People."
"I am not among those who fear the people. They...are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people...must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they (the British) now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers....This example reads to us the salutary lesson that private fortunes are destroyed by public, as well as by private extravagance. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from the principle in one instance, becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the 'bellum omnium in omnia,' which some philosophers...have mistaken for the natural, instead of the abusive, state of man. And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." - Thomas JeffersonIn 2016, "the People," having watched their elected so-called "conservative" Republican leaders fail miserably at even slowing the oppressive "progressive" "train" of "wretchedness and oppression."
"The People" who Justice Story called "the only KEEPERS of the Constitution" see the so-called "conservatives" they elected betray them, and they have responded with an outright rejection, county by county, in most of the states won by Trump.
It is time now for those the voters rejected to decide whether they will turn over the Executive Branch to a self-described "progressive" who promises to double down on the Obama agenda,
Cruz started lying and whining months ago. The more he lies and whines, post-defeat, the more I am glad he lost.
Ted obviously ain’t as smart as we were all led to believe. He sticks with Beck, whines like a baby and considers an action that will be his political Waterloo....if he reengages, he’s dead to me.
Could not agree more. As a former Cruz supporter from the get-go, I found that the more he spoke in public, the less I liked him. He really ought to shut his damned mouth right now and rejoin his “friends” in the Senate...
Sounds like sCruz needs some cheeze with that whine.
Most people who are nucking futs, are not aware that they are nucking futs....
Could not agree more. As a former Cruz supporter from the get-go, I found that the more he spoke in public, the less I liked him.
I actually voted for him in the Alabama primary. I thought it was the safe choice. I have since regretted it.
The more he opens him mouth, the less I like him.
That's how he Trumped you, and it was all by his design. He knew what the press was about and took full advantage of it.
Trump’s rise was “heavily fueled by the media executives who have run him 24/7.”
That is more BS. Every network has said they offered Ted all the air time he wanted, and he refused.
Cruz slams media for ‘manipulating’ votersMaybe but don't forget you had a "ground game" and "the secret army".
“Most Canadians, who went to the Harvard Law School, wouldn’t have the slightest idea of how to relate to regular folk Americans. Nor would they really want to learn how! “
Wee after all, we are just the Little People....the Great Unwashed....the hoi polloi....the Flyover Folks. We must be LEAD, lest we go astray.
Turd you delusional freak.
The media is the only thing that propped YOU up, not Trump.
Ted may have Asperger’s. He doesn’t seem to have a clue how he will be perceived. E.g., he took the cheap shot at Trump, blaming him for the violence in Chicago. Apparently he could not foresee that conservative voters would be disgusted. E.g., Ted tells Trump supporters to their face that they are “chumps.”
Ted is a cerebral narcissist. And his father, perhaps to compensate for abandoning him, has deified him for decades. Sick, sick, sick.
Ted may have Asperger’s.
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That is a distinct possibility.
The problem is that instead of admitting to and owning the problems that being on the autistic spectrum tends to cause, instead he’s apparently trying to force people to love him and gets angry and blames them when they don’t.
I used to do that myself, but then I got treatment and training to overcome it.
But the first step is to admit that you have a problem, and Teddikins won’t admit it.
Greta Van Sustern (Fox News) said that she and her people contacted his campaign every day, including weekends, to get him on her show. Brett Baier said similar thing.
I like your analysis. Many people who are single-minded and driven seem to have Asperger’s. I certainly believe my highly-successful brother has it - no ability to perceive how he’s seen by others.
Of course, Cruz has just had a major setback because today’s presidential candidates are scrutinized for character and personality flaws. That’s where Trump beat him: he has an ironic and humorous view of himself which makes people forgive his flaws.
True, but I’m inclined to show a little more restraint when being critical of someone whose supporters I’d like to see turn out to vote for Trump in November.
I’ve seen several lunatics out on social media recently pushing this idea that somehow all the scurrilous attacks on Trump during the nomination fight were part of some secret nefarious plan that was designed to ensure his victory or some crazy rot like that. This is stuff for the Weekly World News or DEBKA or ZeroHedge. Chemtrails gets worked in there somehow soon, I bet.
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