Posted on 08/09/2020 3:27:25 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Animals that are ambush hunters tend to be very still until they have their prey where they want them. Then, the ambush hunter is an explosion of efficient motion and the prey . . . well, the prey is toast. With Saturday’s executive orders and press conference, Trump proved himself to be a masterful ambush hunter, and the Democrats found themselves being hapless prey.
As with so many of their initiatives in 2020, the Democrats got greedy. Time and time again, they’ve used the excuse of the Wuhan virus and George Floyd’s death to advance hard-left policies unrelated either to the virus or to the exceedingly rare instances when American police wantonly kill black men.
When the virus first appeared, Trump, in good faith, allowed Fauci to lead him down the primrose path. This meant giving in to, and signing off on, the Democrats’ demands for stimulus bills. His agreement made the Democrats foolhardy. With the economy on life support, deaths from the virus dropping, and Americans desperately wanting to go back to work, the Democrats decided that they could again lard the latest stimulus bill with all manner of things. They assumed Trump would be either trapped or compliant.
What they hadn’t realized was that Trump, like a cat watching a rat draw near, was just waiting for the right moment to spring. Saturday was that day. In the kind of press conference that helps win elections, Trump explained that he was cutting through the Democrats’ ridiculous negotiating tactics and using his executive power to bring relief directly to Americans. Here’s the entire press conference, including his walking away at the end when CBS’s shrewish and disrespectful Paula Reid refuses to stop screaming questions at him:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The rats play checkers while Trump plays chess
I hope all four of the things he signed go straight through smoothly. I fear liberal judges. I fear lawsuits.
I also fear emojis but that’s a private issue that I’m trying to work out :)
You see, I read all books on hunting published in English, French, and Russian. I have but one passion in my life, Mr. Rainsford, and it is the hunt.”
And hunting, remember, had been my life. I have heard that in America businessmen often go to pieces when they give up the business that has been their life.”
“Simply this: hunting had ceased to be what you call ‘a sporting proposition.’ It had become too easy. I always got my quarry. Always. There is no greater bore than perfection.”
“No animal had a chance with me any more. That is no boast; it is a mathematical certainty. The animal had nothing but his legs and his instinct. Instinct is no match for reason. When I thought of this it was a tragic moment for me, I can tell you.”
The general smiled the quiet smile of one who has faced an obstacle and surmounted it with success. “I had to invent a new animal to hunt,” he said.
“Not at all,” said the general. “I never joke about hunting. I needed a new animal. I found one. So I bought this island built this house, and here I do my hunting. The island is perfect for my purposes—there are jungles with a maze of traits in them, hills, swamps—”
“Oh,” said the general, “it supplies me with the most exciting hunting in the world. No other hunting compares with it for an instant. Every day I hunt, and I never grow bored now, for I have a quarry with which I can match my wits.”
“I wanted the ideal animal to hunt,” explained the general. “So I said, ‘What are the attributes of an ideal quarry?’ And the answer was, of course, ‘It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason.”’
“But no animal can reason,” objected Rainsford.
“My dear fellow,” said the general, “there is one that can.”
“But you can’t mean—” gasped Rainsford.
“I can’t believe you are serious, General Zaroff. This is a grisly joke.”
“Why should I not be serious? I am speaking of hunting.”
“Hunting? Great Guns, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder.”
The general laughed with entire good nature. He regarded Rainsford quizzically. “I refuse to believe that so modern and civilized a young man as you seem to be harbors romantic ideas about the value of human life. Surely your experiences in the war—”
“Did not make me condone cold-blooded murder,” finished Rainsford stiffly.
Laughter shook the general. “How extraordinarily droll you are!” he said. “One does not expect nowadays to find a young man of the educated class, even in America, with such a naïve, and, if I may say so, mid-Victorian point of view. It’s like finding a snuffbox in a limousine. Ah, well, doubtless you had Puritan ancestors. So many Americans appear to have had. I’ll wager you’ll forget your notions when you go hunting with me. You’ve a genuine new thrill in store for you, Mr. Rainsford.”
“Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong, and, if needs be, taken by the strong. The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure. I am strong. Why should I not use my gift? If I wish to hunt, why should I not? I hunt the scum of the earth: sailors from tramp ships—lassars, blacks, Chinese, whites, mongrels—a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them.”
“But they are men,” said Rainsford hotly.
“Precisely,” said the general. “That is why I use them. It gives me pleasure. They can reason, after a fashion. So they are dangerous.”
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/danger.html
Richard 1893-1949 Connell - The Most Dangerous Game
Who is preying on us? Who is preying with us?
The press conference was Trump at his best, which is wonderful and exhilarating to see!
And the master move against hard left Cities and States.
For decades, dimocrats ran Cities and States into the ground. They granted lavish pensions to government unions.
Now, they have been broke and mortgaged to the max.
Along comes COVID and the dimocrat plan to hurt President Trump.
Shut down the economy, and Cities/States tax revenue.
25% of COVID relief extension comes from the States, The blue ones are broke. They are not getting the Federal bailout to cover decades of mis management.
Now, Citizens who put in hard left City and State reps have to put up with antifa riots, repair riot damage, and admit they have no money for their share of 25% of covid money
Vote like you life depended on it
Until, of course, they have to pay the taxes back. They're deferred, not waived.
Wuhan virus should be used as an excuse to forgive all student loans. If someone was stupid enough to get a $300,000 gender studies degree, taxpayers should not be on the hook.)
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To me the main problem with student loans is that the schools have no skin in the game. They are the only party in the transaction that is protected.
The simple solution is first get the government out of any involvement with student loans. Next allow student loans to be treated like any other debt, that is they can be cleared by bankruptcy.
Put the risk back where it belongs, on the schools and the leading institution.
In other words do away with college loans completely? What financial organization in their right mind would extend a loan that can be done away with the moment the student graduates simply by declaring bankruptcy?
“What financial organization in their right mind would extend a loan that can be done away with the moment the student graduates simply by declaring bankruptcy?”
No financial institution would underwrite a $100k debt for “gender studies” degrees. However they may be willing to underwrite $25k for a business degree with some form of collateral. And that is the point.
“What financial organization in their right mind would extend a loan that can be done away with the moment the student graduates simply by declaring bankruptcy?”
“No financial institution would underwrite a $100k debt for “gender studies” degrees. However they may be willing to underwrite $25k for a business degree with some form of collateral. And that is the point.“
Or the universities will lower their fees to compete in the real market.
In other words do away with college loans completely? What financial organization in their right mind would extend a loan that can be done away with the moment the student graduates simply by declaring bankruptcy?
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And if they did, what do you think the results would be?
Up until fairly recently it was possible to attend college and pay your own way by working summers and part time while going to school. Guarantee Student loans changed that.
Get rid of guaranteed student loans and some universities will go out of business and others will bring the cost back in line to what the consumer could afford.
(A bonus would be a lot fewer degrees in “STUDIES”
I loved it when that one reporter wouldn't stop badgering him so he just ended it.
Let the media police itself - if one of their media peers is misbehaving, it affects all of them.
Only the wealthy going to college?
That collateral being what exactly?
I’m rather irritated at yet another wealth transfer program, but regardless, he said he planned to nix that issue.
The Democrats got what they wanted when the President signed the EO’s.
They got all the emergency money they wanted. The payroll taxes were probably on their list but everything else was.
They got to claim the President hates the people and then list over and over what he destroyed in their wish list.
I think they have already conceded the election anyway. They know Biden is a loser and is the candidate because there is no one else
They are now screaming about Trump defunding Social Security via the payroll tax holiday.
So if the Democrats hold one or both houses of Congress next year they're going to be perfectly willing to help Trump by permanently waiving the FICA taxes? In what universe?
Bttt
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