If America is facing full-throated communism, we need a winner.
Trump grew tired of winning in 2018. We lost the House that year under Trump. Then, two years later, we lost the Senate as well as the White House under Trump. That’s called losing. No matter that many of us consider Trump to be a hero, we should prefer politicians who win.
Trump says he lost in 2020 because the election was rigged (conveniently ignoring that he was president when we lost the House in 2018). Was Trump powerless in 2020? No. He was president. What did he do in 2020 to prevent the election from being rigged? Again, we need politicians who win. In war, Douglas McArthur said, there is no substitute for victory.
I will now address your idea that we need a gutter fighter to fight the communists. First of all, Donald Trump isn’t a winner. He lost the House in 2018, and the Senate and the Presidency in 2020.
Second, while being a nasty son of a bitch may be advantageous in the short run, being nice is better in the long run. Granted, you might not believe this.
I notice you have a lot of unconventional ideas. You like people who avoid military service and don’t like veterans. You like people who curse, not people who speak in proper English. You like people who cheat on their taxes and on their wives, and whose businesses commit fraud. I’ll just say your idea that to win you have to be a nasty son of a bitch is unconventional.
Third, to be more specific about this, we need a President will appoint decent people to his staff and to the cabinet instead of the sleazebag losers that Trump appointed; who can work with almost all Republicans in the House and Senate to enact legislation; and, who can build on our majorities in the House and the Senate, not lose our majorities to the other party.
A junkyard dog as you prefer could only succeed as a dictator, something our system of checks and balances is designed to prevent.
“we need a winner.”
Selecting the person your enemy lets you select is not winning. But you know this.
“election was rigged”
It was. Anyone with a functioning brain knows this. And if they don’t, the slightest bit of research would make this conclusion evident to all but the perpetrators running the con. It would be clear to them also, they just wouldn’t admit it. But you know this.
“He was president.”
President’s aren’t supposed to run federal elections. What little input he gave, the ‘tards are going to use to prosecute him. but you know this.
“being nice is better in the long run.”
This is what the left tells me. It is bad advice, empirically. It has gotten us where we are now - on the very edge of Gulag. But you know this.
“you have a lot of unconventional ideas.”
Indeed. Convention is what got us here. Who keeps doing the same thing over and over?
“people who speak in proper English.”
I notice yours has improved significantly over the last few days. You must have gotten Babble?
” sleazebag losers that Trump appointed”
Did you write him a letter alerting him that his appointments were a bad move? Why not? Look, if you know something you need to let people know before hand. We’re supposed to be a team here.
“our system of checks and balances”
You think that’s what’s going on here? You must not be paying attention.
Re: 52 - The comments about McCain by President Trump regarding McCain’s POW status were over the top. He should have just criticized McCain’s political positions, etc. But he could not help himself. And his comments were such that he denigrated all POWs. That’s nuts considering that President Trump did not volunteer to serve and as you noted, avoided military service.
Frankly, there’s a growing trend by more and more FReepers to denigrate military service based on the political positions of the person who served. I am not talking about John Kerry who I believe forfeited respect due to him with his testimony to Congress. I’m talking about FReepers who refer to Dan Crenshaw as “Eyepatch McCain”, etc. That’s mocking the military sacrifice that Crenshaw made because they don’t agree with his stance on the issues.