A Complete Waste of Space

I haven't seen the left this upset with a GOP speech since Ronald Reagan

Consider this from a writer at uber-liberal Salon, which seemed to have a sudden epiphany about the power of Trump’s message: “From the ashen, haunted faces around me in the press gallery, and the conversations over hastily guzzled drinks before and after, I feel sure I wasn’t the only person here who felt as if he were suffering from PTSD, sunstroke and a stomach virus, all at the same time. Still, it was an educational bout with the existential flu. Anybody who still thought Donald Trump was a joke and a dumbass who would humiliate himself and his party go down to Mondale-scale defeat now knows better. You can pick Trump’s speech apart and examine its flaws, of course, but from the point of view of performance and dynamics only one verdict is possible. He killed it. He. Killed. It.”

One other point: the fact that so many commentators felt that Trump’s speech was too dark is simply a sign of how out-of-touch folks inside the Beltway really are.

For more than 10 years, Americans have been saying that the country is on the wrong track. And the press just ignored them. Now the press is finally starting to hear what Americans are really going through, and they are trying to pretend that things aren’t that bad.

We need a new elite that is prepared to deal with America as it is, instead of wishing our problems away. And in November, we may just get it.

The Democrats are going to put forward the same people, with the same ideas, that they have been pushing since 1992. The world has changed, and they are living in the past.

Nostalgia can be fun, but it’s a luxury most Americans these days cannot afford. We need a new administration that will focus on the world as it is today, not engage in the fantasy of thinking that somehow we can return to the 1990’s.

Democratic voters know this. They blocked Hillary in 2008. They tried to block her in 2016. But the Donor Class in that party is just too strong. The Donors convinced Obama to go with the same old economic agenda that Bill Clinton had used, and it didn't work. This year, the Donors simply crushed all dissent, forcing Hillary on a party that doesn't want her.

Unless she is defeated this fall, the Democratic Party will continue to calcify, trapped in a museum of old ideas that haven't been fresh since the Internet was invented.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/07/ ... eagan.html

Wake up and scrape yer boots.....

After watching this play out I am coming to the conclusion that Trump is needed to pull us out of the status quo that we have been stuck in for so many years, by no stretch of the imagination do I think he will be a good POTUS but maybe this will be the kick in the pants we need to change things and get more power to the middle class where it is needed. I know Clinton will just keep things rolling along as before stuffing her and her friend’s pockets with our hard earned cash pulling America deeper into Third World status. I was leaning toward Bernie thinking he would be the one to push us away from the status quo but the Donor class made sure that didn’t happen. If Clinton gets elected we will not have any type of change and the division in America will keep getting wider.

Darkhorse wrote:After watching this play out I am coming to the conclusion that Trump is needed to pull us out of the status quo that we have been stuck in for so many years, by no stretch of the imagination do I think he will be a good POTUS but maybe this will be the kick in the pants we need to change things and get more power to the middle class where it is needed. I know Clinton will just keep things rolling along as before stuffing her and her friend’s pockets with our hard earned cash pulling America deeper into Third World status. I was leaning toward Bernie thinking he would be the one to push us away from the status quo but the Donor class made sure that didn’t happen. If Clinton gets elected we will not have any type of change and the division in America will keep getting wider.

That's a quality theory.
Unfortunately, in order for America to receive that "kick in the pants" Donald Trump will have to be POTUS for four years. That's kind of scary, dude.
But, let's say for a second that Trump wins the general election but he doesn't really become POTUS ... Mike Pence does. And Trump just serves as a figurehead. - kind of like how GWB wasn't really POTUS, Dick Cheney was.
Trump could run around for 4 years giving America that "kick in the pants" you're looking for, while Mike Pence runs the country.
But that being said ... if Mike Pence was running the country it would definitely remain in "status quo" mode.
So, it's a catch 22 at best.

Reservoir_Dog wrote:

Darkhorse wrote:After watching this play out I am coming to the conclusion that Trump is needed to pull us out of the status quo that we have been stuck in for so many years, by no stretch of the imagination do I think he will be a good POTUS but maybe this will be the kick in the pants we need to change things and get more power to the middle class where it is needed. I know Clinton will just keep things rolling along as before stuffing her and her friend’s pockets with our hard earned cash pulling America deeper into Third World status. I was leaning toward Bernie thinking he would be the one to push us away from the status quo but the Donor class made sure that didn’t happen. If Clinton gets elected we will not have any type of change and the division in America will keep getting wider.

That's a quality theory.
Unfortunately, in order for America to receive that "kick in the pants" Donald Trump will have to be POTUS for four years. That's kind of scary, dude.
But, let's say for a second that Trump wins the general election but he doesn't really become POTUS ... Mike Pence does. And Trump just serves as a figurehead. - kind of like how GWB wasn't really POTUS, Dick Cheney was.
Trump could run around for 4 years giving America that "kick in the pants" you're looking for, while Mike Pence runs the country.
But that being said ... if Mike Pence was running the country it would definitely remain in "status quo" mode.
So, it's a catch 22 at best.

Darkhorse is much closer to reality....though, I believe it will be better than that.

R_D, you need to do some intellectual reading...instead, of repeating hogwash.

The so called Democrats thrive on hatred and division, as they have for over a hundred years.
The party of the KKK, the party of McClellan, the party of slavery is merely re-labeled
as the "Liberal" party.

Same haters and racism peddlers, different label.

Darkhorse wrote:After watching this play out I am coming to the conclusion that Trump is needed to pull us out of the status quo that we have been stuck in for so many years, by no stretch of the imagination do I think he will be a good POTUS but maybe this will be the kick in the pants we need to change things and get more power to the middle class where it is needed.

how, exactly does isolation in the world, uplifting White Supremacists at home, and proposing economic policies that every responsible expert will tell you result in economic collapse help the middle class?

look, I get that 95% of us are sinking, economically. Bernie was onto something, but not really all of it. There is a very simple corrective, but you need to get Citizens United overturned and then educate the public to ever have a chance of enacting it(radically realign the marginal tax rates toward the pre 1970 formulae), and focus every dime we can towards a radical push for education and retooling the economy for the future, not trying to relive the past. The vast bulk of the malaise of both the middle class, as well as the truly poor, is due to 3 factors:
1. A skewed tax policy(see above)
2. Globalization moving so fast that the workforce struggles to maintain functionality and competetiveness
3. Modernization/technology is starting to reduce the need for actual labor, and this will be a snowballing phenomenon.

so, along with returning via the tax code to a top-to-bottom focus on long term profits, as opposed to short term gains, we need to use INTELLIGENCE to actually figure out how we maintain a society, going forward, with less and less people needed to perform labor. Some have proposed a base national salary for all adults. Yes, this would be supported, by necessity, by those of us in the investment class, who don't need to work. And, if enough of us have the good sense God gave us, we'll realize that a stable society for everyone is beneficial to us as much as the next guy.

#1 on the Demo talking points is to label republicans, notably TRUMP supporters as un intelligent.

Shit like Callmeshit can only parrot their masters.

Most Democrats are of low IQ and require Government assistance Callmeshit included.

callmeslick wrote: how, exactly does isolation in the world, uplifting White Supremacists at home, and proposing economic policies that every responsible expert will tell you result in economic collapse help the middle class?

look, I get that 95% of us are sinking, economically. Bernie was onto something, but not really all of it. There is a very simple corrective, but you need to get Citizens United overturned and then educate the public to ever have a chance of enacting it(radically realign the marginal tax rates toward the pre 1970 formulae), and focus every dime we can towards a radical push for education and retooling the economy for the future, not trying to relive the past. The vast bulk of the malaise of both the middle class, as well as the truly poor, is due to 3 factors:
1. A skewed tax policy(see above)
2. Globalization moving so fast that the workforce struggles to maintain functionality and competetiveness
3. Modernization/technology is starting to reduce the need for actual labor, and this will be a snowballing phenomenon.

so, along with returning via the tax code to a top-to-bottom focus on long term profits, as opposed to short term gains, we need to use INTELLIGENCE to actually figure out how we maintain a society, going forward, with less and less people needed to perform labor. Some have proposed a base national salary for all adults. Yes, this would be supported, by necessity, by those of us in the investment class, who don't need to work. And, if enough of us have the good sense God gave us, we'll realize that a stable society for everyone is beneficial to us as much as the next guy.

First paragraph: Ask Barry....why? He's the one that's been doing that for both his terms.

Second paragraph: What's Hillary gonna do versus Barry? What's her plan, other'n more of the same.... Why didn't you mention trade agreements? You're just 'marketing' BS above. Education and retooling...don't bring about prosperity without markets and trade agreements that are mutually beneficial to both parties. You can take yer 'middle class malaise' and shove it up yer entitled, self centered and egotistical tail pipe, you trust fund baby.

Third paragraph: An atheist using the phrase 'the good sense God gave us'...what you won't stoop to, when you lie, repeatedly. Birds of a feather, you and Hillary. Even yer lap_dog can't keep up with it.....