You’re technically correct. But, respectfully, I was including the 2 officers who committed suicide in the immediate aftermath, and Mr. Sicknick, an otherwise healthy man who immediately had 2 strokes and died on 1/7. Not to mention his 4 dead supporters.
Second of all, it is a bold assumption that I support the assault of police, but only by liberals. I do not. The difference is the plotters of those assaults are not major nominees for president. Those folks belong in jail. But, Mr. Trump wants to release the “patriotic” cop beaters. He calls a hostage the man imprisoned for gouging out the eyes of a police officer. He calls a hero the man who beat a police officer with a fire extinguisher. He calls beautiful people the crowd which erected a gallows in front of the capitol to chants of “hang Mike Pence.”
And yes, we are perfectly fine. I was one of the 14 million votes. I don’t know a soul who was complaining. Elections aught not be suicide missions. The function of parties is too acquire power for the sake of policy. Joe Biden did not just preform badly. He convinced me, and damn near everyone, that he was unfit to serve another term. It would have been irresponsible for democrats to nominate him both politically and practically.
I do not think Trump has organized killing fields and torture chambers. Nor do I believe that his desire. I just believe him a uniquely unqualified, amoral, characterless, fraud and felon. But he is not Hitler.
On policy:
We are producing more barrels of oil today than any nation in history. If we went back to Trump’s old production policies, production would presumably go down, returning to his previous lower levels.
Border crossings are lower today than January 2021. Even with title 42 they were higher. Joe Biden for most of his presidency has been atrocious on the border. But it is rich to say: we have border issues under Biden; so the answer is the president with the SECOND worst record. If you wanted guaranteed results you should advocate for the overturning of the 22nd amendment to bring back either Clinton, Bush, or Obama, all of whom had lower crossing and more order than Mr. Trump.
Maintaining private health insurance is a fair and good point. She has disavowed Medicare for all, through a spokesperson. But it is more than reasonable to think that not enough, or that she is lying.
I think political violence of all stylings is awful. I was pointing out the grimly unique circumstance of the mob leader being the sitting president of the United States. He is held to higher standards. Honestly do you really think: but the leaders of the neonazis and BLM did it to!! Is a good argument for electing a president?
Your claim about the border? On what do you base that? Moreover, what policy change has Biden or Harris embraced or implemented that ensures the border will be secure once the election is over? Make your case, don't simply assert the unlikely.
I was referring to the reporting on how daily border crossings are now at lower levels than when Donald Trump left office in January of 2021. This piece from Politico reports that 2,400 was already lower than Trump's final days in office (https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/26/border-crossings-drop-biden-policy-00165055). And the 7 day average is now down to 1,900. I am not claiming Joe Biden has been excellent on immigration. Far from it. But I think it is fair to say that things are much better now. This is from the ICE website: "According to CBP data, during FY 2019, the number of individuals apprehended or found inadmissible nationwide totaled 1,148,024." That number divided by 365 is about 3,145 people, on average, per day. Objectively, border crossings are currently down 40% under Joe Biden compared to Donald Trump, FY 2019. And that was the last regular fiscal year of Trump dealing with the border.
There is no guarantee she won't change policies. She has strongly and repeatedly endorsed the Lankford/Sinema/Murphy, border patrol endorsed, bill. She would like to sign that. And maybe I'm crazy, but if she wins I think the republicans will suddenly find religion and want to pass the bill. And I think she would find it impossible to weasel out of signing a bill when she has said "I will sign the bill." The only durable solution is legislation which Republicans have failed on despite full Democratic buy in.
But thinking she's a liar is a fair reason to vote against her. Just as I think most Democrats have no faith Trump 2.0 and his staff would be "good for women and they're reproductive freedom" despite his repeated assertions otherwise.
It’s not hard to imagine how Harris will be regarded in 2027-28 if per chance she is elected. People will have a chance to see her stress tested for 2-3 years and will know for sure (OK, many from the Biden is sharp as a tack brigade will still defend her) that there is no there there.
In 2028 her approval ratings will make poor Old Joe look like a political all-star.
Meanwhile, with both Harris and Biden on vacation from the jobs they’re getting paid to do, who is actually running the country? That’s a bit worrisome.
Sadly, I believe you are correct, when it comes to modern times. Think FDR, a strong wartime leader (who sadly suffered from heart and dementia issues the last year of his life; Truman, a strong leader who nuked two Japanese cities and acted against the State Dept. to create the modern State of Israel; followed by Eisenhower who ended the Korean War, kept the crushing of Hungary by the Soviets from spreading (but sadly, in a terrible act of stupidity in the guise of stability, forced Israel to vacate Sinai, thus paving the way for Egypt’s aggression against Israel in 1967), oversaw a growing economy and military which Boomers remember as the good times; followed by the handsome JFK who got us involved in Vietnam, the root of many of our domestic and catastrophic foreign policy issues that plague us, today (and had he lived, his main goal for his expected second term was to destroy, eliminate, extirpate Israel’s nuke enterprise, which policy would have led to war and the end of Israel; LBJ, a strong leader whose rather good domestic policies were drowned in the rice paddies of Vietnam,- he ought be known as the Pres. who abandoned Israel in June 1967, unable or unwilling to organize a flotilla of ships to break Egypt’s blockade of the Straits of Tiran against Israel and ordering Israel not to preempt an attack against Egypt, whose armed forces along with those of Syria, Jordan, etc. were poised to attack and destroy tiny Israel; showing its value to the US as a bulwark against the USSR and radical anti-US Arab States, the US-Israel military alliance was forged; Nixon understood international relations, kept the Sovietsky at bay while opening up US-China relations; Vietnam sank Nixon; Ford was a non-entity whose tenure was short and was followed by the weak, religious-appearing, quite stupid, Jimmy Carter, who, with the French, installed in 1979 an Islamic-Theocratic, murderous regime as the ruler of Iran. Weak and stupid, intellectually-challenged and poorly-informed on history and international relations, Carter began the US decline as a world military power. The Islamist regime attacked and seized the US embassy in Iran, committing an act of war. Carter’s response was to tell Americans to put on sweaters. Ever since, Iran has continued its hot war against the US and its allies, while the US response has been to appease Iran and fund this Islamist terror entity with billions upon billions of dollars. Iran has used some of its ongoing supply of American cash to manufacture modern drone weapons, which drones it sells to Russia to kill Ukrainian civilians and soldiers. The Biden/Harris Administration has been giving billions of dollars to Ukraine to help it buy or manufacture weapons to protect itself from the Iranian-made drones, the manufacturing of which is underwritten by American taxpayers.
[I inadvertently and unintentionally ended my above post.]
Let’s move past Reagan, GHW, and unserious Clinton, under whom began the destruction of America’s military superiority. We come to BH Obama, a modern “progressive” who truly hates the USA, and actually admitted his goal was to fundamentally change the United States from the land of the free, the Land of opportunity and the Land that attracts the smart or even downtrodden to immigrate to the US, instead to turn the US into a nation with a puny military, which in any event would not be used to protect the US nor any ally against the depredations of truly NSDAP-like attacks against foes whether foreign or domestic. BHO laid the groundwork for what would become in his shadow third term and hoped for fourth and fifth terms to turn the US into a Socialist “workers’ paradise” where those high-up in the Party, i.e. the Nomenklatura, would live well while the drones would be stuck in their low paid, dull jobs, supervised by robots, kept in line by free medical care until their usefulness in the Brave New World ended when their dull lives’ utility to the nanny State terminated when they were about 55 years of age at which point their free medical care and their free food ticket-books were ended by law. Free education through grad school, free hydrogen-powered automobiles at age 18, free “starter” homes at age 21, valued at “$300 thousand, free abortions (to make room for migrants entering the US), credit cards issued by the United States Treasury with $100 thousand loaded on them (the charges on which never have to be paid back). State-sponsored antisemitism began in earnest during BHO’s third (shadow) term. Millions upon millions of human drones were imported to the US beginning in BHO’s first two terms, but the US-sponsored mass waves of uneducated, tattooed, violent, migrant drones, the detritus from the Third World, primarily from Islamist, deeply hateful against the U.S. and Israel, was interrupted briefly during the Trump Administration. We write before the 2024 election, so we don’t yet know if BHO will succeed in having his fourth (shadow) term by capturing the White House, Senate and House of Representatives. If that nightmare scenario becomes a reality the one-party government long dreamt of by American Communists, Socialists and radicals will come to pass. The Filibuster rule will be eliminated, so there won’t be any pesky and time wasting disagreements among members of Congress; D.C. will be made a State (for obvious reasons), the Supreme Court will be enlarged to 15 members and given terms of 7 years each so they can have their terms ended before they cause too much, unexpected trouble. Confiscatory taxes will be enacted so that the super rich (those making more than $150,000./year/family) will not be able to run for office and destroy America. The money saved from the greedy rich will be distributed to the formerly poor so that no one will ever suffer from want, again. Anyone who invested in real property or the stock market and hasn’t sold anything (unrealized gain) will be forced by the US government to pay a 90% tax on her/his unrealized gains so that the US government will be able to support the needy in this country, especially those who just got off the boat or traversed the Southern or Northern borders. Why should residents of the US live well while those who live in Sudan live poorly? Naturally, running a country as large as the U.S., requires the leaders to be especially smart, wise, capable and knowledgeable. These leaders must need to have been educated at schools like Harvard, NYU, Columbia, MIT, Berkeley and University of Qatar. The leaders of America in the White House, Cabinet, Congress, Justice Dept., Secret Service (renamed Sicherheitsdienst) etc., should be paid reasonable yearly salaries, such as $300 million dollars for cabinet members and $1 billion per annum for the President. The above secret plan for the improved version of the USA was discovered by a Trump aide riding in the SS SUV taking him to the hospital after the assassination attempt on Trump’s life. We have published portions of the plan, here, to provide foreknowledge to those Americans concerned about our future.
So, we are to ignore the unconstitutional conduct of Biden/Harris and Obama before them? Rules to suppress the minority party, and to amplify the power of the corporate demigods? The antiDemocratic acts that block open discussion and analysis of the issue, including by government sponsored censorship and lawfare? And noting that we are put into the current mess of illegal immigration, crime, foreign policy blunders, military demise, and so on by the Democratic administration's of 12 of the last 16 years? I suggestbthat you reflect on things outside of yourself and fairly assess your political choices. The next generations would thank you perhaps.
"We lived within our means." Obama, Biden administrations and our current Democratic ideology is devoid of that philosophy. And further highlights the hypocrisy of the party.
I agree that VP Harris’ speech lacked substantive content. But that is not unusual in an acceptance speech. She was setting the tone of her campaign, pragmatism laced with generic middle-class “Americanism”. I have read most of the Democratic platform and I agree with many of its goals but am skeptical with proposed means. I am more of a cultural and economic libertarian but I do deeply respect the Constitution and the institutions that were set up to support it. That is why in this election I support the Democratic candidate.
So, we are to ignore the unconstitutional conduct of Biden/Harris and Obama before them? Rules to suppress the minority party, and to amplify the power of the corporate demigods? The antiDemocratic acts that block open discussion and analysis of the issue, including by government sponsored censorship and lawfare? And noting that we are put into the current mess of illegal immigration, crime, foreign policy blunders, military demise, and so on by the Democratic administration's of 12 of the last 16 years? I suggestbthat you reflect on things outside of yourself and fairly assess your political choices. The next generations would thank you perhaps.
I agree. It's been a lot of platitudes and broad strokes. In a way quite similar to a lot of successful presidential campaigns (remember a "big, beautiful healthcare plan", "We're going to eliminate inflation on day one") and lacking the specifics of other major campaigns (10-20(!) precent universal tariffs, mass internment camps for certain groups, Pardons for cop-killing "patriots")
But it's not unbearable to me. Elections are choices and some things have to matter more than policy. There have to be lines. Boundaries. Standards. And committing insurrection has to be one of those lines. Kamala Harris would have to be damn near Adolf Hitler for me to not vote for her.
I'm a Democrat who would have liked to vote for Nikki Haley in November. Someone willing to stand for the market, self determination, and strength on the world stage. That is unavailable. And whatever Harris thinks about the tax code, she is a patriot. She understand what it means to respect the foundation our nation sits on. And Mr. Trump emphatically doesn't. In the wake of his dishonor lies police officers wounded, scarred, shaken, and dead; a nation which will never again assume a peaceful transfer of power; a people which will be on the lookout for political violence; a cult; A great party reduced to fealty. The party of Lincoln and Reagan now has such distinguished avatars as J.D. Vance and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Harris may be as yet hollow; thin; lacking in depth. But the test I laid out is the floor for me; Harris passes, Trump miserably fails.
PS: And honestly Danielle, only one party stands ready to sacrifice Ukraines men, women and children to Putin's bloody grip. And it is not the Democrats
Not a single law enforcement officer lost their life to violence at The Capitol on 1/6/21. That same police force was under attack on the day of Trump's inauguration. And throughout the Kavanaugh hearings. So you seem a bit selective in your outrage. Cultish behavior is manifest in the party that decided, after a horrific debate performance, to cancel 14MM primary votes and toss aside the sitting POTUS for a VP who was polling an approval rating <30% just 9 weeks ago. And the D voters seem just fine with that because "Trump is Hitler." I'll be voting for energy security, maintaining private health insurance, freedom of speech, robust funding for police, and enforecment of immigration laws and the sealing of the southern border to the extent possible.
I hope you’re wrong on Ukraine, and we’re working hard to ensure they get the support needed. I suspect a lot of people feel the way you do, D or R. We have e bad choices and have made bad choices. Sigh.
I’ve been reading-one after the other-the ongoing commentary/op-ed class tripe that this election will be decided “on policy.”
Apparently that mantra is all they now have to hold on to, as Trump gets nuttier by the hour.
If I recall, Hillary had more policy papers (‘07 and ‘16) than anyone else and was as wonkish as it came. No one cared.. Knowledgeable but missing the touch Bill had. This is a Presidential campaign, decided on, yes, likeability in no small way..
As to your fleeting comment that ‘some of what Trump says is crap’, man up here for a minute, please.
Damned near every logghoreic utterance from him is garbage. Josh Shapiro? Congressional medal of honor, Jan 6 fundraiser?Calling her dumb, horsey, communistic, ad nauseam? And still, still, his party mumbles about policy, not the man. He’s bereft of any feelings and defines policy as what’s good for him.
I wish more people would understand that criticism of Kamala is not an endorsement of Trump. And while he manages too often to beat his own low standard, I also believe that policy-wise he was better than Biden. Don’t remind me of January 6. He won’t be getting my vote. But I try to call balls and strikes from my conservative perspective.
Might I politely suggest that you thus be clearer in your critiquing. If you honestly think that his recent spiteful remarks are less ‘vapid nonsense’ than her clichés, I'd respectfully ask you why.
I too have a conservative perspective; the Party left me ages ago..
His remarks are ill mannered, meandering and vindictive, hardly becoming of a leader of any ilk
Call those balls and strikes again after the first debate, please..
I think Dany makes some good ( and always sharp-witted!) points. Harris’ speech was a bit beige. A lot of people didn’t know much about Harris and so if they were looking for biographical information, then that was enough.
But anyone looking for what she would do she would govern was destined to be disappointed because that was lacking, as it was in Trump’s.
I think what Harris did well was present a contrast between her vision of America and who Amercians are (most of them anyway) to Trump’s. Personally, I prefer the hopeful, neighborly prescription over dark “American carnage.”
That’s not policy, though and I’d like to see more meat on the bones.
To compare Trump’s 90 minute chest beating with Harris’s skates right on the edge of implausibility. Please..
He had a window to close it at 25 minutes and take a victory lap. History will write that his lunacy that night was the start of his unraveling.
Harris did what she needed to do And got it over the line. Good enough. Hardly any nomination speeches are memorable, once every three decades, perhaps.
Trump’s will be remembered. But not the way the GOP had hoped.
I love it when people tell us "history will write. . . " It's always the secular substitute for "God wills it." Lincoln in his Second Inaugural has the last word on that conceit.
And Kamala is all those things...and she is not. The deception and fraud are transparent for anyone to see. Who best to protect freedom is our task. Nothing more Nothing less. And it used to be that Americans understood that the United States of America stood for those principles of limited government and individual liberty.
‘Deception and fraud?’ ‘Things are getting dire?’ Lessening of individual liberty? You sound, unfortunately, like you’re a step away from barricading yourself inside.
Well NJH, I agree "To each his own," good words to live by. But not when it interferes with the lives of others. That is the problem I see with politics. What is noble about being generous with other people's property and livelihood? Is that service? Service is producing things people need or want.
When we rediscover and value freedom (the absence of coercion) then we will have fidelity to our founding principles. Oh how nice it would be to live unencombered by what others think is best for me. But to simply live our lives trying to love and serve God is optimistic. I will always be searching for the sunlight. That's why I'm here.
I always thought liberty tilted more towards the limitations of government control and individual rights, whereas freedom [to choose, a la Uncle Miltie] is geared more towards the pursuance of individual interests (rather than rights).
But hey, you’ve got your ideas, and Godspeed to you.
The truth is that both freedom and coercion are much more internal than external. Read Mandela or MLK on that topic. It ain’t “them” that’s stifling your liberty, IMHO.
Freedom is a societal condition. Liberty is more personal. To recognize the move away from our founding principles of limited government and individual liberty is not paranoia. I can see the erosion of freedom without there being. "Them." Pretending coercion is freedom is not sunlight.
Mike, I don't "hate" anyone. And while I understand that you may appreciate what Kamala Harris has on offer, I have yet to know what that is. I'm glad she loves her husband and hates crime. I'd like to see something beyond price controls and "I will fight for you." If that constitutes hate in your book, then I must say, I admire your extraordinarily high standards. As a mere human, I cannot relate.
PS I don't believe you've ever read a word of praise for Project 2025 here. And Marc Thiessen has written eloquently about the corruption of the Heritage Foundation.
To see and be alarmed at those seeking to change the very nature of our republic by replacing the promise of freedom with the tyranny of the state is not hate. It is noble to defend freedom.
Unlike most who huff and puff about Project 2025, I actually read over 100 pages of it, mercy on me. It is a boring dissection of the entire federal government with all kinds of ideas about how to change things, some of which I agreed with, and others I did not. I defy anyone to make an actual case about it being any sort of malevolent evil. As I say, it is wonkish eyes-glaze-over wishful verbiage. Aside from the fact that Trump does not endorse it (and I am sure could not have read half of what I did), the hoopla over it is absurd, utterly absurd.
One of the reasons why I find the whole Project 2025 thing so insane is a) The notion that Trump ever wanted to subcontract policy ideas to anyone is absurd; b) The notion that Trump ever read the thing is absurd (as you say); and c) we in Washington know all too well that this was Heritage's attempt to aggrandize itself, and nothing more. That JD Vance wrote the intro tells us more about his own judgment than anything else. Also, see this week's podcast for Karl Rove's take on the ineffectiveness of the 2025 strategy. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-the-hell-is-going-on/id1467993804?i=1000668457109
Danielle is defending freedom, not project 2025. To be concerned about Harris is not to be a Trump supporters. Let's argue about who will defend freedom.
It's all fun and games until meme culture takes Kamala all the way to the White House and then she actually has to...be a president.
Didn't like her in 2019, didn't like her as VP, still don't like her, and the whole Democratic Party seems to have forgotten that they, too, didn't like her up until they had to. (And this is coming from a Dem.)
You’re technically correct. But, respectfully, I was including the 2 officers who committed suicide in the immediate aftermath, and Mr. Sicknick, an otherwise healthy man who immediately had 2 strokes and died on 1/7. Not to mention his 4 dead supporters.
Second of all, it is a bold assumption that I support the assault of police, but only by liberals. I do not. The difference is the plotters of those assaults are not major nominees for president. Those folks belong in jail. But, Mr. Trump wants to release the “patriotic” cop beaters. He calls a hostage the man imprisoned for gouging out the eyes of a police officer. He calls a hero the man who beat a police officer with a fire extinguisher. He calls beautiful people the crowd which erected a gallows in front of the capitol to chants of “hang Mike Pence.”
And yes, we are perfectly fine. I was one of the 14 million votes. I don’t know a soul who was complaining. Elections aught not be suicide missions. The function of parties is too acquire power for the sake of policy. Joe Biden did not just preform badly. He convinced me, and damn near everyone, that he was unfit to serve another term. It would have been irresponsible for democrats to nominate him both politically and practically.
I do not think Trump has organized killing fields and torture chambers. Nor do I believe that his desire. I just believe him a uniquely unqualified, amoral, characterless, fraud and felon. But he is not Hitler.
On policy:
We are producing more barrels of oil today than any nation in history. If we went back to Trump’s old production policies, production would presumably go down, returning to his previous lower levels.
Border crossings are lower today than January 2021. Even with title 42 they were higher. Joe Biden for most of his presidency has been atrocious on the border. But it is rich to say: we have border issues under Biden; so the answer is the president with the SECOND worst record. If you wanted guaranteed results you should advocate for the overturning of the 22nd amendment to bring back either Clinton, Bush, or Obama, all of whom had lower crossing and more order than Mr. Trump.
Maintaining private health insurance is a fair and good point. She has disavowed Medicare for all, through a spokesperson. But it is more than reasonable to think that not enough, or that she is lying.
I think political violence of all stylings is awful. I was pointing out the grimly unique circumstance of the mob leader being the sitting president of the United States. He is held to higher standards. Honestly do you really think: but the leaders of the neonazis and BLM did it to!! Is a good argument for electing a president?
Your claim about the border? On what do you base that? Moreover, what policy change has Biden or Harris embraced or implemented that ensures the border will be secure once the election is over? Make your case, don't simply assert the unlikely.
I was referring to the reporting on how daily border crossings are now at lower levels than when Donald Trump left office in January of 2021. This piece from Politico reports that 2,400 was already lower than Trump's final days in office (https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/26/border-crossings-drop-biden-policy-00165055). And the 7 day average is now down to 1,900. I am not claiming Joe Biden has been excellent on immigration. Far from it. But I think it is fair to say that things are much better now. This is from the ICE website: "According to CBP data, during FY 2019, the number of individuals apprehended or found inadmissible nationwide totaled 1,148,024." That number divided by 365 is about 3,145 people, on average, per day. Objectively, border crossings are currently down 40% under Joe Biden compared to Donald Trump, FY 2019. And that was the last regular fiscal year of Trump dealing with the border.
There is no guarantee she won't change policies. She has strongly and repeatedly endorsed the Lankford/Sinema/Murphy, border patrol endorsed, bill. She would like to sign that. And maybe I'm crazy, but if she wins I think the republicans will suddenly find religion and want to pass the bill. And I think she would find it impossible to weasel out of signing a bill when she has said "I will sign the bill." The only durable solution is legislation which Republicans have failed on despite full Democratic buy in.
But thinking she's a liar is a fair reason to vote against her. Just as I think most Democrats have no faith Trump 2.0 and his staff would be "good for women and they're reproductive freedom" despite his repeated assertions otherwise.
It’s not hard to imagine how Harris will be regarded in 2027-28 if per chance she is elected. People will have a chance to see her stress tested for 2-3 years and will know for sure (OK, many from the Biden is sharp as a tack brigade will still defend her) that there is no there there.
In 2028 her approval ratings will make poor Old Joe look like a political all-star.
Meanwhile, with both Harris and Biden on vacation from the jobs they’re getting paid to do, who is actually running the country? That’s a bit worrisome.
I love what is happening to Trump and Putin.
Yep - Trump is trouncing Demunists, and Putin is going down with Demunists.
It's magnificent!
Rumpy and Pootie are joined at the lip.
Both display increasing panic.
Your lips. Now run outside and play with the other Russian children.
How childish.
How honest.
Honestly, you've always been childish George.
Let’s end this erudite back and forth, shall we?
Paraphrasing Hopf in "Those Who Remain"
Hard times create strong leaders, strong leaders create good times, good times create weak leaders, and weak leaders create hard times.
Similia similibus curantur. Like cures like
Sadly, I believe you are correct, when it comes to modern times. Think FDR, a strong wartime leader (who sadly suffered from heart and dementia issues the last year of his life; Truman, a strong leader who nuked two Japanese cities and acted against the State Dept. to create the modern State of Israel; followed by Eisenhower who ended the Korean War, kept the crushing of Hungary by the Soviets from spreading (but sadly, in a terrible act of stupidity in the guise of stability, forced Israel to vacate Sinai, thus paving the way for Egypt’s aggression against Israel in 1967), oversaw a growing economy and military which Boomers remember as the good times; followed by the handsome JFK who got us involved in Vietnam, the root of many of our domestic and catastrophic foreign policy issues that plague us, today (and had he lived, his main goal for his expected second term was to destroy, eliminate, extirpate Israel’s nuke enterprise, which policy would have led to war and the end of Israel; LBJ, a strong leader whose rather good domestic policies were drowned in the rice paddies of Vietnam,- he ought be known as the Pres. who abandoned Israel in June 1967, unable or unwilling to organize a flotilla of ships to break Egypt’s blockade of the Straits of Tiran against Israel and ordering Israel not to preempt an attack against Egypt, whose armed forces along with those of Syria, Jordan, etc. were poised to attack and destroy tiny Israel; showing its value to the US as a bulwark against the USSR and radical anti-US Arab States, the US-Israel military alliance was forged; Nixon understood international relations, kept the Sovietsky at bay while opening up US-China relations; Vietnam sank Nixon; Ford was a non-entity whose tenure was short and was followed by the weak, religious-appearing, quite stupid, Jimmy Carter, who, with the French, installed in 1979 an Islamic-Theocratic, murderous regime as the ruler of Iran. Weak and stupid, intellectually-challenged and poorly-informed on history and international relations, Carter began the US decline as a world military power. The Islamist regime attacked and seized the US embassy in Iran, committing an act of war. Carter’s response was to tell Americans to put on sweaters. Ever since, Iran has continued its hot war against the US and its allies, while the US response has been to appease Iran and fund this Islamist terror entity with billions upon billions of dollars. Iran has used some of its ongoing supply of American cash to manufacture modern drone weapons, which drones it sells to Russia to kill Ukrainian civilians and soldiers. The Biden/Harris Administration has been giving billions of dollars to Ukraine to help it buy or manufacture weapons to protect itself from the Iranian-made drones, the manufacturing of which is underwritten by American taxpayers.
[I inadvertently and unintentionally ended my above post.]
Let’s move past Reagan, GHW, and unserious Clinton, under whom began the destruction of America’s military superiority. We come to BH Obama, a modern “progressive” who truly hates the USA, and actually admitted his goal was to fundamentally change the United States from the land of the free, the Land of opportunity and the Land that attracts the smart or even downtrodden to immigrate to the US, instead to turn the US into a nation with a puny military, which in any event would not be used to protect the US nor any ally against the depredations of truly NSDAP-like attacks against foes whether foreign or domestic. BHO laid the groundwork for what would become in his shadow third term and hoped for fourth and fifth terms to turn the US into a Socialist “workers’ paradise” where those high-up in the Party, i.e. the Nomenklatura, would live well while the drones would be stuck in their low paid, dull jobs, supervised by robots, kept in line by free medical care until their usefulness in the Brave New World ended when their dull lives’ utility to the nanny State terminated when they were about 55 years of age at which point their free medical care and their free food ticket-books were ended by law. Free education through grad school, free hydrogen-powered automobiles at age 18, free “starter” homes at age 21, valued at “$300 thousand, free abortions (to make room for migrants entering the US), credit cards issued by the United States Treasury with $100 thousand loaded on them (the charges on which never have to be paid back). State-sponsored antisemitism began in earnest during BHO’s third (shadow) term. Millions upon millions of human drones were imported to the US beginning in BHO’s first two terms, but the US-sponsored mass waves of uneducated, tattooed, violent, migrant drones, the detritus from the Third World, primarily from Islamist, deeply hateful against the U.S. and Israel, was interrupted briefly during the Trump Administration. We write before the 2024 election, so we don’t yet know if BHO will succeed in having his fourth (shadow) term by capturing the White House, Senate and House of Representatives. If that nightmare scenario becomes a reality the one-party government long dreamt of by American Communists, Socialists and radicals will come to pass. The Filibuster rule will be eliminated, so there won’t be any pesky and time wasting disagreements among members of Congress; D.C. will be made a State (for obvious reasons), the Supreme Court will be enlarged to 15 members and given terms of 7 years each so they can have their terms ended before they cause too much, unexpected trouble. Confiscatory taxes will be enacted so that the super rich (those making more than $150,000./year/family) will not be able to run for office and destroy America. The money saved from the greedy rich will be distributed to the formerly poor so that no one will ever suffer from want, again. Anyone who invested in real property or the stock market and hasn’t sold anything (unrealized gain) will be forced by the US government to pay a 90% tax on her/his unrealized gains so that the US government will be able to support the needy in this country, especially those who just got off the boat or traversed the Southern or Northern borders. Why should residents of the US live well while those who live in Sudan live poorly? Naturally, running a country as large as the U.S., requires the leaders to be especially smart, wise, capable and knowledgeable. These leaders must need to have been educated at schools like Harvard, NYU, Columbia, MIT, Berkeley and University of Qatar. The leaders of America in the White House, Cabinet, Congress, Justice Dept., Secret Service (renamed Sicherheitsdienst) etc., should be paid reasonable yearly salaries, such as $300 million dollars for cabinet members and $1 billion per annum for the President. The above secret plan for the improved version of the USA was discovered by a Trump aide riding in the SS SUV taking him to the hospital after the assassination attempt on Trump’s life. We have published portions of the plan, here, to provide foreknowledge to those Americans concerned about our future.
A Harris election would be nothing but an Obama 3rd term. And who needs that?!
Actually, fourth term. Obama served twice, then there was Joe.
So true. An empty pastel pantsuit…
So, we are to ignore the unconstitutional conduct of Biden/Harris and Obama before them? Rules to suppress the minority party, and to amplify the power of the corporate demigods? The antiDemocratic acts that block open discussion and analysis of the issue, including by government sponsored censorship and lawfare? And noting that we are put into the current mess of illegal immigration, crime, foreign policy blunders, military demise, and so on by the Democratic administration's of 12 of the last 16 years? I suggestbthat you reflect on things outside of yourself and fairly assess your political choices. The next generations would thank you perhaps.
"We lived within our means." Obama, Biden administrations and our current Democratic ideology is devoid of that philosophy. And further highlights the hypocrisy of the party.
I will say this, however. Both parties seem to have abandoned living within our means.
The old Dick Cheney ”deficits don’t matter” gambit on steroids for both parties now.
I agree that VP Harris’ speech lacked substantive content. But that is not unusual in an acceptance speech. She was setting the tone of her campaign, pragmatism laced with generic middle-class “Americanism”. I have read most of the Democratic platform and I agree with many of its goals but am skeptical with proposed means. I am more of a cultural and economic libertarian but I do deeply respect the Constitution and the institutions that were set up to support it. That is why in this election I support the Democratic candidate.
Surely you’ve got to be kidding Susan?
So, we are to ignore the unconstitutional conduct of Biden/Harris and Obama before them? Rules to suppress the minority party, and to amplify the power of the corporate demigods? The antiDemocratic acts that block open discussion and analysis of the issue, including by government sponsored censorship and lawfare? And noting that we are put into the current mess of illegal immigration, crime, foreign policy blunders, military demise, and so on by the Democratic administration's of 12 of the last 16 years? I suggestbthat you reflect on things outside of yourself and fairly assess your political choices. The next generations would thank you perhaps.
If you respect the Constitution, why do you support the candidate that opened the border?
Actions speak louder than words
I agree. It's been a lot of platitudes and broad strokes. In a way quite similar to a lot of successful presidential campaigns (remember a "big, beautiful healthcare plan", "We're going to eliminate inflation on day one") and lacking the specifics of other major campaigns (10-20(!) precent universal tariffs, mass internment camps for certain groups, Pardons for cop-killing "patriots")
But it's not unbearable to me. Elections are choices and some things have to matter more than policy. There have to be lines. Boundaries. Standards. And committing insurrection has to be one of those lines. Kamala Harris would have to be damn near Adolf Hitler for me to not vote for her.
I'm a Democrat who would have liked to vote for Nikki Haley in November. Someone willing to stand for the market, self determination, and strength on the world stage. That is unavailable. And whatever Harris thinks about the tax code, she is a patriot. She understand what it means to respect the foundation our nation sits on. And Mr. Trump emphatically doesn't. In the wake of his dishonor lies police officers wounded, scarred, shaken, and dead; a nation which will never again assume a peaceful transfer of power; a people which will be on the lookout for political violence; a cult; A great party reduced to fealty. The party of Lincoln and Reagan now has such distinguished avatars as J.D. Vance and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Harris may be as yet hollow; thin; lacking in depth. But the test I laid out is the floor for me; Harris passes, Trump miserably fails.
PS: And honestly Danielle, only one party stands ready to sacrifice Ukraines men, women and children to Putin's bloody grip. And it is not the Democrats
Not a single law enforcement officer lost their life to violence at The Capitol on 1/6/21. That same police force was under attack on the day of Trump's inauguration. And throughout the Kavanaugh hearings. So you seem a bit selective in your outrage. Cultish behavior is manifest in the party that decided, after a horrific debate performance, to cancel 14MM primary votes and toss aside the sitting POTUS for a VP who was polling an approval rating <30% just 9 weeks ago. And the D voters seem just fine with that because "Trump is Hitler." I'll be voting for energy security, maintaining private health insurance, freedom of speech, robust funding for police, and enforecment of immigration laws and the sealing of the southern border to the extent possible.
I hope you’re wrong on Ukraine, and we’re working hard to ensure they get the support needed. I suspect a lot of people feel the way you do, D or R. We have e bad choices and have made bad choices. Sigh.
I’ve been reading-one after the other-the ongoing commentary/op-ed class tripe that this election will be decided “on policy.”
Apparently that mantra is all they now have to hold on to, as Trump gets nuttier by the hour.
If I recall, Hillary had more policy papers (‘07 and ‘16) than anyone else and was as wonkish as it came. No one cared.. Knowledgeable but missing the touch Bill had. This is a Presidential campaign, decided on, yes, likeability in no small way..
As to your fleeting comment that ‘some of what Trump says is crap’, man up here for a minute, please.
Damned near every logghoreic utterance from him is garbage. Josh Shapiro? Congressional medal of honor, Jan 6 fundraiser?Calling her dumb, horsey, communistic, ad nauseam? And still, still, his party mumbles about policy, not the man. He’s bereft of any feelings and defines policy as what’s good for him.
I wish more people would understand that criticism of Kamala is not an endorsement of Trump. And while he manages too often to beat his own low standard, I also believe that policy-wise he was better than Biden. Don’t remind me of January 6. He won’t be getting my vote. But I try to call balls and strikes from my conservative perspective.
Might I politely suggest that you thus be clearer in your critiquing. If you honestly think that his recent spiteful remarks are less ‘vapid nonsense’ than her clichés, I'd respectfully ask you why.
I too have a conservative perspective; the Party left me ages ago..
His remarks are ill mannered, meandering and vindictive, hardly becoming of a leader of any ilk
Call those balls and strikes again after the first debate, please..
I think Dany makes some good ( and always sharp-witted!) points. Harris’ speech was a bit beige. A lot of people didn’t know much about Harris and so if they were looking for biographical information, then that was enough.
But anyone looking for what she would do she would govern was destined to be disappointed because that was lacking, as it was in Trump’s.
I think what Harris did well was present a contrast between her vision of America and who Amercians are (most of them anyway) to Trump’s. Personally, I prefer the hopeful, neighborly prescription over dark “American carnage.”
That’s not policy, though and I’d like to see more meat on the bones.
To compare Trump’s 90 minute chest beating with Harris’s skates right on the edge of implausibility. Please..
He had a window to close it at 25 minutes and take a victory lap. History will write that his lunacy that night was the start of his unraveling.
Harris did what she needed to do And got it over the line. Good enough. Hardly any nomination speeches are memorable, once every three decades, perhaps.
Trump’s will be remembered. But not the way the GOP had hoped.
I love it when people tell us "history will write. . . " It's always the secular substitute for "God wills it." Lincoln in his Second Inaugural has the last word on that conceit.
And Kamala is all those things...and she is not. The deception and fraud are transparent for anyone to see. Who best to protect freedom is our task. Nothing more Nothing less. And it used to be that Americans understood that the United States of America stood for those principles of limited government and individual liberty.
Things are getting dire.
‘Deception and fraud?’ ‘Things are getting dire?’ Lessening of individual liberty? You sound, unfortunately, like you’re a step away from barricading yourself inside.
I seem to see a lot more sunlight of late..
Chacun a son gout..
Well NJH, I agree "To each his own," good words to live by. But not when it interferes with the lives of others. That is the problem I see with politics. What is noble about being generous with other people's property and livelihood? Is that service? Service is producing things people need or want.
When we rediscover and value freedom (the absence of coercion) then we will have fidelity to our founding principles. Oh how nice it would be to live unencombered by what others think is best for me. But to simply live our lives trying to love and serve God is optimistic. I will always be searching for the sunlight. That's why I'm here.
Hmm,
I always thought liberty tilted more towards the limitations of government control and individual rights, whereas freedom [to choose, a la Uncle Miltie] is geared more towards the pursuance of individual interests (rather than rights).
But hey, you’ve got your ideas, and Godspeed to you.
Appreciate you taking the time to reply.
David,
The truth is that both freedom and coercion are much more internal than external. Read Mandela or MLK on that topic. It ain’t “them” that’s stifling your liberty, IMHO.
The sunlight’s always there; open the curtains..
Freedom is a societal condition. Liberty is more personal. To recognize the move away from our founding principles of limited government and individual liberty is not paranoia. I can see the erosion of freedom without there being. "Them." Pretending coercion is freedom is not sunlight.
It’s amazing how typical persons like you are..Once you hate someone.
Even if they were giving out tickets to the Stairway to Heaven and you had won,
your commentary would comprise the same nothingness indicating the contortions
In which you twisted your body to find
Nothingness in…Somethingness??
Hate is like acid in a plastic bottle
eventually it just has to melt its way out.
Mike, I don't "hate" anyone. And while I understand that you may appreciate what Kamala Harris has on offer, I have yet to know what that is. I'm glad she loves her husband and hates crime. I'd like to see something beyond price controls and "I will fight for you." If that constitutes hate in your book, then I must say, I admire your extraordinarily high standards. As a mere human, I cannot relate.
PS I don't believe you've ever read a word of praise for Project 2025 here. And Marc Thiessen has written eloquently about the corruption of the Heritage Foundation.
If Kamala hates crime, why did she start a fund to pay bail for the criminals who burned down several businesses in Minneapolis?
Danielle..I appreciate your opinions and your rights to embrace them..
To see and be alarmed at those seeking to change the very nature of our republic by replacing the promise of freedom with the tyranny of the state is not hate. It is noble to defend freedom.
You mean like the dark proposals in the mega document entitled PROJECT 2025..
Amen brother amen
Unlike most who huff and puff about Project 2025, I actually read over 100 pages of it, mercy on me. It is a boring dissection of the entire federal government with all kinds of ideas about how to change things, some of which I agreed with, and others I did not. I defy anyone to make an actual case about it being any sort of malevolent evil. As I say, it is wonkish eyes-glaze-over wishful verbiage. Aside from the fact that Trump does not endorse it (and I am sure could not have read half of what I did), the hoopla over it is absurd, utterly absurd.
One of the reasons why I find the whole Project 2025 thing so insane is a) The notion that Trump ever wanted to subcontract policy ideas to anyone is absurd; b) The notion that Trump ever read the thing is absurd (as you say); and c) we in Washington know all too well that this was Heritage's attempt to aggrandize itself, and nothing more. That JD Vance wrote the intro tells us more about his own judgment than anything else. Also, see this week's podcast for Karl Rove's take on the ineffectiveness of the 2025 strategy. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-the-hell-is-going-on/id1467993804?i=1000668457109
Danielle is defending freedom, not project 2025. To be concerned about Harris is not to be a Trump supporters. Let's argue about who will defend freedom.
It's all fun and games until meme culture takes Kamala all the way to the White House and then she actually has to...be a president.
Didn't like her in 2019, didn't like her as VP, still don't like her, and the whole Democratic Party seems to have forgotten that they, too, didn't like her up until they had to. (And this is coming from a Dem.)
Why do you mean “The Dems didn’t like her”..Most times the out come of a race depends on who your competitors are..
Many athletes who lost previous races
end up being the winner in a later completion..Sahar “Those who reach the top boys, must first climb the hill”
Amen?
😍
A f'n men.