Comments on: Trump’s solution to the debt

By: Richard Saunders

Richard Saunders — Tue, 10 May 2016 23:49:52 +0000

I’ve been practicing holding my nose and punching a ballot — not as easy as it seems. Might have to bring a piece of corrugated cardboard, just in case the voting booth isn’t wood.

A third party is just another name for the traditional Republican circular firing squad. The GOP can survive Trump. it can’t survive the conservative wing splitting off. That would mean the Democrats will be in power permanently, more or less gradually weaning the country into European “democratic socialism.”

Trump may very well mark the tolling of the bell for conservatism. We’ve never been able to sell it to the American public, anyway, so we have no one to blame but ourselves.* Hillary marks, if not the death knell, the turn-off to the cemetery for the United States of America.

And that’s why I’m practicing holding my nose and voting.

*Yes, I know about the Reagan presidency and the Contract for America years. How long, exactly, did they last?

By: LisaJimz

LisaJimz — Mon, 09 May 2016 20:13:38 +0000

Every time I hear Trump speak I feeling like I am living in a Three Stooges Movie…

By: Big Maq

Big Maq — Mon, 09 May 2016 15:41:56 +0000

“A while back quite a few people were arguing that there’s no need to worry, because if Trump gets really dangerous then we can count on Congress to impeach him” – Neo

Right.

The irony is that the people now capitulating to Trump are making that argument that somehow the remaining GOP in Congress won’t capitulate to Trump. WTFox!

By: blert

blert — Mon, 09 May 2016 06:08:22 +0000

BIll…

He’s closer to Sulla.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 09 May 2016 05:28:24 +0000

I won’t accept totalitarianism as the price of peace and prosperity

Plus, Caesar was one of the most exceptional people who has ever lived (even though results were awful). Trump’s a flash in the pan. Not comparable, even for people who do hope he’ll be a Caesarian strong man who makes the trains run on time.

Sad that were having to have this conversation.

By: blert

blert — Mon, 09 May 2016 03:54:53 +0000

Dang typos.

By: blert

blert — Mon, 09 May 2016 03:54:24 +0000

Caesar gave the world Augustus.

And decades of peace and prosperity.

Lenin gave the world Stalin.

You know, the fella that launched WWI in Europe.

The Soviet archives have that IN WRITING.

Stalin — not Hitler — launched WWII in Europe.

What a guy.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 08 May 2016 23:45:25 +0000

On a side note – about this Lenin vs Caesar analogy: I’m not sure how Caesar is somehow less catastrophic than Lenin (if that’s the point of the analogy). Caesar ended the Roman Republic, named himself dictator for life, and was the start of the Roman Empire, effectively ending representative rule in Rome. Also, untold thousands died in all the turmoil.

Neither Lenin or Caesar are in any way acceptable.

By: J.J.

J.J. — Sun, 08 May 2016 23:22:22 +0000

blert, thanks for the extra details. I will quit worrying about the debt so much.

But I would still like to see less government spending and a smaller government with less influence in the personal, lives of citizens.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 08 May 2016 22:14:43 +0000

I hope Palin discredits herself. It’d be great to show the political world that standing up to Trump costs you nothing. That’s assuming that Ryan doesn’t cave in / isn’t perceived as caving in.