We certainly need somebody to make America great again.
But despite his intelligence, proven negotiating ability and plethora of accomplishments I’d be surprised if even Donald Trump can pull off such a feat at this late date, where the idea of strong families, hard work in school, success and the trappings thereof are mocked and derided as hallmarks of the privileged class and weakness and victimhood = moral superiority.
Once upon a time in my callow youth I thought the idea behind equality was to raise the underprivileged up to the levels enjoyed by the rest of society rather than to drag everyone else down to the level of the underprivileged. But as we’ve seen with Communism and other forms of social engineering designed to achieve equality, the thrust always seems to be to drag everyone down to the same substandard level rather than to lift anyone up. I suppose in a way this makes sense. It is easier after all, and requires no responsibility or effort on the part of anyone to improve their lot.
But who knows, maybe Trump can pull off for the country a turnaround similar to what Rudy Guiliani did for Times Square. More people in this country would favor such a turnaround than we’ll ever hear about from the media, and my guess is it’s a large part of the reason Trump is continuing to climb in the polls.
Actually, soviet communism did not drag everyone down to the same level. It tried —even with all the killings in the first 40 years — to treat ordinary people fairly, provided they worked hard and paid their taxes and were good religious family members and were patriotic as all get out; and used those taxes to fund the war machine and erect a dizzyingly elevated political class, wealthy and corrupt, the nomenklatura to rule the rest.
“What do you think, Donnie? Do you think she would be a good president?”
Donnie looked sad. “I think she would not be a good president. I think she would be a very bad president. I would like to be president. I would like to be a good president.”
Thank goodness we have a twice-divorced reality-television star, whose father gave him control of his large real estate company, around to teach us about the important of strong families and hard work.
Do you actually like Trump, or do you just want to complain about the kids today? I realize the United States is one precarious step away from going communist and electing Jane Fonda as Supreme Secretary of the Glorious People’s Assembly of the Revolutionary Masses, but this seems a bit needlessly reactionary.
No, actually you do need to mention it, because it’s an article about a Donald Trump butt plug and most people won’t be too happy about clicking that at work.
I agree that he did not mean to say they’re all rapists. But, rhetorically, if you lead with gosh, Mexico is sending us their human garbage and then list the ways they’re garbage and then tack on a well, some of them are probably okay people, it’s going to read as generalized contempt for the whole lot.
And I think Trump was intended to convey that generalized contempt, even if not attempting to convey the specifics of “all are drug dealers and rapists.”
We have truly gone into a bizzaro land when somebody is arguing that somebody else is being disingenuous by not hearing the difference between “they’re” and “their”.
And, try as I may, I can’t figure out how “their rapists” is somehow any different than “they’re rapists.” In both cases, Trump says that Mexico is sending over people who rape. Are these Mexicans rapists (i.e. “they’re rapists”)? Or are they Mexico’s rapists (i.e. “their rapists”).
More importantly, how is there any fucking difference between the two?!
That’s rich from someone who chose Sarah Palin as a running mate.
I agree that there is something refreshing about someone who says what he means instead of dancing around things or using dog whistles. But you can say your opinion on things plainly without making up ridiculous lies to back your statements.
