tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post2791763061112363315..comments2024-02-28T17:50:10.303+00:00Comments on LUCID FRENZY JUNIOR: WHAT TO DO ABOUT DUMPING THAT DICKHEAD DONALD TRUMP?Gavin Burrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-40556712371032819052017-01-30T17:42:48.588+00:002017-01-30T17:42:48.588+00:00I believe the internationally agreed response to t...I believe the internationally agreed response to that comment is "you will"!Gavin Burrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-36573203713491955652017-01-30T00:36:41.620+00:002017-01-30T00:36:41.620+00:00"We need to be tough on Trump and tough on th..."We need to be tough on Trump and tough on the causes of Trump."<br /><br />I wish I had said that.Andrew Rilstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05786623930392936889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-48436123884778659972017-01-29T17:18:40.491+00:002017-01-29T17:18:40.491+00:00Yeah, the super-rich have suffered a lot lately.Yeah, the super-rich have suffered a lot lately.Gavin Burrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-7385708509328575902017-01-29T16:04:07.417+00:002017-01-29T16:04:07.417+00:00"Mrs. Clinton said that the political climate..."Mrs. Clinton said that the political climate had made it overly difficult for wealthy people to serve in government."<br /><br />Ha! An assertion that <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/12/20/trump-cabinet-picks-far-are-worth-combined/XvAJmHCgkHhO3lSxgIKvRM/story.html" rel="nofollow">has not aged well</a>.Mike Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039663158335543317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-8400878812704381652017-01-26T23:03:49.319+00:002017-01-26T23:03:49.319+00:00https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/politics/hil...https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/politics/hillary-clinton-speeches-wikileaks.html?_r=0<br /><br />And remember Goldman Sachs, before the crash, were as paid consultants advising people to take out investments as AAA safe, then betting themselves those investments would crash. When challenged they said their advice was "just opinions". Which is pretty Trumpish in itself.<br /><br />Misclassified as spam, eh? I think we can see the hand of Russian intelligence in this.Gavin Burrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-26150518103489944422017-01-26T18:40:35.894+00:002017-01-26T18:40:35.894+00:00That is awful about Clinton. Do you have a reliabl...That is awful about Clinton. Do you have a reliable reference?<br /><br />Thanks for your comment on TRP. I have no idea why, but for some reason it got misclassified as spam. I have hoiked it out of the spam-bucket and published it. Sorry for the delay -- drop me an email if that ever happens again.Mike Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039663158335543317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-16571893526125527242017-01-26T18:35:48.983+00:002017-01-26T18:35:48.983+00:00Clinton boasted, in private speeches to her Wall S...Clinton boasted, in private speeches to her Wall Street clients, that she might need to use the rhetoric of regulation and restraint to gain power, but that they didn't need to worry as she didn't mean a word of it.<br /><br />Trump doesn't even care if his lies look convincing. They're really just tribal rallying calls, entirely uninterested in the question of truth. But, as I say, that's just an upping of the ante.<br /><br />Incidentally, did post a new comment on your place. Did it not come through?Gavin Burrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-15253005735225448162017-01-26T18:01:01.426+00:002017-01-26T18:01:01.426+00:00I don't think so. Dislike the Pences, Cruzes a...I don't think so. Dislike the Pences, Cruzes and Clintons all you like -- I won't necessarily argue with you -- whatever else you say, you have to admit that they are all basically grown-ups who understand what truth is and at least make the effort to portray themselves as truthful, with all the compromises and connections to reality that entails. Trump? Nope.Mike Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039663158335543317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-13260351150470383872017-01-26T17:58:20.535+00:002017-01-26T17:58:20.535+00:00Trump's at the very least a megalomaniac and q...Trump's at the very least a megalomaniac and quite possibly a psychopath. But I don't think that makes him "one of a kind". The difference between him and Pence or Cruz, the difference between him and Clinton for that matter, is real, but it's more a difference of degree mixed in with presentation. Trump's not an aberration, but a continuation of a curve. Having linked to one part of Jack Graham's 'Faeces on Trump' round your place, <a href="http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/faeces-on-trump-6/" rel="nofollow">here's another.</a> I even, unusually for me, agree with the Lenin quote.<br /><br />Trump could, of course, be overstepping it. In fact we'd better hope that he is.Gavin Burrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-15891582781442196712017-01-25T22:38:36.752+00:002017-01-25T22:38:36.752+00:00This is pretty much where we came in. Knock out Tr...<i>This is pretty much where we came in. Knock out Trump and Trump alone, and people will just migrate to the next 'strong man' and his empty promises. We need to be tough on Trump and tough on the causes of Trump.</i><br /><br />This, I think, is where you and I disagree. I think Trump is one of a kind -- a literal psychopath, a million miles from people who we merely disagree violently with about policy. From my perspective, if the Republicans impeached Trump and installed Pence as his replacement, that would be a huge improvement. Not because Pence's policies are any better -- they may even be worse in some cases -- but because he is, when all's said, a rational human being with a specific perspective on reality. And Trump simply is not.<br /><br />Put an adult in charge. That is step one. Return from being a dicktatorship to a democracy. After that, we can worry about the details.Mike Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039663158335543317noreply@blogger.com