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Why some people dislike Donald Trump

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Having gone into Quora on Donald Trump, my inbox is now filled with Quora Q&A on the American President. This has just come up, as an answer to the question, Why Do Some People Dislike Donald Trump? I found it quite interesting in that not a single reason among the ten listed relates to any policy questions. These people have no idea what makes their lives work or where their safety or personal wealth comes from.

About 60% (or more) of us dislike Donald Trump. Most avid Faux News watchers, and Republicans, will tell you all of the wrong reasons why we despise him.

Here are the real reasons.

  1. Trump is an embarrassment. We are now forced each morning to learn what new and embarrassing things the leader of the nation we used to be proud of has said or done on the world stage.
  2. Trump is a raging, malignant narcissist. Many of us knew what that meant. We already knew what problems are associated with this disorder. It meant he couldn’t love our country – or its citizens. And he doesn’t. And he can’t. But we were still standing here loving our nation. He’s never even spoken to us — even after all this time. He either calls us names (Losers, Haters), or he speaks “on behalf of the nation” without knowing our beliefs or thoughts. 1.5+ years into this and he still only talks to his “base”.
    1. His severe narcissism also makes him extremely predictable and most people in our Intelligence community will tell you how dangerous that is. Many of us, who already grew up with a bully knew this. We did not need to re-learn this and did not want to watch it slowly play out in the real world.
  3. Trump is amoral and exceedingly unethical. We didn’t (and still don’t) want to try to explain this to our children and grandchildren. We believe our President should be a role model and of the highest integrity. We also used to gain inspiration from our Presidents (both Republican and Democratic)… now we are just ashamed. We’ve been cringing daily for a-year-and-a-half now.
  4. Trump is a liar bent on making (or keeping) his “base” angry and afraid. He spins everything and tells his “followers ” the press is their enemy. This is for his benefit alone (narcissist) and not for the good of the nation. He lies every single day, to all sorts of people, and refuses to see that a divided nation is a weakened nation. Why? Because he has Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
  5. Trump isn’t intelligent. He speaks in a childish way and half the time sounds like a moron. He has convinced a good portion (maybe 38%) of the nation that he is smart (he has a “big brain”) but none of us who have already survived the torture of living with a narcissist believe what he says — or that he is intelligent. We see the commoner that he is.
  6. Trump is not prepared or qualified for the presidency. He knows next to nothing about governance, and will not bother to learn about it because he only serves, and cares about, himself. At least 60% of us thought our nation didn’t have time to wait for him to “get up to speed” and many of this same group also knew he’d never make a real effort to learn the job requirements — ever.
  7. Trump spits in the faces of women, minorities, Muslims, Mexicans, black people, other nations (including allies), and Democrats. He’s a despicable xenophobe, racist, misogynist, and philanderer. He’s a total wreck of a man-baby and an example of the worst behavior possible. This is intolerable to us.
  8. We (60% or more) don’t believe that simply being wealthy qualifies a person for any political office. It does not prove ability—especially when one is born into it. It certainly does not prove honesty, integrity, or accountability. Yet, we still want these qualities in our president and our politicians.
  9. We (the 60%+) knew (or at least those of us who’ve studied political science) we would most likely have a Republican president after 8 years with a Democratic president and we were willing to work with most any of them — except Trump.
  10. Trump has lowered the respect and trust the United States previously had in the world.

After all that, there is then this added on at the end:

Now, these are NOT the reasons we despise trump.

a. Because the Democrats didn’t win the election.

b. Because Hillary Clinton did not win.

c. Because a so-called Republican won the election.

d. Because we are “snowflakes”. In fact it takes much more courage to care about those less fortunate than ourselves and use our time and resources to help them. It takes real selflessness to see problems in society and try to fix them — even if we see later we failed. It takes real strength of character to see that some parts of society are being treated badly and then change ourselves and/or our laws to make things better for everyone. It virtually takes NO courage to only care about ourselves. In fact, we couldn’t be that selfish if we tried.

You didn’t add in the possibility that you are fools who are blind to reality, which is pretty close to the right answer.

Democrats do not deserve to live in a democracy

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They want to be taken care of, not to run their own lives. They want others to feed them, clothe them and house them, not to produce and earn these things for themselves. They believe that they can remain personally free where they are dependent on others for much of what they receive. But the issue is much much more than just their ignorance.

Donald Trump was elected president and is president based on the rules of the democratic game. The Democrats are using every means they can devise – legal and illegal – to overturn that election. Their media conspirators are in it up to the hilt, lying at every turn and ignoring any news that shows a positive picture of America that can be attributed to the president. They lie and cheat at every turn. They are corrupt and dishonest. And on their side there is no disgust or shame in what they are doing. There are no higher principles they are defending.

Is Home Alone a Christmas movie?

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Apparently most of it but not all: CBC Cuts Donald Trump’s ‘Home Alone 2’ Cameo Out of Broadcast. It’s the CBC who apparently cannot bear even six positive seconds of Donald Trump. They’re like the ABC and no doubt the BBC along with every one of the traditional non-Fox networks in the US. They will filter out anything that does not fit the story they want their viewer to believe. Are people really content with such obvious and continuous efforts to shape their opinions? The left are wilfully happy to become Manchurian Candidates. It is spooky to see it before our eyes.

And on the same day there was this as well: Soldier Asks Donald Trump About Cameo in Hit Christmas Movie ‘Home Alone 2’.

“It was an honor to do it. It turned out to be a very big hit, obviously. It’s a big Christmas hit, one of the biggest,” Trump said. “It’s an honor to be involved in something like that.”

It’s almost unimaginable how small-minded and petty the media are.

An example why Quora will provide you with nothing worth knowing

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Did I ever mention that Quora deleted my answer to the one time I put something up on The difference between Keynesian and classical economics? One day it was there and the next time I looked it was not. Obviously offended someone, but I thought the point was to have all perspectives there so that others could think things through.

This was a Quora answer that has just been forwarded to me that is unlikely ever to come down. How would anyone know any better if they didn’t actually already know any better? Is there another answer somewhere on Hitler of a similar calibre? The more information we have, the less it is we seem to know.

Yes.

  1. Stalin was kicked out of seminary for passing out Marxist literature.
  2. Some people talk about socialism but don’t do anything. Not Stalin, he helped the Bolsheviks rob banks to get the necessary funds to continue their efforts.
  3. Stalin had the resolve to commit to the 5 Year Plan. Without this the USSR, which was 100 years behind the West in industrialization, would have certainly fallen to Hitler. And this would not have meant just being conquered. Hitler believed Slavs were inferior to Aryans, so he would have done more extermination. Jews, communists, gypsies, all sorts of people would have been exterminated.
  4. Armchair historians, knowing what happened after the fact, like to judge Stalin. But we must consider he lived during a time of great turmoil. There were many plots against the Soviet Union, both from within and from without. Lenin had been shot three times and ultimately died from his wounds. Stalin would eventually be poisoned. The purpose of the purges was to protect against these threats. Later historians that had access to documents not available until after the fall of the Soviet Union concluded that Stalin was as much reacting to events as causing them. His power was not quite as consolidated as imagined. Many officials below him were engaging in acts on their own, apart from Stalin’s command.
  5. There were also many lies perpetuated against Stalin for political purposes. The Holomodor was a result of drought, the peasants intentionally destroying their harvests, a population boom, and the increased urbanization (needed to fulfill the industrialization to be prepared against German attack). The Nazis perpetuated lies about the famine being intentional to increase Ukrainian nationalism because they were later to attack. This information was spread by the Nazi supporting newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. The major historians, such as Conquest and Pipes, were anti-communists. The Cold War also perpetuated anti-Stalin propaganda. Kruschev ruled after the death of Stalin. He hated Stalin because Stalin refused to intervene when his son was on trial for murder. Kruschev gave a devastating speech after Stalin’s death, accusing him of many lies. Subsequent fact checkers disproved those lies.
  6. The gulags were necessary. There were some who refused to live under communism. They were actively seeking to destroy the society all were attempting to build. The gulags served as a prison. But only 5% of those in the gulags were political prisoners. And these were not extermination camps. Most people came home. The death rate was 6%. Most were violent criminals.
  7. Revolutions are bloody. It was bloody for Lenin, too.
  8. There are some that say that leaders after Stalin could maintain order without engaging in purges, gulags, etc. But it is impossible to say this for certain because you cannot go back in time and test that hypothesis. We do know that Lenin also faced horrible resistance from imperialist nations and former Tsarists upset about their land being taken, as well as kulaks that refused to share their grain.

Seriously, is this a parody joke reply or is it meant to be taken as a genuine answer?

How to avoid an argument with crazies

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You can see by reading through that what they suggest will not work: How to Win an Argument with Your Liberal Relatives. One assertion against another will not work for either but will cause bad blood.

My advice, avoid talking to anyone on the left about politics. If they bring it up, just laugh at them for their ignorance and for the cruelty they would inflict on anyone where their politics should happen to exist: China, North Korea, California.

They have nothing left. Their economics is only about re-distribution not about increasing the flow of output. Green policies are about destruction of proven technologies, not about making our energy supplies more secure. Migration policy is about open borders where anyone from anywhere speaking any language but our own are permitted to land and claim a welfare-financed existence towards which they contribute nothing, not about bringing in migrants who are productive and will fit in with the existing culture. As for gender, it is anything anyone wishes to declare themselves to be, whether in relation to the sports they play or the public facilities they are permitted to use rather than having any relation to the physical equipment one happens to have been born with.

There’s lots more, but in the end you are dealing with crazy people who have nothing to say to you and will not listen to anything you say to them.

Here’s something to help you make these issues a bit more clear.

Hong Kong gets the woke treatment

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From Samantha Bee Horrified That Hong Kong Protesters Like Trump, Republicans. I don’t know who she is but assume she is supposed to be a comedian fake-news specialist from the woke side of the equation. Meaning she is a moron who is dealing with one of the major issue of our time, but cannot even hint a teeny weeny bit that perhaps the President is on the right side of an issue and has plenty of support in Hong Kong.

And you never know. She may even have been convinced that the President is acting correctly, wants to show it, but knows she cannot say so to the morons on her side of politics or to the people she works with and still keep her job. The message is, after all, extremely clear.

Culpable monsters

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UPDATE: Bushfires: Greta Thunberg lashes ‘political inaction’. Is it possible for her to be more stupid and obnoxious? Actually it is. This is only mid-level for her.

And from where we were before_______

The Greens, of course. Everyone cares about the environment with no exceptions. But really, first the response from Scott Morrison (now back in Oz): Action to be taken on managing fuel loads: Scott Morrison.

Scott Morrison has flagged a push to overhaul the management of fuel loads in national parks as well as the rules around land and native vegetation clearing as he warned the fires would rage on after the Christmas period.

In a media blitz this morning, the Prime Minister stood firm against ramping up Australia’s climate change commitments after meeting with NSW fire crews and opening the door for compensation for volunteers fighting the nearly 200 blazes across the nation.

Speaking on 2GB, Mr Morrison said that action was “absolutely” needed to better address “how fuel loads are managed in national parks” and said a greater focus should be placed on the “rules that sit around clearing trees” close to properties.

He warned that some people had been “quite difficult” in preventing progress in these areas but agreed it was necessary to change the existing rules.

“Some people” is it? Who are these people, which party are their representatives and who are their leaders?

Everyone is a “green” in some sense but not when it comes to this: Bushfires: More than 1000 homes set to be destroyed, and dead people as well. There are people who are personally responsible for this devastation which has nothing to do with global warming, but quite a lot to do with global idiocy.

The law is an integral part of the Deep State

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This is the title of the article, Israel’s winner take all election, but this is what it’s about.

For the past 25 years, with the support of the media and the cooperation of radical NGOs, the Supreme Court, the attorney general and the state prosecutors have seized the powers of Israel’s elected leaders by judicial decree and legal opinion. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit’s decision last month to indict Netanyahu for behavior that has never been defined as criminal either in law or court precedent is just the latest bid to empty elections of all meaning and deny elected leaders, and the voters who elect them, the sovereign power to determine the path that Israel will advance along.

Obviously, Netanyahu’s revolution and Barak’s revolution cannot coexist in peace with one another. And so, by indicting Netanyahu and inserting the legal fraternity into Israel’s political system as the most powerful decisive force in the country in the midst of Knesset elections, Mandelblit, the justices and the prosecutors are seeking to complete their seizure of power. The only way to stymie them, and restore Israel’s democratic system by legislating checks and restraints on their powers is by reelecting Netanyahu with a parliamentary majority.

Lawyer’s are the worst legislators, understand nothing about law other than their own Byzantine interpretations of interpretations. Lawmaking lawyers sitting on judicial bodies should never be allowed to dictate the meaning of a law, but should only be allowed to indicate where more clarity is needed on any issue that can be legislated. If a popular elected government can make a decision on abortion, to take one example, then no judge should provide any ruling one way or the other.

Like virtually every part of our society that has been taken over by people who make their living from using words – the media, the academic world, law – they are now on the loopy left. They cannot be allowed to make the rules by which we are permitted to live our lives. It is just one part of the Deep State.

The aspect of Trump’s personality that makes him so unusual is that he is able to articulate a different philosophical position, which most politicians are unable to do. Politicians normally are schmoozers, people whose stock and trade is to get on with others and form coalitions. Trump, uniquely, is able to stand apart from the consensus. Glick goes on from Israel to the US.

In 2016, when the Democrats refused to accept the results of the 2016 election, the party stopped being a normal political party and became instead a “resistance” movement that rejected the right of the American people to choose their president.

Just as the legal fraternity has made no effort to hide its desire to destroy Netanyahu as the apotheosis of the democratic system they are subverting, so Trump’s impeachment was a foregone conclusion from the moment the Democrats won control of the House of Representatives in last year’s midterm elections. The excuse didn’t matter. The fact that Trump broke no law in his dealings with Ukraine is entirely beside the point.

And of course, the Democrats weren’t alone. As Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice showed last week in his report on FBI abuse of the foreign intelligence surveillance court to spy on the Trump campaign, the top tiers of the federal bureaucracy happily joined them in the “resistance,” with the intention of undermining Donald Trump first during the 2016 election, and then after he entered office….

Almost from the outset, Trump recognized that the game against him was rigged. The special counsel probe, predicated on fabricated evidence paid for by the Clinton campaign was not about discovering ties that never existed between the Trump campaign and Russia. It was about criminalizing Trump’s candidacy and later his presidency. And the impeachment was never about Trump’s telephone call with Ukrainian President Vlodomir Zelensky. It was always about overturning the 2016 election results.

Because Trump recognizes that the campaigns against him are political, not legal, he has never accepted their legitimacy. He has never dignified his enemies with the respect that generally confers to legal authorities and political opponents. And because he has been willing to expose the nakedly political goals of his opponents, he has kept his supporters in his court and mobilized them to defend him. As a result, Trump’s approval numbers have rarely diminished. Moreover, by remaining on offense, despite the media’s blanket support for the campaign to unseat him, Trump has successfully tarnished the reputations and the legitimacy of that campaign.

Bosses cry out for more public money

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Nothing new here: Chief executives of Australia cry out for clear energy policy in survey of top business bosses. Comes with Investment in solar and wind farms drying up. This is a very good news story:

A sharp slump in new ­investment in wind and solar farms will continue unless a price is put on carbon or the Renewable Energy Target is extended beyond next year, the Clean Energy Council warns.

CEC chief executive Kane Thornton said ­investment in ­renewable energy had dropped by 60 per cent in the past year and declines would continue without government intervention. He said this would put pressure on power prices and ­reliability as coal generators aged.

The comments ignited a ­debate about whether renewable energy was the cheapest form of power, as advocates including Anthony Albanese and Malcolm Turnbull claim.

Advocates from the far Labor left, that is. On the other hand, there is this:

Energy Minister Angus Taylor said large-scale renewables ­projects would not receive any further government support. “The clean energy industry has assured us that the cost of renewables is now competitive with alternatives so we would expect investment to continue in the ­absence of subsidies,” he said.

There is money to be made in energy, lots of money, but not one cent of subsidy should be any part of it.