Lost in Translation

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Priceless! Huge! China!

This is a keeper.

Found this article earlier today. Definitely worth reading. https://www.lionsroar.com/tools-to-wake-up-and-grow-up/ I found the following sections quite relevant: Emphasis is mine, of course.

They don't. I used to think that politicians at that level needed to be smart. I was wrong. All they see is an avenue to power. They are stage-1 thinkers. Consequences? What consequences? As long as I get my power, let the other guy deal with the fallout.

The left is fundamentally dictatorial. They want to grow government into every sector of life: personal, religious, medical, educational, etc. This is a primary difference between the left and right. The right believes in liberty and basically wants to be left alone. The left wants to meddle.

Just realized something: Kamala Harris accuses Joe Biden of being a racist. Joe Biden was Barack Obama's VP. Barack Obama is black. Did Obama know that Biden was a racist? Did Obama not know that Biden was a racist? Either way is checkmate against Kamala Harris. It's impossible for her to continue this narrative without either admitting the accusation was false or also smearing Obama (one way or another) as part of this accusation.

https://www.lifenews.com/2018/10/31/media-run-10-times-more-negative-news-stories-about-trump-republicans-than-democrats/ Of course the media are neutral watchdogs. You believe that? I got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn...

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-marsha-blackburn-what-i-saw-when-i-visited-the-border-and-what-needs-to-happen-now

This is absolutely true. Unfortunately it won't happen for the foreseeable future. The divide between the Democrats and Republicans is too great. The probable outcome of this is the death on one of the above parties and the birth of a new party, which is exactly what happened in 1860 when the Republican party effectively replaced the Whig party.

The left is the party of grievance. They pretend to be dumb, which allows them to take everything literally - no metaphor, allegory, or embellishment allowed. This, in turn, allows them to take umbrage - to be offended. And that fuels their rage machine.

That is an insult/ad hominem. Further, with the extremists that post here and online, I never will give the benefit of the doubt or read between the lines. You write it and are responsible for the content. Words matter! I did not say you were dumb. I said you pretend to be dumb. That is exactly what you are doing right now.

If this was your point, you should have been more explicit in your earlier comment. That said, I think you often "play dumb" by taking some things completely literally. This is a good example of that.

A tyrant would never allow himself to be publicly treated the way the left is treating Trump. By definition, he is not tyrannical.

No. Not true. He's not a con man. He is a business man, and in business, particularly during negotiations, it is necessary to establish a sense of urgency by saying and/or doing things that add pressure to the situation, thus forcing a resolution. For example, a CEO may threaten to walk away from a deal if a specific, outrageous concession is not met. This is not done to get the concession per-se, but to force the counter party to scramble for an alternate, or lesser, concession which was the objective all along. Trump is taking this mode of thinking to politics by making outrageous demands (such as the tariffs on China) then using those demands to leverage his actual desires. He's not feeble minded. Look at what he has achieved. He has made billions of dollars, gone bankrupt, then made billions more. He has created an international development empire, become a reality TV mogul, and won the US presidency out from the under the noses of the political elites. As president, he has lowered taxes, reduced regulations, and grown the economy to unprecedented levels. He is negotiating with China, and with North Korea. He has rebuilt the military and is securing the southern border. He has appointed two Supreme Court justices and hundreds of lower court justices, in the process bringing Constitutionalism back the courts. He is breaking the backs of the entrenched Washington bureaucracy, returning power back to the people where it belongs. And he is doing this against a constant barrage of hatred and resistance from the left, meaning from Democrats, media, entertainment and academia. And you call me "willfully blind?" Open your eyes, man! You are being used.

The situation in the US is like that of a battered wife in an abusive relationship. Trump is the battered wife and the media are the husband. Every time Trump says anything he is mercilessly battered, all the while the husband, e.g. media are screaming "look at what you made me do!" It's sick. It's very sick. But amazingly Trump not only won't shut up, but also won't capitulate. That, above all else, is what makes him so horrible to the left.

BINGO! Can anyone name a single prominent person (politician, celebrity, etc) who has sold their beachfront property for fear of climate change? Anyone...?

Wake me up when Orlando is actually under water or when the ice caps actually disappear. Until then I got better things to do.

You know that story of the boy who cried 'wolf?' Well, climate change alarmists have been screaming that 'we only have ten years to do something' for half a century. 'Doing something' always involves an exchange of money and political power, always from those with money and power to those without it. After hearing the same warnings again and again, and watching nothing come of it I just don't believe it anymore.

This is correct, and not just for me. Unemployment is at a fifty year low. Unemployment for women is at a sixty year low, and unemployment for Hispanics and blacks is at an all time low. Business is booming due to low taxes and reduced regulatory burdens. Constitutionalism is returning to the Federal courts. The military has been reinvigorated. The southern border is finally being controlled and is no longer wide open, and the grievance-based, victim ideology that has been inculcated into our society for more than half a century is finally being exposed for the toxic ideology that it is. It is for this reason that the progressive left is panicking. They intuitively know that their reign is coming to an end and are pulling out all the stops to prevent it. It's no accident that academia, the media, big tech, and the Democratic party are working in lock-step. Why wouldn't they? The time to feign impartiality is over. They must win now or it is game over, and they know it.

This is not correct. What you are calling a "whitewash" is simply a difference of opinion. Trump says many things that make me cringe, but in the end I care far less about his words than about his actions, since it is his actions that have a real affect on my life. I support his actions. I tolerate his words.

Good point. If I say that the Big-Pharma doesn't want to produce cures, but instead wants to produce symptom-relief then people naturally say "yes, that makes sense," but if I say that Big-Gov'ment doesn't want to produce solutions, but instead wants to produce a grievance culture around victimhood then I am called a hater. Go figure...

Not sure where this is going, but since it's apparently story-time. "You get more of what you pay for." - that's a basic truth. If you pay for homelessness then you get more homelessness. If you pay for welfare then you get more welfare. If you pay for crime then you get more crime. If you pay for illegal aliens then you get more illegal aliens. Alternately, If you pay for entrepreneurship then you get more entrepreneurship. If you pay for innovation then you get more innovation. If you pay for industry then you get more industry. If you pay for liberty then you get more liberty. So, basic question: What are we paying for?

Like I said, it's a genius move.