This Is What Pisses Me Off About Trump

[SneakySFDude]

Why?

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[Leatherneck]

I hava confession to make sneaky, I like you and find you quite entertaining!

[DMK]

I replied to your question not once but twice. See post 205 and 207.

So, yes I did answer your question.

[Leatherneck]

I missed it. WHO IS A PERSON OTHER THAN TRUMP YOU THINK WOULD DO THE JOB TRUMP IS DOING GIVEN ALL THE CRAP BEING THROWN AT HIM???

[DMK]

Yes, you did…

[SneakySFDude]

@Leatherneck

I hava confession to make sneaky, I like you and find you quite entertaining!

I like you too Jarhead.

[Samm]

@Leatherneck

@Samm

The man is a loose cannon.

The fiercest fighters in the worlds history have always loved a loose cannon or two in their midst. The ancient Vikings called them “Berserkers”. We finally have a “loose cannon” fighting for us. And what is a lot of folks on our side doing?? Sitting around, picking their nose, scratching their ass separating the man from his deeds. Boy howdy – that’s really gonna save the day!

Being described as a loose cannon is not a compliment.

And separating the man from his deeds is a good thing. One can agree with many things Trump has done and plans to do and still consider him to be a despicable individual.

[Mogwai]

@Samm

Being described as a loose cannon is not a compliment.

And separating the man from his deeds is a good thing. One can agree with many things Trump has done and plans to do and still consider him to be a despicable individual.

Too many people adored Trump in 2016 because they thought he was a loose cannon, disrupting the establishment and ready to burn down the system. And in the short term he has certainly played the agent of chaos. What they aren’t seeing or anticipating is the long-term damage he will do to the Republican Party and conservatism in general. Donald is an albatross, and we should expect a killer hangover when his drunken rampage is over.

[Leatherneck]

@Samm

Being described as a loose cannon is not a compliment.

It is if you are a fighter

@Samm

despicable individual.

Stay with it. You give hope th the mogwai’s around the country.

[Leatherneck]

@SneakySFDude

I like you too Jarhead.

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[Samm]

@Leatherneck

@Samm

Being described as a loose cannon is not a compliment.

It is if you are a fighter

Not the same thing at all. Berserkers were not loose cannons, they were maniacal killing machines doing precisely what was expected of them.

@Samm

despicable individual.

Stay with it. You give hope th the mogwai’s around the country.

Separate the man from his deeds. Even a despicable person can be accomplished.

[Conan]

Precisely…and I wonder how many “get it”.

It’s been one of biggest misconceptions IMO.

@Leatherneck

Read the United States constitution and amendments 1 through 14. It is the bible of governmental conservatism.

That is not what I asked…now was it?

I asked “What does Conservatism means to you”?

[Conan]

Trump has the commons sense…but that’s about all he has. He’s not ideologue driven.

But at this point in time common sense is what we needed IMHO.

[Conan]

No one…and it was precisely why I hired him this time around.

[Mogwai]

Comparing Donald to a Viking berserker does me more good than anything.

[ShlomoGoldstein]

We have a full scale assault on free speech right now, rampant illegal immigration, no wall, a criminal justice reform bill (literally no one wanted), Hillary is not in prison, and he is now cracking down on guns. What a filthy lying globalist.

[LouMan]

@Samm

Trump is a pragmatist and probably not a good listener

Trump isn’t a politician. He’s not trained in being nice, compassionate, smooth talker saying what people want to hear.

He’s a business person which is far different form what this country has ever had.

Unfortunately he’s being exposed to the world of dirty politics where segments of party politics rule. He’s finding out how a group of politicians can band together simply to oppose anything he wants to get done regardless of not the good of the country.

[Leatherneck]

@Conan

That is not what I asked…now was it?

I asked “What does Conservatism means to you”?

That is exactly what you asked – it obviously does not fit the answer you were wanting. I grew up in a era in which schools taught students, history, civics, government, economics, ect. I memorized the list of US presidents when Eisenhower was still president - 7th grade. I only look at conservatism as a form of government – nothing else. I was taught it was the greatest document to ever lay out the relationship of a people and its government – a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Before it, people existed for the benefit of government. Our constitution said the government existed for the benefit of the people. It wasn’t perfect, that’s why the founders allowed the amendment process. It was not intended to be a “living” document. It was intended to be the law of the land.

Our constitution started being bastardized in ernest by the Woodrow Wilson administration – our first real socialist president. The bastardization has accelerated since that time. Again, I only view conservatism as a form of government so you will have to ask someone else to give you a nice “slick” answer.

[Call_me_Ishmael]

@Leatherneck

And we have supposed conservatives wimping out cause Trumps “mean”?

Or because he is not a pompous lying lawyer. My God, how the people love lawyers in the white house! But as far as I’m concerned, we already have plenty with law degrees exactly where we need them… the Legislature and the SCOTUS. Dont need no more fucking lawyers.

[Call_me_Ishmael]

@Samm

@Leatherneck

I was in no way knocking you. I like and respect you. I am saying that you, Samm or I don’t have a clue what the man thinks or is going to do. As you stated in another thread you started, Trump can’t do anything right according to the leftist. No president or any other person I am aware of has stood up to the attempted destruction of he and his family that he does each day. I am in the building, real estate business and I can assure you that in becoming a multi billionaire, he has swam with the biggest sharks and knows survival better than any of us. Bottom line – he’s our best shot at saving this country so we better divest ourselves of the nitpicking and fight socialism daily.

A couple of post back you said “I also think every thing he tweets is well thought out.”

I see no indication that any thought at all goes into most of what he tweets. They are mostly nothing more than respond from the hip to things that other people have said or done. They are the equivalent to the “Oh yeah? Am too!” by kids on the playground. Somebody close to him (like his wife) should demand that he control himself or close his Twitter account if he can’t. His mindless tweets are the source of a significant amount of his media problems. His actual performance of the tasks at hand is not particularly bad, but the perception that he paints for himself negates pretty much anything productive that he achieves. If you tweeted like he does, your business would crumble.

We cannot remake this man in the image of our choosing. You pull that hip-shot tweet thread to try to neaten him up and the ugly sweater we call “Trump” might unravel. His faults are just the other side of a coin that has his strengths too. There is a saying…“when you go to war, you go with the weapons you have today… not the ones you wish for”.

And not that it matters but I’m pretty sure that what we see when we read his tweets is his thinking process. He throws something out on the public table. He gets feedback. He thinks some more. He throws more out onto the public table. Etc until his opinion settles down. A lawyer or politician or polished nincompoop would have run their views through endless focus groups, speech writers, and other lawyers.

I’ll take him just as he is.