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David,

I predict that neither Trump nor Biden will be running for president, Hunter will be charged with minor crimes from which he will be pardoned by his father, who continues to see his son as a troubled youngin', but a son who does nothing intentionally wrong, and Hillary will continue to skate, as usual, with all Dems joining her during the "ALL SKATE" frivolity at the eternal DC Democrat feeding trough shindig; the endless soiree for those who wish to SERVE THEIR FELLOW AMERICANS NOBLY AND FORTHRIGHTLY (cough, cough)........and I will have my wish that neither of the losers currently sitting at the top of their parties, will be our next president.

Nikki Haley is refreshingly interesting, but we'll have to see what develops in the months ahead. Some say she would be a very good VP choice. Whomever we elect will need to be super strong in every way, as we face a mighty headwind a'comin'.

Did you hear that China has established a spying base in Cuba? When did this begin?

06/12/23 10:06 AM

#27629

Sandra,

I suppose I am a masochist, but what do you think is so significant about that indictment?

David,

Do you understand that Trump is one of the few people who could stand up to the assault by the corrupt Democrats, their media propanganda. their weaponized bureauacracy, their brownshirts in Antifa and Black Lives Matter, the education system and its brain-dead bureaucrats and student minions, the woke billionaires and corporate honchos,and the entertainment industry? If he weren't so tough they would have destroyed him many times over. Remember what they did to "Bushitler" and "the binders of women" and every other milquetoast Pubbie?

Janalu,

Haley? What do you see in her? I see an empty skirt who mouths platitudes that appeal to voters. What substance do you see?

06/12/23 10:56 AM

#27630

Bob,

I thought Haley did well at the UN and has been an able leader of her state, that's all....

I think Pence is a good leader and Christie could be tough in headling off those overseas bastards we wii be facing soon...

Sounds like you think sticking with Trump is wise, but do you think he can manipulate his path toward his probable trial? Bill Barr says he is toast.......Why was Trump so ridiculous as to not just give those papers back to the Archives when asked to do so?

How would you assess this Jack Smith judge? I heard he was slapped down in a big way by the Supreme Court, I think it was in the trial of that Edwards guy who was running for president once upon a time.....

06/12/23 12:07 PM

#27631

Sandra,

No, I haven't read the indictment. Note that indictments make no attempt to offer the defendant's side. If you buy every indictment, you may as well forgo the trial. Given the FBI's and Justice Department's history with Trump, I am especially inclined to support the "innocent until proven guilty" concept. That said, former AG Barr says it is serious.

Bob,

I am amazed at Trump's ability to fight back, although sometimes, he'd be better off to take a deep breath rather than being so combative. He'd also benefit by admitting mistakes once in a while. I like his Americanism, although he is a bit more isolationist than I would, e.g. Ukraine. I like that he stands up to Europe with regard to defense spending. I like his economic and energy policies. We were humming along until COVID, and we were having a strong come-back until Biden took office.

My concern about Trump is that independents will break for Biden, partly because of the legal issue, but partly because Trump is a jerk. I don't think Republicans can take the Senate if Trump is on the ballot.Note: I subscribe to Reagan's 11th Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican. Trump has insulted everyone, sometimes in crude and repulsive ways.

As I have noted, Trump is at the bottom of my list of Republicans, but a million steps above any Democrat. I really like Ramaswamy but he doesn't have a chance. To me, DeSantis has just about all the good characteristics of Trump, but not so many of the bad. I like Scott, Pence, Haley, and Elder..

Remember Kennedy's "The torch has been passed to a new generation"? I'd like to see DeSantis on the same stage as Biden.

06/12/23 12:19 PM

#27632

David,

Don't hold back. Tell us what you actuallly think. Ha ha

06/12/23 12:37 PM

#27633

David,

I like what Ramaswamy says too. He is obviously brilliant.

A president of the United States named Ramaswamy? Will take time for some US citizens to get used to that idea, don't'cha think?

06/12/23 02:00 PM

#27634

Janalu,

And... Ramaswamy is a Hindu vegan!

But, he was summa cum laude at Harvard with law degree from Yale. According to Forbes, he is worth $630 million from his entrepreneurial activities. He believes in capitalism!

About his name, whodothunk that we'd have a president named Barack Obama?

That said, I'm not crazy about his hands-off approach to Ukraine.

06/12/23 02:33 PM

#27635

Sandra Spieker (Ringo)

Bob,

You asked me what I thought is most significant about Trump's indictment. Well, after reading it over, and reading a few pundits opinions on both sides (including Alan Dershowitz) take on the whole thing, I believe it is the reactions to it. Dershowitz stated it is a, "product of targeting" and a "damning piece of evidence". Fortune had a great take on it as well. Here is a link if you care to read it. Bill Barr said that, "Trump's indictment is very damning if even half of it is true." I find it significant the the Teflon that has protected The Donald from such remarks seems to be wearing thin. It appears that folks have had enough (those that speak out are getting braver), and he is guilty on all counts. The audio tapes, the photographs and the employees testimony backs it up.

Perhaps Janalu is correct, he won't be the nominee. That would be significant.

I wonder what he was going to do with all of the nuclear secret documents, and the war plans? Why did he want all that stuff? What was the long term plan? Was it all just ego?

For me it is proof that he only cares for himself. America be damned.

06/12/23 04:44 PM

#27636

Sandra, Janalu, and David,

Thank you for the thoughtful replies. I am enjoying knowing what and how other people think and how they come to different conclusions from mine.

I see Trump as a guy like William T. Sherman, Chesty Puller, Bull Halsey, and George Patton: not necessarily someone you'd like to hang around with on the weekend, but for sure someone you'd like on your side in a fight.

My problem with the custard spine establishment wing of the Republicans, like Cristie, Pence, Haley, ad nauseam, is that they talk big, tell me just what their experts figure I want to hear, but when they get to Washington, side with the Schumers and Bidens on critical issues. I want Sherman, not McClellan, fighting for me. I think that is why the most detestable swamp creatures will do anything, including shredding the Constitution and due process to get Trump.

I don't know about DeSantos yet. I like the way he seems to govern Florida and don't like the way the old Bushies are funding and supporting him. I also agree with Ramaswamy on most issues and am watching hiim with interest.

06/13/23 01:54 AM

#27637

Okay Tommy,

I think I can figure out what you are questioning, so I'll take a stab at it once again, as I feel I have already answered this familiar query of yours before.

Yes, it is true that we made a choice to support and vote for Trump in 2016, but it was not a vote that I personally wanted to boast about. It was a vote for the lesser of the two evils; a choice of either Trump or Hillary. I know that I have stated that point several times before to you, but I think though I expressed my thinking on the issue, you never actually accepted what I was saying. You continued, I believe, to insinuate that I was foolish and possibly 'siding with the Devil' in a sense, since I didn't select Hillary as being a more "moral" person, as you evidently thought. I had followed Hillary's history for many years, so my decision to denounce her as basically a person of criminal behavior (though never having been convicted or even accused "officially" of criminal behavior) she remained a conniving and manipulative person (in my mind) who was well-versed in her ways. She was a lady who supported and even wrote about one of her idols, Saul Alinsky, a Socialist/Marxist supporter. Alinsky even dedicated his manuscript TO THE DEVIL, and Hillary enjoyed and vowed to follow that manuscript as she began her career in politics, with her husband who agreed with Alinsky also. (So did Obama)

And then you state...."the desire to have those succesful in war and aggression to be on my side when i need them......." Well, wouldn't anyone with a brain WANT to have the best defenses on his side when a war breaks out? Even if it is/was a war which was actually started by our president with an intention that was ill-conceived, and a war that was horribly bad for many people of the land (I believe those people in the way of war are or were considered "collateral victims"---(not of MY choice of circumstances, but a choice of MY president's unfortunate choosing) So what was I suppose to do in that time period?.....Was I supposed to protest the war like I'm guessing you did? I was at college then, and I needed to finish my education according to my parent's wishes, since they were funding my education---not go out and involve myself in protesting in the streets---even though I could understand why there were some who did that. Just because of those particular times...the goings-on of that period....I continued at school as usual. That does not mean that I supported the evilness of the war, but that I supported my president's initial desire to stop the spread of communism. As the war continued, we came to understand that the initial aim had been corrupted, and caused an even worse condition of evilness to be strewn over a population of millions.....Wars are always that way, aren't they? I guess you feel that we should be of a mindset to sit down with our enemies and talk things out. Well, as you know, there are men who will not agree to that ethic. They are men who don't have our Judeo-Christian mindset, and there are many who seem to have no capacity for loving others.

You continue by stating......that I must seemingly denounce the warmongering folks, those Raytheon and other manufacturers of war materials,,,,that I didn't understand what Eisenhower was warning us of... the industrial complex being detrimental to our country. Well, I DID understand of what he forewarned.....but, as I stated back during Memorial weekend....even though we DON'T want war, wars are inevitable, since mankind is tainted with evilness, like it or not. There will always be men with evilness consuming them; men who can attack you with a desire to kill you, so you have to be willing to take up arms and defend yourself. Eisenhower knew of man's evilness very well, having seen it up close and personal. If we just shut down all of our defense programs, don't you think we will be ill-prepared to defend ourselves when the Chinese come knocking at our door in the very near future?

You continue, saying, I think, that those warmongering manufacturers are the source of my discontent, since they are of poor character and have no moral structure...and Trump is similar in having no moral character, etc,? So that means I shouldn't support their industry? And I should never have supported Trump?

Not sure I'm understanding your point, but "Yes, I think war is awful...and Yes, i know that the industrial complex is definitely complex and ambitious toward profit-making---- so you are thinking that capitalism is evil too?-----but I don't think you or I have a solution for the overall 'big picture.' All I'm sure of, is that I trust my Savior to be the judge of all of us, and evilness will eventually be conquered in the end, but not by man's hand or man's theories.

Sorry to tell you that I don't think I understood the whole of your theme. I don't have your fine mind.

I also don't think I'm much in sync with Mick Jagger's thought processes.

06/13/23 09:50 AM

#27638

Tommy said:

I have read the recent posts about supporting Trump but excusing that stance with a denounciation of his personality and claiming the lack of a personal choice to do otherwise,

David responds:

I feel no need to "excuse that stance," but I will explain further. My interest is far less in the candidate's personal characteristics and far more in the policies that the candidate would vigorously pursue. (When I look for paragons of virtue, I don't concentrate my search on the set of politicians.) I heartily wish that Trump weren't such a jerk, and I hold it against him when looking at the Republican alternatives. That said, the likelihood of success in the general election becomes paramount. When comparing Trump to the Democrats, personal characteristics are almost insignificant. Any Republican is highly likely to pursue policies that I would like, or, at the very least, serve as an impediment to proposed Democrat policies.

06/13/23 10:08 AM

#27639

Janalu,

My thoughts about Trump are somewhat different from yours. I also held my nose and voted for him because he wasn't Hillary -- I voted for Cruz in the primary and didn't trust Trump, but considered Hillary way, way too dangerous to allow in power.

Trump's actions in office were an amazingly pleasant surprise. He did what he said he would, fighting the swamp on the border, the mess of federal regulations, taxes, strengthening the military, standing up to the global elite for the benefit of the regular people, etc. He exposed the establishment as the enemies of our people when he was suckered into appointing and trusting the spineless RINOs all around him. I was amazed when brazen bureaucrats leaked his confidential conversations without any repercussions (think his phone call to the PM of Australia and the crap that sleezeball Comey pulled on him), blatantly set up poor Mike Flynn because they disagreed with him on pollicy, and so on. Paul Ryan sabotaged the border wall and other "Republican" policies that Trump actually tried to implement. The Russian collusion was an obvious hoax and the whole Mueller shit show was also obviously fake. I won't even mention the crazy, ineffective COVID shutdowns, the laughable impeachments, the baldfaced lies from the likes of Schiff, Pelosi, the media, and the constant sneering contempt for him from everyone who thought himself or herself superior to the rest of us. The frenzy from the elite to destroy Trump was amazing to watch -- they clearly are willing to destroy the democratic norms of our society because they hate the man for standing up for what they have claimed to support.

After all that, their insistence that the senile pedophile got 81 million votes from the harvesters just doesn't ring true. Especially when, before any evidence was examined, they trumpeted "false claims of voter fraud."

My reaction has been that I want Trump reelected to clean the stables.

06/13/23 03:23 PM

#27640

Bob,

I would say that my thoughts about Trump and the Republicans are much like yours.

I, too, thought that the way Mike Flynn was hoodwinked and mistreated was terrible and un-called-for, and I was greatly disappointed in Paul Ryan's actions. I had high hopes for him.

Do you have worries that the next election will be above board and untainted with tampering issues (i.e. Zuckerbucks being used in Democrat election offices of swing states, in a biased way that was not determined by proper officials of those offices) as per what we now know of the last presidential election?

The Republicans are now saying that they, also, will have election season rather than election day, and that we will now have to go toe-to-toe with all of the shenanigans that have come to be normal operating procedure.

I agree with you that the "harvesting" methods of the Dems was completely nasty, especially when they went into nursing homes filled with mostly dementia compromised patients who didn't know what was happenng in their own names, without their permission.

Tommy,

I feel sad that you are sad for us. I think we have changed over the years due to life's ups and downs, but I personally remain optimistic that we can persevere, always striving to be better people..

06/14/23 10:29 AM

#27641

Tommy said:

I didn't mean for you to behave even more defensively about your supporting Trump. That's got to be very stressful for you.

David responds:

Interesting. You make a statement that almost demands a response. Then you try to categorize the response as defensive and diagnose the emotions of the person who responds. How presumptuous and pretentious of you. Your M.O. is to put the other person on the defensive. But you are wrong again. I felt no stress in making any of the statements I made. Oh, sorry -- was that last sentence defensive? Or is explaining one's position defensive by definition?

Why don't you troll elsewhere? There is a fuzzy -- yes, fuzzy -- line between humor and meanness. Try to stay on the good side.

06/14/23 03:26 PM

#27642

Happy Birthday to Jerry May on this sunny Flag Day! You and Trump can have birthday cake together in the good ol' USA, as our Old Glory symbols wave with pride!

Enjoy your special day!

TO Lowell,

Glad you are feeling better after your laminectomy!

My husband had one of those many years ago, so I know they are no fun. Hope your back is better now, and you'll be able to dance 'the twist' very soon!

06/14/23 09:19 PM

#27643

David,

I just read that in 2024 A&M will face UT at College Station in football. Gig-em

06/14/23 10:27 PM

#27644

Wayne, at least you said ut instead of tu, but you could have capitalized it!

06/15/23 07:39 AM

#27645

David,

Sorry. When I was a Freshman the only abbrivation I could use was UT and it is hard to deviate from you are tought as a youth. I just corrected my earlier post.

06/15/23 08:02 AM

#27646

I just read this "groaner"

What did the Atlantic Ocean say to the Pacific Ocean?

Nothing, He just waved.

06/15/23 10:37 AM

#27647

Wayne -- I appreciate any Aggie who uses "UT" onstead of "tu." Back in the day, library books at The University were stamped "TxU."

06/15/23 12:33 PM

#27648

Bob:

I could have used the official abbreviation UT-A but there is confusion. Does the A stand for Austin or Arlington. The official seal has University of Texas at Austin. From their web site "© The University of Texas at Austin 2023"

06/15/23 01:25 PM

#27649

David,

I think you and I can agree that Hillary is a narcissistic, loudmouthed bit*h, guilty of many crimes, and a person having quite a few dead bodies linked to her personal touch, for which she is allowed to skate because of our two-tiered justice system, even though our judicial system is not supposed to operate as it does currently.

And for that matter, Biden matches Hillary, except that he accurately is a son of a bitch, guilty of almost as many crimes as Hillary, being a Democrat/Progressive fool in lock step with her and many others. Not only that, but he allows and even encourages his dimwit son, to be engaged in pay-to-play crap with our enemies for the family's financial aggrandizement, while NOT being registered as a foreign agent, using money laundering methods of shell companies and LLCs.

This is why I was and still am hoping that Trump drops out of the race (I know, chances are slim and none at this point) and Biden gets notice from his party, that since Trump is bowing out, his dementia-laden brain is of no use to the leadership of his party or the country, and that he needs to retire immediately.

It's a damn shame that leaders like Reagan are very, very few these day

06/15/23 01:26 PM

#27650

Sandra Spieker (Ringo)

Wayne,

Danny and I both attended UTA Arlington. Here is the official website of the University. UTA for short. Here is an interesting link about UTA branding.

I believe the alumni refer to UT Austin as UT. Here is their website.

Then of course there is UT Dallas. UTD David can expound on that since it was his employer for many years.

06/15/23 01:52 PM

#27651

Sandra,

Both of my parents went to NTAC ( North Texas Agriculture College) which was a Jr college part of Texas A&M.. My dad was there on Dec 7 1941 then went to A&M then the Navy. My mother went to UT.

06/15/23 03:20 PM

#27652