28-07-2016, 09:38 PM
I should do this in Trump Orange but I'll stick to red.
Paul Rigby Wrote:Cliff Varnell Wrote:Any British fingerprints on Libya?
To my regret, I retired from oversight of British foreign policy some years ago, but I will make overtures to the people who currently do, and register my objection.
Just curious. I seem to recall Libya as a NATO operation...lots of blame to go around, no?
Even though it's doubtless already filed away somewhere within the Orangeman's record of my hugely influential personal opinions.
Cliff Varnell Wrote:Lemme get this straight.
There is, I suppose, a first time for everything...
Well then, you're present for a milestone!
Cliff Varnell Wrote:The Clintons are corrupt therefore a woman's reproductive organs are property of the State?
The Clintons are corrupt therefore 20 million people have to lose their health insurance?
Trump and the GOP have called for a repeal of the Affordable Care Act to be replaced by...nothing.
The Clintons are corrupt therefore 12 million undocumented immigrants have to be rounded up and deported en masse?
It was Trump's first position the day he announced.
You didn't hear?
It was in all the papers, Paul...
The Clintons are corrupt therefore anyone of the Muslim faith is regarded with suspicion, or banned from the country out-right?
Trump has repeatedly called for a ban on Muslim immigration and surveillance of American mosques.
The Clintons are corrupt therefore AR-15s with 100 round clips should continue to be available?
The usual National Rifle Association view, which Trump repeatedly endorsed.
The Clintons are corrupt therefore there should be no Federal minimum wage?
Trump was against a Fed minimum wage before he was for one.
Who knows where he'll go next on the issue.
The Clintons are corrupt therefore Social Security should be privatized?
Trump was against privatizing Social Security before he came out and endorsed Paul Ryan's "granny-killer" budget.
The Clintons are corrupt therefore students and the elderly poor who don't have a driver's license shouldn't be allowed to vote?
Millions of people have been denied the right to vote by Republican voter suppression laws.
The Clintons are corrupt therefore gay kids have to undergo "conversion therapy"?
It's right there in the 2016 Republican platform.
The Clintons are corrupt therefore the #1 "public health crisis" is on-line pornography not heroin addiction, gun violence nor lead in drinking water?
It's right there in the 2016 Republican platform.
The Clintons are corrupt therefore there should be no separation of Church and State?
Trump just a few days ago said that Churches should be able to keep their tax-exempt status while engaging in partisan politics.
If ya'all want to live in a Christian Theocracy knock yourselves out.
Jesus-shouters please take a flying fuck.
I'd rather deal with the Globalists.
What a lot of hyperbolic balls.
Really?
That's the GOP/Trump playbook, Paul.
Take them one at a time...
One example:
Only one?
How instructive.
Quote:Shortly after offending all of the foreign policy elites in both parties with his remarks on Russia, Trump broke with Republican orthodoxy again by announcing that he would support a $10 an hour minimum wage.
That's Trump's third position on the issue.
He takes pretty much every side of every issue eventually.
Mike Pence, who opposing any minimum wage, must be having a hard time keeping up with the new talking points.
Trump changes his positions constantly.
The GOP will shove its agenda down his throat and he'll thank them and ask for more.
The liberals, of course, reflexively denounced Trump's plan as "incoherent." But it is one more sign that Trump is trying to outflank Hilary on a range of issues. Fortunately for him, he doesn't have to veer his Rolls that far to get to the left of Clinton.
And when he gets bored or forgetful about his positions he'll come up with new ones.
JULY 28, 2016
Night of the Hollow Men: Notes From the Democratic Convention
by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/28/n...onvention/