Politics

[PARA45]

The left has been doing it for years.

 

[Foxi]

President Donald Trump is an asshole…

Did you ever have a boss, mentor, drill instructor that rode you like a $10 whore? You remember the type who you hated at the time. Years later most of us realize they rode us hard, very hard to shape our character into what we are today. My hardest mentors in life including my father, USMC leaders, and those in my post-Marine Corps business career were who shaped me.

Now step back from the present and view what the USA was during Reagan’s presidency or even during Clinton’s time. Where are we today? When the majority of citizens had to choose between continuing down a path to becoming a third world country or fighting for what we once were, we chose a leader despite his numerous flaws.

Trump, when you don't want America to become a shithole country!

Mark,
thank you very much for your detailed comments. I could certainly argue with some of your points, but unfortunately my English isn’t good enough for that.
Fortunately, I’ve never had the “pleasure” of dealing with a $10 USD prostitute.
But I myself (on a very small scale) and the people around me who are or were professionally successful have actually all made it to the top by following the example of capable people. No one ever put the toe of their boot on their necks and tried to stomp them into the mud.
If it’s true how soldiers are trained at Parris Island (as depicted in *Full Metal Jacket*, for example—Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann, brilliantly portrayed), then I can only comment on the difference compared to the
SS and Wehrmacht soldiers of that era, based on eyewitness accounts I’ve heard.
(We agree—Nazis were scum too), but in military combat, they were greatly feared and efficient.
The drill was also incredibly tough, but the motivation worked differently than it does for you guys.
You were a child of the Führer, and you don’t spit a Führers child in the face of or beat up people like that.
Your mother wasn’t some cheap whore either (because a German woman back then was fundamentally not one—that trait was foreign to her ).
What I’m trying to say is—there’s another way.

@ WAB
Yes, I’ve definitely read some—restrained—criticism from you guys about DT.
But here on AH, it really depends on who’s doing it.
Whenever @Ontario Hunter speaks up—bravely swimming against the tide, refusing to be discouraged, and taking a lot of flak—the M16 is immediately loaded.
Sine ira et studio.
Foxi.

 

[Wheels]

Well, the intention to annex other countries is certainly no small matter. Ultimately, it’s a declaration of war.
If Putin and Xi were to follow these examples and use this rhetoric, there would have been a military buildup at the borders long ago.
What I don’t understand: Most of you are smart, well-traveled people, yet you idolize DT’s behavior as if he were your Messiah.
Anyone who voices criticism here is a damned liberal who’s siding with the communists and wants to expropriate us all.

Is it the lack of prospects (as is the case here) that makes you put up with this?

Trump is the obnoxious jerk at the company party who still gets his kicks from junior high humor.

The main stream media takes the bait. The Democrats take the bait. The media in western countries take the bait. The citizens of western countries take the bait.

As long as everyone takes the bait he will continue the act.

Canada is not becoming the 51st state. Greenland is not being forcefully annexed. The moon isn’t sovereign American soil.

Most Americans in the center and right understand this and aren’t worried because we ignore the act while occasionally laughing at the bedlam he creates.

Germany has been the beneficiary of one side trade with America for 80 years since the Marshall Plan was instituted. Trump has been on a drive to ballance the trade. Do you think it’s possible the German media you see is biased in all things regarding Trump.

The west was on suicide watch with unlimited immigration from the low end unvetted of the third world. Trump has been the first western leader to act on this. Do you think it’s possible the German media you see is biased in all things regarding Trump.

Is it possible the western media gets more eyeballs and advertising euros from selling outrage. Life is much simpler when a person ignores the junior high humor and just focus on what Trump is actually doing/trying to do.

This Political Forum is a lot more entertaining when we talk about policy, politics, economics, war etc. than when it dissolves into a diatribe over an individual who gets his kicks from junior high humor.

 

[RLD]

The left has been doing it for years.

So that makes it right?

 

[LivingTheDream]

Whenever @Ontario Hunter speaks up—bravely swimming against the tide, refusing to be discouraged,

You aware the person you referenced as bravely swimming against the tide, bragged about pointing a loaded shotgun at a child.

 

[Hank2211]

Mark,
thank you very much for your detailed comments. I could certainly argue with some of your points, but unfortunately my English isn’t good enough for that.
Fortunately, I’ve never had the “pleasure” of dealing with a $10 USD prostitute.
But I myself (on a very small scale) and the people around me who are or were professionally successful have actually all made it to the top by following the example of capable people. No one ever put the toe of their boot on their necks and tried to stomp them into the mud.
If it’s true how soldiers are trained at Parris Island (as depicted in *Full Metal Jacket*, for example—Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann, brilliantly portrayed), then I can only comment on the difference compared to the
SS and Wehrmacht soldiers of that era, based on eyewitness accounts I’ve heard.
(We agree—Nazis were scum too), but in military combat, they were greatly feared and efficient.
The drill was also incredibly tough, but the motivation worked differently than it does for you guys.
You were a child of the Führer, and you don’t spit a Führers child in the face of or beat up people like that.
Your mother wasn’t some cheap whore either (because a German woman back then was fundamentally not one—that trait was foreign to her ).
What I’m trying to say is—there’s another way.

@ WAB
Yes, I’ve definitely read some—restrained—criticism from you guys about DT.
But here on AH, it really depends on who’s doing it.
Whenever @Ontario Hunter speaks up—bravely swimming against the tide, refusing to be discouraged, and taking a lot of flak—the M16 is immediately loaded.
Sine ira et studio.
Foxi.

There are a lot of different perspectives on this topic. Since I’m stuck in a lounge in Doha waiting for a flight to Zambia, and have too much time on my hands (as you can tell from the long post above!), let me add my two cents.

When I was a young lawyer just out of school, I worked along side and opposite senior lawyers, many of whom were complete jerks, difficult, egocentric, etc., but to a man (no women then!), very successful. I began to think one was a necessary condition to the other.

Then I worked opposite a senior lawyer with a national reputation in Canada. I was intimidated. But he was unfailingly polite and thoughtful. At one point I thought he’d made a mistake in something he’d said in a meeting, but of course, I didn’t raise it then. I spoke to him afterwards, not without trepidation. His response? “You know what, you’re right!”. When the meeting reconvened, he announced to all present (who included representatives of both our clients) that he had made a mistake in what he said previously, and that I had pointed it out to him during the break. He certainly didn’t have to do that.

Over time, I came to understand that the assholes were often successful in spite of their attitude, not because of it. You could be as, or likely more, successful, without the attitude.

To quote that famous philosopher, King Louis XVIII (!), “punctuality is the politeness of kings.”

 

[RLD]

This Political Forum is a lot more entertaining when we talk about policy, politics, economics, war etc. than when it dissolves into a diatribe over an individual who gets his kicks from junior high humor.

Well he is kinda the President of the United States and all.

But I understand the desire of many Americans to ignore the fact their President is a man of very poor character, dishonest, and acting so badly.

Perhaps we should talk about his socialist policies that many Democratic Socialists are literally saying they plan to imitate.

 

[Mark A Ouellette]

Mark,
thank you very much for your detailed comments. I could certainly argue with some of your points, but unfortunately my English isn’t good enough for that.
Fortunately, I’ve never had the “pleasure” of dealing with a $10 USD prostitute.
But I myself (on a very small scale) and the people around me who are or were professionally successful have actually all made it to the top by following the example of capable people. No one ever put the toe of their boot on their necks and tried to stomp them into the mud.
If it’s true how soldiers are trained at Parris Island (as depicted in *Full Metal Jacket*, for example—Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann, brilliantly portrayed), then I can only comment on the difference compared to the
SS and Wehrmacht soldiers of that era, based on eyewitness accounts I’ve heard.
(We agree—Nazis were scum too), but in military combat, they were greatly feared and efficient.
The drill was also incredibly tough, but the motivation worked differently than it does for you guys.
You were a child of the Führer, and you don’t spit a Führers child in the face of or beat up people like that.
Your mother wasn’t some cheap whore either (because a German woman back then was fundamentally not one—that trait was foreign to her ).
What I’m trying to say is—there’s another way.

@ WAB
Yes, I’ve definitely read some—restrained—criticism from you guys about DT.
But here on AH, it really depends on who’s doing it.
Whenever @Ontario Hunter speaks up—bravely swimming against the tide, refusing to be discouraged, and taking a lot of flak—the M16 is immediately loaded.
Sine ira et studio.
Foxi.

US Marines are made at Parris Island and San Diego, not soldiers. Marines are transformed from the civilian slime that first stood on the yellow footprints.
Soldiers are trained at US Army facilities.

 

[spike.t]

Houthis seize port facing Africa as control of vital Red Sea route comes under threat

Houthi forces have captured Yemen’s Mocha port near the African coast, increasing risks around a Red Sea route carrying 12% of global trade

africa.businessinsider.com

 

[deewayne2003]

Guys.
Maybe the word “idolize” is a bit too strong a translation—sorry—but you hardly ever hear a critical word about him here; it's always the others who are doing everything wrong.

Rarely?..... there are people on this forum where nearly every post is Trump hatred and often(not always) about things that are more imagined than real.

There has to be balance and I ask you this, is it that so many people idolize Trump or is it the case where certain people have such blind hatred for Trump that anything other than a direct insult about him or direct criticism of him is seen as an afront to their entire world?

 

[Brent in Az]

You aware the person you referenced as bravely swimming against the tide, bragged about pointing a loaded shotgun at a child.

The referenced person(fraud), just claimed to be hunting in Africa recently.
Will he post a hunt report showing his face with those trophies?.......ummm......not a chance!