Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On 9/25/24 08:43, Paul S Person wrote:

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:07:17 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:
 

On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 17:52:22 +1000, Mad Hamish
<newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> wrote:
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Meanwhile Trump is twice divorced, has cheated on all 3 wives, was
besties with Epstein for about 15 years until they fell out over
realestate (Epstein went to Trump for advice about how do do something
after he'd bought a house, Trump then outbid him for it) and a fair
proportion of people he picked as part of his administration have said
he shouldn't be president again...

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All of which completely causes me consternation as to why far too many
evangelicals love Trump. The only reason I can see is that the
Democrats have swerved far to the left since Clinton. (Who was nearly
as much a horn-dog as Trump)

 Clinton was the last fiscally-conservative President we had (if you
want proof, consider that his last budget left his successor with a
1.2B surplus -- promptly used to finance a Tax Cut for Rich People).
 This made more like the traditional Republicans than the tax-and-spend
Democrats. Republicans today, of course, are spend-and-spend
Republicans, which is why they are as responsible for the size of the
National Debt and the Democrats are, if not somewhat more so.
 Fiscally-speaking, it is a sad day when tax-and-spend Democrats are
the Party that at least /tries/ to keep the budget from escaping
completely from control.
 

In the wake of JFK and LBJ the Republican Party adopted the Southern strategy and abandoned most of the principles exemplified
Lincoln. The Democrats picked up the discarded principles and began
to move to the Liberal end of the political spectrum. However the
phrase "Tax and Spend" had long been a Republican canard. Tax and
Spend though beat the Depression and won WW II.
By the way JFK was a very good looking and a rich man
so he cut taxes on his economic class and himself but got away
with it though he did not live long enough to enjoy becoming
a much richer man.
Statistics show that the economy is always better under
Democratic rule since LBJ. When taxes are cut by politicians attempting
to curry the favor of wealthy donors, almost certainly inflation will
ensue which is why we have so many billionaires and millionaires aside
from greed.  I judge inflation by familiar items and a comic book cost
10 cents when I was young and a paperback novel was 25 cents.
I don't buy many comics these days but about $2.50 a few years
back. The 1998 paperback from the SFPL that I just returned was
$9.00 in 1999 so the price of comics is up 25X and the paperback
36X and I am 87 yoa.
There was inflation following WW II and then
we elected Eisenhower, the last of the real Republicans and
he raised tax rates on the very wealthy ending inflation for
a bit and built the Interstate highway system which was
basically for moving troops and military equipment around
in case we  suffered an invasion by the USSR, which was
the boogie-man of the time. We were so happy when Stalin
died but it took quite a few more years until Russia took
steps toward Democracy and only a few years for Putin to
repress that democratic tendency. We fought wars in Korea,
  wars on Drugs, wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan and
failed to tax the beneficiaries of the wars as should have
been done but the Republicans elected do not have the
principles of Eisenhower.
Now our problems are caused by the anti-tax
movement and venal congress critters. We have less
intelligent life on earth than we imagined.
#45 was an rambunctious puppet of our Oligarchs and Putin.
bliss
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