Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025, Chris Buckley wrote:

On 2025-01-21, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:

Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:

On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:01:51 -0600, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
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On 1/19/2025 10:07 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:

Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

It confused Saddam Hussein too, who thought the Americans were his =

ally

until the bombs actually started dropping.

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But ... but ... but ... the Shrub /had/ to remove the blot on the
family eschuteon from his father's failure to remove Saddam in the
early 90s.=3D20
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His good buddies, the Republicans, told him so.

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With friends like that, who needs enemies?
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My suspicion is that his father will be known to history as one of =

the

best presidents of the 20th century in great part because he knew
when to get into a war and when to get out.  His son will be known as
one of the worse presidents because he didn't.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_Un=
ited_States#Scholar_survey_summary

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Purportedly objective criteria:
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GHWB is around 19th or 20th best.
Obama is 7th.
Carter is 22nd.
Nixon 35th
Trump, 45th.   The bottom of the list.

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The TDS is strong with this one.

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You are, of course, looking in the mirror when you type that.

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Lynn is a typical trumper - instead of evaluating the data and
providing a cogent rebuttal, he responds with namecalling.
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He also doesn't realize that the Wikipedia article collects
the analysis of historians who base their rankings on the
evaluation of each term using a set of consistent and concrete
criteria.

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You seem to live in a very different world than I do, Scott.
Please supply your data and cogent rebuttal about namecalling.
In my world, the namecalling and personal attacks in this newsgroup
in recent years has almost exclusively been done by the liberals here,
as witness the past few days.

This is the truth! I have survived many attacks. The "liberals" can be vicious and verbally violent. Many who disagree and present iron clad proof of their position, are quickly dismissed as trolls.
Trump is a breath of fresh air, draining the swamp. Something that has been needed for a long time. Also note how Trump commanded his new lapdog Mr Z. to increase freedom of speech on facebook. Another step in the right direction.

You also don't realize that current historians are almost all liberals and
Democrats (well over 95%).  There are very few Republican historians out
there. Those opining on the rankings and setting up the criteria and
weighting by which to judge are Democrats. Their opinion of Trump is not
a surprise.

Also note that universities in general are socialist bastions, since people who enjoy living off the state or to shield themselves from the realities of the markets and honest jobs are drawn there.
That is why you'll find an overrepresentation of socialist historians there. But as we've seen Harvard has adapted to Trump, and many other institutions are starting to adapt to the real world, so if this trend continues, in 10-20 years or so, you'll see that strong and beautiful republican historians will start to get more space and get their voices heard more and more.
Let us pray for this together! Amen!

Chris
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