Wednesday, November 28, 2018

It's this kind of stuff - today's edition

Taking the notion of being full of oneself to a whole new level:

President Trump believes that his long list of achievements in office make him “far greater than Ronald Reagan.” 
In a new book out Tuesday about his “enemies,” the president said that while he feels “I blow Ronald Reagan away,” the “fake news” media is robbing him of bragging rights by ignoring his successes and focusing on his problems. 
And even more frustrating, he told “Trump's Enemies” authors and supporters Corey R. Lewandowski and David N. Bossie, some established conservative columnists aren’t giving him any credit. 
“The amazing thing is that you have certain people who are conservative Republicans that if my name weren’t Trump, if it were John Smith, they would say I’m the greatest president in history and I blow Ronald Reagan away,” said Trump. 

“All these guys that if they looked at my agenda with a different name...and he got the biggest regulation cuts in history in less than two years, judges, environmental stuff, getting out of the Paris horror show. If you said that conservative president John Smith did that, they would say he’s the greatest president. Far greater than Ronald Reagan,” added the president. 

Trump has often declared that his list of achievements is historic. Secrets recently listed 289 major victories that stack up well against recent presidents.
In the interview, Trump heightened his attack on the media and said that “85 percent of it is totally corrupt.” What’s more, he said that some outlets make up sources and news. 
“You can do something great and they will make it look bad, to a point that you don’t even understand why they’re doing it. Why do they want to make it look bad? Whether it’s fixing the military or cutting regulation. But people have no idea how false and corrupt much of the media is. When you read some of these stories, you pick up the New York Times, and they don’t call you for sources. They’ll say, ‘sources say,’ and there are no sources. So that would be the one thing that surprised me. The level of corruption and the level of fake news,” he said. 

Here's the difference, Squirrel-Hair, between you and Dutch: Dutch had traits like wisdom, humility, warmth and a sense of humor. You're utterly lacking in all of those.

12 comments:

  1. Ole Dutch, such a beacon of freedom if you could pass his piss test.

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  2. Yep, in those days, you had to pass a piss test.

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  3. Still do. Now they screen for tobacco use. Ronnie was full on with mining bodily fluids for verboten substances. That is real crude man.

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  4. It is the height of intellectual laziness and sloppiness to willfully ignore the historical context in which policy positions held sway.

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  5. Not really, all this stuff about the benignity of certain verboten substances was known back then and before. The intellectual laziness and sloppiness came when people in power worked their will anyway.

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  6. You really don't expect anyone to take you seriously about anything, do you?

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  7. What "will"did "people in power" seek to work? If it was so widely understood that weed was harmless, why was there not the kind of acceptance we're seeing now?

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  8. Google Shafer Commission. Nixon ignored the findings of hos own commission back 46 years ago. Ronnie didnt think we had arrested enough citizens and threw property seizure into the mix. Today millions are seeking amnesty.

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  9. Many have been hung on the gallows of acceptance, even in the land of the exceptional.

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  10. "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." ---as quoted from John Erlichman in "Legalize it all" Harper's Magazine, April 2016

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  11. This comment thread will not be highjacked for the purposes of talking about 1970s and 80s era weed policy. You obviously have some kind of strange obsession with the subject, even though it is peripheral to the important developments of the time.

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