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(02-01-2017, 08:08 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Good point Cookie....this bloke isnt backing him and he knows a thing or two about making money....
Warren Buffett attacked Donald Trump's business acumen, saying a monkey could have done far better running a public company...
As I've mentioned before, there are quite a few members of the "Billionaires Club" that think Trump's claims of being a billionaire are bullcrap!
There are certain things Billionaires get involved in, philanthropies if you like, that they do at their own expense. Trump set some up, and then tried to make profit from them like he needed the money! When they made a loss he allegedly closed them down, billionaires just don't behave like that, they don't give up and don't care about the money lost on their philanthropies.
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion...e8566630d2
Quote: THE protests against Donald Trump are so extreme that it’s clear what’s got many on the Left so mad. It’s democracy. They hate it.
This is the most frightening thing about the campaign to stop the new US President from doing just what voters elected him to do.
We already know the modern Left hates free speech. Now we see it’s not keen on a free vote, either — if the “wrong” person gets elected.
The Left is becoming not just more violent but more totalitarian, and Trump has exposed that. Even before he formally took over as President, there were protests against Trump’s election in many American cities, including some in which police were bashed. These were, in fact, protests against the result of a free and fair election.
Now, after just his first week as president, Left-wing publications are already discussing ways to remove this duly elected leader from office.
The Washington-based Foreign Policy magazine published a guide: “3 Ways to Get Rid of President Trump Before 2020”.
The Sydney Morning Herald contributed “Four Ways they can get rid of Donald Trump sooner rather than later”, which included this astonishing line: “The fourth possibility is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup …”
RootsAction.org has 500,000 signatures on a petition to impeach Trump. Change.org has 200,000.
Meanwhile, Democrats in the US Senate vowed to reject any judge Trump nominated to sit on the Supreme Court, and are now considering a mass boycott of Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on February 28 in an attempt to delegitimise him.
Not in living memory has a president faced such a concerted attempt to stop him — even sack him — even before his first week is out.
Yes, it’s perfectly fine for people to protest against what Trump is doing, and many Trump haters are doing no more than that.
But there is undeniably more going on.
That is clear from the hysterical reaction against Trump’s decision to temporarily ban visitors from seven jihadist-plagued countries.
What Trump has done is what he promised to do before the election. It is almost certainly lawful and makes sense, even if it was implemented chaotically.
All that Trump has said is that travellers from those countries — Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia — are banned for 90 days until his administration works out better ways to vet them.
Most of those countries are on a list drawn up by the Obama administration of failed states battling jihadism or are led, in the case of Iran, by jihadists. The US struggles with each one to get the information it needs to check the background of people coming to the US.
It is not surprising then that a Rasmussen poll last week found that Trump’s plan had overwhelming support from Americans — 56 per cent in favour to 32 per cent against.
Yet see how the Left — and its media allies — reacted to a policy that was reasonable, popular, an election promise and almost certainly legal. Thousands of protesters choked the airports and demanded authorities free any travellers detained.
The acting attorney-general, an appointment of former president Barack Obama, defied her new boss and ordered staff not to defend Trump’s law in the courts.
More than 200 US diplomats, meant to represent their government, signed a protest against Trump’s order.
These were government officials refusing to carry out government policy, as required by their elected president.
Aren’t the voters meant to be sovereign in a democracy?
It got worse. Hillary Clinton, the Democrat defeated in the election, sent a tweet saying “I stand with the people” demonstrating against Trump. Obama issued a statement, just a week after leaving the presidency, saying he “fundamentally disagrees” with Trump’s ban.
Here are a former president and presidential candidate offering, in effect, a rival leadership to that of the president. This is getting ugly.
The big picture is that the Left simply refuses to accept that Trump won the election and has a right — even duty — to put in place the policies he promised. There is a dangerous intolerance at work, as well as a sneering contempt for the kind of people who voted for Trump.
The result is that democracy is being trashed.
The Left is revealing itself as not just bad losers but bullies with a dangerous totalitarian itch — exactly what had so many voters support Trump in the first place.
Given that, bet on this: Trump will win out in the end.
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Quoting Andrew Bolt ? Wow, there's a source you can rely on.
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(02-02-2017, 12:37 AM)PaulP link Wrote:Quoting Andrew Bolt ? Wow, there's a source you can rely on.
In this instance he's spot on.
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(02-02-2017, 12:37 AM)PaulP link Wrote:Quoting Andrew Bolt ? Wow, there's a source you can rely on.
Beat me to it PP 
“Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?” Oddball
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(02-02-2017, 12:38 AM)madbluboy link Wrote:In this instance he's spot on.
It's quite amazing what passes as "the left" these days - the Sydney Morning Herald ? Bahahaha.
Basically anyone that is not :
Liberal
Republican, or
disagrees with Bolt
and doesn't work for a Murdoch media outlet
is a Pinko.
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Bolt's rhetoric fits this thread title perfectly!
The big error being made by media commentary and many followers of the various debates is in allowing "Alternative Explanations" to facts like every opinion has to have an equal and opposite alternative. But that is basically a wrong assumption because, Alternative opinions or facts are only valid and viable if they are actually real and not imaginary!
Lies are not the natural alternative to facts!
The media should be required to support all published opinions with supporting evidence, they are supposed to be professional at the dissemination and reporting for information! Bolt is a prime example of this not happening. But he is not on his own, there are just as many offenders on the other side of politics. They should all join each other as the first against the wall!
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Im no trump supporter (in fact the presidency in America seems to be doing exactly what Ive always thought its there for and thats to draw attention away from people who really wield power in the USA) but its very difficult to argue against the fact that the backlash against Trump is a massive over reaction by people who refuse to acknowledge that he won this election.
They need to really stop throwing the toys out of the cot at the fact that he is doing exactly what he was elected to do, and in a manner that every president that has come before him has done rather than pine for the old president, or any other president but this one.
Its so immature.
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Which is tantamount to saying that Democrats should leave it to the GOP to act as if a President from the other side is illegitimate. The GOP spent 8 years treating Obama as if he wasn't actually the President. They tried to block him at every turn, even refusing to put his nominee for the Supreme Court or indeed other Federal courts to a vote.
It's about time the Dems returned serve. In 2 years time, the boot should be on the other foot as the GOP is swept out of Congress and they can really set about treating Trump as the imbecile that he is.
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You know, the fact that Trump is an imbecile doesn't worry me so much. Reagan was also an imbecile. The difference is that at least with RR, he could be relied upon to read his lines, stick to the script, not ask stupid questions and not do anything stupid. Trump, unfortunately is a dangerous imbecile, a loose cannon with zero care and zero accountability, and when bad things start to happen, as they surely will, he will never accept any blame, and won't do anything to sort it out. It will, without a doubt, be someone else's fault, and be someone else's job to fix.
Nice work if you can get it.
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