I have never understood the hatred for Trump? Yes, he is arrogant (my brothers objection) and yes he can be brash (can't we all) but, for the love of God; he was good for our country, The circus in charge now actually HATES America and is destroying it as we speak. UFB
I'm a little mystified by people like Peter who says that 'I believe Trump would be a disaster as President'.
This is a actually a rare moment in US history when we don't have to 'guess' what we're getting. We've already seen him as President for four years. We know what he'll stand for. If you disagreed with his programs and performance, then by all means pull the lever for someone else. But I will vote for him again because I have a very good idea what he's going to stand for, and I support most of it, bluster and all. And I feel fortunate this is one election we know exactly what we're going to get from each guy.
Lack of cynicism comment brings up a point I have been making for some time now. Where are all the 60s radicals???? We supposedly did not trust the government, wanted peace, no foreign wars, justice for the working class etc etc. I remember Springsteen in a concert doing Edwin Starr's "War, What is it good for?" and warning you can't trust government. Now all of a sudden the government (it it's Dems) can be trusted on everything? Now the one candidate who stands for peace, no foreign wars, the working class etc etc is our enemy? Maybe they were (and are ) all communists.
Alex thank you for your excellent reporting! I wish people on both sides of the aisle would understand…you can’t hate Trump and refuse to vote for him and still want to be able to heat and cool your home affordably; afford your groceries; stop the invasion at our southern border; stop the out-of-control crime happening around our country, especially in Democrat-run cities where police have been defunded and bail no longer exists; and keep our first amendment rights that you are so valiantly fighting for. I’m leaving out a lot of other stuff, but you get the point. I have told your story to so many people in hopes that it wakes them up. I pray that people will love their country more than they hate the man the mainstream media tells them to hate. Our lives and our children’s lives depend on it. These are very troubling and scary times we are living in.
If you punch the ballot for Trump, you're not necessarily voting FOR Trump.
But you ARE voting against Biden, and THAT should dictate your ballot choice, IMO. No, not IMO. It's fact.
Biden has been an unmitigated disaster; Trump's (first?) four years were not a disaster, not even close. (So it makes no sense for Peter T. to think Trump's election would be a "disaster" given what we KNOW about his first term and Resident Biden's past 3+ years.)
I’m seventy and I’ve also been puzzled as to why so many of my 60’s generation caved when it came to COVID. It occurred to me perhaps a good number of them are unhealthy now, saddled with blood pressure meds, diabetes, high cholesterol, carrying a lot of extra pounds, etc, etc. They were quite frightened and gladly went along with whatever they were told to do. Suddenly the ‘government’ was their best friend. My mom was into Adele Davis and Prevention magazine back in the day and loved Jack Lalanne almost as much as she loved Elvis. As a high school student with an interest in biology and health, I read all the books she had and found more.
I carried my health nut phase and doubt that doctors always knew everything into adulthood. Maybe that was why I felt I could say no to the vax (and have never taken a flu shot). Eventually, I had a mediocre case of Omnicron and relied on the food and herbs and broth and ‘protocol’ I’ve used for years. Without that knowledge, and if I had only gone the ‘pharmaceutical route’ all my life, I might have been on board with the vax and all the mandates, too.
For the guy who said he would never vote for Trump but is totally in agreement with your article criticizing the "lawfare" in New York, how do you reconcile a vote for Biden with your stance against the "lawfare" Biden and his party are supporting and perpetrating. I'm afraid this country can't survive another four years of this administration.
In my opinion, until the Covid Vaccine, the Flu Vaccine qualified as the greatest Big Pharma/Public Health Scam of our lifetimes.
It also set the table for the roll-out of the Covid “vaccines.” For decades, nobody ever questioned the necessity or real efficacy of the flu “vaccines.” Thanks again, “watchdog press.”
Am I going to vote for Trump? I despise seeing anyone being bullied, even him. At this point all I’m certain of is that I won’t vote for the dementia patient currently in office. Or the crew propping him up.
Inflated asset evaluations is the crime. Good! Now the public has standing for suing their local community accessor(s) for taxing based on inflated property values. Maybe we can sue the assessor for everything they have?
Although it's become accepted that young people who opposed the Vietnam War were motivated by insight and knowledge the question never asked is, "what was the source of their insight and knowledge?" How did the hundreds of thousands of young people, at a time when obtaining sound information was difficult and fact-checking was incredibly time-consuming, gain such expertise at the same time they were attending school, working, hooking-up, idolizing rock stars, and getting loaded? And why, given their assumed insight into matters of such importance, did these young intellectuals sit in the classroom and swallow, without question or doubt, the absurdity known as "The Blank Slate Theory?"
The answer: their protest was no more knowledge-based than was the support for the war by their opposition, and damn few people of my generation came into this world with a shred of insight (I know, I sat in class with them and read their propaganda). But, by virtue of the power that was theirs courtesy of demographics (the Baby Boom), these otherwise unexceptional protesters were able to impact both war policy and domestic politics, and ultimately carry the day.
I formed my lowly opinion of my generation over fifty years ago and I've never been given reason to question it. Had my generation really been politically savvy and skeptical the Neo-cons who engineered the Iraq tragedy would've been outed (as they are being today) and stopped, and Dr. Fauci, upon his first dismissal of the lab theory, or the uttering his absurd denial of the efficacy of natural immunity, would have been tarred, feathered, and booted into retirement.
I saw a T shirt yesterday. It said, "You were a fool to vote for Biden in 2020. You will be a traitor to vote for him in 2024". Given a choice between "really bad" and "not as good as I want", I will go with the latter....again!
Scaredy cat, Lol! Seriously at some point you and many others need to forget about personal characteristics and vote on policy. Clearly Trump policies win. Or just write in Alfred E Newman, “What me worry?” You’re young but I’m sure you remember Mad Magazine!
I think we have to remember that Trump was elected to a second term. He simply wasn't allowed to serve. Americans, for the most part, made the right decision. They voted for him. It was those blue counties, mail-in ballots, mules, state legislators, the establishment, voting machines, etc. that altered the true outcome. The question in November will be, will the Democrats steal another one? My worry is, they will, because the corruption regarding elections hasn't been rooted out.
I have another question about the NY "fraud" case. IF the judge found, all by himself, that Trump had committed fraud by some how getting "too high appraisals for the properties", WHY weren't the appraisers who appraised the properties also indicted for fraud, not to mention malfeasance and poor execution of their jobs? I know the answer to this: because the judge and AG were only after Trump, not his "co-conspirators" of course! What has been done to President Trump is an injustice and a travesty of giant proportions!
I have never understood the hatred for Trump? Yes, he is arrogant (my brothers objection) and yes he can be brash (can't we all) but, for the love of God; he was good for our country, The circus in charge now actually HATES America and is destroying it as we speak. UFB
I'm a little mystified by people like Peter who says that 'I believe Trump would be a disaster as President'.
This is a actually a rare moment in US history when we don't have to 'guess' what we're getting. We've already seen him as President for four years. We know what he'll stand for. If you disagreed with his programs and performance, then by all means pull the lever for someone else. But I will vote for him again because I have a very good idea what he's going to stand for, and I support most of it, bluster and all. And I feel fortunate this is one election we know exactly what we're going to get from each guy.
Lack of cynicism comment brings up a point I have been making for some time now. Where are all the 60s radicals???? We supposedly did not trust the government, wanted peace, no foreign wars, justice for the working class etc etc. I remember Springsteen in a concert doing Edwin Starr's "War, What is it good for?" and warning you can't trust government. Now all of a sudden the government (it it's Dems) can be trusted on everything? Now the one candidate who stands for peace, no foreign wars, the working class etc etc is our enemy? Maybe they were (and are ) all communists.
Alex thank you for your excellent reporting! I wish people on both sides of the aisle would understand…you can’t hate Trump and refuse to vote for him and still want to be able to heat and cool your home affordably; afford your groceries; stop the invasion at our southern border; stop the out-of-control crime happening around our country, especially in Democrat-run cities where police have been defunded and bail no longer exists; and keep our first amendment rights that you are so valiantly fighting for. I’m leaving out a lot of other stuff, but you get the point. I have told your story to so many people in hopes that it wakes them up. I pray that people will love their country more than they hate the man the mainstream media tells them to hate. Our lives and our children’s lives depend on it. These are very troubling and scary times we are living in.
Yeah, keep voting for the guy you’re suing for his tyrannical oppression of your rights. Brilliant!
If you punch the ballot for Trump, you're not necessarily voting FOR Trump.
But you ARE voting against Biden, and THAT should dictate your ballot choice, IMO. No, not IMO. It's fact.
Biden has been an unmitigated disaster; Trump's (first?) four years were not a disaster, not even close. (So it makes no sense for Peter T. to think Trump's election would be a "disaster" given what we KNOW about his first term and Resident Biden's past 3+ years.)
I’m seventy and I’ve also been puzzled as to why so many of my 60’s generation caved when it came to COVID. It occurred to me perhaps a good number of them are unhealthy now, saddled with blood pressure meds, diabetes, high cholesterol, carrying a lot of extra pounds, etc, etc. They were quite frightened and gladly went along with whatever they were told to do. Suddenly the ‘government’ was their best friend. My mom was into Adele Davis and Prevention magazine back in the day and loved Jack Lalanne almost as much as she loved Elvis. As a high school student with an interest in biology and health, I read all the books she had and found more.
I carried my health nut phase and doubt that doctors always knew everything into adulthood. Maybe that was why I felt I could say no to the vax (and have never taken a flu shot). Eventually, I had a mediocre case of Omnicron and relied on the food and herbs and broth and ‘protocol’ I’ve used for years. Without that knowledge, and if I had only gone the ‘pharmaceutical route’ all my life, I might have been on board with the vax and all the mandates, too.
For the guy who said he would never vote for Trump but is totally in agreement with your article criticizing the "lawfare" in New York, how do you reconcile a vote for Biden with your stance against the "lawfare" Biden and his party are supporting and perpetrating. I'm afraid this country can't survive another four years of this administration.
In my opinion, until the Covid Vaccine, the Flu Vaccine qualified as the greatest Big Pharma/Public Health Scam of our lifetimes.
It also set the table for the roll-out of the Covid “vaccines.” For decades, nobody ever questioned the necessity or real efficacy of the flu “vaccines.” Thanks again, “watchdog press.”
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/the-flu-vaccine-scam?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Am I going to vote for Trump? I despise seeing anyone being bullied, even him. At this point all I’m certain of is that I won’t vote for the dementia patient currently in office. Or the crew propping him up.
Inflated asset evaluations is the crime. Good! Now the public has standing for suing their local community accessor(s) for taxing based on inflated property values. Maybe we can sue the assessor for everything they have?
In response to the question posed by Kenneth S.
Although it's become accepted that young people who opposed the Vietnam War were motivated by insight and knowledge the question never asked is, "what was the source of their insight and knowledge?" How did the hundreds of thousands of young people, at a time when obtaining sound information was difficult and fact-checking was incredibly time-consuming, gain such expertise at the same time they were attending school, working, hooking-up, idolizing rock stars, and getting loaded? And why, given their assumed insight into matters of such importance, did these young intellectuals sit in the classroom and swallow, without question or doubt, the absurdity known as "The Blank Slate Theory?"
The answer: their protest was no more knowledge-based than was the support for the war by their opposition, and damn few people of my generation came into this world with a shred of insight (I know, I sat in class with them and read their propaganda). But, by virtue of the power that was theirs courtesy of demographics (the Baby Boom), these otherwise unexceptional protesters were able to impact both war policy and domestic politics, and ultimately carry the day.
I formed my lowly opinion of my generation over fifty years ago and I've never been given reason to question it. Had my generation really been politically savvy and skeptical the Neo-cons who engineered the Iraq tragedy would've been outed (as they are being today) and stopped, and Dr. Fauci, upon his first dismissal of the lab theory, or the uttering his absurd denial of the efficacy of natural immunity, would have been tarred, feathered, and booted into retirement.
I saw a T shirt yesterday. It said, "You were a fool to vote for Biden in 2020. You will be a traitor to vote for him in 2024". Given a choice between "really bad" and "not as good as I want", I will go with the latter....again!
Scaredy cat, Lol! Seriously at some point you and many others need to forget about personal characteristics and vote on policy. Clearly Trump policies win. Or just write in Alfred E Newman, “What me worry?” You’re young but I’m sure you remember Mad Magazine!
I think we have to remember that Trump was elected to a second term. He simply wasn't allowed to serve. Americans, for the most part, made the right decision. They voted for him. It was those blue counties, mail-in ballots, mules, state legislators, the establishment, voting machines, etc. that altered the true outcome. The question in November will be, will the Democrats steal another one? My worry is, they will, because the corruption regarding elections hasn't been rooted out.
I have another question about the NY "fraud" case. IF the judge found, all by himself, that Trump had committed fraud by some how getting "too high appraisals for the properties", WHY weren't the appraisers who appraised the properties also indicted for fraud, not to mention malfeasance and poor execution of their jobs? I know the answer to this: because the judge and AG were only after Trump, not his "co-conspirators" of course! What has been done to President Trump is an injustice and a travesty of giant proportions!