Let no man imagine that he has no influence.
Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed,
the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
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"See? Do these hands look SMALL to you? Go ahead and pull my finger, Little Marco. How many fingers? Let me count." pic.twitter.com/Zg1LQWWaPp— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 4, 2016
Okay, the last tweet (with Donald's hands outstretched) was my made-up caption, not an actual quote. But he himself brought up hand size.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 4, 2016
Trump cultist propaganda. China is our third largest, fastest growing export market. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/sjmKl82Gjv— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 4, 2016
We sell China transportation equipment, food, computers/electronics & chemicals. China is also transitioning to a consumer economy. (2 of 2)— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 4, 2016
Trump's story of building his own fortune from a $1M loan is grossly exaggerated. Big Daddy Trump backed up deals. https://t.co/INRbEaMKfU— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 4, 2016
You would think Donald Trump wouldn't bring up the fact that his 2012 endorsement didn't help Romney beat Obama. Why did Romney seek it?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 4, 2016
Romney can speak for himself. Trump had briefly flirted with the notion of running in 2012, was a former Obama supporter, celebrity.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 4, 2016
I don't think that Romney knew that Trump was batshit crazy just like pro wrestling fans never knew Chris Benoit would murder his own family— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 4, 2016
Maybe it's because I don't know many rich people, but I always thought they had been brought up cultured, even-tempered and well-mannered.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 4, 2016
I've never seen a thin-skinned 69-year-old man before acting like a schoolyard bully, crying out to be the center of attention.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 4, 2016
Crowder hits the nail on the head on describing the Republican voters on the Road to Trumpdom: https://t.co/7XheXtwydu— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
Remy is back with a parody of the FBI vs. personal security: never let a good tragedy to go to waste https://t.co/KGCdRJ4HZ6— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
I have said about my flagship political blog and my Twitter account, I would do it even if I had no readers. Writers do appreciate audiences— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
We have a populist uprising in the GOP which has been relatively rare; I can think of the Ron Paul and latter Teddy Roosevelt candidacies.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
On the Democrat side, of course, we have Jackson, William Jennings Bryan and to some extent the Dixiecrats and George Wallace candidacies.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
Of course, there were populist elements in the Tea Party movement and the reactionary Occupy Wall Street movement, although not parties.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
I do like this post which I think does a good job at explaining the Trump phenomenon from the context of history https://t.co/tnL3treVKE— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
I'm fairly sure that the anti-intellectuals among the Trump cultists would be dismissive of my case. I'm supposedly an ivory tower academic.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
When a recession ended my academic career (not being tenured), I had a hard time restarting my IT career; my 8 yrs in academia were ignored.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
I was later advised by a recruiter to lose the PhD from my resume. UH in mailings referenced my MBA.Why? Because most dual degrees prefer it— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
What I'm saying to the Trump cultists is that Trump is using them; his political ambitions are self-serving. He is manipulating the media.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
Trump has been using his celebrity to get massive free media coverage. He says outrageous things just to stoke more free coverage.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
Trump then argues his competitors who do not have the advantage of celebrity as owned by contributors. Do we want Hollywood choosing POTUS?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
Trump is motivated by political power and personal ambition. He openly admits to having spent thousands on politicians across parties.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
Trump is then going to spend your tariffs/taxes at his discretion, not yours, for his political benefit, not yours. High-level corruption.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
The higher prices you have to pay take away from your ability to spend or save your own money, including other American goods and services.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
At best, a few politically connected manufacturers and workers may be temporarily sustained at the expense of the many.And then retaliation.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
@AlexNowrasteh Coolidge was the last great President. But Johnson-Reed and the 1924 act were crimes against liberty and the economy.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
@AlexNowrasteh Progressives of the era like Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson had already embraced racist theories.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
Then there's the flip side of trade wars, like Trump threatens. Countries will target our globally competitive goods and services (and jobs)— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
And this doesn't include adverse effects on our investment surpluses through trade. Trade wars are like prescriptions for global recessions.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
The first big problem with Donald Trump, going beyond his unprofessional behavior, is his economic illiteracy: market principles, trade, etc— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
Governments are like track officials who put obstacles in front of runners and then try to blame the runners for slower results.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
The first law of medicine is: first, do no harm. Trump doesn't have a clue that his actions have consequences, including unintended effects.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
For years, I've been mocking "we can't afford to do nothing" Obama. The problem is policy muddies the economy. Trump is just like Obama— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
Trump is like a bull in a china shop, although, unlike Steve Urkel, he doesn't have the integrity to say, "Did I do that?" Scapegoats!— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
True democracy is your dollars spent in voluntary tranactions in the market, not restricted by the interventions of political whores.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
When Trump wants you to spend more for Mexican or Chinese items, if not outright ban them, he has become part of the corrupt Big Nanny elite— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
Look, if you want to pay more for the "made in America" label, that's your business. I don't tell you not to buy expensive non-GMO/organic.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
But you have no right to tell me what I cannot put in my shopping cart. You have become part of the corrupt, self-serving elite.That's Trump— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
Let's take Trump's War on Oreos. Why would Nabisco relocate to Mexico? Is it just labor? No. We pay above world price for sugar.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
Now if Trump was smart, he might have asked "Little Marco" why he has supported Big Sugar producers in FL. But Trump wants to bash Mexico.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
I personally think Trump doesn't see Big Sugar as a problem because Big Sugar employs American workers. But it's a tax on many consumers.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
Image of the DayIf you ask me, the people are the consumers. And the elites are the ones who decide what you can buy and how much you pay. Trump is an elite— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 5, 2016
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Facebook Corner
(Reason). Simply put, Donald J. Trump is the distillation of conservative Republican politics for all of the 21st century. He's not the cause of a GOP implosion, but the final effect of an intellectual and political hollowing-out of any semblance of commitment to limited government, individual rights, and free markets.
Rubbish. Nick Gillespie is using the spectacle of Donald Trump to engage in pure GOP bashing. I don't have an issue with a well-deserved general critique of the GOP and agree with much of Nick's points, but arguing this political chameleon is something this mythical GOP establishment deserved is ridiculous. If you haven't noticed, for the past 7 years, you've had a similarly narcissistic authoritarian of the left, swept into office on vacuous catchphrases and empty promises, armed with a phone and a veto pen. There's only so much the GOP can do with a leftist occupying the White House and enough votes in either chamber to sustain a veto. Did the GOP overpromise what they could do? Not really; they have broken the streak of trillion dollar deficits.
But to spend 8 years in exile from the Oval Office and now find an unlikely celebrity billionaire populist demagogue as your lead candidate, an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed, unqualified, unprincipled, flip-flopping authoritarian wannabe who wants to bring corrupt wheeling and dealing to the White House? A step too far.
Trump, who criticized Romney's immigration restrictionst policy for his 2012 defeat, went all in on bringing Know Nothingness to the party of Lincoln, who rejected Know Nothings as morally corrupt. He in fact claimed to making immigration an issue in this campaign, when in fact Pete Wilson did it in California, which has been solid blue for a generation since and GOP restrictionists have repeatedly blocked reform at least 3 times over the past decade.
I have been nominally registered as a Republican, but as a classical liberal who believes in open immigration and non-interventionist policy, I'm done with the Party of Trump, and no, I won't return to the Party of Clinton. #NeverTrump
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Stevie Wonder, "We Can Work It Out". One of the best Beatles remakes ever!
Ben Carson Analyzes 2016 Candidates
Ben Carson plays Word Association
Dr. Ben Carson describes each of the presidential candidates in one word during our interview. yhoo.it/1QVA4Tz
Posted by Katie Couric on Thursday, March 3, 2016
