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Friday, August 5, 2016

Miscellany: 8/05/16

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This is a note to a niece's emotional thread after posting ambivalent posts on Trump. Her Trumpkin husband responded to the more favorable post, saying a vote against Trump is a vote for Clinton, to which I responded with "bullshit!" My niece didn't like the Pandora's box she opened; in fact, I generally don't publish political posts (some comments to the posts of others, yes) on Facebook and most of my friends are relatives. I don't mind expressing my feelings about Trump in colorful language she doesn't like. I said something to the effect, "Hey, if you leave a banana on the floor, don't blame the victim for slipping on it because he didn't look where he was walking." Trump is a divisive figure with up to a 70% unfavorable rating. I have literally written several hundred anti-Trump tweets, only a few with colorful language. I'm not going to go through a litany of dozens of times Trump has engaged in completely off-the-charts behavior that would have killed most political candidacies.

At any rate, a Trumpkin responded; I won't even quote him here, because my responses basically respond to his points (I'm getting sick and tired of people calling me a "liberal", which amounts to left-fascism):

 Another retard un-American Trump cultist. I'm actually a libertarian-conservative who doesn't want an ill-tempered, unqualified, incompetent, unprincipled, flip-flopping authoritarian son of a bitch in the White House. No conservative would ever vote for the bastard demagogue.

You pathetic fascist Trumpkin loser in a state of denial. Trump has an INDISPUTABLE temperament issue. For one typical psychological analysis of the bastard authoritarian loser who FOUR TIMES put his major businesses into bankruptcy: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771/

 Qualifications are not criteria or fitness for office. The fact the demagogue is 70 years old and has the emotional stability of a schoolboy bully is not the point. He hasn't so much as managed a snow emergency in NYC, never mind public sector experience, administrative or legislative. He lost each and every debate so badly on points, it was absurd. His "debate" rhetoric amounted little more than rehearsed, absurd soundbites and insults of other candidates. He does not even know basic strategy of our nuclear military, as Rubio pointed out. An absurdly ignorant man who I could beat in a debate if he had 58 minutes to speak and I had only 2; I know 50 times more about economics than this economic illiterate bastard.

 I'm Claire's uncle. She knows better than to bring up Trump; she's unhappy because her Trumpkin husband said anyone not voting for the retard Trump is voting for Clinton, to which I said "bullshit"; Trump is a miserable asshole who has said everything I've said and worse about other people. She apparently has loser friends like you. She knows what I think about Trump; she posts a Trumpkin piece, and she doesn't like my response.

 Listen, loser, I have 4 degrees, including a double major in philosophy and math with a 4.0 GPA (none of this inflated GPA bullshit). I have a considerable background in logic and argumentation, and I posted detailed analysis on each of the GOP debates, until Trump decided he didn't want to do anymore. That tells you all you need to know: if he thought they were helping, he wouldn't have walked out of them. All the debates have transcripts and videos on the net. He literally placed last in each debate. He's completely ignorant on policy, he never made a substantive counterpoint, he has flip-flopped on just about any policy you can think of, including immigration and abortion and refugees. It's part of the record, indisputable. HE HAS NEVER SERVED IN GOVERNMENT, not even a mayor, governor, served in an administration. 

 Yes, it's true the Constitution he doesn't believe in allows natural born citizens 35 and older with a significant period of residency to be ELIGIBLE for office. That doesn't make the local garbageman to be QUALIFIED for office. Qualifications for POTUS reflect knowledge and experience expected to run a country. Trump has NONE.
I consider Trump so unacceptable that if I thought Trump might beat HRC, I would vote for her. It's not that I like Clinton, but like the article pointed out, Trump is like Nixon on steroids. Trump literally would kill the GOP as a party.

Youtube Place: Hanson on Mexifornia

Very odd Liberty Pen would promote an anti-liberty perspective on migration.
unless the only libertarian things you care about are pot, prostitution and open borders, mass third world immigration is pretty bad for liberty because these people love giant government
You uttered a self-contradiction: liberty and giant government. The right to migrate is fundamental. To maintain otherwise puts you in a prison. There are literally thousands of economics studies refuting your nativism.
+Ronald Guillemette no one is entitled to move here. It's not a right and until 1965 we've had much stricter immigration laws than we do now. Prove
+Ronald Guillemette prove me wrong most people from the 3rd world love big government, it's part of the reason their countries are terrible.
You are not a pro-liberty conservative. Restrictions on immigration were, with a few racist exceptions, not implemented until the WWI era. Restrictions on immigration are inconsistent with liberty, period. CASE CLOSED.
I don't give a damn why you think other people want to live here. It's not your place to judge them or decide why the hell you think you have the moral authority to tell other people what they can or can't do. These people have to put up with assholes like you when they come here.
+Ronald Guillemette Then enjoy living in a socialist hell hole, just remember those libertarian principles will matter so much to a million chavistas, just translate a bunch of libertarian literature into Spanish and they'll turn into Jefferson loving objectivists! You seem like an intelligent person 
You don't know what the hell you are talking about. Some of the hardest-working, honest, God-fearing people I've ever met are Latinos. It's just they don't want anything to do with xenophobes like you, and I don't blame them.

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