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2021-04-25 -Land of the Free

Victor Davis Hanson: A nation's well-being hinges on only a few factors – is US teetering on the edge of ruin?

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-25 01:11|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Without oil, for the hinges.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-25 01:13|| 2021-04-25 01:13|| Front Page Top

#2 The ruling class perceived Trump's* election as a rebellion - and they are letting all the brakes go in suppressing it.

*This doesn't mean I approve of Trump. In hindsight, he wasn't POTUS - he run a Reality TV show from WH.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-25 01:28|| 2021-04-25 01:28|| Front Page Top

#3 nobody cares what a furriner thinks of Trump

Posted by Frank G 2021-04-25 06:20|| 2021-04-25 06:20|| Front Page Top

#4 ..the problem is our ruling class doesn't think of itself as 'American'. Too much Euro Socialism has been imprinted in their DNA. They ignore that the place attempted twice to commit suicide in the first half of the 20th Century.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-25 07:34|| 2021-04-25 07:34|| Front Page Top

#5 nobody cares what a furriner thinks of Trump

Nobody who's a true-blue American.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-25 07:35|| 2021-04-25 07:35|| Front Page Top

#6 In hindsight, he wasn't POTUS - he run a Reality TV show from WH.

Far be it from me to be a personality cultist, but I really felt for the man, knowing what I know about governments, deepStates and the business of politics.

All representative democracy is a reality TV show really, played out for rubes that believe in 'Liberty', 'Equality', 'human rights' and other semantic ambiguities. It's the reason reality shows are so popular; they're a perfect microcosm of the world we have created, compressed into a few hours of scripted entertainment. Trump was someone who understood this at an instinctive level, and I suspect he wished to salvage what he could of America, because he thought he knew the game. The sad part is, he didn't. And one can't expect an old man with his own familial and personal baggage to invest himself fully into a thankless endeavour so completely as was needed. What is needed in societies under assault from criminality and corruption, is a treads on the road, renditions and armed visits in the night, tear gas and pump gun domestic policy. No American leader is up to it and until one arrives, America will teeter.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-25 09:35|| 2021-04-25 09:35|| Front Page Top

#7 ^Dron, lets try the Socratic Method.
(a) No executive can accomplish anything without loyal subordinates.
(b) The only way to get loyalty is to give loyalty.
(c) Therefore, Trump's Presidency effectively ended on the day he has thrown Michael Flynn under the bus.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-25 11:22|| 2021-04-25 11:22|| Front Page Top

#8 I think it was an Israeli analyst's theory that Flynn may have committed career suicide to protect him. Even so, a leader faced with such enemies as the last RW POTUS was, he should have given unfair advantage to his own loyalists and crushed all opposition with prejudice. Anyway, all this is hindsight, all moot.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-25 14:07|| 2021-04-25 14:07|| Front Page Top

#9 ^g(r)omgoru - for someone "thrown under the bus," Lt. General Flynn seems very supportive of Mr. Trump.

Strange outcome if true.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2021-04-25 17:39|| 2021-04-25 17:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Our "admiration" of Soetoro goes without saying, but Flynn was disloyal to Barry, or?

Posted by Clem 2021-04-25 21:55|| 2021-04-25 21:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Flynn opposed Soetoro's beloved Iran deal.

Ergo Flynn had to be destroyed - as Soetoro put it to Comey, "Put your best people on it" i.e. the Flynn persecution hit-job

Posted by Speager Elmeper2278 2021-04-25 23:03|| 2021-04-25 23:03|| Front Page Top

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