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Look at it as Darwinian. Stupid people shouldn't breed in the first place. Given that a four year degree is now what a High School diploma used to be, do you favor another generation of Freshmen who can barely spell their own names? Stupidity should be lethal - though it should be for potential parents rather than kids.

It is said that a diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip. Unfortunately, Trump is the exact opposite. Getting past the bombast is difficult, as is picking the gems from the dreck. When Ford was in office I concluded that a trade policy based on reciprocal tariffs was the way to go. Sell a variety of goods in Japan, for example, keep track of every tax and impediment between import and sale, and duplicate the process with what they sell here - no more, no less. Trump then took a policy that could have been pitched as fair and balanced and put it across as capricious and unhinged. Classic Trump. It is unfortunate that he is so truly unlikeable, and that anything or anyone associated with him is thus tainted. People I knew in Germany who survived on Marshall Plan rations would not touch peanut butter thereafter because of its use for starvation avoidance. I'm afraid that anything that could constitute sound policy may henceforth elicit the same kind of revulsion if associated with Trump.

I'm sure that was accidental.

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I'm sure you mean well. You have the kind of good intentions with which the road to hell is paved. Nobody thinks of themselves as evil. Heinrich Himmler described himself as a "simple policeman."

Why is some racism tolerated!

Clinton - at least the budget was balanced.

I recall the evasion of legal constraints placed upon the Chancellor by becoming a "Fuehrer," whose limits were undefined/non-existent.

Amazing the level of projection here. It's reminiscent of the patient seeing nothing but prurient images in the ink blots. "You have a dirty mind!" "Hey, you're the one showing me all the dirty pictures!" It is left as an exercise to the reader to discern who is who.

Yup, you got it. "How'd you do on the Radio Announcer interview?" "They d- d- didn't hire me 'cause I'm Je- Je- Jewish."

On the first go around, I had vowed to vote for Charlie Manson to keep Hillary out of the Oval Office. Charlie was busy, so Trump was the next best thing. This time around we were left with a candidate that lacked the raw evil of Hillary, as well as any shred of competence. If Kamala did not espouse the most brainless variation of Marxim (DEI), perhaps she would still have been an improvement over Trump. As it is, I can only hope that his seriously dunderheaded inclinations (Ukraine, Greenland etc.) can be kept in check by appealing to his avarice and/or ego, but I have confidence that the left has the capacity to fuck things up even worse. I do wish he wasn't such a loathsome piece of shit, but the scum rises to the top.

She's a certified idiot. As a person, I liked Jimmy Carter a lot. Dick Nixon, OTOH, was truly dreadful. Having said that, we are still stuck with the damage born out of Carter's naivete but Nixon did a much better job than I'd prefer to give him credit. Ripping DEI/woke out by its roots and at least attempting to address the debt gives Trump the edge. Undoing decades worth of well intentioned damage can't be done gently.

Oddly enough, despicable though Trump may be, our prospects under Harris would be significantly worse. There's a difference between handling things badly and not handling them at all. It's like the sign: 1) Pull 2) Pull at a proper altitude 3) Pull at a proper altitude while stable etc. We still may wind up like Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Cuba or other such garden spots, but at least that's not the goal - which is a measurable improvement.

Orwell was an optimist.