... wrote on Feb 17^th, 2017 at 2:26pm:


Too movie cliche for you?  You just Blue Pill / Red Pilled me!?

(haha )

So, you're giving him a change (aka, complete and unfettered support to the point of personally attacking his critics no matter how legitimate their questions/claims) because he's claiming that he'll do what no other politician has about the bigger issues that "the establishment" haven't solved?

It's a nice idea, but he isn't the first politician to claim he'll do so and he won't be the last, but that doesn't put him above criticism or above the law.

He is however when his past is taken into account one of the least likely people to be genuine in those claims, and it's truly frightening that people think he is.  He constantly exploits the people claiming to stand up for and has stacked his cabinet with people who care even less for then, then on top of that he's picked a political side and handed them the majority who care even less than that!

I know I'm full of questions, but would you by any chance be able to articulate what these issues are?

Like any leader, he needs to be held to account for his claims and promises before he took office.  For us to do that we need some context as to what the issues are and how he's proposed to fix them that has apparently gained your respect, so much so that you're turning a blind eye to so much of his conduct.

And as for special treatment, he has attacked and pissed off practically everyone over the years.  Every single President before him has been attacked by their enemies, be they political or otherwise and relentlessly so.  Trump was even one of those enemies to Obama and he did the same thing to Obama, lying about his birth cert etc for years.

It may seem worse for Trump but that's only because he's gone out of his way to make an enemy out of anyone who is of no use to him, and now that's coming back to hurt him.

Those chickens coming home to roost isn't any kind of defense for him either, it's yet more self inflicted and well deserved problems.

But the special treatment comes from him getting away with regular and repeated conduct that he said was unacceptable from his opponents, only he's dialed it up past 11 and surpassed even his doomsday fantasy predictions about them to make himself look good in comparison.

He has said and done things that would disqualify literally every single other eligible person for the oval office on the planet from the Presidency, yet his supporters wear said indiscretions as a badge of honour.  It's unprecedented and the epitome of special treatment.

Thanks to things like the Celebrity Apprentice and his apparent pandering if not close links to white supremacists, it's helped him gain this broad support of people who don't care what he does, they'll support him either because of his celebrity status, they think he'll make them "rich" like him, or the areas in which he'll "do what nobody has done before", which given many of it overlaps with what these white supremacists routinely meet about, again, for him to still be on the scene takes an enormous amount of special treatment and a different set of rules for him than everyone else.

I want him to be able to achieve his very broad and undefined goal of MAGA, but I am tentatively worried because nobody actually knows that that means.  It means different things to different people.

And that's a recipe for disaster.  It's almost like he's trying to start conflict on the world stage in order to sure up his support at home.

Richdude wrote on Feb 19^th, 2017 at 2:10am:


I don't think that's an option anymore, not now that we've all had the orange pill forced on us.