* Bernie’s a mench, you couldn’t do better than to elect this guy. He’s like a Jewish version of Trump. A man of the people standing up to the oligarchs who finance and control American politics. I give both of these men a lot of credit for having the balls in 2015 to stand up to what we’re up against. Patriots both of them.
* Sanders at least got Trump to flip on his call for lower wages:
After previously saying wages were “too high,” Trump instead stressed Monday that they were actually “too low.”
In the Monday-morning tweet, Trump also said that good jobs were “too few” and that people had “lost faith in our leaders.”
The apparent shift came after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), a Democratic presidential candidate, said in a Sunday interview that his message would resonate among Trump’s working-class supporters.
“Look, many of Trump’s supporters are a working-class people, and they’re angry,” Sanders said on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” according to the show’s transcript. “And they’re angry because they’re working longer hours for lower wages. They’re angry because their jobs have left this country and gone to China or other low-wage countries.”
Sanders added: “In fact, he has said that he thinks wages in America are too high.”
Trump first responded Sunday by accusing Sanders of lying:
.@BernieSanders-who blew his campaign when he gave Hillary a pass on her e-mail crime, said that I feel wages in America are too high. Lie!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2015
Trump, however, has indeed said that wages — among many other things in the US — are too high.
In a Fox Business Network debate in November, Trump used his opening statement to say, “Taxes too high, wages too high. We’re not going to be able to compete against the world.”
And Trump doubled down on his position during a “Morning Joe” interview the day after that debate.
“It’s a tough position politically,” Trump acknowledged on the MSNBC show. “We have to become competitive with the world. Our taxes are too high — our wages are too high. Everything is too high. We have to compete with other countries.”
* When Trump said wages are too high I think he meant that the current minimum wage is too high because it makes some people in our society unemployable (teenagers for example). Or maybe he meant that wages were too high given that we haven’t started taxing imports from low-wage countries like China and Mexico because, absent those taxes, American manufacturers are uncompetitive.
* The surveillance super state of the future (see the command base in Utah) will prevent anyone like Trump from ever running again. It’s not just a lack of funds that force the other candidates to mouth acceptable boilerplate only. It’s a total lack of privacy.
The granular detail available in opposition research is already jaw dropping. I wonder how many state sponsored hackers have backdoored Trump’s phone.
* Really? You want to put a socialist in charge of a federal bureaucracy of true socialist believers and you think that the result will be better off than what we have from “the oligarchs who finance and control American politics“? Have you never heard of tyranny or absolutism? Do you think Sanders won’t stomp your face forever with the boot of socialist ‘right-thinking’?
Bernie will enable the jackbooted bureaucrats to ensure that wrong thinking results in the loss not only of your position or business, but also of your house. So if destitution is your desire, or grovelling before your ‘superiors’ is your preference, then Bernie is your man.
If you are in doubt about the results, consult the Oregon bakers that were not only deprived of their business, but also their home – just because they wouldn’t bake a cake for a privileged minority.
* All the single women I know are big Sanders supporters. I guess they want to be able to rely on the state since they don’t have a husband.
* You may stop believing in God, but the belief in God doesn’t go away. By this I mean that belief in God has been and remains a tremendous force in history. For example it propels phenomena like Isis, though whether the God of Muhammad is the same God Christians have traditionally believed in — and to a much lesser extent believe in today — is questionable.
People who don’t believe in God, including most educated people in the West, fail to appreciate these realities. Thus in today’s studies in history, whether in public schools or in our leading universities, it is seldom recognized, let alone explored, that the idea of God is easily the most influential idea in Western intellectual history — accounting for such things as the contemporary liberal idea that all people are pretty much the same everywhere, or the idea, shared by both liberals and conservatives, that political liberty and social justice, including equality under the law, are central to our culture and civilization.
* My lefty relatives have started hitting on the “Trump went bankrupt!” meme quite a bit lately. I guess I am supposed to see it as a character flaw or something.
When I ask them whether it was Chapter 7, 11, or 13, a reorg or liquidation, they just give a blank look.
As best I can figure, the bankruptcy talking point was first formulated and circulated back in August or September.
Oddly enough, they as lefties they condemn the no-bankruptcy-for-college-loans law from a few years ago. As the Brits say, “any stick will do to beat the dog”.
