Re: What I liked/disliked about Trump's time in office
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2023 7:51 am
Where’s dmac about your bragging arrogance now? About something totally unprovable but also wildly unbelievable based on everyone’s reading of your work here? Keep it simple - you can’t tell the difference between the axiom (which I’m sure you conflate with “law”) of Occams Razor and being sadly reductive.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 6:10 amYou and I could be kindred spirits. I'm also not a well educated person. I make up for my lack of college education by having been gifted with something most of the super smart people don't possess nor even understand. It's called common sense. I take everything I read here with a grain of salt. You learn to take what you need and leave the rest. I always get a kick out of folks who need a 20 paragraph dissertation to make a point that could be made in one paragraph. The concept of keeping it simple isn't a tool in their tool chest.OuttaNowhereWregget wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 4:57 am Disclaimer: This isn't exhaustively researched. Just off the top of my head.
What I liked:
How he treated Israel. Far and away this was my favorite aspect of Trump in the White House.
Straight shooter. He said what he said and didn't mince words. Whether he was right or wrong--he wasn't afraid to say what he thought.
Following through with his campaign promise of building a wall on the border. (Obviously he didn't finish it but, at least he started it.)
What I disliked:
The casual/imprudent, unwise (stupid) way he handled Covid.
His diarrhea of the mouth via Twitter
Condoning the Jew-hating racists at Charlottesville by not ripping and condemning them when given the opportunity.
His embarrassing performance during the first debate with Biden.
With all that said, when I look back on my 60 plus years on this earth, my growing conviction is that it doesn't really matter who's in the White House. My life hasn't really been affected much regardless of who the president was. I'm just a (barely) high school educated blue-collar Beantown scrub. I have always been able to buy food, have a relatively comfortable place to live, go where I want, do what I want, etc. Being compelled to buy health insurance affected my life a little but not too much. Jimmy Carter's talk of the Draft gave me mild anguish for a while. But apart from those two things, I can't think of anything that any administration has done to really truly affect my lower/middle class blue-collar life.
DMac was so right on when he wrote this yesterday: Ds, Rs, libs, conservatives, they're all phukked up, it just depends on what side you're on that determines where you're going to shoot your arrows. That's what I've come to believe. It doesn't ultimately matter who's in the White House. There exists in the each of the four designees D mentioned deceit and greed and corruption and hypocrisy. ALL of them. Folks thinking there are real and lasting solutions via politics are deluded and letting themselves in for chronic disappointment, especially in this day and age.
Just some thoughts. Probably plenty of deficiencies in my logic and presentation but I'm not a well educated man. It's obvious at times reading on this particular board how many of you are highly intelligent, well-read and educated. Much of what gets written here goes way over my head. But I'm curious in some respects. Plus lacrosse season is still a little over two months away.
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