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GrumpyRN said:

 

Above two have been done while he was in office as president. Are you really happy with someone and their family profiting from being the President? Dictators in Banana republics do this, Putin does this, Kim Jong-Un does this. The royal families in the middle east do this. By the way, apparently it is OK to kill American journalists as long as you give the president an aeroplane.

Hardly "put his life on the line". Yes he was shot at which was horrendous but he immediately turned it into a meme. What "authoritarianism" is he fighting against? This new "Big Beautiful Bill" seems to be making the way for authoritarianism. Even people who initially voted for it are having second thoughts.

😂🤣🤣😂😅🤣🤣

Oh yes it can. The man is a buffoon. Arrogant, Ignorant and Narcissistic.

Yes against a backdrop of Black Wednesday. In 1997, the UK Treasury estimated the cost of Black Wednesday at £3.14 billion, which was revised to £3.3 billion in 2005.

Yes the British government (a Conservative one) caused the problems, but the Soros group profited from it.

I'm not American, I'm Scottish and have not read "Atlas Shrugged" (I did have a look at the synopsis). Instead I read "1984", "Animal Farm" and "On Tyranny".

 

Bless your heart. You have yourself the weekend you deserve.

"Atlas Shrugged" took the principle that "the workman is worthy of his hire" and morphed it into "what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine also". IOW anything goes as long as I turn a profit and get what I want.. Trust me, trump is no John Galt. At least that character was a competent architect. Trump's only skill is being a gangster. The book appeals primarily to teenage boys and white collar criminals.

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Atlas Shrugged has been on my to read list for a very long time - I have a copy on my Kindle - but other books seem to need read first. I might have a look at it but the synopsis I read did not make me want to drop everything to have a go.

Thank you heron for your shortened version, it makes sense now why Kafka Fan mentioned it.

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GrumpyRN said:

Atlas Shrugged has been on my to read list for a very long time - I have a copy on my Kindle - but other books seem to need read first. I might have a look at it but the synopsis I read did not make me want to drop everything to have a go.

Thank you heron for your shortened version, it makes sense now why Kafka Fan mentioned it.

You're welcome. Rand's work is basically a bible for bullies.

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heron said:

You're welcome. Rand's work is basically a bible for bullies.

Bullies love any thinking or philosophy which makes altruism or empathy bad. 

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nursej22 said:

What is the harm in returning Abrego Garcia to the US and giving him his day in court, I.e. the due process proscribed by the 5th Amendment and SCOTUS?

Perhaps the DOJ doesn't want to defend the claims of gang membership based on a discredited police officer. 

Perhaps they were getting other things in order.

As I sad, Dems again overplayed their hand.  It's always entertaining...LOL

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-not-homecoming-dems-abrego-garcia-hoped?intcmp=fb_fnc&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwKxmrVjbGNrArGaqWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeyPfC2EstlWoJgLeior74VsmXiYrdnU59pmfUWvokZ3ANQ41pPifdB3wvP4w_aem_cEvwqDTJs_psYaQMq39rOA

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Beerman said:

Perhaps they were getting other things in order.

As I sad, Dems again overplayed their hand.  It's always entertaining...LOL

Coming back to the states to stand a fair trial on American soil rather than being in the prison from hell isn't entertaining.  I hope justice will be served and if he's guilty, as least he wasn't kidnapped and falsely imprisoned on foreign soil and will be given due process.  

 I guess it took time after their mistake for someone to come forward with the dirt and get them organized to bring him back to as Trump said to show us what a horrible man he is.

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Hmm - how is it "overplaying" anything when we got what we asked for - due process?

What's really entertaining is watching you LOL at your own straw man.

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heron said:

Hmm - how is it "overplaying" anything when we got what we asked for - due process?

What's really entertaining is watching you LOL at your own straw man.

He's not quite the family man living quietly in Maryland that they claimed he was, is he?

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Beerman said:

He's not quite the family man living quietly in Maryland that they claimed he was, is he?

Actually he was.

The alleged activity was 10 years ago and even Trump didn't know about it.  The claim was he was a gang member and Trump posted a fake tattoo to prove it.  

Again, if he's guilty, so be it. It obviously brings much satisfaction to own the libs on this one.

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Tweety said:

Actually he was.

The alleged activity was 10 years ago and even Trump didn't know about it.  The claim was he was a gang member and Trump posted a fake tattoo to prove it.  

Again, if he's guilty, so be it. It obviously brings much satisfaction to own the libs on this one.

Would you agree that the overarching messaging has been about lack of due process and the very slow response to a court order to facilitate the guy's return AFTER team Trump admitted they sent him to the gulag by accident? 

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heron said:

You're welcome. Rand's work is basically a bible for bullies.

Rand's work is a bible for those who work hard to take care of themselves and their families rather than embracing laziness and exploiting others for personal gain.  There is a reason why so many successful people list Rand as an inspiration.  Leftists can't stand a strong independent thinking woman like Rand and bash her due to her gender.  

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Kafka Fan44 said:

Rand's work is a bible for those who work hard to take care of themselves and their families rather than embracing laziness and exploiting others for personal gain.  There is a reason why so many successful people list Rand as an inspiration.  Leftists can't stand a strong independent thinking woman like Rand and bash her due to her gender.  

Hahahahahaha!


Ayn Rand was a cult leader who was happy to take a government handout when her acolytes couldn't afford to support her. Objectivism and its red-headed stepchild, libertarianism, were formulated to provide philosophical cover for behavior that is totally free of ethics, morality (yes, they're two different things), reciprocal responsibility and contribution to the common good. The Robber Baron is it's god and Kleptocracy it's church.

Nothing wrong with taking responsibility for one's own welfare and enjoying the fruits of one's own labor. I'm almost pathologically independent myself. It's the exclusive worship of "finances" and the fairy tales used to mask the means by which those finances are aquired, along with the total denial of responsibility for the damage done by those means, that are the sticking point for me.

I stand by my characterization: a bible for bullies.

I read Atlas Shrugged my first year in college. I still remember the images of early Soviet propaganda posters that kept flashing in my mind as I read. You know - the ones of muscular young men holding sledgehammers aloft like soldiers celebrating victory. Rand's legacy is just as much of a lie. It has led us to the same outcome.

IMHO

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