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Brilliant NYT editorial

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  1. Trickster

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    Opinion | Donald Trump Is Unfit to Lead

    "Next week, for the third time in eight years, Donald Trump will be nominated as the Republican Party’s candidate for president of the United States. A once great political party now serves the interests of one man, a man as demonstrably unsuited for the office of president as any to run in the long history of the Republic, a man whose values, temperament, ideas and language are directly opposed to so much of what has made this country great.

    "It is a chilling choice against this national moment. For more than two decades, large majorities of Americans have said they are dissatisfied with the direction of the country, and the post-Covid era of stubborn inflation, high interest rates, social division and political stagnation has left many voters even more frustrated and despondent.

    "The Republican Party once pursued electoral power in service to solutions for such problems, to building “the shining city on a hill,” as Ronald Reagan liked to say. Its vision of the United States — embodied in principled public servants like George H.W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney — was rooted in the values of freedom, sacrifice, individual responsibility and the common good. The party’s conception of those values was reflected in its longstanding conservative policy agenda, and today many Republicans set aside their concerns about Mr. Trump because of his positions on immigration, trade and taxes. But the stakes of this election are not fundamentally about policy disagreements. The stakes are more foundational: what qualities matter most in America’s president and commander in chief. [My emphasis.]

    "Mr. Trump has shown a character unworthy of the responsibilities of the presidency. He has demonstrated an utter lack of respect for the Constitution, the rule of law and the American people. Instead of a cogent vision for the country’s future, Mr. Trump is animated by a thirst for political power: to use the levers of government to advance his interests, satisfy his impulses and exact retribution against those who he thinks have wronged him. He is, quite simply, unfit to lead."
     
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  2. vegasfox

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    Democrats and anti+Trumpets killed 1 million people in Ukraine by instigating a war. They left Gonzalo Lira in a Ukrainian jail because they wanted him to be tortured and dead. They oppose any and all measure that would reduce election fraud. They believe in lawfare and have made the US resemble a banana Republic. As a Latin.American.dictator said'

    To my friends everything; toy enemies THE LAW

    Democrats pipeline illegals into the US, putting SS, Medicare and Medicaid at grave risk. The massive increase in US population from the 1965 Immigration Act and illegal immigration they traitorously support has damaged our water supply, dirtied our air and increased global warming.

    Democrats and RINO's make government bloated and inefficient' sucking the life out of the traditional American middle class.

    Democrat support for depolicing after George Floyd.lef to the death of 25,000+ blacks from murder and traffic fatalities.

    Democrats are the party of masks,andates and lockdowns.

    Democrats are the party that supports big gov't getting in the way of farmers selling directly to the people (see Amos Miller case).

    Democrats are the "You are not horse."

    Democrats are the party of leftist authoritarianism. The Biden administration.backs terrorism and has made the US judicial system a laughingstock around the world.

    As for the NYT, it had 97 stories in 2023 calling for a "racial reckoning," which is another way of calling for black violence against whites.

    MAGA is normal patriotic America.
     
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  3. citygator

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    Charlotte
    Times sets the standard. Well written piece.
     
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  4. GatorRade

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    Very good and depressing article. Bill Barr’s words aptly describe what may be the one constant with Trump:

    "He will always put his own interest and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country's interest."
     
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  5. ATLGATORFAN

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    Yawn. The left loves McCain and Romney because they performed they their righteous republican civic duty of losing. They ridiculed and loathed Reagan with similar vigor as they do trump so spare me the revisionist history. Bush??? His admin was full of conservatives like Nicole wallace.
     
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  6. gator_lawyer

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    Reagan was a bigoted arsehole and paved the way for Trump. So yeah, you're right that I don't like him. I don't think I need to say anything about Trump. Y'all know who and what he is (besides a felon).
     
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  7. Trickster

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    Man, I know you’ve convinced yourself of what is largely nonsense, but that is precisely the problem with you MAGA cultists. You have drunk the cool aide and are a threat to America. If you think Trump is the answer to our problems, then you don’t know what America stands for and can’t possibly be a patriot, neither can ATLGATORFAN.
     
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  8. G8trGr8t

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    insert fonzi jumping the shark meme here
     
  9. ATLGATORFAN

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    Not that you are looking for nor need my approval but I have no issue with anything you posted. My post was based on the author of OpEd waxing poetic about McCain and Romney. Of course they like those 2 boobs because they lost in proper fashion. As OBC said and I’m paraphrasing “when people like you it’s usually because they are beating you”.
     
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  10. ATLGATORFAN

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    yeah man. I’m not a patriot. Sure. You don’t have a sniff of a clue of what I’ve experienced, but I don’t post here for affirmations from people like you……See, I can make meaningless sweeping generalizations too.
     
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  11. cocodrilo

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    And covfefe too.
     
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  12. Gatorrick22

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  13. wgbgator

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    They called George W Bush a "principled public servant," what were they on when they wrote this
     
  14. vegasfox

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    You refuted nothing I said. Example: The Biden administration left the American journalist Gonzalo Lira in a Ukrainian jail because they wanted him dead is my claim. Do you think the Biden admin.lacked the leverage to get him returned to the US?

    As for b I my a cultist, I oppose Trump on many issues, but he's the only man currently who can stop the treasonous Democrats.

    Regarding Gonzalo Lira, answer my question, or run away.
     
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  15. AzCatFan

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    Lira broke Ukranian laws. Not only that, he was a Russian propagandist, claiming, without proof, Zelensky was a coke head, and Russia didn't murder civilians, despite evidence to the contrary. Why would the Biden administration want to do anything for him is a better question?

    And how does undocumented immigrants hurt social security? These people work and pay into the system, and as non-citizens, never get any of the benefits. Being undocumented today, unless the law changes, they will never get any of the benefits.

    I also fail to see how undocumented immigrants hurt the environment unless you are arguing had they stayed in their home country, they'd be dead and not taking up any resources?
     
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  16. cocodrilo

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    This kind of projection just boggles the mind. And it never ceases from these people.
     
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  17. vegasfox

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    Hopefully I'll have close to normal vision after a couple of surgeries on Sept 17 and Oct 1. Right now I can't see it he big R on the eye chart.
     
  18. vegasfox

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    If you knowingly vote for upen borders candidates that weaken America and harm out environment that is treason.
     
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  19. cocodrilo

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    Open borders? Has the Border Patrol been disbanded? Tell me, who killed a partisan bill to address border issues? A known traitor who's running for president, that's who.

    If you vote for a traitor, what right do you have to call the opposition treasonous? It just sounds stupid.
     
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  20. VAg8r1

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    So you're suggesting that Trump lost in an "improper" fashion? And those two "boobs" were infinitely more honorable than the current presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, an extreme narcissist with virtually no qualifications for the office of the presidency and strong authoritarian tendencies and no respect for the norms of the US as a constitutional republic.
     
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