I agree with this. The personality that is needed to cut through the massive morass of PC bs is not suited to leading a sober presidential campaign. But the former is a prerequisite for the latter.

I, of course, want Trump to win but I understand if he is unable to moderate himself to do so. He has done enough in that he has exposed our vile media, BLM thugs and the feckless GOPe

Indeed. Whether he wins or not, whether he would be a good president or not, the spectacle of him surmounting these ridiculous odds by promising to reverse course on immigration and trade illustrate 1) that the GOP base has changed its position on these subjects and 2) that it is ready to vote those changed opinions. It also illustrates, by the contrast on stage, that the GOP candidate selection process produces nothing but fools, weaklings, and freaks.

The GOPe now has to find some mechanism by which to quash any future sane candidate because they are facing the risk of losing control of their sock puppet. Notice, for example, the anti-Buchanan strategy of just screaming "racist" over and over again did not work against Trump. At all. That doesn't mean they will fail, of course. Sometimes even the worst management fights off hostile takeovers.

Yep. Even if you attribute that to a translation that projects modern fixations backwards, the translation goes back at least 400 years.

That's what I'm talking about! (#50 above)

Black kids in elementary school can be bright, witty and charmingly entertaining. Then comes puberty and they get sullen and distant. Hormones change everything.

Replies: @Harry Baldwin

Good question.

Rocky Bleier was drafted after his rookie season in the NFL, and volunteered to go to Vietnam, where he was wounded. He returned to play in several Super Bowls. I can recall reading in the 1970s that he was the only NFL player who served in Vietnam.

Replies: @cthulhu, @Yojimbo/Zatoichi

Yeah, it is kind of odd that Ali was drafted.

Local draft boards were pretty infamous for showing a lot of favoritism. Eventually there was an outcry and they introduced a lottery system starting in 1970.

Ali was drafted in 1967 under the old system, suggesting that his draft board didn't like him, or at least weren't willing to give him the deferential treatment that other celebrities got.

Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Hapalong Cassidy

Baltimore Oriole Al Bumbry served in Nam and was awarded a Bronze Star for interdicting a couple of tons of rice intended for the Viet Cong.

Roger Staubach did a tour as a supply officer IIRC.

Yankee brawler Ed Figueroa spent a couple months in country as a Marine.

There were a bunch of reservists. Darrell Cheney, Thurman Munson, and Garry Maddox come to mind.

EDIT:

Woops, didn't read ahead.

Steve, Baseball Almanac will probably have a category on this.

Gary Lewis of Gary Lewis and The Playboys?

There was a Hendrix bio recently on PBS that claimed he broke his ankle on a jump. It shows a letter to his dad where he talks about jumping.

Replies: @James Braxton

At one time, in elite units, support personnel were jump qualified.

Is he related to David Essex?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRDVa1VLTno

Can you please tell us more about the soon to be released audio recordings of John McCain that you mentioned in the article.
 

Replies: @prusmc, @Jacques Sheete

Because that's a legal question over which he has no current control and will whip up non-productive, useless arguing he doesn't need now.

Imagine if this, including ending birthright citizenship, had been implemented decades ago. No matter how much the media tries to smear this as hate and whip the usual suspects into an emotional frenzy, his policy is simply commonsense. The media in Canada, like much of it in the US, unapologetically shills for Hildebeast. As such, many Canadians see Trump as nothing more than a hateful bigot. Recently I was speaking with an elderly couple who were slamming Trump about building unnecessary walls and barriers, I simply told them that many Americans just want something Canadians take for granted; a secure border.

Replies: @Romanian, @ogunsiron

Apparently, it's based on "residual estimation methodology" which you can read about here:

Pew Research Center: Unauthorized immigrant population stable for half a decade

If you're looking for the tl;dr I don't think there is one.

Replies: @Jim Don Bob

Cotton is awful on foreign policy but has been solid on immigration. Like with Cruz, however, there is reason to worry he would vote for a big "guest worker" plan.

He's been solid on immigration as far as I know. Hopefully the country's too sick of war for them to drag us into any more (I admit this is a big worry, I am anti-interventionist myself). And I really don't care what the guy thinks of Israel. We need to stop giving them everything they want like an overindulgent parent, but I don't think they're responsible for 100% of our problems.

Well no US Senator looks good compared to Jeff Sessions. I'd still put Cotton in the list of 10 best senators, but that is faint praise. He extreme right views on economic policy are all the worse considering his state is full of poorer whites who have been damaged by free trade and financial capitalism.

On the plus side, Cotton is very solid on race issues. He left a high paying corporate law job to work for a small firm called Cooper & Kirk, still making good money but as as much and also taking unpopular cases. Some of the cases handled by the firm (from their website):

In a series of a lengthy trials and appeals in several different cases, we successfully represented Tennessee’s efforts to reform its Medicaid system. As a result of these victories, the state has saved billions of dollars.

We represented 39 members of the Duke Lacrosse team in connection with civil litigation arising out of the rape hoax scandal. On behalf of our clients, we sued Duke University and its top officers. After extensive discovery of Duke, the case settled.

We represented Governor Jeb Bush and the other members of Florida’s clemency board in their defense of Florida’s felon disenfranchisement laws against a class action filed on behalf of 400,000 convicted felons. The plaintiffs brought suit under the Fourteenth Amendment and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The Eleventh Circuit sitting en banc ordered the dismissal of the suit.

We represented the Rockford, Illinois Board of Education in this school desegregation case. After a lengthy and trial appeal, the court of appeals awarded all the relief sought by our client.

 

I like this organizing principle and I like Narrative Collapse as a title.

Replies: @anonguy

More like East Asian 5s and 6s that men who can’t get dates talk themselves in to believing are 8s.

There are a lot of them at the 5-6 level, yes. Considering that 50% of the population are 1,2,3,4 or 5, that's batting well for the socially inept with not much going for them, even if their children will not resemble them. To someone in that category, half a loaf is better than no loaf at all I guess.

Replies: @James Braxton

I thought it was beautiful in its directness and simplicity.

Have to agree--a very moving and a heartfelt speech.

The people on TV said it was terrible because it wasn’t “soaring.” Something tells me they never worked in a factory and probably don’t know anyone who does.
 

Replies: @Harry Baldwin

Trump articulated a clear vision (America First) and discussed concrete things he plans to accomplish.
 

I never thought I'd see the day...

Right after the speech ended, they pulled back on the camera zoom, showing some of the dignitaries sitting behind Trump. Obama had a contemptuous smirk on his face: "Ugh, I'm glad that's over with."

I remember that, on this day eight years ago, the weather in my town was dark and stormy - a portent of the rough seas into which we were about to sail on the good ship Obama Valdez. On this day four years ago, I contracted food poisoning and vomited up my entire lunch at the very moment that the Messiah was delivering his second inaugural address.

Today was a lovely day. Morning in America, indeed.

I spent today as I did yesterday, trying unsuccessfully to resolve a personal business matter. I didn't even get to watch the swearing-in live. But I could almost feel it as it was happening, as one feels a shift in the wind.

(That's an old cliche, but it fits.)

"The people on TV said it was terrible because it wasn’t “soaring.”"

I can't stand what constitutes "soaring rhetoric" in modern America. All that empty vainglorious garbage about "My vision for America" (as if the President were an Old Testament Prophet), or "Building a Bridge to" or "Ushering in" the future, or any such idiocy.

Replies: @BB753

Here's an idea: burkas as part of "fat acceptance." If every body is veiled, every body is beautiful! I could see feminists getting behind this. "Get your rapey eyes off our bodies!"

Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @AnotherGuessModel

Blacks don't like Russell Wilson much either do they? In return I have to favor those who don't pander to the black style. So Russell Wilson is fine with me, although I didn't root for his team for other reasons.

Lately with the Kaepernick-initiated "conversation about race" this year, I've been shocked at the hatred coming from some black players and gotten the impression many of them have it. It made me more race conscious and to favor white players. For example I used to think Stephen Curry was fabulous. Now I recognize that he's spectacular and can throw a ball thru a hoop from a very long distance, but I am somehow less impressed with that (socially useless) skill and like it when he loses.

A more detailed article at https://www.cato.org/blog/how-daca-will-end-timeline-expiration indicates that most DACA work permits will expire in 2018. Do you have information to support your 2017 assertion?

Replies: @James Braxton

good to know. If they do expire this year he gains little by ending the program. but still much left to get done. Needs to start building the Wall , reject the Paris Agreement, and revoke some Obama executive orders (since it seems like an easy task, just needs to sign a document) Obama revoked 75 Bush executive orders in his first year...so far Trump has not done much to revoke the Obama executive orders.

The Roman Catholic church has not exactly been a bulwark of western civilization of late, has it?

And I for one am pretty happy to not be paying indulgences.
 

Pretty much, yeah. But the black guy f*cked up w/ style. A silly plot, on the whole.

I was surprised not to see him in any more movies...thought his performance was solid when most everyone else in the cast was at High School Play level...but there are plenty of these lost characters in cult movies (e.g. director of "Carnival of Souls" and his leading lady Candace Hilligoss).

Night of the Living Dead is actually pretty funny.

For meit was funny for a different reason.

I first DAWN then caught NIGHT a year or two later. It was late-night showing, and I found it pretty grim and scary.

It was later when I saw a college screening that the whole thing became a hoot. The audience just wanted to have a good time and laugh, and there was plenty to laugh at if one wanted to go that way. I began to notice all the flaws that I'd ignored yrs ago on TV. The amateurish acting, simple-minded script, the goofy personalities, the fake news on TV. But best of all, the film's sound got out of sync made it even more anarchic, near surreal.
Some when the black guy was hammering nails, it'd be silent when the hammer struck and then go 'thud'. It was even funnier with gunshots. Or when characters began to shout.

But for nonstop laugh riot at college screening, nothing beats Phantasm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39zC_hYKm-8

Replies: @Anon

That puzzled me too, but I think I figured it out: what he means is that Rubio was the most politically intelligent of the group. This might be much closer to being true. The charge against Rubio is that he lacks substance, but he seems to get pretty far nonetheless, and so it may be that he actually does have a great deal of "political intelligence". The claim that Rubio was the most intelligent in the strict sense is so absurd that I think there is no way Luttwak could have meant it. (Obviously Cruz, for instance, is much smarter than Rubio, and Cruz strikes me as the most intelligent strictly speaking.)

Replies: @Steve Sailer, @James Braxton

Let's dispel with this fiction that Marco Rubio isn't obviously intelligent.

Replies: @James Braxton

How quickly we forget . . .

it does seem these men want to discredit and destroy the Alt-Right and actually everyone to the right of George Soros and his minions.

Braxton

Conspiracy Theory sewage. You have no evidence for your claims. Among other things the recent Alt Right "Port Huron" statement is not something a Agent Provovateur could conjure up in his head.

Richard Spencer has made the Alt Right and the demographic transformation of the US the number one news story in the US.

It wasn't a Nazi salute..it was the Roman salute. I suspect you are on board the demographic extermination of The Historic Native Born White American Majority Working Class.

Richard Spencer is an outspoken critic of the Neo-Nazi coup in the Ukraine and Nina Kouprianova, being that she is Russian, very likely lost uncles and great Uncles in battle with the invading Waffen SS Army...

Spencer is the real deal...the White guys who played for Joe PATERNO are the pussies...
for they have put their children's fate in the hands of Chuck Schumer and Preet Bharra...

Ask yourselves why in the aftermath of all this why everyone vaguely associated with the “Alt-Right” has gotten deplatformed (including staid outlets like Amren and Vdare) but Spencer keeps chugging along?
 

The fact that you say that tells me that you were never part of President Trump’s base.
 

Replies: @James Braxton

Nobody that knows me has ever accused me of being bitter. What is your evidentiary support for such an allegation?

Aspergy. Nope.

Libertarian. Yes, you have that right.

Replies: @James Braxton

I'd counter that by noting, as someone who grossly under-reached by attending the local State U, the difficulty of relating to people starkly less intelligent and worldly than you are (a low bar to clear at a place like that). Not to mention the obvious utility of carrying an elite credential for life.

Replies: @James Braxton, @Hibernian

Thomm, I don't know if white nationalists tend to be very left wing in economic matters, but I've read some of that on here. I also don't know if that would be why they wouldn't be taken seriously (if they're not). I can say, however, that it is pretty damn stupid to be a socialist if you are a white nationalist.

They say that they want to be with their own kind, and there must be some place just for white people - fair enough. Yet then they (SOME of them) come on and say we will have the government confiscate income and wealth, basically years of peoples' life-labor, to redistribute from the responsible to the irresponsible. The HBD basis for wanting to be with one's own is written about knowledgeably, but where is the simple understanding of the dysgenics of encouraging the irresponsible and stupid to breed using the money confiscated from the responsible and smart ones, most of whom then will not have the means to be very fertile? Where's your HBD then, bitchez? This stupidity is all too prevalent.

I don't know 27 y/o's life story, but I've read plenty of good comments of his - however, the creeping socialist tendencies come out, but maybe that's just a personal need to get rid of student debt. Forgiveness of student debt would be just as unfair as affirmative action is, as, if it were accomplished, nothing would stop any student from ringing up a big tab after 4 - 8 years of fun, because Joe Taxpayer would be on the hook. One more piece of the socialist structure would be in place. You would have a transition of an unfairness to the responsible college students who weren't wasteful, paid some of their way, or at least paid their way later via loan payments ... to every non-student from then on who has a decent job under IRS control (they have a long, long arm, too.) Guess what,it may be you. Your new name is Joe Taxpayer - instant Latent Karma's Gonna Getchoo...

... gonna knock you in the head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3qvosHHcWc

Yes, a wealth tax is a sick idea, usually only touted by hard-core Commies that, as mentioned earlier, missed those critical days in kindergarten.

Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Thomm

I attended a Big Ten school undergrad ('76) and an Ivy League professional school('85) . In my opinion the difference in education was not worth the 400% difference in price. I don't know where LWoods found so many stupid students, but not in my undergrad classes. Could be different now than it was 35 years ago.

Replies: @res

I'd rather see smart white flyover kids go to local schools as well. Those that go to Ivies will be brainwashed into the leftist culture (like Bill Clinton was). They may be better off, and happier, going to Iowa or Purdue or Wisconsin for free, enjoying college sports, meeting and marrying a fellow Midwesterner, rather than becoming an investment banker.

I did that for undergrad (GaTech - similar). But nowadays most state Us have plenty of +2 and +3SDs if that's your thing. The flip side of the Ivies squeezing them out.

I later did Princeton for grad school (now 15 years ago). The exceptional were more exceptional, but there were also unique pathologies that have now metastasized.

Having a racially stratified society corrupts all our institutions.

It’s why we can’t have good public schools, inexpensive healthcare, or a lenient criminal justice system.

 

But the elephant in the room is that no one is talking about who are the greatest beneficiaries of Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare, and who are the individuals and families who have the most to gain or lose through potential changes to the way the federal government hands out money to help people pay for health care, and ultimately to support the whole structure of hospitals, skilled nursing care facilities, doctor's offices, and drug companies, which provide a significant percentage of the total number of jobs in every state of the union (even if they are not very cost effective compared to most other countries).

It is a statistic almost universally acknowledged that close to 50% of all births in the US are paid for by Medicaid, the program for the poor, but what is the percentage of births of African Americans paid for by Medicaid, and how might proposed changes in Medicaid funding affect this? This is the kind of question that We the People and our elected representatives ought to be talking about, but never are.

The same goes for political slogans like "tough on crime". In reality this probably often means "tough on blacks." The whole gun control debate, inasmuch as it exists at all, is completely incomprehensible to foreigners, because it is never declared that the noble and historic right to bear arms is largely a movement of white homeowners, especially rural ones, who are terrified of a home invasion by their black neighbors. Of course the original constitutional right to bear arms did not apply to blacks and certainly not to slaves, and it was certainly helpful in preventing large scale slave rebellions in the US compared to other countries, let alone wholesale takeovers like in Haiti which terrified the population of white s̶l̶a̶v̶e̶ property owners of earlier generations.

This is as Jonathan says, a highly perceptive comment...and in my view what "racial realism" has always been about.

I'd go so far as to say that in a racially stratified society, managing that stratification and shoring it up takes the place of those institutions, their care and keep. It becomes the sole end and aim of all activity, all energy, all resources.

When all you have as your goal and product is racial strife, you don't need institutions, or even a society per se to peddle it. People can always be driven to conflict, and their tormenters can always be there to divide and conquer. There is always something to envy, and always something to resent. You can even monetarize and harvest profits from and speculate on this destruction. See: New York City, gentrification of.

Or: Black Bodies, fantasies about.

Yes, the headline is confusing. In the context of 2005, and after reading the article closely, I believe that "dropped" does mean abandoned. And even at that, it incorrectly implies that the authors were intimidated, rather than discouraged. How about:

Institutional Fear of Israel Lobby Delayed Publication, But Courageous Scholars Persevered

Yeah, the Dems took their best shots during the campaign and they went nowhere. Anyone composing a four-step game plan out of this to take down Trump has been smokin' too much weed.

This is clickbait journalism at work, in the midst of a feminist moral panic and meltdown.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/military-coup-u-surprising-number-195400272.html

Genseric didn't even know the half of it.

Good point. Moreover, judges generally should NOT have enough power over us and enough significance in our lives to be well known.

OK, I will.

They're all Hispanic.

Replies: @James Braxton

Very good point.

Mexico is the most obese nation on Earth. With the Central American nation's not far behind.

What's the worst thing that'll happen if they go home? They spend time with their families and eat lots of great food and drink lots of great beer.

And then they'll get diabetes and heart disease from eating a lot of great food.

Oh the horror....

Replies: @Perspective, @Amasius

There is no "argument" for DACA/Dream that is unique. It is the same pro-amnesty argument wrapped in a layer of emotions. When you say the word "kids" it acts as a psychological trigger with female voters predominantly.

What is forgotten by now is the corresponding DAPA for parents of DACA recipients. The courts gave an injunction, and Trump ended the program before any "facts on the paper" were created.

The left believes there is a civil right to immigrate to the developed world. Few right-wing voices have directly challenged this assertion, and fewer still will point out that the continuity of this nation requires the rebuilding of our ethno-religious supermajority.

Replies: @AnotherDad

James, the Plains Indian, before the arrival of the horse, set fires and drove buffalo over cliffs or into ravines.

Something that has been lost to history is that prior to Pearl Harbor black Americans en masse were rooting for Hitler to defeat England.
 

Replies: @Steve Sailer, @James Braxton

This adds important context. The British and French empires were indeed quintessential white supremacist organizations. Many African and Asian nationalists in the 1930s and 40s admired Hitler for standing up to both.

Exactly. And he can't even bother to pick a handle.

Let me guess.

You're a weak-willed cuckold disgrace to your ancestors with no principles or honor whatsoever.

Am I right?

Replies: @James Braxton

I hope you're right. Remember when liberals predicted a boom of babies born around August 4, 2009 due to the, er, euphoria of Barack Obama's election? That never happened.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32286000/ns/health-behavior/t/obama-baby-boom-turns-out-be-bust

Steele was working for the DNC. Steele fed phoney information to the FBI to discredit Trump. Steele got that phoney information from Russian intel agents.
 

The phoney info was from the start intended only as a tool to secure the FISA warrant. Why bother to get info from the actual FSB which would invite all sorts of complications, when you can just "roll your own"?

Steele's REAL JOB was to act as cut-out to provide a PROVENANCE for the ridiculous "info" concocted by Steele and the DNC beforehand.

Steele was working for Brennan and Clapper, at some point this will rebound on them too, as Sy Hersch said the Russia thing is a Brennan disinformation op, nothing to do with actual Russians.

What a great comment -- you do have to wonder how many men have been gradually tempted away from the church over the years as the NFL moved up its Sunday schedule to the point at which the first round of games overlaps with traditional service times.

Like many on this thread, I have gone cold turkey on the NFL this year. I live overseas, and have for almost all of my adult life, so I've never had much chance to watch full games, but I found that checking out the highlights on Mondays at lunchtime was a nice way to maintain one tie to American pop culture. No more. I get out and take a walk during lunchtime on football-season Mondays now, like every other day, and I'm better off for it.

I'm just a bit older than the core 18-49 demographic mentioned in the article, but I've also noticed among my FB friends that there's been a shift in who's getting excited about the NFL playoffs (especially this year, since my hometown is Vikings territory). The only ones who are into it are those who have gone lefty -- they're going crazy over over the VIkings' playoff run, and the superbowl being in Minneapolis.

This seems to me yet another data point indicating that the NFL has toppled off the tightrope spanning lefty/righty subcultures that it balanced on for so many years. It's joined the NBA on the lefties' side, for sure.

As Dr X noted above, even before this season it was getting harder each year to justify spending time on the NFL, even watching highlights, as the typical highlight package was increasingly wasted on 'celebrations' of singular achievements such as touchdowns, sacks, and three-yard runs.

I've also sworn off the NBA, and I don't miss it, either. Even a glance at the NBA headlines at Yahoo sports shows that pretty much nobody is paying attention to the games. It's all drama about who dissed whom, who's rumored to be planning to dis whom -- and LaVar Ball. No thanks.

Pitchers and catchers report soon!

What if they had a little church service before the game and knelt for that?

No, this is what negotiating from a position of weakness looks like. I though elections had consequence, you know like getting your constituents what they want, not handing the initiative over to your opponents so you can crow about making a deal.

Replies: @James Braxton

And when those Democrat Senators in red states force Schumer to take this and it is signed and we wonder how we were screwed again, what will you say?

Replies: @Twodees Partain

AGREED

Yep, do you know how many damn US Army vehicles there are traipsing about, which Mr. Reed rightfully complains about? Take a few percent of that cost, get a fleet of five hundred nice greyhound-style coaches or better yet, pay charter companies $500 hourly for buses and drivers. Say the average run is from far north or NE or NW, so 1500 miles each way average to be conservative. 3,000 miles / 60 mi/hr (includes stops) = 50 hours or so x $500/hr = $25,000 per run of 40 people. It's about $700 each, say, to keep estimating conservatively.

Now, 25,000,000 Mexicans, even if NONE of them left on their own (highly unlikely, as more like 75% of them would) and you get ~ $20,000,000,000 - $20 Billion sounds like one hell of a lot, until you look at the US gov't $4 Trillion annual budget. That $20 Billion has been spend by the first lunch break of the congressional session, assuming they spend 200 days spending our money each year.

Time-wise, 500 coaches total could make the run, bringing ~ 40,000 people down if making the trip twice weekly. That's 2 million yearly, enough to make a great dent after just a few years. Oh, at the border stops, how many are there? Even if just a dozen it's about 15-20 buses daily coming through each, say 2 hourly. They can handle it.

BTW, once people get serious about a job, and things get in a groove, one can work out more and more efficiencies. At one point, the Ford plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan (Willow Run) was churning out one B-24 bomber EVERY HOUR. It took a long while to ramp up to that. Got another one - even though the Berlin Airlift was originally planned to just bring in food and other essentials, once the winter came the US Army (or was it already the Air Force) was flying in enough COAL to heat up the city of Berlin with it's 2 million people at the time (I'm sure the heat wasn't up to 70 F!) Freakin' amazing, and they were all flying into the small Templehof air field at one plane a minute at the busy time. Templehof is gone now, as there are 2 other bigger airports.

(as I recall, I worked this out before here on unz. Mr. Unz makes it pretty easy to do a search, I'm sure, but I'll just let this post stand.)

Those who don't agree with you will probably reply that the "we" has changed from a government of the leaders of those who made America great to a government elected by the money of lobbyists and the organised minorities of identity politics.

Replies: @EliteCommInc.

Those who don't agree with you will probably reply that the "we" has changed from a government of the leaders of those who made America great to a government elected by the money of lobbyists and the organised minorities of identity politics.

Replies: @James Braxton

Rand Paul, Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter. All are honest, true patriots who are against more wars and illegal immigration. These are the people I trust will govern with America's best interest at heart and are incorruptible.

Replies: @James Braxton

Yeah, but I don't know why Mr. Reed would really want that so bad. He is proud of Mexico and Mexicans to a point way out-of-hand in my opionion, but why should he care about America, besides that his daughter's here. How's the browning of American gonna' help her, though? Are they all big jazz aficionados?

I think Fred Reed honestly thinks Americans can't do anything constructive anymore. It's mostly true for our Feral Gov. as, for many years, that have made it a point to hire those with a can't-do attitude (AA types, glass-ceiling busters the whole lot of gov deadbeats). However, Mr. Reed has forgotten that there are real Americans still around, and still even being born or raised, who are can-do people. When the SHTF, these people will shine, and the rest will scurry or die.

When the SHTF there will be no siestas.

hmmmm . . .,

I just don't see this happening. he has utterly caved on too many issues. despite allk te bravado, including calls for a tough stance on Iran, N. Korea, etc. He ha strayed far afield from the agenda I voted for. I am not sure I have enough irons or starch to even pretend he has much of a backbone. It pains me to say the phrase "no back bone" or a "weak backbone" But I just don't think there is any other way to put it. And Miss Coulter is applauding, I found the content all to pandering and undermining nearly every foundational position I voted for him to press.

No. I have to remain on the agenda I voted for. I am wedded to that should he be on cue there he has my support. But

1. war in Syria no
2. Advancing war for a Kurdish state, nope (we over promised)
3. unprovoked war with N. Korea no
4. unprovoked war with Iran no
6 instigating another Iraqi war, no
7. fulminating war in the Ukraine, no
8. carte blanche passes to Israel, no
9. failure to examine the trade policy - no
10. immigration amnesty at the expense of US citizens, no
11. using government spending to boost the economy and put people to wok, without first clearing the system of illegals immigrant and Visa quotas -- no
12. healthcare that uses federal money to kill children in the womb, no

these are all the positions left bare. i am not sure what happened to him, but that is where i came in and that is where I stand. So appalled, I will probably stop volunteering to work with the local community college -- it is just too humiliating to help people laugh at my expense --

High IQ leadership on steroids, afterall he now embracing a load of think tank policies, he claimed he would clear as part of the DC swamp --

I love WS but I love honest brokering more -- by honest brokering, I mean fair dealings.

I did not leave him -- he left what he claimed he supported and not even being a situational leader can explain such a turn about. Eventually, if wants change one must stand --

Replies: @James Braxton

Since my taxes pay for his SS detail among other perks of office, I am supporting Trump, albeit against my will. That's all the support he gets from me.

Replies: @James Braxton

"No one does what he does"?

Wooden may have known the X's and O's of the game, but the real secret to his success was simple: get the best players in America to come to UCLA.

Now, how the best players wound up in Westwood at Pauley Pavilion is still hotly debated:

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/08/sports/la-sp-0609-wooden-gilbert-20100609

Replies: @Anonymous

What an interesting response. At some point self - respect may be a concern.

No need to respond, just something for me to ponder.

grrrrrrrrrrrr

Trump has done nothing but grovel and beg for a deal when he has the cards. He can vigorously enforce the law and start deporting the Dreamers and their parents. He can make the case to the public that he was elected to do this. He doesn't mind making appearances to brag about his tax cuts.

Yeah, it makes him a meanie bringing up the fact that the Dreamers are a net negative for the country. Yeah, it makes him one for talking about the negative consequences of a DACA amnesty leading to keeping their parents here. Hell, it might even offend Princess Ivanka but Trump campaigned on doing exactly this.

He can use the bully pulpit to actually make the case why ending immigration and deporting these people is good for every American to counter all the BS from the media. Instead he dances around the issue by talking about getting rid of the criminals. He lets the courts issue unconstitutional edicts instead of telling some district court judge he is not going to bother listening to some idiot and do what he should have done. The courts only have power because he lets them.

Let there be a "constitutional crisis" over ending DACA instead of waiting for the SCOTUS to slap down some district court judge who think HE has the power to continue an unconstitutional program started by an executive order. This only hands the power to the courts who don't have it in the first place.

But he needs to stake out what will appear to most as a reasonable position.

If he has the people then this is the last thing he needs to do. Nothing short of amnesty will be the "reasonable" position to the people against Trump. Something is only reasonable because most people haven't got a clue about the issue.

Replies: @James Braxton, @KenH, @Inquiring Mind

I remain ever hopeful . . .

But I am not holding my breath. But I clearly understand your position. I agree that there has to be allowances for what has been a monumental opposition even from republicans. And allowances that he is out of his element and there's a ton of nuance and what's waht about DC that he has to learn . . . . no doubt.

However, eventually he will have to stand . . .

But I get you.