tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post1725125111682847232..comments2024-03-29T03:57:26.974-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: Bikers for TrumpGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-5833170475768050892016-06-01T13:53:01.543-04:002016-06-01T13:53:01.543-04:00So when is Trump going to stop the Waco 2 and vari...So when is Trump going to stop the Waco 2 and various other massacres of white people in this country?<br /><br />Or was that one of those fish hooks they threw for the masses, like FDR claimed he was going to avoid war.<br /><br />If white biker club members could have saved themselves from the State, they shouldn't have voted Democrat evil and bought into the system. Kind of contrary to their stated aims even.<br />Ymar Sakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-57672557190163879132016-05-31T08:50:03.592-04:002016-05-31T08:50:03.592-04:00I feel fairly confident that the answer to the que...I feel fairly confident that the answer to the question, "What's he fighting for" is simply, and exclusively, for himself.<br /><br />Donald is in it for Donald. He has successfully fooled a lot of patriotic people into believing his campaign is about making America "Great again." In actuality, it's is nothing more than a brazen attempt to "Make Trump Great again." That is one of the reasons I detest him. He is shamelessly trading on the loyalty of patriotic citizens to promote himself. I hope there is a special place in Hell for such charlatans. <br /><br />I am a biker that is most definitely NOT for Trump. Joel Leggetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16588696436907032078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-33854279160958398852016-05-30T14:27:54.124-04:002016-05-30T14:27:54.124-04:00Oh, aye, he fights. But what's he fighting fo...Oh, aye, he fights. But what's he fighting <i>for</i>? I can only conclude that we have no idea, and that possibly he doesn't either. <br /><br />Still, you're right: the need for a fighter is so obvious at this hour that people may simply accept him on the grounds that he is one. It would have been better to get a fighter with principles, but perhaps a fighter without principles is to be preferred to a principled non-fighter. <br /><br />I suppose we'll sort out what he'll do with the power once he gets it. I can only hope that it will somehow be related to "Making America Great Again." It's a worthy goal, although as per the last post I don't see how you can do it without drastically thinning the bureaucracy. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-25784535593359445572016-05-30T14:20:19.475-04:002016-05-30T14:20:19.475-04:00Distrusting Hillary -- or prior nominees Kerry and...Distrusting Hillary -- or prior nominees Kerry and McCain -- has little to do with embracing Mr Trump. I would not literally embrace "The Donald" whatever his views on the Military; he has a bunch of baggage on other issues and what were loosely called his "New York values" are a real problem for me. In the Republican primaries I had a baker's dozen favorites before Trump. <br /><br />That said, I recall George II was said to have remarked about Major General James Wolfe, who was accused of running mad: "Mad, is he? Then I wish to God he would BITE my other generals." Lincoln appears to have rephrased the sentiment when advised that U.S. Grant was a drunk: “If I can only find out where he buys his wonderful whiskey, I will send a barrel to every general in the Federal army.” Trump, like Wolfe or Grant, FIGHTS. If I knew that Trump's regard of the press corps could induced; I would be striving to infect or intoxicate several hundred more pusillanimous candidates. J Melcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349242761775214765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-83326889077319368112016-05-30T13:52:59.368-04:002016-05-30T13:52:59.368-04:00A reasonable point. It's just surprising to s...A reasonable point. It's just surprising to see Trump so welcome in spite of his draft-dodging, mocking of a famous POW, and claims that having lots of sex in the '80s was 'his personal Vietnam.' Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-58825857158255386472016-05-30T13:33:44.435-04:002016-05-30T13:33:44.435-04:00McCain, like Kerry, has very little credibility wi...McCain, like Kerry, has very little credibility with me or others who tend to suppose that Nixon and Le Duc Tho might have lied about POWs and MIAs in the 1970s. McCain, (and Kerry) had opportunity to investigate those potential lies in the 1990s, and in general reinforced the official story rather than penetrated it. Either the official story, the first draft, was surprisingly -- historically unique in being -- free of political and diplomatic bias; or the Senators' investigation was inadequate. <br /><br />I note with some interest that Hillary promises to reopen the UFO question. She is taken, and takes the believers in, UFOs at least semi-seriously. But the hundreds or thousands of voters who fly the black POW/MIA flag are a faction she considers unworthy of appeasing. As if the reasons and chances that the US government might lie about the existence of Vietnamese-held POWs are less than that it might lie about alien-life-piloted UFOs. <br /><br />My distrust of McCain on this issue doesn't go to his honesty, per se. But I do question his psychological readiness to accept that perhaps he himself did, however unknowingly, fail in his mission. That mission, as Stockdale set it before him; was to remain until other less conspicuous prisoners were returned. What would it cost the Senator's soul to learn other men in other camps spent years in pain after he himself escaped? Given the choice to accept evidence of such a painful idea, or to reject claims as unfounded, to which choice would this particular Senator be inclined? (Senator KERRY's motives for believing the tales told by Le Duc Tho are no doubt different.) <br /><br />It would be fascinating to hear the question put to Hillary so directly: "Do you still believe Richard Nixon's claims about Vietnamese POWs and MIAs?"J Melcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349242761775214765noreply@blogger.com