Well Bill I think your overall summary of Trumps wild up and down life seems to be about right from what I have observed. I am about six months younger than he is so (like you) he's been a constant presence in my life. BUT....like Mackinac below, this guy has done a lot of good that no other president would even attempt to do. He is a warrior in the greatest definition of the word.
Most important for me, HE STANDS UP FOR AMERICA and the rest of the world knows it!
I do not like some of the things he says or does but he is who he is. I voted for him and I am not sorry I did.
Like everything else in life, everyone has their own opinion. Personally I think Trump has accomplished 10 times what 10 pervious presidents have accomplished. He has embarrassed the nonsense of the left and exposed the absurdity of climate change, men in women's sports, sex change operations, race hate in colleges, covid vaccines that primarily damage humans and so many more things I certainly wouldn't list and maintain anyone's attention. The left had a great narrative, it worked for a while and garnered many disparate groups into voting for nonsense until it became obviously detrimental to society. I love the guys bombastic insults to the liars of the world, the left. I love the exposure of their nonsensical economics. He does deserve to have his carving on Mt Rushmore, just like Teddy, for the common man rather than the elite and their attempts to control others because of "their superior intelligence."
Well, that is an opinion. Unfortunately, the world has a different view. War, War, and more War is all he thinks about. U.S. debt - spiraling out of control. US$ going is swirling around the drain. And, if there wasn't so much floating around the World it would be gone by now. Countries, corporations, and the elites are trying to figure out how to get something, anything, for their worthless dollars disappear. Trump has no strategy and does not think beyond his nose. As to help - he surrounds himself with "Yes" men. One day he says Graham is one of the stupidest men he has ever met and the next he is a great american. Making America great again.........from this ol' man's view - that is simply putting lipstick on a pig. Each to his own opinion.........
Each passing day makes BIG Man Billy less of what he once was — such as he was — and more of what we are all fated to become. Billy's thoughts hang together less and less. His policies grow ever more incoherent. His speech slides, sentence by sentence, into blabber. Like it or not, he is mortal...and all mortal things decay. Life’s unkind. It sure is Big man....
Well Bill is like Trump in this way HE LOVES A GOOD BRAWL AND SAYS OUTRAGEOUS THINGS INTENSELY AND INTENTIONALLY to get attention, eyeballs, and clicks and so forth. Only BILL to my knowledge doesnt have Roy Cohn who is dead (I have stories too btw) and no one like him to deploy to ward off those who criticize him. Sigh.
Bill has TDS and in fact AMERICA TDS.....Bill is a LIBERTARIAN (a Democrat with a white sheet over his head) and ISOLATIONIST elected (thank God) to NOTHING and in charge of ONLY HIS OWN EMPIRE OF failed investments, and then makes money fleecing YOU AND ME with subscriptions.....but I read on and stay (I have left at least once and returned....) MOSTLY FOR TOM DYSON.....and much of what Dan posts....and I laugh at Bill and roll my eyes and trudge on....BUT I also PRAISE Bill when he is right. MY BIGGEST FAULT WITH BILL IS HIS PRETENSIONS AND HALF BAKED REWRITING OF HISTORY, leaving out parts not supportive of BILLS AGENDA.
Like TRUMP DOES>
Now let me explain for those prone to CRITICIZE ME (not many but I do have detractors here) and say I am NOT AND NEVER HAVE BEEN A SYCOPHANT of ANY POL. I have worked for SEVERAL and on many NATIONAL Campaigns.....and told THEM ALL I disagreed how when why and so forth. IN DETAIL. THEY DECIDE BUT THEY HEARD FROM ME.
I know TRUMPS FAULTS. I told a friend (retired POLICE CAPTAIN) I know Trump is all mobbed up....his father was. BECAUSE IN QUEENS NOTHING GOT BUILT AND I MEAN NOTHING WITHOUT THE MOB and MUCH OF MANHATTAN IS THAT WAY AND INCLUDING LONG ISLAND, BRONX, BROOKLYN AND STATEN ISLAND. GOT IT? I HAVE STORIES. A CATERPILLAR SALESMAN I KNEW AND LIKED (GREW UP IN MT AIRY NC AND HUNTED SQUIRRELS FOR DINNER IN DEPRESSION) TOLD ME ONCE HE WAS SENT TO LONG ISLAND. A WEEK THERE AND THE MOB SHOWED UP AT LUNCH IN A DINER AND TOLD HIM "GET GONE OR BEWARE." HE CALLED HIS BOSS AND THE BOSS SAID, COME HOME. HE DID.
ROY COHN REPRESENTED A LOT OF PEOPLE. DONALD KEPT HIS BUSINESS CARD IN His UPPER RIGHT HAND OFFICE DESK DRAWER. WHEN SOMEONE, ANYONE SHOWED UP AND STARTED TO PUT DONALD UNDER HEAT HE WOULD TAKE OUT ROYS CARD AND PUT IT ON THE DESK. THEIR EYES WOULD GET HUGE AND THEY WOULD SAY, "I SEE.' THEN LEAVE. TRUE STORY.
BUT WE ALL KNEW THAT. AND HIRED HIM ANYWAY. TO CLEAN UP THE HORRIFIC AND I MEAN HORRIFIC MESS OF THE MOMBASA MAN COMMUNIST fraudster (we know where he was born and it wasnt Honolulu) and Trump is doing that.
BILL IS WRONG ON TRUMP BEING A SOCIALIST. WRONG. STRONG MAN? YUP. XI AND PUTIN AND OTHERs KNOW IT AND FEAR TRUMP. MOST AMERICANS IN FACT LIKE THAT.
HE WOULD WIN AGAIN IF HE RAN IN 2028. TRUST ME.
Bill Can carp (or Karp, pun intended on Alex) ALL HE wANTS. Bill is a SOLO VOCE IN THE WILDERNESS heard only by TREES AND WOLVES AND RABBITS.
My two cents.
BUT to BILL I SAY, SIR:
SELL YOUR PROPERTIES NOW. WHY? YES TAXABLE MAYBE. BUT YOU DECIDE WHERE THE MONEY GOES AND TO WHO AND HOW MUCH. DONT BURDEN YOUR wife and kids.
We KNOW you SUPPORT YOUR SON IN LAW AND DAUGHTER IN ARGENTINA. OBVIOUS.
Her songs may be lovely but dont pay the rent or groceries. IN THE LEAST. Sorry ,but true.
SELL YOUR LAND. ALL OF IT. BEFORE THE BIG CRASH COMES. BEFORE YOU GET DEMENTIA OR DIE LIKE LINDSEY GRAHAM OF HEART DISEASE OR SOMETHING.
GIVE TO CHARITY AS YOU WiSH. GIVE TO HEIRS AS YOU WISH. BE DONE WITH IT. WHAT TO KEEP? MARYLAND HOMESTEAD. FOR LEGACY. AND ITS USA. YOUR DAUGHTER AND SON IN LAW CANT BUY YOU OUT IN ARGENTINA. GIVING TO THEM INVOLVES GIFT TAX PROBABLY UNDER US TAX LAWS. AND INHERITANCE TAX AT DEATH.
SELL IT ALL . PAY YOUR TAXES (IF ANY) AND CASH OUT. IRELAND. FRANCE, NICARAGUA AND ARGENTINA.
NOW. MY ADVICE SIR.
YOUR WINE IS VERY GOOD BUT VERY PRICEY at 60.00 a bottle. I HAVE ONE BOTTLE LEFT AND SAVing IT. 2021 VINTAGE. SO READY TO DRINK NOW. I can get VERY good Mendoza Malbec at my local grocery for 15.99 and DID SO THIS PAST WEEK. 92 rated. EXCELLENT. GOT IT?
The ISSUE IS WHO REPLACES TRUMP? DE SANTIS? RUBIO OR VANCE? RAMASWAMY IS OUT THERE TOO......RUBIO RAMASWAMY MIGHT BE MY PERSONAL PICKS BUT I DONT DECIDE THE VOTERS DO. I DONT LIKE VANCE.
And finally, I am not arrogant or hypocritical or self righteous. I AM A SINNER AND FULL OF FAILURe AND FAULTs TOO. I AM RETIRED AND MY MAIN CONTACTS DYING AND FADING AND SO AM I.
I HAD A GOOD RUN. REMARKABLE GIVEN MY VERY OBSCURE AND HUMBLE BEGINNINGS THE LIKES of which YOU HAVE NO IDEA.
I DID MY very very best and tried valiantly to put OTHERS first, country first and family first. I believe in the GOSPEL AS GOSPEL TRUTH. NO PROOF ITS NOT TRUE. NONE. AND PLENTY OF PROOF ITS ALL TRUE AND WERE EYEWITNESSES INCLUDING TRANSFIGURATION ON MT TABOR.
JESUS IS MY GUIDING LIGHT and SALVADOR MUNDI. I NEED DIVINE MERCY.
NO OTHERS. NOT ONE "OTHER GOD OR PROPHET." NONE NOT MORMON OR MUSLIM OR HINDU OR BUDDHIST OR CONFUCIAN OR TIBETAN (THOUGH I MET HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA MANO A MANO) and SO FORTH. NONE OTHER BUT JESUS THE CHRISTUS. AS HE PROMISED.
ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN. NOT ALL PEOPLE DO. CREDIT TO FR ED (OFM Conv.)
Most will not read your missive as it too long and in some places a little too criptic. It smacks a bit of narcissism represented as knowledgeable sophistication, which it may well be. You have come from meger beginnings, with a good brain and a very strong work ethic and language is your thing, and you have capitalized on that strength. Anyway, I mostly enjoy your style and perspectives but some succinctness may improve you readership IMHO.
If Trump is attacked he has learned from Roy Cohn to counterattack. But why do politicians conveniently forget past attacks. Lindsey Graham, Vance, "Little Marco", Ted Cruz have all said terrible things about Donnie, and he about them. Why do these guys so easily forget these attacks when it comes to political expediency? If Little Marco had called be a conman I would remember it to the day I died.
Looks like politics is just the gentleman's World Wrestling Federation. Just an act for the sheeple.
Well, one thing we know. If he struck a chord with his followers, it was the tune already playing in their heads. He gave them the megaphone they were looking for… or should I say “magaphone”?
And when he, the messenger, is attacked, it’s a direct assault on his followers. Somehow the most important issues of the day are intertwined with pure entertainment. I’m loving the show.
Well, Trump is the most interesting thing these past 70 years on the Road to ruin.
He has already made himself immortal.
You must admire some of it.
One thing I can say about him is that all his wives respected him and he loves his children and they love him. He is a sucess at home and most of us fail at that.
There are two subliminal messages here: one is that if you are a Trump guy, you are a loser by association (and possibly mindset), and another is that things would somehow be different (and better) had Donald Trump not come along. I'm a loser by association; that's true, but not because of Donald Trump. I'm a loser, because America gave up on herself in the 60s. Due to complacency, and later, apathy, we sold our precious birthrate for a bowl of stew. All Donald Trump did was say, essentially, "Let's not quit; let's try one more time." And I fell for it, because I want to go out on my feet. Best always. PM
Well Bill I think your overall summary of Trumps wild up and down life seems to be about right from what I have observed. I am about six months younger than he is so (like you) he's been a constant presence in my life. BUT....like Mackinac below, this guy has done a lot of good that no other president would even attempt to do. He is a warrior in the greatest definition of the word.
Most important for me, HE STANDS UP FOR AMERICA and the rest of the world knows it!
I do not like some of the things he says or does but he is who he is. I voted for him and I am not sorry I did.
Jim Marshall
Like everything else in life, everyone has their own opinion. Personally I think Trump has accomplished 10 times what 10 pervious presidents have accomplished. He has embarrassed the nonsense of the left and exposed the absurdity of climate change, men in women's sports, sex change operations, race hate in colleges, covid vaccines that primarily damage humans and so many more things I certainly wouldn't list and maintain anyone's attention. The left had a great narrative, it worked for a while and garnered many disparate groups into voting for nonsense until it became obviously detrimental to society. I love the guys bombastic insults to the liars of the world, the left. I love the exposure of their nonsensical economics. He does deserve to have his carving on Mt Rushmore, just like Teddy, for the common man rather than the elite and their attempts to control others because of "their superior intelligence."
Well, that is an opinion. Unfortunately, the world has a different view. War, War, and more War is all he thinks about. U.S. debt - spiraling out of control. US$ going is swirling around the drain. And, if there wasn't so much floating around the World it would be gone by now. Countries, corporations, and the elites are trying to figure out how to get something, anything, for their worthless dollars disappear. Trump has no strategy and does not think beyond his nose. As to help - he surrounds himself with "Yes" men. One day he says Graham is one of the stupidest men he has ever met and the next he is a great american. Making America great again.........from this ol' man's view - that is simply putting lipstick on a pig. Each to his own opinion.........
Yeah, war and debt. Fiscal irresponsibility. Maybe the DSA will save us from Democrats & Republicans. Personally, I really can't tell any difference.
Your correct.
Bill, your such a hater. TDS has completley destroyed you.
Each passing day makes BIG Man Billy less of what he once was — such as he was — and more of what we are all fated to become. Billy's thoughts hang together less and less. His policies grow ever more incoherent. His speech slides, sentence by sentence, into blabber. Like it or not, he is mortal...and all mortal things decay. Life’s unkind. It sure is Big man....
That was a worthless read today. Probably AI generated hate speech. We are not getting our money's worth here.
A terrific job of summing up Trump! To think I voted for that charlatan not once but twice.
Well Bill is like Trump in this way HE LOVES A GOOD BRAWL AND SAYS OUTRAGEOUS THINGS INTENSELY AND INTENTIONALLY to get attention, eyeballs, and clicks and so forth. Only BILL to my knowledge doesnt have Roy Cohn who is dead (I have stories too btw) and no one like him to deploy to ward off those who criticize him. Sigh.
Bill has TDS and in fact AMERICA TDS.....Bill is a LIBERTARIAN (a Democrat with a white sheet over his head) and ISOLATIONIST elected (thank God) to NOTHING and in charge of ONLY HIS OWN EMPIRE OF failed investments, and then makes money fleecing YOU AND ME with subscriptions.....but I read on and stay (I have left at least once and returned....) MOSTLY FOR TOM DYSON.....and much of what Dan posts....and I laugh at Bill and roll my eyes and trudge on....BUT I also PRAISE Bill when he is right. MY BIGGEST FAULT WITH BILL IS HIS PRETENSIONS AND HALF BAKED REWRITING OF HISTORY, leaving out parts not supportive of BILLS AGENDA.
Like TRUMP DOES>
Now let me explain for those prone to CRITICIZE ME (not many but I do have detractors here) and say I am NOT AND NEVER HAVE BEEN A SYCOPHANT of ANY POL. I have worked for SEVERAL and on many NATIONAL Campaigns.....and told THEM ALL I disagreed how when why and so forth. IN DETAIL. THEY DECIDE BUT THEY HEARD FROM ME.
I know TRUMPS FAULTS. I told a friend (retired POLICE CAPTAIN) I know Trump is all mobbed up....his father was. BECAUSE IN QUEENS NOTHING GOT BUILT AND I MEAN NOTHING WITHOUT THE MOB and MUCH OF MANHATTAN IS THAT WAY AND INCLUDING LONG ISLAND, BRONX, BROOKLYN AND STATEN ISLAND. GOT IT? I HAVE STORIES. A CATERPILLAR SALESMAN I KNEW AND LIKED (GREW UP IN MT AIRY NC AND HUNTED SQUIRRELS FOR DINNER IN DEPRESSION) TOLD ME ONCE HE WAS SENT TO LONG ISLAND. A WEEK THERE AND THE MOB SHOWED UP AT LUNCH IN A DINER AND TOLD HIM "GET GONE OR BEWARE." HE CALLED HIS BOSS AND THE BOSS SAID, COME HOME. HE DID.
ROY COHN REPRESENTED A LOT OF PEOPLE. DONALD KEPT HIS BUSINESS CARD IN His UPPER RIGHT HAND OFFICE DESK DRAWER. WHEN SOMEONE, ANYONE SHOWED UP AND STARTED TO PUT DONALD UNDER HEAT HE WOULD TAKE OUT ROYS CARD AND PUT IT ON THE DESK. THEIR EYES WOULD GET HUGE AND THEY WOULD SAY, "I SEE.' THEN LEAVE. TRUE STORY.
BUT WE ALL KNEW THAT. AND HIRED HIM ANYWAY. TO CLEAN UP THE HORRIFIC AND I MEAN HORRIFIC MESS OF THE MOMBASA MAN COMMUNIST fraudster (we know where he was born and it wasnt Honolulu) and Trump is doing that.
BILL IS WRONG ON TRUMP BEING A SOCIALIST. WRONG. STRONG MAN? YUP. XI AND PUTIN AND OTHERs KNOW IT AND FEAR TRUMP. MOST AMERICANS IN FACT LIKE THAT.
HE WOULD WIN AGAIN IF HE RAN IN 2028. TRUST ME.
Bill Can carp (or Karp, pun intended on Alex) ALL HE wANTS. Bill is a SOLO VOCE IN THE WILDERNESS heard only by TREES AND WOLVES AND RABBITS.
My two cents.
BUT to BILL I SAY, SIR:
SELL YOUR PROPERTIES NOW. WHY? YES TAXABLE MAYBE. BUT YOU DECIDE WHERE THE MONEY GOES AND TO WHO AND HOW MUCH. DONT BURDEN YOUR wife and kids.
We KNOW you SUPPORT YOUR SON IN LAW AND DAUGHTER IN ARGENTINA. OBVIOUS.
Her songs may be lovely but dont pay the rent or groceries. IN THE LEAST. Sorry ,but true.
SELL YOUR LAND. ALL OF IT. BEFORE THE BIG CRASH COMES. BEFORE YOU GET DEMENTIA OR DIE LIKE LINDSEY GRAHAM OF HEART DISEASE OR SOMETHING.
GIVE TO CHARITY AS YOU WiSH. GIVE TO HEIRS AS YOU WISH. BE DONE WITH IT. WHAT TO KEEP? MARYLAND HOMESTEAD. FOR LEGACY. AND ITS USA. YOUR DAUGHTER AND SON IN LAW CANT BUY YOU OUT IN ARGENTINA. GIVING TO THEM INVOLVES GIFT TAX PROBABLY UNDER US TAX LAWS. AND INHERITANCE TAX AT DEATH.
SELL IT ALL . PAY YOUR TAXES (IF ANY) AND CASH OUT. IRELAND. FRANCE, NICARAGUA AND ARGENTINA.
NOW. MY ADVICE SIR.
YOUR WINE IS VERY GOOD BUT VERY PRICEY at 60.00 a bottle. I HAVE ONE BOTTLE LEFT AND SAVing IT. 2021 VINTAGE. SO READY TO DRINK NOW. I can get VERY good Mendoza Malbec at my local grocery for 15.99 and DID SO THIS PAST WEEK. 92 rated. EXCELLENT. GOT IT?
The ISSUE IS WHO REPLACES TRUMP? DE SANTIS? RUBIO OR VANCE? RAMASWAMY IS OUT THERE TOO......RUBIO RAMASWAMY MIGHT BE MY PERSONAL PICKS BUT I DONT DECIDE THE VOTERS DO. I DONT LIKE VANCE.
And finally, I am not arrogant or hypocritical or self righteous. I AM A SINNER AND FULL OF FAILURe AND FAULTs TOO. I AM RETIRED AND MY MAIN CONTACTS DYING AND FADING AND SO AM I.
I HAD A GOOD RUN. REMARKABLE GIVEN MY VERY OBSCURE AND HUMBLE BEGINNINGS THE LIKES of which YOU HAVE NO IDEA.
I DID MY very very best and tried valiantly to put OTHERS first, country first and family first. I believe in the GOSPEL AS GOSPEL TRUTH. NO PROOF ITS NOT TRUE. NONE. AND PLENTY OF PROOF ITS ALL TRUE AND WERE EYEWITNESSES INCLUDING TRANSFIGURATION ON MT TABOR.
JESUS IS MY GUIDING LIGHT and SALVADOR MUNDI. I NEED DIVINE MERCY.
NO OTHERS. NOT ONE "OTHER GOD OR PROPHET." NONE NOT MORMON OR MUSLIM OR HINDU OR BUDDHIST OR CONFUCIAN OR TIBETAN (THOUGH I MET HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA MANO A MANO) and SO FORTH. NONE OTHER BUT JESUS THE CHRISTUS. AS HE PROMISED.
ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN. NOT ALL PEOPLE DO. CREDIT TO FR ED (OFM Conv.)
Amen.
Most will not read your missive as it too long and in some places a little too criptic. It smacks a bit of narcissism represented as knowledgeable sophistication, which it may well be. You have come from meger beginnings, with a good brain and a very strong work ethic and language is your thing, and you have capitalized on that strength. Anyway, I mostly enjoy your style and perspectives but some succinctness may improve you readership IMHO.
This is BDS!
If Trump is attacked he has learned from Roy Cohn to counterattack. But why do politicians conveniently forget past attacks. Lindsey Graham, Vance, "Little Marco", Ted Cruz have all said terrible things about Donnie, and he about them. Why do these guys so easily forget these attacks when it comes to political expediency? If Little Marco had called be a conman I would remember it to the day I died.
Looks like politics is just the gentleman's World Wrestling Federation. Just an act for the sheeple.
A ring of truth there.
Well, one thing we know. If he struck a chord with his followers, it was the tune already playing in their heads. He gave them the megaphone they were looking for… or should I say “magaphone”?
And when he, the messenger, is attacked, it’s a direct assault on his followers. Somehow the most important issues of the day are intertwined with pure entertainment. I’m loving the show.
Well, Trump is the most interesting thing these past 70 years on the Road to ruin.
He has already made himself immortal.
You must admire some of it.
One thing I can say about him is that all his wives respected him and he loves his children and they love him. He is a sucess at home and most of us fail at that.
Hey Bill. Tell us how you really feel. Can't figure out why you gave T-man such a glowing review?!
There are two subliminal messages here: one is that if you are a Trump guy, you are a loser by association (and possibly mindset), and another is that things would somehow be different (and better) had Donald Trump not come along. I'm a loser by association; that's true, but not because of Donald Trump. I'm a loser, because America gave up on herself in the 60s. Due to complacency, and later, apathy, we sold our precious birthrate for a bowl of stew. All Donald Trump did was say, essentially, "Let's not quit; let's try one more time." And I fell for it, because I want to go out on my feet. Best always. PM
It may be true that Trump is fading as he ages. You should look in the mirror, I think you are beating him to the bottom.
Bill, Trump will be widely represented in the history books both positively and negatively, but you Bill, will scarcely be a footnote like most of us.
You nailed it once again, Bill! t has been a scourge on the USA that I love & respect! Can’t wait until he’s out of office!