Ballance and the impossible
Lifted from Robert’s Stochastic Thoughts:
Ballance RIP
Nothing lasts forever, not even the Washington Post’s devotion to Ballance. If Trump had said the earth is flat, they could have written “Opinions on shape of planet differ. Both sides have a point”. but if he asserts (in the same tweet) that it is flat, spherical, and a dimensionless abstract idea, they are forced to note he is nuts.
Alas dear Ballance I knew ye well. A trope of infinite jest. Now no more.
Donald Trump is amazing. I would have guessed his achievements were impossible
Donald Trump is not a humble man. At the Republican convention he said a lot about things that “I alone” can achieve.
It is not easy to accept the validity of such a claim. The natural reaction is to reject it. But Donald Trump was right. He and he alone could make Eugene Robinson and Robert Kagan agree on anything.
A cartoon-drawing Libertarian has some remarks about Trump’s “narcissism” and “sanity”. Later in his comments he also has something to say about the success of a Clinton campaign technique.
“Anyway, my point is that Clinton’s campaign has such strong persuasion going right now that she is successfully equating her actual misdeeds of the past with Trump’s imaginary mental issues and imaginary future misdeeds.”
Hillary has an extremely ugly track record. Obscuring that with the smoke and fog of Trump’s “imaginary future misdeeds” was a great idea. It’s not one I’d have figured would work, but so far, so good.
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/148413098031/clinton-takes-the-persuasion-lead
Pardon me Zack, but I must point out that you have referred to, and provided a link to, comments made by a person with no actual qualifications that would support the subjective impressions of his comments. You offer this description of HRC, “Hillary has an extremely ugly track record.” No explanation, link or reference to any form of supporting documentation is offered by either you or your cited “expert”, who by the way draws a great cartoon strip. But what is your point?
If you had examined my post, you’d have noticed I cited a “cartoon-drawing Libertarian”. Like Mr. Adams, I have no “actual qualifications” which entitle me to comment on Queen Hillary either. Needless to say, I do so anyhow. People can read my comments or not, as they please.
As for the ugly track record, I assumed most readers were informed. Clearly a wrong assumption, that. So here are some links from a site which I read and sometimes make posts.
By the way, there is plenty more on Hillary’s ugly track record. Essentially everything she has touched has ended up with either a huge body count, money pouring into Clinton pockets, or both.
Zachary, it is rather ironic that you cite Scott Adams as your authority on sanity when Adams himself seems to have questionable sanity characteristics.
He says “I would be a top-ten assassination target in that scenario because once you define Trump as Hitler, you also give citizens moral permission to kill him. And obviously it would be okay to kill anyone who actively supports a genocidal dictator, including anyone who wrote about his persuasion skills in positive terms.”
It takes quite a paranoid to believe that his opinions are so important that he would be a top-ten assassination target. Like anyone cares. Yet you cite him for your argument about sanity?
To BillB August 5, 2016 2:11 pm:
Pointing out somebody has a different viewpoint about sanity hardly qualifies as “citing” them as an authority. For all I know, Adams is batty as a fruitcake. My experience with Libertarians has been that they do have an extraordinarily high opinion of themselves – one reason I suspect they tend to advocate societies where dog-eats-dog. IMO they figure they’d come out on top of any such system.
The point I really wanted to make is the one I actually quoted – the business about actual crimes of Hillary vs theoretical crimes of Trump which haven’t yet happened.
By the way, what do you think of the Consortium News articles I posted?
Zachary: “Pointing out somebody has a different viewpoint about sanity hardly qualifies as “citing” them as an authority.”
Ah, yes, so you have adopted Trump’s favorite rhetorical strategy of dumping any sort of outrageous garbage into the discussion with the disclaimer that “people are saying, I’m not saying, but people are saying.”
Trump says stuff like “people are saying that Hillary killed Vincent Foster.” “People are saying that Obama is a secret Muslim.” “People are saying that Obama is a terrorist sympathizer.”
You have amply demonstrated your dishonest argumentation, and it mirrors Trump exactly. You aren’t fooling anyone.
I just put in a Google News search for the terms “Trump” and “sanity” and learned that everybody who IS anybody is proclaiming that Trump is nuts.
The Corporate Media really, really, REALLY wants Hillary as POTUS.
New form of balance.
Berkley Breathed has fine [innuendo] coverage of the DNC:
http://www.gocomics.com/bloom-county/2016/08/05
Demalarkey ® ® Bloom Cty
The thread concerns the power of the “thought crime squad” the corrupt DNC has employed since well before the senior Khan kerfluffle putting the parents in the place of the slain son for political advantage.
Trump’s point is Mr. Khan is neither Pericles or Garfield doing a funeral oration 12 years after the fact in favor of the senator who voted to get the son killed. In come the “thought crime squad” screaaming that bringing up security concerns about immigration as a “thought crime”.
Then the “thought crime squad” attacks anyone who asks why NATO, as if not favoring war for regime change in Moscow is “thought crime”!
The paid Hillary kids in states they are visiting started on 31 July spreading the Demalarkey ® that Trump makes “thought crimes” fashionable.
The balance in the press is shifted to moving forward Clinton “thought crime” as if they were working for Goebbels.
Demalarkey ® indeed!
BillB
Try responding to Zachary not spewing Demalarkey ® and dumping on Trump.
Zach smith I’m with you again bro. The insider elites of Washington, Wall St. and the main stream news media are doing a good job of fogging the real issues with phony-imaginary satellite issues…Lets talk the real economic issues or national security issues, not fake and made up distortions of the truth that HRC is so good at doing. HRC is so far lacking in trust and personal integrity that she will not have a press conference to answer any past mis deeds questions. I’m sure that a real news media documentary about her lies is already in the making but needs to be told before the election. The guy that just sued the DNC was found mysteriously dead. Many insiders on Wall St. have been found mysteriously dead. Is there a pattern or just coincidence to this insanity that follows the Clintons??? I do like and agree with the Scott Adams blog piece but not so much with the Eugene Robinson piece from WA Po and the NYT pieces that are only mail carriers for the oligarchs…Don’t let Trumps bluster worry you he is stable solid and strong to stand up to the oligarchs and elite insiders who are using any means or tactic to derail him Do not get tangled in the weeds of deception and mis characterization of Trump who is totally right and sane while it is HRC who is weak, corrupt and has a pathological flawed character and should never be president…IMHO.
Wm Ryan,
Trump needs to “own a printing press”, the oligarch media is against him and pushing ull tilt for crooked Hillary.
That is why no one like me has written 150 words explaining how the Hillary e mail breech and destruction of records are criminal under two diverse statutes is quite telling.
Corruption fill the FBI as well.