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#51 Re: Guns N' Roses » VIPs at the Troubadour show » 481 weeks ago
Piers Morgan tried to get Slash to get him in, but he told him he couldn't.
#52 Re: Guns N' Roses » Secret show: April 1, L.A.? » 481 weeks ago
Eh I prefer Steven and Matt because I am old school all the way, but Frank is great in his own right. I think he is a good fit.
#53 Re: Guns N' Roses » Troubadour 04/01/16 - videos » 481 weeks ago
Thanks for sharing. Sounded awesome!! I love the Who, it's great seeing my favorite band covering my other favorite band.
#54 Re: Guns N' Roses » Secret show: April 1, L.A.? » 482 weeks ago
This is so exciting. The people going to this show are the luckiest SOBs on the planet. I wish I could somehow see it!
#55 Re: Guns N' Roses » Hitchhiking to Paradise City » 483 weeks ago
Good luck and stay safe!
#56 Re: The Garden » 2016 Presidential Election Thread » 483 weeks ago
Here is another Trump supporter assaulting a Trump protester.
https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/711365055141568512
#57 Re: The Garden » 2016 Presidential Election Thread » 483 weeks ago
Donald Trump is epically unprepared to be president. He has no realistic policies, no advisers, no capacity to learn. His vast narcissism makes him a closed fortress. He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know and he’s uninterested in finding out. He insults the office Abraham Lincoln once occupied by running for it with less preparation than most of us would undertake to buy a sofa.
Trump is perhaps the most dishonest person to run for high office in our lifetimes. All politicians stretch the truth, but Trump has a steady obliviousness to accuracy.
This week, the Politico reporters Daniel Lippman, Darren Samuelsohn and Isaac Arnsdorf fact-checked 4.6 hours of Trump speeches and press conferences. They found more than five dozen untrue statements, or one every five minutes.
“His remarks represent an extraordinary mix of inaccurate claims about domestic and foreign policy and personal and professional boasts that rarely measure up when checked against primary sources,” they wrote.
He is a childish man running for a job that requires maturity. He is an insecure boasting little boy whose desires were somehow arrested at age 12. He surrounds himself with sycophants. “You can always tell when the king is here,” Trump’s butler told Jason Horowitz in a recent Times profile. He brags incessantly about his alleged prowess, like how far he can hit a golf ball. “Do I hit it long? Is Trump strong?” he asks.
In some rare cases, political victors do not deserve our respect. George Wallace won elections, but to endorse those outcomes would be a moral failure.
And so it is with Trump.
History is a long record of men like him temporarily rising, stretching back to biblical times. Psalm 73 describes them: “Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence. … They scoff, and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression. Their mouths lay claim to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth. Therefore their people turn to them and drink up waters in abundance.”
And yet their success is fragile: “Surely you place them on slippery ground; you cast them down to ruin. How suddenly they are destroyed.”
The psalmist reminds us that the proper thing to do in the face of demagogy is to go the other way — to make an extra effort to put on decency, graciousness, patience and humility, to seek a purity of heart that is stable and everlasting.
The Republicans who coalesce around Trump are making a political error. They are selling their integrity for a candidate who will probably lose. About 60 percent of Americans disapprove of him, and that number has been steady since he began his campaign.
Worse, there are certain standards more important than one year’s election. There are certain codes that if you betray them, you suffer something much worse than a political defeat.
Donald Trump is an affront to basic standards of honesty, virtue and citizenship. He pollutes the atmosphere in which our children are raised. He has already shredded the unspoken rules of political civility that make conversation possible. In his savage regime, public life is just a dog-eat-dog war of all against all.
As the founders would have understood, he is a threat to the long and glorious experiment of American self-government. He is precisely the kind of scapegoating, promise-making, fear-driving and deceiving demagogue they feared.
Trump’s supporters deserve respect. They are left out of this economy. But Trump himself? No, not Trump, not ever.
#58 Re: The Garden » 2016 Presidential Election Thread » 483 weeks ago
Other than the billionaire mention, that almost sounded like a description of Nixon.
He mocked a disabled reporter.
That was definitely the low point of the campaign. The fact that he even survived that shows how he is pretty much unstoppable....and that happened months ago. He's gained a lot of momentum since.
As far as killing innocent civilians goes, there isn't one single president immune from doing that. Whether its carpet bombing or drone strikes...innocent people are going to get killed.
As far as his name calling goes, I have no problem with him getting in the faces of these politicians and letting them know their time is almost up. He's simply letting the American people get a peak behind the curtain.....and I don't consider that a bad thing. I loved that debate when he looked into the camera and told the American people there that all those people in the audience there were paid shills for the other politicians onstage.....and none of them could deny it.
It's those types of things he does that are causing him to get more support as this election drags on. Name one other presidential candidate in our country's history that has stood on stage and not played the game but tells people what a scam the whole thing is.
If there's one major issue out of all of them where we need to see more of what Trump is really about, it's going to be his foreign policy. Now that debate will be interesting.
I agree with the first point. It seems like the worst he behaves the more support he receives. It's very interesting (and scary to me).
I think most presidents try to avoid killing innocent civilians while Trump advocates for it. I suppose Captain Canada does in a way as well, but I don't think he understood what carpet bombing meant when he started talking about it.
It's not so much Trump's name calling of other politicians that bothers me. It's his name calling of anyone that disagrees with him or he dislikes. He is a very insecure man hiding behind a false bravado and lashes out at anyone who calls him out.
Trump isn't the only one telling people what a scam the whole thing is. Bernie has been doing that even longer than Trump has. Bernie is a politician unlike Trump, but IMO he is more trustworthy to do the right thing. I don't trust Trump to do right by us when he hasn't done right by the American worker in his business dealings. He may not have SuperPACs either, but he is a billionaire with plenty of wealthy friends. I don't trust him to put the average American's interests above his own interests. The billionaires don't have to buy Trump off because he already is one of them.
#59 Re: The Garden » 2016 Presidential Election Thread » 483 weeks ago
Ted Cruz strikes me as a psychopath. Only Trump's clown show could make him appear sane. It's a travesty these two are receiving the most votes in the GOP primaries.
#60 Re: The Garden » 2016 Presidential Election Thread » 484 weeks ago
Why are we afraid of trump? To me, what's attractive about him is the fact that the establishment is so scared of him, and it's not because he's going to start ww3. What are they really afraid of?
Why are people afraid of Trump? There are plenty of reasons. He has shown disregard for the first amendment when he has said he will open libel laws so he could sue people who write negative articles. He also advocates for violence against protestors and also wants them to be thrown into jail. He has no tolerance for those who disagree with him or criticize him. That is the type of behavior you see from paranoid dictators. What is it going to be like as the election season becomes even more heated or if he did win the presidency?
He is also a bully. If he isn't advocating for violence he is name calling those that disagree with him. He makes sexist remarks about women he dislikes. He mocked a disabled reporter. Is this the man anyone can seriously see meeting with other heads of state?
He advocates for war crimes by wanting to kill innocent civilians (terrorist's family members) and seems to favor cruel and unusual punishment.
He has no substance. He doesn't stand for anything except being anti-Mexican, anti-Muslim, and anti-trade. He has taken just about every side of every issue and has a problem with telling the truth.
He's a billionaire that has a tax plan that benefits the wealthy more than anyone else. He has his clothing line made overseas and brings immigrants over to take over the jobs of Americans. Yet he somehow has conned people into thinking he is for the average American. Or that he is really going to shake up the establishment when his actions and tax plan show otherwise! We are supposed to believe this liar who can't make up his mind because...?
Saying he is attractive is because the establishment is afraid of him is like saying a musician must be brilliant because your parents hate them. When sometimes they just really suck.
What exactly does he bring to the table besides "businessman?"