Trump likes to compare himself to Lincoln, and honestly I am becoming increasingly convinced the comparison is accurate. Lincoln was after all an insurgent candidate, who came to power despite the best efforts of the washington establishment to prevent it. They even refused to put him on the ballot in numerous states remember. And when he still won...the Democratic party went into a full and psychotic melt down that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, the scouring of Missouri, Georgia and Virginia and a shakey truce whose after effects we live to this day.
But I think the best comparison to Trump and Lincoln is Lincolns inaugural address and the best quote from it.
"In your hands my fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of Civil War".
2020 approaches its climax. I honestly believe what these emails reveal, and knowing that...I dont think I can accept a Biden presidency. With all that may entail. And this understanding terrifies me to the point that I wish this stuff had never seen the light of day.
Trump is more akin to a weaker Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson was our first truly pleb president, faced down powerful bankers and coastal elites, and even had to BTFO some Southern rebels himself and offended the hell out of everyone by being true to himself as good ol' boy from the frontier. America is once again ruled by elites both publically (i.e. Bush) and behind the scenes (i.e. the guys pulling Obama's strings).
Like Jackson and Lincoln, Trump is faced with a huge challenge domestically but this time the challenge extends internationally because of the huge reach of the globalists and factions like the CCP. And he's just not the man for the job. He talks a big game, but he's too cautious about moving against these people and in the end he just monitors the situation. Some level of caution is good given he's in a den of snakes but I think early on, maybe before he was elected, he was thoroughly instructed on the rules of the game and he was genuinely afraid they'd boot him out. Trump doesn't take enough risks. All of the most successful leaders, military, political, corporate, whoever, succeeded because they took risks. When it comes to the Presidency, Trump has not. Trump's best skill is firing up his base and speaking his mind on Twitter. As a leader, he's pretty mediocre, more or less nothing but talk.
Thornton is the Thornton Group which represents Bulger family interests.
Bulger as in Whitey Bulger and his brother, William Bulger, Massachusetts State Senate president for 18 years, uneducated head of the UMass system, and collector of hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Massachusetts taxpayer in pensions? Makes sense since John Kerry's involved and no wonder why they threw Whitey into the shark tank the minute he got to federal prison where he was predictably whacked by his many enemies.
Violent crime is at all time lows, but I sometimes wonder if that small oasis is really just a statistic showing how apathetic we've all gotten. We aren't even mad anymore; we're just depressed.
In the US and Europe it isn't, thanks to the arrival of millions of "refugees" and "immigrants" and the explosion in violent crime in the wake of Ferguson in 2014. The Ferguson Effect has led to a rise in violent crime in major cities across the country. 2020 has been even worse since even before Saint Floyd of Fent took a knee, the economic consequences of the Chinavirus lockdowns caused a spike in all sorts of crime since police operations were scaled back in numerous cities. After Saint Floyd got his hit of fentanyl, crime has gone through the roof and probably isn't even being reported accurately anymore. Murders are up everywhere, rape, arson (I suspect arson from out-of-control tweakers and a couple of Antifa caused the historic wildfires in the PNW earlier this year), burglary, vandalism, all sorts of shit is happening. The Ferguson Effect is now the Floyd Effect, and with record numbers of police quitting, being fired, or outright being arrested for doing their job, we're sure to see even more crime in the years to come and that's before we factor in the shit economy.
Ben Shapiro says "facts don't care about your feelings", but there's a grim refutation of that: "power doesn't care about your facts".
That's been true from the dawn of time. "Hey, I saw the chief sneaking more meat for himself," says the younger man in the tribe yet to prove himself. "Lies and slander, can't let this spread," says the chief's relatives, and the younger man catches some clubs to his head and his family is told he did something stupid when hunting and that's the end of it.
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FBI has had the laptop for over a year already and didn't say anything. Remember when Trump got impeached for congratulating the new President of the Ukraine?
