The other day, judges on the Colorado Supreme Court used faulty legal logic to toss Trump off the ballot. The judges who voted to toss Trump out were all Ivy League educated. The ones that voted against were not. Each of those justices that tossed Trump off the ballot ought to be impeached, and disbarred. American justice doesn’t work the way they want it to work.
Their path of logic and decision speaks volumes about the Ivy League. But, we saw what the Ivies were all about a couple of weeks ago in a Congressional hearing.
Of course, this is fascism on full display. It eliminates choice, undermines our democratic republic, and uses the heavy hand of government to crush the options of constituents. Is there any difference between those judges and the ones who worked behind the Iron Curtain?
The elite and credentialed class have embraced fascism. They use the power of government to influence businesses and get what they want to get done. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media outlets didn’t have to bend their knee to the government in the 2020 election but they did more than that. They enabled fascism because the leaders of those companies at the time were fascists themselves.
The elite and powerful trade on inside information, making millions the easy way. The rest of us have to slug it out in the streets.
Immediately, when the decision was announced, Vivek Ramaswamy declared that he wanted his name off the ballot. Ramaswamy is an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs make mistakes. They move fast and break things. They are decisive and they can be singular. They don’t really care what the sheep think. Vivek’s instincts are correct.
I have seen it time and time again. Entrepreneurs that build companies take ideas that are stupid but would be cool if they really worked and build a company out of them. They create value. Traders that I worked with on the floor would face a firestorm of insults and brickbats when they were out of step with everyone else. The great ones thumbed their nose at you and laughed…all the way to the bank.
Haley and DeSantis mumbled in their responses. They want it so bad they were willing to set principles aside. That speaks volumes. Neither would make it as entrepreneurs. They are career politicians. Even if I “like” or “agree with” a lot of their policies, they are still career politicians, and their reticence to say they wanted their names off the ballot with the travesty that happened speaks volumes about how they might lead.
When I saw Ken Griffin put money behind Haley, she was for sure out in my book. Griffin is no conservative. He is no small government person.
For what it is worth, Trump was an entrepreneur too. You might hate him but he took his father’s business and built it into something huge. Sure, he was born on second or third, but unlike a lot of wealthy kids, he worked.
Entrepreneurs are cut from a different cloth. Politicians are not.
I don’t love Vivek. He throws bombs. But, sometimes he isn’t wrong. I respect his entrepreneurial acumen. Haley and DeSantis talk a good game. So far, DeSantis has wiped the floor with her in debates. He wiped the floor with the golden boy from California Newsome too. He just has not taken off in the polls despite the evidence that he executed well as a governor in Florida.
I used to like Haley. But, she speaks like, and acts like a Republican establishment person. George Bush 3 would be a disaster at this time in America. Her instincts are bad. We saw that with her bad talking points about social media. America needs an Argentinian Milei.
If she is elected, she will talk a good game and do nothing. The reason she is polling well in New Hampshire is that a lot of people in the Northeast who consider themselves Republican aren’t that conservative when it comes to doing radical things like getting rid of swaths of government bureaucracy, reforming Social Security, and redoing our tax system.
Republicans don’t do well when playing identity politics like the left does. I always look at a person like Illinois Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth. She’s worthless. The only reason she is where she is boils down to her gender, her race, and the fact she was tragically wounded on a training mission. She has nothing in her life track record that would point to her being able to carry out the task of being a Senator.
Not only that, she’s dumb.
I would ask you this. No one is perfect. There is no perfect candidate, especially in this election. But, who is the candidate that can execute on what needs to be done? You don’t have to like them.
For me, it’s DeSantis or Trump.
I agree more with you than you do with yourself.
There is Trump and there is his shadow, DeSantis.
DeSantis requires a charisma transplant whilst Trump requires a chill pill.
Merry Christmas to everyone!
JLM
www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
My take means shit, but here it is. You are spot on with Haley. She's a swamp dweller extraordinaire, she reminds me of Bush. She'll talk the talk, and feed the military complex whatever it wants. I want to like her.
What's fascinating for me is to live in Silicon Valley and be Trump-bombed by people semi-regularly. It happened to me today. While on a job in Mountain View, a lady engaged me. Her son is a firefighter, and she has a couple of grandkids. She is a Mexican immigrant 'who loves this country'.
She indicated that a lot of her family does not agree with her in supporting Trump. But she was like, "if not Trump, who else".
I'm fascinated to be in a place where everyone is supposed to hate Trump, yet, I meet others who are fully onboard and outwardly risk to share supportive views of him. Other contractors I've hired have shared the same to my dismay. I expect everyone to hate him, but they don't