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Do you agree with this?
I was more for Ben Carson. I wish he would choose him or General Patraeus as his VP… just right now I’m very Anti-Hillary.
Only points I agree with Trump is his desire to have the top military and foreign policy council available… in stark contrast to Obama’s winging it style of ignoring his most important advisors. It is why his populism doesn’t scare me, as long as there is a meritocracy to respond to him behind closed doors afterwards explaining the situation more in depth and working for a better compromise, comparing systems… unlike Obama, Trump accepts he is fallible, and when he realizes he was wrong for whatever reason, he goes against his bad decision. Right now, he is flapping in the wind, unsupported, but as president he would have the entire state apparatus function at top performance advising him.
Second reason is… he is more than willing to pull the plug on a non-functioning, Euro-Style alliance. We haven’t had a president since the foundation of NATO willing to do this since the domino theory, based on the concept of critical mass and the balance of international power, was in full effect… and post-cold war alliances were neither broken off, or for the most part strengthened. A lot of NATO’s woes come from the breakdown of the alliance… under Bush in Iraq, we brought in Europe’s birder States… Ukraine, Italy, Spain, Poland, and even Georgia… into the fight. These were EU-NATO and prospective states during joining the larger alliance. Italy and Spain skirted duty, refusing to patrol or leaving their FOBs. Falluja became the shithole it is because of their antics, and Spain fled because of made up socialist bullshit and not taking precautions against terrorism at home. Fast Forward a decade… Europe is screaming slapping up defensive walls, Georgia is isolated, Ukraine is occupied, Germany still stabbing everyone in the back. Next to no one in NATO is paying their treaty obligated dues… Sweden has been eying Joining… which would be awesome… we need better support on that front, but it isn’t awesome that the rest of the alliance is going to hell. The Netherlands had a plane shot down over Ukraine, absolutely nothing happened.
Someone like Trump has considerable credibility in saying he isn’t going to stay in a bullshit alliance anymore. If the US goes walking, Russia goes on a further offensive. Europe doesn’t have the military capacity to meaningfully resist long on its own, much less the political will in it’s deepest rear areas away from Russia. US wastes a absurd amount of money on Europe, while Europe wastes it’s money on wasteful socialism. Trump wouldn’t hesitate to pull that absurdly high defence expenditure away and waste it on out own wasteful socialism. Why subsidize Europe when Europe doesn’t care if it survives or not? Makes absolutely no sense. Some states like Denmark, highly isolated, can confidently call our bluff, but many can’t. In the long run, even the smallest nations will suffer once out intelligence agencies stop paying attention to that part of the world. We won’t warn them of threats, because we won’t hear of them. Simple as that. You will see a increase breakdown between the US and Europe, and we won’t walk back and accept the old style free hand outs anymore for them. They need to be equal partners, or we need to get out. It makes sense to have a few earnest allies that a bunch of parasites backstabbing us at every step of the way… both strategically, and by our financial bottom line.
Another point… limiting Muslims… not just Muslims, but any population associated with terror till we can screen them, and contract them. Obviously we can’t refuse American Muslims reentry. We aren’t aiming this at Albanians, or our own Green Card Muslims, or legitimate work visas… I’m talking about the very legal and rational approach that the US had always done, of restricting our borders to groups and individuals harmful. This changes… both Modi and Nelson Mandela had terrorist backgrounds… both had their individual bans lifted. For groups, say Tamils from Sri Lanka if the Leninists ever go on a suicide bombing spree, it makes a lot of sense to block all Sri Lankan Tamils… heck, if you gotta shut down financial transactions too, whatever it takes to keep us safe, and make sure we aren’t contributing to the violence. It isn’t a forever thing, it is a until we can figure out with good probability your not a terrorist or sleeper agent. It is hard to get you just above minimum wage TSA Agents onboard in how to identify it, and it taxes the FBI-CIA-NSA-DIA to have to monitor our homeland that much more becausevwe aren’t screening. It us completely within the rights of the secretary of state to approve or disapprove entry into the US. I’m not too worried about pacifistic sects of Islam, and I’m worried about militant Hindu and Shiekh and Buddhist extremists too… not to mention Communist and Anarchists… some groups are better screened than others by our intelligence community in terms of eminent threat. This threat can change overnight… with a bombing. 9-11 would of been a great time to block Muslims on flying into the US, especially from certain countries. It isn’t a forever thing, just till the security agencies can say they worked out something resembling a system. How would I feel if the Pennsylvania Dutch went on a suicide bombing spree and everyone who looks like me or had a German name like mine was held up in the airport, or refused entry? I would be offended, upset, ashamed of my people and how they are being viewed… but I would also not want any more of my people to kill and massacre either. It isn’t a forever thing, just till a system is put into place. I would loath every airport visit knowing I would be checked extra carefully by racist security guards, but I would be grateful nobody is going to blow me up either. That is the alternative to not having a solution… you get blindsighted, violence that could of been easily prevented breaks out, nation goes nuts. Remember the aftermath of 9/11… we invaded a few countries, intimidated several others into a alliance with us, going after their own radicals. How are we going to react if bombed again? Less or more angry? Trump’s idea isn’t that bad, that ususual, and not illegal. A suit can be filed in court, a Judge can say nay… but judges lack the power of the secretary of state and can’t force him/her to do squat when it comes to that office’s exclusive powers. We have always slapped quotas on immigration and visitation “unfairly” on a number of nations. I don’t see what is so outrageous about Trump’s suggestion, given the refugees we potentially had and still have to bring in from Obama’s War.
I agree the WTF, and to a lesser extent NAFTA, didn’t quite work out. Yes, several nations became industrialized to a degree… good they can compete… can we now just… renegotiate separate free trade pacts with our most reliable trade partners, and slap tarrifs on our worst manipulators, especially China?
I’m not as scared of NAFTA because a strong Mexico and Caribbean is good for the US, both short run and long run. I don’t have anything against south America, just it hasn’t always been our biggest fan, usually for made up leftist bullshit reasons. Latin America is turning more conservative recently, so this issue may melt away. The average America doesn’t want to be king of Latin America, we just want our South American fruits arriving in the winter. That is imperialism, or free and fair trade for whatever crap they use their dollars on after we purchase their goods afterwards… we can’t dictate what they do with their money. Most South American states have a industrial base now, many outperform us in areas like Steel. They are getting into electronics slowly. So be it. I’m much more concerned with China, or Modi playing games with Merchantilism. Within our generation, Africa will start asserting its economic power too. Certain core industries need protected, like our steel manufacturers, or aspects of our agriculture sector of our economy. Why? In a state of emergency, say a 1929 stock market collapse, or international isolation for whatever reason… we wouldn’t be able to build the Hoover damn, build our highway system, gave a new deal… if we couldn’t import or self fund renewal programs. I love capitalism, but we all have that memory of John Smith at Jamestown… we really can’t afford to lose our own independence here, we loose our security too. If we enter into a major depression… will we need to invade a steel manufacturing nation and force their factories to work for us just to build basic modern structures? Is it different from oil? It is a necessity for a large state today. A essential product, you gotta protect it. It keeps your economy bouyant, and your fears at stock market crashes low… we might all go bancrupt, but as a society we can recover… but can’t unless we have these things to fall back on in that drive to rebuild.
I like Donald has a background in real estate, in getting construction projects done despite the red tape. We really need someone like that, if we are going to do a overhaul of our bridges and build a wall with Mexico… that wall serves a lot of positive purposes. It curbs substantially the drug cartels paramilitary control of neighboring states while reducing drug access in the US, while allowing us to plan finally on how to incorporate the illegal immigrants we want to keep from the felons and sleezebags we don’t want. Workers can become registered, while new illegals will be but a trickle. More and more will get worker visas, while local unemployed workers can demand fair pay for jobs artificially kept low by the current slave labor pricing on the market. A lot of industries would have to clean up their act, many suburban Democrats will have to pay their handymen and workers a decent wage, instead of ripping people off. The effects of the wall are mostly positive.
Beyond this, not impressed with Trump. He isn’t my first pick, or second pick… but I think he is the only sane and rational choice. Hillary is far to violent and radical. Yes, have a strong military… don’t be afraid to use it… but you shouldn’t go around randomly knocking off nations either… or letting nations you already invaded collapse after years of improvements. People call her a centrist, but I can’t find anyone who actually supports her for her actual record. I won’t even touch her national security issues here. Trump has a clear track record… he hasn’t randomly collapsed nations, or betrayed allies like Hillary has. He has a history of engaging Us and foreign legislative and executive powers.
His main faults appear to be he has shitty hair, seems to be covering up a skin issue, and is brash as hell… but we know he can play hardball and best of all, walk away from a bad deal. We haven’t seen this in so long. Reagan was the last.
