Posted on 11/22/2023 7:47:07 PM PST by RandFan
Indeed! Calvin, my cat, is named after him because he, like Coolidge, has blue eyes.
By whom?
I can’t believe you missed it !
Amazing coincidence re: mentioning Cal because I started a thread asking about him just the other day.
It was the election of Milei in Argentina that got me thinking...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4198052/posts
Trump 2.0 I think we can agree is the biggest threat to the deep state they have ever had.
If you believe the rhetoric...
I’ve never heard a would-be (soon to be!) president speak like him before ?
If Trump fulfills those promises it will be consequential
JFK also emptied the mental hospitals which eventually became the American homeless.
He unionized federal employees.
Signed the first affirmative action law.
He ran on chain migration and tried to pass his immigration dream which eventually passed as his 1965 Immigration bill.
The President’s Commission on the Status of Women endorsed workplace equality, child care facilities for working women, paid maternity leave, better Social Security benefits for widows, and equal pay for comparable work.
The War on Poverty (an idea he had rolled out during the campaign) sought to alleviate penury, especially among the elderly, by pushing for Medicare and expanded Social Security benefits.
He used federal troops to ensure the enrollment of black students at the universities of Mississippi and Alabama; his administration implemented the first “affirmative action” program for government employees and contractors.
He sent over 16,000 troops to Vietnam.
Had his teenage girlfriend fellate his friend at the White House.
Kennedy endorsed the United Nations as “our last best hope,”
He withdrew for the Cuban rebels the sufficient air cover they needed at the Bay of Pigs.
Whoever pulls the strings or do you really think he wanted Barr or the many other crumby appointments
Bush I was indeed one of the worst presidents in American history, followed closely by his gope, controlled-opposition, uniparty son.
imho, he just didn’t have enough time to blunt RR’s economic and geo-political momentum for us, as Perot (and Clinton), thank God, did him in before he could really get going.
unfortunately, he did do a lot political damage to America, effectively reversing the political changes in the GOPe started by RR and his movement. imo, that was the real damage done to us by Bush I.
I wasn’t saying that the control issue was hogwash...
I was just saying that JFK, etc. was no different than every President (good or bad) since T.R.
They get to that office having made many deals with bad people... Either, or both, corrupt thieves and communists...
Certainly since the 90-years that I have been alive...
Agree.
Not a coincidence that George H. W. was CIA director — in the US, the ultimate post for an elitist who believes his birthright is to be a law unto himself.
What is it Chuckie Schumer says? “The intelligence community can get you six ways from Sunday...”
“I’ve never heard a would-be (soon to be!) president speak like him before ?
If Trump fulfills those promises it will be consequential”
I agree 100%.
I think he’ll go scorched earth, starting by releasing all on the Epstein Island visitor list.
I think he’s using this strong language so he can have a mandate when he goes in there. Nobody can accuse him of bait and switch.
You forget outsourcing, offshoring, Amnesty, 1986 Gun control... and appointing Bush as VP.
“...the Great RR. and he was definitely a real president. “
If that was so he wouldn’t have taken Bush as VP.
yes. they’ve been in the driver seat for a long time. sadly, i was clueless about the deep-state and our corrupt gov’t/political/judicial system for most of my life.
they’ve probably been in control since very soon after Ike created them. certainly they seemed to have young JFK on a string. just look at the bay of pigs and the diem fiasco they manipulated him into. he really was reacting a lot. and then of course they arranged for his demise too.
come on dude. you can’t be that dim about the GOPe. what decade were you born?
True. He was still more independent thinking than other recent candidates/presidents.
Old enough to know even in 1980 that “moderate” Bush (as they were referred to then) was not a real conservative.
>> sadly, i was clueless about the deep-state and our corrupt gov’t/political/judicial system for most of my life.
Don’t feel like the lone ranger. To use Reagan’s parlance, I “trusted” my government but did not “verify” what was going on in it (nor did I keep watch on other critical institutions, such as the education system) because I was too busy with my own life. I have repented of that mistake!
His father made many of the deals…….he pulled all the strings. Joe Jr would have been pushed into the office if he hadn’t been killed during the war.
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imho, after years of preparation i didn’t know about until later in my life, RR did everything he had to do to win that election at that pivotal moment in US history.
i lived it all, as an adult starting in the 70’s, so i’ll have take my own personal experience over whatever you’re relying on. i guess you and i will have to part ways on RR.
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