The Reason I’m Anti-Anti-Trump

CRB ^ | December 28, 2015 | William Voegeli

[Bullish]

See my post #38.

Claremont’s fine, it’s the liberals who have destroyed the colleges here. Everything they touch they destroy.

[DoughtyOne]

That’s what you think. I spent three hours just checking the spelling and punctuation was correct. = :^)

[nopardons]

Of course I'm "culturally alienated" ; the music stinks, almost all of T.V . does too, ditto the theatre now, and what passes for "art" is an abomination.

OTOH, Dems are morons, the GOPE are worse, the idiots who write this stuff and the pundits/talking heads are brain dead elitists !

[nopardons]

You wish, but it t’aint so.

[jonrick46]

Thank you. It works:

The Reason I’m Anti-Anti-Trump
It’s hard to disagree with most of the bad things that have been said about Donald Trump, and impossible to add a truly fresh accusation to the list. In just six months as a presidential candidate Trump has been called “witless, gross, and unworthy,” “ignorant and bombastic,” a “buffoon” and an “a—hole,” a “clownish demagogue,” and “proto-fascist” whose “ideas range from the absurd ... to the monstrous,” and whose policy pronouncements are no better than “barstool eruptions.”

And those are just his fellow Republicans’ opinions. Gleeful Democrats have made clear that Trump’s lead in public opinion polls throughout 2015 vindicates their allegations about the ignorance, stupidity, and bigotry of the GOP base and conservative movement. Trump’s rise “may be shocking,” writes Adele M. Stan of the American Prospect, “but it’s merely a result of the natural evolution of the modern American right that drove the election of Ronald Reagan 35 years ago.” Damon Linker of the Week magazine agrees. Trump’s supporters are the “culturally alienated, conservative white male voters” who have “been manipulated ... into a perpetual state of aggrieved indignation” by right-wing talk-radio, which constantly assures its listeners that “their ill-informed, illiberal, anti-government, anti-Washington, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim views are irrefutably, indisputably, incontrovertibly correct.”

[Gator113]

No”�� ...;>)

[roamer_1]

You wish, but it t’aint so.

Of course it's so - There isn't a stitch of Reagan in Trump.

[nopardons]

You're wrong.

How old were you when Reagan ran against Carter ?

I worked on both of Reagan's winning presidential campaigns.

[Ray76]

Somewhere along the line UTF-8 characters are treated as ASCII.

The characters are displayed properly on the forum front page, and improperly on the thread page. This leads me to conclude that the data entry and data storage are not the problem but that the program which retrieves the data from the database and prepares & presents the thread page contains an error. Perhaps there is a problem with how the data is retrieved or some work variable is defined incorrectly. I'd compare the program which produces the forum front page with the program which produces the thread page.

My 2 cents

[House Atreides]

The issue is with the copy and paste. Special characters such as the apostrophe don’t transpose correctly. Easiest fix is when pasting the text, go back through and delete and manually type any special characters.
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Exactly right. And, once you’ve done that, hit the preview button and anything you missed will show up. In the “preview” pane in my comment session, in the 2nd sentence, the word after the word ‘apostrophy’ should be ‘don’t’ but the apostrophe was not corrected by me. Normally, I’d delete that “copied” apostrophe and replace it with another apostrophe. Since the replacement apostrophe was not copied & pasted in but instead keyed in, it will be good.

I’m not replacing the copied & pasted apostrophe so you can see it “uncorrected”.

[DoughtyOne]

Drat. I’m not good at spelling.

[roamer_1]

How old were you when Reagan ran against Carter ?

Reagan was my first vote. and, no - I am not wrong. Set aside his stump speeches and look at his record. You will not find a Conservative.

[Mastador1]

Ok, so I exaggerated when I said all the neighborhoods were filled with liberal fruitcakes, just most of them around the colleges where the faculty live. As I did say though, my wife and I enjoy the shops and restaurants and driving around looking at the older homes. I didn’t mean to slam your home town.

[nopardons]

Look kid, you just don't get it.

You really weren't old enough, when Reagan was elected, to know everything about him, nor get the full treatment, since I am assuming that you were still in school.

To his dying day.....Reagan praised and revered FDR.

As a governor, he was all for abortion.

Nobody is perfect, but it helps, a LOT, to look deeper than headlines. Trump is an old fashioned CONSERVATIVE. Even Reagan praised him. Trump and father supported Reagan! He is the man we need, at this time.

I'm not saying that Cruz isn't a Conservative; just that this is not his time.

[Company Man]

The characters are displayed properly on the forum front page, and improperly on the thread page.

I was just observing that mere moments ago.

[House Atreides]

YOUR POST COPIED AND PASTED WITHOUT RUNNING IT THROUGH THE CONVERTER:

Run the article through here. It converts the text instantly so that the funny characters are gone. You then simply copy and paste the converted text. Only takes a couple seconds, and everything’s fixed.

http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html
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YOUR POST COPIED AND PASTED AFTER RUNNING IT THROUGH THE CONVERTER:

Run the article through here. It converts the text instantly so that the funny characters are gone. You then simply copy and paste the converted text. Only takes a couple seconds, and everything’s fixed.

http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html

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Sweet, it works fine without messing up the URL. Far better than the character by character “clean-up” I’ve been doing. I’m bookmarking your “utility” in my favorites.

Thanks

[cynwoody]

I can no longer tolerate reading posts with all that junk in it and from time to time I vent my frustrations.

Looks fine to me:

The problem occurs whenever someone posts content containing Unicode outside the 7-bit ASCII range (curly quotes, em-dashes, foreign characters, and special symbols). The browser uploads the special characters as multi-byte UTF-8 sequences, as it should. However, instead of simply passing the UTF-8 unmolested, as it should, the server translates each byte of each multi-byte sequence into its own special character, resulting in the garbage we are seeing.

Example: The right single curly quote is U+2019, which is encoded in UTF-8 as tbree bytes: E2 80 99. The FR server mangles that input into three special characters: U+00E2 (Latin small a with circumflex), U+0080 (euro sign in Latin-1), and U+0099 (trademark symbol in Latin-1).

Despite the server's mayhem, no information has been lost. It is possible to reconstruct the original input from the mangled characters. I have user scripts that deal with the mess. Click here to see pages with the mangled characters restored, and here to post non-7-bit ASCII legibly.

[Bullish]

It’s fine, conservatives here in California are used to getting slimed by extension because of the liberal nitwits who are destroying our state. People don’t realize there are millions of conservatives here in California that hate the dems and are fighting against them tooth and nail.

[gitmo]

This is a pro-Trump article.

[Gator113]

Perhaps Jim could use your help.