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Donald Trump Is a Good President
Harpers ^ | January 2019 | By Michel Houellebecq, John Cullen (Translator)

Posted on 12/15/2018 4:15:17 PM PST by Hojczyk

It seems that President Trump has even managed to tame the North Korean madman; I found this feat positively classy.

It seems that President Trump recently declared, “You know what I am? I’m a nationalist!” Me too, precisely so. Nationalists can talk to one another; with internationalists, oddly enough, talking doesn’t work so well.

France should leave NATO, but maybe such a step will become pointless if lack of operational funding causes ­NATO to disappear on its own. That would be one less thing to worry about, and a new reason to sing the praises of President Trump.

In summary, President Trump seems to me to be one of the best American presidents I’ve ever seen.

On the personal level, he is, of course, pretty repulsive. If he consorted with a porn star, that’s not a problem, who gives a shit, but making fun of handicapped people is bad behavior. With an equivalent agenda, an authentic Christian conservative—which is to say, an honorable and moral person—would have been better for America.

But maybe it could happen next time, or the time after that, if you insist on keeping Trump. In six years, Ted Cruz will still be comparatively young, and surely there are other outstanding Christian conservatives. You’ll be a little less competitive, but you’ll rediscover the joy of living within the borders of your magnificent country, practicing honesty and virtue. (With some instances of marital infidelity. Nobody’s perfect, you should relax about that. Even in the best American thrillers, there are scenes of spousal repentance that are hard to bear, especially when the children intervene. I don’t want to play the “licentious Frenchman,” a character I loathe, I’m just pleading for the maintenance of a minimal level of hypocrisy, without which no life in human society is possible.)

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To: Hojczyk



21 posted on 12/15/2018 5:58:26 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Hojczyk

Trump bump


22 posted on 12/15/2018 6:30:28 PM PST by foreverfree
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To: sonofagun

62


23 posted on 12/15/2018 6:33:58 PM PST by firebrand
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To: firebrand

56


24 posted on 12/15/2018 6:35:26 PM PST by firebrand
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To: firebrand

No.

One glass of wine and I can’t do arithmetic.


25 posted on 12/15/2018 6:38:03 PM PST by firebrand
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To: Hojczyk

He is not a good president! He is a great President!


26 posted on 12/15/2018 6:44:35 PM PST by tallyhoe
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To: firebrand
One glass of wine and I can’t do arithmetic.

That may be...but all your friends say you get funnier and even better-looking!

lol enjoy the vino...

27 posted on 12/15/2018 6:45:10 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Hojczyk

Best Evah.

May God bless and preserve him.


28 posted on 12/15/2018 6:52:41 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Fiddlstix

I would face the jackass to the right on that logo because the GOPe always tends to have their trunk up its backside.


29 posted on 12/15/2018 7:05:44 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Hojczyk

He’s more proTrump than our journalists... Amazing...


30 posted on 12/15/2018 7:08:55 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Hojczyk

I might’ve actually tweeted this out, it’s generally pretty good, extremely good for a piece in a lefty publication, but it does recite as truth the lie about Trump making fun of disabled people.


31 posted on 12/15/2018 7:41:57 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

Too bad our dishonest press has repeated this lie enough times that many people accept it as fact.


32 posted on 12/15/2018 7:45:26 PM PST by Freee-dame (Best election ever! 2016)
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To: sparklite2

Its hard for a European to face the truth about Trump.


33 posted on 12/15/2018 8:08:05 PM PST by Spiridon
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To: Hojczyk

bump


34 posted on 12/15/2018 8:37:06 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("The word 'racist' is used to describe 'every Republican that's winning'" --Donald Trump)
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To: Freee-dame

There are like fifty of these floating out there, lies that have been repeated so many times, even some people who should know better accept them as truths. It’s scary the power of the media to do that.


35 posted on 12/15/2018 8:53:49 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: livius

I read it...

At first the ending upset me. After thinking about it for a while, I came to see it as a rational ending in what’s becoming an increasingly effeminate world. If one is a man and has to choose between living as a castrated eunuch in a feminist run world (as is happening in most of the west) and a masculine world under Islam, the choice isn’t that difficult.

And I have a feeling that most sane women wouldn’t mind returning to the old order, either.


36 posted on 12/15/2018 9:12:51 PM PST by aquila48
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To: livius

>> It’s about France quietly turning Islamic

Say it ain’t so, France... Islam is a war plan.


37 posted on 12/15/2018 10:26:19 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

38 posted on 12/15/2018 11:49:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: aquila48

That’s not the only thing...granted, the promise of submissive nubile coeds was a big attraction for the main character, a sort of passive, self obsessed academic who had never really done anything in his life except research a subject in which he had lost interest. But as the Muslims control more and more of the society, he sees that the route to material and professional success and social acceptance (not to mention his own female slave) will all be so much easier if he becomes a Muslim. So for the upper classes, that is probably how it will happen. They’re just joining the club and aren’t even particularly interested in the club rules, just simply in how much easier life will be after they join.


39 posted on 12/16/2018 3:59:20 AM PST by livius
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To: Hojczyk

This is a very good article, thanks for posting it. I really like how he writes too, very punchy and plain spoken. And when he doesn’t know much about something, he admits it, which is nice for a change.


40 posted on 12/16/2018 4:23:28 AM PST by jocon307
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