(08-17-2021 07:15 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(08-17-2021 07:13 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  Carter was an inept president but an honest, God-fearing, public servant.
Biden is an inept president and a dishonest, fake Catholic, public grifter.

So what made dishonest, fake Christian and public grifter Trump so appealing?

To start of the top of my head...
Low gas prices from energy independence.
Keystone pipeline.
Low unemployment.
Booming economy.
Conservative Supreme Court Nominees.

HE WAS NOT A MEMBER OF THE SWAMP.

and his kids aren't crackheads ripe for blackmail.

I am sure others can chime in and add to the list

(08-17-2021 07:15 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(08-17-2021 07:13 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  Carter was an inept president but an honest, God-fearing, public servant.
Biden is an inept president and a dishonest, fake Catholic, public grifter.

So what made dishonest, fake Christian and public grifter Trump so appealing?

The alternatives, and the issues (Nationalism v Globalism, Open Borders v Controlled Immigration, Lower Taxes v Higher Taxes, Support for 2A v Opposition to 2A, etc.)

(08-17-2021 07:20 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(08-17-2021 07:15 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(08-17-2021 07:13 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  Carter was an inept president but an honest, God-fearing, public servant.
Biden is an inept president and a dishonest, fake Catholic, public grifter.

So what made dishonest, fake Christian and public grifter Trump so appealing?

To start of the top of my head...
Low gas prices from energy independence.
Keystone pipeline.
Low unemployment.
Booming economy.
Conservative Supreme Court Nominees.

HE WAS NOT A MEMBER OF THE SWAMP.

and his kids aren't crackheads ripe for blackmail.

I am sure others can chime in and add to the list

Enemies fearing reprisal from us when they stepped out of line.

(08-17-2021 07:19 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(08-17-2021 06:59 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  We survived Carter and all the others just like we will survive Biden. Unless you whackadoodles really go off the deep end...

You should be more concerned about the wackadoodles in office right now. This isn't your typical democrat administration in case you haven't noticed. The level of incompetence and outright malfeasance they've exhibited is just about unprecedented in this country. Never has an administration so openly worked to degrade the quality of life and the health of its citizens like your boy Biden's* has.

Don't deny it, you voted for the effin idiot so I hope you choke on it. I have no sympathy for you at all in the coming months and years of this administrations term as they fuq you and me and everyone else that isn't them right up the ass. In fact if I could witness it I'd laugh in your prog-filth face as they did it.

Maybe one day when you figure out how to get your head out of your ass you'll come to understand exactly what has occurred in the last 7 months.

I did vote for him because Trump is a bigger POS. but please provide some proof, actual proof of malfeasance instead of just complaining that you don't like the guy. Hell if you can end Hillary with emails then surely there has to be something on Biden right?

(08-17-2021 03:19 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Every time I see these clips I hear Churchill saying a 5 minute talk with common folks is the best argument against ever having a democracy.

Jimmy Carter became President when I was a kid. At first I was happy he won because the media had painted Ford a bad guy for pardoning Nixon. I couldn’t understand why Ford let him off the hook. It wasn’t until years later Ford stated that the Press was so engrossed with Nixon like piranhas eating up 5 to 6 hours of his schedule every day that he decided to pardon Nixon so he could actually do the job of President. A trial would have turned it into a circus. [/code]Man, was Carter a HUGE MISTAKE.

I remember high inflation, high unemployment, high gas prices With long lines if the stations had gas. Hostage crises on the news almost daily. You were ashamed to be American and felt defeated under Carter. You couldn’t even get a job bagging groceries. People who lived on welfare were basically starving to death buying canned dog food because it was very cheap. I wish I was exaggerating.

Carter was clueless as a leader. He was an embarrassment on the national stage.

Until Biden came along I never ever thought we as Americans would ever experience this again.

(08-17-2021 09:02 PM)BlueDragon Wrote:  the media had painted Ford a bad guy for pardoning Nixon. I couldn’t understand why Ford let him off the hook. It wasn’t until years later Ford stated that the Press was so engrossed with Nixon like piranhas eating up 5 to 6 hours of his schedule every day that he decided to pardon Nixon so he could actually do the job of President. A trial would have turned it into a circus.

All true, except I would add that it already was “a circus”, even without putting Nixon, personally, on trial. The spectacle of an ex-President facing potential prison-time would have created the kind of next-level media-drama America has never experienced. Good on Ford for sparing us that. His decision to pardon Nixon was truly in the national interest, even though it was directly contrary to Ford’s personal-political fortunes.

Carter’s running mate in ’76 was Walter Mondale, the left-wing Senator from Minnesota. He spent the entire campaign talking about the pardon, and implying that Ford and Nixon had worked out some sort of deal ahead of time. Just one of the reasons why I enjoy the memory of Mondale getting absolutely curb-stomped by Reagan in ’84.

Quote:Carter was clueless as a leader. He was an embarrassment on the national stage.

Until Biden came along I never ever thought we as Americans would ever experience this again.

Other nations in history have experienced decay and decline. China, Russia, Spain, Egypt, Germany, Israel, etc. It’s a long list.

We are naïve if we think it can’t happen to America.