Our family, fortunately, has the ability to interface with people of many views. Here is what he got from an associate, absolutely the craziest train of thought and a dangerous one from a dedicated Trump supporter. A recent conversation hit two Trump/MAGA hot buttons: misogyny and why Dictator Trump should be elected to avoid nuclear war. The misogyny thing got an angry snort from me and reminded me of the time when I was told I had balls. https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2024/09/newest-magalland-craziness-way-to.html
Vance's attack on women who are childless cat women and Huckabee Sanders as women who do not have their own children as not humble enough are echoes of a bygone era where women knew their place, and it was not out in politics. They were slurs meant to appeal to Trump's male heavy support. https://19thnews.org/2024/09/poll-women-driving-harris-lead-over-trump/
It also got Liz Cheney's dander up, too. Talking about balls, she has 'em. She called Trump and Vance "misogynist pigs".Liz Cheney Rips Into ‘Misogynistic Pigs’ Trump and Vance to Hoots and Hollers (msn.com)
Let us talk about this misogynist twist. One of the strangest results of my attempt to run for mayor was to oust a powerful political boss of a major city so Denver could have a modern future in which people wanted to live, which left me with mixed feelings. I almost did it, coming in second in a nonpartisan field of 13. The big guy still won, but his age and incompetence got him, and Federico Pena won the next election, got us to imagine a great city, and created one, too, in two terms as mayor of Denver, later serving in two presidential cabinet posts. After my election, the word came around that "boy, did I have balls". Yes, I was fearless, and yes, I had verbal skills. I guess that was the highest compliment I could have gotten in the early 1970s as the first woman to attempt to run for that position (and in modern times, the first to run for any city-wide office).
So hats off to Harris, who had the balls to take on drug cartels and a four four-year apprenticeship to get to know every foreign leader and threat in this world, She has the balls and the experience, unlike the amateur elected in 2016 TV star with no comparable government or national security experience and a reputation of a great businessman (that we know now was based on fraud, deceit, and multiple bankruptcies. ) His only management skill was modeled after mob bosses, based up ginning fear , lies, threats, and taking retribution against the opposition, perfectly suited for becoming a dictator (which is a mob boss in national political power).
Do you have no balls, women? I'll pit Indira Gandhi, Angela Merkel, Margaret Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Catherine the Great, and Golda Meir against any man, regardless of politics and lifestyle. Some were monarchs, and some did it within democracies. My family member, male, almost 60, white, hopes that Harris comes across more like Iron Lady, still ladylike, Thatcher, and paints Trump as a belly-up appeasing coward who can't understand why anyone would die defending our country.
It also got Lia Cheney's dander up, too. She called Trump and Vance "misogynist pigs".Liz Cheney Rips Into ‘Misogynistic Pigs’ Trump and Vance to Hoots and Hollers (msn.com)
OK, now for the dictator crap:
Destroying democracy as Trump can do on day one by signing all the already prepared documents submitted by his supporters at the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025,. All can be done with his newly granted immune powers to set a dictatorship in motion. It would not be like a frog in gradually boiling water. The Heritage Foundation plans to do this in the first 180 days. Turning back civil and women's rights and health care to the 1950s just "might" be resisted, and the internal chaos that would cause would simply make us more vulnerable to those taking aggressive action. Destroying mutual defense treaties would mean we would be on our own, and Western Europe would go its own way regarding Russian aggression, while Trump would just let Putin have Ukraine. So that is just for starters. He's an appeaser and a belly-upper.
Ultimate hawk Dick Cheney, former VP, just announced he was voting for Harris in no uncertain terms.Trump responded "he's irrelevant". He can only hope. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ten-former-top-us-military-officials-back-harris-call-trump-a-danger-2024-09-09
Business cannot be conducted in that atmosphere, and high tariffs, according to every Nobel prize economist in the world, and businessmen know themselves only lead to high inflation, probably recession, and moving manufacturing out of the US to avoid retaliatory action. That is why Wall Street, led by Goldman Sachs and others, is beginning to wake up and panic at the thought of Trump implementing his plans. Good luck to our economy and national security in the next four years of Trump's presidency.
We also tried America First out once in the1930s; we watched English PM Chamberlain declare peace in our times as he handed the Czechs over to Hitler, and Japan saw us without the political will or ability to defend themselves. Appeasement ended in Dec.7 1941. It was an epic miscalculation that took four years of epic death and destruction to resolve, and that was until we dropped our nuclear bombs on Japan. Now, every big power aggressor has the ability to do the same to us.
