The Iran deal

[Dill]

(05-10-2018, 02:14 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: True.

Republicans used to be different, and a LOT more respectable.

How are you defining "respectable"? You mean like old school would be people like "songbird McCain" who let himself get shot down and then dragged out of a lake with broken arms and a broken leg? Then when the NV worked on his broken arms, he told them everything they wanted to hear, but now hasn't the courage to admit that torture works. Guy was so stupid that he refused to leave the Hanoi Hilton ahead of other prisoners just because he was an admiral's son.  How could you expect a guy who can't put his own interests first to put America first?

Then the liberal media make this loser a "hero" just because he got shot down.  I say maybe its time we stopped handing out medals to people who lose expensive equipment and then sit out the war. No more "participation trophies" for POWs. From now on you actually have to do something to get a medal. Makers before takers.

I hate to tell you this B-Zona but the country has changed and we have to change with it.  And if some people get their kicks putting their life on the line for their country, more power to them. But that's just not where the gravy is.

I'd rather be limping around a golf course on bone spurs--a course I bought with massive inherited wealth-- than walk around the rest of my life unable to raise my arms and afraid to sock it too the terrorists because of some wimpy Declaration of Human Rights. Wouldn't you?

And this is the future. If I am a 13 year old kid looking for role models, I have to say--"McCain is dying and Trump is not. McCain lost his presidential run--possibly because he refused to call Obama an "Arab"; and TRUMP WON, possibly by calling Obama a "Kenyan."  No more loser talk of "duty," integrity and sacrifice.  I want to be a WINNER!  My loser jealous lib teachers are always complaining about Trump's ignorance, lying and vulgarity, but they're all do as I say and not as I do. And have you seen their wives? Well, sir, I don't see Trump paying any penalty for ignorance, lying and vulgarity--quite the opposite. I see how America chooses and then stands by its leaders. So keep your McCain. From now on I'm going to do as Trump does."

I know, I know B. You already put in your time. Did your duty. But no one will hold that against you in the new America if can just forget the constitution and shift your loyalty to the present commander in chief. (Not such a big shift, I mean, you already have a commission from the president, right?)  I hear that is what the government, or at least one branch of it, now asks its people to do. This is attracting a certain kind of person, "wealth creators" I believe they call them. They know how to get those tax dollars flowing into private ventures.

It is not too late for old dogs like us! We can do it too. We would make better Trump surrogates than the ones he's got, I'm sure. And I'm not thinking of whatever paltry pay we might get for doing that, but how we could parlay our connection into "access."  "Draining the Swamp" for Trump. That's the real honeypot.  It's about American values-- this kind $$$$.