On inaugaration day, have a massive truck standing by. Give the VP a truck, too. Swear yourself in, drive off into the sunset in different directions. Everytime your administration calls for direction, say "no" and fire 95% of the government staff. Sell the White House. Spend four years trucking round the country, challenging states with too much government, and engage in discussion with the people about liberty. Quit NATO, ditch all the ME allies, all the Asian allies, shut down the foreign bases. How's that for a presidential term?
Will never win a presidential election, therefore no inauguration day for you. Not a realistic alternative.
When it comes to the social and political sphere, "realistic" is simply something you create, Capps. Can't create anything, can't create another reality from the current one, if you just keep doing and expecting everything to play by rules made by your opponents. Who dares, wins.
Unpopular truths don't win elections. Unpopular lies don't win elections. Popular truths and popular lies do win elections.
Never tell the truth when a good lie will do. Truth is in the eye of the beholder.
Beat them at their own game, there is no other way. Doesn't matter how bold you are, fortune will not favor you if don't blow sunshine up the electorates ass.
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Dude, the city parks in Alameda County totes model reality.
Ass still chapped over the fact us city folks have better country than you country bumpkins? Come and visit civilization some time, get yo mind freaked.
HAIL!
Her needs America so they won't just take his shit away like in some pussy non gun totting countries can happen.
-Hwen
Can't make the changes to government if you don't win or someone who shares some of your vision doesn't win. Just win baby, virtue signaling that you're a different kind of politician ain't gonna get you anywhere.
If you wait for a unicorn, you'll be waiting a long time.
Will never win a presidential election, therefore no inauguration day for you. Not a realistic alternative.
When it comes to the social and political sphere, "realistic" is simply something you create, Capps. Can't create anything, can't create another reality from the current one, if you just keep doing and expecting everything to play by rules made by your opponents. Who dares, wins.
Unpopular truths don't win elections. Unpopular lies don't win elections. Popular truths and popular lies do win elections.
Never tell the truth when a good lie will do. Truth is in the eye of the beholder.
You can turn an unpopular truth into a popular truth. Whether the lie is good or not, depends on your ability to read the desires and will of the electorate. If you can tell a lie convincingly, you should be able to sell the truth, as well.
Not that lying ought to be neccesary. The one problem with democracy, is that a democracy is only succesful if the electorate have some bare minimum of knowledge of the civic and historical context of the country they're a part of.
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."
Sell the truth when that will win you the most votes, sell a lie when that will win you the most votes. But if you can't turn an unpopular truth into a popular truth that is more effective than a popular lie, you are just handcuffing yourself by refusing to lie in that scenario.
Winning an election with at least one hand tied behind your back requires opposition also tying at least one of their hands behind their back, if you are facing anyone who isn't politically retarded, you're going to lose by sticking to principle while they are free to be pragmatic and not give a shit whether they are telling the truth or a lie, as long as it blows maximum sunshine up the voters asses.
I read an article just yesterday theorizing that Trump is a tool of the deep state, perhaps knowlingly or as a fool. Being set up like Hoover to take the fall when they crash the economy, collect wealth and give us a Socialist as the answer to Trump's icky capitalism and nationalism thata impoverished all of us.
I read an article just yesterday theorizing that Trump is a tool of the deep state, perhaps knowlingly or as a fool. Being set up like Hoover to take the fall when they crash the economy, collect wealth and give us a Socialist as the answer to Trump's icky capitalism and nationalism thata impoverished all of us.
If he’s a tool of the deep state, he’s pissing off the wrong side.
When it comes to the social and political sphere, "realistic" is simply something you create, Capps. Can't create anything, can't create another reality from the current one, if you just keep doing and expecting everything to play by rules made by your opponents. Who dares, wins.
Unpopular truths don't win elections. Unpopular lies don't win elections. Popular truths and popular lies do win elections.
Never tell the truth when a good lie will do. Truth is in the eye of the beholder.
You can turn an unpopular truth into a popular truth. Whether the lie is good or not, depends on your ability to read the desires and will of the electorate. If you can tell a lie convincingly, you should be able to sell the truth, as well.
Not that lying ought to be neccesary. The one problem with democracy, is that a democracy is only succesful if the electorate have some bare minimum of knowledge of the civic and historical context of the country they're a part of.
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."
Always loved Garak as a character, he had so much depth, he really was a lead in a 2nd fiddle spot.
I read an article just yesterday theorizing that Trump is a tool of the deep state, perhaps knowlingly or as a fool. Being set up like Hoover to take the fall when they crash the economy, collect wealth and give us a Socialist as the answer to Trump's icky capitalism and nationalism thata impoverished all of us.
They say that every time there is a republican president.
