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(26,286 posts)That Trump doesn't understand. He truly is a complete moron. Who voted for this fuckfaced idiot? Sad.
Midnight Writer
(25,487 posts)As a hatchet man for Reagan, he loved screwing Federal workers and the underprivileged, all in the name of "balancing the budget". Of course, the Reagan tax cuts for the wealthiest got his full support.
As he was doing this, the Federal debt exploded, leading to decades of "borrow and spend" Republican policies.
The same Republican policies that have us in an endless cycle of increasing debt and cutting government services for the people.
Supply-side, my ass.
dalton99a
(94,471 posts)The press seized upon his remarks as a big story and Stockman writes that White House imagemakers -- especially deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver -- wanted him fired for betraying the president.
Baker called him into his White House office and told him in no uncertain terms that Reagan's inner circle wanted him fired.
''If it weren't for me,' he continued, 'you'd be a goner already. But I got you one last chance to save yourself. So you're going to do it exactly like I tell you. Otherwise, you're finished around here,'' Stockman writes.
''You're going to have lunch with the president. The menu is humble pie. You're going to eat every last ... spoonful of it. ... When you go through the Oval Office door, I want to see that sorry ass of yours dragging on the carpet.''
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/04/12/David-Stockmans-famous-trip-to-the-woodshed-was-prompted/2637513666000/
karynnj
(61,007 posts)It shows how far off the Republicans have gone that he is attacking them from the left!
paleotn
(22,341 posts)that we and Stockman would be on the same team 40+ years later? Or we and Rick Wilson for that matter. They were our sworn enemies once and now strange allies. The only thing weirder would be Lee Atwater if he'd lived.
A lesson for those who think "Trump-time" will last forever. It won't. What will the future be and when? Who the hell knows, but it won't be exactly like now. Maybe way different. That much we do know.
karynnj
(61,007 posts)paleotn
(22,341 posts)flashman13
(2,445 posts)dalton99a
(94,471 posts)3catwoman3
(29,496 posts)What a losing combination!
BeneteauBum
(565 posts)Peace ☮️
OGBuzz
(371 posts)Because Iran was just hours away from a full scale invasion of America, with their mighty navy parked just miles offshore from Mar a Lago. You f*cking mutt.
sop
(18,788 posts)"The GOP once stood for free markets, balanced budgets, sound money and rigorous observance of the Bill of Rights and Constitution. If you can't see that Trump is the sworn enemy of all four of
those principles, then you are blind as a bat."
BurnDoubt
(1,781 posts)and a warning to anyone else that refuses "The Art Of The Deal".
Make No Mistake.
BattleRow
(2,511 posts)BurnDoubt
(1,781 posts)That's REALLY the crux of the biscuit here in the upside-down.
Historic NY
(40,069 posts)SergeStorms
(20,633 posts)has enough fertilizer in him to supply every farmer on the planet.
OldBaldy1701E
(11,242 posts)They are blind as a bat.
(Also completely delusional, but that is another matter....)
IronLionZion
(51,356 posts)Hiring and promoting only loyalists leads to costly and stupid mistakes like this.
modrepub
(4,126 posts)Most farmers are millionaires and that's the only reason Trump has some interest in this topic. It will be somewhat interesting in seeing who he goes after. Hopefully, it will be one of the contributors to his library, ballroom or some other grifts he's got going.
Oh, and bats may be blind eyesight, but they can see well enough to feed, take care of themselves and their young and not destroy whole ecosystems, unlike the orange turd.
mucifer
(25,690 posts)EPA, CDC, FDA, FEMA, Immigration, he's working on destroying social security, medicare, medicaid, foreign policy.
he doesn't care about his voters. his goal is destruction for whatever reason. I don't believe he thinks he's fixing ANYTHING.
Glaisne
(649 posts)The GOP never ever stood for free markets, which isn't a thing. They stood for rigged markets that benefited their cronies and harmed the workers.
The GOP never ever stood balanced budgets or sound money policy. They used that to bludgeon anyone who advocated spending money for the benefit of the people. Instead the GOP supported bloated and ever expanding budgets for war and tax cuts for the rich which expanded the debt and were not sound money policy. The stood for monetary policy that benefited the rich and harmed workers.
The GOP never ever stood for rigorous observance of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. The GOP continually violated or reduced the rights or marginalized or vulnerable people, essentially anyone who did not fit their narrow rich, white, fake Christian class. The GOP routinely violated the Constitution or twisted its meaning to benefit and expand its privilege and power.
The GOP was never a party of principles. It was always the party of power, greed and exclusivity.
marked50
(1,588 posts)BurnDoubt
(1,781 posts)spanone
(141,744 posts)K&R
BaronChocula
(4,603 posts)So it's not just me? Phew!
Kid Berwyn
(24,586 posts)I dont care if the Southwest Michigan product is a Republican. Stockman has stood for the Constitution and against the plutocrat class.
mwooldri
(10,819 posts)... deposit some "natural fertilizer" - free of charge - at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC. Or 1100 S Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach FL. Probably better off in Florida he can make use of it there easier.
Better yet they can spread it for free.
