Does not matter whether one is for or against DT. This arrest/prosecution is about disobeying the elite position on war: No one is allowed to dissent and DT did. Not only did he dissent, he called *them* out as liars. This is punishment. This is devoid of fairness, and anything but law-abiding.
Huh, funny. Seems that Obama and Biden railed against "endless wars" without this type of treatment, and Biden is the one who actually pulled us out of Afghanistan. Considering the question of why Trump and not Hillary, I think Abe Greenwald put it well: "It may not be fair, but it is still just." Fairness is for children. Justice is for the grown-ups. It is the very definition of "law-abiding." It is to Comey's eternal shame that he did not prosecute.
Like yourself, I'm neither a fan of the tu quoque fallacy nor a huge fan of Donald Trump (though as you rightly pointed out, he had some decent policies and was far better than several of his predecessors and the vegetable currently occupying the oval office). Everyone knows this is about the in crowd vs. the pariah. The in crowd gets their pass; the pariah gets prosecuted. As to this question: "However any of the other GOP candidates would pursue similar (and likely even better) good policies as Trump, which leaves us with the question 'why him?'" It's a cult of personality. As I began writing that, it also struck me how much social media has influenced (pun) people in such a way as to create cults of personality. It is a very sad state of affairs that people vote based on personality rather than policy. It is the reason I wish we would do away with the parties altogether. Let each candidate run on his (or her) own merits, may the best man (or woman) win. It won't happen (at least not in my lifetime), but it is not forbidden to dream.
Is this a dumb question? Can Trump’s defense use Hilary and Biden as precedents in that they did the same thing and there has been no effort to prosecute them?
I'm just not sure I have the wherewithal to endure another 4 years of the entire Democratic party, half of the Republican party, and nearly all of the alphabet agencies spending 100% of their effort trying to bring Trump down again, mostly by ruse. I've resigned myself to the notion that the Deep State cannot be defeated, because well, they're all in on it. I hate to admit defeat, but I'm about to retire, so I'm losing my idealism. It's all about the 401K now.
Oh, and thanks for teaching me a new word in whinge. Never heard that one before but I guessed the meaning correctly.
Does not matter whether one is for or against DT. This arrest/prosecution is about disobeying the elite position on war: No one is allowed to dissent and DT did. Not only did he dissent, he called *them* out as liars. This is punishment. This is devoid of fairness, and anything but law-abiding.
Huh, funny. Seems that Obama and Biden railed against "endless wars" without this type of treatment, and Biden is the one who actually pulled us out of Afghanistan. Considering the question of why Trump and not Hillary, I think Abe Greenwald put it well: "It may not be fair, but it is still just." Fairness is for children. Justice is for the grown-ups. It is the very definition of "law-abiding." It is to Comey's eternal shame that he did not prosecute.
Like yourself, I'm neither a fan of the tu quoque fallacy nor a huge fan of Donald Trump (though as you rightly pointed out, he had some decent policies and was far better than several of his predecessors and the vegetable currently occupying the oval office). Everyone knows this is about the in crowd vs. the pariah. The in crowd gets their pass; the pariah gets prosecuted. As to this question: "However any of the other GOP candidates would pursue similar (and likely even better) good policies as Trump, which leaves us with the question 'why him?'" It's a cult of personality. As I began writing that, it also struck me how much social media has influenced (pun) people in such a way as to create cults of personality. It is a very sad state of affairs that people vote based on personality rather than policy. It is the reason I wish we would do away with the parties altogether. Let each candidate run on his (or her) own merits, may the best man (or woman) win. It won't happen (at least not in my lifetime), but it is not forbidden to dream.
Is this a dumb question? Can Trump’s defense use Hilary and Biden as precedents in that they did the same thing and there has been no effort to prosecute them?
I'm just not sure I have the wherewithal to endure another 4 years of the entire Democratic party, half of the Republican party, and nearly all of the alphabet agencies spending 100% of their effort trying to bring Trump down again, mostly by ruse. I've resigned myself to the notion that the Deep State cannot be defeated, because well, they're all in on it. I hate to admit defeat, but I'm about to retire, so I'm losing my idealism. It's all about the 401K now.
Oh, and thanks for teaching me a new word in whinge. Never heard that one before but I guessed the meaning correctly.