Donald Trump Criticizes Apple for Opposing iPhone 'Backdoor' Order: 'Who Do They Think They Are?'

[pooleman]

Once the software is created its out there. Even without access to the source there's nothing to say the FBI can't copy it and use it on similar iPhones. If it's copied by the FBI there's no reason to expect it won't be used by other government agencies and if any of them get hacked, there's nothing to stop it being used by anyone else with the technical know how. It's a Pandora's box that's the point, not only that but court opinions set precedents. If this order is allowed to stand, there's nothing to stop more orders of the same kind.

Apple creates a new iOS every single year. Even if your assumption is true about the FBI, CIA, etc. being able to copy what Apple did to the terrorist phone why can't Apple just create a new iOS that would not be susceptible to the encryption key they find on the terrorists phone? Then they release it to the public and whatever "back door" tool the government has is no longer viable.

 

[MacCubed]

Apple create a new iOS every single year. Even if your assumption is true about the FBI, CIA, etc. being able to copy what Apple did to the terrorist phone why can't they create a new iOS that would not be susceptible to the encryption key they find on the terrorists phone?

Although the encryption key would be unique, this iOS version would be unique too. With this, there would probably be a special software "updater" that allows the FBI to install the firmware, without restoring. Since the iOS version is unique, the FBI could install it on any iDevice that is supported. That's just what I think at least

 

[pooleman]

Although the encryption key would be unique, this iOS version would be unique too. With this, there would probably be a special software "updater" that allows the FBI to install the firmware, without restoring. Since the iOS version is unique, the FBI could install it on any iDevice that is supported. That's just what I think at least

This is all speculative anyway.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

This is all speculative anyway.

But speculation is all we have.

Given that the US has been caught 'slurping' peoples phones and notebook computers at borders, it's very troubling to think that they are trying to tear down one of the last areas where users have some level of privacy.

It's not that I feel I have anything to hide, it's that I wouldn't trust a government made up of Trey Gowdy and John McCain going through essentially my underwear drawer 'looking for something'. I wouldn't want that same government to sift through your stuff either.

I see this as projection on the part of a very paranoid government, and they SHOULD be paranoid. Given all of the crap they are pulling, and all of the 'secrets', They really do seek to micromanage our lives, and shield their own.

As an example: I'm a firm believer in the idea that politicians should be drug tested, and NOT people on food stamps, or social security. If they want the poor to have to do the whizz quiz to get their money, politicians should be the FIRST to pony up the pee...
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Lol trump is about as left as my right hand, a person who is left wouldn't be such a racist **** as trump is. Trump is PRO business as anything, he is a right wing capitalist at the very core.

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And his first action, should he ever be president would be to trash the country because he has shorted all of his stocks.

I can't believe that people do not realize that Goldman Sachs made more profit in declining markets than they did in surging markets. Yes, really.

You can 'short' a stock, which is betting that it will go down. Betting it will fail. Overly shorted stocks then usually DO go down.

In a political time where there is no 'downside' to trashing our economy, there is no reason to help keep the economy from failing. We missed the million car pileup of Mitt Romney, who has a record not unlike Godzilla, leaving a wake of ruined corporations in his wake.

'Disaster Capitalism'. It's real, and it's here. For president, I'd rather have someone not invested in many stocks. Someone not big enough to benefit from 'gaming' the economy. But I seem to be in the slim minority.

 

[ToroidalZeus]

You want to point me to one good candidate that has a shot at winning?

Currently, I rank them:
1. Donald Trump - I can't say what I really think of him on here, but he is still better than the other two, although not by much.
2. Bernie Sanders - Is a flat out communist (sorry, I can't even be nice and say he is a socialist anymore), something that people literally risked death and torture to get away from.
2. Hillary Clinton - Her policies would continue Obama's policies in trying to destroy America.
(Although, since she has commuted a felony by not turning over all of her emails from her own email server, I think she may prove to be ineligible.)

And to say that I think Donald Trump is a complete idiot is putting it very mildly, so I really don't think this is saying much about any of them.

But comments like what you see on here tends to prove just how dumb he can be, if you install a backdoor for the good guys, you install backdoor for the bad guys as well.
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Same with Sanders or Clinton though, so who do we vote for?

The reality is we vote for Trump because all sides will hate him, which means Congress will block his every move and prevent any of these three from completely destroying our freedoms.

Bernie and Hillary are both likable enough that they would get some things through that would ultimately be terrible for this country and destroy it. Not saying they are super likable, just more so than Trump and in this case that is a very bad thing.

Here, we will use Dictionary.com's definition:



As you can see, there is not a lot of difference between the two. The difference is that socialism should be voluntary (which is not what Sanders wants to see happening), communism is mandatory. Does Sanders currently completely fall into Communism? No, but he doesn't fall into socialism either, as he wants to force people who worked hard to earn things to give it to those that didn't do so. When one starts into socialism, they quickly find themselves in communism, so it is a very dangerous slope to start down and one that needs to be avoided.

Both of them are a form of theft, stealing from those that worked to earn something and giving it to those that didn't.

No, we use taxes to pay for things like buildings or streets, something that is unfortunately necessary, socialism as you can see in my other post is quite different.

And the things, like free education for all, etc. that Sanders want sound great, until you start looking at the only way to pay for this is to go ultimately to communism. How else do you pay trillions of dollars a year that he wants to spend when we are already trillions of dollars in debt?

I'm going to respond to all your posts at once.

To start, I want to talk about how Obama is the anti-christ and how he wants to destroy America.

1. NSA Spying: Bush/Cheney started it, Obama has continued it and wants the prosecute Snowden for his leak.
2. Borders: Obama didn't secure the boarder, just like Bush didn't and just like Clinton did not. He has eased up on job restrictions for illegals tho.
3. Gay Marriage: Obama is for gay-marriage
4. Regime Change: Bush invaded countries, Clinton bombed Kosovo, Obama bombed Libya and Syria. Although Obama isn't going to commit ground troops, he has no problem with authorizing military force to carry out a regime change.
5. Weed: Hasn't legalized it, even tho he was a total pot head.

The Republicans keep blasting Obama as trying to destroy America, especially Marco Rubio, but looking at his policies, Obama has been mostly status quo, he's slightly left but not even close to being racial, progressive or even a real reformer. Obama is really about as close to a centrist as a president can get. (which is why he received the most wall street donations of any candidate)

You might notice I skipped Obamacare and that is because I wanted to talk in detail about Obamacare as there is a lot of misinformation about it. Obamacare does a lot of things but I just want to focus on just 2 points. First it raises the minimum standards so an ins. co. can't offer garbage plans that are almost no better than being uninsured and second it mandates co. with other 50 employees provide ins. to their employees.

You said that socialism was "a form of theft, stealing from those that worked to earn something and giving it to those that didn't" and that's not wrong but it's not entirely right either. We have corporations such as McDonalds or your local gym chain that are making millions, yet the clerks or cashiers can't even get decent healthcare. Without the government intervention, people would get ripped off badly by employers. Look at the past: child labor laws or health and safety laws; It wasn't even 100 years ago that people were routinely loosing their arms in meat processing plants.

In the US constitution it doesn't say anything about Capitalism, Socialism or Communism, but it does say that the government is supposed to "provide for the general welfare." That means solving problems, like healthcare, like college. I don't know if you noticed, but the republicans haven't preposed any serious solutions to problems in the least a decade.

Sanders claims to be a "democratic socialist". Not a "social democrat". There is a difference between those two things. Sanders is dangerous. Plain and simple.

I added you to the quote because it doesn't sound like you understand what socialism is either.

To reiterate, Communism is where the government owns everything, all businesses and decides what and how things are made. Socialism is using government power to regulate businesses and tax the wealthy more to provide social works that benefit everyone.

US is already socialist with programs such as social security, medicare, medicaid, parks, school k-12, public colleges (although broken hence the problem), VA , unemployment ins. and a bunch of regulatory institutions such as the FTC. There is nothing crazy about getting healthcare ins. for everyone, reducing drug costs, getting paid family leave for pregnant women and getting public colleges free again.

On the college front, most US colleges are socialist aka public colleges. From UCLA to Michigan, state flagship university to community colleges, most colleges were built by the government to provide affordable education. And until recently, circa 2000s, they were affordable. So absolutely nothing crazy about getting them affordable again.

From what I've see, the most dangerous candidate is Trump as he has no regard for the opinions of anyone except himself. Sanders is the only real reform candidate trying to fix our problems and broken system. Everyone else is more of the same status quo. Hillary is Obama version 2.0. Rubio/Cruz/Bush/ are Bush version 2.0.

 

[Precision Gem]

I bet Hillary wishes she used an iPhone for all her emails. It's more secure than the Governments email server.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

'Socialism', 'communism', 'freedom', 'patriotism', all just words that no one seems to know what they mean.

The right also loves to throw out the words 'Nazi', and 'Hitler', as if they are everyday words that don't carry any real meaning.

But words do matter. Saying that Obama is a communist, AND a socialist is just daft. Throw in Muslim, and I can't laugh enough at your incompetence with the use of language.

Compare Obama to the Antichrist, or Hitler, or the Nazis just makes me want to scream.

You want to see the Antichrist? Look at Donald Trump! Look at Ted Cruz. Look to the men that hold human life in such low regard. Look at the people that want to send another generation of American youth to fight a war (wars?) for their corporate benefactor's bottom line. See them wrap themselves in the flag, and religion, while trying to divide us farther than at any point in our history.

See wannabe politicians want to deny healthcare, birth control, privacy to all of us. That's not Christian. They want to declare war on other nations: North Korea, Iran, etc... That's not Christian.

I just wonder what would be happening if Obama was white, and I find it disgusting to be in a position of thinking that.

Race is KILLING this country. Race and ignorance.

And the freakouts over ISIS/Daesh? I have a much higher chance of being shot and killed by Bubba, or Dewayne as they try to shoot their Johnsons off in their car than I have of being killed by ISIS.

This country has the ability to be The Best Country In The World, but it won't get there through hatred.

And with that, I'm done...

 

[AppleFan360]

Trump is on record as saying he thinks Eric Snowden is a traitorous puke. I support Trump and think Snowden is a hero.

 

[asiga]

Is Tim responsible of what NBC reports, of what Trump/Clinton/Sanders/Cruz says, and of court orders?

Are you joking? Tim made an institutional public letter because they wanted every media company to know and to distribute it. Tim goes lobbying because he wants to. Apple releases a bullying-awareness emoji because they want to give a message to the World. So, of course Tim is responsible of what NBC (and any other media) reports. I suppose you were joking, however.

 

[AppleFan360]

I took a course in mobile security and the instructor showed us how easy it is to break into the 4 digit password on an iPhone (which is what the terrorists used). It takes about 30 seconds. The method is to virtualize the contents of the iPhone first then run the cracking program which runs all possibilities of the 4 digit password. That's even with the 10 attempt limit turned on. I would guess that the FBI knows this so I'm wondering if anyone knows what Apple did to improve the security to prevent the iPhone from being moved into a virtualize environment. I haven't tried it myself but it seems like it would be pretty easy.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

It's not only affecting Americans.

If an American policy goes through to allow "backdoor" access to MS, Facebook, Google, Apple, Dropbox, etc it affects anyone that uses these services.

If the American government demands "backdoor" access to this, so can the Chinese government or other parties that wants to protect it's interest.

I remember watching TV and seeing a politician saying that the security agencies need 'backdoors', and that they can be 'secret backdoors', and that would keep Americans 'safe'. It would be a 'good compromise'.

I almost laughed so hard I wet my pants.

Then I though, if someone wants to see exactly how freaking unbelievably screwed up our Congress is, they just have to play that statement. A 'secret backdoor'? Well, why the heck didn't I think of that. A secret backdoor?

ANY backdoor would be found in short order, and exploited. Heck, there is evidence that OUR OWN GOVERNMENT was exploiting zerodays and NOT ALERTING THE INDUSTRY ABOUT THEM!

China, and other nations have been caught using zeroday exploits. There is NO SUCH THING AS A SECRET BACKDOOR! It's impossible. Any flaw will be found, and likely not revealed, and exploited to the nth degree.

Wasn't it during Wild Bill Clinton's presidency when the government tried to outlaw 'hard encryption'? Someone that trusts their government is a fool...
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Are you joking? Tim made an institutional public letter because they wanted every media company to know and to distribute it. Tim goes lobbying because he wants to. Apple releases a bullying-awareness emoji because they want to give a message to the World. So, of course Tim is responsible of what NBC (and any other media) reports. I suppose you were joking, however.

Or was it a comment on the lack of honesty and truthiness of our nation's media? Hmm...

 

[MagnusVonMagnum]

Well, The Donald just lost my vote permanently. He who doesn't defend the Constitution doesn't deserve it. If they were coming after his phone, he'd crap a golden brick, hypocrite that he is.

 

[colonelbutt]

Trump is a racist idiot, what is even less surprising is Americans who actually want him to become president. Some people in your country must be dumb as ****

quote one example of him being rascist ?

you just make things up right
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Lol trump is about as left as my right hand, a person who is left wouldn't be such a racist **** as trump is. Trump is PRO business as anything, he is a right wing capitalist at the very core.

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quote one example of him being a racist

 

[ToroidalZeus]

Well, The Donald just lost my vote permanently. He who doesn't defend the Constitution doesn't deserve it. If they were coming after his phone, he'd crap a golden brick, hypocrite that he is.

join the sanders revolution.

 

[Cloudane]

A lot of surprise early on in the thread that a couple of people openly admitted to being Trump supporters.

Word of warning - much of the internet tends to be very "left leaning" and this leads to a phenomenon we called "Shy Tories" when the UK had our elections last year. Basically because left politics online involves a lot of shaming and calling people bigots etc (I'm quite "leftie" myself but try to pay attention to the criticisms from the other side) hardly anyone dared to admit they even supported the Conservatives - who are tame in comparison. Trump would be better compared to Nigel Farage of UKIP at least with the xenophobia (perhaps even the disgraced Nick Griffin / BNP). It was the Conservatives however who ended up with the majority. The politics you see on social media can be quite far removed from reality, unfortunately.

 

[rdowns]

Well, The Donald just lost my vote permanently. He who doesn't defend the Constitution doesn't deserve it. If they were coming after his phone, he'd crap a golden brick, hypocrite that he is.

Golden? Nah, more of an orange hue.

 

[pooleman]

I added you to the quote because it doesn't sound like you understand what socialism is either.

To reiterate, Communism is where the government owns everything, all businesses and decides what and how things are made. Socialism is using government power to regulate businesses and tax the wealthy more to provide social works that benefit everyone.

US is already socialist with programs such as social security, medicare, medicaid, parks, school k-12, public colleges (although broken hence the problem), VA , unemployment ins. and a bunch of regulatory institutions such as the FTC. There is nothing crazy about getting healthcare ins. for everyone, reducing drug costs, getting paid family leave for pregnant women and getting public colleges free again.

On the college front, most US colleges are socialist aka public colleges. From UCLA to Michigan, state flagship university to community colleges, most colleges were built by the government to provide affordable education. And until recently, circa 2000s, they were affordable. So absolutely nothing crazy about getting them affordable again.

From what I've see, the most dangerous candidate is Trump as he has no regard for the opinions of anyone except himself. Sanders is the only real reform candidate trying to fix our problems and broken system. Everyone else is more of the same status quo. Hillary is Obama version 2.0. Rubio/Cruz/Bush/ are Bush version 2.0.[/QUOTE]

I'm going to respond to all your posts at once.

To start, I want to talk about how Obama is the anti-christ and how he wants to destroy America.

1. NSA Spying: Bush/Cheney started it, Obama has continued it and wants the prosecute Snowden for his leak.
2. Borders: Obama didn't secure the boarder, just like Bush didn't and just like Clinton did not. He has eased up on job restrictions for illegals tho.
3. Gay Marriage: Obama is for gay-marriage
4. Regime Change: Bush invaded countries, Clinton bombed Kosovo, Obama bombed Libya and Syria. Although Obama isn't going to commit ground troops, he has no problem with authorizing military force to carry out a regime change.
5. Weed: Hasn't legalized it, even tho he was a total pot head.

The Republicans keep blasting Obama as trying to destroy America, especially Marco Rubio, but looking at his policies, Obama has been mostly status quo, he's slightly left but not even close to being racial, progressive or even a real reformer. Obama is really about as close to a centrist as a president can get. (which is why he received the most wall street donations of any candidate)

You might notice I skipped Obamacare and that is because I wanted to talk in detail about Obamacare as there is a lot of misinformation about it. Obamacare does a lot of things but I just want to focus on just 2 points. First it raises the minimum standards so an ins. co. can't offer garbage plans that are almost no better than being uninsured and second it mandates co. with other 50 employees provide ins. to their employees.

You said that socialism was "a form of theft, stealing from those that worked to earn something and giving it to those that didn't" and that's not wrong but it's not entirely right either. We have corporations such as McDonalds or your local gym chain that are making millions, yet the clerks or cashiers can't even get decent healthcare. Without the government intervention, people would get ripped off badly by employers. Look at the past: child labor laws or health and safety laws; It wasn't even 100 years ago that people were routinely loosing their arms in meat processing plants.

In the US constitution it doesn't say anything about Capitalism, Socialism or Communism, but it does say that the government is supposed to "provide for the general welfare." That means solving problems, like healthcare, like college. I don't know if you noticed, but the republicans haven't preposed any serious solutions to problems in the least a decade.

I added you to the quote because it doesn't sound like you understand what socialism is either.

To reiterate, Communism is where the government owns everything, all businesses and decides what and how things are made. Socialism is using government power to regulate businesses and tax the wealthy more to provide social works that benefit everyone.

US is already socialist with programs such as social security, medicare, medicaid, parks, school k-12, public colleges (although broken hence the problem), VA , unemployment ins. and a bunch of regulatory institutions such as the FTC. There is nothing crazy about getting healthcare ins. for everyone, reducing drug costs, getting paid family leave for pregnant women and getting public colleges free again.

On the college front, most US colleges are socialist aka public colleges. From UCLA to Michigan, state flagship university to community colleges, most colleges were built by the government to provide affordable education. And until recently, circa 2000s, they were affordable. So absolutely nothing crazy about getting them affordable again.

From what I've see, the most dangerous candidate is Trump as he has no regard for the opinions of anyone except himself. Sanders is the only real reform candidate trying to fix our problems and broken system. Everyone else is more of the same status quo. Hillary is Obama version 2.0. Rubio/Cruz/Bush/ are Bush version 2.0.

No sir, you clearly do not know what socialism is. Can't you see how what Sanders is proposing can quickly lead to Communism and/or totalitarianism? All the dictators of the 20th century (Lenin, Hitler, Castro, Mussolini) all started their political campaigns in a similar fashion to Bernie. When you start giving the government too much power it becomes more and more difficult to control. Regaining that power becomes nearly impossible. The government has far too much power and authority now. I agree that we have far too many social programs as it is.

Bernie's policies will destroy our economy, which is the idea. Nothing is free. You should be very cautious about anyone who is promising you something for free. Bernie is proposing a 90% tax rate for the wealthiest Americans. It's crazy. If you want to see what America looks like under Sanders just look to Cuba.

You sadly are one of the "Useful Idiots" Lenin spoke about.
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A lot of surprise early on in the thread that a couple of people openly admitted to being Trump supporters.

Word of warning - much of the internet tends to be very "left leaning" and this leads to a phenomenon we called "Shy Tories" when the UK had our elections last year. Basically because left politics online involves a lot of shaming and calling people bigots etc (I'm quite "leftie" myself but try to pay attention to the criticisms from the other side) hardly anyone dared to admit they even supported the Conservatives - who are tame in comparison. Trump would be better compared to Nigel Farage of UKIP at least with the xenophobia (perhaps even the disgraced Nick Griffin / BNP). It was the Conservatives however who ended up with the majority. The politics you see on social media can be quite far removed from reality, unfortunately.

I proudly proclaim to be a Trump supporter. What has electing career politicians gotten us the last 50 years? In my opinion there is basically only 1 party in America now. They go by different names (Republican, Democrat) but ultimately the same party. It's more like Democans and Republicrats. Every elected position should have term limits. No more lifetime Representative and Senatorial positions. 2 terms and out.

There are basically like 4 or 5 real conservatives in all of Congress. I like Trumps positions on National security and the Wall. A Nation is defined by what? It's BORDERS. It's LANGUAGE. It's CULTURE. All of these things are being eroded at an alarming rate. Walls work. We aren't required to clothe, feed, and shelter everyone in the world. There are dangerous people coming into the country. The European nations that accepted all these refugees are waking up to the fact that they made a huge mistake. Their desire to help (which is admirable) has cost them their security and safety, both physically and economically.

Call me a fascist, xenophobe, whatever. But if you are unwilling to let an unknown stranger in your house, why should we let them into our country?

 

[colonelbutt]

A lot of surprise early on in the thread that a couple of people openly admitted to being Trump supporters.

Word of warning - much of the internet tends to be very "left leaning" and this leads to a phenomenon we called "Shy Tories" when the UK had our elections last year. Basically because left politics online involves a lot of shaming and calling people bigots etc (I'm quite "leftie" myself but try to pay attention to the criticisms from the other side) hardly anyone dared to admit they even supported the Conservatives - who are tame in comparison. Trump would be better compared to Nigel Farage of UKIP at least with the xenophobia (perhaps even the disgraced Nick Griffin / BNP). It was the Conservatives however who ended up with the majority. The politics you see on social media can be quite far removed from reality, unfortunately.

neither trump nor farage is a xenophobe
that's completely made up by the "left leaning" soundbite cloud you refer to

I am a trump supporter. I don't like his brash rude NY manner, but his solution driven policies are the best thing in politics for 40 years

best rgds

 

[pooleman]

neither trump nor farage is a xenophobe
that's completely made up by the "left leaning" soundbite cloud you refer to

I am a trump supporter. I don't like his brash rude NY manner, but his solution driven policies are the best thing in politics for 40 years

best rgds

AMEN! Brother!

No single politician can deliver everything, but I feel with Trump we will get about 80%. He is loud and boorish. But what has the clean, polished politicians of the last 50 years gotten us? Answer: deeper in debt and more powerless than ever.

The left leaning media not withstanding, the biggest problem with American politics is the apathetic populace. We the people should have risen up and voted out of office 75% of the lying, thieving politicians that are still in office. Bush was inept; Clinton was a liar; Female Clinton is a liar and a killer; Obama is probably all three of those things. Sanders is a whole different kind of dangerous plague. Cruz is a snake; Baby Bush is spineless and inept; Rubio is a joke; I actually think Carson would be a great president but he has no real chance of winning. Trump is a jerk and a bully but frankly I like that in a leader. I really don't care if the rest of the world hates us. I want all my fellow Americans to be safe and prosperous.

 

[AppleFan360]

AMEN! Brother!

No single politician can deliver everything, but I feel with Trump we will get about 80%. He is loud and boorish. But what has the clean, polished politicians of the last 50 years gotten us? Answer: deeper in debt and more powerless than ever.

The left leaning media not withstanding, the biggest problem with American politics is the apathetic populace. We the people should have risen up and voted out of office 75% of the lying, thieving politicians that are still in office. Bush was inept; Clinton was a liar; Female Clinton is a liar and a killer; Obama is probably all three of those things. Sanders is a whole different kind of dangerous plague. Cruz is a snake; Baby Bush is spineless and inept; Rubio is a joke; I actually think Carson would be a great president but he has no real chance of winning. Trump is a jerk and a bully but frankly I like that in a leader. I really don't care if the rest of the world hates us. I want all my fellow Americans to be safe and prosperous.

You bring up some good points. The thought of Trump as president is scary but maybe we need a good shakeup in the political system to get us out of the rut we are in. You also have to ask yourself this question. Who would you rather have at a bargaining table? Cruz/Rubio or Donald Trump? If I remember correctly, many of the founding fathers were business people who understood the economy and had worked in the system. In my opinion, career politicians and lawyers are not viable in the business world and could never even begin to understand what it takes to put people back to work with decent wages.

I'm not a full Trump supporter. Quite frankly I'm undecided, but it's going to be an interesting election process to say the least.

 

[FieldingMellish]

Look at oil rich, yet desperate Venezuela to see what socialism brings.

 

[colonelbutt]

AMEN! Brother!

No single politician can deliver everything, but I feel with Trump we will get about 80%. He is loud and boorish. But what has the clean, polished politicians of the last 50 years gotten us? Answer: deeper in debt and more powerless than ever.

The left leaning media not withstanding, the biggest problem with American politics is the apathetic populace. We the people should have risen up and voted out of office 75% of the lying, thieving politicians that are still in office. Bush was inept; Clinton was a liar; Female Clinton is a liar and a killer; Obama is probably all three of those things. Sanders is a whole different kind of dangerous plague. Cruz is a snake; Baby Bush is spineless and inept; Rubio is a joke; I actually think Carson would be a great president but he has no real chance of winning. Trump is a jerk and a bully but frankly I like that in a leader. I really don't care if the rest of the world hates us. I want all my fellow Americans to be safe and prosperous.

I love your post, made me laugh

I generally agree with you.

I don't think Cruz is a snake. I think he is quite a nice guy, just austere and uncompromising. I do think politicians have to be somewhat pragmatic, and listen to differing opinions, but then execute strongly

Rubio is also pretty steely, just very "crafted". I think he is a steel fist in a velvet glove
However the public mood is going away from the crafted politician. Just look at Clinton, no substance at all, at least nothing you want. I'd be happy with Rubio but its tough for him to beat Trump.

America has to win. Its good for everyone. it might surprise you but I am not an American. I just think a strong America that asserts democracy and capitalism is good for the world. A weak America means that Russia, Iran and China will influence everyone with money and ideology and leave a fractious war town poor and dangerous world, with no voice for the citizen.

Finally, if we look at the most assertive US presidents, e.g. Reagan, Nixon, etc. The left loved to hate them, but the US did well under them and funnily enough the US was the most admired and aspirational country at these times in every public survey. You would have thought that with Obama's "love the terrorist" moto the world would love America. Actually the opposite, Obama has killed respect for the US and its leading light of the fight for freedom, prosperity and the American dream .

If you don't respect yourself, no one else will ...

 

[pooleman]

I love your post, made me laugh

I generally agree with you.

I don't think Cruz is a snake. I think he is quite a nice guy, just austere and uncompromising. I do think politicians have to be somewhat pragmatic, and listen to differing opinions, but then execute strongly

Rubio is also pretty steely, just very "crafted". I think he is a steel fist in a velvet glove
However the public mood is going away from the crafted politician. Just look at Clinton, no substance at all, at least nothing you want. I'd be happy with Rubio but its tough for him to beat Trump.

America has to win. Its good for everyone. it might surprise you but I am not an American. I just think a strong America that asserts democracy and capitalism is good for the world. A weak America means that Russia, Iran and China will influence everyone with money and ideology and leave a fractious war town poor and dangerous world, with no voice for the citizen.

Finally, if we look at the most assertive US presidents, e.g. Reagan, Nixon, etc. The left loved to hate them, but the US did well under them and funnily enough the US was the most admired and aspirational country at these times in every public survey. You would have thought that with Obama's "love the terrorist" moto the world would love America. Actually the opposite, Obama has killed respect for the US and its leading light of the fight for freedom, prosperity and the American dream .

If you don't respect yourself, no one else will ...

I do feel that Cruz, Rubio, Clinton, Paul, Christie, etc. will say anything to get elected and they are all beholden to the powers that put them in office. The DOLLAR is king. Sanders actually believes what he says, which is the scariest thing about him.

I don't believe Russia needs to be vilified the way that they are. This isn't the Cold War anymore. These American "conservatives" that treat Reagan like a god attack Russia because Reagan attacked Russia. But that was 30 years ago. Russia should be an ally, not an enemy of the USA.

 

[colonelbutt]

I do feel that Cruz, Rubio, Clinton, Paul, Christie, etc. will say anything to get elected and they are all beholden to the powers that put them in office. The DOLLAR is king. Sanders actually believes what he says, which is the scariest thing about him.

I don't believe Russia needs to be vilified the way that they are. This isn't the Cold War anymore. These American "conservatives" that treat Reagan like a god attack Russia because Reagan attacked Russia. But that was 30 years ago. Russia should be an ally, not an enemy of the USA.

Russia is running very oddly at the moment. Its flights into UK and US airspace, its invasion of Georgia and Ukraine, are all troubling. However I agree, I think long term Russia is not the enemy. After Putin it will probably settle down somewhat

Its also interesting that Trump gets on well with Putin. Another of those positive things about Trump that are somewhat obscured by the current smelly debate.

Trump is actually quite considered in his international policy. He was against the Iraq war, is against intervention in Syria, a friend of Putin, doesn't like the Iran agreement but will consult on it to see the best way forward, etc. etc.

Sanders in the US and Corbyn in the UK are the most worrying modern political developments. It seems that the much of the younger generation has been poorly educated and wish to repeat all the mistakes of the past. Not only is the kind of taxation and nationalisation they are exposing theoretically inconsistent and provably damaging, but it has been tried many times in many countries and the results are always the same. i.e. a physics experiment with irrefutable consequences. Its like we, the human race, are rats that need to keep running down the wrong tunnel 100 times to be electrocuted before we finally realise the right tunnel to run down. That disturbs me. However a glance at my stainless steel apple watch usually cheers me up

 

[pooleman]

Russia is running very oddly at the moment. Its flights into UK and US airspace, its invasion of Georgia and Ukraine, are all troubling. However I agree, I think long term Russia is not the enemy. After Putin it will probably settle down somewhat.......That disturbs me. However a glance at my stainless steel apple watch usually cheers me up

This is the problem, and I am not trying to offend or accuse you of anything, but too many people are apathetic and easily pleased by small things. "The world is turning to hell, people are loosing their jobs, and the government keeps reaching deeper and deeper into my pocket as my country gets invaded, but I have the newest iPhone and get constant updates from Reddit and NPR. So all is well."

Personally I think the biggest issue people secretly have with this order to Apple is that they fear people will be able to see what they are sending via SNAPCHAT and their filthy browser history will be exposed.