What If 2020 Was Just a Rehearsal?

I read several of his books. I didn't agree with much, but I was both entertained and educated by it all. He made conservatism make sense.

 

The only people who have any idea what a libertarian is are libertarians. The rest of us just see a moving target too difficult to discern.

 

You just described a liberal and, thus, supported my point.

 

You're moving the goalposts by creating a new list. This list sounds more like a libertarian (occasionally).

I haven't. Other than a couple of posts with you, I can't imagine ever discussing the concept. Mostly because, in practice, libertarians are illusionary.

 

https://www.chron.com/politics/article/Dan-Patrick-voter-fraud-bounty-backfires-16551132.php

 

I agree.

This is that.

 

All true. In fairness to Lerner, he's a Russophone - and Russian state propaganda is weapons-grade. If Fox is Bulls#t Mountain, Vremya and Vesti and RT are Bulls#t Multiple Launch Rocket System. I've seen what it does to people's brains, man.

What angers me is he should have had a perspective to avoid this. Take Manafort, for example. The guy was Ukraine's President Yanukovych' primary political consultant; helped install and prop up his criminal regime, and championed the divisive rhetoric that was exploited by Russia, causing the loss of Crimea and the ongoing shooting war in the east. Here is evidence even his own daughters blamed him for that:
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/manaforts-ukrainian-blood-money-caused-qualms-hack-suggests-235473

So, yeah, seeing a guy from my neck o'woods falling for Paul's newer client grates me. The massacre of protesters in February 2014, by Manafort's old boss, was steps from my first real job, in a safe, pedestrian-only shopping district (Independence Square/Khreschatyk St./Instituts'ka St.). I went there for lunch with regularity; imagine seeing images of blood on that pavement. Lerner just brushes this right aside. But my emotions may make me too harsh. I've seen a respected Ukrainian/Canadian volunteer going pro-Trump; in a Manafort story, what concerned her is an alleged plot by the then-Ukrainian President to help Clinton by exposing it. If this can happen, what can you expect from a random semi-vatnik?

 

I trust your opinion on these matters.

Truth is I don't think Lerner really has any discussions with anyone in the Political Discussions forum. The closest thing to a discussion he's had on this forum is probably with you. It makes it harder to tell what he is really like. I captured this little exchange as an example. I think it proves the fact that he doesn't care in the least what others are saying. His only purpose here is to just spread the "Republican word". He doesn't read the posts of others, he only very quickly skims the posts.

I copied the earlier post because Lerner asked about it and so I copied it here again.

Then Lerner asked.

As you can see, I made it clear in my post that it was not my analysis but was the analysis of MediaBiasFactCheck.com.

Note that if you want to look at the original post one can just click on the little up arrow.