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I’m amazed how many elected people have no real world experience in anything yet think they
Author:
jray
(2748 Posts - Original UHND Member)
Posted at 8:44 am on Apr 4, 2024
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know what’s best for us.
Replies to: "I’m amazed how many elected people have no real world experience in anything yet think they"
Name ANY political figure who cared for anything beyond being in power... ANY!
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Curly1918
- 5:15am 4/4/24
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Rand Paul. He could sell out, but he doesn't. Granted, he'll never be "in power" b/c of that.
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NedoftheHill
- 9:06pm 4/4/24
Cincinnatus
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Iggle
- 10:50am 4/4/24
Gandhi
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TakethetrainKnute
- 10:00am 4/4/24
Gandhi was mixed bag. He was a racist who sent many to sensless deaths and slept with young girls.
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Curly1918
- 10:06am 4/4/24
See...he did care about other things...
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TakethetrainKnute
- 10:07am 4/4/24
Trump is a Perfect Narcissist...the exception that proves the rule...
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TyroneIrish
- 4:17pm 4/4/24
Lech Walesa
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Nigel Tufnel
- 9:43am 4/4/24
Someone who opposed the Soviet Union! He'd probably not be popular with our autocrat cultists.
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Curly1918
- 9:47am 4/4/24
Nelson Mandela. Today, it's a job for narcissists and sociopaths.
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LanceManion
- 9:28am 4/4/24
I never saw him as a politician. But if he was... this is as good an example as is possible.
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Curly1918
- 9:32am 4/4/24
You asked for "political figure" which he certainly became...
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TakethetrainKnute
- 9:39am 4/4/24
I never saw him as seeking political power... but a martyr who got elevated due to his integrity.
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Curly1918
- 9:43am 4/4/24
Agree he did not seek it out...but became one nonetheless.
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TakethetrainKnute
- 9:47am 4/4/24
Name ANY other Presidential candidate who sought an insurrection to stay in power, other than
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TyroneIrish
- 8:45am 4/4/24
How bout the other 574 insurrections, do they count?
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cubsfanin16
- 11:40am 4/4/24
Jefferson Davis. A Democrat.
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Hensou
- 9:47am 4/4/24
A) JD was never President, and B) the “Safe Haven” for Racists switched from
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TyroneIrish
- 11:50am 4/4/24
Another BS Home Run! Davis was President of The Confederacy. A true Democrat.
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Hensou
- 12:46pm 4/4/24
One...more...time, Ara...we're talking about the United States Presidency...and April 4, 2024...
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TyroneIrish
- 4:45pm 4/4/24
I am not Ara.. You must be talking to yourselves. Pure gibberish.
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Hensou
- 8:03am 4/5/24
It's an unanswered question...Have you (the person) ever posted here with the Username of "Aragoto"?
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TyroneIrish
- 11:02am 4/5/24
I take your post as a concession that my basis premise is accurate.
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Curly1918
- 9:29am 4/4/24
Trump stands alone in our history...there is no equivocation.
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TyroneIrish
- 9:33am 4/4/24
Presume you mean "equivalent"...
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TakethetrainKnute
- 9:45am 4/4/24
No...I meant what I wrote...IMO Curly has a penchant for "Equivocation" in almost everything...but
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TyroneIrish
- 10:44am 4/4/24
"Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one." - Voltaire
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Curly1918
- 3:50pm 4/4/24
Would you actually vote for Trump...given his support for Putin and his attempt to overthrow the
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TyroneIrish
- 4:05pm 4/4/24
OK...then IMO Curly is far less prone to equivocation than you. Curly just needs to remember...
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TakethetrainKnute
- 11:00am 4/4/24
That was a bit of Freudian denial. He was euthanized while suffering from "oral" cancer.
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Curly1918
- 3:58pm 4/4/24
You are certainly entitled to that opinion…now, do you think that Trump is just a typical
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TyroneIrish
- 11:54am 4/4/24
That is a lie.
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PaND
- 8:50am 4/4/24
Some of them start with good intentions and then become corrupted/captured by the machine.
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iairishcheeks
- 8:44am 4/4/24
I’m amazed how many elected people have no real world experience in anything yet think they
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jray
- 8:44am 4/4/24
Same is true for our career bureuacrats. Zero real world chops.
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Curly1918
- 9:34am 4/4/24
Actually, there are a fair number of them...here's one...
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TyroneIrish
- 9:09am 4/4/24
I'm sorry but a two term mayor and prosecutor associated with Harvard is not "real world."
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Curly1918
- 9:41am 4/4/24
It doesn't get any more "Real World" than being a Mayor...you have to work within a budget and the
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TyroneIrish
- 10:55am 4/4/24
A "budget" of other people's money. No skin in the game except getting re-elected.
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Curly1918
- 4:01pm 4/4/24
You are seriously jaundiced, Curly...don't be such a "Debbie Downer"...
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TyroneIrish
- 4:08pm 4/4/24
George Washington.
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Rooney
- 8:12am 4/4/24
Disingenuous argument. They all crave power or they wouldn’t run.
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Quest4twelve
- 7:26am 4/4/24
I agree.
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PaND
- 8:51am 4/4/24