dagblog - Comments for "Dan Crenshaw started this week as a punchline and ended it as a star. The real story came before that."

Yes, you can read the

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:45:57 +0000

In reply to Crenshaw's top priorities,

Yes, you can read the comments on the WaPo article, or simply this true red-baked Web site of Crenshaw's "reach-across-the-aisle" positions. I wonder with tours of Afghanistan that Mr. Crenshaw didn't say develop feelings of compassion for people down on their luck? Instead his web site is a monument to "I got mine, go get yours" thinking. Where's the supposed opening for dialogue? Cut social security, health care, education, et al, and everything will improve, eh? Just like in Afghanistan, where government can't interfere with the outlying regions - it's just a bastion of Petri dish of pure Republican libertarianism - as goes Kandahar, so goes our nation (except, oops, Republicans don't even like a bit of reefer - what they gonna do when Suzy comes home with a bad monkey on her back? to a certain extent, our opioid culture mimics Afghanistan's poppies, & combined with Breaking Bad-like DIY meth labs, well, we just may have the Afghanis whipped for outright loony and unrepressed drug industry enthusiasm.

"opioids are now responsible for 49,000 of the 72,000 drug overdose deaths overall in the US in 2017."
Though heroin's still kicking around, the US is moving on to better, more pharmacist-prescribed drugs - yay!!!
Maybe introducing more generics will help the problem.

Crenshaw's top priorities,

NCD — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 23:14:30 +0000

In reply to Re: that last question, I'd

Crenshaw's top priorities, from link

Guns, border, abortion, Bibles, 10th Amendment, note 10-thers believe in extremely limited federal government, Rick Perry, 2011, on the lack of Constitutional basis for Social Security due to the 10th Amendment:

"I don’t think our founding fathers when they were putting the term ‘general welfare’ in there were thinking about a federally operated program of pensions…. What they clearly said was that those were issues that the states need to address. Not the federal government.... "

10'thers also believe federal gun laws, EPA, minimum wage, public lands etc are unconstitutional.

Where Dan Stands:

National Security, Foreign Policy and Defense
Economy
2nd Amendment
Abortion
Immigration
Religious Liberty
Education
Federalism and the 10th Amendment
Free Speech
Healthcare
Fix the VA and Take Care of Our Veterans
American Energy
Local Projects
Supporting our Israeli Allies
The Middle East
Flood Policy

Re: that last question, I'd

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 22:56:00 +0000

In reply to You go on with your little

Re: that last question, I'd think eventually vets would balance respect for those strong security types with strong-security-but-lowering-our-foreign-involvement-unnecessarily. Instead it's always "thank us for our service" and "never forget", while

Three years later, Crenshaw says he supports the president’s policies, save for the trade warfare, but prefers to comport himself in a manner that is the total opposite of the commander in chief’s.

“His style is not my style,” Crenshaw says. “I’ll just say that. It’s never how I would conduct myself. But what readers of The Washington Post need to understand is that conservatives can hold multiple ideas in their head at the same time. We can be like, ‘Wow he shouldn’t have tweeted that’ and still support him . . . You can disapprove of what the president says every day, or that day, and still support his broader agenda.”

I mean, what the fuck is "his broader agenda"? killing decent healthcare/insurance, demonizing immigrants, getting us in highly disruptive trade wars, dismantling any environmental protections, hiring cronies, actively destroying rule of law, promoting overt lies as a basis for gutting precedents, and by the way, blowing out the budget with wanton trillion dollar tax cuts that Republicans decided they no longer need to budget for?
I guess I'm glad Mr. Houdini can hold multiple ideas inside his head, like "Screw the Country!!!" side by side with "Let's be Honorable!!!" as just 1 of a dozen paradoxical gems I don't think I can pull off.
To be clear, I don't really care that much what Trump tweets - that's his distractions - I care about the awful stuff he does. I disapprove of WHAT THE PRESIDENT *DOES* EVERY DAY. The results are out there. Own up, gentlemen.

I respect Mr. Crenshaw's sacrifice and the balls it took to put himself in that position, and the reasons for it. I of course respect his right to have whatever opinion he has. But I thought most soldiers knew you often have really shitty commanders that you might have to follow even if it's a suicide mission, but you don't have to "support" their idiocies as if you think say Gallipoli was anything but a collossal suicidal atrocity and brainfart. The same goes for Trump on an even greater scale. 3000 died in Puerto Rico, many for 0 reason short of lackadaisical complacence & indifference by Trump in not handling an obvious, well-forecasted emergency. The numbers who die from disruption of say health services or this gonzo trade war with China, Europe, Canada - all shoot-from-the-hip, unplanned "maverick" stuff - is a bit harder to calculate, but yes, there are real deaths along with bankruptcies and other suffering.

How about "never forget the list of lies Trump told in leading us down this rabbit hole"? How about never forget that we're supporting killing civilians in Yemen, all so he can increase arms sales to Saudi Arabia - is that a good noble use of America's strength projection? (note that when Trump was called out on it, he just had DoD come back and pull top secret support instead - same shit, different day.

You go on with your little

AmericanDreamer — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 18:54:40 +0000

In reply to So he went from having the

You go on with your little hate rant. I know. It is hard for you to see good in people you disagree with or despise or think undeserving of having anything good said about them.

To your last question my answer is yes, absolutely. As I thought was clear enough from what I wrote.

So he went from having the

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 18:13:00 +0000

In reply to Dan Crenshaw started this week as a punchline and ended it as a star. The real story came before that.

So he went from having the balls to admit the president's a moron, to holding his nose as another fellow traveller. Any other "exciting" young white dudes for me to creme myself over? Is "never forget" code for "just let it pass as another joker supports the atrocities"? I'm sorry he got blown up, and it's nice he can still joke about it, but give me something more as a candidate - what'd he learn cramming on health care? To be an Obama-hater? Does he appreciate the free health care that comes with being a soldier, and appreciate some people get blown ip outside of wars and have no one to cover it? How'd he feel about the handling of Puerto Rico(or locally when Trump shut off relief for Houston)?

Does "never forget" include trying to keep us out of dumb wars?