Would you vote for Trump? A quiz.

[gray_marian]

Déjà vu!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZpMJeynBeg

[j.sabourn]

Like most politicians in the western world they all get to the stage where they think they are a Dynasty. Take Mr. Bliar who I would say is about average of a bunch of the No Hopers Brigade who wanted at one time, which subject went dry, for his son to follow him into politics. If he does I would advice him not to advertise his lineage too much. Watched some profiliterate polly with a loud voice sitting there espousing about world trade in general. The background shots were of working men bricklayers, carpenters,steelworkers etc. and I thought to myself everyone of those people put more into the country in a day than the likes of yourself in a lifetime. The politicians of today are the cause of every conflict that is happening today by putting their noses into others affairs and then have the cheek to offer Joe Bloggs to go and lay his life down for alien people of an alien race. The term Regime Change was espoused in US politics in my lifetime when it came to certain other countries, that is not what Democracy is about, democracy is not what we want to force on others, it is up to themselves only. Reading about this EU crap, apparently that sidekick of Bliar, now a Lord the one who used to have a boy friend following him around, is also coming out with the crap about being essential to staying in. An article Entitled ..Eurozone is both a political and an economic failure. The final paragraph sums it all up by Lord King ex governor of the Bank of England. We will suffer the consequences of a currency we never joined and a political union we never wanted. Or we can get out now and leave them to it. Its not really much of a dilemma is it? JS ... As this post is about Trump however, if I was in the position of having a say in US politics, yes I think I would vote for him, the options of what is on display lags behind. The furore raised by the media and anti Trump lobby shows to me that they are not interested in free speech anymore, Trump at least is more untouchable in this way and would be able money wise to defend himself in any court of law. The people I would imagine are getting a wee bit peed off with the usual shower that get in and are beholden to certain industrialists from day 1. Anyhow anyone filling out an application for a work position and filling in the position desired as politician past or present I wouldn't endorse in any case. If there was a choice between him and Hillary Clinton I would go for him in any case, I think the world of the Clintons has seen its heyday. " I did not sleep with that woman", what will she come out with apart from which she already has in the past, as regards being security minded she will have to take a course before she takes the reins of power. God Bless America, and her people. The Politicians can bless themselves as they already probably do. JS

[happy daze john in oz]

Rodders #39, yes many of the Americans who come here are not too popular. Thye tend to be a bit brash and even to the pointy of being vulgar to some. But that does not mean they ate all bad any more than any other national. But so many here have no great love for them which is a bit sad considering some of the very good work they did for Oz during the war, but I guess that is human nature. I try to take each as I see them, good and bad everywhere.

[j.sabourn]

John, if you had seen Aberdeen in its hey day you would have seen American adulation at its peak. There were still remnants of it there when I went into that part of the Industry. An oil rig worker maybe a Glaswegian or Aberdonian, with his plaid shirt, Red Wing Boots, wranglers and baseball cap, and affected American accent, although most had never been out of the country, was a sight to see. This was still there for some time after most of the American expertize had gone. There was no harm in it, as a kid I lived in Surrey during the war, near Richmond and Bushy Park which had US troops stationed there. In a food lacking Britain the troops were all film stars as all had things to give away, a bit like us after the war, in Germany, Poland and Russia, where we as seamen were better off than our counterparts ashore in the UK. I remember going ashore all night in Gdansk for a whole night on a packet of chewing gum and an old battered wrist watch. We all at one time or another took advantage of the situation of someone elses adversities in life, in small ways. Today however the same is on a much larger scale, whole countries going to the wall, there must be an advantage to someone somewhere. Who ???? Cheers JS