Current Events Remind me of a Passage in "Atlas Shrugged."

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There was a scene in which Phillip, the brother of the industrialist hero, who does nothing but live off of his brother's charity while critizicing Hank's lack of "social responsibility" Hank's mother and wife are much the same kind of ingrates. Hank has finally heard enough:

"Philip," he said, not raising his voice, "say any of that again and you will find yourself out in the street,
right now, with the suit you've got on your back, with whatever change you've got in your pocket and
with nothing else."

He heard no answer, no sound, no movement. He noted that the stillness of the three before him had
no element of astonishment. The look of shock on their faces was not the shock of people at the sudden
explosion of a bomb, but the shock of people who had known that they were playing with a lighted fuse.
There were no outcries, no protests, no questions; they knew that he meant it and they knew everything it
meant. A dim, sickening feeling told him that they had known it long before he did.


This is what is happening now to Democrats.

The jig is up. The game is over.

No more pretending to be generous by stealing other people's money for your own use, no more pretending to be warriors by having government do the stealing for you. No more constant lies about Trump and no more phony investigations and prosecutions to stop him from doing the people's business.

At the bottom of their larcenous hearts, the left knew this day was coming, sooner or later. That's why they fought Trump so hard and so dirty, hoping for later, pushing to hold off the inevitable in the short term, comforted by the famous lefty slogan, "In the long run, we're all dead."
 
I hate the Left too, don't get me wrong, but I doubt Trump will do anything seriously bad to Dems. Politicians protect their own. Very few politicians will side with the people against other politicians. Trump talks a big game, and puts on a show. But do we know who he invites over for dinner behind closed doors? We don't, as a matter of fact. This is true for almost all of them.
 
I hate the Left too, don't get me wrong, but I doubt Trump will do anything seriously bad to Dems. Politicians protect their own. Very few politicians will side with the people against other politicians. Trump talks a big game, and puts on a show. But do we know who he invites over for dinner behind closed doors? We don't, as a matter of fact. This is true for almost all of them.
lol. There are no closed doors with this administration. You can't get any more transparent unless the cameras followed him to the bathroom. He tells us daily what he's been doing since sun up. It would be nice if he had a Cabinet, so he could get even more done.
And Trump isn't a politician. He is a businessman. He wants to take America to its zenith. Let him. Let him try because we are the beneficiaries.
America first is a superb idea.
 
I hate the Left too, don't get me wrong, but I doubt Trump will do anything seriously bad to Dems. Politicians protect their own. Very few politicians will side with the people against other politicians. Trump talks a big game, and puts on a show. But do we know who he invites over for dinner behind closed doors? We don't, as a matter of fact. This is true for almost all of them.
Yes, I’m sure the politicians will rework their narratives, claim to have opposed FWA all along but make them president and they’ll get rid of it without all the suffering that Trump is causing. Or they’ll say “address it,” or “deal with it,”

It’s the bureaucrats and the recipients of the FWA who are in that state of surprised but not surprised, shocked but only that the inevitable finally happened.
 
Politicians are no different from anyone else. They protect their own legal and sometimes illegal financial sources. The difference is that politicians don't work in a vacuum, they work for us. Only criminals can get away with protecting sources of capital based on criminal activity but politicians are right there in front of us.
 
You ain't suffering one bit because of Trump.

If you could not lie and make things up you would be speechless
Wow.

Probably the most thorough misunderstanding of a post I've seen yet.

I didn't say that Trump made anyone suffer. I said that that is what politicians will say when they realize how popular getting rid of FWA in government is.
 
There was a scene in which Phillip, the brother of the industrialist hero, who does nothing but live off of his brother's charity while critizicing Hank's lack of "social responsibility" Hank's mother and wife are much the same kind of ingrates. Hank has finally heard enough:

"Philip," he said, not raising his voice, "say any of that again and you will find yourself out in the street,
right now, with the suit you've got on your back, with whatever change you've got in your pocket and
with nothing else."

He heard no answer, no sound, no movement. He noted that the stillness of the three before him had
no element of astonishment. The look of shock on their faces was not the shock of people at the sudden
explosion of a bomb, but the shock of people who had known that they were playing with a lighted fuse.
There were no outcries, no protests, no questions; they knew that he meant it and they knew everything it
meant. A dim, sickening feeling told him that they had known it long before he did.


This is what is happening now to Democrats.

The jig is up. The game is over.

No more pretending to be generous by stealing other people's money for your own use, no more pretending to be warriors by having government do the stealing for you. No more constant lies about Trump and no more phony investigations and prosecutions to stop him from doing the people's business.

At the bottom of their larcenous hearts, the left knew this day was coming, sooner or later. That's why they fought Trump so hard and so dirty, hoping for later, pushing to hold off the inevitable in the short term, comforted by the famous lefty slogan, "In the long run, we're all dead."
Does Pamela Geller still run website Atlas Shrugged?
 
Wow.

Probably the most thorough misunderstanding of a post I've seen yet.

I didn't say that Trump made anyone suffer. I said that that is what politicians will say when they realize how popular getting rid of FWA in government is.
Read your comment. You said Trump is causing suffering. No where in your post does it come close to saying what you just said. Here is your comment.

Yes, I’m sure the politicians will rework their narratives, claim to have opposed FWA all along but make them president and they’ll get rid of it without all the suffering that Trump is causing. Or they’ll say “address it,” or “deal with it,”
 
Read your comment. You said Trump is causing suffering. No where in your post does it come close to saying what you just said. Here is your comment.

Yes, I’m sure the politicians will rework their narratives, claim to have opposed FWA all along but make them president and they’ll get rid of it without all the suffering that Trump is causing. Or they’ll say “address it,” or “deal with it,”
It says that “politicians will claim . . . “

Pick any three of my posts at random and see if I think Trump causes suffering for anyone but freeloaders and fraudsters,
 

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