Jeff Jacoby: 'The most difficult first 100 days'? Not quite

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Jeff Jacoby (token conservative at Boston Globe): 'The most difficult first 100 days'? Not quite[^]

[Stan Shannon]

The first thing I thought of when I heard that ludicrous statement was "What about Lincoln?" He had an entire civil war dumped in his lap. These may well turn out to be the most damaging first 100 days in American history, but only becuase we have a president who brings nothing but arrogance and naked hostility towards all things American into the oval office. By the end of the first 100 days, we are no longer even going to be America - we will be citizens of the great international socialist brotherhood.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

[Rob Graham]

Stan Shannon wrote:

we will be citizens of the great international socialist brotherhood.

The good news is that the great international socialist brotherhood will be flat broke, having killed commerce, destroyed the currency, and started a trade war. Bernanke decided to print another $T out of thin air and use if to "buy" back treasuries Friday. That makes over $2 trillion added to the money supply. It's looking pretty dilute to me. What do you suppose he'll do when hyperinflation hits in about 6 months? Raise interest rates to Jimmy Carter levels?

[Oakman]

Rob Graham wrote:

What do you suppose he'll do when hyperinflation hits in about 6 months?

Well, when the rioting starts, he'll have to call out the National Guard --- oops, he stopped funding them a little while earlier, didn't he? :omg: I'm thinking of sneaking across the border into Baja California . . .

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[Stan Shannon]

Rob Graham wrote:

The good news is that the great international socialist brotherhood will be flat broke, having killed commerce, destroyed the currency, and started a trade war.

Thats what I have counted on all along. If anything is going to kill liberalism, it is going to have to be liberalism itself. God knows there is no political will to do it in any other way.

Rob Graham wrote:

What do you suppose he'll do when hyperinflation hits in about 6 months? Raise interest rates to Jimmy Carter levels?

I don't think there will be any other choice. If any of this shit works at all, I will be happy to eat crow and go about my life. But frankly, I think it is all down hill from here. And we ain't talking 'slippery slope' downhill, but more like 'edge of the precipice at the bottom of the slippery slope' downhill. I just want to be able to shout 'I told ya so ya ignorant leftist bastards' as I'm dragged over the side'.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.