With so much negative political advertising assaulting us at every turn in these final hours of the 2020 election, Scott Ott asks Bill Whittle how President Trump’s reelection positively improves your pursuit of happiness. What are you looking forward to starting in 2021 during the second term of the Donald Trump administration?
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Bill Whittle Network · Positively Trump: How President Trump’s Reelection Improves Your Pursuit of Happiness
23 replies on “Positively Trump: How President Trump’s Reelection Improves Your Pursuit of Happiness”
The supply of liberal tears will be high so the prices will drop. That’ll be a wonderful thing.
At least those crying would have jobs more securely and better paid and some of their neighbors and coworkers with hair less on fire will be happier and less rude to those crying.
You ran out of Super8 film?
But, you haven’t even got to the part with the monster yet!
I strongly disagree with Bill in that he would like to see the promoters of the coup attempt against the President convicted but then pardoned or have their sentence commuted.
If I committed the same crimes but then went to prison because I am not ‘connected’ then so should they.
If they do not go to prison, where I would for the same offence, then there is no ‘equality of justice’.
The Pursuit of Happiness – by which was meant seeking joy in whatever endeavor on which you can work. Not actually being happy all the time.
Right, because happiness is not and cannot be guaranteed. Even in socialist utopias.
…”Even in socialist utopias….” (how do you do the ‘quote’ thingee?)
In socialist utopias, it’s not even promised!
Select the text you want to quote then click the B-QUOTE button above the text input box.
thanks…
This election insanity is already making my depression worse than normal for the week before halloween. It usually starts to creep in after my favorite night of the year. 2020 has been a terrible year for our family and all the screaming and fighting over the election and the possibility of “rioting” in the streets is maddening. What the hell has happened to our country? I truly believe that if there are enough stupid people to put the democrats in power, our republic will never be the same. TRUMP 2020.
Happiness: yes, that would include justice for any of our governmental malefactors, along with satisfying our own personal sense of “fairness” and to deter it from happening again. The compact that the rulers are subject to the same laws as the ruled is well stated. And a case could be made that their punishments for transgressing might be even greater for them after abusing the trust put in them as rulers.
On the financial side, being able to pay your rent, etc.:
I believe that Jefferson’s concept of the financially secure and independent yeoman farmer (a self owned small business in essence) as the bulwark for personal liberty is fully valid. I am not sure, but maybe later he also came to realize the same idea was applicable to the small manufacturer or businessman that Hamilton also was promoting as the future direction of the country [does anyone here know/recall any of his writings to that effect?]
Only when you are financially secure can you tell someone, as needed, to go pound sand on what you want me to say, to believe, to vote for, etc. Clearly there are limits on how this ends up working, as the value of our various assets can go up or down quite rapidly in the marketplace under some not-to-happy conditions. But too many (including yours truly) are no(were not) taught or introduced to that concept at an early age as a foundation for Liberty, rather than just “I can now buy all the stuff I want”*. Saving and investing is hard for some, and easier for others, but everyone should get exposed to how financial security leads to personal security (for the most part) and then be incentivized to pursue that independence as soon as they are able. Even just being on a solid path to that goal is freeing to some degree, giving you some sense of control over your life that spend thrifts probably don’t have.
While our IRAs and 401Ks were still growing, it was a good feeling to have paid off our mortgage and then to be able to retire relatively young. If I had had an explicit liberty independence goal, rather than mostly a plain “prep for retirement” one, I might have pursued that even sooner than we did. Or started a business as a younger man, or …
A slice of my happiness is in fact the interactions we have here at BWDC, so thank you all for that, and your forbearance with necessary 🙂 .
*We have all either been teenagers or possibly parents of teenagers, and come up against the concept “you can and will be independent of this family (and its rules) when you can support yourself, but until then, you will do as we say … “
I’m not sure that the value of the asset would matter much in the calculation (though the boycott that results from a libelous smear campaign would).
Owning your own shop, not just being an apprentice because you were a serf or a landless migrant from the countryside (where you were a serf) means you have your own means of production and can supply your own needs. You are removed one level from the actual growing of food, but your fortunes rise and fall more on your own choices than your liege lord’s improvident wastrel of a son.You could sell your building, land and business assets and pick up stakes to head west if you wanted, and the idea that “this is mine, to do with as *I* wish” gives you the reigns… you’re not just sitting in back of the cart hoping the driver isn’t asleep and you’re heading into the ravine.
Seriosly, Scott? You actually wait for your Super 8 film to get developed by dropping it off in the mail? Why don’t you just drop it off at the Fotomat kiosk in your local shopping center’s parking lot like the rest of us?
I used to, Brother Bob, but they tore down the parking lot to put up a sylvan paradise of flora and fauna. And they call it progress!
That almost sounds like a Joni Mitchell reference, Scott.
Tree museum.
Yeah, but the price ain’t “a dollar and a half” to see ’em anymore.
These days, it’s $26.95, with kids getting in for $18.00!
Plus parking, (in that parking lot) and lunch in the theme restaurant…
Almost.
the best metaphors are the ones only the speaker/poet understands…
I loved Joni Mitchell, and all that hippie stuff!
Joni Mitchell was good, but I like poking Scott in the ribs once in a while.
Really thought more people might give me crap for the quote from “You’ve Got Mail”.
I believe the three family members is a misread–it sounds like it’s three families (households). Still inane, but important distinction.
All I want is to be left alone.
Happy people are the enemy of the Democratic Party. Happy people don’t need the government to come in and fix everything for them because, hey, it’s not broken.