HEY BOOMERS, DON’T YOU WISH YOU HAD VOTED FOR ROSS PEROT NOW???

He wouldn’t have signed NAFTA into law or repealed the Glass-Steagall Act.


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starfcker
starfcker

Just about my favorite subject to rant about. The beginning of the end of america as we knew it.

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

As I recall I voted for him in the primary but had to write his name in. Perot was a sharp cookie. Did’ya know he started what was about the very first ancillary software/services company? TPTB scared him away from the presidential race with threats to his family. If he had won things would be much different today to say the least.

Llpoh

Some of us supported him. Not every Boomer is a complete dolt, you know.

El Coyote
El Coyote

He made his money on the public tit processing data for the state of Texas. When he couldn’t get the first republican governor of Texas to give him more lucrative deals, he tried to force Clements by going to the newspapers. Bill Clements considered that treachery and said he would not talk to him anymore because he went to the papers.

After GM bought his company and Perot negotiated a job in GM for himself, GM had to buy out the little fucker to stop his ‘helpful, not critical, criticism’ meaning his critical criticism.

He went on to sabotage Poppy Bush, ensuring Clinton’s victory. Quite a track record for this ambitious little fuck.

starfcker
starfcker

Poppy bush was a terrible president. Any problems he had, he brought on himself. He only got 36% of the vote in 1992. 2 out of 3 americans couldn’t wait to fire him. Perot and clinton both campaigned against NAFTA. we didn’t want it. Traitor clinton signed it anyway. And got newt gingrich for his efforts. Before clinton we had two parties.

Hagar
Hagar

I campaigned and voted for him. He was no saint, but better than Bush or Clinton for sure. For a long time, I wondered if his candidacy caused Clinton’s win. Now, I think that Clinton was somewhat better than Big Shrub would have been. Hilary? Now that’s a different bag of worms. God help us.

starfcker
starfcker

The dude had charts. Love it

Anonymous
Anonymous

Unfortunately Perot eroded all of the possible momentum he could have received.

Zarathustra

I didn’t support him. Yes, not all of his arguments were idiotic, but he was never a serious candidate; the only reason he ran is that he had a hard-on for GHWB and wanted to see him defeated (not a bad thing in itself). He was in general no friend of liberty but rather just attracted the USA, USA, USA!! crowd. The “murica” party that was spawned in his wake was a joke.

backwardsevolution
backwardsevolution

“There will be a giant sucking sound.” Boy, was he right, or what? Anybody feel themselves tilting towards China on occasion? In the following video, notice how Big Bush gets up off his chair, notice him grin when Perot mentions the sucking sound, and Clinton tries to hold in his laughter. Priceless!

Tator
Tator

I have a clear conscience. I voted for him. It was his push back on the establishment that made me realize there was not much difference between the Ds and Rs and I started asking questions I was not suppose to.

I thank him for being the trigger to opening my eyes to the scam government we have.

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In all of history, no government became more honest, less corrupt, or granted its citizens more rights as it grew in size. E.L. 2011

Montefrio

I was born in 1946. Perot was the only candidate for whom I ever campaigned. Still have the tee-shirt. Voted for him in ’92, the last time I voted in a US election. Six years later I became an expat once and for all (also lived overseas ’73-’86).

Tator’s epiphany was one I shared. The game is rigged and the oligarchs behind the curtain continue to easily befuddle those whom they no longer “govern” but now “rule”. Having been born a Boomer, I remember a time when the US was a very different place from what it had become by 1998 (the year I left) and even more so from what I imagine It’s like now, based on reading and anecdotal evidence.

While I share Admin’s disdain for Edward Bernays, I believe Antonio Gramsci to have been an even more destructive figure for the civilizations and cultures of essentially NW-European origin. The enemies of these societies insist upon the glorification of and the affording of special societal protection to the “outsider”, a process still ongoing and reaching absurd levels while the truly victimized (Nixon’s “silent majority”) paint themselves further and further into a corner from which there will be no escape, if indeed it’s even possible now.

Societal suicides are sad things to see, even when observed from afar.

Welshman
Welshman

I voted for Perot and thought he was somewhat of a straight shooter. His style was something in-between Harry Truman and Jack Webb. “Just the facts mame”.

Welshman
Welshman

Steph,

Ross Perot ran in 1992 and 1996. I ‘m sure I did not vote for Bob Dole in 1996. You have to remember that IRA’s started in 1975 and there was already talk that Social Security was in deep shit.

Many people liked Perot stance on fiscal responsibility, and had good sums of money in our IRA after 17 years. Back then it was easy to roll your pensions or bonuses from previous jobs into your IRA, and it was not audited like it is today. The payout from your company had sick pay, vacation pay, bonuses, and severance pay. You just told your broker it was pension and they rolled it into your IRA. I stopped working the forty hrs company job back then and had 250,000 in my IRA.

Ross Perot made a lot of sense to well paid middle management people like myself. Older Boomers had very good paying jobs with nice benefits.

I want you to know that when I eat out, which is seldom, I think of you when tipping. I had no idea that you were paid so little. Hope you are doing OK.

indialantic
indialantic

I voted for Perot in 92. Yep.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I voted for Clinton in ’92. That was the only time I’ve voted for a democrat (in a contested election) in my life except for the 1990 MN governor’s race. I’d just gotten sick of Bush the Elder bragging about unnecessarily killing thousands of Iraqi teenage conscripts on the Highway of Death after the first Gulf War had already been won. As I recall, by election day, Perot was back down polling near single digits, so he obviously was not a contender, especially in electoral votes. I decided as I was walking into the polling place. My vote was, of course, a mistake, helping bring Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer to the Supreme Court. Bush appointee David Souter was no better, though.

flash
flash

Stephanie Shepard–There is one thing about Ross Perot, he wasn’t fucking around or bullshitting Americans. He wasn’t following a list of talking points or campaign rhetoric. The dude had charts!

Excellent post SS. Even the minnie’s seem to be getting it. the farce of free trade/NAFTA is national suicide. + 1000

All Bushes are incontinent globalist vermin and have systematically polluted our US nest with their thousand points of light rat shit.

BTW, I supported Perot over the creep GHWB much to the chagrin of my WWII veteran friends..all they new about Bush the senile was that he was a fucking” WAR HERO” …sheesh , but ain’t they all.

A new world order, they said.

GOPES!

El Coyote
El Coyote

Stephanie Shepard says: Uh, was he showing them charts of their impending fate with destiny of nearly going bankrupt? Did you forget about the GM bailout?

You invented the mythical ‘charts’. Reagan had charts, it’s not new. Jimmy Carter was being critical when he said there was a malaise in America, look where it got him. Can you imagine the nasal runt scolding Americans and telling them they have to lower their expectations?

Americans would rather follow a guy who at Oh Dark Thirty tells them it’s almost morning than a guy who reminds them it’s half past midnight.

flash
flash

” We had to chart some people” Obamney Chartist Extraordinaire

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starfcker
starfcker

EC, I can’t speak for anyone else, but let me make one point to you. Prior to poppy bush, we never had a president who didn’t think of us, the people who elected them, first. Globalization on it’s face is not a bad thing. globalization as an excuse to steal the wealth and wellbeing of a great and trusting country is another thing entirely. That’s why we hate bush 1, and clinton, and bush 2, and obongo

starfcker
starfcker

Take jeb. he thinks he’s the genius who thinks he’s gonna ‘splain to us why taking it in the ass is so fun. Watch the led balloon that is his candidacy. His ceiling is probably 15%. What does he really bring to the table? Fatter than chris krispie, dumb as his brother, and with a wife that doesn’t speak english. Good luck selling that.

Llpoh

Star – that is some dumbass shit right there, that you say prior to Bush presidents thought of the people first.

Like Kennedy did in Viet Nam. Like Lincoln did in the civil war. Like Roosevelt did when he confiscated the gold. Etc ad infinitum.

That ranks right up there on most dumbass comment ever made on TBP.

One big difference today is that there is much more scrutiny possible via the internet, etc., than there was previous to Bush. For instance, the newspapers covered up Kennedy’s affairs, which would be leaked today.

starfcker
starfcker

Llpoh, I try to keep it real short, sometimes I confuse. What I was trying to say was, I don’t think any president before bush 1, (except maybe carter) thought it was a good idea to reduce our standard of living. They might have different ideas as to how to do things, but I do think everyone thought the key to political power was making americans happy. They don’t even pretend anymore. Dumbass, out

Llpoh

Star – it really is no fun when you are reasonable. We need a good fight now and then to keep the monkeys happy.

Pete
Pete

If Perot had been elected it would be the same as if Ron Paul were elected. They would soon suffer a fatal accident and the vice president would get the message real quick.

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