Donald Trump

[Brant Gaede]

Rand didn't offer paths, she offered sights. The paths were implied. Roark's boyhood and growing up did not exist. The boyhood of whom Roark became is unimaginable. Dagny and Francisco were sheltered, protected and nurtured by powerful families. They didn't grow up, they grew into.

---Brant

 

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

11 hours ago, Jonathan said:

So, yeah, um, O-kiddies, step on up to level 5, put on some bravery, set aside the excuses, realize that you're you, and maybe that means being something closer to Eddie Willers than Frisco, or a more like a random brakeman rather than a Dagny. Nutting' wrong wit dat.

Also maybe consider that Rand's belief that anyone can be great at anything they choose isn't realistic. Don't let Rand's unsupported, romanticized opinions of such things guilt you into unrealistic standards and expectations. Personally, my experience is that if a person hits level 3, and generally finds the work boring, and needs to crack the whip on himself most of the time, then he's not going to succeed in that field. It chooses you, you don't choose it. Rand could not have chosen to be a painter, or a surgeon, or an airplane pilot, and succeeded to anywhere near to what she did with writing fiction.

Jonathan,

I want to give this an inspirational side, too.

I'll speak for myself. Accepting my own limitations at any given moment is merely accepting reality and judging it accordingly. (That's my cognitive before normative thing.) After I have done that, then I have earned the right to strive for greatness. I let my spirit dream while I make my body work.

I often see others make the error of striving for greatness without wanting to do the donkey work, without being willing to fall on their ass and get back up as they try, over and over and over until they get it right.

I might never become the greatest writer in the world, but I can become the greatest writer I can become. That part I can control. It involves my own dreams and my own discipline.

The other I can't. I used to think about that other when I was younger. I don't anymore. Not after I started developing skills from putting in the long hours to make it work.

The good news is, this is doable. And anybody can do it. 

On the really negative side, if a person only dreams about it and doesn't do the donkey work, doesn't even try to goose himself up emotionally to do the donkey work, he can control that outcome, too. He can guarantee with 100% certainty that he becomes a failure. A pompous one at that.  

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

6 hours ago, Brant Gaede said:

Rand didn't offer paths, she offered sights.

Brant,

I think she offered more than that. She stated that the goal of her writing was to present the perfect man. And she stated that her thing was man-worship.

She created gods.

Gods with their own stories.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

LOL...

CNN’s Jake Tapper Dedicates Segment to Trump’s Penis

 

President Trump has the fake news media so confounded they are doing news stories about his dick.

Michael

[Jules Troy]

[anthony]

On 9/18/2018 at 12:02 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Tony,

I am totally unconvinced. I find the idea that President Trump is a narcissist laughable. Mental health professionals who claim this show, to me, just how much quackery there still is in this field.

For example, President Trump is not a control freak who avoids putting himself in vulnerable situations at all costs. Avoiding embarrassment through excessive control is a universal among narcissists. On the contrary, Trump openly invites high-risk situations.

A good example is at his rallies. He will often bring a total stranger on stage and hand over his microphone. Does he know what the person will say? No. He may have a good idea, but ultimately, he hands over control. A true narcissist would never do that. Ever. The risk of being embarrassed would be too great to even contemplate for him.

Narcissists love to be scripted in their control freak situations. When they go off script, they tend to stomp on their dongs and get entangled in unending bickering over nothing. So they just don't do it.

Narcissists don't tell people to rise and achieve excellence. On the contrary, they pick at the faults of everybody so they can pump themselves up. President Trump said many times he wants everybody in America to become as rich as he is. A narcissist says get used to no longer being self-reliant, get used to the government handouts he controls, because those jobs are never coming back. (Remind you of someone?  )

Here in O-Land, it's surprising to see people criticize a man with a healthy dose of egoism, self-esteem and high-productive focus as pathological precisely because of those traits, but there it is. I don't know what they see when they read Rand. It's obviously not the same thing I see.

Winners are not narcissists by definition. The idea that they are is a cultural sickness promoted by our current victimization media where everyone is either an oppressed slave, a heartless master, or the hero rescuer and savior--the government.

Underneath, to these people it's all about tearing down greatness. That's easier than becoming great themselves. When they look on the greatness President Trump has achieved and look at their own lives, it's like a loud hard slap in the face. It's so much easier to try to tear him down than try to live up to the promise of what he represents in America--where all men and women can become great, individually great, if they work at it.

And when they can't get sanction of the victim to work on President Trump to make him feel guilty, but instead get a haymaker of a counterpunch as response--without apology, they hate him all the more as they pick themselves up off the floor.

Narcissist don't like earning things. The feel entitled to them by default. They even feel entitled to tear down greatness in the human spirit.

President Trump stands for earned winning. Working hard and winning. Becoming great from focused effort at excellence. But earning victory is not for everybody. Many prefer to have it handed to them by their peers whether they deserve it or not.

Michael

There is a man I associate with Donald Trump, who was a major tycoon on the SA scene . He is Sol Kerzner, who has since built casino resorts from the Bahamas to Dubai, to Atlantic City. I had a memorable time of a few days in his company covering the story for a financial mag when his first resort, Sun City, was about to open, Dec 1979. In his company helicopter we flew over the arid hills of Bophuthatswana. This is hot, wild, uninhabitable country useless for anything, one would think. As we crested a hill, he pointed to the valley below and casually remarked to me - "Here's where I decided to put it"  - and down there was this sight, like an enormous oasis incorporating hundreds of acres - a towering construction site, vast pools and greenery, teeming with hundreds of workers, and I was incredulous. I just stared at him I think. Who can have that kind of vision, to make something so huge - from nothing? He tirelessly walked through the site the whole day with his large team of architects, engineers and designers, noting unfinished building, mistakes and expertly suggesting improvements. The big opening was the next day attended by world leaders and celebs, the worked all night and you can bet that everything was finished on deadline. To this day, I remember thinking that such people operate power on a scale, and with a mind for detail, I found unimaginable. That was all his own initial, and projected vision, and he's repeated it in other countries. This type of man is an extreme and rare category of prime mover, and yeah, couldn't function without "a healthy dose of egoism". A long time later, no surprises, I discovered he is sociably pally with Donald Trump, a similar field of industry, competitors and friends - with comparable characters and visions, and brash personalities that attracted controversy, also. And in a hardhat on a messy construction site, or in board rooms, and negotiating with foreign presidents and PM's, all the same to them. A type that knows how to make something out of nothing.

An old article and photos might be of interest:

How Donald Trump knows about South Africa

09MondayMay 2016

Posted by Harry Booyens in The US & South Africa

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Donald Trump, South Africa

Over the recent past, Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party in the United States presidential race, has commented on more than one occasion about South Africa. While South Africans can scream until they are blue in the face, he was dead-on right in each of his comments. See for example HERE and HERE. Any honest human being who knows that country knows he spoke the truth.

I thought I would explore why that is the case, because Americans are typically outrageously ignorant about South Africa. That is how one very nice New York gentleman once told me, “Oh I know South Africa! I was in the Mediterranean in the war!“, and a Masters degree lady told me “Perhaps you know my friend in Liberia“. Another held me, as South African-born, accountable for the excesses of Idi Amin in Uganda. A young Canadian asked me a month ago whether “Africa has countries“.

It is therefore quite incredible that the US Congress should have overridden the veto of President Ronald Reagan in order to impose comprehensive sanctions on South Africa in the 1980s; this while the majority of members of Congress could not find it on a map. So, how is it that Donald Trump should be so spot on in his observations? This intrigued me, until I watched a 2 hour television programme about the rise of Donald Trump some weeks ago. At some quite unimportant point in the movie Trump is in a limo on the way somewhere, and that’s when a blurred image of another passenger in the same limo caught my attention. I was quite sure I had seen THAT man before in the flesh.

It was in the early 1990s on the tropical volcanic Comore Islands in the Indian Ocean, of all places. A new resort had recently been opened on the main island and week-long packaged stays were being sold in South Africa. The man behind the resort was South African real estate magnate Sol Kerzner, the man responsible for Sun City and, now more recently, Paradise Island, which is advertised daily on US TV. My wife and I had bought one of these one week stays on the main island.

While strolling around the grounds back then in the early 90s, I found Sol Kerzner busy kicking around the grass in front of one of the “cabanas” as though he was unhappy with the lawn quality. I had no particular reason to start a conversation with him and so we proceeded on our way, leaving him to kick at his lawn. However, I mentally filed away the image.

It turns out that, in the intervening years the world’s two major real estate developers, Donald Trump and Sol Kerzner, have been working together quite a bit in the Bahamas and Dubai. No doubt, Donald has been hearing the reality about South Africa from his friend Sol. As regards to what the degree they “hang out together”, the following images may perhaps clarify the situation.

In the image immediately below we have, from left to right, Melania Trump, Donald Trump, Heather Kerzner and Sol Kerzner together.

In yet another photo below, we have Donald Trump and Heather Kerzner together at another event.

Against this backdrop, black actor Samuel L. Jackson is extremely welcome to move to South Africa if Trump becomes president of the USA, which is exactly what he has “threatened”. Perhaps he could play Jacob Zuma in his next movie.

I would suggest the world would be a better place if Kerzner and Trump maintain their relationship. I well remember the young Comorean who hired out for a day to drive us around his island in his Mini Moke. His hero was Sol Kerzner and he waxed lyrically about Kerzner as being an example of what people can do if they set their minds to it.

Perhaps Americans can take an electioneering lesson from the young Comorean. He correctly identified opportunity and hard work, rather than handouts, as a key issue in life. That sounds remarkably like Trump.

 

 

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

6 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

LOL...

CNN’s Jake Tapper Dedicates Segment to Trump’s Penis

 

President Trump has the fake news media so confounded they are doing news stories about his dick.

Michael

I can't resist this one:

Pray God he doesn’t do Bernie and Hillary next... https://t.co/ZixFEI8okP

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) September 19, 2018

 

Michael

[Brant Gaede]

7 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Brant,

I think she offered more than that. She stated that the goal of her writing was to present the perfect man. And she stated that her thing was man-worship.

She created gods.

Gods with their own stories.

Michael

Yes, look at them. One can imagine being a naked shepard boy about to take on Goliath - The David - look at the trace of fear and anxiety in his face. That's humanity writ larger than life but humanity to the core. Not a perfect man; there is no such thing.  The best job Rand did with her ideal was Howard Roark, especially early on in The Fountainhead.

---Brant

[william.scherk]

1 hour ago, anthony said:

An old article and photos might be of interest:

Especially if you gave its originating coordinates in the form of a URL  -- rather than copy-pasting the entire article without ID:

https://hbooyens.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/how-donald-trump-knows-about-south-africa/

[9thdoctor]

8 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

LOL...

CNN’s Jake Tapper Dedicates Segment to Trump’s Penis

 

President Trump has the fake news media so confounded they are doing news stories about his dick.

Michael

Distinctive?  It bends to the left, the right, unusual color scheme, unique vasculature, circumcised (or not), big, small...

Predictions?

[anthony]

45 minutes ago, william.scherk said:

Especially if you gave its originating coordinates in the form of a URL  -- rather than copy-pasting the entire article without ID:

https://hbooyens.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/how-donald-trump-knows-about-south-africa/

Thanks, kind sir.

[anthony]

7 minutes ago, 9thdoctor said:

Distinctive?  It bends to the left, the right, unusual color scheme, unique vasculature, circumcised (or not), big, small...

Predictions?

Dunno. Don't ask me, not my field of expertise, a single sample isn't much to go on.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

1 hour ago, Brant Gaede said:

One can imagine being a naked shepard boy about to take on Goliath - The David - look at the trace of fear and anxiety in his face.

Brant,

Odd. I never saw David like that. He was a crack shot with a sling. So I've always imagined him full of the piss and vinegar of youth. Not swaggering, but fully in focus and giving it his best. Showing the older folks who's who and what's what.

Maybe I saw too many Westerns when I was young. The only people who had fear in those movies were cowards and the bad guys after they've been cornered.

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

59 minutes ago, 9thdoctor said:

Distinctive?  It bends to the left, the right, unusual color scheme, unique vasculature, circumcised (or not), big, small...

Predictions?

Dennis,

According to something I read somewhere (I don't recall right now), Stormy says the Trump schlong is shaped like a mushroom with nappy blonde lint. 

Get the picture?

Now try to get the image out of your head.

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

3 hours ago, anthony said:

A long time later, no surprises, I discovered he is sociably pally with Donald Trump, similar field of industry, competitors and friends - with comparable characters and visions, and brash personalities that attracted controversy, also. And in hardhat on a messy construction site, or in board rooms, and speaking with foreign presidents and PM's, all the same to them. A type that knows how to make something out of nothing.

Tony,

You have an excellent handle on this kind of personality.

Establishment elitists loathe this more than anything.

They need poor victims for propaganda, rich targets for propaganda, and a middle class to skin.

A Kerzner/Trump mind (including their wives) needs none of this. Nor does it need the parasites.

So this reminds establishment elitists of what they could have been, but will never be.

And out come their fangs and slobber.

Michael

[9thdoctor]

1 hour ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Dennis,

According to something I read somewhere (I don't recall right now), Stormy says the Trump schlong is shaped like a mushroom with nappy blonde lint. 

Get the picture?

Now try to get the image out of your head.

 

Michael

Ho-hum.  Try getting this image out of your head:

 

[william.scherk]

While we cogitate over Trump's locutions in Carolina (Wetness) ...

57 minutes ago, 9thdoctor said:

2 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Stormy says the Trump schlong is shaped like a mushroom with nappy blonde lint. 

Ho-hum.  Try getting this image out of your head:

"Memories, light the corners of my mind .... "

Quote

"He knows he has an unusual penis," Daniels says in the book. "It has a huge mushroom head. Like a toadstool… I lay there, annoyed that I was getting fucked by a guy with Yeti pubes and a dick like the mushroom character in Mario Kart." The sex itself, she adds, "may have been the least impressive sex I'd ever had, but clearly, he didn't share that opinion." Daniels also notes that the member was "smaller than average," though not "freakishly small."

 

[anthony]

Just when you thought this couldn't get any lower. From The Onion. ;) Do me your URL magic if you feel like it, William.

Woman Longs For Day When First Female President Can Have Tell-All Book Written About Disgusting Vagina

Yesterday 3:31pm

SEE MORE: NEWS

 

SKOKIE, IL—Wistfully imagining a future she hopes is not too far away, area woman Margaret Bridgemeyer told reporters Tuesday she yearns for the day when the first female president of the United States will have a tell-all book written about her that contains explicit descriptions of her repulsive vagina. “I have to believe in my heart that one day, there will be a woman in the Oval Office and that someone will publish a salacious account of how she has a nasty, thick bush or a really droopy labia,” said Bridgemeyer, adding that she wishes when she was young, she could have looked up to a woman who not only served her nation as commander in chief, but also had bombshell secrets about her genitals revealed to an American public eager to read about and discuss the subject. “I mean, just imagine if there were a woman in the most powerful position in the world—making key policy decisions, calling all the shots—and we were able to learn all the horrible details about her abnormally shaped clitoris, or maybe the weird consistency of her vaginal discharge. I know it may not happen in my lifetime, but just thinking about how my children or grandchildren might get to live in a country like that brings a tear to my eye.” Bridgemeyer went on to state that perhaps one day, there will even be a female president whose frequent extramarital affairs are common knowledge among her Evangelical Christian base.

 

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

A big crack appears among the recently indoctrinated.

VIDEO: Liberal students admit Trump is helping economy

 

Michael

[anthony]

3 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Tony,

You have an excellent handle on this kind of personality.

Establishment elitists loathe this more than anything.

They need poor victims for propaganda, rich targets for propaganda, and a middle class to skin.

A Kerzner/Trump mind (including their wives) needs none of this. Nor does it need the parasites.

So this reminds establishment elitists of what they could have been, but will never be.

And out come their fangs and slobber.

Michael

Michael, have pity - you really mustn't blame them** -- these are social metaphysicians, (determined) products of an elitist, Leftist education which has abolished everything to do with "a volitional consciousness". A poor "victim" is created by force of circumstances, so, predetermined to behave in a single manner as with a billiard ball impacting another, the only causality these guys understand. 'Oppressors' and victims, take victimhood away and they will have nothing left to do with their days.

** only kidding.

[9thdoctor]

2 hours ago, william.scherk said:

"He knows he has an unusual penis," Daniels says in the book. "It has a huge mushroom head. Like a toadstool… I lay there, annoyed that I was getting fucked by a guy with Yeti pubes and a dick like the mushroom character in Mario Kart." The sex itself, she adds, "may have been the least impressive sex I'd ever had, but clearly, he didn't share that opinion." Daniels also notes that the member was "smaller than average," though not "freakishly small."

 

And here I was starting to think they'd named Little Donny disease after him.

 

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

14 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

President Trump has the fake news media so confounded they are doing news stories about his dick.

sigh...

And we're doing the same...

Even me...

Michael

[KorbenDallas]

2 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

A big crack appears among the recently indoctrinated. 

VIDEO: Liberal students admit Trump is helping economy

I think they are just parroting what they are hearing on CNN, MSNBC, and others.  Those outlets are saying the economy is good right now.

I think Trump will get re-elected based off of the economy improvements...

[KorbenDallas]

33 minutes ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

15 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

President Trump has the fake news media so confounded they are doing news stories about his dick.

sigh...

And we're doing the same...

Even me...

Michael

I think they are trying to attack him, Daniels doesn't write anything flattering regarding the Royal Member so they are trying to upset Emperor Trump.

Quite a low blow (pun intended).

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

6 minutes ago, KorbenDallas said:

I think they are trying to attack him, Daniels doesn't write anything flattering regarding the Royal Member so they are trying to upset Emperor Trump.

Quite a low blow (pun intended).

Korben,

Well, she doesn't have to be such a dick about it.

(I know, I know, I'm damaged goods...  )

Michael