You don’t? Camille Paglia does, and that’s why we should elect Bernie Sanders for president.
“I am still amazed at the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger to governor—a man who has never held political office and who participated in only one serious debate. It is a disturbing sign in any nation when politics have become so inefficient and corrupt that the people turn to an outsider as ‘strong man’ for leadership. This is how fascism is born. Because it is Schwarzenegger’s machismo—represented on a superhuman scale in his films—that California voters want to attack the entrenched special interests in Sacramento, his behavior toward women was irrelevant. Or rather, his behavior actually reinforced his virile image as a forceful personality who pushes through barriers.”
https://ricochet.com/camille-paglia-donald/
Who is Camille Paglia? Wikipedia says she is “an academic and social critic.” I’ve known academics who occasionally drifted into social criticism when not doing academic things – teaching. But to make a living at being both, one must have friends in Established places.
Anyway, the point of that being at Ricochet is that as with a number of other Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy sites, Ricochet has become angrily anti-Trump. For years, those organizations – Red State, Never Yet Melted, Flopping Aces, Hot Air – railed and rent garments and poured ashes in anti-Clinton 1 and Obama and We need a Conservative Republican to Save the Republic. Or, when donning a patriot, non-party demeanor, a True Conservative, and the Republican Party is closer to True Conservatism than those other guys.
But now … Now those organizations don’t run the Party, and they don’t know what to do.
This guy Trump … He says he’s a Republican, but he’s not one of us! He doesn’t listen to us! Doesn’t he realize we are the Party?
Showing posts with label Donald Trump. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donald Trump. Show all posts
Friday, June 3, 2016
‘Most reasonable people’ believe Trump will lose in November
Probably the same people who knew in their hearts that Jeb Bush or some other reasonable person would easily take the Republican nomination.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/donald-trump-conversation-politics-dark-898465
Link at http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/
It's a snarky interview. The writer is smarter than Trump, which is why he works for The Hollywood Reporter, and Trump ... Well, he's Trump.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/donald-trump-conversation-politics-dark-898465
Link at http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/
It's a snarky interview. The writer is smarter than Trump, which is why he works for The Hollywood Reporter, and Trump ... Well, he's Trump.
Sunday, March 6, 2016
Oh, no! Trump affects deserter’s ‘right to fair trial!’
Bergdahl lawyer claims Trump said deserter is “a traitor, a no-good traitor, who should have been executed,” and the statement might prejudice military judge.
Yeah, right.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/06/bergdahl-defense-team-wants-to-meet-with-trump-over-statements.html?intcmp=hplnws
Yeah, right.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/06/bergdahl-defense-team-wants-to-meet-with-trump-over-statements.html?intcmp=hplnws
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Trump trashes Gandalf
Or so says http://coldfury.com/
The site’s link also says, “You know you want to read all of it, you geek, you.”
http://thefederalist.com/2016/01/27/donald-trump-let-me-tell-you-about-smaug/
The Ring movies were long and boring. The best work was Harvard Lampoon’s Bored of the Rings. It’s still out there. Somewhere. Aged like a Hobbit.
The site’s link also says, “You know you want to read all of it, you geek, you.”
http://thefederalist.com/2016/01/27/donald-trump-let-me-tell-you-about-smaug/
The Ring movies were long and boring. The best work was Harvard Lampoon’s Bored of the Rings. It’s still out there. Somewhere. Aged like a Hobbit.
Friday, January 29, 2016
If Trump wins …
“Democrats aren’t laughing about Donald Trump anymore. He has them all but admitting defeat.
“In a stunning admission, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager predicts in an email that Donald Trump will become president if he wins the Republican nomination.
“’If Donald Trump takes the Republican nomination, our party will lose more than the presidency,’ Robby Mook writes to supporters.
“’Years of progress will be ripped away. Obamacare will be repealed. Marriage equality will be rolled back. Get excited to visit the wall on the Mexico border — and get ready to pay for it if President Trump can’t magically get Mexico to cough up the cash for it.’”
http://claytonecramer.blogspot.com/
(When my mother-in-law was getting up to 20 panic-pleas daily for cash from political non-profits, Nancy Pelosi used the same argument – If the Republicans win control of the House and Senate, all our efforts of the last 50 years will be washed away. Little did Pelosi know – certainly she could not admit – that the GOP had lost its cajones, and Democrats had little to fear from the Party of Lincoln.)
“In a stunning admission, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager predicts in an email that Donald Trump will become president if he wins the Republican nomination.
“’If Donald Trump takes the Republican nomination, our party will lose more than the presidency,’ Robby Mook writes to supporters.
“’Years of progress will be ripped away. Obamacare will be repealed. Marriage equality will be rolled back. Get excited to visit the wall on the Mexico border — and get ready to pay for it if President Trump can’t magically get Mexico to cough up the cash for it.’”
http://claytonecramer.blogspot.com/
(When my mother-in-law was getting up to 20 panic-pleas daily for cash from political non-profits, Nancy Pelosi used the same argument – If the Republicans win control of the House and Senate, all our efforts of the last 50 years will be washed away. Little did Pelosi know – certainly she could not admit – that the GOP had lost its cajones, and Democrats had little to fear from the Party of Lincoln.)
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Trump frightens the Establishment
Trump’s access “powers … terrify the establishment -- the mainstream media, the corporate elite, the RNC and the DNC and all others who embrace the status quo. The Donald -- not the faux socialist Bernie Sanders-- is today’s genuine radical presidential aspirant, the uncontrollable bull in the china shop of taboos, and elites clearly sense his power.”
If nothing else, “He has at least made it possible to have some discussion of what was once publicly unspeakable.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/09/why_trump_terrifies_the_establishment.html#ixzz3m0WTnr2A
Link at http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/
If nothing else, “He has at least made it possible to have some discussion of what was once publicly unspeakable.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/09/why_trump_terrifies_the_establishment.html#ixzz3m0WTnr2A
Link at http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/
Saturday, August 29, 2015
Dead lions and the Cult of Modern Liberalism
“Lion murderer?” Come on. You might as well call murderer the lion that killed the guide several days after popular, famous, known worldwide Cecil took a bullet. Lions kill people. A person can murder only another person. He can legally or illegally kill an animal (a non-person), but he cannot murder an animal.
But the purpose of Z Man’s column: “The anti-reactionary alternative is on display with Trump in the GOP primary. For all his faults, Trump is his own man and he has his own opinions about how to do things. In contrast, the 17 other candidates have built their entire political resumes in opposition to the Cult of Modern Liberalism. Their positions, career choices and priorities are all about what they think the Left will think of them. They are not men; they are shadows.”
“Arx-holes”
http://thezman.com/wordpress/
But the purpose of Z Man’s column: “The anti-reactionary alternative is on display with Trump in the GOP primary. For all his faults, Trump is his own man and he has his own opinions about how to do things. In contrast, the 17 other candidates have built their entire political resumes in opposition to the Cult of Modern Liberalism. Their positions, career choices and priorities are all about what they think the Left will think of them. They are not men; they are shadows.”
“Arx-holes”
http://thezman.com/wordpress/
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
‘Expert’ consultant shocked to find out Republican voters are pissed off at establishment Party leaders
Frank Luntz on the Hatred of the Establishment Revealed by a Pro-Trump Focus Group: "This is real. I'm having trouble processing it. Like, my legs are shaking."
—Ace
I'm shocked that he's shocked, and I do not mean that as a joke.
He is a professional. He is a focus-grouper and high consultant. I imagine he reads a lot of polls too, and probably runs some.
And yet he didn't know the anger brewing at the Establishment.
I am truly shocked.
No matter how low my estimations of our political class, they keep failing to meet my expectations.
I complained on Friday that the vaunted consultant class does not know the most elemental things about the "constituency" they're paid to advise clients about. I put "constituency" in quotes because it's quite plain they do not consider the actual grassroots voter as their constituency. In fact, they do not consider them at all.
I have previously said -- and I've said this a dozen times before, especially in the 2007 amnesty fight -- that the Establishment in DC, paid millions and feted as gurus of the political pulse of the nation -- knows far, far less than the base than the average low-level blogger who bothers to read his comments and talk with them.
By the way, of course: That's expressly the reason Andrew Breitbart read the comments, especially here. Well, one reason was that he simply enjoyed them. But the other reason, he told me, was to figure out where people, as a mass, were on issues, where their passion was, where they were going.
You would think that these well-paid consultants, claiming the ability to channel the sentiments of the party, would do this very most basic sort of research into the national mood.
It's all open source, assholes. You don't have to pay a dime to do what Breitbart used to, which is to use some program to suck up all comments into a file so he could read them when he didn't have the internet (on a plane, etc.)
But no -- High Guru Frank Luntz is shocked to the point of his legs shaking as the world reels beneath his feet to discover the grassroots really, really despises the Establishment, and no longer trusts them, and in fact considers them political enemies in the same way they consider the Democrats to be political enemies.
This is news to them.
Good work, assholes.
You're the Smart Ones, right? The "political elite" who employ all sorts of sophisticated and cunning techniques to divine the national mood, huh?
Did you ever think to ask them, Geniuses?
"You guys understand how significant this is?" Luntz asked the press breathlessly when he came back into the room behind the glass. "This is real. I'm having trouble processing it. Like, my legs are shaking."
"I want to put the Republican leadership behind this mirror and let them see. They need to wake up. They don’t realize how the grassroots have abandoned them," Luntz continued. "Donald Trump is punishment to a Republican elite that wasn't listening to their grassroots."
He's shocked to learn this! This is only said 50 times in any thread about Trump!
The group said Trump has their best interests in mind, while other Republicans are looking out for themselves. "We've got to show the Republicans that we've had it with them, that we will not be there every single time. They treat us like crap and they lie to us and promise us things and then they expect us to vote again," said a Republican woman....
Much of Trump’s support in the room seemed to stem from a weakness in the Republican party. The 2014 midterms did not usher in the conservative renaissance Republicans expected. Obamacare has still not been repealed, Congress is looking less likely to override a veto on the Iran deal, and there are still 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.
The group of 29 went around the room, each supplying a single adjective for the legislative body that let them down after the 2014 elections. Congress "does nothing." It's "too old." "Useless." "Lame." "Inept." "Wrong party." "Cocktail party." "Gridlock." "Costly. "Sold out." "Sucks." "Douchebags."
The political class is useless and must be swept away, completely. Not only do they have an agenda contrary to most of the voters' interests, but even when it comes to the thing they're supposed to be good at, be experts at, they're totally incompetent and in fact absolutely pathetic.
I'll give Trump this much: He is right to call them "morons." They should be called what they are. They are failures, they are incompetent, and they're a disaster.
I'm sure they'll "hit all their numbers," though.
http://ace.mu.nu/#358682
—Ace
I'm shocked that he's shocked, and I do not mean that as a joke.
He is a professional. He is a focus-grouper and high consultant. I imagine he reads a lot of polls too, and probably runs some.
And yet he didn't know the anger brewing at the Establishment.
I am truly shocked.
No matter how low my estimations of our political class, they keep failing to meet my expectations.
I complained on Friday that the vaunted consultant class does not know the most elemental things about the "constituency" they're paid to advise clients about. I put "constituency" in quotes because it's quite plain they do not consider the actual grassroots voter as their constituency. In fact, they do not consider them at all.
I have previously said -- and I've said this a dozen times before, especially in the 2007 amnesty fight -- that the Establishment in DC, paid millions and feted as gurus of the political pulse of the nation -- knows far, far less than the base than the average low-level blogger who bothers to read his comments and talk with them.
By the way, of course: That's expressly the reason Andrew Breitbart read the comments, especially here. Well, one reason was that he simply enjoyed them. But the other reason, he told me, was to figure out where people, as a mass, were on issues, where their passion was, where they were going.
You would think that these well-paid consultants, claiming the ability to channel the sentiments of the party, would do this very most basic sort of research into the national mood.
It's all open source, assholes. You don't have to pay a dime to do what Breitbart used to, which is to use some program to suck up all comments into a file so he could read them when he didn't have the internet (on a plane, etc.)
But no -- High Guru Frank Luntz is shocked to the point of his legs shaking as the world reels beneath his feet to discover the grassroots really, really despises the Establishment, and no longer trusts them, and in fact considers them political enemies in the same way they consider the Democrats to be political enemies.
This is news to them.
Good work, assholes.
You're the Smart Ones, right? The "political elite" who employ all sorts of sophisticated and cunning techniques to divine the national mood, huh?
Did you ever think to ask them, Geniuses?
"You guys understand how significant this is?" Luntz asked the press breathlessly when he came back into the room behind the glass. "This is real. I'm having trouble processing it. Like, my legs are shaking."
"I want to put the Republican leadership behind this mirror and let them see. They need to wake up. They don’t realize how the grassroots have abandoned them," Luntz continued. "Donald Trump is punishment to a Republican elite that wasn't listening to their grassroots."
He's shocked to learn this! This is only said 50 times in any thread about Trump!
The group said Trump has their best interests in mind, while other Republicans are looking out for themselves. "We've got to show the Republicans that we've had it with them, that we will not be there every single time. They treat us like crap and they lie to us and promise us things and then they expect us to vote again," said a Republican woman....
Much of Trump’s support in the room seemed to stem from a weakness in the Republican party. The 2014 midterms did not usher in the conservative renaissance Republicans expected. Obamacare has still not been repealed, Congress is looking less likely to override a veto on the Iran deal, and there are still 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.
The group of 29 went around the room, each supplying a single adjective for the legislative body that let them down after the 2014 elections. Congress "does nothing." It's "too old." "Useless." "Lame." "Inept." "Wrong party." "Cocktail party." "Gridlock." "Costly. "Sold out." "Sucks." "Douchebags."
The political class is useless and must be swept away, completely. Not only do they have an agenda contrary to most of the voters' interests, but even when it comes to the thing they're supposed to be good at, be experts at, they're totally incompetent and in fact absolutely pathetic.
I'll give Trump this much: He is right to call them "morons." They should be called what they are. They are failures, they are incompetent, and they're a disaster.
I'm sure they'll "hit all their numbers," though.
http://ace.mu.nu/#358682
When a candidate gets the left and the right scurrying, maybe he is on to something
Liberal/Progressive/Democrats and entrenched Republican leadership are as scared of Trump as they are of Europe’s national parties.
"Defaming Sweden Democrats as 'scrubbed up neo-fascists' and vilifying Europe's right as Sieg-heiling-nationalists (and connecting all to Trump and his American supporters) isn't just a disgrace; it's a cliche. And it's not just a cliche, it's a cliche of the Left. As with the "nativist" smears, conservative outlets are following the Left's playbook. The Right is using the same buzz-words and smears that the Left concocted not to further debate or refine our thinking, but rather to stop debate and freeze our thinking. It is in the same disastrous tradition of 'Red-baiter' and 'Islamophobe.' This is dirty-bomb terminology -- 'nativist,' 'neo-fascist,' etc. -- and is supposed to render the contaminated ones radioactive, then contained and finally disposed of."
http://dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/3130/Sex-Jack-Boots-Trump.aspx
Link at http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/08/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-8242015/#more-37153
"Defaming Sweden Democrats as 'scrubbed up neo-fascists' and vilifying Europe's right as Sieg-heiling-nationalists (and connecting all to Trump and his American supporters) isn't just a disgrace; it's a cliche. And it's not just a cliche, it's a cliche of the Left. As with the "nativist" smears, conservative outlets are following the Left's playbook. The Right is using the same buzz-words and smears that the Left concocted not to further debate or refine our thinking, but rather to stop debate and freeze our thinking. It is in the same disastrous tradition of 'Red-baiter' and 'Islamophobe.' This is dirty-bomb terminology -- 'nativist,' 'neo-fascist,' etc. -- and is supposed to render the contaminated ones radioactive, then contained and finally disposed of."
http://dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/3130/Sex-Jack-Boots-Trump.aspx
Link at http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/08/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-8242015/#more-37153
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