He (Trump) has no communication strategy -- except to be what he has always been, a nasty mean person criticizing people and doing, you know, silly kind of showman stuff. Where did he get a national reputation? From 'The Apprentice,'What did he do on 'The Apprentice?' He fired people."It doesn't have anything to do with American anger, but Trump is famous for firing people. So for this Democrat it cannot possibly be the first thing he said leads to the last thing he said, they'e so angry they want everyone fired and Trump fires people without compunction, no, it must be something else. A mean vein.
He tapped a vein, you see, of meanness, that doesn't exist outside that one strange troublesome evil throbbing vein that Trump managed to pinpoint and tap.
This is huge Democrat supporter Barry Diller telling us why he does not respect Republican candidate Trump and delivering the hyperbole on why he'll be leaving the country if Donald Trump wins the White House, as we heard so many times in reaction to Bush and actually done under Obama, and readers are thinking as they read this attractive threat, "Don't tempt us." Diller does exactly what Diller complains about in Trump. plank, eye, mote, etc.
Join the thousands of wealthy who already did just that, Diller, and it had nothing to do with Trump. Your loyalty and your affection for your country are showing.
Bloomberg
And for some reason Drudge finds this interesting enough to place in large typeface centered on his front page. Drudge wants us to know what this Democrat supporter thinks about a Republican candidate. Why? Drudge knows none of us care.
We'll wait to observe Drudge center front the opinion of, say, David Koch on Democrat candidate Bernie Sanders.
I believe Drudge is signaling time to get serious and stop messing around. Trump said something on an interview about conservative objection to eminent domain being based on their ignorance and their innate resistance to progress. I wonder why Drudge didn't link to that. Among the conservative writers I follow this is the latest daily Trump-damning revelation that must be talked about all night long. Each writer doing Trump eminent domain posts all night long. Like therapy. Until every aspect, every angle examined, every previous statement reexamined, and posted on and on and on through the night, a project is made of leading the pack away from Trump. It's obnoxious because Trump supporters cannot be budged and sensible people are just watching.
As if ANY of that could possibly matter to Trump supporters while Mitch McConnell and Boehner's protégé are still present, as stated so clearly and repeatedly, their intention is destroy the GOP. And can you blame them?
14 comments:
Eminent domain is fine with conservatives so long as there's compensation for actual takings, not the reduced penalty that the supreme court has come up with.
Once the government in question has to pay real compensation, they change their plans on their own.
Including zoning takings. Donate your parcel to our park system or we'll rezone it so it's worthless.
I believe that there is a huge eminent domain issue underfoot, but it has to do with government population policy, both here and in Europe. The governments in power have decided that the future mostly belongs to those who show up. Since American and European futures do not belong the historical populations, the only question left is how to cede residual personal wealth to those who show up.
I sketched this out from a dream once and called Ouroboros for our times
People don't hear what they don't want to hear. And that applies to the wealthy as much as it does to the rest of us. Trump is where he is because he was the only candidate to address the extreme uneasiness of Americans regarding the invasion. You can agree or disagree with that uneasiness but for Diller to claim Trump is popular because he's mean...all that's telling us is that Diller is deliberately deaf to Trump's message and to the reaction to that message.
I never heard of Diller, but I heard him going off last night on this, and he's just wrong. The Trump phenomenon is almost exclusively about poking the elites and pundits in the eye, and immigration, which is another form of the poking. It seems like pundits serve the same purpose as a lot of college professors and Democrats in general. They spend their breath trying to convince people that the obvious is not what it is. There must be a word for that. It's a common human obsession to say the opposite of what is, or to redefine it so that you have something interesting to say about stuff. That's fine in casual conversation, but it seems to be the majority of what is done by people in positions of informing others today. They can't just tell you what is, they desperately have reshape it into something else, usually by lying about it. I guess it's a way of saying "look how smart I am - I can see what you don't." It has the condescension of "mansplaining", but with the extra dishonesty. It needs a word - I see it all day long. How about "hacksplaining"?
I don't think think there is a discernible coherent opposition to the White House party right now.
So much so that Obama can threaten to hold up military spending if it includes money to keep Guantanamo open.
The GOP congress that's not running for president is just collecting a paycheck.
The GOP can't defund 500 million for Planned Parenthood but Obama can hold up the entire military budget in order to get what he wants.
I call that a one party system.
I remember Bill "Ethics" Moyers, the guy who came up with the idea of a little girl picking daisies while an A-bomb went off behind her to scare people out of voting for Goldwater, often went off about mean-spiritedness in the 80s.
"The GOP can't defund 500 million for Planned Parenthood..."
Can defund but won't. The excuse being that threatening to defund would trigger a government shutdown. At bottom what is the GOP's impotence about? Not just dislike of its base but profound loathing of its base. In the sea in which the GOP bigwigs swim nothing is held in more contempt than the values of the squares. And nothing is more terrifying to the GOP than being viewed as one of "them," not one of "us" by the beltway crowd.
Barry Diller (and other oblivious proggy blowhards) threatening to leave if Trump is elected is actually a selling point for Trump.
The only way the GOP gets anything thru the senate is if they change the fillibuster rules in the senate.
They won't.
The house has passed all sorts of positive stuff. You don't' hear about it in the MSM or even on Hannity et al... It gets stopped in the Senate.
bago at 956 I think the word you want is 'bull-shitting.'
Forget the defunding of PP, when are the Nuremburg trials going to start? Mass torture has been occurring for profit.
Eminent domain is a non-issue for a US president. Anything to attack Trump. Yeah, let nominate Jeb! who's a 50% conservative because Trump isn't 100% conservative.
This is bull·shit (bo͝ol′shĭt′) Vulgar Slang n.
1. Foolish, deceitful, or boastful language.
2. Something worthless, deceptive, or insincere.
3. Insolent talk or behavior.
While what's been described in the 9:56 comment might include some of the elements of bullshit, it involves the release of something more than manure.
The Latins knew what they were talking about. Toxicum.
A.K.A. Bow Poison. Used on arrows. Directed at targets for the purposes of self protection, the destruction or taking down of another, and survival.
1655-65; < Late Latin toxicus poisonous, adj. derivative of Latin toxicum poison < Greek toxikón (orig. short for toxikòn phármakon literally, bow poison, i.e., poison used on arrows), equivalent to tóx (on) bow + -ikon, neuter of -ikos -ic
The Greeks also had a clue when they coined hybristikos. Leading me to think overbearing hubrisity to be closer than bullshit.
Hybrisplaining. While spoodging the tip with toxicum, .
There's been a Mama sighting!! Right after a Blood Moon.
Post a Comment