Donald Trump had always struck me as an ignorant buffoon and most of his proposed policies were ridiculous, Ron Unz
You may not like Donald Trump, he may not amuse you, his actions may not serve your interest, but if you think that Trump — the man who built iconic New York skyscrapers, survived the failure of an airline, multiple Atlantic City casinos, and a dud "university," earned several hundred million as a television entertainer, and then, in his seventies and seemingly on a whim, set out to win, and rather easily gained, the US Presidency — is an ignoramus and a buffoon, which is to say a no-nothing and a ridiculous person, you should perhaps consider whether it might be your judgement that is ignorant and buffoonish.
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What is interesting to me is how knee jerk their responses are. Stimulus"Trump" Response "Scream". The scream is startlingly and strangely uniform in affect, tone, and content. It is uniform in terms of the vocabulary used. The same phrases, delivered in the same cadences, over and over and over. The same idea Trump appeals because Trump uses a "racist dog whistle" his overwhelmingly racist followers are responding to-- and nothing else. It would be impossible it would be something else, as now, to their chagrin "Russian interference" on his behalf has been fully investigated and failed as a pretext for removing him from office.
ReplyDeleteThere's a Biden-Harris propaganda piece circulating. Someone I knew called it the most beautiful and moving election message they'd ever seen. There's Joe Biden speaking, seemingly a great orator, and in the background, scenes of the sixties civil rights movement, Martin Luther King's donkey-drawn coffin and funeral procession, and so on. Message: Biden is the moral equivalent of MLK and one of the greatest civil rights activists and leaders in the movement's history. Pure propaganda... The absence of any substantive or thoughtful investigation of what Biden did or will do entirely absent.
I got one for you:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/opinion/us-voting-rights-republicans.html
NY Times at its finest. The editorial boards opening statement:
"There is no 'both sides do it' when it comes to intentionally keeping Americans away from the polls."
People can't be said to be critically thinking, or thinking at all, to let the NY Times editorial board get away with this, and the ensuing article, which does little to support that claim, and quite a bit directly contradicts it. Incredible. I am outraged. My disclaimer, once again: I do not support Donald Trump. I wrote in Mickey Mouse this year.
"NY Times at its finest."
DeleteBut watch out. Now everyone knows that the NY Times always lies, the liars will surely start printing the truth.
Agree that the choice offered by the "democratic process" is, in this case, sadly limited. However, putting aside his rhetorical pleb-speak, which tends to pall, it must be acknowledged that Trump has been more faithful in fulfilling his election promises than almost any Western leader one can think of since General Charles de Gaulle:
DeleteHe's built some wall, he's slowed illegal immigration, he's slowed if not reversed job offshoring with tax measures and tariffs, he's brought some troops home, he's forced other NATO members to up their share of the mutual defense costs, he's embarked on no major military escapades. So to those who have benefited from those policies, their choice seems clear.
But apparently, none of this is worthy of discussion by the mainstream in journalism, academia, or Hollywood. However, the probability is that Trump's actions have had enough resonance with ordinary folks that he'll win a second term -- assuming the Republicans are as adept at vote rigging as the Democrats.
Honestly, I hope so. I don't think I can stand to live through a Biden-Harris term of office. It just wasn't enough, I guess, to get me to vote Trump.
DeleteOops. I forgot to give the title of that article:
ReplyDeleteWhy Are Republicans So Afraid of Voters?
What's almost funny is the way there is this sinister subsurface element to what's going on, but also this "ignorant and buffoonish", naive and uncritical, happy face, happy talk, wishful and "positive" thinking surface element of masses of people (not all!) who systematically refuse to consider the way that sinister subsurface element might be playing their actions, feeding and shaping their thoughts.
ReplyDeleteThat there is this subsurface element, and it is involved in mind control, would account for the strange way that surface element speaks in such remarkable uniformity and homogeneity.
It is almost hard to grasp how sinister Google's actions of censorship are at a time such as this. People out there believe they are informing themselves, just getting the facts, when they Google up information. That they are attempting to inform themselves deserves praise. That they can't be informed they are not getting all the facts, or the unbiased facts, deserves scorn. That scorn doesn't really belong to them. It belongs to Google.
I'm quite sure Google is CIA. If Google is against Trump, that means the CIA is not behind Trump. The CIA knows how to mess with elections. It not only has the knowledge, but decades of experience, worldwide. I'm predicting Biden-Harris 2020. The CIA may have been caught by surprise in 2016, but that won't happen two times.
Just one last thing: note how time and time again, Trump is shown up as impotent. He is issuing orders which the people below him will not seem to notice, and definitely do not obey. A very recent example was Trump calling for the arrest of James Comey. I knew when Trump said what he said and nothing happened, Trump was not going to survive. Remember, the POTUS is the chief executive. He is personally at the top of the executive branch. He shouldn't have to say Comey should be arrested. If Trump wants Comey arrested, Comey is arrested. In a way, Trump isn't POTUS now. Why think he'll be POTUS at the end of this day?
Yeah, the early results (7.40 PM EST) indicate trend is to the Democrates.
DeleteBut now (10.30 PM EST) the Nasdaq futures up 3%, which is presumably a bet on Trump.
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ReplyDeleteCalifornians try voting al fresco, with ballots handled like salad greens.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/03/us/election-day#californians-try-voting-al-fresco-with-ballots-handled-like-salad-greens
California is only the state with the largest number of electoral college votes in the US. It only the state which has 53 seats in the House of Representatives.
But there's no chance ballots handled as salad greens will be used to favor one candidate over the other! Nope! Not in a country as great, unquestionably great and pure, as the United States of America.
One cannot know California will be a Biden state overall, and if anyone is going to come out ahead in manipulating the salad greens, I'd put my money on it being the Biden campaign. (I don't put my money against sure things.)
What's happening, CS?
ReplyDeleteWhat's happening? LOL
DeleteH.L. Mencken loved America because it provide a spectacle comparable with that of a 7-ring circus. Today the spectacle goes on. Presumably Americans could, if they put their minds to it, come up with a honest election process. You know, like that dismally dull Canadian process with paper ballots, and all-party watchers at voting-booths and over the and vote-count.
But presumably Americans prefer to make an election into something like a pretend civil war, a battle of wits, to see who can buy, steal, or fabricate the greatest number of votes.
So what we're seeing, I would say, is that Biden's mob have out-cheated the Trump family effort, and with all that money from China funneled through Joe's bagman son Hunter, why wouldn't the Dems come out on top?