Posted on 08/23/2015 11:54:00 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I must admit I have enjoyed the Trump-a-palooza this summer. The truth is, I have thrown in the towel on America so I dont think our elections mean very much. Its just a question about how fast we intend to drive into the abyss. Being old I should be rooting for slow as that means I can reach escape velocity before it gets ugly. On the other hand, life is for living and sticking around long enough to see the collapse has its attractions.
I can go either way so the elections are just entertainment at this point.
Six months ago I was thinking the Democrats would anoint Hillary, after the usual dalliances with a true believer, who excites the fever swamp types. Its the GOPs turn so this is when the party hands out their lifetime achievement award. The GOP would be figuring out if they can run Bush or if they have to find someone with the same polices, but a different last name.
Now, I think something is happening here. Clinton is now immersed in what could very well be the scandal of the century. Theres no way to wriggle free of the mishandling of classified data. You can finesse financial laws and ethics rules. You cant finesse this stuff. News reports suggest there may be dozens of people who have violated the law and conspired to hide their involvement. This is Watergate level stuff given her position.
On the GOP side, Donald Trump just gave a speech in a stadium. If you are a member of the Party leadership or an advisor to one of the candidates, you should be in a panic. Trump went from sideshow at the start of the summer to leader of a revolution at the end of the summer. In-between, the GOP took their best shots at the man and did not leave a mark. Watching Trumps crowd last night I kept thinking, something is happening here. What it is aint exactly clear.
One thing that is clear is I was the only guy to figure out that Trump was Beppe Grillo. The other thing is the ossified and blinkered chattering classes are wholly unprepared for whats happening to them right now. They spend their time reading each others tweets, promoting each others work and chatting with one another at play time. They are not even aware of the vast network of writers, bloggers and trouble makers out there complaining about the status quo.
The best evidence of that is the deranged ranting of Kevin Williamson at National Review with regards to Donald Trump. Its like watching a robot whose CPU errors out and the robot goes berserk, smashing itself into walls. When it is a bunch of metal it is funny. When it is a human being having a nervous breakdown, its sad and pathetic. In this case it is emblematic. Conservative Inc. is cracking up over whats happening outside the Acela corridor.
Trump may turn out to be a poor spokesman for the massive crowds mobbing his events. Im not a big fan of his style and I dont think he has thought much about any of these things, other than immigration. That puts him way ahead of the dreary dishrags running for office, but the leader of a revolt needs a coherent platform. Maybe that comes, maybe not, but the crowds are not going away.
Thats why the rest of the candidates should be scared. To get these crowds for Bush or Walker or Kasich, you would have to round up the people at gun point. Even then, you would probably have to lock the gates to keep the people from fleeing the arena once the dreary dullard started talking. Those people at the Trump rally are not buying what the GOP is selling, even if they may not be sold on Trump as a candidate.
I dont know what they do at this stage. These things can burn out on their own or they can break up like the Tea Party. The trouble is the GOP had corrupted the grass roots long ago so they could tear apart the Tea Party movement without too much trouble. The trouble here is this is ad hoc and completely outside the control of the grass roots organizations that exploited the displeasure pver Obama. This is a revolt against those organizations, especially the GOP establishment.
Im skeptical about Trump. I think his lack of restraint will be his undoing. But, were seeing a collapse of the middle. The parties and the press are now bullhorns aimed at the public and the public gets it. This is not about Trump. Hes just the flag around which the dispossessed can rally. You can take down the flag and the people may disperse, but the dispossessed are still there. Someone will come along with a new flag eventually.
I hear you about Hillary. If she does win we will well and truly be done for. However everyday it gets worse for The Harridan. No one’s luck lasts forever.
I hear you about Hillary. If she does win we will well and truly be done for. However everyday it gets worse for The Harridan. No one’s luck lasts forever.
It appears to me that The Donald has the “MOI” down pat.
Go Trump....Airborne All the Way
I think he’s right though, about trump’s lack of restraint. The Donald operates on emotion and speaks off the cuff. Alot of what he says is not necessary but we’re blowing that off because we like the rest of the message (get rid of illegals, build the fence, etc).
But I think there will come a time soon when he’ll react to something and it will turn the tide. I do believe Cruz will be there to pick it up because the message is right on the money.
“Tell them what you are going to tell them-
Tell Them-
Tell them what you told them- “
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I like that. :-)
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In March 2013 a commentary piece in Der Spiegel called Grillo "The most dangerous man in Europe", described his rhetoric as anti-democratic, said he derived his energy from resentment, and cited the British writer Nicholas Farrell who has drawn parallels between Grillo and Benito Mussolini.[30]
The Donald is a tenacious and diligient one. He’s in it to win it and getting past obstacles is in his DNA. He learned it from his Dad as he wrote in ‘The Art of the Deal’.
There is no doubt the next prez from the moment of his inauguration will have more in common with South American tyrants than with George Washington, for Obama has swept enormous despotic powers into the executive branch. We have an elective despotism, and the “elective” part will not last long if current events continue on their present course.
Our system has come to unfortunately rely almost entirely on executive branch precedent rather than on the supreme law of the land. The EPA and other administrative monsters must be slayed . . . constitutionally.
On top of all, the Bamster has said he will not allow his transformation to be reversed. Since he has the entire national ruling apparatus at his call, there is no telling what he and his thugs will pull if it appears the rat candidate will lose.
Oh my dear God, how we desperately need an Article V state convention before November 2016.
Likewise I expect that if Trump shows staying power and increases his polling to near 50̀ of the entire electorate before Super Tuesday, there will be a move to physically end his candidacy. The next Tyrant is slated to be sock-puppet Biden.
Well it could but it would be most unpleasant. After living here in the Deep South for a while I am convinced that the blackamoors are still scared sh*tless of white men and white America in general. From some time spent in Texas it seems that a good size slice of the ‘Hispanic’ population simply want to blend into white bread America except maybe at dinner time. These people detest the ‘La Raza ‘ crooks, pimps, criminals and loafers and do refer to them as ‘beaners’ once you get to know them. So I think it would be a fight between traditional Americans and those of various ethnicities that want to be Americans and the rest. It would be nasty but perhaps not as hard as some think. Liberals today are almost abject physical cowards by definition, race type blacks can be slapped down by a those with guts, criminal and lazy Latinos can be dealt with and sent packing after some gunplay, the same for the ‘militant muzzies’ who are growing like cancers in a lot of places. It could be done if real Americans aren't concerned with being called bad names by the turd world and the UN and have enough guts to use some of the huge number of firearms they possess.
Insightful and well-written. I think the author makes very salient points. Trump, whatever his core beliefs (if any), is healthy for our country at this time; not as a president, but as a banner carrier. Now, if only Ted Cruz is the last man standing, we have a chance.
Agreed. When I first heard of Trump’s candidacy, the thought that went through my head was something about the degeneracy that was inevitable when our culture has sunken as low as it has.
I’ve come to think there is more there as well, though the great unwashed low information voter is reacting about as I thought they might to the celebrity aspects of it all. I’ve been a bit more surprised by folks who I think of as actually having been paying attention to things glomming onto Trump bandwagon. I think what we’re really seeing more than anything else is the absolute disgust that people who =have= been paying attention for the GOP. The establishment is well and truely screwed at thins point and I don’t see how they pull out of it given that all their usual tactics of character assassination and fake outrage over perceived ‘gaffes’ have largely come to nought.
I’m still behind Cruz, and hope he can stay true to both us and himself through this most interesting political process.
When it comes down to it though, I’m having to start asking myself, “would you really pull the lever for Trumpnin the general?” I admit now, that until recently, my answer has been unequivocally NO. That is no lomger true.
We are living in interesting times.
The bible works the same way. When you read through much of the Old Testiment, it follows exactly the same formula.
Remember Newt calling out the Media during the last election debate? The audience loved it. America is sick of the Elite news medias snarkiness at Republicans and the Don is not going to take it, and that is what People like.
Exactly. If we elect a Trump Congress will quickly re-assert the power they have ceded to the current president.
You entire post sums up my thoughts quite well. I have been saying for a few years that only a tyrant could undo what the current tyrant has done and only if Congress does not decide they have a function.
Few remember that Reagan promised to abolish the Department of Education, they let him raise the speed limit instead.
Congress will not successfully reassert its power. Once given away it can’t take it back from a strong Dictator. A weak dictator, trying not to be a dictator will be at the mercy of the DNC or the obamanoids through the Congress.
Feel the same way,had such a burst of pride I haven’t felt in a long time yesterday when those 3 Americans took out that terrorist on the train in France,sent chills up my spine,they are receiving the French Legion of Merit tomorrow,what a Fantastic story! Sure makes you proud to be American,the Greatest country on the Planet regardless of the fact a bunch of REPROBATE politicians,moronic voters have run it into the ground.
The Spirit of America will never die as long as there are common men who stand up and do extraordinary deeds as those 3 men did.
I sure hope that ceremony is televised tomorrow,the American people need a wake up call
I only have to get two of them. After that they can never even the score. ;-D
I have to remember that :)
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