Posted on 07/28/2015 11:31:24 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Undoubtedly, Mr. Trump wishes he had steered a bit clearer of Mr. McCain’s honorable service. But he has built up so much credibility with his unflinching, unvarnished talk that supporters are willing to forgive him a verbal slip-up here and there.
People like Mr. Trump not because they think he will be dainty and gentle inside the china shop of the federal government. They love him because they think he will be an enraged, groaning and goring bull, slashing his giant, shiny horns deep into every corner of the china shop as all the experts — shrieking — go scurrying in every direction to get away from the rampaging beast.
The American people have watched for decades as all the political experts have worked their magic and built up this monstrous city where the streets are literally lined with slabs of expensive granite paid for by innocent taxpayers thousands of miles away.
They also look at the rampaging bull that is “Teflon Don,” and they smile broadly. They say to themselves, “Well, you can’t screw it up any worse than all the experts have. So let’s give Donald Trump a shot. At least I understand what he is saying.”
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It turns out that, to the surprise of the supposed insiders, people actually despise McCain. Despise him. And finally someone said it out loud.
Yes, but Trump shouldn't have attacked McCain's military record. He should have attacked his political record. McCain is nothing but a cheap political hack, trading on his military record.
He says that like it's a bad thang...............
John McCain’s service was not all that “stainless”, but that aside, McCain did gain a good amount of cachet for the brutalities he endured during his stay at “Hotel Hanoi”.
A great deal of moral capital which McCain has continued to squander, as though it were in limitless supply. Well, John, it is just about all used up, and you have perhaps lived on beyond your useful service to humanity. Retire and build birdhouses, or something.
Well after Obama anything goes. Trump would stir things up and be a breath of fresh air on some issues.
Yawn the phrase “bull in a china shop” is unimaginable, trite, and hackneyed.
Avoid cliche like the plague!
"I hate that cliche!" *gunshot*
They love him because he doesn’t apologize. If you say something that can be used to make you apologize, it doesn’t just get put behind you. It makes you look weak. That is why the media wants conservatives to apologize all the time.
A slip of the tongue, a nonsense word like macaca, anything at all, can be made to be offensive. Then, the news becomes all about the apology, and the underlying issue is conveniently ignored. And they don’t let it die. It is really a sucky way to run a news media. But the fact is, news is not about informing, it is about shaping perceptions and selling advertising. More about perceptions, but advertising is where the money comes from.
I can safely say that the adverting done by news media does not affect my purchasing decisions. I simply do not watch any news on TV at all. If I read a newspaper, it’s only a few headlines as I wait for my order. No 6:00 PM TV News, no Sunday morning paper delivery, nor any website associated with any newspaper or TV station. I’m sure I am not unique or alone in this. Basically, the news media has decided not to serve my demographic. Hopefully, advertisers will figure out that there is a very large untapped market, and stop supporting the bias.
A lot of expensive glass needs to be trashed. Don’t blame the bull.
If you’re reading, Mr. Hurt, here you go:
http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit
DYING METAPHORS. A newly invented metaphor assists thought by evoking a visual image, while on the other hand a metaphor which is technically ‘dead’ (e. g. iron resolution) has in effect reverted to being an ordinary word and can generally be used without loss of vividness. But in between these two classes there is a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves. Examples are: Ring the changes on, take up the cudgel for, toe the line, ride roughshod over, stand shoulder to shoulder with, play into the hands of, no axe to grind, grist to the mill, fishing in troubled waters, on the order of the day, Achilles’ heel, swan song, hotbed. Many of these are used without knowledge of their meaning (what is a ‘rift’, for instance?), and incompatible metaphors are frequently mixed, a sure sign that the writer is not interested in what he is saying. Some metaphors now current have been twisted out of their original meaning without those who use them even being aware of the fact. For example, toe the line is sometimes written as tow the line. Another example is the hammer and the anvil, now always used with the implication that the anvil gets the worst of it. In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about: a writer who stopped to think what he was saying would avoid perverting the original phrase.
I certainly don't expect him to mince words as pres.
This would be bad because????
I’ve never like Trump, but the more the GOPe tries to shove ¡Yeb! down our throats, the more I’m inclined to shove Trump down their throats.
I remain unconvinced McCain was ever in his life a positive contributor to humanity, so the idea that time has come to an end, is a wee bit impossible IMO.
When you toss in arming and funding of terrorist groups, it’s clear how depraved the man is, and there’s tons more.
and “You’re fired” will probably be heard more, not less.
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and the ones that cannot be fired will be transferred to a new branch in Nebraska with their pay “adjusted” from DC opulent to midwest frugal... and they will patiently wait until retirement for that memo with their new job duties which will never come.
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