Posted on 11/16/2016 11:36:45 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
From the wisdom of Keillor:
"So he won. The nation takes a deep breath. Raw ego and proud illiteracy have won out, and a severely learning-disabled man with a real character problem will be president. We are so exhausted from thinking about this election, millions of people will take up leaf-raking and garage cleaning with intense pleasure. We liberal elitists are wrecks. The Trumpers had a whale of a good time, waving their signs, jeering at the media, beating up protesters, chanting “Lock her up” — we elitists just stood and clapped. Nobody chanted “Stronger Together.” It just doesn’t chant.
The Trumpers never expected their guy to actually win the thing, and that’s their problem now. They wanted only to whoop and yell, boo at the H-word, wear profane T-shirts, maybe grab a crotch or two, jump in the RV with a couple six-packs and go out and shoot some spotted owls. It was pleasure enough for them just to know that they were driving us wild with dismay — by “us,” I mean librarians, children’s authors, yoga practitioners, Unitarians, bird-watchers, people who make their own pasta, opera goers, the grammar police, people who keep books on their shelves, that bunch. The Trumpers exulted in knowing we were tearing our hair out. They had our number, like a bratty kid who knows exactly how to make you grit your teeth and froth at the mouth.
Alas for the Trump voters, the disasters he will bring on this country will fall more heavily on them than anyone else. The uneducated white males who elected him are the vulnerable ones, and they will not like what happens next.
To all the patronizing B.S. we’ve read about Trump expressing the white working-class’s displacement and loss of the American Dream, I say, “Feh!” — go put your head under cold water. Resentment is no excuse for bald-faced stupidity. America is still the land where the waitress’ kids can grow up to become physicists and novelists and pediatricians, but it helps a lot if the waitress and her husband encourage good habits and the ambition to use your God-given talents and the kids aren’t plugged into electronics day and night. Whooping it up for the candidate of cruelty and ignorance does less than nothing for your kids.
We liberal elitists are now completely in the clear. The government is in Republican hands. Let them deal with him. Democrats can spend four years raising heirloom tomatoes, meditating, reading Jane Austen, traveling around the country, tasting artisan beers, and let the Republicans build the wall and carry on the trade war with China and deport the undocumented and deal with opioids, and we Democrats can go for a long , brisk walk and smell the roses.
I like Republicans. I used to spend Sunday afternoons with a bunch of them, drinking Scotch and soda and trying to care about NFL football. It was fun. I tried to think like them. (Life is what you make it. People are people. When the going gets tough, tough noogies.) But I came back to liberal elitism.
Don’t be cruel. Elvis said it, and it’s true. We all experienced cruelty back in our playground days — boys who beat up on the timid, girls who made fun of the homely and naive — and most of us, to our shame, went along with it, afraid to defend the victims lest we become one of them. But by your 20s, you should be done with cruelty. Mr. Trump was the cruelest candidate since George Wallace. How he won on fear and bile is for political pathologists to study. The country is already tired of his noise, even his own voters. He is likely to become the most intensely disliked president since Hoover. His children will carry the burden of his name. He will never be happy in his own skin. But the damage he will do to our country — who knows? His supporters voted for change, and boy, are they going to get it.
Back to real life. I went up to my home town the other day and ran into my gym teacher, Stan Nelson, looking good at 96. He commanded a landing craft at Normandy on June 6, 1944, and never said a word about it back then, just made us do chin-ups whether we wanted to or not. I saw my biology teacher Lyle Bradley, a Marine pilot in the Korean War, still going bird-watching in his 90s. I was not a good student then, but I am studying both of them now. They have seen it all and are still optimistic. The past year of politics has taught us absolutely nothing. Zilch. Zero. Nada. The future is scary. Let the uneducated have their day. I am now going to pay more attention to teachers."
Simpleton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmkq7yylRkU
Garrison on the Simpson’s
He uses plenty of leftist slurs.
“Democrats can spend four years raising heirloom tomatoes, meditating, reading Jane Austen, traveling around the country, tasting artisan beers”
It’s not in their DNA to do that. They’ll be fighting and slandering us all the way.
I'm reluctant to say that, lest they mask it.
Be sure to notify the press.
Nobody like you and your ilk said "#NeverHillary" either. Nobody like you and your ilk said "we can't elect a felon!"
and we won. Lash out, loser.
What a patronizing bastard——and another example of liberal “tolerance”.
.
He’s not stupid.
He’s uninformed.
Trump won the white educated vote 49-45.
And about those spotted owls: the biggest threat to the spotted owl is not people but another owl species, the barred owl. Spotted owls live in a specific ecological niche, whereas barred owls are much more adept at hunting and living in different places. Barred owls are so good at being owls that they outcompete spotted owls for food. They may also eat spotted owls, I don’t know. But guess what the leftists in the EPA and the USDA do about barred owls encroaching on spotted owl habitat? That’s right, they shoot them.
His radio show is really slick, though. He excels at telling certain people how to think while they think they're having a good time, 'cause really he's just a good old boy from Minnesota. /s
By “wisdom” did you mean “leftist condescension”?
No, the elites are chanting things like ‘Love Trumps Hate’ and ‘Stop the Electoral College’... except that in true Elitist fashion, they aren’t even dirtying their hands - they are hiring servants to do their bidding for them.
Stealing that for a potential come-back during Thanksgiving dinner conversation. :-)
What’s sad is that Garrison has spent his adult life writing about the very people he’s denigrating. I’ve read at least 10 of his novels over the years. The reason I like the residents of Lake Woebegon is not because it’s a town made up of the elitists he talks about, but because they are real everyday people. I’ve often said he is the modern day Mark Twain and I suspect the people of the fictional Lake Woebegon would be Trump voters. If you want to crack up, read Liberty as a starter. A great novel with a hilarious ending.
Incidentally he talked of visiting two of his former teachers and both military war vets. I noticed he did not say who they voted for. My guess is those guys were Trump supporters....
What, like get government out of their hair, and have a better economy? I stopped reading at this point.
GK is a pompous fool on a mountaintop. Everyone else looks small to him, and he looks small to everyone else.
This from a guy who made a fortune setting himself up as a representative of small town, folksy, Middle America.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.