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 don’t think our elections mean very much. It’s 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. It’s the GOP’s 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. There’s no way to wriggle free of the mishandling of classified data. You can finesse financial laws and ethics rules. You can’t 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 Trump’s crowd last night I kept thinking, “something is happening here. What it is ain’t 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 what’s happening to them right now. They spend their time reading each other’s tweets, promoting each other’s 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. It’s 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, it’s sad and pathetic. In this case it is emblematic. Conservative Inc. is cracking up over what’s happening outside the Acela corridor.
Trump may turn out to be a poor spokesman for the massive crowds mobbing his events. I’m not a big fan of his style and I don’t 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.
That’s 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 don’t 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.
I’m skeptical about Trump. I think his lack of restraint will be his undoing. But, we’re 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. He’s 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.
The important thing about Trump is he is getting the things talked about. He is seriously damaging PC. The REAL nominee can pick up that mantle if he so chooses. If it is Cruz, he will.
Stay off da YouTube man, or you might end up dropping a paycheck on rice, beans, and water
I bought my acreage in central, rural KY two weeks before the election in 2008. Moved there in 2011 from my home of 45 years, Seattle. Regarding water, I own two streams. Regarding beans, I have wild Turkey and Deer so thick I let other guys hunt on my property. I saw this coming LONG before this September thing. It is only the timing that is the question.
I don't know.....remember the guy that stuck secret files in his socks.....I think his name was Burger..??
Anyway, nothing happened to that schmuck.... I think he was destroying those files.....covering up for the Clinton's...yes.???
Bflr
“While Heaven is our eternal home, we still want what’s true, right and noble here in the nation. It frustrates us for we know what needs to be done but fools and morons have led us astray. We gotta finish strong as we must and leave it to the Almighty One when the journey is done.”
Well put. 54 here, or soon will be.
I’d rather risk what I have in fighting the evil that is taking over this nation than live a semi-comfortable life watching the decline if a once-free nation. We were the light and hope of the world, a beacon for those wanting freedom and liberty. At the rate fascism is encroaching, our generation will be the last to have experienced it.
It’s hard to tell what the future holds, but it’s a shame it had to come to this.
“Kevin Williamson is a one man list to which I would add the name Michael Medved.”
Michael Medved, of course, being the model for Grima Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings.
My gut instinct tells me that he will follow through on the things that he is talking about. His business life has always been about doing. Accomplishing his goals. He is not a politician and he speaks off the cuff.
I don’t think that these are carefully crafted positions designed to win our approval. He simply shares a lot of the same concerns that we do. He’s not a conservative but he’s a patriot and at this point in history that is probably the best that we can do.
“The elites have replaced close to 30% of the American voting public with third worlders”
In southern California they have now become the majority. This is is probably the last chance to keep it from happening to the rest of the country.
Things are a lot worse than the general public understands IMO....like Trump said: we are running on fumes in this country.
Yeah, I agree. We have been on the cutting edge of the transformation here in SoCal so it’s been impossible to ignore. A lot of my friends and family have moved out over the years looking for places that still look like America.
My cousin just left Cali last year & took his mechanic business with him to Maine. He moved out there in 79 as a young guy looking to make his mark in the “Golden State” & he did for a while. Between the taxes & the invasion he moved moved all the way to central Maine after what he lived through. Sad.
It is sad. California should be what it once was, a place where Americans can move to and feel like it’s home. A place where they can live and open their businesses.
I moved to California in the late ‘60s when I was in high school. It wasn’t a colony of Mexico and other more exotic parts of the Third World. There weren’t gangs and graffiti and vastly overcrowded houses running down entire neighborhoods. The radio dial had stations that actually broadcast in English! Imagine that! We had a common culture. Sure there were problems and crime, but they were American problems and crime and not the imported problems and crime of the third world.
Well that’s all changed. SoCal is very overcrowded. Housing is too expensive for most Americans to afford. Vast stretches of once pleasant American suburbs are now gang infested, graffiti scarred, alien places that Americans don’t want to live in. And this is directly the result of massive migration from the third world, legal as well as illegal. How is this good for the United States?
Well it isn’t. And if the momentum of this isn’t changed it will permanently alter the rest of the country as well. If we were to deport the huge number of foreign nationals who have been illegally residing in the US for years then California would be available for Americans once again. This is entirely the fault of Republicans and Democrats who have been consciously enabling the dispossession of the Americans in their own country. It’s despicable.
Did I miss something? Or is this what they call "projection" in the smokey back rooms...
It’s a nightmare & disgrace what the elites have done to this state & to see a lying scumbag like George Will go after Trump who is bring this up to the public is maddening.
Don’t let George Will and his ruling class Republican ilk bother you. Their attacks aren’t working. If anything they are having the opposite effect.
We have family in Maine & New Hampshire which is why he’s made his way back to New England. He’s also about 60 & has scaled back on work so he’s comfortable with slowing down....though he’s just hired several guys to work for him & will be busy enough.
Maine is really not that bad....he’s in a small town on the ocean in a town that is safe & just like the one he grew up in.
Yes...George hated Reagan too. That did not work out for him.
George Will and others like him are not just lying down on the job, but actively working against the American citizenry by peddling lies and propaganda. But we’ve got them now! Outed by this man Trump who speaks of making America great again. Go Trump go!
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