Dear Trump Fan, So You Want Someone To â€˜Tell It Like It Isâ€™? OK, Here You Go.

You say you want the truth. You say you want someone who speaks boldly and brashly and bluntly and "tells it like it is" and so on. According to exit polls in South Carolina, voters who want a president who "tells it like it is" are an essential demographic for Trump, just as they're an essential demographic for Judge Judy and Dr. Phil. You say you want abrupt and matter-of-fact honesty, and you want it so much, you'll make a man president for it regardless of whether he defies every principle and value you claim to hold.

Personally, I think you're lying, and I'm going to test my theory. In fact, I believe I've already proven my theory because you're now offended that I called you a liar. But Trump has called half of the Earth's population a liar at some point over the past seven months, and you loved every second of it. You said you loved it not out of cruelty or spite, but out of admiration for a man who's willing to call people liars - even if he's lying when he does it.

Yet here I am employing the same tactic - accurately, I might add - and you recoil indignantly. Over the course of this campaign season I've said many harsh words about you and your leader, all of which I stand by, but you've never respected my harsh words, or the harsh words of any Trump critic. Indeed, you insist that our tough criticism of you only vindicates your support of Trump, while Trump's vulgar and dishonest criticism of everyone else also vindicates your support of Trump. You're tired of people being critical, but you love Trump because he's critical. You say you like Trump for his style, but you hate his style when it's directed at him or you.

You say you want someone who's politically incorrect. You're so desperate for political incorrectness - a supremely ridiculous reason to vote a guy into the Oval Office, but never mind - that your esteem for him only grows when he belittles the disabled, mocks American prisoners of war, calls women dogs, calls his opponents p*ssies, calls for the assassination of women and children, says he'd like to have sex with his daughter, brags about his adultery, etc.

You're excited by the most vile statements and most cretinous behavior imaginable - not remotely deterred by any of it, no matter how many times he gloats over infidelity, curses his opponents, and publicly ogles his own children - because, you say, it's politically incorrect. That is how unfathomably desperate you are for someone to come along and just say what's on their mind, you claim. You're so fed up with political correctness that you celebrate political incorrectness without distinguishing between the healthy sort and the "LOL I slept with married women and I'm not sorry" sort. It doesn't matter if you don't personally agree, you say, you just respect the hell out of someone who's willing to shoot straight, even when "shooting straight" means comparing Ben Carson to a child molester, calling the entire electorate of Iowa stupid, and referring to women as "pieces of ass."

Trump won South Carolina on the support of Evangelical Christians who were so impressed with his alleged straight talk that they overlooked the fact that he's a crass, cruel, unrepentant philanderer who says he does not need God's forgiveness, and who praises Planned Parenthood as "wonderful" and his radically pro-abortion sister as a "phenomenal" candidate for the Supreme Court. That's how much you pretend to admire bluntness in a man. So much that it overrides literally everything else.

By your logic, then, you should be filled with an immense and irresistible affection for me when I call Donald Trump a crooked, underhanded con artist and you a reckless, ignorant dupe. You should fall madly in love with me when I accuse Donald Trump of being a spoiled, overgrown brat and you of being a cultish groupie enamored with fame. You should well up with pride and salute me as I mentioned that Donald Trump is a stuffed and soiled diaper sagging in the pants of American politics and you're the poor, pitiful sap trying to elect it president. You don't have to agree, but man, isn't it refreshing that I'm willing to tell you what's on my mind? Shouldn't you leave a thousand comments under this article praising me for being politically incorrect, willing to attack not only Donald Trump but his blue collar supporters? In fact, if you're sincere in your alleged regard for the bold and audacious approach, I expect you'll have launched a nationwide write-in campaign for me by tomorrow morning.

But that's not how this works, is it? You've already melted into a boiling puddle of rage and self-pity, haven't you? You're incensed and offended that I could be so "judgmental" and "dismissive" and "critical," and 100 other qualities you find so orgasmically satisfying when they're displayed by The Great Trump. You say you want some straight-shooting, honest, politically incorrect tough talk, but that's simply a lie. If it were true, my inbox would not be filled to capacity with cartoonishly shocked and outraged Trump fans every time I utter a word of criticism in his direction. It shouldn't matter that my criticisms are sharp and severe; you ought to revere me all the more for it. I thought you were tired of people walking on egg shells?

It turns out you don't want Donald Trump to walk on egg shells, but you have fortified your own perimeter with a thick layer of egg shells and you expect anyone who comes near it to tip toe with extreme caution. It turns out you want to be coddled and cuddled and pandered to and excused. You're in favor of whatever Trump says because Trump said it, but when it comes to how people talk about you and him, you expect to be treated like a soft and delicate flower.

You flock eagerly to a flamboyant, authoritarian billionaire fascist, and you feel you ought to be completely insulated from criticism while you do so. Everyone else ought to be subject to relentless and profane invective from an elderly Manhattan real estate heir, but you and he should be above reproach.

Tell it like it is? I'll tell you like it is: In my life I've never encountered a group of people more averse to being told how it is. Of course, you believe you're entitled to this attitude because you're "angry." Your "anger" indulges you with the moral authority to take leave of your reason and your common sense. Your anger, you believe, places you beyond judgment, even as you attempt to drag this country into a future of (more) tyranny and cultism. You believe the rest of us ought to take your supposedly righteous rage into account while you refuse to take anything but your own infatuation with spectacle and celebrity into account. Whatever concerns we raise, including the ones I'm raising now, can be written off in an instant. "WE'RE TIRED OF POLITICS AS USUAL! WE'RE ANGRY!" And that's supposed to be some kind of rhetorical hall pass, permitting you to do and say what you please unchallenged.

Well let me be the first and perhaps the only to say this out loud, although millions of people share this sentiment quietly: I don't care about your anger. There's some more truth for you, friend. There's some more "tellin' it like it is." Two can play at this game, you know. And the only difference is that I'm right.

I couldn't take your anger seriously even if I wanted to. After all, you say you're angry that people are too afraid to speak their minds, but, as we've established, you don't really want anyone but Donald Trump to speak his mind.

You say you're angry about the corruption in Washington, but you support a slimy swindler and fraudster who boasts of his bribery schemes and makes no apologies for shamelessly exploiting political corruption for personal gain.

You say you're angry about illegal immigration, but you rally around a guy who supported amnesty as recently as 2013, employed illegal immigrants, and donated millions of dollars to open borders politicians like Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Chuck Schumer, and Hillary Clinton.

You say you're angry about the establishment, but you worship a candidate who said only a few weeks ago that "you got to be a little establishment" in order to get things done, and who admits he "was the establishment" right until he ran for president.

You say you're angry that Republicans won't fight, but you hail as a warrior the same guy who says he'll happily "work with the Democrats," which probably explains why Sen. Harry Reid praised him and Jimmy Carter called him "malleable." It is not uncommon for me to hear from Trump fans that they're angry at "GOPe" Republicans for "cutting deals" and "compromising" in one breath, and in the very next that they want Trump because he's really good at cutting deals and compromising.

Right down the list, you are blithely embracing every single thing you say you're so angry about. Trump is the very embodiment of corruption, deception, cowardice, and elitism. He is precisely the sort of man you supposedly detest. Trump is exploiting America's frustration with men like Trump. Trump is running against Trump. You are voting for Trump because you hate Trump. You are angry at politicians because they act like Trump and make deals like Trump and go to cocktail parties with men like Trump and look down on the little guy like Trump and possess the integrity of Trump, and so you're solution is to elect Trump. Your anger at Trump leads you to Trump. Perhaps this explains why you're so worried about politicians who are "controlled by donors," but you aren't at all concerned about a politicians who is the very donor you didn't want controlling the political process. "I'm sick of these donors influencing the government! I have an idea: let's make one president!"

It seems more like schizophrenia than anger. Aside from chronic mental illness, there are only two explanations for a person who avidly supports the continuation of a thing because he's angry at that thing: either he's fantastically stupid, or he's not actually angry at all.

Friend, I should tell you the most popular theory among non-Trump supporters is that you fall into the former category. When we talk to each other in private, almost everyone agrees you're stupid. Again, you should, by your own words, hold me in the highest esteem for telling you this uncomfortable fact. People think you're stupid, just as they thought about Barack Obama supporters in 2008.

The parallels between the two groups are indeed profound, as exit polls attest. Once again, people are voting because "they want change," unconcerned by the fact that the change is ambiguous, non-specific, and, in fact, not really "change" at all. A lot of people, grasping for an explanation as to how voters might be suckered by the same shtick three times in a row, just chalk it up to stupidity.

By the way, you should doubly love what I'm doing here because it appears very close to apophasis, which is a rhetorical device where the speaker coyly makes an accusation or insult in the context of denying or distancing himself from the unkind remark. "Many people believe my neighbor Jim is a thieving jerk who borrowed my garden hose last July and didn't return it, but I'm not going to talk about it." That kind of thing.

It's a strategy Trump employs all the time, and you always go along with it, like when he called Megyn Kelly a bimbo by saying "I refuse to call Megyn Kelly a bimbo because that would be politically incorrect." Like clockwork, you insisted that he didn't call Megyn Kelly a bimbo; he merely brought up the fact that he would call her a bimbo if it weren't so rude to do so.

Well, in similar fashion, I'm not calling you stupid, I'm just saying that other people call you stupid. You should therefore defend me against any accusation that I've called you stupid, just as you would Trump. But the difference is that I'm not being coy here. I really don't think you're stupid. I certainly don't think I'm any smarter than you. I subscribe to the second theory: I don't believe you're really all that angry.

Your anger, to whatever extent it exists at all, is surface level. It's a purely emotional experience, fed by a mob mentality. You're angry in the way a rioter or looter is angry. Your temper might be flaring and your heart rate jumping and you might be filled with the uncontrollable urge to break a window, but underneath that anger is really something much closer to boredom and apathy. You don't feel a real, intense, profound, deep and meaningful disgust at the corruption and malfeasance in Washington, because if you did there is simply no way you would support a man like Trump.

Unless, like I said, you're stupid. But you aren't stupid, and a non-stupid person, a serious person, who truly, deeply, intensely loathes the current state of affairs, who genuinely desires that his country be revived for the sake of his children, would not be turning to a blustery, boorish reality TV character with a catchphrase and a fake tan for answers.

I'm just telling it like it is here, friend. I'm telling you what's on my mind. I'm being completely and painfully honest with you. I don't believe your anger. I think you want a spectacle, not a solution. A celebrity, not a statesman. A circus performer, not a leader. I think you want to be entertained. I think you're not taking this seriously enough. I think you're intellectually lazy so you've accepted authoritarianism as a stand-in for strength. I think you're following the trend of the day. I think you're wrapped up in media hype.

In other words, I think your anger, if it exists, is misplaced. You should be angry at yourself, because if this country falls finally and irrevocably into despotism, it'll be your fault. You'll have chosen it. You'll have elected it and applauded it. That, my friend, is what makes me angry.

And here is something else about which to think.

WHY WOULD WE ELECT PRESIDENT A GUY WHO...?

Why would this country elect as president some guy who was known to regale friends with nigger* jokes, grew up with a boyhood hatred of slavery because his father regularly hired him out for heavy manual labor then confiscated his earnings, had a history of depression, was suicidal from time to time (in his defense, probably due to the death of his young son, but suicidal nonetheless) and eventually started an internecine war ostensibly to halt a slavery that was, due to its inherent inefficienty, fading out â€“ and during which he thouroughly trampled the Constitution he claimed he was attempting to preserve â€“ that took the lives of over 700,000 troops and civilians and...
What? Oh, yeah. That was LINCOLN! never mind!
* A corruption of another word now freely used by blacks around the world when referring to one another. To NOT have written the word here would be to accord the dark forces of political correctness an inappropriate and destructive victory of which Orwell’s Thought Police would be proud.

Why would we elect president some guy who was not healthy and smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day, married his fifth cousin then had a notorious affair with his secretary and...
What? Oh, sorry, that was FDR!

And why would the American people put in the Oval Office a man who, while overseas running the war in Europe and another 3 pack-a-day smoker, was schtupping his secretary while his wife was back here tending to the family and just prior to D-Day, scheduled a poorly planned, ill-fated live-fire practice for the Normandy invasion (Exercise Tiger) that got over 700 American troops KILLED â€“ HAD THEM BURIED IN A MASS GRAVE â€“ THEN COVERED IT UP!
Oh, sorry. That was Republican DWIGHT EISENHOWER. Moving on...

How about another Democrat who, to his credit served honorably in the Pacific but DID manage to get his PT boat sliced in half by a Japanese destroyer but redeemed himself by getting his crew rescued. Running against Nixon in the 1960 race, this same married chap, whose handlers thought he was a bit â€œtenseâ€ before the first televised debate, took him out and got him laid. (That certainly relaxed him as he won the debate.) Once in office, this fellow had numerous extramarital affairs with mob molls and several Hollywood stars, Marilyn Monroe among them and...
Oh yeah. That was JFK. never mind.
(For an interesting aside re. that event and the role a leftist media type played in that debate, please see the footnote below. If you’ve watched the current debates, you understand that THEY STILL DO.)

And then there was this character from Texas who, after his friends counted the ballots and reported him barely ahead in a close race for the Senate, was shocked â€“ just shocked â€“that the very night before the recount, would you believe it? — the courthouse burned down, destroying the ballots! Like Lincoln, â€œniggerâ€ was a regular part of his crude vocabulary. This fellow was a notorious womanizer and drunk whose favorite technique for reprimanding errant subordinates was to call them into the lavatory while he moved his bowels. Classy, huh?
Then he...What? You say that was LBJ? never mind.

How in the WORLD could we elect to the presidency some guy who was a 60s socialist radical, later married one even more radical than himself, wangled multiple deferments from MILITARY SERVICE while other kids his age were humping through the bush in Vietnam dodging bullets and who was a woman abuser and engaged in sexual misconduct in the Oval Office with a young intern then, under oath, perjured himself about it and...
What? Oh, right, that was BILL CLINTON! never mind!

But why the heck would we elect some guy raised by grandparents and some pornographer — all three of whom were on FBI “Communist Watch” lists in the 50s and 60s (back when the FBI actually did its job of trying to protect US) â€“ and whose mother posed nude for the pornographer before abandoning him and who has openly admitted to have been â€“ and probably still is â€“ a pot head and user of harder illegal substances and whose every action bespeaks a hatred for the nation he allegedly heads...
What? Oh, right. That’s BARACK OBAMA! never mind!

I haven’t researched all the other folks we elevated to the highest elected office in this country. If I did, I’m sure I’d find warts and blemishes on ALL OF THEM. And why would that be? BECAUSE, LIKE YOU AND ME, THEY’RE ALL IMPERFECT HUMAN BEINGS AND ALL FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY.

Until some leftist â€œjournalistâ€ comes up with a fully documented list of reprehensible things MY candidate â€“ who doesn’t drink or smoke and has raised his kids to be responsible, successful adults â€“ has done to other folks, I’ll stick with TRUMP. And until these same media mavens provide me with a list of associates, friends, employees, clients and others he has screwed over and, further, convince me that he is attempting to prevaricate his way into the presidency (as the last guy did!) or that his profession of LOVE for America is as egregious a lie as the last guy told us, I’LL HANG IN THERE WITH TRUMP.

But my support for The Donald is based more on how the current crop (or is that crAp) of political elites and their media lapdogs and handmaidens are GOING NUTS because he is articulating problems in terms WE USE IN OUR CONVERSATIONS OUT HERE IN â€œFLYOVER COUNTRYâ€, AND NOT TALKING ABOUT HOW BEST TO ARRANGE THE DECK CHAIRS ON THE FOUNDERING SHIP CALLED â€œAMERICAâ€. Add in that he’s the only candidate who doesn’t need the job but, more importantly, DOESN’T NEED DOUGH FROM THE K STREET RENT SEEKERS WHO ROUTINELY BUY YOUR ALLEGED â€œREPRESENTATIVESâ€ ON CAPITOL HILL and the rough talking, very UNPC, sometimes crude and impolite (read that â€œimperfectâ€) and that he has the â€œestablishmentâ€ incompetents who created this mess WETTING THEMSELVES, Trump will remain my guy.

Because the entrenched forces he faces have a 3 way program for dealing with outsiders (1. IGNORE; 2. DISCREDIT; 3. ELIMINATE), all we have to do is pray he REMAINS ABOVE AMBIENT TEMPERATURE through the debates, the election and, hopefully, on to January 20th, 2017 and an inauguration.

Dick Bachert 9/26/2015 (Edited 2/22/2016)

FOOTNOTE:
The 1960 Nixon-Kennedy Debates were directed by one Don Hewitt, creator of CBS’ â€œ60 Minutesâ€. Hewitt told Nixon, who had a serious â€œ5 O’clock Shadowâ€ (beard, for you youngsters not familiar with that phrase) that he didn’t need to shave just prior to the program. Hewitt then directed the studio lighting to flatter Kennedy while arranging Nixon’s to make him look like an extra from â€œThe Walking Deadâ€. Not satisfied, Hewitt slowly tightened the shot each time Nixon spoke so that his head loomed and filled the entire screen on TV sets all over the country. And as we all know, things that â€œloomâ€ are clearly dangerous and should be avoided. The voters did so and, as we all know, Kennedy won.

I need to add that, warts and all, Kennedy did a pretty good job. While he got it completely wrong at the Bay of Pigs, he defused the Cuban Missile show down with the Soviets. And he was moving in the direction of unhooking our monetary system from the Fed (to which we PAY INTEREST on the currency they create from THIN AIR!), had begun speaking out about lowering taxes and getting us out of Vietnam. Some of us believe that’s why some folks blew off the top of his head on November 22, 1963. As with so many events like these, we may never know the truth.

The talking heads still don’t get it. In large part, America has figured it out. For the last quarter of a century, WE the Republic, have been denied the choice to say NO to socialism.
It has been a setup. The fix was always in. We, the Republic, have been loosing a war of financial attrition for decades. We, the Republic are engaged in a war with those who govern us. Drastic measures are required to defeat this enemy in order to stop the bleeding that each of us are seeing in the depreciation of our savings, the constant onslaught of taxes, fees, and licenses. Each of them designed to remove our ability to live free.

If a slave is a person who works for no money, then a paid person who works with no money left for savings or investment is therefore a slave.

The Communists are very good at planning each move, they have been at it for over sixty years, to bury us. They are so close to succeeding.

Trump has stepped in and has sensed our rage.We want to throw our shoes into the machinery. We want to turn over the apple carts and toss tea into the harbor. Trump is giving us a voice. He is giving our children and grandchildren a fighting chance of enjoying the life that our parents fought and spilled blood in Europe and Japan so as to impart liberty to ourselves.

No, we will no longer hide in the shadow of political correctness.

No, we will no longer stand idle in the face of the globalist Red Menace.

No, we will not play the game of choosing which Socialist will rob our children.

No, we will not play the game of choosing which Socialist will import an army of decapitating, lawless, savages into our home to eradicate Freedom and the American Way.

ANY and EVERY politician who will not build a wall is declaring he/she DOES NOT CARE IF YOU DIE!

I do not think Trump is a conservative.

I do not think Trump is morally pious and pure.

I do not think Trump is void of indiscretions or mistakes.

I do believe that any candidate that is a true conservative, morally pure, pious, and has walked the straight and narrow...would not stand a chance against the the globalist red menace that is systematically deconstructing our nation.

No, far from it.

Right now we need our own paladin of chaotic malice with a depraved sense of overly vengeful justice that will stand not for giving quarter. Right now we need our own Son of a Bitch glorious bastard, faults and all. We need to stomp out the treachery of political correctness that perpetuates racial discontent and has created Europe-istan, a Nuclear Iran, as well as ushering in a new world order of penniless servitude consisting of the entire earthly population bowing to but a few of the elite socialist megalomaniacs.

We need our own monster.

Ted Cruz may well be as advertised. No one knows. Four years ago, no one knew who he was.

He is young, deploy the Trump Bomb now, it is an ugly weapon of mass destruction that will result in some collateral damage, but it is required.

Alas, we have run out of time.

It will take many Ted Cruz clones to restore order in the aftermath.

66 posted on Monday, February 22, 2016 8:05:26 AM by RavenLooneyToon

I stole this as he said it better than I could.

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