Posted on 07/01/2016 4:51:58 AM PDT by upchuck
You can’t make it up—there’s a 25 percent or so chance that an unhinged demagogue will be America’s next commander in chief.
A few years ago I started noodling on a novel that I hoped would expose the fault lines that seemed to be splitting our politics. My thought was to take reality and push it to the edge both for comic affect and to offer up a cautionary tale of where our politics might be headed. I finished the book in the summer of 2015 and I was a little worried that I had gone too far. How believable would it be that a xenophobic Republican who wanted to ban immigration and deport millions might actually be a real contender for president?
Well, now we know. Donald Trump hasn’t called for a new Bill of Rights like Armstrong George, the handsome fire-breather in my novel, The Innocent Have Nothing To Fear, but he’s the first candidate who’s running as if the Bill of Rights doesn’t exist. (If we get through this election without some reporter asking Trump if he can name the amendments in the Bill of Rights, it will be a crying shame.) Even while channeling my darkest impulses—and Lord knows we all have them, which is probably the key to Trump’s success so far—it never occurred to me that a candidate for president of the United States of America could call for a religious test to enter the United States without being considered a frothing lunatic.
This sentence says it all about the writer, unless he is talking about Hillary Clinton, a clearly corrupt, unhinged, vacillating demagogue.
There is nothing made up with that statement about crooked Hillary!
(If we get through this election without some reporter asking Trump if he can name the amendments in the Bill of Rights, it will be a crying shame.)
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I doubt if I could and attach a number to them. Why not ax hildabeast the same question? Or that constitutional scholar obozo.
The Sammartino-Volkoff "feud" was very infamous. My Dad used to take us and his Mom to see the matches in Trenton and Philly. Grandmom was great. She'd start screaming at the bad guys as soon as they came in. One time one of them, maybe Lou Albano, ran out of the ring to get away and he came near enough to her that she bopped him with her cane. Lou reacted well (went staggering off), made it part of the action (act). The highlight of my rasslin' fan days was to go into the locker room once and get some photos with the guys (for a price, of course). I had one where Killer Kowalski did his "claw" move on my head. Then he gave me a hug. Damned if I can find those pics now.
Freddie Blassie, "Haystacks" Calhoun, Bobo Brazil with his signature coco-butt (head butt), Bruno, "Dr." Jerry Graham, they were all such good guys and great fun to watch.
I envy you, I truly do. Even if you can’t find those pictures (and they’ll turn up one day I’ll bet), the visuals remain in your mind, and that’s a great thing to carry around.
GREAT story about your GrandMom, getting to whack Cap’n Lou is not something a lot of people can claim to have done, bravo!
“an unhinged lunatic” . . .
So, is he saying that Hitler-y Clintoon is likely to be
elected?
there’s a 100 percent or so chance that an unhinged demagogue is America’s commander in chief.
Trump has about 95% chance.
I suspect he would much prefer Killary to Trump.
Yeah, those were fun times. I do recall it was “Captain” Lou back when he was a wrestler and not a manager. Lou was great with getting the audience worked up. He’d get in your face and make like he was going to belt you one, the times he was chased out of the ring by the good guy (which was often). Dad would root for the heels, and everyone around him would give him grief. One little old lady ran up to him and said something like, “You like him so much, go on up there and kiss ‘im!” One time one of the heels saw my Dad rooting for him and he’d point it out to the ref (who was in on the script) and use it to back up his appeals for sympathy, like “See? He (my Dad) knows what’s goin’ on!” My brother and I and GrandMom would always jeer the heels, if they came out in the audience we’d always make threats like, “I’ll kick YOUR ass...later!” The heels would always love that. They’d go off on a tirade about kicking YOUR ass, you better shaddup, blah blah blah. Good stuff, I’ll tell you.
I had a girlfriend who worked at a steakhouse in Tampa in the day when they beat the shinola out of each other in St. Pete on Saturday, and do it all over again in Tampa on Sunday, then go out for steak dinners before hitting the road to other venues. Terrible threats on the television then laughing and sharing a meal an hour later. She always said the bad guys were the funniest customers and best tippers.
Wait, what? I thought Obama was limited to two terms.
Look up "Professor Toru Tanaka" on ImdB sometime. His real name is Charlie Kalani, and was an American (Hawaiian), not Japanese. He served honorably in the US Army and had some movie roles, most notably with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Another wrestling "heel" who was a good guy in real life.
I remember Professor Tanaka, The Iron Sheik, The Assassin, Chief Strongbow, the Briscos, and the Mexican who proved a big man can fly like a bird, Mil Mascaras. I was a fan when it was great theatre, not today’s homoerotic bs.
:)
You mean there’s more than one unhinged demagogue?
I don’t watch it, either. Just lost interest when the “old guard” passed.
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