Posted on 01/23/2016 1:10:43 PM PST by detective
As the Donald Trump phenomenon endures, it's become fashionable to make a certain kind of excuse for the boorishness of his backers, if not The Donald himself.
"Don't blame them" is the theme of front-page stories and much-discussed magazine essays. The economy left them behind, the world doesn't work like they were promised it would as young people, and we have to understand. They're angry, and should be.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
The Cruz supporters have fun at times. Mainly when they post the hourly anti-Trump article from Red State and anticipate how Trump will surely fall now. When it doesn't happen and they start feeling blue they console themselves by pulling out their well-worn printout of a December Quinnipiac poll that says that Ted is SURGING.
Last Thursday at 8am I drove from Santa Cruz, Ca over Highway 17 to the San Fransisco Bay Area, a drive I drove thousands of times while I was working. On a Thursday morning the traffic should have been stop and go the entire time, instead it was sparse, like a Sunday morning. This is not the traffic you would experience with 5% unemployment, more like the traffic of the real unemployment, 20%. Trump is right again, they American people are being conned.
Hey, Timmy! Do the letters F.O. Mean anything to you?
Thanks for playing. Now Be Gone!
Donald has typed into frustration that has reached critical mass. P.T. Barnum would be proud.
I only back candidates that the British try to ban.
It’s so funny how they call Trump supporters cultists, but THEY are the ones that have to brow-beat, guilt, and belittle people into supporting Cruz.
NOT that he is sealing the deal on his own. They cant leave it up to that. Oh heck no!
It’s like some pseudo-Scientology operation.
I've noticed that. A preponderance of the Cruz supporters' postings (the negative ones) seem to come from people suffering severe duodenal ulcers.
Could you please provide an actual link to the article?
What you posted just goes to MSN’s start page, and I can’t find anything there that would lead me to the story.
Shoot, I think we are at least at 25% plus underemployment. And with some working two jobs there are even less jobs than normal.
I had somebody contact me two days ago for a job that somebody will have to be 65-75 years old to have that experience. I laughed when they said the client was tight on the requirements. They’re living in a fantasy-land. The only way they’ll find somebody is somebody lying on their resume (which will show up) or settle for training (which is what will happen).
And it was for a DOD contract. But I won’t say where. It ain’t TS but it is old, old technology.
I see the opposite - people out all times of the day and night here in the Midwest - it SHOULD be like you said - I think a lot of people have free time on their hands. How they afford where they’re going is beyond me.
This is why Trump is so popular and the establishment is so hated.
This guy is saying "Yeah, we sent all the good jobs to Mexico and China, so SCREW YOU!"
Here is the heart of the swindle, in all its glory:
According to the Hoover Institution at Stanford, half [of Trump supporters] are ages 45-64 and another third are senior citizens. They’re concentrated in the middle to lower-middle of the economic spectrum — slightly more likely to report $50,000 or lower annual incomes, a bit less likely to earn over $100,000.
Now, here is the actual distribution of U.S. incomes:
So first, if you make $50,000 per year you are in the upper quartile of income earners. Second Trump supporters cannot be "just a bit less likely" to earn over $100,000, because that puts them in the upper 7% of income earners. Trump cannot sustain a candidacy on such a small percentage.
So this guy lies, lies with statistics and resorts to insult to make his point.
An appeal to the wealthy and the elite cannot win you the presidency. Every president must be elected on the backs of earners in the 20th-90th percentiles - because that is where the votes are.
You didn’t get the memo? People who have worked all their lives and raised families are obviously STUPID as compared with people who think socialism is a viable economic system, gangstas, multi-generation unmarried welfare “families”, non-English or crappy-English speakers, people who believe the 97% lie about the issue formerly known as Global Warming, people who don’t know their own gender, people who believe Islam is a religion of peace, people who think cops are the problem in the inner cities, people who wouldn’t know a Balance Sheet from a bed sheet, people who don’t know who their father is, people who think Davos is a rapper and TPP is something used in the restroom (actually a good idea), and brainwashed children of the politically correct universities.
Yep: Those are the new ideals we should all look up to and emulate. Oh, I forgot to mention pop stars with mental disorders who sing at Hillary rallies.
In fairness it is easier to have fun when you are winning. However the one thing I think animating Trumpsters is that we see a way forward. Forward to a brighter day. Skewering the slanted media and political correctness. Making the border secure. Smashing Islamic fanatics. Restoring pride and dignity in our military and honoring the sacrifices of service men and women. His detractors honestly think that all is illusion?
Good post.
Yep. The Tediban.
Looks like a cheap matchbook cover. It probably says, “Strike Here” in fine print on Beck’s nose. ;-)
“Hey, Timmy! Do the letters F.O. Mean anything to you?
Thanks for playing. Now Be Gone!”
Not being a republican I am not in this primary game but I think you made the guys point for him. Just saying
Is that the mailer to remind voters of the Iowa Caucus and the rules? Nicely done graphic design!
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