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."
I suggest political pathologists start with this letter.
Holy cow.
Oh, the irony.
Along with the entire liberal-left-progressive Axis of Evil, this ignorant pompous idiot is totally oblivious of the devastating cultural and national impact and ruins created by 8 years of 0bama and fascist PC run amok.
>> 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.
Except for Unitarians, I know conservatives who belong to every one of those groups. Perhaps this is part of the problem with the liberals, and a key thing they don’t understand. They think they own anything they regard as good.
For the record, Mr. Keillor, I’ll match my book collection to yours any day. I’d even do so after subtracting all my science and technical books.
Figures.
Btw, spot on succinct description.
yup. Plenty of them right here on FR
I think that this election might have been a little bit different, not sure if we could have recovered from 8 years of BO, and 4-8 years of Hillary cementing in all of BO's gains. America would have survived, there would have been no apocalypse, but the standard of living might have been a lot less pleasant.
But, that threat has passed, for the moment. We'll see what happens next.
I could barely read this article with my neanderthal brain.
>> 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.
So what’s new? Conservatives have ALWAYS done all the heavy lifting. When liberals are in office it’s like the teenagers who’ve gotten loose with Mom and Dad’s credit card. After the binge, the adults have to buckle down and clean up the mess.
"I stopped reading right there."
Me too. I've lost patience with Leftists who claim to be able to read my mind. Especially because they always fail at it.
My eyes are rolling so hard I wish I had a generator to hook up to them.
Big time sarc, but Keillor obviously thinks he is wise. Most of think he’s boring.
>>Keillor: Mr. Trump was the cruelest candidate since George Wallace. How he won on fear and bile is for political pathologists to study.
Below is a selection of Mr. Keillor’s quotes. Fear and bile much?
The cap does not look good on you, it’s a duffer’s cap, and when you come to the microphone, you look like the warm-up guy, the guy who announces the license number of the car left in the parking lot, doors locked, lights on, motor running. The brim shadows your face, which gives a sinister look, as if you’d come to town to announce the closing of the pulp factory. Your eyes look dead and your scowl does not suggest American greatness so much as American indigestion. Your hair is the wrong color: People don’t want a president to be that shade of blond.
To the Times, Queens is Cleveland. Bush league. You are Queens.
In 2012, Keillor mocked Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, saying, “The Republican primaries go on – great fun – the Mormon running against the polygamist.” Keillor, like Gingrich, has been married three times.
In 2008, Keillor ridiculed “the roar of hollow patriotism” on Memorial Day, attacking the motorcyclists – many of them veterans – in the “Rolling Thunder” parade. “They are grown men playing soldier,” he said, “making a great hullaballoo without exposing themselves to danger, other than getting drunk and falling off a bike.” Keillor never served in the military, and that sure doesn’t sound like homespun heartland wisdom.
In 2009, he ranted about Republicans and conservatives, declaring that they should be “cut out of the health-care system entirely … Thirty-two percent of the population identifies with the GOP, and if we cut off health care to them, we could probably pay off the deficit in short order.” Let’s think about the backlash if he had said anything but “GOP.”
....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.
As opposed the "them" -- they who attend monster-truck pulls, fear God, attend Christian church, chew tobaccah, munch on venison Slim Jims, know how to use guns safely, respect the law and common courtesy, buy boxes of pasta because they work long and hard for living, people who point at and laugh at Garrison Keilor and say "WHO??!?"...
IOW, the same people George Will and Garrison Keilor consider uncultured Neanderthals, toofless book-burning rednecks, and the blue-collar idiots who man 7'11s, factories, police depts and the military."
What a condescending trash. THIS is exactly why Donald Trump resonated with the American people ACROSS THE BOARD. And the SAME reason elitist snobs despite Trump: HE RESPECTS THE PEOPLE, RICH or POOR.
Where’s the barf alert?
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.
fortunately, there aren’t too many, but some people, man it would be so satisfying to stick a boot up their smarmy asses..
We are where we are today because of this kind of fecklessness, disrespect and underestimation of the Middle Class. The George Wills and Keilors deem an the uppity white underclass, undeserved of our votes, who don't know their place. Oh, the audacity of the uneducated riff-raff who voted TRUMP!
” Let the uneducated have their day.”
Well over half the college-educated white males voted for Trump.
Keillor, himself, has a BA in English, considers himself slightly autistic, and had a stroke several years ago. This article demonstrates his problems thinking in depth.
He’s uninformed.
He's misinformed.
As Reagan said: "The problem with our opponents is not that they are ignorant... it's that they know so much which isn't so."
The cuck wants to pretend being the young boy himself.
Garrison’s tears give me a stiffie.
“Garrison has never been the same since he got his hysterectomy.”
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Pretty funny there, Cowboy Bob.
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