Amulets, White Noise, and Trump Reality

The left (I refuse to call regressives "progressives") is finding it hard to deal with a reality in which the markets are up, unemployment is down, household income is rising, ISIS is being crushed, and Kim Jong-un is being lassoed.

Former NYT editor Jill Abramson probably reflects the paper's Upper West Side of Manhattan when she reveals she carries as an amulet (against the reality of a Trump presidency) – a little Obama doll in her purse – to comfort herself. "It's easy to look at what's happening in Washington, DC, and despair. That's why I carry a little plastic Obama doll in my purse. I pull him out every now and then to remind myself that the United States had a progressive, African-American president until very recently. Some people find this strange, but you have to take comfort where you can find it in Donald Trump's America."

Somehow, her former paper scoured the earth to find a method-actor pig-farmer in Athens, Ohio who has found another way to shut out reality and keep his worldview intact – he plugged his ears with white noise to cut out all news.

Jeffrey Satinover observes: "'He is as ignorant as a contemporary citizen could ever hope to be' states the author. But, no, that's not so. For this gentleman simply knows nothing where there is something to be known. Believing readers of the Times, however, and authors for the Times, they are far more ignorant than the know-nothings for they are chock full of beliefs that more often than not, and mostly on matters of great importance, are flatly false. It's not nearly so bad to say, 'I don't know if the earth is round or flat' as it is to be arrogantly certain that it's flat."

“I pull him out “ (referring to a bammy doll). The doll is HIM.

“Donald Trump’s America.” He doesn’t own America, and doesn’t claim to.

Idiot shutting out the news.

Hysterical fools screaming at the moon.

The left is indeed insane.

Now that’s funny right there.

What’s frightening is that you’re probably right. You know how much beer I’m gonna have to drink to wash that awful image out of my head now?

When I was a kid, I'd see a lot of old duffers who could barely see over the steering wheel, driving a Buick with a statue of St. Joseph adhered to the dashboard. Jill Abramson might try that with her Obama "amulet" and her POV.

It wouldn't bring her luck, or put the Chi-Town Chitbird back in the White House, but it would warn the sane that a true-believer prog was sharing the road.

Liberals are incredibly stupid and scared in general
Everything they’re told is gloom doom gloom doom
It’s like really ? Don’t you ever QUESTION ANYTHING ?
The whole damn liberal female administration is coming down on my older son like a ton of ricks for thinking different and challenging orthodoxy
Ie. Trump bad demoncraps good
It’s kind of fun although it upsets the wife a bit
Oh well !
Can’t be raisin little yes bots can I ? No freskin way
( I gave both my kids 40$ cash when Trump won and they decided then and there they LIKE capitalism and free enterprise )

Thanks Kaslin.

The left (I refuse to call regressives "progressives") is finding it hard to deal with a reality in which the markets are up, unemployment is down, household income is rising, ISIS is being crushed, and Kim Jong-un is being lassoed... Former NYT editor Jill Abramson... carries as an amulet... a little Obama doll in her purse... Somehow, her former paper scoured the earth to find a method-actor pig-farmer in Athens, Ohio who has found another way to shut out reality and keep his worldview intact – he plugged his ears with white noise to cut out all news.

Abramson is just a puckerfaced whiny sphincter. The white noise pig farmer is probably an invention of the Slimes. Y'know, because the Slimes lies and smears.

The left (I refuse to call regressives "progressives") is finding it hard to deal with a reality in which the markets are up, unemployment is down, household income is rising, ISIS is being crushed, and Kim Jong-un is being lassoed.

"New York, New York, a helluva town.

The Bronx is up but the Battery's down."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York,_New_York_(On_the_Town)

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