Just a little something to mix it up~~ :shock: :lol:
Here's a piece from Tucker Carlson. Some tongue in cheek, humor, a little sarcasm thrown in
and a bit of a read... but well worth it.
Donald Trump Is Shocking, Vulgar and Right
And, my dear fellow Republicans, he's all your fault.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/donald-trump-is-shocking-vulgar-and-right-213572At the time, Id never met Trump and I remember feeling amused but also surprised hed say something like that. Now the pattern seems entirely familiar. The message had all the hallmarks of a Trump attack: shocking, vulgar and indisputably true.
Not everyone finds it funny. On my street in Northwest Washington, D.C., theres never been anyone as unpopular as Trump. The Democrats assume hes a bigot, pandering to the morons out there in the great dark space between Georgetown and Brentwood. The Republicans (those relatively few who live here) fully agree with that assessment, and they h**e him even more. They sense Trump is a threat to them personally, to their legitimacy and their livelihoods. Idi Amin would get a warmer reception in our dog park.
I understand it of course. And, except in those moments when the self-righteous silliness of rich people overwhelms me and I feel like moving to Maine, I can see their points, some of them anyway. Trump might not be my first choice for president. Im not even convinced he really wants the job. Hes smart enough to know it would be tough for him to govern.
But just because Trump is an imperfect candidate doesnt mean his candidacy cant be instructive. Trump could teach Republicans in Washington a lot if only they stopped posturing long enough to watch carefully. Heres some of what they might learn:
He Exists Because You Failed
American p**********l e******ns usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump. In the case of Trump, though, the GOP shares the blame, and not just because his fellow Republicans misdirected their ad buys or waited so long to criticize him. Trump is in part a reaction to the intellectual corruption of the Republican Party. That ought to be obvious to his critics, yet somehow it isnt.
Consider the conservative nonprofit establishment, which seems to employ most right-of-center adults in Washington. Over the past 40 years, how much donated money have all those think tanks and foundations consumed? Billions, certainly. (Someone better at math and less prone to melancholy should probably figure out the precise number.) Has America become more conservative over that same period? Come on. Most of that cash went to self-perpetuation: Salaries, bonuses, retirement funds, medical, dental, lunches, car services, leases on high-end office space, retreats in Mexico, more fundraising. Unless you were the direct beneficiary of any of that, youd have to consider it wasted.
Pretty embarrassing. And yet theyre not embarrassed. Many of those same overpaid, underperforming tax-exempt sinecure-holders are now demanding that Trump be stopped. Why? Because, as his critics have noted in a rising chorus of hysteria, Trump represents an existential threat to conservatism.
Let that sink in. Conservative v**ers are being scolded for supporting a candidate they consider conservative because it would be bad for conservatism? And by the way, the people doing the scolding? Theyre the ones whove been advocating for open borders, and nation-building in countries whose populations h**e us, and trade deals that eliminated jobs while enriching their donors, all while implicitly mocking the base for its worries about a******n and gay marriage and the pace of demographic change. Now theyre telling their v**ers to shut up and obey, and if they dont, theyre liberal.
It turns out the GOP wasnt simply out of touch with its v**ers; the party had no idea who its v**ers were or what they believed. For decades, party leaders and intellectuals imagined that most Republicans were broadly libertarian on economics and basically neoconservative on foreign policy. That may sound absurd now, after Trump has attacked nearly the entire Republican catechism (he savaged the Iraq War and hedge fund managers in the same debate) and been greatly rewarded for it, but that was the assumption the GOP brain trust operated under. They had no way of knowing otherwise. The only Republicans they talked to read the Wall Street Journal too.
<snip> More to it, just stopped here....