This is the greatest Willy Wonka remake ever. pic.twitter.com/RmWSe5U4br
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) August 16, 2015
We take our parables where we can grope to find them. Roy Edroso, at Alicublog, spots dependable puke funnel Ross Doubthat edging towards a Hindenbergian acceptance of Trump. With his popularity among the lumpenproletariat, Ross fantasizes, The Donald could reform conservatism, just as Ross and his ideological allies have longingly imagined! Edroso, of course, is more cynical:
…[T]he “reformcons” Douthat endorses are more con than reform — a bunch of pencil-necked repackagers of Gilded Age philosophy, looking for jobs in the upcoming GOP Bureau of Bold New Boondoggles. I can appreciate, from a comedy perspective, blinkered and hubristic social policy wonks as well as much as the next fellow — but to see them holding up a broken chair and cracking a licorice whip against a charismatic buffoon bully-boy, and imagining that they’re the ones in control, strikes me as a formula for disaster.
Whatever one thinks of Trump, it's fun to watch so many pundits get voters wrong again and again. http://t.co/bhXP8ZwPRC
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) August 18, 2015
Or then again, maybe Trump’s the human Mirror of Erised. At the Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf sought input on why “Donald Trump supporters… believe that the billionaire real-estate developer will treat them any better than the career politicians they mistrust.” The result so overwhelmed him (“Many of the responses contained so many rationales that summing them up proved impossible”) that he put online no fewer than thirty different letters, each one similar only in their Erisian glee. Trump is an anarchist’s dream, a moderate compromiser, a “corrective to America’s cultural pathologies“, a successful leader, the anti-Obama. He is large, he contains multitudes!
And if all there is in this world is lulz, why not choose a trickster for your champion?
Relationship Status: Complicated pic.twitter.com/d4lBzaTpv3
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) August 21, 2015
redshirt
USA of Trump, Inc!
That will show those Chinese.
Brandon
The fact that Trump leads among Republican voters on the question of who they trust the most to deal with ISIS is comedy gold.
trollhattan
California kan haz wolves.
A pack(let) of seven (five are pups) have taken residence in Siskiyou County. Ranchers will predictably freak out and harvest orders of magnitude more press than they merit. But anyway, wolves! Last permanent population was rubbed out in 1924.
Time Travelin'
The Trumpster fire continues to burn while the media throws another trash bag into it.
srv
Trump is no more a lie than all the hopey changey dreams too many Americans projected onto Obama.
The difference is Trump doesn’t have to answer to the banks and all those special interests.
trollhattan
@srv:
That’s the “difference?” Do go on….
Omnes Omnibus
@srv: Once upon a time your trolling was interesting, but you have fallen into a rut.
Mike E
@Omnes Omnibus: Seriously.
I come here for the Titanic deck chair brawls, but I stay for the shrieking bonobo make up sex.
Omnes Omnibus
So tonight, I discovered Leon Bridges.
seaboogie
I just sort of recently clued in to the fact that posters whose nyms are highlighted in blue have their own blog or website. Click on the troll’s nym.
Omnes Omnibus
@seaboogie: It is part of the troll. srv is dedicated and detail orientated.
srv
While Democrats are out of touch with reality, Republicans are moving into the new fact-based world:
trollhattan
@srv:
We already tried this, only his name was Arnold.
wasabi gasp
Gotta admire the attempt at breaking the glass ceiling for filthy rich guys.
srv
Conor has done yoeman’s work here, thanks for the post about it. Many of these are independent voices who were suckered by Obama:
In no universe does a Hillary have a chance against Trump in a debate.
Shantanu Saha
@srv: except the real one.
Kropadope
@srv:
So, we have officially given the Republicans carte blanche to rewrite reality?
magurakurin
@Omnes Omnibus:
No, actually it never was. As trolls go, this one is definitely Single A. Never even had a chance to make the Bigs.
Kropadope
@srv:
That’s an interesting way of describing Obama’s press coverage regardless of which stage of his career.
It was not to be overcome. He tried. Republicans missed a lot of opportunities for how aggressively they pushed their anti-collaboration ideology.
srv
Americans fighting in Mosul
Major Major Major Major
You can do anything for ten seconds, Kimmy Schmidt taught me…
Been using that today…
sm*t cl*de
If you can’t trust a candidate with a history of divorces and bankruptcies to fulfill his campaign promises — a candidate who boasts of staying rich through chicanery and broken contracts — then who can you trust?
Amir Khalid
In your country it seems anyone can tun for president.
Amir Khalid
@Amir Khalid:
Sorry, RUN for president.
gene108
Wow! Channel Surfing and just saw that Time-Life has issued a Best of Hee-Haw DVD set…
I vaguely remember watching this in the 1970′, when I was a kid…
I wonder if they can do a double box set with The Best of Sha Na Na…I think they were on back to back or something, but I associate the two together…
gene108
@Amir Khalid:
As long as the cat’s 35 years old (in human years) and born in the USA, I think there should not be a problem. Nothing in the Constitution explicitly prevents a non-human from running.
MattF
I don’t think there’s much more to say about The Donald. He’s a one-man ‘Asshole’ party, and a significant number of R voters regard that as a good thing. I disagree, but so what?
The fact that Trump makes the rest of the R candidates look bad is more a judgement on the quality, ambitions, and temperament of the R ‘deep bench’ than on his own ‘policy’ stands.
Betty Cracker
@gene108: “Hee-Haw” was my paternal grandfather’s favorite show, so I endured many episodes. Still remember the theme song vividly.
Sly
It’s like that old joke about academics in the Communist Party who fervently believed that they’d be standing around in some office building once the revolution happens, holding a clipboard and making decisions about farm and factory collectivization, when they more often than not found themselves in a dank sub-basement of that same office building, wearing a blindfold and feeling the muzzle of a Nagant pressed against the back of their head.
raven
@Sly: dictatorship of the proletariat
Mustang Bobby
Donald Trump is, to quote Roseanne Barr, “your worst nightmare: white trash with money.”
Peter
I’m still of the opinion that Trump will flare out before a single actual vote is counting, but I can’t help but salivate at the thought of what Candidate Trump could do for us on downticket races.
MattF
@Mustang Bobby: You think? Bear in mind that, e.g., his sister is a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Evidently part of the privileged class, I’d say.
No, Trump is rich and privileged. His behavior is what privilege in the real world looks like.
The Republic of Stupidity
Lumpenproletariat?
I think that should hence forth be the trumpenproletariat…
BillinGlendaleCA
Grrr, more Hillary email discussions on Morning Joe; CLICK.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Betty Cracker: My dad liked ‘Hee Haw’; I feel your pain.
Mustang Bobby
@MattF: I’m coming at it from the angle of money and privilege can’t buy class.
By “class” I mean the manners, courtesy and dignity that people expect in polite society; by not running down people with diatribes and self-aggrandizing puffery. Even people with very little means can be classy.
Or, as my late grandmother would put it, “he’s tacky.”
Schlemazel
We saw the same sort of delusion here in Minnesota with Jesse Ventura. He was a blank slate against which many people projected their hopes and dreams of an ideal governor. Because he was neither a Democrat nor a Republican too many people assumed that he must agree with whatever they thought. In a three-way race that was good enough to get him elected
Major Major Major Major
there is a thing in my brain that has been causing all my problems
Mustang Bobby
@BillinGlendaleCA: Anyone bringing up Colin Powell, Condi Rice, or the 5 million missing e-mails from the Bush White House?
Wait, don’t tell me.
AnonPhenom
You gotta admit it, it’s funny when the people who’s job it is to tell the American people The Story have so totally lost The Plot.
Ultraviolet Thunder
One OT thought now that Josh Duggar was outed as an Ashley Madison customer and has ‘admitted’ to having an affair: Ashley Madison’s customers were no more than 10% female. He expects us to believe he scored against 10:1 odds. In your dreams, Bible Boy. In your dreams.
Germy Shoemangler
With all this Trumpmania, I wish Spy Magazine was still in business. They covered him hilariously.
Where are those writers today? Did they all move to the Onion?
Baud
I think we started to decline as a nation when they canceled Hee Haw. Rural America certainly never forgave us.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
Mine too. In my case, it’s my mind.
David Koch
Trump is useful – the way he’s been bashing the rest of the field to pieces.
¡Jeb! was drenched in flop sweat yesterday, it was so bad, he was a second away from breaking down and crying from the strain
Rubio was on NBC defending himself from the charge that he’s an “anchor baby”.
Classic case of blowback. They built him. They created him. They gave him political life. Now they’ve lost positive control and their monster has turned on them.
Germy Shoemangler
@Baud: I remember Hee Haw vividly. It was the rural laugh-in.
I remember the marketing campaign for the Hudson Brothers… tv guide called them a combination of the Beatles and the Marx Brothers. I was a fan of both so I tuned in… the comedy and the music sucked. I think the show lasted a couple of episodes. The variety shows of that era could be outrageously horrible. I think it was the same two producers and two or three writers stinking up the airwaves.
gene108
@Major Major Major Major:
My uncle, who is bipolar, but sadly only got diagnosed in his 60’s, has an arachnoid cyst in his brain. The doctors felt they did not need to operate on it.
He’s doing O.K.
I hope things get better for you.
Another Holocene Human
@magurakurin: Well, they were actually subtle during phase I, a little off but boring. But phase II has started; “I know DougJ and you, sir, are no DougJ.” It’s more baity and people engage now, which feeds the troll, but now it’s obvious trolling.
Germy Shoemangler
The term “anchor baby” makes me think of Popeye’s Sweet Pea.
Another Holocene Human
@sm*t cl*de: Some people cannot cannot cannot resist an extroverted narcissist with a knack for telling them what they want to hear.
Somehow that “danger danger danger” klaxon never goes off for them.
Germy Shoemangler
@David Koch:
… as the proud grin on mama Bar’s face slowly fades…
Ultraviolet Thunder
@Baud:
Hee Haw had great musicians. Probably the highest quality musical performances of any show of its time. And the lowest quality humor. Remember Roy Clark as the gay poet? Cringeworthy.
Baud
@Germy Shoemangler:
Someone is going to get locked in the attic again if he doesn’t start campaigning better.
gene108
@Baud:
“Hee Haw” was on the air for thirty years. Had a really long run in syndication. They finally stopped producing it in 1997. If that’s not enough “Hee-Haw” for people, it’s their own damn fault for not watching it more.
Another Holocene Human
@Amir Khalid: Michael Moore tried to nominate a plant for office in the state of New Jersey, many years ago, but the secretary of state or whoever runs elections there didn’t find it very funny and took “Ficus” off the ballot.
I wonder what happened to him (aside from the Iraq War). I used to love his brand of political theater. He did an action (and filmed it) in New York around the Amadou Diallou killing, but with all this stuff going on now you don’t hear a peep from him.
gene108
@Another Holocene Human:
I believe the scientists have vastly underestimated the Dunning Kruger Effect. There are plenty of people, who think they are right and it takes a ton of effort to convince them otherwise.
Jeffro
@srv:
She would come across as charming, while also pointing out that The Donald can barely spell out a single policy detail in any area (including immigration). He’s all headline and no article.
Germy Shoemangler
@Another Holocene Human: He’s got a new film, according to his twitter page:
https://twitter.com/mmflint
Baud
@gene108:
Was it really that late? Wow.
Curt
Heh, Erisian glee, I like that. While I don’t want to see The Donald as President, I take great Erisian glee in his candidacy and hope he does become the Republican nominee.
David Koch
And the hits keep on com’n.
Trump rally tonight in Mobile Alabama. 35,000 tickets have been distributed.
The Beltway trash insist he’ll fade and ¡Jeb! will be returned to his rightful place, but they have yet explain how that happens.
Another Holocene Human
@Mustang Bobby: It’s not breeding, it’s a personality disorder.
His parents were horrified by his behavior as a teen and sent him to intensive therapy. Some profile I read seemed to imply (?) his parents felt the therapy accomplished something.
Another Holocene Human
@Major Major Major Major: My problem is my brain. Distributed across the whole thing. Takes a long time to reprogram/fix. Maybe I don’t succeed. What is success? Choose to see it as a work in progress.
Another Holocene Human
@Ultraviolet Thunder:
This convo is probably more appropriate on “Free Jinger” but Patriarchal Son of Kings seems to have a predilection for women who can’t say no. Because religious reasons, or because they’re heavy sleepers and don’t hear him coming.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ultraviolet Thunder:
Gloom, despair, and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all
Gloom, despair, and agony on me
We figured she was rich, loaded to the hilt
And we figured she had class like the Vanderbilts
‘Cause we had heard for years how she was so well reared
How was we to know they meant the way she was built
Gloom, despair, and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all
Gloom, despair, and agony on me
David Koch
Florida
Trump 21
¡Jeb! 17
Carson 11
Rubio 11
Cruz 7
Fiorina 7
Huck 4
Paul 4
Walker 4
Kasich 3
Christy 1
Jindal 1
Graham 0
August 7 – 18 Quinnipiac
¡Jeb! is losing his own home state to a new yawker.
Another Holocene Human
@Germy Shoemangler:
Could that be the same people who brought over the Japanese idol group “Pink Lady” for a very short lived and horrible show? … the singers barely spoke any English and from the clips I’ve seen it was a slap in the face to some amazing talents.
One of those weird trivia things.
Germy Shoemangler
@David Koch:
I’m surprised the Jeb Opposition Research Team hasn’t found something on Trump yet.
Another Holocene Human
@gene108:
Oh, that’s plain old cognitive dissonance. They HAVE to be right, otherwise:
“My whole life is a lie! I can’t go on!”
Germy Shoemangler
@Another Holocene Human: You’re right. I remember at the beginning of every hideous ’70s variety show, you’d see the same producers names. I can’t remember them, but they created the most stink.
I liked the Smothers Bros; they had some great writers, but the other stuff (like Pink Lady, Hudson Bros, Donnie & Marie, etc.) was simply terrible.
Another Holocene Human
@David Koch: Carson is surging. Huh.
Somebody at work was screaming about how Carson is the only guy (because he’s not a professional politician).
Apparently spewing dementia-like RWNJ red meat is good for your campaign. Wonder why Santorum can’t get a break? Loser stink?
WereBear
@Another Holocene Human: I remember it. like it was the only way to kill variety shows as a genre.
Sherparick
@srv: And Trump apparently really believes he is the “Green Hornet.” This make “America” great again “schtick” works with the white working class Republican base. Commentators are noticing how much this base hates the Republican establishment. Well, no shit.
They know that establishment represents all those corporate bosses who have been shipping their old jobs overseas and replacing them jobs as stock clerks at Walmart and Amazon warehouses. And all the culture war promises of that Establishment to restore the old white patriarchy where the woman of the house knew her place (under his thumb), and the Colored People knew their place, which was not near him or over him at any job, and gays knew their place, in the closet, has all proven to be a big unicorn. But they hate the Democrats who are a bunch commie-pinko hippies all about taking from them and giving it to Those People, the not “Real Americans” e.g. white.. Besides, the Democrats are perceived as just as much directed by .1% as the Republicans so why break the group affinity bond. Trumpism is about putting “American and “Real Americans” first. Its work with other national groups. http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/germanyandprussia/fl/Who-Supported-Hitler-and-Why.htm Its working now in Europe with Le Pen and Golden Dawn and the UK Independence Party and the Tories. Trumpism is the most recent upwelling of Populist Nationalism for white Americans, and Populist Nationalism has been the default mass movement that people turn to in the Age of Capitalism and its discontents since 1900. As the historian John Lukacs has written, as quoted by Jeet Heer:
”Nationalism is a very low and cheap common denominator that unites people,” he says. ”It is hatred that unites people. People take satisfaction from the idea that we are good because our enemies are evil. This is a very American syndrome but it is also universally true of mankind.”
”In this country the Republicans are the nationalist party,” he continues. ”That’s why they won the election (2004)– on the basis of symbols. I think the importance of economics in people’s political choice of vote is vastly exaggerated. We live in such an age of intellectual stupidity that people use the wrong terms. People think this is a ‘cultural issue’ or a ‘moral issue.’ These are half-truths.” http://www.jeetheer.com/politics/lukacs.htm
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: I always liked that bit, but I thought it was “doom” rather than “gloom.” Oh well. Either word works in context.
Joel
Gene Simmons‘ house .. This sounds bad.
NotMax
@gene108
So it’s a box filled with blank discs?
;)
@Another Holocene Human:
It was not a banner year for NBC. Pink Lady & Jeff, Supertrain, and Hello, Larry all vied for the grand award for suckitude.
Just One More Canuck
@Amir Khalid: not the first cat to run for president
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7515220@N06/2853127942/?ytcheck=1
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: He could get his brother to help out.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Major Major Major Major: Best wishes for your health. There are often good results with treatment.
bystander
These rwns bandy about this one is the New Obama, see, just like where Obama was at this point in the campaign. Kind of like every turn of history was Obama’s Katrina. Only it never was. It was just another rwn pipedream.
Growing up in Kansas City, I endured Red Foley (except I think he introduced Brenda Lee), Porter Waggoner (except he made Dolly P a household favorite), Ernie Ford. By the time Hee Haw was around, it felt like an evening of Shaw.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Another Holocene Human: I have the Pink Lady album, don’t ask.
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: I used to sing it while hanging drywall. Everybody thought I was joking but I was being serious as hell about the ‘gloom, despair, and agony’.
Sherparick
@Germy Shoemangler: Gee, you mean his three wives, multiple girlfriends and extramarital affairs, spousal rape, bankruptcies, law suits, etc. All the Oppo research one has to do is “Google” Trump and browse through back issues of People Magazine and the National Enquirer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump#Personal_life te blics is
Unless he gets caught on tape giving a “Lonesome Rhoades” speech about the yokels and suckers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Face_in_the_Crowd_%28film%29
P.S. It is amazing how these movies certain movies from mid and late 1950s have held up: “Face in the Crowd,” “Sweet Smell of Success,” “Executive Suite” and “Inherit the Wind” are all like they were made in this decade except for the technology and women’s clothes.
NotMax
@Sheparick
Also too, Ace in the Hole.
(Inherit the Wind was 1960, but close enough.)
debbie
@Mike E:
So that’s what goes on here overnight!
debbie
@Germy Shoemangler:
There’s still low-level buzzing about his wife’s porn star past.
NorthLeft12
Just finished reading the Trump supporters’ comments. YIKES!
Hopefully, these comments are not representative of Americans at large.
One question that I would ask the Balloon Juice crowd is to better define the whole idea of “America is losing everything”. As a Canadian, I don’t really understand what the expectations are and what exactly Americans expect to be winning at.
It appears to me as on outsider that a large segment of the American population believes that the US should dominate every field of endeavor; arts, finance/economics, manufacturing, agriculture, trade, foreign affairs, science, medicine, ……whatever. The fact that you are still at or near the top in all these categories does not seem to matter too much.
Any thoughts?
NotMax
@NorthLeft12
It’s an unfortunate manifestation of the persistent myth of American exceptionalism.
And in some circles, bolstered by the bushwah about God granting special favor to America.
bemused
@NorthLeft12:
I know we shouId never, ever underestimate the innate propensity of rwnj’s to rationaIize anything no matter how ridicuIous or irrantionaI but I am overwheImed every day by so much idiocy.
NorthLeft12
@Sherparick: Very well written comment. Up here in Canada we are in a federal election campaign now [voting October 19] and the Conservatives are trying to focus on immigration and security and crime issues to motivate their base [almost exclusively white] to return them to power again. They rarely talk about their abysmal economic record [we are in the midst of a recession now -almost unheard of for us when the US economy is doing relatively well] besides pointing at the two contending parties [NDP and Liberals] and say it would be much worse if the opposition was in power. Fear mongering at its best.
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but it seems to me that a large part of Trump’s attraction is based on ignorance. Ignorance of history, current events, the US system of government, international relations, economics, and human relations in general. This seems to me to be true even among those in the supporters who claimed to be college graduates.
They see the world as they want it or fear it to be, not the way it is. Scary.
Joe Miller
@Mike E: That may be one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. I’ll have to wait until I stop hallucinating to know for sure.
NorthLeft12
@NotMax: Yes, I agree about the religious fervor idea, but to lay it on Dubya is not really fair. I think every US President since Lincoln has been evoking God and his blessings in every public announcement.
NotMax
@NorthLeft12
Don’t know how you pulled Dubya out of anything I said.
And there’s a wide chasm between invoking a blessing or deity and presupposing blanket sacred license and/or mission.
Paul in KY
@gene108: I think the lawyers would have a field day with litigating ‘does the cat have to be 35 calendar years or cat years old to run’.
Will probably get to SC.
Paul in KY
@Betty Cracker: My dad loved it too. I did not.
Paul in KY
@Major Major Major Major: So sorry to hear that. Hope you can get it fixed soon.
Paul in KY
@Ultraviolet Thunder: The funniest part (IMO) was when they would sing some silly song that ended with a farting noise. Comedy gold.
Paul in KY
@NotMax: Supertrain was absolutely terrible.
Paul in KY
@bystander: Liked Porter Wagonner. Having Dolly on helped, of course.
Paul in KY
@debbie: I think a lot of his voters sorta give him a pass on that. Like it would be natural for The Donald to be married to an ex-porn star.
Cervantes
@NotMax:
I bet it was the “bushwah.”
Matt McIrvin
@NorthLeft12:
There are several things going on here.
One is what you say, that Americans have gotten used to the idea that they should be #1 in all things, and if they’re not #1 in all things something has gone horribly wrong (as opposed to something going right with other countries, which are no longer impoverished or recently smashed by World War II).
Another is that many of these people are really using “America” as synecdoche for “American white men”, who they regard as the real Americans. If some people with brown skin and weird names they can’t pronounce are rising to the top, to them, that’s real-America losing. It’s an old story.
And yet another is sincere economic frustration, at stuck wages, and a weaker job market than there should be, and long-term economic devastation in some chunks of the country.
For some, they all run together.
Cervantes
@debbie:
He’s a porn star, too. Look at his campaign.
Glidwrith
@NorthLeft12: My take on these folks thinking that America is losing ‘everything’ is mainly cultural, which I think at least one other person on this thread has mentioned. To summarize: the women don’t know their place, one of THEM is President, gays have taken the sacred institute of marriage for themselves and we actually have to work with other nations to get what we want instead of smiting them in a might-makes-right scenario.
They also have been growing steadily poorer, just like the rest of us, but continue to cling to the notion that those with money deserve it. They willingly listen to the propaganda and lies that the 0.1%-ers spew about women, darkies and gays for why they are poor.
Hence, Trump with his steam-kettle screeches echoes their frustrations and since he is rich and of the tribe, he provides all of the justification they need for their hatreds.
rikyrah
@srv:
coarse tone=Non Frank Luntz-approved dogwhistles
rikyrah
@David Koch:
so true
Cervantes
@srv:
From where?
rikyrah
@David Koch:
if just 25k show up in Alabama, I’ll be impressed
rikyrah
@Germy Shoemangler:
.
the rotten on Trump is already out there. the folks supporting him don’t care.
rikyrah
@NorthLeft12:
IMO, they are longing for the delusional world of Mad Men.
They want the time where White Men ruled supreme
and everyone else ‘knew their place’.
When you are a lower class White person, and all you’ve clung to is
” At least I’m not a Nigger.”
And a Black Man gets ELECTED – TWICE as President of the United States.
Your entire world view and the con you’ve bought into for generations, is thrust into your face – you’ve been a sucker.
NorthLeft12
@Cervantes: Yes, exactly. What the hell is
?
NorthLeft12
To all; Thanks for your feedback.
Steeplejack
@NorthLeft12:
Bushwa is a perfectly cromulent word, meaning nonsense or hooey and often considered a euphemism for bullshit.
Matt McIrvin
@Another Holocene Human:
That was none other than Sid and Marty Krofft, the same guys who made all those freaky Saturday morning kids’ shows with giant puppet suits. They had a genuine prime-time hit in the Donny and Marie Osmond show, and they tried to replicate that a few times over.
rikyrah
@NorthLeft12:
One last thing about 2012.
People need to understand that Willard Romney ran a SOUTHERN STRATEGY campaign.
AND..
IT WORKED.
Willard Romney won SIXTY PERCENT OF THE WHITE VOTE.
let’s repeat that.
he won SIXTY PERCENT OF THE WHITE VOTE.
SIXTY PERCENT OF THE WHITE POPULATION OF THIS COUNTRY was ok with handing this country over to two sociopaths who vowed to shred the American Social Safety Net.
the thing that got them shook to their core…
IT DIDN’T EVEN MATTER.
Didn’t remotely matter – not Electoral College or Popular Vote-wise.
‘Those people’ said Barack Obama is OUR President – so you go somewhere and sit your azz down.
Barack Obama beat Willard Romney’s azz like he stole something.
And, he did it because of ‘ those people’.
Thus, all the attacks of Voting Rights in this country.
Jesse Jackson said it, and it has always been true..
” As soon as a Black person learns to win by the rules set up..
then suddenly the rules need to be changed.”
Barack Obama wins from getting all those donations from ‘little people’
We have Citizens United.
Barack Obama wins from getting all ‘ those people’ to vote.
We have the gutting of the Voting Rights Act.
The thing is, they’re under the delusion that someone is just going to stand by while ‘they take THEIR COUNTRY BACK’
get da phuq outta here.
NOBODY is playing with them.
Matt McIrvin
@Baud: Today I learned that Hee Haw was secretly largely perpetrated by Canadians:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hee_Haw
“Yongestreet Productions”? Here we see the Canadian cultural menace laid bare.
Matt McIrvin
…And guess what! Sid and Marty Krofft? CANADIAN.
Matt McIrvin
…the show that really started the 70s prime-time variety wave was Sonny & Cher, and its original producer, Chris Bearde, was Australian. But!!!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bearde
I REST MY CASE
Paul in KY
@Matt McIrvin: I thought The Carol Burnette show preceded Sonny & Cher.
NorthLeft12
@Matt McIrvin: LIBEL!!!11!!! OMG IT’S TRUE!
As a proud Canadian I would just like to point out that we have exported many tasteful and enjoyable movies and TV series to the US. Please do not judge us by this one misstep.
I remember wondering what the hell Don Harron was doing on an obviously US TV series. Not to imply that I ever watched the show……….
Cervantes
@Steeplejack:
Well, it’s slang.
NorthLeft12
@rikyrah: I think you brought up the one theme that defines the power structure/white privilege throughout the last couple hundred years [probably longer];
Time after time you can pick out examples of this philosophy in practice. Thanks for the reminder.
Tehanu
@srv:
Which of course reminds me of another quote, though I don’t recall exactly who said it:
“For every problem in life, there’s an answer that’s simple, easy to understand, and wrong.”
Explain to me how “intellectuals” are such failures in life, using actual, real-world intellectuals such as Neil DeGrasse Tyson as your examples. Then explain to me why you think you know anything.