[blind-democracy] Re: Donald Trump Just Stopped Being Funny

  • From: Carl Jarvis <carjar82@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 16:28:29 -0700

Come on. Fair is fair. For long too long the small-minded, narrow
focused, pig headed red necks had to turn to the likes of Rush
Limbaugh, or Mike Savage for their quart of gasoline in order to spit
fire. Now they have a real leader. A man with an ego that is over
2,000 times heavier than his brain.
So, if the Trump brain is an estimated 2 ounces, his ego weighs in at
250 pounds. Yup. Sounds right. So now the po white trash, the rusty
single-wide folks and the gang out at the target range preparing to
save our noble American way of life, now have their hero.

Now all they need are a few good slogans.
"A Trump in time saves nine..." Nine what? Ah, nine in German means
"No"...No what?
Maybe, You can't hump our Trump!
How about running a contest to find a positive word that rhymes with "Trump".
Bump, Clump, dump, frump, grump, hump, jump, lump, mump, pump, rump,
stump, thump,

Carl Jarvis
On 8/22/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Taibbi writes: "So two yahoos from Southie in my hometown of Boston
severely
beat up a Hispanic homeless guy earlier this week. While being arrested,
one
of the brothers reportedly told police that 'Donald Trump was right, all of
these illegals need to be deported.'"

Donald Trump. (photo: AP)


Donald Trump Just Stopped Being Funny
By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
22 August 15

Win or lose, Trump's campaign threatens to unleash the Great American
Stupid


So two yahoos from Southie in my hometown of Boston severely beat up a
Hispanic homeless guy earlier this week. While being arrested, one of the
brothers reportedly told police that "Donald Trump was right, all of these
illegals need to be deported."
When reporters confronted Trump, he hadn't yet heard about the incident. At
first, he said, "That would be a shame." But right after, he went on:
"I will say, the people that are following me are very passionate. They
love
this country. They want this country to be great again. But they are very
passionate. I will say that."
This is the moment when Donald Trump officially stopped being funny.
The thing is, even as Donald Trump said and did horrible things during this
year's incredible run at the White House, most sane people took solace in
the fact that he could never win. (Although new polls are showing that
Hillary's recent spiral puts this reassuring thought into jeopardy.)
In fact, most veteran political observers figured that the concrete impact
of Trump's candidacy would be limited in the worst case to destroying the
Republican Party as a mainstream political force.
That made Trump's run funny, campy even, like a naughty piece of
pornographic performance art. After all, what's more obscene than pissing
on
the presidency? It seemed even more like camp because the whole shtick was
fronted by a veteran reality TV star who might even be in on the joke,
although of course the concept was funnier if he wasn't.
Trump had the whole country rubbernecking as this preposterous Spaulding
Smails caricature of a spoiled rich kid drove the family Rolls (our
illustrious electoral process in this metaphor) off the road into a ditch.
It was brilliant theater for a while, but the ugliness factor has gotten
out
of control.
Trump is probably too dumb to realize it, or maybe he isn't, but he doesn't
need to win anything to become the most dangerous person in America. He can
do plenty of damage just by encouraging people to be as uninhibited in
their
stupidity as he is.
Trump is striking a chord with people who are feeling the squeeze in a less
secure world and want to blame someone - the government, immigrants,
political correctness, "incompetents," "dummies," Megyn Kelly, whoever -
for
their problems.
Karl Rove and his acolytes mined a lot of the same resentments to get
Republicans elected over the years, but the difference is that Trump's
political style encourages people to do more to express their anger than
just vote. The key to his success is a titillating message that those musty
old rules about being polite and "saying the right thing" are for losers
who
lack the heart, courage and Trumpitude to just be who they are.
His signature moment in a campaign full of them was his exchange in the
first debate with Fox's Kelly. She asked him how anyone with a history of
calling women "fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals" could win a
general election against a female candidate like Hillary Clinton.
"I've been challenged by so many people," Trump answered. "I frankly don't
have time for political correctness. And to be honest with you, the country
doesn't have time either..We don't win anymore. We lose to China. We lose
to
Mexico..We lose to everybody."
On the surface, Kelly was just doing her job as a journalist, throwing
Trump's most outrageous comments back at him and demanding an explanation.
But on another level, she was trying to bring Trump to heel. The extraction
of the humiliating public apology is one of the media's most powerful
weapons. Someone becomes famous, we dig up dirt on the person, we rub it in
his or her nose, and then we demand that the person get down on bended knee
and beg forgiveness.
The Clintons' 1992 joint interview on 60 Minutes was a classic example, as
was Anthony Weiner's prostration before Andrew Breitbart and Chris
Christie's 107-minute marathon apologia after Bridgegate. The subtext is
always the same: If you want power in this country, you must accept the
primacy of the press. It's like paying the cover at the door of the world's
most exclusive club.
Trump wouldn't pay the tab. Not only was he not wrong for saying those
things, he explained, but holding in thoughts like that is bad for America.
That's why we don't win anymore, why we lose to China and to Mexico (how
are
we losing to Mexico again?). He was saying that hiding forbidden thoughts
about women or immigrants or whoever isn't just annoying, but bad for
America.
It's not exactly telling people to get out there and beat people with metal
rods. But when your response to news that a couple of jackasses just
invoked
your name when they beat the crap out of a homeless guy is to salute your
"passionate" followers who "love this country," you've gone next-level.
The political right in America has been flirting with dangerous ideas for a
while now, particularly on issues involving immigrants and minorities. But
in the last few years the rhetoric has gotten particularly crazy.
Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert proposed using troops and ships of war to
stop an invasion of immigrant children, whom he described as a 28 Days
Later-style menace. "We don't even know all of the diseases, and how
extensive the diseases are," he said.
"A lot of head lice, a lot of scabies," concurred another Texas
congressman,
Blake Farenthold.
"I'll do anything short of shooting them," promised Mo Brooks, a
congressman
from the enlightened state of Alabama.
Then there's Iowa's Steve King, who is unusually stupid even for a
congressman. He not only believes a recent Supreme Court decision on gay
marriage allows people to marry inanimate objects, but also believes the
EPA
may have intentionally spilled three million gallons of toxic waste into
Colorado's Animas river in order to get Superfund money.
Late last year, King asked people to "surround the president's residence"
in
response to Barack Obama's immigration policies. He talked about putting
"boots on the ground" and said "everything is on the table" in the fight
against immigrants.
So all of this was in the ether even before Donald Trump exploded into the
headlines with his "They're rapists" line, and before his lunatic, Game of
Thrones idea to build a giant wall along the southern border. But when
Trump
surged in the polls on the back of this stuff, it caused virtually all of
the candidates to escalate their anti-immigrant rhetoric.
For example, we just had Ben Carson - who seems on TV like a gentle,
convivial doctor who's just woken up from a nice nap - come out and suggest
that he's open to using drone strikes on U.S. soil against undocumented
immigrants. Bobby Jindal recently came out and said mayors in the so-called
"sanctuary cities" should be arrested when undocumented immigrants commit
crimes. Scott Walker and Marco Rubio have both had to change their
positions
favoring paths to citizenship as a result of the new dynamic.
Meanwhile, Rick Santorum, polling at a brisk zero percent, joined Jindal
and
Lindsey Graham in jumping aboard with Trump's insane plan to toss the 14th
Amendment out the window and revoke the concept of birthright citizenship,
thereby extending the war on immigrants not just to children, but babies.
All of this bleeds out into the population. When a politician says dumb
thing X, it normally takes 'Murica about two days to start flirting
publicly
with X + way worse.
We saw that earlier this week, when Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson blew up
Twitter by calling for undocumented immigrants to become "property of the
state" and put into "compelled labor." When a caller challenged the idea,
Mickelson answered, "What's wrong with slavery?"
Why there's suddenly this surge of hatred for immigrants is sort of a
mystery. Why Donald Trump, who's probably never even interacted with an
undocumented immigrant in a non-commercial capacity, in particular should
care so much about this issue is even more obscure. (Did he trip over an
immigrant on his way to the Cincinnati housing development his father gave
him as a young man?)
Most likely, immigrants are just collateral damage in Trump's performance
art routine, which is an absurd ritualistic celebration of the coiffed
hotshot endlessly triumphing over dirty losers and weaklings.
Trump isn't really a politician, of course. He's a strongman act, a
ridiculous parody of a Nietzschean superman. His followers get off on
watching this guy with (allegedly) $10 billion and a busty mute broad on
his
arm defy every political and social convention and get away with it.
People are tired of rules and tired of having to pay lip service to
decorum.
They want to stop having to watch what they say and think and just get
"crazy," as Thomas Friedman would put it.
Trump's campaign is giving people permission to do just that. It's hard to
say this word in conjunction with such a sexually unappealing person, but
his message is a powerful aphrodisiac. Fuck everything, fuck everyone. Fuck
immigrants and fuck their filthy lice-ridden kids. And fuck you if you
don't
like me saying so.
Those of us who think polls and primaries and debates are any match for
that
are pretty naive. America has been trending stupid for a long time. Now the
stupid wants out of its cage, and Trump is urging it on. There are a lot of
ways this can go wrong, no matter who wins in 2016.
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Donald Trump Just Stopped Being Funny
By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
22 August 15
Win or lose, Trump's campaign threatens to unleash the Great American
Stupid

o two yahoos from Southie in my hometown of Boston severely beat up a
Hispanic homeless guy earlier this week. While being arrested, one of the
brothers reportedly told police that "Donald Trump was right, all of these
illegals need to be deported."
When reporters confronted Trump, he hadn't yet heard about the incident. At
first, he said, "That would be a shame." But right after, he went on:
"I will say, the people that are following me are very passionate. They
love
this country. They want this country to be great again. But they are very
passionate. I will say that."
This is the moment when Donald Trump officially stopped being funny.
The thing is, even as Donald Trump said and did horrible things during this
year's incredible run at the White House, most sane people took solace in
the fact that he could never win. (Although new polls are showing that
Hillary's recent spiral puts this reassuring thought into jeopardy.)
In fact, most veteran political observers figured that the concrete impact
of Trump's candidacy would be limited in the worst case to destroying the
Republican Party as a mainstream political force.
That made Trump's run funny, campy even, like a naughty piece of
pornographic performance art. After all, what's more obscene than pissing
on
the presidency? It seemed even more like camp because the whole shtick was
fronted by a veteran reality TV star who might even be in on the joke,
although of course the concept was funnier if he wasn't.
Trump had the whole country rubbernecking as this preposterous Spaulding
Smails caricature of a spoiled rich kid drove the family Rolls (our
illustrious electoral process in this metaphor) off the road into a ditch.
It was brilliant theater for a while, but the ugliness factor has gotten
out
of control.
Trump is probably too dumb to realize it, or maybe he isn't, but he doesn't
need to win anything to become the most dangerous person in America. He can
do plenty of damage just by encouraging people to be as uninhibited in
their
stupidity as he is.
Trump is striking a chord with people who are feeling the squeeze in a less
secure world and want to blame someone - the government, immigrants,
political correctness, "incompetents," "dummies," Megyn Kelly, whoever -
for
their problems.
Karl Rove and his acolytes mined a lot of the same resentments to get
Republicans elected over the years, but the difference is that Trump's
political style encourages people to do more to express their anger than
just vote. The key to his success is a titillating message that those musty
old rules about being polite and "saying the right thing" are for losers
who
lack the heart, courage and Trumpitude to just be who they are.
His signature moment in a campaign full of them was his exchange in the
first debate with Fox's Kelly. She asked him how anyone with a history of
calling women "fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals" could win a
general election against a female candidate like Hillary Clinton.
"I've been challenged by so many people," Trump answered. "I frankly don't
have time for political correctness. And to be honest with you, the country
doesn't have time either..We don't win anymore. We lose to China. We lose
to
Mexico..We lose to everybody."
On the surface, Kelly was just doing her job as a journalist, throwing
Trump's most outrageous comments back at him and demanding an explanation.
But on another level, she was trying to bring Trump to heel. The extraction
of the humiliating public apology is one of the media's most powerful
weapons. Someone becomes famous, we dig up dirt on the person, we rub it in
his or her nose, and then we demand that the person get down on bended knee
and beg forgiveness.
The Clintons' 1992 joint interview on 60 Minutes was a classic example, as
was Anthony Weiner's prostration before Andrew Breitbart and Chris
Christie's 107-minute marathon apologia after Bridgegate. The subtext is
always the same: If you want power in this country, you must accept the
primacy of the press. It's like paying the cover at the door of the world's
most exclusive club.
Trump wouldn't pay the tab. Not only was he not wrong for saying those
things, he explained, but holding in thoughts like that is bad for America.
That's why we don't win anymore, why we lose to China and to Mexico (how
are
we losing to Mexico again?). He was saying that hiding forbidden thoughts
about women or immigrants or whoever isn't just annoying, but bad for
America.
It's not exactly telling people to get out there and beat people with metal
rods. But when your response to news that a couple of jackasses just
invoked
your name when they beat the crap out of a homeless guy is to salute your
"passionate" followers who "love this country," you've gone next-level.
The political right in America has been flirting with dangerous ideas for a
while now, particularly on issues involving immigrants and minorities. But
in the last few years the rhetoric has gotten particularly crazy.
Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert proposed using troops and ships of war to
stop an invasion of immigrant children, whom he described as a 28 Days
Later-style menace. "We don't even know all of the diseases, and how
extensive the diseases are," he said.
"A lot of head lice, a lot of scabies," concurred another Texas
congressman,
Blake Farenthold.
"I'll do anything short of shooting them," promised Mo Brooks, a
congressman
from the enlightened state of Alabama.
Then there's Iowa's Steve King, who is unusually stupid even for a
congressman. He not only believes a recent Supreme Court decision on gay
marriage allows people to marry inanimate objects, but also believes the
EPA
may have intentionally spilled three million gallons of toxic waste into
Colorado's Animas river in order to get Superfund money.
Late last year, King asked people to "surround the president's residence"
in
response to Barack Obama's immigration policies. He talked about putting
"boots on the ground" and said "everything is on the table" in the fight
against immigrants.
So all of this was in the ether even before Donald Trump exploded into the
headlines with his "They're rapists" line, and before his lunatic, Game of
Thrones idea to build a giant wall along the southern border. But when
Trump
surged in the polls on the back of this stuff, it caused virtually all of
the candidates to escalate their anti-immigrant rhetoric.
For example, we just had Ben Carson - who seems on TV like a gentle,
convivial doctor who's just woken up from a nice nap - come out and suggest
that he's open to using drone strikes on U.S. soil against undocumented
immigrants. Bobby Jindal recently came out and said mayors in the so-called
"sanctuary cities" should be arrested when undocumented immigrants commit
crimes. Scott Walker and Marco Rubio have both had to change their
positions
favoring paths to citizenship as a result of the new dynamic.
Meanwhile, Rick Santorum, polling at a brisk zero percent, joined Jindal
and
Lindsey Graham in jumping aboard with Trump's insane plan to toss the 14th
Amendment out the window and revoke the concept of birthright citizenship,
thereby extending the war on immigrants not just to children, but babies.
All of this bleeds out into the population. When a politician says dumb
thing X, it normally takes 'Murica about two days to start flirting
publicly
with X + way worse.
We saw that earlier this week, when Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson blew up
Twitter by calling for undocumented immigrants to become "property of the
state" and put into "compelled labor." When a caller challenged the idea,
Mickelson answered, "What's wrong with slavery?"
Why there's suddenly this surge of hatred for immigrants is sort of a
mystery. Why Donald Trump, who's probably never even interacted with an
undocumented immigrant in a non-commercial capacity, in particular should
care so much about this issue is even more obscure. (Did he trip over an
immigrant on his way to the Cincinnati housing development his father gave
him as a young man?)
Most likely, immigrants are just collateral damage in Trump's performance
art routine, which is an absurd ritualistic celebration of the coiffed
hotshot endlessly triumphing over dirty losers and weaklings.
Trump isn't really a politician, of course. He's a strongman act, a
ridiculous parody of a Nietzschean superman. His followers get off on
watching this guy with (allegedly) $10 billion and a busty mute broad on
his
arm defy every political and social convention and get away with it.
People are tired of rules and tired of having to pay lip service to
decorum.
They want to stop having to watch what they say and think and just get
"crazy," as Thomas Friedman would put it.
Trump's campaign is giving people permission to do just that. It's hard to
say this word in conjunction with such a sexually unappealing person, but
his message is a powerful aphrodisiac. Fuck everything, fuck everyone. Fuck
immigrants and fuck their filthy lice-ridden kids. And fuck you if you
don't
like me saying so.
Those of us who think polls and primaries and debates are any match for
that
are pretty naive. America has been trending stupid for a long time. Now the
stupid wants out of its cage, and Trump is urging it on. There are a lot of
ways this can go wrong, no matter who wins in 2016.
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