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    National review:Donald trump is a giant slorg

    By jollyroger on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 8:53am |

    For pure entertainment value, it is impossible to match the squirming going on in the camp of the Repugnants.

     

    Following the publication of an entire issue of National Review with the simple ( yet evocative) title Against Trump, the editor Rich Lowry reaches into movie lore with a Politico article The Destroyer Cometh! One is ineluctably drawn by the reference to reprise Rick Moranis' finest hour:

     

     

    Even as the modern incarnation of evil lends his typically passive aggressive assent to the Scalia assassination fantasies, and upends the 9/11 apple cart with seeming impunity, the party lurches towards a titanic Armageddon of a convention.

     

    If this saga doesn't end in a Democratic wave that sweeps these insane clowns (one is nuttier than the next) into the dustbin of history, than the American electorate is simply immune to any vestige of rational thought.

     

    I'm feelin' good about November.

    Comments

    We have at least til March 15 when the primaries go "winner-take-all" to enjoy the mud wrestling


    by jollyroger on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 9:45am

    HRC and the Democrat elite's behavior in the coming months will probably destroy any momentum that the party may have gained from the rise of Sanders among young people and especially young women. Democrats have always been politically retarded but they are showing their inbred mental deficiencies as never before especially through their elder women icons and their nasty assaults on young voters. This disgusting  public display just shows everyone how shallow and self serving the Liberal elite and their minions are and always have been.   Even the opportunist AFL-CIA leader Trumka has distanced his organization from this fiasco.

    The only 'wave' we will probably see is President Trump waving goodbye to these progressive poseurs.

     

     


    by Peter (not verified) on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 12:18pm

    Hey, you bought a hyperbole! Can I try it out?


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 12:28pm

    Buzzkill!


    by jollyroger on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 1:08pm

    The Pope just said Trump was not Christian, sending his supporters into a frenzy

    http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/pope-francis-sends-unhinged-trump-suppor...

    This follows the red meat thrown out by Obama stating that the American people simply won't elect a numbskull like Trump. Obama wanted to get the Trump supporters riled up to boost Trump's sagging numbers and insure that Trump is the GOP candidate.

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/16/politics/obama-donald-trump-president/

    Obama could hardly keep a straight face.

    Of course the master move was Bill Clinton stroking Trump's ego and encourage the Donald to run for President 

    http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/08/bill-clinton-donald-trump

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    by rmrd0000 on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 3:05pm

    Since my projected ",wave" which provoked unverified Peter's sneer envisioned Bernie Sanders on the surfboard, (not the loathsome Hillary) I was encouraged to encounter Karp's analysis speaking to Bernie's electability advantage.

     


    by jollyroger on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 3:55pm

    Now "all" we need do is insure Bernie's nomination!


    by jollyroger on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 3:51pm

    Insure? Like for $50 or $100 million? Sure, we'll get an assessor right over. If Supermodels insure their legs and quarterbacks insure their throwing arms, maybe we can insure Bernie's speech, the good one. Would've done his hair too, but he had it whacked off.


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 4:30pm

    I thought Ensure was just that stuff you drink...


    by jollyroger on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 4:35pm

    Sounds like a male incontinence pad or a Cialis knockoff or the name of an HMS frigate. It's all marketing in the end...


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 4:42pm

    We should not let pass with no appreciation the occurrence of Trumpian indignation that " one man might question another's religion."

     

    "Seventh Day Adventists, I don't know about that....not too many evangelists come out of Cuba. ..Cruz lies too much to be a Christian.... "Etc.


    by jollyroger on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 4:32pm

    One reason links are important is because they allowed opinion to be supported by fact. In the 2008 election, the AFL-CIO distanced itself from a decision until the end of June. 

    http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/afl-cio-endorses-obama/

    The fact that there is no endorsement at this date in 2016 is not surprising given 2008 as a model. When you are repeatedly able to provide links that destroy an argument, you tend to regard the person continually putting forth erroneous opinion as just being wrong. It tends to make one question every opinion offered. 


    by rmrd0000 on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 2:01pm

    There is some good news for panicking Liberals being reported at HP today. HRC's and probably a lot of Bernie's sheeple will be relieved to learn an island off of Nova Scotia is being prepared for the expected mass Liberal refugee exodus fleeing the wrath of President Trump. Announcing this preparation so long before the election shows the Canadians want  to avoid a chaotic refugee scene such as Greece and much of Europe have experienced.

    The overeducated but functionally helpless Liberal masses expected should see short stays at the border FEMA camps and with this much lead time adequate stores of warm clothing, organic produce and electric hookups for their Prius' should be in place. This along with crisis councilors should expedite their  migration to a cold but better life. If the numbers exceed projections or there are problems with Newfie Right Wingers a fall back location in the tar pits of Alberta is being proposed.


    by Peter (not verified) on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 3:40pm


    by jollyroger on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 3:58pm

    Liberals ARE educated. Most scientists are Democrats (55%) or Independent (32%). If Liberals leave they will have the scientists and people who believe education is important. They will not fall victim to relying on a 16 year old article in JAMA.

    http://www.people-press.org/2009/07/09/section-4-scientists-politics-and...

    They will also have people who take the time to provide links because they do not fear being fact-checked. A radio DJ? Please.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cape-breton-donald-trump-canada_us_5...

    The folks left behind with the GOP will have the 6% of scientists who identify as Republican. Those are likely the ones who don't believe cigarettes are harmful or that climate change is a fact. Liberals will be OK.


    by rmrd0000 on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 4:10pm

    In fairness to Calabrese he seems to have tongue firmly in cheek.  Unverified Peter may be irony challenged or ( more likely) deliberately obtuse.


    by jollyroger on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 4:23pm

    Nonsense - they're running a referendum to change the name to Tahiti du Nord,  with a gratis order of Freedom Fries for every arriver ordering Le Royal. Give me your huddled hashtags, Twitter accounts yearning to be free...


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 4:38pm

    I knew it was a joke, I just find doom and gloom Peter amusing.

    I think at the core is a belief that we living today are so important in the scheme of things are living in the end times. There have been plagues, enslavement, weather disasters, etc. in the past with much more dire consequences than we face, but things are worse now than they have ever been. Despite corrective measures taken in the past to correct situations, we are living in an era without hope.

    The reason we are at the end times is that Peter voted and the world did not miraculously become perfect. Because a single voter did not deliver the expected outcome, we are at the end times. Everything must be viewed as not making a difference. As a result we get opinions about how hopeless things are. Facts that provide evidence not supported by the doom-filled opinion are rejected. The doom and gloom are self-fulfilling prophecies. The world is imperfect. Woe is me.

    The rest of us realize that what we face is called Life. We make choices of what we think will improve things. Those choices include voting. Most of us see a clear choice between either of the Democratic candidates and any of the Republicans. We see a difference between the Supreme Court selection made by Obama version one made by Romney, Trump, Cruz, Rubio, or Jeb! We see the difference because we are living Life.

    We grumble. We protest. We get frustrated. We look for facts to support our opinions. We may get things wrong, but we go on living Life. We are not going to run off to a place in Canada.

    What is hilarious is that some of the doom and gloom community cling to their guns and have a plan to make it to Montana or some other place when the system collapses. The hubris that guns will enable them to make to their hiding place is funny. The doom and gloom community think that they won't be taken out in the first wave of their projected doomsday scenario.

    While some stay mired in despair, the rest of us will go on living Life and will be around in 2020 to grumble again about what the idiot who got elected screwed and whether the screwup is worthy of reelection. The doomsday crowd will tell us again that none of the candidates worthy, that we are sheeple, and that the end times are nigh.


    by rmrd0000 on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 5:07pm

    2020? In 2018 if Sanders wins the young people won't bother to vote because Sanders wasn't liberal enough and they're disillusioned. "He had two years and I'm not living in a socialist utopia!"


    by ocean-kat on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 5:28pm

    LOL


    by rmrd0000 on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 5:35pm

    No.

     

    If the gerrymandered Pug majority in the house survives the 2016 wave, there will be 2 years of grass roots organizing ( in contrast to the 2008 stand down") that will crush them.

     

    2020, with Sanders reelection and the decennial reapportionment will complete the revolution


    by jollyroger on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 5:59pm

    I doubt too many of 'the young people' will be voting in this quadrennial extravaganza even with Bernie's faux Hope crusade. Many of them already know they aren't really needed except for some of their elders to profit from their debt servitude and low wage exploitation. They may be young but they are not blind to the fact that the parasitic  political class serves the people who will exploit them and ignore them for the rest of their lives.

    Even the naive Sandernistas , if he wins and fails to deliver or doesn't even try like Obama.  will be mocked by their elders for their youthful idealism of expecting accountability from their leaders.


    by Peter (not verified) on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 6:47pm

    Sour much?


    by jollyroger on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 6:55pm

    Just an informed observation,JR.  The Sour missives are being propagated by the Clinton Cult and many of the young people who still believe in the system  will respond by becoming cynics thanks to their elder's nasty hypocrisy and elitism. .


    by Peter (not verified) on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 7:58pm

    Not very informed

    Youth always believe that can do better than the previous generation.

    They have not given up

    Edit to add:

    You have given up because your series of isolate pathetic votes did not accomplish what you felt was right.

    You eel that your personal inability to fight is normal. It is not. While you sit and pine at your keyboard, people are gearing up to replace pipes in Flint. People are fighting against efforts to peel back Social Security. People are fighting police abuse. People are fighting voter suppression.,Bill Cosby is in Court..Cliven Bundy and his sons are in court. The legal system in Ferguson is being sued. People fight back. 

    While people fight back. cowards sit at home trembling at shadows and saying all is hopeless. The cowards need not worry, others are willing to fight the necessary battles. People are gathering facts and acting. They are laughing at those in self-created despair who operate on opinions based in fear rather than fact.

    The doom and gloom people are amusing, but at the end of the day unimportant. They give opinions but do not connect to facts to support their nonsense, because they can't.

    They will always be in despair because they operate on fear not fact.


    by rmrd0000 on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 11:06pm

    It's obvious that nothing short of an intervention would free you from the Clintonian Cult and your submission to our corrupt system. Andrew Levine at CP describes folks suffering from this malady as 'fools on stilts' and i tend to agree while trying to understand the fear and helplessness that stunts many people's thinking.

    Projecting BS claims about my positions and  supposed pining to cover your  weakness and need for submission to degenerate leaders  is a typical cult response. Some people such as BLM are rejecting these illusions and organizing outside the trap of party politics and the slime that control that game. I support them and hope for their success of at least educating some people on how to rule themselves without the parasites you seem to adore.

    It will take years to rebuild the Flint water system and when it is completed they will have relatively clean water to drink while Democrat and Republican leaders make certain that they are stuck in poverty, crime and dependence while fools will tell them they must vote for the parasites who represent their oppressors.


    by Peter (not verified) on Fri, 02/19/2016 - 12:02pm

    Well there is you and Andrew sting in a tree...............

    Links are important because links allow you to probe the condescending cesspool of thought of Andrew Levine

    African Americans in South Carolina forsook the Clintons before, in 2008, but at least that was for one of their own – sort of. If they do it again, it will be for a septuagenarian Jewish man with a Brooklyn accent. This must get Bill and Hillary’s goat.

    How despicably dismissive of African-American voters. Blacks voted for Obama because he was black.

     Regarding black youth and the Clintons

    They (the Clintons) have reason to be concerned: black youths in South Carolina are fast becoming as lucid about the Clintons and Clintonism (Democratic Party style neoliberalism and liberal imperialism) as their white counterparts in Iowa and New Hampshire

    Those slow-thinking black folks are finally catching up the the enlightened whites.

    Levine goes on to criticize John Lewis and Gregory Meeks for disagreeing with his view of the world. Of course he does with more racist condescension. 

    http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/19/team-clinton-fools-damn-fools-and...

    Levine does offer some begrudging hope for a Sanders victory.

    http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/19/with-the-specter-of-clinton-loomi...

    Up to that point, Levine seems to be your pessimistic soulmate.

    Why would I want to be in a Party with Andrew Levine when I can get full on racism and condescension from the GOP?


    by rmrd0000 on Fri, 02/19/2016 - 12:38pm

    rmrd, you've out done yourself. Your short piece encapsulates so much of what I have been thinking. You know, who the hell has it easy, or gets everything they want? Tell me the name of anyone who has it "easy". I have to deal with shit every day to keep a small business running, has anyone ever had fun supervising others---it's a drag any way you look at it. You want to add more regulations? I just spent the better part of three days dealing with regulations in order to do business is Crapville, Ca. Then one of my trucks had to go in for a cracked head---$7 K. And my peripheral neuropathy is acting up again. Oh, shit, what's the point of going on. Things will never get better.


    by Oxy Mora on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 5:47pm

    I feel bad about my life at time, then I hear the crap other people are going through., I shift back to my lucky reality.

    People fight personal demons and external battles every day. Life.


    by rmrd0000 on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 6:09pm