Donnie, as is his won't since being a little shit, crossed the line and made conservative media ravings safe for politicians to repeat. And like Pandora's box, there's no going back, if I may slam two metaphors together.
But substantively, how much are things worse for Donnie occasionally calling the shots as opposed to what the rest of the party would do and has done on its own... Oh, wait, there's Donnie's murderous response to Covid they supported and voting restrictions (although which part will really suffer more is an open question). I guess maybe I answered by own question :(
In any case, the solution is simple as fuck: Vote the fucking party out of power no matter the pol's position on or channelling of Trump.
Jacob Marley wore lighter chains than the Republican Party and had more hope of redemption, too. Their current task is to rewrite history and deny the present, assuming the future is theirs, which unless Democrats and the DoJ stop cooperating in operating the Memory Hole, they will.
Meanwhile, it’s time for Joe and Kamala to visit Joe Manchin and show him what Christmas future will look like if he doesn’t stop helping the Party of Ignorance and Want regain control of the government.
Donald Trump was and is the conservative id frolicking naked in the fields. He was and is everything they ever wanted or dreamt of in a president: violent, ignorant, racist, stupid, thoroughly dishonest, incapable of anything approximating loyalty or even human affection. Extremely aggressive while being overwhelmingly cowardly. He personifies every rancid impulse of human nature, and conservatives worship that rancidness. He is at once everything they want to be, and everything they see in themselves.
Donald Trump was and is the conservative id frolicking naked in the fields. He was and is everything they ever wanted or dreamt of in a president: violent, ignorant, racist, stupid, thoroughly dishonest, incapable of anything approximating loyalty or even human affection. Extremely aggressive while being overwhelmingly cowardly. He personifies every rancid impulse of human nature, and conservatives worship that rancidness. He is at once everything they want to be, and everything they see in themselves.
For Noonan to acknowledge that free spending on militarization & policing is licit is not silliness, nor hypocrisy. She knows (as should anybody) that that particular plank is highly appealling to a very large number of Dem voters, and an even-larger number of Dem legislators & politicians.
The Ted Cruz line (if his "dignity-always-dignity schtik gets laughed off the stage") is solid gold. But is dignity-always-dignity "from" something? I read somewhere that Henry James, about to succumb on his deathbed, intoned, "At last, the dignified thing," but a) that could be apocryphal, and b) it's not the same. Source?
It makes a kind of sense that Republicans would, must, eventually embrace Trumpism without Trump. They know the formula works, but no one has been able to duplicate it. The kids are a joke, and desperate buffoons like Ted Cruz just end up embarrassing themselves. What do do with a proven spell that can't be spoken? Invoke the name of the Godhead and hope the rubes don't notice there's no one behind the curtain. But what to do when He comes roaring back? They have to lie back and think of Reagan, I assume. If the Republicans were competent authoritarians they'd find someone to assassinate Trump to make him a martyr like JFK, giving them Trumpism without Trump forever, a Trump who can never disappoint or die.
I never guessed that back when I was reading Allen Drury novels in high school I'd be living in one.
A conversation with a friend, returning from a business golf trip (he was collecting his baggage and so felt a strong urge to call me and continue our usual movie-reference text exchanges laced with anecdotes of work and the occasional fascist flashback), for some reason he began claiming his in-laws in the Midwest could not get enough workers in their businesses now because unemployment paid more and none of those people wanted to do those jobs. What were those people doing? He claimed they all took their fat guvment checks to the Indian casinos. "The casinos are packed."
Then he whipped out, "Minimum wage jobs are not meant for people to live on permanently." Here was a paradox for me. You want these people to be forced to work at minimum wage but they are not expected to work those jobs as a means of making a living. Who will replace them when they go off to elite jobs or open their own Walmart or complete the killer app they work on at night?
I throw this out here because I am trying to understand the utter lack of logic in the propaganda Pablum the rubes ingest and spew. These jobs are not supposed to pay enough to live on! So let's get these people back there by depriving them of any means of living other than to work several jobs and sleep in their cars. "But not in my neighborhood!" Yes, he also complained about a rise in people camping out in his neighborhood and living in vehicles.
Because if you give them enough money to eat and pay rent, they will go to the casino. They will not buy food and pay rent, will not take care of necessities. Suddenly I realized I had been handed the greatest storyline since Oliver Twist. But who was the hero of this imagined life? Who would step away from the gambling dens or emerge from the franchisee class to right these grave social wrongs of our times?
The Republicans are sure they _need_ their thugs and goons and generally uncouth, violent sort because the Democrats have Dark People, who are even more dangerous. They're just standing their ground.
The phrase "important Trumpian inflections" is going to stay with me for a long time, and not in a good way.
Donnie, as is his won't since being a little shit, crossed the line and made conservative media ravings safe for politicians to repeat. And like Pandora's box, there's no going back, if I may slam two metaphors together.
But substantively, how much are things worse for Donnie occasionally calling the shots as opposed to what the rest of the party would do and has done on its own... Oh, wait, there's Donnie's murderous response to Covid they supported and voting restrictions (although which part will really suffer more is an open question). I guess maybe I answered by own question :(
In any case, the solution is simple as fuck: Vote the fucking party out of power no matter the pol's position on or channelling of Trump.
"important Trumpian inflections" = looting the treasury? child rape? world-class ignorance?
And a definite heart for the Singing in The Rain reference.
Jacob Marley wore lighter chains than the Republican Party and had more hope of redemption, too. Their current task is to rewrite history and deny the present, assuming the future is theirs, which unless Democrats and the DoJ stop cooperating in operating the Memory Hole, they will.
Meanwhile, it’s time for Joe and Kamala to visit Joe Manchin and show him what Christmas future will look like if he doesn’t stop helping the Party of Ignorance and Want regain control of the government.
Donald Trump was and is the conservative id frolicking naked in the fields. He was and is everything they ever wanted or dreamt of in a president: violent, ignorant, racist, stupid, thoroughly dishonest, incapable of anything approximating loyalty or even human affection. Extremely aggressive while being overwhelmingly cowardly. He personifies every rancid impulse of human nature, and conservatives worship that rancidness. He is at once everything they want to be, and everything they see in themselves.
Donald Trump was and is the conservative id frolicking naked in the fields. He was and is everything they ever wanted or dreamt of in a president: violent, ignorant, racist, stupid, thoroughly dishonest, incapable of anything approximating loyalty or even human affection. Extremely aggressive while being overwhelmingly cowardly. He personifies every rancid impulse of human nature, and conservatives worship that rancidness. He is at once everything they want to be, and everything they see in themselves.
I’m beyond disgusted with this country on so many levels, and so beyond exhausted that this is all I can write.
For Noonan to acknowledge that free spending on militarization & policing is licit is not silliness, nor hypocrisy. She knows (as should anybody) that that particular plank is highly appealling to a very large number of Dem voters, and an even-larger number of Dem legislators & politicians.
Trump may have small hands, but they still do the job!
The Ted Cruz line (if his "dignity-always-dignity schtik gets laughed off the stage") is solid gold. But is dignity-always-dignity "from" something? I read somewhere that Henry James, about to succumb on his deathbed, intoned, "At last, the dignified thing," but a) that could be apocryphal, and b) it's not the same. Source?
Baseball Head Embraces The Fuhrerprinzip, A Summary
It makes a kind of sense that Republicans would, must, eventually embrace Trumpism without Trump. They know the formula works, but no one has been able to duplicate it. The kids are a joke, and desperate buffoons like Ted Cruz just end up embarrassing themselves. What do do with a proven spell that can't be spoken? Invoke the name of the Godhead and hope the rubes don't notice there's no one behind the curtain. But what to do when He comes roaring back? They have to lie back and think of Reagan, I assume. If the Republicans were competent authoritarians they'd find someone to assassinate Trump to make him a martyr like JFK, giving them Trumpism without Trump forever, a Trump who can never disappoint or die.
I never guessed that back when I was reading Allen Drury novels in high school I'd be living in one.
Ian Faith meant that Boston wasn’t a big collage town—the local art scene was far more into oil on canvas and maybe a bit of watercolor.
Or was it Boston’s not a big colander town? I forget, it was 40 years ago and we were all under heavy sedation at the time.
A conversation with a friend, returning from a business golf trip (he was collecting his baggage and so felt a strong urge to call me and continue our usual movie-reference text exchanges laced with anecdotes of work and the occasional fascist flashback), for some reason he began claiming his in-laws in the Midwest could not get enough workers in their businesses now because unemployment paid more and none of those people wanted to do those jobs. What were those people doing? He claimed they all took their fat guvment checks to the Indian casinos. "The casinos are packed."
Then he whipped out, "Minimum wage jobs are not meant for people to live on permanently." Here was a paradox for me. You want these people to be forced to work at minimum wage but they are not expected to work those jobs as a means of making a living. Who will replace them when they go off to elite jobs or open their own Walmart or complete the killer app they work on at night?
I throw this out here because I am trying to understand the utter lack of logic in the propaganda Pablum the rubes ingest and spew. These jobs are not supposed to pay enough to live on! So let's get these people back there by depriving them of any means of living other than to work several jobs and sleep in their cars. "But not in my neighborhood!" Yes, he also complained about a rise in people camping out in his neighborhood and living in vehicles.
Because if you give them enough money to eat and pay rent, they will go to the casino. They will not buy food and pay rent, will not take care of necessities. Suddenly I realized I had been handed the greatest storyline since Oliver Twist. But who was the hero of this imagined life? Who would step away from the gambling dens or emerge from the franchisee class to right these grave social wrongs of our times?
The Republicans are sure they _need_ their thugs and goons and generally uncouth, violent sort because the Democrats have Dark People, who are even more dangerous. They're just standing their ground.