Like. But I've always remembered that the press mostly hated Nixon (after a short while, although to be completely fair they seemed to hate LBJ and Humphrey more). They loved them some Reagan and the elder Bush, and the younger Bush most of the time (after 9/11 until shortly after the Crash). They certainly loved them some McCain, but because a suitable and presentable Black man was running against him they couldn't pile on as if the Democrat had been say a White woman of some years.
Trump's "knack for the zinger label" has told me an awful lot more about both Trump's supporters and the media than those zingers ever revealed about Donald Trump. In any other context, such zingers would be viewed for what they are: School-yard taunts one might expect to hear from the mouth of a 5th grader. They bespeak both an intellect and a level of emotional development barely at the middle-school level.
And conservatives laugh uproariously at these things and view them as the height of wit. And the media repeats them, parrot-like, because they, too, are on that same middle-school wavelength.
And all of this tells me that faaaaar more of my fellow citizens are emotionally stunted and intellectually challenged than I have ever wanted to admit.
as if anyone could believe āthe publicās understanding of important issuesā is what Trump is concerned with.
Well Trump is concerned with important issues to Trump. Like staying out of jail, making much moolah, keeping PoC down, getting much adulation at his campaign events, and the public needs to understand how great he is to ensure they stay on the correct side of these important issues
Commenter 'Derelict's' observation that " faaaaar more of my fellow citizens are emotionally stunted and intellectually challenged" has been scaring the bejezuz out of me for many decades. Guns ! Nixon, Reagan, Bush and their wars. How to reconcile it all with 'truth, justice and the American way'? But now, Drumpf; belligerence, arrogance, purposive ignorance, gleeful Philistinism. Red America personified, mostly.
Like. But I've always remembered that the press mostly hated Nixon (after a short while, although to be completely fair they seemed to hate LBJ and Humphrey more). They loved them some Reagan and the elder Bush, and the younger Bush most of the time (after 9/11 until shortly after the Crash). They certainly loved them some McCain, but because a suitable and presentable Black man was running against him they couldn't pile on as if the Democrat had been say a White woman of some years.
Trump's "knack for the zinger label" has told me an awful lot more about both Trump's supporters and the media than those zingers ever revealed about Donald Trump. In any other context, such zingers would be viewed for what they are: School-yard taunts one might expect to hear from the mouth of a 5th grader. They bespeak both an intellect and a level of emotional development barely at the middle-school level.
And conservatives laugh uproariously at these things and view them as the height of wit. And the media repeats them, parrot-like, because they, too, are on that same middle-school wavelength.
And all of this tells me that faaaaar more of my fellow citizens are emotionally stunted and intellectually challenged than I have ever wanted to admit.
The Charlie the Tuna analogy is so perfect that Iām angry with myself for not thinking of it!
āTergiversateā was a new one on me. Nice to live in a world that requires so many synonyms for waffling.
as if anyone could believe āthe publicās understanding of important issuesā is what Trump is concerned with.
Well Trump is concerned with important issues to Trump. Like staying out of jail, making much moolah, keeping PoC down, getting much adulation at his campaign events, and the public needs to understand how great he is to ensure they stay on the correct side of these important issues
Commenter 'Derelict's' observation that " faaaaar more of my fellow citizens are emotionally stunted and intellectually challenged" has been scaring the bejezuz out of me for many decades. Guns ! Nixon, Reagan, Bush and their wars. How to reconcile it all with 'truth, justice and the American way'? But now, Drumpf; belligerence, arrogance, purposive ignorance, gleeful Philistinism. Red America personified, mostly.