The media
loves to play a little game each election cycle, that I like to call Candidate bowling. They set up the R candidate they want to be “their” choice (G-d forbid the actual voters get to choose anything as important as that) and when the time is most appropriate, they hammer that candidate into the ground. It’s a fun game they love to play, and the result is the disillusionment and apathy of the people who would vote for actual change.
I think they may have fucked up this time.
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Yeah. No one is getting behind the golden boys. It is fun watching all the career politician say don’t vote for trump because. Like that is a well reasoned answer.
Like watching two year old’s justifying the last thing they did.
Agreed! And it’s LONG overdue!
Although, you know, the nose-holding I had to do for McCain was nothing compared to the nose-holding I’d have to do for Trump.
Good God, people. Have we nobody at all worth electing? I’ll bet you could hook up a dynamo to George Washington’s grave and generate enough electricity to light the Eastern Seaboard.
Our political class is depressing. Hang them all. Surely there are enough lampposts on Pennsylvania Avenue to line it from the Capitol to the White House. When the lights go dim, we’ll know we’ve appeased The General’s shade.
Wasn’t long ago everyone thought Chris Christie would be the likely candidate. Thank God THAT’S over (and I say that as someone who’s voted for him for Governor of NJ. By NJ standards he’s pretty good compared to what we had before, namely McGreevy and Corslime).
Admittedly, trump is spectacularly horrible. Is he as horrible as obama? That remains to be seen. Nobody with any smarts wants the beating the media would give him.
Name a single decent human gesture Donald Trump has ever done to benefit anyone named anything other than Donald J. Trump.
Watching conservatives pretzel their backbones in an effort to paint this guy in a positive light has been the most entertaining part of this election season.
Today he said stuff about guns! Tomorrow, he’ll bite the head off a live chicken!
If I were still a forum moderator and somebody were leaving the Donald’s campaign speeches as posts, it would be pinging my troll-dar SO hard. I can’t shake the feeling that if the guy actually wins the nomination, he’ll announce that he’s bored and he didn’t really want to be president of a bunch of dummies and ugly people and he can’t believe anybody took him seriously and head off to build a new casino.
… he’ll announce that he’s bored and he didn’t really want to be president…
And yet, still better than the rest of the pack.
I’m with Tam. Trump only proves that “Idiocracy” was prophecy rather than satire.
Nobody in the habit of doing things to benefit anyone but themselves will ever be elected.
I now assume everyone is an idiot, everywhere.
If we’re going to have a circus, at least let the clowns be entertaining.
Scott: idiocracy has arrived.
Maybe Tam hasn’t figured out yet that as far as a lot of us are concerned, Trump is the match.
No disrespect to Tam intended. Given the choice between the demo-chorus, press-anointed Jebster/whoever or Trump, I’ll be going for Trump.
All Trump has to do is say he will close the Department of Homeland Security and every one I know will vote for him.
Problem is, Trump has a long-practiced habit of flipping one year and flopping the next as the wind and his business prospects blow. In short, I don’t believe a single word that he says, even less than I believe the average politician not named Clinton. But even the Clintons can be counted on to tend in a certain political direction.
I had a terrible thought the other day: A general election between Trump and Sanders. I think that I might volunteer for the first ship to Mars.
Og,
So, like Marko said
“TRUMP 2016: Fuck it, let the monkey fly the plane”? ;)
It will at least be entertaining.
During the primaries, the press always suppoerts the guy that the Democrats can beat most easily. Once they’re over, the press goes into full-on attack mode. This is what happened to Dole, McCain, and Romney; that’s why Jeb Bush is being pushed just about as hard as they can push him.
But folks are tired of the bullshit. Then Trump comes along and says some things that everyone in flyover country has been saying, but none of the aristocrats ever thinks of saying, not even as a throwaway campaign promise, and he gets a lot of support.
At this point, Trump looks like a better choice than anyone else the GOP is fronting right now. And if it came down to a choice between Trump and Jeb Bush, I’d vote Trump every last damned time.
I’ve pretty much given up on the republic, republicans, the NRA or just about anyone that says send us money or else.
Trump can do no worse than the governors, legal profs, lawyers and other miscreants we have elected over the last 30 years or so.
At least with him we are getting a successful capitalist and that has to be worth something.
Marko and Tam not withstanding.
Since anyone who thinks they can accurately predict what anyone will do, is, by definition, lying, we really don’t know what trump will do. We can only guess, and driven to guess, I’d guess trump would get no cooperation if he won. Win-win.
“TRUMP 2016: Fuck it, let the monkey fly the plane� I want this on a bumper sticker:)
It won’t be the first time a population elected someone for the head job based on personality, forget the policy. A couple of times, it worked out. Many other times, it didn’t.
I see part of Trump’s appeal is that he tweaks the noses of the usual suspects, the people who couldn’t be guaranteed to give a straight answer even if asked if a light bulb is on or off. Kind of like Groucho Marx and all the types he made fun of in his movies. Given how out of balance this society is anymore, and how fed up “flyover” people are, he’s their proxy who can stick it to the powers that be, to knock them down a peg. I admit to being part of that crowd, give them their comeuppance, you show them Donald. At the same time, do I want him to win?
Since he’s such a good friend of the Clintons and still maintains those ties, I’m not that sure I was wrong to wonder if maybe he was put up to this to be a bull in a china shop in the GOP primary, at least make the candidates look grey and lifeless once his bombastic personality came through, the same way a smart alec jock can come to a party and show a guy up right in front of his girlfriend, and leave him looking like chopped liver.
He’s changed his views so much, and so many conservatives take him at face value. Why? So few conservative candidates just say to heck with playing it safe and let’s run down the populist path, so when one wraps himself in the flag with the Bible in one hand and a gun in the other while shouting “Murica!”, they don’t even bother to vet the sincerity of his new stance. It’s like someone so used to getting beat that person picks the spouse who beats the least instead of finding a good one. A drowning man will grab the end of a sword to try to pull himself out of the water. But leave it to the Clintons to trick conservatives into acting like the low information, slack-jawed rubes they always said we are.
He was pro-choice until this run, and now he’s pro-life. He was the most secular guy out there, and now he carries the Bible his Scottish mother gave him (I wonder how many inches of dust he had to clean off of it), and waxes nostalgic about his “little bread and little wine” he had as Episcopal communion. The guy who after a number of years trades in his wife for a newer Eastern European model and who said his daughter’s so hot he’d date her if he wasn’t her father (what guy does that?) is now Mr. Family Values.
Ok, if he’s not a Clinton plant, and is sincere, what’s his game? He’s at the end of his life, and knows just being rich means he’s forgotten when this generation dies. If he’s president, when he dies, roads and schools and Navy ships are named after him, his face is on the money, he becomes part of the Greater Mt. Rushmore of all past presidents. Legacy, baby.
Maybe it’s because I’m from the area Trump operates in so he’s been on my radar for decades, but he scares me more than a little, for one reason: He’s not just a narcissist, he’s a TALENTED narcissist (unlike what we have in the big chair now). So he won’t fall back no political theory, or on rhetoric, or on catchy phrases like “Yes we can!” or “Hope and change!”.
He’ll do what works to accomplish what he wants, and what he WANTS is more power for Trump. IOW he’ll do everything we’ve spent eight years worrying about Obama doing, but he’ll actually know how to do them and will do them successfully. He’s spent a lifetime getting rich by giving people what they want and getting them to pay for it.
He doesn’t want to improve the country so he can make more money, he’s already GOT more money than he could ever use. He wants his face on our coins, stamps and bills. He wants to rename the country Trumpania. He wants every man, woman and child to kiss his ring (if not his ass), and he has the brains to figure out how to make that come about.
Really, monkeys have been flying the plane now for a very long time.
Sitting on the south side of the pond it seems you guys have very little choice… both sides players look like total morons to me. They are all blind to the real danger and unwilling to nuke Mecca to solve it in any case… but who am I to speak… the sheeple here elected a womanizing pile of corruption that built his retirement home with tax money!
What’s more, the monkey already has a few kill flags painted under his cockpit window. Couple more and he’ll be an ace.
And who ever thought a Boeing 757 would be a tactical combat aircraft in the first place?
I really do not want a Trump presidency. I’m remain a very solid Ted Cruz supporter.
But I gotta say, that Trump has been great in the role of R. Lee Emery as D.I. to the dough-soft Republican Primary Platoon boots.
Hell, he might even help a few of ’em develop their spinal muslcles.
Who knows? He might even get Christie fit enough to do one pushup. (Up. Push. Mil-Spec. Qty; 1 ea.)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
RE: 757 being a tactical combat airplane–ever hear of a movie called Flight World War 2? “Based on real events!” (…meaning that there was a war called WW2 and it took place in Europe. But there sure as hell wasn’t a B-757 involved in it…)
No, I haven’t seen it. But I WANT to.
OK, so we can vote for Trump, who may or may not keep his promises, who flip-flops more than a Mexican Jumping Bean, and who’s in it only for his ego.
Or……..
We can vote for the same people who lied their asses off, handed Obama everything he wanted on a silver platter, insulted the Tea Party, insulted conservatives in general, accused anyone who supported the actual US Constitution of being a “wacko-bird”, “hostage taker”, “terrorist”, and other sundry descriptions, and who hold their own voting base in such utter contempt that they go to town hall meetings just to insult them.
I won’t even go into what the Democrats are. Safe to say they should all be hanging from lamp-posts at this time, if this country had any balls left.
The only actual GOP politician I’m willing to vote for at this point is Cruz. If it’s Bush or any of the other Democrat-lite asshats, then there’s no real difference between them and the Democrats. So why NOT Trump? If the country is going to lawn-dart itself into the fields of history, it might as well do so while giving the ruling class a case of the vapors.