tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post3267525447148675402..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: TRIUMPH OF THE TRUMP: THE MEDIA STARTS TO FALL IN LOVE, AND THE FANS BECOME NASTIERSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-37781762944810509292015-08-23T14:47:56.116-04:002015-08-23T14:47:56.116-04:00Right-wingers are eagerly invoking Network in refe...Right-wingers are eagerly <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBrodyFile/status/635469264472940544" rel="nofollow">invoking <i>Network</i></a> in reference to Trump.Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-70555234685968079912015-08-23T14:25:28.919-04:002015-08-23T14:25:28.919-04:00@Aunt Snow
Well stated, and I can envision that s...@Aunt Snow<br /><br />Well stated, and I can envision that scene as well (Network was so prescient in so many ways).<br /><br />On the other hand, the only difference between Trump and the rest of the jackals is his bluntness. Based on what I've read, the other candidates have the same beliefs and they even use the same words but they aren't as flamboyant. But each and every jackal wants the same thing. Part of me is optimistic in the sense that if you want to heal you have to lance the boil and let the pus come out. Trump is the boil lancer and maybe in some way is performing a service to us all. People in denial about the danger the jackals pose to this country need to see and hear who the Rethugs have been pandering to and what they really want for this country.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08141640791663745884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-36859469526502075682015-08-23T05:32:39.992-04:002015-08-23T05:32:39.992-04:00This is all so 1964.
Part of me says this is like...This is all so 1964.<br /><br />Part of me says this is like in those primitive tribal areas where each side runs out towards the other side howling and holding up spears and other scary weapons, then stops just short and there insults get chanted; then the attackers retreat back a bit and the other side puts on their version of a similar show. Eventually something goes amiss and a spear gets thrown or sword gets thrust out and someone's wounded or even actually dies, and a huge magilla is made of the wounded guy's side holding up aloft and carrying him to safety or to a funeral pyre. Then's it's over for that month, or that season or that year, and a representative of the aggrieved tribe goes off and gets compensation for the dead guy's family, maybe goats or a selection of girls about ready for child bearing. Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-67057161028722945332015-08-23T05:08:11.000-04:002015-08-23T05:08:11.000-04:00"TRIUMPH OF THE TRUMP"?
I've been s..."TRIUMPH OF THE TRUMP"? <br />I've been saying "Trump Of The Will" riffing on Leni Riefenstahl. <br />Both work, I suppose...Darohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02965288170032365125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-52904647246725538412015-08-22T18:41:31.150-04:002015-08-22T18:41:31.150-04:00I watched Trump's 'performance' with a...I watched Trump's 'performance' with a kind of horror. It was like a scene from "Network." I could imagine him bringing an immigrant onstage to tear asunder limb from limb, to the cheers of that bloodthirsty crowd.<br /><br />It's the American interhamwe, folks. Just you watch.<br />Glennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03681336164718681936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-5746869338615601672015-08-22T18:22:58.648-04:002015-08-22T18:22:58.648-04:00"... the flamboyant mogul has thoroughly disr..."... the flamboyant mogul has thoroughly disrupted the presidential campaign and kindled a national discussion about not just politics but American culture itself".<br /><br />These guys think Trump kindled this discussion? Really? He didn't start it, he just made it fun for violent kooks to come out of the woodwork. When any sort of "discussion" takes place, mainly in the form of calling these racist nuts what they are, they scream "political correctness" and get handed larger microphones by the villagers.trnchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11288449285041026538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-69994949493248350662015-08-22T16:40:58.444-04:002015-08-22T16:40:58.444-04:00OY!
The rocks covering their holes are off, and ev...OY!<br />The rocks covering their holes are off, and every fucking bigoted loony-tune is out here crawling in rampage mode!<br /><br />The "TEH STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPID" is loose upon the land.<br /><br />The center cannot hold. <br /><br />To quote the GREAT Yeats:<br />"Turning and turning in the widening gyre<br />The falcon cannot hear the falconer;<br />Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<br />Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<br />The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere<br />The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<br />The best lack all conviction, while the worst<br />Are full of passionate intensity.<br /><br />Surely some revelation is at hand;<br />Surely the Second Coming is at hand.<br />The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out<br />When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi<br />Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;<br />A shape with lion body and the head of a man,<br />A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,<br />Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it<br />Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds. <br /><br />The darkness drops again but now I know<br />That twenty centuries of stony sleep<br />Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,<br />And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,<br />Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? <br /><br /><br />These are truly frightening times............Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-75652108701369106412015-08-22T16:40:57.883-04:002015-08-22T16:40:57.883-04:00OY!
The rocks covering their holes are off, and ev...OY!<br />The rocks covering their holes are off, and every fucking bigoted loony-tune is out here crawling in rampage mode!<br /><br />The "TEH STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPID" is loose upon the land.<br /><br />The center cannot hold. <br /><br />To quote the GREAT Yeats:<br />"Turning and turning in the widening gyre<br />The falcon cannot hear the falconer;<br />Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<br />Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<br />The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere<br />The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<br />The best lack all conviction, while the worst<br />Are full of passionate intensity.<br /><br />Surely some revelation is at hand;<br />Surely the Second Coming is at hand.<br />The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out<br />When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi<br />Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;<br />A shape with lion body and the head of a man,<br />A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,<br />Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it<br />Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds. <br /><br />The darkness drops again but now I know<br />That twenty centuries of stony sleep<br />Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,<br />And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,<br />Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? <br /><br /><br />These are truly frightening times............Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-85245634256218009842015-08-22T12:01:54.994-04:002015-08-22T12:01:54.994-04:00I do not see the downside to a Trump candidacy. He...I do not see the downside to a Trump candidacy. He's clearly riling up the xenophobes and white supremacists and, consequently, highlighting the fact that the GOP is the party of white supremacists and xenophobes. I hear what you're saying about the media's focus, but I don't think the Hispanic media is going to miss his message -- they seemed to get it pretty quickly when he called them all rapists. And other minorities will take note of his fellow travelers from the Stormfront. Can he alienate them more than he has already? Don't know, but it looks like he's going to try. I can't see that as anything but good for HRC's chances. <br /><br />Name a viable GOP candidate that would be better than Trump. I can't think of one. Jeb potentially seems safe to the Hispanic voters (big risk for HRC) and, if elected, dog forbid, represents the return of the Bushies. Maybe Doug Feith gets a <i>really</i> senior role this time. URP. I think that Trump is a net positive for our team. Shit, I think he'd probably be a tolerable president.mlbxxxxxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05931351723996391533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-72036709450439922012015-08-22T11:38:56.162-04:002015-08-22T11:38:56.162-04:00So Politico's coverage of the same event shoul...So <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/donald-trump-2016-mobile-alabama-rally-ghost-george-wallace-121627.html?hp=t3_r" rel="nofollow">Politico's coverage</a> of the same event should come as a surprise:<br /><br />Ben Schreckinger: "It was immigration, not segregation, that brought some 20,000 southerners — far fewer than predicted — out for Donald Trump on Friday night, but the ghost of George Wallace loomed large. Wallace, an avowed segregationist, was the last presidential candidate to win electoral votes as a third-party candidate. The threat of Trump doing so, propelled by a hardline immigration stance that many have condemned as racist, looms over the Republican Party now as it did over the Democratic Party then, even as the enthusiasm of his following, for once, fell far short of expectations.... Trump invited Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, one of Congress’s most ardent immigration hardliners who helped the businessman craft his immigration plan, to the podium, where the two embraced."<br /><br />Marie Burnsmarieburnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05551898556011521804noreply@blogger.com