Journal smittyoneeach's Journal: Couldn't help but think of d_r 23
Nick Gillespie at Reason thoroughly denounces the GOP in passing, while hammering Romney's anti-Trump screed of Thursday. This is pretty much everything damn_registrars has been saying for the last couple of years. Credit where due.
OK, the GOP sucks. Trump proves it. Now, can we just get on with the crash, so that we can begin rebuilding along less Progressive lines?
OK, the GOP sucks. Trump proves it. Now, can we just get on with the crash, so that we can begin rebuilding along less Progressive lines?
In answer to your question... (Score:2)
Nope. No we can not. Those in power do not easily give up that power. Those with control do not take kindly to usurpers. Greed and ego ensure that changes will be slight and take a long time. Unless, of course, there's a revolt and those seldom turn out the way the revolting party intended.
You're thinking rationally. It's probably best to not do that when humans are the subject or capable of influence. Humans are not good rational beings. However, humans are good rationalizing beings. Don't blame me, I'm ju
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Don't blame me, I'm just making observations.
Ooof! Another preemptive attack!
I think Trump's absolute domination of the media is a most wondrous sight to behold. Even on the Google news page he's got it all covered from every angle, in the business section, politics, Hollywood he is on the first page of all of them.
Meanwhile Hillary's famous and really no less subtle democrat machinery chugs along like the mighty engine it is. Doing so well that even some republicans are openly admitting she's better than t
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If nothing else, Trump's campaign will be studied for decades. You're very correct, it's a wonder to behold. Everything from psychiatrists to political scientists will be studying Trump for a very long time. I'm actually interested in seeing the papers that come out of the think tanks and universities. I've given some thought to this, to his campaign and the reaction to it, but I'm not certain that I feel comfortable/ready to offer an opinion on it at this time.
Hmm... More accurately, I'm not really able/wi
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I'm not sure what you interpreted as an attack though.
It's nothing... *Just a little argument with my copilot* He knows who he is...
The Trump phenomenon is a simple reenactment of events from 90 years ago. All the same actors, bourgeois 'liberals' and proletariat 'conservatives', are playing the same roles now as they did then. It's not really a mystery why it happens, it has all been documented quite well, it's only disappointing it still does, and that 'rebellion' always takes an authoritarian turn. Eh, w
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Yes, indeed we do!
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I have read both London's and Butler's biographies. Butler's was important for me to read, I spent eight years enlisted in the Marines, after all. I've never read Lewis' biography, I probably should. There's a few other biographies that I really should read. I've been told I should write one but I don't think I'm that egotistical. I do have something close to a hundred composition notebooks full of journal entries but I'm not sure those should be published. I'm not sure anyone can read my writing and the na
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Ah, in that case, I've read works from/concerning all three.
If you're at all interested, there's a 'mostly-true' book called Battle Cry by Leon Uris. A quick Google indicates that one can probably find it online at varied prices including free, depending on one's views on such things.
I'll be damned if I know what I should do about my life either. So, we've got the same opinions there.
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I think Trump's absolute domination of the media
I think the relationship more symbiotic.
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Yes both are profiting handsomely. Most watched election ever... As long as it's just shtick, I say let them go nuts. The followers on the other hand, might have to be *brought to heel*.
In reality, Trump gives the GOP a "graceful" way to throw the election to Hillary, with some republicans even publicly admitting as much. Their party needed a candidate like her. But I guess this 'moral majority' thing has to run its course while conservative democrats can keep the chair warm. Trump is this year's Ross Perot
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But the play was so obvious that JEB couldn't bring the Bush role.
Also, if Trump doesn't win both Ohio & Florida, the GOPe could potentially thwart Stubby Digits.
But I'm getting really, really tired of dick jokes where a Presidential debate was supposed to be.
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But I'm getting really, really tired of dick jokes where a Presidential debate was supposed to be.
It's what the people want.
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:-) Guess you're not that tired, huh?
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You and d_r are the only ones doing the whining. These are your peeps, so what's the deal?
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"Never me" what? I am merely intrigued. I like to watch and share my observations. I can't help it if you keep on electing crooks. This whole thing is your cult of personality at play. The institution that you pan is your reflection, and projection. So again, what's the deal?
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The Republican Party is slowly dying and sliding more and more over to try to present religious-backed candidates and those with a strong anti-abortion stance instead of focusing on fiscally conservative positions and meddle less into the private lives of people with legislation.
For all his faults Trump comes out as a person that is very much at the center-line of politics with little interest and focus on religion and abortion and more on personal freedom and ability to make it on your own. That's what peo
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For all his faults Trump comes out as a person that is very much at the center-line of politics
I think Trump, by now, has taken all possible positions on ever issue. In that sense, the authoritarianism of Obama and Her Majesty are relatively consistent and stable.