Topic: 2016 Races...If Anybody Cares...

[Libertas]

...I just don't see him stooping to court jester for Clinton...I mean what could they possibly offer him that has any value to him?

Ann Answered that - it helps build his brand.. he can go on the talk circuit,  do speaking engagements, and so on.

Just not convincing, he can work his brand under any circumstance...Clinton offers nothing...unless you count taint by association.  Ann can and should do better.  But sometimes people get too wedded to their premise.

[ToddF]

I couldn't get past the part about Trump building his brand by doing this.  He's KILLING his brand by doing this, giving him more cred in my opinion.  Just look at what your typical retard from the Poli Sci department is saying about Trump supporters.  That they're trailer trash.  Blue collar.  Meth addicts.  Racists.  Deplorables.  The Trump brand was exactly the opposite.  It will never recover as rich virtue signalers will avoid the Trump brand like the plague.

Like him or not, Trump really has given this his all, for just that he has my respect.

[Libertas]

Yup, stay deplorable my friends! 😎

[Glock32]

I couldn't get past the part about Trump building his brand by doing this.  He's KILLING his brand by doing this, giving him more cred in my opinion.  Just look at what your typical retard from the Poli Sci department is saying about Trump supporters.  That they're trailer trash.  Blue collar.  Meth addicts.  Racists.  Deplorables.  The Trump brand was exactly the opposite.  It will never recover as rich virtue signalers will avoid the Trump brand like the plague.

Like him or not, Trump really has given this his all, for just that he has my respect.

I agree.  A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that since so much out there cannot be taken at face value that nothing can be taken at face value.  Not true.  Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

[John Florida]

Yup, stay deplorable my friends! 😎

   I am and wear it as a badge of honor!

[John Florida]

 I was wondering when Gloria Alred would show up and here she is.

[Libertas]

I can't see that name...or face    without thinking "Alldead".

[Libertas]

http://www.weaselzippers.us/301509-newt-gingrich-trump-supporters-should-monitor-polling-stations/

True enough.

I think my precinct(s) are 99.5% free of chicanery, but deeper in the inner ring and certainly the urban bullseye...pretty sure they're a mess.  IIRC the boxes of ballots in a democrat operative's trunk was Hennepin County...

[Libertas]

http://www.weaselzippers.us/301667-elizabeth-warren-clucks-like-a-chicken-to-mock-donald-trump-bawk-bawk-bawk/

Seriously?

 

WTF?!  Leave it to batshyt effing progs to do second grade playground behavior when they don't get their way!

What a bunch of infantile losers!

 

Hey Fauxahontas, how about you release your full medical records along with Hillary's?!  Oh, and pee in a cup with her too so we can test what you're on!

 

[AlanS]

That's odd. She usually quacks like a duck.

[Glock32]

I can't see that name...or face    without thinking "Alldead".

I call her Gloria All Red.

[Libertas]

I can't see that name...or face    without thinking "Alldead".

I call her Gloria All Red.

Yeah, that ones been around a while too...

I just wish someone would shine sunlight on them and make them all burst into flames and be gone forever!

 

[Weisshaupt]

via adaptive curmudgeon - One of those Cracked articles with lots of entertaining pictures and funny captions.. but here is just the text - emphasis mine.

How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind



I'm going to explain the Donald Trump phenomenon in three movies. And then some text. There's this universal shorthand that epic adventure movies use to tell the good guys from the bad. The good guys are simple folk from the countryside while the bad guys are decadent assholes who live in the city and wear stupid clothes: In Star Wars, Luke is a farm boy  while the bad guys live in a shiny space station. In Braveheart, the main character (Dennis Braveheart) is a simple farmer  and the dastardly Prince sh*thead lives in a luxurious castle and wears fancy, foppish clothes: The theme expresses itself in several ways -- primitive vs. advanced, tough vs. delicate, masculine vs. feminine, poor vs. rich, pure vs. decadent, traditional vs. weird. All of it is code for rural vs. urban. That tense divide between the two doesn't exist because of these movies, obviously. These movies used it as shorthand because the divide already existed. We country folk are programmed to hate the prissy elites. That brings us to Trump.

6. It's Not About Red And Blue States -- It's About The Country Vs. The City


I was born and raised in Trump country. My family are Trump people. If I hadn't moved away and gotten this ridiculous job, I'd be voting for him. I know I would. See, political types talk about "red states" and "blue states" (where red = Republican/conservative and blue = Democrat/progressive), but forget about states. If you want to understand the Trump phenomenon, dig up the much more detailed county map. Here's how the nation voted county by county in the 2012 election -- again, red is Republican: The country is lava. Holy cockslaps, that makes it look like Obama's blue party is some kind of fringe political faction that struggles to get 20 percent of the vote. The blue parts, however, are more densely populated -- they're the cities. In the upper left, you see the blue Seattle/Tacoma area, lower down is San Francisco and then L.A. The blue around the dick-shaped Lake Michigan is made of cities like Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and Chicago. In the northeast is, of course, New York and Boston, leading down into Philadelphia, which leads into a blue band which connects a bunch of southern cities like Charlotte and Atlanta. Blue islands in an ocean of red. The cities are less than 4 percent of the land mass, but 62 percent of the population and easily 99 percent of the popular culture. Our movies, shows, songs, and news all radiate out from those blue islands. And if you live in the red, that f**king sucks. See, I'm from a "blue" state -- Illinois -- but the state isn't blue. Freaking Chicago is blue. I'm from a tiny town in one of the blood-red areas:As a kid, visiting Chicago was like, well, Katniss visiting the capital. Or like Zoey visiting the city of the future in this ridiculous book. "Their ways are strange." And the whole goddamned world revolves around them. Every TV show is about LA or New York, maybe with some Chicago or Baltimore thrown in. When they did make a show about us, we were jokes -- either wide-eyed, naive fluffballs (Parks And Recreation, and before that, Newhart) or filthy murderous mutants (True Detective, and before that, Deliverance). You could feel the arrogance from hundreds of miles away. "Nothing that happens outside the city matters!" they say at their cocktail parties, blissfully unaware of where their food is grown. Hey, remember when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans? Kind of weird that a big hurricane hundreds of miles across managed to snipe one specific city and avoid everything else. To watch the news (or the multiple movies and TV shows about it), you'd barely hear about how the storm utterly steamrolled rural Mississippi, killing 238 people and doing an astounding $125 billion in damage. But who cares about those people, right? What's newsworthy about a bunch of toothless hillbillies crying over a flattened trailer? New Orleans is culturally important. It matters. To those ignored, suffering people, Donald Trump is a brick chucked through the window of the elites. "Are you assholes listening now?"

5 City People Are From A Different Goddamned Planet

"But isn't this really about race? Aren't Trump supporters just a bunch of racists? Don't they hate cities because that's where the brown people live?" Look, we're going to get actual Nazis in the comment section of this article. Not "calling them Nazis for argument points" Nazis, but actual "Swastikas in their avatars, rooted against Indiana Jones" Nazis. Those people exist. But what I can say, from personal experience, is that the racism of my youth was always one step removed. I never saw a family member, friend, or classmate be mean to the actual black people we had in town. We worked with them, played video games with them, waved to them when they passed. What I did hear was several million comments about how if you ever ventured into the city, winding up in the "wrong neighborhood" meant you'd get dragged from your car, raped, and burned alive. Looking back, I think the idea was that the local minorities were fine ... as long as they acted exactly like us.  If you'd asked me at the time, I'd have said the fear and hatred wasn't of people with brown skin, but of that specific tribe they have in Chicago -- you know, the guys with the weird slang, music and clothes, the dope fiends who murder everyone they see. It was all part of the bizarro nature of the cities, as perceived from afar -- a combination of hyper-aggressive savages and frivolous white elites. Their ways are strange. And it wasn't like pop culture was trying to talk me out of it:It's not just perception, either -- the stats back up the fact that these are parallel universes. People living in the countryside are twice as likely to own a gun and will probably get married younger. People in the urban "blue" areas talk faster and walk faster. They are more likely to be drug abusers but less likely to be alcoholics. The blues are less likely to own land and, most importantly, they're less likely to be Evangelical Christians. In the small towns, this often gets expressed as "They don't share our values!" and my progressive friends love to scoff at that. "What, like illiteracy and homophobia?!?!"

Nope. Everything.



4. Trends Always Start In The Cities -- And Not All Of Them Are Good


The cities are always living in the future. I remember when our little town got our first Chinese restaurant and, 20 years later, its first fancy coffee shop. All of this stuff had turned up in movies (set in L.A., of course) decades earlier. I remember watching '80s movies and mocking the "Valley Girl" stereotypes -- young girls from, like, California who would, like, say, "like" in between every third word. Twenty years later, you can hear me doing the same in every Cracked podcast. The cancer started in L.A. and spread to the rest of America. Well, the perception back then was that those city folks were all turning atheist, abandoning church for their bisexual sex parties. That, we were told, was literally a sign of the Apocalypse. Not just due to the spiritual consequences (which were dire), but the devastation that would come to the culture. I couldn't imagine any rebuttal. In that place, at that time, the church was everything. Don't take my word for it -- listen to the experts:



Church was where you made friends, met girls, networked for jobs, got social support. The poor could get food and clothes there, couples could get advice on their marriages, addicts could try to get clean. But now we're seeing a startling decline in Christianity among the general population, the godless disease having spread alongside Valley Girl talk. So according to Fox News, what's the result of those decadent, atheist, amoral snobs in the cities having turned their noses up at God?

Chaos.

The fabric has broken down, they say, just as predicted. And what rural Americans see on the news today is a sneak peek at their tomorrow. The savages are coming. Blacks riot, Muslims set bombs, gays spread AIDS, Mexican cartels behead children, atheists tear down Christmas trees. Meanwhile, those liberal Lena Dunhams in their $5,000-a-month apartments sip wine and say, "But those white Christians are the real problem!" Terror victims scream in the street next to their own severed limbs, and the response from the elites is to cry about how men should be allowed to use women's restrooms and how it's cruel to keep chickens in cages. Madness. Their heads are so far up their asses that they can't tell up from down. Basic, obvious truths that have gone unquestioned for thousands of years now get laughed at and shouted down -- the fact that hard work is better than dependence on government, that children do better with both parents in the picture, that peace is better than rioting, that a strict moral code is better than blithe hedonism, that humans tend to value things they've earned more than what they get for free, that not getting exploded by a bomb is better than getting exploded by a bomb.

Or as they say out in the country, "Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining."

The foundation upon which America was undeniably built -- family, faith, and hard work -- had been deemed unfashionable and small-minded. Those snooty elites up in their ivory tower laughed as they kicked away that foundation, and then wrote 10,000-word thinkpieces blaming the builders for the ensuing collapse.


3  The Rural Areas Have Been Beaten To sh*t


Don't message me saying all those things I listed are wrong. I know they're wrong. Or rather, I think they're wrong, because I now live in a blue county and work for a blue industry. I know the Good Old Days of the past were built on slavery and segregation, I know that entire categories of humanity experienced religion only as a boot on their neck. I know that those "traditional families" involved millions of women trapped in kitchens and bad marriages. I know gays lived in fear and abortions were back-alley affairs.

I know the changes were for the best.

Translation:  I know better, but I now work for Cracked and I have to say this to keep my job. If I believed this leftist BS , I would never have written this article in the first place.. so watch me genuflect to the obviously superior culture or they will oh so tolerantly fire me.  This is the most hurmours part of the piece in my opinion, and the leftists won't even notice.

Try telling that to anybody who lives in Trump country. They're getting the sh*t kicked out of them. I know, I was there. Step outside of the city, and the suicide rate among young people f**king doubles. The recession pounded rural communities, but all the recovery went to the cities. The rate of new businesses opening in rural areas has utterly collapsed. See, rural jobs used to be based around one big local business -- a factory, a coal mine, etc. When it dies, the town dies. Where I grew up, it was an oil refinery closing that did us in. I was raised in the hollowed-out shell of what the town had once been. The roof of our high school leaked when it rained. Cities can make up for the loss of manufacturing jobs with service jobs -- small towns cannot. That model doesn't work below a certain population density. If you don't live in one of these small towns, you can't understand the hopelessness. The vast majority of possible careers involve moving to the city, and around every city is now a hundred-foot wall called "Cost of Living." Let's say you're a smart kid making $8 an hour at Walgreen's and aspire to greater things. Fine, get ready to move yourself and your new baby into a 700-square-foot apartment for $1,200 a month, and to then pay double what you're paying now for utilities, groceries, and babysitters. Unless, of course, you're planning to move to one of "those" neighborhoods (hope you like being set on fire!). In a city, you can plausibly aspire to start a band, or become an actor, or get a medical degree. You can actually have dreams. In a small town, there may be no venues for performing arts aside from country music bars and churches. There may only be two doctors in town -- aspiring to that job means waiting for one of them to retire or die. You open the classifieds and all of the job listings will be for fast food or convenience stores. The "downtown" is just the corpses of mom and pop stores left shattered in Walmart's blast crater, the "suburbs" are trailer parks. There are parts of these towns that look post-apocalyptic. I'm telling you, the hopelessness eats you alive. And if you dare complain, some liberal elite will pull out their iPad and type up a rant about your racist white privilege. Already, someone has replied to this with a comment saying, "You should try living in a ghetto as a minority!" Exactly. To them, it seems like the plight of poor minorities is only used as a club to bat away white cries for help. Meanwhile, the rate of rural white suicides and overdoses skyrockets. sh*t, at least politicians act like they care about the inner cities.

2 Everyone Lashes Out When They Don't Have A Voice

It really does feel like the worst of both worlds: all the ravages of poverty, but none of the sympathy. "Blacks burn police cars, and those liberal elites say it's not their fault because they're poor. My son gets jailed and fired over a baggie of meth, and those same elites make jokes about his missing teeth!" You're everyone's punching bag, one of society's last remaining safe comedy targets. They take it hard. These are people who come from a long line of folks who took pride in looking after themselves. Where I'm from, you weren't a real man unless you could repair a car, patch a roof, hunt your own meat, and defend your home from an intruder. It was a source of shame to be dependent on anyone -- especially the government.You mowed your own lawn and fixed your own pipes when they leaked, you hauled your own firewood in your own pickup truck. (Mine was a 1994 Ford Ranger! The current owner says it still runs!)

Not like those hipsters in their tiny apartments, or "those people" in their public housing projects, waiting for the landlord any time something breaks, knowing if things get too bad they can just pick up and move. When you don't own anything, it's all somebody else's problem. "They probably don't pay taxes, either! Just treating America itself as a subsidized apartment they can trash!" The rural folk with the Trump signs in their yards say their way of life is dying, and you smirk and say what they really mean is that blacks and gays are finally getting equal rights and they hate it. But I'm telling you, they say their way of life is dying because their way of life is dying. It's not their imagination. No movie about the future portrays it as being full of traditional families, hunters, and coal mines. Well, except for Hunger Games, and that was depicted as an apocalypse. So yes, they vote for the guy promising to put things back the way they were, the guy who'd be a wake-up call to the blue islands. They voted for the brick through the window. It was a vote of desperation.

1 Assholes Are Heroes

"But Trump is objectively a piece of sh*t!" you say. "He insults people, he objectifies women, and cheats whenever possible! And he's not an everyman; he's a smarmy, arrogant billionaire!" Wait, are you talking about Donald Trump, or this guy:



You've never rooted for somebody like that? Someone powerful who gives your enemies the insults they deserve? Somebody with big fun appetites who screws up just enough to make them relatable? Like Dr. House or Walter White? Or any of the several million renegade cop characters who can break all the rules because they get sh*t done? Who only get sh*t done because they don't care about the rules? "But those are fictional characters!" Okay, what about all those millionaire left-leaning talk show hosts? You think they keep their insults classy? Tune into any bit about Chris Christie and start counting down the seconds until the fat joke. Google David Letterman's sex scandals. But it's okay, because they're on our side, and everybody wants an asshole on their team -- a spiked bat to smash their enemies with. That's all Trump is. The howls of elite outrage are like the sounds of bombs landing on the enemy's fortress. The louder the better. Already some of you have gotten angry, feeling this gut-level revulsion at any attempt to excuse or even understand these people. After all, they're hardly people, right? Aren't they just a mass of ignorant, rageful, crude, cursing, spitting subhumans? Gee, I hope not. I have to hug a bunch of them at Thanksgiving. And when I do, it will be with the knowledge that if I hadn't moved away, I'd be on the other side of the fence, leaving nasty comments on this article the alternate universe version of me wrote. It feels good to dismiss people, to mock them, to write them off as deplorables. But you might as well take time to try to understand them, because I'm telling you, they'll still be around long after Trump is gone.

And they are armed. They won't forget. And They will not be forgiving.

[Libertas]

All that Prog-Speak jibberish is going to go so swell for them as they are being chased down streets and hunted down like vermin...

Look?!  There's one!   

[Libertas]

Jeesh...election days is still weeks away and MarkOfCain can't be eager enough to eff over people!

Backtracks On SCOTUS: ‘Of Course’ He’ll Vote On Hillary’s Nominee…

http://www.weaselzippers.us/301821-mcrino-backtracks-on-scotus-of-course-hell-vote-on-hillarys-nominee/

 

With traitors like this, who needs any other enemies?

And, well...lookie here...more cheatin'!

http://www.weaselzippers.us/301731-texas-investigating-allegations-of-voter-fraud-in-tarrant-county-fort-worth/

[Alphabet Soup]

I get the sense that this was a sincere effort on the part of the author to play it right down the middle. If that is true then kudos to him.

As is typically the case the comments serve as a test of the readers' comprehension as well as attitude. The self-identified righties generally approved of the piece (even if they had a quibble) and complemented the author. The comments from the lefties ran a broader range from similar general approval to sneering disgust. The gratuitous insults were almost exclusively from the left as well.

If anything, this is an exercise in leftist obliviousness. They don't (can't?) see themselves when described critically. No matter how one tries to soft-soap it they get in a snit. The meat of the piece revolves around the notion of tolerance. Tolerance for cultural differences, tolerance for ideas, and tolerance for each other. Each side employs a broad-brush as they accuse the other of intolerance in an all-in "you're a worthless POS being because you don't like peas" sorta way (full disclosure: I don't care for peas). What this op-ed is pointing out is that the right has become tolerance-fatigued (while the left has been intolerant all along) and is increasingly pushing back against the leftists.

The difference between the two camps is that, when the left disapproves it says, "Change your ways and agree with me or we will use the awesome power of government to crush you!". When the right disapproves it says, "Agree with me or get the F away from me!"

Take any topic where there is division (and nowadays that is every topic!) and the left not only demands tolerance for the most disturbing and dysfunctional crap, but they insist that we embrace it (see: bake a cake). They have their way at the expense of everyone else getting a say.

Where I work they have break rooms with communal coffee makers - the 14 to 20 cup variety. Most coffee machine venders offer pre-packaged packets of coffee that represent the mainstream blend. Not too rich - not too weak. There's almost always some klown who insists on throwing two packets into the hopper and making the most god-awful mud. I would come into the break room and pour a cup only to spit it out (as would nearly everyone else). So I poured it down the sink and made a fresh pot - using the approved measure. He would come along a pour out mine and brew another double-dose pot.

After about a month of this I decided to bring a thermos with me. I would make normal coffee and fill my thermos. Every once in a while that meant pouring out his to make mine (I usually tried to get in early so that I could make mine first). Then the A-hole could make whatever the F he wanted. Someone (I wonder who) complained to the office manager that I was stealing coffee (brewed coffee in my thermos) and she confronted me, telling me that I couldn't do that.

So I've gone back to pouring out the coffee and making my single cup even if the rest of the pot (essentially two full pots) goes down the drain. The other office drones are too timid to say anything -  even when they prefer the normal blend. The discord is palpable, everyone is angry or upset, and I get to share the "you are a meanie" limelight with Mr. Mud.

That is a microcosm of life around a leftist. You can't live with them and you can't kill them......yet.

[Weisshaupt]

Ugh. I didn't want to go into the comments..

I'm a left-wing french-canadian working in telecom in a bilingual university town, but I was born in a catholic, french-speaking fishing town.

Here, the narrative in the (Montreal-based) media is that the acadians and french-canadians were oppressed by the anglos, poor, under-educated by a power-hungry catholic church until the 1960s...then the quiet revolution happened and made everything better...


...wrong. The Quiet Revolution happened and made Montreal (and Moncton) better. In the country side, it was the rise of factory farming and the fishing and lumber industry tanked. People went from having the choice between being a lumberjack or a fisherman to being in the oil industry or on welfare.

I can afford to speak against the oil industry, I don't work for them and likely never will! People who don't have any other choice can't afford to.

Like I tell my liberal friends, don't lecture someone who can't afford baloney on the evils of non-humane, non-organic meat. The only thing you will teach him is that the pig's living conditions are more important than people's! When you can't have a job because of where you live and have three children to feed, things like "being able to live as a woman even though you have a penis" seem like very, veeery foolish wants, not the needs they are.

Yeah,  forcing other people to cow-tow to your delusions about reality is never going to be a legitimate "need".  ( And yes, demanding to live as a woman when Reality made you a man is a delusion) My chosen pronouns are  Master, MiLord, Your Highness , or Your majesty. Think this guy would use them?Because they are equivalent to the ones they are trying to make us use.. to  genuflect to them and their dogma, and using government force to do it. 
I need to be treated as an attack helicopter, even though I am not one.  They are really foolish wants moron - based on the premise that you have the right to force other people to bow down to you and your foolish crap, and having a good job and a full belly and a higher standard of living isn't ever going to change the fact that it is foolish to deny the fact that REALITY made you a man, and even more foolish to expect others to support you in that folly.

[Weisshaupt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcnzkqVIu_Q
This is a joke, right?  Right? I mean it has to be a parody. I has to be .
The sad thing is I have to look and I am not 100%  sure to begin with. Especially after this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY5RbTz281M

[Glock32]

The good news is the Russian ICBMs will be targeting Washington DC, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco first.  Leftists turning into radioactive vapor.  I can't pretend that isn't a gratifying fantasy.

[Libertas]

I wonder if it is too late to make up a bunch of "I laze traitors for Putin" t-shirts and make a few bucks?