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Three Cheers for Trump’s “Irresponsibility”
This place is RIGGED!
Four years ago Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren stood before the delegates of the Democratic National Convention and said this: “People feel like the system is rigged against them. And here’s the painful part: they’re right. The system is rigged,” she said. “These folks don’t resent that someone else makes more money. We’re Americans. We celebrate success. We just don’t want the game to be rigged.”
Four years later, now Senator Warren complains about Donald Trump and his line that our election process is “rigged” in the pages of The Washington Post, “The purpose of this manufactured hysteria is obvious: to delegitimize Democratic voters and justify Republican efforts to suppress their votes.”
See, it’s perfectly OK to delegitimize the most prosperous and successful economy in the world, to delegitimize the success of others with such lines as “You didn’t build that!” but don’t touch my meal ticket, baby.
Truth be told the entire raison d’être for the modern Democratic Party is that the system is rigged. White Privilege – “rigged.” Glass Ceilings – “rigged.” The Criminal Justice System – “rigged.” Wall Street – “rigged.” Everybody is a victim. Which is why we need to “re-rig” the system so that downtrodden 1/32nd Native Americans can find honest work in the Ivy League.
The hypocrisy is so thick you can’t cut it with a knife. This kind of overgrowth can only be tackled with a chainsaw. Voter fraud and rigging elections is not only a part of the Democrats DNA, it has been lionized in their mythology. They will gladly recount the tale of what Frank Sinatra and his Chicago mobster friends did for Jack Kennedy in 1960. They literally roll in it like a newly washed farm dog rolls in cow manure. It’s like they need the stink. But it was noble, you know, because “Tricky Dick.”
In 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech in Nigeria and implied that Jeb Bush stole the 2000 presidential election for his brother. “We had all kinds of problems in some of our past elections, as you might remember,” she said. “In 2000, our presidential election came down to one state where the brother of the man running for president was the governor of the state, so I mean, we have our problems too. But we have been moving to try to remedy those problems as we see them.”
See, we have problems. Our elections have been stolen. Oh, wait. Did I say that? No, we have no problems. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Democrats have fought voter integrity issues for decades. Simple things like proving you are who you say you are, or that you actually live in the district where you’re voting, is “racist” and “voter suppression.” (Or, dare we say, “rigging.”) They have for years had an opportunity to increase the legitimacy of our voting system and fought it tooth and nail.
On these pages our intrepid foreign editor claims Trump’s accusations show that he’s “not playing with a full deck.” Other Republicans have called such talk irresponsible. Yet, the average citizen looks at the world and is confused. He has a news media that he no longer can trust with the job of reporting simple truths. He sees poor men walk into the Senate and the House and come out millionaires. He sees honest and honorable men like former Joint Chiefs of Staff vice chairman General James E. Cartwright (USMC) punished for “mishandling classified materials” while Hillary Clinton engages in a multitude of criminal activity and walks free with the blessing of the FBI Director. They listen to their president tell them not to whine and then listen to him whine about everything.
Even the culture notices. In the latest commercial for the Jaguar F-Pace the first words from the actor behind the wheel is “Have you ever noticed how some people in life seemed to get away with everything?”
In the movie 1776 those loyal to the crown are seen as always suppressing the debate on whether the American colonies should seek independence. When Richard Henry Lee offers up Virginia’s Resolution on Independence the matter comes down to the delegate from Rhode Island, Stephen Hopkins. “Well, in all my years I’ve never seen, heard, nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn’t be talked about. Hell yes, I’m for debating anything!”
So get out your chainsaws. Clear the growth that’s choking us. Debate the legitimacy of everything.
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Nicely done. The lack of vision of those on their fainting couches is comical.
This is just a superb piece of writing. And I totally agree with that last line.
If legendary running back John Riggins rigged a fishing rod and had a dead fish in rigor mortis it couldn’t be more obvious that rigging happens.
Crack! Out of the ball park. Thanks EJ.
Amen. The nerve.
Really good, EJ. Can I share it with friends who need to hear it?
Are you kidding? Everyone is entitled to my opinion!
Just a few more recommendations…
Magnificent, EJ.
I wish I’d said that.
Excellent piece.
But I’d settle for “demonstrating” in lieu of “proving.”
I would point the finger at a Ukrainian billionaire who goes to Davos and is tight with all the right people but I don’t want to get droned.
Heh.
I just posted on Facebook with this comment:
Well done EJ!
Is there is a logo coming I can put on a shirt about Rigging?
You’re all missing Warren’s point. Trump is dark! His dissent will lead to violence! Trump would go out and hire DNC operatives to incite violence all across America; but Warren merely rallies Americans to
take back the wealth that the rich steals from the little guyask wealthy folks to pay their fair share.EJ, you magnificent #$%())_! I read your post!
This standing his ground exposed the media as the Democrat operative hypocrites they are. They fell into the trap and now have to defend voter fraud as acceptable. Let me do a Zubrin and invent a conversation:
“So KellyAnne, your boss is defying American tradition….”
“So when they bus people across state lines to cheat, he should say that’s ok? Is that okay with you? We have the Democrats admitting it on video. You media people look the other way and have for years.”
“But but but…”
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Back during his choir directing years, my Dad used to tell me that when the instruments and the choir finish a piece in perfect pitch, you can hear a sort of ringing sound immediatley following that last note. I swear I could hear that sound at the conclusion of this piece, EJ. Superb!
. Which is why we need to “re-rig” the system so that downtrodden 1/32nd Native Americans can find honest work in the Ivy League.
What a brilliant line.
@ejhill hits another home run! (So what else is new?)
Great piece. Best cure for cognitive dissonance I’ve found yet. Wish I could take two every morning.
I think Trump baits the intelligentsia better than they discuss how easily he is baited. They chase his rabbit every time, thus doing his bidding. He heightens the established narrative contradictions by knowing they will overreact because they have become tone-deaf, arrogant, and smugly hypocritical.
Bet average people will, like it or not, think more about, say, ‘the great migration’ or ‘the big winner is Iran’ than they will about ‘keep you in suspense’.
I didn’t listen to the debate yet, but I thought Trump must have done pretty well if , afterwards, the main criticism was of him saying he would not accept a rigged election. Oh the nerve of him…and of course the critiques come from all the usual places, isn’t that right @roblong? @ejhill this was a dynamic piece of writing. Thank you.
Steynworthy.
EJ,
I like the cut of that man’s rig.
The compliments are overwhelming.
Please. Don’t. Stop.
If Trump is dark then any criticism of him is racist.
The original Dick Pic.
I keep rereading this looking for a point to argue, and can find none.
If only Trump weren’t so nakedly self-serving with his ‘rigged’ talk. I find myself lately reflexively disagreeing with his talking points because he has no consistency for any beliefs beyond his own person. Yet, like any stopped clock he manages to get a couple things right.
We have been gifted with a man who talks incessantly about the system being rigged and an opponent who symbolizes the rigging. Ultimately, Trumps multitude of personal flaws will keep him from being elected, but I do believe a lot of voters on the left and right will never trust our political system again.
Whether the voters are fighting for immigration control on the right, socialism on the left, or trade protection on both sides, both parties are in for their own revolutions next cycle.
Dear goodness, this may just be the beginning.
Well done.
I have lived through Nixon, Johnson, Obama, Kennedy, Clinton as president. When you raise ‘personal flaws’ for Trump, it just makes me laugh at peoples selectivity. We have had womanizers, drug addicts, rapists, narcissists , manics and paranoids and you wring your hands over Trump, especially versus Hillary.
I stopped voting for media Fairy Tale images of candidates long ago. If you want ‘thin skinned’, learn about good old Lyndon. You want womanizer, well, Jack and Billy were no slouches.
BTW, based on the Veritas tapes and WikiLeaks, are you going to tell me the system is not rigged? Money talks and the law hides under the carpet during election season. The fact that our dear media cannot bestir themselves to root it out tells me where the rigging connects.
Life does not guarantee a good choice, in fact the great thing about America is we have a choice at all. So, vote, do not vote, whatever. With Hillary there is a good chance the choice will disappear unless you donate the right way.
All the talk about rigging is Trump laying the groundwork for his own loss. You could tell when he himself started to believe he would lose when he started talking about the election being rigged. It is his out. The more he talks about the election being rigged the more his own team is telling him that he is going to lose. Claiming the election is rigged won’t get him anymore votes and the more time he spends on it the less time he can spend on things that might get him votes.