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Losing More Friends
I have (or used to have) two close friends who dislike Trump. One dislikes him, the other has full-blown Trump Derangement Syndrome.
- My friend who lives in Santa Monica refuses to discuss BLM with me. He is not black. He is a citizen of Canada who was born in Sarajevo and has lived in California since 2003. He has Trump Derangement Syndrome.
- The second friend grew up in Orange County (which used to be a GOP region in California) and now lives in a suburb of Portland.
Neither one refuses to denounce the rioting of BLM and Antifa.
The Portland resident refuses to denounce the riots in the city and the useless mayor and Governor.
They say they don’t want to discuss ‘politics.’
I criticized them for being spineless and tacitly cheering on the rioters.
No response.
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Mister Bitcoin,
The “No response.” is the giveaway. They know they are going down with the woke ship. They just want to hang onto their feeling of being cool a little longer. After they lose in November, it will take a year and maybe then they’ll be able to deal with the fact that they went down a rabbit hole chasing a lie.
Regards,
Jim
Or politics as crime?
I hope. But there’s a non-zero chance that it will get worse, not better, regardless of the election results.
(sigh)
ke,
I think it is going to be a complete blowout for the Dems. That will force the reevaluation or they’ll be committing suicide.
Not our problem. It’s all their problem.
Regards,
Jim
Well these days a 55/45 win in November would be considered a “blowout.” But it really should be at least 80/20.
FWIW, I think most relationships could benefit from more Stolen Moments per unit politics.
I think (and of course hope) that Trump will win in a landslide and that the surprisingly wide lunatic fringe will be forced to step back from the cliff. But some people are going to lose it.
FYI, you can check the performance in The Music PIT.
Also, some refer to the margin of lawyer, which the Dems tried in 2000, but this landslide has to be outside the margin of cheating, which could be rather large considering the cheating machine the Dems have in place. They didn’t think they needed it in 2016, but this time I around I expect it to be lubed up and ready to scream into action. I expect people who haven’t been alive in at least 50 years – or were never born at all – will be voting in Chicago and elsewhere. Probably more than once. Plus every retirement home you can think of, as well as all the others they can invent that never existed.
Lunatic fringes do not step back. Their slogan is “Forward!”
Kind of like Thelma and Louise?
I wondered why I insisted on adding a cliff to my fringe metaphor and now I know.
They’d be surprised you had to ask. Boxcars? KIDS IN CAGES. Illegal military invasions? Killing an Iranian military official, which threatened to destabilize the previously-peaceable Middle East. Secret police? ICE and the goon squads sent to Portland. And that’s just the start. Don’t forget how he let Putin write our foreign policy and suggested everyone drink bleach.
This is brilliant on so many levels
Didn’t Obama do those things too? Plus the planeloads of cash to the Mullahs, etc.
And remember, DICTATORS always ask for permission before quelling riots with brutal force.
And as commie dictatorships go, life under Tito wasn’t the worst. He was probably just glad he didn’t live in Albania.
Speaking as a former NeverTrumper, I think can answer that. For a lot of people it’s that the President should be better than that. You often hear variations of, “He’s not Donnie from Queens on line one, anymore.”
The way I look at it is that I like Trump’s bluntness and coarseness. I once went to buy a used motorcycle and I gave the guy my typical low-ball offer and he immediately responded, F*** Y**!!! and I found that refreshing and I knew that I could negotiate with him. When I deal with double-talk I find myself at a disadvantage.
Similarly, just look at the last twelve years of federal elections. Look at how focus-grouped and parsed all the candidates have been (except Sarah Palin). Their words bore no relationship to how they think or what they’re likely to do in office. Trump went against the pundits and the focus groups and the polls and the regulated, rehearsed and handled campaign advice, and said what he meant. Did I know that he meant it? No. But I knew that all the other professional politicians certainly didn’t.
And I don’t know about 4D chess or trolling the media, but compare Romney accepting Candy Crowley’s interference and legitimizing it with a respectful answer, with Trump’s brouhaha with Megan Kelly: he certainly doesn’t roll over for the Press, he rolls over the Press. You can call it shtick by now but he doesn’t let the Press set the narrative.
Who else has been ready and able to do this?
This is another reason why we need the Electoral College: It doesn’t matter how full California stuffs the ballot box, they still only get 57 votes.
The response to this, and I’m not necessarily endorsing it, just reporting it, is that you’re not a typical voter. A typical Republican maybe, but elections are won by courting the swingers.
Of course that matters less now than it did in 2016. After four years the swingers have all made their minds up about the tweets.
The level of violence has escalated recently with a lot of very direct threats to those in DC who were part of the very successful Republican National Convention. The Congress is now in a position comparable to that of a state governor who has a city out of control. “Home Rule” is now a joke for DC. statehood is out of the question.
More commentators every day are suggesting that the violence and intimidating threats honed so well over 3 months in Portland and now spreading to other cities is organized and funded from some yet unspecified sources. I suspect New York, California, and Illinois are possible locations for financial sources since we know these are places where people very sympathetic to these causes have more money than they know what to do with and they get very frustrated that no matter how many Democrat votes they generate within their home states the Electoral College constitutional requirements nullifies them. Just look at Bloomberg’s spending in the Democrat primary. There is plenty of big corporate money and it is pretty clear that NYT, Washington Post, and the Silicon Valley social media and search engines are afflicted with TDS and acting in accordance with that affliction.
The U.S. Constitution guarantees the citizens of every state a republican form of representative government as well as a wide range of individual civil rights. This evolving situation is serious and dangerous. At some point, lacking action by states, federal executive action must intervene.
Well, I consider myself a conservative.
Probably the same as what my cousin thinks – do they know each other? She calls Trump that orange thing, saying she can’t even say his name. I must of said something to let her know my conservative slant, so now she is careful what she says. She’s 10 years old than me, and was a teacher back in the 60’s and 70’s, marched on Washington for teachers unions and with MLK. We haven’t seen each other since I was a teen, but she has a voice that takes me back there – she’s very sweet. She graduated high school at 16 and had a teaching degree at 20 and a job which she had for 25 years before retiring with a full pension…. She told me she was way too young to be on a college campus at 16.
I wonder how many cranial explosions there will be if Trump gets re-elected? I think the country ran out of Advil the first time he won. :-)
ke,
From your nimble fingers on the keyboard direct to Gd’s display.
Regards,
Jim
This is what I think. If Trump wins, the moderate lunatic fringe is just going to be extremely disappointed in us. Again.
But, the radical lunatic fringe? The AOCs, Rashida Tlaibs, Rachel Maddows and their acolytes? They’re going to be knocking over Gucci stores and ATMs and burning down villages in Wisconsin and around the country.
Oh, wait. . .
Actually it will not. They will be happy when a Democrat is in and lord it over you and will be back at ?DS if another Republican ever wins.