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I think I pointed out a couple of weeks ago that huge crowds were actually chanting to Trump: We Love You! And I mentioned that I’ve never heard of any notable politician ever being told by his audience that they love him. And I know that critics say Trump leads a cult and this is cultish behavior. But it’s not. It’s a well-spring of thanks for a guy who took the blows he did for four years, and never gave up, and succeeded.
And I haven’t been listening to his rallies for the past several days, and only listened to his last Lansing rally and the crowd did it again. And Trump answered back twice “I love you.” But he didn’t say it like a Romney or a Clinton might have, puffing out his chest and waving his arms and shouting back: “I! Love! You!” No, he said it quietly and almost intimately, as I suppose he might say it to his adult children or to an old friend. This is odd. This is strange. This is unprecedented.
This isn’t Jim Jones or Hugo Chavez. This wasn’t playing to the crowd. This wasn’t self-serving. And I can’t go back five Why?s and get an answer. But it is something very different. And good.
Pardon me if I get this wrong. Either Tucker or Laura (I’ve had the TV on all day. A first for me and it’s all a blur) addressed this in their open tonight. Whatever town DT was in was decimated first by off shoring. And no one cared. And then by opioid addiction. And no one cared.
DT cares. He’s proven it over and over these past four years. He’s not going to send their sons and daughters off to a needless war, and he’s going to fight to bring jobs back. And he cares enough to fight for every single vote. His schedule these past few days proves that.
People feel like he’s got their back. And he reacts like every other normal human being when he hears Y M C A. He dances
Edited to add: it was Tucker. And here it is
I got your back @lowtech. I just said them. And probably a few more.
I remember arguing in 2016 that as a mother with four children, with two of them in the Marine Corps, I didn’t have the sort of luxury that KW describes.
My reaction of fury has not dimmed at all.
Yes, Trump’s normal. And he’s, believe it or not, kind. And he’s smart and he busts his butt. And he enjoys it. And I don’t think the audience would have said that if they hadn’t seen what he’s gone through. Over the last four years a bond has formed between them, between him and the American people.
And then he said “I had a nice life; I had the greatest life. But you know what? This was the greatest decision I ever made…” and the crowd cheered him again. That’s why they come out. And that’s why they love him.
There’s still plenty to fear from the left: single-payer health care, court packing, the green new deal, and two new states.
Come on Gary. You can’t really think biden is a good man all politics aside. You really think he’s not a liar? That Corn Pop is real?
I do think that Biden is a good man. See the following ad, and the first 30 seconds of the CNN clip.
Never Trump is a bondage, self flagellation, S&M fantasy role playing game. Its idolatrous self worship in which people luxuriate in a fantasy of the way politics should be rather than the reality of the way politics is. Donald Trump is the colonoscopy they’ve all been dreading which proves to the intestinal camera and the studio audience that Never Trumpers are simply full of it.
Perfectly timed for best effect. Nice job.
Obama/Biden and their corrupt FBI/DOJ/IC gave you 8 years of exactly what you claim Trump is doing:
Autocracy is the greatest evil our country faces. Trump is a bad man who would destroy the constitutional framework of this country if he can get away with it.
The Biden/(D)/MSM/BigTech are blatantly colluding to suppress newsworthy information in order to help the obviously mentally addled Joe Biden across the finish line and you persist that voting for Biden will make things better?
If you would just go with you hate Trump because his personality grates on you, that would be much more logical than the nonsense you cobbled together above.
The evidence of fifty years in public life shows Biden is not a good man.
And here I thought I had you, Gary. I have to admire you for your willingness to go ahead and bite the bullet and keep saying with a straight face that Biden is your idea of a good man. I’ll assume by your lack of response that you also stand by Biden’s insistence that Corn Pop was a real person. That’s got to be difficult. But if you are a Never Trumper, there isn’t much choice is there, because what else have you got? The original Never Trump position was that Trump would be a disaster as President, but that’s too obviously false to maintain. So the final fallback position is Joe Biden is a good man.
Wow.
While I despise Trump’s personality, what is most concerning is his total lack of character and integrity.
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Better yet nail it to Rob, Jonah, JPod’s, etc. front door.
Just like Biden.
You just choose to ignore all the Biden evidence. The proven plagiarism, the credibile sexual harassment, the bragging about getting a prosecutor fired, the smelling of hair, the made up corn pop, thr nasty statements about physical fighting Trump. Biden has a long history of nasty character on display that you just dismiss. It shows you are not at all objective but consumed.
Sad.
You have obviously never heard of The First Law of Holes:
The first law of holes, or the law of holes, is an adage which states: “if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging“. Digging a hole makes it deeper and therefore harder to get out of, which is used as a metaphor that when in an untenable position, it is best to stop carrying on and exacerbating the situation.
Don’t forget repeatedly claiming the man involved in the accident that killed his wife and daughter was drunk. Even after being asked to stop
My point is Joe Biden is much much worse when measuring lack of character and integrity.
Your most logical solution would be to write in Evan McMullin again.
I forgot that!
But, Gary says Biden is a man of good Character.
This actually is a great point. One of the things Gary had droned on about, it Trump’s accusation about Cruz’s dad, something Ted Cruz has clearly forgiven Trump for, but Gary remains offended about. Here we have what I would consider normal mudslinging in a campaign. I did not like it at the time, but I am not voting for a saint. But, Biden was attacking a man who happened to be in an accident with his wife where she and her daughter died. He had to live with those deaths. Horrible. But, to @garyrobbins, Biden is a man of good character, even though he was despicable in his treatment of this man.
Objectively, (and I fully expect Gary to ignore all of this, just as he ignores all evidence he does not like – just like a typical leftist) Biden is not better character a man than Trump.
Rush Limbaugh was on Fox and friends this morning, talking about how Trump has done everything Never Trumpers have been asking for for years, but they don’t appear to care or even want it.
I don’t believe you. No disrespect intended, but I think this is something you’re telling yourself so that you can justify doing what you want to do.
There is every reason to believe that the Constitution is in greater danger with Democrats in office. Both recent experience and the promise of what’s to come tells us that.
In the meantime, the current President has been appointing a large number of Constitutional originalists — probably the single greatest effort any President can make to defend the Constitution and the rule of law.
The myth that this is a lawless President who threatens the Constitution is one of the say-it-enough-and-everyone-believes-it stories that litter our media and popular culture. For whatever peculiar reason — and I won’t credit it to his robust ideological embrace of Constitutional government, since I don’t think he has any — this President has nonetheless been a defender of the Constitution and of law and order, at a time when his opposition seems bent on transforming the former and ignoring the latter.
So come up with another justification for doing what you want to do, because that dog won’t hunt.
Evan McMullin endorsed Biden.
Gary doesn’t have any evidence or reason to believe that Biden’s a good man. All he has are the warm fuzzies that he feels when he sees Biden talk compared to how he feels when he hears Trump.
Hi Henry,
I think that we will need to agree to disagree.
Gary
Be smarter and more logical than Evan and write in Evan, that way you did not vote for Biden who has far less character and integrity than Trump.
You’re welcome.
Did you mean to say “You’re welcome”?
I always have to edit posts – need to undo Apple autocorrect.
Yes.
I make many spelling/misused word errors undetectable to spell check as I try to multi task at work and waste my time and energy commenting on Ricochet.
Form instead of From, double The The, are my favorites.
I usually catch them when I go back and read the comment later.
Tank yoo
My only take-away from your posts is that you only care about good manners. I can’t fault a desire for good manners. I don’t take you seriously on anything else. I don’t even dislike you, like some do. I just find you tediously boring. There is room for all of us in ricochet. I just prefer to follow others, though. Your posts have no purpose.