Posted on 04/19/2016 9:08:25 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
A few weeks back, with thinly disguised excitement, Rush Limbaugh told us the Republican Establishment was going to start an “All out 100 days of steady attacks” against Donald Trump. Oh they are going to “throw everything plus the kitchen sink at Trump” and finally destroy him, we were told in ominous tones.
Listening to this “friendly warning” directed at those of us who are Trump supporters was difficult; not because we believed Trump’s “conservative” enemies could actually hurt him, but because it was clear that Limbaugh really believed they could. He was pouring his credibility into the gutter to support a candidate who can’t get Republicans to vote for him and has therefore fallen back on lawyerly tricks to steal delegates.
Worse still, during the first week of the dreaded 100 days of attacks Limbaugh repeatedly told us that Ted Cruz’s “big Wisconsin victory” had given him momentum. Limbaugh then began making up numbers, telling us that Cruz had now “won” a series of primaries. It was sad to listen.
During week two of the dreaded 100 days of attacks on Trump, after the Colorado Disaster, Limbaugh sank deeper and deeper as he spent hours lecturing us on how honest the Colorado primary was even without voters.
Then came Wyoming, a state owned by Dick Cheney, Mister Establishment himself. Again Cruz won a BIG voterless victory. We can expect more of the same from Limbaugh this week.
So what has the GOPe accomplished so far in its epic 100 days of attacks on Trump?
After stealing a few dozen delegates, Cruz has lost support across...
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God’s plan isn’t Marxist, but it does call for sharing:
Luke 3:10-11
New American Standard Bible
10 And the crowds were questioning him, saying, “Then what shall we do?”
11 And he would answer and say to them, “The man who has two tunics is to share with him who has none; and he who has food is to do likewise.”
I love Rush but I have turned him off til the last primary is over. He like many others has been seduced into the frenzy. He’s not thinking any more clearly than Mark Levin. At this point Sean Hannity is looking like the voice of reason.
As soon as Trump wraps up the nomination I am sure Rush will snap out of it and get excited about beating Hillary.
All attacks from the left get my attention. It’s sad when I see FReepers launching them at whatever target.
I’m not a leftist, but I am getting sorely tired of this veneration of Rush as some sort of a Conservative Idol. I’ve been around here, like you, long enough to demonstrate I am not a leftist, far from it.
I’ve also been an American long enough to know when ‘fair’ and honest happens. I can’t ever recall in all my posts when I’ve ever implied a Freeper was a Marxist, BTW.
It’s been about twenty years since Rush joined the establishment. This coincides with his total dominance and was around the ‘96 primary when Alan Keyes was handcuffed and dragged out of one of the debates. I remember listening in college while Limbaugh screamed completely unhinged deriding Keyes and Buchanan. This was also when Rush would go over his 10 point kook test almost nightly when any verboten subjects or views were brought up. He has been the establishments unofficial gatekeeper since this period and it coincides with his accumulation of power and wealth.
He is no longer anyone I’d give credence to any more than a drug addict or alcoholic. I really have nothing in common with him.
The elites ALWAYS have one more trick in their bag & will use it if necessary. I'm a Trump man but I would not put money on him seeing the WH.
Savage hinted last week that he knows of dealings going on concerning radio that will change beginning in 2017. He hinted that all radio will be cleansed and only NPR style agitprop will be allowed and h’ll be off the air. Doesn’t take a genius to see this coming for years it’s just no one really thinks this could happen. Certainly almost the case now it just may not appear that way.
Sure. My point is to avoid leftist style attacks. If we use them, we are legitimizes them.
When Trump was talking about “people dying in the streets” same alarm bell went off for me.
People are not dying in the streets? Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit and a dozen other places? Black lives don’t matter?
My attack, if you want to call it that, wasn’t leftist nor marxist. It was borne out a genuine disgust at this incessant reliance on “the rules” and trying to translate that over to how a general election with electors ending up making the decision could be Ted’s big play. Ted in no way will be able to manipulate that, and the way he is discounting ‘votes’ in preference to ‘delegates’ just shows that he’s not the far-thinker everyone thinks he is.
It was also based in a long transitioning realization that we as drive by Americans don’t have anything in common with Limbaugh. Not for over 20 years.
I felt Rush was letting you know what was going on. Did you expect him to stay silent and not say they were going to attack T****? Did you expect Rush to not report the attacks and instead vow silence until the 100 days were over? Or did you expect Rush to become a mouthpiece for T****?
I have concluded that the intolerance of T****'s supporters demand everyone say exactly what that supporter thinks and believe, right or wrong. If not, hate will be returned. Most all of T****'s support is from an emotional response and you have latched unto someone who you think will miraculously change what is going on. T**** can't lead that change. Bullying and intimidating can work in NYC and in the construction trades, but not in places where he wants to go. It really won't matter how much concrete is needed to add one more floor to a building
Bibi and Abbas, Putin and others really won't care how what his latest poll numbers are when discussing Iran. I can see Putin asking T**** a question and T**** responding with his latest polls or how much the NY delegation loves him. I can see the others letting T**** sit at the end of the table and they will tell him how much they like him and say nice things about him and then turn to each other to discuss the real business. T**** will spend the rest of the meeting saying to no one in particular how much he is liked.
The point is...that if you actually eat a cigar, you lose your appetite for days.
Yes, it calls for sharing, but voluntary sharing, not sharing at sword-point (or gun-point).
It's a shame. He could be brilliant, but has zero discipline to stay on topic. No one I know can't stand to listen to him. I try and sometimes I can get 10 or 15 mins max from him before he starts to fall apart emotionally and weaves off topic and becomes a waste of time to listen.
The absolute fecklessness of the GOP has certainly reached a critical mass. I do fear its destruction may give us Hillary.
Trump has had enough time to get off attack mode and articulate a principled vision that Conservatives can embrace.
Promising to fix problems and make America great, without putting that into a philosophical framework of how, is just too risky for me. It’s hope and change - deja vu - once again.
So many red flags with this guy - one time huge tax on super wealthy, facile criticism of Scalia on affirmative action, confusion on aborting women, protectionist trade policy, influence buying...
Too risky.
There’s a definite change coming, but it’s primarily because talk radio is bleeding money. The dollars just aren’t there any more with an aging audience dying off and no younger listeners to replace them.
Maybe you could listen to Howie Carr on your computer. He’s funny, not angry and hollering like some of the talk show hosts.
https://howiecarrshow.com/listen-live/
What an idiot you are. I find T****’s supporters significantly less sophisticated and knowledgeable, certainly a reflection on the candidate.
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If you say so, it must be true. ;-)
http://www.livescience.com/18678-incompetent-people-ignorant.html
A growing body of psychology research shows that incompetence deprives people of the ability to recognize their own incompetence. To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it. Similarly, unfunny people don’t have a good enough sense of humor to tell.
This disconnect may be responsible for many of society’s problems.
With more than a decade’s worth of research, David Dunning, a psychologist at Cornell University, has demonstrated that humans find it “intrinsically difficult to get a sense of what we don’t know.” Whether an individual lacks competence in logical reasoning, emotional intelligence, humor or even chess abilities, the person still tends to rate his or her skills in that area as being above average.
Dunning and his colleague, Justin Kruger, formerly of Cornell and now at New York University, “have done a number of studies where we will give people a test of some area of knowledge like logical reasoning, knowledge about STDs and how to avoid them, emotional intelligence, etcetera. Then we determine their scores, and basically just ask them how well they think they’ve done,” Dunning said. “We ask, ‘what percentile will your performance fall in?’”
The results are uniform across all the knowledge domains: People who actually did well on the test tend to feel more confident about their performance than people who didn’t do well, but only slightly. Almost everyone thinks they did better than average. “For people at the bottom who are really doing badly — those in the bottom 10th or 15th percentile — they think their work falls in the 60th or 55th percentile, so, above average,” Dunning told Life’s Little Mysteries. The same pattern emerges in tests of people’s ability to rate the funniness of jokes, the correctness of grammar, or even their own performance in a game of chess. “People at the bottom still think they’re outperforming other people.” [Graph]
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