Posted on 07/22/2016 9:28:02 AM PDT by pabianice
This was a moment that millions of Americans, some of them very weird indeed, have been praying for. This was the moment that tens of millions of others viewed with fear, revulsion, disbelief.
The most divisive political figure in modern U.S. history became his partys standard-bearer for the presidential election.
After I wrote in the Mail in February that a Donald Trump presidency was a real possibility, I was teased as if I had suggested that it might snow in July.
Today, a distant spectre has grown into something much bigger and scarier. The prospect will give sleepless nights to many world leaders, both Americas friends and foes.
Vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence said the country has only one choice at the ballot box: Its change versus the status quo, and when Donald Trump is president, the change will be huge. This is, indeed, the reason that a mendacious and xenophobic braggart could win the greatest elective office on earth.
His opponent is Hillary Clinton. Shes widely hated ruthless and bossy.
Even my clever East Coast friends, who are petrified of Trump, say they will need to take painkillers before going out to vote for her.
Across middle America, in the vast territories where this election will be decided, away from the countrys narrow sophistication belts, many people are happy to believe the worst conspiracy stories about any member of the Clinton family.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
That's right - Trump is stupid.No need for Hillary to be concerned.
The Presidency is in the bag.
Coming from a citizen of a fifth rate country I question the validity.
And a JOURNALIST is capable of judging intelligence?
The biggest guffaw line, in the final paragraph, gives a concise MRI look into the putrid, pus-filled liberal mind.
It speaks about the poor stupid clods living out in flyover country, far away from the narrow little strips of sophistication on the coasts.
Those are the backward, ignorant souls who pay any attention to Trump.
Bwaaaaa-haaaa-haaa-haa-ha!
The comments from British readers are far more interesting and enlightening than the author’s screeds
Only the brain-dead would question Trump's IQ.
I don’t think the author knows from stupid.
Probably the best part about the screed is that he could hardly even offer the slightest endorsement of Bill Clinton’s 3rd term. In fact, he noted that his East Coast friends would have to take pain killers before they could manage casting votes for her.
At least he sticks to the media talking points.
Couldn’t pay me to visit the Britain of today, where one walks about disarmed, overtaxed, unprotected by police, and at the mercy of any Muslim that comes along.
Sorry, mate.
Yeah, what a stupid guy - he turned a $1 million loan into $10 billion in 45 years, raised a bunch of great kids, broke into politics by absolutely steamrolling 16 seasoned and capable politicians, and is in the process of becoming the POTUS.
I don’t think that this guy knows what “stupid” means.
Haha...these are the same smart aleck elites who predicted Brexit would never pass. They will be wrong again for the same reason: people are tired of the ungodly, who worship at the altar of Marxism, forcing nasty government down their throats while demanding they pay more and more for this abuse. The motto for this election should be: ENOUGH!
We are sick of being bullied by those who regurgitate the shabby intellect of their clueless university instructors, who mask their inferior abilities in fiery rhetoric, inflaming young skulls full of mush, who actually believe this Leftist tripe and find themselves unemployable.
“The only ones afraid of Trump are those on the establishment gravy train.”
In my experience, stupid people (or ignorant ones) are too stupid to recognize their own stupidity, or the brilliance of others.
The first part of this has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
My sense is they just reran commentary they printed in 1981 about the president elect.
He could be full retard...it still doesn’t make a good case to vote for a treasonous criminal.
Anybody that votes for Hillary is literally selling their soul to the devil....you can’t get it back.
WHY WOULD WE ELECT PRESIDENT A GUY WHO...?
Why would this country elect as president some guy who was known to regale friends with nigger* jokes, grew up with a boyhood hatred of slavery because his father regularly hired him out for heavy manual labor then confiscated his earnings, had a history of depression, was suicidal from time to time (in his defense, probably due to the death of his young son, but suicidal nonetheless) and eventually started an internecine war ostensibly to halt a slavery that was, due to its inherent inefficienty, fading out and during which he thouroughly trampled the Constitution he claimed he was attempting to preserve that took the lives of over 700,000 troops and civilians and...
What? Oh, yeah. That was LINCOLN! never mind!
*A corruption of another word now freely used by blacks around the world when referring to one another. To NOT have written the word here would be to accord the dark forces of political correctness an inappropriate and destructive victory of which Orwell’s Thought Police would be proud.
Why would we elect to the presidency and fellow who was well known for his hyperbolic and profane bluster during his campaigns and while in the office and..? That would have been Teddy Roosevelt who, when faced with a recurrance of the trouble with the muslims in the Med that plagued Mr. Jefferson, successfully backed them down.
Why would we elect president some guy who was not healthy and smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day, married his fifth cousin then had a notorious affair with his secretary and...?
What? Oh, sorry, that was FDR!
And why would the American people put in the Oval Office a man who, while overseas running the war in Europe and another 3 pack-a-day smoker, was schtupping his secretary while his wife was back here tending to the family and just prior to D-Day, scheduled a poorly planned, ill-fated live-fire practice for the Normandy invasion (Exercise Tiger) that got over 700 American troops KILLED HAD THEM BURIED IN A MASS GRAVE THEN COVERED IT UP!
Oh, sorry. That was Republican DWIGHT EISENHOWER. Moving on...
How about another Democrat whose father was a bootlegger who thought fighting the Nazis was a bad idea but who, to his credit served honorably in the Pacific and managed to get his PT boat sliced in half by a Japanese destroyer but redeemed himself by getting his crew rescued. Running against Nixon in the 1960 race, this same married chap, whose handlers thought he was a bit tense before the first televised debate, took him out and got him laid. (That certainly relaxed him as he won the debate.) Once in office, this fellow had numerous extramarital affairs with mob molls and several Hollywood stars, Marilyn Monroe among them and...
Oh yeah. That was JFK. never mind.
(For an interesting aside re. that event and the role a leftist media type played in that debate, please see the footnote below. If you’ve watched the current debates, you understand that THEY STILL DO.)
And then there was this character from Texas who, after his friends counted the ballots and reported him barely ahead in a close race for the Senate, was shocked just shocked that the very night before the recount, would you believe it? — the courthouse burned down, destroying the ballots! Like Lincoln, nigger was a regular part of his crude vocabulary. This fellow was a notorious womanizer and drunk whose favorite technique for reprimanding errant subordinates was to call them into the lavatory while he moved his bowels. Classy, huh?
Then he...What? You say that was LBJ? never mind.
How in the WORLD could we elect to the presidency some guy who was a 60s socialist radical, later married one even more radical than himself, wangled multiple deferments from MILITARY SERVICE while other kids his age were humping through the bush in Vietnam dodging bullets and who was a woman abuser and engaged in sexual misconduct in the Oval Office with a young intern then, under oath, perjured himself about it and...
What? Oh, right, that was BILL CLINTON! never mind!
But why the heck would we elect some guy raised by grandparents and some pornographer — all three of whom were on FBI “Communist Watch” lists in the 50s and 60s (back when the FBI actually did its job of trying to protect US) and whose mother posed nude for the pornographer before abandoning her kid and who has openly admitted to have been and probably still is a pot head and user of harder illegal substances and whose every action bespeaks a hatred for the nation he allegedly heads...
What? Oh, right. That’s BARACK OBAMA! never mind!
I haven’t researched all the other folks we elevated to the highest elected office in this country. If I did, I’m sure I’d find warts and blemishes on ALL OF THEM. And why would that be? BECAUSE, LIKE YOU AND ME, THEY’RE ALL IMPERFECT HUMAN BEINGS AND ALL FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY.
Until some leftist journalist comes up with a fully documented list of reprehensible things MY candidate who doesn’t drink or smoke and has raised his kids to be responsible, successful adults has done to other folks, I’ll stick with TRUMP. And until these same media mavens provide me with a list of associates, friends, employees, clients and others he has screwed over and, further, convince me that he is attempting to prevaricate his way into the presidency (as the last guy did!) or that his profession of LOVE for America is as egregious a lie as the last guy told us, I’LL HANG IN THERE WITH TRUMP.
But my support for The Donald is based more on how the current crop (or is that crAp) of political elites and their media lapdogs and handmaidens are GOING NUTS because he is articulating problems in terms WE USE IN OUR CONVERSATIONS OUT HERE IN FLYOVER COUNTRY, AND NOT TALKING ABOUT HOW BEST TO ARRANGE THE DECK CHAIRS ON THE FOUNDERING SHIP CALLED AMERICA. Add in that he’s the only candidate who doesn’t need the job but, more importantly, DOESN’T NEED DOUGH FROM THE K STREET RENT SEEKERS WHO ROUTINELY BUY YOUR ALLEGED REPRESENTATIVES ON CAPITOL HILL and the rough talking, very UNPC, sometimes crude and impolite (read that imperfect) and that he has the establishment incompetents who created this mess WETTING THEMSELVES, Trump will remain my guy.
A fellow Freeper recently pointed out ANOTHER, rather strong reason for Trump to NOT GO ROGUE once in office:
I posted this:
That said, should Trump win and go on prove to be but another undercover Judas Goat sent forth to lead us to the final holding pen of the One World totalitarian abattoir, that “explosive reaction” will make the extreme unpleasantness between 1861 and 1865 look like a peace rally!
To which he replied:
That’s why, despite what people say what trump will do, I think Trump loves his children and grand-children too much for that to be his legacy to them.
Might want to toss that into your current equation!
Because the entrenched forces he faces have a 3 way program for dealing with outsiders (1. IGNORE; 2. DISCREDIT; 3. ELIMINATE), all we have to do is pray he REMAINS ABOVE AMBIENT TEMPERATURE through the debates, the election and, hopefully, on to January 20th, 2017 and an inauguration.
Dick Bachert 9/26/2015 (Edited 2/29/2016)
FOOTNOTE:
The 1960 Nixon-Kennedy Debates were directed by one Don Hewitt, creator of CBS’ 60 Minutes. Hewitt told Nixon, who had a serious 5 O’clock Shadow (beard, for you youngsters not familiar with that phrase) that he didn’t need to shave just prior to the program. Hewitt then directed the studio lighting to flatter Kennedy while arranging Nixon’s to make him look like an extra from The Walking Dead. Not satisfied, Hewitt slowly tightened the shot each time Nixon spoke so that his head loomed and filled the entire screen on TV sets all over the country. And as we all know, things that loom are clearly dangerous and should be avoided. The voters did so and, as we all know, Kennedy won.
I need to add that, warts and all, Kennedy did a pretty good job. While he got it completely wrong at the Bay of Pigs, he defused the Cuban Missile show down with the Soviets. And he was moving in the direction of unhooking our monetary system from the Fed (to which we PAY INTEREST on the currency they create from THIN AIR!), had begun speaking out about lowering taxes and getting us out of Vietnam. Some of us believe that’s why some folks blew off the top of his head on November 22, 1963. As with so many events like these, we may never know the truth.
This was the moment that tens of millions of others viewed with fear, revulsion, and disbelief because they believe what they are told to believe by the MSM.
If at all possible, these tens of millions should take a time out and examine exactly what they fear about the Donald.
If they are capable of rational thought, they might conclude that Trump offers real hope and change for the better. Maybe some of them will take the time to get to know Trump themselves, rather than from the discredited and clearly warped MSM.
“Across middle America, in the vast territories where this election will be decided, away from the countrys narrow sophistication belts,”
You have got to love the contempt the self-proclaimed “sophisticated” have for anyone they deem “lower class”. I’d give anything to shove a fistful of sophistication down this pile of trash’s throat ... I came from an “unsophisticated” family (i.e. lower middle class), worked hard for anything and everything I have, and plan on working even harder to see to it that garbage like this ivory tower occupant gets slammed with a dose of reality in the very near future.
I hope they use this “sophisticated” pile of human debris as a case study 100 years from now when they look at feeble minded leftists from the early 21st century and how these beta/gamma/delta/epsilon/zeta males failed to impose their sickening ideology on the world.
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