Posted on 01/01/2017 1:38:30 PM PST by DFG
Yes.
They believed their lying media, the lying media that covered for Obama and Hillary at every single turn, for every single lie, on every single day.
And they believed their “polls” which were also lies.
Reality: It’s still alive liberals even when you pretend it isn’t.
>>In the future, Americans — assuming there are any left — will look back at 2016 and remark: “What the HELL?”
I’ll look back at 2016 and note that ultra-lefty Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, recognized something in Trump that Dave Barry, a guy who pretends to be Middle America, still fails to see. It’s the year that the R vs D paradigm finally died a well-deserved death so America could begin to revitalize itself.
LOL
Dave did a decent job with this year. His trashing of Hillary is brutal and consistent. Don’t get upset over a few lines out of a massive column.
I have lived most of my life in Lefty Land. Almost all around me revere Dave Barry.
I sampled him a couple of times during the Clinton years. I was not especially amused or impressed. I quickly discarded him (along with Garry Trudeau) and did not look back.
I realize that we conservatives are limited in what we are offered, since most entertainers are narcissistic leftists (N.B. I know some say D.B. is a libertarian, but he is the modern LEFTIST variety of pseudo-libertarian).
If you all enjoy him, that is your prerogative. I think people like him are intellectually lazy ones who live by taking cheap shots.
If I want commentary on humanity, I prefer Chesterton or Lewis.
The ‘short version’ for those who enjoy Dave Barry but don’t have an hour to spend reading - - a month by month break down of the past year:
“North Korea successfully tests a hydrogen bomb, although this achievement is tarnished somewhat by the fact that the explosion causes the death, by startling, of the isolated nation’s lone remaining chicken.”
“Clinton faces an unexpectedly strong challenge from Bernie Sanders, a feisty 217-year-old senator from Vermont with a message of socialism, but the good kind of socialism where everybody gets a lot of free stuff, not the kind where starving people fight over who gets the lone remaining beet at the co-op.”
“Speaking of coincidences: Bill Clinton happens to find himself in the same airport as U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and — as any two people would do if one of them was the nation’s chief law enforcement officer and the other was married to the subject of a federal investigation — they meet privately aboard Lynch’s Justice Department jet. When word of the meeting leaks out, Lynch assures the press that she and Bill did not discuss the FBI investigation into Hillary’s email, adding, “nor did we inhale.”
“Trump receives enthusiastic prime-time endorsements from former celebrity Scott Baio, several dozen Trump children and current Trump wife Melania, who enthralls delegates with a well-received speech in which she tells her heartwarming story of growing up as an African American woman in Chicago.”
“...the month gets off to a rocky start when FBI Director James Comey, announcing the results of the bureau’s investigation, reveals that when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, her official emails, some including classified material, were basically as secure from prying eyes as a neon beer sign. Nevertheless Comey says he is recommending that no criminal charges be brought against Clinton, because, quote, “I don’t want to die.”
“Affordable Care Act (Motto: “If You Like Your Doctor, Maybe You’ll Like Your New Doctor”
“Trump’s victory stuns the nation. Not since the darkest days of the Civil War have so many Americans unfriended each other on Facebook. Some even take the extreme step of writing “open letters.” Angry, traumatized protesters cry, march, shout, smash windows, set fires — and that’s just the New York Times editorial board. Leading celebrities who vowed to leave the country if Trump won immediately start making plans to ... okay, to not actually leave the country per se, but next time they definitely will and YOU’LL BE SORRY.”
“Meanwhile the Democrats, now on a multi-year losing streak that has cost them the presidency, both houses of Congress and a majority of the state legislatures, desperately seek an explanation for their party’s failures. After a hard, critical look in the mirror, they are forced, reluctantly, to stop seeking scapegoats and place the blame where it belongs: the electoral college, the Russians, Facebook and of course James Comey.”
“The New York Times and Washington Post, seeking to improve their understanding of pro-Trump America, partner with TV network news divisions to create “Operation Outreach,” in which teams of reporters will travel to non-coastal regions carrying rucksacks full of chewing tobacco and moon pies, which they will trade with the natives in return for colorful quotes about their political views, religious beliefs, sex practices involving livestock, etc.”
LOL!
“The New York Times and Washington Post, seek to improve their understanding of pro-Trump America....teams of reporters will travel to non-coastal regions carrying rucksacks full of chewing tobacco and moon pies, which they will trade with the "natives" in return for colorful quotes about their political views, religious beliefs, sex practices involving livestock, etc.”
He was even-handed in lampooning both Hillary and Trump.
Damn, what happened to Barry?
agreed - the left-right paradigm is no longer valid
And right there Dave Barry nails the reality of the cornerstone legislation of the Obamanation. That one will take longer than executive orders because it is an actual law passed by both houses of Congress and signed into law by the President.
>>agreed - the left-right paradigm is no longer valid
I wouldn’t say that. It just went European. The old American L-R paradigm was Liberal-Conservative, but both sides were basically pro-America. 30 years ago or so, it began to change so that it became the European L-R paradigm, or Transnational vs Nationalist. The Transnational Left brought in the Marxists from the Democrats and the Globalists from the Republicans, and didn’t really have much use for the Nationalists. This election demonstrated that the R vs D paradigm was really just the two sides of the Transnational Left and the “Nationalist Right” was just something to marginalize.
Well, we stood up and spoke and now it’s in the open and the fight is on between the Transnational Left and the Nationalist Right.
LOL - yeah that was one of my favorites too...
Agreed. And I also thought his crack about Romney’s “wingtip kneepads” was pretty good.
"IF YOU LIKE YOUR PLAN........ TOO FRICKIN' BAD. ITS THIS OR NOTHING."
Barry is as funny as ever, maybe even better.
After a hard, critical look in the mirror, they are forced, reluctantly, to stop seeking scapegoats and place the blame where it belongs:
<><>the electoral college,
<><>the Russians, Facebook, and, of course,
<><> James Comey.
Brutal and - illustrating the quality of the Hillary campaign itself - repetitive.
Ben Garrison is the BEST political cartoonist EVER!
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