Posted on 07/17/2018 5:46:50 PM PDT by RightGeek
Exhausted by media obsession over Donald Trumps divisive presidency, Russian collusion, threat to liberty and destruction of democracy, I recently went to the one place on earth where I could easily avoid hearing anything at all about Donald Trump.
I went to the United States.
Anyone who has not visited the US since Trumps hilarious 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton might be surprised by the utter absence there of Trump in daily life. Everyday Americans are mostly just getting on with things, as normal, non-obsessive people tend to do. The apparent civil war we keep hearing about just isnt happening.
Of course, certain precautions must be taken to avoid being drawn into a vortex of anti-Trump mania. During my visit I carefully avoided tiny outposts of Trump fixation, including Hollywood celebrity households, the offices of any former Clinton staffers and newsrooms at the New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post and MSNBC.
I also dodged most college campuses, although a day or two at the excellent University of Iowa proved happily Trump-free.
It helps, too, if your point of arrival in the US isnt California, where a ragtag pro-Hillary resistance movement remains active. Instead, I flew direct to Dallas before commencing a forensic multistate listening tour through Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
As it happens, all of those states voted for Trump. But their larger cities tended to side with Clinton, so a certain balance was available. ...
Except that nobody wanted to talk about Trump, Clinton or politics in general. This wasnt due to apathy or lack of engagement. It was because there are more interesting topics of conversation, such as, well, just about everything. Work. Family. Sport. Music. Weather. Cars. Food.
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I think all this “Drumpf SUPER DUPER screwed up this time” nonsense is starting to numb people. What was it last week, Trump was drowning kids in oil pipelines or something?
Not quite true though. Plenty on the left have jobs and money, via big tech, big finance, or big Hollywood. Most of them prefer to just outsource the protests to someone else and to just provide the bankroll. Let’s not underestimate our enemy.
I don’t mean that statement as admiration, any more than saying that we could learn about tank tactics by studying Rommel is admiration.
“An armed society is a polite society.”
“After a few minutes of watching it, you have to switch channels.
Constant negativity isnt good for ones health or ones sanity.
Just dont watch it and youll be a happier person.”
But the delicious irony here is that the “people,” and I use that term loosely, in the anti-Trump media, are destroying themselves with that “constant negativity!” I expect to see one of them actually explode in front of the cameras with an apoplectic fit of rage. Let’s see, how about Rachel Madcow for starters? Or maybe Donnie Deutsch?
Indeed. CW2’s Fort Sumter will be a Dem-run city, and you won’t have to come 3,000 miles and pound the pavement to find out that it’s started.
He went to the University of Iowa and found it largely Trump free? THAT cannot be good for the libs. That place is a liberals wet dream.
I know a crazy Limey. He hates Trump but can’t tell anyone why.
This nice Aussie man didnt spend time in Los Angeles. Good on him.
Its a little misleading.
I liken it to parents (no, Lefties, you're adults that haven't outgrown their teenage years) with kids. The parents don't always think the kids are paying attention, until the day the kids demonstrate they have been taking it all in and *surpise*, they know exactly what the score is.
Or, think of it as Santa and he's "making a list, and checking it twice, gonna find out who's naughty or nice". Except Santa's coal is like Hitler and the pineapple from that movie "Little Nicky".
It was weird from the beginning; now it's simply grotesque. I tune most of it out because it's really stupid to keep dipping your fingers in bile. The media never really did come to grips with the fact that Trump's election in '16 was a referendum on them, and so will likely not understand '18 and '20 is likely to result in a few strokes. Hatred will burn you out.
Forget Russian collusion. All Trump needs to secure re-election in 2020 is more baby balloons and British baby babble in Trafalgar Square. If investigators look into the $60,000 raised to fund that balloon, they might even find a few donations from Donald Trump himself.
Those scammers turned a tidy 60 large for a party favor. It's nice work if you can get it. It wouldn't be the sort of thing you'd expect to turn up at a Midwest Trump rally, though, at least not twice.
I had a customer the other day try to engage me in a Trump discussion (he was anti-Trump, he seemed the type who was anti-anybody actually) I just stared at him silently until he ended his rant. I never engage in political discussion in the workplace with customers. (some exceptions apply)
I did, however get a lot of friendly at-a-boys for my LOCK HER UP! sign in my yard during the last presidential election! :)
Everytime there is this crazy media hysteria over nothing, i just tune out and watch movies or old sitcoms when I have the TV on, until it blows over. It’s way beyond tiresome and the lefties in the media look like loons.
#1. How about a t-shirt that says “Make Drunks Drive Straight Again”?
One side has over 7 TRILLION rounds of ammo,
the other side doesn’t know which bathroom to use.
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