PkrBum wrote:I think much of the appeal of trump to his voters was that he wasn't going to take shit off of leftists.
That's certainly not the norm for a republican politician. Obama was thin skinned on occasion too... but certainly not to the degree of trump. I think what people don't realize is that he's never pretended to be a polished politician... that's largely what got him elected. So while y'all run full speed in a tiny circle waving arms with hair on fire... his base is laughing it's ass off.
The problem is that that's
all that Republicans understand anymore. Life in a FOX News/talk radio bubble has left them so angry and stupid that all they care about is "pissing off the libtards." They don't seem to look beyond that. Sarah Palin was the first sign that Republican voters were getting shallow, but with Trump they reached an apex. And it was a surprise, because we all thought, surely Americans aren't
that shallow, reactionary, and short-sighted.
Well, surprise, surprise, surprise.
Republicans don't seem to care anymore if the people they elect are intelligent, or can govern, or even if they'll pass legislation that hurts them or their families, like this health care bill is going to do. Nope... all that matter is what's going to "trigger" the "libtards" who think they're stupid. Which, ironically, only confirms that they are.
I don't take Republicans seriously now, because I don't see much serious thought about any real policy to benefit American citizens coming from the right anymore. Nor do I see much intelligence... just a lot of bad grammar and weak insults and strawmen and simple-minded platitudes. I see a lot of yammer about Jesus while all his teachings are scorned, and I see a lot of flag and eagle pictures and proclamations of "patriotism" while they rail about how they'd like to kill off half the country. William F. Buckley is dead and George Will gets called a "cuck" and all that's left are grouchy old men paranoid from watching FOX, and 4chan giggleheads who just like trolling. They're not letting the fact that they have no understanding how how anything works stop them from having strong opinions about all of it.
My goals in voting are higher than just team-sports bullshit. When the guy
I elected got into office, we had recovery from a recession, 8 years of steady job growth, international respect, a stock market that more-than-doubled, Osama Bin Laden's head turned into a birdbath for buzzards and most of his second-in-commands right behind him, a vast increase of Americans getting healthcare, increased equality, and no major scandals except stuffed ginned up by hysterics who were desperate to find
something to smear him with. And he could take a punch. He faced a ton of hostility -- most of it based on bullshit like how often he played golf -- and didn't throw tantrums about it. He had flaws, as every president does, but he took the country forward and left the place far better than he found it.
Now, only six months into this debacle we have now, thanks
entirely to pissing-off-the-liberals, we're no longer leaders of the free world, we've abdicated leadership on climate change and trade to Europe, our "leaders" are completely apathetic about Russian meddling in democratic process, we look like a bunch of pathetically frightened bigots who don't deserve the Statue of Liberty, we look gullible as hell for electing an obvious mentally ill con-man (and you were
warned, motherfuckers, don't ever claim you weren't), Christianity looks like a fraud because they're backing up an immoral jackass, we no longer have credibility to deal with our threats, and we're embarrassed by a 71-year-old toddler who craves praise and throws temper-fits on social media like a high-school girl, and seems to think that government should run like the Gambino family.
And he plays more golf than anybody, which suddenly doesn't bother ya, because at-least-he-ain't-black.
You could have had a better candidate. There was a bad crop of Republicans this year, but even Jeb or Kasich would have been better. Or talk Romney back in. Any of them would have passed some bad policies, but at least they would have conducted themselves like adults. They wouldn't have been loved, but they would have been regarded as serious adults. But, nope, your voters didn't like them, because your voters aren't serious people anymore. The only factor they understand is, who's the most stupidly entertaining, who makes them feel better about being racist, and who "pisses off the libtards."
So, okay, if all ya'll wanted was to piss off your opposition, great. You got that. But the world is watching you now, and you're going to have to carry everything that comes with it. Hope you enjoy
that, buddy, because we're only six months in and it's all downhill and the slope's to the bottom's only getting greasier, and what's down there is some real ugly muck. And the world's going to take note of who opposed this, and who cheerleaded for it. If this country walks out of this with any credibility or dignity left -- and that is an if -- it'll be because President Loonietoons had a historically low rating with the American people.
But, maybe if your experiment in playing with matches burns the whole house down, you can still giggle because ha, ha, at least we'll have to be miserable in the ashes with you. You got into government and the best you managed to do was hop around shitting all over the place hollering like goons, but, hey, ya
did piss off the left, whoo-hoo.