Donald Trump is a Giant Vampire Squid

[Twangbanger]

...wrapped around the face of the GOP:

R.I.P., GOP: How Trump Is Killing the Republican Party | Rolling Stone

Matt Taibbi is a guilty pleasure to read. Even though he's not one of us, when he centers a deserving entity (like Goldman Sachs) in his crosshairs...pity those poor bastards. It's worth your time.

But listen up now (***"Trigger Warning"***): I'm going to warn you, you may have to venture outside your echo chamber to read this. It's from Rolling Stone, not Reason or National Review. If you think all America needs to save itself is to implement the Flat Tax and Repeal Abortion, this may not entirely please you, since the writer seems to take some pleasure in the GOP's current difficulties.

Still, worth a read. (When I read his reference to Trump's heavily-made-up, Robert Palmer-chicks collection of wives / daughters twisting faintly in the background," I about spit my Subway coke all over the chair in the airport).

 

[Kirk Freeman]

If you think all America needs to save itself is to implement the Flat Tax and Repeal Abortion, this may not entirely please you

I object.

There is no mention of abolishing the capital gains tax.

 

[Twangbanger]

I object.

There is no mention of abolishing the capital gains tax.

Sustained...

 

[Thor]

And shut down several branches of the executive...

 

[indiucky]

Thank Goodness the Democratic Party is not imploding and divided....That would be too much to bear.....

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Cool Vlad in a cape type vampire or wimpy in touch with feelings sparkle vampire?

 

[Hornett]

since the writer seems to take some pleasure in the GOP's current difficulties.

I take no pleasure in the GOP's difficulties, but where did they think this was going to go?
They have totally ignored and pushed out the Tea Party people and hard line conservatives (who would have been lifetime republicans) in favor of moderates which are just liberals in disguise.
Everything that is happening to the Republican party has been brought on by their own incompetence.
There hasn't been a decently conservative candidate as far back as I can remember.
They have tried to be the moderate party vs the liberal party.
The republican voter base never gets excited about a moderate and the democrats are so liberal that they can actually run a socialist and their voter base turns out.
You have to admit, the candidates that have been winning recently in the senate and house have been pretty conservative.
Why not the president?

 

[Twangbanger]

Cool Vlad in a cape type vampire or wimpy in touch with feelings sparkle vampire?

Yes.

 

[Leadeye]

Long and short of things today are that lots of folks are angry at leadership. Dem or Rep leadership, economic or judicial leadership, a lot of people are angry and a lot of angry people can upset things. When people get angry you can bet somebody comes along to focus that anger, and gain from it. "Every man a king."

 

[Cynical]

I take no pleasure in the GOP's difficulties, but where did they think this was going to go?
They have totally ignored and pushed out the Tea Party people and hard line conservatives (who would have been lifetime republicans) in favor of moderates which are just liberals in disguise.
Everything that is happening to the Republican party has been brought on by their own incompetence.
There hasn't been a decently conservative candidate as far back as I can remember.
They have tried to be the moderate party vs the liberal party.
The republican voter base never gets excited about a moderate and the democrats are so liberal that they can actually run a socialist and their voter base turns out.
You have to admit, the candidates that have been winning recently in the senate and house have been pretty conservative.
Why not the president?

Uh.. Yeah that pretty much sums up what my family and friends are feeling. Great post!!

 

[Twangbanger]

"...There was a time in this country – and many voters in places like Indiana and Michigan and Pennsylvania are old enough to remember it – when business leaders felt a patriotic responsibility to protect American jobs and communities. Mitt Romney's father, George, was such a leader, deeply concerned about the city of Detroit, where he built AMC cars.
But his son Mitt wasn't. That sense of noblesse oblige disappeared somewhere during the past generation, when the newly global employer class cut regular working stiffs loose, forcing them to compete with billions of foreigners without rights or political power who would eat toxic waste for five cents a day. Then they hired politicians and intellectuals to sell the peasants in places like America on why this was the natural order of things. Unfortunately, the only people fit for this kind of work were mean, traitorous scum, the kind of people who in the military are always eventually bayoneted by their own troops. This is what happened to the Republicans..."

 

[BehindBlueI's]

.And anyone who crosses the leader from now on will be fair game for the kind of brutal fragging Cruz and his circle experienced in Indiana.

Sounds familiar...

 

[Jludo]

I take no pleasure in the GOP's difficulties, but where did they think this was going to go?
They have totally ignored and pushed out the Tea Party people and hard line conservatives (who would have been lifetime republicans) in favor of moderates which are just liberals in disguise.
Everything that is happening to the Republican party has been brought on by their own incompetence.
There hasn't been a decently conservative candidate as far back as I can remember.
They have tried to be the moderate party vs the liberal party.
The republican voter base never gets excited about a moderate and the democrats are so liberal that they can actually run a socialist and their voter base turns out.
You have to admit, the candidates that have been winning recently in the senate and house have been pretty conservative.
Why not the president?

I don't understand, the party has been too moderate so the people nominate a democrat to teach them a lesson?

 

[Jludo]

"Trump, meanwhile, spent the night basking in voluble self-admiration from Trump Tower in New York. This is becoming his victory ritual. The lectern from which he spoke said it all: TRUMP – VICTORY IN INDIANA – NEW YORK CITY.

Trump's naked disdain for the less-glamorous American flyover provinces he somehow keeps winning by massive margins continued to be one of the livelier comic subplots of the campaign."

 

[pudly]

"Trump, meanwhile, spent the night basking in voluble self-admiration from Trump Tower in New York. This is becoming his victory ritual. The lectern from which he spoke said it all: TRUMP – VICTORY IN INDIANA – NEW YORK CITY.

Trump's naked disdain for the less-glamorous American flyover provinces he somehow keeps winning by massive margins continued to be one of the livelier comic subplots of the campaign."

Major scandal. Trump sleeps in his own bed.

 

[Twangbanger]

Sounds familiar...

Although Trump's methods don't comport with what I've become used to in a President...I have to say, with Cruz' repulsive wave of TV ads, and "basketball ring" and "Carrier didn't leave because of Trade" gaffes in Indiana, I didn't feel sorry for him (and that's from a Cruz supporter). He probably had it coming.

Trump's problem will be that he's so indiscriminate about it. And unfortunately, the American public has become so accustomed to officials like Barack Obama making comments like "bitter clingers," I guess we've become comfortable with the idea that the President isn't the leader of all the people, just some of them (because we did re-elect him). It's now become acceptable for Presidents to ridicule specific sectors of the public.

The public is probably now ripe for this (or at least a sufficient number of them). Then along comes a candidate who can't help himself. If you believe PC is bad and needs to be combated...here comes a dose of chemo. We'll either get tired of it, or, the Trigglypuffs of the world will have to put on their (literally) Big Girl Panties and accept that the world has shifted under them.

But, as we've seen in the article, in a free country, it can flow in all directions. You just might not like it when it's your personal Ox that is getting gored, publicly (instead of secretly, in private, which is how Washington usually operates).

 

[BugI02]

"Trump, meanwhile, spent the night basking in voluble self-admiration from Trump Tower in New York. This is becoming his victory ritual. The lectern from which he spoke said it all: TRUMP – VICTORY IN INDIANA – NEW YORK CITY.

Trump's naked disdain for the less-glamorous American flyover provinces he somehow keeps winning by massive margins continued to be one of the livelier comic subplots of the campaign."

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[LPMan59]

FHRC

 

[Maximinus Thrax]

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Sad but true?

 

[Bennettjh]

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