Jim Geraghty at NRO looks at how eager the MSM was to find a new "discipline" and "maturity" in the way Squirrel-Hair comports himself after his New York victory speech, and how short-lived any evidence of a new tone was:
. . . not 24 hours after his New York victory speech, Trump was back to his old self. “In the case of Lyin’ Ted Cruz — Lyin’ Ted — he brings the Bible, holds it high, puts it down, lies,” he said at a rally in Indianapolis. Thursday he declared that putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill was “pure political correctness,” and tweeted another taunt at his strongest rival. “Cruz said Kasich should leave because he couldn’t get to 1237,” he wrote. “Now he can’t get to 1237. Drop out LYIN’ Ted.”
My, how different Trump seems!
Enough of this “new and improved Trump” nonsense. The media are so eager to announce the appearance of a matured Trump that all it takes for them to declare the metamorphosis complete is one speech avoiding the usual ad hominem guff. He’s set the bar so low that when he bothers to clear it for a minute there are plenty of pliant reporters ready to pipe up in amazement.
Perhaps the media’s credulity reflects the seemingly Svengali-like influence of Trump’s new campaign chief, Paul Manafort, who assured party insiders at this week’s RNC spring meeting in Florida that everything was about to change.
“That’s what’s important for you to understand: That he gets it, and that the part he’s been playing is evolving,” Manafort said. “The negatives are going to come down, the image is going to change, but Clinton is still going to be crooked Hillary.”But, as I say, the really astounding thing is how he readily admits that he employs particular personae as political weapons:
At a rally in Wisconsin on April 4, he mused that, “I can be presidential, but if I was presidential I would only have — about 20 percent of you would be here because it would be boring as hell, I will say.” During a Thursday appearance on NBC’s Today Show, he was more direct: “I will be so presidential, you will be so bored. You’ll say, ‘Can’t he have a little more energy?’”The only genuine impulse he has is a desire to deem himself a "winner" in every aspect of his life. The quotes around "winner" are deliberate; Squirrel-Hair's worldview is predicated on the notion that preferable sets of circumstances are a zero-sum game, that one attains them at the expense of some poor bastard who's just a "loser."
Dear God, stop his candidacy.
The democrat candidate should stop him. Perhaps God works through her as he does other people. Never realized how many ignorant cattle were in the Republican party.
ReplyDeleteAhh, but yes I started to get a glimpse of the Trumpies at the very 1st Tea Party rally here in our little town a little less than 3 months after Obama's inauguration. They may espouse what you think is anything at all like what you call ignorant cattle, but they're all about war, cutting social programs, and prejudice and, despite the rapid acceleration or automation and corporate offshoring and fraud and another fubarred war during the Bush administration, still blaming something and someone else for our shaky economy. Why not pick on the closest thing to a commie--the 1st black president, freely elected a bare 6 months ago.
ReplyDeleteCutting social programs is good. The Constitution did not design our government to be in the business of "providing services."
ReplyDeleteIf there's one constant in human history, it's war. A just and righteous nation should always be prepared to overwhelm enemies quickly.
Automation is just a product of human ingenuity.
Companies don't offshore capriciously. They have reasons for doing so - all rooted in the necessity to operate profitably.
Technological unemployment is accelerating at a hitherto unheard/undreamed-of rate and is more to blame for what currently ails us and other countries than any mere human, including our current chief executive. Regarding your final statement I just have to ask, where where the Trumps & Cruzes in the Republican party over the past 40 years who now claim they are going to bring these jobs back and make America great again? Of course they don't take the blame now. They are either lying or simply psychopathic.
ReplyDeleteAnd automation is indeed a product of human ingenuity, no doubt whatsoever, but just don't try to tell me that the human problems it causes are political and can be solved by any party's "principles."
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ReplyDelete"If there's one constant in human history, it's war. A just and righteous nation should always be prepared to overwhelm enemies quickly."--Barney Quick
"All of us have heard this term "preventive war" since the earliest days of Hitler. I recall that is about the first time I heard it. In this day and time, if we believe for one second that nuclear fission and fusion, that type of weapon, would be used in such a war — what is a preventive war? I would say a preventive war, if the words mean anything, is to wage some sort of quick police action in order that you might avoid a terrific cataclysm of destruction later. A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war. I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing… It seems to me that when, by definition, a term is just ridiculous in itself, there is no use in going any further. There are all sorts of reasons, moral and political and everything else, against this theory, but it is so completely unthinkable in today's conditions that I thought it is no use to go any further." --Dwight David Eisenhower,August 11, 1954
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing." Dwight David Eisenhower, 1954
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