- Squirrel-Hair's stream-of-consciousness bluster.
- Squirrel-Hair's pettiness and persecution complex. He had plenty of time to rant at length about "fake news" and the awful people who dispense it, but not one word about the presumably dead sailors from the USS John McCain or condolences for their families.
- The predictable response from the mainstream media complex that does indeed merit scorn and contempt for the way it has completely abandoned any sense of journalistic or editorial responsibility.
- The far-left crowd outside the venue making sure that no Squirrel-Hair appearance lacks an accompanying public disturbance.
- The rave reviews from his increasingly pathetic-sounding water-carriers.
Their denial of the reality in front of them is as bad as that of leftists, who insist that gender is fluid and that the global climate is in trouble in spite of plain evidence to the contrary. The Squirrel-Hair devotees deny the ample evidence of their idol's narcissism, bombast, incoherence, and lack of loyalty. His dismal poll numbers are, in their estimation, a result of those who ought to be getting on board not doing so, and thereby not bringing along those they influence.
Sorry, you guys, but the dismal poll numbers are a result of more citizens taking a look at the man and drawing their own negative conclusions than showing up at rallies in MAGA hats.
The hollowness of what sets your hearts astir is different in kind from the hollowness of the leftist "vision," but it is hollowness nonetheless.
There is nothing to get behind.
Don't forget the wall will go up or he will shut the government down. I resent him at these rallies for his base and I will fight his base.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that bloggie, being right, understandably distances himself from the great bulk of Never Trumpsters not of conservative bent, or as he calls it, conservatives who don't revert to populism which is understandable, given that he seems to agree with much more in the Trump agenda than disagree. Where we might find common ground is resistance to a bully. I and many others who do not identify with the left but are either moderates or liberals who bloggie trashes here as well will resist the proud conservative naysayers who are hawkish free marketers who can't see reality from their principles which they tend to want to call their own. You ain't seen nothing yet as Trump continues to bully his way towards his will thinking he has majority support in this country. Some of just might get off our dead asses and vote for once next chance. Don't know about bloggie's ilk, but we ain't gonna take it, never did and never will. I for one, prefer to deal with it all through established legal and political channels, which is what we had to learn to do the last bout of serious civil upheaval when we were young. And still make love, not war, that's our commonality if not that of bloggie's ilk, who we could never take in, nor could they us.
ReplyDeleteGreat opinion piece by David Brooks (who I presume you'll trash as you trash everyone not of your ilk) in yesterday's NYT. Opened my eyes to who I might be if I'm not a leftist. A snippet here:
ReplyDelete"Humility is the fundamental virtue. Humility is a radical self-awareness from a position outside yourself — a form of radical honesty. The more the moderate grapples with reality the more she understands how much is beyond our understanding.
Moderation requires courage. Moderates don’t operate from the safety of their ideologically pure galleons. They are unafraid to face the cross currents, detached from clan, acknowledging how little they know. If you have elected a man who is not awed by the complexity of the world, but who filters the world to suit his own narcissism, then woe to you, because such a man is the opposite of the moderate voyager type. He will reap a whirlwind."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/opinion/trump-moderates-bipartisanship-truth.html?src=me&_r=0
Brooks is an interesting case. He's not dumb, and he is occasionally quite insightful. He gets a little gooey here with thinking that the label "moderate" is somehow laudable. There are immutable truths and absolute right and wrong in spite of "how little [we] know." And I can't imagine him ever living down the crease-in-the-pants-shows-how-smart-Obama-is remark. But he has some things to say regarding S-H that I resonate with.
ReplyDeleteBut overall, yes, we have much common ground. I can't stand Donald Trump. The ways in which he is bad for this country have yet to be fully enumerated. I consider people who full-throatedly cheer him dangerous.
I am of the school, I want the record to show, that the very good people who are serving in a number of administration positions should stay put and try to get constructive things done.
ReplyDeleteI trust the invisible hand, the free market so to speak, of immutable truth aka something akin to karma or what is sometimes termed measure for measure in the Western canon. That is: live, learn & pass it on to anyone who might be inclined to listen, if not care.
ReplyDeleteYou're not gonna like the way a couple of those top generals think about certain hot spots in the world, but it's neither theirs' nor even Nettie's call this term.
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