And they are so delusional they are doubling down on it! They don’t see their mistake and are running around calling voters stupid. How many anchors and pundits have you heard saying “uneducated” voters are the reason he won. I know they mean college grads, but for the party that claims to be open minded and compassionate that have no problem painting a large part of the nation dumb hillbillies.
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I posted that before I saw your reappearance. As far as I knew you had left for good.
This fucking makes me irate. I can’t even fathom the butthurt. They’re going to do it again to themselves if they don’t watch out and stop this (and part of me hopes they do)–watch that galvanize an entire swath of voters who just threw them out.
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What is amazing to me is that Hillary had the media in lock step, millions of dollars at her descresion, two presidents, including a current president stumping for her.
Trump didn’t even have support from his own party. He was alone in the fight and he won.
Trump beat the power of power and he won. This won my respect. As dirty and petty as it seemed sometimes, he alone won… now everybody wants to be his friend.
I cannot speak for the rest of days, but Wednesday 11/9/2016 was a good day to be Trump.
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After watching the protests and especially the pieces of shit sending three Oakland officers to the hospital, first fuck you, and this would seem appropriate:
x2 its an amazing achievement.
Its estimated about $1 Billion was spent on Hillary if include super pacs/back door contributions from her chums like George Soros
Hearts and Minds.
Enthusiasm.
Instilling in people the feeling that she could/would actually change the status quo.
Ultimately, Clinton lost on all three of those fronts…and these are the things that led to people voting for who they voted for.
It just reminded me of an old Beatles song:
“Money Can’t Buy you Love”
(My friend Push would have the video posted for me by now…!)
That is what the intolerant left does after all. If you do not believe what they believe you are stupid, ignorant and plenty of other undesirable things. One only need to recollect what Hillary Clinton said about half of Donald Trump’s supporters, “deplorable’s”. Most Americans are finding out, perhaps slowly, how the left thinks and they are not impressed.
No problem Aragorn I understand.
This bears repeating. It is so accurate.
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And you don’t suddenly become this tough fighter from no where. Trump has fought battles in the past and has succeeded in life in a big way, as I have been arguing for over a year or so. He might be crass and politically inexperienced. But he does know how to win and has done so for many years.
He showed what he was made of by fighting all of the elements that you point out and coming out on top. If one does not respect that they are simply blind, bitter or perhaps a bit of both.
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As I said over one year ago they tried to market her as this wonderfully flavorful ice cream cone but in reality she is only a shit sickle. And there was nothing that a sitting President, her handlers or the media could do to make her palatable to middle America.
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Prob Not answering those blocked phone calls from overseas today… 
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMmTId9ABks/?taken-by=joedonnellyfit
(Started writing this last night but fell asleep, so I hope this can count as a yesterday post. Wrote most of it on a train, so: rambling, incoherent, probably not fully thought through. Still, I was honored enough to know you’d like a parting thought that I felt I couldn’t fail to deliver.)
Kind thoughts from you, Aragorn, and from @thunderbolt23 @anon71262119 @SkyzykS @Drew1411 @MaximusB @Mufasa and others. You are good people with whom I spent a lot of time. I am a better thinker, and more successful in my employment, because of all of you. That isn’t exaggeration. You’re decent people and great company.
Why we saw what we saw, in my view? The worst of the Right has melded with the worst of the Left. The stupid identity politics of campus activists have been re-adopted by the group least entitled to them, us white people. It is lost on the “if they get to have their identity politics, we oughta get to have ours” crowd that we did have ours, for centuries and for real. Redlining was identity politics, and only because of it – which legally and deliberately deprived generations of black people of the 20th century’s single greatest generator of wealth (i.e., property in a middle-class neighborhood) – do the Ta-Nehisi Coateses kind of have a point to begin with. But this is lost on most of America, and too many otherwise normal citizens thrilled at Donald Trump’s racialized horseshit. Mexican immigrants more assuredly described as rapists than as good people, the latter phrase requiring the qualification of Trump’s assumption. Islamic faith as a discoverable trait that could be tested for in immigration policy, as if Muslimy-looking brown towelheads were a suitable proxy population for which to search – a stupid notion shared by the rabid Stormfronters who recognized their racist sickness in Trump’s words from literal day one of his campaign. Mexican nationality as a quasi-genetic inheritance, an immutable trait that might inhere in, say, a brown American from Indiana. (Note: I am not arguing that racism was a necessary element of Trump support; the only racist hereabouts is therajraj…but there were a lot of scumbags like him, and they formed the most fundamental of Trump’s base blocs, and elements of their shtick found too many receptive audiences among more mainstream conservative crowds. There has been a racial rot in the GOP ever since the Solid South flipped [I have always found it hilarious that Republicans like to remind people that Southern Democrats were the engine of American racism for more than a century: which party do these crack historians think the racists started voting for in the mid-sixties?]. This racialized rot needs to be scooped out and discarded.)
Equally as ominous as the identity politics meld: a curious thing has happened: the populist Right has joined the establishment Left in overstating what we owe our fellow man and woman. All this talk of how chunks of the country were “left behind” or “didn’t get a seat at the table.” No: they didn’t take a seat at the table. My dad was born in Tennessee to a single mother from an old-guard Southern Mississippi family that had by then fallen into positively Faulknerian decay. Instead of settling into the lazy, unremarkable, uncomfortable life he could have made for himself, he joined the army, was sent to the language school in Monterey to learn Russian, spied on the Soviets from the old IG Farben headquarters in Frankfurt (apologies to the President-elect for my family’s tradition of opposing the hostile, nuclear-armed, neo-imperial Russian authoritarianism before which he has seen fit to spend the last year genuflecting like a loyal, ass-licking dog), came home, went to college, got a PhD, and became a professor and author. He wasn’t given any goddamn seat. Will Durant wrote that the natural inequality of man has been the animating force in human history, and I think we’re approaching another miserable demonstration of Durant’s wide-angle wisdom. Don’t get me wrong: we ought not to abandon each other, and we should level the initial playing fields to the extent that we can, but more and more I hear in this new populism the shrill and simple ring of dimwitted bitterness. There are calls for clear-eyed and reasonable reform, and there is resentment. Trumpism is the latter – a refuge for the embittered weak in the artificial comfort of an authoritarian nationalist’s oily embrace.
And so on. The meld is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange, and other such Chomskyite loons/Kremlin stooges found themselves more often than not shoulder to shoulder with Trumpist nuts, joined in the common cause of opposing the full run of rational, good-faith liberal-center-conservative commentators who chose to address themselves to this crisis with intellectual rigor and moral acuity.
In any case, against this repuslive splice of Right/Left populist sludge, the forces of rationality produced a terrible candidate. Don’t get me wrong: she was infinitely better than Trump. She beat him easily in the debates. There is no compelling reason to believe that she is a sex criminal, as there very much is with Trump. She demonstrated, in a way that Trump literally never could, that she is knowledgeable about the world and the office she sought. She is able to convey information in standard, grammatical English – like an adult. Never once during the campaign did she propose that US servicemen become morally indistinguishable from ISIS footsoldiers by adopting war crime as an operating procedure (appalling but true side note: this wasn’t even the only war crime the cretin proposed during his candidacy). But she was also a Nixonian self-saboteur, vulnerable on all the wrong fronts in an insider/outsider year, taking daily oppo hits from the Kremlin (this was actually a fantastic reason to vote for her, but the American people proved unable to grasp even the simplest geopolitical truths this time around; they will have a number of crash courses in the coming year), and so on. Everyone on this board understands her weaknesses; I doubt I need to go into more detail.
The election itself was close. She won the purest measurement of the will of the American people. We should do away with the electoral college. Every single individual vote ought to be as likely as every single other to decide the election, regardless of the city or town in which it was cast. But even in electoral-college math, she was close. Within about a point in a handful of rustbelt states that would have netted her +270. It is being fantasized that this result was easily foreseen years ago, that it was inevitable: it wasn’t. It’s more likely than not that if Comey hadn’t sent that first letter, which singificantly exacerbated the natural end-of-season tightening (and wasn’t fully undone by the last-minute “hey guys nevermind”), she would be on her way to the White House.
But she isn’t. He is. I hope he changes, succeeds. I hope he becomes the opposite of what he was. If I were a Republican, I’d be terrified. Everything that is suspected of the party has been confirmed. The charge of anti-intellectualism – anti-intelligence, really – in particular has been confirmed in a more spectacular and obvious manner than I ever could have imagined. I have said it a few times, and it’s true, and it ought to be weighing more heavily on the Right at the moment: the stupidest president in American history is about to take office. The nuclear triad. Article XII of the Constitution. Japan and Saudi Arabia can have nukes. Barron and “the cyber.” The repeated and fucking ludicrous nonsense (mocked openly and rightly by the US military itself) about how our generals are idiots because they didn’t sneak-attack a city during a major, multinational assault comprised of tens of thousands of troops. The list goes on and on. He has never thought about any of these things. He doesn’t understand them. He knows less about government and world affairs than does the woman who cuts my hair. It’s utterly humiliating.
More important than Trump’s parodically deficient intellect is what I wrote about in my last post. Geopolitically, we are at the brink. I was thoroughly amused to see somebody question @loppar re: WikiLeaks by citing WikiLeaks’ assurances that their source was not a Russian agent. This gem is the purest possible microcosmic demonstration of the shocking, willful unreason that has brought Trump, in all his undignified clownishness, to power. I won’t reiterate the iron-fucking-clad case for extreme and urgent suspicion of Trump’s unambiguous Putinism, but I will reproduce here Benjamin Wittes’ frank and correct distillation of the facts:
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Donald Trump, whether he understands it or not, has won the presidency with a unique burden: Most serious national security experts regard him not merely as weak and unprepared for the roles of Commander in Chief and the country’s leader in foreign policy, but as an affirmative national security threat.[/quote]
And so. We are a good country, at bottom. Most Trump voters, like Clinton voters, are decent people. We have a crisis of intelligence, but we will not, I think, add to it a real crisis of public morality. Part of me doubts that Trump will last all four years. However long he plagues us, I hope he doesn’t fuck the world up as bad as he could. Power is supposed to transfer between presidents of various ideologies but equally adequate character, temperament, and intellectual competence. That is what’s happened for decades now. It isn’t what’s about to happen. Here’s hoping we are insulated from the worst possible consequences.
Incidentally, I predict that uniformed Russian forces will invade a Baltic NATO member state before the fall of 2018, probably after the outbreak of mysterious “riots” and “unrest.” At that point the decision before Western Europe – which is already scrambling to find a way to hold together the American-made world order in the wake of our voluntary debasement – will be unthinkable.
At best, this won’t happen, and Russia will simply peacefully rise to the status of geopolitical peer (Putin’s top aide said yesterday that America had chosen a multipolar world: this is a statement of intent; the American people signed off on it, and they deserve the catastrophe it will soon lay before them. The giddily flippant attitude that even NeverTrumpers have today, as if it’s really just viscerally thrilling that somebody who mumbles dumb boorish nonsense has finally stuck it to the establishment, is going to be a bitter go-to memory of mine when the geopolitical implications of this disaster begin to reveal themselves to the dull-eyed who don’t yet see them). Putin has finally done something impressive enough to momentarily earn the odd and pathetic praise conservatives have been slobbering into his toes for the past few years: like the KGB worm he is, he has nullified American military supremacy with cheap, dirty tradecraft. He has his man in the goddamn White House. Congratulations to the American electorate for a replay-worthy assist. Just don’t be surprised when the bill comes: we all saw the price on the menu.
That, I think, is a suitably salty closing argument from me. I reiterate that I hold so many of you in higher regard than I’d have thought possible before participating on an anonymous message board. You have my gratitude and warmest wishes.
Below, two quick and easy reminders of the fact that greatness is more than a campaign buzzword for a bumbling, cretinous clown. It is a confluence of historical opportunity, uncompromising intellectual power, and effortful moral clarity. We would all do well to remember what edifying greatness politics can achieve when they are conducted wisely:
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I’ve been trying to tell some leftists I respect this… They keep yelling at me and telling me how I don’t see the world the correct way lmao…
The left truly and honestly thinks they surpassed everyone else in every possible way and are more evolved, more intelligent, are the only reason minorities can survive in America and hold the only opinions and feelings that matter, objective facts be damned.
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[https://t-nation.com/t/gop-platform-a-better-way
The loser writes a 300 word essay on what a good poster the other person is.
It was only 300 words, you grandiloquent conglomeration of injudicious cogitations, which are simultaneously both discursive & prolix in formation, finally culminating in masterpieces of superfluous and unexpurgated verbosity spewed onto these pages.
Well good luck with your new career direction.
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One more interesting point about the Presidential election. Donald Trump, the man who wanted to “grab pussy” received 53% of the vote from white women to Hillary’s 43%. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I believe this to be the first time that a republican has won white women in several election cycles.
Edit: Apparently Ronald Reagan was the last republican to win white women voters back in 1984.
It’s embarrassing. My grandfather was a hard core democrat. He moved here from Scotland with his family and worked in a coal mine along with millions of others to build the communities in which these snobby know nothing/do nothings live, and look down upon people from.
As a party and as individuals, these “democrats” need to take a hard look at where they came from and develop some appreciation for what they have and how they came to have it.
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My father (who has since passed recently) was a life long democrat but became irritated when he felt that his party was hijacked by the elite left. My father being a tradesman. He cast his first vote for a republican President in 2000. He lived through two terms of Obama. My regret is that he didn’t get to see the republicans take back the White House in 2016.
God Bless Dad I miss you.
Ah!! You’re right! I was sure I’d given in to the other bet. Well, I’ll be a man of my word:
Zeb is a good poster. A tremendous poster. You’re not gonna believe it, how good a poster he is.
In fact, he’s such a good poster that sometimes you’d be forgiven for thinking that there is simply too much tremendousness, too much quality, for just one account. You’d be forgiven for thinking he ought to spread it around. Kind of like how there isn’t enough storage space on therajraj’s hard drive to fit his entire library of reaction-formation alt-right interracial cuckold porn.
But I digress. Zeb’s essential advantage is his unique, personal insight into the defining ideological movement of our time. To take a particularly topical example, the candidate Zeb chose for office publicly claimed to support Operation Iraqi Freedom in the run-up to its commencement, then spent the last year and a half assiduously denying that this matter of objective public record had ever happened. Like a method actor biting into a hunk of raw, quivering bear liver on set, we all watched Zeb explore this Trumpiam post-truth posture after TB challenged him to defend his claim regarding Judge Garland’s alleged anti-Second-Amendment record. This kind of gonzo, in-the-trenches investigation of the zeitgeist is what makes Zeb an essential, first-rate member of the PWI community.
In seriousness, he beat me. He was right, and I was wrong. Congratulations to him. I hope that he won’t mind it if I take the harsher penalty with Sloth and USMC in lieu of having to rewrite this essay as a sincere encomium. I was already prepared for it, and I think a vacation from politics will do me wonders.
Adios, amigos.
Edit: and, having just seen the above, my sincere condolences, Zeb.
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