Life must be tough and confusing for you if that’s all you got from that video.
Just like the other day you sent me an article of Putin discussing how Russia has the most attractive prostitutes (with respect to the Trump dossier). That went over your head as well.
Let’s see if I can sum this up: People are most influenced and won over by manipulating their emotions, facts often times are secondary. That’s where an alpha male shines
Get back to me when you can count your breaths up to ten, I’ll wait here.
“… to show that it was disarmed, signifying the lack of hostile intent…”
You may not know this, but they don’t make 44 magnums in anything more than a 6-shooter, so after 6 shots…
I honestly feel like a period of, at least, moderate isolationism would help our country get its shit together and get back on the right track. I’m not saying just fuck everyone else, but we need to get our affairs(economy, education system, work force, etc) in order before we try to get in the affairs of other continents. I love this country and want it to be great, and we should definitely lend a hand when called upon by our allies, but when most of the world views America in a negative light as imperialistic world police it’s time to step back a little. If you notice, most of the conflicts we’ve been involved in in the last two decades are against insurgents that we armed and funded in the first place to overthrow a foreign government. That’s not even including all the shady, covert shit our CIA was doing throughout the whole Cold War
His speech certainly didn’t put any of the Republicans on the podium at ease. He talked like they were part of the problem, and many of them ARE. I saw zero alliance building with Reps or Dems in that speech. Zero talking like he liked Republican policies. It wasn’t about that at all. He was letting people know that he plans to go his own way. Uncompromising and blunt. Looking out at the crowd and saying, I am aligned with you, not the people in Washington. He talked about how “Washington flourished, but the people did not.” Nothing about that let the Reps off the hook. He’s something new, IMO.
True. His rhetoric makes me uncomfortable. Frequently. And the speech wasn’t poetic, or deep. The darkness of it didn’t resonate with me, but I’m not living in Chicago, with over 700 homicides last year and a failing school system, either. Maybe the “carnage” comment would resonate more with me if I were there. But if he really means that he wants to help Americans who are struggling, to put them first, to fix some things in our own country, then that’s a good place and I hope he’s successful. I’m beginning to think he is sincere about trying to reform some things. I hope so.
Hey, happy to see you! Yes, if people want to see failure, then they are wishing it on all of us. I hope all is well in training and life.
In other news…
NPR had a segment today about civil servants who intend to obstruct the new administration by burying paperwork, loosing things, slowing the cogs. I hope they fire them.
About the protests. Lots of angsty poetry. People who look like they could use a bath. Madonna saying the f word on live TV. Rappers talking about how “we have to protect our women.” I guess they don’t realize how offensive that is to the feminists in the audience, but hey, it’s confusing. At least they weren’t calling them bitches and hoes.
He’s the most classically feminine† president in American history, and it isn’t even close. He is histrionic, wildly irrational, melodramatic, parodically insecure. He sat out a war because his lil’ feetsies hurt, then had the real-housewivesish lack of class & self-awareness to announce he knows more than “the generals” do and mock John McCain because “he was captured.” He spent the first third of the primary season trying to catfight with Megyn Kelly on twitter. He is a whiny little bitch who lives in a gaudy nightmare of a shithole – the sort of fake-gold monstrosity old, widowed, hideously-nipped-and-tucked Page-Six socialites in fur coats tend to gravitate to. He is the precise, perfect opposite of every archetypal masculine quality Western warrior culture has ever produced: fatuous, petty, flamboyant and ostentatious, undependable, uninspiring, impetuous, unprincipled, stupid as shit, logorrheic, neither strong nor silent, so predictably emotional that I have become able to guess with almost perfect accuracy the timing and manner in which he will tweet like a flustered, petulant preteen girl about everything from the CIA to Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin. A pampered, bitter queen flapping her little hands as she lies and mumbles.
In short, he is a perfect distillation of reality TV’s spirit: fat old hags classlessly bitching at each other about cartoonishly trivial nonsense. That’s what he is, and it’s utterly telling that therajraj thinks it’s got anything whatsoever to do with “testosterone.”
Relatedly: we have never in our history had a president who could have put on that performance at Langley today. To stand in front of the Memorial Wall and yammer effeminately about the size of his inauguration crowd and how many times he’s appeared on the cover of a magazine. This is to say nothing of the appalling idiocy of his bizarre, ongoing inability to talk about war in a more informed way than a seven or eight year old might (hint: we don’t send fucking armies to steal other countries’ resources, and if you don’t know this [including why it’s incredibly important to avoid even appearing to want to] then that’s because you don’t know anything about war either). The whole spectacle was quite simply pathetic and humiliating – and think what message is sent to foreign adversaries when they see that the POTUS is capable only of humiliating himself like a fucking Real Housewife of Beverly Hills even at such central and solemn places as the headquarters of the CIA.
† As idiots like therajraj would define the term, I mean.
Yes. Think of the worst stereotypes of the femininity - deeply insecure, catty, petulant, unable to judge insults or even disagreement with maturity, prone to tantrums, obsessed with image, capricious - the opposite of the archetype of Alpha Male. That’s Trump.
But when you’re a wormy Salacious B. Crumb like Raj, you need a Jabba the Hut to make you feel better about yourself.
I’m very impressed.
This is the most incisive and to-the-point critique of Trump I’ve ever read - and I’ve read a lot of them lately.
Do you publish your literary work (and your posts are works of literature) on other, less obscure media platforms?
@smh_23, @loppar, @thunderbolt23 are evidence men without an iota of confidence are most offended by men with endless amounts of it.
Still one of my favourite alpha male male moments of Trump is this one early on in the campaign. The anemic man hears a childish answer that he can only interpret as a dodge. The man who views it through the prism of social interactions: she tries to box him in as a sexist, he flips it around on her framing her as being too politically correct.
I’m sure the men above are still completely confused as to why his answer was met with roaring applause and cheer. It was a stupid childish answer right? So what gives?
Life lesson: being bold and braggadocios will get you further with groups of people than being reserved and apologetic. It also helps to have unflinching body language and to say everything with a straight face.
I would say I know a few women who are more of a man than Donald Trump.
“Be still my dog of war. I understand your pain. We’ve all lost someone we love. But we do it my way!”
Even if we accept your definition of “manliness” based on braggadocio and boldness, Trump singularly does not meet your criteria.
Bold men filled with braggadocio do not whine like bitches and threaten to sue whenever someone criticizes them. They do not use an army of lawyers to hide their wife’s personal history.
Case in point - when Duke of Wellington (of Waterloo fame) received a blackmailing letter from a famous prostitute in which she threatened to describe in detail their relationship and his sexual preferences in the book she was about to publish, asking for money to remove him from the final draft - he sent back the famous reply “publish and be damned”.
That’s braggadocio. Not whining on Twitter.
Or will you now try to claim that the defining trait of alpha manliness is the propensity to sue?
No, I’m not confused - his answer was met that way because the audience was filled with servile beta males like you.
Very kind words – and doubly meaningful, coming from a polyglot polymath such as you.
I did indeed write publicly for (what certainly felt like) a long while. A while ago I decided to switch to something very similar in character but less “public-facing,” as they say in tech. Trump, of course, has given me all sorts of doubts & ideas, some more fanciful than others. I do have the strong impulse to get out of politics completely, see whether or not I can churn out a couple of million-dollar vampire potboilers or whatever the kids are devouring these days. (I think the trend went wands, vampires, oppressive futuristic governments, cancer. No idea where things could possibly go from cancer.)
I’d have spent a thousand words and added nothing more than you’ve managed here with less than two dozen: the definitive answer to the question that is our resident infantile ethno-nationalist creep.
egh! There’s no way to spell the icky sound that made me make.
Maybe if they were space vampires fighting an inter-dimensional cyber battle using nanobots to destroy warring factions of their kind that exist in different rates of time.
But even then, eh, it would be a disservice to words.
I’m rather sympathetic to Trump and there’s no f’ing way I want to see him whipping out a gun like President Camacho.
Does he command groups of people?
Does he attract beautiful women?
That’s an alpha male.
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I’m not seeing true isolationism from Trump. I’m seeing a recognition that our free trade agreements have failed us. We have run a trade deficit since the mid-1970s. I also guarantee that Trump is not an ideologue. Anyone who has paid attention to him knows he was a Democrat for a number of years. He’s also come in and surrounded himself with people who openly disagree with him. I like that. Why? Because we need to think through immigration policy, trade, and national security and come up with compromises that work to improve our country.
Can he string a coherent sentence together? Rarely. That said, I did like his clear statement about his take on patriotism and America first: “When you open your heart to Patriotism there is no room for prejudice.” That resolnates with me. For Americans of all races and religions, it is our country and we need to take better care of it.