BREAKING!!! HOTTEST THING EVER!!! NY Times:
I have been writing here for years about the ongoing PermaGov fix. It has…so far…broken down in the face of Tump’s truly virtuoso understanding of how to use the media for his own ends. But here it is, in all of its PermaFix glory.
A Stern Mitt Romney Attacks Donald Trump as `a Phony’ and `a Fraud’
The pot calling the kettle a piece of cookware. One fraud to another.
The best thing about all of this Trumpishness? It is pulling open the curtains behind which the little hustlers have been hiding since the JFK assassination and subsequent 50+ year coup. Mighty wizards? My ASS!!! More like little turdblossoms.
Eventually, even the dumbest marks begin to realize that they have been ripped off. When that happens, all hell breaks loose. Always and forever.
We are just about at that point now.
God help us all.
AG
We shall see.
Soon enough.
If Trump wins…wins it all…they lose it all. Remember the New Deal? His admin would be the New Fix. Uncounted trillions of dollars are at stake. The controllers would be quite happy with HRC. They are going to pull out all the stops on this one…like we haven’t seen since RFK and MLK.
If necessary they will tank the RatPub Party rather than see Trump in power.
Watch.
AG
And…Trump’s people won’t give a hot damn what gets blown up.
From the great Second City TV show of the late ’70s/early ’80s…prophets John Candy and Joe Flaherty see the future Trumpsters.
Real Good!!!
AG
P.S. Pay particular attention to the ending.
Yup.
Real good!!!
AG
Now that’s insightful.
Fix? What fix!!!???
You think the SC RatPub debate was packed with anti-Trump pols?
Wait’ll you see tonight’s farce!!!
AG
After the Gingrich “Contract With America” thing in 1994, it was growing increasingly clear that the dumb asses he’d brought into the GOP were being manipulated with social issues to vote against the hated Liberals – but that no legislation was happening that benefited anyone but the establishment rich dudes.
For YEARS I kept asking< “WHY are these people voting against their own self interests?!”
I knew the wake-up day would come, and that when it did, they were going to come out bat shit crazy. It took 15 years, but in 2009 it started.
ALL of this comes down to two things:
Gingrich screwed up bringing them into the GOP in the first place (because a day of reckoning WOULD come some day).
The GOP Congressmen simply never DID anything for them – making it certain that the Gingrich newbies would be DAMNED PISSED OFF when that day came.
Well, as onerous and repellent as the Tea Party has been to those outside the GOP, the Tea Party has been even worse INSIDE the GOP. The Tea Partiers at first simply said, “Nominate some of OUR people, dammit!”
Then, as they got to feeling their oats, they got it into their heads to take over the party.
Then, in 2014 the establishment managed to block TPers from the November election, and they thought that they’d put down the rebellion.
Nah…. That herd of candidates in the early debates made it clear that THEY were going to take over this time, come hell or high water.
This is all an internal civil war.
Trump just happened to be the one whose time in front of a camera lent itself to his jumping to the head of the pack. To Trump it is all show biz.
To trailer trash people still fighting THE Civil War, what is more appropriate than a rebellion led by a carny show act?
Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller got into an argument and George Wallace won.
The idea that there’s this mass of gullible fools voting against their own self interest is the American left’s version of the idea on the right that conservatism is always right and only “fails” owing to the incompetence and fecklessness of conservative politicians.
People vote for all sorts of reasons. Economics is only one of them. The 2016 campaign and Trump’s ascendance would seem to make it clear that a primary motivation for many on the right is simply kicking liberals’ asses. As a matter of fact, these Trump voters would cut off their noses to spite their faces if it meant that some lefties would get injured in the process.
But…but…
Leftinesses done earned it!!!
Bet on it.
AG
Having come largely around to your point of view has helped me enjoy Trump’s trajectory so much more thoroughly. I don’t think Hillary sees what’s coming her way yet.
I don’t think so either. I think of HRC as one of those bubble babies, only (mostly) grown up. From the time she left the White House w/Bill she’s been living in a entitlement-enforced bubble. The facts that she fucked up w/the emails…entirely ludicrous unless she really doesn’t understand anything whatsoever about digital safety… and she doesn’t know what “going viral means both speak to the same idea. Aides to do this, aides to do that…here an aide, there an aide, everywhere an aide’s aide.
Meanwhile…be careful not to wake her during her afternoon naps. She can get…testy.
Bet on it.
But…I’ll also bet you that some of her less-cossetted advisors are (at least by now) beginning to see the forest from the Trump trees.
I mean…it’s hard to miss what’s happening, isn’t it? Unless they think that the so-called RatPub elite (Like…George Romney !!!???) are actually going to blow Trump out of the electoral water with their little mewlings about how “NOT NICE!!!” he is, they have to know that they have a real fight on their hands.
I think that the best allies that she has right now are the RatPub elite. If they can further injure Trump’s brand about 10% or 15%…the bigger number the better for HRC…the more “undecideds” will begin to waver.
That’s what it’s going to take…
I took a little (working) mini-vacation early this week. By car. Traveled west from NYC through the great state of New Jersey (You know, the one that elected Chris Christie?) into rural eastern PA, then up through “The Endless Mountains”…that’s what PA calls them…into the southern tier of western NY state, right on up to Rochester and then back southeast again to Ithaca (a little haven of safety) and further through what I call the Badlands of rural NY state on into the Paterson NJ area and then further (Safe at last!!!) my own bastion of (somewhat) sanity, the working class West Bronx. I stopped for gas, stopped for food, stopped just to stop. And…I left my radio (AM and FM) on through the long treks. Here’s what I heard and saw. (Felt actually, as much as anything.)
Trump gonna take about 80% of that trek no matter who opposes him.
Watch.
It’s a big U.S., but it ain’t that much different from the lands through which I traveled. Different weather, same socio-economic groups in about the same percentages. It’s all connected by the media, by the internet.
Watch. (Watch out, actually!!!)
The AM listeners are totally pissed off!!! Politically, morally, economically, in terms of so-called “religion”…pissed off like a mothertfucker!!!
The FM listeners?
About 35% of them are listening to country music. (Read “complaint” music.) Maybe 10% are listening to truly lame “PBS”-style shit, all the rest are listening to almost totally sexualized, drug-laden, totally non-political travesty music produced by robots. They’re not even listening to sports talk.(Too mixed-race in terms of content is my theory.)
Who do you think is coming out to vote this November?
Yup.
You got it.
The pissed-off ones.
And they are voting for Trump.
Watch.
AG
“You can observe a lot just by watching.”
AG, I’m wondering about confirmation bias in your report.
Are the Democrats in those areas bothering to make themselves (a minority) heard? What about the non-Trump voting Republicans?
I’m thinking of right here in Portland, Oregon, which is overwhelmingly Democratic. In 2008, during the primary season, Obama yard signs greatly outnumbered Clinton yard signs, yet the actual vote was about 3-to-2 in Obama’s favor. A landslide, yes, but in the yard-sign primary, Obama probably won by 10 to 1.
Could be.
Could be that your 10-1/3-2 difference might just hold.
At which point Trump would still win.
As you said…in a landslide.
What I heard, saw and felt during this trip through what we laughingly call the heartland is this:
A-Rural white working class people are pissed off. They feel economically and societally threatened plus they are tired of losing wars…and being terrorized is losing. They are ripe for the picking.
B-Trump is hitting them squarely, right in the center of all of their fears. Cruz? Too…fundamentalist…for many of them. He’s got a crazy glint in his eyes and he lectures them.Rubio? Too dainty. Too much brain, not enough real fire. Trump? What they would like to be.
Trump in a landslide for the RatPub nomination. All of this anti-Trump posturing from the former RatPub losers? Old news. Too late, as well. If they somehow manage to steal the nomination from him…it could be done…there will be hell to pay.
We shall see.
AG
P.S. I have already identified this same white working class unrest in the cities and suburbs. Add the semi-rural areas and that’s a big bloc of likely voters.
“YUUUUUGE!!!” as Trump is fond of saying.
Watch.
I see this in Cook County IL as well, as you say with white working class. it may not be enough to beat Hillary here, but it will be elsewhere. They (we) want the firebreather. My preferred table turner in Bernie Sanders, but I read a lot. They don’t. I think Trump would be a disaster as a President, not on policy but on coherence and no political experience. They want CHANGE. Most of them voted for Hope and Change and when they realized they were conned, as you say, they are enraged. Burn down the Bastille enraged. Will the pols cook the books for Clinton. Bet on it ™. It will just make them madder. I think our district will go back to (R). Democrats will say that it’s all gerrymandering, ignoring that the do NOTHING for their constituents. These whit working class voters, if they care at all about abortion gay rights immigration and Muslim refugees, are against them. Bill Clinton had it right, it’s the economy stupid, but his wife doesn’t get it, or just thinks the rubes can be bamboozled forever. But Bill was a personable good old boy who understood them. Hillary is the upper middle class smart ass looking down her nose at them.
Precisely.
Thank you.
AG
You’re Welcome!
I think she does see what’s coming her way. There was a long item in the NY Times about how her campaign staff and her spouse are both very concerned about exactly what AG has been alluding to (big swing to Trump in states that have been Democratic). I’m betting you detest the Times, AG, but don’t shoot the messenger.
I dunno, I read your stuff, AG, then I read stuff by people writing about Trump’s astronomical disapproval ratings, about the overt defections of GOP politicians and operatives declaring they won’t vote for Trump, and so on. Some people dread all of this, some people rejoice in it. It’s all anecdotal, completely corrupted by confirmation bias. I sure don’t know WTF is happening; I just know it’s extremely easy to get gloomy as hell.
We frankly won’t have anything remotely like a real read on the situation until after the nominating conventions. I’ll reserve my freakout until then. But I’ve got to say, I saw some nice places to live in the suburbs of Vancouver BC recently!
Vancouver.
OH yes!!!
Montreal and Toronto as well.
Dunno Quebec well, but I’ll bet it’s good there, too.
I did a couple of weeks of teaching in Vancouver about two years ago. In all my travels…and I have performed and taught pretty much all over the world… I have never, ever been so well treated. I don’t mean because of who i might be, either, I mean people who had no idea about me. Taxi drivers. Hotel workers. At the airports. Just an overall sense of respect for other people. For a New Yorker, it was shocking.
And most welcome.
AG
And New Yorkers aren’t easily shocked.
Reflexive, unconsidered kindness shocks us almost speechless sometimes. Really. People are often very nice to others here, but it is largely a considered kindness.
Gotta figure the odds.
Too many people, not enough room.
So it goes.
AG
We took a week long trip to NYC in 1995, not to see the sights but to consult with doctors. I found New Yorkers to be suspicious of strangers but surprisingly kind and helpful to out of town strangers (rubes). I learned to say not say that I was from Chicago but from my suburb, When they asked where that was, I would say perkily “Near Elgin” rather than “a Chicago Suburb”. Then they were kind. A bus driver even let us ride free when I didn’t have change. That was the first “near Elgin!” He gave a world weary sigh and said “Go sit down”. I’m sure in Jersey it would have been “Get the Hell off the bus!”
Dunno about that “Jersey” thing. You have to understand… unionization/seniority matters are what drives a great deal of the working class players. If you have seniority and/or union position? You can afford to give someone a break once in a while. Cops, transit workers, etc. Jersey, NYC…wherever.
If you’re a newbie…better go by the book.
That’s the way it works.
AG