I told Booman a while back that I was stepping away for a bit, and until now I have been as good as my word. I will stay out for the duration of this campaign barring further unexpected circumstances because…well, because I got tired of talking to people whose minds are totally made up regarding the lesser of two evils. But I do want to comment on the latest Trump development.
Just as I said over and over again here for 14 months that Trump was a dangerous candidate, that we should not simply try to laugh him off and that the only things that could possibly seriously derail his candidacy would be conclusive evidence (preferably videoed) of some sort of widely despised wrongdoing…say a meeting with a mob guy discussing criminal business or being caught in bed with a goat…we now have the equivalent of the “in bed with a goat” idea.
He’s toast.
No amount of reflexive finger-pointing about HRC and her own role in permitting Bill Clinton’s almost satyriasis-like (or perhaps only self-destructive) insistence on serial sexual escapades while in office…a trait that he most definitely shared with JFK, by the way…will save Trump now. The powers of Trump’s name, his fame and his image are now working against him with this latest video. He famously said “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters”…and I think that was not entirely hyperbole at the time…but he did not say “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and jerk off on women passing by and I wouldn’t lose voters,” because he’s always at least somewhat accurate with his hyperbole and that would not have flown so well. So…here he is, verbally jerking off in public and it’s on video. Mazeltov, all of you Trump opponents!!! I do not know if he will concede defeat and step down or continue fighting a losing battle, but he…and probably the Republicans…are now toast. Even the worst possible Assange-like anti-Hillary postings will never rebalance the scale after this idiocy.
So it goes.
Bye bye, Donald.
Phew!!!
So here we are, stuck with Scylla.
So that goes as well.
Charybdis done popped its funnel. Time to put a cork in it.
Have a good month, y’all.
You’re gonna need it.
Later…
AG
Trump could do something purely Trumpish.
What?
Damned if I know.
Refuse to debate HRC?
Unfurl some competing video that he’s been holding in his private jerkoff room regarding HRC and/or Bill? Or another vid eavesdropping on (the undoubtedly real at some point in time) meetings of the controllers as to how to handle his candidacy?
Hop a plane to Moscow and go room with Snowden while claiming that the whole thing was…and remains… a CIA op gone bad?
We could not have predicted his rise when he first ran test balloons regarding running for president, so why would we be surprised if he surprises us again?
Whatever.
I’m through being surprised, myself.
Through.
Bet on it.
Later…
AG
Good — that means we won’t have endure the sex related scorched earth 2.0 from team Clinton. When they drag out a parade of beautiful women claiming to have been victims of groping by Trump and how it devastated them (properly weeping into hankies as they tell their stories). Beautiful because: a) beautiful people are always more believable b) nobody would believe that Trump ever groped other than beautiful women and c) eye-candy sells and the MSM needs something to retain all those eyeballs that Trump has supplied them with for over a year.
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More and more “lewd” pop-ups. (More Trump tapes surface with crude sex remarks-WAPO and Trump Bragged to Howard Stern About Ivanka’s Body, `Inspecting’ Naked Miss Universe Contestants-NY Magazine) Beautifully plotted. Just enough time before the debate for a hellstorm of outrage to arise; not enough time for the RatPubs to right their ship before the debate.
Like a sneaky left hook right before the bell. Next round? The opponent is already out on his feet; it’s just a matter of cleaning up.
Gotta hand it to them…the pros know what they are doing. They’ve been sitting on this information for weeks…months, probably. The sly old Tammany Hall NYC Mayor who was my great-grandfather bequeathed me just enough real politician genes to be able to appreciate how well this thing has gone today.
Masterful.
Now?
Watch.
Watch.
I would be surprised in Trump lasts the week.
If he does, we will all have to start thinking about whether he really was a Dem plant. Brilliant squared, if he was.
We’ll never really know…
AG