Archive for August, 2016
Memories
Remember way back last August when it was reported that Bill Clinton flattered and cajoled Trump into running for the GOP nomination?
Man oh man, I was happy and excited at first because Trump was certain to turn the GOP nominating process into a train wreck wrapped in a clown show. Then, after he inexplicably WON the nomination I was nervous because I thought Trump, with all his showmanship, might be tough to beat. Now I’m back to being happy and excited.
What It Means
Some may say Drive-By Truckers are the best Southern rock’n roll band since Lynyrd Skynyrd, but that is an incredible disservice to the Truckers, since they are probably the most important American rock’n roll band over the last 15 years. They are coming out with a new album in September called American Band. Their second single is What It Means, an examination of US society today.
Friday Open Thread [8.5.16]
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Jonathan Chait says Trump proves that I, Delaware Dem, was right all along about the nature of the right’s opposition to Obama: “As careful studies of the tea-party movement revealed, what animated Republican voters was a fear of cultural change. Their anti-statism was confined to programs that seemed to benefit people other than themselves. Racial resentment and ethnocentrism, not passion for limited government, drove the conservative base.”
“Almost alone within the party, Trump understood this. That is why his comically long list of ideological deviations never hurt him. Trump’s racism demonstrated to most Republican voters that he stood with them on the essential divide that ordered their political world — one defined by identity more than ideology.”
“In the conservative elite’s imagination, the romanticized history of the tea-party revolt — a story of liberty-loving Americans rising up against Big Government excess — still prevails. It is a story that attributes the party’s extraordinary opposition to the president’s policies, not to the primal fears he aroused. Trump has not only disproven the conservative movement’s theory of its own base. He’s disproven its history of the Obama presidency.”
They opposed him with such vehemence because they were and are racists. And being racist explains why Trump has won the GOP nomination. The GOP is racist. Trump is racist. It is a match made in hell.
Top 10 Reasons Trump Might Actually Quit
From least important to most, these are the ten reasons why Trump quitting is plausible.
10) He can reasonably claim health problems. His medical records are sketchy at best and the quack doctor who said that he’d be the healthiest president ever can easily be thrown under the bus.
9) He watches, and takes ques, from Fox News. If Fox News bails once and for all, he will know it and will have to react to it.
8) The Senate appears ready to investigate his ties to Russia.
7) His wife was an illegal immigrant.
6) His businesses are off 17 to 20% How long can he sustain that kind of drop in revenue? Especially since…
5) He can’t self-fiance his campaign. He isn’t as wealthy as he says he is, and money from donors is dying up.
4) His pre-2010 taxes are not subject to being audited. So he is lying about why he isn’t releasing them. (For this and many other reasons, he knows he will be KILLED in a debate.)
3) He hates being viewed as a loser. He’d rather quit (and blame the liberal media) than lose to Clinton.
2) He was never really running a serious campaign in the first place.
And if all of that does not convince him to quit, one person might…
1) He listens to Ivanka.
Of all his advisors, he appears to listen to Ivanka. She certainly seems smart enough to know when the jig is good and truly up. When the kids are sure that the gravy train is imperiled, they may be the ones to pull the plug.
Markell Eyed for Clinton Cabinet
Town Square Delaware reports: US Education Secretary John King was in Wilmington yesterday morning – his second recent visit to the First State – to laud a federal grant program supporting early childhood education. In a News Journal article, King cited “nation-leading work” in the First State on this front, thanks to $50 million in federal […]
Thursday Open Thread [8.4.16]
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Let me start by saying I see no chance that Trump withdraws from the race, despite Republican wishful thinking to the contrary. Call it big game unicorn hunting. But unicorn studies is a perfectly respectable discipline. So I wanted to explore one aspect of this scenario. In the quite unlikely case of Trump leaving the race, who would replace him? My understanding is that in this all but unprecedented situation the Republican National Committee would convene and pick a replacement. Even if they wanted to canvas the views of Republicans nationwide there’s simply no practical way and no time to do that.
So who do they pick? Good luck. Trump isn’t an accident. His ascendence is tied to Republican voters who became a sort of frankenstein’s monster of the GOP elites’ own creation. Weened on decades of victim-speak, impossible goals, over-primed lust for revenge against various domestic bad guys and outsiders and perverts and all the rest, they finally rebelled and chose someone who at least said he could follow through on the political snuff films they see on Breitbart, Newsmax, WorldNetDaily and the rest.
Trump quitting and being replaced is quite impossible. If he is “voluntarily” forced from the race at this stage 40% of the GOP doesn’t show up to vote in November. This is a lose-lose situation for the GOP no matter what happens. So what is behind both Trump’s erratic behavior after the DNC and the panic among Republicans? It is not anything Trump has done or said, because the truth about Trump has been known for a year.
WDEL’s Amy Cherry Exposes Corruption in County Farmland Deal
By far the best journalism being committed in Delaware today is being done by WDEL’s Amy Cherry. She has effectively chronicled the stink of corruption permeating the proposed farmland deal between the Gordon Administration and a couple of well-connected farmers. Here are the links. Go ahead and read/listen to them. I’ll wait.
Wednesday Open Thread [8.3.16]
In his strongest denouncement of Donald Trump so far, President Obama said Mr. Trump was “unfit to serve as president” and urged the leaders of the Republican Party to withdraw their backing for his candidacy, the New York Times reports.
Said Obama: “The question they have to ask themselves is: If you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him?”
He added: “This isn’t a situation where you have an episodic gaffe. This is daily. There has to be a point at which you say, this is not somebody I can support for president of the United States, even if he purports to be a member of my party. The fact that that has not yet happened makes some of these denunciations ring hollow.”
Ironically this type of condemnation from Obama may force the GOP to rally around Trump, or prevent those who would denounce Trump from doing so. Since the GOP always does the opposite of anything, and I mean anything, Obama says. And that might have been Obama’s intention.
Keep Digging
Nobody, least of all the American “media”, has to do anything to demonize Trump. He’s taken care of it himself by continually attacking a Gold Star family with the GOP playing the role of Hype Man behind him shouting right along. What a disgusting joke the GOP has become. And the Delaware Republicans just follow suit. SAD!
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