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Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - PaulP - 05-14-2020
Mike Pompeo, Pence and their ilk are way more dangerous than any Trump.
Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - PaulP - 05-14-2020
(05-14-2020, 01:32 AM)Baggers link Wrote:I bet you love the work of George Carlin (one of my fave comedians, by the way).
I've never watched him.
Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - Tragic - 05-14-2020
It makes me want to vomit, but Trump will probably win. His faults as a human being are numerous and grave, but his rat cunning is something else. And he doesn't care what he destroys along the way.
I watched some 30/30 docos on Kayo (when I had it). There were heaps of very interesting stories on there, so good that it didn't matter if i was a fan of the sport or knew the athlete at all, just fascinating stuff to watch. Anyway, one of them was about the USFL, a short lived spring alternative to the NFL (that plays in 'the fall'). Long story short - Trump tried to buy an NFL team but couldn't, so bought a USFL team. The USFL had carved out a nice niche and was doing well, but Trump wasn't happy being in the spring, it had to be in the fall coz that was the bigger stage. He stooged enough of the other teams in the USFL to agree they should change to play in the fall and sue the NFL for being a monopoly in the fall comp. He won the case, and was awarded a dollar, coz the case couldn't prove they'd actually lost anything anyway at that stage, coz they played in the spring so hadn't actually been disadvantaged... Anyway - he bankrupted the USFL, and destroyed the entire comp, and everyone in its livelihood. His final words were something along the lines of 'it was a crap comp anyway, the fall comp is all that matters, and if it can't be in the fall comp, then stuff it'. He's an A grade, self centred, selfish, butthole. The kind of kid that would break your toy just so you couldn't enjoy it.
Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - LP - 05-14-2020
The wilful naivety of the Trump supporters is mind blowing, they think he is looking after them but all he really offers is a short term sugar hit for which they are going to pay a massively high long term price. Trumps America is for the elite, not the Joe Average, but he has stooged Joe Average into voting for him!
Before his boosters go on the attack, this statement bears not relationship to Trump's opponents, claiming they are also bad or even worse doesn't make Trump better. It just highlights how pathetic the whole US situation has become!
Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - PaulP - 05-14-2020
Anti establishment figures like Trump will always appeal when the establishment lets people down. Both the Democrats and Republicans have left common folk for dead, and its been happening for decades. Along comes a figure like Trump who has no allegiance to anything expect himself, and portrays himself as a person who won't be told what to do by anyone, dances to his own tune, will fix the country, the Democrats, the Republicans and everything in between. Add in nonsense like making America great again, and the usual scapegoating of minorities, and his appeal to a disenfranchised and ill informed body politic becomes obvious. It's happened often enough throughout history.
But focusing on him rather than the system is a waste of time.
Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - cookie2 - 05-14-2020
(05-14-2020, 01:31 AM)PaulP link Wrote:The Democrats have been buddying up to corporate America for decades. The Clintons, Obama, Biden all as matey with the elites as any Republican. They appeal to dim witted liberals who still believe that voting actually involves genuine choice.
Spot on. And the major casualty is democracy itself.
Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - cookie2 - 05-14-2020
(05-14-2020, 01:32 AM)Baggers link Wrote:I bet you love the work of George Carlin (one of my fave comedians, by the way).
Love his work. Sadly no longer with us.
Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - cookie2 - 05-14-2020
(05-14-2020, 03:56 AM)PaulP link Wrote:Anti establishment figures like Trump will always appeal when the establishment lets people down. Both the Democrats and Republicans have left common folk for dead, and its been happening for decades. Along comes a figure like Trump who has no allegiance to anything expect himself, and portrays himself as a person who won't be told what to do by anyone, dances to his own tune, will fix the country, the Democrats, the Republicans and everything in between. Add in nonsense like making America great again, and the usual scapegoating of minorities, and his appeal to a disenfranchised and ill informed body politic becomes obvious. It's happened often enough throughout history.
But focusing on him rather than the system is a waste of time.
Anyone who doesn't primarily represent the interests of one or another section of the US billionaire class is very very unlikely to ever get to be POTUS.
Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - PaulP - 05-14-2020
(05-14-2020, 04:28 AM)cookie2 link Wrote:Anyone who doesn't primarily represent the interests of one or another section of the US billionaire class is very very unlikely to ever get to be POTUS.
Yes, and also very unlikely to get even close to being in influential positions in either party. I don't think either of them functions as a traditional party. The base has no power or relevance. You can't even get on the DNC unless you're a "super delegate", which basically means a lobbyist or similar. You need bucket loads of money to run for Pres.
Interesting to note that both parties agree on about 90% of proposed legislation, and in order to stimulate the idea that genuine choice exists, Fox News etc. has to stoke the fire of nothing issues under the broad umbrella of the Culture Wars i.e, same sex marriage, should we have a black / female / gay president etc. It's crazy stuff.
Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading) - cookie2 - 05-14-2020
@ Paul
Yes indeed. The media is owned by the same billionaires that control the political class.