Turns out, Donald Trump is a sexist pig.
Who knew?
Besides everyone in the universe, I mean.
Seems like just yesterday he was dumping his first wife for a younger version but I guess it was a while ago. I made up a knock knock joke about it:
Knock, knock
Who’s there?
Ivana.
Ivana who?
Ivanat least tventy million in alimony, Donald.
The bad news is that I’m completely out of touch with the American people.
The good news is that I’m out of touch with them because they’re flippin’ insane.
This is without a doubt the weirdest political season I’ve ever witnessed. Everything I thought I knew about the behavior of our major political parties was upended and proven wrong.
I’ve predicted for years that Hillary Clinton would not be the Democratic candidate. All my life, the Dems have opted for the new, shiny, unproven candidate over some old work horse they were sick of. The Dem party is like a flighty debutante, more interested in new experiences with mysterious strangers than dating the boy (or girl) next door. Excitement over stability is the nature of their creed.
Since the 50s, when Adlai Stevenson was their nominee in several elections in a row (he lost them all. I have to say that because these days there’s no guarantee that anyone reading this would know Stevenson was never president. Admit it: before you heard the soundtrack to Hamilton, did you know that neither Hamilton nor Burr ever won the Oval office?) the Dems have pretty much avoided the mistake of nominating retreads.
The last three Democratic party presidential winners were guys no one had heard of before they threw their hats in the ring.
The conventional wisdom in ’08 was that Former First Lady current New York Senator Two for One President Hillary Clinton could have the office with the lifting of her finger but her own party balked. They were over her; Been there, done that, moving on. They took the first clean, articulate, viable candidate who came along and gave them an excuse not to let her fulfill her destiny.
The Dems dislike old news.
The Republican party, meanwhile, is all about toeing the line, paying your dues, punching your card and waiting your turn. Not very many people remember how George W. Bush got to be the party front runner in 2000 but I do.
During the scandal wracked second term of Bill Clinton, as the nation got more and more sick of the tawdriness of Slick Willy’s exploits (the nickname is actually a graphic description. Yuck.), some news outlet ran a survey to measure the remorse of the nation at having tossed a perfectly nice man like George H.W. Bush for a cad like Bill Clinton. Term limits and age prevented those two from squaring off again so the survey replaced Bush with his synonymic offspring and Clinton with his Veep, Al Gore.
Until that survey, I didn’t even know Bush had a son named George. In that way, the 2000 presidential race was chosen by the press.
The Republicans elected, then reelected the son of their last failed president in part because his name was nostalgic. No wonder they’re the ‘stupid party’.
Then the GOP shoved John McCain down our throats despite the fact that he’d spent most of the previous ten years ticking us off. After McCain, we were force fed his runner up, Mitt Romney. Now, Mitt was probably the exact guy we needed at the time as his entire career was about successfully taking over failing establishments and making them successful.
Mitt’s biggest problem was the Republican version of noblesse oblige: the refusal to acknowledge that a political campaign is basically a cage match.
Year after year, the right insists that the only way to win the no holds barred rugby match of a presidential campaign is to show up in white linen, carrying your own fine china checkers board. Again: Stupid party.
So that in a nutshell is both parties modus operandi: The Dems choose mysterious strangers, then fight like there’s no tomorrow and the Repubs choose worn out bores who think they can win by taking the most punches to the face, nuts and guts.
Then came 2016.
The Dems had already rejected Hillary. In nearly six decades they’d never looked back once a candidate lost. Old news was no news. I just assumed they’d find some exciting, shiny new personality to carry the torch of leftism.
Nobody likes her. Nobody wants her. But there’s nobody to carry that torch so if they’re going to continue down the path of leftist corruption and government control towards their goal of a Progressive culture of death, they had no choice. Oh, the voters liked Bernie Sanders, the first self-proclaimed socialist to make a grab for a major party nomination but the party put its foot down and made sure that didn’t happen. Bern may be an old guy but he was a little too progressive for the Democrats this year. Yeah, he was all about income equality, taking from the haves and giving to the have nots (in the private sector this is known as ‘theft’) but the party of diversity couldn’t very well reject a woman two campaign cycles in a row, even if she was a creepy combo of Nurse Ratched and Deloris Umbridge. So they acted like the GOP and let her have her turn.
Meanwhile, the GOP got taken to the woodshed by their voters.
The party offered up the strongest, most experienced slate of Governors, Senators and Congressmen I’ve ever seen; most of them had brilliant track records as the governors of booming states. From New Jersey to Texas to Louisiana to Wisconsin, these were capable young men who had proven they had the mettle to fight the good fight and win.
All were rejected in favor of an arrogant, obnoxious, loud mouthed bother whom none of us even thought was a Republican.
He wasn’t my first, second or fifteenth choice but I understand why he won.
American Republicans are mad as hell at the GOP and they aren’t going to take it anymore.
We handed the GOP the House in 2010 and all they did was soil the bed. We gave them the Senate in ’14 and they continued their political incontinence.
Trump is the face of a spontaneous revolution.
I didn’t see him coming because it never occurred to me that the Republican base would turn on the GOP establishment like this. I’m glad they have!
I’m just sorry that it had to be Trump, a caricature of everything leftists claim Conservatives are.
why do you always say what you believe?
Every proclamation guaranteed
free ammunition for your enemies!
But…of course it had to be such.
Revolutions are never started by soft talking, well-mannered gentlemen. They can be won by such but not started.
More later, as I’ve already spent too much time thinking about this crap for one day.