The CANDIDATE was best known as a reality TV star at this point in the last election cycle.
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I know; and the only people he can pay get to speak on his behalf are OTHER HAS-BEEN REALITY TV CELEBRETARDS???
I’m so embarrassed of my nationality right about now.
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Fair go. One of them was in Happy Days.He’s a has-been sit-com D-list celeb.
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He was also more recently in Scott Baio is 45 & Single, & Scott Baio is 46 & Pregnant.
(Neither show revived his acting career.)
All these folks are people who seem utterly desperate to remain ‘relevant’, and it’s kind of repulsive to witness.
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We used to just have to worry about the revolving door between politicians and lobbyists. Now we have a revolving door between politicians and reality TV show hosts.
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Indeed, and that’s what is so damn mortifying.
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The US level of acceptance of fanaticism is truly frightening. No one should be so attached to a label, and the TEA Party took being a fan to a level maybe even a step beyond sports (maybe). Beck, Palin, Trump… they just stepped in and repeated the same brining noise the crowd made and charged them thousands for the privilege. I mean I got caught up in it in the 2000s, but the rabid obsessive cultish following that people can get is bizarre to me - whether it is reality TV stars playing politician, college sports fans defending sexual abuse of children (same for priests), or people betraying their beliefs on a candidate just to spite the other.
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So was Cruz being honest or setting up 2020 expecting Trump to lose?
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Both? But oh, boy; a lot booing
He has to know this hurts Trump. Not much, but the protesting of Trump at his first truly public display after clinching will have some impact. Not that Trump’s fans care since they literally just say everything is 4D chess no matter how stupid they sound.
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The Trump camp is spinning this as a good thing. They knew what Cruz was up to, but they figured it would solidify the party.
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Yeah, so much that I think that I need to throw up.
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Timely article from the Texas Observer: How the GOP Is Gaslighting America.
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I was a little surprised at the short list of examples in the article. The gaslighting goes far beyond who copied from whose term paper last week. We are daily being told crime is increasing, America is weak, global warming isn’t real, …
It must go back at least as far as Newt Gingrich, pioneer of the contemporary rhetorical tone of the GOP, which now characterizes its opponents not only as wrong but as “sick,” “pathetic,” “traitors,” etc. Gaslighting indeed.
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Maybe Gun onwers are unamerican
Maybe he can run for Prez one day, and then you can complete the slide into oblivion by having Charles in Charge.
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