Well, I’m not talking about all of the candidates.
The primary GWB won wasn’t a total piece of slapstick performance art. I’d go so far as to say it wasn’t even mostly slapstick performance art. Going further than that requires I explain my off kilter “conspiracy theory” regarding GWB (nothing to do with 9/11) which would be extremely off topic.
But 2008 and beyond and it’s been like class president of clown college.
(I don’t actually recall the primary Dole won. I wouldn’t say I was too young but that was around the time I got my first job and I had other things on my mind.)
I wasn’t even in the country for 2000, but wasn’t McCain supposed to be fairly reasonable, back then? I guess the joke was on the people that time around.
1996? Looking it up, I see that Dole’s main rival was Pat Buchanan (and Steve Forbes). I’d say that counts.
I’m sure it’s been pointed out upthread, but I ain’t about reading 150+ just to find that out, I’m fairly lazy.
But, while I agree Trump’s a monster, no one should pay his former minion any mind. FFS, “I no longer felt that he was the leader the country was…” whatever, her story is that she never believed that at any point.
I’m not about “don’t feed the troll”, I believe in challenging trolls when it is amusing, but…
McCain had actually always been kind of reasonable-ish considering his party (had to change “has” to “had” because I wikipedia’d him and whoops … what the hell, John). I dislike him as a politician for reasons that go beyond my own politics and are also off topic. But, ignoring politics and elected office, he’s a decent man and a hell of a comedian.
Oh my gods, I’m so glad I missed that. What a crap storm that must have been.
The Radical Right Christians and Radical Right Muslims have so much in common.
Both subscribing to a history that never happened, both having conspiratorial myths about what the hell is going on.
People used to do many more shout outs to deities and quotes religious texts in political arguments. Because religion is the higher law.
And what happens here to you, isn’t nearly as important as what you do… Because your soul depends on it.
I’m sure in America there’s hatred for all things Muslim and Catholic preached from pulpits in more radical churches. It’s amplified in communities and online. Becomes very racist. And its reflected in politics and the news… as conversations about immigrants and security and terrorists.
Seen through all these lenses at once… It’s a very different worldview. But the Radical Right Christians and Radical Right Muslims are both the scariest things in the others point of view. For good reason.
Completely incompatible worldviews and they occupy the same political niche.
These are also the people that believe in an inevitable clash of civilizations war. They continue to cause horrible problems.
To a lot of his supporters these are not gaffes, which says something about a certain portion of American society; a lot of Americans are angry self-righteous, self-aggrandizing assholes.
I could totally see him selling buckets of food with Jim Bakker in 5 years if he ends up losing (either the RNC nomination or the general election). Putting his name on those buckets would add an additional layer of legitimacy to the whole operation.
Juggalos in the White House is the time thread we became the moment Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J tried and failed to attend Halloween as a 2 piece KISS cover band when they were 12 years old…
His self identified supporters on Breitbart and his unofficial Reddit page are more than just that.
I suggest checking out his fandom’s comments.
It’s fascinating to see the other side. You can peer right into the far right bubble.
They’re hate mongering and fantasizing about their inevitable race war strategies. Spouting off pseudoreligious political drivel. Finding ever more bizarre and dehumanizing ways to talk about women, about minorities, and about different religions. And it’s shouting match of overzealous and hyperbolic statements.
Excuse me, no. It’s ludicrous to think that “Conservative ideals in how the government being is run” will recognize transgender people, or any people who are not straight white males, in any meaningful way. Feel free to take recent actions by North Carolina, among other places in the US, as examples of this.
Unrelated to Trumpy things, but we just visited Bath. Boy is it beautiful in that area, gorgeous countryside, and Bath itself was absolutely wonderful to visit. When you live there do you become desensitized?
He was, he said and did a lot of things that I considered him a rational person for. And then he needed to pick a VP and the decent into madness began in a rapid desire to court the far right he swung out into crazytown and kept going. Then he lost and suddenly returned to railing against how veterans are treated and saying that we need to respect others and Muslims aren’t our enemies.
