For example, people who voted for Trump are simply diagnosed as ignorant or uneducated, regardless of the inconvenient truths which can explain their support for Trump.
Trump is far far more capable than Clinton will ever be to do ANYTHING AT ALL. Listen for once - Crooked has never done a single thing in her entire life. It's always been the folks around her - an entire system which was getting things done, she was only a tool for that system, a piece in the mechanism. She never did a single thing she wanted to do by herself. She always had a bunch of people around her telling her "do this, do that" etc. It's simple really. She has a good record only because she's been around the right people her whole life! But she has no capacity! Wake up! Look at it, she had everything put on the table. You, me, any of us can be Secretary of State or whatever if our best friends are Presidents and all around the governmental administration. It takes absolutely 0 skill. Going to sign international treaties - no skill. You go with a million pundits around you, telling you do this, do that, now we have to do X, now we have to do Y - it's so fucking simple. An idiot can do it. That's why most politicians are exactly that.When all the euphoria wears off and the real work has to be done, then we'll see what it really means. — Wayfarer
Again, I can't emphasize enough how pointing this out doesn't necessarily mean one is a Republican partisan or an enthusiastic Trump supporter. An unintended consequence of their crusade against the perceived injustices of white males is that it has turned some of us (or more than some) who would otherwise be inclined to sympathize with quite a few of their positions (on economics, the environment, social programs and the like) against them - and many people who didn't previously give a shit about their 'race' - and who have never picked their friends, their spouse, their employees etc. based upon such narrow-minded tribal loyalties - have come to see that they are hated precisely because of it.
And no, I don't think pointing this out makes one a racist; I will acknowledge the many injustices non-whites and all 'others' (non-white male heterosexuals) have been the victims of in the US and abroad, and the genuine need to rectify these legitimate grievances to the best of our abilities, but I will also disagree with them on how best to transcend racial categories in favor of a more inclusive identity-- assuming of course that that's their goal, which I'm beginning to think isn't the case. Seems many would like to invert the old racial hierarchy instead of superseding it altogether. — “Erik”
Trump could be dangerous that's true. But it's not because he's stupid. It's because he's fucking smart and ruthless and will go to great lengths to do what he wants to do. He's not mediocrity - mediocrity doesn't build towers, mediocrity is smoking weed, drinking with your buddies, going to hookers, etc. Trump is very very far from mediocrity. He plays a role - that of the buffoon - because it gives him a massive advantage. People laugh at him instead of get ready to fight back. Crooked laughs at him and thinks she has the election in her hand - but Trump is out there working till 3 AM in the morning, rally after rally. He's working his butt off getting what he wants. You don't become President sitting in bed, you don't get that being mediocre - unless you have a powerful husband or well-connected friends who want to put you there because you're good and docile and will do as they require you to do.I'm hoping for the best, I hope he can rise above himself, but so far, as far as I am concerned, it is the victory of mendacity and mediocrity, and the best we can hope for is something short of economic collapse. — Wayfarer
Trump is far far more capable than Clinton — Agustino
She should really be ashamed of herself - the person who wants to be President goes licking bankers, and hedge fund managers, and other rich folks — Agustino
And due to the endless name-calling, people stop caring what you say. — tom
Haha, I'm still in my 20s.Well, of course you're drifting right. You're growing old. Change is painful (the music these kids listen to these days, jeez), and to stave off your impending mortality, you try to grab and hang onto as much stuff as you can. — Real Gone Cat
(There was some salon or slate article about how it's insensitive to discuss the reasons for Hillary's loss beyond sexism at least until female hillary supporters have time to grieve...that's insane but I've seen people in my fb circle say similar things) — csalisbury
Maybe the country wasn't so far left politically, but culturally it certainly was.And who was Prez during most of the sexual revolution? Oh, yeah - Nixon. The country was SO far to the left. — Real Gone Cat
Oh yeah, let's not be anti-woman, let's allow Amy Schumer to fuck around and do whatever she likes. Let's let her be a spoiled brat, that certainly is being "pro-woman". I don't call that a woman - that's a beast of the fields as far as I'm concerned, and the faster we get rid of folks like her (from the TV screen and the Media), the better the whole world will be. Give me a break - you say the country has never been on the left, and lo and behold you're peddling the same mantras "women are abused", etc. that the left peddles. Where are these places where women are taken and whipped or raped? Show them to me! In the past I could have taken you to a place where the slaves are abused and showed you - here are the slaves, they have no freedom and they're at the mercy of their masters. Take me to where these women are abused. Where is that? Nowhere. So give me a break with this feminazism. This is nothing short of a war on men. Some whores - like Amy Schumer - would like men to prostate before their vaginas, and be some disposable scum that they can throw away whenever they need to. I'm not going to bow to that - you can keep your head down and bow - you may do anything for pussy, but not me.Given the continued wage disparity and results of the recent election, we see how enlightened the US is regarding its attitude towards women. Look at your own post. You are so anti-woman that you can't stop yourself from writing "Crooked Hillary". — Real Gone Cat
Well I'm very glad those "murder" rights are repealed. As far as I'm aware it's not a good thing that we have women who use their bodies in irresponsible ways, and then resort to murdering the child in order to avoid the consequences of their actions. That's shameful - they should be ashamed of themselves, as should the men who had sex with them knowing that this would be the consequence.When abortion rights are repealed (I give it two years, tops) please come back and tell us all about the wonderful sexual revolution. (And if you think giving a woman the right to choose is wrong and should be repealed, then you know nothing about the sexual revolution.) — Real Gone Cat
Yes, as far as I'm aware, it's the government's job to make people pay taxes, and it's the businessman's job to avoid paying them if he can. He's a businessman because he can manage capital better than the government - or at least thinks he can. The problem is that the government is stupid - that's why men like Trump can get away with paying less in taxes. If the government was formed of able men, then no one could get away with not paying taxes.Not like failing to pay - or file - taxes for at least 10 years. Or failing to pay your employees on a timely basis. Or going bankrupt numerous times (and using the US taxpayer to bail you out). — Real Gone Cat
You mean to reduce taxes on everyone? :PAny bets on how long it takes Trump to significantly reduce taxes on the rich? Six months? — Real Gone Cat
For some reason I seem to think you're Australian - perhaps something you wrote once at the old place.Anyway - thoughts? — shmik
That sounds about right to me. Neither of the US parties would qualify as Left in most other countries. While I agree that the raging, holier-than-though, politically correct left-wing preacher is an unfortunately too common member of what is thought of as the Left, I don't believe that is what gave the election to Trump, because the Dems, including Ms Clinton, are much too right-wing to appeal to such types.Calling Dems "lefties" is a Fox News meme. — Real Gone Cat
In other words, in TheWillow's world, if you disagree with feminazism, if you're against globalisation, if you're in any way friendly to whites - that's it, you shouldn't be allowed to live, you shouldn't be allowed to have an identity - because you're racist, sexist, misogynist, etc. . He wants to bulldozer the strength of peer pressure and social conformity in order to enforce his disgusting world view on the rest of us. He too has the phantasy of making an eternity - an end of history - out of his ideal.Another example is the reaction to some Leftist's protests against the election of Trump. The white working class are given a free pass to approve a racist, sexist and heterosexist values and platform as a protest against economic degradation, yet the moment minority groups and their allies put in a protests about the values and platform of who's been elected, they are just sore losers without who have no reason to be concerned. — TheWillowOfDarkness
He's succeeded in construction business - which is probably the most complicated business you can get into simply because the number of factors (and diversity of the people) that has to be managed is much greater than in most other businesses. He's built some amazing structures/places.He's succeeded in show business. No small deal, most people who try to succeed in show business fail. He's succeeded in business, apparently. Maybe some of his dealings were shady, but shady kind of comes with the territory of real estate; everybody wants to live on a shady street. As a "university" founder, he evidently left a great deal to be desired. I can't think of anything else he's done that was particularly distinguished.
As far as I know, Hillary has not tried show business or real estate. Being First Lady isn't something that Trump was ever eligible to be, and it's pretty clear that he doesn't have much of her policy wonkiness. — Bitter Crank
That's not my comment. Why don't you reply to what is written instead of your own rephrased misinterpretations?So in a single comment, you take the left to task for accusing the right of anti-intellectualism, then point out the right's "blatant" anti-intellectualism! Hilarious. — Real Gone Cat
My claim is directed at the anti-intellectualism of ideologues on the left and the right. Since you can read it should not have passed you by. So, are you an ideologue?So your claim is that the right exhibits "blatant" anti-intellectualism. Are you a leftie? — Real Gone Cat
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