I get a real kick listening to pundits acting surprised at the rise of Trump. Especially the pundits of the right wing variety. Ever since Barack Obama got elected there has been a relentless onslaught on his Presidency. He had to be made a one - term President, according to Majority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell. He is not a true American. He is Muslim. He is not Muslim but is pro-Muslim. He is a radical Christian who hates America. No matter that some of these accusations contradict each other. Obama is bad, bad, bad. He's a Communist. He's a Fascist. Even heard he was gay, and better yet, a gay prostitute.
It is amazing how gullible the American people can be! Actually, they are not that stupid, since according to the GOP alternate reality, the elections (both of them) were rigged just like all the numbers coming from the government are rigged. There are no new jobs being created, unemployment is not going down and we are getting our butt kicked all over the world. You get the idea.
What is amazing is that there are millions of people who believe this garbage. And can you blame them? All the sources they listen to, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Breitbart, Drudge, are all saying versions of this alternate reality.
So why does it seem so preposterous that a reality TV star with a big mouth would base himself on this alternate view of the world? There are millions of natural constituents that are ready to swallow all this crap, and the Donald is just the unscrupulous guy to feed it to them. Donald didn't make all this stuff up -- he is just taking advantage of what other people have done.
Journalists like Megyn Kelly learned this the hard way. She tried to act like a regular journalist and got Trumped. You cannot clash with his reality and not be slammed. You might as well question his net worth or his taste in women. For a guy who claims he doesn't like Political Correctness, he is certainly touchy about himself.
Donald Trump is the monster created by all the Dr. Frankenstein's out there that enjoyed themselves at Barack Obama's expense. They painted a picture of the United States as going down the toilet due to an impostor in the White House and now we are reaping the benefits of this gigantic fraud perpetuated on the American people. It is so much fun to listen to the horror in the voice of people like Mitch McConnell who worked so hard to discredit the Obama administration now recoiling from the monster he helped create.
The GOP is reaping what they sowed, and now they have to live with the consequences. If they had not been so eager to postulate how terrible our President was, and how awful shape our country was in, they may have had a chance to nominate a reasonable character that was not based on "taking our country back," but rather taking our country in a new direction. As Sir Isaac Newton once said, "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." We are witnessing the backlash based on all the lies told about President Obama. The chickens are indeed coming back to roost.
It would be easy to feel sorry for the GOP at this time, being stuck with the monster they created, but since most Republicans believe in the free market, they are living examples of the free market at work, a force they cannot control, and according to their own philosophy, the way things should be.
So Republicans, your actions have produced this result. You have reached the lowest common denominator based on essentially creating an alternate reality for your constituents. A bogus reality, to be sure, but a reality that millions of people have swallowed whole and are only exercising their right in acting upon this fake reality you have been so happy to promote for the last seven years or so.
Good luck with that, and maybe next time you might consider telling the truth. It might actually work for you.
It is amazing how gullible the American people can be! Actually, they are not that stupid, since according to the GOP alternate reality, the elections (both of them) were rigged just like all the numbers coming from the government are rigged. There are no new jobs being created, unemployment is not going down and we are getting our butt kicked all over the world. You get the idea.
What is amazing is that there are millions of people who believe this garbage. And can you blame them? All the sources they listen to, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Breitbart, Drudge, are all saying versions of this alternate reality.
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So why does it seem so preposterous that a reality TV star with a big mouth would base himself on this alternate view of the world? There are millions of natural constituents that are ready to swallow all this crap, and the Donald is just the unscrupulous guy to feed it to them. Donald didn't make all this stuff up -- he is just taking advantage of what other people have done.
Journalists like Megyn Kelly learned this the hard way. She tried to act like a regular journalist and got Trumped. You cannot clash with his reality and not be slammed. You might as well question his net worth or his taste in women. For a guy who claims he doesn't like Political Correctness, he is certainly touchy about himself.
Donald Trump is the monster created by all the Dr. Frankenstein's out there that enjoyed themselves at Barack Obama's expense. They painted a picture of the United States as going down the toilet due to an impostor in the White House and now we are reaping the benefits of this gigantic fraud perpetuated on the American people. It is so much fun to listen to the horror in the voice of people like Mitch McConnell who worked so hard to discredit the Obama administration now recoiling from the monster he helped create.
The GOP is reaping what they sowed, and now they have to live with the consequences. If they had not been so eager to postulate how terrible our President was, and how awful shape our country was in, they may have had a chance to nominate a reasonable character that was not based on "taking our country back," but rather taking our country in a new direction. As Sir Isaac Newton once said, "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." We are witnessing the backlash based on all the lies told about President Obama. The chickens are indeed coming back to roost.
It would be easy to feel sorry for the GOP at this time, being stuck with the monster they created, but since most Republicans believe in the free market, they are living examples of the free market at work, a force they cannot control, and according to their own philosophy, the way things should be.
So Republicans, your actions have produced this result. You have reached the lowest common denominator based on essentially creating an alternate reality for your constituents. A bogus reality, to be sure, but a reality that millions of people have swallowed whole and are only exercising their right in acting upon this fake reality you have been so happy to promote for the last seven years or so.
Good luck with that, and maybe next time you might consider telling the truth. It might actually work for you.
