tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post791063080747773117..comments2024-03-27T23:28:20.274-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Become more Trump-like by changing positions, not personaagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-81315800446420348632016-01-14T03:09:42.447-05:002016-01-14T03:09:42.447-05:00"Trump's caricature of Trump has been one..."Trump's caricature of Trump has been one of the greatest red herrings on the battlefield of politics" <br /><br />This is really good. Trumpologisthttp://understandtrump.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-48075680219191153832015-12-17T22:04:41.109-05:002015-12-17T22:04:41.109-05:00Carly Fiorina is a terrible candidate. She is Mit...Carly Fiorina is a terrible candidate. She is Mitt Romney but without any political experience whatsoever: another CEO whose brilliant leadership involves outsourcing jobs and collecting a fat severance when her "leadership" makes the company almost go tits up. We've had enough of those jackasses.<br /><br />All she says during the debates is "people are angry and it is time for action" but she never really articulates what actions she would take other than the same crap every non-Trump non-Paul and non-Cruz candidate is saying. Nothing about her says "leader" to me.Random Dude on the Internetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-37912024923440652812015-12-17T20:58:54.632-05:002015-12-17T20:58:54.632-05:00She is charmless as well. I wonder is she is happ...She is charmless as well. I wonder is she is happy. I think she should have went back to being a CEO of a very small company where she could have the title and the company might have benefited from her connections. Really, with her resume if her name was Carl would she even be considered. I have mixed feelings about Trump but I love his cheap campaign. He should constantly compare the money he is spending on his campaign(or rough approximation) to his rivals particularly socialist Sanders. markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02083316354675176699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-46509185334993260062015-12-17T19:40:24.841-05:002015-12-17T19:40:24.841-05:00Quit trolling. She's terrible.Quit trolling. She's terrible.batsourcehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17300371752252876248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-71372530539545600912015-12-17T18:03:04.973-05:002015-12-17T18:03:04.973-05:00"She has zero stage presence -- she's whi..."She has zero stage presence -- she's whiny and only thinly masking her incompetence with canned lectures. She reminds everyone of that know-it-all disaster of a boss. She's a (half-)human PowerPoint."<br /><br />Nah. We know that she is, in fact, that from her performance at HP and from the incompetence of her campaign. She is clearly well-prepared for the debates, looks and acts confidence on stage, and delivers her lines well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-63593442156746861262015-12-17T17:06:45.000-05:002015-12-17T17:06:45.000-05:00"the people I hate most in the world freaking..."the people I hate most in the world freaking out over Trump like he's the next Hitler"<br /><br />The best part about the explicit Nazi/Hitler comparisons is that the audience they're appealing to doesn't really think the Nazis/Hitler were in a class by themselves. They're just a generic go-to insult that has no special sting.<br /><br />The folks who respond most negatively to the Nazis/Hitler are the Americans who have a fondness for Midcentury America, fighting the good war, flying the American flag, singing along to the "Star Spangled Banner," and celebrating V-Day.<br /><br />And of course that is the audience who love Trump the most. Nazi/Hitler comparisons don't just strike them as lazy failed attempts at an insult -- it's calling good evil. So not only do they rally behind Trump even more in his defense, they develop an even greater hatred for the talking heads, whether on TV, newspapers, or your Facebook feed.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-89735162613057142702015-12-17T16:58:42.457-05:002015-12-17T16:58:42.457-05:00She has zero stage presence -- she's whiny and...She has zero stage presence -- she's whiny and only thinly masking her incompetence with canned lectures. She reminds everyone of that know-it-all disaster of a boss. She's a (half-)human PowerPoint.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-58558387325298747742015-12-17T16:14:01.296-05:002015-12-17T16:14:01.296-05:00"Fiorina's dead campaign "
Indeed. ..."Fiorina's dead campaign "<br /><br />Indeed. Fiorina has a stage presence almost as impressive as Trump's. She comes across as tough and competent. She comes across as the kind of person who both says and personifies that Thatcher quote she used "If you want something talked about, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman."<br /><br />Yet, nobody is going to vote for her. And it's because she is so obviously and completely a member and servant of our hideous elite.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-15351893453645094172015-12-17T12:33:51.611-05:002015-12-17T12:33:51.611-05:00Look at this Jewish paranoia from Jonathan Chait
...Look at this Jewish paranoia from Jonathan Chait<br /><br /><br />http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/12/why-does-trump-hire-terrible-docs-and-lawyers.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-52269019086688585322015-12-17T04:01:34.850-05:002015-12-17T04:01:34.850-05:00It warms the cockles of my heart to see the people...It warms the cockles of my heart to see the people I hate most in the world freaking out over Trump like he's the next Hitler. Those who adhere to the Niceness Cult of NonJudgetivity can't believe that someone would come along who has an actual OPINION about things. Those horrible, horrible racist Americans! Believing that they should act in their own interests first! What MONSTERS! Can't they see that Western Civilization is the root of all evil? WHATISWEGUNNADO??!!! TroperAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-34482121417367408362015-12-16T16:52:36.692-05:002015-12-16T16:52:36.692-05:00One huge advantage Trump is getting is that the Es...One huge advantage Trump is getting is that the Establishment is making him seem less extreme, because of the absurd positions they're doubling down on.<br /><br />Should the First Amendment be ditched for the Zeroth Amendment?<br /><br />Should we accept hundreds of thousands of people from ISISland?<br /><br />Should we be more worried about people getting mad about terrorist attacks than the attacks themselves?<br /><br />The Establishment is screaming YES OR ELSE on all of these ridiculous positions. In comparison, Trump seems ever less extreme as time goes on. As such, people who were turned off by Trump's personality are viewing him as the voice of reason in comparison to the lunatics currently in charge.Anonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-69470654711689132362015-12-16T10:10:58.771-05:002015-12-16T10:10:58.771-05:00The election of 1960 really screwed political disc...The election of 1960 really screwed political discourse in this country. <br /><br />The standard explanation of 1960 -- which I believe is correct -- is that it was decided by TV: Kennedy knew how to use it; Nixon didn't. But subsequent mythmaking around Kennedy made it seem like he won because his youthful <i>personality</i> came through better on TV, when in fact it was his positions. Remember the "missile gap?" Kennedy won by out-hawking Nixon on missile defense -- the younger guy was more gung-ho to confront the USSR than the old guy.<br /><br />Unfortunately, this was confirmed when hip young guy Bill Clinton anointed himself the new JFK against dull old guy George HW Bush. Again, not youth and media savvy, but positions, carried the day -- GHWB ran as Reagan II, the ultimate Cold Warrior... but the Cold War was over. In the first great recursion of Boomer narcissism, Boomer voters convinced themselves that by voting for Clinton, they were really voting for JFK.... the idealized JFK they had in their heads, not the Diem-assassinating, Cuban coup-attempting, tax-cutting, Special Forces-loving superhawk who actually ran to the right of Nixon in 1960. They voted, in other words, for the <i>positions</i> they passionately believed their fever-dream version of Kennedy held. <br /><br />So, too, in 2000. All of Al Gore's very public persona flailing should've tipped them off -- remember when that idiot bimbo Naomi Wolfe told him to wear "earth tones?" The fact was, Gore ran as a defense policy wonk; back then he was a missile defense expert, not the High Priest of the Church of Gaia. Similarly, George Bush's appeal wasn't his "aw shucks" cowboy persona; that came later. He ran -- I shit you not -- as the <i>education</i> candidate. He was well to the left of John McCain, then as now doing his "bomb everyone everywhere" schtick. <br /><br />The point is that the Boomer narcissists who run political campaigns and control media punditry are indeed <i>Boomer narcissists</i> (redundant, I know). They only remember what they think they saw on TV, and that's the lens through which they filter everything. Because Kennedy was the first political candidate they saw on TV, and because they all got the liberal religion in college, they convinced themselves -- again, through the magic of Boomer narcissism -- that Kennedy was really a college Democrat circa 1992. According to them, that was the persona he projected, and that was the persona that beat Richard Nixon in 1960... or, at least, their version of Nixon, who -- surprise surprise -- sounds like the president of the most assholish frat on campus circa 1992. Severianhttp://www.rottenchestnuts.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-30201066373227445912015-12-16T07:19:31.285-05:002015-12-16T07:19:31.285-05:00BTW, the coverage everywhere today is trying to hy...BTW, the coverage everywhere today is trying to hype up Bush and Christie, easily among the worst performances last night. They had this crap written up ahead of time, paid for by these two doofus' PACs.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.com