Posted By Rude One
Walking dick joke Donald Trump sailed easily to victory in the New Hampshire primary last night in the wake of a bizarro rally where he called
Ted Cruz a "pussy." Yeah, yeah, it doesn't matter that he was repeating
what a woman in the audience yelled. He chose to say it, he smirked and
practically jacked off while he said it, and so, yeah, he called Cruz a
"pussy."
Truth be told, Ted Cruz is more of a cunt and a prick and a huge
asshole, but let's be clear as to why Trump degraded Cruz. It was
because Cruz was iffy on whether or not he'd allow the torture of
prisoners through waterboarding. To Trump, this was an outrage because,
as he says so often while karate chopping the air with his stubby hands,
ISIS beheads people - Christians, damnit. So the crowds cheer when
Trump says he's going to allow waterboarding "and worse" (although he
won't define what "worse" is because he doesn't want to tip his hand to
the enemy). That's what makes you a "pussy" in Trumpworld: The barest
desire to not be a savage animal. Even Ted "Carpet Bomb" Cruz doesn't
make the cut.
The results of the New Hampshire primary were fucking frightening because
47% of the GOP voters chose the crazy candidates: Trump and Cruz.
That's more than the next four establishment candidates combined. In
Iowa, Trump and Cruz together got nearly 52% of the voters, which,
obviously, is more than all the rest. Right now, polls in South Carolina have Trump and Cruz taking the votes of 55-56% of Republicans.
So the only question to those voters is simple: "How fucking dumb are
you?" And the simple answer is: "We're really fucking dumb, man."
Look, it's easy to see the appeal of Trump to angry white people who
have been stripped of power and, rather than blame other white people,
want to blame immigrants and Muslims and that Negro in the White House.
Dumb people believe that blatant shows of power are the only way power
exists. So if we're not sending soldiers to kill the fuck out of
foreigners, then we must be a bunch of, well, shit, pussies. Dumb people
like to try to connect themselves with successful people, like the
lickspittles who try to get into the popular kids' circle at prep
school. Dumb people do this even if the successful person is a raging
hemorrhoid of a human being. And dumb people don't care if they are lied
to, repeatedly, if the lies confirm their irrational and unshakable
biases and hatreds. That's the secret to the right-wing media and it's
the secret to Trump.
Look at his victory
speech last night, said to a room of slobbering cattle who would bend
over and drop their pants if Trump said he wanted to brand their asses
with a giant "T." Trump just makes shit up as he goes. "We're going to
rebuild our military. It's going to be so big, so strong, so powerful.
Nobody is going to mess with us, believe me, nobody. Nobody," he said.
Do you, Trump voter, really believe that terrorists are going to be
intimidated by a big military? Yeah, sure, some ISIS member is gonna
think, through the haze religious fervor and amphetamines,
"Well, I'm supposed to shoot up that mall for Allah, but I don't know.
President Trump has sure made the military huge." You probably do
believe that because you are dumb.
Or when Trump said, "I am going to be the greatest jobs president that
God ever created." What the fuck does that even mean? And then he just
went completely shit-tossing crazy: "Don't believe those phony numbers
when you hear 4.9 and 5 percent unemployment. The number's probably 28,
29, as high as 35. In fact, I even heard recently 42 percent." At the
height of the Great Depression, the unemployment rate was 25%. He's just
pulling numbers from various reports, like he clicked through a few
links after googling "real unemployment rate." If 42% of workers were
unemployed, we'd've already lined up people like Trump to shoot dead and
turn into a terrible stew.
And then there was shit that represents a fundamental stupidity about
how the world of politics is different from the world of business. Trump
said, "We're going to beat China, Japan. We're going to beat Mexico at
trade. We're going to beat all of these countries that are taking so
much of our money away from us on a daily basis," he said. Motherfucker,
those are some of our biggest trade partners. Are you gonna levy
tariffs? They'll tariff the shit out of our goods and wreck the economy.
These aren't policy disagreements. These aren't ideological differences
over the level of taxes on the wealthy, for instance. These are just
layers of bullshit on top of layers of bullshit to create a parfait of
bullshit.
But none of this matters to Trump voters. Because they're that dumb. And
Trump's rise is a hilarious failure for a Republican Party that wanted
to make its voters dumb enough to vote against their interests. Well,
those motherfuckin' chickens are home to motherfuckin' roost.
The GOP is so lacking in anything like a legitimate moral center that
the most immoral asshole in the room is going to be your standard
bearer. Congratulations on nearly eight years of delegitimizing the
presidency and several decades of saying that government itself is bad.
You've finally gotten your perfect candidate.
The Clinton campaign is collapsing. Built for an outdated
presidential race from the past two decades, it underestimated the
changing times, a unique opponent, and increasingly savvy voters.
The campaign's first mistake was to take the traditional approach of sitting on a lead. Certainly, it would have seemed a
safe bet. The party's elected politicians would rally to her as the
presumptive nominee—and they did. Donors were lined up for a big
haul—and they gave. The media would willingly marginalize Sanders—and
they tried. And the voters could be quickly frightened with specters of
Republicans into sticking with the establishment candidate—but they weren't.
Despite every institutional advantage and a made-to-order GOP horror
show, voters could not be scared away from Sanders. The more intently
the machine insisted upon Clinton, the more suspect Clinton became. And
now her campaign is out of options.
There are no more endorsements left to get. She's squandered her
financial advantage by outspending Sanders by many times in Iowa, only
to tie. Her big donors must be maxing out in direct contributions,
leaving Super PAC's as the only vehicle through which she can make up the
losses (less than ideal optics). And the media has already stooped so
low in its dismissal of Sanders that there is no credible room left to
expand that endeavor. At this point, Chris Matthews would literally have
to beg viewers to vote Clinton in order to outdo his current advocacy.
On unfamiliar territory and feeling desperate, the inflexible
campaign made the second mistake of doubling down on its voter
containment strategy, completely giving up on converting any new voters.
There is no obvious goal or governing principles coming out of her camp
at this point. No lines in the sand she's promising to draw as
President. All that's left is jeering smack-talk of Bernie-Bros,
pie-in-the-sky aspirations, and sexism—suggesting that anyone who still
likes Sanders has been cut from the target audience.
And it isn't working.
Why should it? People aren't idiots. Shirley Chisholm, Jan
Schakowsky, Barbara Lee, Sheila Jackson Lee, Elizabeth Warren and many
others have shown us that women can confront our sexist culture and
still refuse to submit to the male-dominated influences that have ruined
our economy and democracy. And consider politicians like Meg Whitman
and Carly Fiorina, who have also battled untold sexist barriers to
achieve their groundbreaking professional goals; only the most deluded
Democratic voter would consider handing them high office as compensation
for their troubles.
Essentially, the Clinton campaign is wrapping a sexist appeal
in the veneer of feminism: because she was a woman, Clinton couldn't
help but play ball with corporations, so give her a girl pass. What a
slap in the face to every woman who never sold out or gave up. It's one
thing to point out that a woman went through a mountain of man-shit to
obtain her rightful due, or blazed a path for future women, however
imperfectly; it's another thing, completely, to insist voters overlook
corruption because the candidate is a woman.
And as the campaign lashes out in a panic, other wheels are starting to come off the bus.
In the last debate, Sanders addressed race on three occasions: 1)
asked about the death penalty, he noted that innocent people of color
are more likely to find their way to death row; 2) asked about our
criminal justice system, he made sure to include in his answer the fact
that we incarcerate mostly people of color; and 3) when responding to
the Flint disaster, he asked a type of question rarely heard from a
Presidential candidate: what would have happened if Flint's population
was middle class and white?
Clinton said absolutely nothing about race. Well, almost nothing. At
the debate's conclusion, with the last question answered, Clinton
wondered aloud why there weren't opportunities to talk about race.
How must that have sounded to black viewers, who surely noticed not
only Sanders' pointed and appropriate injection of racial concerns into
his answers, but the absence of any equivalent from Clinton? I'm sure
she had good sound bytes at the ready; she just lacked the inter-sectional ability to weave them into a question that didn't parade
itself as race-focused.
Is it any surprise that public figures from the African American
community are beginning to withdraw their endorsements of Clinton and
line up behind Sanders?
It is as though the Clinton campaign was designed to last only so
long; slap-dash construction with a lifespan no longer than the short
time it would take to push Sanders out of the frame. When that didn't
happen, there was no Plan B. The public didn't care who Congress
endorsed, and they didn't care what the Chris Matthews of the world
said, and they aren't buying the argument that everyone troubled by
Clinton is somehow hoodwinked by Republican misogyny. They want actual
representation and appreciate a candidate who shoots straight.
And this is the nail in the Clinton coffin. The American people are
beginning to realize they have the ability to elect someone they're not
supposed to elect. Clinton represents everything "normal" about
elections that are now universally recognized as abnormal. She is a safe
bet only in a fictional world that is being dismantled. She is the
past, and the future has become viable.
Berine Sanders' support will continue to swell, as it should, and Democrats need the courage to call this a good thing—a great thing.
No longer can we permit our values and agendas to be boxed in by the
very influences that oppose them. Time is running out on our ecology,
our economy, and our social fabric, and nothing less than an out-and-out
champion for our future will do.
You probably already know this. It's probably why you are
voting for Sanders in your Democratic Primary. It looks like you'll have
plenty of company.
