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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:14 AM Oct 2018

The Rude Pundit: "Donald Trump's Balls Taste Like the Sweetest Candy."

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There is this absolutely desperate attempt on the right to make Donald Trump, someone who is at best a fraud, at worst an enabler of terrorism and other crimes, into something honorable. It's kind of pathetic, like the Washington Post's Marc Thiessen's recent piece, "Donald Trump's Balls Taste Like the Sweetest Candy." Oh, wait. No, that was the subtext. The actual title is "Trump could be the most honest president in modern history." And why is that? Because he said he was going to do some shit and he did it. What Thiessen sleazily leaves out of his piece is that each thing Trump promised to do that he's done has not had the effect he swore it would have, like that the tax cut would be great for everyone and tax revenue wouldn't be affected. Well, now Mitch McConnell is talking about cutting Social Security and Medicare to pay for it. That makes Trump a fucking liar.

See, the Left doesn't hate America. Built into the notion of "Make America Great Again" is a hatred of the country as it exists now (or 2 years ago because I guess America is great again because the president is white again). And conservatives and their anti-intellectual intellectuals have to stereotype liberals as having disdain for the working class. Gelernter gelernts, "The difference between citizens who hate Mr. Trump and those who can live with him—whether they love or merely tolerate him—comes down to their views of the typical American: the farmer, factory hand, auto mechanic, machinist, teamster, shop owner, clerk, software engineer, infantryman, truck driver, housewife. The leftist intellectuals I know say they dislike such people insofar as they tend to be conservative Republicans."

Motherfucker, there are people in every one of those jobs who fucking despise Trump. Do they hate the country, too? Do they count as "average" or is that only available to Trump voters? And it would take a computer scientist attempting political analysis to write something this ludicrous: "Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know their real sins. They know how appalling such people are, with their stupid guns and loathsome churches." You mean the same Barack Obama who, unlike a certain current president, regularly attended church with his family? Are you still pissed about his "God and guns" remark? But I thought you liked people who speak their fuckin' mind. You just fuckin' said that about Trump.

Once again, the Trumpian right reveals its deep, abiding disgust with anyone not worshipping their mad orange god. Oh, they can pretend they are willing to dance with the folks down in steerage, but it's almost always some privileged prick writing about how much he (and it's almost always "he&quot really gets the average American.


the rest:
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2018/10/wsj-writer-says-liberals-hate-trump.html

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The Rude Pundit: "Donald Trump's Balls Taste Like the Sweetest Candy." (Original Post) kpete Oct 2018 OP
And he was going to replace ObamaCare with better and cheaper medical coverage. SharonAnn Oct 2018 #1
"And it will be so easy!" kag Oct 2018 #2
K&R 2naSalit Oct 2018 #3

SharonAnn

(13,776 posts)
1. And he was going to replace ObamaCare with better and cheaper medical coverage.
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 09:21 AM
Oct 2018

He repeated that over and over and over during the campaign.

kag

(4,079 posts)
2. "And it will be so easy!"
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 09:45 AM
Oct 2018

Right. Easy enough to remove the individual mandate so people like me have to pay a lot more for shitty health insurance.

I hate right-wingers more than I can say.

But I love me some Rude Pundit.

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