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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy local radio wingnut microcosm of the Drumpf defense talking points
So Wingnut #1s engrained, ideological slant even permeates neutral topics, like movie reviews. He heard that RAYGUN was considered for Casablanca before the Lib BOGART was cast. He pondered this and the Lib label was not mentioned, but he came down on keeping BOGART there as the perfect choice for the role while blurting out, I *LOVED* (RAYGUN) as president, but
(in other words, RAYGUN was no BOGART).
It was a foregone conclusion that he would regard RAYGUN like that, and no surprise that Drumpf is not the first snake oil salesman Wingnut #1 has fallen for, or rather snake oil salesmen are his breed of choice. Luckily, to young generations RAYGUN is non-existent, just an abstraction resulting from hearing the drumbeat of how great RAYGUN supposedly was (a pandering committed by Democrats beyond the predictable Repukes) versus what we who lived through that period know about his October Surprises, Iran-Contra, ignoring AIDS, lifelong grifting, and much more.
*** Wingnut #1 relies obsessively on tropes/canards to play "Why don't YOU do something?"
Trope1: (Re: gun control) They complain but dont say WHAT to do! - *LIE* - (multi-purpose for other issues)
Trope2: (Re: Drumpf) If Drumpf would just SHUT UP/stop Tweeting he would be FINE! - *LIE*
Trope3: (Re: immigration) variation of #1: They complain about fixing immigration but dont say WHAT to do! - *LIE*
The obvious response to the lying tropes is: Nothing gets done because you wingnuts block any of the remedies.
*** To surmise what Wingnut #1 and the rest of Drumpf defenders find about him so valuable as to save him at all costs: It derives from the Great White Hope syndrome: How, when Black boxers became champions, the White fans kept hoping for a White to emerge as the great conqueror to make boxing White again (to paraphrase a phrase), always looking, hoping, hopes dashed and dashed. Its like trying to find somebody of character and integrity in the long list of wingnut crazies. Like how Wingnut #1 claims that CHURCHILL was greater than FDR. Note: CHURCHILL was a racist and colonialist and there would be no WWII CHURCHILL without FDR. Oh, heres a thread in common fitting CHURCHILL with RAYGUN and Drumpf: Cheerleading, rousing or riling peeps up. RAYGUN had the benefit of Hollywood studio training (not enough to make him an A-list actor, but good enough for wingnut suckers).
So when Wingnut #1 says its TOO SOON and WE DONT KNOW ENOUGH to toss Drumpf to the ash heap, what hes WAITING for is some golden get-out-of-jail KEY that completely discredits the investigations, the way he claims all previous allegations (Russia, pee tape) were discredited (and, no, Hillary didn't start them - the Russia thing started with RUBIO's campaign - besides being *TRUE* ) .