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Finding Pearls Of Wisdom In The Donald’s Trumperbolic Campaign
I’ve just received an interesting query from Mingo, a long-standing European journalist friend and expert on all-things-Afghan… someone whose acquaintanceship dates back to the early days of America’s involvement in Afghanistan. Someone, I might add, who did prove to have in 2004 a clearer vision of what was to happen in that country than most, if not all, military experts, media gurus and politicians in the US. My writings at that time can attest to that.
Mingo’s question is about the perception, he claims, Europeans have on US’ current state of the 2016 presidential election, and what he’s calling “the phenomenon Trump.” His incredulity as to the number of possible followers Trump is said to have (if accurately reflected by the polling) seems to match the incredulity by much of America’s media, or of career politicians sucking on Washington’s udder. “How can ‘that many’ Americans take seriously an arrogant charlatan and be swept away by ridiculous and undisguised hyperbole,” is a question that not just Mingo raises, but one that many have been asking for weeks since Donald Trump decided to enter presidential politics.
But it isn’t catchy phrases seasoned with political hyperbole that have been coming out of Donald Trump’s mouth; it’s not just exaggerations sliding out for emphasis or effect. The short, catchy statements coming out of the leading Republican candidate are not the expected quantifiable or qualifiable exaggerations we are accustomed to hearing from the current political version of yesteryear’s traveling medicine man. Hyperbole has been elevated to a new literary status more in line with the stature of its charismatic and billionaire originator: trumperbole. If Trump’s $3 billion wealth can be subjectively inflated to $10 billion, why not just pump hyperbole and call it trumperbole or, in similar fashion, reclassify trump as an adjective and give it comparative and superlative forms: trumper, trumpest, anyone? Well, these days in the US, we are seeing our celebrated and self-proclaimed potential savior, Donald Trump, as the non-politician politician proudly donning capitalist airs and shouting the trumpest trumperbole.
Irony of ironies, however, is the amount of truth that can come out of the mouth of this political babe as he tears apart or diminishes the political persona of GOP adversaries. Not just his party’s peer candidates but other Republican politicians as well who dare stand in the way: Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry, Rand Paul… all have been cut to sub-Trump size, even ridiculed; while others have not been dignified with a Trump honorable mention, Ted Cruz being the exception with an interesting and secretive question mark. Be that as it may, the entire group of Republican presidential contenders has been irremediably diminished to a sickly and unworthy flock of possible standard bearers for the GOP.
But the Republicans are experiencing more than just the political castration of top party figures, often comically so by someone who lacks any orthodoxy or practicality which favors tradition and fights radical change. Out of the mouth of this political babe, there have been two gems of political wisdom which are likely to hurt Republicans far more than Democrats. Trump’s contention that politicians in Washington are being bought by special interests is no breaking news announcement, but his underlining and writing of this fact in bold letters readily does away with the mockery that ours is a democracy, or that our government is in any way, shape or form a government for the people… only for those who can pay the entry fee. The other gem has to do with iniquity in taxation, likely to make him few friends in the gallery of speculators in hedge funds.
Donald Trump, I could tell Mingo, is no phenomenon or wonder, only someone money has immunized and given a suit of armor under our capitalist system; a person with true elite-freedom. Little wonder that few people in the media, or politicians, are willing to alienate him or, much less, tackle him head on when there is the prospect of a litigious wrecking ball waiting in the wings.
It is precisely this view by many that Trump is impervious to any type of fear that makes him an attractive advocate or champion of causes which people would otherwise keep hidden within themselves. Nativists can now show their passion thanks to Trump’s leadership; and so can racial-mongers; and white nationalist activists; and a few others. They can all come out of the closet and feel safe.
I could also tell Mingo something else. The Republican Party is running the danger, if Donald Trump becomes its nominee, of having its candidate become the counterpart of George McGovern (the liberal candidate) in 1972. For those then around, we can revisit those numbers and look at the prospect of Trump becoming Republicans’ McGovern. [McGovern had just 37.5 percent of the popular vote and only carried Massachusetts and the District of Columbia in the Electoral College (520-17).]
No; Trump is no phenomenon, just a figurehead for those with closeted anger trying to resist unstoppable change in the world and resent their loss of power.
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WHAT
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adhoc political site-
if Zerohedge wants to come out with a "campaign frontrunner", just say so.
pageviews, ad revenue. Welcome to a for profit website.
Another hack author playing the race card.
ZH,...really?????????????
really?????????
Ben Tanosborn in 2008: From "A clear choice for America: Obama or oblivion"
"In this presidential election, even if our heart doesn’t go with our vote, progressives must indeed go with the lesser evil so as to counter the racist and xenophobic vote. Senator Barack Obama must not only get our vote, but our best wishes to govern."
http://www.tanosborn.com/columns/2008/clear-choice-america-obama-or-obli...
he's spewing the same crap now as he was in 2008 to get Obola elected....
It takes some time as they're long winded, but eventually the red arm bands come out, to wit:
No; Trump is no phenomenon, just a figurehead for those with closeted anger trying to resist UNSTOPPABLE CHANGE in the world and resent their loss of power.
No, this is typical marxist projection. The man's really bemoaning the imminent loss of HIS power over the great unwashed. In any event, who is this guy?
"Necessary changes in foreign policy – the principal cause for all OUR wars; and in domestic economic policy – the reason for grouping Americans in two camps of rich and poor, are not about to change until there is an upheaval in all aspects of American society: social, political and economic. Until that day comes, we shall continue challenging American politics with our progressive voice… heralding, as loudly as we are allowed, our cry for social justice.
Ben Tanosborn
February 1, 2015"
It's a logical fallacy of course, to discount the message because of the messenger, but it's often sage advice to do so anyway despite that fault. So I will.
It does not supprise me that this leftist bullshit was written by a blogger who has a raging hard-on for one Bernie Sanders. As he has previously written.
"Bernie is the epitome of a squeaky-clean politician standing for all progressive, popular causes that would deliver him the populist vote most anywhere in the world… except in this America of ours.
Still, Vermont should take pride in its adopted son, a mild-mannered politician, honest and courageous like few others ever elected to serve in congress."
What a Douche Bag
Trump is nothing but a propaganda trojan horse for tyranny and Zion. Except, instead of opening up and disgorging some that will open wide the gates to death, he is paving the rhetorical way for the people to open the gates themselves.
Look for Trump to "self-destruct" in the following few months, and for the Right/Repubs. to "take up his message," but "in modified form."
Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity..
Trump: The ultimate-eminence front.
Awfully queer take.
It always strikes me as curious how many see and understand how corrupt and serving of tyranny the noiZ-media is, but still believe anything they say that jives with how they wish things were. People seem to be unable to comprehend that tailoring a message to how people think, and wish things were, so as to create and foster delusion, is one of the main aspects and purposes of propaganda.
Even after the era of the very clear lie of CIA-Obama, one would think that people would catch on--at least be suspect--about all emanations from the noiZ-media and tyranny. My God, just 9/11, Sandy Hook, Boston, and Paris alone, should be enough to convince people that it is all just shadows on a cave wall.
Both poisoned and unpoisoned Kool-Aid look and taste nice.
Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity..
They lie about everything. Why would they lie about this.
Trump will never be President. He is having a blast and the time of his life, vastly rich to do whatever he wants when he wants to do it, the celebrity life and adored by millions. He will NEVER give all that up to take a huge step down to become President. Let him have his fun and provide us with the entertainment show of a lifetime. If he starts winning primaries, he will find an excuse to bow out, maybe run as an independent to stay in the lights until election day but safely away from any chance of actually winning.
Hyperbole -- an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally.
Not intended to be taken literally.
Beware, both sides of this freak show. If you take either side of it, you are admitting that hyperbole motivates you.
People make choices, live with it.
Speaking at his press conference during one of his events in Norwood, MA on Friday, presidential candidate Donald Trump openly said "CNN is terrible" to one of the networks' left-wing minions, formerly known as a reporter.
Trump sounded off when a reporter asked him what his reaction was to protesters who were outside the conference, accusing the reporter of asking a tangential question that has nothing to do with the conference.
"I don’t see many protesters," said Trump. "I see thousands of people, and there’s a few protesters. And I figured you’d ask that question because you know — no, that’s the way it is. CNN is terrible. CNN, you’re with CNN? Are you with CNN?"
The reporter answered in the affirmative and Trump continued, saying, "You people do not cover us accurately at all. So they have a few protesters outside, and they have thousands of people, and the first question from CNN is about protesters."
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/trump-cnn-terrible
Trumph is not running to win, he is there to get a dem elected.
Bread and Circusess, people. Look at the right hand while the left squeezes yer balls.
By the time the sheep start voting, the choice will be between a socialist and a fascist. (That is if the Half White Hope hasn't declared a state of emergency suspending all elections and imposing marshall law.)
And WTF is up with weekend Tyler? Is the Militant Black Lesbo back?
As the Texas secession movement gains popularity and momentum. "Strange days indeed!"
Trump is a 1% trying to sound like us. Who do you think he will serve if elected, they all tell us what we want to hear then get back to fleecing us...
Baaaaaaaaaaaaa!
I don't think Trump, if nominated by the Red Team, would be McGovern. I think the Blue Team ends up running the table on him. No states won.
Through blatant election theft, sure! They've done it before.
This post's author, Ben Tanosborn, wrote 8/17/15 on "IntrepidReport dot Com"
This Trump-virus is not likely to persist for very long, but his damage to the Republican Party will remain undeletable . . . today’s version of India ink.
As for Bernie; well, he is on target pointing our big problem as one of economic class struggle, but Americans aren’t quite ready for a second American revolution; no, not yet. And failing to adequately acknowledge cultural and racial diversity in American society, or the need to achieve compromise and peace in the world, prevent Bernie from achieving messianic status. (His time spent in an Israeli kibbutz likely did enhance his understanding of democracy, but prejudiced his attitude for compromise.)
If only in his status as a prophet, Bernie Sanders could bring to the presidential stage the candidacy of America’s true messiah: Senator Elizabeth Warren!
'nuff said.
"...will remain undeletable..." Curious choice of words. I would like to see the author's emails.
The party of stupid just getting stupid-er. Nothing to see here, move on...
This piece of shit is scribbling fucking bollocks. First, this faggot, yes another closet faggot just like his favored fucking piece of shit the fucking o bumboy faggot. oNo such person as mingo, all fucking made upsThis cunt is just another third rate wannabe libtard obummer cock sucker that gets paid for this shit by his slimy handlers.
Europeans understand better than most Americans why they are voting for trump and don't let this corrupt kike tell you otherwise
Trump is the best running, not that that is saying much but he is the best. There are better men but they are not running and the BEST of men would get ZERO coverage by the MSM.
Immigration Is About More Than Trump–It’s About The Survival Of The West
By Patrick J. Buchanan 08.17.2015
I read the other day that Germany is going to take in not 500,000 asylum seekers but 750,000.
Since 2000, All Employment Growth Has Gone to Immigrants
uncontrolled immigration, legal and illegal is the western suicide pact it seems
See! This just lends credence to my previous post. I'm telling y'all, we need to be very careful with this one.
Repubican't contenders were already a, "sickly and unworthy flock of standard bearers for the GOP." Each one a robot just like the democraps. No plans but to get elected.
Donald Duane Allesandro Herbert Mountain Dew Camacho Trump.
Idiocracy has arrived.
lol
Holy shit... coming from a site full of so-called libertarians this is kind of creepy. This douchebag stands for almost EVERYTHING you guys claim to oppose. But you're going to vote for him... because he talks a lot of shit and hates Mexicans? Wow.
Beware the man who is casting the image that a large chunk of people want to see, and saying the shit they want to hear. If Trump is actually on his way to the White House there are only two realistic scenarios:
1) He's already working for the same people as Obama, Bush, Clinton, et al. I consider this the most likely scenario.
2) He's going to get fucking assisinated within his first year in office.
Wake up. There is no hope in politics. Our chances of getting out of this mess are slim going on zero under the best of circumstances (I think the oligarchs have already won), but our chances of voting our way out are somewhere in the negative regions.
When tin foil is your go to hat anything is possible.
Internal consistency of thought was a never a strong suit of Libertarians....
Trump could very well get offed a la RFK, i.e. during the primaries...
Compared to what?
For example Stalinists were pretty consistent, in their promotion of THEIR brand of "UNSTOPPABLE CHANGE", or some such bullshit. They were also pretty prog, for their time.
I worry about history and shit, something of a buff but I notice some similarities (That have been written about before) between Trump's rise to power and Hitler. After watching the Sunday news shows, I am now pretty sure Trump has found his Jews.
Trump is just a place holder until they can pull him out at the last minute and crown the blue queen or red king.
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/saving-america-no-donald-trump-is-a-clint...
If people really think Trump is the guy that will save them they are wrong. No, it's time for you other complacent assholes to GO AND TELL THE TBTB TO FUCK OFF. Can you manage do that? Yes, you will lose your corporate job just as I did but are you going to be real? I did because I believe in the principle of liberty. Yeah, people have trouble staring me in the eye. These folks usually have a shit ton of debt and a house they can't afford but they think I am strange.
I am just venturing a guess here, but I'll bet you were and are financially capable of making sich a bold move. Not that I don't applaud your action, I do and wish there were more like you. It's just not too many are situated to disengage.
Millennials, get out of debt as fast as you can.
I wonder what Mingo and this author were writing about Trump right after he announced. It amazes me that writers still make declarative statements about Trump. He upends every assumption. He's owning the establishment and media in spite of their efforts to ruin him. If we pass up a chance to have this man lead us in favor of the hatchet-faced demon offered by the demonrat party, we deserve an anal gang-rape that never ends.
I just tried to listen to Trump being interviewed by O'Reilly re China, and the man is so colossally ignorant and downright stupid, I doubt his brain is bigger than a small monkey's. It's like listening to the dumbest of the dumb blondes on the Miss America pageant, it's just so embarrassing.
I know what my wife would say if I made the same comment as Ingenious. She'd say, "If you were so smart, why ain't you rich?"
You're not too familiar with the machine, are you?
Trump....best of a bad lot. Not looking good unless Hilary ends up in jail.
It will be even funnier when Trump comes out and says, "O.K. all you young people who are taking out government loans for your college education, I'm giving you a big trigger warning here because I am about to say how stupid you all are for borrowing money to be brainwashed by old hippy professors who have been hating the U.S.A. since 1968. Unless you are studying engineering or the sciences you are being played for a really stupid patsy and my staff tells me that before I can tell you that, I have to give you a trigger-warning. So, trigger-warning."
“No; Trump is no phenomenon, just a figurehead for those with closeted anger trying to resist unstoppable change in the world and resent their loss of power.”
What gives Americans of white European descent the audacity to hear out and draw comfort from a candidate that offers them any hope that their interests in a country that they built might be protected?
How dare they!
Let me make clear that my post is not a blanket defense of the man, Donald Trump. I have highlighted in my previous posts, a number of concerns that I have about him related to his ties with the cabal.
He may benefit indirectly from my comments, but my comments are directed at the author’s delusional conclusions that somehow the concerns of ordinary Americans of white European descent constitute “closeted anger” and that they have no legitimate interest in preventing their own genocide at the hands of the cabal through unbridled immigration – legal and otherwise.
I am focusing on immigration, because this is the issue that Donald Trump has raised that the cabal fears most – and which has incited rants such as this article. They fear it because immigration is a primary weapon that they wield to undermine white European culture and power in the US.
Among other topics, Donald Trump has addressed this genocide head on, and it makes people like the author very uncomfortable because they benefit from this ongoing crime, because they themselves are part of the cabal, whether they realize it or not.
In contrast to the article's conclusion, I think Donald Trump is a phenomenon, a phenomenon that finally brings to light (if not necessarily to conclusion) the crimes against true Americans by the cabal and their journalist puppets such as this author.
In no way, despite the author’s rant that these vile changes in our society are “unstoppable”, are the justified concerns about this issue waning. On the contrary, the popularity of Donald Trump is profound evidence that the opposition to these forces has just begun to awaken.
In contrast to the article's conclusion, this phenomenon is the beginning of a long overdue awakening, an awaking that does not depend on one man, any more than any other idea does whose time has come.
Take heed Mr. Tanosborn, your fantasy world is in decline.
In 2008 Ron Paul was snubbed by the mains stain news not so with Trump
I am waiting for Trump to address the real reasons the greatest economy in the world has been gutted and so far He has not.
Do you poor sad bastards grasp the fact that the election is in November ... NEXT YEAR?
What a hideous situation and MSM you are exposed to, you'll be hounded by this utter crap, daily, for ~15 more months! And then, to top it all off, one of the worst people on earth is guaranteed to 'win' it ... and it won't even matter which one it is ... ahahah!
It's as if Washington + NBC etal totally hate the shit out of America! Now you know what happens when you let torture runamok, eventually they get around to torturing you.
Has anyone noticed that during elections the politicians talk about the American voter, but when they are elected to Government the script changes to talk of Israel, and protecting Jews, above the voters of the USA? The agenda is obvious to everyone but the ignorant American masses that consistently allow Zionists to control their lives through Federal Government policy, and elected adherents of Zionism.
This time round fuck Israel right in the pussy!
Trump needs a little more beef than, "we're going to make America great again." At least something like, "a chicken in every pot" so I knows I might be getting something.
I tuned out that Fearareno woman when I heard her say, "The first thing I am going to do as President is to call Net'nYahoo." (and give him a little phone sex).