* If this were a Tom Wolfe novel, we’d soon find out that Trump’s streetwise private eye had surreptitiously recorded Clinton saying or doing things at Trump National that would cause Hillary problems if exposed.
* Wait a minute. GOP establishment has been telling us Trump has to go because he’s vulgar and crude. And Rubio has been presented as a classy alternative. So, why is he doing the Howard Stern thing?
* The irony of Trump is he is seen as the anti-immigrant candidate but has the hunger, the fire in the belly, of an immigrant.
In METROPOLITAN, the established wasp elites fret a lot, lack confidence, and just await their decline to irrelevance. This is what stuck out about Jeb. He seemed so settled whereas Trump has some of that Davy Crockett adventurer about him.
Trump acts like he got off the boat with Tony Montana.
And a NYer of all people who’s come to represent flyover country?
Something is strange here.
Maybe Trump has one thing in common with Obama.
Though Obama was much favored by rich Libs and Jews, he felt as an outsider. He knew they were using him for his symbolic value.
Likewise, Trump was used by rich NY Jews in the way that Gatsby is used in the novel by those richer and smarter than he. He has the frontman image that the others don’t have.
If Trump had been surrounded by Wasps, maybe he would have felt differently. But having been surrounded by Jews who used his name and face, maybe he felt sort of ‘used’ like Obama.
And so, he gets a kick out of connecting with people ‘left behind’.
Or maybe it’s all just shtick.
In business, he always felt beholden to others. He was with others richer and smarter than him. But speaking to crowds, he really feels like boss and top dog.
* Hillary also thought she had the 2008 nomination locked up, and that Obama, the one-term do-nothing Senator, wasn’t anything to worry about. Whoops.
Hillary also thought she had a button that said “reset” in Russian that she gave to Putin, and that she would be a good Secretary of State and work with him. Whoops. The word actually meant “overcharge” in Russian, and Putin spent the last 8 years taking advantage of her and America’s gaffes.
Hillary also thought Bernie Sanders wouldn’t be a threat at all. Whoops. Bernie’s showing in Iowa and New Hampshire scared the crap outta her and the dems.
Let’s face it: Hillary is extremely bad at campaigning, diplomacy, and judging the danger of situations. Bill, ever a more man of the people, is way more right.
Now the way Trump beats her is simple: don’t harp on the nitpickiness of her millions of scandals, just assume the sale about her being a crook, and then hit her with a metaphorical Kill Shot insult. He’s already alluded to her seeming tired, which might work. I’m sure he’s got 3-4 major insults lined up.
* I also found an article by a physician, John McDougall, M.D., claiming that Bill Clinton’s “madness” is “a consequence of heart-bypass surgery brain damage”. With a sympathy that I don’t share, given all the horrible things the toxic Clintons have wrought, Dr. McDougall writes:
One of the savviest politicians of our generation, known for his wit, charm, and calm under extreme pressure, Bill Clinton appears out of character in the speeches and interviews televised since his bypass surgery September 6, 2004 and his mental deterioration may be accelerating….
One of the best-kept secrets in medicine is the brain damage caused during bypass surgery . . . these well-recognized side effects have been reported in medical journals since 1969.1
Brain damage during bypass surgery is so common that hospital personnel refer to it as “pump head.” The primary cause is emboli produced during surgery from clamping the aorta and from the “heart-lung machine.” This machine pumps blood to keep the patient alive while the heart is stopped during the operation. Unfortunately, this pump also introduces toxic gases, fat globules, and bits of plastic debris into the bloodstream of the patient under anesthesia. Once they are in the bloodstream, these particles migrate to the brain where they can clog capillaries and prevent adequate amounts of blood and oxygen from flowing to the brain. Essentially, all patients experience brain emboli during surgery and for many the damage is permanent.
In 2001, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that 5-years after bypass surgery 42% of patients showed decline in mental function of approximately 20 percent or more.2 A study published this year (2008) in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery using MRI testing just after bypass surgery found brain damage in 51% of patients.3 Three years after their time on the bypass pump, significant permanent reduction in mental capacity was identified in 31% of patients. I am not talking major stroke here; but these patients can’t remember names or numbers as they once did…
* Trump needs to raise the bid. He must have known that his “David Duke” moment was going to happen which is why I find his unprepared response puzzling . My two cents is that on a national TV news station, openly and un-equivalently disavow David Duke and the Klan / Nazis. Then, at his next 20,000 all white stadium event, he needs to quickly disavow one more time prepare his supporters for the fact that they will be smeared the same way and that the election will only be about race and sex baiting. His opponents, including the press, will be caught in a trap of their own making. Clearly, this is the moment if ever, to turn this around. Even if the Democrats win the Presidential election, their relationship with white-Americans will be so scarred that the divide will never heal. It would take a certain measure of balls to pull this off but there isn’t a better man to do it.
* I saw photos of Bill Clinton at Chelsea’s wedding and he didn’t look like he’d live out the year. He’s still around. He does not look good, however. I wonder what neurological problems Hillary might have. I mentioned a fall at 3:00 a.m to a person with a medical background without specifying the person involved, and her instant reaction was “stroke.” Granted it was an uninformed diagnosis but the fact that she said it without hesitation meant something to me. It would also partially explain the long rehabiitation period–more than a concussion was involved. I have also read that Hillary drinks rather heavily. A repeat of Woodrow Wilson’s second term is possible if she’s elected: imagine a neurologically-damaged Hillary Clinton Presidency being managed by a troika of Bill Clinton, Huma Abedin and Chelsea Clinton Mezvinsky.
* One of the things that strikes me about the criticism of Trump, from both the right and the left, is that there seems to be no consistent line on exactly what his supposedly horrendous candidacy represents.
For one critic, it’s that he’s an authoritarian. For another, it’s that he’s a full on liberal. For another, it’s that he is a foaming right wing nut. For another, it’s that he’s a racist. For another, it’s that he’s vulgarian. But for all of these critics, he’s a monster who will destroy all we hold sacred.
Now at least some of the claims can’t easily be reconciled. He may be a liberal demon to some conservatives, and he may be a crazy wingnut to some liberals, but he can’t really be both. One would think that at the very least if he truly represented something horrible, there would be broad consensus as to what in particular is so very bad and dangerous about him.
But I’m not seeing anything like a consistent picture. His monstrosity seems to assume very different shapes for different people.
Now that’s a ringing endorsement when that mega-crook starts spewing FUD like a broken sewer main.
Still it shows that the anti-Trump list just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
So far we have:
CNN
FoxNews
MSNBC
WSJ
WaPo
LAT
NYT
The GOP
Dozens of top GOP congressmen
The Democratic party
Chambers of Commerce
Club for Growth
Silicon Valley billionaires
Hedge fund billionaires
Koch brothers
Adelson
The entire staff at the National Review
The Weekly Standard
Hollywood
The level of fear and loathing from the establishment is reaching levels that are beyond our comprehension.
* All it will take is for Trump to go to the funeral of a slain officer or a white child who was killed by a ghetto rat and it will be like kicking an ant hill. Maybe the left should stop playing with this race thing while they can still claim to be ahead.
* I got the feeling Obama and the Democrats are realizing that there is a problem with not showing enough respect to police and armed forces: I feel like there was sooo much attention given to the medal award for the Seal Team 6 officer (a man from rust-belt Ohio) yesterday.
* I didn’t read the Larry Summers article because one brazen lie that jumped out at me was enough. Referring to Trump’s initial refusal to “disavow” David Duke’s endorsement of him, Summers says Trump “has already flirted with the Ku Klux Klan”.
