NEW YORK, NY – MAY 03: Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump speaks to supporters and the media at Trump Tower in Manhattan following his victory in the Indiana primary on May 03, 2016 in New York City. Trump beat rival Ted Cruz decisively in a contest that many analysts believe was the last chance for any other Republican candidate to catch Trump in the delegate count. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Oh, yuck. Everything the pundits predicted couldn’t happen, happened in Indiana on the evening of May 3, when Trump, the dude with the orange hair, swept the state and became the Republican nominee.
While Rob and I were watching this, he remarked that the young man standing behind Trump in the pink tie in that Huffington Post photo (click link above), the young guy whose face is white, looked like a vampire. “Actually,” he added, “they all look like vampires.” The son with an unhealthy pallor, the plastic wife, the plastic blonde daughters, the son-in-law who supposedly likes politics, as Trump said, better than he likes selling real estate.
Great. A family of vampires in the White House. That will certainly be the walking dead.Yet, that analogy fits Trump and his clan.
A candidate who has yet to say much of anything other than his slogan that he’ll make America great again might well occupy the White House with his vampire kin. His wife – the third – will have the dubious distinction of having posed nude for a magazine. And oh, by the way, the Clintons were at his wedding to that third wife.
Bernie Sanders also won Indiana tonight and that gives him a momentum to stay in the race through the California primary on June 7. But the pundits also got his candidacy all wrong. They expected the Democratic selection process to be wrapped up by now and still refer to Clinton, who represents politics as usual, as the presumptive nominee.
Why is it that two outliers – Trump and Sanders – have galvanized the electorate?
Why is it that the two candidates with the most unfavorable ratings in many polls – Trump and Clinton – are what the two parties are offering? As Chuck Todd noted on MSNBC, this is the first time something like this has happened.
But then, this election season has been completely unpredictable, with all the usual rules out the window. Sanders rightly argues that the super delegates rule in the Democratic party is not democracy; it’s the party selecting the candidate. He also points out some weird stuff going on with the Clinton fund raising machine- an investigation conducted by Politico that found some irregularities about where the funds actually go (hint: into Clinton’s coffers with less than one percent of $60 million going to Dem candidates in other states).
The sad and pathetic part of all this is that pundits believe that if Clinton is the nominee, Bernie’s supporters will hold their noses and vote collectively for her just to ensure that Trump doesn’t win. At one time, I was in that camp. But if she and Trump are it, I will hold my nose and choose not to vote at all on election day.
In the larger picture, this election isn’t just about who becomes the next president. It’s about our evolution as a country, a species. Clinton represents the old guard. Sanders represents the new guard. And Trump represents the really old guard from the mid-20th century, where women and minorities were second class citizens without any rights at all.
So, it’s everything as usual in this liberal corner of the Web.
Any discussion about whether or not Muslims should be allowed to enter western countries turns causes and effects upside down. The situation among Muslims is about to become a total war between Shia and Sunni Muslims. And when a billion of human beings start killing each other because of some family quarrel from more than a 1000 years ago, is it a really good idea, Palestine aside, to support Iraq when it attacked Iran, then attack Iraq when it attacked Kuwait, then support Shia militias from Iran to attack Sunni parts of Iraq… and all that because western politicians care about them? Is an Islamic terrorist really nothing but a psychopath who has by pure coincidence connections to countries devastated by perpetual wars? There aren’t half-wars, just as women can’t be half-pregnant. What is more likely – American “liberals” starting new wars against Islam, Russia, and China because they are “worried about democracy” or “conservatives” doing the same thing with Donald Trump in charge?
Name any other American who isn’t Donald Trump and who would eliminate without much effort Brother Bush just by mentioning the war in Iraq. Or criticize NATO and still have support by Bruce Willis, Hulk Hogan, Mike Tyson, and Sylvester Stallone (https://buzzingtrend.com/celebrities-who-support-donald-trump). In order to keep their support while talking like a liberal sissy, intentionally or not, there were a few insults and slapped faces (still not a full Guantanamo or drone treatment) in order to make the whole package look tough.
Author David Ike noted in one of his texts that ALL American politicians are great friends with each other; that the roles they play opposing each other in the public eye is nothing but a ploy; that at the end of the day when all is said and done, they all get together: Democrats, Republicans, Liberals, Conservatives, etc etc etc, and play cards and plan their schemes to fool the stupid blind voting sheep. He isn’t the only author to have said this; there are several. And the more I live, watch, and listen, the more I believe Icke and the authors with similar wisdoms hit the nail on the head. No need to vote. The person for each position has already been chosen and groomed, and the votes are skewed to go the way intended by these politicians. Sad to think this is true, but………
Yes – true. All that being said we have to acknowledge that this is what people are voting for – reflection of the collective. I understand even less why Ted Cruz is in the arena at all. What a total creep. Trump had zero competition in the Republican party.
I understand the decision not to vote at all but that means either candidate is what you choose. Like it doesn’t matter. It will still matter even if we don’t like either of them.
Don’t you think that the Trump brigade is made up of people who want everyone who is in Washington out. Politics is corrupt and people are angry, fed up and disgusted. What bothers me the most in this world today is there seem to be so many stupid people. In a democracy the majority wins. Stupid wins.
Your comment about the plastic women – I have been saying for a long time that all the women news anchors have been getting so plastic looking. This has been becoming a global thing. I read in The New Yorker a while back an article about how young girls in – where was it, Korea or Japan, are having plastic surgery in their teens. Everyone wants to look like everyone else. Whaaaat? What is that all about? What happened to individuality?
I’m rambling off the subject. Could go on and on.