Date: February 25th, 2016 2:23 PM Author: Medicated azure giraffe
This may be overstating things a little. Cruz certainly has an odd face – it looks like someone sewed pieces of a waterlogged Reagan mask together at gunpoint – but it's his tone more than anything that gets you. He speaks slowly and loudly and in the most histrionic language possible, as if he's certain you're too stupid to grasp that he is for freedom.
Date: February 25th, 2016 2:54 PM Author: indecent ocher nursing home
Here's the set up to that line:
The unwelcome attention seemed to scare Cruz back into scripted-bot mode, where he's a less-than-enthralling presence. Cruz in person is almost physically repellent. Psychology Today even ran an article by a neurology professor named Dr. Richard Cytowic about the peculiarly off-putting qualities of Cruz's face.
He used a German term, backpfeifengesicht, literally "a face in need of a good punch," to describe Cruz. This may be overstating things a little. Cruz certainly has an odd face – it looks like someone sewed pieces of a waterlogged Reagan mask together at gunpoint – but it's his tone more than anything that gets you. He speaks slowly and loudly and in the most histrionic language possible, as if he's certain you're too stupid to grasp that he is for freedom.
i liked this too: "Trump found the flaw in the American Death Star. It doesn't know how to turn the cameras off, even when it's filming its own demise."
Date: February 25th, 2016 2:27 PM Author: animeboi
""Ve love you, New Hampshire," she says, in a thick vampire accent. "Ve, together, ve vill make America great again!". As reactionary patriotic theater goes, this scene is bizarre – Melania Knauss didn't even arrive in America until 1996, when she was all of 26 – but the crowd goes nuts anyway."
Of course this fag wouldn't get it -- "conquering" beautiful foreign white women = ALPHA AS FUCK USA USA!
Date: February 25th, 2016 4:07 PM Author: Well-lubricated rigpig
see that's loser talk. you think he's great because he has some fancy BA from an LAC? That's where you are deluded by the commie failures who run academia.
he hates the media/politicians/big business but he'd be pretty great even if he didn't. that's a plus. i think mark steyn is frequently hilarious too, and i don't agree with 80% of his politics.
Date: February 25th, 2016 3:44 PM Author: deep lascivious stock car really tough guy
Trump knows the public sees through all of this, grasps the press's role in it and rightly hates us all. When so many Trump supporters point to his stomping of the carpetbagging snobs in the national media as the main reason they're going to vote for him, it should tell us in the press something profound about how much people think we suck.
Date: February 25th, 2016 4:12 PM Author: Adventurous frozen death wish lettuce
180 and accurate assessment of trumps appeal. finallu some mainstream commentator breaks from the rest of the intellectually lazy media and ignores the "HE'S POPULAR BC HES A RACIST AND THERE ARE NO OTHER FACTORS AT PLAY HERE" narrative in favor of actual analysis
Date: February 25th, 2016 4:23 PM Author: deep lascivious stock car really tough guy
TRUMPmo and Obama voter here. This is a good piece, and Taibbi is no doubt a top-tier writer. I don't even necessarily disagree with much he says.
But I am more than willing to throw my vote away and even elect an authoritarian (of the neutered type we could possibly have in the US) to express my hostility to the media and to modern shitlib culture. The Left should be about class. I was fine inviting social liberalism for blacks and Native Americans into the movement, because they were uniquely fucked by our national development in a way that might be somewhat separable from class, but the Left is not a dumping ground for every fucking loser, mentally ill, oversensitive, or counterculturual idea--and those ideas certainly shouldn't be displacing class as the central focus of the movement.
TRUMP is going to win the Presidency. You realize that, right?
"Trump is no intellectual. He's not bringing Middlemarch to the toilet. If he had to jail with Stephen Hawking for a year, he wouldn't learn a thing about physics. Hawking would come out on Day 365 talking about models and football."
"That put him in position to understand that the presidential election campaign is really just a badly acted, billion-dollar TV show whose production costs ludicrously include the political disenfranchisement of its audience. Trump is making a mockery of the show, and the Wolf Blitzers and Anderson Coopers of the world seem appalled. How dare he demean the presidency with his antics?
But they've all got it backward. The presidency is serious. The presidential electoral process, however, is a sick joke, in which everyone loses except the people behind the rope line. And every time some pundit or party spokesman tries to deny it, Trump picks up another vote."
What these tweedy Buckleyites at places like the Review don't get is that most people don't give a damn about "conservative principles." Yes, millions of people responded to that rhetoric for years. But that wasn't because of the principle itself, but because it was always coupled with the more effective politics of resentment: Big-government liberals are to blame for your problems.
Date: February 25th, 2016 7:12 PM Author: orange multi-colored library sex offender
One omission i noticed - not directly mentioning how focusing on sources of campaign funding enables trump to align himself with proles (and avoid class resentment of the rich). He didn't invent the billionaire politician shtick but trump executes it flawlessly
Date: February 25th, 2016 8:38 PM Author: indecent ocher nursing home
Why? Irrespective of his politics he's diagnosed the establishment media/politics/government/business complete disdain for the common man and how it's unsustainable and takes a Trump to pop the bublbe.