He is one of the reasons Politico was deleted from my Favorites list and placed in the No-Fly Zone years ago.
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That guy has got a lot of nerve, talking about other people living in a bubble. His crazy-ass bubble has a population of 1.
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OH. Thatâs why Politico was such a complete waste of time.
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As Steve Benen noted, more people live in cities than small townsâŚso why arenât cities considered normal America?
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Damn, Ian Millhiser. Thatâs going to leave a mark.
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Sounds a bit like what the french âImpressionistsâ did in 1863.
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/salon-des-refuses.htm
itico co-founder, who recently departed that company to start a new media venture, also bafflingly suggested an outsider candidate âexploit the fear factor.â
Hey, I have an idea. How about someone new start a media venture, instead of the same old navel gazers with their stale, tired ideas?
Creepy. âExploit the fear factor?â ââŚmodern weapons, troops and war powersâ? business leaders as political leaders? Itâs hard to tell where heâs coming from. Has he invested all of his wealth into arms manufacturing? Has he identified the John Galt thatâs going to lead us all into âŚwhat? WW III?
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Peculiar choice of hook words, âdisruptionâ, ânormal Americaâ and âbuilding on drones.â
Disruption is defined these days in post human extremes: one dumb extreme its the number of tattoos, the length of your contractor-like beard and how high your man bun grows in the opposite direction.
The other consists of 1950âs Roy Cohn right wing gangster chickenhawk talk from his ex-client, Trump who was recently throwing kisses to Roy (and Putin) with his spray-on clementine cheeks and hair.
Then thereâs Joe McCarthy gangster hair on fire Theocrat âGod Manâ Cruz who comes from 2 oil states, Calgary, Canada and the oil Republic of Texas. His father worked in the oil biz. No Koch endorsementâŚyet.
The default setting on drones is probably wrong in either direction which means there is no nice neat safe cocktail party opinion regarding their use.
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While I love all the snark, this is a call to the plutocracy to abandon the GOP to the social reactionaries and form a new vehicle. Vandehei has years of DeeCee experience sucking up to power brokers and the plutocracy that funds them.
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The problem with oligarchy is the ruling class has about the same distribution of intelligence as the general population, but even very mediocre people in that class get to make decisions for the rest of us. Think Reynholm in The IT Crowd. Itâs a big reason the US decided to have a republic and repudiate the divine right of kings and the power of the nobility. Sure you can never eradicate that sort of unearned privilege completely short of some major social experiment redistributing child-rearing and/or wealth completely at random (some have been proposed that probably would work but not for our benighted species) but citizens of modern countries are supposed to overcome that endemic craving to adore the powerful and their lackeys like Vandehei.
Oh well, more of the same, it looks like, for the next four years at least. Thanks New York, for nothing.
Has this guy never seen an episode of âSilicon Valleyâ?
1 / Another self-appointed voice for Normal America (because he has a couple of vacation homes there) writing about himself and his need for a military authority figure to make everything correct and proper using simple declarative sentences. And fear.
2 / He made his loot in DC, and seems to despise DC, but I bet next weekâs paycheck that he stays in DC and continues apace. A truly troubled soul would give away the loot and move to Normal America (land of unemployment, opiate addiction, and dental troubles) and help those people move on up. He wonât.
3 / Or perhaps this screed is simply a flattering plea for venture money from NorCal for the new VDH Media Product.
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And to get regular folk to vote for the Plutocracy Party by exploiting the âfear factor.â Hey wait a second, hasnât one party been doing exactly that?
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Heâs lost his mind. I couldnât even follow that gibberish!
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Is he ghosting Marine Gen. James âMad Dogâ Mattis (Retired) with this?
Itâs like the military industrial complexâs wet dream. If you add Tom Cotton as the VP pick⌠eruption!
http://original.antiwar.com/daniel-mcadams/2016/04/25/neocons-panting-president-mad-dog-mattis/ .
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He continued: âA third-party candidate could build on death-by-drones by outlining the type of modern weapons, troops and war powers needed to keep America safe. And make plain when he or she will use said power. Do it with very muscular languageâthere is no market for nuance in the terror debate.â
No thanks. Weâre still working on recovering from the last Cheney/Rummy/Dubya disaster. No neocons (or codpieces) needed, thank you very much. They donât work.
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The Republican coalition is utterly fractured at this point. The social conservatives are behind a candidate that creeps out the majority of Americans; the tea partiers are behind a racist and xenophobic moron with a personality disorder; the blah people (and I mean that literally) are behind Kasich; and the libertarian worshipers of billionaire âjob creatorsâ and the neo-conservative war-mongers (of which this guy appears to be a combination) are left high and dry, desperately hoping for some third party candidateâŚ
The Sanders/Clinton rift is nothing in comparison.
Remember âUnskewed Pollsâ? Itâs a textbook example of how these folks operate. They know, just know, that theyâre right. And no amount of facts/data/evidence will tell them otherwise.
Until cold-hard reality slaps them on the face, that is.
Itâs also why theyâre still in denial about Climate Change.
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Dude is trippinâ.