At the rally for Ted Cruz last night:
To cheer from the crowd, Trump added: “You know what I am? I’m a nationalist.”
Then there’s this from the Washington Post
An explosive device was found Monday in a mailbox at the New York residence of George Soros:
Added:
The timing of this latest market correction is not good for Trump and Republicans. The futures are down close to three hundred points. We are close to going under 25,000 this morning. This time it feels different. I could be wrong, but this feels more like a stealthy bear hug than the last couple times the market swooned.
But actual rich people can’t ever be the target. It’s a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master’s carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields. You know you’re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit. Whatever the master does, you’re on board. When you get frisky, he sticks a big cross in the middle of your village, and you spend the rest of your life praying to it with big googly eyes. Or he puts out newspapers full of innuendo about this or that faraway group and you immediately salute and rush off to join the hate squad. A good peasant is loyal, simpleminded, and full of misdirected anger. And that’s what we’ve got now, a lot of misdirected anger searching around for a non-target to mis-punish… can’t be mad at AIG, can’t be mad at Citi or Goldman Sachs. The real villains have to be the anti-AIG protesters! After all, those people earned those bonuses! If ever there was a textbook case of peasant thinking, it’s struggling middle-class Americans burned up in defense of taxpayer-funded bonuses to millionaires.
Matt Taibbi, in 2009.
‘Don’t let Soros have the last laugh.’ One of Orban’s poster campaigns in his attack on the media, the judiciary, NGOs, Central European University, and any other group that opposes him. It’s from the same playbook, but Orban’s efforts actually looks tame in comparison to those GOP ads.
Say what you will about Matt Taibbi. The guy has a way with words. I’m still lovin the giant vampire squid analogy. His reporting on Jefferson County was awesome.
bonvivant
His surgical dissections of Thomas Friedman were some of the best writing I’ve ever seen, and definitely the funniest reviews I’ve ever read.
Hard to find online anymore, I’ve got copies of them that I saved at one point.
Here’s the first one, though they seem to have removed all paragraph breaks, but it’s still worth reading.
And just found the second, same formatting problem but also worth it.
More evidence of GOP soul-selling.
“There’s something to the culture wars that the Dems haven’t quite figured out — how to make it work for them in these red states in particular,” said one top GOP strategist involved in Senate races. …
Republicans think the strategy will help in the 2018 Senate map but concede the it’s a double-edged sword, further endangering House Republicans in districts where Trump’s not popular.
“House and gubernatorial [races], maybe not. But it’s good for the Senate,” said the Senate GOP strategist.
And it may hurt them in the future.
“The next question is, how do you build a party on a culture war platform?” the strategist continued. “And my only answer is man, I hope Trump’s on his game next cycle. Because if not, we’re all toast.”
“Like George W. Bush with his Bushisms, Friedman came up with lines so hilarious you couldn’t make them up even if you were trying, and when you tried to actually picture the “illustrative” figures of speech he offered to explain himself, what you often ended up with was pure physical comedy of the Buster Keaton/Three Stooges school, with whole nations and peoples slipping and falling on the misplaced banana peels of his literary endeavors.”
So it is not okay to substitute teach at a Saudi funded school in D.C., but actually Saudi murder of a D.C. resident IS okay?
Republicans in the key races across the country that will determine control of Congress have launched ads ominously warning of mob rule, chaos and violence if Democrats retake Congress
Well DUH of course this is true… the chaos and violence will be perpetrated by the GOP… they have experience, and also have their guy on the court to shut down any challenges to their mobs
Derange isn’t just where the deer and the antelope play.
Could be they don’t need help
Fox’s Caravan Lies BACKFIRE: Voter Panel Is Pro-Immigration
“The next question is, how do you build a party on a culture war platform?” the strategist continued.
Tell “the strategist” to take a look at Germany in the 1930’s. Some guys there figured it out.
Holy crap until I saw Kapernik I thought this was an ad for The Man in the High Tower. That’s just scary.
Fear works with a lot of people. Republican turnout for early voting is very high.
My rather was a WW II US Marine and fought to defeat the Nazis and white nationalism. Now the US under Trump and the Republicans have turned the US into a Nazi (white nationalist fascist) state.
What are Trump and Fox news planning for all those refugees from the countries in Central and South America that American policies broke and destroyed? El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras were all US occupied and controlled countries…the US created the violent gangs and then left.
Are Trump and Sean Hannity planning to build gas chambers for refugees?
Those ads sounded better in the original Russian.
These ads may not be a bad thing for the country. They’ll help to tell us how many Americans have seen through the dog whistles, fear-mongering and BS.
This is the approach that worked so well for Ed Gillespie.