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Singlestack
07-03-2017, 06:05
This sums up perfectly how I have thought about Trump:
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2017/07/03/heres-how-to-deal-with-trumps-tweets-stop-caring-about-them-n2349760?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

If the hyperventilating faux outrage over Donald Trump's tweets about that pair of home-wrecking nobodies on MSNBC was actually presented in good faith, it would be merely be stupid. But it is not presented in good faith. It is a transparent attempt to drag Trump off-point and tie him up in a never-ending discussion about his completely irrelevant personal failings, even though liberals slobber over all sorts of people with personal failings who just happen to support their fascist dreams. It's not working, because Trump cares nothing about what these fussy nannies shriek while clutching their pearls, nor do his voters really care. But it is still annoying.


No, his tweets are not annoying. I don't care about his tweets, so they don't annoy me. I didn't vote for Donald Trump to be a role model or a moral paragon. I voted for him to not be Hillary Clinton, and to incrementally move towards actual conservatism. Like everyone else who voted for him, I knew he wasn't a doctrinaire conservative. But he believed in some conservative things, and that was better than someone who believed in no conservative things, and who wanted to stamp her sensible shoe into our faces forever.


Was he my first choice? No. Was he my second? No. But was there any other choice when it came down to him or Felonia von Pantsuit?
No. Which is something a lot of the cogs in the machine that is Conservative, Inc., still don't choose to acknowledge.



Liberals don’t annoy me when they whine about Trump’s tweeting because I know it's all a lie and a scam, just like everything else liberals say. They don't care that Trump is mean to girls. These cretins brought us Bill Clinton. They don't care that Trump is vulgar. You should see what liberals, including proggy blue checks, say to me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter). Let me put it this way: after the nonstop parade of death wishes, perversion accusations, and general mouth-foaming hostility the liberals traffic in every day, I'm distinctly unimpressed by Trump calling out Mika’s chin lift.


So I refuse to care. And I don't care. Not even a little. At most, I'm entirely indifferent to these playground spats, though I do enjoy seeing these leftist schmucks getting a taste of their own medicine. And do I love seeing the frustration of the hapless establishment when Trump just ignores its tantrums and keeps firing off tweets long after they've been decreed unacceptable. Trump galls them because he refuses to submit to the moral authority of the immoral. It's beautiful.


I think a lot of his voters feel that way – oh, they’ll tell pollsters they don't like his tweeting, because you're supposed to say you don't like stuff like that, but at the end of the day they don't really care about his tweeting enough to withdraw their support. Tweets are part of the Trump package, and they're okay with the package.




I refuse to spend one iota of my limited allowance of outrage on Trump’s imperfections. I didn't vote for Donald Trump to be a nice guy. I didn't vote for him to be a Jeb!-like sap. I voted for him to fight the liberal establishment, and I voted for him with my eyes open. I'm not surprised that he is who he is. I just don't give a damn.


And I especially refuse to give a damn because this is so obviously a ploy to peel-off weak, Fredocon (https://youtu.be/zgHXHtHSsNo) Republicans so that Trump can't implement policies those Republicans are supposed to endorse. These poser Republicans yearn for the chance to undercut the guy who humiliated their kind. Of course Ben Sasse has to get in on the moral preening act – that grinning donkey has never met a virtue he didn't want to signal, and if I had shown the utter lack of moral character he did when he smiled while Bill Maher used a racial epithet, I’d want to distract attention too. As for Lindsey Graham, every time he pipes up, I see a vision of him in his little blue sailor suit, disapprovingly wagging his lollipop at me.


Those guys are narcissistic clowns and I expect nothing more from them. But what is annoying are the otherwise useful people on our side who immediately do exactly what the liberals want and latch on to whatever bogus Trump is Awful! meme is dominating the airwaves that day.



Here’s a crazy idea you might want to think about it. You don't have to grab a pitchfork and torch every time the liberals start rounding up a mob. You can actually not join in the stupidity.
I reject the notion that Trump is stepping on his own message when he tweets something obnoxious. There are plenty of days – the vast majority of days – when Trump tweets nothing obnoxious, so name one of those days when the mainstream media transmitted his preferred message. Come on – get out your little calendars and tell me the exact date the media cooperated and transmitted his message.
There isn't one. If he's not in a fight with Mika Discount Megan Kelly Brzezinski, then it's going to be Russians Russians Obstruction Russians Treason More Russians.


“Okay, CNN reporters, Trump hasn't tweeted anything today, so let's focus on the President’s priorities! Camarota, do a segment on how important it is to deport illegal aliens. Acosta, I need a report on how consumer confidence is up up up (http://www.breitbart.com/economics/2017/06/30/consumer-sentiment-clocks-best-half-year-since-2000/)! And Cuomo, put down that fidget spinner and clean up the mess your new puppy Woofy (https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2017/06/29/cnn-tries-to-move-forward-after-its-latest-humiliation-n2347625) left in my office.”




If you're so offended and outraged by his tweets, here's an idea. Don't pay any attention to them. Don't read them. Don't talk about them. And don't join the freaking Democrats in a lynch mob to emasculate the guy who brought us Justice Gorsuch and who we’d like to see replace a couple more robed dictators.


Yeah, I get it. Trump's aesthetically displeasing to your delicate sensibilities. Do you think this is news to us? Do you presume you're the only ones who have detected that Donald Trump is not a proper gentleman? Get over it, and yourselves.


And cut out the freaking clichés. What am I going to tell my children about Donald Trump? Whatever it is, it’ll be hell of a lot easier than explaining Bill Clinton's humidor habits.
I haven't really thought about it, but if I was one of those weirdos who pester their kids about politics, and if I had weirdo kids who cared, I’d probably say something like: “Trump doesn't take any crap, and if you swing at him, he kicks your butt. Don't you take any crap from jerks either. Punch back twice as hard (https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/?s=punch+back+twice+as+hard). Just don't date anyone like him.”


And if I hear one more pompous doofus tell me I “have no honor” because I refuse to spin up every time Trump offends their tender feelz, I may slap a dork. The submissive gentleman ship has sailed, or rather, the USS Jeb! ran into an iceberg.


I get that you're offended. Okay. I choose not to care. Some people do care, and they’re sincere and they’re wrong. I’m friends with a lot of them.
But the psuedo-cons don't care, yet cynically exploit this nonsense to undercut Trump to regain their diminished status. All you soft boys whose mommy and/or daddy handed you a conservative magazine and made you think you had a divine right to be taken seriously by us normals, pay attention. The issues Trump is talking about matter to us. Sometimes it's our livelihoods, sometimes it's our very lives - often put at risk in wars you pushed from behind your laptop. I get that under Hillary Clinton, your mediocre positions in the big DC/NY scheme of things would've been secure, but I've got to break it to you – we don't care. Your pathetic status as obedient gimp (https://youtu.be/hgryJhw8SzA)-cons serving your liberal masters in the establishment big house may mean everything you, but it means nothing to us.


Normal Americans – the ones you hold in utter contempt – are hurting, and the only person who paid any attention was Donald Trump. You sure didn’t. You would have fed us to Hillary Clinton if you had your way, because under her your measly positions would have been secure, and under Trump everyone sees that we don't need you.


We followed you for years, but when it came time to fight for what you said you believed in and risking your mediocre sinecures, you defected to the other side. You betrayed us. Don't you ever dare talk to me about honor.
In an ideal world, I would love to get back to presidency dominated by gentlemen like Ronald Reagan. But we don't live in an ideal world. Here's the ugly reality – there is a cultural war going on (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1539018954/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1539018954&linkCode=as2&tag=insta0c-20&linkId=bbd080c9b73028e7d2827af090e78e31), one that could get worse (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0714PQ7S1/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1496075379&sr=1-1&keywords=indian+country+kurt). This isn’t a game; there are real stakes. If you volunteer to join conservatism’s enemies to allegedly protect an ideal of decorum that this culture has long since left behind, you’re being played for a sucker. You're either serious about winning, or you’re serious about losing.

Bentsight
07-03-2017, 10:02
Very well stated Sir

Bailey Guns
07-03-2017, 10:07
I'm extremely happy with Trump so far. More so than I thought I'd be. With his appointment of Gorsuch and possibly one other justice to the SCOTUS in the near future, that will have made his presidency worthwhile even if not much else gets accomplished. But...no worry about that because he's already got a lot of other things done. Mostly reversing many of Obama's disastrous EOs.

America first!

SamuraiCO
07-03-2017, 11:13
There is very little the GOP could pass that they campaigned on or is on the official platform that Trump would not sign. Yet they are hand wringing and worrying about how Trump is affecting their brand? The Fake News and the left will hate them anyway might as well get something accomplished. The day after the SCOTUS did not hear the CA law about shall/will language for conceal and carry the state reciprocity law should have been on Trump's desk, with no restrictions if the firearm was purchased with a background check, and a box for Quick TSA just to kick the left in the nuts.

That is who I am most disappointed with.

68Charger
07-03-2017, 12:00
If thinking about Trump makes you "go nuts", then you weren't very far from it already... maybe you were already nuts and looking for an excuse to act out.

Singlestack
07-03-2017, 15:21
For almost all of my life, Republicans said great things on the campaign trail, and then either did squat or the opposite when in office. Now we have someone who sometimes says some stupid things but he does the most conservative things since Reagan - and more conservative in some ways. I can live with that. If the Congress Critters of the R persuasion and conservative pundits were smart, they would stop hyperventilating about the tweets (which aren't going to stop, anyway) and get behind the legislation. The Dems and media are going to obstruct, oppose, demagogue, and lie about everything Trump says or does - because thats what today's dems and media do. Just oppose them at every turn and get good laws passed.

We are in divided times that the dems are determined to make us even more divided. F*** em and shove the agenda down their throats. Limbaugh was right - waste of time trying to convince them of anything - just defeat 'em.

wctriumph
07-03-2017, 17:14
Funny. I was watching some of the new channels and was thinking I would post pretty much what the OP posted. Well said, better than I could have done. I do find it entertaining to watch these fascist lefty lunatics come unglued over every little thing Trump says or does.

If we stick together, keep writing emails and making phone calls to our elected officials, we might turn things a little more our way.

JohnnyDrama
07-04-2017, 11:25
Nice rant.

Mazin
07-04-2017, 18:17
I give it a 10 and agree 100% with the op
Very well said sir
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Gman
07-04-2017, 22:03
I like what Trump has done to reinvigorate business and the push to focus on keeping more industry at home. Trump has done more for the economy simply with the tone of what he's said than Obama ever did in his promises to stop outsourcing and offshoring.

I put as much attention to Trump's Tweets as I did his 'reality TV' persona. NONE.

Singlestack
07-31-2017, 11:14
The media has been all over Priebus getting canned for "lack of loyalty" to Trump or supposed "leaks". Yet I haven't heard any facts to back up either of those assertions. I think the media and left views personnel changes through those type of political filters all the time, and just don't think anything else could apply. I'm getting the picture it was for basic competence (or incompetence) of Priebus, in that role. Here is why I think that:

- Trump is a business leader, and thats how business leaders principally think (in my experience)
- Yes, the apprentice was a reality show, but if you watched a bit you saw how Trump dealt with incompetence. Sure, it was entertainment but I think some of Trump's values showed through
- Priebus sounded to me he was actually relived at being dismissed. I got the impression he was in over his head
- This follows the healthcare debacle, and Trump may have held Priebus somewhat accountable. Most likely for not letting Trump know what was happening behind the scenes and serious defection dangers

While every boss appreciates loyalty of subordinates (human common sense), I don't think that is the end-all the media makes it out to be. However, for truly corrupt politicians, loyalty IS everything