Time for the GOP leadership to unite around demanding a FBI investigation into how the Trump campaign came to be running scorched earth against 16 other Republican candidates. It is a rigged game that takes collusion with mass media elites to pull off this strategy – billions of dollars in FREE media was given to Trump. Trump can spew about the millions in paid ads other Republicans spent against him, well, the truth is no amount of paid ads can defeat a candidate running scorched earth/mass media saturation, because they will never gain enough mass media saturation to make a dent against it. The scorched earth/mass media saturation assures that the 24/7 news cycle is all focused on whatever those using it are selling. It’s the Clinton talking points spin (lying to the American people) on steroids.
The mass media saturation is the military strategy of swarming played out on a mass media battlefield – it creates a messaging wall that can not be broken through. It’s large scale mass brainwashing more at home in totalitarian regimes, where tyrants control the media. The Clintons colluded with their liberal big media elite friends to control the media in America. Trump might have FOX in the general, a foreign-owned media corporation, but then again he may not. The American owned big media is all liberals. The mass media saturation strategy was developed by far-left Alinskyite Marxists.
Sorry, any presidential candidate who runs the Carville/Begala scorched earth/mass media saturation strategy is a CROOK – it is wholesale public corruption on an epic scale. Of course, that so far only the Clintons who run Clinton Corruption, Inc. and Trump, the “great”crony capitalist of NYC have been able to carry it off should clue the GOP’s leaders in that they’ve allowed their party to be hijacked by a CROOK, just like the Clintons.
I would vote for any of the other 16 GOP candidates and even Bernie is more ethical than either Hillary or Trump, although the fact that a leftover Marxist from the 60s is even gaining traction in an American presidential election speaks to cultural collapse, in not only the Democratic Party, but in America. So, I will never vote for Hillary or Trump and I just can’t bring myself to cast a vote for a Marxist for president – I’ll be writing in in November.
Good luck to the GOP trying to unite the GOP after Trump’s scorched earth campaign, you know the borrowed military strategy of scorched earth played out on a mass media battlefield. Scorched earth is like Sherman’s March To the Sea and I assure you, here in GA those Americans whose families were vanquished in that scorched earth campaign, even today, have not forgotten. Trump can never unite the GOP, he just blew up 16 other candidates and the party’s principles, but be proud he has the morals of the Clintons.
Carville/Begala scorched earth is the military strategy of scorched earth (a war crime under the Geneva Conventions btw) juxtaposed to a mass media battlefield
Mass media saturation is the military strategy of swarming juxtaposed to a mass media battlefield
Combined, they have been ruthlessly used to divide America into hostile, warring factions. Perhaps it’s time to figure out the driving force(s) behind them.
Roger Stone and Trump’s big name GOP enablers convinced Trump to hire Paul Manafort, a big lobbyist, to put together a delegate ground game for Trump and to try to transform Trump into a candidate who “acts” presidential enough to win in November. I described it as the coup in Trump Tower, to wean Trump away from his scorched earth strategy, a strategy run on vicious character assassinations, which are knowingly, willingly and relentlessly covered and discussed by the media to saturate the media coverage – on TV news, on online politics sites, and even down to Disqus comment threads at news sites.
It is a rigged game of racketeering and influence-peddling AND it is WHOLESALE PUBLIC CORRUPTION at the highest levels of America’s political and corporate elites (especially those in the media elite).
The Clinton machine introduced this scorched earth/mass media saturation into American politics and used it ruthlessly to get Bill Clinton through impeachment. Trump, with the willing and knowing collusion of media elites, perpetrated this wholesale public corruption. All the way back in August they decided to go all in on the Trump mass media saturation:
“Last August, Moonves even foreshadowed the oncoming media-induced Trump when, in a CBS quarterly-earnings conference call, he declared, reportedly to applause: “The coming election cycle will clearly ‘Trump’ anything we’ve ever seen before.” Perhaps this would be a good place to mention that Les Moonves is also a self-declared Clinton friend. In 2001, CBS quoted Moonves as acknowledging, “I’ve had numerous chats with President Clinton over the past few years. . . . He is a friend of mine.””
While I can’t prove whether Trump is a media Svengali and figured this strategy out on his own, was duped into it by the Clintons, or is actively playing the Trojan Horse to hijack the GOP primary, I can say, with absolute certainty, after being personally burned by this scorched earth strategy during impeachment and warily studying and analyzing it since then, that for this strategy to succeed takes mass media saturation and that means collusion with the mass media to carry it out. This strategy also takes a great deal of intensive, professional opposition research to dig up all the dirt and Trump’s supposed inexperienced, skeletal staff assuredly does not have the ability to coordinate this sophisticated of a strategy and frankly, Donald Trump is not a “detail” man – he prefers selling big ideas and activities that fan his massive ego – like hours of media fawning over him, thousands cheering him at staged rallies, even late-night Twitter encounters with his Twitter “followers”.
Trump’s big-name GOP enablers, like Newt and Giuliani, and Roger Stone, being a sleazy GOP political operative of the first order and Trump’s first campaign manager, all know Trump is running scorched earth against the other GOP candidates and I guess they think they might actually be able to beat the Clintons in the Fall, believing she’s such an unlikable person, that it’s possible. They are totally delusional. The mass media saturation is required, a mass media that is overwhelmingly liberal, and where the media elites are Clinton friends. Trump was a Clinton friend too, even his daugther, Ivanka, is friends with Chelsea Clinton. The scorched earth/mass media saturation strategy creates a rigged playing field, as the millions that GOP Super PACs and big money GOP donors spent in the past 10 months battling Trump’s scorched earth clearly show. Yuge ad buys don’t make any impact against a 24/7 scorched earth dominating the mass media.
So, there was a coup in Trump Tower with bringing in Manafort, but Trump decided he’s sticking with scorched earth for now:
So much for Donald Trump 2.0, the sober, “more presidential” version programmed by Paul Manafort, the political guru he hired in a campaign shake-up earlier this month.
Chafing at guidance to tone down his larger-than-life personality — and irritated by Manafort’s purported self-promotion and his descriptions of the candidate as “projecting an image” to primary voters — Trump, the Republicans’ presidential front-runner, reportedly has ditched the advice.
In recent campaign appearances, on Twitter and in TV interviews, Trump has returned to the freewheeling bombast, and impolitic insults of his competitors, that seized the GOP grassroots by storm last year.
Inside the campaign, Politico reports, Trump has shifted some of Manafort’s responsibilities back to Corey Lewandowski, the billionaire’s embattled campaign manager, who was just cleared of assault charges in Florida. Lewandowsky was effectively demoted when Trump hired Manafort, a GOP insider, in part to give his insurgent campaign an air of professionalism and plot strategy for the convention.
Citing multiple sources close to the campaign, Politico reported Tuesday that Trump “is bristling at efforts to implement a more conventional presidential campaign strategy,” and has “expressed misgivings” about granting Manafort so much power within his organization.
Scorched earth was knowingly and willingly run against the entire GOP primary field, by a NY liberal friend of the Clintons, under the guise that he was fighting the “GOP establishment” (a contrived conspiracy meme), all carried out with the collusion of the mass media elites. The Clintons have their new and improved scorched earth 2.0 waiting for after the primary and the liberal media will gleefully run The Trump Take-Down Show.
The truth is Donald Trump was hijacking the GOP primary and dividing the GOP into hostile camps (divide and conquer, anyone?). Good luck to any Republicans who believe this “Insurgent” can unite the party and for anyone who accepts that using scorched earth is okay to win – well you have sold your soul to wholesale public corruption!
The only hope for America is exposure of this wholesale public corruption.
Watching how Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton operate, with their enemies lists, where he issues veiled threats, channeling Mussolini’s ghost for his strongman image and she unleashes Clinton sewer rats to attack her political enemies and silence them, the following video should be watched by every American, to warn where an American road, with either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, as President, leads. I’ve already experienced being investigated by the Clintons and having a retired general sent to silence me during impeachment. I’ve lived all these years, since 1998, looking over my shoulder and not being able to trust anyone – my own husband was manipulated into having me sent to a mental facility. My Messages of mhere story tabbed at the top of my home page, while written in a light manner and with pseudonyms is the TRUTH. I understand this man’s feelings completely, because I feel like I’ve been living in a cage too. I want to be FREE in America again!
This video above shows how quickly a state can descend into tyranny – it should serve as an American wake-up call.
The above is a repost from March 6, 2016. The following is a long comment I posted (Saturday, April 30, 2016 12:14 PM) under my nickname, susanholly, at National Review Online in the comments section of a Andrew McCarthy article, “Trump Would Press the Agenda That Drove His Voters from the GOP” :
People get so enmeshed on the minute-by-minute slugfest in campaign battles that they fixate on pointing out these snapshot views (the little picture) of why things happened. If you really want to know why Trump is “winning” it’s because he was sold as “winning”.
I can pinpoint things about all 16 other GOP candidates that I like and dislike, but they all ran traditional GOP campaigns. Trump used a slick propaganda technique, which is exactly how Bill Clinton survived impeachment, how gay marriage was mainstreamed, how climate change was sold and many other left-wing causes. It’s how the transgender “rights” issue is being sold.
I’ve been studying this since impeachment, because I was perplexed how Bill Clinton could keep rising in the polls in favorable numbers as the scandal worsened, because it made no sense. If the highest law enforcement officer in the land is exposed as having lied under oath, regardless of his partisan political affiliation, in America he should be disgraced and removed from office, if Americans believe in the rule of law and that no one is above the law. So, then I started wondering how could this be that his favorable numbers kept going up and that endless repetition of buzz words and talking points baffled me.
America started being sold a new propaganda messaging with their Clinton spin mass media messaging operations. Take the personalities and partisan politics out of it and it boils down to mass media saturation with carefully selected and relentlessly repeated buzz word and catchphrase messaging, along with strategically-timed character assassinations to immobilize any opponents who gain an iota of traction against their mass media messaging blockade (Alinsky would be proud). Then the politicians and their mouthpieces, with the collusion of the media keep reminding American’s of who or what issue is winning in the polls. The goal is to get over 50%, so they can claim that is the “will of the people” and it marginalizes dissenters as fringe kooks. It’s totalitarian and antithetical to American principles. What do manufactured polls, achieved through mass media saturation, really represent?
Any of the other candidates could have talked about anything, they could (and many did) give the best speeches ever, but as long as they use complete sentences and do not have the mass media saturation ability, their messaging will never gain traction. Those buzz words are what people remember (like a catchy commercial jingle). Cruz made a little headway with conservatives in some states by relying on intensive grassroots organization and campaigning on the ground, but he did not make a dent against the mass media saturation blockade. That last GOP debate, a week of blowback about Trump fascist memes set-up and his war crimes as serious policy controversy coupled with Cruz and Rubio’s tag-team takedown of Trump at that debate started a slight messaging breakthrough. Trump countered with a character assassination of Rubio and the little hands bit, coupled with coordinated media dumps of stories to trash Rubio, which knocked Rubio out of the race. Trump walked away from debates, because he’s vulnerable in that format and can’t control it. Cruz won one news cycle with the Carly announcement, but Trump orchestrated the “Lucifer” hit and the mass media hits (yesterday Drudge had several headlines – to include, amazingly, a Mother Jones article by David Corn) on Cruz the “religious zealot”. The Trump operatives ran that talking point even in Disqus comment threads on conservative online sites. How Trump orchestrated that Lucifer hit with Boehner and the mass media would be interesting to know.
The strategy Trump is using is the Carville/Begala strategy that got Bill Clinton through impeachment and it only works with mass media collusion to pull off the mass media saturation – it’s slick mass media brainwashing – it’s how Obama and his “hope and change” got him elected too. Obama out sleazed the Clintons with this technique and he had that ace in the hole – the race card – to play.
The exact how Trump came to be using this technique and had the professionally-gathered opposition research on-hand and knew how to time and orchestrate this strategy perfectly with supposedly barely any staff is the real question. Trump only pays attention to his “winning in the polls” and going out there with his memes and character assassination attacks, but he does not really understand polling. For this strategy to work takes really sophisticated internal poll tracking and rapid responses to keep the 24/7 news cycle on your messaging. How Trump orchestrated all this alone is what I want to know??? No Republicans or conservative issues have won against this mass media strategy yet, because they never have the mass media collusion necessary to carry it off. Obama beat the Clintons using it, playing the race card, but I don’t believe Trump can beat the Clintons, because the mass media saturation will pivot to deliver the Clinton character assassination blitz with their 2.0 version of this strategy. It’s not about personality – It’s mass media brainwashing, in essence, and if you can manufacture those popularity polls – 50% with dubious polling that’s all it takes, you can then strong-arm everyone else to submit to this as “the will of the people”. This is racketeering and influence-peddling on an epic scale and runs completely counter to our American values.
I am a homemaker and the wife of a retired soldier. I don’t have any political connections to prove what happened to me in Fall of 1998 and early months of 1999 for challenging this Clinton propaganda strategy on the Excite message boards, but I almost had my freedom taken away for posting on a stupid message board, when some of my arguments countering their spin started being used by real GOP pundits. I was attacked in my home and silenced. My effort to prove how far the Clintons will go to win has taken me all these years and gotten no where. Now they’re successfully hijacking the GOP primary process through a yuge dupe and Ms “love and kindness” sits poised to win. The mass media saturation makes that inevitable. Bill Clinton has twisted Obama’s arm to make sure she won’t be prosecuted. What kind of American leaders would resort to this sort of Alinskyite propaganda strategy and what kind of safeguard is a “free press”, where the big media honchos would, willingly and knowingly, participate in it? We are doomed if this goes unchallenged.
After almost a year of this 2016 presidential campaign, the endless Trump theatrics and bogus allegations, replete with vile, petty name-calling and endless spin (lying) makes me disgusted not only with Trump, but also with his big name enablers. I lost respect for many public figures in the process, especially Rudy Giuliani, who could go on national TV and proclaim that Trump behaves gentlemanly and is a gentleman. That level of bold-faced lying for political purposes rests as something I expect from Hillary Clinton, not from Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor. The Trump demolition of the GOP continues and rather than beat a dead horse and repeat the same mantra daily, I’m working on some other craft projects and also some other topics to write about – hence, not as frequent blog posts.
My fervent hope is that both Hillary and Trump get fired – she to face charges and he as a total lying, conniving fraud, but of course, due to the state of America and the worship of celebrity, my hope rests as, at best, a forlorn one. She will not be held to account for jeopardizing national security on an epic scale and Trump, a TV clown act, who definitely does not possess the integrity, intellectual heft, work ethic or frankly good manners to be President, just might insult his way into the White House.
How smart people can excuse his petty stream of “Little Marco”, “Lyin’ Ted”, Megyn bleeding out of her wherever and Carly’s ugly face taunts, well, I don’t get it. Top that with the fact that the man does not hire the best people, he doesn’t bother to do his homework, he’s corrupt and worse than that he corrupts those who follow him. They begin to believe his lies and convoluted excuses and worse repeat them. No one stole his delegates – he was too lazy, too cheap and most of all believed he could ride free media buzz all the way to the nomination, so he didn’t bother with setting up real state campaign operations.
Trump’s latest RNC delegate rants repeat the same Trump pattern – he didn’t bother to prepare for debates and when he ended up looking like an ignorant ass – he walked away from the debates. However, for months, his enablers bragged that he was different, he didn’t need to know details or prepare, as he would hire the best people, and he even set out mocking Carly Fiorina for her obvious dedicated study and preparation as a negative – boring even. Heck, I caught myself thinking she does sound very prepared as if that was a negative, until I realized Trump was sucking me into his amoral relativistic thinking – he does that to people. He will find a little grain of truth and use it to sell a whole truckload of lies and bullshit. He also connives people into becoming willing participants in his vile attacks and smear campaigns, as they repeat his sleazy dirt. Her studying demonstrated she was worthy of the job she was seeking and Trump’s refusal to follow the rules or put any effort into policy research shows he is UNFIT for the job. He perverts, not only the truth, but people’s moral compass, as he sells you on his entitlement, due to he is rich (successful).
Now, he wants the RNC to ditch all the rules to accommodate him, all because of his own lack of planning and cheapskate campaign tactics have left him without viable state grassroots organization. His free ride with mass media collusion is about to end and he’s now having to pay his way, which he is whining about non-stop. The man is a fraud and worse than that, he corrupts everyone who buys into his delusional conspiracy victim-hood tripe. One can only wonder how he will fare, if he does bare-knuckle his way to the GOP nomination. The media sits poised to turn on him and will unleash the Clinton attack machine. Assuredly, they want Trump to burn down the GOP tent, as they have given Trump billions of dollars of free air time, to that end. However, their fork-tongued, flame-throwing swamp monster, Drumpfzilla, seems to have acquired land legs and he’s as adept at “scorched earth” as the Witch of Chappaqua. The blaze from 2016 may be one for the record books, but let’s hope that America is still left standing and neither of these two vile creatures ends up in the Oval Office!
This morning FOX News ran a report about the alarming state of readiness in Marine aircraft, along with their requisite “military expert” commentary from General Jack Keane. The US Armed Forces has been in an endless state of war since 2001, so this dire readiness state rests as a natural outcome. Some truths hold true for eternity and one of those truths comes from Sun Tzu, in the chapter on Waging War:
2. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men’s weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.
3. Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.
4. Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.
5. Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
6. There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.
Everyone in Congress who sits on Armed Services committees and the White House staff, who receive Armed Forces readiness reports, should have been well aware of these looming problems for the last decade. This isn’t just some “new problem” blowing up out of the wild blue yonder; it’s the predictable outcome of more than a decade of protracted war, then compounded by President Obama’s deliberate and willful undercutting defense readiness. When you have an administration more concerned about social engineering than warfighting capability, this decline in military readiness rests as the outcome – the Obama administration deliberately has made decisions designed to weaken the US military – that’s the truth. Now, lacking an ability to prove their “motives”, the Obama chorus will recoil in outrage and insist the President cares about military readiness and national security, so let’s just say the outcome of 8 years of Obama military policy has led to a collapse of American power projection globally and the next administration inherits a US Armed Forces besieged with readiness issues that must be addressed immediately.
Guessing, I am like many Americans in regards to this campaign 2016 season and with the world situation too, where the burned out feeling has started to set in. The media hyping every Bernie/Hillary snipe and the GOP consumed by the Trump circus train, well, after the 5,000th time of Trump doing the same lame shtick and his endless repetition of his “winning” or whines about being treated “unfairly”, no wonder the media buzz trying to create “a big story” has me yawning.
The interesting part of the Trump campaign all along has been how his campaign really is organized (or disorganized) internally and who are the real Trump advisers. That his campaign internally is imploding is obvious. The reports of disorganization and in-fighting are now seeping out and that Trump never bothered to invest in the state infrastructure to actually carry a national campaign to fruition strikes me as typical Trump – no details, just all bluster. There’s no “there” there with Trump – he’ s a lot of braggadocio and little substance. Now, the fascinating public statements by Trump’s loyal friend, former campaign manager, Roger Stone, keep piquing my interest. Why has Stone been more visible and vocal as a Trump spokesman than Lewandowski? Why hasn’t Trump disavowed Stone’s comments threatening the GOP party leaders with riots or yesterday, there was a report of Stone threatening to release the hotel room numbers of delegates who switch from Trump supporters to someone else in a contested convention? Why do Trump’s comments about “there would be riots” sound so much like Stone’s and how often do Stone and Trump talk about the campaign?
That Trump doesn’t pay attention to details, from eschewing studying policy or preparing for debates to organizing a viable presidential campaign for the long haul delegate battle, seems to be the key takeaway of his entire campaign, – Trump isn’t about the details, he’s about selling the dream. So, whereas the Clintons mastered the grueling ground game details decades ago and even Cruz has put together a formidable state delegate operation, the Trump campaign focused on reality TV hype, creating media sensations, and the power of Twitter rants… Hence, the late, last ditch effort to organize state delegate operations at this late date – the hiring of Paul Manafort, who worked with Roger Stone and Charles R. Black, Jr. (aligned with the Kasich campaign) long ago. One can only wonder how long a man like Manafort, known for his organizational prowess, can contend with dealing with Trump, the master twit of sub-par tweeting and his band of definitely not “great” campaign team of misfits, like Lewandowski and Pierson, and oh, dare I say, the word, “losers”.
Here’s a PJTV interview with Ann Coulter. At minute 2:40 she utters what I suspect will turn out to be the biggest lie of the campaign, when she states Trump doesn’t have any political opposition research team. Coulter insists Trump’s campaign staff is just a couple people running things for months and now a few more. Now, watching Trump show up all through last summer and fall to interviews and debates without policy details, but with his pockets loaded down with sleaze and scurrilous dirt, well someone provided Trump with this meticulous opposition research. Add to this that Trump endlessly warns people to watch out or else, hinting he has more dirt to dump (and often he dumps it, so he’s not bluffing). So, while Coulter may buy into “Trump the political genius”, I call bullshit, loud and clear. Trump came loaded down with huge piles of professionally-gathered opposition research. Who he hired to gather all this dirt remains unknown, but before this election is over, more details will likely emerge.
Trump dominates the news cycle and beyond his policy blunders, this latest controversy over his campaign manager and the former-Breitbart reporter, Michelle Fields, takes the cake for Trump being completely tone deaf and frankly a total idiot. Put aside all the arguments about the he said/she said, put aside the video and audio tapes. Just think about this as a public relations incident and pretend you’re a presidential candidate whose campaign has been alleged to encourage violence. Now, if you have some campaign messages about real issues you’d like to resonate with voters, something like this Fields incident should be something you want to get behind you as quickly as possible.
For the record, I don’t see Fields almost pulled to the floor in the video, but I also do see Lewandowski touch her arm, which puts a lie to Trump initially saying Lewandowski never touched her. So, even if Fields exaggerated, Trump and Lewandowski could have handled this in a gentlemanly fashion and the matter would be history by now. Imagine if the Trump campaign issued a public and private apology to Fields or even imagine the private apology coming with a bouquet of flowers. It would have been very hard for Fields to turn them into cads and this whole escalation could have been avoided. That’s called diplomacy and rising above the situation, but it takes character to do that and Trump lacks it.
Instead, Trump launched into a character assassination of Fields from the beginning. Coulter may applaud Trump’s approach, as she has made a career out of baiting people and creating scenes – from her books, to her TV appearances, to her college campus speeches. Her entire career can be summed up as agitation propaganda of the most vile sort. Her career centers on name-calling and vile demagoguery, then when she provokes a response, she plays the victim of the “vicious Left.” And of course, she has made flipping her long blond hair back part of her public speaking too, her nose goes up in the air with a haughty jaunt and then she flips her hair back, which comes across as a “So there!” To be fair, Coulter only touched her hair one time in this interview and did not do her trademark tossing it back, perhaps because this was a very friendly venue for her.
Check out Rudy Giuliani describing the vulgar, vile Donald Trump at 31:09 on this video – the lies are limitless from Trump apologists. Giuliani described Trump as “gentlemanly” — the man tweeting in public about Megyn Kelly bleeding out of her wherever is really a gentleman in private…. yeah right! So, this post is going to be a recap and some thoughts on the GOP Primary Insurgency.
Last Spring the 2016 race looked like an easy GOP victory when Hillary Clinton’s private email server scandal broke. Coupled with truly terrible campaign PR, from the initial video launch to the multiple efforts to relaunch her campaign, things looked dire in ClintonWorld. The GOP line-up, on the other hand, looked like a field of many talented Republicans and then there was Donald Trump. The media created this “Year of the Insurgent” meme and while Sanders gets mentioned as being part of that meme, despite being a “Washington insider” down to his bones, for the most part the term has been a badge of honor worn by Donald Trump and the media saturation has been on Trump, not on Sanders.
Hillary, with the help of Bill Clinton’s arm-twisting and shoving his political muscle around, is poised to glide to the Democrat nomination, head held high, serenely walking up the middle, cleared by Bill Clinton’s brilliant triangulation strategy, as I’ve repeated since last Fall. If the match-up is against Trump, she will easily win is my prediction.
The GOP is headed to a train wreck of a convention, aided by virulent protesters funded by George Soros, by a duplicitous John Kasich, funded by George Soros and then there are the two “front-runners” in this GOP campaign, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, both surrounded by enough strange antics that one can only wonder how the GOP allowed its party to be hijacked by hostile forces.
Trump’s mass media saturation for months on end last year, where the media gave him millions of dollars of free air time and where he relentlessly repeated his litany of buzz words and hollow phrases, came loaded down, not with policy, but with some of the most vicious sleaze was, in plain English, CHEATING – it was cheating and fraud on a massive scale. From many sources:
Now add in what amounted to a rock star doing a national tour with big stadium venues lined up and plenty of nationalistic jingoism and scapegoating various ethnic groups, Trump attracted quite a crowd of bottom-feeders, along with plenty of poor whites trampled on during the past 8 years of a depressed American economy and Obama vast federal government expansion and intrusion into American daily life. Trump promises to “Make America Great Again” and for millions of Americans, feeling powerless, he has become their savior.
In comments at various sites, I dubbed Trump’s most faithful, those who champion him no matter how vile, outrageous or deceitful he is proven to be, as his 5th Avenue Loyalists. They will remain loyal even if he does shoot someone on 5th Avenue and make up rationalizations to justify it. The Trump phenomenon ranks as a bizarre study in mass delusion that I hope America breaks free of soon.
As to Ted Cruz, now here is another candidate that no matter how much I would like to unreservedly support him, based on his stated conservative principles, I can’t. Cruz, a brilliant lawyer, who so carefully calculated avoiding alienating Trump supporters and refused to condemn Trump’s antics early on, hoping that if Trump fell, he could pull Trump supporters to his side, still publicly campaigns with the bizarre freak show that is Glenn Beck. Beck has been all over the political landscape – Tea Party enthusiast, down to the border to hand out teddy bears to illegals, champion of George Washington’s values, and now prognosticator of religious prophecy. Yet, Cruz still campaigns with him, in fact, Cruz traipsed down to the border in 2014 with Beck to hand out soccer balls and teddy bears to illegal immigrants and Beck highlighted all the good works of these religious charities receiving millions of federal dollars to administer these refugee and immigration services for the government. It’s a YUGE racket of corruption! (here and here and here)
Trump corners the market on being able to say vulgar, inane, idiotic, crude, and over the top bombastic things with no political fall-out. He could repeat an idiotic plan to send US troops to murder ISIS family members, all to sound tough, and his supporters excuse that as he either didn’t mean it literally or he, at least, wants to “do something”. That plan was a war crime, ISIS terrorists routinely use their family members as human shields and don’t “scare” easily, but none of this matters to Trump supporters. The Trump policy disparaged US troops, equating them to just hired muscle, who will commit cold-blooded murder without question.
Trump’s supporters hear Trump tough talk and cheer – no matter what the content! However, Cruz is supposedly so smart, so why would he recently revert back to this language of “carpet bombing” bombast from earlier in his campaign, knowing this language carries with it so much negative political fall-out? It makes no sense, just as his campaigning with Glenn Beck makes no sense.
Now, we get to the present tabloid trash phase of this GOP Insurgency, where Kasich stands smugly on the sidelines, hoping Trump and Cruz implode, basking in Soros cash and the GOP primary moves to the gutter of the Kardashians and Paris Hilton looks like a class act compared to Trump and Cruz. Sure, there are those who will wail that Cruz is a victim and that Cruz’ wife was trashed with that Trump retweet of the unflattering picture of Heidi Cruz. Sure, there are those who blame Cruz for the Super PAC release of public photos of bare-bottomed Melania Trump being splashed in papers. And sure, Trump is close friends with Pecker, who now published the exposé of Cruz and a handful of women Cruz is alleged to have had affairs with in the National Enquirer.
All of the above can be attributed to Cruz or Trump, but something is rotten in this entire GOP primary – Cruz who can’t get along with anyone in the Senate and just created endless agitation propaganda stunts there and now we have Trump the reality TV insurgent tearing the GOP apart, but promising to bring in “Democrat converts” to rejuvenate the GOP… So, how does Trump who brags about hiring the best people hire a sleaze of the first order like Roger Stone, who published a book, “The Clintons’ War on Women” in Oct. 2015 and the “Jeb! And the Bush Crime Family” in Feb. 2016? How did Corey Lewandowski rate as part of the pool of best among campaign managers? And how on earth did this former twit, Tea Party activist, Cruz senatorial campaign volunteer, Katrina Pierson, end up on Trump’s list of “best” candidates for campaign spokesperson? And what are the odds that such a woman would be part of a National Enquirer spread meant to take down Ted Cruz?
Who doubts for a moment that despite all this “bad blood,” that if push comes to shove, Cruz would, in a heartbeat, jump at the opportunity to be Trump’s vice president, if offered the job? Look at the transformation of the “nice” Dr. Ben Carson, who was vilely trashed by Trump, now singing Trump’s praises??? Look at Chris Christie???
Here’s a link to Trump with some golfing buddies, Bill Clinton and Rudy Giuliani… Rush Limbaugh is also a Trump golfing buddy. Bill O’Reilly another Trump long-time friend. Geraldo, of tabloid trash TV, another long-time friend of Trump. Jeanine Pirro – another Trump long-time friend – check out her ex-husband, whose corruption derailed her career, btw. She divorced him and rebounded with this FOX news gig. Allegations abound about her own corruption as DA too, so who knows… Trump’s corruption is epic and well-known, but his supporters airily dismiss it.
There’s a lot of strange stuff going on in this GOP hostile takeover and we haven’t even scratched the surface on who the real power players behind the scenes are in trying to implode the GOP. Impacting soon, I’m sure!
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