Believe me when I tell you that the LAST THING I could POSSIBLY want would be to vote for Donald Trump. That’s why I am so stunned that you have taken it upon yourself to go to such lengths to FORCE me to vote for him! You sick, sick monster! I don’t even like him, not even one little bit. So I hope you’re happy with what YOU are making me do, which comes to me as a total surprise and is definitely not a foregone conclusion in any way.
Over the past four years, Trump’s ominous shadow has devoured everything that was precious about America, chewed on it and spat out only bones and gristle. This has slightly obscured the accomplishments of his administration, which include, if I am remembering right (DON’T TELL ME IF I’M NOT; THAT WILL MAKE ME ANGRY, AND YOU KNOW WHO ANGRY PEOPLE VOTE FOR), ending the budget deficit and doing whatever it was Abraham Lincoln did, but better and faster.
Do I think Trump has the attributes necessary for governing? Absolutely not! He is a dangerous man, and every day we spend under his leadership is a day we lose a precious share of the world’s respect that we may never regain. There’s definitely not a “But!” coming after such a strong and overwhelming condemnation of his leadership.
But! (You MONSTER! I can’t BELIEVE you put a “BUT” right here in my otherwise full-throated condemnation! That is the only explanation for how it could have gotten there; I know I would not have put it there.) I am more afraid that Joe Biden is the unwitting puppet of dangerous socialists, something you forced me to think using a mind ray. God! You’re even more disgusting than I imagined.
It is also bizarre and, frankly, counterproductive of you to insist that I not read any of Biden’s policy positions on anything, or how you have expended all this effort to make me baselessly paranoid that some shadowy, unseen figure is pulling his strings — something I would not think on my own! Can’t believe you’ve pushed me to this point.
I should also note that, much as I hold deep, principled reservations about Trump’s leadership, I just want to say that if anyone makes me feel the least bit uncomfortable about the legacy of racism in this country or urges me to learn one particle of history that I would not like to learn, I will panic, and when I panic, I vote for Trump (which is, I admit, weird given that I have ZERO desire to do so).
Also, I am sick of media bias. Journalists never quote the president saying anything that makes him look good or sound competent. But just statistically a person must sometimes sound at least kind of competent. Like the monkey-typewriter-Shakespeare thing! So if I see anywhere that the president said something that makes him look bad, malicious or incompetent, you know what that means: I’m going to have to vote for him. Twist my arm, why don’t you!
I am not worried about any dictatorial tendencies from Trump. Yes, he says all the time now that he deserves a third term and that his first one should not be counted, and he constantly implies that he will not accept the results of the election as legitimate if they involve the counting of mailed-in ballots. He also loves nothing better than to embrace creepy strongmen abroad! But (whoa, another “but”! You must be really messed up) I just kind of don’t think he really will follow through on any of it? And what if Biden, whom I have no reason to believe would do any of these things, were secretly planning something much, much worse?
Are there people on the right as bad as the people on the left who are really what is wrong with America? Yes, I think? You made me frame that very confusingly. Sure, it’s bad that the president is giving aid and cover to white supremacists, but — I can’t BELIEVE you would make me put another “but” here! This isn’t a sentence that should have a “but” in it! Though while we’re here, I guess I would say, since you’ve forced me to — but how much do we really need to care about that? You’ve given me no choice but to vote for Trump.
Is there anything any of you could say or do that would make me not vote for him? Wow, it’s condescending questions like this that have really forced my hand.
So I am going to hold my nose and vote for Donald Trump. It would be a real shame for the country, I think, but then again, it might not be such a shame. It almost feels like you WANT me to do it. Okay, I’ll do it.
We used to have “safe places” for this snowflake. They were called insane asylums. Despite Claiming to hold nose and vote Trump, that idiot is Demoncrap through and through.
I think it’s supposed to be funny, as in satirical, but what do I know?
LOL everyone knows that anyone who votes for Trump is a closet white supremacist/facist/etc. LOL
“Do I think Trump has the attributes necessary for governing? Absolutely not! He is a dangerous man, and every day we spend under his leadership is a day we lose a precious share of the world’s respect that we may never regain.”
Silliness. China now respects the US. NATO now respects the US. The MIDDLE EAST now respects the US. And he is getting the US out of all those stupid Middle East wars
They may not LIKE DJT but this is not a beauty contest. This is about respect. And he has created most successful US foreign policy since WWII.
But if this dingbat wants to vote for DJT for whatever nonsensical reason she is trying to justify then go for it.
About respect? The world holds Trump in contempt. No better than a petulant child that needs to have his ego stroked if you want something from him. NATO does not respect the US because of Trump. They are preparing for a future where the US will cut and run. Same with Japan and South Korea. Trump has completely undermined the systems of alliances that was the core of US soft power for decades. This is probably fine for the “America Alone” crowd that thinks the world would be be a better place if China ran everything because Americans can’t be bothered to get involved. But it will be bad for the US economy in the long run.
For every would be democrat disgusted by the left wing extremists there are 10 conservatives who are voting for Biden simply because they have no other way to eject Trump. The polls support this view.
Respect and Like are two different things.
They all liked Obama. and Bush, and Clinton. They knew they could negotiate with them and win because they were weak negotiators that would give away the farm. They do not believe this about Trump. They know he understands the power he has in negotiations. Thus, yes they do respect him, they just don’t like him.
No – there is no respect – even in the sense that you use.
Trump bellows and rages but he will ultimately “give away the farm”.
He has done it many times over.
Case in point: TikTok. Trump was right to seek to protect Americans from Chinese spying and manipulation. Microsoft put together a reasonable plan to build a firewall between TikTok US and TikTok China. But along comes Trump’s buddy Larry Ellison with a “plan” that leaves all control over the software in the hands of Chinese as well as majority control of the joint venture. The fig leaf for Trump – a $5 billion bribe paid by Oracle to be used for “patriotic education”.
It is pathetic. Trump makes a mess of things even when he is right on policy. He can’t help himself because he only really cares about himself. Americans are just a bunch of suckers to exploit.
Military deaths under Obama/Biden
2,499
Trump.
43
( 17 from two Navy Collision)
Paul-
D’ya remember when the nightly news would toll bells and read the names of George Bush’s war dead? And crazy cat ladies wiped red painted hands on our Sec. of State? I do. That all stopped when Obama sent our boys to their deaths. The leftists are sick in the head. Sick in their fkcuing heads.
And Trump’s war dead? It would be an embarrassment to broadcast the facts. An embarrassment to Obama and the anti-war/Communists
The world loves Kanuckistan. However it has absolutely no respect as we’re seen as a bunch of pushover hosers.
yes timbo, the polls also had Vince Foster’s killer, winning in 16. You lefties are logically challenged to the core.
Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
The Arabs hold Trump in such “contempt”, they are signing PEACE TREATIES WITH ISRAEL.
That’ll show up the OrangeMan, alrighty!
GFY DeMarxist Troll
Yeah the deals with Israel were a good thing. But what was interesting is Trump was not deeply involved in negotiations so he could not mess them up. Instead he got out of the way and let the parties work it out. It is possible that the deals would have happened no matter who was in the WhiteHouse but I will give Trump credit when it is due. In this case, keeping out of it was the right call.
OTOH, a couple good pitches in a game filled with gross errors still means you need to fire your pitcher.
He wasn’t deeply involved?
The negotiations wouldn’t have happened at all if he hadn’t won the election, implemented the new direction in foreign policy he campaigned on, and then hired the people who made it happen. Not to mention the fact that everyone has been complaining about the team he assembled, and lo and behold they got it done. It’s almost as if the President knows what he is doing, imagine that.
You seem to lack common sense. Must be hard to misunderstand everything that happens all around you.
Is that you Mittens?
“Trump has completely undermined the systems of alliances that was the core of US soft power for decades.”
Art Follows Life dept.
Some chicken, some neck !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6JxSHmVB5g
> For every would be democrat disgusted by the left wing extremists there are 10 conservatives who are voting for Biden simply because they have no other way to eject Trump.
I died.
Please, keep going though.
NATO views the US as a patsy and a sucker. The US subsidizes the budgets of European countries for essentially the cost of the entire national defense of their nations. Those countries have populations who are majority anti-American. They then turn around mock the US for not having enough free sh*t give away programs like free health care for hurt feelings. Why should Americans bleed for this? Why should Americans sacrifice their treasure for this? Germany was defeated 75 years ago. Russian socialism fell 30 years ago. US out of NATO ASAP!!!
BS.
They’re pissed cause he’s making them meet their own financial requirements that THEY signed onto of their own volition.
They don’t like the fact that Barry’s stinking deal with the Iranians was rightfully cancelled…half the EU was kissing their ASS….as well as Palestinian ASS (Hamas).
I’d vote for him in a heartbeat…the Alternative would eventually lead to the Gas Chambers…it always does.
Uh…no.
FWIW – not paywalled for me.
Context: Alexandra Petri is the hack that passes as the in-house satirist at WaPo. She is rarely funny on purpose.
Alexandra believes, without evidence (as WaPo like to say), that most of those who now claim to be forced to vote for Trump never seriously considered voting against him. As if the very sight of Senile Joe wasn’t motivation enough.
That is the worst scrambled mess of writing that I have read in a long time.
I don’t know that I believe her. Is she lying to herself or to us? Time will tell.
I know it’s not Reader’s Tips time but this Texas Republican ad is pretty good. Former Navy Seal Dan Crenshaw is super sharp on his feet and leaves interviewers like Bill Maher sitting there with their mouth open. Check him out on the Rubin report.
Texas Reloaded – Greatest joint campaign ad in history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd6b_8OlwXU&feature=emb_logo
I “got” it without having to read the entire piece. I didn’t need to know she was a humorist as I spotted it shortly into the article. You either get it or you don’t.
Yo guys I’m pretty sure this is satire…
The president is now being taken to Walter Reed Hospital for observation. CNN has turned it into a death watch. Trump is going to die! White House in chaos! CNN is planning for the funeral.
Walter Reed is not a safe place.
He should be taken to Johns Hopkins.
Pffffftttt…big deal. She’s a self proclaimed “humorist” in the same way Kathy Griffiths is a standup comedian.
The old “you’re forcing me” schtick has been done before, so there’s really nothing new under the sun. So much for originality.
If you think she’s funny or an exceptional satirist…good for you.
I pity her husband Washington Post editor, Stephen Stromberg, who has to hit the rack with that histrionic, weird voiced chucklehead.
I’ve had to hold my nose and vote for a while. Last time I had any enthusiasm was Bush One.
Speaking of monsters, ding dong, our witch got her teeth pulled! Woo hoo!
https://www.woodtv.com/health/coronavirus/michigan-supreme-court-strikes-down-governors-virus-orders/
I thought it was going to a story about Joe Biden putting his hands on her and forcing her.
It must be like living among cannibals to be a woman in the Democratic party. 8 women suffered Clinton’s predatory behavior. Uncounted others over the last 47 years by Biden. Keith Ellison getting off scott free after abusing at least three women. They talk about empowering women but as soon as someone speaks up about a Democrat they get turned on, kicked out of the party, discredited in social media as well as mainstream media. Their complaints are not given credence or investigated.
Remember laws are for us peons, not for our rulers.
I see/hear allusions to this kind of thing all the time. It makes me laugh when I hear someone say “Biden may be president, the polls are so close”.
When a pollster calls you, what’s the upside? Do they pay you?
What’s the downside? No one has ever been doxxed by a socialist, right? No one has ever lost a job for not being woke enough, right? Exactly who is on the other end of that call, anyway, … .
So of course Biden is leading in the polls. Of course you hit that cat/dog/child/whatever instead of stomping the brakes in the rainbow crosswalk. Of course you raise your fist when 100 surround you on the sidewalk.
But you do not forget what happened, or the implied threat.
You can get paid for that?
Nothing worse than a lefty trying to be funny. Over the top lines and phrases wear thin very quickly.
Honestly, I don’t give a rats A, about this idiot. When I started thinking about it, prompted by others on this thread, there is a slew of female “comedians” that aren’t even mildly amusing. Shumer, Griffiths, Silvermann, Fey, plus a bunch more who’s names I can’t recall. I’ve never seen Griffiths “perform” and my first view of her was with the head thing. Shumer was viewed once for about twenty seconds. She’s not, funny, amusing, or cute. Just a plump pudgy idiot, that thinks she’s funny. The one thing in common, they all do jokes about PDJT and all are shrill about it, and they are all so NOT funny. Fey is the only one I find even mildly attractive, and I’ve spent far to much time on this thread already. As for TimG, he’s a troll looking to get his jollies, don’t even bother to acknowledge or challenge him and he’ll slink away like the last idiot did, when SDA posters ignored him.
This woman is in the first stage of the conversion that brought us Brandon Straka’s Walk Away campaign, the Blexit
Movement (Black Americans), the Hispanic Exit Movement, and now, the Jexit Movement (exodus). Comrade Mayor
Bill Deblasio alienated New York City Jews when he chaining or welding the gates at public parks in Jewish neighborhoods.
Add the COVID Nazi governors and mayors and governors (mostly Democrats) and the Democrat-sponsored riots
and this will result in a perfect storm for Trump and the GOP. Unemployment will be a factor. In the Red states,
jobs are coming back by the millions but the COVID dictators are still keeping millions of Americans on the unemployment
lines. Even Liberal surburbanites in cities in the riot zones are buying firearms, ammo, and firearm training in record numbers.
Then consider the Independents and private-sector union voters and a larger percentage of public-sector union voters
who are getting sick of this crap. In the 1992 election, I finally realized the Achilles Heel of the Democrat party, they are
the closest thing to a European style parliamentary system. In these systems with a gazillion parties, the only way to
form a ruling government is to form a coalition. The Donks (as I call them) is a fractured party made up of various and
sometimes competing classes. There are three main factions; The cause-heads like environmentalists and animal
rights activists, etc. The victim classes which includes blacks, Hispanics, feminists, gays, lesbians, transexuals, etc. The
third faction is those who are dependent on federal funding; Welfare recipients (who rarely vote), public-sector union
members (especially teachers unions), the educational establishment, etc.
By taking off their masks, the Democrat party is alienating EVERY single one of their traditional voting constituencies.
Back to my 1992 predictions. The first walk away would be private-sector union members. This demographic lost
tens of millions of jobs due to insane environmental regulations. The second ax to fall would be the minority vote.
The old pre-Civil War Democrat party had black slaves working the cotton plantations. The modern-day Democrat
plantation has killed more blacks than every slave owner, the KKK, and their families were more intact than their
plantation by hundreds to one. The November election is going to be fun to watch! It should (in my opinion)
result in a voter rebellion like 2016, but this time it will be much bigger. It is going to be a gas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktSWQ9Ki7TY
Re, “voter rebellion like 2016”, I hope you’re right, but the left and Soros have game planned that, and they will not concede, and they will try to cheat big time with the mail in vote. If Trump wins in a landslide as you predict, and if the Demons refuse to concede, then the civil war will begin. The primers are in place, half the population of the US thinks civil war will happen, and yes, even anti gun nutjobs are buying guns and ammo. It will be epic, but it won’t be a gas, it will be tragic and terrifying. I fully expect it to come over the border into Canada, and there will be US refugees arriving here too. What I see, is an explosion of homeless, mass poverty like the thirties, starvation, and crime and murder like has never been seen before, tragic desperate times, and it will be years, maybe a decade before any sanity might, maybe, possibly return. The preppers will be the survivors, if there are survivors. I truly hope I’m wrong, and I want, with all my heart to be wrong, but this is what I see on our collective horizon.
The irony, is, that considering how things will be if the democrats win, the above actually is the upside. I am truly saddened beyond comprehension that this is what I see coming!
Do not worry about a second Civil War. The 6-7 percent of society who identify as radical leftists can be broken down
into three categories; Those who support the cause but will do nothing. The people who will riot in the streets. And
those will pick up arms. They are the minority in America. Some of these Walter Mitty revolutionaries may have
bought an AR or an AK and spent a few weekends at a shooting range. These liberal arts majors have no concept
of actual combat tactics. These mammas boys still living in their parent’s basement at age 25-30 are unaware that
a lowly PFC has more tactical skills than they will ever learn. They are a tiny minority within a minority within a
minority. Compare them to 90-100 million American gun owners, military veterans, and retired police officers, and
the entire biker community. The bikers could take them out in the course of a weekend alone.
PS The song I posted came in a flimsy plastic record in a Mad Magazine I bought in 1965 at age nine. As far as these
cockroaches are concerned, I refer to Alfred E Newman: What, me worry? As for the Democrats, if the election is
not close, the Democrats can’t cheat!