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Flirting with revolution

HHusky
HHusky Member Posts: 24,546
edited January 2021 in Tug Tavern
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/01/the-trump-presidencys-inevitable-wretched-end/

The Trump presidency began in shame and dishonesty. It ends in shame, dishonesty, cowardice, and rebellion against the Constitution. For the past few weeks, the right-wing media, including the big talk-radio shows, has been coyly calling for a revolution. Of course they never thought they’d actually get one: That kind of talk is good for business — keep the rubes riled up and they won’t change the channel when the commercials come around on the half-hour. I never had much hope for the likes of Sean Hannity, tragically born too late to be a 1970s game-show host, but to watch Senator Ted Cruz descend into this kind of dangerous demagoguery as he jockeys to get out in front of the Trump parade as its new grand marshal has induced despair.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,148 Founders Club
    HHusky said:

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/01/the-trump-presidencys-inevitable-wretched-end/

    The Trump presidency began in shame and dishonesty. It ends in shame, dishonesty, cowardice, and rebellion against the Constitution. For the past few weeks, the right-wing media, including the big talk-radio shows, has been coyly calling for a revolution. Of course they never thought they’d actually get one: That kind of talk is good for business — keep the rubes riled up and they won’t change the channel when the commercials come around on the half-hour. I never had much hope for the likes of Sean Hannity, tragically born too late to be a 1970s game-show host, but to watch Senator Ted Cruz descend into this kind of dangerous demagoguery as he jockeys to get out in front of the Trump parade as its new grand marshal has induced despair.

    NOC
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 24,546
    edited January 2021
    Perhaps our best bored example of how populism appeals to the (very) common man weighs in.
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    All 3 Houses

    Mandate

    Leaders lead

    What’s next?
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 24,546
    doogie said:

    All 3 Houses

    Mandate

    Leaders lead

    What’s next?

    Not

    really

    responsive

  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,219
    Looked like the Summer of Love to me.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,148 Founders Club
    doogie said:

    All 3 Houses

    Mandate

    Leaders lead

    What’s next?

    Cmon man. Lead us H. What's the plan?
  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,219

    doogie said:

    All 3 Houses

    Mandate

    Leaders lead

    What’s next?

    Cmon man. Lead us H. What's the plan?
    The first thing we need to do is stop using bigoted words like "mandate."
  • HuskyJW
    HuskyJW Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 15,541 Founders Club
    At this point people are going to justify anything

    Just GTFO
  • Rubberfist
    Rubberfist Member Posts: 1,373
    Oh please, no one cares what NR has to say. There’s no room for NR in Trump’s Republican Party. Hayek, Kirk and Buckley are dinosaurs. It’s all Gateway Pundit and Dinesh D’Souze now. If you’re not willing to tell the rubes exactly what they want to hear you can get the fuck out!