"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible."
Donald Trump: January, 2016, Sioux Center, Iowa
Incredible and true.
Yesterday, in Pennsylvania, Trump spoke in admiration of Arnold Palmer's penis. Really.
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Democrats think this is certain sign of Trump's fading mental capacity. So gross. So inappropriate.
Incidents like this one in Pennsylvania don't cost Trump votes. His supporters have a "Yeah, but . . . " attitude. They acknowledge Trump is crude, but it doesn't change the important thing. That's the dismissive "Yeah." The "but" is that they think Trump will get things done.
But what about character?
The character trait a great many Americans think important is that he is a fearless and unconstrained bully. He won't let laws, honesty, or decorum tie his hands and bow to the feminization of America. Trump will do the things that Biden just worked at. He would secure the border; deport bad guys; end "woke" tomfoolery; flood the country with cheap gasoline; and bring peace to the world by scaring the bejesus out of Russia, China, and Iran with his unpredictability.
New York bond traders have a crude phrase for a certain kind of market player, described with initials: BSD. BSDs are bold and opinionated men who control huge blocks of money. They move markets when they come in with big buy or sell orders. They are BSDs: the Big Swinging Dicks of financial markets.
Trump admires BSDs. Elon Musk, the biggest and richest BSD in the world, supports Trump. Of course, Trump would speak that way in admiration of Arnold Palmer. Palmer was "all man."
As president Trump would have the power to change public policy as abruptly as a $40 billion buy order changes Twitter. Crude as it was, Trump was sending a message in Pennsylvania. If Americans want a BSD in the White House, someone to get stuff done, it takes a man.
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Over 60 years ago when my dad was in grad school, I remember him sharing two things that stayed with me.
1. Every civilization in history has risen and fallen, and the best time to live is just before it reaches its peak;and we don’t get to choose where in that arc we get to live.
2. You can have freedom, or you can have safety and security but you can’t have both.
My father passed away a few years ago at 97. He agreed that he had lucked out on timing. Most of us have lived in a brief period of history where we seemed to have both. This election will determine whether Freedom or a fraudulent purveyor of “safety and security” will win out, but probably also whether coarseness, vulgarity and contempt for others, and its inevitable contribution to a chaotic society will hasten our civilization’s decline.
Right, Trump is going to get things done. We know because during his previous term he built the Great Wall of Trump and made Mexico pay for it, just like he said he would.
Face it, folks. There is no “Yeah, but…”. Trump’s criminality and crudity are what Republicans love about him. It’s all he’s got – that and his ever-increasing madness, of which his publicly announced penis envy is just a tiny part.
The only thing worse than Trump is anybody who would make such an obvious madman our president.
Defeating Donald Trump might require a Big Swinging Democrat, but Kamala Harris may not be it, regardless of how much she swings her “Glock” (liberals like to wisecrack about guns being compensation for men who aren’t big enough to swing impressively).
Neither Tim Walz (in his hunting drag) nor Doug Emhoff swing that way either.
Those “toxic masculinity“ chickens may be coming home to roost, and the left may come to regret egging on the extremes of anti-male feminism.
Trump is largely incompetent. The problem is he is dying and Vance is competent. I doubt Trump will be alive in four years or if he is he will be so cognitively impaired he might as well be dead.
For the record:
Arnold Palmer died in 2016, shortly before the election. According to his family, he was “appalled” by Donald Trump and “couldn’t believe the crudeness” of the Republican nominee for president:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/arnold-palmer-was-appalled-by-crude-trump-who-praised-the-late-golfers-genitals/
Trump probably thought he was giving Palmer high praise, but what can you expect from the guy whose penis Stormy Daniels compared to a mushroom?
Seriously? You think feminism is to blame for Republicans being so enamored of a traitorous criminal obsessed with size?
The problem with Democrats is that they are just too moral. They have high standards, unlike Trump, whose standards are below the waist. When Al Franken was a MN senator, he was caught with a picture of him faking grabbing a sleeping girl's tits. The Democrats forced him to resign. Hooray for our side. If Trump did that. he'd gain some votes. Democrats don't care that much about winning. They just want to take the high ground while being grounded into dust. Stupid is as stupid does.
Lately, America is being feminized. Women taking over high places in business and the rest. Now they have one running for president. I think it's a reaction to this that men are attracted to a "manly" Trump. Grab their pussies and get away with it. Now, that's a MAN.
If the country put Trump back in, it gets what it deserves. And Ukraine? Forgetaboutit.
Mike, thank you for responding to Michael. I don't understand how some men can filter out what is right there for them to see because it doesn't fit with their preconceived notions about women. Kamala Harris is smart and capable, probably more than most of the men who have run for or been elected president. People said she wasn't doing enough interviews but she has done lots of interviews, including on Fox. She has listed her priorities and hosted numerous events, yet people will say they don't know her and don't know what her goals are. An interviewer asked if she had a gun and what kind. She answered the question. Michael and others are twisting this to say that there was something nefarious about her answer to this question. I thought misogyny and machismo were (however slowly) going away, but Trump has brought them back and in some ways it's worse than ever. And now it looks like these things are going to help him get elected. It's shameful.
Feminist excesses like “toxic masculinity” are one of the causes of the gender polarization we see in the current electorate.
She should have been more circumspect in her comments.
Trump is notorious for his misogyny and racism. He’s normalized both, so Republican men feel entitled to control gynecology and have convinced themselves that affirmative action has made them victims of “reverse discrimination.” He’s also normalized their victim mentality, modeling it for them with his response to being held accountable for his crimes. Now you know when they think America was great: back in the first half of the 20th century, when white men could beat their women and lynch blacks with impunity.
The concept of toxic masculinity refers to those aspects of masculinity that are socially destructive, such as misogyny, homophobia, and violent domination. Those aren't "feminist excesses," they're male excesses.
KH has been asked numerous times why she has changed her former far-left positions on banning fracking, using tax dollars to pay for sex transition operations for prison inmates, etc. Her replies have been opaque boilerplate talking points that provide no answers to those questions.
Noticing this has nothing to do with “preconceived notions about women.”
Responding to a different point of view with not-so-subtle accusations of racism (Mike) or sexism (you) is just a lazy way of not having to consider the actual arguments.
Newsflash: Feminism was a response to male "toxic masculinity," not the cause of it. A lot of women want equality and respect. Real men aren't intimidated by that. And real men don't brag about grabbing women by the pussy.
Michael T., a quick search brought up several links to Kamala Harris's views regarding fracking. You may not like her answer to why her position has changed, but she has been open about it. A search regarding transgender care in prisons revealed that former president Trump followed the law regarding transgender care for prisoners and immigrants in Federal custody. If Kamala Harris is elected president, she would also need to follow the law.
Blaming women for men's behavior is sexism 101.
As Peter said in his post, the issue here is Trump's character, but his apologists need to change the subject because nothing negative that Harris has ever said or done can compare to Trump's misogyny, racism, and contempt for the rule of law.
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