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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsTrump’s US election: Writing was clearly on the wall for all readers here to see — Caroline Overington, The Australian
It’s sortakinda like pulling out in your family sedan ainto the path of a monster B triple and saying “..Gee, I didn’t see that coming..”
There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that get what’s going on and those that don’t.
This result was blindingly obvious except to those who couldn’t see past Trumps straight talk (which people say they want in a politician) and his character flaws but at the same time were quite prepared to be blinded by the Clinton crimes, character flaws, duplicity and double speak. (telling a Wall Street function that she had a public position and a private position on issues.) To them it was a simple and shallow, blue team vs red team political theatre fixture.
Gee, those riots worked a treat..
Life Imitating Art Imitating Life
Regarded as one of the best ads of the election. Worked for him..
I posted this ad a few weeks ago, regarded as one of the best of the campaign. Must have been. He got re-elected..
Random Note #197,321 — Trump rewrites Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals with his own rules
Of course Hillary's hero Saul Alinsky who wrote the must have, go to hand guide for all self respecting leftist revolutionaries, Rules For Radicals, and upon whom she based her final year thesis must be rolling in his grave because Donald Trump, has trashed, burned...
Michael Moore: Here’s why Trump will win election — ‘Will be biggest ‘F— you!’ ever recorded in human history. And it will feel good’
Worth reposting this laser accurate prediction…
“..It’s a stunning prediction: America will deliver the “biggest ‘F— you’ ever recorded in human history” and put GOP nominee Donald Trump in the White House this November.
The Mainstream Media’s Big Disconnect: Why They Don’t Get Middle America — Neil Gabler
From April this year — The top journalists covering the elections are out of touch. No wonder they’re missing this year’s big stories — When you put their geographical proximity together with their class solidarity, it is entirely likely that MSM reporters will huddle, the way most geographic and economic cohorts do. They are more likely to see the same things, attend the same parties and events, mingle with the same people, draw on the same sources and send their children to the same schools, which adds up to their seeing the world in similar ways and reporting the same stories in the same ways. In short, the MSM is not only an elite, it is a kind of economic and cultural clique. And that clique is not us.
Whoops. Big Call And Wrong Call
The commentariat listening to the echo chamber of like minded types. So authoritative but so wrong. Front page of the Oz yesterday.
Whoops…..A superficial comparison: Donald is no Ronald — Tom Switzer, News Weekly
“..Which is one more reason why the reality TV star and casino and real estate tycoon is not like Reagan: Trump will lose in November and his campaign will be left on the ash heap of history..”
Greens thought section 18C was a bad law — Tim Wilson The Australian
The year was 1994 and even The Greens had problems with and could see the kinks in 18c, speaking about it in terms of the “thought police