It’s Friday, August 5th, 2016…and here’s The Gouge!
First up, truer words have never been spoken:
Don’t say we didn’t warn you!!!
So to all you Trumpeteers out there who, in the best tradition of modern Liberalism, allowed your feelings and anger to blind you to what was painfully obvious to the rest of us…
Unfortunately, like the crew of the doomed Konovalov, who never had input into their captain’s ill-fated strategy for victory…
…we’re the ones who’ll suffer the consequences of Trump’s overpowering arrogance…not to mention the willful blindness of those who put him in the position to take down the country in the first place.
That being said, as we emailed our good friend Jeff Foutch earlier today in regard to The Donald’s utterly amateurish and ill-advised personal attack on the Khans:
I’m reading more and more articles confirming Khan’s connections with Hillary. Problem is, Khan is still the father of a KIA, and while all this information is more than interesting, The Donald is wholly incapable of presenting it in a meaningful, fact-based format. Instead, as always, he reacted to what would otherwise have been a forgettable convention speech with personal insults and character attacks using words and sentences which would shame a 4th-grader, while elevating the Khans and denigrating only himself.
The man is a total train wreck, and always has been.
That said, while I’m still going to vote for him, if he doesn’t change course 180 degrees, and that right soon, November is going to be a disaster of epic proportions.
In a related item, writing at Commentary Magazine, Noah Rothman offers the play-by-play as…
“In most electoral campaigns that go sour, the panic-driven fission doesn’t achieve critical mass until the mid-to-late autumn. Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is already there, and it’s only August.
Trump has shown himself to be incapable of strategically retreating from losing fights, and his feud with a Gold Star family of a Muslim Bronze Star recipient followed this pattern. As the terrible news cycles mounted and Trump’s Republican allies began openly expressing their dissatisfaction with the course on which their party’s presidential nominee was set, the Trump campaign began to reveal how unstable a compound it was.
…Donald Trump’s style of management encourages and fosters chaos, so it should surprise no one that his campaign is typified by organizational mess. If GOP officeholders and the Republican National Committee are getting cold feet now after extending to Trump so much undue leeway and sacrificing their credibility in the process, that’s too bad.They’ve made their bed. (Which is highly unfortunate for those of us who never even remotelywanted to sleep with this whore in the first place!!!) What is concerning in Trump’s attacks on sympathetic targets and friendlies is his demonstrated willingness to take the party down with him in November. That is a threat that Republicans should take seriously, and they should lay the groundwork to contain the fallout from a Trump loss now while they still can.
The Trumplosion has only just begun. With 96 days remaining until the election, there is every reason to believe the situation for Republicans will get worse before it improves.The GOP cannot say it wasn’t warned.“
More and more each day, Trump reminds less of Major Kong, unwittingly initiating thermonuclear Armaggedon as he rides his bomb into the sunset…
…as Adolf Hitler…
…not because we view The Donald as fascist, let alone holding a candle to the Fuhrer; but because of how they both viewed the inevitable demise of the power structure they sought to unseat. For Hitler it was the Weimar Republic; for Trump, it’s the Republican Party. In either case, Hitler’s comments in 1934 to Hermann Rauschning, a full 5 years before WWII had even begun, speaks to the endgame of both men:
“Even if we could not conquer, we should drag half the world into destruction with us, and leave no one to triumph over Germany(Substitute “The Donald” for Deutschland.). We shall never capitulate; no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are we shall drag a world with us…a world in flames!“
That is, any remaining portion Barry…
…hasn’t already incinerated!
And though Guy Benson’s latest update on The Mouth That Roared…
…may be inaccurate…or simply premature…one thing’s for certain: The Donald still doesn’t understand the Republican primaries are over:
NOW his job’s to attract those who’d otherwise never be inclined to willingly consume his particular brand of Jim Jones’…
…whether straight up or on-the-rocks! Unless of course the only alternative, insane or not, is…
Since we’re on the subject of the unthinkable, writing at Townhall.com, Mike Adams offers the reality behind not only the BLM bullshi*t, but modern Liberalism in its entirety:
“Yesterday, I received a letter from a reader urging me to show more grace and compassion towards Black Lives Matter (BLM) – a group I have sharply criticized in recent weeks. The reader claimed that the group is simply misguided and has merely “drifted off course” in its short three-year existence. She specifically asked me to stop using my Twitter account to characterize them as “racist.” She finally ended her missive by asking “Where are all of the protestors of the 60s who could show them the error of their ways?” Such naïve historical ignorance is deserving of a column-length response.
Put simply, BLM has taken the shape it has today because of the example set by 60s protestors. In fact, they are nothing more than a modern-day extension of the 60s “anti war” movement, which was anything but peaceful. Moreover, to call the 60s protestors “anti-war” is to fundamentally misunderstand their mission. They were never anti-war. They were anti-capitalist. In order to grasp the distinction we need to revisit some key events in the history of the movement.
One could say that peaceful liberal idealism died on November 22nd, 1963 when John Fitzgerald Kennedy took a bullet from communist assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. His successor differed from him in some key respects. But, like JFK, Lyndon Baines Johnson was fundamentally anti-communist. And that is why the growing “anti-war” movement hated him. It wasn’t because LBJ was pro-war while they were anti-war. It is that he was anti-communist while they were pro-communist.From the onset, they were rooting for the enemy. The accusation seems harshbut history would eventually lead to no other reasonable conclusion.So just keep reading…”
Case in point: the logical Liberal successor to the completely-discredited Mike Nifong’s egregious persecution of the three Duke lacrosse players:
As Martin Niemöller so eloquently and accurately observed, reportedly back in 1946:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
In other words, the Baltimore cops and Duke lacrosse players are just the tip of the Progressive iceberg (Greenburg, Goldberg, Iceberg, what’s the difference?!? ;-)): ask not for whom the bell tolls; sooner or later, it tolls for thee!
Speaking of Progressivism’s ongoing efforts to thoroughly stifle any semblance of the First Amendment, as Townhall.com‘s Katie Pavlich reports:
“Conservative Ben Shapiro, whose favorite line is “facts don’t care about your feelings,” has been banned from speaking at DePaul University after triggering students and administrators on campus. According to the explaination from DePaul, triggered students apparently can’t handle themselves or behave properly and therefore, the event is bring shut down in the name of security…”
Are we the only one reminded of…not to beat a dead Nazi…Hitler’s explanation for the security clampdown following the fire which destroyed the Reichstag?!?
Meanwhile, in a demonstration that, in the words of the Smartest Woman Ever Born, though raising a child takes a village, setting university policy requires only one disgruntled undergraduate…
College ditches Cinco de Mayo celebration because of 1 student complaint
“A student at Framingham State University in Massachusetts filed a report to the Bias Incident Response Team this spring, claiming the campus had overtly disrespected Latino and Mexican Culture. What was so offensive? For starters, the cafeteria decided to celebrate Cinco de Mayo and even put up decorations.
…Within half an hour, Huddleston had reached out to the director of dining services, forwarding the complaint.The cafeteria immediately took down the decorations, apologizing and offering to meet with the student who complained about “how we might celebrate and/or commemorate events such as this while being respectful to the particular ethnicity…”
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