Comments on: Trump Didn’t Disappoint https://mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/trump-didnt-disappoint-12219/ The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Tue, 11 Jul 2023 08:09:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Aesop https://mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/trump-didnt-disappoint-12219/#comment-26874 Mon, 10 Aug 2015 20:06:06 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/?p=12219#comment-26874 Oh, give me a goddamn break.

Trump is a mouthy asshole who would get his ass kicked if he was a working-class douchebag. Because he a rich douchebag (although not nearly as rich as he claims to be), he instead has a staff of flunkies whose job it is to clean up the bed when he shits there.

I’m not sure how many people are truly fans of Trump the chump, but I guarantee you that there are many more of us who are sick and tired of rich assholes who can get away with whatever lies and deceit they want to, and we’d love to see a 6-foot-4 blue-collar worker kick Donald’s pompous ass all over the factory parking lot.

He’s a liar and a fraud. That’s all he is. That’s all he ever was. That’s all he ever will be.

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By: LurkingReader https://mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/trump-didnt-disappoint-12219/#comment-26862 Sun, 09 Aug 2015 06:44:48 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/?p=12219#comment-26862 In reply to Karmafan.

@Karmafan

True Story! Had a convo today w someone telling me how stupid I was & fully aware they’d gotten all they knew from social media & TV asked them if they could have five of the 17 candidates. Still waiting. Must say I was proud of daughter’s response to ‘is your mom always a bitch?’ “Only when you’re talking out of your ass.”

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By: Karmafan https://mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/trump-didnt-disappoint-12219/#comment-26861 Sun, 09 Aug 2015 00:10:14 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/?p=12219#comment-26861 In reply to LurkingReader.

Going after Trump and more or less ignoring the reason for the debate (letting candidates show their views on the issues) just shows how clueless the party is about whats going on in this country.

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By: LurkingReader https://mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/trump-didnt-disappoint-12219/#comment-26858 Sat, 08 Aug 2015 19:06:45 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/?p=12219#comment-26858 Good to hear you’re mending well & have a doc who subscribes to fresh air & doing what you like as the cure to what ails. Well my post yesterday & yours today ought to kill any notion about lockstep ideological agreement some have assumed we have.

Not being especially fond of anyone at the debate made it easier to focus on policy they’ve been stumping or presented to whittle down the field. I agree Trump won’t go down easy, he wants the White House and he plays for keeps on anything he wants. There’s a lot of talk about how biased & unfair Fox News was with the questions. Trump is not a novice walking into his first poker hand and knows the game always favors the house. As the top candidate and guy with best name reconigtion he is the target everyone is shooting at and he knows that. He also knows folks like me added shrinking violets to the ‘NO’ column because waiting politely for your turn to say your piece sends the piece in one ear and out the other.

Ericsson is stupid and playing right into the method of Trumps genius madness. The backlash now won’t make up for the Trump supporters who won’t tune in though it will make some aware the event is an event. The reduced forum participation numbers will be bandied about as proof of what Trump brings to the table and the stupidity of Ericsson pissing that market share away. Refusing to kiss media ass is going to bode well to help Trump overcome the pay to play. If he won’t kiss media ass he won’t kiss lobbyist or negotiating partners ass. (Still not my guy 😉

I lived in Florida and actually met w Jeb on education issues around the time he signed the voucher laws. The man at the debate was not the same man or team I worked with. Seeing stuff saying Jeb won is hysterical because he didn’t even show up to the debate. His performance is reminiscent of stuffed suits on par with Teddy Ruxspin spewing the cartridge shoved in his back and just a tad bit less animated.

Trump is shaking up the stodgy stuffed suit stick up their ass reputation the Republican Party is known for. That’s attractive and necessary to move government beyond the age of industry into the more realistic age of tech and millennial mind sets.

If the measure was audience engagement then there is no doubt Trump won. If the measure is conveying the candidates platform I’d say Cruz won. The millennial mindset is geared towards measuring target engagement to gauge success. ‘Amazon doesn’t have a brick-n-mortar store’ was a profound statement of truth that the way we live and the governance of this eras lifestyle is at odds.

Coming full circle to media bias and the role it’s playing in the growing pains of governing the way we live now. Listening to the post debate chatter it was surprising to hear Ben Carson’s last at bat praised as it was. It was a great moment for him and a nice swipe at the NPR reporter while giving a hint that he might be able to break out of the cool, calm, controlled deliberate surgically precise mode that makes him a great neurosurgeon. Didn’t do much for giving the impression that he can negotiate and choose delegates to navigate the complexities of running a country. That’s the bias of media trying to appear fair in an unfair world.

Ericsson, CNN, and MSNBC are going to do the same thing. The media has moved from bringing the news into the home for kitchen table discussion to being the kitchen table discussions. The news as current events isn’t distinguishing itself as a sandboxed app anymore.

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By: MikeSouth1226 https://mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/trump-didnt-disappoint-12219/#comment-26852 Sat, 08 Aug 2015 16:23:56 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/?p=12219#comment-26852 Trump Didn’t Disappoint http://t.co/Yg1Wso5efA

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