tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post2034988068221536623..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Humbling of ObamaStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-19826924986191660052016-11-12T16:40:15.182-08:002016-11-12T16:40:15.182-08:00p.s. Here's Obama's humiliating Trump at t...p.s. Here's Obama's humiliating Trump at the White House Correspondence dinner in 2011. Its worth seeing again, to have some idea what gave Trump the drive to run for President, to show everyone he could do it.<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7uScWHcTzk&feature=youtu.be&t=300 The Choice 2016 (full film) | FRONTLINE<br />@4:10 Omarosa Manigault “It just kept going and going and he just kept hammering him,” Manigault said. “And I thought, ‘Ohhhh, Barack Obama is starting something that I don’t know if he’ll be able to finish.”<br />And<br />@5:00 Omarosa Manigault "Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump. It’s everyone who’s ever doubted Donald, who ever disagreed, who ever challenged him. It is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe."<br /><br />If we assume getting elected was the ultimate revenge, then the revenge is complete, and "The Donald" won't mind if the Electoral college denies him the actual work of running the world, and defects to Mike Pence.<br /><br />Losing the popular vote doesn't help avoid a Republican presidendency, but does give Republican Electors reason to consider Trump isn't someone to be trusted with power.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-30151292912857379152016-11-12T16:07:24.683-08:002016-11-12T16:07:24.683-08:00I'm sure the Republicans will give your advice...I'm sure the Republicans will give your advice all the weight it deserves.<br /><br />And I seriously doubt Trump will be seeking advice from Lightworker Obama unless he's worried about some jayvee Misunderstanderers of Islam. :-DTrigger Warningnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-62102607010157684712016-11-12T15:46:26.770-08:002016-11-12T15:46:26.770-08:00Stuart: Obama has mostly been very gracious about ...Stuart: Obama has mostly been very gracious about the Trump victory. He should redouble his efforts to call on his supporters to calm themselves down and to tamp down their tantrums, but he did accept the result of the election and did announce that the sun will rise tomorrow morning.<br /><br />We survived President Reagan and W Bush, it is possible we'll survive a president Trump. Certainly protestors should be nonviolent and respectful (and many clearly are not), but this is certainly time for protest.<br /><br />And there's still a not insignificant fraction of Conservatives on the "Never Trump" bandwagon, wondering if a conservative Republican party still exists, while it looks more like it'll be the White House of Pence rather than the White House of Trump. Trump is over his head and will delegate every aspect of the presidency that doesn't include adoration or whining.<br /><br />He did look a little scared sitting in the White House with President Obama, and I'm glad Obama treated him respectfully and seriously, communicating what is expected of being a President.<br /><br />Still, I do keep wondering if the downfall of Trump won't be from the Left, which has been rendered powerless and inert under a squeaker but solid Republican victory in the Presidency, Senate, and House. The Republicans can now only be stopped by their own incompetence and internal divisions which no one wants to talk about. Being "The party of no" is easier than governing.<br /><br />And Trump is still a loose cannon for the Republicans, and one that they still have the power to oust. That is on December 19, if I figure 38 faithless electors vote for Mike Pence for President rather than Trump, that'll block Trump's majority in the Electoral college, and force the U.S. House to pick the winner among the top-3 candidates in the electoral college.<br /><br />So despite my having no interest in a President Pence, at least we can trust he won't be creating Twitter Rants from the White House at 4am when someone has been mean to him. So America certainly has a higher chance of Dignity with a President Pence, even if all the machinery of a Republican administration is identical.<br /><br />It does seem at the moment that the youthful Left now has chance to show off their violent aggression, and it makes a joke to claim fear against the youthful alt-Right hooligans who are yet a smaller bunch of yahoos. Its not yet a fair fight by numbers, so this is the recruitment time for the new brownshirts to defend America against the Left hoodlums.<br /><br />Anyway, I hope the Republican electors take their job seriously and that 38 will see the light and vote for Pence (a mere Christian Fundamentalist) over Trump (unstable opportunist). And even if the U.S. House doesn't fall for it, and they crown Trump, at least the lines will have been drawn, and perhaps we'll have made visible the fracture in the republican party that is yet hidden under the shadows of Trump Tower.<br /><br />Welcome to the land of Trump Inc, or a Republic, if we can keep it.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-37565175320808337232016-11-12T11:43:20.746-08:002016-11-12T11:43:20.746-08:00Obama is always able to sound good when he wants t...Obama is always able to sound good when he wants to; it's one of the things that got him elected twice, and keeps his approval rating high.<br />Until I just quit listening to him, I would come away from his speeches thinking how wonderful they were -- and then I would start looking at what he actually said (strawmen, false arguments, down-right lies) and wonder at how gullible I was. AesopFannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-63882893115374636802016-11-12T07:19:30.758-08:002016-11-12T07:19:30.758-08:00Well, Valerie always has her Section 8 slum tenant...Well, Valerie always has her Section 8 slum tenants to rape. She'll be fine until Barack campaigns for Secretary-General of the UN.Trigger Warningnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-8919310606358891142016-11-12T07:14:42.361-08:002016-11-12T07:14:42.361-08:00Re the pledge violators, I'm not sure I could ...Re the pledge violators, I'm not sure I could have voted for Trump if Lindsey Graham, Jeb!, and John Kasich had given him full-throated support. I might have defaulted to Jill Stein, fulfilling my duty as a citizen by voting what was effectively None Of The Above.Trigger Warningnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-48858406880391825852016-11-12T06:56:59.652-08:002016-11-12T06:56:59.652-08:00I say bitterly disappointed, with a healthy dose o...I say bitterly disappointed, with a healthy dose of denial. I don't think he's capable of humility, only hubris. <br /><br />I wonder how his debrief with George Soros went. I'm sure the boss is disappointed. <br /><br />And what of dear Valierie Jarrett? I'm sure she'll continue to puff-up Barack as the chosen one.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-23366571963593426962016-11-12T06:56:11.282-08:002016-11-12T06:56:11.282-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-63656235035175959222016-11-12T06:51:19.166-08:002016-11-12T06:51:19.166-08:00Maybe a slightly humbler version...Maybe a slightly humbler version...Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-69334612767117194412016-11-12T06:51:18.535-08:002016-11-12T06:51:18.535-08:00The last 4 days have been enormously entertaining....The last 4 days have been enormously entertaining. I haven't said anything to anyone. I've just listened. It's been a true joy to watch all of this. The nonsense, cowardice, hand washing, triggering and rioting is simply riveting. <br /><br />And I think people are missing something. They're putting this all on Obama. I don't agree. Surely Obama created the opening, but someone had to walk through and take it. That man was Donald Trump. Trump saw opportunity in the Democrats' 2016 coalition: wealthy bobo/hipster hypocrites, world-class victims, and ignorant. He dismantled the Democrats by taking their working class voters. He saw that opportunity, and he won. That was his genius, and it required great courage. None of the other 16 GOP candidates could have delivered Tuesday's result. Not one. And most of them didn't help, either, violating their pledge. (Spit!)<br /><br />Yes, Obama made it possible. But someone had to step up and stand against all the institutional and establishment lies. Trump is the victor because he saw opportunity, took the risk, and waged a ruthless, unrelenting, unconventional campaign to take working voters away from the Democrat Party. And he suffered much indignity, abuse, contempt and dismissal. He's still facing these things, and likely will throughout his presidency. The Ruling Class has so much to lose. Is he a narcissist? Perhaps. But only a huge ego and a relentless competitor could've withstood all that. This is the "eye of the tiger" confidence boxers have to have, lest they be savaged in the ring. <br /><br />All the usual suspects said it couldn't be done. All of them said it. There's nothing more to say. Someone had to step up. Trump did it, and I asset no one else could have. <br /><br />Did I mention I'm enjoying all this???Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-21700768140876604272016-11-12T06:36:50.606-08:002016-11-12T06:36:50.606-08:00I suggest, Schneiderman, that it's a bit early...I suggest, Schneiderman, that it's a bit early on to suggest Barack Obama has been "humbled". <br /><br />Maybe you're right, but I personally believe the oceans are not receding, America has not been healed, and that Barack Obama is the same man today that he was last Monday.Trigger Warningnoreply@blogger.com