tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post6171340114501877537..comments2024-03-18T08:02:51.154-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: New York Times Readers for TrumpStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-48545182282573405252018-01-20T15:50:25.526-08:002018-01-20T15:50:25.526-08:00I think President Trump has overwhelmed his opposi...I think President Trump has overwhelmed his opposition and succeeded because he has taken on the vile media with his own open twitter channel to the people and communicates directly without the putrid shills of the democratic media spinning and ignoring what the man himself has to say. The bullying is part and parcel of clearing a swamp. You don't do it with kindness and polite requests. You do it by kicking ass and taking names and making threats. Trump reminds me of Horatio Nelson.<br /><br />"When I am without orders and unexpected occurrences arrive I shall always act as I think the honour and glory of my King and Country demand. But in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy."<br /><br />Trump is engaging the real enemies of this country every single day and I find that a most refreshing change from the shallow narcissist that he replaced in the White House.<br /><br />Also, I tend to think that there are plenty of Americans who can write a good letter to the Times without the need for any editing. HMS Defianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10024721130102173694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-9266590044824800712018-01-20T14:50:38.522-08:002018-01-20T14:50:38.522-08:00No problem for T's quotidian unsophisticated s...No problem for T's quotidian unsophisticated speeches & msgs. He's targeting the largest audience possible.<br /><br />Conventional Wisdom for speeches to urbane college graduates is 8th or 9th grade level. Odd, but true.<br /><br />I stifled my vocabulary till it hurt. Common (to me), but possibly unknown (to others) References too.<br /><br />I disrelished Mr. O. But wasn't Obsessed. Mr. T Obsesses people. Like Sarah Palin. -- Rich Lara Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-14713167365332370612018-01-19T16:44:24.479-08:002018-01-19T16:44:24.479-08:00MinnPost's Eric Black, who is pretty far left,...MinnPost's Eric Black, who is pretty far left, wrote:<br />https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2018/01/crossing-divide-how-we-might-get-through-next-few-years-together<br />-----<br />Hats off to the New York Times for a special feature it ran today consisting of 15 letters to the editor from Trump supporters. I encourage Trump-dislikers (among whom I number myself) to read them. You won’t agree with much of anything in them. You will want to dispute some of their facts and most of their conclusions. You may suspect these 15 calm epistles are not typical of the tone and thinking of typical Trump supporters. But if you bring the right attitude to your reading assignment, the letters will promote the hope that we can get through three more years of this together.<br />-----<br /><br />Overall what it shows me is this "movement" isn't about Trump. So Trumpers are following the belief "How can things be any worse by having a bully run things?"<br /><br />Its really difficult to imagine someone on the left as equally bullying, but of course we had a real bully in FDR who famously said this. Trump's self-image fits the bill perfectly on the first two sentences at least, while perhaps the third is arrogance anyway, imagining rivals by only vice, and the 90% top marginal tax rate perhaps helped create the conservative backlash against government that Reaganism offered.<br />----<br />Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred. I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match.<br />----<br /><br />Anyway, we all love a good bully who gets things done despite a system that tries to get in his way, so as long as he's fighting for us, and against our enemies, real or imagined.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-51037724016232860132018-01-19T14:46:24.485-08:002018-01-19T14:46:24.485-08:00I like his substance AND his style--the scrappines...I like his substance AND his style--the scrappiness of an outer boroughs NuYawker with matching accent (just like mine!). The second generation neocon vermin so sanctimoniously attacking him (Kristol, Stephens, Podhoretz, et al.) ought to remember that such an environment is where THEIR parents came from too!sestamibihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03713681322114049960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-71227744982242132702018-01-19T07:37:05.866-08:002018-01-19T07:37:05.866-08:00You mentioned Paul Krugman, whom I refer to as Pau...You mentioned Paul Krugman, whom I refer to as Paullie "The Beard" Krugman, who is a staunch supporter of Britain's NHS. Saw a link at Maggies Farm this morning to an article on an NHS cancer hospital which doesn't have enough nurses, which I'm sure he would say is wrong, wrong, wrong because the NHS is run by the British government. As he writes for the NYT, you can most likely understand why I distrust him and anything else the NYT prints.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-65994668567354478422018-01-19T06:37:19.695-08:002018-01-19T06:37:19.695-08:00The "Times" crowd is worried. This is a ...The "Times" crowd is worried. This is a CYA move on their part.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-45096504092787130722018-01-19T05:47:50.018-08:002018-01-19T05:47:50.018-08:00I will take substance over style anytime I have a ...I will take substance over style anytime I have a choice. Every time Clinton would give a speech all the elites would be agog lauding him. I used to take the time to read his speeches and they were nothing to laud for they lacked real substance. The same was true with Obama may be even more so. Much of it was vacuous, more political than solution driven.<br />I think many people miss what Trump is doing to get difficult problems on their way to a possible solution. I think Trump is a man, and why he is successful as indicated in many of the comments made in the NYTimes, because he loves being in the arena. This can also, I believe, be attested to by the fact that his health at 71, given all that has been thrown his way, is extremely good<br />Can one imagine how Clinton, both Hillary and Bill's, Obama's, et al would have been under the extreme stress that has been a daily part of Trump's presidency? People always remark about how much presidents age in office, but I suspect he just enjoys it.<br />I would posit that the NYTimes and other bastions of the "media" would open their minds, and not emulated Alan Bloom's books, they would find that there are a large number of Trump supporters, as educated or more so that his enemies, who pay little attention to the "media." It is why the "media" never sees what is coming. How did a Krugman ever get the patina of being an expert at anything? It could also be asked of most of his brethren. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com