Who will protect the scared white males?

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Just how dumb is the GOP resolution to “defend” Christmas?

WHO WILL PROTECT THE SCARED WHITE MALES?

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist | 12:33PM PST - Wednesday, December 15, 2015


So tired, he is. So weary. So very scared. Poor thing.

DO congressional Republicans twitch in their sleep? Sweat profusely? Scream at random and suffer all manner of strange hallucination and paroxysmal night terror? I imagine they must.

I imagine House Republicans in particular, along with all GOP presidential candidates, must experience a whole range of rash, ganglion, delirium, gastrointestinal distress and inexplicable lesions in unhappy places pretty much all the time, given their uncompromising dedication to the imps and demons of Fear.

How else to explain? How else to imagine what these overcooked white males — most with semi-legitimate college degrees — must endure, every day of their lives, as Guardians of the Dumb, as Protectors of the Infantile, as Defenders of That Which Shall Not Be Dislodged By Your Annoying Little Facts?

Try this: 36 House Republicans, grown men and women with actual university educations and privilege for days, just signed on to a hilariously pointless resolution “defending” Christmas.

Do not laugh. It actually happened. Christmas is, conservatives love to remind us every year forever, under attack from the imaginary bogeymen of godless liberalism, spiritual independence, actual thought.

Christmas! Can you imagine? It's so sacred! Even though we totally made it up and it's not even a true Christian holiday and bloated American Christmas has never been more grossly… Christmassy than it is today! Oh well.

I always think the same thing at times like this: Some of them must know, right? A few of those unfortunate GOP drones must be horribly embarrassed that they had to openly support yet another inane, humiliating statement that insults the intelligence of your average 5-year old? Surely some who voted for the Christmas resolution stumbled home that night, plopped down on the Levitz, cracked a bottle of Jack and stared, hard, into the near distance — My life has really come to this? — until blackout. Right?

Correction: The Christmas resolution does, of course, have a point. It exists, like the House members themselves, to appease, to placate, to feed the insatiable maw of the puling demon known as “the GOP base”, that vulgar gaggle of white, mostly male, mostly uneducated humans who are — how to put this gently? — famously, dangerously, just plain inexorably… not very bright.

Of course that's the reason. The base believes there really is a “war on Christmas” because Fox News told them there is (for ratings), because Republicans plaintively agreed (for votes), because this is just how the Republican party operates: The base must be sated. The Demon of Dumb must be fed. It's the only way the party survives. It's the only way Trump exists.


Far more scared — and increasingly obsolete — than sacred.


Christmas is safe and flourishing. Holiday spending was WAY up off the charts in 2015. What else matters?
Damn you and your recovered economy, Obama!

This means, of course, that facts matter not at all. It means you can talk 'til you're blue in the voting booth about how Christmas isn't even really Christmas, how it's really an ancient pagan festival stolen, gutted and repurposed by the grumpy old men of the early church, for power and political gain.

You can point out, for the hundredth time, that Jesus, that swarthy, anarchist Jewish mystic, if he existed at all, was likely born sometime in June.

You can even try, if you're a bit of a masochist, to remind nervous conservatives that America is, constitutionally speaking, all about freedom of religion, home to Muslims and Jews, Buddhists and Sikhs, Hindus and Rosicrucians and not only do most of them not celebrate Christmas, we invented the whole goddamn country so they wouldn't have to.

Good luck.

But let's be fair. There is indeed a grain of truth to the make-believe “war” that so terrifies all these conservative white guys.

See, America is changing. Demographics are shifting dramatically. Increasing numbers of young people don't identify with any religion per se, are more “spiritual” than religious, more liberal than conservative, more inclusive than prohibitive.

And they definitely don't go to church. Fewer young people than ever believe in the old, dying institutions: a bloated military, corporations, God, marriage. Women and minorities dominate America’s future. The melting pot is evolving.

No wonder they're scared. It's not Christmas that's under attack — it's their entire worldview, their very existence (it was always an anomaly anyway). Turns out there really is a “war” on angry, xenophobic, conservative white American males. And they're losing. Even Santa knows that.


Starbucks red holiday cup. The lamest non-controversy of 2015?


Look! Festive! Not war-like!

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http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2015/12/16/the-dumb-gop-resolution-to-protect-christmas

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

New poll! Hillary infuriates, but Trump nauseates

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist | 8:34AM PST - Wednesday, December 23, 2015



DO YOU REMEMBER? That time when well over 50 percent of American population was just deeply, excruciatingly embarrassed, to a palpable and abiding degree, but the eight-year national nightmare that was George W. Bush?

It's worth recalling. It was everywhere, that feeling, that bleak undercurrent of shame over the vicious decay of the country. There was even a viral phenomenon, the first of its kind, when Bush “won” a second term in 2004 and countless thousands of Americans posted their misery in the form of a mournful selfie (before selfies existed, per se) uploaded to the instantly famous “SorryEverybody.com” website, each person holding a heartfelt — and heartbreaking — hand-written sign, apologizing to the world for what America hath wrought.

“Sorry about Bush,” read thousands of notes, held up for the camera, distressingly. “Most of us didn’t elect him.”

“It's OK,” came the surprisingly kind responses from all over the world. “Just don't let it happen again.”

(Note: When Obama won his first term, the site was resurrected and updated to “Hello Everybody,” giving newly proud Americans a chance to re-introduce themselves, post-nightmare, to the world).

So it's sort of cute — if completely incorrect — to see a new poll, from Quinnipiac University, that suggests upwards of 50 percent of the county would be “embarrassed” by a Trump presidency, while “only” 35 percent would feel the same about Hillary.

This is, of course, complete nonsense.

Let's get it straight: If you're a hardcore Republican of the calcified old-white-male variety, you do not merely dislike Hillary. It is incorrect to say you'd be embarrassed by her leadership.

You, quite freely, despise her. Loathe and revile with a white-hot fervor stoked by two decades of crass Fox News trolling and the maddening, seemingly endless triumph of the Clinton “brand” — a success that, no matter how hard you try, only seems to gain power over time.


Wrong word, Quinnipiac.

History, alas, has not helped your cause. Bill Clinton's tenure is viewed by historians, economists and voters alike as one of the finest on record, a time of astounding peace and prosperity. And the man himself, despite a laughable sex scandal the GOP tried, desperately, to escalate into life-threatening but which merely made the entire world yawn, Bill himself is viewed as one of the most virtuosic and well-loved presidents in modern times.

Proof? Even now, every respectable organization in the world, no matter their political orientation, wants to be affiliated with The Clinton Foundation. It's just that effective, valuable, a truly astonishing force for good in the world. Meanwhile, Bush paints pictures of dogs.

You hate all of this. You despise, furthermore, the fact that your boy Bush was Clinton's polar opposite: The single-most debilitating, humiliating president on modern record, catastrophic not merely to the economy, but to America's moral standing across the globe. Irrefutable.

It's all made triply horrible by the fact that Obama, that awful commie socialist, has managed to do what everyone deemed impossible: He restored it all, and more — America's prosperity, standing, integrity and deep intelligence, all against the most hateful, downright racist Republican congress imaginable.

No wonder you're incensed.

So you can see why it's inaccurate to say Republicans would be embarrassed by a Hillary presidency. “Mortified” or “terrified”? Absolutely. “Vengeful” or “viciously determined to stamp out the (inexorable) wave of social upheaval that's crushing your dying worldview”? Almost certainly.

But even most Republicans can't deny Clinton's remarkable intelligence and powerful political savvy. She is a consummate pro. She will make an outstanding, if deeply compromised, president — just not in any of the ways the white male Republican guard would prefer.

And then there's Trump.

This puerile, puddle-jumping land shark is, of course, light years from Bush in potential embarrassment. Whereas Dubya disgraced us all by way of sheer bumbling incompetence and a slavering deference to Dark Lord Cheney, he wasn't quite a loudmouthed, egomaniac racist.

Let's be clear: Bush was an unmitigated disaster, but he wasn't a sneering, jeering, low-level chauvinist troll. He would never dare suggest a rival female candidate got “schlonged” in the last election, or make reference to her “gross” bathroom behavior, not to mention referring, in sniggering schoolboy spittle, to a female debate host's angry menstrual cycle.

Trump is, of course, a far nastier, uglier creation, a refection of the worst of uneducated, conservative human nature. He is the meanest 7-year-old boy on the playground, crude and violent and uncontrollable.

All of which is to say: You gotta change your polling methodology, Quinnipiac (and everyone else). You are being far too simplistic. You're not asking the right questions.

Let's get it straight: Half of America would not be embarrassed by a Trump presidency. We'd be far too busy marching in the streets, demanding an instant recall, striding up to the gates of Trump Plaza and hauling the racist buffoon's pallid flesh to the cliffs of common decency, and hurling him into the hellfires of Nevermore.

America is, let us all devoutly hope, done being embarrassed. Trump is merely daring us all to prove it.

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[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

lol if americans are so racist then how the hell did Obama get elected

hahaha this morford guy is out of his mind he believes Obama was good for america
and anyone who doesn't like Obama is a white racist and morford thinks Bill Clinton was a great president maybe Bill bit him on the lip
he should google Bill the rapist

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/23/the-secret-sex-abuse-victims-of-bill-clinton/

or Hillary Clinton 'Could Be Our First Lesbian President,' Says Bryan Fischer

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/hillary-clinton-lesbian-president-_n_3957349.html

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

if the parasitic lefty name calling demons are against trump he gets my vote 

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

(click on the picture to read the brilliant article it accompanies at The Washington Post)

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Donald Trump is an idiot and his supporters are idiots.

If the Republican Party are stupid enough to put Donald Trump up as their presidential candidate, they will become the laughing stock of the world.

If the USA is stupid enough to elect Donald Trump to be their next president, both the country AND the people will be the laughing stock of the world.

It would merely PROVE that Americans are stupid people dragging down the collective intelligence of the world.

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

Donald Trump is great and not a puppet he can make america great like it once was

the the real stupid people are weak kneed liberals and leftist scumbags like Obama who sucks balls

You and I obviously  have a different opinion about what intelligence is lol

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

SNIGGER....Donald Trump has flip-flopped 180-degrees so often it's a wonder he doesn't have whiplash.

I wonder how he is going to persuade Mexico to build a wall along the border when they tell him to “go and fuck himself”?

That will be hilariously funny watching the idiot make a complete and total dork of himself.

Whether Trump (or anybody else) likes it or not, the simple fact is that the American century was the 20th century.

Within a few short years, the 21st century will turn out to be the Chinese century.

America is in financial hock to China to the tune of hundreds of trillions of dollars and that debt is increasing all the time because the USA is no longer able to pay its own way in the world and it relies on Chinese money to keep the country afloat.

If/when China turns off the money tap, America will be fucked. If an idiot like Trump is in charge, all he will be able to do will be to print money just like Zimbabwe did and the resultant hyperinflation will suck the American economy right down the plug-hole. And with that will go the ability to finance their military.

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

America is broke because the leftist president obama and his evil minions have run the US into the ground
their giant over sized government is ripping off the american people with welfare for the rich bankers and bailouts that gave every american a huge debt

donald trump is their only chance to fix this mess and who needs another bush or clinton they will all be puppets of the special interest groups who easy buy them off
trump is wealthy enough to not be bribed or controlled,he is not stupid and

i think he can win and dismantle the evil obama us soviet style empire

[ssweetpea]

Trump is a sideshow clown - not a president, I sincerely hope for the sake of the USA.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

America is broke because the leftist president obama and his evil minions have run the US into the ground

America is broke because they have been living beyond their means, and because George W Bush, Dick Cheney, and co. wasted more than a trillion dollars on their stupid warmongering, which then created and fed the likes of ISIS. And Trump is an even bigger idiot than Dubya & Cheney.

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

stupid people voted for obama

[Crusader]

Trump is a racist prick. If he is so concerned about returning America to Americans he would be giving it all back to the Indians who are the real Americans.

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

lol why do you think he's a racist?
is it because he wants to shut the borders and not let people enter the us illegally?

should we let anyone who wants come here without somehow vetting them? because i think that's all hes saying and that is just common sense  lol

but don't worry i think he will more than likely be assassinated like JFK

[Crusader]

lol why do you think he's a racist?
is it because he wants to shut the borders and not let people enter the us illegally?

should we let anyone who wants come here without somehow vetting them? because i think that's all hes saying and that is just common sense  lol

but don't worry i think he will more than likely be assassinated like JFK

He wants to shut out entire races. Not just the bad people. Hitler wanted to do the same.

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

i am not sure that's true, he did say he wanted to stop letting syrian muslims in
till they can figure out what the hell's going on
i think he wants to know they won't be in danger from an isis attack surely that's reasonable with all the enemies the us now has lol


in time we will see what happens he would be good for america business wise
and us does need a good clean up from all the corruption

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

should we let anyone who wants come here without somehow vetting them?

Did those WHITIES submit themselves to the North American Indians vetting them before they were allowed into North America?

Or are WHITE Americans selfish gits who demand from others what their race refused to comply with?

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

workers of the world unite against white people wet dream

you're racist against white people who lived hundreds of years back and you're trying to make everyone feel ridden with guilt and have a pity party

it's hard to find a perfect world but if you find one don't go there or it won't be perfect anymore

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Do you know that human beings (in the form of Aborigine people, the ancestors of today's Australian Aborigine) were living on the continent now known as Australia, and in organised social groups too, when Europe was still predominantly populated by Neanderthals with the human migration from Africa only just beginning?

It's always interesting to point those proven facts out to white Australians, who often then react with angry racism because it disturbs their xenophobic views of how things are and have been.

And so it is in the United States of America with the “poor white trash” who laud Donald Trump, but who would be amongst the first to get severely hurt from the sort of “look after the rich at the expense of the poor” economic policies which would be brought in by Trump. One really should feel pity for such dumbfucks, but I feel nothing but derision for such stupid people, 'cause they are trying very hard to be the author of their own downfall due to their idiocy.

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

i think it's your fault

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

i don't believe in collective guilt for ages past  i have lived with all types of human being i do not judge people for the colour of their skin having said that there are rat bastids in every race