BLONDES…

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

from the Los Angeles Times....

Conservatives prefer blondes, especially when they shill for Trump

By DAVID HORSEY | 5:00AM PST - Monday, December 05, 2016



CONSERVATIVES absolutely love to mock political correctness and namby-pamby, safe-space liberalism. But there is one line of offensive humor they may now consider beyond the pale: blonde jokes. Given the growing posse of blondes who have become prominent advocates for the conservative cause, right-wingers will look like hypocrites if they laugh at jokes that caricature blondes as dimwits.

The trend toward attractive, honey-haired women as voices of conservatism took hold when Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter began to gain notoriety as conservative commentators 15 years ago. In a field dominated by angry, loud, humorless men, Ingraham and Coulter were something very different. Coulter, in particular, brought a completely new image and style to the conservative pundit class. Not only did her youth, cascading blonde hair, long legs and short skirts set her apart from the rotund, red-faced bloviators like Rush Limbaugh, but she also broke with the tradition of lofty conservative intellectualism that stretched from William F. Buckley to George Will.

Smirks, sarcasm and wild exaggeration are the hallmarks of Coulter's brand. One need look no further than the titles of her many books to understand her appeal to the now-dominant faction of conservatives who favor insult and attack over sober argument. There is her 2015 tome, “Adios, America!: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole”. Her 2011 book was “Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America”. And her 2007 title was “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”.

Her brashness and intentional courting of controversy is a savvy branding technique that has brought her wealth and attention. And her attractiveness discombobulates even smartypants lefties like Bill Maher, who turns into a geeky kid with a crush on the cheerleader whenever Coulter is a guest on his HBO political show.

Coulter was an early champion of Donald Trump's candidacy. His alpha male persona appealed to her and, even more, she appreciated that he was reading from her script — almost literally — when he railed against illegal immigrants from Mexico and branded many of them as rapists. She titled her 2016 book “In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome”. Nevertheless, she maintained a healthy distance from the Trump campaign and recently raised doubts that he will be nearly as harsh on immigrants as she wants him to be.

Such an expression of doubt would never cross the gloss-covered lips of Kayleigh McEnany and Scottie Nell Hughes. Those two blonde surrogates shilled for Trump during the campaign and continue to do so on CNN's journalistically ludicrous evening gabfests. McEnany and Hughes never stray a centimeter from the talking points they are fed by the operatives at Trump Tower. Contorting language and thought with freakish agility, there is no limit to the preposterous ways they find to defend Trump's every word and action. If they had worked for Henry VIII, they would have insisted lopping off his wives' heads was a generous act to help them lose weight.

It is pretty obvious that McEnany and Hughes both aspire to be the next Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter. But are they clever enough to bring it off?

If McEnany could develop a sense of humor and learn how to deliver a talking point with a little subtlety, she might have a chance — unless she keeps whining about not being treated seriously because she's a millennial. Here's a clue, Kayleigh: it's not your age that leads people to dismiss you as a lightweight.

Hughes is hopeless. In her latest knuckle-headed apologia for Trump, she asserted that the Donald's tweets cannot be judged on whether they are true or not because, “There's no such thing, unfortunately, anymore of (sic) facts.” Hughes has given herself over completely to Stephen Colbert's satirical concept, “truthiness” — the idea that feelings, not facts, define what is true.

And then there is Tomi Lahren. The blonde, 24-year-old South Dakotan does conservative video commentaries for Glenn Beck's Blaze TV in which she exhibits all the charm and insight of a really mean, exceedingly spoiled sorority girl. Lahren was on “The Daily Show” a few nights ago and host Trevor Noah gave her plenty of time to display her vacuousness. When Lahren proudly stated that, as a millennial, she doesn't like to label herself, Noah calmly noted that she had just done exactly that.

It would be nice to live in a world where people were not granted credibility merely because of their appearance, but that does not happen to be our world. Vapid, pretty young women and men infest television news from small-town stations to the big networks. That is not such a huge problem if what they are doing is reading a weather report; we can always look out the window to see if they are giving us good information. But it is a problem when similarly unqualified people are given prominence as political commentators.

In the case of the conservative Barbies, their lovely blonde hair covers heads filled with very curious and ill-formed ideas. And that's not just a blonde joke.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-trump-blondes-20161204-story.html

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

You are a daft punk for not being able to figure out that at 75 yrs old if trumps hair is blond it's a miracle
maybe he dyed it lol hahaha
Talking about blonds in your stupid cartoon below
the one on the left excuse the pun looks hillary clin-ton of special interest cash
i think it was a waste of $2 billion and complete failure compared to trumps $200mil lol

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Glad you agree that BLONDES are STUPID.







ps....Donald Trump is blonde....

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

sad clown
all you have is calling people names like a child on a school bus

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

The USA presidential election was a blonde candidate versus a blonde candidate.

So the result is a stupid blonde president-elect.

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

you think intelligence depends on hair colour man you're such a loon
unlike our old friend looney tune who had a sharp mind u do not

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Yep....the elevator doesn't quite reach the top floor alright....


from the Los Angeles Times....

Untutored Trump faces profound shifts in the international order

By DAVID HORSEY | 5:00AM PST - Thursday, December 08, 2016



ON THE of November 18th, with a brass fanfare ringing through the high arches, I walked down the center aisle of the majestic Canterbury Cathedral to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Kent. It was a crowning moment of my career, although a little voice inside my head was laughing uproariously at such a fuss being made about a cartoonist.

The 10-day trip to England to receive this accolade was a welcome break after long months of following an intense campaign that ended with the election of the stunningly unqualified Donald Trump as president of the United States. Of course, that topic could not be escaped. As soon as my family and I stepped off the airplane at Heathrow, a customs officer who just happened to be a young woman wearing a hijab made the first query about Trump.

My English friends, as well as everyone I spoke with during various events at the university, all wanted to commiserate about what Trump's ascendance would mean for the world. They invariably compared the unpredicted Trump victory with the unexpected approval of Brexit last June when working-class and rural voters said yes to withdrawing the United Kingdom from the European Union. In one way or another, everyone was asking: What in the world is going on?

When I attended the University of Kent at Canterbury as a master's student in international relations 30 years ago, that was the prime question at the core of all lectures, discussions and debates. How do we understand the world and how it works? My return to campus in November was a useful reminder that a deep understanding cannot be deduced by chasing every tweet sent out by a president-elect or by watching campaign surrogates shout at each other on CNN.

The disaffection of certain classes of voters in the United States and Europe that led to Trump's win and the thumbs-up for Brexit — and which may lead to further rejections of the established order in Italy, Germany and France in the coming year — is part of something bigger. You would never know it from the narrow scope of coverage on American cable news or most media outlets, but we are very likely at the edge of a dramatic shift in the entire world order.

Such transitional times have come before. The defeat of Napoleon in 1815 set the stage for a multipolar international system with the British Empire more or less at the top. The advent of the Great War in 1914 rocked that system to its foundations, though it held on until it was completely demolished by the Second World War. After 1945, we lived in a bipolar world divided between the United States and the Soviet Union. Then, in 1989, the Soviet empire disintegrated and the planet was left with one pre-eminent power, the U.S.

What we are experiencing now is a realignment away from that temporary unipolar reality. But what is coming next?

In a recent lecture, Trine Flockhart, professor of International Relations at Kent, made the case that we are not reverting to a multipolar system like that of the 19th century. Back then, the various Great Powers — Britain, France, Germany, Russia, America — generally shared a common idea of how the world should be ordered. From that evolved the economic and political environment Americans and Europeans have enjoyed for many decades; an order in which liberal democracy and free market capitalism were assumed to be the default goals of all humankind.

Flockhart contends we can make that assumption no longer. She sees something new, complex and discordant on the horizon, a future where there will be not just one world order but several. The authoritarian, centrally-designed capitalism of China and other Asian states will offer an alternative to the West's liberal vision, as will the theocratic, culturally conservative Muslim regions, with Iran in particular challenging what has been the international status quo.

“For the West, who after all, has been the main instigator, the main owner and beneficiary of the liberal international order, the change is going to be especially unsettling because it basically ends 200 years of continuous expansion of the liberal international order,” Flockhart said.

It is particularly disturbing that, as we are poised on the cusp of this great change, the two most influential and comparatively enlightened powers of the last 200 years, the United Kingdom and the United States, both may be retreating from the international stage. The withdrawal from Europe could sharply diminish British influence. In the U.S., the choice to elect to the presidency an untutored nationalist with only the dimmest understanding of international relations may make America an undependable, erratic outlier just when competing powers with very different conceptions of order are rising.

At the University of Kent, I learned the value of trying to perceive the full complexity of world affairs. Unfortunately, increased knowledge can also bring an increased awareness of looming calamities and the cost of ignorance at the top.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-new-world-order-20161208-story.html

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

trumps lift it does go all the way to the top to trump's golden tower castle penthouse

he's a bit different from all those brain dead liberal minions living in their parents basement
after 8 years of obama they have huge student loans with no hope for a good job
after their half black hope for change and everyone did give him a good chance but he was a total failure
that's because he was the wrong man for the job,he does not care about anyone but loves playing golf
and loves doing illegal drone attacks on black and brown people.

meanwhile those liberal-communist minions have lost their chance to destroy america and are crying in the street like the pussies they are.

they didn't grow up in the real world and can't face reality and act like spoilt children the didn't get their own way,stamp their feet hold their breath until they turn blue,

but at least that's not white is it.lmao


 

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Trump....the US President who is such a useless businessman that he has been bankrupted SEVEN TIMES.

What a FAILURE, and what a bunch of gullible retards who support a FAILURE.

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

Prez Trump has a good ring to it

some people learn from their mistakes

you are suffering from stockholm syndrome
you need a big communist government to tell you what to do
you would love to live in china
you have healthy organs for the chinese to harvest and sell
you are a worthless mind controlled robot looking for a master
you support slavery

I do like you but you're totally deluded, you support self flagellation,hate yourself for being white,you're full of guilt for things that happened hundreds of years ago and you're against all humans having any type of freedom to enjoy their existence,have jobs that improve their lives,
people who build things and have free will are your enemy.

all you have is a worthless life where you walk around everyday pretending you have the right to judge people but you are unfit to lace their shoes.

but i do love our talks

I wonder if donald trump can destroy the washington post and amazon jeff Bezos won't be liking tariffs much it might affect his slave empire.
I for one are sick of their fake news stories lol  

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Some people learn from their mistakes.....YEAH, RIGHT!

Well....some people do learn from their mistakes.

They become a business FAILURE and go bankrupt, but learn from it and become a good businessman.

But not Trump....he became a business FAILURE and went bankrupt....then he became a business FAILURE again and went bankrupt again....then he became a business FAILURE yet again and went bankrupt yet again....then he became a business FAILURE yet again and went bankrupt yet again....then he became a business FAILURE yet again and went bankrupt yet again....then he became a business FAILURE yet again and went bankrupt yet again....then he became a business FAILURE yet again and went bankrupt yet again.

Get the picture??   

I guess he was too STUPID to learn from his mistakes, eh?

And I guess a lot of STUPID, gullible people were silly enough to vote for a FAILED (again and again and again and again and again and again) businesman.

Hilarious stuff, those STUPID people, eh? 

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

hes such a silly man that started with not much and now is a multi billionaire