TRUMPISMO

Sometimes my ears play tricks on me. But at other times I'm absolutely certain I heard right. When traveling on the bus -- a favourite activity, given that I enjoy marveling at my fellow humans -- strange things are often to be heard, especially with people nowadays more likely to publicly engage in phone conversations than they were before cellular communication.

Nice blonde teenager talking to someone:


"Gigolos are necessary; Eskimos live in them!"


Yes dear, I'm sure you're right.

She looked sort of cute and sexy, but not particularly intelligent. Which meant that she did not look like someone one would like to know.
Intelligence is an absolute prerequisite.

And intelligence is often manifested by speech.

By that standard, none of the actual candidates in last Thursday's Republican debate are date material. Or even close.


Neither is Donald Trump, who refused to attend and instead had a debate all by himself elsewhere. He lost, in case you were wondering.
His opponent was just so much more forceful.


One thing that marked both "debates" in Des Moines was the unmitigated cynicism evinced by all politicians present. That, and their universal hatred of "foreigners", are hallmarks of this campaign.

Their definition of "foreigners" should frighten almost everyone. It is tailored to exclude anyone who isn't dyed in the wool tea-party trailer trash. And evidently it is okay for Joe Shmoe to rough up "foreigners" occasionally, just so that they know their place. This crop of Repu-didates is the most blinkered clatch of hatemongers in a long time.

As are their supporters.




Not very long ago we didn't want any Irish, Italians, Chinese, Jews, or Mexicans to enter the country.


Parts of the Republican Party evidently still feel that letting any of those people in was a huge mistake.


Although they make exceptions for Cruz, Fiorina, and Rubio.
Who are our kind of foreign.




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