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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGreat article in Rolling Stone: "Inside the GOP Clown Car"
Here are some highlights from the hilarious and insightful article:
Twenty years from now, when we're all living like prehistory hominids and hunting rats with sticks, we'll probably look back at this moment as the beginning of the end.... Take a combustible mix of the most depraved and filterless half-wits, scam artists and asylum Napoleons America has to offer, give them all piles of money and tell them to run for president.
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The orangutan-haired real estate magnate entered the race in mid-June and immediately blew up cable and Twitter by denouncing Mexicans as rapists and ripping 2008 nominee John McCain for having been captured in war. .... amid the strange Republican leadership void of 2016, the furor only gave Trump further saturation among the brainless nativists in his party and inexplicably vaulted him to front-runner status.... Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry ... decried Trump himself as a "barking carnival act" and a "cancer" that the party should "excise" for its own sake and, one supposes, for Rick Perry's....The irony is that this was supposed to be the year when the Republicans opened the tent up, made a sincere play for the Hispanic vote, and perhaps softened up a bit on gays and other vermin. But then the lights went on in the race and voters flocked to a guy whose main policy plank was the construction of a giant Game of Thrones-style wall to keep rape-happy ethnics off our lawns. So much for inclusion!
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The irony, of course, is that when America finally wrested control of the political process from the backroom oligarchs, the very first place where we spent our newfound freedom and power was on the campaign of the world's most unapologetic asshole. ...America is ceasing to be a nation, and turning into a giant television show. And this Republican race is our first and most brutal casting call.
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)You can't tear your eyes away from it."
God, I love taibbi.
Nay
(12,051 posts)category of its own. I mean, who can forget the phrase "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money" used to describe the banks? He's phenomenal. I laughed and cried when I read this newest essay.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Not only for the great articles, but for history.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)I laughed and I cried.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)summerschild
(725 posts)Taibbi at his "terrific-est"!
pampango
(24,692 posts)Like Trump's Mexican remarks, Walker's gambit comparing American union workers to head-chopping Islamic terrorists seemed like a bridge too far even for many Republicans. He was criticized by the National Review and future opponent Perry, among others. But instead of plummeting in the polls, Walker, like Trump, gained ground.
The irony is that this was supposed to be the year when the Republicans opened the tent up, made a sincere play for the Hispanic vote, and perhaps softened up a bit on gays and other vermin. But then the lights went on in the race and voters flocked to a guy whose main policy plank was the construction of a giant Game of Thrones-style wall to keep rape-happy ethnics off our lawns. So much for inclusion!
longship
(40,416 posts)As always, Taibbi nails it down.
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GusBob
(7,286 posts)Must read.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)Attorney in Texas
(3,373 posts)Contrary1
(12,629 posts)only dressed in preposterous "smart" glasses, a deadly error in a fight with a natural schoolyard bully like Donald Trump.
"He put glasses on so people will think he's smart," Trump croaked. "And it just doesn't work!"
Perry was so grateful to even be mentioned by Trump that he refocused his campaign apparatus on an epic response, apparently in an attempt to draw the Donald into a Drake/Meek Mill-style diss war. He tossed off a 3,000-word speech denouncing "Trumpism" as the modern incarnation of the Know-Nothing movement (one could almost hear Trump scoffing, "What the fuck is a Know-Nothing?" . He decried Trump himself as a "barking carnival act" and a "cancer" that the party should "excise" for its own sake and, one supposes, for Rick Perry's.
Trump, too busy being front-runner to notice Perry's desperate volleys, basically blew the Texan off. A week later, Perry was in a tie for 10th place in the polls. Asked if his campaign was finished if he didn't make the debate cut, Perry replied, in characteristically malaprop fashion, that making the debate was "not a one-shot pony." He ended up missing his shot, or his pony, or whatever, and was squeezed out of the debate...."
Sadly, for the American voters, this entire article is spot on. Thanks for posting.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)The definition of malpractice is an "instance of negligence or incompetence on the part of a professional." Given that definition, could we sue George W. Bush? I'm thinking the damages could run into the trillions of dollars.
Attorney in Texas
(3,373 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)kimbutgar
(21,210 posts)Trump is the President Camacho is the movie.
I am scared our media will be pushing the a$$hole on us and because 1/3 of our population is insane and the other 1/3 is apolitical only tuning in during Presidential years there could (god forbid) be President Trump. Just saying it makes me want to throw up in my mouth.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)A reporter next to me leaned over. "King's lawn mower is gay?"
Brilliant piece. And the usual band of morans commenting angry jibberish below.