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Donald Trump Is The Most Honest Man In Politics
...by at least one measure -- his open contempt for the political press -- Donald Trump drops more barrel bombs of truth into the American political system than any other candidate running this year, because he understands the political media better and needs them less than any other candidate running this year.
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To catch you up. the core thesis of the Vox article you may or may not have just slipped away to read was this:
Trump understands in the same way we Liberal blogger have long understood, that the Beltway media gatekeepers are not guardians of the truth or the integrity of journalism, but are instead the deeply corrupt priesthood of the American political system, and living large off the awesome and terrible power of a Holy Fraud which they themselves have invented.
Extravagantly rewarded, deeply inbred, openly contemptuous of the people it is supposed to serve and as thoroughly rotten as Catholic Church at the time of Martin Luther, the Beltway media has used the one power it actually has -- control of the "respectable" teevee cameras, editorial pages and radio stations -- to enforce its baroque Both Siderist parody of actual journalism.
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Trump is from money and fame and media, so he is not awed by the wealth and trappings of the Holy Church of Centrism. He understands that beneath the lights and makeup and costumes, it's just another whorehouse plying the world's oldest profession: providing it's clientele fantasies in exchange for money. And broadly speaking there is nothing wrong with that: an honest sex worker providing a needed service at a fair price is no less honorable a honest carpenter, or architect or author. that to the up to the Conservative madness and transparent corruption.
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Trump knows the high priests of the Holy Church of Centrism for what they are, and mercilessly names and shames them in ways no one but a handful of disreputable Liberal bloggers dares to do.
And in that one, specific sense, he is currently the most honest man in politics.
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2015/12/donald-trump-is-most-honest-man-in.html
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To catch you up. the core thesis of the Vox article you may or may not have just slipped away to read was this:
Their trepidation has less to do with the fact of Trump lying than with the way he lies. They don't mind being properly lied to; it's all part of the game. What they cannot countenance is being rendered irrelevant. Trump is not kissing the ring. He barely bothers to spin the media. He does not need them, or give two shits what centrist pundits think. Their disapproval only strengthens him. Media gatekeepers are in danger of being exposed as impotent bystanders.
Trump understands in the same way we Liberal blogger have long understood, that the Beltway media gatekeepers are not guardians of the truth or the integrity of journalism, but are instead the deeply corrupt priesthood of the American political system, and living large off the awesome and terrible power of a Holy Fraud which they themselves have invented.
Extravagantly rewarded, deeply inbred, openly contemptuous of the people it is supposed to serve and as thoroughly rotten as Catholic Church at the time of Martin Luther, the Beltway media has used the one power it actually has -- control of the "respectable" teevee cameras, editorial pages and radio stations -- to enforce its baroque Both Siderist parody of actual journalism.
...
Trump is from money and fame and media, so he is not awed by the wealth and trappings of the Holy Church of Centrism. He understands that beneath the lights and makeup and costumes, it's just another whorehouse plying the world's oldest profession: providing it's clientele fantasies in exchange for money. And broadly speaking there is nothing wrong with that: an honest sex worker providing a needed service at a fair price is no less honorable a honest carpenter, or architect or author. that to the up to the Conservative madness and transparent corruption.
...
Trump knows the high priests of the Holy Church of Centrism for what they are, and mercilessly names and shames them in ways no one but a handful of disreputable Liberal bloggers dares to do.
And in that one, specific sense, he is currently the most honest man in politics.
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2015/12/donald-trump-is-most-honest-man-in.html
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