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Ha! I do so love a man who speaks his mind, plainly and with conviction, so kudos to Matt Walsh. It strikes me as ironic however, that same outspoken masculine conviction is partially what has seduced many towards Donald Trump. Even I am entertained by his antics, even I cheer when the man refuses to be shamed into apologizing or backtracking. However, the reasoning part of my brain continues to function too, and I have a sharp eye for snake oil, coconut candy, and bovine poo.
Here is Walsh’s post, “Dear Trump Fan, So You Want Someone To ‘Tell It Like It Is’? OK, Here You Go.”
Walsh nailed so many good points, so click to read the whole thing, but this jumped out at me the most because it is something I predicted was going to happen long ago.
He says, “You’re excited by the most vile statements and most cretinous behavior imaginable — not remotely deterred by any of it, no matter how many times he gloats over infidelity, curses his opponents, and publicly ogles his own children — because, you say, it’s politically incorrect. That is how unfathomably desperate you are for someone to come along and just say what’s on their mind, you claim. You’re so fed up with political correctness that you celebrate political incorrectness without distinguishing between the healthy sort and the “LOL I slept with married women and I’m not sorry” sort.”
Yep. Cause and effect, one side reacting in emotional response to the other. Symbiosis. The pendulum always swings. The problem being, when we are always trapped in defiant emotionalism and rhetoric, often our brains fall out, not unlike someone who has been spinning round and round on the pendulum. The first thing to go are usually our powers of discernment, I don’t care how you stop the merry go round, just stop this awful spinning. Stop the ride I want off!
And so we arrive at, I hate political correctness so, so much, I now enthusiastically embrace all political incorrectness, no matter what! So pro-choice, I’m a “Christian” who doesn’t believe in the need for forgiveness of sins, liberal, Democratic supporting Donald Trump, becomes the conservative darling. Bahahaha!
Some people may not be aware of this, but some of my trips into the manosphere, the redpills, the alt right, and the gamer boys, have revolved around trying to get a feel for how ripe people are for the plucking, how easily played and gamed they will be, and what is so seductive about that particular manipulation of the narrative, how it plays off our biology…a tool used by the man who actually wrote the book on how to game the electorate. Gaming the gamers, really quite funny if you ask me. Of course, there is also the part about how, is it really a good idea to chase the bad boy and sign up for a one night stand you may regret later?
Just close your eyes folks and feel the music…..or perhaps think of the Queen and not his toupee. I’m quite sure this will end well. Or, at least it will end….
Debbie L said:
I’m in agreement with you and Matt. It shook me to the core when Sarah endorsed him….I guess I was wrong about her. 😞
I’m so glad my King is still on the throne. And as I said in an earlier comment, we know how the story of our world ends! That’s where my HOPE is resting!
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insanitybytes22 said:
Amen! The King is still on the throne! 😉
I heard that even the Queen of England has now written a book in which she pays tribute to the King of Kings, to the One she she serves. I haven’t read it yet but I thought it was rather sweet.
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Debbie L said:
I heard the same. That was very interesting and I’d be interested in reading it, too!
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Rebecca LuElla Miller said:
I was shocked by Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Mr. Trump, too, Debbie. And disappointed. Yep, I thought she was someone else. Praise God He is who He is and we aren’t ever going to be fooled by Him!
Becky
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Debbie L said:
He’s the only one who won’t/can’t disappoint! Hallelujah!
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Julie said:
My daughter was reading quotes from Matt’s post to me last night. I especially like this paragraph:
“Right down the list, you are blithely embracing every single thing you say you’re so angry about. Trump is the very embodiment of corruption, deception, cowardice, and elitism. He is precisely the sort of man you supposedly detest. Trump is exploiting America’s frustration with men like Trump. Trump is running against Trump. You are voting for Trump because you hate Trump. You are angry at politicians because they act like Trump and make deals like Trump and go to cocktail parties with men like Trump and look down on the little guy like Trump and possess the integrity of Trump, and so you’re solution is to elect Trump. Your anger at Trump leads you to Trump. Perhaps this explains why you’re so worried about politicians who are “controlled by donors,” but you aren’t at all concerned about a politicians who is the very donor you didn’t want controlling the political process. ‘I’m sick of these donors influencing the government! I have an idea: let’s make one president!’”
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insanitybytes22 said:
Ha! I know, right? It is so irrational, so illogical, it boggles the mind. Than I remember that politics is hardly ever based on what is rational.
Alas, we the people cannot elect what we oppose, as if he will be “our guy,” he will answer only to us, so this time, all will be well. That has never worked out in all of human history.
If the man hasn’t got a servant’s heart and you are the servant, the odds of him serving you, are well, non existent.
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Julie said:
I like how the British government uses terms such as “Ministry of Defence” and “Prime Minister.” Perhaps we should, too. To remind us all that our governmental departments exist to minister to the people and our leaders are elected to public service.
I understand Trump’s appeal in theory, but I don’t see him washing anyone’s feet but his own in reality.
Loved this: “is it really a good idea to chase the bad boy and sign up for a one night stand you may regret later?”
Correlations: Some people just don’t get them.
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Eric said:
All that Trump and Sanders lack are black and red shirts for their followers, and we have 1920s all over again. There are some really close parallels here: the German elected the Nazis because they were fed up with the effete elitism and Political Correctness of the squalid and degenerate Weimar Government, and were eager to hear anybody who told them that they would bring back the Germany of Bismarck and the Emperors and German Culture. People voted them into power, even though the Nazis were projections of everything they despised. The Nazis, like the Weimar Left, preached a ‘New World Order’—none of the German Aristocracy were reinstated into power and an even more rigid political correctness was imposed.
It’s interesting too, that the Nazi leaders were the embodiment of what the German people wanted to replace. Hitler was a homeless bum and part of the effete arts community; Goering a pervert and drug addict; Roehm a flaming homosexual; Goebbels the jealous and bitter academic; Himmler a bureaucratic automaton; Rosenberg a New-Age mystic, &c.
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Julie said:
Interesting. It’s also interesting that in 2008 my in-box was full of e-mails from people comparing Obama to Hitler. Yet he was elected. It seems there are lemmings in both parties who are hell-bent on our destruction.
Speaking of hell, it seems the devil has no political preference – he’ll use Democrats and Republicans alike to further his cause, but I’ll bet he gets an extra kick out of it when evangelicals do his bidding.
All I want is a candidate who will bring morality, integrity and honesty back to the old order – the one upon which we were founded – a grown up who doesn’t resort to juvenile name-calling, who doesn’t call people “losers” and “dummies”…
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oneta hayes said:
I find the people who support Trump are much more open to looking at all sides and all the candidates than those who hate him. Up to this point I have had periods of believing in each of the Republicans as being The One, then I see qualities I like in others. Most Trump fans I know say things like, “I like ___, but___” I have yet to see a Trump hater do more than hate Trump. This morning I am asking myself, “Who do I think has the oomph to call a Muslim terrorist, a terrorist.” I heard what Trump said about calling a halt to Muslim immigrants. It was almost identical to what someone else said, and it was hardly mentioned. I would love to hear Matt Walsh giving his support to someone with such vigor! And I would love it if he and other shouters would have turned their “love and holiness” to Dr. Carson when there might have been a hope of him being our president. Where was Matt when Fiorina needed help? Actually he might have – I haven’t read him. Should I? Has he supported Carson and I failed to notice? I am in a Super Tuesday state. I don’t even know what the polls show in my state. So I’m not swayed by the bandwagon. But I will vote; please, Lord, guide my state and my nation. I guess I’ve given away that I am not a Trump hater, too open minded. But neither am I a Trump lover, too open minded. I know people on both sides who I respect and whose opinion I value. I’m not turned off Palin. She might well know things I don’t know. So here I sit and wonder.
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insanitybytes22 said:
I am sorry you live in SuperTuesday state. By the time the election gets to me, it will already have been decided and will most likely be blue in my neck of the woods, so the burden of responsibility doesn’t really fall on me. My vote will be a token protest at best.
The tribalism, especially around immigration, Muslims and the Mexican border has been magnificently played. We’ll simply build a wall, deport anyone who wishes us harm, jobs will return, Ozzie and Harriet will come back on TV, and our economy will thrive once again. It’s kind of like a fairytale.
I don’t hate Trump. I admire his skill actually. He’s played a very clever game and made me laugh more than a few times.
I know I ask too much, but it would be so lovely if we stopped choosing leaders based on how we feel, like “love” or “hate.” Feelings can be fickle things indeed and they are easy to manipulate.
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forfriendswithoutborders said:
Although I am not a Trump supporter (but will vote for him in protest to Clinton), I can see why he’s so popular. The Obama Administration was the last of successive administrations that had utter disdain for the electorate and the rule of law. He may be the embodiment of what is wrong with the US right now, but the great unwashed also knows he’s also inclined to trade punches with the left – something that we haven’t seen in quite sometime.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Yes, you are right! I can totally empathize with those who wish to throw a few punches, but just the same, that is not a good frame of mind to be in when one is trying to make rational decisions.
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forfriendswithoutborders said:
No doubt. I think that this is what happens when the middle class becomes disenfranchised by the ruling political elite.
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Eric said:
The thing that’s different with Trump supporters and earlier ‘outsiders’ like Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul (both of whom I supported) is that those two had some political experience and knew what challenges they faced. They weren’t simply about replacing one type of political correctness with another—they actually had plans and programs (constructive things) they wanted to implement.
But today’s Ameroboobs don’t want to hear about policy: they want instant gratification and revenge on each other. Which are things both Trump and Sanders appeal to.
America needs an overhaul; but this doesn’t happen overnight. When the USSR collapsed in 1991, it took Yeltsin, Medvedev, and Putin years to bring Russia back to Superpower status and rebuild the culture and infrastructure.
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forfriendswithoutborders said:
I’m not disagreeing with you at all. I was originally a Scott Walker supporter, and thought Trump would check out of the race by October. But, the establishment has done nothing for the middle class for nearly 16 years, maybe longer. The last time that I recall an economy that was beneficial to the middle class was during the Republican revolution of the Clinton years, which was probably a benefactor of Regan’s policies from years before. The point is, with a political ruling class that has utter contempt for the electorate, has lied repeatedly year after year, I wouldn’t mind seeing some shake up that would flush out what can best be described as tenured politicians.
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Salvageable said:
I wanted to run for Congress two years ago, because I could feel the wave of anti-establishment rage among the voters. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the money for a successful campaign. Unfortunately, Trump does. J.
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exanimo7 said:
I’m not a regular follower of Walsh’s blog, but OH.MY.GOSH! This is exactly what I’d love to be able to say to some people I know who are voting for Trump. I really am fearful of what could happen if Trump gets the GOP nomination.
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Wally Fry said:
We are going to elect The Donald president, and I expect the trump to sound shortly thereafter
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theancients said:
At such a point, which one of the dead shall rise Wally?
The spiritually dead, the physically dead, the emotionally dead, the brain dead… you know 🙂
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Wally Fry said:
Well I just hope that at the resurrection that the brain dead also get a new brain
🙂
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higharka said:
Whenever the usurers and idolaters don’t like someone, that is a very good sign about that person.
To whom are the Pharisees contributing the most money this election season?
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Nellie Bly said:
Could someone explain to me what’s with the equivalency some conservatives draw between Trump and Sanders? Maybe you all understand it immediately, but I’m a poor peace boob. I protested Bush II’s wars. I voted for Ron Paul in the spring of 2008 and for Cynthia McKinney in the fall of that year because I’d actually bothered to research Obama and I knew good and well that he was NOT a peace candidate.
I saw yesterday that The American Conservative (conservatives for a peaceful sane foreign policy) had evaluated all the major party candidates and Sanders got the best score, a B. I have some problems with him myself, but we’re electing a human because we don’t get to elect god. Sanders isn’t calling for anyone to be tortured. He’s calling for what — the tax rates to return to what they were under Eisenhower.
Could someone please explain to me how it is that Sanders is supposed to be just as evil and horrible and tyrannical as Trump obviously wants to be?
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christinewjc said:
Hi Nellie,
This article (and especially the comments there!) may help answer your question:
Townhall’s Allen West: The Matrix of Progressive Socialism
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JaimiH said:
I LOVE Matt Walsh!
That’s all I wanted to say…
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insanitybytes22 said:
I know, right? I have disagreed with him many times, but I find if I wait patiently, he eventually gets it and comes out of the gate charging.
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JaimiH said:
I agree with him on pretty much everything. He writes exactly what’s in my head!
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Christ Centered Teaching said:
Dude,
No politicians will ever save this nation. Even an outsider like Trump can’t save us. Only Jesus Christ can. I’m more concerned with the absence of clear leadership in Christianity.
You?
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insanitybytes22 said:
Yes, I’ll second that. I am more concerned about our spiritual leaderships because it is the heart of our nation that needs healing.
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Christ Centered Teaching said:
Indeed, and we are desperate for the kind of leaders that reflect Christ, who can inspire hope and faith, commitment and selfless devotion, so we can once again honor God.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Amen! I would caution us however, not to wait for those “leaders who inspire” before we start honoring God. The early church really had nothing but themselves and each other. Although good leadership is an awesome blessing, we are still “the church” with or without it.
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Christ Centered Teaching said:
I don’t know about you, but I’m engaging others daily. Christ Centered Teaching has more visitors in a week than the average church, from all over the world.
Still, its never enough to remotely satisfy my debt to Jesus.
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insanitybytes22 said:
That’s awesome. Congratulations on your success.
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Christ Centered Teaching said:
Oh my sister. Its not about me.
I’m anonymous for that reason. In fact, when a few of my readers suggested I should reveal my identity, I wrote a post requesting input from my readers. They overwhelmingly advised I remain in the background. They want Christ to remain preeminent on this blog, my only blog. It isn’t about me.
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higharka said:
I’ll believe you when you start taking a whip to usurers. 😉
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insanitybytes22 said:
It is more like usurers forever taking a whip to me. I have advised them all to knock it off, but you know, I don’t seem to be the one holding all the cards here. Or any of the cards, really. I have a sharp tongue, does that count for something? 😉
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higharka said:
Seriously, though, I don’t follow politics the way you guys all apparently do. I haven’t watched any of the debates, the news–all of that junk. So this election, who are, like, Citibank and Goldman Sachs and Oracle and Microsoft buying? (I’m completely sure they’ve already bought Hillary, so don’t bother mentioning her.)
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insanitybytes22 said:
Trump seems to be the favored candidate on the Republican side and it looks like Hillary or Bernie on the D side. I fear we’ve long since left the realm of bankers simply buying their favorite and now moved into a whole new dimension. What that dimension actually is however, continues to elude me. Our politics seem to be coming right off the red pill page, so Trump is busy alpha gaming about 1/3 of Christian evangelicals, something that I find both terribly depressing and outright funny.
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