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| The Establishment Flunkies Flunk Out |
| 2017-10-24 |
| h/t Instapundit [Townhall] All human institutions are essentially a reboot of high school, and within the political scene the Never Trumpers are convinced that they are the cool kids despite being the chess club of American politics. No, they aren't the cool kids. They’re geeks, they haven't won a tournament in years and, more importantly, they're the freaking chess club. In contrast, we normals are just that, the members of the student body who have lives and after-school jobs and girlfriends and who don't care about the dorks padding their resume with student body presidencies or, in this case, jobs at the Eagle Liberty Council for Freedom. Except now we normals have been forced to pay attention because the would-be in-crowd has so totally screwed things up that there's no real choice but get involved in campus activities and burn down the whole damn schoolhouse. Trump is the torch, and the Fredocons in the chess club are panicking because when the school goes up in flames so does their identity. And their meal ticket. But they brought it on themselves. You can’t get "F" after "F" after "F" without eventually flunking out. What have these guys achieved? The clowns they support in Congress can’t even repeal Obamacare. That’s a total no brainer, and therefore should have been right up their alley. We normals are sick of being looked down upon and exploited by a bunch of people who, if this was a movie, would be played by James Spader ‐ except trainwreck 2017 James Spader, not louche/suave 1986 James Spader. I guess that makes Bill Kristol the Nepo-Con Duckie, if Duckie was a less-cool, backstabbing deep-state-loving weasel trying to sell Molly Ringwald a cabin on one of his crappy cruises. In place of trying to earn respect by demonstrating competence, they’ve chosen to try to diss us into submission. George W. Bush decided to go all Mean Girls in a speech that insulted his (former) supporters while delighting the left, and therefore the Never Trumpers. Now, if you read W's speech on paper, every word of it about bigotry being bad is true. But you give speeches in context, and here the context is decades of leftists and their media poodles falsely accusing the normals of racism and bigotry. So when W adopted that language, he also knowingly or negligently adopted that narrative; the former newspaper and current brochure known as the L.A. Times crowed: "In stunning attack, George W. Bush rebukes Trump, suggesting he promotes falsehoods and prejudice." |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 I think of it as differently social, Abu Uluque. Chess players socialize among themselves, while ignoring the more numerous sets of those who play cards or act in amateur theatricals -- who also socialize among themselves, ignoring those who do not partake in their particular pleasure. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-10-24 10:52 |
| #1 Never Trumpers are convinced that they are the cool kids despite being the chess club of American politics I understand that chess is an anti-social game but comparing those of us who enjoy it anyway to Never Trumpers in quite unnecessary and not entirely accurate. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-10-24 10:39 |