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1barney67
The real bigots and bullies have always been liberals projecting their own failings onto others. That happens a lot when you point the finger. You have four fingers pointing back at yourself.
What liberals really hate is that Trump is playing their game and beating them at it. We've never had a Republican president like that. Usually they try to be gentlemanly and let the liberals set the terms of the debate by proving they're just as nice. From the beginning, they're on their heels trying to jusify their existence. But what happens? It's not enough. Not for liberals greedy for moral perfection. GW Bush is as liberal a Republican president as you can get, and yet still he was called a bully, fascist, stupid. The usual. The liberal playbook hasn't changed in decades. Romney was so nice that liberals couldn't accept it. There HAD to be some dirt underneath. But if you've been around Mormons you ought to know they really are nice, decent people. Sometimes young kids will come around during the winter and shovel my walk for free. My response the first time was: You're kidding, right? You see how liberal paranoia has infected me.
Oh, look, here it is again. Dana Milbank writing in the Washington Post: "Good-golly Gorsuch may turn out to be a rascal on the bench". You see how liberals are paranoid that there is some hidden agenda? That Gorsuch can't be what he appears to be? And so they won't allow him to be that. They won't allow him to nice or good or competent. It would throw their reality off-kilter. They would have to admit they were wrong, and maybe even change their minds. Not that! Look at this b.s.: "Gorsuch played a folksy sycophant straight out of the 1950s." Played? So Milbank is convinced that Gorsuch is pretending. Based on what? On suspicion? Not evidence?
I suspect that a lot of what Trump says is a strategic, calculated, put-on to distract the press and others from discussing the issues. That's certainly what goes on here. It's what happened during the election. But Trump hits first. Because that's what you do with liberal bullies. You have to beat them at their own game. The way to stop a bully is to hit him harder. You can't let yourself get bullied and put on the defensive by accusations that you are crazyracistsexist. The substance of what happens in Washington goes untouched. There is no debate. Why should he debate? He knows liberals always win debates because they don't play fair by avoiding debate altogether.
I suspect Trump is fine with that. He plays the long game, and liberals have always been known for their shortsightedness, for their disdain and neglect of the past, their inability to make a cool, accurate assessment of the present, and their inability to predict consequences.
What liberals really hate is that Trump is playing their game and beating them at it. We've never had a Republican president like that. Usually they try to be gentlemanly and let the liberals set the terms of the debate by proving they're just as nice. From the beginning, they're on their heels trying to jusify their existence. But what happens? It's not enough. Not for liberals greedy for moral perfection. GW Bush is as liberal a Republican president as you can get, and yet still he was called a bully, fascist, stupid. The usual. The liberal playbook hasn't changed in decades. Romney was so nice that liberals couldn't accept it. There HAD to be some dirt underneath. But if you've been around Mormons you ought to know they really are nice, decent people. Sometimes young kids will come around during the winter and shovel my walk for free. My response the first time was: You're kidding, right? You see how liberal paranoia has infected me.
Oh, look, here it is again. Dana Milbank writing in the Washington Post: "Good-golly Gorsuch may turn out to be a rascal on the bench". You see how liberals are paranoid that there is some hidden agenda? That Gorsuch can't be what he appears to be? And so they won't allow him to be that. They won't allow him to nice or good or competent. It would throw their reality off-kilter. They would have to admit they were wrong, and maybe even change their minds. Not that! Look at this b.s.: "Gorsuch played a folksy sycophant straight out of the 1950s." Played? So Milbank is convinced that Gorsuch is pretending. Based on what? On suspicion? Not evidence?
I suspect that a lot of what Trump says is a strategic, calculated, put-on to distract the press and others from discussing the issues. That's certainly what goes on here. It's what happened during the election. But Trump hits first. Because that's what you do with liberal bullies. You have to beat them at their own game. The way to stop a bully is to hit him harder. You can't let yourself get bullied and put on the defensive by accusations that you are crazyracistsexist. The substance of what happens in Washington goes untouched. There is no debate. Why should he debate? He knows liberals always win debates because they don't play fair by avoiding debate altogether.
I suspect Trump is fine with that. He plays the long game, and liberals have always been known for their shortsightedness, for their disdain and neglect of the past, their inability to make a cool, accurate assessment of the present, and their inability to predict consequences.
3krolik
Actually there's something I'd like to hear more on. Barney, you know we don't agree on things, but it's better if I can at least understand where you're coming from. You refer to Trump playing the long game. That part of your description is new to me. Could you say more why you think this?
4RickHarsch
>1 barney67: 'The real bigots and bullies have always been liberals projecting their own failings onto others. That happens a lot when you point the finger. You have four fingers pointing back at yourself.'
I am not a liberal, but I share there enemies currently, so I guess I am much of what disgusts you, but I wish you could attack without that worst weapon of all, the smarmy cliche.
I am not a liberal, but I share there enemies currently, so I guess I am much of what disgusts you, but I wish you could attack without that worst weapon of all, the smarmy cliche.
5StormRaven
You refer to Trump playing the long game. That part of your description is new to me. Could you say more why you think this?
Because barney doesn't have the slightest clue what he is talking about, but is desperate to put a positive spin on the fact that the Republican President is a lazy, ignorant buffoon.
Because barney doesn't have the slightest clue what he is talking about, but is desperate to put a positive spin on the fact that the Republican President is a lazy, ignorant buffoon.
