DONALD TRUMP BURNED MY TOAST AND OTHER RAMBLINGS

For years we have made homemade bread in our bread machines; and for whatever reason I am able to slice the bread thinner and more uniform than my wife; so I am in charge of making toast for breakfast.  

This morning we got off on the subject of the blatant ignorance of the base of the Republican Party being so enthusiastic for Trump.   And during my tirade tying Trump and the idiot base of the Republican Party to southern racism and fundamentalist Christianity I burned the toast.  

I used the excuse that Trump caused me to burn the toast and my wife bought it.  

When you look at the largest group of people most violently opposed to President Obama they come from what is left of The Old South – a place where covert racism is still inbred in the white population.   This is also the bastion of religious induced ignorance where people believe in a sky fairy and a human god.   Religious indoctrination from birth has taught the population not to question but to blindly accept and revel in traditional doctrines that are too ridiculous to stand up to logical scrutiny.     The result is a population immune to facts - regardless of formal educational attainment - a population of base ignorance. 

Isis is not the major threat to the United States; it is Donald Trump, Ann Coulter, Louie Gohmert, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Duck Dynasty, Ted Nugent, Honey BooBoo and the people who live in that world.

Fuck him – Donald Trump burned my toast. 

the Ol’Buzzard 

I SUPPORT TRUMP!

Donald Trump

He’s the man

If he can’t do it

No one can.

Rah rah ree

Kick him in the knee

Rah rah rash

Kick him in the other knee.

I support the Donald 100%.   He is the best thing that could happen - for the Democratic Party.

 

If it wasn’t for Trump the airways would be full of Benghazi and E-Mail Gate and Bill getting a blow job in the oval office and Hillary a murderer and …; also, minute to minute 24/7 attacks on President Obama.

But now, all the Republican’s running for office are playing duck and cover from Trump.  The party doesn’t know what to do with him, and is afraid to confront him. 

Hillary’s e-mails are a back page issue for the media while The Donald is running away with the Republican Party.

 

Where can I get a Donald Trump bumper sticker for my car?

the Ol’Buzzard

WE'LL GET US A LITTLE MAN

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PREACHES CHANGE

WE'LL GET US A LITTLE MAN

WE GET US A WOMAN

WE GET US A BLACK MAN

WE GET US A SMART MAN: HE WEARS GLASSES

The Ol'Buzzard

MOVEMENT CONSERVATISM EXPLAINED

Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman published an article in the New York Times titled The Fix Isn’t In where he discussed movement conservatism.   Movement conservatism was a term I was not familiar with; but I have seen it in action and recognized it as the bait and switch that the Republican Party has played with their ignorant base and the one percent they actually support, since the time of Reagan. 

Below is an excerpt from his article and a link to the full writing.   It is a short piece and worth reading: food for thought.     

THE FIX ISN'T IN

"I don’t mean that conservatism in general is dying. But what I and others mean by “movement conservatism,” a term I think I learned from the historian Rick Perlstein, is something more specific: an interlocking set of institutions and alliances that won elections by stoking cultural and racial anxiety but used these victories mainly to push an elitist economic agenda, meanwhile providing a support network for political and ideological loyalists."

 This article seems to truly, in simple terms, explain the Republican Party of the last four decades.

the Ol’Buzzard

BIOPSY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

In 1948 the Democratic and Republican Parties swapped places. At the Democratic convention of 1948 Johnson proposed integration be part of the Democratic platform and the deep-south, racist Democrats walked out of the convention and formed the Dixiecrat Party with the platform of segregation forever. After a failed run for president by the Dixiecrats there was a fairly rapid assimilation of the Dixiecrats into the Republican Party.

The Democratic Party, once the strong party of the south, became moderate and progressive while the Republican Party, now consumed of white southern religious racist, moved to social conservatism.

There had always been a strong southern representation in the Senate and Congress, and the new Republican Party, now represented by colorful southern statesmen, moved to a more exclusive party – a party of powerful white men with a covert racist agenda.

The position of Senator or Congressman is the closest thing our Nation has to royalty, and the goal of all legislators has always been to keep their jobs. Republicans legislators found that by paying lip service to southern moral and social values they could count on this uninformed and easily led base to vote for them in elections; and by enacting legislations to benefit the powerful and wealthy and the big corporations they could guarantee financial support.

The final term of the George W. Bush presidency had become a disaster for the Republicans. Then something happened in 2008: A black man was running for President on the Democratic ticket.

The old south covert racist and religious fundamentalists were called on by Republican pundits to organize – to become incensed and angry – and to coalesce and demonstrate. This gave the opportunity for some of the most ignorant and outrageous of the Republican legislators to join the crazies and assume a leadership.

Without realizing it, the Republicans were awakening the sleeping tiger of their party. Suddenly the Tea Party inmates were no longer satisfied with legislative rhetoric aimed to placate them – now the tiger wanted a place at the table.

So here we are: a Republican party divided between two distinct factions: the establishment of old rich white men who have traditionally run the party, and an outrageous coalition made up of the ignorant and uninformed with no idea how to govern.


the Ol'Buzzard