Poor Joe. Poor, poor old Joe. He gave Trump the ultimate compliment.
Those of us on the Right have been saying this for about 7 years now; ever since the Golden Don and his radiant Faerie Queen descended from on high.
The Left can’t meme. They just can’t do it. They can only do astroturf. There isn’t an organic bone in their collective body. That’s why they rely on censorship. (We’ll talk about the reasons why in an upcoming essay.)
Maybe Trump is a wizard, a man who can communicate simple truths and bend reality to his will and that’s why he won in 2016.
I realize you may think I’ve gone off the rails with this last statement, but the insight did not originate with me. It came from Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame. According to Adams, there are, at any point in time, several wizards on the earth. In his legendarium, Tolkien called them Istari; incarnate, semi-divine beings sent to Middle-earth to guide its inhabitants.
Sound far-fetched? OK, then you explain how Trump went from real-estate mogul/reality-TV star to the 45th president of the United States on his first run for public office. I mean, seriously, how does a guy who never even ran for dog-catcher or justice of the peace win the ultimate prize of all time right out of the gate?
Trump was made for this role.
Joe Biden, on the other hand, has all the experience in the world, and never did a damn thing. He’s either an accomplished actor who is being paid to be the “cautionary tale,” or just a demented old man. Either way, he has a funny way of bolixing things up. The other day, he unwittingly paid a magnificent compliment to his predecessor. He not only praised Trump but might have inadvertently made his return inevitable by referring to him as, “The Great MAGA King.”
Ranks right up there with my favorite: “We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
If this guy is an actor in a shadow government, they should award him a “Golden Don” at the Golden Globes. He is that good.
Joe, we agree with you on all of it. From your lips to God’s ears! May it be so!
Donald Trump ran for president in 2000 with the Reform Party. He later withdrew from the race, though his ambition remained. I think his later reality TV series was always meant by him as a way of gaining national exposure for another presidential bid.
BTW, I can’t recommend enough the latest posting from Orthodox Reflections (see tab above).
It’s a spectacular assessment of the elites who live in Cloud City as opposed to Dirt People. Only from an American Orthodox Christian perspective.
Maybe we can hire these Greek soldiers to protect our border?
https://www.helleniscope.com/2022/05/31/the-greek-military-protects-the-border/
Incorrect. Trump ran in 2000 with the Reform Party. Ironically he accused Pat Buchanan of being a Nazi.
If memory serves, he never actually “ran” on the Reform Party ticket. He pulled out before any votes were taken. He never challenged Perot. It was more like what Reagan did in 1968, he just “happened” to be at the GOP convention, essentially looking pretty “just in case.”
Like I said, “if memory serves.” I could very well be wrong. In any event, what I meant to say that the first office he ran for was the presidency. And he won.
“Sound far-fetched? OK, then you explain how Trump went from real-estate mogul/reality-TV star to the 45th president of the United States on his first run for public office. I mean, seriously, how does a guy who never even ran for dog-catcher or justice of the peace win the ultimate prize of all time right out of the gate?”
It’s obviously no ordinary thing, but still seems fairly easily explainable: his decades of fame and years playing an epitome of business savvy on “The Apprentice” gave him a starting profile of recognition, coverage, and favorable impressions (of business smarts), he identified an under-served strain of the right-of-center coalition, and ran in the general against an uniquely unpopular opponent. I don’t think it takes anything away from him to note that no radically abnormal wizarding abilities are needed for that.
You could even say something similar about Joe Biden: he was elected to the Senate at 29 as a recent law school grad whose campaign was essentially the first thing of any note he did after graduating. I don’t think he’s a wizard either; sometimes man meets circumstances and unusual things can happen.
Joe Biden ran for election at least six times in his life. Outside of some rookie politico who won his first race, no civilian pulled off what Trump did with the Big Kahuna.
As for the generals/war heroes who won election to the Presidency, even Washington, Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, all stood for lower elective office. Those generals who got the Presidency the first time (Wm H Harrison, Eisenhower) did so because they were popular military heroes.
It’s astonishing when viewed from that perspective.
An intriguing summation of the “macaroni” subculture of Regency England and the “intelligent” on Czarist Empire right before the fall (from Zman, courtesy of Takimag):
“This proliferation of absurd positions and titles harks back to a similar phenomenon at the end of the czarist period in Russia. The intelligent was a member of a social group that deliberately set itself at odds with civic order. They supported terrorism, for example, not for ideological reasons, but as a fashion statement. Like the macaroni subculture, the intelligent subculture was primarily a way of signaling separation from the rest of society by mocking its rules.
“Another similarity between the modern vanguardist and the Russian intelligent is the embrace of mayhem. The intelligent embraced an ideology only as a means to overthrow the existing order. Once the current order collapsed or was destroyed in a violent revolution, a new order would emerge. This new order would magically be free of all the problems associated with the human condition.
“We see this with modern vanguardism. They flit from one destructive course to the next with only one object in mind: the destruction of order. They salt their jeremiads with words like “confront,” “subvert,” and “dismantle” because they are not advocating for some rational position, but rather they are making war on reason. In fact, they are making war on the natural order, which is why they embrace these weird fetishes.
“The macaroni subculture in the British empire and the intelligent in the Russian empire were late-stage cultural phenomena among an elite that had run out of energy. The same is true of vanguardism in the Global American Empire. Like the spoiled children of a wealthy family, the sons and daughters of the elite indulge their childish fancies rather than taking on the burdens of the elite.” (Emphasis added.)
A sobering insight from Neil Oliver (spoken with a charming Scottish burr):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68bjj1rfdqM
Amos 2:6 [KJV]
“Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;”
It will go ill for the bankers and the billionaires,
for the Lord will not be mocked…
This is what’s called “letting the cat out of the bag” (read: liberals displaying their subconscious racism).
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/the-view-joy-behar-says-gun-laws-will-definitely-change-once-black-people-get-guns-in-this-country/ar-AAYebKA?bk=1&ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=145e5e447de44cd89a02982b01390d4a