People Buy Bullsh*t

[struggle4progress]

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
JUN 22, 2017

... The president* flew himself out to Iowa on Wednesday night to bask in the adulation of yet another rapturous crowd and to deliver yet another speech from the oratorical firm of Hokum, Bunkum, and Con. They didn't even balk when he told them, right to their eager faces, that all his campaign rhetoric about cracking down on the bankster class was the purest moonshine ...

Iowa has become a leader in wind energy, which has been a boon to its local economy so, naturally, he ridiculed the whole idea: "I don't want to just hope the wind blows to light up your house and your factory as the birds fall to the ground."

If a substantial portion of our fellow citizens are going to cheer wildly at this stuff, and even more wildly at the endless recitation of his personal grievances that always accompanies the vaporous policy proposals, then there is nothing you can do to change their minds. Circumstances will have to do that ...

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55808/trump-rally-poor-people-solar-wall/

[dalton99a]

1. Idiots who listen to his crap deserve everything coming to them

[dhill926]

4. that photo looks fucking bleached...

[byronius]

6. That's some dead-ender disgustos there, holy cow. Perfectly happy Russian Nazis.

[SoCalMusicLover]

2. But They're Too Stupid To Even Realize They've Been Screwed

They will believe what they hear on Faux "news" and if their lives are not getting better, there's always Obama to pin the blame on.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Yup,the 800 pound

Kenyan Ghost in the room. It is after all about White Rich Privilege and nothing more.

[lunatica]

3. And they keep wagging their fingers in our faces about getting along

I'm beginning to think a Civil War might be just the ticket. Why fight to unify Americans who simply can't stand each other in the most fundamental things?

I think this shit has always been with us. It just took Trump to expose it completely. Trump is sympolic of the Dark Side of this country. The ever present but up to now out of sight underbelly. Exposed now in all it's gluttony.