Nam duos pullos candidum sedentem loqu
Lena Dunhamization of the Republican campaign
Trump, White Woman Privilege, and the grab.
It took a while for me to get on the Trump Train. As a NY I could not be violently anti-Trump but like many others thought he might be perceived outside of the Tri-state area as a Vulgarian. I recall the NY "Pearl Clutchers" was appalled by what he did to the beautiful Bonwitt Tellers statues all those years ago. The public nature of the crumbling of his 1st marriage, the 2nd wife lined up and ready to replace Ivanna as too Ann Boleyn "esque" for most bourgeois sensibilities. From my perspective, yes they were nice statues but there were his to do with whatever he wants. His marriage was his business and my not be the way I would wish to conduct my business, but I saw what he was doing for the City when the Federal Government was saying “Drop Dead”, When "the proud the privileged and the Protestant” were abandoning the City and moving to the burbs, when The City was so broke and mismanaged that it could not even get a skating rink opened - how Hard could that be?
DT to the City’s rescue. His over the topness was in many ways what we all had to be to keep NYC from going the way Detroit or Newark, Rochester, etc just when you think Iy cannot happen to your home town, look at Bridgeport, or Hartford. It took the larger than life to respond to “drop dead"?! With "You talking to me! FK YOU “ Then proceed to re-build the City with FU attitude. This attitude may get lost in translation west of Philly. Today Americans are so angry I think many do “get it “ It took someone from one the most PC Places in the world, suffering under the increasing yoke of Federal overreach, State government intolerance, and Local Government Authoritarianism increasingly morphing in totalitarianism (buy a lightbulb lately) to say we can’t take this crap anymore and someone should at least try to stop it! Maybe it's too late or maybe it's our last chance. The Country may be able to survive more of the same milquetoast, government, as usual, Bushys, Rubio’s, Canters, Grahams et all. They have ruined the country or at least tried to. The same old, same old is how we got here - then they voted for the Obama Budget and No became "hell to the Muthafuckin” No"!
In Donald Trump, we seemed to have found an American who is as angry as we are, and powerful enough to not afraid to show it. Trump would now play a part in restoring the Country like he helped restore the City But this time as a leader of a movement not simply as a smart businessman who loved his home town. More and more Americans seem to be getting it, until last week when the forces of the Conservative Chattering Classes (CCC) and the Party of Baby Killers, and what Carly Fiorina called the Professional Political Class (TPPC) all seem to coalesce in the stop Trump movement
Originally I was a Carly fan. Like most men who came of age in the 1980’s I look for Ronald Regan in every Male politician and Lady Thatcher in every Female conservative politician (although my version of Lady Thatcher is pro-life) In Carly F. I thought we had a profile American Lady T who could take on and politically “Bitch slap” Hillary Clinton - lets face it what man doesn't like a good catfight. Alas, that was not to be and as I watched the debates unfold I remembered DT can make American Great again because he was instrumental in making NYC Great Again both physically in buildings and mentally with attitude - and the USA needs both. This country has lost more than its jobs, it's manufacturing base, etc it has lost its swagger We no longer think of ourselves as the Big Swinging Dicks of the world (odd with a Black President) but as a people who need "safe spaces, Instead fighting evil we object to "micro-aggressions", seek safe spaces instead of challenges. WTF does all of this have to do with Michelle Fields and Corey Lewandowski?
Let's start with her original accusation or let's go to the videotape
In her original Accusation, Ms. Fields accused CL of grabbing her so hard she "nearly fell to the ground and that he...... left her "wrists bruised". When one looks at the Videotape please show how he grabbed her so hard so as to cause bruising? Could the bruises have been caused by Secret Service agents who grabbed her wrists prior to CL's intervention? Yes yes CL did state he did not know her and he never touched her How many men when faced with an accusation from a woman first instinct is to say "Hey I nevah touched Huh" Plus even if he did know her or know of her what a better to show his contempt for her by stating he does not even know who she is? Is this a possible source of the pearl-clutching on the part of the PriWWE's (Privileged White Woman Establishment) That a man who touched her doesn't remember her name?
Battery comes on, what an insult to all of the real battered women in our society who cannot run to the soft embrace of the Chattering Classes. Off course now that Slate, Ben Shapiro, Beck, Michael Steles, Mitt Romney, Lesley Grahams, National Review, AKA Anyone but Trump crowd have come out of their Hillary's may - not - be - so - bad - closets, and try to either resuscitate Jeb or replace democracy or Replay the great white hope Romney perhaps even the Abs for President Ryan (getting him the job of a speaker for life was not enough) all who could not win their own home States are expected to bring it home for GOP. If you really think they ARE GOING TO SUPPORT CRUZ? "I gotta bridge to sell ya"
but I digress
The DT campaign released the videotape why would have done that if it does not prove the veracity of the CL point of view? With the Tap, we can all see what Happened. And what did Happen, I saw a reporter hell-bent on getting her story completely ignoring the security bubble which surrounds a presidential candidate who had had numerous public death treats coming, a man whose physical person the SS has had to be protected from agent provocateurs, one who rushed a podium Yet his fellow Republicans who can't stop calling in to question DT loyalty use this opportunity to attack him for WHTA loyalty to his employee who looks as though he was at the most being vigorous in protecting the physical safety of his Candidate! BTW did it look as though she almost fell?
The reaction of the entire political establishment of this country - which I expected to be dismissive of the event as a non event was to explode indignation "How dare he, this is the end of Trump, He needs to disavow, This is assault,"I expected that from the Lame Street Press, The White House, Hillary Clinton's campaign - with their "strong pro-woman positions, (as long as they are not pre-born) even the "fair and Balanced channel seems neither! It was as if DT had " Knocked the woman to the ground, boiled, stuffed and eaten her children" But the fact that fellow Republicans if out of nothing but self-interest should have used this as a unity building opportunity but instead they will try to leverage this as an attempt StOP Trump, like they can.
But what did we get? The turning of a non-event into yet another battle in the so-called war on women with DT who employees women in very senior positions and pays them the same as men (Obama's White House call your service) The shadiness of Cruz and Kasich I understand politics is a blood sport but DAYUM. This was Real Housewives degree of shade Atlanta style (especially Cruz). Kasich at least admitted he did not know exactly what happened but then preceded to serve up tea without any sugar. They would not even give Corey Lewandowski (CL) the benefit of the doubt, they threw out the constitutional presumption of innocence and had Corey Lewandowski fired, disgraced, and convicted without so much of an if, alleged, or hypothetical! Was it the ambition of their part I suspect it was more than ambition CL has been an excellent campaign manager for DT his loss would affect the campaign. More than ambition it was contempt.
Contempt for DT for daring to enter the race and beat them at their own game. Contempt for the American people voting for DT To think an economy of underemployment, low wages, overregulation, bad trade deals, corruption, incompetence, executive overreach, and managed decline are not resisted or opposed but explained away leveraged for talking points and in the end passed, funded, and in some cases embraced by what is supposed to be the opposition. These guys sound more the opposing party than confreres, enemies than rivals, schoolgirls rather than statesmen. When Cruz's campaign was accused of shenanigans in Iowa he blamed the Media yet when DT's man is accused of wrongdoing, produces the Media! Yet gets called out for "doubling down". DT did what any man should do, what our fathers taught us to when your friend is accused of something and says he did not do it believe him support him, have his back until proven otherwise. Abandoning your friends when they need you if DT would be willing to cut CL lose on the accusation of a serial accuser such as Michelle Fields, with inconclusive evidence, charged by a sheriffs department that is known to be politically biased in one of the most politically corrupt States in the Union. Do I want a President who abandons his friends then tries to positively spin said abandonment? I thought about a President who allows our marines to be captured and humiliated when they out gun their adversary then spins the humiliation into a foreign policy victory, thanking the kidnappers!
From the way, Cruz and Kasich reacted I thought Carl Lewandowski might have been Black - I knew Michelle Fields could only be White.
Yeah, I thought Carl Lewandowski might be Black or a member of the Duke Lacrosse team, maybe a frat member at UV I was so sure without ever seeing a picture of her that Michelle Fields had to be white. Why do I say that the vehemence with which most the women of the press reacted to her story? How many of them reached for the no man should physically touch any woman troupe, how despite the evidence of their own eyes that this woman was not assaulted. Carl dared state he doesn't remember her, or that he did not do it - now states that he does not remember the incident The professionally outrages are willing dismiss not only the evidence of their eyes but the memory of their own experience. If any of them were ever in the "press middle to upper-middle-class White Woman is the receipt from wombs (if their mothers let them live) to the tomb of the greatest amount of privilege this society can bestow. Middle to Upper-middle-class white women are the greatest beneficiary of Affirmative Action, Title 9 (which has hallowed out whole sections of college sports in a quest for parity between the sports people watch and the sports we don't. How many male sports reporters are allowed into female locker rooms? You insist on being treated like men but when you are, you cry out for preferment. A seat at the table, perpetuate a myth of unequal pay, accuse us of being the gender of rapist and misogynist, but when we actually treat you like we treat each other than its time to scream manhandled. If Michelle's name was Micheal, would he be this week's cause celebre? Would this even be news? I listened to various chat shows several of which are either all or mostly women as hosts and guests and with rare exception (usually from only the woman of color on the panel) would come to the thought the scrum is a really tough place to be, a physical place, we can expect some degree of jostling and grabbing as we compete to question the candidate. Seriously if Miss Thang is such a delicate flower what is she doing in the rough and tumble world of political reporting maybe she should be a fashion reporter? Perhaps she should work for Rolling Stone, or just carry a mattress with her to every venue as a trigger warning. BTW notice how all of this talk has ended after the Wisconsin Primary, Maybe the Establishment should try to get Michelle to wear higher heels and try to grab DT' s wrist before the NY Primary.
