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19 Dec 2015, 11:49 am
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19 Dec 2015, 1:54 pm
GoonSquad wrote:
Jacoby wrote:
Trump is appealing to the masses in the GOP that support those policies, "the base" that has so long voted against their interests. The elites have long detested this segment of the population and now the traditional "respected intellectuals who guide public opinion" are no longer so popular.
As a general rule, it's good to listen to smart/educated/trained people and let them take care of important stuff...
Let me tell you a story:
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So, every Sunday afternoon uncle Donald (NOT TRUMP!) would drive his three nephews to the ice cream parlor. While the nephews LOVED getting ice cream, they hated the drive to the parlor. Uncle Donald drove too slow and wasted time at the service station, pumping gas and inflating tires to EXACTLY 34psi as prescribed in his car’s owner’s manual.
One Sunday morning Huey wakes his brothers. “Hey guys, have I told you how smart and fabulous you are?”
“Why no, you haven’t,” reply Dewy and Louie.
“Well, I think you guys are unbelievably fantastic, and you both deserve to get to the ice cream parlor much faster!” Huey ejaculates.
“You know, uncle Donald is a sweet guy, no really, I love him… but he is such a loser when it comes to driving. BUT, you know what? I AM AN EXCELLENT DRIVER, and if you let me drive, we’ll get there so much faster and the ice cream will taste so much better! As a matter of fact, they’ll give us all the ice cream we want and Mexico will pay for it!”
With a puzzled look on his face Louie says, “Yeah, but how… UUHHGG!” and falls to the floor after Dewy whacks him in the nuts and yells, “THAT’S A GREAT IDEA!”
That very afternoon the boys wait for their uncle in the back of his car.
“Wow! You boys must really be hungry for ice cream,” quacks Donald, with a noticeable speech impediment.
Without a word, Huey puts a pillowcase over this uncle’s head and Dewy beats him savagely with a sock full of pennies as Louie, curled into a fetal position, weeps silently.
Uncle Donald finally stops moving as ghastly crimson flowers bloom on the white pillowcase. “My arm’s tired,” complains Dewy.
“Put him in the trunk,” says Huey as he pushes his uncle out the open door and slides into the driver’s seat. “Let’s roll.”
The boys roar out of the drive amid a cloud of blue smoke and the smell of burnt rubber. Huey cackles maniacally as he sideswipes several cars and speeds past the gas station. About a mile from the ice cream parlor, Huey runs through a traffic light and hits an old lady with a basket of kittens as the car runs out of gas and blows a tire.
Out of control, the car careens into a honey wagon that’s just serviced the porta-potties at the annual chili cook off. The boys feel a strange burning sensation as they are drenched in raw sewage. The burning sensation intensifies as the honey wagon’s fuel tanks ignite and both vehicles are engulfed. The boys writhe in agony as the flames slowly consume them and they finally die after several minutes that seem like years of hellish torment.
The End.
One Sunday morning Huey wakes his brothers. “Hey guys, have I told you how smart and fabulous you are?”
“Why no, you haven’t,” reply Dewy and Louie.
“Well, I think you guys are unbelievably fantastic, and you both deserve to get to the ice cream parlor much faster!” Huey ejaculates.
“You know, uncle Donald is a sweet guy, no really, I love him… but he is such a loser when it comes to driving. BUT, you know what? I AM AN EXCELLENT DRIVER, and if you let me drive, we’ll get there so much faster and the ice cream will taste so much better! As a matter of fact, they’ll give us all the ice cream we want and Mexico will pay for it!”
With a puzzled look on his face Louie says, “Yeah, but how… UUHHGG!” and falls to the floor after Dewy whacks him in the nuts and yells, “THAT’S A GREAT IDEA!”
That very afternoon the boys wait for their uncle in the back of his car.
“Wow! You boys must really be hungry for ice cream,” quacks Donald, with a noticeable speech impediment.
Without a word, Huey puts a pillowcase over this uncle’s head and Dewy beats him savagely with a sock full of pennies as Louie, curled into a fetal position, weeps silently.
Uncle Donald finally stops moving as ghastly crimson flowers bloom on the white pillowcase. “My arm’s tired,” complains Dewy.
“Put him in the trunk,” says Huey as he pushes his uncle out the open door and slides into the driver’s seat. “Let’s roll.”
The boys roar out of the drive amid a cloud of blue smoke and the smell of burnt rubber. Huey cackles maniacally as he sideswipes several cars and speeds past the gas station. About a mile from the ice cream parlor, Huey runs through a traffic light and hits an old lady with a basket of kittens as the car runs out of gas and blows a tire.
Out of control, the car careens into a honey wagon that’s just serviced the porta-potties at the annual chili cook off. The boys feel a strange burning sensation as they are drenched in raw sewage. The burning sensation intensifies as the honey wagon’s fuel tanks ignite and both vehicles are engulfed. The boys writhe in agony as the flames slowly consume them and they finally die after several minutes that seem like years of hellish torment.
The End.
See what I mean?
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19 Dec 2015, 4:33 pm
^^^ you can think of uncle Donald as the intellectual/technocrat/traditional politician. The nephews are the public and Huey is the demagogue.
Uncle Donald is really just doing EVERYTHING necessary to get the car (the country) safely to the ice cream parlor (prosperity). HOWEVER Huey doesn't understand this (because he's an uneducated a**hole) and thinks he knows a better way.
He convinces his brothers of this and he siezes power. And, because of Huey's total lack of understanding, education and skill, he wrecks the car (the country) and kills everyone.
The end.
To the topic directly, I can certainly understand why an Austrian economist wouldn't like intellectuals 
, but what makes you think someone who doesn't understand how government/society/economies work would make a good leader?
19 Dec 2015, 5:55 pm
GoonSquad wrote:
^^^ you can think of uncle Donald as the intellectual/technocrat/traditional politician. The nephews are the public and Huey is the demagogue.
Uncle Donald is really just doing EVERYTHING necessary to get the car (the country) safely to the ice cream parlor (prosperity). HOWEVER Huey doesn't understand this (because he's an uneducated as*hole) and thinks he knows a better way.
He convinces his brothers of this and he siezes power. And, because of Huey's total lack of understanding, education and skill, he wrecks the car (the country) and kills everyone.
The end.
To the topic directly, I can certainly understand why an Austrian economist wouldn't like intellectuals , but what makes you think someone who doesn't understand how government/society/economies work would make a good leader?
Uncle Donald is really just doing EVERYTHING necessary to get the car (the country) safely to the ice cream parlor (prosperity). HOWEVER Huey doesn't understand this (because he's an uneducated as*hole) and thinks he knows a better way.
He convinces his brothers of this and he siezes power. And, because of Huey's total lack of understanding, education and skill, he wrecks the car (the country) and kills everyone.
The end.
To the topic directly, I can certainly understand why an Austrian economist wouldn't like intellectuals
, but what makes you think someone who doesn't understand how government/society/economies work would make a good leader?You are more content with the status quo and have more respect for these so called intellectuals than I, people like Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer don't deserve the title.
You have to look at what the alternatives are, If we're heading off the cliff anyway then at least I think Trump has some upside. It's almost to much to resist being called the "chaos candidate"
, Jeb is such a loser.
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19 Dec 2015, 8:38 pm
GoonSquad wrote:
^^^ you can think of uncle Donald as the intellectual/technocrat/traditional politician. The nephews are the public and Huey is the demagogue.
Uncle Donald is really just doing EVERYTHING necessary to get the car (the country) safely to the ice cream parlor (prosperity). HOWEVER Huey doesn't understand this (because he's an uneducated as*hole) and thinks he knows a better way.
He convinces his brothers of this and he siezes power. And, because of Huey's total lack of understanding, education and skill, he wrecks the car (the country) and kills everyone.
The end.
To the topic directly, I can certainly understand why an Austrian economist wouldn't like intellectuals , but what makes you think someone who doesn't understand how government/society/economies work would make a good leader?
Uncle Donald is really just doing EVERYTHING necessary to get the car (the country) safely to the ice cream parlor (prosperity). HOWEVER Huey doesn't understand this (because he's an uneducated as*hole) and thinks he knows a better way.
He convinces his brothers of this and he siezes power. And, because of Huey's total lack of understanding, education and skill, he wrecks the car (the country) and kills everyone.
The end.
To the topic directly, I can certainly understand why an Austrian economist wouldn't like intellectuals
, but what makes you think someone who doesn't understand how government/society/economies work would make a good leader?I actually got it; and the use of Donald Duck and his nephews to illustrate the point had me laughing.
04 Oct 2016, 9:42 am
04 Oct 2016, 1:25 pm
04 Oct 2016, 3:16 pm
From the OP article:
"All demagogues are ideological nonconformists and therefore are bound to be emotional about the general and respectable rejection of what they consider to be vital truth"
Is this why Trump lies so much?
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Trump is much more shameless as a trafficker in untruth. He seems willing to say whatever he deems necessary to win support at the moment, and he tries to get people to accept his statements through the sheer vehemence of his rhetoric. When he says, falsely, that “there’s no real assimilation” among “second- and third-generation” Muslims in the United States, it clearly doesn’t matter to Trump whether he’s right; what matters is that he wants us to believe he’s right. Many of his misstatements, taken individually, may be fairly innocent or at least commonplace, but the brazenness and frequency of the falsehoods, and their evident expedience, are what set Trump apart. Moreover, his typical response to being called out is to double down on a falsehood—like denying that he backed the 2003 Iraq invasion and the 2011 Libya intervention—or to pretend he never uttered it, showing an egregious unconcern or contempt for truth that taxes even the generous standards of political discourse.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... sts-214024
