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Sunday, May 8, 2016

GOP Nominates Crypto-Fascist, "Even-Handed" Pundits Refuse To Recognize GOP's Collusion


Just How Crazy Is The GOP? Trump Accuses Ted Cruz' Dad Of Helping To Kill JFK

On A Recent Edition Of "Morning Joe," Donald Trump Said: "My Primary Consultant Is Myself"

Megyn Kelly Calls Trump Out For Multiple Flip Flops: "Is This Telling It Like Is?"

Despite Being A Chameleon-Fraud, Trump Gets A Free Pass. Hillary, On The Other Hand... 

Trump Is Famous For "Telling The Truth" But Legally Binds Wives/Employees To Total Secrecy

Few Stand In Trump's Way As He Piles Up The Four Pinocchio Whoppers

Donald Trump: Lying, Secrecy And The Widespread Presumption That He "Tells It Like It Is"
Alan: Those Americans who think Donald "tells it like is" are the very people most inclined to lie to themselves, people who have lied to themselves so long and so completely that they have lost the ability to resonate with Truth.
"There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can say: "It's a pound." Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating." Denis de Rougemont
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/donald-trump-lying-secrecy-and.html

Fact Checking Trump's Crime Statistic Tweet
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/fact-checking-donald-trumps-crime.html

Trump "University" Lawsuit Goes To Trial. Likely Outcome For Trump Bleak To Apocalyptic
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-felon-on-left-is-donald-trump.html

Compendium Of Pax Posts About Donald Trump

Clinton Is "More Conservative Choice": Longtime Republican Crosses Party Lines (NPR)

Trump Is The Nominee From Hell: The Early Numbers Are In And They Spell Disaster For The GOP

This Fall, Democratic Candidates Will Link GOP Opponents To Trump's Rife Psychopathies

"Here's How It's Done" Video
"Like shooting fish in a barrel!"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/this-fall-democratic-candidates-will.html


Trump Is Famous For Telling The Truth But Legally Binds His Wives/Employees To Total Secrecy

Karl Rove Says Trump's Behavior On Day Of Indiana Primary Was Nuts

"Trump University: Yes, It Was A Massive Scam," National Review

Donald Trump's Best Imitation

Trump's Bombast And The Enduring Appeal Of Dictators Who "Hire, Fire And Make Good Deals"

If Cruz Supports Trump, He Will Prove Himself The Biggest Hypocrite In The GOP Field

Donald Trump's Sexism Helped Hillary Clinton Raise $2.4 Million In 3 Days

RNC Delegate Who Criticized Trump Has Had Her Credential Withdrawn

Seriously, While Debating The Future Of The Nation, Trump Defended The Size Of His Penis

Just How Crazy Is The GOP? Trump Accuses Ted Cruz' Dad Of Helping To Kill JFK

"I Sat Next To Donald Trump At The Infamous 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner"

Melania Trump Not Pleased With In-Depth GQ Magazine Investigation Into Her Family's Past

Trump Manifestly Delusional: "If Hillary Were A Man, I Don't Think She'd Get 5 % Of The Vote"

"Power Tends To Corrupt": Acton, Mussolini, Berlusconi, Trump And "La Ley De Herodes"

Trump Reassures Supporters That He Still Opposes Women Who Were Born Women

Donald Trump Screwed Himself: A "Master Negotiator" Would Know The Rules And Stop Whining

David Brooks: "Trump Is Spewing Insanity On A Daily Basis"

FIRST LADY, MELANIA TRUMP WHAT, EXACTLY, ARE CONSERVATIVES CONSERVING? | made w/ Imgflip meme maker

Trump's Immigrant Slovenian Wife (And Nude GQ Model) Gives First Interview

Trump Rally Violence And Its Normalization Are Unprecedented

"Trump, Rage, Violence And The Totemic Demotion Of White Americans"


NPR: Trump Won't Condemn KKK; Says He "Knows Nothing About White Supremacists"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/02/npr-trump-wont-condemn-kkk-says-he.html

Donald Trump: The Paranoid Style In American Politics 
And The Ongoing Festival Of Hatred

Trump: For The Fearful, Random Decisiveness Is More Attractive Than Wisdom, Prudence, Truth

Trump, Rage, Violence And The Totemic Demotion Of White Americans
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/03/trump-rage-violence-and-totemic.html

"You Have To Treat Women Like Shit," Donald Trump
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/03/you-have-to-treat-women-like-shit.html

Spot-On Truth-Teller Donald Trump: The Most Important Thing Said At The Republican Debate

Moderate Republican For Trump: Only Trump Can Restore GOP Sanity... By A Landslide Loss

"Lies, Lies, Lies"
"On The Media" Explores Donald Trump's Appeal And His Historical Background

Evangelicals LOVE Donald Trump: 
We Are Known By The Company We Keep

Donald Trump: "Everything I'm About To Tell You Is A Lie." Supporters Cheer

Trump Spokesperson With Bullet Necklace Turns Out To Be Unemployment Cheat And Shoplifter

Must-See Video Of New Hampshire State Representative And Trump Supporter, Susan DeLemus

The Self-Chosen Face Of The Republican Party: Not Any Old Asshole... An Asshole's Asshole

Trumpward Christian Soldiers

Best Pax Posts On Donald Trump

Trump's "Piece Of Ass" Quote

"Are Republicans Insane?" Best Pax Posts

"The Real Reason Donald Trump Will Win the Republican Nomination," Ali A. Rizvi

Best Donald Trump Pax Posts, Second Installment
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/best-pax-posts-on-donald-trump-second.html

The 199 Most Donald Trump Things Donald Trump Has Said

"The History Of Donald Trump's Insults To Women," Fortune Magazine

"There Are Two Ways Of Lying..." Denis De Rougemont And Donald Trump

Reprise: "Mediocre Philosophy Sells: It Makes The Half Literate... Feel Smart

Compendium Of Pax Posts About Donald Trump

Melania Trump, First Lady?
Or, First Centerfold?

Trump's Immigrant Slovenian Wife (And Nude GQ Model) Gives First Interview


First Lady, Melania Trump, Is A Slovenian Immigrant

Trump Says Illegals Flooding Across Border...
... But In Which Direction? 

Mark Twain, Adolf Hitler And The Dunning-Kruger Effect

New York Times Interviews David Dunning, Co-Author Of The Dunning-Kruger Effect 

McArthur Wheeler: Patron Saint Of American "Conservatism"

Stupidity For Dummies: The Study Of Ignorance Helps Understand How Intelligence Works


Alan: Despite Trump's encouragement of the worst angels of our nature, 
I want him to win the Republican nomination 
to reveal the terrified face of American conservatism.
Remember: If you're terrified, the terrorists won.
And you made their victory possible.

"____ you America!"

If the above image is hyperbolic - and I doubt it is -
it is nevertheless consistent with Trump's epistemology and rhetoric.



SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2016 

Elites are completely hopeless: They still can’t acknowledge the real reason Donald Trump happened

Even with the GOP set to nominate a crypto-fascist, pundits refuse to recognize the party's reactionary nature

, MEDIA MATTERS
This article originally appeared on Media Matters.
The media’s mea culpa season is in full bloom this spring as analysts and commentators step forward to concede that with Donald Trump effectively seizing the Republican nomination, they were often very wrong in predicting his political demise.
Convinced that he was an outlier fluke who couldn’t sustain his popularity — let alone nail down a major party nomination — the Beltway media consistently missedthe Trump surge for months, and often did so in bold fashion:
*”Why no one should take Donald Trump seriously” (Washington Post)
*“Donald Trump’s surge in the polls has followed the classic pattern of a media-driven surge. Now it will most likely follow the classic pattern of a party-backed decline.” (New York Times)
*“No, he won’t win the Republican nomination for president.” (ABC News)
Credit now goes to journalists who have stepped forward to admit their mistakes and offer news consumers some guidance as to why commentators likely misread the Trump campaign.
Some reasons offered up include, Republican elites failed to effectively coalesce around an anti-Trump candidate. The news media essentially sponsored Trump’s campaign with an unprecedented amount of free exposure. And Republican voters didn’t penalize Trump for his obvious policy flip-flops.
Note that there’s nothing inherently wrong with being incorrect about campaigns, assuming predictions are made in good faith. And this Trump misfire isn’t going to, nor should it, stop pundits and prognosticators from trying to peer into the future.
But there is a problem if the media’s elite class doesn’t understand how one of America’s two major parties functions today. It’s problematic if the GOP’s gone through an ugly transformation, which produces a Trump nominee, and the political press is too timid or too detached to accurately document that radical makeover.
And in the case of Trump that denial seems to have been widespread. For instance, much of the data pointed to a Trump win for a very long time. “Trump was a stronger candidate than anyone wanted to admit,” the Huffington Post recently noted. “He skyrocketed to the top of an incredibly crowded pack soon after announcing he was running.”
Resisting those hard facts, many journalists clung to the idea that Trump was simply too out-there to become the nominee; too extreme, reckless, and garish for a major party nominee.
And that’s still the problem today. Lots of media analysts continue to ignore a central reason for why they missed the Trump surge, and they’re still not acknowledging what’s driving his success: The truly radical nature of today’s Republican Party and its right-wing voter base.
Y’know, the conservative movement that cheered Glenn Beck when he called the president of the United States a “racist“; that supported right-wing claims that president Obama was a tyrant who needs to be impeached. (And that he wasforeign-born.) The movement that revolves around Rush Limbaugh, who claimed that if Obama weren’t black he’d be working as a tour guide in Hawaii, not sitting in the Oval Office, and who insisted Obama ran for office because he resents white America and wants to score some payback.
And it’s a Republican Party that has essentially shut down the U.S. Congress, rather than legislate with Obama. It’s a party today that refuses to hold hearings for the president’s highly qualified Supreme Court nominee.
That’s what the Republican Party has become in recent years, but the press has mostly held its tongue about the nasty makeover. And in the process, the press missed the Trump surge, which rode that radical GOP wave.
The collective, years-long turning of a blind eye indicates to me just how important it is for the Beltway press to maintain a symmetrical balance between Democrats and Republicans. It shows how the press remains married to the idea that the two parties are simply mirror images of each other, occupying different ends of the political spectrum. That for however far to the edge Republicans move, Democrats are sure to reciprocate. It’s the Both Sides Are To Blame syndrome, basically.
And there’s great comfort in that for the press. Because if you call out Republicans as radical, or note that the ugly nature at the base of the GOP could easily propel Trump to a nomination victory, that means the press has to break from the safety of the Both Sides narrative. That then opens the press up to “liberal media bias” denunciations from the right.
So which is worse, being taunted with claims of liberal bias, or misreading a presidential campaign season for ten months?
Eric Boehlert, a former senior writer for Salon, is the author of "Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush."
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