“My message to you is lighten up on the political crap once in a while. You have the best sense of humor of anyone I have ever met. Post something that showcases that once in a while! Love you man!”
The wise words from a great friend of mine, Gordon Rinschler, a brilliant retired Chrysler engineer, forced out of the company after a tragic piston “incident” that left him with half a brain, but immediately rendered him qualified to run for the Birmingham (Michigan) City Council for two consecutive terms. (I made up the brain thing.)
So, be funny. What I find funny is The Donald, Donald Trump. He makes the heads of the media (even Fox News), Democrats and establishment Republicans explode. He reminds me of a story my younger brother Greg told me a few years ago.
Greg and his son Jackson were at the world’s greatest fair, the Iowa State Fair, famous for heart-exploding pork chops on a stick and fried sticks of butter. There was a dunk tank with a clown. This was not your run-of-the-mill clown. He was an A-hole, more obnoxious than anyone on The View. (Yes, I know, that is hard to imagine.) Anyway, this clown starts dissing the the men in the audience in order to “inspire” them to pay the five bucks to get a chance to dunk his clownishness. He would say things like “Hey buddy, is the fat chick next to you your wife or your sister, or both?” Oh, it got worse.
The crowd became incensed and dude after dude opened their wallet in order to pay back the clown and send him waterward. It was Iowa and it was “The Field of Screams.” At one point, as my brother and my nephew watched in amazement, one mouth breather in a wife-beater got into a heated, very personal debate with the clown. F-bombs and MF-bombs were flying from all quarters. My brother said out loud, “That idiot is arguing with a CLOWN.”
Well, it seems all the “smart” people think Donald Trump is a clown. Mainstream media makes jokes about his hair. And, it is acceptable. Can you imagine the outrage if anyone in the media made comment about Hillary’s big butt (and I do not lie). Egad! It would be just another example of the “war on women.” But Trump, well, he’s hair game. Ahem.
What is driving the anti-Trump crowd batty is that he is telling it like it is, in plain English we all use every day.
And The Donald is not alone. Liberal hack Chris Matthews almost peed himself the other day when interviewing Carly Fiorina when she wouldn’t step back from calling Hillary Clinton a liar. Matthews seemed appalled that Fiorina would use such non-PC in describing a political opponent.
What Matthews can’t seem to get is that to a majority of Americans, the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Hillary is “liar.” I would call her a “big, fat liar” but then I would be accused of calling her “fat” two times in one blog. Oh snap, three times.
Back to The Donald. I have told my friends who follow politics on at least five occasions that Trump was dead. Surely his dissing of the Mexicans would kill him. Calling John McCain a “loser?” Dead meat. Implying Megan Kelly was “getting a visit from her Aunt Flow?” Outta here! Nope, nope and nope.
It tells me more and more Americans are sick and tired of political correctness and the bulls—t it creates. I find it refreshing, and yes, funny.
That good enough for you Gordon Rinschler?
Keep it going Donald. Still think you are going to step in it, but then, I have been so wrong so many times in this campaign.
P.S. On the same flight out of Des Moines yesterday with Democratic presidential candidate and self-described Socialist Bernie Sanders. He stood in line with me to retrieve his luggage from the jet way. I went up to him and said, “Are you Bernie Sanders?” He said “yes.” I told him, “I am a Republican, I disagree with almost everything you say. But, I really admire your courage.” He said “thank you” and we shook hands. By the way, the Senator DOES know how to comb HIS hair, at least when he is traveling.
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