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That’s one of the first things you learn in media training, not to. You remember Bill Clinton with his arm outstretched, thumb tucked into his fist – they called him “Slick Willie.”
One thing’s for sure, Beto O’Rourke is not slick.
We need leaders. And there’s a vacuum in the Democratic Party. And give the Republicans credit, anybody who rises above they denigrate, they shoot slings and arrows until that person is perceived as a pariah.
Exhibit #1, Elizabeth Warren.
Somehow, this law professor is against the people, against the country. Do you ever read what she says? She’s the only person in Congress with convictions on the left who seems to put them forth every day. The rest of the elected are worried about their sponsors, their donors, they’re playing a game but our country is not a game.
As for John Hickenlooper, the supposed next President, who is he and what did he do?
And Cory Booker is forthright and then wishy-washy.
And Warren is old.
And the Republicans are so good at the game, they’ve got Democrats themselves hating on Nancy Pelosi. The Democrats are the gang that can’t shoot straight, it’s like fielding a team without a coach, except when it’s the Democratic National Committee, which seems more concerned with protecting its insiders than its members.
And then along comes Beto O’Rourke.
It’s kind of like a rock star.
At first no one’s paying attention. Then you start hearing a few words.
He’s got a unique name, not given at birth. You laugh and wonder where it comes from. And it used to be rock stars were outsiders, with rough edges, outlaws, true to themselves.
And that’s who Beto O’Rourke is. That’s why he appeals.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) questions Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf (not pictured) during his testimony before a Senate Banking Committee hearing on the firm’s sales practices on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 20, 2016. REUTERS/Gary Cameron
Want to make it in the music game? Be yourself. Be honest. Speak to the audience not the gatekeepers. Don’t try to win over everybody, just those who count.
Beto O’Rourke is running in Texas.
He’s visited all the counties in Texas. He’s not like a polished musician running to convince fans of genres who don’t like their music to listen. That’s the MTV paradigm, broad and for everyone.
Now we’re in the era of niches. There is no center, no outlet that reaches everybody. There’s only one superstar, and that’s Donald Trump. We all have an opinion, we all watch his antics, and the rest of what goes on is a sideshow.
And music has no impact.
The only people protesting are those without traction. And one of our biggest stars, an African-American, supports Agent Orange. This flummoxes us. He’s not a country musician into guns, he’s a member of the oppressed. Then again Kanye keeps telling us how we’re holding him back.
That’s the last thing we want to hear, the challenges of a millionaire. Then again, the brain dead fans continue to pay fealty at the altar, and the press plays along with the charade.
Forget the biased Fox News.
Even forget the left-leaning MSNBC.
Let’s talk about the newspapers, which still run this country – most especially the New York Times.
Even though it’s been falling on its sword ever since missing the election, the newspaper is still out of touch. And I single out the Times because it sets the agenda for the nation.
The Wall Street Journal has become an also-ran. It broke the Theranos story, but little else. The Times covers business better than the Journal. And the Washington Post is known for politics, and has only had a resurgence since Jeff Bezos’ acquisition.
But what is wrong about the Times is not fake news, but the lack of insight into the culture, what is really happening.
The Times is a club, that is so insular it cannot take the temperature of what is truly going on in this country. It missed the racism; it missed not only the rise of Trump, but Bernie Sanders.
Something is definitely happening with Beto O’Rourke, and we keep hearing about his flaws. How about Ted Cruz’s flaws? That’s right, the Republicans attack first, you’re so busy defending yourself you can’t get your message across. And then, and then, we come to Beto O’Rourke.
You know this guy. You went to high school with this guy. He was in the top classes. He was not a complete nerd, but he was not cool in any way. You could drink a beer with him, but he did not date the cheerleader – he was focused on academics and then forgotten.
Now today the smart people are grinds.
They’re so busy getting ahead that they only give back when it looks good on their college applications. But Beto O’Rourke is just a bit older, but I’m becoming convinced, this is what the future of the Democratic Party looks like. This is the future of our country.
As Beto says, we need not run on fear but COURAGE!
This is not Obama and hope.
Hope didn’t get us far. Kinda like thoughts and prayers. Do you have the courage to take action, to make the hard decisions? It’s easier to lay back and criticize, to do nothing. And that’s what the Republican-controlled Congress does, nothing. Other than give back to rich donors, most especially corporations.
The public is angry about this, but we’ve got no choice!
The Republicans scare you with social issues, tell you illegal immigrants are gonna kill you. Meanwhile, you can’t afford health care, you’re having trouble making ends meet, your priorities are more basic, but you have no one fighting your fight.
Hillary Clinton is brilliant. But too calculated and slick. I won’t say Beto O’Rourke looks like he just fell off the turnip truck, but he’s as unpolished as it comes in this genre. He’s punk in an era of corporate rock.
And he’s speaking the truth.
We know the truth. There are more Democrats than Republicans in this country. And they know what they want, they just don’t have anyone to believe in.
But now a Mr. Smith might go to Washington.
Watch the below-linked video. This is not aged Bernie Sanders shouting, but a wimpy kid with a backbone making most of the same points. And remember how far Bernie got, the inroads he made? He’d have been President if he’d started his campaign earlier.
But that was then and this is now.
This is Chance the Rapper, who not only did it on his own, but gives back. That’s why Chance can sell out stadiums, people believe in him.
And people are believing in Beto O’Rourke.
We yearn for people to believe in in a world run by corporations. Isn’t it sad that we have more fondness for our mobile handset than any leader?
Sure, the below clip is edited. Sure, Beto O’Rourke is boring at times.
But underneath it all, he’s inspiring. That there’s somebody on our team. Who may be imperfect, because we all are. But is impervious to the slings and arrows because of his message, manna from heaven, the truth.
A new day is dawning.
And not a moment too soon.
The existentially dishonest “Beto” O’Rourke, is really an Irish guy named Robert Francis O’Rourke, who hopes to garner some extra weight at the ballot box with a Mexican nickname.
Again, that is EXISTENTIALLY dishonest.
Elizabeth Warren, is NOT a fuckin Native American and her acquisition of a billet in an Ivy League college, over some other poor white person, far more qualified (Or, God forbid, some far more deserving minority.), is an in your face fuck you to the American people who probably don’t “read what she says” because she is, a liar.
Corey Booker wouldn’t stand up in the clutch and say he was “Spartacus” in a life and death situation, any more than that fuckin slime Blumenthal would volunteer for Vietnam.
Bill Clinton was brilliant, not Hillary. Brilliant at making money.
The Clinton Foundation:
Number of Employees (line 5) 486
Total revenue (line 12) $177, 804,612.00
Total grants to charity (line 13) $5,160,385.00 (this is less than 3%)
Total expenses of $91,281,145.00
Expenses include:
Salaries (line 15) $34,838,106.00
Fund raising fees (line 16a) $850,803. 00
Other expenses (line 17) $50,431,851.00 HUH??????
Travel $8,000,000.00
Meetings $12,000, 000.00
Net assets/fund balances (line 22) $332,471,34900
So it required 486 people, who were paid $34.8 million, plus $91.3 million in fees and expenses, to give away $5.1 MILLION! And they call this a CHARITY?
(It is alleged that this is one of the greatest white-collar crimes
ever committed. And just think—one of the participants was a former president and one (gasp!) wanted to be elected president of the United States. If justice was truly served they would both be in prison).
Nancy Pelosi is NOT hated by Democrats, it’s just that even Democrats have to admit, she is only remotely more aware of her surroundings than Ruth “Weekend At Bernies” Ginsberg, who, I am pretty sure, has been dead for 2 years.
Your boy, lied about “Keeping your doctor” etc etc. Don’t pretend he didn’t, it’s on film, thanks to Johnathan Gruber. Liberals like a record of everything, just look at the genius’ in the FBI, DOJ, etc who texted their plans in advance and during the actual attempts at a coup d’etat. Jesus… Our “Intelligence” agencies. WTF. Idiots.
“Left- leaning MSNBC”. (Seriously, I got fuckin nothing here …)
” But is impervious to the slings and arrows because of his message, manna from heaven, the truth.”
Great, perfect… It actually makes sense. The Chinese “Mandate From Heaven” trope comes into play. Makes sense to me. As Google, Facebook, Twitter and other radical left wing companies assist the Chinese in their efforts to suppress their electorate with bullshit, lies and violence (If necessary) we should, at least be as honest as Lefty and absorb the new “good think” nomenclature of our future dear leaders.
“A new day is dawning.” Or, as your Native American hero, Elizabeth Warren would say, “It’s a good day to die”.
Shut up idiot.
Jeez – the closer Mueller gets, the more you need to make sure you’re taking your meds…
Can’t afford them.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/19/many-obamacare-customers-will-be-paying-more-for-less.html
In 1972 the national media started shamelessly promoting a young Vietnam vet, who spoke out against the war. His name was John Kerry. In 1974 the same media voices pushed a young law professor and former Rhodes Scholar in Arkansas as a candidate for congress. His name was Bill Clinton. The latest iteration is Beto O’Rourke, a phony of the first order. His name is no more “Beto” than mine is Manuel. (By the way,23andme says I’m part Hispanic!) When are we ever going to learn about these shallow “face men” foisted upon us?
“He’s visited all the counties in Texas.” Sounds like the kind of endorsement the left-wing media did with Hillary Clinton — who was a very successful SOS because she logged a shit-load of airplane miles.
I have no doubt uninformed hispanics will vote for him purely because they think he is hispanic because of his name.
America does not need another unhinged liberal nut in the US Senate — I hope Cruz wins.
Maybe we should have FBI background checks for anyone running for Congress … does leaving the scene of an accident they caused a reason why the person should not be nominated. Is this the kind of person that should be a US Senator.
If the FBI actually did BIs on Congressional candidates very few of either stripe would qualify; by that point most of them are already iretrievable corrupt.
Same with presidential hopefuls, doncha know.
By the way, The Democrat Party HATES white men. It is what it is.
Robert Francis O’Rourke didn’t change his name to run for this office because he suddenly “identified” as Mexican, he changed it, because he, as a white male, in the Democrat Party, can read the tea leaves.
Lefty, Stomper and Harley, get a short term pass, because they are Jewish. That pass will expire, trust me. Identity politics played out to it’s logical conclusion, will, in a decade or so, exclude them also. Democrats are replacing the working white middle class with immigrants and appeals to minorities based on envy, division and tribal priorities that supersede our previous chauvinistic American concerns.
Democrats divide and conquer.
Bet the farm, take it to the bank, there will never, NEVER be another white, Democrat president again. There is NO future for white men (And, soon – white women.) in the Democrat Party. That’s right, you heard me, White Women. Skin color is status in the Democrat Party, above all and the hierarchy is well defined.
#1 Black Women (Kamala Harris is your candidate.)
#2 Black Men
#3 Various and sundry other minorities, with women coming in first.
#4 White Women
#5 Harley
Keep in mind, in the “Global Economy” that is foisted upon us, by the elite Tech companies (Who are, in no way American) and both of the “Gold Coasts” in the US, that you white boys, make up .08% of the world’s population. You are, ARE the new minority.
Keep pretending it is all going to be ok. It’s the definition, the absolute definition of “WILLFUL IMPERCIPIENCE”.
This nation is changing at light speed at this point, while guys like Lefty bullshit you about guys like Beta Male O’Rourke.
#keepharleydead
#whosaysharleyisdead?
By the way, The Democrat Party HATES white men.
Seriously, you’re a loon.
The only white men the Democratic party hates are elitist, self-entitled sexual abusers like Kavanaugh and the president*.
Really? Google “Michael Fischler” or “Ian Buruma”, just to name a couple…
Just eviscerating commentary Nick. Your high water mark.
So, genius, what kind of odds and what kind of money you wanna bet on a white guy being winning the Democrat nomination for President?
The hierarchy I mentioned, is dead the fuck on the money and I got money that says so.
A sexual abuser would be a guy, like Kieth Ellison. There are witnesses, documentation and it happened recently, not 36 years ago. You’re probably too close to see it, hanging off of his nut sack, reading “Rules For Radicals”.
Loons have amazing eyesight and can see well underwater. They can stay submerged for quite a while. Mary Jo Kopechne sure could have used those skills.
5 gets you 8 the Dems nominate someone who’s not a sexual predator with the IQ of a bright elementary student.
If true, Ellison should resign.</
Everyone has an opinion about Chappaquiddick; no one knows.
And, hey! If you enjoy being all wet, go for it.
Again-
#1 Black Women (Kamala Harris is your candidate.)
#2 Black Men
#3 Various and sundry other minorities, with women coming in first.
#4 White Women
#5 Harley
No one with the IQ of a hammer wants money on this.
No white boys allowed.
CAPTION THAT PIC # 1
a) I just felt like runnin
b) My name’s Forrest Gump… people call me Beto
c) Momma always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them
CAPTION THAT PIC #2
Now you can call me Liz, or you can call me Beth, or you can call me Senator Warren – but I’d prefer you call me Iron Eyes Cody
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/iron-eyes-cody/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eog4PGcZqhA
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5 gets you 8 the Dems nominate someone who’s not a sexual predator with the IQ of a bright elementary student.
If true, Ellison should resign.
Everyone has an opinion about Chappaquiddick; no one knows.
And, hey! If you enjoy being all wet, go for it.
How about a sexual predator who was a Rhodes Scholar? (WJ Clinton) Or one who went to Harvard and UVA law school? (Edward Moore Kennedy) That fill the bill ?