tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post6827894297039768172..comments2024-03-28T22:15:17.067-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Election day, 2016Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-50246357628223338112016-11-08T17:11:34.511-06:002016-11-08T17:11:34.511-06:00I imagine a Trump presidency would resemble Empero...I imagine a Trump presidency would resemble Emperor Nero's reign of Rome. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04541828632284556589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-76894576510068919862016-11-08T16:41:54.633-06:002016-11-08T16:41:54.633-06:00Trump isn't Hitler, an evil ideolog. Perhaps h...Trump isn't Hitler, an evil ideolog. Perhaps he would like to be Mussolini -- he certainly has some of his personality traits -- who aspired to make Italy great again, although his model seemed to have been the early Roman Empire. Hitler started out admiring Mussolini for his ability to get things done, but seems to have ended up viewing him with contempt.<br /><br />I wouldn't call Il duce just a Fascist bufoon. He was a narcisstic bully who destroyed his country. But if he hadn't chosen the wrong side we probably would have been able to live with him. A faint local connection: Italo Balbo, one of the original Fascists, whose name decorates a Chicago street, told him he should have gone in with England and France, saying he will end up shining the German's boots.<br /><br />Tom Evans<br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-78090520664769545442016-11-08T15:45:17.040-06:002016-11-08T15:45:17.040-06:00God, Neil! I agree with all you have written 1000%...God, Neil! I agree with all you have written 1000%. How can anyone vote for the bitter joke that is Donald Trump?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13095649793711801439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-16989522602713286732016-11-08T13:08:39.004-06:002016-11-08T13:08:39.004-06:00As far as I can see, can't find any Trump or C...As far as I can see, can't find any Trump or Clinton sign by that polling place photo. Do the campaign people really think folks will vote for someone because they saw a sign with that name? Privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757585399827295128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-57086376965483713012016-11-08T08:37:31.965-06:002016-11-08T08:37:31.965-06:00I offer a small amount of comic relief, with timel...I offer a small amount of comic relief, with timely advice (not, I assume, that any of Neil's readers require the extra nudge). Warning: there is some profanity. <br /><br />http://www.avclub.com/article/rachel-bloom-elizabeth-banks-adam-scott-and-more-s-245410Coeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06130250489695215525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-10738248566677786012016-11-08T08:23:18.929-06:002016-11-08T08:23:18.929-06:00To me Trump resembles Joe McCarthy far more than h...To me Trump resembles Joe McCarthy far more than he resembles Hitler or Mussolini. Both of the latter were full of, in Yeats's phrase, passionate intensity; Trump, like McCarthy, is unfocused to the point of being scatterbrained, utterly uninterested in anything other than self-aggrandizement. Both were willing to slander anyone and everyone who got in their way and to say anything, no matter how reckless or irresponsible, for the slightest momentary political advantage.<br /><br />And they were both masters of media manipulation. The difference is that McCarthy, a master of print, was undone by TV, still a new medium in his day. Trump "grew his brand" (a loathsome phrase that makes me want to apply a literal brand to the buttocks of anyone who utters it seriously) on TV and has ridden that, God help us, to the brink of the Oval Office.<br /><br />Bitter ScribeUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12857840826894504436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-72993138246105991392016-11-08T08:04:06.756-06:002016-11-08T08:04:06.756-06:00I noticed the Goebels/Goering connection as well. ...I noticed the Goebels/Goering connection as well. The idea that a man who has shown, with his own words and actions, to be a malignant narcissist, a misogynist who brags of assaulting women, who has mused about dismantling NATO, who praises a Russian dictator, is somehow supported by tens of millions of American citizens - well, it's too much to bear.<br /><br />And, as you point out, he has never given us even an inkling of how he will perform the miracles required to achieve the few initiatives he has boasted of achieving. It is as if otherwise sentient adults have been hypnotized by a five year old sociopath who revels in sh-tting in the sandbox.<br /><br />It is nightmarish to think he might win, yet even if he loses, his followers, crazed from decades of Fox News memes and right wing anger, will keep the country in turmoil for years to come. If they can turn Obama, one of the most dignified, informed, competent, down to earth people ever to hold office, into a foreign, anti-Christian, America hating demon, just imagine what they will do with Clinton.<br /><br />The horror.Dennis Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03936110563379328219noreply@blogger.com