Early evening, August, Cincinnati
Much of America loves its Mad King, whose works are regularly on display. Russians under Ivan the Terrible used to watch dogs being hurled over the Kremlin walls when the tsar’s mood was bad. Americans have grown used to late-night insults tweeted at nuclear powers from theRoyal lunacy is traditionally a secret, but in Twitter-age America it’s a shared national experience. We are all somersaulting down and out the sanity chute.
The rescue is failing. We’ve gone from Trump being skeptical of Obama’s citizenship to musing about “very fine” neo-Nazis to a Twitter version of “Go back to Africa.” In Cincinnati, even his most hardcore supporters talk about wanting him to shut up. “I wish,” says one fan, “he would edit himself a little bit.”
Now they’re writing their own script. They can’t arrange for Jake Tapper to be fed to a shark, so they’ll settle for rolling Donald Trump into Washington. It’s hard to see right now, it being the end of our society and all, but the situation is not without humor, in a “What does this button marked ‘Detonate’ do?” sort of way. Can America shoot itself in the head a second time? It sounds, appropriately enough, like the premise of a Trump TV show.
Trump takes his sweet time to get to the podium. He gives photogs every pose: the clap, the wave, the arms akimbo, the blown kiss. It’s “I’m Too Sexy” brought to politics. A lot of candidates scan crowds like they’re looking for the sniper, but Trump acts like he’s ready for a mass frottage session.what he does.”
“The Democrats spent more time attacking Barack Obama than they did attacking me, practically,” he says, to cheers. “And this morning that’s all the fake news was talking about.”Nobody draws bigger catcalls than the “fake” news media. Trump knows this and pauses to let the bile rise. He expresses pleasure at being back in “the American heart land,” which he pronounces as if he’s just learned the term.
Press accounts will call this a lie, and of course it is, and even the crowd knows it. But they cheer anyway.
Trump will win, shot themselves in the foot just as much as CNN with the Russia stuff, it turned out to to be nonsense which played right into Trumps hands. USA deserves him.
Funny portrayal. Some LOL. But you miss some of the more serious reasons he has support.
The messaging required to win the Democratic nomination necessarily precludes a candidate from winning the general election within the confines of the electoral college. Sorry, but it’s true.
Good article. Dems have to own the (grievous) errors of Hilary’s campaign and to some extent her candidacy itself, and connect with marginal Trump supporters w/o selling their soul. Behaving in a condescending or judgemental fashion won’t help. Majority will still do right thing
And it really was a well written article.
Taibbi writes brilliantly, But he isn't saying anything I don't already know 'Trump is 50 years behind the worst elements of the Republican Party, which spent decades carefully stuffing race under bromides like 'states’ rights' and 'free stuff.'' I'll bet you know these guys.
Who would better? Certainly not one of the 24 Democrats/socialists who would open our borders to anyone and everyone, and give out so many freebies that they’ll bankrupt our economy.
DonaldTrump is a rock star who fills stadiums, and his Democratic rivals are just doing bad karaoke at an office party.
Why cant you focus on music ? there is plenty of media dedicated to this. dont turn to the dark side
JuddApatow Is this whole article just frantic hand waving in the direction of the last 3 years?
Trump 2020🇺🇸
People tired politicians. They are self serving, liars and people hate it. Truth is democrats haven't changed what needs changing. People tired press as its a bunch of click bait to generate money not unbaised news.
Nah, we’ll be just fine
You get like 25 likes a post maybe you should be more afraid for your jobs lol
The next Recession would be Brutal. In Venezuela it’s called SOCIALISM.
How about an article on why we shouldn’t be ad well. Even for the sake of journalism?
JuddApatow The only candidate I'm willing to vote for is Tulsi Gabard. And the media is making sure she won't come close to being nominated. So just like last time, I'll end up leaving the ballot blank.
JuddApatow I was an original fan of Taibbi's, but as this writeup proves for me, he's become tiresome with little political analysis of use. Just saying how fucked up things are, and not much can be done about it, isn't helping.
There’s no need to fear.
Irrelevant paper with irrelevant articles. Maybe, just maybe, realDonaldTrump supporters know exactly what we are doing. That is, saving the country that liberals were trying to destroy. Your welcome. LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder
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Russia didn't work...lets try racism.🙄
Hoo boy. This one activated the bots.
Cause there's hours of video of the Dems main contender groping small children and women?
Careful what you say about a Taibbi piece in Rolling Shit Magazine. He gets whiny and cries to Twitter...
Simple the Democrats are surely finding their way to losing the upcoming election. They aren’t united and are becoming more divided as time wears on and they are taking positions that only far left adherents would in their right mind get behind.
I want to vote for someone else. But I see no reasonable alternative.
Gee'z
KevinMKruse what about Germany in the 30s?
No its not😂😂😂😂😂😂ever heard of andrew jackson😂😂😂😂
You're going to reap just what you sow You're going to reap just what you sow You're going to reap just what you sow You're going to reap just what you sow
America is the first country to produce such a pathetic magazine as r.s.
...so the question for 2020 election is ...what is America made of .. & the world will know the answer
I’ve come to see Trumpsters as bottomed out losers who have accepted they can’t win in the global market world cause they either are unwilling to put in the work&sweat to get an edge or just want to cheat their way to success like T has. They’re living vicariously thru T &🖕to 🌎
Matt Taibbi is excellent at capturing America at its most ridiculous. Note, however, that he has no solution to problem. It lies with us. TrumpRecession Trump2020
Thanks for the audio version !! I was able to listen, lol and get ready for my day! I also immediately downloaded audmapp 💜
Todo un reality show
For a federal government to lie about Vietnam, desert storm, weapons of mass destruction, 911, the Iraq war again, Russia collusion, 45 is a beautiful disaster. He’s the perfect punishment for a corrupt government that should show a better example of freedom to the world.
More Fake News and Democrat propaganda from RS. I have canceled my subscription. I will no longer fund this BS.
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Are we really dumb. For the past 30 years we've begged every president we had to create jobs, to help the American people get out if poverty, for better paying jobs and now that we have it he's mad or mental for this. And yeah we're voting him in again. Why wouldn't we?
These “out of shape, suffering from gas, poorly read, anti-intellectual, treasuring things above meaning, and hiding an awful credit history” voters were a minority in 2016 and will not be enough in 2020. Phonies all fail eventually.
Really funny article, enjoyed the read. MAGA
'The average American likes meat, sports, money, porn, cars, cartoons, and shopping guns & beer, I add. Less popular: socialism, privilege-checking, and the world ending in 10 years.' GOP's winning strategy : Keep Americans poor, dumb, sick & angry at everyone but themselves.
Blame the DNC. And they’re about to do it again by rigging the primaries.. They’re fking over Gabbard, a true antiwar candidate. Give Trump credit - he didn’t start another war, and tried like hell to bring our troops home. Thanks to the DNC, I have a decision to make..
Trolling Stone!
A Mad King?
NOT TRUE
Bwahaha
Remember when Rolling Stone magazine was about the music and not spreading hate against the American President?
Where’s Jamey Lannister when you need him?
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I'd rather suck off GregorClegane than have realDonaldTrump for another term.
Oh, it’ll happen. Only hope we have is to keep the house and flip the senate and the senate blocking any Supreme Court appointment Trump makes because Ginsberg probably ain’t gonna make it another 4 years.
A handful of old white men, who possess more wealth than they could ever spend in 20 lifetimes, know that we are destroying our planet (& country). They refuse to do anything out of fear they might lose some money. Literally, a mortal sin against humanity!
Running a non-insane opponent might be the first step in forestalling that. Sadly the TheDemocrats seem to be going a different way.
Definitely not the first.
We see you media propaganda.
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