Silly season is again arriving early heralded by a Republican parade of very serious, self-important, self-obsessed, publicly very pious and righteous, nearly all white men (seriously, folks, Carly Fiorina has zero chance). Aided and abetted by truckloads of billionaire money they're out there in front of every group of possible supporters (or donors) they can find boasting about how conservative they are, blowing the dog whistle every time they can, beating up on the poor and disenfranchised at every opportunity, creating a plethora of imaginary boogeymen that only they can defeat (so hurry and donate!), and vacuuming up every nickel they can get suckers to cough up on their behalf.
Some of them even believe part of the crap they're spewing; others are just in it for the money and attention. Some of them just want a Fox or RW radio gig, but all of them want to gather a great big email list to solicit money not just for their campaigns, but to sell later to an endless series of fearmongers or snake oil hucksters to mine for suckers.
They also have something else in common: very thin skins.
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As tough, bold and strong as they claim they are, they practically dissolve in tears with every criticism, whether legitimate or not. Prepare yourself for multiple episodes of phony outrage and exaggerated grievance which they think are such great performances that they should not only be showered by donations, but be nominated for Oscars, as well.
If those performances were better, I might want to pretend to hand them a tiny tissue so they could dry their phony crocodile tears, but their acting is so bad that you just have to laugh and ... call them a waaaahmbulance for their whining emergency. I only hope that the units that arrive on the scene are equipped with beach towel sized tissues and jumbo sized playpens so the adult sized cry babies can be contained while they have their tearful tantrums.
Certainly they need to be removed from the public when their claims that they're "strong and powerful" men are exposed as a serious fraud on the public. What I can't understand, however, is why no one in the media ever asks them how they could possibly handle a genuine American enemy when they crumble into piles of apology-demanding slobbering goo every time someone says an unkind word about them. I'd LOVE to hear the answer or see them fall apart trying to explain that.
But, no. They never get asked. And the media seems to fawn over anyone whimpering and wailing about something that someone said about them as though it's a major news story. It isn't. It's bad acting rewarded by stupid media not doing their damned jobs. Like naughty children, a politician rewarded for sniveling, not only does it again (and more vigorously), but others are also encouraged to follow suit.
So, prepare for more faux-news stories about apologies that are being demanded, whining outrage at something that somebody, somewhere said, and more bad acting performances.
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