I don’t consider myself a Marxist, but for anyone to the left of the bourgeois liberal TRUMP’s success is one of the best things that could have happened in American politics.
“Celtic fire and latin vigour”? You mean Trump is going to win the presidency on the Irish and Italian vote? Could you get any more unreal?
Surely you’re not talking about latinos.
I mean the primaries. But yes, he does much better with Catholic “ethnics” and the Scotch-Irish in the South/Appalachia then with Protestant Germanics.
Possibly dance troupes?
Or fusion restaurants. Dine at Gerhard O’Molinas, where Celtic fire meets Latin vigour, only with Teutonic efficiency.
Carlos O’Kelly’s
Bernardo O’Higgins had the perfect name for a Celtic fire/Latin vigour theme pub. “It’s Friday! Time to throw off the shackles at Bernardo O’Higgins!”
Here in Missoula, we actually have an Irish-Italian fusion restaurant, called Sean Kelly’s Stone of Accord, which is fairly good. Its tagline is “Where The Gaelic Meets The Garlic” and it pulls it off pretty well.
That said, I’d love a Hispanic-Irish fusion restaurant, and Bernardo O’Higgins is indeed the perfect name for one. It could share a building with Roux Fu, the Cajun-Chinese fusion restaurant.
I have no idea if this is a local thing or not, but there’s a pub in my town called Pedro O’Hara’s.
Here as post 3251 on page 66 of this thread I thought it would be entertaining to quote the very first post in this thread from back in September 2015, seven long months ago. Note the OP has been banned in the interim, so don’t expect a reply from him.
It seems rejectionism was the flavor *du jour *even then. As was Trumpism. As **Jesus **almost said: “The angry shall always be with us”.
Even with 50+% of Republicans going for non-mainstream candidates in the autumn of 2015, Trump’s support among Republicans still can’t crack 50% and he’s just really, amazingly unpopular with general election voters.
And now he’s stumbling a bit. And the next primary, Colorado, is on the ninth, which isn’t a long time to change a narrative. Trump is a creature of his own public image, and if that begins to go south, he will fade fast.
Agreed. In more ways than one he’s a hot air bag. If he springs a leak he’ll deflate quickly with an amazingly loud sustained farting sound.
Hopefully, he’ll fly around the room backward.
I agree with this a 1000 percent. Trump’s back-peddling right now. That by itself is a problem for him in a way that it wouldn’t be for other candidates who find themselves in occasional controversies.
He’s being trounced at that game by a 2nd rater. That makes him 3rd rate at best.
Two Congressional districts have already met, (basically Denver and Denver suburb Arapahoe County) and given six delegates to Cruz. The remainder of the districts meet tomorrow and Friday, also assigning three delegates each, and then on the ninth the state convention will assign the remaining 13 pledged delegates. There are three unpledged delegates.
My people call that “the republican primary.”
Emmanuel Llewellyn’s: if you can’t say it, you’re not getting in.
That’s because our late emigre friend Terr’s political analysis was garbage by essentially comparing apples and oranges by focusing on the sole commonality of never having held political office. Their political ideologies, on the other hands, were quite different: TRUMP of course is a nationalist populist while Carson was wannabe right-wing Jimmy Carter seeking to appeal particularly to Minnesota Nice evangelical pietists in the Farm Belt and Upper Midwest as well as the Mormons and Fiorina was your typical Establishment Republican absolutely indistinguishable from Mitt Romney except she had the added asset of a vagina and seemed ultra-eager (no doubt to prove herself one of the boys!) to not only send American boys and girls to die in a glorious struggle for the Vaterland against the Russians in Syria so that 7th Century Islamist reactionaries can mutilate their daughters’ genitals in peace but perhaps sacrifice a few American metropolitan areas to nuclear hellfire to satisfy the masturbatory fantasies of American weltmacht for the wannabe Kaiser Wilhelms at the Weekly Standard. Considering that literally every man’s hand is against him in the GOP, the fact that TRUMP maintains a strong lead against Ted Cruz and John Kasich and has won in every section of the country is a powerful testament to the strength of his ideology among the American people.
If the media actually did its job and relentlessly covered Cruz’s stances as they did the Donald’s (who let’s face it is hated by our corporatist lamestream media not because of his nativist or insensitive statements but because he doesn’t play nice with them and is actively threatening the Bipartisan Consensus and respectability politics so carefully built up in the past generation where being a Republican who wants to actively gut Medicare and Social Security is fine as long as you say it in a nice tone :)), he’d be lucky to half TRUMP’s positive rating.
Translation: He suffered an absolutely expected defeat in a state utterly unfavourable to him demographically and culturally thus giving an excuse for supposed “experts” with Ivy League degrees and six-figure salaries to declare his imminent demise just they did when he first announced his candidacy, when he called Fiorina ugly, when he lost Iowa, when he courageously denounced the Iraq War on national television etc. And you know what? They were wrong every single time. Every. Single. Fucking. Time. These supposed experts spun their fantasy narratives for their delusional Fuhrers while supposed “NEETs masturbating to anime” on 4chan correctly predicted his triumphs by paying attention to the polls. The major states that are left-New York, Pennsylvania, California, Indiana-have been ground zero of the class warfare that spawned the TRUMP campaign. And yes, TRUMP isn’t big just because he’s flashy or rich or else Steven Forbes would have been President.