(06-23-2018 11:08 AM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(06-23-2018 10:29 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(06-23-2018 08:54 AM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(06-22-2018 07:07 PM)appst89 Wrote:  He's a perfect example of everything that is wrong with politics in the US, well and all the bat$#it crazy leftists.

I’d FIFY except I think that’s kind of obnoxious.

But if I did, it’d be:

“He’s a perfect example of everything that’s wrong with politics in D.C. and the bubble corridors of K street and the group think too many of these people exist in”.

This guy hasn’t lived in the “real” world in 50 years. His driver lives better than most Americans...

You said it best. Its that DC-NY corridor. Unfortunately, everyone on the Supreme Court has spent most of their adult life (and sometimes their whole life) in the DC-NY corridor. Desperately need some diversity there.

Yup.

It’s why I applauded, then paused and asked myself-Self? Why are you applauding something as dumb and simple as this?
The Huber appointment as special counsel to the special counsel or whatever it is. That and the (I think) FBI promotion of another guy from out west.

Neither of them part of the I-95 swamp creatures.

Incest is bad, and waaaaaaay to many of these people have six toes...

Well those 6 toed cats have more people sense. After all, they're still running that house in Key West over 50 years after their owner died.

Mensa talking about intellectuals is like men talking about what it's like to be pregnant.

(06-23-2018 12:14 PM)gdunn Wrote:  Mensa talking about intellectuals is like men talking about what it's like to be pregnant.

Will is just COMPLETELY clueless. In an article today extolling Bill Weld (the former liberal Republican governor of Massachusetts and libertarian party VP candidate), Will calls him a conservative and notes that his relatives servants arrived on the Mayflower and he was the 19th Weld to graduate from Harvard and that two of his children have gone there as well. As if that is some sort of positive thing in this environment. Then talks about Weld liking Robert Mueller.

Not sure who is more clueless-George Will or Hillary Clinton or James Comey. Its a tough call.

I've listened to and read what George Will has said in the past.

It's pretty obvious that he's a very intelligent guy. He's smart and educated.

The problem is he's basically the right wing political version of the liberal "educator".

Everything they say (both types) makes sense in the "theoretical", the class room, in books, etc. When applied to the real world that people actually live in, not so much.

And therein lies the issue. They can't quite come to grip with the fact that the unwashed masses don't "get it", aren't listening to them, and are acting counter to what their theory states. They don't take into consideration that people find it hard to accept their lecturing when they're sitting at their table trying to figure out how to pay the tax bill, or why their job disappeared. Their philosophies don't translate to real people and rather than coming down from the ivory tower to find out WHY, they find a scapegoat like Trump because what he says does resonate with those same people.

That's pretty much the textbook definition of a pompous windbag IMO.

(06-25-2018 06:53 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  I've listened to and read what George Will has said in the past.

It's pretty obvious that he's a very intelligent guy. He's smart and educated.

The problem is he's basically the right wing political version of the liberal "educator".

Everything they say (both types) makes sense in the "theoretical", the class room, in books, etc. When applied to the real world that people actually live in, not so much.

And therein lies the issue. They can't quite come to grip with the fact that the unwashed masses don't "get it", aren't listening to them, and are acting counter to what their theory states. They don't take into consideration that people find it hard to accept their lecturing when they're sitting at their table trying to figure out how to pay the tax bill, or why their job disappeared. Their philosophies don't translate to real people and rather than coming down from the ivory tower to find out WHY, they find a scapegoat like Trump because what he says does resonate with those same people.

That's pretty much the textbook definition of a pompous windbag IMO.

It would do George Will a lot of good to get out of Washington and say, go set foot on a job site and talk to blue collar Americans.

He'd be shocked at what he'd hear.

And that right there is why Trump is so successful with people. As a developer, he has been on sites for decades. He has sat in and gotten involved in coordination meetings, project planning meetings, etc...

(06-23-2018 09:17 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  The 6 conservative intellectuals left in the GOP are heading for the exits.

I assume you are referring to the those who work for the network and cable news channels as opinion givers. Those guys aren't the real intellectuals.

However, I'd say assigning the label "intellectual" to a person in politics is misleading. I think the more appropriate term would be "expert". For example, experts who focus on economics, foreign policy, military strategy/tactics, etc. Maybe I'm wrong in my thinking, but I don't think of politics as a primary subject. IMHO, it's a synthesis of economics, psychology, military strategy/tactics, history, etc.