I & I Editorial BoardIf you want to know just how much leftist elites despise everyday Americans, watch how they respond to polls – including the latest I&I /TIPP Poll – showing Donald Trump still ahead of Joe Biden after being convicted of … what were the crimes Trump committed again?
Even before last week’s verdicts, corporate media types, Democrats, and the cadre of self-aggrandizing never-Trumpers were struggling to understand how Trump – the man who they all agree is an existential threat to the country – could possibly be polling better than Joe Biden.
Up until now, they’d managed to disguise their disdain for us plebeians by making excuses, such as the press is too negative about the economy, or that it takes time for people to realize how good they have it.
But if Trump continues to dominate Biden in the polls even after being found guilty on 34 counts of … something-or-other … those excuses will get tossed aside for naked contempt of their fellow countrymen.
Case in point is a recent article in The Bulwark – a site where pretend conservatives devote themselves singularly to hating Trump and everything Trumpism stands for.
Not surprisingly, The Bulwark’s minions were in a celebratory mood last week when the guilty verdicts came down. But they were giddy only because Trump “has, finally, been held accountable for his actions by the criminal justice system.”
The Bulwarkians are still in a state of despair because they fear the verdicts won’t be enough to destroy Trump’s chances in November.
And for that, they blame … all you idiot Americans!
Jonathan Last, the Bulwark’s editor, had this to say:
“It would be nice to believe,” he writes, “that a felony conviction will cause the scales to fall from the eyes of American voters. That over the next 20 weeks, the public will realize that Donald Trump is manifestly unfit for office.”
(We can’t help but notice how never-Trumpers continue to insist that Trump is unfit for an office that he’s already occupied, during which time the world was at peace, the economy boomed, and conservatives made substantial policy gains.)
“But,” Last laments, “we wake up this morning and the American people are still the same people.”
Gee, isn’t that something a conservative would celebrate? Would Last prefer that the American people had changed into Venezuelan socialists?
To Last and his kind, the problem is that “these people” are morons:
- 55 percent of them think the economy is shrinking, when we’re actually the envy of the world.
- 49 percent think the stock market is down when it’s at historic highs.
- 49 percent think unemployment is at a 50-year high, when it’s at one of the lowest sustained levels, ever.
He goes on:
These are not the views of people who live in the real world. They are the views of a decadent people who believe that they have the luxury to play make-believe with political life. (emphasis added)
Got that, you dunderheads?
What Last is really saying is that most Americans are too stupid, too ignorant, too bigoted, too easily hoodwinked, too (name your pejorative) to know what’s good for them. The implication is that they are also too dumb to be allowed to pick the next president (since, after all, democracy is at stake).
SEE ALSO: Despite Court ‘Guilty’ Verdict, Trump Gains On Biden In Court Of Voter Opinion: I&I/TIPP Poll
But it’s Last and his ilk who are the decadent fantasists. Take the examples listed above:
It’s perfectly normal for Americans to think the economy is shrinking. After all, most Americans have seen their wages eaten up by inflation, have had to get second and third jobs to make ends meet, and are defaulting on their credit cards as their savings dry up. These are not signs of a healthy economy. Why should these “same people” care if the rest of the world is even worse off than we are?
Last says that nearly half of Americans are wrong to think the stock market is down. Well, here’s a news flash – the stock market is down!
As we noted in this space when the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly topped 40,000, the Dow is lower today than it was three years ago, once you adjust for Bidenflation. And all the gains that did occur under Biden came in the first four months of his term, before his policies took effect. (See the chart below.)
What about the 49% who say unemployment is at a 50-year high? Crazy, right?
Well, if Last had bothered to look at employment data, he’d see that the current unemployment rate is a fiction, kept low by the fact that millions have given up looking for work. Account for that, and the unemployment rate today is more like 6.5%, which is, in fact, higher than it was 50 years ago.
He would also notice that most of the job growth under Biden has gone to foreign-born workers and that the number of full-time jobs has declined, while the number of people working part-time “for economic reasons” has been going up.
Add it all up, and it’s elitist snobs such as Last who are playing make-believe, not those of us out here in the real world.
Last’s final (and poorly written) word on this is that: “As encouraging as Trump’s conviction is, we’ve gotta go back to the real world in which those people are at least 45 percent of the country, and possibly more.”
It’s not entirely clear who he means by “those people,” but we presume he’s referring to enlightened America-hating bozos like himself. To which we say: God forbid that should ever happen.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
Trump said he always picks the Best People. Here are some of the Best People he picked:
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Trump had the understanding of “a fifth- or sixth-grader.”
Former Trump aide Sarah Matthews, said it’s “mind-boggling” how many members of his senior staff have denounced him.
“These are folks who saw him up close and personal and saw his leadership style.”
“The American people should listen to what these folks are saying because it should be alarming that the people that Trump hired to work for him a first term are saying that he’s unfit to serve for a second term.”
White House chief of staff John Kelly called Trump “an idiot” and said he thought the president was “unhinged.” He said Trump “has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.”
National security adviser John Bolton has declared him “unfit to be president,” and said “I believe (foreign leaders) think he is a laughing fool.”
Omarosa Manigault Newman, who was the highest-ranking African-American staffer in the West Wing, said Trump is a “racist, misogynist and bigot.”
Both Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and former chief of staff Reince Priebus called Trump an “idiot.”
Mark Esper, his Secretary of Defense, said, “I do regard him as a threat to democracy, democracy as we know it, our institutions, our political culture, all those things that make America great and have defined us as, you know, the oldest democracy on this planet.” And, “I think he’s unfit for office. … He puts himself before country. His actions are all about him and not about the country. And then, of course, I believe he has integrity and character issues as well.”
Scott Pruitt, EPA head, said, “I think he’s an empty vessel when it comes to things like the Constitution and rule of law.”
Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster said the president was an “idiot” and a “dope” with the intelligence of a “kindergartner,” and “We saw the absence of leadership, really anti-leadership, and what that can do to our country.”
Trump’s top economic adviser, Gary Cohn, said Trump is “dumb as shit,” he’s “an idiot surrounded by clowns,” and he’s “less a person than a collection of terrible traits.”
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said in November 2017 that Trump was “like an 11-year-old child.”
Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in July 2017 called Trump a “moron.”
Former Attorney General, Bill Barr said, “his verbal skills are limited”, and “He’s not very disciplined when it comes to what he says.” He said Trump “knew well he lost the election,” and that “someone who engaged in that kind of bullying about a process that is fundamental to our system and to our self-government shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office.”
Former communications directors, Anthony Scaramucci: “He is the domestic terrorist of the 21st century.”
Another former communications director, Stephanie Grisham: “I am terrified of him running in 2024.”
His first homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert: “The President undermined American democracy baselessly for months. As a result, he’s culpable for this siege, and an utter disgrace.”
His White House lawyer, Ty Cobb: “Trump relentlessly puts forth claims that are not true.”
A Trump ally that he didn’t pick, Lindsey Graham, testified that if you told Trump ‘That Martians came and stole the election, he’d probably believe you.’
Everything you wrote is true. Trump, obviously, did not pick the “best” people. Many of them proved to be incapable and unloyal. BUT, in those 4 years, no new wars, lowest unemployment in 40 yrs, lowest minority unemployment in history, lowest inflation in 40 years, energy independence, lowest energy costs in nearly 50 yrs, record high stock market, American made products grew at a record pace…then COVID hit and Trump completely mismanaged it along with the Dems completely shutting down our country. Then Biden comes into office and things just get worse and worse and worse and worse as he reverses all the successful Trump policies and hires a slew of “DEI” individuals who have proven to be even more incompetent than anyone Trump every hired. Can you honestly say you, personally, or the country is better off with Biden over Trump?
Wow. All his staff, many with decades of experience, say Trump is awful, and you assume all of them are the problem, not him.
You give Trump credit for low employment, and omit the fact that it got even lower under Biden.
You credit Trump for energy independence, and omit the fact that we are still energy independent, and producing even more under Biden.
You credit Trump for a record high stock market, and omit the fact that it is far higher under Biden, in spite of Trump’s claim that, if Biden were to be elected, we’d have a “stock market collapse the likes of which you’ve never had.”
And you give Trump credit for the low energy prices that were caused by the economic crash during his term.
You blame both sides for mismanaging the pandemic, but blame Biden for the inflation that happened during the recovery. In spite of the fact that post-pandemic inflation is world-wide problem, but, under Biden, the US has lower inflation than any other major economy in the world.
Trump thinks he knows better than the experts, including generals, scientists, and economists.
There is every reason to believe that he would have mishandled inflation as badly as he mishandled the pandemic.
Yes, our country is certainly better off under Biden.
These are statements by people I don’t know personally; I cannot attest to the motivations that led them to make these statements nor to their accuracy. I do know that no one will allow Biden a cognitive exam. I also know the audio tapes of his interview with Hur are being gaurded as Top Secret — that says something. Biden says stupid and untrue stuff multiple times per day and is almost never at work.
Biden lies constantly and his latest is the origin of this current “peace deal”. I note that practically everything is currently harnessed to his re-election: draining what remains of the strategic petroleum reserve, forgiving loans that are not his to forgive. You’d have to be brain dead not to suspect collusion in the various Trump persecutions, er I mean prosecutions. How anyone can think that making an apocalyptic Iran a regional power is any sort of good idea I do not understand. He brought the Palestinians back to center stage in the middle east peace process with predictable results.
Finally, how can an economy not perform well on the surface with nearly 1.5 to 2 trillion of stimulus each year? What is not discussed is how this results in seemingly adequate growth while pushing inflation to near 4% and keeping it there. A sustained 4% inflation rate will raise havoc with retirements in the future, but just the cumulative 19% or so since Biden entered office is making life tough for me personally. And did you notice the FDIC statement about the 500 plus billion of underperforming loans and risks to about 60 lenders? The unemployment rates U1 to U6 are roughly the same now as they were before the pandemic, but the were declining under Trump and are rising now.
I could go on…classified docs, 170 SARs, unknown obligations to foreign entities, endless Ukraine operation, bugout from Afghanistan, open southern border, and he deserves no credit for energy production as he is pushing the destruction of the electric grid and trying to get credit for oil production on private land while restricting exploration on public lands.
Who is the cult member here, GE?
“Trump thinks he knows better than the experts, including generals, scientists, and economists.”
What, you mean the two generations of imbeciles, credentialed morons, grifters, frauds, and traitors who caused the mess?
In January 2017, the one person who was utterly blameless for the state of the nation was Donald Trump.
Your succeeding comment is so full of lies and idiocy that one wonders whether you’re driven by stupidity or hatred, but then again, you’re hardly unique, and just determined — for reasons I can’t understand and no longer care about — to remain part of the problem.
If you want to see the perfect example of a microcosm of ‘never Trumpers’ in action, just head over to GoComics any day that Michael Ramirez publishes one of his political cartoons and read the comments. Their inanity is on display for all to see in all of its deranged simplicity and delusion. You have to laugh. You can’t do anything else. It’s lunacy.
These people are brainwashed morons who consider government as their “God” and the NYT as their “Bible”. They don’t realize that every economic statistic we get from the government is a lie used to mislead the public while patting themselves on the back for the “great job” they’re doing. The economy today is a complete disaster, with most GDP consisting of wasteful spending by government with money it either borrowed or conjured out of thin air, most jobs being low paying part-time jobs, and inflation hovering around 10% when you include the actual things Americans regularly spends money on, like housing, food, energy, medical care and taxes. Americans know EXACTLY how their financial health is doing under Biden, and for the average American it is not good.
The answer to why Liberals can’t understand anything is because they are crazy. Stark raving mad. Insane. Doesn’t that explain everything about a Liberal?
It could be correctly argued that the “record stock market high” that occurred in the early part of Joe Biden’s term in office was a carry-over effect of the recovery under Donald Trump.
Although there are many different indices used to measure ‘the stock market,” and I’m not going to argue which is better/best, I will say that most of them are designed to have an upward bias due to the regular re-balancing of the components. When the chosen index has only 30 components, every re-balancing renders the earlier period’s data less useful. The additions are always ones that have performed better in the recent past, while the subtractions usually have been the worst in the past year.
Punchable face, thy name is Jonathan Last.
Rex Tillerson has some nerve! He was a desk jockey at Exxon who would know how to drill an oil & gas well if his life depended on it. A paper pusher who ran the DOE into a confused department with little real experience in energy. Trump cut regulations that catapulted crude oil from Obama’s 8.8 million to 12.9 million bbl a day. He unleashed leasing for oil and gas on federal lands onshore and offshore and the U.S. became a swing producer of crude. He was responsible for adding 1 million bbls a year to our energy use giving OPEC less power on the market. Like all the buffoons listed on the roster of Never Trumpers the only success they had after their time with Trump was writing their despicable books bashing Trump. And Barr should hide his head in shame! IG Horowitz recommended criminal prosecution for Director Comey who lied to the FISA court in the Clinton fiasco to our country called Crossfire Hurricane and Barr passed. They’re all in the basket of deplorable, to quote Hillary.
This is why I read I&I. Not only for the passion but also for the facts.
It amazes me that an editor of an ostensibly prominent “anti-Trump” scalawag of a blog would not know the facts that the editor claims to be so- and I&I reveals is not so.
The 3 main charges against Trump (and for Biden’s competence) that the editor professes is that the economy is a success; that the stock market is a success (and at a new high); and that unemployment is low.
I&I explains why none of these claims is true. You would think that the editor of this anti-Trump rag would investigate and analyze each of his charges before doubling down on them. But he didn’t.
Trump did do a great job (except for handling COVID-which can be forgiven because he wasn’t trained as a microbiologist or”health expert”). And God willing, he will be elected and do just as good a job-I believe-in his 2nd term.
I can see both sides of this: but if he is elected I hope he appoints Ted Cruz as the Attorney-General, with the task of going after every one of the bureaucrats and other SOB’s-no matter how small or large-who tried to subvert this country using the DOJ. All of them should be punished and publicly pilloried!
In my opinion, this treasonous activity-practiced mainly by State Courts and State Attorney-Generals but also by bureaucrats and agency heads-all displayed the banners of what should be called the True Insurrection.