Question of the Day, August 26

Is Donald Trump the Boomer prophet?


Author: Back in PA Mike

Crotchety middle aged man with a hot younger wife dead set on saving this Country.

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At first I didn’t think so. But considering how bad Lincoln and FDR turned out to be during the previous Fourth Turnings, it is entirely possible. The mood of the country has turned dramatically. The linear thinking MSM and existing social order don’t get it.

Strong, outspoken, brash, men who make people believe they will lead them through the Crisis are who rise during Fourth Turnings. If this economic and financial downturn gets dramatically worse, the chances of Trump becoming president go up.

Stucky

In this particular case, I will agree with opinions proffered here by many …… BOOMERS SUCK ASS.

Yes, he is a prophet … the Prophet Of Baal.

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Stucky

To starfcker and his Trumpettes,

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Stephanie Shepard

There’s nothing particularly special about Donald Trump he is just the only one stepping up right now. People are rallying behind him not because they agree with him, but merely because they find him to be the most truthful.

goofyfoot
goofyfoot

How much worse could Trump be compared to President Zero and the First Grifter family?

Southern Sage
Southern Sage

Ditto on Jorge Ramos. Whatever you think of Trump, who is this anti-American foreigner to barge into a press conference in a U.S. presidential campaign and disrupt it. If I was Trump and I won the presidency that fucker would be on a bus to the border five minutes after I took the oath.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Trump is the only one among the entire Democrat/Republican that offers a chance at something different.

All the others will just bring more of the same.

Trump may or may not succeed in this, and may or may not be sincere, but at least it is a chance.

A vote for Trump is a vote for something different, a different direction, a vote for any of the others is a vote for the same thing with the rate of progression being the only thing that may differ.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Trump may or may not succeed, but I no longer doubt his sincerity. And if he can succeed in wresting the GOP nomination away from the establishment despite the entirety of the GOP and media power structure being arrayed against him (and changing the primary rules as they go to thwart him), he’ll have shown himself – with no elective experience – to be among the best tactical political strategists of the modern era – just the kind of guy we need working FOR us. I’m saying this as a guy who caucused for George HW Bush in 1980 at age 17 and who never voted for 3rd party guys like Perot or Ventura. Trump is different. The Rovian schemers have literally been working a diabolical conspiracy to deny voters a real alternative to big government liberalism. Trump – warts and all – is the only way to stop the Uniparty.

bb

It’s either Trump or Joe Biden . Biden is an incompetent fool.Trump just May slow down our self destruction.

TPC
TPC

Call me cynical, but I still think Trump is just in it for the money. He would get elected into office and then proceed to do exactly what his owners tell him to do.

He gets to be the center of attention, gets to be the “savior”, AND gets shit loads of money.

Win win for him.

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

Trump is/has been connected to the Clintons and Jorge Ramos’ daughter works for Hitlery Clinton’s campaign. Hmmmmm. Theater at is best.

Anonymous
Anonymous

TPC,

I don’t think Trump has owners.

He has money and doesn’t need them.

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

TPC- Have you been blind all of your life?

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

Sorry- that should have been (Anon), have you been blind all of your life?

TPC
TPC

@Anon – Not really, everything I’ve seen/read/heard about the guy indicates he’s great at getting financing, but isn’t exactly a rioting success when it comes to making cold hard cash and keeping ahold of it.

A man like that is expensive to upkeep….he can be bought.

Fucker sure likes his attention, doesn’t he?

@Bea Lever – I was legally required to drive with my eyeglasses on from ages 14-18. Then I got LASIK eye surgery and have been doing quite well since.

I feel like your inquiry wasn’t in regards to my health, but thank you for your concern.

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

TPC- I corrected that to Anon, you have 20/20 vision.

card802
card802

A GOP strategist was being interviewed on POTUS this morning, he said, no matter what, Trump will not win the republican party nomination so view Trump as nothing more than interesting character.

Maybe Trump can try again in 2020.

“Both major political parties in the United States select their presidential candidates through a process of primary elections. However, voters do not directly select presidential nominees in these primaries. Instead, they choose delegates from their respective states who will attend a national party convention to nominate a presidential candidate for their party.”

“The President and Vice President are not elected directly by the voters. Instead, they are elected by “electors” who are chosen by popular vote on a state-by-state basis.”

yahsure
yahsure

Boomer prophet? More like a wealthy loudmouth. He say’s a lot of things that people want to hear.
People want an aggressive go getter that wants the country to win. Obama is trying as hard as he can to screw us over with bad deals. Climate change stuff and trade deals and bad Iran deals. I can’t wait for the America hating President to leave.
I’m starting to think Trump has a chance to win.

Anonymous
Anonymous

card,

They try something that obvious and there may BE a 2020.

Russia Is Strong
Russia Is Strong

“Is Donald Trump the Boomer prophet?”

YES! After all, Amerikan boomers (like Stucky) are mostly racist, poorly-educated, self-centered, narcissistically arrogant pricks with an overblown sense of self-importance whose world-views & cultural development are as simple & primitive as their IQ scores..

Who BETTER to represent the “GET OFF MY LAWN” generation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Sal6N5OiE

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Russia is Strong

If you hate America so much, why do you live in Los Angeles?

Why aren’t you living in you beloved Moscow?

You’ve ignored my question before. Are you too much of a fucking pussy to answer?

Russia Is Strong
Russia Is Strong

“If you hate America so much, why do you live in Los Angeles? Why aren’t you living in you beloved Moscow?”

Los Angeles? Is THAT where my proxy server shows I’m located?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyEE0qpfeig

Administrator

Bye Bye Russia is Strong

Blow me

Stucky

Buh Bye RIS!

Now that you have some free time, don’t forget to do this.

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Why Deez Nuts Is Actually Critically Important For The Future Of The Country

Submitted by Jake Anderson via TheAntiMedia.org,

Last week, the nation shared a moment of levity when North Carolina officials reported that Deez Nuts, the satirical electoral creation of a 15-year-old teen from Iowa, received 9% of the vote in a new poll. The number placed him in third place behind Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and ahead of GOP candidates Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, and Scott Walker. Earlier polls had shown Deez Nuts garnering 8% in Minnesota and 7% in Iowa.

Most Americans embraced the news as little more than a tongue-in-cheek verification of our collective malaise with the political establishment, an indictment of our deep unease and dissatisfaction with the frontrunners in the 2016 presidential election. Even when The Guardian declared that Deez Nuts was officially “the most successful independent candidate for president in two decades,” few deigned to describe it as anything approximating the start of a populist revolution.

Still, one might argue that the success of 15-year-old Brady Olsen — aka Deez Nuts — from Wallingford, Iowa, embodies more than simply a successful lampooning of the American political system. There are legitimate reasons to view this development as the opening salvo in an upheaval of the way Americans elect presidents. Does this sound hyperbolic? Let me take it a step further: Deez Nuts is actually critically important for the future of the country… and here’s why:

1. Politicians may be forced to acknowledge the failed system…and apologize

The fanfare behind Deez Nuts will cause politicians to take a second look at their own campaigns. Why? First, they will be forced to answer questions about Deez Nuts. At first, they will shrug and laugh these questions off. However, it’s important to note that Deez Nuts polled at 9% with virtually no media coverage. Imagine what will happen when these numbers grow — and there’s every reason to believe they will. Faith in government and the two-party system is at an all time low. There is widespread distrust in government agencies, institutions, and politicians’ ability or willingness to represent the people.

Most importantly, on Friday, Public Policy Polling announced it will soon begin to include Deez Nuts in national polls. If his numbers stay steady at a national level, there’s good reason to believe candidates could be asked about him during the debates, especially if Jon Stewart moderates one. This will bring to the surface a readily acknowledged truth: the system has failed and it must be reformed. Such a widespread concession forces a reformist policy angle on every single candidate who wants to have a chance in the general election.

2. He provides an outlet for disenfranchised non-voters to make a real statement

American business magnate Russell Simmons recently endorsed Deez Nuts for President, tweeting out, “Ask not what deez nuts [sic] can do for you, instead ask yourself what you can do for deez nuts [sic].”

Similarly, the Rent is Too Damn High Guy, Jimmy McMillan, has come out in support. McMillan explained his position:

“Deez Nuts would be great because the children need to get involved. They need to tell these other candidates, these old men who are taking the country down the hell hole, that something needs to change. The youths are hurting — they can’t get jobs, they can’t buy a home — and these old people are doing nothing for them.”

We may have never seen such popular excitement over a “sham candidate” before. The reason is because Deez Nuts is not a sham candidate. Brady Olsen has an actual agenda that he wants to push, which is primarily targeted at exposing the real sham: the two-party system in American politics. And Olsen has been strategic about his approach. When asked by Rolling Stone about Public Policy Polling’s use of his names in the polls, Olsen said he specifically wanted his name pitted “against low-pollers, like [Deez Nuts] vs Lindsey Graham vs Lincoln Chafee, to see how desperate voters would be in that situation.”

Olsen is just as thoughtful when it comes to political calculations. While the teenager identifies as a libertarian, he admits his ideology falls somewhere between democratic socialist Bernie Sanders and Gary Johnson. This shows that Deez Nuts understands his position as an independent candidate with populist power, a reformist with the heart of a revolutionary.

Disenfranchised voters are nothing new in 2015, but this time around there is a social media-emboldened central rallying cry that seems to be discernible and digestible across a wide platform of demographics and ideologies. The strength of the humor in his satirical foundation also helps to buoy Deez Nuts. Thanks to the Internet, particularly social media, the disillusioned snark of the masses has been catalyzed and, if properly organized and leveraged, could wield unprecedented power on mainstream politics and the heretofore unquestioned media narrative, which more and more people are realizing is crafted in collusion with the corporate-owned political establishment.

3. Deez Nuts is a grass roots populist movement against the two-party system

For most of his political career, Bernie Sanders registered as an Independent. In his run for president, he has capitulated to being a Democrat. Despite his revolutionary rhetoric, Sanders still plans to work within the two-party system. While it is telling that Bernie Sanders wasn’t even listed on the North Carolina poll where Deez Nuts received 9%, his success as a galvanizing populist isn’t entirely relevant anyway and certainly does not put him at odds with Deez Nuts. In other words, while it’s important that Sanders continues to rally voters, it is equally important that those same voters understand the importance of Deez Nuts and why Sanders is so restricted in the first place. It’s because, for all intents and purposes, Sanders is still considered a third party candidate, which is exactly the reason why the Deez Nuts is vital. Tellingly, Nuts has inspired a recent wave of similar joke presidential candidates, highlighting just how pervasive disillusionment with the electoral and political system has become.

The Deez Nuts movement is a platform by which a wide variety of both voters and non-voters can critique the system in a way that is not only measurable, but deeply disruptive. However, it’s not particularly time-sensitive — it could continue on for years, even decades, and will only grow with organization and sophistication. Eventually, a voter base that is simultaneously decentralized yet targeted toward one specific issue could present a major challenge to the two-party system, forcing networks to not only regularly allow third parties into all presidential debates, but to give them equal time and fair treatment. Whether Brady Olsen emerges to be a successful spokesman for this movement or not doesn’t even matter at this point. The power of Deez Nuts resides in it being a leaderless movement with one specific purpose: breaking the two-party system.

4. Deez Nuts could force major mainstream concessions, such as an overturning of Citizens United

With widespread popular support comes power. There is a very real sense in which a high-polling Nuts will translate into actionable reform to the system. For example, the jestful heart and soul of the movement itself is that the two-party system is broken, primarily because corporate money and crony capitalism have rendered representative democracy dysfunctional. One of the most cloying wrenches clogging our political system right now is the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling, by which Super Pacs and corporations have flooded elections with unprecedented amounts of campaign funds.

Could the Deez Nuts candidacy force the establishment to readjust in order to avoid an outright collapse of the political system? If this were the case, the establishment might push a sacrificial concession out to the hungry masses in order to placate their anger. With the proper organization and coaching, Deez Nuts might be able to call for the head of Citizens United, which, incidentally, Bernie Sanders plans to decapitate if elected.

5. Deconstruct scripted policy positions as anemic and not representing the people

Perhaps the biggest cause behind the unlikely success of Deez Nuts is how transparent the failings of representative democracy have become in recent decades. Indeed, people are so desperate for honesty from a presidential candidate that herds of misguided voters are willing to tolerate the racist, sexist rants of sociopathic plutocrat Donald Trump — just for a whiff of unscripted candor.

In the current online viral landscape, in which Deez Nuts is in more demand on Google than Hillary Clinton, a 15-year-old teenage boy has tapped into the zeitgeist and now sits poised at the breaking point of an electorate so sick of anemic policy positions over substantive real talk, they would rather vote for a vulgar, nihilistic moniker than a career politician.

Who knows? If the popularity grows to a certain point, perhaps it’s conceivable someone will organize a citizens’ debate at which Deez Nut could actually participate. While a 15-year-old is not going to be elected president any time soon, it’s not too difficult to imagine a push to see an informed, eloquent representative of youth — the future of the country — square off with the very oligarchical despots angling to rob him of his future through climate change inaction, economic collapse, and federally organized student loan theft.

6. Even if you don’t vote, you can use Deez Nuts to grease the wheels of a symbolic movement

There is an increasingly large contingent of intelligent American citizens who are philosophically opposed to voting, believing that it lends support to a irredeemably corrupt system that enables perpetual war, taxpayer funding of the military industrial complex, corporatocracy, destructive trade agreements like the TPP, and the racist Drug War that feeds the prison system.

It’s hard to argue that non-voters are wrong in their vitriol against casting a ballot, though this author still retains belabored, agonized faith in an American revolution that will be aided by ushering malleable candidates into compromised positions of power.

That is possibly the greatest asset of Deez Nuts: the character can be leveraged by both voters and non-voters towards the same purpose: exposing the ineptitude of the system and using a cultural meme to create a groundswell of public support against the two-party system, which is sometimes called a polyarchy, or “inverted totalitarianism.”

In other words, even if you don’t vote, support the Deez Nuts campaign. Taken further, is a vote for Deez Nuts really even a vote? There’s an argument to be made that voting for Deez Nuts is actually a vote for non-voting, as the person is trying to elect a straw candidate that can’t possibly hold office and is in fact a satire of the voting system itself.

Am I using doublespeak? Let me rephrase the position: non-voters should champion the cause of Deez Nuts as an open mockery of the very system in which they refuse to vote. It is, in some respects, a vote for anarchy, for non-hierarchal symbols of subversion to authority. Vote or don’t vote, but Deez Nuts is the variable for which many agorists, anarchists, and socialists alike have been waiting: a tool of subversive satire that shows how late capitalist representative democracy does not work when the representatives are bought and sold by corporate auctioneers.

7. It is culture jamming at the highest level

A reappropriated billboard that reveals a truth about a corporation, a viral meme that takes a politician’s words and overlays them with a graphic to suggest the real meaning hidden underneath — “culture jamming” is a verdant form of subversive activism.

Rarely has there been an opportunity to culture jam at this level. Sure, you can protest and interrupt a speech, you can make a mashup video of the corporate-funded candidates eating their words, but not in recent history has there been a chance to culture jam an actual election by clogging its polls with an artificial candidate whose mere existence and name lampoons the entire system. Use this opportunity — wisely.

And Deez Nuts, if you find yourself a bit confused or looking for direction, feel free to reach out: we’re good listeners.

JIMSKI
JIMSKI

He is actually the anti-Christ. How do I know?

The hair qualifies as the head wound………

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Jimski

How’s your health? I hope you are doing better.

overthecliff

Not sure if I trust Trump. I am sure I don’t trust any of the other pricks except Ted Cruz.The communists(Democrats) are out of the question. If the election were tomorrow I would hope for Trump change.

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

What we’re seeing is Donald Trump’s strength in being able to ad-lib and control the discourse. He’s a salesman, pure and simple. Put Obama in similar circumstances w/o a prompter and there’s no contest. True, Trump is selling snake oil, but just look at the impact he’s had with just a wee bit of exposure. I salute and despise him at the same time. If I really believed he could follow through on his illegal immigration proposals I’d vote for him just on that issue. The fact he thinks Edward Snowden a traitor greatly troubles me.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Regardless of what any candidate says, Snowden would be a fool to re-enter America. He’d be a dead man walking.

IndenturedServant

Trump won’t go the distance. If he comes too close to getting the nomination, TPTB will impress him with their ability to disappear his bank accounts and other assets. If that don’t work, there will be some sort of accident just outside Anytown, USA that will take him from his adoring fans far too soon. Or possibly his family will be threatened or even injured.

Although he’s close, he’s not a club member. There are miles and miles of penis to satisfy before he gets into the club. If he manages to provide enough happy endings and gets in, he won’t be the candidate anyone supported of voted for.

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