With Trump headed to an uncontested convention, high-paid conservative columnists like George Will have penned columns defending party bosses who might be planning to overrule the popular votes and hand-pick a more acceptable candidate for the GOP to front for president in 2016.
The arguments these columnists make are, even by their own low standards, laughably self-serving — the kind of world-beating bullshit that should come with a warning label to keep a towel handy to sop up the cerebrospinal fluid your brain will eject from your nose and ears if you try to take it seriously.
Drew Magary’s “George Will Is A Haughty Dipshit” is a tool for handling this radioactive waste safely — he scorches the offending words to a crisp with flamethrower invective that is a delight to read.
God help me, I’m gonna defend Donald Trump here, because he has won more than a mere plurality of his party’s moron voters. In fact, he’s on the verge of breaking the all-time record for primary votes in that party. HMMPH! ‘TIS A MERE PIFFLE! As if having a protracted process somehow invalidates the whole thing. WHOA, HEY, THESE PEOPLE VOTED IN CAREFULLY SCHEDULED STAGES IN WHICH THEY HAD AMPLE TIME TO VET EACH CANDIDATE! We can’t have that! By God, some of these voters wear JEANS, Martha!
The minority of people who pay close attention to politics…
This fucking guy. You know who pays attention to politics in an election year? EVERYONE. Fucking every last grown person knows what the hell is going on. My neighbor isn’t like, “Donald Trump? Nope. Never heard of him. I’m afraid I’ve been sticking to sports this whole time.” Will and his cocktail party ilk are under the remarkably mistaken impression that only THEY understand the ins and outs of this process, all because they went to a Bob Woodward key party. Think about how isolated you have to be to believe this. Think how tight that bowtie must be to cut off the circulation to your crème fraiche brain.
George Will Is A Haughty Dipshit [Drew Magary/The Concourse]
(via Naked Capitalism)
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