{"id":7767,"date":"2017-11-30T13:09:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T18:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7767"},"modified":"2017-11-30T13:50:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T18:50:46","slug":"as-the-pervnado-turns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7767","title":{"rendered":"As the pervnado turns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a libertarian who tried to stop Donald Trump with my vote in the PA primaries &#8211; even changed party registration to do it. But Trump&#8217;s opponents may make me unto a Trump supporter yet.<\/p>\n<p>From Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s casting couch through John Conyers being the guy every female reporter in DC knew not to get on an elevator with to a remote-control lock on Matt Lauer&#8217;s office rape room at NBC.  <em>These<\/em> are the people who lecture me about sexism and racism and global warming and deviant-minority-of-the-week rights and want to confiscate my guns because they propose <em>my<\/em> morality can&#8217;t be trusted?  Well, fuck them and the high horse they rode in on.<\/p>\n<p>I have more and more sympathy these days for the Trump voters who said, in effect, &#8220;Burn it all down.&#8221;  Smash the media.  Destroy Hollywood. Drain the DC swamp. We&#8217;ve all long suspected these institutions are corrupt.  What better proof do we need than their systematic enabling of rape monsters?<\/p>\n<p>As a tribune of the people Trump is deeply flawed.  Some of his policy ideas are toxic.  His personal style is tacky, ugly, and awful.  But increasingly I am wondering if any of that matters.  Because if he is good for nothing else, he is good for exposing the corruption, incompetence, and fecklessness of the elites &#8211; or, rather, in their desperation to take him down before he breaks their rice bowls, they expose themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Is there anyone who thinks all these rocks would be turning over if Hillary the serial rape enabler were in the White House?  Nope.  With her, or any establishment Republican, it&#8217;d be cronyism all they way down, because they&#8217;d feel a need to keep the corrupt elites on side.  Not Trump &#8211; his great virtue, perhaps overriding every flaw, is that he doesn&#8217;t give a fuck for elite approval.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Trump&#8217;s voters aren&#8217;t angry enough yet.  It&#8217;s not just a large number of women our elites have raped and victimized, it&#8217;s our entire country. Our infrastructure is crumbling, our debt is astronomical, our universities increasingly resemble insane asylums, our largest inner cities are free-fire zones  terrorized by a permanent criminal underclass.  And what&#8217;s the elite response?  Oh, look, a squirrel &#8211; where the squirrel of the week is carbon emissions, or transgender rights, or railing at &#8220;white privilege&#8221;, or whatever other form of virtue signaling might serve to hide the fact that, oh, look, <em>they put remote-controlled locks on their rape dungeons.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s long past time for a cleansing fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a libertarian who tried to stop Donald Trump with my vote in the PA primaries &#8211; even changed party registration to do it. But Trump&#8217;s opponents may make me unto a Trump supporter yet. From Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s casting couch through John Conyers being the guy every female reporter in DC knew not to get&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7767\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">As the pervnado turns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7770,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions\/7770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}