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Elvis blows his horn
The Donald keeps yelling "any seven" and the press keeps saying "let it ride" and the GOP establishment keeps playing the pass line - and loosing.
"Listen the next time you’re at a craps table and count how many times the stickman advertises the hardways or yo’s and the seven. No matter how educated some players may be there will always be those who play the high risk bets. The casinos love the high roller who does nothing but bark out orders for the dealers to place the propositions because they know it will likely make the house a nice chunk of change."
There is something wonderfully comical about the "high roller" barking insults like "these people are idiots" or "management here stinks" every time he throws some chips on the table. Or making pie in the sky promises like "I'll make America great again" or I'll do “something terrific” to entice the saps to bet along with him. The DC political and media establishment don't know "the meaning of the voice" and counter attack by "speaking into the air" but this trumpet speaks loud and clear. 1 Corinthians 14:
"But now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching? Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they give not a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? For if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war? So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy to understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air. There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no kind is without signification. If then I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh will be a barbarian unto me."
The barbarian of the moment has breached the citadel walls sending its pampered denizens scurrying for safety, heading for the hills or slapping, scratching and biting as they get tossed on the bed and raped. Exhibit A:
They'd never treat Elvis this way
They say he's a clown - hell, I've said he's a clown - but the KOTCB blog celebrates clowns just as often as it chastises them and #WhenTrumpIsElected things are gonna be different. It will never happen, right? There's no way we'll every see President Trump, right? Yeah, just keep telling yourself that and everything will be alright. This too shall pass. Unless it doesn't and the 20% who back Trump can convince another 20% who don't know much about politics (and don't care to know) to back Trump too. In a three way race between Her Majesty, JEB!, and Trump I'd keep my bet riding right along with the high roller. The rise of Donald Trump is driven by two factors - one obvious and the other mystical:
Number one - the American people absolutely hate their Federal Government - They don't believe they are well represented (they are not) that their priorities are addressed (they are not) or that there is any way to fix it (there is). And Trump is an EXCELLENT vehicle for showing DC exactly how much they are hated by We The People.
Number two - In 1988 Spy Magazine published it's classic "Separated at Birth?" book which identified metaphysical doppelgänger's among celebrities. The editors saw the connection, which should be obvious to everyone, that The King and The Donald bear a striking resemblance and this physical manifestation of metaphysical fandom and solidarity is surly part of Trump's appeal. Someone should do a poll to determine to overlap of Elvis fans and Trump supporters - I bet it's something like 90%.
Separated at Birth? Yes, in all the ways that matter.
Trump will hang in there as long as HE wants to and that's a great thing - America is still a free country and with enough brains, bravado and bullion the pie in the sky is there for the taking. That is something Donald Trump knows and the DC Cartel does everything it can to deny. So screw the vig, the citizen's of Crapsylvania need a high roller who will take all the dirty money from the boxcars and give it back (or at least stop the House from taking any more).
She was "sexy", but "too much hard work." I'm a regular Fox & Friends viewer (mostly in protest of the other insipid morning programs like Today and Good Morning America) so over the years I've gotten to know Gretchen Carlson pretty well. Stuck between Steve and Brian she always seemed a prudish scold with an irritating, self-righteous demeanor that I simply put up with because I figured some people in the Fox audience actually liked her persona. It was obvious that Steve and Brian did not, but they were stuck with her like so many talking heads and had to make the best of it - which they did. Besides, she was no worse than any of the other women on morning show TV - I mean, you're only going to find a certain kind of person to do this kind of work and that kind of person is the Gretchen Carlson kind. Then, one day, she was gone and replaced by Elisabeth Hasselbeck and the F&F ratings began to climb, and climb and climb - in two months view
I came into this wicked world in the early 1960's and as a result I have born witness to America's 50 Years of Failure which includes the modern age of mass shootings by psychotic men who "go off" on a given day, for no reason at all (except "guns"), and kill scads of innocent bystanders. Back in August of 2019 a KOTCB blog post titled " Reciprocity City " explored a young gunman named Patrick Crusius who drove 9 hours through the west Texas flatlands to shoot up El Paso, TX The KOTCB has commented on many of these shootings, bombings and knifings over the years - The roots of the Boston Marathon Bombing , the Emanuel AME Church shooting , Syed Rizvan Farook and his bride Tashfeen Malik , Ft. Lauderdale Airport shooting , Nick Cruz lovesick Parkland shooting , the Iranian, PETA activist, Vegan Bodybuilder, YouTuber's attack on Google and now this very oddly timed and placed "lone wolf" attack on Walmart shoppers. This list
Well my telephone was ringing, and they told me it was chairman Mao. You got to tell him anything 'cause I just don't want to talk to him now. According to the brilliant troubadour Lowell George the Apolitical Blues are " the meanest blues of all" and who am I to disagree with this soul man now after all these years of living by his maxim. I first heard the song bursting from the 1972 vinyl of Little Feat's Alt-Rock-Country masterpiece "Sailin' Shoes" in the second story bedroom of my friend John's older brother Edie who, being about 3 years our senior, was instructing us on the importance of good music. This was circa 1975 and a formative time for my musical taste and overall aesthetic which, for better or worse, infuses every aspect of my existence including the KOTCB blog so a debt is owed this unforgettable "older brother" now that he has shuffled off this mortal coil and left us with smoky memories. A born rebel with the heart o
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