Trump – The Aged P https://www.theagedp.com ...just toasting and ruminating.... Fri, 09 Apr 2021 10:40:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.34 The Faux Outrage Over Those Trump Tweets https://www.theagedp.com/?p=9020 Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:40:47 +0000 http://www.theagedp.com/?p=9020  

Trump, in his crude, brash way, articulates the feelings of many Brits and Americans on a subject that our “betters” believe ought to be smothered with a soft pillow. Of course many Muslims are accepting of our values and happy to fit into our society. But there are also a substantial number who espouse a misogynistic, homophobic and inward looking approach and seek to impose their mores upon others in their own locality. If there is any doubt about this then visit Tower Hamlets or several Yorkshire towns.
Sometimes the sheer horror of this situation and the price paid for turning a blind eye erupts into the public discourse (Rotherham, Rochdale, sundry acts of terrorism) but it is swiftly sent down the memory hole with a few waves of the Islamophobia flag by a political/cultural class who, by and large, are insulated from this problem by wealth and a sense of their own importance.
I have no issue with the left leaning media. At least they are open in the way they despise the concerns of those they would describe as the “ignorant masses” but when so called “conservative” journals like the Daily Telegraph are afraid to refrain from knee jerk “outrage” by avoiding answering serious questions I do despair.
Am I the only one?

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]]> Trump & The Pundits – Are The Maps Out Of Date? https://www.theagedp.com/?p=8747 Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:41:52 +0000 http://www.theagedp.com/?p=8747 Notice how the UK media have been very quiet about Trump lately. We were earlier told by the resident pundits that he would fade and the consultant class choice Jeb Bush (Romney 2) would be emerging as the front runner ready to lose gracefully to Hillary in November 2016 having been deserted by the base.

But the Trump “fade” (rather like the UKIP fade) hasn’t happened so far and the “experts” both here and across the ocean are worried. As with UKIP,the SNP and Corbyn it’s a new landscape and their maps don’t appear to be making sense. Seems also that their regular hires from the so called “conservative” Washington punditocracy who inhabit the legacy media and the think tanks are also beginning to hedge their bets.

But in the US it’s not just the liberal/left usual suspects in the MSM who are starting to get angry at their compasses – “conservative” websites are wondering why outsiders like Trump, Carson and Fiorina getting a combined 50% plus in the polls while assorted GOP governors and senators are in single digits.

I suppose it’s beginning to feel a bit like being in St Petersburg in December 1916……

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