We here at Bloody Nib Manor are trying our best to ignore the presidential campaign. There is no good candidate, in our opinion, and we sometimes find ourselves wishing for a monarchy with a strong parliament to act against the wishes of the monarch. But we have a strong president with a mostly lap dog legislature. To the residents of the Manor, including the staff, the choice between Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump is like the choice between one having one's tea sweetened by a spoonful of dog poop or a spoonful of cat poop at the local ABC tearoom. In other word's, it's time to go to the George and Dragon and drink a whole lot of the local beer because the nation has gone stark raving mad in nominating Ludwig II or a Borgia to be president of the nation.
Having said that, it's an awful thing that Mrs. Clinton has called one half of the supporters of Mr. Trump, "deplorable" as well has other denigrations such as racists and nationalists.
Let us face facts. There are supporters of Mr. Trump who are awful people. The type of people you wouldn't want to stand behind at the 7-11 or Wal-Mart because they have swastikas tattooed on their noggins and are wearing Doc Martin boots. But there are a whole lot of supporters of Mrs. Clinton who walk around the streets wearing tee-shirts bearing the image of Che Guevarra (Cuba's and the left's favorite mass murderer) or Lenin or Stalin. Does one make a man a racist and not the other a Communist of the worst sort?
No presidential candidate can prevent the oddest assortment of people from supporting him of her.
But here's the point. A lot of the people who Mrs. Clinton described as being "deplorable" are the working middle class---men and women who are skilled workers and who see their jobs going to China or Vietnam or Pakistan and who would like to live out their working lives with the idea that they will have a job next week instead of coming into work on a Monday and finding that their job is now being done by a girl named Yuja or a man named Tran or Mohammed in a land far, far away. The whole "We are the world" joke goes okay when one is selling Coke. But it doesn't go so well when one is trying to make the rent.
Mrs. Clinton's comments about the "deplorable" reminds one of Mr. Obama's comment about "bitter clingers." In other words, more than a half of the nation really do not deserve to live in their nation.
Mr. Trump, as a little Nero that he is, at least pretends to pay attention to the working class and the working middle class. Note that this writer has written that Mr. Trump "pretends." Mrs. Clinton doesn't even pretend. She, like many other pols, seem to think that a nation can be made on thinking and no product i.e., Silicon Valley.
This is simply not true. Things, actual things that can be held in one's hand, real things like cars, soap, food, watches, tents and knives and so forth make real money. The rest, the investors and so forth, play with play money that can crash an economy because it's based on nothing at all much like Kim Kardashian. There is no there. It's as empty as a Nebraska cornfield in the dead of winter. It is sweat and blood that makes money. Not ideas despite what the popular press says. If Zuckerberg or Gates or Jobs had had only ideas they would be sitting in their mothers' basements while working at Starbucks as bad baristas and thinking of their ideas. It's the men and women who build the computers and chips that make them wealthy. No computer equals no Microsoft and no Apple and no Facebook.; And yet these jokers have deigned themselves as sort of Masters of the Universe and are not slow to betray their countrymen by sending the jobs to a nation that is just plain bad and awful.
So those are the deplorable. The people in the U.S. who just want to work at a job and be left alone by the government. They are the "bitter clingers" who cling try to cling to their jobs while the jobs are being sent to parts unknown and the religion that they and their forebearers from time immemorial and the right to defend themselves from criminals and the state.
Mr. Trump is an idiot. He always will be a self-absorbed idiot. We, at the Manor, will not vote for him. But Mrs. Clinton is worse simply because she thinks that she knows how to run one's life better than one does.
Needles to say, neither one will be invited to the autumn ball at Bloody Nib Manor.
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