monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

Two or three individuals (frugal and layman are two)

"Fisk suffers from John Pilgers tendency to exaggerate; everything Fisk covers, from mundane conversations to journeys on dirt roads, is loaded with deep meanings, ominous portents, and unspeakable dangers---Id love to read Fisks account of a shopping trip....

"The towering stack of bread loaves, great cumulous formations of baked dough, cast a grim shadow over my shopping trolley. Its wheels creaked menacingly. I was still two aisles away from the frozen vegetables, but comforted myself with the knowledge that when you believe in jihad, it is easy."

Having successfully introduced the novel legal concept of the "hate crime," progressive opinion has now taken it to dizzying new heights: the hate-me crime.

Even as a mob is trying to kill him, [Fisk] absolves them of all responsibility.

It's "entirely" America's fault. Noam Chomsky, eat your heart out....at a stroke, Mr. Fisk has dramatically raised the bar for standards of Western self-loathing.

The Washington Post says Trump's presidency is doomed.

“It’s hostile,” said this person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of further retribution. “It’s not just that we’re frozen out. . . . I was told they said there was an enemies list.”

Quote:

intellectually elite

You do toss that phrase around a lot george. In between your recommendations that a proper education includes attending to Machiavelli, Cicero and Thucidides.

I never mentioned Cicero. I had a lifetime dose of him in High School.

“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don’t move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there’ll be no way of stopping them...I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” (Lyndon Johnson)

After continuing with a lot of similar quotations of democrats, the author observes that:

These quotes from Dems are why minority voters are starting to understand how they’ve been swindled into thinking that the Democratic Party best represents their interests. That’s worrisome for Democrats at large. The facts, coming home to roost, will create a major backlash against the Democratic Party.

He's brighter than you can understand.

To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental.

To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of "dissenting" bravery.

I never quite know whether Moore is as ignorant as he looks, or even if that would even be possible.