"Our leaders are stupid. Our politicians are stupid. And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning, and they send the bad ones over because they don't wanna pay for them, they don't wanna take care of them, why should they when the stupid leaders of the United States are doing it for them?" he asked.
So political America -- as in the Beltway -- is stupid. That much was already known by the whole Global South. Now coming from a billionaire who knows all there is to know about making it big, that certainly adds gravitas.
Gravitas, of course, in a trash TV sense. Even right-wing pundits are now waking up to the fact that The Donald's act is actually a re-run of comedian Norm MacDonald's impersonation of Burt Reynolds from the Celebrity Jeopardy sketch.
Which makes total sense, as far as American pop culture is concerned. If even George "Dubya" Bush can become an American president, why not an impersonator from a fake celebrity TV personality?
Foreign policy at the reality TV spectacular was a blast. Rand Paul said ...
"[Islamic State, IS formerly] ISIS rides around in a billion dollars' worth of Humvees. We didn't create ISIS, ISIS created themselves, but we will stop them." No wonder the arguably science-based Obama administration is puzzled on how to deal with a creationist IS.
Jeb! The billionaire candidate too cowardly/savvy to use the toxic family name was forced to talk about the Iraq war: "Knowing what we know now ... it was a mistake. I wouldn't have gone in."
Yet "the US has to finish the job in Iraq," Obama "abandoned Iraq, and when he left Al-Qaeda was done for and ISIS was created." The creationist myth once again -- with a twist.
And, predictably, considering the profile of some of his billionaire backers, Jeb! has an Iran hard-on; "We need to stop the Iran agreement for sure because the Iranian mullahs have blood on their hands and we need to take out ISIS with every tool at our disposal."
Yet Jeb! paled compared to Ted Cruz, who got terribly excited describing an elaborate Tehran-Kremlin conspiracy to unleash a vicious cyber-attack against the Pentagon's IT network.
Scott Walker jumped in, stressing that, "Russian and Chinese hackers probably know more about Hillary Clinton's email server than do members of Congress."
Walker actually should try to get the job of Dr. Strangelove, sorry, Gen. Breedlove/hate at NATO; "I would send weapons to Ukraine, I would work with NATO to get forces on the eastern border of Poland." And he wants missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic to boot.
So before the next war, what do to about the economy? Jeb! has the answer: "You fix a convoluted tax code, you go in and replace every regulation that's a job killer."
The Donald -- who had four of his companies bankrupt -- turned the whole argument around; "Every company virtually in Atlantic City just went bankrupt... I had the good sense [to leave] seven years ago...
"I've made a lot of money in Atlantic City and let me tell you I am very proud of that."
Now that's your metaphor of America as two-bit casino racket Atlantic City.
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