paper, straw, and dead, tigers, dogs, and horses

Wiki says the term paper tiger comes from China, and it is what you call your enemy when you don't think his bite can match his bark.  I think the expression called for here is a straw dog, also from China, where you use a weak form of your opponent's argument to demolish him in debate.  To this menagerie we can add dead horse, which it feels like we are beating because we have gone over this material many times before, but, as one of my esteemed colleagues has pointed out, that has never stopped me before.

So if it wasn't Them who put Ttump in to help the big girl win, who was it?   I don't believe it was the rank and file pulling the levers.  They were mostly all republicans.  Why would they want the big girl to win?  It wasn't the dems, even though some foolish ones, such as myself, watched it happen happily assuming that this would ensure victory for the big girl, because what effect could we have over the republican primaries?  So Who was it then?  This has to be a group powerful enough to control the outcome of the republican primary, but too weak to effect the results of the general election.  Seems like a group of power brokers to me.

Or, or, maybe it was the Russkies. But so far it doesn't look like they were up to their shenanigans during the primary, and they certainly would never want  the big girl to win.  But it's looking more and more like they were into it up to their elbows on Trump's behalf, and it is looking more and more like Trump's people were more than appreciative of the help..


I think we can all feel that stick it to The Man tide, I daresay, distinguished gentlemen such as ourselves have felt it from time to time, but outside of why now, which I simply blame on the internet, is the question of why this guy, why would anybody think that this guy, who looks an awful lot like The Man, would be chosen to stick it to The Man?

My main theory previous has been because he is obviously no politician.  For some time I have thought why don't they pick a nice guy,, not a repellent guy, to stick The Man with.  But the thing is all politicians pretend to be nice guys, none of them purposely puts on the guise of a big fucking asshole, so a guy who freely expresses his big fucking assholeness, why this is clearly not a politician.

But if you poke at this theory it is a little weak.  Yesterday I read an article that seems to make more sense.  It's anger.  Everybody hates to be mad, or do they?  There is a certain purposefulness in anger, a feeling that you are getting things done, that you have identified the enemy, that you are right, nay righteous, brother.  It feels good.  And that is why they like him.  They, not Them who never liked him and only used him to help the big girl, and who now it appears that Beagles is denying the existence of.  You know it  wouldn't be a whole lot of trouble for the Russkies to slip a sub up the St Lawrence and into that river that drains from the top of Michigan to not far from the feehold and deliver a sack of money or vintage yellow beer for a certain freeholder to pretend he never heard of Them.