The Angry White Male Caucus

Guno צְבִי

Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Trumpism is all about the fear of losing traditional privilege.



When Matt Damon did his Brett Kavanaugh imitation on “Saturday Night Live,” you could tell that he nailed it before he said a word. It was all about the face — that sneering, rage-filled scowl. Kavanaugh didn’t sound like a judge at his Senate hearing last week, let alone a potential Supreme Court justice; he didn’t even manage to look like one.

But then again, Lindsey Graham, who went through the hearing with pretty much the same expression on his face, didn’t look much like a senator, either.

There have been many studies of the forces driving Trump support, and in particular the rage that is so pervasive a feature of the MAGA movement. What Thursday’s hearing drove home, however, was that white male rage isn’t restricted to blue-collar guys in diners. It’s also present among people who’ve done very well in life’s lottery, whom you would normally consider very much part of the elite.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/...latest&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront
 
Great article, Guno, thanks. Mind if I quote a bit more from your link?
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But it’s privilege under siege. An increasingly diverse society no longer accepts the God-given right of white males from the right families to run things, and a society with many empowered, educated women is finally rejecting the droit de seigneur once granted to powerful men.

And nothing makes a man accustomed to privilege angrier than the prospect of losing some of that privilege, especially if it comes with the suggestion that people like him are subject to the same rules as the rest of us.

So what we got last week was a view into the soul of Trumpism. It’s not about “populism” — it would be hard to find a judge as anti-worker as Brett Kavanaugh. Instead, it’s about the rage of white men, upper class as well as working class, who perceive a threat to their privileged position. And that rage may destroy America as we know it.
 
I think it is a purely fantasized privilege. Over here, where we don't pretend we are all prospective millionaires, I have never felt it or found anyone much who did.
 
Krugman's ego in this article is funny as hell. I'm not sure, but am I supposed to be jealous he's a teacher at yale or harvard and if I went there I should be jealous of his nobel prize? What a self indulgent little shit.

And he wants to lecture others on such a racist concept as "angry white males"
 
guno said:
There have been many studies of the forces driving Trump support,
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Yeah I know, the left is studying their asses off trying to figure out why so many people are so sick of Democrats that they cut their own throats and elected a Hitler clone. It's not really that complicated lefties. Americans ain't buying socialism. We already have too much of it. Americans ain't buying the biased partisan horseshit and hatred the Democrat party and their propaganda machine leftist media are spewing out even before the 2016 election. Americans are sick to death of the leftist "divide and conquer" system driving a wedge between America's citizens with the racist bullshit.

I never liked Trump. I never voted for Trump. I watch the leftist media's attempt to lynch the guy and drive him out of the swampfest for the Presidency. I quickly concluded the low-lifes in Washington including the never Trump Republicans were nothing but scum sacred to death that Trump would upset their rackets in Washington. They're scared shitless that Ole Trumpy is a fighter that gets in their ugly faces and what's even scaring them more today is Trump is magnificently sussessful as a President. Ole Trumpy has done more in less than 2 years than the last half dozen Presidents did collectively in their entire Presidencies. Their scared shitless that this guy's favorable ratings are growing every day. They're scared to death that Trump is gaining popularity with folks of color. They can't stand the idea that Trump will win reelection by a landslide.

I didn't vote for Trump, but I will now just because he gets in the faces of the ugly leftist scum media and the Democrat idiots that oppose him. He just might turn out to be America's greatest President ever.
 
guno said:
Trumpism is all about the fear of losing traditional privilege.



When Matt Damon did his Brett Kavanaugh imitation on “Saturday Night Live,” you could tell that he nailed it before he said a word. It was all about the face — that sneering, rage-filled scowl. Kavanaugh didn’t sound like a judge at his Senate hearing last week, let alone a potential Supreme Court justice; he didn’t even manage to look like one.

But then again, Lindsey Graham, who went through the hearing with pretty much the same expression on his face, didn’t look much like a senator, either.

There have been many studies of the forces driving Trump support, and in particular the rage that is so pervasive a feature of the MAGA movement. What Thursday’s hearing drove home, however, was that white male rage isn’t restricted to blue-collar guys in diners. It’s also present among people who’ve done very well in life’s lottery, whom you would normally consider very much part of the elite.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/...latest&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront
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Is that the same Matt Damon that said this:
"“I also think the day of the confidentiality agreements is over. I think it’s just completely over. Ten years ago, you made a claim against me and I had a big movie coming out, OK? I have $100 million or I have a movie that is personally important to me coming out, and close to the release of that film, you say, “Matt Damon grabbed my butt and stuck his tongue down my throat.” We would then go to mediation and organize a settlement. I’d go, “I don’t want this out there. Peter’s going to go out and talk to the press and run his mouth, and it’s going to be overshadowing the opening of this movie. How much money do you want?” The lawyers would get together, and they do this cost-benefit analysis, and they’d go, “Oh, this is what it’s worth.” And I look at the number and go, “OK, I’ll pay it, but you can never talk about this again. You’re f------ lying by the way, but never talk about this again.

Now … with social media, these stories get — it’s like they get gasoline poured on them. So the moment a claim is made, if you make that same claim today to me, I would be scorched earth. I’d go, “I don’t care if it costs $10 million to fight this in court with you for 10 years, you are not taking my name from me. You are not taking my name and my reputation from me. I’ve worked too hard for it. And I earned it. You can’t just blow me up like that.” So I think once a claim is made, there will no longer be settlements. That’s just my prediction, I mean, just based on what I’ve seen.”
He was just playing himself...;)
 
TOP said:
Is that the same Matt Damon that said this:
"“I also think the day of the confidentiality agreements is over. I think it’s just completely over. Ten years ago, you made a claim against me and I had a big movie coming out, OK? I have $100 million or I have a movie that is personally important to me coming out, and close to the release of that film, you say, “Matt Damon grabbed my butt and stuck his tongue down my throat.” We would then go to mediation and organize a settlement. I’d go, “I don’t want this out there. Peter’s going to go out and talk to the press and run his mouth, and it’s going to be overshadowing the opening of this movie. How much money do you want?” The lawyers would get together, and they do this cost-benefit analysis, and they’d go, “Oh, this is what it’s worth.” And I look at the number and go, “OK, I’ll pay it, but you can never talk about this again. You’re f------ lying by the way, but never talk about this again.

Now … with social media, these stories get — it’s like they get gasoline poured on them. So the moment a claim is made, if you make that same claim today to me, I would be scorched earth. I’d go, “I don’t care if it costs $10 million to fight this in court with you for 10 years, you are not taking my name from me. You are not taking my name and my reputation from me. I’ve worked too hard for it. And I earned it. You can’t just blow me up like that.” So I think once a claim is made, there will no longer be settlements. That’s just my prediction, I mean, just based on what I’ve seen.”
He was just playing himself...;)
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He ain't up for a US Supreme Kangaroo Court judgeship and nothing has yet come out about him being a blacked out drunk attempted rapist. So there's that.
 
Fentoine Lum said:
He ain't up for a US Supreme Kangaroo Court judgeship and nothing has yet come out about him being a blacked out drunk attempted rapist. So there's that.
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'Matt was just playing himself...what most falsely accused men or women would do if they found themselves in that situation...
I'm really not sure why you keep chanting "blacked out drunk attempted rapist" though....so there's that..
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ThatOwlWoman said:
Great article, Guno, thanks. Mind if I quote a bit more from your link?
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But it’s privilege under siege. An increasingly diverse society no longer accepts the God-given right of white males from the right families to run things, and a society with many empowered, educated women is finally rejecting the droit de seigneur once granted to powerful men.

And nothing makes a man accustomed to privilege angrier than the prospect of losing some of that privilege, especially if it comes with the suggestion that people like him are subject to the same rules as the rest of us.

So what we got last week was a view into the soul of Trumpism. It’s not about “populism” — it would be hard to find a judge as anti-worker as Brett Kavanaugh. Instead, it’s about the rage of white men, upper class as well as working class, who perceive a threat to their privileged position. And that rage may destroy America as we know it.
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keep circlejerking. given that ford is lying, any person, no matter the race or gender, would be every bit as angry. it's perfectly normal to be angry in those circumstances. you quote is moronic.
 
""it would be hard to find a judge as anti-worker as Brett Kavanaugh.""


maybe I'm missing something obvious but what makes Kavanaugh anti-worker?
 
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