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Don Watson wrote this article for the November Monthly, published in October. The Monthly seems to know what's what on average. Here the Monthly and Don Watson goofed. Lovely sentiments though la Woman was a catastrophe in waiting.

So they forgot about Uncle Rupe. Uncle Rupe like god works in mysterious ways. There is a lot of talk about "fake news" and the article by Don Watson could fit into this category by now, relying on "polls". Polls are fake news principally. In April 2014 I did a cartoon which could have been seen as an endorsement of Hillary by Murdoch... My cartoon was not, of course. It was designed to show that Uncle Rupe was looking for "something better" than the rotten crop of Republicans that had put their hand up to become the 45th President of the USA. Uncle Rupe was displeased to say the least. He knows a few things. Could he really support La Clinton by default? Not on your nelly. By various ways, he started to create The Donald, who appeared from nowhere but was an Uncle Rupe construct. Uncle Rupe watched and re-watched the Simpson episode of 2000 where Donald becomes the president. Uncle Rupe is the Till Eulenspeigel of the Conservatives. He will shoot the Democrats but pull the pants off the Republicans. He's like that. And Uncle Rupe is the publisher of The Simpsons through 20th Century FOX... 

Once Trump came on the scene, spurred by various mysterious ways to be the bowling ball on the pitch, Uncle Rupe held the strings of the puppet with an unequalled dexterity and discretion. As the Liberal media (MMMM — mediocre mass media de mierda) pumped up the polls for La Clinton, the murdoch media (Murdoch MMMM) discreetly and not so discreetly put spokes in the wheels of her scooter, while polishing a turd with enthusiasm not seen since polishing became a profession.

So, Don Watson did not count for the Uncle Rupe effect. I did. 


the original 2014 toon...

a bunch of presidential candidates chosen by uncle rupe...

 

toontoon

and the china prank?

Uncle Rupe has a few scores to settle with the Chinese... What better to do it through his favourite creation: Le Donald... You know what I mean...

genius obama...

Obama 'a genius with words', Watson says

 

Author, public speaker and one-time political speech writer Don Watson appears on ABC News to talk about the "intelligence and heart" in US President Barack Obama's final speech.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-15/obama-a-genius-with-words,-watson-...

 

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We could not disagree with this assessment... The only problem was that these clever words were designed to hide a lot of real bad moves... This was the genius of Obama... Read at top...

don redeems himself...

And I mean Don Watson... (read from top)

 

The election of Donald Trump – even the nomination of Donald Trump – and events since his inauguration are like nothing that has ever happened in the United States. It unseats the habit of our minds to believe that whatever happens had to happen. To borrow a word from Philip Roth, it “defatalizes” things. Donald Trump becomes president of the United States. As one commentator said, it sounds like the logline for a high-concept movie. One of the many reasons why he won is that millions of Americans could not take the concept seriously. Now they have to take the fact seriously.

And yet the uncanniest thing is the sense that Trump’s election is a simulacrum for all manner of events imagined or foretold that hover in the back rows of our consciousness – way back from the daily flow of news, spin, messaging and commentary. A scam artist, an ignoramus, a professional liar, a colossal and malignant narcissist, a vulgarian, a casino operator, a serial bankrupt – a Roy Cohn–mentored billionaire with deep Mob connections – is in the White House. Has there ever been a more American presidency? What took them so long?

For devotees of HL Mencken, these are days of vindication. In a presidential election, he declared around 1920, “all the odds were on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre”. It was the logic of democracy, he said, that the people would one day get their heart’s desire and put a “downright moron” in the White House. While understandable, the widespread belief that George W Bush fulfilled Mencken’s prophecy has proved premature. In the extent and depth of his deviousness and mediocrity – in the sheer grandeur of it – Donald Trump is to Dubya as Mighty Mouse is to Mickey. Dubya was just a shallow son of the political elite, one easily manipulated by tough guys like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. (Though his manifest inadequacy did not stand in the way of re-election, let us never forget.) But Trump is the King Kong of shallowness: the only deep things about him are his roots in the American psyche. He brings forth not just the pout, the hair and the ties, but the greed, indulgence and psychotic menace of the “indigenous American berserk” – to call on Roth again. The mistake of his opponents – including the satirists – has been to focus on his otherness: in truth he’s dredged straight from the brute material of American culture.

No one ever went looking for George W Bush in the high reaches of literature. But people are looking for Trump in these places, and finding him. “Trump is Tom Buchanan farcically playing Gatsby,” Sidney Blumenthal wrote in a recent London Review of Books. (Blumenthal also found Trump – the old, real, wheeler-dealer Trump – satirised as the “short-fingered vulgarian” in Spy magazine 25 years ago.) Others have gone to Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here for his literary likeness, or to films including Batman, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Bulworth, The Manchurian Candidate and Sweet Smell of Success, or to the comic book Judge Dredd. When Roth was asked whether the Charles Lindbergh he presented in his 2004 novel The Plot Against America is Trump’s forebear, he said that Lindbergh was too substantial a person to be compared with a mere “con artist” like Trump. The Plot Against America is uncannily prescient just the same, and not only because in his inauguration speech Trump borrowed Lindbergh’s “America First” slogan, or because in the novel Lindbergh beats Franklin D Roosevelt to the presidency by animating his personal brand, flying all over the heartland in the Spirit of St Louis, just as Trump beat Hillary Clinton descending from the heavens in his own Trump plane. The most intriguing parallel is the way Roth’s counterfactual novel matches so precisely the sense we have that with Trump we are inhabiting a counterfactual world. No doubt the election has given The Plot Against America a second life in the bookshops. Herman Melville’s final novel, The Confidence-Man, published 160 years ago, might also get a boost. Melville’s con man sells get-rich schemes to passengers on a Mississippi riverboat. Like every good salesman he exploits the need of every mug for hope. Every mug on the boat, with the exception of the barber, takes his bait. Roth says he is Trump’s most convincing precursor.

read more:

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2017/march/1488286800/don-watson/ame...

 

Gus: Don Watson should investigate Uncle Rupe's role in this Trump "victory"...