A Comment on Visionary Tom Ford’s Newest Movie “Nocturnal Animals” by Gary Smolker

CONSTANT CONTACT

I constantly come in contact with young and old men and women (married and unmarried) who are lonely.

That is why I am writing this blog post on the issues raised in Nocturnal Animals.

My Soul

Tom Ford’s newest movie Nocturnal Animals touched my soul the first time I saw it (which was at its North American Premier in Toronto at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival 0n 12, September, 2016).

I haven’t been able to get Nocturnal Animals out of my mind.

“Nocturnal Animals” Is An Interesting Conversation Piece

Nocturnal Animals was the topic of conversation I had with two hip people at a high hip quotient networking brunch I attended in Brentwood, California on Saturday October 22, 2016.

Neither of the two hip people I spoke to at that brunch (which was a hip people only affair) had seen Nocturnal Animals yet, but both told me they plan to see Nocturnal Animals soon.

One of those two people (a writer) asked me: “Why do half the people who see ‘Nocturnal Animals’ hate it and the other half love it?”

The other person (a music composer) told me: “I can’t wait to see ‘Nocturnal Animals.’  It won at the Venice Film Festival.”

The Cause of Heart Break and How To Get Over A Broken Heart

Nocturnal Animals is about two painful real-life topics:

• the cause of heart break and
• how to get over a broken heart.

That is why half the people who see it hate it and the other half love it.

Today, the pain arising out of “heart-break”, out of having a “broken-heart”, and being suffered by the large number of heart-broken people in America while they are trying to get over a broken heart is in everyone in America’s face all the time.

Saturday  NIGHT (October 22, 2016): I Was Presented with One Side of the Pain of Heartbreak – The Woman’s Side

Saturday night, I had a quiet dinner with a gorgeous sophisticated spiritual world-wise delightful woman (GORGEOUS AND DELIGHTFUL) who can’t accept the fact that many American men are marriage phobic.  She discussed with me how frustrated she is by

• the marriage phobic state of mind of dashing physically and mentally attractive men she dates;
• their deep seated widespread fear of marriage has emotionally and romantically paralyzed these men;
•  these men want to see her only once or at most twice a week and to be free the rest of the time; and
• she feels all women her age have been trapped by
• the social hierarchical reality that men are supposed to be dominant which currently exists in America;
• this leads to men being overly competitive,
• MALE OVER COMPETITIVENESS has created a society in which men are commitment phobic,
• men are more committed to making money and to their money than to having a committed relationship;
• this limits women’s options,
• their (a woman’s) limited other options “force” women in America to be manipulative,
• because they are manipulative in their relationships with men, they can not get close to men and men cannot get close to them.
• IT HAS BEEN HER EXPERIENCE THAT ROMANCE IS DEAD IN AMERICA.

Many men pour their money into a nonreciprocal (sexually oriented) relationship with all the women in their lives.

DELIGHTFUL GORGEOUS acknowledges she is a “fool” to still “want” to be with the emotionally paralyzed commitment phobic unromantic men who “stole/steal her heart.”

Painfully, DELIGHTFUL GORGEOUS can’t get over them even though she realizes because of the high value she places on ROMANCE (romantic involvement) she has to move on until she finds a romantic partner.

Sunday NIGHT (October 23, 2016): I Was Presented with The Man’s Side of Heartbreak

• Sunday night (October 23, 2016)  I went to an “Emancipation Party” thrown by a man who just paid his wife a “pretty sum” to get her out of his life.
• He was miserable for many years of the past years he was married to her.
• To his relief she moved out of his house about two days ago.
• At his party, he reported to me: “The morning after she moved out was the first morning he woke up with a smile.”
• Male dissatisfaction with marriage is a widely and strongly held sentiment among the many wealthy men I am in contact with.  For example: The other day, another very wealthy friend of mine asked me: “Do you know why divorce is so expensive?  I replied, “Why?” He answered: “Because it is worth it.”

These unhappy men, feel that their wives are using them.

I tell my male friends and my female friends:

• In order for marital and other personal relationships and business relationships to work all parties have to pull their own weight.
• Each partner has to be genuine, sincere, honest and authentic or their relationship is going to fall apart, it isn’t going to work.

TOM FORD

TOM FORD, the Director writer of the screen play and one of the producers of Nocturnal Animals lives in London.

TOM FORD was previously the design director for Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, and YSL Beaute before launching his own fashion brand, the Tom Ford brand. in 2005.

TOM FORD never puts a foot wrong.

TOM FORD has a never ending power of invention, an infallible sense of provocation, that distinguishes modern fashion and modern movie making at its best.

In fact I will go as far as to say, with Nocturnal Nights TOM FORD has launched a new type of genre of film: THE HIP FILM.

TOM FORD’S great passion for detail and clear vision of his aesthetic goals are on display in Nocturnal Animals.

 TOM FORD orchestrates the characters’ in Nocturnal Animals experience of their worlds in such a way that every scene in Nocturnal Animals comes down to one single thing: a wonderful, sensual sensory experience.

Every moment one spends watching Nocturnal Nights is charged with erotic frisson.  Every person in the audience is perpetually on the edge of their seat wanting to know and never knowing what is going to happen next.

In short: TOM FORD is the Flaubert of movie making just as he was a visionary in the world of fashion, the Flaubert of fashion.

Admiration

I admire TOM FORD’S persistence and exactitude.

TOM FORD made sure that everything in every scene in Nocturnal Animals is “just so.”

The perfectionism shown in the final product – which is the experience of watching Nocturnal Animals – resonated with my own very personal demand for perfectionism in all elements of my existence.

I admire and love creativity.

I am attracted to people who are sui generus/generis.

TOM FORD, like myself, is a creature of his own invention.

I am all and am totally in favor of glamour and perfection.

So is TOM FORD.

• TOM FORD has a nimble mind.
• TOM FORD takes his work seriously.
• TOM FORD obviously sips from life’s full cup.

Without a doubt TOM FORD would be great company.

That is one of the many reasons I enjoyed Nocturnal Animals so much.

Nocturnal Animals Is A Refreshing Antidote to Tackiness

Like TOM FORD himself, and the clothes TOM FORD has designed, there is nothing tacky about Nocturnal Animals.

Brash Vision

Looking good requires work.

Nocturnal Animals is the latest manifestation of TOM FORD’S brash vision, seer’s confidence, attention to detail, and hard work.

Nocturnal Nights Is The Latest Well Conceived Successful Product of A Provocateur Visionary

As one perfectionist workaholic provocateur visionary to another, I salute you TOM FORD for a job well done.

Flashy Brassy Attitude

I share TOM FORD’S flashy brassy attitude.

Check out the flashy brassy attitude exhibited in my latest creative business venture Dude’s Guide to Women’s Shoes at http://www.dudesguidetowomensshoes.com.

Dude’s Guide to Women’s Shoes is a high hip quotient flamboyant hippie fest which appeals to style-aware goddesses.

DEADLINE

I have put myself under the pressure of a self-imposed deadline to finish writing this movie review in my living room before I go to my office this morning.

VICTIMS OF THEIR OWN INSECURITY

Many people are victims of their own insecurities.

That is why many people love and many other people hate Nocturnal Animals.

• Nocturnal Animals does not have a plot.
• Furthermore, Nocturnal Animals does not have a beginning, or a middle, or an end.
• More importantly, Nocturnal Animals is an impeccably well constructed out of order sequence of a series of scenes in the life of a woman who was her own worse enemy – a woman who became the victim of her own insecurities.

 A MOVIE FOR THE BROKEN HEARTED

The ideal audience for Nocturnal Animals are people whose hearts have been broken by their spouse and/or by their lover(s).

People who have not had their heart broken may or may not be able to [fully] appreciate Nocturnal Animals.

• Mature men who have had their heart broken, men who couldn’t get over their broken heart for a long time or for ever, and men who understand this movie, will love it.
• Mature women who have had their heart broken, who couldn’t get over their broken heart, and women who understand this movie, will also love it.

RULES TO LIVE BY & LESSONS TAUGHT

Nocturnal Animals screams out the following rules to live by and teaches the following lessons:

1. Don’t pair up with someone who is extremely insecure.  Such a relationship will never work.
2. People become happy when they let go of the perception of what they are supposed to be.  Be who you want to be.
3. You can’t make a better past.  Abandon all hope of bettering your past.
4. When you enjoy the absurdity in the world it is less painful.  People act absurdly.
5. Your soul must be the center of your universe.  If everybody in a family is not pulling their own weight the family unit is going to fail.
6. You can’t cheat reality.  You are responsible for your own life.  Fake is fake.
7. You can’t walk away all the time.  When you love somebody and they love you, work out your problems, don’t throw away your love for each other.

HAVE THE STRENGTH TO BELIEVE IN THE PERSON YOU LOVE OR ELSE LIVE A BARREN UNROMANTIC LIFE

The fatal flame-out causing flaw of the main character (Susan played by Amy Adams) in Nocturnal Animals is that she (Susan) did not believe in her first husband.

Her first husband had the strength to see in himself and the strength to believe in himself.

But, she (the main character Susan played by Amy Adams) did not have the strength to believe in her first husband or to ability to see the strength of her first husband.

Her first husband was passionately and romantically totally committed to her.

Her first husband wanted to share her life with her and for her to share his life with him.

Her first husband loved her totally.

Susan was not the right person for her first husband to marry because Susan was so shallow she was incapable of having an enduring relationship with him, good man though he is.

• Susan had no empathy.
• Susan had no emotional connection to her first husband.
• Susan was incapable – way to shallow to be able to share intimacy.
• When push came to shove she was not romantically involved with him enough to wait for his career to blossom.
• Susan did not love her husband enough to go through the ups and downs of life with him.
• Susan discovered she wanted a different life style that her struggling your writer husband could provide or that she could provide for herself as an artist.
• When the hormonal rush of good sex was over, Susan thought she saw that he was not right for her.
• Of course she was wrong.  She was not trustworthy, she was not reliable, she valued having money and “luxury creature comforts” over having a committed relationship.

Her beauty, her love of beauty and her love of financial success was a trap.

A WEAK WRONG HEADED UNROMANTIC WOMAN

SUMMARY: Nocturnal Animals consists of a sequence of scenes in the life of an extremely unhappy woman (Susan) who didn’t believe in a man who was her true and first love.

She became the victim of her own insecurities; her wrongheadedness and emotional weakness made her panic – made her runaway with a dashing successful handsome doctor who turned out to be a philanderer, who frequently went on business trips during which he had sex with “glamorous”  women.

In the end, Susan was very much alone and miserable.

The Beginning

Susan and her first husband knew each other and unbeknownst to each other had crushes on each other when they were in high school.

They met up again when they were graduate students.

• He wanted to be a writer.
• She wanted to be an artist.

After they reconnected in graduate school they discovered they were “in love” with each other and got “married” over the protest and against the advice of her mother.

Her mother told her, “He is poor.  You are rich.  You will never have the things or the life style you are accustomed to if you marry him.”

FAKE DOESN’T HAVE THE SAME FEEL AS REAL – FAKE FEELS FAKE BECAUSE FAKE IS FAKE

Nocturnal Animals shows how a child is going to turn out will depend in great part in what their parents instill in them as a child.

Nocturnal Animals teaches the lesson that parents do a great disservice to their children if and when they tell their children, “It is an easy to fall in love with someone who is rich as it is to fall in love with someone who is poor.”

Mature sophisticated worldly people know is not easy to “fall in love” with anyone.

Parents should tell their children,

• “It is completely unsatisfying to be in love with a person who you can’t get close to, to be married to a person who you can’t connect with, and it is pure hell to live with a person who doesn’t care enough about you.
• “People in the United States live in a highly manipulative society.
• “That is one of the reasons there are so many unhappy marriages.
• “When you find someone in your life that you connect to don’t let them get away.
• “Be real about yourself, about who you are and what you have to offer.
• “Marry someone who is genuine, authentic, sincere, honest and values a relationship that is committed to enduring and getting better.”

THE STRONG ONE STICKS TO WHAT THEY BELIEVE IN

Nocturnal Animals consists of a series of scenes in the life of the very distraught Susan (perfectly played by Amy Adams) and has a wonderful ending.

Go see Nocturnal Animals.

VISUALLY

Visually Nocturnal Nights starts with a presentation of totally nude very over-weight women dancing.

The women are completely nude.

We (the audience) see their entire nude bodies as they dance, pubic hair and everything else.

Next the audience sees the main character, (Susan) a beautiful successful art-gallery owner married to her second husband, a dashing handsome young doctor (perfectly played by Armie Hammer), in her Beverly Hills art-gallery.

Our eyes (the audience’s eyes) are directed to a giant sculpture of a overweight nude woman on the floor in Susan’s are-gallery.

The movie begins with a picture of obese women dancing without any clothes on.

Q: Why is that?

A: The opening scene is a hip metaphor graphically delivering TOM FORD’S message, “The rest of the world is laughing at overweight, unhealthy Americans.”

Gary S. Smolker, publisher, movie reviewer, social commentator
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Masculinity, Donald Trump, Cultural Cachet, Cultural Biology, Freedom of Speech, Vigorous Political Debate, Automaton Feminized Political Candidates, the Feminization & Neutering of the American Male, the Proposed Iran Nuclear Deal and Why Trump is Winning- by Gary S. Smolker

The Great King David was an extraordinary warrior, an accomplished musician, a skilled author, a man of great wisdom, and a dutiful Sheppard over his father’s flocks.

He was also courageous, passionate and flawed.

Few men in the Bible are as recognized for their manly qualities as he.

As he lay dying, he called his son Solomon to his bedside and gave him final instructions: “I am about to go the way of all the earth.  So be strong and show yourself a man.”

Feminized American Male Political Candidates and Politicians vs. The Pistol Packing Face Slapping Tough Guy From An Old Movie Political Candidate

The United States is at a decisive moment.

The American public is fed up listening to male political candidates who come across as feminized politically correct whimps and robots.

The majority of the American public is fed up with American political candidates who appear to be professional handholders and toadies.

The majority of the American public is fed up with politicians who act like, speak like and walk like a sheep.

The majority of the American public is fed up with politicians who project “a member of the flock” personality .

When robot politicians speak, the public readily feels their lack of authenticity and their smugness and shallowness.

Donald Trump is not one of the unmanly men seeking to become president of the United Sates.

Donald Trump is given to bold talk, bolder strategies, and has an authentic confrontational style.

His confrontational style ranges from brusque to insulting.

On top of that:

1. Donald Trump is disdainful and hostile towards the status quo.
2. His “in-your-face” style, take-no-prisoner-tactics and reputation engender strong feelings.
3. He loves to come on as gangbusters.
4. People get the feeling that Donald Trump is cut from a different cloth than other politicians; they get the feeling he is cut from the same plain course, ordinary cloth that they are cut from.
5. “Hostile” people see themselves when they listen to him speak out against the status quo.
6. Donald Trump is very effective and very successful in relating to people fed up with the status quo.
7. Other people don’t like anything about Donald Trump but enjoy listening to him and like what he is saying.
8. Donald Trump’s take-no-prisoners tactics are very appealing to many people.
9. Many people believe rules and regulations promulgated by the government and the government’s management of many aspects of everyone’s lives has gone too far – the government and its rules regulations and policies desperately need to be cleaned up and cleared out and that Donald Trump is just the bulldozer for the job.

Cultural Biology

Americans, and people all over the world, are raised on a cultural diet of movies portraying manly heroes, i.e. Selma, Mandela – the Long Walk to Freedom, and American Sniper.

The men in those movies were not whimps.

The heroes in Selma and Mandela- the Long Walk to Freedom were hostile and outspoken against the status quo.

The Rebel Instinct

We all have a rebel instinct that makes us instinctively resent being subordinated.

Why Trump Is Winning [updated on August 30, 2015]

Donald Trump has made himself impossible to look away from; everyone wants to know what Donald Trump will say next and Donald Trump’s fans are legion.

GOP Aristocrats have made it clear that Donald Trump is too hot for them (leaders of the Republican Party) and for the Republican party itself, to handle.

That thrills the rebel instinct in everyone who is not a GOP Aristocrat.

Donald Trump talks about things that are on everybody’s mind either before he talking about such things or after he starts talking.

Donald Trump promotes himself and has cleverly undermined his competition, i.e.

• by saying Jeb Bush is low energy;
• by saying all the other candidates are puppets controlled by major donors to their campaigns;
• by saying he is not beholden to anybody because he is not accepting major donations from major contributors;
• by saying he is against political correctness;
• by saying Washington doesn’t work because politicians are (incompetent) don’t know how to get anything of consequence in the real world done.

Donald Trump is in touch with the populist economic and political logic deeply ingrained in the American people and the everyday frustrations of average Americans and the hidden currents of American culture.

People understand what Donald Trump says and care about the things he talks about.

Donald Trump knows what people want.

People want what Donald Trump says he will deliver, “Make America Great Again.”

It is obvious that Donald Trump is a high energy person.

During his campaign Donald Trump has struck a posture of being uncompromising fuck-the-world of business as usual in politics who gets things done in the real world.

Donald Trump has completely out-maneuvered his competition.

Compared to his competition, Donald Trump is always thinking three steps ahead.

This is very appealing to many people.

The Liminal Contours of Human Perception

The human ear does not act as a microphone.

Instead it is an adaptive organ which natural selection has determined should (1) hear and interpret language and (2) provide an early warning system against enormous carnivorous cats.  It is only as good as it needs to be to achieve those goals and no better.

The strongest human instinct is to survive.

Americans do have brains and use their brains.

Their brains have neurons.

Neurons are the basic building blocks of the brain.

Mirror neurons cause humans to “experience” what they are seeing.

For example, if someone who agrees with what Donald Trump is saying or admires Donald Trump for speaking out in plain English in a “manly fashion” when watching/hearing Donald Trump “slay holy cows”  right and left that person will likely (if their mirror neurons are activated and firing) imagine themselves saying it.

Donald Trump appears to have no “off-switch.”

Donald Trump appears to be having a great time, doing “battle” with anyone who gets in his way.

Unlike other candidates Donald Trump does not a “flip-flop” and doesn’t seem to mind insulting other people.

He appears to relish his pugnacious take no prisoners reputation.

People imagine they are like Donald Trump when Donald Trump talks straight and acts tough.

Think of what you experience when you look at a person eating an apple – if you are like many other people you will be able to taste a little bit of that apple in your own mouth.

Mirror neurons cause most people watching other people having sexual intercourse to experience the same pleasure.

That is why Donald Trump is currently leading the polls of Republican candidates for President.

Donald Trump Gives People Pleasure

Watching other people have sexual intercourse on film (pornography) gives many people pleasure.

So much so that pornography is responsible for about thirty percent of the content on the Internet.

In the United States, pornography is about a $15 billion a year business.

I assume Donald Trump’s popularity as a political candidate is the result of the same mirror neuron effect that directly causes so many people to enjoy watching pornography.

Watching Donald Trump campaign for the Republican Party candidate to be the next president of the United States is the best entertainment on TV.

Donald Trump is giving all of us a masterful class in effective communications.

Anger in the United States

Lots of people in the United States, not only Republicans, are angry about many things.

They feel helpless.

They are hostile to the status quo.

For example, many parents, grandparents (including myself) and teachers are mad that standardized testing and rote memory have taken over our public schools.

Below is a copy of part of a note I sent my eldest daughter several minutes ago:

The world of standardized testing and rote memorization has taken over our schools.  Teachers are hamstrung by the battery of No. 2 pencil test and the requirement that they have every student “pass” forced on them.

As a result students are no longer “taught” how to write cursive.  Instead, they are forced to memorize facts.

The most intelligent kids are bored to death.

Smart kids spend their time in the typical public school being prepared to be drone workers. 

The smart kids are not being engaged in learning, they are not having their curiosity stimulated, they are not being exposed to things that will make them “wonder.”

They are being turned off by school instead of having their enormous founts of intellectual energy unlocked.

Smart kids are not being taught to take the risk of being alive.

Only people who take the risks of being alive – who take the risk of failing – cause great things to happen.

The idea that everyone is a winner is ridiculous.

There is such a thing as post trauma success syndrome:

1. People who fail learn from their mistakes which makes them a better person.
2. People who fail increase their tolerance for failure which enables them to take the risks that make new and better things happen. 

If everyone is tricked into thinking they are a winner they will never have their tolerance for failure increased.

The idea that it is more important to “help” the special needs child than the gifted child is also ridiculous.

Our public school systems

1. Are destructive of our kid’s curiosity;
2. Do not support opportunity for our children to wonder;
3. Do not introduce kids to things to wonder about, or increase our kids capacity to wonder. 

By destroying our kids innate capacity for wonder our school systems are destroying the possibility for bright future; “wonder” is the most pregnant human facility for in it are born our art, our science and our religion.

I agree with Neil Armstrong’s statement: “Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” – Neil Armstrong.

Unless our schools make our kids think, make our kids “wonder”, and introduce our kids to “mysteries” that make our kids think up questions they want to find answers to we are in big trouble.

Donald Trump definitely makes people wonder.

Additionally, Donald Trump makes people feel they are speaking out when he speaks out.

While Donald Trump is addressing facts and issues and things which some people agree with that piss other people off the people who agree with Donald Trump vicariously feel like they are doing that too.

The more some people criticize Donald Trump for being “a bad boy,” the more other people like him and the more “free publicity” he gets.

Donald Trump’s Well Deserved Notoriety and the Early Rolling Stones’ Publicity Campaigns

Many people think Donald Trump is a moron.  He is not a moron.

Donald Trump’s current “thumb in your eye bad boy campaign” to be the Republican candidate for president of the United States mirrors the early (1963) public relations campaigns and crusade to obtain publicity followed by the Rolling Stones before they were well known.

To many, Donald Trump is as mesmerizing as Mick Jagger.

By the way, Mick Jagger and Donald Trump are both a genius, both are a quick study who has successfully climbed a steep learning curve.

Arousing People

GETTING BACK TO WHAT CAUSES PLEASURE: Neuroscientists have determined that it is not merely the suggestion of sex shown in movies/pictures/images that arouses people.

A section of a person’s brain that provides the intense pleasure associated with having sex is “tricked” into believing he or she is having sex in the moment they watch other people having sexual intercourse.

Our mirror neurons fire [are activated] just as easily when we see an action on a screen as when we see it in real life.

We most positively react [via the firing of our mirror neurons] to people doing what we would like to be doing.

We positively react to people who are acting the way we think people should act.

We relate most positively to people we sense would understand and relate to us, to people we think will protect us.

That is the reason Donald Trump is surging ahead in the polls.

Unflagging Energy

Both Mick Jagger and Donald Trump have unflagging energy.

They are extraordinarily mesmerizing and aggressive.

They both have high energy and real world understanding of people.

They take everything to the next level.

They don’t play nice mannered music.

They are slyly subversive and massively appealing.

They have turned the “fame equation” on its head by becoming famous by not sitting up straight, by not behaving themselves and by not being nice.

They know exactly the impact they will have on other people.

In Donald Trump’s case he may be more famous for being infamous – his thumb in the eye political campaign – than for anything else.

They know exactly what they are doing – creating a buzz around them.

They both purposefully became famous by intentionally making you feel like they were putting their “thumbs in your eyes.”

They are a testament to the power of male self-confidence.

Donald the Bulldozer Trump stands out in the politically correct feminized world those of us living in the United States are currently living in.

Masculinity

Feminism and political correctness have emasculated (neutered) men.

Manhood is suffering today.

To be a man you have to do man things.

Many people are asking these days, “Where are all the real men?”

Call to Action

This Is A Wake Up Call:  America needs more real men because nothing great will ever be achieved without great men.

“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“A woman simply is, but a man must become.  Masculinity is risky and elusive…and it is confirmed only by other men.”  – Camile Paglia

“Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain.  And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.”  – Norman Mailer

“Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of man you long to be.”  – Thomas Carlyle

“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.  For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.”  – Charles de Gaulle

Thought for the Day

“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain

When U.S. President Obama and U.S. Presidential Political Candidate Hilary Clinton and the establishment of Republican political candidates criticize Hucklebee (spelling ?) for saying the proposed Iran Nuclear Deal is leading Israel to the oven — by saying ‘there is no place for rhetoric like that in politics’ — and no one stands up to defend Hucklebe’s right and ‘duty’ and ‘responsibility’ as a responsible citizen and political candidate to say that — its time for the rest of us to PUKE and to kiss our asses good bye.

You either believe in “free speech” or you don’t.

You either believe in vigorous political debate or your don’t.

If Hucklebe’s critics are the people who are going to lead the United States in the future we are in big trouble.

Hilary and Obama, wake up, context is everything, there is a time and a place for everything.  You don’t pass the “smell test.”

There are many reasons to vote for Trump and many reasons not to vote for Trump.

There are many reasons to vote for Hilary and many reasons not to vote for Hilary.

In the last analysis who you vote for depends entirely upon your imagination.

My Predictions

1. Neither Hillary Clinton, nor Barack Obama, nor the Republican establishment will be able to neuter former Arkansas governor Huckabee or Donald Trump.
2. Hopefully the former Arkansas governor will never be incorporated into a New York Times crossword puzzle, because if he were 50 thousand man hours will be lost to employers the following morning due to the tremendous amount of time  crossword puzzle solvers will spend trying to figure out how to spell Huckabee’s (spelling?) name .

Gary S. Smolker

 

 

 

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