https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/06/the_big_club_spit_on_trump_but_embraces_biden.html
“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it” is one of comedian George Carlin’s more memorable lines and a succinct summation of the US federal government. The “Big Club” is the establishment, deep state, cabal, elites, ruling class, or whatever you want to call those in power.
Looking at politicians, it is clear 主语从句who is in the big club and who is not. Most Democrats are in the big club, with few exceptions such as Bernie Sanders or members of The Squad. They may serve as useful idiots to further the Democrat agenda but will never get close to the reins of power, 状语从句as Bernie learned twice during his ill-fated presidential campaigns.
Some Republicans are club members, typically those 分词定语referred to as RINOs – Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, the Bushes, and former conservatives, now known as NeverTrumpers. Media cranks like Chuck Todd, Jake Tapper, and Chris Wallace are in the big club. Other media bigwigs like Rush Limbaugh were never in the club.
Members of Congress not in the Big Club are treated like leppers, examples being Devin Nunes, Lauren Boebert, and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
A simple litmus test is 表语从句whether someone is given a pass for transgressions 定语从句that would normally land someone not in the club in prison. Think Bill and Hillary Clinton or Hunter Biden. BLM rioters are part of the club and released from jail lickety-split. Those分词定语 let into the US Capitol on January 6 by Capitol Police, not part of the club, are rotting away in solitary confinement for months.
Donald Trump was the first president since Ronald Reagan to not be a Big Club member. Reagan at least had the advantage of being a major state governor and Hollywood actor, giving him one foot in the Big Club, although that was a different time状语从句 when media and entertainment weren’t hyper-partisan leftists
Trump, despite being an Ivy League graduate with a successful television, entertainment, and real estate career, never held political office. He was once a darling of the Big Club, back in the days 状语从句when he donated to Democrats and Republicans alike. Jesse and Al were happy to pose for affectionate photos with The Donald 状语从句before he entered the political sphere and miraculously transformed into a racist bigot and was kicked out of the Big Club.
Trump speaks with a Queens accent, acting 8in a brash and in-your-face manner, using Twitter, before the social media Big Club banned him, to work around a monolithic media定语从句 that despised him and worked tirelessly to undermine his presidency and agenda. Most politicians, media, entertainment, sports, big business, and international elites constantly reminded Trump宾语从句 that “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.”
This club extends far beyond America’s borders. Europe is filled with political bon vivants – Merkel, Macron, Johnson – and the tea and scone crowd in the EU bureaucracy. French President Emmanuel Macron admitted as much during the recent G-7 meeting wokefest.
We have to face a lot of challenges, a lot of crises, climate change, and for all these issues, what we need is cooperation, and I think it’s great to have a US President part of the club and very willing to cooperate.
As expected, Trump immediately replied.
This was a quote by the President of France. He and many other Leaders before him, in France and throughout Europe, were ripping off the United States like never before. We were treated very unfairly with horrible trade deals, and paying for a large portion of their defense. They were taking advantage of the United States and therefore, of course, they like Biden 状语从句because now they will be allowed to return to their old ways of ripping off our Country. 状语从句If I were a leader of these countries, I too would like Biden far better than President Trump. They will now get very rich off the United States just like they have in the past 状语从句until a change is made. I am for AMERICA FIRST!
The haughty European leaders are delighted to have a fellow wokester in the White House. Not a neanderthal like Trump 定语从po句who insisted that European countries “pay their fair share” for NATO defense. Or stand up to Russia, China, and Iran. And support Israel. And refuse to spend US taxpayers’ financial futures on green new deal boondoggles.
Biden will do 宾语从句what his puppet masters tell him to do, insuring his seat at the big boys’ table at the Big Club. Just look 宾语从句how the media treated Biden versus Trump at their respective G-7 meetings.
From CNN, the least trusted name in news. Here is what they said about the two American presidents.
About Biden, “Joe Biden is stepping onto the world stage for the first time as president, an equal to foreign leaders.”
About Trump, “Adding to a deepening G-7 divide, better put perhaps as G-6 versus one.”
Why the difference? Biden or any other Democrat president is in the Big Club. And Republicans are not. Not just the Orange Man, but the previous Republican president, George W Bush, 定语从句who was “highly unpopular” with the European elites according to Pew Research.
Now Pew is singing a different tune, saying “America’s image abroad rebounds with transition from Trump to Biden.” Nothing raises the spirits of European elites like aiding the anemic Russian economy by buying Putin’s natural gas while dotting the beautiful European countryside with giant windmills. Or crapping on Israel in favor of “death to America” Iran. And finally having American taxpayers foot the bill for European virtue signaling.
Biden is treated as the second coming, 状语从句even though he can’t get through a press conference or simple question without bumbling and babbling. Yet Trump, 定语从句who was clear, direct, and always confidently a master of the facts, is the skunk at the garden party. One man is in the Big Club and one is not.
Standing up for America is anathema to the Big Club. As are a strong American economy, secure borders, favoring American businesses, and support of the Judeo-Christian values 定语从句which have guided America to greatness for over two centuries.
Instead, the Big Club stands for identity politics, a weaponized government, open borders, an unlimited welfare state, and a fast track to socialism or worse. As long as those in the Big Club get theirs, living in safe gated communities, enjoying vacation homes far from BLM riots定语从句 which they encourage, sending their children to private schools, and avoiding rules and laws定语从句 that apply not to them but only to the hoi polloi deplorables.
Trump was the last stand against the Big Club, and barring a remarkable reversal of fortune, it appears 主语从句that the Big Club has won, and as sore winners, will rub everyone’s nose in their newfound power.
Brian C Joondeph, MD, is a physician and writer. He is on sabbatical from social media.
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