An ageing, White, billionaire property owner who is larger than life, entertaining, plugged into the political, business and cultural networks, who has always run his mouth, has a huge ego, has many kids by many women, and has often been attacked as a racist and a sexist by the many people who hate his guts.

Why it’s as if Bob Jones is the Trump of New Zealand!

Perhaps that’s the real reason for his visceral loathing of the man, as shown here in June 2024 and here just the other day – with a crack at his running mate, (The J D Vance Implosion) for good measure:

He is clearly charisma-free and I’ll wager that within a week of Trump losing against Harris, Trump will publicly turn on his enforced running mate to blame.

Vance has of course very much not imploded since then but instead proved to be a smart, tough and capable sidekick to Trump, especially when engaging the MSM – in stark contrast to the actual implosion of his Democrat counterpart, the chubby, babblemouth, “knucklehead”, Tim Walz.

Further evidence of Jones’s appreciation of US politics was that he thought Pete Buttigieg the man who should have been the Democrat candidate in 2020. I’d wager that Jones has never once been able to stomach the smooth bullshit of McKinsey-type management consultants in his life, of which Buttigieg was once one and whose training and “skill” oozes from every pore, as well as being so incompetent in his Biden-appointed job that most of America for once know who the Secretary of Transport is.

Here’s a taste of more of old Bobby’s bile about Trump – and his supporters:

Trump is an abomination. Absolutely nothing good can be said about him, He’s a disgrace, not merely to America but to the entire human race.
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An astonishing ignoramus who relies on lies and personal abuse, is a convicted rapist, a property developer who not a single US bank will lend to, and so on and on.
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America can then get on with its most urgent business, namely getting Trump to his ultimate destination, namely a prison cell for his past crimes.
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But one thing we can be absolutely certain about and that is should Trump lose, there will be a virtual civil war outcome of mass rioting by his largely pig-ignorant supporters.

And so on and on and on and….

I checked his blog back in time and was surprised how much he’s written about Trump over the last few years, and how much of it – like the “convicted rapist” and banks not wanting to lend to Trump – was just regurgitated MSM bullshit, which in turn was regurgitated Democrat Party talking points. One might almost say it’s pig-ignorant.

Even after the first assassination attempt, Jones merely relayed a story of how, as a teenager, he shot himself in the foot with a .22, and that it was no big deal. Missing the point deliberately of course because he couldn’t bring himself to acknowledge Trump’s fortitude and courage in the moment – much like Far Lefter Selwyn Manning’s crack about Trump’s “rat cunning” to create that echo of history:

As a result of reading all this dreck I’ve come to the conclusion that the real reason has nothing to do with Trump’s personality, let alone his policies (on tariffs for example, which free trader Jones naturally opposes, cursing out small farmers and factory workers as people too useless to get with the modern world and compete, or national defence, Jones being very much contemptuous of nationality and the wars that it brings).

No, I think the real reason for this unrelenting tide of hatred was revealed several years ago in a quote from Jones that I put into a post about reactions then to Trump, Proles and Deplorables:

Trump similarly ranted to vast public meetings, also largely attended by the economic underclasse…the oaf’s relentless whipping up mass chanting by his visibly lower social level audiences…

While I explored that quite a bit in that 2021 post – including the fact that this includes chunks of the GOP who, in the words of Tucker Carlson…

The main problem, and this really is the main problem on the right, is that the people who run the Republican Party don’t really like their own voters. They especially don’t want the voters that Trump brought. Trump brought a noticeably downscale element to the party’s ranks, and this horrifies them.

… it was captured perfectly even further back in time, late 2008 in fact, by the American humorist, Iowahawk, as he wrote of the reaction to GOP VP nominee, Sarah Palin, who in so many ways prefigured Trump. The following piece is from the “fictional” character of one T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII, columnist of The National Topsider (and you know who Iowahawk was aiming at).

As a Conservative, I Must Say I Do Quite Like the Cut of this Obama Fellow’s Jib.

There are many cutting passages:

One imagines him at the helm of the Ship of State, basked in the sunlight diffusing through the seaspray over the bow, like some beautiful rugged Othello from a rapturous Ralph Lauren catalog, calmly issuing instructions to the deck crew in that magnificent mellifluous baritone of his. It’s that easy-going, almost effortless grace that has all the A-list conservatives like David Frum and Kathleen Parker whispering Reaganesque in hushed tones. Even Peggy Noonan — the Grand Dame of Gipperism — has succumbed to Obama’s undeniable conservative charms. Just last month I listened to her wax poetic about the Adonis of Chicago between chukkers at the Newport Club polo tournament final.  “Why Peggy, you old dowager,” I quipped, “I believe you just had an orgasm”.

I’ll let you guess where each of those names stand on the matter of Trump today.

As for his so-called radical ties, who among us hasn’t sent dinner party invitations to Gore Vidal and a leftwing terrorist or two to enliven the postprandial conversation? Leonard Bernstein loved hosting all manner of Weathermen and Black Panthers and Symbionese Liberation Army celebrities at his Park Avenue pied a terre, but it didn’t mean the Maestro wasn’t in favor of low taxes. On the contrary; I know for a fact he itemized every cent of the catering bills for his famous terrorist cocktail parties.
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Certainly there may be a tax increase or two, but isn’t that what estate attorneys and Cayman Island banks are for? Under a worst case scenario some of us may have to set up a lease-back depreciation arrangement on one or two of our vacation compounds, as Dad was forced to in the dark years of Carter. 

Ah yes. Low taxes are the cure all – plus zero tariffs and the open borders which provide the low wage cocktail waiters and busboys, as well the fruit and vege pickers. But Mr Van Voorhees VII soon gets to the heart of the matter, which is far beyond fights over taxation and ties to radicals – and again this sounds so familiar in 2024:

But there is an even more compelling reason to support Barack Obama: Sarah Palin.
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It’s an inescapable conclusion that this woman has, in 6 short weeks, single-handedly destroyed the Republican party. Certainly George Bush may share some of the blame; but we conservatives must remember how our hopes were buoyed by his impressive bloodlines and Yale degree before we realized his excursion to Texas had caused him to “go native.” But la Palin offers true conservatives no such extenuating graces. I mean, my God, this woman is simply awful; the elided vowels, the beauty pageantry, the guns, the crude non-Episcopal protestantism, the embarrassing porchload of children with horrifying hillbilly names, the white after Labor Day. As fellow conservative commentator Andrew Sullivan quipped to me the other day outside a Martha’s Vineyard antique shop, it’s gratifying to know the Gipper isn’t alive to see what has become of his party.

And then there’s the reaction to all this from America’s friends around the world:

Just last week conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks and I were enjoying an apres-badminton apertif at the family weekend house in Montauk with my good friend Viscount Klaus-Maria Von Wallensheim, the conservative EU Agricultural Pricing Minister with whom I shared an Alpine chalet and manservant during our years as classmates at a Swiss boarding school.

“Kloonkie” (my old school appellation for the Viscount) reported the growing dismay of the Continental Right over Palin’s embarrassing enthusiasm for childbirth and Israel. “Coddsie, old chap,” he warned, “You know I’ve always been America’s biggest defender in Monaco. But if you elect this ill-bred charwoman, I will be forced to move anchor to St. Tropez out of pure shame.”

The “conservative EU Agricultural Pricing Minister, Viscount Klaus-Maria Von Wallensheim” always gets me.

TBF the saving grace of such people is that they would never react like this: