It seems to me that your coverage of these POTUS speeches is some of the toughest work a correspondent could possibly take on. I don't know how you do it!
Well, at least the Big Guy has given you a four month break, or did I sleep through a couple since.
The thing in Cleveland is . . . how much *is* "Antifa" and "BLM" in bed with the Democrat Party?
So any bets on how long after tonight's speech it takes before they arrest Trump? I don't know what anyone else thinks, but it feels like that's what this all is building up to.
Darn time zones! Goin to miss all the fun. At least your thief in charge is entertaining in all the lunacy; ours is just as big a liar but is plain boring instead. Boring to the point she makes paint flake off trying to get away from her.
Oh well, guess I have all your comments to look forward to, with my morning coffee!
5) We're not in a recession, this is a record economy
6) We have to sacrifice for....
a) Climate Change
b) Ukraine
c) The "liberal world order"
7) I made gas prices go down
8) I'm going to forgive your student debt. Middle class Americans won't pay a penny
9) The IRS is going after billionaires. We're going to stop auditing poor people at 20X the rate of wealthy people.
10) Republicans are insurrectionists, traitors, criminals, seditionists, and Russian assets, and are all dangerous violent criminals before the fact
11) January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, plus weird new details like people were swinging morningstars and had flamethrowers and there were xenomorphs now
12) I didn't know anything about the raid I signed off for, Merrick Garland is a great guy
13) At least 1 menacing whisper
14) At least 1 menacing inappropriate, sudden shout
15) A wildly confusing statement about LBGT, Latino, or black people that will sound offensive and be cleaned up later
16) White supremacists, white nationalists, white corn
I always thought that Hilary Clinton's 2016 nail-in-her-political-coffin was when she denigrated DJT supporters by calling them deplorables. I thought the Dems would realize almost immediately the self-defeating nature of attacking voters, as opposed to trying to win them over.
BoyGirl, was I wrong.
Instead they expanded on the strategy, going all in on what every reasonable person (including the few reasonable Dems) can easily see as their nefarious goal: a one-party State.
Do they really think a majority of Americans *want* to be the next China/Russia?
They can't help it. Ask any liberal to explain why conservatives believe that liberals hate them, and the liberal will instead explain why they hate conservatives. They don't see that they are losing people on the margins with their 'with us or against us' strategy -- but it might be too late for that to matter, because they control the elections.
iow, they have already destroyed their supposed lodestar, democracy.
Are we all just survivalists now, some of us valiantly trying to ignore that we have already lost (in this pendulum swing at any rate) our un-kept republic to eternity? Or at least until enough of us decide not to go quietly in the night, which, of course, the Statists, with their F-15s, would love for us to *actually* do, because, you know, they would just use it like they use *every* other issue.
(btw, those F-15s, and virtually *all* modern warfare techniques stand no chance, ever, against a big enough (real) insurgency. We all know that, too.)
Even if we're destined to lose, that doesn't mean we go quietly into the night. The administration will reveal itself long before they 'win', and every time they do so, they lose support.
>> Do they really think a majority of Americans *want* to be the next China/Russia?
I believe THEY believe it's a real possibility, and worth betting on, and that's what they seem to be doing.
I think Hillary's "deplorable" moment was a calculated risk that failed. Democrats (and I think this is a major distinction from Republicans, if we can all resist "teh Uniparty" cliches for a moment) have been betting on demographics for quite a long time. A lot of their strategic thinking seems to be rooted in this notion that- one way or another- a population can be engineered that will create a permanent majority and then they can basically stop trying, and all of their most important and expensive work is in doing this engineering.
We need to be aware of and consider carefully that there ARE many Americans that want to be the next China/Russia- that are terrified of real or imagined risks, have been conditioned to be completely risk-averse, and to see the state as the best guarantor of safety. I think this is already a generational phenomenon.
In any psychological operation, when you see someone making a wild swing for the fences like "deplorables" and "MAGA Republicans" and "insurrectionists" and so on, this points to a specific strategy and mission. An actor doing this believes (or believes they know) that they have amassed enough support to win and do not need to persuade or convert anyone else, or that the ROI of efforts to do so has passed its tipping point; at this stage in an op, you put all your efforts into galvanizing your base to make sure they act (in this case, *probably* to show up and vote).
"A lot of their strategic thinking seems to be rooted in this notion that- one way or another- a population can be engineered that will create a permanent majority and then they can basically stop trying, and all of their most important and expensive work is in doing this engineering."
---------
Remember "demographics are destiny"? They assume they 'own' voters because of the color of their skin. There's a word for that........
Racism, plain and simple. In fact, the worst kind because of its insidiously quiet nature and its "good" government imprimatur in the minds of the ignorant.
But their is some daylight in the polls. It seems the "minorities" groups are completely made up of independently thinking individuals, just like we white ("entitled") are.
Of course, we Classical Liberals knew that all along. We are not racists.
Exactly. It's only the spreadsheets and the political macro view where all people are the same. In real life, OF COURSE there are black business owners and gay people who worry about their tax rate!
Ok, I thought for sure that the guy who was shot was white. But he wasn't so the lack of breathless reporting and violent BLM riots is beyond me.
Regarding the Biden speech, nobody in our household intends to watch it. After being shocked in real time by Biden's demonization of those critical-thinking people who refused to subject themselves to experimental jabs, we've got better things to do than be demonized and insulted again. Whatever he's going to accuse Republicans for, is what his own leftist party and totalitarian administration are already doing.
Simple: Both the BLM movers-and-shakers as well as those "breathless reporters" have been informed by the, uh...powers-that-be, to stand down lest attention is diverted from our silver-tongued supreme leader.
It's a declaration of war on Republicans or Russians. Hmm...maybe both?
It's hilarious how Joe Biden is going to lecture me about my behavior. Maybe the only person on the planet less suited to that job is Hillary Clinton. Or maybe Elizabeth Warren. Or Nancy Pelosi............
For the readers who aren't familiar with the term, "Taking one for the team" is a phrase in baseball that means getting hit with the pitch to advance the team's goal of getting runners on base.
In other words, subject yourself to harm for the collective.
In baseball, it works. In medical treatments, not so much.
A speech Mao or Stalin would have been proud of.
I'm indie, but I'm Maga for awhile
A disgusting, stupid speech. YouTube comments 90per cent against... Average dude knows the score.
Are they trying to start a war? I'm pissed and stunned.
This speech would never have occurred years before... Seems calculated
It seems to me that your coverage of these POTUS speeches is some of the toughest work a correspondent could possibly take on. I don't know how you do it!
Well, at least the Big Guy has given you a four month break, or did I sleep through a couple since.
Have to pass on any and all grandpa brandon speeches. Looking forward to your take on it. This I can appreciate. Thank you, 🙏
The thing in Cleveland is . . . how much *is* "Antifa" and "BLM" in bed with the Democrat Party?
So any bets on how long after tonight's speech it takes before they arrest Trump? I don't know what anyone else thinks, but it feels like that's what this all is building up to.
Would not surprise me in the least.
Darn time zones! Goin to miss all the fun. At least your thief in charge is entertaining in all the lunacy; ours is just as big a liar but is plain boring instead. Boring to the point she makes paint flake off trying to get away from her.
Oh well, guess I have all your comments to look forward to, with my morning coffee!
Brandon Bingo Card:
1) MAGA, Ultra-MAGA, or MAGA King
2) Get the new totally safe and completely different vaccine or we'll destroy you
3) "Semi-fascist," fascist, or Nazi
4) Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump
5) We're not in a recession, this is a record economy
6) We have to sacrifice for....
a) Climate Change
b) Ukraine
c) The "liberal world order"
7) I made gas prices go down
8) I'm going to forgive your student debt. Middle class Americans won't pay a penny
9) The IRS is going after billionaires. We're going to stop auditing poor people at 20X the rate of wealthy people.
10) Republicans are insurrectionists, traitors, criminals, seditionists, and Russian assets, and are all dangerous violent criminals before the fact
11) January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, plus weird new details like people were swinging morningstars and had flamethrowers and there were xenomorphs now
12) I didn't know anything about the raid I signed off for, Merrick Garland is a great guy
13) At least 1 menacing whisper
14) At least 1 menacing inappropriate, sudden shout
15) A wildly confusing statement about LBGT, Latino, or black people that will sound offensive and be cleaned up later
16) White supremacists, white nationalists, white corn
I can't believe it. My hit rate on this was AMAZING.
He was even more threatening than I expected him to be. Thanks, Uncle Joe, for another sleepless night of fear and rage!
Keep calling me evil. Go watch Richard III. I recommend the 80s PBS version.
I always thought that Hilary Clinton's 2016 nail-in-her-political-coffin was when she denigrated DJT supporters by calling them deplorables. I thought the Dems would realize almost immediately the self-defeating nature of attacking voters, as opposed to trying to win them over.
BoyGirl, was I wrong.
Instead they expanded on the strategy, going all in on what every reasonable person (including the few reasonable Dems) can easily see as their nefarious goal: a one-party State.
Do they really think a majority of Americans *want* to be the next China/Russia?
They can't help it. Ask any liberal to explain why conservatives believe that liberals hate them, and the liberal will instead explain why they hate conservatives. They don't see that they are losing people on the margins with their 'with us or against us' strategy -- but it might be too late for that to matter, because they control the elections.
"...they control the elections."
iow, they have already destroyed their supposed lodestar, democracy.
Are we all just survivalists now, some of us valiantly trying to ignore that we have already lost (in this pendulum swing at any rate) our un-kept republic to eternity? Or at least until enough of us decide not to go quietly in the night, which, of course, the Statists, with their F-15s, would love for us to *actually* do, because, you know, they would just use it like they use *every* other issue.
(btw, those F-15s, and virtually *all* modern warfare techniques stand no chance, ever, against a big enough (real) insurgency. We all know that, too.)
Even if we're destined to lose, that doesn't mean we go quietly into the night. The administration will reveal itself long before they 'win', and every time they do so, they lose support.
The optimist in me agrees with you, but every other day, it seems, I wonder.
I wonder how the polls could be showing such continued support for this wayward State and its one-party enablers and voters.
>> Do they really think a majority of Americans *want* to be the next China/Russia?
I believe THEY believe it's a real possibility, and worth betting on, and that's what they seem to be doing.
I think Hillary's "deplorable" moment was a calculated risk that failed. Democrats (and I think this is a major distinction from Republicans, if we can all resist "teh Uniparty" cliches for a moment) have been betting on demographics for quite a long time. A lot of their strategic thinking seems to be rooted in this notion that- one way or another- a population can be engineered that will create a permanent majority and then they can basically stop trying, and all of their most important and expensive work is in doing this engineering.
We need to be aware of and consider carefully that there ARE many Americans that want to be the next China/Russia- that are terrified of real or imagined risks, have been conditioned to be completely risk-averse, and to see the state as the best guarantor of safety. I think this is already a generational phenomenon.
In any psychological operation, when you see someone making a wild swing for the fences like "deplorables" and "MAGA Republicans" and "insurrectionists" and so on, this points to a specific strategy and mission. An actor doing this believes (or believes they know) that they have amassed enough support to win and do not need to persuade or convert anyone else, or that the ROI of efforts to do so has passed its tipping point; at this stage in an op, you put all your efforts into galvanizing your base to make sure they act (in this case, *probably* to show up and vote).
Thank you, M. Gut. That is very well put.
"A lot of their strategic thinking seems to be rooted in this notion that- one way or another- a population can be engineered that will create a permanent majority and then they can basically stop trying, and all of their most important and expensive work is in doing this engineering."
---------
Remember "demographics are destiny"? They assume they 'own' voters because of the color of their skin. There's a word for that........
Racism, plain and simple. In fact, the worst kind because of its insidiously quiet nature and its "good" government imprimatur in the minds of the ignorant.
But their is some daylight in the polls. It seems the "minorities" groups are completely made up of independently thinking individuals, just like we white ("entitled") are.
Of course, we Classical Liberals knew that all along. We are not racists.
Exactly. It's only the spreadsheets and the political macro view where all people are the same. In real life, OF COURSE there are black business owners and gay people who worry about their tax rate!
...political science.
#10 should be the free square.
And #11 should have multiple squares. (Or maybe I'll just play several cards!)
This is awesome, M. Guttermouth. I'm playing with friends!
you cant beat our F15s, give us your guns!
Bingo!
repeat the line...
Bing.....oh.
Don't forget the new one: I really really care about your safety! Not a joke!!
Can somebody count the number of times he takes the Lord's name in vain? Drives me nuts.
I can't listen. It drives me crazy how stupid he is.
Ok, I thought for sure that the guy who was shot was white. But he wasn't so the lack of breathless reporting and violent BLM riots is beyond me.
Regarding the Biden speech, nobody in our household intends to watch it. After being shocked in real time by Biden's demonization of those critical-thinking people who refused to subject themselves to experimental jabs, we've got better things to do than be demonized and insulted again. Whatever he's going to accuse Republicans for, is what his own leftist party and totalitarian administration are already doing.
Simple: Both the BLM movers-and-shakers as well as those "breathless reporters" have been informed by the, uh...powers-that-be, to stand down lest attention is diverted from our silver-tongued supreme leader.
It's a declaration of war on Republicans or Russians. Hmm...maybe both?
I hope you will be posting simultaneously………please.
I write as he talks and post as soon as he's done.
Oh, good, I can breath.
So very rich. Commies always blame others for what they are doing.
Southern poverty law center great example. And commies in White House
It's hilarious how Joe Biden is going to lecture me about my behavior. Maybe the only person on the planet less suited to that job is Hillary Clinton. Or maybe Elizabeth Warren. Or Nancy Pelosi............
Throw in false pope Francis and you've got a starting Lakers lineup, once all the basketball players keel over
Oh gosh a speech tonite?! Ugh so glad you are watching so I dont have to. He makes me so nervous. And mad. Haha
This is what we call 'Taking one for the team'.
I laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed when that was one of the 'mottos' of the vax campaign.
Thank you!
Oh damn!! 😂
For the readers who aren't familiar with the term, "Taking one for the team" is a phrase in baseball that means getting hit with the pitch to advance the team's goal of getting runners on base.
In other words, subject yourself to harm for the collective.
In baseball, it works. In medical treatments, not so much.
But it's against the rules (sort of, technically) in baseball, and it *should* be against the rules in politics.
But, yeah, clueless of them to use the phrase.
The utterly incomprehensible depths to which we have sunk that society doesn’t even challenge this stuff is astounding.
45 per cent of us are....
There was a belligerent crowd outside... I couldn't hear much... But ill get audio sometime
clear as day murder
Yep. But no bricks randomly showing up downtown for the 'spontaneous' mob to use to throw through windows.....
oh, i was talking about listening to brandon!
Best bait and switch in...I can't remember! (And I was about to argue with you!)
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahha
NGL....I live for your Brandon live posts. It's the only way I can consume what the retard-in-chief has to say.
I was pleasantly surprised when I saw he was speaking today, because the satire basically writes itself. ;)
"...pleasantly surprised..."?
Easy satire source or not, that's a novel reaction to the prospect of a Biden speech.
Also…funny! 😂