He just misses telling the horrible truth that the anti-democratic right are the legitimate offspring of their elders and legitimators in spite of themselves, the anti-democratic left.
It happened in Spain.
It happened in Weimar.
The Trap The Democrats Walked Right Into
But here’s one thing I have absolutely no conflict about.
Rioting and lawlessness is evil. And any civil authority that permits, condones or dismisses violence, looting and mayhem in the streets disqualifies itself from any legitimacy.
This comes first.
If one party supports everything I believe in but doesn’t believe in maintaining law and order all the time and everywhere, I’ll back a party that does.
In that sense, I’m a one-issue voter, because without order, there is no room for any other issue.
Disorder always and everywhere begets more disorder; the minute the authorities appear to permit such violence, it is destined to grow.
And if liberals do not defend order, fascists will.
I don't live where the rioters are running free, and I doubt AS does.
And my one issue is that I will never vote for a party sworn to kill me, but will instead vote for the party sworn to keep me alive.
I crucially need both Social Security and Medicare to avoid ending my life sleeping in an alley, fighting stray dogs for pizza out of a dumpster.
The GOP is profoundly devoted to destroying both of those, called "entitlements", by the way, because having paid to support both all our working lives we who now depend on them are entitled to count on them.
And so far the Dems are committed to coming through for us.
And as I’ve watched protests devolve over the summer into a series of riots, arson expeditions, and lawless occupations of city blocks, along with disgusting and often racist profanity, I’ve begun to feel similarly.
And when I watched the Democratic Convention and heard close to nothing about ending this lawlessness, I noted the silence.
. . . .
When a political party finds itself so wedded to a new and potent ideology it cannot call out violence when it sees it, then it is walking straight into a trap.
When the discourse on the left has become one in which scholars and editors and Tweeters vie with one another to up the ante on how inherently evil America has always been, redescribe it as a slaveocracy, and endorse racist books that foment the most egregious stereotypes about “whiteness”, most ordinary people, who love their country and are mostly proud of its past, will rightly balk.
One of the most devastating lines in president Trump’s convention speech last night was this:
“Tonight, I ask you a very simple question: How can the Democrat Party ask to lead our country when it spends so much time tearing down our country?”
A cheap shot, yes.
But in the current context, a political bullseye.
. . . .
And look at the icons Trump invoked: Wyatt Earp, Annie Oakley, Davy Crockett, and Buffalo Bill. You can mock.
But in the midst of a culture being redescribed by the left as a form of foul and relentless “white supremacy”, and in a moment of arson and rioting, it felt like a kind of balm.
All this reassurance played out against a backdrop of Kenosha, which was burning, and Minneapolis, where a suicide led to a bout of opportunistic looting, and Washington DC, where mobs of wokesters went through the city chanting obscenities, invading others’ spaces, demanding bystanders raise fists in solidarity, with occasional spasms of violence.
These despicable fanatics, like it or not, are now in part the face of the Democrats: a snarling bunch of self-righteous, entitled bigots, chanting slogans rooted in pseudo-Marxist claptrap, erecting guillotines — guillotines! — in the streets as emblems of their agenda.
They are not arguing; they are attempting to coerce.
And liberals, from the Biden campaign to the New York Times, are too cowardly and intimidated to call out these bullies and expel them from the ranks.
. . . .
It was a sign that the establishment left were willing to tolerate disorder and chaos if they were directed toward the ideologically correct ends — which is how Democratic establishments in Minneapolis and Seattle and Portland responded.
The NYT, CNN and the rest tried to ignore the inexcusable, and find increasingly pathetic ways to dismiss it.
This week, their staggering bias was exposed as absurd.
. . . .
And let’s be frank about this and call this by its name: this is very Weimar.
The center has collapsed.
Armed street gangs of far right and far left are at war on the streets.
Tribalism is intensifying in every nook and cranny of the culture.
The establishment right and mainstream left tolerate their respective extremes because they hate each other so much.
And so on.
He pretty much predicts the worst, even if Biden wins.
Showing posts with label Donald Trump. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donald Trump. Show all posts
Sunday, August 30, 2020
Trump lies all the time, except when the truth makes him look good.
Trump: Protesters Your Ass, They Are Not Protesters; They Are Anarchists, Agitators, Rioters & Looters
And assholes, but he left that out.
President Donald Trump criticized the protests and riots that ensued in the streets of Washington, D.C. following his acceptance of the Republican nominee for president at the White House.
Trump said Friday at a campaign event in Manchester, NH that they are anarchists, agitators, rioters, looters who do not get denounced by Democratic politicians.
"Today's Democrat party is filled with hate," Trump said Friday.
"Just look at Joe Biden's supporters on the streets screaming and shouting at bystanders with unhinged, manic rage. Right? You see it. It's crazy. You ought to see last night in Washington, it was a disgrace. It was a disgrace that these people are representing the United States of America. It was a disgrace."
"Protesters. You know what I say? Protesters, your ass. I don't talk about my ass. They're not protesters. Those aren't protesters. Those are anarchists, they're agitators, they're rioters, they're looters. You say that and some of the people, not all of the people, back there how dare you? These are friendly protesters, right?" Trump said.
Trump said Friday at a campaign event in Manchester, NH that they are anarchists, agitators, rioters, looters who do not get denounced by Democratic politicians.
"Today's Democrat party is filled with hate," Trump said Friday.
That's a lie, but the Democrats sure are walking right into it.
Antifa and anarchists have no love for Democrats and may even hope their violence gets a win for Trump.
Maybe some of the BLM or other radical racial left, too.
Antifa and anarchists have no love for Democrats and may even hope their violence gets a win for Trump.
Maybe some of the BLM or other radical racial left, too.
"Protesters. You know what I say? Protesters, your ass. I don't talk about my ass. They're not protesters. Those aren't protesters. Those are anarchists, they're agitators, they're rioters, they're looters. You say that and some of the people, not all of the people, back there how dare you? These are friendly protesters, right?" Trump said.
A propos de reparations
Has anyone mentioned that blackmailers always come back for more?
The fearless troll in the White House, maybe?
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Harris on Trump: His plan to kill the payroll tax will kill Social Security in less than two years, and his Justice Department is in court right now trying to kill every bit of Obamacare, including the only protection for people with preexisting conditions
On the wrong side of the Blake affair and the Floyd/BLM riots.
But right on the rest.
Trump plan to scrap payroll tax would reduce benefits by 2021, top Social Security actuary says
But right on the rest.
Trump plan to scrap payroll tax would reduce benefits by 2021, top Social Security actuary says
Pelosi to Joe B.: Don't debate Trump
Speaker Pelosi says Biden shouldn't debate President Trump because he will 'belittle' the purpose
"I myself -- just don't tell anybody who told you this, especially don't tell Joe Biden: I don't think that there should be any debates," Pelosi, D-Calif., volunteered during a news conference with reporters at the Capitol Thursday morning.
"I do not think that the president of the United States has comported himself in a way that anybody should [and] has any association with truth, evidence, data and facts."
Biden insists he will debate Trump after Pelosi remarks
"I myself -- just don't tell anybody who told you this, especially don't tell Joe Biden: I don't think that there should be any debates," Pelosi, D-Calif., volunteered during a news conference with reporters at the Capitol Thursday morning.
"I do not think that the president of the United States has comported himself in a way that anybody should [and] has any association with truth, evidence, data and facts."
Biden insists he will debate Trump after Pelosi remarks
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday said that he would debate President Trump shortly after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested that Biden shouldn’t “legitimize” the incumbent president by participating in debates.
“No. As long as the commission continues down the straight now as they have, I’m going to debate him,” Biden told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell when asked whether he would consider not debating Trump following Pelosi’s comments.
“I am going to be the fact checker on the stage while I’m debating him,” Biden continued.
Pence, GOP overshoot the mark, shoot selves in foot.
NPR plays a clip of Pence last night telling America the riots everywhere must stop, Americans must stop hurting and killing Americans, Biden is complicit with the rioters and will not make Americans safe, but he and Trump will not tolerate rioting and violence and destruction, Trump will put an end to it and make Americans safe!
Vote for Trump and he'll put a stop to it!
NPR interviewer to GOP spokesperson:
Really? Why wait?
Trump is in the White House now and has been for nearly four years, over all the time the rioting has been happening.
It's all happening on his watch. Why wait?
Vote for Trump and he'll put a stop to it!
NPR interviewer to GOP spokesperson:
Really? Why wait?
Trump is in the White House now and has been for nearly four years, over all the time the rioting has been happening.
It's all happening on his watch. Why wait?
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Angry Hillary and her advice for Joe B.
Hillary Clinton urges Biden not to concede in close election
"Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances because I think this is going to drag out and, eventually, I do believe he will win if we don't give an inch and if we are as focused and relentless as the other side," Clinton said in an interview with Showtime's "The Circus."
Clinton, who won almost three million more votes than Trump overall in 2016 but lost to him in the state-by-state electoral college count, suggested that the Republicans are hoping to get the result they want through in-person voting on the day -- and not necessarily wait for any delayed mail-in ballots to be counted.
Her comments follow warnings from both sides that the result of the election may not be known on the evening of November 3.
Republicans "have a couple of scenarios that they are looking toward. One is messing up absentee balloting," she said.
"They believe that helps them so that they then get maybe a narrow advantage in the electoral college on election day," Clinton said.
She called for Democrats to mount a "massive legal operation."
"We have to have our own teams of people to counter the force of intimidation that the Republicans and Trump are going to put outside polling places," she said.
Republicans have reacted by saying the Dems are undermining an eventual Trump win in advance and will reject a Trump win as crooked.
They say the same about Dem complaints about the Post Office and Trump's refusal to give it money.
"Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances because I think this is going to drag out and, eventually, I do believe he will win if we don't give an inch and if we are as focused and relentless as the other side," Clinton said in an interview with Showtime's "The Circus."
Clinton, who won almost three million more votes than Trump overall in 2016 but lost to him in the state-by-state electoral college count, suggested that the Republicans are hoping to get the result they want through in-person voting on the day -- and not necessarily wait for any delayed mail-in ballots to be counted.
Her comments follow warnings from both sides that the result of the election may not be known on the evening of November 3.
Republicans "have a couple of scenarios that they are looking toward. One is messing up absentee balloting," she said.
"They believe that helps them so that they then get maybe a narrow advantage in the electoral college on election day," Clinton said.
She called for Democrats to mount a "massive legal operation."
"We have to have our own teams of people to counter the force of intimidation that the Republicans and Trump are going to put outside polling places," she said.
Republicans have reacted by saying the Dems are undermining an eventual Trump win in advance and will reject a Trump win as crooked.
They say the same about Dem complaints about the Post Office and Trump's refusal to give it money.
CDC caves to Trump again
‘This change in policy will kill’: Experts troubled by CDC changes to COVID-19 testing guidelines
CDC refuses to explain the changes, Brett Giroir at HHS, a Trump stooge who has already publicly downplayed the need for testing, says it's all cool.
Before changes were made Monday, the CDC website said testing was recommended “for all close contacts of persons with SARS-CoV-2 infection.”
The website now says someone who was in close contact (within 6 feet) of a person with COVID-19 for at least 15 minutes but doesn’t have symptoms does not “necessarily need a test.”
. . . .
The CDC estimates in its COVID-19 Pandemic Planning Scenarios that 40% of infections are asymptomatic and 50% of transmissions occur before symptoms appear. Experts worry that failing to test asymptomatic carriers could not only result in more infections but also hinder contact tracing efforts.
Larry Kudlow: Covid-19 is pretty much behind us, thanks to Trump.
'It was awful': Top Trump adviser Larry Kudlow referred to the pandemic in the past tense on a day the US recorded 1,147 COVID-19 deaths
One of President Donald Trump's top advisers referred to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in the past tense Tuesday during the second night of the Republican National Convention, appearing to suggest that the worst was behind the US on a day it recorded more than 1,100 deaths from COVID-19.
Larry Kudlow, the director of the White House National Economic Council, touted the strong economy during the first three years of the Trump presidency before describing the recession caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
"Then came a once-in-100-year pandemic," he said.
"It was awful. Health and economic impacts were tragic. Hardship and heartbreak were everywhere. But presidential leadership came swiftly and effectively with an extraordinary rescue for health and safety to successfully fight the COVID virus."
One of President Donald Trump's top advisers referred to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in the past tense Tuesday during the second night of the Republican National Convention, appearing to suggest that the worst was behind the US on a day it recorded more than 1,100 deaths from COVID-19.
Larry Kudlow, the director of the White House National Economic Council, touted the strong economy during the first three years of the Trump presidency before describing the recession caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
"Then came a once-in-100-year pandemic," he said.
"It was awful. Health and economic impacts were tragic. Hardship and heartbreak were everywhere. But presidential leadership came swiftly and effectively with an extraordinary rescue for health and safety to successfully fight the COVID virus."
Alternative facts
Democratic facts:
Trump's response to the virus has been undermined from the beginning by denial, lies, underfunding, delay, inaction, and shirking of responsibility. These have caused tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths so far, deaths that could and should have been prevented, and will cause perhaps hundreds of thousands before this is over.
Republican facts:
The response is agreed by medical authorities to have saved hundreds of thousands of lives so far and will save many more before this is over, compared with what would have happened if nothing had been done at all.
Trump's response to the virus has been undermined from the beginning by denial, lies, underfunding, delay, inaction, and shirking of responsibility. These have caused tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths so far, deaths that could and should have been prevented, and will cause perhaps hundreds of thousands before this is over.
Republican facts:
The response is agreed by medical authorities to have saved hundreds of thousands of lives so far and will save many more before this is over, compared with what would have happened if nothing had been done at all.
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
What do you know? He's not dead.
Pat Buchanan.
Today's column is a celebration of the Buchananite takeover of the GOP in the person of the Duce, Donald Trump.
For him, in utter delirium, Buchanan even abandons his decades of anti-Israeli sentiment and propaganda and celebrates Trump's Zionism.
Not entirely happy with the Duce's current hostility toward China regarding Hong Kong, however.
He doesn't see it part of the virus-connected shift for the election year.
He's very please with all the stuff about NATO and Putin and trade and Iran and global warming and and and.
And race.
A Most Consequential Presidency
A reminder of Pat's preference for authoritarian populism over rule of law republicanism and popular government.
A preference that emerged only when the rise of the Duce emboldened Buchanan.
Today's column is a celebration of the Buchananite takeover of the GOP in the person of the Duce, Donald Trump.
For him, in utter delirium, Buchanan even abandons his decades of anti-Israeli sentiment and propaganda and celebrates Trump's Zionism.
Not entirely happy with the Duce's current hostility toward China regarding Hong Kong, however.
He doesn't see it part of the virus-connected shift for the election year.
He's very please with all the stuff about NATO and Putin and trade and Iran and global warming and and and.
And race.
A Most Consequential Presidency
A reminder of Pat's preference for authoritarian populism over rule of law republicanism and popular government.
A preference that emerged only when the rise of the Duce emboldened Buchanan.
Andrea Mitchell is being slapped around by Peter Navarro on plasma and a rushed vaccine
He's brushing off all worries about proper testing as mere Democrat talking points, bragging they will have a vaccine in a third the time it has taken in the past.
Hurray for Trump!
He has no clue how terrifying he and his idiot boss are.
I may just hunker down until March.
Hurray for Trump!
He has no clue how terrifying he and his idiot boss are.
I may just hunker down until March.
Monday, August 24, 2020
Now that's a really big tent
This is not Joe Biden running to his left.
Nuh un.
Democratic campaign launches 'Republicans for Biden' as Flake, former GOP lawmakers endorse him
On the first day of the GOP convention Monday, Democratic nominees Joe Biden and Kamala Harris picked up support from 27 former GOP members of Congress, including former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump before and after retiring in 2018 -- in the latest act of defiance from Republicans against the sitting president who represents their party.
. . . .
Along with the endorsements, the Biden campaign is launching "Republicans for Biden," which they say will be a "national effort to engage Republicans who are supporting Biden this fall," and will "encourage Republicans to organize their communities for Biden using the Vote Joe app and other relational organizing tools."
It comes a few days after more than 70 former Republican national security officials, including some former members of the Trump administration, came out in support of Biden's bid for president last week, releasing an open letter that offered a scathing rebuke of Trump's first term.
. . . .
Republicans endorsing Biden include:
Senator Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.
Senator Gordon Humphrey, R-N.H.
Senator John Warner, R-Va.
Congressman Steve Bartlett, R-Texas
Congressman Bill Clinger, R-Pa.
Congressman Tom Coleman, R-Mo.
Congressman Charlie Dent, R-Pa.
Congressman Charles Djou, R-Hawaii
Congressman Mickey Edwards, R-Okla.
Congressman Wayne Gilchrest, R-Md.
Congressman Jim Greenwood, R-Penn.
Congressman Bob Inglis, R-S.C.
Congressman Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz.
Congressman Steve Kuykendall, R-Calif.
Congressman Ray LaHood, R-Illinois
Congressman Jim Leach, R-Iowa
Congresswoman Susan Molinari, R-N.Y.
Congresswoman Connie Morella, R-Md.
Congressman Mike Parker, R-Miss.
Congressman Jack Quinn, R-N.Y.
Congresswoman Claudine Schneider, R-R.I.
Congressman Christopher Shays, R-Conn.
Congressman Peter Smith, R-Vt.
Congressman Alan Steelman, R-Texas
Congressman Jim Walsh, R-N.Y.
Congressman Bill Whitehurst, R-Va.
Congressman Dick Zimmer, R-N.J.
Nuh un.
Democratic campaign launches 'Republicans for Biden' as Flake, former GOP lawmakers endorse him
On the first day of the GOP convention Monday, Democratic nominees Joe Biden and Kamala Harris picked up support from 27 former GOP members of Congress, including former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump before and after retiring in 2018 -- in the latest act of defiance from Republicans against the sitting president who represents their party.
. . . .
Along with the endorsements, the Biden campaign is launching "Republicans for Biden," which they say will be a "national effort to engage Republicans who are supporting Biden this fall," and will "encourage Republicans to organize their communities for Biden using the Vote Joe app and other relational organizing tools."
It comes a few days after more than 70 former Republican national security officials, including some former members of the Trump administration, came out in support of Biden's bid for president last week, releasing an open letter that offered a scathing rebuke of Trump's first term.
. . . .
Republicans endorsing Biden include:
Senator Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.
Senator Gordon Humphrey, R-N.H.
Senator John Warner, R-Va.
Congressman Steve Bartlett, R-Texas
Congressman Bill Clinger, R-Pa.
Congressman Tom Coleman, R-Mo.
Congressman Charlie Dent, R-Pa.
Congressman Charles Djou, R-Hawaii
Congressman Mickey Edwards, R-Okla.
Congressman Wayne Gilchrest, R-Md.
Congressman Jim Greenwood, R-Penn.
Congressman Bob Inglis, R-S.C.
Congressman Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz.
Congressman Steve Kuykendall, R-Calif.
Congressman Ray LaHood, R-Illinois
Congressman Jim Leach, R-Iowa
Congresswoman Susan Molinari, R-N.Y.
Congresswoman Connie Morella, R-Md.
Congressman Mike Parker, R-Miss.
Congressman Jack Quinn, R-N.Y.
Congresswoman Claudine Schneider, R-R.I.
Congressman Christopher Shays, R-Conn.
Congressman Peter Smith, R-Vt.
Congressman Alan Steelman, R-Texas
Congressman Jim Walsh, R-N.Y.
Congressman Bill Whitehurst, R-Va.
Congressman Dick Zimmer, R-N.J.
Twelve more years?
Trump speaking after renomination was greeted with chants of "Four more years!"
He replied, "Four more years! Four more years! But you really want to get them? Say 'Twelve more years!'"
And when they laugh it off remember this.
Trump says 'I don't kid' after aides argue he was joking about slowing coronavirus testing
He replied, "Four more years! Four more years! But you really want to get them? Say 'Twelve more years!'"
And when they laugh it off remember this.
Trump says 'I don't kid' after aides argue he was joking about slowing coronavirus testing
Flag on the play. Liar tweets about ballot drop boxes.
Not secure, not virus safe, vulnerable to multiple ballots from same person, blah, blah.
Fake virus news from Fat Orange Liar
Plasma bullshit. And rushing the vaccine so they can claim it before the election. FDA totally bullied.
White House fuckers just can't keep their corrupt gangster idiot hands off.
CNN this morning.
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Kushner on FZ
Saudi Arabia and Bahrain next to normalize with Israel?
Maybe.
How to make the endlessly uncooperative Palestinians irrelevant.
Kushner not bad in front of the camera.
Totally loyal to Trump, of course.
Bit of a stone face, but smart.
Had more than one good point about a massive switch to mail in voting.
He cited friends in New Jersey, reporting a ballot came in the mail for a dead relative and another friend got two ballots in the mail.
That's not anecdotal evidence of fraud or vulnerability to it but anecdotal evidence of the messy state of voter rolls.
I myself got 2 ballots for the primaries, though I only voted once.
Do I know it was properly counted?
If I had voted both ballots would they both have been counted?
FZ irrelevantly objected K was citing mere anecdotes in support of the idea of widespread fraud in mail in voting rather than analysis of aggregate data.
We are not talking about some quack cure for a virus.
He should have objected K was providing evidence of impending mess.
K knew this, anyway, and pointed out a national transition to reliance on mail ins could be properly carried out only by a planned and organized program over at least 5 years.
Even off the top of the head that's persuasive.
It means we're in for mess.
Trump to speak at 10 every night for the 4 nights
Say Jake and the Mooch right now about the GOP convention.
4 nights of the Trump show with none of the party leaders in attendance.
Velshi sums up Trump
Quick, devastating, cutting, accurate, and without exaggeration, except for the charge of racism that he has overdone only less than the worst at MSNBC.
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