Didn’t watch Her Cackleness speak – X comment is on partisan lines.
Democrats: “I’d commit seppuku for her!”
GOPers: “It sucked”
Doom Mongers: “She’s like Reagan and Trump is going to lose!”
Personally, I don’t think it matters what she said – her entire campaign is an attempt to lie her into office just as Joe’s was in 2020. They are pretending she isn’t in office and wasn’t for the last 4 years. Vote for her! She’ll fix everything! Don’t even ask! Just vote. Joy!
Can it work? If it does then, as I’ve said from the get-go, we never had a chance. If an electoral majority falls for this drivel then no matter who we nominated we were going to lose.
But, I don’t think we’re going to lose. In fact, I think we’re going to win pretty big. Even with the Kamala-hype BS polling, Trump sits at 287 Electoral Votes. That is more than 270, by the way. The rest is just gravy. They will put out some polls over the next few days showing her up big because that is all part of the Narrative but in the nitty-gritty, she’s just not catching on. People do see the scam and I think they are getting increasingly revolted by it. Covid made the Joe-BS seem at least partially credible…but now its just all bad and there’s nothing big to blame it on, except those in charge. Harris is one of those in charge. She can tell us all she wants that she’ll fix things and it’ll always come back to the question: why aren’t you fixing them now?
Be that as it may, now the real contest begins – and while Never Trump Doomsters are talking like its 2016, the bottom line is that Team Trump is highly disciplined and hitting Harris where it hurts while also getting into the mechanics of getting voters to the polls and making sure the count goes correctly. Trump is not hated by a majority. Trump does hit the points he needs to hit. If there is anything like a fair-minded majority in America, this is in the bag.
And, personally, I think it is – heck, every time someone goes to the grocery store, MAGA shines a little brighter. If you are feeling nervous then here’s the cure all: turn off the TV. Seriously: that is where all the Harris-hype comes from. It is just news-actors on TV saying what Team Harris told them to say and, guess what?, they’ve been told to say that Harris is beloved and rocking and just soaring to the heights. They’re like German radio in April of 1945 saying that Berlin remains German and Vienna will be German again. Baghdad Bob got nothing on these guys. It isn’t happening. She isn’t popular. Nobody likes her. Heck, her own supporters can’t even tell you why they support her…its just “she’s like a woman, you know, and black and she cares about me”. Her campaign is infantile and designed to impress the least knowledgeable people in the United States…you know, news-actors, welfare bums and college students.
Meanwhile, as you collect your paycheck among rumors of imminent layoffs you have to figure out what you won’t buy this week because food is so damned expensive. Guess who you’re voting for?
UPDATE: Did not have RFK, Jr endorsing Trump on my bingo card. OTOH, we all should have: the Democrats really screwed him. To be sure, RFK has some kooky ideas…but, so what? That’s the thing about our side: you’re allowed to have your views. Speak! Let’s hear it. Try to convince us. We’re not afraid. And let’s all admit that especially after COVID we all have our doubts about pharma…but its been longer than that, hasn’t it? The TV ads for drugs which list a score of side affects…what the heck is that about? Does the damned thing work, or not? And if I’m sick, I’m going to a doctor…you advertising seems to be an attempt to get me to buy medicine I maybe don’t need.
The main thing about this is that there is a clear and growing movement against the Ruling Class and against its titular head, Kamala Harris. Nothing works. Space ships stuck in space. Rag tag Islamic militia in Yemen thumbing its nose at our fleet. Bridges can’t be repaired for years. Kids can’t read. Crime. Inflation. Wars all around the world. A flood of illegals. We all feel it. We know its going badly. And we’re supposed to give the Ruling Class another four years? We’re supposed to believe that somehow Trump is the threat?
No. It won’t wash. We’re voting Trump.
UPDATE II: Our Matt explains that if we do want to save Democracy, Harris has to lose.
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Talking to my liberal friends and they are excited. I’m still predicting Harris gets over 350 EC votes and beats Trump by 10-15 million popular votes.
Democrats: “I’d commit seppuku for her!”
See Casper comment above.
The Miracle of Kamala Harris—-from dreaded anchor dragging the party down to defeat and ignominy to glorious saviorette of the nation, in one day!
I don’t think Joe had the mental capacity to set up the subtle backstabbing of his party shown by his public endorsement of Harris as his heir apparent. That reeks of Dr. Jill, a conniver from the get-go who, I feel, set up this freak show as a big middle finger to the people who kicked her off the throne.
In one day we went from Dem fretting about how to get rid of this disaster (Harris) to sending out scripts to the obedient lapdogs telling them they are now EXCITED about her. In one day we went from the party speculating about who they could bring in to replace her and weighing possible losses of support by kicking her to the curb vs gains by getting a decent candidate to suddenly having to pretend she was their choice all along and gee, guys, ain’t she great?
It is 1984 writ large – they’ll turn on a dime on command. No will and no thought of their own.
Anyone who has visited a big commercial aquarium has seen those swarms of tiny synchronized fish swimming in a unified swarm and then sweeping around as if controlled by one brain and going in another direction. There could be no better analogy for the Dem base.
The absolutely sycophantic comments from the Left on social media last night were disgusting. The pragmatic facts of life are that under the best of circumstances, Harris is a poor speaker. Her voice and cadence are just like that at the get-go before you even get into the subject matter. Don’t get me wrong here: Trump has some strikes against him as a speaker as well…but he’s also polished it up over the past 8 years and has improved remarkably. Harris has always talked like that and, like Hillary, I don’t think she can change it (other than, of course, faking up an accent to pander). Honest appraisals were that her speech in tone was just normal Harris…yuck. But that didn’t stop Democrats, like Casper, from making absurd, God-like claims for it.
Because, in the end, they are just stooges – there is no thought. No attempt to think. Just acceptance of the Party Line.
Its really kinda sad.
The thing about Trump as a speaker is that he is, at least, genuine. And he is communicating with his audiences, not lecturing them.
But just look at all the reasons to be EXCITED about Kamala! Just look at all she has accomplished in almost four years as the second most powerful person in the country! From her own PR people, touting her “accomplishments”:
1. She was the first US president or vice president to visit a Planned Parenthood site.
(She visited a business.)
2. She broke the record for casting the highest number of tie-breaking Senate votes of any vice president in history.
(She voted)
3. She helped make Juneteenth a federal holiday.
AS A SENATOR, before she became vice president, she voted on a bill someone else wrote, that
she co-sponsored
4. She oversees the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. Here are some of her accomplishments within the office:
1. The Biden-Harris administration’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, signed into law in June 2022, has given $300 million to STOP School Violence Act grants, which educate K–12 students and teachers on how to recognize warning signs and respond quickly to violence in schools.
The bill spent money. No indication she had anything to do with writing the bill or getting it
passed. or working with the people deciding where to spend the money
“Oversees” is one of those generic terms used to pad out a resume
2. The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act also allows enhanced background checks for gun purchasers under 21.
“allows” enhanced background checks
No indication she had anything to do with writing the bill or getting it passed.
5. She led the Central America Forward initiative.
“Led” in what way? What did she DO?
“Led” is another word used to pad a resume
6. She’s advocated for research and funding to address maternal mortality for women of color.
“Advocated for” meaning she said she was in favor of it
“Advocated for” is another vague term used to pad a resume
7. She helped coordinate a prisoner exchange to bring Olympian and WNBA star Brittney Griner home after being wrongfully detained.
What was involved in “helping” to “coordinate” this exchange?
8. She invested $2 billion into mental healthcare in public schools.
“SHE” did not invest a penny into mental healthcare in schools.
“Invest” is a word used instead of “spent”
9. She represented the US at the United Nations Climate Summit, advocating for climate change actions worldwide.
She made a speech
10. She’s led the charge on ensuring equal voting rights.
How did she “lead the charge” and in what way, and what “equal voting rights” needed her
attention and what did she do to “ensure” them? What changes were necessary, what
changes were made, and what did she do to bring this about?
These are the accomplishments attributed to Kamala Harris in her nearly four years in the White House. Not even her PR people can come up with anything more significant than the weasel words of “advocated for” and “oversaw” and “led”—-nothing about actually doing any work, just making a speech, casting some votes, and visiting a business which is focused on killing unborn babies.
But this seems to be all it takes to get some people EXCITED !!!
(Funny how her PR team failed to list one thing she actually DID do, actively promoting donations to provide bail for criminals arrested in the riots in Minneapolis—riots, by the way, enabled by her new running mate who as governor of Minnesota let the city burn for days before sending in the National Guard. Of course, he told his daughter when and where they would be deployed, so she could inform the rioters of how to avoid them, while his wife was keeping their house windows open so she could revel in the sweet smell of her city burning. So much to get EXCITED about!)
Sorry, but I just can’t buy this “excited” theme. Not when this candidate has offered absolutely nothing to get excited about.
Poor sad schlub casper, still babbling his scripted narrative, still making sure his reputation as a mindless meat puppet remains intact.
Don’t pay too much attention to him – his prediction requires Harris to not just hold all Biden 2020 States but also flip NC and either TX or FL…its just a number drawn out of a hat; something to troll us with.
No one has ever paid any attention to casper. I wish I could anticipate him just disappearing after Harris goes down in flames (my fingers, like quicksilver over the keys, very nearly took the end of that sentence in a very different direction, but I managed at the last second to come up with a couple of words to salvage it) but no, he will be back, trying to slither in with inane platitudes and more of his brainless Leftist blather and pretending he never waved the Harris flag with such EXCITEMENT!!!!
“Sorry, but I just can’t buy this “excited” theme. Not when this candidate has offered absolutely nothing to get excited about.”
Gee, I guess all the people I’ve talked to must be lying then. All the people lying about volunteering, making contributions and just being happy about their candidate.
“Don’t pay too much attention to him – his prediction requires Harris to not just hold all Biden 2020 States but also flip NC and either TX or FL…its just a number drawn out of a hat; something to troll us with.”
Actually I’m basing it on the way polls are trending and the general enthusiasm I’m seeing.
Yes, they are lying. Now, they might be jumping up and down and applauding, but they are lying. Just like those who applauded Stalin. They have to. if they don’t, it means destruction. Bolt that smile to your face! Joy! Dammit, the TV SAID WE’RE ALL JOYFUL! SMILE, YOU SON OF B*TCH!!!
She’s a nobody, Casper – a placeholder chosen by Obama’s placeholder…someone who could never cut the mustard on her own, just as Biden couldn’t. Like Biden, she’s the product of a political hothouse where the only requirement is a (D) after the name. If she had ever tried to run in Texas or Florida, she’d have been wiped out…much as Biden would have.
Biden at least had a story of blue collar origins…Harris is from a family of privilege (her grandfather was a member of the British Raj’s Indian Civil Service, for crying out loud). Biden had COVID to work with – which both allowed him to hide and to blame Trump…and he still only managed to “win” by about 40,000 votes spread over 4 States.
Your candidate does not have a chance. All she’s there for is to prevent a 40 seat loss in the House…and they’re going to keep hiding her because if she is really exposed to a national audience, the 40 seat loss is back on the table.
And, for the love of all things good, Casper – haven’t you had enough? Do you not care about all the people suffering? The people murdered, raped and robbed by the coyotes? The Americans having their wages crushed by illegals? The families juggling bills to keep things together? The kids who can’t read? When do you finally say, “this sucks and, clearly, the class in charge can’t fix it?”.
It is just four years. Trump will not be a dictator. Just join us in getting rid of these clowns in charge…a better Democrat party will emerge.
Do you not care about all the people suffering?
Of course not. There was just a video of a young black man in favor of abortion who, when shown a video of a baby in utero, clearly a tiny human being with arms and legs that were moving around, being sucked into a big needle he couldn’t even stand to watch the rest of the video. It struck him that he had just watched a helpless baby being murdered. I’m sure casper could have watched the whole thing, because to casper and people like him abortion is not the brutal ending of a sentient human life that can feel pain, it’s just an abstraction that is a sacrament of his secular religion. We can talk all we want about the inhumanity of our open borders policies—the encouraging of people to sell everything they have to pay drug cartels to get them to our border, with women being routinely raped and children and young women disappearing into sex slavery, but the human suffering doesn’t touch people like casper because to him open borders are just another vague abstraction his masters have told him is good and virtuous and compassionate.
casper’s moral compass doesn’t have a needle, and the depth of his thinking is about as deep as the scum on dirty dishwater. The words “vapid” and “shallow” and “inane” could have been invented to describe casper and people like him. Just look at his silly babbling of the exact same thing over and over again as he is driven to keep posting it here.
casper has played on the feeble conviction that a teaching certificate proves that he is smarter than other people, so he is impervious to any argument in his smugness. His understanding of the harsh and brutal reality of life under Leftist rule is about as comprehensive as his grasp of our Constitution., which is to say nearly nonexistent.
casper can pay twice as much at the grocery store and to buy gas and still claim that inflation is under control and going down. He can look at the statistics showing that this started when Biden assumed the presidency and still blame Trump. He can swallow the crap about “jobs created” and simply ignore the fact that most are jobs struggling to revive after the Biden regime and its Executive Orders shut them all down. In his little fantasy bubble he has lots of friends who share the most intimate aspects of their lives with him and all are also giddy about the rise of Leftist governance in this country. Walter Mitty at least had fantasies of heroism and courage, while casper’s fantasies are that he is liked by people just like him.
And now he is really enjoying his silly little posts. And he probably IS “excited” about Kamala Harris—after all, she is everything he thinks is important. She checks all the Social Justice boxes, and is a poster child for blind Identity Politics. She is a D and that is literally all that matters. And given his posts, he probably has a lot in common with her intelligence and ability to communicate.
The kids who can’t read?
Why should casper be bothered by this? As a “teacher” kids went through his classes leaving as ignorant as when they started. Actually, MORE ignorant, given the swill he taught them about his primitive and screwy understanding of the Constitution and American history.
What, exactly, about “their candidate” makes this vast pool of friends so “happy”? What do they like most about her? What about her has YOU so “excited”?
Her record of accomplishments as a District Attorney?
Her record of accomplishments as a Senator?
Her record of accomplishments as Vice President?
Her skills as an orator?
All the examples of her intellect and deep thinking? (Space is big. Ukraine is small.)
Her charming personality?
Her laugh, like silver bells tinkling in the breeze? (Or cowbells in a hurricane)
The delightful way she lied to you and the entire country and the whole world for months about the mental and physical condition of Joe Biden?
Her claim that something like 12.5% African heritage—-maybe—-makes her “black”?
Her economic policies that even Democrat economists dismiss as crazy?
In your extended and in-depth discussions of the merits of a Harris candidacy and the levels of enthusiasm you all share, certainly someone some time has come up with something specific about her to justify all that joy.
Mark,
Harris was elected DA for San Francisco, AG for California, Senator for California, and Vice President of the United States. She and Biden won their election by over 7 million votes. Hardly a placeholder.
I have been impressed with how she has united the party in a short time. I was a Biden supporter until he dropped out of the race, and I’m thrilled with Harris as a candidate. I like a number of her positions and her positiveness. She isn’t a communist any more than Trump is.
In 2016 a lot of Democrats underestimated Trump. This year you and a lot of Republicans are doing the same with Harris.
California – that is the political hothouse. All she needed was (D) after he name!
FFS – its been 33 days since the coup. She’s the official Democrat nominee and she still hasn’t had an interview…an interview with MSMers who will be ordered to carry water for her!
She’s a nobody…and you’re still gonna back her…because the TV told you to…
Thrilled. Excited. Such deep and profound political philosophy. So why don’t YOU answer the question I just posted as one I would like to ask Kennedy, et al
“”Why do you think this country would be best governed by a huge and powerful Central Authority that consolidates power in the hands of a few instead of limiting federal scope and control and keeping most authority with the states or with the people?”
She isn’t a communist any more than Trump is.
You really are committed to constantly reminding us of your abysmal level of political ignorance, aren’t you? Do you even understand the basic construct of Leftist political ideology? Do you even know what it MEANS to be on the Left? Do you have the slightest idea of the meaning of Harris’s perfect voting record in the Senate on every single Leftist issue?
Did you pay any attention to Trump’s commitment to Constitutional governance, as he constantly consulted Constitutional scholars to make sure he was acting well within the Constitutional limits of presidential authority while he worked to bring law-making back to Congress instead of leaving it to unelected political appointees running bloated federal agencies, and telling Congress to “Do your damned jobs”?
Are you even capable of seeing the difference between this allegiance to the Constitutional model of government and that of Joe Biden, who merely issued dictatorial edicts like forcing people to inject experimental drugs or lose their jobs or military positions or ability to travel freely?
Do you even grasp the significance of promoting price controls and the historical record of this effort in the past, who has tried it and when and where and what the outcomes were? Of course not.
“Hardly a placeholder.”
She was promoted into powerful political positions by her married lover, and parlayed that transactional relationship into the kinds of political contacts that put her on Democrat tickets in a Democrat state. Only the most clueless could find it impressive for the Democrat mistress of a powerful Democrat politician and power broker in a Democrat state to win votes. But it sure did impress you, didn’t it?
And she was definitely a placeholder in the Biden/Harris ticket. He promised to choose a black woman, and she was a woman with a strong enough claim to a little “black” blood to switch her ethnicity from Indian to black, and that is the only reason she was chosen. She had never gotten even a single vote in a primary before she dropped out. On the national stage, without Willie Brown calling in markers, she was a completely loser. Her performance in the Dem primaries was so embarrassing she was a joke, and so was her selection as running mate for a guy pandering to a couple of voting blocs.
As vice president she was an amazingly ineffective official. She accomplished nothing. I posted the list her own PR people were able to cobble together and it is pathetic. For the last year her own party has been trying to deal with the problem of how to get rid of her before the election without ticking off those two voting blocs, feminists and black racists, and this was the worst-kept secret in DC.
The only reason she got selected (not elected) to be the nominee is because in a last-minute “F You” to the Democrat Party that knifed him in the back and kicked him out Biden openly and repeatedly announced that Harris was going to replace him on the ticket, backing the Dems into a corner. It took him and Jill a couple of days after the coup to come up with a truly inspired revenge scheme.
Until he made that announcement NO ONE on the Dem side was promoting Harris for the position., and even after Biden dropped that little stink bomb on the party it took two or three days before anyone finally decided there wasn’t anything they could do about it and started tepid “endorsements” while the campaign people worked overtime to try to come up with some kind of theme that would cover the marked lack of enthusiasm for her. So they, with the reliable help of the Complicit Agenda Media, cobbled together an ugly hybrid campaign of lies about how great she is and how EXCITED the Left is to have her, while keeping her out of the public eye and trying to do a 2020 rerun of the Basement Campaign. The delegates had to support her because of the complications of various state election rules, federal campaign finance rules and so on. The complexities of dumping her after Biden repeatedly (though belatedly) endorsed her, just a few days before the convention and the legal deadlines that would impose on the campaign, made it nearly impossible to get rid of her. So the delegates held their noses and voted for her—but she has still never gotten a single vote in a presidential primary.
“[T]here’s sort of like, ‘No. Absolutely not. Haven’t needed, to do it (talk about policies) so far. Why start now?’”
Explaining the rationale, Raju warned: “They’re concerned about her doing that could potentially trip her up and give Trump some ammunition. In fact, a lot of those Democrats I spoke to today said, avoid those policy prescriptions.”
That’s a great admission about a candidate—-keep her quiet and don’t let her talk about policies because she might trip herself up and when she talks she just gives Trump ammunition”. Which is just another way of saying that the less the people see Kamala and learn about her the better her chances are.
So you and your cadre of “friends” are the gullibles lined up to ooh and ahh over the Emperor’s new wardrobe, while even the palace guards know it is all fantasy. And no, these people who allegedly love to share their passion for Kamala are not “lying” and neither are you. You and they are just totally lacking in objectivity.
Harris was elected as the first Indian (50%) DA for San Francisco , first Indian (50%) AG for California, first Indian (50%) Senator for California, and first black (possibly around 12.5%) Vice President of the United States.
She’s flexible.
Or so I’ve heard.
And the hits just keep on coming!
(Did I just do that?)
I like a number of her positions
Oh, really? Such as…..? As her web site doesn’t have any positions listed, as she has verbally tossed out a couple of tepid ideas and then walked them back when hollered down by her own party for their stupidity, I wonder just which “positions” you like. And you like a number of her positions at that. What are your favorites? Price controls? Citizenship for the illegals she has allowed into the country as Border Czar? No bail for arsonists and professional rioters and agitators? Keeping people in jail to provide free labor for the state?
(And just a hint here, casper—given the uh, transactional nature of her romantic history and commentary on its contribution to the political success she has managed to acquire as a result, you might rethink the use of the word “positions” when talking about what you find attractive about her. Maybe “policies” would be a little less….evocative.)
By now, it is apparent that Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential nomination was a sham, given that she secured it without a single primary vote. Although Democrats have been hush-hush on this, one Democrat let the cat out of the bag.
California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) recently joked about what he was told to say about Harris’ Democratic presidential nomination.
During an interview with Pod Save American, Newsom revealed that his Democrat colleagues told him to refer to Harris’ nomination as an open, inclusive process.
“We went through a very open process, a very inclusive process. It was bottom-up; I don’t know if you know that. That’s what I’ve been told to say,” Newsom said, laughing.
The governor also joked about the speedy process of making the nomination decision, suggesting that the Democratic Party held a 30-minute meeting right after President Joe Biden was officially forced out of the race and endorsed the vice president on July 21.
This really has come down to a Parents vs Children election. I have followed politics pretty closely for over 40 years and I have never witnessed a more vacuous, empty headed candidate campaigning on provable lies that go unchallenged and unaccounted for. Its a very sad indictment on our media and the electorate.
In one comments section a poster said this election is basically going to be an IQ test.
Then another pointed out that yes, this is true, and it’s also true that if this is the case we as a country are screwed.
Idiocracy come true…..
Seriously, after watching these on-the-street interviews, don’t you believe that these people would have trouble with the Idiocracy IQ test of “If you have one bucket that holds two gallons and another bucket that holds three gallons how many buckets do you have?” When the protagonist answered “Two” he amazed everyone and was immediately named the Smartest Man In The Country. We are so much closer to that than we realize.
Knowing the sad state of the economy now, and knowing that two of Americas most successful entrepreneurs of all time are teaming up and saying they can fix it … then imagine still wanting to vote for Kamala. That requires a level of ignorance I am not familiar with.
We have often commented that if we just pay attention, the Left will tell us what they really think. Once again…
I confess to not being a big RFK Jr. fan, but his speech today impressed the hell out of me. I doubt there is anyone in the Democrat Party, certainly not at the national level who could have given that speech and meant it.
His roots are too deep in legacy Democrat ideology to completely break free, but at least he has tried, and has had the courage of his convictions when he has. I’d like to ask him the same question I would ask Tulsi Gabbard—-and, I guess, any Dem who had the appearance of some degree of rationality—-
“Why do you think this country would be best governed by a huge and powerful Central Authority that consolidates power in the hands of a few instead of limiting federal scope and control and keeping most authority with the states or with the people?”
It’s the question every Dem should be asked, yet no one has done so.
I agree Spook, that speech by RFK (before being on stage with Trump) was a beautiful dissertation on the current corruption in the Democrat Party, and as RFK said, the “corporate corruption of federal agencies”. Couldn’t have said it better myself. America is the most unhealthiest country on the world, both mentally and physically, and I applaud RFK for bringing that issue to the forefront. Just think of all the things we can turn around if we have the right, decent people in charge. And don’t you love it that three red pilled, former Democrats; Trump, Musk, and RFK, are leading the charge. Poetic justice. FUCK the establishment GOP. This is a new political movement, and that’s something to be excited about.
Re: Casper, what do we expect? Casper has never has never offered anything interesting, or thoughtful, or constructive. Just like the party he supports.
casper has never had real respect, and he craves it. He has never had real relevance, and he craves it. In his “teaching” days in Casper, Wyoming, he was tolerated but kind of a joke, the school’s “commie” teacher and a general doofus. The marginal kids needed to be acknowledged and supported, and it is good that he did this, but this was his only real base in the school, and he bought their love by playing games with them, like videotaping lip syncing sessions. In those days I think he latched onto this blog because he really thought his “insights” would be appreciated, but he was in way over his head. Those of us around back then still remember his protestations that he really did respect and believe in the Constitution, but only as an archaic document not relevant to today’s world and if you believed in the Constitution as it is written you believe that we should, as a nation, revert to slavery and denying women the vote. When he was challenged on that—-and he definitely was—-all he could do was stammer buh-buh-buh-buh-but the Constitution doesn’t forbid slavery, or grant women the vote. This was our first glimpse into the defective thought processes of casper and his abysmal ignorance of our Constitution and the governmental structure it provides.
But at least he seemed sincere. Goofy, way off course, but sincere, a guy on the fringes who desperately wanted to be accepted but as a pudgy doofus in an Obama tie in conservative Wyoming who parroted Leftist nonsense he never made it. Then he retired to the Leftist cesspool of Hawaii, and became less sincere and more snotty, smug in his newfound bubble of Leftist nonsense, where the more unpleasant aspect of his personality was nurtured and grew. And now he doesn’t come here wanting to be accepted, now he comes here to smugly lecture us. Now he looks forward to gloating over us and finally—-FINALLY—-not being the butt of ridicule.
Too late.
Too late indeed lol. Casper’s lecturing is exactly like what we saw at the DNC. An endless parade of celebrity and career politicians lecturing the attendees. They are a top down, conformity party, so convinced of their moral high ground that they will increasingly isolate themselves. Which is currently happening.
I haven’t listened to RFK’s speech, but I just read a transcript of it, and although he touched on many important issues, his first paragraphs caught my attention and I want to address what he said.
He started by saying, of the Democrat Party,
This struck me. The idea of pledging allegiance to a party just seems wrong to me. I know I am simplistic in my political views, but it seems to me that we should be pledging allegiance to our country, and looking for a party that supports and defends its basic principles and structure. To pledge allegiance to a party struck me as misguided.
And here I see praise for stands on ISSUES but aside from a passing reference to being “champions of the Constitution” it’s all about issues and symbolism. Democrats were never about civil rights. And even in its least toxic days, the Democrat Party was not about being “champions of the Constitution” but was about constantly challenging the Constitution, working to erode its restraints on the size, scope and power of the federal government, striving to expand the federal government to accommodate a wide variety of ISSUES without regard for—-in defiance of—-the 10th Amendment.
It may have been “the party of democracy” but it was not the party of a democratic republic based on rejection of government by a massively powerful Central Authority. This oddly sentimental memory of a party which existed, in this form, only in the hopeful minds of a few, might make for good speechifying, but its main effect to me is to illustrate the powerful emotional attraction of a party which existed, in the form described, only in the hopeful hearts and minds of people yearning for such a “champion for the people”.
And this giddy paean to the imagined glories of the Democrat Party illustrates, to me, my repeated comment that the Left’s main appeal has always been that it offers a shortcut to the Higher Moral Ground. There is not a word here, in this highly emotional obituary for an imaginary party, about belonging to it because of its adherence to our Constitutional form of governance. Instead, he admits that it was all because of the sense of superior morality conveyed by being a Democrat. “The Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, imperialism, and unjust wars. We were the party of labor, of the working class. The Democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment. Our party was the bulwark against big money interests and corporate power.”
He glosses over, or simply ignores, the fact that it was also the party of expansion of federal authority in 1928 that eventually led to the Great Depression, as Democrats, ignoring the restrictions of our Constitution on their federal authority, tried to “fix” a problem which had in the past corrected itself, and in so doing destroyed the economy. It was the party of interment of Japanese citizens. It was the party of using the power of taxation to impose political agendas. It was the party of slavery, of the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow and resistance to the Civil Rights Amendment. Not to mention it was the party of the Viet Nam War, of napalm and bombing villages back into the Stone Age. It was the American representation of a global political movement based on expansion of government by a powerful and controlling Central Authority, though in relative infancy here sixty years ago.
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I find a lot to like about RFK Jr. but when I read his own words, extolling the imagined glories of a party that existed for the most part only in the delusions of people sucked into the promises that it represented the greater moral good, while there was never a period of time in which it actually accomplished the moral imperatives that they sought, I thought they were really insights into what drives some people to be Democrats.
I found his opening comments rather creepy, like listening to someone fondly reminisce about a beloved grandpa, remembering the fishing trips and late-night story hours, while we are aware of the fact that grandpa had been a brutal slaveowner and wholly corrupt businessman with connections to organized crime including prostitution and drug-running. That disconnect between Junior’s happy fantasies and harsh reality is jarring.
I’m glad he has finally turned his back on this corrupt political party. But I think the real lesson to be learned from his sentimental memories of a party that never truly existed is that it explains the emotional power of convincing people that they are acting out of moral righteousness and exhibiting moral superiority, even while they are supporting a movement that is dedicated to the antithesis of those things.
Democrats have always been like that – always good to remember why there is a Democrat party: because Jackson lost the 1824 election. Jackson’s complaint was that he got more popular votes than the eventual winner – and he did, but back then there were multiple States that didn’t even have popular votes to choose Electors. His complaint was drivel…a demand that because some States had given him more popular votes than some States had given other candidates, he should magically get the Presidency. When Adams was elected by the House in strict accordance with the Constitution, Jackson called it a “corrupt bargain” and then he, via Martin van Buren, set about “fixing” the system so it would get the “correct” result…that is, they rammed through by means fair and foul a requirement that only popular votes determine Electors. While not strictly unconstitutional (the Constitution giving the States the power to decide how Electors shall be chosen), it was certainly not in the spirit of the document which was designed to obtain an Executive as far as possible free from popular passions. If this all sounds familiar its because it is. The Democrat Party was founded to build work-arounds to the Constitution.
So, I don’t fault RFK, Jr on that – it is what he grew up with and what his family has been since his great-great-grandfather’s time. Hard to shake free from that – to make that leap from Democrat when you’re whole understanding of life centers around the concept of the Democrat Party being “the party of the people” when its really never been more than “the party of suckering the people”. It is a mere mechanism for inflaming popular passions in order to obtain power in DC.
I love your history lessons.
So do I. I am always amazed by the depth and scope of Mark’s knowledge of history.
It all started with J. F. C. Fuller and his three volume A Military History of the Western World, as far as I can remember. Probably not a book on too many library shelves these days as Fuller was a bit of a kook who figured the wrong side won World War Two. But he, along with Liddell Hart, was the father of modern warfare…unfortunately for everyone the only person who took his interwar writings seriously was Heinz Guderian. His Military History is just a stunning example of someone who knows a great deal and writes with such clarity and force that you can fully understand what happened even if you don’t fully agree with the conclusions drawn (he was right about Poland being the savior of Europe in 1920…but wrong about Hitler’s regime being a bulwark against Bolshevism given that Nazism was even worse). He was also right in sensing early on (he died in 1966) that the decline of the West’s Christian character was a body blow to civilization and decency even though he, himself, didn’t have much use for Christianity as a religion. What I most learned from Fuller is to look at things with a fresh eye; never take anything for granted. Whoever is telling you something has an agenda…so, keep looking. From there it was just book after book after book after book from every possible perspective.
It’s even more inexcusable given the fact that it was these same people trying to push Biden out the door. You would think that they would only want to get rid of Biden if they had a better Plan B (or in this case, Plan H) to bring into play, and just needed to get him out of the way. But there is no evidence that this was the case. It seemed like it was just “get rid of Biden and then….?????”
They seemed oblivious to Spook’s (and now my) question: “then what?”
I thought the most interesting component of Kennedy’s speech was the part about the nation’s health. Jeff Childers, as usual, expresses it in a way that I can’t.
And in addition to the lure of political money, I think that our doctors and engineers simply aren’t very good any longer…the movie Apollo 13 portrayed America at her engineering peak…when random guys employed by NASA could figure out how to make a dead spaceship work just well enough to get 3 men home safely. And this without anything like modern computer power. Can you imagine any group of people anywhere being able to do that today? So it goes through all areas of technical expertise…and it likely has resulted in very unhealthy things being forced into our medical and food systems not at the urging of science, but at the behest of money.
I just listened to a slightly fictionalized account of the Enigma code-cracking efforts at Bletchley Park in England in WW II and I had a similar reaction. I have always been fascinated by the work done at Bletchley, and this book detailed it beautifully. (It is “slightly fictionalized” in some of its human interest aspects, but is based on the memoirs of some of the BP participants who later wrote of their experiences, plus records of the efforts. The great grandmother of the current Princess of Wales and future Queen of England, the former Kate Middleton, was one of those decoders. It’s one of the great stories of the war.)
Ordinary people who happened to have skills in areas associated with math or just plain problem solving, like crosswords, most of them women, were recruited, sworn to absolute secrecy and isolated in Buckinghamshire in the countryside of England and set to work to break the amazingly complex codes used by the Germans, particularly their dreaded U-Boats, in the war. Working with geniuses like Alan Turing, these normal civilians used the most complex computers in history, human brains, with nothing more sophisticated than paper and pencil until their efforts let them start to build machines to help duplicate some of the Enigma processes.
(It’s also a reminder of the days when England was truly GREAT Britain, before being dragged into the sewer by the Left.)
More from Coffee & Covid:
It’s like a SWAT team just threw a bucket full of flash-bangs into the middle of the Cackles/Coach campaign. And Olbermann and Meathead melting down? Priceless!
I’m going to make time to watch this entire interview because the couple of segments I have seen are absolutely fascinating and show Donald Trump in a way I have never seen before. One thing I like about the format of Trump interviews is that of two chairs across from each other—no desk or table in between, a clear statement that there is nothing to hide here, no place to put crib notes, no symbolic barrier between Trump and us. But what is shown in this segment, and evidently in the entire interview, is True Trump, a real person.
I see this in Vance and I would like to see more of it with Trump. This kind of format seems to be where he shines, and I would like to see a full hour or even half hour of him, or him and Vance, having this kind of informal discussion about what drives them and what they want to accomplish.
A lot of the comments on this interview focus on Theo Von, the interviewer, but I think the real point should be that Trump treated this admitted drug and alcohol addict with recurring lapses with the same interest and respect he would give a head of state.
In other words, it’s a feelz election. It is now admittedly a content-free personality contest appealing only to how people FEEL about the VIBES being generated by the campaign machine. That is, a campaign specifically directed at the caspers of the nation, who have bought into the vibes and are giddy with excitement over….well, over the excitement. The joy. Oh, the joy!
To quote you quoting me quoting (I don’t remember where I first heard it): And then what?
You just say so many smart things, who can keep up? But I remember you asking a troll who had posited some goofball “idea” —“Then what?”
(I also stole “So what is the right temperature of the planet?” from you, and probably some others as well.)
BTW, have you noticed that without trolls we here actually talk about ideas, history, etc. and not just gotchas or about the personalities of the opposition, or their sound bites?
I was not an Eleanor Roosevelt fan, but I love a quote attributed to her that is one of the greatest quotes of all time:
The latter category describes just about every troll who has ever visited this blog.
Casper is kind of unique. He’s not really a troll. He’s been here for as long as I can remember using the same name. He’s kind of like our pet Black Knight.
Robert Malone has some interesting thoughts about RFK Jr. and the new political allignment.
Dr. Malone refers to RFK’s belief system regarding the Democrat Party without comment on its legitimacy, merely acknowledging that this is how Kennedy sees the old party, what he calls the Kennedy Democrats. Dr. Malone then goes on to say what I, and I think most of here, have come to believe:
(That) this modern Democrat party has become monolithic, intolerant of dissent, totalitarian. The Democrat party has come to view the US Constitution, prior US legal and organizational precedent, and fundamental rules of political engagement as inconveniences in its efforts to restructure both the federal government and the global network of US power and alliances to align and transition into a globalized socialist/corporatist governance structure.
I believe that today’s Democrat party, and their Uniparty allies on the other side of the aisle no longer believe in the USA, in the vision of our founding fathers, but instead have become convinced that the fundamental global political structure of a network of independent and sovereign nation-states is obsolete. And that it must be replaced with a globalized one-world government modeled on Eurosocialism and strongly influenced by the Communist Chinese political and economic model.
And I think this is basically what we, on the Right, are fighting as we try to keep the Dems from regaining power, because this is what the New Democrat Party’s agenda is.
Dr. Malone then goes on to say what I, and I think most of here, have come to believe:
That was my takeaway. I agree with Malone most of the time, but not always. But he does publish stuff that you don’t find anywhere else. I think that’s the secret to seeking truth in today’s propaganda media culture: find sites that report unique things, and fact-check the heck out of them until you’re satisfied that they’re reliable. When my Lefty sister was visiting last summer, we had several interesting discussions about sources of news. She’s confident that The Associated Press and NPR are reliable sources of news. When I asked her if she’d ever caught either of them in a lie, she said, “no.” She stayed with me for a week, and during that week I presented her with several examples of where the AP had been caught in a blatant lie. She didn’t want to hear it, and actually got pretty upset. I suggested we not spoil the rest of her visit by discussing things that we didn’t agree on. But that’s been my experience with about 99% of Liberals I’ve known: they’re uncomfortable challenging what they think they know to be true. I would bet that 90% of the things the Left believes about Trump are either categorically not true, or taken out of context. And yet they continue to repeat the lies. Snopes, not exactly a Conservative fact-check site, did an expose’ on lies told about Trump several years ago.
As I have said, I think the most damaging lies told about Trump, the lies that make people actually fear him, are in the context of the January 6 rally and riots. The Leftist propaganda machine has succeeded in its semantic infiltration to the extent that nearly all media refer to an “effort” by Trump to “overturn the election”. If this were true, that would justify some fear that he would be a tyrant. But it is simply not true. It is true that there was a hope that if Congress DID do its job, and DID agree to temporarily postpone its certification of the uncertifiable numbers given to it THAT eventually this might result in “overturning the election”—-but that was a hope dependent on things far outside the scope of the acts of that day.
The other lie about J6 is that the riots were an “insurrection”. Setting aside the fact that the worst of the rioters were not even Trump supporters, but people who have *somehow* managed to remain unidentified, not a single rioter has been quoted as saying that his goal was to overthrow the existing government and assume its powers.
The third most damaging lie about Trump is that his concerns about election fraud in 2020 were “baseless”. This single word has been used by nearly every media article I have read that even mentions his concerns, and it ties in with the “overturning the election” lie. Even a cursory examination of the facts shows that these concerns had a solid base in evidence and even proof, such as the findings in Arizona of specific numbers of false votes and the clearly illegal changes in voting procedures in Pennsylvania, just to name two.
These are three obvious, blatant, yet widely spread lies that I believe have had a much more malignant effect than any of the more superficial lies outlined and debunked in the Snopes article.
A poster in the comments section of another site posted this:
Mass spying on US citizens, check.
Run a gulag to hold political prisoners without trial, check.
Use the school system to indoctrinate children to correct political position(s), check.
Orchestrate multiple show trials with pre-determined outcomes against your political opponents, check.
Use the organs of government to suppress any opposition to your power, check.
Create/suborn government agencies to be like the Gestapo or Waffen SS, check.
Control the media to block any news that is against the regime, check.
Use the high office to sell favors and influence to become fantastically wealthy, check.
Try to assassinate your political opponents, Check.
All of these took place after Trump left office and are seemingly quite acceptable to people willing to vote to return Biden to the presidency or now to vote for his successor who appears to be even more radical.
In this age of cancellation culture, it’s refreshing to read about people who refused to be cancelled and came out the other side stronger and wiser.