(Just a hypothesis, but think about the long view leading up to the election and Trump's awareness of himself as theater.)
March 7, 2019
Trump is right where he wants to be at this time point in his narrative arc.
(Just a hypothesis, but think about the long view leading up to the election and Trump's awareness of himself as theater.)
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 222 of 222Trump went with the "Birther" claims. It wasn't just weird; it was disgraceful and destructive.
I've said this before. The "Birther" issues had nothing to do with Obama. It had to do with the media. Media outlets took Obama at his word about his birthplace. This same media would later suggest McCain wasn't eligible for the presidency because he was born in the country of Panama.
That double standard of overlooking contrary evidence on democratic politicians, but instead hyperventilating about the smallest issue on the republican politicians was evident in the issue of Obama's birthplace.
And before anybody starts freaking out, I believe Obama was born in Hawaii. I just recognize the strategy.
I love this issue and I hope we can use it to divide Democrats. It is a perfect "wedge issue." One of the best I have seen in a long time.
A great take on this is found at The Bulwark in a column by Benjamin Parker. It's a great read, and I expect most of you will love it right up to the last couple of paragraphs, where after making clearly and effectively the obvious arguments against Rep. Omar and her Democrat enablers, Parker makes the interesting additional cautionary argument:
"Republicans had a similar problem with Steve King. They let him fester in Congress for years, enduring a series of progressively more racist slurs and Klanish pronouncements. Finally, they stripped him of all of his committee assignments and cut him off from receiving campaign money from the party.
"It was too little and too late. Ignoring King didn’t make him go away; views like King’s are becoming more mainstream in the Republican Party. It would have been better—and maybe even easier—for the Republicans to deal with King years ago, before the white-nationalist fringe was so powerful in the GOP.
"That’s an easy lesson for Democrats, but one they are choosing to ignore."
It's an important addition to what should be an easy winning issue for Republicans. But Steve Scalise is violating one of the fundamental rules of politics; Never get between your opponent and an angry press.
This should be fun and easy politics, to hurt Democrats with Ilhan Omar. I wonder if it can be done, if we follow Trumpian tactics.
“Maybe some of you would be interested in reading a blog called The Immense Complexity of Chuck.”
There is nothing complex about pimping for the Democrats.
"I love this issue and I hope we can use it to divide Democrats."
LOLOLOLOLOL
Really now. That is funny!
"I love this issue and I hope we can use it to divide Democrats."
For anti-semitism to work as a left-wedge issue there would have to be someone on the side of anti-anti-semitism.
So it doesn't sound promising.
Inga projects: “The Cult of Personality is pervasive.”
This is the filter through which Democrats view their politicians. So it must be true of the rest of us. In reality, Trump is simply the last defense against the swamp and isn’t doing a bad job despite unparalleled subversion.
But what’s reality to the likes of Inga and Chuck?
I don't want to "hurt Democrats."
Besides, Democrats already do enough to hurt themselves.
I want to help and heal and encourage Democrats...
to use their rational instead of emotional minds...
to walk away from the Democratic Party (as I did 35 years ago)...
or else to change the Democratic Party to being a party of safe, legal, and rare abortion, so rare that it is virtually never...
to stop being a party of open borders which only leads to the last several decades of quasi, de facto legal slavery...
to being a pro-business, pro-working and middle class, pro-free market party
to learn to love instead of resent America, themselves and their fellow Americans...
Trump and Trumpians transformed the Republican Party. It's time for Democrats to do something along the same lines with their party. If they do, they will be doing their part to keep America great. Until then, they, along with the so-called Never Trump establishment Republicans, deserve to remain out of power, looking in.
What? Do Americans now have to identify themselves in a certain order or way in order to be considered fellow Americans?
Inga, please, read a book sometime, wouldja? I guess you don't recognize the quote, being a furriner.
gilbar said...
EDH said...
"If you remember, in the end the Omega Man is eventually swamped, betrayed and dies in his own blood in the shape of a crucifix. Humanity ends."
Or, DOES IT? there's the bottle of serum (made from his OWN Blood), just waiting there; to become the sacrament (representing, i assume; Ivanka Trump),that will SAVE HUMANITY
Good point, but I'm sure Matthias destroys the serum.
The question is: Will they make the sequel ?
They did. With Will Smith. His pigmentation not withstanding only a few years ago.
For Inga to pass along to her daughter. By that proto progressive Theodore Roosevelt:
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer tohyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.”
“This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.”
“But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.”
“The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.”
“The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.”
As the congresswoman from Dearborn explained, "As a Palestinian, blah, blah, blah." Not even Palestinian-American. Shouldn't you have to be an American to get elected to Congress? She doesn't even have dual loyalty.
“I want to help and heal and encourage Democrats...
to use their rational instead of emotional minds...
to walk away from the Democratic Party (as I did 35 years ago)...
or else to change the Democratic Party to being a party of safe, legal, and rare abortion, so rare that it is virtually never...
to stop being a party of open borders which only leads to the last several decades of quasi, de facto legal slavery...
to being a pro-business, pro-working and middle class, pro-free market party
to learn to love instead of resent America, themselves and their fellow Americans...”
Oh please. You married a woman who voted for a Democrats. Don’t you dare refere to me or my children as “not American”. Tell Trump not to call America an “American Carnage”. America was always great.
Obviously J. Farm failed from the beginning, mostly, but still we all are, I hope, appreciative for the many positive contributions to humanity he's made, limited greatly here but showcased nonetheless to me. Fractal.
Rather than be the Next G. Wash., I identify with those just jealous and having reasons why we can't compare/compete.
Man, think of what those failures could have done that quarter millennium ago if providence would have granted them the wherewithal of commentators here at the Althouse blog...
And I know we all await improvements, original, on The Book of Job and also Shakespeare in addition to the U.S. Constitution--faulty all--and in need of parochial criticism in this day and age.
To clarify: nothing in this world is perfect except Jesus.
America has had a heck of a run compared to anything concurrent and even, admittedly from an ignorant perspective, compared with other global hegemonies in history and beyond.
Essentially I believe gratitude has been important to me and could be also important to others, unless I really am as special as I always kinda thought I am/was: in that case only gratitude for my ingratitude would be apropos.
Like other concepts, gratitude is a concept that needs strengthening through exercise but not before existential acknowledgement.
Cuck: "A great take on this is found at The Bulwark"
The Bulwark? LOL. Cuck has to cuck for his cuckshed I guess.
You and your fellow traitors can go pound sand.
Blogger Milwaukie guy said...
As the congresswoman from Dearborn explained, "As a Palestinian, blah, blah, blah." Not even Palestinian-American. Shouldn't you have to be an American to get elected to Congress? She doesn't even have dual loyalty.
Correct. That’s all true.
There is another interesting thing that she does. She calls her constituents her “residents.” She does not use the word “constituents.“ This struck me as odd at first, since I was used to members of Congress using the word “constituents.“. All members of the House always seemed to be so fond of that word, “constituents.” It was like a sacred term for them.
It later dawned on me why Rep. Tlaib did not use the word “constituents.“ I think it was because she did not want to somehow discriminate against the people who lived in her district, who were not citizens, and who were not even in the country legally. They were all her “residents.“ Even if they were not legal voting “constituents.“
Oh and I didn't want to have to bring this up, but I heard the office guy, with the blackface friend on NBC's show, NBC's show with the blackface, The Office, I just watched....
I can't. I can't even understand what is being taught to whom why.
1:45 for God's sake.
For God's sake.
Watch them do this. Watch them. It's what they want you to do.
https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=the+office+blackface+scene&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
link text but not to a minute fourty five where the hate is is is
DEM DAM DEMS B REAL RACISTS
I want Buwaya to move to Denver.
God knows he needs bucking up.
I'm a bucker. Find lots of friends. We need him.
Never honorably before has such a fighter just left the magic dirt what sustained him.
Obviously J. Farm
Meade @ 4:25
Trump is the Democrat we've been waiting for.
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