... you can write about whatever you want... including the last day of the GOP convention, which I intend to say something about in the morning. For now, you're on your own.
August 27, 2020
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... you can write about whatever you want... including the last day of the GOP convention, which I intend to say something about in the morning. For now, you're on your own.
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How about a post on news about Breonna Taylor tomorrow?
Yet another case in which the narrative is shifting due to, you know, facts.
Did not watch the convention.
The polling on riots must be terrible for democrats if the NYT is reporting them straight now.
The real danger to the Democrats isn’t just lost votes, but the number of people being pushed to *openly* support Trump. That could shatter the narrative and cause a preference cascade.
I supported a fringe candidate last time. Not this time. Biden is too vacant, too weak to control the crazies in his party. I'd really prefer a better option than Trump. Trump >> Biden.
all in all, the RNC convention was pretty good
...but the Dem's was a riot!!
The President comes out of the White House, looks around at the crowd, and yells “Get off my lawn!”
Ann Dorn has me on the edge of tears.
Victor Laszlo: Welcome back to the fight.
Ann Dorn's powerful testimonial.
And Inga and LLR-lefty Chuck refused to even say his name.
Despicable.
Kenosha burning.
I didn't dare click away to see, but I wonder if all of the networks aired Ann Dorn or if any of them dumped out of their coverage, like ABC did whenever Black men came on last night.
I knew America was great, but that fucking boy scout being our murderous vigilante, I mean, this is what America's murderous vigilantes look like. Medical kit and rifle. In Lucifer's Hammer a bunch of Boy Scouts out on a hike during the apocalypse become eventually a significant part of the re-civilization effort.
I've been enjoying the political posts and comments here lately, but haven't had much time to participate. I'll simply say that two things have surprised me.
1) The excellent quality of the Republican convention, contrasted with the laughably poor quality of the Democratic convention. Remember the night Biden was nominated in a small school room with a few people cheering, and some balloons falling down? It was an embarrassment. The RNC did an exceptional job, both with production values and with the diversity and quality of the speeches. And Trump hasn't even spoken yet. The R's have blown the D's out of the water.
2) How quickly the political narrative has changed. The Dems are clearly panicking, and it felt like today was a tipping point for some reason. The momentum on the Republican side is palpable. Today I saw one interview excerpt each with Biden and Harris. Both of them look like they are in way over their heads. I've never seen such a pathetic ticket in my life. For the first time in a long while, I'm optimistic about Trump's chances.
I have been thinking about the BLM’ers going into the Washington DC restaurants this past week. While I think some of the patrons are down with BLM and enthusiastic supporters, I wonder if some of the others are doing it due to Stockholm Syndrome, due to living in a city where they are subjected to BLM propaganda 24/7. Basically, just like the “educating” of our children in their formative years by liberal teachers & professors. Any opinions from the Althousians?
Jacob Blake had a knife, but was "otherwise unarmed"
...I'm clothed, but otherwise naked.
That said, I must address the "fiery but mostly peaceful, topless-on-the-mountaintop better-half of Ingachuck'stoothlessARM, cuz tonite it's "Dictator Cosplay" nite!
I do believe that part of the Democrats support the riots, and that the majority of the party has been afraid to confront or criticize that faction. To me that taints the whole party. I hope the GOP can pin the riot tail on the donkeys, because they deserve it. It will be hard to in the face of media mendacity.
Plus, Birkel is a toad.
AH-MS-NBC dumps out of covering the parents of Kayla Mueller, who was abducted, tortured, raped and martyred by ISIS while the Obama-Biden regime did nothing about it.
Scotty
A good, little used word is complaisance. We are seeing complaisance offered, and driving behavior, and being exploited. That can change, suddenly. That is why the real danger to the Democrats right now isn’t losing votes, it’s the bubble of complaisance and cowardice bursting. It’s actions like diners saying, no I won’t raise my fist that can kill Biden's campaign faster than anything, because they reveal the false preferences.
Apologies to toads.
I am not for you to own. My Hand is not for you to mold. I am not your subject.
Biden on riots: Militias ‘aligned with white supremicists’ are ‘often the source of the biggest trouble’
He said that right-wing hate groups are responsible for much of the violence.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-on-riots-militias-aligned-with-white-supremicists-are-often-the-source-of-the-biggest-trouble
Does he REALLY believe he can sell that BS??
30 utility trucks setting out for Louisiana from Central Ohio.
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What Andrew said:
"1) The excellent quality of the Republican convention, contrasted with the laughably poor quality of the Democratic convention.
2) How quickly the political narrative has changed. The Dems are clearly panicking"
I have been very pleasantly surprised with GOP professionalism. Let's hope the panic intensifies.
Mark: "I didn't dare click away to see, but I wonder if all of the networks aired Ann Dorn or if any of them dumped out of their coverage, like ABC did whenever Black men came on last night."
It doesn't matter.
Every republican national convention presentation, speech, commercial is already designed for broad commercial distribution in ads for targeted messaging to different parts of the nation.
This was supposed to be a convention destined to fail during ChiCom flu, but instead I have never before seen such a brilliant arrangement and weaving together coherent messages that speak directly to the heart of the American people, illuminate with no hiding allowed what LLR-lefty Chuck's beloved dems are up to in terms so irrefutable only sputtering will emit from the pie-holes of the democratical slobs, and destroy the media's and dems (but I repeat myself) carefully constructed false persona they have painted of Trump.
This convention will set a new standard and by 2024 both parties will be using this precise framework and even then, we will have absolute zero's like LLR-lefty Chuck trying to explain how it was really the democrats all along with their establishment puke "republicans" (who are all publicly on board Team Dem for 2020, as they were in 2016...and 2012...and 2008) that deserve all the credit for changing how political parties speak to the nation.
Ken B: "Apologies to toads."
Its time to clean it up Ken B.
You can return to it after November 3.
https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1299080941634281474
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Yet another case in which the narrative is shifting
Why is it that every single time these cases turn out to involve a criminal with a long record of convictions committing a crime and resisting arrest? Every single time.
Maybe non-criminals aren't getting shot by police because they aren't committing crimes and resisting arrest?
The amount of flags at the RNC is hilarious.
Does he REALLY believe he can sell that BS??
Of course. He's 70 years old and that entire time the left has lied to the public without consequence.
Blogger Ken B said..."I supported a fringe candidate last time."
I didn't realize you had become a citizen.
Is one reason the Trump convention works so well that so few DC politicians play a role in it?
"I do believe that part of the Democrats support the riots, and that the majority of the party has been afraid to confront or criticize that faction."
I think that there is a lot of vanity involved now. People who were triggered by Trump's coarseness dove into everything from pussy hats to Russia, and they felt 100% virtuous and superior to Trump and to anyone who would vote for him. Now their reward is Joe Biden, and that can't be reconciled with their lofty impressions of themselves.
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Blogger Ken B said..."I supported a fringe candidate last time."
I didn't realize you had become a citizen.
Come on, Original Mike. Since when do you need to be a citizen to vote in our elections? These days you just need a mailbox.
Hell of a President.
I watched long enough to make sure they made it down the staircase. Whew.
Was it Ford or Carter who stepped off the plane and fell down the stairs?
My nightmare.
"Since when do you need to be a citizen to vote in our elections? These days you just need a mailbox."
Well, I hope he votes a lot.
On Sunday, November 29, 2009, a black man, Maurice Clemmons, killed four police officers, ambush style, in a coffee shop in Lakewood, WA. I don't recall that policemen all over the country started rioting and looting, breaking windows and setting property on fire. Since then there have been many other such shootings of law enforcement personnel that scarcely raised an eyebrow much less a riot. Something to think about because the media certainly won't bring it up.
"Does he REALLY believe he can sell that BS??"
-- He doesn't need to; like Obama, and Bush before, despite all the talk of cross over appeal, it is going to turn out to be largely a base turn out election.
did "Invisible Joe" (Pientka, not Pluggs) get interviewed
for multiple hours by Senate investigators recently??
In defense of Ken B, he didn't say he voted for a fringe candidate, he said he supported one.
Maybe he made a contribution. I know foriegn nationals cant contribute either, but heck, Obama accidentally on purpose accepted thousands of them.
Ford was an All American football player at Michigan. Must have been Carter.
DJT: "China virus"!
Why is it that every single time these cases turn out to involve a criminal with a long record of convictions committing a crime and resisting arrest? Every single time.
Maybe non-criminals aren't getting shot by police because they aren't committing crimes and resisting arrest?
Gahrie, because this is what happens when police shoot a non-criminal.
https://www.star-telegram.com/latest-news/article218101230.html The system works but you don't get to loot if you acknowledge the system works.
A Little More on Invisible Joe and his Interview
"In defense of Ken B, he didn't say he voted for a fringe candidate, he said he supported one."
I can read, I just don't know what that means.
To be fair, it right to air on the side of caution, but when that caution isnt born out
Mockturtle, My sister worked with three of the officers killed in the 2016 Dallas police shooting. Not only did the police not riot they showed up for work the next day and did their job. Although they did blow up the shooter. Doing that made the police chief very popular with the rank and file.
-Jeff Davis felt this way long ago. Bragg was a jerk and so the South was lost fortunately.
"Every time I speak of the haters and losers I do so with great love and affection. They cannot help the fact that they were born fucked up!"
haha. Trump is empathetic.
Jersey Fled, 9:46:
But it was Ford, and SNL's [I think recurring] parody of him as a huge klutz stuck to such an extent that his defenders, decades later, were pointing out that the perception was unfair; that he'd been an All American football player, and a physically graceful man....
Trump's rallies, with the call and response, are his superpower. He's funny as hell and a pretty good orator, even though his speaking style is a bit grating to my Midwestern ears. The lockdowns have muted him. The RNC has been pretty effective at returning to the spirit. But they are a muted.
It's going to be interesting how the campaigning unfolds in the next few months. Will Democratic governors try to stop campaign rallies and use Covid as an excuse?
Trump said "Waldorf communities" again. I thought it was an error in the transcript last week.
Thistelrose: I remember that incident and the robot that took out the perp. Monumental moment.
So I read the criminal complaint against the 17 yo kid. Charged with 1st degree reckless for Rosenbaum (the 1st dead guy) plus some related charges, first degree intentional homicide for Huber ( the 2nd dead guy), and first degree attempted homicide for the third guy. Head to see how the facts support the latter two charges.
The complaint also summarized the autopsies. Rosenbaum had several bullet wounds, the two most serious to the back, through a lung and liver, and another that shattered his pelvis. Superficial graze to thigh and graze to head. Also hole in left hand.
Huber was shot once in the chest and the bullet went aorta, heart, lung. He was probably dead before he dropped.
I have been investigating the matter, and it appears that under American law, as practiced in all 50, there simply is no right to use deadly force to protect property. If rioters are throwing Molotov cocktails at your home or business, the only situation in which you are justified in using deadly force against them is if human lives are in danger. Otherwise, you are supposed to let them burn it down, because their lives are more important than your property.
Maybe Ken donated to Gary Johnson...who got 106,000 votes in WI.
Where do you think those votes go this time?
Speech meandered, but hit the right notes. Trump is committed to the fight, which is all that matters at this point.
He and others were speaking to the Althouses of America. So, Alhouse, I know you've given us one reason you might not vote for Joe. Any reason not to support Trump, after he made his case? Does it come down to abortion once again?
Nessum Dorma!
When did you ever hear opera -- sung live -- at a political convention???
Or when did you ever hear Ave Maria??
I detect the planning influence of Melania and/or Ivanka or both.
Trump family all lined up standing for music performance. And the tallest one by 2 inches is 14 year old Barron.
Can’t you see this show is high class Presidential and not a Rally with country music. He is making an appeal to independents, gays and college educated women. Beautiful production.
"Depending on who's transcribing and what they hear- "walled off" and "Waldorf" could sound exactly the same. Try saying "walled off waldorf" communities fast.....
"That is why the real danger to the Democrats right now isn’t losing votes, it’s the bubble of complaisance and cowardice bursting. It’s actions like diners saying, no I won’t raise my fist that can kill Biden's campaign faster than anything, because they reveal the false preferences."
One of the more insightful comments I have read in a while, and I do mean that sincerely despite our recent differences, Ken.
Ford was parodied as clumsy by Chevy Chase. Carter's greatest hit was defending himself from a rabbit with a paddle.
WALLED OFF COMMUNITIES
not
WALDORF COMMUNITIES
A Night at the GOP Opera!
https://youtu.be/8cfL6UbItDk?t=12027
Will Democratic governors try to stop campaign rallies and use Covid as an excuse?
They'd better stop the riots if they want to remain a national party.
"1) The excellent quality of the Republican convention, contrasted with the laughably poor quality of the Democratic convention. "
QFT
The AMAZING fireworks, and wonder vocal performance is where I am right now.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1299143054511796228
Looking forward to the polling this weekend.
This is ne plus ultra lame probably, but one of the things I’ve loved about Althouse for the last 13-14 years is exactly what is demonstrated in this post. I’ll say something tomorrow. In this environment of immediate comment, instant reaction, that is profound.
"Why is it that every single time these cases turn out to involve a criminal with a long record of convictions committing a crime and resisting arrest? Every single time.
Maybe non-criminals aren't getting shot by police because they aren't committing crimes and resisting arrest?"
Not true, Elijah McClain was killed via ketamine because he was nervous. And then fucking pigs from the same department went and took pics mocking his death after the fact, like ghoulish jackasses needing to be fired. I understand why people might want these pigs dead. Can you? If Elijah's death was just a funny joke, why shouldn't the pigs' death be also?
But they was just funnin' see, so it's all good. Hardy har har.
Yeah right. The us (We ain't no damn civilians, we're kinda soldiers you see, only we only fire on civilians) versus them (you and me and anyone not a cop) needs to stop.
Aurora PD ain't no friend of mine.
Also, a colored person was recently charged with a hate crime too. You didn't hear about it I presume-guess, so you might/may be prone to claim "it never, ever happens" that a person of color could be charged with a hate crime, but it does happen friendo. I hope the Satanist who killed the big big time cop on a motor cycle recently in WI was charged with a hate crime. The evil murdering bastard said he drove into the deceased's Harley because white racists drive Harleys.
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/08/27/stabbing-suspect-steve-sinclair-yelled-black-lives-matter-charged-hate-crime-attempted-murder/
I only note this because I am more guilty than most (here at the Althouse blog anyways) of speaking in absolute terms even though I know intellectually that it isn't just lawyers being assholes saying don't do that, but in fact it is a wise thing to remember to not do, whether or not you're an asshole or not.
///"Does he REALLY believe he can sell that BS??"
-- He doesn't need to; like Obama, and Bush before, despite all the talk of cross over appeal, it is going to turn out to be largely a base turn out election.///
Has there ever been anything other?
Who has won a potUS election without largely depending on their base?
In addition, Trump is going to win more crossover votes, especially from colo-=-oops, people of color, than anyone from the GOP in decades. It's hard to believe you would be cynical about this, so I assume you are just plain not an accurate forecaster.
No shame in that. I know.
I know.
"Ford was an All American football player at Michigan. Must have been Carter."
Indeed sir, and I believe he was at a Patriot game or something in MD, maybe Che. Chase?
Fireworks at the White House spelling out TRUMP is all I needed to see after this wonderful week. Glorious
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/08/27/40000-pounds-chicken-poop-spilled-interstate-70-semi-rollover/
I don't remember headlines like this before Althouse intimated she wanted to spend more time here...
---DJT: "China virus"!---
The pressure, with billions of American dollars behind it by non-Americans, to discredit Trump is aimed at discrediting America forever.
discredit
ing
forever
Americans.
China Joe says "China is not a threat" I think, maybe that was a paraphrase? Hunter knows China is not a threat, but the bestest supplier of hookers and blow he has ever run into.
So they accuse DJT junior of what Biden has been kicked out the fucking Navy for, after getting a bullshit Navy spot to start with, for Fuck's sake.
These fucks.
I haven't listened to Rich Grennel. Far as I understand, his is the front runner betters's bet with Noem in 2024.
Noem on top. Rich in the rear.
They could literally take 49 states again for the GOP, with jokes like that, only hateful.
Like The D S or any notearly unshows.
We've got honest to God heros facing Marxist powerlust. Better than anyone could have ever imagined. Certainly at minimum nothing less than panglossian.
At least that's what I think if Pete Boyles wasn't messing around with me this morning. He said Rich G. gave the speech Pete. B. has been waiting 35 years to hear. Wuh wuh?
I just know his twitter doesn't mince words. Been seeing it for about 2 years I'd guess. Narc-iso would know. As always. His links are always the best. But this is a man that knows and refutes progs, this Rich Grennal.
Whomever was at Woodstock ought have been at Kenosha, like that kid.
Wooodt woody wooody what's 80% of what?
Showing down?
Showing sideways?
Showing reverser?
Showing angled?
Showing...llllllllllllllll
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UP.
White supremacists found in American police departments.
Well what do you know,...
I'm noticing dogs who aren't barking.
God bless these patriots.
https://twitter.com/COsweda
Justified was so great these punks had to burn everything down.
Thanks Nick Searcy.
I do believe the gloves came off last night. Go Trump!
Here, on August 28, 2020, is what I know:
- Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the rest of the Democrat party seek political office and power for its own sake and to enrich themselves. They don't care one wit about you, me, and every other American.
- Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and the rest of the Republican party seek political office and power to make America great again and improve the lives of all Americans. They care deeply about you, me, and every other American.
You may think you know something different, but you are wrong.
You guys should listen to the Red Pilled America podcast series on the George Gage case. Summary: Kamala Harris is a complete shitstain and defective human being.
White supremacists found in American police departments.
Diversity and exclusion is a progressive condition.
I Have Misplaced My Pants said...
You guys should listen to the Red Pilled America podcast series
8/28/20, 6:38 AM
I’ve always been delighted by the right’s use of the term “redpill” because it clearly originated from a trans allegory.
If rioters are throwing Molotov cocktails at your home or business
...and you are INSIDE said home or business, your life is in danger.
Hey, Jupiter: would you consider changing your screenname? I've lived in the beautiful seaside town of Jupiter FL for almost 50 years now and the proudest moment I've had was when I discovered that all but two of the precincts in the main ZIP Code voted Trump in 2016 (unlike most of the rest of Palm Beach County). The two precincts that went for HRC? The older, historically black community of Limestone Creek and the Section 8 community of Kennedy Estates where drug sales are conducted out in the open. Unless, of course, you are referring to the planet. Then, as Emily Litella would say, "Never mind". Have a blessed day. #TrumpLandslide 2020
Is it not enough, Mark, that Jupiter has a photo of the planet on his posts? ;-)
The Crack Emcee said...
White supremacists found in American police departments.
Some years ago, when I lived in Chicago, the Tribune ran a story about the personal lives and stresses of cops who work the city. One of the black cops said, "I start my day with a prayer. Lord, let me get through this day without hurting anyone. But if I have to, Lord, please make it a white man."
Original Mike
But I on the other hand always knew you were too sloppy not to know the difference between “supported” and “voted for”. And you are perpetually sloppy and careless on this blog.
Jersey Fled is at least more careful and honest than Original Mike (faint praise: so is Inga):
“In defense of Ken B, he didn't say he voted for a fringe candidate, he said he supported one.
Maybe he made a contribution. I know foriegn nationals cant contribute either, but heck, Obama accidentally on purpose accepted thousands of them.”
This is at least close to accurate. Foreign nationals can: advocate, talk to people, and *contribute their time and labor* to campaigns. So you are wrong too, unsurprisingly.
But Original Mike, you should feel very foolish if even Fled can spot your error right off.
"But I on the other hand always knew you were too sloppy not to know the difference between “supported” and “voted for”. And you are perpetually sloppy and careless on this blog."
Your support and a couple of bucks will get your candidate a cup of coffee.
As for careless and sloppy, still waiting for those links which show me to be a covid denier.
I’ve always been delighted by the right’s use of the term “redpill” because it clearly originated from a trans allegory.
You need to watch the Matrix again.
Love this sunrise shot. The people in silhouette enjoying it is a cool touch.
gahrie said...
I’ve always been delighted by the right’s use of the term “redpill” because it clearly originated from a trans allegory.
You need to watch the Matrix again.
8/28/20, 10:06 AM
I’ve seen it enough and read enough interviews with the creators to recognize that it’s a trans allegory. What do you think I missed?
hawkeyedjb said...
The Crack Emcee said...
White supremacists found in American police departments.
Some years ago, when I lived in Chicago, the Tribune ran a story about the personal lives and stresses of cops who work the city. One of the black cops said, "I start my day with a prayer. Lord, let me get through this day without hurting anyone. But if I have to, Lord, please make it a white man."
I like how you guys act like blacks have NO JUSTIFICATION. for their anger - but you historical killers are justified in everything you think, feel, or do.
It's like South Africa and you don't know it. The Nazis did, though. They admired you.
"but you historical killers are justified in everything you think, feel, or do."
The history begins around 1492 with the European explosion and its conquest of the Earth. I'm sitting here in one of those places which supplied a disproprtionate number of those conquerors.
A lot of non-European peoples did not do so well as a result.
But for us it was a glorious adventure. And of course there is the ancient right of conquest and the rule of vae victis.
And it created the world, entirely, for Europeans and non-Europeans everywhere. Not one square foot of the Earth (if you subscribe to AGW theory, or you count electromagnetic emissions) is unaffected by the consequences of 1492.
There are honorable ways to accomodate oneself, or ones peooles, to conquest.
One is to organize, fight and defeat the conquerors.
A very few of these peoples actualy did that. Your people should be honoring the Ethiopians for their ferocious and effective military resistance.
The Siamese did the same through remarkably brilliant diplomacy. Their kings and royal advisors do not get the credit they deserve.
Another is to join the conquerors wholeheartedly.
Another is to adapt and remodel your society to gain enough power to make conquest unappealing.
But most of those are not practical for you, a small and poor minority in a vastly powerful country.
What is not going to work, ever, is to live by whining and appealing to your conquerors guilt and compassion. You will thereby just become a sort of pet, and not a good pet. The sort of creatures that their owners really dont like, but would feel guilty about abandoning.
Best I think if your demand is for an independent state which you can settle, make your own way in the world, and run as you see fit. Some of those 1960s radicals had the right idea.
The Nazis admired you.
I like how you guys act like blacks have NO JUSTIFICATION. for their anger - but you historical killers are justified in everything you think, feel, or do.
It's like South Africa and you don't know it. The Nazis did, though. They admired you.
No, we kicked their ass just like the Ashante's kicked your ancestors' asses and sold them for muskets and beads. You are a descendent of losers, Crack. You sound more like it every day with your whining. It's why real Africans don't get the victim pathology of American blacks like you. They want nothing to do with you.
I think I echo the various ideas of revolutionary Black Nationalists (Malcolm X, at least at some point, Carmichael, etc.) plus I take into account the problem of Black Nationalism in a polity where the black population is widely dispersed among a non-black majority. That is, it is impossible to be Nationalist under such circumstances, one cannot be a separate country while intermingled so closely with a majority of foreigners.
Yes, these people were rather absurd, sympathetic as I am to some of them. They needed a territory, first, in order to be independent and thus properly a people. This was Theodor Herzl's argument. You need a black Israel.
As for this idea being Nazi - well, all of these movements, including Hitler's AND Herzl's were based on very similar ideas, of ethnic essentialism. This was the justification for the reappearance of Poland, the breakdown of the Habsburg Empire, of Wilson's 14 points, of the crackup of Yugoslavia and of most anticolonial national independence movements. Were these people all Nazis? Arguably they were, even some of those the actual Nazis later invaded, like the Czechs and the Poles. It certainly includes the Malays and Indonesians and Sri Lankans.
"Ford was an All American football player at Michigan. Must have been Carter."
It was Ford and made famous by SNL making repeated joke skits about it. It was ironic because Ford was actually a graceful athlete. It was pursued, I think because Ford was a Republican.
Unless the law has changed, Texas specifically includes protection of property, under certain circumstances, as grounds to use deadly force.
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