Good morning. Today is the first day of the rest of America’s life.
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) November 3, 2020
Voiced by Martin Sheen. pic.twitter.com/JCaj5IyZnr
November 3, 2020
There's a point where I said "That's what a Hitler ad would look like."
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Sorry I had the wrong video for a few seconds. Just didn't have the new code copied.
Year Zero. Fake President Bartlett has one day of hope left.
they ran the west wing reruns on fridays for the last few weeks
That’ll sure move the needle for the undecided voter! Why do I keep thinking “It’s morning in America” ?
Support the rioters, push socialist totalitarianism, and claim the high moral ground.
That is not how this works. That is not how any of this works.
I assume in the long version you get to see the tyke at the end singing "Tomorrow Belongs to Me".
Like Hitler -- Trump is a buffoon and his supporters are fanatical buttheads.
Unlike Hitler -- Trump did not launch a total war and commit industrial-scale genocide.
Griftin’
Got their chips cashed in
Yep you get it, Althouse. No doubt.
How would Hitler run for President anyways?
The Lincoln Project is working with Martin Sheen? Yeah, they're trying to save conservatism.
Gotta spend the rest of Pierre's money (paying their own media companies) over at the grifter project.
Their true name is the "P.T. Barnum Project." "There's a sucker born every minute."
The members are nothing but grifters, raking in the Democrat dollars and spending them on themselves.
The last four years have been a modest restoration of constitutional government, reigning in of the Federal bureaucracy and frustration of the Democrat smear machine.
Lincoln Project people must not have kids. Nobody peeks through their fingers when watching their kids play sports.
And foreigners are not our parents, and we are not their children. Confident, well-adjusted Americans don't care what foreigners think of our election outcomes. It's a two-way street. We generally don't give two shits about their elections because their elections really don't matter, do they?
But we're getting judged by History! Hope History likes the talent and swimsuit parts of the show and judges me with high scores.
If Steve Schmidt were any good at his job, Joe Biden would never have been Vice President.
I blocked the Lincoln Project on Twitter months ago, and seeing this ad gives me zero regrets on that decision. While Trump is not my favorite President from a demeanor standpoint (or from a spending standpoint), he has been tremendous on foreign policy, judicial nominations, and rolling back overregulation. Plus, he's a lot better than the opposition.
Oh, for God's sake. So tired of this overwrought hysteria. Go huff your own farts in private, Sheen, and mediate on what you did wrong as a parent. Maybe you and Joe can meditate together.
Yeah, I am going to return sheepishly to a Republican Party that has called me a Nazi if Trump loses and the neocons take back control of it.
This is known as burning your bridges, Chuck.
Here's the scene from "The Dead Zone" (a film version of the Stephen King novel of the same name) in which the insane president played by Martin Sheen launches ICBM's against the USSR. "The missiles are flying. Hallelujah!" he tells the vice president.
As for the ad, creepy how few people are in it--the black runner, the 2001 Star Child toddler's face.
But...1,000 days ahead of us!
Greg Stillson 2020.
The voters today are presented with this big question - Which Way, America? The way of the Framers or the way of the UN/EU/PRC?
"The entire world is watching us like a parent in the stands, peeking through their fingers, 'come on! come on, America!'"
That Martin Sheen sure knows how to speak my language.
I imagine no matter what happens today it won't be good for the useful idiots at the Lincoln Project. If Biden wins, their funding will dry up since they will no longer be needed. If Trump wins they'll be rendered even more irrelevant than they already are.
I had a poster back in the 70s, some of kind of nature scene and the text in big letters, Today is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life. I'm still not really sure what I was supposed to get out of that. If it's true, it's very Groundhog Day, yes? the movie not the actual day. I'm starting all over every morning, I never kept past Day One.
Anyway, I can't watch the video because I actually like Martin Sheen as an actor and I don't want to find a reason to dislike him. Now if Charlie Sheen was narrating it, I'd probably watch that. Winning!
This is pretty low-key baloney.
They should have gone with Les Miserables:
"One day more...
One more day before the storm
Do I follow where she goes?
At the barricades of freedom
Shall I join my brothers there?
When our ranks begin to form
Do I stay or do I dare?
Will you take your place with me?
The time is now
The day is here
One day more!
Fade to geriatric Joe Biden almost falling down when Jill tapped him on the back.
in the dead zone series, the stillson character was a more personable character played by sean patrick flannery,
"The entire world is watching us like a parent in the stands, peeking through their fingers, 'come on! come on, America!'"
Said the guy whose son’s antics makes most of the world blush. Or did he think that the religious folks in the small villages in India or the Islamic world are really pulling for the Hollywood crowd’s morals and version of how to live a decent and respectful life.
"The entire world is watching us like a parent in the stands, peeking through their fingers, 'come on! come on, America!'"
Europe must really miss the huge waves of refugees that the Obama Biden Administration flooded them with is all I can say. Talk about your battered wife syndrome.
The Democrats stay quiet when businesses were burned down, vandals vandalized & looting/stealing, with injuries and death. But when trucks with flags escorting out the Biden bus out of Texas, they go nuts with indignation. It’s laughable if not so absurd.
"ow would Hitler run for President anyways?”
Send goons dressed in brown shirts, or maybe even black shirts to opposition rallies to create an atmosphere of violence and disorder around them while he projects and air of calm and control with the help of a compliant media. Good thing that doesn’t sound like any American candidate I have heard of....
Is this the real reason Ann is "abstaining" from this election?
A man who came to President Trump’s giant rally at a local airport Saturday night said he knew someone who planned to vote for Trump but felt too intimidated to say so publicly. I asked who it was. It was his mother, he answered, but she would kill him if she found out that he told anyone.
“There are a lot of people who are too afraid to put up a sign [for Trump],” he said, explaining that his neighborhood, more than an hour away, was mixed between Trump and Biden voters, and black and white voters. During the protests that followed the death of George Floyd, he said, “I pulled the Trump magnet off my Jeep. Everybody took their signs down. People don’t want to be a target.”
So much of this is explained by the vigorish collected by the consultants who place the ads.
Hitler would have cancelled twitter.
Today is the youngest you'll ever be, and the oldest you ever were.
I was thinking the Lincoln Project was not only useless but witless. Then a Trump-hating friend posted this on my Facebook, and I actually thought it was quite clever.
Retro ad for Regeneron
(I've read the Lincoln Project has regrets over this one because a lot of Trump fans love the ad, but I don't know if that's true.)
As for Sheen: Fine actor, seems a thoroughly decent guy. He's always been a lefty, but a principled one. I'm disappointed for him that he's working with them, not the other way around.
The George Lincoln Rockwell Project is pathetic.
narciso said...they ran the west wing reruns on fridays for the last few weeks
President Bartlett was an arrogant gasbag. The only reason he seemed so wise and decent is that the writers made sure nobody ever called him on his bullshit.
At least Biden will make the trains run on time.
A parent peeking through fingers at the childlike voters who need to be told which way to vote.
George Conway. Enough said.
You lost me at 'voiced by Martin Sheen'. What is it with Democrats constantly living with either Franklin or Eleanor Roosevelt, John or Robert Kennedy, or Pres. Josiah Bartlett?
Gawd. Makes me want to puke. Walked in on my wife on Sunday catching up on CBS Sunday Morning and it had- Surprise!- another story on Eleanor Roosevelt. With that show it's always about a Democrat deity. I was thinking, how many other First Ladies have we had? (53) Of the 53 First Ladies, did not any of the others have interesting lives? Did they not do anything inspirational, or simply good for others? Did they not have one great story that could be told about them? Or just their simple story, which by itself, is probably a great story considering that most of them did not come from Roosevelt or Kennedy money?
Did you know that Louisa Catherine Adams (married to John Quincy Adams) was born in London and went on to become First Lady of the new country that had broken away from England due mightily to John's father's work?
Or Dolley Madison who made a point to remove the large Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington from the White House just before the British arrived to burn down the White House?
Or Jane Pierce, who's son was killed two years into Franklin Pierce's term. Jane stayed upstairs in their private quarter for most of those last two years, mourning her son's death.
Or Julia Grant, the first First Lady to be recorded on film and a staunch women's rights defender. She was very much liked in Washington for her social events.
Many lives, stories, both great and simple.
But, Nah...Roosevelts, Kennedys, and fictional presidents all the way down.
NeverTrump fake Republicans sure have their finger on the pulse of what conservatives want.
Hollywood Liberal Pretend President, Martin Sheen!
Everyday is the first day of the rest of any life even if it's also the last day.
Woody Allen: Sleeper
martin sheen who narrated oliver stone's murder porn exercises,
Sheen is Badlands and Eddie Slovic all wrapped in a tight-assed little ball.
which was based on russian dezinforma,
Why would Sheen work with That Racist President Project?
Who is the target audience for Lincoln Project ads? I thought their mission was to convince Republicans to vote for Biden, but I haven't seen a single ad of theirs that displays any awareness of the thinking of either the broad or intellectual slice of the right?
Martin Sheen as Josef Goebbels---sorta fits.
I don't know if I'm seeing the right video. The one I saw was quite boring and uninspiring. As noted above by Jake, everyday is the first day of the rest of any life.
It's spiros comment @8:59am that inspired me to comment. Isn't it funny that Trump is compared to Hitler, when the reality is Trump has done all he can to withdraw us from battles across the globe and encourage other nations to deal with their own defense. In the comparisons to Hitler, Trump is doing the exact opposite of what would be done to build an imperialistic nation. The odd thing is that Trump's own campaign hardly notes this. If Trump loses tonight; he will be the most peaceful President of the last 4 decades, and maybe many more than that.
I remember a scene from The West Wing when some character bemoans all the money the Feds are wasting on useless studies. One of the characters takes him to a room that is literally full of stacks of studies and asks him to pick one out at random, wanting to prove that they are not useless. So the skeptic pulls out a study and it involves the issue of disposing of garbage and how it is becoming more expensive because landfills are filling up. Once that is revealed the character who took him to the room gives him a triumphant look, the skeptic looks chastised and that is the end of the scene. Any conservative would have asked why that was a Federal issue? If disposal of trash is getting more expensive, wouldn't the price for carrying it off get more expensive? If so, wouldn't that be an incentive to produce less trash? I can see the need for environmental regulations, but removal and disposal of trash is a local issue.
The world is our parent? A lot of those countries might be older but many are more like that older sibling who's made a mess of their life and look to their baby brother/sister to bail them out of trouble.
They need to cultivate their own garden, not worry about ours.
Sheen's greatest regret is that he wasn't born a Kenned, though he did get to play Jack and Bobby, as well as the fictional president Bartlett. Maybe that's the reason - all the work on the accent and mannerisms and still, he wasn't the real thing. I also suspect his Irish mother and her relatives made things hard for his Mexican father.
I thought there was a rule.
"Like Hitler -- Trump is a buffoon and his supporters are fanatical buttheads.
Unlike Hitler -- Trump did not launch a total war and commit industrial-scale genocide."
I dunno, most of the Trump supporters I know are reluctant and dislike him; Hitler's supporters were enthusiasts in a cult of personality. (Trump has some of those, but I think people overestimate.)
Equally, the idea that Trump's some sort of Super Racist Racey-Racist appears to be ... something simply invented from whole cloth by his opponents. He has a myriad of faults, but he just ... doesn't seem to be an actual bigot, let alone a Hitler-style racial monomaniac.
But that's true of ... almost all the things I see my Progressive friends say about him? It's all stuff that would be Very Convenient If True, because it'd make him Super Awful.
But none of it stands up to close inspection as being anything but either invented or grossly exaggerated.
Which is a shame, since they could make real, substantive attacks on his actual actions, but ... prefer making sh!t up? Even when they claim it's about actions, they get everything wrong and make sh!t up.
Profoundly unserious people prating authoritatively do not help the Republic.)
Nothing says Republican like a voice-over by Martin Mr President Sheen. Geez. Go back to your irrelevance, Bill Kristol.
I assume in the long version you get to see the tyke at the end singing "Tomorrow Belongs to Me".
Same thought here.
Bush 2 made that video of him pretending to look for the weapons of mass destruction for the now immaterial White House correspondents dinner. Did the Lincoln Project mofo's get a laugh out of that? Did they?
Temujin wrote: "Walked in on my wife on Sunday catching up on CBS Sunday Morning and it had- Surprise!- another story on Eleanor Roosevelt. With that show it's always about a Democrat deity."
Indeed. I was just surprised they didn't have another in their series, "Andrew Cuomo, the new Lightbringer." They don't even bother to pretend any more. With Eleanor Roosevelt I think of three things: Malcolm Muggeridge saying she was worse than Hitler or Stalin (true, both Hitler and Stalin murdered all these people; but they were discredited, whereas Mrs. Roosevelt went on to be revered, and looked on as a source of wisdom and inspiration--as witness the CBS Sunday Morning piece); and William Buckley's obituary that her life "was an unrelenting war against the syllogism." In fighting that war, she may have been ahead of her time. Now, that war is being carried on by most "liberals" "progressives" and other State-cultists.
"Vote by vote" voiced over a picture of a graveyard. Deliberate?
Gunner: "NeverTrump fake Republicans sure have their finger on the pulse of what conservatives want."
The ones in Michigan are fully on board the Whitmer Train, with one caveat: on most issues the FakeCon NeverTrumper "LLR's" are far, far to the left of Whitmer.....because that is where you usually find the "muh principles" "True Conservatives"....
...(wink wink)
All that Noble-White-America imagery is just the sort of racist dogwhistle I'd expect from an organization headed by a guy whose wife flaunts Confederate symbols on her IG account.
Doesn’t this ad work just as well to inspire Trump voters that their vote today is vitally important? This didn’t strike me as a Biden ad.
Douglas Murray & Bret Weinstein: Portland is a Third World City
It's 14 minutes long.
Douglas Murray compares what he sees in Portland to what he has seen in other cities around the world.
"...the marches marched through residential areas screaming at householders telling them that they were living on stolen land and that black people used to live in this area and that they've been pushed out. Something that wasn't that evident. There were plenty of black homeowners in the area in question...That seemed to be a fairly ordinary evening in this city."
"...the sites in downtown Portland [created by the activists] seemed to me reminiscent of nothing so much as a third-world city. I mean people who haven't been here may be interested to know it is much worse than you expect."
"I have never been to a society where the local authorities allow para-military organizations to demand the killing of a journalist for the crime of reporting and to have such calls everywhere in the center of the city..."
"...the extent to which he has been braver than almost all the other journalists from this state together in bothering to report what so many journalists just think is not worth reporting -- to walk through the city center and to see on the World War II monuments, on the massive walls downtown, calls to kill Andy Ngo in big letters stated as such. It's not free speech. That is incitement to murder and the authorities here don't care about it at all."
"But the authorities here have let so much go that merely encouraging the murder of journalists for the crime of reporting is a comparatively minor issue..."
The contrast between the reality of cities where the left-wing absolutely dominates and the world portrayed in the campaign ad is truly dramatic.
I don't know how much they paid for that ad, but it never mentions Trump or Biden.
Sure, all the cool kids understand what President Sheen is talking about, but they are already voting for Biden (or Trump--us deplorables get it as well).
The LIV's just see another soft-focus ad, for...what?
Vote for the guy who doesn't even show up for his own ads?
The idea that the world is the parent of America, the world's uncontestable hegemonic superpower, is laughable.
Hitler had Leni. His ads would have been a lot better.
I wonder if anyone heard the historical echo of Hitler's "Tausendjähriges Reich (Thousand-Year Reich) when Sheen invoked clearing "a path for a Thousand Better Days ahead."
Someone should do a German voice over for the ad.
I don't agree by the way that this is what a Hitler ad would look like. That statement shows a lack of awareness of what actually occurred in pre-Nazi Germany.
And I don't think Ann Althouse is to blame for not knowing that. But we have actual Nazi campaign ads. There are a lot of them. I assume the reason she hasn't seen them is because of the efforts of academia to bury the facts of what happened and who was doing what.
I've seen Nazi campaign ads that scream hatred of the Jews. No one could possibly miss it. The people that voted for the Nazis; they knew what they were voting for.
I've seen Nazi campaign ads that exude -- it's like pouring from the pores of the posters -- hatred of capitalists and businesses. No one could miss the message.
Nazi messages scream anger and hate and resentment. It's astonishing that a political party could win with such messages, but they did, even if it was only 40% of the population.
Freeman Hunt said..."Who is the target audience for Lincoln Project ads? I thought their mission was to convince Republicans to vote for Biden, but I haven't seen a single ad of theirs that displays any awareness of the thinking of either the broad or intellectual slice of the right?"
So, basically, they haven't gotten any better at their jobs than when they worked for McCain and Romney.
It’s about how America feels - it is all about “feels”.
Getting the trains back on the tracks..... then off to the re-education camps.
The start of the 1000 day reich.....
Today is the first day of the rest of America’s life. ,
and tommorow belongs to me
Would an actual patriot use a phrase like "the first day of the rest of America’s life" which buries a hidden presumption that American is on its path to death?
Trump is a racist! because he calls black, opposition politicians bad names! He's a big, white, blue-eyed meanie! He's just helped the black community with sentencing reform, enterprise zones, HBCU aid or lowered the Black unemployment rate to record low-levels! All of that makes him a racist!, so he must be canceled and flushed into the memory hole of history! /sarc
I think it was in the Althouse comments section where I wrote that it almost looks like the Lincoln Project is funded by Trump supporters- it is difficult to understand how they could be this bad at convincing Republican voters to vote against Trump
Sheen has also played Robert E. Lee. I'm a little surprised he hasn't been cancelled yet.
Lincoln Project people must not have kids. Nobody peeks through their fingers when watching their kids play sports.
Aye a very condescending perspective.
We are kids but the rest of world are our kind, beneficent, wise elders.
" almost all the things I see my Progressive friends say about him? It's all stuff that would be Very Convenient If True, because it'd make him Super Awful."
I am afraid that also applies to their opinion of you, and me. At the crunch they would build the ramps to the cattle cars, or mix the kool-aid in the mess tent.
Whoever is funding this “Lincoln Project” must have also bought the Drudge Report.
"Today is the first day of the rest of America's life."
Which goes perfectly with "history started 15 minutes ago", which they also use when they need to ignore their own mistakes and the success of others.
Both are absolutely necessary for the progressive mind to make any sense of its world.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
True enough, but I have stuff left over from yesterday that I need to finish or else the rest of my life is going to start out pretty screwed up.
People say Harris is not a commie.
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1322963321994289154
The game is only fair if everybody ends up in the same place.
"To each according to his needs, from each according to his abilities” as somebody once said. I guess that’s easy to say for someone who got where she was on her back, or with her heels up.
Paul Zrimsek said...Sheen has also played Robert E. Lee. I'm a little surprised he hasn't been cancelled yet.
Ted Turner financed that movie (which I watch every July 4.) We will be visiting Gettysburg in about three weeks.
Robert Duvall was far better as Lee in the sequel Gods and Generals.
Well, one theme in that video rang true. He implored folks to vote while looking down on a cemetery.
If you are an uninterested person this ad is ambiguous on who it supports. I could see lots of people seeing it and voting for Trump. He certainly is the more optimiistic candidate this election season.
Shutdown DC says that the protests start at 2:00 p.m. EST. Sounds like voter suppression to me.
Shutdown DC says that the protests start at 4:00 p.m. EST. Sounds like voter suppression to me.
Fixed the time.
The thing I'll like most about the results today? No matter who wins, the NeverTrumper assholes will be in the wilderness.
This is the guy what the Lincoln Project wants to give the nuclear football to.
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Joe Biden introduces his granddaughter by saying, "This is my son, Beau Biden." ... "This is my granddaughter, Natalie. No wait, no wait. We got the wrong one..."
If Trump wins, he needs to smash the media into tiny little pieces.
Start with social media and Google.
Then start prosecuting/suing every news outlet that publishes stories with anonymous sources. Reporters need to do hard jail time for lying.
Fuck everyone in the 'news' business...Fox included.
I grew up in New England in the '50's and '60's. We had lots of "life-long Republicans". After Ike (EVERYBODY liked Ike), they often voted for Democrats (except for Kennedy) for President, Senate, US House, but for Republicans for State and Local offices. Why? Because the Democrats at the State level nominated Irish, and Italians, and Jews as candidates, not Yankees. The sad truth is that a significant segment of the "life long Republican" cadre were anti-immigrant (really, anti-grandchildren-of-immigrants) bigots. That's no longer a viable explanation of the folks behind the "Lincoln Project"; I suspect they're just lefties. But when you listen to what they say about Trump, the crude guy from Queens, picture them in a drawing room, sipping tea, pinky finger raised. You won't be far off.
I keep seeing stuff that indicates that establishment Republicans that seem to think that if they can get Trump out of office they will be able to patch the party back together.
For the Chucks of the world I've got bad news. Win or lose the old Republican party is dead, and there will be no coming back from the grave. Join us or spend your life in the wilderness. Resistance is futile.
Hitler ad? All in a day's work for genuine Nazi's., not the imaginary kind.
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/photo/2011/10/world-war-ii-the-holocaust/w07_05043951/main_1200.jpg
Was it at "1000 days" that you thought it resembled a Nazi ad?
I don't know about you, but the little kid looking skyward reminded me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUctFu46_c
"Tomorrow belongs to me."
But that ad is just terrible--as a Trump supporter I could get behind 3/4 of it if I didn't know whose ad it was. To me, most of the horror of the last 4 years and certainly the last 5 months came from the Democrats, the media, and generally the Left. Oh, yes, and the Lincoln Project's former Republican grifters.
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