Writes Susan B. Glasser in "Joe Biden’s This-Is-Not-Normal Speech on the Rising Danger of MAGA Trumpists/The President calls out Trump and his Republicans, and they see red" (The New Yorker).
She means that to read pro-Biden, strangely enough.
September 2, 2022
"MAGA Republicans seemed to think that the scary setting for Biden’s alarming message was somehow beneficial to them..."
"... and they soon began sharing images of the dramatic black-and-neon-red scene. 'I can’t believe this is a real photograph,' J. D. Vance, the Trump-backed Republican nominee for Senate in Ohio, tweeted. 'It depicts the president of our nation, as he took to the airwaves and spoke about his fellow citizens as if they were sewer rats.' Rick Scott, the Republican Senate campaign chief, tweeted the photo and dismissed Biden as a 'raving lunatic' who 'attacked half the country tonight.' Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, called it a 'hate speech.' Over on Fox News, Tucker Carlson was very, very angry about the 'blood-red Nazi background' and the Marine honor guard in front of Independence Hall, a setting that he termed a 'complete outrage.' Even before Biden spoke, Kevin McCarthy—the House Minority Leader, whose slavish devotion earned him the sobriquet 'my Kevin' from Trump—gave a prebuttal, in which he said that the President should 'apologize for slandering tens of millions of Americans as fascists.'"
Writes Susan B. Glasser in "Joe Biden’s This-Is-Not-Normal Speech on the Rising Danger of MAGA Trumpists/The President calls out Trump and his Republicans, and they see red" (The New Yorker).
Glasser's penultimate sentence: "How telling it is that, when the President of the United States today speaks of threats to the nation, he is warning not about adversaries abroad but the danger within."
Writes Susan B. Glasser in "Joe Biden’s This-Is-Not-Normal Speech on the Rising Danger of MAGA Trumpists/The President calls out Trump and his Republicans, and they see red" (The New Yorker).
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I wonder why he didn't wear his mirror sunglasses.
The New Soviet Democraticals know that the jig is up with their lies about the economy and freedom. Even the lefty purveyors of those lies at Althouse blog, Howard, gadfly et al, don't believe the lies they push.
And it is clear the internal polling for the dems for Nov shows there is no way to keep pushing the "Build Back Better" BS and the "no one is just walking across the border" BS so the decision has been made: The New Soviet Democraticals and their GOPe allies will simply declare war on tens of millions of voters in the hopes that an internal "war" will distract from Democratical policy failures in the same way dictators have used external wars in the past when economic failure occurred.
Glasser's idea of "beneficial" is interesting. Glasser's certainty that it wasn't is alarming.
I made my living persuading people with visuals...graphics, photos, headlines, etc.
I know a bit about art direction.
This was either deliberate or the greatest fuck-up in US political history.
You decide...
"MAGA Republicans seemed to think that the scary setting for Biden’s alarming message was somehow beneficial to them..."
This from the same crowd that was angry declared Trump "Mussolini" simply because Trump stood on a balcony.
Oh no! It's illegal to think that Biden and his handlers are creepy.
It's illegal now to say the obvious - out loud.
So how much of the population has to be against Biden’s agenda to go from “threats to the nation” to just being The Nation? The more the idiots who are using Biden as a sock puppet show their intentions the more we see they are the threat to America. Even Democrats should be waking up to this now. But they are too invested. They know there is no other way for them to retain power and wealth for themselves.
Try criticizing a leftist or a democratic bad idea on a non-political chat room.
Here - we have local crime-reporting chat rooms - sometimes people speak out about the pro-crime democrats and their pro-criminal polices that have led to the massive up-tick in crime.
The left cannot handle criticism in any way. They lose their minds.
I know, I know: you read the New Yorker so we don't have to. But just so you know: I don't care.
The level of cluelessness by our Betters in the 'elite' press has yet to peak. It is ever rising and ever more astounding.
Of this I have no doubt: Their dinner table conversation among friends is a guaranteed parody of itself. I wish some brave soul would do us the favor of recording such an encounter. It would be gold.
Still, how did it get to be like this? We are all confronted with the same facts, the same realities, the same access to information. How can it be that our 'elite' thinkers are so unfamiliar with the millions they share their country with and somehow seem to not be getting the whole story? It has to come down to choice. One chooses to not know something that would go against ones preconceived notions. In that way, they can stay pure to the Cause. Party above Nation. Cause above Party. Cause above everything.
It's amazing, that after Hillary, and now with Biden... they can't just say "hey! we have differences! let's reconcile and get along!"
I would not have expected a speech titled "The Soul of A Nation" to be something other than a "let's get back together!" speech.
Instead, it was Hitler at the Reichstag in 1939!
All I can think is that the people (person?) coordinating the stage layout had NO IDEA of how things built to WWII.
Unless they did have a very good idea of it!
Apparently people found it easy to imagine a black swastika on a white background somewhere in the imagery. Me, I kept looking for a yellow hammer and sickle.
Last nights speech will spawn a shitload of Hitler "Downfall Parodies".
Hey!! It looks like someone colorized Leni Riefensthal's film of the 1934 Nuremberg Rally!!
It was a disgusting speech.
The loyal collective hivemind elite left: How dare you say so!
How telling it is that, when the President of the United States today speaks of threats to the nation, he is warning not about adversaries abroad but the danger within.
Very telling. You need to get an iron grip control of the homeland before you can establish a stable dictatorship.
All libtards did during the Trump years was focus on optics, making fun of silly pictures of Trump, photoshopping him to look worse etc. It is rich that they are outraged about it being done against them.
"Glasser's penultimate sentence: "How telling it is that, when the President of the United States today speaks of threats to the nation, he is warning not about adversaries abroad but the danger within."
She means that to read pro-Biden, strangely enough. "
She failed. Oddly enough. Those citizens who didn't vote for Biden don't need to be told what to believe. They know a lie when they hear one. Only the betas need to be told.
This was either deliberate or the greatest fuck-up in US political history.
It had to be deliberate. Nobody but nobody is that stupid.
I tend to agree with whoever said this is preparation for something before the election. What it is I cannot predict but it will be something crazy. Demanding mail in ballots sounds like something they would think of. After all, HR1 was about that.
I of course can't be bothered to watch a stupid stage crafted political speech. However, it obvious Biden hit the MAGA nerve center mass.
Next step, indictments and Mar a Lago frog March.
Why the radio silence from MAGA the Hut? You people need him right now and all we hear are crickets and your soft wimpering.
Jeff Goldstein says:
"President Turnip has F-15s. Do you? President Turnip directs a military armed with non-gendered pronouns and led by a thick-bodied, bag-eyed yes man in touch with his privilege and aware of his own white rage. Do you? President Turnip has the unwavering support of Max Boot and Jen Rubin — two of this country’s most beautiful minds. Do you?
“Dark Brandon,” flanked by Marines and backed by Hellish lighting, mumbled, shouted, and emoted his way through a Hitleresque scapegoating of large swaths of the population. And his call to arms has energized all the woke and virtuous defenders of democracy, who are now demanding a one-party system and the shunning of Republicans as lesser humans. Because, in the same way you sometimes have to destroy villages to save them, sometimes you have to become an unelected Administrative dictatorship to save democracy from the benighted and filthy MAGAts who so frustratingly vote incorrectly.
President Turnip’s speech — presented with the full backing of the Executive branch and its law enforcement and justice arms — was perhaps the most egregious speech ever given by a US president. It was more than simply divisive. It was tacit permission to treat those who don’t favor progressive governance as enemies of the State. It’s the summer of 2020 with presidential approval. It’s dangerous. It’s unconscionable."
Looks like the overnight internal polling is back and its not good for the New Soviet Democraticals and their pale, demented, sexually deviant, imitation of Emperor Palpatine.
Biden's Earpiece begins the walkback of his comments from just last night: "I don't consider any Trump supporter a threat to the country"
What will be fun to watch will be Howard shifting effortlessly from praising Biden for his speech last night to declaring Biden said no such thing as the things he said last night.
Let's all watch and enjoy.
Trump supporters are the new Jews in the New American Reich.
Strange. During most of my adult life I was a Democrat. When the Democrats were no longer recognizable as Democratic, I voted for Trump. Now the worst President of my lifetime calls me an extremist and a threat to democracy.
Go figure!
So if a Biden fan asks me who I voted for and I say, "Trump. Twice." and he assaults me, am I allowed to duck?
Considering the amount of backpedaling today from the WH, I'm guessing that their phone lines were melted last night and this morning by angry calls from Dem candidates.
The broadcast networks knew what was coming and did Biden a huge favor by not showing this live. Imagine these images blanketing American TV screens for an hour in prime time.
If that speech never happened and some rightie photo shopped Biden in a similar background with Marines in the background, Facebook and IG would be quick to put a sensitive content or misinformation warning but our media betters totally think this is an awesome look.
Biden was preaching to the choir, Althouse. People like Glasser, and our resident trolls here would be perfectly happy to see the FBI and Homeland Security rounding up conservatives like me en masse on sedition charges.
Whoever wrote that speech last night needs to fired today, and Biden needs to be forced to resign for giving it.
Biden's speech has me inspired to have a hat or shirt printed with "Super Ultra MAGA" on it.
Biden is trying to provoke an over-reaction. The Mar-A-Lago raid didn’t work. Now this demented rant at Independence Hall.
Biden’s agenda is a disaster and 60% of the country disapproves of his performance as president.
The Madness of Slow Joe speech was lame. Whoever is running the show for Joe is a moron.
Any one down for a Reichstag type fire and an FBI entrapped Maga person as perpetrator to detour the coming mid term elections?
Once again, the story isn't what happened. It's always "Republicans Pounce!"
Last nights speech will spawn a shitload of Hitler "Downfall Parodies".
There are already a lot of Hitler memes, but I haven't seen any doctored Downfall clips yet. V For Vendetta also comes up a lot. John Hurt, who played the abused little man Winston Smith, in 1984 went on to play a dictatorial Big Brother type in V For Vendetta.
Red seems to be a big part of the color scheme in 1984, V For Vendetta, and the big productions of the Nazis and Communists. It's strange that Biden would go in for the color after it had been assigned to the Republicans.
"Glasser's penultimate sentence: "How telling it is that, when the President of the United States today speaks of threats to the nation, he is warning not about adversaries abroad but the danger within."
She means that to read pro-Biden, strangely enough."
I don't think Glasser means it as so much pro-Biden as in favor of Biden's dark thesis. To buy such an argument requires much cognitive dissonance in those who might embrace it. We just went through 4 years of hearing from the same people, who declaimed every utterance from the President of the United States, as the ravings of an egomaniac, or a lunatic, or an ignoramus. Oh, but now... hush! It is The President, you must take his every utterance with the utmost seriousness, because he is The President of the United States!
How far is the left willing to go to rid themselves of conservative voters?
I'm not surprised that the NPS (FYI=I still have my Smokey the Bear hat from being a Ranger) allowed this speech, but it is bad form. We had to let Nazi's speak at Valley Forge NP. They must have known the contents of the teleprompter script, but certainly couldn't edit it. I've worked in that building, and this seems, well unseemly. Biden could have delivered his histrionics anywhere. It was almost a clarion call to buy guns and ammunition. It suggests a declaration of war against half of the US (viz. Clear and Present Danger). To what point? To what end? What was President Klain thinking?
I'm not surprised that the NPS (FYI=I still have my Smokey the Bear hat from being a Ranger) allowed this speech, but it is bad form. We had to let Nazi's speak at Valley Forge NP. They must have known the contents of the teleprompter script, but certainly couldn't edit it. I've worked in that building, and this seems, well unseemly. Biden could have delivered his histrionics anywhere. It was almost a clarion call to buy guns and ammunition. It suggests a declaration of war against half of the US (viz. Clear and Present Danger). To what point? To what end? What was President Klain thinking?
I'm not surprised that the NPS (FYI=I still have my Smokey the Bear hat from being a Ranger) allowed this speech, but it is bad form. We had to let Nazi's speak at Valley Forge NP. They must have known the contents of the teleprompter script, but certainly couldn't edit it. I've worked in that building, and this seems, well unseemly. Biden could have delivered his histrionics anywhere. It was almost a clarion call to buy guns and ammunition. It suggests a declaration of war against half of the US (viz. Clear and Present Danger). To what point? To what end? What was President Klain thinking?
How far is the left willing to go to rid themselves of conservative voters? How many people are they willing to jail or kill? I suspect we will soon find out?
Joe Smith said: "This was either deliberate or the greatest fuck-up in US political history"
Certainly you're not ruling out the possibility that it could be both
As mentioned elsewhere, the overnight polls are back and for the New Soviet Democraticals, it ain't good.
Thus, we have this exchange from just this morning:
Doocy: "Do you consider all Trump supporters to be a threat to the country?"
Biden: "I don't consider any Trump supporter a threat to the country."
That's not a "walk back". That's a falling backwards head over heels flop-back.
BIDEN walking it back: "I don't consider any Trump supporter to be a threat. I do think anyone who calls for the use of violence and fails to condemn violence when its used, refuse to acknowledge an election has been won… That is a threat to democracy."
How telling it is that, when the President of the United States today speaks of threats to the nation, he is warning not about adversaries abroad but the danger within.
The MSM, Biden and the Democrats are doing nothing except screaming TRUMP REPUBLICAN NAZI FASCIST at the top of their lungs. No facts. No reason. Just screaming it, with spittle on their lips.
All hail Biden. Sieg Heil!
Notice the odd silence from Ronmney, Sasse, McConnell, and all the other GOPe types. Biden just called them all fascists. But they don't fight back. Curious, no?
When they arrest Trump on bogus charges, you will hear the same silence from GOPe.
So what advantage to the left is it that now their president is being compared to Hitler, and.... it's not easy to defend?
Now Joe is walking back his comments.
He just made the speech last night!
Did he already forget?
Black and red are fascist colors, just look at antifa’s symbol. Nobody looks at the line through it, they are Brownshirts except they wear black.
Joe Smith: help us with your expertise, because I can't decide.
What would be the reason and message of the stage design, if it were deliberate? I can't imagine what would be the intended outcome. That's the part that doesn't add up to me.
"She means that to read pro-Biden, strangely enough"
Why strange? Progs have been waging their cultural civil war for years now. Biden is now doing their bidding. They like it, and. they hate us. Not strange: rational and fitting.
Of course, it is uncomfortable for nice moderates, who now have to believe their eyes., and take sides. Yes, this is what Dems really are and think, yes, they despise their fellow citizens as present dangers, yes, they want to use every power at their disposal to squash the deplorables.
The only strange thing in American politics has been the studied denial of the reasonable center, the cruel neutrality toward both-loathsome-parties.
Uh oh, President Bidas Touch™ (aka President Boomerang) is already walking back his speech.
Biden today: "I don't consider any Trump supporter a threat to the country."(Free Beacon)
There's a great deal of CRI that appears in the New York Times. That's Cranial Rectal Insertion----not that they think that there is anything wrong with that. After all they als like CRT and TDS----and are allergic to MAGA.
Howard: "Why the radio silence from MAGA the Hut? You people need him right now and all we hear are crickets and your soft wimpering."
Trump has already issued multiple statements, including from last night.
So, obviously, some New Soviet Democratical told you Trump hasn't issued a statement and, as Biden's Earpiece clearly explained last night, you li'l Democratical Sheep are not allowed to think for yourself and go against "the majority".
That probably goes a long way in explaining how you get everything wrong. I mean, in addition to you being an idiot.
And you moving to Boston doesn't suddenly make you smarter by geographic proximity to MIT (an institution you name drop like a poker "tell" at least once a week), though oddly you seem to believe it does. Have you always been a "joiner" to try and siphon off some group credibility?
Howard said...
Why the radio silence from MAGA the Hut? You people need him right now and all we hear are crickets and your soft wimpering.
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Heh. By now, even a neuron-depleted moron like you knows Biden is crab-walking back his disastrous speech.
As for Trump, he's hardly been silent:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/02/donald-trump-insane-joe-biden-threatened-america-awkward-angry-speech/
By nightfall Bidenoids will be engaged in a whole lotta keening, ululating and gnashing of dentures, as they realize just how badly they have fucked up once again.
Remember that when you join them by crying into your feculent pillow.
"Why strange?"
To be so blind to alternative ways to read it. She wants to be persuasive. You need to read your writing with an eye toward how it will seem to someone who isn't already on your side. Even if you don't think you could persuade such people and even if you don't care, you should protect yourself from giving out material that can hurt your side.
What will be fun to watch will be Howard shifting effortlessly from praising Biden for his speech last night to declaring Biden said no such thing as the things he said last night.
Howard is very proud of his fellow Marines standing there while Brandon called 75 million Americans traitors. It will do wonders for recruiting.
MikeD - wow.
The polling on his Naziesque hate speech must be ... bad.
Quayle, I've been asking the same question. Ben Shapiro noted on Twitter today that many of Biden's advisors are very much online, and they may have wanted to make him look like those "Dark Brandon" memes. I know Leftie Twitter thinks those memes are awesome, so this explanation made a bit of sense to me. But if it's not that I have no freaking idea.
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1565671302916079617
How telling it is that, when the President of the United States today speaks of threats to the nation, he is warning not about adversaries abroad but the danger within."
She means that to read pro-Biden, strangely enough.
Pro-Biden, Anti-Trump - same difference. Opposites, just like Pro-Abortion, Anti-Infanticide.
Yes, Susan. It's a real problem when the President of the United States uses his platform to otherize and demonize those who believe differently than him, his own citizens. It is a problem when he calls such believers "a clear and present danger."
I read the speech and the use of "MAGA Republicans" is repugnant. Because there is no definition and it is basically saying "Republicans, except those few who have denounced Trump."
That's 74 MILLION voters less than 2 years ago who aligned with Trump when it came time to cast a vote. That's an insane wedge to drive home, let alone in an official planned speech with a militarized and dramatic stage.
This is the type of basis that resulted in Democrats calling for Trump's impeachment, with far less basis in Trump's actual statements at the time.
However, far, far more concerning to me is that he's doing this while:
- The former President has been under continuous investigation for 5+ years without a single finding of guilt.
- The FBI and executive branch more broadly are actively leaking against the former President, without a single showing of effort to lockdown and punish such leaks.
- Huge portions of the population believe - and have personally witnessed - election fraud at the state level leading to questionable state and federal election results. This has happened in many elections over the past 2 decades. The President and his party have been the advocates of looser election controls and lambasted demands for independent audits and oversight.
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Lastly, as the person in power, he's declaiming his opponents as fascists....while taking fascist actions.
I'm not saying the Hard Right is rationale or sometimes promotes civil unrest. Guess what - so does the hard left.
But only one of those sides is also represented in the presidency - backed with legal, national police force (FBI), and military might.
Probably the best tweet of the day in regards to Biden's wartime speech:
From Jimmy Failla - "Biden’s speech makes more sense when you realize he’s catering to a crowd that needs to hate someone else at all times so they don’t have to look inward at how much they hate themselves."
Even if you don't think you could persuade such people and even if you don't care, you should protect yourself from giving out material that can hurt your side.
So what "side" is Glasser on? This is being sold as a non-political speech by the white house.
Blogger won't let me play today.
They thought they had it figured out. All they needed to do was steal the election, in a few swing states where their corrupt big-city cronies controlled elections. If you win the election, you get to govern. Right?
Now they're starting to realize that Mao was right about the ultimate source of power. So they're getting ready to go there.
The gracious host writes: "You need to read your writing with an eye toward how it will seem to someone who isn't already on your side. Even if you don't think you could persuade such people and even if you don't care, you should protect yourself from giving out material that can hurt your side."
Biden reading from the script: "Trump MAGA supporters are doing outrageous things! This is an assault on our democracy."
In the middle, Biden going off script to respond to a heckler: “They’re entitled to be outrageous. This is a democracy,”
Be nice is the R's could win back the Senate and the House.
To me - Biden's hate-filled threatening anti-American Speech is an impeachable offense.
Be nice is the R's could win back the Senate and the House.
To me - Biden's hate-filled threatening anti-American Speech is an impeachable offense.
Why would somebody pick Independence Hall as the site of their first National Televised Address, where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were debated and finalized, and then light it up to look like the gates of hell? It's hard to imagine this as a thoughtful, mindful strategy geared to garner political support. It looks like hell! I could imagine somebody like that cross-dressing fool of an intern whose videos were circulating early on, coming up with an imbecilic idea like that, on that level. Disturbing that there could be someone in authority thinking it was a good idea.
And it's hard also to imagine this as a device to amplify the animus toward Trump voters, representing half the country, on the hopes that it might provoke an angry response. One thing is clear though: If it was a provocation attempt, there has been no response aside from verbally-expressed outrage, heartfelt, from both sides of the political divide. That would really drive them crazy - and also perhaps make them a little more fearful of the response that does eventually come. Double down? Or back down?
Just like Obama, Biden seeks alliance with murderous Iran while speaking of political opponents as if they are enemies. What these weirdly partisan screeds never point out is the Republican call to adhere to our Constitution and the rule of law. It’s a constant battle to keep true to our shared ideals. Look how the DNC media now flocks to justify that hideous ugly speech. Mean old men screaming about the “soul of the nation” is weird but Susan Glasser leaps in to lend her hand Nazifying the Democrats just like Joe. I wonder if either one even knows what the letters in their new favorite word stand for? Because sounding out the initials for Make America Great Again sounds like baby talk. Mega ultra baby talk. Only democrats use those initials as a word in my experience. Never heard someone IRL say “Maga” in any context.
The memes created for this fascist Biden image are pretty good.
I think it REALLY pisses them off that MAGA actually has a sense of humor and is rather creative.
'Next step, indictments and Mar a Lago frog March.'
You are so fucking dumb.
That is the last thing you want.
It's how you get more Trump.
Or a Trump-like figure who is much smarter and effective.
'What would be the reason and message of the stage design, if it were deliberate? I can't imagine what would be the intended outcome. That's the part that doesn't add up to me.'
It's like the bully in the old ads kicking sand in the weakling's face and taking his girlfriend.
We can do whatever we want and you can do nothing about it.
Btw, if you try, or even think about it, we will sic the feds on you and squash you like a bug.
Pure, unadulterated taunting and intimidation...
So- that's what the left feels safe to say out loud to the world, then? Want to take any guesses at what they think, that they're not willing to admit to yet?
Gunner said...
All libtards did during the Trump years was focus on optics, making fun of silly pictures of Trump, photoshopping him to look worse etc. It is rich that they are outraged about it being done against them.
None of the actual pictures and screen grabs from last night are photoshopped. (subsequent memes are different). Except for CNN, which was desperately fiddling with the camera settings to turn the blood-red lighting pink.
Ann Althouse said: “She wants to be persuasive.”
Objection, assumes facts not in evidence.
I think she’s not trying to be persuasive - she’s using her platform to demonstrate she’s On The Right Side Of History. Those of us who despise what the progressives are doing are not people to be persuaded, but cockroaches to be stomped on. Why should she waste ink appealing to subhumans who, in her mind and the minds of others like her - such as the current occupant of the Oval Office and his clique of puppet-string-pullers - should be just be lined up against the wall and shot?
It seems to me that a line has been crossed; the progressives and others in power have said things that may well prove impossible to unsay, no matter how hard they try (as is happening today!).
Biden is telling us Trump Republicans are “a clear and present danger” to the country yet the Democrat Party invested millions more TODAY to boost Trump’s endorsed candidates…after spending tens of millions to elect Trump Republicans in various primaries. What kind idiot America-loathing dope invests in electing enemies of the State? Doesn’t that sound treasonous?
"I don't consider any Trump supporter to be a threat. I do think anyone who calls for the use of violence and fails to condemn violence when its used, refuse to acknowledge an election has been won… That is a threat to democracy."
I think this should be played alongside then candidate Kamala Harris talking up her financial backing to bail out protestors during the summer of 2020 riots.
“I tend to agree with whoever said this is preparation for something before the election. What it is I cannot predict but it will be something crazy. Demanding mail in ballots sounds like something they would think of. After all, HR1 was about that”
Their problem is that their timing window is rapidly closing. Two years ago, many states already had their ballots printed, received, and starting to go out. The only way that they can hope to win is via mail in ballots, and they take time. Back when HR1 was on the agenda, they could have possibly gotten it enacted in plenty of time. But it isn’t going to pass Congress now - it would take 60 votes in the Senate, and the Dems have 50+Harris. That means implementing their election cheating gimmicks via Executive Order, and very likely through the (Civil Rights Division of the) DOJ. That isn’t going to work. Might have before the EPA case, and the mobs threatening Supreme Court Justices. Trying it would be very blatant Executive Branch overreach.
This is why I expect Trump to be indicted. The DOJ can’t afford to do both, override state voting laws and indict Trump on fictitious charges. I think that that would turn into a bloodbath for the Dems in two months, and guarantee that the DOJ (along with the FBI) get moved to the top of Congress’ investigation list in January, above the J6 investigation and Pelosi’s money grubbing.
I think the Trump endorsed candidates might surprise a few naysayers.
Dr Oz is the weakest but Fetterman ?
When White suburban liberals get together, they don't talk about their political agenda because it is embarrassing and because they have largely lost the ability to make reasoned arguments.
They talk about what awful people Republicans and conservatives are. They talk about how those people threaten democracy and their physical and emotional safety. Boogaloo Boys and other scary monsters are the backbone of their conversations. If Inga was honest, she would affirm that.
That explains Biden's speech and the Dems J6 obsession. They need to energize the base with FEAR.
This is not about votes and persuasion. This is about using the powers of government to threaten political opponents. Merrick Garland has been publicly threatening Trump with indictment for weeks now, first with the J6 bullshit and now with the Mar-a-Lago bullshit. We all know that Merrick Garland does not have an ethical bone in his prehensile spine, so the only thing holding him back is fear, fear of what will happen if he goes too far. It is evident that he is hoping to frighten Trump into silence, without having to actually burn the Reichstag. But that's not working, so now Joe Biden is threatening to use F-15's against his political rivals. Kind of gives a new meaning to the term "Flyover Country".
I have not watched or listened to Biden's speech. I don't need to I just need to see the reactions to it that's what the real news is.
QuidProJoe and Howard illustrate what happens when half a country lack the capacity for embarrassment or introspection.
"I do think anyone who calls for the use of violence and fails to condemn violence when its used..."
1. Whom, on the MAGA Trump side of things, has called for the use of political violence?
2. Whom, on the Marxist Groomer Gang side of things (like Howard and Hag) has condemned violence when it's been used?
Classic instance of the old saw, "when you point a finger remember how many are pointing back at you."
Biden crawfished today and said he does not consider any Donald Trump supporters to be a "threat" to the U.S., though he said the failure to condemn violence for political gains was "inappropriate."
Der Fuhrer has spoken.
You know Democrats have messed up when the NY Times frames the story as "Republicans React to..." rather than just working the story.
https://youtu.be/196h-nUrNB4
I go between thinking that last night's speech was an attempt to incite violence that can be blamed on Trump supporters or a sign of a last-minute resignation by Biden for health reasons before midterms. Sure few like or trust Harris, but we are Americans. When we perceive an emergency at a national level we band together. We find out that Biden has experienced a health emergency - something like a mini-stroke that does not recognize his current mental impairment - and must resign for the good of the nation. He looks the hero, anyone who questions Harris' abilities looks the traitor, and Democrats and independents who were going to vote against Democrats in the midterm will say, "Let's give them another chance".
If MAGA Republicans are so wrong in thinking the image was not good for Biden, why didn't The New Yorker include it in their article?
People often ask how ordinary Germans stood by and did nothing while the Holocaust began and continued. Just think of them this way- they were just like Howard in temperment and character.
It is hilarious, of course, less than 24 hours after calling Trump voters a danger to democracy and the US in explicit language to have Biden come out today and say he thinks no such thing. This isn't gaslighting any longer- it just dementia and stupidity full stop. Biden has probably already forgotten the speech he gave last night.
Blogger Howard said...
I have not watched or listened to Biden's speech. I don't need to I just need to see the reactions to it that's what the real news is.
Howard, you live that speech. It is your outlook on life. Be a good German while you can/
Perhaps Beiden’s October surprise is to use his F15’s to bomb the Texas State Capitol. Then the next day he could say he had no plans to bomb anything.
https://babylonbee.com/
Look at it before they change it.
Bruce Hayden said...
“I tend to agree with whoever said this is preparation for something before the election. What it is I cannot predict but it will be something crazy. Demanding mail in ballots sounds like something they would think of. After all, HR1 was about that”
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Can the federal government demand that states conduct state elections according to Executive Order?
Doesn't the constitution specifically give the state legislatures that power?
And...why would indicting Trump help suppress Trump supporters, especially when so many of the people he supported in the primaries are now on the ballot?
"...from hell's heart I stab at thee.."
Trump as white whale.
Howard: "I have not watched or listened to Biden's speech."
Not necessary.
Like all Democratical automatons you embody the speech. No need to listen when you come pre-programmed.
"To be so blind to alternative ways to read it. She wants to be persuasive."
I see your point. Yes, for progs to be so blind is still striking, and you are right to notice. But does she want to be persuasive? Does anyone on the left actually try to persuade? At least in the MSM and on social media, I rarely see it. Maybe Alan Blinder, occasionally, in the WSJ, but I'm not sure he counts--anyone else?
Especially after last night, what could persuasion even mean?
Joe Smith said...
'Next step, indictments and Mar a Lago frog March.'
You are so fucking dumb.
That is the last thing you want.
It's how you get more Trump.
Or a Trump-like figure who is much smarter and effective.
This is how you get Pinochet.
Blogger MikeD said...
BIDEN walking it back: "I don't consider any Trump supporter to be a threat. I do think anyone who calls for the use of violence and fails to condemn violence when its used, refuse to acknowledge an election has been won… That is a threat to democracy."
"...refuse to acknowledge an election has been won."
Can that be the purpose of Joe's speech? Perhaps the Democrats intend to cheat their way to victory in all future elections and arrest anyone who complains about the cheating. Lubyanka prison will soon be full.
"Howard is very proud of his fellow Marines standing there while Brandon called 75 million Americans traitors."
Someone missed their Beant Singh moment.
One thing I'd note about the stagecraft was that the main stage was lighted blood red, while the wings to either side were lighted a dark blue, which isn't so bad except for the fact that on the tight shot of Biden at the podium, the blue wasn't visible, only the blood red. It looked worse on television than it would have looked at the event. Whoever did the advance work should have known what the televised image would look like. Unless it was deliberate, it was a screwup of monumental proportions. Those optics repel the normies.
Gropes and Company know the death of progressivism is nigh and are desperate to forestall the inevitable. A century of utter failure on every policy is being exposed despite the state media attempting to disguise the failure. It's ironic that all it took was a senile, mediocre hack that has populated the rank morass that is DC for half that run to open up people's eyes. That their purposeful use of the Flu Manchu to get rid of Trump and the ensuing economic carnage we are and will be experiencing for some time to come will be their death is both ironic and delicious.
"Republicans Pounce"
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