WaPo opinion-writer Dana Milbank endeavors to frame the candidates, in "As Biden rallies the free world, Trump serves a higher cause: Himself/In Phoenix, at his first post-conviction campaign rally, Trump portrayed a dark and desperate America" (WaPo).
Milbank's writing is so heavy-handed, but it must please some readers, perhaps readers who want to believe Biden is a good-enough candidate. He rhapsodized about a story told by the rows of graves, while Trump complained of endless wars.
I only clicked on that because I was interested in the photograph, which shows Trump at the Phoenix rally. He's holding up his tie and looking at it. The tie is yellow. I noticed the tie color last night — I actually watched the Phoenix speech. I wondered why Trump had switched out his usual red tie. Why yellow? I think the positive meaning traditionally associated with yellow is hope, but maybe it's got a special meaning for him. Maybe it's gold and it signifies wealth. Maybe it's yellow because that's the primary color that is not red or blue and Trump means to present himself as transcending political parties.
Here. Watch for yourself. I don't think he ever talks about the tie. He takes questions from the audience in the end. He runs his own town hall. I think he shows good rapport with people. Watch for the strong reaction to one guy's wife, whom Trump declares beautiful.
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Milbank missed the "sugarcoat" meeting, I see. Good luck restructuring him.
Perhaps the yellow tie is a shoutout to the Valley of the Sun.
Milbank's writing is so heavy-handed, but it must please some readers
Alternate theory: Skull and Bones means no matter how inept you never go without a high paying, high profile job…
One of the things I greatly appreciated about Trump's 4 years was his aversion to foreign entanglements. We did not get involved in other nations' conflicts. Indeed, with the Abraham Accords, the trajectory in the Middle East seemed to be positive.
Now, here we are hip deep in nonsense with Biden: Billions to Ukraine. A war in the middle East.
The still in the embedded video shows Trump in a red tie, but it's a different event. You can see from the backdrop that it's in New Hampshire. But if you play the video, you'll see the Phoenix event and the yellow tie.
There are thin white stripes on the yellow tie, by the way. Just to be painfully accurate. Thin white stripes on the New Hampshire red tie too.
different races, different faiths, but all Americans.
That’s only because it was too early for some of them to have been MAGA Republicans.
It must be quite a chore on decoration day and then cleanup the day after.
Biden: Billions to Ukraine. A war in the middle East.
Our tax dollars already pledged to rebuild Gaza when it’s over.
Replacement Theory is only a conspiracy theory when Dems aren't bragging about it.
10,000 heroes, and Biden dishonors each one of them by his mere presence.
Kate said...Milbank missed the "sugarcoat" meeting, I see. Good luck restructuring him.
Either Milbank missed the meeting, or he's running for president of the 3rd newsroom. Better to rule in hell and all that.
'... officers and enlisted, immigrants and native-born, different races, different faiths, but all Americans.'
Which is bullshit, statistically, except for the officers and enlisted part.
In 1940, 90% of Americans were white, with the majority of the remainder black. 90% were native born. 90% were Christian (less than a quarter were Catholic, about 10% Jewish)
A yellow tie means I Really Don’t Care Do U?
His tie isn’t chicken
It’s yellow
The great replacement theory is absolutely real. Elon Musk lets it be known on X he knows the open southern border is for importing voters, and increasing census population for blue areas to strengthen Democrat power in the House and the electoral college. It's obvious.
You have to be a moron to believe the influx on the southern border is organic.
Much of this to the detriment of inner city African-American communities. Ivory Tower liberals care about power more than anything. They don't care about you, your kids, improving the lives of minorities...
...and now they don't care about ending stupid wars. They are supported by half the country.
Shorter Milbank: 2 + 2 = 5
Milbank doesn’t know the numbers. Combine the 10m illegal aliens with the decline in fertility and you get replacement.
Douglas Murray’s “The Strange Death of Europe” details the demographic change over there.
I’m floored at the Left’s refusal to face the facts and, most importantly, the numbers. I attended an event last night held by a small group of “conservation voters.” They want OPPD to move up its net zero target date. One of the speakers is a Creighton professor. I asked him the cost of net zero. He didn’t know. I know the number and it is $28b in 2020 dollars per OPPD’s own expert. OPPD only has $2b in revenue now. To service $28b in debt, rates will have to be tripled.
We need to call these Leftists out on their innumeracy and lies. The Left’s insanity needs to be stopped before it destroys our country.
Maybe he wore a yellow tie, so we'd talk about his tie.
OK, "invasion at the border," check. "Endless wars," check. "Delinquent Europeans," check. "Our country is falling to pieces," double-check.
Hmmm, sounds like that dark and desperate portrait is pretty accurate, Dana.
“He rhapsodized about a story told by the rows of graves, while Trump complained of endless wars.”
Mr. Biden rhapsodized about a story told by the rows of Ukrainian graves, while Trump complained of endless wars.
I like my sentence better.
Imagine your look being so iconic that people try to find the deeper meaning behind you changing your tie. Women must think it's some kind of witchcraft: even Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck switch outfits in the new cartoons.
Anyways, the "war president" schtick is falling like a lead balloon because only a drooling retard or a Biden-Liebstandarte wannabe like Rich will buy into it. Even if you didn't know that most military-minded patriots are white Americans and therefore Trump's primary demographic, Biden practically has to order West Point cadets to laugh at his stale jokes.
Follies in Afghanistan and Ukraine are making the vast majority of people really reluctant to personally fight Putler, even if Biden somehow manages to steal another election.
Biden's speech made dark warnings about Trump, too. He's just as scarifying and self-centered, but he's doing it from a served gravesite. Milbank knows this.
Also, if he's trying to whip up nostalgia for a time when 10,000 Americans died overseas and warning that Trump might not send thousands more Americans to die overseas, it's pretty clear that Biden's voter base does not expect to be the ones sent to war.
The hypocrite left used to complain of endless wars ... now they arr the loyal Biden voting war machine voters.
Dave Begley said...Milbank doesn’t know the numbers. Combine the 10m illegal aliens with the decline in fertility and you get replacement.
Liberal taqiyya. Milbank knows Replacement Theory is real, but at this stage of the plan, it's more useful to pretend it's a heinous slander.
Barry Dauphin said...
Maybe he wore a yellow tie, so we'd talk about his tie.
Maybe he wore a yellow tie because it goes with a blue suit. Not every thing is symbolism.
All's fair in lust and abortion, eh Biden?
Lovely words do not change the fact that the American armed forces who landed at Normandy on D-Day and fought to Berlin were segregated - just as segregated as the rest of the US at the time. The thought that black and white Americans fought and were buried side-by-side in WWII is as much a lie as the French myth that everyone’s grandfather was in the resistance. The victors write the history.
Trump has worn gold ties before. He is not limited to red ties.
Also note that he usually wears solid color ties. The stripes seem to be a new touch.
Can we talk about his shoes now?
We need to call these Leftists out on their innumeracy and lies.
@Dave Begley. They. Do. Not. Care.
The Left’s insanity needs to be stopped before it destroys our country.
Yes.
You need a light blue shirt and a set of braces to fill out the "total 80's" look with that yellow tie. Misty, water colored memories...
“Dark and desperate” was Dark Brandon’s goal, shame on Trump for noticing.
Nothing to do with anything but I love your pup, Lem.
Who invited putin to take a piece of ukraine who invited the reconquista or al hijra
Of course they're going to be voting. If you deny that, advance an alternate explanation, Dana.
I remember when Democrats were against "endless wars".
Maybe it's yellow because that's the primary color that is not red or blue[...]
"I'm right here. I can hear you."
- Green
The headstones at Omaha Beach also represent millions of unborn Baby Boomers and their children and grandchildren.
Depopulation Nazis consider Wars, Famines and Pestilences their tool kit.
No wonder Trump wants Peace through strength.
narciso said...
"Who invited putin to take a piece of ukraine who invited the reconquista or al hijra"
Arguably Obama. Then again, there's a non-zero chance Putin would have broken out the nukes before allowing Sevastopol to be seriously threatened. Imagine it being under less threat during a war!
All sorts of leftist policies are now chickens coming home to roost. You'd think they'd be happier about it, but watching stooges say "it's time to decouple China and gear up for war, Greatest Generation" does not inspire confidence. Quite the opposite.
"Conspiracy theory"? The replacement theory simply posits that there's an ulterior motive behind the administration's policy of admitting millions of unvetted foreign nationals in defiance of U.S. immigration laws, i.e., a desire to "Turn Texas Blue" or otherwise shape future elections through demographic changes. The claim that such an ulterior motive exists doesn't imply the existence of a "conspiracy," only a lack of honesty as to the actual purpose of the policy.
Slapping the "conspiracy theory" label on any argument you don't want to confront in a substantive way is almost as tiresome as calling stuff "racist" for the same reason. (Of course, here Millbank does both of those things.)
"...officers and enlisted, immigrants and native-born, different races, different faiths, but all Americans."
Does anyone know the transgender participation at Omaha Beach???
DJR seemed to be Blue and Gold to me. But he is getting better with age.
How long before the struggling WaPo gets rid of left wing tools like Milbank?
Kevin said...
Biden: Billions to Ukraine. A war in the middle East.
"Our tax dollars already pledged to rebuild Gaza when it’s over."
Why the hell are volunteering our treasure to rebuild Gaza? Israel broker it let them fix it. We can't even build a floating pier.
Teh fop Milbank wears a yellow tuque.
Dana, at least Trump didn't shit his diaper.
Gusty Said
“The great replacement theory is absolutely real. Elon Musk lets it be known on X he knows the open southern border is for importing voters, and increasing census population for blue areas to strengthen Democrat power in the House and the electoral college. It's obvious.
You have to be a moron to believe the influx on the southern border is organic.”
This is right of course. The left loves it until the right brings it up, and then it’s a conspiracy. “The people can’t vote, there’s no proof of illegals voting, you MAGA deplorables”. And that’s a smokescreen anyway. They don’t need to vote, just need to amp up the electoral college numbers for deep blue states. Then the GOP can win all the Red ones and most of the purple ones and it still won’t be enough.
In Phoenix, Trump, invoked the racist 'great replacement' conspiracy theory, saying Biden had orchestrated an 'invasion' at the border as part of 'a deliberate demolition of our sovereignty'
I don't think this has as much play as it used to. I don't think Left-Wing chattering class understands just how much people dislike the widespread illegal immigration that has occurred. Even among traditional Democrat voting blocs, like black voters, illegal immigration is deeply unpopular. A lot of them see non-black, non-American people all over their neighborhoods, and getting resources that previously or could have gone to their community and feel like they are being replaced. The Great Replacement theory has more cachet they expect.
"The victors write the history" is about as useless a guide to the past as can be devised, and is repeated mostly by those who don't bother learning anything about the subject--which is their right, they just shouldn't put it forth as some profundity.
Ever heard of the Southern Historical Society Papers?
Trump had switched out his usual red tie. Why yellow?
What color should America First be?
Of course, if the nation had listened to America First back then, those graves in Normandy would not be there.
Please to let me write something in LIBSPEAK:
"Trump appeared at his rally with a change in his usual wardrobe: a yellow tie, signifying cowardice, with painfully thin white stripes, contrasting with his obesity."
How's that?
The thing that angers me the most about the invasion across our southern border, is the determined, studied way that both political parties are willing to keep it well away from the spotlight, the refusal of the Republican Party (GOPe) to keep it positioned front and center and loudly making this embarassment the Daily Issue, , and the absolute toadying compliance of the media to allow it to be so. The damage that this will wreak on society has already been trialed in Europe, with the predictable results proven beyond doubt. The position of our citizens is crystal clear, and in opposition to the political will.
"He runs his own town hall."
Imagine Joe Biden doing that......no seriously, imagine it!
The hypocrite left used to complain of endless wars
That was back when they fought and died in them.
Now they're a mechanism to reduce society's MAGA level.
Please, what, exactly, is the Biden administration's explanation for allowing all the illegal immigration?
I hadn't seen much of the pukephuque Dana Milbank in the past several years. I didn't realize this despicable POS was still around. Perhaps the "new version" of the WaPo will have him corralled into the SJW/Woke "third newsroom".
BTW, my thoughts on that: Prove that the reading public wants that stuff enough to support it. Make the digital subscriptions divided into areas of the three newsrooms: editorial, traditionally-written reporting, and SJW/Woke offerings. Allow readers to subscribe to all or some of them. See which survives. Keep sports and comics attached to all three so there is no unfair advantage.
Why the hell are volunteering our treasure to rebuild Gaza?
Actually, we should be more specific.
We will give our treasure to rebuild Gaza, but Gaza will forever remain a pile of rubble.
Remember: The purpose of a system is what it does.
Charlie said...
"He runs his own town hall."
“Imagine Joe Biden doing that......no seriously, imagine it!“
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“Look, here’s the deal: … … …
But anyway”
Libs, such as Dinky and Rich, just repeat the (many times) debunked lies told about Trump, thinking that, THIS TIME, it can be accepted as fact by the Right.
We conservatives just point out the gaslighting by the Left -- they spew so many things that just are not true, even to a blind and deaf man, that it is not even necessary to provide the cite/research to prove it.
"Men can menstruate". Check.
"Your 'gender' can change." Check.
"Only whites can be racist." Check
"When Biden does the same things the Left charges Trump with, it's different." Checkmate.
Many of the libs here couldn't figure out how to play 52 pickup.
"Which is bullshit, statistically, except for the officers and enlisted part.
In 1940, 90% of Americans were white, with the majority of the remainder black. 90% were native born. 90% were Christian (less than a quarter were Catholic, about 10% Jewish)"
The 442nd Infantry was present on D-Day and took heavy casualties. Starting with 225 soldiers after two days only 90 remained alive. The 442nd was a segregated unit of Japanese-Americans and was the most highly decorated unit in WWII. Black soldiers also participated in D Day. And I would be pretty surprised if there weren't some Mexican-Americans as they would have been known then. Oh, and some American-Indians too.
Marcus Bressler said...
Libs, such as Dinky and Rich, just repeat the (many times) debunked lies told about Trump, thinking that, THIS TIME, it can be accepted as fact by the Right.
No Marcus, they repeat debunked lies in hopes that the undecided/independent voters will accept it as fact. At this point, the battle is for ~20% of the voters who could go either way, or just, ahem, "sit it out."
Of course, if the nation had listened to America First back then, those graves in Normandy would not be there.
Amén, mack, amen
And not just America First. The 75% or so of American citizens who wanted to stay out. FDR who promised, falsely to keep us out to win a 3rd term in 40.
John Henry
Of the 250m men involved in D-day don't forget that
@7,500 were gay.
John Henry
Yellow tie = yellow ribbons during the Iranian hostage crisis. Trump is being held hostage by a corrupt judge and an unlawful gag order.
I watched the speeches both yesterday (6/6) and today. Better delivery than many of his critics claim, but he does not look well. And it was obvious he was reading off the teleprompters, seems like it wasn't rehearsed much.
Christopher B @6/7/24, 7:32 AM said...
In 1940, 90% of Americans were white, with the majority of the remainder black. 90% were native born. 90% were Christian (less than a quarter were Catholic, about 10% Jewish)
In 1940, in the continental US, Americans were 89.8% white, 9.8% black. White Americans were 9.7% foreign-born, but 19.0% of native-born whites had a foreign-born parent. 15.6% were Catholic; 3.6% were Jewish. Data from the 1942 Statistical Abstract.
ron winkleheimer @6/7/24, 10:16 AM said...
The 442nd Infantry was present on D-Day and took heavy casualties.
The 442nd was in Italy at that time. The 100th Battalion fought at Cassino and Anzio, and was joined by the 2nd and 3rd Battalions on 11 June 1944. They fought in Italy until September, then in France for two months, and back in Italy in 1945.
Biden looked lost and confused. Even more than normal. It's probably the time zones and medication schedule that fucked him up.
What a disaster we are living under.
And yet we spend billions on feeding and housing illegals while veterans sleep in the streets.
Christopher B said...
"Which is bullshit, statistically, except for the officers and enlisted part. In 1940, 90% of Americans were white, with the majority of the remainder black. 90% were native born. 90% were Christian (less than a quarter were Catholic, about 10% Jewish)"
ron winkleheimer responded...
"The 442nd Infantry was present on D-Day and took heavy casualties. Starting with 225 soldiers after two days only 90 remained alive. The 442nd was a segregated unit of Japanese-Americans and was the most highly decorated unit in WWII.
In 1940, there were 126k Japanese and Japanese-Americans living in the US mainland (who were interred), and out of 423k Hawaiians, 157k were Japanese or Japanese descent (who were not interred). 283k out of a population of 132m is roughly 1/5 of 1 percent.
"Oh, and some American-Indians too."
In 1940, there were 334k American-Indians, or 1/4 of 1% of the US population.
"And I would be pretty surprised if there weren't some Mexican-Americans as they would have been known then."
Hispanic is not a race and the bulk have historically been White; 1.5% of Americans were Hispanic in 1940, the biggest group Mexican descent. There were two soldiers with speaking parts in Band of Brothers who were Mexican-American. Like many Mexican Americans at the time, they could have been descended from Spaniards who were given land grants from the Spanish crown in today's American West/Southwest (and northern Mexico).
"Black soldiers also participated in D Day."
9.8% of the population. But I guess under the "One Drop" rule, America is a Black country.
Christopher B said...
"In 1940, ... 90% [of Americans] were native born."
I am part of a project cataloging American service members from Cincinnati in WWII. Of the 1,200 KIAs cataloged so far out of 2,800, less than two dozen have been foreign born. And those all came to America as small children or occasionally early teens.
Most of the 10% of foreign born likely came to America in the wave of immigration from about 1880-1910, and restricted in 1924 with the Johnson Reed Act.
@Rocco
I'm not sure what your point is except that there used to be way fewer minorities in the US than there are now. So what? That does not negate the fact that non-white people contributed to the WWII war effort. In fact, they actually fought for the right to fight for the US. I'm no Biden fan, in fact I voted for Trump twice, think it is obvious that the 2020 election was stolen, and very much worry that the deep state will stop at nothing to prevent Trump from becoming the president again. But, I'm not going to deny history just because Biden is a drooling moron.
@Rich Rostrom
I stand corrected.
Reagan’s Point du Hoc speech on youtube still nails it. As did FDR on Radio on the Day itself.
The modern fakers alway leave it out. Les soldats Americaine fought for their county’s honor with strong faith in the Living God.
Shirts? Ties? What about laptops? Now that the Biden Justice Dept. has identified Hunter's laptop as real, what excuse is there for not bringing an influence-peddling case against the Biden Family?
@Rocco
Not sure what your point is except that there used to be far fewer minorities in the US. That doesn't change the fact that minorities fought in WWII, in fact they fought for the right to fight for the US. I voted for Trump twice, think it is obvious that 2020 was stolen, and think that Biden is a drooling moron at best. Doesn't mean I have to deny history.
@Rich Rostrom
I stand corrected.
Again: the “Great Replacement” theory is a plan put forth by Ruy Teixeira where immigrants, presumably mostly D voters, would ensure future Democrat victories. “The Emerging Democratic Majority” is being downplayed now. But (illegal) immigration is being encouraged by Democrats, unless they are likely potential conservative voters like most everyone from Cuba.
“Look, here’s the deal: … … …
But anyway”
C'mon, man...
mikeski:
Maybe it's yellow because that's the primary color that is not red or blue[...]
"I'm right here. I can hear you."
- Green
The war between light and pigment.
@ron winkleheimer
I will mea culpa to not including the evidently required DEI disclaimer that not every single person in the US armed forces between 1940 and 1945 was a White Male Anglo-Saxon Protestant (something, BTW, that I didn't say). I would have thought that could have been inferred without stating but it appears to be some kinda 'gotcha' to point out when the required incantation is missing.
Biden's words framed by Milbank against Trump's complaints about illegal immigration ignores the reality that we now likely have a greater percentage of foreign born residents in the US than any time since the great waves of migration in last decades of the 1800s. The army that fought and died in Normandy was not composed of "immigrants and native-born, different races, different faiths" in the same way the current US population is. The two statements are not equivalent, and the framing is dishonest.
@Rich Rostrom
Thanks for the correction. I should have been more careful at checking what the denominator was for the percentage of Catholics.
@Rocco
Thanks for the additional details.
ron winkleheimer:
Oh, and some American-Indians too.
Most famously certain they were in the Pacific. Instrumental, even.
Way too many times Rogan bears far more than a passing resemblance to Tommy Chong staring mouth half open at the wall behind someone talking to him.
Just ask yourself what would happen if Hispanic immigrants voted 65% for Republicans? The wall the Democrats would build between the U.S. and Mexico would be 3 miles high.
FullMoon said...
“Look, here’s the deal: … … …
But anyway”
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No joke...
My word as a Biden!
I wasn't going to comment but then I saw Leftwing SJW Milbank's talk about the D-day heroes being of "different races" and "Immigrants".
Look not only was the USA 90 percent white in 1940, immigration was pretty much stopped in 1914 by WW 1 and then by the immigration restriction acts of the 1920s. Pretty much all the "boys" who splashed ashore on Utah and Omaha Beach were native born.
As for "races" - not only was the 1940 USA 90 percent white, but very few blacks volunteered for the US Army/Navy/Air corps in WWII (and if you want to justify that go ahead). Accordingly the Combat Pilots and Air crews were 99 percent white. And the US ground army was segregated. The only black infantry units that fought the Germans were in the 92nd Infantry division which fought in Italy. Add in a handful of Tank destroyer, Armored, and artillery battalions and 99 perecent of the combat troops who fought Nazi Germany were white. We lost 182 thousand men fighting Hiter and I doubt more than 1 thousand were African American.
1940s White America didn't expect much from blacks. They weren't expected to fight and they weren't given much opportunity to be officers. So their losses were low.
Who spoke at the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address?
I thought the Arizona flag had a yellow field, but that's its neighbor to the east.
Dana, at least Trump didn't shit his diaper.
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Trump = yellow tie
Biden = yellow diaper
Narr at 9:08 on victors write history
You are correct, anyone can write history, including the vanquished (example Captain Hara's account of the Pacific War or Saburo Saki's). Mostly it is written by those with an axe to grind.
ron winkleheimer said...
"Rocco, not sure what your point is except that there used to be far fewer minorities in the US."
Christopher B quoted demographics from the time. You felt the demographics were important enough to quote said demographics in your response; you also mentioned several sub groups in your response as well. The next obvious step was to break out the demographics for said sub groups.
"That doesn't change the fact that minorities fought in WWII, in fact they fought for the right to fight for the US."
I don't know anyone in this conversation who is saying otherwise.
"I voted for Trump twice, think it is obvious that 2020 was stolen, and think that Biden is a drooling moron at best."
Not sure what politics has to do with this, but I am a long time 3rd party voter who agrees with you on 2020 and Biden.
"Doesn't mean I have to deny history."
As Christopher B pointed out, Biden babbling about "immigrants and native-born, different races, different faiths" is dishonest framing. It is an appeal to the racialist vanities of our age. It does not memorialize these men and why they had to be buried there.
Mikey NTH says, "Mostly it [history] is written by those with an axe to grind."
That's very true of memoirist-historians; much less true of professional historians (though there has been a lot of backsliding in recent decades IMHO).
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