July 17, 2024
"Speaker after speaker on Tuesday bent their knees, offering tribute to a man who had once insulted them, belittled them and, eventually, defeated them."
"Senator Ted Cruz thanked 'God almighty' for protecting the man who once insinuated that Mr. Cruz’s wife was ugly and his father had been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.... Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, for whom Mr. Trump coined the nickname Little Marco, said the former president had 'inspired a movement' among working men and women.... And Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, whom Mr. Trump mocked mercilessly for the height of his boot heels, his polling numbers and his alleged pudding-eating techniques, praised Mr. Trump.... 'Donald Trump has been demonized,' the governor said. 'He’s been sued. He’s been prosecuted, and he nearly lost his life. We cannot let him down, and we cannot let America down.' The parade of former opponents is expected to continue on Wednesday, when a man who privately fretted just eight years ago that Mr. Trump could become 'America’s Hitler' stands side by side with him on the ticket. ..."
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NYT - F off.
No mention of the insults that flew at each candidate from each candidate, during the Democrat Primary prior to 2020.
Got it.
It's very much like a Roman triumph. I suppose Nikki Haley is thankful that she isn't going to be ritually strangled, but then again maybe they're saving it as a surprise.
Things that happen every four years is something new!
Wait, assassination actually seems like the appropriate response to calling a wife ugly?
Thanks NYT!
So Trump is supposed to forgive all the Republicans who attacked and refused to support him. And work with them, but not the other way round?
This is just the NYT's putting pressure on Rubio, Cruz, etc. and trying to make them feel bad for supporting Trump. Republicans are never supposed to band together, put aside their differences and try to win. That's for Democrats only.
BTW, did they just copy an article from Summer 2020 and change the dates?
I remember when The New York Times printed Ukrainian manufactured lies on the front page, about Trump's campaign manager in the August 2016 leading up to the election. Which then kicked of a lawfare attack on him, that got him a prison sentence for exactly the same stuff we know that Hunter Biden is guilty of from public record. BTW, the lies printed in the New York Times were never even used in the trial, since, you know, they could not be authenticated in any way, shape, or manner.
People want the illusion of being informed while they are really being indoctrinated. People love indoctrination, they love propaganda. If done properly, it gives them a non-stop stream of dopamine while the pap is poured into their gullets. That's what the New York Times does.
To use 1960s advertising language, Trump convinced even the most skeptical housewife?
"Wait, assassination actually seems like the appropriate response to calling a wife ugly?"
He only "insinuated" that Cruz's wife is ugly, and it was only a bullet through the ear.
It's not personal. It's business.
It does seem like an awful lot of people who used to hate Donald Trump have recently changed their minds. I suppose it's too much to ask that the choad-chewers at NYT might ponder on that and find their way to wisdom.
Just like Kamala happily working for the racist busing opposer, right? Do they ever explore that at the NYT?
The obvious question for me is where are the Biden converts?
People who voted against Biden, but have now seen the light, through Biden’s masterful job as president.
Can Biden carry that bag?
People aren't used to seeing a unified Republican Party. Behold!
The NYT… doing what comes natural to them.
Their struggle to regain relevance will fail, chiefly because they suck and they suck hard.
"Speaker after speaker on Tuesday bent their knees, offering tribute to a man who had once insulted them, belittled them and, eventually, defeated them."
Damned fucking straight.
The best thing that can happen to the United States or any country is to have the political class insulted, belittled, and defeated.
They are worthless, corrupt, awful people who produce nothing and they are the energy stealers.
It is time for communities to remove these parasites.
Yes, but what did Babydog think?
Has the NYT returned their Russian Collusion Hoax Pulitzers yet?
Didn't the current VP call the current President a racist (not untrue by the way) during the 2020 Dem Primaries? Does the NYT find interparty fighting and then unity during a national election surprising??
Who cares what the liars at NYT are spewing now?? Haven't they spread enough bullshit to divide the country by now?? They are pissed because they know they are losing, and the country is laughing at them and the downfall of the Progressive party. THEY did this.
I'm shocked, shocked to find that basic politicking is going on in there.
As a rule, what NYT portrays as bad is good, so: "bending knee" = productive unity.
But listen to your opponents anyway: careful about that "sense of invincibility." Way too early.
Men can have conflict with each other and then move on with respect. At least the ones who aren't petty little bitches. It is women who hold bitter grudges, largely speaking.
It’s what they always do in politics. That’s how they get a plum position in the administration.
But I don’t recall the NYT sneering at the Dems doing this 4 years ago when FJB (whom every dem was ripping as a stooge and senile and old and incompetent and on and on) bent the knee and coalesced behind him …
Shorter NYT: Our opponents should be fighting each other, not uniting against us.
So, the nyt spewing it's usual hate for anyone, any organization that doesn't bootlick the fascist left. Yea, bugger off. Now do the democrats, but that will never happen. What did Bernie get for getting out of joey bidet's way ?
Speaking of Babydog, they missed an opportunity for an even more iconic photo...Babydog with a big, white bandage on its right ear.
"Speaker after speaker . . . bent their knees": I think the phrase the New York Times must have been reaching for is "bent the knee," but instead they've created the image of speaker after Republican speaker assuming a semi-crouch, like Joe Biden beginning to lower himself onto a chair at the D-Day ceremonies until Dr. Jill interrupted her patient's faux pas.
Weird that political opponents would call each other names.
Politics is like that. Biden and Kamala made up after all the name calling of the 2020 primaries. How many people kissed Hillary Clinton's ring in 2016?
Nothing terrifies the NYT more than seeing Trump get "strange new respeecct."
I'm sure that there are idolators at the RNC, but most Trump supporters are merely grateful that he has endured a tremendous beating, now including a bullet, on our behalf. It is also apparent that no one else would likely have had the resources and the stamina to withstand it. He may not be a worthy man, but he is a worthy champion to save us from the grotesque policies and practices of the evil left.
It called a hierarchical structure. It's something the girl bosses and male feminists at the NYT don't understand.
"merely grateful that he has endured a tremendous beating, now including a bullet, on our behalf."
It no longer seems right to worry about getting my car keyed for having a Trump bumper sticker.
Blogger Ann Althouse said...
"You can see the flop sweat flowing like a river through the NYTs news room."
I think they're settling down and about to relax into relatively unbiased reporting. They should be resigned to a Trump victory now.
I don't think they're hoping — a la Jack Black — for another shot at Trump.
7/15/24, 12:06 PM
That prediction didn't last too long.
Wow, I had no idea lil' Marco met a working man. I guess I'll keep that Times subscription.
Cruz didn't deserve to be attacked that way, but his proxies played pretty damn dirty throughout 2016, and what some said and imagined about Trump was gutter Rabelaisian.
Bygones. It's politics. No better man to clean up the DOJ.
Damned fucking straight... The best thing that can happen to the United States or any country is to have the political class insulted, belittled, and defeated.
Hear hear.
From time to time Achilles can be a little over the top even for me, which is saying something, but dammit, no one else gets down to the marrow of things with such forthright clarity.
A nation where politicians and bureaucrats are objects of public ridicule, contempt, and vituperation is infinitely preferable to one where they are not.
It no longer seems right to worry about getting my car keyed for having a Trump bumper sticker.
Agreed. Our yard signs went up before the shooting, but I think I'll get more. We are relative newcomers to this neighborhood, and my wife was reluctant to rock the boat, but I really don't care about such things any more. We scarcely know most of our neighbors anyway. We may actually find a little partisanship conducive to making new friends who are congenial to our views.
Nothing terrifies the NYT more than seeing Trump get "strange new respeecct."
But I guarantee they'll talk about it when the next Republican reincarnation of literally Hitler comes along in 2028 or 2032.
Kamala had a reputation for bending the knee, and look where it got her (unburdened by what has been).
Blogger MalaiseLongue said...
"Speaker after speaker . . . bent their knees": I think the phrase the New York Times must have been reaching for is "bent the knee," but instead they've created the image of speaker after Republican speaker assuming a semi-crouch, like Joe Biden beginning to lower himself onto a chair at the D-Day ceremonies until Dr. Jill interrupted her patient's faux pas.
No, I think it more resembles Nancy and Chuck and the Democrats kneeling in homage to Black Lives Matter with those silly shawls on their shoulders. Bowing to the winner, so to speak.
I guess "GOP unified heading into election" was not the headline that the New York Times saw fit to print.
Actually, it’s standard policy for defeated political rivals to reconcile in time for their party’s convention. The reward being prime cabinet positions. One would think the NYT could figure this out. Of course that common sense view would never appease the hysterical TDS approach expected by their customer base.
Dear NYT,
It's a convention. Take a lude.
An argument could be made that this is the mature, responsible way to respond to Trump's bombast and WWF hyperbole. I don't get a Hitler vibe from Trump. Saying Trump is indistinguishable from Hitler is the more idiotic response.
It's somehow newsworthy that people who tried to be the nominee support the nominee? Didn't the media pressure them to do exactly that during the primaries?
Why those Republicans who had their feelings hurt and were called names are sucking up to Trump? How shocking.
Meanwhile the New York Times boys and girls along with the folks at WaPoo spend all their time and effort verbally osculating the posterior of a senile dolt in the Oval Office.
Pot. Kettle. That's the way it is in politics. That said I heard part of Nikki Haley's speech on the radio. The tone was lifeless, without much heart and conviction in it. Sounded like a kindergarten teacher named Dr. Jill reminding the little boys to pull their trousers up after leaving the bathroom.
The People are united in the woke (sic) of Planned Presidenthood (PP). Democratics who are equitable and inclusive of the wicked solution have progressive [political] viability.
I can't WAIT until they hear what Kamela said about Biden before the 2020 election.
Do these people totally forget what Democrat candidates say about each other at their own debates? Kamala totally got down on her knees before Biden after calling him racist to his face at the 2020 Democrat debate.
"Bent the knee" is apparently a new catch-phrase of the left.
Yesterday, Elon Musk announced he was moving SpaceX headquarters out of California to Texas and Gavin Newsom posted a photo of Musk and Trump and said something like: "You bent the knee". Musk responded: "You never get off your knees".
It's rather amazing that - well, not really - but when a party does unify, the prog reflex is "bent the knee".
BTW, Ruthless Podcast is reporting that Schumer traveled to Biden's home over the weekend for a one-on-one meeting with Joe. Just a friendly chat. Didn't matter - Biden still chatted with HOlt and garbled his way through the NACCP meeting.
I presume the New York Times and its writers don't believe in forgiveness, forbearance, graciousness, or looking for unity around common ground.
Hundreds of people pay public homage to Don Rickles, a man who has insulted them.
I think it more resembles Nancy and Chuck and the Democrats kneeling in homage to Black Lives Matter with those silly shawls on their shoulders.
Interesting story about that "kente" cloth. While Africans had a native textile industry, and wove something like kente before European contact, the early European slave traders discovered that African kings and chiefs and nobles went mad for bright-colored fabrics that were more vibrant and distinctive than their native textiles. They would happily trade their own people, particularly their tribe's criminals and dissident troublemakers, for colorful dyed silks and linens made in France or Denmark. Powerful kings would go even farther and make war on their neighbors to capture even more prisoners to trade.
Dyed European textiles took a back seat only to weapons and rum as a valuable medium of exchange for human beings. The fabrics obtained thereby would be cut into thin strips and used to create ever more intricate and colorful patterns for wear by the wealthy and powerful, culminating in the kente cloth we see today. It still carries upper-class connotations in West Africa, more or less as we would regard someone in a well-tailored business suit or tuxedo.
When American descendants of slaves wear kente cloth, it's as if descendants of the Irish and Scottish victims of the potato famine and Highland clearances wore sashes and medals and tiaras in imitation of British royalty.
"Bent the knee" is apparently a new catch-phrase of the left.
This is attributable to the recent obsession with "Game of Thrones".
It's rather amazing that - well, not really - but when a party does unify, the prog reflex is "bent the knee".
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well ... ??staying on plantation does not require bent knee??
Wait a minute here, Joe has united the democrat party!
Did Trump call them deplorable? Did Trump call them insurrectionist? Did Trump call them racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic?
Just asking, in case the NYT wonders why they are losing readership and Democrats are having a problem keeping a majority.
Aren't all politicians a bunch of "crooks" and "cheats?"
the iconography of the kente cloth, is most identified with the ashanti slave trading empire, the one the brits fought four wars, against, the last captained by the the future head of the Boy Scouts, and Boer war hero, Arthur Baden Powell
NYT is absolute garbage. How funny the “bend the knee” is going around after Newsom used it against musk.
"How funny the “bend the knee” is going around after Newsom used it against musk."
Even funnier is that Gov. Hairgel thought he'd be the winner in a battle of wits with Musk.
Yeah, so.... that is typically what happens at a party convention after a contested primary.
But, you know, TRUMP. So let's write about it breathlessly.
Kamala claimed Biden was a racist in a public debate. Was offered and accepted the VP role
Blogger MalaiseLongue said...
"Speaker after speaker . . . bent their knees": I think the phrase the New York Times must have been reaching for is "bent the knee,"
You are right. There is a definite whiff of young and poorly educated copy-editors making a hash of a writer's solid prose (this phenomenon really got going around 2018), and I experienced it with the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Modern Language Association. A copy editor who isn't well read enough doesn't recognize idioms and "hyper-corrects," producing infelicities, ruining the rhythm of the prose, and spoiling jokes.
In this case the copy editor doesn't know that "bent the knee" is a verbatim idiom and, so there's a hyper-correction to "the knees" to make the object agree in number with the subject, but then "bend the knees" is too goofy even for this copy-editor, so he/she/they changes the article to a genitive: "bent their knees," which destroys the image that writer wanted of the politicians one at a time genuflecting before Trump.
Final irony: the idiom "bend the knee" is just a literal translation of "genuflect," and the writer had know / been allowed to use / though the audience would understand "genuflect," the whole problem would be obviated: "Speaker after speaker genuflected..."
The ineptitude of the people in our current institutions is fractal, in that you find the same contours and approximate quantity at every level of magnification.
They didn’t bend their knee to Trump, they bent their knee to the base.
The image of Trump on a throne, receiving the oaths of loyalty from the assembled nobility, is what comes to mind.
Chuck has yet to genuflect so I believe there is a shrinking minority of Never Trumpers out there still. But they seem to have lost their voices.
For all the talk of “bend the knee” and previously “kiss the ring” or Trump demand for loyalty; how many people and institutions have lost all credibility because 2 months ago they told all of us Biden was competent to be President for 4 more years? How many of them have now also flip flopped on Biden must be replaced to Biden is still there man. Wasn’t the NYT one of the publication telling us video taken by foreign media during D-Day memorials were deep fakes?
Does anybody believe Trump could command loyalty like that?
imTay said...
They didn’t bend their knee to Trump, they bent their knee to the base.
This cannot be said enough.
Trump is building a populist voter coalition by going back to first principles.
Once the voters establish that we are going to have transparent elections, a border, equal protection under the law, free speech and the rest of the bill of rights we can start arguing about other stuff again.
Gavin Newsom posted a photo of Musk and Trump and said something like: "You bent the knee".
Somebody should ask Gov. Hairgel who he cleaned up the streets of San Francisco for.
The NYT is going the way of CNN. Maybe Elon will buy it and make it into a real newspaper.
I remember how in 2008 they salaamed to Obama, praised be his name.
Here's demoncRATs actually bending their knees- to worship Saint George Floyd.
https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/1218459120/US-POLITICS-RACE-UNREST-CONGRESS/960x0.jpg?height=474&width=711&fit=bounds
A drug addict who died of a self inflicted drug overdose upon whose altar a policeman's life was sacrificed in order to prevent riots. Which occurred anyway.
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