"And let us choose the sweet promise of tomorrow over the bitter return to yesterday. We won't go back. We won't be set back, bullied back, kicked back. We're not going back."
Oprah at the DNC:
It's a familiar Democratic Party trope: We go forward and Republicans go back. Back where? I remember when Joe Biden came out with "They're going to put y'all back in chains." So: back to slavery times. Who was that dreaded Republican racist who was "going to put y'all back in chains"? It wasn't that terrible ogre Donald Trump. It was Mitt Romney.
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You get some bullshit! And you get some bullshit! Ev-ry bod-die gets some bullshit!
Who was that dreaded Republican racist who was "going to put y'all back in chains"? It wasn't that terrible ogre Donald Trump. It was Mitt Romney.
All republicans are the same! All are WORSE THAN HITLER!!
Save Democracy! Vote Early! Vote Often!!
That bullshit worked then and it will work now. It should not, but it will. This is my default, I know, but we are fucked.
The hostess's clipped line could be interpreted in the eyes of a C or R as "let us chose quotas over merit". We are fucked.
Oprah is on a list as the wealthiest female celebrity in the U.S. Not in the Forbes 400. Forbes says she is #14 in "America's Self-Made Women." No doubt she has experienced bigotry. But she has flirted with the notion that you achieve the goals you focus on, more or less single-mindedly; failure results from a lack of focus. She has been accused of saying losers have focussed on being losers, being romantically attached to bad people, even getting sick (or just fat). In a way an extreme example of American motivational speaking, but surely she has lived the dream. Yet she falls back on group whining. Obama keeps implying Jim Crow is still around, or just around the corner. A disgraceful failure to give the U.S. the praise it deserves on such matters.
Freedom is the new buzzword being transmitted. Full Orwell. "War is peace. Freedom is slavery."
Democrats keep trying to project their own historic and current sins on Republicans.
The party that takes all the good stuff away wants to think it’s the other guys..
That "We won't go back" affirmation is something they all recite together at those self-help emotional support groups for battered women.
And I know too much to go back and pretend...
I think I'm goin' back
To the things I learned so well in my youth
I think I'm returning to
Those days when I was young enough to know the truth...
Back to job growth instead of stagflation. Back to rising incomes instead of crippling inflation. Back to a vigorous focused military instead of a beribboned DEI department. Back to opposing the Taliban instead of arming them. Back to ensuring Civil Rights for all instead of judenfrei zones on universities. Back to Constitutional Republican government instead of banana republic follies.
In what way has Democrats avoided being the party of retribution? I’m not saying Trump won’t seek it, but he would only be playing tit for tat.
I need specifics. What exactly was she talking about not going back to? Without specifics, it’s a head game. The listener will fill in anything they think the person is talking about and then go along with it.
The power of envy is astonishing. We live in the most prosperous, fattest society in human history, and the Democratic Party is running on a platform of inciting furious envy, and racial and sexual hatred. And, by the way, the DNC/Intel cartel just tried to murder Trump. Don’t tell me to prove it. That’s an insult. It’s obvious who ordered this hit job.
Back to when we weren’t in power - of course
Forward to what? They refuse to tell you that forward is to communism.
@Shouting Thomas. 51 intelligence officials have signed a letter stating they had nothing to do with the Trump assassination attempt. So there.
Like the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, it’s a mystery within a mystery.
All the best people know that it just hasn’t been done right yet, Kevin
Headline: Billionaire Black Woman Complains about Racism and Income
Inequality.
True, and just how much of her wealth did she contribute to re-building or supporting victims of the Lahaina fire?
"And let us choose the sweet promise of tomorrow over the bitter return to yesterday."
If by "yesterday" she means the last 3 1/2 years, then I agree.
"Back to job growth instead of stagflation. Back to rising incomes instead of crippling inflation. Back to a vigorous focused military instead of a beribboned DEI department. Back to opposing the Taliban instead of arming them. Back to ensuring Civil Rights for all instead of judenfrei zones on universities. Back to Constitutional Republican government instead of banana republic follies."
Nicely said.
The projection of the Demmies' own faults on that stage at the United Center is astonishing...positively Soviet. And the use of the memory hole to tidy up the political landscape is Orwellian.
I want to know more about Walz's 30 trips to China. That is a lot of trips to China for anyone, let alone a rural public school teacher.
Take me back
Take me way, way, way back
On Hyndford Street
Where you could feel the silence at half past eleven
On long summer nights
As the wireless played Radio Luxembourg
And the voices whispered across Beechie River
In the quietness as we sank into restful slumber in the silence
And carried on dreaming in God
What is uspoken - They want quotas (DEI) normalized and do not want merit selections.
The Democratic Party is running on hatred and envy of straight white men. I think they’ve narrowed it down to Christians, too.
My idea of hell is to spend eternity listening to The View, Oprah and Vogon poetry. In that order.
Headline: Billionaire Black Woman and Millionaire Black ex-President of the United States (twice) Complain about Racism and Income Inequality.
The continued BS narrative about systemic racism in the United States is ludicrous (who also happens to be a Black millionaire entertainer). Great scam though. Keeps the DEI gravy train rolling.
Do you have a link to any of that Vogon poetry? Sounds interesting.
Poor little oppressed Oprah, along with poor little oppressed Obamas really lay it on thick that you can become billionaires lying to white America, and still cry about how oppressed you are. These fools make me sick. I can't wait for the backlash, and their comeuppance.
Democrats want to rebrand accountability as “retribution.” I think when people screw up their jobs should be at risk. Even more so when the screw up appears deliberate.
$7.5 billion for half a million charging stations produced only eight. A $5 billion program to get school districts to replace diesel buses with electric netted only 60 buses? Shouldn’t someone pay with their job for spending do much to achieve so little? And jail, if corruption was involved.
Fweedom. Get it right.
This is the problem with 'tomorrow'.
This is Wince's schtick!
That song is impressive in it's delusion. Only a woman who lived in a coddling western country could listen to this. It is fascinating. 1972 even. That is about when things started going down with feminism.
This would anger women in Afghanistan or most places in the world who have to deal with the truth. I don't think men are doing women any favors letting western women delude themselves with this garbage.
"I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday." --G.K. Chesterton
"We have trained them to think of the future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain-- not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." --C.S. Lewis, dba Screwtape
IMHO, the best version of that song is Nils Lofgren’s live one on OGWT from 1975. Takes me back to KLOS and KMET (tweedle dee) in SoCal.
Occam's Razor. Back to Trump,.or the next bogeyman after that. Any candidate who is not to the left of Trotsky will be categorized as literally Hitler.
And I know too much to go back and pretend...
Great, now I have Helen Reddy in my YouTube history. Can't wait to see what it will recommend now.
My favorite part is the 'let's choose inclusion over retribution' part. Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro could not be reached for comment. The DoJ also had no comment. Joe Biden had no comment. Kamala Harris also, and as usual, no comment.
Foward not backwards, upwards not downwards, and always twirling, twirling to the future.
Last I checked, yesterday Biden and Harris were president and vice president.
Beat me to it!
Though who is in which office is unknown.
I was just trying to remember that quote on my walk today! Thank you!
I wasn't able to watch last night, but my husband did. He liked, especially, Oprah and Walz and the governor of Maryland, but he said they were all feel-good and no vision or plan. It sounds to me as if they were also, like both Obamas' speeches, scoldy - we should all do this, not that. In the name of unification, I know, and I don't know how you get around it, but it's hard to believe the calls for unification are aimed at Democrats - which means I'm not (ahem, not even close to) sold on the scold.
Well, that white woman in Paris was reluctant to climb up for that $25,000 purse, so Oprah has met racism. I watched some of her speech and she seemed to be trying to start a race riot.
Who paid the airfare, for example.
Multimillionaire/billionaire Democrats, mostly grifters, talking it up for the common folk.
We should care terribly much what Oprah Winfrey says.
"And let us choose inclusion over retribution. Let us choose common sense over nonsense...."
Stale campaign rhetoric. When I hear stuff like this now, I wonder what it would sound like translated into Bidenese. The guy who said "We choose truth over facts" could do remarkable things with plasterboard platitudes like these.
There are online English to Bidenese translators, but none of them captures the man's ability to mangle things. The translation into the language of the late British queen is pretty good, though:
Might I propose that we embrace inclusivity in lieu of retribution, and favour reasoned judgement over folly.
Moving Forward to our bright Socialist future.... Where elites like Oprah - are untouched by the pain.
."..in 1988, Donald Trump was also on her famous talk show, during which she suggested that he run for president."
Trump today released a love note from Oprah which she encourages him to run for president. It's pretty funny after her speech last night.
Now they are searching for a person who has threatened Trump when he visits the border today. South and east of Tucson.,
It's as if these fools think the rest of us don't know who's been in the White House the last four years.
The Democrat party is about deminishment. It is about punishing success.
It is a GK Chesterton standard, that when something becomes the conventional wisdom, it is more likely the opposite of the truth. It is only what people want to believe and will move heaven and earth to make look true. I don't know if I want Donald Trump's future, but he is clearly oriented to a future, not a past. The older Democrats want to go back to 1992, the younger ones to 2008. They want nothing to do with any future whatsoever. Tim Walz is reminiscent of Eugene McCarthy, Kamala Harris of Angela Davis. If you want to push that forward a generation it's Walter Mondale and Oprah Winfrey. Two generations, it;s Paul Simon (not the singer, dammit) and Rachel Maddow.
I'm 71 and out-of touch and I don't even know who the generation 3 Democrats are. But I will will bet that they are the same damn thing and already out-of-date.
They are all past their sell-by date by a fair margin.
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