In their miasma of outrage, Democrats seem to have forgotten that they have been demonizing Republicans as “enemies” for years. During his noxious 2022 speech in Atlanta, President Joe Biden accused Republicans who opposed his proposed federal takeover of our elections of standing with traitors such as Confederate president Jefferson Davis and explicitly called them “enemies” of America, thundering: “I will defend the right to vote, our democracy against all enemies — foreign and, yes, domestic.” Barack Obama famously declared “We’re gonna punish our enemies, and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us” (He later conceded that he should have used the word “opponents” instead.)
October 25, 2024
"Harris’s closing argument is dishonest, desperate and hypocritical/Trump isn’t a fascist, and he didn’t say he would use the military against his political opponents."
Writes Marc A. Thiessen, in The Washington Post. That's a gift link, so you can read the whole thing. Excerpt:
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Ah the cleansing effect of Truth, expressed eloquently. Thiessen used to be a Trump-skeptic when I'd see clips of him. This however is a well reasoned defense of Trump's absolutely mainstream messaging.
“We’re gonna punish our enemies, and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us”
Both parts skate close to threatening illegalities
At this point, the Left is breathing into paper bags.
Democrats are good on women's issues.
Note: unlike the Times link this one required me to create an account at WaPo, which I declined to do. He'll probably republish elsewhere and I can read the rest.
Thiessen is the never-Trumper that way too early called Arizona for Biden on Fox News election night coverage. Even Bret Baier pretty much called him out for his idiocy. Now poor old Marc is missing his payday. So sad.
Yep, see Bich's every comment the last week.
That was not his call. He's not on "the Decision Desk." He's a speech writer. Arnon Mishkin led Fox's team of analysts that called AZ way early. Unfortunately I believe he's still there. I only stream The Five and Gutfeld now as needed on YouTubeTV.
Every accusation is a confession. It’s amazing to me how consistently accurate that statement is about the Democrats.
Yeah, we know.
When you have nothing to run on, except killing babies and giving Amnesty to illegals you let invade the country, you call your opponent RACIST, Xenophobic, Homophobic, HITLER, NAZI, White Supremacists, ect..ect...ect...
After 8 years of that, people see that the name callers are doing what they are accusing the others of, they wake up.
Since the professor gave us the free link I read the article today. I appreciated the fact based review of his comments and Kamal’s disingenuous use of portions.
But read the comments.
OMG the vitriol for Trump (and the author). How dare he say anything to defend the felon, rapist, Hitler, etc etc etc.
I do fear more assassination attempts. This fear mongering by the left is lunacy and dangerous.
People say that Joe Biden was a kind of a nebbish, intellectually vacuous and overly prone to gaffes, but when you look at his career, his ability to say almost the precise opposite of what he is actually thinking, of always accusing his enemies of the very thing that he knows very well that he is doing himself, well, there is a reason that he rose so far.
The Democrats are in the process of absorbing the GOPe traitors we have kicked out of the party.
All of the people they called Hitler in the past 60 years are endorsing Kamala now. Cheneys and Bushes and Romneys and Kitzingers etc.
The democrats have participated in censorship, persecution and jailing of political opponents, widespread "mostly peaceful" political violence, and the attempted assassination of their main political opponent.
Harris supporters would make the average Nazi party member in Germany 1938 blush.
Don't forget the "From the River to the Sea" wing of the Democrat Party. NAZIs weren't going for all out extermination of Jews until the 40's.
It must also be pointed out that NAZI party members were still trying to help other Germans(except the communists) and were explicitly trying to build their national economy.
Contrast that with modern day Harris supporters that are openly calling for their political opponents to be replaced with foreign invaders.
Fascism is a reasonable response to Communism. Spain was better off under Franco than the Communists
In their miasma of outrage, Democrats seem to have forgotten that they have been demonizing Republicans as “enemies” for years.
No, they haven't forgotten, it's just different when they do it.
Joe Biden's closing argument: "We have to lock him up."
Kamala Harris' closing argument: "He's Literally Hitler (so kill him)."
These aren't arguments. They're desperate pleas to the Democrat Party base to murder Donald Trump by a bunch of mentally insane psychopaths.
Our nation has deteriorated SO fast under crook Joe - and his mob cabal - perhaps anti-Trumpers on the co-called "right" are waking up? *fixed*
Less than a month ago, the Biden administration granted the military the power to use lethal force against American citizens on American soil in order to suppress "civil disturbances."
For the first time since the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 this power was given to the regular military commanded by the inside-the-Beltway Deep State, rather than the National Guard that operates under the command of a state's elected governor.
Every accusation by a Democrat is actually a confession.
Looking forward to the "How Harris Lost Me" post. Repeating the "fine people" hoax in the debate should have done it.
America is a garbage can! says the orange Hitler lover.And all his trumpeters cheer! :(
Thanks for posting that. I've been meaning to but had not gotten around to it.
If president trump goes full Hitler (he won't) it will be using a directive tha the Harris-Biden administration promulgated.
But we are supposed to be afraid of president trump.
Link to the dod directive
John Henry
I'm so tired of Trump/Nazi analogies, let's put some things into perspective.
In Germany between 1929 and the first half of 1931 public political murders, mostly committed by Nazis, were estimated to be greater than 500. How many public political murders have MAGA supporters committed?
Hitler was appointed Chancellor by Hindenburg, not elected, in January of 1933. In March of 1933 Hindenburg signed the Reichstag Fire Decree which paved the way for Hitler's Enabling Act. The Enabling Act allowed Hitler to outlaw all political parties except the Nazi party and thus in a snap November election the Nazi Party won 92% of the vote. They had never previously won more than 43% of the vote. Doesn't sound much like Trump.
The Nazi Party was a party of murder and terror. Show me where the party of Trump has committed any political murder of Americans. J6 doesn't count, the only person murdered that day was Ashli Babbit.
@wendybar, you forgot “misogynistic.”
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Since the professor gave us the free link I read the article today. I appreciated the fact based review of his comments and Kamal’s disingenuous use of portions.
But read the comments.
OMG the vitriol for Trump (and the author). How dare he say anything to defend the felon, rapist, Hitler, etc etc etc.
I do fear more assassination attempts. This fear mongering by the left is lunacy and dangerous.
10/25/24, 11:26 AM
I totally agree. The comments, though. Unhinged is doing a fallen door injustice.
Another thing about narcissistic sociopaths. First, let me say that the coverage of the campaign the last few months from most mainstream sources has been unconscionably bad. The general tone and focus of it suggests this is a regular election.
Between two regular candidates offering different but acceptable visions for the country. The reality is one of the candidates is likely to undo democracy in ways that will take a generation to fix. And he's quite upfront about it.
Eight years into Trump, this is completely unacceptable. I understand that people are typically shocked and paralyzed psychologically when they first encounter a malignant narcissist. Their way of looking at the world is totally alien to most of us.
How hard would it be, after January 6 in particular for editors and journalists at places like the NYT to say "This is something our current system can't handle. We're going to have to change how we do things"?
If the whole media climate was "Trump is a toxic narcissist in steep cognitive decline" rather than "he's a lovable scamp with a penchant for PR stunts", the election might be very different right now.
Leftists as a group begin with the premise that they are correct about everything and thus the only potential reason to disagree is evil and bigotry - racism, sexism, homophobia, religious fanaticism, fascism, Nazism, etc. Elected Democrats use this name-calling as a fear tactic to keep the rank and file in line, even though they know it's BS propaganda.
See, it never occurs to them that they may be incorrect about something or that there are legitimate alternative viewpoints or that the weight of evidence might cut against them.
The media keeps them in their little bubble by parroting their talking points, framing every mistake by the Right's reaction to it (pounce, seize, etc.), and otherwise covering up or minimizing their flaws.
I went to early vote but was daunted by the long line--longer by far than I recall on an early vote day.
No demographic stood out. I've been in this neighborhood all my life, and if it was lily-white in the '50s it certainly isn't now. It's one of the more Hispanic areas of the city now.
Huffing their own farts.
No, Arnon Mishkin ran the Decision Desk for Fox. He made the call for AZ. Bret (who also has disdain for Trump) wouldn't have blamed Thiessen.
The Kamala closing argument is about setting up the civil unrest that will be unleased if Trump wins. They're trying to trap him with the "hell use the military against citizens."
It's just a repeat of the 2020 BLM summer. Tony Evers purposefully let Kenosha burn by slow rolling the Wisconsin State response. He held back the feds. I live in an area where it would be logistically hard to riot. But people in cities (Madison and Milwaukee) are going to see the worst of it again.
Projection is a hell of a drug, Rich.
"If the whole media climate was "Trump is a toxic narcissist in steep cognitive decline" rather than "he's a lovable scamp with a penchant for PR stunts", the election might be very different right now"
"Yes if only we could get the media to describe Trump in terms that accurately describe Joe Biden, then we could win. It says so right in Goebbels's playbook!"
If it wasn't for projection, Rich wouldn't have anything to say here.
NY Post: "Mike Johnson, Mitch McConnell say Kamala Harris is ‘escalating’ threats against Trump with ‘fascist’ claims."
They can always scapegoat the Secret Service again.
Democrats have brainwashed half the country that Trump is Hitler, and anyone who votes for him supports Hitler. I'm sure that is the pervasive attitude and belief in Madison, WI separated by a mere 40 to 60 miles from its cultural antithesis, Waukesha County, WI.
The "United" States is not unifying anytime soon.
America's cities have turned into garbage. Drug infested and violent. The poor minorities suffer. Nobody is cheering. Trump points out the truth. White liberals cover their eyes with one hand, while patting themselves on the back with the other.
Anyone who took the clot shot because 1) they wanted to fly, or 2) they needed to protect their job, bowed to the REAL definition of fascism. Injected into their veins in clear violation of the Nuremberg Code, established in 1947 because of fascists. The US Gov't let private entities to their dirty work on clot shot mandates. Our education and medical establishments were the leading pushers.
That is Mussolini's definition of fascism. I'm assuming he would know better than that libs at Wikipedia.
Plausible but not probable and asserted without evidence. #PrinciplesMatter
His political opponents just took 15 million votes and trashed them.
"How hard would it be, after January 6 in particular for editors and journalists at places like the NYT to say "This is something our current system can't handle. We're going to have to change how we do things"?"
They're listening, Rich! The Washington Post is not endorsing Kamala.
How bad does a democrat candidate have to be to not get the coveted WaPo endorsement?
I cannot imagine that Marc Thiessen was responsible for making such a decision.
Damn, Bich is losing it even more than normal. If Trump does win, Bich is likely to go to Canada for some "healthcare".
https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/1849875164483420633
"f the whole media climate was "Trump is a toxic narcissist in steep cognitive decline" rather than "he's a lovable scamp with a penchant for PR stunts", the election might be very different right now."
That is precisely what the legacy Pravda-ite media has been saying for about 10 full years now.... and all the lies and hoaxes have played out and abused by the New Soviet Democraticals like LLR-democratical Rich.
And everytime Rich's fascistic authoritarian pals launch another transparently hoaxy lie-filled narrative, it just moves more independent and moderate democrats into the Trump camp.
Please don't stop LLR-democratical Rich. We are all counting on you and Team Dem to x-tuple down on the same old same old schtick which increases the chances for a Trump win.
And if it happens, you will be able to pat yourself on the back and, like Joey Bag O'Dementia, say "I did that!".
WaPo just announced they are not endorsing either side in the election.
That's saying, without saying, that Trump is not Hitler. And he's not a fascist, rapist, mass-murdering criminal.
It's also saying, without saying, that the media narratives have been way too one-sided and partisan, and huge numbers of Americans are no longer listening.
You're right!! How could I forget, when they keep reminding us???
At least we aren't blind and dumb, like the left are!! Just ignore the riots!! Their peaceful!! Ignore the shoplifting!! Their hungry!! Ignore the invasion!! Their just bettering their lives!!! All at OUR expense...Don't be so naive Dink!
Business Insider: "Washington Post reports that owner Jeff Bezos stopped it from endorsing Kamala Harris"
The situation must indeed be precarious for WaPo to balance the scales of reporting. Even the headline does not follow their conventional style guidelines.
LA Times is also reportedly abstaining.
Weed can make people paranoid.
Yeah, liberals are going insane.
Marty Baron, the former executive editor of the WaPo, called the non-endorsement "cowardice, with democracy as its casualty."
You killed democracy, WaPo!
Another comment is "chicken shit."
And darkness!
Either the WaPo is dying in darkness, or the USA is now dying in darkness. It's a little unclear. Probably because it's so damn dark now.
Nobody knows how to vote if the WaPo remains silent!
How can the people vote without their WaPo instructions?
Let's say they are concluding that endorsing Kamala is bad for business. That has never stopped them before. What's different this time?
Let’s shorten it a bit:
Trump is evil because he’s threatening to do to us what we threatened to do to him.
Some of the Washington Post readers have dementia. Some have criminal records. They may see themselves in Trump, so to endorse his opponent would be an insult to the subscribers they hold so dear.
Sorry, that wasn’t exactly correct,
Trump is evil because he’s threatening to do to us what we actually did to him.
Reflect up how awful Kamala Harris has to be to not garner the endorsement of the Washington Post.
When will Jen Rubin
be resigning?
He said no such thing, you liar. He said foreign countries are treating us like a garbage can, disposing of their criminals and loafers and troublemakers.
Hilarious!
Kamala Harris - "He's Hitler
Washington Post - "Yeah we've thought about it and we're still not going to endorse you over Hitler. Sorry."
It's "logistically hard" to hold a left-wing riot where I live too. If by "logistically hard" you mean "mortally perilous."
LOL
"Kamala Harris - "He's Hitler
Washington Post - "Yeah we've thought about it and we're still not going to endorse you over Hitler. Sorry."'--Stephen Miller
An increasingly bitter and angry and lashing out LLR-democratical Rich: "Some of the Washington Post readers have dementia. Some have criminal records. "
He/she/xe wrote without evidence.
Given the leftist LA Times absolute refusal to endorse kamala and her girlfriend -beater and Nanny Knocker-Upper Emhoff fake husband, I wonder how many LA Times readers are criminals and have dementia according to the increasingly bitter and angry and lashing out LLR-democratical Rich?
One thing is for sure, Stolen Valor / Blue Falcon Walz sure isn't a Nanny knocker upper......given his clear...."preferences"...
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Lying is not the way to regain the public's trust, WaPoo:
The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this
election. Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing
presidential candidates.
Bezos, certainly. Some of the Tech Lords seem to have decided it's smarter to keep their thoughts to themselves. The anti-monopoly noises being made regarding Google haven't been missed.
An obvious right-wing talking head, spewing out right wing lies and supporting the world's trashiest man.
"An obvious right-wing talking head, "
That's allowed, you know.
"supporting the world's trashiest man."
You're entitled to your opinion.
spewing out right wing lies"
Please identify the lies. I don't see any in the quoted text.
Ah, early calls. I'm old enough to remember when all the networks announced the polls were closed in FL and Gore had carried the state. An hour before the polls closed in the Republican leaning Florida panhandle, depressing voting there.
Aa I've heard and read in many places, it's funny how the "mistakes" always ever go in one direction.
If only Kamala had pandered a little more to Hamas, she could have received WaPo's endorsement
"supporting the world's trashiest man."
You're entitled to your opinion.
Well, no. See... you're doing it wrong. According to the left, people you disagree with need to be silenced. Or are they wrong about that?
Democracy dies in oligarch C-suites.
but they dont dare define a woman
Wasn’t that Chris Stirewalt?
She should be spanked ……pant pant….: vigorously and robustly…..pant pant……she’s so naughty…..spank her harder, daddy trump!
Would love to hear Kamala's thoughts (I know, I know) on WaPo's non endorsement.
Was that written for the WaPo staff to read? Because it isn't really news for the rest of us.
"According to the left, people you disagree with need to be silenced."
Better to know what they're thinking.
Well, now they are using "militaristic". You remember all those times Trump warned the population that they may have guns but he has F-15s. Oh wait, that wasn't Trump...
Newsweek says there has been "an update" but what the "update" means is not entirely clear. - Link to Newsweek: "What is Department of Defense Directive 5240.01? Pentagon's Military Update"
Increasingly bitter and angry and lashing out LLR-democratical Rich: "Democracy dies in oligarch C-suites."
Interesting note: LLR-democratical Rich was 100% in favor of oligarch's in C-suites working with the New Soviet Democratical Politburo leaders to install kamala as the candidate without her ever having to run and gain the actual votes of democraticals.
Democracy dies in oligarch C-suites indeed...and Rich approved of it.
Passionately.
"Democracy dies in oligarch C-suites."
That's why many of us oppose Cook, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Altman, and Pichai trying to influence our elections with dark money, shadow censorship, and collusion with the Biden White House.
I'm sincerely uncertain if you're making fun of the Left, or the Right, or someone else, or flying your own freak flag....?
"Post newsroom reports that a Harris endorsement had been drafted by editorial page staffers but that owner @JeffBezos made decision not to publish."
Yeah, I'm not buying it. Also, the value of a formal endorsement is meaningless compared to the free editorial support given daily to Democrats. The token essays like the one linked for this post and just that, tokens.
Looks like our LLR-democratical Rich, after ANOTHER name change, is having quite the meltdown today.....and why wouldn't he? There is growing evidence that the massive Cheat Machine the New Soviet Democraticals have spent decades building might not, might not mind you, be enough to corruptly install kamala-la-la-la-la the drunken buffoon in the White House.
I suppose at this point the only that might cheer LLR-democratical Rich up a bit would be stories of illegal alien minors being sex trafficked into the US or groomers in elementary schools talking with small children about their sexual preferences without the parents knowledge.
Inflation is a women's issue.
The open border is a women's issue.
Migrant crime is a women's issue.
Men in women's sports and women's spaces is a women's issue.
Government-Corporate collaboration in censoring opposing views is a women's issue.
Democrats are bad on all of these women's issues.
Illegals ARE voting in this election!!
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Biden and the dems: Non-citizens don't vote. It's all bs from those evil Republicans.
Republicans: We're removing 1500 self-identified non-citizens from the voter rolls.
Biden and the dems: You can't do that!
It's 🤡 world, folks.
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"Better to know what they're thinking."
I don't disagree. But then again, I'm not a leftard, trying to disappear ideas I don't like.
The WaPoo would argue that he really, really is Hitler and they're cowards.
That's the ticket!
If Harris wins, he beats FDR's record. The 5th term is a guarantee.
"The Secretary of Defense can approve "assistance in responding with assets with potential for lethality, or any situation in which it is reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use of force that is likely to result in lethal force, including death or serious bodily injury," in the official wording of the document."... so yea they can use lethal force on ANYONE if 'requested' by the locals...
The Washington Post, having to choose between Kamala Harris an Actually Hitler™ has decided they're not going to endorse Kamala Harris.
The Huffington Farts ... now that's catchy.
1) Won't define woman
2) Allow men to beat up on women (see Doug Emhoff)
3) Allow men to beat women in sports
I'm trying to see how the Democrats are "good on women" other than allowing them to kill children whenever they see fit.
Keep in mind that with Hitler actually IN the race for President, according to Democrats, the LA Times and Washington Post have decided not to endorse Kamala Harris.
People don't say those things ... they say he's a pedophile and a Mafia-like criminal.
Via X: This guy makes a point I missed while hearing Kamala's meandering nonanswers
I love how calm and collected he is. 😉
"Pandemic of the unvaccinated"*
(*defined per expedience)
Democrats should have run real, contested primaries. Instead of nominating an obvious incompetent, they probably would have nominated RFK, Jr.
Poor guy. Imagine you are him, feeling as you do, and Democrats expect you to vote a certain way because of the color of your skin.
"Imagine you are him, feeling as you do, and Democrats expect you to vote a certain way because of the color of your skin."
Democrats do not recognize people except as they can be assigned to a group. They're particularly fond of using race to determine which group you belong to and expect that you will think and act similarly to the others in your assigned group.
You forgot Musk, who was literally bribing people to register to vote.
Too soon old, too late in becoming honest.
You forgot Musk, who was literally bribing people to register to vote.
I thought that was a good thing Fredo.
Don't we want more LIVE American citizens to vote?
David, you are using facts and reason. Kamala is going on pure emotion, not a reasonable thought in her rotted brain.
Kamala is the worst candidate any party has ever ran for president. Unqualified doesn’t even come close to describing her incompetence. If she wins, she will single handedly undo everything feminists have strived for, because her presidency would be such a disaster that most voters will avoid voting for a female candidate to prevent another similar disaster.
"literally bribing people to register to vote."
Freder has never heard of "walking around money", which is literally bribing people to vote for your candidate.
"You forgot Musk, who was literally bribing people to register to vote."
As opposed to bribing people for actual votes. It's calling "walking around money", which is a democrat staple.
The WaPo shitheads who bash this guy are not going to have a good Election Night.
Won’t come back from Deadman’s Curve!
Vicki. By not endorsing Kamala they are as much as endorsing Trump. You can see that can't you?
I bet Thanksgivig at your house is a hoot.
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