It seems to me…
…that all the Republicans have to do for their campaign ads is to show photos or videos of arson and mayhem in blue cities, and add a slogan such as “This is what you’ll get if you vote for Democrats.”
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neo: Indeed. Many Americans may have been frightened into silence, but not stupidity.
In the privacy of a voting booth, they will push back.
But, as Tucker Carlson has pointed out a lot lately, do the Republicans even have the will to push back in even this easy manner? The spineless party once again.
I too think some people in blue metropolises who are knee jerk Democrat voters will have doubts about automatically following their lifelong voting patterns. At least I hope so. If not, they are fools.
They could also show pictures of those killed in black on black gang warfare, especially the young victims. This is what you’ll get if you vote for Democrats. Only some black lives matter to them.
I kind of like a picture or video from the various riots accompanied by the slogan “Your Democrat Party!”
Another one is “Vote Rebuplican. No one ever has to know.”
Okay, I’ll say what’s probably obvious, but a little bit dull. If Republicans’ campaign advertisements are built around pictures of riots and looting; then all of the news media, movies, television, big tech, academia, K-12 schools, Democrats, big business, etc. will scream RACIST in unison, over and over, endlessly, nonstop until the election.
Their screaming will be enough to convince suburban white women that Republicans are icky. Losing that key demographic component will be enough to swing the election to Democrats.
Unfortunately, when it comes to race, Republicans have to emphasize the positive and the ambiguous. An example of the former would be the steep drop in African-American unemployment, until the pandemic hit. An example of the latter would be vague, but ominous, invocations of law and order and the preservation of civilization.
That’s not to say that a few well-timed advertisements, featuring footage of riots, couldn’t be run in November. If that were done close to the date of the election, then maybe the chorus of RACISM wouldn’t have time to work its magic.
“Their screaming will be enough to convince suburban white women that Republicans are icky.” Cornflour
Sadly I know off-hand 3 Republican-voting women who have bought head-long into the “white privilege/systemic racism” narrative. It is mind-boggling.
The brainwashed will stubbornly remain brainwashed. That’s why they are brainwashed.
physicsguy is right (as is Tucker). Much of the GOP is just offering the same ****, just a little less and in smaller doses. That won’t cut it. We need a choice, not an echo, to steal a phrase.
physicsguy is right (as is Tucker). Much of the GOP is just offering the same ****, just a little less and in smaller doses. That won’t cut it. We need a choice, not an echo, to steal a phrase.
eeyore/physicsguy: However, the GOP is offering Trump for POTUS, unless things are much stranger than I’m parsing.
Trump isn’t the same ****. It would be nice if more of the GOP were more on board, but we have Trump and except for a few outliers like Romney etc, the GOP has to back Trump or face oblivion after Biden/Pelosi/Schumer/ AOC/BLM/Antifa take control.
@Cornflour: “If Republicans’ campaign advertisements are built around pictures of riots and looting; then all of the news media, movies, television, big tech, academia, K-12 schools, Democrats, big business, etc. will scream RACIST in unison, over and over, endlessly, nonstop until the election.Their screaming will be enough to convince suburban white women that Republicans are icky. Losing that key demographic component will be enough to swing the election to Democrats.”
That is likely to hurt President Trump very badly among all the people who never intended to vote for him.
As for suburban white women, it’s entirely possible that the riot-enabling, fragile white elitist Democrats have already lost those voters.
“ But, as Tucker Carlson has pointed out a lot lately, do the Republicans even have the will to push back in even this easy manner? The spineless party once again.”
If it come down to guns, they must face bullets. I’ll hold my family relations to the precisely the same standard. Take no prisoners. If we are not deadly serious, then all is lost.
My son who is in late 40’s was talking with me the other day and I was telling him how much I dislike and get upset with the lefty media and he is a very smart man and told me, very simply, don’t look the large wing media shit! He was an Obama democrat until the second time around and by the time Trump ran both he and his sister, who had veered more left, were delighted when Trump won. My son does IT work for people on the right and the left with a marketing company he owns so he does not have posted opinions on media, his advice was just to stay the course, vote for my choices and, once more, don’t look at all of the left wing stuff, Democrat media and just get outside and enjoy doing my yard work and taking walks and being a decent old man.
Just don’t look at that lefty media shit!
Cornflour; Molly G:
The beauty of it is that there’s no need to feature black people in videos or videos. The violent people in this movement are as likely or even more likely to be white than black. Antifa is a highly white organization.
huxley; physicsguy:
Yes, as we know, the GOP isn’t even close to ideal. So what? Not voting for them brings something much much worse. If that’s not clear right now, I don’t know what could possibly make it more clear.
I feel sometimes like I fight this fight every four years. This year, the fight is even more important. This is not the time to fool around and demand better from the GOP. This is the year the differences between the GOP and the Democrats are more stark than ever, and I am astounded if people can’t see that.
I am not a Tucker Carlson fan. It’s not that sometimes he doesn’t make good points or give good interviews. It’s that periodically, with some regularity, he gets very full of himself with this angry self-righteous demand that the GOP do what he wants or we shouldn’t vote for them. He also lumps the Republicans all together. I think what he’s doing right now is destructive. It’s not that he shouldn’t chide some Republicans and ask them to do more. It’s this “then don’t vote for them, they don’t deserve our votes” business that enrages me, especially now.
I don’t watch TV news so very often, but I do sometimes and I have certainly caught quite a few of his opening monologues, which is when he usually does this. Sometimes in the past he has advocated foreign policy positions with which I disagree, and been angry at ones with which I agree. Then, more recently, I seem to recall he was mad at Trump for not sending federal troops to Seattle. I came to think it would have been a mistake had Trump done that. Now what does Carlson want? He wants the GOP to talk and act tougher? So do I, but I think he is activating the old “let it burn” crowd to stay home.
There’s another issue under the radar. Think you’re safe from the mayhem in the suburbs? haha. It appears Biden is going to implement Obama’s plan to use HUD to outlaw single family zoning and essentially abolish the suburbs… I sure wish Ben Carson would fix that, because that’s freaky.
National review did a decent write up about it. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-and-dems-are-set-to-abolish-the-suburbs/
“It’s this “then don’t vote for them, they don’t deserve our votes” business that enrages me, especially now.” – Neo
Refer to this comment for some agreement with your position (which I agree with).
https://www.thenewneo.com/2020/07/01/the-democrats-believe-they-have-checkmated-trump/#comment-2503501
Granted, the GOP does not “deserve our votes” but they are the only viable party other than the Democrats, and the Democrats are now openly campaigning on destroying the Constitution and the country.
Well, so much for the optimism from Mr. Douglass on the creation of the Emancipation Monument, or to give it the correct name, The Freedman’s Monument.
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/oration-in-memory-of-abraham-lincoln/
I suppose the BLM reasoning is that removing the monument means no one will know just how ungrateful they* are.
*(although not all black people in America, of course)
If you have never listened to Candace Owens tell her “conversion story” then this is a good place to start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y_LI_u5WLA
What an amazing woman!
“Companion piece” from Francis Menton.
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2020-6-30-reminder-how-progressive-programs-keep-african-americans-down
And just for good measure — because it’s Marxists all the way down.
(John Hayward aka Doc Zero)
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/06/06/hayward-democrats-embrace-the-four-stages-of-ideological-subversion/
The Victor Davis Hanson channel (which is different than others interviews of VDH), at YouTube is suddenly empty, and blocked from searching. The Left’s censors at Big Tech are reaching ever deeper, day by day.
As for GOP traitors, the only solution is to tell them en mass that if it comes to vigilante justice,we shall hold the accountable as traitors deserve, ie, our extreme prejudice.
Well, THIS is fun! Clay Co, FL Sheriff says he’ll deputise every lawful gun owner in the county to deal with BLM if they come there and get out of hand:
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2020/07/02/amazing-florida-sheriff-threatens-to-deputize-all-local-gun-owners-to-put-down-riots-n597418
Multiple LOLs!
And I haven’t even viewed the video at pjmedia yet!
Ya gotta love ‘em good ole Southerners hospitality.
Busy with family visiting, but to Neo’s comment, I don’t think Tucker has advocated lately not voting GOP. He, and I, are advocating the GOP become more fighters than is their usual nature. I’m still quite disgusted with the GOP, that’s why I’m a registered independent, but I’m certainly not going to stop voting straight GOP ticket. The alternative is tyranny at this point
huxley; physicsguy:
Yes, as we know, the GOP isn’t even close to ideal. So what? Not voting for them brings something much much worse.
neo: You missed the point of my comment. I was basically shrugging that, OK, the GOP isn't ideal, but the GOP is still offering Trump as POTUS, who does make a difference.
I didn't mention that we should vote for Trump, because I assumed that would be assumed.
huxley:
No, I didn’t miss the point of your argument. I wasn’t meaning to imply that you were saying what I was criticizing, merely that you were discussing the topic and might be interested in what I had to say. It was really directed mostly at talk I’ve seen at various blogs and in various places from various people (such as Tucker Carlson), not so much here.
phyicsguy:
Carlson said don’t vote for them “if”, and I happened to hear him say it. Here’s a quote:
The three things he then listed were “vigorous defense of total equality under the law,” “defend our freedom of speech,” and ” never forget that in the end, the Republican Party exists to serve the interests of normal people.” He doesn’t operationalize what they’d have to do to prove they are defending those things to a person’s satisfaction, either. But he did say that if they don’t provide those things don’t vote for them. It got my attention immediately.
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T J on July 2, 2020 at 6:25 am said:
The Victor Davis Hanson channel (which is different than others interviews of VDH), at YouTube is suddenly empty, and blocked from searching. The Left’s censors at Big Tech are reaching ever deeper, day by day.
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T J:
I was curious about this, so I did a very quick search. I didn’t find Hanson’s channel with Google, but it was pretty easy with both DuckDuckGo and Bing.
The URL for Hanson’s YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChmhPvL6yFpnBVKyabAcmoQ/playlists
Please don’t take this as a defense of YouTube, much less Google. I hate their policies and practices. No surprise, I like Hanson, and was worried there was something nefarious afoot. Maybe just a temporary glitch?
Great short post and to the point!! Good job!
Cornflour: I later noticed the same thing, same Bing search search results, too.
But VDH interview segments on Fox or FNC this year are all gone from YouTube. Plus a variety of recently uploaded lengthy interviews and on topical politics by Victor in the past two months are gone.
I sent an email to VDH business email address, so that they know. Also, there is the authors own dot com web page for others having trouble. I expect more, weekly, if not monthly.
Now, British historian David Starkey gets cancelled as “racist” for finding that slavery is not the genocidal equivalent of the 20th century holocaust (never mind that black slavery continues in the world, for example). BLM bigots know better than he, we are supposed to agree. (And his interview with Darron Grimes was in my YouTube que).
https://amgreatness.com/2020/07/04/the-cancellation-of-david-starkey/
Now, British historian David Starkey gets cancelled as “racist” for finding that slavery is not the genocidal equivalent of the 20th century holocaust
T J: Toni Morrison dedicated her Pulitzer-winning novel, “Beloved,” to the “Sixty million or more” blacks who died in the slave trade to the Americans.
Sixty million just happens to be ten times the conventional number, six million, of Jews who died in the Holocaust.
The current Encyclopedia Britannica article on the transatlantic slave trade offers a slightly lower number, 10-12 million, of total slaves transported and estimates only 15-25% died on the voyage, therefore by those numbers, 1.5-3.0 million died.
Which is horrific of course, but a far cry from sixty million. However, Morrison needed to one-up — or 10x-up — the Holocaust, so “Sixty Million or more” it is. Let critic, Stanley Crouch, in the “New Republic” no less, respond:
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For Beloved, above all else, is a blackface holocaust novel. It seems to have been written in order to enter American slavery into the big-time martyr ratings contest, a contest usually won by references to, and works about, the experience of Jews at the hands of Nazis. As a holocaust novel, it includes disfranchisement, brutal transport, sadistic guards, failed and successful escapes, murder, liberals among the oppressors, a big war, underground cells, separation of family members, losses of loved ones to the violence of the mad order, and characters who, like the Jew in The Pawnbroker, have been made emotionally catatonic by the past.
That Morrison chose to set the Afro-American experience in the framework of collective tragedy is fine, of course. But she lacks a true sense of the tragic. Such a sense is stark, but it is never simpleminded. For all the memory within this book, including recollections of the trip across the Atlantic and the slave trading in the Caribbean, no one ever recalls how the Africans were captured. That would have complicated matters. It would have demanded that the Africans who raided the villages of their enemies to sell them for guns, drink, and trinkets be included in the equation of injustice, something far too many Afro-Americans are loath to do–including Toni Morrison. In Beloved Morrison only asks that her readers tally up the sins committed against the darker people and feel sorry for them, not experience the horrors of slavery as they do.
–Stanley Crouch, “Literary Conjure Woman”
http://rvannoy.asp.radford.edu/rvn/444/beloved.htm