Comments on: Glenn Greenwald: on the Hunter Biden laptop coverup

By: ObloodyHell

ObloodyHell — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 13:13:53 +0000

As y’all keep forgetting:

The Liberal Midnight Reset Button®.

I’ve written about it here, @ nnc, but these three pop up when I search on it.

https://monsterhunternation.com/2020/11/09/election-2020-the-more-fuckery-update/#comment-99392

and

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/65708.html#comment-1047079

All of this follows from it, and the WQ issue mentioned above.

And I also note that I’ve been commenting on it for over a decade, now:

https://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2011/07/political-other.html?showComment=1311492332903#c890392449415087439

By: Hubert

Hubert — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 15:47:29 +0000

Zaphod and JohnTyler are right: this is pure caste signalling.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it” (attributed to Upton Sinclair). Just substitute “position in the social pecking order” for “salary”.

By: JohnTyler

JohnTyler — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 15:09:26 +0000

Boatbuilder;

A friend of mine – a retired federal DOT accountant and devoted NY Times reader- is just like your golf pals.
What’s weird is that he routinely would tell me while employed with the Federal DOT how inefficient, wasteful and ineffective the govt really is. He would tell me that “in theory,” govt programs, etc. work just fine, but in real life they are a waste of time and money.
Yet, he votes liberal progressive 100% of the time.

People like him are just not interested in upsetting their own horse-blinders encased apple cart. It’s much easier not to think and not to question.

It is this attitude held by many Americans , that will enable any sort of repressive, totalitarian regime to take hold in America; all under the guise of protecting this or that group.

The demonkrats know this; they know their lies and obfuscations will be believed by about 1/2 of all Americans and never be seriously challenged by their media propaganda outlets (e.g. conventional and social media).

By: n.n

n.n — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 12:49:50 +0000

Collusion with Ukrainians and Russians, with the Chinese regime that undermined American policy, and perhaps others. Now Biden the father is setting the stage to follow up on Obama’s legacy of premature evacuation, redistributive change (e.g. reordered claims), and transnational wars from Tripoli to Kiev.

By: T-Rex

T-Rex — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 03:32:27 +0000

I have known that the US press has been in the tank for the Democrats for years but I am not sure I really appreciated just how corrupt they are until they successfully buried the laptop and Bobolinski revelations just prior to the election. Have they not heard of the gulag?

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 03:16:49 +0000

@Boatbuilder:

They’re just Normies. They won’t awaken until their neighborhoods burn.

Plus there’s an element of not wishing to ‘Lose Caste’ by adopting lower caste enthusiasms. Like it or not… and it doesn’t matter whether or not you or I like it… there can never be any kind of successful popular reaction without some more presentable Elite Defectors. Otherwise your Normies won’t play.

What bugs me is that these Normies are the product of 50-60 years of several hours per day max broad market spatter gun TV consumption plus some newspaper and periodical consumption. That’s child’s play. Hardly what you’d call immersive. Imagine what it will be like when there are 60 year old products of a lifetime of social media conditioning and individually targeted advertising.

By: Boatbuilder

Boatbuilder — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 02:44:54 +0000

I play in a golf league of guys in their 50’s and 60’s, not wealthy but engineers, insurance guys, lawyers. The sort of people that one would think of as natural “conservatives “, as in not radical , and not “Republican” as in reflexively defenders of upper-class prerogatives.
What consistently baffles and dismays me is that most of them seem to swallow the Dem BS hook, line and sinker.
One would think that, in the current circumstances, they would either be somewhat critical of the current regime, or at least seek to avoid politics as a point of discussion,
But-No!-they will constantly bring up the latest crap about…Trump! “Did you hear that Trump’s niece has a book out?” “Hey, Trump is being indicted in NY. “ l respond that, hey, Trump is not the President anymore, the guy you voted for is, let’s talk about the latest idiocy, if I were you the last thing I’d want to talk about is politics, etc.
It doesn’t seem to register. If I thought they were just trying to get a rise out of me I would get it (and there is some of that, which is all good fun), but mostly they don’t want to know, and buy what they hear.
And that is what scares and depresses me. The propaganda works.

By: Cap'n Rusty

Cap'n Rusty — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 22:31:31 +0000

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By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 21:56:58 +0000

neo relates,

“A response there adds, “Worse, they will hear it, and dismiss it.”

And still another person comes back with, “This is what I am realizing now. It’s not that people on the left (traditionally my people), don’t know the truth, they don’t want to know the truth.”

Both types exist. Those who dismiss it, basically take FDR’s approach. When it was pointed out that an ally was a “bastard” FDR replied, “yeah, but he’s our bastard”. What counts for them is which side is someone on, nothing else.
Those who “don’t want to know” embrace willful blindness. It’s an abdication of personal responsibility, engaged in by moral cowards.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 21:14:10 +0000

For those who believe they’ve reached peak cynicism, there always seems to be someone whose gotten there first…
(Still, the competition is fierce…)
This is from someone who’s been marinating in it for quite some time; who has had time to view it all from all angles. His tongue is mordant, his despair eloquent.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bullhit…