Comments on: A look back: on desperately wanting to elect Joe Biden

By: Cappy

Cappy — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 14:04:07 +0000

Reposting actual words from liberals is racist.

By: Strange Daze: “Sometimes individuals just do evil things.”

Strange Daze: “Sometimes individuals just do evil things.” — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:50:12 +0000

[…] A look back: on desperately wanting to elect Joe Biden – The New Neo That carefully-cultivated “state of anguish” – a sort of delusional hysteria – was not just important to a 2020 victory for the Democrats; it was necessary, and they knew it. For the rest of us, on the outside looking in, it was a lesson in how Orwell wasn’t far off when he described the Two Minutes Hate and its unifying effects, and how something somewhat similar could be employed to influence and guide a modern voting public, and people who consider themselves intelligent and sophisticated. […]

By: stan

stan — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 02:18:41 +0000

Bill Clinton brought along his wife. No one hates regular Americans like Hillary.

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 22:05:00 +0000

@Cicero – I pretty much agree with your post. Very hard to believe we can dislodge the Iago party.

By: AMartel

AMartel — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 18:44:32 +0000

Also, it’s tribal. People say and do incredibly stupid, hurtful, counterproductive things because (they think) everyone else (who matters) is doing/thinking/saying the same. It IS the MSM that creates this fiction that captures these gullible midwits and turns them into zombiecrats.

By: Ray+Van+Dune

Ray+Van+Dune — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 18:23:43 +0000

Deadrody – “The only way forward is to utterly obliterate the mainstream media.”

It all boils down to this. Every fakir and crook and corruptocrat we have identified got there the same way… with the connivance of the media. And they are protected from our justice and allowed to hurt us again… with the connivance of the media!

I’ll repeat it again…
“The only way forward is to utterly obliterate the mainstream media.”

By: zenman

zenman — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 17:23:48 +0000

DNW – I’m sure white people appreciating foreign films from non-white creators is now racist and verboten, enjoy it while it lasts.

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Good rant RE: the Biden Economy

https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=49737

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Good article RE: Democrats destroying Democracy to save it (i.e. keep themselves in power which is the ONLY way to ensure a bright prosperous future.)

https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/01/no-the-right-doesnt-exist-to-save-the-left-from-its-own-folly/

Liberalism has a democracy problem. At least, that’s what liberals, including self-described conservative liberals, are saying. For example, New York Times columnist David Brooks is fretting about the possibility of conservatives “using state power to break up and humble the big corporations and to push back against coastal cultural values. The culture war merges with the economic-class war — and a new right emerges” to rally the “masses against the cultural/corporate elites.”

By: DNW

DNW — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:26:13 +0000

I’ll stop hijacking the thread now.

Thought it was moribund as a topic. Apparently not.

By: DNW

DNW — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:20:28 +0000

@DNW:
Eisenstein and Riefenstahl more like it ? Plus Kurosawa.

When I was a kid, I saw a movie clip of a baby carriage rolling down a grand staircase, as some reviewer intoned about great filmmakers. I took away from it that there was a genius movie director in Russia who had the same last name as Einstein.

I have since learned that their names are not really the same. But not much else about the director.

Reifenstahl: other than ” the famous one” , the only movie of hers I have seen is Das Blaue Licht. I downloaded several copies in order to try and get a clear one. The sharper one is impressive enough. I’d probably pay good money to see a pristine, or as near as can be had, print.

Funny though, had a good laugh recently while watching the last scene of the film noir “Christmas Holiday”: as Deanna Durbin rises from the body of her ex, and backlit, looks toward the parting clouds of the night sky to the strains of Wagner( I think) .

Connection lights up after having previously seen Das Blaue Licht. “Oh! Son of a —- so that’s where Siodmak got … ”

Kurosawa. Stray Dog, and Yojimbo. And that opening scene in Ran(?), I think it was, where they are pig hunting. Talk about something unique in film. The grassland was mesmerizing. Well, I found it so. Seven Samurai, specifically the fight in the rain storm; Rashomon, and the cowardly and inept sword fighting in the forest …

By: sonny wayz

sonny wayz — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:20:24 +0000

I’m still, well, ‘puzzled’ would be a mild word, over McArdle’s assimilation into the Borg. After her ‘Trump=nuclear war’ column during his first campaign, I thought that the Abraham Accord, at least, would have led her to realize Trump had *reduced* the likelyhood of nuclear war.

Instead she went all BAMN during the second campaign.