https://accordingtohoyt.com/2022/08/25/rains-of-spiders-and-women-birthing-snakes/

If you aren’t a regular reader, just plow through the typos and somewhat disjointed syntax. These daily essays are a stream-of-consciousness public journal, not proofed for formal publication.
Always thought provoking, always … odd.

I’m not sure which comment you are referencing, but it reminded me of what Susan Vass said in her personna as Ammo Grrrll, the day after Trump won the 2016 election.

AesopSpouse and I had many qualms in 2016 about The Donald’s moral fitness for the office – although none about his campaign policies – and the media weren’t shy about promoting any shreds of fact or rumor to exacerbate that reluctance.

We were repulsed by the “pussy tape,” as so many conservatives were, which was exactly the reaction that the (oh so not suspicious!) release was intended to create. We didn’t talk like that, our friends and families didn’t talk like that, and we didn’t hang around with the kids at high school and college who did talk like that.

However, we had finally decided that he wasn’t any worse, ethically, than a lot of former Presidents and candidates, although media and historians did their best to hide the worst. No need to give the list. So, as is often said, we held our noses and voted for him because there was no way we were going to vote for Hillary Clinton.

Reading Susan’s column afterwards assuaged our last remaining snowflakey jitters, because she did know people who talked like that and they were perfectly normal, decent, human beings, not depraved satyrs. We were reassured that President Trump wasn’t going to have orgies in the White House or anything like that (unlike some other former holders of that office).

A lot of what Susan wrote then has been echoed in the comments here, and I thought you might like to read what actually turned out to be a pretty accurate prophecy of the disasters delayed by the four years of the Trump presidency.
Four good years, as it happened.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/11/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-140.php

By now, everything that could be said about this realignment of the Universe has probably already been said in essays and comments. In a column I wrote during the primaries called “D-I-V-O-R-C-E,” when almost no Conservative Thought Leader believed Trump had a snowball’s chance in Hell to win the General Election, I said (as unseemly as it is to quote oneself): “Can Trump win? How many genius prognosticators who say he will get creamed by Hillary also put money on him to fade in the primaries? Of course he can win. It’s what he does. Will we be better off? I don’t know. And neither do you.”

And he has won! I thought all the karma in the world was used up on the Cubs’ winning the World Series for my dear husband personally. I was mistaken. It’s a new day in a strange world!

Trump did not run a perfect campaign. He made several early unforced errors – among which I do not count the purloined tape of silly, decade-old green room boy-talk. I hear ten times more graphic talk every Tuesday at poker and the women give as good as we get. It’s fun. We are semi-grownups who drink, compete for double entendres and play cards. If those evenings were taped, not a one of us could ever run for office.

But, all things considered, I think Donald J.Trump ran a courageous, energetic race. I did NOT “hold my nose” to vote for him. I was proud to back a fighter. I would rather vote for what I want even if I don’t get it. And I wanted secure borders, gun rights, support for Israel, and vetted “refugees.” That would have been Oh-for-four with Hillary.

Trump had never run for office before. Neither have most of us and we would do equally badly. With rare exceptions, it requires a particular and vile skillset, a careful balance of vague promises you have no intention of keeping, and baldfaced lies the media will never fact-check if you are a Democrat. The Clintons have been running for or holding office for their entire lives. They are experts.
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In the end, Trump was forced to run against an unholy alliance that included unhappy GOP pols, even unhappier conservative pundits, Soros and Hollywood billionaires and stars-for-hire; the media lickspittles (said in years past to be worth at least 15%); noncitizens and felons voting by encouragement of the President; and the bottomless slush fund the Clintons amassed for years. Hillary accumulated this war chest peddling six-figure speeches we can’t hear, pay-to-play access to the Secretary of State and operating a fake charity.
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After all the fear-and-loathing mongering about the Alt Right, after all the disparaging of the Basket of Deplorables, the only brownshirt activity came, as usual, from the left. It worked and it will continue because it worked. There was “violence” at the Trump rallies – “caused” by the terrible rhetoric of meanie Trump. Just ask the craven media.
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[Here comes the prophecy part; at least most of this was put off four years, until we got King Brandon]

Our beloved country now has a fighting chance to avoid being overrun by all of Central America, unvetted Middle East “refugees,” thousands more “Minnesota men” and their 15 children by each of four wives. Hillary promised open borders. And the illegal aliens would have been carefully parceled out into any district that might, possibly, ever be inclined to vote conservative. Somalis, El Salvadoran gang members, and Syrians would not be needed in Malibu, or Cape Cod, perish the thought! Why, consider the property values! Besides, Maliboobs and Cape Codgers reliably vote as they are told to by all the Cool People already.

We were staring down the barrel of 40 years of a far-left Supreme Court, although, barring a Biblical lifespan miracle, I would have been as dead as our First and Second Amendment rights by then. On a very sad note, the Stephenapo-louses will be moving to Australia. Please let’s help them pack. Also emigrating are Cher and Miley Cyrus (the Aging Jerk and the Brain-Dead Twerk). The list continues. Threatening (but not promising) to leave are Jon Stewart, Babs Streisand, Al Sharpton, Lena Denham and Whoopi who will no longer be able to grace us with their Deep Thoughts except from afar. We’ll try to bear up. Venezuela is right up your political alley, kids. Don’t forget to pack the Charmin and some Spam.

Sadly, none of them kept their promises to leave.
They had too much work to do hamstringing President Trump so that he accomplished far less than he could have, but we’re grateful for what he achieved despite them.

None of this is anything the Washington Post readers will ever understand.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FbCilOZXgAANb9D?format=jpg&name=900×900

Brandon Straka had that response to another slander of Trump, and founded the Walkaway movement which compiled thousands of videos of disaffected Democrats.
His momentum was stopped by his arrest for being one of the J6 Insurrectionists (hah), but I believe he has gone back to his activism as far as the court would let him.

In his case, when I say “Go Brandon!” it’s a serious compliment.
https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/brandon-straka-explains-the-walkaway-campaign-and-his-disillusionment-with-democratic-party-and-liberal-media

it was about two months exactly after the election at the end of January of 2017, I wrote a post in which I said, “You know, for the life of me, I will never be able to understand how you could watch this man stand before a cheering crowd and mock a reporter’s disability and still go into that voting booth and pull the lever for him. What is wrong with you?”
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And so I put this post on Facebook and finally somebody answered me. It was a woman named “Diane,” who was my babysitter when I was a baby and she — staunch Christian conservative –she and I had many battles over the years on Facebook, but I never unfriended her as I did so many other conservatives who I had had arguments with. I didn’t unfriend her and she wrote to me privately and she said, “Listen, I don’t want you to like rip me a new one, I’m just asking have you seen this?”

And she sent me a video, a YouTube video entitled, “Debunking the Trump mocked the disabled reporter.” Now, I saw this video and I became instantly enraged just reading the title because I thought, “Oh here we go.” More like right-wing propaganda, more brainwashing and then I got almost exhilarated. I was like, “I can’t wait to watch this and tell her how stupid she is for falling for this propaganda.”

So I played the video and it was about six or seven minutes of footage of Donald Trump doing that exact same voice in that exact same gesture as he did that day when he mocked the reporter’s disability, but the common thread in all of these different scenes throughout the years was that, he was imitating someone who was caught in a lie or imitating somebody who was groveling because they had done something shady.

And I watched it and Mark, I’m telling you, it was the strangest experience I’ve ever had in my life. I almost sort of dissociated for a moment because there was this disconnect between my brain and my heart because my brain was telling me, “Oh my god, I don’t think that he mocked that reporter’s disability.” My heart was saying, “But we hate him, but we hate him, but we hate him.”

And so I couldn’t reconcile within myself what had happened and so I shut my computer. I watched it three times and I couldn’t figure it out, so I went to bed, woke up the next day and I watched it again and I thought, “Okay, he didn’t. He didn’t mock that reporter’s disability,” but why did CNN tell me that he did because CNN has never lied to me before, so why did they start lying today?”

You know, I couldn’t figure it out, so I started asking these questions and going to — you know, I live in New York City now so I started going to other liberal friends, co-workers saying, “Have you seen this? Have you seen this?” And I was instantly met with this wall of hostility and contempt. People were, “What are you doing? What do you doing? What? So you love Trump now? What are you doing?”

I said, “I don’t love Trump. I’m just trying to understand, this doesn’t make any sense to me.” They were very angry at me for even asking questions. Now, I thought this was strange because I thought, here we are, and we are upset all the time because he’s been elected. We’re crying. We’re terrified.

Here I am coming to you with this little piece of evidence that says – that suggests maybe things aren’t as bad as they seem, but you don’t want to believe that maybe things aren’t as bad. You want to be angry. I thought this is very interesting.

But the point is that, it became very clear to me that I wasn’t safe asking these questions because people didn’t want to have this conversation. So I started getting in bed every night after I was working and just watching videos on YouTube or reading stories trying to understand, researching the media taking moments out of context and what I found was fascinating.

I found videos of black people showing up for Trump rallies to support him and when they showed up, CNN would cut them out of the shot so that it appeared that there were only white people there. I watched him calling Mexicans “all Mexicans rapists” speech and saw once again that they had taken that moment out of context and that wasn’t at all what he was saying. He didn’t say anything negative about Mexicans in general. He was talking about some people being released from prison and coming over the border, you know, and I started to see my God —

LEVIN: And by the way, let me just — it reminds me of Charlottesville and they continued to push this racism argument that he was saying both sides of an argument, he was endorsing the Klan and the neo-Nazis, that’s not what he did.

STRAKA: Not at all.

LEVIN: He was saying, both sides of good people, pro or con, those monuments that there are arguments to be made and you don’t have to be a racist to say “Leave the monuments alone,” a lot of people believe you shouldn’t be book-burning, you should be pulling down monuments and so forth.

But even today, CNN and MSNBC tried to create the notion that somehow, he’s a white supremacist.

STRAKA: Yes.

LEVIN: Anyway you were saying?

STRAKA: Yes, no, but that’s a perfect example and interestingly, with Charlottesville, I had already at that point had my eyes open that actually happened after these events, so that was one of the first examples that I was experiencing in real-time because now, I saw, I was like, “I see what they do,” and it’s the kind of thing once you see it, you can never unsee it. Once you realize what they’re doing, you see it every single time.

So when Charlottesville happened, I already knew and I was like, “Aha, they’re doing it again. They’re doing it again,” because you’re right. He certainly did not say, “Oh the neo-Nazis and the KKK, great people.” No, no, no, he was saying there were also historians mixed in with these people who were just simply protesting to preserve their speech.

LEVIN: The free speech people. Leave everything alone.

STRAKA: Absolutely.

LEVIN: The warts and all and let the American people sort it out.

STRAKA: Right.

Just Go Away: Don’t Call Democrats Communists…Here’s Why 8/23/22
[28 minute video]

Talk about “the Left” allows Democrats to claim that “it’s not them”.

Republicans need to discuss how bad the Democrats are, and what the Democrats think – and challenge those we talk to if they, the ones we talk to, are thinking like these other Democrats are thinking.

Nowadays, the motor is attitudes, not ideology.

M Smith,

“People vote based on their interests, and when that’s not the whole truth they vote based on their identity, affiliations, and self-image.”

For the sane that’s so. However, you left out the single greatest motivational factor for those on the left; ideology.

1. Hesitate for a second and then continue lying; or
2. Never miss a beat and continue lying.

I have NEVER had somebody say “Oh, wow, look at that, I’ve been lied to and should reconsider…” Never.