The left gaslights the right about the Trump verdict: But our sacred institutions!
Here’s the way the left’s game is played. It’s not just about the Trump verdict – for example, they have used the same technique in connection with accepting the results of the 2020 election. But it is very much in evidence right now in regard to the NY verdict against Trump:
(1) The left alters or ignores the usual rules, which destroys trust in an institution in order to “get” their opposition.
(2) The institution can be almost anything: the FBI, presidential elections, or the legal system, to take a few recent examples.
(3) The right responds by criticizing the compromised institution and the left.
(4) The left acts shocked, SHOCKED that the right has stopped respecting the hallowed institution that is a pillar of our government and society.
Case in point, Joe Biden trolling us yesterday about Trump’s remarks:
President Joe Biden on Friday called former President Donald Trump’s reaction to his conviction in New York on criminal hush money charges “reckless” and “dangerous.”
“It’s irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged, just because they don’t like the verdict,” Biden said at the White House, hours after Trump held a press conference condemning the criminal case. …
This jury was chosen the same way every jury in America has chosen,” the president said. “Five weeks after careful deliberation, the jury reached a unanimous verdict.” …
“Our justice system has endured for nearly 250 years,” Biden said. “And it literally is a cornerstone of America, our justice system … justice should be respected.”
“And we should never allow anyone to tear it down. As simple as that. That’s America. That’s who we are. That’s who will always be God willing.”
Joe Biden, gaslighter-in-chief. And these are the talking points parroted by Democrats right on down the line (or maybe it’s Biden who is the parrot – no matter).
It’s almost a thing of beauty, really. Destroy the institution – in an obvious way – and then gaslight the public by saying it’s the other side’s objections that are “tearing down” the institution that you have already trashed.
Another way to put it: the fox says that he guarded that henhouse most assiduously, and anyone who says otherwise is questioning the integrity of foxes – a sacred principle on which our republic rests.
The left, which long ago (or not so long ago) questioned the methods of the FBI, the DOJ, the police, and the government in general, now finds these things beyond criticism. The MSM is, of course, in agreement with the left. For example, see this AP story headlined, “Republicans join Trump’s attacks on justice system and campaign of vengeance after guilty verdict.” Note also the Orwellian reversal, because it is the left that has attacked and perverted the justice system to get vengeance on Trump and also to run election interference against him.
From the article:
Embracing Donald Trump’s strategy of blaming the U.S. justice system after his historic guilty verdict, Republicans in Congress are fervently enlisting themselves in his campaign of vengeance and political retribution as the GOP runs to reclaim the White House.
Almost no Republican official has stood up to suggest Trump should not be the party’s presidential candidate for the November election — in fact, some have sought to hasten his nomination. Few others dared to defend the legitimacy of the New York state court that heard the hush money case or the 12 jurors who unanimously rendered their verdict.
And those Republicans who expressed doubts about Trump’s innocence or political viability, including his former hawkish national security adviser John Bolton or top-tier Senate candidate Larry Hogan of Maryland, were instantly bullied by the former president’s enforcers and told to “leave the party.”
Republicans POUNCE!
This is probably as good a place as any to link to this article by law professor Steven Calabresi, entitled “President Donald Trump’s Manhattan Convictions are Unconstitutional.”
And here’s Alan Dershowitz from yesterday:
The left thinks it will be able to stand upright in the wind that would blow:
I recommend this discussion between Tucker Carlson and one of Trump’s sons.
The possibility of assassination is discussed. I think it is possible.
Nayib Bukele made a very important exhortation to conservatives during his speech at CPAC: we should respect and honor principles ABOVE institutions. This is a crucial distinction that the American right has struggled to understand for a long time. But with the Trump show trial and conviction, I think many on the right have finally come to such and understanding.
As Neo outlined, the left has overtaken, corrupted and weaponized virtually all of America’s institutions (legal, educational, informational, commercial, religious, charitable and entertainment). And then, artfully and audaciously insists everyone must ‘respect the institution’ and ‘respect the process’. Too frequently too many on the right have fallen for this slight of hand.
When the underlying principles behind an institution have been eviscerated, that institution no longer deserves respect. Indeed, the institution itself is merely a hollowed out shell. To give it respect would be to disrespect and betray the principles upon which it was founded. That is not conservative, traditional or patriotic.
I’m pleased to see that on the Trump trial, there seems to be almost universal understanding of all of the above on the right; including Mitt Romney. The few exceptions have been true RINOs, Asa Hutchinson and Larry Hogan; the latter is in part motivated by winning over some Democrats in his Senate race in deep blue Maryland.
Mike K:
I think that’s always been a possibility. Either a freelancer or inside job – and by “inside” I mean some mole or moles in the government. I’ve never been one to tout conspiracies, but there is obviously a vicious and amoral one against Trump.
there is obviously a vicious and amoral one against Trump.
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Yes. And IMO Trump is ill advised in keeping the Secret Service detail close. He should hire private security (I’ve heard he already has), and tell the SS to go home. And why – they cannot be trusted not to be an assassination squad.
Time was I’d have said anyone who said that was nuts. Not anymore.
Iowahawk described the Left’s modus operandi in 2015:
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.
https://x.com/iowahawkblog/status/664089892599631872
Eeyore:
It is not unusual for political assassinations to occur at the hands of security guards. Indira Gandhi comes to mind, for example.
Yeah, and it hasn’t even be competitive for decades. The occasional bump in the road, but America’s so-called right gets pretty much herded to wherever the Democrats want to go…
Hard to believe that the Democrats (Leadership) want Trump assassinated — he’s been the perfect ‘Toy‘ for them since at least 2016.
The Left cannot stop. As for Neo and what she’s saying ” Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel” as for what More tells Roper in the video clip it’s true and a great wind will blow in our time.
My mantra: Donald J. Trump was tried unconstitutionally by a partisan judge, a hostile jury, and a faux felony conviction was handed down.
Trump is a faux convicted felon, and they know m it.
It means that the Democrats have no ethics and no respect for the Constitution. Pass it on.
Karmi:
No. He won in 2016, unlike McCain and Romney, the type of Republicans who were the left’s far more favored opponents.
Karmi is trolling again:
Something about 3 Supreme Court justices confirmed by President Trump, moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem, halting even for only a while the Democrat’s plan for a nuclear armed Iran doesn’t seem to fit in with a perfect ‘Toy’. Those are just a few non-Toy aspects, there are more.
But not having effective plans or policies in place to counter the vote theft in 2020 was a a major disaster.
We knew the Democrats were evil before 2020 but not how evil they have turned out to be.
My favorite “Man for All Seasons” clip is where
More asks Norfolk if he would join him going to hell for fellowship!
J.J. is sooo correct. I cannot pass it on because all of my friends feel just the same.
I keep on saying the Union cannot stand when the Democratic Party principals are immoral, unethical, and as corrupt as Biden is and has always been.It has always troubled me that Massachusetts voted 78% for Biden. I can understand 51-55%, but 78%? Are they all sheep up there in Harvardland?
Wonder how far Stefanik will get. It’s just a wee bit suspicious that Merchan draws Bannon, the Trump Organization, AND The Donald’s criminal trials? When is supposed to be randomly assigned to judges?
Cicero:
Most people vote reflexively and don’t trouble themselves with the details of politics. And yet many consider themselves very well-informed if they read the NY Times and listen to NPR.
he made more progress in four years then most republicans made in 8, but the deals that kemp had made in georgia, and ducey in arizona, to name too with marc elias, through consent decrees or other actions, could not really be anticipated,
remember the baker carter commission had looked down on mass mail votes only a little over a dozen years ago, critiques of dominion voting were allowed as recently as October 2020, FrontLine’s examinations of Helderman’s claims, and HBO just that spring, any doubt if there had been no ballot avalanche they would have gone after Trump with gusto, based on those very claims, none whatsoever,
D’souzas^ 2000 mules, is key evidence of how the system was circumvented thanks to the lockdowns and the terror spread about covid,
*D’souza was the target of a rare prosecution regarding bundling to a judicial candidate, but the real crime was exposing obama’s roots and those of his thought leaders like derrick bell, and roberto de unger,
See what I mean…..?
I still respect our American system of justice. I’m sure that Donald Trump and those speaking out against the trial respect our justice system. Those who made this and the fraud case are the ones who don’t respect the justice system. And in fact have crapped all over the justice system. Having to cut and paste as well as make up things in order to bring charges against Trump. A judge deciding that she knows more about real estate values than the loan department of a bank. Dismissing a witness who was a former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission because he didn’t know election law.
This wasn’t the American justice system this was a perversion of the American justice system.
If the people cheering this can’t see that, then they are stupid beyond belief no matter how educated they are.
I live on the Jersey side of Philly and that is exactly how the local news channels are portraying it.
some perspective
https://t.me/s/The_Library_II
they really should change the name to Mordor
Miguel Cervantes:
Agree, and two more cents.
A ‘Toy” shouldn’t require the manufacture and release of a global pandemic to 1) destroy the economic prosperity of the incumbent 2) facilitate mail in fraudulent ballot falsification . A ‘Toy’ wouldn’t require the 3) cooperation by vindictive petty politicians of your “own” party with the Democrat vote manufacturing industrial complex 4) require two bogus impeachments 5) need riots during 2020 that your totally ineffectual second Attorney General couldn’t investigate (Bill Barr, to speak of a tool not a toy).
The Democrats had to go to unprecedented lengths to keep their ‘Toy’ from being reelected but those details are lost on a NPA.
Speaking of a tool, Bill Barr has been captured by the crickets since the verdict was announced.
“Our justice system has endured for nearly 250 years,” Biden said. “And it literally is a cornerstone of America, our justice system … justice should be respected.”
“And we should never allow anyone to tear it down.”
The American system of justice has now been torn down by the cultural Marxist democrats. They won’t get away with it because now there’s nothing protecting them from the fierce winds that are going to blow. They’ve brought their fate upon themselves.
}}} “It’s irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged, just because they don’t like the verdict,”
And this is, in fact, a true statement.
What’s important is that that’s NOT why Trump is saying it… he’s saying it because it was, in Truth and incontrovertibly, rigged.
This is what the Dems do all the time… they tell the Truth in such a way that it lies, because, inside it, there are *hidden presumptions* which are factually inaccurate.
His comment itself is inherently true and valid. But there is an implied aspect of it which is not — which is that it applies to Trump’s comments at all
We’re taught to think in binary logic, which is fine for computers… but in reality, trinary logic works far far better in the real world, and matches up much more accurately than binary logic does.
Binary logic is two-valued: “Yes/No”. “On/Off”. “True/False”.
Trinary logic is three-valued: “True/False/NA”, “On/Off/Null (the Switch is Broken, say)”, and “Yes/No/Nonsense”
One of the best examples of this is the classic Damned If You Do/Don’t challenge:
Have you stopped beating your wife yet?”
“Yes, I have” — this implies you have beaten your wife in the past.
“No, I haven’t” — this implies that you are still beating your wife.
Because, in truth, there is a hidden presumption in that challenge, that you DO beat your wife. One hopes that this is not true — If you don’t beat your wife, then neither yes nor no is a legitimate answer, the correct answer is “Nonsense” or “Not Applicable” because the question itself has “Null Value”.
There is another moderately well-known instance of this, the somewhat famous physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who, upon reviewing a colleagues’ research paper, responded with, “This isn’t right. It’s not even wrong.” 😛
This is the kind of thing that should be taught when learning critical thinking — it blows a lot of bad “logic” out of the water with ease.
}}} Yes. And IMO Trump is ill advised in keeping the Secret Service detail close. He should hire private security (I’ve heard he already has), and tell the SS to go home. And why – they cannot be trusted not to be an assassination squad.
Mrrr. I dunno. One benefit to the SS is that, as a government agency, they have powers that no other has.
Another is that, I heard that protecting Obama is/was such an onerous duty that you could legitimately wonder if they’d step in front of a bullet for the man, or for Michelle, for that matter. I can’t imagine Brandon is much better.
Trump, on the other hand, very much seems like a guy who respects and appreciates what they do, rather than considering them a nuisance accessory to the job. I think his ego is such that he expects them to do their job, but he does recognize the value of a “good servant”, and, in essence, that is what they are.
TBH, if a former PotUS can’t trust the SS to not assassinate them, then this entire union is truly done for. I kind of think it is, anyway, but if Trump was assassinated by his own protection detail, then just rise up and start the civil war, because the rot is absolutely and indisputably far, far too deep. If they were pushing people into that position who did not have absolutely perfect bona fides, then I would expect to see a mass exodus of long-term personnel.
Talk of “our” or the “American” justice system. Relevant that Merchan was born Colombian and moved to America at the age of 6. So, very fair and common sensical assumption that his family wasn’t exactly steeped in Anglo-Saxon or American juridical or political traditions.
We have had MASSIVE immigration for DECADES, accompanied not by an ABSENCE of efforts at assimilation but a very active and systemic opposite: crapping all over American history and traditions while sanctifying identity politics, including incenting ongoing and overt allegiance to prior countries and ethnicity.
Import 3rd Worlders, stick ’em on benches in robes, get 3rd World Banana Republic “justice.” Not a shocking outcome, at all.
Not xenophobic (ex-wife and mother of my kids is a naturalized citizen fwiw), just not willfully blind about obvious consequences.
It’s rich for a president who is flagrantly ignoring Supreme Court rulings against him on student loans to claim he holds the justice system sacred.
Yes, they say Trump is breaking norms because he sows disrespect for the institutions that are breaking norms (and laws) to get him. Once Trump is defined as the great threat, everything done against him becomes legitimate. Probably Saul Alinsky would approve, but his thinking has become second nature in Democrat politics, so I don’t think those who are in charge now had to read his book.
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I doubt the Secret Service would assassinate Trump. Most of them are probably glad they don’t have to guard Biden and witness him stumbling and falling and swimming naked. The Secret Service won’t let Trump be sent to an ordinary jail. If Trump lets them go, private security guards would have no say in where he would be sent.
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Yes, Massachusetts is crazy. Boston and the vacation areas in the Berkshires, the Outer Cape, and the Islands give Democrats massive majorities, but Biden did about as well in just about all the Boston suburbs. You’ll find some rural and working class towns much further from Boston giving Trump more of an even shake, but the affluent and educated are very well propagandized. The dairy farmers and defense contractors are long gone, and high property values drove out middle income folks. Even the town with the evangelical college, a former Republican stronghold, voted for Biden. Because “morals.”
om:
Ditto on the See what I mean…..? Belief like that is why Republican party has been herded by Democrats since GW Bush.
Those “3 Supreme Court justices” fell to the Republican party. Trump had no clue who any of them were. Seems Mitch McConnell was responsible for one of those picks not going to the Democrats earlier.
Speaking of Mitch McConnell (NOT Trump), it was he who got Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett thru the grueling process – and across the Finish Line. A masterful job, and never even a tad of thanks from the Republican herd!?!
At least Trump drained the Swamp like he promised…NOT!!!
@Eeyore
Disagree for the most part. I agree he cannot FULLY trust them and they should not work with him alone. However, I DO think it is important to keep them close for a few reasons, but integrate them with private security loyal to Trump and the others as paymaster.
This is for two reasons, both of which serve as a tripwire.
Firstly: They act as deterrence to an assassin coming from the outside, so that the enemy can’t just go after Trump, his household, or any private security contractors; they have to risk confrontation with Secret Service, in other words an attack on Muh American Government and Institutions.
Secondly: If it comes from within the Secret Service, it will serve as definitive proof that even they have been corrupted and that the regime or people so closely tied to it it is academic have perverted the Secret Service to having them murder their domestic, lawful political opposition.
Turtler:
However, I believe that if ANY president dies in office, or any SCOTUS justice, or any important public figure – a large percentage of people will assume that person has been murdered by fill-in-the-blank political enemies. Look at the persistence of the belief that the CIA or LBJ or the whatever assassinated JFK rather than Oswald acting alone, despite the overwhelming evidence of the latter. There is a sizable group who think Scalia was murdered, or Breitbart, Or Vince Foster. And on and on and on. I think trust has been breaking down for a long long time, and even if there’s zero evidence that the Secret Service did anything wrong, plenty of people will think they did.
Karmi:
I know you can’t stand Trump, and that’s your prerogative. But what you’re saying doesn’t sound reasonable to me. Presidents nominate judges and legislatures approve them. So of course it was McConnell who “got Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett thru the grueling process – and across the Finish Line.” Trump as president had no power to do that. And what do you mean by “never even a tad of thanks from the Republican herd”? I recall lost of people who were appreciative – I certainly was. I could find plenty of articles about the praise he got – for example, here’s one that took me about a second to find.
I am really really tired of people saying what the Republicans did or didn’t say about something, without bothering to find out what they actually did say. I’ve even written posts about that.
Trump is not a lawyer or a judge, and of course he hadn’t studied all the possible candidates and relied instead on the advice of conservatives who made recommendations. Would you rather he hadn’t listened to anyone and just picked them out of a hat? Or do you think most other presidents have a clue about all the possible judges to nominate? If you do, I have a bridge in Brooklyn …
Lastly, of course Trump didn’t drain the swamp – DUH! Trump didn’t have a clue how incredibly extensive that swamp was, nor did most of us. He certainly knows now.
Karmi illustrates much.
Who would The Huldabeast have nominated, Karnac the Wise?
A counterfactual you say? Well fact is that Trump and the Republicans got all three confirmed not some imaginary NPA giver of utopian law from that perfect world of unlimited freedom and license.
Possibly not — what’s the word — germane? probative? dispositive? as to Trump’s knowledge concerning judges, yet it does seem worth pointing out his sister Maryanne was a Federal District and Appeals Court Judge for many years. A Democrat to boot, I think.
@ Neo > “Note also b>the Orwellian reversal,>/b> because it is the left that has attacked and perverted the justice system to get vengeance on Trump and also to run election interference against him.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-17-at-5.11.12%E2%80%AFPM.png
neo:
I said “the Republican herd” – not every Republican (or Conservative). Maybe I should’ve said the MAGA mob/herd instead.
Meanwhile, for his hard work, McConnell got tired of being under the bus, and was basically forced to step down.
Make that a Double-Ditto on the See what I mean…..? So, without a “clue” as to “how incredibly extensive that swamp was,” used-car salesman Trump promised the howling MAGA mob he would “drain the swamp,” and you give him a Platinum Pass on it. 😛
Trump promised to drain the swamp. The swamp seems to be doing fine.
Having no “clue” was a main problem with Trump the last time – right out the gate w/ Sessions, for one example. I’m afraid he’s about to make the same mistakes again—*IF* he manages to be reelected, but hopefully I’m wrong…
Wisdom from the NPA. The affiliation of negation that exist because you can’t disprove the negative.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7cry-4pyy8&pp=ygUqd2hhdGV2ZXIgaXQgaXMgaSdtIGFnYWluc3QgaXQgZ3JvdWNobyBtYXJ4
Git Along Little Dogies
Sheep not cattle, NPAs can’t get anything right.
Another day, another donut….(make that “ice cream cone”)….
“…O’Keefe Media Uncovers who is really running the White House….” + Bonuses…
https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1780687148527579215
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
om on another losing streak – how much longer before that ‘Hatred Gasket‘ blows again?
Was born in Texas, i.e., I would never refer to the Republican herd or MAGA herd as “sheep”…
Karmi:
What don’t you like about sheep? Does it extend to goats? TMI
Montana jokes to follow.
And now with the H8er thing? Not that The Great Orange Whale lives in your head.
At the beginning of the calendar last year, the Supreme Court issued a new order. It sets the common law terms for an appeal by Writ of Mandamus to modern times, and only for exceptional occasions.
Hastings Law (Cal-Berkeley) professor of Con Law argues, on Liberty with Mark Levin last night, that the precedent set by the NYC conviction is of PDJ exactly fits these circumstances.
Otherwise, the chaos of prosecuting political enemies id sure to become widespread — it already is, albeit only by Democrats against Trump…so far.
Yet, Yoo cautions, the likelihood of doing
so is deminimus.
The simplest reason to decide in Trump’s favor is that it concerns federal election law matter — not even a state law! And thus presents a clearcut overreach if Constitutional separation of powers “Stay in your lane!” is the vernacular injunction, here.
In my view, the timing of Court opinions this term out this month, and SCOTUS summer break afterwards, means that the mood of the country, post conviction, are likely to influence if the do.
My guess is that Team Trump will need to file mid-June to have time for hearing the matter.
Especially, if the national opinion is negative.
There is the complication of the Presidential immunity case to be rendered this month, as well.
But this complication probably works well to move the Court to decide this matter presently.
Video of the section starts after the 16m mark
https://youtu.be/MziHOJPrn1Q?si=N1C5lRqVLcvpx2S4
If Trump tried to appeal to the US Supreme Court, it should be soon. Otherwise (and I looked for where I read this and can’t find it) apparently he can’t file his NY appeal until he is sentenced, which the rogue judge has set for July 11. He’d be on bail after his appeal is filed, but there looks like some chance he’d be in jail for the Republican convention.
I don’t know enough to know if a SC appeal is possible, but this outrageous case is election interference to the maximum degree. As Neo has said, for the Dems to do this and openly celebrate the results shows that they think they can’t win the vote, and they probably didn’t win the last one either.
The supreme court would probably says its not ripe well that would be roberts excuse in the last week they went after barretts husband as well as hits on thomas and alito
“But our sacred institutions!” reminds me of the t-shirts Hillary Clinton was selling, “But her emails!” She was able to break the law and get away with it, to approve of persecuting the man who let her off, and sell sarcastic t-shirts about how she got away with it.
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I didn’t expect Trump to drain the swamp. I don’t think anybody can. But Trump could and did provide a counterweight to the DC Establishment. That was democracy in action. Power balanced against power to make room for freedom. The powers that be didn’t like that and decided that Trump had to be disabled and destroyed.
I would say, though, that Trump expects to bulldoze though problems. He doesn’t have the patience, guile, and finesse in dealing with people that makes it possible to work around objections and obstacles and achieve his goals. Maybe nobody does. Possibly that kind of skill is too much to ask for in today’s politicians. In spite of all the propaganda, Trump also doesn’t have the killer instinct. Witness again what’s happening to him versus what happened to HRC.
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Right now, I am more likely to believe conspiracy theories than I was 4 or 8 years ago. The outer layer of theories (that the authorities knew what was going on or that they did things that they don’t want us to know about) are more believable than the inner core (that they literally planned and executed this or that outrage). Right now, so much is actually being orchestrated and executed by those higher up that it’s hard to believe that there’s anything that they don’t have their hand in.
They want to destroy the country what more evidence do you need and every institution burn it to ash or make it unusable
Our sacred institutions –
Between the Dems ‘by all means necessary’ and the MSM beating out public opinion by concealing the means, and preaching the Dem ends, the only Institution left in the smoking rubble of law is precisely the one that Neo has just clearly described.
Next, the Dem incarnation of Stalin climbs to the point of the pyramid.
Thats how they roll, at least since 1987
When they got their first scalp they failed against thomas they wiffed against alito not for lack of trying
@Abraxas: He doesn’t have the patience, guile, and finesse in dealing with people that makes it possible to work around objections and obstacles and achieve his goals.
A flawed instrument, but the only one to hand at the moment.
The long game is a bottom-up reform of the GOP, replacing enough of the pork-barrellers with people committed to governing as conservatives that change starts to happen. It may be too late for the long game, but you can’t just send in a single guy to the Oval Office and expect him to change everything himself either. A President has to work through others, people he didn’t hire and can’t fire. Only Congress working with the President can fix that by targeting funding for recalcitrant departments or legislation changing how the departments work. The GOP Senators and Congressmen currently in office have little interest in doing this even if handed majorities, for Trump or anyone else. It would take away valuable time that can be used in appropriating our tax money to their cronies.
Miguel — there was a recent piece at The Federalist on this theme…from Friday perhaps?
If Democrats will do THIS obvious election interference, what won’t they do? That was the gist of it.
Speaker Mike Johnson promises to investigate weaponized DAs and AGs like there’s no tomorrow.
The American people deserve answers, and we will not tolerate this two-tiered system of justice.
And he’ll do what exactly? Why he’ll investigate them! That’s what!
Banned Lizard:
As Speaker of the House with an infinitesimal majority, what do you think he has the power to do that he’s not doing?
They have given little incentives for voters to promote them for next time
The dems went forward with nude eel no matter how much damage it caused
The left gaslights the right about the Trump verdict: But our sacred institutions!
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Disney gaslights its fans about the failure of its movies. But you’re not really fans!
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The similarities are uncanny! 🙂
When the GOP has a slight majority in the House the ADD attention whores waste time in circular firing squad theatre.
F’en around for the camera instead of comming up with strategy to counter the totally unexpected outcome of a trial in NYC by a crooked judge, of interesting legal theories, with a stacked jury.
huxley:
South Park nailed Disney. Disney is too dumb to survive this Wonderful World of Woke. I recall the 1960s Disney Wonderful World of Color (although we only had a black and white TV fed by an antenna strapped to the chimney).
The past is a different place.
@neo:As Speaker of the House with an infinitesimal majority, what do you think he has the power to do that he’s not doing?
Can’t speak for Banned Lizard, but I can speak for me. The Dems seem to get a lot done when THEY have infinitesimal majorities (such as pass Obamacare). Johnson can stop cutting spending deals with the Dems, but won’t. If the House doesn’t pass a bill there’s no bill at all, and they can do that veto with the majority they have, they do not need to compromise to stop them dead in their tracks.
They have the power to block everything, but they want to see their cronies paid, so they won’t use their power to stop the Dems. They’ll keep giving the Dems 1/2 or 3/4 of what they want, including funding for NGOs that help the Dems in this very election, in order to keep the trough full. Meanwhile, to feed the narrative that they are doing anything else, they’ll give speeches full of concern and maybe have some more hearings. A lot of people who follow politics have the impression that hearings and speeches are “doing something”.
But it’s really all about appropriations. That’s where the revealed preferences are, at least as of Wednesday May 23.
This made me laugh.
Felonious Trump
(Jazzman Thelonious Monk 1917-1982)
@Abraxas: He doesn’t have the patience, guile, and finesse in dealing with people that makes it possible to work around objections and obstacles and achieve his goals.
Until recently, I think McConnell had that patience, etc., although it is likely that his goals were not always our goals. Not sure who he has been “mentoring”, if anyone, but I doubt it is Rand Paul.
@NC: ” But it’s really all about appropriations. That’s where the revealed preferences are.” +100!! Which is why so much attention focused on the presidential race is misplaced. We hear all too little about those “critical” senate and house races, in our own or other states, where contributions from conservative outsiders might help tip the scales. Or investigations about the amount and sources/goals of their larger donors. The Federalist, Fox, NRO, etc. should be headlining these campaigns – whose ahead, why, what they still need, etc. It is most unlikely that the local news organizations or media will be doing that favorably for the Republicans.
“He doesn’t have the patience, guile, and finesse in dealing with people that makes it possible to work around objections and obstacles and achieve his goals.”
What? New York real estate developer? Really?
How about this:
Unlike the donkey party Trump didn’t show up in DC with an army of camp followers ready to fill government and do his bidding. He had to turn to the GOP fill his government and implement the policies those lying shitbags ran on and instead they stabbed him in the back, front, side, top and bottom.
Has the trial and verdict forced the GOP out of the land of denial (Democrats can be worked with, they won’t come after me and throw me into prison for standing up to them)?
There are a few things a bit more important than appropriations IMO.
“…conspiracy theories…”
“…We Need New Conspiracy Theories, Because All Our Old Ones Have Become Reality”—
https://justthenews.com/podcasts/bauer-and-rose-podcast/bauer-and-rose-we-need-new-conspiracy-theories-because-all-our-old
Mark Steyn is despondent….
“A Republic? You Can Keep It”—
https://jewishworldreview.com/0624/steyn060324.php
H/T Powerline blog.
This is one reason why he IS so despondent:
“Buzz Kill: The Trump Conviction Presents A Target-Rich Environment For Appeal”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/buzz-kill-trump-conviction-presents-target-rich-environment-appeal
I want a t-shirt which says:
Unconvicted Felon
Getting lectured about ‘the Rule of Law’ by the likes of JoeBiden is like
getting lectured about chastity by Hugh Hefner.