Dirty Tiki tricks in Virginia
By now you’ve probably read about the attempt at a dirty trick propaganda ploy by some entity – the Democratic Party? The NeverTrumper Lincoln Project? – allied with McAuliffe. The incident was an attempt to smear his opponent Youngkin as a racist white supremacist (what else is new?) and conjure up Charlottesville in the bargain.
Nice try, but no cigar, because the imposters were outed and now it’s McAuliffe with egg on his face – at least, to those who have heard about the incident:
Youngkin himself suggested that his Democratic opponent was behind the demonstration, telling NBC29: “I think they work for Terry McAuliffe, and I’m sure he sent them.”
“They’ll do anything to win, and he’s doing anything to win, and so he’s paying people to show up and act silly at our rallies,” Youngkin added.
As Twitter sleuths sought to identify the individuals who took part in the bizarre protest, the McAuliffe campaign disavowed the activity.
The Lincoln Project claimed the dubious credit, but many people think they’re just taking the fall for the Democratic Party and even the McAuliffe camp, because the people involved have been identified as employees of the Virginia Democratic Party.
None of this is all that surprising.
The larger question is what really is real these days as opposed to dirty tricks and/or coordinated propaganda, and how can you tell? It will only get worse, I think, as the ability to fake real-looking video increases. In this case the trick didn’t involve fake video but a real event that immediately looked fake. Not only was it a bad fake, but the people involved could be identified rather easily. Oops!
However, there are other times – for example, whoever the FBI agents were on January 6 – in which people were dressed in ways that meant they couldn’t be identified, at least not so easily. The norming of the wearing of masks is of great help in the cause of hiding.
Katie Pavlich has called on the Democrats of Virginia to ask the FBI to investigate:
Well since your campaign claims to be against white supremacy, with the exception of KKK Ralph, I’m sure you’ll be calling the FBI to help track down who these white supremacists are. They are very dangerous. Thank you for your help @AndrewWhitleyVA. https://t.co/E15TJ9TpxA
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) October 29, 2021
Not going to happen, of course. But she makes a good point.
ADDENDUM:
And Glenn Greenwald has some insightful things to say, as usual:
Today, the deranged commenters at WaPo were back in full force, some implying that it was true (even if technically false) and others praising the grotesquely-misnamed Lincoln Project (never was there a more egregious collection of fools, knaves, grifters, rascals, scoundrels, and even enablers of pedophiles), which seems to have played some part in this monstrosity. The entire misguided stunt would clearly appear to have been a desperate attempt, at the last minute, to forestall next week’s likely defeat for the ghastly McAuliffe; should he lose, as he fully merits, it will presage a very bad reckoning for the senile buffoon, whose plans in Congress may well be sabotaged by the Four (now Five) Horsewomen of the Apocalypse, thus endangering his whole illegitimate administration.
Democrats apparently think that continuing to call Republicans “racists” is going to convince people to vote for them.
Apropos of the grotesquely named Lincoln Project: the Babylon Bee‘s headline says it all:
https://babylonbee.com/news/youngkin-keeps-lincoln-project-away-by-holding-rally-within-500-feet-of-a-school
Really, PA Cat. The name is offensive to Mr. Lincoln’s memory.
Kate, I was trying to quote j e above and left out the “mis-” because I was typing too fast. But I do think a case can be made for saying that the Lincoln Project is grotesque.
j e,
Who are the now “Five Horsewomen of the Apocalypse?
I’m becoming cautiously optimistic for Youngkin win in VA.
He’s got momentum, McAuliffe is acting desperate and R’s usually do better than their polls.
Unless MSM has reported the fakery, most voters will believe the propaganda.
I almost feel sorry for the DNC. Everybody’s watching closely and if it’s close they’re going to have to make a tough decision on whether they can get away with enough shenanigans to make the difference.
The Big Lie that liberals accept, that we on the right are evil racists, when a direct examiation of our words and actions puts the lie to that foul accusation, reveals their moral bankruptcy.
I think it likely that most democrat voters are unwilling to face their own moral bankruptcy in excusing this latest dirty trick as justified by the end sought. It’s not just a convenient bias, it’s a demonization of those who disagree with them.
And in that unjust demonization, they embrace evil.
“Mom: 6-Year-Old Asked if She Was Born Evil Because She Is White”
https://redrightandtruemedia.com/mom-6-year-old-asked-if-she-was-born-evil-because-she-is-white/
fullmoon2:
Yes, that is always the case, and that’s why they do it.
I have borrowed the amusing term “Four Horsewomen of the Apocalypse” from Louisiana’s Sen. Kennedy as a description of “The Squad” or “AOC + 3” (Tlaib, Omar, and Pressley); joining them after last year’s election was Cori Bush (who loves spending vast sums on her own “important” security, but dislikes the police); she is a demagogue perhaps even more odious than the original four. All five receive far more attention from the MSM than they merit, although, unfortunately, they do have rather a large influence on the other “progressives” in Congress.
PA Cat, I was agreeing with you (in case my comment was misunderstood).
There’s an alert in northern VA this weekend about a possible ISIS attack. I hope it doesn’t happen, but it wouldn’t help McAuliffe and his buddy Biden if it did.
@ PA Cat > “Apropos of the grotesquely named Lincoln Project: the Babylon Bee‘s headline says it all:”
There is a bit of nuance to that headline that might be lost on people who aren’t the hopeless news junkies that most of us here seem to be. It took me a few seconds.
“Dirty…Tricks” (The whole nine yards)
IOW, why the country is in such deep trouble…i.e., why “TRANSFORMATION” may be too embedded in the National Security Apparatus to be stopped:
“The Modern Weaponization of Our National Security System is the Lasting Legacy of Barack Obama and Eric Holder”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/29/the-modern-weaponization-of-national-security-system-is-the-lasting-legacy-of-barack-obama-and-eric-holder/
Key graf:
“…The extreme federalism approach is critical and also explains why Joe Biden has instructed Attorney General Merrick Garland to use the full power of the DOJ to stop state level election reform efforts….”
Read the whole thing…but regarding individual states (and a way to prevent the extraordinarily damaging Federal overreach that has already occurred):
“…For their own self-preservation, the Intelligence Branch has been interfering in our elections for years. The way to tear this apart begins with STATE LEVEL election reform that blocks the Legislative Branch from coordinating with the Intelligence Branch.
“The extreme federalism approach is critical and also explains why Joe Biden has instructed Attorney General Merrick Garland to use the full power of the DOJ to stop state level election reform efforts. The worry of successful state level election control is also why the Intelligence Branch now needs to support the federal takeover of elections.
“Our elections have been usurped by the Intelligence Branch. Start with honest elections and we will see just how much Democrat AND Republican corruption is dependent on manipulated election results. Start at the state level. Start there…. everything else is downstream…”
Youngkin fights back with an ad attacking McAuliffe energy bill corruption:
https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1454545773287378960
H/T Jeff Carlson twitter feed.
… though the Democrats and their supporters—never ones to miss a beat—are responding by using the creative and innovative “Reports-of-Imminent-Terror-Attack” gambit!!
(Maybe this will be the excuse to encourage/force everyone to stay home and vote by mail/internet/pigeon/smoke-signals/what-have-you…since, of course, everyone’s been told NOT to expect a final voting count by the end of election day!!—But when that might be is anyone’s guess…)
I attended but sadly didn’t see these bozos.
My texts from the event about Youngkin and his platform:
Shook hands with Youngkin. I said, “You’re doing great. Keep running hard.” Youngkin: “We will. This is a full court press.”
His speech calls on Republicans and Democrats.
“A Commonwealth of high expectations. Where the promise is realized by everyone.”
Calls on example of the Virginia Founders, against central government.
Eliminate grocery tax and double standard deductions.
Challenges VA math test performance for all races. Promises to spend more money and launch charter schools. He says there are 8 in the Commonwealth versus 130ish in North Carolina. We will teach all the history, the good and the bad. Invokes MLK. Promise to ban CRT.
Support law enforcement. Reform mental health.
Growing slower than NC.
Small business tax holiday.
Workforce training.
Energetic speech, but voice showing the strain.
Running against the DMV. (Who is for it?)
Ending on education. (McAuliffe’s Achilles heel.)
Better on the stump than, say, Mitt Romney.
Well educated well spoken polished, not “Trump in khakis.”
Sounds like a guy who is going to win. We’ll see.
We are concerned to see McAuliffe just hired Marc Elias, the Dark Prince of election lawfare.
Then there is this: https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/25/virginia-democrats-file-lawsuit-against-us-postal-/
(Suit filed by Elias).
Fairfax County Director of Elections Scott O. Konopasek told Fox News that “the number of ballots that we’re going to receive that are going to be valid on Election Day and later is going to continue to go up.”
And he noted that “it’s a possibility that we will we have to wait until Friday” to know the winner in Virginia’s gubernatorial election.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-working-build-early-voting-lead-virginia-can-gop-close-gap-election-day
Possibly setting up “delays” in heavily democrat counties: Fairfax (suburban DC), Albemarle (University of Virginia), Portsmouth (majority Black), and James City (William & Mary).
It’s like deja vu all over again.
“What is reality?” Firesign Theater, 1967.
Thanks for the on-the-scene report Oblio.
I notice that over at Nate Silver’s polling site, 538, they’ve got the charts of the latest polls but haven’t done an article on McAuliffe vs Youngkin since Oct. 19.
Perhaps I’m reading too much into this omission. But it is the most significant race taking place this week and Youngkin’s stunning rise in the polls to a dead heat or better has been epic.
Perhaps the polls look even worse if one has Nate Silver’s expertise and his crew feel it would be better not to discuss it or the factors, such as McAuliffe’s deadly education gaffe, behind it.
This is genuinely amusing. While likely planned by Virginia Democrats, if not the DNC itself, the Lincoln Project being forced to take the blame is heart-warming. All of them have very lucrative artificial careers based on DNC patronage and they know all of it can be taken away if they’re ever hesitant about serving their masters.
The thing is, this is so stupid it’s eminently believable that this was in fact planned by the Lincoln Project. I can absolutely see that abject moron Rick Wilson coming up with something like this and thinking he’s found a silver bullet.
According to McAluffe and The Lincoln Project , “We’re all Bozos on this bus.” Who are the bozos again?
“Everything You Know is Wrong” has been an ongoing project of the Left and their MSM cohorts.
This can be taken in both respects. That everything they want you to know/believe is a lie and that they want you to know/believe that everything you yourself know that is different from their narrative is wrong.
In other news now that Long Beach is “allowing” the stacking of containers up to 5 high, the Port Authority has announced a new “progressive” tax on containers at the port. $100 per day increasing by $100 more per day. $100 day one, $200 day two, $300 day three.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1454866705126072321.html
Two of the so called Lincoln Project supporters are card carrying Democrats so how does that wash?
The Fall Guys are trying to keep the Democrats nose clean is all that happened.
But all that will happen is the participants will have to start over their social media accounts after having to scrub them clean.
Is this the Fireheads Coming-Out topic?
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Who am us, anyway?
–Firesign Theatre, “How Can You Be in Two Places At Once…”
I looked up a Richmond paper on the Tiki stunt. They reported it as a protest against Youngkin, but not as a false-flag dirty trick.
Is More Science High a school in Loudon County Virginia?
Commie Martyrs is more likely.
Mudhead: Oh, you mean Commie Martyrs.
Prosecutor: Communist Martyrs High School, exactly.
Mudhead: Yeah, of course, Porgie had to find out where they were hiding More Science or he couldn’t get out.
Prosecutor: So he was trying to get out?
Mudhead: Isn’t everybody?
Prosecutor: GET OUT in times of declared emergency …
Porgie: What emergency?
Prosecutor: You see, judge. Youth here doesn’t seem to know about the disappearance of the old school!
Mudhead: But that’s what Porgie was looking for!
–Firesign Theatre, “Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers”
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I hope that makes everything perfectly clear.
“Porgie Tirebiter,
he’s a spy,
and a girl delighter!
Porgie Tirebiter, ….”
https://youtu.be/1A5DftXzIqs
If you’re looking for a captain of the ringball team
You can bet he won’t be there
You’ll find him popping off
At Pop’s Sodium Shop
To turn in a red with red hair!
Doobie-doo-wah.
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Yes, you too can understand all these secret mystic Firesign references. Just listen to the following link in a suggestible state of mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLZOXm3zY1w
Don’t worry. You are in the hands of experts. And don’t forget. JOBS is on the way.
Last Ditch effort:
As D-Day arrives, it’s time for McAuliffe/Obama/Harris/Biden/Abrams to get Psaki right up there on the Virginia campaign trail hustings, where she can use her awesome powers of persuasion, along with poignant personal testimony, to convince the reluctant to GET VAXXED.
…Thus demonstrating how much the Democrats, unlike their DEPLORABLE opponents, CARE about the people!
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fully-vaccinated-white-house-presssec-psaki-tests-positive-covid
…which raises the question:
Might No-Malarky Joe be a super-spreader (i.e., of something other than the richest, most nutritious night soil)?
Hmmm.
…And if, unlike Sec. Pete, you’re staying up all night worrying about those endless numbers of containers just sitting in port and going absolutely nowhere, this fellow will tell you why that is the case. (Unlike True Jen, he seems to know what he’s talking about…but then he’s not being paid big bucks to tell tall tales to The People…):
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ive-been-driving-trucks-20-years-ill-tell-you-why-americas-shipping-crisis-will-not-end
Huxley,
It gets to be genuine or an obvious protest by the opponents, or both, depending on the requirements of the moment. Just like clown nose on/clown nose off.
An artifact of postmodern politicking.
Yeah, I don’t buy the Lincoln Project’s attempt to take ownership of this for one second.
The leader of the VA Young Democrats is going to put their ass on the line for a Tiki Torch Hoax for… Steve Schmidt or Rick Wilson ? Give me a break. There is absolutely zero chance these people were working on behalf of the Lincoln Project.