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Where Were You on June 9, 2022?
On the ninth day of the sixth month, in the year of our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Two, the American House of Representatives convened a television show about a political protest some years earlier. The clips from this show will be used as “facts” for elections in 2022 and 2024. These clips will be used by Democrat campaigns, of course, but more to the point, they will be used by the state-run media to condition voters and vote managers. The more people in on the next steal, the less work each plotter involved must do.
I cannot rate the show very highly. It has terrible pacing and features weak performances from the usual crew of identical new faces who for some reason keep showing up on our screens. It wasn’t like this in the old days. It used to be that a show needed some strong performances and tight writing to get popular. There was a kind of platinum age of television heralded by the beloved but now-unwatchable “Babylon 5,” which was a watershed in long-arc, multi-season plotting of a broadcast series. Shows followed in different genres: “The Sopranos,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “Dexter,” “Game of Thrones,” “Breaking Bad,” “Better Call Saul.” This current offering from the House is poorly done. It’s amazing it got greenlit.
I never watched the Sopranos until these days. I’m midway through the fourth Season.
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I doubt the Republican Party will be asleep at the switch as they were in 2024. That could make a big difference.
Let’s call that the Ray Epps cadre.
Rick Scott I’m convinced is a self-interested GOPe. He’s been pretty good at knowing which way the wind blows, so the very split support for the Ukraine War may have given him the permission to default to the norm.
You don’t have to commit crimes to be charged, found guilty and jailed
All of this assumes that the enemy (and I use the term advisedly) is playing by the rules. They’re not. They’re fighting for total victory and either we’ll submit or die — figuratively and literally. It’s the totalizing part of totalitarianism.
Mark Levin had an interview with Julie Kelly yesterday that supports your point completely.
Republicans have a good sized number of outstanding potential candidates. The Democrats have none, but they are masters at cheating and they have helped create a large contingent of highly schooled uneducated fools. I simply can’t see the future but there are two things that are clear. The Democrats will plant millions of votes which I call phony but they don’t because they collect them more or less straightforwardly from old people and others who don’t know or care. Secondly, the Democrats in the middle don’t understand our history or that of the world and the folks who run matters may understand that they are destroying the country but they’ll make so much in the short run it won’t matter, especially if they don’t have kids or grand kids they care about.
I can personally vouch for this. It’s unbelievably bad.
I agree that–above all else–it is necessary to read the tea leaves and strategize. That’s why I don’t have much time for the “I’m turning my eyes away and not paying attention” contingent. Those who don’t know what the opposition is up to or what they are capable of, get what they deserve.
It’s possible that the Republicans will lose the White House in 2024. But if so, I hope they–all of them–go down swinging, united and together, rather than in what appears to be their current state of disorganization, timid befuddlement, and circular-firing-squadism.
I am going to let y’all in on a secret. When a group of dudes get together in private, sometimes they make offensive jokes. Trump is a comedian at heart and when he is in private, he is the guy that will make the jokes. Jokes include things like satire and hyperbole that look bad when taken out of context. So, when you hear that Trump (or some other guy) said something that you find offensive, remember that the original meaning is probably the opposite of what you are being told.
That certainly has been the case with him whenever I compared “what the media said he said” to “what he actually said.”
If you can, listen to the latest Adam Carolla reasonable doubt podcast. Geragos who is a Democrat is completely in the Republican’s camp.
They also cover executive privilege and Peter Navarro. Total GOP point of view, and I think it’s hard to argue with.
Really? I don’t think we do. Especially since we probably already know what it is.
I like your comment, but it seems that in your reckoning there’s no way Trump can win “with, or without, the margin of fraud” — so anything he does to impede the established flow of candidates queueing up to represent the Republicans in the general election insures defeat.
But I have not seen any margin of fraud that wasn’t purely conjecture. I recently read the margin of fraud is 25%, or would necessitate a vote total of a landslide of 25% (or I guess 75% of the popular vote — or perhaps 25% over the 50+% needed for victory, which is 62.5+%) is the only way that Trump can win. If this is so, what Republican could ever win?
Frankly, I think let Trump be Trump. If anyone can win at the ballot box and still be as effective in office as Trump was, it’s Trump.
Don’t even think about missing this.
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-gpdnx-14000319?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share
@garyrobbins
Wrong tool.
No, never use this!
Zathras has had very sad life, probably have very sad death, but at least there is symmetry!
I don’t think he can win a general election again. And I think it’s time to move beyond the available pool of octogenarian candidates who–no matter how robust (or not) they appear today, are a dicey proposition, even just healthwise, going forward.
I think there are lots of folks who believe it will be impossible for any Republican to win the White House again. I’m not so pessimistic. I do agree that much this talk about the “margin of fraud” is so much hot air and conjecture, largely because it’s impossible to have a rational conversation about it, because, even exclusive of the immovable objects on both ends of the spectrum, even broaching the subject sends the majority of Democrats off into shrieks of “voter suppression!” and “racism!!” I hope (I know, hope is not a strategy) that the state GOP are paying a little more attention to what’s going on in their own states this time around and into the future.
I guess time will tell, and we’ll see. Not long to go.
Yes. There is no need for another repeat post. If only there were an “ignore user” button.
To say you wouldn’t mind Trump being in prison is a surprising statement, to say the very least. For @justinanotherlawyer, Kash Patel has a videocast just out on Epoch Times where he states unequivocally that President Trump authorized the mobilization of 20K National Guard for January 6. However, the law specifically states that a request must be made from either the Capitol police or the Mayor of D.C. Muriel Bowser. The request was never made. What else do you have to hang on Trump?
I often think the way @she is describing. Trump is so divisive…etc. But then I remember waking up the morning after the 2016 election to my wife calling up to me, “You will never believe it!” I knew immediately that Trump had won. Ecstasy overcame me as I jumped out of bed and ran naked down the street shouting Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Well, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but the point is, don’t count Trump out.
I sat up all night in November of 2016, and saw Trump crush and drive his enemies before him, and saw and heard, the lamentations of the women on the mainstream media.
It was glorious.
However, I think the United States of 2022 isn’t the United States of 2016. Perhaps there’ll be such a radical reboot over the next 12 months that I may think differently in a year, but I don’t expect to. And I want the Republican candidate in 2024 to have the best chance of winning. I just don’t think Trump will be the guy.
My favorite Zathras line.
Well, I totally understand what you are thinking. Not to mention, Trump will be 78 years old. Even for him, that’s getting to be a stretch!
The point isn’t about wanting to see Trump in prison, the point is that they continue to say Trump should be locked up for many of the same things Pelosi and Obama and the Clintons have done far more of, as well as far worse. But THEIR side never gets the opprobrium. So it’s more like “you first.”
Exaggeration, eh? You were running around naked outside your house, but not down the street?
That’s it. I checked his Ring camera.
Sure thing, and shortly thereafter I received the divorce papers. Ha!
As Gary constantly reminded us, Trump’s father had Alzheimer’s so he shouldn’t be president. Which is why Gary voted for a guy displaying signs of dementia.