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It’s Incredible Democrats Think They Need to Cheat
Four years ago, Bernie Sanders called on executives of oil companies to be criminally prosecuted for the harm they have caused. That harm is not immediately obvious — it’s not clear if the climate is getting cooler or warmer recently. If it is changing, it’s not clear why, and the climate has been changing for billions of years, so it’s not obvious that current changes are atypical. A criminal trial would be tricky since nobody really understands the crime in question. Plus, if the oil companies closed down tomorrow, hundreds of millions would die from lack of heat, food, and everything else that is transported to us using diesel fuel. So that would be a difficult prosecution.
I wonder if Mr. Sanders would support criminally prosecuting the architects of our response to COVID? In that case, the damages are much more obvious. I don’t think this is a good idea, myself, but it’s easier to make a case for this than Mr. Sanders’ example above.
But the data which was available to our leaders will never see the light of day. They knew early on that vaccines in young people were unhelpful at best, and possibly dangerous. They knew early on that masks didn’t work. They knew early on that shutting down the economy didn’t help. Yet they persisted, for some reason. And again, we will never know what those reasons were.
The left is good at this.
The transgender girl who killed those people at the school in Tennessee left a manifesto. Apparently, it paints the transgender fad in a poor light, as it has not been released. And it will not be. Ever. Because it would hurt the left.
I don’t know who is on Jeffery Epstein’s client list. But since it has not been released, I can guess. Do you think that will ever be released? Of course not. Because it would hurt the left.
There are many reasons that we should mourn the loss of our news media. This is a big one. If we had a news media, it would endeavor to inform the people about what is going on. But when the news media no longer even pretends to be anything other than the propaganda division of the Democratic Party, then this is what we get.
It’s obvious that the Democrats at least tried to cheat in the last election. Mail-in ballots, drop boxes in certain neighborhoods, spending over a week ‘finding’ ballots behind closed doors, mules, refusing to update voter databanks, Mark Zuckerberg spending hundreds of millions of dollars in very certain communities on election systems, not requiring ID to vote, and so on and so forth. We can argue about whether voter fraud changed the outcome or not. But you can’t argue that the Democrats at least tried to cheat.
My point is that it’s simply amazing to me that Democrats even thought that cheating was necessary. How could they lose? They control the flow of information. They control what American citizens see, everywhere from the evening news to their Facebook feed to their local newspaper to their Google searches and so on and so forth. Democrats control all of it.
But despite all that, they still believe that they need to cheat to win.
And they’re probably right.
That’s just astonishing.
I wonder what percentage of the vote Joe Biden would have won if the news media had covered him like they covered Donald Trump? If we knew who was on Epstein’s client list? If Hillary’s creation of the Russia dossier was covered in the news? If the information on Hunter’s laptop had been released and widely discussed before the election? If Black Lives Matter had been covered in the news as a terrorist organization rather than a civil rights group? If the media had explored the revenue and business model of the Biden family during his time as Vice President?
What percentage of the vote would Biden have won? By 20%? Maybe 25%?
Democrats and their destructive policies are incredibly unpopular among Americans, and they know it. So that even with complete control of the flow of information, they still believe that they must cheat in elections to win. And they’re probably right.
Democrats are not the dominant party. Not even close. And they know it. Yet they control everything.
This is horrifying to watch.
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Trump maintained the crazy, but failed to deliver on Obamacare, the wall etc. In addition he let Fauci and Birx run wild. If he had shut down Fauci and Birx instead of American society and the economy, he would have won.
In 2016 Donald Trump was running against the most hated woman in America. And he barely beat her, unless you believe that he actually won in a landslide but the Dems stole many millions of votes, making it look close. Lots of people held Joe Biden in low regard in 2020, but he was not hated the way Clinton was.
It doesn’t need a de-bunking. It’s a demonstration of the bullsh*t the public consumes, and informs the narrative.
As you state at the end, there are “numerous” clips. It’s much, much more than that. When the news narrative is delivered in almost verbatim alignment with political talking points, across different broadcasters, nationally and locally, we are not consuming news. We’re consuming a narrative.
In other words, being told how to vote.
She’s only hated by non-Democrats. Which means she’ll still get those votes.
So try not to paint it as “barely”, and she was hated by everyone. She was loved by the left and is still promoted and supported all over the place.
Considering Trump was an outsider, got the republican nomination but not the local and state support most national candidates receive, and still won, is an amazing example of what blowing up the system can look like. And he did it with the rampant cheating that still pervades the election process today.
Not at all surprising, Marxist ideology almost guarantees the need to cheat. The false consciousness imbedded in the proletariat and bourgeoisie classes in the US prevents most of us from seeing how to make progress, (What is the matter with Kansas?) must be overcome. The New Democrats have become the new class, and need the lower classes to wake up to consolidate their power. In another context Hunter Biden, and the directors of the alphabet agencies and social media companies have become the our nomenklatura. They cheat because they think we’re too backward to know what’s good for us.
Regarding the self-image of the media and their view of their proper role, see The Rule of the Prince-Electors.
Unfortunately, herein lies the rub…too logical. The left has no room for logic, hence the push against anything true or reality based. They, for the most part, are fueled by the adrenaline of emotion. This feeds their need to “feel” self-important. Once convinced of their own moral superiority there is no space, no need, for truth.
Truth is not only malleable it becomes troublesome (recall Gore’s self-owning titled book: “An Inconvenient Truth”- Freud could not have come up with a better example of projection) The cultish overtones through the left are simply undeniable, including the prevalent conditioning techniques through the media.
Like Dr. B, I’m lost as to a response in strategy. Omega couldn’t be more correct but what good does it do us? Until we recognize the left as a cult, the descent toward insanity will continue. My fear is that things will still have to get so much worse for the left to realize the emperor has no clothes. What strategy is available to combat those who necessarily have abandoned connection to reality?
That Sinclair video gets a lot of traction on the left, who they view as being even more dangerous than NewCorp. If Sinclair sounds familiar to you it’s because they are the ones that are behind Bally Sports and they’re in bankruptcy.
Sinclair is so dangerous that they’re closing down newsrooms around the country, recognizing that even if there are four network affiliates in a market not all four can run a local newscast without losing tons of money.
Because everyone else knew that Trump was literally Hitler after all. My wife is convinced that he has raped multiple women and was likely a frequent guest of Epstien as well. Nothing can convince her otherwise and it allows her to convince herself that any actions taken removing him are justified.
What effort, they send you a ballot and someone comes to your house to pick it up and if you’re too lazy to fill it out, they will do that for you as well.
Because voting became so easy and so targeted that everyone could do it. The turnout was the highest since 1900…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/elections/voter-turnout/
Trump won 12% of the Black vote which was the best since Dole in 96. Trumps total was twice of Romney’s in 12. But it doesn’t matter because so many people voted that hadn’t before, or hadn’t regularly, and they almost all voted for Biden.
Those beefs would require you to nuke the entire executive branch departments
We know more in hindsight than we did back then. Actually, governors, not Trump shut down the states. Trump had other experts. The media trashed them and Trump and voters fell for the media lies.
The wasn’t hated and he obviously wasn’t competent. Voters let hatred override common sense
From orbit.
Enthusiasm has always been an excellent indictor of voter turnout.
And now, all of a sudden, we see elections being won with near-zero enthusiasm.
That’s because morale has improved as a result of the beatings.
Well not only that, but the addition of tens of millions of “citizens” to the voter registry rolls is absurd.
We had five million new registered voters aboard in 2016, over what we had on 2008. But that was 8 years full years.
In the four years between 2016 and 2020, those voters who took part in the Trump vs Biden jumped from the 2016 era voter count of 137.5 million to a remarkable 154.6 million.
From the census bureau:
Census Bureau Releases 2020 Presidential Election Voting Report
Feb 17, 2022More voters (154.6 million) turned out for the presidential election in 2020 than in 2016 (137.5 million), the largest increase between consecutive presidential elections since the inception of the CPS voting supplement in 1964.
If a visitor to this country were to keep track of bumper stickers they have seen for various bands, they would likely conclude that The Grateful Dead is the most popular band in the U.S.A. I grant that Grateful Dead fans are probably more passionate about their favorite band than any other fans. But that doesn’t mean that Grateful Dead is one of the all-time top selling bands. How many people can name even three of their songs? Donald Trump supporters are more passionate in their support than for any other candidate I have ever seen, but that doesn’t mean that Trump voters make up the majority of the country. Most voters don’t put up lawn signs just as most music lovers don’t put bumper stickers on their cars.
McCain failed to deliver on Obamacare.
It’s the only way to be sure!
Um, they kind of are. It depends on how you measure it, of course, but yes, the Grateful Dead is one of the all-time top selling bands in America.
Weird parallel aside, this isn’t my claim, the political world has always treated enthusiasm as an accurate indicator of election outcome.
Then they need to call a press conference and announce this. As is, the default assumption is that TPTB are hiding something. That assumption is justified, given the recent history of the FBI and other alphabet agencies.
That is what the Zuckbucks brought…
And forever should he be cursed by any and all conservatives and Republicans.
It’s been on the Nashville news a number of times.
Good to know, but somehow it hasn’t been picked up nationally. At least, not in any outlet I follow.
Wait, has Nashville published the manifesto, or have they stated that the manifesto shouldn’t be published because of “X”?
Here is a recent article. A judge is going to decide how much, if any, of it will be released to the public. I sympathize with the motivation of the families, but I don’t know if this manifesto can be legally be kept under wraps forever.