In Chicago last week, Democrats reversed the legacy of 1968 by smothering protest and restoring the smoke-filled room. This time, the whole world wasn't watching - it couldn't
The Democratic Convention was a masterpiece of well-orchestrated theatre. With memories of the Ancient One now distant, supporters lapped up the joy and celebrity bonhomie like a lake perch chowder. Will we get to know their chosen candidate well enough to make an informed decision when we vote? Is there even time?
Less discussed but not less relevant is the question of who is running our country today. Vice President Harris is understandably campaigning and, besides, she's still the Vice President, with little executive authority. President Biden appears to be taking coast to coast beach naps and hasn't been heard of since his last words in front of the Convention's Monday Night firing squad.
Many question whether policy decisions would come from a President Harris or merely flow through her. Is this the new normal for elected Democrat officials? If so, who is behind the curtain?
Apparently Trump is afraid to debate her now because he won't allow her to sit with Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Susan Rice, David Axelrod, and Alex Soros behind a curtain with just her head sticking out.
Having Walz at the upcoming CNN interview follows the trend of parents coming to a job interview. Will Walz interrupt if Kamala begins to wax philosophical on the importance of time for the Venn diagram of regular buses and yellow school buses?
Great point! I'm thinking the pre-taped interview with the designated hard-hitting reporter from CNN will be like so entertaining --- They like one another! Who gets up first in the morning! Who's better at sustainable putt putt golf!
The build-up to this interview is ridiculous. Stealing from a Fox host this morning: Where were you on 9/11; where were you when JFK was assassinated; where were you when Kamala Harris said she would give CNN an interview? Be sure and journal those thoughts around that last question so you can pass it down to your kids.
Ha! She did say price gauging! Apparently she has not yet done a deep dive into how an economy is challenged. She has a couple of weeks left before early voting.
And she’s interviewing for a CEO position. “What would your policies and overarching strategy be as leader of our company?” Harris: “Mom, I’ll let you answer that one.”
08/28/24: He's got one hand grenade left from the stash he brought home from Afghanistan (with his Medal of Honor) and if she digresses, he pulls the pin. Hillary comes in after the dust settles and seizes power, gang-pressing Monica "Lewinshee" (how Hillary pronounces Monica's name after 7 p.m.) as her running mate.
Same people as before, when Team D nuthangers were insisting that Biden was as sharp as a tack, maybe just a little under the weather, but all OK, nothing to see here, pay no attention.....
08/28/24: "In the run-up to last week’s Democratic National Convention, media outlets pondered parallels between the infamous 1968 street slugfest [involving] ... Bobby Seale, Abbie Hoffman, and Richard J. Daley..."
The reason why the protests fizzled out is that all the Bobby Seales and Abbie Hoffmans were INSIDE the building, RUNNING the Democratic National Convention.
The ‘68 protests were motivated by the draft. After the draft was dropped the protests ceased. I can’t blame young men for not wanting to fight in South Vietnam.
S.S.---The answer to your question "who is behind the curtain?" is answered in full in yesterdays two hour Tucker Carlson interview with former U.S. State Department official Mike Benz. I didn't shit my pants but the overwhelming sense of betrayal and the affirmation of our worst fears about the capture of America and the world by financial thugdom brought me to tears. The interview hand in gloves the hard work of RACKET/Taibbi on CISA, the capture and subversion of the healthy American narrative we the people deserve and explains the DNC Harris/Walz horror exactly.
Ever since Johns Hopkins started its university with German-trained professors in the 1880s, which the other elite universities quickly adopted, the nation transition under the leadership of the Dem Presidents and a few GOP one too, rather quickly to the administrative state we so enjoy today. Nothing like checks on all your liberties; taking your money to stuff its face; rules and regs as guardrails protecting its turf; buying off states; creating institutions whose only function is to disrupt foreign countries, topple heads of state, install replacements, launder money, funnel money to NGOs to do what it cannot, like fly 30K illegals a month for two years straight into the country; amass control of your health; create deadly pathogens; choose all candidates for office; create division; and gift your money to the power players as if they banksters need more.
No person or organization has put a dent in it operations.
This is the new normal, and it's the forever future. Obama talked about it years ago. Trump is going to get absolutely slaughtered in November.I assume they are going to use the extreme unlikability of Trump to wave themselves in and mandate their tax and spend utopia.
Free speech will be eliminated for those that don't show the proper sign.
I think you're right. It's the end of the abbreviated form of democracy we have enjoyed so far. I suppose the definition of "hate speech" will be expanded to include anything said by the Republican Party, which will then become the "legal" grounds to ban it. (I am a registered Republican only because it gives me the chance to vote against Ted Cruz every six years in the primary. A lot of good that's done!)
Who indeed is behind the curtain? Credit to Matt, and to Tucker Carlson for suggesting that if we don't know the answer to that question, then we live in an oligarchy rather than a democracy.
As far as Harris assuming the duties of the presidency, I can only assume that this is unwanted, as it would risk exposing her, and that, absent a crisis requiring a sentient president, this can be avoided until the inauguration. However I have to believe that Harris and the cabinet have been well briefed and stand ready to invoke the 25th should a pressing need (or perceived political advantage) arise.
If that guy is freaky and starts telling future sexual partners to refer to his butt hole as the "unseen flip side of joy" could you like get money for that?
Yesterdays two hour T.Carlson interview with former U.S. State Department official Mike Benz expands and clarifies much of the hard work RACKET has done on CISA and the CIC. Likewise MSM hypocrisy and the reason the cackling horror and the DNC have no actual platform. ---Keep up the good work.
"...we listened to the Generals--every goddamn word--how many ways can you polish up a turd --and its left--left--left-right-left and hell broke loose--hell broke loose.." T.Waits
Much like every episode of Seinfeld, this was a convention about nothing. Every important decision had already been made, the long knives had taken Biden out, and it was meet the new puppet, same as the old puppet. Policy? We don't nee no stinkin' policy.
The whole 4 nights tracked closer to the Grammies, if everyone at the Grammies already knew who was winning. There was more suspense at a 5-year old's birthday party.
I mean, would Christmas be that exciting if you already knew what you were getting? No surprises, just Obamafest, Oprahfest, dad energy and joy, joy, joy (balloons not included).
I'm confident that they've already screwed it up beyond repair, and they can only win with such blatant cheating that even they know they won't be able to sell it.
Do they have to sell it? Haven't they already proved that naysayers are all subject to lawsuits and prison time for denying the results of fair, secure and fraud-free elections?
They're going to have to rely on censorship of every media, which may or may not be feasible. Public opinion still matters, and the blob has concentrated on suppression of all opposition at the expense of developing a more persuasive narrative . . . or, God forbid, good governing.
I honor the crews who accepted a mission from which they knew they would not return. Their sacrifice fundamentally changed the direction of the war, their spirit was uniquely American.
They sleep forever now with the angels at the bottom of the Pacific.
The story of course is that the destruction of Torpeco 8 distracted the Japanese so that they didn’t see the American dive-bombers coming in—unobserved— high above .
Some real brave men they were, in those crappy torpedo planes (and equally crappy torpedoes). Just read Hornfischers' new bio on Ernest Evans, in the battle off Samar. Wow, balls of steel he had! When his ship finally went down, a Japanese ship commander was observed saluting it as it went down--even the enemy honored sheer bravery, no matter what side.
It's amazing how quickly the Devastator went from state-of-the-art (1937) to POS (1942), so slow they ditched their 3rd crew member, they were still running about 100 mph slower than a Zero. Add to that all the torpedoes were duds, God bless em all!
I think that was 2014, actually: The year that Google and FeceBook finally all but totally devoured the Internet Frontier...and the year of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act.
how the f$ck can people be so stupid as to buy into the "misinformation" crap?
you'd think the vary people talking about the iraq war lies wouldn't immediately believe in "russian disinformation" - yet some clearly do.
it's just wierd. what's wierder is my friend cohort - no one i know actually believes the propaganda, and i often wonder whether few legitimately believe the current lies, but they are made to feel as if they aren't the majority due to various controls over media / social media
For that matter, if anyone really believed that "Russia" could affect an election with $2,300,000,000 in ad spend with a measly $`100K in FB ads (none of which were linked to the Russian government, and most of which ran after tha election, and some of which were pro-HRC), every advertiser in the land would be demanding that "Russia" run their next ad campaign.
Anything else would be like bringing a knife to a gunfight.
Talk about corruption! You don't have to even include ballot mischief to see that these enormous amounts of money to buy public support is nothing but corrupt.
Several Chinese-Americans have told me Tiananmen Square never happened. It’s all American lies. I’m sure our current leaders would love to have these Philip K. Dick-level powers of reality distortion.
BTW, Jenny, WTF is going on with the Fifth Republic? This stalemate, if that is what it can be called, can not be allowed to continue to defeat the will of the voters! Is the Fifth Republic really incapable of breaking through this situation? Is a Sixth Republic in the offing? If so, what dark forces will we see unleashed? I have been stunned at the lack of visible protests.
Really difficult to say right now Joy. Lots of talk about deposing Macron, which has never been done before in France.This means 100's Lawyers and Historians looking over papers.
Macron called this election and now doesn't like the results.....the French voted and Napoleon didn't get the answer he wanted.
College kids are not back in University yet/ Melanchon is calling for protests.
Powerful reporting, Matt. What a disgrace that the Democratic Party has devolved into nothing more than corporatist, canned, oligarchical collectivism.
I watched the’68 convention with my WWll marine dad. He said ‘the cops must have rubber batons. There’s no way they can get away with hitting kids like that.’ When we realized what was happening, he was horrified. Soon after he asked me if I was planning on joining the military. I told him I wasn’t sure. He said ‘no son of mine is going to Vietnam because these guys say so.’
Surprise at the DNC Harris/Walz vacuous cackling horror and the MSM moral canard is explained fully by the French arrest of Pavel Durov, the gee I think I shit myself Cuckerberg letter to Jim Jordan, and the release of violent criminals from English prisons, to make room for free citizens guilty of speech and civil protest. (It appears Starmer and his totalitarian allies in NATO, the EU and WEF now consider 11 years olds a threat.) Everything is exactly what it appears to be. It's not something else.
To be clear: The DNC/EU/WEF/NATO/Davosphere surveillance bureaucracy has been instructed by the international criminal financiers who control it that free speech, democracy and freedom are threats to the their bottom lines and need to be removed. There is the American Republic, the Constitution, the free citizen. Everything else is psyop. Depart the psyop and live.
Thanks, I remember 1968, clearly. I had already decided that I would never vote for a Democrat Again after Bernie stooged out twice... and without the Bernie Bamboozle I would have stopped after 2008, after Obummer sold out the people to the banks, and the FIRE sector. Screw them! A Democrat is never going to get my vote ever again. The Democrats need to vanish, following the Whigs into history's dustbin! https://heininger.substack.com/p/reflections-on-the-democratic-national
That's what someone else I know's been saying: The only thing important about this year's "Election" is that it will be the [SYNTAX ERROR!] Party's last stand, like the final year the Whig Party was relevant.
What did they start with? Oh yes, Jackson, Trail of Tears, ended his term with depression. Sounds about right. Oh, forgot, it was the party for race slavery, too. Yes, I think it's time to retire it.
And these were my observations on the convention. https://open.substack.com/pub/heininger/p/reflections-on-the-democratic-national?r=16lm0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web There are also observations in many of my substack posts about getting rid of the Democrats, something I have been saying since the Bernie Bamboozle was the last straw for me... and before that the Obummer sell out. Bernie had sucked me back in, only to take my money and the spit me and all his followers back out, like so much Phlegm.
Not much I can disagree with there. Perhaps one point is ALL countries are capable of the duplicity and corruption you ascribe to the US. The problem gets worse though, the bigger the country (e.g. USA, China, Russia, India, etc.). Smaller countries have done their share, nonetheless ( Germany, Japan, Britain, France, etc.).
Except for perhaps England I can't think of any equally hypocritic. It's the hypocrisy, the presumption, The white hat crap that were the good guys, that I've always felt made the USA particularly loathsome.
True, but wherever you’re at, the local denizens tend to think they’re the “Chosen People.” I’ve lived overseas and seen it first hand. But American Exceptionalism is still hard to take.
Chicago '68 they basically had a brawl to determine the nominee. Chicago '24 they had a "joyful" coronation, globalist style. Not even participant ribbons for the 14 million who voted for Biden in the primaries.
Years ago I noticed that candidates' highest favorability was always when they first took the spotlight as a serious contender. Then, as they faced scrutiny, the favorability dropped significantly. Because of that, I speculated that eventually one of the parties (I figured it would be the Democrats, because they're generally ahead of the curve on these kinds of things) would realize that they needed to keep their actual candidate hidden as long as possible, only to be unveiled shortly before the election, kind of like faking a handoff to one running back to pull the defense to one side, while really running the other way. The opposition would spend all of their ammunition on the stalking horse, and then be caught flat-footed when their unscathed real opponent emerged at the last minute.
So, as Biden's support decayed during the Spring, and especially when the DNC was scheduled very late, I figured that that would be the game this year. Keep Biden as the nominal candidate as long as possible, and then swap him out. When Biden agreed to an early debate, before either of the conventions, it seemed pretty obvious that that would be the pretext for the swap.
But I was very surprised when the nominee turned out to be Kamala, since she had such a long history of not being liked by anyone, and particularly by the other Democrats who would be filling the smoke-filled rooms. But I was wrong. It's kind of amazing, actually, how whoever it is who runs the Democratic Party can so effectively command those who nominally are in charge to instantly fall in line with whatever the directive of the day is. I'd have thought that this would be too humiliating for these people.
I don't think it was ever intended to be Kamala. They needed Joe out of the way. He'd become too obviously feeble to continue as "Beard in Chief". Once the coup was achieved, a show "mini primary" would be held after which the real power in the party would install the candidate they wanted. I'm thinking Mark Kelly. Former astronaut, moderately left of center, key state. Bring back the base and the independents scared off by the looney left.
But, they screwed over a bitter old man - again. So, in a last big middle finger to the to the party who'd stabbed him in the back, he stuck them with the Court Fool, Kamala. Once he endorsed her, the party had no choice but to back her, and pretend to be happy about it, or risk the public and vociferous wrath of the various tribes of the People Who Are Perpetually Aggrieved.
In one clip we see the stark contrast in how media covers politics. Today Dan Rather would be on-air trying to lend gravitas to that travesty rather than standing apart from it.
The Democratic Convention was a masterpiece of well-orchestrated theatre. With memories of the Ancient One now distant, supporters lapped up the joy and celebrity bonhomie like a lake perch chowder. Will we get to know their chosen candidate well enough to make an informed decision when we vote? Is there even time?
Less discussed but not less relevant is the question of who is running our country today. Vice President Harris is understandably campaigning and, besides, she's still the Vice President, with little executive authority. President Biden appears to be taking coast to coast beach naps and hasn't been heard of since his last words in front of the Convention's Monday Night firing squad.
Many question whether policy decisions would come from a President Harris or merely flow through her. Is this the new normal for elected Democrat officials? If so, who is behind the curtain?
Apparently Trump is afraid to debate her now because he won't allow her to sit with Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Susan Rice, David Axelrod, and Alex Soros behind a curtain with just her head sticking out.
A guy who works at pornhub is making casting calls to make a version of this happen as I type.
Wait, WHAT???
That's what the man said! (a tip of the hat to Arnold Stang.)
Having Walz at the upcoming CNN interview follows the trend of parents coming to a job interview. Will Walz interrupt if Kamala begins to wax philosophical on the importance of time for the Venn diagram of regular buses and yellow school buses?
Great point! I'm thinking the pre-taped interview with the designated hard-hitting reporter from CNN will be like so entertaining --- They like one another! Who gets up first in the morning! Who's better at sustainable putt putt golf!
The build-up to this interview is ridiculous. Stealing from a Fox host this morning: Where were you on 9/11; where were you when JFK was assassinated; where were you when Kamala Harris said she would give CNN an interview? Be sure and journal those thoughts around that last question so you can pass it down to your kids.
"Kamala, if you were a tree what kind would it be?"
"Say 'oak' Kamala."
"Excuse me, Mr. Walz, I asked Ms. Harris."
"Oaf"
"Excellent, Ms. Harris. Do you think the cost of Oaf trees is affected by price gauging?"
Ha! She did say price gauging! Apparently she has not yet done a deep dive into how an economy is challenged. She has a couple of weeks left before early voting.
She's restricted to the shallow end of the pool after she floated the $25,000 for every new homeowner idea and her handlers posted a No Diving sign.
Don't quit your day job.
Don’t quit your day job or welfare check, buddy.
My night job is reading this and I'm quitting.
The way we do this is you come up with something funnier.
And she’s interviewing for a CEO position. “What would your policies and overarching strategy be as leader of our company?” Harris: “Mom, I’ll let you answer that one.”
08/28/24: He's got one hand grenade left from the stash he brought home from Afghanistan (with his Medal of Honor) and if she digresses, he pulls the pin. Hillary comes in after the dust settles and seizes power, gang-pressing Monica "Lewinshee" (how Hillary pronounces Monica's name after 7 p.m.) as her running mate.
Hillary seizes power. She's there.
08/28/24: Not quite. Walz isn't as dumb as he looks (he pulls the pin after all three of them are in the interview room).
"If so, who is behind the curtain?"
Same people as before, when Team D nuthangers were insisting that Biden was as sharp as a tack, maybe just a little under the weather, but all OK, nothing to see here, pay no attention.....
The Wizards of Odd.
08/28/24: "In the run-up to last week’s Democratic National Convention, media outlets pondered parallels between the infamous 1968 street slugfest [involving] ... Bobby Seale, Abbie Hoffman, and Richard J. Daley..."
The reason why the protests fizzled out is that all the Bobby Seales and Abbie Hoffmans were INSIDE the building, RUNNING the Democratic National Convention.
The ‘68 protests were motivated by the draft. After the draft was dropped the protests ceased. I can’t blame young men for not wanting to fight in South Vietnam.
Good point. I remember the draft well! Nowadays they want to run foreign wars via computer consoles, to bypass all that trouble.
I hear they're called "The Chair Force".
S.S.---The answer to your question "who is behind the curtain?" is answered in full in yesterdays two hour Tucker Carlson interview with former U.S. State Department official Mike Benz. I didn't shit my pants but the overwhelming sense of betrayal and the affirmation of our worst fears about the capture of America and the world by financial thugdom brought me to tears. The interview hand in gloves the hard work of RACKET/Taibbi on CISA, the capture and subversion of the healthy American narrative we the people deserve and explains the DNC Harris/Walz horror exactly.
Ever since Johns Hopkins started its university with German-trained professors in the 1880s, which the other elite universities quickly adopted, the nation transition under the leadership of the Dem Presidents and a few GOP one too, rather quickly to the administrative state we so enjoy today. Nothing like checks on all your liberties; taking your money to stuff its face; rules and regs as guardrails protecting its turf; buying off states; creating institutions whose only function is to disrupt foreign countries, topple heads of state, install replacements, launder money, funnel money to NGOs to do what it cannot, like fly 30K illegals a month for two years straight into the country; amass control of your health; create deadly pathogens; choose all candidates for office; create division; and gift your money to the power players as if they banksters need more.
No person or organization has put a dent in it operations.
I’ll check it out. Thanks!
Spot on as to who's behind the curtain. Lucky for us that the 'financial thugdom' appears to be neither competent nor unified.
This is the new normal, and it's the forever future. Obama talked about it years ago. Trump is going to get absolutely slaughtered in November.I assume they are going to use the extreme unlikability of Trump to wave themselves in and mandate their tax and spend utopia.
Free speech will be eliminated for those that don't show the proper sign.
I think you're right. It's the end of the abbreviated form of democracy we have enjoyed so far. I suppose the definition of "hate speech" will be expanded to include anything said by the Republican Party, which will then become the "legal" grounds to ban it. (I am a registered Republican only because it gives me the chance to vote against Ted Cruz every six years in the primary. A lot of good that's done!)
Lake perch chowder? Wtf? I nearly pissed myself laughing so hard...wll done, and ty for the belly laugh
are they the ones with worms?
Who indeed is behind the curtain? Credit to Matt, and to Tucker Carlson for suggesting that if we don't know the answer to that question, then we live in an oligarchy rather than a democracy.
As far as Harris assuming the duties of the presidency, I can only assume that this is unwanted, as it would risk exposing her, and that, absent a crisis requiring a sentient president, this can be avoided until the inauguration. However I have to believe that Harris and the cabinet have been well briefed and stand ready to invoke the 25th should a pressing need (or perceived political advantage) arise.
So
Master piece of donkey schyt. ;-)
If a guy shits his pants at a protest and no one is watching it on the news did the guy really shit his pants?
That’s awesome. Pinky swear, I was thinking of ending with that line
If that guy is freaky and starts telling future sexual partners to refer to his butt hole as the "unseen flip side of joy" could you like get money for that?
Maybe they can talk about why shitting your pants is in fact the "politics of joy."
My side fucking aches from laughing so hard.
I truly did not need that image.
Yesterdays two hour T.Carlson interview with former U.S. State Department official Mike Benz expands and clarifies much of the hard work RACKET has done on CISA and the CIC. Likewise MSM hypocrisy and the reason the cackling horror and the DNC have no actual platform. ---Keep up the good work.
Sheet!
no sheet
It’s officially spelled “Sheiiiiiiiiit!”
-Clay Davis
FACTS
Or SHITTTTTE!
The DNC is one big turd polishing tour de force.
"...we listened to the Generals--every goddamn word--how many ways can you polish up a turd --and its left--left--left-right-left and hell broke loose--hell broke loose.." T.Waits
Even better being posted by BUTT! Actually.
How's that head injury coming along?
There was no evidence for what the guy said.
Schrödinger’s skidmark?
🥸
Check out yesterdays T.Carlson interview with former State Department official Mike Benz. It'll clear the smoke.
Much like every episode of Seinfeld, this was a convention about nothing. Every important decision had already been made, the long knives had taken Biden out, and it was meet the new puppet, same as the old puppet. Policy? We don't nee no stinkin' policy.
The whole 4 nights tracked closer to the Grammies, if everyone at the Grammies already knew who was winning. There was more suspense at a 5-year old's birthday party.
I mean, would Christmas be that exciting if you already knew what you were getting? No surprises, just Obamafest, Oprahfest, dad energy and joy, joy, joy (balloons not included).
Kraft durch Freude, mein Führer!
Doesn't matter, as long as it works. Harris' team know that the race is hers to lose, all they have to do is not screw up.
All she has to do is nothing. She is really good at that.
I'm confident that they've already screwed it up beyond repair, and they can only win with such blatant cheating that even they know they won't be able to sell it.
Do they have to sell it? Haven't they already proved that naysayers are all subject to lawsuits and prison time for denying the results of fair, secure and fraud-free elections?
I don't think the campaign against everthing and everyone Trump worked. He has more supporters now than ever.
They will just do the same and sue everyone that says there was fraud after they cheat.
They're going to have to rely on censorship of every media, which may or may not be feasible. Public opinion still matters, and the blob has concentrated on suppression of all opposition at the expense of developing a more persuasive narrative . . . or, God forbid, good governing.
Don't think it worked....she didn't get any bounce from the DNC.
Well, futures markets (which have shown to be more accurate than polls) don't agree.
Nah. Even James Carville has sad that Trumps poll numbers are chronically underreported.
The futures market crashed few Mondays ago only to ramp back up. It's not a solid indicator.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/betting-odds/2024/president
That’ll change again after the debate.
"Much like every episode of Seinfeld, this was a convention about nothing"
I will be stealing this line.
in previous conventions they at least played as if it mattered - last convention, the "play" was a farce, becuase they know that we know it's a farce.
It's every Americans obligation to steal a good line and keep it in general circulation. It makes for a healthier national conversation. :)
“Torpedo 8”— a name of ill-omen for those who know what happened to them at Midway in 1942…
I honor the crews who accepted a mission from which they knew they would not return. Their sacrifice fundamentally changed the direction of the war, their spirit was uniquely American.
They sleep forever now with the angels at the bottom of the Pacific.
Amen to that.
The story of course is that the destruction of Torpeco 8 distracted the Japanese so that they didn’t see the American dive-bombers coming in—unobserved— high above .
Some real brave men they were, in those crappy torpedo planes (and equally crappy torpedoes). Just read Hornfischers' new bio on Ernest Evans, in the battle off Samar. Wow, balls of steel he had! When his ship finally went down, a Japanese ship commander was observed saluting it as it went down--even the enemy honored sheer bravery, no matter what side.
It's amazing how quickly the Devastator went from state-of-the-art (1937) to POS (1942), so slow they ditched their 3rd crew member, they were still running about 100 mph slower than a Zero. Add to that all the torpedoes were duds, God bless em all!
Aspirational name, that was! People getting into a known POS had a lot of guts, no doubt!
A huge slice out of the Kido Butai is down there sawing logs alongside Cdr. Waldron.
Most of those bastards were at Pearl Harbor as well. Karma took 6 months.
Policy Festivus for the rest of us long after Kwanzaa. "Monty, I'd like to vote for the Mystery Box and hope I don't get zonked!"
You beat me to it, except I was going to say the Oscars.
The revolution will not be televised.
Walls, police, and guns for me, not for thee.
Joy!
Speaking of joy, I clean forgot about Humphrey's Politics of Joy back then. Thanks to Matt for reminding me.
A certain someone across the pond in Germany likewise dazzled his people with “Joy.”
Strength Through Joy. What a con!
Y.B.--I hope you caught yesterdays T.Carlson interview with former State Department official Mike Benz.
TL:DR: the Establishment has gotten much better at managing and squelching dissent.
Yes 2024 is they year 1984 is being operationalized.
I think that was 2014, actually: The year that Google and FeceBook finally all but totally devoured the Internet Frontier...and the year of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act.
As well as manufacturing "reality" in general. "Our Truth". "Our Democracy".
Hate Week.
Helps to have most of the MSM outlets backing your play, accompanied by Google and Wikipedia.
Yup. What does anyone propose to do about it?
Surely you've heard what happens when peaceful revolution is made impossible....
how the f$ck can people be so stupid as to buy into the "misinformation" crap?
you'd think the vary people talking about the iraq war lies wouldn't immediately believe in "russian disinformation" - yet some clearly do.
it's just wierd. what's wierder is my friend cohort - no one i know actually believes the propaganda, and i often wonder whether few legitimately believe the current lies, but they are made to feel as if they aren't the majority due to various controls over media / social media
This is a good question.
For that matter, if anyone really believed that "Russia" could affect an election with $2,300,000,000 in ad spend with a measly $`100K in FB ads (none of which were linked to the Russian government, and most of which ran after tha election, and some of which were pro-HRC), every advertiser in the land would be demanding that "Russia" run their next ad campaign.
Anything else would be like bringing a knife to a gunfight.
Talk about corruption! You don't have to even include ballot mischief to see that these enormous amounts of money to buy public support is nothing but corrupt.
Several Chinese-Americans have told me Tiananmen Square never happened. It’s all American lies. I’m sure our current leaders would love to have these Philip K. Dick-level powers of reality distortion.
IF you Americans acted how you speak yes it would be Civil War..........but you don't.
Bunch of ;pussies.'
I'm afraid that's accurate. And rather embarrassing.
What's your nationality that you would sit in judgement of our pussyhood?
/sarcasm Probably French....
Naturally. If anybody knows pussyhood, it's them
With a name like Stokes I'd guess British. Not much room to talk there as they are allowing themselves to be jailed to mean tweets.
No nationality. Lived in 4 countries.............international.
That is not true and not an answer.
True!
BTW, Jenny, WTF is going on with the Fifth Republic? This stalemate, if that is what it can be called, can not be allowed to continue to defeat the will of the voters! Is the Fifth Republic really incapable of breaking through this situation? Is a Sixth Republic in the offing? If so, what dark forces will we see unleashed? I have been stunned at the lack of visible protests.
Any insights or speculations you'd care to share?
Really difficult to say right now Joy. Lots of talk about deposing Macron, which has never been done before in France.This means 100's Lawyers and Historians looking over papers.
Macron called this election and now doesn't like the results.....the French voted and Napoleon didn't get the answer he wanted.
College kids are not back in University yet/ Melanchon is calling for protests.
Most of the people I know are disgusted.
We will see.
The Black Mariahs are oiled, gassed and ready for service but "..I've got one more silver dollar and they're not gonna catch the midnight rider..."
SO brave!
Here I am in France trying to make sense out of this MESS.
The University students are NOT back in school yet!
I hear that September the 7th is COMING.
Unlike the US......French take politics seriously.
The US sits there in there 'gun culture' BUT what are they doing?
Watching the MSM news which is just beginning to 'take out' the USA
The latest news out of Russia: Is.
Cuba/Mexico/Venezuela ..............
MOST countries are sick and tired of US hegemony!
Blow up Washington.
When they want to. 2020 not so much. All working as designed.
Powerful reporting, Matt. What a disgrace that the Democratic Party has devolved into nothing more than corporatist, canned, oligarchical collectivism.
politicians will do what politicians have to do. Who I am terribly disappointed in are the news media and the Sorkin's of the world.
I watched the’68 convention with my WWll marine dad. He said ‘the cops must have rubber batons. There’s no way they can get away with hitting kids like that.’ When we realized what was happening, he was horrified. Soon after he asked me if I was planning on joining the military. I told him I wasn’t sure. He said ‘no son of mine is going to Vietnam because these guys say so.’
You had a fantastic father.
Did the 1968 DNC have a protective barrier (aka wall) built around the convention like they did this year? Walls do work, huh?
Yep. That Southern one is now part of the Kamala campaign!! Surprise!
This is exactly why the joy is being shoved into everyone's face. Nothing to see here, folks....pls follow the signs to the edge of the cliff
"“For a while, I couldn’t find a single protester outside the convention, much less a Chicago seven.” — Dana Milbank, Washington Post"
There are only 2 things you need to know to understand this was BS. 1. Dana Milbank, 2. Washington Post
Surprise at the DNC Harris/Walz vacuous cackling horror and the MSM moral canard is explained fully by the French arrest of Pavel Durov, the gee I think I shit myself Cuckerberg letter to Jim Jordan, and the release of violent criminals from English prisons, to make room for free citizens guilty of speech and civil protest. (It appears Starmer and his totalitarian allies in NATO, the EU and WEF now consider 11 years olds a threat.) Everything is exactly what it appears to be. It's not something else.
To be clear: The DNC/EU/WEF/NATO/Davosphere surveillance bureaucracy has been instructed by the international criminal financiers who control it that free speech, democracy and freedom are threats to the their bottom lines and need to be removed. There is the American Republic, the Constitution, the free citizen. Everything else is psyop. Depart the psyop and live.
Good News. Apparently she did not get much of a bump.
Thanks, I remember 1968, clearly. I had already decided that I would never vote for a Democrat Again after Bernie stooged out twice... and without the Bernie Bamboozle I would have stopped after 2008, after Obummer sold out the people to the banks, and the FIRE sector. Screw them! A Democrat is never going to get my vote ever again. The Democrats need to vanish, following the Whigs into history's dustbin! https://heininger.substack.com/p/reflections-on-the-democratic-national
That's what someone else I know's been saying: The only thing important about this year's "Election" is that it will be the [SYNTAX ERROR!] Party's last stand, like the final year the Whig Party was relevant.
What did they start with? Oh yes, Jackson, Trail of Tears, ended his term with depression. Sounds about right. Oh, forgot, it was the party for race slavery, too. Yes, I think it's time to retire it.
this is what I wrote regarding our history. https://open.substack.com/pub/heininger/p/from-sea-to-shining-sea-what-a-history?r=16lm0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
And these were my observations on the convention. https://open.substack.com/pub/heininger/p/reflections-on-the-democratic-national?r=16lm0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web There are also observations in many of my substack posts about getting rid of the Democrats, something I have been saying since the Bernie Bamboozle was the last straw for me... and before that the Obummer sell out. Bernie had sucked me back in, only to take my money and the spit me and all his followers back out, like so much Phlegm.
Not much I can disagree with there. Perhaps one point is ALL countries are capable of the duplicity and corruption you ascribe to the US. The problem gets worse though, the bigger the country (e.g. USA, China, Russia, India, etc.). Smaller countries have done their share, nonetheless ( Germany, Japan, Britain, France, etc.).
Except for perhaps England I can't think of any equally hypocritic. It's the hypocrisy, the presumption, The white hat crap that were the good guys, that I've always felt made the USA particularly loathsome.
True, but wherever you’re at, the local denizens tend to think they’re the “Chosen People.” I’ve lived overseas and seen it first hand. But American Exceptionalism is still hard to take.
Chicago '68 they basically had a brawl to determine the nominee. Chicago '24 they had a "joyful" coronation, globalist style. Not even participant ribbons for the 14 million who voted for Biden in the primaries.
Excuse me. :Globalist style: We don't have elections like this in other countries!
Or a first amendment
Years ago I noticed that candidates' highest favorability was always when they first took the spotlight as a serious contender. Then, as they faced scrutiny, the favorability dropped significantly. Because of that, I speculated that eventually one of the parties (I figured it would be the Democrats, because they're generally ahead of the curve on these kinds of things) would realize that they needed to keep their actual candidate hidden as long as possible, only to be unveiled shortly before the election, kind of like faking a handoff to one running back to pull the defense to one side, while really running the other way. The opposition would spend all of their ammunition on the stalking horse, and then be caught flat-footed when their unscathed real opponent emerged at the last minute.
So, as Biden's support decayed during the Spring, and especially when the DNC was scheduled very late, I figured that that would be the game this year. Keep Biden as the nominal candidate as long as possible, and then swap him out. When Biden agreed to an early debate, before either of the conventions, it seemed pretty obvious that that would be the pretext for the swap.
But I was very surprised when the nominee turned out to be Kamala, since she had such a long history of not being liked by anyone, and particularly by the other Democrats who would be filling the smoke-filled rooms. But I was wrong. It's kind of amazing, actually, how whoever it is who runs the Democratic Party can so effectively command those who nominally are in charge to instantly fall in line with whatever the directive of the day is. I'd have thought that this would be too humiliating for these people.
You're exactly right! I literally just wrote about this today!
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/better-to-remain-silent-and-be-thought
Oh man...that first video clip is fascinating. In like witnessing a gruesome act sort of way.
It's why they're hiding her away. She's an incredibly dumb person trying to act smart.
But wait! Isn't the uneducated and deplorable Trumptards that are uneducated and dumb? Didn't he say he liked em that way?
Harris' base is the same as Obamas....WesternEducatedIndustrializedRichDemocratic. Right? How could they POSSIBLY be stupid? They know all the stuff!
As long as she stays quiet, the delusion can thrive.
Sort of like Biden being sharp as a tack.
Well done Simulation.
I don't think it was ever intended to be Kamala. They needed Joe out of the way. He'd become too obviously feeble to continue as "Beard in Chief". Once the coup was achieved, a show "mini primary" would be held after which the real power in the party would install the candidate they wanted. I'm thinking Mark Kelly. Former astronaut, moderately left of center, key state. Bring back the base and the independents scared off by the looney left.
But, they screwed over a bitter old man - again. So, in a last big middle finger to the to the party who'd stabbed him in the back, he stuck them with the Court Fool, Kamala. Once he endorsed her, the party had no choice but to back her, and pretend to be happy about it, or risk the public and vociferous wrath of the various tribes of the People Who Are Perpetually Aggrieved.
"Beard in Chief"; I love it.
I wasn't surprised it was Harris. They did the same funk w/Biden in 2020...even easier/sleazier this go round
This "Joy" slop is a cheap attempt to recapture the "Hope & Change" dreck that Obama slid upon into the Oval Office.
You created a clear visual with your words “slid into the Oval Office”. Good work by you!
Slither would also be apt
But not at all fair to snakes.
Don't forget Matt reminded us of Humphrey's Politics of Joy, way back when.
But, like, wasn't that, like, way back in, like, the 1960's or something? Like, who knows any of that stuff from like, you know, the dark ages.
It’s weird in a way—to me, that seemed the future, and today seems the past. Feel like Merlin sometimes…
That kinda blew my mind - VERY good catch on Matt's part.
One can only conclude they're TRYING to reenact 1968; WHY!??!?!?
Seems to be working pretty well.
In one clip we see the stark contrast in how media covers politics. Today Dan Rather would be on-air trying to lend gravitas to that travesty rather than standing apart from it.
There was a double moat wall around the convention center. Walls for me but not for thee.
No, Walz for thee, not for me!