Let's just assume from now on that I'm always going to have another thought right after I hit "post," and everybody just always read the comments thirty seconds later. What we need right now is to hear from people who can speak with clarity and calm, who can reduce our anger and division and find some way to talk to people across the partisan divide, or I guess the plural partisan divides. Biden's speech is so tanked up with darkness it's nearly criminal. Dripping in blood! Medieval hell! The excessiveness is so extreme it begins to remind me of Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet.
A fair point. It doesn't merit this bizarre old man's description of a blood-drenched medieval hell, though. It's like he found a way to be shittier about something that didn't need it, while not noticing all of the real divisions.
So 34 year old Roseanne Boyland who was taking Adderall, either by Rx or illicitly, fell to the ground unconscious. Her boyfriend called for help. A capitol police officer in the act of beating another "protester" mercilessly assaults Roseanne's motionless body beating her with a club on the head and upper back but does NOT offer assistance or to get medical aid. How is this not the "I can't breathe moment" analogous to the interminable George Floyd upheavels of summer 2020?
Because white and a conservative Trump supporter, deserving of whatever the cop doled out. Same holds for all those charged in J6 who have received the most brutal treatment from the DC law enforcement system. meanwhile, illegal aliens transporting obscene amounts of fentanyl are released within 24 hours never to be seen again, all of the Antifa/BLM rioters who burned and looted had their charges dropped, never spending a night in jail …. I could go on. If you’re on the left, you get a pass; if you’re on the right, not so much.
I think 70 to 80% of Americans will get along just fine, but the 20 to 30% who support those now running the country are beyond reason.
In a similar vein, Justin Trudeau used similar inflammatory and divisive language that just about matched this when he violently went after the unvaccinated engaging repeatedly in hate speech.
Petty, brutish, ignorant thugs is all they are. Awful people.
I think you and most of us know at some level what's going on here w this kind of rhetoric. It is the age old, tried and true prerequisite to mass murder.
Every mass murder in history includes at some point the "othering" and dehumanization of the target group. Before humans will slaughter other humans, especially former neighbors and citizens, they must come to see the targets as non human, objects undeserving of sympathy, compassion etc...in need of extermination.
That's what's going on here. Not just Sock Puppet either. There is a concerted and seemingly coordinated effort by the Regime and Oligarchy to Other everyone opposed to their increasing totalitarianism.
So...um.. we are just a wee bit late to wish for leaders who calm things down or reconcile the partisan divide. By engaging this language and these techniques, the Oligarchy is clearly telling all of us their intention to kill us. No fooling. They want us dead. Embrace that truth and start finding local networks to resist the coming pogrom.
My impression is that a Rwanda-style mass murder is out of the question in a country where the target has hundreds of millions of guns, but that the "non-human objects undeserving of sympathy, compassion" are being subjected to a slow war of attrition through suicide, drug overdoses, and declining birth rates. It's a war against the human spirit, a war of despair.
That's an interesting thought Lw. Considering that the vast majority of hitherto Regime supporters live in or near big cities, that whole hunger famine thing won't play real well w their base. Those of us in the country close to food production...not as much.
Heck yeah, Chris, I agree they will have a hard time getting away w it, but they are prepping the ground nonetheless.
And, sure, there's the psy ops part of it designed to dishearten, grind down, and immobilize the resisters. But they are definitely using this kind of dehumanizing language to condition their kool aid acolytes for killing.
It was so horrendous an event that four Capitol police officers committed suicide, while zero Uvalde officers have to date. I wish Tucker would interview family members of the suicided officers.
"What we need right now is to hear from people who can speak with clarity and calm, who can reduce our anger and division and find some way to talk to people across the partisan divide..."
You cannot be serious?
The "partisan divide" is a feature, not a flaw, of the PC-Prog Hate-America-First belief system.
There is no "clarity or calm" in them. And there is no "speaking" to them.
Biden encouraging divisiveness through his speeches? Like when he told Americans he had lost patience with them? When he wished a winter of death on the unvaccinated? Through 2021 Biden sounded to me like an angry, bitter old man.
"Reunite the country" is always, ALWAYS political code, borne out through history, for "silence the people who oppose you <the people who voted for me> so we will feel like we are all of one mind."
Because that's all a political leader can realistically deliver until we develop mind control.
1) Wow, those insurrectionists stayed inside the bollards, like, the whole time. That's really courteous and polite of them.
2) Were the American revolutionaries insurrectionists? Joe just said you can't be for insurrection and for America at the same time. So I'm confused. Did the Sons of Liberty have to contend with bollards of any kind? That seems like something the British might have done to confound them.
After watching the video a few times, and having lived with someone who was afflicted with Alzheimer’s, I think I know what’s going on. There are a few steps people go through when they have Alzheimer’s. The first is where they forget things they say and will repeat a question several times because they are having problems remembering. They want reassurance they aren’t losing their mind. The second step is anger and literal rage at times. This step can be dangerous because they now know there is something wrong with them and it’s beyond their control. They lash out at times and can be fairly violent. When my grandmother was going through this stage she had an incident where out of no where she turned and looked at me and socked me in the eye. Then began screaming at me aging the most foul things. I had already been warned by her doctor, so all I could do was endure the outburst. A minute or two later she asked me why my eye was read and I told her because you hit me. She started to cry and was apologetic. My mom wasn’t so lucky one night and attacked my mother by beating her and kicking her. My brother had to restrain her until my mother could get up and give her a sedative injection. People will make up things to get angry about and they don’t really know what’s going on. This video reminded me of the anger step with my grand mother.
The next stage is a calmer person but they are almost someone else as they are losing their faculties of who they are. The fourth step is a calm almost catatonic state with mild lucidity where they might remember something from their past or someone as another person who is no longer around. This is also the step where the body starts shutting off so they begin to feel physical pin resulting in needing to be prescribed morphine. It’s a horrible process for all involved. It’s also not a rigid step sequence and can ebb and flow into and out of each other. All the family sees and experiences is their loved one wasting away until the person passes.
It’s sad and sick that the democrats are forcing Joe to continue on and it’s quite clear now that he is no longer in control of his faculties. Which begs the question, who is?
While I should, I can find no sympathy for this man and hope his journey into the afterlife is one of many horrors and pain. He has done nothing his entire life except to cause suffering of his constituents and later the entire citizens of the Republic. He is also a traitor by his own volition and words. As are all he has surrounded himself with. With his finger on the nuclear button, I hope he is removed from office before he starts an exchange of ICBMs with another nation.
Of course he didn't write the speech himself. We have witnessed his deterioration over the last 2 years. He can't get a sentence now and he forgets frequently.
I'm sure very few presidential speeches in the last 50 or 100 years were written by the president. I said that because of the original post talking about how people with Alzheimer's behave.
Yes, sorry if I came across as sharp or accusatory. I certainly didn't mean that. Presidents have speechwriters, we know that. However, presidents also go over the speech and will change words or edit to make it more their own. As an example, President Reagan had to keep inserting "tear down this Wall" into his Berlin speech because his speechwriters and who knows who else wanted to remove it.
Biden is almost beyond being able to read off the teleprompter. Remember that cue card he had in his hand directing all his physical actions and words? He's almost beyond that too.
I never discussed how Alzheimer’s sufferers are fairly easy to manipulate in certain situations such as having them read a script. I’ve now seen the entire video with its multiple jump cuts. The reason he was getting noticeably irritated may have actually been triggered by him having to redo sections of the speech resulting in him becoming angry.
Nor did I say he wrote the script either. That itself doesn’t have to be explained as we all should already be aware that most scripts politicians give are written by staff. To have be informed about that itself shows a naitivity to politics in general. I was merely positing a question of if Biden is so far gone already, who is making the decisions and running the show? Jill invoking her inner Elenor Roosevelt? Elenor was a diehard communist who hired nothing but to her staff and making her hotwheels husband hire communists to his cabinet as Venona Report revealed vindicating McCarthy. I know it isn’t Harris, that idiot couldn’t think her way out of a shotgun house. Let alone convey an idea about such.
You are right. Someone else is pulling the strings. Certainly Ron Klain is involved. Susan Rice is probably in there behind the scenes too. She was a big Obama girl. Ultimately I believe Obama is directing the action.
I personally cannot listen to someone lie so horribly, but as a professional TV editor I can tell you the difference between pre 8:25 and post 8:25 is stark. His voice and pacing is completely different on top of the eyes. His energy has dramatically increased. The way they cut it together was also poorly done. If they had enough time to do that bad edit and load him up full of drugs then they should have done more cutaways to save it. Below High School production quality.
Good analysis. This administration is a case study of, well, let's be honest, affirmative action. People were given important slots in this government because they checked off certain boxes--gay, trans, black, Hispanic. Merit did not factor into the hiring process.
The result is "Below High School production quality", as you so aptly put it.
Now there seem to be a lot of intelligent people gathered here, so pls someone help me out and try to answer a question I'm struggling with:
Has there ever been a group/party/tribe etc as maniacally obsessed with their object of hatred as the Left/Dems are with Trump?
I'm not the oldest, wisest, or best read, but I try and still I'm stumped. Did the Confederates hate Lincoln this much? (probably) Did the pro-Republic Romans hate Caesar this much? Did Europeans of various conquered countries hate Napoleon this much? Has there ever been an American prez who became the all-consuming all-encompassing White Whale of a political party and half the country like Trump is? Jackson? FDR? Nixon? And for now going on SEVEN years!?
I just have never seen this level of deranged monomaniacal hatred in my lifetime (and I'm 53) and I have never seen this level of unhinged "I will destroy everything as long as I destroy the one I hate" vendetta (and I'm Sicilian!).
Are they really gonna destroy the traditions, coherence and credibility of every social and political institution because of one (mildly effective, mostly histrionic) man??
Biden is just a disposable platform to deliver the globalist agenda.
I'll posit the twitter echo chamber has a major influence here, something that did not exist for Reagan or any previous figure. The visceral need for affirmation from the elite cult leaders results in twitter addicts giving each other an hourly fix. Truth is a distant second to another rage hit. The whole thing is a PR effort.
Add in how the media is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Deep State, which is itself controlled by a global elite with an agenda to create an ideal future. This future does not include fossil fuels and cannot be implemented when randos like Trump with a USA first agenda get in their way. They want a solar powered Linear City future and you will eat bugs because traditional farming is evil. To save the planet they are willing to starve the humans infesting Gaia, hence fertilizer cuts that result in less food like in Sri Lanka or the Netherlands or Canada. All the crazed trends like CRT and BLM and COVID lockdowns and the intersectional agenda are simply vectors to impose control. But the globalist agenda can go horribly sideways. Just wait till Pakistan with a foreign exchange hemorrhaging ala Sri Lanka falls into the hands of the Taliban. Here, have some nukes.
The globalist agenda is absolutely deaf to US citizens. It can only shout their propaganda and squelch opposition. Their side breaks laws with impunity, America first folks are prosecuted for walking into the capital.
The only question is can the strong bones of American exceptionalism shake off the chains.
Right on the money. America needs to be destroyed in order for the utopia brought by One World Government to be realized. All other nations will be easy to control once the US goes under.
They're either going to steal, or disregard the elections from here on out.
Human freedom and flourishing depend on the resistance of Americans. We are confronting a tremendous evil.
I've never seen a) deliberate divisive politics and b) such an obsession.
And it's happening in Canada too.
And it's coming mostly from the 'left' side of the divide. I can't see how anyone can conclude otherwise. How many Republican politicians and conservative people have been run out of restaurants and beaten down literally physically again?
I'm a little too young to really remember Nixon or Ford, but the Democrats sure hated Reagan with the heat of a thousand suns. I was old enough to notice how editorial cartoons switched from exasperated mocking of Carter to just pure bile.
Democrats hated Reagan because he was a democrat, then switched parties, ran and was elected to state office in California, then for POTUS and was elected President. He also had the speech where he said that he didn’t leave the Democrat Party, but that it left him. Pretty scathing words politically from who they then considered a traitor to their party. This is why they always had their guns out for him.
There are good explanations for the derangement and hatred we are witnessing.
Eric Hoffer's slim book, "The True Believer" is excellent.
Mattias Desmet's new book, "The Psychology of Totalitarianism" goes a long way to explaining this.
Gad Saad's book, "The Parasitic Mind" explains the followers who are truly deluded and don't know it.
Have you forgotten Bush Derangement Syndrome? It was intense, but you are correct, not as intense as with Trump. Could be because Trump is a real threat to their aspirations. He is beholden to none of them. No corporation or world group owns him or can lay a glove on him. He is at heart an honest, patriotic man. Is he flawed? Sure, who isn't. But he's the best one to tackle the deep corruption in our government. Trump is a true threat to their greed, corruption, power grab, etc. He has the cojones.
i would also suggest his "The Passionate State of Mind"—the man had a very sharp eye and a great gift for dissecting the psychology of people swept up in social/moral panics and other shared mental diseases.
I agree. I always have at least one copy of his book in my bookcase. I have, over the years, given a copy away to more astute and interested your adults.
It's a mass formation (psychosis) and has taken place many times over the centuries but not at this scale. One of the reasons is that we have mass communications that didn't exist in previous centuries.
The witch hunts which took place all over Europe and in the Massachusetts Colony are examples of mass formation.
“Trump didn’t act” is a lie. He authorized the deployment of National Guard troops, which is the most consequential thing he could do to prevent a riot and support the police. How does Biden think Trump could have restored order? By tweeting? That assumes that Trump supporters were mindless automatons carrying out a secret plan. They were not and are not. They weren’t at a planned protest rally at the Capitol because Trump believed the election was stolen, but because they believed it was stolen.
The protest rally did not become a riot because Trump called for one, but because of provocateurs like Ray Epps, the aggressive actions of certain members of the police, resulting in the deaths of Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland, on the one hand, be and the strangely passive actions of others, who waived the crowd into the Capitol, and, ultimately the lack of sufficient security. If Trump had tweeted his supporters to stop, the Democrats would be citing that as evidence that Trump knew he caused the riot.
If the troops had been accepted and deployed, if the cops did not take provocative actions like shooting flash grenades into the crowd and throwing a man off a balcony, and if other cops didn’t open doors and waive people in, there would not have been a riot, Congress would not have been interrupted and, quite possibly, would have voted for a short delay in the certification of the election.
"would have voted for a short delay in the certification of the election"
This is the key and i think the election fraud was so blatant (stop counting in swing states, when has this ever happened before?) you couldn't even have had that short delay in the certification process for anyone to look into it. The entire thing reeks of the Reichstag fire. Burn the place down, blame your enemies and then outlaw them as an opposition party. People have been saying since the rise of the Clintons that the MO of the Democrat party is to accuse your enemies of what you yourself are doing. From what we learned in Russiagate and essentially all actions by Democrats since 2016, wouldn't that seem to be the case?
I agree. Trump didn’t benefit from the “insurrection.” It was used by Trump’s enemies to try to shut down any potential investigation into what happened on Election Day, which, as you note, was unprecedented. We saw it unfold right before our eyes.
The problem with reaching across the partisan divide is that on the other side is a sea of people who believe Trump, climate, C-19 and abortion restrictions amount to an EXISTENTIAL THREAT -- that is the theme that underpins the left's propaganda machine. Ergo -- any move at all to mitigate those things, even if it is in the form a corrupt, lying leftist party, is necessary. Even tyranny is better than having a Nazi in the WH, a dead planet, biblical plagues and attacks on women's autonomy. That is how they see it.
I believe it is a form of mass mental illness driven by florid propaganda through curated social media feeds and legacy news. I've tried fact-based discussions with loved ones on these topics and get nowhere. Until 2016, I was a lefty so my credentials should still mean something but they don't .
All that matter is I don't support THE CURRENT THING.
Great read! Especially during whiskey cocktail hour here. The no blinking thing...WTF? Some kinda West World, Terminator, Disney (woke) animatronic character?? I know he’s on some serious drugs...stimulant would be my guess, but don’t believe that would be the cause. I actually suspect (not a qualified medical professional, but hey, nowadays is there really a “qualified” medical professional??) a serious brain issue/abnormality. He’s also got “summer eyes”, summer lookin’ here, summer lookin’ there. Right one. Haven’t seen that before.
Also see book, "Classy As F××k Cocktails" by not surprisingly author 'Calligraphuck.' No kidding. But the book is packed w secrets to the Temple of Mixed Drink Doom.
The Jan 6 Committee has been ineffectual at trying to take down Trump. That task is now given to AG Garland at the DOJ. He's convening a DC grand jury to get Trump charged. Watch for a speedy trial so it can conclude with a guilty verdict one or two weeks prior to the midterms.
This bunch is turning the US into a banana republic.
This was a great article, Chris. Got the point across and was fun reading.
My wife and I were home Jan 6 and watched the whole thing unfold via TV and web sources. Hours of video, many sources, much of it live. The vast number of folks there were peaceful and respectful. There were several obvious bad actors, often called out as such by the protestors. Guy dressed in black except for a Trump bumpersticker on the back of his helmet trying to break a window for example. Another live video I have not seen since was another man all in black with helmet and facemask near where Ashli Babbit was shot. In the minutes before Ashli was shot the person filming was panning about, showing people packed in like sardines, with a couple cops amicably talking with people. This one guy in black stood by a post not 10 feet from where Ashli would soon be shot. He simply repeated ACAB over and over. Who the heck was that? Someone intent on pissing off the cops for one. Maybe a 3 letter agency plant, or antifa, if there is a difference. Absolutely not one of the protesters who were overwhelmingly patriotic. Anybody else recall ACAB dude? Share a video?
Who am I gonna believe, my own eyes or the J6 committee?
“Dripping with blood! Medieval hell!” Is how the D’s describe Jan 6 but Antifa/blm attacking police in Portland night after night after night was just an expression of free speech and fake news. How about you can’t support the police if you support antifa or blm!
Compare and contrast your last video of the overly dramatic MSNBC host appalled at people staying within the lines during the “insurrection” and the description of Kenosha on CNN here:
BLM and Antifa are mobs funded by democrats, that's why they're okay with what they do, and no doubt a good portion of the worst of J 6 was funded by them as well.
Watching the last video (from MSNBC) and listening to the commentary is surreal. It sounds as though these 'journalists' are describing what happened in Sri Lanka, but played the wrong video, because those people 'who breeched' the capitol could not appear to be calmer. They simply look like ordinary tourists. Their only crime, as described by the on-air personalities, is not going through the metal detectors before entering. I don't see any Capitol police who are in crisis mode, I don't see any sense of urgency on anybody's part, yet the commentary sounds as though this is a major crime scene.
The clip for Twitter has a lot more jump cuts than the full version and I think they inadvertently edited out most of the blinks. But even with them he evokes Quint talking about sharks: lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes.
Let's just assume from now on that I'm always going to have another thought right after I hit "post," and everybody just always read the comments thirty seconds later. What we need right now is to hear from people who can speak with clarity and calm, who can reduce our anger and division and find some way to talk to people across the partisan divide, or I guess the plural partisan divides. Biden's speech is so tanked up with darkness it's nearly criminal. Dripping in blood! Medieval hell! The excessiveness is so extreme it begins to remind me of Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet.
How in the name of anything do you speak across... whatever divide this represents?
This is people who believe the sky is blue and people who believe the sky is red and filled with raining fetuses and chittering crickets.
Explain to me how this doesn't warrant anger or division?
A fair point. It doesn't merit this bizarre old man's description of a blood-drenched medieval hell, though. It's like he found a way to be shittier about something that didn't need it, while not noticing all of the real divisions.
My original comment stands.
There was no blood, no "spears," NO ONE KILLED except for an unarmed PROTESTOR.
The narrative has as its entire foundation a depiction of reality that is objectively untrue.
This should make it a nonpartisan issue. But it doesn't. We're past that now.
Two unarmed protesters.
https://denvergazette.com/news/nation-world/video-shows-officer-striking-motionless-woman-on-ground-during-capitol-riot/article_7a1f2be5-cf7c-59cf-9094-ad998041042b.html
So 34 year old Roseanne Boyland who was taking Adderall, either by Rx or illicitly, fell to the ground unconscious. Her boyfriend called for help. A capitol police officer in the act of beating another "protester" mercilessly assaults Roseanne's motionless body beating her with a club on the head and upper back but does NOT offer assistance or to get medical aid. How is this not the "I can't breathe moment" analogous to the interminable George Floyd upheavels of summer 2020?
Because white and a conservative Trump supporter, deserving of whatever the cop doled out. Same holds for all those charged in J6 who have received the most brutal treatment from the DC law enforcement system. meanwhile, illegal aliens transporting obscene amounts of fentanyl are released within 24 hours never to be seen again, all of the Antifa/BLM rioters who burned and looted had their charges dropped, never spending a night in jail …. I could go on. If you’re on the left, you get a pass; if you’re on the right, not so much.
I think 70 to 80% of Americans will get along just fine, but the 20 to 30% who support those now running the country are beyond reason.
Because we (stupidly?) didn't take the opportunity.
I'm showing my ignorance here. This was the woman reported to have OD'ed?
Missed that part, and had to go google it up. That sucks.
Biden is simply laying the groundwork for Merri k Garland’s Justice Dept. to indict Trump. For something.
Heresy.
You have to ask who wrote this speech. He didn't, and he can't speak off the cuff. This was prepared by someone. Wonder who?
That's my question, too -- who's running this circus, and why do they think parading old man Biden out to spout aggressive nonsense is a good idea?
Right. There's too much focus on Biden, an obvious puppet. Why are no journalists investigating the power behind the throne?
You would think because it is past obvious he is senile. Only Peter Doocy asks questions.
He’s reading his lines AND he’s a dementia patient.
Who wrote the lines...isn’t much better, but they don’t have dementia
In a similar vein, Justin Trudeau used similar inflammatory and divisive language that just about matched this when he violently went after the unvaccinated engaging repeatedly in hate speech.
Petty, brutish, ignorant thugs is all they are. Awful people.
@chris
I think you and most of us know at some level what's going on here w this kind of rhetoric. It is the age old, tried and true prerequisite to mass murder.
Every mass murder in history includes at some point the "othering" and dehumanization of the target group. Before humans will slaughter other humans, especially former neighbors and citizens, they must come to see the targets as non human, objects undeserving of sympathy, compassion etc...in need of extermination.
That's what's going on here. Not just Sock Puppet either. There is a concerted and seemingly coordinated effort by the Regime and Oligarchy to Other everyone opposed to their increasing totalitarianism.
So...um.. we are just a wee bit late to wish for leaders who calm things down or reconcile the partisan divide. By engaging this language and these techniques, the Oligarchy is clearly telling all of us their intention to kill us. No fooling. They want us dead. Embrace that truth and start finding local networks to resist the coming pogrom.
My impression is that a Rwanda-style mass murder is out of the question in a country where the target has hundreds of millions of guns, but that the "non-human objects undeserving of sympathy, compassion" are being subjected to a slow war of attrition through suicide, drug overdoses, and declining birth rates. It's a war against the human spirit, a war of despair.
Well don’t forget hunger and famine- not hard
That's an interesting thought Lw. Considering that the vast majority of hitherto Regime supporters live in or near big cities, that whole hunger famine thing won't play real well w their base. Those of us in the country close to food production...not as much.
Heck yeah, Chris, I agree they will have a hard time getting away w it, but they are prepping the ground nonetheless.
And, sure, there's the psy ops part of it designed to dishearten, grind down, and immobilize the resisters. But they are definitely using this kind of dehumanizing language to condition their kool aid acolytes for killing.
Yes
It was so horrendous an event that four Capitol police officers committed suicide, while zero Uvalde officers have to date. I wish Tucker would interview family members of the suicided officers.
They had information leading to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.
Chris,
"What we need right now is to hear from people who can speak with clarity and calm, who can reduce our anger and division and find some way to talk to people across the partisan divide..."
You cannot be serious?
The "partisan divide" is a feature, not a flaw, of the PC-Prog Hate-America-First belief system.
There is no "clarity or calm" in them. And there is no "speaking" to them.
Good luck with that!
Dennis Hopper (RIP) would be an improvement
An actual lump of shit would be an improvement
CB; Don’t get too upset, this is a TV show, the real government...
...well we don’t have one , we have Departments ...
...but...
Ah fug it, they’ve run brah.
They’ve run.
No, really.
(DELETED FOR OPSEC) ....
(No joke I seriously just deleted a paragraph)
Putin is leaving war warnings on an answering machine,
“You have 330 million unread domestic messages...”
“Russia called again...”
“This is Vlad, stop or else...”
“Are you gonna call me back?”
Relax, its just TV.
Its Baghdad Bob, the actual decision makers fled. Lol.
Biden encouraging divisiveness through his speeches? Like when he told Americans he had lost patience with them? When he wished a winter of death on the unvaccinated? Through 2021 Biden sounded to me like an angry, bitter old man.
Always. "Look, fat." Hilarious that he ran on the premise that he would reunite the country.
"Reunite the country" is always, ALWAYS political code, borne out through history, for "silence the people who oppose you <the people who voted for me> so we will feel like we are all of one mind."
Because that's all a political leader can realistically deliver until we develop mind control.
he just needs the oxygen mask!
And somebody to put "Heineken? F*** that s***! PABST BLUE RIBBON!" on the teleprompter.
lynch at his finest!
It reminds me of Trump's inauguration speech. The carnage!
1) Wow, those insurrectionists stayed inside the bollards, like, the whole time. That's really courteous and polite of them.
2) Were the American revolutionaries insurrectionists? Joe just said you can't be for insurrection and for America at the same time. So I'm confused. Did the Sons of Liberty have to contend with bollards of any kind? That seems like something the British might have done to confound them.
After watching the video a few times, and having lived with someone who was afflicted with Alzheimer’s, I think I know what’s going on. There are a few steps people go through when they have Alzheimer’s. The first is where they forget things they say and will repeat a question several times because they are having problems remembering. They want reassurance they aren’t losing their mind. The second step is anger and literal rage at times. This step can be dangerous because they now know there is something wrong with them and it’s beyond their control. They lash out at times and can be fairly violent. When my grandmother was going through this stage she had an incident where out of no where she turned and looked at me and socked me in the eye. Then began screaming at me aging the most foul things. I had already been warned by her doctor, so all I could do was endure the outburst. A minute or two later she asked me why my eye was read and I told her because you hit me. She started to cry and was apologetic. My mom wasn’t so lucky one night and attacked my mother by beating her and kicking her. My brother had to restrain her until my mother could get up and give her a sedative injection. People will make up things to get angry about and they don’t really know what’s going on. This video reminded me of the anger step with my grand mother.
The next stage is a calmer person but they are almost someone else as they are losing their faculties of who they are. The fourth step is a calm almost catatonic state with mild lucidity where they might remember something from their past or someone as another person who is no longer around. This is also the step where the body starts shutting off so they begin to feel physical pin resulting in needing to be prescribed morphine. It’s a horrible process for all involved. It’s also not a rigid step sequence and can ebb and flow into and out of each other. All the family sees and experiences is their loved one wasting away until the person passes.
It’s sad and sick that the democrats are forcing Joe to continue on and it’s quite clear now that he is no longer in control of his faculties. Which begs the question, who is?
While I should, I can find no sympathy for this man and hope his journey into the afterlife is one of many horrors and pain. He has done nothing his entire life except to cause suffering of his constituents and later the entire citizens of the Republic. He is also a traitor by his own volition and words. As are all he has surrounded himself with. With his finger on the nuclear button, I hope he is removed from office before he starts an exchange of ICBMs with another nation.
It seems clear to me they gave him a shot before the speech and it is clear when it kicked in.
Agree. Parkinson's disease is also associated with decreased eye blinking.
Yes, but this change was immediate as though some powerful meds had just kicked in.
I'm not arguing with your experience, but in this case he was working from a teleprompter and I really doubt he wrote the speech himself.
Of course he didn't write the speech himself. We have witnessed his deterioration over the last 2 years. He can't get a sentence now and he forgets frequently.
I'm sure very few presidential speeches in the last 50 or 100 years were written by the president. I said that because of the original post talking about how people with Alzheimer's behave.
Yes, sorry if I came across as sharp or accusatory. I certainly didn't mean that. Presidents have speechwriters, we know that. However, presidents also go over the speech and will change words or edit to make it more their own. As an example, President Reagan had to keep inserting "tear down this Wall" into his Berlin speech because his speechwriters and who knows who else wanted to remove it.
Biden is almost beyond being able to read off the teleprompter. Remember that cue card he had in his hand directing all his physical actions and words? He's almost beyond that too.
I never discussed how Alzheimer’s sufferers are fairly easy to manipulate in certain situations such as having them read a script. I’ve now seen the entire video with its multiple jump cuts. The reason he was getting noticeably irritated may have actually been triggered by him having to redo sections of the speech resulting in him becoming angry.
Nor did I say he wrote the script either. That itself doesn’t have to be explained as we all should already be aware that most scripts politicians give are written by staff. To have be informed about that itself shows a naitivity to politics in general. I was merely positing a question of if Biden is so far gone already, who is making the decisions and running the show? Jill invoking her inner Elenor Roosevelt? Elenor was a diehard communist who hired nothing but to her staff and making her hotwheels husband hire communists to his cabinet as Venona Report revealed vindicating McCarthy. I know it isn’t Harris, that idiot couldn’t think her way out of a shotgun house. Let alone convey an idea about such.
You are right. Someone else is pulling the strings. Certainly Ron Klain is involved. Susan Rice is probably in there behind the scenes too. She was a big Obama girl. Ultimately I believe Obama is directing the action.
I personally cannot listen to someone lie so horribly, but as a professional TV editor I can tell you the difference between pre 8:25 and post 8:25 is stark. His voice and pacing is completely different on top of the eyes. His energy has dramatically increased. The way they cut it together was also poorly done. If they had enough time to do that bad edit and load him up full of drugs then they should have done more cutaways to save it. Below High School production quality.
Good analysis. This administration is a case study of, well, let's be honest, affirmative action. People were given important slots in this government because they checked off certain boxes--gay, trans, black, Hispanic. Merit did not factor into the hiring process.
The result is "Below High School production quality", as you so aptly put it.
Tough times. Their editing budget was re-purposed and sent to Ukraine and China.
Do you think this was something done over the course of an hour or two?
The edits, which were many, were brutal. Amateur production. Why the sloppiness? Do they not have top notch professionals?
Now there seem to be a lot of intelligent people gathered here, so pls someone help me out and try to answer a question I'm struggling with:
Has there ever been a group/party/tribe etc as maniacally obsessed with their object of hatred as the Left/Dems are with Trump?
I'm not the oldest, wisest, or best read, but I try and still I'm stumped. Did the Confederates hate Lincoln this much? (probably) Did the pro-Republic Romans hate Caesar this much? Did Europeans of various conquered countries hate Napoleon this much? Has there ever been an American prez who became the all-consuming all-encompassing White Whale of a political party and half the country like Trump is? Jackson? FDR? Nixon? And for now going on SEVEN years!?
I just have never seen this level of deranged monomaniacal hatred in my lifetime (and I'm 53) and I have never seen this level of unhinged "I will destroy everything as long as I destroy the one I hate" vendetta (and I'm Sicilian!).
Are they really gonna destroy the traditions, coherence and credibility of every social and political institution because of one (mildly effective, mostly histrionic) man??
Appreciate any light someone can shed.
Biden is just a disposable platform to deliver the globalist agenda.
I'll posit the twitter echo chamber has a major influence here, something that did not exist for Reagan or any previous figure. The visceral need for affirmation from the elite cult leaders results in twitter addicts giving each other an hourly fix. Truth is a distant second to another rage hit. The whole thing is a PR effort.
Add in how the media is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Deep State, which is itself controlled by a global elite with an agenda to create an ideal future. This future does not include fossil fuels and cannot be implemented when randos like Trump with a USA first agenda get in their way. They want a solar powered Linear City future and you will eat bugs because traditional farming is evil. To save the planet they are willing to starve the humans infesting Gaia, hence fertilizer cuts that result in less food like in Sri Lanka or the Netherlands or Canada. All the crazed trends like CRT and BLM and COVID lockdowns and the intersectional agenda are simply vectors to impose control. But the globalist agenda can go horribly sideways. Just wait till Pakistan with a foreign exchange hemorrhaging ala Sri Lanka falls into the hands of the Taliban. Here, have some nukes.
The globalist agenda is absolutely deaf to US citizens. It can only shout their propaganda and squelch opposition. Their side breaks laws with impunity, America first folks are prosecuted for walking into the capital.
The only question is can the strong bones of American exceptionalism shake off the chains.
Linear City video https://youtu.be/41sgRP0G6y4
Right on the money. America needs to be destroyed in order for the utopia brought by One World Government to be realized. All other nations will be easy to control once the US goes under.
They're either going to steal, or disregard the elections from here on out.
Human freedom and flourishing depend on the resistance of Americans. We are confronting a tremendous evil.
Well said, all three of you guys.
I've never seen a) deliberate divisive politics and b) such an obsession.
And it's happening in Canada too.
And it's coming mostly from the 'left' side of the divide. I can't see how anyone can conclude otherwise. How many Republican politicians and conservative people have been run out of restaurants and beaten down literally physically again?
The Canadian version is stunningly vicious and cheap. Trudeau is an extraordinary piece of shit.
I'm a little too young to really remember Nixon or Ford, but the Democrats sure hated Reagan with the heat of a thousand suns. I was old enough to notice how editorial cartoons switched from exasperated mocking of Carter to just pure bile.
Democrats hated Reagan because he was a democrat, then switched parties, ran and was elected to state office in California, then for POTUS and was elected President. He also had the speech where he said that he didn’t leave the Democrat Party, but that it left him. Pretty scathing words politically from who they then considered a traitor to their party. This is why they always had their guns out for him.
Oh, they hated Nixon intensely, particularly after his involvement in the House UnAmerican Affairs Committee. The media hated Nixon too.
There are good explanations for the derangement and hatred we are witnessing.
Eric Hoffer's slim book, "The True Believer" is excellent.
Mattias Desmet's new book, "The Psychology of Totalitarianism" goes a long way to explaining this.
Gad Saad's book, "The Parasitic Mind" explains the followers who are truly deluded and don't know it.
Have you forgotten Bush Derangement Syndrome? It was intense, but you are correct, not as intense as with Trump. Could be because Trump is a real threat to their aspirations. He is beholden to none of them. No corporation or world group owns him or can lay a glove on him. He is at heart an honest, patriotic man. Is he flawed? Sure, who isn't. But he's the best one to tackle the deep corruption in our government. Trump is a true threat to their greed, corruption, power grab, etc. He has the cojones.
Hoffer is excellent, still relevant and at this stage of things a ‘must read.’
i would also suggest his "The Passionate State of Mind"—the man had a very sharp eye and a great gift for dissecting the psychology of people swept up in social/moral panics and other shared mental diseases.
Thank you for reminding me. I had that one and read it a few years ago. Forgot I had it.
I agree. I always have at least one copy of his book in my bookcase. I have, over the years, given a copy away to more astute and interested your adults.
Exactly! (The like button wouldn't work!)
Based on my superficial knowledge of history, I’d say that you would have to go back to the Roman Empire to see comparable, unhinged hatred.
It's a mass formation (psychosis) and has taken place many times over the centuries but not at this scale. One of the reasons is that we have mass communications that didn't exist in previous centuries.
The witch hunts which took place all over Europe and in the Massachusetts Colony are examples of mass formation.
they certainly do their best to keep his name front and center in the headlines. great free publicity
“Trump didn’t act” is a lie. He authorized the deployment of National Guard troops, which is the most consequential thing he could do to prevent a riot and support the police. How does Biden think Trump could have restored order? By tweeting? That assumes that Trump supporters were mindless automatons carrying out a secret plan. They were not and are not. They weren’t at a planned protest rally at the Capitol because Trump believed the election was stolen, but because they believed it was stolen.
The protest rally did not become a riot because Trump called for one, but because of provocateurs like Ray Epps, the aggressive actions of certain members of the police, resulting in the deaths of Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland, on the one hand, be and the strangely passive actions of others, who waived the crowd into the Capitol, and, ultimately the lack of sufficient security. If Trump had tweeted his supporters to stop, the Democrats would be citing that as evidence that Trump knew he caused the riot.
If the troops had been accepted and deployed, if the cops did not take provocative actions like shooting flash grenades into the crowd and throwing a man off a balcony, and if other cops didn’t open doors and waive people in, there would not have been a riot, Congress would not have been interrupted and, quite possibly, would have voted for a short delay in the certification of the election.
"would have voted for a short delay in the certification of the election"
This is the key and i think the election fraud was so blatant (stop counting in swing states, when has this ever happened before?) you couldn't even have had that short delay in the certification process for anyone to look into it. The entire thing reeks of the Reichstag fire. Burn the place down, blame your enemies and then outlaw them as an opposition party. People have been saying since the rise of the Clintons that the MO of the Democrat party is to accuse your enemies of what you yourself are doing. From what we learned in Russiagate and essentially all actions by Democrats since 2016, wouldn't that seem to be the case?
I agree. Trump didn’t benefit from the “insurrection.” It was used by Trump’s enemies to try to shut down any potential investigation into what happened on Election Day, which, as you note, was unprecedented. We saw it unfold right before our eyes.
The problem with reaching across the partisan divide is that on the other side is a sea of people who believe Trump, climate, C-19 and abortion restrictions amount to an EXISTENTIAL THREAT -- that is the theme that underpins the left's propaganda machine. Ergo -- any move at all to mitigate those things, even if it is in the form a corrupt, lying leftist party, is necessary. Even tyranny is better than having a Nazi in the WH, a dead planet, biblical plagues and attacks on women's autonomy. That is how they see it.
I believe it is a form of mass mental illness driven by florid propaganda through curated social media feeds and legacy news. I've tried fact-based discussions with loved ones on these topics and get nowhere. Until 2016, I was a lefty so my credentials should still mean something but they don't .
All that matter is I don't support THE CURRENT THING.
Great read! Especially during whiskey cocktail hour here. The no blinking thing...WTF? Some kinda West World, Terminator, Disney (woke) animatronic character?? I know he’s on some serious drugs...stimulant would be my guess, but don’t believe that would be the cause. I actually suspect (not a qualified medical professional, but hey, nowadays is there really a “qualified” medical professional??) a serious brain issue/abnormality. He’s also got “summer eyes”, summer lookin’ here, summer lookin’ there. Right one. Haven’t seen that before.
This whiskey cocktail hour salutes your whiskey cocktail hour.
Since you caught me at a vulnerable moment:
2oz Rod&Hammer’s Straight Rye Whisky (local made, for me but sure ya can find it)
1/2 oz Amaro Averna
1/2 oz Punt e Mes
2 good shakes of Angostura bitters
Stir. Well, the secret to the best Manhattan cocktail is now out. God help you all.
Ahh, Redwood Empire Emerald Giant Rye with Peychaud's bitters in a cold glass coated with absinthe. But I'd trade you.
Also see book, "Classy As F××k Cocktails" by not surprisingly author 'Calligraphuck.' No kidding. But the book is packed w secrets to the Temple of Mixed Drink Doom.
The Jan 6 Committee has been ineffectual at trying to take down Trump. That task is now given to AG Garland at the DOJ. He's convening a DC grand jury to get Trump charged. Watch for a speedy trial so it can conclude with a guilty verdict one or two weeks prior to the midterms.
This bunch is turning the US into a banana republic.
This was a great article, Chris. Got the point across and was fun reading.
Who was killed, Joe? Who was speared? Who was covered in blood?
I want names, Joe. I'll believe it if you show me something.
Careful, he'll challenge you to push-ups.
If I can tie my 82-year old Viking father at push-ups, I can beat Brandon.
I laughed out loud at this comment!!
My wife and I were home Jan 6 and watched the whole thing unfold via TV and web sources. Hours of video, many sources, much of it live. The vast number of folks there were peaceful and respectful. There were several obvious bad actors, often called out as such by the protestors. Guy dressed in black except for a Trump bumpersticker on the back of his helmet trying to break a window for example. Another live video I have not seen since was another man all in black with helmet and facemask near where Ashli Babbit was shot. In the minutes before Ashli was shot the person filming was panning about, showing people packed in like sardines, with a couple cops amicably talking with people. This one guy in black stood by a post not 10 feet from where Ashli would soon be shot. He simply repeated ACAB over and over. Who the heck was that? Someone intent on pissing off the cops for one. Maybe a 3 letter agency plant, or antifa, if there is a difference. Absolutely not one of the protesters who were overwhelmingly patriotic. Anybody else recall ACAB dude? Share a video?
Who am I gonna believe, my own eyes or the J6 committee?
“Dripping with blood! Medieval hell!” Is how the D’s describe Jan 6 but Antifa/blm attacking police in Portland night after night after night was just an expression of free speech and fake news. How about you can’t support the police if you support antifa or blm!
Compare and contrast your last video of the overly dramatic MSNBC host appalled at people staying within the lines during the “insurrection” and the description of Kenosha on CNN here:
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/fiery-but-mostly-peaceful-cnn-torn-apart-over-embarrassing-caption/news-story/100d20489bce103283cd2fa5e71b516b
Thank goodness for substack and sites like yours! Keep up the good work!
BLM and Antifa are mobs funded by democrats, that's why they're okay with what they do, and no doubt a good portion of the worst of J 6 was funded by them as well.
Just left a great Elton John concert then got to read this. It’s a fantastic nightcap to a wonderful evening! Thanks again Chris!!
Watching the last video (from MSNBC) and listening to the commentary is surreal. It sounds as though these 'journalists' are describing what happened in Sri Lanka, but played the wrong video, because those people 'who breeched' the capitol could not appear to be calmer. They simply look like ordinary tourists. Their only crime, as described by the on-air personalities, is not going through the metal detectors before entering. I don't see any Capitol police who are in crisis mode, I don't see any sense of urgency on anybody's part, yet the commentary sounds as though this is a major crime scene.
I’m convinced that video is a deep fake. At least in part.
The clip for Twitter has a lot more jump cuts than the full version and I think they inadvertently edited out most of the blinks. But even with them he evokes Quint talking about sharks: lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes.
We're gonna need a bigger vote.
That's really good.
At your service.
That hadn't occurred to me, but the complete lack of blinking and weird emotes does it.
I never considered you'd use deepfakes for YOURSELF, but when your actor isn't a capable speaker...
Exactly
Long covid’s no joke.
I just like to point out that "long" is not unique to Covid. Can we stop making Covid so special?