The creeps waving the Nazi flags are trying to get under your skin. If your reaction is to fret, lament, and talk about how all hope is lost, you're giving them exactly what they want. If you want to stick it to them, drive voter turnout in 2022 and defeat their Republican Party.
If we're smart we'll spend this entire election cycle demanding that every Republican candidate take a position on these Nazis. Any position they take, it'll cost them votes somewhere on their side of the fence. It's how this game is played.
Any Republican candidate who denounces these Nazis will lose votes on the far right. Any Republican candidate who refuses to denounce the Nazis will lose votes in the middle. It's a no-won situation for them. But only if we use it, instead of sitting around whining about Garland.
Democratic politicians and the Democratic Party are ALREADY using this precise strategy against the Republican candidates. But it's only effective if you join them in amplifying it. If you'd rather just whine, your side will lose, and it'll be YOUR FAULT.
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The real question is who leaked to the media that Trump ordered Giuliani to look into seizing voting machines. In any story, the source is usually whoever looks good in that story. The story says Bill Barr refused Trump’s order, so Barr is probably the leak. This is important.
Barr has a consistent history of thinly veiled leaks to the media to make himself look good or to promote his point of view. IF this is the case again here, it means Barr wants his version of the story out there – which means he’ll certainly give it to the 1/6 committee.
The 1/6 committee chair says it’s already spoken with Barr. Didn’t say what about; or if it was actual testimony, or mere conversations about testifying. But if Barr did leak this, and the context of the NYT article suggests he is, it would surely mean he’s cooperating.
At this point Donald Trump’s speeches increasingly resemble the videos that Bin Laden would periodically release after 9/11, in which he kept vowing to pull off bigger and bigger attacks, even as it became more obvious he couldn’t pull off any such thing.
9/11 was Bin Laden’s one big shot. It cost him his home base, his ability to freely communicate, and so on. 1/6 was Trump’s one big shot, and it cost him in roughly the same way. All Bin Laden had left after 9/11 was the ability to scare us just for kicks. Same as Trump now.
The parallels are remarkable – right down to Bin Laden’s visibly declining health in his post 9/11 videos, and Trump’s visibly declining health in his rare public appearances.
Everyone in the media knows Donald Trump has zero chance of being a viable candidate in 2024. Yet the entire media is conspiring with him to pretend he’s a lock for 2024. The media’s thirst for ratings has it conspiring with a traitor. That makes it a criminal conspiracy.
When Trump hints he'll run in 2024, the media has a RESPONSIBILITY to factually explain that he's just pretending he'll run so he can pocket the donations. Instead the media conspires with Trump to sell the lie that he's going to run.
When Trump says he'll pardon Capitol attackers, in an effort to convince them not to cooperate with federal investigators the media has a RESPONSIBILITY to point out no such pardons could ever happen. Instead the media conspires with Trump to pretend they'll be pardoned in 2025.
When Spotify chose Joe Rogan over Neil Young, the defeatists said "that's it, it's over, all is lost." Palmer Report said the battle was just starting, and it would come down to money. Spotify has since lost $4 billion in market value. Told you the battle is just getting started.
Spotify's executives and investors now have to try to figure out if the lost customers and stock price plunge are temporary or permanent, and if it's the latter, whether it'll be more costly than dumping Rogan would be.
People can talk all they want about Spotify's $100 million contract with Rogan, but that's not a huge amount of money in comparison to the overall market valuations companies this size. It would be expensive to dump him. But it may prove way more expensive to keep him.
The doomsday pundits love to insist that famous people never go to prison. But Trump pal Joe Exotic has lost his appeal and will serve a 21 year sentence. When famous people avoid prison it's by never getting indicted to begin with. Donald Trump is being indicted in two states.
How do wealthy and powerful people keep themselves from getting indicted?
1) They're so popular, no prosecutor wants to touch them
2) Unethical campaign donation to the district attorney – but this only works if the public does't know or care that the investigation even exists
But the Trump indictment process is out in the open and everyone is watching, so no opportunity to quietly pay off the DA and make it go away. And in places like New York and Atlanta where Trump is despised, prosecutors would be seen as heroes for indicting him.
Warned you that as audiences started to figure out Trump is going to prison, the media would escalate its bullshit. Sure enough, not only are they still pretending Trump is running in 2024, now they're pretending Biden is so unpopular he'd need a Republican VP to have a chance.
This has reached the point of laugh out loud nonsense. First, Biden is WAY more popular than Trump and would be the overwhelming 2024 favorite. Second, Biden would be forfeiting the election by ditching Kamala and picking a republican VP. The media knows this but hypes it anyway.
The media wants to chase ratings in 2022 and 2023 by pretending Trump will be a factor in 2024. It can't do that if the public figures out he's a goner. So the media is getting even louder about Trump 2024, to distract the public from the increasing clarity that Trump is toast.