31 August 2022 - A Top-Down Approach to Clip Analysis
Title aside, this is going to be an EXCITING thread! If you haven't seen Joe's full, 2-hour deep dive interview, you want to! If you can, watch this first.
2) Now, check this out! The video above is from a MP4 file given me by @vladlemets. He opens and closes the interview and handled all the technical aspects with his typic panache, verve and style. Ah, but this segment is all my own technical work!
3) We're going to slow down now, and work through some of the basics involved. First, I had to master (more like just kludge my way through) the art of file management to include storage, finding, and uploading into editing software. He's what I'm using:
4) Once I got all that worked out adequately, I had to learn how to open up and post videos at Rumble. I think I have a channel, but I'm still confused about that. Here's just me at Rumble:
5) Next, I am now able to take an entire 2-hour long form video, like the one above, and break it down into segments such as this one. It's Part 1 of 10. If you have the time to play with it, you'll see that there actually is a different value here:
6) You might notice that the full video has a lovely thumbnail of our hero and candidate, but the link above one has no such image. That's because I failed to select a thumbnail image for it. I could have taken it down and re-uploaded it, or learned how to edit it. Alas.
7) Having first done the interview with @joekent16jan19, and then watched both the full form as well as created the segment section, I can honestly tell you, I see Part 1 differently by itself than I do as the first part of the entire interview. Let me talk about that.
8) When viewing the entire video there's no way to remember Part 1 as strongly as you remember the later, 8, 9, & 10 for example. Also, no matter how interested you might be, you just don't take in 2 hours of information the way you take in just 11 minutes. Interesting, yes?
9) But we're not done yet! What follows in the rest of this thread will be 6, 2:20 second or less clips I chose and trimmed last night (ending exhausted at 2:00 AM). I'll post the first clip and then disengage for an hour or so (maybe less) and work on the rest as soon as I can.
10) @joekent16jan19 you start off with an incredible flourish, and you never let up for the entire 2 hours. Here I am setting up our first question, we'll turn to you next, immediately.
11) Andhere we are, @joekent16jan19, this is that first flourish I mentioned above. I'll analyze this more fully later. I'm here to tell you, Joe, your clip here is every bit as cogent and important today as when we recorded this back in June!
12) You know, @joekent16jan19, I don't think it shows, but you could have blown me over with a feather when you chose to go over alsl 10 Planks. I honestly thought I'd have, at best 15 - 20 minutes. Can't thank you enough for that decision you made, and your investment of time.
13) As you describe and define the Forgotten Americans, your passion, fire, integrity, and readiness to fight for them shines though. Later in the interview we return to this and discuss your Day 1 agenda for January 2023. We'll all be watching!
14) You just simply never whine or complain, @joekent16jan19. You lay out the mission and sign on. Yet, as I watch the above clip again, I can see clearly that you, and me too, we are also The Forgotten Americans, ourselves.
14) You don't do it as much here as later, but you bring up both 9/11 and WWII. I can assure you that my WWII vet father was beyond appalled over Waco. He never said the words, but this was NOT the America he fought and bled for (very literally!). They were Forgotten.
15) You don't do it as much here as later, but you bring up both 9/11 and WWII. I can assure you that my WWII vet father was beyond appalled over Waco. He never said the words, but this was NOT the America he fought and bled for (very literally!). They were Forgotten.
16) "The common purpose was to build a great nation."
Amen!!!
17) "What's happened with subsequent generations is we've been assaulted on every from by our ruling class."
It just struck me right now, as opposed to the Alinsky haves-and-have-nots, America First offers two classes, the rulers-and-ruled. The ruled are the Forgotten Americans
18) No matter Democrat or Republican, our ruling elite has only one agenda. All they do is look out for themselves.
19) Here's Clip 3. It's short but MIGHTY.
20) Looking out for themselves includes:
* Shipping Jobs Overseas
* Pitching That Cheaper Goods Are What's Good For Us
* Never Considering What That Would Do To The Working Class
Aha! That's your structure:
Ruling Elites vs Working Class
Spot on!!!
21) Never Considering What That Would Do To:
* Our Manufacturing Plants
* Our National Security
* All Gone
* People Wanting Us To Get Into Endless Interventions
22) "Since WWII it seems we can go more than a few months or more than a few years without getting into a new foreign conflict."
23) I call your question here, who benefits?, by its Latin term: Cui Bono. It is, perhaps of all things else, my positively MOST favored question in all of political analysis and discourse. I also say:
Patterned Outcomes = Purposeful Motivation
24) Hilarious, but powerful. Your 12th deployment was in DC, where you were "stationed."
I love that!
25) Theory over purpose. What's the true purpose of this government? If it's not to serve to the American People...then what is it's purpose. You then end this clip with powerful reference to our great leader, Trump, and how he reawakened us to all this.
26) I can't linger any further for now, alas. But here is your next clip, @joekent16jan19. When I return, I'll continue the point-by-point detailed analysis commenced in this cycle, so far. For you and all your fans, this is clip 4.
27) I ask, have we not only forgotten Americans, have we actually forgotten America?
28) The kind of crack down the left has had to execute is their reaction to the fact that not only did Trump awaken us, we knew exactly what Trump was saying to us because we had all thought and felt exactly what he was saying, ourselves.
29) In spite of all opposition, we had four amazing years under Trump. That's why the ruling class behaves as they do. This is, for them, as I say, a complete existential threat. They know if they let this go forward they are forever doomed.
30) They can't win elections right now. That's why they're taking every controversial issue they can right now, and throwing it at the wall to see if it'll sticK.
That's all they have.
31) Two more short clips to go, @joekent16jan19 teaches us about their hatred, their contempt for America. More, they perhaps most especially hate American Sovereignty. I've never heard that expression before, have you?
32) Their hatred for Americans, and for American Sovereignty is really exposing them. That's a very big thought. We could do an entire interview on that one topic alone.
33) @joekent16jan19, you're still optimistic. You know that we like our labels and names, but others do not. If we just talk about the topics, but forget to use the standard names, you believe they more often agree with us.
Profound.
The thing may not be its name.
34) Tom Paine, in his Common Sense, laid down the same line of assessment about Colonial America, as you do about modern America, Joe. He knew that King George was awakening a sleeping giant. As you say, that's what Trump did for us, yet again.
35) If I'm hearing you rightly, it is because Americans of every political stripe or leaning still treasure the same pure American values upon which we founded our nation, it is for that reason you remain optimistic. Extraordinary point. Truly.
36) Last clip...
37)
A = Politician
B = Entitled Citizen
C = Disenfranchised Citizen (AKA The Forgotten American)
When A spends money to give to B, they both always forget to speak with C.
38) That's a wrap for our clips. It only remains to appeal to you to still care. No matter how certain things may seem, they are never certain. Who remembers Truman? Who remembers Dewey?
39) Joe needs your cash to help him win. More, he needs your cash to help him Save America once gets to DC.n He'll never accept the big donar with the even bigger needs and expectations. @joekent16jan19 will not be corrupted.
40) So please head over here and donate anything you can, no matter how small or large. And remember, we're 1 down with 9 segments yet to go. Wow!
You’re about to hear a new prayer, composed by my client, friend, and spiritual compatriot, @k_frey7 and myself last week. I’ll explain more following the recording. This is also dedicated to another Ken, @SandhillsKen.
3) It is an extraordinary new feature that Twitter has added. Once you hit the waveform icon - found only on iOS devices for now - you may just record what you wish. Twitter automatically breaks whatever you record into a thread and there you go.
It appears the prayer only requires two tweets worth if recording. Also, what an awesome function Twitter has added! In fact, I’ll have to re-edit the prayer, as it always takes reading out loud for a proper, full edit. Alas, always more work!
Today's hashtag is of course a twisted quote from Dickens' opening line of A Tale Of Two Cities. What a juxtaposition. Let's discuss that.
2) If you haven't watched it yet, you're going to see actual historic significance in Joe's interview, here. He is ON THE RECORD, and that record will stand. I'm telling you, Joe is the real deal. He will NOT be corrupted.
3) In case you haven't been following, Joe's opponent, who just conceded, was the Republican Representative from his district, Washington State 3, in Congress since 2010. Had he not run, she'd have been a shoe in, again. She voted to impeach Trump. Imagine that.
Last Thursday, I had the great honor to interview Admiral Chuck Kubic. We hope to post the final version later this week, and I'll let you know soon as we do. Today, we're going to follow his guidance.
2) For those of you who don't know Veterans For America First, yet, you'll want to head over to check out the tremendous wealth of information and service we provide. Admiral Kubic is our National Spokesperson.
3) If you check out the About Us page, there, you'll find me towards the bottom, the newest member of the Advisory Board. It is a tremendous honor to be able to serve.
What follows are 10 quote selections I made earlier this morning. They're taken from @KateScopelliti's and my book that you see here. Please like and RT those that speak to you most strongly.
An early count of views has snippet 7 as our second best received after snippet 1. Here it is, and please, do sound off regarding your own thoughts and reactions, will you?
2) Watching this snippet, I was forced to the question "who?" As in, who exactly is being mustered? The community as a whole is one answer. A muster is for everyone, and it's both fun and important. Come together, community, a muster says, and contemplate our own body politic.
3) The most important audience is voters. Done @SandhillsKen's way, there is a very specific leaning. True conservatives. If I was running them, it would be a clear #MAGA leaning. But the idea of mustering to election is in no necessary way partisan at all. It's just American.