tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27554065.post1672475866377723221..comments2024-03-27T17:52:09.889-04:00Comments on You Might Notice a Trend: The Big Lie And the One Truth (w/ Update)Paul Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13092023794397583036noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27554065.post-62285776603529700022021-05-12T16:45:28.642-04:002021-05-12T16:45:28.642-04:00I suggest tht One could argue that the attempt of ...I suggest tht One could argue that the attempt of delegitimizing D's, in the "modern" era ( ignoring "post civil war "Waving the bloody shirt" era) started during the 1960 election when tricky dick and neo fascist military decide, before the vote, that a Kennedy win would be a threat to national security.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27554065.post-19957941857024480482021-05-12T10:29:10.154-04:002021-05-12T10:29:10.154-04:00"The Big Lie compels trump's believers in..."The Big Lie compels trump's believers into direct action - SEE the January 6th Insurrection - and these actions have legal consequences where the Big Lie has not and cannot prevail."<br /><br />That's the problem, isn't it? So far it looks like there will be legal consequences over 6 January only for the foot soldiers of the insurrection, while the leaders, the R public office holders, are going to be granted professional courtesy and remain untouched. If there are no consequences for R public officials, why do they hold back from doing it again and again, smarter next time, until it works?Glen Tomkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16615965629335985194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27554065.post-23556296863050356262021-05-12T10:23:51.370-04:002021-05-12T10:23:51.370-04:00"Much as North Korean state press proclaims t..."Much as North Korean state press proclaims that Kim Jong Il invented the hamburger, Republicans must now proclaim that was something fishy about Joe Biden’s victory..."<br /><br />This suggests a strategy for our side. We start a coordinated campaign to deny that Trump invented the hamburger. The other side has to own the libs, it's their thing, it's their only thing, so they will not be able to resist the counter-claim that Trump did indeed invent the hamburger.<br /><br />Sooner or later the disruption from that dies down, at which point our side launches a campaign to deny that Trump won the Masters in 1989. Trump himself has always been too cautious to go with that claim, or more likely, he can reality-test on that claim because he was an avid golfer before the dementia set in. He has no idea that inaugural crowd size or election results are easily checkable objectively, because he has no idea how such things work, so Katie bar the door on his claims over such matters he took no interest in until after the dementia set in. For all his prior restraint, once we make denial of his Masters win in 1989 a public issue, he 100% absolutely will angrily claim that of course he won, and anyone in his party who says different is a damned RINO and traitor.Glen Tomkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16615965629335985194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27554065.post-53326783382780885452021-05-07T17:35:03.140-04:002021-05-07T17:35:03.140-04:00Part of what was so toxic about Fergus' presid... Part of what was so toxic about Fergus' presidency was the sheer number of norms and guardrails he smashed his way through, until the smashing of them became a thing unto itself.<br /> This led to a kind of drift away from the rhetoric that had upheld Republican thought in a sort of "packaged for public consumption" line and toward a more pure id run the quiet parts through a bullhorn out and proud kind of protofascism.<br /> Thus the preoccupation with election security that was always about suppressing Democratic votes became a full on rejection of democracy itself, and none of them are really capable of disguising it as anything else any more.<br /> I don't know for sure whether that will be enough to run them into the political wilderness, but if we want to have a country we recognize in two more election cycles, we should do everything we can to make sure it does.<br /><br /> -Doug in Sugar Pinedinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.com