Swamped with patent disclosures, podcasts and the Great Big AI Panic of 2024. And just learned the H1N5 bird flu may be nastier soon! (😟check your supplies.) Also, I appear to be more optimistic than most... and most of you have voted already.
Still, I gotta do what I can, offering you some final, concise leverage. Not for your hopeless MAGA-Putinist uncle. But maybe his worried wife, your residually-sane aunt.
What leverage? Why... punchy jpegs, of course!
== Ammo Images that might sway... ==
How can anyone still sway to the hypnotism...
...of a face drenched in makeup and dripping hair dye?
But OK. Let's start with a simple question.
Who are his enemies and who are his friends?
ONE sentence ought to settle everything:
"ALL of the honest adults who served under Trump now denounce him."
Two Defense Secretaries. Two chiefs of staff. His Attorney General. His National Security Advisor & Secretary of State. His domestic policy head. Chair of the Joint Chiefs. Two communications directors. His Vice President plus 250 more.Make your MAGA see this jpeg! ==>
All of them were HIS choices. Whom he called "Great Guys!"... who are now denouncing him as a horror-calamity and lethal stooge of foreign enemies.
At minimum, it means he's a terrible judge of character! (Who fell 'in love' with Kim Jong Un.)
But don't worry. In Trump II he's promised there will be no adults at all.
Examples: James Mattis, Marine General(ret), Trump’s 1st Defense Secretary: “Donald Trump is the first president in my life who didn't even pretend to try to unite the American people. He tries to divide us.”
Mark Esper, Trump’s 2nd Defense Secretary: “I believe he is a threat to democracy.”
John Kelly, Marine General(ret), Trump’s 2nd White House Chief of Staff: “He often said‘Hitler did good things, too.’”
Ask Joint Chiefs Chair Mark Milley +Admiral McRaven +250 other officers!
Ask nearly all scientists.
Here they are!==>
Have your MAGA zoom in and explain this.
== But... but isn't Trump the agent of God? ==
Such a Christian! Though if he ever willingly chose church over golf, no one has seen it. Here's one time he had to show up. And this one image says it all.
(How? By destroying America and democracy and serving Moscow? But we'll get to that.)
Huh. Some servant of God. The most opposite-to-Jesus human any of us ever saw typifies every Deadly Sin! (Have your MAGA recite them aloud and NOT see Trump as the archetype!)
Look, I don't credit the Book of Revelation. (Though all of you should know it! See the comic book version Apocamon; I mean it. You truly need to see what some of your neighbors wish and plan for you!)
Still, there is a recurring character in that nightmare tome who DT resembles. I'm not talking about the Lamb of God. The character's name starts with "auntie" or "the Anti --" and Trump fits every described characteristic. To a T.
A problem with good times... folks soon take it for granted. Unemployment was the big issue.
Inflation? What? Ask your MAGA to step up NOW with wager stakes and bet which two nations have had the LOWEST inflation in the Industrial world for 3 years!
(Hint, it's the US and Japan.)
Then why so grumpy? Because Fox rants at fools to enjoy sanctimonious grumpiness! It's more fun than accepting the truth... that you are mesmerized by an echo chamber and Nuremberg Rally, with one central goal...
... to hate facts and fact professions & the damn, dry statistics.
But let's make it a wager. Assert the following and demand your MAGAs step up (like men) with cash stakes on the table:
But this is the biggie. The USA is undergoing the greatest boom in MANUFACTURING since the Second World War.
That is unambiguous. Democrats did it.
== Climate Change ==
Nothing better illustrates the agenda of the GOP masters than fostering all-out war vs ALL fact using professions, from science, teaching, medicine, law and civil service to the heroes of the FBI/Intel/Military officer corps who won the Cold War and the War on terror.Dig it. They're not attacking science in order to make $$ by delaying action on climate disaster. It's the reverse. They use climate denialism as one of many tools to undermine faith in science.
Why? Oligarchs can't restore 6000 years of insipid feudalism til they castrate all fact professions. But more on that elsewhere.
The crisis over our EARTH is a vast subject! But this posting is about last minute, punchy capsules. So use this: Foxites flee in panic when you mention OCEAN ACIDIFICATION, which is unambiguously killing the seas our children will need and can only be caused by CO2 pollution. How they run from those two words.
Alas, instead of giving credit to the genius meteorologists who now predict a hurricane paths within a few miles FIVE DAYS in advance, jibberers yammer: "They cause hurricanes!"
WHO is 'they?' No, never mind that. You said it when earthquakes hit California. Recognize God's wrath when you feel it...
Seriously? Who do you think Ronald Reagan would side with? The barely changed Kremlin and relabeled KGB, run by "ex" commissars who all grew up reciting Leninist catechisms? Who are now re-nationalizing all Russian businesses, crushing dissent and rebuilding the USSR?
== Immigration ==
But what about immigration? Well, surprise? I'll sorta half give you that one!
It's a vexing problem and the farthest left has not been helpful. They refuse to see how Putin and other tyrants have herded poor refugees into Europe and America, knowing it will push potitics in those countries to the right. And it has even worked on U.S. Hispanics, who poll overwhelmingly wanting tighter borders.
Look, you may not like facing it, but Putin's strategy here has worked! And if you lefties want the power to do good, YOU are gonna have to prioritize. Compromise.
But this is not a Bill Maher screed aimed at woke-ist betrayals of the only coalition that can save the world. Later.Now why would he do that? Simple. Going back generations before Trump & Putin took over the Republican Party, the GOP's master oligarchs loved cheap labor!
You just think about that now.
P.S. If a time comes when Republicans reject the madness and corruption that skyrocketed in the GOP since Dennis 'friend to boys" Hastert, and choose instead to return to political negotiation, moderate dems will race to work out incremental steps to mix pragmatic border security with helping refugees return safely to their improved home countries... with living by the American tradition (and biblical injunction) of kindness to legitimate newcomers.
== Again - the most-effective single sentence is... ==
"ALL of the honest adults who served under Trump now denounce him."
Earlier I showed former Trumpists who were admirable to some degree, and now denounce him. Now gaze at some more! Though some of these weren't quite as admirable. ==>
Still, these guys at least want the USA to survive! If only because it's where they keep their best stuff. Hypocrites some of them? I prefer the first set! Still, we need all the help...
On the other hand, THIS is a Republican we can all respect! (below):
* But of course... he is.
== The endless lies ==
I notoriously demand WAGERS over all the lies! e.g. ANY randomly chosen 5 minute segment of any Trump speech! Put it before a randomly-chosen panel of low-political retired, senior military officers. I have a long list (dropped into comments*) of wager challenges. And not one MAGA in ten years has ever had the manly guts or confidence to step up with $$$ stakes. Not one, ever. Weenie no-cojone cowards.
But let's start with Trump's endless promises to prove Obama was born in Kenya, or the mythical plan for "Great Health Plans to replace Obamacare! I'll unveil it next week!" And then the next week and the next, for year after year...
...and MAGAs never ask "Um, well?"
Or releasing "My great financials!" Or "I'll proudly release my tax returns when the IRS is done auditing!" Except the audits were a myth! Or his college transcripts. Or the bone spur xrays. Or the fecal spew of lies during covid.
What we DO have is at least 20 copies of the Honolulu Advertizer from 1962 that folks have found in attics and garages all over Hawaii, with a birth announcement for Barack Obama. But any retraction or shame from ol' Two Scoops? Never.
There's a reason...
<==Declassify the "we fell in love!" notes from Kim!
Then there's the biggest damn lie of them all...
== And heck, let's give you some more! ==
Do I have an ulterior motive, in dumping upon you this tsunami of jpegs? I mean other than hoping that a few of you will use them to help save the nation and world?
Hey I am over 70 and pushing 'clippings' at the young is what we farts do! ;-0
But still... I am angry at MAGA crapheads dumping on Tim Walz, a 25 year veteran who trained hundreds of young troops with patience that made him beloved... as with 20 years of high school civics students... and the teams he coached to state championships... and so much more. (HOW the Putin servants searched for ONE former student they could bribe to denounce Walz; even one.) A command sergeant major whose shoes you lying bastards aren't fit to...
Like this good man who served and still does ==>
(Calm David. You promised 'malice toward none..." And I will. After we save America in this 8th phase of the recurring civil war.)
In contrast to real men... we have this cringing, face-painted carnival barker... zoom in!
Finally, Here's my biggest effort at supplying political tactics that might have ended this phase of the US Civil War decisively, in 2020, instead of merely getting a Gettysburg - vital(!) but requiring us to keep fighting the same monster. May this year be Appomattox! Followed by "Malice toward none and charity for all..."
...and an America that leads a consensus-wiser world toward freedom, hope, and the stars.
......... And in the words of Tiny Tim... God bless us, one and all...
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Oh, I oughta give originator credit lines for every single one of these jpegs! It's a modern problem. Almost none of the postings I took them from had credits, either! This is one problem I expect AI to solve and soon. May they be Machines of Loving Grace.
12 comments:
I did some statistical analyses on the last 50 years of partisan control of presidency/house/senate vs the resulting change in a variety of econ variables.
Result: The data is sparse, but the trend is that more Republicans in control lead to worse outcomes for inflation and unemployment.
https://www.someweekendreading.blog/parties-econ/
Dr Brin, in the last post you asked if anyone had a link for the 2000 Brooks Bros riot. The image at this link might be what you are looking for; it IDs the operatives in the famous photo: https://www.voluntownpeacetrust.org/a-peace-of-history-blog/disrupting-the-ballot-count-20002020
Here's Rachel Maddow on the same event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ji_k0iORUZg
I was on vacation so I wasn't able to respond to a troll who showed up a few threads back to say that Biden is old (duh) and there was a coup (bullshit). I would like to point out for the record that Joe had enough delegates to be the nominee, and those delegates were obligated to vote for him at the convention. So the ONLY person who could *force* Joe to drop out was... Joe Biden. A "coup" (as the term is usually defined) was impossible. It is a huge leap to get from "persuaded he could not win" to "there was a coup!".
Perhaps DT does recite the entire Lord’s Prayer— backwards.
Not a Trump appointee but, since his time, it seems you should have been referring to SCJ Alito as 'Sir Sam', as he was made a member of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (a German honor) in 2017.
I gather the Constitution says this is a definite no-no.
Not so much a hedge knight as a bench knight.
Might’ve been a bot a few threads back, though without more comments from ‘Spencer’ there’d be no way of knowing.
David, thank you for putting this together. I've been following your posts and your seemingly endless challenges that never get accepted. Let's hope this keeps the orange creepster our of office once and for all. It's an extremely disturbing time to be alive.
You may want to fix the James Mattis quote in your article, it seems to be missing a word (I think it is supposed to be won't even):
Examples: James Mattis, Marine General(ret), Trump’s 1st Defense Secretary: “Donald Trump is the first president in my life who even pretend to try to unite the American people. He tries to divide us.”
thx CB
Excellent! I'm sharing.
"He leadeth me..." Is the 23rd Psalm, not the Lord's Prayer.
Arnold, David, John (Scalzi), Randall (Munro) and Taylor are all endorsing Kamala; how can we lose?
In answer, the Wayback Machine heads to 1952 for the Eisenhower vs. Stevenson election:
"Adlai, every thinking person in America will vote for you!"
"Yes, but I need a majority."
Pappenheimer
I had to look this up to ensure it wasn't from the Onion or some other satire site, but the Trump Campaign was offering (until recently) "Latter-Day Saints for Trump" coffee mugs and beer cozies.
OK, then..
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