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Rocky, no, you don’t sound delusional. Or, more accurately, you sound like I feel. Many good people are walking around thinking that this is all just “a little unusual”. You know, those folks who are commenting at work, “It has been a really bad year”. But it is so far beyond that. The unnerving thing is that, if what we think is true, then a very significant portion of our country are actively trying to destroy our foundational principles. A plurality are like frogs in the pot that is being brought to a boil.
Boomsday is a novel by Christopher Buckley that is a treatment of this inter-generational revolt. Like many of Buckley’s books it is a satire, but it is increasingly looking like non-fiction. 😛
I presume you realize that if you vote for Joe Biden you will contribute to accelerating the momentum into the black hole. Will he (or more accurately, will his overlords allow him to) take decisive action against the manifestations of The Resistance? There are damn few politicians today with the nerve to confront the howling pack. It is the essence of Donald Trump. His willingness to block progress toward the world of Orwell’s 1984 is now unusual. Look at what his OMB director did:
“White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought wrote in a letter to the heads of federal departments:
It has come to the President’s attention that Executive Branch agencies have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to date “training” government workers to believe divisive, anti-American propaganda.
For example, according to press reports, employees across the Executive Branch have been required to attend trainings where they are told that “virtually all White people contribute to racism” or where they are required to say that they “benefit from racism.” According to press reports, in some cases these training have further claimed that there is racism embedded in the belief that America is the land of opportunity or the belief that the most qualified person should receive a job.
These types of “trainings” not only run counter to the fundamental beliefs for which our Nation has stood since its inception, but they also engender division and resentment within the Federal workforce. We can be proud that as an employer, the Federal government has employees of all races, ethnicities, and religions. We can be proud that Americans from all over the country seek to join our workforce and dedicate themselves to public service. We can be proud of our continued efforts to welcome all individuals who seek to serve their fellow Americans as Federal employees. However, we cannot accept our employees receiving training that seeks to undercut our core values as Americans and drive division within our workforce.
The President has directed me to ensure that Federal agencies cease and desist from using taxpayer dollars to fund these divisive, un-American propaganda training sessions.”
The Boomers (my generation) are the cause of much, if not most, if not nearly all directly or indirectly, the rot that has taken place in America. We are the reason that the nation teeters on the cusp of ruin. We are hugely to blame for the depredation and lack of values of our offspring. We had too much material success and collapsed into paroxysms of self-indulgent waste and intellectual masturbation.
This video is a lot of fun. I sent it to a boatload of folks with the message: Can’t we all just get along? 😎
Both of your links worked for me.
It is an interesting story that is unfolding. Blacks are sick of being taken for granted. The ‘Blexit” and the “Walk Away” movements are having an effect. The substantive policy efforts by the Trump administration are having an effect. The fact that progressives are overplaying their positions (really, trying to argue that looting is OK?) is having a major effect.
Not only is Rassmussen more accurate because they use “likely voters”, but they use a representative mix of Dem/Rep voting. If Trump wins even close to 20% of the Black vote, Biden is done. Not just because of the changed voting pattern, but because of what it reflects about a lack of enthusiasm among Black voters for Biden/Harris.
Didn’t know where else to put this, but I liked it. Here it is:
I’m quite surprised by this info:
I had been under the impression that folks in the military are a strong source of support for Trump. The article asserts that, in fact, such support has been steadily declining since Trump was elected.
On the other hand, this recent news has GOT to be a bit unnerving for Biden and his lackeys. Oh, wait. Biden IS the lackey. Anyway,
I am scared to death that expectations for Biden’s debate performance are so ridiculously low that he will be declared the winner if he is even standing at the end.
And I’m told that none of the most highly-regarded clothing designers will work with her. That undermines my faith in efficient markets a little bit.
Also, Google indicates she speaks six languages, but I presume that Midler’s point is that Melania doesn’t speak any of the six as well as Midler speaks English. As Bugs Bunny once said, “What a maroon!!!”.
Where does one access “Deluded”? Sounds wildly entertaining. Funny, when you “google” it, the first few listings are to diatribes about how massively extremist the OAN is and they try to completely discredit it as a source. Of course, the network doesn’t make much of an effort to be anything more than a rumor mill. It keeps folks minds bordering on explosion. It represents an appropriate response to Media Matters (which was the source of one of the critiques I mentioned at the outset).
Right. Because George W. Bush did SO well staying above the fray and not responding to the baseless, random, sordid prattle of the most extreme elements of the left.
I get it. It is unbelievable that the President of the US is weighing in on Goodyear’s internal training materials. I would think he could get in a couple more rounds of golf every month if he did not bother with such trivial crap. But he gets more stuff done, and some way more important stuff, than Joe can even dream about.
Until recently I was spending most of my bulletin board time at The Cardboard, but the discussion there has become abusive. Unless you confess and aver that you will never vote for Trump, your opinions will get short shrift and you will be in for a massive amount of abuse. I remember Barbara Walters interviewing Gordon Liddy a few years after Nixon’s resignation. She asked Liddy if he would ever not vote for Nixon in hypothetical election. I think Walters thought that might be a “gotcha” moment, but Liddy instantly responded, “against whom?”.
Trump makes himself a pretty big target. Constantly. No question in my mind that he can be pretty easy to dislike. And Biden is less overtly offensive. OK. Fine. When did election to the Presidency of the United States necessitate that a person be a great guy? It is sad that the electorate has been steadily degraded to the point that a fairly large swath of the voters think that this is a giant game of American Idol or the NFL playoffs. That kind of shallowness is destroying our nation.
Besides, the Republicans tried John McCain and Mitt Romney. McCain was supposed to be a placator or a capitulator. He got steamrolled. Romney was supposed to be an intellect and a genius about all things mercantile. He was eviscerated. Donald Trump was unlike those two. Totally. In spades. And it worked. He won.
I’m pretty sure it is misguided to just look at the similarities with 2016 and assume that it will work out the same way. It always at least has a wrinkle. No, it won’t be a duplicate, I suppose. But the focus of the Democrats’ campaign probably ought to be Trump’s personality. Their only hope is to have voters focus on their emotions – not their powers of reason.
I did a nice little write-up to identify myself to you all, but stupidly forgot to save it and then lost it during the process of posting it. Your losses, I guess. I’m sure as hell not doing it again.
I grew up in Iowa, thus the clever, self-deprecatory screen name. I figured I may as well lean into the BS. You know, several times during my undergraduate years I had people tell me that they were familiar with Iowa. And each time they would identify it as the capital of Minnesota.
I will try again to post this with that graph depicting my “Political Compass”. The other riveting stories will have to wait to be revealed over the course of future posts, I suppose. So you have that to look forward to – and that’s nice.
