This is top-of-the-line commentary: good and accurate stuff. Biden's always been a jerk, but also the ultimate "company yes-man," and got a Lifetime Achievement Award when he was installed as el Presidente in 2020. "No motive" should be Biden's campaign slogan going forward. You can't paint your opponent and his followers as Hitler and the Brown Shirts and not expect weird violence as a result.
Exactly! Equating Trump as Hitler is designed by intent to create division and hatred amongst Americans. Good leadership doesn’t do that. Yet America’s does. Why? I’m not an American but a mere dumb Aussie observing as an outsider, what you say you stand for - Liberty Freedom and Happiness are the antithesis to what you really represent. America is a fascist nation, run by a demented despot and a band of crazed war mongering corrupt elitists, who’d sell their mothers off for a nickel. The US’s leadership doesn’t value life, everything it does is to suppress, oppress, subjugate, control, deny its citizens and destroy other countries through subversion, coups, economic sanctions, wars etc. I’m not too sure what you’re trying to defend or tell me, but be serious about assessing what America is, what it has become and what America’s leadership is creating and delivering? Americans who haven’t and remain brainwashed will eventually wake up, but by then it. will be too late if it already isn’t. Telling Americans to put Trump in the ‘bulls eye’ should tell you enough about what America is!
I’d say our elites don’t value lives other than their own. And it isn’t unique to US, but was manifested in almost every government during Covid. They only care about their own power. Yet it is the easiest thing in the world to remove, we simply need to disobey. This is what they fear above all: The day the masses simply stop obeying their diktats, the gig is up. I think that is why they work so hard to keep us in factions fighting each other, so we’re too distracted to see the power actually lies within us.
I’m with you on that, Debbie. I was listening to a podcast with Vanessa Beelley and she was discussing how Trump was interviewed by the warmonger Hannity on Fox News and Trump was saying Israel needs to get it done which we all know what that means and referred to Chuck Schummer as a bad Palestinian( he said Palestinian in a very derogatory manner). And many Americans are going to get behind him b/c of what happened last Saturday. It makes me sick. He’s not for ending wars b/c he supports Israhell and wants to go after Iran & China. Makes me sick!!😢☮️🇵🇸
as a radicalized pyrrhonist, george, after 83 years peripatetically floundering about over this planet's surface through multifarious cultures, i fear to vaticinate that your argute observations and agapaically-framed suggestions will redound to yet another chimeric dream. our species is fundamentally flawed; it is nurtured by and thrives on belligerence, acrimony, and disdain for 'the other', whoever the other is perceived to be at any given moment of a group's slippery fungibility. i foolishly yearn for the halcyon days of my sanguine youth, but time has transmogrified that trajectory of hope into defeasance and acceptance of that defeasance. as the cynosure of pacifism chris hedges wrote, "war gives us meaning". conflict is a more powerful motivator of sustentation than peace, open-mindedness, and tranquilitude.
This piece seems rather distorted to me, as it never even notes the much greater rhetoric of hatred and violence coming from the Trump camp--against those few Republicans who refuse to adulate The One, as well as against Democrats--nor does it note that America is steeped in violence. More useful is the note that the attempted shooting of a rich white man is universally condemned, but the millions who have died at the order of that man, his opponent, and his predecessor are just normalized. It's not only that America is always at war--it's that violence and war are glorified throughout the culture. Sure, the parties could "tone down their rhetoric" but the ruling class needs us to be at war, between the Red Team and the Blue Team, because otherwise by now we'd have turned that aggression against our true enemies--them. The Dems have to "wave the bloody shirt" against the Republicans, to get their voters out despite the fact that Biden's admin has failed on nearly all its promises, which Demo voters do care about--AND is pushing a genocide. Republican voters have given up on any politician doing anything for the middle class (and they despise the poor). They are satisfied when the R leaders throw them emotional candy, much of it in the form of that divisive rhetoric about how the Dems are going to ensure that their kids are groomed to be gay communists, we need to "take back the nation" for the upstanding godly christians, etc.
It’s not distorted it points out the disingenuousness of a party that advocates for violence. Inciting Americans to put Trump in the ‘bulls eye’ isn’t exactly wishing someone happy birthday don’t you think?
It's not but we know he's not being literal. Because we're not quite that ignorant and gullible and strapped full of weapons. Don't double down on something that just isn't a thing. The war machine and ignoring of the global south etc hypocrisy is a better argument. I'm just saying. But you can pick the hills you want to stand on.
Rachel - i’ve lost several subscribers because of this article - my point is i’m not writing it as a supporter of Trump - i’m writing it to point out the lack of sincerity, the duplicity, the disingenuousness and the irresponsibleness of a leader and the party seeking to foster hate and division, and then calling for calm when imbeciles like Biden, Clinton, the media have been stoking a dangerous fire. In other words I don’t care if subscribers unsubscribe because I’m calling something out. That’s the Hill i’m standing on.
I get that, but their hypocrisy is so much beyond just language. And again people are feeling attacked. I see where you're coming from but probably a lot of Americans who consider the Democrats are not going to yet. It's going to take time. Gaza has separated me from the establishment Democrats forever. I'm not going to be able to overlook a genocide. But I get shamed every time I say that, by the majority of Democrats who are terrified of Trump. But if Biden wanted to win this election he would have paid attention to all the people who feel like I do. My vote was never going to save democracy. And neither will a second term of Biden. I'm not sure the US deserves to call itself a democracy.
Exactly. I think it's impossible to understand how loud and frightening those conservatives are and how they stopped listening to anything we could call a shared reality based in measurable facts at least 5 years ago if not longer. Who got to go home after trying to overthrow the government? Who gets arrested and beaten at protests they've got all the permits for. It never varies. It's not sometimes them and sometimes us. It is always us getting arrested and them actually being more violent. Imagine if BLM had even attempted Jan 6. You think it would have gone the same? Now try to imagine how it would have played out if they'd brought any weapons.
Oh, please! What better way to show how steeped in hateful Democrat rhetoric you are than to call an unarmed group involved in a peaceful protest an attempted overthrow of the government. Rank idiotic hypocrisy at its worst. I’m so glad I am not a part of either camp, and as an outside observer the violent rhetoric of the Democrats is exponentially worse than any I’ve seen from conservatives. BLM and Antifa violence and rioting and all sorts of incitement by the likes of Joy Reid, Whoopi Goldberg, Rachel Maddow and Joe Scarborough, etc. You need to stop listening to the hate mongers and realize that your fellow Americans aren’t your enemy, the political parasites in both parties are.
Thanks for the food for thought. It's important to understand how people are viewing the overall environment and the totality of the situation. I've just some initial responses to your depiction.
First of all, Biden's comments were not public. They were mentioned on a private call. This was reported by Politico, after someone leaked the contents of that call.
Now, we can quibble about the import of the word 'bullseye' itself -- indeed, I happened to write about the subject myself, just today -- but you can't construe a comment as inciting violence if it is not public. That's actually part of the definition of incitement.
I could also pick at your portrayal of the George Floyd demonstrations, a very small number of which devolved into violence (always at night, as opposed to the daytime marches; some of which may have been started by opportunists who had joined the nighttime marches to kick off such activity, etc.). It's estimated that the vast majority, more than 90%, of the George Floyd demonstrations were peaceful.
I personally am more interested in the uses of language, especially in a demagogic context, so I'm quite interested in exploring that aspect. If you are curious, here are my thoughts on the subject: https://novapsyche.substack.com/p/bullseye
I see the valid points you're trying to raise but if you could name me some of the Democratic voters that take this type of language coming from any of their politicians as tacit approval to actually get a weapon and go attack anyone at all, then I'd be more inclined to say that you have a stronger argument. The gun control voters by and large DON'T own guns and the ones that do are not using them to take out or even threaten Republicans. Your points about the language are valid enough but I don't think Democrats started using such aggressive language until very, very recently. I've never received a Christmas card from my one Democratic house representative that shows his entire family posing with their own assault rifles. To me, I'm getting way more of a false equivalency/both sides vibe from the argument you believe you're making as it pertains to each party having equal responsibility. Now if you had gone with the hypocrisy of claiming to abhor violence while giving Israel unlimited bombs to drop on an already decimated civilian population? That's a more persuasive argument. You aren't wrong exactly, and I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt here because unless you're here and seeing the folks stockpiling guns and who they clearly identify with and against versus the people begging for assault weapons bans and the party they mostly vote for and how terrifying it is to live in a state with open carry and pretty much zero restrictions on guns and who they are aligning themselves with? I can see where you might think it's "both sides" but I think Biden is just trying not to look like a less "manly" candidate. Shit is definitely a mess. But if you want to see what happens when Democrats try to carry weapons in self defense, look at Kyle Rittenhouse's lack of punishment and then celebrity turn. Our security and police state doesn't actually allow people who are not Republicans to get away with exercising their 2A rights. And most Democrats don't have much interest in it.
Trump IS an existential threat to democracy, and that needs to be said repeatedly. The right has been using violent rhetoric « forever. » Ann Coulter would pass it off as jokes. Palin posted « cross-hairs. » The gunman was a Republican. Biden didn’t cause any « assassination. » I find this piece bizarre. Democrats need to keep pressing the case that democracy is at stake. This is a fascist coup before our eyes, and Republicans have never hesitated to make outrageous, false, violent claims. And to make their families gun props. Violent rhetoric and lies and blame are in Republican DNA.
Democracy is an illusion. Parroting partisan talking points may make you feel good, and is much easier than actually thinking, but it only makes you a part of the problem. Just because you are allowed to select your master every few years doesn’t change the fact that you are a slave. That we are ruled by overlords is plainly evident. When they claim that democracy is under threat they are relying on the gullibility of the indoctrinated masses.
First, you demonstrate what merit there is in a system that allows 51% to dictate how everyone must live. I don’t see any.The US was founded as a Republic, with democratically elected representatives, but sadly it proved to be just as susceptible to corruption and perverse incentivisation as all the other forms of government. Turns out it isn’t the type of government that matters so much as the size. But all governments are predisposed to usurp more and more power and, like other cancers, to uncontrolled growth that will ultimately destroy the host. I am pro human, pro freedom, anti state. Small, local, voluntary governance is supportive of human flourishing. Massive nation states are absolutely destructive of it.
George Hazim, great comment! Your posts show definitively that you've got the Zeit of the Geist, so to speak. "America," in my estimation, is a "Front Company" for globalist concerns that wish to be as anonymous as possible going forward. Trump is just the Clown leading the Circus; Biden is the Clown falling down--and now he's got "Covid," just to resurrect that failed policy regime tactic. The Anglo-shperical Model of World Domination is teetering, like Humpty-Trumpty, on the edge of the proverbial Abyss--and they're scared. "America" is a paradox country--probably Australia, too. Hope all is as well as can be in your climes...
This is top-of-the-line commentary: good and accurate stuff. Biden's always been a jerk, but also the ultimate "company yes-man," and got a Lifetime Achievement Award when he was installed as el Presidente in 2020. "No motive" should be Biden's campaign slogan going forward. You can't paint your opponent and his followers as Hitler and the Brown Shirts and not expect weird violence as a result.
Exactly! Equating Trump as Hitler is designed by intent to create division and hatred amongst Americans. Good leadership doesn’t do that. Yet America’s does. Why? I’m not an American but a mere dumb Aussie observing as an outsider, what you say you stand for - Liberty Freedom and Happiness are the antithesis to what you really represent. America is a fascist nation, run by a demented despot and a band of crazed war mongering corrupt elitists, who’d sell their mothers off for a nickel. The US’s leadership doesn’t value life, everything it does is to suppress, oppress, subjugate, control, deny its citizens and destroy other countries through subversion, coups, economic sanctions, wars etc. I’m not too sure what you’re trying to defend or tell me, but be serious about assessing what America is, what it has become and what America’s leadership is creating and delivering? Americans who haven’t and remain brainwashed will eventually wake up, but by then it. will be too late if it already isn’t. Telling Americans to put Trump in the ‘bulls eye’ should tell you enough about what America is!
I’d say our elites don’t value lives other than their own. And it isn’t unique to US, but was manifested in almost every government during Covid. They only care about their own power. Yet it is the easiest thing in the world to remove, we simply need to disobey. This is what they fear above all: The day the masses simply stop obeying their diktats, the gig is up. I think that is why they work so hard to keep us in factions fighting each other, so we’re too distracted to see the power actually lies within us.
I can’t get too upset about assassinations of politicians who support mass murder of people in other countries.
I’m with you on that, Debbie. I was listening to a podcast with Vanessa Beelley and she was discussing how Trump was interviewed by the warmonger Hannity on Fox News and Trump was saying Israel needs to get it done which we all know what that means and referred to Chuck Schummer as a bad Palestinian( he said Palestinian in a very derogatory manner). And many Americans are going to get behind him b/c of what happened last Saturday. It makes me sick. He’s not for ending wars b/c he supports Israhell and wants to go after Iran & China. Makes me sick!!😢☮️🇵🇸
as a radicalized pyrrhonist, george, after 83 years peripatetically floundering about over this planet's surface through multifarious cultures, i fear to vaticinate that your argute observations and agapaically-framed suggestions will redound to yet another chimeric dream. our species is fundamentally flawed; it is nurtured by and thrives on belligerence, acrimony, and disdain for 'the other', whoever the other is perceived to be at any given moment of a group's slippery fungibility. i foolishly yearn for the halcyon days of my sanguine youth, but time has transmogrified that trajectory of hope into defeasance and acceptance of that defeasance. as the cynosure of pacifism chris hedges wrote, "war gives us meaning". conflict is a more powerful motivator of sustentation than peace, open-mindedness, and tranquilitude.
i don’t disagree Jeanie. Thank you and love as always. George
This piece seems rather distorted to me, as it never even notes the much greater rhetoric of hatred and violence coming from the Trump camp--against those few Republicans who refuse to adulate The One, as well as against Democrats--nor does it note that America is steeped in violence. More useful is the note that the attempted shooting of a rich white man is universally condemned, but the millions who have died at the order of that man, his opponent, and his predecessor are just normalized. It's not only that America is always at war--it's that violence and war are glorified throughout the culture. Sure, the parties could "tone down their rhetoric" but the ruling class needs us to be at war, between the Red Team and the Blue Team, because otherwise by now we'd have turned that aggression against our true enemies--them. The Dems have to "wave the bloody shirt" against the Republicans, to get their voters out despite the fact that Biden's admin has failed on nearly all its promises, which Demo voters do care about--AND is pushing a genocide. Republican voters have given up on any politician doing anything for the middle class (and they despise the poor). They are satisfied when the R leaders throw them emotional candy, much of it in the form of that divisive rhetoric about how the Dems are going to ensure that their kids are groomed to be gay communists, we need to "take back the nation" for the upstanding godly christians, etc.
It’s not distorted it points out the disingenuousness of a party that advocates for violence. Inciting Americans to put Trump in the ‘bulls eye’ isn’t exactly wishing someone happy birthday don’t you think?
It's not but we know he's not being literal. Because we're not quite that ignorant and gullible and strapped full of weapons. Don't double down on something that just isn't a thing. The war machine and ignoring of the global south etc hypocrisy is a better argument. I'm just saying. But you can pick the hills you want to stand on.
Rachel - i’ve lost several subscribers because of this article - my point is i’m not writing it as a supporter of Trump - i’m writing it to point out the lack of sincerity, the duplicity, the disingenuousness and the irresponsibleness of a leader and the party seeking to foster hate and division, and then calling for calm when imbeciles like Biden, Clinton, the media have been stoking a dangerous fire. In other words I don’t care if subscribers unsubscribe because I’m calling something out. That’s the Hill i’m standing on.
I get that, but their hypocrisy is so much beyond just language. And again people are feeling attacked. I see where you're coming from but probably a lot of Americans who consider the Democrats are not going to yet. It's going to take time. Gaza has separated me from the establishment Democrats forever. I'm not going to be able to overlook a genocide. But I get shamed every time I say that, by the majority of Democrats who are terrified of Trump. But if Biden wanted to win this election he would have paid attention to all the people who feel like I do. My vote was never going to save democracy. And neither will a second term of Biden. I'm not sure the US deserves to call itself a democracy.
Exactly. I think it's impossible to understand how loud and frightening those conservatives are and how they stopped listening to anything we could call a shared reality based in measurable facts at least 5 years ago if not longer. Who got to go home after trying to overthrow the government? Who gets arrested and beaten at protests they've got all the permits for. It never varies. It's not sometimes them and sometimes us. It is always us getting arrested and them actually being more violent. Imagine if BLM had even attempted Jan 6. You think it would have gone the same? Now try to imagine how it would have played out if they'd brought any weapons.
Oh, please! What better way to show how steeped in hateful Democrat rhetoric you are than to call an unarmed group involved in a peaceful protest an attempted overthrow of the government. Rank idiotic hypocrisy at its worst. I’m so glad I am not a part of either camp, and as an outside observer the violent rhetoric of the Democrats is exponentially worse than any I’ve seen from conservatives. BLM and Antifa violence and rioting and all sorts of incitement by the likes of Joy Reid, Whoopi Goldberg, Rachel Maddow and Joe Scarborough, etc. You need to stop listening to the hate mongers and realize that your fellow Americans aren’t your enemy, the political parasites in both parties are.
Thanks for the food for thought. It's important to understand how people are viewing the overall environment and the totality of the situation. I've just some initial responses to your depiction.
First of all, Biden's comments were not public. They were mentioned on a private call. This was reported by Politico, after someone leaked the contents of that call.
Now, we can quibble about the import of the word 'bullseye' itself -- indeed, I happened to write about the subject myself, just today -- but you can't construe a comment as inciting violence if it is not public. That's actually part of the definition of incitement.
I could also pick at your portrayal of the George Floyd demonstrations, a very small number of which devolved into violence (always at night, as opposed to the daytime marches; some of which may have been started by opportunists who had joined the nighttime marches to kick off such activity, etc.). It's estimated that the vast majority, more than 90%, of the George Floyd demonstrations were peaceful.
I personally am more interested in the uses of language, especially in a demagogic context, so I'm quite interested in exploring that aspect. If you are curious, here are my thoughts on the subject: https://novapsyche.substack.com/p/bullseye
I see the valid points you're trying to raise but if you could name me some of the Democratic voters that take this type of language coming from any of their politicians as tacit approval to actually get a weapon and go attack anyone at all, then I'd be more inclined to say that you have a stronger argument. The gun control voters by and large DON'T own guns and the ones that do are not using them to take out or even threaten Republicans. Your points about the language are valid enough but I don't think Democrats started using such aggressive language until very, very recently. I've never received a Christmas card from my one Democratic house representative that shows his entire family posing with their own assault rifles. To me, I'm getting way more of a false equivalency/both sides vibe from the argument you believe you're making as it pertains to each party having equal responsibility. Now if you had gone with the hypocrisy of claiming to abhor violence while giving Israel unlimited bombs to drop on an already decimated civilian population? That's a more persuasive argument. You aren't wrong exactly, and I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt here because unless you're here and seeing the folks stockpiling guns and who they clearly identify with and against versus the people begging for assault weapons bans and the party they mostly vote for and how terrifying it is to live in a state with open carry and pretty much zero restrictions on guns and who they are aligning themselves with? I can see where you might think it's "both sides" but I think Biden is just trying not to look like a less "manly" candidate. Shit is definitely a mess. But if you want to see what happens when Democrats try to carry weapons in self defense, look at Kyle Rittenhouse's lack of punishment and then celebrity turn. Our security and police state doesn't actually allow people who are not Republicans to get away with exercising their 2A rights. And most Democrats don't have much interest in it.
This sort of divisiveness is exactly what the elites desire, keep the masses attacking each other so they never stop to think who the actual enemy is.
ALARMING – ALL indications are that Trump assassination was ordered:
https://rumble.com/v579890-trump-assassination-attempt-30-min-deep-dive-on-dhs-and-fbi-malfeasance-wnd.html
SAME players as J6 bombs planting – Trump Assassination Attempt - Strange Smoke Around DHS & FBI
https://rumble.com/v578rpv-trump-assassination-attempt-strange-smoke-around-dhs-and-fbi-w-chanel-rion.html
Trump IS an existential threat to democracy, and that needs to be said repeatedly. The right has been using violent rhetoric « forever. » Ann Coulter would pass it off as jokes. Palin posted « cross-hairs. » The gunman was a Republican. Biden didn’t cause any « assassination. » I find this piece bizarre. Democrats need to keep pressing the case that democracy is at stake. This is a fascist coup before our eyes, and Republicans have never hesitated to make outrageous, false, violent claims. And to make their families gun props. Violent rhetoric and lies and blame are in Republican DNA.
Absolutely! Thank you!!!
Democracy is an illusion. Parroting partisan talking points may make you feel good, and is much easier than actually thinking, but it only makes you a part of the problem. Just because you are allowed to select your master every few years doesn’t change the fact that you are a slave. That we are ruled by overlords is plainly evident. When they claim that democracy is under threat they are relying on the gullibility of the indoctrinated masses.
You have shared your cynicism. Now perhaps you might share your strategies and practices for getting us to democracy.
First, you demonstrate what merit there is in a system that allows 51% to dictate how everyone must live. I don’t see any.The US was founded as a Republic, with democratically elected representatives, but sadly it proved to be just as susceptible to corruption and perverse incentivisation as all the other forms of government. Turns out it isn’t the type of government that matters so much as the size. But all governments are predisposed to usurp more and more power and, like other cancers, to uncontrolled growth that will ultimately destroy the host. I am pro human, pro freedom, anti state. Small, local, voluntary governance is supportive of human flourishing. Massive nation states are absolutely destructive of it.
“Secret Service deliberately failed to protect Trump” – Scott Ritter -- OUTSTANDING and fairly definitive !!
(ordered by “establishment” – which remember includes GOP RINOs which are majority Rs in both Senate and Congress)
https://youtu.be/lYrwhCSzV60?si=JgM0vmLSwETyNwUv
George Hazim, great comment! Your posts show definitively that you've got the Zeit of the Geist, so to speak. "America," in my estimation, is a "Front Company" for globalist concerns that wish to be as anonymous as possible going forward. Trump is just the Clown leading the Circus; Biden is the Clown falling down--and now he's got "Covid," just to resurrect that failed policy regime tactic. The Anglo-shperical Model of World Domination is teetering, like Humpty-Trumpty, on the edge of the proverbial Abyss--and they're scared. "America" is a paradox country--probably Australia, too. Hope all is as well as can be in your climes...