The good news is, as you point out gato, they are on a terminal glide slope - out of altitude, out of airspeed, and out of ideas.
Journalism/politics is like a half-used jar of mayonnaise brought to a party...everyone notices it...but nobody's "touching" it.
At least that's what I'm seeing with virtually everyone down here in Florida.
The gigs up imo. It took 9 years...and as much as Trump annoys me i have to give him credit because he probably did what no other politician could do: expose the "hustle" with the media and state.
Perhaps it took a shameless buffoon with very little self-awareness to let the "enemy" destroy itself out of hatred and contempt for the peasants who built this country?
I've been feeling very good about our chances since he raised his fist, after taking a bullet, and said:
Edit: I also think DeSantis is due a lot of credit because he singlehandedly stood up against the media, the establishment, POTUS and a terrified cowardly public during The Scamdemic.
He's got a set of cojones and he did what very few politicians ever do:
Admit they were wrong and change course, midstream, when the "facts" on the ground change - during a crisis and make tough/unpopular decisive decision.
In other words, he's exactly what a true leader is.
DeSantis was cursed with a whiny voice and an unimpressive stage presence but he's a great manager, nice and calm when you need someone to be. He'd make a smart choice for HHS Secretary.
As the unofficial spokesperson for all of Florida men, that's a big negatory.Good buddy where keeping Ron we likingAs the unofficial spokesperson for all of Florida men, that's a big negatory. Good buddy, we're keeping Ron, we like him. We don't want to send him to Washington. We may just make him king of Florida.Just for the hell of it, watch the liberal heads explode
If our government were run like a private business they could pay for everything at 1/5th of the national budget with far better service/quality, and we'd get a refund from the IRS.
People go work for government because the standards are so much lower and the benefits are great. To get the populace not to see the civil service as the gold mine they want to exploit forever gonna take a meteor strike, one way or another.
In the 19th century that probably wouldn't matter since people got their news from newspapers. The president's of that time may not be telegenic enough to win today. It was Reagan that really set the tone. He was an actor portraying a "heroic president".
I disagree that Reagan was an actor playing a “heroic president”. He was an Economics major in college, was president of the Screen Actors Guild during a very fraught period in their history, and served as California governor. He gave a series of speeches and radio addresses from the late 40’s through the 70’s - written by himself - that showed a keen grasp of history, economics, politics, and human nature. The very press machine that our favorite feline is pillorying in this piece is the same one that made sure he was labeled as an empty-headed actor playing at President.
Not sure I agree with your negative comments about DeSantis. As a Californian having to endure the abominable Gavin Newsom, I find DeSantis highly intelligent, calm and steady, principled, and after studying any issue and being thoroughly knowledgeable about it, he always displays such an impressive resolve in determining exactly what needs to be done about it. Then he goes and does it with no big fanfare. As Elvis used to say...TCB...Taking Care of Business. If only DeSantis were governor of my ridiculous state! I don't hear a whiny voice, either.
He sure expedited the delivery of the vax. Warp Speed fer shure. He'd've been crucified by all the senior village communities if he hadn't. If that's not bowing to the winds of popular hysteria I don't know what is.
Of course, any political leader who would've urged caution and better data and a healthy skepticism would've been destroyed by the media and called a murderer of millions.
But making the trains to the death camp run great...I guess there's no way to escape that with your head intact.
Wrong tense: Disney HAD, under Walt D, created their own little fiefdom (with the approval/blessing of previous administrations). DeSantis took the company on in a series of on-going (and continuing) battles over the fiefdom/current political issues.
I got to see DeSantis speak when he came to Carlsbad, NM in 2022 & he was dynamic. Wanted DeSantis all the way to the presidency & he continues to impress w/ his handling of leftwing lunacy in FL. But I guess Trump is the “man for this moment”.
DeSantis is without question an excellent Governor. He has been also extremely good at standing up against Woke insanity.
That being said, to this day I cannot comprehend how he was duped by the neocon, RINO faction of Dem-lite Republicans the likes of the Bush’s et al, to run against Trump. And it was a near fatal disaster for him, as it was for all the others who tried to do likewise. All of them have, at the very least, a large asterisk next to their names in my book, as they exposed a dangerous blind spot in just noticing who were are really up against in this election, and it’s not just the Dems. It’s the blob, the political machine, that has been running this country into the ground for decades.
The only person who ever stood athwart them beginning in 2016, has been DJT, courageously and vociferously for their lies, hypocrisy, and destructive policies.
He paved the ground for DeSantis to even be Governor, and succeed because DJT had the balls to call out the enemy.
I’m glad DeSatnis learned at least that much from him.
But running against him revealed a deep and I think, dangerous flaw in his character, and in his grasp of what and who we are really up against.
Also how he DS protected his people from the weather war fare that was lacking by the southern states that just got hit by a known massive storm used to bombed and devastate the area they want to mine by keeping the storm in place long enough, and then can be blamed on climate change.
Trump is the cod liver oil for our constipated political system. Americans have been fed a political diet of sugar-loaded candy of no nutritional value, and the dubious ingredients are likely toxic. The Dems, like spoiled children want more candy even though its making them sick. They don't want to give up the candy, and the idea of taking the cod liver oil is resulting in the expected histrionics. Open your mouths, take the medicine, and purge the system. You'll feel better - I promise.
I've always been a glass-half-full kinda gal and I sense something special is happening. God is ultimately in control and will decide and use whatever occurs. But there is a warm wind blowing. I can feel it.
I need to sit with you for a while Nancy. My stomach is churning nonstop these last weeks. When I venture out into the world, in person or virtual, the shear numbers of people still spouting insanity scares me!
At least 20 years ago Michael Medved published a book and also some audio tapes centered around the idea of "God's hand on America, Divine Providence in the Modern Era" . He gave multiple examples through our history of his feeling and actual almost mysterious occurrences that God protects our country and reserves a special place for America in the world so she can "right all the bad ships", and that this is one reason why America has been so very blessed in comparison to every other country. A recent example might be the near assassination of Trump. His turning his head at just the right millisecond to avoid being killed is pretty miraculous if you think about it. That certainly supports Medved's ideas...that Trump, with all his failings, is exactly what is needed right now in not only our history, but in world history.
And Ryan, your obvious intellectual prowess and accumulation of learned resource, spoken in practical and common sense language, is a valuable asset on Substack. You are valued. Thank you.
Let's not feel good and pat ourselves on the back. There's a large swath of Americans who are being primed for a close election. (The easier to steal it). Remember the "red wave" of 2022? We need to act, get people out to vote in such numbers that an attempt to steal will be so bad that it demands a review. Hand counts and all. I worry that the attempt to steal will go the other way. Overload with so many fake ballots for Trump that he looks like what he's been complaining about all these years. Enough that it becomes difficult to claim that the electoral choice is legitimate when Congress convenes on Jan 6. If Congress has a lot of down ballot wins, they may be who votes.
We might want to watch those races. For instance, there's this story out of California which has a large number of congressional seats.
The day before Vem Miller was accused of being a potential 3rd Trump assassin, he reported that there were large shipments of ballots being sent from China to an unusual shipping location, where they were picked up and are being sent to USPS locations.
I will vote on Election Day in my almost certain-to-be blue state. I understand the rationale for early voting in swing states (to facilitate efforts to turn out low-propensity voters); but there is also LBJ's dictum. Don't be the first to put in your vote tallies and thereby disclose to your adversary what they need to beat. See the 1948 race against Coke Stevenson. The mechanics have changed, but not the morals.
I don't know if this is true everywhere, or even true throughout my corrupt blue state of California, but I turned my ballot in at the actual voter admin building of my county. I asked about counting ballots as they were turned in, and they said no, they don't do that. What they were doing with the early ballots (in sealed envelopes with your name and signature on the envelope) was to check names and signatures. They said the actual envelopes would be opened and votes tabulated on Election Day.
In most, but not all, counties in CA your ballot is mailed to you. I guess you could vote in person, but they have been pushing this mailed ballot method for over 10 years now. You get your ballot in the mail and then you can either mail it back to the local election office, drop it in a drop box, or as I did, deliver it personally to the elections office box.
I was at a community gathering last night. The same old hippie community with Kamala signs all over the place. I got chatting with one lady and asked if she and her husband had done anything this weekend. She leaned over to me and whispered in my ear, 'We watched the Trump interview on Rogan." Well, I was not expecting that, but good... I've also overheard a few conversations where these people can't bring themselves to vote for Trump, but will be voting for Stein and the Greens.
At least around here, the Kamala support is only running a millimeter deep right now.
"At least that's what I'm seeing with virtually everyone down here in Florida"
I'm unfortunately not quite as optimistic... I just returned from a 3 day trip to Florida visiting family. They all just regurgitate the slow drip of subtle media propaganda, DeSantis is horrible, the book banning, the teacher firing, the gay hating. Maybe one day people will understand the media farce for what it is, but I honestly doubt it. Even if new media eventually truly kills legacy media, I have serious doubts that it won't just devolve into another cesspool. Rogan is a bit unique I think in that every question is not subtlety nuanced to achieve a specific answer (or trip up).
One thing DeSantis can do is get serious legal action going against Act Blue campaign money laundering.
On Saturday, I put my younger brother's name and Miami zip into https://checkmydonation.org It came back with 137 donations so far this month.
My brother didn't do that 137 times, of course. But he doesn't see that as a problem because the NY Times hasn't told him it's a problem. So he hasn't reported it.
east and central, however I'm reluctant to just lump people together just because where they live. They're listening to the same news as everyone else.
Remember, Trump wasn't a 'politician' until he campaigned and won in 2016. No other office prior. And I'd suggest he still doesn't fit the 'career Pol', model...not like some Senators sitting there for 30+ years, or...
Last night’s MSG event was a tour de force. Authentic, an incredibly smart team, and a “we want our country back” vibe. Agree With you gato and MSNBC posted the 1939 Nazi rally - this needs to stop and the legacy media is low-information propaganda. Trump no longer annoys me; he’s smart, surrounding himself with an incredible team, and he’s now comfortable in his skin (notice how real men and women exude power and confidence?). I’ve stopped hiding opinions and never went along with the DEI crap - more are emerging each day. Hope is real.
He no longer annoys me, either. I sincerely believe the events in Butler changed him, or alternately freed him to reveal more of his real self. While I am not as sanguine as many on "our side" concerning this election, I feel a real change in the mood of the country that bodes well for our future. And it's due to Trump's courage and commitment and that of the team supporting him.
On Twitter this morning, I noticed "Nazi Rally" has been trending. I clicked in, and so far, every reference I've seen is either mocking the idea or saying things like, "I'm Jewish. I went to the Nazi Rally. I'm voting for Trump," etc. Instead of denying in anger, people are laughing.
Can you believe it, MSM showing clips of a 90 year old Nazi rally to try and put Trump’s MSG rally in to “context”. Those damned people need to be punished, they have no place in the White House press corps. That was not news / journalism. We need a new definition of journalism. Corporations should not have free access to the TV spectrum, so 20th century.
On last night's Mark Levin show (Sunday the 27th), he gave an incredible history of the Democrat party's sordid history with racism, suppression, and yes, support of the Nazis. He talked about Margaret Sanger, Truman, Roosevelt and all the things they did against blacks starting with the Reconstruction era. Knowing all this, it continues to astound me that even a single black would vote for a Democrat anywhere.
Not to mention the many other politicians who have appeared before a full house in MSG…but again, the legacy media can bank on most Americans not knowing that….
Love this. And thank you so much for using the words: nasty, unpleasant and authoritarian to describe Kamala Harris. I’m a Californian, and I’ve watched Kamala’s rise over the past 15 years plus. Her record as a prosecutor in California is atrocious. She also had the benefit of Barack Obama and Pelosi taking a shine to her as a little soldier, coinciding with the Democratic Party regime take over of California, which had been in the works since the 1990’s.
Kamala is a political actress, and a perfect DEI. But worse, she’s truly an authoritarian if you listen and pay attention to her. I believe that the reason she obfuscates so much is because she knows who she is, and she knows that she has to hide it from people. What she doesn’t say is what she doesn’t want you to realize about her. For years, I have talked to people about things she has done and said as a prosecutor in San Fran, and CA AG, and it was always, ‘that’s bad’ but not much interest otherwise. She’s managed to fly under the radar, but that is coming to termination if we are lucky and wise enough. I cannot imagine a DOJ of the Harris - Walz administration. If you think that Biden/ Garland is bad, that’s just a warm up to a Kamala Harris one. She’ll say yes to anything, and she lacks grace and mercy.
Tucker Carlson just had an interview with Harmeet Dhillon, an attorney who knew Kamala from the beginning and has all the receipts, and an accomplished freedom fighting attorney in her own right.
When you live a lie it eventually catches up with you. They’ve played all there scare cards & are back to the A’s - “abortion”. God forbid you leave it to the states to vote on it. Too much democracy involved I guess.
Kamala must have been coached by Killary. Who always reminded me of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his dragon-woman wife Elena, rolled up together.
When they didn't get their way, the Ceaușescus simply turned-up the flamethrowers that passed as their mouths.
Until....that final speech of the old boy's in 1989....when the crowd turned. Democrat supporters need some of whatever the Romanian crowd was drinking that fateful day.
I've worked closely with a Romanian colleague for 24 years. She claimed asylum in the US shortly after graduating University and having been imprisoned for political protesting.
Had a few conversations about life in the former Soviet "republics" and the vassal states.
Very happy to say that she's been an American citizen for ~20 years now and as staunchly conservative as anyone I know. Lived experience counts. But, unfortunately, it seems many Americans are incapable of learning from the experience of others =(
Some people who were raised in totalitarianism abhor and fear this (rightly so) for the rest of their lives,. And attempt to warn others.
On the other hand, some never really leave the totalitarian mind-set, wherever they go.
Glad to hear that your friend is in the former camp. Problem is, those who have never experienced totalitarianism as lived experience rarely listen to those who have. Seems to be part of the deviousness of that system. I think of it as the mind-virus seeking loopholes to allow it to replicate itself without exposure and defeat.
Luckily for all of us, I don't think it's going to come to Backs Up Against the Wall.
Woke is Broke. There's not going to be any putting the genie back in the bottle. We know it's a bunch of crap now and no one is going to put up with it anymore.
PM Starmer's popularity in England is taking a deep nose-dive, after just a few months in office. PM Troodo in Canada is in Desperation Days before he is ousted (hoping). And Kamala is not looking too good, the week before the election.
Oh wow! What a great compilation in that video. Very comprehensive. THANK YOU 🙏 for sharing it. I will be using it to share with those in my family on the other side.
Brilliantly written, and comically ingenious. Yet, I think a vital point was missed. The very existence of candidates such as Harris and some might argue, Trump, on center stage USA reveals a deep sickness in our political system. The all too familiar "fail upward" motif elicits an expectable number of guffaws, but all too little shock and horror. The question that needs to be asked is, "how does our political system produce morons such as Harris?" Also, "How do we change it so that the kind of leaders we need will emerge into the limelight and elbow aside the pretenders?" I suspect the answer is not how but whether. In other words, let's not try to tweak a flawed system, let's throw it on the scrap heap and create a better system that makes the old one obsolete, a la Buckminster Fuller. No need to be too creative here: the Libertarians have given us a good starting point -- weak central government and redistribution of the power to the states and the people should be the aim. After all, it's what the Founding Fathers likely had in mind, except possibly the Federalists. And even they signed off on the original plan. We need to kneecap the Federal government before it cannabilizes its citizens. And we need as citizens to get more active in public affairs on the local level, and make our voices heard, in a true particiapatory democracy. Voyeuristic democracy must be replaced. It is getting remarkably dull, predictable and vacuous.
Gato does answer this though in his first law. When politicians decide what can be bought and sold, the first things bought and sold will be politicians.
A successful businessman can run this country far more efficiently than a career politician who has never understood what it means to produce something nor what "understanding your market" means. Laws being passed in countless instances that mostly everyone does not want and the lawmakers describing their intentions as "joyful" is no-longer working. Examples: DEI, Kah-mah-lah being *assigned* the nomination, the cost of living... we cannot live this way, especially knowing that if they get-away with this it will only become worse in every way.
I think we're all supposed to be. Dagne loved him. Galt definitely loved him despite them loving the same woman. And D'Anconia brought him over to the Dark Side - even though they loved the same woman. 🤔
They were all really good men so she must've been a really good woman.
I wanted to be her for many reasons (please forgive, I was not yet even in college when I first read it) I am recalling her leaving the party for the train yard "in her sandals and gown" standing atop probably a train carriage. Yes, they were good men.
It's like the "Time Walz is a Real Man's Man!" outreach they're so hilariously falling over themselves on. They did interview her and found her, at the very least, good enough.
But judging by their initial Brat Summer of Joy, they didn't think she fared poorly. Oh, no - they were even more convinced at that point that they could convince us that she was Good, let alone just Merely Qualified.
They literally picked her. They thought she was it. They don't know any real people.
It's difficult for your detractors to paint you into a corner with a label after a 3 hour podcast and it's difficult to portray yourself as something other than yourself in that length of time. As El Gato said, the real person comes out instead of just the talking points.
Just as a note and don't read anything into this, Hitler's deal was to go into the beer halls and talk for hours. It was entertainment for the German men. Hitler just happened to be better at it than the other talkers from the numerous other political parties. Charismatic 'talkers' who can speak to an audience have always been popular & end up in positions of power.
Ultimately, will Trump be better for America than a vapid sorority girl who slept her way to power? Who knows? But it's a start to get away from the back room shenanigans where groupthink puts together an pleasing automaton for the masses.
The "editorial reviews" of the Rogan interview from staff writers at places like USA Today and the LA Times are hilariously sour; that three hours of cheery schmoozing has driven them nuts.
But you are too optimistic at this moment in time. Kamala is the El Cid of the bureaucratic class, they don't need her to be alive. They just need to win with her and the numbers as you know are even. Are there really going to be enough eyes-wide-open people to tip it? Big Pharma is betting *no* and the lists of vaccines older people in purportedly full control of their faculties should get is just astounding this year. The "updated Covid vaccine" is being pushed as hard as the first one was, the only difference now is they're trying to make it seem normal seasonal common sense and not the miracle to save millions that must be mandated or else we'll impoverish you.
The demos as you know is filled with people who get real mad if you point out the foolishness of their own favorite cults and those cults are mighty, mighty mainstream no matter what their doctrine is.
I sure want to see the Democrats sobbing next week. Maybe Robert Kagan knows they will be and so quit his "job" at WaPo since there's always a think tank that will pay him money and it was better to jump before rather than after the election. I hope that's entrail augury that points to the true outcome.
You have been putting out some great posts lately, but this one might be profound.
“No more facades - we want to see inside the house we’re buying” says it all.
The next step starts after the election. The two months between the election and inauguration are critical; we need to rethink what happens then, and maybe cut the wait / transition time in half. The new president should not ride down Pennsylvania Ave. and walk into the White House as a stranger, without a cabinet, and all the management assistance he needs; he shouldn’t have to depend on a skeleton team of leftovers from an enemy administration and swamp creatures.
JD Vance was on two podcasts that I would have never expected a professional politician to be on. One is Theo Von, and the other was Tim Dillon. Both are freaking edge-lords, and Vance not only had fun, he hit serious campaign points, and went toe to toe with Dillon's flights of insanity.
I have never seen the like. Vance has some real steel under the bro-level goofiness, and that would have never come out if he had only done legacy media. He proved to be competent with the big news programs, but the long form makes him human.
Trump did Theo Von a month (or more?) ago. Thats where the conversation about why he doesnt drink/do drugs came from, the explanation being his older brother destroyed his life with booze and gambling. I think it was a better interview for Trump than Rogan, mainly since it seemed Theo really connected with him on a sincere level and Trump genuinely cared to ask about Theo's struggles. Rogan almost seemed a little annoyed and terse with Trump at times.
Excellent take Gato! The Lamestream Media losing its’s monopoly as an information source is the best thing to come out of The COVIDiocy. My biggest concern is that they know their fates are not looking good, and that like all cornered animals they are likely to lash out. And by “they” I mean the hidden hands using the Enemedia as their propaganda arms. I don’t think they are going to go down easily or quietly…
el gato gets better and better. I had not thought about it but elections will never be the same because of the Rogan / Trump interview. I don't think Harris could have done twenty minutes with Rogan.
The good news is, as you point out gato, they are on a terminal glide slope - out of altitude, out of airspeed, and out of ideas.
Journalism/politics is like a half-used jar of mayonnaise brought to a party...everyone notices it...but nobody's "touching" it.
At least that's what I'm seeing with virtually everyone down here in Florida.
The gigs up imo. It took 9 years...and as much as Trump annoys me i have to give him credit because he probably did what no other politician could do: expose the "hustle" with the media and state.
Perhaps it took a shameless buffoon with very little self-awareness to let the "enemy" destroy itself out of hatred and contempt for the peasants who built this country?
I've been feeling very good about our chances since he raised his fist, after taking a bullet, and said:
FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT
I think he's due credit.
Edit: I also think DeSantis is due a lot of credit because he singlehandedly stood up against the media, the establishment, POTUS and a terrified cowardly public during The Scamdemic.
He's got a set of cojones and he did what very few politicians ever do:
Admit they were wrong and change course, midstream, when the "facts" on the ground change - during a crisis and make tough/unpopular decisive decision.
In other words, he's exactly what a true leader is.
DeSantis was cursed with a whiny voice and an unimpressive stage presence but he's a great manager, nice and calm when you need someone to be. He'd make a smart choice for HHS Secretary.
As the unofficial spokesperson for all of Florida men, that's a big negatory.Good buddy where keeping Ron we likingAs the unofficial spokesperson for all of Florida men, that's a big negatory. Good buddy, we're keeping Ron, we like him. We don't want to send him to Washington. We may just make him king of Florida.Just for the hell of it, watch the liberal heads explode
If I can whore out my integrity for the sake of the nation you can send DeSantis to DC for the same reason.
*stands, holds hat over heart*
Over something, anyway. The sacred triangle maybe.
I had him for Homeland Security, unless we abolish it.
Those 17 agencies need to go in a hot wash and be shrunken to the max.
If our government were run like a private business they could pay for everything at 1/5th of the national budget with far better service/quality, and we'd get a refund from the IRS.
People go work for government because the standards are so much lower and the benefits are great. To get the populace not to see the civil service as the gold mine they want to exploit forever gonna take a meteor strike, one way or another.
A private business would carry a much smaller staff.
Amen!
Please abolish it. Along with Education and a thorough gutting of the security state!!
put him in charge of dismantling it
Abolish works for me.
In the 19th century that probably wouldn't matter since people got their news from newspapers. The president's of that time may not be telegenic enough to win today. It was Reagan that really set the tone. He was an actor portraying a "heroic president".
I disagree that Reagan was an actor playing a “heroic president”. He was an Economics major in college, was president of the Screen Actors Guild during a very fraught period in their history, and served as California governor. He gave a series of speeches and radio addresses from the late 40’s through the 70’s - written by himself - that showed a keen grasp of history, economics, politics, and human nature. The very press machine that our favorite feline is pillorying in this piece is the same one that made sure he was labeled as an empty-headed actor playing at President.
Ah yes, His keen grasp of history led to him strengthening the Iranian regime and helping to create the Taliban.
🤔
Correct to a point; in-person speeches were very common as well, and there are no second takes or edits.
Many would argue it was JFK who set the tone, but either way your point is spot on.
I agree.
Not sure I agree with your negative comments about DeSantis. As a Californian having to endure the abominable Gavin Newsom, I find DeSantis highly intelligent, calm and steady, principled, and after studying any issue and being thoroughly knowledgeable about it, he always displays such an impressive resolve in determining exactly what needs to be done about it. Then he goes and does it with no big fanfare. As Elvis used to say...TCB...Taking Care of Business. If only DeSantis were governor of my ridiculous state! I don't hear a whiny voice, either.
Exactly
He sure expedited the delivery of the vax. Warp Speed fer shure. He'd've been crucified by all the senior village communities if he hadn't. If that's not bowing to the winds of popular hysteria I don't know what is.
Of course, any political leader who would've urged caution and better data and a healthy skepticism would've been destroyed by the media and called a murderer of millions.
But making the trains to the death camp run great...I guess there's no way to escape that with your head intact.
I'd suggest that spot is going elsewhere perhaps. If that Secretariat even survives as it is. Or perhaps, a complete overhaul and down-sizing.
Let's win first.
No one will be winning. It's just a matter of not losing too much.
Though I am a northern girl myself (high north 🍁), I was wowed by DeSantis from the start. Very good man.
America needs him on the front lines in some senior capacity.
DeSantis is great -- it's a shame Florida has term limits for Govs!
He also took on Disney, who wanted to create their own little fiefdom of land use districts, and won...
Wrong tense: Disney HAD, under Walt D, created their own little fiefdom (with the approval/blessing of previous administrations). DeSantis took the company on in a series of on-going (and continuing) battles over the fiefdom/current political issues.
I got to see DeSantis speak when he came to Carlsbad, NM in 2022 & he was dynamic. Wanted DeSantis all the way to the presidency & he continues to impress w/ his handling of leftwing lunacy in FL. But I guess Trump is the “man for this moment”.
Def a smooth operator
DeSantis is without question an excellent Governor. He has been also extremely good at standing up against Woke insanity.
That being said, to this day I cannot comprehend how he was duped by the neocon, RINO faction of Dem-lite Republicans the likes of the Bush’s et al, to run against Trump. And it was a near fatal disaster for him, as it was for all the others who tried to do likewise. All of them have, at the very least, a large asterisk next to their names in my book, as they exposed a dangerous blind spot in just noticing who were are really up against in this election, and it’s not just the Dems. It’s the blob, the political machine, that has been running this country into the ground for decades.
The only person who ever stood athwart them beginning in 2016, has been DJT, courageously and vociferously for their lies, hypocrisy, and destructive policies.
He paved the ground for DeSantis to even be Governor, and succeed because DJT had the balls to call out the enemy.
I’m glad DeSatnis learned at least that much from him.
But running against him revealed a deep and I think, dangerous flaw in his character, and in his grasp of what and who we are really up against.
Big DeSantis Fanboi here.
And I like Vance a lot, too.
Let's not forget to use his honorific: National Hero DeSantis
Also how he DS protected his people from the weather war fare that was lacking by the southern states that just got hit by a known massive storm used to bombed and devastate the area they want to mine by keeping the storm in place long enough, and then can be blamed on climate change.
Trump is the cod liver oil for our constipated political system. Americans have been fed a political diet of sugar-loaded candy of no nutritional value, and the dubious ingredients are likely toxic. The Dems, like spoiled children want more candy even though its making them sick. They don't want to give up the candy, and the idea of taking the cod liver oil is resulting in the expected histrionics. Open your mouths, take the medicine, and purge the system. You'll feel better - I promise.
"Trump is the cod liver oil for our constipated political system."
*swoon* "Dag, Mr. Kertch - you sure have a way with words!"
https://youtu.be/2JfzMqwltHk?si=CAHRdJqZC5-GCZ_u
I've always been a glass-half-full kinda gal and I sense something special is happening. God is ultimately in control and will decide and use whatever occurs. But there is a warm wind blowing. I can feel it.
I need to sit with you for a while Nancy. My stomach is churning nonstop these last weeks. When I venture out into the world, in person or virtual, the shear numbers of people still spouting insanity scares me!
Don't let the evil one bring you down Norma Jeanne. If you can figure out how to send me a message directly we can do a "sit down."
At least 20 years ago Michael Medved published a book and also some audio tapes centered around the idea of "God's hand on America, Divine Providence in the Modern Era" . He gave multiple examples through our history of his feeling and actual almost mysterious occurrences that God protects our country and reserves a special place for America in the world so she can "right all the bad ships", and that this is one reason why America has been so very blessed in comparison to every other country. A recent example might be the near assassination of Trump. His turning his head at just the right millisecond to avoid being killed is pretty miraculous if you think about it. That certainly supports Medved's ideas...that Trump, with all his failings, is exactly what is needed right now in not only our history, but in world history.
It is hard, but laughter can be the best medicine. Fear not!
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/brainspotting-some-memes?utm_source=publication-search
We're lucky to have you, Nancy!
And Ryan, your obvious intellectual prowess and accumulation of learned resource, spoken in practical and common sense language, is a valuable asset on Substack. You are valued. Thank you.
He is. The warm wind may be the effect of beans. ;)
And—like the amateurs they are—they keep pulling back on the stick.
Lolol.
Well, at least they put on their kamikaze helmets...
NICE!
I love it!
To take the analogy a step further, they're not instrument certified and they've lost the horizon....
But they got their ticket punched anyway because of DEI quotas.
All Aboard!
VASI definitely reading red over red.
Let's not feel good and pat ourselves on the back. There's a large swath of Americans who are being primed for a close election. (The easier to steal it). Remember the "red wave" of 2022? We need to act, get people out to vote in such numbers that an attempt to steal will be so bad that it demands a review. Hand counts and all. I worry that the attempt to steal will go the other way. Overload with so many fake ballots for Trump that he looks like what he's been complaining about all these years. Enough that it becomes difficult to claim that the electoral choice is legitimate when Congress convenes on Jan 6. If Congress has a lot of down ballot wins, they may be who votes.
We might want to watch those races. For instance, there's this story out of California which has a large number of congressional seats.
The day before Vem Miller was accused of being a potential 3rd Trump assassin, he reported that there were large shipments of ballots being sent from China to an unusual shipping location, where they were picked up and are being sent to USPS locations.
https://joehoft.com/breaking-huge-exclusive-is-vem-miller-an-assassin-or-a-deep-state-target-because-of-huge-2024-election-find/
I will vote on Election Day in my almost certain-to-be blue state. I understand the rationale for early voting in swing states (to facilitate efforts to turn out low-propensity voters); but there is also LBJ's dictum. Don't be the first to put in your vote tallies and thereby disclose to your adversary what they need to beat. See the 1948 race against Coke Stevenson. The mechanics have changed, but not the morals.
I don't know if this is true everywhere, or even true throughout my corrupt blue state of California, but I turned my ballot in at the actual voter admin building of my county. I asked about counting ballots as they were turned in, and they said no, they don't do that. What they were doing with the early ballots (in sealed envelopes with your name and signature on the envelope) was to check names and signatures. They said the actual envelopes would be opened and votes tabulated on Election Day.
In most, but not all, counties in CA your ballot is mailed to you. I guess you could vote in person, but they have been pushing this mailed ballot method for over 10 years now. You get your ballot in the mail and then you can either mail it back to the local election office, drop it in a drop box, or as I did, deliver it personally to the elections office box.
"Don't be the first to put in your vote tallies and thereby disclose to your adversary what they need to beat."
So I'm also holding out to vote on Election Day in Midnight Blue Maryland.
I think it is there under the surface.
I was at a community gathering last night. The same old hippie community with Kamala signs all over the place. I got chatting with one lady and asked if she and her husband had done anything this weekend. She leaned over to me and whispered in my ear, 'We watched the Trump interview on Rogan." Well, I was not expecting that, but good... I've also overheard a few conversations where these people can't bring themselves to vote for Trump, but will be voting for Stein and the Greens.
At least around here, the Kamala support is only running a millimeter deep right now.
Always good advice to keep one's powder dry. As per Winston Wolf - "Well, let's not start sucking each other's dicks just yet."
"At least that's what I'm seeing with virtually everyone down here in Florida"
I'm unfortunately not quite as optimistic... I just returned from a 3 day trip to Florida visiting family. They all just regurgitate the slow drip of subtle media propaganda, DeSantis is horrible, the book banning, the teacher firing, the gay hating. Maybe one day people will understand the media farce for what it is, but I honestly doubt it. Even if new media eventually truly kills legacy media, I have serious doubts that it won't just devolve into another cesspool. Rogan is a bit unique I think in that every question is not subtlety nuanced to achieve a specific answer (or trip up).
Was it the east side of the state?
Miami Beach, at least Gen X and younger, is bright red politically. Can't speak for the rest of SoFlo.
One thing DeSantis can do is get serious legal action going against Act Blue campaign money laundering.
On Saturday, I put my younger brother's name and Miami zip into https://checkmydonation.org It came back with 137 donations so far this month.
My brother didn't do that 137 times, of course. But he doesn't see that as a problem because the NY Times hasn't told him it's a problem. So he hasn't reported it.
east and central, however I'm reluctant to just lump people together just because where they live. They're listening to the same news as everyone else.
Remember, Trump wasn't a 'politician' until he campaigned and won in 2016. No other office prior. And I'd suggest he still doesn't fit the 'career Pol', model...not like some Senators sitting there for 30+ years, or...
Indeed. He's flawed, but probably just what the doctor ordered for the times.
...Joe Biden.
Last night’s MSG event was a tour de force. Authentic, an incredibly smart team, and a “we want our country back” vibe. Agree With you gato and MSNBC posted the 1939 Nazi rally - this needs to stop and the legacy media is low-information propaganda. Trump no longer annoys me; he’s smart, surrounding himself with an incredible team, and he’s now comfortable in his skin (notice how real men and women exude power and confidence?). I’ve stopped hiding opinions and never went along with the DEI crap - more are emerging each day. Hope is real.
He no longer annoys me, either. I sincerely believe the events in Butler changed him, or alternately freed him to reveal more of his real self. While I am not as sanguine as many on "our side" concerning this election, I feel a real change in the mood of the country that bodes well for our future. And it's due to Trump's courage and commitment and that of the team supporting him.
On Twitter this morning, I noticed "Nazi Rally" has been trending. I clicked in, and so far, every reference I've seen is either mocking the idea or saying things like, "I'm Jewish. I went to the Nazi Rally. I'm voting for Trump," etc. Instead of denying in anger, people are laughing.
Its a badge of honor at this point.
Just like raaaacist.
The boy who cried wolf.....like a million times too much.
Yes, that's exactly so.
Can you believe it, MSM showing clips of a 90 year old Nazi rally to try and put Trump’s MSG rally in to “context”. Those damned people need to be punished, they have no place in the White House press corps. That was not news / journalism. We need a new definition of journalism. Corporations should not have free access to the TV spectrum, so 20th century.
Guess they forgot that Bill Clinton was there WITH the DNC in 1992!
On last night's Mark Levin show (Sunday the 27th), he gave an incredible history of the Democrat party's sordid history with racism, suppression, and yes, support of the Nazis. He talked about Margaret Sanger, Truman, Roosevelt and all the things they did against blacks starting with the Reconstruction era. Knowing all this, it continues to astound me that even a single black would vote for a Democrat anywhere.
One of the perks of owning the education system, you can hide the ugly truth from the young skulls full of mush. They don't know what they don't know.
Apparently completely forgetting his Red Speech flanked by Marines in the backround.
Holy crap - you can buy a glossy picture of his Angry Fists:
https://www.amazon.com/ConversationPrints-PHILADELPHIA-SPEECH-GLOSSY-PICTURE/dp/B0BCZYT6KM?th=1
Geez, $15? Ouch.
The more outlandish they are, the better!
The whole 1939 Nazi Rally thing smacks of desperation. Since when has 85 years been significant in any way? They're grasping at straws.
Not to mention the many other politicians who have appeared before a full house in MSG…but again, the legacy media can bank on most Americans not knowing that….
At least it's more contemporary than slavery-reparations 🙄
Love this. And thank you so much for using the words: nasty, unpleasant and authoritarian to describe Kamala Harris. I’m a Californian, and I’ve watched Kamala’s rise over the past 15 years plus. Her record as a prosecutor in California is atrocious. She also had the benefit of Barack Obama and Pelosi taking a shine to her as a little soldier, coinciding with the Democratic Party regime take over of California, which had been in the works since the 1990’s.
Kamala is a political actress, and a perfect DEI. But worse, she’s truly an authoritarian if you listen and pay attention to her. I believe that the reason she obfuscates so much is because she knows who she is, and she knows that she has to hide it from people. What she doesn’t say is what she doesn’t want you to realize about her. For years, I have talked to people about things she has done and said as a prosecutor in San Fran, and CA AG, and it was always, ‘that’s bad’ but not much interest otherwise. She’s managed to fly under the radar, but that is coming to termination if we are lucky and wise enough. I cannot imagine a DOJ of the Harris - Walz administration. If you think that Biden/ Garland is bad, that’s just a warm up to a Kamala Harris one. She’ll say yes to anything, and she lacks grace and mercy.
Tucker Carlson just had an interview with Harmeet Dhillon, an attorney who knew Kamala from the beginning and has all the receipts, and an accomplished freedom fighting attorney in her own right.
This was a great interview.
this sounds terrifying,
The democrat party sounds terrifying- much much more terrifying that that old crumbly republican party
🎯
When you live a lie it eventually catches up with you. They’ve played all there scare cards & are back to the A’s - “abortion”. God forbid you leave it to the states to vote on it. Too much democracy involved I guess.
Kamala must have been coached by Killary. Who always reminded me of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his dragon-woman wife Elena, rolled up together.
When they didn't get their way, the Ceaușescus simply turned-up the flamethrowers that passed as their mouths.
Until....that final speech of the old boy's in 1989....when the crowd turned. Democrat supporters need some of whatever the Romanian crowd was drinking that fateful day.
I've worked closely with a Romanian colleague for 24 years. She claimed asylum in the US shortly after graduating University and having been imprisoned for political protesting.
Had a few conversations about life in the former Soviet "republics" and the vassal states.
Very happy to say that she's been an American citizen for ~20 years now and as staunchly conservative as anyone I know. Lived experience counts. But, unfortunately, it seems many Americans are incapable of learning from the experience of others =(
Some people who were raised in totalitarianism abhor and fear this (rightly so) for the rest of their lives,. And attempt to warn others.
On the other hand, some never really leave the totalitarian mind-set, wherever they go.
Glad to hear that your friend is in the former camp. Problem is, those who have never experienced totalitarianism as lived experience rarely listen to those who have. Seems to be part of the deviousness of that system. I think of it as the mind-virus seeking loopholes to allow it to replicate itself without exposure and defeat.
See Ceaușescu's Last Speech on YouTube.
Luckily for all of us, I don't think it's going to come to Backs Up Against the Wall.
Woke is Broke. There's not going to be any putting the genie back in the bottle. We know it's a bunch of crap now and no one is going to put up with it anymore.
I hope you're right, PI Guy.
PM Starmer's popularity in England is taking a deep nose-dive, after just a few months in office. PM Troodo in Canada is in Desperation Days before he is ousted (hoping). And Kamala is not looking too good, the week before the election.
Join me in double crossed-fingers and prayers.
🤞🤞
That's it!
Great post as usual. Let me add this:
https://x.com/joomikim1/status/1850530862531498458?s=61&t=zTMgE3YmvdvDJwGkgHh7PA
Great video explaining why democrats are voting for the MAGA/MAHA movement even if they don’t love Trump. Highly recommended.
That is an *excellent* video, I've been sharing it far and wide.
FWIW Ms Kim is also on Substack: https://joomi.substack.com/p/i-made-a-video-to-try-to-redpill
You are right. This video is exceptional!
Thank you for posting it.
Another good video by Nicole Shanahan titled The Big Cheat: https://x.com/brycemlipscomb/status/1849970454963925408?s=61
That is an excellent video! Thank you for sharing.
Oh wow! What a great compilation in that video. Very comprehensive. THANK YOU 🙏 for sharing it. I will be using it to share with those in my family on the other side.
92 minutes?! NOPE!
They're not even leaving the dumbocraps. The dumbocraps left them, along with the message, "Follow us or else."
Brilliantly written, and comically ingenious. Yet, I think a vital point was missed. The very existence of candidates such as Harris and some might argue, Trump, on center stage USA reveals a deep sickness in our political system. The all too familiar "fail upward" motif elicits an expectable number of guffaws, but all too little shock and horror. The question that needs to be asked is, "how does our political system produce morons such as Harris?" Also, "How do we change it so that the kind of leaders we need will emerge into the limelight and elbow aside the pretenders?" I suspect the answer is not how but whether. In other words, let's not try to tweak a flawed system, let's throw it on the scrap heap and create a better system that makes the old one obsolete, a la Buckminster Fuller. No need to be too creative here: the Libertarians have given us a good starting point -- weak central government and redistribution of the power to the states and the people should be the aim. After all, it's what the Founding Fathers likely had in mind, except possibly the Federalists. And even they signed off on the original plan. We need to kneecap the Federal government before it cannabilizes its citizens. And we need as citizens to get more active in public affairs on the local level, and make our voices heard, in a true particiapatory democracy. Voyeuristic democracy must be replaced. It is getting remarkably dull, predictable and vacuous.
Gato does answer this though in his first law. When politicians decide what can be bought and sold, the first things bought and sold will be politicians.
Trump won the primary selection process. Kamala was appointed. There is a gigantic difference.
Also what do you mean "before it cannibalizes its citizens?" It already is, isn't it?
A successful businessman can run this country far more efficiently than a career politician who has never understood what it means to produce something nor what "understanding your market" means. Laws being passed in countless instances that mostly everyone does not want and the lawmakers describing their intentions as "joyful" is no-longer working. Examples: DEI, Kah-mah-lah being *assigned* the nomination, the cost of living... we cannot live this way, especially knowing that if they get-away with this it will only become worse in every way.
#HankReardon2024
Wow, flashback. I was very in love with Hank. I might still be.
Me too.
I think we're all supposed to be. Dagne loved him. Galt definitely loved him despite them loving the same woman. And D'Anconia brought him over to the Dark Side - even though they loved the same woman. 🤔
They were all really good men so she must've been a really good woman.
I wanted to be her for many reasons (please forgive, I was not yet even in college when I first read it) I am recalling her leaving the party for the train yard "in her sandals and gown" standing atop probably a train carriage. Yes, they were good men.
"please forgive"
There is nothing to forgive. Atlas Shrugged is my favorite book.
Now I have to read it again.
Trump has handed her the rope....
Bingo
Oh...Kamala had interviews. They just took place outside the office.
As for pushing over legacy media, me thinks of Nietzsche: "That which is about to fall deserves to be pushed."
"They just took place outside the office."
It's like the "Time Walz is a Real Man's Man!" outreach they're so hilariously falling over themselves on. They did interview her and found her, at the very least, good enough.
But judging by their initial Brat Summer of Joy, they didn't think she fared poorly. Oh, no - they were even more convinced at that point that they could convince us that she was Good, let alone just Merely Qualified.
They literally picked her. They thought she was it. They don't know any real people.
It's difficult for your detractors to paint you into a corner with a label after a 3 hour podcast and it's difficult to portray yourself as something other than yourself in that length of time. As El Gato said, the real person comes out instead of just the talking points.
Just as a note and don't read anything into this, Hitler's deal was to go into the beer halls and talk for hours. It was entertainment for the German men. Hitler just happened to be better at it than the other talkers from the numerous other political parties. Charismatic 'talkers' who can speak to an audience have always been popular & end up in positions of power.
Ultimately, will Trump be better for America than a vapid sorority girl who slept her way to power? Who knows? But it's a start to get away from the back room shenanigans where groupthink puts together an pleasing automaton for the masses.
If you care about the First Amendment, I suggest there is no contest.
P.S. She hasn't been very pleasing lately.
The "editorial reviews" of the Rogan interview from staff writers at places like USA Today and the LA Times are hilariously sour; that three hours of cheery schmoozing has driven them nuts.
But you are too optimistic at this moment in time. Kamala is the El Cid of the bureaucratic class, they don't need her to be alive. They just need to win with her and the numbers as you know are even. Are there really going to be enough eyes-wide-open people to tip it? Big Pharma is betting *no* and the lists of vaccines older people in purportedly full control of their faculties should get is just astounding this year. The "updated Covid vaccine" is being pushed as hard as the first one was, the only difference now is they're trying to make it seem normal seasonal common sense and not the miracle to save millions that must be mandated or else we'll impoverish you.
The demos as you know is filled with people who get real mad if you point out the foolishness of their own favorite cults and those cults are mighty, mighty mainstream no matter what their doctrine is.
I sure want to see the Democrats sobbing next week. Maybe Robert Kagan knows they will be and so quit his "job" at WaPo since there's always a think tank that will pay him money and it was better to jump before rather than after the election. I hope that's entrail augury that points to the true outcome.
But don't count on the American people just yet.
You have been putting out some great posts lately, but this one might be profound.
“No more facades - we want to see inside the house we’re buying” says it all.
The next step starts after the election. The two months between the election and inauguration are critical; we need to rethink what happens then, and maybe cut the wait / transition time in half. The new president should not ride down Pennsylvania Ave. and walk into the White House as a stranger, without a cabinet, and all the management assistance he needs; he shouldn’t have to depend on a skeleton team of leftovers from an enemy administration and swamp creatures.
Two minutes into it I went back into my email folders and flagged it for future use.
Spot on. This is the best analysis yet. Legacy media = Dinosaur media = Game over.
JD Vance was on two podcasts that I would have never expected a professional politician to be on. One is Theo Von, and the other was Tim Dillon. Both are freaking edge-lords, and Vance not only had fun, he hit serious campaign points, and went toe to toe with Dillon's flights of insanity.
I have never seen the like. Vance has some real steel under the bro-level goofiness, and that would have never come out if he had only done legacy media. He proved to be competent with the big news programs, but the long form makes him human.
Trump did Theo Von a month (or more?) ago. Thats where the conversation about why he doesnt drink/do drugs came from, the explanation being his older brother destroyed his life with booze and gambling. I think it was a better interview for Trump than Rogan, mainly since it seemed Theo really connected with him on a sincere level and Trump genuinely cared to ask about Theo's struggles. Rogan almost seemed a little annoyed and terse with Trump at times.
Vance Fanboi here.
Excellent take Gato! The Lamestream Media losing its’s monopoly as an information source is the best thing to come out of The COVIDiocy. My biggest concern is that they know their fates are not looking good, and that like all cornered animals they are likely to lash out. And by “they” I mean the hidden hands using the Enemedia as their propaganda arms. I don’t think they are going to go down easily or quietly…
Rogan not asking critical convid scamdemic questions already doesn't look too promising...
el gato gets better and better. I had not thought about it but elections will never be the same because of the Rogan / Trump interview. I don't think Harris could have done twenty minutes with Rogan.
I think the real Zero Day occurred when Elon bought TwiXer.