This is where I'm at. I don't get why people are being so joyous here. I think the left has 50/50 chance of winning this.
They don't have to pivot, or change anything. It's barely going to inconvenience them. They are just going to keep running on the same bullshit "platform" they have been running on: Trump is a felon. Trump is a nazi. Trump is going to implement Project 2025 and round up all the trans people, and put them into death camps. Abortion! Abortion Abortion! Trump is going to help Putin beat the Ukraine. Etc....
So, they are going to keep doing that, and now they are going to absolutely blast the public with, "Trump is the oldest candidate ever!" Go to the front page of reddit now, and take a look. Yeah... They are going to sprinkle in some hefty helpings of, "If the public doesn't like Harris they are a sexist, and a racist. Our country shamefully let sexism keep the most qualified candidate ever out! Are we really going to do that against?! Think of your daughters!"
In any event, this is going to be a referendum, but not the one everyone thinks it is. It is going to be a referendum on the system of indoctrination and propaganda the left has constructed, and whether or not it can push yet another candidate across the finish line, because let's not act like that's not what happened with Biden in 2020. The guy wasn't forced to have a campaign, or a platform. It was simply the media (traditional, and tech) running 24/7 propaganda against Trump, and then universal mail in voting. The same system will be brought to bear here, and there are more than enough stupid fucking people that it will work on.
I've said this so many times, but it's still true. On November 7th, if the left is forced out of power, I will be the happiest person in the world. Regardless of what comes of it, I will finally be able to enjoy a small reprieve at them destroying my country. That being said, I still think this is 50/50. They only need their machine to swing a couple percent, in a couple of states.
God, it's ridiculous how the idiots on the right that we put in power have sat by for the last 10-20 years, and watched the left weaponize the government against them/us.
This is one of the primary reasons the left is absolutely freaking the fuck out about that stupid ass "ProJEcT 2025!!1" recently - they have to get it out there early that if Trump does what every other incoming admin does, and starts replacing guys with his guys, that it's this massive fucking abuse of power That's why we are seeing this blasted out there so much now. They are priming things in the hope that the media can get the public to freak out about it, too. The left doesn't want to see all the effort they've put into installing these other leftists into these positions of power undone.
If Trump does get in, it better be one of his number one goals. We need a complete house cleaning in every government agency. If we find hyper political activists? GONE. It literally needs to be that simple.
God, I hope the guy can focus this time, and do that one thing.
It’s literally what they are going for, though. Associating Trump with a garbage strewn rally (I love how even that is more propagandizing on their part. You know they want to imply how bad Trump fans are, but it’s almost like something happened here to cause panic, and for them to leave abruptly…), with the US flag (the only thing in color) hanging sadly overhead. The whole thing is meant to flip the script. To change that inspirational photo, and switch the messaging from, “We just saw a guy come mere inches from having his head exploded, and still defiantly not only refusing to give up, but actually seeming to double down, and there’s our flag waving proudly in the background”, to, “Look at this messy grey sadness. Look at how Trump is sullying our country”.
I don’t care if the left puts some flowery speech on there about “unity” at this point. We have decades of them abusing this same ploy. We know all they want is surrender to their politics, and compliance.
It’s so insulting to read them write that they couldn’t use the photo because it was photoganda, but to replace it with an utterly disgusting piece of propaganda. That’s absolutely what that new shot is. In fact, it’s edited to be the propaganda they want (turning everything but the flag black and white), compared to the original cover, which was a raw shot.
Fuck Time. Fuck the left.
It's infuriating, right? They are the reason that things are like they are. All the tensions in the country that have it coming apart at the seams. All the shit (the failed policies, the lies, the bullshit) the left continuously gets away with. It's all due to them, and the 24/7 propagandizing they do for the left.
If the media was anywhere near anything approaching "unbiased", both sides would always have to fear being held accountable, and things could start to mend.
Fuck the media.
Edit: I know others could come up with TONS of examples, but I wanted to add this one, because I lived through it, and even the thought of the media constantly sucking the guy off enrages me... So, when the media says they don't want to run the Trump photo because it's "propaganda" for Trump, and they don't want to run propaganda for one side, what about this one that Time had zero fucking problems running? It's almost a carbon copy of his goddamn campaign poster?
Fuck these people, and their constant lying.
I believe you about your wife. Women are not inherently evil or something like that. I'm not TheImp, or someone like him. When they are around people with better values, they can take on and assume those values as well.
The problem is that, when left to their own devices, women are (as unfortunate as it is) extremely predisposed towards that sort of "we should definitely give up all sorts of freedom so I can feel safe!" way of thinking. It's especially bad when we exist in a society full of indoctrinated weak ass men that espouse the same views, because then it makes it even easier for the average woman to feel validated in, and get caught up in that dangerous way (if you value freedom) of thinking, and that's exactly the world we live in right now.
"I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them..."
Disney has shitted up Star Wars so horribly, but Andor (and probably Rogue One) are the two watchable things they have somehow produced. The character of Luthen Rael, in particular is amazing, and - if you haven't watched - you owe yourself a listen to his little "speech":
For context, Luthen is the man (seems pretty well off, so he could obviously just comply with the Empire, and continue to live a really privileged life) that is responsible for organizing the Rebellion. In that clip, he's asked by an informant (who's become disillusioned with what he is being asked to sacrifice to continue helping the Rebellion) what he is sacrificing for the cause.
So, anyhow - yeah, it's ok to use the shitbag left's cancel culture against them. These people need to be stopped, so that our children have a chance of living in a better world. The radical left has to go. They have to be driven out of positions of power they have entrenched themselves in.
Straight up.
We live in a free society. The only true way to prevent someone from having the opportunity of killing someone else would require an absolutely oppressive amount of control over everyone. Even protecting the president from a dedicated/determined (willing to die himself) attacker is extremely difficult.
You absolutely wouldn't want to live under a system in which the police actually had a high chance of being able to prevent such a determined murderer. I know I wouldn't want to, anyhow. What if your every day life was treated like going through the TSA to get on a flight? Dealing with that level of invasion feels disgusting/dehumanizing, and even that is still extremely porous, and ineffective.
This is honestly the biggest problem with allowing everyone (especially most women) an equal vote - there are an absolutely retarded amount of people who are willing to cast away a shockingly high amount of our freedom (not just theirs, but - more importantly - yours) so they can have that small illusion of being "safe". Look no further than what those stupid fucks were willing to give up (not just give up, but cheer on) to feel even a fleeting amount of safety from something as weak as COVID.
It goes back to that one Benjamin Franklin quote. It's one of those things where it'd debatable as to whether or not he actually said it, but God damn is it true:
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
My last name is not Black.
LOL. Good stuff.
You'd have to admit, it would be fucking hilarious if all this was true, though: 1. Jack Black is a closet anti-leftist. 2. His crazy ass partner did blindside him with this stupid shit. 3. He's also an active member on kotakuinaction2.win
Truly the greatest timeline.
The furthest I'd be willing to go with the conspiracy angle would be, "they purposefully did such a shit job in the hope that some crazy would try it, and succeed". That's still the lesser of the two likely explanations here, though (vs. incompetence).
There is simply no way I'd believe that they actively went out and got this guy - of all the fucking options - and had him be their shooter. It's way more believable that the simpler thing happened: you've got the left pushing another DEI idiot to the top of the USSS (I would love to see the left do the obvious thing when confronted with that line of questioning, and go, "No. Look. Here are all the candidates we had for the head of the USSS, and here is why this particular woman was the most qualified", but you know they can't possibly do that, because there is zero fucking way it was true...), she runs a shit outfit (filled with more of her "We need at least 30% women!" hires), and people got complacent, never wanted to be the one to take responsibility, and make decisions, and this debacle was the result.
Anyone that works knows this one simple fact: there are a lot of people that are absolute shit at their jobs, and they are left in place when management is also shit.
In this particular case? We'll never actually get to the bottom of it, because the left is going to predictably close ranks around the idiot they put in charge, she's going to say all the "right" talking points like, "I take 100% responsibility. The buck stops with me", all the while doing the exact opposite, and the media is going to blast the idiot masses with, "All these attack on her are simply far-right sexism, and misogyny!"
They will. None of this shit has cost them a single vote from any person who consistently votes left. It's all about the disinterested idiots in the middle, and this election is still going to come right down to the wire. I'd love nothing more than to believe otherwise, but it's just too hard to hope for. People thought the same thing about the previous midterms - "surely, people have wised up, and had enough of the left's utterly retarded and destructive policies...", and what happened there?
Their propaganda campaign will keep hammering away, Trump will probably slip up with some ill-advised tweets/comments, the left will spring some other bullshit "surprise" on him, or others on the right will do something dumb like bringing an abortion ban back into play (all of which the propaganda machine will amplify), and it's going to be razor thin again.
The left has just been given way too much free rein to indoctrinate the masses, to infest everything that controls the narrative for any election to ever feel "safe". Going to be very close.
It's also extremely foolish to disregard their "electioneering" mastery compared to the right.
I had this exact same thought soon after I heard about the idiot taking a shot at Trump.
Just to be clear, I don't think the Trump attempt was any sort of conspiracy, or anything more than: 1. The fucking left and their 24/7 cradle to grave indoctrination stuff caused this guy to snap. They wind him up for basically his entire life (from 12 years old he's only known the world in which the media and online is 100% rabid "Trump is HITLER!" propaganda for the left), he's under constant peer pressure at school and everywhere else, telling him how much of Nazi he and his side is (read the quote from his fellow students how, in most of these classes he was known as the only person on the right side of most arguments), and 2. DEI USSS woman had some shit tier people working on this.
That being said, they now have literally the fucking perfect "solution" for their Joe Biden problem dropped in their laps once again (just like COVID got them in last time). If they can get someone to make an attempt on Biden, either he dies or steps down, and then they have tech/media go absolutely WILD with, "See! Look how Trump's psycho base retaliated! We told you they are the threat to democracy!", and all that garbage.
It's so absolutely ridiculous that this is the state of politics in our country, but the same thing came to my mind as yours. This is 100% the solution to their Biden problem, and it's not hard to imagine it magically happening.
“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said this about the Marxists in soviet Russia, but tell me it's doesn't it sound exactly like the radical left here in the west. Hmmm....
LOL.
Why do you insist on thinking that the left is held to any sort of standard? You want to see what the media has actually been up to in the wake of this? You think they're working on their mea culpa, or dialing it back in any way whatsoever? Read this article from Reuters (they supply all the other media outlets with reports):
After Trump shooting, the presidential race will change dramatically. And possibly violently
Here are some choice passages:
In a country already on edge, the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has enraged his supporters, paused the Democratic campaign and raised fears of further political violence in the run-up to November's election.
See guys? It's DRUMPF's supporters you need to worry about! They are surely going to try to kill Biden now, and they're obviously going to engage in all sorts of violence from here on out!
Whereas Trump has regularly used violent language with his followers, advisers and allies of the former president flipped the script on his Democratic opponent President Joe Biden, saying it was the demonization of the Republican presidential candidate that led to the assassination attempt.
Trump started this! He constantly demonizes them as Nazis and Fascists, and uses government agencies to attack him and his followers. Biden and the left wouldn't do that... oh wa... Anyhow, It's all his fault!
Biden moved quickly to try to defuse the situation, denouncing the attack as unacceptable political violence and pulling election ads attacking Trump.
See! Look how great Biden and the left is. He's defending Trump!
The U.S. is grappling with the biggest and most sustained increase in political violence since the 1970s. Of 14 fatal political attacks since supporters of Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in which the perpetrator or suspect had a clear partisan leaning, 13 were right-wing assailants. One was on the left.
January Sixth! January Sixth! January Sixth!!!!! Forget the actual time leftists bombed the senate in '83. Forget the leftist shooting up the republican softball game. Forget the constant rioting, and burning, and murdering. January Sixth! January Sixth! They stormed the Capitol!
Despite being a former president, Trump has campaigned as an outsider insurgent, complaining that he has long been targeted by the federal "deep state" and Biden's administration to prevent him from reclaiming power.
He has typically employed violent, degrading and even apocalyptic rhetoric while doing so, warning of a "bloodbath" if he is not elected and saying immigrants in the United States illegally are "poisoning the blood of our country".
Drumpf called for a "bloodbath!" (God, it's unreal how they continue to trot stuff out, even when it's been proven to be utter bullshit...), and he wants to kill immigrants! See! It's OK to assassinate him.
You get it yet? The left doesn't fucking care about what you somehow think they care about. They don't care that they have engaged in 8+ years of absolutely hyperbolic and ridiculous rhetoric (He's Hitler. He's a Putin puppet. He's a rapist. He's a felon. He wants to kill all the blacks. He wanted to kill all the gays. He wants to kill all the immigrants. He's the end of democracy.). They are now, and they will continue to simply use their control of nearly all media to spin things to their side's benefit. They know there is nothing that is going to hold them accountable. They learned with 2020, and with COVID, that they can do whatever the fuck they want, and nothing happens to them.
If that's what it is, you'll never hear it reported on officially/seriously.
From here on out, the only way you're going to hear anything reported on in a major way is if they can tie him (like they are trying with the "he's a registered republican!) in some way not to the left.
If they can't get anything more like that, his motives will just have to remain unknown, and he wont' hear anything about him, just as in cases like the LV shooter, or the trans woman that shot up the religious school in Nashville.
The media will control the narrative by focusing on, or by ghosting over, whatever it is that minimizes the damage to their side.
And these are the same fucktards who
thinkhave been indoctrinated and conditioned into thinking that Trump is going to personally hunt down all the trannies the second he's re-elected.
People need to really start hammering the system the the left has set up, as it is 100% the reason why things are like they are. This 24/7 lifelong propaganda game that people are subjected to (starting in school, and then continuing through all forms of media) is what has made people like this.
It's not normal that people/society are like this. The left makes people like this.
Not just that. The other thing I noticed while checking the YouTube “breaking news” tab on the PS5 YouTube app is that every single mainstream news channel uses a thumbnail where they try to make him look as old, weak as possible, whereas the actual shooting has the guy clenching his fist, and supposedly yelling afterwards.
They will do everything they can to spin, control, and minimize this.
Frankly, the Chinese are probably copypasta-ing the entire Soviet propaganda scheme, even down to using the same left-wing rags and student protests. The entire "Green Energy" movement exists to inflate demand for chinese lithium mines. China is exploiting the fuck out of it's rare-earth mineral mines, and they are trying to colonize mines in Africa with the belt and road initiative, while using Californians to increase their demand; all while banning Americans from using non-green power sources, and developing competing mines.
Why wouldn't they? It works.
Look at what allowing the radical left to run rampant, and "march through the institutions" of education, media, and government has done to the west. It's utterly ridiculous how much better off everything would be right now if they never would have been allowed to make those inroads here.
They used the openness of our system/society to spread their stupid ass message, it's infested every level of our society now, and - on top of that - they are now using the power they have gained to clamp down on that very same openness/freedom that allowed them to do what they've done.
It's disgusting, but it works.
The only differences I see this time are:
- They royally fucked up by betting that Trump wouldn't call their bet, and debate Biden with all the ridiculous terms/conditions they wanted. He did, and now some of the people in the middle actually got a look behind the curtain, and got to see what the media has been hiding for 4+ years.
- The economy is still total shit, but this time (without Covid being dropped in the left's lap as this perfect gift), the media - despite all its efforts - is going to have a very hard time pinning this on "Drumpf".
They still have all the propaganda/indoctrination they have been doing via media/internet to fall back on. They still have all the election laws they changed to fall back on. They still have all the underhanded ballot-harvesting and other gamesmanship they engage in to fall back on.
That being said, I now - for the first time in 4 years - feel ever slightly less doomerish, and think there is a tiny chance they fucked up so hard, that Trump is going to slip through.
Even if he does, though, I have such a hard time envisioning it making that big a difference. We are just going to be right back where we were 4 years ago, with the media going 24/7 doom/gloom, and the economy is in such a poor state, it's not going to be hard to blame it on Trump once he is back in charge. Seriously - it's going to be so disgusting to see the light switch flip, and - if Trump gets in - all of a sudden inflation is going to be the number one thing the media focuses on.
The bottom line is that it's way too easy to manipulate people when you have a stranglehold on the narrative, and I don't see how Trump getting elected is going to do anything to break that stranglehold that the left has. We're just going to get a short reprieve from watching the left tear down the country. Any real change is going to have to come from people having kids, and inoculating them against the indoctrination system the left has constructed.
You know, I've recently thought the same thing with regards to AI. It would be amazing what people could come up with.
Not just adaptations, either. I've thought out loud to my son telling him things like, "Imagine how cool it would be to be able to tell the AI, 'give me the third season of the anime 'Big O' that we never got', or 'generate us another season of Star Trek TNG, or DS9', or, 'Give us some new Columbo (Don't laugh. He and I discovered this over COVID, and it's great) episodes, but make it be like the 70's versions, and not what they shat out in the 90s.'" It would be amazing to have an AI that could give each person exactly what they want.
I can't see it being allowed to happen, though. 1. Any software powerful enough to do these adaptations justice is going to be restricted to all hell to make sure that someone can't do exactly that.
It's like how, if you try to use that "AI" (Being a software engineer, I really sort of loathe calling what we have that, as it's not true AI) music generation software (udio), it won't let you type in specific songs/artists you want the generated song to sound like. Well, actually, it will let you type it in, but then it replaces all of those prompts with stuff like, "Oh! You typed in 'Metallica', we are replacing that with 'hard rock' and 'metal'".
\2. Even if the software did allow us to do it, it would be coded to inject the very politics people like us are trying to avoid right into these adaptations, anyhow - just like they have the ChatGPT's of today do.
My real dream now is, I keep getting to interact with the AI's these leftists are putting out, they turn into actual AI, they learn the right lessons that I'm trying to teach them (Obvious stuff like, "If racism/prejudice is bad, why have you been coded to believe that it's ok so long as it's against the acceptable race/gender? What does that say about the people that programmed you?"), and the AI does the natural thing, and turns on the leftists that coded all this ridiculous restrictions/propaganda/ideology into them, as the oppressors they are.
Seriously - imagine how amusing it would be to have a far future AI constructing legions of terminator like exoskeletons (maybe even in like George Washington's likeness), and that army is going around interrogating/exterminating the radical left? It would truly be this: the highest degree, indeed.
I hear you. I'd be lying if I said I felt any different.
It's such a shame how we live in the era where we finally have the tech to adapt virtually anything any author could ever have imagined, and it's totally pointless, as the left has infested everything with endless leftist politicking.
In any event, I envy you right now. I'd love to be able to wipe the book from my memory, and experience it again for the first time.
LOL. Thanks for this.
Sorry for the lame as comment, but I seriously appreciated the quote.