Donald Trump
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I just want to be clear about something: @realDonaldTrump is an *unacceptable* risk to take for merely breaking an evil SJW Overton window.
As Hillary is not listening, it's understandable many of you will vote Trump. I see his risk as existential. Please respect me as I do you.
I cannot seem to convey to fellow @HillaryClinton voters that painting all Trump voters as racist misogynistic idiots is offensive & wrong.
I assume journalism was once a thing that was crowded out by the thing now confusingly called journalism. It's time for us to reinvent it.
I don't think this is a massive shock to people who were thinking for themselves. It's a shock to anyone who outsourced to CNN/FOX/NYT/NPR.
@christinelu I'm feeling some pain & fear too. But many of my friends didn't take this seriously ... b/c they demonized those who disagreed.
@cosmos4u I think a lot of folks lied to themselves. Many got to the polling station thinking they would vote for HRC.... until in private.
Here's the silver lining. The same dumb analysis that told you Hillary was going to win is what told you Trump-nation is neo-nazi skinheads.
2017Edit
36 years of variation on a theme by Ronald W Reagan. Today, at 51, I'll go back to beginners' mind. History is restarting.
No time to lose.
As of today, my stance readjusts. Put simply:
Cooperation everywhere possible. Vigilance wherever necessary.
Thank you BHO Welcome DJT
@wobbles That I had no idea what the DJT payload would be b/c the campaign was a kayfabe work & trolling of PC. Now we're playing for keeps.
1st Tweet of the Trump era: It's time for we the technical classes (e.g. PhDs) to stop lying for our former institutional masters on policy.
2nd Tweet of the Trump era: We the technical classes must not begin lying to the new masters of our institutions to flatter their populism.
At some point, Pres. Trump will have to choose between high ability, totally loyalty & full staffing of our government. He can pick any two.
2018Edit
When I saw this sign in SF’s Castro district, I thought of my friend @SamHarrisOrg and my struggle to explain to him in early 2017 why people trust @realDonaldTrump when he is not truthful.
Trump is like the guy who added the last line on the sign when Clinton & Bush would not.
Trump’s style of metahonesty is however very dangerous. I wrote about this in a 2011 essay I frequently reference on the theory of Kayfabe which I anticipated would take over as boomers were forced to deal w/ the cognitive aftermath of the Great Recession: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11783
"There shall be open borders." -WSJ
"There shall be open borders." -SJW
Want to know how @realDonaldTrump won? By giving people who intuit that the institutional commentariat has played them every election, the chance to finally order *anything* taken completely off the US menu.
So go vote America. All I ask, is that when given any opportunity to do so, use it to reject Utopianism on Right or Left. What we were given as custodians is so much better than moronic utopian experiments that always end in dystopia. Let's not mess this up. #lovethisgreatcountry
You just love this, don’t you? People are dead. Homes torched. The state is on fire. The air here is choked with smoke.
So this. Because, nobody else gets why this works?
I mean, I get it. But whatever you got for this, isn’t worth it. There’s no prize worth winning this way.
@SquawkieEagle Thx. This president says many things that *do* need to be said, but in ways that are opportunistic, simplistic, cruel, distorted, insensitive, incendiary and hyperbolic. Some are angry that he’s a bad liar, but I often think he’s really at his absolute worst as a truth teller.
@Ramsey_Payne I don’t think he loves the tragedy. I think he loves the fact that *if* there is a tragedy, *then* he can exploit it. He does this by telling a mixture of simplistic lies and truths together, and sticking it to his adversaries who don’t expect it because it’s such a dick move.
2019Edit
I think I avoided all pressure to find Trump guilty of collusion w Russia. And it was a considerable cost on my life. The typical conversation went: “Oh c’mon Eric. He’s clearly guilty. Why make excuses? When the report comes you‘ll have to look in the mirror.”
I want apologies.
It wasn’t (and still isn’t) that I knew. I had no idea. But I also had no idea how everyone else just somehow knew what was actually true. Did everyone have a dossier that I did not? How does this pressure to *infer* unknown things become a Left-of-center mind virus?
Let’s stop.
And one last thing: I’m still of the opinion that Trump is a grave problem & that the people who voted him in deserve a responsible Left of center expression for their real frustrations on Trade, Immigration, Terror and elite betrayal to replace Trump w something more wholesome.
So please remember that many people on the Left did *not* ever sign up for this idee fixe of the Mueller report as answer to the Trump phenomena. We‘ve not called his presidency illegitimate. And we don’t think his supporters are all nuts. This is a democracy, betrayed by elites.
I will be coming back to this old tweet repeatedly. A plan to reassert narrative control before 2020 was evident immediately after Trump’s win shocked our institutional elite. “Fake news” was its placeholder buying time to figure out how to end rivals to “authoritative sources.”
It would appear we are being psychologically prepared for a change in the algorithms that direct our attention.
Since then we have learned about “The Good Censor” and “ML Fairness” at google, “Deboosting” at Facebook, “down ranking” at Twitter, “authoritative sources” at YouTube, the “Alternative Influencer Network” theory at @datasociety, & the IDW as a gateway to white supremacists. Ha.
I’d say that old tweet wasn’t too far off after all. We just had it dribbled in increment by increment with changes in “Terms of Service” & the slow crushing push to numb our outrage from our institutional class, article by article, until we welcomed our own censorship w/ thanks.
Trump Tweeting algorithm:
It seems [perseverated diminishing epithet] [First name][Last Name] is [anti-trump misportrayal or activity claim] again despite my [claimed Trump accomplishment]. (S)He really should worry about [corruption insinuation]. [Threat]. [Tiny simple zinger!]
The president’s tweets are there to be reverse engineered. They’re all method. When Democrats call him an ‘idiot’ w/o building an Eliza program to simulate what is beating them, it‘s painful to watch.
Why not claim that the person beating you at chess is an idiot?Think about it.
Invited on a conservative podcast today. We celebrated punk rock as I politilely told them Trump was obviously manifestly unfit for office & I view their parent org as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party. They couldn’t have been more decent to me.
This is how they may win.
My eyes are open. This isn’t my team. But when normal souls who think normal thoughts have to go over to their competitor’s house to have civil constructive discussion, because their own home often hurls poop at any who won’t tow an incoherent party line, loss has to be budgeted.
Don’t get sold the narrative that Trump now owns ALL US Conservatism. He does own a good chunk of it. But there‘s also a new strain of tolerant conservatism that‘s very liberal: relentlessly civil, anti-inequality, pro-logic, pro-gay, pro-weed, pro-free speech & multicultural.
What is causing this? I don’t know.
But one partial explanation is that many normal adults made to feel like pariahs are leaving the Democratic Party & simply taking their liberal values across the street. It’s like visiting a Little Italy, Koreatown or other diaspora community.
@AlexRussek It’s more confusing than that. I can’t fully figure out how they rationalize Trump. They often have the idea that Trump’s methods are wrong but that they think be does the right thing in the end. I honestly don’t get it. I think that it’s rationalizing lesser evil as they see it.
As someone who both has been vocal that Trump is unfit for office but who also gets on well with many Trump supporters, I’m not afflicted by Trump derangement syndrome.
Today seems to be the day that should begin an exit for fair minded Trump supporters.
#AmbassadorSondland
To my Trump supporting friends, many of you have been correct about myriad problems of the Democratic Party & its affiliated media. Let that not blind you to what is happening. This man was simply not the solution to our corrupt system. Love you. But look again with fresh eyes.🙏
If you think I’m wrong, I’m open to your arguments. But let’s check in with each other after any counter-narrative emerges.
I was open to the idea that these hearings would be purely political.
I hope you will be open to the idea that this is actually damning.
To be honest, I should have been clearer. Let me say a few words.
By Trump supporters, I was referring to folks for whom Trump is close to a force of pure good. This goes way beyond lesser or necessary evil perspectives. So I should have been clear about absolute v relative. https://x.com/keithbrodie/status/1197282556120453120
Next, I was careful not to opine on legality or impeachment. The way I’m viewing these hearings is that they are giving us a look into our foreign policy. Legality is about what we can prove, but judgement is about what we must glean. I wish we could avoid inference but we can’t.
What I glean about the Trump, Clinton and Biden groups is that they pursue the personal intertwined w/ our national issues at an unacceptable level. I can’t prove that about any of them yet. But Carter, Eisenhower, Reagan or Sanders they are not. So I should have clarified.
If you want a perspective that is not so far off of mine but from a conservative perspective, @benshapiro made a lot of my points in detail. It’s not “quid pro quo or no” but which one, and the fact that Biden may be the point of investigation or a positive political externality.
But my issue stands. We’re now being injured as a nation by Trump’s judgment, tactics and quirks. If we are reduced to “That’s perfectly legal” arguments rather than, “we have China, Climate and Russia emergencies” by Trump and Democratic dissembling we are screwed.
Our eye is off the ball & Trump does not become the goddamned messiah b/c he sticks it to corrupt Democratic players. It’s like watching two street gangs fight. Fair-minded Trump supporters should be leaving the absolutist “Trump does nothing wrong” camp now. This is awful.
My point in criticizing my party is to find a way out of the Trump v Biden/Warren version of non-stop boomer on boomer action. Trump is an enormous problem. If you think he‘s radiation therapy for your Democratic corruption cancer, don’t fall in love with your radiation levels.🙏
1/ Too Many Different Stories.
Here’s my best guess as to what‘s happening. There was a post-WWII Int’l order. Both US parties agreed to service it. They became systemically corrupt when growth changed in the early/mid ‘70s. This accelerated wildly with the end of the Cold War.
2/ The parties & Trump represented systemic & idiosyncratic corruption respectively. Systemic had Rep & Dem flavors. The tattered Int’l order is serviced (barely) by the systemically corrupt but repudiated by the idiosyncratic. The new GOP is moving towards the Idiosyncratic.
3/ We are divided by the following. Some party players benefit from the systemic corruption but are loyal to the two party flavors. Remaining party players want to end the corruption. But they agree on the need to service the Int’l order because of dangers of restarting history.
4/ The Idiosyncratic players want to use Trump to end systemic corruption (drain the swamp). Some want it so badly that they’ll defend nearly all idiosyncratic corruption. Others admit to idiosyncratic failings but point to the fact that only Trump broke through our MSM defenses.
5/ The idiosyncratic players (The “Trump Train”) are further divided as to whether the Int’l order is too corrupt & expensive to service or too essential to abandon. The former are divided into isolationists vs those who wish to project new power. The latter subvert withdrawal.
6/ Why the crisis in communal sense making? We are now micro-divided by pro vs anti systemic rent-seekers with 2 flavors. Anti is further split by pro vs anti willingness to admit to the idiosyncratic corruption. We are divided by isolationists vs maintainers of the order. Etc...
7/ Where I am: I see 2 party flavors of systemic corruption. And the new idiosyncratic. I see corrupt expensive foreign entanglements but also no ability to retreat. I also believe great nations are based on communal *fictions* which are being destroyed by our extractive actors.
8/ This is where we are to my understanding. I *only* really look down on *pro*-corruption folks. I do fear the isolationists have no idea what they’re signing us up for on a thermonuclear planet, but I just see them as confused by BAD foreign adventures & betting the 🌍 on luck.
End/ So I have the group I look down on (Systemic corruption of the party regulars) different from the group to be feared (advocates of abandonment of the corrupt system to restart history).
The folks w whom I get along now have no home: those who get we have to fix ALL this. 🙏
Thirty four years ago, the liberal paper of the University of Pennsylvania was celebrating “the largest single gift ever received by an undergraduate school” in a banner headline..which I discovered going through boxes after a move.
Odd he would become the right wing devil, no?
We can barely remember how many different people Donald Trump has been to our press in their portrayals: Winner. Star. Loser. Nazi. Greedy pig. Casanova. Generous benefactor. Predator. Symbol of wealthy. Purveyor of tackiness. Promoter of women. Madman. Genius. Debtor. Builder.
[My point about the different faces of Trump portrayed by the Press was real, but I think the article was a gag if I recall correctly. I’d read it for yourself...]
My following is mostly millennial. I have a lot of contact w/ them.
As a result I know something I wouldn’t know otherwise: many, if not all, of them don’t relate to what we call being millennial. They want to be full adults & are not finding paths to becoming full stakeholders.
The oldest of these Millennials are now almost 40. In my original area of academe and science, it is time for GenX & Millennials to stop running out of fuel in infinite holding patterns. We should start ignoring air traffic control & land the planes. Crash landing if necessary.
Here’s the problem. It‘s time for Millenials to start becoming univ. presidents. Yet only a tiny number of research universities even have any GenX heads! Likewise, notice that Millenial @TulsiGabbard & Xer AndrewYang surge, but are dropped from corporate media promoting Boomers.
Q: Should we start talking about bringing back Mandatory Retirement to stop involuntary inter-generational wealth transfer? Consider that we will have spent 20 Yrs exploring US presidents born in the summer of the 1st year of the baby boom. 24 if Trump (b. 1946) is re-elected.
I think since @AndrewYang got deliberately and repeatedly dropped from media graphics and since @HillaryClinton started targeting @TulsiGabbard I’ve been radicalized.
It is not intergenerational warfare to tell grandma to get her finger off the scales of democracy and economics.
Q: Why are we not talking about bringing back mandatory retirement for academicians who have prevented two generations from taking their seats and talking about legal action against corporate media like @MSNBC who distort the news of our non boomer candidates gaining traction?🙏
2020Edit
There is no path to voting Trump out of office that passes through a contempt for working Americans.
And by the way, you educated coastals can get a latte with coal mining families in Appalachia:
Food City 50,
Morton Blvd,
Hazard, KY 41702
They hear your jokes on iPhones.
“Flyover country” doesn’t exist.
That’s heartland conjugated in the minds of an out of touch media.
You can get a Latte anywhere. Farmers know genetics. The entire US has Wifi & indoor plumbing. Not just Brooklyn & DuPont Circle.
Why are Democrats electing Trump via contempt?
This is everywhere. The DNC is like an incompetent retiring substitute civics teacher who long ago mentally checked out, but still condescendingly lectures the smartest kids on wrong facts. Trump, the 3rd grade teacher next door passing out Jell-O shots calling them “study aids.”
I didn't vote for Trump in '16, but am seriously considering doing so this year.
My reasoning is mostly about what you might call "teaching the bureaucracy/media a lesson". There's lots to dislike about Trump, but more to dislike about the institutional response to Trump.
Rule Change: Everyone who was saying “Wake up! Your supposed elites are almost all in thrall to China. This is not safe.” since the 1980s-90s gets to say whatever the hell they want about the problems posed by the PRC without having to hear about anyone named Trump.
#TrumpWho?
I can assure you I have been ringing this bell at great cost since China started to supply research labor to our US labs in the 1980s. The national concern with Chinese threats has nothing to do with Trump. Stop focusing on that guy.
You cannot get to smart by simply putting a minus sign in front of everything Donald Trump says.
That is not surprising. What is surprising is the number of people who haven’t learned this after the last 4 years.
People don’t understand my position on Trump. Here it is:
Trump owns his critics other than me. Why? Because he says so much crazy stuff mixed in with real stuff that it is a lifetime commitment to correct him. So I decided to simply state that I view him as an existential risk.
This way:
A) I am not picking up after him intellectually every two minutes.
B) I’m not forced to pretend that everything he does is wrong just because he did it.
C) I can continue to be friends with his supporters.
D) I’m clear that he should not be our commander in chief.
But this confuses people: “why don’t you denounce everything he says and does wrong every day?”
The answer is this: “Democrats elected him by not listening. And he will not run my life the way he runs yours. You want to Run Biden(?) against him? Good luck! You‘re all crazy now.”
But, yes, he should resign. I thought that would go without saying. And no, he didn’t do everything wrong. Neither did Pelosi. Nor the Mayor of NYC. But the whole lot of them need to leave. It is now a different era.
This class of leaders has been measured.
And found wanting.
I have to try not to comment on Trump. This tweet is an example of why.
It’s just endless bait, both boring and transparent. Like Lucy and the football. And it doesn’t stop for life and death. It’s to the bone.
Can’t stand it.
For the first time in history there is a fully signed Presidential Disaster Declaration for all 50 States. We are winning, and will win, the war on the Invisible Enemy!
I’m for additive civil disobedience. By that, I mean do something disobedient to protest the abject incompetence of our leadership that is beautiful & inspiring. I’ve mentioned Projection Mapping spectacular graffiti onto large buildings and videoing it, leaving no trace of harm. https://x.com/Crypto__naire/status/1255177207984447488
If it’s worth destroying the word economy over, we should have an OFFICIAL Manhattan project for Covid. Everyone I know who should be on that hasn’t been called up or pressed into service. Instead we have Scientists like Kudlow and Mnuchin on the task force. Protest that.
You will also notice that constant partisan Trump bashing and that impeachment attempt made it very difficult to protest his mishandling of this crisis. The wrong way to protest Trump is to go along with Democrats. The right way is to protest the incompetence of our leadership.
Protest political people with dazzling agency, beauty, technical rigor and grace. That class can’t do these things.
They don’t code. They don’t weld. They don’t compose. They don’t crowdsource. They don’t understand crypto. They don’t believe in standing alone.
Now use that.
Bari Weiss has now resigned from the @nytimes. And that is not even “The Story”. I‘ve just spoken to Bari & learned that I‘m finally free to tweet.
Her letter hints at the real News: the *loss* of the News is now *the* News, and the News cannot cover it.
On 6/1/17 Ms Weiss was the only journalist covering “The News”. Only she was doing it from the opinion section because the NYT refused to find interesting that there was a racist Maoist insurrection at a public college where police would be stood down: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/opinion/when-the-left-turns-on-its-own.amp.html
At that moment Bari Weiss became all that was left of the “Paper of Record.” Why? Because the existence of Black Racists with the power to hunt professors with Baseball Bats and even redefine the word ‘racism’ to make their story impossible to cover ran totally counter-narrative.
At some point after 2011, the NYT gradually stopped covering the News and became the News instead. And Bari has been fighting internally from the opinion section to re-establish Journalism inside tbe the NYT. A total reversal of the Chinese Wall that separates news from opinion.
This is the paper in 2016 that couldnt be interested in the story that millions of Americans were likely lying to pollsters about Donald Trump.
The paper refusing to ask the CIA/FBI if Epstein was Intelligence related.
The paper that can’t report that it seeks race rioting:
I have had the honor of trying to support both @bariweiss at the New York Times and @BretWeinstein in their battles simply to stand alone against the internal mob mentality. It is THE story all over the country. Our courageous individuals are being hunted at work for dissenting.
Before Bari resigned, I did a podcast with her. It was chilling. I‘d make an innocuous statement of simple fact and ask her about it. She‘d reply “That is obviously true but I’m sorry we can’t say that here. It will get me strung up.” That‘s when I stopped telling her to hang on.
So what just happened? Let me put it bluntly: What was left of the New York Times just resigned from the New York Times. The Times canceled itself. As a separate Hong Kong exists in name only, the New New York Times and affiliated “news” is now the chief threat to our democracy.
This is the moment when the passengers who have been becoming increasingly alarmed, start to entertain a new idea: what if the people now in the cockpit are not airline pilots? Well the Twitter Activists at the @nytimes and elsewhere are not journalists.
What if those calling for empathy have a specific deadness of empathy?
Those calling for justice *are* the unjust?
Those calling “Privilege” are the privileged?
Those calling for equality seek to oppress us?
Those anti-racists are open racists?
The progressives seek regress?
Bari and I agree on a lot but also disagree fiercely. And so I have learned that she is tougher than tough. But these university and journalistic workplaces are now unworkable. They are the antithesis off what they were built to stand for. It is astounding how long she held out.
Read her letter. I have asked her to do a make-up podcast & she has agreed. Stay tuned If you don’t want to be surprised again by what‘s coming understand this: just as there has been no functioning president, there‘s now no journalism. We‘re moving towards a 🌎 of pure activism.
Prepare to lose your ability to call the police & for more autonomous zones where kids die so that Govenors & Mayors can LARP as Kayfabe revolutionaries. Disagree with Ms Weiss all you want as she isn’t perfect. But Bari is a true patriot who tried to stand alone. Glad she’s out.
We are not finished by a long shot. What the Intellectual Dark Web tried to do MUST now be given an institutional home.
Podcast with Bari on The Portal to come as soon as she is ready.
Stay tuned. And thanks for reading this. It is of the utmost importance.
Thank you all. 🙏
A surprising number of Left-leaning people are confiding to me that they are planning to vote for Trump for two different stated leading reasons:
A) Biden’s Mental decline.
B) What is happening in the Pacific Northwest w Democratic Mayors/Govenors experimenting w non-policing.
Anyone else seeing this? It’s two different reactions. Both of them indicating that there is something catastrophicly wrong with this process. All of them previously *bitterly* opposed to Trump, and many even to the Republican Party.
Perhaps this isn’t clear to my followers: my belief is that each party is electing the others’ candidate.
The only real argument for Biden is Trump/Pence and the RNC. By the same token, the only real argument for Trump is Biden/Harris and the DNC.
We Dems are re-electing Trump.
I think all of this "under coverage" is justified when you have a four alarm fire currently burning inside the White House and threatening to engulf our entire Democracy. Let's save the country first, then we can worry about the far less threatening issue of "far left overreach."
*other’s
Do you remember 10K accounts swarming over this tweet telling me I was lying?
When the polls showed a large Biden lead? That I was in a “hipster coffee shop” making this up?
You are all so certain. And you never learn.
Looking for 10K Democratic apologies that will never come.
A surprising number of Left-leaning people are confiding to me that they are planning to vote for Trump for two different stated leading reasons:
A) Biden’s Mental decline.
B) What is happening in the Pacific Northwest w Democratic Mayors/Govenors experimenting w non-policing.
Well, that lead in the polls narrowed. And I believe a lot of it is this forced thinking that is being pushed on folks.
I’m sure if I told you that I talk to Black friends who HATE BLM for its racism, Marxism and divisiveness, I will be told that they don’t exist.
That’s crazy.
Let me try again. We the Democrats are correct that Trump is a bullshitter. But here is what we don’t get: Bullshitting doesn’t automatically lose if you choose Gaslighting as a strategy.
And somehow we the Democrats have become the party of Gaslighting.
What this is shaping up as is a bizarre “Choose your own apocalypse!” Vote.
Republicans: Party of Bullshiters
Democrats: Party of Gaslighters
And people have *private* trauma here which determines which they fear most. Dems with Gaslighting trauma are now going to break away.
Trump is a self serving bullshitter bull in a China shop. His lies aren’t even intended to fool you. He doesn’t think he owes the press the truth. Life is what you can negotiate to him.
But his bizarre bullshitting is out in the open.
The Democrats on the other hand are hiding.
Can one even ask the questions:
“Is BLM and its leadership Marxist and racist?”
“What do we make of the George Floyd Body-cam footage?”
“Does ANTIFA exist as a violent organization?”
Well this is not keeping a big tent together. This is gaslighting.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/27/rep-jerry-nadler-brushes-off-antifa-violence-as-a-myth/
We the Left are not our Democratic Party leadership. And we never signed up with a blood oath to gaslight our Republican rivals for two reasons:
A) It is evil.
B) It is the one thing that is most likely to get us four more years of Donald Trump.
Gaslighting is a losing game.🙏
Master-stroke. Anyone who had to go through training designed to cure them of their pathological racism, sexism, Islamophobia, transphobia, misogyny and ableist bigotry (which is also incurable btw) is going to be tempted. Duh.
“Hey Americans: you‘re horrible! Join us!”
Insane.
My gosh, the nerve! THRILLED and AMAZED that President Trump BANNED "Critical Race Theory" from federal training sessions. Surely CEO's, Presidents, and Boards of corporations, universities and other institutions can match that courage. https://whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/M-20-34.pdf
You don’t have to love him. You just have to realize you got played for promoting the pseudo-scholarship of hatred.
Doesn’t matter who or what he is. CRT is hateful.
What’s the use? You the Democratic leaders won’t understand the point until you are beaten a second time. Sigh..
Blacklists Matter.
I want you to imagine that your private phone calls start dropping every time your uncle mentions Building 7, Jean Seberg, Hunter Biden or The Wuhan Institute of Virology.
@jack: Huh?
#SlipTheDISC #BlacklistsMatter #LeftCarthyism #TheThinquisition #Publisher
This is a Big Tech information coup. This is digital civil war.
I, an editor at The New York Post, one of the nation’s largest papers by circulation, can’t post one of our own stories that details corruption by a major-party presidential candidate, Biden.
I want my crazy pro-trump friends & family to be able to say their crazy stupid ass Trump-Train Bullshit. In fact, it is essential to me. I want to be able to rebut it. I don't want to be protected against "potentially harmful" articles by a Publisher pretending to be a platform.
This isn't targeted harrassment of an individual. This is a political race for president of the united states.
This is no longer a Platform in any meaningful sense. It is time to apply the standards of a Publisher. This is insane.
You cannot board the Trump Train. No matter how many times he sticks it to your tormentors. I know it’s tempting when you can’t stand the DNC.
He remains an existential risk to America and its values. We are very particular about how we take out the trash: this is anti-American.
I don’t mean I can’t understand voting for him. I could also make an argument for voting either way.
I mean you can’t tell me that we just don’t get him. We get him. It’s not “Trump Derangement Syndrome” to see this as anti-American BS, and we need to get back to due process.
I approve of taking action against CRT. Against H1b. Of moving the embassy to Jerusalem. Of making peace in the Middle East. Of no new wars. Of sticking it to the WOKE bigots on their rampage through our institutions. Etc.
But no. There are lines. This is way over one such line.
Extra-judicial killings are beyond the pale. Obama joked about them with drones. After his killing Anwar al-Awlaki, I spoke against Obama’s horrid attitude. Well, I condemn this Trump talk inducing law officers toward extrajudicial killing. WTF?
God damn. What is wrong with us?
Folks don’t get my model of Trump’s odd utterances & how people interpret them.
Level 0 (TDS): “OMG. He said a bad thing!”
Lvl 1: “He didn’t actually say what you think he said. Look at the exact words under this alternate theory.”
Lvl 2: Dual interpretations are intentional.
Over and over the coin flip lands on its side. At some point you realize this isn’t an accident and the man didn’t get where he is by being an idiot.
Notice how often he generates the same TDS panic. This is a strategy that got him to the White House and not a bug.
Remember: legacy media can’t discuss the existence of Never-Trump Trump Voters. So there‘s no record that the phenomena even exists. If you‘re the rare “Involuntary Conservative” who is OPEN about voting Trump as a previous Never-Trumper, please answer questions on this thread?🙏
I was a NeverTrumper in 2016 who plans to hold my nose and vote for Trump in 2020. There are lots of us.
*phenomenon
Let me ask the first such questions:
Q1) What turned you against your Never Trump orientation?
Q2) What would the Democratic Party have to do at a minimum to get you back?
Q3) Have you changed your mind about Trump or only changed your mind about the Democrats?
I respect Dave’s decision. Part of being an American is loving people you disagree with and NOT trying to shame or control them. Also allowing that they change their minds, evolve & may see more/less clearly than we can.
Don’t lose your mind, family & friends over an election.🙏
Thank you to Dave Rubin, author of “Don’t Burn This Book”, just announced on @foxandfriends that he is voting for your favorite President, me. “I think Donald Trump has done a lot of good. When I see an American flag, I see Trump support.”
I also think a lot of people are going to vote for @realDonaldTrump over:
A) Portland & @tedwheeler
B) Critical Race Theory
C) H1B
D) CCP & geopolitics
E) Activist Press
F) Activist Tech
G) MSM/DNC treatment of @TulsiGabbard / @AndrewYang
H) Jerusalem Embassy Move
Continuing..
Continued.
I) Peace: Sudan & Israel
J) Naming China & WHO in Covid
K) Peace: Israel & Bahrain
L) No new US wars
M) Seattle CHAZ & @MayorJenny
N) Peace: U.A.E. & Israel
O) Denial of soon to be 78 year old Biden’s cognitive issues
P) Hunter Biden Story
Q) “Defund the Police”
Etc.
In short, the Left used the last 4yrs to shoot itself in the foot. I couldn’t vote DJT because of the daily negative effect he has on our national culture. But, unlike 4 years ago, it’s no mystery why folks switch to him.
It’s not all ProTrump: They‘re voting to repudiate “us”.
I will be very surprised if there isn’t a *much* stronger than expected surge for Trump. The Left and Right have both jumped the shark in my opinion. So please don’t tell me what anyone has to do with his or her vote. We all watched this “election” happen & failed to prevent it.
Trump is far more gifted than any of the others & has done many good things. And many many bad things. Both of which I predicted given his outsider status.
But he has also deliberately divided us and has done so as part of his means of ascension. And that division is cancerous.
With that said, I could vote for neither Biden/Harris nor Trump/Pence in good conscience given the luxury of living in a Blue State. So I voted to communicate my non acceptance of this choice. In a swing state I’d have voted Biden.
Which is to say I couldn’t figure it out.
Moral: However you voted, I have no right to judge you on your vote.
Be generous of spirit. Let’s come back together and not waste another four years getting farther away from our best selves by arguing like fools while the CCP and others rivals watch us undo ourselves fighting.
P.S. If you care to, give your own rank ordering of the four names and a few words as to what it tells you about your reasoning? 🙏
Less than 100 hours before the end of voting in the US election, and I am watching @KamalaHarris trying desperately to elect Donald J Trump to the presidency of the United States.
Let this speak for itself.
- ResIpsaLoquitor
There’s a big difference between equality and equity.
We just don’t end up in the same place. That’s not how life works. Literally, “differential success” is one of the cornerstones of our scientific understanding of nature itself due to Darwin and Wallace.
In particular this is not how *any* successful society has worked *ever*.
Vice Signaling: nobody sane wants to listen to politicians, professors, movie stars, rappers, tech billionaires & journalists testify to their own moral superiority over the rest of us mortals who appear to be FAR more self-aware of our human failings.
Trump isn’t selling guilt.
Almost no good parent wants a level playing field for their own children. Have you ever seen a bear that is just as concerned about another bear’s cubs?
Almost no one always tells the truth or wants to pay their fair taxes.
But there is more here. It’s not just virtue fatigue.
Let’s be honest: virtue signaling in the Democratic Party is also about figuring out how to cryptically serve our donors. Kamala is not going to race to apply “Equity” in her new black Vernacular speech to her hedge fund friends in the Hamptons.
This is anti-virtuous posturing.
So every time Democrats testify to their own goodness, I assume they are preparing to throw us overboard to serve 9, 10, 11 and now 12 figure families. It’s Pavlovian or Skinnerian conditioning. Since Clinton, just before we get economically raped, we hear a lecture about virtue.
“No Person is Illegal!” means push out the labor supply curve for employers.
“Only folks making over $400k will be taxed.” may mean focus on salary income of the upper middle class rather than non-wage income of the true rich.
“No Xenophobia!” means ignore Chinese interference.
“No islamophobia!” may mean ignore jihadism so long as Saudi Arabia is making me rich.
“Nationalism is evil!” Means f—- Appalachians et al while we the rich get paid to relocate their sources of support.
Etc.
We‘ve been conditioned to despise virtue by the Post-Clinton party.
I don’t ever...and I mean ever...want to listen to the Davos scolds on any subject.
You fly in on a private jet to talk to me: fine, I’ll listen. You do so to scold me about my carbon footprint? Now you‘re dead to me.
We the Left need to stop this madness. This is Clintonism.
Most normal citizens want the US to have borders. We care more about our fellow countrymen than we do equally deserving foreigners. We want the BEST for our own kids. We aren’t excited about paying reparations for 1619. And Trump is telling us “Same here.” So: What are we saying?
The Left needs to appeal to folks who want to get rich, not be taxed into oblivion, get laid and who LOVE their flawed country, their guns & those in uniform. We have to stop appealing *only* to self-hating monks, the hyper-manipulative & the dumb. We were about something before.
In Trump you are looking at the only modern POTUS to have figured out how to run this gauntlet from an outsider’s perspective with neither political nor even military experience.
Don’t hate so much you can’t admit that he pulled off the nearly impossible. He’s *quite* skilled.
Lol at "gifted". Care to expound on that?
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