This piece comes to us from Guy
He actually sent two along the same vein, but I’ve decided to take some from each and present it as a whole. Thanks for your excellent effort, Guy.
“First they ignore you.
Then they mock you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.”
— attributed to M.K. Gandhi
If all Biden’s ventriloquists have is “MAGA semi-fascist,” that’s pretty weak tea, isn’t it? We can and should point and laugh, often and heartily.
But the senile coot has decided to go Eric Fartwell on us and talks about F-15’s. Backs off it, of course, nod-wink. Does a Leni Riefenstahl-type address from Independence Hall, a Triumph Of The Will type production, but content-wise, it reminds me of nothing so much as late-stage-Ceausescu. He proceeds to make a fool of himself, which spectacle would be laughed at in any sane society. Sees he didn’t quite get the optics and tone exactly right, backs off again, nod-wink.
But it’s well to remember Nicolae Ceausescu. No, I’m NOT advocating Biden be taken out and shot, although the WH might profit from the Romanian example of what happens when you’ve seriously miscalculated a situation. What I refer to was how Ceausescu became so out of touch with reality that he was still doing those haranguing addresses well past the time it was obvious that if he kept doing them, they would be counterproductive (which they ended up being in fact).
The arrogance-of-power is what the issue is here: “I can demonize a significant part of the population who weren’t and probably wouldn’t have been at the Capitol Building on January 6th, and the press will cover for me.” One might wonder if this arrogance-of-power sort of thing is akin to “While we’re still in power, we’ll poison the well…” Because, barring electoral irregularities on a major scale that we have not seen before, it would appear the Dems will lose control of Congress and the only question is by how much.
And because anyone can see that the Dems aren’t really as cocksure as all that, and because and unless a tremendous number of electoral irregularities is done, they will lose control of Congress. Biden might then be seen for the immoral, not-very-bright, cognitively declining dotard he is, at which point there will be an all-out attempt to shout “Nazi! Nazi! Nazi!” at every opportunity, which hopefully will fool fewer and fewer people as time wears on.
Biden’s ventriloquists are laying the groundwork for this by the “MAGA-semi-fascist” otherization of a significant number of people out there. But here’s the flaw in their plan: They have not considered that “MAGA,” qua a feeling of discontent, didn’t START with Donald Trump. He tapped into it. It transcends Donald Trump. I’m even willing to throw Trump under the bus (electorally, NOT in the DoJ prosecution sense!) and ask them, “OK, now that Trump is not part of the equation, tell me, what’s wrong with ‘MAGA’?”
And someone had better inform Biden’s ventriloquists that “semi-fascist” is a phrase like “slightly pregnant.” You are either fascist – or else you are not. Ask them, while they use “MAGA” as a “boo! hiss!” term, what a “semi-fascist” actually IS. It’s their term– they ought to be able to say what they mean by it.
If we realize that it’s all just like a “cool kids” clique of nine-year-old girls in the schoolyard deciding who’s got “COOTIES!” and offering to give the poor cowed other girls a “Cootie shot” (literally, in the case of vaxx mandates!), it all becomes clear what’s going on. We would all like to believe that any nine-year-old daughter we have would tell the “Mean Girls” to go shit in their hats, wouldn’t we?
We’d just hope the “Mean Girls” weren’t actually, y’know, “armed and dangerous,” of course.
