Rush says Hillary being crooked and criminal won’t sway the electorate:
That’s what politics is to these people! There isn’t anything illegal. There isn’t anything shady. It’s just the new norm. And, of course, that fits perfectly with the devolution of our culture overall. But, anyway, when I saw Panetta say it — Can we all just move on? — I imagined practically everybody in the audience watching that show. “Yeah, yeah, ’cause I’m sick and tired of hearing about it,” people are saying. You know, you can only hear so much, and then there better be some action behind it or it begins to become a tune-out.
We’ve been hearing about Hillary Clinton’s emails for how many months or years now? Well, it’s a long time, whatever it is. And we can have news stories about what’s in there. We can have information from Judicial Watch. AP might even run an occasionally a story about what’s in Mrs. Clinton’s emails. But if the sheriff doesn’t come calling, if the Department of Justice doesn’t… Better yet, if the FBI director goes on TV and says, “There’s nothing here,” then Panetta comes along… (interruption) Well, he did. He said, “There’s nothing there prosecutable,” even though there is.
But he said, “There’s nothing in here that a reasonable prosecutor would pursue.” That’s it as far as the low-information crowd is concerned. So then Panetta goes on TV Sunday. “Can we move past this?” and I guarantee you there’s a chorus of people going, “Yeah, yeah.” But I… (sigh) Look, it’s always dangerous getting into See, I Told You So mode, because people interpret that as condescending and being negative, and I don’t intend to be either.
But I have never believed it, because I have intelligence guided by 25, 27 years of experience. We are not going to “illegal” the Clintons out of office. Scandal is not ever going to harm them. There is no evidence that it ever has, and there’s plenty of evidence that people believe. There are all kinds of Clinton scandals that people believe, and it doesn’t matter to ’em.
I agree. The public is inured to corruption and criminality in DC.
Scott Adams says, violence plays against Trump:
Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams, who has gained new fame for his predictions and analysis of the 2016 presidential race, told Breitbart News on Sunday that growing violence in America benefits Hillary Clinton at Donald Trump’s expense.
“All domestic violence, as long as it’s not terrorism, seems to play against Trump, because they have successfully framed him as the ‘divider,’ the one who is dividing society,” Adams said in an interview via FaceTime.
Adams described the political effect of violence in the context of his overall theory of persuasive techniques, which he says are shaping the election more than rational arguments about policy and experience.
Adams is right.
This brought to mind a thought on political strategy.
People today want things to be easy. Yes they want government to change course. But they don’t want the change to be difficult. People today do not have balls, on the whole, and the people who have not yet formed a political opinion, or who can switch between Donald and Hillary, have even less balls than most. They do not want the hard slog, they want the easy trot to victory.
Right now, Donald is all alone whenever you see him. In the media, the corrupt Republican Establishment is deserting him, the Democrats are against him, the media is against him, the Mexican government is against him, Hollywood is against him, Robert Deniro is against him, and so on. And every time we hear of his candidacy on the news, it is him, alone on a stage fighting, be it with Hillary, protestors, the media, the terrorists, the establishment, and so on. The more alone he looks, and the more forces that are allied against him, the bigger and more numerous the challenges look by comparison, and the more difficult fixing them will appear to be. He needs to start emphasizing the impressive group he leads.
In essence people, and especially mushy moderates, are seeing a “twig-snapping” image in the amygdala consisting of a lone Donald, outside of the group, standing by himself, facing a massive lying media, a corrupt Republican establishment, the criminality in DC, the economic problems of the entire world, a collapsing healthcare system, global terrorism, Hollywood idiocy, leftist protestors, angry world leaders, and on and on. People hate all of those things. But human instinct being what it is among the mushy moderates who have not joined him, they don’t want to join Donald’s David to fight all of those Goliaths alone, because it looks difficult and dangerous.
In the brain, there is a natural tendency for people to see him as prone to lose, given all the forces allied against him, and that will make the mushy brains that decide elections dissociate themselves from him. People, and especially the mushy minds who could support either the Republican or the Democrat, and have no preference between the two, are like that. They are not in this to slog through the good fight, no matter the cost 0 those people are already with Donald. The mushy voters want the good fight fought easily so they can cruise in when the winning starts.
What Donald should focus on doing now is to make himself appear as one leader of a massive group of powerful forces and personalities that cannot be stopped. He needs to show that law enforcement is behind him. He needs a massive rally with thousands of cheering Police officers, maybe in blue and gold “Make America Great Again” T-shirts and hats, overflowing the venue, where he accepts the full support of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association from its leaders, thanks them for fighting with him, and promises to never betray them like others do so readily today.
Then, a massive rally where he accepts the support of retired enlisted Military personnel – as the only candidate who will not risk the lives of our military pointlessly overseas, or leave them on the field of battle to die alone and unsupported. Another for Border Patrol, another for Obamacare care victims, another for industry and manufacturing victims who lost jobs, another for coal, another for victims of violent crime and their families, and so on.
At each turn, personalities who are known to the public, and who support him in each field, should be highlighted. The meeting in Milwaukee with Sheriff Clarke was exactly what was needed, only on a massive scale. Every problem Donald is going to destroy, he needs to show that he has an army of powerful, pissed off people behind him, and he needs to confer that his victory will not just happen, it will be easy because of all the forces fighting with him.
This will show him to not only be the type of person people get behind, and be inside “the group,” but it will make him look more powerful himself, and the problems look easily quashed.
It will also put Hillary outside the group, and begin to make her look small, weak, alone, and unable to face those problems, compared to Donald. I am not sure there even are any impressive people she could trot out in that party of mental midgets, physical defectives, and future Darwinian victims.
These are all the type of “executive summary,” twig-snapping images which the amygdala looks for – and in r-selection, making things look easy, and your opponent look alone, is how you get the mushy voters in the middle on your side.
But most important will be the Police, though. If he can create the image that the Police support him (and by extension his supporters), that will be its own kind of “twig-snapping” stimuli in the brains of liberals and the public. It will immensely discomfit the left, even as the moderates quickly determine which side they want to be on when that fight goes down.
The weak minds that are scanning and deciding such matters based on twig-snapping stimuli are often filtering things through the schoolyard lens. Right now, Donald may be the biggest kid in the schoolyard, and he may be able to fight all of those bullies and win, but to the amygdala, all that flashes through is an image of him about to confront all of those massive bullies by himself. That is a prescription for everyone to stand off to the side and wait to see what happens.
What people need to see is that all of the strongest kids who everyone likes on the playground are joining Donald and making his side invincible, and the fight is going to be unusually easy because of it. If he issues that twig-snapping image to the nation’s amygdala, those weak minds who have yet to decide which way they are going to break will align with him.
That is what Adams means when he says each incidence of violence is now helping Hillary. Each incidence of violence is making the fight appear more arduous, and making it look like his fight will take forever, and have resistance at every turn. That is bad when times are still relatively r. We need signs now that it will be easy and fun.
[…] Rush says Hillary being crooked and criminal won’t sway the electorate: That’s what politics is to these people! There isn’t anything illegal. There isn’t anything shady. It’s just the new norm. continue […]
He needs to set up a scary great other and paint the left as betraying us for that other. Much in the same way we had the Cold War and leftists wee framed as betraying Americans for the Communists in the Soviet Union. We had blacklists in Hollywood and the Colleges that had leftists terrified and on the run. We can get a return to that. We need a new McCarthyism.
A possible source of this other is a Cold War between Western Civilization and Islamic Civilization, just like it was the West vs Communism in the Cold War.
Yeah, a new McCarthyism, that’s what we need! Bring back the tar and feathers and burn people at the stake! They should be hanged, drawn and quartered!
You realize, of course, that Islamic Civilization is Western Civilization. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are Abrahamic religions. They are Occidental. That means they are related to the Western World as opposed to Oriental, the Eastern world.
You mustn’t simply make up rules about what constitutes Western Civilization. You sound like an idiot. To generalize you’ve got Western religion on one side (the three of them) and Eastern religion on the other (Hinduism and Buddhism). That’s how it works. There are three Western religions and two Eastern religions. You may argue that there are differences between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam but at the end of the day they are more alike than they are different. They are nothing like Hinduism of Buddhism (which again are very much alike one another). Hence, you’ve got the Western Civilization and the Eastern Civilization. Islam is squarely in the Western half. No doubt about it!
the new McCarthyism. that’s funny. McCarthy was correct in his claims. Things were in fact much worse than was outlined in his public claims.
the progressive can’t help but lie. about everything. they are scum.
“You realize, of course, that Islamic Civilization is Western Civilization. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are Abrahamic religions.”
Islam was (and is) a hijack of Judaeo-Christianity; a quasi-religious, supremacist ideology invented by Muhammad (borrowing from both Christianity and Judaism in the process) so as to better control his troops. As civilizations go, Islam conquered civilizations and then appropriated their cultural expressions, the Sasanian Empire being a classic case in point and from which notions about Islamic ‘artistic expression’ very largely derived. The Sasanians were in competition with the Roman Empire (which later became the Holy Roman Empire as Christianity took hold), which certainly saw it as an equal but never a similar ‘European’ cultural expression, which the West has inevitably become and the border of which very largely stopped with the Eastern Roman Empire/Byzantines (who were in their turn conquered by the Islamics).
“You sound like an idiot. To generalize you’ve got Western religion on one side (the three of them) and Eastern religion on the other (Hinduism and Buddhism). That’s how it works. ”
Actually, that is *not* ‘how it works’. (And were I you, I wouldn’t go calling anyone an idiot while bandying around such a simplistic grasp of these complex cultural divides.)
Western Civilization starts with the first European entering the continent 50 000 years ago. Western Civilization is White people, not some fucking 1000-2000 year old desert religion and not some fucking desert people in the Levant.
No White people=No Westerners=No Western Civilization. Western civilization is little more than the extended phenotype of Whites and the only thing that matters is the people/volk that generates it, not the generation itself.
Yeah, I hate to sound racist, but freedom and democracy among Middle Easterners doesn’t really seem to work well. For whatever reason, those populations are designed to confer all power on a small cadre of leaders, and then favor the most brutal leaders who can claw their way to power and oppress everyone else the best.
Even if you give them freedom and Democracy, without application of a violent external force to make them keep it, they will gradually cede their individual authority to the most brutal among them.
This guy is basically trolling with stupid statements trying to get people’s goats. I keep him around, kind of like scientists keep cockroaches in a lab to better understand them. But nobody really takes anything he says seriously.
“This guy is basically trolling with stupid statements trying to get people’s goats. I keep him around, kind of like scientists keep cockroaches in a lab to better understand them.”
Just as long as you don’t mind us taking him out for a little spin every now and again. (All in the spirit of sharing, of course.)
People foolishly cling to the plague-ridden corpse of debt-created “prosperity.” This is to be expected.
To the extent that Trump is associated with leaving the illusion and engaging with harsh reality, his candidacy is doomed. The Lizard Queen will win if she simply promises more of the Soma to which Americans high and low are addicted. Why else are billionaires backing her? Soma, Soma, Soma.
This isn’t all bad. If the timing FINALLY works out (I’ve been wrong too many times to count, so I make no warranties) then the next president will be blamed for the largest collapse in recorded history. It won’t matter how occupies the office, the Mass Mind is not rational.
My bet is that if Clinton wins, she will be driven out of office before 2020, and very possibly escorted out in handcuffs. My largest fear, if she wins, is that she might yet have enough time to start a war with Russia. I think she’s being run by the Saudis, and they might well believe that their interests are best served by seeing North America obliterated by atomic bombs.
If we can avoid that, the rest is fixable to the extent that a cataclysm can “fix” things. Clinton-style crony-populism will be discredited for the next several hundred years by the time the Bond Ocean and limitless promises of future freebies evaporate.
Trump is a symptom, not a cause. The Narrative is changing, but it may not have changed enough, yet, to see political change. Ryan’s landslide primary win in Wisconsin was another signal that the time may not yet be right.
People have expected a stock market plunge to trumpet the beginning of the apocalypse, but there were wrong. It is bonds (and by definition, interest rates) that are the primary signal. Only when this 30 year mass delusion of complacency and pathological optimism ends will change wash like a tidal wave over the world, and the dominant feature of this optimism is the valuation of the Bond Ocean at near par. This is trust incarnate. Until that trust goes bust and evaporates the wealth in the Bond Ocean to a puddle, Plan A (conditions as we know them now, no matter how insane) will continue. Hillary Clinton is the Plan A presidential candidate, even if she croaks and they continue to run her like Weekend at Bernie’s.
Great analysis here. Agreed he needs to show more of the people that support him, especially cops since that fits his law & order theme he’s running on.
‘He needs to show…’ Via what medium? The same one that hates and wants to destroy him? Ain’t gonna happen. So, how does he get these messages out when the messengers will happily eat crashed glass before letting that happen?
Actually, I just saw him on the news sitting with his national security team. Flynn was there, as was Rudy, all at a huge filled roundtable, and the image was Donald surrounded by his massive team. The next shot was Hillary alone at the podium, and she looked alone on stage, and weak by comparison.
If he plays up that PBA endorsement at a PBA rally surrounded by cops, does events with Military organizations that endorse him at Military rallies, and does controversial things a the rallies, I think he could force the coverage.
The first whiff of so much as a hint of the notion that they’re actually helping him will see any such coverage shut down like a trap. I’ve seen it too many times now. The leftist press simply starves a campaign (or even ideologically opposite government) of oxygen and then crafts its own narrative to fit. I just don’t know how he’s going to truly overcome it.