This isn’t really my thing so I found them all…meh (if not cringe).

The sole exception was Dana White. I found nothing to criticize in his speech, and much to praise.

I gave Trump as much time as I could but had to get to bed. Seemed very somber at first, but started getting a bit more energetic and “Trumpy” as he went on. I’ll trust there will be a zillion opinions on his performance tomorrow that I can catch up on…

Watched Trump’s speech for the first 30 minutes then turned off. It started great, then became a stream of rambling and exaggerations. Maybe it will pick up near the end.

Cause he’s stronger than ‘ol man Steve.

Hulk Hogan, Kid Rock, USA! USA! USA!

This is the most ‘MURICA thing I’ve ever seen.

Midnight. He’s back on script, talking about the Revolutionary War to wrap things up. This part was professionally written, whereas his description of the PA shooting was written by him and full of cliches. Everything in the middle seemed ad-libbed.

Trump’s speech was too long. Though I wonder if that was partially by design.

“Look at me! You know Joe couldn’t last this long!”

That was my conclusion, as well. He wanted to show his stamina. Sleepy Joe has to go to bed at eight o’clock but The Donald can keep rambling into the wee hours of the morning.

The Republican platform has two planks:
1. Fight a war against Iran for the benefit of Israel.
2. Eliminate the first amendment on campus for the benefit of Israel.

Bill Ackman’s Israel-First agenda can’t generate any genuine enthusiasm.

The revolutionary American nationalist energy of 2016 was completely and utterly absent.

Will this energy be channeled constructively to repair and heal the USA? How can such a thing be accomplished?

A lot of the serious problems in our country took decades to create. Is the American attention span long enough to achieve a correction?

The border control and illegal immigrant issue has been a commonly recognized problem since the 1960’s when this round started. What will it take to stop and then reverse a 65 year trend? The process is probably catastrophic for the American civilization but simultaneously has tens of millions of beneficiaries in the short run.

Ignoring any substance or policy in the speech, standing on two legs and speaking for nearly two hours without taking a sip of water definitely passes the fitness test against Biden.

However, the game may be changing …

People Close to Biden Say He Appears to Accept He May Have to Leave the Race
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/us/politics/biden-election-drop-out.html

his description of the PA shooting was written by him and full of cliches

I shake my head in wonderment at some of the people who comment here.

I liked the Trump intro given by Dana White, the extreme-fighting president, who said that he’s met a lot of tough guys – – that’s my business – – but longtime-friend Trump is the toughest guy he’s ever known. And, he continued, at the same time as the toughness, Trump possesses a genuine empathy for people and their families.

Watching the goings-on I was reminded of e.e. cummings’ “The Enormous Room” in which cummings, contained and entrapped, describes a variety of dubious characters trapped with him. cummings highlighted the fact that amusement was crucial to the denizens, because amusement took their minds off their suffering. And, the occupants, although united, were restricted. But probably I should have saved this as a comment following the Dem convention.

Well Trump was Masterful. He delivered the greatest Comeback speech in the history of oratory.

Still voting RFK, but…. Gotta give props.

Why is Trump still talking at approaching midnight on the East Coast?

Don’t understand why organizers can keep things on schedule.

And if Trump is droning on and on then that is idiocy. Because of the shooting Trump probably has more of not-already-made-up-their-mind audience than otherwise. Ergo this was Trump’s opportunity to really make the case for himself. A time for discipline, clarity and real excellence.

I hope he had solid focus that the “Biden Administration”‘s open border is a war upon Americans. And tied it explicitly to issues Steve helpfully wrapped up as “Affordable Family Formation” and explicitly to screwing young Americans out of opportunities for marriage/home/family–“The American Dream”. “War on Young Americans” has a nice ring to it. So does “War on the American Dream”.

Also hope he gave a shout out to the hero dad murdered in PA. And tied that again to our “elites” war upon Americans, attacking and demonizing every American who simply wishes to keep their nation and live their life.

Hate to say a cliched phrase, but Trump’s extra-long speech was actually 4-D chess.

First, the non-4-D chess reasons:

1. He’d been cooped up since Saturday without speaking publicly. For a guy with his ego (or any politician) it would be torture. So he had a lot to say.

2. He was on a big stage primetime with the whole world watching and his enemy on the ropes. He thus wanted to pound it in as much as possible. I’m sure his ego would love if his speech was the last political thing America sees before Joe Biden resigns on Sunday, thus making it seem like his speech made Joe resign.

3. The gunshot wound/assassination attempt granted him the “he was shot less than 5 days ago, he almost died, he can say whatever he wants for as long as he want tonight” card. The fact that he did not appear nervous or scared when speaking after so short a time also made it riveting, even though overlong and rambling in the 2nd half..

4. This is how the man speaks publicly: goes off script, barely canned talking points, rambling, casual style, interactions with audience while talking, repeats himself, longer than necessary.

5. The pathos of the ear and the dead fireman and the assassination needed to be milked, and it was. That added at least 20 min.

Now, the 4-D chess reason:

Trump, at age 78, and 5 days removed from being shot, spoke coherently and intelligently for 1.5 hours (93 minutes) from 10:30pm EST to 12am (9:30-11pm CST). Meanwhile, Joe Biden went to bed at 8pm, is down with COVID, missed the speech, and can’t speak coherently for 15 minutes even when not sick.

The contrast could not be clearer. Trump is doing what Brandon could not do anymore and likely could never do. This was Trump’s “Theodore Roosevelt keeps giving a speech after being shot” time, while Brandon was asleep and didn’t have the energy to even listen. That will stick in people’s minds, if the Trump campaign play it right.

Which one is presidential, and which one is a pretender?

Also, the best speech I saw was, unironically, Hulk Hogan. 10 short minutes, hit all the highlights, engrossing, patriotic, energetic, funny, and nostalgic. He’s an excellent hype man.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GS0iBAKXcAAa1aB?format=jpg&name=medium

In the most famously head turning chart of 2024 (highlighted again at the convention), what exactly caused the spike in March 2019? Trump is right in that it illustrates how horrid Biden has been on immigration/border security but looking at the four years of Trump on the chart doesn’t look like a vast improvement to the Obama years preceding it.

No one is naming the Jew, therefore nothing serious or substantial will get done. As usual.

Can’t have a real country or a real politics, if you can’t or won’t identify its real mortal enemies.

Yeah, that was the best part of the speech: his heartfelt recounting of his brush with death, his expression of faith, and his tribute to the wounded and dead.

He really should have wrapped up shortly after that. Instead he gave a long and kind of boring rally speech, but one bright spot was when the illegal migration chart came up and he quipped about how he hadn’t gotten a chance to get a good look at it last Saturday.

RIP, Bob Newhart (the Willie Mays of comedy–an all time great)

One of the observers (noticers) of standup.

However, the game may be changing …

People Close to Biden Say He Appears to Accept He May Have to Leave the Race

I really don’t see how it helps.

The Democrats needed to get old Joe to formally bow out at least a year ago, so they could have an open cycle of candidates. Really, it should never have even gotten that far. That should have been baked in in 2020. Joe saying he was a one term “Return to Normalcy” candidate should have been a condition of supporting his run, with everyone saying that it is unacceptable to run an 80+ candidate.

Now if Joe drops out they have to either run Kamala or spurn her–a black!, a woman!, a black woman!!! In the old 20th century Democratic party you could have personal considerations–competency, character, demeanor, electability–bump someone aside. But you’re going to give a “black woman” the bum’s rush?

The only upside I see for them is that they’d probably get the Harris debacle over with. She’d lose, leaving 2028 wide open. But they can get that with Biden with less damage. And if somehow or another she actually won … she would not only take up 2028, but stink up the Democrat’s brand for a decade or more.

I hope he had solid focus that the “Biden Administration”‘s open border is a war upon Americans… Also hope he gave a shout out to the hero dad murdered in PA

LOL Maybe you should spend less time hoping and more time doing even a modicum of research. So lazy

so they could have an open cycle of candidates

It’s almost as if the Democratic leaders didn’t want the voters to have a say in selecting the nominee.

Bernie Sanders is still hugely popular among a certain segment of the Democratic base and, despite his advanced age, he’s still pretty sharp.

The Democratic Iowa caucus debacle in 2020 is all but forgotten now, but at the time the Bernie Bros were screaming that the fix was in. Bernie won the popular vote but the counting dragged on for days and in the end Pete Bootyjudge (sp? I could never remember how to spell his name) was declared the official winner. Then Bernie won New Hampshire and Nevada.

Biden won the next contest in South Carolina, but the polls indicated that Sanders was leading in most of the Super Tuesday primaries. But then several candidates suddenly dropped out and endorsed Biden. He ended up winning most if not all of the Super Tuesday states, and within a week or two his nomination was secured. (Super Tuesday was March 3. Ten days later – Friday the 13th – Trump declared a national emergency over COVID.)

There was a lingering sense among many Democrats that Bernie had been robbed.

Xi Jinping has been known to deliver 3-hour long speeches at the CCP congress. But in his case there is this Communist tradition of presenting elaborate political ideology through such a medium.

Trump has always worked best with soundbites and when things are short and sweet. He certainly isn’t an intellectual and he shouldn’t try to be.

Now if Joe drops out they have to either run Kamala or spurn her–a black!, a woman!, a black woman!!! In the old 20th century Democratic party you could have personal considerations–competency, character, demeanor, electability–bump someone aside. But you’re going to give a “black woman” the bum’s rush?

Good point. As long as the Dems are betraying themselves, they should turn their weasel gun on Kamala immediately, and “reveal” that she had an Indian upbringing. Show pictures of her as a girl with that dot on her forehead, wearing Indian garb. MSM Dem flunkies like Rachael Maddow and the sociopaths at Morning Joe should present it as simply objective reporting. Eliminate the false “black” angle. Choke the “black” out of her before she can catch her breath.

Too bad Dem leadership can’t think and move fast. Of course, if they could, they wouldn’t be liberal democrats.

I think the biggest problem the Dems face is, because it’s so late in the game, they can’t find a candidate big enough for them to justify their rigging of votes, and even they know what a miserably inept shitwad Kamala is.

I keep telling my shrill liberal friends, “if you guys had just not fucked Trump over in the last election, he’d be leaving in a few months from now, never to wield political power again! Now ya got four MORE years to go, you crazy morons!” and I still stand by that observation.

I see everything Microsoft is poorly today, bar my ancient Windows 7 box.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/19/windows-global-it-outage-what-we-know-so-far

https://twitter.com/the__DAW/status/1814206133277528285

Be interesting to see what happens here at opening time, if indeed there is one:

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/crwd

In general, the convention was a mix of goofball boomer cuckoldry combined with a glimmers of something better. I believe JD Vance said America wasn’t an “idea”, it’s an actual people.

When I got home from work at 6pm, Mrs. Prude told me the speech would be on in half an hour.

We settled to watch it eating our beans and weenies, with sauerkraut and beer. I woke up on the couch at midnight to listen to Trump promising the Big Rock Candy Mountain.

I liked the normal people speeches, and enjoyed looking at that pretty lady lawyer, but slept through the rest of the stuff, until the very end.

Golly, Melania is a nice looking lady.

I doubt that there are objective standards for evaluating anything in politics, but I will give it a try:
So far the Republican Convention has been equal parts
1. Racial Identity politics.
2. Israeli asslicking.
3. Pagan Idolatry.
4. Cult of Personalty propagandism.

So I am sure the Repubs are going to make everything all better, and never you all mind that once again they have already proven themselves even more vile than Democrats, if for no other reason than Democrats actually mean what they say, Republicans are just false and purgered liars in all things.

Maybe they’ll nominate an AI version of George Floyd. Why not? The standards of fakery they’ve established with Biden already take them halfway there.

After the speeches of Trump and Vance, so tightly packed with fictions and false promises, it strikes me this morning that MAGA is a kind of Zionism for Murikans. It is the dream of a past that never was, orchestrated by powerful shadow interests that hate democracy and freedom. The big difference here, perhaps, is that they have so much contempt for people who are consistently so easy to fool. Our problem is that other party also fronts for the same interests. Both are equally committed to maintaining the unjust status quo that enables their fierce grip on power. When change finally does come, it will be the result of the cabal’s overseas meddling, which the great majority of the human family is organizing to end.

A couple other observations: Scarce applause for Pompeo’s trashing of Putin, and Tucker Carlson was hopped-up on coke.

The Democratic Iowa caucus debacle in 2020 is all but forgotten now, but at the time the Bernie Bros were screaming that the fix was in. Bernie won the popular vote but the counting dragged on for days and in the end Pete Bootyjudge (sp? I could never remember how to spell his name) was declared the official winner.

DNC Takes Over Counting Remaining Iowa Votes

Feb 4, 2020

Buttigieg Smiles Creepily Instead Of Talking To Reporters About Iowa

Feb 6, 2020

Is that arrow in the right place? The low point seems to indicate the beginning of Covid lockdown. Trump left office a year later from where the arrow is indicating. You can see the step change for family crossings from Biden opening the floodgates when he transitioned into office.

>The sole exception was Dana White. I found nothing to criticize in his speech, and much to praise.

Dana White is a lot like Vince McMahon (of the WWE). He may be an executive, but that job is secondary to his primary job of being an a hypeman. Fighting hypemen are incredibly talented entertainers. It’s why the Rock (albeit with a healthy thumb on the scale from affirmative action) so easily transitioned to being a movie star. They’re all very good at captivating an arena full of fans with nothing more than a microphone and an empty stage.

#1 is false. #2 is pretty true. But there are a lot of other planks. If you can’t notice them, that says a lot about you.

Xi Jinping has been known to deliver 3-hour long speeches at the CCP congress. But in his case there is this Communist tradition of presenting elaborate political ideology through such a medium.

Speaking of which, is there any evidence for the stroke story?

It’s hilarious that the neighbor on the same street where Buttigieg grow up on in South Bend is none other than E. Michael Jones.

Home Alone: A Neighbor’s Thoughts on Pete Buttigieg
April 01, 2019/ E. Michael Jones

https://culturewars.com/news/home-alone-a-neighbors-thoughts-on-pete-buttigieg

Why did Trump go out of his way to attack Bukele?

Trump heaped a lot of praise on the Secret Service, and it was obvious with their heavy all-male presence around Trump at the RNC that it was itself partly PR in an attempt to repair their image.

Secret Service should’ve worried about who they were recruiting years ago. Remember this story?

Secret Service agent under fire after posting she wouldn’t take bullet for Trump

Steph Solis
USA TODAY
Jan. 24, 2017

The Secret Service is “taking appropriate action” after a special agent wrote a Facebook post suggesting she wouldn’t take a bullet for Donald Trump if he were president.

A Secret Service spokesperson confirmed that the agency was aware of Facebook posts made by special agent Kerry O’Grady, but wouldn’t elaborate on them further because it is a personnel matter…

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/01/24/secret-service-agent-kerry-o-grady-social-media-posts/97015422/

The Navy SEALs and other U.S. special forces don’t allow women in their ranks. Crazy that the protective detail of the U.S. president has women. What a mistake.

If you bet in political markets, Victoria Nuland has spoken! She said there is no way Trump will be elected.

I’m guessing Greg Cochran and Steve Sailer have laid down big money since they are on the same page as Nuland on Russia and many other issues. By the way, Victoria Nuland is married to raging neocon Robert Kagan. You won’t believe it, but Kagan identifies White Christians as a great political threat in America.

Victoria Nuland: I don’t believe Donald Trump will be elected by the American people pic.twitter.com/ASGRXkCNgc

— Russian Market (@runews) July 14, 2024

I have my doubts about anything getting better under any administration in the current year. As other commenters have noted, until Israel-first ends, nothing really changes.

But, RIGHT NOW, what’s the best alternative to Trump/Hogan? Four more years of Biden? Kamala? Some other unqualified DEI reject? Civil War Part 2 is sure taking its sweet time manifesting. Should we wait harder?

Anyway, fixing the border / immigration issue is simply a matter of political will. No way in hell it’s happening under any democratic administration.

Change my mind.

Xi Jinping has been known to deliver 3-hour long speeches at the CCP congress

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I also think that perhaps TV and internet have shortened our attention spans. I believe I’ve read that 100-150 years ago that two or three hour speeches were common. Now Trump’s hour and a half long speech is treated as unprecedented ramble.

Fixing the border is easy if they are willing to use deadly force, hopefully this will happen soon. Deporting 20 million people takes a stronger will.

The next serious financial downturn could cause major changes in America. Do the politicians simply want to let this happen and preside over the chaos or are they intentionally causing it to happen?

they have to either run Kamala or spurn her–a black!, a woman!, a black woman!!!
…
get the Harris debacle over with

I don’t quite understand the DNC’s aversion to running with Kamala. Yeah okay, she’s supposedly a crappy person. As if Backfire Joe wasn’t a crappy a person? Their media whores have already demonstrated there’s no level of degradation to which they won’t stoop to promote whatever narrative asked of them no matter how implausible. And Kamala doesn’t come with the Lady Macbeth spouse, coke-addled felony-and-corruption-broadcasting son, and bizarre daughter-showering and child stranger-danger habits. Kamala’s already married to her Jewish minder, so they don’t have to appoint another embarrassingly kosher kabinet for her. Whatever piece of crap she is, it is less than the crap they’ve been making everyone else put up with the last four years. Yeah okay, she’s a skank who BJed her way up the party ladder. So what? The Dems can look at their base and say, “Hey, we’ve all been there, right?” and they’ll shrug it off, because they have. Kamala’s far from perfect, but she looks like all upside compared to where they are now. Yet, there’s some stubborn resistance to going with the “black” woman they all insisted was so great four years ago.

The only way I can figure it is that they can’t keep her office staffed because she’s such a bitch. But that’s probably just because they’re letting her choose her own staff and so she chooses B!lack women who are just as bitchy and even more thin-skinned than herself. But if she’s President, then she has to accept the cabinet, and I’m sure those guys will have no problem telling her what to do. There’s still the problem of her low-IQ vapid speechifying, but after four years of excusing Cadaver Joe’s necrotic emissions, Kamala’s waftings would be a veritable breath of fresh air. Vacuity is good by comparison.

It’s almost like they just don’t want to Celebrate Diversity.

WHAT YA GONNA DO, BROTHER?!

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Which is why it won’t play on the Upper West Side, Cambridge MA or Hollywood.

Sanders was leading in most of the Super Tuesday primaries. But then several candidates suddenly dropped out and endorsed Biden.

Thanks for bringing this up. I was amazed at the fact that those candidates who might have split the moderate vote with Biden – namely, Buttigieg and Klobuchar – elected to drop out just BEFORE Super Tueday, whereas Warren, who split the left vote with Sanders, dropped out just AFTER Super Tuesday. I couldn’t believe how little attention this curious coincidence got. I knew at that point Biden would be the nominee.

Didn’t watch/hear Vance’s speech but if he said that, then he articulated the reason why this country is divided.

Maxx Headroom for President.

Idiocracy said this wouldn’t happen until the year 2505.

“Anyway, fixing the border / immigration issue is simply a matter of political will. No way in hell it’s happening under any democratic administration.”

My fear is that it won’t under a Republican administration either. I’m all in with Trump on this one but…I suspect that the fix was in long ago as agreed upon by both political parties.

Most people want to vote for the peace and prosperity candidate. Indiana, where I live, is a heavily Republican state. The only time in the last ninety years they have not voted that way was when the Republicans nominated two bellicose and hawkish Arizona senators who looked like they might start a war to be their presidential candidate.
The failure of Goldwater and McCain to win the national election led to the destructive LBJ and Obama.

It will help the Republicans if they position themselves as the peace party rather than the war party but they have been sending mixed signals during their convention. Will they end the proxy war with Russia in the Ukraine with a negotiated settlement or by trying to engage in threats? Will their pro-Israel stance lead to a war with Iran? Will their hostility to China lead to a military conflict? It’s hard to tell.

I don’t quite understand the DNC’s aversion to running with Kamala. Yeah okay, she’s supposedly a crappy person. As if Backfire Joe wasn’t a crappy a person?

I agree.
I’m not a Democrat, so no one in the Democratic Party cares what I think, but if the top dogs/insiders want to replace Biden and can find a way to crowbar him out, why not?

I don’t think they have anything to lose in our polarized climate. You have people on Twitter posting #StillRidinWithBiden etc but many of these same people, you check their Twitter profile and what do you see?

#Resist and #VoteBlueNoMatterWho

If the Dems pushed Biden out alot of Dems would cry and bitch for a few days, but come November they’d fill their mail in ballots out like good little zombies to “resist fascism”.

Idk if dumping Biden would gain the Dem presidential ticket any votes, but I doubt it would cost them any.

I mostly agree, but there may be a subtlety that outsiders miss, which is that the Jewish domination of the US Federal government has gotten so overwhelming that now the primary polarity is between the American Jews (dominant in DNC) and the Israeli Jews (dominant in GOP).

In foreign policy, both agree that prosecuting Israeli interests should be the US priority, but the Israeli Jews are indifferent about the Ukraine, support of which drains resources Israel would rather use and which unnecessarily antagonizes Russia, whom Israelis would rather rather keep quiescent pending conflict with Iran, while the DNC Jews are keen to salvage and even enrich their oligarchy syndicates in the Ukraine no matter the cost in American treasure and Ukrainian blood.

In domestic policy, American Jews can’t shake their habit of welcoming immivaders, while Israeli Jews see no point in poisoning the blood of their primary military-industrial sponsor.

So yes, both sides suck for America and the world, but arguably the Israeli/GOP side sucks less.

Never watch these things, regardless of party or candidate: meaningless nonsense, boring.

For the national convention of the more conservative party, that seems appropriate.

Trump apparently spoke for an hour and a half. What is he, Castro?

I remember when Bill Clinton was labeled a mike-hog when his keynote speech at the 1988 convention went over an hour.

I guess the Party faithful there in Milwaukee lapped it up.

I didn’t see much of the convention. Tell me, were there any speakers who were not members of the Trump family? I guess there were a few: Kid Rock, Hulk Hogan. The total vulgarization of the GOP under Trump is well underway (as if it hadn’t been vulgar enough before).

Oh, and Mike Pompeo spoke, just to reassure the big-money donors that the same people who were really in charge during Trump Administration 1.0 are still going to be in charge of version 2.0.

The whole thing came across purely as a rally for the great leader – The Donald – rather than the convention of a party.

These conventions have long since been pointless in any real administrative or substantive sense. Now they are just reality-show-lie pageants It’s all emotions and feelz. Even the meta-commentary by the FOX flunkies was all about the emotion of the event, and how people felt and how people would perceive those feelings.

As Propaganda goes, it was all pretty transparent to anyone who has been around the Sun a few times.

The Hulk might have consulted with his legal council, or maybe Peter Theil’s legal council, before appearing at RNC, I believe Terry Gene Bollea claimed that since he no longer was performing the Hulk Hogan character he was no longer a ‘public figure’ so Gawker media’s coverage of his sex life was, I guess, harassment, So I believe headlining the RNC as Hulk Hogan is inconsistent with being a non Hulk Hogan private citizen, aka Terry Gene “not Hulk Hogan” Bollea. Mr Bollea could regret his return to the character, I believe, he claimed was defunct,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollea_v._Gawker

In general, the convention was a mix of goofball boomer cuckoldry combined with a glimmers of something better.

They even managed to bring out one of the last living WWII vets in a final act of Greatest Generation worship/envy and paraded him on the speaking platform as if he were a museum piece. Nazi, Nazi, Nazi (nobody ever calls them “Germans” anymore, as the actual generation that fought that war did most of the time). Did we mention we beat the Nazis! (Don’t mention the Red Army). USA! USA! USA!

I believe JD Vance said America wasn’t an “idea”, it’s an actual people.

He said it was more than “just an idea”. But still, that’s better than I’ve heard from any other American politician. It was novel that he actually stated what is obviously true that America is a people and a nation. Well, it was once, anyway. Maybe not anymore. I would like to see that whole “America is an idea”, “America is an experiment”, and the rest, buried in an unmarked grave.

That and the head tat whore made me wonder what exactly we are conserving.

Great comment. Trump came across as human, reflective, very appreciative to be alive. Before he talked about the shooting, he said something like, “I haven’t talked about it yet and I’m only going to talk about it once because it’s hard” — that really struck me. There are things in my own life I can’t talk about because I fall apart as soon as I begin. Trump talked matter of factly about one of those sorts of things, in full control of his emotions. He’s a strong man. So he rambled a bit–as you said, he earned it. This wasn’t the time for a typical political speech.

As far as Biden having Covid, how do we know that’s even true? We are so barraged with lies we can take nothing as given. Claiming Covid is a perfect excuse to hunker down in Delaware while negotiating for the largest severance package he can extract.

There was a lingering sense among many Democrats that Bernie had been robbed.

And yet they all dutifully got behind corrupt, senile, influence-peddlin’, plagiarizin’ Joe.

I enjoyed Bob Newhart’s comedy but I can’t forget Don Rickles introducing him as “One of the great stammering idiots of our time.”

They’ve been saying this for days, which confirms that they’re still stuck in their misreading of how meme magic works: Joe/Jill aren’t going anywhere and the handlers are trying to meme them out.

Was it truly around the world, or just among the Atlanticist war addicts who think that they are the world?

It might have been over long to imply he’s not afraid of another assassination attempt out in the open.

Why not actually watch the speech before commenting on it?

Trump got plenty done last time, and has a proper animus toward and awareness of the saboteurs who stopped him from doing more; furthermore their ultimate weapons — the lockdown and election theft — are no longer credible. There will be economic collapse and continued subservience toward Israel but there is every reason to expect tremendous reforms.

I’m married to a hardcore centrist, and find it fascinating that the only candidates that ever got her excited in our almost two decades together were Sanders and J.D. Vance. She’d read Vance’s book when it came out. It disgusted me that she took the kids with her to vote for Sanders in the primary eight years ago, but that was partly my fault for insisting on attending the other party’s caucus.

Both Sanders and Vance know which buttons to push that reverberate outside their bases. There is a thread common to their distant positions. You can’t vote for Vance without voting for Trump– well, maybe there is a state or two where you can, but not ours– so expect to see some conflicted people out there.

Normally I’d take that Dana White statement as hyperbole but it might be true. I imagine myself being subject the the lawfare and other dirty tricks that Trump has endured. I’m certainly not the standard of toughness, but I know I would said “fuck this” and quit long ago

One of the observers (noticers) of standup.

I enjoyed Bob Newhart’s comedy but I can’t forget Don Rickles introducing him as “One of the great stammering idiots of our time.”

Look closely, and you’ll notice that he was never funny himself, just everything around him was suddenly hilarious. He played straight man to a wacky world. Fellow Chicagolander Jack Benny was like that, too. Newhart took the same shtick and honed it to perfection.

Steve, too.

Also, the best speech I saw was, unironically, Hulk Hogan.

Hulk was good, but Dana White was even better.

I looked at the headline and understood that you were being cute, referring to bombastic Trump as Hulk Hogan. Then a little “Babylon Bee beaten by reality” doubt came into my mind and I wondered if these TV-oriented Fox News hoi polloi actually had gotten a WWE speech. (Note that WWE is fake and steroid-suffused and watched by people that don’t work out themselves.) So…I Googled. And yes, there was a HH speech. Not even going to look at it. Arrgh.

Oh…and I’m not some creative class, Harvard-McKinsey DC/NY faggot. Done my time in the service, worked in manufacturing, etc. But just…fark. Look at the down brain silliness.

Oh well, even if Vance is a fake, at least he’s an intelligent fake.

Why not actually watch the speech before commenting on it?

Funny, the only speech we watched was Hulk Hogan’s. For some odd reason, it was featured on the Wall Street Journal’s video channel, on which I check the “Hits and Misses” every week. The missus overheard his voice, and it was ’90s nostalgia for her.

(I missed his entire career, sometimes confusing him with Paul. How’s that for being checked out of pop culture?)

The Democrats aren’t the only party which competes with the couch. Hulk may serve as a cattle prod of sorts.

Hulkster went back to the well once more, Mean Gene. Entertaining but age is creeping up on the big guy, his 24” pythons are sagging like Judge Jeanine’s pipe cleaners when she goes sleeveless on The Five. Someone talk to that woman, please.

While the Hulkster “worked” the promo well, the cringey moments were aplenty last night. Skid Rock, shyster Dana White ( what’s up with the visibly shaking hands and paper, stage fright?) Most cringey goes to Eric Trump. Wonder if Eric wants to take back what he said about David Duke being shot when Trumpy Bear was running the first time.

As far as Biden having Covid, how do we know that’s even true? We are so barraged with lies we can take nothing as given. Claiming Covid is a perfect excuse to hunker down in Delaware while negotiating for the largest severance package he can extract.

Bingo. I don’t believe for a second Biden has covid. The family is just hiding him away from doorknockers seeking his replacement

I didn’t know “Kid Rock” was a rapper. That shit sucked.

I believe I could drink bourbon with you, sir.

Absolutely embarrassing for the country. The Republican party has turned into a clown show. Cruelty mixed with a circus. Nothing but lies. Full of selfish small people. There is a reason the whole world is laughing at us.

The Democrats will win the next election in a landslide. It won’t even be close. Their policies are popular. You guys live in a bubble. You will shocked (again) this fall.

Demographics are changing. whites will a minority everywhere. Men of Colour are impregnating (with consent) white girls. You cannot change that.

Vance sold out his won family. He has no morals. His wife will divorce him.

Trump is an evil traitorous convicted felon. He will be dead or in jail in a few month.

We will defeat you guys just like we did in 1865, 1945, and 2024.

Trump’s speech was way too long, self-indulgent, and boring. Definitely a fumble to the extent there are any persuadables watching who might have liked to have seen him show a bit more self-restraint. I am definitely not the target audience for The Hulk or Kid Rock but I can appreciate the intentional humor behind it, which obviously escapes nearly all of the lefties.

That said, the Democrats are a total dumpster fire at the moment. No matter what they do about Biden there are going to be some real hard feelings within the party that will permeate the next 4 years. The convention still has the potential to be totally wild as well. As Steve has repeatedly pointed out, the Dem coalition is made up of factions that don’t really have any natural commonalities, and the tension between the elites who want to take Old Yeller’s candidacy behind the barn and the POCs who want to ride with him until the end so Kamala can inherit the presidency is entertaining.

OT The rioting in Leeds was Roma gypsies backed up by (other) races from the Indian sub-continent.

Netanyahu will be speaking before Congress next week, so give a listen.

Now, the 4-D chess reason:

Trump, at age 78, and 5 days removed from being shot, spoke coherently and intelligently for 1.5 hours (93 minutes) from 10:30pm EST to 12am (9:30-11pm CST). Meanwhile, Joe Biden went to bed at 8pm, is down with COVID, missed the speech, and can’t speak coherently for 15 minutes even when not sick.

The problem is that there is a very good chance he will not be facing Biden in November, in which case this reasoning goes out the window.

Personally I think the man just genuinely has no discipline. I thought the beginning of the speech went well, I gritted my teeth and stuck with it after he went off script and started with the usual rambling bullshit, and finally bailed when he got to the Late Great Hannibal Lecter. WTF? The whole point of the acceptance speech was to win over the sort of people who don’t go to his rallies and don’t appreciate this sort of thing. I’m sure his handlers understood that perfectly well, and must have been dying inside.

Probably Vance too. I like Vance, and I think has good intentions, but he’s sold his soul for a chance to do some good over the next four years and maybe have a shot at the presidency in 2028. Unlike Trump, he’s a grownup, and I assume he knows what he’s in for if he wins, but wow! The NYT had a running commentary on Trump’s speech, and at one point someone got a text from a Democratic official saying “this is the Trump we were expecting and hoping for!”. In fact there were concerns that Trump’s speech was so bad that it would dissuade Biden from dropping out! All in all, very disappointing. (Also: Hulk Hogan? Chris Rock? Really???)

You must be new here!:-)

Very hard to imagine fighting Iran, Russia, and China at the same time. It’s setting the military up for failure.

(Oops. Kid Rock, not Chris. Gonna slap myself for that! 🙂 )

The border control and illegal immigrant issue has been a commonly recognized problem since the 1960’s when this round started.

The real problem is that the asylum system is broken. Would-be immigrants can claim that they are facing persecution in their home country, and it becomes almost impossible to kick them out without a process that lasts for years.

For example it is ridiculous that many Ecuadorians travel illegally to the US and claim to be facing persecution at home, while many retired US citizens move in the reverse directiona and live in Ecuador.

And then Cubans are allowed into the US ad lib, supposedly because they are persecuted under communism, and Haitians and Venezuelans are allowed in because their home countries are just a shambles.

So the system is broken, but what are the Republicans going to do to heal it. It is far from clear. If they start shooting unarmed people who approach the land border with Mexico, other routes will open up, for example getting into Puerto Rico by boat, or maybe Alaska or Hawaii.

The new UK prime minister Keir Starmer says his government intends to deal with the criminal gangs who facilitate illegal immigration, and it seems to me that this would be a good approach for the US government.

Illegal immigration is a multi-billion dollar industry and could only be eliminated by a coalition of governments within the Americas and the Caribbean.

Also I noted in the coverage of speeches at the Republican convention that there was barely any discussion of health care, which is a huge issue for many people.

And what is that square white bandage on Trump’s ear supposed to be doing? It doesn’t look like the right type of dressing for someone who had the top of their ear amputated by a bullet.

President Donald J. Trump and James David Vance =

Ammo rends ear, and DJT lines up VP candidate, JDV.

Kid Rock is no longer a kid but he acts like one. Rock was a wigger long before he adopted the redneck bit. Rock mentions everyone in his screeches from Johnny Cash to ZZ Top to some Black (c)rapper. Wouldn’t be surprised if this clown wasn’t P diddled to make it big. No talent whatsoever. An opportunist just like JD Bowman Vance.

Admittedly I did like Cowboy by Skid Rock, that’s it.

Joe Biden had nearly four years to screw up things so badly that Trump will be lucky to get things halfway back to the way they were when he left. Can he really deport all the illegals Biden let in? Can he really get inflation down to where it was when he left office? Can he really clean up the corrupt FBI/CIA?

I will vote for Trump knowing he can’t undo all the damage Biden has done. I only expect him not to intentionally make things worse and to achieve some progress on a few fronts.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a Jew.

I really don’t see how it helps.

Yeah, everyone agrees that Old Joe has to be put out to pasture but what next?

They are pretty much stuck with Kamala. Anything else will be seen as a betrayal by the black base.

Kamala is even worse than Joe. Her Presidential campaign fell completely flat. Joe Biden had some appeal as Mr. Blue Collar union guy in the swing states, esp. PA and Michigan. What sort of appeal does Kamala have to this sort of swing voter? She might as well be from Mars to them.

She is an unlikable person in general. Not even Democrats like her. Not even blacks who on some level must understand that she is a big phony and not “one of them”. Obama was a phony too but he at least walked the walk, living in Chicago and marrying a black woman and having black children and going to a black church, etc. Does Harris even have a religion? Is she a Hindu or what? She is the quintessential 21st century mystery meat elite.

Haaretz seems to be pretty enthusiastic about Tucker Carlson:

‘Tucker Carlson, Isolationist, Israel-skeptic and Antisemitic Conspiracy Theorist, Is Winning the Battle Inside the GOP’

Okay, they’re being a tad optimistic, but…

We will defeat you guys just like we did in 1865

Assassination?

Trump apparently spoke for an hour and a half. What is he, Castro?

More to the point, what is he not, Biden?

As 1.5 hr speeches go, he seemed to hold the audience pretty well but I think the length (and hour) was part of the point. Every knows that there’s no way Old Joe could be on his feet and talking (not even reading from a teleprompter) for 1.5 hrs near midnight. Joe has been in bed for 4 hrs. at that point.

‘…if somehow or another she actually won … she would not only take up 2028, but stink up the Democrat’s brand for a decade or more…’

If she actually won, it could be academic what the Democrat’s ‘brand’ was in a decade. How was the ‘brand’ of the Kadets by 1925?

I think we’re headed out the door of the plane without a parachute. I suspect electing Trump won’t be enough — but four more years of either Biden or Harris is definitely not a step in the right direction.

I would say buy stock in ammunition distributors — but will there be a functioning stock market in a decade? Well, probably…but we’re heading towards some radical rearrangement of the deck chairs — and I doubt I’ll like it. For one, us oldsters need a functioning and properly subsidized health care system. Hard to get that when electric power is a thing of the past.

Agreed, which is what caused me to be surprised by Hulk Hogan’s rather lackluster (imho) speech. Of course, he’s ancient so maybe it was just due to his age.

Is Tiny Duck really Harry Sisson? Finkel and Einhorn, Einhorn and Finkel.

Prediction’s easy in clownworld, so long as you’re not a clown.

But as Orwell, Judge, and others demonstrate, getting the timing correct is never easy…

Trump wore the oversized bandage to conceal his fully intact undamaged ear. He gonna wear that til 11/5? Invited Hulk Hogan, a brother in WWF kayfabe techniques like blading, to remind us it’s all fake. Democrats amplify deliciously edging Republican voters, culminating in Diaper’s reselection and NO HAPPY ENDING FOR YOU.

“human family”???
LOL!

“As far as Biden having Covid, how do we know that’s even true?”

Good question…never thought of that. On the other hand, even if it’s legit then that only makes it all the more necessary to show him the door.

He comes off as dull and pedantic, and makes a lot of malapropisms similar to Dubya.

Here he entirely bungled an answer to a Russian moderator, in front of Putin

古今中外，上下5000年，再也找出第二个这么丢人，这么愚蠢的国家元首！https://t.co/aWbFeMpjV3

— 新闻调查 (@xinwendiaocha) May 24, 2022

But he’s gotten more confident in this term, and people are getting used to his style as being steady.

His predecessor OTOH can free wheel in English Russian and Japanese.

Fully agree. These nomination acceptance speeches, like SOU speeches, are mostly for posterity. There won’t be any new converts to Trump, and the party itself without Trump is irrelevant. But biographers and newsmen use those speeches to see what Trump will have accomplished, after identifying problems and suggesting solutions.

But your point is the best! Building that muscle, to speak for 90 minutes, is an incredible thing!

Pro wrestling fans skews more Democrat than all but a few sports, and has the lowest turnout rate

https://www.businessinsider.com/politics-sports-you-like-2013-3

Idiocracy said this wouldn’t happen until the year 2505.

They were dyslectic. They meant 2025.

Speaking of which, the Y2K bug has finally arrived, 24½ years late, via something called “CrowdStrike”, based in Austin, Texas. (That other Spam is based in Austin, Minnesota.) Is this something we need to pay attention to? Other than a delayed package or flight? Okay, 911. (But we’re a two-minute walk from the EMT station, so that’s your problem.)

If this CrowdStrike is so critical, how come we’ve never heard of it before? “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”, as Joni sang.

Also, the name is disturbing. Sounds like an Antifa clone.

Maybe you hyperventilating clowns should stop with the Israel stuff. You’ll never get your way and you should learn to cope. The 2016 campaign had no anti-Israel stuff. Go back and look if you don’t believe me. The most Trump would say is that he wanted to make a deal. That was it. He did exit office pretty much hating Netanyahu, FWIW.

Anyway, Israel is about the 20th most important thing on Trump’s plate right now. Freeing the US from Britain’s maximalist Ukraine psychosis is the #1 priority, and probably priorities 2 and 3 as well. He’s appointed a VP who is getting savaged in the British press right now, and this is an excellent sign.

so nice of you to conflate the state of “israel” with “the jews”, the word “jew/s” never once appearing in his comment. you and your brethren have no one but yourselves to blame if others don’t make the effort to distinguish between the two, but that’s the goal isn’t it?

Every knows that there’s no way Old Joe could be on his feet and talking (not even reading from a teleprompter) for 1.5 hrs near midnight.

If Donald is the new Grover Cleveland, Joe is both the new Benjamin and William Henry Harrison!

If the media says Biden has Covid, he doesn’t. Lies. All Lies.

I wonder how real Hulk’s voice is. I once had Sargent Slaughter on my radio show, and when the mic was off, he talked like a normal person. When it was on, he sounded like Hulk Hogan.

Look who’s hear! Tiny Duck! You started off strong with the first paragraph Duck. Well done.

That’s certainly possible.

“He [Vance] said it was more than “just an idea”. But still, that’s better than I’ve heard from any other American politician. It was novel that he actually stated what is obviously true that America is a people and a nation.”

Actually at this point, for practical/satirical purposes, I’d prefer it if we really did advertise that America was “just an idea” and not a real place that you could sneak into and loot.

We could say to immigrants, “America is really just an idea; so, we are going to print out the idea, and fax or mail it to you, and then you can stay at home and implement the idea, at home in the comfort of your native toilet bowl. No need to come here! Besides, there’s no place to actually come to; we’re *just* an idea!”

DM has an interesting article today on the fast ID of the Trump shooter.

How the FBI identified Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks within hours – and how they could do the same for YOU

The gunman, ‘loner’ Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was not carrying an ID, had no criminal record, nearly zero digital footprint and no friends, forcing the FBI to resort to DNA analysis to identity him.

As Kevin Rojek, the special agent-in-charge (SAIC) for the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office, told reporters just hours after the shooting on Saturday, ‘We’re trying to run his DNA and get biometric confirmation.’

While the FBI declined to answer DailyMail.com’s requests for details on how they did this DNA analysis, experts say it has often included scouring consumer genealogy databases like Ancestory.com and 23andMe — which store tens of millions of Americans’ biometric data each.

One parallel effort conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) ‘completed an urgent trace’ that ultimately led to the ‘business records from a closed gun dealer,’ according to an ATF statement.

That effort, a frantic, manual search through the closed gun shop’s paper records, helped trace the rifle to the Crooks’ father, according to a report by CNN.

‘Results were provided to the FBI and Secret Service in less than 30 minutes that helped identify the shooter,’ ATF reported a day after the FBI’s DNA announcement.

[LOL. Paper records? ]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13636701/DNA-database-Trump-shooter-Thomas-Matthew-Crooks-FBI.html

If this CrowdStrike is so critical, how come we’ve never heard of it before?

We heard of it in 2016 when the DNC brought it in to figure out who hacked their server. Crowdstrike declared, “Russia! Russia! Russia!”, as that was the thing to do at the time. Later, Crowdstrike admitted it had no evidence to support that.

LOL Maybe you should spend less time hoping and more time doing even a modicum of research. So lazy

Yep. But less lazy than my norm. My walking time–when sunset hits, I can switch my walk onto the golf course. (Picked up four balls last night, but putting with my shoe is not particularly accurate.)

Seriously, I rely on y’all, my fellow iSteve commenters, to bring me up to speed.

I’ve vote for Trump a third time. Was thinking of slapping up my own sign “Trump: Because he pisses off all the right people!” But listening to Trump–or any of these guys–is just too depressing, as there’s such a gap between their blather and a clear articulation of the existential crisis in the West and what needs to be done.

“Why is Trump still talking at approaching midnight on the East Coast?”

Because he can. He paid for the microphone.

It’s his show, and his circus.

I love the switching in your comments between copy-and-pasting from more put-together liberals and adding your own mentally ill dingbattery. It’s like you find something that sounds smart (to you), repost it here, and then think “How can I really drive my point home? I know, Men of Colour impregnating (with consent) white girls.”

We will defeat you guys just like we did in 1865, 1945, and 2024.

We will defeat you in 2024 just like we did in 2024! Are you attempting a Biden imitation or something? Or is this an attempt at Kamala Harris word salad?

BTW, did you know that Womens of Colour are being impregnated by white men too, that it’s a two way street? Pure brown Brahmin women like Vance’s wife are giving birth to half blood whites! Not that Kamala has any children but she sleeps with a white man also – if not impregnating they at least go through the motions, so to speak.

I’ve vote for Trump a third time

Pshaw, only the 3rd time? Most voters in Philly have voted for Biden at least 4 or 5 times. And that was just in the 2020 election.

The head tat whore, Amber Rose, a former stripper/hooker whose main claim to fame was being Kanye’s booty call, was given a platform during prime time, over other conservatives of color such as Candace Owens. No matter what you may think of Candace Owens, she actually has worked within conservative movement for half a decade.

Per the work of conservative columnist Pedro Gonzalez, Amber Rose up until this spring was praising Satanism, is very pro-LGBT and abortion, hawks cryptocurrency, and has an OnlyFans account.

Also, her most recent baby daddy dumped her for…CHER. Yes, THAT Cher–who’s now 78 yrs old.

It simply doesn’t make any sense why she was invited to speak on the stage, unless of course we apply Occam’s Razor–it’s Trump’s show, and he wanted her to speak. After all, let’s not forget the reason for the federal lawsuit in NY–over a pornstar. The closeups of him listening to her speaking while on the stage show that he was more than interested in what she had to say.

Noticing the historical trend. The likes of Amber Rose would apparently very much be Trump’s type of woman, both publicly and privately. There’s a clear pattern that that’s what he prefers. After all, former First Lady Melania was an underwear model for Victoria’s Secret.

She basically was there during prime time to verbal felatio him on the stage right in front of him, and this coming from a woman who used to make a living doing this sort of job off stage and in hotel rooms.

No Lynne Cheney, I’m sure the folks at TheBulwark.com feel snubbed.

No Lynne Cheney speech, I’m sure the folks at TheBulwark.com feel cheated.

“But listening to Trump–or any of these guys–is just too depressing, as there’s such a gap between their blather and a clear articulation of the existential crisis in the West and what needs to be done.”

Yep.

What’s needed more than anything right now is a sort of well-written, well-thought-out, but-still-a-barn-burner pamphlet, easily disseminated, along the lines of “Common Sense.”

PAINE: I will tie its title like a fuse: Common Sense.

PAINE’S REPUTATION: He wrote that book and the dogs were unleashed, and Treason ran screaming through the streets.

— Paul Foster, “Tom Paine, a Play in Two Parts”

Also, Benny’s schtick was made for radio, but it wasn’t as effective on television. For some reason, by the time of the ’70’s, Newhart’s work was considered fresh, new, up to date, and interesting. Clearly also a major influence on the’90’s show Seinfeld. Seinfeld is simply another comic in this vein, except as he’s from NY, he boisterously exclaims (and as loudly as he possibly can) ‘DID YA EVER NOTICE–”

Uh, no, Jerry, we never actually did notice, even though Newhart and Benny both did this type of thing multiple decades ago before your first birthday.

Zowie.

Steve is in a completely different ballpark (Wrigley, since Comiskey is no longer around).

There’s a third Chicago connection. Steve himself lived in CHI town for several years.

It’s why the Rock (albeit with a healthy thumb on the scale from affirmative action) so easily transitioned to being a movie star.

Samoans control Hollywood?

No one is naming the Jew

At the convention conclusion, when all the attending family members were on stage, for a moment Kushner was in the background and I was shouting at the screen: “Hey Trump! He’s right behind you! For fuck’s sake, turn around!”

“…gap between their blather and a clear articulation of the existential crisis in the West and what needs to be done”

AnotherDad, this 5 min clip of Tucker (thankfully “the laugh” absent) during his Australian tour, should in my mind, have been the cornerstone of the RNC convention. Well articulated, straight to your point:

Tucker Carlson traveled to Australia and just absolutely eviscerated an idiot member of their press. This is fabulous: pic.twitter.com/iYmNm8ETYl

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 26, 2024

In Victorian England the pages of the Times were full of verbatim transcripts of the speeches in Commons and Lords.

Didn’t need some reporter summarising a debate – you could read the whole debate, for and against, in the Times pages.

Obviously it helped if you didn’t have money to make or lawns to mow. Just sit in your club and read the debates, maybe discuss them with your friends – and if you were in London, you might find the speakers from the debates in there later.

One of the two guys in Crowdstrike is a never-Putin Russian, Dmitri Alperovitch. Been here since 1994.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Alperovitch

Still, I think that for safety’s sake all Crowdstrike usage should be suspended until we can figure out what the hell’s going on. He could be a well-disguised sleeper.

Can’t entirely agree, there is room for a few female Secret Service agents.

Suppose at some event your First Lady has to go to the toilet?

Who will go in with her?

Trumps speech seems to be the bastard child of the prepared speech he’s had prepared for the convention for a couple of weeks and the stuff that’s been on his mind for the last few days.
Not much of a surprise, all things considered,

Does anyone have a link to the complete article (don’t want to pay to see the rest of it).

Who is E Michael Jones and is that someone we are supposed to have heard of?

Wow. I like Tucker, but that took me by surprise.

Pretty much everywhere Microsoft runs – certainly the whole Anglosphere. EU, Israel, Aus/NZ, India, Mexico, Malaysia.

Not China or Russia.

‘I don’t quite understand the DNC’s aversion to running with Kamala…’

The problem is that nobody likes her. In those primaries she entered in 2020, her vote tallies were literally in the hundreds. Just last week in a poll in Georgia — a very black state — Biden did four percent better against Trump than she did. They both lost, but Harris lost worse. Blacks don’t like her — not that she’s black.

Some people shouldn’t run for office. It doesn’t even have much to do with personal qualities. It’s just a matter of who people will like. People liked Reagan. They wouldn’t like me. They don’t like Kamala Harris.

They never will. She shouldn’t seek public office.

Construct and heal what? We all gonna come together in leftist democracy and finally realize we want our children to be trans, starting at age 2? Then we wake to another realization that killing babies right out of the womb is ok too. And then ….

Why can’t we be a threat to their democracy? Why can’t religious countries in the ME be a threat to their democracy? Why can’t the Vatican and the numerous Christian Denominations be a threat to their democracy? No ones talking authoritarian. Maybe tired of their democracy. Their flooding of our countries and demoralizing and strangling and killing our people. Growing up in Killingly must have a new meaning. I doubt the Pilgrims killed that many Indians or even enslaved this many people.

Except Blacks have a birth replacement rate, Whites do not. I see what Tucker did there.

The Republican platform has two planks:
1. Fight a war against Iran for the benefit of Israel.
2. Eliminate the first amendment on campus for the benefit of Israel.

The same two planks as are part of the dimocrat platform and explain Biden’s and his handlers’ behaviors over the past ten months.

OTOH, Trump/Vance are both on record promising to end the USA hegemon’s proxy war in the Ukraine, while all likely dimocrat candidates are on record promising to continue that war a outrance, i.e. to the point of a nuclear war in Europe.

Pick your poison.

Quite a few Bernie Bros stayed home in 2016 – they couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Hillary and they refused to believe that Trump could win.

It would stand to reason that, in 2020, many Democrats who couldn’t stand Biden turned out anyway to vote against hombre naranja malo.

(Nobody here believes in that cockamamie story about a stolen election, right? Not even the Unziest Man of Unz would dare to impugn the integrity of the nice Black ladies who counted the vote in Philadelphia.)

Answer to question two–he’s trying to channel McGovern

Help me out Steve, or somebody, what is the Bond-Morris question?

Sorry, but the way you’re describing the final night of the convention with the speakers it sounds as though it could’ve passed for a bad late night informercial from 1995.

All we needed was the late great Don LaPrie to make an unexpected appearance on the show, and we’d have been transported back to the ’90’s couch, ca.1AM in the morning.

Who here suspects the Microsoft/Crowdstrike fiasco was designed and timed to divert attention away from the RNC and Biden’s problems?

I could only stomach the highlights.

Seeing members of the White conservative spoiled brat class cheer as Hulk ripped off his shirt was a bit much….and probably the best part if you only tune in for trainwreck aspect. Where are the strippers and dancing elephants? Might as well turn it into a full on circus.

Trump would look tougher if he didn’t overdo the bandage. It was clearly a ploy. Boxers get much worse ear cuts and they don’t wear a giant bandage.

Reminds me of the spies like us scene

But I will give Trump credit for milking the shooting to maximum effect. He’s a talented showman.

But listening to Trump–or any of these guys–is just too depressing, as there’s such a gap between their blather and a clear articulation of the existential crisis in the West and what needs to be done.

Well according to Trump he had everything fixed in his first term.

He even blamed Putin’s invasion on Biden.

TD:

Glad you’re back. We’ve missed your lampoons of prog think. This was pretty good. Not up to your old standard but pretty good nonetheless. You even seem to have convinced some readers that you’re for real.

No one is naming the Jew, therefore nothing serious or substantial will get done. As usual.

Can’t have a real country or a real politics, if you can’t or won’t identify its real mortal enemies.

Disagree.

I’m upfront that I think the minoritarian cancer is basically Jewish ideology, pushed and propagandized to ascendency by American Jews. And that the “scientists” pushing the whole anti-genetic, nurture-uber-alles, ideology** were/are Jews doing political “science” in the service of minoritarianism. (**Basically, that human group differences in intelligence and personality are the sole area in the whole reach of biology unaffected by genes.)

But there’s no need politically to run around “naming the Jew”. No, you simply attack the bad behavior, bad policies, bad ideology.

Same as with blacks and crime. You don’t “name the black”, you denounce crime, call for “law and order” and locking up criminals. If blacks start whining that denouncing crime is attacking blacks, or blacks are more likely to be locked up, you respond “Well then blacks should do better. Stop tolerating criminals in your communities—zero tolerance. Black men should work harder to keep their sons on the straight and narrow—out of gangs, off the criminal path. It’s your community, you need to fix it.”

Likewise, you denounce the immigration and open border treason. If some Jews start pointing out that you’re naming mostly Jews—ex. Mayorkas, Garland, the “Biden Administration” traitors–and pipe up with their usual “anti-Semite!”, you respond the same way: “So you’re telling me Jews have a problem being loyal Americans? Putting the interests of their fellow Americans and our posterity first? Well then Jews should do better. Patriotic Jews should work on routing this virus of disloyalty out of their community. It’s not like there aren’t plenty of Jews—like Stephen Miller—who are patriotic and want to preserve America for Americans and our posterity. Jews should do better and fix it.” The media Jews, of course, will squeal like stuck pigs when you say “disloyal”. But while Americans are ho-hum philo-Semitic, if Jews starting broadcasting that Jews in fact do find pushing immigration rather than loyalty to the interests of Americans part of their “Jewish identity”, that will just cause normie Americans to go “hmm”. It’s not a winner for Jews.

Same with anything else. You call for normality, decency, sanity, national loyalty and denounce the destructive people, pushing crime, immivasion, anti-whitism, trannies, anti-family, anti-natalism, cultural depravity etc. If someone wants to pop-up and say “but that’s who we are!”, you respond “Well then who you are sucks. Do better.”

“We heard of it in 2016 when the DNC brought it in to figure out who hacked their server. Crowdstrike declared, “Russia! Russia! Russia!”, as that was the thing to do at the time. Later, Crowdstrike admitted it had no evidence to support that.”

Do you have a source for that alleged backtracking admission? This is from Crowdstrike’s own website (as of 2000):

Yes. CrowdStrike’s conclusion that Russia was behind the DNC hack is supported by the U.S. Intelligence community and also by independent Congressional reports. Most recently, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report in April 2020 that validated the previous conclusions of the Intelligence Community Assessment… all concluding that Russia was behind the DNC data breach.

And this is from the Times of India published 8 hours ago:

Political experts have said that Trump’s questioning of CrowdStrike’s findings [implicating Russia] were meant the undermine the established narrative of Russian interference, which had been supported by multiple US investigations…

Trump’s assertions also ignited a series of conspiracy theories that suggested the DNC had somehow fabricated the hacking incident….These theories persisted despite CrowdStrike’s transparent methodology in handling the investigation, which involved creating forensic images of the DNC servers…a standard practice in cybersecurity investigations.

“Where are the strippers and dancing elephants? Might as well turn it into a full on circus.”

The stripper spoke on Monday Night. The elephant, as symbolized by the GOP, was out in full bloom all four nights. Showmanship, shmaltz, glitz, albeit with a infomercial feel to it.

The rioting in Leeds was Roma gypsies backed up by (other) races from the Indian sub-continent.

Spot on! The current theory of Gypsy origins is that they are descended from low caste northern Indians, perhaps, Dalits, who migrated northwestward into Europe. Their low caste origins, if correct, certainly help explain their low IQ, i.e. stupidity, uncleanliness, and propensity towards theft, grifting and other low level criminal behavior.

I just pictured myself putting time and effort into arguing with you about CrowdStrike and the DNC servers. I saw myself:
– looking up links and posting them here
– waiting 8, 16 or 26 hours for my post to appear
– replying your reply, ignoring all the ad hominems

… and then I decided not to.

Granted, but Trump was essentially correct that Russia was NOT behind the whole “Russia hacked the voting machines and caused Hillary to lose the election.”

I mean, that is a f’ckery conspiracy to impeach a sitting president when there was no there there.

Besides, like the US hasn’t directly and indirectly interfere with other countries elections from time to time?

Oh yeah. We have done that, actually.

Let the nation without sin cast the first stone.

Now lets take it a step further.

The Nordstream pipeline. Are we expected to take the US’s state dept and other official findings as gospel that…Russia itself blew up its own pipeline? Why would they do that when they built it?

Who exactly blew up the Nordstream pipeline? Oh, a Ukrainian ten foot sailboat? Perhaps Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh can still teach the clueless populace a thing or two regarding finding out what actually occurred.

“Same as with blacks and crime. You don’t “name the black”, you denounce crime, call for “law and order” and locking up criminals. If blacks start whining that denouncing crime is attacking blacks, or blacks are more likely to be locked up, you respond “Well then blacks should do better. Stop tolerating criminals in your communities—zero tolerance. Black men should work harder to keep their sons on the straight and narrow—out of gangs, off the criminal path. It’s your community, you need to fix it.”

Bullshit.

This whole personal responsibility schitck happened during the 80’s and 90’s, hell, Rush Limbaugh made an entire career riffing on this aspect of aspect of social problems. Well, 40 yrs on and we now have evidence it has failed.

It hasn’t worked because:

1. Libs and blacks still turned around and screamed raycist raycist raycist!

2. Personal Responsiblity a la “Just do better and try harder!” only works so far as long as those at the top aren’t also evading personal responsibility. When they shipped jobs to Mexico, China, etc and people complained, the rejoinder was “ignore that and do better, try harder!” when they polluted the environment and rewrote laws to make it less worker friendly for the top 1% benefit, the rejoinder was “ignore that and do better, try harder!

But eventually one can only do and try for so long, until the rug and the matt are pulled out from underneath, as well as the foundation is completely obliterated.

Funny thing. Never saw Rush, Hannity, and other cultural conservatives lambast big business, top 1%, and all the GOP leaders.

Hmm.

Its almost like they were in the same boat and in bed with them all during this time.

Double Hmm.

Do better and try harder. The top 1% has totally ignored the first part of that sentence, but they definitely are trying harder—trying harder to screw the other 95% out of what little aspect of a middle class life remains. People such as Jeffrey Epstein were not a symptom but a feature of that lassiez faire era that thrived under the ol’ “do better and try harder” and meanwhile not holding the top 1% accountable for any of their actions that diectly impacted the bottom 90%.

Triple Hmm.

“history will not be kind to Rush Limbaugh”–Andrew Anglin

Andy spoke the truth on that one.

“We heard of it in 2016 when the DNC brought it in to figure out who hacked their server. Crowdstrike declared, “Russia! Russia! Russia!”, as that was the thing to do at the time. Later, Crowdstrike admitted it had no evidence to support that.”

Do you have a source for that alleged backtracking admission? This is from Crowdstrike’s own website (as of 2000):

….

And this is from the Times of India published 8 hours ago:

And this is a report on testimony from CrowdStrike’s president of services and chief security officer Shawn Henry before the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in December 2017, admitting that CrowdStrike had absolutely no evidence that Russia was involved in the DNC mail hack. https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/crowdstrike-chief-admits-no-proof-that-russia-exfiltrated-dnc-emails.html.

As Wikileaks insinuated, it was probably an inside job by Seth Rich, who paid for his “sin” a bit later https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/seth-rich-who-is-he-wikileaks-murder-hillary-clinton-conspiracy-explained-a7739606.html.

I did find this article from “RealClearInvestigations”, but that was published a month before the above CrowdStrike statement, which says to me that CrowdStrike is not admitting jack — they still think the evidence supports a Russia link.

US Federal Appeals Court rules for young adults in public conceal carry fight.

Did Massachusetts Dems Just Ban All Semi-Automatic Firearms?https://t.co/2W0I0Cs84W

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The Kentucky gun control activist who was federally charged for shooting at a Louisville mayoral candidate in 2022 has agreed to plead guilty, and he now faces between 10 years and life in prison: https://t.co/fpSUXfgHbo pic.twitter.com/rn54nczotZ

— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) July 19, 2024

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— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) July 19, 2024

Don Rickles was perhaps Newhart’s best friend; their families used to vacation together. Their styles of comedy were so radically different that they never felt threatening to each other’s careers, perhaps. I’m glad I got to see Newhart live twice in his dotage.

(Since this thread started more-or-less on the subject of Donald Trump, I’ll add that Trump’s crowd work at his rallies has always displayed echoes of Don Rickles’ act- he’s not an articulate orator or an inspiring speechmaker, but Trump is a first-rate spontaneous insult comic. His always keeping his rallies in stitches explains a lot about his improbable popularity).

Steve,
You should vacate Unz, this site is getting too weird, too stupid.

…Where are the strippers and dancing elephants?

That sounds alright. Maybe when J.D. Vance is running in 2028.

…I think elephants and dancing strippers might prove more practical, though.

🧵Analysis of footage from the Trump assassination attempt shows that Trump and David Dutch were hit in Crook's initial 3 shot volley. Corey Comperatore and James Copenhaver were struck by Crook's follow-up volley a few seconds later. (1/8) pic.twitter.com/mlQ1wz9ZBj

— Oliver Alexander (@OAlexanderDK) July 19, 2024

“…I couldn’t believe how little attention this curious coincidence got. ..”

I think it has a simple explanation. His colleagues don’t like him much.

Vance forever?

There is no limit* on how many times one can serve as Vice President. George Clinton and John Calhoun each served under more than one President. One could imagine a scenario in which a party keeps switching Presidents while retaining the same VP, who’d have the real power. Some recent VPs almost seem designed to fit that bill– Rockefeller, Bush I, Cheney, Biden, Pence. However, the Deep State apparently prefers someone less obvious than a VP to fill that role. Certainly Kamala is no Cheney.

*Obama, Dubya, and that other Clinton cannot serve as Vice President anymore, as they are now ineligible for the Presidency.

Netanyahu will be speaking before Congress next week, so give a listen.

Will their equivalent of the Secret Service be there to protect him? Are there any Arabs on Capitol security duty who might apply for the 72 virgins provision?

Unfortunately, it didn’t take me by surprise that Carlson won’t explicitly defend white people.

Anyone who refers to the Great Replacement—whether in so many words or euphemistically, whether for it or against it—knows that the people the (((Deep State))) is ridding the United States of are white people, the overwhelming mass of whom are Christian white people. The same thing is going on, of course, in Europe and Oceania.

The Australian girl posing the proudly anti-white pseudo-question is indeed a truly despicable human being, in no small part because her phony question embodies a quantum of moral posturing that any reader of the New Testament would be inclined to recognize as pharisaical. Carlson is no better than she is, morally speaking. He is certainly glibber than she is, but nothing on earth is going to get him to forthrightly declare that his own people, the white minority of earth’s human beings, have been slandered as uniquely murderous, exploitative, and enslaving and have been targeted for destruction by a Tribe that has cultivated self-regard, hypocrisy, and deceit to unimagined heights. Such a declaration would take courage, and that is something he can fake but doesn’t actually possess.

Completely OT, Shiloh Pitt is changing her name. When you consider the Spoonerism, it’s surprising this wasn’t done long ago.

Meme magic is back.

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— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) July 20, 2024

Yeah, Biden’s not leaving. This is a guy who ran for president unsuccessfully several times, and now that he’s won the lottery prize, they’re asking him to get rid of it. There’s no way in heck he’s going to do that. The Democrats don’t understand his mentality. Biden really, really, wants to be the most important guy in the room.

Biden’s father lost his money and they were poor for a while, which must have absolutely humiliated Biden. Biden’s first wife essentially committed suicide and tried to take her kids with her. Biden’s eldest son died prematurely. Biden’s younger son is a disgrace.

Winning the presidency and clinging to it makes Biden feel like he’s a winner who is important in life, and not someone whose life is actually a trainwreck, a disastrous, lower-class soap opera. Biden is a chucklehead who is an expert at denying and ignoring inconvenient facts, but what’s really pathetic is that even his presidency is a trainwreck that he’s in denial about.

That and the head tat whore made me wonder what exactly we are conserving.

Maybe the freedom to live as one please and be left in peace?

The VP position is largely symbolic and is often selected to assuage a specific group of voters but there are definitely cases where it matters:

1. Where there is a good chance of the VP replacing the president (Biden/Harris)

2. Where the VP represents the voice of an entrenched group or lobby (Trump/Vance)

3. Where the VP is the real president (Bush/Cheney)

4. Where the VP uses his position to get closer to the presidency (Kennedy/LBJ)

I think Biden is most likely out but what to do about Harris is the real problem.

This is some kind of mass delusion, where you have an election stolen from you, the people who stole it have total power for 4 years, then for some reason they let you win the next time.

Very hard to imagine fighting Iran, Russia, and China at the same time. It’s setting the military up for failure.

It occurs to me that the gulf between the actual capabilities of our military and our expectations of it is becoming perilously wide. In other words, we’re cruisin’ for a bruisin.’

…and I doubt if we’ll react constructively. Prussia after Jena and Auerstedt, that won’t be us.

It’s around 8PM, maybe you should be getting to bed.

Hulk – 10/10

Dana White – 10/10

I’m not sure which I liked better to be honest. Possibly Dana. It was perfect, and made me proud to be a UFC fan (according to the graph, we average centrist and don’t turn out to elections).

Tucker – 9/10 (He’s done 11/10 stuff elsewhere, maybe I’m comparing this to his other performances rather than objectively what he gave here.)

Trump – 10/10 for the assassination attempt recounting, 7.5/10 for the content, 10/10 for Constitution/Stamina for a 78yo. Man, when they did the D&D dice rolls for him, he knocked it out of the park. He’s got to be a natural say, 12-14 in strength based on size alone. Dex would be up there – Trump is the best presidential golfer Jack Nicklaus has played with. No doubt his Intelligence is very high – to get where he’s gotten and outwit Sacha Baron Cohen is no mean feat. His Wisdom is mostly on the mark. Avoiding WW3, stopping the immivasion, these are the big ticket correct things.

Is he the greatest administrator since Eisenhower? No, but I think Ike had a (much) more aligned bureaucracy to work with. The main tools of cultural propagation – media, social media, education system – were and still are against him. The controllers of these, the Establishment, certainly want him not to be in a position of power, “6 ways to Sunday”, i.e. by any means necessary. More so than in 2016 or 2020. *

And his luck modifier is off the charts with resistance to critical hits.

I do think it was a bit of a wasted opportunity to present a leaner, stripped down message of what he brings to America as president, to at least captivate attention instead of 70mins of waffle on top of the 20min of what everyone was wanting to hear.

That slide showing the illegal immigration sure is telling… it looked like it took several years for Trump to make inroads on it, and then Biden truly opened the floodgates.

Damn, that was a really good point. Insightful too. Probably one of the best of this entire post.

“The Democrats don’t understand his mentality.”

Uh, no, the Dems really DO understand his mentality–it’s declining and that quite rapidly. And he committed the cardinal sin of making it too public for the whole world to see. Can anyone imagine him next month having to speak for about an hr LIVE and UNCENSORED? To have to read from the teleprompter LIVE before the entire world? If the Dems were hunky dory okay with that, then why are they trying to attempt a palace coup by replacing him at the convention?

Oh yeah.

“Biden really, really, wants to be the most important guy in the room.”

And last he could remember, he was. What makes anyone think that he consciously can still remember that he’s currently the president? Dementia is a legitimate real disease.

The party is working overtime to escort him off the stage, out of the room.

Nothing to see here, folks!

Steve’s also on Substack now. Search for “Steve Sailer net.”

I think you have to pay though. I paid. Maybe not just to read.

The commenters are much less weird (I’m not saying all Unz commenters are weird but many are. Almost all at other Unz columnists attract strange people.)

Did he have a driver’s license? If so, tentative facial recognition in short order.

Also, the kid was in a BlackRock video. AI should pick that up quickly as well.

Biden’s first wife essentially committed suicide and tried to take her kids with her.

Biden’s first wife, driving with her children Beau, Hunter and a baby girl, turned out onto a highway and was hit by a truck. December 1972.

The truck driver was unhurt and found to be not at fault. The wife and daughter were killed. You can find a picture of the wrecked car by searching for “Biden wife car accident” and selecting Images.

The car is pretty wrecked. There is no indication that she was suicidal. I’ve never heard that.

However Biden continued to lie and say the truck driver had been drinking (untrue).

“Maybe the freedom to live as one please and be left in peace?”

And we had to have a forehead tatted OnlyFans hoe whose claim to fame is that she ate Kanye’s bootyhole deliver this message? Couldn’t find someone, oh….maybe a tad more qualified than a high school dropout? Also, people who want to be left in peace don’t promote themselves on social media 365-24-7. They tend to keep a low profile.

Like, that was the best that the GOP could find to deliver that message? A cast member from the film Idiocracy?

Seriously?

Get real.

This site is for people who read Ron Unz’s well researched articles. The high value of Unz’s archive of censored references is amazing and far outweighs the debits due to any nuisance commenters. The natural purpose of these commenters, some of which are paid trolls, is to train people in basic intellectual hygiene.

Steve occasionally writes some great stuff on HBD, but generally seems to write for people who have retired their minds or maybe never learned how to think critically.

The other authors at Unz are an eclectic mix. Call it a cross-fit workout for the mind!

Biden has no agency and does nothing under his own power. His disturbing and pitiful public appearances are the best case.

If he doesn’t behave they will take his Ensure away. Sad but true, just deal with it. He is a nasty, crooked old man who is reaching the end of the line. What a creep.

I didn’t have to pay anything, and it was worth what I paid for it.

That bird’s eye view shows what I suspected: if the podium had a been a few feet back or the upper bleachers forward, he wouldn’t have had a clear shot at all–or, at best, without being near the edge of the roof and easily visible from the ground.

The problem is that there is a very good chance he will not be facing Biden in November, in which case this reasoning goes out the window.

Disagree. First, if it helps to knock Biden out, it gives Trump the aura of winning (same as he got in the primaries in 2016 by taking out the big dog, Jeb Bush, first, and then mopping up the littler fish one by one). That means something—momentum turns into inevitability. And if Biden doesn’t leave, it does everything I said: makes Trump look presidential and forceful, and shows Biden to be weak.

Second, it heads off at the pass any attacks the D’s will try on Trump for being “old”. “Hey our guy was about your age and he was too old to govern, here’s our younger person, you should step out like Biden did old man.” Trump proved he could go 90 minutes just days after being shot, that logic’s not going to dissuade his voters.

Also: Hulk Hogan?

Hogan’s speech was excellent, short, motivating, intelligent, and nostalgic. Every guy over 35 was transported back to his childhood and felt like we were beating the bad guys again. 9/10.

I saw Iwo Jima briefly trending today and knew what it was referring to. Today is just not a good day for the Democrats!

Now this is some real Iwo Jima shit right here …. pic.twitter.com/WDwGFCH5D7

— Chris LaCivita (@ChrisLaCivita) July 14, 2024

Trump is a beast compared to Abe!

However Biden continued to lie and say the truck driver had been drinking (untrue).

Biden’s whole identity is constructed of lies. Some harmless, daffy ones like Corn Pop and some vicious, unconscionable ones like the one blaming the truck driver. The truck driver has to live with his involvement in this accident, and though he was innocent it must be an awful thing to bear, and on top of that he has to bear being repeatedly slandered by a pathological liar with a high public profile.

And his bandage was too big, I hear. Why is he trying to call attention to the fact that he was shot? It’s such a divisive thing to do! (/sarc)

Crazy that the protective detail of the U.S. president has women. What a mistake.

In due time a DEI study will confirm what all decent people instinctively know: The bullet stopping power of short fat women is greater than that of tall muscular men.

Nothing will get better until the 19th Amendment is repealed.
Read Aristophanes’ The Assemblywomen

Wow… you would be like the World’s Worst Oncologist.

“You’ve got a Stage 4 cancer in your colon, which has spread to your liver. Our treatment plan is to try and reason with the tumors, and try to rationally persuade them to retreat to Stage 3 in your transverse colon.”

Yeah, that’ll work OK.

The whole trump card you’re holding is that: Jews care about nothing, except the welfare of Jews. They would nuke this entire planet and murder everyone else, if they thought they could fly off safely to Zion on the Moon. Built of course by goyim first. Where there would finally be no Cossacks or Nazis, threatening special precious chosen Jews.

But your political ace in the hole is….

They really, really, REALLY hate being identified as Jews, because that blows their cover, and then they are seen as being worse than pointless to the societies they have infested, because JEWS! It’s like roaches scurrying for cover when you turn on the kitchen light at 4 AM.

The best thing you can do is shine a direct light on them, and name them and enumerate their endless Jewish crimes. Let the entire electorate really see Max Schreck, and what he really wants. Let them only vote, AFTER they’ve seen their enemy in his real costume.

But your proposal is, Let’s just continue to quarrel endlessly with Nosferatu.

Sure that’ll work.

You can find clips of his fairly recent interview on Joe Rogan’s show. He puts some gravel into it for his shtick, but in normal conversation his voice is fairly deep.

And small quibble but it’s spelled sergeant, and the wrestler Bob Remus’ gimmick was spelled merely “Sgt. Slaughter.”

The yt channels Title Match Wrestling and The Hannibal TV have collected a tremendous amount of interviews with pro wrestlers from the 80’s, including Slaughter. Some of them are fascinating to listen to. Bobby Heenan’s and Gene Okerlund’s are outstanding.

He agreed to drop out 4 days ago, but forgot the next morning.