Trump outsmarts establishment again?
A few weeks before the election, Greg Gutfeld tweeted:
thought experiment: Hillarys a widow or divorced. would surrogates like Newt still defend trumps behavior without Bill around? answer: yes
Now, I am a big fan of Greg Gutfeld. I don’t have cable but I watch his monologues every day via Fox’s YouTube feed. His jokes are usually more insightful than straight news journalism. But he’s missing a very important point with this question:
If today’s politicians—and the media, for that matter—were the kind of people who would refuse to enable Democrats who act abusively and illegally, voters would have felt no need for someone who talked like Trump.
The problem was not that Hillary was married to Bill. It was that Hillary viciously attacked the people Bill abused. She was more interested in maintaining her fellow politician’s power than in helping her husband get well. We saw the same play out when the press initially tried to cover up for Andrew Weiner. And when the press tried to cover up for Hillary, first when WikiLeaks leaked evidence of her crimes and unfitness for office, and then when Project Veritas did.
The establishment is more interested in protecting their phony baloney colleagues inside the beltway than in speaking the truth. More interested in afflicting those who afflict the comfortable, and in comforting those who afflict the afflicted.
If Hillary Clinton had divorced Bill, if she had been the kind of politician who recognized wrongdoing, there would have been no Trump running against her. If DC hadn’t covered for Weiner and for Filner, there would have been no Trump. If the media hadn’t been in the habit of covering up scandals such as those uncovered by WikiLeaks, there would have been no Trump.
But that’s the kind of place the establishment media have turned DC into. If Bob Filner had never left DC, he would have continued abusing women with no pushback from beltway politicians or the media. That’s why we got Trump.
Trump is, potentially, an existential threat against an insider clique, and they are reacting as if this is some sort of 11/9. But the amazing thing about Trump vs. the media is how utterly incompetent the media’s lies are. I know that I’ve linked to Scott Adams’s praises of Trump as a master persuader, but deep down, I still can’t see it. It doesn’t make sense that someone this blustery keeps coming out on top.
And yet, he does. Trump keeps fighting, where your average Republican would back down, and it works.
Take the latest -gate, about the Obama administration bugging Trump’s communications. It sounds crazy and conspiracy-minded so of course the media jumped on it and called Trump out for being crazy and conspiracy-minded.
They had spent so little time checking out the allegations that Democrats had previously been making against Trump, that they didn’t know some of them relied on Trump having been bugged.
All of those claims, such as Democratic Senator Chris Coons’ that there were transcripts of Trump’s conversations proving that he conspired with the Russians? Or New York Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt? Now that the media narrative is that it’s crazy to claim Trump was bugged, they are now rescinding those claims.
Chris Coons has gone on the air and said, no, it turns out, I haven’t seen any transcripts of Trump talking to the Russians. As far as I know, they don’t exist. Yeah, I kinda lied, and so did the media who repeated what I said.
Is this Trump losing or Trump winning? Ignore for the moment the mealy-mouthed denials coming from Obama-administration officials, filled with weasel words, including from former President Obama himself. Your average Republican, faced with accusations of wrong-doing and McCarthyite claims of “and I have seen the papers proving it, though I can’t show them to you now” would at best issue a denial and let the accusations live, and at worst refuse to engage their attackers. Such as Romney and Harry Reid’s accusations about his tax returns, or George W. Bush throughout his presidency.
President Trump charges in with a claim just as wild or more than the media’s attacks1, and they immediately back down and acknowledge that there is no evidence for what they’d been reporting, that it was, as far as television viewers can see, all a lie, fake news.
And of course, if the media and the left were lying then about having proof, they’re probably lying now about not having tried to get proof.
Think about that. Two weeks ago, Democrats and the left were making wild accusations against Trump. The media was eating it up, with no attempt at fact-checking. Trump makes one tweet, and suddenly the same people are going crazy walking back everything they said two weeks ago.
When was the last time that happened to a Republican?
This is more proof that Trump succeeded because the media and the left created a void that only a Trump could fill. Trump succeeds because he stands up against the left’s lies, and despite all the clumsiness of his attacks on the left’s lies, their lies are so fragile that they immediately crumble. The left has gotten so used to Republicans who cave to their lies, they pop like a balloon when faced with someone who fights back.
Is Trump crazy or a master persuader? And just how stupid is the left to back themselves into a conspiracy corner like that?
If the left and the media continue to lie about Trump so blatantly and unbelievably that even Trump’s clumsy tweets send them backtracking, they will also ensure that Trump wins reelection.
In response to The Make-Believe Media’s New Normal: Whoever wins the election will be the new Sarah Palin. But they’re all acting like John McCain, obliviously unaware that the press might turn on them the moment they win the primary.
Although not quite as wild as the media is portraying it: the Obama administration has a history of surveillance against some unlikely people, including United States citizens such as journalist James Rosen and his family.
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Democrat-media complex
- How to Survive In the Age of Rage: Ace at Ace of Spades HQ
- “They are attempting to get the herd stampeding by screaming about wolves just outside herd’s perimeter. And yet, when we say ‘Where is this wolf you keep speaking of?,’ they tell us only that they have solid intelligence that an investigation will most likely prove the existence of the wolves.”
- IBD/TIPP Poll: Public Turned Off By Media's Relentlessly Negative Coverage Of Trump: John Merline
- “The poll found that 55% of the public says they’ve grown ‘weary from the media’s persistently negative coverage of President Trump.’ A roughly equal share (54%) also believe that the news media ‘has assumed the role of the opposition party, constantly opposing the president and his policies at every turn.’” (Memeorandum thread) (Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit)
- Joe the Undecided Voter: Now Media “Vetting” Randomly Chosen Undecided Voter Who Dared to Ask Hillary About Obamacare: Ace at Ace of Spades HQ
- “I’m sure none of you are surprised by the media’s behavior here: You saw them ‘vet’ Joe the Plumber for asking Obama about wealth redistribution. The problem wasn’t the question Joe asked—it was Obama’s response… Well, Ken Bone hurt Hillary a little by asking a straight and fair question about Obamacare, so now he must be destroyed.”
fake news
- The Ancient Laws of Unintended Consequences: Victor Davis Hanson at National Review Online
- “Were NBC anchor Brian Williams’s fantasies fake news? Were Dan Rather’s ‘fake but accurate’ Rathergate memos? How about the party line circulated in JournoList or the Washington and New York reporters who colluded to massage the news to favor the Clinton campaign, as revealed in the Podesta WikiLeaks trove? Was jailing a video maker part of an Obama-administration fake-news attempt to blame Benghazi deaths on a spontaneous riot? Was the Iran Deal’s ‘echo chamber,’ about which Ben Rhodes later bragged, the epitome of fake news?” (Memeorandum thread)
- Chris Coons walkback: “I have no hard evidence of collusion” between Trump world and Russians: William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection
- “This supports what I have been saying all along: Unless and until there is evidence shown to the public of wrongdoing by the Trump campaign, this amounts to nothing more than an attempt to undermine the Trump administration based on innuendo, The fact-free Intelligence Community-Media trial of Trump by innuendo…”
- Chris Wallace vs. Dem Sen. Coons: McCarthyism to Accuse Trump Of Russian Collusion, Where Is Evidence?: Ian Schwartz at Real Clear Politics
- “Chris Coons: There are transcripts that provide very helpful, very critical insights into whether or not Russian intelligence and senior Russian political leaders, including Vladimir Putin were cooperating, with colluding with the Trump campaign at the highest levels to influence the outcome of our election.” (Memeorandum thread)
- SAME NY Times Reporter Said Trump Team Was Wiretapped In Jan., But Said TRUMP Lacked Evidence In March: Jeff Dunetz
- “To be fair, it is not required that a stenographer remember or comprehend anything dictated to them.” (Memeorandum thread)
More beltway class
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- The left doesn’t hate business. They hate you and me.
- Who is Trump running against?
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- The January 6 witch-hunt
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- This isn’t just the Gaslight election, it’s the Silver Blaze election.
- Has Trump forced the media into a Kobayashi Maru?
- The Kobayashi Maru is that the media wants to be able to continue lying and be believed. People don’t distrust them because of Trump. People distrust them because they keep lying. It is a self-caused problem.
- A direct line to the Charlottesville riots… from 1938
- The press has been downplaying violent rioting for almost a year. Cities have been letting violent rioters get away with, literally, inciting murder. At best they are ignored by the press and at worst praised by the press and by politicians on the left. Why be surprised that we have more violent riots?
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- Monuments to Democrats are increasingly under fire in their former firewall states.
More Eloi class
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- Where Abraham Lincoln’s conservative principles made a flawed man better, Stephen A. Douglas’s belief in the responsibility of government elites for managing lesser men made him far worse.
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- The competition for the Mitt Romney Day award in 2020 became dangerously competitive come March, as contestants worked hard to kill the most jobs, the most small businesses, the most lives. But there can be only one winner.
- The new barbarism: A return to feudalism
- The progressive left seems to have no concept of what civilization is, and of what undergirds civilization.
- The Tyranny of the New York Times
- The New York Times joins CNN in its totalitarian views of the use of rules.
- Was Weinstein treated better than Spacey because his accusers were women?
- Both Weinstein and Spacey got a pass for a long time. We know more about Weinstein because he was caught earlier, and that’s it. Maybe it’s past time to drain the swamps of Hollywood, the entertainment industry in general, and similar cultures of deception such as in Washington DC.
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- Betrayal is bad advice
- It makes sense that the beltway would want to depress voter turnout by working class voters. It’s a mistake for Trump supporters to do so.
- Who is Trump running against?
- If Trump runs against Biden, he’ll lose, just like he did in 2020: by getting more votes but fewer ballots. It looks like Trump understands that. He’s not running against Biden. He’s running against the Democrats and Republicans who put Biden in power.
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- I was at the rally in DC, and what I saw is completely at odds with what’s being reported.
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