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Last week the Wall Street Journal published an unsigned op-ed unworthy of one of the best teams of commentators in the country. The subject was some comments Donald Trump made on Truth Social that, by surprise, displayed his trademark turbo-charged hyperbole. The Journal is usually a reliable source of sober, judicious, and fact-based analysis, but this editorial is a troubling portent that Republican Trump-Derangement Syndrome hysteria may have a negative impact on next year’s election.
Trump’s heinous sin, according to the editors, is saying “that Gen. Mark Milley, the nation’s highest military officer, deserves execution—as in death. He said NBC should be investigated for treason and that the FBI should raid the homes of Senate Democrats. Then he accused President Biden of being manipulated by ‘the Fascists in the White House.’”
Now listen to what Trump actually said about Milley as quoted by the Journal: “‘This guy turned out to be a Woke train wreck who, if the Fake News reporting is correct, was actually dealing with China to give them a heads up on the thinking of the President of the United States. This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH! [emphasis added].’” That’s more nuanced than saying Milley “deserves execution.”
Read carefully, one wonders why the editorial would provide its own refutation. Take “Woke train wreck.” Has the Journal forgotten that in testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, Milley argued for bringing critical race theory propaganda into the military academies and the armed forces’ training programs?
Is that not “woke”? And given the recruiting crisis across the services, caused in part by subjecting troops to a truly racist and preposterous leftist ideology, is there any wonder that potential recruits who would join up to be trained as warriors and fight for their country, would pass on being told that their country is “systematically racist,” including them?
Next, is Trump lying about Milley’s untoward outreach to our most formidable enemy, China? Doesn’t the cognitive elite’s bête orange deserve acknowledgement that he conditioned his comments with “if the Fake News reporting [on the 2021 book Peril by progressive Dems’ journalistic saint Bob Woodward, and their trusty tribune, Robert Cost of The Washington Post] is correct”? Or is his sin the phrase “fake news,” a widespread, bipartisan estimate of our politicized media?
Worse, the Journal omits Milley’s gross violations of both his oath to the Constitution, and his professional ethics, that Trump is referring to. During the last days of the Trump administration, Milley––based on the popular anti-Trump huge begged question that he was mentally impaired enough to attack China or provoke a nuclear war before leaving office––reportedly overstepped his Constitutional authority and violated the chain of command by going behind Trump’s back to speak with China, our most formidable geopolitical rival.
As a National Review editorial reported at the time, Milley “went to the head of the Chinese military to tell him, in effect, that Trump was bluffing. Milley reportedly ordered naval exercises canceled to avoid offending the Chinese. He even ‘went so far as to pledge he would alert his counterpart in the event of a U.S. attack . . . ‘General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.’”
Even if Trump is exaggerating in calling this treason, there’s no question that Milley’s actions obviously fulfilled one of the Constitution’s Article 3 Section 3 predicates for treason, “adhering to [the United States’] Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” And of course, upon conviction the penalty is death, so the histrionic redundancy after “executed” is cheap theatrics. Strip away Trump’s dramatic rhetoric, and what we have are unexceptional contested claims about what makes “aid and comfort” treasonous.
But the Journal ups the ante with some drama of its own: “We realize no one is supposed to take Mr. Trump’s words seriously, but what if some crank does and decides to shoot Gen. Milley in his retirement?” This is an unserious debating gimmick we’ve been hearing from the left for decades, usually trotted out in arguments calling for European style “hate speech” restrictions on the First Amendment, or for gutting the Second Amendment.
After all, “words are violence,” we’re told by the same people whose political champions indulge quips such as “When they go low, we kick them in the face,” from Barack Obama’s “wing-man,” erstwhile U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; or Obama himself, who during the 2012 campaign counseled his followers to “argue with your neighbors, get in their face.” Or Rep. Maxine Waters who in 2018 told protestors to “create a crowd” around Trump’s cabinet members when they appear in public, and in 2021 to “get confrontational” if the proper verdict wasn’t reached in the Derek Chauvin trial for the death of George Floyd.
Or how about the incessant verbal “violence” against Supreme Court Justice Bret Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings, or after the Dodd decision? The latter produced a stalker who was apprehended with a weapon near the Justice’s residence. If that psycho had been successful and assassinated the Justice, would all those “pro-choice” protestors be responsible? Or should Senator Bernie Sanders answer for one of his followers in 2017 who shot up a Republican baseball practice, seriously wounding Rep. Steve Scalise?
Of course not. To argue otherwise bespeaks how far our culture has gone down the “devil made me do it” road of weakening personal responsibility. In the end, as Aeschylus said, “the doer suffers” the wages of his actions. In a free society that allows wide latitude for political speech, personal accountability for the anyone who goes beyond speech to violent action is the sine qua non for enjoying that freedom.
Finally, the other counts in the editorial’s indictment of Trump are just as weak. Trump’s bluster that “NBC should be investigated for treason and that the FBI should raid the homes of Senate Democrats” is just that, rhetorical hyperbolic venting over the blatant double-standards of the media’s and federal agencies’ lawfare waged against him since 2016, replete with a raid of his private residence, and multiple investigations. Or is his crime the threat against our First Amendment, the one that the Dems have been undermining for decades?
Finally, by now, most people who judge politicians by their actions rather than their words pay no attention to Trump’s bluster. But the bipartisan cognitive elites, who live in a world of words and fret over mythic “democratic norms,” and “decorum,” can’t resist an opportunity to signal their political virtue and preen morally, not to mention assuring their fellow political guildsmen that they think correctly about the bipartisan guild’s mortal enemy.
Such politically parochial antics are a luxury we can no longer afford. Three years of “woke” Democrat control have wreaked havoc on our country and Constitutional rights and guardrails.
The southern border is controlled by cartel gangsters, and filled with scenes straight from the pages of Jean Raspail’s dystopian novel The Camp of the Saints. The streets of our once iconic cities are filled with addicts and the mentally ill polluting the town square; flash mobs of feral teenagers plundering businesses, and murders and assaults by released multiple offenders and felons. And our nation faces disaster caused by feckless spending and redistribution of wealth to political clients, while our economy is hamstrung by intrusive government regulation and a suicidal war on the cheap energy that created the modern world and made us the richest civilization in history.
All these predicates of decline are unsustainable. Our only hope is that next year the ruling party has its powers reduced, and is replaced by those who still believe in American exceptionalism and its unalienable rights of freedom and equality. That is all we should be talking about, instead of indulging yet again our chronic obsession with Donald Trump and his mean rhetoric and bad manners.
For the truth is, despite his many flaws and mistakes, compared to the addled Joe Biden and his gang of puppeteers, Donald Trump––or any of the other Republican candidates, for that matter––may be our last best hope.
Mo de Profit says
They have the facts that vaccines are killing people and that the warp speed development was Donald Trump’s plan. Yes I know that big pharma duped him but they are now beginning to release the data on this slowly but surely the propaganda machine will turn.
You guys need a backup.
Marc Mehlman says
20/20 hindsight is always right on. However, not even the best of our elected leaders bat 100%, I put more credence in what Trump thinks of the vaccine now.
Kynarion Hellenis says
Ironic. The left produces consistently morally compromised candidates, while requiring perfection from right-leaning candidates.
Only foolish children argue that a great man must be perfect in all spheres.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Thanks KH. Yeah, Trump is a businessman, not a scientist. He got conned in this case. Even I didn’t understand it for awhile, until an internet friend who is a health professional with a Ph.D. finally helped me to somewhat understand it.
jeremiah says
Trump doesn’t care about anyone, not the little guy, not the middle class. That’s all BS. You have to explain why he backs his elite friends always.
He’s backed the groomers with AB, the groomers in Disney. He backed Cuomo and highly lauded him recently when he should be thinking about prosecution.
Far from being the best hope he never got rid of people that he needed to get rid of and appointed a lot of deep state dangerous people, many that are still involved in curbing our rights at a more accelerated pace than when he was in office.. Trump couldn’t navigate the simplest of tasks a politician has to observe and he has made it nearly impossible to save the country with his clueless appointments.
Trump won’t change and being elected again will only add fuel to fire his incompetence.
Jeff Bargholz says
“Warts and all,” right?
Beez says
Geo. Washington was a great man. He was greatest because he gave up power and passed it on.
Jeff Bargholz says
Always live in the present, not the past. Learn from the past and plan for the future but live in the day.
My little zen moment for the day. 🙂
My-President_Wears_Depends says
As a MAGA conservative and Trump supporter, it pains me to say thisbut unfortunately, all Trump does is complain about how he gets no credit for the Warp Speed program, which he claims saved the lives of hundreds of millions of people (right…). What we are now learning is that the Covid vaccine itself will in all likelihood be responsible for killing hundreds of miilion of people, if not more, over the course of time.
When the time is right, the elites will begin to release information on the never-before-seen increases in the rates of all-cause mortality beginnning in 2020. At this point, all blame will be shifted to Trump and he will be destroyed.
Lightbringer says
Yes. Trump, a man I consider to be a great president, and given the opportunity will certainly vote for again, must admit his error with the “vaccine” fiasco. He has to say, “I was wrong. I was duped by people I trusted, both concerning the seriousness of the disease and the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine.”
(My own biggest concern with this poison is not as much the number of people who are dying from its aftereffects, but the number who will never be born. Reproductive difficulties appear to be real and serious.)
Beez says
I was wrong is not in his vocabulary.” If it was, many might reconsider their vote.
BLSinSC says
You have to remember that PRESIDENT TRUMP was facing a WORLD WIDE PANDEMIC of “biblical” proportions! He had everyone declaring DEATH is COMING for EVERYONE unless something is done! He first stopped travel from CHINA – and was universally CONDEMNED for that! Then he discussed the HCL and ivermectin – and faced UNIVERSAL (DEMOcrats) SCORN! He listened to the “experts”! Now what if he had simply said “this is all fake and we’re not going to shut down our Nation over the flu”??? IMMEDIATE IMPEACHMENT and CRIMINAL CHARGES!! Every death would have been ANOTHER charge of MURDER for him! He did what he THOUGHT was right. He had doubts – you could see it on his face, but what really could he have done? VETO the Bills? I wish he had and then let Congress override! I admit he made mistakes, but look what he faced. The point NOW is what he LEARNED! He’s our best hope to SAVE OUR NATION! I want him in office with an AG who is “mad as hell and not going to take it any more” and go SCORCHED EARTH on the TRAITORS!! Milley said he feared retribution – no – it won’t be “retribution”, it will be an HONEST charge of TREASON for his ADMISSION that he WARNED the CHINESE and AGREED to INFORM THEM OF ANY ACTION! THAT is TREASON. First Day in office I would re-call the “good” General to active duty and Second Day begin his Court Martial for Treason! THEN I’d get SERIOUS about the OTHERS!!
Jeff Bargholz says
Whoever down voted BLSinSC’s comment is a traitor lover and turd burgler.
My-President_Wears_Depends says
Who made you sherriff?
Jeff Bargholz says
God.
Do you have a problem with that?
Jeff Bargholz says
Whoever down voted this comment is eating a pile of turds right now.
How do they taste? Like stinky Tootsie Bars?
jeremiah says
One of your favorite meals?
Jeff Bargholz says
I wonder how many dicks “Jeremiah” has sucked today? ProbablY a whole conga line.
Did they taste like hot dogs? Sl;urp, slorp.
Jeff Bargholz says
More down votes? How many turds can you gobble in one day, you butt fairies? Do they taste like chocolate to you?
Lightbringer says
Now, now Jeff. You know that I like you and your comments, but this is just getting to sound like a couple of five-year-olds verbally duking it out on the playground.
Tory says
Grow up with that tedious nonsense. It was *his plan* for Fauci to coordinate with the pharma companies to cook up a toxic serum? Put the blame where it belongs and please admit that whatever plan he presented would be savaged. He endorsed the use of HCQ and other alternatives, but was infamously mocked, savaged and slandered for that,
Semaphore says
Yes, Trump was literally placed in a no-win, damned if you do or damned if you don’t situation. I think it was calculated, like his “impeachments”.
Jeff Bargholz says
Fraudci had nothing to do with the “toxic serums.” And President Trump went all out for the American people, AS ALWAYS.
Jeff Bargholz says
Whoever down voted me sucks toxic nut splooge and gargles it.
CowboyUp says
I think you misunderstood Tory’s post, Jeff. If you read it carefully, he’s defending Trump and saying the blame belongs on Fraudci, who did say at a confab a year or two earlier that they needed, or were waiting for a big pandemic to introduce the mRNA shots( which have turned out to be toxic serums), as vaccines. Fraudci was invested in the tech itself, and the specific mRNA covid shots.
You may have read his use of “toxic serums,” as the treatments under consideration, which the msm wrongly exaggerated as bleach or horse dewormer, as the shots that were passed off as vaccines, which is what I think he was actually referring to.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yeah, I think you’re right.
I’m so used to trolls I make mistakes sometimes.
Jeff Bargholz says
I took the Johnson & Johnson “vaccine” and I’m still alive. In fact, I had no adverse reaction to it whatsoever.
The fact is, all vaccines and immunizations harm or kill some people. Some people have weak constitutions and some people have strong ones.
I haven’t been sick in at least 26 years. I can’t remember past that. I know I’ve been sick before but I can’t remember when because it was so long ago. The “common cold” with the super annoying nasal congestion and runny nose. What a nuisance.
My-President_Wears_Depends says
Great! A case study of one. You really need to become better informed.
Jeff Bargholz says
Well, I am an individual, dipshit.
And tens of millions of people who took a “vaccine” are still alive, so my point is valid and yours isn’t. Be careful who you accuse of ignorance, you hypocritical retard.
Now go play with your turds. Diaper Joe is waiting for a playmate.
My-President_Wears_Depends says
You are correct in that you truly are an indivdual dipshit. Obviously you have no knowledge of all the information coming out about all of the severe side effects and deaths being caused by the Covid vaccine!
I would love to play with my turds, but unfortunayely I would have to pry them loose from your mouth!
Jeff Bargholz says
Did I mention that you’re a gay butt bandit? Enjoy that dick in your ass.
Lightbringer says
My husband and I both had COVID — a month of lying around utterly wiped out, he complaining about being bored and I devouring audiobooks of one sci-fi or fantasy series of books after another — and then we got better with no ill effects. And we are both in our mid-seventies and have a couple of co-morbidities.
Then we each took two doses of the Pfizer vaccine, just for the hell of it (we knew we were already immune) and suffered no ill effects. But I am very concerned about my children having had to take the “vaccine” as they are still in their reproductive years, and even more concerned about the grandchildren who were “vaccinated” by their safetyism-first parents.
Lightbringer says
Again, just two data points, but that’s all most of us have, one or two or a few. And never forget that the individual is the smallest — and most significant — minority there is.
Cat says
I am glad you two got better. In my area which is near a very densely populated area, Covid killed and killed and killed in 2020. We lost colleagues, friends, and as health care profs, we saw many patients die. Older folks, yes, but not all were old or sickly. Several had been successfully treated for cancer and seemed well but got Covid and couldn’t recover. It was and is scary. There is an increase right now in Covid in healthcare facilities. Less are dying of it but thats no guarantee. Vaccines seem to have not worked at all.
In other parts of the country, it seems they had a very different experience. I understand that but feel sad when they claim it was a “just a cold’ or it never happened at all. I mourn all those precious people who lost their lives and feel for the families who lost loved ones! I think its childish to fault President Trump’s response in 2020. He was in a trap. Damned either way. Whatever he did, he would be blamed somehow. In part that was the point of it. That and enabling mail-in vote fraud and social control.
I drive by the offices and homes of those who perished in 2020. I haven’t forgotten them.And I am angry.
Jeff Bargholz says
Audiobooks, hunh? I’ve been meaning to try some of those. I love reading and the feel and smell of paper but an audiobook sounds cool. I could just recline and listen.
My girlfriends say I don’t listen, even though I do, so an audiobook sounds soothing.
Beez says
We do need a backup. That much is true.
Cat says
Many flaws and mistakes. Hmmmm, Well, his dance moves ARE silly ( but it makes me smile that he’ does them & there’s not much to smile about these days). and he somehow couldn’t stop the many backstabbers. But I’m not going to refer to that as a flaw or mistake. Not on his part.
And you, author, have managed to redeem yourself with the rest of this article. The crazed parsing of Trump’s speech and posts would be funny if it weren’t so tragically bad for the American people that no one at the WSJ ever considers. Trump talks like Trump and like 10 million other NYers. Get Over It!
Jeff Bargholz says
I’ve never liked the WSJ. It’s editorials are always disingenuous. And I’m bored to tears by financial news.
But I do like Trump’s dance moves. You can tell he’s just joking around. And he always opens his appearances with the Village People’s YMCA “”which is funny. I don’t know if it’s a nod to gay Americans or if he really likes the song. I suspect both. And he always closes with “Hold on, I’m Coming,” by Sam and Dave. What a great song. It’s their best, in my opinion.
John Bumpus says
And who owns the Wall Street Journal? News Corporation. And who owns News Corporation? Rupert Mudoch and his brood. Enough said. And as night follows the day, now you know why Trump Derangement Syndrome infects the WSJ.
Jason P says
His son runs the company now. The old man supported Trump.
Jeff Bargholz says
Whoever down voted Jason sucks dead men’s balls.
My-President_Wears_Depends says
Rupert Murdoch stepped down in 2023. Fox interfered in the 2020 election by declaring Biden the victor in Arizona with insufficient votes counted. The actual decision was made by Rupert Murdoch, who added “F him(Trump” for good measure. There were still more than 1 million ballots not counted from Election Day, which tend to be heavily Republican.
Hey Sherriff, are you ready to suck dead men’s balls!
Jeff Bargholz says
Eat some dead ass. And smile and say thanks.
J.J. Sefton says
The WSJ was always horrid. Recall that 2o-odd years ago, they had a four-word op-ed that I remember verbatim:
“Thou shalt have open borders.”
And here we are all these years later and that’s exactly what we have. Trump derangement in reality is America-as-Founded derangement.
Lightbringer says
Isn’t that five words? I think I can count that high, even in the middle of the night.
Beez says
Meh, sort of.
Did Sefton just dismiss Trump’s hyperbole as insignificant? Wise men know when to hold ’em.
RS says
Amazing how many people don’t understand the times we are in, even learned scholars. These events are not just political, they are spiritual and evil. Satan is using many to fulfill his agenda in the coming One World government. We already see the push for diversity, open borders, lawlessness, corruption, and immorality. Satan wants to destroy everything that God made, and set up his own Kingdom. Hes a fallen angel, Lucifer, and he is wreaking havoc on the world.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12. The express purpose of Pau’s command…”Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might…..so we can stand against the tactics of the Devil, (deceptive tactics or dirty tricks, manipulating the truth, is a STARK reality.
1 John 2:22 “Who is the liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is the antichirst, that denies the Father and the Son,.”
Jeff Bargholz says
I watched some porn yesterday. Did the Devil make me do it?
Jeff Bargholz says
Whoever down voted me sucks the Devil’s fiery dick and balls.
Does it taste spicy?
Jeff Bargholz says
Down vote me again? You must really like the taste of devil dick.
Is it hot? Did it tingle your tongue?
Greg says
The editors at the Wall Street Journal and a thousand other NeverTrumper Lilliputians work tirelessly to tie the great man down. Despite their fevered imaginations, Trump is a mere mortal who shall return to the dust from whence we all came. Take heart, NeverTrumpers, there shall one day be a world without Trump. Then all of the NeverTrumper moral midgets can delight in the smirking of Ron DeSantis, or some other figurehead for the Deep State.
Onzeur Trante says
Agree with your post with the exception that I believe the TDS horde will not be satisfied even when Trump is 6 feet under. Those Never Trumpers and TDS afflicted who outlive him will continue to pursue him, his family, his legacy beyond the grave. Ironically, DJT will never “die” for those who wish him dead.
Beez says
Lots of us were never Never Trumpers.
We better have a plan B – even if Trump fires us for disloyalty.
Patricia says
The Journal is merely one step behind FOX news in their plunge into TDS.
His comments are extremely exaggerated and spun into club wokness.
The author patheticly and pathologically fabricates his spin in an effort to join the woke club.
Dean A Hoffman says
The WSJ has never been the same since the Bancroft family yielded to the Murdochs. Just sayin’.
Capitalist-Dad says
It’s true that Miley’s actions with China were treasonous—an offense that would get a soldier hung by, say, George Washington. But my objection is this strutting oath breaker is covered from neck to crotch in medals he awarded himself—look like a generalissimo dictator, die like a generalissimo dictator.
Lightbringer says
He does wear a ton of bling, and I often wonder if there is any significance to any of the pretty ribbons and shiny medals. Asking for a friend.
JustPassingThru says
Rupert Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal. Murdoch suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome so one should not be surprised at this. The WSJ is a mouthpiece for the globalist Wall Street agenda and hasn’t been credible for decades.
Jason P says
Rupert was a Trump supporter. His son Lachlan Murdoch has taken over. He was supposed to be the conservative son.
jeremiah says
The boy’s wives did.
Cat says
I had heard Rupert, the father, somehow hates Donald Trump. IDK for sure as I don’t move in those circles. I am just a peasant.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Great article Bruce, thanks!!!
Shows how egregiously MSM twists the narrative.
I noticed some years ago that the WSJ was turning left. I used to read them at lunch during the 1980s, they were good back then.
Curt Koenig says
The most despicable part of this is that the piece was ANONYMOUS. The writer and the journal did not have the
COURAGE to sign it.
Another is to suggest that Trump’s comments might lead to violence when virtually all the instances of violence have been instigated by DEMOCRAT hyperbole
Beez says
It’s called a conundrum. Every time Trump spoke, Nancy Pelosi’s cash register went, KA-CHING!
Jason P says
Spot on, Bruce! I’m disappointed; the WSJ used to field sober objections, not the hyperbole you documented so well.
From the subtitle I feared you were going to be an Only-Trumper. Your last sentence got it right: “Donald Trump––or any of the other Republican candidates, for that matter––may be our last best hope.” Whoever can beat Biden is my candidate.
Beez says
In that case, you’d be voting for the only one who can – DeSantis. But Trump doesn’t tolerate disloyalty.
Dean A Hoffman says
Exactly. They became more lifestyle-oriented and were selling out to the official narrative by the end of the 2020 election debacle. Fewer good columnists giving way to the reliably unreadable Peggy Noonan.
AC says
I was a long time subscriber to the WSJ. Back in, if I recall correctly perhaps 2018, the Journal’s publisher released glowing blurbs about their incoming WSJ interns. Needless to say, straight white males were absent, but every color and orientation were represented. I remember telling my wife that the Journal was going far progressive left and dooming itself. I quit it in 2020, even though a representative basically begged me to stay on, reducing the cost to pennies. Nope. No sale. The WSJ under the Murdoch regime is dead.
Tom Kelly says
In a world of utopiain planning, neither political party, has the gall to overcome the severe flaw that it forms
True conservative candidates, come in a one in a thousand. Th one way to stop this train wreck, is a counterculture revolution. It sounds like a dream, but the urgency has to be great enough to conquer.
Lightbringer says
Check out Victor Davis Hanson’s talk with Dan Prost in today’s FrontPage. They have some good ideas for a legal, nonviolent counterculture takeover.
Rose Ellen Ray says
I quit subscribing after decades of receiving the WSJ due to the paper’s horrible treatment of Trump. The op ed is no surprise.
Mark Smith says
How long are Americans going to ignore what is going on? We have a lying partisan press, a biased DOJ, a criminally run FBI, a woke military that is destroying our readiness, an incompetent VP and a severely demented president who was a lying moron before be became demented. Are Americans so stupid that they would elect another leftist Amerikan hating democrat for president in 2024?
Lightbringer says
Americans might indeed be that stupid, courtesy of our “educators” and their unions.
By the way, did you hear what X. said about Y. on her highly influential TicToc feature? (sarc)
Beez says
I’m not ignoring anything. You don’t have to believe the charges to see the icebergs dead ahead.
M. Tiro says
Excellent analysis, as always, Dr. Thornton. It is not surprising that BHO and his fellow-travelers attempted “fundamental transformation” of the US. What IS surprising is how quickly and easily businesses, corporations, academia, and media jumped on that bandwagon. Billionaire money is behind a lot of this.
Dana says
The WSJ, has been a mouthpiece of the Propaganda Ministry for years now.
No worries, the ministers there will meet Satan soon enough.
Jeff Bargholz says
“Redistribution pf wealth to political clients.” “political clients.” That’s a great term. As good as Lincoln’s “moneyed interests.”
You know you’re on a roll when you equal honest Abe.
My-President_Wears_Depends says
For no reason I can understand, my post is being held in moderation que priso.n If it is approved in 24 hours nobody will read it as they will have already moved on from this article
Jeff Bargholz says
Maybe it’s because you suck ass.
My_President_Wears_Depends says
Why don’t you just go back to the mental institution you came from. They will let you eat all the turds and suck all the dead men’s balls you desire (a lot!)
I’m surprised you have not been banned yet for your constant and gross vulgarity. If that’s all you’ve got, you are truly an ignorant person!
Jeff Bargholz says
Cry to somebody else. I don’t give a shit about weak whiners like you.
And learn how to deliver a proper insult, gayboy. You’re such a bitch even Biden wants a refund.
Lightbringer says
Happens to a lot of mine too, even some pretty innocuous ones.
danknight says
Excellent post … and it might be persuasive … if there were any open minds out there … that still believed in the so-called “liberal” or “conservative Democrat” or “loyal opposition” …
… but those who remain in their camp have minds as closed as ours are supposed to be …
… and they’re not going to read this post …
… because of the shadow-banning.
Our problem … we still believe the Big Lie that we are a minority and we can ‘win’ if we just persuade another 2-3% of the electorate.
… That myth isn’t just ‘dead’ … it’s obviously been ‘dead’ for decades.
I will still be surprised if the 2024 election does not ‘happen’ … but we can almost predict it. It will look like all of the ‘close’ elections conducted for 20+ years.
We will have two candidates. A popular candidate who can fill football stadiums, crush rallies, and jam the streets. The other candidate will be a criminal, a traitor, or at least a racist, bigot that hates the nation and has disparaged We the People in the past and/or off-mic. He/she will run from his basement.
The popular candidate will be behind in the polls or lead by just the ‘margin of error.’
Exit polls will show the popular candidate behind the basement candidate. All Left-wing counties will show blow outs for the basement candidates while swing states run neck and neck. As the polls close, news media will project a ‘win’ for the basement. As the evening progresses, though, ballots from the suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas will come in and slowly overwhelm the basement in favor of the popular. … Then. It. Will. Stop.
And in the middle of the night, the basement candidate will ‘win.’
Sure – this was ‘new’ for the POTUS – and coordinated across multiple states with open collusion with RINOs. But news junkies have seen this pattern since I was an atheist Demokkkrat myself back in the early 80s.
Hello people … we need poll watchers, ballot harvesters, ballot drop-boxes outlawed, etc. etc. etc. to stop this. Votes alone won’t do it.
And we need prayer to the Almighty – asking forgiveness for murdering babies, war mongering, destroying good and reveling in evil … and so on.
G-d help us all.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Thanks Dan!!!!!
Lightbringer says
Dan, I’ve always liked what you have to say, but your exhortation for prayer is the most important thing in your comment. Thank you for reminding me, and everyone else. As we Jews celebrate the universal holiday of Sukkos by which all the Nations are blessed, let’s remember Who blesses us and provides for us.
Lightbringer says
And Who runs the world, whatever those fellows strutting around Davos in their expensive suits think.
My-President_Wears_Depends says
My biggest problem with Trump is that he totally mishandled the Covid response. He should have empaneled a group of distinguished virologists and economists as an advisory board. Instead he made Little Tony Fauci Supreme Commander of the US Covid response, along with the traitorous Deborah Birx, who admitted she intentionally misled him to control his response.
Trump is the one who said 2 weeks to slow the spread, and then in his worst possible decision he appointed 2 public “health” bureaucrats to oversee the entire response and 2 weeks became 2 years.
jeremiah says
He didn’t stand up for anyone or lead. He allowed vaccine mandates to happen and shutdowns because he was worried how he would look.
RS says
Behind the plot of the plandemic…… the World Health Organization, and World Economic Forum, elites, and oligarchs, have been meeting and plotting on how they will implement the One World Agenda. The Pandemic allowed for the Great Reset, to shut things down and maintain controls over organizations and peoples, change times and laws, and move their players into position.
Tex the Mockingbird says
Hiding the truth from us that’s what their doing trying to keep us from finding out the Globalists CFR,UN plans for us
Lightbringer says
I think that Klaus Schwab has been very open about what they have planned for us. His book, “COVID 19, The Great Reset”, pretty much tells us, and so has everything he has said since. He is one of the most evil people on the planet.
GRob says
Progressive Democrats are destroying our culture, destroying our history, destroying patriotism, brainwashing our children (CRT, Gender Ideology, Climate alarmism), filling the country with illegals in the hope they will vote Democrat, turning every group against the others, destroying the economy and energy independence, corrupting the DoJ, FBI, CIA and IRS, threatening to destroy the Electoral College, threatening to expand the Supreme Court by adding progressives, attempting to add new “states” (District of Columbia and Puerto Rico – and maybe split California into three Democrat states) to cement political advantage, and destroying the world order in pursuit of globalism.
For sure, I will vote to save America – again and look past the unfortunate Tweets.
Beez says
That’s good, but there’s a lot of people out there who won’t. We MUST have a plan B.
Mike smith says
But the Miley calls to China were approved by both Trump appointed defense secretaries. They are the ones who are traitors.
Una Salus says
That is all Trump should be talking about, instead of indulging yet again his chronic obsession with Donald Trump and mean rhetoric and uncouth admissions which reveal how empty his rhetoric is.
People won’t follow this guy and from what I’ve seen fatigue has set in. Independents have had enough some say.
Jeff Bargholz says
Dream on. Trump is more beloved than ever.
Beez says
They have. DJT can’t win this election. DeSantis can, and not b/c he’s more moderate. If anything, he’s farther right.
Una Salus says
Trash talking DeSantis while blowing kisses at Lindsay Graham is not playing well even at rallies.
Trump has become an exercise in RINO rebranding due in no small part to the uncritical support he’s received, It has done him no favours and the damage when disillusionment sets in is going to be severe.
TruthLaser says
The Wall Street Journal and Donald Trump have differed on the border and cheap labor. The issue of Milley being a traitor needs a little perspective. Benedict Arnold gave the British the plan of West Point, Milley promised to give US military plans to Red China. At least Benedict Arnold had been a hero in battles before his act of betrayal.
RS says
Compare the Trump policies for America and the Obama-Biden policies for America. The New World Order with its drastic fundamental changes, does not want America restored to the former greatness, or freedoms……therefore, they can’t let the people’s choice of a President who is Pro-America take the reigns. Its not hard to figure out.