NeoNote — HRC and the 2016 election

Thursday - 20Jun2019 Filed in: NeoNotes&Politics

❝❝HRC was not that likable as a candidate. The image of HRC appealed more than the actuality. She's many things, but she's not appealing, probably because she doesn't seem to connect on a personal level. That was something that Bill Clinton excelled at, and the lack in HRC just came off as disappointing.

My claim was that people relied on the polls so much that they couldn't be bothered to double check what was happening.

The election of HRC was already in confusion, not in the least because she manipulated the rules to deny anyone else the nomination. It wasn't the first time that people decided they didn't want her as a candidate. Even her election to the Senate wasn't so much winning as controlling the process to get her a Senate seat as a power base. Without that and without a big push from her husband, she couldn't make it as a candidate. As Bill Clinton's legacy became tainted and Democrats started avoiding him, HRC's "star power" faded.

I don't know why she avoided so many public appearances in 2016, although I suspect it's health issues that she never told people about. That certainly didn't help her.

You can blame Comey, you can blame the LEAKED emails, but HRC was never a strong candidate. She didn't even want to go up against Gore. She didn't dare go up against Bush League in 2004 because she was afraid she be washed up if she lost. In 2007, she got sold out by the Democrat leadership because they didn't want her in the White House. In thirty years, her reasons for running for President was that she was a woman, and it was time. Her whole strategy centered on victimhood while implying that she was owed the Presidency because Bill and others had done her wrong.❞❞

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Tags: Hillary Clinton ∙ 2016 election ∙ Bill Clinton ∙ James Comey ∙ Al Gore ∙ George W Bush ∙ Bush League ∙ White House ∙ Democrats

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NeoNote — What happens when progressives are in charge?

Tuesday - 23Oct2018 Filed in: NeoNotes&Politics&Law&Free Speech&Liberty

Will they tolerate similar "resistance" from conservatives?

Tags: progressives ∙ conservatives ∙ alt-right ∙ Democrat ∙ leaders ∙ Bill Clinton ∙ election ∙ 2000 ∙ 9-11 ∙ flyover country ∙ repressed ∙ campaign finance reform ∙ Bush League ∙ gun control ∙ political correctness ∙ gender issues ∙ global warming ∙ Portland ∙ rule of law ∙ KYFHO ∙ neighbors

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NeoNote — What has Trump done that is so bad?

Sunday - 13May2018 Filed in: NeoNotes&Politics&Law

❝❝I'm not a Trump fan. I don't trust him and I don't like him.

That being said, when some of us said we didn't like Obama, we were told to sit down and shut up. Obama won, and it was his ball game.

That alone should raise people's hackles.

Right after Trump was elected, there was the woman's march thing. I asked a very progressive group just what was it that Trump had said or done that presented such a threat to women in particular. The only real answer I got was something about woman's reproductive rights. That's when I pointed out that Trump supported Planned Parenthood.

One year later, the same group was talking about supporting the next woman's march. I asked what Trump had done in the previous year that was a particular threat to women. I got something vague about the judges he appointed. I asked how that was different than a liberal President appointing liberal judges.

The complaints about Trump not being legitimately elected are mostly recycled from Bush the Younger. The complaints about Trump being a danger to world peace and being totally incompetent are being recycled from Goldwater and Reagan. I know, I went back and checked. Progressive will complain about Trump tweeting from the toilet, but they can't tell you what he has done that they find repulsive. Except judicial appointments, of course.

We've reached the point where we're told that Trump is E-V-I-L, but they can't say why. And meanwhile with overwhelming bad news coverage, he still has an approval rating of more than 50%.

I don't like him. I don't trust him. I think he is going to make some very bad decisions that will be very bad for the country. But meanwhile, he's screwing up the established government traditions and driving the technocrats crazy. He's disrupting things that need to be disrupted. He's changing government. I have to give the man credit for that.❞❞

NeoNotes are the selected comments that I made on other boards, in email, or in response to articles where I could not respond directly.

Tags: Donald Trump ∙ Barack Obama ∙ election ∙ Women's March ∙ Planned Parenthood ∙ Bush League ∙ reproductive rights ∙ judicial nominees ∙ World peace ∙ legitimately elected ∙ incompetent ∙ Barry Goldwater ∙ Ronald Reagan ∙ evil ∙ approval ∙ establishment ∙ disrupt ∙ goverment

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☆ Media utopia

Wednesday - 21Jun2017 Filed in: Politics&Morality & Modern Life

When I was a kid, I delivered newspapers. After school I read them. Oh not cover to cover, I'd skip the ads and the sports and usually most of the “lifestyles” stuff. It wasn't hard to spot a pattern. What appeared in the newspapers usually appeared on the local news within a day or so. By the time I hit high school, I had discovered the local and school libraries with their out-of-state newspapers. Once again, there was a pattern. Three papers would usually have the “important” stories first, the next day or so the major papers would have the stories, and then within a week or so the other papers and the local television news.

It wouldn't be every story. But it would be the big stories, the ones that everyone would be talking about. So if you wanted to stay ahead of the curve, you'd read those three papers every day you could. The three papers were The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. Oh, The Economist was good too, but I couldn't always find that.

These papers set the agenda that the rest of the nation's press followed. Not always the opinion, but definitely Which Stories Were Worthy. Even newsweeklies and the television news magazines followed the stories that these three newspapers had pointed out.

Telling people what has happened, that's reporting. But the best reporters went beyond that, they put it into context. If the President rapped his knuckles on the desk, they'd tell you what his predecessors did, when, and why. You'd understood how it fit.

There never was journalistic objectivity, but that was okay. As long as some differing opinions made it to press, the public would learn what happened. Reporting was the priority.

Over the years, the Washington Post grew convinced that it had taken down a President. Maybe setting the agenda wasn't enough. Maybe they could shape world events with their reporting. If they said it happened, maybe enough people would believe and the Elected Leadership would react. It worked kinda-sorta with Ronald Reagan, and it worked well with George H. W. Bush.

Then came Bill Clinton who wanted to change the world. So he cultivated and seduced the press. He convinced them that his administration together with the press could change the world if they only tried hard enough. And before the press admitted that there were all sorts of juicy tidbits in Clinton's background, it worked out pretty well. It also cemented belief that the press had a Higher Calling, and it was up to them to turn ignorance into enlightenment.

After Billy-boy came George W. Bush, Bush the Younger. Or Bush League as I eventually called him. Bush the Younger would have been a tolerable President, but then we had 9-11. And the press didn't want a war. Or at least, they didn't want an Official War® with heroes and patriotism and Amazing America riding to the rescue. So they decided to control the agenda. Most of the heroism coming out of 9-11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan never made the headlines. The failures, real and imagined, did.

Yeah, about that imagined bit. It was the Higher Calling. American ideas couldn't be allowed to succeed, especially on a world stage. America had to have more failures if only because America had more success. For most of his administration, George W. Bush could do no right according to the popular press.

And then came Barack Obama, the Imperious Leader, He Who Could Do No Wrong. The press loved this guy. For the first time ever, a president mostly played along with what the press said. The press didn't have to report it, they could create reality. That's what happened for eight years.

By 2016, the press had forgotten that their primary job was reporting what happened. No one realized that while the Grand Vision was put in place, they were losing Democrat lawmakers and elected officials to keep it into place. Meanwhile many people resented being dragged into a Utopia without their consent. Especially when Utopia was more expensive and more tyrannical.

So Donald Trump happened.

The press completely missed it. What happened wasn't nearly as important as what was supposed to happen.

The truth was a prison. The answer was to do what had worked for eight marvelous years. Reality had to change. Legality didn't matter. Morality didn't matter. Only the Utopia.

The untruths came fast. No one was going on record but it was obvious that Trump would fail if he got pushed. He couldn't hope to succeed. So stories of high-level meetings that never happened came out. Stories about sex orgies and golden showers in Russia. Stories about Trump hoarding the White House ice cream. None of these stories could be verified. The answer was to accelerate the news cycle. That was easy enough with the internet. Literally hours after each story was released came the debunking, new stories followed minutes after that.

We've reached the point where most of the “news” about President Donald Trump and his administration can't be trusted. The newspapers and news sources I used to trust can't be trusted.

I hate admitting it, but Trump is right about the press. And it's because the press won't report the news. The press wants the Utopia.

Truth doesn't matter.

Tags: media ∙ press ∙ libraries ∙ The New York Times ∙ Washington Post ∙ Wall Street Journal ∙ The Economist ∙ journalistic objectivity ∙ opinion ∙ Ronald Reagan ∙ George H. W. Bush ∙ Bill Clinton ∙ Higher Calling ∙ ignorance ∙ enlightenment ∙ Billy boy ∙ Bush League ∙ 9-11 ∙ Iraq ∙ Afghanistan ∙ Barack Obama ∙ Imperious Leader ∙ Grand Vision ∙ Utopia ∙ Donald Trump ∙ untruths ∙ fake news ∙ ☆

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NeoNotes — Pre-victimhood

Sunday - 13Nov2016 Filed in: Politics&Morality & Modern Life

❝❝The man has not even been sworn in yet. Nobody knows what he's going to do. Some this this same stuff was going around about both Bush the Elder and Bush League, it didn't happen.

Personally I'm a little tired of being lectured about which Tragic Victim Group I'm supposed to genuflect before to show my compassion this week. The second someone escalates their victimhood over all others because of a label is the second I lose interest. Might-be-victims are even less interesting.

You have rights because you are human. Not because you are gay or transgender. Not because you are pagan or Navajo. And not because you are a man or a woman. Because you are human.

I won't defend rights because of labels. I won't fight for privilege that comes at the expense of others. I won't acknowledge group rights. I won't accept responsibility for things I didn't do or say.

I won't feed the victimhood anymore. But I WILL take a stand for human rights. Talk to me when someone has been denied their human rights and we'll see what we can do then. If that's not enough, I can't help you.

Until then, it hasn't happened and I'm not going to worry about it.❞ class="ghoster">❞

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Tags: victimhood ∙ Bush League ∙ Bush the Elder ∙ labels ∙ might-be-victims ∙ genuflect ∙ human rights ∙ privilege ∙ group rights ∙ gay ∙ transgender ∙ pagan ∙ Navajo
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Unholy alliance

Friday - 11Nov2016 Filed in: Liberty&Politics

❝❝Her politics don't allow for dissent.

That tells me more than I need to know.❞❞

I wrote that Friday morning about Laci Green.

I could have just as easily written it about Hillary Clinton.

Or most Democrat politicos and celebrties for the last sixteen years.

Basically since George W. Bush (Bush League) won the Republican nomination for President, conservatives and especially Republicans have been called Evil Incarnate. They will destroy civil rights. They will arrest all immigrants. They will force all gays into conversion therapy.

It’s always an emergency. It always requires drastic action NOW this very second.

The words haven’t changed. The Republican nominee is always anti-woman, anti-black, anti-gay, and anti-anything if it sounds bad enough.

At least, that’s what the Democrats say.

Except it’s not the Democrats. It’s the Democrat talking points. And they aren’t true.

Life goes on. The election of Bush League didn’t result in all those terrible things.

The election of Donald Trump won’t either.

So why are there carefully organized protests? Why are streets being blocked? Why is property being destroyed?

Now that is a very good question.

Let’s start with who is paying for and organizing these protests. Much of it comes from MoveOn.org. And most of the money from that comes from George Soros. Soros is a very interesting figure who goes out of his way to manipulate things while operating in the background. He’s funded astroturf groups to accomplish his goals, including campaign finance reform. He has often played one side of the Democrat party against another part.

Now, no one pours millions into something unless they have a clear goal.

Soros will tell you it’s for the greater good, but that is not true. Soros wants to benefit. He wants control and access to politicos. He wants technocrats hopping to his orders. He wants power and profits.

Soros gets that by wedding his corporate and financial interests to government in one of those unholy alliances.

George Soros was a major backer of Hillary Clinton. He’s almost certainly one of those who arranged for Clinton to be nominated while locking out all other Democrat candidates. The Soros connections to the Clintons go back to WJC’s Presidency.

Yes, that happened. Look at the Podesta emails.

Major figures in the Democrat party have worked with Soros over the decades. He’s been a major behind the scenes influence cutting deals with the Democrat leadership.

These deals have not been for the people. These deals haven’t even been for the Democrat rank and file.

These deals expanded George Soros power and wealth while protecting him from prosecution and competition.

Soros has spent heavily and gotten government backed privilege at the expense of the common man.

Meanwhile, the “little people” that the Democrats are pledged to help have been locked into poverty and helplessness for generations.

Every government benefit that you accept takes away your freedom.

This is an unholy alliance designed to keep poor people poor and less than human. Always dependent on The Man.

Well, George Soros is The Man.

Millions of middle class and upper class Democrats, convinced that they have to “do something to help NOW,” take their marching orders from community agitators and politicos paid by George Soros.

These “protests” distract attention from Soros. These “protests” blame Republicans. These “protests” spread lies and misinformation. These “protests” keep you from the truth.

So why are you still involved?

Understand, protesting is not the problem. It’s protected under the First Amendment. Nationally organized disruptions that damage or destroy, that’s the problem.

These “protests” were never about the election. They are about keeping people scared. Scared enough to demand government action. Scared enough to sacrifice freedom and liberty.

Ask questions. Ask yourself who benefits. Ask yourself if you really trust people who have been lying to you for years.

Ask yourself if you want to live that way.

Tags: dissent ∙ Laci Green ∙ Hillary Clinton ∙ Bush League ∙ Republican ∙ Democrat ∙ protesting ∙ George Soros ∙ The Man

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Little victories

Friday - 11Nov2016 Filed in: Morality & Modern Life

I’m hoping for the little victories.

I hang out and comment at The Wild Hunt. It used to be a pagan news site, now it’s more of an opinion site with occasional news.

Anyway, this article covered pagan reaction to the American election. Scroll down in the comments to the one from Jim. Sometimes TWH deletes comments that are abusive. Although TWH hasn’t politically objectionable comments yet, this has been a strange year.

I don’t have permission to quote Jim’s comment and I am not going to ask for it. The act of asking would make it a much bigger thing than it is. Jim probably doesn’t know I have a political blog and he might be appalled at some things I support.

But by all the gods it’s great to see a modern liberal take on political correctness.

I’ve seen the same trends Jim has seen only I think it goes back to 2000 and the election of George W. Bush. I’ve written about the True Believers on the left before and the trend I saw then.

So Jim has had his say and maybe some folks will take a harder look at themselves. Maybe TWH moderators will keep the comment.

Little victories can lead to big thoughts.

Tags: The Wild Hunt ∙ political correctness ∙ Bush League ∙ true believers ∙ short

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