Donald Trump decided to present the president of South Africa, with the entire press corps in the room the evidence of the danger to white farmers in South Africa:
🚨 OMG!! Trump just dimmed the lights in the Oval Office and played, FOR the president of South Africa, the BRUTAL videos of South Africa's leaders calling for the K*LLING of white South African farmers.
This was actually confirmed as as issue by a SA official at the Oval Office today, but hey are you going to believe your own eyes or CNN?
The South African Minister of Agriculture confirmed in the Oval Office today that white farmers are being killed and that it’s a serious problem. Yet, this is what CNN puts out. pic.twitter.com/6M731FOIGs
Trump played the video in front of the guy. Every single network was there, and yet every single network denied what they say.
The irony? All of this took place 24 hours after the Biden health story where the media talked about how they missed a story right in front of their eyes.
Why anyone trusts them is beyond me, but I suspect is bubble reinforcement because once people decide they were wrong they have to see themselves in the light of truth, and that’s just too much for most leftist’s these days.
…for all their fury expressed in public and willingness to intimidate police and administrators in western cities in the year they have been marching NONE OF THEM HAVE TAKEN UP ARMS TO HEAD TO THE MIDDLE EAST TO FIGHT.
Quite a few Jews have gone to Israel to fight and there is no shortage of Jewish citizens currently under arms but none of these brave protesters, whose men of military age would constitute a mighty army, for all their loud pronouncements are ready to go off to war to fight those who they claim are committing genocide.
They seem quite invincible when it comes to shouting and screaming and going after lone counter protesters with a mob behind them, but the prospect of facing an armed Jew, man or woman, even with numbers in their favor makes them wet their pants.
They are like the man on the train that Confederate Joseph Johnston encountered after the Civil War who loudly proclaimed the southern cause but when asked by the former general in what regiment he served said that circumstances didn’t allow him to fight. Johnston described him to a friend later as the type who were “Invisible in war and invincible in peace.”
These protesters are “Invincible” in the safety of the western world in places where the rules of free expression are stretched to their breaking point to allow them to denounce Israel as genocidal monsters.
But “invisible” when it comes to putting themselves on the line to fight against them when there is the risk of harm.
Unexpectedly of course.
Cue Python and the Ballad of Sir Robin:
Frankly if I was Israel I’d finance people to dress up like the minstrels in this skit and taunt them
4th Doctor:The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common – they don’t change their views to fit the facts. They change the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs changing
Doctor Who: The Face of Evil part 4 1977
You might recall about four months ago (was it really that recent?) the absolute outcry when NBC signed former RNC chair Rona McDaniel as a commentator. McDaniel as you might remember had a success rate electing GOP candidates and promoting the conservative cause comparable with Luigi Vercotti attempts to get Ron Obvious to jump the English Channel or eat Chichester Cathedral and her popularity with the GOP base corresponded to that success making her seemingly the perfect choice as the GOP voice on NBC. But alas the NBC/MSNBC faithful were having none of it:
She’s no Douglas Murray but the slightest possibility that she might threaten the bubble of silence surrounding MSNBC viewers was simply too much for leftists to bear.
You see the MSM decided a while back that they were going to choose as their niche market the far democrat left and a problem with choosing a group of people who primary pushes are for abortion, homosexuality and transgenderism is such a group tend to shrink.
Furthermore when the loudest members of said group are the most radical you find yourself hitting demands to exclude anything that might contradict said groups thus moving farther and farther into a direction to satisfy them and becoming more and more niche till you find yourself locked in an every shrinking bubble unable to to deal with or even unable to acknowledge any reality outside of said bubble.
And when powerful people with a lot of money and influence you know the ones who decide who is welcome at the beautiful parties with the beautiful people who might give you advancement and on whose word your salary is based it becomes easy to rationalize life in the bubble let it harden around you to keep all that unwanted information out.
At least until June 27th 2024 at 9:05 PM EST when reality takes a sledgehammer to the bubble and the walls come crumbling down.
We’ve been writing about the sheer panic among those who saw, particularly among the media who have guarded the bubble diligently (Drew Holden has a detailed post showing HOW diligently) and are now trying to convince people that they were duped idiots rather than collaborators.
This has been punctuated by people suddenly coming out with a whole plethora of evidence of Joe Biden’s decline that they previous withheld.
All of this has become a problem, because now the niche is split and the media doesn’t know which way to go.
Now let me clarify one thing. The niche isn’t split about Joe Biden’s mental acuity all but the most fanatical or ignorant leftists know he is no longer fit to lead, that’s not in question but as I’ve noted that consideration which would be the primary one if they actually cared about American Democracy doesn’t matter. As Alex Berenson put it:
Put politics aside, ask the right question:
If @joebiden weren't already President, would ANYONE think the husk of a man we saw tonight is the best choice for the job? Any of the governors would be a better choice.
Whatever happens next, the Democrats failed themselves. And us.
But that’s not the debate among the media trying desperately trying to retain credibility while serving their niche a niche which is now split between those who think the Democrat party’s chances of winning in November are better with Joe Biden on the ticket and those who think keeping him on the ticket will destroy their chances of winning.
THAT is the only thing that matters and the media is desperate to be on the “right” side of that argument, that being the side of the argument which will prevail.
This brings us to yesterday’s news conference.
Right now the media is trying to figure out which side (boot Biden, keep Biden) is going to win so they can jump on board it
What the Democrat left and the media really needed was either a commanding Biden demonstrating strength or a slobbering Biden unable to function which would give them a clear direction and reunite their niche. As Frank Fleming put it:
The absolute worst thing for the Democrats is if Biden does just well enough to stay in the race.
It was a lot like the debate, Biden started weak but got stronger and one of his answers on China and chips was actually not bad, however starting on a teleprompter didn’t help and had questioners pre-selected suggests he knew what was coming.
But there were two defining moments that everyone will remember. The first being this:
Biden: "Look, I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president if I didn't think she's not qualified to be president, so we'll start there." pic.twitter.com/ib4WwC27pR
Make no mistake about it: this was not a great press conference, but it was better than his performance at the debate and his interview with George Stephanopoulos. And that’s a problem for the Democrats. From the perspective of Biden’s campaign, that’s good enough for him to stay in the race.
Joe Biden’s campaign is cratering, and this press conference won’t convince the naysayers that everything is fine — and it won’t convince the holdouts that Biden should go. The situation remains at a stalemate, which means the Democratic Party will continue to be divided over what to do about Joe Biden.
In short it’s the worst of all worlds for the media as every day this isn’t resolved is a day when they have to pick a side which is the worst possible situation for the democrats because as long as this election is about Joe Biden, Trump wins.
Prediction: As soon as one side or the other wins the media will pivot to that side and within a day or two of that moment and by end of whatever week it happens you will never know they thought otherwise.
This weekend Jonah Goldberg noted that a lot of people on the right were comparing Trump to Christ and weren’t taking into account the idea that he cheated on his wife with a porn star.
Well there are two things I’d like to say to that. While Jonah is of course free do disagree on the merits of either verdict the fact is we compare Trump to Christ because Trump we believe both were found guilty unjustly, not of sleeping around but of a completely made up bookkeeping felony, so like Christ he was unjustly found guilty. Nobody (with the possible exception of Laura Loomer) on the right compares Trump to Christ’s divinity.
Second while I do in fact find it plausible that a really rich guy decided to bang a porn star and tried to keep it quiet (frankly I’d hate to have my performance in bed judged by a professional) folks like me who under the old rules thought such things should be disqualifying were massively outvoted on said rules so until the left decides to go back to said rules we aren’t either.
We’re in the middle of a baseball season where the Redsox have a great crop of young players and at the end of a basketball season where the Celtics are in the finals with a solid shot of winning and least we forget the Pats have a new 1st round QB and an old Brady era vet to mentor him. All these things are strong temptations to have me pony up for one of various sports packages from NESN to MLB to NBA etc etc etc…
…and then June roles around and all the professional teams go out of their way to remind me that they are not on my side in the culture wars and suddenly radio and hitting a local bar/restaurant to watch a game rather then giving these guys my money becomes an attractive alternative.
My thanks to various leagues for helping me appreciate the joy of free sports.
Oh and the annual ritual of business shoving gay pride down our throats in the west while making it a point to avoid the same in the middle east continues as always, with BMW actually admitting what we all know that it’s all about the risk and reward of the mob.
Of course in a new years the Ghastly Tom Hagan math will catch up with the west and when it does the west will drop their pride campaigns faster than the Democrats dropped Israel
Speaking of a lack of principles there are quite a few GOP candidates who had been pushing their pro-life credentials in the past who suddenly find themselves willing to compromise on life to gain higher office.
Now there are no shortage of Democrats who run as republicans in red states or republican who run as dems in blue states to get power nor is there a shortage in either party of people whose primary principle is to advance their political power. And the reality is that given the number of honest men & women in politics you likely can’t get a majority without these sorts.
So when there is no other choice by all means elect them but keep such folks away from the true levers of party power because people willing to sell out their principles or their God will have little trouble selling you.
Finally episode one of the Chosen is available free and those who expected to see the aftermath of the feeding of the 5000 and the calming of the waters which closed last season might have been shocked to see they went back to Luke Chapter 1 to the Visitation as their lead.
Granted they decided to knock off John the Baptist in episode one but if there is one thing you could always be sure of in any protestant movie about Christ skips the 6th chapter of John once it reaches verse 26 the beginning of the bread to life discourses. The only exception being word for word adaptions of Gospel.
Given that The Chosen is a TV series rather than a movie there would have been more than enough time to include them but as Catholic as Jonathan Roumie is, he does not have creative control so the bread of life discourses had to go.
Don’t get me wrong, it was a good episode and I liked the juxtaposition of the Canticle of Zachariah (the Morning Prayer of the Catholic Church) with the scenes of John’s end and the reaction to it but some things never change, and if you were expecting to see The Chosen break that mold you will be mistaken.
Oh and I’d watch it via the youtube live stream because the loading time of the app seems to be very slow likely due to the sheer number of people trying to watch it there.
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