Posted on 09/03/2020 7:59:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s been available for decades, yet I still marvel at the basic features of spreadsheet software. If you’re creating a 12-month cash flow, and you increase one of your expenses, bingo! All of the impacted rows and columns immediately adjust. Your newly entered data automatically results in updated and accurate totals throughout the spreadsheet. If you increase or decrease an expense item, or a revenue item, once you’ve entered the change, your 12-month cash flow recalibrates and instantly indicates the latest cash inflows and outflows on a monthly basis.
So it is with the Left in America, and throughout the world. The moment any event or development can be put to use in furthering the Left’s causes, it automatically happens. Within the U.S., this applies to anything regarding President Trump, and everything that has transpired since he won the election, was inaugurated, has served as POTUS, is running for re-election, and gave his nomination acceptance speech on the White House south lawn.
Recalculating in Real Time
You don’t like how many people voted for him? Recalculating... We will continue to hear that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. Never mind that President Trump, like previous Republican candidates for president, didn’t campaign in California or New York, or in other Democratic stronghold states where, no matter what he did, he would not win the electoral college votes.
If the popular vote count was the deciding factor, and not electoral votes, Trump would have gone to California and New York, and could’ve swayed one million or more voters in each state, thereby winning the popular vote as well. Has anyone considered that?
You don’t like his travel ban of seven countries around the world whose security measures are lax? Let’s see, what can we make of this? Most of the seven countries have a majority of Muslims. Recalculating... There it is! Trump has issued a decree against Muslim travel to the U.S. And, he hates all Muslims. Although the assertion is false, the Left has run with it for four years. No Russian collusion? Recalculating... Impeachment sham? Recalculating...
Surrogates Will Do
Even when President Trump is not directly involved in a news item, the Left, like clockwork, instantly and automatically recalibrates what has occurred, seeking to inflict maximum damage against the president. Nicholas Sandmann, of Covington Catholic High School, wearing a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat, is standing his ground as a Native American and Black Israelites mock him and his fellow students.
Yes, here it is! This youth is openly displaying hostility towards minorities. He is a ‘Trump’ youth, so he must be punished, not just for this event, but for his whole life. Recalculating... the mainstream media goes into overdrive. Let's make an example of this Trump youth. Let's find out where he lives and rally outside of his house.
Let's see where Nicholas Sandmann has applied to college and ensure that no place accepts him. Let's follow him throughout his life and make sure that he doesn't land a decent job. For his unpardonable 'face crime,' let's gleefully destroy his life.
Is it any wonder that The Washington Post had to settle with Nicholas Sandmann out of court for one quarter of a billion dollars to avoid a lengthy lawsuit that they surely would have lost?
A Headless Monster
The beauty of the Left’s smear machine is that no central authority presides. You can’t step back and blame only Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, or even Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer. You cannot focus solely on The New York Times or The Washington Post, which, having irrevocably tarnished their century-long reputations, today serve as fundamental Leftist tools of propaganda. They each spew out hate, 24/7 toward the President and his administration.
The continual assault on Donald Trump, and the inexorable effort to portray him in the worst possible light, is a mass reflexive action to which the mainstream press gravitates with such speed, that future historians will be hard-pressed to describe it.
In city after city, as anarchists infiltrate what otherwise might be peaceful protests, the Left’s immediate reflexive posture is that these are all ‘peaceful protests.’ Recalculating... Trump is creating controversy to strengthen a campaign platform. He sends in federal troops, not to quell riots, not to protect citizens, not to protect federal property, and not to diminish vandalism, looting, and mayhem. He does it as a ploy!
As Always, It’s Trump’s Fault
Major media outlets reporting nonsense about Trump’s motives run cover for the Left. Like you and me, reporters can see what’s going on. Still, they eagerly lie through their teeth. In their warped sense of duty, anything and everything that can be used against the President will be. The hell with the safety of citizens, and the preservation of the Union.
Recalculating... Let’s ignore an insurrection so obvious that a nine-year-old could describe it. Instead, let’s call it Trump’s fault!
Computer spreadsheets are still a killer app.
Where is Impeachment these days?
Actual “news” consists of statement of fact about events which have already happened.
“Editorials” consist of opinions about people’s motives or about possible future events.
There is precious little “news” these days. It’s really all propaganda aimed at manipulating future events.
That is what’s going on. Whatever is happening, there is always some aspect of the situation which is blamed on Trump.
A common talking point is that Trump was slow to react to the virus, and mishandled it. They take that questionable opinion, and extrapolate it to mean that Trump is personally and directly responsible for 180,000 deaths.
The fact that their icon Dr. Fauci, publicly praised Trump’s early action to restrict travel from China and Europe is ignored. The fact that Trump took these actions early on, while according to the talking point, he ignored early warnings about the virus, is simply ignored as well. Facts which counteract the talking points, even verifiable facts, are simply ignored.
The fact that Dr. Fauci publicly said that Trump’s actions saved lives, is ignored.
And don’t forget the Apples and Oranges technique. A developing talking point is that Obama and Biden knew how to handle virus outbreaks, and they point to how Obama and Biden allegedly did so well handling the Ebola outbreak a few years ago.
The major differences between the Ebola situation and the Covid situation are ignored, because they are inconvenient truths. Instead, they hammer the talking point that “Obama and Biden handled Ebola, and Trump messed up with Covid”.
Bump
And yes, the left routinely pushes F9; we need to get better at knowing when that happens AND what the new totals suggest is the next step.
>>Never mind that President Trump, like previous Republican candidates for president, didn’t campaign in California or New York, or in other Democratic stronghold states where, no matter what he did, he would not win the electoral college votes. <<
In Democrat-majority states, a lot of Republicans don’t bother to vote, because it will make no difference anyway. If all the Republicans in CA, NY , etc voted, Trump WOULD have won the popular vote.
yes, what of impeachment?
I would have expected the Democrats would be reminding us that Trump is “an impeached president”, and thus by definition, a lawless president, in their opinion.
But they don’t seem to be talking about their heroic impeachment. Why not?
Opportunistic, in the worst sense of the word.
Kind of like a car GPS when one continually makes wrong turns - recalculating....recalculating...
Then they try to call some things, “settled Science”....Just read a Dean Koontz novel and he tends to make fun of a number of leftist memes in his books - the latest was discussing science and he stated that any scientist that says “The science is settled” has stopped being a scientist and become a religious zealot...
The left uses classic totalitarian brainwashing techniques.
Keep changing talking points so fast that the believers’ brains turn into mush from the whiplash.
That is the purpose of the constant lying and erasing of history.
They want to convince the plebes not to believe their lying eyes...
Was at first demo of Lotus 1-2-3 on dos. Was jaw dropping experience.
Clearly dems have found that Harris is a looser for swing voters and are keeping her under the radar. Don’t want the voters to see who the real president will be;) Any doubt that Biden could ‘discharge the powers and duties of his office.’ ?
Sometimes a GPS gives wrong directions. My son used to be a truck driver and he sometimes wrong directions from his GPS.
Don’t you remember the rats had threatened to continue the impeachment after the Senate cleared him?
Ive heard some horror stories about GPS. Such as, someone was driving a rental car in an unfamiliar city, and GPS told him to drive down railroad tracks. And wouldn’t you know it, the train was coming. The guy escaped but car was demolished.
Actually a few weeks before Trump restricted travel from China, Dr. Fauci dismissed the virulence of the Covid virus and it’s impact on the US.
I was thinking of my Garmin GPS saying “recalculating” as we changed direction.
Same thing.
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