Posted on 12/17/2016 6:38:59 AM PST by Kaslin
A few weeks before the election, I attended a gathering at a close friend’s home. When I arrived, a woman whom I will refer to as Liane was there with her husband. Liane is ideologically to the left and divides people into categories. Last summer, she referred to Republicans as “rabid.” When my friend’s cousin, a Democrat strategist, made her entrance, Liane immediately stated, “I want to hear all about Clinton vs. Trump.” Knowing I was the only one in the room supporting Trump, I suggested we keep divisive politics out of the discussion. That did not happen. Everyone, including my friend, who is a moderate, made it clear they viewed Mr. Trump as an impulsive megalomaniac who was going to destroy the world. Later the conversation veered to Bill Clinton and his proclivities. Everyone except Liane agreed his actions were unsavory to say the least. When I mentioned something which had been widely reported, Liane responded angrily, “Just like Obama is a birther and a Muslim?” She immediately stormed away. The episode shook me to the core. As we got ready to go to a restaurant, she shouted out that she removed herself from the discussion because “there would have been blood.” Now I am no wilting flower, but I did not wish to embarrass our mutual friend. This occasion, however, was a preview of the Northeast elites’ hysteria following the victory of Donald Trump.
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Our opinion of NE “elites”, media, D.C.establishment, Hollyweird “celebs”... and Leftists in general: From the folks in Flyover Country”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m0rfTwt4gI
You forgot "Mellmac!"
Regards,
GtG
Someone once noted that most people have one of two “frequencies” in their input and output. The higher frequency people are emotionally oriented. The lower frequency are more intellectually oriented.
For communications to happen between people of different frequencies, the emotional people need to slow down and the intellectual people need to speed up. This happens automatically, as far as those in the conversation are able. Even then communications are not entirely clear.
But knowing this means you can perform a little magic if you “keep it intellectual” when you are in a hostile group of very emotional people. You can actually drag their frequency so low that they cannot respond emotionally to what is being said, and react emotionally.
This should be done sparingly, as it can have some peculiar psychological side effects for them.
What you do is first, to speak quite softly, so they have to commit more attention to hearing what you have to say. Next, you need to speak slowly, with increasing pauses between words.
“I...think...the....weather....is....nice.....out....today.”
You will get your say out, things that would typically enrage them. But because even though they hear and understand what you are saying, they cannot emotionally react to it.
While you are doing this, they will invariably try to get you to speed it up. Nodding their heads repeatedly, saying “un-huh” repeatedly during pauses, trying very hard to get you to speak faster. Don’t.
Of course, a day or two later when they can finally speed things up, they will probably blow a fuse. But by then you are long gone.
An echo of how I think most of us felt on November 9th. The relief of having dodged the bullet of a 3rd Clinton/Obama term.
They will find it harder and harder to sustain their hysteria when they see all their fears failing to materialize and instead see chaos in the world restrained and a resurgence of peace and prosperity. If they still remain rabid we must do everyting to beat them down and remove them from all positions of power and influence. We can not survive as a nation with such delusional people wielding power or educating the young or controling the dissmentation of news or the levers of society and the commercial realm.
I was 12 years old before a realized damn yankee was two words...
We Southerners have had problems with “those people” for a long time.
Nixon’s greatest crime was beating McGovern in a nationwide landslide. No one that the liberal elite knew had voted for Nixon. He must have stolen the election and had to be punished!
I have not seen the liberals hate any president as much as Trump since Nixon. Not even Reagan and Bush engendered such blind wrath. Plus too many Republicans will abandon Trump at the first sign of trouble.
The Democrats will spend every day for the next four years trying to come up with ways to impeach Trump and many RINOs will play along behind the scenes.
My reply would be:
I go with Putin...put up your evidence or shut the h@ll up.
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Precisely so. And I’ve noticed that Obama’s Intelligence agency puppets are remaining silent about their “evidence.”
We’re waiting. They basically have about 72 hours to put up or shut up because the Electors they’re trying desperately to influence will have voted and gone home by Monday evening.
Hillary could have called Jill Stein and tried to talk Jill into bowing out of the race.
Hillary was simply too arrogant to do so.
I seem to remember that some Western European leaders disparaged Trump before the election.
Why didn’t Obama chastise them for trying to influence our election?
Isn’t Melmac the planet where ALF is from?
They have a China pattern? Who knew?
I should be quibbled. I get why so many are clueless, but that's not to say we should put up with it any longer.
Even if I accept the liberal’s premise that the Russians hacked both parties emails and only rleleased the Dims I still do not have a problem with Trump. So I am not t crying out for “proof”. If they have proof what does it matter? If the hacking was domestic does it change the cries of unfairness? The hacking is explosive and damaging because it proved Hillary’s criminal use of a server and because it revealed the DNC for the grubby petty wannabe tyrants that they really are.
Give the Dims credit though they have redirected the debate from the content of the email. And of course the idiot Repubs have gone along.
NO! Don’t do that yet, wait until I move to Florida at least!
Years of propaganda have taken its toll on these people. And the propaganda continues with no sign of ending.
We may be in store for some “unpleasantness” before too long.
California is worse. People in the Bay Area are literally insane.
I know how that is: I have two dear liberal friends from (Where else?) Boston who are unabashed Obama-Bots and Uber-Liberals. Their constant anti-Trump posts, none of which was based in any sort of reality, was a constant irritant. In fact one of them had a post which almost pushed me over the edge: somehow one of them claimed that Trump’s victory occurred on the anniversary of Crystal night in Germany in the last century. I don’t really think she knew how stupid that sounded to try and link the Trump election to an event that occurred close to 100 years ago to the present day.
Alo I work with a pinhead whom I believe is a reject from
that elite class. He claimed that I was living in a “bubble” (Which I suspect is the new buzzword for us conservatives and ant1-left wingers) when he tried to make the assertion that all white people (Which amusingly he is) were racists because we don’t like Obama due to his skin color. I was accused of living in this bubble when I pointed out to him that people were objecting to Obama’s policies not because he was black. What made it or the more enjoyable, my counter-attack, was the two Black gentlemen with me agreed with me, pointing out to him that making a generalization was as bad as being racist. Typically he hasn’t been as friendly or comes preaching anymore. Though I’m sure he’ll find some reason to in the future!
Excuse me but I prefer Limoges porcelain, definitely not made in China.
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