http://www.iment.com/maida/tv/misc/video/political-memes.htm
This music video is streaming off my own website, not off YouTube. Still experimenting to see how much streaming the site can take. If some of you would watch it and let me know how it goes, I’ll put it up on YouTube and announce to FR generally. (Hi, generally!) Deeply sorry, Bags. I don’t think any of your memes made it in.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/11/body-language-expert-on-obamas-midterm-rallies-this-is-no-longer-the-confident-obama-this-is-desperation-video/
Body Language Expert on Obama’s Midterm Rallies: “This Is No Longer the Confident Obama… This Is Desperation”
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It must be difficult the former failed president to see tens of thousands of Trump supporters coming out night after night in city after city to cheer him and his accomplishments.
Body Language Ghost immediately notices in Obama’s Wisconsin speech that Obama is carrying his head down in a defeatist position. His body language is completely changed since his glory days as a Democrat candidate. Ghost continues, “This is not the same Obama I’m seeing. His head goes down a lot more in that downward position. It’s like a defeatist position. He’s no longer that confident, head held high, arrogant mentality… This is desperation
https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/they-cant-bear-the-thought-that-trumps-win-was-no-anomaly/
They Can’t Bear the Thought That Trump’s Win Was No Anomaly
By Roger Kimball
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According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and her colleagues, there are typically five stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance. Looking around at the effusions of the Left and the NeverTrump former Right, I’d say that President Trump’s most excitable opponents are just now caught somewhere between anger and bargaining. In fact, it is the prospect of the midterms that opened the door for them onto the corridor between anger and bargaining. If only the Democrats sweep the midterm elections, they say to themselves, then we can put this awful anomaly, this hideous wrinkle in the order of the universe, behind us.
Some such sentiment, I believe, was behind all the talk of a coming “blue wave” last spring and into the summer. I never believed that there would be such a cerulean tsunami, especially one that would sweep Democrats into control of the Senate. The House? Maybe. But even that seems to me to be increasingly doubtful.
Adamant anti-Trump and NeverTrump commentators have circulated and then taken solace from the Blue Wave meme not because they are especially credulous, but because the election of Donald Trump offended their sense of existential propriety. The unforgivable datum is that Donald Trump, as I have said many times, was elected without their permission and indeed over their strenuous objections. That is the intolerable insult they cannot abide. It was an event that not only should not have happened but could not have happened. Hence the widespread access of denial, followed by anger, that greeted the advent of this great anomaly.
The midterms seem to offer a chance to set the universe back on its proper track. “The time is out of joint,” you can hear these wretched Hamlets mumble, “O cursèd spite,/ That ever I was born to set it right!” I don’t know what the self-help gurus have to say about instances when grief is is not allowed to mellow into acceptance but is met by fresh assaults and griefs compounded. I will note, however, that that is often the way of the world. Claudius mournfully acknowledged this when confronted with Ophelia’s madness: “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
I do not of course know what is going to happen next Tuesday. But if, as seems to me increasingly likely, the Republicans hold the House, the anti-Trump and NeverTrump fraternity will be dealt a cruel blow. Not only will they have lost, not only will their confident predications have been in vain, but their entire sense of the way the world works will have been further undermined. The thing that was impossible, that could not have happened, will have turned out to be not an inexplicable singularity but a corroboration of a new dispensation — a dispensation, moreover, that has no place for them.
I have so enjoyed getting to know more of you today. FReepmails and so many Reply’s. TY for taking the time to talk.
I’m headed offline for now. Probably most of tomorrow. Then, back to lurking, most likely. At least through the midterms and maybe longer, depending on how life goes and what goals are met offline.
Thankful for FR. And the very special Q thread posters. Would also ask prayer for an unspoken request, if that is ok.
