Posted on 12/26/2020 8:38:33 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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The Macbeth quote means that the confession was totally genuine and the penitence was heartfelt, to the extent that the Thane of Cawdor earned back the respect, and faced his fate with dignity. Instead of going out screaming for mercy after making a self-serving deathbed confession.
It speaks to a virtuous man admitting his sins before facing death, and earning some respect. Like a disgraced military officer retiring to the drawing room to write a suicide note in calligraphy, open a fine bottle whiskey, and clean the service revolver prior to using it. Or, as one notable “Rupert” did, walk across no man’s land brandishing an umbrella at the Hun.
In Japanese culture, the equivalent might be an excellent haiku written before committing a textbook seppuku.
It’s not just about the vanquished either; it’s also about a victor being magnanimous in victory - acknowledging the admirable features in a defeated foe. Almost all of Shakespeare does that, check the Roman ones.
Brit Hume is referring to that, I think - in that the President could’ve contested the election outcome in a far more dignified way, like his predecessors have, and won over some of his critics by either being magnanimous in victory or conceding gracefully if not.
But President Trump is seen by his critics as a totally unstable narcissist who surrounds himself with sycophants, rants about himself on Twitter, calls people patriots one day and traitors the next, ignores obvious Russian influence on Cyber attacks, weaponises the roll-out of the vaccines, and is pardoning people that nobody but Trump would’ve even considered pardoning...
Hume is begging the question, if any other world leader ever in history had acted like that after losing an election due to fraud, would history remember them for all the good they did in office or even remember the injustice against them? Even if they were justified, or did win?
History suggests, unfortunately, that they aren’t remembered well, especially when the history books are written by their enemies.
Richard III is a great proof. The king was not a hunchback, did want to improve the lives of his people, he even ordered all judges in the land to exercise their duties without fear or favour, and if he’d had more than 2 years in power he’d be one of the greats. But that’s not how people view him.
Or maybe Trump just cares more about saving America than his legacy - opposite the thinking of a narcissist. America is a land of mongrels and scoundrels - not royalty, however much our elite would like to be worshiped or have their likeness placed upon a pedestal.
The Democrats challenged the Republicans to a prison knife fight.
The Republicans surrendered.
Guess what comes after that in prison.
Yeah. Brit Hume "gets it" from behind.
History is propaganda. The written record will be edited.
If Donald Trump wins resoundingly, expect the history books to present one man on a swamp draining mission so epic that it surpasses even the post WW2 nazi hunters and Mccarthy investigations combined. And the Democrats will be tarred for generations. Voting RAT will become as toxic as voting communist in the 1950s.
If he loses, flip the equation. Trump will be forever damned by his own twitter and YouTube contributions, and everyone fighting vociferously for him will be dismissed as either a victim of, or a willing member of, a personality cult built around a narcissistic madman.
The RINOs are making sure that they’re immunised if that happens and that is why they are distancing themselves from the Trump inner circle. They don’t mind Trump and Trumpism becoming a toxic brand if the GOP can survive it.
If the RATS win, ‘Wearing a MAGA hat’ will become synonymous with ‘drinking the kool aid’ on both sides - red and blue. They won’t go gunning for us directly as there’ll be no need; if anything they’ll present us as victims of a huge grift and let natural attrition do the rest.
What a punk!
Good point.. very true.
[Good point.. very true.]
* The old News Corp conglomerate sold the entertainment side to Disney, and split the print and broadcast divisions out into News Corp and Fox, with both run by the nominally right-wing son, Lachlan.
He’s 77 and pretty much retired. If viewers come or go, he may not be around to see it.
If he loses, it may be the end for America. If we, as a nation, can no longer trust our election process, then what kind of government have we?! Not one of and by the people but one ran by a criminal mob interested only in power and wealth for its inner circle by any means necessary.
Either way, America will change.
A majority is far more motivated by the problems on their immediate doorstep than by a nebulous vision for the USA led by corporates from either the left or the right. It is this third that lives and breathes the true meaning of “we the people” the most. We think they are politically irrelevant - No, because they only think nobody cares because these people know they are not being represented by any corporate interest, be it red or blue.
All right thinking patriots must understand that this is the antithesis of “we the people”. We can’t win the hearts and minds of Left leaning libtards, but there are 100 million Americans in this camp and we are doing nothing to win them over.
I was as bothered by Carl Icahn advising POTUS on regulatory reform (corporate raider, carpet bagger, offshore and demolisher of TWA) as I would be if Soros had been offered a direct line to POTUS. We can’t win anyone in that disenfranchised camp by having Trump appoint a guy who lived and breathed the philosophy that destroyed American brands and jobs. What was POTUS thinking?!
Washington, in his farewell speech, warned of the consequences of letting political parties use corporate tie-in and chumocracy to cement their power.
“they serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community...”
Corporate interests and the deep state go hand in hand. But all too often we’re happy to let the corporate revolving door keep on revolving in the mistaken belief that it can ever serve us. To restore faith in the voting system, and win over the silent 100 million, this has to end.
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