Posted on 08/19/2024 6:21:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“We head to Chicago on a wave of euphoria, exuberance, exultation, excitement and even, you might say, ecstasy.” — Maureen Dowd, The New York Times.
Looking a little insurrection-ish at Chicago’s United Center all of a sudden as Illinois Governor Jabba the Pritzker orders a wall built around the perimeter to protect the Democratic Party from its very own basket of deplorables — the pro-Hamas, Antifa / BLM nose-ring-for-lunch bunch — with the state’s National Guard “on standby.” The New York Post and other news sources report 100,000 anti-Israel protesters migrating there to liven-up a convention that also has the potential to go off-script inside the arena — since the script was written by a handful of party mandarins, with the gamed consent of the convened delegates, who might be a little ticked off about the deal.
What the party needs most this week is a plausible aura that it is firmly in control of events, having pulled off coup-after-coup on its own rank-and-file. Most recently, Pelosi & friends passed the black spot to “Joe Biden.” (The easy way or the hard way.) He took the hint and dropped out. But then, how exactly did Veep Kamala get plugged into his slot? Five minutes prior, they were, like, yccchhhh, her? And then, two seconds later, somebody arranged a pre-convention Zoom call “virtual vote” of the delegates — like a Las Vegas David Copperfield magic trick — followed by “certification!” (By whom? Answer: the certifiers.) Badda bing, badda bang! Their “democracy” got rolled.
So, you can imagine that things might fly out of control in exact proportion to the Mandarins’ desperate need to seem legitimately in control — when they are just a clique of scared-stiff tyrants running scams on their own people — and the result looks like the Democrats’ certified metamorphosis into the Party of Chaos.
Why scared-stiff? Because of a long list of serious crimes against the American people over the past decade, various treasons committed under color-of-law, for which they fear prosecution and punishment if the wrong person gets elected.
Just in the normal course of things in Chicago, local ABC-7 News reports, “At least 23 shot, 5 fatally, in weekend gun violence across city” over the pre-convention weekend. You have to wonder whether this ordinary background lawlessness will wash over into the political turmoil certain to roil the streets. Lootin’, anyone? Businesses in the downtown “Loop” district have boarded up their windows. As if a measly sheet of plywood can keep them out.
I happened to be at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, more in the role of a larval journalist than an activist, but right there in the action. I drove to Chicago from upstate New York with my college pal Bill Murphy in his beater Rambler — the car with reclining seats you could sleep on! (We did, in various parking lots.) Prior to the event, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, JFK’s brother, an avowed anti-war candidate, marched methodically through the primaries collecting delegates, giving hope to the vast Baby Boomer college demographic that he would end the stupid war in Vietnam and the military draft with it. When he got shot in the head at the Ambassador Hotel June 5, the night he won the California primary, everything changed.
The then-mandarins of the party looked to cram in the pro-war veep Hubert Humphrey to run against Richard Nixon. Left on the battlefield were two anti-war knights, Minnesota Senator Eugene (“Clean Gene”) McCarthy, a cranky poet without much fight in him, and George McGovern, a not-quite-ready-for-prime-time prairie socialist from the nowhere state of South Dakota. You might be amazed to hear that the mainstream media of the day was against the war, and pretty hostile to the political establishment that ran things from President Lyndon Johnson on down to Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago — with the CIA and FBI lurking darkly in their shadows, busy assassinating folks. Walter Cronkite had a sh[**]-fit on-the-air watching Mayor Daley’s thugs push around network journalists (esp. Dan Rather) working the convention floor. The party emerged from the convention in a very bad odor. Humphrey lost in November.
Daley and his police were a rough bunch, and treated the hippie mobs in Grant Park and down on Michigan Avenue quite harshly, with tear gas and billy-clubs. The National Guard was poised visibly on the roof of the Art Institute with rifles trained down at the hippies below. Things got pretty yeasty. It’s a wonder nobody got killed. The party went ahead and nominated Humphrey with ruthless efficiency. In the end, the 1968 convention riots were an act of futility. The ’68 convention was the public debut of the organism that we call the blob today — the Deep State in action. And it was the twinkling-out of hippie idealism. The Vietnam War ran another seven years until it ended ignominiously under Gerald Ford, followed by disco, inflation, and the offshoring of US industry.
This time around, the news media has been fully absorbed into the blob, doing all its bidding, like the blob’s personal Chat GPT, while the blob itself has grown to be a larger and more potent governing entity than the flimsy scaffold of elected officials who front for it. But the Democratic Party has faltered badly in its years’ long efforts to cover for the blob, mainly by lying to the American people about everything....
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Note: Updates will be added to the Monday blog as needed this week.
I hope everyone was able to get popcorn before the shelves were bare.
Here we go again. A repeat of 68.
This guy is an idiot. It isn’t Jabba the Pritzker, It’s Pritzker the Hutt.
Maureen Dowd continues to suffer from oral diarrhea.
“We head to Chicago on a wave of euphoria, exuberance, exultation, excitement and even, you might say, ecstasy.”
They are mentally ill. It’s all about their feelings.
Getting contrarian feelings.Somehow doubt there will be big disruptions and the MSM will portray the Democrats as united, safe and mainstream. suspect soros and the donor base bought off the radical leaders of any troublesome groups.
This may make me sound like a horrible person, but I hope it is '68 all over again. Let the world see the Democrat party as they truly are.
So, is it true there is more fencing at this than at the border? 🤔😊👍
I think Dowd is being sarcastic
I kind of read that comment by her as very sarcastic. Thing is, she left out the JOY!
Does anyone have any links to live cameras catching the action?
Get em all in there, then Just completely lock the place down, and re-label it as an “Insane Asylum”. 50-60 years ago, that’s exactly what it would been.
Use all their new fencing and weaponry to keep these morons off the streets of America as they’re all a dire threat to the Constitutional Republic.
“suspect soros and the donor base bought off the radical leaders of any troublesome groups.”
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You’re right about that. All it takes is a few checks written out to the organizers and/or promises of ‘no show’ government jobs to them and — problem solved!
Money and favors will buy lots of cooperation.
A very good article by Kunstler. History past and present. Thanks for posting.
The riot police outside the DNC aren’t there to protect Democrats from Trump supporters.
They’re there to protect Democrats from other Democrats.
https://x.com/ericmmatheny/status/1825486224741552465
I think a dead cat bounce for the Halfrican\Curry Cackler. Polls over weekend are already showing her losing ground. Her Stalinistic economic plans went over like a lead balloon with anyone who does not have a nose ring or is into sleeping with members of the same sex.
This is going to make what the ‘Rats did to the nation in 2020 look tame by comparison. They are going to do to their base 10X what they did to the country. Installed Party apparatchiks without so much as a vote.
I am not sure the nation has the time to let New York City figure out what is going on.
And perhaps worse...or better>>
Where Democrats go, crime follows.
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