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The Counterattack Isn't Coming
Tell Me How This Ends ^ | 9 Nov, 2024 | Chris Bray

Posted on 11/10/2024 11:45:12 AM PST by MtnClimber

They can’t fight back, because they don’t know what happened, they don’t know what’s happening, and they don’t know what will happen. One mildly interesting counterexample at the end, but wait for it.

Watching anti-Trumper reactions to the election, I can only refer again to the “bag of sand” scene in The 40 Year-Old Virgin, where the weird new guy’s co-workers figure out he’s never been with a woman because he flails around helplessly while trying to describe the experience. Tom Nichols at poker night: Oh, yeah, man, America’s so hot, it’s like a…bag of sand. There’s an entire industry of donor-subsidized political journalists who get paid to analyze a country they’ve somehow never met. So they diagnose the national illness, and then they analyze the cause of the national illness, and then by the time they’re getting around to prescribing the political medicine….

Dude, be honest: Have you ever even been with America?

To avoid pulling apart a bunch of tedious examples, let’s just consider the representative figures of professional nevertrumper David Frum and Michael Tomasky, the career-insipid editor of the Orange Scare fan club newsletter The New Republic.

Explaining at The Atlantic what happens next, Frum warns that Trump will fill his administration with MAGA loyalists. This is very rare, of course, because most administrations fill their political ranks with people who disagree with them. But here’s a sample of what Frum says will happen as a result:

As loyalists take over regulatory agencies, filling not only political but also former civil-service jobs, American skies will become more polluted, American food more dangerous.

He’s typing his priors from a mental pulldown menu of scare phrases, completely disconnected from anything happening on earth. Scary Trump the Hitler figure will be terrifyingly libertarian like a fascist and shrink the regulatory state by appointing his anti-government loyalists, so food will become more dangerous. At the risk of relying on Steve Carell twice in one post….

David Frum have brain, brain not talk to mouth, mouth go loud noise. Remember that scene in The Shining where Shelley Duvall goes into the ballroom to read the pages of the book her husband has been writing all winter, and she realizes that he’s just been typing the same sentence over and over again? The horror of that scene is that the Shelley Duvall character realizes she’s married to David Frum.

The single most prominent discussion in the extremely clear and out front MAGA-MAHA narrative marriage has been the discussion about making food healthier:...SNIP


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: chrisbray; davidfrum; elections; leftism; michaeltomasky; thenewrepublic; thespewrepublic

1 posted on 11/10/2024 11:45:12 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

They have not had the organization to get ANTIFA and BLM called up yet.


2 posted on 11/10/2024 11:45:26 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Funny he should say that. I recall Hilary coming out with a book after she lost to Trump in 2016.
It was titled “What Happened?”, as though she STILL could not quite figure out why she wasn’t 50 points ahead of this ‘Deplorable’ man!


3 posted on 11/10/2024 11:52:10 AM PST by lee martell
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To: MtnClimber
"Remember that scene in The Shining where Shelley Duvall goes into the ballroom to read the pages of the book her husband has been writing all winter, and she realizes that he’s just been typing the same sentence over and over again? The horror of that scene is that the Shelley Duvall character realizes she’s married to David Frum."

That's the best belly laugh I've had in a good long while.

Thank you!

4 posted on 11/10/2024 11:52:47 AM PST by rx
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To: MtnClimber
"Married to David Frum"

       

One for the ages.

5 posted on 11/10/2024 11:56:22 AM PST by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: MtnClimber

I don’t know how “American food” could be made any more dangerous than it was made under Bidenskyyyyyyyy/Walzy Harriz. New recalls ever damn day.


6 posted on 11/10/2024 12:07:10 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Have the ballot counters in Maricopa County and Las Vegas sobered up yet?)
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To: kiryandil
The rest of the piece is very good too:

Also, in a gaslighting maneuver you’d need a brain injury to avoid noticing, Tomasky frames the crazy right-wing talking points as bizarre and fake, in a WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE EVEN TALKING ABOUT!?!?!? headfake: “…treasonous elitists who hate you, and Republicans and conservatives love God and country and are your last line of defense against your son coming home from school your daughter.” I mean, imagine being crazy enough to buy this insane talking point about “your son coming home from school your daughter.” Lunacy! Somehow these people really believe this stuff!

7 posted on 11/10/2024 12:10:32 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Thanks for your efforts posting this stuff today!

I have often noted to my friends it seems like the lamestream media is sending someone to Mars when they get out of the beltway and talk to normal Americans.

“Here is your spacesuit. Don’t forget your mask. Be sure to check in frequently with the rest of us, ect, ect ect.”


8 posted on 11/10/2024 12:11:10 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
Thanks for your efforts posting this stuff today!

You are welcome. I am humbly grateful that some people consider it worth reading. And I am grateful to those doing the writing too.

9 posted on 11/10/2024 12:14:31 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

If I responded with what I REALLY thought about The Turd Tomasky, my post would get yanked. :)


10 posted on 11/10/2024 12:19:05 PM PST by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: MtnClimber

They don’t know what happened because they won’t talk to actual Trump voters; they won’t talk to us and if they do they won’t listen— because they hate us. They don’t want to understand what happened, so they talk to each other, which, as Shakespeare said in Lear, amounts to “the mad leading the blind.”


11 posted on 11/10/2024 12:25:21 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: MtnClimber

“I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Thank GOD, over 92 MILLION AMERICANS FINALLY stood up and, in a powerful, passionate, and, with GOD’S help, MEANINGFUL ACTION, may have saved the AMERICA too many of us have too long taken for granted!


12 posted on 11/10/2024 12:44:22 PM PST by Dick Bachert (TH )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Imagine a government encouraging the eating of healthy, whole food and not allowing junk food to be purchased with welfare money.

What a concept!


13 posted on 11/10/2024 12:45:40 PM PST by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: MtnClimber

Great article! Thanks!


14 posted on 11/10/2024 12:46:48 PM PST by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: hinckley buzzard

They can’t listen to actual Trump voters for more than ten seconds without howling “you are a fascist hater”.


15 posted on 11/10/2024 12:47:00 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: Reddy

I oppose EBT cards overall, but one step would be to limit what you can purchase to say 50 products:

Milk
Chicken
Tuna
Whole grain bread
Fresh frozen canned veg
Fresh frozen canned fruit
Pork
Beef under $8/lb
Butter
Eggs

You get the idea. It would instantly improve the diets of millions of people. No one should use tax dollars to buy soda, chips, cookies, candy, ice cream…


16 posted on 11/10/2024 3:16:56 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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