On it, Batman.
Posted on 09/21/2022 4:02:07 PM PDT by Rummyfan
I haven’t seen a convincing explanation of why the Left went so bat-guano crazy over the recent delivery of a handful of illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard. Yes, they don’t want people talking about the border in the run-up to the election, since they’re behind the eight ball on the issue. But that’s not it.
And, yes, the hypocrisy of sanctuary cities and “In This House We Believe” posturing has been exposed. That’s getting closer, but the buses to New York, Washington, and Chicago were doing that already; the Left was complaining about it, for sure, they didn’t go all Godwin’s Law until Martha’s Vineyard happened.
I think the reason for the freak-out was explained by Saul Alinsky half a century ago. The fifth of his “rules for radicals” is:
Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.
It was ridiculous enough that New York mayor Eric Adams described experiencing a tiny part of Biden’s border crisis as “horrific” and D.C. mayor Bowser declared a state of emergency and called on the Pentagon for help. Even today, the total number of people sent to those cities is less than two days’ worth of what is happening at the border.
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Yes it is, and it’s high time our side starting using it.
On it, Batman.
The author is an idiot.
Ghengis Khan didn’t givva sh!t about ridicule.
Neither did Harry Truman when he dropped the A bomb.
Most potent weapon? Ridiculous.
“Ridicule Is Man’s Most Potent Weapon”
We have a meme for that.
Isaac Davis: Has anybody read that Nazis are gonna march in New Jersey? Y’know, I read this in the newspaper. We should go down there, get some guys together, y’know, get some bricks and baseball bats and really explain things to them.
Party Guest: There is this devastating satirical piece on that on the Op Ed page of the Times, it is devastating.
Isaac Davis: Well, a satirical piece in the Times is one thing, but bricks and baseball bats really gets right to the point.
-Manhattan, Woody Allen
The truth.
I don’t know... Give me a .44 and a machete instead.
I agree with you. It is quite ridiculous.
I am a proud member of the LGBFJB community.
Libtards are too stupid to know they’re being ridiculed
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Dang-it!
Just when I was starting to think that I was well-armed, too....
Drat.
/s
Rough part o’ town them Nantuckatees... don’t like the undocumen.... unvetted rabble. House service industry must be unionized.
A book that every Conservative should read- and for the same reason that Patton read Rommel - is Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals”. Studying the insights and tactics of the enemy is always wise, prudent, and often helpful.
While Genghis Kahn or Hitler might not have feared ridicule, in the current arena, it’s a potent weapon. To make someone a laughing stock in a republic or a democracy is nearly lethal. A bitter attack the enemy can respond to, being made fun of, hurts.
As with all good rules, it works regardless of which side applies it. The left used ridicule with great effectiveness; now that *they* are ‘the system’, Alinsky’s brilliant tactical treatise applies just as well.
Nothing pisses off a liberal than using their own tactics and words against them.
An extreme exaggeration, yes.
It’s a damned potent weapon, though. And in particular when the other side controls the media, the narrative, and the apparatus of State.
Rush figured this out in the early 90’s.
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