Posted on 06/30/2024 6:40:07 PM PDT by CottonBall
ALL ABOARD THE TRUMP FAMILY TRAIN, EST. 2017 BY DOLLYCALI!
Survived everything thrown at it over the years, just like President Trump....including trolls, moles and saboteurs.
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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 shit-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. Running “Joe Biden” in 2020 was a dishonest act of desperation that only worked with a rigged election and then prosecuting anyone who attempted to complain. The party knew that “JB” was a mental phantom four years ago, and they had the effrontery to try running him again in ’24, until ol’ “Joe” made it impossible with his demented public behavior.
They also know that Kamala Harris is an empty vessel with a drinking problem, but they’ve desperately pulled out all the stops to make her appear legitimate. Her performance the past three weeks has not exactly been reassuring. Her running mate, Governor Walz, comes off straight-up insane. Why would they now not attempt to dump them with the same bad faith they installed them?
Gawd knows what mayhem might rock the streets outside the United Center. Recent years of degenerate USA life have produced a youth cohort with a staggering rate of mental illness. You’ve already seen plenty of how dark Antifa can get with its murderous trans cadres itching for action. But you’ve also got to wonder how the formal speeches by the party nabobs will go over? Might there be any booing of the elite? How will the crowd greet Mrs. Pelosi, the party’s consiglieri who arranged things as they are now? What on earth can Hillary Clinton say about the nominee she openly loathes? Will Bill Clinton, painted as a sexual predator by the Me-Too caucus, get a love-bath or a cold-shoulder? How false will the party’s unity seem? Will surprise motions arise from the floor to change-up the pre-scripted program? There are many more ways for things to go wrong this week than the simple dynamics that were in-play fifty-six years ago in Chicago. Note: Updates will be added to the Monday blog as needed this week.
Tue Morning: Inside the arena, a nice demonstration of collective Cluster-B personality disorder as Dems project all their animus, paranoia, and self-loathing on their opponents. AOC does her Eva Peron act (as voiced by Minnie Mouse); Hillary Clinton gloats and smirks as the mob yells “Lock him up!”; and “Joe Biden” repeats every hoax and lie cranked out by the blob since 2016 in his valedictory. Of course no one is asking how or why “JB” remains in office when he is obviously too far gone to serve. Outside the arena: not much action so far. A little fence-rattling. A lot of misinformed yelling about abortion, trans-this-and-that, themes that are now boring even to the mentally-ill youngsters doing the yelling.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/let-the-dnc-frolics-begin/
I’m sure he’s not aware of the details of how these two operate and what has transpired in the past. The poor guy really doesn’t need the bother, what with his health issues and all. Some people wouldn’t care about that - as long as they maintain control and can continue to lord it over people. I think we call them control freaks, bullies, narcissists, etc.
I guess we’ll just have to limit any live thread discussions to our TFT. Thankfully it’s a safe place. No bullies, no mean girls lol. We’re all pretty normal and reasonable, and none of us has OPD (obsessive posting disorder) so we also take part in life with real people!
Don’t worry about it, Spunky. Remember, there’s always a LOT more people who will bend down to bullies than will stand up to them.
Boy, I go do some errands, and all Hell breaks loose!
Are we still able to talk amongst ourselves?
Shhhhhh. Keep it very quiet, Ms.B. If the Pence Sisters get wind of anything they don’t like, no tellin’ what will come of it! Maybe watch that evil grin.....better go with an evil smirk for now. They’re big mad lol.
UGH!
She’s just trashy, I can’t stand her!
Poor Alice Cooper LOL
I think he’s MUCH better looking!
You gotta admit, the resemblance is uncanny. She really does look like a feminized Alice Cooper lol.
LOL
O’TAY!
I’ll go take a nap!
That will quiet it down a bit!
Freep mail coming atcha!
*evil grin*
“I’m sure he’s not aware of the details of how these two operate and what has transpired in the past.”
I disagree.
All he needs to do is see who posted first. Reno89519 posted the thread at 5:13:42 whereas JL posted hers at 6:15:01.
We don’t need the drama? And who exactly is causing the drama, not reno.
Spunky, it’s not a matter of who posted first any longer. I remember someone posting a live thread first awhile back (Big Ed?) and he got taken down faster than you can say “mean girls.”
These two have someone wrapped around their little finger, and he’s been getting pings from them non-stop, every time someone on one of their threads dares to say something they don’t like. It’s like clockwork, and actually kind of amusing. Someone posts something they take umbrage to, immediately one of the sidekicks blasts them, a few posts later, the other sidekick applauds sidekick #1 for blasting them, gives them another blast, then reports the poor unsuspecting poster to “the boss”. Then the boss (who probably wants nothing more than to be left alone with this shit) reprimands the poster and tells him/her to get off the thread. Poster leaves, and voila.....bullies win!
It’s much deeper than who posted first. Now, if those who posted the live threads were doing it for a good reason, that is to provide a thread for everyone, then just having one live thread would definitely be the way to go. What “the boss” doesn’t seem to be aware of is that the live thread posters are doing it solely for their own control, their own little clique, and are only too happy to tell people to get the hell off of THEIR thread. Not a Free Republic thread, THEIR thread.
I feel for “the boss” and understand him taking the easy way out. Sadly, that’s how bullies win. In any case, none of us have OPD (obsessive posting disorder), so we’ll be fine. We can always post on our little normal thread.
Lol the Drama Queens, of course!
omg!!
Seriously though, she does look like him lol.
She looks more like him than she looks like her
yup, I knew it
Lol freaky, eh!
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