The gaslighting is just getting started
Published 09-03-2020
Think the political craziness has reached untold levels of insanity... well just wait, because the left is just getting warmed up.
We still have 60 days until ballots start getting counted, and that’s before the activists and judges start the lawsuits over counting disqualified mail in ballots and daily election counts dragging out the presidential state tallies for weeks beyond Election Day.
Old and busted narrative... Trump will never accept the election results. The new, hottest take... Hillary Clinton saying that Biden should never concede, not just not on Election Night, but at all, while simultaneously telling people Trump will never leave Pennsylvania Avenue.
In that same vein Hawkfish, a New Democrat data firm funded by Michael Bloomberg, is already pushing a warning that Trump will win big on election night, but will lose ultimately as mail in votes are counted nationwide based on modeling. This scenario would mirror the results of a bunch of California’s Congressional races that utilized ballot harvesting, ultimately flipping seven seats to Democrats in 2018.
Which side trusts the results in this scenario? I’d venture neither, but what do I know. I am pretty sure that will do the opposite of erasing division in the country.
I guess it’s better they are announcing their plans in advance so sane Americans can gird their loins and strengthen their sensibilities, but there’s more. So much more.
Rioters from cities across America, not content with only terrorizing regular Americans in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Austin - heck, pick a city, any metropolitan city - and took their show on the road to D.C. after a pit stop in Kenosha. Antifa, BLM and other disaffected anarchists kicked off their plans to occupy our Capital through the election by accosting and assaulting those who attended the President’s speech at the White House on the final night of the RNC.
After months of riots and protests that have gone largely unchecked, it’s no surprise that we are now at a point where we have elected officials and guests of the President needing police protection to leave the White House, the targeted shooting death of a Trump supporter in Portland, and a 17 year old in jail in Kenosha facing Murder 1 charges for what on the surface looks like a clear cut case of self defense, at least from the videos I was able to find and watch.
I’ll save the commentary until a later time regarding the current necessity in society for private citizens having the right and duty to protect private property from looters when the civil protections we have set up to guard hearth and home fail to, or are ordered against doing so.
Not only did Democrat politicians previously condone the violence happening in our cities as a just response to supposed systemic racism and oppression, but Kamala Harris, VP nominee, was raising money for a fund that paid bail for those arrested in the Minneapolis riots. Not only did the group get “protestors” out, but it also helped get violent criminals released from jail for crimes completely unrelated to the “mostly peaceful” protests... Complete coincidence, I’m sure.
Now that internal polling, and a slew of “What voters are concerned with” type of surveys have been released, well, suddenly there are Democrats tripping over themselves to reach a microphone to say they are very against political violence and looting. The numbers must be worse than anything released publicly, since Biden finally left his house to deliver a speech in Pittsburgh.
He could have delivered the speech in Delaware, since he didn’t take questions from the few press that were in the room with the single allowed cameraman, but I think the campaign was shamed into an in person appearance after the dismal DNC optics of the never ending video conference.
Of course Biden blamed the violence, mayhem and looting on the President. There isn’t anything under the sun the Left hasn’t blamed on Trump since he rode down the escalator.
Biden refused to name any of the groups associated with the riots, laying his marker at “both sides” causing violence. I’m trying to remember how many Trump rallies included the chant “Death to America” as was heard on the streets of Oakland last weekend.
Yes, the dangerous rhetoric of Trump’s America is what is causing the violence, not the endless and escalating rhetoric from every elected Democrat from the Speaker of the House and Senate Minority Leader to state representatives across the nation. Rhetoric, not catch and release no bail programs that have been implemented in the bluest of cities where they’ve elected prosecutors who no longer like to prosecute people for committing crimes.
Like the abusive spouse who says they’d stop hitting you if you just quit making them angry, maybe if we just started voting the right party all of this could magically go away.
If you believe that, well, maybe you should vote for Biden. Because folks, Pandora’s Box is fully open, and the curiosities have only just begun.
We have a media who posts social media pictures from D.C. and Portland parks - peaceful, green and serene, while mere blocks away look like the background from an apocalypse movie filled with vandalism, broken glass and rubble. Both are happening, this is the reality of direct conflict and civil insurrection. But only one side says don’t bother looking over there.
Next up for the media narrative flame wars, actual reality hasn’t been trying enough in 2020, Trump’s inciting a race war... because he’s going to lose in November. Of course Trump is lying about all those riots happening, he’s intentionally doing it to enflame working class whites, who are just looking for a excuse to start a genocide.
Yep, that’s exactly who I’m seeing causing havoc across the fruited planes, shooting minorities in the streets and attacking them. It’s the plumbers, factory workers and welders inbound from the ‘burbs driving into these perennially blue cities, where Republican registration hovers somewhere around 10%, looting inner city stores and attacking police. Crazy times folks.
The backlash against the riots, which has taken different forms in different places, shouldn’t be discouraged. Whether it’s boat and car parades, voter registration rallies and city cleanups, or lethally defending your family and business from those on a path of destruction. It is all your right as an American.
It is your right to peacefully assemble. Protestors do not have the right to destroy and steal. You have the right to self defense, whether it is in court or looking down a weapon wielded against you. You have the right to vote your conscience, to associate with whom you choose. You do not have the right to terrorize, threaten and violently attack those who vote or associate against you.
Americans can not allow the left to reframe self defense as terrorism. That defense of property and self is enshrined in our Constitution and as a Founding Principle of this nation. It is the final step in cowing and enslaving a populace that has bested every other in the world in the name of freedom since it’s inception. And it is the last stop for individual liberty in America on it’s move to a more “equitable” democracy at the hands of the mob.
There’s been a thirty year project to “other” militias - gone is the traditional definition of free citizens banding together to protect themselves and their communities from tyranny, whether it comes at the hands of the government or the torch carrying mob. Instead, militias are filled with far right boogeymen ready to turn America into the new Handmaiden’s Tale.
We’ve already got scholarly works from the hallowed halls of elite academia “In Defense of Looting” being paraded on NPR and amongst the chattering class, meanwhile Wisconsin’s Governor says President Trump heading to Kenosha to tour the city’s destruction will fan the flames of violence.
There’s a term for all of this - it’s called gaslighting. It’s being used to manipulate Americans into accepting all matter of nonsense as normal and acceptable. And at a minimum, it seems rather desperate from the people who have told us repeatedly that Biden’s going to win.