Ruminations – 17oct20 (updated 19oct20)

George Rebane

The selective silence of socialists.  For some years now, many of us have been aware of a definite trend in these comment streams, especially in the debates between those of the Right and Left.  To again confirm this trend, I did a little research in RR’s archives.  We of the Right ALWAYS and substantively respond to and enthusiastically counter, as appropriate, the assertions of the Left (mainly because it’s easy to do, so we shouldn’t be too prideful).  However, those of the Left rarely counter the Right’s assertions, or even defend their own assertions with anything beyond a snark or gratuitous ad hominem.  It was ever thus, … and still is, and continues to warm the cockles of me heart.

[update] Socialist Narratives Exclusion Principle (SNEP)  The above rumination on ‘selective silence’ has been repeated often over the years by commenters and me.  Selective silences continue to be a recurring response phenomenon by the leftists, both here on RR and elsewhere.  Socialists have always simply ignored inconvenient truths that don’t fit their ongoing narrative du jour on an issue/happening, and go on with the dialogue as if it was never introduced.  We have also described such silences as invoking their crickets.  So, in order to parsimoniously refer to such ad hominem/snark/silence response behaviors and/or to anticipate their application in response to a post, I will attempt to remember to simply tag it with a concluding SNEP, instead of rehashing a longer explanation.  You are free to do the same.

Corporatist giant Twitter is making massive changes for the worse in what/how they permit, publish, and propagandize their users’ tweets.  Among other changes, Twitter will now “provide context” to the tweets.  These contextual wrappers will enlighten the great unwashed as to the real import and portent of the posted messages.  (more here and here, and H/T to readers)

“Joe Biden reads from a giant teleprompter at another sparsely attended rally.”  (more here)  Nuff said.

Here’s a wet dream in case of a Biden win.  He grows a pair of balls and follows neither Sanders nor AOC in their lurch to the left.  But instead fashions some mid-road policies to garner widespread support, finishes his full term, and then tosses Harris under the bus and endorses another Democrat who will keep America from succumbing to a fundamental transformation.

Open letter to Dan Henninger, WSJ deputy op-ed editor.  Jo Ann and I are decades long WSJ subscribers and devoted readers of your columns and commentaries on the ‘Editorial Report’.  However, here’s the burr under our blanket.  Please, please, please include a contact email address in the op-ed’s tombstone, and have your columnists put their email addresses under their columns.  Laudably, you are the only one who has the courage to hear from your loyal readers. Also, get your news department to stop their butt stupid style policy of reversing the order of citing numerical changes.  The oldest one comes first, followed by the current/latest one, because that’s the way humans think.  Your editors having reversed that order is cognitively jarring; cut it out and demote/retrain the worthy who implemented that misguided policy.

'The Biden Emails Prove Impeachment was a Sham'  Now who here had an inkling of that?

Another batch of ‘y’all come’ mail-ins – ‘Pennsylvania rejects 372,000 mail-in ballot applications, leaving many voters confused’  What could possibly go wrong?  Think a liberal will touch this one with a ten-footer?

Mt Everest swept under the rug – FN confirms Biden-China payoff.  The lamestream is doing an impressive job hiding the almost hourly developments in Biden/Biden scandal(s?) – we’ve actually lost count.

[18oct20 update] FN confirms Biden/China payoffs.  The country's Left and its lamestream again claim it's all a Russian pre-election disinformation campaign to which the Right has fallen prey. (here)

[19oct20 update]  The emails belong to Hunter Biden as several sources, including at least one other recipient of the emails, confirm to FN.  On FB’s Maria Bartiromo program (here), DNI John Ratcliffe denies that US intelligence has advised anyone in Congress (including champion liar Rep Schiff-for-Brains) that Hunter’s laptop is filled with Russian composed emails.  In fact, he states exactly the opposite – our intelligence services have determined that Russia had nothing to do with the contents of that laptop.

Dumb idea du jour – the House Intelligence Committee has abandoned intelligence as it mulls ways to stop what they call an “infodemic”.  They’re really considering establishing a Ministry of Truth, and launched the effort with a hearing titled “Misinformation, Conspiracy Theories, and ‘Infodemics’: Stopping the Spread Online”.  No one says that there is not a lot of online bullshit, but to have the government become the arbiter of truth, verity, and scout’s honor when it can’t pass a day without passing out a passel of lies, rumors, and partisan propaganda – c’mon man! (more here)

National Propaganda Radio in this morning’s news report stated that the United States now has “over 8 million people who have been infected with the corona virus”, and that the number of new infections is growing.  How are the light readers supposed to interpret the report of a growing population of infected millions running around the country.  Not one word of explanation that the overwhelming share of the 8M have already recovered, are not contagious, and contribute to our growing herd immunity – moreover, that today’s resurgence of active cases was expected (and that EU countries lead us in the resurgence which is occurring regardless of the variety of response policies the various countries practice; what does science say again?)  Nope, it’s simply all Trump’s fault – can anyone spell f-a-i-r  e-l-e-c-t-i-o-n?

Comments

[Don Bessee]

So how much do we pay every day for creepy grampa joes and what's her names open boarders years? God do those socialist dems love their gangbangers or what? LOL

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/17/doj-94-percent-of-foreign-nationals-in-u-s-federal-prison-are-illegal-aliens/

;-)

[scenes]

"or even defend their own assertions "

Honestly, there hasn't been much beyond Orange Man Bad for years, aside from the occasional ad hominem (as you say) of NaziRacistOldWhiteMen. The KVMR News Crew posts could have been written by an ELIZA program. I keep waiting for word of the first diversity training struggle session at the local FM station but have a feeling that some animals are more equal than others and will thus avoid the opportunities for personal growth.

If you want to liven things up, pick a topic that everyone will have a different take on (how to design a healthcare system, how to lessen the human load on the ecosystem, what type of morality should policy-making AI have as a control) and see what happens.

"Twitter will now “provide context” to the tweets. "

Nice. Like Facebook. So basically the programmers predetermine, via their own feelz, which stories are blocked, have a banner saying 'fake story', have a warning attached, or (as in the Biden story) there's a clickthru warning which implies it's a virus.

I was considering the alternative ways that places like the NYT have to propagandize besides merely avoiding the story (like crackhead son's adventures). One simple one is to not require a log-in for a story but require it for others. Some stories can be pushed to other sites. Placement on the page (which they've always had as an option). Stories could be tailored to individual readers or locales. Purpose-built responses in comments section. etc.

[Bill Tozer]

re: The Biden e-mails prove Impeachment was a sham:

HOW DO WE KNOW THE HUNTER/JOE BIDEN DOCUMENTS ARE REAL?

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/how-do-we-know-the-hunter-joe-biden-documents-are-real.php

[Don Bessee]

Botox nancys new red guard at work in the shit hole -

Free speech rally marred by violence as counterprotesters storm event, beat pro-Trump demonstrators
An organizer of the protest had a tooth knocked out

https://www.foxnews.com/us/free-speech-rally-marred-by-violence-as-counterprotesters-storm-event

;-)

[Scott O]

re the Biden wet dream - "But instead fashions some mid-road policies to garner widespread support, finishes his full term"
Oh yeah - it's that mid-road policy.
As in - we only kill half of the unborn children.
Or - we let China take Taiwan but file a complaint with the UN.
Or - we let the left burn only certain cities.
Or - we just get rid of 1/2 of our civil liberties.
Just what are these mid-road policies, exactly?
We're already barreling down the left-wing road.
Mid-road seems to be nothing more than a slight pause on the road off the cliff.

[Bill Tozer]

re Biden e-mails prove Impeachment a sham.

For Dr. Rebane’s link

“Remember, “Impeachment is forever”? It was the big catchphrase right before “Don’t touch your face” shot up to No. 1. When was the last time you even heard a Democrat say the word impeachment? If this black mark on Trump’s presidency is so very damning, then why isn’t the Biden campaign making a big deal about it? Or frankly, talking about it at all? The reason, of course, is that even back in January, Democrats were concerned that should Biden win the nomination, some of these chickens could come home to roost. Now they have, and my goodness, they are laying some heavy eggs.

What Trump must make clear in the final weeks of the election is that not only was his impeachment a giant lie, a despicable ploy by desperate Democrats, but it was also a massive cover-up on behalf of Joe Biden. It is time for what we naively thought would be the biggest story of 2020, namely impeachment, to make its way back into this election — not as Democrats intended as a negative for Trump, but as his ultimate vindication against charges we now know to be baseless, crude, and deeply cynical.“

Now that you mention it, nobody is talking about impeachment, especially the Dems. One would think it would be a Democrat talking point: ‘Biden running against an impeached person occupying the White House.’ Then roll that clip of Joey Fingers from Scranton, PA boasting he is going to take Orange Man Bad for a vicious beating behind the old one room schoolhouse. Taking him to the woodshed.

Come to think about it, nobody is talking about the US Embassy in Kiev or Urkrane period. It’s like the whole country and it’s history has been erased in Year Zero

[George Rebane]

ScottO 833pm - You're right of course Scott. Biden's attempt at a mid-road policy (were that to happen) would be like his going back to something on the Dem Party platform when Clinton first ran in 1992. But today's Dems would never countenance such an extreme rightwing approach.

[Barry Pruett]

George. More than ever I am convinced that the true believers in socialism have taken over the democrat party. The cat is out of the bag. There is no more hiding. They are out in the open full on socialists. It is actually nice. Now we can point out the crazy ones quite easily. As far as the wet dream, Biden is owned by the true believers. This election is important for those who love this country. If Biden gets elected, we are going to lose freedom and equality at the hands of the fascist left. I wouldn’t be surprised if the little black cats start coming around to take folks to get them re-educated. Collectivism only works with unity of thought.

[Barry Pruett]

Black cars...not cats. Lol

[scenes]

re: GeorgeR@10:10PM October 17, Year Zero.

Well, at least Biden is strong on crime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oDHSt-CKtc

I suppose his thinking has 'evolved' in the sense that some large parts of his brain have been gnawed away in recent years.

[scenes]

BarryP: "They are out in the open full on socialists."

Since the Blue Mob is a coalition, although the Race-Based folks are certainly in the ascendancy right now, I think it all averages out to being a sprint toward socialism's inevitable end-game. It's really just a struggle for power and resources at this point.

If you tear down the existing system, some people can claw their way to the top of whatever replaces it. Not everybody can be part of the USSA's central committee, but there'll certainly be lots of spots in the Ministry of Truth and the Ministry of Plenty to be filled. The people at the base who do useful things? We'll just take as much of their grain as needed to fill the quotas.

[Barry Pruett]

Scenes. I couldn’t have said it better myself. As far as elections go, I know multiple people in town who have received multiple ballots. This election is fixing to be a giant shit show brought to you by the socialist who can’t win a fair election.

[Don Bessee]

Deconstructing society one brick at a time -

Under the district’s new system, non-academic factors like late work and classroom behavior will not be counted toward their overall academic grade.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-diego-school-districts-grading-system-racism

;-)

[scenes]

lol. This is absolutely perfect. It's the video version of reading one of Paul's posts.

She's a *lot* better looking though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOs22GI1rH0

[Scott O]

scenes 3:12 - Loved the part where she complains about comparing the Chi-Coms to the NAZIs. He points out they both haul innocent civilians off to concentration camps and she immediately pivots to "200K Americans dead from COVID". Apparently a govt sending its own citizens off to a concentration camp is no big deal anymore.
Must blame Trump for every American that died from CV.
Because he should have done something else that neither Paul nor anyone else I've ever heard complain about it have any idea of.
But Trump shoulda dunnit.
Ya know, that science-y stuff.
Ya know - that lever in the oval office that controls the number of cases.
Duh!
Then no one would have died.

[The Estonian Fox]

Barry P @ 6:54 AM
You're correct for either word - "Jaguars" works for me.

[MikeL]

scenes 3:12......But that clip is from faux news so none of the pivots she was doing should make you dizzy. The only thing I gleaned from the clip is that the Nazzies were in fact not all killed during WW2 and they are now everywhere.

[D]

I see no mention that Giuliani was fed disinformation by the Russians that Rudy in turn fed to tRump.

Nothing to see there? But Trumpers are fixated on Hunter Biden who is merely the son of Joe Biden and not connected with the government. Will Hunter be appointed Russian ambassador, Ukraine ambassador, Secretary of State? Will Hunter become "Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor" as tRump's son-in-law was?

[Walt]

Special delivery for Douchy

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/18/exclusive-peter-schweizer-hunter-bidens-flipped-business-partner-provided-26000-emails/

"“Bevan Cooney was business partners with Hunter Biden and Devon Archer,” Schweizer said on Breitbart News Saturday. “He was a nightclub owner—he owns the Viper Room in Los Angeles, and got involved in these financial deals. He ended up going to jail and really feels that he was the fall guy. Devon Archer is now going to be going to jail as well, because of the same deals, but he [Cooney] really feels like Hunter Biden was able to walk off scot-free. He had reached out to me in 2019 after my book Secret Empires came out in 2018. He talked about sharing his emails, but it never happened. He ended up going to jail. He recently reached out through Matt Tyrmand, a journalist, and said I want to give you access to all of my emails in my Gmail account. He gave us written approval to do that, and gave us the password. We have been going through the 26,000 emails"

Tough day .

[Scott O]

Duh 10:32 - "But Trumpers are fixated on Hunter Biden who is merely the son of Joe Biden and not connected with the government."
Nice try, Duh.
You just keep repeating that to yourself.

[George Rebane]

D 1032am - Perhaps the reason you don't see it is because it never happened. There are a lot of things absent from these pages that never happened. Now if you had evidence to the contrary - other than more surreptitious allegations - then you no doubt would have shared that with us. Hot air, unabated.

[George Rebane]

Biden's mental acuity on The View. See if you can find a sentence in this stream of consciousness from the man who wants to sit in the Oval Office. We have been presented evidence and have been warned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gogO2nFQw_w

[Gregory]

Nice suit! Snazzy tie.

[scenes]

MikeL: "Nazzies were in fact not all killed during WW2 and they are now everywhere."

Anyone with a man bun could have told you that.

[D]

WaltDuh, 26,000 emails 2 weeks before election day. It must be like a dream come true for you. The October Surprise! WooHOO! But that is 26,000 emails to and from Bevan Cooney - not Biden.
Good luck with the emails. People are already voting. Will there be a "smoking gun"?

Who cares? Just another attempt by the right to hijack the news cycle and keep tRump stupidity off the front pages.

[D]

Here you go George. Just because you never heard about it does not mean it does not exist.

Giuliani a useful idiot for Russians...let's not talk about that.

"National security adviser warned Trump in December 2019 that Giuliani was target of Russian disinformation campaign"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-warned-giuliani-russian-influence/

[Scott O]

Duh 2:28 - Oh dear! He was a 'target'. So what happened?
Duh again lives up to his moniker.

[Bill Tozer]

Glenn Greenwald trashes media 'cone of silence' around Hunter Biden email scandal

The Intercept founding editor claims journalists working with 'FBI, CIA and the NSA ... to manipulate the American people

https://www.foxnews.com/media/glenn-greenwald-cone-of-silence-media-hunter-biden

[Bill Tozer]

The Corporate Takeover Of ‘Fact-Checking’ Is Just A Different Path To The Same Partisan Censorship

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/20/the-corporate-takeover-of-fact-checking-is-just-a-different-path-to-the-same-partisan-censorship/