This was going to be a completely different post. I've been reading about the culture war and how the preponderance of bad movies, books, comics, etc. etc. etc. is due to bad story telling, not wokeness.
This is not wrong, because we used to swallow a lot more preaching when the story was better. It's just that I think both the preaching has got thicker and the story telling worse.
Let that idea rest. I'll do it tomorrow. But as I was planning the post, while painting the new portion of the deck, I thought of the series I'm re-reading which must have been originally published in the eighties -- I have part of it in paper. I'm just being lazy about going to the guest room (where the fiction is) and checking. And the author doesn't get the concept of "re-issue" so it's not in the electronic version -- because the USSR hadn't fallen.
In the middle of book eight, I found myself reading a three page thing about how the USSR and the US both wanted the best for their people, and perhaps the right way was in the middle of our systems. (I'll have more to say about this tomorrow.)
And like that I thought that you know, fraud was probably already massive then. But with all the preaching and stuff, they made the lefty wins seem plausible. This linked to Nikki Haley in my head, and I saw with startling clarity why she's staying in the race, heavily financed by the left and still saying she will trust the American people to reject her if they want to reject her.
This also made perfect sense of their running the corpse again and being fairly certain he'll "win."
It should have occurred to me before, because they have basically one playbook and run it obsessively. If it fails they double down with a surer thing.
I was right about the DeSantis campaign, though I'm relieved to say probably not right about DeSantis.
What do I mean by that? Well, the reasons I didn't throw in behind DeSantis as all the commenters online were hailing him as the second coming of Trump but with less uncouth were three fold.
Number 1 and the most important was that I didn't think it would do any good. Right-of-Lenin commenters online are its own little micro-cosmos and they can turn into a bit of an echo chamber. To them/us DeSantis looked good, because they/we were diving down on politics and looking at what he'd done, etc.
But that's not how the average person votes. Not even those who aren't LIVs. They vote on gut, sympathy, being swept up. But MOSTLY and this is mostly the LIVs, but also those who simply don't care enough for politics but want to change things, they vote on name recognition. And name recognition is a huge, powerful factor. I bet you -- not now. My cohort is diminishing rapidly -- 20 years ago a GOP contender named Reagan would have a huge leg up, provided he could breathe and had a face in the shape of a face.
Trump not only has name recognition -- I think The Apprentice is why he won in 16 and the left are morons not to have seen it coming -- but he was president before, and people remember until the Covidiocy they were better off. This gives him an enormous advantage, should he choose to run (this was before he said he would. BTW I suspect he wouldn't have if they'd let him alone. But the lawfare made it clear to him that if he let himself sink into anonymity neither him nor his family would survive.)
Also we've driven a lot. A lot a lot. Since 2020 road trips have become our main form of travel. There are various reasons, some of them personal, but well... we've driven a lot. In the highways and byways of America, you saw Trump signs still everywhere. You still do. Some have been up since 2020. Speaking to our handymen and plumbers and people who came by to trim trees and dig whatever up (this house had almost no maintenance for 20 years and we're now paying for it) Trump got a smile, DeSantis got a "Dewho?" Or for the more informed "Isn't he the Florida guy?" Yes, that could change with time, but it was a hell of a lot to come back from behind on.
Number 2 while everyone online on the right-ish was screaming about how Trump was attacking DeSantis for no reason whatsoever, I could see the ah prods being extended by DeSantis surrogates to make Trump scream.
While I realize that's politics and whatever, I grew up in rough playgrounds and people who did that -- the underhanded poking and prodding to make the person scream or pound so the other person would be in trouble -- were the ones I sought out after school to give a good beating to, until they mended their ways. I held it against no one if they came at you wanting to smack you, but the underhanded sneaks who looked like butter wouldn't melt in their mouths while trying to get other people in trouble were the worst kind of bullies and frankly outright evil.
Now even then I wasn't sure if this was DeSantis or his campaign, but in either case, well... call me infantile, but lessons from the playground stuck. I'd rather back the guy who was brash and outspoken than the underhanded hitter.
I also noticed as the campaign went on that the campaign, and the scripted stuff for DeSantis was more about hitting Trump than the left. Now, while that is understandable in the primary, it really was almost exclusive and... well, you have to sell yourself to the right, so it seemed odd.
Number Three - His "but he doesn't have the Trump negatives" was a bullshit sales pitch. Trump has negatives because he's been under steady attack for... almost eight years now. I saw the left make Romney "I tried to hire women over men" into a misogynistic "binders full of women" thing, which never made any sense, but they sold it as a negative, anyway.
I've seen Trump's "Women are hypergamic" saying that if you're rich women let you grab them however into "He did this."
And boy, howdy, I knew they'd already done that to DeSantis IN FLORIDA WHERE HE WAS KNOWN. Half the people there are convinced he's DeDevil.
So once the mass media got going? Yeah. Devil.
Now, I don't want those points jumped on in the comments before you read the rest, okay. Because what you say is probably moot, considering what I came to realize.
Anyway, given all that, the crazy enthusiasm for DeSantis in the talking heads made me suspect we were being played.
Now, I will grant you I'm paranoid as all get out. But that's what made me see through Covidiocy. And long before that, it kept me alive a number of times.
So I thought "Uh. Given all that, why is DeSantis running NOW?" And "Why are a lot of people who are -- ahem -- at best RINOS throwing money at him." And "Why his campaign messaging mainly aiming to destroy Trump's image."
And the smell I got was "Why indeedy, he's Ross Perot." (I'm going to say right now, I don't know if Ross Perot was manipulated into running, etc. But we all know the result of his run.)
I thought that the left realized a straight up repeat of 2020 is impossible. People WILL notice, and the herd is restive.
On the other hand, drum up the "no one really likes Trump" (note they're still doing that) and run DeSantis as the plausible candidate people like. Then when Trump barely won the primary (the left are such elitists. They counted on the online commenters to pull that off) DeSantis would refuse to concede and run as an independent. And then, split three ways, with a little fraud (yes I think fraud would still be needed) the Biden-corpse could squeak a victory, and anyone saying there was fraud would be stomped with "idiot" and "irrational" because obviously, Trump's negatives were just so great, it split the vote.
Well, I might have been -- still think I am -- right about DeSantis campaign, but I wasn't right (I'll admit it) about Ron DeSantis.
Whatever made him run (and I understand it can be heady, also when he started the first moves, Trump hadn't announced) he saw the writing on the wall, and probably figured out it smelled, eventually. So he conceded early. Because he's an honorable man. And yes, there are ways to work around the same state thing, and if Trump chooses him as VP I'll vote for that ticket with no qualms and -- a miracle happening -- I'll vote for DeSantis in 2028 when he steps into the prime slot with no problems. (Note that this would be best for him, too, as Trump will take the hits for straightening the mess he'll inherit, and DeSantis will have a much less fierce battle. And can be more of a uniter.)
I'll note when DeSantis threw in the towel there followed a very amusing spate of panic on the left, but the panic now seems to have calmed down. Weirdly. Or is it?
Well, the left really only has one play. So there's Nikki Haley. Second to None Nikki. Who is being financed with the big bucks, and who will not give up. No way no how.
So, Nikki....
You guys say she's hoping Trump gets killed. And note, it's not even needed to be an assassination. The man is taking hits from friends and people he thought were his friends, and the place he called home and loved most of his life, his homeland, has turned on him. I know -- TRUST ME I KNOW -- what that does to a person. And I'm much, much younger. I've seen what it did to my friends, too. It's dangerous from a health POV. Or you guys say she's hoping his legal troubles will take him out, and that's possible too.
But... But... If none of those happen, the ultimate plan is to have Nikki run as an independent.
And then to say she took votes away from Trump. Trump is so unlikable, you know, that Second to NONE Nikki will steal votes from him.
She will too. Those Venezuelan-designed machines can do wonderful arithmetic, I tell you.
I'd like to tell you -- boy would I -- that the American people won't fall for it. That they'll know the fraud is there and dancing naked in our faces.
I can't begin to tell you how much I'd like to believe the people as one will say "Second to None Nikki took half of Trump's vote? Pull the other one, it plays jingle bells and lights up."
Oh, maybe it will happen. I give it maybe 25% of chance, just on gut feel.
The problem though? If you say that and see it, you have to do something, even if it's just a general strike or something equally strange.
... And people really, really, really want things to be normal. Hence the chorus of people on our side saying the fraud is small and it wasn't the deciding factor. (They're also worse at math than I and that hurts, particularly when I know they aren't, or their profession calls for them not to be.)
I'm very afraid the Nikki play will have people upset, but shrugging and thinking "Yeah, it was a three way split, and that's why we have the corpse again and he's going to kill us" and not being able to say there was fraud or hound the fraudsters from office.
And that--
That means it will be the hard landing and the blood on the streets when it comes. And the breaking of everything at once, before we can rebuild.
I think that's the play being run. And I wish to G-d I could tell you it will not work.
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