Dave Griffey at Daffey Thoughts takes a look at Catholics who do not want us to believe our lying eyes:
Speaking of why Democrats ever lose.
I’ve more or less sworn off Twitter, and ignore most Catholic activists who frequent there. Nonetheless, I still belong to groups that do the dirty work, and every now and then something is so funny it’s worth repeating. Case in point:
I can now barely fill a shopping cart halfway from where I could a year ago, and that was after almost the first year of the Covid pandemic. Beyond that, an unraveling international scene mixed with empty shelves, lack of crucial goods, and rising prices for living, I don’t hear many saying things are hunky-dory. Could it be they know the facts, and it’s those known facts that are driving down his poll numbers?
I have always loved how Americans are treated when they don’t support Democrats. They’re either evil, or they’re stupid, or, most charitably, uninformed. It couldn’t be because ‘Ignore the bad and focus only on the good’ doesn’t work when most Americans are being impacted by the bad. Heaven forbid it’s because most Americans are good folks who are informed and who have assessed the current situation and found liberal Democrats wanting. That doesn’t seem to be near the radar, much less on it.
It’s been a theory of mine that one reason Donald Trump won in 2016 was that the press circled the wagons around Hillary Clinton by trying to lift up Obama as the savior of mankind. I can still remember Fareed Zakaria giving a monologue in 2016 on how, after 10 billion years, we’ve finally reached the pinnacle of human history in the universe, all thanks to Obama. Really. He said because of Obama we were now at possibly the best situation that the world has ever seen.
Of course it wasn’t like that in the least, and there were problems aplenty. Remember when Islamic terror attacks were now the New Normal? Heck, even Rick Steves joined in that lament. Wages were stagnant. Jobs still wavering. Economic growth anemic. Terror attacks and ISIS and a world increasingly laughing in our face. Yet the press seemed to think if it just said so, said that Utopia was around the corner because of Obama/Clinton, it would be true.
I’ve often thought that is why many didn’t vote. They didn’t vote for Trump mind you. But enough didn’t vote at all because they were tired of being told their suffering didn’t count, because it might make the wrong candidate and party look bad.
So if you hope for Republican victories in the next round of elections, my advice is to lift Mr. Dailey and his posse up on a pedestal. Encourage him and others like him to continue ignoring, downplaying or denying the suffering of those who are being crushed by our current state of affairs – especially the poorest and lowest income Americans. Because in the end, people are never as stupid as they appear to hope.
Speaking of hilarious – and I’m warning you to put down your coffee or you might spill it laughing – we have this from that respectable news organization CNN:
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qc32GDvsYg&feature=emb_logo
Heh. What can I say. I think the media was harder on Trump than it was Hitler. I can’t think of anyone who got reamed by the press more than Trump. They might as well have added to their slogan ‘All the news that’s fit to defeat Trump.’ But like Agent K, I’m beginning to think the tabloids are far more reliable news sources than most traditional news outlets.
Go here to comment. Another observation from Mr. Daley, erst while fan of Chesterton:
So many good people lost to the Ba’als of Woke.
But yes, the “you dull ingrates do not appreciate our brilliance” is a great strategy.
For a rump party consisting of indigo blue enclaves thinly-scattered across the continent.
By all means, commence.
Terry Jones directed a mostly-forgotten comedy called “Erik the Viking.” Starring Tim Robbins, it’s reasonably funny. The most relevant scene to Dailey’s strategy is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee6-sI9rdtA
FJB
You like down with dogs you get up with fleas.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
They are telling you not to believe your lying eyes.
They report so much bad news about Brandon because they can’t hide all the horrid news about Brandon.
Six guys are employed full time in the WH to ensure Brandon doesn’t walk out the front gate in his skivvies.
How to talk with a liberal if you must. Ask only three questions: What facts do you have? Compared to what? How much will that cost? Decades old advice from Ann Coulter.
T. Shaw, given Biden’s VP pool antics, I sincerely hope that the job of one of those six is to ensure that, if he does wander out, he is wearing his skivvies.
I want a can of caffeine-free Coke. I can live without it, sure. But I can’t get one because the United States of America has run out of aluminum. This isn’t 1943, and it isn’t the first confusing few months of a pandemic. There’s aluminum somewhere, but tens of millions of American working-age people have decided not to work. That missing can of caffeine-free Coke isn’t the one thing that’s broken in the midst of a thousand working things; it’s just another snowflake in the avalanche that’s hitting us. I’m a Catholic, so I can go without luxuries, and as an American I’m willing to make sacrifices if we’re under terrorist attack or something, but this is different. This is unacceptable.
Pinky, on the other hand, we’ve seen families where those not wanting to work are parents who got bit by the ‘one parent home with the kids’ bug. My wife knows some moms who have ducked out of the rat race because they discovered staying home and tending to the kiddos isn’t a bad thing after all. I think we need to thread that needle – encourage those just not wanting to work to get up and get going, but those families trying to think how to reign in some of the excess in order to go back to the kids should be encouraged as well. The same goes for parents wanting to keep working from home so they can bring the kids home or, heaven forbid, even homeschool.
This is unacceptable.
It certainly is Pinky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCjGkdDa_Vk
https://www.fox4now.com/news/local-news/aluminum-shortage-increasing-price-and-decreasing-shipments-of-cans-for-breweries-in-southwest-florida
Economies cannot be turned off and on without massive dislocatios.
I kind of agree, Dave. There are reasons to be hopeful about the decline in the labor force participation rate among women. But it’s also declined among men, probably moreso. And it just doesn’t look like we’ve got a working economy without those people.
But it’s also declined among men, probably moreso. And it just doesn’t look like we’ve got a working economy without those people.
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The year-over-year declined in the number of employed persons, comparing 2020 to 2019, was about 5.8% for men and 6.5% for women. The monthly measure of the total number of people employed has increased by about 4% since November 2020.
Workforce Participation would be another route to measure– and I know that I’ve seen a lot of the women simply not working the hours that they use to, because they’re caring for their kids rather than working to pay for someone else to provider supervision.
The bigger problem is gov’t elbowing in and making it harder for work to be done.
For the cans? About three months back I heard from a guy who works in chemicals that he was expecting canned stuff– both drinks and food– to show up, because one of the chemicals used to make a coating used in them had been hit like a truck by Stupid Government Shutdown tricks and California’s trucker union protectionism, and his employer was having to send half-shipments.
That shakes out poorly, just like that milk shortage when the only guys who made a filter that HAD to be used were declared ‘non-essential.’