So far none of the self-analyzing democrats that I have read have betrayed a glimmer of understanding: so that’s a positive sign. Kamala’s problem, and the problem of the party, is that they are owned by the left entirely, moreover, they have moved farther to the left in the last four years, as well as wrecking the country in general. So when they try to moderate, they either sound like they’re lying, or they sound like they’re doing a poor imitation of Maga. Finding a moderate position that is still distinct from Maga, and still has some of that old democrat mojo, is exactly where they need to go. But I’m not sure there’s a there there.
If the Democratic Party can have a genuine road-to-Damascus conversion, that’s what I’d most root for. It’d be nice to have some real choice for once. Otherwise, yes, please quadruple down on what they’re currently doing. ESPECIALLY the trans stuff and dysfunctional candidates!
Excellent summation. This is the party that is all about virtue signaling without any real virtue. It’s all fake. And rarely do they have to live with the impact of their stupid and evil ideas. When they do they become screaming little girls.
Well said Mr Slocum. The sealer for me was Mr Warren's appeal to the sugary soap sitcom - Ted Lasso and the preposterous darts competition. Mr Warren thinks that made up television shows are real.
It's not exactly that they think they're real. It's that, having decided to loathe the canon of actual meaningful literature and authority (especially that hated "Bible"), they are reduced to deriving their wisdom from pop culture references.
God! I am so glad you wrote this rebuttal. Ed Warren is representative of the narrow-minded, smug, holier-than-thou misanthropes who have made it their sole mission to destroy America while under the stupid delusion that they are nice, saintly, giving people. They are not nice people. They imagine themselves to be. They sit back in their "educated" comfort, looking down on those they hate. They hate us because they fear us. Put the Blue half of the country against the Red half of the country, and the Blue's would be dead within a year- they can't produce anything but a nasty brand of arrogance that is hideous to behold. Warren despises Trump. You wanna know why? Because he isn't him and never could be! He hates Trump's supporters because he and his ilk can't survive without us. The condescension in his tone is loud and clear.
My guilty pleasure for the past few weeks has been Facebook posts by The Atlantic, The New Yorker, etc -- specifically the ongoing lib meltdowns in the comments sections.
What they've landed on is frank, unapologetic elitism. The lesson of November 5th is simply that Americans suck. We're a bunch of stupid, uneducated, irrational, bigoted, fascist, blah blah blah... Not themselves, of course. That's the point. They're deperate to preserve their unearned sense of superiority. One consistent theme is fantasies about how everything will go to shit, and we'll come crawling back to them, admitting that they were right (superior). Really, it's a revenge fantasy, but a weirdly lame passive-aggressive femmy one, where all they do is wait until we give them the "I told you so" moment they think they deserve.
So what you said about "smug, self-satisfied people" and "fragile narcissists" is exactly correct -- but for precisely that reason, all they can do is scream the abuse louder and more hysterically.
Maybe if I were a better person, I'd feel some compassion for them, but I'm not one, so instead I find these meltdowns HILARIOUSLY funny. I'm just sorry they don't have enough insight to get the joke.
There's a definite "girlfriend bitter about getting dumped" vibe to this stuff -- "just wait and see, he'll realize how much he needs me and he'll beg me to take him back."
Seriously, sometimes it's those exact words, mutatis mutandis ("us" rather than "me").
The Canadian truckers incident during Covid was like this. They looked down their nose at working class types whom they imagined as racist Nazis. Then all those middle class managers realized those Nazis delivered all their food and medicine.
This is what the smug progressives don't get. their fantasies are supported by real people doing real jobs living in the real world.
The casual way Democrats refer to themselves as 'kind' is stunning. I am from New Hampshire. The way we turn into Massachusetts is slowly, and then all at once. The voters here, for the local races anyway, said NO. In NH we are surrounded by toxic blue. It is destroying the unique spirit of New England. Instead of stoic hardworking New Englanders, we are now the land of 'I have three degrees and drive 65 down your cute little roads and buy up all the craft beer.' NH already has over 10,000 "migrants." Massachusetts has at least a quarter of a million, and Maura Healey has openly suggested sending some of theirs to NH. To that we say fuck you, to the Dems pretending to listen and to the Dems who aren't. Nothing about them is kind. Just look at cities they control. Unacceptable and it will not be tolerated here. Great essay Josh!
It finally hit me the other day: I want to walk around my neighborhood at 3 in the morning and stealthily turn the "Be Kind" signs so they are facing toward the houses and not the street.
"And what follows is exceedingly mild compared to what party denizens on that side morally deserve."
Indeed, it is.
And maybe for that reason he'll begin to comprehend what you're saying.
But the fact that he doesn't understand what people see in the gangbangers ad is extremely telling. Does he actually think that Tren de Aragua is a myth? That the drug cartels aren't profiting massively from an open border because of drugs and human trafficking? That they're not shoveling tons of money (and credible threats) at U.S. officials to let them have their way?
What stops him from understanding is, as you say, his self regard. I AM NOT A BIGOT is the most important thing he can say about himself and his compadres. Any idea that barely grazes the edges of what he thinks is BIGOTRY will be rejected by his mind like a sprinkler repels a cat.
I wonder sometimes whether they're neurologically capable of divorcing their self-regard from their voting patterns. Maybe he should consider (we all should consider) that the country is full of psychopaths who mark their ballots exactly the same way they (we) do, and it doesn't make the psychopaths good people. (Nor does it make their voting patterns bad.)
He should also consider that while Trump is an obvious bully, there are plenty of politicians on his side who are bullies behind the scenes, who issue mafioso-level threats to people who don't obey them and whose personal conduct toward their inferiors is appalling.
And weren't the COVID mandates an example of official bullying?
If he were to cross the chasm and see things the way we see them -- and if he were to admit it -- he would be crucified by his side, and he knows it. Threat of social death is an effective way to stop people from seeing just about anything.
The story of the emperor's new clothes is the story of foolish intelligent people. The only difference is that in our day, when the child points out the obvious, the crowd beats him to a pulp.
Josh, I am so thankful for your unashamed, reality-infused, clarion-call voice which gives hope to me and many others, of that I am sure! So tired of guys like this who want to appear as if they are listening and understanding when it’s all a performance. Their smug, self-satisfied arrogance is so off putting. Very very tired of it.
Thank you for summarizing how many of us feel. The democrats are sadistic abusers, and I too was one of them for decades. I was a democrat until I was told to be a good one I need to hate white people, hate Christians, hate Jews, love illegal aliens, love an open border, love DEI hiring practices, fear the environment, fear the common cold, agreeably get in line to be injected with poison, say a man in a dress and lippy is a woman, promote child sterilization and genital mutilation, LOVE endless war, get behind 2-tier policing and lawfare, and much much more. I'm done.
The ad with the tattooed cholos is, indeed, reality.
Mr. Warren has just realized that he and his intellectually superior Democrat peers need to figure out how to talk down to us uneducated peasants in a way that will appease and cajole us back to voting for them.
Absolutely, perfectly RIGHT-ON. Thank you Josh!
Excellent.
Personally, I hope they don’t listen—I hope they run Kamala in 2028.
I just read that she is their top choice for 2028. Please, God.... may they not change their minds.
You have got to be kidding! Do you remember where you read that?
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5001537-poll-finds-most-dems-want-harris-for-next-presidential-nominee/
Thanks!
This is insane. Ok, they can go ahead and lose again then, I guess.
So far none of the self-analyzing democrats that I have read have betrayed a glimmer of understanding: so that’s a positive sign. Kamala’s problem, and the problem of the party, is that they are owned by the left entirely, moreover, they have moved farther to the left in the last four years, as well as wrecking the country in general. So when they try to moderate, they either sound like they’re lying, or they sound like they’re doing a poor imitation of Maga. Finding a moderate position that is still distinct from Maga, and still has some of that old democrat mojo, is exactly where they need to go. But I’m not sure there’s a there there.
If the Democratic Party can have a genuine road-to-Damascus conversion, that’s what I’d most root for. It’d be nice to have some real choice for once. Otherwise, yes, please quadruple down on what they’re currently doing. ESPECIALLY the trans stuff and dysfunctional candidates!
Excellent summation. This is the party that is all about virtue signaling without any real virtue. It’s all fake. And rarely do they have to live with the impact of their stupid and evil ideas. When they do they become screaming little girls.
Thank you!
Well said Mr Slocum. The sealer for me was Mr Warren's appeal to the sugary soap sitcom - Ted Lasso and the preposterous darts competition. Mr Warren thinks that made up television shows are real.
Sometimes I get the impression a lot of Democrats think Martin Sheen was actually the president.
😀😀😀
It's not exactly that they think they're real. It's that, having decided to loathe the canon of actual meaningful literature and authority (especially that hated "Bible"), they are reduced to deriving their wisdom from pop culture references.
Yes. Clutching at straws.
Damn, that was LIT and very well written, bravo!
“We expect substance, not the appearance of substance.”
This is a major difference between Right and Left. Substance not just appearance.
It is the difference between claiming that truth is objective vs truth is subjective.
God! I am so glad you wrote this rebuttal. Ed Warren is representative of the narrow-minded, smug, holier-than-thou misanthropes who have made it their sole mission to destroy America while under the stupid delusion that they are nice, saintly, giving people. They are not nice people. They imagine themselves to be. They sit back in their "educated" comfort, looking down on those they hate. They hate us because they fear us. Put the Blue half of the country against the Red half of the country, and the Blue's would be dead within a year- they can't produce anything but a nasty brand of arrogance that is hideous to behold. Warren despises Trump. You wanna know why? Because he isn't him and never could be! He hates Trump's supporters because he and his ilk can't survive without us. The condescension in his tone is loud and clear.
Perhaps a picture of Laken Riley or a “say her name” motto on the flyer would’ve been a better appeal for this virtue signaling democrat.
My guilty pleasure for the past few weeks has been Facebook posts by The Atlantic, The New Yorker, etc -- specifically the ongoing lib meltdowns in the comments sections.
What they've landed on is frank, unapologetic elitism. The lesson of November 5th is simply that Americans suck. We're a bunch of stupid, uneducated, irrational, bigoted, fascist, blah blah blah... Not themselves, of course. That's the point. They're deperate to preserve their unearned sense of superiority. One consistent theme is fantasies about how everything will go to shit, and we'll come crawling back to them, admitting that they were right (superior). Really, it's a revenge fantasy, but a weirdly lame passive-aggressive femmy one, where all they do is wait until we give them the "I told you so" moment they think they deserve.
So what you said about "smug, self-satisfied people" and "fragile narcissists" is exactly correct -- but for precisely that reason, all they can do is scream the abuse louder and more hysterically.
Maybe if I were a better person, I'd feel some compassion for them, but I'm not one, so instead I find these meltdowns HILARIOUSLY funny. I'm just sorry they don't have enough insight to get the joke.
"Passive-aggressive femmy one" is right on. I can't stand it.
There's a definite "girlfriend bitter about getting dumped" vibe to this stuff -- "just wait and see, he'll realize how much he needs me and he'll beg me to take him back."
Seriously, sometimes it's those exact words, mutatis mutandis ("us" rather than "me").
The Canadian truckers incident during Covid was like this. They looked down their nose at working class types whom they imagined as racist Nazis. Then all those middle class managers realized those Nazis delivered all their food and medicine.
This is what the smug progressives don't get. their fantasies are supported by real people doing real jobs living in the real world.
The casual way Democrats refer to themselves as 'kind' is stunning. I am from New Hampshire. The way we turn into Massachusetts is slowly, and then all at once. The voters here, for the local races anyway, said NO. In NH we are surrounded by toxic blue. It is destroying the unique spirit of New England. Instead of stoic hardworking New Englanders, we are now the land of 'I have three degrees and drive 65 down your cute little roads and buy up all the craft beer.' NH already has over 10,000 "migrants." Massachusetts has at least a quarter of a million, and Maura Healey has openly suggested sending some of theirs to NH. To that we say fuck you, to the Dems pretending to listen and to the Dems who aren't. Nothing about them is kind. Just look at cities they control. Unacceptable and it will not be tolerated here. Great essay Josh!
It finally hit me the other day: I want to walk around my neighborhood at 3 in the morning and stealthily turn the "Be Kind" signs so they are facing toward the houses and not the street.
Maybe, like the VC’s at night if the guards were sleeping on guard duty, turn the claymores around.
Haha, yup!
"And what follows is exceedingly mild compared to what party denizens on that side morally deserve."
Indeed, it is.
And maybe for that reason he'll begin to comprehend what you're saying.
But the fact that he doesn't understand what people see in the gangbangers ad is extremely telling. Does he actually think that Tren de Aragua is a myth? That the drug cartels aren't profiting massively from an open border because of drugs and human trafficking? That they're not shoveling tons of money (and credible threats) at U.S. officials to let them have their way?
What stops him from understanding is, as you say, his self regard. I AM NOT A BIGOT is the most important thing he can say about himself and his compadres. Any idea that barely grazes the edges of what he thinks is BIGOTRY will be rejected by his mind like a sprinkler repels a cat.
I wonder sometimes whether they're neurologically capable of divorcing their self-regard from their voting patterns. Maybe he should consider (we all should consider) that the country is full of psychopaths who mark their ballots exactly the same way they (we) do, and it doesn't make the psychopaths good people. (Nor does it make their voting patterns bad.)
He should also consider that while Trump is an obvious bully, there are plenty of politicians on his side who are bullies behind the scenes, who issue mafioso-level threats to people who don't obey them and whose personal conduct toward their inferiors is appalling.
And weren't the COVID mandates an example of official bullying?
If he were to cross the chasm and see things the way we see them -- and if he were to admit it -- he would be crucified by his side, and he knows it. Threat of social death is an effective way to stop people from seeing just about anything.
The story of the emperor's new clothes is the story of foolish intelligent people. The only difference is that in our day, when the child points out the obvious, the crowd beats him to a pulp.
And what is even more chilling is the recent revelation that the CDC had proposed "quarantine camps" during the pandemic. https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/cdc-planned-quarantine-camps-nationwide?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3aB-BM23KQl0dOEy5FQcdGFrHH3C4OajL71JgXJ1LIx2MiP_Mq-1RDmQ0_aem_P1KElNVaUSzDrqmaLz6eAwThank God that it came out that the vaccines didn't stop the contraction or transmission of Covid, or they might have come to pass.
Josh, I am so thankful for your unashamed, reality-infused, clarion-call voice which gives hope to me and many others, of that I am sure! So tired of guys like this who want to appear as if they are listening and understanding when it’s all a performance. Their smug, self-satisfied arrogance is so off putting. Very very tired of it.
Thank you for summarizing how many of us feel. The democrats are sadistic abusers, and I too was one of them for decades. I was a democrat until I was told to be a good one I need to hate white people, hate Christians, hate Jews, love illegal aliens, love an open border, love DEI hiring practices, fear the environment, fear the common cold, agreeably get in line to be injected with poison, say a man in a dress and lippy is a woman, promote child sterilization and genital mutilation, LOVE endless war, get behind 2-tier policing and lawfare, and much much more. I'm done.
I love this handy dandy list! This is it in a nutshell, thank you.
The ad with the tattooed cholos is, indeed, reality.
Mr. Warren has just realized that he and his intellectually superior Democrat peers need to figure out how to talk down to us uneducated peasants in a way that will appease and cajole us back to voting for them.
He can suck an egg.
You just said perfectly what I was trying to figure out how to express. Thank you!