One of the things that became immediately apparent in 2016 is that Trump's campaign team took social media, memes, and advertising to a whole new level.
We've been hammering the importance of memes on TD for 4 years not because of people seeing them here, but because the Trump campaign team actively pans them for material.
Trump's campaign learned early that the most potent points are organic, from the people, not from "professionals".
I really hate these equivalences, not because the double standard isn't true, but because there would never be roving bands of violent Trump supporters.
In the Leftist mind, one of the key ways they justify what they do is thinking "the other side would do the same ". Which is completely wrong.
We should go out of our way to dispell that notion. We aren't violent troublemakers. We are people who want to live our lives in a secure and prosperous nation. Period.
Let the Left own every bit of the violence and the trouble they cause for their politics that nobody actually wants.
We aren't the other side of a coin. We're a different coin completely.
The problem with libertarianism is that it is an ultimately puritan ideology with little room for pragmatism. And even though many of us, including myself, love the pure ideals of it, such ideals depend on a moral society, which is not the reality of society.
Libertarian ideals should be relegated to the role of being a guiding compass, but not an ideology put into practice, because like many "pure" ideologies, it doesn't work in the real world.
Yeah I mentioned earlier this week in a similar post that I came down with a chest infection last weekend and had to see a doctor to get antibiotics.
And simply because I have a cough, I was considered "covid positive" until I tested negative. I got the results today, of course negative, but I'd bet anything I was added to some daily case numbers for this county.
There is a really back-assward method of tracking covid going on.
Generally speaking, you don't get into a mob fight with a gun either. Especially a rifle. Most people aren't John Wick.
In that situation, any weapon is a good weapon. Ideally, don't get into that situation. Don't lose your backup and get mobbed.
I'm afraid this election won't bring that about just yet, but that day is coming.
The Left is disintegrating and taking the Democrat party with it. The election of Trump pretty much established that outcome. Re-election is an inevitable milestone on this path.
What the Re-election can tell us is how many Americans are done with the sinking Democrat ship, and how close we are to the day you referred to.
Honestly, I don't think they intended to follow through with prosecution and just charged him to appease the mob. Because if you read the charges, it basically outlines a case of self-defense.
What they didn't count on was the kid getting a prime legal defense like this.
In my experience people who "hate" Trump, but ask questions have already started questioning why they are supposed to hate him in the first place and are really just looking for some validation for their suspicions.
You may not have changed her mind, but her mind was probably already changing before you talked to her.
Well that's where media being their propaganda comes into play. They just quote the NYT and WaPo and the like and pretend those are facts.
It's one big circle of using each other for "fact checking". Actual facts are irrelevant to them.
As an old guy, I think this constant crushing on random conservative women is silly, but Chanel Rion is not a "thot". She is one of few actual journalists assigned to the White House.
While she is obviously conservative, she still manages to ask the questions journalists should be asking. As such she has my respect.