Breaking the Left

American  Thinker 

Donald Trump is the master of memes -- and of the media. No modern political figure understands better how to energize the long-humiliated conservative-patriotic soul that has been crushed for decades by a left-liberal media zeitgeist. His Gaza performance is the latest chapter in the ongoing media revolution of our time.

Peace in Gaza: the guns have fallen silent between Israel Defense Forces and Hamas. What was unthinkable for decades has happened: a historic breakthrough. Hostage and POW exchanges -- all brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump.

The achievement alone commands extraordinary respect. But with Trump now mediating in Armenia-Azerbaijan, between Israel and Iran, and pressing ahead with unfinished work in Ukraine, a Nobel Peace Prize would seem almost inevitable.

And Trump, ever the media virtuoso, translated this geopolitical power move into the perfect, iconic imagery.

Trump Plays the Media Like a Grand Piano

Whether delivering his address in the Knesset or receiving European leaders and global political elites, the spectacle was unmistakable: a parade of dignitaries bowing before the American president -- a display directed not just at European audiences but at the power brokers of the Arab world as well.

The scene recalled the now-famous White House moment during the Ukraine debate: Ursula von der Leyen, Friedrich Merz, Keir Starmer, and Emmanuel Macron lined up like schoolchildren at the teacher’s desk, listening to the president.

The moment culminated in Trump’s demonstrative handshake with Macron -- a symbol of Europe’s complete submission to Washington’s dominant player.

Total Dominance

The world witnessed it in real time: Trump controls the iconography of power like no one else. He projects himself as the new ordering force in the Middle East, backed by allies like Saudi Arabia, now tied to Washington through billions in investment. Traveling aboard Air Force One between Washington, Tel Aviv, and Sharm el-Sheikh, he turned diplomacy into a livestream event.

Europe, once the colonial power in the region, was reduced to a spectator role. Even the congratulatory statements from European heads of state looked awkward against Trump’s monologue. His media strategy leaves no room for co-stars. This is a one-man show. And Trump plays the lead.

A Masterclass in Iconography

The list of Trump’s choreographed power moves is long. Remember the handshake with von der Leyen sealing the U.S.-EU trade deal? It was all about the image.

He hosted his European counterparts at his private golf resort in Scotland, flying them in via his personal helicopter -- no military escort. Everything followed a scripted, perfectly timed playbook. The message: America is back on top.

Europe, dimmed to its real geopolitical size, played second fiddle. The era of European globalism sneaking through the American back door -- via forums like World Economic Forum -- is over. So is the age of U.S. presidents pushing the European climate agenda, from Bill Clinton to Barack Obama to Joe Biden. Trump is burying the CO2 climate cult in America once and for all.

The Second Declaration of Independence

Repeatedly, the same image played out: in the Oval Office, Trump signs executive order after executive order, driving his cabinet to implement a deregulation blitz -- a second Declaration of Independence from the Old Continent.

Another media bombshell followed on April 2: in the Rose Garden, Trump declared a global tariff war. Through a few bold, poster-sized charts, he ended an era: the era of free riding on the dollar system was over.

Two days after the last London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) contract expired, the pricing of dollar credit returned to Washington’s control via the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR).

Beyond Symbolism

Most Europeans still don’t grasp the signal: the U.S. will no longer let itself be hitched to Europe’s geopolitical cart -- certainly not to die on European battlefields again. Not in a war with Russia that isn’t in America’s strategic interest.

The Trump-Putin media plot in Alaska made that message unmistakable.

Trump’s power lies in his ability to dominate narratives, shape symbolic language, and project an unapologetic American patriotism. Europe’s reaction is defensive: through the Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, planned chat controls and digital IDs, Brussels tries to claw back control of the narrative by brute bureaucratic force. But against Washington’s renewed self-confidence and civic model, the Eurocrats look like yesterday’s men.

The Butler Moment

The turning point came in Butler, Pennsylvania: after the assassination attempt, Trump, bloodied and defiant, raised his fist and shouted “Fight! Fight! Fight!” in front of the American flag. That image burned itself into the national psyche. It was a declaration of war against cultural Marxism -- the ideological core of Europe’s eco-socialist movement.

Trump had cracked the media code long before that. From flipping burgers at McDonald's to posing as a garbage truck driver -- it wasn’t cheap campaign theater. It was strategic authenticity, in stark contrast to the aloof eco-socialist bureaucrats.

The result: attention shifted to him, away from choreographed smear campaigns and the concealed frailty of Biden. Trump didn’t fake being “the people.” He embodied it -- and weaponized authenticity into power.

Dismantling the Machine

After his election, Trump moved fast to dismantle the Left’s media machine. The breakup of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was a key moment. State-aligned broadcasters folded, funding pipelines to statist media, green ideology, and eco-socialist activism dried up.

Trump struck a chord with the times. He transformed media dominance and narrative instinct into electoral power. His biggest coup? Killing the CO2 myth. In Trump’s America, CO2 is no longer the demon gas upon which an eco-socialist nightmare could be built.

The question now is: How long before this media collapse of the Left reaches Europe? When it does, the rising conservative forces in Eastern Europe -- led by Viktor Orbán -- may find their historic hour has come.

In politics, good governance alone is never enough. You must project it -- with the right imagery, in tune with the zeitgeist.

Podcast and entertainment thread for Oct 19

 

Days turning dark before 7 makes me sad. :(

Are Democrats Really This Stupid?

Townhall 

Every time you think Democrats have hit bottom, that they couldn’t go any lower, one of them breaks out a shovel. Yesterday was the “No Showers,” I mean, “No Kings” rally. A bunch of unlovable mutants took time away from cyber-stalking the OnlyFans people they subscribe to and got a little free vitamin D from the sun to fight off the onset of rickets. For the first time in a few years, major liberal cities across the country shifted from smelling like pot and tear gas to smelling like body odor and tear gas…and pot, because that’s how liberals roll.

I’m writing this before the event, mostly because I have zero interest in anything these people do or say – aside from the finger I flip them to let them know what they can do to themselves as I drive past them, I genuinely couldn't care less about anything currently alive. It’s hard to have respect for stupid adults. Kids, teenagers, even adults up to their mid-20s are some of the dumbest creatures to ever exist, so I can forgive that, in most cases.

Once you get past that age – and the granola-crunching mutants organizing this event are old enough to be completely disinteresting to any Democrat-donating Hollywood producer – you should have enough life experience to understand a few universal truths. First, strippers do not “really like you.” It’s an act because they want your money. Second, anyone who tells you how honest they are or how they’d never try to sell you on anything is lying and trying to sell you pretty much everything. Third, Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, and Americans landed on the moon. And finally, socialism does not work.

You’re an idiot as a person until you get past all of those, or some other similar, very small hurdles, which you should do when you age past the “twenty-dummies” stage of 26. If you don’t clear them all, you will be that sad, creepy dude in your 40s who learned origami for the express purpose of folding a dollar bill into as small of a shape as possible so you can use your teeth to stick it in the thong that “Jade” wears on stage at a bar with “Crazy,” “Wild” or some breed of exotic cat in the name by their airport thinking she’s not asking for “help” for rent just for the sake of money, but because THIS is the Tuesday night she finally asks you to take her home.

Don’t be that guy. And don’t be anyone who doesn’t look at literally every policy proposal coming from the left as seeing that it is a warmed-over version of everything that failed in the 20th century.

No, communism will not work if your candidates are the ones implementing it. There’s a reason tens of millions of people starved to death while their “leaders” grew fat in communist countries, and it wasn’t poor mid-management.

In this buildup to this mutant march, Democrats across the media were insisting it would be a “peaceful” event. Their website reads, “In June, we did what many claimed was impossible: peacefully mobilized millions of people to take to the streets and declare with one voice America has no king.”

Who are the morons who were saying there couldn't be a million people with sub-50 IQs in the streets? It’s the one thing they’re good for – being mobilized for stupidity.

But note the word “peacefully.” That was a shock. When more than a few liberals get together, they usually at least stab someone, if not start raping everything they see. It’s like Hollywood, only uglier.

The website continues, “NO KINGS is a peaceful national day of action and mass mobilization in response to the increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption of the Trump administration, which they have doubled down on since June.”

There’s that “peaceful” word again. That word gets mentioned a lot on their website. I know that if I don’t constantly remind my peaceful friends to be peaceful, they start punching old ladies and pushing kids down escalators, so it’s good that they make sure everyone knows that they’re “peaceful.”

Of course, truly peaceful people don’t need to be reminded; they also don’t need to tell everyone how peaceful they are. People will pick up on it by the way the businesses where they gather remain unlooted and aren’t boarded up in anticipation of their arrival. The March for Life, for example, has never once led to any business in DC to cover its windows. On the other hand, every “for justice” march has businesses making sure their insurance is paid up and causes a run on plywood at Home Depot.

Yes, Democrats are violent. Yes, Democrats have the aroma of feet after a marathon in plastic shoes. And yes, they are so stupid as to think they’re making a difference by doing something their own website says caused the man they hate more than their own fathers to “double down” on his “tyranny” since the last time they drum circled and whined just four months ago. Morons.

No Kings: March of the Aging White Hippies and Fusty Old Karens

American  Thinker 

Amid big media fanfare, with the Wall Street Journal announcing "millions" expected, the lefty astroturf operation funded by foundations called 'No Kings' held another multi-city rally, vowing to Get Trump this time.

It was, to say the least, underwhelming. I doubt it was 'millions.'

What's more, while some areas did draw a lot of people, it was pretty amazing to see how old and washed up most of the protestors were, like they were reliving their Woodstock days and having a good time.

Time for some tai chi stretches:

They acted as though they were on the clock, too, meaning, whoever was paying them wasn't paying overtime. Off to the buffet table ...

Some of the much-touted crowds were rather ... small:

Many of them were unsavory, with calls to violence:

Antifa was prominent:

Along with assorted weirdos:

Andy Ngo found a really weird one:

Along with a lot of ignorant fools.

Here come the teachers' unions, showing off their spelling skills:

Others really didn't know what they wanted:

He seemed to be channeling this guy.

The Trumpies here probably anticipated this -- it is Portland, after all:

Meanwhile, No Kings had some charmers among their sponsors, presumably, organizations that gave them money:

And of course, some of them pined for the pre-peace days before President Trump ended the Gaza war, waving their battle flags with no war to go to:

If this is the best the Democrats have to offer -- washed up radicals, paid protestors, and absolute weirdos and likely criminals, the Trump revolution has nothing to worry about. Who would want to associated with such manifest losers?

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2020 “Stop the Steal” Lead Attorney Now a White House Special Govt Employee

Conservative  Treehouse 

One of the biggest problems, factually the biggest problem with revealing the 2020 election fraud, are the ramifications.

That said, the competence of the United States government, and indeed our constitutional republic itself, is weakened without a full public airing of the fraud.

The White House has hired Stop The Steal lawyer Kurt Olsen as a ‘Special Govt Employee.’ The Wall Street Journal (Rupert Murdoch) is going bananas:

(WSJ) – “Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who unsuccessfully pushed claims of voter fraud, has joined the administration as a “special government employee,” some of the people said. The appointment gives Olsen 130 days to work from within the White House without giving up any private business interests. He is talking directly with President Trump, the people said. 

Trump asked Olsen to join the administration to work on election issues important to him, a senior administration official said. Olsen started his job in the past month, some of the people said, and has told others he wants to examine election machines.

Olsen has begun asking intelligence agencies for information about the 2020 election, the officials said. Olsen has told others he also wants to weed out some government employees who he believes are disloyal to Trump. 

Representatives for the White House and Justice Department declined to comment, and Olsen didn’t respond to requests for comment.” (read more)