Showmanship. A skill that’s very useful to a politician. Some have it, some don’t. And you can tell right away from the way they speak. The ones that have it speak with a lot of drama and are so convincing, even when they lie. The ones who don’t are bland and unconvincing, even when they tell the truth. But what I saw in the State of the Union speech was truly orchestrated showmanship, beginning with the men’s Olympic team and chants of USA, USA, USA. And metals of honor and other metals as well hyping nationalism. The whole thing was orchestrated by a pure showman — Trump. He definitely knows how to put on a show. That’s very very clear from this performance — not only his speaking but also how he orchestrated the whole program to produce a particular response. Trump the showman. No one can deny this.
Category: Politics and government
Blue Versus Red
Blue states versus red states. Obvious which is doing better.
Democratic Party
How politics may become self-destructive. Witness how the Democratic Party, in opposition everything Trump, has been forced into really lunatic positions. This is textbook on how pure politics can induce total disfunction.
This happens when a political party takes up positions merely out of pure opposition no matter how insane as opposed to taking up positions that are actually rational and beneficial whether or not those positions agree or disagree with the opposing party’s platform.
A type of insanity unique to politics.
Madness
You have to realize that American society, with its complete freedom to do or say anything you want, leads to a kind of madness. The most conspicuous example of this is the woke press on the Left with all its virulence and exaggerated claims, turning young and impressionable men into madmen assassins.
But is that the true cost of total freedom? Perhaps it is.
Civil War in America
One is beginning to take seriously the thought that there could be conflict in the streets of American cities between arch conservatives and radical liberals similar to what took place in Germany in the early 1930s.
Could we experience civil in America that could bring down the republic? The thought is no longer that unrealistic after the Kirk assassination.
Trump
Trump is doing something novel for recent presidents — doing things that would actually benefit the country.
Culpable
The ones who paint Trump as another Hitler-like dictator are as culpable of these assassination attempts as the ones who pull the trigger. Gutter politics.
Harris
Harris. Same BS. Everyone is a racist, especially your opponent, abortion is freedom of choice, not murder, and now we have the “equity” candidate. Dems are all hot air and rhetoric with no real plan or practical ideas. Pathetic. But amazing how many buy into this crap.
But they are good at using the legal system to go after their opponents, and they thrive on government censorship and suppressing freedom of speech, while claiming their opponents are a threat to the Constitution. Crazy stuff.
America is not what it used to be, for sure — a country in decline now. A few more governments by the Dems and we will have bloody chaos in the streets of the cities.
Civil order is a surprisingly thin veneer.
Polite
What the woke crowd can’t stand about Trump is that he can be rude and even mean. Above all, they demand their president be polite. Anything less is unacceptable.
How ludicrous.
True Grit
They threw vindictive and questionable lawsuits at him, the Left-wing press daily grills, distorts, and defames him, and now an assassination attempt grazed him, but Trump keeps chucking along. 99% out there would have thrown in the towel by now — not Trump.
Even if you are a Left-winger who despises Trump, you have to also admire him.
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