We recently discussed the move by Stanford student representatives to block funding for a speech by former Vice President Michael Pence. The denial of $6000 in funding was an act of raw viewpoint discrimination by the students and is currently being appealed. Now, however, former United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Judge Michael Luttig has written to Stanford to offer to pay the money to allow faculty and students to hear from Vice President Pence.
The College Republicans needed 8 votes to approve the funding. However, the final vote was 7 in favor, 7 in abstention, and 1 in opposition. Somehow the seven students not voting considered that act to be more ethical than just being honest and voting against the funding. It had the same effect. Despite only one student voting against the speech, the school refused to support a former vice president coming to its campus to address faculty and students.
The vote captures the rise of intolerance and speech controls sweeping over our campuses. This is a vice president who played a historic role in defying a president to certify the vote on January 6th. He did the right thing. However, whether you agree or disagree with him, this is an opportunity for students to listen and question someone who held the second highest office in the country and served in a critical capacity in a number of key policy areas, including the election and the pandemic. However, a majority of Stanford students in this vote refused to approve a small level of funding for the event.
Judge Luttig is a graduate of the University of Virginia and clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia when he was still on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. He was also a close associate of Chief Justice Warren Burger. He was an Assistant Attorney General in the administration of George H.W. Bush and assisted Justices David Souter and Clarence Thomas in their confirmation hearings. He left the court to become General Counsel and Senior Vice President to Boeing Company. His son attended Stanford.
The need for outsiders to pony up $6000 to fund a visit of a former Vice President to Stanford should be a disgrace for every faculty member, administrator, student, and the alumni at that school. The actions of the Stanford students show again that we have a rising generation of censors who have been told that barring free speech is a form of free speech. It is an insult to the value of free speech.
Many liberals have sought to deflect from their support of censorship by insisting that private companies and schools are not required to support free speech under the First Amendment. In recent years, many academics have sought to justify censorship on the Internet with an analogous argument. They argue that private companies like Twitter are not subject to the First Amendment, which only applies to the government. It is an obvious but largely irrelevant argument. Those of us who have denounced the rising censorship on social media and on campuses are defending free speech as a human right. The First Amendment is not synonymous with broader values of free speech.
Luttig’s offer is generous but Stanford has an endowment of $37.8 billion. It can afford $6000. What it cannot afford is to enable such censorship and viewpoint discrimination as an institution of higher learning. Hopefully, Luttig’s offer will trigger some sense of institutional self-reflection on the rising intolerance at Stanford.
Here is the letter:
To the Stanford Review and the Stanford Republicans:
My son, John Luttig, is a former Member of the Stanford Review and of the Undergraduate Senate, who now works at Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund.
I am in New York at the moment and just read that the Stanford Undergraduate Senate declined to fund Vice President Pence’s planned visit to the campus in February.
If the Constitutional Council also declines to fund the Vice President’s visit to the Stanford University campus, I would be honored to fund his visit.
Please keep me apprised of the actions of the Constitutional Council.
J. Michael Luttig
George the Stupid Prole actually believes there is a Deep State. George has inhaled too many Chemtrails and is not too bright.
I hate the people of this world. One false move and they tear you asunder like velociraptors. That’s no way to live. Why should I care if such creatures are ever
destroyed in a nuclear war?
Democrats hate Pence because he’s a Republican.
Republicans hate Pence because he allowed election fraud to overthrow his own running mate.
If Chris Weber’s accusation is false, you would think that Darren would defend himself by denying that it is true. Unless he does so in due course, one can fairly conclude that the accusation must be true.
I am not aware that my civil comments have been censored despite expressing my sheer contempt for Turley’s appearing with the reprehensible Fox Primetime hosts. For instance, take a look at this recent appearance:
https://youtu.be/G03dnrzh2tw
Please note the damnable lies in the chyrons underneath Turley as he speaks:
JUDICIARY STANDING BETWEEN AMERICANS AND TYRANNY
LIBERAL DECRIES CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS
RESISTING THE COVID FASCISTS
Has Turley EVER indicated in anything he has written here that the Left is threatening actual *tyranny* over America? I know you Trumpists believe it, but show me where Turley has gone that far?
A doctor bemoaned the fact that the Constitution is a barrier to vaccine mandates. Fox presumed he was a *liberal.* He did not identify as a liberal in that short clip. It was a “fact” too good to check out.
The last Chyron sounds as if written by any number of the Trumpists here. Again, I defy anyone to find anything that Turley has written accusing those proposing vaccine mandates as approaching *fascism.*
How often have we read Turley denouncing what he has called, “the age of rage,” in the media? These chyrons are designed expressly to stoke the audience’s hatred of Liberals and the Left. Why shouldn’t they hate Liberal *fascists* who would subject them to *tyranny* but for the judiciary? By appearing with these hateful chyrons, Turley is implicitly endorsing them.
He is a disgraceful hypocrite.
Hes just an opportunist and sell-out. But he’s not alone. Like Ben Shapiro and Alex Jones and Laura Ingraham and Anne Coulter and Rupert Murdoch and all the right-wing muckrakers he’s just making money preying on the fears of the trolls.
It’s not about morals, it’s about mortgage.
That too. Apparently, he is writing a book which I suspect he intends to leverage his appearances on Fox to market it.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
It’s all Cash From Chaos
Nevertheless fail to take advantage of a crisis.
Never fail to.
“ Many liberals have sought to deflect from their support of censorship by insisting that private companies and schools are not required to support free speech under the First Amendment.”
Turley sure seems to be going hard on hypocrisy with this column.
It’s not “support of censorship” when they correctly point out that private companies and schools are not required to support free speech under the first amendment. Turley has acknowledged before that they DO have a right to censor if their policies are violated. Notice that Turley completely ignores the fundamental meaning of the 1st amendment. The prohibition of government from infringing on the right to free speech. His own blog engaged in EXACTLY the same kind of censorship he decries.
The students were not denying Mike pence the right to speak at the university. The Republican student group believed it was ENTITLED to an approval, specifically “constitutionally obligated” to be approved by the student body.
The rules are pretty clear and as a student government they acted within their rules. The Republican student groups just threw a fit and falsely claimed they were denied because they were republicans. Turley being incredibly disingenuous with this issue is only adding to that “age of rage” mentality he claims is a problem on the left. He is literally doing it with this column. It’s hypocrisy at its zenith. He further adds to the hypocrisy by adding,
“They argue that private companies like Twitter are not subject to the First Amendment, which only applies to the government. It is an obvious but largely irrelevant argument.”
They are not, and he knows it. It is very relevant. He’s miffed at the notion that a PRIVATE company has the gal to operate as it sees fit instead of being told how it should operate. This blog itself operates by the exact same policies they use. Violate them and you ARE “censored” from it. Nothing, nothing in the first amendment compels or obligates ANY private company to adhere to the prohibition on the infringement of free speech. It’s exactly that “freedom and liberty” from government intrusion that allows private companies or schools to “censor” speech as they see fit.
Since the far-right yells fire all the time in the public square, they just want to make it legal. The right to tell lies is the American way of life for them.
Pence is a traitor. And so are you.
Noah,
Turley says Pence was RIGHT!
Jeff, hope you are well. Just coming out of ” retirement” briefly.
You have previously stated your affection for msnbc as a news source. And you constantly berate Fox. Now each appeals to a certain demographic. But at least Fox attempts to cover all pertinent news stories. Did they cover Jan 6th as extensively as cnn or msnbc. No. But we both agree that was not an insurrection. It was a riot by about 100 idiots One person was actually charged with PARADING. No one has been charged with participating in an insurrection.
One of the biggest if not the biggest story on Dec 10 certainly was the Smollett verdict (s). NOT ONE WORD on msnbc last night!! Anyone that thinks that if the verdict was not guilty on all counts, msnbc would not have given THAT story wall to wall coverage is as mentally challenged as our President.
Msnbc also barely covered the Afghanistan debacle. At least cnn attempted to give it fair coverage.
You attack Turley’s ” hypocrisy” constantly. It is hypocritical to constantly call out Fox for bias while being a fan of msnbc.
I probably watch more cnn now than Fox. I want to see ” the other side”. I tried to also watch msnbc. It made me physically ill. And as our President loves to say, ” And that is not hyperbole”.
Dinner offer holds. But you might want to wait until Spring.
The “Afghanistan Debacle” was the 20 year, $2 trillion war and occupation that killed hundreds of Americans, thousand of civilians and flooded the VA with emotionally and physically damaged vets.
Biden had the courage to end that debacle. No more wasting a quarter billion dollars a day.
Wasn’t 100% clean but it was always going to be messy, which is why Trump didn’t attempt it.
Biden did the right thing and the debacle is over.
And if you watch Fox and believe the BS they feed you, you are a world class sap.
Unfortunately you are not alone.
Half of America is buying that BS
The ” debacle ” is NOT over. There are still Americans and those who helped us still ” stranded” there. Did you not watch the Stephanopoulos interview with Dementia Joe.
He said explicitly that he would leave until all Americans were out. And please don’t give me the B.S. that all those who ” wanted” to leave are out.
The State department says otherwise.
I totally agree with getting out.
But how about a modicum of planning.
Who takes out the military before those who need to be evacuated from an enemy territory?
Wasn’t 100% clean is the understatement of the century.
We cut a deal with tge Yaliban most likely. They just wanted us OUT.
Leave behind the military and other equipment and they wouldn’t attack airports and planes and vehicles with weapons, mortars, RPG.
We’re there any shots fired n all of that?
The bombing and deaths of the 13 was unfortunate but the carnage would have been much worse if we had to fight our way out.
The point is: we are OUT.
No longer wasting lives or collateral damaging civilians or killing Americans or flooding the VA with damaged vets.
Yes it was a clean withdrawal compared to how bad it could have been.
Now the Taliban and ISIS can slaughter each other with our weapons although my military friends assure me most of the equipment was bricked and/or too complicated for them to operate.
Biden should get a Nobel Peace Prize for ending 20 years of pointless waste.
Ben, as hard as you try to just get them to understand any facts, some will not listen no matter what the truth is. Most on this site, sad to say have drunk the Kool-Aid and it is a shame.
Most on this site aren’t smart enough to mix up a batch of Kool-Aid, much less drink it.
And forget about ice – they lost the recipe.
This comment I am making, is kind of long, but it’s the one comment that’s going to save me a whole lot of time.
I’m stepping off this blog for good, as in no more comments ever. I won’t even be reading it any more. Because the hubris for Mister Turley to daily lament and decry the ongoing henious censorship of the liberals while himself engaging in this reprehensible and wholly Unamerican behavior, is beneath contempt. And less than I had come to expect from the man whose writings and words I’ve followed for slighty over 20 long years. Man, I can’t even believe I hear myself saying that, …”20 years”.
Seems like yesterday the first time I popped in here excited to read Mister Turley’s writings after watching him on the Sunday morning talk shows back when that was a thing (I don’t know, maybe it still is I don’t watch TV anymore), and being too afraid to comment on such an erudite and well respected public figure’s page, which appeared to be a place for legal scholars and intellectuals, not average Joe’s like myself. And for the most part seems like that was the case for a while, …maybe.
But the absolute hubris of Mister Turley’s daily laments of liberal censorship as the ash borer of our 1st Amendment protections while engaging in the exact same untenable practice in his own blog, is without conscience. And I can’t lie to myself anymore. The old Professor Turley ain’t comin back. Mister Turley, …the Fox News Contributor, seems in for the duration.
Out of my last 3 comments to the troll calling itself Seth Myers (who keeps telling me his names not Seth, …not sure why…) 2 never materialized and the last one did, but 4 minutes later was removed.
Neither of them was anything over the top or requiring censorship per the modus operandi of this blog to date. Yet all were CENSORED. The last one actually posting then being removed.
Clearly the Professor has left the building, and this new guy is obsessed with paying lip service to freedom of speech while practicing the aborhent censorship he so rightfully condemns on a daily basis, both here and on TV.
I wonder how the other news anchors he’s speaking to about censorship would react if they discovered he himself is heavily censoring on his own public platform? Don’t know, but I imagine it would be a bit of an uncomfortable TV moment. But that’s a hubris that basically tells me the Professor’s left the building and it’s time to find the door. So I’m out
I’m unfollowing the blog and I won’t ever be wasting another keystroke past the final period in this final comment nor reading another word on it or by it.
Why would I waste another keystroke on this blog which is a Testament, …no, …a “Monument”, … , to hypocrisy over censorship.
Even on the likes of Facebook, which is censorship hell (or heaven I reckon, depending on your position on it) I’ve never had THREE comments censored and removed, all in a row.
This blog, decrying censorship is like Alan Funt decrying filming without the subject’s knowledge.
It just aint gonna fly, except with others likewise dishonest, with themselves.
So I’m outta here. I unsubscribe from the comments, and I don’t come back to read what some troll thought of my words. When I unsubscribe, I don’t look back. Ever. I’m done. So I won’t be reading responses to this. Have at it of course, but just know I’m not seeing them. Regardles of how badly you tell yourself I am. I’m done.
I wouldn’t take it on Facebook and I sure as hell am not going to take it on a blog by a former reasonable and balanced legal professor who spends his days decrying censorship while engaging in some of the heaviest handed censorship I’ve seen.
Kinda sad for me a little, I always used to like listening to and reading the former Professor Turely. And I guess I should say something profound or poignant in this my final post here but all I can think of is this by Clarence Day, so I’ll leave you with the final words Charle’s Kuralt left us with on his last episode of CBS Sunday Morning.
‘Farewell, my friends, farewell and hail; I’m off to seek the holy grail; I cannot tell you why.
Remember, please when I am gone, ’twas aspiration led me on;
Tiddly-widdly-toodle-oo, all I want is to stay with you, but here I go,…
Goodbye.’
They don’t censor me and I’m as obnoxious as I know how.
I don’t know much about Turley but I know he works for Fox.
Enough said.
He got old and sold his soul.
Farewell ,good riddance.
The hubris of demanding any person blog for your pleasure, is something sentient adults would never attempt.
Just as an aside, get a dictionary and read the definitions of the words you are using. Because they do convey the message you insist is being communicated
All I can say is I’m glad I’m getting up there in years. I can’t imagine the Orwellian nightmare this country’s going to be in another 20 years as these “Orwellianites” (made up word I know.. but it fits) find themselves unable to even post on social media what they had for breakfast for fear of violating some speech guideline. I mean, these are going to be the “leaders” of tomorrow right? These are the ones with the higher degrees who in turn will go out to run corporations and institutions that we all either patronize or rely on. And what they are doing, is following Red China on its totalitarian ideology of a controlled, subdued meek population (Tucker Carlson’s actually onto something about the feminization of American men) where the citizens bow to the state on everything, and speak only when and what they are allowed to speak. In China you can go to prison for speaking against the govt. Why are we following their framework so closely these days?
The problem is, there’s no alternatives. Right wing universities end up either as religious institutions or money scams (like “Trump University, which any normal American would have gone to prison over). I mean, conservatives actually built a “museum” that shows dioramas of early man saddling and riding dinosaurs like Fred and Barney at work in Mister Slates Quarry. THATS the alternative they give us. And don’t give me that “its a fringe of the party” nonsense. Unlike most Americans I don’t have a short memory, and I remember all too well when my Candidate for the RNC ticket was the ONLY one on the stage who wouldn’t raise his hand when asked the inane, asinine (and completely false) question of whether or not they “believed the Bible when it said the earth is 6000 years old”. (*false because the Bible never said that, but that’s fodder for another time). Every single RNC candidate raised their hand, except John Huntsman. They all went on to the next round. He was dropped. Because he was too sane, for todays right-wing constituency. Just too f#$ing sane.
And they’ll have none of that.
So I can’t imagine where we’re going, but wherever it is it don’t look too good. Our only chance is for a sane alternative, and for enough people to come out of the fever (and out of the woodwork too I imagine) to vote for them.
This comment by anonymous that made it to email accounts was deleted on the blog: “It is ironic that Turley claims to stand for free speech while having Darren delete a lot of civil comments here. (This very comment will likely be deleted before too long.)”
It might be that anonymous wanted to prove how unfair things are but was lying by omission. Anonymous probably uses more than one address and might have had one of them blocked for a good reason. Because of his anger, he may have decided to use this blocked account to prove he had been wronged. That is a pretty sick and dishonest way of throwing dirt on others.
that is an intelligent judge!
Naw he just knows what side his bread is buttered on.
Most lawyers don’t care about justice, they care about money.
Ben,
I get it.
It’s tough for a 60+ year old surfer-dude-writer to get a gig these days, especially in age and appearance obsessed Cali. That coffee table book looks a bit long in the tooth, as do your writing samples. A writing gig, any writing gig, is preferable to none. But Wokewood has little tolerance for dissent, especially from the little people — just look at how woke “culture” savages celebrities who step out of line. This gig though — thirty pieces of silver and you can burnish your woke credentials — is sweet.
So here you are stormin’ the Bastille to set all us knuckle-draggers straight. A veritable tempest in a teapot but, hey, maybe it’ll impress some of those names passing you by on the street. Perhaps one will finally stop with an attaboy and pat on the head. It could be your big break. Or at least no more stinkeye from the neighbors.
What to make of your braggadocio and name-dropping, especially in light of your self-described family accomplishments (one created the world and another destroyed it) and not to mention the bile you pour into this blog. It must be frustrating for a natural-born writer to go unrecognized amid the glitz and glamour of narcissistic Wokewood — they didn’t even credit your screenplay (perhaps that was a blessing). There IT is — SUCCESS — sitting there, all around you, just out of reach.
And holidays with the family? Woke surfer-dude-writer comparing accomplishments with the family titans must be… fun.
But, as the black sheep of my family, I shouldn’t judge you too harshly. Besides, you’re already doing that to yourself.
Ben,
I get it.
It’s tough for a 60+ year old surfer-dude-writer to get a gig these days, especially in age and appearance obsessed Cali.
𝐍𝐨 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬𝐧𝐭. 𝐈𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐠𝐢𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐚𝐧𝐠.
𝐈𝐦 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐚𝐛𝐛𝐢 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐥𝐢 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐊𝐚𝐳𝐚𝐡𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐱 𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐬 𝐕𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐬.
𝐈 𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥.𝐜𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐞.
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐟𝐟 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐭.𝐜𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟐𝟎 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐅𝐄𝐑 𝐌𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟐𝟓 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬, 𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡.
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐡 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐡 𝐈 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐲’𝐬 𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟔 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐚. 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐱 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟏 𝐭𝐨 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤.
𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬, 𝐬𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐞.
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐎𝐚𝐡𝐮.
𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐈’𝐦 𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐮 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐟 𝐈 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐢𝐭.
𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡.
𝐖𝐡𝐲? 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈’𝐦 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐝𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐝𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐞.
That coffee table book looks a bit long in the tooth, as do your writing samples.
𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐥𝐝, 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.
𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤? 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤?
𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐢 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝟏𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐭 $𝟏𝟎𝟎 – $𝟐𝟓𝟎 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡.
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞.
𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞.
𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬, 𝐬𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐞.
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐎𝐚𝐡𝐮.
𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐈’𝐦 𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐮 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐟 𝐈 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐢𝐭.
𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡.
𝐖𝐡𝐲? 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈’𝐦 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐝𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐝𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐞.
A writing gig, any writing gig, is preferable to none.
𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲. 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫.
But Wokewood has little tolerance for dissent, especially from the little people — just look at how woke “culture” savages celebrities who step out of line. This gig though — thirty pieces of silver and you can burnish your woke credentials — is sweet.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭?
𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐬?
𝐈 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐬.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝?
So here you are stormin’ the Bastille to set all us knuckle-draggers straight.
𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚 𝐚𝐬 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧.
𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐭.
𝐀𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞.
𝐀𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐦 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 – 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡.
𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐠𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤.
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐲.
A veritable tempest in a teapot but, hey, maybe it’ll impress some of those names passing you by on the street.
𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐈 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲? 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐚 𝐠𝐮𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦.
𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐨 𝐒𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝.
𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐨𝐨.
𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐛𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐟 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐫.
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐂 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞.
𝐇𝐞’𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐝𝐮𝐝𝐞.
Perhaps one will finally stop with an attaboy and pat on the head. It could be your big break. Or at least no more stinkeye from the neighbors.
𝐈 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐲𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞.
𝐈’𝐦 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐟𝐟, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐭.
𝐈 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭.
𝐒𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭.
What to make of your braggadocio and name-dropping, especially in light of your self-described family accomplishments (one created the world and another destroyed it) and not to mention the bile you pour into this blog.
𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐨𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞.
𝐈𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.
𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.
𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐢 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝.
𝐈 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐥𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚.
It must be frustrating for a natural-born writer to go unrecognized amid the glitz and glamour of narcissistic Wokewood — they didn’t even credit your screenplay (perhaps that was a blessing).
There IT is — SUCCESS — sitting there, all around you, just out of reach.
𝐎𝐡 𝐈𝐦 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐈 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐛𝐞.
𝐀 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐲𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞 $𝟏𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐈 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟐.
𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬.
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬 – 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐫.
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 – 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞, 𝐛𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐝.
And holidays with the family? Woke surfer-dude-writer comparing accomplishments with the family titans must be… fun.
𝐈𝐦 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐝𝐨.
𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠.
𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐭 – 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞.
𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞.
𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐬.
But, as the black sheep of my family, I shouldn’t judge you too harshly. Besides, you’re already doing that to yourself.
𝐎𝐤𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐮𝐩 𝐰𝐡𝐨’𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐬.
𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭, 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐥?
𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞.
𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐈’𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐲.
Two more things.
!. Only dorks and hipsters and wannabe rappers call it Cali. Are you All of the Above?
2. Hollywood really isn’t about age or appearance. It’s about talent. That’s the most important thing.
Jonah Hill just bought a house in the Colony and has a cool surfer chick girlfriend.
He doesn’t look anything like a movie star, but he is talented and he works and goes to the Oscars.
I surfed Old Joes with him and Spike Jonze.
You really don’t have the slightest idea what you’re talking about in any way, but neither do most of the people on this website.
It’s just amazing how dumb people are these days, but that’s how Trump got elected.
Ever see Idiocracy? It’s come true.
Mike Judge lived in Malibu for awhile but I think he moved somewhere.
Two replies, I’m flattered.
A persona is simply a fake… Who are you trying to convince, Ben?
I mean persona as in writing in a voice that isnt really your own.
Like portraying a character.
I’ve used the names Lotra Hyde and Stone Parker and Mason Thorpe in the past.
Im.surprised I’m not persona nom grata yet.
Breitvart banned me because I rag onn those clods.
I’ll keep trying. It’s therapeutical.
I mean persona as in writing in a voice that isnt [sic] really your own. — Ben Marcus
Exactly, you’re a fake…
Well I’m not a fake but the voice on this website is some facet/version of reality.
Because remember: Only the real is unreal.
You have to understand there is a whole level of American society too rich and/or smart and/or sophisto to get sucked into the while right/left miasma.
It’s the opiate of the asses.
It’s mostly nonsense for numbskulls who neither understand what they’re arguing about or fighting over.
That hovering level of American society floats above it all and throws peanuts at the silly proles fighting and rioting in the streets.
I’m surrounded by those people here and am learning by osmosis.
That’s the persona I’m evolving.
Not right wing or left wing, but Gull Wing.
You have to understand there is a whole level of American society too rich and/or smart and/or sophisto [sic] to get sucked into the while [sic] right/left miasma. — Ben Marcus
Yet here you are, backing the Democratic Party line and singing the Mockingbird songs…
Biden had the will and the courage to withdraw American troops from the world’s biggest waste of time, money and lives.
Trump would have never attempted it because if you asked him to find Afghanistan on a map, he would have pointed to the Appalachians and bragged about all the hillbilly chicks he shagged.
Trump would have never done something that risky that could have been seen as unpopular -nevermind all the civiilians being killed and Americans committing suicide and/or flooding the VA emotionally and physically damaged.
Biden pulled the plug and now Uncle Sam is no longer wasting a quarter billion dollars a day or killing civilians wholesale or killing and damaging Americans.
No the withdrawal wasn’t perfect but it was never gonna be 100% clean when you see what a chaotic quagmire Afghanistan is.
Is that evil?
No, that was leadership and vision and courage.
Biden should get the Nobel Peace Prize for that.
For ending a stupid war an occupation, started by Republicans.
Biden had the will and the courage… — Ben Marcus
Jill Biden found it necessary to issue a public statement to the effect that her husband’s aged and demented brain is not scrambled eggs.
Consider, for a moment, that such a statement was seen as necessary to shore up support for a sitting President of the United States. And, of course, Jill Biden is completely objective about the matter.
After the election was certified, some government employees openly stated how they either ignored or sabotaged their sitting President’s express orders, including reducing the number of troops in U.S. war zones. There is a word for this, a legal term…
Who else, that we do we not know about, submarined Trump’s presidency behind the scenes?
You seem to believe that Democrats are fair and objective, that only Trump and Republicans are biased and political. The simple fact is, you’re just as biased and political as any partisan Republican. What you miss is that the populist movement which elected Trump was around long before he threw his hat in the ring. That grassroots uprising is growing, and is not going away, regardless of what Trump does in 2024.
Biden’s policies are driving more and more people into the populist fold. We don’t care about Democrats or Republicans — we care about policies.
But, the only question about you, Mockingbird, that matters is: Are you a fool or a tool?
Biden had the will and the courage… — Ben Marcus
Jill Biden found it necessary to issue a public statement to the effect that her husband’s aged and demented brain is not scrambled eggs.
𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 – 𝟕𝟗 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝? – 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞, 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬.
𝐒𝐨 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦.
𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬.
𝐇𝐞’𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥.
𝐇𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐰𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐛𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐦.
𝐓𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐩𝐬𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐰: “𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭.”
Consider, for a moment, that such a statement was seen as necessary to shore up support for a sitting President of the United States. And, of course, Jill Biden is completely objective about the matter.
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬?
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞.
𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭.
After the election was certified, some government employees openly stated how they either ignored or sabotaged their sitting President’s express orders, including reducing the number of troops in U.S. war zones. There is a word for this, a legal term…
𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡/𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩?
𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 – 𝐀𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐜𝐡.
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠: “𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐰 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦.”
𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲.
𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐝 – 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝.
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧?
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐮𝐩 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐣𝐚𝐢𝐥?
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧.
Who else, that we do we not know about, submarined Trump’s presidency behind the scenes?
𝐎𝐡 𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐲𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩’𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐈𝐈𝐈.
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐡𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩, 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐝𝐚, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬.
You seem to believe that Democrats are fair and objective, that only Trump and Republicans are biased and political.
𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬.
𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬?
𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐩.
The simple fact is, you’re just as biased and political as any partisan Republican.
𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐈 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥, 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝, 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐬𝐨 𝐲𝐞𝐩 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬 – 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫.
𝐎𝐛𝐚𝐦𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫. 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫.
What you miss is that the populist movement which elected Trump was around long before he threw his hat in the ring.
𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐯𝐮𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐫, 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭, 𝐩𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐲-𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞-𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐬𝐚𝐝-𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫-𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐚𝐧𝐝-𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭-𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲-𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭-𝐝𝐨𝐝𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐭𝐚𝐱-𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐋𝐲𝐬𝐨𝐥-𝐡𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐝-𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐭-𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞-𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐟.
That grassroots uprising is growing, and is not going away, regardless of what Trump does in 2024.
𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧.
𝐇𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞.
Biden’s policies are driving more and more people into the populist fold. We don’t care about Democrats or Republicans — we care about policies.
𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧.
𝐇𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞.
But, the only question about you, Mockingbird, that matters is: Are you a fool or a tool?
𝐍𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝐈𝐦 𝐚 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝, 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐨𝐛 𝐃𝐲𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐳𝐳𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫, 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬.
𝐖𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐠𝐠𝐬.
𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐞𝐠𝐠𝐬.
𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥.
It’s your funeral.
We know what we’re doing here [California].
The rest of the country is sucking eggs. — Ben Marcus
Attaboy Mockingbird, that’s the spirit… just keep singing the same silly song over and over. No thought required.
Pence Penance
Penance for what, precisely?
Penance for being a patsy. For standing idly buy as Trump shit all over the Resolute Desk or whatever the president’s desk is called.
For saying nothing as Trump lied through his teeth, huffed Lysol as America burned, for refusing to hold press conferences.
And for doing nothing as Trump made a mockery of truth, justice and the American way.
He’s a patsy, for the proles.
He should not be rewarded in any way, by anyone, ever.
And especially not with $100,000 speaking fees.
Hopefully his whole campaign goes down in flames.
Oh Ben, Ben, Ben.
It’s all true.
And you voted for him.
Like you bet on the Yankees.
Like you bet on the British during the Revolutionary War.
Like you bet on the South in the Civil War.
etc etc etc.
You had your Vulgarian Candidate, and now thank Odin he is gone.
The first stop on Pence’s 2024 campaign trail isn’t going so well. Although I abhor Stanford’s moral cowardice, it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy. I don’t think the future of this country is with Trump but it sure isn’t going to be with Pence. And if you’re one of the people still complaining about the orange man after a year of staggering abuses by the “guy who looks a little like Biden” administration, you deserve what you get.
Deserving of what, precisely?
Moral cowardice? Pence is all about moral cowardice and that’s why Stanford wants NOTHING to do with him.
For very good reason.
Why reward the Silent Bob who stood idly by as Trump ransacked the integrity and decency of the Presidency of the United States?
And then did nothing after Trump tried to have him killed?
Pence has NOTHING Stanford wants.
There is no justification for how he behaved.
None.
Other than being an opportunistic chicken shit.
Ben, you are as dumb of politics as you are of financial affairs.
Pence is a coward and a lackey who deserves ZERO respect or time from Stanford.
They are doing the right thing.
Good for them.
California Uber Alles.
And yes, the one loan from Obama/Biden to Tesla was and is more effective than everything Trump attempted or achieved.
What is Trump’s legacy?
What did he improve?
What did he inspire, other than a riot by a bunch of mulletheads?
Nothing. Zero.
Just a big sigh of relief from Democracy.
You and the other dumbest 50% of America had your dream Vulgarian Candidate for four years, with the expected result
Brandon’s a very clear minded man. The day he was elected we were energy independent. Today our president is begging the Russians and the Saudis to produce more oil so the price will go down. Twice they said no. Yah, he’s thinking of us. Talk about collusion.
In 2020, the United States consumed an average of about 18.19 million barrels of petroleum per day, or a total of about 6.66 billion barrels of petroleum.
Biden knows America and the world has to transition to electric vehicles and renewable energy sooner than later.
Because the threat of economic meltdown from a world economy that runs out of fossil fuels is greater than the threat of climate change.
If you think rmtge economic constipation from Covid 8s bad, it’s a fart compared to an economy that runs on fossil fuels running outta fossil fuels with no alternative in place.
You don’t gotta worry about it but Biden does. And is.
Biden knows the Green New Deal is the Real Deal so he is pushing Americans to consume fossil fuels more thoughtfully.
Its called vision. It’s called leadership.
Its back.
So, Ben Marcus, are you implying you are proud of having voted for Biden and satisfied with him?
— just trying to gauge how vigorously to ignore your future comments…
Of course. Hear that noise? That’s the sound of America no longer wasting a quarter billion dollars a day, slaughtering civilians, killing Americans and flooding the VA with emotionally and physically damaged veterans. Why? Because Biden had the courage to withdraw from Afghanistan and recognize it was all a hideous waste of time money and lives.
Read the infrastructure plan.
That’s true MAGA.
More to come. You get the boilerplate.
THE BOILERPLATE
Under Obama, Biden loaned Tesla $465 million to Tesla under the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program.
Tesla used the money to modernize and robotize the Fremont plant and build the Tesla S.
Tesla paid that loan back nine years early with $15 million interest, and that loan is creating tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of billions in new wealth.
And God knows how much tax revenue. And it’s a gift that is going to keep on giving long into the future.
Look at the factory in Texas, and the jobs created there.
And look at what that loan has inspired, like Ford investing $11 billion to build battery factories and a truck plant in Kentucky.
The success of the Tesla S sparked that, and the success of the Tesla S has a foundation in that loan overseen by Biden.
Point me toward any one thing Trump attempted or achieved that comes anywhere close to that one loan by Biden to Tesla.
The truth is, the sum total of everything Trump attempted and achieved don’t add up to that one loan by Biden to Tesla.
That is proof that the Green New Deal is the Real Deal, and it’s the foundation of the American Jobs Proposal and the Infrastructure Plan.
That’s MAGA. That’s vision and leadership and success.
There’s more to Making America Great Again than parading around the proles in a stupid red hat.
“LET’S GO, BRANDON [PENCE]”
The American Founders forcefully opposed the British Crown and the entire British Empire, and milquetoast Pence could do nothing?
Wait. It’s OK for democrats to blatantly and directly violate state election laws in multiple “swing” states, but Pence can’t take action to return electoral results to state legislatures for review?
Was it OK for “Crazy Abe” Lincoln to be told by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America that he had NO authority or legal basis to suspend habeas corpus (of course, the same was true regarding legal and constitutional secession, an illegal war against a sovereign foreign nation, and the clearly unconstitutional confiscation of private property) and “Crazy Abe” did it anyway?
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“Trump Was Right: Judge Rules MI Secretary of State Broke Law with Absentee Ballot Order”
A Michigan judge went a long way to validating one of the key claims made by the Trump campaign’s post-election legal challenges when he ruled last week that a state official broke the law by unilaterally changing regulations regarding mail-in voting.
Michigan Court of Claims Chief Judge Christopher Murray ruled Democrat Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson broke the state’s Administrative Procedures Act when she issued “guidance” regarding how absentee ballots were to be evaluated “because the guidance issued by the Secretary of State on October 6, 2020, with respect to signature matching standards was issued in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act.”
As the Detroit News noted, the “Administrative Procedures Act requires state agencies that are developing a rule to better implement state law to go through months of public notices, drafts, impact analyses, public comment and public hearings.” Benson did none of this, of course.
– C. Douglas Golden March 17, 2021 at 7:37am
Has Adam Schiff done more for his cause than Mike Pence has done for his?
Has anything Adam Schiff et al. have done been factual or legal – John Durham is investigating Adam Schiff and the entire Obama Coup D’etat in America gang as we speak?
In America, if it’s liberal democrat it’s legal, if it’s conservative republican it’s illegal.
How the —- did the immutably conservative American Founders ever get their nation off the ground?
Pence joined the Adam Schiff team. Period.
Obama coup d’etat?
Hope so.
Brother is a class act.
OBAMA WANTS TO KNOW EVERYTHING WE’RE DOING
What does John Durham want to know?
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“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
– Barack Obama
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“We will stop him.”
– Peter Strzok to FBI paramour Lisa Page
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“[Obama] wants to know everything we’re doing.”
– Lisa Page to FBI paramour Peter Strzok
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“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before 40.”
– Peter Strzok to FBI parmour Lisa Page
Obama doesn’t care what you’re doing.
Obama’s presidency wasn’t a coup d’etat, it was a giant vacuum cleaner sweeping in to clean up the mess left behind by Hurricane Bush43.
Remember the Great Recession? Wasn’t so great.
Obama cleaned up that toute de suite, saved the American and international banking systems, saved the American auto industry.
He oversaw a $465,000,000 loan to Tesla which jump-started the electric car revolution and created tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of billions in new wealth.
That one act by Obama/Biden did more than the sum total of everything Trump attempted or achieved, because Trump didn’t attempt or achieve anything, other than walking around in a stupid red hat.
He tried to bring quality, affordable health care to as many Americans as possible.
Obama was a coup de grace. Class. Dignity. Talent.,
Then Trump came in with his coup d’ass.
And s#$+ all over the table.
“He oversaw a $465,000,000 loan to Tesla which jump-started the electric car revolution and created tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of billions in new wealth.”
As said by at least one other before, this statement alone demonstrates a total lack of knowledge of both the financial world and the statistical world. Additionally, it credits the genius to a loan, not human beings, while unaware of all the bad politics associated with that loan and others.
That $465,000,000 loan let Tesla robotize the Fremont plant and produce the S.
They paid it back nine years early with $15,000,0000 in interest.
Tesla went public around that time and the market cap has accelerated by more than a trillion dollars since 2010.
That’s hundreds of billions of dollars in just over a decade,which probably wouldn’t have happened without that Federal loan.
There are people all around me making stupid money from Tesla.
One friend made $17,000,000 since March 18, 2020.
How many jobs has Tesla created in Texas, building the factory, and the jobs within?
And Germany? And China?
And more to come?
And how much innovation and change and jobs has Tesla inspired around the world?
Would Ford be investing billions in Kentucky without a kick in the ass from Tesla?
They’re like the reverse Covid.
All of that was engendered by that $465 million loan.
You know so much about finance, point us toward anything Trump attempted or achieved that came anywhere NEAR that, or is going to resonate far far off into the future.
Triple dog dare you: The sum total of everything Trump attempted or achieved can’t match one loan by Obama/Biden to Tesla.
Thrill and enlighten us with your “knowledge of both the financial world and the statistical world.”
Dingaling.
You won’t, because it doesn’t exist.
Trump walked around with a stupid red hat and made people smell his farts.
Biden practices true MAGA.
You continue to play the part of an idiot. Tesla turned out to be a good loan, but it wasn’t what made Tesla what it is today. Human capita and ideasl made Tesla what it is today despite Obama’s statement, “you didn’t build that company” (perhaps a paraphrase).
Loaning money to Tesla is what the American public does when they invest or buy preferred stock. Let’s congratulate those people that used their own money and not Obama, who used other people’s money.
Obama made loans to other companies like Solyndra, where the American public, not Obama, paid the price for his failures. More importantly, when he provided his friends at Solyndra with the extra money that wasn’t his, he gave Solyndra a competitive edge that may have sent better and more deserving companies down the drain. Let’s look at that side of the failure known as Obama.
If you want more training on financial matters, then get a book out called Finances for Idiots or something like that. Alternatively, give me your address, and I will send you a bill for my services and then provide you with some knowledge so that you can progress from idiot to moron. Based on your comments already made I think it is a waste of money to try to get you past the moron stage.
Solyndra was a bust, but no one has yet made solar sexy – not even Musk.
But the loan to Tesla more than made up for the loss to Solyndra.
You think anyone else would have loaned Tesla half a billion dollars?
To make electric cars?
You think Tesla would be where it is not if they hadn’t robotized Fremont and started cranking out the S?
Obama and Biden made that happen. They helped Musk built that, and he knows it.
You don’t know what you are talking about.
Lay off the meth.
Or just go watch HeeHaw reruns and leave the thinking to thinkers.
“But the loan to Tesla more than made up for the loss to Solyndra. ”
Are you that dumb that you don’t realize that our government is not a bank that makes loans? It is not supposed to pick winners or losers. In fact, it is likely the government caused more losers with the policy you are lauding. Cash for clunkers was another braindead idea of Obama. He succeeded in raising the price of cars for people who didn’t have enough money to buy a new car.) Your ignorance is astounding.
Cash for clunkers took crappy cars off the road.
I sold a 1994 Corolla Wagon with a blown engine for $3000 to someone from Afghanistan because of Cash for Clunkers.
The loan to Tesla has created tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of billions in new wealth, and it’s a gift that is going to keep on giving.
Damn you people are duuuuuuuummmmmmmmmbbbbbb.
And to think you elected a president.
Yikes.
“Cash for clunkers took crappy cars off the road.”
It also took good cars off the road and created a lot of fraud. That single program made cars more expensive for those that could least afford them. Nonaffluent people can’t afford new cars, so when old cars rose in price, they were stuck with a higher price. Get a book and read about supply and demand. Reduce supply and prices rise, you dimwit.
Well poor people can just take the bus.
Cut down on harmful emissions.
You should take the bus.
Cash for Clunkers took bad cars off the road and offered owners cash to upgrade.
That’s a stimulus right there.
And for all of the Obama programs that might not have worked, the loan to Tesla made up for all of them.
Hundreds of billions and even a trillion dollars in new wealth.
One loan.
To Tesla.
By Obama/Biden.
Tens of thousands of jobs and a lot of new millionaires.
Ben, when people can’t believe you can get any dumber, you say: “Well poor people can just take the bus.”
That was sarcasm.
Look up the definition.
They probably use sarcasm on HeeHaw so you will recognize it next time.
Regardless of what Obama programs failed, that loan to Tesla made up for all of them.
Think of the tax revenue that sprouts from the valuation of a company increasing a trillon dollars in ten years.
Property tax, employment tax, sales tax, capital gains, etc etc.,
Oodles. More than enough to cover Solyndra or Cash For Clunkers and whatever else Obama attempted that didn’t work.
Hopefully Uncle Sam took some stock as part of the payback, but probably wasn’t allowed to.
Are you so dumb you think our government isn’t a bank that makes loans?
United States government has been financing capitalism and progress from Day One.
How do you think Hoover Dam was built? With what money?
Hoover Dam cost $165 million in 1935 dollars which is about $3,066,830,861.65 now.
And how much wealth has Hoover Dam produced since the 1930s – from Las Vegas to Asparagus?
What a really dumb statement, but what can you expect from a Trumper prole.
Again: “”𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒃𝒂𝒎𝒂 𝑨𝒅𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒍𝒂 𝑴𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 $465 𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄 𝒔𝒆𝒅𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒍 𝒊𝒕. 𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 $8 𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑬𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒚 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒑𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒖𝒆𝒍-𝒆𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒗𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒔.
𝑬𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒚 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝑪𝒉𝒖 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑬𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 $5.9 𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔. 𝑵𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒊𝒗𝒆 $1.6 𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒓𝒃𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒂 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝑻𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 $25 𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 𝑽𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒖𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒔𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝒆𝒄𝒐-𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕 25 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒆𝒍-𝒆𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 2005 𝒎𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒔.””
Tesla used that money to do R&D and modernize Fremont.$42 million to Toyota/GM to buy Nummi and God knows how much to bring it into the 21st Century.
But they did it, in record time.
They paid it back nine years early with $15 million interest.
And that money has revolutionized the auto world, created tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of billions in wealth.
And that’s a gift that is going to expand and keep on giving, far off into the future.
That’s Uncle Sam getting it right and kicking ass.
You’re a fine one to be talking about idiots and morons.
You’re still depressed because you missed the Capitol Riot.
Everyone said it was in Washington and you drove all the way from Nowheresville, Red State to Tacoma before you realized your mistake, but by then it was too late.
Too bad. You could have gone to prison in solidarity with all the other moronic mulletheads.
Got another tattoo or something.
“But the loan to Tesla more than made up for the loss to Solyndra.”
Tesla’s interest payment on that loan was about $12 million. The Solyndra loan lost about $500 million.
You gotta love creative “accounting.”
The Tesla loan has created tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of billions in new wealth.
Think of what that has spun off in taxes and will continue to spin off.
Solyndra and Cash for Clunkers are covered.
It’s like Hoover Dam: an extremely expensive government project that has spun off almost immeasurable wealth.
Same with the Tesla loan.
Tesla is the MAGA Trump bellowed about: leading the world in innovation, production and vision.
Enabled by Uncje Sam.
Would Ford be spending billions in Kentucky if not for Tesla and would Tesla have evolved so quickly without that half a billion dollar loan?
Nope.
That’s creative accounting
Tesla is a very big deal but most people have their heads stuck too far up their tailpipes to get it.
They will.
You are kind of shockingly dumb.
Are you OAFS = Old And From the South?
You aren’t from California.
All the low IQ dolts are being driven out to Las Vegas and Texas.
Tesla would not be nearly as successful without that half a billion dollar loan from Obama/Biden.
They would not have been able to modernize Fremont and start cranking out cars.
No American should be that gullible and dumb.
Maybe you’re Canadian?
Hope so.
“Tesla would not be nearly as successful without that half a billion dollar loan from Obama/Biden.”
One never knows, but one knows that type of policy can kill an economy. When we talk about brains, you are not included in the discussion.
Kill an economy?
Yeah the policy is called Republicanism. Conservatism.
Bush43 plunged the country into the Great Recession.
Obama and Team recovered the economy and set the table.
Then Trump came in and $#!+ all over the table and did more damage than Bush43.
And now Biden has to clean up that mess.
Republicans screw it up. Democrats clean it up.
There’s your policy.
Ben, you have just proven what I said to be true.
One never knows, but one knows that type of policy can kill an economy. When we talk about brains, you are not included in the discussion.
The Republicans have strangled the economy twice and almost killed it, and then the Democrats swept in to revive it.
Turn off Hee Haw and Fox and read a history book.
Or have one of the orderlies read it to you.
Bush43 wrecked the economy and caused the Great Recession. Happened on his watch. His responsibility.
Obama and team fixed it and handed off a healthy economy to Trump, who screwed it up even worse than Bush43.
20% unemplyment made Herbert Hoover jealous.
And now Biden is re-fixing the damage.
Republicans screw it up. Democrats clean it up.
When I was growing up, the Republicans were self righteous and greedy and power hungry as now, but at least they made the trains run on time.
Not any more.
“The Republicans have”
Ben, you have proven me right again.
Bush43 tanked the economy and almost destroyed it.
Remember the Great Recession?
It wasn’t so great.
Then Obama and team came in and rescued the economy, and handed it off to Trump who did even more damage than Bush43.
And now Biden has to fix it again.
You just watch Minnie Pearl and Hannity, and everything will be AOK.
Biden loves Elon Musk so much he didn’t envite him to that meeting of EV producers. Tesla is the leader in EV manufacturing but he commited one cardinal sin. No united auto workers. I wonder how soon the dims will throw the UAW under the bus. As the auto assembly lines become more robotic and less human hands on there will be less UAW money for the dims. No ticky, no shirty. The UAW will go the way of the United mine workers.
The last thing Musk wants is a bunch of clueless prole outsiders telling him how to run his company or adding another layer of bureaucracy.
So he isn’t going to invite a bunch of oily twentieth-century Goombas to tread all over his thoroughly modern 21st century Factory.
He wants nothing to do with the Union. Musk and team are smart enough to figure out their employee relationships on their own.
So far so good.
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It would have been nice if Musk had taken over a defunct factory in the north to build Teslas but that would mean union and homey don’t play that.
Are you Natasha pretending to be a boy now?? You are as long winded and idiotic as she is.
I’m Boris but Natacha is a right on Soul Sistah. She knows what’s up.
All the low IQ dolts are being driven out to Las Vegas and Texas. — Ben Marcus
Like Tesla…
Musk moving Tesla seemed disloyal at first, but it makes sense:
1. They got 2100 acres near Austin for a measly $5,000,000, Musk whipped out his ATM card and paid for it with Square.
Land is $5,000,000 an acre in California.
2. It’s good to move Tesla away from being seen as a California company, which is seen as a negative by some of the proles.
3. Smart to build a bizarre pickup truck in the heart of redneck land. That’s just good PR and Musk is a PR genius, no doubt.
4. Tesla bringing jobs to the Reddest of States is also good PR. Very very smart.
5. And Musk moved to Texas for the same reason Howard Hughes moved to Las Vegas – to avoid massive taxes on a great deal of wealth.
Can’t blame Musk for wanting to spend and invest his billions the way he wants.
He’s a genius, and should do what he wants with his dough.
I agree with S. Meyer on this one. Mr. Marcus attempts to conflate Obama’s loan to Tesla with Tesla’s success. I believe The loan was in 2010. Tesla blew through the money and lost supporters for several years thereafter, hovering just above bankruptcy all through the 20-teens, -reporting the biggest loss in history @2017-2018. It turned its first-year profit in 2020, during the Trump administration, -although I caution to add that I am NOT conflating the profit with Trump, notwithstanding Trump’s support and encouragement to others to support Tesla…
Lin, I think you are correct. I just wrote that sometimes a large capital infusion makes a company forget about money management. They can flounder when that happens. I never followed Tesla, so I don’t have much specific knowledge of Tesla, so based on what you say, it could be that the investment made them worse off.
Bubba you dint gave much specific knowledge of anything other than Minnie Pearl and Sean Hannity.
You don’t have a clue.
Tesla is a much bigger deal than most people understand.
“Tesla is a much bigger deal than most people understand.”
If Tesla were that big a deal, the government would be doing nothing but the same with all other companies and the US would be rolling in money. It wasn’t a big deal, and that is why it wasn’t repeated over and over again. Obama may have hit it lucky with Tesla, we will never know, but he failed almost everywhere else.
(I agree with Mr. Marcus that Tesla fully repaid the loan, But I agree with S. Meyer that there is questionable nexus beween the 2010 loan and Tesla’s first profit ten years later. As S. Meyer says, “Human capita and ideas” likely contributed
If you can’t believe Wikipedia, who can you believe?
Without that loan from Obama/Biden, Tesla would have been dead in the water.
Who else was going to go WAY out on a limb and loan them half a billion?
No one.
Again, show me anything Trump attempted or achieved that can come anywhere near this:
2009 Department of Energy loan
In June 2009 Tesla was approved to receive US$465 million in interest-bearing loans from the United States Department of Energy. The funding, part of the US$8 billion Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, supported engineering and production of the Model S sedan, as well as the development of commercial powertrain technology. The low-interest loan program was created in 2007 during the George W. Bush administration, and is not related to the “bailout” funds that GM and Chrysler received, nor are they related to the 2009 economic stimulus package.[32] Tesla repaid the loan in May 2013, with a US$12 million interest. Tesla was the first car company to have fully repaid the government;] Nissan repaid their loan in 2017, Ford expects to repay their loan in 2022, and Fisker went bankrupt and defaulted on their loan.
The company announced in early August 2009 that it had achieved overall corporate profitability for the month of July 2009.[35] The company said it earned approximately US$1 million on revenue of US$20 million. Profitability arose primarily from improved gross margin on the 2010 Roadster, the second iteration of Tesla’s award-winning sports car. Tesla, which like all automakers records revenue when products are delivered, shipped a record 109 vehicles in July and reported a surge in new Roadster purchases. In September 2009, Tesla announced a US$82.5 million round to accelerate Tesla’s retail expansion.[36] Daimler participated in the round to maintain equity ownership from its initial investment.[36]
IPO and Model S[edit]
On January 29, 2010, Tesla Motors filed Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,[41] as a preliminary prospectus indicating its intention to file an initial public offering (IPO) underwritten by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J. P. Morgan, and Deutsche Bank Securities. On May 21, 2010, Tesla announced a “strategic partnership” with Toyota, which agreed to purchase US$50 million in Tesla common stock issued in a private placement[42][43] to close immediately after the IPO. Executives at both companies said that they would cooperate on “the development of electric vehicles, parts, and production system and engineering support.”[43] Less than two months later, Toyota and Tesla confirmed that their first platform collaboration would be to build an electric version of the RAV4 EV.[45] In October 2014, both Daimler and Toyota sold their holdings of Tesla shares[46][47] with a combined profit of over US$1 billion.
On June 29, 2010, Tesla Motors launched its initial public offering on NASDAQ. 13,300,000 shares of common stock were issued to the public at a price of US$17.00 per share.[49] The IPO raised US$226 million for the company. It was the first American car maker to go public since the Ford Motor Company had its IPO in 1956,[51] and by 2014 Tesla had market value half that of Ford.[52] In early 2013, Tesla had problems producing the Model S, and was running out of money. Musk proposed a US$11 billion deal with Google, but improved production and a sales push gave Tesla its first profitable quarter, and the deal was abandoned
BEN: “If you can’t believe Wikipedia, who can you believe? ”
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“Nobody should trust Wikipedia, says man who invented Wikipedia”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/wikipedia-founder-larry-sanger-democrats-b1885138.html
Without that $465 million loan – which definitely wasn’t coming from China or Saudi Arabia or Google or anyone else – Tesla wouldn’t have been able to modernize Fremont and build the S.
And all Tesla had to do was pay it back.
Uncle Sam didn’t take a chunk of the company although maybe he should have.
It’s a huge deal, whether you recognize it or not.
Uncle Sam loaning money to Tesla helped Tesla skyrocket, in whole or in part, and Tesla’s success has inspired everything from the Porsche Taycan to Ford invested $11 billion in Kentucky.
And about two dozen other things.
One loan from Obama/Biden.
That’s true MAGA, not putzing around in a stupid red hat and shrieking at the proles.
So why didn’t Brandon envite Elon Musk to the White House to that meeting of EV manufacturer’s?
That meeting was for union companies making electric vehicles.
Biden essentially thanking the northern Midwest for going blue and giving Pussy Grabber the raspberry.
Musk has no interest in inviting a mob of oily 20th Century union goombas to tread all over his clean 21st Century factories. So he wasn’t invited.
Politics in other words.
S. Meyer says,
“ Loaning money to Tesla is what the American public does when they invest or buy preferred stock. Let’s congratulate those people that used their own money and not Obama, who used other people’s money.”
The American public was the U.S. government i.e. We The people. Here you say the government loaned Tesla money.
Then he says….
“ Are you that dumb that you don’t realize that our government is not a bank that makes loans? ”
He just admitted it was then he says it isn’t. Fox a guy who constantly says others don’t know what they are saying he sure demonstrates he is the biggest offender.
Sheesh.
S. Meyer is on glue and should switch to Adderall or something
Ben, just because it has been reported that you are or were on all sorts of drugs doesn’t mean everyone else is. Keep looking at life from your twisted perspective while you dream of what you could be, but make sure you keep track of the time so you can get to Malibu Kitchen before it closes. Then you can fight the other dogs for the dinner of the scraps thrown by the rich you so much want to be like.
Svelaz stood up, and intelligence left the stage.
There are rational arguments that can be made for subsidizing companies even though such rationals are debatable. However, Svelaz’s ideas don’t include them. His views include the Stupid ones used by the ignorant and those views do not demonstrate intelligent life.
He argues that the American public invests in companies which is correct. He then says that the American public is the government. Therefore it is the people investing in Tesla. He cannot see the difference between the American people as a bureaucracy and group investing in Tesla and individual investment. He is not very bright.
The individual American male like Svelaz picks a wife and sleeps with her. Svelaz cannot understand that his definition of an individual equates individuals with the group. That means any group member can sleep with his wife. The husband and wife partnership doesn’t exist.
This analogy isn’t the best, but we deal with Svelaz, who uses words like prostitutes use men. Svelaz misuses words and doesn’t care what they mean as long as he thinks he is getting his payment. Svelaz never looks at what comes alongside his pay.
“. . . anything Trump attempted or achieved . . .”
That he unleashed the energy industry’s productive prowess, by removing government obstacles. That, at least until Biden, allowed those producers to create America’s energy independence.
Those who do not know what makes wealth possible, do not know how to keep it possible.
Central Planning, Comrade!
Central planning can work if done right.
In this case, it was done right.
You’re mistaking pure capitalism for communism/socialism.
You know why?
You’re a know nothing.
Again, point me toward anything Trump attempted or achieved that has had more effect or resonation than one loan by Obama/Biden to Tesla.
It doesn’t exist, because Trump was and is all talk.
Followed by fools. The dumbest 50% of America.
Tesla is the result of a lucky guess based on political desires.
Solyndra is typical of central planning.
Probably not the dumbest thing you’ve ever said but Top Five,
Tesla is the result of smart, responsible, visionary politicians recognizing a necessary phenomenon and investing a great deal of money with a group of shockingly intelligent, proficient, talented people.
And the result is literally world changing: tens of thousands of jobs, hundreds of billions in new wealth and it’s a gift that will keep on giving way off into the future.
What is Trump’s legacy? A momentary spike in the stock price of the company that makes Lysol?
Trump is an idiot, supported by idiots.
Thank God America and Democracy survived.
Ben, if it is so dumb, it should be easy to prove.
It will be fun watching you bumble through facts while trying to provide a rational answer that one would expect from a ten-year-old.
Pearls before swine.
You wouldn’t see if if you saw it.
You’re a Trumper and a prole and a whiney waste of time.
Probably sitting in some cubicle somewhere while the world passes you buy,
Ben, you keep proving yourself to be dumb and totally unable to respond with anything useful. Get a book on supply and demand. It will be dinnertime soon, so get yourself over to the Malibu Kitchen. Then, you can fight with the dogs for the scraps of food thrown on the floor.
Malibu Kitchen closes at 5:00 and doesn’t serve dinner.
If you lived in California and not some $#!+hole cul de sac in Nowheresville, Ohio, you would know that.
Right now we’re sitting outside listening to Led Zeppelin on a perfect winter late afternoon in the Golden State.
There’s a flock of displaced tropical parakeets here, squawking up a storm – they kinda sound like Trump supporters, come to think of it.
John went fishing out of San Diego and caught a 50-pound bluefin, so tonight it’s fresh bluefin.
La dolce vita.
Prole.
“Malibu Kitchen closes at 5:00 and doesn’t serve dinner.”
Dummy, Malibu Kitchen was still open and was going to be open another hour until 5 but it was around 4 that I sent you the note. When you are fighting with dogs to pick up scraps thrown from the tables you don’t have the luxury of getting dinner after 5. You eat when you can.
I like the ceasar con carne from Malibu Kitchen.
It’s ceasar salad with tri tip.
Not on the menu, but so ono.
He used to make meatloaf cupcakes but not any more.
This is the story I wrote for LA Weekly about Seinfeld and his buddy coming there in their Porsches.
https://www.laweekly.com/weekends-with-jerry/
I didn’t name the place but Seinfeld still gave me stinkeye and then tried to buy Larry’s Lamborghini Miura 400 S.
Larry wasn’t selling. Two and a half million.
Everyone thinks the grumpy Jewish guy who owns Malibu Kitchen inspired The Soup Nazi on Seinfeld.
He didn’t but everyone thinks that and the guy Seinfeld always comes with is the guy who wrote the Soup Nazi episode of Seinfeld – Spike.
Ben: “Malibu Kitchen closes at 5:00 and doesn’t serve dinner.”
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Closes at 6:00 according to its website.
They don’t serve dinner.
Closing hours are flexible.
Ben days: “Closing hours are flexible.”
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Their website says they close at 6:00.
“. . . this statement alone demonstrates . . .”
Yep.
And that statement conveniently ignores the pull-peddling and income redistribution of such government loans. And evades the boondoggles — such as the some $500-million loan to Solyndra, which promptly went bankrupt.
Income redistribution?
Income producing.
Hundreds of billions of dollars already and that is going to increase through the coming decades.
A grand slam by Obama/Biden that will resonate far into the future, much longer than the flatulent stench of Trump’s debaculous reign.
“Income redistribution?”
When government seizes money from some, to pay for the needs of others (e.g., a loan to Tesla), that’s called “income redistribution.”
Morally, it is irrelevant whether the redistribution scheme pays “dividends.” An individuals’s money (and the time and effort it takes to make that money) is not yours to loot and redistribute.
(Incidentally, I don’t recall receiving my “dividend” checks for the portion of the Tesla loans that I was compelled to finance.)
Bhahahhahahahhaha…You are funny Ben. You should get your own late night show!!! To think there are still people who think Obama cares a lick about them. What a hoot!! He never cared about anybody but himself.
Wow you are dumb. I’m guessing Ohio or somewhere in the south.
Obana was and is a class act but you wouldn’t know class if it jumped into bed with you.
If obama didn’t care about anyone but himself, why did he break his back to extend quality, affordable health care to as many people as possible?
Why did he withdraw troops from useless wars in the Middle East?
Trump was your great white hope: someone as corrupt and vulgar and dumb as you.
You just liked him because you’re ust like him.
“visionary politicians recognizing a necessary phenomenon and” looting money from Americans to pay for their “visions.”
In essence, I don’t think Ben understands trade-offs. Being overly simplistic, one could define the cash flow by creating only two entities, Tesla and Wal-Mart. The government takes money from Walmart and gives it to Tesla. That means more high-priced cars are available in the marketplace while a higher price has to be paid for food, clothing and other things.
“That means . . .”
Excellent point.
Their entire sales pitch is based on tunnel vision: “Oh, look — Tesla. . . . And don’t dare look at the broader, long-term destructive consequences to the economy, or to some stressed soul who’s living month-to-month.
Trump is out of office and stifled from social media and back at Mar A Lago cheating at golf and shagging sad strippers when Melanoma cries by the pool.
All’s right with the world.
Election fraud is right up there with ChemTrails and Deep State and Globalists and PizzaGate and all the other nonsense spouted by dunderheaded right wing proles.
No one cheated in the election.
Trump got voted outby 8 million votes.
The same landslide that he defeated Hillary.
A clear mandate from the American people: “YOU’RE FIRED!!!!”
Just be glad he’s gone is all
Congratulations to the Judge. Anyone supporting the rejection of the VP’s speech is disgraceful. That includes Stanford.
Should the VP end up speaking, I expect the disgraceful behavior to continue with all sorts of ways to obstruct the speech. We are not dealing with mature people that value free speech. We are dealing with closed minds that get their enjoyment from controlling the lives of others.
The students of Stanford are going to reenact the January 6 Capitol riot, disrupt the speech and threaten to harm Pence.
Turnabout being fair play and all that.
But because they aren’t a mob of right wing mulletheads they could actually succeed.
Again?? Anytime you progressives don’t get your way, you riot, loot and burn things down. So typical, that you keep bringing up 1/6 when the Capitol police murdered 2 unarmed women. Kamala helps to bail out your little Brown Shirts, and innocent people who the Capitol police ushered into the Capitol are in prison for trespassing.
Two unarmed women?
They were paraplegics? That’s just mean.
And all the rioting by the left can’t hold a candle to a mob of easily-lead mulletheads storming the Capitol and trying to overturn a legal election.
The deaths of those paraplegic women can be summed up by Bob Dylan: “The moral to this story, the moral to this song is that one should never be where one does not belong.”
The Capitol police should all get Medals of Valor for not blasting the mulletheads wholesale, as they so richly deserved.
Once again proving what an idiot you are. WHY are you taking over this blog. Get your own. Nobody cares what you are bumbling about. Your lies can all be heard on MSNBC and CNN.
Where I live people are smart and sophisto and it’s rare to communicate with clueless gullible proles so one has to go online to understand how truly dumb half of America is. Thank you for your illumination and good luck.
After Pence stopped the Trump coup plot in its tracks on Jan 6th, this is the thanks the Stanford students give him?
Pence didn’t stop anything.
He did his job as the law required.
He stood by like Silent Bob for four years as Trump traded decency, the economy, the presidency and the Constitution.
Imagine still believing these things after just one year of sleepy Joe as president…wow.
Hear that sound?
That’s the sound of American no longer wasting a quarter billion dollars a day, killing Afghani civilians wholesale, risking American lives and flooding the VA with emotionally and physically damaged veterans.
Why?
Because Biden had the courage to make a risky, unpopular decision and withdraw from Afghanistan, abruptly ending a massive, 20-year waste of time, money and lives.
And that other sound is Biden dragging America kicking and squealing into the 21st Century with his infrastructure plan.
My friends who do business overseas say China is the Jetsons and America is the Flintstones.
Biden is fixing to fix that, with vision and leadership.
All this stuff is waaaaaay over your head, so you just stick to reruns of Hee Haw and watching Fox News and believing everything they tell you and don’t you worry about a thing.
Good things are happening without you.
Yes, yes of course: Biden so clearly understands decency and decent language, the wheels of economy, the inherent meaning of Constitutional clauses…
Thanks for the laugh. Glad to see the delusional leftists are alive and well on this platform.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Ben Franklin, James Monroe, Patrick Henry, John Jay, George Mason et al. called on Mike Pence to save the nation.
Pence failed them.
Pence failed America.
Mike Pence – Benedict Arnold 2.0
That is correct. Pence is a moral coward and an opportunistic sellout.
Stanford doesn’t want to tarnish the campus with his like.
+100 Ben.
May others post on the Ben Marcus Filibuster Blog today?
It’s not about money, it’s about politics and philosophy and integrity.
(Well it’s about money to Pence, who gets $100,000 a speech and is cashing in like everyone else who checked their integrity at the door for four years)
Pence stood idly by as Trump trashed the presidency, and the constitution.
And he didn’t make a squawk when Trump lied through his teeth about Election Fraud and incited a bunch of idiot mulletheads to raid the Capitol.
Mulletheads who woulda have tried to kill Pence if they had found him and got past a barrage of bullets from the Secret Service.
Stanford kids are smarter than that. Much.
Whatever Pence is selling, they aren’t buying.
Pence is a moral coward and a sellout, like everyone in Trump’s orbit.
Let Pence go talk in the south or the midwest or on Fox.
Your remarks about Pence are about as accurate as your description of his speaking fee.
If you can’t believe Vanity Fair, who can you believe? “Mike and Karen Pence are living their best lives. No, really. Almost a year after Donald Trump nearly got them murdered at the Capitol by a band of rioters trying to overturn the election, the former second couple is living in a nearly $2 million mansion in suburban Indianapolis. Mike Pence has a megawatt book deal in the bag with Simon & Schuster. And the two are traveling widely, with Mike Pence getting paid upwards of $100,000 a speech, according to Republicans who spoke on background. ”
And Pence did indeed stand idly by as Trump trashed everything good and decent.
Others didn’t.
Shameful.
Third Reichian.
Look on the bright side; conservatives are getting galvanized.
Most conservatives are really the “silent majority”.
Conservatives never demonstrate and a public display consists of noting with contempt the idiocy of Anonymous EB, Fishwings (SP?), Natacha and other Lefties
Now conservatives recognize that we are losing and we are starting to act.
Lefties may yet rediscover Yamamoto’s warning about a “sleeping giant”.
Bring it, Monument.
RINO’s, Liberals and Independents are the majority, not lying Trumpists and Q-Anon.
Whoopie Cushion is back.
Except they did vote for it, twice. But the student senate was ignorant of their own parliamentary rules that they thought it failed.
Shameful conduct by Stanford, simply shameful.
Those people have no shame
No shame?
The students of Stanford were and are deeply shamed by a puppet like Pence.