The Harris interview, Street Prayers by Muslims in Ottawa, Updates on vaxx injuries and a thought or two about Nixon: Links 1 for Oct. 17, 2024

1. 26 minutes of Kamala Harris’ peculiar contentless soporific nonsense. What is fascinating is that she speaks as if Trump is the incumbent, and not her. She is railing against her own record of the last 4 years as if it was Trump’s. And this is not stupidity. Its banking on the electorate’s stupidity.

As an aside, she appears to be wearing the same earrings as on the debate and still couldn’t manage a decent answer.

2.  On the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the usual combination of communists, Students LARPing as terrorists, Muslims and a few dialectic Jews protested the existence of Israel in front of the Israeli embassy at 50 O’Connor st. in Ottawa. At one point, the Muslims decided to block the street with the usual prayer rituals that have become so common in other non-Muslim nation-states that Islam is in fact colonizing.

This prayer ritual is interesting in that its clearly a militarization of religious ritual. Without having gone to any of them, I feel certain that blocking main roads with Islamic prayer is never done in a Muslim country. This is a provocation to which the reaction is treated as an excuse to act against those provoked. The same tactic the left uses repeatedly, perhaps especially with the ‘Trans’ issue.

Please see this video to watch this process in action, and read the article describing it at RAIR.

3. As it usually does, The Babylon Bee does an excellent representation through humour of the actual status of things. And although this one is really good, our favorite BB headline remains: “FBI discovers it is much harder to solve crimes they did not commit themselves.”

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4. Dr. Peter McCullough update on vaxx injuries, VAERS reporting and real world consequences of the use of the mRNA shots.

Dr Peter McCullough cuts to the chase with some words of advice for MAHA!!

‘ I’ve never seen somebody come in with myocarditis and heart failure or a blood clot because they ate some frosted flakes. I’ve never seen it. But I’m telling you right now people who take these shots… pic.twitter.com/kCjpyHjyD3

— Kat A ? (@SaiKate108) October 15, 2024

5. Many of you in Canada may have listened to Le Petit Dauphin, Trudeau use the clear and obvious Chinese or otherwise foreign control of our government to try and do what he always does, cast aspersions on the Conservative party. Here is a Former CSIS official who says that EVERY GOVT and EVERY PM for the last 5 decades has been compromised.

#WATCH: Justin Trudeau said today intelligence agencies have made him aware of the compromised individuals within the CPC…

Former CSIS official says EVERY GOVT and EVERY PM for the last 5 decades has been compromised.

Trudeau mislead Canadians under oath! pic.twitter.com/GTGgQH4Ciu

— govt.exe is corrupt (@govt_corrupt) October 16, 2024

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The more I listen to this guy the more I get why such a vast vast majority of the American people voted for him, and why the anti-state had to get rid of him. He was actually pretty much the same as Trump is today. He wants to return to a constitutional Republic with the power closer to the people.

I was very young when he was in power, but I remember how it was made the apotheosis of cool to hate on Nixon. But not on Nixon as he was, but the caricature created by various organized critical theory attacks. I did used to read Hunter S Thompson in the 70s and 80s. Hells Angels is an amazing read, as is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He was, if memory serves, the only author who Rolling Stones Magazine had an instruction to publish every word he said without proofing, without editing and totally as submitted. If writing can have charisma, Thompson had it. But he was at least in part, responsible for creating a homunculus of Nixon. He made it cool to hate him. To mock and ridicule the mannequin they made of the man.

This critical theory abortion of Nixon still exists in pop culture today. A Thompson-esque version of Nixon is still featured on Futurama. A passably entertaining cartoon show by the same people who created the Simpsons.

In fairness to Futurama though, they didn’t start their show till two decades after Nixon left office. Futurama premiered in 1999 and apparently is still running on Hulu, although no idea if the themes or characters have changed since its first few years. Nixon was elected in 68 and stepped down in 74. It is more a look at the remnants of the creature created by critical theory attacks on Nixon at the time. Read Hunter S on the Campaign Trail for a look at how it was done when he was actually in politics. As I was a young child at the time, it is hard to make definitive comparisons. But one may notice that the critical theory attacks on Bush II when in office were much more severe than we remember. People would approach me in bars and break the ice with statements about hating Bush. Especially when I visited the US. They assumed as a Canadian, it would make me like them. They are not as harsh as on Trump over the past 9 or 10 years, but they were indeed very harsh. The media would never miss an opportunity to place a magnifying glass on the most incidental thing to make Bush look stupid and/or evil.

Perhaps the Hunter S Thompson of the Bush Era was Michael Moore. His characterization of Bush was every bit as deceptive and mean spirited and small minded as the attacks on Nixon and Trump. Even trying to turn his reading to children at the time the 911 attacks happened into an attack on him. Come to think of it, was very similar in style to Thompson’s attacks on Nixon. Saul Alinsky rule XIII. Attack the person, not the idea. People are easy to bring down.

Asked Chat GPT how Thompson characterized Nixon:

Hunter S. Thompson had an intense, personal disdain for Richard Nixon, whom he frequently characterized in highly negative, vivid, and often extreme terms. In his works, particularly in Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 and various articles, Thompson portrayed Nixon as a symbol of corruption, dishonesty, and everything wrong with American politics.

Some key elements of how Thompson characterized Nixon include:

1. Moral Corruption: Thompson viewed Nixon as fundamentally corrupt, both morally and politically. He believed Nixon’s career was built on deception, backstabbing, and manipulation. He called Nixon “America’s greatest moral disaster,” reflecting his view of Nixon as someone who fundamentally betrayed the American people.
2. Paranoia and Control: Thompson portrayed Nixon as a deeply paranoid individual, obsessed with control and secrecy. He saw him as the architect of an era of government overreach, dishonesty, and suppression of dissent, which he viewed as culminating in scandals like Watergate.
3. Anti-Democratic Tendencies: Nixon, to Thompson, represented a threat to democracy. He saw the former president as willing to undermine democratic principles and institutions to maintain power. He was particularly critical of Nixon’s use of dirty tactics during elections.
4. Cultural Antagonist: Thompson viewed Nixon as the ultimate enemy of the counterculture movement of the 1960s and 70s, a period during which Thompson himself was heavily involved. He felt that Nixon embodied the values of the conservative establishment, which stood against everything the counterculture was fighting for—civil rights, free speech, and an end to the Vietnam War.

Interesting, Innit.

The last time I mentioned Nixon to an Obama supporter, he mentioned the missing 18 and 1/2 minutes of recordings from the Oval Office.

And where, I asked, are the missing 8 years of the Obama white house recordings?

I suppose a few words about Watergate are needed. Compared to the scandals of people like Obama or the Clintons, Watergate was not only not a crime, but was actually an attempt to reveal one by the Democrats in a sense. Even if it was as advertised, the point of the Watergate Break-in was to obtain evidence of Democrat moral or actual crimes. Deepthroat, it is now known, was in fact a disgruntled FBI officer, FBI associate director Mark Felt, who was passed over for promotion by Nixon and decided to teach him a lesson. He manipulated a couple of  journalists, one of whom, Woodward, had only been a journalist for 9 months, for a notoriously left wing paper, the Washington Post, who followed his instructions right up to a pulitzer prize.

Haven’t seen any journalists do a series of articles like that on say, Seth Rich. Well, kinda sorta one maybe but he was put in jail without formal charges or trial in the UK for many years before they coerced him into a guilty plea in order to get some fresh air before he dies.