Category: Defensive Avoidance

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Captain Obvious Defensive Avoidance

Honestly, what do

Lefties have to say about Javier Milei and Argentina? It seems that the data have categorically proved their Lefty economic nonsense to be false. Do they just say nothing and hope they can avoid the topic and that people won’t notice?

That hardly seems to be in good faith! I mean, they can do it, but that means that they jettison ANY claim to truth or reality. Some will do it, but it takes a determined avoidance of the facts.

I think Milei puts them in a pretty serious bind, here. No wonder some on the Left are disparaging science and logic as “white man’s reasoning.”

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Defensive Avoidance

The “moral equivalence”

canard is a favorite dodge of the Left. It always goes broadly to the Bill Clinton route of “everybody does it, and no one is pure as the driven snow!” The immediate fall-back position is that everyone on both sides of the aisle are moral dirtbags, so (as Monty Python famously said–in “Holy Grail”), “Let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who…”

Lefties say, “Sure, he was speeding (100 mph) in a school zone, but YOU speed too! You were going 65mph in that 55mph zone! You are just as guilty of having broken the law as he is!”

Uhm, sure. Whatever you say, pal.

The “moral equivalence” wheeze is just a shuck-and-jive” meant to take the spotlight off ugly, ugly behavior. Please, don’t be fooled.

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Defensive Avoidance

It seems that

Democrats don’t even grasp it yet, but they are in a deep, deep hole. And they can’t change, because they haven’t yet “hit bottom” and recognized that what they are doing is not working and that they need to change.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. And it is the enemy of change and progression. It’s not until Democrats come to grips with their actual situation that they are even able to change. It just won’t help for them to keep whistling past the graveyard.

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Defensive Avoidance Fighting Back Lefty Political Philosophy

Understand well,

Donald Trump is NOT the cause of Conservatives starting to fight back. He recognized and voiced the disgust and anger that Conservatives already felt! And he gave permission for fighting back.

He was an effect, not a cause. And the Left has been very slow to understand that. It is much more comfortable for them to write all this opposition off as merely hero worship of Trump or some cult of personality.

But it’s a lot worse than that for them. And the Left is just not looking very hard at themselves or at the countries mood. They simply are not reading the room very well.

Trump did not cause this movement, he just rode in on it. And people on the Left don’t want to address that issue because they don’t want to say that they have been doing anything wrong–it’s fr more comfortable to just tick one’s nose in the air and say that the Right just got bamboozled by a demagogue.

But that is simply not true. What Trump is basing his actions on are real issues for most people.

The Left is in the wilderness right now. And they will stay there until they successfully come to grips with the reasons why they went there in the first place.

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A Butt-Kicking Defensive Avoidance

OF COURSE the

Democrats are afraid of Kash Patel. And they should be!

The reality is that folks on the left are afraid Trump will subject them to the same treatment they meted out against him leading up to the 2024 election. They know Democrats weaponized the justice system at the federal and state levels to target him with prosecution efforts aimed at influencing the outcome of the election. Perhaps some of these people might need to be held accountable if they engage in illegal activities, an outcome the left will surely complain about in the media.

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Defensive Avoidance Lefty Political Strategy

I’m telling you,

things are looking a little grim for Democrats. Will they be gone? Honestly, I doubt it. Yeah, maybe. But if they want to be more than a regional rump of a party, they will change before they hit rock bottom.

SPOILER: They won’t.

“Many of the Democrats who succeeded this cycle — our best over-performers in House races, for instance — are people who ran against the Democratic Party brand,” Lis Smith pointed out. “Trump tore down the blue wall in the industrial Midwest, but he also expanded his vote the most in our bluest and most urban areas.”

… The working class has become unmoored from the Democratic Party and is entirely up for grabs going forward. The scope of this disaster and the loss of massive supermajority support from blacks and Hispanics mean that, for the moment, the Democrats are little better than a regional and local party with dim prospects for nationwide success. 

And Democrats are in pathological denial. Their overweening pride keeps them defensive and unable to see the truth.

Democrats are having a hard time coming to grips with the fact that to about 2/3 of the country, many of their policies are toxic. And their arrogance in sermonizing on subjects like gender and sexual preference has many of their own voters streaming to the exits.

So I’m not worried that me telling them what the base problem is will result in them actually turning their ship around. It’s like telling a raging alcoholic to just stop drinking: Yes, that really IS the solution, but until that alcoholic has hit “rock bottom” all your words will go in one ear and out the other…

And I don’t think Democrats have hit rock bottom. Yet.

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Defensive Avoidance

Yes, but she

doesn’t dare come out. Most of that is because she is a blithering idiot and doesn’t want people to see that!

Avoidance. It’s the Democrat way!

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Deeply disturbing Defensive Avoidance Evil

How much will

Biden’s catastrophic debate performance actually hurt him? Unfortunately, I think that the foam-flecked Left is so divorced from good sense and right and wrong that it will make far less difference to them than we would hope. We are talking about gains on the margins ONLY.

Of course, on some level, we’ve long known that our lefty friends will vote for a radish if it has a “D” next to its name. Memory care patient Joe Biden’s election in 2020 and recovering stroke survivor Sen. John Fetterman’s (D-Pa.) in 2022 made this abundantly clear. But Democrats were still able to stagecraft the illusion that these men were somewhat competent. The debate on Thursday night ended that. We now know beyond question that competency is not a requirement for a Democrat candidate. Team D may as well AI-generate a “candidate” and use her to brand its actions.

As one Democrat partisan said:

It doesn’t matter if Biden’s debate performance wasn’t perfect. I’m not voting for a person, I’m voting for values:

  • A woman’s right to choose
  • Equality for people of color
  • LGBTQ rights
  • The right to vote 
  • Sensible gun laws
  • Protecting the environment
  • Future SCOTUS judges
  • The ideals and principles of the Democratic party

And THAT is what is most discouraging. Because that means that logic and data are not the right tools for this job. No, this is a form of religious conversion, conversion to the religion of Leftism, not the end point of a logical analysis. And we need to realize what it actually is.

Now that Biden has gone gone down in a flaming mishmash of incoherent gobbledygook:

But the point is that rank-and-file Democrat voters have admitted to themselves what we’ve known all along, and they are voting for the hive with eyes wide open now.

…The third leg of the campaign will be dependent on who the Democrat presidential candidate ultimately is. As mentioned above, Democrat voters do not care who it is; they are voting for their party, come hell or high water. Thus, the attacks on the Democrat candidate must be highly targeted to swing voters — disaffected Democrats, undecideds, and double-haters. As abrasive as Trump can be, his gift for summing up entire records in a nickname or catch-phrase can be invaluable here. 

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Defensive Avoidance Political Strategy

It’s almost always

a mistake debating with a Leftist. It’s like teaching a hog to play the piano; It is very unlikely to bear fruit and it just irritates the hog. Many Leftists act like they are beholden to reason and logic, but, in fact, they are not. Leftism is their religion, and no facts, no reason will get through to them at all. They are impervious to such things. Usually, they will not even debate a point, as that would be leaving their “circle of safety.”

It’s called,”Epistemic Closure.” They already know, and there can be no more knowing!

BUT, they will be smug and condescending, so they’ve got THAT going for them…

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Defensive Avoidance

Step one:

Biden refuses the Presidential Debates Commission.

Biden is not YET saying he will refuse any debate with Trump, but I strongly suspect that is coming–this is just the first step. Maybe team Biden will risk one meth-laced debate, but probably not even that. Still, Biden may be so behind in the polls that it is a kind of “last gasp” gambit on his part–shoving all his chips into the middle of the table, so to speak.

And the hope (for Biden’s camp) is that Biden can not crap his pants on stage and, with MSM cheerleaders and “ringer” moderators doing some very heavy lifting, seem almost cogent for that hour or so.

UPDATE: Huh. I honestly thought it would never happen. But maybe it will! The truth is, Biden has to do something to stop the bleeding. That is what may be behind this.

I really thought that Biden would never debate. But it appears now that I was wrong. Let’s see if it actually happens.

“I’m ready to go,” Trump said. “The dates that they proposed are fine. Anywhere. Anytime. Any place. Let’s see if Joe can make it to the stand-up podium.”