MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Via the loquacious Steve Schmidt:
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by artappraiser on Sat, 10/03/2020 - 12:51am
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/03/2020 - 12:54am
More Steve waxing florid:
More Steve in replies
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/03/2020 - 1:40am
Some illegal immigrants worse than others
Pink shirts? Who'd a-thunk.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/03/2020 - 6:54am
But Twitter today has been doing it different, see #ProudBoys (led,I have an inkling, by Geo. Takei?). Anyhow, I find it very GenZ, like when they bought up all the tickets for the Tulsa rally.
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/03/2020 - 10:01pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/03/2020 - 9:57pm
Steve did good, knows his target:
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/04/2020 - 2:24pm
Baiting Meadows (I am reminded of Tokyo Rose! )
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/04/2020 - 2:27pm
He's testing - when the time comes to pluck out his eyes, will he be ready?
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 10/04/2020 - 6:17pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/05/2020 - 2:08am
Sounds like they are salivating to me.
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/05/2020 - 6:17pm
"Inside The Lincoln Project's War Room," The New Yorker, Oct. 5:
by artappraiser on Tue, 10/06/2020 - 2:14am
Rick Wilson @ The Daily Beast, Oct. 5 "The ‘Fuck Your Feelings’ Crowd Wants a Pity Party for Trump"
by artappraiser on Tue, 10/06/2020 - 2:18am
now this doesn't sound good:
by artappraiser on Tue, 10/06/2020 - 1:43pm
Okay Donald, lets see you play three rounds of golf before you talk about what infection you might not get.
by moat on Tue, 10/06/2020 - 5:01pm
Your dare begs the question:With who? Not that some wouldn't, not suggesting that. Just wondering who would be thinking along the lines of "feeling lucky punks".
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/07/2020 - 8:52pm
Team Covid!
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/07/2020 - 8:47pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/07/2020 - 9:10pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/07/2020 - 9:31pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/07/2020 - 9:43pm
Steve Schmidt "first dance" with Trump:
earlier:
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/08/2020 - 12:39am
Looking for Donald's stutter
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/08/2020 - 12:51am
yeah, they play rough, it's the real old fashioned definition of gaslighting just like in the Bergman/Boyer movie
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/08/2020 - 12:57am
Heh, evergreen tweet, used when they need a break?
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/08/2020 - 11:04pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/08/2020 - 11:19pm
note they set up #WheresJared, already has lotsa tweets
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/08/2020 - 11:21pm
on a tear, lol
by artappraiser on Fri, 10/09/2020 - 7:45am
Some of Steve's latest riffs:
by artappraiser on Fri, 10/09/2020 - 7:54am
Yet who are these Project Lincoln guys...
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 10/09/2020 - 1:30pm
Oh they are using thug tactics, no doubt about that to me. It's just fascinating to be able to watch what they do out in the open now. This political campaign business is rough stuff, not for the clutching pearls type. Wish it weren't so.; is what it is. Myself, I would never want to be part of it.
by artappraiser on Fri, 10/09/2020 - 2:41pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/10/2020 - 1:45am
^^^ Important aside, note the debate question on screen: How will you address civil unrest in South Carolina?
Don't tell me that protests right now aren't counter-productive! I'm sorry, they just are! Campaign pros are probably hearing it from focus groups allover the country, including people afraid of the violence the election might bring. Keep reminding them over and over by protesting aggressively in suburbs and making sure videos of such things get plenty of play on Facebook. Getting attention, right, getting people to think about maybe they should vote for that Republican. Dems certainly don't seem to be able to handle it, the protests are mainly against Dems!
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/10/2020 - 2:00am
Note they say the source is "From Joe Biden".
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/10/2020 - 3:29pm
This carefully crafted bit of theatre comes across to me like an old horror movie where the undead walks in slow motion in pursuit of a screaming girl who is hauling ass through the foggy woods yet cannot get away. He's coming. He is inevitable. But, is he real? Who cares. He aint Trump and he aint Bernie.
by A Guy Called LULU on Sat, 10/10/2020 - 4:07pm
hah. Hope for their sake the target audience doesn't see it like that.
Myself, I always read a bit of snark or tongue-in-cheek into the cool-dude-Joe pix like the one driving the convertible, almost like a self-deprecatory joke: Grandpa can still role play Obama if you want him to
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/10/2020 - 4:40pm
hah, at The Villages in FL today, this is fabulous, don't know who paid for it, Reed Galen of Lincoln Project just retweeted it:
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/10/2020 - 8:09pm
new Black Biden-Harris ad
(*Not* Lincoln!)
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 10/11/2020 - 12:16pm
This just popped up on an unrelated search, look how he has has a deep instinct about how he won basically running against folks like that
In a way it's very strange how a Queens born and bred guy who liked to play king of Manhattan gets the whole anti-urban sentiment of many swings.
Meanwhile radical youth are protesting against some of those in the ad as agents of the fascist police state and basically ignoring him.
I certainly wouldn't use this ad in non-urban areas. Cause lately the message to anti-urban swings about their rule is:everybody living under these folks is miserably unhappy with them, and it's coming from the left, from protesters.
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/11/2020 - 2:22pm
and oh look Mitch is playing a similar fiddle right now. (tho kinda hard to buy Chuck Schumer as an angry flaming leftie--he's definitely an urbane northeasterner, but it's clear he's suburban too.)
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/11/2020 - 2:36pm
George Conway retweeted (Bess is a screenwriter)
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 12:02am
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 4:41am
George Conway retweets about xenophobic divisiveness causing trouble for a spouse of a politician:
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 7:20pm
Lots of Lincoln Project attempts at direct gaslighting of the Drumpf today:
and they retweeted this from The Fly for good measure:
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 7:33pm
just added:
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 7:36pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 10/13/2020 - 8:02pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 10/13/2020 - 8:26pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 10/13/2020 - 8:55pm
Wow, he honed his comic skills on Henny Youngman, how quaint. "ancient suburban women, will you love me?"
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/14/2020 - 12:46am
Do you remember the olden days like I do when politicians asked people for the favor of their vote at the end of a debate or speech?
He really is the first PoMo president. The "reality" TV show thing. I fear no going back from what he has done in that department, probably worldwide.
(I remember that in 1980, I actually feared Reagan would do that because he was an actor. But turns out he knew how to play the role of a politician without ever breaking character. One solid narrative all the way through, one version of reality...)
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/14/2020 - 3:07am
I notice they are always trying a new hashtag, see if it will catch (I think Trump even complained about them doing that if I am remembering correctly?)
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/14/2020 - 4:04am
Use them all
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/14/2020 - 4:34am
well I think this time they are beat by Meidas Touch, looking like they are going to have a real big hit with
#TrumpGraveDancer
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/14/2020 - 4:49am
Killer Mike, eh? That's cold... but good.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/14/2020 - 6:54am
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/15/2020 - 12:24am
Yeah, kinda sux to be bailed out by self-absorbed disaffected right wing shitslungers. I mean, what role did these guys play over the last 15 years? I'm glad theyr not going the Mitt Romney route, and truly grateful for the work & success, but still, the irony's not lost. And the feeling that Dems still can't really stand up for ourselves, except 2008 when we had a once-in-a--lifetime hope-and-change candidate/message with a huge ground game that's now disappeared.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/15/2020 - 2:11am
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/15/2020 - 11:32pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 10/16/2020 - 4:11pm
Courting General Kelly:
by artappraiser on Fri, 10/16/2020 - 8:56pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 10/16/2020 - 10:31pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/18/2020 - 3:42pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/18/2020 - 3:56pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/18/2020 - 4:04pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/18/2020 - 4:15pm
They are doing like a machine gun today:
Maybe that is partly timing choice, as a Sunday is when people do things like surfing the internet on politics?
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/18/2020 - 5:47pm
Yeah every couple hours with the Trump gaslighting:
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/18/2020 - 10:15pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/18/2020 - 10:08pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/19/2020 - 12:56am
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/19/2020 - 12:59am
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/19/2020 - 6:12pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/19/2020 - 7:34pm
(there is a Spanish version of the above for Floridians)
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/21/2020 - 10:35pm
I'd like to think the one I did for Trump inspired this, bit it's too obvious.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/24/2020 - 2:43am
Reed Galen retweeted, I suspect so very proud that they got a serious rise out of the Jvanka subsidiary of Trumpco:
Must admit that when I saw their picture of the billboards, I thought it wasn't their best project as no one is going to Times Square anymore so Jvanka probably won't give a damn. Shows what I know, would not make a good political insider
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/24/2020 - 1:55am
Steve Schmidt sounds pleased as punch with the billboards, added a twitter rant related to the prospect of long-term messaging of the same type being "joyful work." Sounds more like fatwa and jihad to me :
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/24/2020 - 2:14am
More seriously, I note that Schmidt is definitely threatening a major cancel culture war. It's "get some morals or lose your career." Trying to be objective and fair I would question "and whose morals might those be?" The old GOP term "the moral majority" comes to mind...
He does do the role play of hell-and-damnation preacher quite well, even though it's always somewhat tongue-in-cheek with him, with something like the children story, I suspect very little.
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/24/2020 - 2:21am
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/24/2020 - 7:51pm
WOWSER, rough stuff now, blatant gaslighting of Trump, targeted directly at him, in new 1-minute ad:
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/24/2020 - 7:43pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/24/2020 - 7:53pm
George Conway to Rudy:
and on Fox News agitprop
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/24/2020 - 8:03pm
Edit to add, more ridicule on topic:
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/25/2020 - 9:01pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/26/2020 - 1:10am
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/26/2020 - 1:12am
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/26/2020 - 1:05pm
clearly they are hot on being able to win Georgia Senate, they keep picking away:
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/29/2020 - 1:20am
turd mentality:
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/31/2020 - 4:29pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 11/01/2020 - 1:35am
by artappraiser on Sun, 11/01/2020 - 12:23pm
Reed Galen retweeted:
and then posted his own version:
by artappraiser on Mon, 11/02/2020 - 5:08am
by artappraiser on Mon, 11/02/2020 - 5:12am
by artappraiser on Sat, 11/07/2020 - 11:59am
I have, I came to find out as they gained prominence, despised the Lincoln Project since well before its actual creation as a successful money making political career machine. My opinion is based on the cynical careerist positioning of everyone associated with it that I know anything about and upon their craven politics. Sometimes the enemies of my enemy are no-good pricks with actual long term agendas that I am strongly against. You seem to not only welcome their help but admire them individually as well. You are welcome, of course, to correct my view, or alternately to simply ignore it.
by A Guy Called LULU on Sat, 11/07/2020 - 1:31pm
I am going to ignore it except to say: democracy works through coalitions of the moment in order to gain a majority will on something and purism is a real killer of it. And over the years I've noticed you'd rather have the peacenik party be purist losers forever. I've never seen you express support for any presidential candidate that ever won office. You're willing to sit and wait for a millennium in order to keep your minority principles. The courts are the branch of government we have to protect minority interests like yours as you are sitting and waiting and the rest try to make democratic sausage.
by artappraiser on Sat, 11/07/2020 - 1:50pm
I acknowledged them as the enemy of my enemy and have declared from the beginning that I would vote for Biden as a vote against Trump, so I hope that satisfies the political expediency you recommend. I strongly supported Obama in his first run which earned me in inclusion your set of "Obama bots" at the time.
I think that is a willful misreading of positions I have taken. It is ridiculous to think that I want ideas that are important to me to meet with defeat. I have argued that our government should be much,much less militaristic. There is no peace party that I or one percent of our country could identify by name for me to support and then relish in their defeat. I have supported peace activists who almost universally work to change the Democratic Party in order to accomplish their goal to whatever extent possible. They/I do not wish to lose but rather wish to win in a party that will find other means than militarism and brutal sanctions, which are a method of war, as their method of international politics. I believe that The Lincoln Project moves the Democratic Party in the wrong direction. I do not want them to be influential in the Democratic Party.
Edit to add: It is accepted form here at dag, almost always respected, to note when you edit to add.
by A Guy Called LULU on Sat, 11/07/2020 - 2:38pm
Good for you then. I really don't want to debate about it, there's so much more interesting things going on than deconstructing the decades-ago opinions of individual Lincoln Project participants. What they do in the future is what interests me.
Sorry you feel I broke Dagblog etiquette rules which were operative back when there were a lot more people participating here. I've gotten used to this basically being a private space for a few people where only a few bother to participate. Certainly even the owner has abdicated from any participation during this election, yet he maintains it and to my knowledge hasn't asked anyone using it to leave.
And to reiterate what I've said to you many many times in the past, I don't find extensive debate with the same people over and over useful or entertaining. I find it a detriment to my mental health when I am tempted to do it. I am happy to read other people's contrary opinons but I don't find extensive debate useful at all. You are gonna have to find another partner
by artappraiser on Sat, 11/07/2020 - 2:59pm
p.s. I really really really have no use for arguing old times and old stances when radical change like this is happening every minute.
by artappraiser on Sat, 11/07/2020 - 3:20pm
I gave up ETAs years ago.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 11/07/2020 - 4:33pm
So, you really don't want to debate about it because there's so much more interesting things going on than deconstructing the decades-ago opinions of individual Lincoln Project participants. What they did in the past doesn't matter. What things they may contribute to in the future is what interests you. Well, what they may do in the future interests me too. Where we differ is that you see no reason to judge their past and think it might hint at their future actions. I gotta admit I can see the [good?] effects of that way of thinking as, for example, I see Shrub Bush being rehabilitated in the public eye. Despite the horrible things he did we can just be more comfortable if we think of his new approval as a great cultural advance towards bipartisan intelligent governance and social harmony, his reinvention as something acceptable by cunningly displaying him in human form, even as something admirable. Just think about it, if this trend continues then in just a few short years we can welcome Trump back into polite society and look to him for sage advice! Maybe even give him prime time on Shows like Rachel Maddow's as a paid commentator if he needs the cash. I mean if he changes we can and yeah, people change, sometimes.
Oh yeah, all of the above is just opinion which you say you are happy to read.
by A Guy Called LULU on Sat, 11/07/2020 - 7:36pm
I read it.
And yeah, I'm more into like this kinda thing
Rather than re-litigating 2003 (not to mention1968) like you seem to like to do, not to mention grudges grudges grudges.
Here's my philosophy: the only constant is change. And Tempus Fugit, times a wastin. Memento mori, he's coming for you, not just "them". Nobody ever said on his deathbed: damn I wish I had punched that neo-con in the nose in 2003. And anti-zealotry, dislike the Inspector Javert character, I really have no interest in hunting individuals to the ends of the earth.
It's 2020, Lulu, and a pandemic is stalking all human beings.
by artappraiser on Sat, 11/07/2020 - 7:49pm
Well well well, we're finally on the same side. Will wonders never cease. But as much as i see it as you do Arta is probably correct to, that Biden needed them to win, and to be the attack dog so he didn't have to. It would have conflicted with his fantasy of unity and bipartisan cooperation with republicans. Honestly though, the republican senate is the best thing that could have happened for Biden. He can blame them for stopping him from doing things he never really wanted to do in the first place. And he can blame them for passing republican legislation the left hates but Biden actually wants.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 11/07/2020 - 1:59pm
Reed Galen says straight out that The Lincoln Project will not use its skills against Dems in the "not-too-distant future":
by artappraiser on Sun, 11/08/2020 - 8:31pm
Uh oh, food fight with Geraldo:
And Steve Schmidt can't let go, he doesn't want the grifters to get one thin dime more:
by artappraiser on Sun, 11/08/2020 - 11:12pm