Presidential Houle Hoop Deployed

Hey everybody,
Hope you're all doing well. Long time no see, eh?

I've had a pretty serious political reality check and have not much to say here any longer, but I do wish you all well.

I just wanted to share this after the fucking stunning demagoguery by President Biden. It reminded me of something, Seneca Doane's vicious takedown of Dana Houle. It seems like President Biden has Mastered the Incredible Adjustable Houle Hoop:

Step 1: BEFORE DEPLOYING YOUR HOULE HOOP

Specifics are for losers. Numbers are quite specific; don't let them capture you. You may deploy numbers whenever appropriate, but make sure that people know that, if challenged, any idiot should have known that you were speaking figuratively. So say things like "95% of this site agrees with me and 5% disagrees," because no one is really going to tote up who does or doesn't agree with you, and if they do you can always say that the people who visited a specific diary aren't representative of the site. Don't be like George Bush: always have an exit strategy!

Comparative terms are safer. Say things like most critics of Barack Obama on this website are ridiculous and should be ignored, but some are legitimate and should be listened to. Who's who? That's the hard part -- you might have to justify your categorization in long and boring and possibly losable argument. Luckily, you don't have to say! If challenged, that is when you are ready to deploy your Incredible Adjustable Houle Hoop!

Best of luck to you all.

Peace & Happy Jamming

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but I didn't get the point of your essay. Could you clarify it a bit?
I hope you have been faring well, and will continue to do so.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

@on the cusp

where the original article was posted (by some attorney) back in 2009 it's a bit
clearer - it outlines a method of argumentation whereby you never have to get
bogged down in problematic things like evidence and logic with those you disagree with -
by defining who and what is legitimate (outside the Houle Hoop) or illegitimate (inside).

'Naturally' you cannot be expected to treat the 'illegitimate' with any seriousness and thus avoid any obligation to deal with anything substantive they might have to say.

Not a little ironic that this is pretty much SOP on DK, but the original poster of the diary seems to have been active there at least as recently as 2018, with a strong mojo rating...

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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal is joined by Katie Halper to watch and analyze Biden's American exceptionalist address painting "Maga Republicans" as an existential threat to the "soul of America."
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bySoYpedVcM]
It's a little long at over an hour, but I fast forwarded it during the slow parts.

Nice to see you around. Hope the Frisbee games are going well.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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@Lookout

...that has ever been produced about a President's speech.

You know what? The terrifying reality we must all face, is that the Left must fail in the US and be completely wiped out — before the US government can finally implode upon itself — bringing to an end the US rampage against world peace. Until then....

Never before, prior to this video, has it been so clearly demonstrated that the US Uniparty is convinced that its existence is threatened by any form of internal protest — from the Left or the Right. They have thrown down the gauntlet — via brain-dead Joe.

Plan your identity carefully, because this is what it is.

No political action, including elections, can save you.

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@Pluto's Republic
“Laying low in the holler” seems a very reasonable action plan. (H/T Lookout, NOT snark) There are currently no functional tools of democracy remaining in the West.

Survive, then rebuild.

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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all."
- John Maynard Keynes

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@Pluto's Republic

With the WEF placed leaders in the collective west openly admiting the people/voters in their own country don't matter...their "great reset" agenda is the priority.

Germany's Foreign minister...

“If I give the promise to people in Ukraine – ‘We stand with you, as long as you need us’ – then I want to deliver. No matter what my German voters think, but I want to deliver to the people of Ukraine,” Baerbock said at one point.
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“We are facing now wintertime, when we will be challenged as democratic politicians. People will go in the street and say ‘We cannot pay our energy prices’. And I will say ‘Yes I know, so we help you with social measures.’ But I don’t want to say ‘Ok then we stop the sanctions against Russia.’ We will stand with Ukraine, and this means the sanctions will stay also in wintertime, even if it gets really tough for politicians.”
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“We have to face reality: this Russia will remain a threat to peace and security in Europe for the foreseeable future,” she wrote. Baerbock accused Moscow of threatening Europe’s “social peace” by sending “troll armies to undermine our elections” and using “power games” with coal, gas, and oil, presenting the Greens’ long-standing environmentalist agenda as a matter of national security.

https://www.rt.com/news/561934-baerbock-ukraine-voters-sanctions/

What deluded propagandized idiots. And it plays the same across the west - from Truss to Turdoo... and Biden. They are ready for the protests with the empowered militaristic police.

Take care and be well!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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Rest assured that "that left" will die an ignominious death, literally and figuratively, they'll be the first to go once the culture war is "won", the fucking irony...

But to get them out beforehand, I'm afraid it's too late. That horse has left the barn, you've got to unteach a generation amidst AI centralized propaganda...

The fight at the time of Seneca Doane's piece here was when it happened Pluto. The Great Purge was the last battle for the Left, and 2008 financial crisis was the death of liberal economics - no more property/class lefties allowed.

Marxists who don't care about class are really dangerous critters.

Peace~

@Pluto's Republic

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“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu

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go, I guess... still living the dream. Smile

@Lookout

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“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu

Barack Obama wins Emmy

The 44th US President won the “outstanding narrator” Emmy for “Our Great National Parks,” a five-episode Netflix documentary series, produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s own production company, “Higher Ground.”

His most prominent award is the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize he received just nine months into his presidency, for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” largely on speculation that he would deliver on his promises – while the US instead started new wars and prolonged existing ones under his watch.

Gag me with a spoon mommy

https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/562134-obama-emmy-outstanding-narrator/

What's next? Shrub gets an art prize?

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@QMS

What's next? Shrub gets an art prize?

He'd have to outcompete Hunter...

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to Biden - from recently naturalized citizen, Alma Ohene-Opare:

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we get from the political classes is waffle-speak and baffle-gab or flamethrowing. Often it is both. Sadly there is justification for the form, if not the content because unqualified universal statements generally don't cut it empirically. All one can do is sigh or laugh and speak of other things, of shoes, of sealing wax, of cabbages and kings; and wallow in metaphor and music. So don't be a stranger, politics is allowed but not required - Just always remember that the ruling class is not on your side and the government is not your friend.

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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and I'm certainly not trusting of authority.

I can't deal with the politics because everyone seems to be arguing over the game rules as advertised on the box and can't be bothered to notice that the game being played is NOT the one on the box we've been taught, or even that we thought it was 10 years ago...

@enhydra lutris

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All we can be certain of is that there has been no progress at all in the parts of national life that really matter in the United States.

We are rolling backwards, downhill, dragged back by the sorriest excuse of hypocritical leaders and consistently wrong decisions and bad judgement that any government has ever been saddled with.

It's so pathetic that it is not worth lamenting over. We can only stand apart and live the best lives we can on the way to the bottom. Or, emigrate. as our much more courageous and determined ancestors did.

You are always welcome here.

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@Pluto's Republic

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I had a realization a few months ago, not really an epiphany, but something close:

These people can't believe that they're going to defeat Russia with Twitter, can they?

I think they do. I think they might actually believe what they're fucking doing. Which is FAR more frightening than them being cynically manipulative.

I think the Collective West, along with the rest of the world, just realized that the rest of the world doesn't really need them.

I also happen to see the death of the West as a necessity for the next Great Leap Forward. Not looking good, IMO. Peace~

@Pluto's Republic

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With great regret for the terrible choices the US was making.

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@k9disc

I think the Collective West, along with the rest of the world, just realized that the rest of the world doesn't really need them.

I also happen to see the death of the West as a necessity for the next Great Leap Forward. Not looking good,

Iw won't be pleasant, or fun, but it pretty much has to happen and it looks like TPTB have pretty well managed to lock it in so the options are grit your teeth and watch or try to enjoy the ride, and I tend to go with the latter.

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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I think the collapse is upon us.
Putin and Xi are engineering the destruction of the Western Hegemony/dollar.
And the global banksters, NWO/ great reset creeps, and 1%ers will not be invited into the new world order.
Hold onto your hats, it gonna get turbulent.
Thanks for checking in.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

stating who is in charge, why, and how. Voting, and electoral politics, is a joke.
https://scheerpost.com/2022/09/05/chris-hedges-lets-stop-pretending-amer...

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I've had a pretty serious political reality check and have not much to say here any longer, but I do wish you all well.

Am I missing some context, maybe?

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!