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Rush Limbaugh is Wrong – Alabama is Not McConnell -vs- Bannon, It’s Bigger…
The Last Refuge ^ | November 14, 2017 | sundance

Posted on 11/14/2017 10:14:46 PM PST by Bratch

CTH has attempted to stay away from talking about the Alabama ‘clown show‘, all of it, since we made our position clear long before the primary run-off race.  Play stupid games, win stupid prizes etc.

My concern with the Alabama mess was a very simple MAGA issue: riding horses to polling stations does not establish a connection to the man or woman who hit the necessary alarm clock at 5:15am to pay the bills.  Those are MAGA people. That’s the essence of the Trump coalition.

The MAGA coalition I know has never been predisposed to racism, sexism, nativism, or any other kind of “ism” or “ist”, because we’ve never been not busy. It takes time to give a rats-ass about bathroom police, social justice etc. Time and energy for that, who has it?

The current position of the epic fiasco was/is entirely predictable…. warnings, deaf ears, blah-blah-blah; water under the bridge.  That said, the current race to the exits by all of the fly-by-nights (populist wallflowers) is embarrassing to see play out.

Factually, I feel sorry for Mr. and Mrs. Roy Moore… However, I don’t have a smidgen of sympathy for the noob-right financial opportunists: Steve Bannon, Laura Ingraham, Sebastian Gorka et al, or the political Roberts-The-Bruce: Ted Cruz, Mike Lee etc. Heck, I’m still waiting for the ‘Use El Chappo Money to Build The Wall‘ bill…  I digress.

So why engage now?  Well, today Rush Limbaugh weighs in in using the customary (passive aggressive/mamet principle) approach to frame the argument as: “The Roy Moore Soap Opera is Really About McConnell -vs- Bannon”. No, no it’s not.

I understand the frame of reference, why Limbaugh views it that way, but that’s not an accurate assessment.

The UniParty is against Roy Moore, not just simply Mitch McConnell and the professional political apparatus within the GOP elitist class.  Things are not what they were in 2014.

In 2014 such a Limbaugh framework would be accurate (though the GOPe cat had his tongue back then).  Indeed, during the 2014 Thad Cochran -vs- Chris McDaniel race the current perspective of Limbaugh would have been accurate.  But that was then, this is now 2017.

In 2014 there were billions worth of personal and party indulgences at stake; in 2017 there are trillions of UniParty indulgences at stake.

In 2014 Mitch McConnell was trying to use Thad Cochran to defeat the Tea party.  In 2017 the entire apparatus of the DC system is trying to use Alabama to defeat the existential risk that is Donald Trump.

If ‘political strategist’ Steve Bannon, or ‘political thinker’ Rush Limbaugh, were half as smart as they say they are, they’d chip in buy a vowel, get a clue and see that.

This is no longer small enough for individual personalities, this is a much bigger zero-sum outcome battle albeit with useful side-benefits in smacking Bannon’s ego down to size etc.  Which, in all honesty, speaking as a person on the same side while watching the idiots on our team giving the enemy ammunition, would not be a bad thing – AT ALL.

Domestic DC battles are to billions what multinational UniParty battles are to trillions.   Alabama is bigger than McConnell or Bannon.  Alabama is now as much about NAFTA, China, renegotiated trade deals, geopolitical alliances and Saudi Arabia, and the trillions swirling around via multinational corporate interests.

The swamp is engaged, self-aware and the deep-state part is self actuated now.  Instructions are no longer needed.  Each cell can operate independently to protect itself from any confrontation.  Thus the arguments are bigger; every angle is weighed as does it improve position, or does it weaken position… way-points are transparent. Globalists don’t need to give direction in feet or inches, the battle is much bigger, more broad – the decisions are about “generalized direction”.

Example: NAFTA Round #5 (Mexico) begins this week:  “lest trade disputes create friction with NAFTA-supporting Republican lawmakers.”

Example: “Republicans” control all senate hearings:

For the first time in over 40 years - the Senate today examined a president's unchecked authority to launch a nuclear strike @NBCNightlyNews

  — Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) November 14, 2017

Example: Remember when the Senate voted unanimously to block President Trump from making recess appointments?   That rule required “unanimity”, a single Republican senator could block the Senate from handcuffing President Trump.  Not a single Republican broke ranks.

The professional political class in DC, the UniParty, is not confronting Steve Bannon though he’d probably like to make money off that outlook. The united political apparatus is confronting something far more consequential than the annoyance that Bannon represents; they are confronting the framework of ‘America First’.

That bigger dynamic is what’s adverse to their interests.  Bannon is an annoying gnat.

When you accept that difference you are then prepared to ask yourself the question(s):

♦What would/will the professional apparatus do to protect their interests?

♦How far are they willing to go to oppose anything that appears adverse to those interests?

“Christmas Yearbooks”?

Written in two sets of handwriting?

Using two different inks?

Uh huh.

Go read about a republican operative named Harvey Leroy “Lee” Atwater, and how he trained a young protege’ named Karl Christian Rove in political warfare against other republicans.

Remember, from the Uniparty’s perspective they have nothing to lose in Alabama by getting caught making crap up.  They were going to lose the race anyway…. so why not pull out the black arts.   It’s simply how they roll.

 

ps. Friends in Alabama, you must fight like an insurgency.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; blackink; blueink; maga; moore; roymoore; uniparty
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1 posted on 11/14/2017 10:14:46 PM PST by Bratch
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To: Bratch

Rush will crush Sundance like a friggin’ bug!


2 posted on 11/14/2017 10:20:12 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (10% pure, flat income tax for everyone. No deductions, credits, or loopholes.)
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To: Bratch

Every step of the way, the Washington establishment has guessed wrong on Alabama. If they block Moore, every single GOP prentender in the state is finished.


3 posted on 11/14/2017 10:28:37 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: Bratch

I didn’t realize that el gordo de oxycontino was still on the air...Imagine that.


4 posted on 11/14/2017 10:32:03 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Trump is successful, Bannon is successful, Limbaugh is successful. Sundance has a blog. I could have a blog 15 minutes from now.


5 posted on 11/14/2017 10:33:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Written in two sets of handwriting? Using two different inks?

Hoax

6 posted on 11/14/2017 10:37:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Bratch

CTH?


7 posted on 11/14/2017 10:39:10 PM PST by Boomer (TisOK2BWhite)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I listen to Rush every day and read Sundance opinions as well. I would not be so sure of your supposition. Sundance goes out on a limb a lot and low and behold, he is right almost always. Rush doesn’t go out on a limb much. Sundance predicts. Rush observes. Were Rush to crush Sundance he would lose a lot of his show prep.

Just sayin.


8 posted on 11/14/2017 10:46:15 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: Boomer

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/


9 posted on 11/14/2017 10:49:02 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Two different colors of ink.

That image you have has been altered.


10 posted on 11/14/2017 10:53:56 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Why do you say this? It seems to me that Sundance has been precisely correct about Trump all along, including the Trump agenda, especially trade as a geopolitical tool/weapon.

Has Rush been on the same page? He was run out of Hilo some years ago on radio, so I only follow him on FR, but he seems to have been quite late to board the Trump train. What do you base your statement on?
11 posted on 11/14/2017 10:54:31 PM PST by jobim
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Brilliant analysis. Spike Lee is successful, Bono is successful, Paul Krugman is successful & a PhD. Iowa Hawk has a blog. I guess that means those guys are smarter and better writers than IH.

Why do you equate success with accuracy, or talent I guess? Are you familiar with the content of Sundance's writing, and find it wanting?
12 posted on 11/14/2017 11:02:59 PM PST by jobim
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To: Bratch

THIS IMAGE NEEDS TO BE AS WIDELY CIRCULATED AS POSSIBLE!

It is almost perfect!

All it needs now is some a communist symbol included.


13 posted on 11/14/2017 11:08:44 PM PST by patriotfury (May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tent!)
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To: Bratch

The 22nd of December in 1977 was a Thursday.


14 posted on 11/14/2017 11:11:38 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: SunkenCiv

I have a questions.

- Even if this “year book” allegedly signed by Roy Moore is legitimate, how does this prove Roy Moore sexually assaulted or sexually harassed this woman? *When I graduated from High School, I personally saw numerous signatures from adults, EVEN FROM OUTSIDE SCHOOL STAFF, including business owners, soldiers, police officers, judges, and politicians, signed in similar language. Even using the word “love”.

- Regarding the picture itself, not that it validates assault, can anyone provide other handwritten signatures from the same year from Roy Moore? I know there are Roy Moore signatures and hand writing from different decades which are significantly different from what is in this image.

- When did Roy Moore become a District Attorney?

- Do we know with certainty, this “year book” was circulated before or during December 1977, the date signed?

- Were the 7’s, different ink, and different angular slants used between the writing and print, written by the same person at the same time? They are not the same.

At the end of the day, I really do not see how this validates assault of any kind.


15 posted on 11/14/2017 11:41:24 PM PST by patriotfury (May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tent!)
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To: patriotfury

“I have questions”


16 posted on 11/14/2017 11:45:43 PM PST by patriotfury (May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tent!)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

You hear anything about McConnell being removed from military service because he was caught in a compromising position? He , Lugar and the coach from ,Illinois were suppose to hit the interns up. Never thought too much about it until one was accused and the second decided not to run. THat leaves Mac Turtle ! Would Sessions and Moore have information from their pedofilia crackdown


17 posted on 11/14/2017 11:53:07 PM PST by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: hoosiermama

Look into McTurtles Military history. Told him to FOff after a few days. 9 as I recall but that is just what I heard. Records are “sealed.”

Rumor has it he was engaged in sodomy as the receiver and got caught. All those years in the Senate? The congressional gay bathouse aka workout room. No wonder the dottering old fool wears depends. A Grand Canyon sized ahole is not leak free.


18 posted on 11/15/2017 12:20:46 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Tick Tock May be heading to D.C. Area soon. Sessions and team have already broken up several pedofilia rings around major cities.


19 posted on 11/15/2017 12:29:57 AM PST by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: Bratch

This piece is similar to what Media Matters does. Grab a line and react. Rush further down in the discussion comes close to the author’s idea that it’s the whole swamp not just Bannon v. McConnell - perhaps that’s where he got it and thought no one else would read further.

Rush:

“So you’ve got McConnell responding to Bannon. There’s no question that’s a lot of what this is. ***But you’ve also got the swamp.*** Nobody in either party wanting this guy anywhere near Washington, DC. And it doesn’t matter what the voters want. It doesn’t matter. Just on the basis of allegations, it doesn’t matter, because there isn’t a conviction, there isn’t without-a-doubt proof or any of that. It’s just that they don’t want this guy anywhere near there. And that’s what they’re gonna make happen.

This is a microcosm of what they’re trying to do to Trump. They’re essentially trying to say Trump is not fit, Trump is not worthy, Trump is not justified. There’s a coup that’s been underway to essentially disregard the duly constituted presidential election of 2016.”


20 posted on 11/15/2017 12:56:56 AM PST by Kent C
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