Reflections on the charm and charisma of George W. Bush after seeing him throw out the first pitch of the World Series, and some comparisons of War Pigs Past and Present . . .
I never thought Fauci was the least bit charming -- though he probably was able to charm a lot of AWFLs, since AWFLs aren't real humans -- but I thought Fauci's *lack of charm* was paradoxically what helped him bullshit so many people. He claimed to be grounded objectively in "the Science," and a lot of people probably bought that claim, because he came across like a nerd who aced all his chemistry exams because all he did was study (as he had no social life). Fauci is an interesting case.
If you can stomach it, Joan Baez painted Fauci's portrait, calling him a mischief maker making for beneficial social change without violence, a man of towering moral fortitude.
This piece reminded of the brilliant line in Inglorius Basterds: "We like our naaazis in uniform." It's to our strategic advantage to have enemies that look and sound like what they actually are. I was grateful for Brandon's Independence Hall speech, for just one example.
It's nice when the villains dress like villains, like that bizarre outfit like something out of a James Bond movie that Klaus Schwab has been photographed in. The Dark Brandon speech, as you pointed out, is another perfect example. The "bad guys" today have such little self awareness, they don't even seem to realize how they come across, and hence see no need to tone it down or sugarcoat any of it. These really are strange times.
Neo-con-artist: nice one. As for charm: what, you expected Satan to have horns and hooves? No, he's a man of wealth and taste. If the actual Antichrist comes as a person, they will to all but the most discerning seem to be the most charismatic, likable, trustworthy, effulgently radiant person ever born.
"On the other hand, I feel like the brazen buffoonery of the Brandon Administration is insulting. It’s like they hold us in such contempt, they cannot even be bothered to keep up appearances anymore..."
This is exactly what I think. It is a way to try to demoralize us and show us who's in power.
Thank you, sir! Yeah, that's how you get people to give up and stop resisting: by degrading them to the point where the insanity and cognitive dissonance breaks their mind and will. It's a power move, like Caligula with his horse. "You will act like this is reasonable and legitimate, and you will bow down before this absurd symbol, because you are a slave!" It's a fate worse than death.
Very true. And they're probably about to unleash their best BS'er to pinch hit for an incapacitated Biden: Gavin "American Psycho" Newsome. God help us!
Oh yeah, I saw someone remark about Obama on Twitter (I think it was James Lindsay, but I could be wrong) that his political strength was being able to utter banalities while making it sound profound. Of course, Obama's job was made a lot easier by the fact that he was basically America's rebound after her disastrous relationship with Bush.
Bush had me fooled and I absolutely detest him for that. Somewhat like Ted Bundy who would entice his victims with charm, Bush gave a false front to the savagery he unleashed.
Bush was either the best con-man ever, or he was the useful idiot and mask of sanity worn by the psychopathic neo-cons of his administration. I still don't know which one he was. Either way, he was a catastrophically bad President. Right up there with Woodrow Wilson, LBJ, Obama, and Joe Brandon.
FDR certainly laid much of the groundwork for the commie managerialism strangling America to death today. And speaking of charming bullshitters, that man was tailor made for the dominant medium of his era, radio.
Yeah, it's not much of the "great American pastime" anymore. In terms of who's really playing the game now, it's more like the great Dominican pastime, if anything!
You're right. And that makes him interesting. He's analogous to the manipulative, narcissistic woman who is able to get away with it when she's young and physically attractive, but as she ages and her sexual allure degrades, she has a tougher time concealing the nastiness of her personality. Biden's brain is gone, so he lacks the intelligence and self-control to know how to paper over his character defects with charm -- yet he (and his handlers) still put him forward as if he still had it. Here is a man who lived long enough for his chickens to all come home to roost in his old age. Future civilizations will tell cautionary fables based on Biden, I'm sure.
The handlers stick our faces in it when they have this senile crumb out there trying to tackle the teleprompter. The game of making the leaders sound strong used to be played with a lot more dexterity. Now it’s as if they’ve just thrown their hands up and said Who cares what the public thinks.
Which is either very encouraging or very disturbing, depending on how you frame it. In other words, is their indifference a sign of the real power brokers' strength, or their weakness?
I’m sure the real power broker is the former President and he has no trouble talking down to people and giving orders. His minions are all over Samantha Power, Susan Rice, Lisa Monaco. He’s much more successful now in his role of debasing America thru Biden.
But Obama came out of nowhere to give that convention speech in 2004, and then from there went straight to the top in 2008. Some very powerful people anointed him, and of course, he delivered. 8 more years of war profiteering and big-time bailouts and endless QE for the bankster cartel. Not to mention all the cultural Marxism that got pushed into the mainstream during his second term. He's in the inner ring now, but he sold his soul to get there to whoever it was that facilitated his rise to prominence and power.
This is an interesting phenomenon, and in no way unique to the U.S. The same happens all around the «West» and even in the backwoods of Eastern Europe.
You can be stupid and be charming. You can also be supremely intelligent and not charming at all. Or you can be smart and charming or stupid and not at all charming. All other things being equal, intelligence can help you figure out how to become more charming, but what usually happens -- especially beyond a certain point -- is that intelligence gives you a perspective from which the whole "popularity" game seems so petty and childish that it's hard to have any enthusiasm for it. Bush may have been so charming because he was not more intelligent.
Fauci is the greatest mass murderer in the Industrial Age, and yet liberal progressives think he is the most charming man in America.
Death Cult leaders are always charming.
Biden and Kamala are charming to the death cult members.
I never thought Fauci was the least bit charming -- though he probably was able to charm a lot of AWFLs, since AWFLs aren't real humans -- but I thought Fauci's *lack of charm* was paradoxically what helped him bullshit so many people. He claimed to be grounded objectively in "the Science," and a lot of people probably bought that claim, because he came across like a nerd who aced all his chemistry exams because all he did was study (as he had no social life). Fauci is an interesting case.
If you can stomach it, Joan Baez painted Fauci's portrait, calling him a mischief maker making for beneficial social change without violence, a man of towering moral fortitude.
https://m.facebook.com/OfficialJoanBaez/posts/10158507480764417/?wtsid=rdr_0SPYJbhWXjHrVbyPN
Well, there were people who made paintings of Stalin and Mao too. Some artists have a thing for mass murderers for some reason.
This piece reminded of the brilliant line in Inglorius Basterds: "We like our naaazis in uniform." It's to our strategic advantage to have enemies that look and sound like what they actually are. I was grateful for Brandon's Independence Hall speech, for just one example.
It's nice when the villains dress like villains, like that bizarre outfit like something out of a James Bond movie that Klaus Schwab has been photographed in. The Dark Brandon speech, as you pointed out, is another perfect example. The "bad guys" today have such little self awareness, they don't even seem to realize how they come across, and hence see no need to tone it down or sugarcoat any of it. These really are strange times.
Neo-con-artist: nice one. As for charm: what, you expected Satan to have horns and hooves? No, he's a man of wealth and taste. If the actual Antichrist comes as a person, they will to all but the most discerning seem to be the most charismatic, likable, trustworthy, effulgently radiant person ever born.
If the actual antichrist comes as a person, he will probably be mistaken for the real Christ by a lot of people.
I think that's pretty much the whole idea. If the Megachurch JUDEO(christians) ever proclaim Jesus is back, that'll be the Antichrist.
BOOM!
"On the other hand, I feel like the brazen buffoonery of the Brandon Administration is insulting. It’s like they hold us in such contempt, they cannot even be bothered to keep up appearances anymore..."
This is exactly what I think. It is a way to try to demoralize us and show us who's in power.
Good article, Daniel, Thanks.
Thank you, sir! Yeah, that's how you get people to give up and stop resisting: by degrading them to the point where the insanity and cognitive dissonance breaks their mind and will. It's a power move, like Caligula with his horse. "You will act like this is reasonable and legitimate, and you will bow down before this absurd symbol, because you are a slave!" It's a fate worse than death.
Not just the "Brandon" administration, it's the Democratic National Party.
Very true. And they're probably about to unleash their best BS'er to pinch hit for an incapacitated Biden: Gavin "American Psycho" Newsome. God help us!
Speaking of getting away with anything, Obama.
Oh yeah, I saw someone remark about Obama on Twitter (I think it was James Lindsay, but I could be wrong) that his political strength was being able to utter banalities while making it sound profound. Of course, Obama's job was made a lot easier by the fact that he was basically America's rebound after her disastrous relationship with Bush.
Bush had me fooled and I absolutely detest him for that. Somewhat like Ted Bundy who would entice his victims with charm, Bush gave a false front to the savagery he unleashed.
Bush was either the best con-man ever, or he was the useful idiot and mask of sanity worn by the psychopathic neo-cons of his administration. I still don't know which one he was. Either way, he was a catastrophically bad President. Right up there with Woodrow Wilson, LBJ, Obama, and Joe Brandon.
Don’t leave out Mr Peanut.
FDR certainly laid much of the groundwork for the commie managerialism strangling America to death today. And speaking of charming bullshitters, that man was tailor made for the dominant medium of his era, radio.
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Arizona Diamondbacks? I guess I haven't watched baseball for decades, lol!
Yeah, it's not much of the "great American pastime" anymore. In terms of who's really playing the game now, it's more like the great Dominican pastime, if anything!
Biden had charm when he was younger. And he had a thicker skin than most Democrat politicians.
You're right. And that makes him interesting. He's analogous to the manipulative, narcissistic woman who is able to get away with it when she's young and physically attractive, but as she ages and her sexual allure degrades, she has a tougher time concealing the nastiness of her personality. Biden's brain is gone, so he lacks the intelligence and self-control to know how to paper over his character defects with charm -- yet he (and his handlers) still put him forward as if he still had it. Here is a man who lived long enough for his chickens to all come home to roost in his old age. Future civilizations will tell cautionary fables based on Biden, I'm sure.
The handlers stick our faces in it when they have this senile crumb out there trying to tackle the teleprompter. The game of making the leaders sound strong used to be played with a lot more dexterity. Now it’s as if they’ve just thrown their hands up and said Who cares what the public thinks.
Which is either very encouraging or very disturbing, depending on how you frame it. In other words, is their indifference a sign of the real power brokers' strength, or their weakness?
I’m sure the real power broker is the former President and he has no trouble talking down to people and giving orders. His minions are all over Samantha Power, Susan Rice, Lisa Monaco. He’s much more successful now in his role of debasing America thru Biden.
But Obama came out of nowhere to give that convention speech in 2004, and then from there went straight to the top in 2008. Some very powerful people anointed him, and of course, he delivered. 8 more years of war profiteering and big-time bailouts and endless QE for the bankster cartel. Not to mention all the cultural Marxism that got pushed into the mainstream during his second term. He's in the inner ring now, but he sold his soul to get there to whoever it was that facilitated his rise to prominence and power.
This is an interesting phenomenon, and in no way unique to the U.S. The same happens all around the «West» and even in the backwoods of Eastern Europe.
Often after a time the charm wears down, cloys, starts to droop, sours. Like my Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.
Fidelito is in a league of his own in terms of psychopathic bufoonery.
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Charm and charisma of bush , are you nuts ! He was a moron beyond stupid
You can be stupid and be charming. You can also be supremely intelligent and not charming at all. Or you can be smart and charming or stupid and not at all charming. All other things being equal, intelligence can help you figure out how to become more charming, but what usually happens -- especially beyond a certain point -- is that intelligence gives you a perspective from which the whole "popularity" game seems so petty and childish that it's hard to have any enthusiasm for it. Bush may have been so charming because he was not more intelligent.
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