Nothing ruins a great word faster than inappropriate overuse. It’s like dousing a foul smell with perfume. The word picks up the stench too. Such is the case with “joy”. In yet another political con job, Vice President Harris has been wrapped in a false veneer of joy. The idea is to trick voters into thinking her cackle and vacuous dialog are the result of her boundless joie de vivre.
Thanks for your comment Nate. I guess the bullet points are not as well worn as they need to be or the joy campaign would be a total failure.
I cannot resist a response on the vaccines - vaccines were ineffective. They did not stop the spread of the virus or prevent it. They may have reduced the severity but generally people of military age did not get much benefit from them. It was travesty that military folks were fired for refusing them.
Thanks for adding this Farrox. I was unaware of it until yesterday. Harris’s entire campaign is chilling. That they have borrowed elements from the Nazis only makes it more so.
Yep. Look it up. 1933 platform slogan. "Strength through Joy". And the dems accuse Trump of being Hitler.... The Dems are expert at accusing the other side of what they are guilty of or doing including but not limited to spreading misinformation (the Hunter Laptop and Covid); undermining democracy (not allowing a free and fair democratic primary resulting in an initial coronation of Joe who was and has been cognitively challenged for years; trying to keep Trump off the ballot,; weaponizing the DOJ to interfere with elections; coronating the worst VP in history following what every one knows was a soft coup without soliciting the opinion or electoral guidance of the people; and marketing the product known as "Kamala" who is running from everything she has passionately espoused and stood for less than 4 years ago as well as from the administration of which she has been a part. There is so much more that can be said but I will rest.
Yes there is so much more wrong with this entire picture. Meanwhile I see posts on social media about how happy folks are there might finally be a woman president. This is the wrong time for such superficial behavior, yet here we are. Hopefully enough people wake up in time.
Appreciate your list, but there is so much wrong with Harris . . .
But then it is not really Harris, she is just a reflection and facilitator for the Democrat party - It’s high on power, but its policies do not really represent the wants and needs of the vast majority of the American people.
So I sit here and wonder if the problem is that the American people are too easily deceived, or is it that the Dems have gotten so good at deception, that we no longer stand a chance. God, I hope she looses, I can’t imagine her as president.
So agree. To list all the problems with her and her handlers would’ve required a book. But you are right, she is just a replacement puppet for Biden. If she manages to win, all the masks will come off.
I feel like they THINK they’re so good at deception because they’ve gotten away with it for so long. They dismiss the fact that more people are on to them. Overconfidence may be their downfall. We can only hope.
So you’re a Republican. Why are you, a woman, engaging in public discourse? You’re supposed to be scrubbing floors and letting your husband beat the crap out of you. That’s the ONLY role conservatives allow women to ever have. You’re a liar or an idiot to say otherwise.
Nope. Republicans want women removed entirely from all of public life. That’s the whole purpose of Project 2025, abortion bans, laws or policies against birth control, and removing the right of no fault divorce. Add to that all the fake panic about birth rates and it’s really obvious that Republicans hate women, even the women.
You are a Republican. This is proven by your love letter to that waste of space Trump. You are, therefore, either a fool or a liar.
What is really disheartening is that some people will buy style over substance and will not check out her policies.
The Heritage Foundation now has a website, https://dangerouslyliberal.com/, that calls attention to the radical agenda and policies. Hope that undecided voters take the time to research policy positions.
So agree. Will they though? I have seen some exchanges on social media that are very concerning. Some number of women will vote for Harris solely because she is a woman and others because of the color tint of her skin. It’s frightening. These folks have not connected the dots between her policies and more importantly the policies of her handlers and the consequences. Like so many other nationwide con jobs they swallow it hook line and sinker. Hope something real catches their attention between now and when they vote.
Yup. I do wonder if it has always been this way or if people are more conditioned to believe the con jobs. I have been wondering if there is some way to quantify that. It seems far more prevalent now but not sure if that is true.
I just finished the article. Very interesting although I think I might need mind altering drugs to understand Marx’s rambling! Just kidding. Harris uses that phrase so often there must be intent. Just marrying that language with the “Great Reset” tells us where she is coming from.
What I find is TFP and it's subsidiaries seem to think political corruption, cintrolling government, and lies to the general populace is a single party ailment. It is both D and R that reap the benefits of "the system". To distill complex multi generstional issues into pathetically simple tropes is buying into the farce. I have seen the enemy, it is us! So we have a sexusl predator, and a Christian inquisition on the right, and a big government, everybody gets a prize on thr left, and a SCOTUS of pathetic sycophants, who belive no one, Including every person who can read, is as smart as them. So, wave the Weird flag, Union cards, Let's go Brandon, pride flags and all the other badging that funds these cause. Like lemmings that just want to belong, the purchasers unwittingly fund and perpetuate the disfunction of this wacky world, whining all the way. Yup. I have seen the enemy, it is us!
Thanks for your comment Trebor. I enjoyed it thoroughly. As you might imagine I agree with some bits and disagree with others. Yes for sure both parties lie and cheat. Trump's lies during the primaries were particularly frustrating. Yes many succumb to the marketing ploys of both parties with their flags and sound bites.
However we can contrast the Repub and Dem primaries quite clearly. The Dem machine influenced both the Dem and Repub primaries in undemocratic ways that should frighten all of us. The weaponization of the justice department and related lawfare created a martyr out of Trump leading to his nomination and blocked RFK Jr from participating. Even if Repubs wanted to pull off third world stunts like that, they are far too ineffective to do so. Why aren't you and others completely outraged over this?
Trump was the Dems desired opponent due to the visceral hate they and Trump himself helped create during his Presidency. This makes him easier to beat than a fresh candidate and allows the incredibly vapid joy campaign a chance to succeed. How many voters still believe he colluded with Russia or called the KKK very fine people? A large percentage I reckon. Trump's own behavior has assisted with this persona.
But Trump, regardless of my perception of his faults, actually won the primary via a vote by the people. The Repub machine did not attack his competitors with lawfare and try and keep them off the ballot. We know who he is and what he stands for. I do not agree with all of his policies but at least we have an idea what they are unlike his opponent who does not list one policy on her campaign page. We do have her history however and the policies she has supported through her career would be a disaster for our country.
Harris is the beneficiary of what appears to be the Dem con of the century. Anyone who did not realize Biden was in serious mental decline when he was propped up as the 2024 Dem candidate needs a reality check. We should all ask WHY party bosses picked someone incapable of being President, blocked any competitors and ensured his nomination. I reckon replacing him was the strategy all along and predicted this would happen in an April 23 article called "Predictions". I was wrong about Harris though. I thought they would get rid of her first.
When you combine the above with the totalitarian tendencies of this administration to censor speech, attack opponents, flood our country with illegals thereby undermining our national and financial security, undermine energy policy, we should all be thoroughly frightened by the bold arrogance of the machine running an empty vessel candidate plastered with joy who does not have one policy listed on her campaign page. Again we should all ask WHY. Yet all we hear is "Trump" or finally a woman president or let's break the glass ceiling. Superficiality at its best.
As someone else said voting for Trump is a crap shoot, voting for Harris is national suicide. Does Trump have the skill to lead this country away from the totalitarian cliff? I don't know but I feel quite certain a vote for Harris will take us over.
Can't vote for a convicted sexual predator, or someone who at least had a tacit part in Jan 6. The citizens of the US act as if they are external to the process. But when what is wrong is mottled into " well, it could be right" the slide begins. The truth is, as a nation we hold no truths. So, dethrone your mentor, appoint a Frat Boy to SCOTUS, weaponize the DOJ, grab a crotch, sell AR's to drug cartels then complain about the border, work with Big tech to cull personal data, espouse Christian values while wrestlers get raped on your watch, it doesn’t matter. In the end the powerful are a league, where the champions are crowned but the runner ups still remain in the league reaping personal riches. People who are driven around in bulletproof SUV's with bodyguards cannot relate to the common man, thay are in a different league! They can manipulate like Chessmasters useing pawns as endless subterfuge while they protect kings and queens. It is us vs them, Washington and the other 1%. If you don't get that well, there is a another January 6 coming up in a few short months.
Agree with many of your points but imo we are between a rock and a hard place with two seriously flawed candidates and parties. Yet one of them will be President soon. We must ask ourselves who will do the least damage. For me the answer is clear.
I hope people watch the speech by RFK adding his support to the Trump campaign. Maybe the Democrats who simply hate Trump and don’t care about policies will think hard after they read your blog and listen to what he has to say.
Yes his speech clearly outlines how far down the corruption slope we have come. Combine that with the marketing campaign for an empty vessel candidate who has no policies on her website, people should be very nervous about the intentions of the man behind the curtain. But based on what I have seen online, far too many are caught up in the joy, the fact that she is a woman and most important she isn’t Trump.
It’s decently written and treads some well-known talking points, but lacking in originality. It seems to miss the point of the whole “joy” schtick, which is to contrast her with Trump’s message of fear and restoring an idealized but false past. It also adds too many bullets, many of which are just pandering to the echo chamber such as about vaccines being “ineffective.”
Its strength is a bit well known, but that we don’t know much about her policies other than some half-assed economic stuff. For someone who was the Veep for 4 years, she sure hasn’t constructed much of a vision. But the reason she’s getting away with this is because Trump himself provides no policy specifics!! Sure, he’s at least courageous enough to go before reporters, but then he rambles the polar opposite of policy, usually a bunch of nonsense and lies. Ultimately, Kamala’s fear of the press is pretty pitiful, but Trump cannot capitalize on this weakness! Live by the Dodge, Die by the Dodge.
Thanks for your comment Nate. I guess the bullet points are not that well worn or the joy campaign would be a total failure.
I cannot resist a comment on vaccines - they did not stop the spread of the virus or keep people from getting. They may have reduced the severity. Generally people of military age did not get much benefit from them. So one has to ask why people were fired over not taking them. It was a travesty regardless of the true motivation behind the policy.
Agree that Trump is not capitalizing as he could.
While I agree the joy facade may also have been deployed to contrast with Trump, my guess is the main reason is to turn her incredible negatives into a positive. But as outsiders neither of us will know for sure.
Thanks for your comment Nate. I guess the bullet points are not as well worn as they need to be or the joy campaign would be a total failure.
I cannot resist a response on the vaccines - vaccines were ineffective. They did not stop the spread of the virus or prevent it. They may have reduced the severity but generally people of military age did not get much benefit from them. It was travesty that military folks were fired for refusing them.
Not to mention the Nazis used it as a slogan:
Strength Through Joy
Kraft durch Freude
Thanks for adding this Farrox. I was unaware of it until yesterday. Harris’s entire campaign is chilling. That they have borrowed elements from the Nazis only makes it more so.
Yes, very chilling. The parallels are staggering.
Yep. Look it up. 1933 platform slogan. "Strength through Joy". And the dems accuse Trump of being Hitler.... The Dems are expert at accusing the other side of what they are guilty of or doing including but not limited to spreading misinformation (the Hunter Laptop and Covid); undermining democracy (not allowing a free and fair democratic primary resulting in an initial coronation of Joe who was and has been cognitively challenged for years; trying to keep Trump off the ballot,; weaponizing the DOJ to interfere with elections; coronating the worst VP in history following what every one knows was a soft coup without soliciting the opinion or electoral guidance of the people; and marketing the product known as "Kamala" who is running from everything she has passionately espoused and stood for less than 4 years ago as well as from the administration of which she has been a part. There is so much more that can be said but I will rest.
Yes there is so much more wrong with this entire picture. Meanwhile I see posts on social media about how happy folks are there might finally be a woman president. This is the wrong time for such superficial behavior, yet here we are. Hopefully enough people wake up in time.
Exactly. They show their hand when they accuse others.
Appreciate your list, but there is so much wrong with Harris . . .
But then it is not really Harris, she is just a reflection and facilitator for the Democrat party - It’s high on power, but its policies do not really represent the wants and needs of the vast majority of the American people.
So I sit here and wonder if the problem is that the American people are too easily deceived, or is it that the Dems have gotten so good at deception, that we no longer stand a chance. God, I hope she looses, I can’t imagine her as president.
So agree. To list all the problems with her and her handlers would’ve required a book. But you are right, she is just a replacement puppet for Biden. If she manages to win, all the masks will come off.
I feel like they THINK they’re so good at deception because they’ve gotten away with it for so long. They dismiss the fact that more people are on to them. Overconfidence may be their downfall. We can only hope.
Harris has replaced the Kardashians. She's the new trick in town for those voters who need to be constantly entertained to avoid their boring lives.
That’s a good comparison
Excellent!!!
Thanks Colleen!
Fuck Harris and weird walz!
I don't know why, but the bird visual had me thinking of this song. 😀
https://youtu.be/RiBYhHlJmIo?si=uYdimV2TwAr7oWOI
lol! Love it!
So you’re a Republican. Why are you, a woman, engaging in public discourse? You’re supposed to be scrubbing floors and letting your husband beat the crap out of you. That’s the ONLY role conservatives allow women to ever have. You’re a liar or an idiot to say otherwise.
I am guessing this is sarcasm?
Nope. Republicans want women removed entirely from all of public life. That’s the whole purpose of Project 2025, abortion bans, laws or policies against birth control, and removing the right of no fault divorce. Add to that all the fake panic about birth rates and it’s really obvious that Republicans hate women, even the women.
You are a Republican. This is proven by your love letter to that waste of space Trump. You are, therefore, either a fool or a liar.
What is really disheartening is that some people will buy style over substance and will not check out her policies.
The Heritage Foundation now has a website, https://dangerouslyliberal.com/, that calls attention to the radical agenda and policies. Hope that undecided voters take the time to research policy positions.
So agree. Will they though? I have seen some exchanges on social media that are very concerning. Some number of women will vote for Harris solely because she is a woman and others because of the color tint of her skin. It’s frightening. These folks have not connected the dots between her policies and more importantly the policies of her handlers and the consequences. Like so many other nationwide con jobs they swallow it hook line and sinker. Hope something real catches their attention between now and when they vote.
Unfortunately you are soooo right. Product of what passes for our educational system today and people not being active in it years ago.
Yup. I do wonder if it has always been this way or if people are more conditioned to believe the con jobs. I have been wondering if there is some way to quantify that. It seems far more prevalent now but not sure if that is true.
Did you google “Strength in Joy” comes from?
Also please read her famous “word salad” which is not about the future being burden by the past! https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1815057918229975147?refresh=1721582890
I just finished the article. Very interesting although I think I might need mind altering drugs to understand Marx’s rambling! Just kidding. Harris uses that phrase so often there must be intent. Just marrying that language with the “Great Reset” tells us where she is coming from.
Yes I learned about the Nazi origins of “Strength in Joy” after I posted this yesterday. Chilling as is this entire election process.
You and I both got as many votes as her in the primaries! Way to champion for “freedom” and “Democracy “ smh
What I find is TFP and it's subsidiaries seem to think political corruption, cintrolling government, and lies to the general populace is a single party ailment. It is both D and R that reap the benefits of "the system". To distill complex multi generstional issues into pathetically simple tropes is buying into the farce. I have seen the enemy, it is us! So we have a sexusl predator, and a Christian inquisition on the right, and a big government, everybody gets a prize on thr left, and a SCOTUS of pathetic sycophants, who belive no one, Including every person who can read, is as smart as them. So, wave the Weird flag, Union cards, Let's go Brandon, pride flags and all the other badging that funds these cause. Like lemmings that just want to belong, the purchasers unwittingly fund and perpetuate the disfunction of this wacky world, whining all the way. Yup. I have seen the enemy, it is us!
Thanks for your comment Trebor. I enjoyed it thoroughly. As you might imagine I agree with some bits and disagree with others. Yes for sure both parties lie and cheat. Trump's lies during the primaries were particularly frustrating. Yes many succumb to the marketing ploys of both parties with their flags and sound bites.
However we can contrast the Repub and Dem primaries quite clearly. The Dem machine influenced both the Dem and Repub primaries in undemocratic ways that should frighten all of us. The weaponization of the justice department and related lawfare created a martyr out of Trump leading to his nomination and blocked RFK Jr from participating. Even if Repubs wanted to pull off third world stunts like that, they are far too ineffective to do so. Why aren't you and others completely outraged over this?
Trump was the Dems desired opponent due to the visceral hate they and Trump himself helped create during his Presidency. This makes him easier to beat than a fresh candidate and allows the incredibly vapid joy campaign a chance to succeed. How many voters still believe he colluded with Russia or called the KKK very fine people? A large percentage I reckon. Trump's own behavior has assisted with this persona.
But Trump, regardless of my perception of his faults, actually won the primary via a vote by the people. The Repub machine did not attack his competitors with lawfare and try and keep them off the ballot. We know who he is and what he stands for. I do not agree with all of his policies but at least we have an idea what they are unlike his opponent who does not list one policy on her campaign page. We do have her history however and the policies she has supported through her career would be a disaster for our country.
Harris is the beneficiary of what appears to be the Dem con of the century. Anyone who did not realize Biden was in serious mental decline when he was propped up as the 2024 Dem candidate needs a reality check. We should all ask WHY party bosses picked someone incapable of being President, blocked any competitors and ensured his nomination. I reckon replacing him was the strategy all along and predicted this would happen in an April 23 article called "Predictions". I was wrong about Harris though. I thought they would get rid of her first.
When you combine the above with the totalitarian tendencies of this administration to censor speech, attack opponents, flood our country with illegals thereby undermining our national and financial security, undermine energy policy, we should all be thoroughly frightened by the bold arrogance of the machine running an empty vessel candidate plastered with joy who does not have one policy listed on her campaign page. Again we should all ask WHY. Yet all we hear is "Trump" or finally a woman president or let's break the glass ceiling. Superficiality at its best.
As someone else said voting for Trump is a crap shoot, voting for Harris is national suicide. Does Trump have the skill to lead this country away from the totalitarian cliff? I don't know but I feel quite certain a vote for Harris will take us over.
Can't vote for a convicted sexual predator, or someone who at least had a tacit part in Jan 6. The citizens of the US act as if they are external to the process. But when what is wrong is mottled into " well, it could be right" the slide begins. The truth is, as a nation we hold no truths. So, dethrone your mentor, appoint a Frat Boy to SCOTUS, weaponize the DOJ, grab a crotch, sell AR's to drug cartels then complain about the border, work with Big tech to cull personal data, espouse Christian values while wrestlers get raped on your watch, it doesn’t matter. In the end the powerful are a league, where the champions are crowned but the runner ups still remain in the league reaping personal riches. People who are driven around in bulletproof SUV's with bodyguards cannot relate to the common man, thay are in a different league! They can manipulate like Chessmasters useing pawns as endless subterfuge while they protect kings and queens. It is us vs them, Washington and the other 1%. If you don't get that well, there is a another January 6 coming up in a few short months.
Agree with many of your points but imo we are between a rock and a hard place with two seriously flawed candidates and parties. Yet one of them will be President soon. We must ask ourselves who will do the least damage. For me the answer is clear.
I hope people watch the speech by RFK adding his support to the Trump campaign. Maybe the Democrats who simply hate Trump and don’t care about policies will think hard after they read your blog and listen to what he has to say.
Yes his speech clearly outlines how far down the corruption slope we have come. Combine that with the marketing campaign for an empty vessel candidate who has no policies on her website, people should be very nervous about the intentions of the man behind the curtain. But based on what I have seen online, far too many are caught up in the joy, the fact that she is a woman and most important she isn’t Trump.
That is why policy needs to make a comeback not personality or gender.
It’s decently written and treads some well-known talking points, but lacking in originality. It seems to miss the point of the whole “joy” schtick, which is to contrast her with Trump’s message of fear and restoring an idealized but false past. It also adds too many bullets, many of which are just pandering to the echo chamber such as about vaccines being “ineffective.”
Its strength is a bit well known, but that we don’t know much about her policies other than some half-assed economic stuff. For someone who was the Veep for 4 years, she sure hasn’t constructed much of a vision. But the reason she’s getting away with this is because Trump himself provides no policy specifics!! Sure, he’s at least courageous enough to go before reporters, but then he rambles the polar opposite of policy, usually a bunch of nonsense and lies. Ultimately, Kamala’s fear of the press is pretty pitiful, but Trump cannot capitalize on this weakness! Live by the Dodge, Die by the Dodge.
Thanks for your comment Nate. I guess the bullet points are not that well worn or the joy campaign would be a total failure.
I cannot resist a comment on vaccines - they did not stop the spread of the virus or keep people from getting. They may have reduced the severity. Generally people of military age did not get much benefit from them. So one has to ask why people were fired over not taking them. It was a travesty regardless of the true motivation behind the policy.
Agree that Trump is not capitalizing as he could.
While I agree the joy facade may also have been deployed to contrast with Trump, my guess is the main reason is to turn her incredible negatives into a positive. But as outsiders neither of us will know for sure.