Where Are the Vandals?

~ Clarissa

No riots or vandalism in the wake of the Trump verdict, eh?

We’ve heard so much that MAGAs are the biggest terrorist threat to the country, yet they aren’t doing anything remotely as destructive as the ongoing pro-Palestinian riots or the BLM riots of several years ago. Actually, they aren’t doing anything destructive at all. People peacefully express their opinions and donate to their candidate’s campaign.

It’s a striking difference from their opponents.

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19 thoughts on “Where Are the Vandals?”

  1. “No riots or vandalism in the wake of the Trump verdict”

    Clearly they realize they have no right to defend themselves against the courts!

    (I’m sorry…. I’m a very bad boy….)

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  3. It’s not so much acts of vandalism that people were expecting. We just hope the Trump cult never finds out the jurors’ identities.

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    1. I’m glad you noticing that people don’t expect violence and disorder from MAGAS. We do expect it from the other side, and those expectations are never in vain.

      The big yellow canard about “Trump supporters trying to doxx the jurors” is yet another invention of your lying media. It’s a mystery why you keep believing them when they betrayed you so many times.

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        1. It’s Politico, dude. Please don’t tell me you take Político seriously.

          Here, on the other hand, is actual footage of a mob of violent leftist thugs who broke into a museum the other day and vandalized it: https://x.com/GerardDalbon/status/1796651819831042223?t=z92fxrqLAMBG8fu_QDptfg&s=19

          It’s not “threats” related by a tabloid. These are actions caught on tape. Now imagine your own reaction if these exact same things were done by people in MAGA hats. If you would denounce these actions if done by MAGAs, why aren’t you denouncing them when done by this gang? Why aren’t your media denouncing them? Where’s the outrage?

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          1. These Georgians have won a defamation case against Rudy Giuliani. That article and many others are reporting on that case. Surely you’ve heard of it.

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            1. Two days ago Politico reported that Biden “secretly” gave permission to Ukraine to strike on Russian territory. Just two days ago.

              Do I need to explain why it’s a ludicrous (and dangerous) lie? I don’t follow these propaganda mills.

              But I’m still waiting for the answer: would you feel the same about the mob that invaded the Brooklyn museum if they wore MAGA hats?

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              1. I googled “shaye moss defamation” and clicked one of the first links. Most of the top links will be from websites you will denounce for one reason or another (e.g. cnn, politico, AP). Here’s a Guardian link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2023/dec/13/rudy-giuliani-trial-defamation-election-workers-ruby-freeman-shaye-moss-latest

                Yes, I would feel the same about the mob that invaded the Brooklyn museum regardless of what hats they wore, as long as they behaved the same way.

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            2. What’s with all the bad faith arguments? The words “defamation” and “trial” were in the URL. It’s a very-well known case. It would take one click on the link to see the article subtitle referencing Shaye Moss taking the witness stand in a trial.

              Do you automatically assume anyone arguing for anything the political left in the USA agrees with is completely incapable of critical thinking? Except for the case of Ukraine, of course.

              Your intensity, as you call it, gives you a strong need to take sides, be on a team, and follow a leader, and then you project that onto everyone else. As well as your feelings of betrayal when you buy wholly into a media narrative that turns out to be false.

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              1. Who is this leader that I follow, then? Surely, it’s not Trump whom I keep referring to as bumbling, lying, and too old to run for office. Then who?

                I really wish I had a side but, as I said recently, I’m politically homeless. I have nobody to vote for in this upcoming election. There was not a single candidate even in the primaries that I found minimally appealing.

                I despise the expression “critical thinking” but yes, I have noticed that there is no thinking going on at the Left. There used to be amazing leftist thinkers. Zygmunt Bauman is one example. But it’s all gone. Now it’s just a recitation of inane slogans and a war on objective reality. Interestingly, though, this is true only in the Anglophone world. I have very interesting discussions with Spanish Communists, for example, who despise the US Left (and its followers in Spain) even more than I do. I’m writing an article for a Spanish Marxist journal at this very moment and I was assured even before I began to write that there will be no censorship.

                The world is much more complicated and interesting than your partisan fantasies.

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  4. Tucker Carlson was the truth teller you were really into for some time. You liked identifying yourself with the side led by public intellectuals/journalists like him. You insisted for a long time that he was sincerely misguided about Russia and explained why. I don’t know how much more direct he could be about exactly which levers he was pressing and what he thought of his audience when he said “why should you hate Vladimir Putin? Has he ever called you a racist?”.

    This is what an SNL parody of little Tucky would have said had he not gotten there first.

    Putin has been murdering Russian journalists for decades. There was also the Litvinenko poisoning and the attempted Skripal poisonings. His bombings of civilians in Syria. The corruption and hypocrisy of his internal rule. Any serious thinker would need to actively ignore those. I don’t buy the poor little sincere brilliant Carlson being misled by Russian propaganda. He was cynically repeating parts of it he thought would be popular with his audience.

    Arestovych is another figure you put on a pedestal and idolized. His wound is a narcissistic one. He’s lashing out at criticism in narcissistic rage, including at Portnikov in defense of Latynina. He misses the public adoration he had in Ukraine at the start of the war and has veered into siding with the Russian opposition and their criticism of Ukraine to get his narcissistic supply.

    There are various figures you fall in love with, like Candace Owens, until you discover they’re completely nuts.

    You loved how Trump put down his political opponents. You took down the posts where you fangirled over him.

    I agree that the world is very complex. That’s why I’m mostly cynical about it and don’t get as excited as you do about individual public figures.

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    1. If liking somebody’s intellectual output is “following a leader”, then it would make a lot more sense to bring up my interest in Zygmunt Bauman whom I have quoted in 95% of my publications in the past 10 years and popularized tirelessly here on the blog. Or Richard Sennett and Jim McGuigan whom I quote a little less but just as assiduously.

      As for Arestovych, I owe my new book to him. Taking months out of my research schedule to write it was a gigantic gamble that I wouldn’t have undertaken without his encouragement. What you see as idolization is simply gratitude. I agree completely with your analysis that he’s living through a narcissistic injury. But so what? Should I forget what a person did for me because he’s having a bad time?

      And by the way, I didn’t take down any posts. All of my posts are available to people I trust. You are not one of them and you know why.

      As for your claim that you don’t get excited about individual public figures, come on, let’s not be coy. In this very post you go on and on about Tucker Carlson, calling him Tucky and waxing poetic about him in a thread that can’t possibly be any less related to him. You are obsessed with the dude. You literally memorize his sayings. And that’s what you call not getting excited?

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      1. You don’t quite understand – it wouldn’t hurt my ego to admit I masturbate to thoughts of Tucker Carlson. You’re trying to engage in some sort of schoolyard fight.

        The psychological observations I’m making about you are not things I’m saying to hurt you. They are conclusions I couldn’t help coming to as I read some of your more recent writing.

        I have come to my own conclusions about my role in mistakes and failures in life, and, trust me, they are quite painful to my ego, unlike online criticism I disagree with. The way you’re responding reminds me of other people that have lashed out at me after experiencing narcissistic wounds.

        As I was reading you, your defenses of Tucker stuck out and stayed with me. I never engaged in an argument because it was hopeless. I agree about Zygmunt Bauman in terms of quantity of coverage on your blog. But Tucker-related posts are just more memorable.

        Congratulations on not taking down any posts. For your reference, I’ve never requested access to the protected entries.

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        1. It would be excellent if you took these masturbatory fantasies elsewhere, though. We are engaged in a different kind of discussion here.

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  5. This is the court complaint. The harassment is described at the bottom, referencing the local police and the FBI.
    https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/giuliani-moss-freeman-defamation-suit.pdf

    Given that they won the case, I’m making the assumption that Giuliano’s defense would have disproved these claims if they were false. Is this something it’s still reasonable to do in this country, or should I go do my own research on conservative social media?

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  6. Millionaires and billionaires don’t have to riot.

    They just move out of places where conditions are not favourable, and by the time the riots appear over “unexpected” adjustments in conditions, they are mostly useless on arrival because the real financial riots happened quietly.

    Right now scuttlebutt is about two kinds of financial refugees: there are the ones who are fleeing New York for Texas and Florida because they finally see the writing on the wall, and then there are the ones who are fleeing Texas and Florida because they finally see the writing on the wall …

    … and Texas and Florida were hopeful “saving throws” so they could remain in the US.

    As a last state of US jurisdiction, Florida right now isn’t awful, but all it would take is one ¡Jeb! or Nikki Fried (remember her?) to fuck things up.

    For every one thing Abbott gets right in Texas, there’s at least one thing he fucks up or allows to be fucked up, which means he’s just a Texan version of DeSantis.

    But don’t expect a lot of noise during the initial phases of the financial riots.

    Business is probably crisp for the likes of Mark Nestmann, Andrew Henderson, and Simon Black right now …

    Secure the bag, secure the route to the airport, it’s what’s working in New Caledonia, isn’t it?

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  7. So what did you do to rate your own Happy Hasbara Ball, BTW? 🙂

    It’d almost be hilarious except the purpose of such is to suck the oxygen out of previously uncontested spaces and to wear down the people in them.

    Oh, but …

    DO NOT TAUNT HAPPY HASBARA BALL.

    [trololololol 10 hour version] 🙂

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