Sometimes revealing a communist is a little like taking off a Band-Aid. You’ve got to pick at the edges a little bit until you can get enough gripped to rip it off.
It has been a decade since Jonah Goldberg and I had our back-and-forth editorial debate about “modern republicanism.” [He lost both a massive number of readers and credibility.] In the years since, we are both exactly the same people; the only difference is – his mask has completely dropped and he’s no longer pretending.
In this brutally perfect appearance on his new network gig, CNN, Jonah Goldberg, the pontificating pustule of totalitarian elitism, declares the “small donor” influence in the Republican Party, ie. MAGA and working class grassroots support, is the problem for those (private club) corporate officers who have high-minded control.
...”I just also think that we are dealing with a time, where for a lot of people, there’s a lot of people cheering and self-congratulation about the rise of small donors a decade ago. And now small donors are actually one of the biggest problems for, well, democracy in the GOP. Because, um, large donors have a strategic view about moderation, who can win and who can’t. Small donors really are just venting their spleen with their credit card, and they lock candidates into positions that can hurt them in the general election.”…
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There is a particular brand of GOPe hypocrisy around a worldview that spouts unbridled capitalism as the solution to all the economic woes [NOTE: in reality, they really don’t believe that, but they pretend not to be advocates of massive conglomerate corporatism], and yet they rail against the unwashed masses having a voice in the democratic process.
As our “Last Refuge” of liberty noted years ago, the ushers in conservative media were/are really closeted communists. Identically aligned and elite minded sanctimonious frauds, loading sheep onto intellectual cattle cars. The professional Republicans don’t believe in conserving anything other than the power structure that produces their affluence and influence.
Peel the skin off a professional Republican, and you will find a communist demanding you sit quietly, then insert vote, pull lever, take your pellet, shut up and leave the building. That’s who they are.
The best, and I do mean absolutely the best and greatest thing about Donald J. Trump, is how he forced all the professional Republican snipers to reveal their positions.
… “Don’t worry. We got this. We just need to convince the part of the crowd carrying the pitchforks, that the part of the crowd carrying the torches are trying to take their pitchforks away.“…
…”You organize Goldberg, Levin, Shapiro, Horowitz, Ingraham, Solomon, Hannity, Loesch and Beck. While we organize, Brennan, Stephanopoulos, Cooper, Burnett, Collins, Tapper, Maddow, Bash and Todd”…
“The best, and I do mean absolutely the best and greatest thing about Donald J. Trump, is how he forced all the professional Republican snipers to reveal their positions.”
Yes sir!
One could say he flushed the excrement to the surface for all to see. We have the same soul swamp over here on other side of the pond.
foul swamp that should read.
Their souls are in a swamp most foul!
Soul swamp actually worked for me. A newly coined term for these lost souls of elites that fits.
He revealed the stench.
You are 110% correct …. and you used the right “polite” term…. I’m thinking something harsher:)
Correction… we by supporting him revealed this. As he has said repeatedly ” they are coming for you, I’m just in the way”. ” Lock & Load” people…… we’re still the target of the Demonrats and the Rhinos. Getting rid of 2 entrenched groups and the DOJ and CIA/FBI who support them will be painful and messy. Gey your survival in order, they are going to destroy the dollar to starve you into compliance. Food storage, guns and ammo are the future currency. Amen
I am somewhat of a packrat – or hoarder – of e-mails – from people I like or sometimes from people who apparently don’t like me but their objections were so well stated that I treasure those, as well.
So I have this nice e-mail from Lucianne Goldberg – from back in January 2012.
The Presidential election was on and Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich were the leaders on the Republican side. I liked Mitt Romney and voted for him in the Primary and the General elections in 2012. The threads where I “over-commented” were about Romney compared to Gingrich.
I wish Jonah Goldberg would become illuminated with regard to us “little spleen venters” – many of us DID vote, for many elections, for the same sorts of people that have let us all down so badly. Many of us such as those who frequented lucianne.com were fans of Jonah because his Mom was Lucianne. We were happy when he got married and the newlyweds went to Paris for their honeymoon and then later when they had a little baby girl and named her after her grandmother, Lucianne. Just truly good-hearted well-wishing and prayers for his success. When Jonah’s book came out – “Liberal Fascism” – well, naturally we were happy for him and happy for his Mom.
Jonah just sweeps that all away as nothing from those of us who are repugnant though pugnacious and bilious “small donors”. If he would wake up to just how priggish he sounds, he should be mortified. I don’t think his Mom was ever priggish at all.
Jonah seems to be endeavoring to resemble William F. Buckley, Jr., who I had admired when I used to watch him when I was a child in the early/mid-1960’s . As time went on, it seemed to me that Buckley took such great pride in his own intellect which he apparently thought was gigantic but seemed to wilt during those debates with Gore Vidal (which were in 1968, I believe). Gore Vidal seemed so relaxed and William Buckley seemed so antsy. It was quite odd, I thought. I thought then that Buckley was very prideful regarding his intellect but it did not hold up well. I would urge Jonah, do not strive to emulate Buckley, it’s a dead-end, a cul-de-sac, an alley without a manhole in a film noir film.
Do not squander these precious years, Jonah – maybe have the courage to look at what you are saying and how you are saying it – do not look down your nose at the many millions of people you brush off as “small donors” unworthy of consideration, who ought to just sit down and be quiet and obediently vote for the candidate of the RNC and “big donors”.
You may take pride in scholastic achievement and in scaling the heights of “conservative thought” right up there with William F. Buckley, Jr. and his brethren but also remember this, that “the beginning of wisdom begins in the fear of the Lord”. To me, that passage from Proverbs means “fear of the Lord” not just in fear, but awe, reverence, wonder and love for His many great works and miracles. Please think about that and re-think your statements about “small donors”. I am hoping that you will go to see what those “Deplorables” had to say!
*** e=mails back and forth from lucianne.com, starting at the bottom ***
No offense, Susan. We are happy to have you with us.
All the best,
Lucianne
P.S. Amy hasn’t been with us for a couple of years. We are still in touch but she wanted to move on the another venue. She was very valuable and we miss her.
I will tell her you say hello.
In a message dated 1/22/2012 8:57:44 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [Susan writes]:
Dear LinkLady7:
When I looked at the thread and saw that it had been closed, due to someone “loading comments” I was not aware that I was the culprit, as I have seen threads closed before (that I had not posted comments on) and never understood why.
I then saw that I myself had posted more comments than I usually would but was doing so to respond to other comments which people had made – I felt that I should respond to their comments as a courtesy, as they had taken the time to comment on what I had said. Now I have found your e-mail here as quite a surprise and appreciate your taking the time to explain this to me.
If you received reader complaints because I posted to that thread nine times, I think and the limit is supposed to be three, I am very sorry and do apologize!
I shall refrain from posting more than three times on a thread.
Thank you for all that you do to make lucianne.com a truly outstanding place all these years.
Best wishes!
suejeanne (screen name)
Susan Jacob
(when I first started posting on lucianne.com, my screen name was redsiata but then due to illness in the family and helping out with that, I was not going to lucianne and then my old computer crashed – so, by the time I got back, I had to get a new screen name. Please say hi to Amy Sheehan for me if she is still there – she was always so nice!)
From: LinkLady7
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:45:48 -0500
Subject: Overposting on Lucianne.com
To: [Susan]
We have reader complaints about your over posting on a single thread. Please refrain from posing more than three times on a thread. It causes us to close it. Thank you.
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William F. Buckley was a closet Marxist Trotskyite (Neoconservative) who was bullshiiting us all that he was a Conservative as many of the Trotskyite Neocons of the GOP ruling class elitists were. So yeah, Goldberg gravitating towards trying to set himself up as Buckley esque is true and by design. Buckley even had Rush Limbaugh fooled for years.
That was beautiful. It should be posted on bulletin boards wherever neocons gather.
Maybe the reason Jonah did such a good job with Liberal Fascism is that he found it all relatable.
I’m surprised that “fake, phony, and full of crap” Fox Snooze did not take him and Stephen Hayes back for their fake conservative All-Stars. After all, someone must keep the spirit of corporate martini fueled Republicanism of Krauthammer alive.
And yet Charles Krauthammer was never a Republican.
George Will is another who Rush really admired (and I as well for a time). Wow, these people are all so full of themselves. It’s sad that they had front row seats at the demolition of the USA and did nothing about saving our great country but instead complained about us “small donors” or “deplorables.”
They are all joining in on the destruction with their hammers of idiocy, and they wonder why we despise them as our country falls apart through neglect and abuse. They have abetted this, from The Declaration of Independence: “He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance.”
I always knew that George Will was a phony. I could always see that he just wanted to seem smart, and obviously leftists were more willing to flatter him than conservatives were.
I don’t understand what happened to Goldberg, but I figure he just got bit by a zombie. Whatever it was, you just have to write him off.
Comrades, do not be deceived, even the CCP permits ‘voting’.
The important thing to understand is what Joe Biden accidentally mentioned after the successful coup and his subsequent installation into the WH.
Case In Point:
Here is Brad Raffensperger on November 4, 2020, telling the Today Show how GA had 4.7mm votes for the 2020 eleciton. GA certified 40 votes shy of an even 5mm votes when it was all said and done.
Winning number for Trump is a margin of nearly 350,000 votes.
This is called a slip of tongue, and one that has been largely forgotten.
Why do you think Raffensperger said the more realistic total of 4.7mm votes?
NC was the target for the steal, but Trump ran ahead of it by the skin of his teeth. Biden didn’t campaign for GA, the local ATL paper had Trump by 7% in a poll two months out, and NYT had it going to Trump on election night with 99% certainty.
Once Trump won OH, IA, TX, NC, and FL, AZ became a MUST WIN and was called to stop the count.
GA was removed surgically to give more buffer and put Trump in the 230s, not 248.
He didn’t think Georgia HAD to go to Biden when he gave this interview.
Had not seen that one before. Thank you.
and he stole this from Stalin, a paraphrase rather than a total plagiarism.
“The best, and I do mean absolutely the best and greatest thing about Donald J. Trump, is how he forced ‘EVERYONE’ to reveal their positions.” EVERYONE IS NOW EXPOSED. We live in the best of times, no pretending, no lying, we are in the light.
So, what about the fact that RFK Jr is actually taking the small donors AWAY from Trump??? He is not taking them away from. Biden.
He’s still a F ‘ing Teddy Kennedy type Kennedy and he’s an environmentalist wack-job Leftist. The only place RFK Jr., is making any headway is he’s telling the truth (as little as he knows it to be) about Fauci and the Bioweapon that Obama, Soros, Fauci and Gates created and used on us to destroy the USA, Donald Trump’s reelection, the economy, and usher in Medical Tyranny and a fraudulent Globalist Reset.
Still a Kennedy and a Teddy Kennedy style Leftist.
Thanks Jonah, I just sent Trump a small donation; I might have forgot if I didn’t see your comments.
that last paragraph says it all.
Pellet? I didn’t get a pellet!
Sorry about that, comrade. We will bump up your monthly chocolate ration down by half to make up for it.
Ironically, it is those deplorable small donors who are truly taking the long view. They see quite clearly that unless something rather drastic happens this republic, and the individual liberty on which it was founded and which it has nurtured is dead. Bill Bennett is right: America is the last, best hope.
Goldberg is a fuzzy semi-bright as best.
The irony is that he bills himself as a conservative, but it’s the libs who prop him up….because he is an embarrassment to conservatives.
…as in this little nugget of wisdom that small donor money somehow limits the candidates options, but big money doesn’t.
He’s actually a Marxist-Trotskyite (Neocon) Globalist as opposed to a Marxist-Leninist/ Maoist Globalist like Hitlery Clinton.
The establishment Left will use him and he’ll get rich, but they will never forget that he’s a Trotskyite in the end.
If Michael Moore had a little brother…
Mike would have smothered him
I love how the professional politicians & bureaucrats keep exposing themselves. Without President Trump and CTH we’d still be in the dark.
Goldberg has never been attached to anything besides the Country Club where he lives. I have read a lot of political philosophy, so naturally I was curious about his book, “Liberal Fascism”, and I read it about a dozen or so years ago. I came away unimpressed with his academic approach, his thesis, and the depth of his research. I had him labeled as a lightweight, who had never really had any contact with the actual political world.
The last book on each shelf in my own library is used to allow me to see all of my other books that are more worth reading. I have blundered in my book choices enough times to have one of these duds on both ends of all five shelves. My most useful bookend is George W Bush’s drivel about his Presidency, which is large and hard bound and even more useless than Goldberg’s novel. In any event, this placing is my strongest condemnation of a book’s location. Funny, the ways we place books according to where they will be the most useful to us. 🙂
I stopped listening to these frauds years ago once they revealed who they really are. GOPe is not the moderation we need, the GOP are Democrats from the JFK era. We need our government to work for us, We need our government to be limited, we need big money multinationals out of our government. We need people to go to jail for what happened in 2016 and lasted until 2020. We need a lot of things, but most of all we need honest people, not sure there are any left, the media will destroy an honest person and promote a criminal.
The political world has never been a good place to live. Honest, hardworking, free speaking, God fearing people cannot be found there except about once per generation. Most of the time that guy goes home before trying to straighten out the messes he finds. Donald Trump is a very rare treasure, indeed. We should be fired about even having an outside chance to have him at the helm. MAGA
MAGA 👊👊🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸
MAGA MAGA
100% correct, and the results of Republican control of any branch of the government shows this in clear and stark terms. Actions speak louder than words. They want to should loudly hoping people will ignore the results of their actions. NO MORE!
My Dad called these people Cold War Democrats. They are straight up Trotsky disciples who have merged with the Fascists. In my opinion, these people are much like the Ukrainian Fascists the CIA hired to spy upon the USSR but ended being double agents.
Goldberg is as fake as fake gets. He really should be going to a gym regularly and employing a nutritionist to take control of his own life rather than sticking his behind into everyone else’s business. To use a phrase coined by the former Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany, Goldberg is a sultry liver sausage.
Nuland needs a gym as well as help getting control of her obvious out of control eating habits. She is a total Fascist OUN-B.
Organization of Ukrainian Nationals – Bandera
At least Goldberg is being laughed at and made fun of, bless his little, um heart.
What’s his name too, the Weekly Standard guy. He needs a gym too. What is up with the overweight Fascist Trotsky disciples.
Stephen Hayes? or Bill Kristol? (or Fred Barnes?) I think their evil is showing up on their faces and bodies in general.
Yes!
That is a great synopsis of what we are seeing in elite politics over the past 25 yeares + its got a very funny (and true) ending!
And the loser always seems to be America …..and the working men & women who are told THEY have to sacrifice…. the elite can still drive nice cars, fly to great places, and take care of their families!!
I believe this is what they refer to as “Our Democracy,” (quite distinct from actual democracy).
At first I was dumbfounded and upset DeSanctus chose to run against Trump, but now I’m glad he did because he became the Pied Piper that drew out the Con Inc crowd in the media, while simultaneously revealing himself to be a fraud and slimy politician. Thanks, Rob!
Goldberg is a fool! Figured him out a dozen + yrs ago!
Along with many others!
Wow, what blast from the past. It was your article way back when that tipped me off to what a scumbag this guy was.