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”…
He’s a republican as Kennedy is a moderate
Hint: He’s not!
Mama must be rolling in her grave.
The same clown who said ” Iraq was a WORTHY mistake”
nuff said
He should tell it to the dead and injured.
ONE of the advantages to their “Divide and Conquer” strategy which includes encouraging each subset to demonise the others, is that each side gets “caught up” and distracted by the internal politicsof their own group, and doesn’t really pay much attentiin to whats going on in the other group.
Dems don’t really follow whats going on with RDS, for instance.
Hell, ask them they are still villifying Fox news, as “MAGA MEDIA”, LOL!
And, as caught up as we are in R party machinations, WE are not paying any attention to whats going on the the D party.
“Bobby Jr.” is the true anti-Trump candidate, he WILL get the DNC nomination, COUNT ON IT.
And, DON’T FALL FOR IT.
It’s just my intuition but I seriously doubt Kennedy will get the nomination. DNC is pretty well locked down.
I don’t think he will. Have you listen to Tucker’s interview with him. His knowledge of the criminality of the three letter agencies he’ll be lucky if he lives through this.
Watch his body language, he is one nervous Nelly during those 15 minutes he is talking about the assassination.
I agree…
Posted earlier on a different Treehouse Thread:
Paraphrasing Jonah Goldberg, “Trust me, I’m in favor of Democracy but its not the answer to todays’ problems.” Translation: Trust your betters in DC Swamp and assorted experts and globalists like me. We know what’s best for you Trump-supporting barbarians.
His face was made for a fist.
I would gladly test the fit of my large French-German fists. Think Max Baer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Baer_(boxer)
His father was from Alsace … like my relatives.
I often wondered what side of the aisle “Lucianne” was on, given her one son’s leanings…
Considering that Lucianne is just a compilation of the news–most (all?) of it posted by users, I’d say it doesn’t matter which side of the aisle she sits on.
“aisle”? WHAT “AISLE”?
References to an aisle, as in “crossing the aisle” aka bipartisanship, are an artificial construct.
There is NO ‘AISLE’ there is the elites, and the common man, MAGA vs Uniparty, ECONOMIC Nationalists vs Globullists, and no I didn’t mispell.
Well, Dutch, that divide is an aisle of sorts. Per Sundance’s favorite image – it’s the drainage stream that runs between the Big Exclusive Elites’ City high on the bluff across the drainage stream from the Deplorables living in their grass huts in the lowlands…
I was referring to the “aisle” mentioned by Aggiegirl, so cool your jets, mister!
I still like the Lucianne.com site, it has similar thoughtful posters to the treehouse, and I see some cross referencing.
Jonah is an entitled jerk, and I will post this article on L.com as soon as I get home for amusement purposes.
Back in the early days of Lucianne there were 2 sons involved – Jonah the dim but the other son was a gun enthusiast and Lucianne even had a 2A section if I’m remembering correctly. The good son had an accidental death, don’t remember the details but pretty sure I didn’t dream this.
She knew!
Do you think he later was upset that he said that with his ‘outside voice’?
No, I don’t think he has the self-awareness to even feel as though he might have “slipped” up. People like him are too arrogant to realize that people like us even know what he’s talking about.
Goldberg said large donors are smarter than small donors…
It makes sense that Jonah would promote this whale of a story 🙂
Continueing to justify your screen name, lol.
As do you…
With your Reagan-like comments.
you two should get a room…j/k – luv u both
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
BTW…That was a sad Preakness.
Do you think he possibly has one of those personality disorders where one part has a totally separate reality from the others – how could he have written that book about Liberal Totalitarianism? There is some kind of glitch there!
Creating the illusion of contention between two political camps in order to trap us into battling one another is what our intellectual betters do.
Double mindedness is a useful trait in such endeavors.
Dirty secret: most political pundits don’t write their own books.
“Rich Men North of Richmond” is a musical message that Goldberg will never comprehend,… much to his demise.
The Blue Color Wave is now rising (“Try that in a Small Town”, etc.) and there’s nothing these Crony Capitalist Comrade Elites can do to stop it now.
The working class peasants and plebeians have had enough of their Patricians’ BS and failures,… and they are die-hard Trump voters that won’t be deterred from their fight for freedom and liberty, the foundations of our Constitutional Republic.
Sing it, Boys, Sing it Loud!
Not only here in the U.S., but across the WORLD. Even saw Russian comments on there, per Google translate.
It’s the ORIGINAL battle—David versus Goliath!
And we ALL know how THAT worked out!!!
Give me some Merle,… “Take This Job And Shove It”!
Amity Shlaes “Forgotten Man” has been singing this song for about 100 years now,… but this time it’s the tune of a Vast Movement that won’t be stopped, Trump as leader or no.
What are the Marxists/NWO Elites gonna do, eradicate over 50% of Amereica? Highly doubt it now,… and we have the Moral and Legal High Ground and the US Constitution to certify our claims to our True American Heritage.
‘Take This Job and Shove It’ was Johnny Paycheck, not Merle. Song written by David Allan Coe.
Johnny Payckeck… but love the song..
Need a time machine – back in the tea Party days there was a working man song that was catchy and patriotic but I don’t remember artist and have spent years searching youtube but cannot find it. Conservative messages often disappear but if anyone remembers I’d be much obliged.
You are so right!
It is really quite twisted.
The Rich Men North of Richmond
are complaining because the
people who are being taxed and
are working their butts off to
feed their family…..
Are not sending the Rich Men
North of Richmond—
enough money.
Sinister.
Sundance sums up the RINO traitors perfectly … “The professional Republicans don’t believe in conserving anything other than the power structure that produces their affluence and influence …”
Trump is a Patriot who loves America, Americans and defies RINOS … diving the UNIPARTY crazy … WeThePeople love President Trump and will NEVER vote RINO again.
RATS only vote RAT.
RINOS don’t have a voter base – therefore they allow the RATS to cheat and steal elections from President Trump and MAGA Conservatives.
Wow – what a Clip -big donors = “moderate” positions / small donors basically are scum with a plastic credit card -Got it , Thanks Jonah – btw glad you landed on your a— on CNN , so nobody has to watch or listen to you …
Goldberg is old enough to know CNN sucks the hind teat. Yet, there he is in living colour.
The last stop till what …can only go further down from there ..
Hey Nycjoe-
please check my blog
NewYorkBitchfest.substack.com
Well, no one else wanted him, so…..
Sounds just like His Fraudulency, President tenpercentski, who call us “the dregs of society”. Wear it as a badge of honor.
Let’s get corporations out of the election business,
and back to a government of the people, by the people, for the people. (Lincoln)
Get the big money out of purchasing politicians
Money flows to power, this is an iron law of the Universe. You will never get big money out of politics until you make politicians not worth buying. The only way to do that is drastically limit their power. A politician who has no power isn’t worth buying.
You are absolutely right. The big money flows in because the people in government, including many bureaucrats, have power over who in business can make money.
they should scrub lincoln off of mt Rushmore with that bleach bit stuff you dimmocrats carry around in your pockets.
Teddy Roosevelt is the one who started the downward trend. Lincoln did the right thing.
Yes. Because what we are witnessing right now is Corporatocracy.
How about getting rid of Parties?
That is absolutely impossible. Not because of power issues or corruption, but because it takes a majority vote to win on each issue, so coalitions, even if there are no formal parties, or there are 100 parties, tend to become two camps.
The way to reduce corruption and the power of interest groups is to reduce the power and money in government. When how wealthy rich people can be and other issues are not in the hands of politicians or bureaucrats, that is when we will start getting good and uncorrupted people in government again…
purple thumbs!
That might be okay if we also cut out the corporations called unions.
Bolshevik!
The masks are off because about half the population knows it and ‘they’ know they can’t fool them anymore.
Because of that, no more subversive slow creep will be effective.
Therefore, FEAR of their exposure is creating a mania to go full bore for absolute CONTROL NOW before ‘they’ lose their grip.
Absolutely spot on.
Let the Sun Shine!
Let the Sun Shine In!
The Sun Shine In!
Jonah should learn to keep his big mouth shut!
This is his demise.
I’m delighted Jonah Goldberg speaks. We know more about his exalted opinions.
These people must have some brain eating parasite.
Apologies to the parasite. 😝
those parasites must be starving to death!
Ole Jonah he loaded up his truck and he moved to CNN.
Yep. Commie through and through.
*No aspersion should be thrown on Jed Clampett.
Jonah looks more like a Prius pansy.
Yep, he would be so mortified to have Granny in her rocking chair on top of the truck!
Boy could granny wrestle. I remember that episode.
Similar to when Hillary Clinton justified raising taxes because the government can spend our money more wisely than we can. Barf.
Ukraine being Exhibit A!
Paging Dr Pimple Popper! We’ve got a pustule to eradicate.
That one’s gonna require a Coke bottle, the way one of my dear Great-Grandmothers used to remove boils!
First you get out some of your canning gear – put the big pan on the stove, fill it with water and get that water real hot – then get out your tongs and dunk in that water a glass bottle – like the glass Coca-Cola bottles – have some thick toweling ready – okay, dunk the bottle in the hot water, then lift it out with the tongs and then lay the bottle on the toweling – then roll the bottle up in that toweling – then carefully holding the bottle in the toweling, press the mouth of it full on to the boil –
Whoosh! Plop!
Root n’ all.
I need to keep a notebook of the life skills I learn on this site!
You should compile all of your Grannies remedies into a book!!
He has the cold dead stare, that all the psychopaths have.
“……………he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes after ya, he doesn’t seem to be livin’ until he bites ya…”
-Quint
I used to like Jonah…either he changed or I did.
I think what happened is that he was EXPOSED–both by himself and by Sundance.
Goldberg did not change. He has just been exposed. He and other RINO Never Trumpers are absolutely beside themselves that they no longer have influence in conservative politics.
Unfortunate truth is, they were NEVER that “sly” about their true intentions.
Its just that we stopped pretending.
Just as the DOJ/FBI are really no more “blatant” now, than they were during Obama or even Bush, its just US that has changed.
Now, we have (largely) stopped pretending, and turning our head so as to not see what was right there, all along.
Jonah’s butthurt is epic. And it’s only August 2023!
Now is the moment of the great unmasking. I’m sure this was similar to the rebellion in 1776 and the first year of our Civil War. Get ready for lots of surprises in the media and our neighborhoods and our families.
The problem is, outside of the leftists grifters, a lot of the left leftists droids believe DJT plus us are an existential threat to “our democracy”.
Many of my family and in-laws truly in their hearts fear us as destroyers. Of course they got that way because of lying enemedia. I know a woman who’s sister wanted her dead because she refused the death shot!
Bring up how good things were under President Trump and you get a string of enemedia talking points and then they short out and either walk away or try to kill us.
How do we solve that? Logic will not persuade them!
In life, I’ve learned that pain and devastation can open the eyes of the blind while pulling their heads out of their asses.
Some are able to think critically and use common sense.
Others have to learn the hard way; hopefully before it’s too damn late.
God gave us a brain to use and make thoughtful decisions; it’s up to each of us to accept that responsibility.
Amen! After the last disastrous 3 years I now have 4 conservative Adult kids rather than 2 and 2.
Good! That’s an improvement!
If anyone tries to “kill me,” I guarantee you, I can solve that PDQ!
Logic and facts will not persuade those that are in “denial” and will only harden their hearts, and clise their minds.
They are really terrified not of US, but of the truth, and who can blame them?
They are the ones that are actually (desperately!) CLINGING to a view of America, that includes being the citadel of Democracy, that has electiin integrity that is a model to the World, that has the BEST medical system in the World, etc.
True Denial is when an individual is confronted with a reality their mind simply is unable to deal with, and eventually reality forces them to move thru the 5 stages of grieving.
Jimmy Dore, Joe Rogan and others are both leading, but also expressing the gradual movement of their audiences, to REALITY, and ACCEPTANCE.
But, it takes time, ..
Ask any random person speaking about of the existential threat to “our democracy” what is that. Listen politely and ask one or two pertinent follow-up question. It could be what is an existential threat according to him. Or what exactly is his fear. Do not ask ever what is that “our democracy” thing, though. If you do he will stop immediately listening to you.
How’s her sister now, any clue?
No haven’t talked about it since.
It’s official, I’m sick of all of them.
Same here.
Already sick of Election
Campaigns too.
We really should have
short election campaigns.
Three months max would
be good.
When I think all of the campaign
stops and speeches President Trump
did in 2016. Sometimes two a day…
it can be done.
I remember my mom in the sixties helping put the lawnmower an gas can in the trunk of her Buick and dropping me off mowing lawn’s all summer and purchased a mini bike with my $2:00 per mowing fee.
I’m one of those small donors to Tump today and proud of it.
You got 2 bucks? Wow I only got a dollar or $1.50 if it was over an acre and had to trim with hand shears. But it bought me a nice 10 speed, and had pinball machine money all year.
I got $10.00 for two weeks for feeding the neighbor’s horse, refreshing the water, walking him around the corral, brushing his hair (I guess you call that “grooming” – while standing on a little ladder) and talking to him so he wouldn’t be too lonesome, feeding the cat, turning on and off the sprinklers.
I felt very proud of myself! Ten years old so that was a lonnnng time ago!
Who shoveled the horse manure?
Delivered newspapers, for 2 1/2 years, bought a minibike, and my first car with that $.
And, donate $100 to PDJT, every time he has been indicted, plus started with the MAL raid.
In terms of us “maxing out” on donations,…heck we are just getting started!
“small donor’s are just venting their spleen with their credit card” What does that even mean?
What are “big donor’s” venting with their money?
What an ass.
It means Jonah Goldberg is a d**k.
We are the unworthy, unwashed goyim that has forgotten our place.
Goldberg is the perfect example of, dare I say, 95% of DC republicans. First item of clothing they and their democrat partners put on in the morning is the Uniparty jersey. Their hate for DJT consumes them and their inability to pry support away from Trump has their undies tightly bunched. As each of their phony lawfare schemes blows up in their face, look for them to attempt the ultimate takeout plan of DJT.
Daily prayers are needed for the continued safety of DJT, his family, and his inner circle.
AMEN!
His mother, Lucianne Goldberg, would have been sick to her stomach if she could see how far left Jonah had gone. I was/am a frequent poster on her site, Lucianne dot com.
I used to email her frequently when my son was in Afghanistan as a field medic, and she would send me back a note saying she would pray for his safety. Lucianne was a sweet, conservative woman. Who knows how Jonah went stupid.
Apparently he knows better than his mother. That’s the way of these fools. They know way more than you or I possibly could.
Filthy Lucre and a case of DC Swamp fever!
I used to go to lucianne.com a lot too and communicated with Lucianne and also Amy who was the manager of the website (one time I read that Amy was out here in one of our local hospitals with an emergency surgery, so I stopped in and left some cheerful flowers, a little Teddy Bear with a get-well card and just said hi and left real quick – nice girl). I really loved lucianne.com – it was really great with a lot of nice people.
I noticed in 2016 that a lot of people were not liking my pro-Trump comments, which was okay, I could roll with it – but some were annoyed with my repeating “Bush #41 – Bush #43 – Bush #45 – and don’t forget Franklin Pierce #14” – and I had been a really big Bush fan for so many years!
Some people in the Republican Party seem to think that loyalty is a one way street – we should be loyal to whatever are their whims but don’t talk about “America First” and MAGA!
Liberal fascist
Liberal fascist with a smiley face.
Letting the little people vote is dangerous to our democracy !
Something depraved must’ve happened to Goldy when he was a child.
Senator Biden sniffed him up.
Hey Jonah, you’re damn right we’re venting our spleen! We want to get rid of you and your fellow WEF Synagogue congregation and run y’all to the gallows.
Auf wiedershoen, bitch!
Actually, I think we are venting a different organ or organs on ALL of them,…well unless they are on fire!
Goldberg is almost absolutely right, except he fails to mention that the very large donors contribute to both candidates in any given election, so they get what they want no matter what.
Goldberg is one of several that I suspect of having non-reported income and offshore accounts.
How else to explain their ongoing presence in media without some money-laundering supplement?
Without that spiff, his audited number of viewers or readers would collapse further.
The little boy who misses his mother…
Meanwhile, the Sheriff down in Georgia promises to get that mug shot of President Trump if given the chance.
However, the family of the late ” Che Guevara” stated they will file a lawsuit attempting to deny the mugshot due to infringement on their rights to depict a true “revolutionary” while others are waiting to hear from Saint George Floyd’s relatives.
Obama, however, is releasing his new tee shirt where he is standing at the door of the Stonewall Inn…
All’s fair in love and war, right? Damn straight I’m right!
Pontificating Pustule ….. 😂🤣😂
Wasn’t he the one who Trump said (in 2016) couldn’t afford to buy a decent pair of pants?
When he says, “big donors with moderation and can determine who can win and who can’t.” He really means, who can win with a minimal amount of cheating vs who requires a huge amount of cheating to beat (2020, Trump).
I remember years ago when he would write about his couch as if it was sentient or his best friend. All I could think at the time was how gross that couch probably was from the food crumbs, fat boy sweat and other bodily fluids.
I always felt bad for Lucianne as this is the son that lived.
Small donors really are just venting their spleen with their credit card
That sounds an awful lot like what Peter Jennings said after the GOP won back the House in 1994: “voters had a temper tantrum.”
We small donors are small donors because we have small incomes. I think long and hard about how much to donate and to whom. And lately, other than church, I’m only donating to Sundance and Trump.
Apologise to the Treeper that said it, as I didn’t note there name, but they said it all when they said;
WE work for PAYCHECKS, .
THEY work for BONUSES and Stock options.”
Whatever your name, that was a perfect way to describe the difference!
I found Peter Jennings to be quite irksome and arrogant – “hey, you’re from Canada” we would shout at the tv – who are you to say, “voters had a temper tantrum” –
not a communist, just a fascist pig
Their is no difference, betwwen Conmunist, Fascist, Capitalist/Corporatist,..
All variations of the same CON, and while the furniture and the patter changes, the underlieing con is the same.
Divide and conquer, in order to CON the populace into surrendering their autonomy to the Con artist cabal.
What an elitist prig! But, at least he has admitted that his ilk don’t like the little people (aka We the People)!
Jonah needs to get some Just For Men for his beard to match his bad wig color
.
Except . . .
It’s just for men.
LOL, you are correct of course.
20-ish years ago wrote a great book titled “Liberal Fascism.”
Not sure why he’s flipped since then. Follow the money (or the honeypots) I guess …
No puddin’ brain, the big donors are in it for themselves with their ability to influence legislation that benefits them. Old goldbrick if full of the proverbial bull manure. We are onto the game jonah, who’s another turncoat that went to the enemy, cnn.
What an arrogant prick.
There’s a particular brand of hypocrisy that views voters as a threat to democracy
Yes Comrades. Best thing about sunlight is you get to hear the quiet part out loud.
Other than having seen his name on CTH, I don’t know who Jonah Goldberg is, and by golly, it’s gonna stay that way.
Republican leadership desperately want to take away our guns, our speech, our religion, our children, our livlihoods and our lives.
BELIEVE it, and embrace it as a fundamental reality.
Until you accept it, stop pretending really, you will continually be manipulated.
It’s pretty telling even his own mother, Lucianne wanted him to have NO PART of her website after she passed.
I think Jonah is now cleaning bathrooms at Lincoln Project headquarters.
With his tongue.
And it would be nice if all you voters just sit down and learn your damn place…
Reading this article reminds of all the enemies Pat Buchanan had in 1996. I will NEVER forget Bill Kristol saying that they, the GOPe, were on the side of the lords and barons. They hated Pat before they hated Trump. The common denominator is they hate We the People.
Pat saw all this coming back in ‘92. America owes him an apology.
And Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan and Perot.
The best part of cutting The Cord 18 years ago!!!
No idea who this is……freedom from know it all’s
Pusillanimous pontificating pustules of pomposity, I think is a more complete description.
At least until I can think of another suitable word to add to the alliteration.
pissant
Love that word!!! It was one of my beloved gram’s favs!!!
Why do people like Jonah Goldberg continue to define the United States as a ‘Democracy’????? The United States is a Constitutional ‘Republic’…..Seriously, how dumb can you be???