Monday, October 28, 2024

White House Tenant (JFK) Attends 1962's Madison Square Garden Nazi Rally

 

In response to the Democrats' Nazi smear about Adolf Trump (whatever happened to Godwin's Law?!), a lot has been said about Bill Clinton and Al Gore's visit to the Madison Square Garden in the 1990s and indeed to Bill's wife Hillary visit to the venue around 2001. But Damian Bennett reminds us about an even bigger icon of the Donkey Party — the biggest, ever? — holding a Nazi rally there.

Overall I think the MSG rally was well executed. I kept thinking what a Herculean task to keep the show rolling to schedule. The MSG spotlight in front of a massive audience had more than one speaker find his/her larger oratorical self. The casting -- there were a few odd choices -- must have had something to do with the NY dynamic, speakers that hit some specific NY nerve. I can't really say as I've been out of the NY dynamic for so long. However there was one unexpected speaker:
 
Oh. Wait. That was President John F. Kennedy attending the 1962 Madison Square Garden Nazi Rally.
  • NYC Mayor [Eric Adams (D)] Says Trump Not A Fascist, Urges Politicians To 'Dial Down The Temperature' October 27, 2024
    “I know what Hitler has done, and I know what a fascist regime looks like. I think, as I have called for over and over again, that the level of conversation, I think we can all dial down the temperature,” Adams said at the conference in which he also detailed a significant police presence planned for Trump’s event at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan Sunday. He made the comment after Vice President Kamala Harris and her surrogates criticized Trump in recent days...
  • Worst. Nazi. Rally. Ever. October 27, 2024

T-V is teasing NY in play:
fivethirtyeight.com currently puts DJT's NY chances at 1%. I think the general plan is to deny H-W big NY numbers and fluff up T-V's national popular vote numbers. OK. But elsewhere...

Let's take stock. DOMINANCE, MOMENTUM, TIME -- all are on DJT's side. 
All the same tough 8 days ahead.
 Duncan adds that

It took me a while to get my jaw off the floor. What a pathetic smear. I don't think even the densest idiot wouldn't fall for that. The media claims sound like propaganda.

Thus writes our friend Duncan in response to take on Damian Bennett's take on Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden event and the following Democrats' Nazi smear. Earlier, Damian was writing about the Joe Rogan podcast:

The Trump sit-down on Rogan dropped yesterday -- 2:58:49 hours; 9,890,083 views (on YouTube alone).


If you follow Trump there's not much new here. (Highlight reel at ZeroHedge.) Trump works the 'weave', but Rogan provides some needed 'herding cats' discipline to the conversation. It was a congenial conversation throughout (Rogan surprisingly passed on Operation Warp Speed) but nothing much new. (Wait a minute, what about eliminating the income tax? Nope, DJT had entertained this during his Bronx barbershop confab.) Yet. This was a very consequential event. Why? Aside from the massive audience reach of Rogan -- introducing DJT shed of negative media taints -- Trump on Rogan begs why NOT KA-mala on Rogan.
What's a girl to do? Go on Rogan and risk a hazardous long-form conversation OR not go on Rogan and forfeit the homestretch exposure?
Not Rogan. Instead, Beyoncé and CBS News. [Pause.] CBS. Yeah. That CBS News

Oh. About that Beyoncé thing.
Hhmmm. Fool me once...
Presidential campaigns serve two purposes: (1) to introduce the candidate and party policy slate; (2) to preview by analogy how well a candidate will run his/her presidency. H-W campaign is clinging to the consensus punditry calling this a close race. SOooo in the run-up crunch to the November vote you might think that H-W would be extra-special-super-tippy-toe careful about screw-ups and unforced errors. [Pause.] You might think. [Strap in. Skim alert!]
That's October. So far. [Pause.] Take note, the H-W campaign is a H-W presidency in miniature. Imagine the H-W campaign scaled up to the size of the United States presidency.

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