Todd's Mischief Blog

@badjin_rank tweets , People in general are much more likely to be influenced by a slogan than facts. It is the entire basis of modern advertising techniques. I agree thusly:  "Make America Great Again" had great assonance and rhythm. You've got a double-M sound and a double-G sound with the second instance of each tucked behind a nice open A vowel. It just rolls out of the mouth and into the ear nicely. The convenient acronym was likely a happy bonus. It's easy to see why MAGA has so many copycats. Unfortunately, Keep America Great, like many sequels, fails to appreciate, let alone capture, what made the original so magical. All the tonal and rhythmic energy is lost and KAG is an unfortunate acronym. Against KAG, the very blunt, plosive alliteration of "Build Back Better" (which seems like an overt nod to the Better Business Bureau) seems almost poetic in comparison. It's not poetic. "Buh buh buh" is, at best, a baby sound, at worst, a mocking...

Just today, I stumbled upon this two-year old thread that is such an incredible insight into many of the same topics I explore, I have to commandeer it for my collection and future reference.  All credit to Jeff Stoner @Stoner_68  [ original ] I now realize why liberals believe that everyone to right of Stalin is an actual Nazi: They think the right is intersectional. /1 The left is intersectional. If you support a liberal cause, you must support every adjacent cause. Those who don't are driven out. Liberal activists jostle to get their pet causes adjacent to the most popular/protected/well funded causes. /2 To wit, in order to be a good feminist, one must also be a trans ally, an environmentalist, a BLM ally, etc. This is how we got pro-abortion evangelicals. They have to toe the feminist line, or lose thier cred with the minorities. Intersectionalism deranges institutions. 3/ But here's the thing. Leftists assume that right-wingers do this too. They imagine that the KKK ...

The joke is that voters were given the choice between an angry, addled, lazy, lying, treacherous, self-serving, quarrelsome, foul-mouthed, racist, sexist, bigoted, narcissistic, septuagenarian old white man and Donald Trump. Joe Biden is an exaggerated meme version of Donald Trump I want to revisit an earlier post because not everyone fully appreciates what has happened.  If the nomination and apparent election of Joe Biden to the presidency feels like a slap in the face, that’s because it is. The article above lays it out, but the title says it all. Joe Biden is in actuality everything Democrats, #NeverTrump, #TheResistance, and the Swamp have accused Donald Trump of being for the last five years. Whether Trump is any of those things is immaterial, so leave it aside. Biden’s nomination and apparent election serve to demonstrate unambiguously something regular (not beltway) conservatives have known and complained about for years: It doesn’t matter how offensive some...