The Advertising Is Working

In The Left Is An Advertisement For Trump I said, “Democrats are the very best advertisement for Trump.”

We now have further proof. The #WalkAway hash tag.

According to Breitbart

The #Walkaway movement that began with a popular Facebook video featuring a gay hairdresser in New York City explaining why he was leaving the Democratic Party has quickly morphed into a major force on social media and beyond.

According to an article last Thursday in the Epoch Times, some five million people on Facebook and YouTube have seen the groundbreaking video showing a “very handsome gay man” who describes his awakening to the inanities of liberalism and the Democratic Party.

“Once upon a time, I was a liberal. Well, to be honest, less than a year ago, I was still a liberal,” begins Brandon Straka, the unlikely face of the new “silent minority” of Americans.

It already has 5 million views.

This is going to hurt. Bad. A couple of months ago (Kanye West) I was predicting R 250 in the House. I now think that 250 is an absolute minimum.

FWIW I walked away in 1980.


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22 responses to “The Advertising Is Working”

  1. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    most gays would like to be conservative but the right keeps rejecting them like log cabin republicans. so what. gays project out of all proportion in democratic party less the 5% 100,000 minority kids turning voting age every month almost all hating republicans. hillary lost black male voters who thought she wasn’t militant enough and wouldn’t put black man on ticket. 6,000,000 less democrats voted in 2016 over 2012. jill stein not trump beat hillary in michigan pennsylvania and wisconsin and nearly minnesota. fla. n.c. it was black men voting third party or staying home. gay men pimple on elephants ass! try harder next time.

  2. Simon Avatar

    captain,

    Keep up. #WalkAway started as a gay statement.

    It has become way more than that.

    I’m predicting a total Democrat crash in the mid-Terms.

    Supposedly there are 35,000 sealed indictments. If most of them get unsealed before the election?

    See you in November.

  3. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    economy improving for blacks has civil rights community worried ;but thanks to republican gerrymandering that won’t have much of an effect. its reverse of 2010 democrats now enraged and ready to vote. no hillary running to turn off democratic base. by the way if your right establishment corporate democrats like schumer and pelosi are finished. democrats won’t turn libertarian conservative like you think. they turn to bernie sanders and alexandra cortez!

  4. Simon Avatar

    captain,

    It is worse than you think. They will stay home.

    BTW a few other commentators are noticing the similarity between now and 1968/1972.

    And the answer then was hard left.

    The Ds didn’t get back in until Clinton’s triangulation.

    You believe in honest government. There is no such thing. Your real choices are less government or more government.

    Since they are all crooks – less is better.

  5. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    voters different then 1972 ask joe crowley. right wing talk radio and even tucker carlson had this guy on. so I will have to inform your lack of knowledge 50% of male millenniuls went trump or third party in 2016. more male gays have been ernst rhoeme or roy coen not gore vidal. most gay men were republicans up until southern evangelicals took over republican party in 1970’s and drove them out like log cabin republicans. in stonewall riot liberal village voice attacked rioters with homophobic slurs (you can still read them) republican john lindsey ordered cops to stop arresting gays in bars. many gay men have always had little in common with democrat party except! gay rights. now that goppers tolerate gays they are coming back home. tammy bruce. laura ingram can come out of the republican closet. your big deal is no big deal. roy coens go gore vidals stay. tempest in a teapot. better post showing a coat hanger. caption: vote democrat in 2018 so your caught doesn’t have to use this!

  6. Kathy Kinsley Avatar
    Kathy Kinsley

    That is the most powerful political statement I have heard in years.

  7. Simon Avatar

    Captain,

    I have heard it all before. In ’68 we were all so sure. Read what Hunter Thompson had to say in “Fear and Loathing….”

    There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda …. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning ….

    And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave ….

    So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark —that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back. Hunter S. Thompson

  8. Simon Avatar

    You’re old and your hands are grey,,,,,

    We’ve all heard your dirty stories.

    https://youtu.be/sa5yFYyZuSg

    A song from a few years before the crash.

  9. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    simons usual meaningless drivel. I was living in the republican fascist police state of arizona in 1968. I still am. my professor at arizona state football and party school was fired for leading anti war protests. my state voted down dr. king holiday (until n.f.l. took away super bowel) yuma sheriff threatened to shoot cesar chavez. this was long before arpaio. it has always been a battle between the tom haydens and the trumps and bushes. ms cortez election victory shows we are still in the fight. stephen brill’s book tailspin shows the battle is difficult as fred ham ton or mark clark could tell you if they were still alive. a good 4th of july movie for you is “MISSING.” when boswell asked dr. samuel johnson what he thought of the american revolution going on at the time. he said ” I observe those who scram the loudest about freedom and liberty are the slave holding southerners.” some things never change. but this does change every month 200,000 more minority kids turn 18 voting age and they have ids. almost everyone of them hating conservatives.

  10. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    I wonder what this individual thinks about the one year old child in immigration court being asked by the judge if he understood the proceedings as he sat in the high chair in court with the prosecutor laughing. this is what it is walking toward.

  11. Simon Avatar

    “I wonder what this individual thinks about the one year old child…..”

    The parents should come in at a port of entry. It is not difficult and doesn’t require payment of $8,000 to a coyote.

    And how do you insure the “parents” are not child traffickers?

  12. Simon Avatar

    If you remember ’68 you remember what an electoral disaster in your face politics was.

    Why would you encourage a repeat?

  13. Simon Avatar

    I have never held slaves. My grandparents arrived about 1900.

    So other than the Democrat KKK encouraged by Democrat President Wilson the Civil War was over.

  14. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    I have watched on t.v. women holding their children sitting at the port of entry all day long in triple didget heat being told by good german border patrol agents no one alowed to seek asylum today maybe one or two will be alowed tomorrow. I am sure simon like sgt. schultz you no nothing about it.

  15. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    simon I was siting right wing hippocracy not how many slave girls you own.

  16. Simon Avatar

    All you need to do is to get Congress to change the laws.

    Good luck with that.

    Maybe the Democrats would vote as a block to get more border agents. And more asylum slots. Then you only need a few Republicans. The wise Democrats want to keep the issue on the table. Very handy for getting people in the streets. Not so handy for the folks you claim you are trying to help.

    And decrease the poverty in the world. You do that by growing economies.

    I was on the other side in ’68. And we were sure we were winning. You were there. We won on the big issue (ending the war) but lost to Nixon.

    I still hate that SOB to this day.

  17. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    I just got thru watching a video on the trial of sophie schoell and the white rose on democratic underground. a take on trump’s court nominee. she was executed ;but she did not lose. the tyrants power ends with their death the martyr’s power begins with theirs. bernie sanders is now alenandra o-cortez the fight continues. life is not a game with an ending but an evolution.

  18. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    while tom hayden and bernie sanders were fighting. mitt romney was holding a pro draft rally at yale before his mormon mission to the working girls of paris and cannes. (mormon missionaries were exempt from the draft) and draft dodgers dubya and trump. as churchill said of the italy joining nazi germany fair enough we had you on are side during the last war!

  19. Simon Avatar

    You have to ask yourself. Is this woman typical or just an anecdote.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/nation-now/2018/07/09/democratic-party-left-me-column/766561002/

    If 1968 is any clue “typical”.

  20. Simon Avatar

    sophie schoell – excellent woman. But Germany did not surrender because of an anti-war movement.

    Abbie Hoffman had a greater effect.

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    BTW given human nature I don’t think you can eliminate war. The warriors will take control of the peace lovers.

    Look at how much trouble ending slavery in the US was.

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    BTW the anti-drug war folks have been quite successful using non-violence and focusing on changing minds.

    Meeting police raids with blazing guns has not been common.

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    Don’t be in a rush for what you want.

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    One size does not fit all.

    Nobel Prize Lecture “The Pretence of Knowledge” Friedrich August von Hayek
    https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1974/hayek-lecture.html

  21. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    I did not claim sophie ended world war 2. by the way at the end of world war 2 americans visting eastern europe were amazed to see german tanks surrounded by many russian tanks 10 russian tanks knocked out by the superior german tank ; but the 11 th russian tank got the nazi! watch the 1944 movie life boat it will explain it to you.

  22. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    a more recent analogy in 1967 general westmoreland american commander said we will kill 10 viet cong and north vietnamese enemy for every american draftee killed (it was actually closer to twenty) when gen. giap nva commander was asked about westmorelands states he said “sounds like a fair trade to us!” gen. washington said about the same thing to the british. how many have we lost now in iraq afganistan and every where else now? in cave man times when you did some creative destruction you were not killed you were sent out of the cave and told you are now a libertarian conservative don’t come back. maybe you can find this guy walking away!