The enemy of my enemy is my friend. We need all the help we can get and we'll worry about the neocons later. We need to get rid of Team Trump Treason and his goon squads NOW.
One night in 1984, when Heath Eiden was sixteen, he found himself at the Hotel Meridien in San Francisco, in the campaign suite of Walter Mondale. This was during the Democratic National Convention. Consultants and congressmen milled around, wreathed in cigar smoke. Eiden, then a high-school junior from Minneapolis, was there with Mondale’s son Ted, as a volunteer. He was next to Mondale when the candidate took a call from Lane Kirkland, the head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. (“You got it, Fritz”), and then announced to the room that he’d won enough delegates to secure the nomination. Eiden was bewitched. “The spirit left the road and jumped up into me,” he recalled. “Fritz Mondale, the last honest politician: he actually said, ‘Yeah, I’m going to raise your taxes.’ ”
After Reagan beat Mondale that year in a landslide (Mondale won just one state: Minnesota), Eiden, an early adept with his school’s Sony Betacam 1800, got the first on-camera interview with the loser. (It led to his short film, “Triumph Over Tragedy: The Humphrey-Mondale Tradition,” which is archived at the Minnesota Historical Society.) Eiden had TV-news aspirations, but before long disillusionment over sensationalism and dishonesty in the media soured him on it all. His last-ditch attempt was a documentary, in 2004, of another doomed White House bid, called “Dean and Me: Lessons from an American Primary,” which failed to change the world or to make him rich.
A couple of weeks ago, Eiden, who now lives in Stowe, Vermont, and works as a video producer, got a call from Stuart Stevens, the political consultant, who also has a house in Stowe. Stevens has advised five Republican Presidential candidates, including George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, but has recently abandoned the Party, in the belief that it has abandoned him. (His eighth book, to be published next month, is called “It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump.” Last week, he said, “The Party always had a dark side. We thought it was a recessive gene, but it turned out to be the dominant gene. I feel like a sucker.”)
Stevens was calling on behalf of the Lincoln Project, the confederation of G.O.P. apostates who, appalled by Trump, had formed a political-action committee to defeat him. The Lincoln Project had been producing sharply negative TV ads about Trump, which have run mostly in Washington, D.C., mainly to needle their subject, but which, because of their sass and their source, almost always go viral on social media.
Stevens wanted Eiden to shoot the Lincoln Project’s new spot. This one would feature an emergency-room doctor down the road, in South Burlington, named Dan Barkhuff, a former Navy Seal and a graduate of the Naval Academy and of Harvard
Medical School, who had started an organization called Veterans for Responsible Leadership. The occasion was the news that the President had ignored intelligence reports that a Russian military unit had been paying bounties to the Taliban for the killing of American soldiers in Afghanistan.
Eiden was torn. On the one hand, work was scarce during the pandemic, and, of course, he abhorred Trump and had been frustrated by the Democrats’ failure to hit back. But, as a dyed-in-the-down Minnesota liberal, he had misgivings about working with what he called “the dark side”—some of the Republican operatives who, by way of rough tactics, had engineered the demise of so many of his favored candidates through the years. Ultimately, though, the enemy-of-my-enemy principle pertained.
The previous week, he’d driven to Minneapolis with his teen-age son, to pay their respects (and shoot some footage) at the memorial for George Floyd. That experience, plus a few days in the suburbs among Covid truthers, and an encounter with a waiter making an “I can’t breathe” joke, had only quickened his revulsion. “If it takes working with Republicans to get this fucker out of the White House, fine,” he said.
“What kind of style do you want?” Eiden asked Stevens.
“Think Swift Boat,” Stevens replied.
“I knew exactly what I’d found myself in the middle of,” Eiden recalled.
Eiden and Barkhuff met up at Stevens’s house. The Lincoln Project had sent a script, by a screenwriter of the HBO series “Band of Brothers,” but Barkhuff ditched it for one of his own. Identifying himself as “a pro-life gun-owning combat veteran,” he said into the camera, “Any Commander-in-Chief with a spine would be stomping the shit out of some Russians right now, diplomatically, economically, or, if necessary, with the sort of asymmetric warfare they’re using to send our kids home in body bags. Mr. Trump, you’re either a coward who can’t stand up to an ex-K.G.B. goon or you’re complicit. Which is it?”
Afterward, Eiden went home and uploaded the footage. An editor named Joey, in Denver, put it together overnight. The following afternoon, Stevens noted that the spot, called “Betrayed,” had been viewed online more than six million times. To what end, time will tell. ♦
Published in the print edition of the July 20, 2020, issue, with the headline “Right Place, Right Time.”
Weird shit going down today....AOC getting attacked, Cheney getting attacked by GOP, etc.
Are they really attacking Darth Cheney for not being evil enough?
Lizzy. Not Darth. Apparently 97% isn’t good enough. You have to goose step along, yo. “Freedom” Caucus, what a joke. Has anyone asked them how they feel about goon squads snatching people off the street? “Freedom” Caucus my ass.
One of the better Republican Voters Against Trump testimonials. This guy quit the GOP sometime during the Obama administration when he decided the GOP was going downhill.....with Trump ending up the appropriate microcosm of the decline...
One of the better Republican Voters Against Trump testimonials. This guy quit the GOP sometime during the Obama administration when he decided the GOP was going downhill.....with Trump ending up the appropriate microcosm of the decline...
One of the better Republican Voters Against Trump testimonials. This guy quit the GOP sometime during the Obama administration when he decided the GOP was going downhill.....with Trump ending up the appropriate microcosm of the decline...
And yeah, good effort with the Seinfeld thing. Seems like a copyright infringement though?
I don't think is so because it's not the same music. it's just a generic rip-off version. Really, I think they just wanted to put a laugh-track over Trump and felt that while they're at it, might as well just throw in some knock-off Seinfeld music.
One of the better Republican Voters Against Trump testimonials. This guy quit the GOP sometime during the Obama administration when he decided the GOP was going downhill.....with Trump ending up the appropriate microcosm of the decline...
Team Trump Treason just can't shake The Ukraine. I mean really? No real deal US of A lawlessness and chaos to highlight and claim how out of control things are? No CHOP/CHAZ or Portland or DC footage available? Ruddy Ghouliani still on the payroll? Sheesh.
166 is difficult to overcome but me thinks Flo Rida and Ohio go red. And a lot can change between now and Election Day. Like a PTAPE being released and/or Ghislaine Maxwell’s insurance policy is made known.
A lot can happen for sure. My MIL lives in OH...she voted tRump in 2016 but I don't think she will vote for him again in 2020.
She is 80 and is pretty annoyed at how tRump and Pence have not pushed mask wearing.
I keep hearing this but I’m afraid of the voter suppression and messing with the ballots. Flo Rida and Ohio have a history of doing such and they’ve become good at it. CHAOS.
It really comes down to whether or not the loss of trust in Trump is redeemable or irredeemable. If 53% of the public does not trust Trump as a leader based on his insane behavior these last months, he can't win. I use 53% because I think that's large enough to overcome EC nuances.
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There will be a segment of the voting public who will be persuaded by the new sedated Trump in this briefings. I'm sure it will only last for another couple days or so though.
Fake news. Trump will win every state but DE and maybe DC.
@mrussel1 Have you seen the Ted Cruz spot warning about the coming blue wave of socialism and american destruction? These people only know one trick, stoking imagined fear.
Fake news. Trump will win every state but DE and maybe DC.
@mrussel1 Have you seen the Ted Cruz spot warning about the coming blue wave of socialism and american destruction? These people only know one trick, stoking imagined fear.
I haven't, but yes that's always the gig. But I was watching the Indians game, the Ohio broadcast. And there was a pro Trump ad and it was all Pence. They actually never said Trump once and only showed him briefly signing a trade deal with Trudeau. This tells you how low he is polling personally, where the whole ad is Pence.
Here’s the difference-maker. Biden was part of a very corrupt administration. Expect something akin to Comey opening up an investigation on Hillary in late October.
The Democrats are so corrupt...and so inept.
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Here’s the difference-maker. Biden was part of a very corrupt administration. Expect something akin to Comey opening up an investigation on Hillary in late October.
The Democrats are so corrupt...and so inept.
We know what it’s going to be already. The Durham thing.
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Nate Silver keeps teasing their forecast model. Looking forward to that coming out soon. I'm assuming it will give Trump better odds than most of the others as it did four years ago.
Fake news. Trump will win every state but DE and maybe DC.
@mrussel1 Have you seen the Ted Cruz spot warning about the coming blue wave of socialism and american destruction? These people only know one trick, stoking imagined fear.
I love the ads that show violence and suggest this will be America under Biden....yet the violence is going on right now
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One night in 1984, when Heath Eiden was sixteen, he found himself at the Hotel Meridien in San Francisco, in the campaign suite of Walter Mondale. This was during the Democratic National Convention. Consultants and congressmen milled around, wreathed in cigar smoke. Eiden, then a high-school junior from Minneapolis, was there with Mondale’s son Ted, as a volunteer. He was next to Mondale when the candidate took a call from Lane Kirkland, the head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. (“You got it, Fritz”), and then announced to the room that he’d won enough delegates to secure the nomination. Eiden was bewitched. “The spirit left the road and jumped up into me,” he recalled. “Fritz Mondale, the last honest politician: he actually said, ‘Yeah, I’m going to raise your taxes.’ ”
After Reagan beat Mondale that year in a landslide (Mondale won just one state: Minnesota), Eiden, an early adept with his school’s Sony Betacam 1800, got the first on-camera interview with the loser. (It led to his short film, “Triumph Over Tragedy: The Humphrey-Mondale Tradition,” which is archived at the Minnesota Historical Society.) Eiden had TV-news aspirations, but before long disillusionment over sensationalism and dishonesty in the media soured him on it all. His last-ditch attempt was a documentary, in 2004, of another doomed White House bid, called “Dean and Me: Lessons from an American Primary,” which failed to change the world or to make him rich.
A couple of weeks ago, Eiden, who now lives in Stowe, Vermont, and works as a video producer, got a call from Stuart Stevens, the political consultant, who also has a house in Stowe. Stevens has advised five Republican Presidential candidates, including George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, but has recently abandoned the Party, in the belief that it has abandoned him. (His eighth book, to be published next month, is called “It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump.” Last week, he said, “The Party always had a dark side. We thought it was a recessive gene, but it turned out to be the dominant gene. I feel like a sucker.”)
Stevens was calling on behalf of the Lincoln Project, the confederation of G.O.P. apostates who, appalled by Trump, had formed a political-action committee to defeat him. The Lincoln Project had been producing sharply negative TV ads about Trump, which have run mostly in Washington, D.C., mainly to needle their subject, but which, because of their sass and their source, almost always go viral on social media.
Stevens wanted Eiden to shoot the Lincoln Project’s new spot. This one would feature an emergency-room doctor down the road, in South Burlington, named Dan Barkhuff, a former Navy Seal and a graduate of the Naval Academy and of Harvard
Medical School, who had started an organization called Veterans for Responsible Leadership. The occasion was the news that the President had ignored intelligence reports that a Russian military unit had been paying bounties to the Taliban for the killing of American soldiers in Afghanistan.
Eiden was torn. On the one hand, work was scarce during the pandemic, and, of course, he abhorred Trump and had been frustrated by the Democrats’ failure to hit back. But, as a dyed-in-the-down Minnesota liberal, he had misgivings about working with what he called “the dark side”—some of the Republican operatives who, by way of rough tactics, had engineered the demise of so many of his favored candidates through the years. Ultimately, though, the enemy-of-my-enemy principle pertained.
The previous week, he’d driven to Minneapolis with his teen-age son, to pay their respects (and shoot some footage) at the memorial for George Floyd. That experience, plus a few days in the suburbs among Covid truthers, and an encounter with a waiter making an “I can’t breathe” joke, had only quickened his revulsion. “If it takes working with Republicans to get this fucker out of the White House, fine,” he said.
“What kind of style do you want?” Eiden asked Stevens.
“Think Swift Boat,” Stevens replied.
“I knew exactly what I’d found myself in the middle of,” Eiden recalled.
Eiden and Barkhuff met up at Stevens’s house. The Lincoln Project had sent a script, by a screenwriter of the HBO series “Band of Brothers,” but Barkhuff ditched it for one of his own. Identifying himself as “a pro-life gun-owning combat veteran,” he said into the camera, “Any Commander-in-Chief with a spine would be stomping the shit out of some Russians right now, diplomatically, economically, or, if necessary, with the sort of asymmetric warfare they’re using to send our kids home in body bags. Mr. Trump, you’re either a coward who can’t stand up to an ex-K.G.B. goon or you’re complicit. Which is it?”
Afterward, Eiden went home and uploaded the footage. An editor named Joey, in Denver, put it together overnight. The following afternoon, Stevens noted that the spot, called “Betrayed,” had been viewed online more than six million times. To what end, time will tell. ♦
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/is-working-with-the-lincoln-project-sleeping-with-the-enemy
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Pearl Jam bootlegs:
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And yeah, good effort with the Seinfeld thing. Seems like a copyright infringement though?
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Debased, like the Pixies?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-chaos-violence-ad-ukraine-protest_n_5f184c66c5b6296fbf3c473f
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2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
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She is 80 and is pretty annoyed at how tRump and Pence have not pushed mask wearing.
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Tsunami? Call my mommy....
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The Democrats are so corrupt...and so inept.
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you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Chicago; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana