Literally all the ads—no Republican apparently wants to waste money on this audience—deal in pure Trump Hate generalities. “He will stop Trump” one hopeful’s ads say. Stop him from what? Oh, you know. Another I saw five times last night: “Trump has made a terrible mess. She will lead the way to clean it up.” Wait, what mess, exactly? Cleaning up the Biden Administration open borders mess of illegals is a mess itself? How? Appropriately protecting the only democracy in the Middle East and combating the metastasizing anti-Semitism on the Mad Left is a “mess”?
Funny, what I see is an energetic and courageous POTUS cleaning up multiple messes: DEI, the trans attack on women’s sports, the dangerous Axis news media, the indoctrination centers we call universities, the invidious Deep State, the bloated Federal workforce and unaccountable Federal agencies, the untrustworthy election systems, and the absurd Democratic Party climate change obsession. Even the Iranian war, which is a mess but then all wars are, is a belated and responsible effort to clean up that accumulated and existential mess of a rogue nation (and culture) that has been killing Americans without an appropriate response since 1979, while every other President, of both parties, chose to pass on the growing danger to the next White House occupant.
Yeah, President Trump has some messes (and alleged messes) of his own that warrant legitimate focus and discussion, like the unconscionable IRS “settlement,” but almost all of them are personal in nature and pale in substantive importance to the list above. One way I know that is the deliberate vagueness of Democrat rhetoric. Go ahead, defend your attack: I’ll show you my Trump messes and you show me yours. I dare you.
They wont, or can’t. The entire mid-term campaign is, once again, going to be based on hate and Trump derangement, and virtually nothing else of substance that hasn’t been a hollow Leftist cliche for almost a century now. Down with the rich! Workers arise! Evil corporations! Of course, now they have added to those “Kill the opposition!” and “Censor critics!” Nice.
The other catch phrase in the NESN ads is “block ICE.” That is a recycling of “defund the police,” and one which I translate as “I am a moron.”
Well, the ads have taught me one thing: if Republicans can’t get out the vote sufficiently to defeat infantile candidates like these in the majority of states that haven’t lost their collective minds, the public doesn’t deserve a free government. In Virginia, the turnout for yesterday’s primaries was about 10%. Apathy is third only to stupidity and ignorance as a danger to a republic. Talk about a mess.
Why, hello, Geena!
Ethics Alarms 
When you have spent nearly a decade creating an alternate reality where Donald Trump is the Devil and all his works are evil, all you must do is pledge to stop, undo, clean up and, where possible, erase the slightest evidence of his existence.
Most rational people realize these opponents of evil personified are insane, deluded or, at best, misguided.
This perspective is from someone who did not vote for him in 2024.
The same type of ads ran in the Illinois primary often seen in Indiana.
I’m morbidly curious to see exactly how the left pivots, after hysterically and vitriolically ranking Donald Trump somewhere below Satan and slightly equal to Adolf Hitler, to calling the next Republican presidential candidate the worst thing ever.
See my comment below, Michael. TDS is “the new normal!” (Where has that dreadful phrase gone? Somewhere far away, I hope.)
I’ve been seeing a televised ads for a candidate in Wisconsin (don’t remember what progressive woman it is) that’s openly claiming that corporations are “stealing the American dream”, the new phrase to show that corporations are evil.
These people are certifiably delusional.
I’m seeing the same nonsense that I wrote about back in August 2011 and later in May of 2017 being recycled by progressives. Loads of smearing lies with absolutely no substance and the morons supporting the political left are eating it up like candy.
Note: this is NOT a baseball-related post, so ye who have been deprived of love for the National Pastime by a quirks of mysterious God, don’t stop reading
I’M TRYING. I fundamentally know it’s game whose complexities allow for a great deal of engagement and enjoyment. But I think most of my problem is it is already hard enough for me to get interested in *any* televised sport even though I muscle through televised football my beloved Aggies. But at home, given a random 3 hours, there’s just about anything else I would rather do than watch sports…any sport.
For me, baseball is best in person because it’s fundamentally a community event, but that’s expensive for a casual fan.
So I love it…but I can’t love it.
I think there may be some utility in calling this Republican Derangement Syndrome. I’m pretty sure once Trump has timed out, the same rhetoric will be used on whoever succeeds or attempts to succeed him. This is basically “everything is terrible” on steroids. To fix it will require eliminating the Supreme Court, the electoral college and the Senate. All that will remain will be the Congress which will function like the single body Communist party in Soviet Russia or Cuba. No more United States; simply America (controlled by the big cities and the coasts). Corporations will be appropriated by the Party. Nirvana will follow immediately like in Cuba. Everyone will be impoverished and the lights won’t come on. But the elites will be living large in their houses on the Mediterranean coast alongside the Russian oligarchs and the Middle Eastern potentates. Power to the people!
…and I’ll be proud to be an American, where the guv’ment knows when I pee…
You oughta try living in this pathetic state (Massachusetts). It’s likely worse than you can remember.
I, too, have been lured back into watching the Red Sox based on their performance of late. I have every reason to believe that they’ll crater again, but for now, it’s fun. Besides, it’s still 54 days until puck drop.
I don’t particularly begrudge NESN for carrying these ads. God knows they probably make more dough by having Markey and Moulton try to out-pander and out-hate each other on Trump than they make from the usual slew of Jordan’s Furniture and regional Toyota spots that regularly occupy most of the space between innings.
There is some value, I suppose, in exposing just how pathetic and venal both candidates are. Markey has always been a back-bencher’s back-bencher, but I thought Moulton had a bit more character than what is now being revealed.
Besides, why SHOULD the Republican party weigh in here? That GOP Senate candidate is set, and isn’t likely to prevail anyway, so it only makes sense that the Mass GOP – an organization which, by the way, is trying to dig itself out of a major financial hole created by previous (corrupt) leadership – would hold on to its (limited) resources until after the primary.
It would be stupid not to do so. Besides, as Napoleon once shrewdly observed, “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”