We forget that in 2016 we voted for Trump because Hillary Clinton triggered so many people’s disgust circuit.
No. Not. Her.
As my wife told a female friend of ours, “I’ve waited 25
years to vote against that bitch.” And she did.
We took a flyer on Trump because he wasn’t Hillary and he
would be hilarious. Mission mostly accomplished. Today I give him credit for
raising his game.
Today men of dubious character have stood up against men
without any shred of it.
What’s your limit? And what do you do after Tuesday when
the real fight or our future begins?
Everyone has a limit. Everyone.
And when pushed to that limit we all have a choice, push back or
submit.
Tony Bobulinski reached his. And it has doomed the Democrats’
chances in this election cycle regardless of what happens on Tuesday.
In his widely-censored interview with Tucker Carlson
Bobulinski’s ‘disgust circuit’ was on full display. I’ve talked
about this in the past.
Normally the disgust circuit is triggered through the classic
“Nuts and Sluts” shaming technique used on Republicans or anyone else the
powers that be want removed from the public stage.
“Nuts and Sluts” is easy to understand. Simply accuse the person
you want to destroy of being either crazy (the definition of which shifts with
whatever is the political trigger issue of the day) or a sexual deviant.
This technique works because it triggers most people’s Disgust
Circuit, a term created by Mark Schaller as part of what he calls the
Behavioral Immune System and popularized by Johnathan Haidt.
The disgust circuit is also easy to understand.
It is the limit at which behavior in others triggers our
gut-level outrage and we recoil with disgust.
The reason
“Nuts and Sluts” works so well on conservative candidates and voters is
because, on average, conservatives have a much stronger disgust circuit than
liberals and/or libertarians.
Bobulinski’s disgust circuit kicked in the second House
Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff crossed the line, accusing him of
being a Russian disinformation agent.
It was clear as day for anyone watching. Bobulinski didn’t try
to hide it.
And that was quite enough of that.
That’s where his deadline to the Bidens and Schiff came from and
that’s where this story is at its most interesting.
He told Schiff, the Bidens and everyone else on Capitol Hill,
“You can play your reindeer games but you cannot under any circumstance make me
the fall guy for it.”
Whatever he did in his business with the Biden’s he’s owning up
to. Sure, his motivations for coming forward now may be as suspect as Hunter
Biden’s dealings with the Chinese government.
He may have seen the writing on the wall, covering himself in
the case of a Trump victory next week. He may even be a key witness in
the FBI’s
investigation opened in 2019 into the Bidens’ shady business dealings.
But I don’t really care about all of Bobulinski’s reasons. There
may in fact be a lot of them. But the primary one on display the other night
with Tucker Carlson was that of disgust.
That’s when he was at his most authentic. That’s where his real
motivation came from. Adam Schiff is up to his eyes in the corruption in
Ukraine.
So is Nancy Pelosi. So is Mitt Romney. So is Cindy McCain by
proxy. Victoria Nuland, Hillary Clinton and likely Barack Obama himself.
Schiff has been given cover for over three years to make the
most outrageous accusations and they be allowed to stand.
The media is not only complicit in this outrage, they have been
rewarded with attention, showered with money by desperate victims of Trump
Derangement Syndrome stoked by that same media through the crudest of
propaganda techniques.
Now that we’ve reached the eve of the election the stakes for
them are so high, since we can see them, that they’ve now sunk even further
into the abyss of D.C. Swamp.
This prompted Gleen Greenwald to loudly resign from The
Intercept, the company he helped found, when his story on BidenGate had to be
gutted to be published.
We found Greenwald’s limit as well.
But Greenwald is supposed to do this. This is the minimum a good
journalist is supposed to do when confronted with censorship and cover up. Good
on Glenn, this was his moment to lead.
Bobulinski, on the other hand, is different.
Given the way things work in D.C. I’m sure no one ever thought
Bobulinski would go through with his threat, because he’s opening himself up to
loss.
And yet he did.
Because he has a limit. Joe Biden and his skeezy family haven’t
found theirs yet.
That limit defines who we are and what we’re willing to fight
for. It stares back at us in the mirror every morning.
And it’s obvious that Bobulinski’s limit was his family’s name
and what that name was going to stand for. They figured he would cower in fear
because of their power.
Schiff et. al. never thought this guy would be the one to
finally break ranks and stand tall. People like Schiff never think that because
of the guy they see in the mirror every day.
It’s their Achilles’ heel.
We’re a few days from an election that can best be described as
a singularity. A black hole sucking the light out of the world where all of the
narratives and agendas of the post-World War II era of human history boil down
to a simple choice.
Courage or fear.
Joe
Biden and the whole of The Davos Crowd are
running a campaign of fear. Fear of COVID-19, fear of Trump, fear of phantom
white supremacists, fear of intimacy, race, color, the words we speak and,
worst of all, our children.
Remember them? The ones told they have to isolate themselves
lest they kill grandma? Imagine, partisan hacks, cheering on the political
chaos in the U.S., being a six-year old again living with that guilt.
These are the people Tony Bobulinski finally woke up to who he
was dealing with and what their limits were.
Trump, for all of his faults, has done nothing but project
courage and bravery. And those are words I would never have ascribed to him in
all the years of watching him manipulate the press and politicians in New York.
I watched him appease his enemies in the early days of his first
term, terrified of the media backlash, and wasn’t shocked. Disappointed? Yes.
But not shocked.
And he wobbled early on with the vipers surrounding him during
the early days of the Coronapocalypse.
But as this year has gone along he’s risen to the task. Gotta
give credit where it’s due. He led with his chin out and his Twitter feed
sharp.
He’s leaving it all on the field, as Scott Adams put it the
other day.
We forget that in 2016 we voted for Trump because Hillary Clinton
triggered so many people’s disgust circuit.
No. Not. Her.
As my wife told a female friend of ours, “I’ve waited 25 years
to vote against that bitch.” And she did.
We took a flyer on Trump because he wasn’t Hillary and he would
be hilarious. Mission mostly accomplished. Today I give him credit for raising
his game.
Today men of dubious character have stood up against men without
any shred of it.
What’s your limit? And what do you do after Tuesday when the
real fight or our future begins?
https://tomluongo.me/2020/10/30/bidengate-enough-limit-disgust-bobulinski/
