Chamath Palihapitiya's Story re: Trump is Exactly My Story

Though it didn't take me "six or seven years." Charlottesville was a big red-pilling event for me. Around that time I'd started to see through Russiagate and some of the other TDS bullshit...but I'd have to go back and look at the post timeline. Charlottesville was about two years and two months after Trump came down the "golden escalator." By November 2018 I voted straight-ticket Republican. But it's not clear what Palihapitiya means. Maybe he means something like: to really realize the full extent of the deception... Dunno.

Anyway. The left's reaction to Trump's statements on Charlottesville were just nuts. And this was before the "Very Fine People" hoax had coalesced into a standardized lie. Trump's initial statement was very good--I was pleased with it. But I was blasted for that by many commenters here (when we had comments...*). Anyway: I was right, they were wrong. If Obama had made the statement Trump made, he'd have been praised to high heaven. The criticisms of Trump's statement were bullshit. Then he issued another statement...and the left shrieked because he hadn't released it a day earlier...on Sunday... Utter nonsense. 

And, of course, the left portrayed the Unite the Right participants as completely evil, and the Antifa Lite counter-protestors as pure good...despite the fact that the UtR people were well within their First Amendment rights, and the "anti-racist counter-protestors" (as C'villians like to call them) were not--and they started the violence. (The bum who improvised a flame-thrower with an aerosol spray can and used it on the UtR guys became a celebrity in C'ville, fawned over by the local lefty papers (yes, 'papers' plural...). 

(Of course James Alex Fields gave the left the hook it needed to hang its argument on. Stupid asshole.)

But anyway: your First Amendment rights don't go away just because you are a racist--or otherwise an asshole...

Of course one must always add: Trump has his very significant downsides...but that's a different part of the story... 

Anyway, other than the "6 or 7 years" bit, this is me exactly:

* Anyway, in case you've forgotten: I stopped the comments basically as a way of stopping the blog...which I somehow never did. I still plan to switch over to Substack someday and start comments again.