{"id":34161,"date":"2020-10-31T15:15:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T19:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=34161"},"modified":"2020-10-31T15:15:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T19:15:09","slug":"bidengate-bobulinski-the-campaign-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=34161","title":{"rendered":"BidenGate, Bobulinski, &#038; The Campaign Of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>BidenGate \u2013 That\u2019s Quite Enough of That<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2020\/10\/30\/bidengate-enough-limit-disgust-bobulinski\/\"><em>Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, &#8216;n Guns blog,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Everyone has a limit. Everyone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And when pushed to that limit we all have a choice,\u00a0<strong>push back or submit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/trump-talk-to-the-hand-limit.jpg?itok=5Yreczh8\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/trump-talk-to-the-hand-limit.jpg?itok=5Yreczh8\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/trump-talk-to-the-hand-limit.jpg?itok=NN18Kmwh 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/trump-talk-to-the-hand-limit.jpg?itok=NN18Kmwh 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/trump-talk-to-the-hand-limit.jpg?itok=NN18Kmwh 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/trump-talk-to-the-hand-limit.jpg?itok=NN18Kmwh 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/trump-talk-to-the-hand-limit.jpg?itok=NN18Kmwh 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/trump-talk-to-the-hand-limit.jpg?itok=5Yreczh8 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/trump-talk-to-the-hand-limit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"571f6ef7-294d-4148-a023-a81f135e3598\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tony Bobulinski reached his.<\/strong>\u00a0And it has doomed the Democrats\u2019 chances in this election cycle regardless of what happens on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In his widely-censored interview with Tucker Carlson Bobulinski\u2019s \u2018disgust circuit\u2019 was on full display.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2018\/09\/28\/kavanaugh-disgust-circuit-limits-nuts-sluts\/\">I\u2019ve talked about this in the past.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Normally the disgust circuit is triggered through the classic \u201cNuts and Sluts\u201d shaming technique used on Republicans or anyone else the powers that be want removed from the public stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNuts and Sluts\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>This technique works because it triggers most people\u2019s Disgust Circuit, a term created by Mark Schaller as part of what he calls the Behavioral Immune System and popularized by Johnathan Haidt.<\/p>\n<p>The disgust circuit is also easy to understand.<\/p>\n<p>It is the limit at which behavior in others triggers our gut-level outrage and we recoil with disgust.<\/p>\n<p>The reason \u201cNuts and Sluts\u201d works so well on conservative candidates and voters is because, on average, conservatives have a much stronger disgust circuit than liberals and\/or libertarians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Bobulinski\u2019s disgust circuit kicked in the second House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff crossed the line, accusing him of being a Russian disinformation agent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was clear as day for anyone watching. Bobulinski didn\u2019t try to hide it.<\/p>\n<p>And that was quite enough of that.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where his deadline to the Bidens and Schiff came from and that\u2019s where this story is at its most interesting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He told Schiff, the Bidens and everyone else on Capitol Hill, \u201cYou can play your reindeer games but you cannot under any circumstance make me the fall guy for it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whatever he did in his business with the Biden\u2019s he\u2019s owning up to. Sure, his motivations for coming forward now may be as suspect as Hunter Biden\u2019s dealings with the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/nation-world\/tony-bobulinksi-i-have-now-put-myself-in-huge-risk-for-the-sake-of-the-american-people\">FBI\u2019s investigation opened in 2019 into the Bidens\u2019 shady business dealings.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But I don\u2019t really care about all of Bobulinski\u2019s reasons. There may in fact be a lot of them.\u00a0<strong>But the primary one on display the other night with Tucker Carlson was that of disgust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid643443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2zLfBRgeFFo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>That\u2019s when he was at his most authentic. That\u2019s where his real motivation came from. Adam Schiff is up to his eyes in the corruption in Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So is Nancy Pelosi. So is Mitt Romney. So is Cindy McCain by proxy. Victoria Nuland, Hillary Clinton and likely Barack Obama himself.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff has been given cover for over three years to make the most outrageous accusations and they be allowed to stand.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>media is not only complicit in this outrage,\u00a0<\/strong>they have been rewarded with attention, showered with money by desperate\u00a0<strong>victims of Trump Derangement Syndrome\u00a0<\/strong>stoked by that same media through the crudest of propaganda techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we\u2019ve reached the eve of the election the stakes for them are so high, since we can see them, that they\u2019ve now sunk even further into the abyss of D.C. Swamp.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We found Greenwald\u2019s limit as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1321869227226222593&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmarkets%2Fbidengate-bobulisnki-campaign-fear&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1321869227226222593\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Bobulinski, on the other hand, is different.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Given the way things work in D.C. I\u2019m sure no one ever thought Bobulinski would go through with his threat, because he\u2019s opening himself up to loss.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And yet he did.<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Because he has a limit.\u00a0<\/strong><\/u>Joe Biden and his skeezy family haven\u2019t found theirs yet.<\/p>\n<p>That limit defines who we are and what we\u2019re willing to fight for. It stares back at us in the mirror every morning.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s obvious that Bobulinski\u2019s limit was his family\u2019s name and what that name was going to stand for. They figured he would cower in fear because of their power.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s their Achilles\u2019 heel.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re 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.<\/p>\n<p>Courage or fear.<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Joe Biden and the whole of\u00a0<em>The Davos Crowd<\/em>\u00a0are running a campaign of fear.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>These are the people Tony Bobulinski finally woke up to who he was dealing with and what their limits were.<\/p>\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I watched him appease his enemies in the early days of his first term, terrified of the media backlash, and wasn\u2019t shocked. Disappointed? Yes. But not shocked.<\/p>\n<p>And he wobbled early on with the vipers surrounding him during the early days of the Coronapocalypse.<\/p>\n<p>But as this year has gone along he\u2019s risen to the task. Gotta give credit where it\u2019s due. He led with his chin out and his Twitter feed sharp.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s leaving it all on the field, as Scott Adams put it the other day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1320849992806846464&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmarkets%2Fbidengate-bobulisnki-campaign-fear&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1320849992806846464\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>We forget that in 2016 we voted for Trump because Hillary Clinton triggered so many people\u2019s disgust circuit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No. Not. Her.<\/p>\n<p>As my wife told a female friend of ours, \u201cI\u2019ve waited 25 years to vote against that bitch.\u201d And she did.<\/p>\n<p>We took a flyer on Trump because he wasn\u2019t Hillary and he would be hilarious. Mission mostly accomplished. Today I give him credit for raising his game.<\/p>\n<p>Today men of dubious character have stood up against men without any shred of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your limit? And what do you do after Tuesday when the real fight or our future begins?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2020\/10\/30\/bidengate-enough-limit-disgust-bobulinski\/\">https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2020\/10\/30\/bidengate-enough-limit-disgust-bobulinski\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BidenGate \u2013 That\u2019s Quite Enough of That<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}