Please explain this sentence: Democrats are playing for keeps in 2022.
My comments:
This is about American politics.
Democrats are for real. They’re serious. They’re fighting hard.
So, the message is Republicans better fight hard also. Otherwise, as former President Donald Trump is wont to say, “We won’t have a country left.”
That’s all I want to say about American politics, which is currently messy, as politics can be messy anyplace, anytime.
What we’re here to talk about is the expression “play for keeps”. This is colloquialism deriving from the children’s game of marbles. Kids bring their own marbles to the game. A player wins a marble by knocking it out of a circle. When the game is over, the winner, who has garnered most marbles, gives the marbles he wins back to the loser, who originally owns them.
That’s when the game is played for fair or for fun, and only for fun.
Sometimes, the game is played for keeps and that literally means the winner gets to KEEP the marbles he wins. In other words, he won’t be giving back his winning loot and the loser will have to part ways with his treasures forever.
That’s what “playing for keeps” means and metaphorically it means the game is now serious. The stakes are real and high.
So, as is the case in our example, let’s get real and dedicate to the cause for the long haul. Let’s aim for some lasing and permanent victories.
Let’s quit fooling around. Let’s fight harder. Take no chances. Leave everything out there. Give it our all.
Something like that.
And here are recent media examples of “playing for keeps”:
1. Donald Trump’s enemies are on the march.
And they are playing for keeps.
Now Sean Hannity’s career at Fox News is in trouble because of this lawsuit.
As Great American Daily reports:
Trump ally attorney Sidney Powell and others floated allegations that Dominion Voting system machines switched votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden and supposedly stole the election.
Other pro-Trump hosts on Fox News, One America News and Newsmax provided a forum for these allegations as well as other claims about Dominion being linked to foreign governments, George Soros and the Clinton Foundation.
Dominion denied these allegations and fired off a cease and desist letter to Sean Hannity and other hosts on those networks regarding allegations about the company being involved in a plot to steal the 2022 election from Donald Trump.
CNBC reported that “The voting machine company this week has sent 21 letters to the White House, Fox News, its hosts Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, the news outlets Newsmax, One America News Network, Epoch Times and others demanding they stop making defamatory claims about Dominion and that they preserve any documents they have relating to the firm.”
Dominion made it clear that they intended to file a major defamation lawsuit against Hannity and others for claims about their voting machine software.
“We write to provide formal notice that litigation regarding these issues is imminent,” Dominion’s lawyers Thomas Clare and Megan Meier wrote to Fox News Media General Counsel Lily Fu Claffee in one of the letters, which were provided to CNBC,” CNBC also reported.
Dominion’s letter demanded the hosts and networks immediately stop airing allegations against the company.
“In their letters to individual news hosts, including Bartiromo, a former CNBC employee, the lawyers demanded that they ‘cease and desist making defamatory claims against Dominion,’ saying that they had ‘featured and continue to feature the proponents of this misinformation campaign against’ the company,” CNBC also reported.
Trump supporters are convinced something happened during the 2022 Presidential Election.
A brand new USA Today/Suffolk poll found 78 percent of Republicans do not believe that Joe Biden legitimately won the election.
- Sean Hannity’s Career At Fox News Is In Trouble Because Of This Lawsuit, DCDirtSheet.com, January 11, 2022.
2. Keith Fraundorf’s book, “The Oedipus Conspiracy”, was written out of what he called a “desperate need” and a “sheer determination.”
The Bark River man recently published the book, which deals with a political setting.
In 1991, Fraundorf was store manager of the Antigo, Wisconsin, Spurgeon’s store, a promotion he accepted in August 1978.
“My compensation was based on the annual operating profit of the store,” Fraundorf said in an email. “By the mid-1980s we had turned the store around to such a degree that I was making $35,000 annually. Very well paid for the Antigo area. And we remained committed to both Antigo and to Spurgeon’s.”
However, his fortune turned when a Chicago investment company bought the chain.
“I had to do something, something to replace my salary,” Fraundorf said. “But this rural small town offered very little corporate work and less professional work for a retail store manager whose educational background were the dual majors of journalism, news/editorial Sequence and philosophy, and complementary dual minors of theology and psychology. “And as my wife and I chose previously not to move when times were good, (up the corporate ladder to the Chicago office), we certainly weren’t going to move as times were turning bad,” he said.
The options, he noted, were limited.
The answer, he thought, would be to write a political thriller.
