None of the 10 stories covered by The Free Press are as important as the Democrat Party’s illicit use of the administration of justice to sideline its main political opponent. Equality before the law is a sacrosanct American value. This is an abysmal failure by the Free Press.
It's so cute how "the 6 counts in the Georgia case were thrown out" got a mere mention just like the Hur report. Maybe you missed the avalanche, fire hose, tsunami of election interference and classified documents cases that seem to be crumbling.
The format change from one article to two or three and the additional overview of what's being reported across the news spectrum requires a larger time commitment. But choice is nice. I don't subscribe to TFP because they're me. I subscribe because they're them. Or, an eye is an eye because it sees you not because you see it. (Sorry-Can't help myself.) In my personal view TFP more often than not keeps a human face on the news it reports and the human is where the emotional, cultural and financial rubber meets the road.
To repeat myself number 9001: I'll spare the world my usual rant about the psyop and say subscription journalism is the opportunity to rebuild the solutions oriented truth/fact based American national conversation "we the people" deserve. Oliver W. and Bari W. get to be who they are and Mike R. gets to be who Mike R. is. One nice thing about our Republic, we've all got choices.
Who said "..I wholly disagree with what you say and will defend to the death your right to day it.." ?
Less fluff about the irrelevant and more, you know, journalistic reporting on failed Biden policies, the lies and propaganda and their obvious, disastrous repercussions. You clearly need more MSNBC.
It's sufficient to observe that the charges are fraudulent and only brought because of his politics and political strength, right? I don't really follow the details either. Without looking I know they are BS. Everything the Left does is BS. If they are speaking, odds are good they are lying.
Jim, are you being serious? Trump is mentioned in practically EVERY article here at TFP! And, unless it is something negative about him in the news, TFP (Wiesman & Nellie) have nothing to report!
I just did a scroll down of stories on TFP home page. The first 12 stories had nothing to do with Trump. The first story about politics specifically was from March 10, four days ago. And it had to do with the upcoming Democratic Convention.
Perhaps ... maybe ... possibly you're exaggerating just a tiny bit?
Jim, do you read Nellie’s TGIF? Wiesman’s articles? There is no need to exaggerate, or defend “just a tiny bit” period. We all have our own opinions. If I were so inclined, I would take the time to support my opinions with facts, but alas, life calls. Have a good day
You have assumed facts not in evidence. One swallow doesn’t make a spring. I don’t miss momentous attack on pillars of Justice. You must be unaware of how many baseless politically-based charges against the Democrat Party’s main political opponent are still outstanding.
What is happening here with Jim is healthy debate. I like it and hope we have more of it.
Do I think Trump is being screwed? The water is so muddy It is hard to know the truth. The Dem/Soc are such vicious liars but that is the foundation politics is built on.
Perhaps some of our commentors here would be well served by following Matt Taibbi's "Racket News." His is a much narrower focus (or precise, if you like) on the politics of politics, and has for some time now been critical of the Democratic Party and its strategies.
The Free Press takes a much broader view of "news," and tackles a wider spectrum of issues than Matt's.
I might also recommend that group follow Michael Schellenberger's "Public" Substack newsletter.
Jim, you must be a Democrat because their MO is to get nasty and condescending to those who disagrees with “their narrative” as if THEY are more enlightened.
NewsMax & Fox News comments are dead giveaways!
If any of TFP followers want to hear more “granular details of one story” they can also tune in to MSM, which perfectly bolsters the WOKE Left talking points.
Perhaps, TFP appealed to both Left & Right of Center BECAUSE Bari offered a platform more fair & balanced.
I’ve supported her since TFP was Common Sense, and unless or until I have reason not to, I’ll continue. What attracted me to her platform was the expectation her commenters used good manners & common sense when interacting. Of course, there are always some who must show their a** !
The derogatory remarks only make YOU look bad. Attacking Trump or Biden is expected, but in this time in America when we are so divided & fractured, we must all do better when interacting with each other.
No. I am not a Democrat. I try to avoid labels. The closest I'll confess to today is "Cautious Libertarian." I was a life-long registered Republican who still generally falls on the conservative side of most issues.
That said, I'm also a former journalist (in a previous life ... I'm 68 and retired). I've seen the demolition of the profession in my lifetime from what it was supposed to be. Almost all traditional news outlets (the so-called mainstream media) are ideologically-captured and present highly partisan slants on politics and culture. It is part of the reason why we see the news industry collapsing before our eyes.
This is a story that should not be misinterpreted. The judge threw out 6 of the 39 counts based largely on legal technicalities and the prosecutors have the right to replead those counts to correct the deficiencies. This is better interpreted as a ruling favoring the prosecution.
The dismissal (even without prejudice) of the 6 central counts of an indictment for failure to plead facts supporting the crimes is never a plus for the prosecution. Defective counts are always a demonstration of legal incompetence -- not to mention a professional embarrassment. Even non-lawyers realize that much.
If the case is a slam dunk, why include charges that would undermine the case, not to mention Willis behaving in a professionally inappropriate manner?
They were thrown out because they failed to provide the defendants with their Constitutional right to due process. Specifically the dismissed indictments failed to provide sufficient notice of what conduct was actually the subject of the indictment. Very, very sloppy on the part of the prosecution team.
I’d argue the Jonathan Haidt article in the Atlantic about the harm phones and social media have done to Gen Z and will do to the younger generation if we don’t get a handle on this is extremely important.
I agree. But maybe because I already subscribe to Haidt's channel and have read his books I don't find it particularly new or interesting. Jonathan has been banging this drum for years. Even on this substack.
It was TFP that first introduced me to Haidt's work and I'm probably not the only one! I'm reading his older book "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion" right now. Reading that, and thinking about his elephant/rider analogy while observing the comment wars on TFP, including my own impulses here, is eye opening to say the least.
Bruce, many more will vote AGAINST Trump, as in 2020. If I were a betting person, I’d bet Biden will win in 2024, like he did in 2020. The “Powers that Be” are more determined now than they were in 2020!
There’s too much at stake! Biden, or his Puppet Handlers, have implemented too many policies THEY MUST CARRY FORWARD. Just think about it - Green New Deal, Open Border, Millions to Iran, Billions to Ukraine, because War funding makes them huge amounts of wealth, etc., etc.!
Reelecting Trump would be disastrous to the WOKE Progressive Democrats, RINOs & Globalist, and I can’t see it happening.
Don’t be encouraged by poll numbers, or the huge turnout at Trump rallies. Instead, remember Basement Biden’s 81 million votes. He is, after all, THE MOST POPULAR President in America’s History.
I agree. I see no path to a Trump victory. When it narrowed to Trump, Haley, I had hope, thinking they'd make the long play and form a Trump/Haley ticket. She'd bring votes. Likely many votes, and votes Trump will never get on his own. Now I'm just wondering how to bet the Biden over/under at 85 million.
I become ever more convinced by the day that the 2020 election was a sham. And, yes, of course, the Democrats and their deep state allies will do the same and worse in 2024. Despite Biden being a demonic cadaver.
Yes. And they subscribed knowing that the people who run TFP were protesting about the mainstream media's enforced conformity to left wing talking points. The people who run TFP are not - by temperament or political belief - likely to use their own platform to conform to right wing talking points. Repeatedly suggesting that they do so is missing into the wind.
But since many paid subscribers post prolifically in the comments section, if they believe that TFP is missing a significant story, they have a choice. They can whine about it, or they can use the comments section to post links to the articles they think have been missed.
As a bona-fide conservative of longstanding, I agree 100%. So many of my right-wing brethren follow only one thing, convinced that it and it only, and only their cartoonish understanding of it, matters.
The fact that none of the 10 stories covered by TFP today is of interest to you is a strong indication that you should keep looking for other sources to read. It is not a strong indication that TFP should change. They have many other readers; you have many other news sources.
Am I missing some detail about the Stephen Glass story? If he’d been writing today whatever fabricated stories would be repeated by every news source in America as long as it was part of the agenda of msm, hence the government controlled news sources. Yesterday’s sins are today’s celebrations.
I was unimpressed with the comparison to Teddy Kennedy. The first "political" commentary I can ever recall my lifelong Democrat dad making was, "He killed that woman." My dad didn't give a hoot about Bill Clinton's sex antics, but he was immovable from his opinion of Ted Kennedy.
There are some things that people have difficulty forgiving. Glass made a fool of the press. He revealed the fact that the press is not inherently trustable. I would argue that they are experiencing the ramifications of that to this day. No wonder they still have it out for him.
There is a double standard. The MSM pushed the lies of Russian collusion and the laptop was a Russian plant. The NYT got a Pulitzer for the Russian collusion lie. Nobody was fired. No, they were heralded by the left. Did they ever apologize for being vicious, lying sacks of shit? I don't think so.
To this day MSNBC's Rachael Maddow has never retracted he vicious lies. She is still a hero of the left. I think she is a lying scum sucking pig but that's just me. To be fair she and Tucker are different sides of the same coin.
Lonesome, I agree except about Tucker. He is not a “suck up” to either side. The fact that he is Independent of both Right & Left he often pisses off both sides. Rachael would NEVER disparage the Left talking points. In fact, she wouldn’t say sh*t if she had a mouth full, when it comes to the WOKE Left propaganda.
Tucker's new iteration is proving to be irksome. I watched a bit of his interview with Chris Cuomo and it's almost as if he wants to be the third "bro." Maddow checks all the left's boxes and certainly doesn't want to be on the receiving end of any tribal criticisms.
Also like to point out that some of us had never heard of any of this. So this musical would in fact be valuable, as it brought a topic to life that I didn't know about.
He clearly just got a pass to begin with, due to the power behind the Kennedy name. That should probably have been a signal about what Democrats were willing to condone.
My dad was an alternate delegate at the national convention that nominated Jimmy Carter. It was only years later (I was still a kid at the time) that I realized that he had gone specifically to try to stop Teddy from becoming the nominee.
I'm sure my parents had other reasons for being Democrats who voted twice for Reagan, but it occurs to me that my dad had plenty of reasons to have become disenchanted with his party during the 1970s, and Ted Kennedy was one that loomed large.
Oliver Wiseman “cannot fathom” why the Stephen Glass story won’t go away? That’s easy: Glass was the right of center journalist who lied. All the other cases that Wiseman mentions were left-wing liars! And there are so many of those…does anyone remember the Duke University lacrosse team (non)rape? How about multiple award-winning journalist Jayson Blair of the New Woke Times? If you want more recent examples, I should mention the false reporting on Kyle Rittenhouse by multiple MSM sources, everything about the Trump-Russia hoax, virtually all MSM reporting on the BLM riots, Bidenflation, Covid…etc.
Though my recollection was that Stephen Glass was not right wing (after all, he worked for the liberal The New Republic). One of his fabricated stories was on young republicans acting wild at a convention
I want to point out that I'm not necessarily criticizing Free Press here and I really do think there is a longer piece to be had exploring the Glass story and why it wouldn't happen now when most legacy media contains an element of fabrication. Remember the make believe Biden migrant planes from last week that are in fact 100% accurate?
Sure. Agreed completely. But doesn't entertainment/celebrity peter out? This guy Glass, had a celebrity/notoriety thing in 2003... and we're expected to remember and be interested in what people are saying about him now?
That made me giggle. I will say that I often lament the lack of accountability and he was certainly held accountable. As another commenter said, it laid bare the flaws in journalism.
Latinos turning toward religion and conservatism isn't surprising, and is a trend Leftists would benefit from really considering the causes and ramifications of. To people who grow up outside of Western society, and particularly America, our self-destructive actions are much more apparent. Take just about any group of people outside of NA and Europe and they're going to decide they identify with the side that isn't demanding fealty to the latest Leftist beliefs but instead trying to defend what made coming to this country a good idea in the first place.
Ninety percent of the left wing agenda looks stupid to most of the world, because it is. Every culture that is traditional is conservative. Conserving culture is what tradition is.
Everybody loves the idea of free money, but nobody anywhere thinks women can become men; and most of the world is not OK with gay marriage. Islamists, of course--the same ones that the Left is allying with for reasons that are not clear--believe homosexuals should be killed, and they have in fact killed many.
Today’s LGBT teen was a goth in the precious generation. Thanks to leftist propaganda, being sexually different is the new way to fit in. Most are LUG (Lesbians Until Graduation) and 1-2% are sadly going to mutilate their genitals and ruin their lives.
You may be right. If I was in middle school right now, I’d be tempted to call myself non-binary (or even asexual) just to get the rainbow armies to leave me alone
Especially since so many are being sterilized. At my daughter's high school, 36% of the theatre group identify on the flag, mostly girls. Three girls under 18 are on testosterone. Every play is a tragedy now but too many moms in my community are cheering when they should be screaming.
She's graduating in may. It would destroy my relationship with her and my husband. Believe me I wish I could but it's not as simple as that. Bedides that, even homeschooled kids aren't safe from gender ideology. It's in the air.
Why not? I think a 29% number is not something most of them were born with, but something they were manipulated into. That means they are manipulable, and probably moderately to severely neurotic, or whatever synonym you prefer. This means that the kids they would have had would likely be emotionally disturbed as well. The world has enough nut jobs already. We don't need more.
In fact, our national challenge right now is figuring out how to get our kids--of all ages, I might add--to grow into emotionally healty adults. It is no small problem.
Identifying as bisexual to be one of the cool kids doesn’t mean you’ve ever had any sexual interactions with other women, or that you seek them out. This identifying with the underdog to escape being part of the oppressor group (ie the majority) is pure performance.
I agree with that but I also think how you see yourself influences what you become. So while it might be pure performance most would eat shite and die before they admitted that.
That is already happening for lots of other reasons. Not to mention, LGBTQ+ contains several letters that still allow a woman to sleep with men. I am willing to bet that if you broke it down, the majority of the people identifying that way would be under the B or Q. And the T doesn't have anything to with sexual preference. So really only the LG (same thing) would impact population. And even then...
The vast majority of Gen Z women "identifying" as LGBTQ+ are straight women who are clutching onto the label to be cool and to be part of an "oppressed" group given the strong cultural clout given to having an oppressed label of some kind. They get away with it because no one will ever question their sexual identity. They will grow out of it. Biology is a hard thing to deny.
Absolutely. It’s also a form of rebellion against their parents generation (a phenomenon that has been going on since time immemorial). Pity the current generation: the bar for rebellion has been set so high! In the 1960s, all you had to do to rebel was grow your hair over your collar. In the 1980s, you could get some piercings and wear your hair in a mohawk. In the 1990s, tattoos started taking off. Nowadays, mom and dad are both fully tattooed and pierced, and have probably used every sort of drug available. What’s a young person to do? Where is the next frontier? Answer: Sexuality.
I dunno...historically porn has not been of particular interest to women. Porn is male fantasy, Romanic Comedies are female fantasy (stereotypically).
I think women are more prone to falling into social contagions. So often, women are the main carriers of pop-trends. And I think that this is one of them. Especially since claiming to be Bi or Queer doesn't mean you have to actually change in any way. You get extra cache with no real downside. So it is more like a fashion accessory than a lifestyle choice.
Women are huge consumers of written porn in the form of "romance" novels. Way more so than romantic comedy. Funny thing is recently Zuckerberg cracked down on all the hunky and highly sexually suggestive man chests (as well as other sexually suggestive images) on romance book covers. And women who read those like posting photos of those covers on FB and Instagram. So authors and publishers now changed all the covers to cutesy illustrations.
No similar effort to crack down on male porn online yet to date.
The headline story in the USA Today is Kamala goes to an abortion clinic. No I didn’t read it and thank heavens I pay one dollar for a year to get that fish wrap. But this is what passes for journalism/narrative/propaganda on the left.
I reached the momentous conclusion some years ago that bumper stickers probably don't swing votes. Some Subarus and Prius's do add a bit of glee to the process of voting straight Republican tickets though.
Curious. I reached the opposite conclusion some years ago: That even Great Ideas go nowhere with enough people to carry an election if they can't be distilled into at least a sound bite (whatever that is, exactly) much less a bumper sticker. (TMI: The only bumper sticker I ever had was in the early days of Amtrak-- "If the train went there, I'd be on it.")
Africa? Latin America, outside the elites in large cities? Asia? I would be shocked if a full quarter ofvthe worlds population was on board with what has never existed in any society anywhere in human history.
You do know there are about 8 BILLION people on the planet, right? And that most of them respect their parents and cultural traditions?
I am supportive of gay marriage but I'm not aware of countries outside the typical Western countries where gay marriages are legal. I did a quick google search and it confirmed gay marriages are not recognized in India, Thailand and the Philippines, to use three places that actually do have notably visible gay populations. Nor does there seem to be any movement towards such legalizations. The Middle East, of course, does not practice tolerance for gay marriages except for Israel, but as we are reminded often these days, Israelis aren't allowed to be Middle Easterners.
I think that is a very western-centric view. I might...might agree that a majority tolerate or don't care/think about it. But I don't think the majority accept it unless forced on them. Heck, while polls in the US say it is the majority, we also know that there is a lot of pressure to support LGTBQ, so I can imagine the polls being skewed.
I will absolutely agree that it is MORE accepted than ever. But I also think that the pushing that is happening in the west is also causing a backlash.
Actually my view is SE Asian centric. There's less fuss about the alphabet people and gayness and it's female equivelent are accepted. It's been going on for centuries ,so no big fuss is made about it. Thai TV is overrun with gays, and an entire section of Bangkok is populated by them. I'm sure that the pushing of the culture is causing a backlash. If people who aren't involved in the life and those who are wouldn't make an issue of it, it wouldn't be an issue.
As far as I can tell, SE Asian cultures have long since carved out a place specifically for alphabet people. As a result, as far as I know, they're not pushing into other people's spaces. For example, not demanding to be treated as biological women. That's a huge part of the issue right now--the demands.
The evangelical churches have been HUGE in Latin America for YEARS! Back in the 80's that Trinity Broadcasting Network was always hitting up its base for $$$ for outreach south of the border.
Speech for us, not for you. That's what the Free Speech Movement has devolved into.
And here is the thing: what free speech does is humanize us to one another. Free speech enables us to point out and identify stupid ideas, hateful ideas, and to work together to build better lives for everyone.
The mobs and the censors and the bullies are never on the side of the Good. So what do the mobs and bullies and censors do? They redefine Good so it includes evil. That has been the primary project of most Humanities Departments since they found themselves redefining our chosen abandonment of South Vietnam, which in total caused millions of painful deaths--I include Cambodia here, since the abandonment included Southeast Asia generally--into an act of virtue.
Lying is a habit. Lying is a habit that is supported by censorship, because it is a difficult habit to maintain in the face of people speaking the truth.
Let us hope that the Administration makes better decisions this time than it did in the Milo Yianopolous and other cases. They have chosen to enable the liars and bullies. I think they should stop doing that.
I will add that if you are on the side of Joe Biden and the Democrats NOW, in 2024, you are on the side of liars and mobs and censorship.
"Our border is secure". Really?
"The defense of Ukraine is a vital national interest and the Ukraine can retake the Donbass". Really?
"Joe Biden is a fit and honest President who is a credit to the office". Really?
"We can ignore the massive problems with Social Security and Medicare FOREVER. FOREVER AND EVER." Really?
"Global warming is an existential crisis and we should bankrupt and starve millions of people to address it." Really? Even though the science is nakedly and obviously corrupt, the predictions wrong, and the whole thing obviously oriented around power and control of the masses by sociopathic elites?
OTOH you lament the withdrawal of America from Viet Nam even though 58,000 Americans died fighting communism there and yet you oppose American support for Ukraine’s defense against totalitarian Russia even though helping Ukraine does not require that any American troops be put in harms way. You are unsaintly incoherent.
Suggest you watch David Sacks’ lecture on Biden’s failed proxy war. Hundreds of thousands of dead Ukrainians, a fantasy that Russia could be crushed. Sanctions haven’t hurt Russia, but the war has weakened America militarily.
Whatever was in this for us? Punish Putin over Russiagate?
When the architect of the war, Ms Nuland, becomes a rat jumping ship, things are bleak. The best we can hope for is a negotiated peace with Ukraine relinquishing a lot of territory.
And before you reply that Putin intends to invade Europe, ask yourself, Why? He already has the biggest country in the world. He has deep ship harbors. Access to the arctic. I see no real motivation.
"And before you reply that Putin intends to invade Europe, ask yourself, Why?"
The fools parroting “Putin wants to invade Europe” never answer that do they? Nor do they explain why he hasn’t pushed farther west across Ukraine to get there. Putin may be a lot of things, but he’s no fool. Unlike the dipshits who have been running our foreign policy and failing in places like Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan…Putin understands that invading a country is one thing, holding it is another. He’s also smart enough to know that our deep state warmongers WANT him to push west into NATO territory so they can justify invoking NATO treaties and engage in another war to “save democracy”. Who cares if hundreds of thousands of civilians and soldiers get slaughtered and eastern Europe gets turned into a nuclear wasteland.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out the game. Warmongers like Victoria Nuland have been playing it for decades, yet the results never match those promised by the uniparty “think” tanks promoting it. Just ask the mothers, widows and fatherless children of Ukraine men who can no longer speak for themselves.
I think there are multiple reasons the US govt sent aid to Ukraine: 1) let others spill blood weakening the Russian military, 2) deter a European war from spreading (obviously Germans, Polish, Sweades, etc. are more worried than we are and have spent more$ than the US), 3) get rid of old and surplus US military stocks, 4) $ for US contractors, 5) Example to others like China.
It's all geopolitics when you boil it down.
The Russian demography is near collapse, so this was there last chance to try and reabsorb territory that's been used to invade them over and over.
After studying the fall of the Tsar, both World wars, Stalin, etc. it makes more sense.
When the US pulled back, these regional flare-ups were inevitable and consistent with how things were before the end of WWII. Peter Zeihan does a good job laying out the reasons in his latest book. The Stalin series by Stephen Kotkin is excellent as well.
Who the hell has ever successfully invaded Russia? And when has Russia ever had a weak military? And why would we care? They've got nukes, we've got nukes, and we'll never go to war with them.
Our support for Ukraine is nothing more than extortion Biden is paying Zalinsky to keep quiet about the bribes Biden took, all in the name of defeating 'Trump's ally.'
How gullible Americans are to fall for this bucket of BS.
I think your assumptions are a stretch. First, why do we need to be enemies with Russia? Do we really believe Russia would attack NATO countries? I don’t. Can we weaken the Russian military? Ha! We have succeeded in weakening our own. Example to China? We look like losers as more countries side with BRICS vs the West. Listen to David Sacks speech, I posted the link elsewhere.
If all this was to avenge Putin over the completely debunked Russiagate, look how idiotic America looks now.
Saches makes very good points. There has been a rising impulse to pull back from the US lead Bretton Woods alliance against the USSR after the cold ward ended (of course!). Why pay for global stability when the US is one of the most isolated economies on the world and the USSR is gone? US foreign policy has been kind of adrift since 1992.
It's not that the US benefits from being enemies with Russia - it's more likely the US is protecting Europe (Germany, Poland, etc.) as a preemptive move to exhaust Russia. Why exhaust Russia? Virtually every hotspot in areas adjacent to Russia have been instigated by Russia to re-established lost buffer zones and plug in the gaps to provide safety (see gap map below).
Allowed to continue (after Ukraine falls), Russia will try to absorb most of Poland (Polish gap) and the countries adjacent to the Baltic Sea (Baltic gap). So, yes, it's very likely Russia would continue unless stopped in Ukraine. The idea is to put out the fire before it spreads using Ukrainian blood and old obsolete stockpiled weapons/ammo. It's really dark, but that's the logic. It's not about supporting democracy or human rights - that just a way to sell it.
In terms of BRICS- the collective demographics of those countries are in collapse (India actually is pretty good though) - I'm not sure that will be a credible/durable alternative alliance to the US led order.
Finally, revenge for Russiagate? I'm not sure I follow. The other geopolitical forces discussed above would outweigh any motivation for revenge.
That is the myth of the US as benevolent all-encompassing world leader. Which might have had some validity post WWII but that has been over for decades now.
I think you are right. The "US as benevolent all-encompassing world leader" was just a branding of the US lead Bretton Woods alliance against the USSR. We bribed most of the world to stand against the USSR and in exchange provided global trade security for our allies.
A nice side benefit was a 70 year period of unprecedented peace in the world compared to "normal" colonial times where wars were common.
Ukraine is not holding elections. Russia is. How is Russia any worse than the Ukraine, particularly given the large numbers of open Nazis in the Ukrainian military, and their proud history of anti-Semitic atrocities?
I was watching combat video a month or so of Ukrainian soldiers fighting somewhere. They kept calling the Russians "the Jews" as what was apparently their worst term of denigration.
And it's just dishonest to claim that there are not dozens of senior leaders in many nations calling for American and NATO "boots on the ground", isn't it? It's pretty obvious to me intuitively that we have special operations folks there NOW. We have Green Berets training the Ukrainians, and likely forward observers calling in air strikes.
The Soviet empire fell. Russia is not trying to replace it, and it is quite obvious they couldn't if they wanted to. Putin is simply observing that literally every nation on every border is joining an alliance against him. Would you not also draw the obvious conclusion that every nation joining an alliance against him represented a potential threat?
The halfwit leading our nation picked a needless fight with Russia and now Ukrainians are paying the price. Obama foolishly lost them the Crimea. His successor is trying to double down on his mentor's stupidity.
Of course I would want people to help me. But you know what? WE HAVE NO ALLIANCES WITH THE UKRAINE AND IT IS NOT OUR PROBLEM.
Zelensky and his predecessors offered the Donbass relative autonomy, then reneged. This whole war could have been avoided by simpky adhering to the terms of agreements ZELENSKY SAID HE WOULD UPHOLD when he was running for office.
There are low grade wars being fought in a dozen or more countries, particularly in Africa. If we are going to direct hundreds of billions of dollars away from the American people, how about we protect innocent Christians being persecuted and murdered all the world?
If you want to "protect innocent Christian being persecuted and murdered all the world," I'm sure that there's a way for you to do that. I think that in today's world, everyone is connected and alliances are no longer based on paper. We had no alliances with Eastern Europe and still, in WW2 we helped them. Everyone country is interconnected and all problems are everyone's problems or no problems are anyone's problems. BTW, it's not necessary to shout at me, I can read the small print quite well.
The larger point is that Russia is trying to reestablish a defensive parameter for physical security (they've been doing this since 1992). This has been going on across multiple US administrations. We can point fingers at both sides of the US govt.
NATO is purely defensive. You conveniently ignore the Budapest Memorandum. Russia is threatened by Ukraine’s desire to join the West. Russia’s fear is real but completely illegitimate.
Read Professor Stephen Kotkin and get a clue about Russia and Putin. The so-called Soviet Union was not a union. It was Russian Imperialism and enslaved neighboring countries.
Simple question: if pacifying the Ukraine has taken Russia two years and tens or hundreds of thousands dead, why would he think he could take on the WHOLE of Europe?
The very suggestion is stupid. But if we invade Russia he WILL use nukes. He just reaffirmed it yesterday.
Why the hell are we sending ANY money to those Nazi idiots in the Ukraine?
Russia is not pacifying Ukraine. Good grief. Russia is attempting to conquer Ukraine. There will be no peace until all invasions are opposed and not just the one at America’s southern border.
Because he learned. He specified the death of millions of Southeast Asians. How many Ukrainians (and Russians for that matter) are you willing to sacrifice?
Having family on both sides of our family serve in WW2; Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan- when people are all for doing whatever it takes for other countries- do any of
These people understand the actual sacrifices that are made by the military and their families?
I mean WW2 results held for what 80 years and the 20 years in the Middle East got us no where.
So yes, there are people who question Ukraine and Taiwan when most of the rest of the West doesn’t seem as concerned.
Wiseman writes "[t]he 1969 Chappaquiddick scandal hung over Ted Kennedy for years, but by the time of his death in 2009, he was heralded as a great statesman." Hung over? Sorry, no, Ollie. The dolts in MA reliably returned this murderer to the Senate, election after election. And the only people "heralding" this alcoholic fraud were those of the same ilk as Mr. Wiseman. Come on Bari. Enough is enough.
I think another commenter nailed it: journalists hate Glass because he embarrassed them! They love damning other people but expect to be treated with kid gloves themselves. At least since Watergate, but probably for much longer, journalists have seen themselves as the ultimate Good Guys in every story.
Bruce — Joe Nocera wrote the portion of today’s email about Glass. Overall I am pretty sympathetic to Glass’s plight, but I also did a double take as I read Ted Kennedy’s name.
I would (genuinely) love to know if Mr. Nocera is aware that, in 1983, his “great statesman” sent a secret letter to Yuri Andropov, explicitly offering to work together to undermine Pres. Reagan in advance of the 1984 election?
After the passage of Obamacare, a lefty acquaintance posted that Ted Kennedy was looking down and smiling. I replied that he was most likely looking up.
My uncle commanded the destroyer that JFK Jr. was buried from. Ted came on board and tried to buffalo him into taking the ship into waters that he "knew;" my uncle wisely declined. Ted also leaned on the lifelines (big no-no) which bent so far outward that the sailors thought they were going to snap.
Twenty-nine percent of women are claiming to be alphabet people. Kinda of a privileged class now? almost as good as getting a handicapped parking placard
Since guys aren't allowed to “ hit” on chicks anymore and calling someone cute might be grounds to go to a campus kangaroo court for harassment, who is surprised?
Add in the “ uglies” who now have an excuse for not dating and we have 29%
Reading the poll, the actual number of gay, lesbian, and transgender adults appears to be relatively stable. This number is being driven by Gen Z girls claiming to be bisexual, pansexual or asexual. Gee, I wonder why that is?
Yes not only make up words but they take words with long accepted definitions and hijack them to mean the opposite. Words really do matter. We have to object and call them out on this every time. The civilized world Is drowning in a sea of their lies and obfuscations. DEI must be defeated along with all the nihilistic ideology that comes along with it.
Then there's the projection leftists habituate: claiming everyone who's not in agreement with their philosophies and protocols are guilty of exactly the same offenses against human dignity civil discourse as they themselves take obvious pride in displaying.
I noticed that too. It just isn't cool to be heterosexual. Goes along so clearly with the social contagion/social pressure phenomenon. So much easier to say bisexual to " fit in" even if in practice they aren't. Reminds me of how I would answer when anyone asked me my religion back in the 70's-80's. It was so much more comfortable just to say "I was baptized Catholic" (a true statement) that to say "I am not religious".
Are we in the midst of a Jewish reawakening in America or is the recent notice by " liberal" jews just a temporary phase we are passing through? Are jews finally realizing that they have a lit mote to fear from their heretofore intersectional friends and colleagues or the " tiki torch " neo nazis that are still mentioned constantly from the Charlottesville March that occurred over five years ago? J Glazer made clear this week that he is still w the western hating intersectionalists ( as are many of his artists in arms who share his views) and it is unlikely they will ever change. But what about what I see as the majority of American jews who vote D by reflex but cannot shut their eyes this time and pretend Berkeley and Harvard and Times Square and in a thousand other places around the country are not occurring where their sons and daughters live in fear. I hear a lot of noise from liberal Jewish friends but have yet to hear anyone say that the biggest problem for jews in America are leftists ( including fellow jews) as opposed to conservative Christian Americans who vigorously support Israel and oppose anti semitism in America because they hold Judeo Christian values and know the full history of this nation.
Wiseman is not only a fool but laugh out loud funny. He writes an article principally about a journalist making up stories and then shrieks that we're all hypocrites because "[a]fter doing time for insider trading, Martha Stewart is a national treasure."
Well, no, Ollie. Stewart was found guilty of one count of conspiracy, two counts of making false statements, and one count of obstruction of agency proceedings. NOT insider trading. In fact the irony of it all was that the insider trading charge would probably have been dismissed and Martha was "too cute by half" by trying to bamboozle the federal investigators. Bari, please stop inflicting this clown on your readers.
"HATE"! What is it, really? Has anyone tried to define it? And if so, does that definition have a consensus among the general public? Today many people toss that word around like "The Scarlet Letter". They assign the red "H" to the chests of those who they disagree with, to the popular memes, and to ANYONE who might contradict the latest fad in social engineering and medicine. (transgender health care?) Whenever I hear someone invoke the "Hate" accusation, I automatically assign them to the "wackdoodle" category, an unserious person.
Agreed. They have done this with many words. They found words that tend to trigger us...my brain knows that Hate is a strong word. So I am wired to want to prevent Hate. But, as you say, they use it describe anything...because they know it will catch people's attention. Just like other words, such as Racist or Sexist. People don't want to be those things, so calling them that shuts them down.
We need to start correcting people or ignoring when they use strong words so casually.
I think words are important - free speech is the most fundamental right we have. While conservatives typically want to be left alone and will give others with differing opinions the same deference, ignoring the leftists only cedes the battle to them. In this regard, the culture fight, which drives politics and policy - the one we've been hesitant to engage in, will be the most important fight of all.
Yep, it’s another gaslighting term. Whenever someone uses that word as a prefix (“hate” speech, for example) you can be certain they are about to administer a dose of b.s. to you.
The Palestinians and their supporters are clearly violent people who prefer intimidation and brutality to reason and intelligent argument, and they have no place in institutions of learning or, for that matter, in civil society. The failure of our society to find and punish those perpetrators of violence is a threat to everything and every person in America.
You continue to refuse to report on the larger and more deeply concerning failures of the Biden administration and their repeated efforts to undermine every American, our laws and the very fundamental standards of our constitution. "Common Sense" and a commitment to journalism should obligate you to report on the ugliest and most unpleasant truths pertaining to this administration, yet you give it a total pass, no questions asked. We are at a tipping point in our current politics and I am fearful that the cliff is quickly approaching. Hello? The house is on fire.
Are these repetitious stories of Jews being targeted designed to bore us or convince them not to vote democrat anymore. Because if it’s the former, we get it and have since October 7
Bari and Nellie are Jewish, as are many of TFP staff. American Jews have felt mostly safe and secure in the US all our lives. We’re used to having locked doors and security guards in our synagogues and schools. We’re used to the ocasional hate crimes. But the recent upswing in antisemitic attacks—with people being physically attacked, harassed, prevented from going about their business, being spat on and called Jewish pigs, murderers, etc.—ring loud alarm bells in the mind of anyone who knows Jewish history. They are echoes of centuries of persecution and pogroms, when the authorities did nothing to prevent the rape and massacres of Jews; often, they joined in. We remember that when we see the administrators of universities doing little or nothing to protect Jewish students. We remember that when there are rallies of people in the streets openly calling for death to Jews. We are fresh from the horrors of the worst pogrom since the Holocaust. Our brothers and sisters are still captive in Gaza. The historical Jewish focus on triumph over adversity doesn’t mean the trauma hurts any less.
I think it becomes boring because, as Unwoke said, most of the people here have been on your side since day one. So it becomes repetitive. We can't care more than we do. But, on top of that, there are lots of groups of people who have felt persecuted by the Elites in the last few years. I will absolutely agree that Jews currently have it worse, but plenty of people have been demonized and run out of places for their race, gender, religion, or politics. In some cases, by the same people asking for sympathy now.
I hear what you’re saying, and we so very much appreciate your support…but to insinuate that these stories are boring feels like adding insult to injury.
I'm not sure if the term "boring" fits the best but, present company excluded, that liberal Jews CONTINUED deference to the democratic party is frustration - how can we help those who don't see fit to help themselves?
I wish I had an answer. Political loyalty to the Democratic party became such an ingrained part of the American Jewish psyche during the 20th century that it’s an uphill battle in deep mud to change hearts and minds on this. I think most American Jews who identify as Conservative or Reform would sooner put a spiral-sliced ham on the Seder table than vote Republican.
It seems to me—and this is purely my personal and anecdotal take—that the more American Jews abandoned traditional observance such as keeping kosher and keeping the Sabbath, the more they embraced what they saw as the “social justice” aspects of the Torah (leaving behind those uncomfortable commandments such as “kill all the Canaanites”). They saw voting Democrat—perceived as the party of the working man and the oppressed—as part of that social justice…and thus it became intrinsically bound up with their cultural/religious Jewish identity.
So it becomes very difficult to “betray” that by voting Republican—even when all the facts point to that being in their best interest.
Thanks for that explanation. I suppose to an extent this is the inverse of the democrats disbelief that they think West Virginia coal miners, for example, are "voting against their self interest" by voting against them when they are the party who would give them more welfare after regulating the mines into shutting down.
“plenty of people have been demonized and run out of places for their race, gender, religion, or politics. In some cases, by the same people asking for sympathy now.”
My people had to flee the then-boundaries of the U.S. because the government refused to secure our First Amendment rights against state governments, one of which literally decreed that it was legal to murder us. Then, when they seized the territory where we had settled, the U.S. government sent the army to kill us if they deemed it necessary (they didn't; they decided to murder some Native Americans instead).
We have zero illusions that the U.S. government will follow the Constitution if it decides not to.
How many stories will it take, how much fear of those who wish to kill you and are overt about it, how many atrocities will you see caused by democrats, that you finally realize democrats aren’t your friends, they aren't your protectors and they hate you that you will stop voting for them?
My Jewish Dem friends are eagerly awaiting their mail in ballots so they can vote for Biden on their ballot and that of their long dead spouses as well.
This! But I still hope for a parallel society, where sane Jews start sane Reform or conservative congregations. And where businesses who don't hate Americ spring up to serve We the People.
Maybe a story on the merits of “White Rural Rage” which is all the rage in lefty elite world. The white working class of America in flyover country know all about disparagement of their existence.
As a scholar Professor Hassner should know better than the hoi polloi the reason for violent protests directed at Jews. He has 1402 years of history to inform him. Sleeping in his office won’t end the attacks. His knowledge requires activism. He should advocate for a ban on further Muslim immigration before its too late.
Provocative. I had to do the math. 2024 - 1402 = 622 : a seminal year in Islam. I disagree with the idea of legal immigration ban - I do believe that “people of the book” as Jews and Christians are called in Islam, need to be awake, discerning, and fearless in the defense of their right to free expression and freedom of religion.
The main reason I partially agree with a Muslim ban is because I believe all immigration should be limited to people who actually want to embrace the culture of the country they wish to immigrate to. It seems that many Muslims simply want to keep their exactly cultures and rules, simply in a new place. I do not want those kinds of immigrants, Muslim or otherwise.
I want people who want to be Americans, not people who want to take advantage of America.
If all Muslims simply wanted to observe their culture and rules in their own lives, that would be one thing. But too many want to impose those rules on greater society and expect to do so eventually by overwhelming the host culture eventually.
To be fair, Americans do this as well. People will leave a state with failing policies and then vote for the same policies in their new successful state.
In general I am not a fan of people coming into communities who are perfectly happy the way they are and then trying to change them
Yeah, 622, a year the Roman Catholic Church was well into their forced conversions (see Charlemagne and the Saxons), and social subjugation of Jews. It took Luther and Henry VIII, etc., to get the Popes and their minions under a little control. And now Europe has to deal with another version of that, the Muslims.
As can all humans. It seems to me that there is an optimal number of humans per square mile, below which, we starve, but beyond which we begin slaughtering one another.
I would agreed that humans, by their nature, do terrible things to each other. It is a recurrent theme of man’s inhumanity to man. Biblically, “all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” . I do disagree in that I would not put Henry VIII on the same level as theologian Martin Luther. Last, I do admire Charles “The Hammer” Martel, who in 732 fought tough against the invading Muslims thereby keeping France secure against Islam, well, until now.
Prof Ron Hassner wants teachings to educate people on antisemitism and Islamophobia? The strident marches and escalating rhetoric and violence are against Jews The support Israel rallies are peaceful and calm and not ANTI Muslims or anything else.
Radical Islam is a violent aggressive treatise, but I see no marches against it. They use our tolerance to subvert values of tolerance and live and let live.
Phobia is an irrational fear. Being afraid of ppl who proudly scream Allua akbar while slaughtering and raping and vowing to do it repeatedly is not irrational fear.I keep reading about all the moderate Muslims out there, but I don’t see many denouncing this dark ages behavior.There are a few , and some self described ex- Muslims who do but they are a tiny minority. Silence is complicity.
There are close to 3.5 million Muslims in the United States, most of whom are not radical. I think they don't want to speak out against the radical fringe out of fear or simply not wanting to criticize their co-religionists. This is a mistake because many non-Muslims construe their silence as agreement.
Unless they speak out we really have no way of knowing what they think and believe. Since their co religionists are barbaric violent people, for self defense purposes one should assume that deep down they agree with the radical teachings of the Koran even if they aren’t regulars at the mosque. Given the current state of affairs they have an obligation to declare where they stand on tolerance and coexistence. There is too much at stake for everyone and all western countries. I’m not as optimistic as you are about them. I fervently hope you are right and I am wrong.
For starters, polling makes this evident. Fortunately, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy conducted an extensive poll of Gazans in July 2023. Its findings include:
40 percent of Gazans view Hamas negatively.
42 percent hope that "someday we can be friends with Israelis, since we are all human beings after all."
44 percent agree that "We should recognize that we will never defeat Israel and that fighting just makes things worse."
47 percent say the Abraham Accords have had a positive impact.
47 percent say "it would be better for us if we were part of Israel than in PA or Hamas ruled lands."
50 percent want Hamas to "stop calling for the destruction of Israel and instead accept a permanent two-state solution based on the 1967 borders."
50 percent agree that "If Saudi Arabia normalizes relations with Israel, [the] Palestinian leadership should also normalize relations and end the conflict."
52 percent view the Muslim Brotherhood negatively.
59 percent support "the Palestinian resumption of negotiations with Israel."
60 percent acknowledge that when they hear about developments in Syria, Yemen, and other places, "I feel that my situation is actually not bad."
61 percent wish more Israeli jobs were offered in Gaza and the West Bank.
62 percent want Hamas to preserve the cease-fire with Israel.
63 percent seek direct personal contacts and dialogue with Israelis.
67 percent believe that "Right now, the Palestinians should focus on practical matters like jobs, health care, education, and everyday stability, not on big political plans or resistance options."
72 percent agree that Palestinians should look more to Arab governments like Jordan or Egypt to "help improve our situation."
72 percent concur that "Hamas has been unable to improve the lives of Palestinians in Gaza."
76 percent want Arab governments to "take a more active role in Palestinian-Israeli peacemaking, offering incentives to both sides to take more moderate positions."
79 percent believe that "Right now, internal political and economic reform is more important for us than any foreign policy issue."
82 percent agree that "Palestinians should push harder to replace their own political leaders with more effective and less corrupt ones."
87 percent find that "Many people are more preoccupied with their personal lives than with politics."
Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Yoseph Haddad about how media and higher education systems are being infiltrated by anti-Semitic sentiments; how Israel has successfully been a society for Jews and also Arab Israelis like himself; the surprising stats about diversity within Israel; ignored facts that prove that Israel is falsely portrayed as an apartheid state; how Hamas targeted both Jews and Arabs in the October 7 attacks; why Israel must take control of every inch of Gaza to defeat Hamas; and much more.
To understand more 2 books
The War For The Musliim Minds
Gilles Kepel
The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis
Robert R. Reilly
(BTW Youtube)
Closing of the Muslim Mind - Robert R. Reilly PlayList
(Had to look up Bomber Harris.... we also had this guy name of LeMay, whose plans for Japan would probably have killed more Japanese than the nukes.) Points of light, anyway... thanks.
The Gallup poll on sexual orientation ( why by the way do we even use that term) begs a few questions: the first is WHY are the numbers for Gen Z so substantial. Other questions include what about the rest of the world? Is this about biology and genetics or education and social media? And why does this matter ( lots of answers to that one but I throw it out there for discussion). Finally, on a lighter note I would add that these statistics merely prove once more that Barack Obama succeeded as promised to fundamentally transform America.
Because declaring you are Queer or Bi does not obligate you to change or do anything. But it DOES give you more 'special points (tm)'. You can declare you are Queer and your friends and family will oooh and ahh...maybe some people will push back, giving you an oppressor to overcome, but you don't actually have to worry about someone hurting you or taking away any rights. You get to be part of the victim class without the downside of actually being victimized.
Frankly, if I were gen z, I would be declaring myself to be all kinds of things...not a POC though. Apparently we can't go that far. But everything else is fair game.
"I think it’s possible to advocate for the Palestinian cause without strangling people.” ~ Prof. Ron Hassner
No, Ron it's not. Palestinians and their supporters know nothing except violence. It's what they've been taught from birth. They are victims, they are oppressed, they have no agency. They are never to blame for anything. PERIOD. FULL STOP.
Sadly there are more and more groups that feel the same way... BLM, Antifa, Transgenders, etc.. dare I say run of the mill Progressives.
None of the 10 stories covered by The Free Press are as important as the Democrat Party’s illicit use of the administration of justice to sideline its main political opponent. Equality before the law is a sacrosanct American value. This is an abysmal failure by the Free Press.
You must have missed this one:
6. A Georgia judge has thrown out six counts of Trump’s election interference indictment. Will Fani Willis be removed from the case? (ABC)
That aside, TFP is attempting, I believe, to expand its coverage beyond a singular topic with these morning briefs. And that's a good thing.
It's so cute how "the 6 counts in the Georgia case were thrown out" got a mere mention just like the Hur report. Maybe you missed the avalanche, fire hose, tsunami of election interference and classified documents cases that seem to be crumbling.
No. Just a personal preference, but my interests don't lie solely in following every detail of his legal battles. And I'm glad TFP doesn't, either.
We've only had to listen to "HATE TRUMP" for the last 8 years. Biden ran on it. And he is still running on it....because he has nothing else.
Oh. So ... how exactly does that apply to TFP and it's daily briefing?
Perhaps you might be better served to follow the man himself on Truth Social? I'm sure he'll say everything you thirst to hear.
The format change from one article to two or three and the additional overview of what's being reported across the news spectrum requires a larger time commitment. But choice is nice. I don't subscribe to TFP because they're me. I subscribe because they're them. Or, an eye is an eye because it sees you not because you see it. (Sorry-Can't help myself.) In my personal view TFP more often than not keeps a human face on the news it reports and the human is where the emotional, cultural and financial rubber meets the road.
To repeat myself number 9001: I'll spare the world my usual rant about the psyop and say subscription journalism is the opportunity to rebuild the solutions oriented truth/fact based American national conversation "we the people" deserve. Oliver W. and Bari W. get to be who they are and Mike R. gets to be who Mike R. is. One nice thing about our Republic, we've all got choices.
Who said "..I wholly disagree with what you say and will defend to the death your right to day it.." ?
Less fluff about the irrelevant and more, you know, journalistic reporting on failed Biden policies, the lies and propaganda and their obvious, disastrous repercussions. You clearly need more MSNBC.
It's sufficient to observe that the charges are fraudulent and only brought because of his politics and political strength, right? I don't really follow the details either. Without looking I know they are BS. Everything the Left does is BS. If they are speaking, odds are good they are lying.
Jim, are you being serious? Trump is mentioned in practically EVERY article here at TFP! And, unless it is something negative about him in the news, TFP (Wiesman & Nellie) have nothing to report!
I just did a scroll down of stories on TFP home page. The first 12 stories had nothing to do with Trump. The first story about politics specifically was from March 10, four days ago. And it had to do with the upcoming Democratic Convention.
Perhaps ... maybe ... possibly you're exaggerating just a tiny bit?
Jim, do you read Nellie’s TGIF? Wiesman’s articles? There is no need to exaggerate, or defend “just a tiny bit” period. We all have our own opinions. If I were so inclined, I would take the time to support my opinions with facts, but alas, life calls. Have a good day
Jim Geschke
You have assumed facts not in evidence. One swallow doesn’t make a spring. I don’t miss momentous attack on pillars of Justice. You must be unaware of how many baseless politically-based charges against the Democrat Party’s main political opponent are still outstanding.
If you want to follow every granular detail of one story, there's Fox News and Newsmax. You're thirst will be quenched.
Some folks think TFP is a newspaper and if their favorite hot button isn't covered on a regular basis they're miffed.
Well said. I agree.
What is happening here with Jim is healthy debate. I like it and hope we have more of it.
Do I think Trump is being screwed? The water is so muddy It is hard to know the truth. The Dem/Soc are such vicious liars but that is the foundation politics is built on.
Perhaps some of our commentors here would be well served by following Matt Taibbi's "Racket News." His is a much narrower focus (or precise, if you like) on the politics of politics, and has for some time now been critical of the Democratic Party and its strategies.
The Free Press takes a much broader view of "news," and tackles a wider spectrum of issues than Matt's.
I might also recommend that group follow Michael Schellenberger's "Public" Substack newsletter.
"The water is so muddy It is hard to know the truth." This is what the FP should be sussing out.
Jim, you must be a Democrat because their MO is to get nasty and condescending to those who disagrees with “their narrative” as if THEY are more enlightened.
NewsMax & Fox News comments are dead giveaways!
If any of TFP followers want to hear more “granular details of one story” they can also tune in to MSM, which perfectly bolsters the WOKE Left talking points.
Perhaps, TFP appealed to both Left & Right of Center BECAUSE Bari offered a platform more fair & balanced.
I’ve supported her since TFP was Common Sense, and unless or until I have reason not to, I’ll continue. What attracted me to her platform was the expectation her commenters used good manners & common sense when interacting. Of course, there are always some who must show their a** !
The derogatory remarks only make YOU look bad. Attacking Trump or Biden is expected, but in this time in America when we are so divided & fractured, we must all do better when interacting with each other.
No. I am not a Democrat. I try to avoid labels. The closest I'll confess to today is "Cautious Libertarian." I was a life-long registered Republican who still generally falls on the conservative side of most issues.
That said, I'm also a former journalist (in a previous life ... I'm 68 and retired). I've seen the demolition of the profession in my lifetime from what it was supposed to be. Almost all traditional news outlets (the so-called mainstream media) are ideologically-captured and present highly partisan slants on politics and culture. It is part of the reason why we see the news industry collapsing before our eyes.
I wrote about it two weeks ago ...
https://jimgeschke.substack.com/p/the-news-industry-is-in-a-death-spiral
To my mind, Fox and Newsmax are as ideologically captured as the NYT, MSNBC, Vox, Salon, etc. I trust none of them.
Hope that clears things up. Cheers!
*Your thirst.
Typo
I do it all the tyme.
Maybe we don't live on the same planet?
This is a story that should not be misinterpreted. The judge threw out 6 of the 39 counts based largely on legal technicalities and the prosecutors have the right to replead those counts to correct the deficiencies. This is better interpreted as a ruling favoring the prosecution.
The dismissal (even without prejudice) of the 6 central counts of an indictment for failure to plead facts supporting the crimes is never a plus for the prosecution. Defective counts are always a demonstration of legal incompetence -- not to mention a professional embarrassment. Even non-lawyers realize that much.
If the case is a slam dunk, why include charges that would undermine the case, not to mention Willis behaving in a professionally inappropriate manner?
They were thrown out because they failed to provide the defendants with their Constitutional right to due process. Specifically the dismissed indictments failed to provide sufficient notice of what conduct was actually the subject of the indictment. Very, very sloppy on the part of the prosecution team.
Good judge IMO. He seems to follow existing law.
I see that section as participation in MSM and that is not how TFP is advertised.
I’d argue the Jonathan Haidt article in the Atlantic about the harm phones and social media have done to Gen Z and will do to the younger generation if we don’t get a handle on this is extremely important.
I agree. But maybe because I already subscribe to Haidt's channel and have read his books I don't find it particularly new or interesting. Jonathan has been banging this drum for years. Even on this substack.
It was TFP that first introduced me to Haidt's work and I'm probably not the only one! I'm reading his older book "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion" right now. Reading that, and thinking about his elephant/rider analogy while observing the comment wars on TFP, including my own impulses here, is eye opening to say the least.
TFP are Democrats.
Good point. How many will reliably vote for Biden - despite his towering unfitness to be president?
Bruce, many more will vote AGAINST Trump, as in 2020. If I were a betting person, I’d bet Biden will win in 2024, like he did in 2020. The “Powers that Be” are more determined now than they were in 2020!
There’s too much at stake! Biden, or his Puppet Handlers, have implemented too many policies THEY MUST CARRY FORWARD. Just think about it - Green New Deal, Open Border, Millions to Iran, Billions to Ukraine, because War funding makes them huge amounts of wealth, etc., etc.!
Reelecting Trump would be disastrous to the WOKE Progressive Democrats, RINOs & Globalist, and I can’t see it happening.
Don’t be encouraged by poll numbers, or the huge turnout at Trump rallies. Instead, remember Basement Biden’s 81 million votes. He is, after all, THE MOST POPULAR President in America’s History.
I agree. I see no path to a Trump victory. When it narrowed to Trump, Haley, I had hope, thinking they'd make the long play and form a Trump/Haley ticket. She'd bring votes. Likely many votes, and votes Trump will never get on his own. Now I'm just wondering how to bet the Biden over/under at 85 million.
I become ever more convinced by the day that the 2020 election was a sham. And, yes, of course, the Democrats and their deep state allies will do the same and worse in 2024. Despite Biden being a demonic cadaver.
Many will I have no doubt, and they are Jewish. Guaranteed.
I'm sorry, I don't follow....who is Jewish? And why is that relevant?
Rather than complaining about this, why don't you post links to stories that you think should have been included?
Because the rest of us do not work for TFP and aren't paid. We are the paying subscribers
Yes. And they subscribed knowing that the people who run TFP were protesting about the mainstream media's enforced conformity to left wing talking points. The people who run TFP are not - by temperament or political belief - likely to use their own platform to conform to right wing talking points. Repeatedly suggesting that they do so is missing into the wind.
But since many paid subscribers post prolifically in the comments section, if they believe that TFP is missing a significant story, they have a choice. They can whine about it, or they can use the comments section to post links to the articles they think have been missed.
Or is it not about the nail?
https://youtu.be/-4EDhdAHrOg?si=GcINwQPmdMBJCrUj
It is not uncommon for TFP to request feedback and the give and take in the commentary is frequently acknowledged in TFP articles.
As a bona-fide conservative of longstanding, I agree 100%. So many of my right-wing brethren follow only one thing, convinced that it and it only, and only their cartoonish understanding of it, matters.
Josh, A LOT of folks walking around with a nail!
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-renews-iran-sanctions-waiver-that-unlocks-upwards-of-10-billion-for-regime/
Good article and worthwhile news.
That's the spirit. Thanks.
The fact that none of the 10 stories covered by TFP today is of interest to you is a strong indication that you should keep looking for other sources to read. It is not a strong indication that TFP should change. They have many other readers; you have many other news sources.
Calm down
That is because The Free Press is actually The Democratic Party Rehabilitation Project.
Am I missing some detail about the Stephen Glass story? If he’d been writing today whatever fabricated stories would be repeated by every news source in America as long as it was part of the agenda of msm, hence the government controlled news sources. Yesterday’s sins are today’s celebrations.
I was unimpressed with the comparison to Teddy Kennedy. The first "political" commentary I can ever recall my lifelong Democrat dad making was, "He killed that woman." My dad didn't give a hoot about Bill Clinton's sex antics, but he was immovable from his opinion of Ted Kennedy.
There are some things that people have difficulty forgiving. Glass made a fool of the press. He revealed the fact that the press is not inherently trustable. I would argue that they are experiencing the ramifications of that to this day. No wonder they still have it out for him.
There is a double standard. The MSM pushed the lies of Russian collusion and the laptop was a Russian plant. The NYT got a Pulitzer for the Russian collusion lie. Nobody was fired. No, they were heralded by the left. Did they ever apologize for being vicious, lying sacks of shit? I don't think so.
To this day MSNBC's Rachael Maddow has never retracted he vicious lies. She is still a hero of the left. I think she is a lying scum sucking pig but that's just me. To be fair she and Tucker are different sides of the same coin.
Lonesome, I agree except about Tucker. He is not a “suck up” to either side. The fact that he is Independent of both Right & Left he often pisses off both sides. Rachael would NEVER disparage the Left talking points. In fact, she wouldn’t say sh*t if she had a mouth full, when it comes to the WOKE Left propaganda.
Tucker's new iteration is proving to be irksome. I watched a bit of his interview with Chris Cuomo and it's almost as if he wants to be the third "bro." Maddow checks all the left's boxes and certainly doesn't want to be on the receiving end of any tribal criticisms.
Also like to point out that some of us had never heard of any of this. So this musical would in fact be valuable, as it brought a topic to life that I didn't know about.
If you’re really interested, the movie Shattered Glass is worth watch.
It seems many in the industry haven’t learned the lessons from Glass’s fraud and continue to peddle unverified information.
Was Ted Kennedy redeemed or did he just get a pass to begin with?
He clearly just got a pass to begin with, due to the power behind the Kennedy name. That should probably have been a signal about what Democrats were willing to condone.
My dad was an alternate delegate at the national convention that nominated Jimmy Carter. It was only years later (I was still a kid at the time) that I realized that he had gone specifically to try to stop Teddy from becoming the nominee.
I'm sure my parents had other reasons for being Democrats who voted twice for Reagan, but it occurs to me that my dad had plenty of reasons to have become disenchanted with his party during the 1970s, and Ted Kennedy was one that loomed large.
Loomed large in more ways than one.
Russian collusion?
https://nypost.com/2022/02/20/the-absurd-russiagate-pulitzer-of-the-ny-times-and-washington-post/
And so many others!
Oliver Wiseman “cannot fathom” why the Stephen Glass story won’t go away? That’s easy: Glass was the right of center journalist who lied. All the other cases that Wiseman mentions were left-wing liars! And there are so many of those…does anyone remember the Duke University lacrosse team (non)rape? How about multiple award-winning journalist Jayson Blair of the New Woke Times? If you want more recent examples, I should mention the false reporting on Kyle Rittenhouse by multiple MSM sources, everything about the Trump-Russia hoax, virtually all MSM reporting on the BLM riots, Bidenflation, Covid…etc.
Though my recollection was that Stephen Glass was not right wing (after all, he worked for the liberal The New Republic). One of his fabricated stories was on young republicans acting wild at a convention
Right? Most articles on CNN are fabricated. I feel like this needs more analysis - cause I don't know the Stephen Glass story at all.
Journalists are always convinced that teh public is FASCINATED by the goings-on of journalism. We don't give a shit.
It is a by-product of celebrity culture I think. IOW modern journalism is more entertainment than information.
I want to point out that I'm not necessarily criticizing Free Press here and I really do think there is a longer piece to be had exploring the Glass story and why it wouldn't happen now when most legacy media contains an element of fabrication. Remember the make believe Biden migrant planes from last week that are in fact 100% accurate?
Sure. Agreed completely. But doesn't entertainment/celebrity peter out? This guy Glass, had a celebrity/notoriety thing in 2003... and we're expected to remember and be interested in what people are saying about him now?
I would think so. But I am still trying to figure out how you get a musical.out of a lying journalist's story.
Right?
This FP piece makes it sound like the musical didn't run long. So that might explain part of it.
"I lied!"
"We're mad about that!"
"I'm sorry1"
"We don't give a shit"
"But I am sorry!"
"Can you hear the people sing, singing the songs of angry men, it's the voices of the people who will not tolerate Glass again..."
That made me giggle. I will say that I often lament the lack of accountability and he was certainly held accountable. As another commenter said, it laid bare the flaws in journalism.
oh man the poor Quantum Leap guy was in this thing. poor scott.
At least he got to Marry Teela. He is living the dream.
Latinos turning toward religion and conservatism isn't surprising, and is a trend Leftists would benefit from really considering the causes and ramifications of. To people who grow up outside of Western society, and particularly America, our self-destructive actions are much more apparent. Take just about any group of people outside of NA and Europe and they're going to decide they identify with the side that isn't demanding fealty to the latest Leftist beliefs but instead trying to defend what made coming to this country a good idea in the first place.
Ninety percent of the left wing agenda looks stupid to most of the world, because it is. Every culture that is traditional is conservative. Conserving culture is what tradition is.
Everybody loves the idea of free money, but nobody anywhere thinks women can become men; and most of the world is not OK with gay marriage. Islamists, of course--the same ones that the Left is allying with for reasons that are not clear--believe homosexuals should be killed, and they have in fact killed many.
Had to chuckle( heavy sigh) at the Headline- 29% of Gen Z women now identify as LGBTQ+. Gonna see a big dip in the population soon
Today’s LGBT teen was a goth in the precious generation. Thanks to leftist propaganda, being sexually different is the new way to fit in. Most are LUG (Lesbians Until Graduation) and 1-2% are sadly going to mutilate their genitals and ruin their lives.
You may be right. If I was in middle school right now, I’d be tempted to call myself non-binary (or even asexual) just to get the rainbow armies to leave me alone
Especially since so many are being sterilized. At my daughter's high school, 36% of the theatre group identify on the flag, mostly girls. Three girls under 18 are on testosterone. Every play is a tragedy now but too many moms in my community are cheering when they should be screaming.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mrsmiller/p/theatre-of-the-absurd?r=9q8wg&utm_medium=ios
why are you letting your daughter attend public school?
YOu need to run.
She's graduating in may. It would destroy my relationship with her and my husband. Believe me I wish I could but it's not as simple as that. Bedides that, even homeschooled kids aren't safe from gender ideology. It's in the air.
I hope she graduates safely and I hope you're not sending her to a liberal arts college in a blue state where it's only going to get worse.
Well, the loss of their particular progeny is a gain, isn’t it?
Many times I like your observations UF. This time not so much.
Why not? I think a 29% number is not something most of them were born with, but something they were manipulated into. That means they are manipulable, and probably moderately to severely neurotic, or whatever synonym you prefer. This means that the kids they would have had would likely be emotionally disturbed as well. The world has enough nut jobs already. We don't need more.
In fact, our national challenge right now is figuring out how to get our kids--of all ages, I might add--to grow into emotionally healty adults. It is no small problem.
Identifying as bisexual to be one of the cool kids doesn’t mean you’ve ever had any sexual interactions with other women, or that you seek them out. This identifying with the underdog to escape being part of the oppressor group (ie the majority) is pure performance.
I agree with that but I also think how you see yourself influences what you become. So while it might be pure performance most would eat shite and die before they admitted that.
That is already happening for lots of other reasons. Not to mention, LGBTQ+ contains several letters that still allow a woman to sleep with men. I am willing to bet that if you broke it down, the majority of the people identifying that way would be under the B or Q. And the T doesn't have anything to with sexual preference. So really only the LG (same thing) would impact population. And even then...
The vast majority of Gen Z women "identifying" as LGBTQ+ are straight women who are clutching onto the label to be cool and to be part of an "oppressed" group given the strong cultural clout given to having an oppressed label of some kind. They get away with it because no one will ever question their sexual identity. They will grow out of it. Biology is a hard thing to deny.
Absolutely. It’s also a form of rebellion against their parents generation (a phenomenon that has been going on since time immemorial). Pity the current generation: the bar for rebellion has been set so high! In the 1960s, all you had to do to rebel was grow your hair over your collar. In the 1980s, you could get some piercings and wear your hair in a mohawk. In the 1990s, tattoos started taking off. Nowadays, mom and dad are both fully tattooed and pierced, and have probably used every sort of drug available. What’s a young person to do? Where is the next frontier? Answer: Sexuality.
I agree- I wonder how much pornography has to do with all of this?
I dunno...historically porn has not been of particular interest to women. Porn is male fantasy, Romanic Comedies are female fantasy (stereotypically).
I think women are more prone to falling into social contagions. So often, women are the main carriers of pop-trends. And I think that this is one of them. Especially since claiming to be Bi or Queer doesn't mean you have to actually change in any way. You get extra cache with no real downside. So it is more like a fashion accessory than a lifestyle choice.
“You get extra cache with no real downside. So it is more like a fashion accessory than a lifestyle choice.”
Bingo! Winnah Winnah Chicken Dinnah!
Women are huge consumers of written porn in the form of "romance" novels. Way more so than romantic comedy. Funny thing is recently Zuckerberg cracked down on all the hunky and highly sexually suggestive man chests (as well as other sexually suggestive images) on romance book covers. And women who read those like posting photos of those covers on FB and Instagram. So authors and publishers now changed all the covers to cutesy illustrations.
No similar effort to crack down on male porn online yet to date.
I am okay with that dip.
The headline story in the USA Today is Kamala goes to an abortion clinic. No I didn’t read it and thank heavens I pay one dollar for a year to get that fish wrap. But this is what passes for journalism/narrative/propaganda on the left.
The environmentalists should be outraged that a perfectly good tree was pulped for that shitty paper.
Oh my goodness. A vision of Kamala Goes To An Abortion Clunic as an elementary school primer popped into my head, complete with illustration.
"Ninety percent of the left wing agenda looks stupid to most of the world, because it is."
Too bad that won't fit on a bumper sticker. And ninety percent is a low-ball.
I reached the momentous conclusion some years ago that bumper stickers probably don't swing votes. Some Subarus and Prius's do add a bit of glee to the process of voting straight Republican tickets though.
I like them b/c they make it obvious who to avoid! :D
Curious. I reached the opposite conclusion some years ago: That even Great Ideas go nowhere with enough people to carry an election if they can't be distilled into at least a sound bite (whatever that is, exactly) much less a bumper sticker. (TMI: The only bumper sticker I ever had was in the early days of Amtrak-- "If the train went there, I'd be on it.")
A large part of the world is accepting gay marriage.
Africa? Latin America, outside the elites in large cities? Asia? I would be shocked if a full quarter ofvthe worlds population was on board with what has never existed in any society anywhere in human history.
You do know there are about 8 BILLION people on the planet, right? And that most of them respect their parents and cultural traditions?
In Gaza?
Obviously not in Gaza and Gaza is not a large part of the world, but SE Asia is, as is much of Europe.
I am supportive of gay marriage but I'm not aware of countries outside the typical Western countries where gay marriages are legal. I did a quick google search and it confirmed gay marriages are not recognized in India, Thailand and the Philippines, to use three places that actually do have notably visible gay populations. Nor does there seem to be any movement towards such legalizations. The Middle East, of course, does not practice tolerance for gay marriages except for Israel, but as we are reminded often these days, Israelis aren't allowed to be Middle Easterners.
The Thai govt. is talking about legalising gay marriage, but, like all things Thai, they talk, and talk, and talk.
Indonesia?
A quick check reveals that same sex marriage is only legal in Taiwan (and that likely won't last much longer) and is under consideration in Thailand.
My guess is that is a western phenomena.
I think that is a very western-centric view. I might...might agree that a majority tolerate or don't care/think about it. But I don't think the majority accept it unless forced on them. Heck, while polls in the US say it is the majority, we also know that there is a lot of pressure to support LGTBQ, so I can imagine the polls being skewed.
I will absolutely agree that it is MORE accepted than ever. But I also think that the pushing that is happening in the west is also causing a backlash.
Actually my view is SE Asian centric. There's less fuss about the alphabet people and gayness and it's female equivelent are accepted. It's been going on for centuries ,so no big fuss is made about it. Thai TV is overrun with gays, and an entire section of Bangkok is populated by them. I'm sure that the pushing of the culture is causing a backlash. If people who aren't involved in the life and those who are wouldn't make an issue of it, it wouldn't be an issue.
As far as I can tell, SE Asian cultures have long since carved out a place specifically for alphabet people. As a result, as far as I know, they're not pushing into other people's spaces. For example, not demanding to be treated as biological women. That's a huge part of the issue right now--the demands.
I recall reading years ago the Catholic Church in Latin/South America was concerned about the inroads Evangelicals were making.
The evangelical churches have been HUGE in Latin America for YEARS! Back in the 80's that Trinity Broadcasting Network was always hitting up its base for $$$ for outreach south of the border.
Speech for us, not for you. That's what the Free Speech Movement has devolved into.
And here is the thing: what free speech does is humanize us to one another. Free speech enables us to point out and identify stupid ideas, hateful ideas, and to work together to build better lives for everyone.
The mobs and the censors and the bullies are never on the side of the Good. So what do the mobs and bullies and censors do? They redefine Good so it includes evil. That has been the primary project of most Humanities Departments since they found themselves redefining our chosen abandonment of South Vietnam, which in total caused millions of painful deaths--I include Cambodia here, since the abandonment included Southeast Asia generally--into an act of virtue.
Lying is a habit. Lying is a habit that is supported by censorship, because it is a difficult habit to maintain in the face of people speaking the truth.
Let us hope that the Administration makes better decisions this time than it did in the Milo Yianopolous and other cases. They have chosen to enable the liars and bullies. I think they should stop doing that.
I will add that if you are on the side of Joe Biden and the Democrats NOW, in 2024, you are on the side of liars and mobs and censorship.
"Our border is secure". Really?
"The defense of Ukraine is a vital national interest and the Ukraine can retake the Donbass". Really?
"Joe Biden is a fit and honest President who is a credit to the office". Really?
"We can ignore the massive problems with Social Security and Medicare FOREVER. FOREVER AND EVER." Really?
"Global warming is an existential crisis and we should bankrupt and starve millions of people to address it." Really? Even though the science is nakedly and obviously corrupt, the predictions wrong, and the whole thing obviously oriented around power and control of the masses by sociopathic elites?
Oi. SMH.
Unsaint Finbar
OTOH you lament the withdrawal of America from Viet Nam even though 58,000 Americans died fighting communism there and yet you oppose American support for Ukraine’s defense against totalitarian Russia even though helping Ukraine does not require that any American troops be put in harms way. You are unsaintly incoherent.
https://youtu.be/z_1uPav7LK4?si=hoGZnQeplF4jkP4g
Suggest you watch David Sacks’ lecture on Biden’s failed proxy war. Hundreds of thousands of dead Ukrainians, a fantasy that Russia could be crushed. Sanctions haven’t hurt Russia, but the war has weakened America militarily.
Whatever was in this for us? Punish Putin over Russiagate?
When the architect of the war, Ms Nuland, becomes a rat jumping ship, things are bleak. The best we can hope for is a negotiated peace with Ukraine relinquishing a lot of territory.
And before you reply that Putin intends to invade Europe, ask yourself, Why? He already has the biggest country in the world. He has deep ship harbors. Access to the arctic. I see no real motivation.
"And before you reply that Putin intends to invade Europe, ask yourself, Why?"
The fools parroting “Putin wants to invade Europe” never answer that do they? Nor do they explain why he hasn’t pushed farther west across Ukraine to get there. Putin may be a lot of things, but he’s no fool. Unlike the dipshits who have been running our foreign policy and failing in places like Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan…Putin understands that invading a country is one thing, holding it is another. He’s also smart enough to know that our deep state warmongers WANT him to push west into NATO territory so they can justify invoking NATO treaties and engage in another war to “save democracy”. Who cares if hundreds of thousands of civilians and soldiers get slaughtered and eastern Europe gets turned into a nuclear wasteland.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out the game. Warmongers like Victoria Nuland have been playing it for decades, yet the results never match those promised by the uniparty “think” tanks promoting it. Just ask the mothers, widows and fatherless children of Ukraine men who can no longer speak for themselves.
And if Putin has/had designs on Europe why did he wait almost 30 years to act?
I am deeply suspicious of Vicky's departure. She bears watching. And where is Vindman?
I think there are multiple reasons the US govt sent aid to Ukraine: 1) let others spill blood weakening the Russian military, 2) deter a European war from spreading (obviously Germans, Polish, Sweades, etc. are more worried than we are and have spent more$ than the US), 3) get rid of old and surplus US military stocks, 4) $ for US contractors, 5) Example to others like China.
It's all geopolitics when you boil it down.
The Russian demography is near collapse, so this was there last chance to try and reabsorb territory that's been used to invade them over and over.
After studying the fall of the Tsar, both World wars, Stalin, etc. it makes more sense.
When the US pulled back, these regional flare-ups were inevitable and consistent with how things were before the end of WWII. Peter Zeihan does a good job laying out the reasons in his latest book. The Stalin series by Stephen Kotkin is excellent as well.
Who the hell has ever successfully invaded Russia? And when has Russia ever had a weak military? And why would we care? They've got nukes, we've got nukes, and we'll never go to war with them.
Our support for Ukraine is nothing more than extortion Biden is paying Zalinsky to keep quiet about the bribes Biden took, all in the name of defeating 'Trump's ally.'
How gullible Americans are to fall for this bucket of BS.
I think your assumptions are a stretch. First, why do we need to be enemies with Russia? Do we really believe Russia would attack NATO countries? I don’t. Can we weaken the Russian military? Ha! We have succeeded in weakening our own. Example to China? We look like losers as more countries side with BRICS vs the West. Listen to David Sacks speech, I posted the link elsewhere.
If all this was to avenge Putin over the completely debunked Russiagate, look how idiotic America looks now.
Saches makes very good points. There has been a rising impulse to pull back from the US lead Bretton Woods alliance against the USSR after the cold ward ended (of course!). Why pay for global stability when the US is one of the most isolated economies on the world and the USSR is gone? US foreign policy has been kind of adrift since 1992.
It's not that the US benefits from being enemies with Russia - it's more likely the US is protecting Europe (Germany, Poland, etc.) as a preemptive move to exhaust Russia. Why exhaust Russia? Virtually every hotspot in areas adjacent to Russia have been instigated by Russia to re-established lost buffer zones and plug in the gaps to provide safety (see gap map below).
Allowed to continue (after Ukraine falls), Russia will try to absorb most of Poland (Polish gap) and the countries adjacent to the Baltic Sea (Baltic gap). So, yes, it's very likely Russia would continue unless stopped in Ukraine. The idea is to put out the fire before it spreads using Ukrainian blood and old obsolete stockpiled weapons/ammo. It's really dark, but that's the logic. It's not about supporting democracy or human rights - that just a way to sell it.
In terms of BRICS- the collective demographics of those countries are in collapse (India actually is pretty good though) - I'm not sure that will be a credible/durable alternative alliance to the US led order.
Finally, revenge for Russiagate? I'm not sure I follow. The other geopolitical forces discussed above would outweigh any motivation for revenge.
Russia gap map:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FPeterZeihan%2Fstatus%2F1495884487917715456&psig=AOvVaw19EKvSqf-T5SrulmrFOh6C&ust=1710524016766000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBMQjRxqFwoTCLCy1tak9IQDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE).
That is the myth of the US as benevolent all-encompassing world leader. Which might have had some validity post WWII but that has been over for decades now.
I think you are right. The "US as benevolent all-encompassing world leader" was just a branding of the US lead Bretton Woods alliance against the USSR. We bribed most of the world to stand against the USSR and in exchange provided global trade security for our allies.
A nice side benefit was a 70 year period of unprecedented peace in the world compared to "normal" colonial times where wars were common.
Ukraine is not holding elections. Russia is. How is Russia any worse than the Ukraine, particularly given the large numbers of open Nazis in the Ukrainian military, and their proud history of anti-Semitic atrocities?
I was watching combat video a month or so of Ukrainian soldiers fighting somewhere. They kept calling the Russians "the Jews" as what was apparently their worst term of denigration.
And it's just dishonest to claim that there are not dozens of senior leaders in many nations calling for American and NATO "boots on the ground", isn't it? It's pretty obvious to me intuitively that we have special operations folks there NOW. We have Green Berets training the Ukrainians, and likely forward observers calling in air strikes.
The Soviet empire fell. Russia is not trying to replace it, and it is quite obvious they couldn't if they wanted to. Putin is simply observing that literally every nation on every border is joining an alliance against him. Would you not also draw the obvious conclusion that every nation joining an alliance against him represented a potential threat?
The halfwit leading our nation picked a needless fight with Russia and now Ukrainians are paying the price. Obama foolishly lost them the Crimea. His successor is trying to double down on his mentor's stupidity.
If you were attacked, for whatever reason, would you not defend yourself and want others to help you? Russia is the attacker.
Of course I would want people to help me. But you know what? WE HAVE NO ALLIANCES WITH THE UKRAINE AND IT IS NOT OUR PROBLEM.
Zelensky and his predecessors offered the Donbass relative autonomy, then reneged. This whole war could have been avoided by simpky adhering to the terms of agreements ZELENSKY SAID HE WOULD UPHOLD when he was running for office.
There are low grade wars being fought in a dozen or more countries, particularly in Africa. If we are going to direct hundreds of billions of dollars away from the American people, how about we protect innocent Christians being persecuted and murdered all the world?
If you want to "protect innocent Christian being persecuted and murdered all the world," I'm sure that there's a way for you to do that. I think that in today's world, everyone is connected and alliances are no longer based on paper. We had no alliances with Eastern Europe and still, in WW2 we helped them. Everyone country is interconnected and all problems are everyone's problems or no problems are anyone's problems. BTW, it's not necessary to shout at me, I can read the small print quite well.
The larger point is that Russia is trying to reestablish a defensive parameter for physical security (they've been doing this since 1992). This has been going on across multiple US administrations. We can point fingers at both sides of the US govt.
Russia felt attacked in 2014 when Obama/Nuland/CIA imposed a puppet government.
The West broke its promise to Russia not to expand NATO.
NC Maureen
NATO is purely defensive. You conveniently ignore the Budapest Memorandum. Russia is threatened by Ukraine’s desire to join the West. Russia’s fear is real but completely illegitimate.
Why did Russia attack? What did Obama, Biden, Nuland and Vindman have to do with it?
Unsaint Finbar
Read Professor Stephen Kotkin and get a clue about Russia and Putin. The so-called Soviet Union was not a union. It was Russian Imperialism and enslaved neighboring countries.
I know the history quite well.
Simple question: if pacifying the Ukraine has taken Russia two years and tens or hundreds of thousands dead, why would he think he could take on the WHOLE of Europe?
The very suggestion is stupid. But if we invade Russia he WILL use nukes. He just reaffirmed it yesterday.
Why the hell are we sending ANY money to those Nazi idiots in the Ukraine?
Russia is not pacifying Ukraine. Good grief. Russia is attempting to conquer Ukraine. There will be no peace until all invasions are opposed and not just the one at America’s southern border.
Gain v. Fiinbar. We stopped this one in the first round on cuts. Give it up Terry.
Bruce Miller
I’ve given up on you.
Because he learned. He specified the death of millions of Southeast Asians. How many Ukrainians (and Russians for that matter) are you willing to sacrifice?
The key word is “yet”.
Does not require any of our troops YET.
Having family on both sides of our family serve in WW2; Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan- when people are all for doing whatever it takes for other countries- do any of
These people understand the actual sacrifices that are made by the military and their families?
I mean WW2 results held for what 80 years and the 20 years in the Middle East got us no where.
So yes, there are people who question Ukraine and Taiwan when most of the rest of the West doesn’t seem as concerned.
But Biden is not the Bad Orange Man.
True. He is vastly, vastly, vastly worse.
Brilliant summation.
Wiseman writes "[t]he 1969 Chappaquiddick scandal hung over Ted Kennedy for years, but by the time of his death in 2009, he was heralded as a great statesman." Hung over? Sorry, no, Ollie. The dolts in MA reliably returned this murderer to the Senate, election after election. And the only people "heralding" this alcoholic fraud were those of the same ilk as Mr. Wiseman. Come on Bari. Enough is enough.
Kennedy had his favorite law firm on speed dial: Winer,Diner, Dicker, and Dunker.
Yes. All that tells me is the idiot left forgave Teddy but not Stephen Glass, apparently.
Super ironic they’re heaping scorn on a journalist who wrote lies.
Indeed, given that the entire left is based on a colossal lie, spun by a 19th Century lunatic. .
I think another commenter nailed it: journalists hate Glass because he embarrassed them! They love damning other people but expect to be treated with kid gloves themselves. At least since Watergate, but probably for much longer, journalists have seen themselves as the ultimate Good Guys in every story.
Bruce — Joe Nocera wrote the portion of today’s email about Glass. Overall I am pretty sympathetic to Glass’s plight, but I also did a double take as I read Ted Kennedy’s name.
I would (genuinely) love to know if Mr. Nocera is aware that, in 1983, his “great statesman” sent a secret letter to Yuri Andropov, explicitly offering to work together to undermine Pres. Reagan in advance of the 1984 election?
https://spectator.org/chappaquiddick-wasnt-the-only-scandal/
Leaving a woman to suffocate or drown wasn't enough to keep Democrats from reelecting Teddy many times and calling him "the Lion of the Senate."
Teddy Kennedy was a piece of shit
After the passage of Obamacare, a lefty acquaintance posted that Ted Kennedy was looking down and smiling. I replied that he was most likely looking up.
My uncle commanded the destroyer that JFK Jr. was buried from. Ted came on board and tried to buffalo him into taking the ship into waters that he "knew;" my uncle wisely declined. Ted also leaned on the lifelines (big no-no) which bent so far outward that the sailors thought they were going to snap.
Twenty-nine percent of women are claiming to be alphabet people. Kinda of a privileged class now? almost as good as getting a handicapped parking placard
Since guys aren't allowed to “ hit” on chicks anymore and calling someone cute might be grounds to go to a campus kangaroo court for harassment, who is surprised?
Add in the “ uglies” who now have an excuse for not dating and we have 29%
Great culture.
Reading the poll, the actual number of gay, lesbian, and transgender adults appears to be relatively stable. This number is being driven by Gen Z girls claiming to be bisexual, pansexual or asexual. Gee, I wonder why that is?
Gee, I wonder WHAT that is. They make up stupid words and expect us to play along. How about "not playing?"
Yes not only make up words but they take words with long accepted definitions and hijack them to mean the opposite. Words really do matter. We have to object and call them out on this every time. The civilized world Is drowning in a sea of their lies and obfuscations. DEI must be defeated along with all the nihilistic ideology that comes along with it.
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
Few quoters get to that last line -- it's kinda uncomfy, yes?
But it says it all. Interesting that Carroll was so spot on and prescient.
Beautiful comment.
Then there's the projection leftists habituate: claiming everyone who's not in agreement with their philosophies and protocols are guilty of exactly the same offenses against human dignity civil discourse as they themselves take obvious pride in displaying.
I noticed that too. It just isn't cool to be heterosexual. Goes along so clearly with the social contagion/social pressure phenomenon. So much easier to say bisexual to " fit in" even if in practice they aren't. Reminds me of how I would answer when anyone asked me my religion back in the 70's-80's. It was so much more comfortable just to say "I was baptized Catholic" (a true statement) that to say "I am not religious".
They’re in college?
This is the same segment that believe they are cats and other animals. How many of us does not recall our own stupidity before say age 25
That is true. But we were confined to our communities. These people inhabit a "global village".
Are we in the midst of a Jewish reawakening in America or is the recent notice by " liberal" jews just a temporary phase we are passing through? Are jews finally realizing that they have a lit mote to fear from their heretofore intersectional friends and colleagues or the " tiki torch " neo nazis that are still mentioned constantly from the Charlottesville March that occurred over five years ago? J Glazer made clear this week that he is still w the western hating intersectionalists ( as are many of his artists in arms who share his views) and it is unlikely they will ever change. But what about what I see as the majority of American jews who vote D by reflex but cannot shut their eyes this time and pretend Berkeley and Harvard and Times Square and in a thousand other places around the country are not occurring where their sons and daughters live in fear. I hear a lot of noise from liberal Jewish friends but have yet to hear anyone say that the biggest problem for jews in America are leftists ( including fellow jews) as opposed to conservative Christian Americans who vigorously support Israel and oppose anti semitism in America because they hold Judeo Christian values and know the full history of this nation.
It’s hard to start voting Republican, if you’ve spent your entire life believing that they’re the incarnation of evil.
Proof that people can be wrong their entire life. Opportunity knocks.
Yup. The hard part is admitting that you were wrong. That doesn’t come easily to most people.
A lefty Jewish friend of mine sounds like she's seriously considering buying a gun, which is a gateway drug, so there's hope for some...
OMG, I can't believe I'm STILL hearing lib Jew neighbors say they can't vote for Trump b/c he's "a dictator." My head is exploding!!!
Wiseman is not only a fool but laugh out loud funny. He writes an article principally about a journalist making up stories and then shrieks that we're all hypocrites because "[a]fter doing time for insider trading, Martha Stewart is a national treasure."
Well, no, Ollie. Stewart was found guilty of one count of conspiracy, two counts of making false statements, and one count of obstruction of agency proceedings. NOT insider trading. In fact the irony of it all was that the insider trading charge would probably have been dismissed and Martha was "too cute by half" by trying to bamboozle the federal investigators. Bari, please stop inflicting this clown on your readers.
The Glass article is by Joe Nocera, not Oliver.
It's all under Wiseman's byline.
And now she is a pin up girl for the viagra brigades
Thanks.
"HATE"! What is it, really? Has anyone tried to define it? And if so, does that definition have a consensus among the general public? Today many people toss that word around like "The Scarlet Letter". They assign the red "H" to the chests of those who they disagree with, to the popular memes, and to ANYONE who might contradict the latest fad in social engineering and medicine. (transgender health care?) Whenever I hear someone invoke the "Hate" accusation, I automatically assign them to the "wackdoodle" category, an unserious person.
Agreed. They have done this with many words. They found words that tend to trigger us...my brain knows that Hate is a strong word. So I am wired to want to prevent Hate. But, as you say, they use it describe anything...because they know it will catch people's attention. Just like other words, such as Racist or Sexist. People don't want to be those things, so calling them that shuts them down.
We need to start correcting people or ignoring when they use strong words so casually.
I think words are important - free speech is the most fundamental right we have. While conservatives typically want to be left alone and will give others with differing opinions the same deference, ignoring the leftists only cedes the battle to them. In this regard, the culture fight, which drives politics and policy - the one we've been hesitant to engage in, will be the most important fight of all.
Even positive words like Hero have be come meaningless.
And Nobel Prize. Or Person of the Year.
I choose to ignore.
Yep, it’s another gaslighting term. Whenever someone uses that word as a prefix (“hate” speech, for example) you can be certain they are about to administer a dose of b.s. to you.
The Palestinians and their supporters are clearly violent people who prefer intimidation and brutality to reason and intelligent argument, and they have no place in institutions of learning or, for that matter, in civil society. The failure of our society to find and punish those perpetrators of violence is a threat to everything and every person in America.
Hamassholes.
Almost an insult to people from Mass, though unfortunately there's a lot of overlap.
Good one.
You continue to refuse to report on the larger and more deeply concerning failures of the Biden administration and their repeated efforts to undermine every American, our laws and the very fundamental standards of our constitution. "Common Sense" and a commitment to journalism should obligate you to report on the ugliest and most unpleasant truths pertaining to this administration, yet you give it a total pass, no questions asked. We are at a tipping point in our current politics and I am fearful that the cliff is quickly approaching. Hello? The house is on fire.
And Jewish professors will still vote democrat
Are these repetitious stories of Jews being targeted designed to bore us or convince them not to vote democrat anymore. Because if it’s the former, we get it and have since October 7
Bari and Nellie are Jewish, as are many of TFP staff. American Jews have felt mostly safe and secure in the US all our lives. We’re used to having locked doors and security guards in our synagogues and schools. We’re used to the ocasional hate crimes. But the recent upswing in antisemitic attacks—with people being physically attacked, harassed, prevented from going about their business, being spat on and called Jewish pigs, murderers, etc.—ring loud alarm bells in the mind of anyone who knows Jewish history. They are echoes of centuries of persecution and pogroms, when the authorities did nothing to prevent the rape and massacres of Jews; often, they joined in. We remember that when we see the administrators of universities doing little or nothing to protect Jewish students. We remember that when there are rallies of people in the streets openly calling for death to Jews. We are fresh from the horrors of the worst pogrom since the Holocaust. Our brothers and sisters are still captive in Gaza. The historical Jewish focus on triumph over adversity doesn’t mean the trauma hurts any less.
Sorry if that’s boring for you.
I think it becomes boring because, as Unwoke said, most of the people here have been on your side since day one. So it becomes repetitive. We can't care more than we do. But, on top of that, there are lots of groups of people who have felt persecuted by the Elites in the last few years. I will absolutely agree that Jews currently have it worse, but plenty of people have been demonized and run out of places for their race, gender, religion, or politics. In some cases, by the same people asking for sympathy now.
I hear what you’re saying, and we so very much appreciate your support…but to insinuate that these stories are boring feels like adding insult to injury.
They don’t speak for everyone! Not by a long shot.
Understandable.
I'm not sure if the term "boring" fits the best but, present company excluded, that liberal Jews CONTINUED deference to the democratic party is frustration - how can we help those who don't see fit to help themselves?
I wish I had an answer. Political loyalty to the Democratic party became such an ingrained part of the American Jewish psyche during the 20th century that it’s an uphill battle in deep mud to change hearts and minds on this. I think most American Jews who identify as Conservative or Reform would sooner put a spiral-sliced ham on the Seder table than vote Republican.
It seems to me—and this is purely my personal and anecdotal take—that the more American Jews abandoned traditional observance such as keeping kosher and keeping the Sabbath, the more they embraced what they saw as the “social justice” aspects of the Torah (leaving behind those uncomfortable commandments such as “kill all the Canaanites”). They saw voting Democrat—perceived as the party of the working man and the oppressed—as part of that social justice…and thus it became intrinsically bound up with their cultural/religious Jewish identity.
So it becomes very difficult to “betray” that by voting Republican—even when all the facts point to that being in their best interest.
Thanks for that explanation. I suppose to an extent this is the inverse of the democrats disbelief that they think West Virginia coal miners, for example, are "voting against their self interest" by voting against them when they are the party who would give them more welfare after regulating the mines into shutting down.
“plenty of people have been demonized and run out of places for their race, gender, religion, or politics. In some cases, by the same people asking for sympathy now.”
Absolutely!
My people had to flee the then-boundaries of the U.S. because the government refused to secure our First Amendment rights against state governments, one of which literally decreed that it was legal to murder us. Then, when they seized the territory where we had settled, the U.S. government sent the army to kill us if they deemed it necessary (they didn't; they decided to murder some Native Americans instead).
We have zero illusions that the U.S. government will follow the Constitution if it decides not to.
How many stories will it take, how much fear of those who wish to kill you and are overt about it, how many atrocities will you see caused by democrats, that you finally realize democrats aren’t your friends, they aren't your protectors and they hate you that you will stop voting for them?
Or be their bitch. Up to you.
My Jewish Dem friends are eagerly awaiting their mail in ballots so they can vote for Biden on their ballot and that of their long dead spouses as well.
How depressing.
I realized it and switched sides years ago.
Then bring your compatriots along.
Around the time I switched political affiliation, I started attending an Orthodox synagogue, where most are Republican voters.
The left-wing anti-Zionist temple I decamped from…I leave them to their fate. They remind me of turkeys gawking up at the rain till they drown.
This! But I still hope for a parallel society, where sane Jews start sane Reform or conservative congregations. And where businesses who don't hate Americ spring up to serve We the People.
Everybody Hates Jews
Part 437
Enough already.
Maybe a story on the merits of “White Rural Rage” which is all the rage in lefty elite world. The white working class of America in flyover country know all about disparagement of their existence.
As a scholar Professor Hassner should know better than the hoi polloi the reason for violent protests directed at Jews. He has 1402 years of history to inform him. Sleeping in his office won’t end the attacks. His knowledge requires activism. He should advocate for a ban on further Muslim immigration before its too late.
Provocative. I had to do the math. 2024 - 1402 = 622 : a seminal year in Islam. I disagree with the idea of legal immigration ban - I do believe that “people of the book” as Jews and Christians are called in Islam, need to be awake, discerning, and fearless in the defense of their right to free expression and freedom of religion.
The main reason I partially agree with a Muslim ban is because I believe all immigration should be limited to people who actually want to embrace the culture of the country they wish to immigrate to. It seems that many Muslims simply want to keep their exactly cultures and rules, simply in a new place. I do not want those kinds of immigrants, Muslim or otherwise.
I want people who want to be Americans, not people who want to take advantage of America.
If all Muslims simply wanted to observe their culture and rules in their own lives, that would be one thing. But too many want to impose those rules on greater society and expect to do so eventually by overwhelming the host culture eventually.
To be fair, Americans do this as well. People will leave a state with failing policies and then vote for the same policies in their new successful state.
In general I am not a fan of people coming into communities who are perfectly happy the way they are and then trying to change them
Yeah, 622, a year the Roman Catholic Church was well into their forced conversions (see Charlemagne and the Saxons), and social subjugation of Jews. It took Luther and Henry VIII, etc., to get the Popes and their minions under a little control. And now Europe has to deal with another version of that, the Muslims.
I assume you don't know that Luther was rabidly antisemitic and alsofavored killing witches
Yeah, that too. Christians can be problematic at times.
As can all humans. It seems to me that there is an optimal number of humans per square mile, below which, we starve, but beyond which we begin slaughtering one another.
I would agreed that humans, by their nature, do terrible things to each other. It is a recurrent theme of man’s inhumanity to man. Biblically, “all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” . I do disagree in that I would not put Henry VIII on the same level as theologian Martin Luther. Last, I do admire Charles “The Hammer” Martel, who in 732 fought tough against the invading Muslims thereby keeping France secure against Islam, well, until now.
Agreed. Henry VIII was a pig. Luther was a scholar and for many; a liberator of the Christian Faith.
I read "...humans, by their nature...," are made in the image and likeness of their Creator.
Ooh that evil Roman Catholic Church. I’m still mad about stuff they did FOURTEEN CENTURIES AGO
Who said I was mad about it. You?
Weird thing to bring up
Prof Ron Hassner wants teachings to educate people on antisemitism and Islamophobia? The strident marches and escalating rhetoric and violence are against Jews The support Israel rallies are peaceful and calm and not ANTI Muslims or anything else.
Radical Islam is a violent aggressive treatise, but I see no marches against it. They use our tolerance to subvert values of tolerance and live and let live.
Islamophobia in America has always been like “racist hate crimes by Trump supporters”: the demand far exceeds the near-nonexistent supply.
Phobia is an irrational fear. Being afraid of ppl who proudly scream Allua akbar while slaughtering and raping and vowing to do it repeatedly is not irrational fear.I keep reading about all the moderate Muslims out there, but I don’t see many denouncing this dark ages behavior.There are a few , and some self described ex- Muslims who do but they are a tiny minority. Silence is complicity.
There are close to 3.5 million Muslims in the United States, most of whom are not radical. I think they don't want to speak out against the radical fringe out of fear or simply not wanting to criticize their co-religionists. This is a mistake because many non-Muslims construe their silence as agreement.
Unless they speak out we really have no way of knowing what they think and believe. Since their co religionists are barbaric violent people, for self defense purposes one should assume that deep down they agree with the radical teachings of the Koran even if they aren’t regulars at the mosque. Given the current state of affairs they have an obligation to declare where they stand on tolerance and coexistence. There is too much at stake for everyone and all western countries. I’m not as optimistic as you are about them. I fervently hope you are right and I am wrong.
"but I don’t see many denouncing this dark ages behavior"
It Doesn't make News. Because The Squeaky Wheel Gets The Grease.
Egyptian President Al-Sisi at Al-Azhar: We Must Revolutionize Our Religion
https://www.memri.org/tv/egyptian-president-al-sisi-al-azhar-we-must-revolutionize-our-religion
Building a Decent Gaza
Daniel Pipes
Middle East Quarterly
Spring 2024
https://www.meforum.org/65584/to-build-a-decent-gaza
(Snip)
Gazans vs. Hamas I: Polling Data
For starters, polling makes this evident. Fortunately, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy conducted an extensive poll of Gazans in July 2023. Its findings include:
40 percent of Gazans view Hamas negatively.
42 percent hope that "someday we can be friends with Israelis, since we are all human beings after all."
44 percent agree that "We should recognize that we will never defeat Israel and that fighting just makes things worse."
47 percent say the Abraham Accords have had a positive impact.
47 percent say "it would be better for us if we were part of Israel than in PA or Hamas ruled lands."
50 percent want Hamas to "stop calling for the destruction of Israel and instead accept a permanent two-state solution based on the 1967 borders."
50 percent agree that "If Saudi Arabia normalizes relations with Israel, [the] Palestinian leadership should also normalize relations and end the conflict."
52 percent view the Muslim Brotherhood negatively.
59 percent support "the Palestinian resumption of negotiations with Israel."
60 percent acknowledge that when they hear about developments in Syria, Yemen, and other places, "I feel that my situation is actually not bad."
61 percent wish more Israeli jobs were offered in Gaza and the West Bank.
62 percent want Hamas to preserve the cease-fire with Israel.
63 percent seek direct personal contacts and dialogue with Israelis.
67 percent believe that "Right now, the Palestinians should focus on practical matters like jobs, health care, education, and everyday stability, not on big political plans or resistance options."
72 percent agree that Palestinians should look more to Arab governments like Jordan or Egypt to "help improve our situation."
72 percent concur that "Hamas has been unable to improve the lives of Palestinians in Gaza."
76 percent want Arab governments to "take a more active role in Palestinian-Israeli peacemaking, offering incentives to both sides to take more moderate positions."
79 percent believe that "Right now, internal political and economic reform is more important for us than any foreign policy issue."
82 percent agree that "Palestinians should push harder to replace their own political leaders with more effective and less corrupt ones."
87 percent find that "Many people are more preoccupied with their personal lives than with politics."
(Snip)
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More if you want.
"but I don’t see many denouncing this dark ages behavior"
I still don't see any. I see a bunch of numbers which, if valid, should have a greater-than-zero impact. Or maybe so much as one audible voice.
"I still don't see any. I see a bunch of numbers which, if valid, should have a greater-than-zero impact."
IF you are correct you solution is....?
(Don't get me wrong I'm Still in a Bomber Harris fame of mind.)
"Or maybe so much as one audible voice."
Here's one
Debunking Ivy League Myths About Israel | Yoseph Haddad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsS3PZqy6xY&t=819s
Mar. 13 2024
Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Yoseph Haddad about how media and higher education systems are being infiltrated by anti-Semitic sentiments; how Israel has successfully been a society for Jews and also Arab Israelis like himself; the surprising stats about diversity within Israel; ignored facts that prove that Israel is falsely portrayed as an apartheid state; how Hamas targeted both Jews and Arabs in the October 7 attacks; why Israel must take control of every inch of Gaza to defeat Hamas; and much more.
To understand more 2 books
The War For The Musliim Minds
Gilles Kepel
The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis
Robert R. Reilly
(BTW Youtube)
Closing of the Muslim Mind - Robert R. Reilly PlayList
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16B70906959351A4
(Had to look up Bomber Harris.... we also had this guy name of LeMay, whose plans for Japan would probably have killed more Japanese than the nukes.) Points of light, anyway... thanks.
The Gallup poll on sexual orientation ( why by the way do we even use that term) begs a few questions: the first is WHY are the numbers for Gen Z so substantial. Other questions include what about the rest of the world? Is this about biology and genetics or education and social media? And why does this matter ( lots of answers to that one but I throw it out there for discussion). Finally, on a lighter note I would add that these statistics merely prove once more that Barack Obama succeeded as promised to fundamentally transform America.
Because declaring you are Queer or Bi does not obligate you to change or do anything. But it DOES give you more 'special points (tm)'. You can declare you are Queer and your friends and family will oooh and ahh...maybe some people will push back, giving you an oppressor to overcome, but you don't actually have to worry about someone hurting you or taking away any rights. You get to be part of the victim class without the downside of actually being victimized.
Frankly, if I were gen z, I would be declaring myself to be all kinds of things...not a POC though. Apparently we can't go that far. But everything else is fair game.
As they like to shout: whatever it takes. Maybe they are all little capitalists after all as they do seem to like nice things
Most Marxists seem to love capitalism when it benefits them. They just don't attribute those things to capitalism.
Of course not. Little lemmings are parrots . Who like crackers
I thought it was about preferred methods of achieving sexual orgasms.
Woody Allen was ahead of his time. Who will actually invent and patent the orgasmitron? Musk?
Was I quoting Woody? God bless me.
"I think it’s possible to advocate for the Palestinian cause without strangling people.” ~ Prof. Ron Hassner
No, Ron it's not. Palestinians and their supporters know nothing except violence. It's what they've been taught from birth. They are victims, they are oppressed, they have no agency. They are never to blame for anything. PERIOD. FULL STOP.
Sadly there are more and more groups that feel the same way... BLM, Antifa, Transgenders, etc.. dare I say run of the mill Progressives.