A really strange juxtaposition to have an anguished college professor explain why he has to resign due to rampant anti-Semitism and ignorance in one of America’s top universities, followed by a tongue in cheek article by a guy trying to be clever and keep his liberal street cred by mocking conservatives, even though he knows his side is rotten and utterly lost.
My sympathy for university professors is zero. You allowed this extreme leftist shit to metastasize and suddenly you’re mad because it attacked you?? You voted for this, asshole.
Given that Karchmer’s field is computer science and he’s been a lecturer at MIT for only four years I don’t think it’s fair to say that he’s been complicit in fostering the rot in higher education. Indeed, he took his stand based on principles, not because some Twitter mob turned on him (like that other professor who was featured in TFP a few months ago).
I think this guy deserves not only sympathy, but also kudos. By painting all university professors with the same broad brush, you are guilty of the same condescending “othering” committed by progressive ideologues.
But the article wasn’t about the 99%; it was about one courageous prof who wouldn’t “go along to get along,” and your only response was to say that you had zero sympathy. It seems to me that we have to celebrate the ones who take a stand, not piss on them just because most of their fellows don’t have a backbone or common sense.
Why this screed even exists: the NYT came for the Jews. If it hadn't been for that specific bigotry, Bari and Co. would still be writing rubbish for them and thinking Dimocrats were the bestists. The same for the vast bulk of their co-religionists in America.
Xtianity, Islam, Communism, Critical Theory: all ideologies lethal to Jews; all either straight up invented by Jews or brought to the market place with a lot of Jewish heavy lifting. If it is daft enough and lethal to Jews enough, they'll swallow it by the bucket load - until the killing starts and the cognitive dissonance is overwhelmed.
Don't get me wrong, the Stupid gene is just as strong in everyone else or we wouldn't be where we are; but wait three generations for today's newly wised-up to die and they'll be back at the forefront of something equally as stupid and as equally lethal to Jews. Ha Shem knows why, and They ain't telling.
(Probably embarressed about 4 billion of us are going round saying we were created in Their image. /s)
Really? By the same token, every never-Trumper conservative deserves no sympathy because they voted for the Republican Party that metastasized into MAGA who beats cops with the flag poles. It is a tragedy of our society that edges on both sides of political spectrum drifted into hate and violence. I can have a substantive conversation with both true conservatives and true liberals, but substantive conversations are no longer possible with either MAGA or progressives, both of the extremes are only capable of screaming.
If MAGA were non-ideological, they would have not devote themselves unconditionally to the elitist New York billionaire who poops into a golden toilet, tells the establishment donors that the purpose of his tax cuts act was to make them richer, runs Trump University for his devotees who then discover it was a scam, and pals around with the North Korean, Saudi and Qatari rules and pays taxes to the Chinese government while Saudi government pays millions for the best suites in his DC hotel - speaking of national sovereignty. I understand their dissatisfaction, I am dissatisfied with the same things, too. I just don't understand why they stand behind their false prophet who takes their small donations out of their Social Security payments so he can live life of luxury. This is what I define as a MAGA cult, and they are not any better than BLM followers who donated money so the BLM founders can buy mansions in Beverly Hills.
As for the raising voices or rioting, are you OK with the tens of millions of US citizens who rioted against the establishment in 2020?
I appreciate your explanation, but I already understand why Trump has a cult-like following. First of all, I would like to point out that Steve Bannon, one of the leaders of MAGA movement and Trump's close advisor, openly calls himself Leninist. As someone who is quite familiar with works of both Marx and Lenin, I can assure you that Lenin was way more radical than Marx.
At least we agree that politically motivated rioting like on January 6 or in summer of 2020 is not OK. I personally believe that any rioting destroys the very foundation of civilization and deprives society of the opportunity to self-correct peacefully. This is why I am a committed centrist, and my biggest disappointment with both parties lies in their inability to resolve the problems, instead, they use problems as a stick to poke the eye of the opponent, whether it is immigration, national debt or racial tensions.
“Students at MIT and other elite colleges have been radicalized by faculty members who have encouraged and even led the student body to become social justice warriors, supporting their highly progressive political beliefs. America’s brightest minds are being manipulated by a force they don’t even understand to adopt a narrow view of the world. That this is happening at a place where they’re meant to be exploring a wealth of ideas and have their thinking challenged shocks me.”
Another point made in today's FP, is the police state brutality of China.
If you point out the police state brutality of the Chinese regime and its racist genocide against the Uyghurs, those dipshits on the left will call you a Sinophobe while at the same time calling the US a racist, brutal police state.
Silence on the part of the British political elite in the face of totalitarian CCP repression and torture is the natural response of the fascist corporatism arresting and jailing British citizens for thought and speech crimes. The communist CCP and central banking fascist finance are two sides of the same bad penny counterfeit ideology that destroyed the promise of the 20th Century and sent millions to the killing fields. They are an international conspiracy of criminal whores who fully intend to reduce the free peoples of the world to serfdom. They literally destroy everything they touch and the narcissism and hubris of their criminality is driving the rampant paranoia now building the inhuman unholy world surveillance apparatus they hope will give them totalitarian control over every living thing. They are a death cult that sleeps with its nose squarely in its ass while dreaming of the glorious salvation of an apocalyptic firestorm that will provide the final beautiful solution to the troublesome machinations of human dignity and conscience. In the dream (you're not in it) life begins anew in their billion dollar bunker where curley haired scientists can at last perfect the formula for eternal life. The mthr'fkr's are mad as hatters. It's not something else.
Bari, this democracy story in Hong Kong is not quite as one-sided as portrayed. Nor is are the Uighurs. Let's start with the Uighurs, a muslim ethnic group sharing a border with Afghanistan and Pakistan --- Pakistan currently driving millions of Afghans who are causing militant trouble out. The US has a history of weaponizing Al Qaeda and ISIS against Syria, and the USSR. Why would people think the same is not the story with the Uighurs? Most of the Uighurs are just fine. In fact, Israel could learn from China how to deal with Hamas and Hezbollah. China sees what is going on with muslims, and is making sure they don't have a problem.
There were long-time Hong Kongers, (most of them) who weren't building barricades, meeting with the American ambassador after Joe Biden declared he would "stop China" by any means necessary, and fighting with police. Many Hong Kongers went out and did what they could to clear the barricades. Yes, China cracks down heavy, it's what they do when pressed. But let's get real. If students at the Ivies met with the Chinese ambassador for advice, and built serious barricades obstructing Congress and Manhattan and battling with police, we wouldn't exactly be sitting back just letting it happen forever. China responded to the Hong Kong events with pretty accurate understanding of what it was---an op by the Biden administration in hopes of spreading riots and dissent in China proper.
Do I think China could handle it better? Sure. But this is a nation that has living memory of the dark years of the Cultural Revolution, when university professors were tortured to death by students, a principal was literally roasted alive and then slices eaten by student protesters. Student gangs seized military weapons and fought battles with each other. China's history with student uprisings is very different from ours. Read The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu. In the early chapters he takes you through a scene where a professor of physics of dies rather than renounce Albert Einstein's bourgeois anti-revolutionary physics. China's leadership will do anything it thinks it must do to stop a repeat of the Cultural Revolution.
So Bari, please educate yourself more before jumping on the "But it's obvious!" train.
More British Stupid in the scuttle from Empire. We kept expecting the scorpion not to sting the frog. We still do. Enabling Communists is always a bad idea. Defending them is equally so. I'll give one cheer for Sleepy Joe if this is the result of his machinations. Anyone coming out even tepidly for commies can fuck-off though.
Biden is not a "Commie" in any sense. I also could not vote for that... I know more than you do about details of what Biden's done. If we have a nuclear war that incinerates us, it will be Biden and his pack of dolts that bring it on us.
Go ahead, vote for Trump who paid $700,000 in taxes to Chinese government while being your president. Vote for the Trump family who received $2bln bailout from Qatar. Vote for use of bleach rinse as an anti-viral drug. Keep voting because you hate anyone who is a Democrat, whether they are sane and reasonable or Rashida Tlaib. I, unlike you, would vote for ANY Republican who stands for the individual autonomy, equality of opportunity, and the protection of individual rights and stands against dictatorship, whether it comes from the right or from the left. Adam Kinzinger is my hero, he can tell right from wrong.
A counterpoint to Kawaller is for the admissions offices of elite schools to admit more 4.0 students to schools from conservative families (read: white/Asian)and fewer mentally unhealthy “nonbinary” activists and 3.0 FGLI students.
YES That insert of snark in a very serious story was a significant blemish on TFP reporting. Almost said 'students can't think critically and neither can we at TFP'.
When people call me an Islamophobe, I say hell yes I am and you should be too.
Islamic armies swept through North Africa, Spain, parts of Western Europe and as far east as India slaughtering nonbelievers by the millions and convert the conquered at the point of a sword.
They are doing the same thing today. ISIS slaughter Yazidis and any other Non-Muslim they could get their hands on. In Iran after the fall of the Shah, they slaughtered Bahias by the hundreds.
Imagine what our Mexican border would be like if that border was mostly Pakistan, and a part was Afghanistan. Yes, Americans who know the area (a little) think that those mountains mean it's "too hard to get over them". The US military thought that about Tora Bora at the start of our invasion, which is how they gave us the slip. They were walking over those mountain passes. A man named David Klein embedded with the Afghans who fought the Soviets went over those mountain passes multiple times with the Afghan troops. They don't recognize any borders up in there. It's like hillbillies on steroids, growth hormone, and mutant ninjas up there.
Now, imagine that this is our Mexican border, and China is giving aid to those Afghans getting kicked out of Pakistan. Now think about who the Uighurs are, up there in those mountains next to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Imagine that our Hispanic immigrants are muslims who have a religion that makes them want to overthrow our country and impose Sharia law.
That is China's situation with the Uighurs. Bari? Are you paying attention?
The Han only outnumber the Uighur 115 to 1, that is a real threat that is. I'll not go into the Takla Makin desert and how the fuck they get to China proper. I get your point, but Beijing might be a tad OTT and paranoid about this. They are exactly the same with any ideology that isn't the current politburo's. Once you've given them a pass on one thing ...
Israel outnumbers Hamas by 229 to 1. So there is no threat, yes? Threats are created, as in Israel's case, by support from outside. Regime change 101: For violent overthrow, one must find a group willing to fight and die for that.
Yep. That is what the Kibbutzim thought too. That is what virtually every attendee at the Nova festival thought as well. "If I'm sympathetic with their side and nice about them, and want the walls to come down, end 'apartheid' then they must like me. They won't attack me."
“Look, at least when you’re dealing with Republicans, the fascism comes from above, the way God intended”
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Yeah except in this particular case you are talking about a fascism that is an imaginary threat invented by communists to scare people away from voting against communism.
If you have ever been concerned about the dire threat of Republicans shrinking the federal government by 4% you are an imbecile.
Jimmy Lai is a hero. Notice how silent stop Asian hate is about the ongoing human rights abuses against the Uighurs and freedom fighters like him. All astroturfed.
Yah, Truman managed to put Mao in power when Chiang was in reach of driving Communism back over the Amur, and futilely killed Asians in at least the tens of thousands in Korea, LBJ likewise, but in the millions, in S. E. Asia. I'm pretty certain East Asians are fully aware of who is more likely to be on their side than the Dimocrats.
Imagine what our Mexican border would be like if that border was mostly Pakistan, and a part was Afghanistan. Yes, Americans who know the area (a little) think that those mountains mean it's "too hard to get over them". The US military thought that about Tora Bora at the start of our invasion, which is how they gave us the slip. They were walking over those mountain passes. A man named David Klein embedded with the Afghans who fought the Soviets went over those mountain passes multiple times with the Afghan troops. They don't recognize any borders up in there. It's like hillbillies on steroids, growth hormone, and mutant ninjas up there.
Now, imagine that this is our Mexican border, and China is giving aid to those Afghans getting kicked out of Pakistan. Now think about who the Uighurs are, up there in those mountains next to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Imagine that our Hispanic immigrants are muslims who have a religion that makes them want to overthrow our country and impose Sharia law.
This asshole who said "fascism comes from above, the way God intended” completely ignores the left wing commie fascist invention of the PC/Woke Nazis and the fascist antisemites calling for genocide on commie controlled universities.
Arrogant, elitist swine like him disgust me. They look down their noses at anyone who disagrees with them and at their white wine and cheese parties with their equally elitist friends talk about the unwashed with distain that all elite have for the "uneducated, lower classes".
I could not tell if that was just a shot at orange man bad or just showed the ignorance about the roots of facsism and the relationship between Fascist governments and big business and big media
Fascist is a word like racist--throw around and at anyone a person doesn’t like. Fascism --as in Mussolini -- is nothing like conservatism. Those who accuse someone of fascism these days have no idea what it means.
There’s a guy, Ryan Chapman, who does youtube videos explaining political terms, like Fascism, Marxism, etc. I find him interesting and easy to follow. He mentioned Hitler in his explanation of what Fascism actually is.
'National Socialist Ideology Politics and Economy'. You need a sledgehammer to crack a nut. If they still don't get it after all that; they are truly lost.
It's projection, like all things in the Democratic party.
Always accuse other people of the abuse you are inflicting on them. Women in particularly are good at this. Every abusive wife I've known told me her husband "was abusive".
So when Democrats riot for three months, wreck the economy with medical lies, force you to take useless shots for their own profit, frame opposition rioting as insurrection, and then arrest and investigate everyone who opposes them, that's YOUR fascism, Republicans. They HAVE to do it because YOU'RE so fascist.
Then point out what they're doing and how evil it is, and you get, "well it's both sides."
As an LDS woman, I feel far more respected by the leaders of my faith than by feminists. Note that Utah gave women the vote many decades before the 19th Amendment.
Admittedly, I wouldn't want to teach at BYU. But not for the reasons given.
Nikki Haley is “surging” in NH because the left is pouring money into getting independents (aka Democrats) to vote for her in the primary to embarrass Trump. The CNN poll was an on line poll. Check the Boston Globe Suffolk poll that has Trump up 20. Funny how no one in the media is citing the latter
At some point, the Trump team has to worry about the size of those who won't vote for Trump. Yes, the RINOs don't like the Great Trump, but they are also voters whose votes count. I am in Arizona, and Kari Lake can cry about fraud, but she pushed the McCain/Flake GOP into the arms of the Democrats, and we are stuck with Katie Hobbs. The Trump followers can beat their chests about how right they are but, in the end, lose. Elections are about addition, not subtraction. To beat Biden, Trump is going to have to win Rino votes. Being an obnoxious jackass isn't a good way to go.
You could actually do with him being wrong. You want your thumb on the scales and the most unelectable Dimocrat candidate. That would be the incumbant.
There ARE no RINOs because the whole PARTY ARE "Rinos"! There is no defining characteristic to Republicans any longer. They are a party in search of a purpose other than winning.
McCain was a rino who should have gone to jail for the Lincoln Savings and Loan scandal. Comfortable losing to the Dems, lover of open borders and a spiteful man.
And if we do get four more years of Biden/Harris it will be because of people such as you who spewed about Trump and got us a real dictator and imbecile, instead.
I beg to differ, its all on Trump. He is such a repllent person that only he could lose to Biden. We have great other options but his lovers want their guy and will doom the rest of us to demise.
Bruce, that's unfair, Albert is pointing out a fact and a statistic. It's not about him or how he votes. Individually he can't change the never Trump Republicans even if he goes full MAGA. Blaming him or even the never Trumpers won't change the fact he's pointing out. Never Trumpees are enetieled to their opinions and votes too.
The choice for those who don't want Biden/Harris has been and still is do they want to be right or do they want to win? It's possible Trump can win. It's a harder hill to climb in the general election though.
Yes - what bothers me is the pro-Trump MAGA group’s insistence that we agree with them about Trump - and Trump is the same. No effort to reach out - no effort to compromise with people who you need to win. This is why a lot of Independents (what Trump and MAGA call RINOs) are so reluctant to support Trump. This is a recipe for a strong third party candidate to come in and throw the entire election into the 2025 version of the House where Trump is very unlikely to win.
At some point, Republicans are going to have to decide if they want another repeat of 1992. Bush The Former, he of "read my lips - no new taxes", then ignoring that promise once elected, gave rise to Perot who split the party leading to 8yrs of Slick Willie and the continued infection of crooked Hillary. The Bad Orange Man has more support within the party than any other candidate, it's not for the minority, the "Never Trumpers" to dictate to the majority.
Independents will have to make their own decision; in the words of Ron "are you better off today than you were four years ago?"
Nikki Haley vs Trump is exactly what we deserve. Someone who is not a conservative vs someone who is not a conservative competing to represent conservatives.
Is it really a “democracy” if you don’t have a choice? If you get to vote for Putin or Putin’s brother is that really a democracy?
Reducing the size of the centralized governing behemoth should be one of the options but it isn’t.
Why does TFP refer to CNN as a legitimate information outlet?
One day we are calling out their laughable lies and partisanship, rightly naming them a Democrat propaganda outlet, and the next day we're referencing them as a legitimate source.
CNN is not a legitimate source. Their polling is worthless.
TFP has one foot outside the Matrix, I guess to be relevant to that "build something new crowd", but they seem to be still firmly planted inside the matrix when it comes to politics (we dont have a two party system, the msm tells us what they want us to believe regarding polls) and health related matters, like CV19 and the mRNA transfection products that are being added to the childhood vx schedule even though they are extremely dangerous and causing untold harms. It's perplexing. 🤔 Choose your battles I guess.
YES, the FP has done zero coverage on the vaccine deaths and side effects. And how about the propaganda that was just well addressed by a Canadian broadcaster testifying with a well done presentation? Interesting the things they won’t cover and respectful coverage about RFK JR?? Zero. Millions are behind him and they ignore him like the MSM.
Sometimes I feel like we are all living in two separate realities. Or like there are layers of truth. I used to listen to certain pod casters and now I can't even listen to them anymore because they only speak within the narrative lines. I am wondering when everyone is going to get on the same page, but then I realize that on so many topics, we are still not on the same page. The narrative crowd is living in the inside Matrix, aka: fantasy-land and the fact based truth crowd (actual documented facts to back their reality) is living outside the Matrix perpetually frustrated by the fantasy-land people who refuse to look at facts.
The Canadian broadcaster? Are you referring to Denis Rancourt? Because his ACM research shows there was no infectious disease pandemic and his data has been showing that since June 2020 and he's been writing about it and on podcasts sharing his data and so many can't wrap their heads around it because we have been caught in the fake narrative battle over lab leak vs natural origin, which was just a distraction from the truth. If you are not familiar with what I am sharing here are some links to his research data and interviews with him where he shares his findings.
Thanks for all that. It astonishes me that folk with half a brain fell for the Stupid; never mind folk with half a brain AND a browser. Bullshit right out of the gate.
Yip the one and only - you get one mumaza and many mamzerim I apologize if I spelt it incorrectly Steven. However, you have the correct meaning of the world.
That’s because the latter is not news. He has been leading in every poll since the campaign started. Should they write stories about all of those polls too?
"In a new poll from YouGov, which finds that 81 percent of Democrats think states should take Trump’s name off the ballot.". - Nicolas Maduro would be proud.
Also, Haley at 32 percent is complete bullsh*t and no doubt CNN knows it. Outside of the RINO and military industrial complex class, I can't think of anyone who would want to be in the same room with this woman for more than 3 minutes (other exceptions of course would be Larry Marchant, 2 or 3 other men, excluding her husband, and most registered democrats).
If there is anyone on the GOP ticket that is going to surge in Iowa and after it'll be Vivek Ramaswamy. He's well studied on topics he speaks on, has great delivery, more energy than anyone else running, and just a hint of "I don't give a shit". Oh.....and if you've not noticed yet, Trump hasn't taken a single shot at Vivek in any way which is really odd because ya know....its Trump. I believe if Trump gets hung up and has to pull out of the race, the throws his support to Vivek.
I'm looking forward to the RFK Jr rally this weekend in Raleigh, NC. I'll potentially support anyone willing to put Anthony Fauci in prison.....
Actually a POTUS cannot put Fauci or anyone in prison. Only a judge can. A POTUS can direct the AG to investigate and upon sufficient evidence, press charges. The a judge can put him in prison. So any candidate running on that promise are just bullshitting you.
Sure they could: label them an "enemy combatant" and stick 'em in Camp Delta. Evidently you haven't been paying any attention the last ten or eleven years.
I much prefer Haley to Ramaswamy. Haley has solid policy proposals and a strong track record as governor. Same for DeSantis.
Ramaswamy reminds me of Trump. I often wonder if their supporters even have policy concerns, they seem far more interested in grievance politics than advancing conservative governance.
We don't send kids to college to get indoctrinated but rather educated to become great citizens. The great scam of our lifetime is college. The kids who attend elite institutions have the connections to get a job and will make money the old-fashioned way: connections. But those in the middle or lower classes get burdened with debt and acquire no skills for jobs.
The government has gone after for-profit schools that do this, but the same rigor must happen against those in the nonprofit world. Claudine Gay was getting paid nearly 1 million dollars to teach nonsense. The poor kids, many minorities, "learn" from the progressive professors but can't do anything with worthless degrees. The Democratic plan of paying for loans that subsidize the radical administration and professors, then writing off the debts through loan forgiveness, takes the scam off the table. The GOP should put it on the table. Our education system is there to produce good citizens and skill sets to improve our communities and economy.
This current system of student loans is the lifeblood of the idiot professors and the life failures they produce. It's an issue of our times, but sadly, no GOP candidate can push it.
When did going to college all of a sudden take away a person's ability to disagree, think for themselves, and form their own structure of beliefs?
If college is the problem, then we would never have a single conservative ever graduate and enter the workplace. A bit of an exaggeration, don't you think?
Progressives in college admin , professors and leadership along with the high prices and crippling debt are the issue. And convervatives should go to college to learn not have to deal with hostile professors. And I would bet there are cases where they are singled out for their beliefts by the people who run the class.
I really like Nikki Haley. But I really think Trump should win the election and I am disappointed that in the article about New Hampshire and Nikki Haley, no one pointed out that the democratic campaign is pushing Democrats to vote for her. She may win, but she if she wins because large number of Democrats voted for her that will not vote for her in the general election, it will be a lie. This is the reality of modern politics and happens from time to time, however the fact that it’s not being reported is bad. Free Press should’ve noted this. Be the solution - Not the problem
I like your comment, Mark S. But, I am very much against Haley. I think she's basically a Liz Cheney... The WSJ is all in for her the way they were for Biden the last time around.
She's terrible on the gender cult issue for kids/young people. I think she would side with Pharma & Corporatism over American health and well being but call it parental rights to drug and mutilate their children, etc. under highly profitable Gender Quakery.
("U.S. Sex Reassignment Surgery Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Gender Transition (Male To Female, Female To Male), And Segment Forecasts, 2022 - 2030"
And, she does not strike me as bright. Too bad it doesn't look like we will get DeSantis this time around but I can hope. If it is Haley I may have to stay home for the first time... and I have voted for Democrats and Republicans in the past - as a former Indepedent. I agree that she is the candidate that the Democrats - and also the Republicans who do not realize the party has changed - want. It is terrible if Dems are voting for her to be the R candidate.
“Haley’s 12-point surge since the last CNN/UNH poll in November is the latest sign that she has real momentum and is the candidate best positioned to stop her old boss”
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I will knock on doors in the ghetto for Joe Biden if Nikki Haley is the nominee.
I really doubt your commitment to actually follow through with your promise. Perhaps I am missing some of your more oblique sarcasm. After all, it is still fairly early in the morning.
They do. Not as much, of course. But they do. What has impressed me about Haley is that she gets that she actually has to govern the country if she wins.
All we've had the last decade or so is ego-driven maniacs issuing executive order after executive order. Dysfunction has become the new norm. I don't like everything Haley has to say, but I appreciate her attitude about it and I think we need someone who will do her best to pay more than lip service to the concept that this constant red vs. blue mentality is awful.
Even De Santa’s is preferable to Haley. She is a stooge for the uniparty. Vivek Ramaswamy is the far superior choice. He is working so hard in Iowa and NH ... great turnout at his events. He invigorates younger voters.
This is what I'm thinking too. I'm not sold on her and there is at least one issue which I am utterly dissatisfied with where she stance. But looking at all the candidates including the independents, it seems to me she's the only one who can deflate all the hot air and awful behaviors that is bursting and exploding from every side. On the one hand, given the devastations Biden has caused, I don't think Trump's tantrums and crassness can even be compared or even considered an issue. Plus everyone seems to have gotten unhinged and determined to drive the world over the cliff. She's the only one who's not acting enraged, outraged. and insane. I cannot but wonder if we can really use a dose of calm and tone down of divisions to walk things back.
Those who don't want her will say the Dems will just tear her apart anyway. Yes of course they will, but she won't put more fuel on their fire so the Dems can only get so far.
I haven't decided what I'll do yet, and as I'm in a blue state it probably doesn't matter what I do. Plus I have serious doubt any Republican will win because i think the Dems got the general election locked up with vote harvesting.
Don't throw in the towel just yet. VDH says Republicans have to win by 3-4% to offset the ballot harvesting. As bad as Biden is F'ing things up, anything is possible.
The problem with Republicans losing is if the never-Trumpers stay home like the Never-Hillary liberals did in '16, or if the die hard Trumpers like KD? stay home and hand Biden 4 more years. Then we have only ourselves to blame. I'm no fan of Trump, but I'd take 10 of him over this tyrant Biden.
I think people may like her style the way they liked "gentleman Joe" Biden's style. But, I cannot vote for her on issues. And, I don't think there is really a there there.
A nation cannot be bankrupted if it is in debt to its own central bank. Money is created in the modern world by creation of debt. The national debt = the base equity (our wealth) that the private sector uses. If you pay it off, you destroy that basis for the wealth of the private sector.
This is part of the paradox of thrift in the modern world. It is sometimes called debt deflation. You pay down the debt, but in the process, dollars are worth more, so the net percentage of debt relative to your ability to pay goes up. This is what "austerity" causes, over and over.
Congress knows this. They lie about it. Trump was the first president in history to speak honestly about the national debt. Do you remember?
I think you are wrong. She is clearly different from Joe Biden, and she is the only candidate with any viability that has not shit all over Trump. At least that I am aware of anyway. I find it somewhat surprising that Trump supporters "despise her".
I feel like she has the right temperament to follow 2 of the most polarizing candidates in my adult life. I kind of view her as the 2024 version of Biden that a lot of us thought we were going to get in 2020.
I do agree with you that we are spending significantly more money than we should. It puts undue stress on the status of the dollar. I don't think a lot of people realize the significant costs that the US would endure if the dollar was no longer the reserve currency of the world.
I only vote on the status of the US Dollar and keeping my own money. I don’t care about anything else. I’m not a child.
Nikki Haley will weaken the status of the US like every other President but it will be worse because the only available solution to the weakening of the US Dollar, conservatism, will get blamed.
Voters need to be able to make a decision between two different things. If voters pick communism then I’m fine with it. What I’m not fine with is people being gradually dragged into communism via trickery.
Interesting. I disagree that conservatism is the only solution to the problem. Conservatism is a big tent. Maybe more people would be open to it, if it wasn't so ass backward about telling people how they should be in my humble opinion.
Please tell me how the 180 anti trans bills that have been introduced over the last 10 days by conservative's has anything to do with the dollar? Or maybe all of the restrictions that have been placed on abortion since the supreme court overturned Roe v. Wade? The list goes on, but I have to get back to work...
I think a reasonable person would say that pre-covid spending levels paired with a less restrictive economy would be sufficient. GDP has grown by 92% since 2008 and the innovations that we have seen since that time would be more than enough to offset the increased debt had COVID not happened.
If you really love the idea of men taking dumps in the women’s bathroom then you should ignore the fact that bread will cost $20 and you should vote for Democrats because of trans things.
My primary objection to Haley is her penchant for supporting, continual, offshore warfare. But Ava, perhaps you may support neocon aims under premise this helps preserve supremacy of US dollar as worlds reserve currency? I think the Ukraine adventure is having opposite effect, spurring forward more energy towards an alternative BRIC currency to compete w/ US dollars. Agree we are spending more at too much. The Federal government has expanded every single year regardless of R or D in White House for the last 6 decades. The last time the Federal debt decreased was from 1955 to 1957. But from 1958 on, it’s only gone up, and up, and up.
They have been talking about an alternative currency for forever. The truth is that 60% of global trade happens in US dollars and it actually benefits US energy production for OPEC (not BRIC) to trade in alternative currencies. This is because it is a less efficient way of trading (ask Russia about the discounts they have been taking to sell energy to India and China). This in turn drives up the cost of energy. Energy produced in the US via shale is more expensive to produce. The increase in energy costs means they can be more profitable in pumping additional capacity. I'll also point out that no one could agree on a currency, so they agreed to instead just trade more in local currencies, which again is less efficient.
Why do you think the debt has to decrease? Debt is a tool. It's like a hammer. You can use it to build things, or you can use it to destroy things. Modest growth of debt with innovation, and GDP growth produces enough economic activity to offset the debt. The capital just has to be allocated properly, by investing in the United States and our interest around the world. Governments are meant to last in perpetuity.
Thanks Ava, you raise good points. My work is international and you are correct that most global trade I see is in US dollars. For our China operations, we trade domestically there in CNY and then do our best to fund local operations w/ those funds (the repatriation tax of converting CNY profits to US Dollars is like 25%)
There are lots of good reasons to reduce the Federal debt:
1. Net interest costs on the debt are now around $1.4T. These high interest costs can/will crowd out public investments that can fuel growth (education, infrastructure, R&D)
2. Reduced flexibility to respond to crisis. Too much debt makes it more difficult to work our way out of the next recession
3. Debt could threaten viability of Medicare/Soc.Sec, which if not shored up could go bankrupt. That would lead to a lot of misery among our poorest citizens, and social unrest.
4. Too much debt can hamper new businesses development (due to high inflation and erosion of US Dollar)
Our country can of course continue to print $$ but it will bite us at some point. There’s a trail of sad situations around the globe (in past) and in present where debt, and servicing that debt, became too much.
I'm sorry if this is obvious lol, but Idk who MIC is??? I can see the Hillary with an R perspective. I would honestly be okay will Hillary at this point, but I think Haley is a better version. I think she has a stronger moral compass. I think that she believes in the vision of America being a beacon on the hill. Idk, I disagree with her on a lot of things, but if I saw her and Biden on the ballot, I would vote for her. I could not say the same thing about Trump...
Sorry Ava. MIC is Military Industrial Complex. I am a strong supporter of the US military. I have vets in my family going back generations. I am not a fan of the MIC. I think the proponents thereof see ordinary American soldiers as cannon fodder. I despise Hillary Clinton. I did not vote for Trump in 2016 I against her.
"....barely been a peep out of London...." What people beyond our shores may struggle to comprehend is that the UK "government" is basically the UK CIVIL SERVICE (who are Lefty university-sheep-dipped to a 'person') plus a few 'politician' puppet figures to make it all look like Democracy. We are out-front leading the Western world on this collapse of democratic accountability.
The comments from Corum and Harbaugh reflect the unprecedented three-game suspension handed down by the Big Ten commissioner, who patiently waited to issue the suspension until the team was on a flight to their first major challenge of the season (at Penn State). They had to play that game as well as the season-defining game against Ohio State without their coach.
That's never happened before in the sport. Conferences don't do that. And there still is no reason to believe Harbaugh knew about what that staffer was doing. And no reason to cheat, since the one rule about sign-stealing is that you can't tape opposing coaches on your own. But the signals are viewable on the all-22 film that's distributed by the league.
So that's why they felt that way. I think everyone was aware something had to be done. Lots of teams are punished for various rule violations - usually a recruiting limitation or even a scholarship limit reduction in the worst cases. But there's never been something like this, before an investigation even took place.
It's not cheating to decipher signals. Every team knows that other teams work on this all the time and they need to be changed up before each game. Michigan couldn't have gained an advantage from the former staffer's behavior, as strange as it was. Yet the media was relentless with the narrative even last week, which is why they said what they said after the game.
I don't know, Oliver. I think TFP is great, except sports coverage. Every time I've read a sports story here, it's been like you'd expect from people who really don't like sports.
Oh, it was. I'm not defending it. The punishment and the media reaction were the issue. This was the conference acting rather than the NCAA and the penalty was out of proportion and strange, given the careful timing to avoid any chance of an appeal. That's why the players said what they said after the game. There was a definite "us against everybody" feeling from the program for the last few weeks of the season. They used that. Maybe they won in part because of that.
This wasn’t the only time UM was penalized this season. My guess is it won’t be the last from the NCAA and will further tarnish the Blue halo of their “accomplishments”. It won’t matter to the GO BLUE crowd, as we all know everyone is innocent in prison.
“I can’t believe I got arrested for murder right before my big trip to Disney World. That’s not fair. They should have waited to punish me until it was convenient.” 🙄
Alabama has long fed on hate and Texas this year sported Embrace the Hate as a slogan. Congrats on the win. I do think it will be better for the sport to have a different play-off system. And I 100% agree on the TFP sports acumen. Now let's discuss the horrible officiating which was a hallmark of this season.
Thanks for the sports update. I used to love following college football. I am so out of it since stopping working f/t. I rather take long walks, grow veggies on our Farmers Club plots, read, especially TheFP articles and comments!
It doesn’t matter - they won the championship. That still makes UM people insufferable little liberal $hit$ who support progressive Democrats and helped elect the current disaster in the Michigan governors office. The rest of western, northern and central Michigan knows what UM stands for - and mostly hates the school.
Not a college sports fan (strictly the pro's for me) but the NCAA has always been selective in its punishments especially for arcane infractions. Liked Harbaugh with the 49ers hope he goes to the Chargers and works with Justin Herbert. His personality grates on people but he wins.
The treatment of this stuff by the NCAA and the Big Ten is why I believe Harbaugh will be coaching in the NFL next year. Philadelphia fans are already talking about wanting him; Washington needs a new head coach and is just down the road from brother John. Or maybe he will just prefer the long-standing money-driven pro league to the one that will be starting up next year with the two super-conferences.
As a PSU graduate, this is the only place I can put Suzy Weiss in her place, so here goes:
The University of Michigan is national "champs" in more than one way. They now have 241 paid DEI employees. Total payroll costs in their DEI office are $30.7 million annually, an amount that would cover in-state tuition and fees for 1,781 undergraduate students.. It's also $127K per year per employee. What in the HELL do they do, Suzy? Also, what's this?: https://nypost.com/2023/10/27/sports/fbi-joins-probe-into-ex-michigan-assistant-football-coach-matt-weiss/
As in politics, there's too much at stake in college football not to cheat. They all do to some degree (doesn't make it right). Some, like Democrats, are better at it.
Just look what the the consequences are if you're caught. For Harbaugh, or Biden, not much.
The fools are cheering for the Houties and Hamas, why aren't they cheering for Russia against Ukraine,
the Myanmar govt. against their citizens, the Cuban govt. against their citizens, etc., etc.? C'mon, let's have some consistency here. Oh, I almost forgot, they should be cheering for the people who commit mass murder in the US.
Maybe I have been missing it, but it seems to me that this site has a pro-Haley bias...but I can't really recall them ever listing WHY they think she is a good candidate. What does she bring to the table that others don't?
She brings Zero. She preaches the same bullshit from the pre Trump era it’s so tired, that’s what the Rino’s and Democrats want, the deep state and the swamp to continue forever - which means a long hoax and gaslight of America. Most of us have had enough including Israel with all the continuous crap that is being sprouted. Hope Monday (15th) puts a nail in the Crypt Keeper’s coffin and we all vote for the right man this time.
Right. And, anyway, medicine these days is loaded with the dehumanizing body-part language of the gender "science" cult like "chest feeders" and "vagina havers" instead of "women". Because - being a woman is a feeling! This particular mental/psychological disorder is highly profitable and I do not think Haley will take a stand against harming the mentally ill or even protecting intentionally confused (like at school) children against gender drugs and operations.
FYI, Scientists are working on a "male egg" so I guess that can be implanted in a surrogate mother to farm babies in case the live womb transplants into chemically "lactating" men do not work out well.
"Children’s Hospital Gender Program Navigator Touts Uterine Transplants for Trans Men from 'Live Donors'"
"The speaker, Alicyn Simpson, who is transgender, is a “community navigator” for a youth gender program at the University of Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital,"
He doesn’t have to Linda, they all have what girls have he is not bullshitting. I shudder to think if he does dig deeper what he might find but on the surface of it all they women. Also I’m not sure if you are aware they teach all that in pre school using all the correct terminology and it’s not considered crude.
Yes, exactly! I am not a fan of crude, rude, foul, etc. But, that is nothing to what is done with the children, teaching them "Gender Science" with Genderbread unicorn thems and such - with not so much as an opt-in signature required from parents. "Girls might have a penis!"
I will tell you who we aren’t allowed to vote for”S”, and by God do they keep letting us know why, every article has his names in, every podcast on “Honestly” he is mentioned in - it just goes on real TDS if ever heard or read, and we have only just started the last year of Brandon’s presidency - crazy times ahead!
No but she will play well with the unelected career bureaucrats in the executive branch. She won't rein them in though. Like Biden she will feed at the trough and be glorified.
So, your answer is "They like Nikki because of all of the stuff she says"? I am not saying they even own me an explanation. But it seems odd to not actually list why you like a candidate especially after multiple positive blurbs about her. And then your answer also not listing a single thing seems even more odd. Is it that hard to say "I like her stance on taxes" or something similar? Being vague leads me to wonder if it is more a cult of personality rather than actually thinking someone has the right skills and opinions to properly lead.
I actually did like her like 8 years ago. Since then I have seen her increasingly respond in ways that I feel are simply a continuation of what we currently have. I don't want a candidate who seems to think that Government is the answer to everything, as I believe that gov should be that last option, not first. Especially at the federal level.
I may check out her town hall. But in general, I don't trust those things. They are propaganda, regardless of the candidate. What someone says doesn't necessarily mean much, since people can and will lie. Which is why I also don't love Vivik...he says stuff I like, and the first few times I heard him, I liked him. But I get a used car salesman vibe the more I hear.
Nikki seems like someone who will be beholden to the "Interests". The big money donors and people in power. Ron and Trump are the only ones I feel would actually fight back. And I honestly don't really want Trump either.
But, I am a cynic. I suspect that the majority of our politicians are garbage.
I have a similar position about VR and Haley. He does say what I want to hear but I have no faith that he would know how to accomplish his goals in DC. Which was Trump's issue first term too. But I wanted to reach out and hug VR when he handled the reporter the other day. It definitely gave him a boost in my estimation. I hope he is given a position in the event of a Republican win.
President Trump didn't know what the fuck he was doing. Still your best since Hoover. Funny that. You've had a couple or three successful State Govenors that no-one supposedly in their right minds would put on a ballot either.
“those who lack the most basic critical thinking skills or emotional intelligence -- Absolutely describes the woke liberals who support genocide, govt control of thoughts, actions, and life decisions. These people are truly dangerous as they simply run with emotions and the desire to be standing with those who support anything, no matter how stupid. Be it Hamas, BLM, DEI, COVID restrictions, mutilation of kids, men can have babies, America is evil, limiting who can run for office or what can be said by people. They are the true threat to mankind and any hope for a future for all. MIT, Penn, Harvard, and other bastions of idiocy are just proof stupid people can advance if they bow to the radical woke fools who have no ability to be rational and only know emotions as facts.
China owns the ability to subvert and knows how to push control over politicians and people who have no ability to see evil and understand the far reaching impacts of the danger China poses. Idiots cry for Hamas, but ignore Christians massacred in Nigeria, the continuing ethnic cleansing in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Ukraine, Myanmar, and so many other places. Again we come back the most basic critical thinking skills or emotional intelligence which the woke liberals completely lack and shows what cowards and fools they are.
Democrats who want Trump off the ballots would also gladly name Obama as King. How many times can these fools and idiots claim Democracy is at stake. How about when LBJ created a war that killed 68 thousand soldiers and countless Asians so he could get re-elected? How about when Joe decides he doesn't need to follow the Constitution and by passes Congress to spend money we don't have? How about going back to Roosevelt who secretly supported Hitler at first but was forced to change positions? How about a Congress Woman who might have married her brother to get into the US? How about so many other examples. Save me your BS save Democracy, especially when you really want to destroy it. That's to you Ms Obama who is a true US hater and useless person who is a grifter of the first order.
As for Evan Gardner , get a life and really study the issue. OSU hired Mich defensive coaches for two years to beat Mich and then fired them when Mich changed defense coaches. Other teams have histories of doing similar things or even football players not attending classes. You sound like an OSU fan who didn't have Grandma hug him this morning. Fool, you do realize the Michigan Team won and has the least pro and star ratings for players ever to win a championship? So you want to knock what a bunch of 18-22 year old men did as a team and played for each other? Get a life dude or maybe a job!
Shahanshah, of which "King of Kings" is the translation, more like. Eastern despots who fold when rag-tag Muslims get violent or an Athenian phalanx steps out. Maybe good at oppressing their own; but fold like cardboard boxes when anything remotely resembling organised opposition shows up. Not Messiahs; not even very naughty boys. Just shit on your shoe.
You shouldn’t have Terry’s post was absolutely brilliant by far the best I have ever read here. He described the Democrats to a Tee in fact I would think Bari and Oliver would give him a permanent slot on their forum.
Then I guess you need to read up on the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Gave LBJ reasons to expand Vietnam troop presence. Kennedy was supposedly looking to get out. August 4, 1964 US falsely claimed a second incident which didn’t happen.
So make up your own history as it probably makes you feel wiser.
There is an enormous difference between creating and continuing/advancing.
My point is LBJ did not create the war. It started right after WWII ended when Truman was in office and France was in a weak position to continue occupancy.
FDR was an elitist who was also an Anti-Semite He was against immigration of Jews into the U. S. Maybe he didn’t want it overrun by doctors and scientists. it was his wife who convinced him to change policies.
Russia taking children and moving them into Russia to raise them. Random shelling and killing of civilians. FDR like Henry Ford originally didn’t think Hitler was a major threat. Finally invading Poland and other countries forced a change in policy.
Hard to say that isn't being reported regarding Ukraine, there is an ICC warrant out for Putin's arrest based on the children kidnappings. I agree and wish it was much more widely covered, especially for the purposes of all of the Putin apologists in these comments sections.
I am very far from being a fan of FDR. However, supporting Hitler as you've stated and not thinking him a major threat are vastly different things. Its normal for people to be wrong, only hindsight is 20/20. As brilliant as FDR was domestically (I disagree with the way he used his brilliance, but its hard to argue with the guy winning four presidential elections) the record shows him being a lightweight internationally, so its par for the course to misjudge Hitler. He dramatically misjudged Stalin also. (He dramatically misjudged his VP Wallace for that matter as well.)
Perhaps you've forgotten a majority of our country was isolationists throughout the '30's, still war weary from The Great War.
Yes it is hard to argue with a guy who won four elections, and it's harder to argue with a guy who commanded the greatest military victory across two oceans, with one hand tied behind his back after Pearl Harbor, and an overall dilapidated military.
You greatly contradict yourself by saying hindsight is 20/20, but FDR misjudged Hitler.....if he did, so did the entire world.
I am not sure what point you are making. It sounds like you disagree with my point, but I am not clear on what argument you are making.
My point was that whether or not FDR misjudged Hitler, and its likely that he did because he grossly misjudged other characters, that cannot be termed as FDR supporting Hitler as the original poster contended.
I'm defending FDR because he was in an impossible position.
My point is if FDR misjudged Hitler so did the rest of the world.
Information did not flow freely then as it does now. No one could have predicted Hitler would have turned out the evil menace he was. So to say he misjudged him is a false characterization.
Maybe he did others as well, but that is a lot of ground to cover.
I'm not sure he misjudged Stalin, unless you fault him for not foreseeing the millions he was to kill. Who did?
He didn't trust Stalin but needed him. Had Hitler not foolishly declared war on Russia, and the US, while fully engaged with England, the war turns out quite differently.
The saintly FDR issued an executive order criminalizing private ownership of gold. Required US citizens to sell their gold to the federal government at a set price. And shortly thereafter raised the value of the seized/confiscatedgold thereby enriching the federal coffers at the expense of the citizenry.
The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory rocked up on his watch. Anti-Jew? As long as they aren't Communist and Anti-American. Maybe. I really don't know why a lot of our zeroes are "heroes", do you?
I think part of it was difficulty of communication for many years. Now that is not the issue - rather it is too much information because of the mis-, dis-, and mal-information glibly published.
The conservative Putin apologists here are a creature I don’t understand. I can only guess that they feel so powerless in US politics and mainstream culture that they fantasize about a Trump-like strongman coming to squash all opposition, brutally and definitively. They really admire that being gay is illegal, that any protest against the incumbent is treated with beatings and jail, that political opponents are sent to gulag in Siberia (that’s so badass, right?). And ironically, they would rather see all of that happen at the expense of democracy. They are so infuriated by drag queens being invited to a kindergarten somewhere in the US that they would vote for Putin tomorrow if it meant that would never happen again. Personally, I don’t want drag queens in kindergartens either - but I have come to realize they’re the canary in the coal mine. The fact that they exist here is proof of freedom. The free market can take care of when they appear and how much influence they have, but in Russia, you won’t see a single one. And that is NOT a good thing.
This is complete gibberish. Emotional gibberish. Do you think every conservative is a Putin apologist? Do you grasp that the Biden administration is desperately trying to jail its leading opponent? Do you think there are no gay conservatives?
No, but of all of the Putin apologists I have encountered, every single one is a conservative. As am I, but their reasoning makes no sense. Mark is probably onto something, that people are very much thinking along their tribal lines, rather than for themselves. I see the same phenomenon with Israel - of all of the anti-Israel arguments I’ve encountered, all have been from liberals.
Maybe my reasoning is gibberish, it’s speculation after all. But the observation is not.
I think its just a knee-jerk reaction that if Biden is for supporting Ukraine then they have to be against. Admittedly, its hard sharing a position with Biden, given that this is the only one. It is also unfathomable to me how seemingly sane people are regurgitating Kremlin-funded Putin-supporting propaganda from the likes of Tucker Carlson. Seems to support the view that most people care more about being with the "right" tribe as opposed to having a clear moral compass and thinking for themselves.
Mark, Ukraine is in an unwinnable war. A basic understanding of geography (the place is flat, no mountain barriers to keep out hordes) and demographics (Ukraine has much fewer men of fighting age than Russia). There is also nothing North & Atlantic about the place (Turkey too). Why did we court both Georgia & Ukraine as possible NATO members during the aught’s? That was just stupid in the long view. We’re not Putin lovers. We’re just realists that this particular war of choice was a wrong one. For that matter, so was the Iraq war under Bush. Biden & Bush both gaslighting American voters on the need for these foreign wars. There is a lot of $$ made on these conflicts, but also a great deal of death, destruction and lifelong trauma for those in the trenches, and their extended friends & families.
Right. But if we can accuse leftists of having trump derangement syndrome (remember all those people saying they wouldn’t take a vaccine if trump made it - and then they became vaccine poster children overnight as soon as he was out of office?), how can right leaning people now do the same thing? It makes no sense whatsoever
I am pro-Ukraine. Just not the way Biden is. IMO neither Biden nor Zelensky have the interests of the Ukrainian people at heart. You talk about people opposed to Ukraine being influenced by Putin propaganda but fail to see the propaganda you subscribe too. Even Obama recognized that the Putin scare was 1980s policy. And about that he was right.
I'm agin' NATO, the EU, Whtehall, the White House, (Barring President Trump) and their twenty five years of Bear Baiting, provocation, coup, and grift. You lot lost it over missiles in Cuba; what is sauce for the goose... Septics are such fucktard hypocrites; somehow your tanks on other peoples' lawns is fandabbydozie. Twats. I think it fair to say that is the position of most here: WE, the West, are the aggressors. Putin isn't one of the good guys; but neither would he suck American cock. You rock up with an existential threat, what did you think was going to happen? Own it or bugger off.
NATO was not an existential threat to Putin, any more than your neighbor putting a lock on their door is an existential threat to you. No sane person thinks nato would launch an attack against nuclear-armed Russia. Please. And Putin doesn’t think that either - the only reason he attacked Ukraine is because he knew he could get away with it.
Also, enough with the we are aggressors and oppressors nonsense. Russia has aligned itself with China, Iran and North Korea. If you find yourself siding with them, you should re-evaluate your outlook. For f* sake, sometimes I look around and think the immigrants who escaped the Soviet Union are the only Americans left who love America. This putrid hatred for the US and the west seems to seep in from both sides of the political spectrum, and it astounds me. I still believe we are the most democratic, freedom loving nation on Earth and I am beyond grateful to be a citizen of this country - I fully understand that an idea means nothing without power.
FDR probably true but Ford was an admirer of Hitler. As for Russia taking children - some evidence would be needed. And with the propaganda flowing that might be hard to do.
That's the same point of view FDR's antisemites in the State Department took when presented with the evidence of Nazi death camps in 1941, even when that evidence included photographs obtained at great personal risk. They termed it "propaganda" and dismissed it. That certainly was the easier path to take. So that's a well-trotted path of bigots who chose to label inconvenient realities as propaganda. This is part of the reason Eisenhower ordered film crews into the death camps after liberation, so that film evidence would make it harder for later day Nazi apologists to claim that the Holocaust was invented by the Jews. This is also why there are criminal investigators documenting Russian criminal actions in Ukraine and bringing criminal cases against the perpetrators.
You're not wrong to hold the UK govt to account for its failure to speak more loudly about the suppression of freedoms in Hong Kong. But you might like to join some of the dots too: was life in Hong Kong better, or worse, when it was a British colony? Which political movement speaks jarringly and a-historically often about the "evils" of "colonialisation"?
People in Hong Kong didn't want the turn over of power. They had no say in the matter, that's the problem. Colonization had many awful problems for sure, but it was what it was and it also brought the colonized countries into modernity. Hong Kong escaped the worst of Mao's communism because it was under British control and it flourished in every way from science to arts. The US left the Philippines post WWII and the country's been corrupt and poor ever since. But to the wokes and modern Marxists it's ok as long as one is oppressed by its own people.
“Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong newspaper proprietor who has been in prison for more than 1,000 days and is currently on trial before a kangaroo court in Hong Kong, is one of the great examples of courage in our time.”
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Hong Kong is part of colonialism and it is only bad like this because the Dirty Whites showed up.
A really strange juxtaposition to have an anguished college professor explain why he has to resign due to rampant anti-Semitism and ignorance in one of America’s top universities, followed by a tongue in cheek article by a guy trying to be clever and keep his liberal street cred by mocking conservatives, even though he knows his side is rotten and utterly lost.
My sympathy for university professors is zero. You allowed this extreme leftist shit to metastasize and suddenly you’re mad because it attacked you?? You voted for this, asshole.
Given that Karchmer’s field is computer science and he’s been a lecturer at MIT for only four years I don’t think it’s fair to say that he’s been complicit in fostering the rot in higher education. Indeed, he took his stand based on principles, not because some Twitter mob turned on him (like that other professor who was featured in TFP a few months ago).
I think this guy deserves not only sympathy, but also kudos. By painting all university professors with the same broad brush, you are guilty of the same condescending “othering” committed by progressive ideologues.
MIT is a Muslim controlled college
The rest is meaningless
About 99% of university professors are hardcore Democrats. Shitting on them as a group is not the same as calling all white people evil.
The only reason you would compare these two things is if you are trying to help evil people.
But the article wasn’t about the 99%; it was about one courageous prof who wouldn’t “go along to get along,” and your only response was to say that you had zero sympathy. It seems to me that we have to celebrate the ones who take a stand, not piss on them just because most of their fellows don’t have a backbone or common sense.
He's had the vote how long?
Why this screed even exists: the NYT came for the Jews. If it hadn't been for that specific bigotry, Bari and Co. would still be writing rubbish for them and thinking Dimocrats were the bestists. The same for the vast bulk of their co-religionists in America.
Xtianity, Islam, Communism, Critical Theory: all ideologies lethal to Jews; all either straight up invented by Jews or brought to the market place with a lot of Jewish heavy lifting. If it is daft enough and lethal to Jews enough, they'll swallow it by the bucket load - until the killing starts and the cognitive dissonance is overwhelmed.
Don't get me wrong, the Stupid gene is just as strong in everyone else or we wouldn't be where we are; but wait three generations for today's newly wised-up to die and they'll be back at the forefront of something equally as stupid and as equally lethal to Jews. Ha Shem knows why, and They ain't telling.
(Probably embarressed about 4 billion of us are going round saying we were created in Their image. /s)
Really? By the same token, every never-Trumper conservative deserves no sympathy because they voted for the Republican Party that metastasized into MAGA who beats cops with the flag poles. It is a tragedy of our society that edges on both sides of political spectrum drifted into hate and violence. I can have a substantive conversation with both true conservatives and true liberals, but substantive conversations are no longer possible with either MAGA or progressives, both of the extremes are only capable of screaming.
Please define for me what MAGA is.
A negative theology defined by what it isn't.
That made me laugh.
Preach, BS, preach. Eloquently too.
Very (very) well stated, B S.
If MAGA were non-ideological, they would have not devote themselves unconditionally to the elitist New York billionaire who poops into a golden toilet, tells the establishment donors that the purpose of his tax cuts act was to make them richer, runs Trump University for his devotees who then discover it was a scam, and pals around with the North Korean, Saudi and Qatari rules and pays taxes to the Chinese government while Saudi government pays millions for the best suites in his DC hotel - speaking of national sovereignty. I understand their dissatisfaction, I am dissatisfied with the same things, too. I just don't understand why they stand behind their false prophet who takes their small donations out of their Social Security payments so he can live life of luxury. This is what I define as a MAGA cult, and they are not any better than BLM followers who donated money so the BLM founders can buy mansions in Beverly Hills.
As for the raising voices or rioting, are you OK with the tens of millions of US citizens who rioted against the establishment in 2020?
I appreciate your explanation, but I already understand why Trump has a cult-like following. First of all, I would like to point out that Steve Bannon, one of the leaders of MAGA movement and Trump's close advisor, openly calls himself Leninist. As someone who is quite familiar with works of both Marx and Lenin, I can assure you that Lenin was way more radical than Marx.
At least we agree that politically motivated rioting like on January 6 or in summer of 2020 is not OK. I personally believe that any rioting destroys the very foundation of civilization and deprives society of the opportunity to self-correct peacefully. This is why I am a committed centrist, and my biggest disappointment with both parties lies in their inability to resolve the problems, instead, they use problems as a stick to poke the eye of the opponent, whether it is immigration, national debt or racial tensions.
He acknowledges this in his article:
“Students at MIT and other elite colleges have been radicalized by faculty members who have encouraged and even led the student body to become social justice warriors, supporting their highly progressive political beliefs. America’s brightest minds are being manipulated by a force they don’t even understand to adopt a narrow view of the world. That this is happening at a place where they’re meant to be exploring a wealth of ideas and have their thinking challenged shocks me.”
That was more than a bit odd. Professor Karchmer is a real hero. His story is important. The snark seems very Twittery.
Another point made in today's FP, is the police state brutality of China.
If you point out the police state brutality of the Chinese regime and its racist genocide against the Uyghurs, those dipshits on the left will call you a Sinophobe while at the same time calling the US a racist, brutal police state.
Why anyone votes Dem/Commie is beyond me.
Silence on the part of the British political elite in the face of totalitarian CCP repression and torture is the natural response of the fascist corporatism arresting and jailing British citizens for thought and speech crimes. The communist CCP and central banking fascist finance are two sides of the same bad penny counterfeit ideology that destroyed the promise of the 20th Century and sent millions to the killing fields. They are an international conspiracy of criminal whores who fully intend to reduce the free peoples of the world to serfdom. They literally destroy everything they touch and the narcissism and hubris of their criminality is driving the rampant paranoia now building the inhuman unholy world surveillance apparatus they hope will give them totalitarian control over every living thing. They are a death cult that sleeps with its nose squarely in its ass while dreaming of the glorious salvation of an apocalyptic firestorm that will provide the final beautiful solution to the troublesome machinations of human dignity and conscience. In the dream (you're not in it) life begins anew in their billion dollar bunker where curley haired scientists can at last perfect the formula for eternal life. The mthr'fkr's are mad as hatters. It's not something else.
Got Constitution?
Meeting this week. Our very own Anthiny Blinken will be in attendance. I hear they are discussing solutions.
Bari, this democracy story in Hong Kong is not quite as one-sided as portrayed. Nor is are the Uighurs. Let's start with the Uighurs, a muslim ethnic group sharing a border with Afghanistan and Pakistan --- Pakistan currently driving millions of Afghans who are causing militant trouble out. The US has a history of weaponizing Al Qaeda and ISIS against Syria, and the USSR. Why would people think the same is not the story with the Uighurs? Most of the Uighurs are just fine. In fact, Israel could learn from China how to deal with Hamas and Hezbollah. China sees what is going on with muslims, and is making sure they don't have a problem.
There were long-time Hong Kongers, (most of them) who weren't building barricades, meeting with the American ambassador after Joe Biden declared he would "stop China" by any means necessary, and fighting with police. Many Hong Kongers went out and did what they could to clear the barricades. Yes, China cracks down heavy, it's what they do when pressed. But let's get real. If students at the Ivies met with the Chinese ambassador for advice, and built serious barricades obstructing Congress and Manhattan and battling with police, we wouldn't exactly be sitting back just letting it happen forever. China responded to the Hong Kong events with pretty accurate understanding of what it was---an op by the Biden administration in hopes of spreading riots and dissent in China proper.
Do I think China could handle it better? Sure. But this is a nation that has living memory of the dark years of the Cultural Revolution, when university professors were tortured to death by students, a principal was literally roasted alive and then slices eaten by student protesters. Student gangs seized military weapons and fought battles with each other. China's history with student uprisings is very different from ours. Read The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu. In the early chapters he takes you through a scene where a professor of physics of dies rather than renounce Albert Einstein's bourgeois anti-revolutionary physics. China's leadership will do anything it thinks it must do to stop a repeat of the Cultural Revolution.
So Bari, please educate yourself more before jumping on the "But it's obvious!" train.
More British Stupid in the scuttle from Empire. We kept expecting the scorpion not to sting the frog. We still do. Enabling Communists is always a bad idea. Defending them is equally so. I'll give one cheer for Sleepy Joe if this is the result of his machinations. Anyone coming out even tepidly for commies can fuck-off though.
Why anyone votes Trump/Fascist? I vote Biden. He is standing firm for what it used to be American spirit.
I disagree with you. I despise Trump but will vote for him over that lying, senile head of the Biden crime family or any other Commie/Dem.
Biden is not a "Commie" in any sense. I also could not vote for that... I know more than you do about details of what Biden's done. If we have a nuclear war that incinerates us, it will be Biden and his pack of dolts that bring it on us.
Well his party is moving in that direction as fast as it can. Biden is a pliable, senile, idiot and leader of the Biden crime family.
Go ahead, vote for Trump who paid $700,000 in taxes to Chinese government while being your president. Vote for the Trump family who received $2bln bailout from Qatar. Vote for use of bleach rinse as an anti-viral drug. Keep voting because you hate anyone who is a Democrat, whether they are sane and reasonable or Rashida Tlaib. I, unlike you, would vote for ANY Republican who stands for the individual autonomy, equality of opportunity, and the protection of individual rights and stands against dictatorship, whether it comes from the right or from the left. Adam Kinzinger is my hero, he can tell right from wrong.
Well that's what hero worship gets you.
More evidence of lowering the bar for heroes. Adam Kinzinger will never reach the hero status of George Floyd.
Well good for you.
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"dipshits on the left will call you a Sinophobe"
Reply 1 Yes....And?
Reply 2 You say that like its a bad thing.
Reply 3 Thank you for you input. I will give it all the consideration it merits.
Are you saying I am a Sinophobe for condemning China as a brutal, racist police state?
If you are, refute me point by point. You won't because that's what leftist do, call you a name and move on.
You won't because if you disagree with a leftist, you get called a racist.
1. I Did NOT call you a Sinophobe.
2. I was providing some sarcastic reply's when someone says that to you.
3. I used to work for a guy who told me I was "Just A Little To the Right Of Attila The Hun." He was right.
The way you worded it, it was hard to tell if you were a left wing loon or not. Sorry about that.
Hello matey! I've always been told I was to the right of Genghiz Khan. I can't say they are wrong either.
very on brand for KD tho
A counterpoint to Kawaller is for the admissions offices of elite schools to admit more 4.0 students to schools from conservative families (read: white/Asian)and fewer mentally unhealthy “nonbinary” activists and 3.0 FGLI students.
YES That insert of snark in a very serious story was a significant blemish on TFP reporting. Almost said 'students can't think critically and neither can we at TFP'.
I Agree. This author thinks, they (islamonazis) are not coming for him, because he is a progressive liberal.
It hurts to read, I am the daughter of 2 Shoa survivors. Unbelivable.
When people call me an Islamophobe, I say hell yes I am and you should be too.
Islamic armies swept through North Africa, Spain, parts of Western Europe and as far east as India slaughtering nonbelievers by the millions and convert the conquered at the point of a sword.
They are doing the same thing today. ISIS slaughter Yazidis and any other Non-Muslim they could get their hands on. In Iran after the fall of the Shah, they slaughtered Bahias by the hundreds.
So yes, I am an Islamophobe.
Imagine what our Mexican border would be like if that border was mostly Pakistan, and a part was Afghanistan. Yes, Americans who know the area (a little) think that those mountains mean it's "too hard to get over them". The US military thought that about Tora Bora at the start of our invasion, which is how they gave us the slip. They were walking over those mountain passes. A man named David Klein embedded with the Afghans who fought the Soviets went over those mountain passes multiple times with the Afghan troops. They don't recognize any borders up in there. It's like hillbillies on steroids, growth hormone, and mutant ninjas up there.
Now, imagine that this is our Mexican border, and China is giving aid to those Afghans getting kicked out of Pakistan. Now think about who the Uighurs are, up there in those mountains next to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Imagine that our Hispanic immigrants are muslims who have a religion that makes them want to overthrow our country and impose Sharia law.
That is China's situation with the Uighurs. Bari? Are you paying attention?
The Han only outnumber the Uighur 115 to 1, that is a real threat that is. I'll not go into the Takla Makin desert and how the fuck they get to China proper. I get your point, but Beijing might be a tad OTT and paranoid about this. They are exactly the same with any ideology that isn't the current politburo's. Once you've given them a pass on one thing ...
Israel outnumbers Hamas by 229 to 1. So there is no threat, yes? Threats are created, as in Israel's case, by support from outside. Regime change 101: For violent overthrow, one must find a group willing to fight and die for that.
Further. See the Battle of Talas. Same neighbourhood the Han are sitting on Uighurs atm.
Yep. That is what the Kibbutzim thought too. That is what virtually every attendee at the Nova festival thought as well. "If I'm sympathetic with their side and nice about them, and want the walls to come down, end 'apartheid' then they must like me. They won't attack me."
“Look, at least when you’re dealing with Republicans, the fascism comes from above, the way God intended”
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Yeah except in this particular case you are talking about a fascism that is an imaginary threat invented by communists to scare people away from voting against communism.
If you have ever been concerned about the dire threat of Republicans shrinking the federal government by 4% you are an imbecile.
Are republicans the fascists tearing down statues of the founding fathers? https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/founding-fathers-statues-monuments-removed
Jimmy Lai is a hero. Notice how silent stop Asian hate is about the ongoing human rights abuses against the Uighurs and freedom fighters like him. All astroturfed.
If we elect Republicans they will use their power to attack Asians!!! Please vote for Democrats if you’re Asian!!!
That's not true.
We know. Kevin is being sarcastic.
We have to develop a sarcasm font, I guess…
I should have put “ASIANS!!!” in all caps.
That's what I get for commenting before the coffee kicked in. 😬
Yah, Truman managed to put Mao in power when Chiang was in reach of driving Communism back over the Amur, and futilely killed Asians in at least the tens of thousands in Korea, LBJ likewise, but in the millions, in S. E. Asia. I'm pretty certain East Asians are fully aware of who is more likely to be on their side than the Dimocrats.
Imagine what our Mexican border would be like if that border was mostly Pakistan, and a part was Afghanistan. Yes, Americans who know the area (a little) think that those mountains mean it's "too hard to get over them". The US military thought that about Tora Bora at the start of our invasion, which is how they gave us the slip. They were walking over those mountain passes. A man named David Klein embedded with the Afghans who fought the Soviets went over those mountain passes multiple times with the Afghan troops. They don't recognize any borders up in there. It's like hillbillies on steroids, growth hormone, and mutant ninjas up there.
Now, imagine that this is our Mexican border, and China is giving aid to those Afghans getting kicked out of Pakistan. Now think about who the Uighurs are, up there in those mountains next to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Imagine that our Hispanic immigrants are muslims who have a religion that makes them want to overthrow our country and impose Sharia law.
That is China's situation with the Uighurs.
This asshole who said "fascism comes from above, the way God intended” completely ignores the left wing commie fascist invention of the PC/Woke Nazis and the fascist antisemites calling for genocide on commie controlled universities.
Arrogant, elitist swine like him disgust me. They look down their noses at anyone who disagrees with them and at their white wine and cheese parties with their equally elitist friends talk about the unwashed with distain that all elite have for the "uneducated, lower classes".
They glory in their elitist ignorance.
I could not tell if that was just a shot at orange man bad or just showed the ignorance about the roots of facsism and the relationship between Fascist governments and big business and big media
Fascist is a word like racist--throw around and at anyone a person doesn’t like. Fascism --as in Mussolini -- is nothing like conservatism. Those who accuse someone of fascism these days have no idea what it means.
National Socialist German Workers' Party (NAZI)
Note the word Socialist.
There’s a guy, Ryan Chapman, who does youtube videos explaining political terms, like Fascism, Marxism, etc. I find him interesting and easy to follow. He mentioned Hitler in his explanation of what Fascism actually is.
Isn’t fascism just a particular brand of socialism?
Mussolini was a socialist, so yeah. But he specialized in making The State more important than the individual. So he was nationalist and socialist.
For more, start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCkyWBPaTC8. For all the differences between all the varieties, see the rest of TIKhistory starting here:
'National Socialist Ideology Politics and Economy'. You need a sledgehammer to crack a nut. If they still don't get it after all that; they are truly lost.
It's projection, like all things in the Democratic party.
Always accuse other people of the abuse you are inflicting on them. Women in particularly are good at this. Every abusive wife I've known told me her husband "was abusive".
So when Democrats riot for three months, wreck the economy with medical lies, force you to take useless shots for their own profit, frame opposition rioting as insurrection, and then arrest and investigate everyone who opposes them, that's YOUR fascism, Republicans. They HAVE to do it because YOU'RE so fascist.
Then point out what they're doing and how evil it is, and you get, "well it's both sides."
Ann Coulter says, "If you want to see what the Democrat are doing, look at what they are condemning."
You know my ex! Yes, "abuse" was the easy word to throw out that was code for "did something I disliked".
I will vote for "ignorance" first, until proven otherwise!
Ignorance is America's middle name. Its' first is Wilful.
Both I think. Plus a few at the folks who keep Trump viable, voters.
As an LDS woman, I feel far more respected by the leaders of my faith than by feminists. Note that Utah gave women the vote many decades before the 19th Amendment.
Admittedly, I wouldn't want to teach at BYU. But not for the reasons given.
Spot on KD.
Fascism is a bogeyman, Hitler is Satan, and socialism is Utopia. Willful
blindness (or ignorance?) to the authoritarian nature of socialist government is what our schools and media have taught us since the Cold War ended.
You mean the Devil. The Satan is Yahweh's Attorney General.
Nikki Haley is “surging” in NH because the left is pouring money into getting independents (aka Democrats) to vote for her in the primary to embarrass Trump. The CNN poll was an on line poll. Check the Boston Globe Suffolk poll that has Trump up 20. Funny how no one in the media is citing the latter
At some point, the Trump team has to worry about the size of those who won't vote for Trump. Yes, the RINOs don't like the Great Trump, but they are also voters whose votes count. I am in Arizona, and Kari Lake can cry about fraud, but she pushed the McCain/Flake GOP into the arms of the Democrats, and we are stuck with Katie Hobbs. The Trump followers can beat their chests about how right they are but, in the end, lose. Elections are about addition, not subtraction. To beat Biden, Trump is going to have to win Rino votes. Being an obnoxious jackass isn't a good way to go.
Biden ain't gonna be there come November, but your points are correct.
The Hair? Surely it won't be Cackles....
Definitely Governor Hairdo.
I hope you are right Evans!
You could actually do with him being wrong. You want your thumb on the scales and the most unelectable Dimocrat candidate. That would be the incumbant.
There ARE no RINOs because the whole PARTY ARE "Rinos"! There is no defining characteristic to Republicans any longer. They are a party in search of a purpose other than winning.
McCain was a rino who should have gone to jail for the Lincoln Savings and Loan scandal. Comfortable losing to the Dems, lover of open borders and a spiteful man.
Or maybe you were dumb enough to vote for Hobbs?
Just askin'?
No, I am not that dumb but many were and now we all pay with that idiot. Just like I think we are going to get 4 more years of Biden/Harris.
And if we do get four more years of Biden/Harris it will be because of people such as you who spewed about Trump and got us a real dictator and imbecile, instead.
I beg to differ, its all on Trump. He is such a repllent person that only he could lose to Biden. We have great other options but his lovers want their guy and will doom the rest of us to demise.
So given a choice between Biden and Trump, you don't vote, then blame Trump?
You have issues.
Bruce, that's unfair, Albert is pointing out a fact and a statistic. It's not about him or how he votes. Individually he can't change the never Trump Republicans even if he goes full MAGA. Blaming him or even the never Trumpers won't change the fact he's pointing out. Never Trumpees are enetieled to their opinions and votes too.
The choice for those who don't want Biden/Harris has been and still is do they want to be right or do they want to win? It's possible Trump can win. It's a harder hill to climb in the general election though.
Don’t bother, QX. Can’t reason with cultists.
Yes - what bothers me is the pro-Trump MAGA group’s insistence that we agree with them about Trump - and Trump is the same. No effort to reach out - no effort to compromise with people who you need to win. This is why a lot of Independents (what Trump and MAGA call RINOs) are so reluctant to support Trump. This is a recipe for a strong third party candidate to come in and throw the entire election into the 2025 version of the House where Trump is very unlikely to win.
At some point, Republicans are going to have to decide if they want another repeat of 1992. Bush The Former, he of "read my lips - no new taxes", then ignoring that promise once elected, gave rise to Perot who split the party leading to 8yrs of Slick Willie and the continued infection of crooked Hillary. The Bad Orange Man has more support within the party than any other candidate, it's not for the minority, the "Never Trumpers" to dictate to the majority.
Independents will have to make their own decision; in the words of Ron "are you better off today than you were four years ago?"
Nikki Haley vs Trump is exactly what we deserve. Someone who is not a conservative vs someone who is not a conservative competing to represent conservatives.
Is it really a “democracy” if you don’t have a choice? If you get to vote for Putin or Putin’s brother is that really a democracy?
Reducing the size of the centralized governing behemoth should be one of the options but it isn’t.
Why does TFP refer to CNN as a legitimate information outlet?
One day we are calling out their laughable lies and partisanship, rightly naming them a Democrat propaganda outlet, and the next day we're referencing them as a legitimate source.
CNN is not a legitimate source. Their polling is worthless.
TFP has one foot outside the Matrix, I guess to be relevant to that "build something new crowd", but they seem to be still firmly planted inside the matrix when it comes to politics (we dont have a two party system, the msm tells us what they want us to believe regarding polls) and health related matters, like CV19 and the mRNA transfection products that are being added to the childhood vx schedule even though they are extremely dangerous and causing untold harms. It's perplexing. 🤔 Choose your battles I guess.
YES, the FP has done zero coverage on the vaccine deaths and side effects. And how about the propaganda that was just well addressed by a Canadian broadcaster testifying with a well done presentation? Interesting the things they won’t cover and respectful coverage about RFK JR?? Zero. Millions are behind him and they ignore him like the MSM.
Sometimes I feel like we are all living in two separate realities. Or like there are layers of truth. I used to listen to certain pod casters and now I can't even listen to them anymore because they only speak within the narrative lines. I am wondering when everyone is going to get on the same page, but then I realize that on so many topics, we are still not on the same page. The narrative crowd is living in the inside Matrix, aka: fantasy-land and the fact based truth crowd (actual documented facts to back their reality) is living outside the Matrix perpetually frustrated by the fantasy-land people who refuse to look at facts.
The Canadian broadcaster? Are you referring to Denis Rancourt? Because his ACM research shows there was no infectious disease pandemic and his data has been showing that since June 2020 and he's been writing about it and on podcasts sharing his data and so many can't wrap their heads around it because we have been caught in the fake narrative battle over lab leak vs natural origin, which was just a distraction from the truth. If you are not familiar with what I am sharing here are some links to his research data and interviews with him where he shares his findings.
https://denisrancourt.ca/entries.php?id=130&name=2023_06_22_there_was_no_pandemic_essay
Dr. Denis Rancourt Unveiling All-Cause Mortality: A Critical Analysis of the Pandemic Declaration and Vaccination Rollout | Ottawa Day One | NCI https://rumble.com/v2ohtte-physicist-dr-denis-rancourt-presents-his-findings-on-all-cause-mortality-ot.html
Denis's interview on RFK's podcast:
https://rumble.com/v45i1of-robert-f.-kennedy-jr.-interviews-denis-rancourt-all-cause-mortality-january.html
His very early prediction 3 years ago on YouTube (hard to believe it's not censored): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVK0QKxhzdM
Thanks for all that. It astonishes me that folk with half a brain fell for the Stupid; never mind folk with half a brain AND a browser. Bullshit right out of the gate.
TFP is answering a Matrix question for the ages - what happens if you grab both the pills and chug em right down?
Same with TFPs love/hate relationship with the NYT.
The low viewership numbers speak for their credibility.
Didn't know the "CNN poll" was an online poll. This is why I cherish comment sections.
"CNN" might have been your first clue to deception....
Funny you wrote that. I'm very aware of the fact that they media lie like crazy but sometimes they manage to still fool me.
I assume every word from the leftwing media is a lie, projection, or both. Literally every word.
Polls are intended to trick people.
Remember Hillary's polls in 2015/2016.
They are attempting to influence the sheep in the direction they want the vote to go.
They are all liars.
It's ridiculous that anyone even references them in their writings.
Observe what you see in the world around you to know who is leading with the people not what the propaganda clowns are saying.
😂😂😂Michael that’s classified info don’t put it out there, these “mumazarim” will take it as a win for them.
Do you mean "mamzerim", bastards?
Yip the one and only - you get one mumaza and many mamzerim I apologize if I spelt it incorrectly Steven. However, you have the correct meaning of the world.
Exactly CNN think they can call anything including the 2024 election.
So are you gov polls
That’s because the latter is not news. He has been leading in every poll since the campaign started. Should they write stories about all of those polls too?
I would prefer a deep dive into polling itself. It is akin to junk food at this point.
Junk food has taste, at least.
"In a new poll from YouGov, which finds that 81 percent of Democrats think states should take Trump’s name off the ballot.". - Nicolas Maduro would be proud.
Also, Haley at 32 percent is complete bullsh*t and no doubt CNN knows it. Outside of the RINO and military industrial complex class, I can't think of anyone who would want to be in the same room with this woman for more than 3 minutes (other exceptions of course would be Larry Marchant, 2 or 3 other men, excluding her husband, and most registered democrats).
If there is anyone on the GOP ticket that is going to surge in Iowa and after it'll be Vivek Ramaswamy. He's well studied on topics he speaks on, has great delivery, more energy than anyone else running, and just a hint of "I don't give a shit". Oh.....and if you've not noticed yet, Trump hasn't taken a single shot at Vivek in any way which is really odd because ya know....its Trump. I believe if Trump gets hung up and has to pull out of the race, the throws his support to Vivek.
I'm looking forward to the RFK Jr rally this weekend in Raleigh, NC. I'll potentially support anyone willing to put Anthony Fauci in prison.....
Vivek Ramaswamy is exactly what the country needs.Hoping for a strong showing in Iowa and NH.
RFKJr is also an excellent candidate.
Fauci is a lying criminal, Accountability shouldn’t be difficult, the lies are all on video
Glad it isn't my bunfight; my gut is still telling me Ramaswamy is snake oil.
A little respectful coverage by free press would be appreciated.
Actually a POTUS cannot put Fauci or anyone in prison. Only a judge can. A POTUS can direct the AG to investigate and upon sufficient evidence, press charges. The a judge can put him in prison. So any candidate running on that promise are just bullshitting you.
Does Biden know that? Asking for a friend.
Sure they could: label them an "enemy combatant" and stick 'em in Camp Delta. Evidently you haven't been paying any attention the last ten or eleven years.
Over 2 decades actually…
I much prefer Haley to Ramaswamy. Haley has solid policy proposals and a strong track record as governor. Same for DeSantis.
Ramaswamy reminds me of Trump. I often wonder if their supporters even have policy concerns, they seem far more interested in grievance politics than advancing conservative governance.
We don't send kids to college to get indoctrinated but rather educated to become great citizens. The great scam of our lifetime is college. The kids who attend elite institutions have the connections to get a job and will make money the old-fashioned way: connections. But those in the middle or lower classes get burdened with debt and acquire no skills for jobs.
The government has gone after for-profit schools that do this, but the same rigor must happen against those in the nonprofit world. Claudine Gay was getting paid nearly 1 million dollars to teach nonsense. The poor kids, many minorities, "learn" from the progressive professors but can't do anything with worthless degrees. The Democratic plan of paying for loans that subsidize the radical administration and professors, then writing off the debts through loan forgiveness, takes the scam off the table. The GOP should put it on the table. Our education system is there to produce good citizens and skill sets to improve our communities and economy.
This current system of student loans is the lifeblood of the idiot professors and the life failures they produce. It's an issue of our times, but sadly, no GOP candidate can push it.
Correction: Claudine Gay IS getting paid nearly 1 million dollars to teach nonsense.
College=scam...I agree 100%
When did going to college all of a sudden take away a person's ability to disagree, think for themselves, and form their own structure of beliefs?
If college is the problem, then we would never have a single conservative ever graduate and enter the workplace. A bit of an exaggeration, don't you think?
Progressives in college admin , professors and leadership along with the high prices and crippling debt are the issue. And convervatives should go to college to learn not have to deal with hostile professors. And I would bet there are cases where they are singled out for their beliefts by the people who run the class.
Or you do what my daughter does and just says what she knows the professor wants to hear instead of what she thinks.
No.
I really like Nikki Haley. But I really think Trump should win the election and I am disappointed that in the article about New Hampshire and Nikki Haley, no one pointed out that the democratic campaign is pushing Democrats to vote for her. She may win, but she if she wins because large number of Democrats voted for her that will not vote for her in the general election, it will be a lie. This is the reality of modern politics and happens from time to time, however the fact that it’s not being reported is bad. Free Press should’ve noted this. Be the solution - Not the problem
Which Haley positions do you like? Genuinely interested as to why people like her as a candidate beyond feelings.
I like your comment, Mark S. But, I am very much against Haley. I think she's basically a Liz Cheney... The WSJ is all in for her the way they were for Biden the last time around.
She's terrible on the gender cult issue for kids/young people. I think she would side with Pharma & Corporatism over American health and well being but call it parental rights to drug and mutilate their children, etc. under highly profitable Gender Quakery.
("U.S. Sex Reassignment Surgery Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Gender Transition (Male To Female, Female To Male), And Segment Forecasts, 2022 - 2030"
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/us-sex-reassignment-surgery-market)
And, she does not strike me as bright. Too bad it doesn't look like we will get DeSantis this time around but I can hope. If it is Haley I may have to stay home for the first time... and I have voted for Democrats and Republicans in the past - as a former Indepedent. I agree that she is the candidate that the Democrats - and also the Republicans who do not realize the party has changed - want. It is terrible if Dems are voting for her to be the R candidate.
Word.
It's almost like Haley was trying to prove my point:
"NIKKI HALEY REFUSES TO SAY A MAN CANNOT BECOME A WOMAN DURING CAMPAIGN EVENT"
https://www.megynkelly.com/2024/01/15/nikki-haley-can-a-man-become-a-woman-iowa/
“Haley’s 12-point surge since the last CNN/UNH poll in November is the latest sign that she has real momentum and is the candidate best positioned to stop her old boss”
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I will knock on doors in the ghetto for Joe Biden if Nikki Haley is the nominee.
Who says that anyone in "the Ghetto" actually casts a vote? They are, more than likely, harvested by Demoncratic operatives.
What did you not understand about the part where I am knocking on doors?
I really doubt your commitment to actually follow through with your promise. Perhaps I am missing some of your more oblique sarcasm. After all, it is still fairly early in the morning.
Okay so you’ve thought about it enough to make an assessment of whether I’m actually going to knock on doors or not.
But when I say I’m going to knock on doors you don’t understand that this means I’m going to knock on doors and collect ballots???
Even more oblique than I am able to suss out this morning.
drink moore coffee!!
That made me cackle harder.
Try not to do that; you might be mistaken for the Veep.
Really? Why? Personally I kind of like her.
She will behave exactly like a Democrat and we will have to hear “Republicans spend money too” for another 5,000 years.
They do. Not as much, of course. But they do. What has impressed me about Haley is that she gets that she actually has to govern the country if she wins.
All we've had the last decade or so is ego-driven maniacs issuing executive order after executive order. Dysfunction has become the new norm. I don't like everything Haley has to say, but I appreciate her attitude about it and I think we need someone who will do her best to pay more than lip service to the concept that this constant red vs. blue mentality is awful.
Ron DeSantis has a much better governing record. One of the most conservative and efficient governors of all time!
Even De Santa’s is preferable to Haley. She is a stooge for the uniparty. Vivek Ramaswamy is the far superior choice. He is working so hard in Iowa and NH ... great turnout at his events. He invigorates younger voters.
My father often said "the lesser of two evils is still evil". He is still correct.
But I think he turns off older voters. I keep expecting him to try and sell us all band instruments, right here in river city.
This is what I'm thinking too. I'm not sold on her and there is at least one issue which I am utterly dissatisfied with where she stance. But looking at all the candidates including the independents, it seems to me she's the only one who can deflate all the hot air and awful behaviors that is bursting and exploding from every side. On the one hand, given the devastations Biden has caused, I don't think Trump's tantrums and crassness can even be compared or even considered an issue. Plus everyone seems to have gotten unhinged and determined to drive the world over the cliff. She's the only one who's not acting enraged, outraged. and insane. I cannot but wonder if we can really use a dose of calm and tone down of divisions to walk things back.
Those who don't want her will say the Dems will just tear her apart anyway. Yes of course they will, but she won't put more fuel on their fire so the Dems can only get so far.
I haven't decided what I'll do yet, and as I'm in a blue state it probably doesn't matter what I do. Plus I have serious doubt any Republican will win because i think the Dems got the general election locked up with vote harvesting.
Don't throw in the towel just yet. VDH says Republicans have to win by 3-4% to offset the ballot harvesting. As bad as Biden is F'ing things up, anything is possible.
The problem with Republicans losing is if the never-Trumpers stay home like the Never-Hillary liberals did in '16, or if the die hard Trumpers like KD? stay home and hand Biden 4 more years. Then we have only ourselves to blame. I'm no fan of Trump, but I'd take 10 of him over this tyrant Biden.
I think people may like her style the way they liked "gentleman Joe" Biden's style. But, I cannot vote for her on issues. And, I don't think there is really a there there.
News flash, Kevin Durant?: The GOP spends just as much as the Demoncrats! There is little to differentiate them from each other.
Are you a retarded person? Yes. This is my exact complaint and it is why I oppose Nikki Haley.
I would much rather have Democrats bankrupt the country than have someone who is pretending to represent me bankrupt the country.
If it’s not clear who caused the bankruptcy how will we ever fix the problem?
"Retarded"? How DARE you! It is referred to as "mentally challenged"!
Personally I think the correct term is "woke leftist"
A nation cannot be bankrupted if it is in debt to its own central bank. Money is created in the modern world by creation of debt. The national debt = the base equity (our wealth) that the private sector uses. If you pay it off, you destroy that basis for the wealth of the private sector.
This is part of the paradox of thrift in the modern world. It is sometimes called debt deflation. You pay down the debt, but in the process, dollars are worth more, so the net percentage of debt relative to your ability to pay goes up. This is what "austerity" causes, over and over.
Congress knows this. They lie about it. Trump was the first president in history to speak honestly about the national debt. Do you remember?
Ruml, B. (1946): Taxes for Revenue Are Obsolete. American Affairs, VIII(1): 35. https://cdn.mises.org/AA1946_VIII_1_2.pdf.
I think you are wrong. She is clearly different from Joe Biden, and she is the only candidate with any viability that has not shit all over Trump. At least that I am aware of anyway. I find it somewhat surprising that Trump supporters "despise her".
I feel like she has the right temperament to follow 2 of the most polarizing candidates in my adult life. I kind of view her as the 2024 version of Biden that a lot of us thought we were going to get in 2020.
I do agree with you that we are spending significantly more money than we should. It puts undue stress on the status of the dollar. I don't think a lot of people realize the significant costs that the US would endure if the dollar was no longer the reserve currency of the world.
I only vote on the status of the US Dollar and keeping my own money. I don’t care about anything else. I’m not a child.
Nikki Haley will weaken the status of the US like every other President but it will be worse because the only available solution to the weakening of the US Dollar, conservatism, will get blamed.
Voters need to be able to make a decision between two different things. If voters pick communism then I’m fine with it. What I’m not fine with is people being gradually dragged into communism via trickery.
Interesting. I disagree that conservatism is the only solution to the problem. Conservatism is a big tent. Maybe more people would be open to it, if it wasn't so ass backward about telling people how they should be in my humble opinion.
Please tell me how the 180 anti trans bills that have been introduced over the last 10 days by conservative's has anything to do with the dollar? Or maybe all of the restrictions that have been placed on abortion since the supreme court overturned Roe v. Wade? The list goes on, but I have to get back to work...
I think a reasonable person would say that pre-covid spending levels paired with a less restrictive economy would be sufficient. GDP has grown by 92% since 2008 and the innovations that we have seen since that time would be more than enough to offset the increased debt had COVID not happened.
If you really love the idea of men taking dumps in the women’s bathroom then you should ignore the fact that bread will cost $20 and you should vote for Democrats because of trans things.
I agree with much of your take, but not about comparing her to Biden. Biden has always been a wolf in whatever clothing that suits him for the moment.
The more I see & hear from Haley, the more I'm convinced we need her principals, policies, & experience.
" I kind of view her as the 2024 version of Biden that a lot of us thought we were going to get in 2020."
A right chump you are; Biden has been a shit in public office for over fifty years. "I feel..." Your problem right there.
My primary objection to Haley is her penchant for supporting, continual, offshore warfare. But Ava, perhaps you may support neocon aims under premise this helps preserve supremacy of US dollar as worlds reserve currency? I think the Ukraine adventure is having opposite effect, spurring forward more energy towards an alternative BRIC currency to compete w/ US dollars. Agree we are spending more at too much. The Federal government has expanded every single year regardless of R or D in White House for the last 6 decades. The last time the Federal debt decreased was from 1955 to 1957. But from 1958 on, it’s only gone up, and up, and up.
They have been talking about an alternative currency for forever. The truth is that 60% of global trade happens in US dollars and it actually benefits US energy production for OPEC (not BRIC) to trade in alternative currencies. This is because it is a less efficient way of trading (ask Russia about the discounts they have been taking to sell energy to India and China). This in turn drives up the cost of energy. Energy produced in the US via shale is more expensive to produce. The increase in energy costs means they can be more profitable in pumping additional capacity. I'll also point out that no one could agree on a currency, so they agreed to instead just trade more in local currencies, which again is less efficient.
Why do you think the debt has to decrease? Debt is a tool. It's like a hammer. You can use it to build things, or you can use it to destroy things. Modest growth of debt with innovation, and GDP growth produces enough economic activity to offset the debt. The capital just has to be allocated properly, by investing in the United States and our interest around the world. Governments are meant to last in perpetuity.
Thanks Ava, you raise good points. My work is international and you are correct that most global trade I see is in US dollars. For our China operations, we trade domestically there in CNY and then do our best to fund local operations w/ those funds (the repatriation tax of converting CNY profits to US Dollars is like 25%)
There are lots of good reasons to reduce the Federal debt:
1. Net interest costs on the debt are now around $1.4T. These high interest costs can/will crowd out public investments that can fuel growth (education, infrastructure, R&D)
2. Reduced flexibility to respond to crisis. Too much debt makes it more difficult to work our way out of the next recession
3. Debt could threaten viability of Medicare/Soc.Sec, which if not shored up could go bankrupt. That would lead to a lot of misery among our poorest citizens, and social unrest.
4. Too much debt can hamper new businesses development (due to high inflation and erosion of US Dollar)
Our country can of course continue to print $$ but it will bite us at some point. There’s a trail of sad situations around the globe (in past) and in present where debt, and servicing that debt, became too much.
She is MIC. In heels. I think of her as Hillary with an R.
I'm sorry if this is obvious lol, but Idk who MIC is??? I can see the Hillary with an R perspective. I would honestly be okay will Hillary at this point, but I think Haley is a better version. I think she has a stronger moral compass. I think that she believes in the vision of America being a beacon on the hill. Idk, I disagree with her on a lot of things, but if I saw her and Biden on the ballot, I would vote for her. I could not say the same thing about Trump...
Sorry Ava. MIC is Military Industrial Complex. I am a strong supporter of the US military. I have vets in my family going back generations. I am not a fan of the MIC. I think the proponents thereof see ordinary American soldiers as cannon fodder. I despise Hillary Clinton. I did not vote for Trump in 2016 I against her.
That made me cackle.
Oh please don’t.
Neither is acceptable.
"....barely been a peep out of London...." What people beyond our shores may struggle to comprehend is that the UK "government" is basically the UK CIVIL SERVICE (who are Lefty university-sheep-dipped to a 'person') plus a few 'politician' puppet figures to make it all look like Democracy. We are out-front leading the Western world on this collapse of democratic accountability.
"Yes Minister" is a great old show about the British civil service. It's available over here streaming on BritBox.
The best, most entertaining documentary series about politics ever produced. Only Veep comes close.
I could never watch it: too on the nose and near the knuckle.
Yes it was indeed a great show.... I wrote about it in this piece: https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/carry-on-governing
Same here since at least 2020.
The comments from Corum and Harbaugh reflect the unprecedented three-game suspension handed down by the Big Ten commissioner, who patiently waited to issue the suspension until the team was on a flight to their first major challenge of the season (at Penn State). They had to play that game as well as the season-defining game against Ohio State without their coach.
That's never happened before in the sport. Conferences don't do that. And there still is no reason to believe Harbaugh knew about what that staffer was doing. And no reason to cheat, since the one rule about sign-stealing is that you can't tape opposing coaches on your own. But the signals are viewable on the all-22 film that's distributed by the league.
So that's why they felt that way. I think everyone was aware something had to be done. Lots of teams are punished for various rule violations - usually a recruiting limitation or even a scholarship limit reduction in the worst cases. But there's never been something like this, before an investigation even took place.
It's not cheating to decipher signals. Every team knows that other teams work on this all the time and they need to be changed up before each game. Michigan couldn't have gained an advantage from the former staffer's behavior, as strange as it was. Yet the media was relentless with the narrative even last week, which is why they said what they said after the game.
I don't know, Oliver. I think TFP is great, except sports coverage. Every time I've read a sports story here, it's been like you'd expect from people who really don't like sports.
Jim, it’s a bad position to be in when you have to try and explain how what your team did “isn’t actually cheating.”
Oh, it was. I'm not defending it. The punishment and the media reaction were the issue. This was the conference acting rather than the NCAA and the penalty was out of proportion and strange, given the careful timing to avoid any chance of an appeal. That's why the players said what they said after the game. There was a definite "us against everybody" feeling from the program for the last few weeks of the season. They used that. Maybe they won in part because of that.
This wasn’t the only time UM was penalized this season. My guess is it won’t be the last from the NCAA and will further tarnish the Blue halo of their “accomplishments”. It won’t matter to the GO BLUE crowd, as we all know everyone is innocent in prison.
That made me chuckle. Thanks.
“I can’t believe I got arrested for murder right before my big trip to Disney World. That’s not fair. They should have waited to punish me until it was convenient.” 🙄
Alabama has long fed on hate and Texas this year sported Embrace the Hate as a slogan. Congrats on the win. I do think it will be better for the sport to have a different play-off system. And I 100% agree on the TFP sports acumen. Now let's discuss the horrible officiating which was a hallmark of this season.
America has "sports"? News to me. :-)
Not when people have no basic knowledge and fail to understand the entire story!
Thanks for the sports update. I used to love following college football. I am so out of it since stopping working f/t. I rather take long walks, grow veggies on our Farmers Club plots, read, especially TheFP articles and comments!
Enjoy you deserve it!!!
It doesn’t matter - they won the championship. That still makes UM people insufferable little liberal $hit$ who support progressive Democrats and helped elect the current disaster in the Michigan governors office. The rest of western, northern and central Michigan knows what UM stands for - and mostly hates the school.
If it helps any that is the way most of Texas feels about Austin.
Go Blue from Oakland County🤪
Not a college sports fan (strictly the pro's for me) but the NCAA has always been selective in its punishments especially for arcane infractions. Liked Harbaugh with the 49ers hope he goes to the Chargers and works with Justin Herbert. His personality grates on people but he wins.
He won this time. That's one natty. Took him 8 years to do it. Puts him pretty far down the list.
The treatment of this stuff by the NCAA and the Big Ten is why I believe Harbaugh will be coaching in the NFL next year. Philadelphia fans are already talking about wanting him; Washington needs a new head coach and is just down the road from brother John. Or maybe he will just prefer the long-standing money-driven pro league to the one that will be starting up next year with the two super-conferences.
“That’s right: Michigan is the Donald Trump of college football.”
Your angst is so palpable, I honestly don’t know how some of you people manage to drag yourselves out of bed in the morning.
As a PSU graduate, this is the only place I can put Suzy Weiss in her place, so here goes:
The University of Michigan is national "champs" in more than one way. They now have 241 paid DEI employees. Total payroll costs in their DEI office are $30.7 million annually, an amount that would cover in-state tuition and fees for 1,781 undergraduate students.. It's also $127K per year per employee. What in the HELL do they do, Suzy? Also, what's this?: https://nypost.com/2023/10/27/sports/fbi-joins-probe-into-ex-michigan-assistant-football-coach-matt-weiss/
As in politics, there's too much at stake in college football not to cheat. They all do to some degree (doesn't make it right). Some, like Democrats, are better at it.
Just look what the the consequences are if you're caught. For Harbaugh, or Biden, not much.
I have no dog in this fight but…
Two words
Jerry Sandusky.
Yes! Jerry Sandusky for president! President of Harvard, of course.
Is he Jewish?
The fools are cheering for the Houties and Hamas, why aren't they cheering for Russia against Ukraine,
the Myanmar govt. against their citizens, the Cuban govt. against their citizens, etc., etc.? C'mon, let's have some consistency here. Oh, I almost forgot, they should be cheering for the people who commit mass murder in the US.
Maybe I have been missing it, but it seems to me that this site has a pro-Haley bias...but I can't really recall them ever listing WHY they think she is a good candidate. What does she bring to the table that others don't?
She brings Zero. She preaches the same bullshit from the pre Trump era it’s so tired, that’s what the Rino’s and Democrats want, the deep state and the swamp to continue forever - which means a long hoax and gaslight of America. Most of us have had enough including Israel with all the continuous crap that is being sprouted. Hope Monday (15th) puts a nail in the Crypt Keeper’s coffin and we all vote for the right man this time.
Well said Skinny. Kudos.
Thank you Lynne.
Only because she's a girl. Bari, Nellie and Suzy are girls .... united by vagina.
Poor response. Did deeper surely there is more you can come up with that is not so crude.
That’s literally the only thing I’ve ever seen them mention with regards to her qualifications. Why not take them at their word?
Right. And, anyway, medicine these days is loaded with the dehumanizing body-part language of the gender "science" cult like "chest feeders" and "vagina havers" instead of "women". Because - being a woman is a feeling! This particular mental/psychological disorder is highly profitable and I do not think Haley will take a stand against harming the mentally ill or even protecting intentionally confused (like at school) children against gender drugs and operations.
FYI, Scientists are working on a "male egg" so I guess that can be implanted in a surrogate mother to farm babies in case the live womb transplants into chemically "lactating" men do not work out well.
https://nationalpost.com/health/womb-transplants-transgender-women
and
"Children’s Hospital Gender Program Navigator Touts Uterine Transplants for Trans Men from 'Live Donors'"
"The speaker, Alicyn Simpson, who is transgender, is a “community navigator” for a youth gender program at the University of Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital,"
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2023/01/16/childrens-hospital-talks-about-uterus-transplants-n2618349
"What If Men Could Make Their Own Egg Cells?"
https://www.wsj.com/health/what-if-anyone-could-make-a-human-egg-22002407
haley is hillary, they like hillary, JBell's point still remains unimpeached.
He doesn’t have to Linda, they all have what girls have he is not bullshitting. I shudder to think if he does dig deeper what he might find but on the surface of it all they women. Also I’m not sure if you are aware they teach all that in pre school using all the correct terminology and it’s not considered crude.
And, they teach that "boys can have them". So, "you could be a little boy with a vagina!" It's in all the picture books!
Yip they do, it’s madness never mind crude LM!
Yes, exactly! I am not a fan of crude, rude, foul, etc. But, that is nothing to what is done with the children, teaching them "Gender Science" with Genderbread unicorn thems and such - with not so much as an opt-in signature required from parents. "Girls might have a penis!"
I will tell you who we aren’t allowed to vote for”S”, and by God do they keep letting us know why, every article has his names in, every podcast on “Honestly” he is mentioned in - it just goes on real TDS if ever heard or read, and we have only just started the last year of Brandon’s presidency - crazy times ahead!
She's not Trump, and she hasn't been in a public fight with homosexuals or signed restrictions on abortions.
No but she will play well with the unelected career bureaucrats in the executive branch. She won't rein them in though. Like Biden she will feed at the trough and be glorified.
Straights pushing a political agenda. The actual communities these toe-rags claim to "speak" for aren't allowed a say in the matter.
You should have watched her town hall meeting Monday night.
Answers to all your questions can be found there.
So, your answer is "They like Nikki because of all of the stuff she says"? I am not saying they even own me an explanation. But it seems odd to not actually list why you like a candidate especially after multiple positive blurbs about her. And then your answer also not listing a single thing seems even more odd. Is it that hard to say "I like her stance on taxes" or something similar? Being vague leads me to wonder if it is more a cult of personality rather than actually thinking someone has the right skills and opinions to properly lead.
Her town hall meeting lasted one hour. Do you really want me to even attempt to summarize it here?
I think you and others have labeled her. I did early on as well. I read her book form a few years ago and was not impressed. I am now.
Either my judgement of her was wrong (ever hear anyone admit that these days?) or writing a book is not her strength at communicating.
You claim to have an open mind? Check back in with her........
I actually did like her like 8 years ago. Since then I have seen her increasingly respond in ways that I feel are simply a continuation of what we currently have. I don't want a candidate who seems to think that Government is the answer to everything, as I believe that gov should be that last option, not first. Especially at the federal level.
I may check out her town hall. But in general, I don't trust those things. They are propaganda, regardless of the candidate. What someone says doesn't necessarily mean much, since people can and will lie. Which is why I also don't love Vivik...he says stuff I like, and the first few times I heard him, I liked him. But I get a used car salesman vibe the more I hear.
Nikki seems like someone who will be beholden to the "Interests". The big money donors and people in power. Ron and Trump are the only ones I feel would actually fight back. And I honestly don't really want Trump either.
But, I am a cynic. I suspect that the majority of our politicians are garbage.
I have a similar position about VR and Haley. He does say what I want to hear but I have no faith that he would know how to accomplish his goals in DC. Which was Trump's issue first term too. But I wanted to reach out and hug VR when he handled the reporter the other day. It definitely gave him a boost in my estimation. I hope he is given a position in the event of a Republican win.
President Trump didn't know what the fuck he was doing. Still your best since Hoover. Funny that. You've had a couple or three successful State Govenors that no-one supposedly in their right minds would put on a ballot either.
“those who lack the most basic critical thinking skills or emotional intelligence -- Absolutely describes the woke liberals who support genocide, govt control of thoughts, actions, and life decisions. These people are truly dangerous as they simply run with emotions and the desire to be standing with those who support anything, no matter how stupid. Be it Hamas, BLM, DEI, COVID restrictions, mutilation of kids, men can have babies, America is evil, limiting who can run for office or what can be said by people. They are the true threat to mankind and any hope for a future for all. MIT, Penn, Harvard, and other bastions of idiocy are just proof stupid people can advance if they bow to the radical woke fools who have no ability to be rational and only know emotions as facts.
China owns the ability to subvert and knows how to push control over politicians and people who have no ability to see evil and understand the far reaching impacts of the danger China poses. Idiots cry for Hamas, but ignore Christians massacred in Nigeria, the continuing ethnic cleansing in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Ukraine, Myanmar, and so many other places. Again we come back the most basic critical thinking skills or emotional intelligence which the woke liberals completely lack and shows what cowards and fools they are.
Democrats who want Trump off the ballots would also gladly name Obama as King. How many times can these fools and idiots claim Democracy is at stake. How about when LBJ created a war that killed 68 thousand soldiers and countless Asians so he could get re-elected? How about when Joe decides he doesn't need to follow the Constitution and by passes Congress to spend money we don't have? How about going back to Roosevelt who secretly supported Hitler at first but was forced to change positions? How about a Congress Woman who might have married her brother to get into the US? How about so many other examples. Save me your BS save Democracy, especially when you really want to destroy it. That's to you Ms Obama who is a true US hater and useless person who is a grifter of the first order.
As for Evan Gardner , get a life and really study the issue. OSU hired Mich defensive coaches for two years to beat Mich and then fired them when Mich changed defense coaches. Other teams have histories of doing similar things or even football players not attending classes. You sound like an OSU fan who didn't have Grandma hug him this morning. Fool, you do realize the Michigan Team won and has the least pro and star ratings for players ever to win a championship? So you want to knock what a bunch of 18-22 year old men did as a team and played for each other? Get a life dude or maybe a job!
"Democrats who want Trump off the ballots would also gladly name Obama as King."
That wasn't how I remember it. I honestly recall when Obama was campaigning, they coined him the Messiah. I'm not joking.
A King is not nearly omnipotent enough.
King of Kings maybe?
Shahanshah, of which "King of Kings" is the translation, more like. Eastern despots who fold when rag-tag Muslims get violent or an Athenian phalanx steps out. Maybe good at oppressing their own; but fold like cardboard boxes when anything remotely resembling organised opposition shows up. Not Messiahs; not even very naughty boys. Just shit on your shoe.
Might as well offer degrees in bending the knee. But would it be a BA or BS? Masters of Bending the Knee has a ring, no?
So does a BS in BS. ;-)
"LBJ created the VietNam war"?
Stopped reading after this ridiculous remark.
You shouldn’t have Terry’s post was absolutely brilliant by far the best I have ever read here. He described the Democrats to a Tee in fact I would think Bari and Oliver would give him a permanent slot on their forum.
Then I guess you need to read up on the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Gave LBJ reasons to expand Vietnam troop presence. Kennedy was supposedly looking to get out. August 4, 1964 US falsely claimed a second incident which didn’t happen.
So make up your own history as it probably makes you feel wiser.
Easy big fella. I've read much on the VN war.
There is an enormous difference between creating and continuing/advancing.
My point is LBJ did not create the war. It started right after WWII ended when Truman was in office and France was in a weak position to continue occupancy.
What’s the ethnic cleansing happening in Ukraine that’s not being reported?
And how did FDR support Hitler?
FDR was an elitist who was also an Anti-Semite He was against immigration of Jews into the U. S. Maybe he didn’t want it overrun by doctors and scientists. it was his wife who convinced him to change policies.
Russia taking children and moving them into Russia to raise them. Random shelling and killing of civilians. FDR like Henry Ford originally didn’t think Hitler was a major threat. Finally invading Poland and other countries forced a change in policy.
Hard to say that isn't being reported regarding Ukraine, there is an ICC warrant out for Putin's arrest based on the children kidnappings. I agree and wish it was much more widely covered, especially for the purposes of all of the Putin apologists in these comments sections.
I am very far from being a fan of FDR. However, supporting Hitler as you've stated and not thinking him a major threat are vastly different things. Its normal for people to be wrong, only hindsight is 20/20. As brilliant as FDR was domestically (I disagree with the way he used his brilliance, but its hard to argue with the guy winning four presidential elections) the record shows him being a lightweight internationally, so its par for the course to misjudge Hitler. He dramatically misjudged Stalin also. (He dramatically misjudged his VP Wallace for that matter as well.)
Perhaps you've forgotten a majority of our country was isolationists throughout the '30's, still war weary from The Great War.
Yes it is hard to argue with a guy who won four elections, and it's harder to argue with a guy who commanded the greatest military victory across two oceans, with one hand tied behind his back after Pearl Harbor, and an overall dilapidated military.
You greatly contradict yourself by saying hindsight is 20/20, but FDR misjudged Hitler.....if he did, so did the entire world.
I am not sure what point you are making. It sounds like you disagree with my point, but I am not clear on what argument you are making.
My point was that whether or not FDR misjudged Hitler, and its likely that he did because he grossly misjudged other characters, that cannot be termed as FDR supporting Hitler as the original poster contended.
I'm defending FDR because he was in an impossible position.
My point is if FDR misjudged Hitler so did the rest of the world.
Information did not flow freely then as it does now. No one could have predicted Hitler would have turned out the evil menace he was. So to say he misjudged him is a false characterization.
Maybe he did others as well, but that is a lot of ground to cover.
I'm not sure he misjudged Stalin, unless you fault him for not foreseeing the millions he was to kill. Who did?
He didn't trust Stalin but needed him. Had Hitler not foolishly declared war on Russia, and the US, while fully engaged with England, the war turns out quite differently.
The saintly FDR issued an executive order criminalizing private ownership of gold. Required US citizens to sell their gold to the federal government at a set price. And shortly thereafter raised the value of the seized/confiscatedgold thereby enriching the federal coffers at the expense of the citizenry.
The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory rocked up on his watch. Anti-Jew? As long as they aren't Communist and Anti-American. Maybe. I really don't know why a lot of our zeroes are "heroes", do you?
I think part of it was difficulty of communication for many years. Now that is not the issue - rather it is too much information because of the mis-, dis-, and mal-information glibly published.
The conservative Putin apologists here are a creature I don’t understand. I can only guess that they feel so powerless in US politics and mainstream culture that they fantasize about a Trump-like strongman coming to squash all opposition, brutally and definitively. They really admire that being gay is illegal, that any protest against the incumbent is treated with beatings and jail, that political opponents are sent to gulag in Siberia (that’s so badass, right?). And ironically, they would rather see all of that happen at the expense of democracy. They are so infuriated by drag queens being invited to a kindergarten somewhere in the US that they would vote for Putin tomorrow if it meant that would never happen again. Personally, I don’t want drag queens in kindergartens either - but I have come to realize they’re the canary in the coal mine. The fact that they exist here is proof of freedom. The free market can take care of when they appear and how much influence they have, but in Russia, you won’t see a single one. And that is NOT a good thing.
This is complete gibberish. Emotional gibberish. Do you think every conservative is a Putin apologist? Do you grasp that the Biden administration is desperately trying to jail its leading opponent? Do you think there are no gay conservatives?
No, but of all of the Putin apologists I have encountered, every single one is a conservative. As am I, but their reasoning makes no sense. Mark is probably onto something, that people are very much thinking along their tribal lines, rather than for themselves. I see the same phenomenon with Israel - of all of the anti-Israel arguments I’ve encountered, all have been from liberals.
Maybe my reasoning is gibberish, it’s speculation after all. But the observation is not.
I think its just a knee-jerk reaction that if Biden is for supporting Ukraine then they have to be against. Admittedly, its hard sharing a position with Biden, given that this is the only one. It is also unfathomable to me how seemingly sane people are regurgitating Kremlin-funded Putin-supporting propaganda from the likes of Tucker Carlson. Seems to support the view that most people care more about being with the "right" tribe as opposed to having a clear moral compass and thinking for themselves.
Mark, Ukraine is in an unwinnable war. A basic understanding of geography (the place is flat, no mountain barriers to keep out hordes) and demographics (Ukraine has much fewer men of fighting age than Russia). There is also nothing North & Atlantic about the place (Turkey too). Why did we court both Georgia & Ukraine as possible NATO members during the aught’s? That was just stupid in the long view. We’re not Putin lovers. We’re just realists that this particular war of choice was a wrong one. For that matter, so was the Iraq war under Bush. Biden & Bush both gaslighting American voters on the need for these foreign wars. There is a lot of $$ made on these conflicts, but also a great deal of death, destruction and lifelong trauma for those in the trenches, and their extended friends & families.
Right. But if we can accuse leftists of having trump derangement syndrome (remember all those people saying they wouldn’t take a vaccine if trump made it - and then they became vaccine poster children overnight as soon as he was out of office?), how can right leaning people now do the same thing? It makes no sense whatsoever
I am pro-Ukraine. Just not the way Biden is. IMO neither Biden nor Zelensky have the interests of the Ukrainian people at heart. You talk about people opposed to Ukraine being influenced by Putin propaganda but fail to see the propaganda you subscribe too. Even Obama recognized that the Putin scare was 1980s policy. And about that he was right.
Exactly right.
I'm agin' NATO, the EU, Whtehall, the White House, (Barring President Trump) and their twenty five years of Bear Baiting, provocation, coup, and grift. You lot lost it over missiles in Cuba; what is sauce for the goose... Septics are such fucktard hypocrites; somehow your tanks on other peoples' lawns is fandabbydozie. Twats. I think it fair to say that is the position of most here: WE, the West, are the aggressors. Putin isn't one of the good guys; but neither would he suck American cock. You rock up with an existential threat, what did you think was going to happen? Own it or bugger off.
NATO was not an existential threat to Putin, any more than your neighbor putting a lock on their door is an existential threat to you. No sane person thinks nato would launch an attack against nuclear-armed Russia. Please. And Putin doesn’t think that either - the only reason he attacked Ukraine is because he knew he could get away with it.
Also, enough with the we are aggressors and oppressors nonsense. Russia has aligned itself with China, Iran and North Korea. If you find yourself siding with them, you should re-evaluate your outlook. For f* sake, sometimes I look around and think the immigrants who escaped the Soviet Union are the only Americans left who love America. This putrid hatred for the US and the west seems to seep in from both sides of the political spectrum, and it astounds me. I still believe we are the most democratic, freedom loving nation on Earth and I am beyond grateful to be a citizen of this country - I fully understand that an idea means nothing without power.
FDR probably true but Ford was an admirer of Hitler. As for Russia taking children - some evidence would be needed. And with the propaganda flowing that might be hard to do.
That's the same point of view FDR's antisemites in the State Department took when presented with the evidence of Nazi death camps in 1941, even when that evidence included photographs obtained at great personal risk. They termed it "propaganda" and dismissed it. That certainly was the easier path to take. So that's a well-trotted path of bigots who chose to label inconvenient realities as propaganda. This is part of the reason Eisenhower ordered film crews into the death camps after liberation, so that film evidence would make it harder for later day Nazi apologists to claim that the Holocaust was invented by the Jews. This is also why there are criminal investigators documenting Russian criminal actions in Ukraine and bringing criminal cases against the perpetrators.
There’s tons of evidence of that. If you just think all of it is propaganda, then you become part of the propaganda.
https://press.un.org/en/2023/sc15395.doc.hrm
Or just google articles on the topic.
The UN. Really? ROTFLMAO.
You're not wrong to hold the UK govt to account for its failure to speak more loudly about the suppression of freedoms in Hong Kong. But you might like to join some of the dots too: was life in Hong Kong better, or worse, when it was a British colony? Which political movement speaks jarringly and a-historically often about the "evils" of "colonialisation"?
Oh, and I think it fair to mention that Britain has opened its doors to Hong Kong Chinese, formerly British, subjects. I think that's worth mentioning in this context. More than 150,000 former British subjects have moved to the UK. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-announces-a-third-year-of-support-to-help-hong-kongers-settle-into-life-in-the-uk
The freedom loving people of Hong Kong are perhaps the best example in todays world of true asylum seekers
People in Hong Kong didn't want the turn over of power. They had no say in the matter, that's the problem. Colonization had many awful problems for sure, but it was what it was and it also brought the colonized countries into modernity. Hong Kong escaped the worst of Mao's communism because it was under British control and it flourished in every way from science to arts. The US left the Philippines post WWII and the country's been corrupt and poor ever since. But to the wokes and modern Marxists it's ok as long as one is oppressed by its own people.
“Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong newspaper proprietor who has been in prison for more than 1,000 days and is currently on trial before a kangaroo court in Hong Kong, is one of the great examples of courage in our time.”
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Hong Kong is part of colonialism and it is only bad like this because the Dirty Whites showed up.