The truth is this. The Left and Right are more divided than ever, but the people who are on Twitter, and YouTube and everywhere else are the fringes of each side. The Internet left is happy to go out and find the super whacky right, and the Internet right is happy to go out and find the Super Whacky left.
The truth is that most of us live in the middle. Most of us are shocked by the stupidity of both sides. The MAGA brains and the LBGT#E@OUTLKNM< ASOUQWW+-2372huthut crowd are insane.
That doesn't mean that your politicians are crooks and mine are acquitted. No... it means MOST of our national politicians are dirty, and likely all of them should be behind bars. The truth is that most of them enter office fairly wealthy (because it's the only way you can get there), and by the time they have spent just a few years in office they are INSANELY wealthy while collecting a measley $175k per year to do a full time job. You do the math folks.. It's not hard to do.
My favorite argument in the world is when people start screaming Soros, and Gates, and Ken Griffin, and the Koch's. Like.. come on people. They aren't enemies. They are working together to make themselves more powerful.
If you've never had the privilege of speaking with an actual billionaire, it's a trip and a half. I've been fortunate enough to have minimal conversations with 2 of them. They legitimately know they have more money than even their grandkids will go through, and it's no longer about money for them. It's about power over others. These are the masters of the world and the people making decisions, but we sit here arguing about Pelosi, and Schumer, and Schiff, and Turtlehead, and McCarthy.. It's laughable if it weren't so incredibly sad.
We should all be united against the WEF and anybody that speaks for them. This is the story that Matt should be doing, but sadly, if he dug around here, we wouldn't have him anymore.
Most reside in the middle. The middle are those who don’t rock the boat, who follow the crowd while proclaiming they don’t. They scoff at anyone with wacky ideas that don’t comport with the sensible among us. They are embarrassed by them. They want the lying & stealing to stop, but they want it to be done sensibly & preferably behind the scenes.
The people who reside safely in the middle took the vax voluntarily. Mattias Desmet describes how 90+% of the population lives in this space, the safe space. These are the people who benefit by the actions taken by the wacky & brave 5-10%.
Our country is on fire. If more don’t risk becoming “wacky” then the safe middle will be a thing of the past.
This is a great comment, and proof that I can't write worth a crap. haha. All true. The problem however is this. Most of our safety is already a thing of the past. The Dollar is about to be bounced out of it's reserve currency status, and when that day finally arrives? That's when the true masters will be revealed. My money is on it still being the Davos crowd, but I guess we'll see, since I won't have any money left like 99.5% of the rest of you assuming you live in the US.
The rumored displacement of the dollar as the world's reserve currency. If I had a dollar for every time I've heard this I'd be in possession of my own reserve currency. The dollar ain't goin' nowhere anytime soon.
Perhaps. I've been hearing it for 5 decades myself. But recent actions have sort of made it closer to a reality with the BRICS and even the EU moving away from Oil for Dollars. Really, that's it. If Oil is no longer paid for in dollars, and our military can't just go into whatever nation has a crazy leader that says they are going to start paying in gold and bomb them to the stoneage.. well.. that's when it will actually happen.
Gold? The Rub? The Ren? No viable alternative exists that could possibly replace the dollar currently. The whole "backed by the U.S. military" aspect of the dollar's strength is overdrawn---the dollar is effectively the world's reserve currency by default. U.S. soft power is the dollar's strength, especially the ready supply of reliably safe U.S. Treasury bonds--this alone continues to make the dollar more attractive than any other currency by a long shot. All subject to change, of course, by previously unseen events.
It’s likely going to eventually happen, but the doomerism surrounding it is stupid. It’ll likely look similar to the way Great Britain lost reserve currency status. The US will lose more of its already waning hegemony, but in the long term it will be fine. If the doomers were right the UK ought to be a barren hellscape right now; instead it’s an imperfect, but fairly prosperous developed country.
One thing the US can depend on is other countries' capacity to debase their own currency as quickly as the Fed does. The biggest threat to the dollar is that the market for T-bonds collapses in times of inflation, and the Fed has to raise interest rates to keep up. Once that happens, Congress needs to borrow more money just to pay the vig. Since there's nowhere to borrow it, it has to be created, which means more money chasing the same goods and services, which, of course, results in even higher inflation, etc. etc. Once that fire is lit, it becomes harder and harder to put out.
Deliberate. It is all deliberate. Brilliant strategy of divide and conquer, creating increasingly absurd wedge issues so that when one national controversy abates, another ginned up one seamlessly takes its place. This continues ad nauseam, exhausting the body politic and distracting them (us) from the civilization changing moves which are taking place, largely without scrutiny. They are nearly finished with their work, whoever "they" are. It might be Davos centered, but with true power comes a practiced anonymity. Horrible and heartbreaking to see so many Americans living completely unaware that they will someday be slaves, where once we were free.
Not if you read 'The Fountainhead': 'Atlas Shrugged' and 'Anthem' by Ayn Rand.
Not if we are all prepared to write about the Marxist slide of the DisUnited States so well planned by the Obama regime.
Are you prepared to keep writing about America's tragic path even as citizens are being imprisoned for 22 years for NOT being at the Capitol Building on Jan 6th?
Are you prepared to push back against the armed FBI banging down your door with guns drawn?
Are you going to be like the cowards at Fox who see the destruction of their country; who sit on comfortable seats, whine and then go home to their comfortable houses to write stupid books?
Or are you willing to risk everything for your kids, your work, your home, your family and your freedom?
Your fathers and grandfathers did it in world wars, civil wars and let President's send them on proxy war.
Your mothers and grandmothers did it to keep the family together as the menfolk died...What are you prepared to give up for your kids and your country?
Thank you for this and I might just have you trash me by saying that in my opinion only one man can bring about the political victory of the culture war being fought now and the civil war that has begun.
The people in the middle voted for President Trump because the clinton-woman despised them and they had been forgotten by the Obama administration.
The people in the middle voted for President Trump and then worked the jobs that he brought back to America...even as the swamp tried to destroy him.
The people in the middle took the tax breaks the President brought about and the gasoline prices the President's policies brought about and smiled through the holidays they could have.
And then the people in the middle had a life so good that they closed their eyes to the Russia and Ukraine hoaxes. They closed their eyes to the FBI/CIA/DOJ/IRS constantly attacking the people who brought about the improved economic conditions and the 'good life'.
They closed their eyes to the President when he was able to manage the impossible task of a vaccine in less than a year (a vaccine I did not take because I am a healthy individual and didn't trust it.
Finally those people in the middle (many of them, unfortunately sat on their asses as an election was stolen by the FBI, by state representatives, by state courts and even SCOTUS.
They said and did nothing.
I think that it's a liitle known fact that the whole of America did not rise up against the British Empire and fight for liberty. It was, in the beginning a small minority of the country.
Just as it is a small minority of the country willing to stand up to the FBI/DOJ and IRS now...life is too good (at the moment).
The lives of your kids and grandkids is going to be so much worse that the people in the middle will wish that they'd fought for their children's future.
This is my concern as well. In my recent experience, a normal live and let live liberal will be triggered by PTO activist posts and school board decisions. They prove that the censorship and absurd ideology we think can’t progress in our real lives will, if left unchecked, consume us all. Recently, I did speak up and discovered a diverse group of parents were speaking up with me. Our children are our trigger. So I don’t worry about the normal folks informed by alternative media. It’s the ones who would feel very differently if they had any idea what was going on. How do you explain that the media you’ve traditionally relied on has misinformed you? A normal person would want to know why they would do that. I’m not sure I know, but I’m afraid the answer is in the “wacky” category. Which is why I prefer to talk to my friends about aliens...seems a less stigmatized subject than “fake news.”
"No... it means MOST of our national politicians are dirty, and likely all of them should be behind bars."
IMO, our politics is transactional and entertainment. So, the pols indicate the nature of their supporters as people seem to vote as to what they want from a pol and to show their support of their statements, behavior, antics, etc. As there is no substance to the American people, there is no substance in those in office.
The republicans use power to gain money and the democrats use money to gain power. The republicans have admitted they 'make more money when our guys lose' on multiple occasions
I will be content with America First as it is shown to work based upon cheap fossil fuel development as it is the basis or our lives.
Surely one doesn't have to be a reference librarian (I was; retired now) to know there's nothing so damaging to sound judgment as relying on an out-of-date reference work. Never buy last year's travel guide.
Well, I am a classic liberal raised by a union official. I am by today's standards a conservative. I am agnostic, though I have many conservative views. Like many things today. We can't judge things today by yesterday, or yesterday by today. I am sure Dr Johnson was spot on in 1755. Dr Johnson would be a quack today. History is a wonderful thing and removing history because of feels is one of the definitions of stupidity today.
The closest I can come to categorizing myself is "recovering liberal". The scales have fallen from my eyes as a result of the Covid nonsense, so my current tendency is to reject all labeling.
I agree there too. My problem is that in my mind. Liberals are actually slightly right of center now. At least Liberals we knew 20 years ago. Today the left is all Progressives, and not even Teddy Roosevelt progressives. This is something WAY different.
This is why labeling makes no sense to me. Not only is it squishy and changeable, not to mention often relativistic (neo- or post- anything), from what I've read left and right have opposite meanings in other places—Europe, for example.
thank you turd, but there is no such thing as a classic liberal. Liberalism is about evolution conservative is about trusting ancient superstition.
A classic liberal understands the world is always evolving.
Pierre Eliot Trudeau was a neoliberal his son Justin is a classical liberal.
I believe Kansas' Right to Work is rule of law Freedom is Slavery as Orwell so well recognized in 1949.
Conservatives haven't changed in 70,000 years. Conservatives believe "all men are created equal but some are more equal than others." Stalin in Animal Farm
Johnson would be a GOP intellectual today ,in fact he is a GOP intellectual just like Reagan and Trump. Have you read Taxation No Tyranny? Substitute American for English.
In Quebec our unions are more powerful than our government. Unions represent people and democracy is about people not institutions.
What are the standards in 1984?
I am a Cornell West liberal not a Biden Neoliberal.
Have you read Boswell. Johnson was a piece of shit just like some GOP governors.
In Quebec our conservative government is social democrat. Bernie Sanders is a conservative in our social democracy.
Health education and welfare are rights not privileges.
Race , gender and religion are not REAL. Religion is banned in our public institutions we teach ancient myth in ancient literature and Darwin in science and history.
Have you read Boswell? Johnson was a piece of shit InSantis wouldn't have a shot if Johnson ran for governor. Johnson was a piece of shit but he was a charismatic piece of shit.. I suspect however the Tourettes would look good on television. I love Zizek but....
That is probably why I love Chomsky and Pinker they are linguistic philosophers and they studied the evolution of language. Conserve means to delay spoiling.
Dr Johnson said to conserve is conforming to God's design and design gang aft agley.
I like Robbie Burns but you'd think in a town filled with Presbyterians I could find a good Haggis.
Speaking of George Soros some words span the centuries.
Your comment "I believe in evolution" is strange. No scientist "believes" in evolution. Scientists understand evolutionary biology and use it in their work (I did for 30+ years) but don't believe it. That is contrary to the very basic requirements for science to work.
My wife is an American philosopher with a Master's Degree from the University of Chicago in Science education. My father in law was a scientist. You are full of bovine excrement.
Newton said: "We are standing on the shoulders of giants." Did you graduate from Liberty University? Maybe you teach at Liberty they teach baseball very well.
Evolution remains scientific theory almost two hundred since Darwin accepted an invitation to travel on the Beagle.
In Western civilization; science has been the study of evolution since Archimedes was a puppy and Aristotle was soiling his diapers.
I think what he means is that you are substituting the idea of "belief", for "degree of certainty". If you say "I am certain that the theory of evolution is basically correct", people will understand you better.
Thanks Smiley but doesn't the theory of evolution is still scientific theory express certitude. I don't jump off rooftops because of the theory of gravity. Scientific theory expresses certitude until the theory is found to be in error.
If they found Noah Ark Darwin's theory would be proven to be in error. They could find Noah's Ark buried in my backyard or maybe they can't.
May if I prayed loud enough I could fly but I believe in gravity and at 75 I could be gravely injured./attempted satire
I don't think so. A theory is a tentative description requiring proof. Not all of Darwin's theory is proven, and geneticists do disagree with parts of it. A beleif, on the other hand, connotes an element of faith.
It’s odd that you’ve chosen an open minded, thoughtful Substack discussion to display your hatred for conservatives & Judge Scalia.
I always look forward to reading thoughts from people who post on Taibbi’s Substack. In general, they all want to expand their understanding. After all, that’s why we listen to Matt & Walter. Close-mindedness that’s wedded to a particular dogma doesn’t lend itself to free expression. It feels downright anachronistic.
I hate fascism and ignorance . Do you want me to lie?
I am not an American. I thought America was evolving and then you elected Fred C Koch's Ronald Wilson Reagan and you went backwards in time when feudalism was the order of the day.
Scalia was a fraud and phony and Reagan was a bastard and a son of a bitch who betrayed his country for thirty pieces of silver.
I knew Carter was a truth teller and Reagan sold cigarettes to children when he knew the results of smoking.
Guilty as charged.
I am not wedded to any dogma other than things change and we adapt to the change or go extinct.
I love America more than you can possibly understand and I hate FASCISM.
During the last two podcast episodes, Walter has voiced the concern of many that we may be heading for some sort of major national calamity, driven by the media's seeming desire to foment as much mutual animus as possible. What might that calamity look like, one wonders?
I could imagine widespread rioting following a possible Trump 2024 victory. The Left, it seems, has reason to believe they can riot w/o any serious penalties. Other possible scenarios for where this all may be leading?
Trump from the beginning has been used to divert attention away from real issues, not only our past, but our planned future, He has been used to divert people's attention away from 16 years of wars and mass murder that we have engaged in during the Bush/Cheney and Obama years. Nothing liberal about either administration including that of Obama, and many seem blinded to that reality preferring to turn him into something good that happened in between. Divide a country with Trump and controversial groups that sow division in terms of religion and ideologies and you weaken it and those in power become more powerful. Trump has become the boogeyman and responsible for all that is wrong in America. He's a scapegoat, and has always been used in that way, and shame on the left who soaked that BS up and spread it. He's a diversion from what we are doing on a global level and the control we exert over countries other then our own. We have become more of an empire and are pushing that agenda further in our support for war between Russia and Ukraine. When Liz Cheney can parade her father through the halls of the January 6th comm, a man responsible for millions of dead, black sites and prisons then you can see how Trump has been used to blind us to our own past and divert us from our hegemonic agenda that continues with diminished resources for our fellow Americans that they are turning against each other, and as they become more, and more autocratic.
I don't know how they let this happen, but he was at a televised meeting, small one, and it broke up and he was left behind with a bunch of cameramen and reporters and he referenced our many wars as stupid, that have cost so many lives and cost Americans so much money. When I saw it, he gets a big thumbs up from me, but what about all our war mongering candidates who support our war machine and out hegemonic agenda. Tucker on Twitter said they got rid of Trump because he was not pro war and maybe they got rid of Tucker because he wasn't either.
Good for them. Tucker on Twitter said they got rid of Trump because he is not pro war, and I think they vilified Tucker because he was not selling us into wars. I hope both stick around for a long time.
Trump allowed neocons to advise on appointments. His picks for SOS were awful, as neither purged the department of the warmongers and they talked him into sellling javelins to Ukraine, which all but said it had a war on its hands.
And the laptop, it did not swing the election. It was stolen, plain and simple.
Trump was so far in over his head it was really amazing. Trump is what some would call a shrewd (see mildly corrupt) businessman. The world of politics is so many levels above corrupt businessman it's like an MMO. Trump was playing level 17 and DC politics is full lvl 90 with elite gear!
Both Clinton and Obama and now Biden, all purged the national security departments, SOS and DOJ outright - day one. Trump was hamstrung with the outing of Flynn, the neutering of Sessions and by rino and neocon suckups that did the bidding of the uniparty to keep Trump in line. I like to think Trump learned some lessons but we may never know.
Let's not forget the Cheney administration. 'Ol Dick set up the future of our government with his actions. Obama and the Chicago crooks came in and just took it to the next stratosphere. It's a game, and people just keep buying into it thinking "their people" are the better of the 2. It's like rooting for the Sith Apprentice to overtake the master. They really are both evil and dangerous, but because the Apprentice is more relatable we root for them.
They wanted him elected even though he would have been seen in 1820 as committing treason. All Democrats are above the law as long as the top Dem says they are. You said they wanted him elected and held the goods on the laptop. Has they not held the goods on the laptop he still would have been elected is what I am saying.
They knew he was violating all kinds of law but instead of bringing him up on charges, they illegally interfered in the election to put him into office.
As Chris Hedges said who use to work for them Times, but they no longer want him. They feed their democratic audience what they want to hear. That's what they have come down to. The operate solely to make money and to hell with reporting the truth.
That's a pretty weak president you're describing---allowing himself to be used to divert attention from the real issues. Where was our man Don when all this diverting was happening? He couldn't step in and say, "Now look here, no more using me to divert attention away from the real issues, none of which I'm vaguely familiar with or remotely interested in but...
Perhaps doing his own diverting? A grift here, a grift there---pretty soon everyone's attention is diverted.
I guess you forgot how the left were at his first inauguration..seems like that is the standard threat they use..nation wide riots if he is elected..can't imagine they would be any worse than antifa and blm..none of whom were ever punished..in Tennessee as a matter of fact..one who participated was elected to the house..ejected because of his insurrection activities and then had to be allowed back in because of stupid people..
Wow! I guess I must have missed the massive international news reporting that must have occurred covering not one, not two, but “several attempted coups of the Trump Administration.” Pray tell, what sources may I avail myself of to read up on this fantastic series of events that NOBODY I KNOW has ever spoken of.
You apparently don't get out of your crunchy coastal liberal tribe very often to talk to people that are not in your same information bubble. Look up the definition of "coup" and get back to me. Hint, it is not 100 bearded construction workers inflamed by FBI plants pushing their way into a government building owned by the people.
Brother Frank you assume I’m something that I’m not. I have been fighting against “crunchy” liberals since the 70’s. I’ve also been fighting for anybody’s right to be happy in whatever manner they choose. I haven’t voted anything but third party since 1972 and my political take is that anyone who thinks our two party capitalist system is sustainable is deluded. Democrats AND Republicans are beyond corrupt so mutual aid and service in one’s community has always been the answer for me. There is a paradigm shift that has begun and I’m gonna keep on truckin’. I never judge others by their words, their actions are always the tell.
There were many protests in 2017--a worldwide protest on January 21, 2017--not riots.
This is the Wikipedia article.
The main protest was in Washington, D.C., and is known as the Women's March on Washington with many other marches taking place worldwide. The Washington March was streamed live on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. The Washington March drew over 470,000 people. Between 3,267,134 and 5,246,670 people participated in the marches in the U.S., approximately 1.0 to 1.6 percent of the U.S. population. Worldwide participation has been estimated at over seven million.
Whatever the calamity will be it will be much more controlled than this. It will be obvious without being obvious. It also likely will be instituted by the new unelected Healthcare bureaucracy that is about to gain great levels of decision making control over most of the globe including us here in the US.
The Vegas odds are short on a smattering of right-wing "uprisings"---even in the face of a 10 million popular vote wipeout of Trump. If your left-wing "riot" is predicated on a Trump electoral victory, you need not worry.
I know lots of people who feel like pollsters are just using the word "poll" to push an agenda. They feel it is 100% OK to tell the opposite of what they really think. So, yes.
The issue with polls is language. "Do you support Affirmative Action" would get a yes from me, because affirmative action was used first to describe something everyone should support - increasing the size of the available talent pool for jobs and education by acting affirmatively to advertise in periodicals appealing to under=represented groups, by reaching out to job fairs and college selection venues appealing to underrepresented groups.
"Do you support racial preferences in hiring and education" receives a "No" from me. It's an entirely different beast. I want merit used for selection. No diversity selections for surgeons, engineers, architects and the list goes on.
My father was a union arbitrator in the 80's. I can tell you with absolute certainty that "Affirmative Action" in writing was FAR different than in practice. It essentially was quotas, and quotas simply don't work, and create more divisiveness which allows politicians to further divert the populace from their true intentions. Which is grifting.
Good point. But what other metrics can we use? Vegas odds actually sounds kinda interesting to me. Maybe the odds could factor in insider information and other real world factors driven by money and finance rather than just opinion polls and speculation.
Rioting is a bipartisan affair. Ask workers at Target and the folks on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6. It’s what people do when their minds have been numbed and warped by social media and made political discourse just ‘too much work’ and ‘too boring’.
Can I suggest all houses be painted Blue or red and my people live in purple houses and everybody gets to choose which colour house they wish to live in and get to choose blue schools and red schools or purple schools and you have blue governments and red governments and purple governments. Nobody gets to force their neighbours to choose their colours. Blue libraries have books and red libraries have FOX. Blue hosppitals have technology and red hospitals have leeches., I been to crimson Michigan and leeches would be an improvement. I've been to Dallas but none of the bars served hemlock and gin with a twist of lime.
there isn't any evidence, although a lot of people still believe the "good people on both sides" hoax. Asked directly for proof, most accusers will simply at once change the subject.
The proof is in John Adams library. He was a federalist and said democracy is a pipe dream. John Adams library was all written in Latin and Greek good luck finding the proof.
John Adams believed all men are created equal but some are more equal than others. John Adams was a conservative and conservatives do not believe in evolution. That is why in 1800 Adams refused to recognize the evolutionist Thomas Jefferson as President.
Conservatives believe ancient superstition is better than even FOX News.
"Conservatism is the fear filled worship of dead radicals." Markus Twainius America's great Socratic philosopher
Speaking strictly for myself the democratic quiet revolution in Quebec told me secular humanist liberal democracy is just what I and my American philosopher partner hoped America would become.
There are no such things as race, gender and religion.
My wife is still getting used to being asked what she needs not what she wants. It is nice to grow old and know you are safe and secure. Our government has 70% approval but their chances next election is 50/50 at best and nobody knows what party or philosophy will be in power after the election but after the election it will have the support of 70% because the government is the manager and we are the shareholders.
I live in a country where we receive six hours of housekeeping every week from an immensely talented woman who follows my instruction in the kitchen and understands our needs. So far in the last two months our nurse, physio therapist, occupational therapist and some outside nurses have come to provide flu and covid injections and our Social Worker was here on Monday and agreed to return in six months because I don't know what will happen in a year.
e pay taxes in Quebec, Michigan, Ottawa and Washington and our income exceeds our expenditures on a modest pension incomes and a select harvest in our sustainable forest every five or six years.
Enough is a feast.
Reagan was a fascist and a liar. The government is not the enemy. It is our government and we are the boss. Corporations care only for profit we are an obstacle not an ally of greed and ammorality.
Now if one the grandchildren only wanted to leave the city and live on a mountain top down by the deep blue sea all would be well in our world but we aren' t London, New York, Chicago or Greensboro.
This is Jesse Winchester he wrote music and lyrics for Nashville but dodged the draft and lived near us here in Quebec's boonies.
I miss Jesse he left here and returned Nashville when they stopped blacklisting draft dodgers.
John Denver and Jimmy Buffett covered this song but my wife and I own it.
I saw him live just before he left this Vale of tears.
We still drive and shop but my wife loves reading and studying philosophy and I love writing when I am awake and I enjoy my cannabis which I order from a giant catalogue and order like I order from Amazon and Canada Poste is as good as Amazon when it comes to delivery.
In Quebec Amazon workers are guaranteed health education and welfare and in Quebec Unions are more powerful than government.
I like liberal democracy American democracy is neither fish nor fowl. Franklin was right America's bird is a stuffed turkey. Thanksgiving here and we have two is a single drumstick and some wild Cranberry sauce for us and a little more turkey when we have visitors.
His Crime Bills almost tripled the Black population in prison (one in three Black men becomes a felon)-- no wait, that was Joe Biden
His Drug Bills made a 100-fold sentencing disparity between crack cocaine (Blacks predominant users) and powder cocaine (wealthy white users)-- no that was Joe Biden
He said that desegregation (he opposed busing) could result in his children growing up in "a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point."-- no that was Joe Biden (he later noted that Poor kids are just as bright as white kids)
He gave the eulogy to an Exalted Cyclops of the KKK in 2010-- no wait, that was Joe Biden
He said "In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking."-- no that was Joe Biden
He mocked “hundreds of thousands” of call center jobs going overseas, talking in a bad Indian accent-- no that was Joe Biden
He said ""I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."-- no that was Joe Biden
He said “Latinx” people don’t want to get vaccinated because they’re worried they’ll be deported.-- no that was Joe Biden
Speaking of Blacks, he said “They are used to being experimented on—the Tuskegee Airmen and others,”-- no that was Joe Biden (and Walensky "honored" the Tuskegee victims for their "sacrifice"; wonder how she would have reacted if someone "honored" the "sacrifice" of Holocaust victims?)
He said "unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”-- no that was Joe Biden
He bought an ad calling for restoration of the death penalty in the Central Park Five case where the woman jogger was raped, beaten and left for dead by serial rapist Matias Reyes. On the same day, over 20 teenagers from east Harlem went "wilding", assaulting and robbing people in Central Park. The Central Park Five admitted to the assaults and robberies, but none said they had raped the jogger, although they said they had watched others and held the woman down-- that was Donald Trump's Big Racist instance!
He said "When do we beat Mexico at the border? They’re laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me. But they’re killing us economically. The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems. Thank you. It’s true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we’re getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They’re sending us not the right people. It’s coming from more than Mexico. It’s coming from all over South and Latin America, and it’s coming probably— probably— from the Middle East. But we don’t know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don’t know what’s happening. And it’s got to stop and it’s got to stop fast."-- Donald Trump again, he always gives long rambling answers and State Media cherry-picks their quotes.
All our politicians are racists. When Biden says or does something racist, it is dismissed as a harmless gaffe or mistake. When Trump says something racist, he is excoriated.
I must admit Biden isn't the brightest bulb on the tree but Trumps is dimmer than dark. The logic escapes me,Delaware didn't know which side to join in 1860 and has more corporations than people and has more of the 500 than the rest of the states combined. When you have two neoliberal spouting nonsense you turn off the TV you don't bother with the debate.
I am Canadian. We are not Americans. John Ralston Saul says neoliberalism is neither new nor liberal it is feudalism in fancy clothes. Capitalism is a weasel word because all human society is capitalist. The definition of capitalism is how a society operates. I support small business but I remember the Irish genocide where the bottom 20% of Catholic peasants were starved to death or sold to the new cites of the Industrial revolution. The voice of the neoliberal landlords was THE ECONOMIST and they urged that no food be sent to Ireland's peasants because the only thing that mattered were the landlords and their profits. I know when Swift wrote his Modest Proposal Ireland didn't know potatoes.
I have but one opinion. People are angry and pissed off in the richest Empire that ever existed and same old same old doesn't work and I live in Quebec which I fled in 1970 and now after the revolution people are optimistic and looking forward and America is wallowing in a cesspool of false memories.
What opinions?
You notice I give references and historical records liike the Toleration Act of 1689 and John Adams library and Jefferson's Bible and the invasion of Mexico and Reagan's Time for Choosing.
"Perception is reality ." Voltaire I spent my childhood alone in the library. I know if I want to know about life in Victorian England I read Dickens. I know if I want to know American or Russian 19th century reality I read Twain. I know Woodrow Wilson was racist and a fascist and I know I was breathing when the average American no longer lived in poverty and I was born in 1948 not 1776. I know the Wilson Administration botched both the war and the influenza epidemic and Hoover was a ignorant fool. I know FDR rescued "Capitalism" from its worst feudal intentions.
I didn't go to university I am still learning how to write.
I know we can't see the future only prepare for likely scenarios. That is my opinion and your welcome to listen.
He's a human being. He's definitely some sort of 'ist. We all are. Every human that breathes is some sort of ist, and at least somewhat racist. Anybody who denies that fact needs to stop speaking, as they simply aren't honest, or intelligent.
But by the modern day definition of a racist? He's old, he's white, and he's wealthy. There is the proof. Can we now move on to topics that actually are going to affect or possibly end our lives? Like $30T of debt, or the uber billionaires that actually do run our nation?
I thought you'd never ask. Why, just for starters, Trumps very first appearance in the pages of New York Times way back in 1973. A wee lad at the tender age of 27. The occasion?
The Department of Justice sued Trump and his old man, Fred, "charging them with violating the Fair Housing Act of 1968 in the operation of 39 buildings.
“The government contended that Trump Management had refused to rent or negotiate rentals ‘because of race and color,’ ” The Times reported. “It also charged that the company had required different rental terms and conditions because of race and that it had misrepresented to blacks that apartments were not available.”
Donny boy hit the ground running with the racist shit. Course his old man was a notoriously virulent racist and bigot too. This kind of unfortunate retrograde posture runs in families, I'm afraid. Apple don't fall far from the tree...
Anyone who thinks & repeats, Trump is a racist, is repeating what they’ve heard from the prepared script. They aren’t curious enough, or have the energy to investigate. Instead, they want to a big shot by repeating common, worn out phrases.
Would anyone who reads or listens to Matt put on a striped jumpsuit & run in front of a presidential motorcade? This is a perfect opportunity for the unstable to howl at the moon.
"...Anyone who thinks & repeats, Trump is a racist, is repeating what they’ve heard from the prepared script. They aren’t curious enough, or have the energy to investigate. Instead, they want to a big shot by repeating common, worn out phrases."
Really? Those are five remarkable assertions that confer almost superpower clairvoyance. Everybody. Everybody? Nobody thinks Trump is a racist asshole because he's a racist asshole? Come, come.
Still hanging, but with *my* mouth, I can never be tough enough; always sail with my finger (hopefully the correct one) in the wind, but it's usually the doldrums I seek, if you catch my drift (ar, ar!).
Howdy, M. feldspar, thanks for the wish, and sorry for my lack of substance in response.
DJT is not a racist, but I repeat myself, don't I.
The forces are being aligned for a civil war. Extreme polarization of the people by the media. Ideological takeover of the armed forces and police. Blatant disregard of the rule of law by the elites.
Mass realization by the people that the government an oppressor, not a helper.
This has happened before - read the History of the Weimar republic in Germany.
When will it occur? My gut tells me in the winter of 2023 or early spring 2024 - before the 2024 election.
I worked with children who did not experience empathy. They say I have far too much. I cry a lot but I love to laugh, I never laugh at others. Maybe that is why I can't watch American television . I watched Seinfeld and cried at all the jokes.
I have no evidence and no proof but I suspect Trump's Scottish American mother loved her scotch.
The Democrats should have been destructed and reformed beginning with 2012. Obama was not popular. But that was the first election where Wall Street and the media, including Hollywood, collaborated with the Democrat party apparatus and broke American democracy by changing what was simple political spin to a full-blown coordinated propaganda enterprise to influence both consumer choice as well as voter choice. It began the massive election interference that Democrats needed to stay in power.
Democrats need to run their party politics like this because Democrat ideas have proven to suck.
Republican ideas are better, but the Republican party politicians suck at politics.
There was a recent analysis of mainstream media reporting on Trump's indictment and the FBI disclosure that there is a tape recording of Joe Biden taking a $5 million bribe payment from a Ukrainian business man. The stats were 291 to 0. Zero reports on the Biden story except Fox News of course. But for that day there were 291 hours devoted to the Trump indictment.
So if you are Bobby and Sally the regular American voter you didn't even know about old Joe's bad behavior, but you got blasted with a repeated story of Orange Man Bad.
This is propaganda.
This is election interference.
The mainstream corporate media is THE threat to democracy.
The mainstream corporate media is a weed that needs to be pulled out by the roots.
By 2012 the Democratic party’s favored outlets were just following the business model pioneered by Fox News long before. The media ecosystem was polarized along partisan lines before *that*, as Matt documented in his book ‘Hate, Inc.’
The real turning point was the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine decades before by Reagan conservatives.
Disagree. Fox News was a targeted drift from traditional news in that it was 80% opinions and 20% news. It always claimed it was opinion based. Its fair and balanced claim was that it included pundits from both sides. The traditional news drifted way left and Democrat while still claiming it was 90% news and 10% opinion.
Such a marketing angle is actually meant to imply the opposite of what you are describing—i.e., it implies Fox reports the ‘unbiased’ version of the news, whereas other outlets report the ‘biased’ version. That is the opposite of saying “our reporting is biased and opinionated, but we’re open about that fact.”
What made Fox new, at any rate, was not its bias per se, but its business strategy—to focus narrowly on a particular demographic and cater to its preferences, rather than the broadest possible demographic. That was totally different than the way it was assumed broadcast news was supposed to be run in the preceding era, where the model was to focus on as wide a viewership as possible. This new way of doing things was enabled, as I mentioned, by the repeal of the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ years before by Reagan conservatives, and then copied by Fox’s rivals once it proved lucrative for Fox. (Murdoch actually pioneered it beforehand in Australia, when he managed ‘Sky News’). The result is more or less the rank partisanship that defines broadcast news today. Again, Matt documents much of this in his work in ‘Hate, Inc.’
So I’m not exactly sure what you are basing the narrative you’ve outlined on, but it certainly isn’t historical fact.
Sorry for my heat. I am so done with the consolidation and left bias of almost all major media including big tech. 300 media hours of Trump indictment and zero hours on FBI report of tape recordings of Biden taking a $5M bribe from a Ukrainian business man... except for Fox News. The current corporate media is corrupting our democratic system... unethically influencing elections.
Just stop. You are pissing me off. I am so fucking sick of the coordinated left media attacks of Fox News. CNN abd MSNBC are propaganda arms of the Democrat party. Yet, like the NYT, they claim they are real news and journalism. Fox picked up a right political position because the mainstream media ignored that audience. But Fox has never lied about that bias. It's opinion hosts... the Fox shows that drive in the most viewers... never deny that they lean right. Contrast that to CNN, NSNBC, CBS, PBS, NPR. ABC, NYT, WAPO, etc., etc.... They all lean WAY left... shill for Democrats... and then fucking lie to everyone saying they are just news and facts and balanced. The idiot meme of Fox lying is based on only one report that the 2020 election was stolen by Democrats. Then the Twitter Files and the proof that it WAS stolen by the most breathtaking abuse of government power and corporatism we have ever experienced. Meanwhile the rest of the media lied about Trump Russia collusion, Golden showers, Hunter laptop, etc.... hundreds of lies. The DNC just puts them in, sends a memo and their puppet media fucks do the propaganda work like a good Goebbels follower.
I was simply repeating the word “wacky,” which is obviously open to the observer’s interpretation. My point was that we don’t have the luxury of sitting by comfortably & quietly when others liberties are removed. The discrepancy & random punishment of people who speak their mind should alarm all of us.
Eventually, every govt throughout history decides to suppress their citizens. We can deny that it could, or would, happen in America, but here we are.
1. The dude in the video with the fake Trump hair did a pretty good Trump imitation!
2. The camera work was really pretty good. Some of the stills could almost be Martin Parr photographs.
3. If this isn’t a picture of insanity then insanity needs a better definition.
4. You could take any high school civics class to this and it would be a better lesson than any book. Same for Ivy League govermint professors — they don’t know what they hell they’re talking about. If you took them here they’d probaably get into a fist fight. By their fruits you shall know they’re frrruitcakes.
5. The only thing this movie is really missing to be a box office mega success is a plot. In fact, the entire country doesn’t have a plot. And this is it.
6. You’d think people would have better things to do than this, but then you look at your own life. . . .enough said.
7. You could make a real movie that looked like this and nobody would believe it could happen like this in real life.
8. Probably 1 in 100 people is certifiably totally insane — that’s over 3 million people in the US alone. At least half of them were in this movie.
9. It’s hard to interview lunatics and get interesting answers. You really sort of put the psychiatrists hat on and wonder what medication they need.
10. Political psychosis is an undiagnosed mental illness.
Division among the masses became a prerogative of the Gov since Clinton’s term. The Security State and the DOJ have been fixated on those espousing certain forms of patriotism or deemed anti-gov. It is prevalent under Democrat presidents.
Janet Reno - Ruby Ridge (Bill Barr as a private citizen jumped in to protect the FBI), and Waco, the warning to all of us. Janet Napolitano DHS – 2009 report ‘veterans among terrorist risks to US’. 2015 DHS eyes them for ‘rightwing extremism’ so oops only meant ‘to give law enforcement situational awareness’. May 2021 doubles down - country is still struggling to deal with what she calls "enemies to democracy." "I think it's hard for us to recognize that we have enemies to democracy who are within our own population." Obama purged over 100 officers from the military and installed his finest. At least under Milley and Austin we can be thankful that all ‘rightwing extremists‘ were purged leaving an equitable military in a unique position in the world of being totally inclusive, without racism, bigotry or misogyny.
Democracy being the buzz word since Obama, who complained about the limitation of a republic as defined by the constitution. Biden’s FBI has issued numerous threat assessments. 90 percent warning the nation that ‘rightwing extremist’ are the most prevalent threat to our safety. Labeling is its preferred tool, but it also engages in entrapped and holding false flag operations. All you have to do to be a ‘rightwing extremist’ is not support the uniparty agenda and appear to vote the wrong way. Biden is also using Obama's 'gun toting bible thumping' euphemism to go after parent’s rights and right to life supporters.
Not to worry, Democracy - the election of Democrats - is secured in advance. We saw it with Biden’s basement campaign and a few outdoor drive-in events where he yelled at a half a dozen cars who braved the outing by honking back. I believe there were a few other outdoor events where maybe a dozen formed two distant circles to avoid the virus swirling around their heads in the open air. Biden was a sure winner all the way through the Democrat primary winning DC and 31 states, losing 19 including 7 Blues states. Surely his inauguration would have topped Obama’s in attendance given his vote total if D.C. had not been shut down and barricaded.
It is such a blessing that there are no extremist groups or individuals on the “Left” peacefully tearing apart cities, burning buildings and cars, killing people, and rioting on inauguration day Jan 2017. If there had been, they all certainly would have been giving jail time.
I watched it. It would not have matter if I muted the sound. I get the jitters just seeing video portraying a portion of an American city. The only time I see one is on film of a protest or riot. The high buildings, asphalt, concrete, brick, cement - nothing living, making every street an enclosed prison I don’t know how people live that way.
I spent a decade living in a Chicago southside ghetto. Obama lost the Democratic primary to a buffoon but he was a local buffoon not a foreign buffoon like myself or the Kenyan Moslem.
Good idea, I still hear the madness. I'm suddenly reminded of a great film "Medium Cool" filmed by Haskell Wexler which brought in the madness of the '68 dem convention.
They should be writing to their elected officials to find out what legislation they have voted on and why. Protesting at a Trump event is like being angry that you lost at 3 Card Monte. Elected officials, like MTG and George Santos, we there to tell everyone to look the other way.
This is people of Walmart, look at the crazies so they can then tell the 7 people watching their show that ALL people who are Republican are like this. Just like the 2 or 3 places you can actually get Right leaning news go out and find the Drag shows to rile up their 17 viewers.
Twitter is even worse. "Educated" opinion based on 22 words or less.
I did, and it's an apt analogy. The website "People of Walmart" is not indicative of everybody that shops there, but it is used to say that it is. I have a friend that lives on the outskirts of Paris and when he came here all he wanted to do was go to Walmart, because he believed it would be just like the videos.
Absolute Soveriegn Immunity is the cancer that has grown since it's first return as "Royal" powers again for a class or titled people in government in 1793. It's return was decided by the US Supreme Court and it has grown into the DEMS - Democrats Empowering Marxism Socialism via central controlling powers to enforce millions of laws in-discriminately and selectively against Americans that still believe in the rights of liberty and it's protections within - the United States Constitution.
All gov employees are immune to the same laws Citizens are under when it comes to being accountable to Constitutional violations gov employees violate against the citizen they wrong - mostly today by weaponizing the laws and never being accountable under scrutiny of a JURY OF YOUR PEERS.
Soveriegn Immunity powers blocks you having a right to drag gov malfeasance people into court to be judged and accountable in your absolute constitutional right to a jury of your peers to evaluate a gov employee's abuses against you no matter how bad.
Only they can allow you to sue them which is insanity. How can there be 2 systems of justice, well there are and your watching the "Immunes" work it against Trump. And its coming for -YOU!!!!
Who do you think the mainstream corporate media works for? Did you think of that?Apparently you have a hard time conceiving that it is possible that Biden and Trump are BOTH sociopaths and that NEITHER party has a fucking clue as to how to deal with the fact that the USA isn’t the big swinging dick that it was once. We’re going to hell on roller skates so let’s just enjoy the ride.
Wow ! What a profoundly empty statement. If I were a coward would I be actively engaging in volunteering in my city 5 days a week at a local animal shelter? Do cowards teach ESL classes as a volunteer twice a week for 20 years? You don’t know me so don’t judge me with your shallow opinions. You keep ranting online and I’ll keep helping others with my time and talents while letting others argue about wether the Republicans or the Democrats are fucking us the hardest!
Ok I will clarify: The definition of fatalism is, to me, cowardly because one has no input to change a pre-controlled timeline of events around you and makes a good excuse not to resist. I have no response to you personally but what I read described fatalism.
The truth is this. The Left and Right are more divided than ever, but the people who are on Twitter, and YouTube and everywhere else are the fringes of each side. The Internet left is happy to go out and find the super whacky right, and the Internet right is happy to go out and find the Super Whacky left.
The truth is that most of us live in the middle. Most of us are shocked by the stupidity of both sides. The MAGA brains and the LBGT#E@OUTLKNM< ASOUQWW+-2372huthut crowd are insane.
That doesn't mean that your politicians are crooks and mine are acquitted. No... it means MOST of our national politicians are dirty, and likely all of them should be behind bars. The truth is that most of them enter office fairly wealthy (because it's the only way you can get there), and by the time they have spent just a few years in office they are INSANELY wealthy while collecting a measley $175k per year to do a full time job. You do the math folks.. It's not hard to do.
It's a Uniparty. They encourage divisiveness to keep their base riled up. Neither party is interested in helping the plebes in the middle.
My favorite argument in the world is when people start screaming Soros, and Gates, and Ken Griffin, and the Koch's. Like.. come on people. They aren't enemies. They are working together to make themselves more powerful.
If you've never had the privilege of speaking with an actual billionaire, it's a trip and a half. I've been fortunate enough to have minimal conversations with 2 of them. They legitimately know they have more money than even their grandkids will go through, and it's no longer about money for them. It's about power over others. These are the masters of the world and the people making decisions, but we sit here arguing about Pelosi, and Schumer, and Schiff, and Turtlehead, and McCarthy.. It's laughable if it weren't so incredibly sad.
We should all be united against the WEF and anybody that speaks for them. This is the story that Matt should be doing, but sadly, if he dug around here, we wouldn't have him anymore.
You described the enablers and their puppets.
Most reside in the middle. The middle are those who don’t rock the boat, who follow the crowd while proclaiming they don’t. They scoff at anyone with wacky ideas that don’t comport with the sensible among us. They are embarrassed by them. They want the lying & stealing to stop, but they want it to be done sensibly & preferably behind the scenes.
The people who reside safely in the middle took the vax voluntarily. Mattias Desmet describes how 90+% of the population lives in this space, the safe space. These are the people who benefit by the actions taken by the wacky & brave 5-10%.
Our country is on fire. If more don’t risk becoming “wacky” then the safe middle will be a thing of the past.
This is a great comment, and proof that I can't write worth a crap. haha. All true. The problem however is this. Most of our safety is already a thing of the past. The Dollar is about to be bounced out of it's reserve currency status, and when that day finally arrives? That's when the true masters will be revealed. My money is on it still being the Davos crowd, but I guess we'll see, since I won't have any money left like 99.5% of the rest of you assuming you live in the US.
The rumored displacement of the dollar as the world's reserve currency. If I had a dollar for every time I've heard this I'd be in possession of my own reserve currency. The dollar ain't goin' nowhere anytime soon.
Perhaps. I've been hearing it for 5 decades myself. But recent actions have sort of made it closer to a reality with the BRICS and even the EU moving away from Oil for Dollars. Really, that's it. If Oil is no longer paid for in dollars, and our military can't just go into whatever nation has a crazy leader that says they are going to start paying in gold and bomb them to the stoneage.. well.. that's when it will actually happen.
Gold? The Rub? The Ren? No viable alternative exists that could possibly replace the dollar currently. The whole "backed by the U.S. military" aspect of the dollar's strength is overdrawn---the dollar is effectively the world's reserve currency by default. U.S. soft power is the dollar's strength, especially the ready supply of reliably safe U.S. Treasury bonds--this alone continues to make the dollar more attractive than any other currency by a long shot. All subject to change, of course, by previously unseen events.
It’s likely going to eventually happen, but the doomerism surrounding it is stupid. It’ll likely look similar to the way Great Britain lost reserve currency status. The US will lose more of its already waning hegemony, but in the long term it will be fine. If the doomers were right the UK ought to be a barren hellscape right now; instead it’s an imperfect, but fairly prosperous developed country.
One thing the US can depend on is other countries' capacity to debase their own currency as quickly as the Fed does. The biggest threat to the dollar is that the market for T-bonds collapses in times of inflation, and the Fed has to raise interest rates to keep up. Once that happens, Congress needs to borrow more money just to pay the vig. Since there's nowhere to borrow it, it has to be created, which means more money chasing the same goods and services, which, of course, results in even higher inflation, etc. etc. Once that fire is lit, it becomes harder and harder to put out.
Deliberate. It is all deliberate. Brilliant strategy of divide and conquer, creating increasingly absurd wedge issues so that when one national controversy abates, another ginned up one seamlessly takes its place. This continues ad nauseam, exhausting the body politic and distracting them (us) from the civilization changing moves which are taking place, largely without scrutiny. They are nearly finished with their work, whoever "they" are. It might be Davos centered, but with true power comes a practiced anonymity. Horrible and heartbreaking to see so many Americans living completely unaware that they will someday be slaves, where once we were free.
you will own nothing and be happy
You will eat bugs, own nothing, and be happy.
Not if you read 'The Fountainhead': 'Atlas Shrugged' and 'Anthem' by Ayn Rand.
Not if we are all prepared to write about the Marxist slide of the DisUnited States so well planned by the Obama regime.
Are you prepared to keep writing about America's tragic path even as citizens are being imprisoned for 22 years for NOT being at the Capitol Building on Jan 6th?
Are you prepared to push back against the armed FBI banging down your door with guns drawn?
Are you going to be like the cowards at Fox who see the destruction of their country; who sit on comfortable seats, whine and then go home to their comfortable houses to write stupid books?
Or are you willing to risk everything for your kids, your work, your home, your family and your freedom?
Your fathers and grandfathers did it in world wars, civil wars and let President's send them on proxy war.
Your mothers and grandmothers did it to keep the family together as the menfolk died...What are you prepared to give up for your kids and your country?
We got a better shot with Marx than with that Rand lady.
I own very little and am growing more peevish by the day...
Thank you for this and I might just have you trash me by saying that in my opinion only one man can bring about the political victory of the culture war being fought now and the civil war that has begun.
The people in the middle voted for President Trump because the clinton-woman despised them and they had been forgotten by the Obama administration.
The people in the middle voted for President Trump and then worked the jobs that he brought back to America...even as the swamp tried to destroy him.
The people in the middle took the tax breaks the President brought about and the gasoline prices the President's policies brought about and smiled through the holidays they could have.
And then the people in the middle had a life so good that they closed their eyes to the Russia and Ukraine hoaxes. They closed their eyes to the FBI/CIA/DOJ/IRS constantly attacking the people who brought about the improved economic conditions and the 'good life'.
They closed their eyes to the President when he was able to manage the impossible task of a vaccine in less than a year (a vaccine I did not take because I am a healthy individual and didn't trust it.
Finally those people in the middle (many of them, unfortunately sat on their asses as an election was stolen by the FBI, by state representatives, by state courts and even SCOTUS.
They said and did nothing.
I think that it's a liitle known fact that the whole of America did not rise up against the British Empire and fight for liberty. It was, in the beginning a small minority of the country.
Just as it is a small minority of the country willing to stand up to the FBI/DOJ and IRS now...life is too good (at the moment).
The lives of your kids and grandkids is going to be so much worse that the people in the middle will wish that they'd fought for their children's future.
They closed their eyes to the
This is my concern as well. In my recent experience, a normal live and let live liberal will be triggered by PTO activist posts and school board decisions. They prove that the censorship and absurd ideology we think can’t progress in our real lives will, if left unchecked, consume us all. Recently, I did speak up and discovered a diverse group of parents were speaking up with me. Our children are our trigger. So I don’t worry about the normal folks informed by alternative media. It’s the ones who would feel very differently if they had any idea what was going on. How do you explain that the media you’ve traditionally relied on has misinformed you? A normal person would want to know why they would do that. I’m not sure I know, but I’m afraid the answer is in the “wacky” category. Which is why I prefer to talk to my friends about aliens...seems a less stigmatized subject than “fake news.”
Yes. See below.
What sort of "wacky" are you advocating? If I may ask.
"No... it means MOST of our national politicians are dirty, and likely all of them should be behind bars."
IMO, our politics is transactional and entertainment. So, the pols indicate the nature of their supporters as people seem to vote as to what they want from a pol and to show their support of their statements, behavior, antics, etc. As there is no substance to the American people, there is no substance in those in office.
The republicans use power to gain money and the democrats use money to gain power. The republicans have admitted they 'make more money when our guys lose' on multiple occasions
I will be content with America First as it is shown to work based upon cheap fossil fuel development as it is the basis or our lives.
Turd,
I agree but in my dictionary left and right follow their dictionary meaning and conservative means opposing evolution.
From Dr Johnson's 1755 Dictionary the one that fraudster and sophist Scalia used to pervert the American constitution.
Conservative
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=conservative
evolution
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=evolution
I believe in evolution.
Conservatism is the worship of ancient superstition.
"Conservatism is the fear filled worship of dead radicals," Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain
Surely one doesn't have to be a reference librarian (I was; retired now) to know there's nothing so damaging to sound judgment as relying on an out-of-date reference work. Never buy last year's travel guide.
Well, I am a classic liberal raised by a union official. I am by today's standards a conservative. I am agnostic, though I have many conservative views. Like many things today. We can't judge things today by yesterday, or yesterday by today. I am sure Dr Johnson was spot on in 1755. Dr Johnson would be a quack today. History is a wonderful thing and removing history because of feels is one of the definitions of stupidity today.
The closest I can come to categorizing myself is "recovering liberal". The scales have fallen from my eyes as a result of the Covid nonsense, so my current tendency is to reject all labeling.
I agree there too. My problem is that in my mind. Liberals are actually slightly right of center now. At least Liberals we knew 20 years ago. Today the left is all Progressives, and not even Teddy Roosevelt progressives. This is something WAY different.
This is why labeling makes no sense to me. Not only is it squishy and changeable, not to mention often relativistic (neo- or post- anything), from what I've read left and right have opposite meanings in other places—Europe, for example.
thank you turd, but there is no such thing as a classic liberal. Liberalism is about evolution conservative is about trusting ancient superstition.
A classic liberal understands the world is always evolving.
Pierre Eliot Trudeau was a neoliberal his son Justin is a classical liberal.
I believe Kansas' Right to Work is rule of law Freedom is Slavery as Orwell so well recognized in 1949.
Conservatives haven't changed in 70,000 years. Conservatives believe "all men are created equal but some are more equal than others." Stalin in Animal Farm
Johnson would be a GOP intellectual today ,in fact he is a GOP intellectual just like Reagan and Trump. Have you read Taxation No Tyranny? Substitute American for English.
In Quebec our unions are more powerful than our government. Unions represent people and democracy is about people not institutions.
What are the standards in 1984?
I am a Cornell West liberal not a Biden Neoliberal.
Have you read Boswell. Johnson was a piece of shit just like some GOP governors.
In Quebec our conservative government is social democrat. Bernie Sanders is a conservative in our social democracy.
Health education and welfare are rights not privileges.
Race , gender and religion are not REAL. Religion is banned in our public institutions we teach ancient myth in ancient literature and Darwin in science and history.
Have you read Boswell? Johnson was a piece of shit InSantis wouldn't have a shot if Johnson ran for governor. Johnson was a piece of shit but he was a charismatic piece of shit.. I suspect however the Tourettes would look good on television. I love Zizek but....
I leave with aa song every turd would enjoy
Merde
30 seconds of pure joy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpRmGxoqCYc
I'll kindly choose to disagree with you. Sorry... We aren't all in nice tidy little bins. We are many shades of color and nuance.
We are not tidy but we are all nice it is just nice is subjective reality and I don't do subjective reality my reality is mine and mine alone.
Listen closely
to Malvina Reynolds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cjk0zst3Cs
Definitions aren't set in stone. Hard to be very dogmatic about them.
Orwell tried to stop New speech and now we call Newspeak Orwellian and it is the language not only of politics but of commerce and religion.
Thanks
That is probably why I love Chomsky and Pinker they are linguistic philosophers and they studied the evolution of language. Conserve means to delay spoiling.
Dr Johnson said to conserve is conforming to God's design and design gang aft agley.
I like Robbie Burns but you'd think in a town filled with Presbyterians I could find a good Haggis.
Speaking of George Soros some words span the centuries.
In 1755 Dr Johnson defined a cabal thusly.
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=cabal
The secret secret science of Hebrew Rabbins
My father told me when I was bouncing on his knee if you want to keep a secret don't tell a Hebrew Rabbin they deal in gossip; it is their vocation.
Your comment "I believe in evolution" is strange. No scientist "believes" in evolution. Scientists understand evolutionary biology and use it in their work (I did for 30+ years) but don't believe it. That is contrary to the very basic requirements for science to work.
Bingo!
"Belief" is religion.
My wife is an American philosopher with a Master's Degree from the University of Chicago in Science education. My father in law was a scientist. You are full of bovine excrement.
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=philosophy
Newton said: "We are standing on the shoulders of giants." Did you graduate from Liberty University? Maybe you teach at Liberty they teach baseball very well.
Evolution remains scientific theory almost two hundred since Darwin accepted an invitation to travel on the Beagle.
In Western civilization; science has been the study of evolution since Archimedes was a puppy and Aristotle was soiling his diapers.
I think what he means is that you are substituting the idea of "belief", for "degree of certainty". If you say "I am certain that the theory of evolution is basically correct", people will understand you better.
Thanks Smiley but doesn't the theory of evolution is still scientific theory express certitude. I don't jump off rooftops because of the theory of gravity. Scientific theory expresses certitude until the theory is found to be in error.
If they found Noah Ark Darwin's theory would be proven to be in error. They could find Noah's Ark buried in my backyard or maybe they can't.
May if I prayed loud enough I could fly but I believe in gravity and at 75 I could be gravely injured./attempted satire
I don't think so. A theory is a tentative description requiring proof. Not all of Darwin's theory is proven, and geneticists do disagree with parts of it. A beleif, on the other hand, connotes an element of faith.
Please understand I love watching baseball but Jerry Falwell was a paper Christian and paper Christians hate evolution.
Jefferson wrote the American Bible. He believed in evolution. He was a botanist that altered genetics before Darwin wrote Origin of the species.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible
lol lulz rofl
It’s odd that you’ve chosen an open minded, thoughtful Substack discussion to display your hatred for conservatives & Judge Scalia.
I always look forward to reading thoughts from people who post on Taibbi’s Substack. In general, they all want to expand their understanding. After all, that’s why we listen to Matt & Walter. Close-mindedness that’s wedded to a particular dogma doesn’t lend itself to free expression. It feels downright anachronistic.
I hate fascism and ignorance . Do you want me to lie?
I am not an American. I thought America was evolving and then you elected Fred C Koch's Ronald Wilson Reagan and you went backwards in time when feudalism was the order of the day.
Scalia was a fraud and phony and Reagan was a bastard and a son of a bitch who betrayed his country for thirty pieces of silver.
I knew Carter was a truth teller and Reagan sold cigarettes to children when he knew the results of smoking.
Guilty as charged.
I am not wedded to any dogma other than things change and we adapt to the change or go extinct.
I love America more than you can possibly understand and I hate FASCISM.
During the last two podcast episodes, Walter has voiced the concern of many that we may be heading for some sort of major national calamity, driven by the media's seeming desire to foment as much mutual animus as possible. What might that calamity look like, one wonders?
I could imagine widespread rioting following a possible Trump 2024 victory. The Left, it seems, has reason to believe they can riot w/o any serious penalties. Other possible scenarios for where this all may be leading?
Trump from the beginning has been used to divert attention away from real issues, not only our past, but our planned future, He has been used to divert people's attention away from 16 years of wars and mass murder that we have engaged in during the Bush/Cheney and Obama years. Nothing liberal about either administration including that of Obama, and many seem blinded to that reality preferring to turn him into something good that happened in between. Divide a country with Trump and controversial groups that sow division in terms of religion and ideologies and you weaken it and those in power become more powerful. Trump has become the boogeyman and responsible for all that is wrong in America. He's a scapegoat, and has always been used in that way, and shame on the left who soaked that BS up and spread it. He's a diversion from what we are doing on a global level and the control we exert over countries other then our own. We have become more of an empire and are pushing that agenda further in our support for war between Russia and Ukraine. When Liz Cheney can parade her father through the halls of the January 6th comm, a man responsible for millions of dead, black sites and prisons then you can see how Trump has been used to blind us to our own past and divert us from our hegemonic agenda that continues with diminished resources for our fellow Americans that they are turning against each other, and as they become more, and more autocratic.
He wasn't diverting attention from those wars. He ended them, one after the other.
Korea, Syria, Afghanistan, drew down forces across the Middle East and Europe.
He was impeached for stopping the warmongering in Ukraine.
The FBI knew what was on the Biden laptop in 2019. Their actions to get Biden elected while knowing about his corruption say it all.
I don't know how they let this happen, but he was at a televised meeting, small one, and it broke up and he was left behind with a bunch of cameramen and reporters and he referenced our many wars as stupid, that have cost so many lives and cost Americans so much money. When I saw it, he gets a big thumbs up from me, but what about all our war mongering candidates who support our war machine and out hegemonic agenda. Tucker on Twitter said they got rid of Trump because he was not pro war and maybe they got rid of Tucker because he wasn't either.
But "they" didn't get rid if either one- still here an kicking
Good for them. Tucker on Twitter said they got rid of Trump because he is not pro war, and I think they vilified Tucker because he was not selling us into wars. I hope both stick around for a long time.
maddow and tapper are now being quoted on television, that they won't air any speech by trump because it's too dangerous.
Trump allowed neocons to advise on appointments. His picks for SOS were awful, as neither purged the department of the warmongers and they talked him into sellling javelins to Ukraine, which all but said it had a war on its hands.
And the laptop, it did not swing the election. It was stolen, plain and simple.
Trump was so far in over his head it was really amazing. Trump is what some would call a shrewd (see mildly corrupt) businessman. The world of politics is so many levels above corrupt businessman it's like an MMO. Trump was playing level 17 and DC politics is full lvl 90 with elite gear!
Both Clinton and Obama and now Biden, all purged the national security departments, SOS and DOJ outright - day one. Trump was hamstrung with the outing of Flynn, the neutering of Sessions and by rino and neocon suckups that did the bidding of the uniparty to keep Trump in line. I like to think Trump learned some lessons but we may never know.
Let's not forget the Cheney administration. 'Ol Dick set up the future of our government with his actions. Obama and the Chicago crooks came in and just took it to the next stratosphere. It's a game, and people just keep buying into it thinking "their people" are the better of the 2. It's like rooting for the Sith Apprentice to overtake the master. They really are both evil and dangerous, but because the Apprentice is more relatable we root for them.
"The world of politics is so many levels above corrupt businessman it's like an MMO."
You need to reword this replacing the words "above corrupt" with "below successful" and then it will be accurate.
Do you have anything else. That's all you say, every thread. Shut up already.
You miss the point about the laptop. It isn’t about the election. Read it again.
They wanted him elected even though he would have been seen in 1820 as committing treason. All Democrats are above the law as long as the top Dem says they are. You said they wanted him elected and held the goods on the laptop. Has they not held the goods on the laptop he still would have been elected is what I am saying.
You still miss the point.
They knew he was violating all kinds of law but instead of bringing him up on charges, they illegally interfered in the election to put him into office.
Trump isn’t given credit for keeping us out of war but lambasted for not harping on about past wars.
Does the Times know about all of this?
who tells the Times what to print?
As Chris Hedges said who use to work for them Times, but they no longer want him. They feed their democratic audience what they want to hear. That's what they have come down to. The operate solely to make money and to hell with reporting the truth.
That's a pretty weak president you're describing---allowing himself to be used to divert attention from the real issues. Where was our man Don when all this diverting was happening? He couldn't step in and say, "Now look here, no more using me to divert attention away from the real issues, none of which I'm vaguely familiar with or remotely interested in but...
Perhaps doing his own diverting? A grift here, a grift there---pretty soon everyone's attention is diverted.
I guess you forgot how the left were at his first inauguration..seems like that is the standard threat they use..nation wide riots if he is elected..can't imagine they would be any worse than antifa and blm..none of whom were ever punished..in Tennessee as a matter of fact..one who participated was elected to the house..ejected because of his insurrection activities and then had to be allowed back in because of stupid people..
Not riots but a big showing of protest. These were called"Women's March."
The "We Will Resist" protests were a soft election denial insurrection that led to several attempted coups of the Trump Administration.
Wow! I guess I must have missed the massive international news reporting that must have occurred covering not one, not two, but “several attempted coups of the Trump Administration.” Pray tell, what sources may I avail myself of to read up on this fantastic series of events that NOBODY I KNOW has ever spoken of.
You apparently don't get out of your crunchy coastal liberal tribe very often to talk to people that are not in your same information bubble. Look up the definition of "coup" and get back to me. Hint, it is not 100 bearded construction workers inflamed by FBI plants pushing their way into a government building owned by the people.
Brother Frank you assume I’m something that I’m not. I have been fighting against “crunchy” liberals since the 70’s. I’ve also been fighting for anybody’s right to be happy in whatever manner they choose. I haven’t voted anything but third party since 1972 and my political take is that anyone who thinks our two party capitalist system is sustainable is deluded. Democrats AND Republicans are beyond corrupt so mutual aid and service in one’s community has always been the answer for me. There is a paradigm shift that has begun and I’m gonna keep on truckin’. I never judge others by their words, their actions are always the tell.
They certainly laid the groundwork for continuing effort.
There were many protests in 2017--a worldwide protest on January 21, 2017--not riots.
This is the Wikipedia article.
The main protest was in Washington, D.C., and is known as the Women's March on Washington with many other marches taking place worldwide. The Washington March was streamed live on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. The Washington March drew over 470,000 people. Between 3,267,134 and 5,246,670 people participated in the marches in the U.S., approximately 1.0 to 1.6 percent of the U.S. population. Worldwide participation has been estimated at over seven million.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Women%27s_March
Jan-6 was 98% protest with 2% violent idiots.
John Lewis spoke at the one in Atlanta and it was calm.
The “national calamity” is going to be secession and national divorce. I will be shocked and amazed if there are still 50 states in 20 years.
Whatever the calamity will be it will be much more controlled than this. It will be obvious without being obvious. It also likely will be instituted by the new unelected Healthcare bureaucracy that is about to gain great levels of decision making control over most of the globe including us here in the US.
The Vegas odds are short on a smattering of right-wing "uprisings"---even in the face of a 10 million popular vote wipeout of Trump. If your left-wing "riot" is predicated on a Trump electoral victory, you need not worry.
Idk about anything about Vegas odds..but are u dismissing the polls? Trump is consistently coming out ahead in basically all of them.
a poll 16mos before an election is more or less as reliable as a trip to that local fortune teller who lives above a storefront. just words!
Polls are useless now. Polls are just modern tools of propaganda and mind control now. Most people lie to pollsters or don't answer them at all.
I know lots of people who feel like pollsters are just using the word "poll" to push an agenda. They feel it is 100% OK to tell the opposite of what they really think. So, yes.
The issue with polls is language. "Do you support Affirmative Action" would get a yes from me, because affirmative action was used first to describe something everyone should support - increasing the size of the available talent pool for jobs and education by acting affirmatively to advertise in periodicals appealing to under=represented groups, by reaching out to job fairs and college selection venues appealing to underrepresented groups.
"Do you support racial preferences in hiring and education" receives a "No" from me. It's an entirely different beast. I want merit used for selection. No diversity selections for surgeons, engineers, architects and the list goes on.
My father was a union arbitrator in the 80's. I can tell you with absolute certainty that "Affirmative Action" in writing was FAR different than in practice. It essentially was quotas, and quotas simply don't work, and create more divisiveness which allows politicians to further divert the populace from their true intentions. Which is grifting.
Good point. But what other metrics can we use? Vegas odds actually sounds kinda interesting to me. Maybe the odds could factor in insider information and other real world factors driven by money and finance rather than just opinion polls and speculation.
Do you not remember the polls before the 2016 election? Hillary was predicted to win by a large margin.
Polls are just marketing tools. And they work, because people pay attention to them and adjust their opinions accordingly.
Don't misread me---I think it would be really cool to see an incarcerated felon elected president. Top-shelf gangster shit right there.
If the left pushes the American middle class too far, they may end up dangling from ropes.
Rioting is a bipartisan affair. Ask workers at Target and the folks on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6. It’s what people do when their minds have been numbed and warped by social media and made political discourse just ‘too much work’ and ‘too boring’.
What 'left'? There is no left.
Can I suggest all houses be painted Blue or red and my people live in purple houses and everybody gets to choose which colour house they wish to live in and get to choose blue schools and red schools or purple schools and you have blue governments and red governments and purple governments. Nobody gets to force their neighbours to choose their colours. Blue libraries have books and red libraries have FOX. Blue hosppitals have technology and red hospitals have leeches., I been to crimson Michigan and leeches would be an improvement. I've been to Dallas but none of the bars served hemlock and gin with a twist of lime.
The Troubles of Northern Ireland
Mayor Adams is insanely racist. Hard to believe somebody that racist can get voted into power.
Please cite evidence of his racism
there isn't any evidence, although a lot of people still believe the "good people on both sides" hoax. Asked directly for proof, most accusers will simply at once change the subject.
Thank you Ken,
Hannah Arendt spoke about human banality.
Irving Layton died two decade ago.
He said" let's stop talking about the Holocaust we don't want to give them any ideas."
How about a speech where he said that he and other black officers were simuch better than the honky ones.
I think he said "peckerwoods," not "honkies."
Speaking of euphamisms for "caucasian", the former is worse.
Speaking of the literal, I'd rather be a peckerwood...I think.
The proof is in John Adams library. He was a federalist and said democracy is a pipe dream. John Adams library was all written in Latin and Greek good luck finding the proof.
John Adams believed all men are created equal but some are more equal than others. John Adams was a conservative and conservatives do not believe in evolution. That is why in 1800 Adams refused to recognize the evolutionist Thomas Jefferson as President.
Conservatives believe ancient superstition is better than even FOX News.
"Conservatism is the fear filled worship of dead radicals." Markus Twainius America's great Socratic philosopher
Good thing we did not get a 'democracy' then huh.
Speaking strictly for myself the democratic quiet revolution in Quebec told me secular humanist liberal democracy is just what I and my American philosopher partner hoped America would become.
There are no such things as race, gender and religion.
My wife is still getting used to being asked what she needs not what she wants. It is nice to grow old and know you are safe and secure. Our government has 70% approval but their chances next election is 50/50 at best and nobody knows what party or philosophy will be in power after the election but after the election it will have the support of 70% because the government is the manager and we are the shareholders.
I live in a country where we receive six hours of housekeeping every week from an immensely talented woman who follows my instruction in the kitchen and understands our needs. So far in the last two months our nurse, physio therapist, occupational therapist and some outside nurses have come to provide flu and covid injections and our Social Worker was here on Monday and agreed to return in six months because I don't know what will happen in a year.
e pay taxes in Quebec, Michigan, Ottawa and Washington and our income exceeds our expenditures on a modest pension incomes and a select harvest in our sustainable forest every five or six years.
Enough is a feast.
Reagan was a fascist and a liar. The government is not the enemy. It is our government and we are the boss. Corporations care only for profit we are an obstacle not an ally of greed and ammorality.
Now if one the grandchildren only wanted to leave the city and live on a mountain top down by the deep blue sea all would be well in our world but we aren' t London, New York, Chicago or Greensboro.
This is Jesse Winchester he wrote music and lyrics for Nashville but dodged the draft and lived near us here in Quebec's boonies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKAOalE_jm0
I miss Jesse he left here and returned Nashville when they stopped blacklisting draft dodgers.
John Denver and Jimmy Buffett covered this song but my wife and I own it.
I saw him live just before he left this Vale of tears.
We still drive and shop but my wife loves reading and studying philosophy and I love writing when I am awake and I enjoy my cannabis which I order from a giant catalogue and order like I order from Amazon and Canada Poste is as good as Amazon when it comes to delivery.
In Quebec Amazon workers are guaranteed health education and welfare and in Quebec Unions are more powerful than government.
I like liberal democracy American democracy is neither fish nor fowl. Franklin was right America's bird is a stuffed turkey. Thanksgiving here and we have two is a single drumstick and some wild Cranberry sauce for us and a little more turkey when we have visitors.
It's because NY (white) voters are just as racist.
Not that I agree with much of what Malcolm X said, but man was he spot on about that.
I think I agreed with him more than I wanted to!
See: "Trump, Donald, 45th President of the United States."
Please cite evidence of Trump's racism.
His Crime Bills almost tripled the Black population in prison (one in three Black men becomes a felon)-- no wait, that was Joe Biden
His Drug Bills made a 100-fold sentencing disparity between crack cocaine (Blacks predominant users) and powder cocaine (wealthy white users)-- no that was Joe Biden
He said that desegregation (he opposed busing) could result in his children growing up in "a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point."-- no that was Joe Biden (he later noted that Poor kids are just as bright as white kids)
He gave the eulogy to an Exalted Cyclops of the KKK in 2010-- no wait, that was Joe Biden
He said "In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking."-- no that was Joe Biden
He mocked “hundreds of thousands” of call center jobs going overseas, talking in a bad Indian accent-- no that was Joe Biden
He said ""I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."-- no that was Joe Biden
He said “Latinx” people don’t want to get vaccinated because they’re worried they’ll be deported.-- no that was Joe Biden
Speaking of Blacks, he said “They are used to being experimented on—the Tuskegee Airmen and others,”-- no that was Joe Biden (and Walensky "honored" the Tuskegee victims for their "sacrifice"; wonder how she would have reacted if someone "honored" the "sacrifice" of Holocaust victims?)
He said "unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”-- no that was Joe Biden
He bought an ad calling for restoration of the death penalty in the Central Park Five case where the woman jogger was raped, beaten and left for dead by serial rapist Matias Reyes. On the same day, over 20 teenagers from east Harlem went "wilding", assaulting and robbing people in Central Park. The Central Park Five admitted to the assaults and robberies, but none said they had raped the jogger, although they said they had watched others and held the woman down-- that was Donald Trump's Big Racist instance!
He said "When do we beat Mexico at the border? They’re laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me. But they’re killing us economically. The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems. Thank you. It’s true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we’re getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They’re sending us not the right people. It’s coming from more than Mexico. It’s coming from all over South and Latin America, and it’s coming probably— probably— from the Middle East. But we don’t know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don’t know what’s happening. And it’s got to stop and it’s got to stop fast."-- Donald Trump again, he always gives long rambling answers and State Media cherry-picks their quotes.
All our politicians are racists. When Biden says or does something racist, it is dismissed as a harmless gaffe or mistake. When Trump says something racist, he is excoriated.
Excellent post Michael 888!
Bravo!!!
Ditto.
My next child will be named Michael888.
I must admit Biden isn't the brightest bulb on the tree but Trumps is dimmer than dark. The logic escapes me,Delaware didn't know which side to join in 1860 and has more corporations than people and has more of the 500 than the rest of the states combined. When you have two neoliberal spouting nonsense you turn off the TV you don't bother with the debate.
No substance, all opinion.
But I strongly suspect you are an anti-Capitalist (i.e. neo-liberal).
I am Canadian. We are not Americans. John Ralston Saul says neoliberalism is neither new nor liberal it is feudalism in fancy clothes. Capitalism is a weasel word because all human society is capitalist. The definition of capitalism is how a society operates. I support small business but I remember the Irish genocide where the bottom 20% of Catholic peasants were starved to death or sold to the new cites of the Industrial revolution. The voice of the neoliberal landlords was THE ECONOMIST and they urged that no food be sent to Ireland's peasants because the only thing that mattered were the landlords and their profits. I know when Swift wrote his Modest Proposal Ireland didn't know potatoes.
I have but one opinion. People are angry and pissed off in the richest Empire that ever existed and same old same old doesn't work and I live in Quebec which I fled in 1970 and now after the revolution people are optimistic and looking forward and America is wallowing in a cesspool of false memories.
What opinions?
You notice I give references and historical records liike the Toleration Act of 1689 and John Adams library and Jefferson's Bible and the invasion of Mexico and Reagan's Time for Choosing.
"Perception is reality ." Voltaire I spent my childhood alone in the library. I know if I want to know about life in Victorian England I read Dickens. I know if I want to know American or Russian 19th century reality I read Twain. I know Woodrow Wilson was racist and a fascist and I know I was breathing when the average American no longer lived in poverty and I was born in 1948 not 1776. I know the Wilson Administration botched both the war and the influenza epidemic and Hoover was a ignorant fool. I know FDR rescued "Capitalism" from its worst feudal intentions.
I didn't go to university I am still learning how to write.
I know we can't see the future only prepare for likely scenarios. That is my opinion and your welcome to listen.
Please.
He's a human being. He's definitely some sort of 'ist. We all are. Every human that breathes is some sort of ist, and at least somewhat racist. Anybody who denies that fact needs to stop speaking, as they simply aren't honest, or intelligent.
But by the modern day definition of a racist? He's old, he's white, and he's wealthy. There is the proof. Can we now move on to topics that actually are going to affect or possibly end our lives? Like $30T of debt, or the uber billionaires that actually do run our nation?
I am not racist.
This disproves your hyperbolic over-generalization.
My statement stands. Sorry.
So do mine. Not sorry.
Never apologize for speaking the truth.
Bravo! Dipshit!
Agreed!
I thought you'd never ask. Why, just for starters, Trumps very first appearance in the pages of New York Times way back in 1973. A wee lad at the tender age of 27. The occasion?
The Department of Justice sued Trump and his old man, Fred, "charging them with violating the Fair Housing Act of 1968 in the operation of 39 buildings.
“The government contended that Trump Management had refused to rent or negotiate rentals ‘because of race and color,’ ” The Times reported. “It also charged that the company had required different rental terms and conditions because of race and that it had misrepresented to blacks that apartments were not available.”
Donny boy hit the ground running with the racist shit. Course his old man was a notoriously virulent racist and bigot too. This kind of unfortunate retrograde posture runs in families, I'm afraid. Apple don't fall far from the tree...
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2015/07/30/1973-meet-donald-trump/?_r=0&smid=tw-share
Charged? *Not* convicted?
Come on, M. feldspar, you use too many words to say nothing.
Just the facts Trump and his father understood the law was racist so they protested the unjust laws.
Just the facts. The truth , the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
"Perception is reality." Voltaire
Do you really want to debate Voltaire?/s
Anyone who thinks & repeats, Trump is a racist, is repeating what they’ve heard from the prepared script. They aren’t curious enough, or have the energy to investigate. Instead, they want to a big shot by repeating common, worn out phrases.
Would anyone who reads or listens to Matt put on a striped jumpsuit & run in front of a presidential motorcade? This is a perfect opportunity for the unstable to howl at the moon.
"...Anyone who thinks & repeats, Trump is a racist, is repeating what they’ve heard from the prepared script. They aren’t curious enough, or have the energy to investigate. Instead, they want to a big shot by repeating common, worn out phrases."
Really? Those are five remarkable assertions that confer almost superpower clairvoyance. Everybody. Everybody? Nobody thinks Trump is a racist asshole because he's a racist asshole? Come, come.
Anyone who *thinks* DJT is a racist, has another think coming.
There, is that a better statement (of opinion)?
Bullshit.
How's capitalism these days? Still hangin' tough, plying the trade winds and successfully (one hopes) avoiding the doldrums?
Still misunderstood, apparently.
Still hanging, but with *my* mouth, I can never be tough enough; always sail with my finger (hopefully the correct one) in the wind, but it's usually the doldrums I seek, if you catch my drift (ar, ar!).
Howdy, M. feldspar, thanks for the wish, and sorry for my lack of substance in response.
DJT is not a racist, but I repeat myself, don't I.
that's not evidence.
I guess it depends on what you are trying to prove... haha. Bullshit is definitely evidence of something. At least where I live. :D
I live in an agriculture region. Bullshit usually indicates there are bovines using the property.
And calfs in early spring.
I don't have to prove a negative, nor back up my *opinion*.
Gee, Sherlock, ya think?
I do.
My judgment of you, also.
But again, I answered unsupported opinion with opposing (unsupported) opinion.
Why am *I* the one taken to task?
The forces are being aligned for a civil war. Extreme polarization of the people by the media. Ideological takeover of the armed forces and police. Blatant disregard of the rule of law by the elites.
Mass realization by the people that the government an oppressor, not a helper.
This has happened before - read the History of the Weimar republic in Germany.
When will it occur? My gut tells me in the winter of 2023 or early spring 2024 - before the 2024 election.
I see your scenario as highly possible.
Winter of '23? Christ, we're not Russian Infantry. After Memorial Day, I'd say, when the weather is ripe for extended campaigns.
Perhaps. Uprisings are more likely when people are miserable and unhappy. Pople are usually happier around Memorial day.
Dude, you must live in a warm climate.
What do water bears know about climate? Do you have a nervous system?
Water bears might be able to survive almost anything, including the vacuum of space, but that doesn't mean we aren't empathetic to other lifeforms.
I worked with children who did not experience empathy. They say I have far too much. I cry a lot but I love to laugh, I never laugh at others. Maybe that is why I can't watch American television . I watched Seinfeld and cried at all the jokes.
I have no evidence and no proof but I suspect Trump's Scottish American mother loved her scotch.
Children with no empathy are easy to love.
The Democrats should have been destructed and reformed beginning with 2012. Obama was not popular. But that was the first election where Wall Street and the media, including Hollywood, collaborated with the Democrat party apparatus and broke American democracy by changing what was simple political spin to a full-blown coordinated propaganda enterprise to influence both consumer choice as well as voter choice. It began the massive election interference that Democrats needed to stay in power.
Democrats need to run their party politics like this because Democrat ideas have proven to suck.
Republican ideas are better, but the Republican party politicians suck at politics.
There was a recent analysis of mainstream media reporting on Trump's indictment and the FBI disclosure that there is a tape recording of Joe Biden taking a $5 million bribe payment from a Ukrainian business man. The stats were 291 to 0. Zero reports on the Biden story except Fox News of course. But for that day there were 291 hours devoted to the Trump indictment.
So if you are Bobby and Sally the regular American voter you didn't even know about old Joe's bad behavior, but you got blasted with a repeated story of Orange Man Bad.
This is propaganda.
This is election interference.
The mainstream corporate media is THE threat to democracy.
The mainstream corporate media is a weed that needs to be pulled out by the roots.
By 2012 the Democratic party’s favored outlets were just following the business model pioneered by Fox News long before. The media ecosystem was polarized along partisan lines before *that*, as Matt documented in his book ‘Hate, Inc.’
The real turning point was the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine decades before by Reagan conservatives.
Disagree. Fox News was a targeted drift from traditional news in that it was 80% opinions and 20% news. It always claimed it was opinion based. Its fair and balanced claim was that it included pundits from both sides. The traditional news drifted way left and Democrat while still claiming it was 90% news and 10% opinion.
It never claimed to be more ‘opinion-based’ than any other outlet, it simply claimed that other outlets were ‘unbalanced’ or ‘biased’ in their reporting of the news. This is explicitly stated in its early ad campaigns (ex: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rWTFgETh2kY ) and its earliest attempts to manage its image at its debut in ‘96. (https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/07/business/at-the-new-fox-news-channel-the-buzzword-is-fairness-separating-news-from-bias.html)
Such a marketing angle is actually meant to imply the opposite of what you are describing—i.e., it implies Fox reports the ‘unbiased’ version of the news, whereas other outlets report the ‘biased’ version. That is the opposite of saying “our reporting is biased and opinionated, but we’re open about that fact.”
What made Fox new, at any rate, was not its bias per se, but its business strategy—to focus narrowly on a particular demographic and cater to its preferences, rather than the broadest possible demographic. That was totally different than the way it was assumed broadcast news was supposed to be run in the preceding era, where the model was to focus on as wide a viewership as possible. This new way of doing things was enabled, as I mentioned, by the repeal of the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ years before by Reagan conservatives, and then copied by Fox’s rivals once it proved lucrative for Fox. (Murdoch actually pioneered it beforehand in Australia, when he managed ‘Sky News’). The result is more or less the rank partisanship that defines broadcast news today. Again, Matt documents much of this in his work in ‘Hate, Inc.’
So I’m not exactly sure what you are basing the narrative you’ve outlined on, but it certainly isn’t historical fact.
Sorry for my heat. I am so done with the consolidation and left bias of almost all major media including big tech. 300 media hours of Trump indictment and zero hours on FBI report of tape recordings of Biden taking a $5M bribe from a Ukrainian business man... except for Fox News. The current corporate media is corrupting our democratic system... unethically influencing elections.
Just stop. You are pissing me off. I am so fucking sick of the coordinated left media attacks of Fox News. CNN abd MSNBC are propaganda arms of the Democrat party. Yet, like the NYT, they claim they are real news and journalism. Fox picked up a right political position because the mainstream media ignored that audience. But Fox has never lied about that bias. It's opinion hosts... the Fox shows that drive in the most viewers... never deny that they lean right. Contrast that to CNN, NSNBC, CBS, PBS, NPR. ABC, NYT, WAPO, etc., etc.... They all lean WAY left... shill for Democrats... and then fucking lie to everyone saying they are just news and facts and balanced. The idiot meme of Fox lying is based on only one report that the 2020 election was stolen by Democrats. Then the Twitter Files and the proof that it WAS stolen by the most breathtaking abuse of government power and corporatism we have ever experienced. Meanwhile the rest of the media lied about Trump Russia collusion, Golden showers, Hunter laptop, etc.... hundreds of lies. The DNC just puts them in, sends a memo and their puppet media fucks do the propaganda work like a good Goebbels follower.
Thank you.
https://locals.com/feed/11169/vivabarneslaw/4161876/hush-hush-ep-73-kennedy-legacy
Kennedy Legacy – Robert Barnes - June 17, 2023
Awesome video
I was simply repeating the word “wacky,” which is obviously open to the observer’s interpretation. My point was that we don’t have the luxury of sitting by comfortably & quietly when others liberties are removed. The discrepancy & random punishment of people who speak their mind should alarm all of us.
Eventually, every govt throughout history decides to suppress their citizens. We can deny that it could, or would, happen in America, but here we are.
10 Random Thoughts
1. The dude in the video with the fake Trump hair did a pretty good Trump imitation!
2. The camera work was really pretty good. Some of the stills could almost be Martin Parr photographs.
3. If this isn’t a picture of insanity then insanity needs a better definition.
4. You could take any high school civics class to this and it would be a better lesson than any book. Same for Ivy League govermint professors — they don’t know what they hell they’re talking about. If you took them here they’d probaably get into a fist fight. By their fruits you shall know they’re frrruitcakes.
5. The only thing this movie is really missing to be a box office mega success is a plot. In fact, the entire country doesn’t have a plot. And this is it.
6. You’d think people would have better things to do than this, but then you look at your own life. . . .enough said.
7. You could make a real movie that looked like this and nobody would believe it could happen like this in real life.
8. Probably 1 in 100 people is certifiably totally insane — that’s over 3 million people in the US alone. At least half of them were in this movie.
9. It’s hard to interview lunatics and get interesting answers. You really sort of put the psychiatrists hat on and wonder what medication they need.
10. Political psychosis is an undiagnosed mental illness.
This video got me to thinking back a few decades.
Division among the masses became a prerogative of the Gov since Clinton’s term. The Security State and the DOJ have been fixated on those espousing certain forms of patriotism or deemed anti-gov. It is prevalent under Democrat presidents.
Janet Reno - Ruby Ridge (Bill Barr as a private citizen jumped in to protect the FBI), and Waco, the warning to all of us. Janet Napolitano DHS – 2009 report ‘veterans among terrorist risks to US’. 2015 DHS eyes them for ‘rightwing extremism’ so oops only meant ‘to give law enforcement situational awareness’. May 2021 doubles down - country is still struggling to deal with what she calls "enemies to democracy." "I think it's hard for us to recognize that we have enemies to democracy who are within our own population." Obama purged over 100 officers from the military and installed his finest. At least under Milley and Austin we can be thankful that all ‘rightwing extremists‘ were purged leaving an equitable military in a unique position in the world of being totally inclusive, without racism, bigotry or misogyny.
Democracy being the buzz word since Obama, who complained about the limitation of a republic as defined by the constitution. Biden’s FBI has issued numerous threat assessments. 90 percent warning the nation that ‘rightwing extremist’ are the most prevalent threat to our safety. Labeling is its preferred tool, but it also engages in entrapped and holding false flag operations. All you have to do to be a ‘rightwing extremist’ is not support the uniparty agenda and appear to vote the wrong way. Biden is also using Obama's 'gun toting bible thumping' euphemism to go after parent’s rights and right to life supporters.
Not to worry, Democracy - the election of Democrats - is secured in advance. We saw it with Biden’s basement campaign and a few outdoor drive-in events where he yelled at a half a dozen cars who braved the outing by honking back. I believe there were a few other outdoor events where maybe a dozen formed two distant circles to avoid the virus swirling around their heads in the open air. Biden was a sure winner all the way through the Democrat primary winning DC and 31 states, losing 19 including 7 Blues states. Surely his inauguration would have topped Obama’s in attendance given his vote total if D.C. had not been shut down and barricaded.
It is such a blessing that there are no extremist groups or individuals on the “Left” peacefully tearing apart cities, burning buildings and cars, killing people, and rioting on inauguration day Jan 2017. If there had been, they all certainly would have been giving jail time.
Watched it with the sound off. Don't feel like I missed anything.
Tried to play spot the narc/cop/fed/whatever. Alas realized I have no idea anymore. Bring back shiny black shoes!
I watched it. It would not have matter if I muted the sound. I get the jitters just seeing video portraying a portion of an American city. The only time I see one is on film of a protest or riot. The high buildings, asphalt, concrete, brick, cement - nothing living, making every street an enclosed prison I don’t know how people live that way.
I spent a decade living in a Chicago southside ghetto. Obama lost the Democratic primary to a buffoon but he was a local buffoon not a foreign buffoon like myself or the Kenyan Moslem.
Good idea, I still hear the madness. I'm suddenly reminded of a great film "Medium Cool" filmed by Haskell Wexler which brought in the madness of the '68 dem convention.
Americans don't have enough to do.
Why do you suppose that is?
They should be writing to their elected officials to find out what legislation they have voted on and why. Protesting at a Trump event is like being angry that you lost at 3 Card Monte. Elected officials, like MTG and George Santos, we there to tell everyone to look the other way.
How do you know they have not contacted the elected officials? MTG wears her sheep's clothing too loose.
Not saying this video isn't newsworthy, since the MSM has decided that we need censorship instead of facts, but this is such a bullshit distraction.
This is people of Walmart, look at the crazies so they can then tell the 7 people watching their show that ALL people who are Republican are like this. Just like the 2 or 3 places you can actually get Right leaning news go out and find the Drag shows to rile up their 17 viewers.
Twitter is even worse. "Educated" opinion based on 22 words or less.
You didn’t just say the “people of Walmart”???
I did, and it's an apt analogy. The website "People of Walmart" is not indicative of everybody that shops there, but it is used to say that it is. I have a friend that lives on the outskirts of Paris and when he came here all he wanted to do was go to Walmart, because he believed it would be just like the videos.
"people of Walmart"
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NOT a distraction at all. This is reality!
I didn’t say it wasn’t real - I said it was a distraction.
Oh my! Ronald Reagan?
Pretty nervy of you to lecture Americans about America!
Absolute Soveriegn Immunity is the cancer that has grown since it's first return as "Royal" powers again for a class or titled people in government in 1793. It's return was decided by the US Supreme Court and it has grown into the DEMS - Democrats Empowering Marxism Socialism via central controlling powers to enforce millions of laws in-discriminately and selectively against Americans that still believe in the rights of liberty and it's protections within - the United States Constitution.
All gov employees are immune to the same laws Citizens are under when it comes to being accountable to Constitutional violations gov employees violate against the citizen they wrong - mostly today by weaponizing the laws and never being accountable under scrutiny of a JURY OF YOUR PEERS.
Soveriegn Immunity powers blocks you having a right to drag gov malfeasance people into court to be judged and accountable in your absolute constitutional right to a jury of your peers to evaluate a gov employee's abuses against you no matter how bad.
Only they can allow you to sue them which is insanity. How can there be 2 systems of justice, well there are and your watching the "Immunes" work it against Trump. And its coming for -YOU!!!!
Who do you think the mainstream corporate media works for? Did you think of that?Apparently you have a hard time conceiving that it is possible that Biden and Trump are BOTH sociopaths and that NEITHER party has a fucking clue as to how to deal with the fact that the USA isn’t the big swinging dick that it was once. We’re going to hell on roller skates so let’s just enjoy the ride.
Fatalism is cowardly.
Wow ! What a profoundly empty statement. If I were a coward would I be actively engaging in volunteering in my city 5 days a week at a local animal shelter? Do cowards teach ESL classes as a volunteer twice a week for 20 years? You don’t know me so don’t judge me with your shallow opinions. You keep ranting online and I’ll keep helping others with my time and talents while letting others argue about wether the Republicans or the Democrats are fucking us the hardest!
Ok I will clarify: The definition of fatalism is, to me, cowardly because one has no input to change a pre-controlled timeline of events around you and makes a good excuse not to resist. I have no response to you personally but what I read described fatalism.
“The definition of fatalism is, to me, cowardly…” I don’t understand your point? How can the definition of a word be cowardly?