As someone who at one time was an aspiring illustrator/cartoonist I love that Matt is helping to keep the art of political editorial cartooning alive. This one is brilliant.
I love the irony of Jim Acosta insisting it the lack of self awareness of latino men that led them to " vote against self interests" and yet Acosta doesn't realize he continues to act against his self interest by insulting Americans who don't agree him and thus accelerating the decline of his mainstream media- hey Jim we are perplexed as to how you continue to act against your self interests by insulting everyone who disagrees with you! who will be left watching you Jim?
I listened to it again because I realized I did a lot of yelling at that picture of her the first time. I picked up a theme that I believe played out in the election and it was an unwillingness to self-reflect, to look back at what cost them the election. Anytime the interviewer went there, Pelosi gave a "we're focused on the future" reply.
I enventually came to despise the Democrats because they would screw up over and over and never own it, and Pelosi just pounded the last nail for me. They're lost in some world that doesn't include me.
Look, I know this won't make me any friends, but are liberal women simpletons?
After watching them weep for their lost abortion chance, shave off their hair on TikTok, show up to vote dressed like they're in The Handmaid's Tale & swear to join with their 4-B sisters and swear off sex until Trump leaves office, I don't think another conclusion is possible.
Did they nap through every election in my life where, pre-election, Democrats swore they would codify abortion into law and then, post election, they said, "PSYCH," didn't mean it you suckers?"
Christ, the mid-terms, when the corpse of Roe v Wade was still stinking up the zeitgeist, the Dems stemmed "the red wave" solely based on abortion & then did nothing for 2 years. One of the people doing nothing about abortion for 2 years was Kamala Harris.
Yet, this time, it would all be different if they just stem the orange tide of Trump, insert Harris in the Oval Orifice, then aborted babies would once again friskily crawl into dumpsters & medical waste bags all across the country. Yay!
It all brings to mind Einstein's definition of insanity.
And after the utterly deranged hysteria these ladies have entertained me with over the last couple days I'd say that many of them need psychiatric help of some kind.
And they need it quick.
By the way, has one celebrity left the country yet?
I find the whole abortion argument from the left now utterly demeaning and patronizing. You’re trying to tell me that only the government can grant me bodily autonomy? As if to suggest that I don’t play any part in the myriad of decisions that lead me to carrying a man’s child? I’m just a hapless midwit who doesn’t have the discernment to decide who to have an intimate relationship with and what steps I take therein to bring forth life or not? I can’t take anything they say seriously when they view sex as merely a transaction, that my needs are best served emulating male sexual mating strategies and that somehow the USA is overrun with rape gangs and women are being forced to have unprotected sex in exponential numbers now. We need a return to necessary but rare and the DNC can drive their Planned Parenthood abortion food pop up van over a cliff.
Given the fact that white liberals are hyper sensitive about racial inequality, they seem to never mention the racial inequality in abortion stats. I doubt that it would be hard to make a case that abortion has a hefty eugenics subtext.
"Dis-proportionally, the leading consumer of the abortionists’ services is the African-American female. According to the 2011 Abortion Surveillance Report issued by the Center for Disease Control, black women make up 14 percent of the childbearing population, yet obtained 36.2 percent of reported abortions. Black women have the highest abortion ratio in the country, with 474 abortions per 1,000 live births. Percentages at these levels illustrate that more than 19 million black babies have been aborted since 1973." _ Policy Report - Center for Urban Renewal and Education 2015
"Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people. Here arguments for inconvenience and economic savings take precedence over arguments for human value and human life... Psychiatrists, social workers and doctors often argue for abortion on the basis that the child will grow up mentally and emotionally scarred. But who of us is complete? If incompleteness were the criteri(on) for taking life, we would all be dead. If you can justify abortion on the basis of emotional incompleteness, then your logic could also lead you to killing for other forms of incompleteness
More recent statistics say that the black abortion ratio has gotten worse. Both the CDC and the Guttmacher Institute have reported that. Here is one link that is from 2017:
Can you and I please be friends? I lost all mine since 2016 and onward because they are those as you described. I guess we had the wrong group of friends to begin with!
I've been seeing "resistance" talk from Dems. It's kind of cute that the clueless rhubarbs don't realize that the majority of America just "resisted" them.
Although another round of unintentionally hilarious Elle certified, Olbermann resistance videos would great fun.
Abortion and political party aren't necessarily a package deal. Even though Trump won the election, states that had abortion rights as a referendum generally approved them, from what I've read. Shows that people can indeed think for themselves.
Nor should they be because abortion is a state issue now, not federal! It was always dishonest for Kamala to communicate to voters as if it was otherwise.
She did it because people believed her. I can't tell you how many people have said to me that Trump will wave a magic wand, and make abortion and even miscarriages illegal.
If you point out that the president is not a king or emperor, they generally don't have anything to say. And heaven forbid it should occur to them, that if the president could do such a thing, maybe Joe Biden could have done it during his term…?
They also seem to believe that Trump can twitch his non-existent Hitler mustache & bring fascism to America. Someone should out them that fascism is also corporatism and has been here long before Trump.
They are posting hysterical screeds warning women to delete their "period apps"!!! Allegedly, Trump will hack into it & figure out when women are ovulating, & have them "rounded up" so they can be used as breeders.
These people are totally insane. I have even heard of a handful of suicides over the election. The Dems have convinced their voters that Trump is going to do such dreadful things, that they are literally losing their minds.
They're apparently too dumb to do any independent research, which explains a lot.
Psych visits have spiked upwards in New York since the election. An Ohio teacher who looked like everybody's grandma was put-on leave because she delivered a TikTok screed advising all Trump voters to commit suicide.
The only Dem who looks chipper after Kamala's trouncing is Biden who, I imagine, has been privately cackling with glee over these unforeseen, to Dems, turn of events.
I'd be sympathetic to these ladies but they have been such unrepentant assholes for so long I don't think I can muster anything more than chuckles.
No. Don’t blame the cats. More than wokesters love cats and other animals. RIP Pnut and Fred. They were MAGA and so their lives didn’t matter, according to the loons, remember?
I know you weren’t serious but animals, wildlife, nature are HUGE in my life and I am really sick of the current political framing where the people who think they are “environmentally conscious” are actually supporting what would decimate it and life, so I am just dropping seeds.
remember, people are animals too. just top of the food chain, unless hand to hand with bears etc. We do have a resp to help protect the kingdom, but there is a heirarchy or pecking order.
I totally agree. It’s our animal nature, manifested in our embodiment, that humans have become estranged from and as such humans (in general) are becoming unnaturalized and alienated from ourselves and our potential. That increases the potential to be unbalanced and so destructive to our habitat. We can learn so much from our nonhuman animal fellow travelers.
yep, they are on drugs for depression and on birth control, their hormones are crazy. you dont want one these in your life, nor with the ability to effect it with politics.
Many women don’t seem understand how physically and mentally/emotionally damaging those drugs are - both anti depressants and birth control pills. I’m all for birth control but maybe be more selective about it!
After watching video after video of women weeping uncontrollably, cutting off all their hair, ending relationships with Trump supporting spouses & boyfriends, becoming 4-B cultists who swear off sex, makeup, dressing nicely, dating, etc., it's hard not see that a large swath of loyal Democrats were mentally damaged by 9 years of TDS & DNC propaganda.
I've even seen a few TikToks where the Einstein on camera is looking for a hitman to go after Trump.
If liberal women ever come to their senses they should start suing the DNC & the liberal media for what was obviously a coordinated effort to screw with their mental health just to get their vote.
Yes, and sometimes I wonder if that wasn't the plan. I'm not a conspiracy guy, but maybe they saw this kind of general hysteria and played on it to the point of using these crazies for, not just for propaganda, but for possible civil unrest. On that point, we're not out of the wood yet. It's still too soon.
No doubt. There are videos of women talking about buying guns and shooting men, but only white men.
Videos that want to open up the voter rolls to see who voted for Trump so they would know who the "safe" men were.
Hitmen for Trump.
Hitmen for Vance.
Another absolutely brilliant plan where friendly "safe" men would have to wear a blue wristband to show they were "safe" because we know that no rapist or mugger or abuser would ever just stick on a blue wristband to deceive them.
A "Yale psychologist" was on Joy Reid's show telling people they have shun all Trump supporting friends & family over the coming holiday season.
Weird shit. Very weird shit. And yeah, a mental derangement this deep & this wide, spread with this much media force, isn't going away soon.
Wow! That's pretty extreme even for the crazies. And I'm convinced that Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow are psychopaths - friggin clinical psychopaths! Walter Kirn said as much about Maddow.
EDIT: Walter said in a recent podcast while watching Maddow talk conspiracy shit about Trump saying, "We don't need the votes", he said, "She's a psychopath!" It was an offhand comment by Walter Kirn, but I happen to agree whole-heartedly with the sentiment and the statement.
Then I can substitute 2 terms of Obama's empty promises & inaction.
Although I don't remember Joe & Kamala making any attempt at abortion renewal.
I think the Dems need abortion to be an unsolved issue. It's great for mobilizing the ladies & the ladies appear to hyper focus on it so no other issues even matter to them.
That's a good point about the Dems needing abortion to be an unsolved issue so that they can weaponize it for campaign purposes.
I think I already said that Joe & Kamala didn't make any attempt because they knew that they had no chance with a Republican House, despite the American people being consistently generally in favor of abortion rights.
Don't even get me started on the disillusionment that was the eight Obama years. I'm embarrassed that it took me so long to realize how thoroughly bamboozled I was.
For the record, I'm pro-choice, and thought Roe v. Wade was a pretty good compromise. I well remember the whole fight about this in the 60s and 70s and what a breakthrough Roe v. Wade was.
I still think it's important, but my primary focus these days is free speech.
Will Democrats & their media lapdogs take credit for the shitload of women who are exhibiting signs of extreme mental distress because a candidate nobody wanted 5 months ago lost an election?
These women really think they live in The fucking Handmaid's Tale & they think they're moments away from being forced into breeding camps.
'Will Democrats & their media lapdogs take credit for the shitload of women who are exhibiting signs of extreme mental distress'
Exactly this. A lot of people are having fun making fun of them; but these people have been mercilessly propagandized into emotional dysfunction. Deliberately, in a craven act of political opportunism. This is evil. Surely we can muster at least a little sympathy.
I'm 62 & out of the procreation pool. My wife & I made 4 kids, 7 if you count the miscarriages, and we raised 4 kids without once needing daycare. Was it a colossal life altering pain in the ass? You betchum Red Ryder. Would I change it? Nope.
My opinion on abortion wasn't much different than yours. But I've also dated women who didn't treat abortion much different than having a mole removed. I dated one girl who didn't want me to use a condom because in the time it took to slip it on her mood was ruined. She was 22 & already had 3 abortions. So I don't know what the answer is. But I do know the Democratic Party isn't going to provide it.
Joe gave almost the exact same short speech as Obama during his March 15 CNN debate with Bernie Sanders: youtube.com/watch?v=w8-d2vyWn-A&t=4268s at about 1 hr, 10 minute mark.
I'm just amazed at all the weird stuff they believe Trump is going to do: tracking women's menstrual cycles, setting up deportation camps, deporting all brown people, rounding up gays. . .
Years ago, my late husband was installing a fire alarm in a hotel, & he told me he kept noticing strange things: cowboys walking very close to each other, some with their hands in each other's back pockets. It took him a few hours to realize the event being held at the hotel was, in fact, a Gay Rodeo.
I am so glad to hear Matt and Walter talk about the Wall Street/private equity takeover of residential real estate. I have been involved in housing for thirty years and the homeownership part of the American Dream is really under attack, especially for lower income people. This should be a big deal, but it is being blown off by even those in the housing industry. Basically, the private equity people want to turn us into a country of renters. It is so Soviet to me in ultimate effect no matter how much it stinks of unbridled capitalism. As we enter the Christmas season (I know, a little early for some) you have powerful interests in the Democratic Party (and some Republicans as well) rooting for Mr. Potter over George Bailey. This is not about affordable rental housing which I have always supported. There needs to be a mix. People tend to start renting and hopefully move to own as the improve their lives. This is about moving from affordable rental to more expensive rental and never owning, never even having the choice, just paying rent to Wall Street forever. It is one of the most horrible under the radar things going on out there.
yes quite valid. When builders and developers can be "rewarded as much or more" for getting folks buying homes, vs just build and sell to rental VCs, then we may see a shift. Capitalism is good but does not work or treat everyone as well as we would like. Key is folks need to be financially able to afford payments and maintenance over time. Not all can do this well.
It just came out that the government (via public health) was hugely funding late-night hosts' pro-vaccine messages, as well as other "influencers". I don't think this can be repeated too often..
This is the part of the election where all the multi-millionaire political pundits "reflect", and blame everything BUT their arrogant, down-their-nose coverage/commentary for The Democrats losing.
They suck up to their vanishing audience, but honestly, they don't care. They made so much $$ from the political parties and dark money this election, the actual voters are pretty much factored out of the equation at this point.
Barack Obama was a fictional character. Made up by the media and party bosses. Anyone who did their research on him would have realized he had the depth of a shallow pool of water where even the tadpoles could not swim in it.
People who drank the Kool-Aid I feel no need to do research. A lesson I learned the hard way, and I have Obama to thank for my current attitude of bitter skepticism toward all things. Once burnt, twice shy.
Many commenters are complaining about the Rachel Maddow clips. As a principle of free speech and open debate, personally, I think it's good for me to see crap like this.
What I think would be more interesting, however, is some analysis of why traditional media, whose viewership has diminished to a fraction of things like podcasts, is still treated as influential, even by people such as Matt and Walter. Maybe because it's easier to cover and summarize? Force of habit? Or because it's still influential among the power elite?
Matt and Walter probably noticed first and discuss this all the time.
Yes, it’s what the “power elites” believe and/or hope the public will believe. They can’t fathom that no one else is still in the room listening, and their rage at this discovery has consequences,such as censorship and further repression. The influence is reflected paranoia and narcissism of its still devoted listeners. If you are lucky enough NOT to live in a blue dominated region, maybe you wouldn’t notice the terrible harm it’s done to previously normal, thoughtful people. Walter is right, they are inflicting psychological damage to the vulnerable who are able to dispense this rage around them, from their rickety thrones.
Your piece on the Covid lies was spot on. I'd love to show it to my friends and help them understand what MSM and the Government have become, but am bound by our agreement. Any chance you can write some stuff that I can share? You and Walter are a rock in a sea of disinformation. Thanks for your consideration.
Matt, this is an outstanding ATW. Walter” she’s a psychopath “! Yes she surely is AND seems all is forgotten about her Russiagate bullshit. Delete the word “ manosphere” stat from the msmassholes vocabulary. Along with any derivative of democracy, democratic…. demo means people which can stand. As We the people did in this election!
New Documentary: "Thank you, Dr. Fauci". (fyi: it is being suppressed on social media.) "The documentary addresses the federal government narrative that Covid naturally spawned from a Wuhan animal market. The uncomfortable truth no one but those committed to integrity want to know is that Dr. Fauci spent most of his 54-year career deceiving the public.
Fauci played a central role in the biggest coverup in our government’s history. His negligence led to widespread death, masking, lockdowns, and social distancing. These outcomes could have been avoided if Fauci bypassed the opportunity to fund and explore gain-of-function research."
I loved Walter's analogy of the legacy media as hectoring those of us on land from their sinking ship. So, can Matt now limit the MSNBC and CNN clips? Let's stop acting like Rachel Maddow matters for anyone other than True Believers. And I already know what these people think, because they tell me at every opportunity.
yea, with you, I've heard enough of them too. they all use different words to say the same stupid things. maybe one day they will finally figure out they are selling from an empty wagon.
I voted Trump in cobalt blue Massachusetts not because I thought it would make a difference with electors but because I wanted to drive up Trump’s vote nationally. It looks like my strategy worked, Lawrence O’Donnell.
Kamala is Echo. Pursuing progressive tribes by repeating their narcissistic slogans. Endlessly seeking their acceptance.
"When Narcissus died, wasting away before his own reflection, consumed by a love that could not be, Echo mourned over his body. When Narcissus, looking one last time into the pool uttered, "Oh marvellous boy, I loved you in vain, farewell", Echo too chorused, "Farewell."
Eventually, Echo, too, began to waste away. Her beauty faded, her skin shriveled, and her bones turned to stone. Today, all that remains of Echo is the sound of her voice."
Thanks for providing this week's story! I hope Matt &
Walter reflect upon your comment on Monday's episode.
Of course, it's Narcissii all the way down, and just because one bunch won and the other lost does't mean the flaws are not obvious in both camps. Most voters held their nose and voted for the lesser of two noxious blooms.
Yes. If X was controlled like it was in 2020 and 2022, more people would’ve felt isolated and disempowered. It’s harder to manufacture narratives and propaganda when people can speak freely. Hence the ride of the MDM Orwellian industry.
As someone who at one time was an aspiring illustrator/cartoonist I love that Matt is helping to keep the art of political editorial cartooning alive. This one is brilliant.
I always mean to comment on that too! I absolutely love it and wonder who does the drawings.
I think it's usually Daniel Medina. There's a link to his Substack in the links at the top of the site under "Racket Cartoons".
Thank you!!
https://x.com/KarluskaP/status/1854361800315109454
Now that is comedy.
What's the gigantic round orange thing? A moon? An orange? A mottled baseball?
I love the irony of Jim Acosta insisting it the lack of self awareness of latino men that led them to " vote against self interests" and yet Acosta doesn't realize he continues to act against his self interest by insulting Americans who don't agree him and thus accelerating the decline of his mainstream media- hey Jim we are perplexed as to how you continue to act against your self interests by insulting everyone who disagrees with you! who will be left watching you Jim?
But you gave yourself away. You must have been watching him.
Matt and Walter played it for us as an example of a tone deaf media personality - I guess you didn't get me after all 😂
Okay, that's a relief.
Actually, I enjoy many of those kinds of clips, especially when I don't have time to go to the zoo.
We're all watching. I just suffered through the Pelosi interview. It was exasperating!
I missed that. Where was the Pelosi interview?
It's with NY Times. I'm not real tech savvy, but here's a link:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Pelosi+interview&gs_ivs=1#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:cb348881,vid:O9fSK2AR594,st:0
I found it. Thanks. Real flattering photo of her, brings out her true essence.
I listened to it again because I realized I did a lot of yelling at that picture of her the first time. I picked up a theme that I believe played out in the election and it was an unwillingness to self-reflect, to look back at what cost them the election. Anytime the interviewer went there, Pelosi gave a "we're focused on the future" reply.
I enventually came to despise the Democrats because they would screw up over and over and never own it, and Pelosi just pounded the last nail for me. They're lost in some world that doesn't include me.
Excellent point.
Ha!
Excellent point!
Look, I know this won't make me any friends, but are liberal women simpletons?
After watching them weep for their lost abortion chance, shave off their hair on TikTok, show up to vote dressed like they're in The Handmaid's Tale & swear to join with their 4-B sisters and swear off sex until Trump leaves office, I don't think another conclusion is possible.
Did they nap through every election in my life where, pre-election, Democrats swore they would codify abortion into law and then, post election, they said, "PSYCH," didn't mean it you suckers?"
Christ, the mid-terms, when the corpse of Roe v Wade was still stinking up the zeitgeist, the Dems stemmed "the red wave" solely based on abortion & then did nothing for 2 years. One of the people doing nothing about abortion for 2 years was Kamala Harris.
Yet, this time, it would all be different if they just stem the orange tide of Trump, insert Harris in the Oval Orifice, then aborted babies would once again friskily crawl into dumpsters & medical waste bags all across the country. Yay!
It all brings to mind Einstein's definition of insanity.
And after the utterly deranged hysteria these ladies have entertained me with over the last couple days I'd say that many of them need psychiatric help of some kind.
And they need it quick.
By the way, has one celebrity left the country yet?
I find the whole abortion argument from the left now utterly demeaning and patronizing. You’re trying to tell me that only the government can grant me bodily autonomy? As if to suggest that I don’t play any part in the myriad of decisions that lead me to carrying a man’s child? I’m just a hapless midwit who doesn’t have the discernment to decide who to have an intimate relationship with and what steps I take therein to bring forth life or not? I can’t take anything they say seriously when they view sex as merely a transaction, that my needs are best served emulating male sexual mating strategies and that somehow the USA is overrun with rape gangs and women are being forced to have unprotected sex in exponential numbers now. We need a return to necessary but rare and the DNC can drive their Planned Parenthood abortion food pop up van over a cliff.
Given the fact that white liberals are hyper sensitive about racial inequality, they seem to never mention the racial inequality in abortion stats. I doubt that it would be hard to make a case that abortion has a hefty eugenics subtext.
"Dis-proportionally, the leading consumer of the abortionists’ services is the African-American female. According to the 2011 Abortion Surveillance Report issued by the Center for Disease Control, black women make up 14 percent of the childbearing population, yet obtained 36.2 percent of reported abortions. Black women have the highest abortion ratio in the country, with 474 abortions per 1,000 live births. Percentages at these levels illustrate that more than 19 million black babies have been aborted since 1973." _ Policy Report - Center for Urban Renewal and Education 2015
"Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people. Here arguments for inconvenience and economic savings take precedence over arguments for human value and human life... Psychiatrists, social workers and doctors often argue for abortion on the basis that the child will grow up mentally and emotionally scarred. But who of us is complete? If incompleteness were the criteri(on) for taking life, we would all be dead. If you can justify abortion on the basis of emotional incompleteness, then your logic could also lead you to killing for other forms of incompleteness
— blindness, crippleness, old age.”
(Then pro-life) Jesse Jackson, January 1977
More recent statistics say that the black abortion ratio has gotten worse. Both the CDC and the Guttmacher Institute have reported that. Here is one link that is from 2017:
https://www.guttmacher.org/infographic/2017/abortion-rates-race-and-ethnicity
I can’t like this enough! I haven’t heard that argument made so saliently until now 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Love to see your a Mom of five. Well done. I only have two. Best thing I have ever done and started way too late to have more. I got very lucky.
Can you and I please be friends? I lost all mine since 2016 and onward because they are those as you described. I guess we had the wrong group of friends to begin with!
I've been seeing "resistance" talk from Dems. It's kind of cute that the clueless rhubarbs don't realize that the majority of America just "resisted" them.
Although another round of unintentionally hilarious Elle certified, Olbermann resistance videos would great fun.
Sure. My popularity has tanked.
Same. And that’s ok with me at this point.
Correction: I guess I had the wrong group of friends.
Abortion and political party aren't necessarily a package deal. Even though Trump won the election, states that had abortion rights as a referendum generally approved them, from what I've read. Shows that people can indeed think for themselves.
Nor should they be because abortion is a state issue now, not federal! It was always dishonest for Kamala to communicate to voters as if it was otherwise.
She did it because people believed her. I can't tell you how many people have said to me that Trump will wave a magic wand, and make abortion and even miscarriages illegal.
If you point out that the president is not a king or emperor, they generally don't have anything to say. And heaven forbid it should occur to them, that if the president could do such a thing, maybe Joe Biden could have done it during his term…?
They also seem to believe that Trump can twitch his non-existent Hitler mustache & bring fascism to America. Someone should out them that fascism is also corporatism and has been here long before Trump.
They are posting hysterical screeds warning women to delete their "period apps"!!! Allegedly, Trump will hack into it & figure out when women are ovulating, & have them "rounded up" so they can be used as breeders.
These people are totally insane. I have even heard of a handful of suicides over the election. The Dems have convinced their voters that Trump is going to do such dreadful things, that they are literally losing their minds.
They're apparently too dumb to do any independent research, which explains a lot.
Psych visits have spiked upwards in New York since the election. An Ohio teacher who looked like everybody's grandma was put-on leave because she delivered a TikTok screed advising all Trump voters to commit suicide.
The only Dem who looks chipper after Kamala's trouncing is Biden who, I imagine, has been privately cackling with glee over these unforeseen, to Dems, turn of events.
I'd be sympathetic to these ladies but they have been such unrepentant assholes for so long I don't think I can muster anything more than chuckles.
I was just thinking that the deliberate damaging of liberals' mental health would be a boon for the psychological industry.
Spiderbaby, Biden looks happy!!! I think every move he made was Jill-crafted so Joe remains only person to beat Trump. Classic own.
what the hell is a period app? does a woman need an "app for that".
Used to be called a calendar I thought?
Well, they probably can't do math, so. . .
I think the Democrats and the media and their associated opportunists have a lot to answer for in terms of damaging people's mental health.
I hesitate to call them dumb. More like brainwashed.
I think it starts with dumb...
Maybe it's something that rubs off from all the cats they hang around?
No. Don’t blame the cats. More than wokesters love cats and other animals. RIP Pnut and Fred. They were MAGA and so their lives didn’t matter, according to the loons, remember?
Just a joke, after the Vance thing. I like cats, too.
I know you weren’t serious but animals, wildlife, nature are HUGE in my life and I am really sick of the current political framing where the people who think they are “environmentally conscious” are actually supporting what would decimate it and life, so I am just dropping seeds.
remember, people are animals too. just top of the food chain, unless hand to hand with bears etc. We do have a resp to help protect the kingdom, but there is a heirarchy or pecking order.
I totally agree. It’s our animal nature, manifested in our embodiment, that humans have become estranged from and as such humans (in general) are becoming unnaturalized and alienated from ourselves and our potential. That increases the potential to be unbalanced and so destructive to our habitat. We can learn so much from our nonhuman animal fellow travelers.
yep, they are on drugs for depression and on birth control, their hormones are crazy. you dont want one these in your life, nor with the ability to effect it with politics.
Many women don’t seem understand how physically and mentally/emotionally damaging those drugs are - both anti depressants and birth control pills. I’m all for birth control but maybe be more selective about it!
After watching video after video of women weeping uncontrollably, cutting off all their hair, ending relationships with Trump supporting spouses & boyfriends, becoming 4-B cultists who swear off sex, makeup, dressing nicely, dating, etc., it's hard not see that a large swath of loyal Democrats were mentally damaged by 9 years of TDS & DNC propaganda.
I've even seen a few TikToks where the Einstein on camera is looking for a hitman to go after Trump.
If liberal women ever come to their senses they should start suing the DNC & the liberal media for what was obviously a coordinated effort to screw with their mental health just to get their vote.
Yes, and sometimes I wonder if that wasn't the plan. I'm not a conspiracy guy, but maybe they saw this kind of general hysteria and played on it to the point of using these crazies for, not just for propaganda, but for possible civil unrest. On that point, we're not out of the wood yet. It's still too soon.
No doubt. There are videos of women talking about buying guns and shooting men, but only white men.
Videos that want to open up the voter rolls to see who voted for Trump so they would know who the "safe" men were.
Hitmen for Trump.
Hitmen for Vance.
Another absolutely brilliant plan where friendly "safe" men would have to wear a blue wristband to show they were "safe" because we know that no rapist or mugger or abuser would ever just stick on a blue wristband to deceive them.
A "Yale psychologist" was on Joy Reid's show telling people they have shun all Trump supporting friends & family over the coming holiday season.
Weird shit. Very weird shit. And yeah, a mental derangement this deep & this wide, spread with this much media force, isn't going away soon.
Wow! That's pretty extreme even for the crazies. And I'm convinced that Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow are psychopaths - friggin clinical psychopaths! Walter Kirn said as much about Maddow.
EDIT: Walter said in a recent podcast while watching Maddow talk conspiracy shit about Trump saying, "We don't need the votes", he said, "She's a psychopath!" It was an offhand comment by Walter Kirn, but I happen to agree whole-heartedly with the sentiment and the statement.
never saw or heard much of that after 2020 elections, that were stolen....
"just say no" and mean it or fight like hell if you have to
"Look, I know this won't make me any friends, but are liberal women simpletons?"
They. Are. Seriously. Mentally ill. Read the stats on women, especially progressive women, they are always on the verge of a mental breakdown. Have you read the stories of demand for therapy sessions in NY? https://nypost.com/2024/11/09/us-news/nyc-liberals-seek-therapy-after-trump-wins-the-white-house/
Holy Guacamole.
The House being majority Republican might've had something to do with that.
On the other hand, most campaign promises are bait and switch.
Then I can substitute 2 terms of Obama's empty promises & inaction.
Although I don't remember Joe & Kamala making any attempt at abortion renewal.
I think the Dems need abortion to be an unsolved issue. It's great for mobilizing the ladies & the ladies appear to hyper focus on it so no other issues even matter to them.
That's a good point about the Dems needing abortion to be an unsolved issue so that they can weaponize it for campaign purposes.
I think I already said that Joe & Kamala didn't make any attempt because they knew that they had no chance with a Republican House, despite the American people being consistently generally in favor of abortion rights.
Don't even get me started on the disillusionment that was the eight Obama years. I'm embarrassed that it took me so long to realize how thoroughly bamboozled I was.
For the record, I'm pro-choice, and thought Roe v. Wade was a pretty good compromise. I well remember the whole fight about this in the 60s and 70s and what a breakthrough Roe v. Wade was.
I still think it's important, but my primary focus these days is free speech.
Will Democrats & their media lapdogs take credit for the shitload of women who are exhibiting signs of extreme mental distress because a candidate nobody wanted 5 months ago lost an election?
These women really think they live in The fucking Handmaid's Tale & they think they're moments away from being forced into breeding camps.
On one hand, it's pretty funny.
But still...
'Will Democrats & their media lapdogs take credit for the shitload of women who are exhibiting signs of extreme mental distress'
Exactly this. A lot of people are having fun making fun of them; but these people have been mercilessly propagandized into emotional dysfunction. Deliberately, in a craven act of political opportunism. This is evil. Surely we can muster at least a little sympathy.
Evil would be my word as well
It's scary that they are so crazy.
I'm 62 & out of the procreation pool. My wife & I made 4 kids, 7 if you count the miscarriages, and we raised 4 kids without once needing daycare. Was it a colossal life altering pain in the ass? You betchum Red Ryder. Would I change it? Nope.
My opinion on abortion wasn't much different than yours. But I've also dated women who didn't treat abortion much different than having a mole removed. I dated one girl who didn't want me to use a condom because in the time it took to slip it on her mood was ruined. She was 22 & already had 3 abortions. So I don't know what the answer is. But I do know the Democratic Party isn't going to provide it.
I've always been a fan of the sentiment that abortion should be legal, safe, and rare.
Anyone wanting to reduce abortions should make contraception easily and widely available.
Again, I don't disagree.
if I may say or clarify:
she was 22 and already killed 3 babies...
she was/is messed up and very self centered/selfish.
Joe gave almost the exact same short speech as Obama during his March 15 CNN debate with Bernie Sanders: youtube.com/watch?v=w8-d2vyWn-A&t=4268s at about 1 hr, 10 minute mark.
Sorry about the echo
Kind of tangled up in this thread. Not sure what you're echoing. :)
My screen showed my comment & its echo. It seems to have disappeared.
I get those comment thread glitches sometimes. Reload the page, it usually goes away.
They are truly seriously mentally ill.
Mark Halperin warned us.
I'm just amazed at all the weird stuff they believe Trump is going to do: tracking women's menstrual cycles, setting up deportation camps, deporting all brown people, rounding up gays. . .
I thought the gay community already has a rodeo circuit...
They do!
Years ago, my late husband was installing a fire alarm in a hotel, & he told me he kept noticing strange things: cowboys walking very close to each other, some with their hands in each other's back pockets. It took him a few hours to realize the event being held at the hotel was, in fact, a Gay Rodeo.
Who knew?
I am so glad to hear Matt and Walter talk about the Wall Street/private equity takeover of residential real estate. I have been involved in housing for thirty years and the homeownership part of the American Dream is really under attack, especially for lower income people. This should be a big deal, but it is being blown off by even those in the housing industry. Basically, the private equity people want to turn us into a country of renters. It is so Soviet to me in ultimate effect no matter how much it stinks of unbridled capitalism. As we enter the Christmas season (I know, a little early for some) you have powerful interests in the Democratic Party (and some Republicans as well) rooting for Mr. Potter over George Bailey. This is not about affordable rental housing which I have always supported. There needs to be a mix. People tend to start renting and hopefully move to own as the improve their lives. This is about moving from affordable rental to more expensive rental and never owning, never even having the choice, just paying rent to Wall Street forever. It is one of the most horrible under the radar things going on out there.
yes quite valid. When builders and developers can be "rewarded as much or more" for getting folks buying homes, vs just build and sell to rental VCs, then we may see a shift. Capitalism is good but does not work or treat everyone as well as we would like. Key is folks need to be financially able to afford payments and maintenance over time. Not all can do this well.
It just came out that the government (via public health) was hugely funding late-night hosts' pro-vaccine messages, as well as other "influencers". I don't think this can be repeated too often..
The dancing nurses?
Possibly; apparently it was a pretty broad program.
Thanks, I heard Naomi Wolf talking about the dancing nurses.
I saw that! Much more extensive than I ever imagined.
This is the part of the election where all the multi-millionaire political pundits "reflect", and blame everything BUT their arrogant, down-their-nose coverage/commentary for The Democrats losing.
They suck up to their vanishing audience, but honestly, they don't care. They made so much $$ from the political parties and dark money this election, the actual voters are pretty much factored out of the equation at this point.
"their arrogant, down-their-nose coverage/commentary" ... That also describes Barack Obama. To a tee.
True. He sold African Americans down the river.
He sold everyone, save the Jamie Dimons of Wall Street, down the river. He won. Big
Very True. $1 TRILLION in student loan debt was slapped onto the country on his watch, just one more example....
I'm not in that demographic, but I voted for him twice, and feel incredibly betrayed.
Same. 😭
Barack Obama was a fictional character. Made up by the media and party bosses. Anyone who did their research on him would have realized he had the depth of a shallow pool of water where even the tadpoles could not swim in it.
People who drank the Kool-Aid I feel no need to do research. A lesson I learned the hard way, and I have Obama to thank for my current attitude of bitter skepticism toward all things. Once burnt, twice shy.
Many commenters are complaining about the Rachel Maddow clips. As a principle of free speech and open debate, personally, I think it's good for me to see crap like this.
What I think would be more interesting, however, is some analysis of why traditional media, whose viewership has diminished to a fraction of things like podcasts, is still treated as influential, even by people such as Matt and Walter. Maybe because it's easier to cover and summarize? Force of habit? Or because it's still influential among the power elite?
Matt and Walter probably noticed first and discuss this all the time.
Yes, it’s what the “power elites” believe and/or hope the public will believe. They can’t fathom that no one else is still in the room listening, and their rage at this discovery has consequences,such as censorship and further repression. The influence is reflected paranoia and narcissism of its still devoted listeners. If you are lucky enough NOT to live in a blue dominated region, maybe you wouldn’t notice the terrible harm it’s done to previously normal, thoughtful people. Walter is right, they are inflicting psychological damage to the vulnerable who are able to dispense this rage around them, from their rickety thrones.
I live in the bluest community in one of the reddest states. It's interesting, to say the least.
Please record so we can view this over the weekend
Just click the link later and it will replay on HYouTube. H/appens with EACH such ATW or podcast.
Matt,
Your piece on the Covid lies was spot on. I'd love to show it to my friends and help them understand what MSM and the Government have become, but am bound by our agreement. Any chance you can write some stuff that I can share? You and Walter are a rock in a sea of disinformation. Thanks for your consideration.
I’ll take both pieces out from behind the wall tomorrow- is that ok?
Matt, this is an outstanding ATW. Walter” she’s a psychopath “! Yes she surely is AND seems all is forgotten about her Russiagate bullshit. Delete the word “ manosphere” stat from the msmassholes vocabulary. Along with any derivative of democracy, democratic…. demo means people which can stand. As We the people did in this election!
Thank you!
Matt,
Thank you!
New Documentary: "Thank you, Dr. Fauci". (fyi: it is being suppressed on social media.) "The documentary addresses the federal government narrative that Covid naturally spawned from a Wuhan animal market. The uncomfortable truth no one but those committed to integrity want to know is that Dr. Fauci spent most of his 54-year career deceiving the public.
Fauci played a central role in the biggest coverup in our government’s history. His negligence led to widespread death, masking, lockdowns, and social distancing. These outcomes could have been avoided if Fauci bypassed the opportunity to fund and explore gain-of-function research."
I loved Walter's analogy of the legacy media as hectoring those of us on land from their sinking ship. So, can Matt now limit the MSNBC and CNN clips? Let's stop acting like Rachel Maddow matters for anyone other than True Believers. And I already know what these people think, because they tell me at every opportunity.
yea, with you, I've heard enough of them too. they all use different words to say the same stupid things. maybe one day they will finally figure out they are selling from an empty wagon.
It's like the riddle, "How do you know if someone is a vegan?"
I don’t know that riddle. How?
"Because they will tell you over and over again."
🤣
I voted Trump in cobalt blue Massachusetts not because I thought it would make a difference with electors but because I wanted to drive up Trump’s vote nationally. It looks like my strategy worked, Lawrence O’Donnell.
I did too, in Red TX
Go matt! Go Walter! Thank you for being a lighthouse for us all xxx
Kamala is Echo. Pursuing progressive tribes by repeating their narcissistic slogans. Endlessly seeking their acceptance.
"When Narcissus died, wasting away before his own reflection, consumed by a love that could not be, Echo mourned over his body. When Narcissus, looking one last time into the pool uttered, "Oh marvellous boy, I loved you in vain, farewell", Echo too chorused, "Farewell."
Eventually, Echo, too, began to waste away. Her beauty faded, her skin shriveled, and her bones turned to stone. Today, all that remains of Echo is the sound of her voice."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_(mythology)?variant=zh-tw
Thanks for providing this week's story! I hope Matt &
Walter reflect upon your comment on Monday's episode.
Of course, it's Narcissii all the way down, and just because one bunch won and the other lost does't mean the flaws are not obvious in both camps. Most voters held their nose and voted for the lesser of two noxious blooms.
The garbage people won this election
They always do, R or D.
From Clandestine:
" The trillion dollar corporate media machine just lost an information war to a bunch of citizens on our cell phones.
We launched a revolution, using memes.
We influenced and inspired the masses, outmaneuvered the MSM, and shifted the Overton window.
The battlefield expanded."
major tip of the hat and thanks to Elon Musk
And to Substacks where voters can be a part of the conversation.
Yes. If X was controlled like it was in 2020 and 2022, more people would’ve felt isolated and disempowered. It’s harder to manufacture narratives and propaganda when people can speak freely. Hence the ride of the MDM Orwellian industry.
Note: I don’t use X. Just saying Musk’s move matters, even if there’s some shadow banning and examples of imperfect moderation for legal speech.
You should use X, these days it is the best place by far to get unbiased news. Over time, you learn who to trust.
I like the can opening sound at the start. That should be how every atw is kicked off
I just wish I didn’t know that it is the sound of a DIET coke 😩 I like to imagine it was a regular coke or a beer 🤪
I have trouble trusting anyone who drinks diet anything. Hopefully RFK Jr will get rid of those chemicals.
Yes but have we actually ever seen the "Diet Coke"?
Any kind of COKE is Poison!! (Try a Kombucha drink!)
Yep my beverage of choice. I usually make my own!