We live with the dumbest elites in history. Instead of creating an abundance society, they strangle us with stupid rules and regulations while lying to us about the huge amount of tax money they're effectively stealing.
It was OBVIOUS as soon as the war started that Ukraine couldn't "win" and sooner or later, they'd have to hash out a deal.
Billions of dollars and thousands of dead bodies later, here we are.
The NYT attempt to whitewash their involvement by throwing others under the bus is fairly obvious. Just as they have always done, carrying water for the liberal elites during "Russiagate", "J6 Insurrection", lawfare against Trump to name a few, and they still think they can give a half-heated mea culpa to be considered reliable. At this point, if anyone has faith in the NYT's reporting, it is surely a sign of either complete ignorance or stupidity. As for the last administration's decision making skills, what can be said at this point, other than good riddance and but for the grace of God we're still here.
I guess we've come full circle. In the 1960's it was right wing generals who wanted to risk WW3 by bombing Cuba during the missile crisis. Now we have "progressive" liberals risking war by approving bombing inside Russia - while denying any risk of a wider war. Sweet Jesus these people are crazy.
And this works for you? Dealing with your sexual arousal by cosplaying women? Therapy is tedious, I know, but it's gotta be less exhausting and time-consuming then getting all dressed up like a chick and then gettin' off and then doin' it all over again a few hours later, probably.
Look at the reality for the incel set. For some reason they're unable to attract a suitable woman, whatever reasons doesn't matter. They have their lane (gay bars or whatnot) who cares, let them have their space. But not to the point where they're affecting outsiders (real women).
He has no interest in annexing Ukraine. He has done everything in his power to avoid that. Why would he want to fight Banderite terrorists in his own country? He only wanted to protect Russian speakers in the Donbas whom they were relentlessly persecuting. I hope you'll research who these neo-Nazis are and why neocon Victoria Nuland, despite being Jewish, decided to recruit them to overthrow Ukraine's president in 2014. Was it to eventually install a Jewish president? Obviously not. Being a Jew has nothing to do with this. It was all part of the plan to weaken Russia until its people rose up and ousted Putin, at which point Russia would essentially be broken up and sold off to the highest bidder. It was Putin who prevented that from happening the first time they tried, back in the 1990s. The neocons never give up their dream of a unipolar rules-based world order controlled by the U.S. That this dream is defunct at long last is why this piece was published. Says so right at the top. The Times wants us all to say we heard it first from . . . yup, them. The newspaper of record, not the one that reports the news when it matters most.
Anyone reading investigative reporter Robert Parry at Consortium News from 2014 on knew the US had just pulled off a violent regime change operation in Ukraine which led to an 8 year civil war that killed 14,000 people, mostly ethnic Russians in the Donbas region.
We lost count of the number of times the administration and the mainstream media repeated the word “unprovoked” to describe Putin’s decision to intervene to push back the Nazi infested Ukrainian forces. The whole thing could have ended in March of 2022, with a peace deal Russia and Ukraine were about to sign, but peace was not part of the agenda. It never is.
There is virtually no evidence of Putin desiring to rebuild greater Russia. Mearsheimer says "no evidence" but Putin's op ed citing Russia's past greatness is a small thing weighing in favor. But that is it.
If Putin wanted to rebuild greater Russia why the heck did they leave Georgia? No other great power opposed them at all there and they left after accomplishing analogous goals to what you state here, Bonnie: enable the independence of breakaway regions and leave them in charge of their own destiny.
The other objective was to divert Russian resources away from Mali and the Sahel region of western Africa. Which is why Macron met with Putin right before Russia launched its SMO into Ukraine.
"Macron and Putin Meet in Bid to Defuse Russia-Ukraine Crisis"
"Macron might bring up the crisis in the Sahel, long a foreign-policy priority for Paris. Macron asked Putin for “clarification” on the latest developments in Mali during a call on Dec. 21.........And indeed, Macron did raise the question several times during their conversation behind closed doors."
Boris Johnson had already scuttled the peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine. So, I'm sure Macron offered to resurrect the peace agreement if Putin would call off the Wagner Group's activities in Mali.
Macron still works for his former employer. His former employer is much more interested in Africa than eastern Europe.
Just a long field trip to Ukraine for the Russian army, that's all--- museum visits, farm tours, miniature golf---that sorta thing.
Putin's ideals are genuine---he only wants to make Ukraine a "sister nation" because he's already written the page for it on Musk's latest media venture, the "bootheel-to-throat wiki."
Since day 1 Putin has been trying to get the band back together. Ukraine is kinda like Mr. Fabulous needing coercion.
Further, from the beginning of the Kievan Rus the nation (in a cultural sense) of Ukraine has been an independent nation for very little of it. The ethnic Russians regard the Kievan Rus as the origin of their people. This is a regional, family squabble. Other than poking the bear in Putin I have never understood what national interest we have there. Well, ok, other than poking Putin and lining Hunter’s pockets.
Putin has many reasons, excuses. Most don't hold water for you or I, yet these are the things one must do when one rides a tiger. A tiger-rider must keep up the appearances, always be keeping up the appearances. A tiger rider must be seen as continually fighting to restore glory of the former union, maintain the battle against Oceania or whatever. Russia does need warm water ports, which Crimea provides. There is the oil and gas reserves to exploit in Eastern Ukraine. Let the Caucasus know they're not safe from yet another invasion.
The Dems haver gone all in on Russia Russia Russia since Hilarity Clinton made up that crazy shit about Russia hacking the DNC to cover her and her corrupt DNC cronies' asses, DJT's "collusion" with Russia, Russia wanting DJT to win (the opposite was true - the Russians know Hils is a "stability"-obsessed pushover [remember the "reset button"?] unlike the current crazy-eyed mercurial Chief Exec). Remember Obama's comeback to Mitt Romney re. Russia during the campaign? They now have to keep the coals hot under the very idea of Russia because they spent over a decade hyping them as the villain and pinning their hopes to the idea that Russia somehow represented DJT's downfall. For them, Ukraine is perfect because they can fight the big bad Russians from afar, in complete safety, while preening around in moral high dudgeon, lecturing and scolding, and keeping Putin front and center as the new millenium's Vlad Tepish. It's easy to be absolutist when its Ukrainian blood running in the trenches.
And stop right there! I know you're spiraling down the "you're a Putin apologist" wormhole, and you're wrong. Putin is a shit of historic proportion. But I'd like any Democrat to stand up and tell me how Biden, or Obama, or Hillary Clinton ever did ANYTHING to constrain Russia (beyond, perhaps, blowing up the Nordstream pipeline, which was cool, but then trying to convince us that the Russians blew up their own pipeline/hard currency generator? Who the fuck are these idiots? These morons were running our defense and intelligence establishments? GOD HELP US).
And now it's the Democrats who, after decades of SUPPORTING THE SOVIETS (something they've never had to actually answer for. Someone needs to mock them to their face during a public debate for being insane and infantile, perhaps wondering aloud why we should EVER listen to them again since they were so VERY wrong about the defining issue of the post-WWII world) turn on a heel and commence to posturin'. Like something has changed. The "new" Russian regimes are exactly the same as the Soviet Russians, just with more diamond-bedazzled track suits and harems of hot Russian mafia sluts). They found they could be even more thuggish and greedy through capitalism, but they're still the same cologne-drenched goons stumbling drunk and groping the livestock in the collectivist yurt That's how bad the Democrats are at this stuff.
Well with Trump’s views we won’t have to worry about the world. We will live in relative isolation. It should be economically harmful, but we may be ok anyway.
Don't forget that stenographer Michael Gordon, who shared some bylines with Miller on Iraq's faux WMDs in the run-up to the '03 invasion. She went on to Fox, he to the Wall Street Journal.
03/31/25: NYT and the major league sports franchises --- NO ONE FAILS. No one goes out of business. Lose 121 games in one season? Oh, hi, hello, make yourself at home, next year you're back, as if nothing at all had happened. Lose all credibility as a newspaper? Subscriptions just mysteriously continue to exist (see USAID left-wing/Communist slush fund). WaPo hacks get fired and suddenly they're infested wth subscribers on their new Substack Welfare Program For Idiots On Momentary Hiatus. Nice rackets!
04/01/25: Very much so. Different in that Act Blue fraudulently raised campaign funds by claiming thousands of small (and not so small) donors had legally contributed (the money actually came from deep-pocketed, corrupt million- and billionaires). The Substack bribes (fraud?) prop up the corrupt legacy media refugees.
“But for the grace of God”, but these people are still here, still in some niche of government or think tank. There need to be tribunals one for the civilians and one for the military
Whitewashing and censorship and persecuting political opponents, remember, is not authoritarian, it's liberal. The NYT, a high ranking Cardinal in the liberal media class (the class of the affluent, the educated, the untouchable) is just using its self-perpetuating moral high ground to mock and shape threats to their narrative and market share primacy. It's a theme I touch on in my latest piece: **With liberals like these, who needs conservatives?**
Or, Matt is interested in what and why the CIA (via the NYT) has released this information at this particular time. Is this, along with the autopen, some kind of left handed monkey wrench brought into the Trump-led Ukraine-Russia peace negotiations?
In fact, Matt provides a lot of information not in the NYT so that we can understand the actual context of what the NYT is saying. That is the opposite of "faith in NYT's reporting."
One of Matt's major heros, Noam Chomsky, pointed out to him as Matt reported in his book "Hate, Inc." that papers like the Times are full of facts, the problem is in how they are interpreted and what facts are left out. Analyzing how those (limited) facts are used does not amount to faith--it's much closer to exactly the opposite.
Dumb and mendacious elites who are running the risk of getting a shitload of us killed via nukes. And smearing us as unpatriotic for not going along to boot.
04/03/25: Before we hop on the Entous bandwagon, remember that not too long ago, he was part of the deranged, bloodthirsty media mobsters that screamed "CONSPIRACY THEORY!" whenever someone else --- as we found out much later on --- was telling the truth:
03/31/25: [Post-note: I got the book title wrong. Fixed.]
In case any further proof is needed about our "elite" media being cowardly, low-IQ turds, take the time to read "The Night 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' Began," by Catherine Forester; Self-Published ("Lightning Source LLC") (no copyright year ["2019"]; paperback).
It's a series of verbatim transcripts of the Election Night 2016 shows on ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN and Fox, and working for these Pravda outfits are the most craven and stupid people that you can imagine. Their idiocy is highly entertaining.
03/31/25: One of the most hilarious aspects of this book is that throughout election night, this happened repeatedly, without fail: These worms think NOTHING of lying to us, but somehow the pollsters in 2016 weren't supposed to lie TO THEM.
Remember when "Primary Colors" came out in 1996 and the media big shots were incensed that the author (Joe Klein) had lied TO THEM about who the "anonymous" author had been?
Klein's critics didn't mind if he misled THE PUBLIC (us) about being the author --- but when he prevaricated to THEM, THAT was grounds for his being exiled from the only profession whose members are totally honest all the time.
I hear you! Loud and clear! I'm just an old veteran now but when I read shit like this (re: NYTs) it almost makes me want to revisit my expert marksman skill and hunt down the MFR's (the writer and the editor who approves their garbage) and take up target practice again. (Almost)
And the worst part is just like Iraq and covid and seemingly everything else these days, if you don't go along you get called all sorts of names by the media that will only admit you were right five years later.
This is a crumpled up NYTs trying to ignite a fire between DJT and Putin. The Europeans are losing political power like the U.S. has with Trump and want to keep the fire burning as long as possible. I hope the European people 'Love their children too'.
Last Wed. Business Insider' European Union advised citizens to stockpile 72 hours of supplies for potential crises.' Opened ended with no specifics but the Ukaine conflict was mentioned.
The one thing we have going for us right now is that censorship is a very labor-intensive project. Once the blob moves on to new projects, they necessarily stop censoring the old ones.
If they can automate that censorship, we're in trouble.
And outlets like Reddit will ban you for it, too. Permanently ban you if you don't go along with the Dems warmongering and DEI and sex surgery on children to change their gender.
That might (or might not) be a little extreme. I guess it just depends on how old you are and how accurately you shoot. Be pretty funny if a bunch of old guys with guns fight the next civil war. We used to make the young guys do it but they've become a bunch of useless pussies without guns, so here we are.
As much as I get a chuckle from the very accurate perspective that "they've become a bunch of useless pussies," someone does need to figure out what the hell is wrong with young men. They think they're supposed to look like the IG idiot who dunks his face in ice water several times each morning (interesting how men are learning how bad the 'ideal body' approaches suck, just like they always have for women). And because they don't look like that, they play video games at home at Mom's house. They don't interact with anyone except other gamers. Never meet women. Never hook up. Never get married. Never have children.
There may be hope if the news about young men turning to the church for purpose is true. One can hope. Madeleine Kearns with the Free Press wrote a piece touching on that today, but as usual these days with the FP, there's a slant. :-/
Regardless of whether one is spiritual personally or not, if young people searching for what to do, and a church helps them find it, more power to them.
If TFP could just lose that slant, there could be some great writing. I suspect that Bari has now determined she must become like Fox News or CNNMSNBC and just give the subscribers what they want.
Yup. 1.25 million subs on a substack platform might cause you to start to pitch a narrative, and not the story/facts. But that's the world she grew up in, worked in, and was educated in. All that said, she still does excellent work from time to time. Plus the UAT thing is a pretty cool. Doesn't help IMO with the last two Editor hires, not one bit.
Money & Profit are the drivers of what has clearly been a stunning success for all involved in profiting from the current "Lucy & the Football" moment in US foreign policy/get rich scam. Matt's piece is excellent, but failing to acknowledge the role filthy lucre plays up front is critical.
Matt and Walter discussed the "recharge" where the con moves to "how can we get your money back?" which is simply the rebuilding of US weapons stockpiles, profiting off the Ukraine rebuild - to be deferred indefinitely now that Russia seems bent on teaching us a lesson, and the switch to new revenue streams.
Winning means getting rich - no other metric for war for profit ever exists or should be applied. That's all Ukraine has ever been about. Period.
So in your world..if someone does a stupid thing..repeatedly..and says stupid things..for stupid goals and is too stupid to understand what he has just done..and it all failed..they are actually "smart and committed"...
Wow..
If someone did the exact opposite of all of the above...and achieved success...they would also be "smart and committed" right?
Can you see the %$$#@$ problem with your idiotic claim?
If you cannot..your probably just "smart and committed"
They are intelligent people who have been convinced by stupid but clever people that they are so bright as to be “post-reality”, i.e. they are beyond the hum-drum rules, rhythms, mores and structures of normal culture and society, replacing what we commonly think of as “reality”with gauzy, aspirational, saccharin and ultimately meaningless slogans. These mantras are
We elected Biden, the Dem machine won that round, and the Dems "dumb elites" who voted that warmonger and his gang of idiots into office are still too stupid to see their mistake.
Let me rephrase that: We are led by the dumbest elites in history.
To which I'd reply: [insert picture of two astronauts gazing upon Earth from space, second astronaut points a 1911 at the back of the head of the first] ... "it always was."
Biden’s entire career is a lie, and fabrication. Marred with plagiarism and now after 50 years of deceit and corruption he has signed out with auto pen. He leaves a legacy as the worst president in history.
And yet I know so many people who think Biden is a hero. They believe every word that came out of his administration and still do! It’s insane. The truth about COViD, Ukraine, the laptop, etc…. They still believe in the narratives! How do we help people accept the truth? It’s absolutely nuts here in Blue CA
Blue WA is pretty similar, I'm sure. I walk on eggshells at work because they are all still believing MSM.
I'm not sure if we can do any more that voting in every election and possibly moving to another locality in which we could add to the 'voice'. I've thought of moving out of state, but perhaps simply relocating elsewhere in state to have more of a voice outside of the I-5 corridor might be a thing to consider as well.
What is the difference? Or haven't you noticed that the "great peacemaker" Trump is going around acting like Curtis LeMay, finding new excuses for bombing other countries every day and even talking about annexing territories controlled by US' erstwhile allies, including Canada? The only difference between Biden and Trump is that they disagree on which nuclear superpower to play nuclear chicken with... Trump would prefer to lay off using Ukraine as proxy against Russia and use Taiwan as a proxy against China instead. No matter how or against who WWIII begins, it will certainly end with tens of millions of US workers DEAD - minimum! Unless workers in the US get busy building a revolutionary socialist workers party to disarm the money-lusting, warmongering US capitalist class, we are all likely to be reduced to remaining passive observers, watching WWIII go down as if it was just another blood-drenched Hollywood drama only happening on our TV screens. Dump the Republicrats; build a workers party; depose the capitalist class and fight for a socialist future, because *there is no future for the working class under the capitalist system!*
When the socialists run out of taking everyone’s money, they start eating the animals in the zoo and their pets. You should move to Venezuela a socialist’s paradise.
Capitalism was never overthrown in Venezuela. There was never a socialist revolution there; it’s a capitalist state with some pseudo-socialist reforms.
So all the 175 million workers of the USA can do is sit around and wait for the capitalist criminals of the USA to blunder their way into WWIII, killing us and our families? Not a great strategy, Mick. And Castro was nothing like Stalin. I guess workers in Europe should have given up overthrowing the monarchies of Europe after 1793 because it was inevitable that all that could happen would be that another Robespierre would rise to the top?
I'm in flyover between the 'city' and B'ham. This would be a red county if not for the constant influx of retiring Californians.
It's the next county over, but many of the ones with money move to the San Juans. They vote woke there and it is so safe...they literally do not have to see the consequences of their vote on their day to day lives. They live in a bubble where the world comes to them on ferries and leaves at 5 PM or something,
There's no bottom to the credulity of Democrat Party voters. Jasmine Crockett spews a steady stream of lies and violent threats when she's not punching reporters. A sane party would give her the George Santos treatment.
It's not Blue in the Valley. Having survived a couple years in Modesto, I would never urge ANYone to move to the Central Valley, but if you seek non-blue flavor, that's where it will be found.
On the other hand, it might be better to just give up to the Democratic Wokesters, simply to avoid living in the Valley.
Plus all the elections in California are rigged for the Democrats, whether we can prove it or not. There’s no other explanation why they always win, and by large margins, when most of the state is center right. Here are some of the ways the Democrats cheat elections:
Mail-in ballots for everyone.
Motor-voter registration at the DMV, including illegal aliens, who are allowed to get a driver license in California.
In Illinois, too. I don't think they are nuts. It is a primitive part of their brain that has overgrowth so they can only indulge in group-think and have lost the ability to think critically due to atrophy of the pre-frontal cortex.
He may be a close 2nd, Matt. In my mind’s eye however, Obama is the Worst as he started — and maintained through his surrogates — the attitude of “the end justifies the means” attitude in working in the public forum.
Obama told 300 Million Americans in 2010-2011 about Obamacare: “Your medical costs will not go up and could even go down.”
Not to mention, I’m pretty sure that’s how the whole school tuition coverage taken over by the government came into play. They took the loans from bankers and decided to offer student loans at 6 5/8% to cover a vast portion of Obamacare costs. It was part of the 2010 Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act. If you’d like to see Maxine Waters at her best, try to find the You Tube video of her calling in all the CEOs of major banks scolding them on how bad the students were being treated only to have Jaime Dimon let her know the banks were no longer in the business 😵💫
NGO funding started with Obama and Holder, Trump ended it then Biden "restarted" the practice. Why American Citizenry cannot see how CORRUPT the Democrat Party is or has become.... just a bit of research can open eyes! 🇺🇸
Having just finished reading Lies My Teacher Told Me, you’ve nailed the horrendous human being Woodrow Wilson as the single worst president in history.
He destroyed African Americans with his extreme racism. He is absolutely responsible for the rise in Nazism as well getting the US into WW1 - I can’t believe I attended an elementary school named after this scumbag.
There is no discernable difference between Cheney and Biden. Bush Jr. was ... actually far better than Obama, but Cheney led the way for what Obama's minions did, and the position we are in now.
Yeahhh...I know Cheney was the worst President but being his puppet (and actually having the title of President of the United States) kinda make Shrub the worst. Bush gave us Patriot Act and torture, for god's sake! but Obama was always the 2nd worst for being Cheney's wet dream. But Biden's Admin was such a complete clusterfuck, he's neck and neck with Obama, right behind Junior...
We'll agree to disagree I guess. I don't see a difference. I guess Maybe Cheney gets the edge for opening the door for Obama, but Obama's group still expanded it all after they walked through the door.
He engaged in unnecessary wars, costing trillions and killing thousands of Americans and tens or hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans, and created metric shit-tons of jihadists. He started a torture regime. He began spying on Americans. His people outed a clandestine CIA officer out of pique. He lied to everyone. Lied to the Christian right, who expected him to deliver prayer in classrooms. Lied to all of us about WMDs. 100% assclown. And he's stupid.
It is not a lie. We have known he was a plagiarizing moron for decades. Now we elected a moron with dementia whose unelected appointee oligarchs. These morons have let the military industrial complex continue their hardware experimentation. Let’s see how many of these DC whores end up getting jobs in the defense industry.
Give Trump a few more months of his insane warmongering and then review your evaluation of Biden being the worst ever (as horrible as he most certainly was). Trump has torn off his peacemaker mask and burned it already.
Yes, he is the typical American career politician whose constituents vote in until they are wheeled into chambers drooling, demented, and then dead, by their handlers. So who is the dumb ones?
I am grateful that Joe Biden slept 40% of his presidency on a beach. Imagine how screwed we would be if he devoted 100% of his presidency to destroying our country.
04/03/25: Before we hop on the Entous bandwagon, remember that not too long ago, he was part of the deranged, bloodthirsty media mobsters that screamed "CONSPIRACY THEORY!" whenever someone else --- as we found out much later on --- was telling the truth:
You could do a whole column (is that what they are called? I cant think) filled with NYT "We were tricked and forced to [blank]" -- I bet it would be a long list. They are going to be backpedalling for quite some time and I imagine, quite creatively.
Motheryouknowwhatters.
(Gave up swearing for Lent. Doing poorly. It's like walking around with my ankles tied together.)
The NYT has been dishonorable much longer than your lifetime.
NYT totally lied about how wonderfully communist USSR was doing under Stalin in the 1930's while many millions were dying of starvation. NYT reporter Walter Duranty also "justified the brutality of Stalin’s gulag system as a necessary measure that would ultimately benefit the Russian people." Left wingers even back then.
NYT re WWII: "No American newspaper was better positioned to highlight the Holocaust than the Times, and no American newspaper so influenced public discourse by its failure to do so.”
The NYT has not been reputable for a very, very long time.
IDK, I think the NYT cares about one thing and one thing only- the NYT. This isn't the first time they've carried water for an agenda. They've always been like this but the last 8 years they've really doubled down.
I miss the old days when every Big City (and even a few smaller ones) had multiple news outlets. I would spend my study halls reading both the Chicago Tribune and the Sun-Times plus any other newspapers there. I miss the days when the stories were researched, written, etc by hand. Today's papers are just as boring as the networks with articles regurgitated word for word.
That's undeniably true. I think those in charge looked at the media landscape and understood that the only places people paid attention was Fox News, etc. and CNNMSNBC, etc. The Times very carefully picked the side they thought would continue to drive more coverage for them.
It's almost impossible to find a media outlet anymore that isn't one team of the other.
Since we were talking about lyrics and playing a ukulele , isn't it obvious I was alluding to Kansas the band? Kerry Livgren (from Kansas (the state) was a musical and lyrical genius.(IMO) As far as Baseball, I am a Braves , Mets and Yankee fan. On football, more into College games than Professional.
NYTimes and "expose" should be mutually exclusive.
I try mightily to refrain from criticizing Senile Joe b/c, well, he's SENILE. However I blame everyone ESPECIALLY his grifting family and the DNC hierarchy for endangering us.
Nope. Hang the lying, corrupt piece of shit and leave his head on a pike in front of the Capitol, just as the English kings of old did as a reminder of the fate of traitors.
04/03/25: Before we hop on the Entous bandwagon, remember that not too long ago, he was part of the deranged, bloodthirsty media mobsters that screamed "CONSPIRACY THEORY!" whenever someone else --- as we found out much later on --- was telling the truth:
Whitewashing and censorship and persecuting political opponents, even in trial by media, remember, is not authoritarian, it's liberal. The NYT, a high ranking Cardinal in the liberal media class (the class of the affluent, the educated, the untouchable) is just using its self-perpetuating moral high ground to mock and shape threats to their narrative and market share primacy. It's a theme I touch on in my latest piece: **With liberals like these, who needs conservatives?**
Definitely. It was interesting I got a notification on this in my email and this story wasn't behind any paywall. They wanted to make sure I saw their massive middle finger.
I disagree. It’s a big fuck you to their mostly Democrat readers. You know, the people who are incapable of changing their minds despite being presented with voluminous evidence that they (and their families) have been repeatedly deceived and endangered. For the rest of us it’s just validating what we already know about the Times propaganda operation.
They can change their minds very quickly when the Party decrees it. "Stay home save lives" was replaced by twerking for St. George. Biden was sharp as a tack until suddenly he wasn't, and about that same time people discovered overnight great enthusiasm for Kamala. Not long ago climate change was imminently going to kill us all, now it's acceptable to sabotage the biggest maker of EVs.
Joe Biden is the poster child of everything that is wrong with America’s phony politics. A career politician, he enriched himself and his wicked family with riches no common American could afford, like two-multi-million-dollar mansions, luxury cars, a luxurious lifestyle…
How does a career politician live like a king when he never accomplished much before his less than accomplished Senate career from 1972 – 2008?
What is he known for? Three strikes, you’re out? How did that work out? Contributing to the enormous welfare state? 1990s global deals and regulations that ended many good paying, American jobs. https://lizlasorte.substack.com/p/meet-jack-and-dr-jane-obrien
Yes!!!! to Trump tearing it down, legislating it down, prosecuting it down, making sure it does not rear its evil incompetent head for a very very long time.
04/03/25: Before we hop on the Entous bandwagon, remember that not too long ago, he was part of the deranged, bloodthirsty media mobsters that screamed "CONSPIRACY THEORY!" whenever someone else --- as we found out much later on --- was telling the truth:
Sure, there are plenty out there like you describe. But there are also a lot of people who realize that the color they used to vote for became something else. Conservative people voted for Bush 2 because he promised to get prayer back in schools and ban gay marriage. Didn't deliver. But he delivered tax cuts for rich people. Liberals voted for people like Half-Black Jesus, Clinton, and Biden, who promised their usual stuff but instead delivered more war, more spying on Americans, and a lot of censorship.
Most of those conservatives who felt betrayed by the Republicans probably voted for Trump, because he promised something different, and at least he was a Republican in name. Some of those liberals didn't vote, or voted with me--None Of The Above Candidates, and a few of them probably voted for Trump, because he promised something different. I didn't vote for Trump, but I surely hoped Harris would lose.
People learn at different rates of speed. I chose to overlook the Dems' new fondness for war and Wall Street money, but didn't completely bail until all the lies of COVID. Others don't pay much attention until their wallets feel it. Not very nice to call them sheep because they're hopeful of something better. And very douchy to proclaim your superiority. If you're light years ahead of us dumbfucks, why do you waste your time trying to enlighten us?
I was a democrat for most of my younger years. As I became older, somewhat wiser I slowly turned. I am now 65. I no longer trust any democrat. I’ve seen the damage one party, ideology, and economics can damage generations upon generations. Bet you think this makes me a republican, nope. I am now an independent with no joy.
Times are scary for us right now. Several Substacks I read talk about, powder keg, break down of law in their cities, missing money, and abuse of power. Add to this what the everyday person has to deal with, inflation, job loss, no clear path and extremism of every kind. People are now afraid to have a conversation about what they are experiencing and head out of their communities and come to small towns to refresh themselves in values they thought were gone. I am seeing this more and more where I live.
I truly wonder if we will just breakdown society wise and become like the Amish, Mennonite for example. Will we reject a certain amount of government oversight/rules, technology and scale back our way of living? Is that even possible?
I just don’t know. The past Biden years have caused me to not trust the government and MSM. where do we go from here?
Wanted to compliment your handle, husband is a great fan of Warren Zevon.
One of my personal failings is being patient. I am going through one of my scared phases. So my view of current events is skewered. I am lucky, wonderful husband, retired, house, food and the greatest love of two dogs.
"People...head out of their communities and come to small towns to refresh themselves in values they thought were gone." -- I'm also hearing about more people moving off the grid, homesteading, building Agoras, 'exiting the Matrix,' etc.
George Washington was right to be wary of political parties. The two party system is the real enemy. Only the ordained on both sides get to choose the candidates. For his entire career Biden was the putz of the Democratic Party. Suddenly he has the chops to be President?
But you all should be very grateful to Biden/Harris because without them Trump doesn’t become President. Trump will tear down existing institutions, the plan is to backfill the fired employees with people loyal to Trump. A new Deep State. It will produce its own set of lies, oppression and deception designed to keep itself in power. If anything comes out of it that’s good for America it will be accidental.
Trump’s willingness to lie for self-preservation and to subvert our constitution “to MAGA” has no bounds and frankly, he has succeeded in changing the game to a format that he is master of. Many people will lose everything they have because it’s a zero - sum game. If you don’t like him you’re in for a very long period of despair. He’s not leaving anytime soon.
Oh Lord. Such a simpleton answer. We’ve got serious problems economically that need to be reconciled. People living on streets, veterans committing suicide daily in big numbers, corruption so deep it’s unimaginable. I’m sorry but the planet needs to wait a little bit because we need to get the house in order before we tend to the yard. I’m betting that super smart youngsters that are ecologically responsible, will begin inventing stuff that will save them and their children. For now, this old boomer just wants to make sure they have the money and a non corrupt government to implement them. As of now, they don’t. I don’t know if Trump can pull it off, but I sure as hell knew Kamala couldn’t. To me, there was NO other choice. For now I’m praying.
You’re entitled to speak your mind.. interesting, I use simpleton you use bitch. Mention my comment about super smart youngsters blah, blah..I guess I can understand your comment because you don’t have children. I do and they are smart. Why is that a cop out? Smart people innovate, that’s been the success of our country. Oh and you call us sheep. Yep, as I said simpleton. When you don’t have a coherent argument, you devolve into silliness.
You may just want to hold on to that sentiment a while longer. Because it certainly looks like he's tearing down some shit.
A tip for Comments engagement: if you offer some thoughts behind the ad hominem, people might pay more attention. Or, continue sounding like you have fucking Tourette's.
Why don't I ever hear even the faintest hint that Biden was blackmailed with all the Burisma documents that Trump was after? Seems like the obvious answer to me.
Joe was being run by Jill, Hunter, Blinken and Sullivan.
From the beginning of this debacle, I've always suspected the only reason we were following such an illogical path was that they had something on Joe/Hunter. China had something as well.
Nothing in this surprises me. It was pretty clear, certainly to any US military expert, and the Russians, that the precision of the UKR strikes was US targeting. We also had some of our best EW assets flying constant watch along the border.
We knew, UKR knew, Russia knew, but the American people did not. And frankly, the press either looked the other way or simply was too ignorant to understand.
The Trump administration knows all of this. Now, replay the scene from a few weeks ago. Was Vance pissed at UKR or the idiots masking our foreign policy? What would you do if you showed up at the white house with this pile of shit?
And why in God's name did anyone think this was going to end well? I would love to hear the Biden national security team explain why they thought this was a good idea.
It makes more sense why Jim Jones was so frustrated with Obama. This is just that political thinking but without any IQ.
04/03/25: Before we hop on the Entous bandwagon, remember that not too long ago, he was part of the deranged, bloodthirsty media mobsters that screamed "CONSPIRACY THEORY!" whenever someone else --- as we found out much later on --- was telling the truth:
I am fuming. We suspected that these useless cocksuckers were lying to us. Now we know for a fact that not, only were they lying, they were playing Russian roulette (literally) with the lives of our children and grandchildren. I don't care if he's a senile imbecile. Biden needs to go to prison - or, better yet, be hanged. That fat moron, Milley, as well. McFaul and the entire media circus. Also every liberal Democrat puke who pranced around in yellow and blue, calling anyone who urged caution and common sense, "Ivan" or, laughably, a traitor to America. If these lying scumbags are not brought to justice we can kiss America goodbye. And, while we're finding and punishing these devious dipshits, maybe, just maybe, we should let Russia do what it wants with Ukraine. Putin supposedly wants the little comedian gone before he's willing to talk peace. With these revelations in mind, maybe that's a good start.
You didn't suspect them of lying to us. You KNEW they were lying. Just like they did about Iraq. Just like they did about Vietnam.
The most astonishing thing about all of this is the number of people who oppose war, oppose spying on Americans, oppose torture, oppose censorship, who have paid absolutely no attention as the Democrat leaders they support began to love and promote war, spying, torture, and censorship.
I do not understand why all these college-educated people cannot seem to think for themselves, or otherwise believe that to stop believing all the Democrats' bullshit, they have to cast their lot with Trump.
Some of us knew this (and wrote about it) shortly after the war started. It isn’t rocket science. Admitting that “NOW you know for a fact” because the NYT said so doesn’t enhance your reputation, IMO. What the hell took you so long?
My head is exploding. Team Biden has never had a constructive agenda. It was more of a war churning Merry Go Round that no one dared to hop off because that made you Putin loving Democracy hating stooge…. Maybe Kamala Harris could draw up a three dimensional Venn diagram of all these lies and obvious conflicts of interest…. And again, the Legacy media’s willing participation. And yet, we keep getting treated like shit and nothing happens to those pulling this shit off.
We need to remember this the next time an official from the Biden admin goes on CNN or MSNBC or NPR(!!!) and tells us that what Trump is doing is "dangerous".
The real question is why the NYT is running this, now. Possibly because a lot of it is about to come out, anyway, or they fear the current Admin has it and could use it, so best to get out ahead of it and not look so bad. When I write, "they," I conflate the interests of the Times and the Biden regime, but that is entirely reasonable.
All of this just further confirms what has been obvious for several years, that the upper reaches of the Democratic Party and its media allies are functionally psychopathic.
04/03/25: Before we hop on the Entous bandwagon, remember that not too long ago, he was part of the deranged, bloodthirsty media mobsters that screamed "CONSPIRACY THEORY!" whenever someone else --- as we found out much later on --- was telling the truth:
And so Ukrainians join the Afghans and South Vietnamese in not being good enough for American brilliance. The world watches and draws its own conclusions. Except, it seems, the EU autocrats.
Next act in the script that was written years ago: Zelensky gets the Diem treatment, as the Empire grows bored of its latest futile endeavor and loses patience with its headstrong vassal.
It's usually better to be an enemy of the Empire than an expendable vassal. (Though in our much kinder gentler time, perhaps Zelensky will escape a bullet to the head and be allowed to float off on a golden parachute.)
All Empires act the same way, was ever thus. Maybe the one difference here is that Americans have been conditioned to believe we're not an Empire, just a democratic republic with a suspiciously swollen....uhhh....Pentagon. ;)
Don't think they'll get it till the day comes when the dollar is no longer the global reserve currency.
So they FA now they can (and will) FO. Wait it won't be pretty. Ukrainians will NOT take this well. Think the Iraqi's or Afgani's etc. have/are seeking revenge? Just wait.
Are you fking kidding me??? Once again, the "commonsense" Americans, Donald Trump, and JD Vance were right, right, right. That little shit deserved that White House blowup and Europe let him play hero for it. For basically blackmailing and treating them like the idiots they were, he's their hero. Not to mention, I haven't even had time to read that story for reading and watching everything I can about France, England, and every other protector of "our democracy" turn into the tyrannical authoritarians they claim Putin is. What the hell are they so scared of? If Putin were to take over, exactly what we he do differently as regards to eliminating his political opponents (other than bypass the courts for the firing squad)
Sorry you feel that way. I feel like jailing your political opposition or canceling elections and then disqualifying candidates is tyrranical authoritarianism and isn't that what Europe is fighting? You can't save democracy by killing it.
We live with the dumbest elites in history. Instead of creating an abundance society, they strangle us with stupid rules and regulations while lying to us about the huge amount of tax money they're effectively stealing.
It was OBVIOUS as soon as the war started that Ukraine couldn't "win" and sooner or later, they'd have to hash out a deal.
Billions of dollars and thousands of dead bodies later, here we are.
The NYT attempt to whitewash their involvement by throwing others under the bus is fairly obvious. Just as they have always done, carrying water for the liberal elites during "Russiagate", "J6 Insurrection", lawfare against Trump to name a few, and they still think they can give a half-heated mea culpa to be considered reliable. At this point, if anyone has faith in the NYT's reporting, it is surely a sign of either complete ignorance or stupidity. As for the last administration's decision making skills, what can be said at this point, other than good riddance and but for the grace of God we're still here.
I guess we've come full circle. In the 1960's it was right wing generals who wanted to risk WW3 by bombing Cuba during the missile crisis. Now we have "progressive" liberals risking war by approving bombing inside Russia - while denying any risk of a wider war. Sweet Jesus these people are crazy.
My first clue this admin was crazy was men wearing dresses…then everything else fell into place.
And it seems many of those were from luggage he stole from women travelers!
steal their femininity, steal their clothes ... merely a step away from cutting off her face to wear as a mask.
Oh they were stolen, no two ways about it.
Gender-confused men who exercise their sexual arousal by cosplaying women.
And this works for you? Dealing with your sexual arousal by cosplaying women? Therapy is tedious, I know, but it's gotta be less exhausting and time-consuming then getting all dressed up like a chick and then gettin' off and then doin' it all over again a few hours later, probably.
Really.
Look at the reality for the incel set. For some reason they're unable to attract a suitable woman, whatever reasons doesn't matter. They have their lane (gay bars or whatnot) who cares, let them have their space. But not to the point where they're affecting outsiders (real women).
The irony is many people call Putin the crazy one. At least he has historical reasons, at least in his mind, to re-take Ukraine.
He has no interest in annexing Ukraine. He has done everything in his power to avoid that. Why would he want to fight Banderite terrorists in his own country? He only wanted to protect Russian speakers in the Donbas whom they were relentlessly persecuting. I hope you'll research who these neo-Nazis are and why neocon Victoria Nuland, despite being Jewish, decided to recruit them to overthrow Ukraine's president in 2014. Was it to eventually install a Jewish president? Obviously not. Being a Jew has nothing to do with this. It was all part of the plan to weaken Russia until its people rose up and ousted Putin, at which point Russia would essentially be broken up and sold off to the highest bidder. It was Putin who prevented that from happening the first time they tried, back in the 1990s. The neocons never give up their dream of a unipolar rules-based world order controlled by the U.S. That this dream is defunct at long last is why this piece was published. Says so right at the top. The Times wants us all to say we heard it first from . . . yup, them. The newspaper of record, not the one that reports the news when it matters most.
Anyone reading investigative reporter Robert Parry at Consortium News from 2014 on knew the US had just pulled off a violent regime change operation in Ukraine which led to an 8 year civil war that killed 14,000 people, mostly ethnic Russians in the Donbas region.
We lost count of the number of times the administration and the mainstream media repeated the word “unprovoked” to describe Putin’s decision to intervene to push back the Nazi infested Ukrainian forces. The whole thing could have ended in March of 2022, with a peace deal Russia and Ukraine were about to sign, but peace was not part of the agenda. It never is.
There is virtually no evidence of Putin desiring to rebuild greater Russia. Mearsheimer says "no evidence" but Putin's op ed citing Russia's past greatness is a small thing weighing in favor. But that is it.
If Putin wanted to rebuild greater Russia why the heck did they leave Georgia? No other great power opposed them at all there and they left after accomplishing analogous goals to what you state here, Bonnie: enable the independence of breakaway regions and leave them in charge of their own destiny.
The other objective was to divert Russian resources away from Mali and the Sahel region of western Africa. Which is why Macron met with Putin right before Russia launched its SMO into Ukraine.
"Macron and Putin Meet in Bid to Defuse Russia-Ukraine Crisis"
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/07/putin-macron-france-russia-ukraine-crisis/
"Macron might bring up the crisis in the Sahel, long a foreign-policy priority for Paris. Macron asked Putin for “clarification” on the latest developments in Mali during a call on Dec. 21.........And indeed, Macron did raise the question several times during their conversation behind closed doors."
Boris Johnson had already scuttled the peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine. So, I'm sure Macron offered to resurrect the peace agreement if Putin would call off the Wagner Group's activities in Mali.
Macron still works for his former employer. His former employer is much more interested in Africa than eastern Europe.
Johnson scuttled peace after the war started. Flew in to Kyiv to do so in April or May 2022.
Interesting.
Just a long field trip to Ukraine for the Russian army, that's all--- museum visits, farm tours, miniature golf---that sorta thing.
Putin's ideals are genuine---he only wants to make Ukraine a "sister nation" because he's already written the page for it on Musk's latest media venture, the "bootheel-to-throat wiki."
"At least in his mind..."
Funny.
Since day 1 Putin has been trying to get the band back together. Ukraine is kinda like Mr. Fabulous needing coercion.
Further, from the beginning of the Kievan Rus the nation (in a cultural sense) of Ukraine has been an independent nation for very little of it. The ethnic Russians regard the Kievan Rus as the origin of their people. This is a regional, family squabble. Other than poking the bear in Putin I have never understood what national interest we have there. Well, ok, other than poking Putin and lining Hunter’s pockets.
Putin has many reasons, excuses. Most don't hold water for you or I, yet these are the things one must do when one rides a tiger. A tiger-rider must keep up the appearances, always be keeping up the appearances. A tiger rider must be seen as continually fighting to restore glory of the former union, maintain the battle against Oceania or whatever. Russia does need warm water ports, which Crimea provides. There is the oil and gas reserves to exploit in Eastern Ukraine. Let the Caucasus know they're not safe from yet another invasion.
The Dems haver gone all in on Russia Russia Russia since Hilarity Clinton made up that crazy shit about Russia hacking the DNC to cover her and her corrupt DNC cronies' asses, DJT's "collusion" with Russia, Russia wanting DJT to win (the opposite was true - the Russians know Hils is a "stability"-obsessed pushover [remember the "reset button"?] unlike the current crazy-eyed mercurial Chief Exec). Remember Obama's comeback to Mitt Romney re. Russia during the campaign? They now have to keep the coals hot under the very idea of Russia because they spent over a decade hyping them as the villain and pinning their hopes to the idea that Russia somehow represented DJT's downfall. For them, Ukraine is perfect because they can fight the big bad Russians from afar, in complete safety, while preening around in moral high dudgeon, lecturing and scolding, and keeping Putin front and center as the new millenium's Vlad Tepish. It's easy to be absolutist when its Ukrainian blood running in the trenches.
And stop right there! I know you're spiraling down the "you're a Putin apologist" wormhole, and you're wrong. Putin is a shit of historic proportion. But I'd like any Democrat to stand up and tell me how Biden, or Obama, or Hillary Clinton ever did ANYTHING to constrain Russia (beyond, perhaps, blowing up the Nordstream pipeline, which was cool, but then trying to convince us that the Russians blew up their own pipeline/hard currency generator? Who the fuck are these idiots? These morons were running our defense and intelligence establishments? GOD HELP US).
And now it's the Democrats who, after decades of SUPPORTING THE SOVIETS (something they've never had to actually answer for. Someone needs to mock them to their face during a public debate for being insane and infantile, perhaps wondering aloud why we should EVER listen to them again since they were so VERY wrong about the defining issue of the post-WWII world) turn on a heel and commence to posturin'. Like something has changed. The "new" Russian regimes are exactly the same as the Soviet Russians, just with more diamond-bedazzled track suits and harems of hot Russian mafia sluts). They found they could be even more thuggish and greedy through capitalism, but they're still the same cologne-drenched goons stumbling drunk and groping the livestock in the collectivist yurt That's how bad the Democrats are at this stuff.
Yes, but they are “ our” people…
Well with Trump’s views we won’t have to worry about the world. We will live in relative isolation. It should be economically harmful, but we may be ok anyway.
No, screw this "what absolutism" ; they're both (Trump and Biden) liars, playing with other peoples' lives. Many, many lives.
I'll take less than "everyone", thanks.
And way back with Judith Miller's nonsense in the search for Iraqi WMDs; the Times has sucked for some time.
When you side with Judith Miller and fire Chris Hedges, that’s some epic suckage.
The Times, as they say, could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.
Hell, let’s go all the way back to the NYT’s coverage of Stalin’s genocide??? WTF
The ghost of Walter Duranty still roams the halls at NYT.
And this time he’s in skinny jeans and has a man bun
Drinking a Venti caramel apple frappuccino
Don't forget that stenographer Michael Gordon, who shared some bylines with Miller on Iraq's faux WMDs in the run-up to the '03 invasion. She went on to Fox, he to the Wall Street Journal.
It’s an interesting profession. Being dead-ass wrong is not a problem for continued success. That shit don’t fly in many other professions.
03/31/25: NYT and the major league sports franchises --- NO ONE FAILS. No one goes out of business. Lose 121 games in one season? Oh, hi, hello, make yourself at home, next year you're back, as if nothing at all had happened. Lose all credibility as a newspaper? Subscriptions just mysteriously continue to exist (see USAID left-wing/Communist slush fund). WaPo hacks get fired and suddenly they're infested wth subscribers on their new Substack Welfare Program For Idiots On Momentary Hiatus. Nice rackets!
sounds a lot like ActBlue doesn't it?
04/01/25: Very much so. Different in that Act Blue fraudulently raised campaign funds by claiming thousands of small (and not so small) donors had legally contributed (the money actually came from deep-pocketed, corrupt million- and billionaires). The Substack bribes (fraud?) prop up the corrupt legacy media refugees.
I couldn't have said it better!
“But for the grace of God”, but these people are still here, still in some niche of government or think tank. There need to be tribunals one for the civilians and one for the military
Whitewashing and censorship and persecuting political opponents, remember, is not authoritarian, it's liberal. The NYT, a high ranking Cardinal in the liberal media class (the class of the affluent, the educated, the untouchable) is just using its self-perpetuating moral high ground to mock and shape threats to their narrative and market share primacy. It's a theme I touch on in my latest piece: **With liberals like these, who needs conservatives?**
https://typerider.substack.com/p/with-liberals-like-these-who-needs?r=2ywal
Thanks to the grace of God we are still here.
Clearly Matt Taibbi has faith in NYT's reporting. If he didn't, he wouldn't have written an entire article with his take on an NYT article.
Or, Matt is interested in what and why the CIA (via the NYT) has released this information at this particular time. Is this, along with the autopen, some kind of left handed monkey wrench brought into the Trump-led Ukraine-Russia peace negotiations?
I thought NYT’s was leak destination for the State Department, WaPo is choice of CIA
No, WaPo s the FBI. NYT channels CIA and State (which are basically the same thing. State begat CIA)
Maybe it's akin to fake polls "tightening up" right before an election...a desperate attempt to save face. More to come!
My questions, too. Who benefits?
In fact, Matt provides a lot of information not in the NYT so that we can understand the actual context of what the NYT is saying. That is the opposite of "faith in NYT's reporting."
04/01/25: Perfectly stated. Thank you.
'Perzactly!
Poes Law pops up...
I will try and help you, and make it really really simple.
Matt is mocking the NYT for telling the truth(sort of, and finally)...
The NYT have been lying for years.
One of Matt's major heros, Noam Chomsky, pointed out to him as Matt reported in his book "Hate, Inc." that papers like the Times are full of facts, the problem is in how they are interpreted and what facts are left out. Analyzing how those (limited) facts are used does not amount to faith--it's much closer to exactly the opposite.
Actually, not so sure he does. On tonight’s live show, Matt comments on the doublespeak the NYT .
Opposition research and admissions against interest, how do they work?
What’s their take on Israeli bombing? Rhetorical question.
For goodness sakes man, stay on track...
Well we know they are not reporting on the Palestinian people protesting Hamas…
Dumb and mendacious elites who are running the risk of getting a shitload of us killed via nukes. And smearing us as unpatriotic for not going along to boot.
The most fucking amazing thing is that it’s always more fucking fucked than you had imagined in your worst fucking nightmares. I mean, what the fuck?
Fuck yeah!
04/03/25: Before we hop on the Entous bandwagon, remember that not too long ago, he was part of the deranged, bloodthirsty media mobsters that screamed "CONSPIRACY THEORY!" whenever someone else --- as we found out much later on --- was telling the truth:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-conspiracy-memo-aimed-at-obama-aides-that-circulated-in-the-trump-white-house
03/31/25: [Post-note: I got the book title wrong. Fixed.]
In case any further proof is needed about our "elite" media being cowardly, low-IQ turds, take the time to read "The Night 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' Began," by Catherine Forester; Self-Published ("Lightning Source LLC") (no copyright year ["2019"]; paperback).
It's a series of verbatim transcripts of the Election Night 2016 shows on ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN and Fox, and working for these Pravda outfits are the most craven and stupid people that you can imagine. Their idiocy is highly entertaining.
03/31/25: One of the most hilarious aspects of this book is that throughout election night, this happened repeatedly, without fail: These worms think NOTHING of lying to us, but somehow the pollsters in 2016 weren't supposed to lie TO THEM.
Remember when "Primary Colors" came out in 1996 and the media big shots were incensed that the author (Joe Klein) had lied TO THEM about who the "anonymous" author had been?
Klein's critics didn't mind if he misled THE PUBLIC (us) about being the author --- but when he prevaricated to THEM, THAT was grounds for his being exiled from the only profession whose members are totally honest all the time.
I hear you! Loud and clear! I'm just an old veteran now but when I read shit like this (re: NYTs) it almost makes me want to revisit my expert marksman skill and hunt down the MFR's (the writer and the editor who approves their garbage) and take up target practice again. (Almost)
And the worst part is just like Iraq and covid and seemingly everything else these days, if you don't go along you get called all sorts of names by the media that will only admit you were right five years later.
This is a crumpled up NYTs trying to ignite a fire between DJT and Putin. The Europeans are losing political power like the U.S. has with Trump and want to keep the fire burning as long as possible. I hope the European people 'Love their children too'.
Last Wed. Business Insider' European Union advised citizens to stockpile 72 hours of supplies for potential crises.' Opened ended with no specifics but the Ukaine conflict was mentioned.
Without Trump SC they would still be lying. 🤔
The one thing we have going for us right now is that censorship is a very labor-intensive project. Once the blob moves on to new projects, they necessarily stop censoring the old ones.
If they can automate that censorship, we're in trouble.
And outlets like Reddit will ban you for it, too. Permanently ban you if you don't go along with the Dems warmongering and DEI and sex surgery on children to change their gender.
That might (or might not) be a little extreme. I guess it just depends on how old you are and how accurately you shoot. Be pretty funny if a bunch of old guys with guns fight the next civil war. We used to make the young guys do it but they've become a bunch of useless pussies without guns, so here we are.
At 68, I'd totes fight the civil war if I can have my nap time and get to bed no later than 8 . . .
Don't forget the frequent potty stops while on the troop transports.
That too, that too!
Liar! Nobody 68 years of age uses the term "totes", unless they're having a stroke. Smell toast burning by any chance?
I am young at heart if not in knees.
As much as I get a chuckle from the very accurate perspective that "they've become a bunch of useless pussies," someone does need to figure out what the hell is wrong with young men. They think they're supposed to look like the IG idiot who dunks his face in ice water several times each morning (interesting how men are learning how bad the 'ideal body' approaches suck, just like they always have for women). And because they don't look like that, they play video games at home at Mom's house. They don't interact with anyone except other gamers. Never meet women. Never hook up. Never get married. Never have children.
Doesn't feel sustainable.
There may be hope if the news about young men turning to the church for purpose is true. One can hope. Madeleine Kearns with the Free Press wrote a piece touching on that today, but as usual these days with the FP, there's a slant. :-/
Regardless of whether one is spiritual personally or not, if young people searching for what to do, and a church helps them find it, more power to them.
If TFP could just lose that slant, there could be some great writing. I suspect that Bari has now determined she must become like Fox News or CNNMSNBC and just give the subscribers what they want.
There's always going to be some slant - it just depends on whether that hill rolls toward reality, or slopes away into dreamy fantasyland.
Yup. 1.25 million subs on a substack platform might cause you to start to pitch a narrative, and not the story/facts. But that's the world she grew up in, worked in, and was educated in. All that said, she still does excellent work from time to time. Plus the UAT thing is a pretty cool. Doesn't help IMO with the last two Editor hires, not one bit.
Don’t forget all the post menopausal women. Mean as hell and many of us pretty good shots. 😉
We are good observers as well.
Ayep‼️
Money & Profit are the drivers of what has clearly been a stunning success for all involved in profiting from the current "Lucy & the Football" moment in US foreign policy/get rich scam. Matt's piece is excellent, but failing to acknowledge the role filthy lucre plays up front is critical.
Matt and Walter discussed the "recharge" where the con moves to "how can we get your money back?" which is simply the rebuilding of US weapons stockpiles, profiting off the Ukraine rebuild - to be deferred indefinitely now that Russia seems bent on teaching us a lesson, and the switch to new revenue streams.
Winning means getting rich - no other metric for war for profit ever exists or should be applied. That's all Ukraine has ever been about. Period.
B-b-b-but Putin! And . . . uhhhh, Literal Hitler. And, ya' know, Putin Apologists.
And . . . Neville Chamberlain. And . . . Putin! And Literal Hitler.
Simulation Commander, you're just a PUTIN STOOGE, man. Like . . . uhhh, you're a . . . a Nazi! And Literal Hitler . . .
I stopped caring what the neocons thought about me when they said I was unpatriotic for not going along with Iraq.
Haven't seen much of a reason to care what they think since.
Ahhh, there it is. I was beginning to worry . . .
The dog is being wagged.
But Raytheon stocks did well during that time.
No, they are not stupid. They just don't have the same goals as you.
They are smart and committed--which is far more dangerous than merely stupid.
Well, they're going to get a worldwide revolution against the elites everywhere, all at once.
That's stupid.
Nah, they'll just lock up the opposition.
Until they can't.
:)
So in your world..if someone does a stupid thing..repeatedly..and says stupid things..for stupid goals and is too stupid to understand what he has just done..and it all failed..they are actually "smart and committed"...
Wow..
If someone did the exact opposite of all of the above...and achieved success...they would also be "smart and committed" right?
Can you see the %$$#@$ problem with your idiotic claim?
If you cannot..your probably just "smart and committed"
They are intelligent people who have been convinced by stupid but clever people that they are so bright as to be “post-reality”, i.e. they are beyond the hum-drum rules, rhythms, mores and structures of normal culture and society, replacing what we commonly think of as “reality”with gauzy, aspirational, saccharin and ultimately meaningless slogans. These mantras are
"Billions of dollars..."
It was a feature, not a bug.
This seemed apparent all along.
Hundreds of Billions of dollars.
Obvious before the war started, you mean
It would have been if I had spent a single second thinking about the well-being of Ukraine.
If you had, between you, Biden, and Zelensky that would have made one of you.
We elected Biden, the Dem machine won that round, and the Dems "dumb elites" who voted that warmonger and his gang of idiots into office are still too stupid to see their mistake.
Bup bup bup! Gotta stop you there. We didn't "elect" Biden. He was installed, and poorly so. He didn't even leave the fucking basement.
Let me rephrase that: We are led by the dumbest elites in history.
To which I'd reply: [insert picture of two astronauts gazing upon Earth from space, second astronaut points a 1911 at the back of the head of the first] ... "it always was."
Please don’t use the “abundance” term. Leave Ezra Klein out of this.
Biden’s entire career is a lie, and fabrication. Marred with plagiarism and now after 50 years of deceit and corruption he has signed out with auto pen. He leaves a legacy as the worst president in history.
And yet I know so many people who think Biden is a hero. They believe every word that came out of his administration and still do! It’s insane. The truth about COViD, Ukraine, the laptop, etc…. They still believe in the narratives! How do we help people accept the truth? It’s absolutely nuts here in Blue CA
Blue WA is pretty similar, I'm sure. I walk on eggshells at work because they are all still believing MSM.
I'm not sure if we can do any more that voting in every election and possibly moving to another locality in which we could add to the 'voice'. I've thought of moving out of state, but perhaps simply relocating elsewhere in state to have more of a voice outside of the I-5 corridor might be a thing to consider as well.
Vote Republican and/or conservative, in EVERY election, FOREVERMORE.
What is the difference? Or haven't you noticed that the "great peacemaker" Trump is going around acting like Curtis LeMay, finding new excuses for bombing other countries every day and even talking about annexing territories controlled by US' erstwhile allies, including Canada? The only difference between Biden and Trump is that they disagree on which nuclear superpower to play nuclear chicken with... Trump would prefer to lay off using Ukraine as proxy against Russia and use Taiwan as a proxy against China instead. No matter how or against who WWIII begins, it will certainly end with tens of millions of US workers DEAD - minimum! Unless workers in the US get busy building a revolutionary socialist workers party to disarm the money-lusting, warmongering US capitalist class, we are all likely to be reduced to remaining passive observers, watching WWIII go down as if it was just another blood-drenched Hollywood drama only happening on our TV screens. Dump the Republicrats; build a workers party; depose the capitalist class and fight for a socialist future, because *there is no future for the working class under the capitalist system!*
When the socialists run out of taking everyone’s money, they start eating the animals in the zoo and their pets. You should move to Venezuela a socialist’s paradise.
Capitalism was never overthrown in Venezuela. There was never a socialist revolution there; it’s a capitalist state with some pseudo-socialist reforms.
A Castro or a Stalin always rises to the top of any "revolutionary socialist workers party" - that's why it's the greater of two evils.
So all the 175 million workers of the USA can do is sit around and wait for the capitalist criminals of the USA to blunder their way into WWIII, killing us and our families? Not a great strategy, Mick. And Castro was nothing like Stalin. I guess workers in Europe should have given up overthrowing the monarchies of Europe after 1793 because it was inevitable that all that could happen would be that another Robespierre would rise to the top?
Yeah, that'll work. lol
You just hijacked my comment to go off on a tangentinal screed that had nothing to do with my comment.
Kindly refrain from doing that again.
I didn’t “hijack” your comment: I ignored it because it was so banal; only the responses to it were worth replying to ; )
I never replied to your comment, I replied to other people's comments... then they replied to me, etc.
I wonder how they will react to the Times article?
I’m in the same I-5 corridor baker charlie. It’s stifling sometimes.
I'm in flyover between the 'city' and B'ham. This would be a red county if not for the constant influx of retiring Californians.
It's the next county over, but many of the ones with money move to the San Juans. They vote woke there and it is so safe...they literally do not have to see the consequences of their vote on their day to day lives. They live in a bubble where the world comes to them on ferries and leaves at 5 PM or something,
There's no bottom to the credulity of Democrat Party voters. Jasmine Crockett spews a steady stream of lies and violent threats when she's not punching reporters. A sane party would give her the George Santos treatment.
Some will never accept the truth.
Period.
Just know you're not alone in the Golden State. :)
And neither are you 😉
Here we are!!
It's not Blue in the Valley. Having survived a couple years in Modesto, I would never urge ANYone to move to the Central Valley, but if you seek non-blue flavor, that's where it will be found.
On the other hand, it might be better to just give up to the Democratic Wokesters, simply to avoid living in the Valley.
Plus all the elections in California are rigged for the Democrats, whether we can prove it or not. There’s no other explanation why they always win, and by large margins, when most of the state is center right. Here are some of the ways the Democrats cheat elections:
Mail-in ballots for everyone.
Motor-voter registration at the DMV, including illegal aliens, who are allowed to get a driver license in California.
Voter ID is illegal in California.
Governor Good Hair has a lot of 'splaining to do as he tries to position himself toward the middle.
Same in Blue Church anywhere: NE/NYC, Chicago, LA, almost any University town, many parts of the EU/UK/AUS, etcetc
In Illinois, too. I don't think they are nuts. It is a primitive part of their brain that has overgrowth so they can only indulge in group-think and have lost the ability to think critically due to atrophy of the pre-frontal cortex.
We can’t. They are irreparably damaged by now. My TDS is visiting this weekend. I will be walking a tightrope about a quilting thread wide.
You must know my family!! I've lost count of the times I have been forced to hear how "gracious and heroic" Biden was. 🤦♀️
Sadly, we can’t. TDS isn’t curable. Trump will always be Putin’s Bitch in their minds.
He may be a close 2nd, Matt. In my mind’s eye however, Obama is the Worst as he started — and maintained through his surrogates — the attitude of “the end justifies the means” attitude in working in the public forum.
Obama told 300 Million Americans in 2010-2011 about Obamacare: “Your medical costs will not go up and could even go down.”
And where did the explosion of NGO funding begin?
And where did the weaponization of the DOJ (the Chicago way) begin?
Obama also knew very well that Biden was not only crooked but also stupid and senile. Anything for the Democrats.
Not to mention, I’m pretty sure that’s how the whole school tuition coverage taken over by the government came into play. They took the loans from bankers and decided to offer student loans at 6 5/8% to cover a vast portion of Obamacare costs. It was part of the 2010 Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act. If you’d like to see Maxine Waters at her best, try to find the You Tube video of her calling in all the CEOs of major banks scolding them on how bad the students were being treated only to have Jaime Dimon let her know the banks were no longer in the business 😵💫
NGO funding started with Obama and Holder, Trump ended it then Biden "restarted" the practice. Why American Citizenry cannot see how CORRUPT the Democrat Party is or has become.... just a bit of research can open eyes! 🇺🇸
https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/06/jeff-sessions-ends-holder-era-slush-fund-designed-to-funnel-money-to-obama-allies/
https://getliberty.org/2021/01/biden-restores-liberal-slush-fund-payouts-rather-than-paying-victims/
I've still got Bush jr and Cheney as the worst...but it's gotten a hell of a lot closer in the Worst Ever contest.
They do not compete remotely with Woodrow Wilson.
He got the U.S. into the First World War after campaigning in 1916 that he would never do that.
After the war he allowed the Germans to be treated awfully at the Versailles treaty meeting, which led to the rise of the Nazis and Hitler.
He resegregated the U,S. government and enthusiastically supported the KKK, raising its membership into the 3-4 million range from very small support.
None of these recent Presidents did things remotely that bad.
Having just finished reading Lies My Teacher Told Me, you’ve nailed the horrendous human being Woodrow Wilson as the single worst president in history.
He destroyed African Americans with his extreme racism. He is absolutely responsible for the rise in Nazism as well getting the US into WW1 - I can’t believe I attended an elementary school named after this scumbag.
There is no discernable difference between Cheney and Biden. Bush Jr. was ... actually far better than Obama, but Cheney led the way for what Obama's minions did, and the position we are in now.
Yeahhh...I know Cheney was the worst President but being his puppet (and actually having the title of President of the United States) kinda make Shrub the worst. Bush gave us Patriot Act and torture, for god's sake! but Obama was always the 2nd worst for being Cheney's wet dream. But Biden's Admin was such a complete clusterfuck, he's neck and neck with Obama, right behind Junior...
Too many villians.
We'll agree to disagree I guess. I don't see a difference. I guess Maybe Cheney gets the edge for opening the door for Obama, but Obama's group still expanded it all after they walked through the door.
In other words, with the Duopoly, it's 'different day, same nonsense.'
Bush wasn’t smart enough to recognize he was also a pawn used by Cheney.
He was plenty smart enough to know and understand who was in charge.
Ohhhh, if only the real Turd Ferguson was sitting at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office... :-D
Bush 2 was the worst. Never to be disputed.
They’re all part of the same club.
Sorry the wide open border put Bush 2 in a close second position.
He engaged in unnecessary wars, costing trillions and killing thousands of Americans and tens or hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans, and created metric shit-tons of jihadists. He started a torture regime. He began spying on Americans. His people outed a clandestine CIA officer out of pique. He lied to everyone. Lied to the Christian right, who expected him to deliver prayer in classrooms. Lied to all of us about WMDs. 100% assclown. And he's stupid.
Not even a contest.
James Buchanan is moving down the list.
You mean "The Only Bachelor President in U.S. History (wink, wink)" as he was always referred as in school?
I had Bush as the worst until Biden. The woke bullshit, corroboration of the media, and the death of the American Dream put Biden over Bush.
Bush & Cheney started it and set the stage for Obama & Biden to finish the job.
I'd argue it goes back further. Clinton, H.W., Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson...
Yup. In other breaking news, dog bites man, sun rises in east.
Hey man, you can't blame Biden for what happened in the last few years. He wasn't there. He was...elsewhere.
Yep. Brain on permanent vacation, body just caught up about 40% of the time.
It is not a lie. We have known he was a plagiarizing moron for decades. Now we elected a moron with dementia whose unelected appointee oligarchs. These morons have let the military industrial complex continue their hardware experimentation. Let’s see how many of these DC whores end up getting jobs in the defense industry.
Give Trump a few more months of his insane warmongering and then review your evaluation of Biden being the worst ever (as horrible as he most certainly was). Trump has torn off his peacemaker mask and burned it already.
100+
Word.
Yes, he is the typical American career politician whose constituents vote in until they are wheeled into chambers drooling, demented, and then dead, by their handlers. So who is the dumb ones?
I am grateful that Joe Biden slept 40% of his presidency on a beach. Imagine how screwed we would be if he devoted 100% of his presidency to destroying our country.
2nd to his former boss who is equally a fraudulent POS!
04/03/25: Before we hop on the Entous bandwagon, remember that not too long ago, he was part of the deranged, bloodthirsty media mobsters that screamed "CONSPIRACY THEORY!" whenever someone else --- as we found out much later on --- was telling the truth:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-conspiracy-memo-aimed-at-obama-aides-that-circulated-in-the-trump-white-house
James Buchanan was responsible in large measure for our civil war. Only a civil war keeps Biden from the top spot. He’s a very close second.
I would place Biden as the worst President since Woodrow Wilson, who was the worst President since before the Civil War (e.g., since James Buchanan).
Also, the wives of Biden and Wilson were effectively President for a year or more.
By far the worst. And I thought Carter was bad. Let’s not forget that those democrat fucks acted like all was good with Biden. Lying fucks…
NYT can STFU. They were complicit in the lying.
"We were tricked and forced to call real videos 'cheap fakes'!"
"But we solemnly promise to get better anonymous government leakers to believe without checking!"
You could do a whole column (is that what they are called? I cant think) filled with NYT "We were tricked and forced to [blank]" -- I bet it would be a long list. They are going to be backpedalling for quite some time and I imagine, quite creatively.
Motheryouknowwhatters.
(Gave up swearing for Lent. Doing poorly. It's like walking around with my ankles tied together.)
Literally the reason I started doing this.........
Why, why must you make me admit there was good that came from this abomination?!
I can only imagine what the beta males at the NYT have been "forced" to do.
Eeewww...
Should have chosen swearing instead of sugar. It’s hopeless 😩
Backpedaling themselves right into the ditch; after which we fill it in with dirt.
LMAO
03/31/25: Exactly. Wow, has the NYT gone from reputable to dishonorable in the course of my lifetime. What a shame and a disgrace.
The NYT has been dishonorable much longer than your lifetime.
NYT totally lied about how wonderfully communist USSR was doing under Stalin in the 1930's while many millions were dying of starvation. NYT reporter Walter Duranty also "justified the brutality of Stalin’s gulag system as a necessary measure that would ultimately benefit the Russian people." Left wingers even back then.
NYT re WWII: "No American newspaper was better positioned to highlight the Holocaust than the Times, and no American newspaper so influenced public discourse by its failure to do so.”
The NYT has not been reputable for a very, very long time.
But looks damn good in the bottom of my cat box. Hope Dottie can’t read. She will start crapping behind the furniture
Europe and America need another Holocaust.
IDK, I think the NYT cares about one thing and one thing only- the NYT. This isn't the first time they've carried water for an agenda. They've always been like this but the last 8 years they've really doubled down.
I miss the old days when every Big City (and even a few smaller ones) had multiple news outlets. I would spend my study halls reading both the Chicago Tribune and the Sun-Times plus any other newspapers there. I miss the days when the stories were researched, written, etc by hand. Today's papers are just as boring as the networks with articles regurgitated word for word.
Yes, we lived north of NYC, but knew about the newspapers there before the collapse happened in the 1960s.
Here is a good article about the collapse:
https://libguides.nypl.org/c.php?g=1107215&p=8072753
Blame the Internet. If it weren’t for the Internet, none of this would be happening.
That's undeniably true. I think those in charge looked at the media landscape and understood that the only places people paid attention was Fox News, etc. and CNNMSNBC, etc. The Times very carefully picked the side they thought would continue to drive more coverage for them.
It's almost impossible to find a media outlet anymore that isn't one team of the other.
My friend believes CNN is truly the only one balanced. It’s in the airports you know!
NYT was never reputable? Amazing how easy it is to fool ourselves!
SPARKS OF THE TEMPEST
KANSAS
The sparks of the tempest rage a hundred years on
The voice of the dreamer screams, the cause of the pawn
The King and the Queen are gone, each piece is the same
The difference between us is a part of the game
Darkness is spreading like a spot on the sun
The dead are the living in age of the gun
While everyone clamors for the justice they seek
The world is corrupted and the strong take the weak
They mold you and shape you, they watch what you do
The sparks of the tempest are burnin' you through
Spreading like wildfire, fallin' like rain
Though they may promise, they only bring pain
The future is managed, and your freedom's a joke
You don't know the difference as you put on the yoke
The less that you know, more you fall into place
A cog in the wheel, there is no soul in your face
Run for the cover, Millennium's here
Bearing the standard of confusion and fear
Spreading like wildfire, fallin' like rain
Though they may promise, they only bring pain
Blood in the sand, cry in the street
Now the cycle is nearly complete
Ten thousand years, nothing was learned
No turning back, now the wheel has turned
Big brother is watching and he likes what he sees
A world for the taking, when he's ready to squeeze
King and the Queen are gone, each piece is the same
The difference between us is a part of the game
Soothsayer saying now tell me no lies
What is the madness that is filling the skies
Spreading like wildfire, fallin' like rain
Though they may promise, they only bring pain
04/01/25: Do you play a ukelele during the singing of the above lyrics?
Don
Yes,I probably could but the leads would be tough...
Are you a Kansas fan?
04/02/25: The Royals, the Chiefs, or the musical band?
Since we were talking about lyrics and playing a ukulele , isn't it obvious I was alluding to Kansas the band? Kerry Livgren (from Kansas (the state) was a musical and lyrical genius.(IMO) As far as Baseball, I am a Braves , Mets and Yankee fan. On football, more into College games than Professional.
NYTimes and "expose" should be mutually exclusive.
I try mightily to refrain from criticizing Senile Joe b/c, well, he's SENILE. However I blame everyone ESPECIALLY his grifting family and the DNC hierarchy for endangering us.
Nope. Hang the lying, corrupt piece of shit and leave his head on a pike in front of the Capitol, just as the English kings of old did as a reminder of the fate of traitors.
I'm all in if it also applies to Fauci.
And Collins and Daszak.
The French made good use of the guillotine during their revolution. Let’s try that
One problem with that approach relates to the Reign of Terror that followed the French Revolution…..careful what you wish for
Crude AND succinct... I Like it!
I love their plaintive "We were misled" cop-out.
I thought that they were being paid to be able to tell shit from Shinola and that was their stock in trade?
04/03/25: Before we hop on the Entous bandwagon, remember that not too long ago, he was part of the deranged, bloodthirsty media mobsters that screamed "CONSPIRACY THEORY!" whenever someone else --- as we found out much later on --- was telling the truth:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-conspiracy-memo-aimed-at-obama-aides-that-circulated-in-the-trump-white-house
Whitewashing and censorship and persecuting political opponents, even in trial by media, remember, is not authoritarian, it's liberal. The NYT, a high ranking Cardinal in the liberal media class (the class of the affluent, the educated, the untouchable) is just using its self-perpetuating moral high ground to mock and shape threats to their narrative and market share primacy. It's a theme I touch on in my latest piece: **With liberals like these, who needs conservatives?**
https://typerider.substack.com/p/with-liberals-like-these-who-needs?r=2ywal
The NYTimes admitting that they lied and covered all this up is a very purposeful fuck you to the serfs.
Definitely. It was interesting I got a notification on this in my email and this story wasn't behind any paywall. They wanted to make sure I saw their massive middle finger.
Exactly.
They want to make sure that the rabble knows that the New York Times is the Ministry of Truth and there's nothing the rabble can do about it.
The same applies to their recent insincere quasi mea culpa's about the covid canard.
Have you been watching Gavin lately? He’s born again. And apparently Bill Maher is having dinner at the white house 🤔
I disagree. It’s a big fuck you to their mostly Democrat readers. You know, the people who are incapable of changing their minds despite being presented with voluminous evidence that they (and their families) have been repeatedly deceived and endangered. For the rest of us it’s just validating what we already know about the Times propaganda operation.
Apparently their Dem readers like being lied to - or don't know it's happening- or don't care. NYT bubble good: reality BAD.
Ugh. Several of my family members STILL regard the NYT as gospel. It's frustrating as hell.
They can change their minds very quickly when the Party decrees it. "Stay home save lives" was replaced by twerking for St. George. Biden was sharp as a tack until suddenly he wasn't, and about that same time people discovered overnight great enthusiasm for Kamala. Not long ago climate change was imminently going to kill us all, now it's acceptable to sabotage the biggest maker of EVs.
Don't forget to re-subscribe! My own simple demand is "We Fucked Up in 72 pt. font above the fold. Will never happen.
what they care? Its just the serfs after all.
Joe Biden is the poster child of everything that is wrong with America’s phony politics. A career politician, he enriched himself and his wicked family with riches no common American could afford, like two-multi-million-dollar mansions, luxury cars, a luxurious lifestyle…
How does a career politician live like a king when he never accomplished much before his less than accomplished Senate career from 1972 – 2008?
What is he known for? Three strikes, you’re out? How did that work out? Contributing to the enormous welfare state? 1990s global deals and regulations that ended many good paying, American jobs. https://lizlasorte.substack.com/p/meet-jack-and-dr-jane-obrien
Conspiracy theorists: 479
Adults in the Room: 0
I hope Trump tears down the whole rotted mess.
I love how the time line from Conspiracy theory to Conspiracy fact has come down in my lifetime.. from decades to days....
Yes!!!! to Trump tearing it down, legislating it down, prosecuting it down, making sure it does not rear its evil incompetent head for a very very long time.
04/03/25: Before we hop on the Entous bandwagon, remember that not too long ago, he was part of the deranged, bloodthirsty media mobsters that screamed "CONSPIRACY THEORY!" whenever someone else --- as we found out much later on --- was telling the truth:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-conspiracy-memo-aimed-at-obama-aides-that-circulated-in-the-trump-white-house
Sure, there are plenty out there like you describe. But there are also a lot of people who realize that the color they used to vote for became something else. Conservative people voted for Bush 2 because he promised to get prayer back in schools and ban gay marriage. Didn't deliver. But he delivered tax cuts for rich people. Liberals voted for people like Half-Black Jesus, Clinton, and Biden, who promised their usual stuff but instead delivered more war, more spying on Americans, and a lot of censorship.
Most of those conservatives who felt betrayed by the Republicans probably voted for Trump, because he promised something different, and at least he was a Republican in name. Some of those liberals didn't vote, or voted with me--None Of The Above Candidates, and a few of them probably voted for Trump, because he promised something different. I didn't vote for Trump, but I surely hoped Harris would lose.
People learn at different rates of speed. I chose to overlook the Dems' new fondness for war and Wall Street money, but didn't completely bail until all the lies of COVID. Others don't pay much attention until their wallets feel it. Not very nice to call them sheep because they're hopeful of something better. And very douchy to proclaim your superiority. If you're light years ahead of us dumbfucks, why do you waste your time trying to enlighten us?
I was a democrat for most of my younger years. As I became older, somewhat wiser I slowly turned. I am now 65. I no longer trust any democrat. I’ve seen the damage one party, ideology, and economics can damage generations upon generations. Bet you think this makes me a republican, nope. I am now an independent with no joy.
Times are scary for us right now. Several Substacks I read talk about, powder keg, break down of law in their cities, missing money, and abuse of power. Add to this what the everyday person has to deal with, inflation, job loss, no clear path and extremism of every kind. People are now afraid to have a conversation about what they are experiencing and head out of their communities and come to small towns to refresh themselves in values they thought were gone. I am seeing this more and more where I live.
I truly wonder if we will just breakdown society wise and become like the Amish, Mennonite for example. Will we reject a certain amount of government oversight/rules, technology and scale back our way of living? Is that even possible?
I just don’t know. The past Biden years have caused me to not trust the government and MSM. where do we go from here?
I think we see what plays out with Trump. Maybe things will be better, maybe he will be just as bad. Let's have some patience to see.
Wanted to compliment your handle, husband is a great fan of Warren Zevon.
One of my personal failings is being patient. I am going through one of my scared phases. So my view of current events is skewered. I am lucky, wonderful husband, retired, house, food and the greatest love of two dogs.
Thanks. Pbr is pretty cool as well. Kids won't understand it, since they seem to drink those White Claw or White Fang or whatever things.
"People...head out of their communities and come to small towns to refresh themselves in values they thought were gone." -- I'm also hearing about more people moving off the grid, homesteading, building Agoras, 'exiting the Matrix,' etc.
George Washington was right to be wary of political parties. The two party system is the real enemy. Only the ordained on both sides get to choose the candidates. For his entire career Biden was the putz of the Democratic Party. Suddenly he has the chops to be President?
But you all should be very grateful to Biden/Harris because without them Trump doesn’t become President. Trump will tear down existing institutions, the plan is to backfill the fired employees with people loyal to Trump. A new Deep State. It will produce its own set of lies, oppression and deception designed to keep itself in power. If anything comes out of it that’s good for America it will be accidental.
Trump’s willingness to lie for self-preservation and to subvert our constitution “to MAGA” has no bounds and frankly, he has succeeded in changing the game to a format that he is master of. Many people will lose everything they have because it’s a zero - sum game. If you don’t like him you’re in for a very long period of despair. He’s not leaving anytime soon.
Oh Lord. Such a simpleton answer. We’ve got serious problems economically that need to be reconciled. People living on streets, veterans committing suicide daily in big numbers, corruption so deep it’s unimaginable. I’m sorry but the planet needs to wait a little bit because we need to get the house in order before we tend to the yard. I’m betting that super smart youngsters that are ecologically responsible, will begin inventing stuff that will save them and their children. For now, this old boomer just wants to make sure they have the money and a non corrupt government to implement them. As of now, they don’t. I don’t know if Trump can pull it off, but I sure as hell knew Kamala couldn’t. To me, there was NO other choice. For now I’m praying.
You’re entitled to speak your mind.. interesting, I use simpleton you use bitch. Mention my comment about super smart youngsters blah, blah..I guess I can understand your comment because you don’t have children. I do and they are smart. Why is that a cop out? Smart people innovate, that’s been the success of our country. Oh and you call us sheep. Yep, as I said simpleton. When you don’t have a coherent argument, you devolve into silliness.
The essence of your remarks: "You.. You... You... You.. You... You... You.. You... You... You... You... You.. You... You... You.. You... You... You... You... You.. You... You... You.. You... You... "
By any chance, are you an esteemed graduate of the Famous Writers School, Class of 2014?
[Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous_Writers_School]
You may just want to hold on to that sentiment a while longer. Because it certainly looks like he's tearing down some shit.
A tip for Comments engagement: if you offer some thoughts behind the ad hominem, people might pay more attention. Or, continue sounding like you have fucking Tourette's.
How long have you known that you are a dickhead?
Talking in language they can understand ;)
Then don’t participate!
Yet here you are, engaging in them.
Ok. So, that’s it. I guess. The door is over to the left. Don’t let it hit you in the ass as you exit.
Good stuff, Matt. Terrifying, however.
Why don't I ever hear even the faintest hint that Biden was blackmailed with all the Burisma documents that Trump was after? Seems like the obvious answer to me.
Agreed.
Joe was being run by Jill, Hunter, Blinken and Sullivan.
From the beginning of this debacle, I've always suspected the only reason we were following such an illogical path was that they had something on Joe/Hunter. China had something as well.
Exactly. I wrote about this a couple years ago if anybody's interested.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/now-that-were-done-pretending-hunters
Thank you Matt for that delightfully scathing article. These bastards deserve the worst
Nothing in this surprises me. It was pretty clear, certainly to any US military expert, and the Russians, that the precision of the UKR strikes was US targeting. We also had some of our best EW assets flying constant watch along the border.
We knew, UKR knew, Russia knew, but the American people did not. And frankly, the press either looked the other way or simply was too ignorant to understand.
The Trump administration knows all of this. Now, replay the scene from a few weeks ago. Was Vance pissed at UKR or the idiots masking our foreign policy? What would you do if you showed up at the white house with this pile of shit?
And why in God's name did anyone think this was going to end well? I would love to hear the Biden national security team explain why they thought this was a good idea.
It makes more sense why Jim Jones was so frustrated with Obama. This is just that political thinking but without any IQ.
Correct answer is....Both.
And Signalgate was the Deep State idiots' attempt at sabotage.
04/03/25: Before we hop on the Entous bandwagon, remember that not too long ago, he was part of the deranged, bloodthirsty media mobsters that screamed "CONSPIRACY THEORY!" whenever someone else --- as we found out much later on --- was telling the truth:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-conspiracy-memo-aimed-at-obama-aides-that-circulated-in-the-trump-white-house
Right on
I am fuming. We suspected that these useless cocksuckers were lying to us. Now we know for a fact that not, only were they lying, they were playing Russian roulette (literally) with the lives of our children and grandchildren. I don't care if he's a senile imbecile. Biden needs to go to prison - or, better yet, be hanged. That fat moron, Milley, as well. McFaul and the entire media circus. Also every liberal Democrat puke who pranced around in yellow and blue, calling anyone who urged caution and common sense, "Ivan" or, laughably, a traitor to America. If these lying scumbags are not brought to justice we can kiss America goodbye. And, while we're finding and punishing these devious dipshits, maybe, just maybe, we should let Russia do what it wants with Ukraine. Putin supposedly wants the little comedian gone before he's willing to talk peace. With these revelations in mind, maybe that's a good start.
Don't forget to send Blinken and Sullivan to prison along with Biden. Most likely they're the ones who were making the calls.
And Nuland of course
Yes, most definitely Nuland!
FKN heads on fkn pikes, lined up, bloody.
And Obama. The shadow President's 3rd term.
You didn't suspect them of lying to us. You KNEW they were lying. Just like they did about Iraq. Just like they did about Vietnam.
The most astonishing thing about all of this is the number of people who oppose war, oppose spying on Americans, oppose torture, oppose censorship, who have paid absolutely no attention as the Democrat leaders they support began to love and promote war, spying, torture, and censorship.
I do not understand why all these college-educated people cannot seem to think for themselves, or otherwise believe that to stop believing all the Democrats' bullshit, they have to cast their lot with Trump.
Because College-educated is an oxymoron
College re-education camp that puts all involved indebted or in debt.
Maybe now, but it wasn't when they went to school. Which, judging by the 65+ women who made up 80% of the Tesla protests, was in the 60s or 70s.
They were picking up pin money. All the sows were paid to prance around like idiots.
TDS runs deep. An incurable malady, I’m afraid.
Some of us knew this (and wrote about it) shortly after the war started. It isn’t rocket science. Admitting that “NOW you know for a fact” because the NYT said so doesn’t enhance your reputation, IMO. What the hell took you so long?
Problem is… not one will be brought to Justice. I guarantee it.
Hanging — got that right.
My head is exploding. Team Biden has never had a constructive agenda. It was more of a war churning Merry Go Round that no one dared to hop off because that made you Putin loving Democracy hating stooge…. Maybe Kamala Harris could draw up a three dimensional Venn diagram of all these lies and obvious conflicts of interest…. And again, the Legacy media’s willing participation. And yet, we keep getting treated like shit and nothing happens to those pulling this shit off.
We need to remember this the next time an official from the Biden admin goes on CNN or MSNBC or NPR(!!!) and tells us that what Trump is doing is "dangerous".
We need to remember that it is long past time to start hurting these abject pieces of shit.
The real question is why the NYT is running this, now. Possibly because a lot of it is about to come out, anyway, or they fear the current Admin has it and could use it, so best to get out ahead of it and not look so bad. When I write, "they," I conflate the interests of the Times and the Biden regime, but that is entirely reasonable.
All of this just further confirms what has been obvious for several years, that the upper reaches of the Democratic Party and its media allies are functionally psychopathic.
True. Witness their attacks on Tesla cars, owners and dealers. Truly psychotic
Yes right now it doesn’t make seem to make sense…
See https://sonar21.com/new-york-times-fantasy-tale-of-ukraines-almost-great-victory-over-russia/
Somehow this story is supposed to hurt Trump the way NYT sees it…(?)
04/03/25: Before we hop on the Entous bandwagon, remember that not too long ago, he was part of the deranged, bloodthirsty media mobsters that screamed "CONSPIRACY THEORY!" whenever someone else --- as we found out much later on --- was telling the truth:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-conspiracy-memo-aimed-at-obama-aides-that-circulated-in-the-trump-white-house
And so Ukrainians join the Afghans and South Vietnamese in not being good enough for American brilliance. The world watches and draws its own conclusions. Except, it seems, the EU autocrats.
Next act in the script that was written years ago: Zelensky gets the Diem treatment, as the Empire grows bored of its latest futile endeavor and loses patience with its headstrong vassal.
It's usually better to be an enemy of the Empire than an expendable vassal. (Though in our much kinder gentler time, perhaps Zelensky will escape a bullet to the head and be allowed to float off on a golden parachute.)
I’m one of the few people left in America that understands what you’re talking about.
Meet another. And I'm sure Matt and Walter understand.
All Empires act the same way, was ever thus. Maybe the one difference here is that Americans have been conditioned to believe we're not an Empire, just a democratic republic with a suspiciously swollen....uhhh....Pentagon. ;)
Don't think they'll get it till the day comes when the dollar is no longer the global reserve currency.
Hopefully I'll be dead by then!
I’m basically with you, but not quite as pessimistic.
Right, I was thinking of the parallel between Diem and Zelensky, too, except the CIA hasn’t assassinated Zelensky, yet.
Golden parachute provided by the US Taxpayer
I suspect that now he DOES need a ride, not ammunition.
Most likely Zelenskyy has donned a disguise and joined the Transylvania circus, fucking donkeys .
Kurds. We were always behind the Kurds.
Until we weren't.
Why would anyone want help from the US, is what I want to know. Cash payoff, I guess.
Except when we hung them out to dry.
Exactly. I’m looking at you Pres. Bush, x 2.
They EU is sadly on it's way to becoming the Middle North. Ruled as a caliphate.
So they FA now they can (and will) FO. Wait it won't be pretty. Ukrainians will NOT take this well. Think the Iraqi's or Afgani's etc. have/are seeking revenge? Just wait.
Are you fking kidding me??? Once again, the "commonsense" Americans, Donald Trump, and JD Vance were right, right, right. That little shit deserved that White House blowup and Europe let him play hero for it. For basically blackmailing and treating them like the idiots they were, he's their hero. Not to mention, I haven't even had time to read that story for reading and watching everything I can about France, England, and every other protector of "our democracy" turn into the tyrannical authoritarians they claim Putin is. What the hell are they so scared of? If Putin were to take over, exactly what we he do differently as regards to eliminating his political opponents (other than bypass the courts for the firing squad)
You lost me in the last sentence 🙄
Sorry you feel that way. I feel like jailing your political opposition or canceling elections and then disqualifying candidates is tyrranical authoritarianism and isn't that what Europe is fighting? You can't save democracy by killing it.