I just took a look at my FB page. It was startling how many people I consider intelligent don't see that they have been kool=aided by the Harris campaign. Pro Choice people who don't see the Harris/Biden dismal record of eliminating safe spaces and sports for women. The Biden/Harris admin support for throwing Ukrainians into a war they can't win. Their deliberate open borders and encouragement of migrants with obscene government benefits while Americns scratch to keep a roof over the head and food on the table. I keep hearing friends say things like, "I don't know how anyone could vote for Trump." Oh, really. reminds me of a Jane austen novel where she skewers the insulated snobs around her. Thank you, Matt and Walt, for giving those of us who have tried to keep our eyes open, a safe space.
I am continually astonished that many of my very intelligent friends are completely bamboozled and cannot even talk about the possibility that they are totally blinded to reality. This phenomenon is very disturbing.
The difference is that we're right, and they're not. I'm only half kidding. To take the most glaring example, anyone who defends men playing against women in sports has been duped, or hypnotized, or brainwashed, or whatever you want to call it. In 10 years they'll realize they were wrong. I hope.
Don’t think so. Most are just weak minded and go the way the current wind blows. Truly disgusting that unsuccessful “men and boys” that can’t hack it against others,take this route no matter their justification .
Probably a lot but I think the tide is turning. The detransitioners are speaking out. The “Bg medicine” gang who endorsed this appalling and brutal “care” have been exposed by the sunlight shining on all government medical agencies——the FDA, CDC, NIH——all exposed during covid. Boston Children’s has a 6 billion dollar endowment and they did surgeries on very young children——lawyers will absolutely go after that. There’s a new firm in Texas formed by attorneys devoted to ending all gender meds and surgeries on anyone under 18. The basic science of it is that once egg and sperm meet, every cell created is either XX or XY. Every single cell in a woman is XX, every cell in a man is XY and nothing in the world can change that.
Either they’ll realize they were wrong in 10 years, or they’ll be dead and the next generation will have grown up taking that batshit business for granted and wouldn’t dream of disagreeing with it.
Democrats will let you have all the abortions you want but limit your right to safe spaces and sports , and to your tights as parents. please square this circle for me. It’s also interesting that only democrats malign anyone who votes Tepublivan as anti-America, garbage, deplorable. Has trump ever maligned dem voters?? Seems to me he has only targeted his political opponents. Says a lot about “character”
Our family no longer celebrates Thanksgiving in one location. The Dems refuse to occupy the same space as the Trump supporters. The Trump supporters will share the same space with them, but they are so feral and and consumed by irrational hatred as to be toxic. Literally. Radioactive. And they haven’t a clue what they’re talking about. They just parrot the lies. Won’t even look at articles proving it’s long been proven untrue.
I've seen a few surveys (e.g., [1] below) showing that Democrats are much less likely to seek a relationship with a Republican than vice versa.
Likewise, the recent FIRE student survey on free speech [2] shows that liberals are significantly more likely than conservatives to approve shouting down campus speakers, blocking other students from attending a campus speech, and using violence to stop a campus speech.
I would hope that universities boards finally grow a spine and expell students that use violence and intimidation to shut down other student or speakers voicing an opinion.
With no consequences they will continue and escalate.
So sorry to hear that. It is a shame that so many spend so much time disrespecting or disparaging others. American culture has lost its way in terms of political discourse. Makes me wonder - on either side of the debate -"WHY is it so important for another person to agree with us? WHY can't we just let those who think chocolate chip mint ice cream is the ONLY ice cream worth eating, just let them think that way? WHY MUST we convince her or him that they have it all wrong - it's pistachio ice cream that's the only ice cream worth eating?" 🤔
Perhaps it is because many just can't compose & express a cogent argument for their position. They'd rather disparage the other's position with a quick insult or calling them names. What's even more insane is when one expresses an opinion associated with one side of the debate, one is immediate tagged as being part of that group implying that all attributes & opinions of that group now apply to you. It's a weird form of guilt by association that has become a nasty poison in political debates, regularly rendering them moot.
I suspect it's because those who insist we must all comply with their views want an external force to make sure we do and believe they have the right to do so.
The globalist corporate deep -state Dem media is every Aldous Huxley warned of until the day he died. The psychological warfare of propaganda by a barrage of synchronized, untrue talking points. It’s quite effective.
I do think the overturning of Roe was a disastrous decision. The Dobbs case wasn’t even lawful because “ Dobbs” wasn’t yet in office, nor was he aware of any case. How Mississippi enacting a 15 week parameter became an overturn of what had been in place near 50 years became the sole focus of the GOP is anathema. The world is burning, the midterms were around the corner and they were poised to gain a majority. And lost, but refuse to admit Roe was the reason. What did they achieve? There has been an exponential rise in the number of abortions performed, likely fear and resentment driven. After the Republicans put up a front to stop the forced vaccines-based upon bodily sovereignty, religious freedom, the right to privacy, doctor / patient privilege and using “ Whatever happened to My Body, My Choice”, they did exactly what they railed against. I’m so goddamned sick of the Dem Hate and Death Cult, I have no problem with them aborting themselves to extinction. It would be a self fulfilling prophecy- Depopulation, less fossil fuel use, lower methane and carbon output, less coal produced electricity, and a large reduction of worthless eaters. A win/win.
The appropriate cutoff date for abortion has yet to be determined. Should it be heartbeat? Ability to feel pain? A lot has been learned about these since Roe vs Wade. And these should be part of the discussion now. Abortion on demand at ant point in pregnancy except in health emergencies seems to me to be unethical in light of what we know. Harris, whose campaign rests so heavily on abortion on demand fails to honor women’s right to safe spaces and sports at the same time. How so many women don’t see the hypocrisy is stunning. Btw, immediately following the reversal of Roe there was a 17% increase in vasectomies. A wake-up call for women and men about the fact that while abortion may be a right,It, like all rights, comes with responsibilities, e.,g, free speech , bearing arms. 50% of abortions are the result of unprotected sex, according to Gutmachet Institute. So, a much wider discussion than the purely political needs to happen. Thank you for responding. I really appreciated it.
I forgot to add that Harris voted against a bill that would have required doctors to provide medical care for babies who survived botched abortions. No comment. There are no words.
The circus that has become the abortion issue pains me. As a woman who came of age when RvW was passed and had 3 children, 2 born very prematurely, I am offended and disappointed in how the unborn are now treated as unwanted moles. While I believe the government should NOT be involved in a woman’s most perilous situation if they have to decide whether to have a child, it seems like the far left has turned pregnancies into flushable and forgettable events.
Why practice prenatal healthcare if these are not human beings from the beginning who deserve a healthy development while in the womb?
The lack of acknowledgment of embryological and fetal development is stunning and is always left out of this conversation by the left.
Personally, I’m delighted that men are getting more vasectomies. As I have said before advances in male medical contraception are sorely needed. Contraception must be a shared responsibility to help get women out of potentially dreadful situations.
Maybe 18 weeks. Prior to pain sensitivity.It defies anything conscionable to have an elective abortion post 18 weeks “ just because”.
So many women are devastated by a miscarriage. They mourn and suffer the loss. Which is biologically an ingrained reaction. Even women who never imagined themselves to have maternal instincts are transformed. Nature takes over. It’s automatic. Something is very wrong with our society.
A biologist gave a speech approximately 6 years ago at a forum, positing humanity had peaked 15 years prior and we’d begin heading downscale within two years. I think he was right. And one empirical theory that’s long been proven- it takes far longer to climb uphill than it does to go downhill. Seems we’re now snowballing to the nadir.
Just for perspective around the “18 weeks” statement…neonatal medicine has advanced to a point where babies as young as 22 weeks are able to survive outside the womb.
And yet Harris voted with Dems against the bill to require doctors to provide medical care for babies who survived botched abortiins. There are no words.
"...A wake-up call for women and men about the fact that while abortion may be a right,It, like all rights, comes with responsibilities, e.,g, free speech , bearing arms."
I've heard of "shotgun weddings," but this is the first I've heard of "shotgun abortions." Imbued with the Constitutional right, indeed the responsibility, to scream during the procedure. Both the 1st and 2nd amendments demand it.
I've just have to say I'm sick and tired of the "my body, my choice" rhetoric. The purveyors of this cute little mantra always, somehow dismiss the fact that an abortion isn't about "your body". It IS about the unborn human that growing inside "your body" and whether or not we should allow it to be murdered because it's an inconvenience. Sure, you can bring up all sorts of reasons why it an undue hardship on the woman carrying the child, but let's be honest, 90%+ pregnancies that are terminated are simply an attempt to correct previous bad choices. The irony, of Democrats railing against the death penalty for criminals while supporting murdering the unborn, is lost on their befuddled minds.
"my body, my choice" was essentially my answer to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
I predicted that the mandate would bring about the fall of Roe, and yet...it did. I know they aren't explicitly tied, but the impact of the primary rhetoric in support of Roe basically died overnight.
badnabor's main point is perfectly legitimate: that abortion involves two competing rights - those of the pregnant woman and those of the developing child, and that pro-choice advocates these days tend to entirely ignore the latter. The Supreme Court majority in Roe v. Wade [1] explicitly recognized this point:
"With respect to the State's important and legitimate interest in potential life, the 'compelling' point is at viability. This is so because the fetus then presumably has the capability of meaningful life outside the mother's womb."
In 1992, the justices in Planned Parenthood v. Casey [2] reaffirmed "the principle that the State has legitimate interests from the outset of the pregnancy in protecting the health of the woman and the life of the fetus that may become a child."
Roe never had federal standing. It was not overturned per se. SCOTUS did not rule if it was OK or not. It was sent back to states choice because it's a states iissue. There are 11 ( ladtvitcwas counted this dumner) states you can kill a full term baby by calling it an abortion. SO if you want to kill a baby just go to that state. It's not shut down. 65% population. Support pro choice through viability. I'm part of that number.
Never! I wonder if the woman had an ultrasound at 16 weeks and saw the baby swimming around, its skeletal system fully formed and moving reflexively… I did and at that moment , became pro-life.
The six weeks deadline is too soon, though. I learned of my pregnancy at nine months during a routine gym visit. I took birth control pills, never skipping a day, often missing a cycle or having just a spot. There were no tells. No morning sickness, hadn’t gained an ounce. Nothing. My husband and I were married 6 months, just starting out, made only enough money to scrape by, we both worked full time. I was 21, he was 24. It was such a shock. But we would make do. My mom and grandmother lived nearby and adored babies. At 16 weeks I was scheduled for and ultrasound and everything was perfect. And then things changed. At 5:00 on Friday, the diagnostic center called. It was the receptionist at the front desk. Without any ni niceties or warning, she blurted out,” Ma’am, your baby has a neural tube defect. WTF was that? “ it ( love the it part) has Spina Bifida” . Before I could even process what she’d told me, she said, “ I’ve scheduled an appointment first thing Monday morning for termination”. I was ready to faint. Said what are you talking about? She was so irritated. The spine is fused. If you don’t miscarry, you’ll have a baby who will be incontinent, in a wheelchair unable to walk, feed itself and yours and your husband’s life will be ruined. You’ll be divorced in a few months. I was sobbing , my knees buckled and I was so devasted. “ I don’t want to have an abortion on Monday. I can’t process this. I need to talk to my husband and mother . “. That was it for her. Tells me that I’m being very selfish. Can’t make this up. I saw the baby the spine looked forged. She said, “ Look, I need to go home. I hung up on her. My mom came over, my husband came home, we were all in tears. I didn’t eat or sleep by Sunday, I decided to take my chances. They would support whatever I decided. I called the on-gyn and she scheduled a second ultrasound at a different facility. This time the actual radiologist performed the ultrasound and said he didn’t see any abnormalities and would review the images in the afternoon. He called and said everything looked good, but I was eighteen, not sixteen weeks along. Which means the pregnancy had been diagnosed at 11, not 9 weeks. The other idiot had read the wrong images. If I’d terminated the pregnancy that morning, I wouldn’t have my beautiful wonderful 35 year old daughter. And more disturbing, I’d have ended the life of a healthy 18 week baby. I’d have to live with that.
However, what about a woman/girl who had the same situation. Didn’t know- which is more common than one would think? What if she had no money, no support, was abused or abandoned and had no options? Six weeks is wrong. It’s very unfair to force that on another. Pregnancy is very costly. If she had a miserable pregnancy as I did with my second, who has the right other than she does to determine her own fate? Sorry, but it isn’t Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott or a politician acting on his own religious ideology. When these bans began to be put in place, Pat Robertson, the devout Evangelical Pastor, blasted these over the top restrictions calling them cruel, overreaching and sadistic. And he was very, very pro-life, but he was compassionate. He also deemed it government overreach.
Thanks, Barbara. I have to admit that I’m confused and don’t understand that Roe never had federal standing. Can you help me with that? I’d love to wallop “pro-choice” (I hate that term - I always want to say, “You already made a choice and now you want a do-over?”) friends with that nugget, but I’d need more detail.
Yes! And Abortion should never be a national issue ever again. Robert Yates, the wise founder no one talks about predicted the divide in 1787 in Brutus I-X of the “Anti-Federalist” papers. In fact he predicted the deep state, forever wars and the national divide on all the issues because we are too big and diverse. We can’t even agree that the 14th Amendment protects the pregnant woman’s as well as the living unborn. But, Americans are too ignorant to bother learning history - and you know what happens then - the dumb ideas will be repeated.
The authorship of the anti-federalist essays written under the pseudonym "Brutus" at the time of the Constitutional Convention has never been "definitively established." Generally attributed to Robert Yates, as you contend here, recent scholarship points instead to Melancton Smith, a close associate of Yates' and a prominent anti-federalist who was also part of the New York delegation to the Constitutional Convention.
It's possible that the two of them collaborated closely in some manner. Either way, authorship has not been definitively established by the historical record.
Say what you wish about the anti-federalists, but apparently they took great pains to conceal their identity and abjured any personal renown for their efforts---unlike the preening glory-hounds Hamilton and Madison.
One last thought. As a presumed and self-identified Yates scholar, help me out here. Yates was a professional surveyor and one of the primary authors of the Northwest Ordinance. In laying out the rectangular grids in the Western Reserve, later to become the various States which comprise today's midwest, aka the "cornbelt," might Yates have in all his founding father prescience, foresight and wisdom, viewed all that potential corn acreage and anticipated the rise of high fructose corn syrup and great streams of Fords and Chevrolets powered by ethanol?
I know. The Dems had many opportunities to codify it and didn’t. I don’t know whether anybody believed it would be overturned or whether the Dems hoped it would, knowing what the reaction would be. Like anything else, people want something all the more when it’s taken away. Like narcotics. If it’s illegal, people want it all the more. Human nature. Or inhuman, depending on the level of insanity.
I don't know what your first statement is supposed to mean. The Supreme Court ruled that "Roe has standing to sue; the Does and Hallford [other plaintiffs] do not.", so if you're making a legal claim about Roe's standing, you're simply wrong. If you're saying that you don't agree with the court's decision on Roe's standing, that's fine, but it's just your personal opinion.
Your second statement is also incorrect - Roe v. Wade was overruled by the 2022 Dobbs decision [2]. The Supreme Court held that "The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives."
Roe was 50 year old precedent whether you liked it or not. I thought it was dubious but you don't get to ignore stare decisis based on your ideology. That's why the court is viewed as illegitimate now
The court did not "ignore" stare decisis in the Dobbs decision. They argued in detail why the errors in the Roe decision (as they saw them) warranted overruling Roe despite the stare decisis doctrine, which as they pointed out, "is not an inexorable command". You may disagree with their reasoning, but it's inaccurate to say that they simply ignored stare decisis. They also pointed out that "Some of the Court’s most important constitutional decisions have overruled prior precedents."
Several Supreme Court decisions celebrated by liberals (and others) overruled previous decisions, but those courts are not condemned for "ignoring stare decisis". Here's a sampling:
Brown v. Board of Education (1954): banned racial segregation in public schools; overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896; "separate but equal") in part, Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education (1899), and Berea College v. Kentucky (1908).
Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969): strengthened free speech rights; overturned Schenck v. United States (1919; upheld laws criminalizing speech against the military draft).
Lawrence v. Texas (2003): ruled that U.S. state laws criminalizing sodomy between consenting adults are unconstitutional; overturned Bowers v. Hardwick (1986).
Obergefell v. Hodges (2015): ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples; overturned Baker v. Nelson (1971).
That’s flat out infanticide. Any doctor who would perform such a brutality and any woman who would opt for something so soulless deserves prison.they should have been aborted.
Regarding your claim that "There are 11 ... states you can kill a full term baby": Wikipedia [1], for what it's worth, lists six states plus Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. as allowing abortions at any stage of pregnancy. The six states are Colorado, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, and Vermont.
For Tim Walz's Minnesota, also see [2].
Walz also signed Minnesota bill SF 2995, which repealed a statute which recognized that: "A potentially viable fetus which is live born following an attempted abortion shall be fully recognized as a human person under the law." and which declared "If an abortion of a potentially viable fetus results in a live birth, the responsible medical personnel shall take all reasonable measures, in keeping with good medical practice, to preserve the life and health of the live born person."
That bill also repealed a statute that said that under Minnesota law, "the words 'person,' 'human being,' 'child,' and 'individual' shall include every infant member of the species Homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development."
Wikipedia is a disinformation site. New York passed this and maybe was the first state to do so. They all cheered. Kill a full term baby ,yippee!! Sick fucks.
Some Wikipedia articles have accurate information, and in this case the facts can be confirmed by checking individual states' laws. For New York, abortion is legal "up to and including 24 weeks of pregnancy. After 24 weeks, you can still get an abortion if your health or pregnancy is at risk." [1]
I noticed, though, that New York State's Reproductive Health Act [2], passed in January 2019, repealed New York Public Health Law Section 4164 among other things, which required life-saving measures for babies born live in failed abortion attempts. That bill also repealed the authority of coroners and medical examiners to investigate a death caused by suspected criminal abortion. Needless to say, these things are not even discussed by mainstream media.
The fund-raising industrial complex is the only thing that will change. This has been a gold-mine for them. Those who choose abortion will get the pill even if their state bans the procedure and those who choose to have the baby will.
My wife experienced a miscarriage . It was decades back. So, though I was never allowed to attended a birth, I was allowed to watch my little son removed from my wife's womb in pieces. I suppose I shouldn't feel sorrow because he wasn't really a human being. Of course women deserve, as acknowledged by every modern Western society, the right to reasonable choice. But reasonable choice and human moral reason has been seized by criminals.
The hard question of abortion in America being used as yet another tool to bludgeon the American psyche while holding progress and the national conversation in thrall is despicable. Like incarceration, abortion is an industry. As will, soon be, the euthanasia center. Birth to death, life, controlled and monitored by the ideological utopians (another industry) who serve the sterile and malignant narcissism of international billionaire criminal financiers. The life of the unborn defined by the numbered account and the need for throw away labor. As Tina Turner asked: "Whats love got to do with it" Consider the possibility that AI, genetics and the butchery of today's youth are experimentation and the beginnings of the master race creation of a new human robotics that will solve the problem of freedom and the unruly citizen. Doubt they would do it? Spend some time with the walking wounded downtown.
The perps represent (and they are criminals) the same amoral mob that killed Christ. The same A-Bomb rattling psychopathy that burned the 20th century to the ground. Let me pre-bunk, and offer as proof my necessity to do so, my following statement: I don't care who sleeps with who.
The politicization of the womb by eugenicists like Margaret Sanger and lesbian Marxist feminism laid the groundwork for today's ascending totalitarianism. The perps made fortunes from Federal, state, corporate grants and donations. They created the template: Form a committee. Create a problem or seize control and discussion of a legitimate social concern. Claim virtuosity. Demand payment. For those who don't go along? Complaint by anonymous victim. Calls for firing and dismissal. Life and career destruction. Trial by press, rumor, innuendo and character assassination. It is the working model for all the worlds ever morphing NGO's. Example: The Harris/Mayorkas driven NGO's swallowing billions in tax payer dollars in today's illegals trade. And where does all that money (American life and labor) go?
Why this rant? Because the grift I've described above is the reason comment sections across SUBSTACK are filled with refugees from the psyop seeking to reduce America to an open air prison. An anti-human LIE that simply talks over the top of the human moral reason our founding fathers struggled to enshrine in our Constitution. It believes in nothing. BE HUMAN!! DEPART THE PSYOP AND LIVE!!
I bet it would be interesting to see how a girl did at a bar picking up guys if she got just a little more specific and wore a shirt saying “My uterus, my choice”…
I'm thinking it would be even more interesting if both you and I were sitting next to her at the bar, surreptitiously monitoring her efforts and providing commentary.
You: (interjecting at key moments during pick-up time):
"...Precisely because the choice is personal, it would be presumptuous of me to pass some cosmic analytical judgment on the question of childlessness. I can only fall back on my own experience. Indulge me...as I reflect on a life that may bear little resemblance to yours..."
Nah. I’ve never posted to Truth Social. Not my thing. Substack is far more interesting and diverse in thought. I’m neither right nor left, I’m Huxleyan.
If you want to watch something startlingly uncanny, Google Aldous Huxley/ Mike Wallace 1958 interview. Promise you won’t be bored.
Way back in the day, “ Brave New World” was required reading in the high school curriculum. Two weeks were devoted to discussing the text, what we came away with, etc. Because I was stoned more often than not, it fit right into whatever one might call my “ state of mind”( or lack thereof). It was quite intriguing, but fantastical. Predating tech and psychotropic meds. Nobody had heard of ADD, ADHD, clinical depression, etc. No smart phones, pcs, if you can imagine.Then I read Anthem, Eyeless in Gaza, After Many A Summer Dies A Swan-all nifty. In the early eighties( 2 years later), I developed a fixation with Jim Morrison and The Doors. Even more so because the band was named for “ The Doors of Perception”. But of course, the books were the product of an eccentric literary genius, but “ futuristic” fiction. Nothing more. It wasn’t until about five years ago that parallels started to crop up, but it wasn’t until I stumbled upon the interview that I became , uh, spooked.
If you watch, let me know what you think. It freaked my husband out and were nothing alike. He’s very mainstream.
As per Trump, I know him quite well, albeit he wasn’t quite so , uh, unfiltered. I’m an interior designer and Derek Jeter was my client when he purchased The 90th floor penthouse in the then brand new NYC Trump World Tower. A two year project. Trump was a regular and he was really great. Especially when the hellscape of 9/11 hit. You wouldn’t know by his “ showmanship”, but he was always of the anti- intervention, trade rip off, America First mindset.
"Trump World Tower has 376 units. Designed by the architect Costas Kondylis, the building is 861 feet (262 m) high and has 72 constructed floors (but lists 90 stories on elevator panels)..."
I'm not going to tell Jeter and I don't think you should either. But I might crudely allude to the subterfuge next time I have lunch with Don.
And: are you aware that Aldous Huxley's official date of death is listed as Nov 22nd, 1963? Now, are we really supposed to swallow that Aldous Huxley died on the same day Kennedy was assassinated? And that he passed from one realm to another in Los Angeles County? Get the fuck outta here with that one.
Huxley went underground and lived for another 10 years...and...he's...also the author of the entire Doors' songbook. The entire ouvre. LA Woman was a paean to Marilyn Monroe. A jealous valentine. He was madly in love with her at the time of her death and, well, Monroe's death pretty much drove him over the edge, or at least to Venice Beach, so he faked his death and became a rock lyricist.
I'm serious. I have family in L.A., well, Pasadena, but close enough.
"Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light?" Huxley would sing to himself at night while laying, drunk and prone, on the beach, pining for Marilyn..."or just another lost angel?" (Sure!) the Doors formed when Morrison and Manzarek bumped into each other on Venice Beach in 1965, but the real formation occurred, just off the beach, at the Gas House, in 1964 where Huxley was tending bar, laying low, and where Morrison and Manzarek hung out, Manzarek nursing a double espresso throughout the evenings while Morrison consumed an unending volley of Huxley's famously stiff Mai Tai's (which Huxley referred to as his "roadhouse blues.")
The penthouse qualifies as 3 floors. The ceilings are soaring. There are only two residences. One belongs to Trump, and at the time, the other was Derek’s. Post 9/11, I developed a phobia of getting too near the windows. The entire crib consisted of 18’ floor to soffit panoramic glass, one of the areas had a parallel vista of the World Trade Towers. What was formerly so spectacular became a view of the entry to hell. And the imploding towers were something beyond imaginable. Even from where I stood, I could hear the screams from the crowds running in the street.
But Ilhan Omar shrugs. You know. “ Some people did something”. I cannot believe that beast occupies a congressional seat. I can’t believe what we’ve been experiencing in America. The UN really is the portal to hell. The East River should be renamed Styx and a stone pediment above the UN entrance engrave with “ Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter”. Or perhaps the Capitol.
I’m just another lost angel , but also a wild child, though not full of grace or savior of the human race. Though at the rate we’re going, the human race is dying out on this ship of fools.
I’d have loved to have met Huxley, Jimbo and Manzarek. Ditto Marshall McLuhan.
Morrison was outrageous. Iconoclastic would be an understatement. I watched an interview where Manzarek was telling such funny stories about how impossible Morrison was. They were to perform at Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami ( I live just blocks away) and of course, Jim was late. Manzarek found him smoking a blunt the size of a Cuban cigar in the bathtub. The band was furious and gave him ten minutes to get dressed. He finally appeared wearing an enormous pair of underwear rolled over the top of his leather pants. Manzarek had a really bad feeling about it. And Morrison got onstage, told the audience, I’m gonna show you something you’ve never seen before” . The rest is history. He dropped his pants, was dragged off the stage by the elbows - it took two cops- was arrested for indecent exposure and taken to jail. Manzarek and Kreiger were furious. Ready to fold the whole band .
Right, well you make the same mistake everyone else does -- you assume "intelligence" means having the same opinion as you, I guess, because you must believe you are at least somewhat intelligent. Enough to have the different opinion that makes you as such.
The reality is that this has nothing to do with intelligence. It has everything to do with honesty. It's easier to talk about yourself in terms of intelligence rather than honesty, because most people are at least a little, if not fairly, dishonest.
So we keep uttering a self-hypnotic lie that this is about intelligence or strategy or something like that, but that's actually not true at all. At this point, it's all about which lie or set of lies has the most clout amongst the in-group, in order to validate whatever image makes you feel the best about yourself. That is what you are voting for.
No, I don’t judge a person’s intelligence by opinion. We human. We’re allowed to have opinions. We can agree to disagree. But there’s a difference between basing one’s opinion on convoluted information. When somebody says they hate Trump because he’s a Russian agent, rapist, antisemite, homophobe and called White Supremacists “ good people”, they’ve formed their opinion on untruths. If they can’t stand his personality and the policies he’s put forth, that’s their prerogative. It doesn’t make them ignorant.
The media really has become the enemy of the people. When we’re being fed propaganda and lies as a constant mantra, it is psychological abuse. So many are conditioned to believe everything they see and hear that they’ve ceded their God- given curiosity. It’s by design and it works. It creates a collective pack mentality and nothing good comes of it. Throughout history this has been used. It led to the Third Reich, Soviet Union, pol Pot, Political Islam , Idi Amin, Rwanda and prior to these horrors, the Inquisition and Witch Trials. Cult leaders use the same technique. But nothing compares to global media and the internet.. where before the reach was limited, it is now ubiquitous.
But upon reflection, me thinks, wait em out. Those worth knowing will get there. Not saying they will become Maga-Heads, but they might wake up to the dem party’s devolvement.
The Dem Party is no longer liberal nor Democratic. It is unrecognizable. They become so hateful, rigid and authoritarian that they’d shut down Woodstock.
They’ve ruined everything that once brought people together. Comedy, music, art, movies, sports,weddings, holiday gatherings, food… even game shows. Jeopardy is now a fucking DEI contest.
The reason anti-trans arguments don’t sway us pro-choice advocates is because gender-affirming medicine is completely irrelevant to reproductive rights. Also, the logic behind banning gender-affirming care is exactly the same as the logic behind banning abortion: the state can decide what kind of care a doctor can provide a patient. There’s also the fact that the most anti-trans people are also viciously antifeminist. Biological essentialism — the idea that everything about one’s behavior is determined by having an XX or XY chromosome — justifies keeping women out of the professions and demanding we be locked in the kitchen and in the nursery as nothing but breeders. After all, women are doomed by biology to be weak and dimwitted placental mammals whose brains are a waste of space. Men were born to be important and women to be cattle. (TERF’s are just Phyllis Schlaflys who haven’t quite mastered her exceptional hypocrisy yet. Mary Harrington is already there, though, and arguing that women should leave men alone in the halls of power while she makes a fortune speaking to the men in the halls of power.)
Right wingers hate women. It’s fundamental to their worldview that there must be a biologically-determined class of people who are just born to do nothing but shit work, and that class is women. Racism is secondary to this, and they will ally with men of color just so that those men have their own punching bags available. You, and Matt Taibbi, and Donald Trump just want to preserve your right to your punching bags. if you’re a woman, you are really exceptionally stupid to believe these men.
This is an uncannily accurate facsimile of generic early-70s radical feminist cant. It was a hugely popular way of talking/posturing back then. But by the 1980s even stand-up comedians (I know: "that's not funny!") were no longer doing parodies of it.
Software exists that uses recursive grammars to produce automated random text nearly indistinguishable from the above, at least in style. Try the "Postmodernism Generator" at https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/ for some harmless fun along these lines.
Does anyone know of a site that hosts something similar for generating blocks of arbitrary feminist-theoretical discourse salad?
You do know that pushing people to go to drugs and surgery when they are going through some struggle during puberty completely destroys their choice to be or not be parents at some point in the future. How does that square with your pro-choice stance?
The rest of your rant is just sad to equate being pro-life the equivalent to woman confined to some 30's vision of women.
That’s a medical issue that sbould be addressesd by a malpracticd suit if the doctor didn’t follow thr standard of care. It shouldn’t be a crime. Also, why do you think women are only good for breeding? Do we have any reason to exist beyond being 3D printers for new males?
Worse are the parents having their kids hacked up, not because the children have a clue, but as a status statement for the “ way chic “ parents. The mothers, really. They should be hacked to pieces. I have trans friends who really struggled. Their wiring and bodies are mismatched. But they represent a scintilla of the population and were adults who made their decisions after years of postulating. They’re happy, well adjusted and not proud. Just happy. And they are sickened by this violation. They’re being used as pawns. Not what they wanted. They just want to be.
My late husband was an MP. in a combat zone. Those soldiers were not thinking much about elections back home. From what I learned post deployment there wasn't much thought that any politician cared about anything but their own bank accounts. My husband listened to Imus every day and always called to me to come listen when MT was on.
Yep. When I came back from Vietnam, I made a decision to never vote again, as the only protest I thought I could make. Didn’t start voting again till the late nineties. Seriously thinking about stopping again.
Me three. I found that our most intense (and usually only) allegiances during this period were to our crew-members, the guys that all depended upon one another for their very lives. The most intense friendships too. Yes we took the oath, but we really were trying to stay alive, more than anything.
Poor Matt. Write up an article denouncing the latest stupid hoax, and by the time it's ready for publication there have already been two more stupid hoaxes.
It’s too bad that few people are being enlightened about what the comedian was actually referencing: the garbage problem affecting the people of Puerto Rico. Much like Staten Island, back in the day, was always associated with garbage, as the destination for the bulk of NYC trash, leading to the curious pink-purple-orange haze that hung over it at twilight, (maybe still does, been a NYC refugee for a decade now so…), as well as the elevated respiratory and health risks the Islanders swore was associated with it, PR has a similar problem that outsiders are oblivious to and could stand to gain some empathy for the garbage afflicted. It’s also why this attack fails to land because actual Puerto Ricans get the joke.
I knew about the landfill problem, because it was featured around the time they were slammed with the two hurricanes. But Tony had to realize that wouldn't be widespread knowledge. Joe Rogan mentioned Tony is into the environment and a bit obsessed with the garbage patch. Joe had heard him tell it before.
But whoever thought a week before the election it would be useful to have a comedian famous for his roasts and insult style be given free reign to insult key voting demographics has a most interesting strategy.
I didn’t think The Impaired were allowed to vote. Then again, we have a special needs DEI hire running for president with most of the media covering for her.
I find it troubling that the plight of the Puerto Ricans is lost in all of this uproar. I wasn't aware of the fact that all the PR landfills are full until I did a search. They are facing a rather desperate situation. You would think that one reporter or talking head would want to bring that to light rather than just clutching their pearls. But it seems politics and journalism are stuck on stupid!
Right? I mean, Puerto Ricans are American citizens, for crying out loud! Puerto Rico is an American territory, as this is how we treat it??? THAT would be a great closing point for the election - Trump ought to make Puerto Rico great again (whatever) and point out how DC ignores their plight.
Isn’t she the one who, uh, “slept with” Alex Rodriguez and Daredevil Affleck? She would have had the trifecta if she could have boned Jeffrey Epstein… 🤣
Exactly. Anybody who lives within 100 miles of NYC is fully aware of how much garbage is shipped out of that city. Hell, I didn't pay property taxes for 10 years because there was a landfill in my Township that was fully filled by trash coming from NYC. Now, imagine being on an island with nowhere to send it....
Wow, Dorothy, I follow the latest media manipulations pretty closely (I'm a details freak for msm propaganda), but I missed the context you share. Thanks for filling us in (no pun intended.)
There have been so many stupid hoaxes by the Party of Government we need a single word for the phenomenon. I will buy a year's gift subscription for the top two suggestions; readers of Screaming into the Void judge.
I just want someone who doesn't support genocide. Who isn't a slave to the monied interests. Who actually cares about working people and issues like decent wages, better health care, and real peace, as in a lot less war and killing everywhere.
But the red and blue tribes don't offer much of a choice here. All they've got is GIGO: garbage in, garbage out.
Well said. And what really gets me is when some smug cocktail party pundit tries to sound smart and says something like, "We get the politicians we deserve." No we don't, and what a conveniently lame excuse to blame it on voters, when so much of the system that has created this mess is totally beyond the means of the average person to have any say-so over.
So very true. When was the last time a grass-roots candidate was on a primary ballot, either R or D. Answer, never. Heck, even the L masters vet their candidates. We're always left with hmm or haw. One exception, DJT threw a wrench in his first time.
They don't mind a certain level of crime, as it adds to the frisson they feel is part of city life. It is only when it gets above that certain level do they feel threatened by it.
Why would good people go into politics when your life and that of your family could be ripped apart and you could run up a hundred thousand in attorney fees to defend yourself because some loon you've never met crawls out from under some rock with an outrageous claim from decades ago that you have no way to defend yourself against? They claim that they were traumatized because you supposedly showed them your pee-pee when you were five or pulled their hair back in middle school or some other such rot. And where do you go to get your reputation back after that? What successful person needs or wants that aggravation? So, what do we get as a result? The lowest common denominator. Power-hungry frauds, narcissists, and sociopaths.
"The people" are not responsible for the quality of politicians or the inanities of the way the system of government works.
Individuals are not responsible for their addiction to opiates, especially those that began with prescriptions.
Americans are not responsible for the wars, and now a genocide, that their tax dollars fund.
It's almost as if a certain strain of American liberalism operates in the manner of a criminal defense attorney, turning every bad act into a passive verb with no actual perpetrator.
I suspect that since the only time "the average person" demonstrates any interest in either "the system" or "the mess" is once every 2 or 4 years and consists of walking down the street and marking a piece of paper of punching a button on a machine a rational person might conclude that you do indeed "get the politicians you deserve".
Said rational person might not even be at a cocktail party but at a meeting of loons who are trying to come up with a strategy for changing "the system" in order to clean up "the mess".
A good start would be repealing Citizens United and taking the big money out of elections. Let there be 5-10 candidates on the ballot that cover everyone’s perspective, maybe more regular people will run for office and not only career politicians who hope to profit by being elected and working for partisan think tanks when they are done. The Doupoly IS the problem
All Citizens United did was remove restrictions on campaign spending by corporations and unions. Even before this decision, companies and unions were already pouring millions into lobbying—and they still do. Neither political party wants to cut off the flow of lobbyist cash. In fact, most politicians who don’t stay in office for life hope to secure lobbyist jobs once their terms end.
Big Pharma continues to funnel money to the FDA and rewards cooperative FDA employees with lucrative positions after they retire. Additionally, they are among the largest advertisers on television, including on news programs, which discourages networks from investigating or criticizing them. And since Citizens United only applies to corporations and unions, overturning it wouldn’t stop billionaires like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, or George Soros from spending freely to influence elections.
The real impact of Citizens United was negligible. The flood of cash from wealthy, well-connected interests to their government allies was huge before Citizens United, and it remains huge today. The decision just handed politicians an easy excuse for wearing “For Sale” signs—they now claim they’re forced to take money as if it’s an unavoidable requirement to stay competitive.
Until we remove the concentration of power in Washington and return it to the states and the people, as the Constitution intended, we’ll never get big money out of elections.
Agreed. The ideology of the mainstream media and its Uniparty for 70 years has been the centralization of power in Washington DC. Rejecting the mainstream media will be required for change. Trump is a canary in that coal mine.
None that I'm aware of. With maybe a few exceptions, nobody in government wants to change the system. It's been good to them. It's brought them wealth, power and prestige.
yes, we have to actually remove power as that is the source of the corruption. Obama never got quid pro quo money from Netflix for pushing their pet project of Net Neutrality... but what they did was teh same only legal. Obama got the legal maxes of cash from their board members for elections... then as soon as he left office they announced Netflix was paying $ 30 million for "up to 4" documentaries from the Obama's... that right there gets arouond all possible campaign finance laws.
You will never be able to ban people paying politicians for speeches or book/movie deals after retirements... but that is one of the easiest ways that these turds use to get around the optics/legality of just taking money for voting how they want.
choke off the power in DC, and then it won't be worth it to spend tens of billions of dollars to bribe these vampires.
At some point, people need to be responsible to support who they believe is the best candidate. Perhaps if we remove the big dollar motivations of these candidates, we see improvement? Garbage in, Garbage Out. As Matt implies, they are the garbage and we are putting them there to speak for us.
Corporate/Liberal media and conservative media shouldn’t have as much influence as they do - if people choose to mindlessly follow them whose fault is that?
The Republican party only worked because the Whig party had the decency to dissolve when it became terminally split over the question of slavery. What remained were two major parties, the Dems and the Republicans. So, yeah, totally delusional.
Yet they offer no other choices; if they want to vote they have the same choices everyone else does, however, they are not burden with being on a Party email or text list. Many choice to be an "I" as finger to the party the kept lying to them.
Spot on Bill. The people employed by the ruling classes "your governments" have brought you to the place. They're doing just fine and they intend to keep the party going... for THEM....sucker!
Of all the poisonous ideas that have leached down into our social soil from the New Left and its merger of radical politics and therapy, one of the worst and most toxic has been: THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL.
By erasing the boundary between our personal lives and the realm of the political (which ideally should be limited to being about the affairs of the state and our govt), this slogan has managed to poison our friendships, marriages, community groups, schools and churches etc. In fifty years we've gone from the narcissism of "I just feel like my hang-ups are keeping me from being a better soldier for the movement, mannn" to the stupid and hateful "If you don't share my opinions on party politics, you're my natural enemy that needs to be destroyed."
There is nothing more important in our one and only lives than our family and friends and the people we love as well as our personal, individual consciences and how we express them—the people who want you to mouth their slogans and share their hatreds are enemies and not allies.
THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL is totalitarianism with a heavy dash of emotional blackmail designed to let every aspiring Stasi narc and petty tyrant get their grubby hands on your brain and soul—not every thought or word or night in bed with someone is inherently "political". Preserving the realm of the personal is essential to preserving freedom and dignity.
That was a second wave feminist slogan. To me there is nothing worse than basing your politics around immutable characteristics. The New Left has had tremendous success with this strategy institutionally though. Not so much electorally but definitely institutionally. I believe in the universalism of the old left but it's mostly dead and buried. GEN X was right to be cynical about politics in reaction to the Boomers IMO.
I'm still the same Gen-X Democrat (see Liberal) I have always been. Except now, I am called an out of touch racist White Boomer by... whatever the left is today.
Because hippies were the one's who started the identity mess we're in now. The new left started it and Millenials continued it with "wokism" that's why.
And look at how the pollsters link our identities to how we're expected to vote. People take one look at me and make (false) assumptions about whether I'm friend or foe. Reasonable, decent people can disagree with one another. But when "the end of democracy" or "the end of America as we know it" are trotted out, the Others are demonic minions of Satan. Once upon a time, people who read the magazines about celebrity's personal lives were considered voyeuristic freaks. Now it's anyone with a news feed to their phone. Ditto with politics porn. We are mutating under the gamma rays coming from our devices and becoming angry Hulks.
They've pre-primed the revolution. It doesn't matter who wins, the loser is primed to strike. If Trump wins (still doubt it), Every Blue City in the country will burn, and the economy will be collapsed within a year. If Kamala wins, the Right will bitch, and maybe a few tantrums will be had, and BLM will make sure to make it look like the Right revolted, and a lot more people will go to jail for wearing the wrong clothing....
I'm afraid you are right about a pre-primed revolution being planned. The Left says that is what the conservatives will do, but they are the ones who will react. I understand that they had a practice evacuation of the White House on Monday. They want to keep the option open that if Trump loses we conservatives, aka domestic terrorists and Nazis will run amok!
There are so many people that the DOJ has arrested and jailed--without a trial. One day the truth will come out about that awful day. But not before we are all senile!
Yeah, all that "it'll be the end of America as we know it" is so much bullshit,,,,as if our country and society has stayed in some dormant state for 250 years and now there's a threat to a change coming. I remember reading an article in Spy magazine quite a while ago. It traced the history of Rock-n-Roll, I think. There was a very funny bit in the timeline; "When Bob Dylan introduced The Beatles to pot it began the process of the end of western civilization as we know it",,,,,now, that observation may actually be true.
It worked out for some of us. I use it every day. People won't listen if they think you don't love them and aren't listening to them. Why this needs to be explained is the mystery.
My wife's uncle, a rabid Democrat with raging TDS, and a lifelong lover of sex drugs and rock and roll, died a few months back, and his dying message was, listen to the Beatles, love is all you need. He made peace with his conservative relatives and even with God before he passed. A shame he lived as long as he did without taking that message to heart sooner.
Our mainstream media used to do more to focus on and celebrate what unites us, not what divides us. Old media might have papered over cracks, or worse, but it felt like a better place overall when we didn't hate our neighbors. A hyper-focus on internal political differences since we stopped having an external enemy (i.e. the Soviet Union) has delivered us to this place. Tribalism reigns, one way or the other. No enemy without = enemy within.
The individual is anathema to collectivists. There is nothing they hate more than what they see as “excessive individualism”. Of course they try to conflate personal and political. The goal is to subsume the individual into the collectivist whole. It takes a village and all that.
The politicization of everything is typical of totalizing leftist collectivist movements. It’s the best way to create a society of snitches and schoolmarms who can serve as the eyes and ears of the state.
I’m weirded out because I got an e-mail from my .gov saying I didn’t vote in 2016. I did, but I wrote in who I wanted for Pres. There were other things on the ballot I voted for (or against)
11/01/24: Obviously, you didn't vote for The "Correct" Candidate. This is why my antediluvian election set up in the gym of the local high school where I live still maintains physical signature books in which I sign my name and write the exact date of the event. Of course, there is nothing to stop them from someday claiming that they never existed.
I voted in our local elementary school my son attended. I don’t remember a sign in book there though. Maybe the email was just about the presidential vote. Still - it had a space to write in a candidate. I once heard after that - if you don’t vote for a Presidential choice they count it as a spoiled ballot.
Went to a bar in Livingston, MT to watch the Yankee game the other night. Struck up a brief conversation about the delicious autumn salad with the lady sitting next to me at the bar. About a minute later, apropos of nothing, she blurted out "Ugh, I'm so damn stressed. Wait. Are you team red or team blue?"
"Team red. You?"
"Seriously? Are you kidding me? "
"No, why?"
The tirade that followed was remarkable. This woman was literally shaking with rage. A complete and total stranger with whom I had exchanged a few sentences prior.
On the plus side, I learned that I'm a "pathetic asshole who hates women" - based strictly on my support for Trump - so at least I know what I need to work on in my voyage of self-discovery, lol.
and of course, SHE had to bring up "what team are you on?" It says it all! What kills me is they can't accept that anyone has an opinion other than theirs (the sanctioned party line!)
Funny how she was cordial to you right up until you said you were Team Red. Then she immediately went to self-righteous indignation. If you hate someone because of “wrongthink”, or not voting for the right team, you need to re-evaluate you thinking.
At an art opening, my wife once introduced me to a man she had been talking to. His first words to me were "Are you Left or Right?" I'm politically non-binary (can I patent that phrase?) so I stood there nonplussed until my wife interjected "He's extremely independent!". I thought that was a nice thing to say about me, but to some people it's probably even worse than being "on the other side".
I don't know. When I tell people I'm independent (because I don't subscribe to the duopoly), they seem oddly perplexed, and move on to another topic of conversation. It's quite amusing that they don't seem to know how to talk about politics with someone who thinks independently.
I went down to our longtime friends and neighbors right after KH was nominated. Wanted to give them a huge organic onion that I had no need for. Wife said, sit down we haven't seen you in a while so I did. After a few seconds of chit she asked well what do you think of the Walz choice for "our Kamala." So I responded truthfully and laid it out. The husband stormed out(!) of the house after saying he would never speak to me again. Wife subjected me to a lengthy what is wrong with you tirade. I left saying, well at least enjoy that honker of an onion. My wife discovered it an hour later placed in our driveway. This really happened.
OMG….so sorry for your hostile neighbor’s shameful treatment. Glad to hear that you were bravely had the conviction to express your political opinion in the face of those bullies. I know how difficult it is to have genuine affection for people only to have them reveal that their tolerance isn’t mutual. I have some on my street too. Forge on with your integrity intact and know that surely there are others who would love to be blessed with your huge organic onions.
TMS- these people are SO effed up!! My husband gets deeply offended by that "our" business! Back when Obama won his first term we were at a friend's party and were greeted w/ "OUR guy won!" He left NO opening for anyone at his party to have voted for a different candidate!
I live in the bluest community in one of the reddest states. I'm a recovering liberal, with most of my friends still firmly seated in the progressive bandwagon: yet, so far, I've managed not to be disowned. They know my current political leanings (voting for RFK via Trump), but somehow, when they declare 'All of Trump's supporters are fascists and racist bigots', they don't seem to include me in there, for which I am grateful, but bemused.
I have a very good friend, very liberal, who, after a few glasses of wine, got off on a rant about how many Trump signs she had seen on the road back from an out of town football game. She said that couldn't believe how "ignorant" these people were and that their opinion must be due to their "isolation".
Do these people ever listen to themselves? So, the problem is that those people are ignorant and if they weren't, they'd think exactly the same way she does? WTF?! That's not only wrong, it's offensive. And, they're completely oblivious why people think they're arrogant, self-absorbed a--holes. Totally ruined my buzz.
11/01/24: Get it over with. Wear sweatshirts with Harvey Weinstein's glorious face on the front of them at the PTA meetings and Little League ball games. If anyone gets mad, just point to Sam Bankman-Fried's hot-to-trot puss on the back (pre-prison haircut) and remind them who financed the Dems in 2020 & 2022 (by looting his crypto-currency racket).
That's a good one! Personally- I don't see that it's anyone's business who I vote for. I live and work amongst these people. They are seriously mentally ill! Almost all they think about is being ANTI- Trump. In the past their obsession was being ANTI- Bush. I don't know how they survived the Obama and Biden years when they had no boogey-man!!
Yes. I had a door knocker dem & she asked what issue was most important to me. I said ending wars and she looked at her sheet & said so Foreign Policy. I said yes & it was cordial.
Yeah- she is an actress. I have been thinking about this for a while now- the changing accents, the affectations and gestures, the dramatic delivery of the most banal statements as if she is imparting wisdom. She is delivering lines like she practiced them in the mirror.
The woman is a cipher. If I were a Leftist, I'd be appalled that she was the nominee. As embarrassing as he can be, Trump is at least a person. She isn't.
How can it be that millions of Americans have become so oblivious to this that she may win?
I agree. She is an actress and not a very good one. Meryl Streep needs to do a better job at coaching Harris on those fake accents. BTW, Barack Obama employed a fake southern accent when he was exhorting black men to vote for Harris (EX: She went to school “witchoo.” That man is in no way southern and I hope no one fell for his fake “folksiness with da folx” crap.
"she is an actress"...She is so bad at public speaking that I can't believe she practices. Be honest, you just called her an actress as an insult to all the Hollylib actresses. Well done.
The demonizing of one side as the enemy is... the problem. We are all in this together and I believe we are all coming to recognize this. You can never be right by making someone else wrong. It is a simple truth.
If that were true, the polls, unsatisfactory though they are, would be showing the kind of 60/40 blowout we had in 1972 and 1984. They aren't. God, please be kind to us.
No civilized Country votes for a month, no voter ID, unsecured drop off mail boxes. These all promoted by Democrats, why? They certainly don’t have high regards for their constituents .
Perhaps Americans should vote like the Afghan voting system we established there. Paper ballots, purple fingers, that takes a few days to wear off. Afghanistan had more secure elections then we we do now.
Truth. I’m making myself sick and don’t have a voice to make the body politic hear a word . Because they don’t care. That’s the bottom line. They don’t give a shit about “ We The People”, only the Party and their masters.
The Democrats are so vicious, dishonest and hateful, though, that Trump is the only choice and the only way to regain sanity in America is a very expansive coalition admin representative of the people vs the party. Disgusted Dems turned Independent or Republican for convenience are the last hope. I’m not a partisan. Can’t stand the lockstep requisite ideological demands or loyalty pledges of either party. It has only led to extremism and gutted the pragmatic center left/center / center right. Media is dead, meritocracy is dead, free speech, the right to privacy, to be heard, to have a government “of, for and by the people” is being crushed,
Today , the biggest lie to date is being spread by the Dems and MSM, twisting Trump’s very clear commentary regarding Liz Cheney. In its full content, Trump spoke about Liz Cheney being a Warhawk. That she might feel differently about sending our youth to their deaths if she had nine barrels pointed at her face by enemy soldiers. She’d probably cut and run. -I couldn’t agree more- the Blob has spun it into “ Calling to shoot Cheney to point nine barrels at Liz Cheney and shoot her in the face! ( I wouldn’t shed a tear). Particularly when those of Cheney’s ilk provoked or created the enemy, which was done invading Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan ( thank Carter /Brezinzki for the Taliban, Bin Laden, Pol Pot-Khmer Rouge, the Ayatollah regime ) , ouster of Egypt’s secular, anti-Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas/Hezbollah Mubarak and arming ISIS in Libya, Syria, Egypt. Brezinzki/Carter/Kissinger/Wolfowitz for the insane anti-Russian zealotry that was neutralized post-Cold War by the wisdom of Moynihan, Haig and Goldwater who against every “ brilliant adviser”, pushed for non-NATO expansion beyond reunited Germany. Warning of exactly what would happen- a weakened, but nuclear Russia would feel threatened and align with Iran and eventually, China- two nations hated by Russia, but militant.
Invading Ukraine, our vassal state. The constant ostracization, scapegoating and provocation of Russia has finally brought it to fruition. One step from WWIii. Trump brought near peace to the Middle East, forged never thought possible alliances, no new wars and the Democrats, Deep State and globalists undid EVERYTHING! Deliberately.
It’s always the hawks who never set foot on a battlefield that are gung ho to send our children to die.Or the psychopaths who fought other people’s wars and loved it. Bloodlust.
I just took a look at my FB page. It was startling how many people I consider intelligent don't see that they have been kool=aided by the Harris campaign. Pro Choice people who don't see the Harris/Biden dismal record of eliminating safe spaces and sports for women. The Biden/Harris admin support for throwing Ukrainians into a war they can't win. Their deliberate open borders and encouragement of migrants with obscene government benefits while Americns scratch to keep a roof over the head and food on the table. I keep hearing friends say things like, "I don't know how anyone could vote for Trump." Oh, really. reminds me of a Jane austen novel where she skewers the insulated snobs around her. Thank you, Matt and Walt, for giving those of us who have tried to keep our eyes open, a safe space.
I am continually astonished that many of my very intelligent friends are completely bamboozled and cannot even talk about the possibility that they are totally blinded to reality. This phenomenon is very disturbing.
I would hazard a guess that they think the same of you.
The difference is that we're right, and they're not. I'm only half kidding. To take the most glaring example, anyone who defends men playing against women in sports has been duped, or hypnotized, or brainwashed, or whatever you want to call it. In 10 years they'll realize they were wrong. I hope.
Or they just hate women. Profoundly.
Don’t think so. Most are just weak minded and go the way the current wind blows. Truly disgusting that unsuccessful “men and boys” that can’t hack it against others,take this route no matter their justification .
In ten years, the gender doctors will be broke or in jail. All of them. Lawyers will finally be the team to take these monsters out.
I cherish your optimism and I so hope you’re right.
But how much suffering will occur in the interim?
Probably a lot but I think the tide is turning. The detransitioners are speaking out. The “Bg medicine” gang who endorsed this appalling and brutal “care” have been exposed by the sunlight shining on all government medical agencies——the FDA, CDC, NIH——all exposed during covid. Boston Children’s has a 6 billion dollar endowment and they did surgeries on very young children——lawyers will absolutely go after that. There’s a new firm in Texas formed by attorneys devoted to ending all gender meds and surgeries on anyone under 18. The basic science of it is that once egg and sperm meet, every cell created is either XX or XY. Every single cell in a woman is XX, every cell in a man is XY and nothing in the world can change that.
Either they’ll realize they were wrong in 10 years, or they’ll be dead and the next generation will have grown up taking that batshit business for granted and wouldn’t dream of disagreeing with it.
Democrats will let you have all the abortions you want but limit your right to safe spaces and sports , and to your tights as parents. please square this circle for me. It’s also interesting that only democrats malign anyone who votes Tepublivan as anti-America, garbage, deplorable. Has trump ever maligned dem voters?? Seems to me he has only targeted his political opponents. Says a lot about “character”
They probably get their "news" from mainstream/Establishment sources.
I find my family members who will vote for Harris have every pejorative known to man attached to Trump.
So I tell them, I will vote for a slimeball who supports free speech over a pope who will grow the Censorship Industrial Complex.
Our family no longer celebrates Thanksgiving in one location. The Dems refuse to occupy the same space as the Trump supporters. The Trump supporters will share the same space with them, but they are so feral and and consumed by irrational hatred as to be toxic. Literally. Radioactive. And they haven’t a clue what they’re talking about. They just parrot the lies. Won’t even look at articles proving it’s long been proven untrue.
I've seen a few surveys (e.g., [1] below) showing that Democrats are much less likely to seek a relationship with a Republican than vice versa.
Likewise, the recent FIRE student survey on free speech [2] shows that liberals are significantly more likely than conservatives to approve shouting down campus speakers, blocking other students from attending a campus speech, and using violence to stop a campus speech.
[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/04/24/most-democrats-who-are-looking-for-a-relationship-would-not-consider-dating-a-trump-voter/
[2] https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/college.pulse/viz/2025CollegeFreeSpeechRankingsData/2025CollegeFreeSpeechRankingsData
I would hope that universities boards finally grow a spine and expell students that use violence and intimidation to shut down other student or speakers voicing an opinion.
With no consequences they will continue and escalate.
So sorry to hear that. It is a shame that so many spend so much time disrespecting or disparaging others. American culture has lost its way in terms of political discourse. Makes me wonder - on either side of the debate -"WHY is it so important for another person to agree with us? WHY can't we just let those who think chocolate chip mint ice cream is the ONLY ice cream worth eating, just let them think that way? WHY MUST we convince her or him that they have it all wrong - it's pistachio ice cream that's the only ice cream worth eating?" 🤔
Perhaps it is because many just can't compose & express a cogent argument for their position. They'd rather disparage the other's position with a quick insult or calling them names. What's even more insane is when one expresses an opinion associated with one side of the debate, one is immediate tagged as being part of that group implying that all attributes & opinions of that group now apply to you. It's a weird form of guilt by association that has become a nasty poison in political debates, regularly rendering them moot.
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That is a great point! It does help to understand what might give rise to the vehemence of their opinions. Thanks.
I suspect it's because those who insist we must all comply with their views want an external force to make sure we do and believe they have the right to do so.
Safe spaces are only for marginalized groups. Did you not get the email?
I, for one, do not NEED a safe space.
Little girls, just reaching that awkward stage need a safe space in their locker rooms for example
The globalist corporate deep -state Dem media is every Aldous Huxley warned of until the day he died. The psychological warfare of propaganda by a barrage of synchronized, untrue talking points. It’s quite effective.
I do think the overturning of Roe was a disastrous decision. The Dobbs case wasn’t even lawful because “ Dobbs” wasn’t yet in office, nor was he aware of any case. How Mississippi enacting a 15 week parameter became an overturn of what had been in place near 50 years became the sole focus of the GOP is anathema. The world is burning, the midterms were around the corner and they were poised to gain a majority. And lost, but refuse to admit Roe was the reason. What did they achieve? There has been an exponential rise in the number of abortions performed, likely fear and resentment driven. After the Republicans put up a front to stop the forced vaccines-based upon bodily sovereignty, religious freedom, the right to privacy, doctor / patient privilege and using “ Whatever happened to My Body, My Choice”, they did exactly what they railed against. I’m so goddamned sick of the Dem Hate and Death Cult, I have no problem with them aborting themselves to extinction. It would be a self fulfilling prophecy- Depopulation, less fossil fuel use, lower methane and carbon output, less coal produced electricity, and a large reduction of worthless eaters. A win/win.
The appropriate cutoff date for abortion has yet to be determined. Should it be heartbeat? Ability to feel pain? A lot has been learned about these since Roe vs Wade. And these should be part of the discussion now. Abortion on demand at ant point in pregnancy except in health emergencies seems to me to be unethical in light of what we know. Harris, whose campaign rests so heavily on abortion on demand fails to honor women’s right to safe spaces and sports at the same time. How so many women don’t see the hypocrisy is stunning. Btw, immediately following the reversal of Roe there was a 17% increase in vasectomies. A wake-up call for women and men about the fact that while abortion may be a right,It, like all rights, comes with responsibilities, e.,g, free speech , bearing arms. 50% of abortions are the result of unprotected sex, according to Gutmachet Institute. So, a much wider discussion than the purely political needs to happen. Thank you for responding. I really appreciated it.
I forgot to add that Harris voted against a bill that would have required doctors to provide medical care for babies who survived botched abortions. No comment. There are no words.
The circus that has become the abortion issue pains me. As a woman who came of age when RvW was passed and had 3 children, 2 born very prematurely, I am offended and disappointed in how the unborn are now treated as unwanted moles. While I believe the government should NOT be involved in a woman’s most perilous situation if they have to decide whether to have a child, it seems like the far left has turned pregnancies into flushable and forgettable events.
Why practice prenatal healthcare if these are not human beings from the beginning who deserve a healthy development while in the womb?
The lack of acknowledgment of embryological and fetal development is stunning and is always left out of this conversation by the left.
Personally, I’m delighted that men are getting more vasectomies. As I have said before advances in male medical contraception are sorely needed. Contraception must be a shared responsibility to help get women out of potentially dreadful situations.
Thank you for such a thoughtful and sincere reflection
Maybe 18 weeks. Prior to pain sensitivity.It defies anything conscionable to have an elective abortion post 18 weeks “ just because”.
So many women are devastated by a miscarriage. They mourn and suffer the loss. Which is biologically an ingrained reaction. Even women who never imagined themselves to have maternal instincts are transformed. Nature takes over. It’s automatic. Something is very wrong with our society.
A biologist gave a speech approximately 6 years ago at a forum, positing humanity had peaked 15 years prior and we’d begin heading downscale within two years. I think he was right. And one empirical theory that’s long been proven- it takes far longer to climb uphill than it does to go downhill. Seems we’re now snowballing to the nadir.
Just for perspective around the “18 weeks” statement…neonatal medicine has advanced to a point where babies as young as 22 weeks are able to survive outside the womb.
Someone remind me…when is it OK to kill a baby?
And yet Harris voted with Dems against the bill to require doctors to provide medical care for babies who survived botched abortiins. There are no words.
"...A wake-up call for women and men about the fact that while abortion may be a right,It, like all rights, comes with responsibilities, e.,g, free speech , bearing arms."
I've heard of "shotgun weddings," but this is the first I've heard of "shotgun abortions." Imbued with the Constitutional right, indeed the responsibility, to scream during the procedure. Both the 1st and 2nd amendments demand it.
I've just have to say I'm sick and tired of the "my body, my choice" rhetoric. The purveyors of this cute little mantra always, somehow dismiss the fact that an abortion isn't about "your body". It IS about the unborn human that growing inside "your body" and whether or not we should allow it to be murdered because it's an inconvenience. Sure, you can bring up all sorts of reasons why it an undue hardship on the woman carrying the child, but let's be honest, 90%+ pregnancies that are terminated are simply an attempt to correct previous bad choices. The irony, of Democrats railing against the death penalty for criminals while supporting murdering the unborn, is lost on their befuddled minds.
"my body, my choice" was essentially my answer to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
I predicted that the mandate would bring about the fall of Roe, and yet...it did. I know they aren't explicitly tied, but the impact of the primary rhetoric in support of Roe basically died overnight.
You sound like a bitter old ingrown medieval incel.
You seem to be fond of petty, ad hominem remarks.
badnabor's main point is perfectly legitimate: that abortion involves two competing rights - those of the pregnant woman and those of the developing child, and that pro-choice advocates these days tend to entirely ignore the latter. The Supreme Court majority in Roe v. Wade [1] explicitly recognized this point:
"With respect to the State's important and legitimate interest in potential life, the 'compelling' point is at viability. This is so because the fetus then presumably has the capability of meaningful life outside the mother's womb."
In 1992, the justices in Planned Parenthood v. Casey [2] reaffirmed "the principle that the State has legitimate interests from the outset of the pregnancy in protecting the health of the woman and the life of the fetus that may become a child."
[1] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/505/833/case.pdf
[2] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/505/833/case.pdf
Exactly!!!!
Ain't you the dude with the substack that threatens doomsday if the whole world don't get to more and better fuckin' and birthin' babies?
Not me
Roe never had federal standing. It was not overturned per se. SCOTUS did not rule if it was OK or not. It was sent back to states choice because it's a states iissue. There are 11 ( ladtvitcwas counted this dumner) states you can kill a full term baby by calling it an abortion. SO if you want to kill a baby just go to that state. It's not shut down. 65% population. Support pro choice through viability. I'm part of that number.
Never! I wonder if the woman had an ultrasound at 16 weeks and saw the baby swimming around, its skeletal system fully formed and moving reflexively… I did and at that moment , became pro-life.
The six weeks deadline is too soon, though. I learned of my pregnancy at nine months during a routine gym visit. I took birth control pills, never skipping a day, often missing a cycle or having just a spot. There were no tells. No morning sickness, hadn’t gained an ounce. Nothing. My husband and I were married 6 months, just starting out, made only enough money to scrape by, we both worked full time. I was 21, he was 24. It was such a shock. But we would make do. My mom and grandmother lived nearby and adored babies. At 16 weeks I was scheduled for and ultrasound and everything was perfect. And then things changed. At 5:00 on Friday, the diagnostic center called. It was the receptionist at the front desk. Without any ni niceties or warning, she blurted out,” Ma’am, your baby has a neural tube defect. WTF was that? “ it ( love the it part) has Spina Bifida” . Before I could even process what she’d told me, she said, “ I’ve scheduled an appointment first thing Monday morning for termination”. I was ready to faint. Said what are you talking about? She was so irritated. The spine is fused. If you don’t miscarry, you’ll have a baby who will be incontinent, in a wheelchair unable to walk, feed itself and yours and your husband’s life will be ruined. You’ll be divorced in a few months. I was sobbing , my knees buckled and I was so devasted. “ I don’t want to have an abortion on Monday. I can’t process this. I need to talk to my husband and mother . “. That was it for her. Tells me that I’m being very selfish. Can’t make this up. I saw the baby the spine looked forged. She said, “ Look, I need to go home. I hung up on her. My mom came over, my husband came home, we were all in tears. I didn’t eat or sleep by Sunday, I decided to take my chances. They would support whatever I decided. I called the on-gyn and she scheduled a second ultrasound at a different facility. This time the actual radiologist performed the ultrasound and said he didn’t see any abnormalities and would review the images in the afternoon. He called and said everything looked good, but I was eighteen, not sixteen weeks along. Which means the pregnancy had been diagnosed at 11, not 9 weeks. The other idiot had read the wrong images. If I’d terminated the pregnancy that morning, I wouldn’t have my beautiful wonderful 35 year old daughter. And more disturbing, I’d have ended the life of a healthy 18 week baby. I’d have to live with that.
However, what about a woman/girl who had the same situation. Didn’t know- which is more common than one would think? What if she had no money, no support, was abused or abandoned and had no options? Six weeks is wrong. It’s very unfair to force that on another. Pregnancy is very costly. If she had a miserable pregnancy as I did with my second, who has the right other than she does to determine her own fate? Sorry, but it isn’t Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott or a politician acting on his own religious ideology. When these bans began to be put in place, Pat Robertson, the devout Evangelical Pastor, blasted these over the top restrictions calling them cruel, overreaching and sadistic. And he was very, very pro-life, but he was compassionate. He also deemed it government overreach.
The woman at the diagnostic center was remarkably cold-hearted and cruel, not to mention that they were medically incompetent.
Thanks, Barbara. I have to admit that I’m confused and don’t understand that Roe never had federal standing. Can you help me with that? I’d love to wallop “pro-choice” (I hate that term - I always want to say, “You already made a choice and now you want a do-over?”) friends with that nugget, but I’d need more detail.
Yes! And Abortion should never be a national issue ever again. Robert Yates, the wise founder no one talks about predicted the divide in 1787 in Brutus I-X of the “Anti-Federalist” papers. In fact he predicted the deep state, forever wars and the national divide on all the issues because we are too big and diverse. We can’t even agree that the 14th Amendment protects the pregnant woman’s as well as the living unborn. But, Americans are too ignorant to bother learning history - and you know what happens then - the dumb ideas will be repeated.
https://open.substack.com/pub/lizlasorte/p/name-that-anti-federalist?r=76q58&utm_medium=ios
The authorship of the anti-federalist essays written under the pseudonym "Brutus" at the time of the Constitutional Convention has never been "definitively established." Generally attributed to Robert Yates, as you contend here, recent scholarship points instead to Melancton Smith, a close associate of Yates' and a prominent anti-federalist who was also part of the New York delegation to the Constitutional Convention.
It's possible that the two of them collaborated closely in some manner. Either way, authorship has not been definitively established by the historical record.
Say what you wish about the anti-federalists, but apparently they took great pains to conceal their identity and abjured any personal renown for their efforts---unlike the preening glory-hounds Hamilton and Madison.
One last thought. As a presumed and self-identified Yates scholar, help me out here. Yates was a professional surveyor and one of the primary authors of the Northwest Ordinance. In laying out the rectangular grids in the Western Reserve, later to become the various States which comprise today's midwest, aka the "cornbelt," might Yates have in all his founding father prescience, foresight and wisdom, viewed all that potential corn acreage and anticipated the rise of high fructose corn syrup and great streams of Fords and Chevrolets powered by ethanol?
Something to ponder as we approach Election Day.
I know. The Dems had many opportunities to codify it and didn’t. I don’t know whether anybody believed it would be overturned or whether the Dems hoped it would, knowing what the reaction would be. Like anything else, people want something all the more when it’s taken away. Like narcotics. If it’s illegal, people want it all the more. Human nature. Or inhuman, depending on the level of insanity.
I don't know what your first statement is supposed to mean. The Supreme Court ruled that "Roe has standing to sue; the Does and Hallford [other plaintiffs] do not.", so if you're making a legal claim about Roe's standing, you're simply wrong. If you're saying that you don't agree with the court's decision on Roe's standing, that's fine, but it's just your personal opinion.
Your second statement is also incorrect - Roe v. Wade was overruled by the 2022 Dobbs decision [2]. The Supreme Court held that "The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives."
[1] https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep410/usrep410113/usrep410113.pdf
[2] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf
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Roe was 50 year old precedent whether you liked it or not. I thought it was dubious but you don't get to ignore stare decisis based on your ideology. That's why the court is viewed as illegitimate now
The court did not "ignore" stare decisis in the Dobbs decision. They argued in detail why the errors in the Roe decision (as they saw them) warranted overruling Roe despite the stare decisis doctrine, which as they pointed out, "is not an inexorable command". You may disagree with their reasoning, but it's inaccurate to say that they simply ignored stare decisis. They also pointed out that "Some of the Court’s most important constitutional decisions have overruled prior precedents."
Several Supreme Court decisions celebrated by liberals (and others) overruled previous decisions, but those courts are not condemned for "ignoring stare decisis". Here's a sampling:
Brown v. Board of Education (1954): banned racial segregation in public schools; overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896; "separate but equal") in part, Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education (1899), and Berea College v. Kentucky (1908).
Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969): strengthened free speech rights; overturned Schenck v. United States (1919; upheld laws criminalizing speech against the military draft).
Lawrence v. Texas (2003): ruled that U.S. state laws criminalizing sodomy between consenting adults are unconstitutional; overturned Bowers v. Hardwick (1986).
Obergefell v. Hodges (2015): ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples; overturned Baker v. Nelson (1971).
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That’s flat out infanticide. Any doctor who would perform such a brutality and any woman who would opt for something so soulless deserves prison.they should have been aborted.
Regarding your claim that "There are 11 ... states you can kill a full term baby": Wikipedia [1], for what it's worth, lists six states plus Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. as allowing abortions at any stage of pregnancy. The six states are Colorado, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, and Vermont.
For Tim Walz's Minnesota, also see [2].
Walz also signed Minnesota bill SF 2995, which repealed a statute which recognized that: "A potentially viable fetus which is live born following an attempted abortion shall be fully recognized as a human person under the law." and which declared "If an abortion of a potentially viable fetus results in a live birth, the responsible medical personnel shall take all reasonable measures, in keeping with good medical practice, to preserve the life and health of the live born person."
That bill also repealed a statute that said that under Minnesota law, "the words 'person,' 'human being,' 'child,' and 'individual' shall include every infant member of the species Homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development."
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_law_in_the_United_States_by_state
[2] https://www.findlaw.com/state/minnesota-law/minnesota-abortion-laws.html
Wikipedia is a disinformation site. New York passed this and maybe was the first state to do so. They all cheered. Kill a full term baby ,yippee!! Sick fucks.
Some Wikipedia articles have accurate information, and in this case the facts can be confirmed by checking individual states' laws. For New York, abortion is legal "up to and including 24 weeks of pregnancy. After 24 weeks, you can still get an abortion if your health or pregnancy is at risk." [1]
I noticed, though, that New York State's Reproductive Health Act [2], passed in January 2019, repealed New York Public Health Law Section 4164 among other things, which required life-saving measures for babies born live in failed abortion attempts. That bill also repealed the authority of coroners and medical examiners to investigate a death caused by suspected criminal abortion. Needless to say, these things are not even discussed by mainstream media.
[1] https://www.ny.gov/programs/abortion-new-york-state-know-your-rights
[2] https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/S240
The fund-raising industrial complex is the only thing that will change. This has been a gold-mine for them. Those who choose abortion will get the pill even if their state bans the procedure and those who choose to have the baby will.
Sorry to be so long winded Gail.
My wife experienced a miscarriage . It was decades back. So, though I was never allowed to attended a birth, I was allowed to watch my little son removed from my wife's womb in pieces. I suppose I shouldn't feel sorrow because he wasn't really a human being. Of course women deserve, as acknowledged by every modern Western society, the right to reasonable choice. But reasonable choice and human moral reason has been seized by criminals.
The hard question of abortion in America being used as yet another tool to bludgeon the American psyche while holding progress and the national conversation in thrall is despicable. Like incarceration, abortion is an industry. As will, soon be, the euthanasia center. Birth to death, life, controlled and monitored by the ideological utopians (another industry) who serve the sterile and malignant narcissism of international billionaire criminal financiers. The life of the unborn defined by the numbered account and the need for throw away labor. As Tina Turner asked: "Whats love got to do with it" Consider the possibility that AI, genetics and the butchery of today's youth are experimentation and the beginnings of the master race creation of a new human robotics that will solve the problem of freedom and the unruly citizen. Doubt they would do it? Spend some time with the walking wounded downtown.
The perps represent (and they are criminals) the same amoral mob that killed Christ. The same A-Bomb rattling psychopathy that burned the 20th century to the ground. Let me pre-bunk, and offer as proof my necessity to do so, my following statement: I don't care who sleeps with who.
The politicization of the womb by eugenicists like Margaret Sanger and lesbian Marxist feminism laid the groundwork for today's ascending totalitarianism. The perps made fortunes from Federal, state, corporate grants and donations. They created the template: Form a committee. Create a problem or seize control and discussion of a legitimate social concern. Claim virtuosity. Demand payment. For those who don't go along? Complaint by anonymous victim. Calls for firing and dismissal. Life and career destruction. Trial by press, rumor, innuendo and character assassination. It is the working model for all the worlds ever morphing NGO's. Example: The Harris/Mayorkas driven NGO's swallowing billions in tax payer dollars in today's illegals trade. And where does all that money (American life and labor) go?
Why this rant? Because the grift I've described above is the reason comment sections across SUBSTACK are filled with refugees from the psyop seeking to reduce America to an open air prison. An anti-human LIE that simply talks over the top of the human moral reason our founding fathers struggled to enshrine in our Constitution. It believes in nothing. BE HUMAN!! DEPART THE PSYOP AND LIVE!!
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I bet it would be interesting to see how a girl did at a bar picking up guys if she got just a little more specific and wore a shirt saying “My uterus, my choice”…
She’d score big with a t-shirt saying “ My penis, your choice”
Especially at women’s swim meets…
And the department of nuclear waste disposal , Miliary Health Department and topless in the Rose Garden.
I'm thinking it would be even more interesting if both you and I were sitting next to her at the bar, surreptitiously monitoring her efforts and providing commentary.
You: (interjecting at key moments during pick-up time):
"...Precisely because the choice is personal, it would be presumptuous of me to pass some cosmic analytical judgment on the question of childlessness. I can only fall back on my own experience. Indulge me...as I reflect on a life that may bear little resemblance to yours..."
Me: Uh-oh.
Good one!
Sounds like a Trump Truth Social tweet. He may be looking for a few ghostwriters soon. Get your portfolio in order.
Nah. I’ve never posted to Truth Social. Not my thing. Substack is far more interesting and diverse in thought. I’m neither right nor left, I’m Huxleyan.
If you want to watch something startlingly uncanny, Google Aldous Huxley/ Mike Wallace 1958 interview. Promise you won’t be bored.
Way back in the day, “ Brave New World” was required reading in the high school curriculum. Two weeks were devoted to discussing the text, what we came away with, etc. Because I was stoned more often than not, it fit right into whatever one might call my “ state of mind”( or lack thereof). It was quite intriguing, but fantastical. Predating tech and psychotropic meds. Nobody had heard of ADD, ADHD, clinical depression, etc. No smart phones, pcs, if you can imagine.Then I read Anthem, Eyeless in Gaza, After Many A Summer Dies A Swan-all nifty. In the early eighties( 2 years later), I developed a fixation with Jim Morrison and The Doors. Even more so because the band was named for “ The Doors of Perception”. But of course, the books were the product of an eccentric literary genius, but “ futuristic” fiction. Nothing more. It wasn’t until about five years ago that parallels started to crop up, but it wasn’t until I stumbled upon the interview that I became , uh, spooked.
If you watch, let me know what you think. It freaked my husband out and were nothing alike. He’s very mainstream.
As per Trump, I know him quite well, albeit he wasn’t quite so , uh, unfiltered. I’m an interior designer and Derek Jeter was my client when he purchased The 90th floor penthouse in the then brand new NYC Trump World Tower. A two year project. Trump was a regular and he was really great. Especially when the hellscape of 9/11 hit. You wouldn’t know by his “ showmanship”, but he was always of the anti- intervention, trade rip off, America First mindset.
Two things:
"Trump World Tower has 376 units. Designed by the architect Costas Kondylis, the building is 861 feet (262 m) high and has 72 constructed floors (but lists 90 stories on elevator panels)..."
I'm not going to tell Jeter and I don't think you should either. But I might crudely allude to the subterfuge next time I have lunch with Don.
And: are you aware that Aldous Huxley's official date of death is listed as Nov 22nd, 1963? Now, are we really supposed to swallow that Aldous Huxley died on the same day Kennedy was assassinated? And that he passed from one realm to another in Los Angeles County? Get the fuck outta here with that one.
Huxley went underground and lived for another 10 years...and...he's...also the author of the entire Doors' songbook. The entire ouvre. LA Woman was a paean to Marilyn Monroe. A jealous valentine. He was madly in love with her at the time of her death and, well, Monroe's death pretty much drove him over the edge, or at least to Venice Beach, so he faked his death and became a rock lyricist.
I'm serious. I have family in L.A., well, Pasadena, but close enough.
"Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light?" Huxley would sing to himself at night while laying, drunk and prone, on the beach, pining for Marilyn..."or just another lost angel?" (Sure!) the Doors formed when Morrison and Manzarek bumped into each other on Venice Beach in 1965, but the real formation occurred, just off the beach, at the Gas House, in 1964 where Huxley was tending bar, laying low, and where Morrison and Manzarek hung out, Manzarek nursing a double espresso throughout the evenings while Morrison consumed an unending volley of Huxley's famously stiff Mai Tai's (which Huxley referred to as his "roadhouse blues.")
You can pretty much fill in the blanks from here.
The penthouse qualifies as 3 floors. The ceilings are soaring. There are only two residences. One belongs to Trump, and at the time, the other was Derek’s. Post 9/11, I developed a phobia of getting too near the windows. The entire crib consisted of 18’ floor to soffit panoramic glass, one of the areas had a parallel vista of the World Trade Towers. What was formerly so spectacular became a view of the entry to hell. And the imploding towers were something beyond imaginable. Even from where I stood, I could hear the screams from the crowds running in the street.
But Ilhan Omar shrugs. You know. “ Some people did something”. I cannot believe that beast occupies a congressional seat. I can’t believe what we’ve been experiencing in America. The UN really is the portal to hell. The East River should be renamed Styx and a stone pediment above the UN entrance engrave with “ Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter”. Or perhaps the Capitol.
I’m just another lost angel , but also a wild child, though not full of grace or savior of the human race. Though at the rate we’re going, the human race is dying out on this ship of fools.
I’d have loved to have met Huxley, Jimbo and Manzarek. Ditto Marshall McLuhan.
Morrison was outrageous. Iconoclastic would be an understatement. I watched an interview where Manzarek was telling such funny stories about how impossible Morrison was. They were to perform at Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami ( I live just blocks away) and of course, Jim was late. Manzarek found him smoking a blunt the size of a Cuban cigar in the bathtub. The band was furious and gave him ten minutes to get dressed. He finally appeared wearing an enormous pair of underwear rolled over the top of his leather pants. Manzarek had a really bad feeling about it. And Morrison got onstage, told the audience, I’m gonna show you something you’ve never seen before” . The rest is history. He dropped his pants, was dragged off the stage by the elbows - it took two cops- was arrested for indecent exposure and taken to jail. Manzarek and Kreiger were furious. Ready to fold the whole band .
Right, well you make the same mistake everyone else does -- you assume "intelligence" means having the same opinion as you, I guess, because you must believe you are at least somewhat intelligent. Enough to have the different opinion that makes you as such.
The reality is that this has nothing to do with intelligence. It has everything to do with honesty. It's easier to talk about yourself in terms of intelligence rather than honesty, because most people are at least a little, if not fairly, dishonest.
So we keep uttering a self-hypnotic lie that this is about intelligence or strategy or something like that, but that's actually not true at all. At this point, it's all about which lie or set of lies has the most clout amongst the in-group, in order to validate whatever image makes you feel the best about yourself. That is what you are voting for.
No, I don’t judge a person’s intelligence by opinion. We human. We’re allowed to have opinions. We can agree to disagree. But there’s a difference between basing one’s opinion on convoluted information. When somebody says they hate Trump because he’s a Russian agent, rapist, antisemite, homophobe and called White Supremacists “ good people”, they’ve formed their opinion on untruths. If they can’t stand his personality and the policies he’s put forth, that’s their prerogative. It doesn’t make them ignorant.
The media really has become the enemy of the people. When we’re being fed propaganda and lies as a constant mantra, it is psychological abuse. So many are conditioned to believe everything they see and hear that they’ve ceded their God- given curiosity. It’s by design and it works. It creates a collective pack mentality and nothing good comes of it. Throughout history this has been used. It led to the Third Reich, Soviet Union, pol Pot, Political Islam , Idi Amin, Rwanda and prior to these horrors, the Inquisition and Witch Trials. Cult leaders use the same technique. But nothing compares to global media and the internet.. where before the reach was limited, it is now ubiquitous.
First reaction: Bro/, get some new friends.
But upon reflection, me thinks, wait em out. Those worth knowing will get there. Not saying they will become Maga-Heads, but they might wake up to the dem party’s devolvement.
The Dem Party is no longer liberal nor Democratic. It is unrecognizable. They become so hateful, rigid and authoritarian that they’d shut down Woodstock.
They’ve ruined everything that once brought people together. Comedy, music, art, movies, sports,weddings, holiday gatherings, food… even game shows. Jeopardy is now a fucking DEI contest.
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The reason anti-trans arguments don’t sway us pro-choice advocates is because gender-affirming medicine is completely irrelevant to reproductive rights. Also, the logic behind banning gender-affirming care is exactly the same as the logic behind banning abortion: the state can decide what kind of care a doctor can provide a patient. There’s also the fact that the most anti-trans people are also viciously antifeminist. Biological essentialism — the idea that everything about one’s behavior is determined by having an XX or XY chromosome — justifies keeping women out of the professions and demanding we be locked in the kitchen and in the nursery as nothing but breeders. After all, women are doomed by biology to be weak and dimwitted placental mammals whose brains are a waste of space. Men were born to be important and women to be cattle. (TERF’s are just Phyllis Schlaflys who haven’t quite mastered her exceptional hypocrisy yet. Mary Harrington is already there, though, and arguing that women should leave men alone in the halls of power while she makes a fortune speaking to the men in the halls of power.)
Right wingers hate women. It’s fundamental to their worldview that there must be a biologically-determined class of people who are just born to do nothing but shit work, and that class is women. Racism is secondary to this, and they will ally with men of color just so that those men have their own punching bags available. You, and Matt Taibbi, and Donald Trump just want to preserve your right to your punching bags. if you’re a woman, you are really exceptionally stupid to believe these men.
.....someone was absent or if present, didn't love you enough as you were growing up.
This is an uncannily accurate facsimile of generic early-70s radical feminist cant. It was a hugely popular way of talking/posturing back then. But by the 1980s even stand-up comedians (I know: "that's not funny!") were no longer doing parodies of it.
Software exists that uses recursive grammars to produce automated random text nearly indistinguishable from the above, at least in style. Try the "Postmodernism Generator" at https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/ for some harmless fun along these lines.
Does anyone know of a site that hosts something similar for generating blocks of arbitrary feminist-theoretical discourse salad?
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So, you agree with me. You are a conservative and you think women are worthless inferior shit.
That’s what you think of yourself apparently.
You do know that pushing people to go to drugs and surgery when they are going through some struggle during puberty completely destroys their choice to be or not be parents at some point in the future. How does that square with your pro-choice stance?
The rest of your rant is just sad to equate being pro-life the equivalent to woman confined to some 30's vision of women.
That’s a medical issue that sbould be addressesd by a malpracticd suit if the doctor didn’t follow thr standard of care. It shouldn’t be a crime. Also, why do you think women are only good for breeding? Do we have any reason to exist beyond being 3D printers for new males?
Worse are the parents having their kids hacked up, not because the children have a clue, but as a status statement for the “ way chic “ parents. The mothers, really. They should be hacked to pieces. I have trans friends who really struggled. Their wiring and bodies are mismatched. But they represent a scintilla of the population and were adults who made their decisions after years of postulating. They’re happy, well adjusted and not proud. Just happy. And they are sickened by this violation. They’re being used as pawns. Not what they wanted. They just want to be.
My late husband was an MP. in a combat zone. Those soldiers were not thinking much about elections back home. From what I learned post deployment there wasn't much thought that any politician cared about anything but their own bank accounts. My husband listened to Imus every day and always called to me to come listen when MT was on.
My condolences. My brother was MP in Iraq. Said the same thing basically. His job was to just get home. It wasn’t politics.
Yep. When I came back from Vietnam, I made a decision to never vote again, as the only protest I thought I could make. Didn’t start voting again till the late nineties. Seriously thinking about stopping again.
Husband there during Tet. Welcome home.
Thanks 1966-67. I’m old as dirt
Me three. I found that our most intense (and usually only) allegiances during this period were to our crew-members, the guys that all depended upon one another for their very lives. The most intense friendships too. Yes we took the oath, but we really were trying to stay alive, more than anything.
Welcome Home.
Yikes. My older brother too.
Tell him Racket News readers Welcome Him home. Matt Taibbi and Daniel Ellsberg doing the same work.
hang in there for at least one more
Thank you and your family for your service
I’ll bet he liked rush limbaugh too
no, not at all. Imus was the only talk radio we had on.
Imus was great, along with Bernard, Bo, and all the amazing music.
Miss him so much. He would have had so much fun skewering "Plugs" these past few years.
Poor Matt. Write up an article denouncing the latest stupid hoax, and by the time it's ready for publication there have already been two more stupid hoaxes.
It’s too bad that few people are being enlightened about what the comedian was actually referencing: the garbage problem affecting the people of Puerto Rico. Much like Staten Island, back in the day, was always associated with garbage, as the destination for the bulk of NYC trash, leading to the curious pink-purple-orange haze that hung over it at twilight, (maybe still does, been a NYC refugee for a decade now so…), as well as the elevated respiratory and health risks the Islanders swore was associated with it, PR has a similar problem that outsiders are oblivious to and could stand to gain some empathy for the garbage afflicted. It’s also why this attack fails to land because actual Puerto Ricans get the joke.
I knew about the landfill problem, because it was featured around the time they were slammed with the two hurricanes. But Tony had to realize that wouldn't be widespread knowledge. Joe Rogan mentioned Tony is into the environment and a bit obsessed with the garbage patch. Joe had heard him tell it before.
But whoever thought a week before the election it would be useful to have a comedian famous for his roasts and insult style be given free reign to insult key voting demographics has a most interesting strategy.
It’s one thing for a simple ass comedian to say such things.
And then there is our pathetically diminished President of the United States…..
Does anyone know if he’s still going to work or is he only alert when Jill or Netanyahu tell him to come to attention?
Watch him vote for Kamala.... LOL
I didn’t think The Impaired were allowed to vote. Then again, we have a special needs DEI hire running for president with most of the media covering for her.
I find it troubling that the plight of the Puerto Ricans is lost in all of this uproar. I wasn't aware of the fact that all the PR landfills are full until I did a search. They are facing a rather desperate situation. You would think that one reporter or talking head would want to bring that to light rather than just clutching their pearls. But it seems politics and journalism are stuck on stupid!
Oh dang it was a literal garbage joke not a population joke! Thanks
Right? I mean, Puerto Ricans are American citizens, for crying out loud! Puerto Rico is an American territory, as this is how we treat it??? THAT would be a great closing point for the election - Trump ought to make Puerto Rico great again (whatever) and point out how DC ignores their plight.
But.. but.. JLo and AOC were totally offended. You know.. JLo? The one very prominent person in the Diddy situation....
Isn’t she the one who, uh, “slept with” Alex Rodriguez and Daredevil Affleck? She would have had the trifecta if she could have boned Jeffrey Epstein… 🤣
Interesting. When Karen writes about women being "discounted, substandard excrement," this might be what she was referring to. But yes, it's "funny."
Exactly. Anybody who lives within 100 miles of NYC is fully aware of how much garbage is shipped out of that city. Hell, I didn't pay property taxes for 10 years because there was a landfill in my Township that was fully filled by trash coming from NYC. Now, imagine being on an island with nowhere to send it....
I used to drive by Mount Trashmore, the unofficial name for a large garbage dump half way out on Long Island.
Wow, Dorothy, I follow the latest media manipulations pretty closely (I'm a details freak for msm propaganda), but I missed the context you share. Thanks for filling us in (no pun intended.)
Thank you for this info.
Lol
There have been so many stupid hoaxes by the Party of Government we need a single word for the phenomenon. I will buy a year's gift subscription for the top two suggestions; readers of Screaming into the Void judge.
I think it's called news purporting.
Check the spelling again.
11/01/24: Three more. And a magnificent column. How did he know that I don't give a f*ck?
Why 'poor?' At least it's steady employment.
Very well put, Matt. I watched my Dad drive himself to an early grave by obsessing too much over politics.
I follow politics, but it is not my whole life; I do take breaks from it to keep my sanity.
Whoever wins, I feel time for a break is coming.
Sanity!!! Good job.
11/01/24: Well, at least Dad's still voting! (!)
Tribalism--are you blue or red? Brat or MAGA?
I just want someone who doesn't support genocide. Who isn't a slave to the monied interests. Who actually cares about working people and issues like decent wages, better health care, and real peace, as in a lot less war and killing everywhere.
But the red and blue tribes don't offer much of a choice here. All they've got is GIGO: garbage in, garbage out.
As Trump might say: Sad.
Well said. And what really gets me is when some smug cocktail party pundit tries to sound smart and says something like, "We get the politicians we deserve." No we don't, and what a conveniently lame excuse to blame it on voters, when so much of the system that has created this mess is totally beyond the means of the average person to have any say-so over.
So very true. When was the last time a grass-roots candidate was on a primary ballot, either R or D. Answer, never. Heck, even the L masters vet their candidates. We're always left with hmm or haw. One exception, DJT threw a wrench in his first time.
Particularly true if one lives in a mono-party state such as WA.
Actually, WA east of the Cascades runs conservative/republican. It's just that they are outnumbered by the coasties.
CA is largely blue in its urban areas but red elsewhere. It is definitely a mono-party state.
Liberal coastal bobble heads love crime, homelessness and crappy schools.
but not in THEIR backyards!
They don't mind a certain level of crime, as it adds to the frisson they feel is part of city life. It is only when it gets above that certain level do they feel threatened by it.
Lemmings always go the cliffs.
Why would good people go into politics when your life and that of your family could be ripped apart and you could run up a hundred thousand in attorney fees to defend yourself because some loon you've never met crawls out from under some rock with an outrageous claim from decades ago that you have no way to defend yourself against? They claim that they were traumatized because you supposedly showed them your pee-pee when you were five or pulled their hair back in middle school or some other such rot. And where do you go to get your reputation back after that? What successful person needs or wants that aggravation? So, what do we get as a result? The lowest common denominator. Power-hungry frauds, narcissists, and sociopaths.
Yes but MY "Power-hungry frauds, narcissists, and sociopaths." are the good ones. /s
I see this a lot.
"The people" are not responsible for the quality of politicians or the inanities of the way the system of government works.
Individuals are not responsible for their addiction to opiates, especially those that began with prescriptions.
Americans are not responsible for the wars, and now a genocide, that their tax dollars fund.
It's almost as if a certain strain of American liberalism operates in the manner of a criminal defense attorney, turning every bad act into a passive verb with no actual perpetrator.
Breathe Michael. Just breathe.
Get off the meds, indo.
11/01/24: I haven't been to a cocktail party since Gerald Ford was on roller skates. Have I missed anything?
Only the cocktails. The rest is forgettable.
It's a cheap throwaway insult due to limited vocab.
Especially true when there is no primary!
They make the excuse that they “are just following the rules,” conveniently ignoring the fact that they themselves made the rules.
I suspect that since the only time "the average person" demonstrates any interest in either "the system" or "the mess" is once every 2 or 4 years and consists of walking down the street and marking a piece of paper of punching a button on a machine a rational person might conclude that you do indeed "get the politicians you deserve".
Said rational person might not even be at a cocktail party but at a meeting of loons who are trying to come up with a strategy for changing "the system" in order to clean up "the mess".
We really need a new political party for those of us who support common sense positions like those you describe here.
A good start would be repealing Citizens United and taking the big money out of elections. Let there be 5-10 candidates on the ballot that cover everyone’s perspective, maybe more regular people will run for office and not only career politicians who hope to profit by being elected and working for partisan think tanks when they are done. The Doupoly IS the problem
All Citizens United did was remove restrictions on campaign spending by corporations and unions. Even before this decision, companies and unions were already pouring millions into lobbying—and they still do. Neither political party wants to cut off the flow of lobbyist cash. In fact, most politicians who don’t stay in office for life hope to secure lobbyist jobs once their terms end.
Big Pharma continues to funnel money to the FDA and rewards cooperative FDA employees with lucrative positions after they retire. Additionally, they are among the largest advertisers on television, including on news programs, which discourages networks from investigating or criticizing them. And since Citizens United only applies to corporations and unions, overturning it wouldn’t stop billionaires like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, or George Soros from spending freely to influence elections.
The real impact of Citizens United was negligible. The flood of cash from wealthy, well-connected interests to their government allies was huge before Citizens United, and it remains huge today. The decision just handed politicians an easy excuse for wearing “For Sale” signs—they now claim they’re forced to take money as if it’s an unavoidable requirement to stay competitive.
Until we remove the concentration of power in Washington and return it to the states and the people, as the Constitution intended, we’ll never get big money out of elections.
Agreed. The ideology of the mainstream media and its Uniparty for 70 years has been the centralization of power in Washington DC. Rejecting the mainstream media will be required for change. Trump is a canary in that coal mine.
is there any serious movement to get the big money out of elections?
None that I'm aware of. With maybe a few exceptions, nobody in government wants to change the system. It's been good to them. It's brought them wealth, power and prestige.
yes, we have to actually remove power as that is the source of the corruption. Obama never got quid pro quo money from Netflix for pushing their pet project of Net Neutrality... but what they did was teh same only legal. Obama got the legal maxes of cash from their board members for elections... then as soon as he left office they announced Netflix was paying $ 30 million for "up to 4" documentaries from the Obama's... that right there gets arouond all possible campaign finance laws.
You will never be able to ban people paying politicians for speeches or book/movie deals after retirements... but that is one of the easiest ways that these turds use to get around the optics/legality of just taking money for voting how they want.
choke off the power in DC, and then it won't be worth it to spend tens of billions of dollars to bribe these vampires.
Nicely said.
One sides voice would become even more prominent, as the MSM is owned and operated by the Democrat Party. Were that not the case, I would agree.
At some point, people need to be responsible to support who they believe is the best candidate. Perhaps if we remove the big dollar motivations of these candidates, we see improvement? Garbage in, Garbage Out. As Matt implies, they are the garbage and we are putting them there to speak for us.
Corporate/Liberal media and conservative media shouldn’t have as much influence as they do - if people choose to mindlessly follow them whose fault is that?
It would be quickly penetrated, co-opted, and paid off by the same hostile powers that control the current parties.
Yep. The third party fantasy is one of the greatest delusions in American politics.
Trump is creating a third party right under the Republicans’ noses! WITH THEIR HELP!
I hope that is true.
Not totally delusional. The Republican Party started out as a "third party" in the middle of the 19th century.
The Republican party only worked because the Whig party had the decency to dissolve when it became terminally split over the question of slavery. What remained were two major parties, the Dems and the Republicans. So, yeah, totally delusional.
How does your statement contradict my point?
If we can pay for public education, why can't we pay for elections?
3 referendums have passed in my school district in the last 5 years. $240M here, $62M there and $16M in perpetuity.
My mortgage will be paid up next year. My property taxes have gone up by a little over 50%.
I can't take referendums to pay for candidates I mostly loathe on top of that.
So Cornel West and Jill Stein are non starters? Not the solution
of course but they are out there but unfortunately convey too much
common sense for the elte.
Lol, Jill and Cornell are both idiots. Unserious people voted for by easily duped voters desperate for something different. But they both suck.
They are called "independents" and are numerous.
Yet they offer no other choices; if they want to vote they have the same choices everyone else does, however, they are not burden with being on a Party email or text list. Many choice to be an "I" as finger to the party the kept lying to them.
And, added bonus. If you live in PA, you don't even have to vote in the Primary, because, basically.. you can't.
Also, "independents" are just hipsters anyway. They all still vote the same way they did when they had D and R on their Voter Reg card.
Not me. 3rd party, write in, or sit it out now. '08 was the last time i voted D top of the ticket.
Nobody supports genocide. There are a number of people who don't know what the word means. We have a shortage of dictionaries and common sense.
So true.
Ok then, “against the thousands of children and in innocent civilians being murdered.” Does that work for you?
Blame Hamas, the government of gaza. Try to be honest. Just try.
Not.
Spot on Bill. The people employed by the ruling classes "your governments" have brought you to the place. They're doing just fine and they intend to keep the party going... for THEM....sucker!
Of all the poisonous ideas that have leached down into our social soil from the New Left and its merger of radical politics and therapy, one of the worst and most toxic has been: THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL.
By erasing the boundary between our personal lives and the realm of the political (which ideally should be limited to being about the affairs of the state and our govt), this slogan has managed to poison our friendships, marriages, community groups, schools and churches etc. In fifty years we've gone from the narcissism of "I just feel like my hang-ups are keeping me from being a better soldier for the movement, mannn" to the stupid and hateful "If you don't share my opinions on party politics, you're my natural enemy that needs to be destroyed."
There is nothing more important in our one and only lives than our family and friends and the people we love as well as our personal, individual consciences and how we express them—the people who want you to mouth their slogans and share their hatreds are enemies and not allies.
THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL is totalitarianism with a heavy dash of emotional blackmail designed to let every aspiring Stasi narc and petty tyrant get their grubby hands on your brain and soul—not every thought or word or night in bed with someone is inherently "political". Preserving the realm of the personal is essential to preserving freedom and dignity.
That was a second wave feminist slogan. To me there is nothing worse than basing your politics around immutable characteristics. The New Left has had tremendous success with this strategy institutionally though. Not so much electorally but definitely institutionally. I believe in the universalism of the old left but it's mostly dead and buried. GEN X was right to be cynical about politics in reaction to the Boomers IMO.
I'm still the same Gen-X Democrat (see Liberal) I have always been. Except now, I am called an out of touch racist White Boomer by... whatever the left is today.
Honest old school liberals see through the dung being shoveled by the empty husked parasites that now co-opt your label. It's pathetic.
Sigh. I'm a boomer and I can see your point..
Why fall for the "boomer" or "Gen-X" classification? Just another ploy to divide us, in my opinion.
Agreed. Making assumptions about a person based on age or other identity drives us apart. It's as though we are being forced to wear gang tattoos.
Gang tattoos--perfect analogy!
Because hippies were the one's who started the identity mess we're in now. The new left started it and Millenials continued it with "wokism" that's why.
Hey, man don't blame the hippies for identity politics. That's not cool.
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And look at how the pollsters link our identities to how we're expected to vote. People take one look at me and make (false) assumptions about whether I'm friend or foe. Reasonable, decent people can disagree with one another. But when "the end of democracy" or "the end of America as we know it" are trotted out, the Others are demonic minions of Satan. Once upon a time, people who read the magazines about celebrity's personal lives were considered voyeuristic freaks. Now it's anyone with a news feed to their phone. Ditto with politics porn. We are mutating under the gamma rays coming from our devices and becoming angry Hulks.
They've pre-primed the revolution. It doesn't matter who wins, the loser is primed to strike. If Trump wins (still doubt it), Every Blue City in the country will burn, and the economy will be collapsed within a year. If Kamala wins, the Right will bitch, and maybe a few tantrums will be had, and BLM will make sure to make it look like the Right revolted, and a lot more people will go to jail for wearing the wrong clothing....
I'm afraid you are right about a pre-primed revolution being planned. The Left says that is what the conservatives will do, but they are the ones who will react. I understand that they had a practice evacuation of the White House on Monday. They want to keep the option open that if Trump loses we conservatives, aka domestic terrorists and Nazis will run amok!
There are so many people that the DOJ has arrested and jailed--without a trial. One day the truth will come out about that awful day. But not before we are all senile!
You have a right to your opinion and your prediction. Weirdos will head the the streets. Normal Americans won't.
Pretty much exactly what I was saying.
I believe Turd was saying just that.
Sadly, that seems pretty accurate.
Yeah, all that "it'll be the end of America as we know it" is so much bullshit,,,,as if our country and society has stayed in some dormant state for 250 years and now there's a threat to a change coming. I remember reading an article in Spy magazine quite a while ago. It traced the history of Rock-n-Roll, I think. There was a very funny bit in the timeline; "When Bob Dylan introduced The Beatles to pot it began the process of the end of western civilization as we know it",,,,,now, that observation may actually be true.
The Beatles helped create love, love, love. It's all we need.
11/01/24: That worked out like a 2008 mortgage...
It worked out for some of us. I use it every day. People won't listen if they think you don't love them and aren't listening to them. Why this needs to be explained is the mystery.
My wife's uncle, a rabid Democrat with raging TDS, and a lifelong lover of sex drugs and rock and roll, died a few months back, and his dying message was, listen to the Beatles, love is all you need. He made peace with his conservative relatives and even with God before he passed. A shame he lived as long as he did without taking that message to heart sooner.
Maybe because far too many people have nothing to give their lives meaning or a sense of belonging anymore.
There is a poisonous cousin with PERCEPTION IS REALITY.
and a deranged nephew called FEELINGS ARE FACTS!
Step cousin twice removed: IMMANENTIZE THE ESCHATON!
Damn... reaching back to William F. Buckley for quotes. I'd wager that one, or both of us are getting "a little long in the tooth".
Post modernism
The list is long
Our mainstream media used to do more to focus on and celebrate what unites us, not what divides us. Old media might have papered over cracks, or worse, but it felt like a better place overall when we didn't hate our neighbors. A hyper-focus on internal political differences since we stopped having an external enemy (i.e. the Soviet Union) has delivered us to this place. Tribalism reigns, one way or the other. No enemy without = enemy within.
The individual is anathema to collectivists. There is nothing they hate more than what they see as “excessive individualism”. Of course they try to conflate personal and political. The goal is to subsume the individual into the collectivist whole. It takes a village and all that.
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Divide and rule or divide and conquer. Probably why we have many that refuse to vote, ever. On big finger to everyone else.
We should be (somewhat) " divided". I fear groupthink more
Pretty much a uniparty running the show. That's where the group think is.
The politicization of everything is typical of totalizing leftist collectivist movements. It’s the best way to create a society of snitches and schoolmarms who can serve as the eyes and ears of the state.
Walz
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11/01/24: My write-in vote on Tuesday will be for Coco McShevitz. Coco, go through The West Wing scripts. See what we can recycle in 2025.
I’m weirded out because I got an e-mail from my .gov saying I didn’t vote in 2016. I did, but I wrote in who I wanted for Pres. There were other things on the ballot I voted for (or against)
11/01/24: Obviously, you didn't vote for The "Correct" Candidate. This is why my antediluvian election set up in the gym of the local high school where I live still maintains physical signature books in which I sign my name and write the exact date of the event. Of course, there is nothing to stop them from someday claiming that they never existed.
I voted in our local elementary school my son attended. I don’t remember a sign in book there though. Maybe the email was just about the presidential vote. Still - it had a space to write in a candidate. I once heard after that - if you don’t vote for a Presidential choice they count it as a spoiled ballot.
Read the Maoist playbook.
Went to a bar in Livingston, MT to watch the Yankee game the other night. Struck up a brief conversation about the delicious autumn salad with the lady sitting next to me at the bar. About a minute later, apropos of nothing, she blurted out "Ugh, I'm so damn stressed. Wait. Are you team red or team blue?"
"Team red. You?"
"Seriously? Are you kidding me? "
"No, why?"
The tirade that followed was remarkable. This woman was literally shaking with rage. A complete and total stranger with whom I had exchanged a few sentences prior.
On the plus side, I learned that I'm a "pathetic asshole who hates women" - based strictly on my support for Trump - so at least I know what I need to work on in my voyage of self-discovery, lol.
and of course, SHE had to bring up "what team are you on?" It says it all! What kills me is they can't accept that anyone has an opinion other than theirs (the sanctioned party line!)
LOL! Some of these people make me wish that Xanax came in an aerosol. Here sugar, have a spritz. You'll feel so much better.
Funny how she was cordial to you right up until you said you were Team Red. Then she immediately went to self-righteous indignation. If you hate someone because of “wrongthink”, or not voting for the right team, you need to re-evaluate you thinking.
Glad you were able to escape without scratch marks and spittle all over you.
You may have met our commenter Karen in real life!
At an art opening, my wife once introduced me to a man she had been talking to. His first words to me were "Are you Left or Right?" I'm politically non-binary (can I patent that phrase?) so I stood there nonplussed until my wife interjected "He's extremely independent!". I thought that was a nice thing to say about me, but to some people it's probably even worse than being "on the other side".
I don't know. When I tell people I'm independent (because I don't subscribe to the duopoly), they seem oddly perplexed, and move on to another topic of conversation. It's quite amusing that they don't seem to know how to talk about politics with someone who thinks independently.
I live part time near Livingston Montana and it is a liberal town. Nor surprised.
Go East.
I went down to our longtime friends and neighbors right after KH was nominated. Wanted to give them a huge organic onion that I had no need for. Wife said, sit down we haven't seen you in a while so I did. After a few seconds of chit she asked well what do you think of the Walz choice for "our Kamala." So I responded truthfully and laid it out. The husband stormed out(!) of the house after saying he would never speak to me again. Wife subjected me to a lengthy what is wrong with you tirade. I left saying, well at least enjoy that honker of an onion. My wife discovered it an hour later placed in our driveway. This really happened.
OMG….so sorry for your hostile neighbor’s shameful treatment. Glad to hear that you were bravely had the conviction to express your political opinion in the face of those bullies. I know how difficult it is to have genuine affection for people only to have them reveal that their tolerance isn’t mutual. I have some on my street too. Forge on with your integrity intact and know that surely there are others who would love to be blessed with your huge organic onions.
TMS- these people are SO effed up!! My husband gets deeply offended by that "our" business! Back when Obama won his first term we were at a friend's party and were greeted w/ "OUR guy won!" He left NO opening for anyone at his party to have voted for a different candidate!
Have these people always been radical?
That's unbelievably petty and mean-spirited behavior. Their minds have been poisoned.
It's a sad statement!
I live in the bluest community in one of the reddest states. I'm a recovering liberal, with most of my friends still firmly seated in the progressive bandwagon: yet, so far, I've managed not to be disowned. They know my current political leanings (voting for RFK via Trump), but somehow, when they declare 'All of Trump's supporters are fascists and racist bigots', they don't seem to include me in there, for which I am grateful, but bemused.
I have a very good friend, very liberal, who, after a few glasses of wine, got off on a rant about how many Trump signs she had seen on the road back from an out of town football game. She said that couldn't believe how "ignorant" these people were and that their opinion must be due to their "isolation".
Do these people ever listen to themselves? So, the problem is that those people are ignorant and if they weren't, they'd think exactly the same way she does? WTF?! That's not only wrong, it's offensive. And, they're completely oblivious why people think they're arrogant, self-absorbed a--holes. Totally ruined my buzz.
11/01/24: Get it over with. Wear sweatshirts with Harvey Weinstein's glorious face on the front of them at the PTA meetings and Little League ball games. If anyone gets mad, just point to Sam Bankman-Fried's hot-to-trot puss on the back (pre-prison haircut) and remind them who financed the Dems in 2020 & 2022 (by looting his crypto-currency racket).
Wow. Not mine. I got banished.
I just say "I'm the anti-war voter and I don't vote for war" and allow them to contemplate that. Oddly, that seems to shut Democrats up.
That's a good one! Personally- I don't see that it's anyone's business who I vote for. I live and work amongst these people. They are seriously mentally ill! Almost all they think about is being ANTI- Trump. In the past their obsession was being ANTI- Bush. I don't know how they survived the Obama and Biden years when they had no boogey-man!!
We were too busy worshiping Obama. (Yes, I was one of the zombies at the time.)
Yes. I had a door knocker dem & she asked what issue was most important to me. I said ending wars and she looked at her sheet & said so Foreign Policy. I said yes & it was cordial.
There's a "door knockers" joke in here somewhere. Turn on the overhead light and let's take a look.
I only answered because I was expecting a package - like any normal person.
It's too bad for you that the FBI doesn't infiltrate leftists groups, you would make a great confidential informant!
I sincerely doubt they'd be interested in my community of a couple dozen people. We live in the middle of nowhere.
"that strange subset of people who define themselves by their votes."
Yes yes yes. It's like their identity or religion or something.
Cult.
If Harris has to further divide Americans in order to win, well, the only thing that matters for her is that she wins.
I would add that is what her handlers care about. She seems to be merely along for the ride as the face of the possible next President. Very sad…
She's an avatar, nothing more.
Yeah- she is an actress. I have been thinking about this for a while now- the changing accents, the affectations and gestures, the dramatic delivery of the most banal statements as if she is imparting wisdom. She is delivering lines like she practiced them in the mirror.
The woman is a cipher. If I were a Leftist, I'd be appalled that she was the nominee. As embarrassing as he can be, Trump is at least a person. She isn't.
How can it be that millions of Americans have become so oblivious to this that she may win?
HRC perfected the "chameleon" act, uttering cultural nuances of the locale in which her harangue was taking place. Sounded ridiculous.
I ain't in no ways tired.
It always mystified me. It was as if she thought it was 1920, and the entire nation wouldn't be seeing it within hours.
Yep, I've thought the same thing. It's mediocre, but besides ambition, it's about her only talent.
I agree. She is an actress and not a very good one. Meryl Streep needs to do a better job at coaching Harris on those fake accents. BTW, Barack Obama employed a fake southern accent when he was exhorting black men to vote for Harris (EX: She went to school “witchoo.” That man is in no way southern and I hope no one fell for his fake “folksiness with da folx” crap.
"she is an actress"...She is so bad at public speaking that I can't believe she practices. Be honest, you just called her an actress as an insult to all the Hollylib actresses. Well done.
As Biden is...
Biden more resembles the crypt keeper.
A BAD Avatar.
The demonizing of one side as the enemy is... the problem. We are all in this together and I believe we are all coming to recognize this. You can never be right by making someone else wrong. It is a simple truth.
If that were true, the polls, unsatisfactory though they are, would be showing the kind of 60/40 blowout we had in 1972 and 1984. They aren't. God, please be kind to us.
No civilized Country votes for a month, no voter ID, unsecured drop off mail boxes. These all promoted by Democrats, why? They certainly don’t have high regards for their constituents .
Perhaps Americans should vote like the Afghan voting system we established there. Paper ballots, purple fingers, that takes a few days to wear off. Afghanistan had more secure elections then we we do now.
What constituents? That is why all those promoted tools of the trade are required.
Truth. I’m making myself sick and don’t have a voice to make the body politic hear a word . Because they don’t care. That’s the bottom line. They don’t give a shit about “ We The People”, only the Party and their masters.
The Democrats are so vicious, dishonest and hateful, though, that Trump is the only choice and the only way to regain sanity in America is a very expansive coalition admin representative of the people vs the party. Disgusted Dems turned Independent or Republican for convenience are the last hope. I’m not a partisan. Can’t stand the lockstep requisite ideological demands or loyalty pledges of either party. It has only led to extremism and gutted the pragmatic center left/center / center right. Media is dead, meritocracy is dead, free speech, the right to privacy, to be heard, to have a government “of, for and by the people” is being crushed,
Today , the biggest lie to date is being spread by the Dems and MSM, twisting Trump’s very clear commentary regarding Liz Cheney. In its full content, Trump spoke about Liz Cheney being a Warhawk. That she might feel differently about sending our youth to their deaths if she had nine barrels pointed at her face by enemy soldiers. She’d probably cut and run. -I couldn’t agree more- the Blob has spun it into “ Calling to shoot Cheney to point nine barrels at Liz Cheney and shoot her in the face! ( I wouldn’t shed a tear). Particularly when those of Cheney’s ilk provoked or created the enemy, which was done invading Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan ( thank Carter /Brezinzki for the Taliban, Bin Laden, Pol Pot-Khmer Rouge, the Ayatollah regime ) , ouster of Egypt’s secular, anti-Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas/Hezbollah Mubarak and arming ISIS in Libya, Syria, Egypt. Brezinzki/Carter/Kissinger/Wolfowitz for the insane anti-Russian zealotry that was neutralized post-Cold War by the wisdom of Moynihan, Haig and Goldwater who against every “ brilliant adviser”, pushed for non-NATO expansion beyond reunited Germany. Warning of exactly what would happen- a weakened, but nuclear Russia would feel threatened and align with Iran and eventually, China- two nations hated by Russia, but militant.
Invading Ukraine, our vassal state. The constant ostracization, scapegoating and provocation of Russia has finally brought it to fruition. One step from WWIii. Trump brought near peace to the Middle East, forged never thought possible alliances, no new wars and the Democrats, Deep State and globalists undid EVERYTHING! Deliberately.
It’s always the hawks who never set foot on a battlefield that are gung ho to send our children to die.Or the psychopaths who fought other people’s wars and loved it. Bloodlust.
Thanks Matt, I needed that! Funny and serious as usual. I've already voted and should just back away from X for the next four days...