It's a sad commentary on the state of journalism today that I am so thrilled by the facts that Mr. Taibbi (1) has talked to multiple parties on the ground in VA to try to understand what is going on (2) is wary of publishing an over-simplified story and - 24 hour news cycle be damned! - tells his readership that a more fulsome account is forthcoming, after he's had more time to marshal his information, and (3) needs to return to VA to confirm various details. God bless investigative journalists, the kind that care about getting facts straight as opposed to advancing a simplistic narrative, and thank you Matt Taibbi!
One of my favorites these days is watching prog journalists move to Substack only to be left hanging with few subscribers while they continue spewing lefty lies, assuming the big payouts will come because they have now graced the site with their delicate and beautifully crafted prose.
They do not realize that the American electorate has lurched to the middle demanding truth amidst the bald faced lying about important stories like Russiagate and Critical Race Theory.
And parents of young daughters do NOT want their girls raped in the school bathroom by a dude in a skirt while the school board and administrators cover it up and the Dad who showed up to demand justice is pegged as a terrorist and video of him is unfairly played nationwide and HE is being prosecuted by local government. It is madness!
Overall, it's hard not to conclude that the Dems' policies are intentionally sabotaging America---open borders, reversing energy independence, lenience on crime, CRT in gov't and schools. The political center doesn't dig it.
Dems policies are perfectly consistent with the interests of their owners - create as many divisions as possible (hence identity politics, now Covid "mandates" on top of it) to distract from common problems of 99%: debt peonage, socio-economical insecurity, lack of social mobility (esp. for next generation), urban blight etc etc. Once divided (and demographically weakened, hence uncontrolled immigration) the elite arbitrates between the groups (handing this or that sop "benefit" based on the perceived degree of "oppression" in woke hierarchy). Classic "divide and impera" tweaked for the post-industrial, globalized era. This way they hope to keep status quo as long as possible.
TBF they both work for the same money in most instances and for the sake of argument here it's fair to say that their threatened hegemony is at stake. Surprise, surprise... they can tilt the tables at election time to keep the corporate puppets in places of power. R or D... doesn't matter to them and it shouldn't matter to us.
I'm all for keeping my mind on the long game of this and not being trapped by this cuntery.
That’s the problem.If they were any better, when they had the White House, Senate and Congress, there would have been no “ Russia Hoax” Special Council,No Ukraine bullshit impeachment,Mike Flynn would have exposed, purged the Deep State, State Dept, members of both parties and a hell of a lot of them would be prosecuted for treason and sedition..
I never liked Pence and was very disappointed when he was chosen as Trump’s running made. It seemed a wild gamble and really expected it to backfire.Apparaently, the non-ideological crossovers saw it for what it was. He needed the Evangelical vote because the Establishment were all in to help Hillary and the globalists.
Pence lost the scintilla of hope Id had of being somewhat invisible when he allowed Flynn to be removed .
The same Flynn that wanted to suspend the Constitution, impose martial law and "silence the destructive media?" He is the biggest turd in the punch bowl to me.
They have no moral high ground, nor do they care about any of what they lay claim to. It’s globalism, power, multilateral , multinational corporatism, Parma,technocracy,war, personal gain . W/ China and DAVOS,NATO,OPEC,WEF- their power is limitless and their absolute disdain for mere American citizens has become unbridled. The Dems are the Bush Cartel. They just have better acting coaches, casting agents and makeover consultants
Spot on, but there is a larger scope that is under reported.The self proclaimed progressive left isn’t working alone to destroy America top down, bottom up, outside and within. The supposed Conservative anti-Trump Biden supporters have a major stake in the effort to takedown the GOP.All one needs to focus on is who they aren’t attacking. Romney,Cheney,Kinzinger,Graham,Burr,Ghristie,Raffenberger,Dicey,Portman,Cassidy,Murkowski,Thune,Mitch,Kemp,Ryan,McMullin, Cofer Black,Corker,Bush,Amash,Koch ..There’s The Bulwark,Lincoln Project,George Will,Jennifer Rubin,Mona Charen,David French,Jonah Goldberg,,Orrin Hatch,Hayden,Petraeus,Fiorina,Mueller,Wray,McCain,Baker,Rosenstein,… These self proclaimed bastions of moral righteousness and lawful Constitutionality
This isn’t about Trump’s personality or partisan ideology. It’s about the threat Trump posed to their global corporate interests, foreign lobbying,entanglement w/ China,shareholder wealth including Pharma, tech, foreign investments in rare earth and minerals,mercantile consumerism,importation of cheap labor,steel,the military industrial complex war machine,ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, Deep State,Soros,Vanguard,Blackrock,Goldman Sachs,Deutsce Bank,CitiBanc,Berkshire Hathaway,Disney,Silicon Valley,Bloomberg and profiteering from foreign nations that are among the most corrupt violators of human rights.They will pound their chests about R v W, pretend to support Israel’s right to exist and pledge to defend her sovereign rights, claim to support a lawful society and a scrupulous justice system, but they stand for nothing but self predervati regardless of the cost to America,humanity and innocent animals. Including dogs.
Yeah I completely agree that both sides of the aisle are China whores. There corporate donors are all China whores too so it stands to reason. Our entire culture sucks because it’s been hi-jacked by greedy China whores. Sad
The one candidate who called it out with extremely riveting details was Virginia’s Winsome Sears, the newly elected Lt. Governor.
During her acceptance speech, she called out the Pentagon and DOD claiming China’s development of a more technologically sophisticated nuclear development system “ Caught them by surprise”and the failure of our education system, particularly among black students and lowering expectations for all students deliberately.But the particular targets of exclusion and isolation are Asian American students” Why do you think that is? Because Asian culture is hyper-focused on education, particularly higher education and family values. They aren’t burning down cities, engaging in violent, anarchic Antifa and BLM mobs. They respect the elderly. It’s a cultural norm. They aren’t screaming about inequality. Because their families knew real oppression. Maoism, Xi, surveillance, murder. Tiananmen Square massacre of protesters crying out for freedom. China’s own students rank highest in education. She also called out the denigration and purge of the military using Stalinist propaganda. The expulsion of the most able, disciplined military elite. The Navy Seals. Long serving trained active enemy combatants.The soldiers who are unabashedly patriotic and loyal to America. Disparaged as “extremists”. Meanwhile, Xi is “masculinizing” China’s military. Genetically engineering. China is a mono cultural nation. Blacks, Browns are neither welcome nor embraced. They are tolerated because pro-sports puts more money and power in Communist China’s coffers. And now the pro-sports industry is using black players to promote Communist talking points. Ethnic minorities are placed in “re-education Camps”. Sterilized, tortured, forced organ harvesting, their heads shaven, the hair sold to Americans as wigs, extensions,weaves. They are forced into slave labor.
And no, the increasing violent attacks on Asians in broad daylight are being perpetrated by “ White Supremacists”. The attackers are black.
Winsome Sears is a black, female Jamaican immigrant and veteran. She arrived here in 1963, prior to the Civil Rights Movement. She loves America and is an activist within underprivileged black communities to give them the tools necessary for a better life.
Huxley warned of globalism and the loss of individual freedom and rights that would manifest. Ditto Welch,Moynihan,Scoop Jackson,Goldwater, Gandhi,Tibet,Rod Serling,Bradbury,Asimov,Solzhenitsyn,Eisenhower,Patton,Nixon( fucked up underestimating where the next admins would take it), Orwelll
The most formidable global enemy is headquartered smack dab in America’s most famous locale, the UN, which belongs in the already polluted East River.With all of its inhabitants.
Rod Serling’s infamous Twilight Zone episode, “ To Serve Man”was an amazing metaphorical warning.
I don’t know whether you’ve seen it. A foreign spacecraft landed in NYC and several aliens alit. Of course the reactions were a mixture of fear, panic , skepticism and curiosity. Curiosity with a healthy measure of skepticism outweighed the panic and fear. The aliens were given the stage at the UN to explain who they were, where did they come from and why.
They were able to communicate telepathically, claiming to bring peace, friendship, advance our technological capabilities.
Some remained skeptical, but the majority, as is the case with human gullibility welcomed them. They were here “ To Serve Man”.Many were so giddy they boarded the spaceship, excited to be the first to explore a new horizon. The doors closed, hermetically locked and the craft lifted off. And then they realized “ To Serve Man” was a cookbook!
Serling was yet another prophet. Each of his allegorical Twilight Zone episodes have come to fruition.
The corporations are desperate for Chinese markets, and the politicians are desperate for corporate donors. When you view US politics and US media through the lens that everything is being done for China -then suddenly everything makes perfect sense. Viewed through any other lens it is insanity. They are cashing in our nation while enriching themselves with Chinese money. God help us. We need someone like trump back soon or there will be nothing left. Sorry a lot of folks don’t like his style, I get that but you won’t like the alternative either.
I do. He pointed out recently that schools may not be 'teaching' CRT, but they are "doing" CRT to kids. They've simply changed the terminology (big surprise)---social and emotional learning, whiteness, etc. It's all the same stuff.
That's what I've been trying to get people to say as well. When we say the school systems are *teaching* CRT, it gives CRT proponents the "out" of claiming we're lying, because it's true that the K-12 curriculum does not include the works of people like Derrick Bell and Kimberle Crenshaw. However, the public schools' entire approach to education is now being guided by the tenets of CRT, and university schools of education are completely immersing their students, almost all of whom will go on to be public school teachers or administrators, in it (as well as similar far left-wing thought on gender, colonialism, etc.). If your child is being taught by a recent ed school grad, God help you.
Sorry, but telling a child they are bad because of the color of their skin sort of goes against the concepts of "teaching racial theory to help make the world a more equitable place". If that is their real goal... which anyone can see is NOT.
It’s beyond nefarious.The bigger problem is what Fox fails to include in it’s reporting. The most poignant plea was a black mother’s speech before the school board. Her husband is white and her young daughter, biracial.What made her speech so important was calling out the damage being done to her family. Teaching the child to hate her white father and her mother as a traitor for marrying the oppressor.Tearing apart a loving, functional family and a formerly happy, well adjusted , high achieving child with friends from every walk of life. On purpose.
Sexualizing a child who was loving being a girlie girl who hadn’t even reached pubescence and told America was a garbage, colonizer slave nation. Systemically racist, ruled by a white Christian supremacist patriarchy of xenophobia, misogyny, Islamophobia,oppression of black, brown,Indigenous people and immigrantshomophobic,transphobic, Eurocentric supporters of Zionist apartheid.
The mother is Muslim, the father, Jewish. And they were what they once thought liberal Democrats
Agree. There are a lot of theories about the true aim of CRT, but it seems to be the perfect tool to undermine the patriotism of white America, the great resistance. If you can get whites to question themselves, their legacy, and their country, it's a lot easier to assimilate America into the NWO.
I hated McCain and had a bad vibe about Obama in ‘08. Just before the election, My husband and I celebrated a friend’s birthday bash at The Palm. Seated at an adjacent table we’re the Mayor, who I knew personally, General Tommy Franks and Colin Powell.The mayor was a Republican, but socially liberal, Powell and Frank were major players in the W admin. I butted in, as usual. My husband at the other table looked like he wanted to sink beneath it.
I asked them who I should. vote for, expressing my hatred for McCain, though I was really unsure of Obama. They shared the same sentiment and concern, but we’re going to vote Obama.McCain was corrupt and a warmonger and we’re sick of the wars. Obama was a coin toss, but they didn’t think he’d get us involved in yet another war.
I reluctantly voted for Obama and when he made his acceptance speech, immediately regretted it. Regretted voting at all. The words” Fundamentally change America” was tantamount to the warning sirens of a nuclear attack.
I wasn’t wrong about McCain or Obama.Every awful action Obama enacted was given McCain’s blessing.Ukraine,Egypt,Syria,Libya,Yemen,Afghanistan, NATO buildup, FISA,extending the Patriot Act, Mueller, Brennan,Clapper, embracing the Muslim Brotherhood, droning American citizens, wiretaps, warrantless searches, combining the entire IC, the IRS scandal( yes, McCain was a player. Fast and Furious. Yes, McCain was a player. Soros. Yes, he’s owned McCain since Keating
Psychological warfare. Remove the partisan politics. Emphasize the propandized devastation designed to impact every American and how,why it’s being done and the endgame.
Have you read Douglas Murray’s “ The Maddening Of Crowds” and “ The Strange Death Of Europe”? He’s a gay Brit and former liberal. He’s now a classic liberal /conservative
They love oppressive dictatorships that use surveillace to imprison, torture and kill dissenters, suspected dissenters, religious minorities , forced abortion, forced organ harvesting, slave labor, censorship, expansionism and the destruction of coral reefs, the natural Eco-system,are the greatest polluters globally, racist and mono cultural and are rapidly overtaking our military capabilies, forced technology transfer, create bioweapons, and the entire supply of the necessary components to produce every medical necessity that we are dependent upon to remain alive.
When we ( and our NATO ( EU) besties continue to invade theocratic nations that have never experienced western style democracy( which as is becoming obvious are longer democratically elected sovereign republics)), the result is a given. Mass migration, increased extremism, more chaos and war and attacks on our homeland. And the inevitable integration of extremism within our borders. Including every government entity.
Trump,during his anti-intervention 2016 campaign platform nailed it:”We are forcing our way of life in regions that never experienced or wanted it. And then expect them to thank us. So why are we surprised when they attack us?What good has come from invasion and nation building ? None.Look at Libya.They have no government, but have been taken over by brutal Islamist extreme terrorist factions,no sovereignty,their natural resources were plundered, it is now a slave market, borderless terror tunnelWho benefits? Our soldiers? Their civilians? The American people?Who benefits from death,misery, chaos,mass refugee migration? The global elites, multinationals, political Establishment, oligarchs,and tyrants.Who shoulders the economic burden?The middle class taxpayers.
Who armed the terrorists , broke the longstanding treaty that we would not invade if they ceded their weapons of war? We did w/ our “allies France and Great Britain.Illegally.Brutally murdered their leader and his sons like the savages we denounce and laughed.And we abandoned Americans who were begging for help.
Everybody focused on Benghazi, but nobody questioned why we invaded Libya. Shouldn’t that be the real focus?”
That was one of the major reasons I voted for Trump. He exposed the enormous topics that have sold out America we never contemplated.
Corporate inversion, multinationals, unfair trade, manufacturing job loss, infrastructure, highest drug prices, NATO not paying its fair share, Hospital costs, energy dependence,NAFTA,TPP,OPEC, the forgotten American, hyper-regulation, foreign lobbying, pay for play, illegal immigration, foreign worker visas vs hiring Americans, the corrupt, failed IC and agencies, destruction of small businesses, black communities living in hell, long ignored and without opportunity , incentives, lousy schools and isolated because businesses were afraid to locate or invest in said communities.
Halting NATO build up and trying to forge an equally beneficial relationship with Russia that instead of provocation that pushed Russia to align w/Iran and Syria for self preservation.Ironically, Pat Moynihan warned of NATO buildup creating the very provocation and unholy alliance . Thank Clinton, Bush,Obama and the globalist vultures.
It exacerbated the surveillance state exponentially, Obama took it to a level I thought could not be exceeding. But now, China has nothing on the abusive of it citizens that we haven’t matched. Or possibly transcended.
Oh, I wish the DNC was even remotely smart enough to do this. It's the analogue of the people who think Trump is the next Hilter, although he lacks half the evil intellect of the Fuehrer
They have become the party of Hitler. They just don’t know enough about Hitler to realize it.
There is much deserved criticism of Trump, most of it self inflicted, but he sure as hell wasn’t anything representative of Hitler. Unfortunately, his complete refusal to tone down his speech, stop tweeting and attacking often overshadowed his message and policies.
I worked alongside him for two years and while he was larger than life, funny and didn’t mince words, I never saw him once behave that way. I wish I could explain it, but I can’t.
What makes it stranger still, he has always expressed the same platform and issues that he ran on, but for the exaggerated religiosity. He’s also extremely generous and protective of anybody he believes has been victimized. He just didn’t behave so combatantly. He could have pulled it off as a Democrat because they are always ready to pick a fight and hurl insults.And get a pass.
Trump isn’t evil, but his personality overshadows his really good ideas and achievements.When he is being sabotaged by his party, the Dems, global,Deep State, corporate elites, lobbyists, tech,Pharma, media, NGOs,UN and all the powers that exist, he didn’t need to pick unnecessary fights.I wish he had flipped Independent and with the right team, quietly drained the Swamp bottom up, top down
I was reflecting on something like this with a vision of the wealthy silver-haired media star screaming lies at the plebeians like a demented ape from the balcony of his Central Park apartment. Someone is paying him to lie, and it's not his viewers. Would anyone pay him directly to rant arrant bullshit? How long would he be living with a Central Park view if he had to solicit direct donations from his viewers?
Do any of us actually want to pay a subscription to read lies?
He could be talking about Howard Beale, as portrayed by Peter Finch, in the film “Network”. Paddy Chayefsky, the brilliant screenwriter, saw the noxious future of mass media four decades ago.
Olbermann is insane. Certifiably. It boggles my mind that anybody , regardless of personal ideology, race, creed, religion or scope-economic status can watch and listen to these absurd,hyper-angst ridden D-list echo chambers without laughing or taking personal offense.They are so self important and theatrical in their exaggerated, fictitious spew as to be sickening.
"And parents of young daughters do NOT want their girls raped in the school bathroom by a dude in a skirt"
Good God, there's a LOT to unpack here.
First, it's obscene that you would imply that wanting people to use gender-affirming bathrooms means you want children raped.
Second, that's not what happened in the Loudoun case. It keeps getting bandied about that this kid, who is by all accounts a violent offender, was able to stealth his way into the bathroom because he was wearing a skirt. Nope. Not the case. He had a preexisting consensual relationship with her. Allegedly, he met her at her own invitation THEN he raped her. That has NOTHING to do with gender.
Third, unfortunately, this case was mishandled, but if CHILDREN are involved in crimes, they are afforded privacy. It seems like this was an extreme case that got mishandled and is the perfect intersection of where our culture is right now.
Using it as a case-in-point or synecdoche for our entire society and gender relations is at best lazy, and at worst, playing to the cheap seats to repackage transphobia. You're basic and weak. Fuck off, Jenny.
Again, how am I defending child rape? I abhor that. No one should be raped.
What are the lies and bullshit?
And they will be severe? What does that mean? Please be explicit. Unless, of course, that's the point because you mean to imply something that, if stated outright, would constitute a threat or hate speech. Am I wrong about that?
The lie that Trans Women are Women. Intersex is a true objectively factual reality, but the denial of the 5M years of the homo.sapiens biological sexual binary is not. The female sex is not determined by "feelings," it is determined by the sperm cell that fertilizes a woman's egg. #Science
"What is the end game on this?' she added. 'My son's going to be going on the sexual registry and be committed to Meghan's Law for the rest of his life because he had 15-year-old hormones."
No lady, your son is an obvious menace to society and he is going to be locked up for his predatory ways.
As much as I ache for her and the bad choices of her son, I am much more concerned about the girls father being called a domestic terrorist and the heavy handed response from the authorities.
I believe it was this side of the story that rankled all parents.
It’s become a battle of how abhorrently unconscionable acts people are willing to rationalize to prove allegiance to a political party… until they become victims of what they’ve rationalized.And even then , many will still blame the “ other side”.Mocking a rape victim speaks volumes.
I'm deeply sorry for your past victimization. That's awful.
Sure. I can accept that. I had a family member murdered, and the murderer's mother was the same way. Unfortunately, I think the tendency to see the best side of their child is the protective maternal instinct taken to the extreme.
Can we please separate the crime, which is awful, from the trans community and the use of gender affirming restrooms, which has not resulted in any increase in sexual violence?
I appreciate you saying that. I hope you are right, but please, while I know it will grate against the community you speak to, try to avoid language like "And parents of young daughters do NOT want their girls raped in the school bathroom by a dude in a skirt." I mean, yes, that premise is true, but it gets misconstrued and helps reinforce close minded narratives. Look no further than the comments that followed mine about how the consequences for being trans "will be severe." That's screwed up.
"First, it's obscene that you would imply that wanting people to use gender-affirming bathrooms means you want children raped."
I agree that the crucial issue there is not gender-flexible bathroom policy. But the perpetrator of the rape was already a known offender who was allowed to transfer to a different school rather than being expelled, and that's a clear indication that Virginia schools have slipshod policies toward discipline that even extend to students who perpetrate blatant transgressions of basic standards of social conduct.
Compare that case with the recent phenomenon of resort to preemptive suspensions and expulsions of college students that have resulted simply on the basis of an accusation of sexual assault that isn't proven or admitted.
Also, at least some of us are dismayed by another frequent feature of the conversations about this event: the implicitly expressed laissez-faire attitude, in regard to couples appropriating school bathrooms during open school hours in order to engage in sexual acts, as long as both parties are "consenting." At least some of us find that attitude of passive assent to be not just an awfully slippery slope, but a telling indication that disciplinary standards in regard to the social environment in the high schools have already gone completely over the edge. What is someone who walks in to witness two students actively engaged in a sex act to do- give them the benefit of the doubt? Simply go about their business, using the adjoining facilities? At some point, lines need to be drawn between the mission of public high schools as learning environments for teenagers, and the opportunity for students to take advantage of a lack of enforcement of standards for social conduct- and the legal privileges of "juvenile" status- to convert a school building into a porno fantasyland environment for their personal gratification. (After which, presumably, some of those who act on that impulse may well find themselves in college and office environments where they're liable to be judged for so much as one "inappropriate touch"...the mixed messages are practically vertigo-inducing.) My sensibilities are basically libertarian. But sexual activity by students in a public high school building is not to be hand-waved aside as if the place were an after-hours nightclub for adults with proof of ID.
"if CHILDREN are involved in crimes, they are afforded privacy."
Yeah, within the controllable boundaries of the courts and the news media. But the CHILDREN cajoled or intimidated into public sex acts- including by their "partners" of minor status- are often NOT afforded privacy in their social environments; word has a way of getting out among their teenage peers. Far and wide. Sometimes there are even photos, or video. Which also has a way of encouraging silence on the part of those participants whose "consent" was actually to some extent coerced. We're all someone's "children", by the way. The word "children" is not a synonym for "fresh-faced innocent."
I'll concede that it's questionable how much the issue of (the lack of) disciplinary standards in the public schools has to do with the responsibilities and priorities of the office of Governor. But neither side's campaign particularly distinguished itself in this race, as illustrated by the McAuliffe ads that sought to portray Glenn Youngkin as if he were Steve Bannon in a fleece vest. Both sides can claim that they're simply drawing broad comparisons that highlight contrasting political leanings, in that field of political discourse that clings so fervently to being reduced to a contest between Blue and Red. I don't find either side convincing, but undoubtedly some voters did, given the jejune political climate established by those game rules.
Aaron who banned me less than 24 hours after I commented. Also Clint Watts, Talia Lavin, and Charlie Warzell. These are the propagandists I was referring to.
I love Free Speech anarchists. And I love Andrew Sullivan, Lyz Lentz, and Yglesias.
So it is not all lefty writers. Just the censorious ones.
They appear to be saddened to not have Twitter mods here deplatforming people like me for them.
Yes, that is one of the reasons I subscribe to him. He is a radical leftist (an unrepentant Marxist even) who is pro-free speech. To be honest I agree with him on many things, even though my leftism is more of the anarchist variety.
The Wobblies did more for the American worker than any other group.
I am not a big A Anarchist I just have anti-authoritarian tendencies. Don't trust the government or Big Corporations. They don't have your best interests at heart. Throw Organized religion in that bucket.
Upon reading another article the press is not reporting she had met with the boy twice before and had sex in that bathroom consentionally. All of this was not reported and covered up.
It’s true the Daily Wire blew that part of the story. A bad oversight, but the actual fact is kind of tangential to the conflict between the parents and the school board.
I don't think those details came out until the actual trial; so I'm not quite so sure the Daily Wire could have gotten all of that. But, I could be wrong.
More annoying is that those on the Left who for years have been saying "believe all women" but now that there *may* be a bit of nuance, they're ready to victim blame.
As a father of teenage girls in the Virginia school system, if my daughter comes home saying she said no, then no means "NO!!" end of story.
Also, just want to reiterate my appreciation for your on-the-ground journalism. Thank God it's not completely dead in this country.
I agree that the cover-up (and in my case as a Virginian, the lack of investigation at the state level once the cover-up was discovered) was certainly egregious.
I am sure I am not alone when, during the course of events (and the past 2 years of "Defund the Police" etc) that Democrats were on the side of criminals. I have no idea WHY, exactly, but those are the cards they are playing.
Obviously, the political fallout couldn't be plainer. Due to Democrat policies (and inaction) - if you want your kid protected, vote Republican. Obviously, I wasn't the only one to feel that way.
If the Democrats want any hope of not losing 60 seats in the House in a year, they better do a 180 on that idea, or other states are going to feel the same way.
As to the nuance of consensual vs. non consensual - it is secondary in many circumstances, but not here, not for that girl and her family. Besides, the he said/she said kind of blows up when you consider he *did it again in another school*.
Sides, with the girl in question, it sounds to me like she was okay with certain things (who knows, kissing? some other handsy stuff that kids shouldn't be doing in bathrooms regardless?) - and when the girl said "NO!" he kept on. A rape kit was used after the fact. The girl was obviously in a different situation than the "two prior times".
AFAIC, there was no "he said/she said" in this at all. There was incontrovertible PROOF.
I used to have sex with my ex’s, but I ever broke into their bedrooms and forced them to have sex with me, does her consenting in the past nullify her claim that I raped her in the present? After all, we did, at one point, have a romantic relationship. Precedent and all that.
It's bullshit to slut-shame this girl and I think everyone knows it. She's allowed to have sex when and where she chooses, without fear that it is an excuse to rape her later.
Yeah, was it clear that there was affirmative consent? Was it F0reely given, Reversible, Informed, Enthusiastic and Specific? (FRIES is the acronym....kid you not) If even one of these boxes is not ticked then it is not/ consent according to the sexual assault dogma. Plenty of young men have had their lives turned upside down because the young woman had regrets and decided it was not FRIES. To those of you who now want to diminish this bathroom rape story, sorry - live by the sword, die by the sword.
So, if she said yes once that means yes forever? Irrespective of previous consent to vaginal sex. Saying no to anal? Yes, I buy it. In the words of Joe Biden, 'Come on man.'
I'm trying to remember if it was a local paper. It was pointing out the omissions including the guy going to another school and doing it again. I think the kid would be doing this anywhere he could. The school has a big problem of letting him go to another school.
We have lurched to the middle. Too bad the political parties haven’t.Brett Weinstein had a very interesting proposal. A presidential ticket comprised of one left of center and one right of center candidate. The required ideology is patriotic allegiance to America,the Constitution , Bill Of Rights , a blind, apolitical, lawful justice system and the American people above all else.
A ticket with a candidate who has signed the front of a paycheck and the other having served in our military versus the Pentagon or sits on a corporate board.
I’d add abolishing the UN Fed, CIA, Patriot Ct, FISA, replacing the FBI w/ US Marshals, FISA,eliminating many other agencies and moving the remaining out of DC , relocating them to states throughout the country inhabited by real America and purging them by at least 60 percent.Term limits, no immunity or perks and prosecution, imprisonment in Supermax facilities. No NGOs, corporate, tech,Pharma, foreign lobbyists or donors that influence policies, no more NATO buildup, foreign interventions, protected bureaucrats, forced retirements, back door deals, open borders, unvetted refugees, bureaucrats,politicians, tax free non-profits , no stock purchases while in office, no perks after leaving office and no more super-pacs.
Complete transparency in legislative bills. And follow the money. We are now a third world kleptocracy and soon to be ruled by a New World Order central government ruled by billionaire elite fiefs and the rest of us, a fiefdom that owns nothing, has no power, no privacy , no nuclear family, no voice and no ability to defend ourselves
It’s ironic that Matt, Greenwald, Andy Ngo, Rogan,Weinstein,Ron Paul,Sharyl Attkisson,Posobiec ,Russell Brand , Tucker,White Coat Waste Project,Frontline Doctors are all creating a movement in uniting people who otherwise wouldn’t have spoken to one another. Long overdue. We all have a shared purpose. Freedom
There’s something much deeper that we’ve failed to address. Matt is conveying a scenario that is in no way new. We’re just better able to realize how deceitful the corrupt cabal of media, government iis and has long been as an entirety .
It was just better concealed because prior to 24/7 cable news and so many avenues of propaganda didn’t exist. But it was always pro panda. Our beloved and trusted Walter Cronkite, Edward R Murrow broadcast what they were directed to by government and its agencies.
Hah! You expect some real analysis from Taibbi on this? Don't hold your breath. This article was a drive by and whatever followup visit he takes is going to be more of the same. Loudoun is not the whole of VA. There is a whole lot more to the governor's race than Loudoun.
You write about "investigative journalists"? Doing a drive by assessment to analyze a statewide race is anything but "investigative". It is a guy with an existing narrative seeking to fluff it up a bit.
Terrible comment. Matt said he is trying to investigate it and I believe him. I think Running Burning Man is a group of 100 monkeys just typing at a keyboard.
Standing for an illustrated school textbook giving pubescent boys instructions for giving BJs to adult men...? Whoa! That's a real knee-slapping, down home way to go too!
Terry McAuliffe is Bill Clinton's doppelgänger. Two of the most lowdown and loathsome characters to ever piss on a good thing and they thought they could keep doing this to this country? GTFOH! And speaking of: I wouldn't piss on either of them if they were on fire!
I saw it on a Rokfin video just last week. A schoolboard meeting. I don't think EeewTube would have allowed it. Want to hear some otherworldliniess something else? I was just going to type in a search for the person who posted it (on Rokfin) and I hadn't even begun to type anything and the search header had "bj training' up in the search bar.... (Sometimes I think they're not telling us 'all' that "They' are up to....
Yet many of these idiots have doubled down after losing! If only we'd called those opposing us racist more and louder surely we'd have won. Please keep it up morons!
Telling parents that they should have no say in what their kids are learning at school was the death of Terry McAuliffe. Even all the Democrat heavy weights could not save him. Unfortunatley, Terry forgot who employed him……it was those parents. Politicians need to back up and remember who pays their wages.
It's not ONLY the way they talk. The way they talk simply reveals how they think, and govern. We're really all just background NPCs to help the credentialed classes live their best lives.
Red-box Basic with the Larry Elmore cover did. To date myself more precisely, I am neither old or cool (uncool?) enough to have the original Brown Boxes, Holmes Basic, or BX.
Or maybe it was the "grab'em by the pussy" tape, which was a couple of guys having locker room talk. Most women I knew were not impressed with that, because as one said, "That happens before how everyone comes into this world." Or maybe it was the fairly widespread knowledge that Hillary liked to do exactly that.
"A couple guys having locker room talk" - bullshit. Trump is a scumbag who treats women like objects and was bragging about how he gets away with sexual assault. No decent person talks like that, in a locker room or not. If he was a teenager, then perhaps a bit of forbearance could be made for youthful stupidity. Trump had no excuse, he was just revealing his character and thought he would sound awesome.
Well, dear, you do need to get out more. Not that your circular definition that no decent person talks like that doesn't clearly define your mentality.
How about: No decent person judges. There. Now nobody can contradict ME.
Well, considering we have what, 40+ years of Trump being very publicly sleazy, I think it is safe to judge. And no. No decent person talks like that. Again, I've never heard anyone say shit like that, and if I did, then judging that person to be a scumbag would be 100% right, fair and just. Guess you are into this sort of behavior and have, presumably, made similar comments.
Hell, my 70 year old mother was completely non-plussed about that tape.
Said she'd hear it all her life in Corporate America.
And I'm surprised to find the perfect guy online! You win, Paul!
Although, I find it hard to believe you've never made a sexual remark out of earshot of the subject of your attention. Never joked about how nice that ass is... never told a funny but crude joke...
I'm guessing people see you as the uptight judgy type and would never dream of saying things like that in front of you. We all have friends and acquaintances who only see a severely filtered version of us.
Donald Tr5ump actually treats women quite well. He has always been an encourager for the women he has employed. Already 40 years ago he appointed a women as CEO of the Trump Tower project. And his administration was strongly pro women. He stopped the funding of Iran that Obama had started, in which almost all of the money went in one way or another to suppress women (funding Hezbollah and Hamas, two of the worst oppressors of women, strengthening their own countries extreme bad treatment of women, speeding up their nuclear weapons program (70% more uranium ore, 50% more centrifuges in the three years before Trump stopped the funding). He negotiated the Abraham Accord, which aligned several Muslim countries with Israel, the one full supporter of women's rights in the Middle East. Bahrain has already improved the rights of its women, and so has Saudi Arabia', although they have not yet recognized Israel, they are working more closely with them.
Oh pulease. Listen to the tapes of past presidents. Better yet, listen to or read WikiLeaks and see what your "betters" talk about. Trump isn't the only one who talks like that, be happy you don't have an open mike around you all the time unless, of course, you're the second coming and even JC and Mohammed said and did things that just ain't kosher.
Well, Clinton (both of them) proved their decency by not talking about it.
Back in the 50's and 60's, a president could have nude pool parties and take starlets to bed -- at the White House -- and invite the press to the parties. And the press wouldn't report on it because that was private life and nobody else's business. But, they would report on substantive matters that made a difference to the country that came from such parties.
I hate to burst your bubble but women talk like that also. It's actually pretty 1950s to think they're these demur defenders of innocence & sexual tact.
Geez, 40 years ago a couple buddies & I worked as waiters at a local dive bar that had a weekly lady's night with a group of Chippendale knock offs. A big room filled with loud, horny women who wanted to grab some cock and weren't picky about whose cock that was. We all constantly had warm friendly hands on our junk. I don't remember any of them asking permission. We just didn't complain about it because it usually led to an even friendlier hummer in the bathroom.
Anyway, Trumpski is literally the mirror image of Hillary's hubs, the Bilbo, who is a pussy grabber from way back who pathologically used his position to get laid while Hillary sat at home dreaming about being CEO of the American corporation. The only difference between them is ol' Billy boy didn't brag about it around microphones. But you know Slick Willy was bragging to someone, somewhere.
And suck they do! ;-) I was the target of this kind of attention from female humans in Washington DC when I spent some time on the hill for a cause. There are so many beautiful women who are attracted to power. Mostly it's not even a matter of 'let him' it's whether a guy can avoid being cornered or not. And there was that day I was pretty clearly propositioned in a female congress person's office.
Deal with it. This is basic primate behavior. Human females want to mate with males that have power and prestige. Same as baboons. It's reality.
Yeah. The story was wiped by the sycophant press machine to allow Hillary to run without having to 'splain herse'f' to them thar voters. I am rather sure it was a cold calculation by a political consultant who told her that she would lose more votes by coming out than she would gain by staying in the closet. And lo' she did not lose any votes from LGBTQ people.
I have friends who had lesbian experiences in college who are not gay. Even if she is, who gives a shit? She should of left him regardless. But she takes her vows seriously.
And they are tormenting us here in Arizona with out of state ads demanding we cal Sinema right now. We are sick of it, sick of dems, sick of politics, and I used to be dem, now I'm independent.
Manchin is just protecting his seat. He won with under 50% last time, in the as-favorable-as-possible 2018 electorate. It's going to be harder next time.
If you want to get your way, elect 60 senators or a subset thereof that can choke off a filibuster. Or nuke it at that point, but get ready for the backlash.
He's one of my senators and he is in fact in a no-win scenario. Look at his numbers election by election, he's drifting toward a lose by default scenario even without doing anything particularly to piss off the electorate.
Hey, HBI, could you clarify why this nation's best politicians come from your neck of the woods? Manchin, McConnell, Paul, Massie.. WTF is up with that?
I think those Democrat heavyweights may have hurt. I saw the commercials and snippets of the speeches, and it all seemed to be more "this is not who we are," and implying people who disagreed didn't have any real concerns.
Without Trump, I’m not sure calling every white person a racist and white supremacist is going to continue to work as a way of shutting down all debate.
Perhaps because Trump reinvented himself politically in light of his failure to take off in the run-up to the 2000 as a liberal option (even floating the idea of Oprah as his running mate).
B/c Trump jumped on the birther train in 2012 or whenever and ignited a feud with Obama. When he got called out by Obama, he was like “It’s on. I’m crashing your party like Rodney Dangerfield and Jackie Mason at Bushwood CC!!!!”
Right? He always seemed like a wrestling heel. I remember a photo of the Clintons and the Trumps chatting and laughing, captioned with the Friends logo. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might wonder if the whole point was to frighten people into accepting extreme, totalitarian measures in response to the "existential threat" posed by Trump.
One time when I forgot my meds, I had this awful nightmare about how the government was all pushing a "domestic war on terror" against working class whites, and like half the nation embraced that shit with open arms.
He's also 75 years old. With today's standards, not one person born that long ago is completely innocent of some kind of racist comments, including Brandon himself.
And, sorry, but there's nothing wrong with not wanting your apt complex to accept section 8's. I wouldn't either.
RBG lost all of her respect when she deliberately refused to step down when Obama had a super majority. Instead, her ego crashed the judiciary onto Conservative Island.
He was involving himself in a court case where he wanted his own outcome. He wanted the accused killed. This was made into a movie a year ago. He is notorious for not paying tradesman. He lives in Florida because of all his ny state baggage. He doesn't go to NYC unless he has to.
I lived in a fairly nice apartment building in Sacramento that rented to section 8 eligible renters for many years (until it was sold to new owners). Never noticed anything downmarket or unsafe about that apartment complex. Section 8 renters include a lot of disabled people and seniors, for what it's worth. They got a nice affordable place to live in, I got nice neighbors.
Coolidge-c’mon man…..I read Amity Schlaes bio of Coolidge and no mention of the KKK ever came up. As for Harding, he was actually accused of being of mixed ancestry and he was like “Whatever. Nothing I can do about who my ancestors were screwing!!!”
For a cynic, you're awfully credulous. There's no hard evidence that any of those Presidents were Klan members, and plenty of evidence to contradict it. The "evidence" consists of claims by Klan members.
The KKK organization and leaders were loudly supportive of Federal Prohibition in that era, incidentally. They did a lot of vigilante enforcement, and on some occasions were known to use the confiscated goods to party with later. Some things never change.
The Klan was riding awfully high for a while, in the 1920s; they had all sorts of political connections. One of the strongest chapters was in Indiana. But the KKK went into something of a decline after the Indiana Grand Dragon, D. C. Stephenson, was convicted for the abduction and rape of a young woman in 1925.
Harding was not a member of the KKK. He abhorred them. Read his marvelous speech in Birmingham, Alabama one hundred years ago. It is considered one of the greatest speeches ever given by an American President.
Here are some links to the speech and Harding’s related speeches and actions for racial equality:
Yeah, but Wilson was an absolute monstrous racist and we know that. Coolidge probably was to. Truman, I have no evidence to suggest it. Fred Trump, absolutely. But of course, since his scumbag son is your personal hero, you go to bat for him. Are you so conciliatory towards, say, Robert Byrd as well?
As is typical in this deeply racist country(and even more so in 1973), a settlement was reached. Which, like every time rich people or corporations settle, means they were guilty as sin. You can read the details online - the evidence of guilt is clear, but the wealthy are never actually punished.
They'll keep trying. They think that still works. In deep blue places like CA where no one questions anything, it still does. Everywhere else - it's a shockingly stupid strategy. Twitter ain't real life, DNC.
Sure they'll keep trying. Hell, it's been almost a century now since Joe McCarthy was in office, and there are still Republicans who brand anything they don't like as "Marxist." I doubt we'll ever be free of Democrats who call everything they dislike "racist." But the more people dismiss the overused accusation, the less it will be used.
We currently host the politics of nice and both parties know all about human nature and psychology. Average people got sucked into following politics when Trump appeared. All they need to know is: how do nice people vote? That's why all the vilification exists on both sides. It makes it easy to identify the bad guy. Eventually, we'll go back to less that 10% playing public watchdog and the masses maturing to the point where they understand that politics is complicated and all of voters are nice. But in the meantime . . .
Insightful comment — the sad reality is more people are convinced by narratives than data, so the winning party is the one with more emotional resonance regardless of their actual policies.
Well, thanks in large part to the efforts of the corporate media, Trump had negative emotional resonance with many voters. Also the entire progressive schtick is to hype up their issues with emotionally loaded buzzwords (spirit murder!! genocide!!! insurrection!!) to appeal to voters in precisely this way, by making it seem if you oppose their policies you are a BAD PERSON.
Data Rich, Information Poor. That’s exactly how Hillary and that moron Robbie Mook lost in 2016. “Our model predicts…” Apparently not.
“More people” is doing a lot of work. More than what? Which people? “Data” is also nebulous and data is often just flat-out wrong at times.
Republicans take power, not just office. This is why they keep control of government even when they’re in the minority. Obama was the Capitulator in Chief with his capitulating minions in the house and senate.
I have a relative who was a general for the South in the Civil war. One of the famous ones. I also have relatives who fought for the North, and others who just chucked it and went out west for the duration.
The accusations that everyone who is white is a racist came long before Trump. Trump was a /reaction/ to it, not the cause. Don't support Obama's progressive wishlist? It's because you're a racist, not because you simply don't agree.
It worked prior to Trump. It's only the revisionism that pretends it started afterwards. Why do you think Republicans nominated Trump in the first place?
Nothing more sophisticated than Trump was despised the same way shitlibs despise red states. So when they had the option to throw a brick named Trump at the glittery, glass house of the Dems, they did exactly that.
The hated hit back at the haters. And boy did it send the smug liberals into a shit fit due to it’s a) undermining their technocratic and credentialed authority, b) Trump’s “crass” and “vulgar” violation of “norms” — apparently nothing is worth more to Dems than making sure you’re docile, non-confrontational, and “not mean”. Sure, we’ve got a homeless crisis and the healthcare industry rips you off, but don’t you ever get mad or raise your voice!
Cruise any comments section on the internet, this one included, and you will see plenty of accusations that anyone that a) did not attend college or b) does not live within 20 miles of an urban core is a stupid and ignorant racist. This may shock you, but even less sophisticated people without a degree understand when they are being denigrated and sneered at, and they dislike it as much as you would.
I could cruise the comments section anywhere on the internet and also find people being racist and hateful. What's your point? Do you really judge people base your political philosophy around anonymous comments on the internet? Or the loudest voices on either side? I thought we were supposed to live in the "real world"?
You implied that people right of center were coming up with imaginary reasons to adopt a victim mentality. I'm here to tell you, it is not a victim mentality at all. Being mocked and sneered at bye everyone left of center, and then being accused of racism, misogynism, anti-immigrant sentiment, lack of patriotism, domestic terrorism, and pretty much every other ism in the book has a tendency to upset people. That tendency translates into votes like we saw in Virginia last night.
That’s a straw man. I never said Trump addressed or solved anything. I said he was an instrument through which the “right” expressed their anger at precarity and deaths by despair. The shitlibs have been leaving them to rot and fester via NAFTA, treating their states like extraction colonies, suffering disproportionately due to lack of human social support programs. Sometimes the only thing you have power to do is mutually assured arson. The Dems have been burning down peoples lives for decade.
The “right” (and much of the left — myself included) are exhausted from being told the reason our teeth fall out, we have to choose between homelessness and insulin, that we should mortgage our future to pay for credentials that allow us passage through the gatekeepers, and so on is all due to our ascriptive identity as white, a dude, and heterosexual. And that the failure to genuflect at the alter of anti-whiteness means we deserve to have our lives destroyed.
The “hated” are the broke ass to working class crowd who prove inconvenient and meddlesome to the oligarchs. They don’t vote for the “correct” candidate or they hunt or they protest pipelines or they object to WV turned into one giant mining waste pit. They think college and healthcare shouldn’t bankrupt them.
Victim mentality is a pejorative that erases the social forces which created Trump. Most of which is economic oblivion perpetrated on the red states via things like trade agreements, failure to take action against vertically integrated chicken ag enterprises, going bankrupt if you get cancer, and so on. These are horrid occurrences and those that suffer them are, IMHO, actual victims who suffered actual harm.
I mean, I agree all those are problems and that basically neither party really cares about them... hence why I think the majority of partisan politics is a side show meant to keep the majority of people divided and conquered. But voting for.... *checks paper*.... the former co-CEO of the Carlyle group seems like a really strange tactic if you're trying to stick it to the oligarchs. But then again they voted for Trump who is a rich dude who doesn't care about anyone but himself also. Maybe this is some kind of 4th dimensional chess that my smooth brain just can't wrap itself around.
If people are so angry... why don't they start voting for people who will actually address these issues, or at least pretend they're going to?
This is precisely correct. The Democrat party is mostly run by right wing corporatists who will sell out their voters to the wealthy in a second (see Biden, Joe or Dodd, Chris). But Republicans are universally in lockstep for not just insane social policies but economically (aka what really matters) they are a hairsbreadth away from being pro-slavery. Trump did NOTHING for anyone but himself and his rich buddies. His big "innovation" was being crudely xenophobic. Though, the immigration issue IS an important one, because it does lower wages. But you know what the remedy for that is? Unions. Which the Republicans hate, because they hate working people.
"[W]hy don't they start voting for people who will actually address these issues, or at least pretend they're going to?"
I think Trump is certainly a person who "at least pretend [he was] going to".
For powerless and poor people to become *successfully* organized, it takes a widespread level of frustration and anger that we have not -- despite appearances and feelings -- *still* have not reached yet. Few of those native-born Americans alive today have experienced it. When we do, people will stop having kids, quit their jobs, and in all other ways will finally be in 'war' mode (for lack of a better word).
Most working class people don’t have the “hate the rich” attitude that privileged progressives/Ds do. They might have a desire for certain social programs-or appreciate them if enacted, but they aren’t demanding that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk get taxed into pauperism. That’s an activist pov.
You said those failures were reasons to vote against Dems. Agreed; but not for voting Republican, let alone for someone like Tru,mp. It's a perfect example of the trap created by the 2-Party duopoly.
"NAFTA, treating their states like extraction colonies, suffering disproportionately due to lack of human social support programs."
Same problem. NAFTA was a REPUBLICAN initiative, negotiated by Bush I. Clinton's adoption of "free trade", aka laissez-faire, was a betrayal of New Deal liberalism - and the reason I'm not a Democrat. So was starving the "social support systems." But voting for a Republican just makes it worse. Granted, one of the few good things Tru,mp did was block the Pacific and European free-trade agreements. Negative, but to the good.
But Trump was not just any old Republican, he was a fuck-you republican that is really hard to imagine anyone else remotely representing so well as he did (even if it didn't make that much sense to anyone that was around since the 80's). That doesn't counter your point, but it should be enlightening as to why people made the choice.
He might not have addressed those issues personally (or with any initiatives springing from his own head)-but his admin produced solid policy in energy, judges, education, border security (NOT wall building), tax policy, and foreign relations ( not China, admittedly).
Trump did anything about the homeless crisis or health care ripping you off? Sure, the Dems are useless, but voting Republican sends the wrong message.
So the Dems actively refusing to govern or legislate in any way to ameliorate those two problems, yet voting to send them back over and over again for their lack of accomplishment is somehow sending the right message? What non-wrong message is being broadcast here?
The federal government solution to homelessness is easy. Clear out a national forest in Wyoming and build a city of towers like they do in China. Give an apartment to every homeless man, woman and child for free. See if they stay there, however.
The homeless crisis is one of weather patterns and arbitrage.
As long as there are rich stupid people who hand out money, and stupid politicians who believe that homelessness is due primarily to "greed" and "wealth inequality" and "housing prices," mentally ill people will gravitate to the streets where such people live, and ask for handouts. And get them daily.
NYC has lots of homeless because there's a lot of people to ask for spare change - and more than enough who are willing to contribute.
LA has lots of homeless because you won't die sleeping overnight in January on the street.
SF has lots of homeless because the cops won't beat the shit out of you or throw you into the Bay for shitting on the street.
Try being homeless in The Woodlands, TX. You learn not to sleep on the streets there. In some small towns, the solution to homelessness is to buy the homeless a one-way greyhound ticket to a place where they will be accepted with open arms.
Well, assuming your name/handle is correct, Oregon has a horrific homeless problem, especially here in the Willamette. And it had this before Trump was elected, and will have it as long as there is money to be made in the state by NGOs under Kate Clown and whoever comes after her, probably Kotek. There are plenty of solutions that could be on the table, but all are quashed by adherence to Liberal principles. For a great expose on this, read San Fransicko. Which was written by a west coast liberal who looked into the problems and not the rhetoric.
Yes, I live in the Willamette Valley, and I agree with you. My city struggles constantly with the problem, kindness vs. self-protection. And I don't see any solutions coming from the Democratic government.
I never took Trump seriously at all but when he ignored America Ferrera and the rest of the media calling him racist early in the primary, I was like "ok. I want to see this." I never though he would maintain that lead.
But don't kid yourself; there always was and always will be a "Trump". It was Bush before Trump, Reagan before Bush, and so on. The caricatures don't require underlying truth.
I do wonde if DeSantis runs, and he really seems to be the GOP's best hope of a win in 2024, if he will get the "worse than Hitler" bit. I mean he'll be called racist for sure since he's a white male Republican, but I do wonder how far they'll go with it and how many will take the bait.
My concern with DeSantis is there are a lot of neocon zombies rising from their political graveyard who seem to like DeSantis. Maybe they are just trying to make sure Trump never comes back, but their support makes me suspicious.
Is this really more complicated than taking the culture war too far? When you make EVERYTHING about kneeling at the altar of either extremist racial or sexual identity ideology, those ideas eventually become policies when you gain power. So, BLM actually morphs into gutted out and demoralized police departments, which produces significant increases in crime. Who cares what you call it (ok, it is technically not CRT) the obsession with implementing a bunch of D&I programs that include extreme sensitivity policies re: trans rights eventually gets a couple of 15 year-olds raped.
So, when these are just ideas, the Woke crowd can say implementing their insane ideas will lead to utopia vs. disaster. However, as they actually implement those ideas, the dream of living inside a John Lennon song quickly becomes Molly Hatchet reality.
The simple truth is that all of their ideas only work in the lab, on a CNN panel or in a stump speech, not in the cold hard world we really live in.
Everything in US politics is a culture war while the uniparty and donor class sop up the gains.
Trump doing the Braves chop, Pelosi kneeling in African garb, the new spate of book bannings in Texas, Dems' vapid marshaling of activist phrases with zero follow through on the actual demands---we could do this for days.
It's all so deeply depressing. We can't even approach COVID with an open mind. It's all about cultural signaling. We have almost zero major voices expressing plain facts like "the vaccine works for reducing severity & likelihood of catching COVID, there are promising drugs we should look into more and not demonize people for taking" while admitting that lockdowns decimated some businesses (just the small businesses both parties pretend to respect---they had the airlines' backs, don't worry) and that our government was unprepared and didn't provide sufficient remedy for people who really suffered here.
I find it basically impossible to talk with anyone about this shit because at some point, I'm failing some shibboleth. It blows.
I can field that one; untangling that sort of dreary, onerous rhetorical confusion is one of my specialties. (Of course, I love hassling that garbage out! A labor of love!)
Critical Race Theory originated as a formal legal concept, with legal proofs, reliant on demonstrating the existence of structural bias in institutions in ways that are unfair to nonwhites (in hiring and loan practices, for example), in order to obtain legal remedies for that injustice. It's about what might be termed Legacy Racism, hangover effects that existing within the halls of institutional power. Which is a real thing.
This is what the people claiming that CRT is "only a high-level concept taught in law schools" are saying: they're referring to a specific and detailed set of legal arguments and settled case law. That's the strict definition, in the original sense.
But the people making that argument are also hand-waving away the reality that Critical Race Theory has undergone so much mission creep in the minds and agendas of the Wokist cult that its precepts have been over-generalized to the point of being an open-ended strategy. That's the version of CRT that's is turning up in places like the public schools, and in popular conversation. The Wokists are manipulating vulgarized CRT points to claim that any correlation showing a disparity of outcomes between people of European ancestry (and sometimes other ethnic groups) and "nonwhites" (but most often native-born Americans of African ancestry) MUST be due to "white supremacy." As if this was still 1890. And that no dissent is allowed, either in respect to examining the problem or in challenging the solutions imposed by Wokism, because error has no rights. So if you're white and you offer disagreement on any point, you'll be attacked, vilified, pilloried, etc. While as a rule, black critics of Wokism are granted a pass of sorts, on account of the assumption of their status of oppression: they're aren't attacked, they're ignored. And I mean really ignored. They aren't even slandered as "self-hating"; they're just disappeared from the conversation. At least that's the way it is so far, in my observation. If someone knows of a single broadcast news panel show on TV- or radio, or Youtube- where Adolph Reed or John McWorther is sitting at the same table as Van Jones or Charles Blow, by all means, share the details.
I thought that was the original definition of structural racism. Old laws designed to keep "certain demographics" in their "own" separate neighborhoods or employments. "Oh too bad you don't have the right licenses." "No, no, no, this certification will not work here." "Sorry, but your down payment is not large enough." Eventually, most of the actual racists have been out of power, but many of their laws are still on the books and still having the intended effect.
I know the difference. Of course the explanation of one usually involves the methodical breakdown of the concept with examples provided and the other usually involves a non sequitur of incoherent screaming.
This is what I'm getting at in other threads, most people don't have even a slight chance of distinguishing between structural and systemic racism (at least in my universe), there's no way they can explain why one is CRT and the other isn't, why one is damaging and one might not be, so it's accurate to say they don't know what they're talking about when the acronym CRT comes out of their mouth.
Well said. Basically its a real theory that has become a stand for the woke and they are using the legal theory as a tool or a distraction. Kinds of like New Shimmer being a floor wax and a dessert topping. (From back in the days when SNL was actually funny.)
Sorry. Still no dice. I was at law school during the time in question. And knew critical theorists.
This is not a study of institutional racism.
CRT isn’t vulgarized anything. And it didn’t really originate in law school. It was born more or less in the depressed pessimistic genetic lineage of the Frankfurt school, although it’s unfair to tar everyone there as Dr Evil the way Ben Shapiro does. It originated in the wreckage of its predecessors, Critical Theory and its corollary, Critical Legal Theory, among power crazed humanities academics in 1989. It doesn’t proceed from any concern for blacks. It proceeds from Marcuse’s earlier conclusion that the dirty proles would never revolt and elevate their betters (I.e., professors) to the pinnacle of power in society, so the professors better find some rowdy minorities to make use of.
Anyway. The point is that it’s entangled in legal theory but was never just that. More importantly it was NEVER about racism. It was always always about dismantling society to create a better world order with professors on top. There are no “good intentions” in CRT. None. I wish I were kidding but I’m not.
I'm familiar with that history, too; it's "critical theory" as imported into American academia and first nurtured in literary criticism classes, entering into currency in American public discourse in the 1980s, as a strategy for reconstituting the American Left in the Reagan years. Brilliant, if you're tone-deaf about appealing to the American people. Ironically, Rush Limbaugh built his career on mocking its unexamined assumptions and hollow rectitude (thanks a lot, faux-mo American Left!) Critical theory seems to have worked well enough for the purpose of acquiring academic tenure, though.
Matters of taxonomical hairsplitting aside, the details of what you describe are correct. And it does account for the theoretical basis (such as it is) for what I've gotten to refer to as Wokism, what with its valorized axe-grinding, insufferable two-faced hypocrisy, emphasis on petty internecine witch-hunting, and demands to view human individuals categorically- and often exclusively- on the basis of of a handful of attributed status characteristics. The level of sophistry of American Wokists is not nearly as highbrow as the pretensions of Theory as espoused by products of the Frankfurt School, like Herbert Marcuse. The pseudologic of consequentialism is the same, though.
FYI I’m doing this on an iPad which tantalizes me with a quick glimpse of a reply box to me to fat-thumb my way into before abruptly jumping to a random comment far, far away. Anyway.
There’s a lot of storytelling to be done in the fight against wokeism. It’s critical to step back from the fray, disengage from the idiotic arguments conducted on their terms, and start with a contextual framework for understanding whats happening. James Lindsay does this well but his work is quite long. We need a primer. The 7 principles of CRT and where they came from. The 5 goals of wokeism. The wokeism spew nonsense of a living and it’s not fair to demand working stiffs go from their shifts straight to a debate on postmodernism just to keep their son from being castrated.
such a primer would be super helpful, not just for engaging in a fight but for everyone else trying to understand what the fight is really about. The seeming lack of a concise delineation of what is and isn't CRT (because this seems to matter a lot, probably for good reason) for the average rando means most people are not talking about the same thing, not to mention everyone on the sidelines watching a retarded discourse over this strange thing 'CRT'
asking as someone who actually really doesn't know exactly wtf is CRT, do you have a source you recommend that details the intricacies of what it is vs what it isn't?
Watch everything by James Lindsay. Start with the conversations he has on the beach. I don’t agree with everything he says but it’s a great education. It won’t make sense at first until you keep at it.
Thanks for this excerpt, I'll look it up to hear the rest. It would have a better impact if it didn't present like hip-shot unnuanced propaganda, but I say that as an ignoramus on critical theory so maybe I'll be taking that back. Also, in the intro, I could swap in '4-chord song' for 'Critical Theory' and it would remain an equally 'revolutionizing' critique.
Yesterday's extremism becomes a yawner to the next generation. I already see it with my Zoomer teen kids. It's impossible to know exactly which way the wind blows but it seems to be leading to a greater tolerance of transgender people.
Claiming that anything is causing an increase in crime is kind of ludicrous because of the Covid epidemic changes to society. We need more time to sort this all out.
People getting upset that their kids are being taught that racism still exists is kind of the funniest complaint though.
The objection is not to teaching that "racism still exists", the objection to teaching that every detail of American life must be seen exclusively through the lens of racism.
What does Darryl Strawberry have to do with this? It's a shame he never fulfilled his potential. Probably because society is racist. Or drugs. Or something.
“Being taught that racism still exists.” That’s doing a lot of work and concealing intellectual violence that the “anti-whiteness” crowd perpetrates. You’re making a category error in conflating the existence of racism with frameworks that contort themselves into making racism exist everywhere.
There are constructive ways to discuss race and destructive ones. CRT, invisible knapsack, etc. are all corrosive and serve to cleave large groups into nanoscale identities. And all of that creates the “oppression Olympics”, whereby the marginalized compete for the coveted most marginalized prize.
You know what people are violently opposed to teaching? Class-based analysis. The liberals take great pains to erase class concerns through substitution of unhinged moral proclamations. “The reason you aren’t making 200k/yr as a coder is because you’re white and you were born racist and you won’t atone.” Racists say things like they’re “born criminals”. That’s essentialism and racist. But if we apply essentialism to white people and racism, then it’s ok. SMFH.
You know what creates racial solidarity? Class consciousness. Economic inequality is racist and I have yet to see the Dems make a serious attempt to deal with it.
No serious person claims that racism exists everywhere. I know there are a few kooks that claim that scientific thinking and logical analysis are racist at their roots, but they are the exception, not the rule, and certainly not taught in the "real" CRT, e.g. the actual legal doctrine formulated by Bell and others.
I'll step in it and say I must not be serious because I'll claim racism does pretty much exist everywhere and certainly not just in the realm of whities. Every community of similar looking people I've ever encountered inevitably forms stereotypes about themselves and other groups (which all have the potential to reach 'racist'), that's why it makes excellent universal comedy. I have no idea if this is compatible with or actually is 'CRT'. Everyone is a racist from time to time, it's practically inevitable unless one's brain is way outside the bell curve of humanity. Or maybe I'm using a bad definition of 'racist' and 'racist' is as slippery as 'CRT'.
You literally have no fucking idea what CRT is. Go read a fucking boook by Robin DiAngelo or Ibrahim Kendi. The entire point is that everything is racism. There is no escaping it and no changing it. Racism is part of everything.
You are so wildly ignorant of literally everything that’s actually happening that it’s both hilarious and tragic.
You may not know this but covid is a global pandemic. The crime wave isn’t. Bet that fact never penetrated your little head before.
And if you think CRT teaches “racism exists”—for the sake of your kids, at least, stop talking. I just can’t imagine how people reach adulthood thinking they get to have opinions about things they can’t even describe properly. Learn things. Talk less.
"The number of murders in the United States jumped by nearly 30% in 2020 compared with the previous year in the largest single-year increase ever recorded in the country, according to official FBI statistics released Monday."
How does the race baiting square with the fact that the Lt. Governor race saw 3.3 million or 99.90% of the total, go to two women of color with immigrant backgrounds? The winner, Winsome Sears is a black woman born in Jamaica. Ms. Sears is a Republican and received almost as many votes as Youngkin, with a higher percentage of votes cast in her race.
Apparently the same 'racists' that voted for Youngkin, also voted for a black woman. How do you square that?
Funny but true. As Biden said, if you do not vote for him, you lose your racial affiliation. We may not understand it but a Marxist would understand that logic perfectly.
and I'm sure you do......but let me disabuse anyone of the notion that I am accusing Brandon of being a Marxist. He is not. He's just another corrupt grifter who wandered into power by luck and happenstance an has been happy to follow whatever means allows him, and now his enablers, t keep th gravy train running. Im sure he knows much more about Groucho than Karl.
I had/have no idea whether or not you consider Dear Leader a Marxist or not. I just think it's funny that you think that Marxists have anything to do with being woke.
What a great comment, especially the keep up part. I really hope this marks a time when we will start to see a shift away from the way the left, and basically all institutions of power, talk about race (and identity). It's been degraded to the point of parody.
Yeah, Larry Elder was the black face of white supremacy to CA democrats who peaked around the corner and couldn't understand why Gavin Newsom is so despised. Oh well, back to brunch.
What really happened in Loudon County, however complex it may be, couldn't have swung the election, though. It's the perception of what happened, statewide, that swung the election.
And overall, the impression was of arrogant ideologues doing whatever they pleased at the expense of kids and Terry McAuliffe indulging them.
If you don’t think what started in Loudon county didn’t swing this election, wait and see what happens in 2022 if Merrick Garland doesn’t walk back the whole “let’s have the FBI investigate parents as potential terrorists” for getting rowdy at school board meetings thing
Don’t kid yourself that this was Garland doing something stupid. The letter from the association was dictated by the puppet masters in the White House who are really calling the shots. The Weekend at Biden shell President isn’t calling the shots either. The woke kids run the asylum now. The suburban moms and dads are starting to get a clue. They voted accordingly. Unless the woke kids take this as a come to Jesus moment, expect more of the same.
After the national school board association sent a letter apologizing for the 1st letter he could have easily backed off this but nope, just went ahead and doubled down.
Loudon County showed the on the ground effects of idiot wokism to people that, until now, basically thought it was the obsession of rednecks and FOX viewers. McAuliffe, Biden, and Obama told the suburbanites to shut up and take their medicine from the school nurse-they found out what it’s like to be talked to by the Ds the way people in SW Ohio or Oklahoma have felt for the past 8 years or so.
Julian Assange shouldn’t be released from the dank chambers of Belmarsh Prison because the CIA contemplated assassinating him. He shouldn’t be released because a key witness against him admitted to fabricating his deposition.
He should be released because he didn’t commit the crime for which he is charged and a country that treats journalism as a crime against the state shouldn’t have legal standing to bring extradition requests in the courts of nations that consider themselves democracies.
And -- a bit more on St. Obama and his CIA, FBI and NSA executives: Barack Obama was/is a spook (i.e., CIA operative/spy ), from a spook family, and his political campaigns were financed by spooks… ). Snowden disclosed the all-encompassing surveillance of US population under St. Obama after Clapper directly lied about it in Senate and to all of us.
In 1965 CIA organized a coup against Indonesia founding president Sukarno by CIA-trained generals. The US considered Sukarno too progressive (he implemented land-reform – same reason for CIA coup in Guatemala which resulted with a genocide of high-land Mayas). CIA installed one of the most murderous military regime (under Suharto dictatorship) on Earth which killed more than two millions ( 2M ) civilians – the massacres are known as “The Jakarta Method” (see book by Vincent Bevins) used subsequently in Africa (Angola, Mozambique) and throughout Latin and Central America.
What is important here is that Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, worked for U.S. government agencies and allied NGOs—the Ford Foundation, Asia Foundation, Development Alternatives Inc., and United States Agency for International Development (USAID)—in Indonesia in the 1960s and 1970s as well as later in Ghana, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and Thailand.
Obama’s mother married Indonesian Lt. Col. Lolo Soetoro; they had a daughter Maya Soetoro when Barack Obama was four. The colonel was from an aristocratic family which lost out in Sukarno’s land reform; the marriage was likely arranged, Obama’s mother may have acted as a female “honeypot” for the CIA whose job was to recruit assets
Obama always lied and claimed that his mother did not know about the countless atrocities that were committed by the Suharto government, which is implausible given her CIA background and the fact that they were much reported on by mainstream newspapers at the time (although mostly favorably by right-wing media). Of significance, Obama underplayed his stepfather Lolo’s army rank in his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope.
Soetoro went on to become an executive at Mobil Oil and its liaison to Suharto, whose policies Obama’s mother praised. And – Obama became a labor and community “organizer” – while he actually worked for a large corporate foundation.
A Company Family: The Untold History of Obama and the CIA
By Jeremy Kuzmarov - October 1, 2021 ( Note: Photos themselves are truly fascinating )
A Company Family: The Untold History of Obama and the CIA - CovertAction Magazine
Pretty sure no president since Bush senior was actually running things, and before that, (maybe) Jack Kennedy (gave it a good try). Sure, several of them were probably under the *illusion* they were running things, the others knew better to make peace with TPTB.
A question: Where one can find a consolidated (all three parts) of Tucker Carlson video titled “Patriot Purge”?
Jan. 6 “armed insurrection” is as much a fraud and hoax as the “Russia-gate” – same lying team.
PS: Fox channel is completely disorganized and drowning in endless stupid garbage a la Hannity, etc. - you can’t easily find it there… Tucker Carlson should find another platform – the sooner, the better for him…
That's because there is no THEM RUNNING THINGS. That is the poor substitute for God that you quit believing in. Reality is way more scary - no one is in control.
DNC under leadership of deeply corrupt Pelosi and Schumer just approved removal of the SALT tax law giving specifically billionaires class billions of profit -- more than all other proposals that were REMOVED from "reconciliation"....
But our "Curmudgeon" believes only gods control us.... These are our overlords on Earth -- controlling us, laughing at us with Russia-gate and Jan. 6 "armed insurrection" hoaxes and censoring us...
Always remember that AOC, the next Sinema, brazenly stated that "almost ten people" died on Ja. 6 -- note the ugly lie -- "ALMOST"...
There are plenty who pretend to be in control, and there are far, far more that want someone, even someone evil that they oppose, to be in control. The idea that shit happens without someone to blame flat out terrifies them.
We like to think we are in control of our own lives, but are we? Really? How much are we at the mercy of forces beyond our control?
Nope. I live in reality, and I can't tell you how many times my head's been cut off. Someone else, certainly more than one, are doing it.
God? Oh, you mean the one who relies solely on random human evangelists to spread the "Good News", who have, unsurprisingly, convinced only about 1/7 of the world in 2000 years? The one who hasn't spoken to us since the fourth century CE? The one who nevertheless is regularly hallucinated into existence by believers, where any knowledge of such being is utterly non-transferable to non believers, unlike such things as physical objects, structure of the atom, mental states of humans, etc. etc.? The infinitely merciful one who will torture me, an imperfect and limited human, in perpetuity, simply for coming to the wrong conclusion about the nature of reality?
Thanks, but no thanks -- I think I've heard quite enough.
I'm not promoting belief in all powerful beings that control our lives, not God and not any cabal of humans. You've put it out there you think there is someone calling the shots but is unseen.
Power abhors a vacuum. Sure, there's likely no single "master" out there, but there sure are a lot of islands of power exercising sociopathic control over the powerless (as well as fights between those islands). And the vast numbers of "little people" suffer. Always has been, always will be, but good politics can temper it, if we bring it back. It has in the past.
There was some weird shit that went down when El Orange Diablo was leaving office: he was contemplating a pardon for both Assange and Snowden. The Turtle Man from Hell blocked it, threatening some sort of retribution.
If this can be shown true, it is smoking gun evidence that Trump never intended, nor ever intends, to risk it all to save America.
He was damn lucky to have had the right timing to get four years to give it his best shot. But now, Republicans would be damned foolish to stay attached to his wagon. Only *Democrats* want him to continue to be the pinata 40+% of Americans would never, ever consider voting for while being only too happy to continue to be brainless attack dogs against him.
"Tucker Carlson reported on this subject, "Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the leader of Republicans in the Senate, has sent word over the White House – If you pardon Julian Assange we are much more likely to convict you in an impeachment trial. Well, is it legal to hold that over a president’s head? We’re not lawyers, we don’t know. It’s certainly wrong. But more than that, it tells you everything about their priorities." You can watch the video here. In a tweet, New York Times' Adam Goldman tweeted, "McConnell he has told allies he hopes never to speak to Mr. Trump again and is doing nothing to persuade senators to back him, instead calling the impeachment vote a matter of conscience."
"Also complicating the “Lee Atwater” narrative is the role of Asian and South Asian parents in yesterday’s results. “A lot of immigrant families came here specifically for the school system,” is how one Indian-American parent put it to me yesterday."
Yup, can confirm. When you start messing with education, you will get thrashed by Indians and East Asians. Parents immigrated from South India in the 1980s: they tend toward being liberal (because they're college educated and not working class), but have never been loyalists to the the Democrats. Strong family and good education come first, always.
And please stop confusing educated with receiving a degree. Many factors play into that narrative but part of the “educated vs uneducated syndrome” is related to training. Not education. Training happens in most universities more then education. The same as most technical schools. And the higher the education, the more the training. Matt should write about that syndrome. How we are training people to believe x vs y. Or how if you receive a masters you are told you are particularly special above the mass. This relatively new phenomenon has many people believing they are more aware then someone who hasn’t had the same training. When blind spots occur, not yet proven but would love to see a study, at both levels.
And I would bet that the money coming in Matt to swell or sell the narrative is a great example of that blindness by the elites more then the “uneducated”
I agree with your main point, but neither the educated/liberal/Democrat nor working class/conservative/redneck/dullard tropes work for me. Just not the real life experience that alot of us out there see.
What I meant by that classification is simply that traditonal working class people (small business owner, manual labor, technician, etc.) tend to organize socially and within families slightly differently than those who have a post-graduate education (lawyer, professor, doctor) even if both types share similar underlying values (good education, strong family, self-reliant, conscientious work ethic). In that context, the latter are more "liberal".
It could be upward mobility vs "we made it." The abandonment of merit-based admissions in favor of 'holistic assessments' doesn't just favor the people who do poorly on tests. It also favors the people who can provide their kids with no-pay internships, summer sessions doing activism, extra tutoring, and plug into the networks that reveal what admissions departments are screening for.
“The GOP ran a master class on race-based identity politics,” wrote CNN’s Bakari Sellers. “The return of the Lee Atwater playbook. Pretty grim,” is how former Harry Reid chief of staff Adam Jentleson put it. “Hats off to the depraved cynicism and villainy and race baiting. It worked in Virginia,” seethed Wajahat Ali of The Daily Beast. Van Jones last night called Youngkin the “Delta variant of Trumpism.”
Exhibits A, B, C, and D for the prosecution in the case against the ongoing relevance of the Main Stream Media. The have richly earned their irrelevance.
Van Jones almost had me convinced with some of his comments, post 16’, that despite being a radical leftist, he wasn’t devoid of common sense/intelligent takes on politics. I retract those thoughts.
Right. I also remember some words to that effect as well. I don't watch CNN or follow him in any way but my general sense is that he did not follow any of those thoughts up over the balance of the Trump administration. If you are on team CNN, you have to play ball.
Chris is clearly extraordinary skilled at political activism (campaigning, messaging, staying focused, etc.) The big question is whether the people who hold office can turn a culture war victory at the ballot box into sustained, useful governance. I'm a bit skeptical, but willing to hold my breath and see.
Luckily or not, the democratic party will be filled with more aspirational thought leaders then the republicans. They will be more methodical and conscientious by design. So less likely to lose by default. Your entire politics is almost perfect. Extreme thinking but requires 60 votes. Why people fight this is amazing to me. When you created the richest most powerful country in the world where poverty means less then but not starvation, under a multicultural mosaic is incredible. Nordics and Iceland be damned, small countries that require snow protection and actually have no folks looking to immigrate ( and take a real peak at their immigration populations life’s) and then compare to the rush to America. Even from further abroad. More people live your model then hate it. As flawed as it is. Stop hating your damn model that made the majority of the world want to join it. Damn.
Ok last comment on this one. Too many thoughts. Conservatives are more thoughtful by design. Democrats more aspirational. So republicans will always remain by design. And much up less. And both are required for the experiment. And grump was required to make us all understand this. As was his personality. No other type could have withstood the BS and still keep standing. Just ask Matt or Katie could they have withstood that type of critique even when it wasn’t warranted and not capitulated. It could be he saved your experiment.
Most people don’t know what CRT is , not even the folks who claim it isn’t happening, but they do believe this new inclusion approach which is often mistakenly called CRT has some problems. Real problems about segregation language and ideology that may not have caught up with reality or if you want to be positive, surpasses enlightenment
Maybe because you are retired and you have more time to spend online? No problem there, but most people with jobs and young families have no idea what CRT is. I have yet to see a CRT curriculum, and my son attends public school in a very liberal area outside DC. He is not learning CRT. Seems like this a blown up issue that the Republicans will run on in 2022. By the way, I don't think Youngkin won because of CRT or anything education related but because McAuliffe is singularly awful and the Democratic party seems to be the party of annoying tone deaf mid-upper class professionals who like to pretend they are less racist than the "less-educated" right now.
I didn’t mean you or anyone in particular. I only meant much of the CRT commentary is not about CRT as described by the established commentary. And your age will know better then most of us My point is that CRT is being co opted to drive a narrative. Now I don’t agree with CRT based on its root beginning ( although I empathise and agree with some of the tenants) because I think the deconstructive nature of its root is a real problem if you view history for longer then the last 100 or 300 years.
'CRT is being co opted' this seems true, it gets bandied about regularly in front of me by people whom I know for a fact don't even know what the letters stand for
Now that I think of it, should have added "condensers versus capacitors" - but then that was back when I made my first radio, a crystal set with the parts mounted on a wooden plank.
I always wanted a certain rental car company to make a commercial where the limo driver is OJ Simpson and it parks fast. A side door flies open and a child runs out with his shirt hanging half off as a rhinestone encrusted glove tries, but fails to grab him and pull him back in the car.
Child runs away and the crying fades and then the camera goes back to OJ in his chauffer's hat and he just shrugs and says, "It don't hurts when you use HERTZ."
Grew up in Wyoming here. When I reference BLM in conversation, as in "I went out to the BLM land to go shooting", I always get strange looks in San Francisco. Probably for more than one reason!
I think people may not know what it is by definition but they know how it makes them feel and their kids feel, and it doesn’t feel right. Two wrongs don’t make it right.
Well we can’t make how we feel be our reality obviously. But you need only to hear and see and understand the trajectory to understand how it will end.
Big city liberal elites (the donor class) and urban educated single childless social justice cat people are gonna vote for the most left of everything every time. What got Biden elected in 2020 (other than Pandemic-related election shenanigans) was the moderate suburban family voter who had been made to scream "make it stop" over all the vitriolic media-political chatter that they assumed Trump was responsible for. Not only did it NOT stop after Biden was elected, it has grown in scope, volume and nastiness.
In addition, the Democrats... only hanging onto majority power by a thread, have gone about governing like they have a super-majority and mandate to impose a far left agenda and totalitarian control. Voters really don't like that... they expect their politicians to work with the other side not push a one-sided agenda.... especially when they hold a very thin majority.
These shifts by the suburban voters that elected Glenn Youngkin are not trivial because they point to a sticky voter epiphany resulting in negative branding the Democrat party in general. It wasn't Trump after all causing all the freaking out... it was the actual strategy of the Democrats to foment emotional turmoil and social chaos so that the Great Reset would rise from the ashes. Not only has that been subtly telegraphed over time, but Democrats have grown so brazen with their corporate media cover that they just admit it all now.
Now the voters see it... and it is a terrible situation for the Democrat machine. It is so terrible that another Trump run isn't going to provide the same Democrat advantage to contrast it's own image against Orange Man Bad. The picture is "Blue Man is More Bad".
Voters really don't like hypocrites. They also don't like highly charged political hyperbole. Lastly, they want leaders that work to calm everyone the *F* down... and certainly don't like it when the leaders are responsible for CAUSING the raging of lunacy we see.
One move to stop the slide downhill is to admit that Jan 6 was a Constitutionally-protected protest with civil disobedience that was much less in scope and violence than what the Democrats and left have consistently demonstrated and supported over the last 4 years. Another move would be to admit that the American media is corrupted with left bias and big tech is censoring right-leaning content and promoting left-leaning content. Lastly, admit that our American campuses are hives for postmodernist collectivist indoctrination that isn't connected to true scholarship and support reforms to get that crap out of the education system.
But don't hold your breath. And because these things are unlikely, the Democrats will continue their downhill slide with center-left and center-right voters who don't support extremism.
Agree with all of this except the "far left agenda" bit. The Great Reset is about increasing corporate control over people, the "left" stuff is just their bs marketing cover. Look at Biden's WEF-branded "build back better" bill: it started with a bunch of "left" stuff that is popular, like free community college and 12 weeks paid family leave and Medicare dental/hearing coverage, which all got stripped out after corporate lobbyist pushback. And yet "progressives" like Jayapal are still supporting this bill that does barely any of what they supposedly want, why? Maybe because they lied to get votes, and once in power they just serve those in power.
You have to understand the connection. Both the elite globalists in government and big business and the loony AOC left want a totalitarian socialist style system. To get it done they need to reduce the independence of a strong middle class and make more dependent on government and big business. Build Back Better is the chant of the globalists. Biden is just one of their puppets.
Bill gates is actively working on a digital social credit system in India with the eBay dick so that they can shut anyone who dare not play along off from MONEY.
They have no concern about that. First, they have more money than they need for a top .01% lifestyle. Second, they are playing a bigger and longer game to participate in ruling the world.
Yes they are trying to rule the world. No, they are not “socialists.” Parts of their fucked up ideology has roots in Marxism, but Bill Gates is not a socialist.
The BBB isn't a piece of legislation. Its a agenda. It is a concept, a set of moral assertions about how the world should be and which government agencies should be tasked with wishing into reality.
Nothing is more far-right than censorship, totalitarian control and mandated medical programs to fight a disease crafted by some eggheads in a lab in China.
Classical liberalism in the 70s/80s fought against censorship, totalitarian control, the CIA, FBI,and all the alphabet agency's. The illiberals of today are embracing all of that and more. It's become more like scientology, where if you dont follow the dogma to a T you're shunned, banned, and destroyed. They've done a complete 180. Where it used to be live and let live. Now it's you said something I don't agree with so in my moral supremacy I'm gonna fucking destroy you and anyone we can connect to you. Because your a white supremacist. That's not coming from the right, it's coming from the left. From the president on down.
Voters demonstrably have no interest in bipartisanship, and no one brings up this ridiculous idea when Republicans have a majority. Voters have an interest in things than benefit their lives.
And that’s why I really Governor DeWine in Ohio-he’s chill, common sense, kinda geeky-but makes the right call on on principle/ideology when shit gets real-ie-Covid issues, etc.
Trump loved chaos and his followers love doing his bidding. He loved the famous "people are saying... Fox still burns for him. It's the same as msnbc for Biden.
The opposite is true. President Trump worked hard to get things done the right way. He got the vaccines done by coordinating among different entities. He got the PPE and ventilators provided faster than expected because he negotiated with companies to get them made. He had the problem of chaotic advisors like Fauci, who constantly shifted his positions (no masks, masks required, then no masks or distancing as of early July 2020. Also, President Trump was educated for the position, unlike Obama and Biden, and he could fire people who were not doing their jobs.
Trump thought the state's should handle getting their own ppe. Governor's were bidding against each other. It was a huge cluster f for the beginning months. Jared and a friend of his were in charge of it. One of trumps downfalls was having him as an advisor. He had no experience in handling a national crisis. Trumps nepotism is a factor in why people couldn't understand him
Actually Jared Kushner was working hard on the Abraham Accords , which were signed in August. That is a greater triumph for human rights and peace than anything President Obama ever did. The PPE was provided by negotiations with the companies and the needs were determined entirely by the working group led by Dr. Birx.
Ha, your assumption that the last general election was fair or somehow not rigged to keep the mobs of angry voters from KEEPING these demons away from the levers of power is quaint and one day will be replaced with some logic.
All of the primary competition magically vanished, one by one. My state's primary is on Super Tuesday. I would have been a deeply unhappy camper if i had voted early for Pete or Amy, and found that by primary day, my vote was totally in vain.
I was a deeply unhappy camper. Setting aside irregularities, Biden won many states, the premise that "Big city liberal elites...and urban ... cat people are gonna vote for the most left of everything every time" just doesn't hold water for me at all.
Irregularities were everything. Or most everything. Remember Biden was running 4th or 5th up until South Carolina. Warren had basically tko'd Bloomberg. Todd and Lisa - oops, Amy and Pete - magically dropped out just before Super Tuesday. Warren after she split the progressive primary vote with Bernie in Massachusetts. So it was basically between Biden and Bernie (who remember, to his immense credit, isn't a Democrat).
But how to reconcile that with that first sentence - Dem big donors and city liberals will vote for the most socially left every time. Not the most left economically. Bernie was way too scary.
Dem big donors vote for the ones that do what they want, it isn't always the most socially left (altho for some of them this is where their interests lie). Just not this simple, although everything else you said holds up for me just fine, esp with the cultural vs economic nuance.
I'll give you that Hillary Clinton or Biden aren't anywhere close to the most socially left. But they both talked a good game about it on the trail. Ok, not even good, mostly pretty cringeworthy. But dummies wanting cover for neoliberal economic policies swallowed it anyway.
And Clyburn’s base is too dumb to shit without instructions. I’ll never forget those chants of, “We know Joe,” delivered with the perfect combination of ethnocentric smugness at wypipo and compliant cowlike stupidity.
As deluded as Democrats seem to be, surely it didn't help his prospects that McAuliffe was the picture of venality, and a long time servant and bag-man for the Clinton's. Perhaps his greatest service will be to ring in the curtain on that sorry crew.
It's a sad commentary on the state of journalism today that I am so thrilled by the facts that Mr. Taibbi (1) has talked to multiple parties on the ground in VA to try to understand what is going on (2) is wary of publishing an over-simplified story and - 24 hour news cycle be damned! - tells his readership that a more fulsome account is forthcoming, after he's had more time to marshal his information, and (3) needs to return to VA to confirm various details. God bless investigative journalists, the kind that care about getting facts straight as opposed to advancing a simplistic narrative, and thank you Matt Taibbi!
One of my favorites these days is watching prog journalists move to Substack only to be left hanging with few subscribers while they continue spewing lefty lies, assuming the big payouts will come because they have now graced the site with their delicate and beautifully crafted prose.
They do not realize that the American electorate has lurched to the middle demanding truth amidst the bald faced lying about important stories like Russiagate and Critical Race Theory.
And parents of young daughters do NOT want their girls raped in the school bathroom by a dude in a skirt while the school board and administrators cover it up and the Dad who showed up to demand justice is pegged as a terrorist and video of him is unfairly played nationwide and HE is being prosecuted by local government. It is madness!
He wasn't just prosecuted by the local government, the school board and the Biden administration sicked the FBI on him!
The story was covered in my video report last week: https://youtu.be/efxwuALz72k
Overall, it's hard not to conclude that the Dems' policies are intentionally sabotaging America---open borders, reversing energy independence, lenience on crime, CRT in gov't and schools. The political center doesn't dig it.
Dems policies are perfectly consistent with the interests of their owners - create as many divisions as possible (hence identity politics, now Covid "mandates" on top of it) to distract from common problems of 99%: debt peonage, socio-economical insecurity, lack of social mobility (esp. for next generation), urban blight etc etc. Once divided (and demographically weakened, hence uncontrolled immigration) the elite arbitrates between the groups (handing this or that sop "benefit" based on the perceived degree of "oppression" in woke hierarchy). Classic "divide and impera" tweaked for the post-industrial, globalized era. This way they hope to keep status quo as long as possible.
I agree with this 100%. But it's not like the Republicans are any better.
TBF they both work for the same money in most instances and for the sake of argument here it's fair to say that their threatened hegemony is at stake. Surprise, surprise... they can tilt the tables at election time to keep the corporate puppets in places of power. R or D... doesn't matter to them and it shouldn't matter to us.
I'm all for keeping my mind on the long game of this and not being trapped by this cuntery.
Yes. Maintaining the establishment duopoly is their №1 goal
That’s the problem.If they were any better, when they had the White House, Senate and Congress, there would have been no “ Russia Hoax” Special Council,No Ukraine bullshit impeachment,Mike Flynn would have exposed, purged the Deep State, State Dept, members of both parties and a hell of a lot of them would be prosecuted for treason and sedition..
I never liked Pence and was very disappointed when he was chosen as Trump’s running made. It seemed a wild gamble and really expected it to backfire.Apparaently, the non-ideological crossovers saw it for what it was. He needed the Evangelical vote because the Establishment were all in to help Hillary and the globalists.
Pence lost the scintilla of hope Id had of being somewhat invisible when he allowed Flynn to be removed .
The same Flynn that wanted to suspend the Constitution, impose martial law and "silence the destructive media?" He is the biggest turd in the punch bowl to me.
10 were charged with seditious conspiracy today. Doubt that will change your mind. Would a conviction do so?
They have no moral high ground, nor do they care about any of what they lay claim to. It’s globalism, power, multilateral , multinational corporatism, Parma,technocracy,war, personal gain . W/ China and DAVOS,NATO,OPEC,WEF- their power is limitless and their absolute disdain for mere American citizens has become unbridled. The Dems are the Bush Cartel. They just have better acting coaches, casting agents and makeover consultants
Oh, it has limits... they'd be hard pressed to fight a guerilla war at home and in ALL of the vassal states they think they control.
I bet the end will be sore for them and I do hope people yoink them out of their cushy offices and behead them.
They've been partying in Marseilles for too long now and the rubes are sick of eating cake.
Spot on, but there is a larger scope that is under reported.The self proclaimed progressive left isn’t working alone to destroy America top down, bottom up, outside and within. The supposed Conservative anti-Trump Biden supporters have a major stake in the effort to takedown the GOP.All one needs to focus on is who they aren’t attacking. Romney,Cheney,Kinzinger,Graham,Burr,Ghristie,Raffenberger,Dicey,Portman,Cassidy,Murkowski,Thune,Mitch,Kemp,Ryan,McMullin, Cofer Black,Corker,Bush,Amash,Koch ..There’s The Bulwark,Lincoln Project,George Will,Jennifer Rubin,Mona Charen,David French,Jonah Goldberg,,Orrin Hatch,Hayden,Petraeus,Fiorina,Mueller,Wray,McCain,Baker,Rosenstein,… These self proclaimed bastions of moral righteousness and lawful Constitutionality
This isn’t about Trump’s personality or partisan ideology. It’s about the threat Trump posed to their global corporate interests, foreign lobbying,entanglement w/ China,shareholder wealth including Pharma, tech, foreign investments in rare earth and minerals,mercantile consumerism,importation of cheap labor,steel,the military industrial complex war machine,ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, Deep State,Soros,Vanguard,Blackrock,Goldman Sachs,Deutsce Bank,CitiBanc,Berkshire Hathaway,Disney,Silicon Valley,Bloomberg and profiteering from foreign nations that are among the most corrupt violators of human rights.They will pound their chests about R v W, pretend to support Israel’s right to exist and pledge to defend her sovereign rights, claim to support a lawful society and a scrupulous justice system, but they stand for nothing but self predervati regardless of the cost to America,humanity and innocent animals. Including dogs.
Yeah I completely agree that both sides of the aisle are China whores. There corporate donors are all China whores too so it stands to reason. Our entire culture sucks because it’s been hi-jacked by greedy China whores. Sad
The one candidate who called it out with extremely riveting details was Virginia’s Winsome Sears, the newly elected Lt. Governor.
During her acceptance speech, she called out the Pentagon and DOD claiming China’s development of a more technologically sophisticated nuclear development system “ Caught them by surprise”and the failure of our education system, particularly among black students and lowering expectations for all students deliberately.But the particular targets of exclusion and isolation are Asian American students” Why do you think that is? Because Asian culture is hyper-focused on education, particularly higher education and family values. They aren’t burning down cities, engaging in violent, anarchic Antifa and BLM mobs. They respect the elderly. It’s a cultural norm. They aren’t screaming about inequality. Because their families knew real oppression. Maoism, Xi, surveillance, murder. Tiananmen Square massacre of protesters crying out for freedom. China’s own students rank highest in education. She also called out the denigration and purge of the military using Stalinist propaganda. The expulsion of the most able, disciplined military elite. The Navy Seals. Long serving trained active enemy combatants.The soldiers who are unabashedly patriotic and loyal to America. Disparaged as “extremists”. Meanwhile, Xi is “masculinizing” China’s military. Genetically engineering. China is a mono cultural nation. Blacks, Browns are neither welcome nor embraced. They are tolerated because pro-sports puts more money and power in Communist China’s coffers. And now the pro-sports industry is using black players to promote Communist talking points. Ethnic minorities are placed in “re-education Camps”. Sterilized, tortured, forced organ harvesting, their heads shaven, the hair sold to Americans as wigs, extensions,weaves. They are forced into slave labor.
And no, the increasing violent attacks on Asians in broad daylight are being perpetrated by “ White Supremacists”. The attackers are black.
Winsome Sears is a black, female Jamaican immigrant and veteran. She arrived here in 1963, prior to the Civil Rights Movement. She loves America and is an activist within underprivileged black communities to give them the tools necessary for a better life.
Huxley warned of globalism and the loss of individual freedom and rights that would manifest. Ditto Welch,Moynihan,Scoop Jackson,Goldwater, Gandhi,Tibet,Rod Serling,Bradbury,Asimov,Solzhenitsyn,Eisenhower,Patton,Nixon( fucked up underestimating where the next admins would take it), Orwelll
The most formidable global enemy is headquartered smack dab in America’s most famous locale, the UN, which belongs in the already polluted East River.With all of its inhabitants.
Rod Serling’s infamous Twilight Zone episode, “ To Serve Man”was an amazing metaphorical warning.
I don’t know whether you’ve seen it. A foreign spacecraft landed in NYC and several aliens alit. Of course the reactions were a mixture of fear, panic , skepticism and curiosity. Curiosity with a healthy measure of skepticism outweighed the panic and fear. The aliens were given the stage at the UN to explain who they were, where did they come from and why.
They were able to communicate telepathically, claiming to bring peace, friendship, advance our technological capabilities.
Some remained skeptical, but the majority, as is the case with human gullibility welcomed them. They were here “ To Serve Man”.Many were so giddy they boarded the spaceship, excited to be the first to explore a new horizon. The doors closed, hermetically locked and the craft lifted off. And then they realized “ To Serve Man” was a cookbook!
Serling was yet another prophet. Each of his allegorical Twilight Zone episodes have come to fruition.
The corporations are desperate for Chinese markets, and the politicians are desperate for corporate donors. When you view US politics and US media through the lens that everything is being done for China -then suddenly everything makes perfect sense. Viewed through any other lens it is insanity. They are cashing in our nation while enriching themselves with Chinese money. God help us. We need someone like trump back soon or there will be nothing left. Sorry a lot of folks don’t like his style, I get that but you won’t like the alternative either.
Watch a lot of James Lindsay.
I do. He pointed out recently that schools may not be 'teaching' CRT, but they are "doing" CRT to kids. They've simply changed the terminology (big surprise)---social and emotional learning, whiteness, etc. It's all the same stuff.
They're not teaching CRT they're implementing it.
That's what I've been trying to get people to say as well. When we say the school systems are *teaching* CRT, it gives CRT proponents the "out" of claiming we're lying, because it's true that the K-12 curriculum does not include the works of people like Derrick Bell and Kimberle Crenshaw. However, the public schools' entire approach to education is now being guided by the tenets of CRT, and university schools of education are completely immersing their students, almost all of whom will go on to be public school teachers or administrators, in it (as well as similar far left-wing thought on gender, colonialism, etc.). If your child is being taught by a recent ed school grad, God help you.
Sorry, but telling a child they are bad because of the color of their skin sort of goes against the concepts of "teaching racial theory to help make the world a more equitable place". If that is their real goal... which anyone can see is NOT.
It’s beyond nefarious.The bigger problem is what Fox fails to include in it’s reporting. The most poignant plea was a black mother’s speech before the school board. Her husband is white and her young daughter, biracial.What made her speech so important was calling out the damage being done to her family. Teaching the child to hate her white father and her mother as a traitor for marrying the oppressor.Tearing apart a loving, functional family and a formerly happy, well adjusted , high achieving child with friends from every walk of life. On purpose.
Sexualizing a child who was loving being a girlie girl who hadn’t even reached pubescence and told America was a garbage, colonizer slave nation. Systemically racist, ruled by a white Christian supremacist patriarchy of xenophobia, misogyny, Islamophobia,oppression of black, brown,Indigenous people and immigrantshomophobic,transphobic, Eurocentric supporters of Zionist apartheid.
The mother is Muslim, the father, Jewish. And they were what they once thought liberal Democrats
Agree. There are a lot of theories about the true aim of CRT, but it seems to be the perfect tool to undermine the patriotism of white America, the great resistance. If you can get whites to question themselves, their legacy, and their country, it's a lot easier to assimilate America into the NWO.
I hated McCain and had a bad vibe about Obama in ‘08. Just before the election, My husband and I celebrated a friend’s birthday bash at The Palm. Seated at an adjacent table we’re the Mayor, who I knew personally, General Tommy Franks and Colin Powell.The mayor was a Republican, but socially liberal, Powell and Frank were major players in the W admin. I butted in, as usual. My husband at the other table looked like he wanted to sink beneath it.
I asked them who I should. vote for, expressing my hatred for McCain, though I was really unsure of Obama. They shared the same sentiment and concern, but we’re going to vote Obama.McCain was corrupt and a warmonger and we’re sick of the wars. Obama was a coin toss, but they didn’t think he’d get us involved in yet another war.
I reluctantly voted for Obama and when he made his acceptance speech, immediately regretted it. Regretted voting at all. The words” Fundamentally change America” was tantamount to the warning sirens of a nuclear attack.
I wasn’t wrong about McCain or Obama.Every awful action Obama enacted was given McCain’s blessing.Ukraine,Egypt,Syria,Libya,Yemen,Afghanistan, NATO buildup, FISA,extending the Patriot Act, Mueller, Brennan,Clapper, embracing the Muslim Brotherhood, droning American citizens, wiretaps, warrantless searches, combining the entire IC, the IRS scandal( yes, McCain was a player. Fast and Furious. Yes, McCain was a player. Soros. Yes, he’s owned McCain since Keating
The McCain that the media recently lionized.
They are "doing" CRT in corporate mandatory DEI training.
Or the military, Deep State dark money corporate CCP media. Xi is laughing unstoppable and deservedly..
Psychological warfare. Remove the partisan politics. Emphasize the propandized devastation designed to impact every American and how,why it’s being done and the endgame.
BASED
He’s fabulous!
Have you read Douglas Murray’s “ The Maddening Of Crowds” and “ The Strange Death Of Europe”? He’s a gay Brit and former liberal. He’s now a classic liberal /conservative
One word endlessly repeated says it all” Transformational”. And it sure as hell isn’t for the greater good.
Name one DNC agenda item in the last 5 years that doesn’t benefit China. Coincidence? I think not
They love oppressive dictatorships that use surveillace to imprison, torture and kill dissenters, suspected dissenters, religious minorities , forced abortion, forced organ harvesting, slave labor, censorship, expansionism and the destruction of coral reefs, the natural Eco-system,are the greatest polluters globally, racist and mono cultural and are rapidly overtaking our military capabilies, forced technology transfer, create bioweapons, and the entire supply of the necessary components to produce every medical necessity that we are dependent upon to remain alive.
But there are many Republicans who are complicit
When we ( and our NATO ( EU) besties continue to invade theocratic nations that have never experienced western style democracy( which as is becoming obvious are longer democratically elected sovereign republics)), the result is a given. Mass migration, increased extremism, more chaos and war and attacks on our homeland. And the inevitable integration of extremism within our borders. Including every government entity.
Trump,during his anti-intervention 2016 campaign platform nailed it:”We are forcing our way of life in regions that never experienced or wanted it. And then expect them to thank us. So why are we surprised when they attack us?What good has come from invasion and nation building ? None.Look at Libya.They have no government, but have been taken over by brutal Islamist extreme terrorist factions,no sovereignty,their natural resources were plundered, it is now a slave market, borderless terror tunnelWho benefits? Our soldiers? Their civilians? The American people?Who benefits from death,misery, chaos,mass refugee migration? The global elites, multinationals, political Establishment, oligarchs,and tyrants.Who shoulders the economic burden?The middle class taxpayers.
Who armed the terrorists , broke the longstanding treaty that we would not invade if they ceded their weapons of war? We did w/ our “allies France and Great Britain.Illegally.Brutally murdered their leader and his sons like the savages we denounce and laughed.And we abandoned Americans who were begging for help.
Everybody focused on Benghazi, but nobody questioned why we invaded Libya. Shouldn’t that be the real focus?”
That was one of the major reasons I voted for Trump. He exposed the enormous topics that have sold out America we never contemplated.
Corporate inversion, multinationals, unfair trade, manufacturing job loss, infrastructure, highest drug prices, NATO not paying its fair share, Hospital costs, energy dependence,NAFTA,TPP,OPEC, the forgotten American, hyper-regulation, foreign lobbying, pay for play, illegal immigration, foreign worker visas vs hiring Americans, the corrupt, failed IC and agencies, destruction of small businesses, black communities living in hell, long ignored and without opportunity , incentives, lousy schools and isolated because businesses were afraid to locate or invest in said communities.
Halting NATO build up and trying to forge an equally beneficial relationship with Russia that instead of provocation that pushed Russia to align w/Iran and Syria for self preservation.Ironically, Pat Moynihan warned of NATO buildup creating the very provocation and unholy alliance . Thank Clinton, Bush,Obama and the globalist vultures.
It exacerbated the surveillance state exponentially, Obama took it to a level I thought could not be exceeding. But now, China has nothing on the abusive of it citizens that we haven’t matched. Or possibly transcended.
Oh, I wish the DNC was even remotely smart enough to do this. It's the analogue of the people who think Trump is the next Hilter, although he lacks half the evil intellect of the Fuehrer
They have become the party of Hitler. They just don’t know enough about Hitler to realize it.
There is much deserved criticism of Trump, most of it self inflicted, but he sure as hell wasn’t anything representative of Hitler. Unfortunately, his complete refusal to tone down his speech, stop tweeting and attacking often overshadowed his message and policies.
I worked alongside him for two years and while he was larger than life, funny and didn’t mince words, I never saw him once behave that way. I wish I could explain it, but I can’t.
What makes it stranger still, he has always expressed the same platform and issues that he ran on, but for the exaggerated religiosity. He’s also extremely generous and protective of anybody he believes has been victimized. He just didn’t behave so combatantly. He could have pulled it off as a Democrat because they are always ready to pick a fight and hurl insults.And get a pass.
Trump isn’t evil, but his personality overshadows his really good ideas and achievements.When he is being sabotaged by his party, the Dems, global,Deep State, corporate elites, lobbyists, tech,Pharma, media, NGOs,UN and all the powers that exist, he didn’t need to pick unnecessary fights.I wish he had flipped Independent and with the right team, quietly drained the Swamp bottom up, top down
I was reflecting on something like this with a vision of the wealthy silver-haired media star screaming lies at the plebeians like a demented ape from the balcony of his Central Park apartment. Someone is paying him to lie, and it's not his viewers. Would anyone pay him directly to rant arrant bullshit? How long would he be living with a Central Park view if he had to solicit direct donations from his viewers?
Do any of us actually want to pay a subscription to read lies?
If you're talking about Matt, your comment is pretty unintentionally hilarious.
He's talking about 'Sir' Keith Olbermann.
Probably, but also Vanderbilt heir on CNN
Everybody knows Anderson Cooper was a CIA intern, right? Weird coincidence. Surely nepotism had nothing to do with his subsequent career.
He could be talking about Howard Beale, as portrayed by Peter Finch, in the film “Network”. Paddy Chayefsky, the brilliant screenwriter, saw the noxious future of mass media four decades ago.
The best!
We need an army of Howard Beales.
Olbermann is insane. Certifiably. It boggles my mind that anybody , regardless of personal ideology, race, creed, religion or scope-economic status can watch and listen to these absurd,hyper-angst ridden D-list echo chambers without laughing or taking personal offense.They are so self important and theatrical in their exaggerated, fictitious spew as to be sickening.
I like (sincerely) your style. Thanks for bringing it. And 'bringin' it.'
Matt doesn’t have any hair. That lets him off the hook. Sorry, Matt, it’s for the sake of accuracy only.
He still looks better without some dumb hat.
Be bald. Who gives a shit.
I might be alone here, but I think MT should grow a Bonnie Prince Billy beard.
We don’t even notice
Enlighten me. No sarcasm intended.
"important stories like...Critical Race Theory"
Critical Race Theory is important..? Wh, what?
"And parents of young daughters do NOT want their girls raped in the school bathroom by a dude in a skirt"
Good God, there's a LOT to unpack here.
First, it's obscene that you would imply that wanting people to use gender-affirming bathrooms means you want children raped.
Second, that's not what happened in the Loudoun case. It keeps getting bandied about that this kid, who is by all accounts a violent offender, was able to stealth his way into the bathroom because he was wearing a skirt. Nope. Not the case. He had a preexisting consensual relationship with her. Allegedly, he met her at her own invitation THEN he raped her. That has NOTHING to do with gender.
Third, unfortunately, this case was mishandled, but if CHILDREN are involved in crimes, they are afforded privacy. It seems like this was an extreme case that got mishandled and is the perfect intersection of where our culture is right now.
Using it as a case-in-point or synecdoche for our entire society and gender relations is at best lazy, and at worst, playing to the cheap seats to repackage transphobia. You're basic and weak. Fuck off, Jenny.
A passionate defense of child rape.
No one is “phobic.” They’re sick of the lies and bullshit you’ve been spewing and the consequences will be severe. Severe.
Sevender Severe?
Again, how am I defending child rape? I abhor that. No one should be raped.
What are the lies and bullshit?
And they will be severe? What does that mean? Please be explicit. Unless, of course, that's the point because you mean to imply something that, if stated outright, would constitute a threat or hate speech. Am I wrong about that?
The lie that Trans Women are Women. Intersex is a true objectively factual reality, but the denial of the 5M years of the homo.sapiens biological sexual binary is not. The female sex is not determined by "feelings," it is determined by the sperm cell that fertilizes a woman's egg. #Science
Yes. I, too, support science. Did you know they're still updating the DSM? They're up to V. What was the last one you read?
I am a mother and grandmother deeply concerned about school safety. I am not afraid of anyone.
I am also a sexual abuse victim who has been gang raped several times.
The perps mother stuck up for him in this Daily Mail report:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10156749/Mother-skirt-wearing-teen-raped-female-classmate-says-identifies-male.html
She said some really interesting things.
Like,
"What is the end game on this?' she added. 'My son's going to be going on the sexual registry and be committed to Meghan's Law for the rest of his life because he had 15-year-old hormones."
No lady, your son is an obvious menace to society and he is going to be locked up for his predatory ways.
As much as I ache for her and the bad choices of her son, I am much more concerned about the girls father being called a domestic terrorist and the heavy handed response from the authorities.
I believe it was this side of the story that rankled all parents.
It’s become a battle of how abhorrently unconscionable acts people are willing to rationalize to prove allegiance to a political party… until they become victims of what they’ve rationalized.And even then , many will still blame the “ other side”.Mocking a rape victim speaks volumes.
It has been such a polarizing time. I hope we can all get back to being Americans sooner than later.
I'm deeply sorry for your past victimization. That's awful.
Sure. I can accept that. I had a family member murdered, and the murderer's mother was the same way. Unfortunately, I think the tendency to see the best side of their child is the protective maternal instinct taken to the extreme.
Can we please separate the crime, which is awful, from the trans community and the use of gender affirming restrooms, which has not resulted in any increase in sexual violence?
Lily,
I can understand how frustrated the trans community must feel being unfairly attached to this nationwide story.
I do not hate or judge anyone. I especially do not hate the troubled child abusing girls.
I look at him and his mother and think there but for the grace…
None of us have this figured out. I do appreciate your passion and your words.
We have to keep the lines of communication open and I know eventually we will create a safe nationwide scholastic environment for all children.
I appreciate you saying that. I hope you are right, but please, while I know it will grate against the community you speak to, try to avoid language like "And parents of young daughters do NOT want their girls raped in the school bathroom by a dude in a skirt." I mean, yes, that premise is true, but it gets misconstrued and helps reinforce close minded narratives. Look no further than the comments that followed mine about how the consequences for being trans "will be severe." That's screwed up.
"First, it's obscene that you would imply that wanting people to use gender-affirming bathrooms means you want children raped."
I agree that the crucial issue there is not gender-flexible bathroom policy. But the perpetrator of the rape was already a known offender who was allowed to transfer to a different school rather than being expelled, and that's a clear indication that Virginia schools have slipshod policies toward discipline that even extend to students who perpetrate blatant transgressions of basic standards of social conduct.
Compare that case with the recent phenomenon of resort to preemptive suspensions and expulsions of college students that have resulted simply on the basis of an accusation of sexual assault that isn't proven or admitted.
Also, at least some of us are dismayed by another frequent feature of the conversations about this event: the implicitly expressed laissez-faire attitude, in regard to couples appropriating school bathrooms during open school hours in order to engage in sexual acts, as long as both parties are "consenting." At least some of us find that attitude of passive assent to be not just an awfully slippery slope, but a telling indication that disciplinary standards in regard to the social environment in the high schools have already gone completely over the edge. What is someone who walks in to witness two students actively engaged in a sex act to do- give them the benefit of the doubt? Simply go about their business, using the adjoining facilities? At some point, lines need to be drawn between the mission of public high schools as learning environments for teenagers, and the opportunity for students to take advantage of a lack of enforcement of standards for social conduct- and the legal privileges of "juvenile" status- to convert a school building into a porno fantasyland environment for their personal gratification. (After which, presumably, some of those who act on that impulse may well find themselves in college and office environments where they're liable to be judged for so much as one "inappropriate touch"...the mixed messages are practically vertigo-inducing.) My sensibilities are basically libertarian. But sexual activity by students in a public high school building is not to be hand-waved aside as if the place were an after-hours nightclub for adults with proof of ID.
"if CHILDREN are involved in crimes, they are afforded privacy."
Yeah, within the controllable boundaries of the courts and the news media. But the CHILDREN cajoled or intimidated into public sex acts- including by their "partners" of minor status- are often NOT afforded privacy in their social environments; word has a way of getting out among their teenage peers. Far and wide. Sometimes there are even photos, or video. Which also has a way of encouraging silence on the part of those participants whose "consent" was actually to some extent coerced. We're all someone's "children", by the way. The word "children" is not a synonym for "fresh-faced innocent."
I'll concede that it's questionable how much the issue of (the lack of) disciplinary standards in the public schools has to do with the responsibilities and priorities of the office of Governor. But neither side's campaign particularly distinguished itself in this race, as illustrated by the McAuliffe ads that sought to portray Glenn Youngkin as if he were Steve Bannon in a fleece vest. Both sides can claim that they're simply drawing broad comparisons that highlight contrasting political leanings, in that field of political discourse that clings so fervently to being reduced to a contest between Blue and Red. I don't find either side convincing, but undoubtedly some voters did, given the jejune political climate established by those game rules.
Matthew Yglesias and Noah Smith are doing just fine, as is Freddie deBoer. You might be referring to other, less talented writers though.
Aaron Rupar: https://jennyhatch.com/2021/10/09/censored-by-aaron-rupar-on-substack/
Aaron who banned me less than 24 hours after I commented. Also Clint Watts, Talia Lavin, and Charlie Warzell. These are the propagandists I was referring to.
I love Free Speech anarchists. And I love Andrew Sullivan, Lyz Lentz, and Yglesias.
So it is not all lefty writers. Just the censorious ones.
They appear to be saddened to not have Twitter mods here deplatforming people like me for them.
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
I live for the clash!
Amen Sister! Twitter has banned me twice already. Telling the truth is increasingly forbidden in society.
Your first mistake is getting on Twitter.
I had a rock solid account with 90,000 tweets over ten years and they pulled the whole thing in January. Maddening. It was/is my favorite platform.
90,000 tweets over a ten year period is almost 24 tweets a day. That’s insane.
Have you been reading Matty lately? He's coming across as frighteningly moderate.
I recommend Freddie DeBoer substack to everyone, he is fantastic a tutor for me, I’m learning so much.
Yes, that is one of the reasons I subscribe to him. He is a radical leftist (an unrepentant Marxist even) who is pro-free speech. To be honest I agree with him on many things, even though my leftism is more of the anarchist variety.
Anarchy. Wow that’s really edgy, constructive stuff. Not.
The Wobblies did more for the American worker than any other group.
I am not a big A Anarchist I just have anti-authoritarian tendencies. Don't trust the government or Big Corporations. They don't have your best interests at heart. Throw Organized religion in that bucket.
Wow, I just looked at your substack subs; it is an all-star lineup of leftist ideology. LOL at least you’re not woke! Hehe see ya e.pierce
Glenn Greenwald, Yasha Levine, John McWhorter. Try harder.
Except that Drumpf had a giant advantage over Klinton going into the election: she was more unpopular than he was... which is really saying something.
Also... Medium?!?
Virtual toilet paper/
Isn’t BAP Curtis Yarvin?
Geez lots of replies to a simple riposte. It wasn’t a criticism or anything, simply an observation, (Dusty Rhodes accent) “if you will”…
Upon reading another article the press is not reporting she had met with the boy twice before and had sex in that bathroom consentionally. All of this was not reported and covered up.
But the 2nd girl he attacked was just a fluke? Most people aren't accused twice for the same crime. He is. He's been convicted of the 1st.
It’s true the Daily Wire blew that part of the story. A bad oversight, but the actual fact is kind of tangential to the conflict between the parents and the school board.
I don't think those details came out until the actual trial; so I'm not quite so sure the Daily Wire could have gotten all of that. But, I could be wrong.
More annoying is that those on the Left who for years have been saying "believe all women" but now that there *may* be a bit of nuance, they're ready to victim blame.
As a father of teenage girls in the Virginia school system, if my daughter comes home saying she said no, then no means "NO!!" end of story.
Also, just want to reiterate my appreciation for your on-the-ground journalism. Thank God it's not completely dead in this country.
Just imagine if the kid doing the raping was an open Trump supporter.
For me the coverup and the media and justice department going after righteously indignant Dad is the story.
The nuance of non consensual vs consensual sex is a secondary issue/detail that boils down to he said/she said.
I agree that the cover-up (and in my case as a Virginian, the lack of investigation at the state level once the cover-up was discovered) was certainly egregious.
I am sure I am not alone when, during the course of events (and the past 2 years of "Defund the Police" etc) that Democrats were on the side of criminals. I have no idea WHY, exactly, but those are the cards they are playing.
Obviously, the political fallout couldn't be plainer. Due to Democrat policies (and inaction) - if you want your kid protected, vote Republican. Obviously, I wasn't the only one to feel that way.
If the Democrats want any hope of not losing 60 seats in the House in a year, they better do a 180 on that idea, or other states are going to feel the same way.
As to the nuance of consensual vs. non consensual - it is secondary in many circumstances, but not here, not for that girl and her family. Besides, the he said/she said kind of blows up when you consider he *did it again in another school*.
Sides, with the girl in question, it sounds to me like she was okay with certain things (who knows, kissing? some other handsy stuff that kids shouldn't be doing in bathrooms regardless?) - and when the girl said "NO!" he kept on. A rape kit was used after the fact. The girl was obviously in a different situation than the "two prior times".
AFAIC, there was no "he said/she said" in this at all. There was incontrovertible PROOF.
it's also possible they had consensual sex twice and then he raped her.
Absolutely. I thought we'd established that years ago. But maybe not?
If you're not for Joe Biden, you ain't been raped.
Most people aren't accused twice for the same crime for no reason. An edit feature would be great.
Accused 2x for the same crime-just ask what happens if a cop gets acquitted by a state jury in a use of force case…..
This is true. There's also some debate if the kid wore a dress or is trans. But still, no means no, and rape is rape.
From what I have read I would guess he is gender fluid. But we don't have any statements from him on the matter, so it is a guess.
"gender fluid" sounds accurate enough. After all, he also sent naked pics of himself to victims so he likely has an immoral view of sex and sexuality.
That covers most millenials and kids today. Or do you live under a rock?
Hi won mother confirmed that he was wearing a skirt that day.
I used to have sex with my ex’s, but I ever broke into their bedrooms and forced them to have sex with me, does her consenting in the past nullify her claim that I raped her in the present? After all, we did, at one point, have a romantic relationship. Precedent and all that.
It's bullshit to slut-shame this girl and I think everyone knows it. She's allowed to have sex when and where she chooses, without fear that it is an excuse to rape her later.
Yeah, was it clear that there was affirmative consent? Was it F0reely given, Reversible, Informed, Enthusiastic and Specific? (FRIES is the acronym....kid you not) If even one of these boxes is not ticked then it is not/ consent according to the sexual assault dogma. Plenty of young men have had their lives turned upside down because the young woman had regrets and decided it was not FRIES. To those of you who now want to diminish this bathroom rape story, sorry - live by the sword, die by the sword.
She's entitled to change her mind. We all do that occasionally.
I knew about it.
So, if she said yes once that means yes forever? Irrespective of previous consent to vaginal sex. Saying no to anal? Yes, I buy it. In the words of Joe Biden, 'Come on man.'
So what? He forcibly sodomized her. What does previous consent have to do with anything?
can you provide the article? I'm genuinely interested. I haven't heard that element reported anywhere.
I'm trying to remember if it was a local paper. It was pointing out the omissions including the guy going to another school and doing it again. I think the kid would be doing this anywhere he could. The school has a big problem of letting him go to another school.
3. It violates the privacy of many for the feelings of a handful.
So is gay marriage.
think the NY times wrote this.
I can’t paste link for some reason but there was a recent WAPO article about the case.
Ny Times, do a search in articles history.
And they also don't like the lying on the right. Truth is truth.
Humans love an enemy.
We have lurched to the middle. Too bad the political parties haven’t.Brett Weinstein had a very interesting proposal. A presidential ticket comprised of one left of center and one right of center candidate. The required ideology is patriotic allegiance to America,the Constitution , Bill Of Rights , a blind, apolitical, lawful justice system and the American people above all else.
A ticket with a candidate who has signed the front of a paycheck and the other having served in our military versus the Pentagon or sits on a corporate board.
I’d add abolishing the UN Fed, CIA, Patriot Ct, FISA, replacing the FBI w/ US Marshals, FISA,eliminating many other agencies and moving the remaining out of DC , relocating them to states throughout the country inhabited by real America and purging them by at least 60 percent.Term limits, no immunity or perks and prosecution, imprisonment in Supermax facilities. No NGOs, corporate, tech,Pharma, foreign lobbyists or donors that influence policies, no more NATO buildup, foreign interventions, protected bureaucrats, forced retirements, back door deals, open borders, unvetted refugees, bureaucrats,politicians, tax free non-profits , no stock purchases while in office, no perks after leaving office and no more super-pacs.
Complete transparency in legislative bills. And follow the money. We are now a third world kleptocracy and soon to be ruled by a New World Order central government ruled by billionaire elite fiefs and the rest of us, a fiefdom that owns nothing, has no power, no privacy , no nuclear family, no voice and no ability to defend ourselves
It’s ironic that Matt, Greenwald, Andy Ngo, Rogan,Weinstein,Ron Paul,Sharyl Attkisson,Posobiec ,Russell Brand , Tucker,White Coat Waste Project,Frontline Doctors are all creating a movement in uniting people who otherwise wouldn’t have spoken to one another. Long overdue. We all have a shared purpose. Freedom
Good point
Great comment, Maggie. Wish his approach was contagious!
Personally, I was a little annoyed at all the teasing what's to come, but you make good points, Maggie.
Not me
I missed it. Now I shall die.
Hi. I'm Frank Waters.
You are so right
There’s something much deeper that we’ve failed to address. Matt is conveying a scenario that is in no way new. We’re just better able to realize how deceitful the corrupt cabal of media, government iis and has long been as an entirety .
It was just better concealed because prior to 24/7 cable news and so many avenues of propaganda didn’t exist. But it was always pro panda. Our beloved and trusted Walter Cronkite, Edward R Murrow broadcast what they were directed to by government and its agencies.
Hah! You expect some real analysis from Taibbi on this? Don't hold your breath. This article was a drive by and whatever followup visit he takes is going to be more of the same. Loudoun is not the whole of VA. There is a whole lot more to the governor's race than Loudoun.
You write about "investigative journalists"? Doing a drive by assessment to analyze a statewide race is anything but "investigative". It is a guy with an existing narrative seeking to fluff it up a bit.
Well, until the Kwisatz Haderach of journalists shows up, we will just have to make do.
I like that you also took up the term 'drive by', twice. Can you expand on what you think this guy's existing narrative is that he's fluffing?
Terrible comment. Matt said he is trying to investigate it and I believe him. I think Running Burning Man is a group of 100 monkeys just typing at a keyboard.
Very well said.
Spot on Maggie, thank you
Right on!
Journalism defined.
D-E-A-D O-N "
Money well spent.
Hear Hear!
Amen!
Why bother investigating anything when your "followers" want to believe you whether you are correct or not.
"Vote for us, you racists!" Somehow it didn't work.
Standing for an illustrated school textbook giving pubescent boys instructions for giving BJs to adult men...? Whoa! That's a real knee-slapping, down home way to go too!
Terry McAuliffe is Bill Clinton's doppelgänger. Two of the most lowdown and loathsome characters to ever piss on a good thing and they thought they could keep doing this to this country? GTFOH! And speaking of: I wouldn't piss on either of them if they were on fire!
MCAuliffe was an advisor or mouthpiece for the Clintons no pun intended
Wait. No. I don't believe it. Nope.
I saw it on a Rokfin video just last week. A schoolboard meeting. I don't think EeewTube would have allowed it. Want to hear some otherworldliniess something else? I was just going to type in a search for the person who posted it (on Rokfin) and I hadn't even begun to type anything and the search header had "bj training' up in the search bar.... (Sometimes I think they're not telling us 'all' that "They' are up to....
https://www.rokfin.com/stream/10361/UNCENSORED-This-Is-In-Our-Schools-And-Its-So-Bad-We-Cant-Show-It-On-YouTube
What could have possibly gone wrong.
Yet many of these idiots have doubled down after losing! If only we'd called those opposing us racist more and louder surely we'd have won. Please keep it up morons!
lol
Telling parents that they should have no say in what their kids are learning at school was the death of Terry McAuliffe. Even all the Democrat heavy weights could not save him. Unfortunatley, Terry forgot who employed him……it was those parents. Politicians need to back up and remember who pays their wages.
Just like the death of Hillary was the basket of deplorables comment. If Democrats keep talking down to the people, the people will walk away.
It's not ONLY the way they talk. The way they talk simply reveals how they think, and govern. We're really all just background NPCs to help the credentialed classes live their best lives.
"We're really all just background NPCs" mmm that was very well said
They need diverse background NPCs too. Just look at the one black dude they used for their tiki torch mafia false flag.
diversity is a global bonus independent of faction, the backdrop of any televised address is carefully chosen to make use of it
I'm old enough to remember when "NPC" was a term from OD&D.
did that set come with a d20?
Red-box Basic with the Larry Elmore cover did. To date myself more precisely, I am neither old or cool (uncool?) enough to have the original Brown Boxes, Holmes Basic, or BX.
Word. H/T
Or maybe it was the "grab'em by the pussy" tape, which was a couple of guys having locker room talk. Most women I knew were not impressed with that, because as one said, "That happens before how everyone comes into this world." Or maybe it was the fairly widespread knowledge that Hillary liked to do exactly that.
"A couple guys having locker room talk" - bullshit. Trump is a scumbag who treats women like objects and was bragging about how he gets away with sexual assault. No decent person talks like that, in a locker room or not. If he was a teenager, then perhaps a bit of forbearance could be made for youthful stupidity. Trump had no excuse, he was just revealing his character and thought he would sound awesome.
Sigh. Paul. What you committed there is called, the "No True Scotsman" fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
So vote for a clinton? LOL.. Hypocrite.
Well, dear, you do need to get out more. Not that your circular definition that no decent person talks like that doesn't clearly define your mentality.
How about: No decent person judges. There. Now nobody can contradict ME.
Well, considering we have what, 40+ years of Trump being very publicly sleazy, I think it is safe to judge. And no. No decent person talks like that. Again, I've never heard anyone say shit like that, and if I did, then judging that person to be a scumbag would be 100% right, fair and just. Guess you are into this sort of behavior and have, presumably, made similar comments.
Hell, my 70 year old mother was completely non-plussed about that tape.
Said she'd hear it all her life in Corporate America.
And I'm surprised to find the perfect guy online! You win, Paul!
Although, I find it hard to believe you've never made a sexual remark out of earshot of the subject of your attention. Never joked about how nice that ass is... never told a funny but crude joke...
Wokesters aren't much fun. :)
No true German talks like that. Yes, I have heard many such comments. Why do you think people go to strip clubs? Etc.
Yeah, you're that sort of jackass. No true Scotsman.
I'm guessing people see you as the uptight judgy type and would never dream of saying things like that in front of you. We all have friends and acquaintances who only see a severely filtered version of us.
I can’t imagine you even reach in long enough for them to feel it.
Donald Tr5ump actually treats women quite well. He has always been an encourager for the women he has employed. Already 40 years ago he appointed a women as CEO of the Trump Tower project. And his administration was strongly pro women. He stopped the funding of Iran that Obama had started, in which almost all of the money went in one way or another to suppress women (funding Hezbollah and Hamas, two of the worst oppressors of women, strengthening their own countries extreme bad treatment of women, speeding up their nuclear weapons program (70% more uranium ore, 50% more centrifuges in the three years before Trump stopped the funding). He negotiated the Abraham Accord, which aligned several Muslim countries with Israel, the one full supporter of women's rights in the Middle East. Bahrain has already improved the rights of its women, and so has Saudi Arabia', although they have not yet recognized Israel, they are working more closely with them.
Oh pulease. Listen to the tapes of past presidents. Better yet, listen to or read WikiLeaks and see what your "betters" talk about. Trump isn't the only one who talks like that, be happy you don't have an open mike around you all the time unless, of course, you're the second coming and even JC and Mohammed said and did things that just ain't kosher.
Oh wow, @sevender! More pussy grabbing going on. But, Joe hasn't been recorded bragging about it. So! https://www.vox.com/2020/3/27/21195935/joe-biden-sexual-assault-allegation
It is funny how it's only a problem for some when scumbag Trump does it. Not many words from these folks when we bring up Billy Clinton, either.
Well, Clinton (both of them) proved their decency by not talking about it.
Back in the 50's and 60's, a president could have nude pool parties and take starlets to bed -- at the White House -- and invite the press to the parties. And the press wouldn't report on it because that was private life and nobody else's business. But, they would report on substantive matters that made a difference to the country that came from such parties.
Bill Clinton is a scumbag and probably a rapist (just like Trump!). There, better?
One complaint vs. 40 or so?
I hate to burst your bubble but women talk like that also. It's actually pretty 1950s to think they're these demur defenders of innocence & sexual tact.
Geez, 40 years ago a couple buddies & I worked as waiters at a local dive bar that had a weekly lady's night with a group of Chippendale knock offs. A big room filled with loud, horny women who wanted to grab some cock and weren't picky about whose cock that was. We all constantly had warm friendly hands on our junk. I don't remember any of them asking permission. We just didn't complain about it because it usually led to an even friendlier hummer in the bathroom.
Anyway, Trumpski is literally the mirror image of Hillary's hubs, the Bilbo, who is a pussy grabber from way back who pathologically used his position to get laid while Hillary sat at home dreaming about being CEO of the American corporation. The only difference between them is ol' Billy boy didn't brag about it around microphones. But you know Slick Willy was bragging to someone, somewhere.
Dude, chicks ain’t gonna smash just become you’re simping on substack.
Joe Biden sticks his finger into women's vaginas.
um, so do I. But by invitation only.
Where's your pussy hat, bro?
The point was he said they ‘let him’ because he was a celebrity Maybe, maybe not. But not unheard of Paul. Still sucks.
And suck they do! ;-) I was the target of this kind of attention from female humans in Washington DC when I spent some time on the hill for a cause. There are so many beautiful women who are attracted to power. Mostly it's not even a matter of 'let him' it's whether a guy can avoid being cornered or not. And there was that day I was pretty clearly propositioned in a female congress person's office.
Deal with it. This is basic primate behavior. Human females want to mate with males that have power and prestige. Same as baboons. It's reality.
Let’s go Brian
Widespread knowledge? Says who? I know people love to say that but I've never read anyone. Actually. Saying it.
Brian's confusing Hillary with Bill.
I suppose you think Hillary's relationship with Huma Abedin is just 2 gals that happen to be friends.
Not that I give a damn about whether Hillary pokes pussy, or likes to boink with men. The point here is the hypocrisy.
Abedin might not appreciate your comment - she could do MUCH better - but i'll leave you to your own fantasies.
https://youtu.be/ftUItehaIoo?t=91 "Bill told me." Bill told Sally Miller that Hillary was a lesbian from their time college.
That actually is reminiscent of Eleanor Roosevelt's later relationship with her husband, so it would be unsurprising.
Yeah. The story was wiped by the sycophant press machine to allow Hillary to run without having to 'splain herse'f' to them thar voters. I am rather sure it was a cold calculation by a political consultant who told her that she would lose more votes by coming out than she would gain by staying in the closet. And lo' she did not lose any votes from LGBTQ people.
I have friends who had lesbian experiences in college who are not gay. Even if she is, who gives a shit? She should of left him regardless. But she takes her vows seriously.
Politicians are suppose to reflect their constituency not dictate to it.
Journalists are supposed to discover reality before asserting it.
Krysten Sinema and Joe Manchin are currently hated by the left for doing exactly that.
And they are tormenting us here in Arizona with out of state ads demanding we cal Sinema right now. We are sick of it, sick of dems, sick of politics, and I used to be dem, now I'm independent.
We need more moderates in the Senate, not fewer of them.
And yet the ”left” via the DSCC keeps showering POS’s like Manchin and Sinema with campaign cash.
You don’t get to call Manchin an obstructionist when you literally paid him to be an obstructionist. No one seems to be pointing that out.
Manchin is just protecting his seat. He won with under 50% last time, in the as-favorable-as-possible 2018 electorate. It's going to be harder next time.
If you want to get your way, elect 60 senators or a subset thereof that can choke off a filibuster. Or nuke it at that point, but get ready for the backlash.
Lol no.
Respectfully, I disagree. Manchin especially is in a no-win scenario.
He's one of my senators and he is in fact in a no-win scenario. Look at his numbers election by election, he's drifting toward a lose by default scenario even without doing anything particularly to piss off the electorate.
In all polls his constituents WANT many of the individual items in the reconciliation bill. It’s his donors who don’t.
Hey, HBI, could you clarify why this nation's best politicians come from your neck of the woods? Manchin, McConnell, Paul, Massie.. WTF is up with that?
This comment should have 200 likes!
I regret that I had but one like for that comment.
Two, you talked me into it.
I think those Democrat heavyweights may have hurt. I saw the commercials and snippets of the speeches, and it all seemed to be more "this is not who we are," and implying people who disagreed didn't have any real concerns.
They work for us. Public servants.
Wages are for dirty people. Campaign contributions is where the real money is.
"Telling parents that they should have no say in what their kids are learning at school was the death of Terry McAuliffe."
Aye, Lass, a girl can always dream... And a guy too. These sleazebuckets in control... What's a non-sociopath to do?
Without Trump, I’m not sure calling every white person a racist and white supremacist is going to continue to work as a way of shutting down all debate.
I never understood why it worked with Trump? He spent most of his adult life as a NYC Dem, hobnobbing with the Jesse Jacksons of the world.
Perhaps because the left had gone too far? Inevitable pendulum swings?.
It’s gone to far with zero return on investment. No one is getting out of jail or filling their gas tank because of my proper use of pronouns.
Perhaps because Trump reinvented himself politically in light of his failure to take off in the run-up to the 2000 as a liberal option (even floating the idea of Oprah as his running mate).
B/c Trump jumped on the birther train in 2012 or whenever and ignited a feud with Obama. When he got called out by Obama, he was like “It’s on. I’m crashing your party like Rodney Dangerfield and Jackie Mason at Bushwood CC!!!!”
That's Al Czervik and Jackie Hartounian to you!
I forgot Czervik’s name to be honest!
Trump channeled all of Rodney's best characters... Czervik, Monty Capuletti, Thornton Melon...
And the twits like David French looked at him and wondered why he was more popular than Professor Barbay.
Right? He always seemed like a wrestling heel. I remember a photo of the Clintons and the Trumps chatting and laughing, captioned with the Friends logo. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might wonder if the whole point was to frighten people into accepting extreme, totalitarian measures in response to the "existential threat" posed by Trump.
One time when I forgot my meds, I had this awful nightmare about how the government was all pushing a "domestic war on terror" against working class whites, and like half the nation embraced that shit with open arms.
He also took out ads for capital punishment. And was sued for various housing discriminations.
He's also 75 years old. With today's standards, not one person born that long ago is completely innocent of some kind of racist comments, including Brandon himself.
And, sorry, but there's nothing wrong with not wanting your apt complex to accept section 8's. I wouldn't either.
Look at Ruth Bader Ginsburg-Katie Couric totally covered up her statements in an interview calling out Colin Kapernick for being a commie twit.
Gave me new respect for RBG. Apparently her and Scalia were friendly, so it's probably not entirely unexpected.
RBG lost all of her respect when she deliberately refused to step down when Obama had a super majority. Instead, her ego crashed the judiciary onto Conservative Island.
Agreed on all counts
Yep, and this: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2009-07-16-0907150564-story.html
He was involving himself in a court case where he wanted his own outcome. He wanted the accused killed. This was made into a movie a year ago. He is notorious for not paying tradesman. He lives in Florida because of all his ny state baggage. He doesn't go to NYC unless he has to.
Good for you, well said. Who wants to rent to deadbeats
I lived in a fairly nice apartment building in Sacramento that rented to section 8 eligible renters for many years (until it was sold to new owners). Never noticed anything downmarket or unsafe about that apartment complex. Section 8 renters include a lot of disabled people and seniors, for what it's worth. They got a nice affordable place to live in, I got nice neighbors.
Exactly
Not renting to minorities i
Are you saying only minorities use section 8? That's a pretty racist statement.
Read the whole thread. We were discussing trump
Anyone can be sued.
He and his (KKK member, criminal father) were sued by the government for blatant racism. This is all well known and understood.
In 1927 the KKK was a mass institution in Northern locales, even. Wilson, Harding, Coolidge and Harry Truman were KKK members.
Coolidge-c’mon man…..I read Amity Schlaes bio of Coolidge and no mention of the KKK ever came up. As for Harding, he was actually accused of being of mixed ancestry and he was like “Whatever. Nothing I can do about who my ancestors were screwing!!!”
For a cynic, you're awfully credulous. There's no hard evidence that any of those Presidents were Klan members, and plenty of evidence to contradict it. The "evidence" consists of claims by Klan members.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_members_in_United_States_politics#Unsupported_allegations_of_Klan_membership
It's indisputable that there were a lot of political figures who were KKK members or Klan supporters, particularly at the high tide of their influence in the 1920s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_members_in_United_States_politics
The KKK organization and leaders were loudly supportive of Federal Prohibition in that era, incidentally. They did a lot of vigilante enforcement, and on some occasions were known to use the confiscated goods to party with later. Some things never change.
The Klan was riding awfully high for a while, in the 1920s; they had all sorts of political connections. One of the strongest chapters was in Indiana. But the KKK went into something of a decline after the Indiana Grand Dragon, D. C. Stephenson, was convicted for the abduction and rape of a young woman in 1925.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenson_v._State
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._C._Stephenson
Harding was not a member of the KKK. He abhorred them. Read his marvelous speech in Birmingham, Alabama one hundred years ago. It is considered one of the greatest speeches ever given by an American President.
Here are some links to the speech and Harding’s related speeches and actions for racial equality:
The speech: https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/warren-g-harding-address-at-birmingham-speech-text/ Paragraphs 12 through 26 (half the speech) focus on this issue
https://bcsh.bard.edu/files/2021/01/Aurora-Donahue-JFK-entry-Warren-G.-Harding_-The-Forgotten-Advocate-for-Racial-Equality.pdf
https://alabamanewscenter.com/2015/10/26/president-warren-g-hardings-birmingham-civil-rights-speech-bold-then-forgotten-today/
https://narratively.com/this-presidential-speech-on-race-shocked-the-nation-in-1921/
https://www.britannica.com/story/what-did-it-look-like-for-a-us-president-to-condemn-racism-in-1921
KKK was invited to Wilson's inauguration.
Yeah, but Wilson was an absolute monstrous racist and we know that. Coolidge probably was to. Truman, I have no evidence to suggest it. Fred Trump, absolutely. But of course, since his scumbag son is your personal hero, you go to bat for him. Are you so conciliatory towards, say, Robert Byrd as well?
Source?
Really? Did anyone win this blatant racism lawsuit?
As is typical in this deeply racist country(and even more so in 1973), a settlement was reached. Which, like every time rich people or corporations settle, means they were guilty as sin. You can read the details online - the evidence of guilt is clear, but the wealthy are never actually punished.
They'll keep trying. They think that still works. In deep blue places like CA where no one questions anything, it still does. Everywhere else - it's a shockingly stupid strategy. Twitter ain't real life, DNC.
Sure they'll keep trying. Hell, it's been almost a century now since Joe McCarthy was in office, and there are still Republicans who brand anything they don't like as "Marxist." I doubt we'll ever be free of Democrats who call everything they dislike "racist." But the more people dismiss the overused accusation, the less it will be used.
We currently host the politics of nice and both parties know all about human nature and psychology. Average people got sucked into following politics when Trump appeared. All they need to know is: how do nice people vote? That's why all the vilification exists on both sides. It makes it easy to identify the bad guy. Eventually, we'll go back to less that 10% playing public watchdog and the masses maturing to the point where they understand that politics is complicated and all of voters are nice. But in the meantime . . .
Insightful comment — the sad reality is more people are convinced by narratives than data, so the winning party is the one with more emotional resonance regardless of their actual policies.
Sleepy Joe had more emotional resonance than Trump!??! I don’t disagree w/ the thesis for presidential elections, but 20’ was not the norm…..
Well, thanks in large part to the efforts of the corporate media, Trump had negative emotional resonance with many voters. Also the entire progressive schtick is to hype up their issues with emotionally loaded buzzwords (spirit murder!! genocide!!! insurrection!!) to appeal to voters in precisely this way, by making it seem if you oppose their policies you are a BAD PERSON.
Data Rich, Information Poor. That’s exactly how Hillary and that moron Robbie Mook lost in 2016. “Our model predicts…” Apparently not.
“More people” is doing a lot of work. More than what? Which people? “Data” is also nebulous and data is often just flat-out wrong at times.
Republicans take power, not just office. This is why they keep control of government even when they’re in the minority. Obama was the Capitulator in Chief with his capitulating minions in the house and senate.
Coupled with the fact that HRC was as likable as dog shit.
How depressing
I have a relative who was a general for the South in the Civil war. One of the famous ones. I also have relatives who fought for the North, and others who just chucked it and went out west for the duration.
The accusations that everyone who is white is a racist came long before Trump. Trump was a /reaction/ to it, not the cause. Don't support Obama's progressive wishlist? It's because you're a racist, not because you simply don't agree.
It worked prior to Trump. It's only the revisionism that pretends it started afterwards. Why do you think Republicans nominated Trump in the first place?
Nothing more sophisticated than Trump was despised the same way shitlibs despise red states. So when they had the option to throw a brick named Trump at the glittery, glass house of the Dems, they did exactly that.
The hated hit back at the haters. And boy did it send the smug liberals into a shit fit due to it’s a) undermining their technocratic and credentialed authority, b) Trump’s “crass” and “vulgar” violation of “norms” — apparently nothing is worth more to Dems than making sure you’re docile, non-confrontational, and “not mean”. Sure, we’ve got a homeless crisis and the healthcare industry rips you off, but don’t you ever get mad or raise your voice!
If you challenge proggo privilege you get proggo fragility and proggo rage.
Progressivism is a class supremacist movement disguised as leftism.
You could easily write a program accurately predicting house prices in a neighborhood from the density of BLM signs.
I wish they let us post pictures in here because this is a great opportunity for the spiderman pointing at spiderman one.
Rings true--I like that.
Interesting
Once you see it that way, it is hard to miss.
And Trump really addressed those problems...
Also, who exactly are the "hated"? The victim mentality of the right never ceases to amaze me.
Cruise any comments section on the internet, this one included, and you will see plenty of accusations that anyone that a) did not attend college or b) does not live within 20 miles of an urban core is a stupid and ignorant racist. This may shock you, but even less sophisticated people without a degree understand when they are being denigrated and sneered at, and they dislike it as much as you would.
You are wasting your time with a confirmed brainless hack, if not a paid one. Always littering the comment section to derail discussions.
I could cruise the comments section anywhere on the internet and also find people being racist and hateful. What's your point? Do you really judge people base your political philosophy around anonymous comments on the internet? Or the loudest voices on either side? I thought we were supposed to live in the "real world"?
You implied that people right of center were coming up with imaginary reasons to adopt a victim mentality. I'm here to tell you, it is not a victim mentality at all. Being mocked and sneered at bye everyone left of center, and then being accused of racism, misogynism, anti-immigrant sentiment, lack of patriotism, domestic terrorism, and pretty much every other ism in the book has a tendency to upset people. That tendency translates into votes like we saw in Virginia last night.
Trump made fun of Democratic politicians. Dem politicians make fun of Republican Voters. That's the major difference.
Judgmentally yours
That’s a straw man. I never said Trump addressed or solved anything. I said he was an instrument through which the “right” expressed their anger at precarity and deaths by despair. The shitlibs have been leaving them to rot and fester via NAFTA, treating their states like extraction colonies, suffering disproportionately due to lack of human social support programs. Sometimes the only thing you have power to do is mutually assured arson. The Dems have been burning down peoples lives for decade.
The “right” (and much of the left — myself included) are exhausted from being told the reason our teeth fall out, we have to choose between homelessness and insulin, that we should mortgage our future to pay for credentials that allow us passage through the gatekeepers, and so on is all due to our ascriptive identity as white, a dude, and heterosexual. And that the failure to genuflect at the alter of anti-whiteness means we deserve to have our lives destroyed.
The “hated” are the broke ass to working class crowd who prove inconvenient and meddlesome to the oligarchs. They don’t vote for the “correct” candidate or they hunt or they protest pipelines or they object to WV turned into one giant mining waste pit. They think college and healthcare shouldn’t bankrupt them.
Victim mentality is a pejorative that erases the social forces which created Trump. Most of which is economic oblivion perpetrated on the red states via things like trade agreements, failure to take action against vertically integrated chicken ag enterprises, going bankrupt if you get cancer, and so on. These are horrid occurrences and those that suffer them are, IMHO, actual victims who suffered actual harm.
I mean, I agree all those are problems and that basically neither party really cares about them... hence why I think the majority of partisan politics is a side show meant to keep the majority of people divided and conquered. But voting for.... *checks paper*.... the former co-CEO of the Carlyle group seems like a really strange tactic if you're trying to stick it to the oligarchs. But then again they voted for Trump who is a rich dude who doesn't care about anyone but himself also. Maybe this is some kind of 4th dimensional chess that my smooth brain just can't wrap itself around.
If people are so angry... why don't they start voting for people who will actually address these issues, or at least pretend they're going to?
This is precisely correct. The Democrat party is mostly run by right wing corporatists who will sell out their voters to the wealthy in a second (see Biden, Joe or Dodd, Chris). But Republicans are universally in lockstep for not just insane social policies but economically (aka what really matters) they are a hairsbreadth away from being pro-slavery. Trump did NOTHING for anyone but himself and his rich buddies. His big "innovation" was being crudely xenophobic. Though, the immigration issue IS an important one, because it does lower wages. But you know what the remedy for that is? Unions. Which the Republicans hate, because they hate working people.
"[W]hy don't they start voting for people who will actually address these issues, or at least pretend they're going to?"
I think Trump is certainly a person who "at least pretend [he was] going to".
For powerless and poor people to become *successfully* organized, it takes a widespread level of frustration and anger that we have not -- despite appearances and feelings -- *still* have not reached yet. Few of those native-born Americans alive today have experienced it. When we do, people will stop having kids, quit their jobs, and in all other ways will finally be in 'war' mode (for lack of a better word).
Most working class people don’t have the “hate the rich” attitude that privileged progressives/Ds do. They might have a desire for certain social programs-or appreciate them if enacted, but they aren’t demanding that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk get taxed into pauperism. That’s an activist pov.
You said those failures were reasons to vote against Dems. Agreed; but not for voting Republican, let alone for someone like Tru,mp. It's a perfect example of the trap created by the 2-Party duopoly.
"NAFTA, treating their states like extraction colonies, suffering disproportionately due to lack of human social support programs."
Same problem. NAFTA was a REPUBLICAN initiative, negotiated by Bush I. Clinton's adoption of "free trade", aka laissez-faire, was a betrayal of New Deal liberalism - and the reason I'm not a Democrat. So was starving the "social support systems." But voting for a Republican just makes it worse. Granted, one of the few good things Tru,mp did was block the Pacific and European free-trade agreements. Negative, but to the good.
But Trump was not just any old Republican, he was a fuck-you republican that is really hard to imagine anyone else remotely representing so well as he did (even if it didn't make that much sense to anyone that was around since the 80's). That doesn't counter your point, but it should be enlightening as to why people made the choice.
This guy gets it.
Tru,mp did something good? Surely you j,est.
Awesome
He might not have addressed those issues personally (or with any initiatives springing from his own head)-but his admin produced solid policy in energy, judges, education, border security (NOT wall building), tax policy, and foreign relations ( not China, admittedly).
Yeah it’s deplorable
One might even say irredeemable.
Delete right. Insert left. Same difference. No buts please.
it's funny that people think you are defending ding dong donny somehow
Trump did anything about the homeless crisis or health care ripping you off? Sure, the Dems are useless, but voting Republican sends the wrong message.
So the Dems actively refusing to govern or legislate in any way to ameliorate those two problems, yet voting to send them back over and over again for their lack of accomplishment is somehow sending the right message? What non-wrong message is being broadcast here?
I never advocate voting for Dems; I'm a Green. I advocate junking the whole 2-Party.
The federal government solution to homelessness is easy. Clear out a national forest in Wyoming and build a city of towers like they do in China. Give an apartment to every homeless man, woman and child for free. See if they stay there, however.
The homeless crisis is one of weather patterns and arbitrage.
As long as there are rich stupid people who hand out money, and stupid politicians who believe that homelessness is due primarily to "greed" and "wealth inequality" and "housing prices," mentally ill people will gravitate to the streets where such people live, and ask for handouts. And get them daily.
NYC has lots of homeless because there's a lot of people to ask for spare change - and more than enough who are willing to contribute.
LA has lots of homeless because you won't die sleeping overnight in January on the street.
SF has lots of homeless because the cops won't beat the shit out of you or throw you into the Bay for shitting on the street.
Try being homeless in The Woodlands, TX. You learn not to sleep on the streets there. In some small towns, the solution to homelessness is to buy the homeless a one-way greyhound ticket to a place where they will be accepted with open arms.
Transport all the homeless to Duluth, MN or Fairbanks,AK and see how they do…..California’s gorgeous climate is it’s trap…….
Well, assuming your name/handle is correct, Oregon has a horrific homeless problem, especially here in the Willamette. And it had this before Trump was elected, and will have it as long as there is money to be made in the state by NGOs under Kate Clown and whoever comes after her, probably Kotek. There are plenty of solutions that could be on the table, but all are quashed by adherence to Liberal principles. For a great expose on this, read San Fransicko. Which was written by a west coast liberal who looked into the problems and not the rhetoric.
Yes, I live in the Willamette Valley, and I agree with you. My city struggles constantly with the problem, kindness vs. self-protection. And I don't see any solutions coming from the Democratic government.
I never took Trump seriously at all but when he ignored America Ferrera and the rest of the media calling him racist early in the primary, I was like "ok. I want to see this." I never though he would maintain that lead.
Democrats need Trump more than Republicans do.
The demand for racism far exceeds the supply.
But don't kid yourself; there always was and always will be a "Trump". It was Bush before Trump, Reagan before Bush, and so on. The caricatures don't require underlying truth.
I do wonde if DeSantis runs, and he really seems to be the GOP's best hope of a win in 2024, if he will get the "worse than Hitler" bit. I mean he'll be called racist for sure since he's a white male Republican, but I do wonder how far they'll go with it and how many will take the bait.
Biden barely had a chance to fart in the Oval Office before somebody on twitter was calling DeSantis worse that Trump.
"on twitter". As we've seen in VA, Twitter is not the real world.
My concern with DeSantis is there are a lot of neocon zombies rising from their political graveyard who seem to like DeSantis. Maybe they are just trying to make sure Trump never comes back, but their support makes me suspicious.
That's what the Democrats THOUGHT.
McAuliffe's TV ads basically depicted him running against Trump, not Youngkin. The voters were not persuaded by that angle.
The Youngkin McAuliffe campaign dynamic proved that…..
Very true. I remember also how much the Rush Limbaughs in the 90's also needed Bill Clinton more than the Dems.
Is this really more complicated than taking the culture war too far? When you make EVERYTHING about kneeling at the altar of either extremist racial or sexual identity ideology, those ideas eventually become policies when you gain power. So, BLM actually morphs into gutted out and demoralized police departments, which produces significant increases in crime. Who cares what you call it (ok, it is technically not CRT) the obsession with implementing a bunch of D&I programs that include extreme sensitivity policies re: trans rights eventually gets a couple of 15 year-olds raped.
So, when these are just ideas, the Woke crowd can say implementing their insane ideas will lead to utopia vs. disaster. However, as they actually implement those ideas, the dream of living inside a John Lennon song quickly becomes Molly Hatchet reality.
The simple truth is that all of their ideas only work in the lab, on a CNN panel or in a stump speech, not in the cold hard world we really live in.
"the dream of living inside a John Lennon song quickly becomes Molly Hatchet reality." Stealing
One of the best lines I have read on here since subscribing!
yes, that was well crafted whether agreeing to the rest or not
Feel free to use it at your leisure - no charge.
Ditto. Almost thought it Matt’s alter ego!
Everything in US politics is a culture war while the uniparty and donor class sop up the gains.
Trump doing the Braves chop, Pelosi kneeling in African garb, the new spate of book bannings in Texas, Dems' vapid marshaling of activist phrases with zero follow through on the actual demands---we could do this for days.
It's all so deeply depressing. We can't even approach COVID with an open mind. It's all about cultural signaling. We have almost zero major voices expressing plain facts like "the vaccine works for reducing severity & likelihood of catching COVID, there are promising drugs we should look into more and not demonize people for taking" while admitting that lockdowns decimated some businesses (just the small businesses both parties pretend to respect---they had the airlines' backs, don't worry) and that our government was unprepared and didn't provide sufficient remedy for people who really suffered here.
I find it basically impossible to talk with anyone about this shit because at some point, I'm failing some shibboleth. It blows.
What do you mean, technically not CRT? It is, technically, CRT and the claim that it's not is just propaganda praxis.
I can field that one; untangling that sort of dreary, onerous rhetorical confusion is one of my specialties. (Of course, I love hassling that garbage out! A labor of love!)
Critical Race Theory originated as a formal legal concept, with legal proofs, reliant on demonstrating the existence of structural bias in institutions in ways that are unfair to nonwhites (in hiring and loan practices, for example), in order to obtain legal remedies for that injustice. It's about what might be termed Legacy Racism, hangover effects that existing within the halls of institutional power. Which is a real thing.
This is what the people claiming that CRT is "only a high-level concept taught in law schools" are saying: they're referring to a specific and detailed set of legal arguments and settled case law. That's the strict definition, in the original sense.
But the people making that argument are also hand-waving away the reality that Critical Race Theory has undergone so much mission creep in the minds and agendas of the Wokist cult that its precepts have been over-generalized to the point of being an open-ended strategy. That's the version of CRT that's is turning up in places like the public schools, and in popular conversation. The Wokists are manipulating vulgarized CRT points to claim that any correlation showing a disparity of outcomes between people of European ancestry (and sometimes other ethnic groups) and "nonwhites" (but most often native-born Americans of African ancestry) MUST be due to "white supremacy." As if this was still 1890. And that no dissent is allowed, either in respect to examining the problem or in challenging the solutions imposed by Wokism, because error has no rights. So if you're white and you offer disagreement on any point, you'll be attacked, vilified, pilloried, etc. While as a rule, black critics of Wokism are granted a pass of sorts, on account of the assumption of their status of oppression: they're aren't attacked, they're ignored. And I mean really ignored. They aren't even slandered as "self-hating"; they're just disappeared from the conversation. At least that's the way it is so far, in my observation. If someone knows of a single broadcast news panel show on TV- or radio, or Youtube- where Adolph Reed or John McWorther is sitting at the same table as Van Jones or Charles Blow, by all means, share the details.
Well VA just delivered some critical reality theory
This is beautiful.
I thought that was the original definition of structural racism. Old laws designed to keep "certain demographics" in their "own" separate neighborhoods or employments. "Oh too bad you don't have the right licenses." "No, no, no, this certification will not work here." "Sorry, but your down payment is not large enough." Eventually, most of the actual racists have been out of power, but many of their laws are still on the books and still having the intended effect.
Don’t confuse structural and systemic racism. The latter is part of CRT.
I know the difference. Of course the explanation of one usually involves the methodical breakdown of the concept with examples provided and the other usually involves a non sequitur of incoherent screaming.
That's a good point. The two terms are all too easily misused as synonymous.
This is what I'm getting at in other threads, most people don't have even a slight chance of distinguishing between structural and systemic racism (at least in my universe), there's no way they can explain why one is CRT and the other isn't, why one is damaging and one might not be, so it's accurate to say they don't know what they're talking about when the acronym CRT comes out of their mouth.
Well said. Basically its a real theory that has become a stand for the woke and they are using the legal theory as a tool or a distraction. Kinds of like New Shimmer being a floor wax and a dessert topping. (From back in the days when SNL was actually funny.)
Sorry. Still no dice. I was at law school during the time in question. And knew critical theorists.
This is not a study of institutional racism.
CRT isn’t vulgarized anything. And it didn’t really originate in law school. It was born more or less in the depressed pessimistic genetic lineage of the Frankfurt school, although it’s unfair to tar everyone there as Dr Evil the way Ben Shapiro does. It originated in the wreckage of its predecessors, Critical Theory and its corollary, Critical Legal Theory, among power crazed humanities academics in 1989. It doesn’t proceed from any concern for blacks. It proceeds from Marcuse’s earlier conclusion that the dirty proles would never revolt and elevate their betters (I.e., professors) to the pinnacle of power in society, so the professors better find some rowdy minorities to make use of.
Anyway. The point is that it’s entangled in legal theory but was never just that. More importantly it was NEVER about racism. It was always always about dismantling society to create a better world order with professors on top. There are no “good intentions” in CRT. None. I wish I were kidding but I’m not.
I'm familiar with that history, too; it's "critical theory" as imported into American academia and first nurtured in literary criticism classes, entering into currency in American public discourse in the 1980s, as a strategy for reconstituting the American Left in the Reagan years. Brilliant, if you're tone-deaf about appealing to the American people. Ironically, Rush Limbaugh built his career on mocking its unexamined assumptions and hollow rectitude (thanks a lot, faux-mo American Left!) Critical theory seems to have worked well enough for the purpose of acquiring academic tenure, though.
Matters of taxonomical hairsplitting aside, the details of what you describe are correct. And it does account for the theoretical basis (such as it is) for what I've gotten to refer to as Wokism, what with its valorized axe-grinding, insufferable two-faced hypocrisy, emphasis on petty internecine witch-hunting, and demands to view human individuals categorically- and often exclusively- on the basis of of a handful of attributed status characteristics. The level of sophistry of American Wokists is not nearly as highbrow as the pretensions of Theory as espoused by products of the Frankfurt School, like Herbert Marcuse. The pseudologic of consequentialism is the same, though.
FYI I’m doing this on an iPad which tantalizes me with a quick glimpse of a reply box to me to fat-thumb my way into before abruptly jumping to a random comment far, far away. Anyway.
There’s a lot of storytelling to be done in the fight against wokeism. It’s critical to step back from the fray, disengage from the idiotic arguments conducted on their terms, and start with a contextual framework for understanding whats happening. James Lindsay does this well but his work is quite long. We need a primer. The 7 principles of CRT and where they came from. The 5 goals of wokeism. The wokeism spew nonsense of a living and it’s not fair to demand working stiffs go from their shifts straight to a debate on postmodernism just to keep their son from being castrated.
such a primer would be super helpful, not just for engaging in a fight but for everyone else trying to understand what the fight is really about. The seeming lack of a concise delineation of what is and isn't CRT (because this seems to matter a lot, probably for good reason) for the average rando means most people are not talking about the same thing, not to mention everyone on the sidelines watching a retarded discourse over this strange thing 'CRT'
asking as someone who actually really doesn't know exactly wtf is CRT, do you have a source you recommend that details the intricacies of what it is vs what it isn't?
Watch everything by James Lindsay. Start with the conversations he has on the beach. I don’t agree with everything he says but it’s a great education. It won’t make sense at first until you keep at it.
Thanks for this excerpt, I'll look it up to hear the rest. It would have a better impact if it didn't present like hip-shot unnuanced propaganda, but I say that as an ignoramus on critical theory so maybe I'll be taking that back. Also, in the intro, I could swap in '4-chord song' for 'Critical Theory' and it would remain an equally 'revolutionizing' critique.
Thanks for this rundown.
"Adolph Reed or John McWorther is sitting at the same table as Van Jones or Charles Blow" if only...
Hear hear! Well said.
That's what they said about letting the gays marry.
The married gays crowd is not part of the current insanity and in fact is way down the intersectional totem pole as oppressors themselves.
Yesterday's extremism becomes a yawner to the next generation. I already see it with my Zoomer teen kids. It's impossible to know exactly which way the wind blows but it seems to be leading to a greater tolerance of transgender people.
Claiming that anything is causing an increase in crime is kind of ludicrous because of the Covid epidemic changes to society. We need more time to sort this all out.
People getting upset that their kids are being taught that racism still exists is kind of the funniest complaint though.
The objection is not to teaching that "racism still exists", the objection to teaching that every detail of American life must be seen exclusively through the lens of racism.
Exactly. We have one of the least racist countries in the world.
Straw Man.
What does Darryl Strawberry have to do with this? It's a shame he never fulfilled his potential. Probably because society is racist. Or drugs. Or something.
“Being taught that racism still exists.” That’s doing a lot of work and concealing intellectual violence that the “anti-whiteness” crowd perpetrates. You’re making a category error in conflating the existence of racism with frameworks that contort themselves into making racism exist everywhere.
There are constructive ways to discuss race and destructive ones. CRT, invisible knapsack, etc. are all corrosive and serve to cleave large groups into nanoscale identities. And all of that creates the “oppression Olympics”, whereby the marginalized compete for the coveted most marginalized prize.
You know what people are violently opposed to teaching? Class-based analysis. The liberals take great pains to erase class concerns through substitution of unhinged moral proclamations. “The reason you aren’t making 200k/yr as a coder is because you’re white and you were born racist and you won’t atone.” Racists say things like they’re “born criminals”. That’s essentialism and racist. But if we apply essentialism to white people and racism, then it’s ok. SMFH.
You know what creates racial solidarity? Class consciousness. Economic inequality is racist and I have yet to see the Dems make a serious attempt to deal with it.
No serious person claims that racism exists everywhere. I know there are a few kooks that claim that scientific thinking and logical analysis are racist at their roots, but they are the exception, not the rule, and certainly not taught in the "real" CRT, e.g. the actual legal doctrine formulated by Bell and others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory
I am totally down for more class consciousness though.
The former Henry Rogers explicitly says so. He's the high priest of CRT-infected bullshit ideology.
I'll step in it and say I must not be serious because I'll claim racism does pretty much exist everywhere and certainly not just in the realm of whities. Every community of similar looking people I've ever encountered inevitably forms stereotypes about themselves and other groups (which all have the potential to reach 'racist'), that's why it makes excellent universal comedy. I have no idea if this is compatible with or actually is 'CRT'. Everyone is a racist from time to time, it's practically inevitable unless one's brain is way outside the bell curve of humanity. Or maybe I'm using a bad definition of 'racist' and 'racist' is as slippery as 'CRT'.
You literally have no fucking idea what CRT is. Go read a fucking boook by Robin DiAngelo or Ibrahim Kendi. The entire point is that everything is racism. There is no escaping it and no changing it. Racism is part of everything.
You are so wildly ignorant of literally everything that’s actually happening that it’s both hilarious and tragic.
You may not know this but covid is a global pandemic. The crime wave isn’t. Bet that fact never penetrated your little head before.
And if you think CRT teaches “racism exists”—for the sake of your kids, at least, stop talking. I just can’t imagine how people reach adulthood thinking they get to have opinions about things they can’t even describe properly. Learn things. Talk less.
Ad hominem is the refuge of those who cannot defend their ideas logically.
"The number of murders in the United States jumped by nearly 30% in 2020 compared with the previous year in the largest single-year increase ever recorded in the country, according to official FBI statistics released Monday."
Those ideas also were well in the game of Balderdash...
I'm sure you don't even feel a twinge of irony at depositing your Social Security check.
How does the race baiting square with the fact that the Lt. Governor race saw 3.3 million or 99.90% of the total, go to two women of color with immigrant backgrounds? The winner, Winsome Sears is a black woman born in Jamaica. Ms. Sears is a Republican and received almost as many votes as Youngkin, with a higher percentage of votes cast in her race.
Apparently the same 'racists' that voted for Youngkin, also voted for a black woman. How do you square that?
Black people can be white supremecists too now. Please do try to keep up. /sarc
Funny but true. As Biden said, if you do not vote for him, you lose your racial affiliation. We may not understand it but a Marxist would understand that logic perfectly.
I love when people throw around the word "Marxist" like they actually know what it means.
and I'm sure you do......but let me disabuse anyone of the notion that I am accusing Brandon of being a Marxist. He is not. He's just another corrupt grifter who wandered into power by luck and happenstance an has been happy to follow whatever means allows him, and now his enablers, t keep th gravy train running. Im sure he knows much more about Groucho than Karl.
I had/have no idea whether or not you consider Dear Leader a Marxist or not. I just think it's funny that you think that Marxists have anything to do with being woke.
I wonder how many black faces white supremacy can handle? Those Newspeak editors best come up with a plan.
What a great comment, especially the keep up part. I really hope this marks a time when we will start to see a shift away from the way the left, and basically all institutions of power, talk about race (and identity). It's been degraded to the point of parody.
Yeah, Larry Elder was the black face of white supremacy to CA democrats who peaked around the corner and couldn't understand why Gavin Newsom is so despised. Oh well, back to brunch.
Now!?!?! Obviously you forget Dave Chappell and Clayton Bigsby!!!!!
Poor bastard had to divorce because his wife was a “n-word” lover.
❤️
Only need (R) after their name apparently.
What really happened in Loudon County, however complex it may be, couldn't have swung the election, though. It's the perception of what happened, statewide, that swung the election.
And overall, the impression was of arrogant ideologues doing whatever they pleased at the expense of kids and Terry McAuliffe indulging them.
If you don’t think what started in Loudon county didn’t swing this election, wait and see what happens in 2022 if Merrick Garland doesn’t walk back the whole “let’s have the FBI investigate parents as potential terrorists” for getting rowdy at school board meetings thing
It was an incredibly stupid move by Garland (in addition to being authoritarian).
Don’t kid yourself that this was Garland doing something stupid. The letter from the association was dictated by the puppet masters in the White House who are really calling the shots. The Weekend at Biden shell President isn’t calling the shots either. The woke kids run the asylum now. The suburban moms and dads are starting to get a clue. They voted accordingly. Unless the woke kids take this as a come to Jesus moment, expect more of the same.
"Weekend at Biden" nice, super obvious in retrospect but I haven't seen it deployed yet, *yoink*!
If it were in reference to Hunter, the movie would be called “Weekend at Marion Barry’s.”
YES! It was basically Joe Biden writing a letter to himself so that he could start calling people domestic terrorists.
After the national school board association sent a letter apologizing for the 1st letter he could have easily backed off this but nope, just went ahead and doubled down.
Always overplaying their hands. It's such an obvious overreach but utterly stunning that they're so "in it" they can even see that.
Loudon County showed the on the ground effects of idiot wokism to people that, until now, basically thought it was the obsession of rednecks and FOX viewers. McAuliffe, Biden, and Obama told the suburbanites to shut up and take their medicine from the school nurse-they found out what it’s like to be talked to by the Ds the way people in SW Ohio or Oklahoma have felt for the past 8 years or so.
At the end of the day, Louden County didn’t swing.
F*** Joe Biden !!
Julian Assange shouldn’t be released from the dank chambers of Belmarsh Prison because the CIA contemplated assassinating him. He shouldn’t be released because a key witness against him admitted to fabricating his deposition.
He should be released because he didn’t commit the crime for which he is charged and a country that treats journalism as a crime against the state shouldn’t have legal standing to bring extradition requests in the courts of nations that consider themselves democracies.
In summary and once again – F*** Joe Biden !!
And Trump and Obama for prosecuting him too!!
Of course !!! But Biden is in power NOW.
And -- a bit more on St. Obama and his CIA, FBI and NSA executives: Barack Obama was/is a spook (i.e., CIA operative/spy ), from a spook family, and his political campaigns were financed by spooks… ). Snowden disclosed the all-encompassing surveillance of US population under St. Obama after Clapper directly lied about it in Senate and to all of us.
In 1965 CIA organized a coup against Indonesia founding president Sukarno by CIA-trained generals. The US considered Sukarno too progressive (he implemented land-reform – same reason for CIA coup in Guatemala which resulted with a genocide of high-land Mayas). CIA installed one of the most murderous military regime (under Suharto dictatorship) on Earth which killed more than two millions ( 2M ) civilians – the massacres are known as “The Jakarta Method” (see book by Vincent Bevins) used subsequently in Africa (Angola, Mozambique) and throughout Latin and Central America.
What is important here is that Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, worked for U.S. government agencies and allied NGOs—the Ford Foundation, Asia Foundation, Development Alternatives Inc., and United States Agency for International Development (USAID)—in Indonesia in the 1960s and 1970s as well as later in Ghana, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and Thailand.
Obama’s mother married Indonesian Lt. Col. Lolo Soetoro; they had a daughter Maya Soetoro when Barack Obama was four. The colonel was from an aristocratic family which lost out in Sukarno’s land reform; the marriage was likely arranged, Obama’s mother may have acted as a female “honeypot” for the CIA whose job was to recruit assets
Obama always lied and claimed that his mother did not know about the countless atrocities that were committed by the Suharto government, which is implausible given her CIA background and the fact that they were much reported on by mainstream newspapers at the time (although mostly favorably by right-wing media). Of significance, Obama underplayed his stepfather Lolo’s army rank in his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope.
Soetoro went on to become an executive at Mobil Oil and its liaison to Suharto, whose policies Obama’s mother praised. And – Obama became a labor and community “organizer” – while he actually worked for a large corporate foundation.
A Company Family: The Untold History of Obama and the CIA
By Jeremy Kuzmarov - October 1, 2021 ( Note: Photos themselves are truly fascinating )
A Company Family: The Untold History of Obama and the CIA - CovertAction Magazine
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/10/01/a-company-family-the-untold-history-of-obama-and-the-cia/
Boris the blade Petrov, cutting through the thicket . The greatest lie they ever told us - “we’re were telling you the truth.” Fuckers.
Thank you -- if you like it distribute it further -- a lot of brainwashed people need more information and education....
Thank you for the source; finding out Plimpton and ‘The Paris Review’ and USIS were CIA covers/ cooperatives was disillusioning
I don't know who are Plimpton and "The Paris Review" references. But certainly, editors of ALL major Western newspapers are on CIA payroll
Pretty sure no president since Bush senior was actually running things, and before that, (maybe) Jack Kennedy (gave it a good try). Sure, several of them were probably under the *illusion* they were running things, the others knew better to make peace with TPTB.
A question: Where one can find a consolidated (all three parts) of Tucker Carlson video titled “Patriot Purge”?
Jan. 6 “armed insurrection” is as much a fraud and hoax as the “Russia-gate” – same lying team.
PS: Fox channel is completely disorganized and drowning in endless stupid garbage a la Hannity, etc. - you can’t easily find it there… Tucker Carlson should find another platform – the sooner, the better for him…
That's because there is no THEM RUNNING THINGS. That is the poor substitute for God that you quit believing in. Reality is way more scary - no one is in control.
1% is in control -- both DNC and GOP "elite" are happily grunting together at same (Goldman Sachs, etc.) donors feeding troughs
Gates and Musk are part of that 1%, no? What exactly do they CONTROL, in particular how are they in control of YOU.
"no one is in control" isn't this at least just a bit hyperbolic?
DNC under leadership of deeply corrupt Pelosi and Schumer just approved removal of the SALT tax law giving specifically billionaires class billions of profit -- more than all other proposals that were REMOVED from "reconciliation"....
But our "Curmudgeon" believes only gods control us.... These are our overlords on Earth -- controlling us, laughing at us with Russia-gate and Jan. 6 "armed insurrection" hoaxes and censoring us...
Always remember that AOC, the next Sinema, brazenly stated that "almost ten people" died on Ja. 6 -- note the ugly lie -- "ALMOST"...
There are plenty who pretend to be in control, and there are far, far more that want someone, even someone evil that they oppose, to be in control. The idea that shit happens without someone to blame flat out terrifies them.
We like to think we are in control of our own lives, but are we? Really? How much are we at the mercy of forces beyond our control?
Money or fear. The source of all power
Nope. I live in reality, and I can't tell you how many times my head's been cut off. Someone else, certainly more than one, are doing it.
God? Oh, you mean the one who relies solely on random human evangelists to spread the "Good News", who have, unsurprisingly, convinced only about 1/7 of the world in 2000 years? The one who hasn't spoken to us since the fourth century CE? The one who nevertheless is regularly hallucinated into existence by believers, where any knowledge of such being is utterly non-transferable to non believers, unlike such things as physical objects, structure of the atom, mental states of humans, etc. etc.? The infinitely merciful one who will torture me, an imperfect and limited human, in perpetuity, simply for coming to the wrong conclusion about the nature of reality?
Thanks, but no thanks -- I think I've heard quite enough.
I'm not promoting belief in all powerful beings that control our lives, not God and not any cabal of humans. You've put it out there you think there is someone calling the shots but is unseen.
Power abhors a vacuum. Sure, there's likely no single "master" out there, but there sure are a lot of islands of power exercising sociopathic control over the powerless (as well as fights between those islands). And the vast numbers of "little people" suffer. Always has been, always will be, but good politics can temper it, if we bring it back. It has in the past.
That's better - lots of contention for power, but not so much control.
Fantastic and very curmudgeonly
There was some weird shit that went down when El Orange Diablo was leaving office: he was contemplating a pardon for both Assange and Snowden. The Turtle Man from Hell blocked it, threatening some sort of retribution.
Reportedly the War-party's Pompeo was also extremely against Assange.
True. Mitch said if he did it, he would never win another election. Sad
If this can be shown true, it is smoking gun evidence that Trump never intended, nor ever intends, to risk it all to save America.
He was damn lucky to have had the right timing to get four years to give it his best shot. But now, Republicans would be damned foolish to stay attached to his wagon. Only *Democrats* want him to continue to be the pinata 40+% of Americans would never, ever consider voting for while being only too happy to continue to be brainless attack dogs against him.
More accurately it was Mitch saying he would impeach again...tbh
Never heard that anywhere.
"Tucker Carlson reported on this subject, "Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the leader of Republicans in the Senate, has sent word over the White House – If you pardon Julian Assange we are much more likely to convict you in an impeachment trial. Well, is it legal to hold that over a president’s head? We’re not lawyers, we don’t know. It’s certainly wrong. But more than that, it tells you everything about their priorities." You can watch the video here. In a tweet, New York Times' Adam Goldman tweeted, "McConnell he has told allies he hopes never to speak to Mr. Trump again and is doing nothing to persuade senators to back him, instead calling the impeachment vote a matter of conscience."
https://meaww.com/did-mitch-mc-connell-threaten-donald-trump-with-impeachment-if-he-pardons-julian-assange-clemency
Simple matter of deduction perhaps? The swamp is pretty corrupt, so much can be deduced about my logical actions are not happening. :)
*why
"The Turtle Man" lol who's that? Pompeo?
Cocaine Mitch.
Turtle Man from Hell?
Please identify 'The Turtle Man from Hell'.
I believe he means Mitch McConnell.
ah, gotcha.
Mr. Rob is correct. :-)
Ok
A question: Where one can find a consolidated (all three parts) of Tucker Carlson video titled “Patriot Purge”?
Fox channel is completely disorganized and drowning in endless stupid garbage a la Hannity, etc.
Tucker Carlson should find another platform…
He should be freed post haste, but unfortunately he'd likely never be allowed to live freely again. Even if pardoned.
Ed’s doing ok
Why?
Boris ❤️
Thank you -- if you like it distribute it further -- a lot of brainwashed people need more information and education....
Christopher Hitchens wrote for it - good enough for me.
"Also complicating the “Lee Atwater” narrative is the role of Asian and South Asian parents in yesterday’s results. “A lot of immigrant families came here specifically for the school system,” is how one Indian-American parent put it to me yesterday."
Yup, can confirm. When you start messing with education, you will get thrashed by Indians and East Asians. Parents immigrated from South India in the 1980s: they tend toward being liberal (because they're college educated and not working class), but have never been loyalists to the the Democrats. Strong family and good education come first, always.
And please stop confusing educated with receiving a degree. Many factors play into that narrative but part of the “educated vs uneducated syndrome” is related to training. Not education. Training happens in most universities more then education. The same as most technical schools. And the higher the education, the more the training. Matt should write about that syndrome. How we are training people to believe x vs y. Or how if you receive a masters you are told you are particularly special above the mass. This relatively new phenomenon has many people believing they are more aware then someone who hasn’t had the same training. When blind spots occur, not yet proven but would love to see a study, at both levels.
And I would bet that the money coming in Matt to swell or sell the narrative is a great example of that blindness by the elites more then the “uneducated”
I agree with your main point, but neither the educated/liberal/Democrat nor working class/conservative/redneck/dullard tropes work for me. Just not the real life experience that alot of us out there see.
What I meant by that classification is simply that traditonal working class people (small business owner, manual labor, technician, etc.) tend to organize socially and within families slightly differently than those who have a post-graduate education (lawyer, professor, doctor) even if both types share similar underlying values (good education, strong family, self-reliant, conscientious work ethic). In that context, the latter are more "liberal".
It could be upward mobility vs "we made it." The abandonment of merit-based admissions in favor of 'holistic assessments' doesn't just favor the people who do poorly on tests. It also favors the people who can provide their kids with no-pay internships, summer sessions doing activism, extra tutoring, and plug into the networks that reveal what admissions departments are screening for.
“The GOP ran a master class on race-based identity politics,” wrote CNN’s Bakari Sellers. “The return of the Lee Atwater playbook. Pretty grim,” is how former Harry Reid chief of staff Adam Jentleson put it. “Hats off to the depraved cynicism and villainy and race baiting. It worked in Virginia,” seethed Wajahat Ali of The Daily Beast. Van Jones last night called Youngkin the “Delta variant of Trumpism.”
Exhibits A, B, C, and D for the prosecution in the case against the ongoing relevance of the Main Stream Media. The have richly earned their irrelevance.
Van Jones almost had me convinced with some of his comments, post 16’, that despite being a radical leftist, he wasn’t devoid of common sense/intelligent takes on politics. I retract those thoughts.
Right. I also remember some words to that effect as well. I don't watch CNN or follow him in any way but my general sense is that he did not follow any of those thoughts up over the balance of the Trump administration. If you are on team CNN, you have to play ball.
Agree. But a consolation prize to Van Jones for clever phrase.
So satisfying at times to witness the rage of the butthurt.
They know the type of red meat their audience wants.
"Republican race-baiting" seems to have helped drive Winsome Sears to a historic victory.
Huh. I guess people don't dig tyranny.
All hail Christopher Rufo!
Chris is clearly extraordinary skilled at political activism (campaigning, messaging, staying focused, etc.) The big question is whether the people who hold office can turn a culture war victory at the ballot box into sustained, useful governance. I'm a bit skeptical, but willing to hold my breath and see.
don underetimate the Republicans ability to squander a victory.
Luckily or not, the democratic party will be filled with more aspirational thought leaders then the republicans. They will be more methodical and conscientious by design. So less likely to lose by default. Your entire politics is almost perfect. Extreme thinking but requires 60 votes. Why people fight this is amazing to me. When you created the richest most powerful country in the world where poverty means less then but not starvation, under a multicultural mosaic is incredible. Nordics and Iceland be damned, small countries that require snow protection and actually have no folks looking to immigrate ( and take a real peak at their immigration populations life’s) and then compare to the rush to America. Even from further abroad. More people live your model then hate it. As flawed as it is. Stop hating your damn model that made the majority of the world want to join it. Damn.
I meant republicans will be more methodical which works for more people.
Ok last comment on this one. Too many thoughts. Conservatives are more thoughtful by design. Democrats more aspirational. So republicans will always remain by design. And much up less. And both are required for the experiment. And grump was required to make us all understand this. As was his personality. No other type could have withstood the BS and still keep standing. Just ask Matt or Katie could they have withstood that type of critique even when it wasn’t warranted and not capitulated. It could be he saved your experiment.
Precisely.
Most people don’t know what CRT is , not even the folks who claim it isn’t happening, but they do believe this new inclusion approach which is often mistakenly called CRT has some problems. Real problems about segregation language and ideology that may not have caught up with reality or if you want to be positive, surpasses enlightenment
I’m a 75 year old retired person living in a medium middle Illinois town and I know what CRT is. Once again, not all Americans are stupid.
Maybe because you are retired and you have more time to spend online? No problem there, but most people with jobs and young families have no idea what CRT is. I have yet to see a CRT curriculum, and my son attends public school in a very liberal area outside DC. He is not learning CRT. Seems like this a blown up issue that the Republicans will run on in 2022. By the way, I don't think Youngkin won because of CRT or anything education related but because McAuliffe is singularly awful and the Democratic party seems to be the party of annoying tone deaf mid-upper class professionals who like to pretend they are less racist than the "less-educated" right now.
I didn’t mean you or anyone in particular. I only meant much of the CRT commentary is not about CRT as described by the established commentary. And your age will know better then most of us My point is that CRT is being co opted to drive a narrative. Now I don’t agree with CRT based on its root beginning ( although I empathise and agree with some of the tenants) because I think the deconstructive nature of its root is a real problem if you view history for longer then the last 100 or 300 years.
'CRT is being co opted' this seems true, it gets bandied about regularly in front of me by people whom I know for a fact don't even know what the letters stand for
But we can’t ignore both sides are using it for their own advantage. One to include too much Amd one to exclude what is going on
Cathode Ray Tube, lest we forget.
Like Cycles Per Second versus Hertz.
showing your(our) age.
Now that I think of it, should have added "condensers versus capacitors" - but then that was back when I made my first radio, a crystal set with the parts mounted on a wooden plank.
Just yesterday! :-)))
Cycles per second is the oppressor and hertz is the oppressed
I always wanted a certain rental car company to make a commercial where the limo driver is OJ Simpson and it parks fast. A side door flies open and a child runs out with his shirt hanging half off as a rhinestone encrusted glove tries, but fails to grab him and pull him back in the car.
Child runs away and the crying fades and then the camera goes back to OJ in his chauffer's hat and he just shrugs and says, "It don't hurts when you use HERTZ."
End scene
it took at least a year for this not by my brain's default interpretation
Living in northern Nevada, BLM will always be the Bureau of Land Management to me. Always.
Grew up in Wyoming here. When I reference BLM in conversation, as in "I went out to the BLM land to go shooting", I always get strange looks in San Francisco. Probably for more than one reason!
that one still hasn't changed for me, similar context grounding it
I think people may not know what it is by definition but they know how it makes them feel and their kids feel, and it doesn’t feel right. Two wrongs don’t make it right.
Well we can’t make how we feel be our reality obviously. But you need only to hear and see and understand the trajectory to understand how it will end.
Big city liberal elites (the donor class) and urban educated single childless social justice cat people are gonna vote for the most left of everything every time. What got Biden elected in 2020 (other than Pandemic-related election shenanigans) was the moderate suburban family voter who had been made to scream "make it stop" over all the vitriolic media-political chatter that they assumed Trump was responsible for. Not only did it NOT stop after Biden was elected, it has grown in scope, volume and nastiness.
In addition, the Democrats... only hanging onto majority power by a thread, have gone about governing like they have a super-majority and mandate to impose a far left agenda and totalitarian control. Voters really don't like that... they expect their politicians to work with the other side not push a one-sided agenda.... especially when they hold a very thin majority.
These shifts by the suburban voters that elected Glenn Youngkin are not trivial because they point to a sticky voter epiphany resulting in negative branding the Democrat party in general. It wasn't Trump after all causing all the freaking out... it was the actual strategy of the Democrats to foment emotional turmoil and social chaos so that the Great Reset would rise from the ashes. Not only has that been subtly telegraphed over time, but Democrats have grown so brazen with their corporate media cover that they just admit it all now.
Now the voters see it... and it is a terrible situation for the Democrat machine. It is so terrible that another Trump run isn't going to provide the same Democrat advantage to contrast it's own image against Orange Man Bad. The picture is "Blue Man is More Bad".
Voters really don't like hypocrites. They also don't like highly charged political hyperbole. Lastly, they want leaders that work to calm everyone the *F* down... and certainly don't like it when the leaders are responsible for CAUSING the raging of lunacy we see.
One move to stop the slide downhill is to admit that Jan 6 was a Constitutionally-protected protest with civil disobedience that was much less in scope and violence than what the Democrats and left have consistently demonstrated and supported over the last 4 years. Another move would be to admit that the American media is corrupted with left bias and big tech is censoring right-leaning content and promoting left-leaning content. Lastly, admit that our American campuses are hives for postmodernist collectivist indoctrination that isn't connected to true scholarship and support reforms to get that crap out of the education system.
But don't hold your breath. And because these things are unlikely, the Democrats will continue their downhill slide with center-left and center-right voters who don't support extremism.
Agree with all of this except the "far left agenda" bit. The Great Reset is about increasing corporate control over people, the "left" stuff is just their bs marketing cover. Look at Biden's WEF-branded "build back better" bill: it started with a bunch of "left" stuff that is popular, like free community college and 12 weeks paid family leave and Medicare dental/hearing coverage, which all got stripped out after corporate lobbyist pushback. And yet "progressives" like Jayapal are still supporting this bill that does barely any of what they supposedly want, why? Maybe because they lied to get votes, and once in power they just serve those in power.
You have to understand the connection. Both the elite globalists in government and big business and the loony AOC left want a totalitarian socialist style system. To get it done they need to reduce the independence of a strong middle class and make more dependent on government and big business. Build Back Better is the chant of the globalists. Biden is just one of their puppets.
You think Bill Gates and George Soros want to hand their capital over to workers??
Bill gates is actively working on a digital social credit system in India with the eBay dick so that they can shut anyone who dare not play along off from MONEY.
They have no concern about that. First, they have more money than they need for a top .01% lifestyle. Second, they are playing a bigger and longer game to participate in ruling the world.
You’re not listening.
Yes they are trying to rule the world. No, they are not “socialists.” Parts of their fucked up ideology has roots in Marxism, but Bill Gates is not a socialist.
Exactly. He and his ilk are far from "lefty".
Yes, like buying up a third of US farmland.
The BBB isn't a piece of legislation. Its a agenda. It is a concept, a set of moral assertions about how the world should be and which government agencies should be tasked with wishing into reality.
Truly, it's far-right.
Nothing is more far-right than censorship, totalitarian control and mandated medical programs to fight a disease crafted by some eggheads in a lab in China.
Classical liberalism in the 70s/80s fought against censorship, totalitarian control, the CIA, FBI,and all the alphabet agency's. The illiberals of today are embracing all of that and more. It's become more like scientology, where if you dont follow the dogma to a T you're shunned, banned, and destroyed. They've done a complete 180. Where it used to be live and let live. Now it's you said something I don't agree with so in my moral supremacy I'm gonna fucking destroy you and anyone we can connect to you. Because your a white supremacist. That's not coming from the right, it's coming from the left. From the president on down.
Scientology, or Nazism? Maybe both.
Voters demonstrably have no interest in bipartisanship, and no one brings up this ridiculous idea when Republicans have a majority. Voters have an interest in things than benefit their lives.
And that’s why I really Governor DeWine in Ohio-he’s chill, common sense, kinda geeky-but makes the right call on on principle/ideology when shit gets real-ie-Covid issues, etc.
Trump loved chaos and his followers love doing his bidding. He loved the famous "people are saying... Fox still burns for him. It's the same as msnbc for Biden.
The opposite is true. President Trump worked hard to get things done the right way. He got the vaccines done by coordinating among different entities. He got the PPE and ventilators provided faster than expected because he negotiated with companies to get them made. He had the problem of chaotic advisors like Fauci, who constantly shifted his positions (no masks, masks required, then no masks or distancing as of early July 2020. Also, President Trump was educated for the position, unlike Obama and Biden, and he could fire people who were not doing their jobs.
Ppe was chaos. He had states bidding against each other. He put his son in law in a position he had no business running.
??? The states got all that they requested, faster than expected. And what is this about his son-in-law?
Trump thought the state's should handle getting their own ppe. Governor's were bidding against each other. It was a huge cluster f for the beginning months. Jared and a friend of his were in charge of it. One of trumps downfalls was having him as an advisor. He had no experience in handling a national crisis. Trumps nepotism is a factor in why people couldn't understand him
Actually Jared Kushner was working hard on the Abraham Accords , which were signed in August. That is a greater triumph for human rights and peace than anything President Obama ever did. The PPE was provided by negotiations with the companies and the needs were determined entirely by the working group led by Dr. Birx.
Exactly! Dems trying to do too much too soon, too fast. People don't want the woke social justice stuff most places in this country.
Ha, your assumption that the last general election was fair or somehow not rigged to keep the mobs of angry voters from KEEPING these demons away from the levers of power is quaint and one day will be replaced with some logic.
given the first sentence, do tell how on earth did 'nothing will fundamentally change' Biden win the primary?
All of the primary competition magically vanished, one by one. My state's primary is on Super Tuesday. I would have been a deeply unhappy camper if i had voted early for Pete or Amy, and found that by primary day, my vote was totally in vain.
I was a deeply unhappy camper. Setting aside irregularities, Biden won many states, the premise that "Big city liberal elites...and urban ... cat people are gonna vote for the most left of everything every time" just doesn't hold water for me at all.
Irregularities were everything. Or most everything. Remember Biden was running 4th or 5th up until South Carolina. Warren had basically tko'd Bloomberg. Todd and Lisa - oops, Amy and Pete - magically dropped out just before Super Tuesday. Warren after she split the progressive primary vote with Bernie in Massachusetts. So it was basically between Biden and Bernie (who remember, to his immense credit, isn't a Democrat).
But how to reconcile that with that first sentence - Dem big donors and city liberals will vote for the most socially left every time. Not the most left economically. Bernie was way too scary.
Dem big donors vote for the ones that do what they want, it isn't always the most socially left (altho for some of them this is where their interests lie). Just not this simple, although everything else you said holds up for me just fine, esp with the cultural vs economic nuance.
I'll give you that Hillary Clinton or Biden aren't anywhere close to the most socially left. But they both talked a good game about it on the trail. Ok, not even good, mostly pretty cringeworthy. But dummies wanting cover for neoliberal economic policies swallowed it anyway.
Billionaire boys club that owns the corporate media made it so.
The party bosses pushed him through, particularly Rep Clyburn who endorsed him in the South Carolina primary held on Super Tuesday.
does that mean he didn't get the votes? or did voters not vote for the most left candidate?
He got the votes, because Clyburn is the most influential Democrat in South Carolina.
And Clyburn’s base is too dumb to shit without instructions. I’ll never forget those chants of, “We know Joe,” delivered with the perfect combination of ethnocentric smugness at wypipo and compliant cowlike stupidity.
As deluded as Democrats seem to be, surely it didn't help his prospects that McAuliffe was the picture of venality, and a long time servant and bag-man for the Clinton's. Perhaps his greatest service will be to ring in the curtain on that sorry crew.
Absolutely