I've read over the years hundreds of articles written by Democrats about polling numbers. If they are good for them, they are happy, and assume this means they are right; and if they are bad, they are unhappy, and assume that the rest of the world has misunderstood something.
For those of you who don't know this, most Republicans don't think like this. It hurts us, politically, because we are not constantly trying to figure out how to pander to the unthinking masses, and obviously pandering (and cheating) are good ways to win elections.
But we also are not lifeless drones. We are not soulless derelicts, equating mass approval with rectitude. Those are two different things. Both Hitler and Mussolini were popular, and popular in large measure for the same things Demcocrats try to achieve: large scale government largesse. The People's Car--Der Volkswagen--was a subsidized car intended to make car ownership available to the masses of the German people, and the Beetle aspect was suggested by Hitler himself. This is the sort of thing the German National Socialist Worker's Party specialized in. That, and blaming Jews for everything. But the roots of their popularity was deliving the goods, the housing, the cars, the jobs.
One can hope that the obvious is slowly sinking into America's collective mind. Democrats are neither trying to fix problems, nor willing to stand aside while others fix them. This makes THEM the problem, with respect to nearly every painful problem facing America, from war to economic underdevelopment, to whatever real environmental issues we face.
“The People's Car--Der Volkswagen--was a subsidized car intended to make car ownership available to the masses of the German people”
In Germany, it took a maniacal dictator named Hitler to “make car ownership available to the masses of the German people”. In America, that was accomplished by an unsubsidized midwestern farm boy named Henry Ford who didn’t even graduate high school yet revolutionized industry with his Model T. The same man, who together with other American industrialists, transformed their factories practically overnight from making cars and other consumer goods into the arsenal of the free world, producing planes, tanks, ships… that would ultimately provide freedom loving people the means to save it.
Only in America, at least what used to be America, could that happen.
"Henry Ford has another thing in common with Hitler: he was an anti-semitic shithead too"
Yea I know, and George Washington was a racist slave owner. Funny how perspectives change over time. Back when you Limeys were getting your asses kicked by Hitler, I doubt there were any complaints about Fords so-called antisemitism when one of the 8,865 B-24 heavy bombers his Willow Run plant pushed out the door landed on an English airfield.
He remained an anti-semitic shit-head. So-called? I got it, you are an antisemitic shithead too. There is nothing "so-called" when you peddle "The Protocols of Zion".
People like me, who have criticized George Soros for supporting progressive prosecutors in US cities that are fomenting literal war zones in major U.S. cities have been labeled antisemites. I’m not a Henry Ford historian but I suspect that broad, “antisemitic” and simpleminded brush has been dragged across his name as well. Congratulations for joining the simpleminded crowd.
Accuse and label away Steven, the fact remains that those B-24 bombers weren’t dropping bagels on German targets, they were dropping bombs, in volumes that you liimeys could only dream about. Henry Ford gave the Army Air Corps the means to do so. That’s strange behavior for a Hitler sympathizer. Your inability to acknowledge that, as well as Fords contribution in the preservation of of your tiny island makes you a shithead.
But unlike Hitler Ford wasn’t defined by his antisemitism. And of course he wasn’t entertaining ideas about bringing all jews everywhere to extinction. He was just an average, quasi run-of-the-mill, antisemite, pretty typical for the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Henry Ford was a nut. He was a wealthy nut, however, so people listened to him. Ford did not believe in higher education so he wouldn't hire college graduates. He had hired goons who terrorized employees. Henry Ford II took over and cleaned up his uncle's messes
Obviously Henry Ford didn’t need all those college graduates to run a very successful business. OTOH Henry II thought the world of Bob McNamara and the other wizz kids and brought them in, not to clean up any messes but to start an war of aggression against GM. Moreover, quite many industrialists had hired goons who terrorized employees - Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick did it with gusto, John D. Rockefeller more by accident and Mr. Durant of GM and the DuPonts were no shrinking violets either. The Gilded Age was full of violence and turbulence in labor relations and Pinkertons made a lot of money.
There’s no good reason to demonize Henry Ford. Likewise there isn’t any reason for a beatification. All that navel gazing about historical guilt leads nowhere. Stop history bashing and move on!
Watching the discussion on Real-time, a conversation they had made me add one more point to add is that the politicians since the 90's have programmed the mind of voters to move from tax and spend to borrow and spend. The GOP has done a great job ensuring a wide swath of people don't pay taxes while agreeing on large omnibus spending bills. The economy has thrived with trillions of dollars in debt. If this ever implodes, I don't as much blame the Democrats, as I think a good title of the era will be the road to hell was paved with good intentions. This crash has been predicted to happen my whole lifetime; when it does, who is leading us will matter, as it won't be pretty.
Here is the thing: there is no doubt that some Republicans have joined the Pander Parade. We call them RINO's. But the whole climate of all this has been created by relentless and ridiculous left wing progaganda. Our government spends so much because that is how Democrats get votes. Everybody in American wants a free lunch, and tends to vote for those promising it. Never mind that the voters are paying for that lunch, with interest. In effect the game is bribing voters with money borrowed from their kids, and it has been that way a long time.
Who balanced the annual budget, for a year or two? A Republican Congress, animated by the protests of among others Ross Perot in 1992, which was not opposed by Bill Clinton.
But whatever year that happened, say 1998, was 25 years ago. And both parties have simply stopped talking about the deficit. If Republicans propose cuts, or even decreases in increases, the Democrats scream bloody murder, and these screams not infrequently win elections for them, so Republicans who want to stay in office have to play the game.
Obviously, this is ultimately the result of the American people being ignorant and thoughtless and reckless imbeciles in large numbers. The effects of all this are not hard to predict, but everybody still wants their free stuff.
But Republican tax policy, on balance, does and always has increased economic growth, with the result of increasing the tax base. Reagan's tax cuts more than paid for themselves within 2-3 years. Same with Bush's. Total net Federal revenues increased over the baseline, which was the prediction, and empirical reality. The two meshed nicely. People just lie about this, which is not hard because expenditures rose faster than revenues, resulting in higher net deficits.
But really none of this is beyond the capacity of a reasonably intelligent high school Freshman. It is emotional factors created by relentless AgitProp that drive people insane, and make basic logic impossible.
Having an annual budget with a $2 trillion deficit in peacetime is obvious madness. No surprise it's the economic handiwork of the senile imbecile who still claims that the economy is humming along. Our emperor is naked and his fawning followers are willfully blind.
Not sure if I heard this correctly - but I believe Trump was trying to refinance the debt when rates were at zero and democrats wouldn’t let him. Similarly I know Trump tried to fill strategic oil reserves when prices were at bottom but Chuck Schumer blocked it - as our reserves are now very low we now have the necessity to rebuy those reserves at like three times the cost. The Democratic Party does not care about the American people - if ruining a policy will hurt the other party politically they will do it - they care more
About making things look bad under their opponent than they do with helping the people. That is the heart of the problem. If they can make things in the country go badly enough for their opponent they will do it - they don’t care if it hurts the people. The difference between good government and bad government is that one wants to do what is right for the country - to make it stronger and the economy more healthy. The other side wants to do what is best just for their own voters and wants to trash the country when the other side is in charge - they will gleefully tank our country to make things look grim under their opponents many
Except interest was negligible under Trump. The interest alone on the debt is north of 685,000,000,000 dollars this year. Which beautifully illustrates your larger pount I think.
The interest has been going up for many years. I remember writing maybe in 2012 that interest on the debt was soon going to over take our massive Defense expenditures. I would suspect it has.
And the money printing happened under both Trump and Biden. That was really the Congress, although more happened under Biden. The COVID scam was the cause of all that. We never should have shut down, or treated COVID as other than an unusually bad seasonal flu that was particularly dangerous for the elderly.
I am a Trump partisan, but a lot of this genuinely is outside the control of Presidents. It IS in the control of Congress, and Congress is in the control of lunatics and everyone they can shout into submission and compliance.
We could literally balance the annual budget in the next two weeks. A budget is due. Passing a rational one is one of the options. But what would happen? Every major media outlet would start screaming about a right wing radical agenda. And who owns those media outlets? People who stand to benefit from an economic collapse.
Staunch Democrat/Biden voters are willfully ignorant of all this. My sister and her husband (aged 63 and 74) are intelligent, professional people who believe MSNBC is a good news source. When I try to talk to them about politics, the main themes are "Republicans are going to ban abortion!!" and "The economy is doing amazingly well under Biden!!" There is literally no hope convincing people like this not to keep voting Dem.
Clinton turned over a budget surplus to Bush. The previous year the national debt didn't increase was 1957. And of course it hasn't happened since then.
And go ahead and credit the Republicans in Congress. But if you do, you have to credit the Democrats who ran Congress when Ike had a balanced budget.
I'm fine with that. If Democrats today were as sane as those of the Fifties, or even JFK himself, we would not be looking at a complete societal meltdown, induced intentionally, by American hating lunatics, some of whom--including the President--are openly taking bribes from other nations.
No argument from me on the current state of the Democratic Party. Equally, I'd guess that some Americans might wish Republicans today were a bit more like Ike, he of the Military Industrial Complex warning.
I spent twenty plus years representing both K-12 and higher education. The dumbing down of Americans is NOT happening by accident… I’ve seen, firsthand, the efforts to infantilize our young… telling them what to think… rendering them dependent on government. Eloi….
Terry-- and I've been an educator for 20+years and have also seen it, as well as the growing behavioral problems in the classrooms. And in higher ed-- the students calling the shots (accusing teachers of all kinds of ridiculous things). It's awful. Now wonder so many teachers are leaving.
Deirdre, I understand where you are coming from. I spoke with dozens of school teachers in K-12 who were leaving the profession. The most common themes were lack of control of the classroom… interference in how/what they taught… lockstep union rules that prevented upward mobility… disciplinary processes which protected bad teachers. Interestingly, teacher pay was not typically a reason… as most knew what to expect for compensation. Naturally, they would have appreciated better pay…
Even the Republican't Party has forgotten the USA is a republic and not a democracy and that the Founders were quite aware of the distinction and against democracy. That's, if I'm not mistaken, de Toqueville. Are there no French "philosphes" that aren't puddleheads?
I think in most bad things there is some combination of forces accidentally working to an outcome, and intentionality.
Certainly the brain washing that has been going on for at least several decades is intentional.
But greed and the desire to get something for free are deeply rooted in human nature. Appealing to them is appealing to something ready made, and learning to resist those appeals is the positive intent of actual education. And when people no longer understand there are no free lunches, the brakes are off, and there is no end to it, until disaster.
The Trump Admistration - They never passed spending bills and especially the blow outs in the last two years. And the Obama years when the GOP was in control of Congress.
President Trump’s Federal Budget committed to restraint while prioritizing the funding needed to rebuild our national defense and strengthen America’s borders.
Under President Trump, Congress passed the first overhaul of the United States tax code in more than 30 years, putting money into the pockets of millions of American families. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act included the launch of “Opportunity Zones,” which bring hope and a brighter future to nearly 9,000 distressed communities with tax incentives for new development.
In 2019 alone, the Trump Administration surpassed its promise of removing two existing regulations for each new regulation added, issuing 150 deregulatory actions alongside just 35 new significant regulatory actions. This deregulatory wave unleashed massive benefits for the American people and our economy.
You must take the Orange Kool aid through an IV. He was a huge spender and lit the match for this current inflation. Yes, it didn't start when he was in office but he created the environment for it to happen
I think Bush I's loss despite it really being "the economy stupid" resulted in in what you describe. IOW no one in DC, with rare exception, was interested in turning off the spigot. And I would say print and spend. The die for that were cast long before the 90s though.
I'm pretty much of the opinion that the Uniparty is a thing, and yes both Mitt and Mitch are members in good standing.
These are large problems, and there are no obvious good solutions, but nothing will be possible until people start waking up, and realizing we have some HUGE problems that one of these days are going to bite all of us in the ass, no matter who we voted for, and largely without respect to economic status. The 1% of the 1% can escape the problems they created. The rest of us will not be able to.
The problems are already biting us in the ass. The service on our $32 trillion of debt is taking a larger and larger share of federal spending as interest rates rise. Only fools thought we could borrow and spend forever. We are led by them.
True. I've been pointing that out for at least ten years.
I did come up with a solution: flash hyperinflation to pay off all debt, then immediate issuance of a new currency, the quantity of which is never changed again.
The reality is that the hyperinflation in Weimar was largely intentional, and helped get a whole lot of internal debts paid off. It stopped when Hjalmar Schacht revalued the currency and if memory serves pegged it to the pound, making it much more stable.
We could literally have ONE DAY worth of hyperinflation, and end it the next day. People fail to grasp this because they fail to grasp that money isn't real. It's a con game. It's a useful shared hallucination, but that hallucination can be played with. Those who understand that are probably the world's actual rulers.
One thing we could have done is hold an inquiry on Covid to determine the culpability of the Chinese communist government. And then - when their guilt and venality was firmly entrenched - cancel our debt to them as reparations for the deaths and economic harm they caused. But that would require an administration that isn't in China's back pocket. And we know now that Biden is their bought butt boy.
I remain unconvinced that anyone escapes a collapse. They have to eat, too. And They won't do that very long without the ability to hold arable land against the locusts..
I don't think you properly appreciate what becomes possible with a few billion dollars. Stockpiling a thousand years of food would be single click. Buying an island a call to an attorney friend and a few weeks. Building a post-apocalyptic compound, maybe six months with a good contractor.
And although we are not sure why, Bill Gates remains the largest owner of farmland in America.
I hear you. But I also see no way around restoration of order being measured in less than hundreds of years. If that thousand years of food requires any climate control, it's doomed. I simply don't see anything less than a small country having the legs. And I don't see that coming into being under the radar. Best solution, I think that we agree: Let's not find out!
This is a theory I have about our local politics as well.
I live in a town that, by all rights, ought to have grown into a large city. Its location made it very important during the Civil War, and at one point in the late 19th century, it had a zoo and a major league baseball team.
Instead of growing, the town has shrunk. I attribute that mainly to the decisions of city government over the years. Even now, city government is confined largely to a coterie of people who consider themselves "elites."
It seems very probable to me that the decisions that led to our town shrinking instead of growing were made specifically to allow the "elites" to maintain their control. Rather than risk population growth that might result in power slipping out of their hands, they chose to maintain the status quo...which doomed the town as the Midwestern industrial economy contracted.
Plus I am almost certain that the deluge of polling is to determine how many ballots will need to be harvested. At this point it is beginning to appear that the number needed will result in more ballots cast than voters registered.
And they DID wind up with more ballots than voters in a number of places. They managed to shut that story, by and large. There are statistical impossibilities across the landscape. No sane person of average intelligence who studied the totality of the evidence could but conclude that fraud happened and that it benefited Joe Biden, and that no one was caught or punished or by and large even investigated. It's unbelievable, but there it is.
Interestingly, ballot-stuffing in a recent primary election in PA was caught ON CAMERA by a CNN crew. Delving deeper into the story, it turns out that it involves a Democrat who was re-elected *after* having spent time in jail on a corruption conviction.
A judge ruled that although he could not stop the general election, a new primary would have to be held to determine the *actual* Democratic candidate unless the guy who ran against Mr. Corruption in the primary wins as an independent candidate (making the question moot).
The reality is that Democrats have been perfecting their vote fraud tactics for at least 100 years, with Chicago as the trade school for that skill. The sentiment behind "by any means necessary" is a lot older than the Left's adoption of that saying. People who think they are entitled to rule are not going to allow something as petty as integrity stop them.
The problem is that what happened did not amount to election fraud as defined by criminal statutes. At least in those jurisdictions that actually investigated the claims. Barr said the DoJ did not find evidence of fraud but that only meant evidence of federal fraud (which ICBW but I think would be primarily financial) because the nuts and bolts of elections and adinistration thereof is governed by state law. So you wind up with a state like Arizona where there were rampant allegations of fraud but a very Democrat Secretary of State that then ran for governor in the mid-term while sitting as Secretary of State and running the election process. Add to that Mitch McConnell's refusal to give Republican monies to the SoS's opponent.
In 2020 I volunteered for Pat O'Brien who ran against Kim Foxx (the racist dolt who dropped 16 grand jury counts against Jussie Smollett) for Cook County State's Attorney. I was a poll watcher assigned to 5 precincts.
In Illinois we can vote at the polling booth either electronically or by paper ballot. A large majority of voters never vote down ballot...they only vote for the president.
As I'm pulling out of my driveway my campaign manager calls to tell me in several Cook County precincts paper ballots are being distributed with Foxx's name already checked.
How many voters noticed this? Now convince me there's no voter fraud.....
I agree. That kind of fraud will only be ferreted out by state investigation or challenges by the defrauded candidate. So if the official in charge of elections (usually the Secretary of State) or the judge hearing the case is compromised it will not be found to be fraud. The solution for that is in the statehouses.
Oh my, Unsaint, careful what you say, least you be investigated as an “election denier” spreading false information!
We ALL know Biden won with 81M votes & is THE MOST popular president in American history, right! AND he never had to do much campaigning! He sat comfortably in his basement and let the “powers that be” take care of the details. I mean, we read about how it was done in Time Magazine after the election.
Plus, Obama told us how he’d love a 3rd term, but the next best thing would be to have someone elected he could put an earpiece in who’d continue to carry out his policies …voila, Joe Biden.
Very good point/observation that one distinguishing characteristic of the left is their arrogance, their willing denial of a reality that fails to fit into their belief that they possess the unique ability to judge what is best for mankind. If it does not fit the narrative, they just deny the reality of its existence
"The FP posters think. IMO religion, politics, economics, and law are inseparable."
Agree The Founders/Framers Knew This, Said So. In the last 60 yeas(?) we have forgotten it. For people like me, this is a given, its like saying 2+2=4.
It's not politics it's pathology. Hubristic megalomaniac narcissism exploiting mal ideological utopianism as a distraction and criminal cover. That's (again and again) the fascist corporatist DNC/EU/WEF/CCP Davos crowd funding and MSM propagandizing for the sterile "woke"/anti-family misandrist feminist DEI/BLM/Antifa/ crowd. They're sick in the head poseurs to the last looter. It's time to call a grifter a grifter and stop ducking the responsibility and agency of citizenship the American Constitutional Republic and freedom requires.
In short--(have I ever been)--across the world the push against free speech, movement, the invasion of privacy, the creation of intrusive mass surveillance systems and dismantling of cultural/social institutions is the necessary cover up of the now naked king has no clothes reality the grifters are attempting to hide. Entrusted with the greatest economy in the world they (intentionally) gutted, looted and left it in ruins. But now "we the people" are the the "deplorable" criminals and terrorists. It's grifters all the way down.
It's time to stop carrying their darkness. With the help of a willingly compromised elected political leadership--- (here's a half million dollar speaker fee/let me help you keep that slush fund going)--the criminal financiers of bubble land --(crash after economic crash/ '08 oops we lied)---created an opportunistic rigged game financial system. Their pathology (DNC toady and Davos thug alike) is the narcissism and hubris that allows them to ignore the impoverishment and destruction of the peoples and civilization they're looting while rationalizing the theft by pretending themselves to be virtuous and moral exemplars of a golden age. It's the vampire politics of the walking dead. The campus "Jew haters" they fund represent the effective menticide and stench of the incestuous campus DEI/Marxist six figure hog trough. They're all bat sh!t crazy. As with Hitler, Mao and Stalin, in the end, after the murder and collapse of the world, it amounted to nothing more than a criminal enterprise.
Politics has become to lucrative. I support a $15/hr maximum wage for members of congress. They fund their own retirement accounts, and pay their own health care costs. They create no product or provide any services.
Remember when it was screamed that Trump would start WW III? Actually his craziness and unpredictability prevented all the wars we now see. He projected a fearlessness, a big ego, and most importantly a pride in America. He was tall, energetic and strong looking even in his 70s. He intimidated Putin, Xi, the mullahs.
Now we have a blithering idiot, a cadaver of a man, stumbling, mumbling, confused. No wonder world leaders saw their chance to strike. It is Biden who enabled all these conflicts and is getting us into WW III.
"Actually his craziness and unpredictability prevented all the wars we now see."
Not quite so. I commend the interview of O'Reilly by Carlson. O'Reilly ascribes it to Trump's transactional approach to life where everything is a give and take. Hence he got Obrador to shut the border and reduce illegal migration by 80% by threatening to destroy the cartels with various US actions. Contrast that to Biden's vapid and idiotic foreign policy of simply reversing all Trump did - and the resulting chaos.
We are in agreement. Or maybe it was that our enemies perceived he would use the power and assets of our country in a manner that was in the best interests of our citizens. As Soleimani found out.
MCMaureen & Bruce, true Trump may be a bloviating narcissist who NEVER filters, meaning if it’s in his head it’s out his mouth, but he wasn’t a loose cannon in his actions standing up for America’s best interest. Or, perhaps he was, and the World knew this!
I believe Trump had watched for years how the DC swamp had grown deeper & wider full of politicians (Democrats & RINOS) selling out to lobbyists & special interest groups. Money & Power are their driving forces.
Trump already had his own Money & Power, which made him a real threat. He’s fearless and he makes no bones about his love for America and his patriotism!
Love him or hate him, but he was more (often brutally) honest because he couldn’t be bought & paid for! The last time, in my memory, we had someone stand up for America, and against the swamp dwellers, was Ross Perot. Both successful businessmen.
I’m not sure a politician can turn the tide, as long as being reelected is their end goal.
I'm pretty certain Trump himself wasn't expecting to win and his run was at root a grand promotion of the Trump brand - "I can waste time and money doing the most ridiculous things and STILL make bank." Not so much "Vote for me" but "Invest in me and my brand". Election wasn't HIS end goal. Which is why he won, why his Presidency was succesful, and why he is, probably, second only to Washington. I want to see what he can achieve knowing what he knows now. It is all about him; but he is what America thinks it is reified and incarnate. You have to love the guy: he might actually make America a reality!
Go back and watch some of Trump's appearances on Phil Donahue from 40 years ago. Even back then Trump expressed a palpable distaste for government burocracy and how it puts the screws both to businesses as well as customers and average citizens. Government is the ultimate middle man, extracting tribute without providing value. At that time people were trying to encourage him to run for mayor of NYC.
So I have to disagree that Trump was not in the '16 race to win it. He saw the Swamp for what it is was, called it out. and tried to drain it. Beginning with the epic descending on the escalator in Trump Tower, that entire campaign was one for the history books -- even before it was over.
That no other candidate let alone President has ever been so ruthlessly attacked from all sides proves beyond a doubt he was onto something. Something which he was not supposed to be.
Agree! I find it interesting how the Clintons, Oprah, Hollywood and SO many others loved being seen/photographed with Trump! Invited to his parties. Invited to their fund raisers! He was, like Elon, a “Democrat Golden Boy”. A “who’s who” politicians & celebrities
wanted to rub shoulders with!
But, Oh My God, when he announced he was running against Hillary, how dare he! It was HER turn, and he wasn’t a seasoned politician! He wasn’t suppose to turn on them! He was a nobody in DC!
From that moment on, the ride down the escalator in 2015, whether he ever intended to win, or really wanted to win, when push came to shove, which we’ve all learned about him, HE WOULD SHOVE BACK HARDER, and from that point on HE WAS DETERMINED to win.
Yes. As a native NYer I know the type well. Lots of big talk and no tolerance for bs. His comment regarding asking the Russians, where Hilary‘s emails were was a perfect example of that. Sarcastic New York humor.
Never did a line like “I need a wartime consigliere Tom” so loudly resonate in regard to the current administration’s utter lack of competence in foreign conflicts between peoples they have no understanding of. Biden, Blinken, Sullivan and the greedy neocons advising them have been outfoxed at every turn in Ukraine and its intervention in the ME conflict has been a circus of confusion to put it best.
So well said! Hard to believe that with all that’s going on, people will still vote for a continued mess. Ted Cruz is still predicting a Michelle Obama run for presidency on the thought that it’s the only person that can step in front of Harris and it be ok…another black female. Their ideology and racism has ruined what this country stands for. The generation behind mine will have their kids grow up in a socialist country if republicans don’t figure out a way to win 2024. That’s sad and scarier than crap!
Kim Jung Eun threatened to hit Guam with a nuclear missile. Trump told him "my red button is bigger than yours" . What a juvenile ridiculous thing to say.. However Kim got the message and quit launching missiles over Japan. That is what people like Hamas and Iran understand.
Even if trumps policies were great and he delivered fantastic results, half the country hates him with such a venomous fervor that anything good he did would immediately turn to shit. If he came out with a cure for cancer, half the country would be pro-cancer.
2024 was stolen? I think the red wave collapse was a combination of single issue voters on abortion and McConnell's refusal to fund Trump adjacent candidates. Those single issue voters were ginned up by Soros and SBF money.
Truly believe it was the abortion question that had the biggest influence on election results. I suspect/fear, even with all the other issues coming to the fore, it will be the case again.
Abortion is still the #1 issue among white, liberal, middle/professional class voters. Everything else will go by the wayside and they will continue to vote Dem.
I argued with my dem-voting sister at length over this. Basically she cannot believe that anyone could possibly want a "late term" abortion, so there is no need to legislate against it. I could convince her that a 15-week limit is reasonable, but the whole "women should decide what to do with their own bodies" argument is hard to counteract and there is no sympathy for the unborn child.
It was definitely abortion that helped pulled Democrats over the top in the midterms. All the exit poll questions showed that. Abortion #1 and I think #2 may have been people were sick of hearing election being stolen.
Good point. The data is out there too. But in a way it also dovetails with keeping people economically disadvantaged (while constantly virtue signaling to the contrary) because poor people do find it harder to adequately care for a child. The ultimate rock and hard place dilemma, if you will.
Motte and bailey; 'elective' and 'eugenics'. When they mean ALL abortions. Don't be daft. Rape, incest, gross physical or mental defect, not able or in a position to bring up a child, the reality of step-families; adoption; fostering; and orphanages - there are not enough; and the majority of those will see the child abused, or neglected. This is before we go all Gilead.
All the ways America could be an even bigger shithole than atm have been rehearsed in America both now and yesterday and in umpteen other times and places now and yesterday. That could be said in 1973; even more so in 2023.
There are many grassroots things going on that will likely help. A total fix would look like an honest national investigation, the unambiguous announcement of clear fraud, and basic, basic measures, such as paper ballots given only to registered voters with ID's on Election Day.
I am not saying the 2024 election will be fair. Our main hope is that it will be fair enough. But it's likely I personally will get involved in Catherine Engelbrecht's True the Vote efforts, and I would encourage anyone reading this who values ACTUAL Democracy to consider doing the same. https://www.truethevote.org/
Fair as in “if you guys are gonna cheat, so will we”? Or fair as in “legal” where there will be strict measures put in place? I’m guessing the former is what we’ll see enacted.
So I’m still looking for fair. Water leaks-gas leaks? Democrat wins in Kentucky. True The Vote certainly has its work cut out for them. Can we ever be confidant again the the winner is the real winner?
If you are referring to 2022 that election was lost because of Trump and his terrible candidates. Given the fragility of Biden Trump might win in 2024. However the man has no coattails . The Democrats might control both houses. Then we will return to The Impeachment Games part 2 with a lame duck President.
Pretty obviously the voters that might have obviated that stayed home. Who and what, for the most part, was running? - the Republican't Party. The men and women who came out for Donald Trump and the RepubliCAN Party were never going to vote for that.... abortion.
I wrote the following for some friends of mine regarding Biden, but I think most are missing the economic impacts of fiscal policy decisions: " In the sphere of economics, income inequality is accelerating in the US. In 2021, when Joe Biden assumed office, he brought with him a cadre of academic and progressive economists who he charged with changing the economic paradigm. “We want to reward work, not just wealth.” As Elizabeth Warren aptly noted, “Personnel is policy.” He took the policy prescription “to go large” and to spend aggressively, justified by now discredited modern monetary policy and Keynesian economics. He has succeeded, establishing a large deficit at a time of full employment. Between the Infrastructure Bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, the cancellation of $127 billion of student loans and his refusal to address entitlements, he has created more millionaires among the older upper middle class than any President in recent memory, at the expense of the majority of less affluent Americans. Those who rent, borrow to buy cars, don’t own stocks, or are not public employees or Big 3 UAW members are significantly worse off today than in 2019. They have seen their living standards decline significantly."
By and large when the government gets large, income disaparity increases. A fully Communist system consists in two classes which are radically different, but largely internally homogeneous, which I have decided to call the Victims and Victim Administrators. Why are the victims victims? Because the Administrators needed them to be to justify their coup and parasitic lifestyles.
And the sum total of Keynes ACTUAL goals was increasing government. The whole thing was like an inside joke, making it comical that governments that are already all-powerful would be stupid enough to embrace him, as for example the Chinese have done.
But this crop of Democrats is just trying to crash America. Wreak economic ruin. And the people funding them are well positioned to use one last Depression to buy up pretty much every last inch of America--and the rest of the world--and enact a de facto Neofeudalism.
This is not a safe world. It is filled with bad people. Just because you can buy a Starbuck's Ginormo, or whatever it is, today, does not mean your street will not be filled end to end with empty and desolate buildings tomorrow.
I read FBI data on crimes against tracked groups. The highest amount of people perpetrating crime against them was from the same group, except Asians. Most of the crime was from African Americans, and watching the news media, no one would ever know. I always loved it when the campaign against Asian Hate would never tell who the perpetrators were unless it was a rare occasion of a dreaded white male. I found the article interesting when they danced around it. No, a person is not racist by stating obvious facts. The backlash against the prevailing people in power is going to be interesting to see evolve during the rest of the decade. For any solution, we as a culture must discuss the problems honestly. The current Woke media is incapable of doing that. I watched them yesterday, perplexed by Biden's drop off in those groups in the latest polls; the article on the Asian change was excellent; thanks for being brave and writing it.
The woke media has a special interest in not telling the truth on crime. It would make them face themselves in the mirror that they have been nothing but mouth pieces for the woke crowd hell bent on destroying America and for what? I guess to let China own the world can be the only end result as no one but America can prevent that..
I remember when that campaign started: the identity of the perps was always hidden at the very end of the article--articles that had been beating the "it's all because of Trump and White Supremacy" drum from the first paragraph. When people started noticing and pointing out the actual trend, the campaign largely faded away.
My favorite part of the article was when they said the rise in Asian hate was Trump calling Covid the China virus, that caused people to beat up Asians,and the person snickered. I guess I was not the only one.
Black Americans are roughly 500% over-represented in violent crime, and right wingers should bring this up every single time Democrats try to make out black Americans as oppressed victims.
Let's see, people who understand hard work, the value of education, what it is like to be discriminated against and still love the country and what the opportunities are here. Yep, exactly what the Liberals hate. How dare you work extra jobs others don't want, still study and excel, and then want to have the same opportunities as others. These fine people hate open borders, you know why?
I am in the community through marriage and if you try and bring a family member over from the original country, it is almost impossible. The process can take a couple of years. Yet the colonization of illegals across the border results in free hotels, money, changing of school systems, and special access to work permits. Why shouldn't they feel like they are being screwed by doing things properly. Same as now pushing the colonizers into the Black neighborhoods where it takes services from American Citizens. Total insanity by a corrupt and criminal administration that has taken us from prosperity to the brink of World War.
Yet the woke fools blame others, Israel is at fault according to the woke Democrats. Colleges are racial and to many Asians, as is teaching math as it discriminates. You son is really a daughter and your daughter a son. Guys can play girls sports and guys can be pregnant. Seems like a dream from a really bad hangover that you just can't wake up from.
I would vote for any of these fine people over others as they have paid the price of admission to the US. They understand values, laws, and the need to work hard, get educated, and raise yourself up in society. Something we apparently can not teach natural born Americans apparently.
Well said. Every time I speak with a first-generation immigrant who left their families and a life behind to come to America, I’m filled with renewed hope. The vast majority of those people value the same things I do, and the same things you mention here in your comment. It also strikes me that they haven’t been brainwashed and stuck in the American political bullshit mixer like many other natural born Americans have been. We can and should learn a lot from our immigrants, who come here legally, at great personal risk, to build a better future for their families. That is America.
Interesting that RFK Jr wasn't brought up. Not being certain how accurate Quinnipiac University polling is, they currently have RFK Jr at 22% percent in a their nationwide poll. They show Joe Biden at 39% (which seems high) and Donald Trump at 36% (which seems low). Ominously for Biden, Kennedy has a plurality of independents — 36% compared with 33% for Trump and 30% for Biden.
Perhaps the most troubling for Democrats in the new poll showed that Kennedy is the leading choice for young voters, aged 18-34 — 38% chose him. From the same age group, 32% picked Biden and 27% went for Trump.
I've read that there is a bit of a horse race between Kennedy and Trump in convincing Tulsi Gabbard to consider running as their VP. She'd without question help pull many female and Independent/Unaffiliated voters to either candidate, but probably help RFK Jr more as many female voters simply won't vote for Trump because he's Trump.
The big question is will young and traditional democrat minority voters even turn out. If not, Trump will most likely reclaim the White House. Given of course that he's not locked up in some leftist prison camp somewhere.
After 2016 with Hillary in the lead in every poll, I refuse to believe the polls. Trump's enormous lead? The biggest surprise may come next year.
When Jr. is involved, matters get worse. Democrats are scared of him, and now they try to explain away his damage will be greater to Trump than Biden. If that's true, wouldn't they want him in the mix? Hmmm.
Democrats must know Jr. takes more votes from Biden than Trump.
If there ever was a time for a third party candidate, it seems as if this will be the moment. I haven't figured out yet where I stand on RFK, Jr. yet. A lot more research to do.
There is really no such thing as a 3rd party candidate. Only candidates who pull mostly from one side or the other. Perot in 1992 cost Bush the election for sure.
I naively believe that "voting for the best candidate" was what we were all doing. I now understand the binary two party machine stranglehold we are in.
Thanks for this. Such an obvious point that went right over my head. Who could be less third party than a Kennedy? I wonder who the last true 3rd party candidate was?
Doesn't take a lot. His conversations with Bret Weinstien and Tucker Carlson should get you 90% of the way there. Does he believe daft things and want even dafter solutions? Probably; however of the other candidates on that side we KNOW most believe far dafter things and HAVE implemented or backed far dafter than that dafter daft solutions.
He is a Kennedy and I have no time at all for that clan. I'm Asperger's and have zero patience with folk who talk stupid and stupid conspiracy about Autism. So I looked hard. He would probably be my pick in a good bunch of democrat candidates; total no brainer with a bad bunch.
I attribute these poll numbers to one simple fact -- the percentage of "anyone but Trump" voters is greater than the percentage of "anyone but Biden" voters. Many Americans just can't stand Trump. It is what it is.
I personally know businessmen who were screwed by Trump and his associates during the heyday of the Trump casinos in Atlantic City. Solid, long-standing family businesses were destroyed when Trump's colleagues refused to pay or substantially delayed payment of bills for work performed, or when Trump casino companies conveniently declared bankruptcy resulting in partial payments.
I have a friend back East who has similar tales of knowing contractors screwed over by Trump. And yet I think she may have voted for him anyway, because the alternative was just THAT bad. Strange times.
Really? FFS; the man shouts go over that contract a dozen times and even if you've gotten an all clear on a colonoscopy, if you've a sliver of doubt still: walkaway from it. Donald is transparent and all for Donald and the Donald brand ALL the time. Which is why he was and will be again a good President.
With Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and blue collar workers of all races now in full flight from the Democratic party, and African Americans beginning to join them, I can't help but wonder how the left will feel about intersectionality once the only people voting for their candidates are college educated white progressives.
They'll just going on screaming about people "voting against their own interests" and calling the defectors names that reveal the underlying racism of white Democrats.
The Left will never fully lose their intersectional grifters--the pay for grievance advocacy is too good to give up.
Good point about the name calling. Insulting blue collar Americans as "deplorables" has been coin of the realm in Democratic politics for years now. That in itself is a bit of a head scratcher, as the working class has always been a key element of the Democratic coalition. And what Democrats are only now starting to realize is that many Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans are working class, too, and they've taken offense just like their white brethren. The fact that it's taken Dems so long to trip to that shows just how little thought they've actually given to who the members of their coalition are, and what they believe.
Like most people who feel entitled, the Democrats have a bad habit of taking the people who support them for granted. And since the grifting union heads are still on their side, the Dems have assumed that this means that blue-collar workers are still going to vote D.
But blue-collar workers have not been insulated from the consequences of Democrats' policies. In many ways, the Left's promotion of globalization has had nightmarish consequences for the working class, as the factory jobs that once allowed many working-class families to approximate the lifestyle of the lower middle class have mostly been sent overseas. And the Democrats' promises of doing something to replace those jobs have turned out to be very empty indeed.
I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin in the 60s. My parents were civil servants, so we were right in the middle of the middle class. But most of the families in our neighborhood, most of the families of my friends and schoolmates, were blue collar. With a few unfortunate exceptions, usually involving alcoholism, everybody worked really hard, and back then that paid off. Most owned their own modest homes, maybe a small boat to take out on the lake in the summer. I haven't had any people in that town for awhile now, but last summer my wife and I were passing through, and we visited the old home town. The upper middle class developments that have sprung up on the outskirts are healthy and prosperous, but my old neighborhood is looking pretty sad. All of which is to say I can understand why so many folks are discouraged, alienated, and downright mad these days.
Want to know why America seemingly lives in an upside down world? Yes, I do mean the one in Stranger Things, that one.
Wondering why students are protesting in support of Hamas goal of from “the river to the sea” which would mean the end of Israel. The extermination of Israel. Seems very un-American doesn’t it.
Wondering why anyone in the Republican Party would suddenly become a Putin supporter? Wonder why anybody who calls himself a conservative would want to stop supporting the people of Ukraine? Not support a European county that is fighting the Red Menace from the East? That menace we had been fighting for 50 years?
Want to know why so many Americans think America is wrong, going in the wrong direction?
Peggy Noonan’s opinion piece in the WSJ will tell you. She blames ourselves. Our colleges and Universities have been teaching our youth that Liberal Democratic Capitalism is bad. That America is an oppressor, that its economic system is bad, that it is a colonial power that oppresses people with a system that is systemically racist.
Evidence? From George Floyd to the economic collapse in 2008 there is evidence everywhere. Are you trying to buy your first house lately?
Our institutions have been under attack by both parties for decades. Basically the talk is how Democracy works but only when our tribe is in power. Nobody talks about how wonderful American is, how its system of Justice is generally fair. Progressives talk about unfair our judicial system is all time. You know who else does? Trump talks about how bad our judicial system is.
Stacy Abrams and Democrats are always talking about how votes are being restricted in Red States while Trump talks about how bad and corrupt our system of voting is and how elections are stolen. Can both be true at the same time? Why have American politicians been stoking anger? Because it fires up bases?
Anger against our own country, telling each other how bad it is depending on your perspective. Women are denied their rights, blacks are denied their rights, the rich get away with everything. We are corrupt and dangerous. No other country in the world has done as much as we have to raise the standard of living and free people. We have flaws and they need to be worked on....but people are also failing to let people know this is also a great country.
I agree with your overall conclusion about colleges and universities, but I disagree with your statement that any Republicans support Putin. And I have to disagree that billions and billions of dollars are helping the Ukrainian people. The Ukraine government is now and has been very corrupt. Biden pours money into the country that more and more evidence suggests he corruptly benefited from, and money that is not being tracked to ensure it goes to Ukrainian defense rather than corrupt officials’ pockets. So, maybe it’s yet another colossal blunder by this administration, maybe it’s hush money to cover his corruption, and maybe it’s to counter Putin. We don’t know because this administration lies about virtually everything -- especially in the White House briefing room, and even under oath. And the lapdog media, who have destroyed their own credibility with lies, cover-up, and misinformation, cannot be trusted. Watch government hearings on YouTube if you want to see it.
The fact is, Biden and his administration have made life very difficult for low income people in the U.S. who are paying more and more for food and gas, as well as the middle class who is saddled with inconceivably huge debt causing more taxes, and those living on fixed incomes who are seeing their investments getting trashed. In the meantime, crime has skyrocketed, homelessness has grown, and illegal immigrants are swarming the country and getting benefits that our veterans and legal immigrants don’t get. It raises the question: Why continue to pump more money into Ukraine when our own country has major needs, needs not addressed by the Democrats’ trillions of dollars that have not built back anything and nothing is better. And Biden continues to launch more spending to buy votes, in the meantime, the Biden administration works to censure voices that don’t agree with their views and seek to imprison the leading Republican candidate. Obama said it best -- never underestimate Joe Biden’s ability to f--k things up.
So yes, blame the colleges, but also the Democrat Party whose programs benefit only bureaucrats and whose immoral attacks, notably the major conspiracy theory known as Trump-Russian Collusion as well as attacks on Trump, the Supreme Court, parents at school board meetings, etc.
No one has become a Putin supporter. We simply want people running this country who care about this country and our true Allies.
Furthermore, Putin is not going to back down. Ukraine has lost almost half a million soldiers. Their average age is now 43.....how many 53 and 63 year old soldiers are fighting?
Putin will outlast them AND Biden while we finance retirement villas for Zaleneskyy et all in Lake Como.
The USA and the UN provoked the war in Ukraine in 2014. War lines the pockets of the Nulands and the Kristols of the world along with their largely Democrat, and some Republican, friends.
If Americans on the right "undervalue their country" why has the military always relied on them to supply the people who actually fight their forever wars?
That’s been the longtime pattern, but now the military is having trouble finding people who believe in their country enough (and are physically healthy enough) to enlist, aren’t they? The left wing is frothing about structural racism, the right acts like the far left is about to requisition their private property any moment. Yet we still have the strongest protections for free speech and equality in the free world. It’s not perfect but the cynical partisans who act like it’s got nothing left to salvage have way more in common than they think. I’m a Millennial who’s still proud to be an American.
As a teacher, I have seen what the progressive Democrats have done to the schools. In the guise of "restorative justice" (which actually means kids can get away with anything and everything) behavioral problems have skyrocketed. Teachers are being attacked - physically and verbally - and it's difficult to have any kind of learning going on when every few minutes there is a disruption. This is not in all schools but the ones where I am -- in mostly poor neighborhoods-- is see it often. I feel for the students who actually want to learn. However, progressives don't want to separate the kids -- like putting the disrupters in a separate classroom because they say that is not fair to those troubled students, but meanwhile I keep asking "is it fair for the students who want to learn to be subjected to constant violence and interruptions? This is why I think the Democrats approach to most everything is not effective. The progressive approach is why CVS stores (and others) are subjected to thieves multiple times throughout the day and why cities like Los Angeles where I live is such a mess.
AND this is why so many people are leaving the Democratic party.
Here's a central problem with voting for a Democrat for president: You aren't just voting for the candidate, but the vast machinery of woke ideology. Proof is the slide into perdition the USA has experienced over the past three years. Before his presidency, one may be forgiven to see Biden as a relatively harmless bumbling buffoon.* But unfortunately he is completely beholden to woke "progressive" staffers and other appointed officials in his administration. Thus, woke ideology and practices have massively accelerated under his term to pervade practically every aspect of American life: Education from K through advanced university degrees, most legacy media, internet platforms, entertainment, medicine, law, military, the Foreign Service, public health, etc, etc. Like the Picture of Dorian Gray, the Israel-Hamas war is revealing the ugly illogical nature of wokism. This is even acknowledged to some of the liberal media and those in the academy. If we are lucky, this trend will continue to destroy the woke coalition until it lingers only as a bad memory. A Democratic President, no matter how reasonable they seem, will try to keep wokism going. To rid our society of the woke cancer, any Republican president, even Trump, is preferable.
*Yes, his corruption allowed him to become a multimillionaire on a modest "public servant" salary. His image as a benign "Uncle Joe" is a pretense. His economic and foreign policies would be a bad joke if not so instrumental in harming our country.
*No. If you are in Congress for longer than a term, money will start sticking to your fingers. Look at Bernie: he had to graduate to condemning billionaires after becoming a millionaire times over himself. Very difficult not to be corrupt in Congress; you tend not to get re-elected unless you are more than a little compromised.
Except for Mike Johnson then? Apparently he's got only $5000 in savings at the bank and no retirement fund even.
He's too far right for me but with so little money and having served for more than one term, he's the polar opposite of Nancy Pelosi, who has Redditors started a subreddit just to follow what stock her husband was investing into.
There're a lot of theories why the huge surge in antisemitism. But at the end of the day, it's not that complicated. The reason is the Woke Left's authoritarian social and political censorship is coming home to roost. For almost a decade now they've been speech policing and thought policing their own. Then they devised an oppression hierarchy to destroy and witch hunt and destroy anyone who don't submit to their fold. Basically, they've been suppression themselves. A lot of liberals live in fear of saying the 'wrong" thing or exhibiting "incorrect" behavior leading to job loss, internet pile on, and <gasp> being ostracized and called "bigot" by their friends, acquaintances, followers on social media or randos online. But they're really not any less racist or misogynistic as people on the right who they constantly accuse of being such. Their racism and misogyny need an outlet. Sooner or later they'll crack. So antisemitism has been simmering for a while because to them everything is about skin colors and Jews are "white". What's more, Jews are successful, ergo they're "oppressors".
And now, the Hamas attack broke the dam. They can unleash all their pent-up racism on a single acceptable target. And their high priests allow it so they can continue to suppress their masses in every other way. I posit to you all, they're playing out in real time George Orwell's 1984. They are serving up Goldstein and the one who everyone can direct their hate.
On the misogyny front, they've been doing it for years against women who don't believe men can be women. The face of that target is JK Rowling.
There is clearly outside money involved. And it's the same groups/associations again. I agree, it looks like the same thing all over again. In England too. That means, like here, politicians imvolved.
Yes, I mean really, how many normal everyday Americans are that besotted with a terrorist organization of people who are blatantly anti-women, anti-gay and anti-Jew? How many normal everyday working Americans have time or the financial independence to spend time protesting?
Well, duh... "Directly behind them" is most likely anti-semitism and antisemitic conspiracy "theory". Indirectly he treads the well-worn path of Jews, who really should know better after inventing Xtianity, promoting things likely to get Jews killed; besides being stonkingly toxic and/or daft in the first place.
TikTok needs to be banned. It is a weapon being used against us by an enemy that wants to destroy us and is playing the long game, leveraging our own weaknesses against us.
"STEINBERG: Sure. So after the initial attacks on October 7th, I knew what was going to happen. I knew that there was going to be an uptick in antisemitism, despite the fact that it was the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. And my reason for this was fairly simple. It's that since I was in high school, and since many people in my generation were in grade school, even, we've been taught to side with the oppressed rather than the oppressor."
BINGO, We Have A Winner!
(One mans opinion freely given and worth ALMOST that much)
Post 1972 election a "split" occurred on The Left. One group went underground and stated bombing (this did not work out well for them, basically people don't like to be bombed. And they not being All That Bright, the FBI/Law Enforcement infiltrated). The other (see Bill Ayres) cleaned up and started to infiltrate 1st colleges then thought their students the corporate world, media, entertainment. And here we are today, with people like Joy Reid.
With apologies to Donald Trump. "They are After America (and The West), Israel is just in the way."
Always keep in mind the goal of The Left (I said The Left, NOT Liberals) Is The Destruction of liberal western society/culture. Everything that comes out of The Left (The Climate Crisis, CRT/DEI, Transgender, etc etc etc, is designed to Destroy The West and replace it with Marxism.
The Left had done that already. Walter frickin' Conkrite was shilling for Charlie certainly after, and probably before, Tet. Civil Rights and immigration law reform were rife with leftist subversion and subversives. Most of the Roosevelt Adiministration seems to have had some connection with, been run by, or actually were, the Organs. Your cleaned up Seventies crowd were only the third or fourth wave of subversion at the least.
I've read over the years hundreds of articles written by Democrats about polling numbers. If they are good for them, they are happy, and assume this means they are right; and if they are bad, they are unhappy, and assume that the rest of the world has misunderstood something.
For those of you who don't know this, most Republicans don't think like this. It hurts us, politically, because we are not constantly trying to figure out how to pander to the unthinking masses, and obviously pandering (and cheating) are good ways to win elections.
But we also are not lifeless drones. We are not soulless derelicts, equating mass approval with rectitude. Those are two different things. Both Hitler and Mussolini were popular, and popular in large measure for the same things Demcocrats try to achieve: large scale government largesse. The People's Car--Der Volkswagen--was a subsidized car intended to make car ownership available to the masses of the German people, and the Beetle aspect was suggested by Hitler himself. This is the sort of thing the German National Socialist Worker's Party specialized in. That, and blaming Jews for everything. But the roots of their popularity was deliving the goods, the housing, the cars, the jobs.
One can hope that the obvious is slowly sinking into America's collective mind. Democrats are neither trying to fix problems, nor willing to stand aside while others fix them. This makes THEM the problem, with respect to nearly every painful problem facing America, from war to economic underdevelopment, to whatever real environmental issues we face.
“The People's Car--Der Volkswagen--was a subsidized car intended to make car ownership available to the masses of the German people”
In Germany, it took a maniacal dictator named Hitler to “make car ownership available to the masses of the German people”. In America, that was accomplished by an unsubsidized midwestern farm boy named Henry Ford who didn’t even graduate high school yet revolutionized industry with his Model T. The same man, who together with other American industrialists, transformed their factories practically overnight from making cars and other consumer goods into the arsenal of the free world, producing planes, tanks, ships… that would ultimately provide freedom loving people the means to save it.
Only in America, at least what used to be America, could that happen.
Henry Ford has another thing in common with Hitler: he was an anti-semitic shithead too.
"Henry Ford has another thing in common with Hitler: he was an anti-semitic shithead too"
Yea I know, and George Washington was a racist slave owner. Funny how perspectives change over time. Back when you Limeys were getting your asses kicked by Hitler, I doubt there were any complaints about Fords so-called antisemitism when one of the 8,865 B-24 heavy bombers his Willow Run plant pushed out the door landed on an English airfield.
He remained an anti-semitic shit-head. So-called? I got it, you are an antisemitic shithead too. There is nothing "so-called" when you peddle "The Protocols of Zion".
People like me, who have criticized George Soros for supporting progressive prosecutors in US cities that are fomenting literal war zones in major U.S. cities have been labeled antisemites. I’m not a Henry Ford historian but I suspect that broad, “antisemitic” and simpleminded brush has been dragged across his name as well. Congratulations for joining the simpleminded crowd.
Accuse and label away Steven, the fact remains that those B-24 bombers weren’t dropping bagels on German targets, they were dropping bombs, in volumes that you liimeys could only dream about. Henry Ford gave the Army Air Corps the means to do so. That’s strange behavior for a Hitler sympathizer. Your inability to acknowledge that, as well as Fords contribution in the preservation of of your tiny island makes you a shithead.
He’s an idiot, don’t bother.
But unlike Hitler Ford wasn’t defined by his antisemitism. And of course he wasn’t entertaining ideas about bringing all jews everywhere to extinction. He was just an average, quasi run-of-the-mill, antisemite, pretty typical for the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Henry Ford was a nut. He was a wealthy nut, however, so people listened to him. Ford did not believe in higher education so he wouldn't hire college graduates. He had hired goons who terrorized employees. Henry Ford II took over and cleaned up his uncle's messes
Obviously Henry Ford didn’t need all those college graduates to run a very successful business. OTOH Henry II thought the world of Bob McNamara and the other wizz kids and brought them in, not to clean up any messes but to start an war of aggression against GM. Moreover, quite many industrialists had hired goons who terrorized employees - Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick did it with gusto, John D. Rockefeller more by accident and Mr. Durant of GM and the DuPonts were no shrinking violets either. The Gilded Age was full of violence and turbulence in labor relations and Pinkertons made a lot of money.
There’s no good reason to demonize Henry Ford. Likewise there isn’t any reason for a beatification. All that navel gazing about historical guilt leads nowhere. Stop history bashing and move on!
Okay Nazi. Whatever floats your boat.
Just want to make sure I understand your definition of Nazi: Anyone who says anything about Henry Ford except, "He was an anti-Semitic shithead."
Pretty much this. Pity that the world is full of Nazis. But so is life.
What do you suppose Henry Ford would say about the Ford Foundation today?
I suspect he'd probably say it, like all "foundations", is a tax avoidance scheme
A tax avoidance scheme that primarily funds left-wing causes.
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” — Henry Ford
Interesting that they were both antisemites.
Bravo
Watching the discussion on Real-time, a conversation they had made me add one more point to add is that the politicians since the 90's have programmed the mind of voters to move from tax and spend to borrow and spend. The GOP has done a great job ensuring a wide swath of people don't pay taxes while agreeing on large omnibus spending bills. The economy has thrived with trillions of dollars in debt. If this ever implodes, I don't as much blame the Democrats, as I think a good title of the era will be the road to hell was paved with good intentions. This crash has been predicted to happen my whole lifetime; when it does, who is leading us will matter, as it won't be pretty.
Here is the thing: there is no doubt that some Republicans have joined the Pander Parade. We call them RINO's. But the whole climate of all this has been created by relentless and ridiculous left wing progaganda. Our government spends so much because that is how Democrats get votes. Everybody in American wants a free lunch, and tends to vote for those promising it. Never mind that the voters are paying for that lunch, with interest. In effect the game is bribing voters with money borrowed from their kids, and it has been that way a long time.
Who balanced the annual budget, for a year or two? A Republican Congress, animated by the protests of among others Ross Perot in 1992, which was not opposed by Bill Clinton.
But whatever year that happened, say 1998, was 25 years ago. And both parties have simply stopped talking about the deficit. If Republicans propose cuts, or even decreases in increases, the Democrats scream bloody murder, and these screams not infrequently win elections for them, so Republicans who want to stay in office have to play the game.
Obviously, this is ultimately the result of the American people being ignorant and thoughtless and reckless imbeciles in large numbers. The effects of all this are not hard to predict, but everybody still wants their free stuff.
But Republican tax policy, on balance, does and always has increased economic growth, with the result of increasing the tax base. Reagan's tax cuts more than paid for themselves within 2-3 years. Same with Bush's. Total net Federal revenues increased over the baseline, which was the prediction, and empirical reality. The two meshed nicely. People just lie about this, which is not hard because expenditures rose faster than revenues, resulting in higher net deficits.
But really none of this is beyond the capacity of a reasonably intelligent high school Freshman. It is emotional factors created by relentless AgitProp that drive people insane, and make basic logic impossible.
Having an annual budget with a $2 trillion deficit in peacetime is obvious madness. No surprise it's the economic handiwork of the senile imbecile who still claims that the economy is humming along. Our emperor is naked and his fawning followers are willfully blind.
I do need to point out things were not much better under Trump and a Republican Congress.
It seems like everything is a Third Rail, to the cowards and crooks running this train off a cliff.
Low interest rates
Southern border influx controlled
Low inflation
No new wars. Afghanistan was stable with only 2800 US troops
Energy independence for U.S.
You call that " not much better" ?
Not sure if I heard this correctly - but I believe Trump was trying to refinance the debt when rates were at zero and democrats wouldn’t let him. Similarly I know Trump tried to fill strategic oil reserves when prices were at bottom but Chuck Schumer blocked it - as our reserves are now very low we now have the necessity to rebuy those reserves at like three times the cost. The Democratic Party does not care about the American people - if ruining a policy will hurt the other party politically they will do it - they care more
About making things look bad under their opponent than they do with helping the people. That is the heart of the problem. If they can make things in the country go badly enough for their opponent they will do it - they don’t care if it hurts the people. The difference between good government and bad government is that one wants to do what is right for the country - to make it stronger and the economy more healthy. The other side wants to do what is best just for their own voters and wants to trash the country when the other side is in charge - they will gleefully tank our country to make things look grim under their opponents many
I’d say thats an optimistic assessment. I dont think they even care about their own voters
Except interest was negligible under Trump. The interest alone on the debt is north of 685,000,000,000 dollars this year. Which beautifully illustrates your larger pount I think.
The interest has been going up for many years. I remember writing maybe in 2012 that interest on the debt was soon going to over take our massive Defense expenditures. I would suspect it has.
And the money printing happened under both Trump and Biden. That was really the Congress, although more happened under Biden. The COVID scam was the cause of all that. We never should have shut down, or treated COVID as other than an unusually bad seasonal flu that was particularly dangerous for the elderly.
I am a Trump partisan, but a lot of this genuinely is outside the control of Presidents. It IS in the control of Congress, and Congress is in the control of lunatics and everyone they can shout into submission and compliance.
We could literally balance the annual budget in the next two weeks. A budget is due. Passing a rational one is one of the options. But what would happen? Every major media outlet would start screaming about a right wing radical agenda. And who owns those media outlets? People who stand to benefit from an economic collapse.
Staunch Democrat/Biden voters are willfully ignorant of all this. My sister and her husband (aged 63 and 74) are intelligent, professional people who believe MSNBC is a good news source. When I try to talk to them about politics, the main themes are "Republicans are going to ban abortion!!" and "The economy is doing amazingly well under Biden!!" There is literally no hope convincing people like this not to keep voting Dem.
Clinton turned over a budget surplus to Bush. The previous year the national debt didn't increase was 1957. And of course it hasn't happened since then.
And go ahead and credit the Republicans in Congress. But if you do, you have to credit the Democrats who ran Congress when Ike had a balanced budget.
I'm fine with that. If Democrats today were as sane as those of the Fifties, or even JFK himself, we would not be looking at a complete societal meltdown, induced intentionally, by American hating lunatics, some of whom--including the President--are openly taking bribes from other nations.
No argument from me on the current state of the Democratic Party. Equally, I'd guess that some Americans might wish Republicans today were a bit more like Ike, he of the Military Industrial Complex warning.
I spent twenty plus years representing both K-12 and higher education. The dumbing down of Americans is NOT happening by accident… I’ve seen, firsthand, the efforts to infantilize our young… telling them what to think… rendering them dependent on government. Eloi….
Terry-- and I've been an educator for 20+years and have also seen it, as well as the growing behavioral problems in the classrooms. And in higher ed-- the students calling the shots (accusing teachers of all kinds of ridiculous things). It's awful. Now wonder so many teachers are leaving.
Deirdre, I understand where you are coming from. I spoke with dozens of school teachers in K-12 who were leaving the profession. The most common themes were lack of control of the classroom… interference in how/what they taught… lockstep union rules that prevented upward mobility… disciplinary processes which protected bad teachers. Interestingly, teacher pay was not typically a reason… as most knew what to expect for compensation. Naturally, they would have appreciated better pay…
The old saw that democracy will fail when the citizenry realizes it can vote itself largesse from.the treasury has been around forever.
Even the Republican't Party has forgotten the USA is a republic and not a democracy and that the Founders were quite aware of the distinction and against democracy. That's, if I'm not mistaken, de Toqueville. Are there no French "philosphes" that aren't puddleheads?
Did you not see the e-mail from the Clinton campaign longing for servile and docile voters?
That's the Democrat strategy. So many problems people can't keep track of them
I think in most bad things there is some combination of forces accidentally working to an outcome, and intentionality.
Certainly the brain washing that has been going on for at least several decades is intentional.
But greed and the desire to get something for free are deeply rooted in human nature. Appealing to them is appealing to something ready made, and learning to resist those appeals is the positive intent of actual education. And when people no longer understand there are no free lunches, the brakes are off, and there is no end to it, until disaster.
"The GOP has done a great job ensuring a wide swath of people don't pay taxes while agreeing on large omnibus spending bills."
Cite Examples.
BTW I HATE LOATH DESPISE omnibus spending bills. I suspect a poll taken among Conservatives that would be 90+%.
The Trump Admistration - They never passed spending bills and especially the blow outs in the last two years. And the Obama years when the GOP was in control of Congress.
President Trump’s Federal Budget committed to restraint while prioritizing the funding needed to rebuild our national defense and strengthen America’s borders.
Under President Trump, Congress passed the first overhaul of the United States tax code in more than 30 years, putting money into the pockets of millions of American families. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act included the launch of “Opportunity Zones,” which bring hope and a brighter future to nearly 9,000 distressed communities with tax incentives for new development.
In 2019 alone, the Trump Administration surpassed its promise of removing two existing regulations for each new regulation added, issuing 150 deregulatory actions alongside just 35 new significant regulatory actions. This deregulatory wave unleashed massive benefits for the American people and our economy.
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/budget-spending/
You must take the Orange Kool aid through an IV. He was a huge spender and lit the match for this current inflation. Yes, it didn't start when he was in office but he created the environment for it to happen
I think Bush I's loss despite it really being "the economy stupid" resulted in in what you describe. IOW no one in DC, with rare exception, was interested in turning off the spigot. And I would say print and spend. The die for that were cast long before the 90s though.
I am beginning to doubt the "good intentions" part of your remark, because of the exposure of the Dem left. I live on the border. Enough said!
I'm pretty much of the opinion that the Uniparty is a thing, and yes both Mitt and Mitch are members in good standing.
These are large problems, and there are no obvious good solutions, but nothing will be possible until people start waking up, and realizing we have some HUGE problems that one of these days are going to bite all of us in the ass, no matter who we voted for, and largely without respect to economic status. The 1% of the 1% can escape the problems they created. The rest of us will not be able to.
The problems are already biting us in the ass. The service on our $32 trillion of debt is taking a larger and larger share of federal spending as interest rates rise. Only fools thought we could borrow and spend forever. We are led by them.
True. I've been pointing that out for at least ten years.
I did come up with a solution: flash hyperinflation to pay off all debt, then immediate issuance of a new currency, the quantity of which is never changed again.
I wrote what I called a treatise on it, apparently during the Occupy Wall Street protests. https://goodnessmovement.com/files/Download/Wall%20Street%20Treatise.pdf
The reality is that the hyperinflation in Weimar was largely intentional, and helped get a whole lot of internal debts paid off. It stopped when Hjalmar Schacht revalued the currency and if memory serves pegged it to the pound, making it much more stable.
We could literally have ONE DAY worth of hyperinflation, and end it the next day. People fail to grasp this because they fail to grasp that money isn't real. It's a con game. It's a useful shared hallucination, but that hallucination can be played with. Those who understand that are probably the world's actual rulers.
One thing we could have done is hold an inquiry on Covid to determine the culpability of the Chinese communist government. And then - when their guilt and venality was firmly entrenched - cancel our debt to them as reparations for the deaths and economic harm they caused. But that would require an administration that isn't in China's back pocket. And we know now that Biden is their bought butt boy.
I remain unconvinced that anyone escapes a collapse. They have to eat, too. And They won't do that very long without the ability to hold arable land against the locusts..
I don't think you properly appreciate what becomes possible with a few billion dollars. Stockpiling a thousand years of food would be single click. Buying an island a call to an attorney friend and a few weeks. Building a post-apocalyptic compound, maybe six months with a good contractor.
And although we are not sure why, Bill Gates remains the largest owner of farmland in America.
I hear you. But I also see no way around restoration of order being measured in less than hundreds of years. If that thousand years of food requires any climate control, it's doomed. I simply don't see anything less than a small country having the legs. And I don't see that coming into being under the radar. Best solution, I think that we agree: Let's not find out!
This is a theory I have about our local politics as well.
I live in a town that, by all rights, ought to have grown into a large city. Its location made it very important during the Civil War, and at one point in the late 19th century, it had a zoo and a major league baseball team.
Instead of growing, the town has shrunk. I attribute that mainly to the decisions of city government over the years. Even now, city government is confined largely to a coterie of people who consider themselves "elites."
It seems very probable to me that the decisions that led to our town shrinking instead of growing were made specifically to allow the "elites" to maintain their control. Rather than risk population growth that might result in power slipping out of their hands, they chose to maintain the status quo...which doomed the town as the Midwestern industrial economy contracted.
Plus I am almost certain that the deluge of polling is to determine how many ballots will need to be harvested. At this point it is beginning to appear that the number needed will result in more ballots cast than voters registered.
They got it really wrong last time, didn't they?
And they DID wind up with more ballots than voters in a number of places. They managed to shut that story, by and large. There are statistical impossibilities across the landscape. No sane person of average intelligence who studied the totality of the evidence could but conclude that fraud happened and that it benefited Joe Biden, and that no one was caught or punished or by and large even investigated. It's unbelievable, but there it is.
Interestingly, ballot-stuffing in a recent primary election in PA was caught ON CAMERA by a CNN crew. Delving deeper into the story, it turns out that it involves a Democrat who was re-elected *after* having spent time in jail on a corruption conviction.
A judge ruled that although he could not stop the general election, a new primary would have to be held to determine the *actual* Democratic candidate unless the guy who ran against Mr. Corruption in the primary wins as an independent candidate (making the question moot).
The reality is that Democrats have been perfecting their vote fraud tactics for at least 100 years, with Chicago as the trade school for that skill. The sentiment behind "by any means necessary" is a lot older than the Left's adoption of that saying. People who think they are entitled to rule are not going to allow something as petty as integrity stop them.
The problem is that what happened did not amount to election fraud as defined by criminal statutes. At least in those jurisdictions that actually investigated the claims. Barr said the DoJ did not find evidence of fraud but that only meant evidence of federal fraud (which ICBW but I think would be primarily financial) because the nuts and bolts of elections and adinistration thereof is governed by state law. So you wind up with a state like Arizona where there were rampant allegations of fraud but a very Democrat Secretary of State that then ran for governor in the mid-term while sitting as Secretary of State and running the election process. Add to that Mitch McConnell's refusal to give Republican monies to the SoS's opponent.
In 2020 I volunteered for Pat O'Brien who ran against Kim Foxx (the racist dolt who dropped 16 grand jury counts against Jussie Smollett) for Cook County State's Attorney. I was a poll watcher assigned to 5 precincts.
In Illinois we can vote at the polling booth either electronically or by paper ballot. A large majority of voters never vote down ballot...they only vote for the president.
As I'm pulling out of my driveway my campaign manager calls to tell me in several Cook County precincts paper ballots are being distributed with Foxx's name already checked.
How many voters noticed this? Now convince me there's no voter fraud.....
It horrifies me to have to say I’m not the least bit surprised.
I agree. That kind of fraud will only be ferreted out by state investigation or challenges by the defrauded candidate. So if the official in charge of elections (usually the Secretary of State) or the judge hearing the case is compromised it will not be found to be fraud. The solution for that is in the statehouses.
Oh my, Unsaint, careful what you say, least you be investigated as an “election denier” spreading false information!
We ALL know Biden won with 81M votes & is THE MOST popular president in American history, right! AND he never had to do much campaigning! He sat comfortably in his basement and let the “powers that be” take care of the details. I mean, we read about how it was done in Time Magazine after the election.
Plus, Obama told us how he’d love a 3rd term, but the next best thing would be to have someone elected he could put an earpiece in who’d continue to carry out his policies …voila, Joe Biden.
Wow...a scary thought but unfortunately probably quite true.
"At this point it is beginning to appear that the number needed will result in more ballots cast than voters registered."
Not a big deal. Just register more voters.
Very good point/observation that one distinguishing characteristic of the left is their arrogance, their willing denial of a reality that fails to fit into their belief that they possess the unique ability to judge what is best for mankind. If it does not fit the narrative, they just deny the reality of its existence
"That, and blaming Jews for everything."
So ... Just like the Democrats ... (I know, I know, just the "proggy" ones.)
Thought you might like this: https://youtu.be/G2DIEzdJLaA?si=q-gDyUZBUi7ONHJe
Very good. Thanks.
"The FP posters think. IMO religion, politics, economics, and law are inseparable."
Agree The Founders/Framers Knew This, Said So. In the last 60 yeas(?) we have forgotten it. For people like me, this is a given, its like saying 2+2=4.
It's not politics it's pathology. Hubristic megalomaniac narcissism exploiting mal ideological utopianism as a distraction and criminal cover. That's (again and again) the fascist corporatist DNC/EU/WEF/CCP Davos crowd funding and MSM propagandizing for the sterile "woke"/anti-family misandrist feminist DEI/BLM/Antifa/ crowd. They're sick in the head poseurs to the last looter. It's time to call a grifter a grifter and stop ducking the responsibility and agency of citizenship the American Constitutional Republic and freedom requires.
In short--(have I ever been)--across the world the push against free speech, movement, the invasion of privacy, the creation of intrusive mass surveillance systems and dismantling of cultural/social institutions is the necessary cover up of the now naked king has no clothes reality the grifters are attempting to hide. Entrusted with the greatest economy in the world they (intentionally) gutted, looted and left it in ruins. But now "we the people" are the the "deplorable" criminals and terrorists. It's grifters all the way down.
It's time to stop carrying their darkness. With the help of a willingly compromised elected political leadership--- (here's a half million dollar speaker fee/let me help you keep that slush fund going)--the criminal financiers of bubble land --(crash after economic crash/ '08 oops we lied)---created an opportunistic rigged game financial system. Their pathology (DNC toady and Davos thug alike) is the narcissism and hubris that allows them to ignore the impoverishment and destruction of the peoples and civilization they're looting while rationalizing the theft by pretending themselves to be virtuous and moral exemplars of a golden age. It's the vampire politics of the walking dead. The campus "Jew haters" they fund represent the effective menticide and stench of the incestuous campus DEI/Marxist six figure hog trough. They're all bat sh!t crazy. As with Hitler, Mao and Stalin, in the end, after the murder and collapse of the world, it amounted to nothing more than a criminal enterprise.
GOT CONSTITUTION?
Think I'm ranting? https://youtu.be/G2DIEzdJLaA?si=q-gDyUZBUi7ONHJe
Perfect. Thank you 😊
Politics has become to lucrative. I support a $15/hr maximum wage for members of congress. They fund their own retirement accounts, and pay their own health care costs. They create no product or provide any services.
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Remember when it was screamed that Trump would start WW III? Actually his craziness and unpredictability prevented all the wars we now see. He projected a fearlessness, a big ego, and most importantly a pride in America. He was tall, energetic and strong looking even in his 70s. He intimidated Putin, Xi, the mullahs.
Now we have a blithering idiot, a cadaver of a man, stumbling, mumbling, confused. No wonder world leaders saw their chance to strike. It is Biden who enabled all these conflicts and is getting us into WW III.
"Actually his craziness and unpredictability prevented all the wars we now see."
Not quite so. I commend the interview of O'Reilly by Carlson. O'Reilly ascribes it to Trump's transactional approach to life where everything is a give and take. Hence he got Obrador to shut the border and reduce illegal migration by 80% by threatening to destroy the cartels with various US actions. Contrast that to Biden's vapid and idiotic foreign policy of simply reversing all Trump did - and the resulting chaos.
Don’t disagree. But I think he was perceived as erratic and unpredictable and he used that to his advantage.
We are in agreement. Or maybe it was that our enemies perceived he would use the power and assets of our country in a manner that was in the best interests of our citizens. As Soleimani found out.
Remember how the Democrats objected when Trump turned Solimani into a grease spot?
MCMaureen & Bruce, true Trump may be a bloviating narcissist who NEVER filters, meaning if it’s in his head it’s out his mouth, but he wasn’t a loose cannon in his actions standing up for America’s best interest. Or, perhaps he was, and the World knew this!
I believe Trump had watched for years how the DC swamp had grown deeper & wider full of politicians (Democrats & RINOS) selling out to lobbyists & special interest groups. Money & Power are their driving forces.
Trump already had his own Money & Power, which made him a real threat. He’s fearless and he makes no bones about his love for America and his patriotism!
Love him or hate him, but he was more (often brutally) honest because he couldn’t be bought & paid for! The last time, in my memory, we had someone stand up for America, and against the swamp dwellers, was Ross Perot. Both successful businessmen.
I’m not sure a politician can turn the tide, as long as being reelected is their end goal.
I'm pretty certain Trump himself wasn't expecting to win and his run was at root a grand promotion of the Trump brand - "I can waste time and money doing the most ridiculous things and STILL make bank." Not so much "Vote for me" but "Invest in me and my brand". Election wasn't HIS end goal. Which is why he won, why his Presidency was succesful, and why he is, probably, second only to Washington. I want to see what he can achieve knowing what he knows now. It is all about him; but he is what America thinks it is reified and incarnate. You have to love the guy: he might actually make America a reality!
I agree. He may be a self promoting SOB, but he was a pretty darn good president too.
And just look at the disaster that replaced him.
Go back and watch some of Trump's appearances on Phil Donahue from 40 years ago. Even back then Trump expressed a palpable distaste for government burocracy and how it puts the screws both to businesses as well as customers and average citizens. Government is the ultimate middle man, extracting tribute without providing value. At that time people were trying to encourage him to run for mayor of NYC.
So I have to disagree that Trump was not in the '16 race to win it. He saw the Swamp for what it is was, called it out. and tried to drain it. Beginning with the epic descending on the escalator in Trump Tower, that entire campaign was one for the history books -- even before it was over.
That no other candidate let alone President has ever been so ruthlessly attacked from all sides proves beyond a doubt he was onto something. Something which he was not supposed to be.
Agree! I find it interesting how the Clintons, Oprah, Hollywood and SO many others loved being seen/photographed with Trump! Invited to his parties. Invited to their fund raisers! He was, like Elon, a “Democrat Golden Boy”. A “who’s who” politicians & celebrities
wanted to rub shoulders with!
But, Oh My God, when he announced he was running against Hillary, how dare he! It was HER turn, and he wasn’t a seasoned politician! He wasn’t suppose to turn on them! He was a nobody in DC!
From that moment on, the ride down the escalator in 2015, whether he ever intended to win, or really wanted to win, when push came to shove, which we’ve all learned about him, HE WOULD SHOVE BACK HARDER, and from that point on HE WAS DETERMINED to win.
Yes. As a native NYer I know the type well. Lots of big talk and no tolerance for bs. His comment regarding asking the Russians, where Hilary‘s emails were was a perfect example of that. Sarcastic New York humor.
Ok, that was funny
Never did a line like “I need a wartime consigliere Tom” so loudly resonate in regard to the current administration’s utter lack of competence in foreign conflicts between peoples they have no understanding of. Biden, Blinken, Sullivan and the greedy neocons advising them have been outfoxed at every turn in Ukraine and its intervention in the ME conflict has been a circus of confusion to put it best.
So well said! Hard to believe that with all that’s going on, people will still vote for a continued mess. Ted Cruz is still predicting a Michelle Obama run for presidency on the thought that it’s the only person that can step in front of Harris and it be ok…another black female. Their ideology and racism has ruined what this country stands for. The generation behind mine will have their kids grow up in a socialist country if republicans don’t figure out a way to win 2024. That’s sad and scarier than crap!
"Their ideology and racism has ruined what this country stands for."
Exactly right on!
Obama began a fundamental transformation of America into a country that no one would defend.
Not craziness. He didn't want to do regime change war, and wanted a return to detente policies.
The business of America is business.
Kim Jung Eun threatened to hit Guam with a nuclear missile. Trump told him "my red button is bigger than yours" . What a juvenile ridiculous thing to say.. However Kim got the message and quit launching missiles over Japan. That is what people like Hamas and Iran understand.
Even if trumps policies were great and he delivered fantastic results, half the country hates him with such a venomous fervor that anything good he did would immediately turn to shit. If he came out with a cure for cancer, half the country would be pro-cancer.
Just remember, the world is only one blood clot away from a President Harris.
I don't know. Harris reportedly raised funds for bail of insurrectionists during the 2020 race riots. So, you know, 14th amendment.
"Protestors should not let up!" -- candidate K. Harris, before 1/6/2021
Or one unfortunate fall down the stairs.
I won’t believe ANY right wing revolts until election results 2024.
After the fake red wave in 2022, I’m holding on any everything until I see it with my own eyes day after the election 2024.
That election was stolen, and pretty obviously so.
2024 was stolen? I think the red wave collapse was a combination of single issue voters on abortion and McConnell's refusal to fund Trump adjacent candidates. Those single issue voters were ginned up by Soros and SBF money.
Truly believe it was the abortion question that had the biggest influence on election results. I suspect/fear, even with all the other issues coming to the fore, it will be the case again.
Abortion is still the #1 issue among white, liberal, middle/professional class voters. Everything else will go by the wayside and they will continue to vote Dem.
I argued with my dem-voting sister at length over this. Basically she cannot believe that anyone could possibly want a "late term" abortion, so there is no need to legislate against it. I could convince her that a 15-week limit is reasonable, but the whole "women should decide what to do with their own bodies" argument is hard to counteract and there is no sympathy for the unborn child.
Yes but thst vote was ginned up with Soros and SBF money. And I do not think either care about abortion but rather justassuring their team won.
It was definitely abortion that helped pulled Democrats over the top in the midterms. All the exit poll questions showed that. Abortion #1 and I think #2 may have been people were sick of hearing election being stolen.
Good point. The data is out there too. But in a way it also dovetails with keeping people economically disadvantaged (while constantly virtue signaling to the contrary) because poor people do find it harder to adequately care for a child. The ultimate rock and hard place dilemma, if you will.
Motte and bailey; 'elective' and 'eugenics'. When they mean ALL abortions. Don't be daft. Rape, incest, gross physical or mental defect, not able or in a position to bring up a child, the reality of step-families; adoption; fostering; and orphanages - there are not enough; and the majority of those will see the child abused, or neglected. This is before we go all Gilead.
All the ways America could be an even bigger shithole than atm have been rehearsed in America both now and yesterday and in umpteen other times and places now and yesterday. That could be said in 1973; even more so in 2023.
2020, 2022-what makes 2024 any different? What has been enacted to insure this
time will be fair?
There are many grassroots things going on that will likely help. A total fix would look like an honest national investigation, the unambiguous announcement of clear fraud, and basic, basic measures, such as paper ballots given only to registered voters with ID's on Election Day.
I am not saying the 2024 election will be fair. Our main hope is that it will be fair enough. But it's likely I personally will get involved in Catherine Engelbrecht's True the Vote efforts, and I would encourage anyone reading this who values ACTUAL Democracy to consider doing the same. https://www.truethevote.org/
Fair as in “if you guys are gonna cheat, so will we”? Or fair as in “legal” where there will be strict measures put in place? I’m guessing the former is what we’ll see enacted.
So I’m still looking for fair. Water leaks-gas leaks? Democrat wins in Kentucky. True The Vote certainly has its work cut out for them. Can we ever be confidant again the the winner is the real winner?
I’m hoping for fair. Period.
Voter ID
Only US citizens voting
No access to voting machines-paper ballots would be preferable as I do not trust the machines (at all)
No fake ballots
Signature verification
Proper counting with witnesses in room at all times
Counting continues until winner is determined
If my preferences win great
If they lose-then I will know lost fairly.
No doubts.
If you are referring to 2022 that election was lost because of Trump and his terrible candidates. Given the fragility of Biden Trump might win in 2024. However the man has no coattails . The Democrats might control both houses. Then we will return to The Impeachment Games part 2 with a lame duck President.
Pretty obviously the voters that might have obviated that stayed home. Who and what, for the most part, was running? - the Republican't Party. The men and women who came out for Donald Trump and the RepubliCAN Party were never going to vote for that.... abortion.
I wrote the following for some friends of mine regarding Biden, but I think most are missing the economic impacts of fiscal policy decisions: " In the sphere of economics, income inequality is accelerating in the US. In 2021, when Joe Biden assumed office, he brought with him a cadre of academic and progressive economists who he charged with changing the economic paradigm. “We want to reward work, not just wealth.” As Elizabeth Warren aptly noted, “Personnel is policy.” He took the policy prescription “to go large” and to spend aggressively, justified by now discredited modern monetary policy and Keynesian economics. He has succeeded, establishing a large deficit at a time of full employment. Between the Infrastructure Bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, the cancellation of $127 billion of student loans and his refusal to address entitlements, he has created more millionaires among the older upper middle class than any President in recent memory, at the expense of the majority of less affluent Americans. Those who rent, borrow to buy cars, don’t own stocks, or are not public employees or Big 3 UAW members are significantly worse off today than in 2019. They have seen their living standards decline significantly."
By and large when the government gets large, income disaparity increases. A fully Communist system consists in two classes which are radically different, but largely internally homogeneous, which I have decided to call the Victims and Victim Administrators. Why are the victims victims? Because the Administrators needed them to be to justify their coup and parasitic lifestyles.
And the sum total of Keynes ACTUAL goals was increasing government. The whole thing was like an inside joke, making it comical that governments that are already all-powerful would be stupid enough to embrace him, as for example the Chinese have done.
But this crop of Democrats is just trying to crash America. Wreak economic ruin. And the people funding them are well positioned to use one last Depression to buy up pretty much every last inch of America--and the rest of the world--and enact a de facto Neofeudalism.
This is not a safe world. It is filled with bad people. Just because you can buy a Starbuck's Ginormo, or whatever it is, today, does not mean your street will not be filled end to end with empty and desolate buildings tomorrow.
Wake up. It's late.
I read FBI data on crimes against tracked groups. The highest amount of people perpetrating crime against them was from the same group, except Asians. Most of the crime was from African Americans, and watching the news media, no one would ever know. I always loved it when the campaign against Asian Hate would never tell who the perpetrators were unless it was a rare occasion of a dreaded white male. I found the article interesting when they danced around it. No, a person is not racist by stating obvious facts. The backlash against the prevailing people in power is going to be interesting to see evolve during the rest of the decade. For any solution, we as a culture must discuss the problems honestly. The current Woke media is incapable of doing that. I watched them yesterday, perplexed by Biden's drop off in those groups in the latest polls; the article on the Asian change was excellent; thanks for being brave and writing it.
The woke media has a special interest in not telling the truth on crime. It would make them face themselves in the mirror that they have been nothing but mouth pieces for the woke crowd hell bent on destroying America and for what? I guess to let China own the world can be the only end result as no one but America can prevent that..
I remember when that campaign started: the identity of the perps was always hidden at the very end of the article--articles that had been beating the "it's all because of Trump and White Supremacy" drum from the first paragraph. When people started noticing and pointing out the actual trend, the campaign largely faded away.
My favorite part of the article was when they said the rise in Asian hate was Trump calling Covid the China virus, that caused people to beat up Asians,and the person snickered. I guess I was not the only one.
Black Americans are roughly 500% over-represented in violent crime, and right wingers should bring this up every single time Democrats try to make out black Americans as oppressed victims.
Let's see, people who understand hard work, the value of education, what it is like to be discriminated against and still love the country and what the opportunities are here. Yep, exactly what the Liberals hate. How dare you work extra jobs others don't want, still study and excel, and then want to have the same opportunities as others. These fine people hate open borders, you know why?
I am in the community through marriage and if you try and bring a family member over from the original country, it is almost impossible. The process can take a couple of years. Yet the colonization of illegals across the border results in free hotels, money, changing of school systems, and special access to work permits. Why shouldn't they feel like they are being screwed by doing things properly. Same as now pushing the colonizers into the Black neighborhoods where it takes services from American Citizens. Total insanity by a corrupt and criminal administration that has taken us from prosperity to the brink of World War.
Yet the woke fools blame others, Israel is at fault according to the woke Democrats. Colleges are racial and to many Asians, as is teaching math as it discriminates. You son is really a daughter and your daughter a son. Guys can play girls sports and guys can be pregnant. Seems like a dream from a really bad hangover that you just can't wake up from.
I would vote for any of these fine people over others as they have paid the price of admission to the US. They understand values, laws, and the need to work hard, get educated, and raise yourself up in society. Something we apparently can not teach natural born Americans apparently.
Well said. Every time I speak with a first-generation immigrant who left their families and a life behind to come to America, I’m filled with renewed hope. The vast majority of those people value the same things I do, and the same things you mention here in your comment. It also strikes me that they haven’t been brainwashed and stuck in the American political bullshit mixer like many other natural born Americans have been. We can and should learn a lot from our immigrants, who come here legally, at great personal risk, to build a better future for their families. That is America.
Interesting that RFK Jr wasn't brought up. Not being certain how accurate Quinnipiac University polling is, they currently have RFK Jr at 22% percent in a their nationwide poll. They show Joe Biden at 39% (which seems high) and Donald Trump at 36% (which seems low). Ominously for Biden, Kennedy has a plurality of independents — 36% compared with 33% for Trump and 30% for Biden.
Perhaps the most troubling for Democrats in the new poll showed that Kennedy is the leading choice for young voters, aged 18-34 — 38% chose him. From the same age group, 32% picked Biden and 27% went for Trump.
I've read that there is a bit of a horse race between Kennedy and Trump in convincing Tulsi Gabbard to consider running as their VP. She'd without question help pull many female and Independent/Unaffiliated voters to either candidate, but probably help RFK Jr more as many female voters simply won't vote for Trump because he's Trump.
The big question is will young and traditional democrat minority voters even turn out. If not, Trump will most likely reclaim the White House. Given of course that he's not locked up in some leftist prison camp somewhere.
After 2016 with Hillary in the lead in every poll, I refuse to believe the polls. Trump's enormous lead? The biggest surprise may come next year.
When Jr. is involved, matters get worse. Democrats are scared of him, and now they try to explain away his damage will be greater to Trump than Biden. If that's true, wouldn't they want him in the mix? Hmmm.
Democrats must know Jr. takes more votes from Biden than Trump.
If there ever was a time for a third party candidate, it seems as if this will be the moment. I haven't figured out yet where I stand on RFK, Jr. yet. A lot more research to do.
There is really no such thing as a 3rd party candidate. Only candidates who pull mostly from one side or the other. Perot in 1992 cost Bush the election for sure.
I tried to explain to my father that voting for Perot was just voting for Clinton but he didn't seem able to comprehend.
I naively believe that "voting for the best candidate" was what we were all doing. I now understand the binary two party machine stranglehold we are in.
Thanks for this. Such an obvious point that went right over my head. Who could be less third party than a Kennedy? I wonder who the last true 3rd party candidate was?
None in the past century or more. William Jennings Bryan was a populist with broad appeal, but was a Democrat.
Doesn't take a lot. His conversations with Bret Weinstien and Tucker Carlson should get you 90% of the way there. Does he believe daft things and want even dafter solutions? Probably; however of the other candidates on that side we KNOW most believe far dafter things and HAVE implemented or backed far dafter than that dafter daft solutions.
He is a Kennedy and I have no time at all for that clan. I'm Asperger's and have zero patience with folk who talk stupid and stupid conspiracy about Autism. So I looked hard. He would probably be my pick in a good bunch of democrat candidates; total no brainer with a bad bunch.
I still favour the God-Emperor for the General.
This is worth a watch. https://x.com/robertkennedyjr/status/1721549566938628467?s=46
I attribute these poll numbers to one simple fact -- the percentage of "anyone but Trump" voters is greater than the percentage of "anyone but Biden" voters. Many Americans just can't stand Trump. It is what it is.
I personally know businessmen who were screwed by Trump and his associates during the heyday of the Trump casinos in Atlantic City. Solid, long-standing family businesses were destroyed when Trump's colleagues refused to pay or substantially delayed payment of bills for work performed, or when Trump casino companies conveniently declared bankruptcy resulting in partial payments.
No doubt Trump called them suckers.
Still would vote for him over Biden though. Sad.
I have a friend back East who has similar tales of knowing contractors screwed over by Trump. And yet I think she may have voted for him anyway, because the alternative was just THAT bad. Strange times.
I dislike Trump but don't think the presidency is a popularity contest. We need the Democrats out of power.
Really? FFS; the man shouts go over that contract a dozen times and even if you've gotten an all clear on a colonoscopy, if you've a sliver of doubt still: walkaway from it. Donald is transparent and all for Donald and the Donald brand ALL the time. Which is why he was and will be again a good President.
In other news the political trial of Donald Trump continues in New York. What an embarrassment. A fraud trial where no one was defrauded.
With Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and blue collar workers of all races now in full flight from the Democratic party, and African Americans beginning to join them, I can't help but wonder how the left will feel about intersectionality once the only people voting for their candidates are college educated white progressives.
They'll just going on screaming about people "voting against their own interests" and calling the defectors names that reveal the underlying racism of white Democrats.
The Left will never fully lose their intersectional grifters--the pay for grievance advocacy is too good to give up.
Good point about the name calling. Insulting blue collar Americans as "deplorables" has been coin of the realm in Democratic politics for years now. That in itself is a bit of a head scratcher, as the working class has always been a key element of the Democratic coalition. And what Democrats are only now starting to realize is that many Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans are working class, too, and they've taken offense just like their white brethren. The fact that it's taken Dems so long to trip to that shows just how little thought they've actually given to who the members of their coalition are, and what they believe.
Like most people who feel entitled, the Democrats have a bad habit of taking the people who support them for granted. And since the grifting union heads are still on their side, the Dems have assumed that this means that blue-collar workers are still going to vote D.
But blue-collar workers have not been insulated from the consequences of Democrats' policies. In many ways, the Left's promotion of globalization has had nightmarish consequences for the working class, as the factory jobs that once allowed many working-class families to approximate the lifestyle of the lower middle class have mostly been sent overseas. And the Democrats' promises of doing something to replace those jobs have turned out to be very empty indeed.
I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin in the 60s. My parents were civil servants, so we were right in the middle of the middle class. But most of the families in our neighborhood, most of the families of my friends and schoolmates, were blue collar. With a few unfortunate exceptions, usually involving alcoholism, everybody worked really hard, and back then that paid off. Most owned their own modest homes, maybe a small boat to take out on the lake in the summer. I haven't had any people in that town for awhile now, but last summer my wife and I were passing through, and we visited the old home town. The upper middle class developments that have sprung up on the outskirts are healthy and prosperous, but my old neighborhood is looking pretty sad. All of which is to say I can understand why so many folks are discouraged, alienated, and downright mad these days.
The will just need more votes from their new base constituencies, non-citizens and the dead.
Want to know why America seemingly lives in an upside down world? Yes, I do mean the one in Stranger Things, that one.
Wondering why students are protesting in support of Hamas goal of from “the river to the sea” which would mean the end of Israel. The extermination of Israel. Seems very un-American doesn’t it.
Wondering why anyone in the Republican Party would suddenly become a Putin supporter? Wonder why anybody who calls himself a conservative would want to stop supporting the people of Ukraine? Not support a European county that is fighting the Red Menace from the East? That menace we had been fighting for 50 years?
Want to know why so many Americans think America is wrong, going in the wrong direction?
Peggy Noonan’s opinion piece in the WSJ will tell you. She blames ourselves. Our colleges and Universities have been teaching our youth that Liberal Democratic Capitalism is bad. That America is an oppressor, that its economic system is bad, that it is a colonial power that oppresses people with a system that is systemically racist.
Evidence? From George Floyd to the economic collapse in 2008 there is evidence everywhere. Are you trying to buy your first house lately?
Our institutions have been under attack by both parties for decades. Basically the talk is how Democracy works but only when our tribe is in power. Nobody talks about how wonderful American is, how its system of Justice is generally fair. Progressives talk about unfair our judicial system is all time. You know who else does? Trump talks about how bad our judicial system is.
Stacy Abrams and Democrats are always talking about how votes are being restricted in Red States while Trump talks about how bad and corrupt our system of voting is and how elections are stolen. Can both be true at the same time? Why have American politicians been stoking anger? Because it fires up bases?
Anger against our own country, telling each other how bad it is depending on your perspective. Women are denied their rights, blacks are denied their rights, the rich get away with everything. We are corrupt and dangerous. No other country in the world has done as much as we have to raise the standard of living and free people. We have flaws and they need to be worked on....but people are also failing to let people know this is also a great country.
Our colleges and universities need to have every building housing departments of “Studies” bulldozed.
I agree with your overall conclusion about colleges and universities, but I disagree with your statement that any Republicans support Putin. And I have to disagree that billions and billions of dollars are helping the Ukrainian people. The Ukraine government is now and has been very corrupt. Biden pours money into the country that more and more evidence suggests he corruptly benefited from, and money that is not being tracked to ensure it goes to Ukrainian defense rather than corrupt officials’ pockets. So, maybe it’s yet another colossal blunder by this administration, maybe it’s hush money to cover his corruption, and maybe it’s to counter Putin. We don’t know because this administration lies about virtually everything -- especially in the White House briefing room, and even under oath. And the lapdog media, who have destroyed their own credibility with lies, cover-up, and misinformation, cannot be trusted. Watch government hearings on YouTube if you want to see it.
The fact is, Biden and his administration have made life very difficult for low income people in the U.S. who are paying more and more for food and gas, as well as the middle class who is saddled with inconceivably huge debt causing more taxes, and those living on fixed incomes who are seeing their investments getting trashed. In the meantime, crime has skyrocketed, homelessness has grown, and illegal immigrants are swarming the country and getting benefits that our veterans and legal immigrants don’t get. It raises the question: Why continue to pump more money into Ukraine when our own country has major needs, needs not addressed by the Democrats’ trillions of dollars that have not built back anything and nothing is better. And Biden continues to launch more spending to buy votes, in the meantime, the Biden administration works to censure voices that don’t agree with their views and seek to imprison the leading Republican candidate. Obama said it best -- never underestimate Joe Biden’s ability to f--k things up.
So yes, blame the colleges, but also the Democrat Party whose programs benefit only bureaucrats and whose immoral attacks, notably the major conspiracy theory known as Trump-Russian Collusion as well as attacks on Trump, the Supreme Court, parents at school board meetings, etc.
No one has become a Putin supporter. We simply want people running this country who care about this country and our true Allies.
Furthermore, Putin is not going to back down. Ukraine has lost almost half a million soldiers. Their average age is now 43.....how many 53 and 63 year old soldiers are fighting?
Putin will outlast them AND Biden while we finance retirement villas for Zaleneskyy et all in Lake Como.
Miami, bro.
Very well said.
The USA and the UN provoked the war in Ukraine in 2014. War lines the pockets of the Nulands and the Kristols of the world along with their largely Democrat, and some Republican, friends.
Believing anything that pearl clutching Never Trumper writes is your first mistake.
Yes, he/she is cloaking their true identity.
I think Noonan.is a RINO.
Great comment. Americans both left and right reflexively undervalue their country.
If Americans on the right "undervalue their country" why has the military always relied on them to supply the people who actually fight their forever wars?
I hear military enrollment is down due to the DEI and transgender pushed by the Biden administration.
Yup. Even in families where military service is a tradition, parents are discouraging their kids from joining.
That’s been the longtime pattern, but now the military is having trouble finding people who believe in their country enough (and are physically healthy enough) to enlist, aren’t they? The left wing is frothing about structural racism, the right acts like the far left is about to requisition their private property any moment. Yet we still have the strongest protections for free speech and equality in the free world. It’s not perfect but the cynical partisans who act like it’s got nothing left to salvage have way more in common than they think. I’m a Millennial who’s still proud to be an American.
As a teacher, I have seen what the progressive Democrats have done to the schools. In the guise of "restorative justice" (which actually means kids can get away with anything and everything) behavioral problems have skyrocketed. Teachers are being attacked - physically and verbally - and it's difficult to have any kind of learning going on when every few minutes there is a disruption. This is not in all schools but the ones where I am -- in mostly poor neighborhoods-- is see it often. I feel for the students who actually want to learn. However, progressives don't want to separate the kids -- like putting the disrupters in a separate classroom because they say that is not fair to those troubled students, but meanwhile I keep asking "is it fair for the students who want to learn to be subjected to constant violence and interruptions? This is why I think the Democrats approach to most everything is not effective. The progressive approach is why CVS stores (and others) are subjected to thieves multiple times throughout the day and why cities like Los Angeles where I live is such a mess.
AND this is why so many people are leaving the Democratic party.
Here's a central problem with voting for a Democrat for president: You aren't just voting for the candidate, but the vast machinery of woke ideology. Proof is the slide into perdition the USA has experienced over the past three years. Before his presidency, one may be forgiven to see Biden as a relatively harmless bumbling buffoon.* But unfortunately he is completely beholden to woke "progressive" staffers and other appointed officials in his administration. Thus, woke ideology and practices have massively accelerated under his term to pervade practically every aspect of American life: Education from K through advanced university degrees, most legacy media, internet platforms, entertainment, medicine, law, military, the Foreign Service, public health, etc, etc. Like the Picture of Dorian Gray, the Israel-Hamas war is revealing the ugly illogical nature of wokism. This is even acknowledged to some of the liberal media and those in the academy. If we are lucky, this trend will continue to destroy the woke coalition until it lingers only as a bad memory. A Democratic President, no matter how reasonable they seem, will try to keep wokism going. To rid our society of the woke cancer, any Republican president, even Trump, is preferable.
*Yes, his corruption allowed him to become a multimillionaire on a modest "public servant" salary. His image as a benign "Uncle Joe" is a pretense. His economic and foreign policies would be a bad joke if not so instrumental in harming our country.
*No. If you are in Congress for longer than a term, money will start sticking to your fingers. Look at Bernie: he had to graduate to condemning billionaires after becoming a millionaire times over himself. Very difficult not to be corrupt in Congress; you tend not to get re-elected unless you are more than a little compromised.
Except for Mike Johnson then? Apparently he's got only $5000 in savings at the bank and no retirement fund even.
He's too far right for me but with so little money and having served for more than one term, he's the polar opposite of Nancy Pelosi, who has Redditors started a subreddit just to follow what stock her husband was investing into.
Yep. That "harmless buffoon" ain't so harmless.
There're a lot of theories why the huge surge in antisemitism. But at the end of the day, it's not that complicated. The reason is the Woke Left's authoritarian social and political censorship is coming home to roost. For almost a decade now they've been speech policing and thought policing their own. Then they devised an oppression hierarchy to destroy and witch hunt and destroy anyone who don't submit to their fold. Basically, they've been suppression themselves. A lot of liberals live in fear of saying the 'wrong" thing or exhibiting "incorrect" behavior leading to job loss, internet pile on, and <gasp> being ostracized and called "bigot" by their friends, acquaintances, followers on social media or randos online. But they're really not any less racist or misogynistic as people on the right who they constantly accuse of being such. Their racism and misogyny need an outlet. Sooner or later they'll crack. So antisemitism has been simmering for a while because to them everything is about skin colors and Jews are "white". What's more, Jews are successful, ergo they're "oppressors".
And now, the Hamas attack broke the dam. They can unleash all their pent-up racism on a single acceptable target. And their high priests allow it so they can continue to suppress their masses in every other way. I posit to you all, they're playing out in real time George Orwell's 1984. They are serving up Goldstein and the one who everyone can direct their hate.
On the misogyny front, they've been doing it for years against women who don't believe men can be women. The face of that target is JK Rowling.
All these pro-Hamas protests? George Soros is likely behind them, much like the BLM protests.
There is clearly outside money involved. And it's the same groups/associations again. I agree, it looks like the same thing all over again. In England too. That means, like here, politicians imvolved.
Yes, I mean really, how many normal everyday Americans are that besotted with a terrorist organization of people who are blatantly anti-women, anti-gay and anti-Jew? How many normal everyday working Americans have time or the financial independence to spend time protesting?
George Soros is Jewish though. Isn't he a Holocaust survivor too? So he's behind the call for his own destruction? I'm not sure about that.
Well, duh... "Directly behind them" is most likely anti-semitism and antisemitic conspiracy "theory". Indirectly he treads the well-worn path of Jews, who really should know better after inventing Xtianity, promoting things likely to get Jews killed; besides being stonkingly toxic and/or daft in the first place.
TikTok needs to be banned. It is a weapon being used against us by an enemy that wants to destroy us and is playing the long game, leveraging our own weaknesses against us.
"STEINBERG: Sure. So after the initial attacks on October 7th, I knew what was going to happen. I knew that there was going to be an uptick in antisemitism, despite the fact that it was the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. And my reason for this was fairly simple. It's that since I was in high school, and since many people in my generation were in grade school, even, we've been taught to side with the oppressed rather than the oppressor."
BINGO, We Have A Winner!
(One mans opinion freely given and worth ALMOST that much)
Post 1972 election a "split" occurred on The Left. One group went underground and stated bombing (this did not work out well for them, basically people don't like to be bombed. And they not being All That Bright, the FBI/Law Enforcement infiltrated). The other (see Bill Ayres) cleaned up and started to infiltrate 1st colleges then thought their students the corporate world, media, entertainment. And here we are today, with people like Joy Reid.
With apologies to Donald Trump. "They are After America (and The West), Israel is just in the way."
Always keep in mind the goal of The Left (I said The Left, NOT Liberals) Is The Destruction of liberal western society/culture. Everything that comes out of The Left (The Climate Crisis, CRT/DEI, Transgender, etc etc etc, is designed to Destroy The West and replace it with Marxism.
Dead on!
The Left had done that already. Walter frickin' Conkrite was shilling for Charlie certainly after, and probably before, Tet. Civil Rights and immigration law reform were rife with leftist subversion and subversives. Most of the Roosevelt Adiministration seems to have had some connection with, been run by, or actually were, the Organs. Your cleaned up Seventies crowd were only the third or fourth wave of subversion at the least.
Point taken.