How the politically homeless are voting. Joe Rogan endorses Trump. A Russian-born American on her first real election. Self-care for election ‘trauma.’ And much more.
I have waited as long as possible to vote. I was hoping for divine intervention to lead me to the right decision. There are still so many unknowns. What were Biden's dogs trying to tell us? Why were they always attacking the Secret Service? Did they feel the walls closing in on Joe Biden? Were they trying to warn President Biden of the upcoming coup?
Kamala Harris keeps bragging about growing up in the middle class. Does she plan for all classes to be collapsed into one big diverse class that is based on equity for all. This would be a road into a socialist trap.
In any case I can wait no longer. I am getting increasingly nervous. What if Republican climate change causes a massive cloud burst right on top of my polling place? It is an unusually warm election day in New York City. Who am I to blow against the wind?
Trump has certainly showed us and made us appreciate the strength of what our Founding Fathers conceived. The Democrats seem to bel losing faith in the wisdom of the United States Constitution by considering court packing, ending the filibuster, lawfare, and open borders.
My daughter’s high school US history teacher provided the students with the NYT series on election issues (“the stakes”) as the only sources about the election in today’s lesson. I emailed to ask him whether he thought providing election articles solely from a source that openly endorsed one candidate over the other was in keeping with our board policy on controversial topics. This policy clearly states instruction shall be presented in a balanced manner, addressing all sides of the issue without bias and without promoting any particular point of view. Also that adequate factual information shall be provided to help students objectively analyze and evaluate the issue and draw their own conclusions.
His response? He doesn’t agree that the primers are biased per se because they are from the NYT and that the Times is a generally recognized source of accurate news.
I pointed out that while the articles give the appearance and being balanced, I could identify various biased statements and framing throughout. He didn’t acknowledge that part.
What do you all think?
I also want to say that I like Ms. Kearns as the front page editor.
In 2016, many Democrats said if Trump is elected they would move to Canada. This year? Crickets. Have Democrats determined that Canada is worse than Trump?…
I remember the PRESS making fun of Trumps comment as though he meant it as her period... As a **WOMAN** that didn't occur to me until the Press brought it up.
That's what I - a real, honest to goodness Female WOMAN - remember.
The celebrity endorsements and the media campaign arm for Harris, have exposed the rot at the center of our system.
Today we're being fed staged photo ops. To which we're supposed to respond, Golly, I've simply got to vote the way Eva Longoria does.
All women vote in designer clothes and coats, too much foundation and lipstick. An increasing number of vocal celebrity (celebrated for what exactly?) Democrats are moving abroad, ( including Longoria), giving varying excuses-- they want to raise their kids "away from (crime-ridden, filthy) LA,". for example, ) they want to be closer to other family. They're getting out to protect their assets as well as their asses.
But 4x divorced and x-PDiddy gf JLo endorsed her that’s good enough for a good % of low end dem voters. As I was leaving my polling place I loudly expressed disappointment that the promised appearance of Beyoncé never materialized
Regarding Frannie’s article, we expect our children to start from a worldview of a communistic life under a (hopefully) benevolent dictator, then grow out of that as they seek their independence and begin to engage with the world. We expect them to move on from cartoon morality tales to a textured reality. University clearly delays that growth, especially when prodded by leftist professors who convince kids that they are showing them the world “as it really is.”
I feel bad for those kids. They are effectively being stripped of their critical faculties and denied a chance to develop resilience, like lions cubs being defanged and declawed by their elders before being pushed out into the jungle with nothing left to them but endless intellectualized complaints about “the system.”
Respect to the lady in Iran. I'm not an expert, but from what I can tell, the core (boomer-aged) Iranian elite are fundamentalist Muslims, but the population is trending secular. According to this article ( https://theconversation.com/irans-secular-shift-new-survey-reveals-huge-changes-in-religious-beliefs-145253 ) 78% believe in God, but only 32% identify as "Shia Muslims" while 40% are non-religious or "spiritual" including some that are going back to traditional pre-Islamic religious practices.
Hijab mandates and morality police are not exactly popular with the general public; they're population control mechanisms.
'boomer-aged' Iranian elite MALES - and not so Boomer.
In the 1970's Iranian women - elite or not - could attend University wearing clothes that were much the same as their contemporaries' in Europe. While things might not have been ideal under the Shah, at least things were modern and open for ALL of the populace. Toppling the Shah brought in the fundamentalists, and don't forget the Embassy crises in 1979.
Perhaps as the older, elite, fundamentalists die out, sanity can return.
"Legos, Cocoa, and Coloring Books for Georgetown Students
Before we continue, some comic relief, courtesy of Georgetown University ...the school is offering its students access to a “self-care suite” the day after the election ...“tea, cocoa, and self-care,” “coloring and mindfulness exercises,” “milk and cookies,” and “self-guided meditation.”
- And that's where we are today... Oh what the Founding Fathers would say. On second thought, Ben did.
Madeleine Kearns --- another nice piece. Thank you.
Nate Silver doesn't think half the voting electorate is a large enough sample?? What kind of pollster is he......oh right....the kind that gave Hillary Clinton a 90% chance of winning in 2016.
Madelaine, I was so glad when I saw the by-line under the title. I knew it would be an excellent article that wouldn't insult anyone, and it is. Well done.
Whatever the electoral outcome, I’m praying Trump gets the majority of the popular vote so that all those states signing the pact that holds them to their electors voting for whoever wins that popular vote (when they get enough states signed on - they have 20 and need 26?) will tuck their tails and run back their commitments saying they really didn’t mean it. Then we will KNOW what their hopes and intentions always were: for a Democrat descendancy now and forevermore.
The popular vote is as meaningful in a General Election -- as the number of first downs are in a football game. That's a piece...sure, but not the way we determine a winner in Football or in the General Election. If it was, more people would vote and candidates would actually campaign in California. In football, they wouldn't throw the long bombs...they would plug away down the field getting first downs. But that doesn't happen!!!! For good reason.
Please stop talking about the Popular Vote...unless it is in theory.....but the numbers mean NOTHING!!! Everything needs to be looked at and scrutinized...to understand it, to make it better, and for people to keep engaged. I do get that.
Congratulations Donald Trump !
I have waited as long as possible to vote. I was hoping for divine intervention to lead me to the right decision. There are still so many unknowns. What were Biden's dogs trying to tell us? Why were they always attacking the Secret Service? Did they feel the walls closing in on Joe Biden? Were they trying to warn President Biden of the upcoming coup?
Kamala Harris keeps bragging about growing up in the middle class. Does she plan for all classes to be collapsed into one big diverse class that is based on equity for all. This would be a road into a socialist trap.
In any case I can wait no longer. I am getting increasingly nervous. What if Republican climate change causes a massive cloud burst right on top of my polling place? It is an unusually warm election day in New York City. Who am I to blow against the wind?
Trump has certainly showed us and made us appreciate the strength of what our Founding Fathers conceived. The Democrats seem to bel losing faith in the wisdom of the United States Constitution by considering court packing, ending the filibuster, lawfare, and open borders.
My daughter’s high school US history teacher provided the students with the NYT series on election issues (“the stakes”) as the only sources about the election in today’s lesson. I emailed to ask him whether he thought providing election articles solely from a source that openly endorsed one candidate over the other was in keeping with our board policy on controversial topics. This policy clearly states instruction shall be presented in a balanced manner, addressing all sides of the issue without bias and without promoting any particular point of view. Also that adequate factual information shall be provided to help students objectively analyze and evaluate the issue and draw their own conclusions.
His response? He doesn’t agree that the primers are biased per se because they are from the NYT and that the Times is a generally recognized source of accurate news.
I pointed out that while the articles give the appearance and being balanced, I could identify various biased statements and framing throughout. He didn’t acknowledge that part.
What do you all think?
I also want to say that I like Ms. Kearns as the front page editor.
Don't plan on flying tomorrow:
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If only…..
In 2016, many Democrats said if Trump is elected they would move to Canada. This year? Crickets. Have Democrats determined that Canada is worse than Trump?…
I think Fetterperson beat Dr Oz not Dave McCormick .
correct!
As a Pennsylvanian, I was completely furious with those choices...
I just remember the debate which the inquirer said fetterperson won! Glad he seems a little better now
I have read three different obituaries of Quincey Jones and not one of them mention that he was a lifelong friend and supporter of Ray Charles.
Remember when Donald Trump made fun of Megyn Kelly for her period in 2015?
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Hence the expression: Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Remember when kamal talked about Biden keeping young black girls out of school
I remember the PRESS making fun of Trumps comment as though he meant it as her period... As a **WOMAN** that didn't occur to me until the Press brought it up.
That's what I - a real, honest to goodness Female WOMAN - remember.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/11/05/celebrities-pictured-voting-us-election-trump-kamala-harris/
The celebrity endorsements and the media campaign arm for Harris, have exposed the rot at the center of our system.
Today we're being fed staged photo ops. To which we're supposed to respond, Golly, I've simply got to vote the way Eva Longoria does.
All women vote in designer clothes and coats, too much foundation and lipstick. An increasing number of vocal celebrity (celebrated for what exactly?) Democrats are moving abroad, ( including Longoria), giving varying excuses-- they want to raise their kids "away from (crime-ridden, filthy) LA,". for example, ) they want to be closer to other family. They're getting out to protect their assets as well as their asses.
But 4x divorced and x-PDiddy gf JLo endorsed her that’s good enough for a good % of low end dem voters. As I was leaving my polling place I loudly expressed disappointment that the promised appearance of Beyoncé never materialized
Regarding Frannie’s article, we expect our children to start from a worldview of a communistic life under a (hopefully) benevolent dictator, then grow out of that as they seek their independence and begin to engage with the world. We expect them to move on from cartoon morality tales to a textured reality. University clearly delays that growth, especially when prodded by leftist professors who convince kids that they are showing them the world “as it really is.”
I feel bad for those kids. They are effectively being stripped of their critical faculties and denied a chance to develop resilience, like lions cubs being defanged and declawed by their elders before being pushed out into the jungle with nothing left to them but endless intellectualized complaints about “the system.”
Respect to the lady in Iran. I'm not an expert, but from what I can tell, the core (boomer-aged) Iranian elite are fundamentalist Muslims, but the population is trending secular. According to this article ( https://theconversation.com/irans-secular-shift-new-survey-reveals-huge-changes-in-religious-beliefs-145253 ) 78% believe in God, but only 32% identify as "Shia Muslims" while 40% are non-religious or "spiritual" including some that are going back to traditional pre-Islamic religious practices.
Hijab mandates and morality police are not exactly popular with the general public; they're population control mechanisms.
'boomer-aged' Iranian elite MALES - and not so Boomer.
In the 1970's Iranian women - elite or not - could attend University wearing clothes that were much the same as their contemporaries' in Europe. While things might not have been ideal under the Shah, at least things were modern and open for ALL of the populace. Toppling the Shah brought in the fundamentalists, and don't forget the Embassy crises in 1979.
Perhaps as the older, elite, fundamentalists die out, sanity can return.
"Legos, Cocoa, and Coloring Books for Georgetown Students
Before we continue, some comic relief, courtesy of Georgetown University ...the school is offering its students access to a “self-care suite” the day after the election ...“tea, cocoa, and self-care,” “coloring and mindfulness exercises,” “milk and cookies,” and “self-guided meditation.”
- And that's where we are today... Oh what the Founding Fathers would say. On second thought, Ben did.
Is this for real? If it is— how many ways can one say, “YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!”
What a bunch of snowflakes ❄️
Snowflakes
Madeleine Kearns --- another nice piece. Thank you.
Nate Silver doesn't think half the voting electorate is a large enough sample?? What kind of pollster is he......oh right....the kind that gave Hillary Clinton a 90% chance of winning in 2016.
Trump 315 Harris 223
Madelaine, I was so glad when I saw the by-line under the title. I knew it would be an excellent article that wouldn't insult anyone, and it is. Well done.
"Jerry Seinfeld slams his children’s school for offering ‘distressed’ students day off after election":
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/jerry-seinfeld-election-private-school-students-b2639844.html
Whatever the electoral outcome, I’m praying Trump gets the majority of the popular vote so that all those states signing the pact that holds them to their electors voting for whoever wins that popular vote (when they get enough states signed on - they have 20 and need 26?) will tuck their tails and run back their commitments saying they really didn’t mean it. Then we will KNOW what their hopes and intentions always were: for a Democrat descendancy now and forevermore.
The popular vote is as meaningful in a General Election -- as the number of first downs are in a football game. That's a piece...sure, but not the way we determine a winner in Football or in the General Election. If it was, more people would vote and candidates would actually campaign in California. In football, they wouldn't throw the long bombs...they would plug away down the field getting first downs. But that doesn't happen!!!! For good reason.
Please stop talking about the Popular Vote...unless it is in theory.....but the numbers mean NOTHING!!! Everything needs to be looked at and scrutinized...to understand it, to make it better, and for people to keep engaged. I do get that.
Descendancy? Ascendancy? Whatever. I meant to allude to a ‘Dems Forever’ preference.