Didn't we already cover the janitor who whipped the Hamas adjacent kids ass last week? The guy is a national treasure and should immediately be installed as the new president of Columbia. Now.....we've got that settled.
I would like to know who's funding these protests as I'm not at all convinced they are totally organic. There is just seems to be too much evidence that these are well organized and capitalized. It might also be interesting, at some point, to reach out to Aaron Maté, Glenn Greenwald, or Max Blumenthal to get their take on what's happening on campuses. Its pretty clear what the position is of the TFP staff on anything critical of Israel, but shouldn't you guys start incorporating some opposing thoughts & positions into stories......as uncomfortable as that might be? After all, I thought broad opinion and open dialogue to other views was part of the whole Free Press thingy.
So I'll just go ahead and say the quiet part out loud. With the lazy susan of shit sandwiches we're being served up on the daily in this country, the Israel/Gaza/Palestine thing is kinda wearing me out a little bit. I love the Jewish people & support the state of Israel as much as the next guy, but what's going on over there is their struggle, not mine. They have an incredible economy, close allies in Europe, the strongest and most advanced military in the middle east and are capable of fighting their own fights and defending themselves. Also, I have zero confidence that the current administration can help in any meaningful way except get embarrassingly manipulated by both sides. What I do know is that every time I turn around we're shipping container loads of our tax dollars to some other country to pay for their shitshow while I watch things I care deeply about in this country go to hell in a hand basket, or get ignored altogether. I'm thinking about running for president in 2028 and my slogan is going to be "Sorry World....The Tits Gone Dry".....I think that might be a winner.
I've been hoping to see TFP do a deep dive into any of the following. The border crisis, Darién Gap, the 200+ NGO's that are funding the invasion of the US and the funding sources of those NGOs, the recent house bill, known as the Antisemitism Awareness Act, that clamps down on speech/language that most of us find ugly and appalling, but IMO shouldn't be punished or suppressed by force/threat of law or an in-depth interview with RFK Jr. whose latest documentary on his run for the presidency is very interesting and it's also currently being censored on Facebook & Instagram. It's narrated by Woody Harrelson and worth watching. (https://youtu.be/guw1fLJs5EY?si=bx9OkkyQDtHc73Xp).
"Biden’s “quiet comeback” may be over. Despite his recent surge, polls released this week paint a bleak picture." Apparently, they've been drinking George Dickel & smoking meth over at The Hill. If I asked a thousand people here in North Carolina if they thought Biden has led Trump in the past 2 years, you'd get laughed out of the room. I honestly don't know who these people are polling.
"Donald Trump was threatened with jail". Putting Trump in jail all but guarantees he wins the election.....full stop. If they actually wanted Biden to have a shot at another term, they'd have these prosecutors drop all charges against him immediately. It's so crystal clear at this point that this is active lawfare against your political opponent that only the most mentally deranged progressives are capable of suspending their disbelief that its anything but. I still believe that before or at the Democratic National Convention in August, Biden will drop out and Newsome slides in. I'm wrong about most things, and probably wrong here too......but who knows. Off to work folx......peace.
Actually it is the ordinary people who will have to clean up the mess that the protestors leave behind who should be getting a greater focus. The college administrations do take they for granted as do the students. It is an interesting compare and contrast between the 40 year 'protestor' who is recipient of a trust fund and the 45 year old janitor who has a young family to support but didn't walk away. One is called a 'kid' and the other an adult.
The funding of the NGOs and umbrella activist organizations should be looked at. There is a complex and complicated web.
The other amusing thing is that change in rules -- in 2018, you could be cancelled for wearing a sombrero, but in 2024 it is practically de rigour in certain circles for white people to don the keffiyeh .Wasn't wearing of another culture's item of clothing considered to be cultural appropriation?
No, you could be cancelled, not the peaceful loving demonstrators. Rules only work for those they dislike. But funny the guy being put up against the wall is a 40 year old undergrad, real achiever I guess. Filthy rich and never earned a dime of it. But, unwilling to give his capitalistic inheritance to the indigenous people, while living in a million dollar apartment.
That 40 year old isn't an undergrad and doesn't even go to Columbia. He's just a toddler with nothing to do all day except to find reasons to throw tantrums. Oh sorry I meant protests.
AKA, a loser. I haven't been able to vote for either of our two parties' candidates since 2012 -- and I resent it -- but I'm not going to join forces with anti-Israel pro-Hamas forces under any circumstances. Duh.
Apparently not as our esteemed President, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer appeared “en costume” in the Rotunda wearing kente cloth to take a knee for BLM. The thought just occurred to me that the knee was taken in respect to the enormity of the grift.
You're right, Michelle, about cultural "appropriation" being one of the primary grounds for cancellation until only recently. Odd that today's cancellers not only have no problem with gender "appropriation," but demand that whole months be set aside to celebrate it.
I can sum up Glenn Greenwald's last six months of posts: Hamas - good. IDF - homicidal maniacs. College student protests - simply kids being kids, exercising their free speech rights, standing up against genocide and Israeli fanatics. (He is not interested in who is funding these protests, the lawlessness, the millions of dollars in vandalism, the students who can't have a commencement ceremony, etc.)
Greenwald has always hated liberal Western democracy. Unraveling of the Western civilization is his dream coming true. He is in for a big surprise: the alternative to it is either Saudi Arabia, or Iran, or Russia, or North Korea.
Yes. What exactly are these countries doing that he thinks is so "right" and beneficial for their citizens, who all seem to be rushing to leave theses "utopias" to get into the USA.
I'm still a fan of Greenwald as he's done some great work in the past. (Edward Snowden & National Security Agency’s secret surveillance documents). Even if I disagree with his position on Israel/Palestine, he should be heard.....same with Blumenthal and Maté.
Yes, he should be heard, no one is disputing that. But it's been 7 months of identical posts, with an occasional surveillance or mocking media post. Not worth the price of subscription at this point IMO.
I unsubscribed from Greenwald, he’s lost the plot completely. Quite deranged in his reporting on Israel, and even a couple of other subjects too. Not worth the $5 a month.
Bottoms for Palestine was the original Gays for Palestine before it became cool. It's a whole red diaper thing , mommy and daddy were pro soviet marxists. He takes whatever is the anti American line on all issues. Surprised he has the new Right fooled...not.
Greenwald gives the other perspective (anti-Israel, not anti-Semitic). He also points out the hypocrisy of both sides in regards to free speech and the rising censorship state.
I subscribe BECAUSE much of of the time, he says things I don’t want to hear.
Like my father always said: “When people disagree and argue that is a good human thing; When everyone agrees, it’s time to run for the hills.”
(Parents were Russian Jews who made it to America. Grandparents…not so much 😞😢)
I don't think it's fair to say people don't want to hear to both sides (I subscribe to some liberal Substacks). It's just why read identical posts day after day after day, particularly when it's so one-sided. All Hamas talking points are repeated as fact, never questioned. I don't feel like I'm getting the real picture by reading him.
I don't believe I said people don't want to hear both sides. I think Greenwald writes what he believes and just like different people standing in front of a work of art at the museum, we all interpret through our own perspectives.
"200+ NGO's that are funding the invasion of the US and the funding sources of those NGOs." YES! This! Who are these groups? Who’s in charge? And where is the money coming from?
"President Joe Biden has been dogged for months by pro-Palestinian protesters calling him “Genocide Joe” — but some of the groups behind the demonstrations receive financial backing from philanthropists pushing hard for his reelection.
The donors include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Soros, Rockefeller and Pritzker, according to a POLITICO analysis.
Two of the organizers supporting the protests at Columbia University and on other campuses are Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. Both are supported by the Tides Foundation, which is seeded by Democratic megadonor George Soros and was previously supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It in turn supports numerous small nonprofits that work for social change.
Soros declined to comment. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has previously funded the Tides Foundation and other groups, said it no longer has active grants to Tides. It also does not support Jewish Voice for Peace or IfNotNow.
Another notable Democratic donor whose philanthropy has helped fund the protest movement is David Rockefeller Jr., who sits on the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In 2022, the fund gave $300,000 to the Tides Foundation; according to nonprofit tax forms, Tides has given nearly $500,000 over the past five years to Jewish Voice for Peace, which explicitly describes itself as anti-Zionist.
Several other groups involved in pro-Palestinian protests are backed by a foundation funded by Susan and Nick Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt Hotel empire — and supporters of Biden and numerous Democratic campaigns, including $6,600 to the Biden Victory Fund a few months ago and more than $300,000 during the 2020 campaign."
frank, what you posted is worth noting! Anyone paying attention surely know Soros is a huge donor to the WOKE Progressive Democrats + Soros, and his son, despise & could not be more anti America!
WHY do they choose to live here??Simple: “You can be a Communist in a FREE Country, but you can’t be FREE in a Communist country!”
Tablet and the NY Post have both had articles on the funding behind the Hamas (and other previous) “protests”. It’s always the same people, including Soros, the Rockefellers, the Gates Foundation, the Pritzkers, the Tides Foundation, Arabella, CAIR, etc. You may/may not be surprised to find out the taxpayer dollars are involved, too! Try:
Saw an article on CNN so called journalist Kosinski is haunted. No not because her brain is empty, which it is. She can not believe at a dinner many of the people actually wanted Trump and were sick of diaper boy Biden. Plus they actually had facts when they talked and apparently facts are wrong. She can not understand how they could want Trump and it still haunts her. That in a nut shell is the woke Liberals who can not believe any person might have their own opinions and not just join the sheep crowd. She said they were actually educated and successful. Which I guess means not the knuckle draggers who keep the frigin place running for elite thinking shrills like her. In her words they had seemed normal until then. Well thank goodness I am not normal like this Karen.
We all know lots of Kosinskis. Signaling their superiority with extreme smugness. Unable to debate or articulate anything of substance. And when challenged they resort to screaming and name calling.
Living in Boston. I feel your pain. Used to travel there a lot as I did to many other now deep blue cities that have changed for the worse(possibly irreversibly). Spent many a day or night at Fenway where I learned a lot of new words and expressions including whole walking into the stadium without wearing a Sox hat.:-)
Terry, what you say about Kosinski is nothing new. I saw the same sort of behavior at NYU School
of Law more than forty years ago, during the 1980 presidential campaign.
Notwithstanding the indisputable wretchedness of the Carter years, virtually all of the NYU Law students who spoke (at least openly; I am sure many others spoke sotto voce, to avoid becoming a target of the leftist mob) about the upcoming election made it clear, in varying degrees of condemnation and vilification, that they could not comprehend how any decent, thinking human being could vote for Ronald Reagan. His overwhelming victory (44 states, majority of the national popular vote, 489 electoral votes (to Carter’s 49)) stunned and infuriated them, and led them to conclude that the majority of Americans were ignorant, and dangerous, idiots, perhaps even Untermenschen.
For me the apotheosis of that vileness came on March 30, 1981, when John Hinckley Jr. shot Reagan in an attempted assassination. Sitting in the office of the NYU Law Review, I saw and heard the loathsome behavior of a number of those supposedly elite law students - most, or all, of whom were, I am sure, Democrats - who rejoiced at the fact that Hinckley had shot Reagan, but were angry that Reagan survived the shooting.
One would think that Democrats, who are continually bellowing about “threats to democracy,” would have viewed the attempted assassination of a President - particularly one who, in a free and fair election, won by a whopping margin - represented a grave threat to democracy. But not so for them, whose unctuous leftist piety was matched only by their viciousness and hypocrisy. They were a harbinger of what was to come.
Excellent analysis and hate to say, unsurprisingly believe. Their definition of freedom and democracy is they destroy anything or anyone who disagrees with their perverse beliefs.
Terry, if you go against the “Trump Deranged,” or you aren’t in lockstep with the WOKE Progressive Left Democrat & RINO narrative, you must be a “Middle America ignorant Deplorable!”
Ironically, Biden said, “Trump is the GREATEST Threat to Democracy,” in addition to the MAGA crowd + rowdy parents at School Board Meetings + The KKK Proud Boys (neo-Nazis)! Essentially, anyone not supporting Biden is a threat.
Then he came out with, “RFK Jr. is the GREATEST threat to Democracy” which, probably upset Trump for losing 1st place!
Here’s my question. HOW MANY KKK Proud Boys neo-Nazis have we seen waving Nazis Swastika Flags, protesting & taking over buildings across America? Those Far Right Fringe crazies hate Jews, too!
I suppose now that the WOKE Left protestors are doing the work for them, they can kickback with a cold beer!
Yet, this Biden Regime has NOT derogatorily LABELED these antisemitic, anti Israel, pro Palestinian HAMAS terrorists, WHO ARE ALSO PULLING DOWN American Flags to hoist up Foreign Flags, while chanting Death to America, as “THREATS to Democracy!”
I certainly have not heard RFK Jr., or Trump “play BOTH sides” like Biden has! Of course, Biden NEEDS those protester’s votes, so his Handlers are panicking!
But do not forget, here at TFP we’ll be reminded “Orange Man Bad” + RFK Jr. has shamed himself by leaving the Democrat Party!
I’m sure Olly & Nellie will keep us updated on the Biden poll numbers!
Clutch Pearls, folks, 6 more months till election!
There are some (delusional) people who think Trump is getting a "free pass" from our judicial system because the bond in the fraud trial was cut to $175 million and another trial has been delayed until after the election. I think you're so spot on that if all charges against Trump are dropped those people would go apoplectic and Trump would no longer look like the innocent victim but an insider helped by a crooked judicial system. I think the powers that be are too stupid to realize this. I hope they keep going down the same path they're on.
I'd like to see TFP do a deep dive on the Trump classified documents case, the similarities to Biden's behavior and what appears to be malfeasance by Jack Smith, the National Archives and the DOJ.
If it’s any consolation, Evans W, the Biden regime is pausing weapons shipments to Israel. There’s been no word yet on whether they’re considering halting weapons sales and grants to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan, Iraq, and other enemies of Israel. I think Biden just wants the Israelis to feel special.
You can bet that this administration won't halt the sale of weapons to any country in the middle east, especially Israel. Its a cash cow for the military contractors and their lobbyists won't ever let that honey pot go dry.
Absolutely true. Furthermore, they also know that if Israel were cut off from advanced U.S. weapons and munitions, they would make their own, which would be bad news for U.S. arms manufacturers because Israel could emerge as a major competitor. Thus, the "aid" to keep them on a tight leash, restrict their foreign policy freedom, and score points with the dumb Jewish American voters.
That said, Biden slowing Iron Dome resupplies at a time when Israel is being bombarded from both Gaza and Lebanon is the height of stupidity...a hallmark of the Biden Administration to always do the wrong thing. It will spur them to clone the weapons, which shouldn't be too hard since it was a joint development project from the beginning. And improve on it, and instead of sharing the tech back to the U.S., they can sell it to whoever they want–China, Russia, India–whoever has hard currency.
Exactly. I am even more disgusted with Biden than I was before. He seems like a nice old man, but he is clearly not in charge of anything right now. It frightens me that I have no idea who is actually in charge.
Terry, as I stated in an earlier post, Biden & his Handlers are in a panic over his poll numbers! He has to throw Israel under the bus, or at least appear to, so he can appease all the Muslims AND the anti Israel, pro Hamas protestors!
Poor ‘ole Joe is “between a rock and a hard place” for now.
Couldn't agree more with your first paragraph. As an American and Israeli citizen, the thing I wish more than anything is for the world and USA to just stop caring. No other conflict of this magnitude gets even 1% of the attention the Israeli Arab conflict receives. This is not the place to open the "why that is" discussion but I suspect it's not for objective reasons. In the summer of 2023 the Azeris deported 150,000 Armenians from their country by force. No one even talked about it...
Regarding our tax dollars being sent overseas, you're kidding yourself. We are not giving foreign nations our tax dollars, this is merely a form of economic stimulus through the military industrial complex. Do you think Israel, Ukraine, Egypt and so on can buy AK-47, S-300 systems, Eurofighters or any other military equipment not made in the USA? And especially with the Israeli case, the American aid is used for another goal which is to stifle the Israeli military industries to prevent competition on the world stage. I personally think Israel should not accept a single dollar from the USA, it is strong enough, advanced enough, can handle it on its own, and in the long term it will be of enormous benefit to its own national security to not be depended on your proverbial "drying tits".
Evans check out Glen he claimed last week these protests are not run by outside agitators or there was any property damage at Columbia. He claims the only violence was initiated by Jewish students. He sees this as the latest chapter in the history of American civil disobedience. Glen hates Israel. If mutant Nazis from a parallel universe attacked Israel Glen would sign on as the mutant Nazis propaganda minister.
Clearly Greenwald is blind by his own bias against Israel. You see the same thing going the opposite direction with people like Ben Shapiro. It’s mind numbing. All the more reason to steer completely away as it seems to be lose/lose.
I agree. Depending on which source I listen to, leadership in Israel or Palestine are genocidal maniacs who kidnap, rape and torture children. I have no idea who to believe anymore. It's to the point I have stopped forming an opinion on the conflict, other than both entities are killing people. Let God work it out in the end. I can't figure out the truth.
Apparently some commies named Rockefeller, Ford and Soros are funding part of it...also saw that many of Biden's stop Dem funding sources have have contributed as well...we should also send them the bill for the mess that their little subjects made at all the universities
I have been saying all along we should drop out of the UN. It is as useless as tits on a boar hog. We subsidize it and most of the members hate us, Saudi Arabia to chair UN forum on women’s rights and gender equality and Cuba was reelected elected to the UN Human Rights Committee.
Move the UN to France. The frogs like this sort of UN crap.
Many Israelis want to stop accepting US military aid because the Israelis are perfectly capable of funding their own military and being free from pressure by the USA. The main excuse for these protests is that the US gives military aid to Israel. The Israelis are a nuclear power; they have a trump card at the ready if their traditional military fails to protect them. It is horrifically irresponsible for protesters to attempt to back Israel into a corner, especially with Netanyahu's government in charge.
I had to look up Darién Gap. "José Raúl Mulino is set to become the next Panamanian president after winning the elections on Sunday.
He could also play a key role in determining the outcome of the U.S. elections in November, as he vowed to shut down a key migration route to the country, an issue that has dominated the national conversation for months and has ranked as voters' main concern for months now.
Bloomberg reported that Mulino has said he'll shut the trails in the Darien Gap, a treacherous jungle path that connects Panama and Colombia and is used by hundreds of thousands of migrants on their way to the United States.
Only last year, over half a million people crossed the lawless jungle, ridden with criminal organizations dedicated to human smuggling, river crossings and wild animals."
Also, my impression is that NGOs are bad news. Lots of Woke/Marxist/Globalist money goes through them - probably Hamas and China as well.
"Antisemitism Awareness Act, that clamps down on speech/language that most of us find ugly and appalling, but IMO shouldn't be punished or suppressed by force/threat of law"
Yes, I am against antisemitism but clamping down on Free Speech is bad news. The journalist "Style Guides" /enforced Orwellian speech are bad enough. Clamping down on actions is another thing. Like, people need to be arrested over destruction of property, shoving people around, and preventing students from going to class at Universities (and not just immediately let go with fines paid by Kamala Harris or Antifa & their records expunged.) Also, Columbia in particular needs to fire a bunch of professors and administrators. They may claim it is "hard to do". So, "do the work".
Using a NYT writer on the bird flu in dairy cattle was a massive mistake. Given the lies he would have written covering Covid-19 there is zero credibility there. Bari you owe us better than NYT or New Yorker or Atlantic writers. Not a single one of them is capable of reporting the facts or reality.
And the real story behind this cow/milk/avian flu scare mongering is that the bio labs are experimenting/creating with how to make a virus that doesn't normally jump to some animals/humans jump to them. TFP is participating here in the same sort of covid terror without a second thought or doing any research. Using the NYT story is why TFP is, at the moment, only an "off ramp" from the heritage media--and I hoped for better than that. This post is just lazy journalism. No research. No objectivity. Congrats TFP: you are helping lay the groundwork for another pandemic episode AND demonizing raw milk and ALL MILK and all the dairy products made with milk. That industry attempt is an old, old playbook--and that industry is trying now to foist fake, unhealthy milk on us--along with a whole lot of other fake products, many of which are being genetically engineered or otherwise tampered with. Leave. The. Food. Alone!
I think this is the long time journalist that got fired for answering a question from a student and the N word was part of the discussion, hence he was summarily dismissed. That said you can bet dollars to mRNA vax that this flu was a built in a lab.
Okay, it's official. I may be new here and I certainly don't know everything, but a far too large percentage of the time I am learning more details from the comment section than I am from the actual TFP article(s). I'm not trying to slam TFP as I am quite grateful for their presence in this time of media gone bad, and there are indeed some excellent articles, but there also seem to be too many dangling unanswered questions. Maybe the purpose of TFP is to just point a finger at the moon and thus steer the reader in the general direction of where to do their own research. That's okay I guess, but it also makes me squirm a bit and a tad uneasy. We are in tough times all the way around and I would like to see TFP exhibit a little more true grit. I get there is a time to not stir the pot too much and not everyone wants to take a deep dive into every sucky rabbit hole, but based on the comments I have seen, many readers here appear to be quite capable of withstanding different and challenging perspectives. I would like to see more of those challenging perspectives; thank you very much Free Press.
Part of it is that the trolls can't really gain momentum here. There is one and if you do not already you will soon recognize it. I see the name and just scroll on by.
Seriously. That troll or bot, whatever it is gets zero engagement and still keeps showing up. It’s like the drunken guest who keeps getting quietly escorted out of a party and keeps sneaking back in for another cocktail. My best guess is that it is a case of autism.
I thought maybe a plant to stir up the pot and see what happens. But then I am the suspicious sort. And I myself did get tricked into engaging at first, before I knew better. So in that way the tactic has worked to some degree.
Yes, I wonder myself how TFP managed to gather this bunch of commenters, so civil for the most part, and relaying the best thinking on the Internet. I was trying to make-do with Townhall, but they've got nobody except for an occasional Victor David Hanson, and not 1 in 10 commenters are civil, or smart.
I wonder if TFP knows that it's higher purpose has been to gather this community together?
Only half kidding. I told a friend yesterday how delighted I was to find an online group with civil and intelligent discourse even while holding divergent views. It's rather miraculous really given the current state of the reality around us. And it reminds me of the good ole days........
I agree! 95% of the time my comments are rebutted by another reader, the exchange is respectful. In the rare cases it's rude or snarky, it's easy enough to just scroll on by and disengage.
The only reason I am keeping my subscription is Douglas Murray's work, and the comments section. A lot of the material is not worth reading anymore and I am getting irritated by their refusal to cover Biden's constant stream of b.s. and propaganda. I noticed that they had snarky comments to make about the way the richies dressed at the Met gala, but nothing about the rioters defacing a WWI memorial a few blocks away. I get the feeling that there is a blind spot as bug as Canada when it comes to coverage of people who are, after all, on their team.
The defacing you mentioned really got to me, Victoria. I've been reading a lot about trench warfare lately, specifically the miseries of life in the trenches, and seeing GAZA spraypainted on that memorial gave me some murderous thoughts. It's as though GAZA supersedes all else, including the sacrifices made by American servicemen in World War l.
Rain, you said it better than I did. My daughter has a half-blood Choctaw great grandmother. and you should see the photo of her great great grandmother -- it shows the face and continence of a great great great woman. My spouse, 1/8th, was a beauty, the smoothest, softest skin. You great race, you.
I skim the articles, but generally go right to the comment section. TFP offers a somewhat different perspective on what we get from MSM, but still somewhat skewed in the direction of the Left as fits with the authors. I am not totally opposed to different views, although I do get tired of the Biden worship and Trump bashing. Like you, however, I glean a lot from other commenters.
I think you're on to something. Maybe TFP is afraid of getting shut down for true reporting. They point us in the right direction and then let the real story evolve in the comments where it's "safe" for all (hopefully!).
The Free Press might like to consider exposing the money that is fueling the transing of minors industry.From Obama sneaking “ trans care” into ACA to which leftist trans ideologue billionaires are shoveling their money into indoctrinating young children to believe they were” born in the wrong party” so let’s throw a party and celebrate.
Another important angle is to interview the new crop of young doctors who have invested time and money into fellowship training to sterilize and operate on these troubled kids.
Also… interviewing politicians on why and how they justify ignoring the Cass Report, The WPATH files and the resultant necessary shake up I. Europe to stop harming these confused kids.,
Apparently Michael Shellenberger has acquired a trove of documents laying out the trans effort on children. From what I heard, they reveal a ghastly effort.
My speculation, and that is all it is, is that she is focused on creating a new media empire out of the vacuum created by traditional media and social media. Get your merch now.
Ollie and Suzy seem to like pop culture more than hard news. Too many articles are fit to the likes of the writers, not what readers want to see and learn about. I would guess the majority of TFP subscribers don't care to read about the MET Gala but unfortunately, that's what we got today. I am grateful Travis Kelce's football season is over so we don't have to see any more articles on Taylor Swift, at least until the breakup.
Also indoctrinated with the vaccine issue, which is now blowing up. That is how industry works. And note that most docs DO NOT own their own practices--they are now just workers in the system. They have to do as they are told or they lose their jobs. Few will risk that outcome. The information base for docs is from Big Pharma, etc. It is a badly broken system now.
Obama care has led to small independent practices disappearing-and doctors being employees (and to shift where overpaid administrators not doctors control medical policy much like what happened in universities with professors were put under the explosion of well paid political hack administrators and costs skyrocketing.)
Also perverting decisions was the direct compensation paid to doctors for every covid vaccination they gave and the money paid out to hospitals & nursing homes for every death they claimed remotely tied to covid. (We were appalled to see a family member’s death reported as caused by covid. Ah, no.) But facilities got paid for that lie & the death grossly numbers inflated.
LGB accepts and celebrates homosexuality, pro-marriage etc. Queer theory does not. LGBT isn't a natural coalition......T hijacked LGB. T doesn't accept & celebrate homosexuality.....they instead insist you were born in the wrong body and can change your sex. This is the opposite of "gay." It's a big money agenda supported by the likes of "Jennifer" Pritzker (man) of Hyatt money. Illinois governor's cousin.
100%. The "T" is erasing gay men and women. Their philosophy is if you're attracted to the same sex that must mean you're in the wrong body and are actually the opposite gender. Hell, the "Progress Flag" that has replaced the rainbow is symbolic of the Trans community taking over the LGB community that fought so hard for their rights.
Exactly. If you haven't, read that link above about Queer theory. That's what I've thought for several years, it's the only thing that makes sense. I'm glad it was finally written about so more exposure of their agenda can spread.
Not trying to be super practical or anything over here, but has anybody thought about how you would actually put Trump in jail? He’s a former president who will always have a Secret Service detail. Does he get to have Secret Service in his jail cell with him? Got to be the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
Even dumber than prosecuting him for…whatever bullshit they made up. But the left doesn’t give much thought to long term effects: see their demonization of Russia as an excuse for Hillary being a terrible candidate, or their decades-long advocacy of communism despite disastrous results.
Trump wants to go to jail. If he gets locked up for defending himself and pointing out that the judge's daughter is a democratic strategist and fundraiser who has literally worked for Biden'Harris, he will win every state in the Union minus Commiefornia and the New England Soviet Bloc.
The big picture here....one that has been hidden away in Progressivism's back cupboard for decades now....is that our universities are stuffed full of people (both 'students' and 'professors') who - in a saner culture - should have no place in an institution of higher learning at all. We have, for way too long, been putting up with "stories of self-engrossed, spoilt-brat, student hysteria and the craven appeasement of such behaviour by university administrations."..... as recounted in panoramic detail here: https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/how-diversity-narrows-the-mind
Yes. The universities have sold out to outside funding. Big structural changes resulted, like the demonizing of actual disciplinary scientists and the replacement of them with interdisciplinary "field" people who are NOT scientists. And, of course, all the toxic DEI and trans gender people.
Seventy-nine percent of adults arrested with illegal guns in D.C. get away without any felony conviction. Crazy Second Amendment hot take here, but how about we start by enforcing existing gun laws? (DC Crime Facts)
Oh heck, why do that? Then scummy Democrats wouldn't have anything to whine about except abortion.
Let's be real. Progressives don't hate guns. In California, they rolled back laws that imposed mandatory and significant prison sentences for using guns during the commission of a felony.
What progressives really hate are the types of people who own guns, and their desire to take away guns from the people they hate is not about safety; it's about flipping the bird to the people they hate.
Maybe. A few years back, I would have said that was conspiracy theorist cloudcuckooland talk, but I have to admit that there is growing evidence of concerted action in these college protests (just like the BLM protests several years back), and there is no shortage of foreign governments and/or non-state actors who benefit from an internally divided and weakened US.
I suppose jt's not too much of a stretch to say that the takeover of our entire education system isn't intended to achieve a soft regime change in the US.
Also there is now a very real cultural divide between rural and urban people and how either group uses guns or perceives how guns are used. Most guns in cities are hand guns, for instance. Rural people use guns for hunting--for the most part. There is the machine gun issue of course. It probably crosses this divide. But guns in cities present different problems than guns in rural areas. I'm generalizing, I know, but...
I'm not quite sure I buy that. I live in a rural area, and most people I know who hunt (which is most people) also own handguns for personal protection.
And this is okay. I was raised a city boy, but moving to a rural area, going through a police academy, and working as a police officer impressed several things on me:
First, people in cities have no conception of what it is like to live in rural areas, where the nearest police response may be an hour or more away.
Second, even in a city with adequate police staffing (if there are any of those left), several minutes is a very long time when someone means to do you harm.
Third, guns are truly an equalizer and a guarantor against tyranny. I don't mean the kind involving black helicopters, etc. I mean the kind where you can't walk down the street at night. A gun (with adequate training) levels the playing field for the weak, the small, and the elderly.
And I'm going to push back a bit on the idea that guns present different hazards depending on where you live. I believe that guns in both places present the same problem: People using them for illegal purposes, or using them irresponsibly.
Blessings on you Josh, and thanks for adding specificity to what I said. Guns are a tough subject, for sure. And I so agree that gun use reflects the intent of the gun owner. I grew up with guns (Air Force dad, mother from rural Georgia where we spent a lot of time) and yes, both hand guns and long guns were in the houses. We didn't do much with the hand guns though, but we all learned to shoot skeet. My AF husband was a good hand gun marksman. Anyway, I moved south from 19 years in fairly rural Maine 18 or so months ago to be near my two sons (I'm now 79). But in Maine, local police called senior citizens each morning to check in with them, for those, like me, who lived alone. One of these officers offered, during covid, to help me purchase a hand gun and to help me learn to use it effectively. I was so grateful. I didn't, but I would have if I had stayed in Maine, especially now as everything is falling apart in ways that will increase events like house intrusions.
The funniest thing ever was watching all the liberal dolts in CT going to gun shops during Covid and getting all upset when they either had to endure the waiting permit for a long gun or were refused a pistol purchase without the requisite permit.
Well, that's because progressives - and I'm going back to the turn of the twentieth centurt here - have always been good about creating moral rules that only apply to the unwashed masses. You know, the sort who can't be trusted with freedom.
Some may feel that way. Hopefully most. But some think owning a gun IS gun culture. ICBW but I genuinely believe that there are those among us who see an armed citizen as a threat. It can't be about gun violence because given the numbers of guns owned in this nation gun violence is not pervasive. Are there issues? Yes. Is the problem.gun ownership? No.
I worked in DC (affectionately known as Dodge City) in a law enforcement capacity in the late 80’s and part of the 90’s. Judges were issuing personal recognizance bonds for homocide. There were so many shootings that the military was sending their trauma surgeons to DC General and Med Star to get gunshot wound treatment training.
"So no traditional commencement, no in-person classes, and no in-person exams. But other than that, a well-run, functioning center of learning, not at all derailed by the Gaza encampment on its campus."
And yet, most of them will have a "graduate of Columbia" credential, implying that they have some sort of knowledge and skills that are useful to an employer. The world has gone mad.
I think that implication may no longer be in effect. Especially after seeing the PhD thesis proposal of the woman who demanded that the university cater their protest.
Wait, no catering? What if they starve or worse can not get a Starbucks. How dare those filthy capitalists who take money from the down trodden (not you Soros, love the tent) not cater to us with Kosher, organic, vegetarian, and goop (lab grown meat). Plus you need to clean up our waste so the planet is saved. Yeah seems perfectly normal and Ms Dip Shit will probably be teaching at Columbia in two years.
I notice you didn't include gluten-free in your dietary demands. Could be an oversight, and you just need some re-education and a couple of struggle sessions. Or it could be that you are murderous scum...
One can never tell these days. In this upside down clown world, she might have just skipped right on over the Bull Shit BS, More of the Same MS degrees and jumped right into the Piled Higher and Deeper PhD proposal.
How sad for the "normal" graduates across the country. Their high school graduation ceremonies were canceled four years ago due to Covid and now the traditional college graduations are canceled due to the protestors. We can only hope that the normals will take these experiences forward to resist this craziness in their future lives.
At the risk of being impolitic, but to make a similar point: where were the real men when Riley Gaines was being accosted at SF State by men in dresses?
No. In fact the one time they pinned a comment it was embarrassing in its tongue bathing.
It just seems as if some flailing is going on here. Susie’s tinder type lonely hearts offerings. What our readers recommend except it was 90% staff. Now letters.
I say stick to what brought people here. Articles that are more in depth. Articles from all sorts of authors. Some whistle blowers. How about recommendations from other sites that aren’t totally left. City Journal always has good articles. Powerline is good.
How about some articles regarding Biden, where is he, why is he so sequestered, what the hell is that maladministration actually doing
Yes, I understand the kids are out of their minds...but really can we not find anyone to lead this country who is at least in their early 70s, who can still string a full sentence together, and doesn't live on metamucil?
Not surprised by how duplicitous the Biden administration is concerning Israel. They are refusing to send more ammo to Israel. But don't count on Congress to do anything about that. Schumer has Biden's back. That's all he cares about. Like I said before, Schumer shows you how to go from shomer to kapo in less than 5 seconds.
Hamas accepted a ceasefire? No it did not. It changed the wording in the agreement to say "dead or alive hostages " instead of "alive hostages" and then accepted the ceasefire. Hamas can't, or won't, produce 40 live hostages. Does that mean it will return dead people and keep the live ones for protection? Of course it does. Israel is not stupid no matter what Biden thinks.
New reports that the Biden administration is basing its human rights report on Israel from an organization called DAWN, run by the same people that started the ISM, NGO, (read phony human rights group, in other words, simply another antisemitic bullshit org) .
Isn't it time to deal with the truth that the entire Biden administration is infected with Jew haters. Its their modus operandi. Biden thinks plunging a knife into Israel's back is being a friend...
Oh and the best part of the campus protests is that the young people on both sides agree, "f**k Joe Biden"
It's your duty and right to vote for which ever candidate you choose, but in your lifetime you get only about 15 chances to vote for a president. Why would you waste one on someone who has zero chance of winning? Yes, it will be satisfying for a short while, but why take any chance that we could be stuck with this disaster for another 4 years?
If you hate Trump so much, look at it as a vote against Biden.
The only reason third parties can’t win is because we believe it. For the first time in history independents and unaffiliated voters outnumber voters registered with a party. As a fortuitous coincidence, the Big Two are planning to nominate the two least popular candidates in history.
If everyone votes their conscience instead of doing what they’re told something great can happen.
Appreciate your response, but while I am not a forever-Trumper, the facts are he is much more popular than you give him credit for. Look how he solidly beat 16 other viable candidates for the R nomination in 2016, then trounced all the competition this year. Now ask yourself was your life really that bad 2016-2020?
Take Covid out of the equation....its cause totally out of his control.
And one more time, would you take even the slightest risk we get 4 more years of Biden/Harris?
Trump and Biden have the two highest unfavorable ratings in history - even higher than Hillary Clinton. The only person with a worse unfavorable rating who will be on any ballot is Kamala Harris. Maybe Trump can find someone even worse to be his VP.
Covid was not totally out of Trump's control. He got rolled by Fauci. The street smart President who never lets anyone get anything over on him let Fauci and Collins hide information from him. They talked him out of ivermectin, talked him out of hydroxychloroquine, talked him in to Remdesivir, talked him in to lockdowns. That's on top of letting the media talk him out of banning travel from China. He got talked into the most disastrous covid response of any country in the world - when he knew better. Biden is a pawn but Trump is a sucker. He's malleable. Easy to swindle and easy to push around.
We're still six months from the election. A lot can happen. I expect a lot will happen. We'll see where things stand in November. For me, I can't stand the idea of deciding who to vote for based on which Presidency I think we'll have the best chance of recovering from. I know where a Biden Presidency leads - more insane woke bullshit, followed by Harris taking over, followed by even more insane and more woke bullshit. I don't know where a Trump Presidency leads because I don't know who will be around to take advantage of his gullibility yet.
Trump is far from Abe Lincoln or George Washington, but my point is he stands in much more favor than you give him credit for, objectively speaking.
Covid was a once/century occurrence and too many mistakes & lies to list, and hindsight is always clear vision. I think it was intentionally released as germ warfare against the only guy who had the balls to stand up to China, but that's for another day.
Bottom line is, Trump is a bombastic oaf, but I'd take ten of him over this brain dead fool we have now, again, too many reasons to list, but you know them all.
Ten time out of ten I take 2016-2020 over the last 3+ years, and I think you do know where a Trump presidency leads because we have 4 years of proof, and I highly doubt he's be gullible next time around.
The real problem of Trump 2.0 is he's going to kill any chance for another Republican pres. for years. His VP will suffer a political death sentence.
The Politico article was interesting. It is lovely that the FP is getting good coverage.
Over here, Hillary Cass has been speaking to the Scottish parliament about the Cass Report. She addressed some of the misinformation which various bad actors have been trying to spread about the report. https://twitter.com/ginadavidsonlbc/status/1787755448981954990 is a twitter thread of the meeting which took place earlier this morning.
This report gives a snapshot of British Muslims attitudes compared to other sections of the population. There is as one might expect a far higher incidence of Anti-Semitic beliefs as well as a propensity to want to outlaw gay marriage and homosexuality. https://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HJS-Deck-200324-Final.pdf However despite hope springing eternal, my expectations are low for anyone in authority to take notice and take steps.
It is important as the campus protests with their often anti-Semitic messaging has spread to the UK as well. And of course, there has been mention that Labour will need to appease the Muslim extremist activists in like of the collapse of the Labour Muslim vote in last week's local elections.
Looks like a bunch of attention seekers trying to out stupid each other. The whole thing reminds me of the city dwellers in “The Hunger Games” . Clueless, self important and useless.
A science reporter. Hmm. Well I guess that’s marginally better than a science journalist but barely. So he can gaslight in science but does that make him a scientist?
Leftists have so devalued everything with their agendas and biases, it’s hard to know what’s truthful and what’s propaganda
They have devalued everything from science to our intelligence agencies. It is hard to believe anything coming from anyone associated with an alphabet agency in DC.
As for Donald McNeil, not impressed and it is too bad TFP couldn't find another source for discussing bird flu. I haven't looked deeply into McNeil's writing from when we were in the midst of dealing with COVID, but I saw where he advocated for wearing masks indoors even in his own apartment. He then went on to repeat and misquote Trump about injecting or ingesting bleach. No thanks.
Our local library actually quarantined books. I wonder if people realize we still live in a world of micro organisms, including coronavirus, as we did before covid.
According to 1010-WINS, pro-Hamas demonstrators began their mostly peaceful mile-long march to the Metropolitan Museum yesterday from the grounds of Hunter College. The announcer sounded pretty impressed by the distance covered.
The truth is, the demonstrators' aim of swarming the Met was thwarted by the NYPD, many of them didn't know that the building they were looking at from a block away even was the Met, and when they proceeded into Central Park they badly defaced a World War One monument, incinerated an American flag, and hoisted a Palestinian flag.
They did likewise to the Sherman monument across from the Plaza Hotel.
Minor questions:
How do you live in New York City and possibly attend Hunter and have never visited the Met?
And how is it that anyone is impressed by energetic young people's being able to walk a mile? In our 70s, spouse and I can do 7-8 easily in the countryside. (Cement sidewalks, rather less.)
Didn't we already cover the janitor who whipped the Hamas adjacent kids ass last week? The guy is a national treasure and should immediately be installed as the new president of Columbia. Now.....we've got that settled.
I would like to know who's funding these protests as I'm not at all convinced they are totally organic. There is just seems to be too much evidence that these are well organized and capitalized. It might also be interesting, at some point, to reach out to Aaron Maté, Glenn Greenwald, or Max Blumenthal to get their take on what's happening on campuses. Its pretty clear what the position is of the TFP staff on anything critical of Israel, but shouldn't you guys start incorporating some opposing thoughts & positions into stories......as uncomfortable as that might be? After all, I thought broad opinion and open dialogue to other views was part of the whole Free Press thingy.
So I'll just go ahead and say the quiet part out loud. With the lazy susan of shit sandwiches we're being served up on the daily in this country, the Israel/Gaza/Palestine thing is kinda wearing me out a little bit. I love the Jewish people & support the state of Israel as much as the next guy, but what's going on over there is their struggle, not mine. They have an incredible economy, close allies in Europe, the strongest and most advanced military in the middle east and are capable of fighting their own fights and defending themselves. Also, I have zero confidence that the current administration can help in any meaningful way except get embarrassingly manipulated by both sides. What I do know is that every time I turn around we're shipping container loads of our tax dollars to some other country to pay for their shitshow while I watch things I care deeply about in this country go to hell in a hand basket, or get ignored altogether. I'm thinking about running for president in 2028 and my slogan is going to be "Sorry World....The Tits Gone Dry".....I think that might be a winner.
I've been hoping to see TFP do a deep dive into any of the following. The border crisis, Darién Gap, the 200+ NGO's that are funding the invasion of the US and the funding sources of those NGOs, the recent house bill, known as the Antisemitism Awareness Act, that clamps down on speech/language that most of us find ugly and appalling, but IMO shouldn't be punished or suppressed by force/threat of law or an in-depth interview with RFK Jr. whose latest documentary on his run for the presidency is very interesting and it's also currently being censored on Facebook & Instagram. It's narrated by Woody Harrelson and worth watching. (https://youtu.be/guw1fLJs5EY?si=bx9OkkyQDtHc73Xp).
"Biden’s “quiet comeback” may be over. Despite his recent surge, polls released this week paint a bleak picture." Apparently, they've been drinking George Dickel & smoking meth over at The Hill. If I asked a thousand people here in North Carolina if they thought Biden has led Trump in the past 2 years, you'd get laughed out of the room. I honestly don't know who these people are polling.
"Donald Trump was threatened with jail". Putting Trump in jail all but guarantees he wins the election.....full stop. If they actually wanted Biden to have a shot at another term, they'd have these prosecutors drop all charges against him immediately. It's so crystal clear at this point that this is active lawfare against your political opponent that only the most mentally deranged progressives are capable of suspending their disbelief that its anything but. I still believe that before or at the Democratic National Convention in August, Biden will drop out and Newsome slides in. I'm wrong about most things, and probably wrong here too......but who knows. Off to work folx......peace.
Actually it is the ordinary people who will have to clean up the mess that the protestors leave behind who should be getting a greater focus. The college administrations do take they for granted as do the students. It is an interesting compare and contrast between the 40 year 'protestor' who is recipient of a trust fund and the 45 year old janitor who has a young family to support but didn't walk away. One is called a 'kid' and the other an adult.
The funding of the NGOs and umbrella activist organizations should be looked at. There is a complex and complicated web.
The other amusing thing is that change in rules -- in 2018, you could be cancelled for wearing a sombrero, but in 2024 it is practically de rigour in certain circles for white people to don the keffiyeh .Wasn't wearing of another culture's item of clothing considered to be cultural appropriation?
No, you could be cancelled, not the peaceful loving demonstrators. Rules only work for those they dislike. But funny the guy being put up against the wall is a 40 year old undergrad, real achiever I guess. Filthy rich and never earned a dime of it. But, unwilling to give his capitalistic inheritance to the indigenous people, while living in a million dollar apartment.
That 40 year old isn't an undergrad and doesn't even go to Columbia. He's just a toddler with nothing to do all day except to find reasons to throw tantrums. Oh sorry I meant protests.
Wait, isn't this an Insurrection at our nation's Universities?
They are actually taking things over and making demands - saying they will not go until demands are met. Sounds like an Insurrection to me.
AKA, a loser. I haven't been able to vote for either of our two parties' candidates since 2012 -- and I resent it -- but I'm not going to join forces with anti-Israel pro-Hamas forces under any circumstances. Duh.
And the 40 year old social warrior lacked the instinct to form a fist.
His soft belly indicates he never had the instinct.
I have actually wondered in the last few years if the instinct for self-preservation has been lost. That photo was confirmation for me.
Apparently not as our esteemed President, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer appeared “en costume” in the Rotunda wearing kente cloth to take a knee for BLM. The thought just occurred to me that the knee was taken in respect to the enormity of the grift.
Correct me if I am wrong but weren't those kente cloths from the Asante/Ashanti tribe, the tribe which had been very active in ensuring much of their fellow countrymen were sold into the slavery? The gold which they set such a high value on (the British Museum recently sent back as part of a reparations deal Britain having acquired it as a result of a war) was in large part gains from the Trans Atlantic slave trade or aren't we supposed to mention such mundane details? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/05/ghana-artefacts-asante-kumasi-british-museum-benin-bronzes/ or https://archive.ph/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/05/ghana-artefacts-asante-kumasi-british-museum-benin-bronzes/
HEY! Don’t be coming in here with a bunch of facts and stuff!!!
The kente cloth is a black Sombrero.
while the performance was ridiculous, the kente cloths were given to them by the Congressional Black Caucus and they were asked (told) to do that.
they should have done more research
Forrest Gumps momma proven right again.
Elite rules are rules for thee not for me.
You're right, Michelle, about cultural "appropriation" being one of the primary grounds for cancellation until only recently. Odd that today's cancellers not only have no problem with gender "appropriation," but demand that whole months be set aside to celebrate it.
I can sum up Glenn Greenwald's last six months of posts: Hamas - good. IDF - homicidal maniacs. College student protests - simply kids being kids, exercising their free speech rights, standing up against genocide and Israeli fanatics. (He is not interested in who is funding these protests, the lawlessness, the millions of dollars in vandalism, the students who can't have a commencement ceremony, etc.)
So disappointed in Greenwald these days. I stopped listening when he criticized Germany for shutting down pro-hamas protests months ago.
Greenwald has always hated Israel. And he’s no genius.
Greenwald has always hated liberal Western democracy. Unraveling of the Western civilization is his dream coming true. He is in for a big surprise: the alternative to it is either Saudi Arabia, or Iran, or Russia, or North Korea.
So true. What a monster
Yes. What exactly are these countries doing that he thinks is so "right" and beneficial for their citizens, who all seem to be rushing to leave theses "utopias" to get into the USA.
I'm still a fan of Greenwald as he's done some great work in the past. (Edward Snowden & National Security Agency’s secret surveillance documents). Even if I disagree with his position on Israel/Palestine, he should be heard.....same with Blumenthal and Maté.
Yes, he should be heard, no one is disputing that. But it's been 7 months of identical posts, with an occasional surveillance or mocking media post. Not worth the price of subscription at this point IMO.
Agree, and I'm done. Unsubscribed.
I know! I really love his position on free speech- but he's def. one-sided in favor of Hamas!
Agree its gotten old.....sorta trump derangement syndromish if ya know what I mean, but still like the guy and respect him. Hope you have a great day!
Same, but maybe - just maybe- he worked with Snowden because he wanted to see it negatively affect the US as a country.
I unsubscribed from Greenwald, he’s lost the plot completely. Quite deranged in his reporting on Israel, and even a couple of other subjects too. Not worth the $5 a month.
Glenn has a pathological hatred of Israel as intense as any neo Nazi white supremacist.
Bottoms for Palestine was the original Gays for Palestine before it became cool. It's a whole red diaper thing , mommy and daddy were pro soviet marxists. He takes whatever is the anti American line on all issues. Surprised he has the new Right fooled...not.
Greenwald gives the other perspective (anti-Israel, not anti-Semitic). He also points out the hypocrisy of both sides in regards to free speech and the rising censorship state.
I subscribe BECAUSE much of of the time, he says things I don’t want to hear.
Like my father always said: “When people disagree and argue that is a good human thing; When everyone agrees, it’s time to run for the hills.”
(Parents were Russian Jews who made it to America. Grandparents…not so much 😞😢)
I don't think it's fair to say people don't want to hear to both sides (I subscribe to some liberal Substacks). It's just why read identical posts day after day after day, particularly when it's so one-sided. All Hamas talking points are repeated as fact, never questioned. I don't feel like I'm getting the real picture by reading him.
I don't believe I said people don't want to hear both sides. I think Greenwald writes what he believes and just like different people standing in front of a work of art at the museum, we all interpret through our own perspectives.
I love Glenn Greenwald but his Israel coverage is crazy-making. Nuance gone out the window!
I stopped following him when he left Substack.
"200+ NGO's that are funding the invasion of the US and the funding sources of those NGOs." YES! This! Who are these groups? Who’s in charge? And where is the money coming from?
From Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro:
"President Joe Biden has been dogged for months by pro-Palestinian protesters calling him “Genocide Joe” — but some of the groups behind the demonstrations receive financial backing from philanthropists pushing hard for his reelection.
The donors include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Soros, Rockefeller and Pritzker, according to a POLITICO analysis.
Two of the organizers supporting the protests at Columbia University and on other campuses are Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. Both are supported by the Tides Foundation, which is seeded by Democratic megadonor George Soros and was previously supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It in turn supports numerous small nonprofits that work for social change.
Soros declined to comment. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has previously funded the Tides Foundation and other groups, said it no longer has active grants to Tides. It also does not support Jewish Voice for Peace or IfNotNow.
Another notable Democratic donor whose philanthropy has helped fund the protest movement is David Rockefeller Jr., who sits on the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In 2022, the fund gave $300,000 to the Tides Foundation; according to nonprofit tax forms, Tides has given nearly $500,000 over the past five years to Jewish Voice for Peace, which explicitly describes itself as anti-Zionist.
Several other groups involved in pro-Palestinian protests are backed by a foundation funded by Susan and Nick Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt Hotel empire — and supporters of Biden and numerous Democratic campaigns, including $6,600 to the Biden Victory Fund a few months ago and more than $300,000 during the 2020 campaign."
frank, what you posted is worth noting! Anyone paying attention surely know Soros is a huge donor to the WOKE Progressive Democrats + Soros, and his son, despise & could not be more anti America!
WHY do they choose to live here??Simple: “You can be a Communist in a FREE Country, but you can’t be FREE in a Communist country!”
Yes. RE the money. We DON'T want these foundations, Rockefeller, Tides, PBS, Disney, etc. to use our money against us. Know to whom you are donating.
These days my only donations are my local temple specifically for Israel relief or PragerU.
Soros and his son should visit Gaza to show solidarity to Hamas. They may not last long, though.
Tablet and the NY Post have both had articles on the funding behind the Hamas (and other previous) “protests”. It’s always the same people, including Soros, the Rockefellers, the Gates Foundation, the Pritzkers, the Tides Foundation, Arabella, CAIR, etc. You may/may not be surprised to find out the taxpayer dollars are involved, too! Try:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/people-setting-america-on-fire-soros-tides-wespac
https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/us-news/left-leaning-outlet-mocked-for-being-surprised-on-who-is-funding-anti-israel-protests/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/campus-protests-crimethinc-reports-palestine-israel-f5a8054c
PH, most definitely Soros is one!
Saw an article on CNN so called journalist Kosinski is haunted. No not because her brain is empty, which it is. She can not believe at a dinner many of the people actually wanted Trump and were sick of diaper boy Biden. Plus they actually had facts when they talked and apparently facts are wrong. She can not understand how they could want Trump and it still haunts her. That in a nut shell is the woke Liberals who can not believe any person might have their own opinions and not just join the sheep crowd. She said they were actually educated and successful. Which I guess means not the knuckle draggers who keep the frigin place running for elite thinking shrills like her. In her words they had seemed normal until then. Well thank goodness I am not normal like this Karen.
We all know lots of Kosinskis. Signaling their superiority with extreme smugness. Unable to debate or articulate anything of substance. And when challenged they resort to screaming and name calling.
Welcome to my neighborhood!
If it's any consolation, Seattle is the same way. And the weather is worse....
Living in Boston. I feel your pain. Used to travel there a lot as I did to many other now deep blue cities that have changed for the worse(possibly irreversibly). Spent many a day or night at Fenway where I learned a lot of new words and expressions including whole walking into the stadium without wearing a Sox hat.:-)
and mine!!
Terry, what you say about Kosinski is nothing new. I saw the same sort of behavior at NYU School
of Law more than forty years ago, during the 1980 presidential campaign.
Notwithstanding the indisputable wretchedness of the Carter years, virtually all of the NYU Law students who spoke (at least openly; I am sure many others spoke sotto voce, to avoid becoming a target of the leftist mob) about the upcoming election made it clear, in varying degrees of condemnation and vilification, that they could not comprehend how any decent, thinking human being could vote for Ronald Reagan. His overwhelming victory (44 states, majority of the national popular vote, 489 electoral votes (to Carter’s 49)) stunned and infuriated them, and led them to conclude that the majority of Americans were ignorant, and dangerous, idiots, perhaps even Untermenschen.
For me the apotheosis of that vileness came on March 30, 1981, when John Hinckley Jr. shot Reagan in an attempted assassination. Sitting in the office of the NYU Law Review, I saw and heard the loathsome behavior of a number of those supposedly elite law students - most, or all, of whom were, I am sure, Democrats - who rejoiced at the fact that Hinckley had shot Reagan, but were angry that Reagan survived the shooting.
One would think that Democrats, who are continually bellowing about “threats to democracy,” would have viewed the attempted assassination of a President - particularly one who, in a free and fair election, won by a whopping margin - represented a grave threat to democracy. But not so for them, whose unctuous leftist piety was matched only by their viciousness and hypocrisy. They were a harbinger of what was to come.
I'm saddened to hear that Leftists' hate goes back that far, but not really surprised.
Excellent analysis and hate to say, unsurprisingly believe. Their definition of freedom and democracy is they destroy anything or anyone who disagrees with their perverse beliefs.
Terry, if you go against the “Trump Deranged,” or you aren’t in lockstep with the WOKE Progressive Left Democrat & RINO narrative, you must be a “Middle America ignorant Deplorable!”
Ironically, Biden said, “Trump is the GREATEST Threat to Democracy,” in addition to the MAGA crowd + rowdy parents at School Board Meetings + The KKK Proud Boys (neo-Nazis)! Essentially, anyone not supporting Biden is a threat.
Then he came out with, “RFK Jr. is the GREATEST threat to Democracy” which, probably upset Trump for losing 1st place!
Here’s my question. HOW MANY KKK Proud Boys neo-Nazis have we seen waving Nazis Swastika Flags, protesting & taking over buildings across America? Those Far Right Fringe crazies hate Jews, too!
I suppose now that the WOKE Left protestors are doing the work for them, they can kickback with a cold beer!
Yet, this Biden Regime has NOT derogatorily LABELED these antisemitic, anti Israel, pro Palestinian HAMAS terrorists, WHO ARE ALSO PULLING DOWN American Flags to hoist up Foreign Flags, while chanting Death to America, as “THREATS to Democracy!”
I certainly have not heard RFK Jr., or Trump “play BOTH sides” like Biden has! Of course, Biden NEEDS those protester’s votes, so his Handlers are panicking!
But do not forget, here at TFP we’ll be reminded “Orange Man Bad” + RFK Jr. has shamed himself by leaving the Democrat Party!
I’m sure Olly & Nellie will keep us updated on the Biden poll numbers!
Clutch Pearls, folks, 6 more months till election!
There are some (delusional) people who think Trump is getting a "free pass" from our judicial system because the bond in the fraud trial was cut to $175 million and another trial has been delayed until after the election. I think you're so spot on that if all charges against Trump are dropped those people would go apoplectic and Trump would no longer look like the innocent victim but an insider helped by a crooked judicial system. I think the powers that be are too stupid to realize this. I hope they keep going down the same path they're on.
I'd like to see TFP do a deep dive on the Trump classified documents case, the similarities to Biden's behavior and what appears to be malfeasance by Jack Smith, the National Archives and the DOJ.
Word.
Kathy, don’t hold your breath on any deep dive looking into Joe Biden or the Biden Crime Family.
If it’s any consolation, Evans W, the Biden regime is pausing weapons shipments to Israel. There’s been no word yet on whether they’re considering halting weapons sales and grants to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan, Iraq, and other enemies of Israel. I think Biden just wants the Israelis to feel special.
You can bet that this administration won't halt the sale of weapons to any country in the middle east, especially Israel. Its a cash cow for the military contractors and their lobbyists won't ever let that honey pot go dry.
Absolutely true. Furthermore, they also know that if Israel were cut off from advanced U.S. weapons and munitions, they would make their own, which would be bad news for U.S. arms manufacturers because Israel could emerge as a major competitor. Thus, the "aid" to keep them on a tight leash, restrict their foreign policy freedom, and score points with the dumb Jewish American voters.
That said, Biden slowing Iron Dome resupplies at a time when Israel is being bombarded from both Gaza and Lebanon is the height of stupidity...a hallmark of the Biden Administration to always do the wrong thing. It will spur them to clone the weapons, which shouldn't be too hard since it was a joint development project from the beginning. And improve on it, and instead of sharing the tech back to the U.S., they can sell it to whoever they want–China, Russia, India–whoever has hard currency.
Exactly. I am even more disgusted with Biden than I was before. He seems like a nice old man, but he is clearly not in charge of anything right now. It frightens me that I have no idea who is actually in charge.
I don't think he has ever been a nice man. He showered with his daughter when she was 13, for crying out loud!
He's ALWAYS been a liar and a plagiarist!
Don't forget grifter, adulterer, and opportunist!
He was and is considered nice by everyone who does not know him.
Whereas, ironically, Trump is considered a very nasty guy by everyone who has not met him, but those who have met him say he's very kind.
Terry, as I stated in an earlier post, Biden & his Handlers are in a panic over his poll numbers! He has to throw Israel under the bus, or at least appear to, so he can appease all the Muslims AND the anti Israel, pro Hamas protestors!
Poor ‘ole Joe is “between a rock and a hard place” for now.
Couldn't agree more with your first paragraph. As an American and Israeli citizen, the thing I wish more than anything is for the world and USA to just stop caring. No other conflict of this magnitude gets even 1% of the attention the Israeli Arab conflict receives. This is not the place to open the "why that is" discussion but I suspect it's not for objective reasons. In the summer of 2023 the Azeris deported 150,000 Armenians from their country by force. No one even talked about it...
Regarding our tax dollars being sent overseas, you're kidding yourself. We are not giving foreign nations our tax dollars, this is merely a form of economic stimulus through the military industrial complex. Do you think Israel, Ukraine, Egypt and so on can buy AK-47, S-300 systems, Eurofighters or any other military equipment not made in the USA? And especially with the Israeli case, the American aid is used for another goal which is to stifle the Israeli military industries to prevent competition on the world stage. I personally think Israel should not accept a single dollar from the USA, it is strong enough, advanced enough, can handle it on its own, and in the long term it will be of enormous benefit to its own national security to not be depended on your proverbial "drying tits".
Evans check out Glen he claimed last week these protests are not run by outside agitators or there was any property damage at Columbia. He claims the only violence was initiated by Jewish students. He sees this as the latest chapter in the history of American civil disobedience. Glen hates Israel. If mutant Nazis from a parallel universe attacked Israel Glen would sign on as the mutant Nazis propaganda minister.
Clearly Greenwald is blind by his own bias against Israel. You see the same thing going the opposite direction with people like Ben Shapiro. It’s mind numbing. All the more reason to steer completely away as it seems to be lose/lose.
I used to be such a proud Lefty. Then I grew up.
I agree. Depending on which source I listen to, leadership in Israel or Palestine are genocidal maniacs who kidnap, rape and torture children. I have no idea who to believe anymore. It's to the point I have stopped forming an opinion on the conflict, other than both entities are killing people. Let God work it out in the end. I can't figure out the truth.
he is a mutant nazi , he would fit in with them 100%
Apparently some commies named Rockefeller, Ford and Soros are funding part of it...also saw that many of Biden's stop Dem funding sources have have contributed as well...we should also send them the bill for the mess that their little subjects made at all the universities
There has to be some outside coordination behind it. It all just feels a bit too coordinated and well-timed to be organic.
I like that idea!
On the Israeli problem - This guy is just a little pissed off at the UN just a little. Watch all of it:
https://youtu.be/mkrXO2Pxk8s?si=Q9z7BpjJvKQBKKn4
I have been saying all along we should drop out of the UN. It is as useless as tits on a boar hog. We subsidize it and most of the members hate us, Saudi Arabia to chair UN forum on women’s rights and gender equality and Cuba was reelected elected to the UN Human Rights Committee.
Move the UN to France. The frogs like this sort of UN crap.
Thank you, Evans W! I thought it was only me noticing The Free Press' Israel/Jew-centric reporting.
I told my wife only yesterday that they should consider renaming TFP "News Jews can Use".
(Personal note: I have nothing against Jews/Israelis - I honestly don't think I've ever personally known any).
Many Israelis want to stop accepting US military aid because the Israelis are perfectly capable of funding their own military and being free from pressure by the USA. The main excuse for these protests is that the US gives military aid to Israel. The Israelis are a nuclear power; they have a trump card at the ready if their traditional military fails to protect them. It is horrifically irresponsible for protesters to attempt to back Israel into a corner, especially with Netanyahu's government in charge.
Jailing the former El Presidente over bad bookkeeping is so, so Bananaa Republic.
You have my vote based on campaign slogan alone
Thanks, Evan.
I had to look up Darién Gap. "José Raúl Mulino is set to become the next Panamanian president after winning the elections on Sunday.
He could also play a key role in determining the outcome of the U.S. elections in November, as he vowed to shut down a key migration route to the country, an issue that has dominated the national conversation for months and has ranked as voters' main concern for months now.
Bloomberg reported that Mulino has said he'll shut the trails in the Darien Gap, a treacherous jungle path that connects Panama and Colombia and is used by hundreds of thousands of migrants on their way to the United States.
Only last year, over half a million people crossed the lawless jungle, ridden with criminal organizations dedicated to human smuggling, river crossings and wild animals."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-new-panamanian-president-has-vowed-to-shut-down-a-key-migration-route-to-the-us/ar-BB1lUdde
Also, my impression is that NGOs are bad news. Lots of Woke/Marxist/Globalist money goes through them - probably Hamas and China as well.
"Antisemitism Awareness Act, that clamps down on speech/language that most of us find ugly and appalling, but IMO shouldn't be punished or suppressed by force/threat of law"
Yes, I am against antisemitism but clamping down on Free Speech is bad news. The journalist "Style Guides" /enforced Orwellian speech are bad enough. Clamping down on actions is another thing. Like, people need to be arrested over destruction of property, shoving people around, and preventing students from going to class at Universities (and not just immediately let go with fines paid by Kamala Harris or Antifa & their records expunged.) Also, Columbia in particular needs to fire a bunch of professors and administrators. They may claim it is "hard to do". So, "do the work".
Great post, Evans.
Using a NYT writer on the bird flu in dairy cattle was a massive mistake. Given the lies he would have written covering Covid-19 there is zero credibility there. Bari you owe us better than NYT or New Yorker or Atlantic writers. Not a single one of them is capable of reporting the facts or reality.
Agreed. I stopped reading the moment I saw the source. The NYT peddled pure hysteria for months - find someone better if you want to report on it.
I don't read the NYT but let me guess - they are fomenting hysteria over raw milk.
Yup. The reality is that pasteurizing milk kills the flu virus (along with a lot of other things, which is why milk is routinely pasteurized).
There are some excellent independent science reporters who could be tapped for this job.
Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter
Kevin Bass PhD @kevin bass
are but two that I found on X that do brave and excellent work
And the real story behind this cow/milk/avian flu scare mongering is that the bio labs are experimenting/creating with how to make a virus that doesn't normally jump to some animals/humans jump to them. TFP is participating here in the same sort of covid terror without a second thought or doing any research. Using the NYT story is why TFP is, at the moment, only an "off ramp" from the heritage media--and I hoped for better than that. This post is just lazy journalism. No research. No objectivity. Congrats TFP: you are helping lay the groundwork for another pandemic episode AND demonizing raw milk and ALL MILK and all the dairy products made with milk. That industry attempt is an old, old playbook--and that industry is trying now to foist fake, unhealthy milk on us--along with a whole lot of other fake products, many of which are being genetically engineered or otherwise tampered with. Leave. The. Food. Alone!
I think this is the long time journalist that got fired for answering a question from a student and the N word was part of the discussion, hence he was summarily dismissed. That said you can bet dollars to mRNA vax that this flu was a built in a lab.
He’s the one. The left eating their own
He is too white too male not queer so had to go.
He also did early positive reporting on the 'lab leak' origin of COVID.
Nellie is now an Atlantic writer.
“ARE WHITE WOMEN BETTER NOW?
What anti-racism workshops taught us”, by Nellie Bowles, The Atlantic, April 30, 2024
Okay, it's official. I may be new here and I certainly don't know everything, but a far too large percentage of the time I am learning more details from the comment section than I am from the actual TFP article(s). I'm not trying to slam TFP as I am quite grateful for their presence in this time of media gone bad, and there are indeed some excellent articles, but there also seem to be too many dangling unanswered questions. Maybe the purpose of TFP is to just point a finger at the moon and thus steer the reader in the general direction of where to do their own research. That's okay I guess, but it also makes me squirm a bit and a tad uneasy. We are in tough times all the way around and I would like to see TFP exhibit a little more true grit. I get there is a time to not stir the pot too much and not everyone wants to take a deep dive into every sucky rabbit hole, but based on the comments I have seen, many readers here appear to be quite capable of withstanding different and challenging perspectives. I would like to see more of those challenging perspectives; thank you very much Free Press.
Your excellent analysis is why many of us read the comments and not the articles
The real critical thinking and discussion is happening in the comments.
Word.
Part of it is that the trolls can't really gain momentum here. There is one and if you do not already you will soon recognize it. I see the name and just scroll on by.
I am personally very appreciative that the long standing members here have established and maintained the container so well.
It is an oasis of sorts I think.
Seriously. That troll or bot, whatever it is gets zero engagement and still keeps showing up. It’s like the drunken guest who keeps getting quietly escorted out of a party and keeps sneaking back in for another cocktail. My best guess is that it is a case of autism.
I think it is someone's AI experiment.
I thought maybe a plant to stir up the pot and see what happens. But then I am the suspicious sort. And I myself did get tricked into engaging at first, before I knew better. So in that way the tactic has worked to some degree.
Thankfully the commentors here are wise enough not to feed the trolls so it just ends up looking sad.
Withstanding different and challenging perspectives? Readers, yes. TheFP staff not so much.
Yes, I wonder myself how TFP managed to gather this bunch of commenters, so civil for the most part, and relaying the best thinking on the Internet. I was trying to make-do with Townhall, but they've got nobody except for an occasional Victor David Hanson, and not 1 in 10 commenters are civil, or smart.
I wonder if TFP knows that it's higher purpose has been to gather this community together?
Only half kidding. I told a friend yesterday how delighted I was to find an online group with civil and intelligent discourse even while holding divergent views. It's rather miraculous really given the current state of the reality around us. And it reminds me of the good ole days........
Thanks RM-W. Your voice and analysis are most welcome!
Appreciate the welcome most sincerely!
I agree! 95% of the time my comments are rebutted by another reader, the exchange is respectful. In the rare cases it's rude or snarky, it's easy enough to just scroll on by and disengage.
People tend to take the high road here. It's a real sanctuary from all the online craziness.
Also a level of common sense which seems to be absent as well.
It demonstrates a level of intelligence that is absent in most comment sections.
The only reason I am keeping my subscription is Douglas Murray's work, and the comments section. A lot of the material is not worth reading anymore and I am getting irritated by their refusal to cover Biden's constant stream of b.s. and propaganda. I noticed that they had snarky comments to make about the way the richies dressed at the Met gala, but nothing about the rioters defacing a WWI memorial a few blocks away. I get the feeling that there is a blind spot as bug as Canada when it comes to coverage of people who are, after all, on their team.
The defacing you mentioned really got to me, Victoria. I've been reading a lot about trench warfare lately, specifically the miseries of life in the trenches, and seeing GAZA spraypainted on that memorial gave me some murderous thoughts. It's as though GAZA supersedes all else, including the sacrifices made by American servicemen in World War l.
TFP seems like it wants to be just another version of the the NYT. It is the commentors here that make it worth subscribing.
Rain, you said it better than I did. My daughter has a half-blood Choctaw great grandmother. and you should see the photo of her great great grandmother -- it shows the face and continence of a great great great woman. My spouse, 1/8th, was a beauty, the smoothest, softest skin. You great race, you.
Thank you Michael, your compliment goes straight up to the ancestors.
I too scan most of the articles and jump into the comments. My mental picture of this audience is a scene from a Monty Python skit. ;)
I certainly feel like a Monty Python character these days. That wacky and 'differently abled' black knight comes to mind..........
“I’m invincible!”…..one of my favorite skits.
which one? Ministry of Silly Walks? Cheese Shoppe? "There's a penguin on the telly!"???
I skim the articles, but generally go right to the comment section. TFP offers a somewhat different perspective on what we get from MSM, but still somewhat skewed in the direction of the Left as fits with the authors. I am not totally opposed to different views, although I do get tired of the Biden worship and Trump bashing. Like you, however, I glean a lot from other commenters.
In general, the comments are better than the articles.
I think you're on to something. Maybe TFP is afraid of getting shut down for true reporting. They point us in the right direction and then let the real story evolve in the comments where it's "safe" for all (hopefully!).
I skim through the articles then come to the comments to find out what big stories they ignored that day.
Rain - I especially appreciate the commentor's knowledge of the subject matter to which they converse.
Their learned opinions (as opposed to just "educated") are very valuable.
The Free Press might like to consider exposing the money that is fueling the transing of minors industry.From Obama sneaking “ trans care” into ACA to which leftist trans ideologue billionaires are shoveling their money into indoctrinating young children to believe they were” born in the wrong party” so let’s throw a party and celebrate.
Another important angle is to interview the new crop of young doctors who have invested time and money into fellowship training to sterilize and operate on these troubled kids.
Also… interviewing politicians on why and how they justify ignoring the Cass Report, The WPATH files and the resultant necessary shake up I. Europe to stop harming these confused kids.,
They’re confused bc they’ve been indoctrinated. On purpose. Trans hijacked LGB, who did nothing to stop it. Blow it up.
Agreed.
The Free Press has gone silent after publishing the 2 whistleblowers and the Finnish psychiatrist. I wonder who is pressuring Bari to back off?
Apparently Michael Shellenberger has acquired a trove of documents laying out the trans effort on children. From what I heard, they reveal a ghastly effort.
Are you referring to the WPAtH files or something more ?
Maybe that was what they were talking about. I assumed there was something more.
More: https://newdiscourses.com/2024/03/queer-theory-doctrine-sex-based-cult/
Bari is AWOL Ollie and Suzy are in charge.
It seems that way. Why would she abandon her own fledgling company to allow them to turn it into this?
My speculation, and that is all it is, is that she is focused on creating a new media empire out of the vacuum created by traditional media and social media. Get your merch now.
having fun with the money she made ? Typical
Ollie and Suzy seem to like pop culture more than hard news. Too many articles are fit to the likes of the writers, not what readers want to see and learn about. I would guess the majority of TFP subscribers don't care to read about the MET Gala but unfortunately, that's what we got today. I am grateful Travis Kelce's football season is over so we don't have to see any more articles on Taylor Swift, at least until the breakup.
Doesn't she do the podcast? I subscribed to this column when it was Common Sense because of her writing.
Geesch, Disa, I don't want to start going there.
Going where?
Also indoctrinated with the vaccine issue, which is now blowing up. That is how industry works. And note that most docs DO NOT own their own practices--they are now just workers in the system. They have to do as they are told or they lose their jobs. Few will risk that outcome. The information base for docs is from Big Pharma, etc. It is a badly broken system now.
It's really a shame how hospitals bought doctors' practices. Now they have to toe the line or else. Politics has ruined medicine.
Yes but it is also monopoly formation in the medical industry.
Obama care has led to small independent practices disappearing-and doctors being employees (and to shift where overpaid administrators not doctors control medical policy much like what happened in universities with professors were put under the explosion of well paid political hack administrators and costs skyrocketing.)
Also perverting decisions was the direct compensation paid to doctors for every covid vaccination they gave and the money paid out to hospitals & nursing homes for every death they claimed remotely tied to covid. (We were appalled to see a family member’s death reported as caused by covid. Ah, no.) But facilities got paid for that lie & the death grossly numbers inflated.
Yes. Thanks.
You are spot on, Louisa!
It’s not indoctrination, it’s sociopathy. Evil is difficult for people to confront.
Trans hijacked LGBT NOT LGB.
Huge difference.
LGB accepts and celebrates homosexuality, pro-marriage etc. Queer theory does not. LGBT isn't a natural coalition......T hijacked LGB. T doesn't accept & celebrate homosexuality.....they instead insist you were born in the wrong body and can change your sex. This is the opposite of "gay." It's a big money agenda supported by the likes of "Jennifer" Pritzker (man) of Hyatt money. Illinois governor's cousin.
https://newdiscourses.com/2024/03/queer-theory-doctrine-sex-based-cult/
100%. The "T" is erasing gay men and women. Their philosophy is if you're attracted to the same sex that must mean you're in the wrong body and are actually the opposite gender. Hell, the "Progress Flag" that has replaced the rainbow is symbolic of the Trans community taking over the LGB community that fought so hard for their rights.
Exactly. If you haven't, read that link above about Queer theory. That's what I've thought for several years, it's the only thing that makes sense. I'm glad it was finally written about so more exposure of their agenda can spread.
Thanks for the clear distinction.
Not trying to be super practical or anything over here, but has anybody thought about how you would actually put Trump in jail? He’s a former president who will always have a Secret Service detail. Does he get to have Secret Service in his jail cell with him? Got to be the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
Even dumber than prosecuting him for…whatever bullshit they made up. But the left doesn’t give much thought to long term effects: see their demonization of Russia as an excuse for Hillary being a terrible candidate, or their decades-long advocacy of communism despite disastrous results.
He is accused of Bad Bookkeeping!
Trump wants to go to jail. If he gets locked up for defending himself and pointing out that the judge's daughter is a democratic strategist and fundraiser who has literally worked for Biden'Harris, he will win every state in the Union minus Commiefornia and the New England Soviet Bloc.
LOL! New England Soviet bloc 🤣🤣
My guess is it will be some form of house arrest. But I think this is appellate gold. And with a legitimate DoJ, election interference.
The big picture here....one that has been hidden away in Progressivism's back cupboard for decades now....is that our universities are stuffed full of people (both 'students' and 'professors') who - in a saner culture - should have no place in an institution of higher learning at all. We have, for way too long, been putting up with "stories of self-engrossed, spoilt-brat, student hysteria and the craven appeasement of such behaviour by university administrations."..... as recounted in panoramic detail here: https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/how-diversity-narrows-the-mind
Yes. The universities have sold out to outside funding. Big structural changes resulted, like the demonizing of actual disciplinary scientists and the replacement of them with interdisciplinary "field" people who are NOT scientists. And, of course, all the toxic DEI and trans gender people.
Seventy-nine percent of adults arrested with illegal guns in D.C. get away without any felony conviction. Crazy Second Amendment hot take here, but how about we start by enforcing existing gun laws? (DC Crime Facts)
Oh heck, why do that? Then scummy Democrats wouldn't have anything to whine about except abortion.
I have asked that very question to friends who want to repeal 2A. Funny that I never seem to get an answer
Let's be real. Progressives don't hate guns. In California, they rolled back laws that imposed mandatory and significant prison sentences for using guns during the commission of a felony.
What progressives really hate are the types of people who own guns, and their desire to take away guns from the people they hate is not about safety; it's about flipping the bird to the people they hate.
I think it’s about more than flipping the bird to ppl they hate.Its harder to control those who are armed. Those ppl could form a militia of sorts.
Maybe. A few years back, I would have said that was conspiracy theorist cloudcuckooland talk, but I have to admit that there is growing evidence of concerted action in these college protests (just like the BLM protests several years back), and there is no shortage of foreign governments and/or non-state actors who benefit from an internally divided and weakened US.
I suppose jt's not too much of a stretch to say that the takeover of our entire education system isn't intended to achieve a soft regime change in the US.
Also there is now a very real cultural divide between rural and urban people and how either group uses guns or perceives how guns are used. Most guns in cities are hand guns, for instance. Rural people use guns for hunting--for the most part. There is the machine gun issue of course. It probably crosses this divide. But guns in cities present different problems than guns in rural areas. I'm generalizing, I know, but...
I'm not quite sure I buy that. I live in a rural area, and most people I know who hunt (which is most people) also own handguns for personal protection.
And this is okay. I was raised a city boy, but moving to a rural area, going through a police academy, and working as a police officer impressed several things on me:
First, people in cities have no conception of what it is like to live in rural areas, where the nearest police response may be an hour or more away.
Second, even in a city with adequate police staffing (if there are any of those left), several minutes is a very long time when someone means to do you harm.
Third, guns are truly an equalizer and a guarantor against tyranny. I don't mean the kind involving black helicopters, etc. I mean the kind where you can't walk down the street at night. A gun (with adequate training) levels the playing field for the weak, the small, and the elderly.
And I'm going to push back a bit on the idea that guns present different hazards depending on where you live. I believe that guns in both places present the same problem: People using them for illegal purposes, or using them irresponsibly.
Blessings on you Josh, and thanks for adding specificity to what I said. Guns are a tough subject, for sure. And I so agree that gun use reflects the intent of the gun owner. I grew up with guns (Air Force dad, mother from rural Georgia where we spent a lot of time) and yes, both hand guns and long guns were in the houses. We didn't do much with the hand guns though, but we all learned to shoot skeet. My AF husband was a good hand gun marksman. Anyway, I moved south from 19 years in fairly rural Maine 18 or so months ago to be near my two sons (I'm now 79). But in Maine, local police called senior citizens each morning to check in with them, for those, like me, who lived alone. One of these officers offered, during covid, to help me purchase a hand gun and to help me learn to use it effectively. I was so grateful. I didn't, but I would have if I had stayed in Maine, especially now as everything is falling apart in ways that will increase events like house intrusions.
The funniest thing ever was watching all the liberal dolts in CT going to gun shops during Covid and getting all upset when they either had to endure the waiting permit for a long gun or were refused a pistol purchase without the requisite permit.
Well, that's because progressives - and I'm going back to the turn of the twentieth centurt here - have always been good about creating moral rules that only apply to the unwashed masses. You know, the sort who can't be trusted with freedom.
Funny how some things are immutable, right?
"... really hate are the types of people who LEGALLY own guns ...".
And I'd cut the point even finer. They don't hate all people who legally own guns, but they do hate people who are part of "gun culture."
Some may feel that way. Hopefully most. But some think owning a gun IS gun culture. ICBW but I genuinely believe that there are those among us who see an armed citizen as a threat. It can't be about gun violence because given the numbers of guns owned in this nation gun violence is not pervasive. Are there issues? Yes. Is the problem.gun ownership? No.
I worked in DC (affectionately known as Dodge City) in a law enforcement capacity in the late 80’s and part of the 90’s. Judges were issuing personal recognizance bonds for homocide. There were so many shootings that the military was sending their trauma surgeons to DC General and Med Star to get gunshot wound treatment training.
"So no traditional commencement, no in-person classes, and no in-person exams. But other than that, a well-run, functioning center of learning, not at all derailed by the Gaza encampment on its campus."
And yet, most of them will have a "graduate of Columbia" credential, implying that they have some sort of knowledge and skills that are useful to an employer. The world has gone mad.
I think that implication may no longer be in effect. Especially after seeing the PhD thesis proposal of the woman who demanded that the university cater their protest.
Wait, no catering? What if they starve or worse can not get a Starbucks. How dare those filthy capitalists who take money from the down trodden (not you Soros, love the tent) not cater to us with Kosher, organic, vegetarian, and goop (lab grown meat). Plus you need to clean up our waste so the planet is saved. Yeah seems perfectly normal and Ms Dip Shit will probably be teaching at Columbia in two years.
I notice you didn't include gluten-free in your dietary demands. Could be an oversight, and you just need some re-education and a couple of struggle sessions. Or it could be that you are murderous scum...
How about some nice peanut brittle for those peanut allergies...
If they are fair trade, non GMO peanuts I should be fine.
Heh heh heh...
Kosher should not be lumped in with dietary fads.
The fact that she had a PhD proposal indicates that the already had a master's degree.
One can never tell these days. In this upside down clown world, she might have just skipped right on over the Bull Shit BS, More of the Same MS degrees and jumped right into the Piled Higher and Deeper PhD proposal.
she is a total agitator! Worked for the UAW!!
To organize graduate teaching assistants.
Great cover!!!
How sad for the "normal" graduates across the country. Their high school graduation ceremonies were canceled four years ago due to Covid and now the traditional college graduations are canceled due to the protestors. We can only hope that the normals will take these experiences forward to resist this craziness in their future lives.
The "normal" graduates should have kicked some pro-Hamas ass while they had the chance. Where was the Delta House when it was needed?
At the risk of being impolitic, but to make a similar point: where were the real men when Riley Gaines was being accosted at SF State by men in dresses?
I agree.
A letters page? So readers can interact? Isn’t that what these comments are for? Maybe the FP doesn’t read them. Too bad. They’d learn a lot
Yes, it's all in the comment section, plain and simple. No need for letters.
I am in a more cynical mood than usual. So I would say that even if they did take from the comments, it wouldn't be any of us.
I wouldn't expect to see any letters asking for more balanced coverage and alternate viewpoints of issues.
No. In fact the one time they pinned a comment it was embarrassing in its tongue bathing.
It just seems as if some flailing is going on here. Susie’s tinder type lonely hearts offerings. What our readers recommend except it was 90% staff. Now letters.
I say stick to what brought people here. Articles that are more in depth. Articles from all sorts of authors. Some whistle blowers. How about recommendations from other sites that aren’t totally left. City Journal always has good articles. Powerline is good.
How about some articles regarding Biden, where is he, why is he so sequestered, what the hell is that maladministration actually doing
Hey maybe I’ll make that as a recommendation!
Yes, I understand the kids are out of their minds...but really can we not find anyone to lead this country who is at least in their early 70s, who can still string a full sentence together, and doesn't live on metamucil?
Not surprised by how duplicitous the Biden administration is concerning Israel. They are refusing to send more ammo to Israel. But don't count on Congress to do anything about that. Schumer has Biden's back. That's all he cares about. Like I said before, Schumer shows you how to go from shomer to kapo in less than 5 seconds.
Hamas accepted a ceasefire? No it did not. It changed the wording in the agreement to say "dead or alive hostages " instead of "alive hostages" and then accepted the ceasefire. Hamas can't, or won't, produce 40 live hostages. Does that mean it will return dead people and keep the live ones for protection? Of course it does. Israel is not stupid no matter what Biden thinks.
New reports that the Biden administration is basing its human rights report on Israel from an organization called DAWN, run by the same people that started the ISM, NGO, (read phony human rights group, in other words, simply another antisemitic bullshit org) .
Isn't it time to deal with the truth that the entire Biden administration is infected with Jew haters. Its their modus operandi. Biden thinks plunging a knife into Israel's back is being a friend...
Oh and the best part of the campus protests is that the young people on both sides agree, "f**k Joe Biden"
The husband is now going to vote for RFk, jr.
I'm writing in Nikki Haley.
It's your duty and right to vote for which ever candidate you choose, but in your lifetime you get only about 15 chances to vote for a president. Why would you waste one on someone who has zero chance of winning? Yes, it will be satisfying for a short while, but why take any chance that we could be stuck with this disaster for another 4 years?
If you hate Trump so much, look at it as a vote against Biden.
The only reason third parties can’t win is because we believe it. For the first time in history independents and unaffiliated voters outnumber voters registered with a party. As a fortuitous coincidence, the Big Two are planning to nominate the two least popular candidates in history.
If everyone votes their conscience instead of doing what they’re told something great can happen.
Thank you for “singing my song”!!!! I get so frustrated with the fear of breaking out of two-party jail!!
I can't wait to see how much RFK can shake up the election!
Appreciate your response, but while I am not a forever-Trumper, the facts are he is much more popular than you give him credit for. Look how he solidly beat 16 other viable candidates for the R nomination in 2016, then trounced all the competition this year. Now ask yourself was your life really that bad 2016-2020?
Take Covid out of the equation....its cause totally out of his control.
And one more time, would you take even the slightest risk we get 4 more years of Biden/Harris?
Trump and Biden have the two highest unfavorable ratings in history - even higher than Hillary Clinton. The only person with a worse unfavorable rating who will be on any ballot is Kamala Harris. Maybe Trump can find someone even worse to be his VP.
Covid was not totally out of Trump's control. He got rolled by Fauci. The street smart President who never lets anyone get anything over on him let Fauci and Collins hide information from him. They talked him out of ivermectin, talked him out of hydroxychloroquine, talked him in to Remdesivir, talked him in to lockdowns. That's on top of letting the media talk him out of banning travel from China. He got talked into the most disastrous covid response of any country in the world - when he knew better. Biden is a pawn but Trump is a sucker. He's malleable. Easy to swindle and easy to push around.
We're still six months from the election. A lot can happen. I expect a lot will happen. We'll see where things stand in November. For me, I can't stand the idea of deciding who to vote for based on which Presidency I think we'll have the best chance of recovering from. I know where a Biden Presidency leads - more insane woke bullshit, followed by Harris taking over, followed by even more insane and more woke bullshit. I don't know where a Trump Presidency leads because I don't know who will be around to take advantage of his gullibility yet.
Trump is far from Abe Lincoln or George Washington, but my point is he stands in much more favor than you give him credit for, objectively speaking.
Covid was a once/century occurrence and too many mistakes & lies to list, and hindsight is always clear vision. I think it was intentionally released as germ warfare against the only guy who had the balls to stand up to China, but that's for another day.
Bottom line is, Trump is a bombastic oaf, but I'd take ten of him over this brain dead fool we have now, again, too many reasons to list, but you know them all.
Ten time out of ten I take 2016-2020 over the last 3+ years, and I think you do know where a Trump presidency leads because we have 4 years of proof, and I highly doubt he's be gullible next time around.
The real problem of Trump 2.0 is he's going to kill any chance for another Republican pres. for years. His VP will suffer a political death sentence.
I can't see any way I would vote for Biden. I doubt I would vote for Whitmer, if the rumors are true. But I really hope we can do better than Trump.
The Politico article was interesting. It is lovely that the FP is getting good coverage.
Over here, Hillary Cass has been speaking to the Scottish parliament about the Cass Report. She addressed some of the misinformation which various bad actors have been trying to spread about the report. https://twitter.com/ginadavidsonlbc/status/1787755448981954990 is a twitter thread of the meeting which took place earlier this morning.
This report gives a snapshot of British Muslims attitudes compared to other sections of the population. There is as one might expect a far higher incidence of Anti-Semitic beliefs as well as a propensity to want to outlaw gay marriage and homosexuality. https://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HJS-Deck-200324-Final.pdf However despite hope springing eternal, my expectations are low for anyone in authority to take notice and take steps.
It is important as the campus protests with their often anti-Semitic messaging has spread to the UK as well. And of course, there has been mention that Labour will need to appease the Muslim extremist activists in like of the collapse of the Labour Muslim vote in last week's local elections.
Gillian Keegan the Education Secretary has asked British universities to do more to combat the rise in anti-Semitism. Her op ed is entitled We will not stand by as Jewish Students suffer. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/05/06/we-will-not-stand-by-as-jewish-students-suffer/ or https://archive.ph/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/05/06/we-will-not-stand-by-as-jewish-students-suffer/
Maybe a starting point would be to acknowledge the truth in the Henry Jackson report.
took a few thousand years but the muslims have won . the UK France are gone give it 10 years if that. It is going to get ugly
This is more on Cass speaking to the Scottish parliament. Apparently she was surprised at the high rate of homophobia that she uncovered. A v high percentage of the young people seeking help were same sex attracted. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24302851.hilary-cass-quizzed-msps-gender-identity-services/
Is Met Gala = Hunger Games Panem Party vibes more than ever this year? Or is it just me?
Is Met Gala = Hunger Games Panem Party vibes more than ever this year? Or is it just me?
YES
LOL I agree
Was there really anything quiet about Biden’s “comeback”? I mean that’s all we heard about was the poll numbers that showed him leading.
So they were really fake? Imagine that
They even made sure to post it here pretty much anytime someone could find a poll saying so.
Met gala
Looks like a bunch of attention seekers trying to out stupid each other. The whole thing reminds me of the city dwellers in “The Hunger Games” . Clueless, self important and useless.
A science reporter. Hmm. Well I guess that’s marginally better than a science journalist but barely. So he can gaslight in science but does that make him a scientist?
Leftists have so devalued everything with their agendas and biases, it’s hard to know what’s truthful and what’s propaganda
They have devalued everything from science to our intelligence agencies. It is hard to believe anything coming from anyone associated with an alphabet agency in DC.
As for Donald McNeil, not impressed and it is too bad TFP couldn't find another source for discussing bird flu. I haven't looked deeply into McNeil's writing from when we were in the midst of dealing with COVID, but I saw where he advocated for wearing masks indoors even in his own apartment. He then went on to repeat and misquote Trump about injecting or ingesting bleach. No thanks.
I just couldn't help but think about all of the memes and jokes about how we will be getting a new virus for the 2024 elections.
I'm already wearing my face shield and hiding in my basement.
Should we start wiping down our groceries again?
Our local library actually quarantined books. I wonder if people realize we still live in a world of micro organisms, including coronavirus, as we did before covid.
According to 1010-WINS, pro-Hamas demonstrators began their mostly peaceful mile-long march to the Metropolitan Museum yesterday from the grounds of Hunter College. The announcer sounded pretty impressed by the distance covered.
The truth is, the demonstrators' aim of swarming the Met was thwarted by the NYPD, many of them didn't know that the building they were looking at from a block away even was the Met, and when they proceeded into Central Park they badly defaced a World War One monument, incinerated an American flag, and hoisted a Palestinian flag.
They did likewise to the Sherman monument across from the Plaza Hotel.
Minor questions:
How do you live in New York City and possibly attend Hunter and have never visited the Met?
And how is it that anyone is impressed by energetic young people's being able to walk a mile? In our 70s, spouse and I can do 7-8 easily in the countryside. (Cement sidewalks, rather less.)
Unbearable to think about the major questions.