Alex Berenson on the media-induced cyclospora panic. Eli Lake on Trump’s free-speech hypocrisy. Matt Taibbi on 21st-century censorship. Douglas Murray on Zohran Mamdani. And more.
THE ME TOO ARTICLE. DID IT DESERVE ALL THAT SPACE?
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY and SEX V. PREDATION
Where do you find yourself? What is acceptable? What is not? What is criminal? What is not? Have you ever been a victim? A perpetrator?
Now, WHAT ABOUT PUBLIC PERSONS? PUBLIC PERSONS WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER?
This particular Sexual Javier, self-described “influencer” is a warning if I ever saw one and should be investigated herself, along with her “reckoning” subjects. Just to keep everything above board. Why? EXCESSES.
First, the word RECKONING holds a special place in any narrative. It has an aura of righteousness about it. It should not be used off the cuff. For this self-described “influencer” to use the word is profane and signals a WARNING. Beware of her.
EXCESS
Excesses will occur. At this point, it is imperative we separate the wheat from the chaff. I am not discussing predation such as child rape, stranger rape, rape walking down the street, rape of any sort where the victim is overtaken by a predator who is looking for victims of any kind to overcome, to dehumanize, to hurt, to rape. Their predation is, in fact, weakness - pathetic lack of power so they find a victim to be powerfully over. That essence is rape. Any human can be a perp, a predator. Any.
I am discussing DECEPTION. Sexual deception wherein the “other” party is either naive to or completely unaware who he or she is in the company of. And this deception is perpetrated by PUBLIC FIGURES. And, in many cases, they are known predators.
When adults engage in relationships, shite can happen. Sex happens. Whose responsibility is it? Is it a percentage of responsibility or 100% for both parties? In most cases, someone, at minimum, usually more, already knows who is a sexual predator. They were introduced by someone. Met somewhere safe to start. This particular media hound, however, focuses on the deed and not the intro. Laudable? Maybe? Dangerous? Maybe. Pattern of behavior? Maybe.
Sexual Javier. Doesn’t the law do that? Shouldn’t it? What makes her more expert to address criminal behavior? An INFLUENCER, YOU SAY, SELF-DESCRIBED? Any time money is attached to human behavior, credibility can be lost. And by her very narrative, she is on her way to stardom (something she admits early on in her life). BEWARE. Missteps will occur. Lives will be endangered.
Sexual misconduct
Sexual predation
Sexual violence
There are nuances here. Patterns of behavior signal BEWARE. However, there are some humans who follow public figures, attach themselves to public figures (or money) and we can usually see them a mile away. Both men and women are guilty of this sycophancy. After the fact, usually people come out of the woodwork and are willing to spill the beans on predators who were KNOWN. Why not do something AHEAD? WARN PREDISPOSED VICTIMS? Call in law enforcement? Predation is not a first time offense by its very nature. IT IS A PATTERN OF BEHAVIOR.
Are/were you a victim?
Are/were you a perpetrator?
Are/were you a predator?
Do you know a predator?
EVER???????
Now, analyze YOUR behavior from a priori through engagement (criminal or otherwise).
REMEMBER: AN UNEXAMINED LIFE IS NOT WORTH LIVING. ASK SOCRATES. Know thyself.
Victim-blaming? With good reason. Should victims were go over their behavior and analyze how they got themselves into the story that led to the act of criminality-victimhood? Not to blame themselves. Rather, this exercise is proactive for the future. A lesson. A hard one to learn. In some cases, nothing could have been done. CRIMINAL ACTS. What could she/he have done to make things come out differently? Maybe NOTHING.
My profession. I have interviewed perps, victims, and witnesses. I have had to ask intimate questions about what was in her/his mind right before the criminal act. I have done the same with perps. Predation is its own criminality. The same holds true. What could they have done differently?
Does this “reckoning” Javier has an expertise in these areas of the human condition?
How many of us have been either victims of sexual violence or close to it? What did we learn? Did we learn?
Are public figures and people with means victims of parasitic behavior? Do groupies exist?
Sexual predation out of the blue? Ever been a victim who later was told otherwise knew the perp all along?
Indeed, there are more questions than commentary herein for a reason. I am purposeful. How does one protect themselves from predation?
Can you really trust a person who admits her need to be powerful, a self-described “influencer” to be FAIR AND OBJECTIVE?
So we're back to MeToo. At least Ms. Wells included two token Democrats this time around. How many lives is she out to ruin?
Ummm.... did 'we' forget to mention that the Taylor Farms cyclospora turned out to be a False Positive?? The FDA already gave out a retraction. Wash Your produce folks.
Wait... wasn't it John Kerry and the Democrats trying to shut everyone up over 'misinformation'? And can we tell the difference between misinformation and out-and-out lies? One or two writers putting out libel is one thing, but when the entire publication is hellbent on it, bad things can come back and bite you in the ass.
Oh, look. It's the commie rich Muslim grandstanding again. I would *LOVE* to see him try and arrest Netanyahu. We could turn it into a modern Keystone Cops episode.
It’s amusing that a leader in the DSA movement wants to arrest a non-citizen. If you abolish ICE, defund the police and close prisons, who is going to arrest Bibi and where are they going to put him?
“Now that election fraud is in the spotlight, this video is arguably the most concrete evidence that the Dems use illegals to cheat.
Flashback to 11/04/2016: Then President Obama openly encouraged illegals to vote in the 2016 election, and assured them that ICE and Federal law enforcement will NOT seek them out or deport them if they vote.
Just four days before the 2016 election, Obama told illegals to vote, and that he would not arrest them for it. Plain as day.
This is exactly why we need US MIL/ICE at polling stations in deep blue counties, because we need the illegals to be afraid to vote. We need the exact opposite of what Obama did in 2016. We need the illegals to know that if they try to cheat in our elections, they will be arrested.
Whenever someone on the Left says the Dems don’t cheat in elections, or that illegals don’t vote, show them this video. Obama openly told the illegals they were safe to vote.
#MeToo back? Give me a break. The democrats used the sexual assault in order to get rid of Platner because polls showed he was already going to tank the election. There had been earlier reports of assaults by Platner, which were explained away, made light of, and ignored because the victim was a conservative. If we want to do #MeToo that means you cant rape or brutalize all women, not just leftwing ones. And Swalwell? Oh please. He should have been gone years ago, but he was too important a vote for the dems so they ran interference for him for years until he became an inconvenience.
Taibbi is upset about the death of journalism? Maybe he needs to start with himself. Considering his "reporting" about Israel and Gaza makes him sound like a member of the DSA rather than an investigative human being. I still remember the hateful rant he went on when someone had the nerve to refer to him as a zionist.
Surprise surprise the democrats found a reason not to vote for the insider stock trading ban for Congress. Whodathunkit....
I have news for Zohran Mamdani the Jews established 3 separate independent Jewish states in Judea (the only independent nations to have ever existed in that area until the 20th century), built 2 holy temples and had as their capital the city of Jerusalem 3500 years before he, was born, and the Jewish People will be around for at least another 3500 years or more long after his Islamo-Nazis ass is long dead. BTW-I'm still waiting for major democratic politicians to say something about his blood libeling of the Jewish People....so far crickets....whodathunkit that the democratic establishment is made up of antisemitic cowards, lowlifes, bottom feeders, and have no backbone....
@MarlyHornik1 on X about the Mamdani election replete with blatant fraud
“This morning on @sidrosenberg19 & friends @77WABCradio we covered the 2025 Mamdani FRAUD:
7% of the voters DO NOT EXIST
6% have fake SSNs
10% did not live in NYC
That's not an election. Who is running NYC??
I announced that @NDNYnews US Attorney John Sarcone and the @FBI Albany office are aggressively investigating.
Allowing unqualified voters to vote is felony election misconduct, when the tally certified is FALSE.
RealAmerica.Vote is already running more names. Can you help us find the fake voters, and get back to having REAL American citizens ONLY choose our representatives?
I have no dog in the hunt as regards Mikie Sherrill, but Phil Murphy was governor when those voter registrations occurred. Kudos to Sherrill for releasing that info which, from what I have heard, was known by Murphy and not admitted.
"How many times do we need to relearn the same lesson?" Excellent question, like, how many times do we need to fight foreign wars hyped up by corrupt war-mongering, war profiteers/polititians? Remember WMD? It's same fear card used over and over because it works.
Trump underestimated Iran's resilence because he did not understand "the enemy" was preparing for this day for decades - and why wouldn't they? That's not to say I'm pro-Iranian b/c I am pro American all the way, but we are no longer a constitutional republic and devolved because of the uneducated electorate that dooms any type of democracy - always.
Or Trump is a turncoat who threw us some common sense MAGA bones like getting rid of dumbass DEI and uncontrolled borders but bowed to the globalists to start a new war? IDK but war SUCKS for We the People, not the war profiteers.
America is nearly 40 TRILLION dollars in debt and "they" want your eyes off that unsustainable debt to be very, very afraid. War should only come when our borders are threatened. Mutually assured nuclear destruction has worked since we nuked Japan.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
Agreed, when it comes to massively bashing the regime into submission.
However, Israel's approach of air supremacy and on-the-ground espionage was an effective strategy for keeping the regime tied down and unable to complete its nuclear weapons program.
There are echos of the Bush Iraq campaign in what Trump's doing: win the war, lose the peace.
The return of MeToo would be bad news for Matt Taibbi 😆 Anyway, where is Taibbi based out of these days anyway, Doha?
THE ME TOO ARTICLE. DID IT DESERVE ALL THAT SPACE?
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY and SEX V. PREDATION
Where do you find yourself? What is acceptable? What is not? What is criminal? What is not? Have you ever been a victim? A perpetrator?
Now, WHAT ABOUT PUBLIC PERSONS? PUBLIC PERSONS WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER?
This particular Sexual Javier, self-described “influencer” is a warning if I ever saw one and should be investigated herself, along with her “reckoning” subjects. Just to keep everything above board. Why? EXCESSES.
First, the word RECKONING holds a special place in any narrative. It has an aura of righteousness about it. It should not be used off the cuff. For this self-described “influencer” to use the word is profane and signals a WARNING. Beware of her.
EXCESS
Excesses will occur. At this point, it is imperative we separate the wheat from the chaff. I am not discussing predation such as child rape, stranger rape, rape walking down the street, rape of any sort where the victim is overtaken by a predator who is looking for victims of any kind to overcome, to dehumanize, to hurt, to rape. Their predation is, in fact, weakness - pathetic lack of power so they find a victim to be powerfully over. That essence is rape. Any human can be a perp, a predator. Any.
I am discussing DECEPTION. Sexual deception wherein the “other” party is either naive to or completely unaware who he or she is in the company of. And this deception is perpetrated by PUBLIC FIGURES. And, in many cases, they are known predators.
When adults engage in relationships, shite can happen. Sex happens. Whose responsibility is it? Is it a percentage of responsibility or 100% for both parties? In most cases, someone, at minimum, usually more, already knows who is a sexual predator. They were introduced by someone. Met somewhere safe to start. This particular media hound, however, focuses on the deed and not the intro. Laudable? Maybe? Dangerous? Maybe. Pattern of behavior? Maybe.
Sexual Javier. Doesn’t the law do that? Shouldn’t it? What makes her more expert to address criminal behavior? An INFLUENCER, YOU SAY, SELF-DESCRIBED? Any time money is attached to human behavior, credibility can be lost. And by her very narrative, she is on her way to stardom (something she admits early on in her life). BEWARE. Missteps will occur. Lives will be endangered.
Sexual misconduct
Sexual predation
Sexual violence
There are nuances here. Patterns of behavior signal BEWARE. However, there are some humans who follow public figures, attach themselves to public figures (or money) and we can usually see them a mile away. Both men and women are guilty of this sycophancy. After the fact, usually people come out of the woodwork and are willing to spill the beans on predators who were KNOWN. Why not do something AHEAD? WARN PREDISPOSED VICTIMS? Call in law enforcement? Predation is not a first time offense by its very nature. IT IS A PATTERN OF BEHAVIOR.
Are/were you a victim?
Are/were you a perpetrator?
Are/were you a predator?
Do you know a predator?
EVER???????
Now, analyze YOUR behavior from a priori through engagement (criminal or otherwise).
REMEMBER: AN UNEXAMINED LIFE IS NOT WORTH LIVING. ASK SOCRATES. Know thyself.
Victim-blaming? With good reason. Should victims were go over their behavior and analyze how they got themselves into the story that led to the act of criminality-victimhood? Not to blame themselves. Rather, this exercise is proactive for the future. A lesson. A hard one to learn. In some cases, nothing could have been done. CRIMINAL ACTS. What could she/he have done to make things come out differently? Maybe NOTHING.
My profession. I have interviewed perps, victims, and witnesses. I have had to ask intimate questions about what was in her/his mind right before the criminal act. I have done the same with perps. Predation is its own criminality. The same holds true. What could they have done differently?
Does this “reckoning” Javier has an expertise in these areas of the human condition?
How many of us have been either victims of sexual violence or close to it? What did we learn? Did we learn?
Are public figures and people with means victims of parasitic behavior? Do groupies exist?
Sexual predation out of the blue? Ever been a victim who later was told otherwise knew the perp all along?
Indeed, there are more questions than commentary herein for a reason. I am purposeful. How does one protect themselves from predation?
Can you really trust a person who admits her need to be powerful, a self-described “influencer” to be FAIR AND OBJECTIVE?
So we're back to MeToo. At least Ms. Wells included two token Democrats this time around. How many lives is she out to ruin?
Ummm.... did 'we' forget to mention that the Taylor Farms cyclospora turned out to be a False Positive?? The FDA already gave out a retraction. Wash Your produce folks.
Wait... wasn't it John Kerry and the Democrats trying to shut everyone up over 'misinformation'? And can we tell the difference between misinformation and out-and-out lies? One or two writers putting out libel is one thing, but when the entire publication is hellbent on it, bad things can come back and bite you in the ass.
Oh, look. It's the commie rich Muslim grandstanding again. I would *LOVE* to see him try and arrest Netanyahu. We could turn it into a modern Keystone Cops episode.
Today's Intro juxtaposing Lake with Taibbi - The Editors' sense of humor.
It’s amusing that a leader in the DSA movement wants to arrest a non-citizen. If you abolish ICE, defund the police and close prisons, who is going to arrest Bibi and where are they going to put him?
Nolan Wells clearly did not see the film "Get Out."
Nolan Wells clearly did not see the film "Get Out."
If Bari and Nellie were still in charge, this piece would have NEVER been approved.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/07/07/ken-paxton-voting-election-law/
Paxton will win.....because Talarico "looks gay."
Talarico's looks are the least of his problems.
Nah. That's the main one.
Spot-on.
BUT please don't waste your time on this troll.
Ah, I see what you mean.
Truly one of the shallowest thinkers commenting in TFP.
He is funny for maybe one post and then he quickly becomes tedious and somewhat lke a gnat.
Here is Barak Hussein Obama on a video 11/04/2016 reassuring illegal and undocumented migrants that they must vote and have nothing to fear
https://x.com/warclandestine/status/2080051118634078361?s=46
What he said
@Clandestine on X
“Now that election fraud is in the spotlight, this video is arguably the most concrete evidence that the Dems use illegals to cheat.
Flashback to 11/04/2016: Then President Obama openly encouraged illegals to vote in the 2016 election, and assured them that ICE and Federal law enforcement will NOT seek them out or deport them if they vote.
Just four days before the 2016 election, Obama told illegals to vote, and that he would not arrest them for it. Plain as day.
This is exactly why we need US MIL/ICE at polling stations in deep blue counties, because we need the illegals to be afraid to vote. We need the exact opposite of what Obama did in 2016. We need the illegals to know that if they try to cheat in our elections, they will be arrested.
Whenever someone on the Left says the Dems don’t cheat in elections, or that illegals don’t vote, show them this video. Obama openly told the illegals they were safe to vote.
TREASON!
Not sure there is the will power on the Right to protect the vote.
Certain that there is the willpower on the Left to undermine the integrity of the system.
Disa, I hear you man.
I just don't believe there are enough folks who do to make a difference
Systematic election fraud is the hallmark of a Banana Republic
Why bother voting?
It has destroyed the country
Voting is the right thing to do because it is the obligation of a good citizen.
Yes voter fraud has destroyed the integrity of our voter system and undermined faith in our institutions..
BUT we do the right thing regardless of the outcome even if the concluson is foregone.
I wouldn’t steal even if knew I could get away with it.
I don’t steal because respecting the property others is the right thing to do..
This again?
Right.....
I dont understand your comment
#MeToo back? Give me a break. The democrats used the sexual assault in order to get rid of Platner because polls showed he was already going to tank the election. There had been earlier reports of assaults by Platner, which were explained away, made light of, and ignored because the victim was a conservative. If we want to do #MeToo that means you cant rape or brutalize all women, not just leftwing ones. And Swalwell? Oh please. He should have been gone years ago, but he was too important a vote for the dems so they ran interference for him for years until he became an inconvenience.
Taibbi is upset about the death of journalism? Maybe he needs to start with himself. Considering his "reporting" about Israel and Gaza makes him sound like a member of the DSA rather than an investigative human being. I still remember the hateful rant he went on when someone had the nerve to refer to him as a zionist.
Surprise surprise the democrats found a reason not to vote for the insider stock trading ban for Congress. Whodathunkit....
I have news for Zohran Mamdani the Jews established 3 separate independent Jewish states in Judea (the only independent nations to have ever existed in that area until the 20th century), built 2 holy temples and had as their capital the city of Jerusalem 3500 years before he, was born, and the Jewish People will be around for at least another 3500 years or more long after his Islamo-Nazis ass is long dead. BTW-I'm still waiting for major democratic politicians to say something about his blood libeling of the Jewish People....so far crickets....whodathunkit that the democratic establishment is made up of antisemitic cowards, lowlifes, bottom feeders, and have no backbone....
@MarlyHornik1 on X about the Mamdani election replete with blatant fraud
“This morning on @sidrosenberg19 & friends @77WABCradio we covered the 2025 Mamdani FRAUD:
7% of the voters DO NOT EXIST
6% have fake SSNs
10% did not live in NYC
That's not an election. Who is running NYC??
I announced that @NDNYnews US Attorney John Sarcone and the @FBI Albany office are aggressively investigating.
Allowing unqualified voters to vote is felony election misconduct, when the tally certified is FALSE.
RealAmerica.Vote is already running more names. Can you help us find the fake voters, and get back to having REAL American citizens ONLY choose our representatives?
No time to waste!!! RealAmerica.Vote/donate”
End
We are living in a Banana Republic
Wonder if any of Mikie Sherrill’s 6,600 voted in NYC?
I have no dog in the hunt as regards Mikie Sherrill, but Phil Murphy was governor when those voter registrations occurred. Kudos to Sherrill for releasing that info which, from what I have heard, was known by Murphy and not admitted.
"We are living in a Banana Republic"
On behalf of Banana Republics everywhere, I wish to apologize for Disa's hurtful comment comparing you to the election process in America.
😉
Mamdani didn’t win.
New evidence shows:
• 7% of the voters do not exist
• 6% have fake Social Security numbers
• 10% did not even live in New York City
Naomi Wolf and election integrity investigators are now saying there is overwhelming evidence that Mamdani did not legitimately win.
This wasn’t an election.
This was a coordinated fraud to install a radical Islamist communist as mayor of the largest city in America.
The FBI and U.S. Attorney are now investigating.
New York was stolen. x.com/RealAmVoice/st…”
From @EclipseByDeathon X
Link to Naomi wolf discussing this Fraud
https://x.com/eclipebydeath/status/2080101471207485735?s=46
"This was a coordinated fraud to install a radical Islamist communist as mayor of the largest city in America."
And it worked beautifully.
TEN TITS
“Trump threatened Wednesday to destroy an Iranian bridge or power plant for each ship Iranian shoots at in the Strait of Hormuz.”
"Graduated Escalation" doesn’t work.
Tit for Tat even if there are Ten Tits for every Tat doesn’t work.
Overwhelming destruction works.
“Shock and Awe” works.
How many times do we need to relearn the same lesson?
How can an administration that so brilliantly prosecuted a war so abysmally lose a peace?
He simply cannot keep his mouth in a closed position. You don’t tell a guy you’re gonna knock him down. You knock him down
Exactly the point.
Under-promise and over deliver.
"How many times do we need to relearn the same lesson?" Excellent question, like, how many times do we need to fight foreign wars hyped up by corrupt war-mongering, war profiteers/polititians? Remember WMD? It's same fear card used over and over because it works.
Trump underestimated Iran's resilence because he did not understand "the enemy" was preparing for this day for decades - and why wouldn't they? That's not to say I'm pro-Iranian b/c I am pro American all the way, but we are no longer a constitutional republic and devolved because of the uneducated electorate that dooms any type of democracy - always.
Or Trump is a turncoat who threw us some common sense MAGA bones like getting rid of dumbass DEI and uncontrolled borders but bowed to the globalists to start a new war? IDK but war SUCKS for We the People, not the war profiteers.
America is nearly 40 TRILLION dollars in debt and "they" want your eyes off that unsustainable debt to be very, very afraid. War should only come when our borders are threatened. Mutually assured nuclear destruction has worked since we nuked Japan.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
He should have left Iran for the Israelis to deal with.
As good as they are the Israelis don't have the firepower to go it alone.
Agreed, when it comes to massively bashing the regime into submission.
However, Israel's approach of air supremacy and on-the-ground espionage was an effective strategy for keeping the regime tied down and unable to complete its nuclear weapons program.
There are echos of the Bush Iraq campaign in what Trump's doing: win the war, lose the peace.
"There are echos of the Bush Iraq campaign in what Trump's doing: win the war, lose the peace."
Could not agree more strongly!