“As 2024 heats up, we’d love to hear from you. What would you like from our coverage? What stories do you feel aren’t getting enough attention?”
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Send a reporter into a crime-infested Democrat hellhole to observe the gangbangers, carjackings, prostitution, and drug dens and THEN have them write about how they think it totally makes sense that an above average percentage of the people in the area are registered voters who always studiously fill out their ballot, lick the envelope, and mail it in……
Cover all the stores that have closed thanks to democrat policies. Cover the unfettered gang robberies. Ask shoppers how they like having to get a clerk to open a locked container so they can get a tube of toothpaste. Ask the cops why they no longer do anything.
Oh shit you just reminded me of a hilarious idea where someone goes through the arrest reports and matches the names up with registered voters. Party affiliation is obvious but the percentage that are registered is the part I’m curious about.
“Oh so you registered to take part in our elections and you also do carjackings? Cool cool.”
I'd like to see an article about people that the Dem's claim cannot manage to get an ID. It's racist or something? Who are these people? Please interview people from all over the country. You have to have an ID for pretty much everything.
My theory on that is not that they can't get an ID it is that they won't. I believe the Dems have a much higher percentage of voters who won't vote if there is even a slight barrier to vote...such as getting an ID or leaving the house. Which to me doesn't say much about what they actually think of their voting block.
It does not say much to me about the quality of the votes either. I have a real world example. The college students at Texas State University, encouraged by parties (real ones) hosted by that bastion of progess, "Beto O'Rourke, turned out in droves, some bused to polling sites, to Vote Blue No Matter Who. They elected a 19 year old District Clerk with no experience. District Clerk's essentially facilitate the administration of state courts in Texas. He is an abomination. He sent juror summons to jurors to the clerk's address, for example. The newly elected self-proclaimed District Attorney took issue with that. The boy clerk has moved to remove said district attorney.
The sweet child nonsuited (withdrew) his claim immediately. Too late though, the counterclaim survived.
The boy's name is Avrey Anderson. Research him for further information on why Vote Blue No Matter Who is foolish. I use the terms boy and child because his conduct has been very, very childish.
You've made a valid point. It's just puzzling how someone can make it without an ID. You have to have an ID to even have your utilities turned on. Maybe I've got a mental block trying to understand it
Oh my gosh. Love it. That was so accurate. White liberals who don’t know what they believe or why they believe it because it was told to them to believe about the ID’s. How insulting they were to black people.
Elles, unless they meet the illegals AT THE BOARDER, before The Biden Crime Family Regime gets to them first, you won’t find any American citizen who doesn’t have / or doesn’t have easy access to an ID!
I'm with you on this one! I moved from the insanity happening in Seattle down to my college days stomping grounds of Arizona last year for the very reasons you mentioned (and others).
As a right-leaning independent I was definitely the stranger in a strange land.
How can people be so adversely affected by policies yet continue to vote in the same leadership year after year.(?) What will it take?
Agreed! As A Californian, I listen in wonder to acquaintances who bitch about the crime and homelessness in LA and still vote for no-one but a Democrat. Cognitive dissonance!
It’s bc. there aren’t any decent types in the Republican side. I know many Women Democrats who would vote for Niki Haley even though her Abortion ideas are not liberal enough.
Taking the voter rolls and running them all or representative samples through whatever the current systems banks use to verify addresses for credit cards. The banks will never knowingly send a card to an address they can't confirm, but is that the same standard we send ballots? If large amounts don't verify, but the ballots go out anyway, and no one sees or verifies who votes and puts that into drop boxes as no one watches. Nothing to see here, right? Intelligently covering this will inform that, sadly no one does in any media outlet.
We still get ballots for the former owner of our house who moved back to England 10 years ago. We also still get ballots from the state we left to move into that second place.
I've always voted in person, but I'm beginning to believe that we should be required, by law, to submit change-of-address notices to county registrars when we relocate. Maybe people should be required to submit notices -- changing address or not changing address? -- when they buy or rent new homes. Goodness knows it would be too much to ask our already overworked bureaucrats to maintain honest lists of current resident voters.
When I lived in Chicago years ago I volunteered for True the Vote. The purpose was to ID voters not connected to their current address and flag them to the BOE. We found “voters” with addresses that were abandoned buildings and a doctor’s office. Also, lots of kids who registered at college but hadn’t been there for years. Of course, True the Vote ran into some trouble with democrats. Can’t remember what happened. Why are democrats so afraid of clean voter rolls?
MD Greene, I STILL get a ballot for my husband, who died February 1, 2009! He was a registered Democrat. Numerous calls have been made through the years, yet like clockwork his ballot arrives. Growing increasingly irate at this, about 6 years ago, I asked the woman who took my call WHAT I HAD TO DO TO STOP THIS!
Admittedly, out of frustration, I snidely told her I thought Democrats were environmentalists, and they should think of all the trees they’re killing to make & send ballots to DEAD people!
I kid you not, her response, “If you know who he wants to vote for, I don’t see a problem with you sending it in for him, until he gets back” and hung up!
Perhaps she was being sarcastic back at me, or perhaps not!
She was too lazy to help you accomplish an honorable goal. She may well have preferred for you to submit a fraudulent vote. She ought not to be working in a public election office.
I am very sorry for the way your honest requests were mishandled. I would like to think that a local politician, of either party, would take an interest in getting the matter resolved.
Presumably she had lived in the US long enough to qualify for citizenship and then decided that she preferred to live in her native country.
I never met the person and threw out the ballots that arrived at her former address. If she wanted absentee ballots forwarded to her new address, she could have requested them.
That state has mailed out ballots to all registered voters for some years now.
I remember reading a few years ago that one small apartment received 24 mail-in ballots, which presumably included ballots for persons who since had moved elsewhere.
Interesting fact: Two years ago, a felon was arrested in the state for another charge and was found to be carrying 300 empty ballots in his car. To my knowledge, this matter was never pursued, but I think it should have been a matter of interest. Why would such a person want a bunch of ballots?
MD, there is already a plethora of address change data (taxes, mail address change, Social Security.....) that registrars and states could use to clear their roles. They just don't. You die and it seems that Social Security and the IRS have your status change before you reach the pearly gates. But.....
Your example isn't the problem. Of course, voter fraud isn't new. In my youth, I knew a couple of guys who harvested names form the cemetery to put on voter roles for a certain party. But the scale today is off the charts, largely empowered by fake ballots via mail-in ballots and harvesting. And maybe via computerized voting machines - I haven't come to a conclusion on that one yet.
Friends have served as poll watchers to try and keep things honest, but gave up. The system has more holes for cheating than Swiss cheese.
It depends on where you are. I am in Texas and have been a judge at a polling place. We require ID and confirm addresses. Our system is up to date except for recent moves. If you say you are eligible to vote in my county but your DL (or ID) says otherwise you can verify your new address in a few ways and cast a provisional ballot. A provisional ballot is subject to validation by the county Election Administrator before it is counted.
I am in Texas, as well. I'm glad to see YOUR county is doing something right. I can assure that others aren't. You, of course, are aware of all the alleged issues in Harris County. But.... the discussion/issues seem to focus on Blue states/cities. The longer it has been Blue, the larger the problems.
I did see that. People coming up in carloads to vote. Outside of hours and authorized locales. All in under the guise of covid emergency. That is why I know the 2020 election was in fact hijacked. But you do know there is serious pushback against the Harris County Clerk and Election Administrator over that right? Not so in Democrat states though.
It’s a rigged system Rich there is no chain of custody, no voter ID, 2 months early voting I could go on -Australia outlawed Mail ins at the turn of the 20th century for the very reasons stated above.
Nope. I’m writing this from Sydney Australia. Mail-in voting is legal and widely adopted in both state and federal elections, and uncontroversial. You have to enrol first - can be done on-line, and the Electoral Commission verifies your identity - and then you can vote by mail or in person (on-line voting is not yet possible, but it’s coming). Voting is compulsory - citizenship is both a privilege and a responsibility. And by the way, Election Day is always on a Saturday. This is not hard, guys!
For years a ballot for my deceased mother would arrive in my mailbox even though she never lived in my home! I would bring the unopened ballot to my local polling place on election day and still one would show up for the next election. It took about three elections cycles for it to stop. What a mess.
Was this former owner of your house an American who lived in Britain for a while, came home, and then moved back? Or a British national with British, not American, citizenship?
My understanding is that she was an English native who worked for some years of her adult life in CA. I have never met a British citizen who went through the effort to become a US citizen, but that does not mean it could not happen. OTOH, she had moved back to Britain when we bought the house. I have no explanation for any of it except that we knew the ballots were not ours and we held onto them after they arrived in case she wanted to contact us and have them forwarded. (At least she knew the address, after all.) After several years of no contacts, we just put them in the recycling bin.
Interesting thing to have happened! Where on Earth would the county elections commission had gotten her name and address to mail her a ballot, I wonder.
I believe there are New Yorkers who are trying to do that and are being hounded and charged for their efforts. It's no coincidence that Tammany Hall was a Democrat operation. Just like the fabled scorpion - it's in their nature.
I'd like a deep dive into our country's insolvent finances and doomed social programs, along with an outline of how each candidate intends to ignore the problem and eventually deflect the blame.
I'd also like to see some kind of journalistic investigation into just how often Democrat politicians choose appointments and promotions based on race, sex, and sexuality, knowing full well that it is illegal to do that.
Maryland now has three senators and I, as a Californian, have one. However, given the ideology of both her and our current senator, I'd be much happier with none!
She supposedly owns a home in California, wonder for how long? Reminds me of Hilary moving to NY to run for Senate there. Modern day carpetbaggers, a system created by the Democrat party.
I agree. But I read she has to change her voter registration to Cali. I find this egregious - she has not even voted in Cali, how can she be an informed advocate for the citizens of Cali? This is a sore point for me because my little town has a couple of folks who dominate the FB forums with their incitement to vote progressive. One is a German national who resides here with his university professor wife. The other is a self-proclaimed Republican/conservative who does not vote. I got cancelled for bringing these two facts to light. I think they are paid.
"how often Democrat politicians choose appointments and promotions based on race, sex, and sexuality, knowing full well that it is illegal to do that."
As opposed to Republicans doing the same thing? You don't recall Trump choosing Amy Coney Barrett for SCOTUS because she was a woman and George Bush I choosing Clarence Thomas because he was black?
Yeah you can blame Republicans for occasionally doing that also OR, if you aren’t a fundamentally dishonest person, you can blame the totalitarian Democrat retard assholes holding an identity politics pistol to the side of their head.
What you’re doing is the exact same as standing next to a looted building that’s on fire and saying
“Look this conservative also has a BLM sign in his window so it’s both sides!!!”
Dammit. Did I forget to add "Oh, and fuck off, Kevin," just to prevent this sort of banshee bandsaw attack against my perfectly worded statement? My bad, bro :-)
So now you are just going to lie about how you tried to bothsides identity politics even though people can just scroll up 2.5 inches and see you doing it??
It's fair to say it's the Ivy League graduates on both sides pushing identitarian bigotry and moral revolution. But looking outside of political leadership, I'm also referring to businesses and other institutions, and I find it ridiculous to suggest that Republican leaders are as identitarian in their judgements as Democrats are. But I am definitely opposed to any and all forms of ethnic social engineering by political leadership, regardless of the party doing it.
I say this on the day that my company announced a new mandatory DEI training course along with a suggested series of additional supplemental material. I already know these trainings explicitly support hiring and promotion on the basis of sex and race. I'm required to be "educated" on why this is moral truth.
Don't tell me Democrats aren't abusing my rights. I work in a politically hostile environment that explicitly tells me that Marxism and identitarian bigotry are morally superior.
"I find it ridiculous to suggest that Republican leaders are as identitarian in their judgements as Democrats are."
It's not ridiculous--Republicans are just as vicious as Democrats in using identity politics to get ahead. They're only in different areas of the Culture Wars.
That's a massively broad change of subject and ignoring the fundamental point about ethnic and sexual discrimination being inherently wrong.
Republicans are not discriminating to anywhere near the same extent as institutional Democrat leadership. This newsletter has reported extensively on the specific mechanisms of who, how, and why. I view your denial and deflection as a form of support for the abuse.
If you work for a private company, "Democrats" aren't abusing you. Your bosses are. As for "rights," you have none unless you're in a union.
That's not to say that DEI isn't a steaming bowl of crap. It is. But in a private workplace, you have to eat it with a smile or find a new job. Sad commentary on the American way of work.
Not true, Shane! Our Plastic Injection Molding Co. (not Union, with very satisfied employees!) placed an add for a machine operator, no experience required, we’d train.
A Black man applied, but after a tour of our Plant, said he didn’t want to run a machine, but he’d work in the office. The Plant had no AC and the small office did.
We employed Black, Mexican (legal!) and women, with no concern about who they slept with!
He turned us in to OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration” and the IRS! It was a nightmare but after about 6 months resolved in our favor.
This isn't the same thing, Honey. I was talking about DEI training in a non-union environment. If your company's management ordered its workers to attend mandatory DEI training, your workers would have to do it or risk being terminated.
But this case wasn't about DEI; it was about a jackass of an applicant trying to extort you. The government ruled in your favor and against the jackass. Good for government for sticking up for your rights.
They get away with the illegal behavior because they know Democrat schools, politicians, lawyers and judges will back them up and defend them, as we have seen countless times.
Every one of the layers of corporate ownership in my business stack is from a city that represents a Democrat powerhouse. It's not mutually exclusive to say "it's your bosses" and also "it's the Democrats".
Well, THANK GOD you posted that, because I was beginning to fear that I actually HAD to hire people because they were black or female, regardless of their qualifications. You know. Diversity and inclusion, and all.
For the record, I could care less WHO or WHY they hire who them do, as long as they prove qualified. Like the two examples you offer.
Huh. I must have missed something. As a lawyer who practiced constitutional law for 35 years and taught it at a law school I always found Thomas's opinions well-reasoned even when I disagreed with them. And having rich friends who are generous to you is neither criminal nor unethical unless you allow such generosity to influence your legal opinions. There is no evidence of that at all, and I'm in a position to know that no one on the Court or who actually knows Thomas believes that for a second. Perhaps you can explain "stain."
1. Taking bribes wins the gold medal for judicial bad conduct.
2. Appearing to take bribes even when you haven't wins silver.
3. See Nos. 1 and 2.
I happen to agree with some of Clarence Thomas's opinions and disagree with others, so I'm not judging his judicial ability. Everyone is going to agree and disagree with any judge, no matter who that judge might be.
But his gift-taking smells as bad as perch in a Dumpster. "Having rich friends who are generous to you is neither criminal nor unethical unless you allow such generosity to influence your legal opinions." That is not what the public believes about judges who accept vast amounts of money from "friends." The public is right--the optics are poisonous to public trust, and justices work for us, not the other way around.
Your statement may be technically true--I'm not a lawyer--but accepting as many gifts and trips as he has from Harlan Crow and others is ghastly for someone on the single highest court on the land. Same with Samuel Alito; such gifting should be forbidden. Why? Because this court must not only BE wise and ethical, it must be seen as wise and ethical. Taking dough from rich "friends" sends precisely the opposite message.
SCOTUS positions are unelected and lifetime. Their rulings cannot be challenged. They are as close to royals as America gets. Because of that, justices need a strong ethics code that disallows taking gifts from anyone other than immediately family, and even then only up to X amount, with every single gift value-assessed and reported.
If a SCOTI can't abide by that ethical conduct, then he or she can decline a spot on that bench. They need to choose what's more important to them: a Supreme Court position or the ability to take money from friends. With all the lawyers in this land who'd kill for that job, we can afford to be insist on the former.
Taking tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and "forgetting" to report them? The public considers that bribery, regardless of what statutes say. If the President of the United States cannot legally accept gifts, neither should anyone on the Supreme Court.
Unless a private company has been found guilty of discrimination in race or gender hiring practices, or has federal contracts with DEI clauses built into them, government can't dictate who private companies hire and can't mandate DEI training.
It appears that your company swallowed the DEI Kool-Aid all on its own, and it is regurgitating that poison onto you. My condolences, and I'm serious--you shouldn't have to sit through that stuff when there's real work to be done.
Sadly, I fear TFP wants to become part of the MSP. No controversial topics of lately, ladies who lunch festival in LA, the very mainstream political coverage (couldn’t tell which mainstream rag it sounded most like), perhaps I don’t know who Bari as a journalist/pol/influencer really is, and was influenced by her ouster from TNWT. Maybe we would like to hear about the anonymous many who also got cancelled.
Nelly, Bari wasn’t ousted by the New York Times, but their treatment of her, after she wrote a “fair & balanced” article, forced her to resign! How DARE a democrat Lesbian go against the WOKE Left narrative! It’s ugly watching them “eat their own”
Having said all that about Bari, it’s true she’s Left leaning, sometimes disturbingly so, without apology here at TFP. But thankfully she has provided a platform where the Middle Majority, both Left & Right of Center, can gather without fear of being cancelled if we disagree with her, or each other.
What I’ve found is TFP gives me some hope the pendulum may be swinging from Far Left back toward Center.
The pendulum has been swinging, but way to the right. The Republican Party as we knew it is dead, and is now the MAGA Party, with Repubs scared shitless of offending the Trump Cult of Personality and being canceled or worse. The fiasco with Kevin McCarthy this week, led by a creepy sex trafficker of underage girls, shows today's GOP has become a national embarrassment.
Actually she resigned from The Times (assuming that TNWT should be TNYT); her resignation letter is most ikely out there somewhere, and that drew me as well. Disappointment ensued but I've made my peace by embracing the occasional busted clock moment and the largely sane commentariat. An unusually free-for-all, that.
Yeah there’s no evidence that the psychopathic barbarian perverts who got their boss fired because he published a piece by a Harvard-educated veteran and US Senator, about how stopping communist revolutionary rioters is fairly important, because this op-ed was a “violent attack on our bodies”……….there’s no evidence that those unhinged despicable parasite sacks of shit ever caused censorship to happen.
While there is way beyond overwhelming evidence of censorship, what you are doing is referring to evidence as ‘not evidence’, which is not exactly a sophisticated ploy.
The infinitesimally small fraction of evidence that you would be willing to call evidence is a private email or text from Nicole Hannah Jones, for example.
So all you’re really saying is that we don’t currently have possession of Nicole Hannah Jones’s cell phone. We also don’t have a video of OJ killing his wife.
I have always thought--and indeed have upon occasion been told I do - that I had a good sense of humor. I have plowed through the unending sream of Kevin's comments on every site we both share, BUT - "there is no evidence that those unhinged despicable parasite sacks of shit" doesn't even get a brief smile. Of course, I thought Johnny Carson and Carol Burnett were hysterical but then I am a "woman of age. Perhaps one needs to be younger and male to appreciate Kevin's humor. When I once commented to him about what I considered his grossness, he wrote back that it was part of his charm. Cary Grant had charm - Kevin, dear, not so much.
Kevin would never be so self-absorbed as to claim charm for himself. I believe I ascribed that quality to our dear Kevin.
Moreover, his legions of female fans contradict your belief that one must be young and male to appreciate his humor. I also find him hilariously incisive albeit I clearly lack one of those attributes.
Why not cover all the people fired under Biden’s vaccine mandates—despite the fact that the vaccines were never even tested to see if they prevented transmission before the rollout? Also ask how letting in thousands of unvaccinated migrants and flying them to different cities made sense while firing unvaccinated American workers? Please ask for the “science” that justified this policy.
So many voters are happy not paying attention, patting themselves on the back, secure in the knowledge of being on team Good Guys, with no clue of what’s happening.
I live in one of the “crime infested Democrat hellholes” you’re referring to - Portland. I find myself more of a centrist these days and often enjoy your observations Kevin, but on this I gotta say - you might want to come visit and consider that you might need to reconsider your generalizations. I flew in from a week in Florida (literally a mile from Trumps home) last night. Currently sitting at a beautiful city park (in Portland) on a sunny morning about to watch my Freshman son’s baseball game. I don’t know what else to tell you except that your generalization of a democratic hellhole doesn’t really exist….except in the clickbait and headlines. Seriously go visit one of the places you’re referring to - I think you might be surprised to find people raising children, enjoying life, community, family’s…just like I assume you do. I think there’s an high probability that we are more alike than you may realize.
“There’s a lot of things I like about Biden. He’s tenacious. He’s been in politics.”
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Yes this is what we need. Someone who has been in politics forever (a parasite) with a bunch of tenacious shell companies. If Biden had only chased a Black guy down the street with a shotgun (probably wearing overalls) like Fetterman we’d have to make him Emperor!!
Unless you are super curious to see what Hell is like in person, there should be zero things you like about Biden.
While Bari swoons for clowns such as Carville and Silver, our Kevin is like the little boy who mocks the naked emperor and, in so doing, all his fatuous flatterers. Of course he's naked, you idiots. Biden - once considered the dumbest guy in the Senate - is the ultimate example of the Peter Principle. Although one can credibly argue that Biden had already risen beyond his competence when elected to the New Castle County Council.
Sure he did. No write ins. No FBI interference. No Zuck bucks. No tech suppression. But will put you down as being an acolyte of a corrupt senile imbecile way to go Willy.
I just realized that when they sell Biden’s Corvette at auction I need to buy it and then crash it into the Caesar’s Palace-style statue/fountain I am having built of Biden showering with his daughter.
Estimated total cost $900,000 please donate to my GoFund me which will be shut down by Valerie Jarrett within 5 minutes.
James Carville? Really? One of the most obnoxious people on the planet. He's an anti-feminist swine. When Paula Jones was suing the sexual predator Billy Clinton for sexual harassment, the Dem/Soc Party was calling her bimbo trailer trash and Carville infamously said, "Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find."
I thought the Dems/Socs were supporters of the lower classes i.e., trailer trash.
Yeah, he's a sweetheart a darling of the feminist party, a defender of the sexual predator Slick Wiley.
Way to go Bari. Quote a supporter of a sexual predator.
As much as I hate the gross Democrat policies infiltrating this country, especially their intention to prioritize illegals over citizens, you have to give them credit for sticking together. We don’t even hear about “the squad” anymore because Nancy shut them down. This is partially why they’ve been able to get their plan in motion. Matt Gaetz made the Republican Party look like fools on live tv for the world to see. It’s one thing to have a plan in place to replace McCarthy. It’s another to showboat the way he did and leave the government without a Speaker! I’m all for getting rid of the establishment, even though I wonder if it’s too late, but this was maddening with all the other pressing issues to be resolved.
I disagree. Strongly. Of course Democrats are in lock-step. They might as well be the Storm Troopers from Star Wars. The lower echelons "harvest" ballots. They do not pick their nominees, they ordain them. They blah, blah, blah about "saving democracy" as they thumb their nose at democracy. They are the darlings of the real threat to the Constitutional Republic - the career bureacrats of the executive branch alphabet agencies - because they are all about raising money and staying in office. If the standard for governance is being in lock-step we are doomed. As for Gaetz say what you and the MSM will about him, he did what he said. When McCarthy folded like a limp noodle over outrageous spending policies Gaetz called for his removal. That was the deal McCarthy agreed to when to elicit enough votes to be made speaker in the first place. Conservatives know there are bad Republicans. I say let's find out who they are.
Well, this is interesting because I agree with almost everything you said! I never said I agree with the democrat shenanigans. If they weren’t such a threat to the constitution and everything our country is based upon, I’d call them a joke. But this is serious and scary stuff we’re dealing with…like never before. Couldn’t stand the minute or so that I watched Gaetz in front of the media…he’s now the darling for the democrats!
I don't think you and I are in disagreement about anything except I do not see holding McCarthy responsible as a bad thing. Somebody has to have the backbone to say "Enough!" I have no regard for the Democrats or what they and their MSM lapdog say. Caring overly about them is what created this mess to begin with IMO. These are people who bemoan that government shut down will harm senior citizens and single mothers as they vote for policy, after policy, after policy and spending bill after spending bill after spending bill that erodes the middle and lower classes with every passing day. The national debt is $33,000,000,000,000. The interest on that debt in 2023 alone is $800,000,000,000. It has got to be addressed. The difference between previous administrations and this one is this administration created an environment responsible for the highest interest rates in decades and a drop in tax revenue. BTW I also.have no regard for Republicans who talk fiscal responsibility and then cave, cave, cave.
I remember him in the audience of a Trump-Clinton debate right after the “pussy grabbing” video was released and Hillary quivering with self righteousness. The camera panned to Carville with a smirk on his face, knowing full well that Hillary knew all about her own husband’s “pussy grabbing.”
If you visit a Muslim country, Russia, China or any Commy country and they jail you. Bite the bullet. You're an idiot for going there in the first place. It is like wearing a sign that says, "Arrest me! I want to go to a brutal prison. It is part of my vacation plan."
And we are supposed to feel sorry for these morons? And we should pay a ransom to get them out or trade a brutal international criminal for some idiot basketball player who smuggled drugs into Russia?
Let them rot in jail. It's call cleansing the gene pool.
Did you read the entire story? I did, and started out thinking as you did…but once I read it felt differently. She really didn’t do anything wrong. It all had to do with her being held because her hand brushed a female security worker at the airport while trying to adjust a post-op dressing she had to remove and put back on. She didn’t hit anybody.
You have missed my point. Civilized people have no business in countries ruled by brutal dictators or theocratic countries, like most Muslim countries.
If you don't want to go to a Muslim prison, don't go to a Muslim country.
I can guarantee you I’d never go. I agree with you about those countries. I do find that some people who go to those countries do stupid things to get themselves in trouble. This girl didn’t. They wanted to make an example of someone. I would never go to Dubai. I find it rather ugly.
You make my point. "They wanted to make an example of someone."
If she was dumb enough to go there, she should expect such behavior.
Women have no rights in Muslim countries and only an idiot doesn't know that so if you are a woman, why go to a country who doesn't respect women and has a religion that encourages treating women like shit.
Because they think that Dubai is one of the better Muslim countries for women. In some cases it is. Women don’t have to wear burkas, or similar. But that’s merely because they don’t want to turn away all those tourist bucks.
Kevin, Biden has been in the open about his racism SO MANY TIMES throughout his political career, but you know his faithful minions (rivals the MAGA!) continue to ignore & excuse his lying, criminal & nasty behaviors. Yet THEY say, “But, but, but Trump” is worse!
So I’m reading Nate Silver and James Carville talking about how wonderful the Democrats are, but watch out for those dastardly Republicans. Meanwhile, let’s ignore the laundry list (get it?) of problems happening in California and pretend Gavin Newsom is a serious contender while also not talking about how RFK has been kept out of the race by the Democratic Party.
How about some conservative voices? How about Thomas Sowell? How about talking about how half the country continues to support Trump and why they do so and how that belief is ground in reality? How about any sort of political coverage that doesn’t make me feel like two years later I’m reading the New York Times again? The Free Press is on thin ice.
agree 100% on all of this. Further, I have to ask yet again, WHO IN THE HECK are they polling? Not me! Not anyone I know, ever!! I don't know how/why half of republicans support Trump. They must want to lose another election!
I would love to see an article on mail-in ballots and the controls on voter rolls as we get into 2024. As we get away from the Australian vote, which is showing up, declaring who you are, and having others verify it, voting alone and dropping a ballot in a box is the only issue that matters.
Along with the issues of the day, this issue is not covered in the mainstream press. Everything was above board when it came to this issue. There was no evidence; my contention is no one looked. When you have a system that is easy to cheat, and people who desire the power to control trillions of dollars and reigns on power collide, one thing you can know is that cheating will be rampant. If vast swaths of the country think that how we count the vote is suspect, then nothing else matters.
Yes. Zuckerberg's dropboxes were a blatant violation of chain-of-custody laws which clearly state that a ballot must be trackable from voter to tabulation room. Random persons depositing bundles into boxes at 3am is illegal, yet the Democrats simply ignored all calls to halt this practice and discount the votes as unverifiable. Using this method, they targeted specific Republican districts with hundreds of "votes", flipping them from Trump to Biden and subverting the electoral process. This was the worst election I have seen in my life.
For starters, I would love fair and balanced coverage of Desantis. Obviously y’all at the FP can’t stand him, and that’s fine you don’t have to. But the purpose of this outlet, why so many of us pay you, is to have fair and balanced coverage regardless of personal sentiment and allegiance.
He was my man — until he went crazy with the 6-week abortion ban. Most women don’t even know they’re pregnant at that stage, never mind being able to do any genetic testing on the fetus. Too bad….
DeSantis just has to leave it up to each state. Florida has one thing, California another, etc. I read somewhere that most abortions now-adays are by pill - which amazed me.
Sort of like Biden finally being forced to (pretend to) accept his illegitimate granddaughter...his weirdness was even grossing out the progressive Democrats...what a creepy creepy man.
So many many things wrong with that guy & the Democrats and the media are still trying to spin it that he is even acceptable as a human being let alone President.
Yes Trump is a jerk but he actually governed moderately.
Unlike Biden, Trump never accused half the population of being terrorists. Trump didn’t even prosecute Hillary for her treachery. Contrast that with the orchestrated 41 indictments+ indictments against Trump. Biden has half a million dead Ukrainians on his hands and God knows how many Afghanistanis he abandoned to torture and ghastly deaths. Who would ever again trust the USA thanks to Biden? Obviously with all the new global alliances excluding the USA, the number of countries doing so is dropping rapidly. Just ugh.
Yes I too I wish someone else beside Trump would run because of his negative ratings but the Trump witch-hunt is a national & moral disgrace.
RFK is a decent human and am grateful for his bringing so much to light,but his climate change frenzy & energy policies will impoverish way too many people for no good reason. But Biden is truly an evil man.
Desantis is a great start, but I think there’s a audience for more.
I’d like a short but deep profile on all the candidates of both parties, and those running as independents. You can make it a weekly running series leading up to the primaries.
Something to showcase who they are, their platform vs their track record, and what they really lack or offer as a candidate. You can do it in less than 1000 words per candidate.
We’ve had a few podcasts for some of the candidates, but I’d like either gear interviews of all of them, or something like I’ve described. Something comprehensive.
Check out the Ruthless podcast. They've done in-depth interviews with all the candidates (including, finally. Tim Scott). (The podcast is a hysterical mix of sports, animal stories, and politics.)
Why do people keep saying Gavin Newsom has good hair? He does not, his hair looks greasy all the time and it makes him look like he's a slimy used car salesman.
He is the powerless figurehead of a failing state. The legislature has a super-majority of Democrats who are running roughshod over the Constitution, rule of law, and plain decency. Newsom is being dragged along behind them. He does not lead the state so much as chase the polls, trying to avoid looking like the pathetic fool that he is.
I guess the minions say it enough times and then everyone believes it to be true. I agree with you. I think Gavin is greasy in so many ways beyond his hair.
He's far from "good looks". He looks like a creep. i'd rather drink a bottle of hydrogen peroxide than to have think of that slimeball as anything other than asexual.
One could also vote for him for his gotta get a black female senator for California mantra and goes all the way to the East coast to find one. ( Laphonza Butler, lives in in Maryland not California) Persistence and hair gel, what is not to love?!
P.S. The same women who vote only for looks also enjoy shopping whether at Nordstrom, Target, or Whole Foods may be slightly put off by the loss of shopping opportunities.
Women are oblivious to their children in the military, their savings being eating up by inflation, unfettered immigration and the impact on their communities, and other trivial matters. Show us good looks and hand us a nice shopping bag!
I agree with your assessment except your PS. Women who support this type of politician based on looks probably do not have children at all or yet, and if they do they are Ivy League, not military. Their savings either do not yet exist, or are hedged. Their communities are not impacted by immigration; consider the Martha's Vineyard brouhaha for example and consider where that outrageous number (eyeroll) of guests are being placed on NYC and Chicago. I think Rob Henderson is absolutely correct about the luxury beliefs crowd. They will not open their eyes until they feel the pain of the consequences of the policies they support with their vote. I just realized that is really how TFP was born - when they felt the negative impact of cancel culture. When they published articles about how their kids were negatively impacted by covid lockdowns or the one by the Levi's CEO who was canceled.
Your last point is very interesting. It is probably a truism that we believe it is all smooth sailing until our boat is rocked and we may need to bail!
Whatever are the reasons the professional managerial class women vote for him, let's be clear on one thing: No woman in her right mind thinks Gavin Newsom = good looks.
Thats a good question, but it certainly appears that Trump has a stone cold lock on the GOP nomination. The well disguised never Trumpers will stay hidden as they don't want the feel the wrath if they step out from under the GOP mushroom and criticize him.
Also, the more I listen to DeSantis the more he seems like he might simply be another DC establishment elite.....but I certainly could be wrong.
Its a classic Carville answer. He's a brilliant strategist and sees things from an optics standpoint, versus policy per say. But he doesn't acknowledge why so many love RFK. Its like standard reporters writing about the evangelical movement, or trying to put themselves in the perspective of the 'religious.' They just don't get it, and it will always be 'off.'
I think that’s precisely why RFK Jr. gets any attention -- because he’s not Biden. Otherwise, he is a conspiracy-nut and isolationist who I wouldn’t trust for anything.
"What would you like from our coverage? What stories do you feel aren’t getting enough attention?"
On the ouster of Kevin McCarthy, the thing that gets me is why no news report or pundit is even trying to explain to we the people why Gaetz's demand for reining in the national budget and spending is so "Evil". All we see are hysteria about Gaetz being an asshole, how the small group who voted with him are "hateful", how they're "uncooperative", and how Republicans are broken and a joke, etc. etc. and how Gaetz just wants personal attention, furthering self interests even if it destroys the party and the country, how they're fundraising with this stunt, on and on.
Fine. Say Matt Gaetz is an ass, and he's doing thus for personal attention and interest. But why can't ANYONE explain why we shouldn't put a stop to the out of control trillion dollar spending? Why is that such a bad thing? How is it "destroying the country" to demand that?
Oh because what he's demanding "will never pass the Senate". Well why not? Why must we go along with the Senate's unwillingness to control spending? If they can't then well, maybe it's not such a bad thing to shut that whole swamp down until they can control themselves.
To TFP, can you be the first one to explain to us why they simply can't just entertain and consider Gaetz's demands? They seem pretty basic and reasonable as a starting point to control government spending. We regular people don't care about their interpersonal political drama. The media telling us Gaetz is an asshole doesn't explain anything and is treating us like idiots when they won't talk at all about why what he's proposing is such a bad thing. Stop insulting our intelligence.
I don’t like Gaetz. Asshole is not far from the truth. However McCarthy was the problem. He held all the cards. Schumer needed to compromise or shut 9% of the government down. Instead McCarthy folded and sealed his fate.
Mccarthy absolutely violated the deals he made with the freedom caucus. He just thought he could get away with screwing over conservative voters because the GOP has been doing exactly that for decades without reprisal. Hopefully Republican “leaders” will take notice.
He's not just screwing over conservative voters. They're all screwing over tax-paying citizens. Why is our national government spending through the roof? Why do we keep getting annual doomsday threat we won't be able to pay our national debt? So what if the messenger Gaetz is an ass? What is wrong with what he's demanding?
The one thing the but-the-Reoublicans-added-to-the-debt-too wailers never mention is that Biden's inflationary policies mean that at current interest rates the 2023 interest on that debt is over $800,000,000,000. One year. Zimbabwe here we come.
I second your summation. It is not who I like but what I’d like. Let’s keep it simple term limits, one six year term for President and elimination or consolidation of at least six cabinet offices.
Most of the increase in federal debt occurred in the Bush1, Bush2 and Trump administrations. Look it up, it’s true. Gaetz has offered zero suggestions about how to curtail it, let alone get it down, other than “don’t touch Medicare or social security or the military.” That would mean AT LEAST a 33pc reduction in money for everything else;
Gaetz wants to let Ukraine go hang, which means falling to Putin.
How’s that for starters? Ask yourself, what are his SPECIFIC proposals for dealing with federal spending and debt, and then ask: do you agree with them? You will search long and hard.
I cannot stand Gaetz and I think what he did was idiotic. But I get it. The disconnect between those governing is huge. But those grandstanding (like Gaetz)and taking advantage of our new Populist base via sensationalism and irrational barn burning doesn't accomplish anything but an optics disaster and loss of support among the independents and conservative dems (like BW and readers here!). Gaetz needs to get that smug look off his face and stop sending me fundraiser emails and texts. UNSUBSCRIBE!
People tried that. It didn't work. Worse, their lives got ruined. Take a look at what happened to Edward Snowden. And what happened to the IRS Whistleblowers re Hunter Biden.
That was what I thought when someone mentioned her...she seems just awful! If that is who the Dems think is a rising star, no wonder they are sticking with Biden
She is not well liked in MI. She doesn't come across as very smart. She has authoritarian tendencies. She doesn't reach across the aisle. It baffles me why people like Carville think she is talented. Out of ten random people at work, at least eight would be smarter and more collaborative.
The story that I think is not getting enough attention is the Biden Crime Family. Please, do not tell me "there's no evidence"! It may currently be only circumstantial, but we gotta start somewhere. We need an investigation - but we won't get one until we rid ourselves of the deep state actors... I know, I know....
Evidence that is "only circumstantial" can still amount to proof beyond a reasonable doubt. When you wake up on a December morning and see snow on the ground, you know it snowed while you were sleeping. That's "only" circumstantial evidence, because you didn't see it fall with your own eyes, but it's still more than sufficient proof of a snowfall. You don't need to hear from your next door neighbor that he was up and actually saw the snow falling for you to be confident it snowed, even though his word as to what he saw would be direct evidence. Both are solid. In fact, your circumstantial evidence is even stronger than his direct evidence if you know him to be untrustworthy.
I tried listening to him on Bill Maher's YT last week thinking maybe I would hear some sense from a non-Woke Democrat. 10 minutes in and it became obvious he's just as out of touch as the rest of them. Then he started the wild theory how all the best political talents are on the Left and I had to stop. I felt just a bit dumber listening to him.
So, sorry Bari. An going to skip this one. I'm cool with hearing out different opinions. But It'll be mentally abusive to put myself through that again, and I don't want to lose brain cells.
Does the presidency and Congress even matter? The Woke control every institution in the country. Without accountability. The White House and Congress at least have some semblance of accountability. But all the awful policies that have been enacted in the last several years have been done by unaccountable, corporations, and other institutions Hiding behind the “we are private and can do what we want” shield.
This. We're basically living through a Mao-style cultural revolution, where everything from the past must be erased, Agatha Christie books must be rewritten by "sensitivity readers", Jane Austen books are updated to be more "inclusive", Bambi needs to be remade to remove the "traumatic" scene of Bambi's mother being shot, statues of George Washington must be removed because he owned slaves. At least we're not (yet) at the level of England, where BBC is now saying Stonehenge was built by Africans.
Many people go to church beneath a trans flag. They go to work on Monday and HR says that 90% of new intern candidates must be BIPOC (which fights "white supremacy" by punishing white kids getting into the job market for the first time, instead of adults with full resumes who actually might have benefited from the "systematic racism" in the 1960s-1970s). They go to the movies where the writers are told 50% of characters must be queer. They find out online content is increasingly being censored to stop "disinformation" from spreading. Even the military has eliminated meritocracy from promotion.
"Stonehenge was built by Africans." Really? I didn't know that. Who knew?
I have visited Stonehenge many times, back when you could walk among the stones and touch them and to think Africans built it. Was this like a student exchange program?
Yes. As a close friend and I say, "If you wanted to create a generation of racists and misogynists, this is exactly how you'd do it.". Openly and unapologetically discriminate them, while also vilifying them.
Did you see where Canada actually tried to strike their hideous standing ovation to a Nazi display from the official record? ("The idea to strike Hunka’s recognition from the official record of the House of Commons was proposed by Government House Leader Karina Gould on Monday.")
This is a bit of an aside, but...Watched the movie “Reptile” (2023) on Netflix last night, and although there was some below par plot writing, it contained NO woke lectures, no gay/trans characters, and an approximately proportional number of blacks. OTOH, ALL the villains were white, and none of the POCs participated -in any way whatsoever- in any questionable behavior. But for a 2023 movie, it was remarkably non-political (and on Netflix, no less).
I think the real threat is the career bureaucrats in the executive branch alphabet agencies who no longer have allegiance to the president. This group assured Biden's election. Their power came about because Congress delegated its legislative responsibilities to the executive branch decades ago. So now the bureaucrats just see the president as a figurehead. Right now they like the Democrats because Biden is extremely malleable. But if a Democrat threat reared his or her head they would pivot to a weak Republican. This is the true threat to our Constitutional Republic. It serves none of us well.
That is just the result of lobbying and the revolving door between regulatory agencies and those they regulate. Congress could remedy that were it not so completely feckless.
Ragin’ Cajun on Honestly. Are you kidding me? Carville is a died in the wool, deep to the bone dirty. corrupted, swamp politician and if he says the sun is shinning, suggest you walk out and check yourself.
RFK may or may not hurt/help either, but the only reason this is a discussion is that our political system is so broken and distorted, that we have a senile, barely able to walk and definitely can not chew gum at the same time on one side. On the other side is a guy who has so many legal cases, right/wrong that he beats Judge Judy for TV time.
I’d like The Free Press to once and for all take off their rose, not-exactly-colored-but-still-tinted, glasses with Democrats and leftists. I subscribe because I want both political sides to be equally shaken up and taken down, or even commended when appropriate. But “Equally” should be the operative word. I don’t remember the exact day TFP began, but that’s still not happening with any great regularity.
That aside, here’s a suggestion for some real journalism. Go out and cover the people who have been put in jail for January 6th, they’re still rotting in jail without trial two years later.
For some who are being jailed all they did was walk into the capitol, some invited by the police, and walk out again. There are many, many of them who are being, not prosecuted, but persecuted by Judges in DC with a vendetta against them as Trump supporters.
I know of one who’s an elderly woman with little financial resources, lives alone, who was arrested through facial recognition in her home put in handcuffs, had her phone, computer and other items confiscated by police, and commanded to appear in court in Washington DC at her own expense even though she lives in California. This pernicious requirement has happened to her more than once apparently, with arresting police telling her from the outset, you’re going to jail. This persecution has gone on for more than two years. For what is essentially a misdemeanor! She was eventually sentenced to 3 months in jail, along with other peevish punitive punishments, and told to appear this October 17th to carry out her sentence.
Pava Lapere was just murdered by someone they let out early who had beaten, raped and set on fire two people. For God’s sake when is anyone going to do some journalism on this disgusting excuse for justice happening before our eyes.
You asked for some suggestion Bari, I’ve seen some good ones so far. I’m very curious to see what are you going to do about them.
TFP is a bait and switch. It’s purpose is to uphold the Democratic Party. Consider the pattern of the articles here and decide for yourself. It became clear to me months ago, after I had a feeling for a while that something wasn’t quite right. That’s my opinion only. Decide for yourself, you seem to be aware. Certain subjects are a blackout here that you mentioned. There’s a reason for that. Not so ‘Free Press’ after all.
There are no truly great journalists today, except for the likes of Matt Taibi and Glenn Greenwald, I’d say Sabby Sabs, too, even though I don’t know if she’s a trained journalist and I don’t agree with her politics, she’s impressive with her attempts at digging up the truth. Douglas Murray could be considered in the category of great of course, even though Murray is really a philosopher and observer of society at heart. There are others too, just that it’s thin on the ground.
I do believe though TFP is a step in the right direction toward some semblance of balanced viewpoints, even if they are prone to wonder. It’s why I subscribe and will continue to do so until I can plainly see the cause is lost.
While I still am glad I am supporting TFP, they are turning out to be no Racket or Public.
TFP does, with few exceptions, largely puff pieces, which are sometimes mildly critical of the Left.
Racket and Public are doing really substantive journalism that investigates powerful and corrupt actors that almost no one else in the media will touch.
Bret Weinstein/Heather Heying of Darkhorse podcast, #193, both staunch democrats, spent the first few minutes talking about the utter sense of hopelessness that has overtaken America. They described the country as “captured” by forces that seem impossible to oppose. Institutions we thought we could trust lie to our faces, we see it, and then they lie about lying. They lamented how the DNC no longer represents the values democrats once owned. I think they are RFKJ voters. There are probably a lot more like them.
Just want to remind Gavin and everyone else here that choosing a political appointment specifically based on race, sex, and sexuality is illegal, unconstitutional, and internationally recognized as a human rights abuse.
We used to agree on equality under the law and equal human rights, but these are not Democrat values any longer.
“As 2024 heats up, we’d love to hear from you. What would you like from our coverage? What stories do you feel aren’t getting enough attention?”
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Send a reporter into a crime-infested Democrat hellhole to observe the gangbangers, carjackings, prostitution, and drug dens and THEN have them write about how they think it totally makes sense that an above average percentage of the people in the area are registered voters who always studiously fill out their ballot, lick the envelope, and mail it in……
Cover all the stores that have closed thanks to democrat policies. Cover the unfettered gang robberies. Ask shoppers how they like having to get a clerk to open a locked container so they can get a tube of toothpaste. Ask the cops why they no longer do anything.
Ask Pava Lapere, Josh Krueger, and Ryan Carson how their progressive activism improved their lives and communities. Oh wait...
Oh shit you just reminded me of a hilarious idea where someone goes through the arrest reports and matches the names up with registered voters. Party affiliation is obvious but the percentage that are registered is the part I’m curious about.
“Oh so you registered to take part in our elections and you also do carjackings? Cool cool.”
😂😂😂
I'd like to see an article about people that the Dem's claim cannot manage to get an ID. It's racist or something? Who are these people? Please interview people from all over the country. You have to have an ID for pretty much everything.
My theory on that is not that they can't get an ID it is that they won't. I believe the Dems have a much higher percentage of voters who won't vote if there is even a slight barrier to vote...such as getting an ID or leaving the house. Which to me doesn't say much about what they actually think of their voting block.
It does not say much to me about the quality of the votes either. I have a real world example. The college students at Texas State University, encouraged by parties (real ones) hosted by that bastion of progess, "Beto O'Rourke, turned out in droves, some bused to polling sites, to Vote Blue No Matter Who. They elected a 19 year old District Clerk with no experience. District Clerk's essentially facilitate the administration of state courts in Texas. He is an abomination. He sent juror summons to jurors to the clerk's address, for example. The newly elected self-proclaimed District Attorney took issue with that. The boy clerk has moved to remove said district attorney.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/22/hays-county-higgins-rogue-prosecutors-removal/
The D A answered and counterclaimed.
The sweet child nonsuited (withdrew) his claim immediately. Too late though, the counterclaim survived.
The boy's name is Avrey Anderson. Research him for further information on why Vote Blue No Matter Who is foolish. I use the terms boy and child because his conduct has been very, very childish.
You've made a valid point. It's just puzzling how someone can make it without an ID. You have to have an ID to even have your utilities turned on. Maybe I've got a mental block trying to understand it
You will LOVE this video (if you haven’t already seen it, it’s from 2018): https://youtu.be/yW2LpFkVfYk?si=FTAYt6SjEYN-E3aU
Oh my gosh. Love it. That was so accurate. White liberals who don’t know what they believe or why they believe it because it was told to them to believe about the ID’s. How insulting they were to black people.
Elles, unless they meet the illegals AT THE BOARDER, before The Biden Crime Family Regime gets to them first, you won’t find any American citizen who doesn’t have / or doesn’t have easy access to an ID!
* BORDER (auto correct is not my friend!)
You have to have a photo id to get into the Dem/Soc national convention.
Typical. That annoys me beyond measure.
Very funny 😄
I'm with you on this one! I moved from the insanity happening in Seattle down to my college days stomping grounds of Arizona last year for the very reasons you mentioned (and others).
As a right-leaning independent I was definitely the stranger in a strange land.
How can people be so adversely affected by policies yet continue to vote in the same leadership year after year.(?) What will it take?
Are you implying that Mayor Bruce Harrell can't fix the problems that Councilmember Bruce Harrell helped create?
I think the only thing will be when these people experience crime the way Shivanthi Sathanandan did in Minneapolis.
Oh, I'm not blaming Bruce Harrell at all - he can't help himself. I'm blaming the people who put him (and his predecessors) in office.
Agreed! As A Californian, I listen in wonder to acquaintances who bitch about the crime and homelessness in LA and still vote for no-one but a Democrat. Cognitive dissonance!
It’s bc. there aren’t any decent types in the Republican side. I know many Women Democrats who would vote for Niki Haley even though her Abortion ideas are not liberal enough.
God knows!
Both parties, Phil. It’s inexplicable to anyone but a MAGA die-hard why they “continue to vote in the same leadership year after year”.
Taking the voter rolls and running them all or representative samples through whatever the current systems banks use to verify addresses for credit cards. The banks will never knowingly send a card to an address they can't confirm, but is that the same standard we send ballots? If large amounts don't verify, but the ballots go out anyway, and no one sees or verifies who votes and puts that into drop boxes as no one watches. Nothing to see here, right? Intelligently covering this will inform that, sadly no one does in any media outlet.
We still get ballots for the former owner of our house who moved back to England 10 years ago. We also still get ballots from the state we left to move into that second place.
I've always voted in person, but I'm beginning to believe that we should be required, by law, to submit change-of-address notices to county registrars when we relocate. Maybe people should be required to submit notices -- changing address or not changing address? -- when they buy or rent new homes. Goodness knows it would be too much to ask our already overworked bureaucrats to maintain honest lists of current resident voters.
When I lived in Chicago years ago I volunteered for True the Vote. The purpose was to ID voters not connected to their current address and flag them to the BOE. We found “voters” with addresses that were abandoned buildings and a doctor’s office. Also, lots of kids who registered at college but hadn’t been there for years. Of course, True the Vote ran into some trouble with democrats. Can’t remember what happened. Why are democrats so afraid of clean voter rolls?
They will lose every election hands down that’s why I think they petrified.
MD Greene, I STILL get a ballot for my husband, who died February 1, 2009! He was a registered Democrat. Numerous calls have been made through the years, yet like clockwork his ballot arrives. Growing increasingly irate at this, about 6 years ago, I asked the woman who took my call WHAT I HAD TO DO TO STOP THIS!
Admittedly, out of frustration, I snidely told her I thought Democrats were environmentalists, and they should think of all the trees they’re killing to make & send ballots to DEAD people!
I kid you not, her response, “If you know who he wants to vote for, I don’t see a problem with you sending it in for him, until he gets back” and hung up!
Perhaps she was being sarcastic back at me, or perhaps not!
She wasn't.
She's a Democrat.
Exactly Bruce!
She was too lazy to help you accomplish an honorable goal. She may well have preferred for you to submit a fraudulent vote. She ought not to be working in a public election office.
I am very sorry for the way your honest requests were mishandled. I would like to think that a local politician, of either party, would take an interest in getting the matter resolved.
Clearly, she thought your husband at some point would be resurrected.
Why was a Brit getting a ballot
Presumably she had lived in the US long enough to qualify for citizenship and then decided that she preferred to live in her native country.
I never met the person and threw out the ballots that arrived at her former address. If she wanted absentee ballots forwarded to her new address, she could have requested them.
That state has mailed out ballots to all registered voters for some years now.
I remember reading a few years ago that one small apartment received 24 mail-in ballots, which presumably included ballots for persons who since had moved elsewhere.
Interesting fact: Two years ago, a felon was arrested in the state for another charge and was found to be carrying 300 empty ballots in his car. To my knowledge, this matter was never pursued, but I think it should have been a matter of interest. Why would such a person want a bunch of ballots?
Yeah I wonder why MD - could it have been a rigged vote?
At least the Brit had a heartbeat and arguably an active EEG.
Yeah....the story is bullshit.
Sorry, it's not. I don't lie.
Don't engage with it. It is an exercise in futility.
Yes, it is. A British citizen did not get U.S. voter registration sent to your house.
MD, there is already a plethora of address change data (taxes, mail address change, Social Security.....) that registrars and states could use to clear their roles. They just don't. You die and it seems that Social Security and the IRS have your status change before you reach the pearly gates. But.....
Your example isn't the problem. Of course, voter fraud isn't new. In my youth, I knew a couple of guys who harvested names form the cemetery to put on voter roles for a certain party. But the scale today is off the charts, largely empowered by fake ballots via mail-in ballots and harvesting. And maybe via computerized voting machines - I haven't come to a conclusion on that one yet.
Friends have served as poll watchers to try and keep things honest, but gave up. The system has more holes for cheating than Swiss cheese.
It depends on where you are. I am in Texas and have been a judge at a polling place. We require ID and confirm addresses. Our system is up to date except for recent moves. If you say you are eligible to vote in my county but your DL (or ID) says otherwise you can verify your new address in a few ways and cast a provisional ballot. A provisional ballot is subject to validation by the county Election Administrator before it is counted.
I am in Texas, as well. I'm glad to see YOUR county is doing something right. I can assure that others aren't. You, of course, are aware of all the alleged issues in Harris County. But.... the discussion/issues seem to focus on Blue states/cities. The longer it has been Blue, the larger the problems.
I did see that. People coming up in carloads to vote. Outside of hours and authorized locales. All in under the guise of covid emergency. That is why I know the 2020 election was in fact hijacked. But you do know there is serious pushback against the Harris County Clerk and Election Administrator over that right? Not so in Democrat states though.
It’s a rigged system Rich there is no chain of custody, no voter ID, 2 months early voting I could go on -Australia outlawed Mail ins at the turn of the 20th century for the very reasons stated above.
Also, Australia has compulsory voting.
Which is exactly why it won't be outlawed here
Nope. I’m writing this from Sydney Australia. Mail-in voting is legal and widely adopted in both state and federal elections, and uncontroversial. You have to enrol first - can be done on-line, and the Electoral Commission verifies your identity - and then you can vote by mail or in person (on-line voting is not yet possible, but it’s coming). Voting is compulsory - citizenship is both a privilege and a responsibility. And by the way, Election Day is always on a Saturday. This is not hard, guys!
Nope it’s not to hard in Aus, here in the US it is.
For years a ballot for my deceased mother would arrive in my mailbox even though she never lived in my home! I would bring the unopened ballot to my local polling place on election day and still one would show up for the next election. It took about three elections cycles for it to stop. What a mess.
I still get election related communication from KY when I’ve been in OH since 2017. Also, I get communication from MI. I’ve never lived in MI.
Was this former owner of your house an American who lived in Britain for a while, came home, and then moved back? Or a British national with British, not American, citizenship?
My understanding is that she was an English native who worked for some years of her adult life in CA. I have never met a British citizen who went through the effort to become a US citizen, but that does not mean it could not happen. OTOH, she had moved back to Britain when we bought the house. I have no explanation for any of it except that we knew the ballots were not ours and we held onto them after they arrived in case she wanted to contact us and have them forwarded. (At least she knew the address, after all.) After several years of no contacts, we just put them in the recycling bin.
Interesting thing to have happened! Where on Earth would the county elections commission had gotten her name and address to mail her a ballot, I wonder.
I believe there are New Yorkers who are trying to do that and are being hounded and charged for their efforts. It's no coincidence that Tammany Hall was a Democrat operation. Just like the fabled scorpion - it's in their nature.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation has done a lot of work to document numbers of illegal voter registrants and voters. Browse their reports:
https://publicinterestlegal.org/reports/
Great link TF. Thanks.
I'd like a deep dive into our country's insolvent finances and doomed social programs, along with an outline of how each candidate intends to ignore the problem and eventually deflect the blame.
I'd also like to see some kind of journalistic investigation into just how often Democrat politicians choose appointments and promotions based on race, sex, and sexuality, knowing full well that it is illegal to do that.
The replacement for Dianne F is a black lesbian from what I understand...so 3 boxes checked on that one.
And her state of residence is Maryland.
With questionable California residency from what I read.
Maryland now has three senators and I, as a Californian, have one. However, given the ideology of both her and our current senator, I'd be much happier with none!
Good point.
She supposedly owns a home in California, wonder for how long? Reminds me of Hilary moving to NY to run for Senate there. Modern day carpetbaggers, a system created by the Democrat party.
I agree. But I read she has to change her voter registration to Cali. I find this egregious - she has not even voted in Cali, how can she be an informed advocate for the citizens of Cali? This is a sore point for me because my little town has a couple of folks who dominate the FB forums with their incitement to vote progressive. One is a German national who resides here with his university professor wife. The other is a self-proclaimed Republican/conservative who does not vote. I got cancelled for bringing these two facts to light. I think they are paid.
A Black Lesbian (that’s ok), but she she isn’t registered to vote in CA. Oops, no problem, that’s easy to fix! All boxes checked now!
"how often Democrat politicians choose appointments and promotions based on race, sex, and sexuality, knowing full well that it is illegal to do that."
As opposed to Republicans doing the same thing? You don't recall Trump choosing Amy Coney Barrett for SCOTUS because she was a woman and George Bush I choosing Clarence Thomas because he was black?
Yeah you can blame Republicans for occasionally doing that also OR, if you aren’t a fundamentally dishonest person, you can blame the totalitarian Democrat retard assholes holding an identity politics pistol to the side of their head.
What you’re doing is the exact same as standing next to a looted building that’s on fire and saying
“Look this conservative also has a BLM sign in his window so it’s both sides!!!”
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Dammit. Did I forget to add "Oh, and fuck off, Kevin," just to prevent this sort of banshee bandsaw attack against my perfectly worded statement? My bad, bro :-)
So now you are just going to lie about how you tried to bothsides identity politics even though people can just scroll up 2.5 inches and see you doing it??
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I have no need to lie, since both sides engage in identity politics.
It's fair to say it's the Ivy League graduates on both sides pushing identitarian bigotry and moral revolution. But looking outside of political leadership, I'm also referring to businesses and other institutions, and I find it ridiculous to suggest that Republican leaders are as identitarian in their judgements as Democrats are. But I am definitely opposed to any and all forms of ethnic social engineering by political leadership, regardless of the party doing it.
I say this on the day that my company announced a new mandatory DEI training course along with a suggested series of additional supplemental material. I already know these trainings explicitly support hiring and promotion on the basis of sex and race. I'm required to be "educated" on why this is moral truth.
Don't tell me Democrats aren't abusing my rights. I work in a politically hostile environment that explicitly tells me that Marxism and identitarian bigotry are morally superior.
"I find it ridiculous to suggest that Republican leaders are as identitarian in their judgements as Democrats are."
It's not ridiculous--Republicans are just as vicious as Democrats in using identity politics to get ahead. They're only in different areas of the Culture Wars.
That's a massively broad change of subject and ignoring the fundamental point about ethnic and sexual discrimination being inherently wrong.
Republicans are not discriminating to anywhere near the same extent as institutional Democrat leadership. This newsletter has reported extensively on the specific mechanisms of who, how, and why. I view your denial and deflection as a form of support for the abuse.
"I view your denial and deflection as a form of support for the abuse."
Enjoy your time in DEI school. I hope they serve snacks.
If you work for a private company, "Democrats" aren't abusing you. Your bosses are. As for "rights," you have none unless you're in a union.
That's not to say that DEI isn't a steaming bowl of crap. It is. But in a private workplace, you have to eat it with a smile or find a new job. Sad commentary on the American way of work.
Not true, Shane! Our Plastic Injection Molding Co. (not Union, with very satisfied employees!) placed an add for a machine operator, no experience required, we’d train.
A Black man applied, but after a tour of our Plant, said he didn’t want to run a machine, but he’d work in the office. The Plant had no AC and the small office did.
We employed Black, Mexican (legal!) and women, with no concern about who they slept with!
He turned us in to OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration” and the IRS! It was a nightmare but after about 6 months resolved in our favor.
This isn't the same thing, Honey. I was talking about DEI training in a non-union environment. If your company's management ordered its workers to attend mandatory DEI training, your workers would have to do it or risk being terminated.
But this case wasn't about DEI; it was about a jackass of an applicant trying to extort you. The government ruled in your favor and against the jackass. Good for government for sticking up for your rights.
They get away with the illegal behavior because they know Democrat schools, politicians, lawyers and judges will back them up and defend them, as we have seen countless times.
Every one of the layers of corporate ownership in my business stack is from a city that represents a Democrat powerhouse. It's not mutually exclusive to say "it's your bosses" and also "it's the Democrats".
Well, THANK GOD you posted that, because I was beginning to fear that I actually HAD to hire people because they were black or female, regardless of their qualifications. You know. Diversity and inclusion, and all.
For the record, I could care less WHO or WHY they hire who them do, as long as they prove qualified. Like the two examples you offer.
I didn't say a thing about private sector hiring. The issue was "politicians choosing appointments based on race, sex, and sexuality."
I might agree with you that Barrett is doing a good job. Thomas, though, is an stain on the court that no amount of Comet can scrub away.
Huh. I must have missed something. As a lawyer who practiced constitutional law for 35 years and taught it at a law school I always found Thomas's opinions well-reasoned even when I disagreed with them. And having rich friends who are generous to you is neither criminal nor unethical unless you allow such generosity to influence your legal opinions. There is no evidence of that at all, and I'm in a position to know that no one on the Court or who actually knows Thomas believes that for a second. Perhaps you can explain "stain."
I'm happy to "stain" myself:
1. Taking bribes wins the gold medal for judicial bad conduct.
2. Appearing to take bribes even when you haven't wins silver.
3. See Nos. 1 and 2.
I happen to agree with some of Clarence Thomas's opinions and disagree with others, so I'm not judging his judicial ability. Everyone is going to agree and disagree with any judge, no matter who that judge might be.
But his gift-taking smells as bad as perch in a Dumpster. "Having rich friends who are generous to you is neither criminal nor unethical unless you allow such generosity to influence your legal opinions." That is not what the public believes about judges who accept vast amounts of money from "friends." The public is right--the optics are poisonous to public trust, and justices work for us, not the other way around.
Your statement may be technically true--I'm not a lawyer--but accepting as many gifts and trips as he has from Harlan Crow and others is ghastly for someone on the single highest court on the land. Same with Samuel Alito; such gifting should be forbidden. Why? Because this court must not only BE wise and ethical, it must be seen as wise and ethical. Taking dough from rich "friends" sends precisely the opposite message.
SCOTUS positions are unelected and lifetime. Their rulings cannot be challenged. They are as close to royals as America gets. Because of that, justices need a strong ethics code that disallows taking gifts from anyone other than immediately family, and even then only up to X amount, with every single gift value-assessed and reported.
If a SCOTI can't abide by that ethical conduct, then he or she can decline a spot on that bench. They need to choose what's more important to them: a Supreme Court position or the ability to take money from friends. With all the lawyers in this land who'd kill for that job, we can afford to be insist on the former.
Taking tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and "forgetting" to report them? The public considers that bribery, regardless of what statutes say. If the President of the United States cannot legally accept gifts, neither should anyone on the Supreme Court.
Is there a difference? A different standard for racial-based hiring in government vs the private sector?
Unless a private company has been found guilty of discrimination in race or gender hiring practices, or has federal contracts with DEI clauses built into them, government can't dictate who private companies hire and can't mandate DEI training.
It appears that your company swallowed the DEI Kool-Aid all on its own, and it is regurgitating that poison onto you. My condolences, and I'm serious--you shouldn't have to sit through that stuff when there's real work to be done.
Journalistic investigation!!?? HA! That's the ROTFLOL of the day. Good one!!!
What can I say? I dream big.
I second this!
Sadly, I fear TFP wants to become part of the MSP. No controversial topics of lately, ladies who lunch festival in LA, the very mainstream political coverage (couldn’t tell which mainstream rag it sounded most like), perhaps I don’t know who Bari as a journalist/pol/influencer really is, and was influenced by her ouster from TNWT. Maybe we would like to hear about the anonymous many who also got cancelled.
Nelly, Bari wasn’t ousted by the New York Times, but their treatment of her, after she wrote a “fair & balanced” article, forced her to resign! How DARE a democrat Lesbian go against the WOKE Left narrative! It’s ugly watching them “eat their own”
Having said all that about Bari, it’s true she’s Left leaning, sometimes disturbingly so, without apology here at TFP. But thankfully she has provided a platform where the Middle Majority, both Left & Right of Center, can gather without fear of being cancelled if we disagree with her, or each other.
What I’ve found is TFP gives me some hope the pendulum may be swinging from Far Left back toward Center.
A+ comment score Honey. 👍
The pendulum has been swinging, but way to the right. The Republican Party as we knew it is dead, and is now the MAGA Party, with Repubs scared shitless of offending the Trump Cult of Personality and being canceled or worse. The fiasco with Kevin McCarthy this week, led by a creepy sex trafficker of underage girls, shows today's GOP has become a national embarrassment.
Actually she resigned from The Times (assuming that TNWT should be TNYT); her resignation letter is most ikely out there somewhere, and that drew me as well. Disappointment ensued but I've made my peace by embracing the occasional busted clock moment and the largely sane commentariat. An unusually free-for-all, that.
Yes, TNYT. You’re spot on!
Strangely enough, she never provided an example of "censorship"....only that some people thought here takes were stupid. Which they usually are.
Yeah there’s no evidence that the psychopathic barbarian perverts who got their boss fired because he published a piece by a Harvard-educated veteran and US Senator, about how stopping communist revolutionary rioters is fairly important, because this op-ed was a “violent attack on our bodies”……….there’s no evidence that those unhinged despicable parasite sacks of shit ever caused censorship to happen.
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Yep. Correct. No evidence. Zero. None provided by her in any outlet.
Although, she claimed she was struggling with "self-censorship." Which to Bari and her moronic sycophants is the exact same thing as "censorship."
You cannot provide one single shred of evidence, KevinDurant.
Just like you couldn't for your claim that "Planned Parenthood offices are castrating children."
While there is way beyond overwhelming evidence of censorship, what you are doing is referring to evidence as ‘not evidence’, which is not exactly a sophisticated ploy.
The infinitesimally small fraction of evidence that you would be willing to call evidence is a private email or text from Nicole Hannah Jones, for example.
So all you’re really saying is that we don’t currently have possession of Nicole Hannah Jones’s cell phone. We also don’t have a video of OJ killing his wife.
😂😂😂please FP give the honor to Kevin he has everything, he is on point and has a great sense of humor.
Please do not draw attention to our little underground circus!!
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I have always thought--and indeed have upon occasion been told I do - that I had a good sense of humor. I have plowed through the unending sream of Kevin's comments on every site we both share, BUT - "there is no evidence that those unhinged despicable parasite sacks of shit" doesn't even get a brief smile. Of course, I thought Johnny Carson and Carol Burnett were hysterical but then I am a "woman of age. Perhaps one needs to be younger and male to appreciate Kevin's humor. When I once commented to him about what I considered his grossness, he wrote back that it was part of his charm. Cary Grant had charm - Kevin, dear, not so much.
Kevin would never be so self-absorbed as to claim charm for himself. I believe I ascribed that quality to our dear Kevin.
Moreover, his legions of female fans contradict your belief that one must be young and male to appreciate his humor. I also find him hilariously incisive albeit I clearly lack one of those attributes.
Kevin Durant: "AtLanTa Is a tRasH hEaP RuN bY bArbAric ImBeciles."
Reality:https://www.metroatlantachamber.com/atlanta-tops-nations-cities-in-the-global-livability/#:~:text=Ranked%20the%20single%20most%20livable,for%20more%20than%20a%20decade.
Woot!!
Why not cover all the people fired under Biden’s vaccine mandates—despite the fact that the vaccines were never even tested to see if they prevented transmission before the rollout? Also ask how letting in thousands of unvaccinated migrants and flying them to different cities made sense while firing unvaccinated American workers? Please ask for the “science” that justified this policy.
We are in for a potential TB epidemic because of this. And they thought Covid was bad.
Send a reporter to interview a few of those entrepreneurial sorts with tables full of merchandise on Lenox Ave near 135th St about their supply chain.
So many voters are happy not paying attention, patting themselves on the back, secure in the knowledge of being on team Good Guys, with no clue of what’s happening.
I live in one of the “crime infested Democrat hellholes” you’re referring to - Portland. I find myself more of a centrist these days and often enjoy your observations Kevin, but on this I gotta say - you might want to come visit and consider that you might need to reconsider your generalizations. I flew in from a week in Florida (literally a mile from Trumps home) last night. Currently sitting at a beautiful city park (in Portland) on a sunny morning about to watch my Freshman son’s baseball game. I don’t know what else to tell you except that your generalization of a democratic hellhole doesn’t really exist….except in the clickbait and headlines. Seriously go visit one of the places you’re referring to - I think you might be surprised to find people raising children, enjoying life, community, family’s…just like I assume you do. I think there’s an high probability that we are more alike than you may realize.
Don't forget about the pedophiles.
But, Kevin, THEY LIVE in an area like you just mentioned, in California!
"AtLanTa iS a tRaSH hEap rUN bY bARbaRIC imBeCiles"
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“There’s a lot of things I like about Biden. He’s tenacious. He’s been in politics.”
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Yes this is what we need. Someone who has been in politics forever (a parasite) with a bunch of tenacious shell companies. If Biden had only chased a Black guy down the street with a shotgun (probably wearing overalls) like Fetterman we’d have to make him Emperor!!
Unless you are super curious to see what Hell is like in person, there should be zero things you like about Biden.
I just realized I subscribe to TFP for Kevin’s comments.
While Bari swoons for clowns such as Carville and Silver, our Kevin is like the little boy who mocks the naked emperor and, in so doing, all his fatuous flatterers. Of course he's naked, you idiots. Biden - once considered the dumbest guy in the Senate - is the ultimate example of the Peter Principle. Although one can credibly argue that Biden had already risen beyond his competence when elected to the New Castle County Council.
dumb enough to cheat and get caught.. the streal. and get caught.. and to be "not " elected"
He beat the Orange One by 7 million votes, Bruce. Or are you among those who say it was stolen?
Sure he did. No write ins. No FBI interference. No Zuck bucks. No tech suppression. But will put you down as being an acolyte of a corrupt senile imbecile way to go Willy.
I keep asking, when is he going on the road?
I just realized that when they sell Biden’s Corvette at auction I need to buy it and then crash it into the Caesar’s Palace-style statue/fountain I am having built of Biden showering with his daughter.
Estimated total cost $900,000 please donate to my GoFund me which will be shut down by Valerie Jarrett within 5 minutes.
Thinking of him fondling little girls and showering with his daughter makes my skin crawl.
Dem/Soc think that behavior is not just OK, they love it, just like they loved Slick Wiley molesting women.
Lonesome, “But, but, but Trump”!
Primary Colors should be watched over and over
Where did you people come up with this one?
From Biden's daughter's diary, partner. Try to keep up.
When it comes to your idols, you stick your head in the sand.
He ain’t going LP he is to fragile and has zero energy to campaign
I meant doing stand up.
Kevin deserves his own late night talk show!
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Bwaaaahaaaaahaaaaa
Same here. Best part of the FP
James Carville? Really? One of the most obnoxious people on the planet. He's an anti-feminist swine. When Paula Jones was suing the sexual predator Billy Clinton for sexual harassment, the Dem/Soc Party was calling her bimbo trailer trash and Carville infamously said, "Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find."
I thought the Dems/Socs were supporters of the lower classes i.e., trailer trash.
Yeah, he's a sweetheart a darling of the feminist party, a defender of the sexual predator Slick Wiley.
Way to go Bari. Quote a supporter of a sexual predator.
Much like McCain, Giuliani and Feinstein, Carville seems unable to exit the public sphere gracefully before becoming a caricature.
He has an unwavering belief in a constituency that no longer exists. Like aging Windows versions, he no longer downloads updated software.
While I agree with LP that Carville is unworthy of TFP shelf space, it’s for a different reason. Carville is so like seven zeitgeists ago.
Since Carville has a ridiculous accent and has spent his life as a nightclub promoter for Democrats, the dregs of society, we should call him
Foghorn Dreghorn™️
Well said!
No, the democrats have become the party of coastal elites. They stopped caring about the great unwashed blue collar types a long time ago.
As much as I hate the gross Democrat policies infiltrating this country, especially their intention to prioritize illegals over citizens, you have to give them credit for sticking together. We don’t even hear about “the squad” anymore because Nancy shut them down. This is partially why they’ve been able to get their plan in motion. Matt Gaetz made the Republican Party look like fools on live tv for the world to see. It’s one thing to have a plan in place to replace McCarthy. It’s another to showboat the way he did and leave the government without a Speaker! I’m all for getting rid of the establishment, even though I wonder if it’s too late, but this was maddening with all the other pressing issues to be resolved.
I disagree. Strongly. Of course Democrats are in lock-step. They might as well be the Storm Troopers from Star Wars. The lower echelons "harvest" ballots. They do not pick their nominees, they ordain them. They blah, blah, blah about "saving democracy" as they thumb their nose at democracy. They are the darlings of the real threat to the Constitutional Republic - the career bureacrats of the executive branch alphabet agencies - because they are all about raising money and staying in office. If the standard for governance is being in lock-step we are doomed. As for Gaetz say what you and the MSM will about him, he did what he said. When McCarthy folded like a limp noodle over outrageous spending policies Gaetz called for his removal. That was the deal McCarthy agreed to when to elicit enough votes to be made speaker in the first place. Conservatives know there are bad Republicans. I say let's find out who they are.
Well, this is interesting because I agree with almost everything you said! I never said I agree with the democrat shenanigans. If they weren’t such a threat to the constitution and everything our country is based upon, I’d call them a joke. But this is serious and scary stuff we’re dealing with…like never before. Couldn’t stand the minute or so that I watched Gaetz in front of the media…he’s now the darling for the democrats!
I don't think you and I are in disagreement about anything except I do not see holding McCarthy responsible as a bad thing. Somebody has to have the backbone to say "Enough!" I have no regard for the Democrats or what they and their MSM lapdog say. Caring overly about them is what created this mess to begin with IMO. These are people who bemoan that government shut down will harm senior citizens and single mothers as they vote for policy, after policy, after policy and spending bill after spending bill after spending bill that erodes the middle and lower classes with every passing day. The national debt is $33,000,000,000,000. The interest on that debt in 2023 alone is $800,000,000,000. It has got to be addressed. The difference between previous administrations and this one is this administration created an environment responsible for the highest interest rates in decades and a drop in tax revenue. BTW I also.have no regard for Republicans who talk fiscal responsibility and then cave, cave, cave.
Yeah, but they lie and pretend to care.
That is why wearing masks came so easily to them.
I remember him in the audience of a Trump-Clinton debate right after the “pussy grabbing” video was released and Hillary quivering with self righteousness. The camera panned to Carville with a smirk on his face, knowing full well that Hillary knew all about her own husband’s “pussy grabbing.”
The Clintons disgust me. The Socialist/Feminist party loves them.
BTW, Clinton claims he is no longer a Dem because of open borders.
OK, me off topic. What a shocker.
I have no sympathy for people like this:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/inside-notorious-dubai-prison-american-31097583
If you visit a Muslim country, Russia, China or any Commy country and they jail you. Bite the bullet. You're an idiot for going there in the first place. It is like wearing a sign that says, "Arrest me! I want to go to a brutal prison. It is part of my vacation plan."
And we are supposed to feel sorry for these morons? And we should pay a ransom to get them out or trade a brutal international criminal for some idiot basketball player who smuggled drugs into Russia?
Let them rot in jail. It's call cleansing the gene pool.
Did you read the entire story? I did, and started out thinking as you did…but once I read it felt differently. She really didn’t do anything wrong. It all had to do with her being held because her hand brushed a female security worker at the airport while trying to adjust a post-op dressing she had to remove and put back on. She didn’t hit anybody.
You have missed my point. Civilized people have no business in countries ruled by brutal dictators or theocratic countries, like most Muslim countries.
If you don't want to go to a Muslim prison, don't go to a Muslim country.
I can guarantee you I’d never go. I agree with you about those countries. I do find that some people who go to those countries do stupid things to get themselves in trouble. This girl didn’t. They wanted to make an example of someone. I would never go to Dubai. I find it rather ugly.
You make my point. "They wanted to make an example of someone."
If she was dumb enough to go there, she should expect such behavior.
Women have no rights in Muslim countries and only an idiot doesn't know that so if you are a woman, why go to a country who doesn't respect women and has a religion that encourages treating women like shit.
I have no sympathy for idiots.
Because they think that Dubai is one of the better Muslim countries for women. In some cases it is. Women don’t have to wear burkas, or similar. But that’s merely because they don’t want to turn away all those tourist bucks.
"Biden is largely responsible for the disastrous state of this country, and that proves the value of his leadership!"
Yes the Emperor's clothes are gorgeous. Brave and stunning.
Kevin, Biden has been in the open about his racism SO MANY TIMES throughout his political career, but you know his faithful minions (rivals the MAGA!) continue to ignore & excuse his lying, criminal & nasty behaviors. Yet THEY say, “But, but, but Trump” is worse!
So I’m reading Nate Silver and James Carville talking about how wonderful the Democrats are, but watch out for those dastardly Republicans. Meanwhile, let’s ignore the laundry list (get it?) of problems happening in California and pretend Gavin Newsom is a serious contender while also not talking about how RFK has been kept out of the race by the Democratic Party.
How about some conservative voices? How about Thomas Sowell? How about talking about how half the country continues to support Trump and why they do so and how that belief is ground in reality? How about any sort of political coverage that doesn’t make me feel like two years later I’m reading the New York Times again? The Free Press is on thin ice.
agree 100% on all of this. Further, I have to ask yet again, WHO IN THE HECK are they polling? Not me! Not anyone I know, ever!! I don't know how/why half of republicans support Trump. They must want to lose another election!
Agree. I wish he would go off into the sunset, and let us get a normal candidate who isn’t blindly hated by seemingly half of the country.
Tom Sowell, yes! I believe he has a new book out.
He does!
I wonder if Silver is aware of Trump's rising support among Blacks and Latinos, both huge voting blocs without which the Democrats cannot win.
That is the purpose of all those polls. They need to know how many to ballots harvest.
I would love to see an article on mail-in ballots and the controls on voter rolls as we get into 2024. As we get away from the Australian vote, which is showing up, declaring who you are, and having others verify it, voting alone and dropping a ballot in a box is the only issue that matters.
Along with the issues of the day, this issue is not covered in the mainstream press. Everything was above board when it came to this issue. There was no evidence; my contention is no one looked. When you have a system that is easy to cheat, and people who desire the power to control trillions of dollars and reigns on power collide, one thing you can know is that cheating will be rampant. If vast swaths of the country think that how we count the vote is suspect, then nothing else matters.
Yes. Zuckerberg's dropboxes were a blatant violation of chain-of-custody laws which clearly state that a ballot must be trackable from voter to tabulation room. Random persons depositing bundles into boxes at 3am is illegal, yet the Democrats simply ignored all calls to halt this practice and discount the votes as unverifiable. Using this method, they targeted specific Republican districts with hundreds of "votes", flipping them from Trump to Biden and subverting the electoral process. This was the worst election I have seen in my life.
Wait for the next one. The criminals got away scot free, they will up the ante
And states with Democrat Secretaries of State saw no evidence of fraud.
Yes, of course they knew perfectly well what was happening but simply gaslighted the ignorant public. Democrats are "any means to an end".
Cheers!
For starters, I would love fair and balanced coverage of Desantis. Obviously y’all at the FP can’t stand him, and that’s fine you don’t have to. But the purpose of this outlet, why so many of us pay you, is to have fair and balanced coverage regardless of personal sentiment and allegiance.
He was my man — until he went crazy with the 6-week abortion ban. Most women don’t even know they’re pregnant at that stage, never mind being able to do any genetic testing on the fetus. Too bad….
DeSantis just has to leave it up to each state. Florida has one thing, California another, etc. I read somewhere that most abortions now-adays are by pill - which amazed me.
I read this week that he has backed off of that.
He'll back off whatever he thinks will be good for election chances. After all, he is a politian and "a politician is an arse,
upon whom everyone has sat,
except a man." e.e. cummings.
Sort of like Biden finally being forced to (pretend to) accept his illegitimate granddaughter...his weirdness was even grossing out the progressive Democrats...what a creepy creepy man.
So many many things wrong with that guy & the Democrats and the media are still trying to spin it that he is even acceptable as a human being let alone President.
Yes Trump is a jerk but he actually governed moderately.
Unlike Biden, Trump never accused half the population of being terrorists. Trump didn’t even prosecute Hillary for her treachery. Contrast that with the orchestrated 41 indictments+ indictments against Trump. Biden has half a million dead Ukrainians on his hands and God knows how many Afghanistanis he abandoned to torture and ghastly deaths. Who would ever again trust the USA thanks to Biden? Obviously with all the new global alliances excluding the USA, the number of countries doing so is dropping rapidly. Just ugh.
Yes I too I wish someone else beside Trump would run because of his negative ratings but the Trump witch-hunt is a national & moral disgrace.
RFK is a decent human and am grateful for his bringing so much to light,but his climate change frenzy & energy policies will impoverish way too many people for no good reason. But Biden is truly an evil man.
Desantis is a great start, but I think there’s a audience for more.
I’d like a short but deep profile on all the candidates of both parties, and those running as independents. You can make it a weekly running series leading up to the primaries.
Something to showcase who they are, their platform vs their track record, and what they really lack or offer as a candidate. You can do it in less than 1000 words per candidate.
We’ve had a few podcasts for some of the candidates, but I’d like either gear interviews of all of them, or something like I’ve described. Something comprehensive.
Check out the Ruthless podcast. They've done in-depth interviews with all the candidates (including, finally. Tim Scott). (The podcast is a hysterical mix of sports, animal stories, and politics.)
*an audience
Why do people keep saying Gavin Newsom has good hair? He does not, his hair looks greasy all the time and it makes him look like he's a slimy used car salesman.
You have just insulted used car salesmen all over the world.
I demand you apologize.
The thought that I insulted used car salesmen did occur to me after I posted
They are oily but nowhere near as oily as Gavin.
He is the powerless figurehead of a failing state. The legislature has a super-majority of Democrats who are running roughshod over the Constitution, rule of law, and plain decency. Newsom is being dragged along behind them. He does not lead the state so much as chase the polls, trying to avoid looking like the pathetic fool that he is.
Well we all know Scott Weiner is the one really running that state.
God help us all.
I doubt God has much to do with Scott Weiner. Satan however lives within him.
I guess the minions say it enough times and then everyone believes it to be true. I agree with you. I think Gavin is greasy in so many ways beyond his hair.
I call him Gruesome Newsom, and for much more important reasons than the way he looks.
Sad truth is, many women will vote for him solely based on those perceived "good looks."
He's far from "good looks". He looks like a creep. i'd rather drink a bottle of hydrogen peroxide than to have think of that slimeball as anything other than asexual.
If you drink H2O2 in small amounts, about a tsp, in cup of non-acidic juice, you can stop the growth of cancer. A bottle full may kill you.
Although your moniker is gender neutral, here's hoping your a voice of female sanity.
Not just women.
One could also vote for him for his gotta get a black female senator for California mantra and goes all the way to the East coast to find one. ( Laphonza Butler, lives in in Maryland not California) Persistence and hair gel, what is not to love?!
P.S. The same women who vote only for looks also enjoy shopping whether at Nordstrom, Target, or Whole Foods may be slightly put off by the loss of shopping opportunities.
Women are oblivious to their children in the military, their savings being eating up by inflation, unfettered immigration and the impact on their communities, and other trivial matters. Show us good looks and hand us a nice shopping bag!
I agree with your assessment except your PS. Women who support this type of politician based on looks probably do not have children at all or yet, and if they do they are Ivy League, not military. Their savings either do not yet exist, or are hedged. Their communities are not impacted by immigration; consider the Martha's Vineyard brouhaha for example and consider where that outrageous number (eyeroll) of guests are being placed on NYC and Chicago. I think Rob Henderson is absolutely correct about the luxury beliefs crowd. They will not open their eyes until they feel the pain of the consequences of the policies they support with their vote. I just realized that is really how TFP was born - when they felt the negative impact of cancel culture. When they published articles about how their kids were negatively impacted by covid lockdowns or the one by the Levi's CEO who was canceled.
Your last point is very interesting. It is probably a truism that we believe it is all smooth sailing until our boat is rocked and we may need to bail!
Maybe. But I think there is much to be said for foreseeability.
Whatever are the reasons the professional managerial class women vote for him, let's be clear on one thing: No woman in her right mind thinks Gavin Newsom = good looks.
Troll or not, his policies are despicable!
Well, he’s good looking for a politician I suppose. But nothing special outside of that!
He's under 80, so he has that going for him.
That is true! He does have a pulse! 😏
Well there's Nadler, Schiff, Raskin, and a host of other sideshow freaks and soy boys. So, in the land of the blind......
Don't forget Fetterman...
People seem to like the used car salesman look. Heavy sigh, ugh. That’s how we got Biden all those many many years ago and still going strong. 🤦🏻♀️
My stepfather was a used car salesman, and he didn't look like Newsom.
True. But it is the fake white teeth that get to me. He looks like a televangelist to me. No offense to televangelists.
IKR. Sorry used car salesmen. Sorry televagenlists. Apologies in advance to cockroaches of the world.
That made me giggle. Thanks.
Weiss: "So why is RFK Jr. polling so highly?"
Carville: “Because he’s not Biden!”
TFP Readers: "Perhaps the most binary and brain dead response ever"
Note to self: "Make contribution to RFK Jr ASAP"
Why is RFK at 16% "polling so highly" while DeSantis at 15% is a disaster?
Thats a good question, but it certainly appears that Trump has a stone cold lock on the GOP nomination. The well disguised never Trumpers will stay hidden as they don't want the feel the wrath if they step out from under the GOP mushroom and criticize him.
Also, the more I listen to DeSantis the more he seems like he might simply be another DC establishment elite.....but I certainly could be wrong.
You're not wrong.
Because narrative is always more important than facts.
Classic line of banal stupidity from James.
Literally every other Democrat is also not Biden.
"Literally every other Democrat is also not Biden."
Are you sure? Brain dead, corrupt, venal and hating their fellow Americans is a pretty good definition.
I think that was his point. If more Dems were actually running, they might be poling high too...at least it seems Carville thinks that.
Its a classic Carville answer. He's a brilliant strategist and sees things from an optics standpoint, versus policy per say. But he doesn't acknowledge why so many love RFK. Its like standard reporters writing about the evangelical movement, or trying to put themselves in the perspective of the 'religious.' They just don't get it, and it will always be 'off.'
I think that’s precisely why RFK Jr. gets any attention -- because he’s not Biden. Otherwise, he is a conspiracy-nut and isolationist who I wouldn’t trust for anything.
"What would you like from our coverage? What stories do you feel aren’t getting enough attention?"
On the ouster of Kevin McCarthy, the thing that gets me is why no news report or pundit is even trying to explain to we the people why Gaetz's demand for reining in the national budget and spending is so "Evil". All we see are hysteria about Gaetz being an asshole, how the small group who voted with him are "hateful", how they're "uncooperative", and how Republicans are broken and a joke, etc. etc. and how Gaetz just wants personal attention, furthering self interests even if it destroys the party and the country, how they're fundraising with this stunt, on and on.
Fine. Say Matt Gaetz is an ass, and he's doing thus for personal attention and interest. But why can't ANYONE explain why we shouldn't put a stop to the out of control trillion dollar spending? Why is that such a bad thing? How is it "destroying the country" to demand that?
Oh because what he's demanding "will never pass the Senate". Well why not? Why must we go along with the Senate's unwillingness to control spending? If they can't then well, maybe it's not such a bad thing to shut that whole swamp down until they can control themselves.
To TFP, can you be the first one to explain to us why they simply can't just entertain and consider Gaetz's demands? They seem pretty basic and reasonable as a starting point to control government spending. We regular people don't care about their interpersonal political drama. The media telling us Gaetz is an asshole doesn't explain anything and is treating us like idiots when they won't talk at all about why what he's proposing is such a bad thing. Stop insulting our intelligence.
I don’t like Gaetz. Asshole is not far from the truth. However McCarthy was the problem. He held all the cards. Schumer needed to compromise or shut 9% of the government down. Instead McCarthy folded and sealed his fate.
Mccarthy absolutely violated the deals he made with the freedom caucus. He just thought he could get away with screwing over conservative voters because the GOP has been doing exactly that for decades without reprisal. Hopefully Republican “leaders” will take notice.
He's not just screwing over conservative voters. They're all screwing over tax-paying citizens. Why is our national government spending through the roof? Why do we keep getting annual doomsday threat we won't be able to pay our national debt? So what if the messenger Gaetz is an ass? What is wrong with what he's demanding?
The one thing the but-the-Reoublicans-added-to-the-debt-too wailers never mention is that Biden's inflationary policies mean that at current interest rates the 2023 interest on that debt is over $800,000,000,000. One year. Zimbabwe here we come.
If you dislike Gaetz, who DO you like? Just out of curiosity.
99% of them are crooks, incompetents, and blowhards. And always have been. Just my opinion.
I second your summation. It is not who I like but what I’d like. Let’s keep it simple term limits, one six year term for President and elimination or consolidation of at least six cabinet offices.
I doubt the Constitution could be changed in any case, but the notion of a one term President probably would never fly.
Then light needs to be shined on that. I want them shown for who they are.
QX, let me have a go on Gaetz:
Most of the increase in federal debt occurred in the Bush1, Bush2 and Trump administrations. Look it up, it’s true. Gaetz has offered zero suggestions about how to curtail it, let alone get it down, other than “don’t touch Medicare or social security or the military.” That would mean AT LEAST a 33pc reduction in money for everything else;
Gaetz wants to let Ukraine go hang, which means falling to Putin.
How’s that for starters? Ask yourself, what are his SPECIFIC proposals for dealing with federal spending and debt, and then ask: do you agree with them? You will search long and hard.
I cannot stand Gaetz and I think what he did was idiotic. But I get it. The disconnect between those governing is huge. But those grandstanding (like Gaetz)and taking advantage of our new Populist base via sensationalism and irrational barn burning doesn't accomplish anything but an optics disaster and loss of support among the independents and conservative dems (like BW and readers here!). Gaetz needs to get that smug look off his face and stop sending me fundraiser emails and texts. UNSUBSCRIBE!
Somebody has to be willing to take a stand.
Take a stand in private not on the world stage.
People tried that. It didn't work. Worse, their lives got ruined. Take a look at what happened to Edward Snowden. And what happened to the IRS Whistleblowers re Hunter Biden.
My guess is Gaetz will pay a heavy price. But it is past time to make sausage. I am good with it being done publicly.
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Carville says there’s tons of talent on the left - they are so talented they just can’t break through 🤣🤣🤣
Does anyone think Gretchen Whitmer is a step up from Kamala Harris? She's an authoritarian less likeable than Hillary.
That was what I thought when someone mentioned her...she seems just awful! If that is who the Dems think is a rising star, no wonder they are sticking with Biden
Whitmer vs. Kerry Lake; a battle for the ages.
She is not well liked in MI. She doesn't come across as very smart. She has authoritarian tendencies. She doesn't reach across the aisle. It baffles me why people like Carville think she is talented. Out of ten random people at work, at least eight would be smarter and more collaborative.
Talented hypocritical liars.
The story that I think is not getting enough attention is the Biden Crime Family. Please, do not tell me "there's no evidence"! It may currently be only circumstantial, but we gotta start somewhere. We need an investigation - but we won't get one until we rid ourselves of the deep state actors... I know, I know....
TFP could interview constitutional lawyer, Jonathan Turley. He has enumerated all the evidence of crimes by the Bidens. Or Victor Davis Hanson.
But no, we get snaky James Carville.
This is the crux of the matter right here. Perfectly stated.
Evidence that is "only circumstantial" can still amount to proof beyond a reasonable doubt. When you wake up on a December morning and see snow on the ground, you know it snowed while you were sleeping. That's "only" circumstantial evidence, because you didn't see it fall with your own eyes, but it's still more than sufficient proof of a snowfall. You don't need to hear from your next door neighbor that he was up and actually saw the snow falling for you to be confident it snowed, even though his word as to what he saw would be direct evidence. Both are solid. In fact, your circumstantial evidence is even stronger than his direct evidence if you know him to be untrustworthy.
Precisely.
I tried listening to him on Bill Maher's YT last week thinking maybe I would hear some sense from a non-Woke Democrat. 10 minutes in and it became obvious he's just as out of touch as the rest of them. Then he started the wild theory how all the best political talents are on the Left and I had to stop. I felt just a bit dumber listening to him.
So, sorry Bari. An going to skip this one. I'm cool with hearing out different opinions. But It'll be mentally abusive to put myself through that again, and I don't want to lose brain cells.
Bari, It’s only right that you now interview Carville’s brilliant wife. We need some wisdom on this board.
Carville’s brain has rotted away in the Louisiana sun. He’s been out of the loop for too long.
Does the presidency and Congress even matter? The Woke control every institution in the country. Without accountability. The White House and Congress at least have some semblance of accountability. But all the awful policies that have been enacted in the last several years have been done by unaccountable, corporations, and other institutions Hiding behind the “we are private and can do what we want” shield.
This. We're basically living through a Mao-style cultural revolution, where everything from the past must be erased, Agatha Christie books must be rewritten by "sensitivity readers", Jane Austen books are updated to be more "inclusive", Bambi needs to be remade to remove the "traumatic" scene of Bambi's mother being shot, statues of George Washington must be removed because he owned slaves. At least we're not (yet) at the level of England, where BBC is now saying Stonehenge was built by Africans.
Many people go to church beneath a trans flag. They go to work on Monday and HR says that 90% of new intern candidates must be BIPOC (which fights "white supremacy" by punishing white kids getting into the job market for the first time, instead of adults with full resumes who actually might have benefited from the "systematic racism" in the 1960s-1970s). They go to the movies where the writers are told 50% of characters must be queer. They find out online content is increasingly being censored to stop "disinformation" from spreading. Even the military has eliminated meritocracy from promotion.
"Stonehenge was built by Africans." Really? I didn't know that. Who knew?
I have visited Stonehenge many times, back when you could walk among the stones and touch them and to think Africans built it. Was this like a student exchange program?
Dirty secret. Those Druids had Black slaves.
Really? And how do you know that?
Sarcasm.
So, you mean it wasn't a student exchange program?
Thanks for the explanation. With all the CrT and 1619 BS, it is hard to tell.
Yes. As a close friend and I say, "If you wanted to create a generation of racists and misogynists, this is exactly how you'd do it.". Openly and unapologetically discriminate them, while also vilifying them.
Did you see where Canada actually tried to strike their hideous standing ovation to a Nazi display from the official record? ("The idea to strike Hunka’s recognition from the official record of the House of Commons was proposed by Government House Leader Karina Gould on Monday.")
This is a bit of an aside, but...Watched the movie “Reptile” (2023) on Netflix last night, and although there was some below par plot writing, it contained NO woke lectures, no gay/trans characters, and an approximately proportional number of blacks. OTOH, ALL the villains were white, and none of the POCs participated -in any way whatsoever- in any questionable behavior. But for a 2023 movie, it was remarkably non-political (and on Netflix, no less).
I watched it Sunday night... liked it and thought the acting was pretty good. Didn't like the ending.
I think the real threat is the career bureaucrats in the executive branch alphabet agencies who no longer have allegiance to the president. This group assured Biden's election. Their power came about because Congress delegated its legislative responsibilities to the executive branch decades ago. So now the bureaucrats just see the president as a figurehead. Right now they like the Democrats because Biden is extremely malleable. But if a Democrat threat reared his or her head they would pivot to a weak Republican. This is the true threat to our Constitutional Republic. It serves none of us well.
Tom, you make an excellent point. Who is in office versus corporations sometimes feels like comparing the kiddie pool in your backyard to the ocean.
That is just the result of lobbying and the revolving door between regulatory agencies and those they regulate. Congress could remedy that were it not so completely feckless.
Ragin’ Cajun on Honestly. Are you kidding me? Carville is a died in the wool, deep to the bone dirty. corrupted, swamp politician and if he says the sun is shinning, suggest you walk out and check yourself.
RFK may or may not hurt/help either, but the only reason this is a discussion is that our political system is so broken and distorted, that we have a senile, barely able to walk and definitely can not chew gum at the same time on one side. On the other side is a guy who has so many legal cases, right/wrong that he beats Judge Judy for TV time.
Pretty shitty situation all the way around.
I’d like The Free Press to once and for all take off their rose, not-exactly-colored-but-still-tinted, glasses with Democrats and leftists. I subscribe because I want both political sides to be equally shaken up and taken down, or even commended when appropriate. But “Equally” should be the operative word. I don’t remember the exact day TFP began, but that’s still not happening with any great regularity.
That aside, here’s a suggestion for some real journalism. Go out and cover the people who have been put in jail for January 6th, they’re still rotting in jail without trial two years later.
For some who are being jailed all they did was walk into the capitol, some invited by the police, and walk out again. There are many, many of them who are being, not prosecuted, but persecuted by Judges in DC with a vendetta against them as Trump supporters.
I know of one who’s an elderly woman with little financial resources, lives alone, who was arrested through facial recognition in her home put in handcuffs, had her phone, computer and other items confiscated by police, and commanded to appear in court in Washington DC at her own expense even though she lives in California. This pernicious requirement has happened to her more than once apparently, with arresting police telling her from the outset, you’re going to jail. This persecution has gone on for more than two years. For what is essentially a misdemeanor! She was eventually sentenced to 3 months in jail, along with other peevish punitive punishments, and told to appear this October 17th to carry out her sentence.
Pava Lapere was just murdered by someone they let out early who had beaten, raped and set on fire two people. For God’s sake when is anyone going to do some journalism on this disgusting excuse for justice happening before our eyes.
You asked for some suggestion Bari, I’ve seen some good ones so far. I’m very curious to see what are you going to do about them.
Yes, if they can interview Gitmo "artists," then why not interview J6 prisoners?
TFP is a bait and switch. It’s purpose is to uphold the Democratic Party. Consider the pattern of the articles here and decide for yourself. It became clear to me months ago, after I had a feeling for a while that something wasn’t quite right. That’s my opinion only. Decide for yourself, you seem to be aware. Certain subjects are a blackout here that you mentioned. There’s a reason for that. Not so ‘Free Press’ after all.
There are no truly great journalists today, except for the likes of Matt Taibi and Glenn Greenwald, I’d say Sabby Sabs, too, even though I don’t know if she’s a trained journalist and I don’t agree with her politics, she’s impressive with her attempts at digging up the truth. Douglas Murray could be considered in the category of great of course, even though Murray is really a philosopher and observer of society at heart. There are others too, just that it’s thin on the ground.
I do believe though TFP is a step in the right direction toward some semblance of balanced viewpoints, even if they are prone to wonder. It’s why I subscribe and will continue to do so until I can plainly see the cause is lost.
While I still am glad I am supporting TFP, they are turning out to be no Racket or Public.
TFP does, with few exceptions, largely puff pieces, which are sometimes mildly critical of the Left.
Racket and Public are doing really substantive journalism that investigates powerful and corrupt actors that almost no one else in the media will touch.
Bret Weinstein/Heather Heying of Darkhorse podcast, #193, both staunch democrats, spent the first few minutes talking about the utter sense of hopelessness that has overtaken America. They described the country as “captured” by forces that seem impossible to oppose. Institutions we thought we could trust lie to our faces, we see it, and then they lie about lying. They lamented how the DNC no longer represents the values democrats once owned. I think they are RFKJ voters. There are probably a lot more like them.
Just want to remind Gavin and everyone else here that choosing a political appointment specifically based on race, sex, and sexuality is illegal, unconstitutional, and internationally recognized as a human rights abuse.
We used to agree on equality under the law and equal human rights, but these are not Democrat values any longer.
Since the 1960s, the Democrats have been all about race and gender. Today is merely the culmination of that trail of tears.
And cowardly.