The 25th Amendment should be repealed. It is clear that nearly 100% of our elected representatives voted along party lines in every instance. The fact that Joe "crazy horse" Biden was not removed after he lost his mind is evidence that the 25th amendment should go the way of prohibition. It is obvious that it will never be used.
While the latest 25th Amendment proposal will go nowhere, it's a further reminder to the voters just before a critical election that a President desperately in need of putting out to pasture was defeated by his enablers and nervous nelly lackeys.
Vibecoded a little polling tool to survey questions like this across different media communities — eg, "Preventing a nuclear Iran is worth a serious risk of regional war” — and filter easily by different respondent characteristics, media diets, etc. to see where things split in interesting ways.
Not very interesting yet without meaningful data but if y'all enjoy seeing poll results sliced up by cross-tabs, would love to get some responses to test out the flow and see cool curves.
We all remember in college journalism majors either had wealthy parents or were destined to be serving tables while struggling to survive in a low paying field. As a result, the media promotes those who can afford to do free internships, and other “experience reward” work, which working class kids can’t afford to do, so “mainstream” or “historic media like NYT” tends to promote similar people. Liberals and neoliberals. You also get some neoconservatives and conservatives, but too often both sides parenting their parents’ views because they have been incubated longer than most to start their careers. A bad media environment creates a bad country. See 21st century America.
It strikes me as odd that so many allegedly respected intellectuals could not determine Biden was incapacitated and that the Iran war was an awful idea, planned poorly. Folks, our alleged intellectual class is just that: alleged. The major issue in this nation is a media class that primarily promotes their friends, not actual talent.
Raskin, a guy who wore a “do rag” for sympathy, who covered for the poster prez for the 25th amendment — Biden, and whose TDS is terminal deserves to be ignored. I know he’s had family tragedies, but it’s not Trump’s fault.
“Representative Jamie Raskin introduced legislation that would create a commission to evaluate the president’s fitness for office.” How about starting with cleaning up sleezeball members of congress.
The 25th amendment runs through the cabinet, not Congress. Raskin's proposed legislation is another virtue signaling exercise ( to raise money?, more fun than doing his job?). I guess that if the media report every crazy thing DJT says they feel obligated to throw Raskin into the mix. (DJT is more entertaining if quite a bit scarier)
Jamie Raskin wants to invoke the 25th amendment on Donald Trump. I guess he thinks this amendment was added in the last year after Joe Biden was shoved aside.
Every time the Pope opens his mouth, it sparks whataboutism from netizens. For example, when he bashes Israel for "genocide" in Gaza, a libel that has been conclusively disproven, people ask him why he doesn't condemn Gazans and Hezbollah for constant attacks on Israel.
People are also asking why he isn't vigorously championing the Christians of Nigeria who are experiencing terrible depredations at the hands of Islamic terrorists, many thousands of men, women, and children killed every year, girls sexually assaulted, children snatched as slaves... Similarly in Sudan.
Why doesn't he address the sad state of Christianity in Bethlehem, where the Christian population has shrunk to a few thousand under hostile Palestinian Muslim rule? Or the oppression of Coptic Christians in Egypt, where approximately one church per week is burned to the ground (and it's nearly impossible to get a permit to rebuild)?
Mahyar Tousi, an Iranian Christian living in Britain and running a million-plus Youtube channel, reports that Christianity is popular among the rank-and-file population of Iran; if allowed, the country might possibly become majority Christian over time. The Pope should be pushing for that. No good ever comes of supporting Islamic rule in any country.
Jamie Raskin's bill regarding the 25th amendment "has little realistic path forward given Republican control of Congress." One wishes it would also have little realistic path forward because it is extremely stupid, but that would be expecting too much of Congress. The commission would be theater, nothing more.
While I agree with your comment generally, employees of Altman have described him as an abusive sociopath. I can't judge that since I don't know the man and haven't even heard him speak in public, but that is what I've read.
I've read the same about Altman. I have no idea if he has been physically violent with anyone that works for him, but I imagine if that were the case, we would have heard about it.
My beef with the 15 yr old is that she is equating words with violence.
The Fake Catholic case for war. I am Catholic. Catholics are much more prevalent in other nations. Christian religions trying to make cases for wars is primarily an American special. Everyone knows this war was goaded on by Netanyahu. Period. It has been very bad for Israel which has further alienated the larger world for a corrupt leader. I feel bad for Israelis under Netanyahu’s rule.
And "further alienated the larger world?" Yeah, I remember all the international accolades for the Je--I mean, Israel, before 2025. The world doesn't like Israel, but it's not for the reasons you think.
Netanyahu is a courageous leader, defending his people against vicious enemies who wantonly and repeatedly attack Israel and kill men, women and children.
No matter what Israel does, the mostly-Muslim countries of the U.N. and the mostly-Leftist countries of Europe will hate and deride Israel and its supporters.
Israel could cure cancer and it would make no difference (and in fact they have found cures for some forms of cancer).
Pope John Paul II who stood boldly against the Soviets and understood there wasn't a moral equivalence between the west and communist dictators, knew better. He called them a moral evil and a 'culture of lies'. If only Leo had such moral clarity. He's beginning to sound more like a Chicago alderman who hates anything Trump, than an icon of human rights and what's best for the world.
The opinion piece on Catholicism was good and instructive, but it seems like it would be consistent with the FP's stated mission to also publish a counterpoint--what are the theological bases of the Pope's argument? But the FP is pro-war, not a ball and strike caller on Iran, so I won't hold my breath.
I believe most of the rational thinking people of this country (much less the world) see a man who lives behind 25-30' walls 10' thick, with a private army, enveloped in riches beyond (almost) imagination, at the top of an institution that has damaged thousands of people on its own, with no real consequences, caving to a 'religion' whose main premise is the eradication of people who won't succumb (including Catholics) to it's 'call' - talking about things way above his comprehension, and know better than to even consider his pontifical (pun intended) lecturing.
Well, the Pope is out of his lane, agreed, but the Crusades were the first failure of Catholics to control Muslim terrorists who still want to kill all other faiths especially Jews. The Pope has the Vatican. The Jews have Israel. Bringing “wealth” into the equation serves no purpose, and belittles the generosity of Christians and Catholics alike.
The crusades occurred centuries after early Christians (i.e. Catholics) decided to adopt most pagan rituals into their ceremonies and beliefs. Whereas the prophet Hosea said that God never changes, the early "Christian" church was compelled to change God's Sabbath to the Day of the Sun. The church was bastardized to get pagans to join and now it is Satan's church.
You've missed my points--again, The FP should publish a counterpoint and let us decide; and The FP is not a fair dealer on these issues. I'm not talking about the pope or TDS or anything.
That is what all media should do, but don't. As mentioned, there are plenty of counterpoints published all over the place to the FP piece about the pope.
Zionism means different things to different people. I do firmly believe Israel has a right to exist just not a right to be run the way it’s being run and it’s certainly not entitled to US FREE support, particularly when it has fat better social programs than US. THIS IS AN ISSUE WITH MOST US FOREIGN AID, not Israel specific. Why should or taxpayers have to fork out 200k for our kids colleges while EU and Israel have free/highly subsidized colleges and healthcare programs? Why are we chumps? Part of being a chump is storming into war with a tiny ally and not even bothering with your friends. Let’s say Iran really was close to a nuke (highly doubtful based on years of Netanyahu lies), but even so: Europe and Israel far more at risk than US. We are protected by oceans. And an ocean gives a long time for drones to knock down missiles.
Maybe so. These days I am exhausted reading about the new wars the Empire must fight as I work hard to save for my son’s pending college and my own ever so distant retirement. The Iran war was a mistake. This is not America’s fight. Maybe it’s Israel’s fight. Maybe. But Israel would be better served creating more friends than seizing more land. Creating chaos does not magically create a better Iran. Reconstruction is never discussed by neocons, and it’s the reason Germany and Japan became Allies: bombs don’t save people.
Israel "seized" land? So when your tiny country is attacked repeatedly from all sides by enemies dedicated to the eradication of your people (i.e., Jews), and you defend yourself and capture territory that belonged to your attackers, that's land "seizure?"
And briefly, the two atomic bombs dropped at the end of WWII on Japan likely saved millions of Japanese and American lives.
You've missed my points--again, The FP should publish a counterpoint and let us decide; and The FP is not a fair dealer on these issues. I'm not talking about the pope or TDS or anything.
And you miss mine. I’ve had seventy two years of Vatican lectures that is enough. The Pontiff’s viewpoint is widely available. A sycophants obfuscatory rhetoric is a waste of space.
Bill Shipley has a great piece over on Shipwreckedcrew on Substack regarding his take on the reason the Swalwell Fit Hit the Shan. Pelosi, the CA Governor race, and taking the legs out from under a 2036 potential candidate. As Daly of Chicago once said, “Politics ain’t beanbag.”
It really shows just how cold-blooded and brutal the Dems are. Imagine what they might be willing do the rest of us if they ever amassed enough power. Their actions in Virginia recently prove ruthless they are. Something to remember this November.
Virginia, like Maryland, is nothing but a bedroom community to DC, filled with useless bureaucrats and welfare recipients whose way of life is dependent on Big Government. There is no reason to imagine the leeches living in Virginia would vote to eliminate their useless jobs and unearned benefits.
The only thing Trump and the Republicans can do to fix this is moving some of the agencies to other places. For example, in his first term, he moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado, to be closer to the land they actually manage. He also moved an agriculture agency to Kansas, closer to farmland they deal with. Oh, were they angry. Hundreds of them quit rather than go to Kansas.
Thank you for reminding me of the brilliance of our POTUS. In this age of instant electronic communication, there is no reason for the entire east coast to be a ghetto for bums of all kinds.
The 25th Amendment should be repealed. It is clear that nearly 100% of our elected representatives voted along party lines in every instance. The fact that Joe "crazy horse" Biden was not removed after he lost his mind is evidence that the 25th amendment should go the way of prohibition. It is obvious that it will never be used.
While the latest 25th Amendment proposal will go nowhere, it's a further reminder to the voters just before a critical election that a President desperately in need of putting out to pasture was defeated by his enablers and nervous nelly lackeys.
Vibecoded a little polling tool to survey questions like this across different media communities — eg, "Preventing a nuclear Iran is worth a serious risk of regional war” — and filter easily by different respondent characteristics, media diets, etc. to see where things split in interesting ways.
Not very interesting yet without meaningful data but if y'all enjoy seeing poll results sliced up by cross-tabs, would love to get some responses to test out the flow and see cool curves.
Dedicated page for the Free Press fam: https://votto.app/freepress
We all remember in college journalism majors either had wealthy parents or were destined to be serving tables while struggling to survive in a low paying field. As a result, the media promotes those who can afford to do free internships, and other “experience reward” work, which working class kids can’t afford to do, so “mainstream” or “historic media like NYT” tends to promote similar people. Liberals and neoliberals. You also get some neoconservatives and conservatives, but too often both sides parenting their parents’ views because they have been incubated longer than most to start their careers. A bad media environment creates a bad country. See 21st century America.
It strikes me as odd that so many allegedly respected intellectuals could not determine Biden was incapacitated and that the Iran war was an awful idea, planned poorly. Folks, our alleged intellectual class is just that: alleged. The major issue in this nation is a media class that primarily promotes their friends, not actual talent.
I'm dreading the fall election. The only result will be all impeachment, all the time.
Raskin, a guy who wore a “do rag” for sympathy, who covered for the poster prez for the 25th amendment — Biden, and whose TDS is terminal deserves to be ignored. I know he’s had family tragedies, but it’s not Trump’s fault.
“Representative Jamie Raskin introduced legislation that would create a commission to evaluate the president’s fitness for office.” How about starting with cleaning up sleezeball members of congress.
The 25th amendment runs through the cabinet, not Congress. Raskin's proposed legislation is another virtue signaling exercise ( to raise money?, more fun than doing his job?). I guess that if the media report every crazy thing DJT says they feel obligated to throw Raskin into the mix. (DJT is more entertaining if quite a bit scarier)
Jamie Raskin wants to invoke the 25th amendment on Donald Trump. I guess he thinks this amendment was added in the last year after Joe Biden was shoved aside.
The pope and the Vatican need to keep their views totally neutral as I have stated before.
They know very little to nothing about geopolitical affairs and have no business giving opinions about it.
I started this yesterday and you can find it if you want.
Every time the Pope opens his mouth, it sparks whataboutism from netizens. For example, when he bashes Israel for "genocide" in Gaza, a libel that has been conclusively disproven, people ask him why he doesn't condemn Gazans and Hezbollah for constant attacks on Israel.
People are also asking why he isn't vigorously championing the Christians of Nigeria who are experiencing terrible depredations at the hands of Islamic terrorists, many thousands of men, women, and children killed every year, girls sexually assaulted, children snatched as slaves... Similarly in Sudan.
Why doesn't he address the sad state of Christianity in Bethlehem, where the Christian population has shrunk to a few thousand under hostile Palestinian Muslim rule? Or the oppression of Coptic Christians in Egypt, where approximately one church per week is burned to the ground (and it's nearly impossible to get a permit to rebuild)?
Mahyar Tousi, an Iranian Christian living in Britain and running a million-plus Youtube channel, reports that Christianity is popular among the rank-and-file population of Iran; if allowed, the country might possibly become majority Christian over time. The Pope should be pushing for that. No good ever comes of supporting Islamic rule in any country.
Well said
Jamie Raskin's bill regarding the 25th amendment "has little realistic path forward given Republican control of Congress." One wishes it would also have little realistic path forward because it is extremely stupid, but that would be expecting too much of Congress. The commission would be theater, nothing more.
Too bad the dems weren't so worried about that when Joe "what storm?" Biden was in office.
“Sam Altman is violent,” a 15-year-old told her. “So we’re just fighting violence with violence.”
Thank you to the public schools, teachers, unions, school boards and the rest of the "Education" miasma.
This poor girl, like millions of other students, has been indoctrinated with leftist bullshit.
She can probably tell you that there are 27 genders, that food and housing should be "free" and the right is evil because she disagrees with them.
While I agree with your comment generally, employees of Altman have described him as an abusive sociopath. I can't judge that since I don't know the man and haven't even heard him speak in public, but that is what I've read.
I've read the same about Altman. I have no idea if he has been physically violent with anyone that works for him, but I imagine if that were the case, we would have heard about it.
My beef with the 15 yr old is that she is equating words with violence.
Not a word on the latest racial remark from an ex president who was unfit for office.
Obama?
No Corn Pop.
Corn Pop was a bad dude
Joe Biden thinks all tall slim black guys look like Obama.
Only if they are articulate and bright and clean.
The Fake Catholic case for war. I am Catholic. Catholics are much more prevalent in other nations. Christian religions trying to make cases for wars is primarily an American special. Everyone knows this war was goaded on by Netanyahu. Period. It has been very bad for Israel which has further alienated the larger world for a corrupt leader. I feel bad for Israelis under Netanyahu’s rule.
"Goaded by Netanyahu" is a tell, Ray.
And "further alienated the larger world?" Yeah, I remember all the international accolades for the Je--I mean, Israel, before 2025. The world doesn't like Israel, but it's not for the reasons you think.
Netanyahu is a courageous leader, defending his people against vicious enemies who wantonly and repeatedly attack Israel and kill men, women and children.
No matter what Israel does, the mostly-Muslim countries of the U.N. and the mostly-Leftist countries of Europe will hate and deride Israel and its supporters.
Israel could cure cancer and it would make no difference (and in fact they have found cures for some forms of cancer).
Pope John Paul II who stood boldly against the Soviets and understood there wasn't a moral equivalence between the west and communist dictators, knew better. He called them a moral evil and a 'culture of lies'. If only Leo had such moral clarity. He's beginning to sound more like a Chicago alderman who hates anything Trump, than an icon of human rights and what's best for the world.
Israel fighting back against people who fire missiles against them, rape, murder, and kidnap them, always seems to alienate the larger world.
The opinion piece on Catholicism was good and instructive, but it seems like it would be consistent with the FP's stated mission to also publish a counterpoint--what are the theological bases of the Pope's argument? But the FP is pro-war, not a ball and strike caller on Iran, so I won't hold my breath.
I believe most of the rational thinking people of this country (much less the world) see a man who lives behind 25-30' walls 10' thick, with a private army, enveloped in riches beyond (almost) imagination, at the top of an institution that has damaged thousands of people on its own, with no real consequences, caving to a 'religion' whose main premise is the eradication of people who won't succumb (including Catholics) to it's 'call' - talking about things way above his comprehension, and know better than to even consider his pontifical (pun intended) lecturing.
Well, the Pope is out of his lane, agreed, but the Crusades were the first failure of Catholics to control Muslim terrorists who still want to kill all other faiths especially Jews. The Pope has the Vatican. The Jews have Israel. Bringing “wealth” into the equation serves no purpose, and belittles the generosity of Christians and Catholics alike.
The crusades occurred centuries after early Christians (i.e. Catholics) decided to adopt most pagan rituals into their ceremonies and beliefs. Whereas the prophet Hosea said that God never changes, the early "Christian" church was compelled to change God's Sabbath to the Day of the Sun. The church was bastardized to get pagans to join and now it is Satan's church.
You've missed my points--again, The FP should publish a counterpoint and let us decide; and The FP is not a fair dealer on these issues. I'm not talking about the pope or TDS or anything.
That is what all media should do, but don't. As mentioned, there are plenty of counterpoints published all over the place to the FP piece about the pope.
This is a good point and I am tiring of “Free Press” inability to post another point of view on wars involving Israel.
"I don't hate Israel--just Netanyahu and his cronies."
"I'm an anti-Zionist; what makes you think I hate Jews?"
Zionism means different things to different people. I do firmly believe Israel has a right to exist just not a right to be run the way it’s being run and it’s certainly not entitled to US FREE support, particularly when it has fat better social programs than US. THIS IS AN ISSUE WITH MOST US FOREIGN AID, not Israel specific. Why should or taxpayers have to fork out 200k for our kids colleges while EU and Israel have free/highly subsidized colleges and healthcare programs? Why are we chumps? Part of being a chump is storming into war with a tiny ally and not even bothering with your friends. Let’s say Iran really was close to a nuke (highly doubtful based on years of Netanyahu lies), but even so: Europe and Israel far more at risk than US. We are protected by oceans. And an ocean gives a long time for drones to knock down missiles.
I hate the word Zionism. I am against Netanyahu and his cronies as well. Maybe we agree.
I think you missed my point....
Maybe so. These days I am exhausted reading about the new wars the Empire must fight as I work hard to save for my son’s pending college and my own ever so distant retirement. The Iran war was a mistake. This is not America’s fight. Maybe it’s Israel’s fight. Maybe. But Israel would be better served creating more friends than seizing more land. Creating chaos does not magically create a better Iran. Reconstruction is never discussed by neocons, and it’s the reason Germany and Japan became Allies: bombs don’t save people.
Just like the pope, you are one man in a world of billions. Your opinion has value to you and to you alone.
Israel "seized" land? So when your tiny country is attacked repeatedly from all sides by enemies dedicated to the eradication of your people (i.e., Jews), and you defend yourself and capture territory that belonged to your attackers, that's land "seizure?"
And briefly, the two atomic bombs dropped at the end of WWII on Japan likely saved millions of Japanese and American lives.
There are already plenty of articles bashing Israel and Trump in the 'mainstream' media.
You are right and I haven't seen any theological bases for the Pope's argument anywhere. Maybe there aren't any.
The pope has TDS what more needs to be said.
You've missed my points--again, The FP should publish a counterpoint and let us decide; and The FP is not a fair dealer on these issues. I'm not talking about the pope or TDS or anything.
And you miss mine. I’ve had seventy two years of Vatican lectures that is enough. The Pontiff’s viewpoint is widely available. A sycophants obfuscatory rhetoric is a waste of space.
Bill Shipley has a great piece over on Shipwreckedcrew on Substack regarding his take on the reason the Swalwell Fit Hit the Shan. Pelosi, the CA Governor race, and taking the legs out from under a 2036 potential candidate. As Daly of Chicago once said, “Politics ain’t beanbag.”
It has nothing to do with Swalwell raping women and sleeping with Chinese spies.
It has everything to do with clearing the way for a Democrat to win the jungle election.
It really shows just how cold-blooded and brutal the Dems are. Imagine what they might be willing do the rest of us if they ever amassed enough power. Their actions in Virginia recently prove ruthless they are. Something to remember this November.
They're evil, cynical scum. And it looks like they'll win.
Virginia, like Maryland, is nothing but a bedroom community to DC, filled with useless bureaucrats and welfare recipients whose way of life is dependent on Big Government. There is no reason to imagine the leeches living in Virginia would vote to eliminate their useless jobs and unearned benefits.
The only thing Trump and the Republicans can do to fix this is moving some of the agencies to other places. For example, in his first term, he moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado, to be closer to the land they actually manage. He also moved an agriculture agency to Kansas, closer to farmland they deal with. Oh, were they angry. Hundreds of them quit rather than go to Kansas.
Thank you for reminding me of the brilliance of our POTUS. In this age of instant electronic communication, there is no reason for the entire east coast to be a ghetto for bums of all kinds.