I read the JFK conspiracy story this morning and did some Googling, and found a Psychology Today article which notes that Oswald exhibited some strange psychological characteristics, although the one that stuck out to me was about how he was a loner who seems to fit the profile of many of our mass shooters today. I think he acted alone, and if he didn't, the truth is probably too old and hoary to care about.
Stop saying it's Hamas!!! "Regular" civilians kidnapped the Bibas family. We don't want to acknowledge this, but an entire nation has been brainwashed. Extremists have been in charge of education in Gaza for over 20 years!
Love this new addition at the bottom of The Front Agree with this piece?
“You won’t agree with everything we run. And that’s the point. Forward this story and start a conversation”
I share content from the FP daily on other Social Media sites. Very interesting that I don’t get a lot of engagement, perhaps I’m speaking to a lot in the same camp. However, there are a lot of great points and insights from commenters.
I think in addition, it would be great if the writers of a particular piece and/or members of the editorial staff would also engage with the readers on comments that were “highly liked”. They could address whether it made them see a particular opinion they possessed from a different pov. What do others think, agree or disagree?
River, Bernie Sanders is a lifelong communist. He supported the brutal mass murderer Fidel Castro; he admired Russia, who slaughtered more of their own citizen than Hitler did in all of his death camps. He admired the Sandinistas.
And you volunteered to be a campaign volunteer for Bernie. Are you nutz, or just an underground communist?
When I was young and stupid, I made thoughtless, stupid mistakes, so I shouldn't be too hard on you.
Probably most of us were ignorant when young. I made comments in my early 20s that could easily have been interpreted as supporting communism.
But then you grow up. Get a job. And you quickly realize that half the population would gladly let you do all of the work while they loaf, or don't show up to work at all. And then you realize that communism has never worked, and never will. If you don't reward the talented, the ambitious, the brilliant, and the hard workers, they all end up being loafers.
And the loafers in the Soviet Union all drank vodka to cope. A lot of vodka.
"The online right is creating a monster." This is a scare headline to get people to read this nonsense. The Right, which is anything more conservative than the far-left radicals that like to call themselves progressives, are only dismantling a political machine that has usurped our Constitution for way too many years.
I'd say going all the way back to 1932 and FDR, followed by constant Democrat control of congress for over 40 years. Afterwards there was a period of Democrat control with country club Republicans who weren't all that interested in slowing the growth of government.
Ronald Reagan identified the problem, saying: "Government isn't the answer, it is the problem." However, he wasn't able to substantially alter the course of the giant government continuing to grow out of control. With the help of those George H.W. Bush big government Republicans.
For the very first time since 1932 this government is being held accountable to We The People. And you think that is bad, creating a monster.
The way I see it is that there is a dragon slayer killing the monster and you are unable to see that.
Europe definitely needs to carry more of the weight (and expense) for its defense, but to think that "we have a big, beautiful ocean" separating us and protecting us is embarrassingly absurd. It didn't protect us in WWII and the ability of foreign threats to mess with us now makes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor look like a catapults from the Middle Ages.
One, between now and the next Mid-term elections, the financial future of the US will be significantly improved. The cost of Government will decrease. Government borrowing will similarly decrease. Interest rates will decline, not because of the Fed (though they may help) but due to the bond market itself. And though the overall nature of the Government will have changed, there's no way of predicting exactly in what ways. (Hint: Read the 2025 Presidential Transition Project)
Two, its going to be rough on just about everybody.
The economy doesn't care where money comes from (taxes, borrowing). Its all the same.
It only cares about how much.
So when you have an entity that represents 40% of the nation's GDP that's hell bent to cut that amount without a significant increase in the other 60%, or worse, a decrease, there are going to be problems.
As we have seen, the cuts come quick and fast. The other side can take its own sweet time.
Anybody who's business plan (personal or corporate) includes government checks is going to face retrenchment. From the likes of Boeing and Meta, to the family depending on welfare, earned income credit, home heating oil money, pell grants, free municipal bus rides, etc., to the Universities who fund their giant administrative overhead with 50% surcharges on research grants.
(Full disclosure: Our #2 son is an assistant Dean at one of these places and is currently dealing with a giant financial hole in his school's budget. He'd also like to point out that one of the primary reasons their administration costs are so high is directly the result of Government diktats. Hopefully this will change)
Yesterdays announcement that the DOD wants to fund an 8% increase certain budgets within the Department by cutting 8% from others (each year for the next five...a total shift of 40%) sent the Dow into a tizzy.
This is not to be the last of such shocks.
Then, there are the mid-terms themselves.
After some year and a half of economic shocks, take-aways of support from the largest of institutions to the people next door, what will be the mood of the electorate?
Will “the new vibe” survive the reality of change?
Or will the slim MAGA majority be wiped out by a whole bunch of people who find their condition a lot less Golden than before and the message from the other side is “We'll give it all back!”
As a liberal (but no longer democrat) San Francisco native, I can’t think of a worse fate for California than electing Kamala Harris as governor. Can she please just go away and leave us alone?
"In more weird but true news: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass told a local Fox News affiliate she’s investigating why she was allowed to go on a trip to Ghana days before wildfires swept her city, eventually killing 29 people."
So sorry you didn’t get a less committed and nuanced discussion on the Trump firings /executive orders. There is a fourth branch of govt not provided in the Constitution —unelected and most resembling the Mandarins of the late Manchus or the Turkish Vizers of the late Ottoman Empire. Repealing a prior executive order seems rather obviously legal. Get a real lawyer writer as opposed to an appartnik preaching faux law. Perhaps Dershowitz or many others.
The hostages will only come with sustained military pressure including a siege of Gaza and no Israeli concessions in the second round of negotiations You do not bargain with two legged animals
I read the JFK conspiracy story this morning and did some Googling, and found a Psychology Today article which notes that Oswald exhibited some strange psychological characteristics, although the one that stuck out to me was about how he was a loner who seems to fit the profile of many of our mass shooters today. I think he acted alone, and if he didn't, the truth is probably too old and hoary to care about.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evil-deeds/201311/why-did-lee-harvey-oswald-kill-john-fitzgerald-kennedy
L.A. Mayor demanding an investigation into WHY she was ALLOWED to take HER trip to Ghana.
In her mind every bad decision by a politician needs an investigation. What a crock!
But very funny.
Mazel tov to Candace Mittel Kahn! Am Yisrael Chai!
Hoping Madeleine Kearns is doing journalism we can depend on to give us the real deal on DOGE.
Stop saying it's Hamas!!! "Regular" civilians kidnapped the Bibas family. We don't want to acknowledge this, but an entire nation has been brainwashed. Extremists have been in charge of education in Gaza for over 20 years!
Courtesy of UNRWA and unaccounted for billions in international aid.
Love this new addition at the bottom of The Front Agree with this piece?
“You won’t agree with everything we run. And that’s the point. Forward this story and start a conversation”
I share content from the FP daily on other Social Media sites. Very interesting that I don’t get a lot of engagement, perhaps I’m speaking to a lot in the same camp. However, there are a lot of great points and insights from commenters.
I think in addition, it would be great if the writers of a particular piece and/or members of the editorial staff would also engage with the readers on comments that were “highly liked”. They could address whether it made them see a particular opinion they possessed from a different pov. What do others think, agree or disagree?
I love that Karen Bass seems to be blaming the system for preventing her from traveling to Africa?
I’m just some guy up in canada and I knew 3-5 days before this event that conditions were going to come together, by following Substack
Ryan Maue’s site is very good
https://weather.substack.com/
We all start off on the left, green, woke and naive.
Then life kicks off and we realise.........
River, Bernie Sanders is a lifelong communist. He supported the brutal mass murderer Fidel Castro; he admired Russia, who slaughtered more of their own citizen than Hitler did in all of his death camps. He admired the Sandinistas.
And you volunteered to be a campaign volunteer for Bernie. Are you nutz, or just an underground communist?
When I was young and stupid, I made thoughtless, stupid mistakes, so I shouldn't be too hard on you.
I bet none of yours were Bernie-level blunders, but I could be wrong. I know it never occurred to me that I had rights to something I didn't earn
No, I have always been a conservative, not a Republican, a conservative. I vote Rep because I have no other choice.
Probably most of us were ignorant when young. I made comments in my early 20s that could easily have been interpreted as supporting communism.
But then you grow up. Get a job. And you quickly realize that half the population would gladly let you do all of the work while they loaf, or don't show up to work at all. And then you realize that communism has never worked, and never will. If you don't reward the talented, the ambitious, the brilliant, and the hard workers, they all end up being loafers.
And the loafers in the Soviet Union all drank vodka to cope. A lot of vodka.
"The online right is creating a monster." This is a scare headline to get people to read this nonsense. The Right, which is anything more conservative than the far-left radicals that like to call themselves progressives, are only dismantling a political machine that has usurped our Constitution for way too many years.
I'd say going all the way back to 1932 and FDR, followed by constant Democrat control of congress for over 40 years. Afterwards there was a period of Democrat control with country club Republicans who weren't all that interested in slowing the growth of government.
Ronald Reagan identified the problem, saying: "Government isn't the answer, it is the problem." However, he wasn't able to substantially alter the course of the giant government continuing to grow out of control. With the help of those George H.W. Bush big government Republicans.
For the very first time since 1932 this government is being held accountable to We The People. And you think that is bad, creating a monster.
The way I see it is that there is a dragon slayer killing the monster and you are unable to see that.
Oh they see it. Maybe they are really routing for the monster. I know that sounds crazy. But how do you explain the millions who voted for Kamala?
Europe definitely needs to carry more of the weight (and expense) for its defense, but to think that "we have a big, beautiful ocean" separating us and protecting us is embarrassingly absurd. It didn't protect us in WWII and the ability of foreign threats to mess with us now makes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor look like a catapults from the Middle Ages.
He who predicts the future is a fool.
And here I am.
Two things.
One, between now and the next Mid-term elections, the financial future of the US will be significantly improved. The cost of Government will decrease. Government borrowing will similarly decrease. Interest rates will decline, not because of the Fed (though they may help) but due to the bond market itself. And though the overall nature of the Government will have changed, there's no way of predicting exactly in what ways. (Hint: Read the 2025 Presidential Transition Project)
Two, its going to be rough on just about everybody.
The economy doesn't care where money comes from (taxes, borrowing). Its all the same.
It only cares about how much.
So when you have an entity that represents 40% of the nation's GDP that's hell bent to cut that amount without a significant increase in the other 60%, or worse, a decrease, there are going to be problems.
As we have seen, the cuts come quick and fast. The other side can take its own sweet time.
Anybody who's business plan (personal or corporate) includes government checks is going to face retrenchment. From the likes of Boeing and Meta, to the family depending on welfare, earned income credit, home heating oil money, pell grants, free municipal bus rides, etc., to the Universities who fund their giant administrative overhead with 50% surcharges on research grants.
(Full disclosure: Our #2 son is an assistant Dean at one of these places and is currently dealing with a giant financial hole in his school's budget. He'd also like to point out that one of the primary reasons their administration costs are so high is directly the result of Government diktats. Hopefully this will change)
Yesterdays announcement that the DOD wants to fund an 8% increase certain budgets within the Department by cutting 8% from others (each year for the next five...a total shift of 40%) sent the Dow into a tizzy.
This is not to be the last of such shocks.
Then, there are the mid-terms themselves.
After some year and a half of economic shocks, take-aways of support from the largest of institutions to the people next door, what will be the mood of the electorate?
Will “the new vibe” survive the reality of change?
Or will the slim MAGA majority be wiped out by a whole bunch of people who find their condition a lot less Golden than before and the message from the other side is “We'll give it all back!”
Change brings peril. Much change coming.
As a liberal (but no longer democrat) San Francisco native, I can’t think of a worse fate for California than electing Kamala Harris as governor. Can she please just go away and leave us alone?
Kamala is the poster girl for the empty mind.
She will make a worthy successor for Karen Bass, the old poster girl for the empty mind.
"In more weird but true news: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass told a local Fox News affiliate she’s investigating why she was allowed to go on a trip to Ghana days before wildfires swept her city, eventually killing 29 people."
The Bee has the scoop:
https://babylonbee.com/news/la-mayor-promises-full-investigation-into-why-she-was-allowed-to-become-la-mayor
She wasn't "allowed" to go on the boondoggle trip to Ghana.
She decided to go despite warnings of fire catastrophe. Big difference.
So sorry you didn’t get a less committed and nuanced discussion on the Trump firings /executive orders. There is a fourth branch of govt not provided in the Constitution —unelected and most resembling the Mandarins of the late Manchus or the Turkish Vizers of the late Ottoman Empire. Repealing a prior executive order seems rather obviously legal. Get a real lawyer writer as opposed to an appartnik preaching faux law. Perhaps Dershowitz or many others.
Ooh, I like it!
The hostages will only come with sustained military pressure including a siege of Gaza and no Israeli concessions in the second round of negotiations You do not bargain with two legged animals