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Jim I's avatar
Dec 6Edited

Now is our chance to choose the right side in this battle between truth and error.

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Scott A Miller's avatar

Why can’t we just rename the progressive left the regressives and be done with them. Destroying america is their goal and they could care less about who they offend in the process.

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AG's avatar

Thank you for the article on Päivi Räsänen, it's disgusting what her government is doing to her.

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Dan McRae's avatar

Attention Editorial Board- The next time you think about publishing an article that cites WAPO for anything, read this first- An Anonymous Source Has Revealed To Us That The Washington Post's Journalists All Still Wet The Bed And Wear Paw Patrol Pajamas (Which Are For Dumb Little Babies) buff.ly/gyVnmBE

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Barrett Burka MD's avatar

UK: Rioting, looting & burning: Where have I seen that before? No Go Zones: Sounds suspiciously like a Caliphate! There's something similar brewing in Dearborn & Minneapolis. Is it coming to America? Is the evolving Civil War in the UK to be a French Revolution redux? If so who's playing Robespierre?

Hegseth: Why should the Sec. of War be a combat veteran? Why have a no nonsense leader who wants to instill discipline, pride & purpose in the ranks? Personally I'd prefer to have Lloyd Austin (Moe), Mark Milley (Curly) & Highden Biden (Larry). For those who are uninformed they were the Three Stooges who were a movie, slap stick, comedy team.

Judges: It's obvious that DEI Judges are as competent as DEI physicians. All their clients/patients should be Progressive Democrats.

Asylum Seekers: Those Quran knowledgeable, adept at using explosives, trained in decapitation, misogynistic & DEI trained are most desirable. Astrophysicists need not apply.

Massachusetts: Undoing legal weed: It's a waste of time because most of their local & national politicians appear to be high on something other than WEED!

Catcher in the Rye anachronistic? Don't think so!

Narco-terrorists: They should move in with Sen. Van Hellen They can become drinking buddies!

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Jan Kitchel's avatar

Many, if not most people in the US don't realize that the rest of the world does not have free speech. Not even close.

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Herodotus II's avatar

Fightin' Jim McGreevey: "an extramarital affair with another man." Oh, no, not aNOTHER! Redundant much? Or just scared of River's wrath; because you couldn't just say, "an extramarital affair with a man," could you? That would be, like, homophobic. Right? Buehler?

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Faith Ham's avatar

The level of fraudulent research now being exposed on everything from sexuality to drugs to climate change is breath taking. As TheFP covers the climate science hoax, over at Coffee & Covid, Jeff Childers notes former editors of The BMJ (England’s JAMA), The Lancet, and The New England Journal of Medicine have washed their hand of modern clinical research. The objective now is to use (aka manipulate) data to prove — not disprove — the thesis. Meanwhile, in the humanities, we’ve got Ken Burns and his latest revisionist series on the American Revolution. Having read the criticisms, I wondered how accurate his other productions have been. Not much, apparently. ChatGPT pumped out a host major flaws in past works ranging from factual errors to reliance on lore over fact to bias. Maybe the problem in Burns’s work is his approach to history. He said in 2016: “History is a mysterious and malleable thing, constantly changing, not just as new information emerges, but as our own interests, emotions and inclinations change. Each generation rediscovers and reexamines that part of its past that gives its present new meaning, new possibility and new power.”

He’s correct that history changes as undiscovered facts emerge. But it’s malleable to our whims? Is he advocating your history vs /my history, a la your truth vs my truth. I always thought you pursue history wherever the facts take you. Kind of like science. This guy is revered in our schools. No wonder we’re in trouble.

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Judy Watson's avatar

Thank you. I watched the series on FDR. A saint! However there was criticism of his antisemitism which Burns somehow forgot. So, it was answered by another documentary in which Burns blamed the Jews. After that I was done with him and his ego. He knows God anointed him…….

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Valoree Dowell's avatar

It wasn’t God, it was Team Davos. And blessed with the virtue signal PBS trademark.

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Jim I's avatar

Many Americans hate the liberty that gives us our unique freedom.

In fact all Progressives and most Dems are on a path to eliminate our liberty.

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Jonesy's avatar

You're quite correct, and the Founding Fathers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, that could come under attack from time to time. That's the very reason they wrote the Second Amendment.

"To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them." - George Mason

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234's avatar

If our military intelligence was good enough to uncover Japan's covert attack on Midway Is. in 1942 resulting in sinking 4 of Japan's aircraft carriers and a decisive victory which turned the battle in the Pacific around to our favor, don't you think by now we know where the narco-terrorists are, and the difference between a speed boat flying across the water at 80 mph and some random peasant fishing boat bobbing along in calm waters? Pleeeeeze

The problem is half of America believes this BS Democrats are peddling and the MSM won't broadcast any truth whatsoever.

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Judy Watson's avatar

You are right. I come from a television news background. This is all b.s. created for the big screen. Don’t blame the newscasters. They are scripted and read off teleprompters. Blame management and the corporations who pick up the tab.

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Rocket J. Squirrel's avatar

Hard to take Betz seriously after reading that he says "areas of negotiated policing" instead of no-go zones. He probably also says "gravitationally-magnified" instead of fat. And of course the bad guys in his story are not the grooming gangs or those that empower them, but those who oppose them. Maybe Betz is just trying really hard to be popular on some cocktail circuit. He's echoing the Biden administration's statements that the greatest terrorist threat is people who like Latin mass. He says that the civil war will come not from those who facilitate the destruction of England, but from those who decide not to bend over and take it.

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Kurt Slentz's avatar

On the climate: when science is used to further an agenda instead of verifying a hypotheses, the result will always be questionable and corrupt conclusions.

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Faith Ham's avatar

The crisis inherent in all these stories —- Trump the Tyrant, America the Hegemon, climate change is real, perception and feelings are more scientifically valid than biology, weed is harmless — is this shit is the foundation of K-12 curriculum being pounded into our kids’ heads in both public and private schools. Think DEI is dead? How is it then that our school district, ostensibly one of the best in the state, passed its DEI policy last year. How is it the state requires schools to offer anything-but-white history courses. How is it that our state still pushes its LGBTQ policy guidelines on public schools and insists athletic teams allow students to play on the teams according to gender preference. If we’re going to truly beat the fake science, we’d better start by getting rid of fake education.

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Judy Watson's avatar

Before Sonny boy got involved I would ask of each station, NPR, PBS, etc., if Soros funded it. If the answer was yes I knew the dialogue would show his twisted mentality.

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Faith Ham's avatar

Driving home from the grocery store last night, I masochistically subjected myself to around of All Things Considered. I can’t recall the first of the three stories. The second featured the potato-mouthed androgynous host reporting on fears that Trump will tamper with and throw the midterms. Besides one Minnesotan Republican (oxymoron), all secretaries of state quoted were blue state Dems spouting hypotheticals. None had concrete evidence of any kind beyond Trump’s ongoing 2020 election denial. Alas, we obviously have been and are living in an age where ifs are fact. Story two was a screed against Trump lowering CAFE standards in order to feed America’s appetite for gas guzzlers. Oh, and to make cars and trucks cheaper (affordability, anyone?). These two Val Gals, who ended every sentence with a question mark, told listeners not to fear. American auto makers still had to compete in Europe which was “still concerned about the climate.”

My hope is I was the only one left listening to unfunded, untethered NPR.

By the way, is it me, or is TheFP commentariat shrinking.

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LFPeg's avatar

“Potato-mouthed”, that really nails the NPR voice. I’ve always wondered if they put gauze over their microphones. I often wonder if NPR listeners notice this affectation. And the val-gal upspeak sets my teeth on edge. It’s been going on for at least 30 years and I’m bewildered as to why it hadn’t dissipated. I was with a group of 35-ish women recently who had the accent down perfectly. It’s almost as though they do it because they enjoy listening to themselves.

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Rocket J. Squirrel's avatar

Interesting that you have the columns on England and Hegseth in the same issue. Trump and Hegseth are just fighting the threat to which England has already lost.

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Clarity Seeker's avatar

The jews of europe needed asylum. Why? Because the nazis were killing them ( or is this a debatable point). So if a citizen of a country needs asylum it's because they live in a hellhole and their native country should be treated by the world as a pariah. People seeking asylum from country X waving the flags of country X deserve asylum in the US ( thats a rhetorical question)? And many country X's serve on human rights and similar global groups with billions in funding? The asylum industry is both fraudulent and corrupt. And yet we have so many in congress or who rule on these matters who are part of the fraud. Try better TFP .

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