On the live stream commentary of the interview as it was happening, Matt kept saying "there's something wrong with her...Walter, don't you think so?". I agree. She looked like she was having a severe anxiety attack. I think that's why she had to bring Walz. Also, Dana Bash was too afraid to press her hard because of it, she could tell there was something wrong too. Having had debilitating anxiety in the past (panic attacks, couldn't hang out with friends, couldn't go to the doctor alone), I can sympathize. However, if that is the case, she needs to step out of the race, not only for her own health but the sake of the country. You can't have debilitating anxiety and do a good job as president.
Once you’ve seen some of the clips of her at her maximum cackle in the past, it’s difficult not to wonder if she was drunk. The more recently clips, I don’t see that. Even the word salads—which were a different phenomenon than the cackle attacks, and seemingly more indicative of an inability to think clearly instead of a loss of inhibitions—are less frequent than before. I suspect that she is being very carefully monitored and controlled.
Key question is whether it moved the needle on polling. It may be too soon to tell. But I would speculate the interview will hurt her more than help and we may not see many more canned interviews. She did show she did not need her governor support blanket in this format.
MCL, I think she did use her governor support blanket during the interview. He was there to bring the "sour puss" face and somber demeanor, to keep her on track and to keep her from devolving into giggling and cackling, as is her norm.
The whole point if the interview is just to check the box so now they can say they done interviews. It's to take away a critic's talking point. It was never meant to address any substance. It's enough to assure those who vote based on vibes.
“Dana Bash (the interviewer) gives the impression that she is pressing Harris with challenging questions, but those questions were almost certainly given to Harris in advance so that she could prepare for them.“
Are you sure that the DNC didn’t “suggest” some of the questions to Bash? I almost expected her to end some of the answers with “and the mome raths outgrabe.”
As for a tax credit, that’s a significant gift. It’s not a tax deduction, which allows you to decrease the income that’s being taxed; it’s a straight up decrease in tax paid off the bottom line. If you make $50,000 in a year, have $5,000 in deductions, and pay a total of 20% in taxes, that means you pay $9,000 in taxes. If you have a $25,000 tax credit, you pay zero dollars in (at least federal) tax that year and get a check from the IRS for ($25,000 - $9,000 = ) $16,000. Heck of a deal.
If Newsome signs the legislation on his desk, illegals in California will also receive that gift. Under Democrat rule, as California goes, so, eventually, goes the nation.
This is kinda fun. Will a zero down -- zero interest loan qualify as "imputed income?" Like the taxes that I pay if I have too many personal miles on my company car? If not, why not? If so, who will pay the resulting taxes? (Asking for a friend.)
A few years ago (I don't remember the details), the democrats were trying to pay the credit directly to people who didn't pay taxes...all in the name of 'fairness'. Don't know exactly what happened to that. Just another wonderful democrat giveaway to their supporters.
And something they are not addressing at all is the fact that the monthly mortgage payment is much higher now, not just because of housing prices, but because of inflation. A house that costs $200K will have a MUCH higher monthly payment at 7% interest than at 2% interest.
I will never understand why inflation is not taken into account when determining capital gains. If I buy a stock in 1980 for $10 and it soars to $1,300 over 44 years, I should only have to pay a gain (well, I don't think I should ever have to pay a gain as I'm putting my money at risk and used post tax dollars to buy that stock) on the inflation adjusted cost of that stock. IT'S A RACKET!! Government causes inflation then taxes me on top of it.
Not entirely sure about that. Say you’re the lender and you know that the person in front of you is getting that. If the gov agrees to most the $25k directly to my company, that stands against a down payment.
The way the gov sold Medicare to doctors was the promise of payments directly to them rather than through the patient. Hard to believe, but patients faced with large medical bills would sometimes just pocket the payment check and stiff the doctors and hospitals. Kinda like the still do with home repairs after storms and fires….
Medicine went for that and has been regretting it ever since.
Dunno. They did with Medicare and everyone but the medical establishment liked it. And, of course, it’s only the greedy doctors, hospitals, and Pharma that don’t like it.
However way it works, it assumes you have the money to spend to begin with. I think those who already have that spending power are not the ones in immediate need. How policies can make things easier for them is really splitting hair (or is it cutting hair?) It's the people who can't afford to buy a house at all, or even pay taxes or that amount of to begin with, who the policies need to address.
Great breakdown of the interview Celia! Also the video dropped Nicole Shanahan is outstanding. I've sent it to many of my friends who suffer from TDS. We'll see if it moves any of them.
Finally......looks like I'm banned from the comments at 'The Almost Free Press'. Who knows what the infraction was as it doesn't look like the communicate it with those they ban. Go figure.
Sorry you’re unjustly banned without a reason. Of course it means you’re not supporting the party line. Congratulations! Well done! 👍🏻 🎉
Today’s formerly FP essay was actually decent—about a guy who learned to be an electrician at age 14 while living in an ashram. What’s weird is that they’ve turned off comments! Why?
I tried to comment, too. I was going to praise the essay, which I thought was a powerful demonstration of how important male working class jobs are. But I guess the other writers were so offended by criticism that they turned off the comments this time. That seems pretty weak to me. And ironically, the article was about being "tough" and not a navel gazing lightweight!
I went to the Book Club Reading the other night, an interview with Julius Taranto, author of "How I Won a Nobel Prize." The ruse was that this novel is a subversive take on cancel culture. Suzy Weiss (who, I just realized, is Bari's sister) probed Taranto for his take on canceling, mob rule, etc.
Weiss: "In your opinion, which was the most unjust cancelation?"
Yes great review. But I insist Kamala was reading answers throughout. It looks crystal clear to me she was looking down at written answers, eiher on paper or some kind of teleprompter.
Loved the Shanahan video and I am sending it far and wide.
Change your plan to monthly on the site, then cancel. They will refund all but the charge for September and your subscription will end at the end of this month.
I once attended a community theatre production of “The Teahouse of the August Moon.” The old actor playing the general kept opening drawers and shuffling papers between lines. It didn’t fool anyone in the audience, but the other actors onstage did a heck of a job keeping straight faces - until one of the drawers jammed and there was a two-minute lapse in dialogue until the commander forcefully pried the darned thing open.
That’s another thing to love about community theater—the entertainment within the entertainment.
I was in the front row for a performance of True West at a community theater in Berkeley 15 years ago. During the fight scene between the brothers one of the actors threw an empty coffee can that grazed my head and landed in the empty row behind me.
In 2008, I was at a performance of “the Scottish play” at The Swan in Stratford on Avon when, during the heat of battle, half a broadsword flew over the center orchestra section. The audience parted like the Red Sea, no one was hit, an usher retrieved the broken blade, and the play resumed without further incident.
Another Awakened (aka deWoked) commenter with knowledge of such things observed the weird production values; ie, office-like venue, seating arrangements, lighting... I think y'all are on to the reason why. Good job.
There was a body language expert on Fox News that said Kamala's lack of eye contact with Dana Bash or the camera and her frequently looking down were signs of a lack of self-confidence. She certainly didn't come off as presidential.
Twice for me and the term they used was "Jerk." Both times when I pushed back on two Liberals who were excoriating Conservatives for being dumb, sports team obsessed incurious know nothings.
It's over a year now so hard to retrieve. If I post a comment it's almost immediately deleted. Their "news" department has been drifting leftward for years but are now just a version of the NY Times. The editorials can be more sane at times but still reliably support the forever wars.
The good news is that when I threatened to cancel they reduced the monthly price from something like $30 to just $2. So I doubt I'm alone is thinking they suck. Although their financial news is worth that deeply discounted amount.
My first time on Celia’s site, and I’m liking it. To answer your question, I sent Shanahan’s video to my sister, the consummate TDS sufferer. Her response was to laugh at the irony (?) and to ask if I owned a mirror. To even attempt to point out the absurdities of her response was beyond me, though I’ve certainly tried in the past. I don’t get it. Other than to realize we live in a parallel universe, I simply cannot figure out why TDS overrules facts and common sense.
Also, sorry you’re banned; you don’t even get a reason for it? That’s crazy.
Excellent point. I'm certain that the vast majority of public teachers think like her sister. I know all of the teachers I'm familiar with do. This is another tragedy that we have allowed to happen in America. The absolute destruction of our public school education system has been fomented by the unionized, selfish, woke, leftist, and socialist education establishment. My Mother (who was a school Teacher) would agree with me wholeheartedly.
you might have to unfollow as well, they still may send emails to new stories and content, even though you are no longer subscribed. at least that happened to me. i think substack views those as two completely different actions that you have to clip the strings on.
Yeah, I had to go back in and unsubscribe from the “free” version of the subscription after my paid subscription lapsed, because they kept sending me emails.
Maybe you were banned because you speak the truth- very dangerous when democrats and media are trying to sell us a fool who is more dangerous than the current fool
Just keep posting here Evans! You always had good posts on TFP. Why throw your pearls before swine? I'm tempted to try sending Shanahan's video to my TDS friends, but I think it may be just that (pearls before piggies) but you never know?
I frequently enjoy your comments more than the articles at TFP. I've never found anything you've said to be over the line. If they banned you, they must really not want ANY discerning voices in the comments or calling out of their biases.
Excellent dissection of a bad show’s transcript. It was torture to watch the performance on a stage that someone said that it looked like a “break room”. What was worse, was watching the TFP live commentary on X. TFP had to be watching a different interview. Which ballpark they were in to say/see “hits out of it”? I heard/saw disingenuous word salad answers to easy and obvious questions that had no follow-up. They must be sure on the Dem puppets winning the election and setting TFP up to have “press credentials” (now an oxymoron)! The more they insisted that Kamala did a good job on CNN interview, the more thinking people see the mirage they are presenting.
And the idiot Dem voters saw only what they wanted to see. Oh, isn’t she wonderful, the first black woman president-to-be! In rapture, no doubt. Hillary must be fuming. lol.
But she will, if Kamaltoes get's elected, have input into the administration, a sort of power behind the throne. The Clinton's and the Obama's haven't left the room.
Anyone who thinks Harris will have any say in how things get done is delusional. Hillary thinks putting a prettier face attached to an emptier head in front of her agenda will get the job done this time.
Sex symbol? What a horrible image, nightmare. It gets Brando's line about the children's arms, "The horror of that, the horror, the horror." And Brando could read that word better than any other human throughout all time.
I wonder. I've rather strongly suggested that the October Surprise will be President Kamala Harris, but I've since wondered why that's not what happened; when Mr Biden was bumped from candidacy; he could have been bumped into "retirement." It suggests that the Evul Kabal finds her too squirmy to be the blank slate-sock puppet. Pursuing that -- do They really care about winning in November? If she's too much of a loose cannon to elevate now, what if she's elected?
I think the reason they opted to not have him resign when he left the race is because that would put pressure on Harris to actually DO the things she's claiming she'll do. Her failure to solve all the problems instantly (even though that could not be expected logically) would not play well to an American public that is upset about prices and untrammeled immigration.
But it does seem possible that they will do an October surprise of that nature. Because the Democrats MUST have the first female POTUS. And while she could get away with doing little in less than a month, the cries to "give her chance" would probably motive some to vote.
Agreed that there will be some kind of Oct. surprise. I'm just not sure in what form it will come. But they will try something. Harris is beginning to lose steam, and will lose a lot more by October.
They know she's so incompetent that even a few months of her as President right now would hurt her election chances. Plus this way they can pretend she'll "fix" things when she gets into office, leaving out that she's in power right now and could be doing those things.
But They'd still be stuck with a loose cannon for 4 years plus, assuming that she can be dragged across the finish line following such a maneuver. OTOH if The Reaper steps in, I'd say that the bend over and kiss yourself goodbye might apply.
Shellenberger is the boy one who cuts through the BS . Harris is a disaster and wholly unqualified . She is a drunk probably mixed with pills of some sort
I love Batya, and I hope what she meant was Harris did a great job of doing what she had to do - reassure her base that she's who they thought she was at the convention. She didn't lose a single vote with her performance, which counts as a win considering how badly it could have gone (even with all the advantages CNN gave her).
Billiamo: I recently saw her on a couple of conservative podcasts. She seemed rational and in total agreement with the hosts. But then, she was primarily promoting her book.
I’m beginning to think she just swims with the tide.
A break room at the kiddy table with the “white man” towering over the women. Their TDS psychologists did their homework; thankfully it fools only fools.
The problem with having a problem with fracking is it reduces carbon emissions - it's the reason the US has had the greatest reductions in carbon emissions in the industrialized world - and carbon is the only environmental issue Democrats care about. They don't care about poison in the water, or anywhere (never forget that these are the people who ordered us to inject poison during covid). Their globalist agenda is destroying the ocean (and maybe, just maybe, killing off phytoplankton that's responsible for 50% of oxygen production and 70% of carbon dioxide consumption has some impact on atmospheric carbon) but they don't care about that. They don't care about the destruction of our soil (our most valuable asset, and the greatest, most useful, and most productive carbon sink on Earth). They only care about carbon.
Carbon is the goose that lays the golden egg for them - remediation costs trillions, and that money gets distributed to the very industries causing the problem. Incentives rear their ugly head again. And it will be even better for them if it turns out carbon isn't the problem, or the problem isn't even real. More money for their friends that way.
Mostly what I heard her say is "I'm gonna print a lot of money." There's an adage in IT infrastructure, throwing hardware at a problem doesn't actually solve the problem. The same is true of money. Giving money to small businesses (of which there are a lot fewer after she and her boss shut so many of them down) doesn't make those businesses more viable or competitive. Giving money to poor people doesn't make them more skilled or better educated (oops, forgot she doesn't care about poor people, a huge sign that she's a postmodernist at heart). I didn't hear a word about what that money would actually do. Likely because she has no idea.
A word about that tax credit. I've been the person who would receive it. And at the end of every year, after the standard deductions and earned income credit, I paid zero income taxes. Giving me an additional $6,000 in tax credits would have made zero difference for me. I suspect the same is true for low income families today. To me this seems like a gaudy proposal that will ultimately cost nothing and help no one.
The hell of it is Kamala surely had the questions in advance and there were strict rules about asking any others - Bash was hell bent on following her script no matter what. A huge team with plenty of time to prepare and all we got were ethereal responses to softball questions. This does not bode well.
I'm re-reading The Three Body Problem, and in it he quotes and then riffs on Goethe's "If I love you, what business is it of yours?" This felt like "If I screw you over, trample your rights, and betray this country, what business is it of yours?"
A series of sci fi books written by a Chinese author that uses a fictional narrative to describe totalitarianism in a way that was indirect enough to keep him out of trouble with his totalitarian government. Really excellent. There is a new Netflix series based upon the book that is highly recommended.
Thanks for taking on fracking. It also made the US energy-independent, something that's been Obviously Impossible since the '60s. Done responsibly, it's less environmentally harmful -- by far -- than massed Condor Cuisinarts.
Apparently just the tools employed to locate and place foundations make the whales kinda crazy even before the things are built. The list of unseen and/or carefully hidden costs of every "green" energy source on an industrial scale is endless.
Thank you so much for taking one for the team by suffering through the public-relations carnival of nothingness! I definitely appreciate it, because I just couldn’t listen to her old crow (crone) voice or lies.
Thank you for another outstanding summary and analysis of a key event.
TDS is incurable. Voters, legal and otherwise, are willing to believe bold bald lies rather than admit Harris/Walz will finish the destruction of Americans, Democracy and finally, America without a single shot fired.
TDS is not incurable. I am living proof of that. I had TDS because I religiously watched MSNBC and read the Washington Post. What punctured my balloon was learning the truth about Jacob Blake and Kyle Rittenhouse - the former who they treated as an innocent martyr and the latter who they smeared as an evil white supremacist. They lied. They were also incredibly hypocritical about the violent BLM riots. I do not like being lied to. And having seen the horrific decline of our country not only at home but around the world (thanks to the Biden admin's appeasement of Iran) I now have DDS: Democrat Derangement Syndrome.
Me too Penny A. My wake-up was the gender issue which cropped up in Maine right after I moved to SC--via a Maine school library where an 11 year old was given a very questionable book, in my opinion for his age, by a librarian. That's when I started researching deeper. I had, also, already stopped MSMedia streaming after the first year of the covid mess. We were lied to from the beginning. BTW, there is data now that the jab killed about 10% of the people who got it right out of the gate. And the damage just keeps on and own. I am appalled at all that I have learned now--much of which gets discussed here and on other reputable substacks. ***I will also note that many of the people I've followed on X in order to learn what their thinking is--have commenters on their posts that are VERY antisemitic. I've been shocked at that as well because the main conservative people I'm following don't seem to be antisemitic.
Wow...well that's impressive Penny. You are the first person I've encountered to acknowledge this. I didn't believe it was possible. I firmly believe in the school of thought that TDS is symptom of mental illness/disability. And I seriously believe that....it's not just a talking point.
One small point; Kroger admitted to raising prices during the the inflationary period between 2022 and now.
Nothing Harris says or doesn't say is going to change anyone's mind. Those who were going to vote for her will and those who weren't won't. I think that the only hope is the publicly uncommitted.
The Republicans made a big mistake by not targeting, two years ago. those who were sixteen and are now eligible to vote. I sent the RNC an email concerning this and all they responded with was send money and didn't acknowledge what I said. I didn't send money.
“Nothing Harris says or doesn't say is going to change anyone's mind. Those who were going to vote for her will and those who weren't won't. I think that the only hope is the publicly uncommitted. “
Spot on…I got tired yesterday of right - leaning outlets telling me how horrible the interview was bc I wanted to know if the left-leaning sources would have ANY attempts at honest reflection on it. In a CBS interview with two commentators, one gave the interview a very positive “she did a good job laying out her plans” and the other, to her credit, responded with, “I’m not sure he and I watched the same interview,” but, disappointingly, didn’t go on to call out any of the glaring problems with an obviously-mostly-scripted(a!gain) communique.
That being said, we ALL would do well to consider the non-partisan human tendency to hear what we want to hear and do what we planned to do all along. What would happen if we were forced to undergo the experiment of a “diet” of only media that leans in favor of the guy/gal we’re against for, say, a month and evaluate honestly how it affects us?
I’m not implying it would fundamentally change our values, but it might be enlightening as to “how can anyone believe that rot?”
I try to do that. Most of the stuff I see supporting Harris has very little to say about Harris at all and is shrill beyond belief. Her only qualification for a lot of people is she isn't Donald Trump, which makes me and you and about 100 million other people just as qualified.
How they believe it seems to come down to Kamala Harris is someone they could be friends with, and Donald Trump is not.
Trump made a fair amount of his fortune by not paying his contractors and daring them to take him to court - which they did, 7,700 times. Saying he's not slimy is overstating things.
I keep hearing this vague argument without substantive evidence to back it up. Was Trump not paying union contractors? Perhaps contractors with mob connections? Did he have reason to not pay for work that was incomplete, not finished on time or sloppy? How does a man in the real estate business operate for four decades by screwing over his contractors? That's a recipe for failure.
I heard from someone who personally knows contractors who weren't paid by Trump, so I think it is true.
On the other hand, I have also heard that this is typical of the way business is done in NYC, and it almost always requires a lawsuit. Every excuse possible is used to avoid paying contractors. And, knowing contractors, I would expect many of the allegations about shoddy work and unfulfilled provisions are also probably true. Everyone in NYC is trying to screw everyone else just as hard as they possibly can.
This is something he actually bragged about doing. I've had bosses like him. "If they wanted me to pay for it they shouldn't have given it to me until they got paid." It's not as uncommon as it ought to be.
I guess they're willing to overlook her vacuousness and stupidity. I usually hope for more in a friend. Just sayin'. I guess it means those who'd want to be her friend are virtue-signaling climbers.
Have to strongly disagree. What we got was another scripted rehash of nothing of substance. No interview that is recorded ahead of time, allowing the person a wingman, edited, is worth a spit. We need a woman president who needs a man at her side 24/7?
Furthermore, as she used notes suggests she got the questions ahead of time, and she had to lean on them when Walz was telling his lies about language use.
Aren't you the least curios what was left on the cutting room floor?
Whatever was left on the cutting room floor will never see the light of day, so there's no use being curious about it. I'm more curious as why Trump doesn't speak like he did with Dr. Pill during his interview. Trump was calm, focused, answered questions directly and didn't bloviate.
I don't think SallyWally was saying that the interview was good. She just wanted to see if the Left-leaning media had any *substantive* evaluation. Because hearing "how horrible!" and "how wonderful!" is really not informative.
I know I am curious about what was left on the cutting room floor. But we will never, ever get to see it.
I'm holding out hope that an Edward Snowden type might have squirreled away some of that video for a rainy day! You never know. I'm sure she has enemies who may have stored it.
How any woman old enough to have fought for the passage of the ERA could accept the image of “a woman president who needs a man at her side 24/7” as the fruits of that labor is beyond my comprehension.
Or, it might convert people to the speaker's point of view. I think the majority are malleable and bombarded with mass repetition would succumb to it. Sort of Stockholm syndrome effect.
Except that fried ice cream isn't what it used to be either. Making the real thing is complicated, so they just roll a scoop of ice cream in corn flakes and call that good enough. :~P
How's it working out with his daughter-in-law? Are Republicans who are running for office, other than Trump, receiving any campaign funds from the RNC or is it a family business?
Trump’s campaign has got to be the worst managed effort in living memory. He’s constantly talking to his base and bringing nobody new into the tent. When he loses it’s 100% on him.
Winred sends out the most inane, bizarre texts. It’s borderline QAnon with outrageous claims. Embarrassing. And impossible to unsubscribe. Thanks Vivek for passing my number along to these loons.
Trump can't control his mouth, it seems to work independently of his brain and that's a shame because he actually has good ideas about how to govern. Watching the Dr. Pill interview, I realized that when he's with someone he's comfortable with, he's calm and makes sense. Unfortunately, he's rarely with someone he's comfortable with.
The publicly uncommitted include many very shallow voters who aren't all that interested in politics, and not motivated enough to bother to vote. In reality it's not a small margin of voters they're fighting over. At any election, nearly 50% of eligible voters don't vote. If any candidate can capture those, it'd be a landslide. But those non-voting people don't count because they don't vote.
What the campaigns are left with now really is their ground game of getting out the votes. Whoever can get more people to vote in the awing states will win.
Which, taken to it's depressingly logical conclusion, means only the voters in the swing states matter and if that's the case, why even have a nationwide election? We need an Australian type of system with mandatory voting.
But it is a fact that only swing states matter for presidential elections. Do you see the candidates campaigning anywhere that's not a swing state? I'm in a blue state and they never show up here, at all. Never. The Ds have it in the bag and the GOP gave up. Vice versa in red states. It's a shame because it becomes a chicken or the egg why many states are either forever red or forever blue. The establishment had divided up the territories like gangs through a myriad of gerrymandering other "rules" over the decades intentionally to make it this way. It's quite impossible to undo. The only way changes come about is demographic migration, which is the one thing the establishment cannot control. (Ergo why swing states 10, 20 years ago are not the same as the ones now.)
Wish the founding fathers had the foresight to prevent this. Too late now.
The other way to change it is one person, one vote and all the votes are counted and the election is decided by the voters, not the states or the Electoral College. Then it wouldn't matter about gerrymandering in a national election. It would still effect the state elections. I don't know how to fix that. Maybe geographical horizontal and vertical lines could be drawn on a map and that would be the redistricting.
There have been thousands of explanations why our election process MUST be through the electoral college. You want 5 states dictating what the other 45 must do? Wise up, fork.
Let me make it simple for you and maybe you won't misunderstand what I'm saying. Add up all the votes and the person with the most votes wins, then it doesn't matter whether states are Republican or Democrat.
The Electoral College was created for good reason. It gives power to the states, not just to the population as a whole.
Our Founders were very, very worried about the problems of “pure democracy.” That’s why they made Senators (only 2 for each state) appointed by the state legislators instead directly by the voters (which, of course, we changed—wrongly, I think—with the 17th Amendment). They did not trust the judgment of “the mob.”
It’s worth noting in that in parliamentary systems, the Prime Minister is chosen by the party (or coalition of parties) that win the majority of seats, not by the voters directly.
Getting rid of the Electoral College removes every barrier that protects us from the dangers of “pure democracy” (i.e., two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner). Bad, bad idea.
The parliamentary system in Thailand doesn't work. In the last election, a yr. ago, an opposition party won and the parliament refused to seat the leader and instead, selected someone they could control until last week, when the high court decided that something the PM did was illegal, forced him to step down and installed another PM who is the daughter of a disgraced former PM who is the behind-the-scenes decision maker.
The rural/urban divide is becoming a significant issue. If you look at the last few election outcomes on a by-county basis, it’s clear that the Leftist population is highly concentrated in urban areas. As a result huge swaths of the country are governed by people they didn’t vote for.
As is usual with rural people, they make do. They cope. They survive. But they are not happy.
I urge everyone to watch The All in Podcast that dropped yesterday( made Thursday prior to the offensive “ interview”
They has Reid Hoffman on first. He is a huge player in the Democratic Party machine. After some tech business questions they talked politics. The man lies while cloaking himself in caring about “ democracy” l He has TDS. Sacks (the most conservative argues with him but TDS is hard to penetrate)
Then they had RFK jr on.I thought he revealed too much about specific things Trump told him( I wondered if some of the specifics were never meant to be repeated, certainly not verbatim on a very widely watched podcast) I like and admire RFK jr but sometime he talk too much
I’m interested in others’ thoughts on this.RFK jrs sincerity is evident and inspiring
Not a single word out of Harris or Walz is sincere and nothing said has anything to do with what they will do to continue destroying our country.
She is a bimbo who is as fake as her awful false eyes lashes
Contrast Dana Bash’s demeanor during that fake interview with her demeanor last week with JD Vance( unscripted) She was openly hostile
I think that RFKjr. is a political opportunist and he's vying for a high profile cabinet position to launch his Presidential campaign as a Republican in the next election.
I think he wants a high profile cabinet position so he can help change the direction of the country. And I think he will run as part of a unity party (something Brett Weinstein is working on with un-named others).
On a recent podcast Brett Weinstein (a lifelong Democrat) said, "The Democratic party is an existential threat to the Republic." I was impressed that he said "republic" and not the hackneyed "our democracy".
Political opportunist is the negative way of framing him. I see someone who has a lot to contribute in taking apart the FDA, CDC, NIH , ,who cares about the decline health of this country, whose party treated him like crap. In order to have any chance of implementing reforms in this area he made a good bargain with Trump, Politics has to be pragmatic . I see no shame at all in what RFK he is doing
If the Dems lose this election thanks to a too big to cheat Trump victory the Democratic party will be in such a shambles it will be ripe for a takeover by RFK J and Tulsi. This is more likely than RFK J going Republican. The majority of the Democratic party has shown themselves to be easily manipulated by propaganda, they can flip flop as easily as Kamala.
The political opportunity for RFK J is to be put in charge of dismantling the Censorship Industrial Complex. This will have global implications.
You're dreaming. There won't ever be a too big to cheat election win for the Republicans as long as they don't sort out the abortion rights issue even at the states level. They already had their chance at the red wave and it turned into a ripple because of it. And no it doesn't matter how many times they repeat Trump has no intent on a national ban and returned the issue to the states. The severe restrictions in some states will always be the reason why the GOP can never get any big win. They talk about the rust belt and the sun belt. But the real belt that the Dems can always rely on is the abortion rights belt.
And that is precisely why we must defeat the dems "by whatever means necessary". No civilization can survive a bunch of rabid, abortion loving morons, who believe that abortion defines us all in a world of animals.
Opportunists don’t promote politically unpopular positions and get themselves alienated from their families and, in this case, a family legacy that is known worldwide. I would say Kennedy is the precise opposite of an opportunist. Whatever one might think of some of his opinions, he is definitely a man of courage and deep integrity who is willing to sacrifice a great deal in service of his sincere beliefs. There are almost zero politicians in the world who I would characterize as having integrity, but Kennedy is one who does.
As an aside, a long-time fan of Bill Maher is beyond disappointed with his last two digs at Kennedy. So beneath him.
I do have to wonder, after a month vacation he is back for two weeks and has totally gone lightweight. He bashed Kennedy again last night and then closed talking about healthcare, drugs and big-pharma. Egads.
Can the DNC sponsor shows such as Real Time? An honest question. They are awash in cash right now.
Reid Hoffman is an absolute shill and chickenshit. I love RFK Jr b/c he comes with receipts. I thought that David Sacks was way way to easy on him, even though he did call him out on a few things. You probably saw that Hoffman bailed on the call about 5 minutes into RFK Jr speaking. He knew he was about to get dismantled and he'd look like a fool for being a water boy for the DNC and Harris. Also worth knowing about Hoffman, is that he visited Epstein's island at least once after Epstein's conviction of sex crimes. Imagine that.
I never saw him speak before. I didn’t like him even when they were talking tech business. They were all too deferential to him. There are facts and receipts to prove he was lying about the PAC he started whose only mission statement is to take down third party candidates so there is a “ clear choice “ between Trump and Biden . It was an outright lie to say he didn’t know what they were doing with his money.
He oozed slime and the Four of them did not do their job. ZSacks was better than the others but still disappointed
Agreed. IMO, we absolutely need to run the NY and LA media right out of business. hit them where it hurts. Bankrupt them. We're never going to get anywhere in this country with the dems and corporate media running the show.
Yes he did. And even the likes of Zuckerberg was discomfited by it. But his admissions should leave no doubt in the mind of any real American about the totalitarian and anti-American nature of the Democrat Party. They have literally spit on the Bill of Rights. And, in my mind, given us a cause to rise up and erase them. Unless, of course, you believe that your Constitutional rights are "negotiable."
Shellenberger and Mike Benz are trying to get the Republicans in Congress to act now against the State Dept in Brazil that is behind the censorship and lfreezing the Z bank accounts of X - Elon Musk.
Mike Benz has been pleading - demanding that the Republicans leaders (Jim Jordan, Mike Johnson, chair of appropriations etc) bring him in to testify and explain exactly how the State Dept funded this takedown .
Danger here. The last three generations of college grad students, to those only lasting a semester, nevertheless, were convinced our Constitution is out of date. Just ask one, any one of them. That "in 5 days we will transform..., got the hugest a throat-wrenching cry of approval I've ever heard in my life.
Our Constitution is never "out of date" because it speaks to human nature, which is immutable. What we must guard against is the towering self-regard of the left. Who think they are gods. Nothing irritated me more that RBG's idiotic claim that South Africa's constitution was superior to our own sacred founding document. What stupidity and arrogance. South Africa. That beacon of freedom and tolerance where white farmers are thrown off their land and threatened for the "sin" of being born a different skin color.
I agree Bruce. The Dem party needs to be erased or put out to pasture--not reconstituted. Maybe a new party--the Unity thing--could replace it. One can hope...
I think it's a good question.....it was for Democrats when Trump kidded he'd be a dictator, but for just one day. They got a lot of mileage from that. It also sets a tone for their future actions & true ideology, now that the campaign BS is behind them.
Biden was ready, pen in hand, on day one with 15 executive orders. Most were reversals of Trump policies. Among others he halted construction of the US Mexican border wall, Rejoined the World Health Organization, Set up a Covid office that reports directly to Biden, Rejoin the Paris climate accords, Revoke the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline and cancel other Trump administration energy rules, Nix the 1776 Commission, Unwind Trump’s changes to the census, Strengthen legal protections for “Dreamers”, Abolish the “Muslim ban”, Cancel the Trump administration’s interior enforcement rule, Freeze Trump’s “midnight regulations”
The reason Kamala may get away with this and win, other than gaslighting and lying through near-total control of the media, is this:
Most people today care more about words and intentions than actions and results.
This is why Trump’s mouth is often his Achilles’ Heel, despite a solid record of achievement during his first term and sound, reasonable policies planned for his second.
Or maybe, Jen, they're just busy leading their lives, working and taking care of their families. And not aware of the dark forces that are conspiring to destroy those lives.
Oh it does. They just need help in connecting the dots. And placing the blame on the Senile Imbecile and his do-nothing Veep, who presided over so many policy debacles. Including igniting inflation.
When did this shit start? When we suddenly needed two incomes where one had been sufficient.
Keeping people busy trying to feed their families is the point. Making them worry that their kids are being given porn in elementary school is the point. Not allowing the cognitive and emotional bandwidth required for self-governance is the point.
I’m sounding now like a broken record but the elephant is still in the room. The only thing that matters is election integrity and the dems are still fighting it and will be doing the “counting”. They are insulting us with empty puppets and laughing all the way to the bank.
They better be. Maybe they can get something right. Because if the dems pull an election stunt this time, they will be faced with MUCH worse problem than a tea party on Jan. 6.
re much worse problems. The Dems would like nothing better than to empty the jails of criminals and fill them up with Republicans. They'd call it a twofer.
I read a headline and expert (couldn't bring myself to read the whole thing) about how Georgia saying they need to validate the election before certifying it is an attack on voting rights and democracy itself. Basically saying illegal immigrants should be able to vote in our elections.
A major disappointment that TFP never brought its resources to bear in investigating election integrity. They could have dedicated a week to it earlier this year, when it might have had an effect.
As for Harris’ attitude toward Israel, she has a New Arab Outreach Director, Brenda Abdellal ( Egyptian American) who has accused Zionists of “ controlling America” .
Add her to the list of top appointments who are openly Israel - Jew hating and IRGC appeasing
Her liaison to the Jewish community is the typical born in Israel, couldn't make it in Israel, disgust with Israel guy, Ilan Goldenberg. The only type of "good "Jew the proggers and Universities hire these days.
Here is Nancy Pelosi defending the free housing to illegal immigrants that the California State legislature has just passed( awaits Newsom’s signature). It’s not believable how destructive the Dems are. They are importing votes
On the live stream commentary of the interview as it was happening, Matt kept saying "there's something wrong with her...Walter, don't you think so?". I agree. She looked like she was having a severe anxiety attack. I think that's why she had to bring Walz. Also, Dana Bash was too afraid to press her hard because of it, she could tell there was something wrong too. Having had debilitating anxiety in the past (panic attacks, couldn't hang out with friends, couldn't go to the doctor alone), I can sympathize. However, if that is the case, she needs to step out of the race, not only for her own health but the sake of the country. You can't have debilitating anxiety and do a good job as president.
People have said she looks drunk sometimes but now I wonder if she's on Xanax for anxiety (and possibly mixing it with alcohol).
Once you’ve seen some of the clips of her at her maximum cackle in the past, it’s difficult not to wonder if she was drunk. The more recently clips, I don’t see that. Even the word salads—which were a different phenomenon than the cackle attacks, and seemingly more indicative of an inability to think clearly instead of a loss of inhibitions—are less frequent than before. I suspect that she is being very carefully monitored and controlled.
Key question is whether it moved the needle on polling. It may be too soon to tell. But I would speculate the interview will hurt her more than help and we may not see many more canned interviews. She did show she did not need her governor support blanket in this format.
MCL, I think she did use her governor support blanket during the interview. He was there to bring the "sour puss" face and somber demeanor, to keep her on track and to keep her from devolving into giggling and cackling, as is her norm.
Yes, he was useful to the show, but if she was planning to do it again I suspect she would not include him. Time may tell.
And JBell, his portion of the "interview" took up some of the 18 minutes they aired.
I'm not sure why people are saying 18 minutes. It was 27.
She may not, but we are not privy to the unedited version (Wikileaks we need you!). That may have told a very different tale.
The whole point if the interview is just to check the box so now they can say they done interviews. It's to take away a critic's talking point. It was never meant to address any substance. It's enough to assure those who vote based on vibes.
Bash and Tapper did a good job during the Presidential debate.
Bash's interview of Harris was an abortion.
BUT it accomplished it's mission.
It was as Trump said "BORING."
Exactly!
“Dana Bash (the interviewer) gives the impression that she is pressing Harris with challenging questions, but those questions were almost certainly given to Harris in advance so that she could prepare for them.“
Are you sure that the DNC didn’t “suggest” some of the questions to Bash? I almost expected her to end some of the answers with “and the mome raths outgrabe.”
As for a tax credit, that’s a significant gift. It’s not a tax deduction, which allows you to decrease the income that’s being taxed; it’s a straight up decrease in tax paid off the bottom line. If you make $50,000 in a year, have $5,000 in deductions, and pay a total of 20% in taxes, that means you pay $9,000 in taxes. If you have a $25,000 tax credit, you pay zero dollars in (at least federal) tax that year and get a check from the IRS for ($25,000 - $9,000 = ) $16,000. Heck of a deal.
I'm aware of how tax credits work. And yes, it is a huge gift. But it does *not* assist people with a down payment, as she asserted.
If Newsome signs the legislation on his desk, illegals in California will also receive that gift. Under Democrat rule, as California goes, so, eventually, goes the nation.
From what I understand, the California assistance is not in the form of a tax credit, but instead is outright assistance.
This is kinda fun. Will a zero down -- zero interest loan qualify as "imputed income?" Like the taxes that I pay if I have too many personal miles on my company car? If not, why not? If so, who will pay the resulting taxes? (Asking for a friend.)
The middle class, of course.
In the past, the IRS has consider it exactly that. Whether they’ll enforce it is another matter.
Ya mean "selective enforcement?" Another one of those oxymoron thingees?
Yes. I realized you were specifically referring to tax credits after I posted. Can’t give a tax credit to people who don’t pay taxes.
Yes...some tax credits are refundable. The CTC is partially refundable, the amount you get back varies with your income. Earned income credit is fully refundable. Some people can get upwards of $7K back. https://www.eitc.irs.gov/eitc-central/income-limits-and-range-of-eitc
A few years ago (I don't remember the details), the democrats were trying to pay the credit directly to people who didn't pay taxes...all in the name of 'fairness'. Don't know exactly what happened to that. Just another wonderful democrat giveaway to their supporters.
$150,000
Correct, housing prices will just rise by the amount of the credit.
And something they are not addressing at all is the fact that the monthly mortgage payment is much higher now, not just because of housing prices, but because of inflation. A house that costs $200K will have a MUCH higher monthly payment at 7% interest than at 2% interest.
That too Celia.
I will never understand why inflation is not taken into account when determining capital gains. If I buy a stock in 1980 for $10 and it soars to $1,300 over 44 years, I should only have to pay a gain (well, I don't think I should ever have to pay a gain as I'm putting my money at risk and used post tax dollars to buy that stock) on the inflation adjusted cost of that stock. IT'S A RACKET!! Government causes inflation then taxes me on top of it.
Excellent point. I hadn’t thought of that. Perhaps it should be a plank in a candidate’s platform.
Not entirely sure about that. Say you’re the lender and you know that the person in front of you is getting that. If the gov agrees to most the $25k directly to my company, that stands against a down payment.
The way the gov sold Medicare to doctors was the promise of payments directly to them rather than through the patient. Hard to believe, but patients faced with large medical bills would sometimes just pocket the payment check and stiff the doctors and hospitals. Kinda like the still do with home repairs after storms and fires….
Medicine went for that and has been regretting it ever since.
IF they set it up that way, it could work. But would they?
Dunno. They did with Medicare and everyone but the medical establishment liked it. And, of course, it’s only the greedy doctors, hospitals, and Pharma that don’t like it.
It'll AUTOMATICALLY result in the increase the sales price of a home.
Democrats are quite smart when it comes to lying and propaganda. But alas, they are quite stupid when it comes to governing.
However way it works, it assumes you have the money to spend to begin with. I think those who already have that spending power are not the ones in immediate need. How policies can make things easier for them is really splitting hair (or is it cutting hair?) It's the people who can't afford to buy a house at all, or even pay taxes or that amount of to begin with, who the policies need to address.
One wonders from whence comes Mr Walz that he didn't get Cliches 101.
Tim Walz doesn’t munch words!
Some tax credits are refundable, some are not. I presume the CTC would be refundable.
Thank you Celia for providing a thoughtful port in this week of TFP drivel, self congratulation , and navel gazing.
Great breakdown of the interview Celia! Also the video dropped Nicole Shanahan is outstanding. I've sent it to many of my friends who suffer from TDS. We'll see if it moves any of them.
Finally......looks like I'm banned from the comments at 'The Almost Free Press'. Who knows what the infraction was as it doesn't look like the communicate it with those they ban. Go figure.
Sorry you’re unjustly banned without a reason. Of course it means you’re not supporting the party line. Congratulations! Well done! 👍🏻 🎉
Today’s formerly FP essay was actually decent—about a guy who learned to be an electrician at age 14 while living in an ashram. What’s weird is that they’ve turned off comments! Why?
Thanks for the response. Ok.....looks like they just have comments off for all users. I figured I'd gotten another ban. :-)
No, everyone. Why?
Yes this helps. Like you just thought ..".Oh well banned again for who knows what."
Man, I told them I was unsubscribing because they were turning off comments. I really thought it would get them to change their ways.
They don’t respond to comments, unless they are nothing but praise.
I tried to comment, too. I was going to praise the essay, which I thought was a powerful demonstration of how important male working class jobs are. But I guess the other writers were so offended by criticism that they turned off the comments this time. That seems pretty weak to me. And ironically, the article was about being "tough" and not a navel gazing lightweight!
The skin seems to be getting thinner over at 'The Almost Free Press' :-)
I went to the Book Club Reading the other night, an interview with Julius Taranto, author of "How I Won a Nobel Prize." The ruse was that this novel is a subversive take on cancel culture. Suzy Weiss (who, I just realized, is Bari's sister) probed Taranto for his take on canceling, mob rule, etc.
Weiss: "In your opinion, which was the most unjust cancelation?"
Taranto: "I don't know."
Weiss: "Have we reached peak woke?"
Taranto: "I don't know."
The perfect nebbish for their comments section? !
Comment section is not off @ TFP.
Comments are on. There is a grand total of 4 this morning.
What's with this randomly turning comments on and off?
Appears targeted.
Comments are on for me.
They have done this "sometimes on, sometimes off" before.
👍👍
They don't want anyone countering their narrative any longer. Woke, democrat fools.
Yes great review. But I insist Kamala was reading answers throughout. It looks crystal clear to me she was looking down at written answers, eiher on paper or some kind of teleprompter.
Loved the Shanahan video and I am sending it far and wide.
Evans, I think TFP shut off all comments today.
Thanks for the heads up on the comments on that story. Just assumed I'd pissed them off again! ;-)
Why are you still supporting the formerly free press?
Dunno about anyone else but I'm not gonna walk away from that for which I already paid.
Change your plan to monthly on the site, then cancel. They will refund all but the charge for September and your subscription will end at the end of this month.
Heard that, thanks, but my year expires at the end of next month -- didn't seem worth the trouble.
That's why I stayed until the end of the last month I paid for.
Comments are back on for me
That might explain why she was in the background. Camera could avoid showing if she had notes.
I once attended a community theatre production of “The Teahouse of the August Moon.” The old actor playing the general kept opening drawers and shuffling papers between lines. It didn’t fool anyone in the audience, but the other actors onstage did a heck of a job keeping straight faces - until one of the drawers jammed and there was a two-minute lapse in dialogue until the commander forcefully pried the darned thing open.
That’s another thing to love about community theater—the entertainment within the entertainment.
I was in the front row for a performance of True West at a community theater in Berkeley 15 years ago. During the fight scene between the brothers one of the actors threw an empty coffee can that grazed my head and landed in the empty row behind me.
In 2008, I was at a performance of “the Scottish play” at The Swan in Stratford on Avon when, during the heat of battle, half a broadsword flew over the center orchestra section. The audience parted like the Red Sea, no one was hit, an usher retrieved the broken blade, and the play resumed without further incident.
It was the most thrilling moment in the show.
Oh, that's fabulous. And from your "without further incident" I assume the audience of stiff upper lips won the day.
Another Awakened (aka deWoked) commenter with knowledge of such things observed the weird production values; ie, office-like venue, seating arrangements, lighting... I think y'all are on to the reason why. Good job.
Maybe she's taking inspiration from Marlon Brando who famously never memorized his lines?
Dunboy2020--maybe that's why her chair was so low??? so she could read comments.
Maybe that's what Matt Taibbi was referring to when he kept saying- "something's wrong" (if you watched his and Walter Kirn's live stream)?
There was a body language expert on Fox News that said Kamala's lack of eye contact with Dana Bash or the camera and her frequently looking down were signs of a lack of self-confidence. She certainly didn't come off as presidential.
I wondered that too...why was she looking down so much? Lord save us if she wins, it'd be like me being President. She is 100% unqualified.
Same here.
You were also banned from TFP?
Suspended might be a better term.
You...I can't believe it. For what?
Who knows. You just get a nondescript email about stepping out of line.
Twice for me and the term they used was "Jerk." Both times when I pushed back on two Liberals who were excoriating Conservatives for being dumb, sports team obsessed incurious know nothings.
you all need to get "i was banned.." t-shirts, there are enough of you to start a club! :)
Hey welcome to the Club. But I saw you and raised you one - I'm permanently banned from commenting at the neo-con Wall St Journal.
That sir, is a badge of honor! Salute.
Can we see the message you were sent that stated that you are permanently banned?
It's over a year now so hard to retrieve. If I post a comment it's almost immediately deleted. Their "news" department has been drifting leftward for years but are now just a version of the NY Times. The editorials can be more sane at times but still reliably support the forever wars.
The good news is that when I threatened to cancel they reduced the monthly price from something like $30 to just $2. So I doubt I'm alone is thinking they suck. Although their financial news is worth that deeply discounted amount.
I’m so disgusted with the WSJ
Photo on front page is usually one of those staged propaganda photos by Hamas!
There is a fawning article on the front page about how the "Kursk Offensive" is a game changer in the Ukraine War.
For a much smarter and sober analysis read
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/back-to-the-bloodlands-operation
Will really open your eyes on this catastrophe. Why are so many Ukrainian men resisting their draft? When we continue to pour in weapons.
Trying to build a weapons-to-Russia dump like the one to the Taliban?
GREAT JOB Bruce!!
My first time on Celia’s site, and I’m liking it. To answer your question, I sent Shanahan’s video to my sister, the consummate TDS sufferer. Her response was to laugh at the irony (?) and to ask if I owned a mirror. To even attempt to point out the absurdities of her response was beyond me, though I’ve certainly tried in the past. I don’t get it. Other than to realize we live in a parallel universe, I simply cannot figure out why TDS overrules facts and common sense.
Also, sorry you’re banned; you don’t even get a reason for it? That’s crazy.
Is your sister a public school teacher?
Excellent point. I'm certain that the vast majority of public teachers think like her sister. I know all of the teachers I'm familiar with do. This is another tragedy that we have allowed to happen in America. The absolute destruction of our public school education system has been fomented by the unionized, selfish, woke, leftist, and socialist education establishment. My Mother (who was a school Teacher) would agree with me wholeheartedly.
She was, yes. She’s now in admin, working for a state university. Surprised?!
Nope I have a cousin with the same mindset.
Amy, your sister sounds like most of my friends and relatives.
Mostly relatives for me; my friends are much more reasonable.
Welcome Amy!! I didn't bother sending to my sister!
I just received my ‘You Are No Longer Subscribed to The Free Press’ notice in my inbox. A weight has lifted off my shoulders.
you might have to unfollow as well, they still may send emails to new stories and content, even though you are no longer subscribed. at least that happened to me. i think substack views those as two completely different actions that you have to clip the strings on.
Yeah, I had to go back in and unsubscribe from the “free” version of the subscription after my paid subscription lapsed, because they kept sending me emails.
Maybe you were banned because you speak the truth- very dangerous when democrats and media are trying to sell us a fool who is more dangerous than the current fool
You're banned? At this point I think they're banning anyone who becomes too known.
I wish that I'd copied your Unanswereds list. Great! (My 77 yo brain won't hold that many items simultaneously any more.)
Just keep posting here Evans! You always had good posts on TFP. Why throw your pearls before swine? I'm tempted to try sending Shanahan's video to my TDS friends, but I think it may be just that (pearls before piggies) but you never know?
That explains why everyone commenting today is happy and joyful even though there is no news in FP-town
I frequently enjoy your comments more than the articles at TFP. I've never found anything you've said to be over the line. If they banned you, they must really not want ANY discerning voices in the comments or calling out of their biases.
Excellent dissection of a bad show’s transcript. It was torture to watch the performance on a stage that someone said that it looked like a “break room”. What was worse, was watching the TFP live commentary on X. TFP had to be watching a different interview. Which ballpark they were in to say/see “hits out of it”? I heard/saw disingenuous word salad answers to easy and obvious questions that had no follow-up. They must be sure on the Dem puppets winning the election and setting TFP up to have “press credentials” (now an oxymoron)! The more they insisted that Kamala did a good job on CNN interview, the more thinking people see the mirage they are presenting.
And the idiot Dem voters saw only what they wanted to see. Oh, isn’t she wonderful, the first black woman president-to-be! In rapture, no doubt. Hillary must be fuming. lol.
Hilary is fuming because she is no longer the Democrat's sex symbol.
That, and she’ll never get to be Dear Leader!
But she will, if Kamaltoes get's elected, have input into the administration, a sort of power behind the throne. The Clinton's and the Obama's haven't left the room.
Anyone who thinks Harris will have any say in how things get done is delusional. Hillary thinks putting a prettier face attached to an emptier head in front of her agenda will get the job done this time.
If Harris is elected, the only hope is to have a Republican congress, that would, at least, slow things down.
Excellent point, Matt!
Hillary will actually become "First Lady," again. You gotta keep up with sex gender trans neuter partner, spouse boy shorts speak.
I'm far too old to keep up with that nonsense.
Sex symbol? What a horrible image, nightmare. It gets Brando's line about the children's arms, "The horror of that, the horror, the horror." And Brando could read that word better than any other human throughout all time.
it was the worst image that I could come up with.
Oof. Too early in the morning for that mental imagery.
Herr-- "no longer"??? Oh- you must be referring to sex as gender, not a fun activity!!
I can't picture her indulging in a fun activity, sexual or otherwise. She's never struck me as a fun person.
Ugh what an incredibly low bar, too.
I wonder. I've rather strongly suggested that the October Surprise will be President Kamala Harris, but I've since wondered why that's not what happened; when Mr Biden was bumped from candidacy; he could have been bumped into "retirement." It suggests that the Evul Kabal finds her too squirmy to be the blank slate-sock puppet. Pursuing that -- do They really care about winning in November? If she's too much of a loose cannon to elevate now, what if she's elected?
I think the reason they opted to not have him resign when he left the race is because that would put pressure on Harris to actually DO the things she's claiming she'll do. Her failure to solve all the problems instantly (even though that could not be expected logically) would not play well to an American public that is upset about prices and untrammeled immigration.
But it does seem possible that they will do an October surprise of that nature. Because the Democrats MUST have the first female POTUS. And while she could get away with doing little in less than a month, the cries to "give her chance" would probably motive some to vote.
Kinda what I'm thinking. But I have enough trouble with the kind of chess played on a table.
I have a link from late July that explains why he didn’t resign &/or why the amendment was not used. I’m going to try to find it.
Good (scary!) point Celia!
I'm thinking the same. And the PR to make her look good will be of epic proportion!
Agreed that there will be some kind of Oct. surprise. I'm just not sure in what form it will come. But they will try something. Harris is beginning to lose steam, and will lose a lot more by October.
They know she's so incompetent that even a few months of her as President right now would hurt her election chances. Plus this way they can pretend she'll "fix" things when she gets into office, leaving out that she's in power right now and could be doing those things.
But They'd still be stuck with a loose cannon for 4 years plus, assuming that she can be dragged across the finish line following such a maneuver. OTOH if The Reaper steps in, I'd say that the bend over and kiss yourself goodbye might apply.
Well, Shellenberger was good at screwing up his face at the other panelists' building castle configurations in the air.
I was surprised by Batya’s positive assessment of Harris’ performance. She’s usually so clearheaded.
Shellenberger is the boy one who cuts through the BS . Harris is a disaster and wholly unqualified . She is a drunk probably mixed with pills of some sort
Harris seemed overmedicated or in need of medication—can’t tell which.
That was Harris trying to look serious and Presidential.
She is being coached 🤮🤮.
I said to my wife while we were watching it that she is on some kind of pills, anti-anxiety. She seemed pretty out of it Harris, not my wife
Can't vouch for your wife but you've both got good eyes of you could make any sort of assessment.
Yes, Shellenberger's articles about Harris on his substack, Public, have been brutal.
Shellenberger is always brutally honest. As is Taibbi
The last remnants of real old fashioned journalism
I love Batya, and I hope what she meant was Harris did a great job of doing what she had to do - reassure her base that she's who they thought she was at the convention. She didn't lose a single vote with her performance, which counts as a win considering how badly it could have gone (even with all the advantages CNN gave her).
That makes sense.
Billiamo: I recently saw her on a couple of conservative podcasts. She seemed rational and in total agreement with the hosts. But then, she was primarily promoting her book.
I’m beginning to think she just swims with the tide.
Batya has a few different faces.
When was Shellenberger on a panel?
After the debate. The Free press on X
I was thinking I was not sorry to miss their take on it, but I would have liked to have seen Shellenberger.
Here is the link to watch it on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V67Lnanw4k
A break room at the kiddy table with the “white man” towering over the women. Their TDS psychologists did their homework; thankfully it fools only fools.
"That little girl was me."
Yawn…
The problem with having a problem with fracking is it reduces carbon emissions - it's the reason the US has had the greatest reductions in carbon emissions in the industrialized world - and carbon is the only environmental issue Democrats care about. They don't care about poison in the water, or anywhere (never forget that these are the people who ordered us to inject poison during covid). Their globalist agenda is destroying the ocean (and maybe, just maybe, killing off phytoplankton that's responsible for 50% of oxygen production and 70% of carbon dioxide consumption has some impact on atmospheric carbon) but they don't care about that. They don't care about the destruction of our soil (our most valuable asset, and the greatest, most useful, and most productive carbon sink on Earth). They only care about carbon.
Carbon is the goose that lays the golden egg for them - remediation costs trillions, and that money gets distributed to the very industries causing the problem. Incentives rear their ugly head again. And it will be even better for them if it turns out carbon isn't the problem, or the problem isn't even real. More money for their friends that way.
Mostly what I heard her say is "I'm gonna print a lot of money." There's an adage in IT infrastructure, throwing hardware at a problem doesn't actually solve the problem. The same is true of money. Giving money to small businesses (of which there are a lot fewer after she and her boss shut so many of them down) doesn't make those businesses more viable or competitive. Giving money to poor people doesn't make them more skilled or better educated (oops, forgot she doesn't care about poor people, a huge sign that she's a postmodernist at heart). I didn't hear a word about what that money would actually do. Likely because she has no idea.
A word about that tax credit. I've been the person who would receive it. And at the end of every year, after the standard deductions and earned income credit, I paid zero income taxes. Giving me an additional $6,000 in tax credits would have made zero difference for me. I suspect the same is true for low income families today. To me this seems like a gaudy proposal that will ultimately cost nothing and help no one.
The hell of it is Kamala surely had the questions in advance and there were strict rules about asking any others - Bash was hell bent on following her script no matter what. A huge team with plenty of time to prepare and all we got were ethereal responses to softball questions. This does not bode well.
I'm re-reading The Three Body Problem, and in it he quotes and then riffs on Goethe's "If I love you, what business is it of yours?" This felt like "If I screw you over, trample your rights, and betray this country, what business is it of yours?"
I'm not familiar with the The Three Body Problem. What is it?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13016388/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
A series of sci fi books written by a Chinese author that uses a fictional narrative to describe totalitarianism in a way that was indirect enough to keep him out of trouble with his totalitarian government. Really excellent. There is a new Netflix series based upon the book that is highly recommended.
Thanks for taking on fracking. It also made the US energy-independent, something that's been Obviously Impossible since the '60s. Done responsibly, it's less environmentally harmful -- by far -- than massed Condor Cuisinarts.
I wish I had more than one upvote to give for "Condor Cuisinarts"!
I guess offshore wind kills whales too, somehow.
Apparently just the tools employed to locate and place foundations make the whales kinda crazy even before the things are built. The list of unseen and/or carefully hidden costs of every "green" energy source on an industrial scale is endless.
Thank you so much for taking one for the team by suffering through the public-relations carnival of nothingness! I definitely appreciate it, because I just couldn’t listen to her old crow (crone) voice or lies.
Thank you for another outstanding summary and analysis of a key event.
Have a great weekend!
Sing it!
TDS is incurable. Voters, legal and otherwise, are willing to believe bold bald lies rather than admit Harris/Walz will finish the destruction of Americans, Democracy and finally, America without a single shot fired.
But there will be shots fired, that's pretty much a certainty. They don't care, because they will be safe.
I believe the last count was eight shots fired in Butler, PA.
Yes. If Walz goes for some of my relatives guns, there will be shots fired. Otherwise it will be like SS in Germany's ghetto. Submit.
I think there will be a lot of 'shots fired' if they go after guns.
They’ll be safe in their swanky Hawaiian bunkers!
Maybe.......
With blue roofs.
TDS is not incurable. I am living proof of that. I had TDS because I religiously watched MSNBC and read the Washington Post. What punctured my balloon was learning the truth about Jacob Blake and Kyle Rittenhouse - the former who they treated as an innocent martyr and the latter who they smeared as an evil white supremacist. They lied. They were also incredibly hypocritical about the violent BLM riots. I do not like being lied to. And having seen the horrific decline of our country not only at home but around the world (thanks to the Biden admin's appeasement of Iran) I now have DDS: Democrat Derangement Syndrome.
MAGA.
Lying is in the DNA of the modern Democrat Party.
Because their god is the God that Failed.............
To be fair, lying is in the DNA of politicians generally.
It doesn't have to be that way. Why do we allow it?
all of them
Minor nit: Their god is the god that failed.
Good catch. I deliberately uncapitalized the first one but did the second because it was in the title of the book.
Welcome to the light, Penny! Glad you're here!
Hope you can red pill some friends and family.
There's no DDS, just common sense and sanity.
I'm so glad you recovered!
A miraculous restoring of vision, yay you, is not evidence if a cure for the masses. No disrespect intended.
Each one is its own miracle, I think.
Thanks for posting this. I think that was also part of my awakening to the truth.
Me too Penny A. My wake-up was the gender issue which cropped up in Maine right after I moved to SC--via a Maine school library where an 11 year old was given a very questionable book, in my opinion for his age, by a librarian. That's when I started researching deeper. I had, also, already stopped MSMedia streaming after the first year of the covid mess. We were lied to from the beginning. BTW, there is data now that the jab killed about 10% of the people who got it right out of the gate. And the damage just keeps on and own. I am appalled at all that I have learned now--much of which gets discussed here and on other reputable substacks. ***I will also note that many of the people I've followed on X in order to learn what their thinking is--have commenters on their posts that are VERY antisemitic. I've been shocked at that as well because the main conservative people I'm following don't seem to be antisemitic.
I think I understand your new syndrome, but the hard reality is that we are all created in the image of God and we need to love them all.
That is a challenge that I often feel is beyond me, alas.
It became a bit easier for me when I first read Aquinas’ definition of love: “willing the good of the other.”
Me, too. I also struggle with forgiveness for some people.
Wow...well that's impressive Penny. You are the first person I've encountered to acknowledge this. I didn't believe it was possible. I firmly believe in the school of thought that TDS is symptom of mental illness/disability. And I seriously believe that....it's not just a talking point.
One small point; Kroger admitted to raising prices during the the inflationary period between 2022 and now.
Nothing Harris says or doesn't say is going to change anyone's mind. Those who were going to vote for her will and those who weren't won't. I think that the only hope is the publicly uncommitted.
The Republicans made a big mistake by not targeting, two years ago. those who were sixteen and are now eligible to vote. I sent the RNC an email concerning this and all they responded with was send money and didn't acknowledge what I said. I didn't send money.
“Nothing Harris says or doesn't say is going to change anyone's mind. Those who were going to vote for her will and those who weren't won't. I think that the only hope is the publicly uncommitted. “
Spot on…I got tired yesterday of right - leaning outlets telling me how horrible the interview was bc I wanted to know if the left-leaning sources would have ANY attempts at honest reflection on it. In a CBS interview with two commentators, one gave the interview a very positive “she did a good job laying out her plans” and the other, to her credit, responded with, “I’m not sure he and I watched the same interview,” but, disappointingly, didn’t go on to call out any of the glaring problems with an obviously-mostly-scripted(a!gain) communique.
That being said, we ALL would do well to consider the non-partisan human tendency to hear what we want to hear and do what we planned to do all along. What would happen if we were forced to undergo the experiment of a “diet” of only media that leans in favor of the guy/gal we’re against for, say, a month and evaluate honestly how it affects us?
I’m not implying it would fundamentally change our values, but it might be enlightening as to “how can anyone believe that rot?”
I try to do that. Most of the stuff I see supporting Harris has very little to say about Harris at all and is shrill beyond belief. Her only qualification for a lot of people is she isn't Donald Trump, which makes me and you and about 100 million other people just as qualified.
How they believe it seems to come down to Kamala Harris is someone they could be friends with, and Donald Trump is not.
Well said!
I would never want to be friends with someone who's slimy. For all of Trumps fault, at least he's not slimy.
Trump made a fair amount of his fortune by not paying his contractors and daring them to take him to court - which they did, 7,700 times. Saying he's not slimy is overstating things.
But he's NY businessman slimy, which is a different variety of slime, I think.
Yes.
True, I forgot about that.
I keep hearing this vague argument without substantive evidence to back it up. Was Trump not paying union contractors? Perhaps contractors with mob connections? Did he have reason to not pay for work that was incomplete, not finished on time or sloppy? How does a man in the real estate business operate for four decades by screwing over his contractors? That's a recipe for failure.
I now am questioning everything I thought I knew about Trump--having watched all the MSMedia lies.
I heard from someone who personally knows contractors who weren't paid by Trump, so I think it is true.
On the other hand, I have also heard that this is typical of the way business is done in NYC, and it almost always requires a lawsuit. Every excuse possible is used to avoid paying contractors. And, knowing contractors, I would expect many of the allegations about shoddy work and unfulfilled provisions are also probably true. Everyone in NYC is trying to screw everyone else just as hard as they possibly can.
This is something he actually bragged about doing. I've had bosses like him. "If they wanted me to pay for it they shouldn't have given it to me until they got paid." It's not as uncommon as it ought to be.
Yikes!
I guess they're willing to overlook her vacuousness and stupidity. I usually hope for more in a friend. Just sayin'. I guess it means those who'd want to be her friend are virtue-signaling climbers.
Have to strongly disagree. What we got was another scripted rehash of nothing of substance. No interview that is recorded ahead of time, allowing the person a wingman, edited, is worth a spit. We need a woman president who needs a man at her side 24/7?
Furthermore, as she used notes suggests she got the questions ahead of time, and she had to lean on them when Walz was telling his lies about language use.
Aren't you the least curios what was left on the cutting room floor?
Whatever was left on the cutting room floor will never see the light of day, so there's no use being curious about it. I'm more curious as why Trump doesn't speak like he did with Dr. Pill during his interview. Trump was calm, focused, answered questions directly and didn't bloviate.
I'm curious and I think you ought to be, too. It would expose who she is.
Can she think quickly on her feet, even while sitting down? Who is the real person that has to answer the 3:00 am phone call?
Did FDR have to bring a wingman when he negotiated with Churchill & Stalin? Or JFK when he went eyeball to eyeball with Khrushchev?
To Trump, yes, he should do more interviews and challenge Harris to a live town hall meeting (or 2) with questions from the audience.
FDR had advisors with him at Yalta when he gave away Eastern Europe to Stalin.
I already know who she is and those who don't, don't want to know.
Trump does best in a private setting, where he can't play to the crowd and do his impersonation of a TV game show host.
Someone other than Harris will answer the phone and make the decisions, the same as with Biden.
I don't think SallyWally was saying that the interview was good. She just wanted to see if the Left-leaning media had any *substantive* evaluation. Because hearing "how horrible!" and "how wonderful!" is really not informative.
I know I am curious about what was left on the cutting room floor. But we will never, ever get to see it.
I'm holding out hope that an Edward Snowden type might have squirreled away some of that video for a rainy day! You never know. I'm sure she has enemies who may have stored it.
How any woman old enough to have fought for the passage of the ERA could accept the image of “a woman president who needs a man at her side 24/7” as the fruits of that labor is beyond my comprehension.
Yeah, the feminists have been conspicuously absent since Obiden took office.
Or, it might convert people to the speaker's point of view. I think the majority are malleable and bombarded with mass repetition would succumb to it. Sort of Stockholm syndrome effect.
Except that I think we've long since reached a point of mass repetition. The malleable have already succumbed.
For now, and those who've gone for the fried ice cream with pass it on to others in their family, group, workplace, etc.
Hey, you're giving fried ice cream a bad name!
Except that fried ice cream isn't what it used to be either. Making the real thing is complicated, so they just roll a scoop of ice cream in corn flakes and call that good enough. :~P
After adding a ton of fake food additives.
What would happen if we were all forced to actually research Kennedy's policies, positions and actions versus "believe the schoolyard gossip and rot"?
Two years ago the Trump endorsed Ronna Romney was in charge and continuing to do really lazy and bad work
How's it working out with his daughter-in-law? Are Republicans who are running for office, other than Trump, receiving any campaign funds from the RNC or is it a family business?
Trump’s campaign has got to be the worst managed effort in living memory. He’s constantly talking to his base and bringing nobody new into the tent. When he loses it’s 100% on him.
Winred sends out the most inane, bizarre texts. It’s borderline QAnon with outrageous claims. Embarrassing. And impossible to unsubscribe. Thanks Vivek for passing my number along to these loons.
Trump can't control his mouth, it seems to work independently of his brain and that's a shame because he actually has good ideas about how to govern. Watching the Dr. Pill interview, I realized that when he's with someone he's comfortable with, he's calm and makes sense. Unfortunately, he's rarely with someone he's comfortable with.
All true, but not enough to win. He randomly antagonizes folks who would normally be considered winnable.
IVF. It’s wonderful brokenhearted couples have a chance to achieve their dreams. 100% support.
But publicly funded? Really? Why? Must everything societally positive be mutualized? This isn’t remotely conservative.
Is there anyone or anything still around that's conservative?
The publicly uncommitted include many very shallow voters who aren't all that interested in politics, and not motivated enough to bother to vote. In reality it's not a small margin of voters they're fighting over. At any election, nearly 50% of eligible voters don't vote. If any candidate can capture those, it'd be a landslide. But those non-voting people don't count because they don't vote.
What the campaigns are left with now really is their ground game of getting out the votes. Whoever can get more people to vote in the awing states will win.
Which, taken to it's depressingly logical conclusion, means only the voters in the swing states matter and if that's the case, why even have a nationwide election? We need an Australian type of system with mandatory voting.
But it is a fact that only swing states matter for presidential elections. Do you see the candidates campaigning anywhere that's not a swing state? I'm in a blue state and they never show up here, at all. Never. The Ds have it in the bag and the GOP gave up. Vice versa in red states. It's a shame because it becomes a chicken or the egg why many states are either forever red or forever blue. The establishment had divided up the territories like gangs through a myriad of gerrymandering other "rules" over the decades intentionally to make it this way. It's quite impossible to undo. The only way changes come about is demographic migration, which is the one thing the establishment cannot control. (Ergo why swing states 10, 20 years ago are not the same as the ones now.)
Wish the founding fathers had the foresight to prevent this. Too late now.
The other way to change it is one person, one vote and all the votes are counted and the election is decided by the voters, not the states or the Electoral College. Then it wouldn't matter about gerrymandering in a national election. It would still effect the state elections. I don't know how to fix that. Maybe geographical horizontal and vertical lines could be drawn on a map and that would be the redistricting.
There have been thousands of explanations why our election process MUST be through the electoral college. You want 5 states dictating what the other 45 must do? Wise up, fork.
Let me make it simple for you and maybe you won't misunderstand what I'm saying. Add up all the votes and the person with the most votes wins, then it doesn't matter whether states are Republican or Democrat.
The Electoral College was created for good reason. It gives power to the states, not just to the population as a whole.
Our Founders were very, very worried about the problems of “pure democracy.” That’s why they made Senators (only 2 for each state) appointed by the state legislators instead directly by the voters (which, of course, we changed—wrongly, I think—with the 17th Amendment). They did not trust the judgment of “the mob.”
It’s worth noting in that in parliamentary systems, the Prime Minister is chosen by the party (or coalition of parties) that win the majority of seats, not by the voters directly.
Getting rid of the Electoral College removes every barrier that protects us from the dangers of “pure democracy” (i.e., two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner). Bad, bad idea.
The parliamentary system in Thailand doesn't work. In the last election, a yr. ago, an opposition party won and the parliament refused to seat the leader and instead, selected someone they could control until last week, when the high court decided that something the PM did was illegal, forced him to step down and installed another PM who is the daughter of a disgraced former PM who is the behind-the-scenes decision maker.
No, no, no! Do you really want the big metro areas to control the rest of the country?
If the President is elected by the total number of votes in the nation, then no one area can control the rest of the country.
Requires a Constitutional amendment. The idea of a Constitutional convention in our current state fucking terrifies me.
Sadly, many blue states are actually red. The one or two large cities cause the whole state to be blue. This needs to change.
The rural/urban divide is becoming a significant issue. If you look at the last few election outcomes on a by-county basis, it’s clear that the Leftist population is highly concentrated in urban areas. As a result huge swaths of the country are governed by people they didn’t vote for.
As is usual with rural people, they make do. They cope. They survive. But they are not happy.
I urge everyone to watch The All in Podcast that dropped yesterday( made Thursday prior to the offensive “ interview”
They has Reid Hoffman on first. He is a huge player in the Democratic Party machine. After some tech business questions they talked politics. The man lies while cloaking himself in caring about “ democracy” l He has TDS. Sacks (the most conservative argues with him but TDS is hard to penetrate)
Then they had RFK jr on.I thought he revealed too much about specific things Trump told him( I wondered if some of the specifics were never meant to be repeated, certainly not verbatim on a very widely watched podcast) I like and admire RFK jr but sometime he talk too much
I’m interested in others’ thoughts on this.RFK jrs sincerity is evident and inspiring
Not a single word out of Harris or Walz is sincere and nothing said has anything to do with what they will do to continue destroying our country.
She is a bimbo who is as fake as her awful false eyes lashes
Contrast Dana Bash’s demeanor during that fake interview with her demeanor last week with JD Vance( unscripted) She was openly hostile
Thank you Celia. Brava
I think that RFKjr. is a political opportunist and he's vying for a high profile cabinet position to launch his Presidential campaign as a Republican in the next election.
You really doubt his sincerity?
I think he wants a high profile cabinet position so he can help change the direction of the country. And I think he will run as part of a unity party (something Brett Weinstein is working on with un-named others).
On a recent podcast Brett Weinstein (a lifelong Democrat) said, "The Democratic party is an existential threat to the Republic." I was impressed that he said "republic" and not the hackneyed "our democracy".
Political opportunist is the negative way of framing him. I see someone who has a lot to contribute in taking apart the FDA, CDC, NIH , ,who cares about the decline health of this country, whose party treated him like crap. In order to have any chance of implementing reforms in this area he made a good bargain with Trump, Politics has to be pragmatic . I see no shame at all in what RFK he is doing
If the Dems lose this election thanks to a too big to cheat Trump victory the Democratic party will be in such a shambles it will be ripe for a takeover by RFK J and Tulsi. This is more likely than RFK J going Republican. The majority of the Democratic party has shown themselves to be easily manipulated by propaganda, they can flip flop as easily as Kamala.
The political opportunity for RFK J is to be put in charge of dismantling the Censorship Industrial Complex. This will have global implications.
You're dreaming. There won't ever be a too big to cheat election win for the Republicans as long as they don't sort out the abortion rights issue even at the states level. They already had their chance at the red wave and it turned into a ripple because of it. And no it doesn't matter how many times they repeat Trump has no intent on a national ban and returned the issue to the states. The severe restrictions in some states will always be the reason why the GOP can never get any big win. They talk about the rust belt and the sun belt. But the real belt that the Dems can always rely on is the abortion rights belt.
And that is precisely why we must defeat the dems "by whatever means necessary". No civilization can survive a bunch of rabid, abortion loving morons, who believe that abortion defines us all in a world of animals.
Many people accused his father of being an opportunist. It was a common slur against him back in the day.
Opportunists don’t promote politically unpopular positions and get themselves alienated from their families and, in this case, a family legacy that is known worldwide. I would say Kennedy is the precise opposite of an opportunist. Whatever one might think of some of his opinions, he is definitely a man of courage and deep integrity who is willing to sacrifice a great deal in service of his sincere beliefs. There are almost zero politicians in the world who I would characterize as having integrity, but Kennedy is one who does.
Bravo!
As an aside, a long-time fan of Bill Maher is beyond disappointed with his last two digs at Kennedy. So beneath him.
I do have to wonder, after a month vacation he is back for two weeks and has totally gone lightweight. He bashed Kennedy again last night and then closed talking about healthcare, drugs and big-pharma. Egads.
Can the DNC sponsor shows such as Real Time? An honest question. They are awash in cash right now.
Agreed.
Reid Hoffman is an absolute shill and chickenshit. I love RFK Jr b/c he comes with receipts. I thought that David Sacks was way way to easy on him, even though he did call him out on a few things. You probably saw that Hoffman bailed on the call about 5 minutes into RFK Jr speaking. He knew he was about to get dismantled and he'd look like a fool for being a water boy for the DNC and Harris. Also worth knowing about Hoffman, is that he visited Epstein's island at least once after Epstein's conviction of sex crimes. Imagine that.
I never saw him speak before. I didn’t like him even when they were talking tech business. They were all too deferential to him. There are facts and receipts to prove he was lying about the PAC he started whose only mission statement is to take down third party candidates so there is a “ clear choice “ between Trump and Biden . It was an outright lie to say he didn’t know what they were doing with his money.
He oozed slime and the Four of them did not do their job. ZSacks was better than the others but still disappointed
Hoffman showed he was an intellectual lightweight and a political shill in his handling of the lawfare issue.
Agreed. IMO, we absolutely need to run the NY and LA media right out of business. hit them where it hurts. Bankrupt them. We're never going to get anywhere in this country with the dems and corporate media running the show.
No one does anything on day one, their just celebrating, and certainly not buoying up the middle class, as if that could be done in a day.
Biden started censoring social media on day one. Never underestimate how industrious totalitarians can be.
Yes he did. And even the likes of Zuckerberg was discomfited by it. But his admissions should leave no doubt in the mind of any real American about the totalitarian and anti-American nature of the Democrat Party. They have literally spit on the Bill of Rights. And, in my mind, given us a cause to rise up and erase them. Unless, of course, you believe that your Constitutional rights are "negotiable."
Shellenberger and Mike Benz are trying to get the Republicans in Congress to act now against the State Dept in Brazil that is behind the censorship and lfreezing the Z bank accounts of X - Elon Musk.
Mike Benz has been pleading - demanding that the Republicans leaders (Jim Jordan, Mike Johnson, chair of appropriations etc) bring him in to testify and explain exactly how the State Dept funded this takedown .
https://x.com/mikebenzcyber/status/1829419387087962296?s=42
Danger here. The last three generations of college grad students, to those only lasting a semester, nevertheless, were convinced our Constitution is out of date. Just ask one, any one of them. That "in 5 days we will transform..., got the hugest a throat-wrenching cry of approval I've ever heard in my life.
Our Constitution is never "out of date" because it speaks to human nature, which is immutable. What we must guard against is the towering self-regard of the left. Who think they are gods. Nothing irritated me more that RBG's idiotic claim that South Africa's constitution was superior to our own sacred founding document. What stupidity and arrogance. South Africa. That beacon of freedom and tolerance where white farmers are thrown off their land and threatened for the "sin" of being born a different skin color.
I agree Bruce. The Dem party needs to be erased or put out to pasture--not reconstituted. Maybe a new party--the Unity thing--could replace it. One can hope...
That was fast wasn't it? Fast to eliminate Trump border policies as well.
And shutting down energy independence.
Agreed it is an idiotic question. Unfortunately politicians are always blathering on and on about what they are going to do on day one.
I think it's a good question.....it was for Democrats when Trump kidded he'd be a dictator, but for just one day. They got a lot of mileage from that. It also sets a tone for their future actions & true ideology, now that the campaign BS is behind them.
Watch what they do, not what they say.
If I were dictator for a day our Demonrat "friends" would see what a real dictator is like.
It might be fun sometime to have a post about “What I would do if I were king (or queen).”
Love it!
But we know what biden did on day 1, don't we?
Biden was ready, pen in hand, on day one with 15 executive orders. Most were reversals of Trump policies. Among others he halted construction of the US Mexican border wall, Rejoined the World Health Organization, Set up a Covid office that reports directly to Biden, Rejoin the Paris climate accords, Revoke the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline and cancel other Trump administration energy rules, Nix the 1776 Commission, Unwind Trump’s changes to the census, Strengthen legal protections for “Dreamers”, Abolish the “Muslim ban”, Cancel the Trump administration’s interior enforcement rule, Freeze Trump’s “midnight regulations”
And it didn't take long for him to put billions of dollars in the hands of the bloodthirsty lunatics in Tehran, either.
Biden opened the border on day 1
The reason Kamala may get away with this and win, other than gaslighting and lying through near-total control of the media, is this:
Most people today care more about words and intentions than actions and results.
This is why Trump’s mouth is often his Achilles’ Heel, despite a solid record of achievement during his first term and sound, reasonable policies planned for his second.
I think it's more that people are busy being stupid and lazy.
Or maybe, Jen, they're just busy leading their lives, working and taking care of their families. And not aware of the dark forces that are conspiring to destroy those lives.
"busy leading their lives, working and taking care of their families."
I guess paying double, even triple for groceries and gas doesn't matter?
Oh it does. They just need help in connecting the dots. And placing the blame on the Senile Imbecile and his do-nothing Veep, who presided over so many policy debacles. Including igniting inflation.
Connect the dots!
Nah....
You're tough, Jen.
When did this shit start? When we suddenly needed two incomes where one had been sufficient.
Keeping people busy trying to feed their families is the point. Making them worry that their kids are being given porn in elementary school is the point. Not allowing the cognitive and emotional bandwidth required for self-governance is the point.
High grocery prices are a feature, not a bug.
Yes, "busy" is the distraction. The hamster wheel of busy: no matter how fast you run you never get anywhere except exhausted.
Yes‼️ & not aware or don’t want to be aware ❓
Yes ‼️
I’m sounding now like a broken record but the elephant is still in the room. The only thing that matters is election integrity and the dems are still fighting it and will be doing the “counting”. They are insulting us with empty puppets and laughing all the way to the bank.
I agree with you completely, Barry.
Agreed, but a too big to cheat Trump victory may defuse the election intergrity ticking time bomb.
Hopefully Trump ground forces will be all over the election integrity issue in the swing states.
They better be. Maybe they can get something right. Because if the dems pull an election stunt this time, they will be faced with MUCH worse problem than a tea party on Jan. 6.
re much worse problems. The Dems would like nothing better than to empty the jails of criminals and fill them up with Republicans. They'd call it a twofer.
I read a headline and expert (couldn't bring myself to read the whole thing) about how Georgia saying they need to validate the election before certifying it is an attack on voting rights and democracy itself. Basically saying illegal immigrants should be able to vote in our elections.
A major disappointment that TFP never brought its resources to bear in investigating election integrity. They could have dedicated a week to it earlier this year, when it might have had an effect.
But that would be traitorous to their party. If you really don’t want to find it, don’t look.
The Free Press has been a major disappointing on many fronts.
See Time Magazine: The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
It actually lays it out. Legitimizes it.
I was stunned to see that. They admitted it. And no one cared.
Victor Davis Hanson mentions that article regularly.
Molly Ball wrote a hagiography of Nancy Pelosi a few years ago, as I recall.
Just the sound made by lock and loading has always been music to my ears.
Volunteer for elections. The more both sides are involved the more difficult cheating will be.
Yes- but there’s already talk LITERALLY about exactly how to VOTE in Pennsylvania link below & one day old:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pittsburgh/comments/1f4yynn/everything_you_need_to_make_sure_you_can_vote_in/?rdt=62274
SERIOUSLY LOOK AT THE LINK.
Yes‼️
As for Harris’ attitude toward Israel, she has a New Arab Outreach Director, Brenda Abdellal ( Egyptian American) who has accused Zionists of “ controlling America” .
Add her to the list of top appointments who are openly Israel - Jew hating and IRGC appeasing
And there will be Jews a la Jewish women for Kamala that support her
Her liaison to the Jewish community is the typical born in Israel, couldn't make it in Israel, disgust with Israel guy, Ilan Goldenberg. The only type of "good "Jew the proggers and Universities hire these days.
Yep, Disa, as I said in an earlier reply. I'm seeing lots of "Jew Control" in comments on X.
Here is Nancy Pelosi defending the free housing to illegal immigrants that the California State legislature has just passed( awaits Newsom’s signature). It’s not believable how destructive the Dems are. They are importing votes
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1829773099895546213?s=42
She really thinks we don't have enough poor people in this country.
But they are very well organized & funded & most people don’t know, don’t care, don’t believe it’s actually happening.
This is sickening.
How is this law constitutional?
Constitutional? You think that sh-t still matters?
https://www.reddit.com/r/pittsburgh/comments/1f4yynn/everything_you_need_to_make_sure_you_can_vote_in/?rdt=62274