Rupa Subramanya, Matt Taibbi, & Michael Shellenberger all did a great job testifying before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Watching them school some of these politicians on basic rights and at times laugh at them was pure gold. Subramanya did a really good job of describing how Justin Trudeau has basically turned the Liberal Party of Canada into a present day 1970's Cambodian People's Republic of Kampuchea, minus the rice paddies of course.
The Democrats were simply awful with their questioning and partisanship. I don't know how anyone on the left could have listened to them and not been embarrassed and horrified with how they treated these 3 witnesses and how they've justified the governments overreach of US citizens privacy and first amendment rights. Shellenberger and Taibbi explained clearly how numerous federal agencies have coerced big tech, in some cases directly or through NGO's, to censor and deamplify voices of those who they don't agree or find inconvenient to a narrative.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Dan Goldman are two of the worst human beings on the planet. If you've not watched any of the questioning by either of these depraved authoritarian lunatics you should. The exchange between Goldman, Taibbi and Shellenberger on the percentage of censorship that is acceptable is mind jarring and very telling about the direction of progressives.
Speaking of horrible human beings, Olivia Troye ranks right up there with Schultz. I'm certain she would have been a fine National Socialist German Workers' Party leader in 1938.
Dan Goldman, the heir to the Levi Strauss fortune with a $250 million net worth who graduated from Yale and Stanford, is the poster child of the Democrat "Resistance". Troye and Schultz are veteran deep state swamp creatures, paid to say what their masters tell them.
Democracy is when Democrats win by seeking to imprison the leading opposition candidate. Dictatorship is when conservatives advocate for free speech over censorship.
"...we have to limit your freedom of expression in order to preserve your freedom and ensure your safety. And, yes, we're the proud descendants of the people who insisted we had to discriminate in order to end discrimination, and destroy the village in order to save it. "
P.S. If you don't understand this, you're a racist.
I hear that the 'leading opposition candidate,' if he wins late next year, will want to jail the Bidens, father and son, go after every minion who ever worked for him because they've said bad things about him, will chase Milley to arrest him for treason - and basically do everything everyone here thinks Biden is doing now. Funny how things turn around, right?
If Trump does it, will it be good? Even though through the eyes of so many here, when Biden does it - it's bad?
Sorry - what I was trying to say was that - love Trump or hate him any honest person will admit that he has been persecuted unfairly and egregiously. Someone should be held accountable for the monstrousness that has been committed not just at him but significantly against tons of other Americans. If they can do what they are doing without consequence then we don’t have a country anymore. And while I worry about whether or not Trump will act in a presidential way - I have to remember that the things you are talking about is saying he is already guilty of things he has never done. He did not persecute his political opponents when he was in office. How can you be so sure he will do it in the future
I define "honesty" as adhering to verifiable facts and phenomenon when communicating with other humans. Merriam-Webster's defines "honest" as: 1 free from fraud or deception, 2 reputable, respectable, 3 worthy of praise, and 4 marked by integrity.
According to neither their nor my definition could Trump has be seen as "honest". He has not been persecuted or prosecuted unfairly or egregiously. On the other hand, he has stated openly and often exactly that he will persecute anyone he sees as defying him or causing him problems should we all be unfortunate enough to suffer his ascension once again.
I think it strange that you present the definition of honest, assert that Trump doesn't meet that definition, and then conclude that his prosecution is fair. Because, like so much else, that argument you've made could quite easily be applied to Biden. For that matter, Trump was much more open and revealing, at least - he almost immediately released the transcript of his call with Zelensly, for example, as soon as he came under fire for it - during his impeachment proceedings, than Biden has ever been about anything.
If everyone who has no knowledge of what they propose to comment on were to exercise some discipline, and forbear from making detailed comments full of nothing, I, for one, would heave an enormous sigh of relief.
I think that if Trump does it without reason and without just cause (as I believe Biden in doing it right now) then I agree that will be wrong. The question is did the Biden family sell out the country and take money under the table from other countries. Did he destroy free speech to affect an election? Did he persecute just regular Americans in an unfair way just based upon political party? I think the evidence is pretty strong and those of us who have read Bari and Matt and Michael and Glen have seen quite a bit of evidence. But for sure - if he goes after people in the same way that would be wrong. H th e only thing I can say is that he was president for 4 years already and was treated horribly. He did none of the things during his time in office when he had the chance. Just my feeling
T, treated horribly? Really? Jefferson wrote horrible lies about John Adams. The Clintons did have a right wing conspiracy, writing about them Killing 11+ people. You could buy tapes of the Clinton Chronicles. Nothing came from White water nor Benghazi. Trump always plays the victim. They fact he almost pulled off J6, and his comments are enough for me. He is a danager.
Weird that you laugh at this post, which recites the reporting done on this very website. One must wonder what you are here for, if you think that the reporters are "crowing with glee at ugliness".
Troye is just another useless hack who is richly compensated at an NGO whose mission is to do the bidding of people with an agenda inimical to the interests of American citizens. The rise of lobbyists was the worst thing to happen to our nation. Let's have a 10 year ban on any government employee or elected federal official working as a lobbyist.
The ex Pense staffer who, within an hour, contradicted herself in front of everyone in that room with no self awareness at all. Where do all these stupid people come from? Taibbi did a great job skewering her on his Racket News.
What is a lobbyist? A huge problem is rewards to politicians after leaving office. Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and increasingly others, are giving rewards after. 20 years ago, this was as high as $100 million! The low end was a Jaguar.
Payment in any form, after leaving office, particularly by foreign powers is something you should be fighting.
The other thing to fight is term limits and contribution caps except for foreign donors. Why? Perverse effect. Those laws have made politicians into beggars, lowering the price of corruption, making it easier. Before, a politician had a career, and all sides had to come to them and beg. The politicians could play them off against each other. Now? They are owned.
Hey, it was just 13% censorship, what’s your problem?
Why are meetings between social media and govt and their extensions even happening? I would like to hear Elon say to these groups what he said to the Disney CEO
That was simply unbelievable. Goldman ranted on about Trump, Musk and RFK Jr and then went on to somehow try to say that no government agency had any influence over big tech. Unreal.
So what do we do about it? How can we defeat such anti-American leftist that have taken over America? How do we combat the government paid MSM and social media? How do we combat the government run bureaus (FBI, CIA, DOJ) that have become the leftist police? Can we elect someone who may not be the best but at least loves America? A fighter? Someone that can clean out the deep state? That’s what I see. A cabal of leftist and lairs bent on controlling every citizen in America! We must come together and fight for this country or we will not have one.
Volunteer to be a poll worker, or at least a Republican poll watcher. Do the little bit each person can contribute to stop the Democrats from stealing the next election.
Encourage all Free Pressers to watch this interview of MTG. The MSM has made this woman into a hated caricature. She is lonely on Capitol Hill because she sees the absolute rot in her fellow Republican colleagues and refuses to play along. The way out is more MTG’s.
Have seen that clip a couple times now and its outstanding. Really enjoy Tucker Carlson. Had the pleasure of seeing Jordan Peterson speak and part of his message was based on the very same principle. Thanks so much and have a great one!
The bigger point is HOW congressional representatives are raising $ to fund their continual campaigns and employment. It used to be much more grass roots phone calls to individual donors. Now days, it's MUCH EASIER just to have Ratheon or Pzifer hold a DC fundraising cocktail or dinner party full of lobbyists for those companies/industries. Raise as much $ in 2 hours as you can in 200 hours of phone calls. Why do you suppose so much PAC $$ is being thrown at Nikki Haley right now, and yet she's behind in polls to Trump by 50 points? There is a massive disconnect between voters wants/needs and their representatives want/need to get re-elected. You wanna know why congressional reps clamor to wear Ukraine flags on their lapels? That is a virtue signal to their lobbyist/Military Industrial overlords that they are a team player, and worthy of another fund-raising event. An event that makes the rep slaves to the Corporate Industry rather the the good folks at home. This is true of both R and D. R's give a good talk of being 'conservative', but when it comes down to voting those words into bill/law, they go absent, afraid that the lobbyist $ pipeline might be cut off if they stray off-path.
Totally agree. I'm not even saying that Repub voters are all high-information or that Repub pols are honest truth-tellers while the Dems are all stupid. I think DC is largely broken but in the way that they want it to stay-----broken so they can maximize their own profit. Both sides, no doubt. And they will fight to the death to maintain it.
LEARNED HELPLESSNESS: A phenomenon observed in both humans and other animals when they have been conditioned to expect pain, suffering, or discomfort without a way to escape it.
Thanks. Just discovered him yesterday. ( In light of the Twitter Files revelations I'm taking another look at Shoshanna Zuboff's report on surveillance capitalism. The merger of Googleland tech with the CIC , the capitalist commodification of the human and the clear intention of globalism and the Davos crowd to overlay a CCP style system on the peoples of the world paints reveals a pretty ugly reality.)
We need to elect the man that loves America at the moment we have FJB and his administration who hate America let’s unite around each and vote them out come 2025🇺🇸🇺🇸
I think that's a fair request, but since the "right" is not in possession, custody or control of the mainstream media, Hollywood, tech (before you suggest to the contrary, no one controls Elon), the country's security apparatus, the DOJ, the administrative state, or the executive branch of government, it's a lot more difficult to find "shortcomings" equivalent in import to the left's to write about. I'm sure if you listed your top 3 or so, the FP would take a look at them. What are they? "Trump as dictator?" You'll see that story on the side of (blue) city buses.
Do you have a link to the questioning? I could not find it on Youtube. I would love to see Debbie "blabber mouth" Schultz or learn about Olivia Troye. Great post.
Let me urge you, if you haven't already, to invest a bit of time in a Shoshanna Zuboff YouTube lecture or two on what she terms surveillance capitalism. (Or as I'm doing, order her book.) Her insight and research into the corporate commodification of human life, joined with the hard work our Twitter Files "subscription journalists" did in their reporting on the marriage of Googleland tech to the DNC/CIC surveillance state is key to understanding the hyperrealistic lie attempting to subsume our lives.
In fact I would suggest BARI WEISS/TFP do a panel on this open theft of the human future and the ongoing attempted subversion of human dignity by a handful of corporate fascists and the poseur sycophants that serve them.
Rice paddies. It's a nitpick, I fully admit that. But it's also attention to detail. I usually read the first several comments on these stories, and yours are normally right up at the top so I read you a lot.
I have little doubt that Debbie Wasserman Schultz is awful. She was the DNC tool hiding and acting for HRC to essentially steal all of the DNC's donations for HRC using a secret contract. But could I suggest less opinion & innuendo, and more info? Like post the links? Help people see the truth. Telling them your reaction is not so effective and plays into their hands.
Thx. I did post the link to the entire testimony at the bottom of my comment.
How many more links are required to confirm that of Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Dan Goldman are horrible human beings to prove that this fact is not just my opinion?
As much as I dislike the alt right's ideology, tactics and politics, the left is just as bad. Subramanyam brought to light the ugliness the Canadian government has resorted to in trying to control its dissidents. It's despicable! The US seems to be in the same boat. Who do we vote for? Where are the moderates? As the old saw goes, we're damned if we do and damned if we don't ! As always, we're stuck supporting the least offensive party. One step forwards, two steps back. Sometimes I just want to say, Politics Suck!
I cannot add much to what Jim Jordan said: "Well said. Rupa." I believe we are at a watershed moment in US history and what we do as a country will determine the course, and perhaps the survival, of the American experiment for generations to come. If we allow the few loud, shrill, relentless authoritarian, arrogant, and elitist voices to go unanswered, or made to defend their position in the public square, then we are doomed to be ruled by a small cabal made up of those who feel their class and/or education entitles them to make decisions for the rest of us. Our survival as a nation demands that we stand up to claims of systemic racism, globalism, climate change catastrophism, and gender fluidity.
Bari- would you kindly view the webinar I have attached the link to below? I am a single surgeon fighting the 84,000 member American College of Surgeons whose leadership banned me for life for disputing its claim that the ACS is racist, all surgeons are racists, and surgery is racist, and objecting to the adoption of DEI/antiracism in the College. Do you want your surgeon chosen for his or her skin color?
Doctor - I will watch your story after work. It looks fascinating. All of our major professional organizations have been captured by dedicated leftists. I do believe that most of the membership of your organization - and mine in the law - do not adhere to the leftist and extremist views of those at the top. The trick is to galvanize the sane membership and to take back our professional organizations from these repressive goons.
Decades back American toxic feminism attacked and successfully compromised what they propagandized as the "good old boys men's club" which, in actuality, were often community based service organizations committed to the conscious stewardship of community and nation. In point of fact, as Americans are experiencing today, the sycophants cared nothing for the actual hard work involved or prosperous outcomes. Only the power and narcissism of self-interested control. Today they are recognized as the commissariat styled career destroying DEI. And as the smug faced little fascists appearing as witnesses at Congressional DNC/CIC surveillance state party line hearings. Or as the blue haired childless presidents of school boards cutting the mic's of concerned parents.
The tactic most often reported here: Claims of vague emotional distress and often anonymous complaint followed by a whisper campaign and shunning. Then public shaming, and again, often threatening anonymous calls to the department head or business owner followed by open demands for the victims firing. Then the nut case hysteria of the social media pile on, the pretense of a kangaroo court inquiry and, the ultimate creation of a thick as soup emotional/financial atmosphere so poisonous and anti-human everyone involved gladly accedes. This is and has always been the star-chamber politics of totalitarian monarchism. It is the brutal narcissistic pathology that characterizes "the divine right of kings."
Our small victory of the moment and the beginning of the way forward is our belief in a truth/fact based American human reality.
On the university campus literally men's clubs. Women demanded membership and accused the clubs of the same racist/sexist/discriminatory policies that the DEI now practices every day of the week. Today men trying to organized support groups on campus are routinely vilified, denied recognition and funding, and forced off campus altogether. The toxicity of university feminism is responsible for most of the rallies, threats and and violence targeting, silencing and cancelling speakers. Anti male misandrist feminist rhetoric has greatly reduced participation in, and the positivity of the roles groups like the Kiwanis, Rotary and the Masons once played in communities life.
The fist fight is over who will control the "public square". Across America, as in your personal experience, the purpose of the CIC/DNC is to shout down human moral reason, distort reality and prevent the truth/fact based national dialogue that will put solutions on the table. Hold the line.
Thank you Dr Bosshardt- your analysis is clearly accurate, your diagnosis is supported by facts, and your treatment plan is cogent and courageous. We have an exigent moral crisis before us. You work in a profession where trust is vital. You have mine sir.
While there are cultural differences in the perception of pain, disease, and death; all human blood is red, all human bodies have the same organs, and we are all susceptible to the same 97,295 accidents, injuries, illnesses and ill-defined conditions defined in the International Classification of Diseases 10th Edition, Clinical Modification. The fact that the largest organ of the human body, the skin, may be of a different hue or color, does not change any of that.
Agreed, Dr. Bosshardt. I listened to the Webinar you shared - where you are interviewed by Monica Harris, attorney and Executive Director of FAIR. You are a good person! I agree that most people do not believe in such things as "anti racism". They also do not believe in "gender identity". Yet these concepts rule all of our institutions. All of DIE is related/the same. I appreciated that Monica Harris mentioned the lack of evidence for "Gender" "Affirming" "Care" for minors. I list each word separately because each is used in an upside down Orwellian manner.
It is insane that a plastic surgeon like you can be canceled while Florida's notorious "Yeet The Teet" plastic surgeon has a strong voice:
It is so frightening to parents that most <doctors> are afraid to speak out and therefore overtly or tacitly endorse Gender Ideology. Are you aware of the lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics?
Dr. Bosshardt, I just watched the FAIR in Medicine talk that you posted. I’m thankful that there are still people like you in the medical field who are willing to push back against the lies. We need more courageous voices.
Rupa is so right - "now is not the time to be polite."
To those who would try to take away our free speech rights - harsh words, a punch in the face and ultimately a bullet. This not a parlor game. No response to authoritarian repression is too harsh.
As far as the corporate toadies of repression? Smash them. Boycott PayPal. Nobody should use this payment "service." Consign them to a well deserved oblivion. Pull your money from any bank that shills for the government. As Rupa said, the United States must be a beacon when Ottawa and Dublin become mere apes for Beijing and Tehran. If the light of liberty goes out here, the globalist repression will be complete. Fight. Remember who you are. You are a free American. Be an example to the billions of people round the world who are watching
Not sure how we allowed the “be nice- don’t judge “ crowd to take over, but this has wreaked havoc on our people (children) and our country- especially conservatives who tend to be more religious. “Thou shalt not judge refers to judging the state of one’s soul NOT the actions or ideas a person does or espouses. We absolutely need to call out those who violate our constitution- including our own government and those who are in cahoots with them. It may be too late given how much power these institutions have.
A good parent isn’t just nice to their children. Sometimes (many times for some kids) a parent has to be down right “mean” to help the child mature into adulthood.
Thank you FP for calling a spade a spade and trying to get our country back on the right track!
I confess that I laughed out loud last month returning from Europe to see the signs proclaiming "Border Security." As hordes of illegals make a mockery of our borders we play this odd game of pretend. Would be funny if not so sad.
The people Rupa is up against don't just want to curb Free Speech; what they really want is to curb Free Thought. They prefer a nice bit of Groupthink (and ironically they are so full of Groupthink that they are incapable of even realising it). https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/
Bari...it all started with you leaving the NYT. Look at the incredible ripple effect of that decision. Honestly, Common Sense and now The Free Press, the Twitter Files and now Julia Stenberg’s testimony before Congress among other important things especially the reporting on October 7. That reporting has probably been the only place to learn the truth of that horrible day. Thank you!
I remember when Canada was emblematic of a free country. The fact that Trudeau remains in office is an embarrassment. Or does it say something about what Canada has become?
What happened in Canada is a cautionary tale. According to a recent poll, 73 % of Canadians want Justin Trudeau to step down. Speaking for myself, I can honestly tell you that I had no idea that he and the Liberal Party could do so much damage to our economy and our freedom so very quickly. I can’t wait for the next election!
Weird because experts have said that only the US' white supremacist electoral college can bring about minority rule. It's almost as if that was partisan self-interest dressed up in jargon.
I just read that 2 people who set fire and burned down a Wendys ina protest just got a 500 dollar fine with probation. I heard the chief of the capital police say that no one in DC was arrester in 2020 for the riots which burned down a church and injured tons of secret service. Bari - you need to do a story in Matthew Perna and what happened to him. (He walked calmly and quietly through the capital without touching anything or hurting anything and took his own life due to what the justice dept did). Have people heard this story?
Just a quickie: Although I'd like to claim Oliver Anthony for my home state of West Virginia, he in fact is currently living in Farmville, Virginia - which, by the way, to many people's surprise is indeed a different state.
Yep. Same here in Southside VA. (Farmville itsownself, to be exact). The general consensus is that if NOVA - Northern Virginia - were to secede, there wouldn't be a shot fired. Hell, I'd help 'em pack ....
I watched the testimony, but sadly, I could not find the Democratic response to them. I guess the Main Stream Media will work on her being a White supremacist. I think this is the #1 reason I am so anti-Trump. The people in the Biden administration are all part of the mindset that governs Canada. You don't elect a President as much as a team to run the government and enforce the laws. The people who run ours now are people who love the stuff that Rupa is speaking against.
But with Trump, the focus is not on them but him. And he would have it no other way. He is such an awful communicator and only persuasive if you are a fanboy or girl of him. The campaign in 2024 should be against a Man who is declining quickly, a cackling fool who, God forbid, ever gets power, but also the men and women who are ideological and incompetent. They must get soundly defeated, and sadly, Trump can not do that, nor if he happens to squeak out a win, govern competently, and communicate to the country while they are getting rooted out.
"I could not find the Democratic response to them. I guess the Main Stream Media will work on her being a White supremacist. I think this is the #1 reason I am so anti-Trump."
Huh? The very reason these people hated Trump was because he stood foursquare against their agenda. You might have things very backward.
It's not that Trump stood against them but how he does it. He is sadly undisciplined, vain, temperamental, and lacks couth. He offends the sensibilities of people who get so enraged by him that they will not look or listen to the threats of the real enemy in front of us. He does the right thing in the wrong way, thus incapable of forging a movement to depose the people in government.
So your answer is to support the people who do the wrong thing the right way? Trump may be all the things of which you accuse him but our liberties and our nation were safe under him. And until a younger woman or man with his same compass stands to replace him, I'm sticking with Trump. Warts and all.
And DeSantis has a proven record of accomplishment. And he has proven he has the courage to take on woke madness, and doesn't care what pundits or late-night comedians say about him. Alone among all the candidates, he has served in the military. I hope he will be the Republican nominee.
Sadly, he is also "boring" by polictical standards. Americans are not great at voting for people who will actually do a good job unless they also somehow energize people. We like celebrities and drama and excitement. And most of the work of government is boring.
People think Trump cares at all about our liberties? Does anyone listen to what he says? He'll try to ban whatever pisses him off at the moment. Trump (and the hard right) is not the fix for the hard left. I support non-extremists.
When you call someone an "extremist" be careful that you're not simply parroting the cartoon of them by the leftist media. How many here think MTG actually fulminated against "Jewish Space Lasers?"
I don't think Trump is effective. He seems uniquely talented at rendering the other side insane AND giving the other side more power. The result is the current mess we're in.
"does the right thing in the wrong way...." Now where, oh where have I heard that before? Kinda like "too busy to get involved." Buy either, and bye bye all that is good.
Vivek a Ramaswamy has the MAGA ideals without the Trump baggage. He is smart, erudite, and is currently doing the door to door work in Iowa and New Hampshire. If he pulls off an impressive showing, he has a real chance. The uniparty and MSM have been ignoring him outright precisely because he is most threatening to their totalitarian anti free speech policies. I urge people to follow him on YouTube and listen to what he says and how he says things.
Listen to his interview with Jordan Peterson. After that, you can decide. I also listened to DeSantis interview with Jordan Peterson. DeSantis would be an awesome choice, but I don't know how either of these guys can break through the Trump barrier.
I love Ramaswamy for all the reasons you state but the flaw in your argument is that the deep state and their corporate media flunkies will employ the same playbook against him that they did against Trump. Contrary to your point, the reason the uniparty and corporate media haven't already is because they do not view him as a threat. He’s still relatively unknown but should that change, it’s so much easier to smear an unknown. Just ask RFK. It doesn’t matter if they can’t find any dirt, they’ll just make it up, like the whole Russia, Russia, Russia collusion lie. They’ll smear away because they know that by the time the truth finally comes out, it’s too late because they’ll have won.
The difference is that Trump has withstood all of that already. Their lies and corruption are being exposed daily. What else can they smear him with? People who are inclined to vote know Trump is being persecuted by a corrupt Biden/Obama regime JustUs department and the obedient Beria acolytes charging him with “crimes”. No one, not even the most deranged Trump haters believe there is any substance to them. What they do believe is that Trump is an existential threat to the ultimate authoritarian power they seek and they’re willing to do anything to stop him.
I think you're correct. Our basing our belief in a truth/fact based American reality against the realpolitik of their "willingness to do anything" is exactly the fight we're in. On our side, history says that the commitment to the fight immediately removes fear of the threat and clears the field of vision. Much of the mal force at work in American political reality depends on psyop, propaganda, obfuscation and fear and the amount of effort they have to put into maintaining the front makes me believe they're not as powerful as they would like us to believe.
I disagree. They ignore those they see as a threat. Sometimes they give space to the least bankable over the most threatening to help protect their incumbent choice.
When Mr deSantis looked viable, there was wall-to-wall negative comparison to Mr Hitler in the MSM. When he faded to irrelevance, he vanished. You are, of course, entitled to your opinion -- I'll stick with mine.
He has no governing experience. After the ineffective Trump years I'd like a candidate who atleast understands where the levers are and how to use them.
Whatever anyone thinks of Trump, his ability to stand up under pressure is unquestionable.
Let me also make mention the candidate V.Ramaswamy (no idea how good a President he would be) is trying to have the same conversation we are: 1776, the Constitution, the citizen, and the ongoing American revolution. (And Trump often expresses the same idea's.)
That may be true. I am struggling with that as well, as I don't like Trump. But I am also not sure who the better alternative will be. And it certainly isn't on the Democrats side of things.
If it comes down to Trump vs. Biden, I vote for Trump for the third time. Vivek comes off as too much of a smarty pants with unworkable solutions. Haley is getting sucked into the warmonger vortex and Desantis is still too young and lacks personaity. But I am voting for him as I think he can blow out Biden.
Fun fact: Petards are not swords or spears, they are small explosives, like grenades. The word “petard” was also used in French as a euphemism for “fart,” so being “hoist on ones own petard” actually means to be blown into the air by the power of ones own fart!
I'm no longer a Trump fan but today's poll from Morning Consult gives him a 63 point lead over DeSantis, with Haley in third followed by Ramaswammy. It doesn't look like anyone is going to seriously challenge DJT even though he will be tied up in court for the next year or even in jail. While it's not my scenario of choice, four years of Trump would be vastly better than another four years of Biden - or, God forbid, Kamala Harris or Gavin Newsom. So before writing off Trump as a bloviating blowhard, which I understand, look at the likely alternatives. (RFK, Jr. is right on a few things but dead wrong on many more. He's a liberal with a few sensible views.)
I agree, I do not think he can win. I'm ashamed of my party. This could be the easiest election year of our lifetimes if we just went with a non-Trump option.
My one suggestion to Rupa: Please speak more slowly! Unfortunately, she was probably under time constraints and tried to cram as much as she could into her allotted time. Too, bad, for her message needs full exposure to those who think Trudeau is our future.
Amen. I have not frequented a church in many years but I do feel in my soul the anger and sorrow that is currently playing out against my brothers and sisters around the US and around the globe. This is very much a battle of the 'soul' just window dressed as rights, liberties, etc. The wolf is definitely leading many astray and they are too blind to realize it.
"I have not frequented a church in many years but I do feel in my soul the anger and sorrow that is currently playing out against my brothers and sisters around the US and around the globe."
Rupa Subramanya, Matt Taibbi, & Michael Shellenberger all did a great job testifying before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Watching them school some of these politicians on basic rights and at times laugh at them was pure gold. Subramanya did a really good job of describing how Justin Trudeau has basically turned the Liberal Party of Canada into a present day 1970's Cambodian People's Republic of Kampuchea, minus the rice paddies of course.
The Democrats were simply awful with their questioning and partisanship. I don't know how anyone on the left could have listened to them and not been embarrassed and horrified with how they treated these 3 witnesses and how they've justified the governments overreach of US citizens privacy and first amendment rights. Shellenberger and Taibbi explained clearly how numerous federal agencies have coerced big tech, in some cases directly or through NGO's, to censor and deamplify voices of those who they don't agree or find inconvenient to a narrative.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Dan Goldman are two of the worst human beings on the planet. If you've not watched any of the questioning by either of these depraved authoritarian lunatics you should. The exchange between Goldman, Taibbi and Shellenberger on the percentage of censorship that is acceptable is mind jarring and very telling about the direction of progressives.
Speaking of horrible human beings, Olivia Troye ranks right up there with Schultz. I'm certain she would have been a fine National Socialist German Workers' Party leader in 1938.
Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjFWInU8pqU (watch Goldman/Taibbi/Shellenberger exchange 2:31 - 2:40)
Dan Goldman, the heir to the Levi Strauss fortune with a $250 million net worth who graduated from Yale and Stanford, is the poster child of the Democrat "Resistance". Troye and Schultz are veteran deep state swamp creatures, paid to say what their masters tell them.
Democracy is when Democrats win by seeking to imprison the leading opposition candidate. Dictatorship is when conservatives advocate for free speech over censorship.
Freedom is slavery, war is peace. 🤡🌎
Spot on.
"...we have to limit your freedom of expression in order to preserve your freedom and ensure your safety. And, yes, we're the proud descendants of the people who insisted we had to discriminate in order to end discrimination, and destroy the village in order to save it. "
P.S. If you don't understand this, you're a racist.
Haha perfection
Exactly correct
Some people only find their peace in war. Me - I'd rather be fishing.
Just trump
I hear that the 'leading opposition candidate,' if he wins late next year, will want to jail the Bidens, father and son, go after every minion who ever worked for him because they've said bad things about him, will chase Milley to arrest him for treason - and basically do everything everyone here thinks Biden is doing now. Funny how things turn around, right?
If Trump does it, will it be good? Even though through the eyes of so many here, when Biden does it - it's bad?
Sorry - what I was trying to say was that - love Trump or hate him any honest person will admit that he has been persecuted unfairly and egregiously. Someone should be held accountable for the monstrousness that has been committed not just at him but significantly against tons of other Americans. If they can do what they are doing without consequence then we don’t have a country anymore. And while I worry about whether or not Trump will act in a presidential way - I have to remember that the things you are talking about is saying he is already guilty of things he has never done. He did not persecute his political opponents when he was in office. How can you be so sure he will do it in the future
I define "honesty" as adhering to verifiable facts and phenomenon when communicating with other humans. Merriam-Webster's defines "honest" as: 1 free from fraud or deception, 2 reputable, respectable, 3 worthy of praise, and 4 marked by integrity.
According to neither their nor my definition could Trump has be seen as "honest". He has not been persecuted or prosecuted unfairly or egregiously. On the other hand, he has stated openly and often exactly that he will persecute anyone he sees as defying him or causing him problems should we all be unfortunate enough to suffer his ascension once again.
I think it strange that you present the definition of honest, assert that Trump doesn't meet that definition, and then conclude that his prosecution is fair. Because, like so much else, that argument you've made could quite easily be applied to Biden. For that matter, Trump was much more open and revealing, at least - he almost immediately released the transcript of his call with Zelensly, for example, as soon as he came under fire for it - during his impeachment proceedings, than Biden has ever been about anything.
In answer to your last line:
Because he says he will.
If everyone who has no knowledge of what they propose to comment on were to exercise some discipline, and forbear from making detailed comments full of nothing, I, for one, would heave an enormous sigh of relief.
I think that if Trump does it without reason and without just cause (as I believe Biden in doing it right now) then I agree that will be wrong. The question is did the Biden family sell out the country and take money under the table from other countries. Did he destroy free speech to affect an election? Did he persecute just regular Americans in an unfair way just based upon political party? I think the evidence is pretty strong and those of us who have read Bari and Matt and Michael and Glen have seen quite a bit of evidence. But for sure - if he goes after people in the same way that would be wrong. H th e only thing I can say is that he was president for 4 years already and was treated horribly. He did none of the things during his time in office when he had the chance. Just my feeling
T, treated horribly? Really? Jefferson wrote horrible lies about John Adams. The Clintons did have a right wing conspiracy, writing about them Killing 11+ people. You could buy tapes of the Clinton Chronicles. Nothing came from White water nor Benghazi. Trump always plays the victim. They fact he almost pulled off J6, and his comments are enough for me. He is a danager.
OMG.
Good luck with the logic. So many crowing with glee at the ugliness: they love it. A lot of sociopaths in this crowd, if you ask me.
Weird that you laugh at this post, which recites the reporting done on this very website. One must wonder what you are here for, if you think that the reporters are "crowing with glee at ugliness".
Yes yes yes 🔥
Troye is just another useless hack who is richly compensated at an NGO whose mission is to do the bidding of people with an agenda inimical to the interests of American citizens. The rise of lobbyists was the worst thing to happen to our nation. Let's have a 10 year ban on any government employee or elected federal official working as a lobbyist.
The ex Pense staffer who, within an hour, contradicted herself in front of everyone in that room with no self awareness at all. Where do all these stupid people come from? Taibbi did a great job skewering her on his Racket News.
The bigger problem is that their stupidity is exceeded only by their greed and venality.
What is a lobbyist? A huge problem is rewards to politicians after leaving office. Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and increasingly others, are giving rewards after. 20 years ago, this was as high as $100 million! The low end was a Jaguar.
Payment in any form, after leaving office, particularly by foreign powers is something you should be fighting.
The other thing to fight is term limits and contribution caps except for foreign donors. Why? Perverse effect. Those laws have made politicians into beggars, lowering the price of corruption, making it easier. Before, a politician had a career, and all sides had to come to them and beg. The politicians could play them off against each other. Now? They are owned.
Yes. It's all of the same stripe.
You’re too nice it should be a lifetime ban
Hey, it was just 13% censorship, what’s your problem?
Why are meetings between social media and govt and their extensions even happening? I would like to hear Elon say to these groups what he said to the Disney CEO
That was simply unbelievable. Goldman ranted on about Trump, Musk and RFK Jr and then went on to somehow try to say that no government agency had any influence over big tech. Unreal.
Yip but at this stage I will say it for all of us F..k THEM!!!
But are the voters listening ?
Yip I think they are Brian.
I live in Ontario and it's truly been a spectacle watching the degradation of liberties - look forward to watching her testimony.
Wasserman is a piece of shit
Why denigrate excrement in this manner?
😂😂😂
LOL
Excreted by Hilary
The truth at last.
Thank you, friend :-)
So what do we do about it? How can we defeat such anti-American leftist that have taken over America? How do we combat the government paid MSM and social media? How do we combat the government run bureaus (FBI, CIA, DOJ) that have become the leftist police? Can we elect someone who may not be the best but at least loves America? A fighter? Someone that can clean out the deep state? That’s what I see. A cabal of leftist and lairs bent on controlling every citizen in America! We must come together and fight for this country or we will not have one.
Volunteer to be a poll worker, or at least a Republican poll watcher. Do the little bit each person can contribute to stop the Democrats from stealing the next election.
Encourage all Free Pressers to watch this interview of MTG. The MSM has made this woman into a hated caricature. She is lonely on Capitol Hill because she sees the absolute rot in her fellow Republican colleagues and refuses to play along. The way out is more MTG’s.
https://youtu.be/brJZyvNhBpw?si=ZluEhcG8eri8TCTf
That clip is excellent.
Evans, you might like this clip as well, its shorter @ 8 min. Want to be happy? Care only about the opinions of people who love you...
https://youtu.be/iv7Q3PK1i18
Have seen that clip a couple times now and its outstanding. Really enjoy Tucker Carlson. Had the pleasure of seeing Jordan Peterson speak and part of his message was based on the very same principle. Thanks so much and have a great one!
An interesting take considering the GOPs energy that goes into Gerrymandering voting districts.
Both sides do this. Republicans learned this game from Dems.
The bigger point is HOW congressional representatives are raising $ to fund their continual campaigns and employment. It used to be much more grass roots phone calls to individual donors. Now days, it's MUCH EASIER just to have Ratheon or Pzifer hold a DC fundraising cocktail or dinner party full of lobbyists for those companies/industries. Raise as much $ in 2 hours as you can in 200 hours of phone calls. Why do you suppose so much PAC $$ is being thrown at Nikki Haley right now, and yet she's behind in polls to Trump by 50 points? There is a massive disconnect between voters wants/needs and their representatives want/need to get re-elected. You wanna know why congressional reps clamor to wear Ukraine flags on their lapels? That is a virtue signal to their lobbyist/Military Industrial overlords that they are a team player, and worthy of another fund-raising event. An event that makes the rep slaves to the Corporate Industry rather the the good folks at home. This is true of both R and D. R's give a good talk of being 'conservative', but when it comes down to voting those words into bill/law, they go absent, afraid that the lobbyist $ pipeline might be cut off if they stray off-path.
Totally agree. I'm not even saying that Repub voters are all high-information or that Repub pols are honest truth-tellers while the Dems are all stupid. I think DC is largely broken but in the way that they want it to stay-----broken so they can maximize their own profit. Both sides, no doubt. And they will fight to the death to maintain it.
I think, statistically, the most gerrymandered states are New York and Oregon.
I’m an NC voter, it’s terrible here.
Here is my new Christmas toy to play with.
LEARNED HELPLESSNESS: A phenomenon observed in both humans and other animals when they have been conditioned to expect pain, suffering, or discomfort without a way to escape it.
Think about it. ;-)
Martin Seligman
Thanks. Just discovered him yesterday. ( In light of the Twitter Files revelations I'm taking another look at Shoshanna Zuboff's report on surveillance capitalism. The merger of Googleland tech with the CIC , the capitalist commodification of the human and the clear intention of globalism and the Davos crowd to overlay a CCP style system on the peoples of the world paints reveals a pretty ugly reality.)
Same with Zuboff. Shared her piece with a couple of buddies. Needs more light
We need to elect the man that loves America at the moment we have FJB and his administration who hate America let’s unite around each and vote them out come 2025🇺🇸🇺🇸
Yes - and the FP has a duty to report on some shortcomings on the right, from time to time, or they will lose my interest.
I think that's a fair request, but since the "right" is not in possession, custody or control of the mainstream media, Hollywood, tech (before you suggest to the contrary, no one controls Elon), the country's security apparatus, the DOJ, the administrative state, or the executive branch of government, it's a lot more difficult to find "shortcomings" equivalent in import to the left's to write about. I'm sure if you listed your top 3 or so, the FP would take a look at them. What are they? "Trump as dictator?" You'll see that story on the side of (blue) city buses.
Goldman is like Fergie Chambers, another rich kid who hates himself. Just less in-your-face about it.
Come on man Fergie is more likable.
Do you have a link to the questioning? I could not find it on Youtube. I would love to see Debbie "blabber mouth" Schultz or learn about Olivia Troye. Great post.
I added the link in my comment.
Pro tip ut the links up front so people see them in the preview.
Let me urge you, if you haven't already, to invest a bit of time in a Shoshanna Zuboff YouTube lecture or two on what she terms surveillance capitalism. (Or as I'm doing, order her book.) Her insight and research into the corporate commodification of human life, joined with the hard work our Twitter Files "subscription journalists" did in their reporting on the marriage of Googleland tech to the DNC/CIC surveillance state is key to understanding the hyperrealistic lie attempting to subsume our lives.
In fact I would suggest BARI WEISS/TFP do a panel on this open theft of the human future and the ongoing attempted subversion of human dignity by a handful of corporate fascists and the poseur sycophants that serve them.
"... minus the rice patties of course."
Rice paddies. It's a nitpick, I fully admit that. But it's also attention to detail. I usually read the first several comments on these stories, and yours are normally right up at the top so I read you a lot.
Thx for the heads up. Corrected. 😊
I have little doubt that Debbie Wasserman Schultz is awful. She was the DNC tool hiding and acting for HRC to essentially steal all of the DNC's donations for HRC using a secret contract. But could I suggest less opinion & innuendo, and more info? Like post the links? Help people see the truth. Telling them your reaction is not so effective and plays into their hands.
Thx. I did post the link to the entire testimony at the bottom of my comment.
How many more links are required to confirm that of Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Dan Goldman are horrible human beings to prove that this fact is not just my opinion?
As much as I dislike the alt right's ideology, tactics and politics, the left is just as bad. Subramanyam brought to light the ugliness the Canadian government has resorted to in trying to control its dissidents. It's despicable! The US seems to be in the same boat. Who do we vote for? Where are the moderates? As the old saw goes, we're damned if we do and damned if we don't ! As always, we're stuck supporting the least offensive party. One step forwards, two steps back. Sometimes I just want to say, Politics Suck!
I hope she keeps her money in somewhere other than Canada and has a food taster. I enjoy her reporting. FP is lucky to have her.
I cannot add much to what Jim Jordan said: "Well said. Rupa." I believe we are at a watershed moment in US history and what we do as a country will determine the course, and perhaps the survival, of the American experiment for generations to come. If we allow the few loud, shrill, relentless authoritarian, arrogant, and elitist voices to go unanswered, or made to defend their position in the public square, then we are doomed to be ruled by a small cabal made up of those who feel their class and/or education entitles them to make decisions for the rest of us. Our survival as a nation demands that we stand up to claims of systemic racism, globalism, climate change catastrophism, and gender fluidity.
Bari- would you kindly view the webinar I have attached the link to below? I am a single surgeon fighting the 84,000 member American College of Surgeons whose leadership banned me for life for disputing its claim that the ACS is racist, all surgeons are racists, and surgery is racist, and objecting to the adoption of DEI/antiracism in the College. Do you want your surgeon chosen for his or her skin color?
https://youtu.be/tiLFTFGhcsU?list=PLGtHX8cqFXbDfa9c31xCbvU85-3uZyHY2
Doctor - I will watch your story after work. It looks fascinating. All of our major professional organizations have been captured by dedicated leftists. I do believe that most of the membership of your organization - and mine in the law - do not adhere to the leftist and extremist views of those at the top. The trick is to galvanize the sane membership and to take back our professional organizations from these repressive goons.
Decades back American toxic feminism attacked and successfully compromised what they propagandized as the "good old boys men's club" which, in actuality, were often community based service organizations committed to the conscious stewardship of community and nation. In point of fact, as Americans are experiencing today, the sycophants cared nothing for the actual hard work involved or prosperous outcomes. Only the power and narcissism of self-interested control. Today they are recognized as the commissariat styled career destroying DEI. And as the smug faced little fascists appearing as witnesses at Congressional DNC/CIC surveillance state party line hearings. Or as the blue haired childless presidents of school boards cutting the mic's of concerned parents.
The tactic most often reported here: Claims of vague emotional distress and often anonymous complaint followed by a whisper campaign and shunning. Then public shaming, and again, often threatening anonymous calls to the department head or business owner followed by open demands for the victims firing. Then the nut case hysteria of the social media pile on, the pretense of a kangaroo court inquiry and, the ultimate creation of a thick as soup emotional/financial atmosphere so poisonous and anti-human everyone involved gladly accedes. This is and has always been the star-chamber politics of totalitarian monarchism. It is the brutal narcissistic pathology that characterizes "the divine right of kings."
Our small victory of the moment and the beginning of the way forward is our belief in a truth/fact based American human reality.
What community based organizations?
On the university campus literally men's clubs. Women demanded membership and accused the clubs of the same racist/sexist/discriminatory policies that the DEI now practices every day of the week. Today men trying to organized support groups on campus are routinely vilified, denied recognition and funding, and forced off campus altogether. The toxicity of university feminism is responsible for most of the rallies, threats and and violence targeting, silencing and cancelling speakers. Anti male misandrist feminist rhetoric has greatly reduced participation in, and the positivity of the roles groups like the Kiwanis, Rotary and the Masons once played in communities life.
Thanks. Was curious who (clubs) you meant.
Pardon the typo's.
The fist fight is over who will control the "public square". Across America, as in your personal experience, the purpose of the CIC/DNC is to shout down human moral reason, distort reality and prevent the truth/fact based national dialogue that will put solutions on the table. Hold the line.
Thank you Dr Bosshardt- your analysis is clearly accurate, your diagnosis is supported by facts, and your treatment plan is cogent and courageous. We have an exigent moral crisis before us. You work in a profession where trust is vital. You have mine sir.
While there are cultural differences in the perception of pain, disease, and death; all human blood is red, all human bodies have the same organs, and we are all susceptible to the same 97,295 accidents, injuries, illnesses and ill-defined conditions defined in the International Classification of Diseases 10th Edition, Clinical Modification. The fact that the largest organ of the human body, the skin, may be of a different hue or color, does not change any of that.
Thank you, Dr. Bosshardt, for posting this link. I plan to share it with others.
Powerful video the doctor has posted. I too hope TFP picks up on this.
This one is also excellent, Dr. Bosshardt - from FAIR which you provided.
"Understanding a School’s Role in Social Gender Transition: Parent Perspectives
Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VEuk7K2exA&list=PLGtHX8cqFXbDfa9c31xCbvU85-3uZyHY2&index=2
Agreed, Dr. Bosshardt. I listened to the Webinar you shared - where you are interviewed by Monica Harris, attorney and Executive Director of FAIR. You are a good person! I agree that most people do not believe in such things as "anti racism". They also do not believe in "gender identity". Yet these concepts rule all of our institutions. All of DIE is related/the same. I appreciated that Monica Harris mentioned the lack of evidence for "Gender" "Affirming" "Care" for minors. I list each word separately because each is used in an upside down Orwellian manner.
It is insane that a plastic surgeon like you can be canceled while Florida's notorious "Yeet The Teet" plastic surgeon has a strong voice:
https://gallagherplasticsurgery.com/
https://lilymaynard.com/wielding-the-sidhbh-gallagher/
It is so frightening to parents that most <doctors> are afraid to speak out and therefore overtly or tacitly endorse Gender Ideology. Are you aware of the lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics?
https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/10/Ayala-v-AAP-Complaint_stamped.pdf There is no such thing as a "trans child" - only a confused one. So many kids are confused by school and harmed by psychologists and plastic surgeons. In OR, WA, and CA the state will kidnap a runaway minor over "Gender Identity": https://www.pittparents.com/p/oregons-state-assistance-encourage "Sweet Caroline" to has the best comment to the OR article - beginning with "What is the endgame? Socialism and power, I think. Control"
Have you seen this one? The medical profession has lost it's way before: https://www.pittparents.com/p/eugenics-in-california-never-again
I will listen to Ms. Harris' Webinar on the school role in "Gender Transition" but I think I know plenty...
Dr. Bosshardt, I just watched the FAIR in Medicine talk that you posted. I’m thankful that there are still people like you in the medical field who are willing to push back against the lies. We need more courageous voices.
Thanks to both Monica Harris and Richard Bosshardt for speaking up. Great discussion!
Rupa is so right - "now is not the time to be polite."
To those who would try to take away our free speech rights - harsh words, a punch in the face and ultimately a bullet. This not a parlor game. No response to authoritarian repression is too harsh.
As far as the corporate toadies of repression? Smash them. Boycott PayPal. Nobody should use this payment "service." Consign them to a well deserved oblivion. Pull your money from any bank that shills for the government. As Rupa said, the United States must be a beacon when Ottawa and Dublin become mere apes for Beijing and Tehran. If the light of liberty goes out here, the globalist repression will be complete. Fight. Remember who you are. You are a free American. Be an example to the billions of people round the world who are watching
Not sure how we allowed the “be nice- don’t judge “ crowd to take over, but this has wreaked havoc on our people (children) and our country- especially conservatives who tend to be more religious. “Thou shalt not judge refers to judging the state of one’s soul NOT the actions or ideas a person does or espouses. We absolutely need to call out those who violate our constitution- including our own government and those who are in cahoots with them. It may be too late given how much power these institutions have.
A good parent isn’t just nice to their children. Sometimes (many times for some kids) a parent has to be down right “mean” to help the child mature into adulthood.
Thank you FP for calling a spade a spade and trying to get our country back on the right track!
"Kindness and Understanding" have been weaponized George Orwell style.
I confess that I laughed out loud last month returning from Europe to see the signs proclaiming "Border Security." As hordes of illegals make a mockery of our borders we play this odd game of pretend. Would be funny if not so sad.
Living in Totalitario (Ontario) I'm very grateful for journalists like Rupa who risk it all being on the frontlines.
Pierre will save you. Have faith.
YES! Well done, Rupa! Thank you.
She packs more information into 7 minutes than most people can in an hour. Ernie Pyle would like her.
The people Rupa is up against don't just want to curb Free Speech; what they really want is to curb Free Thought. They prefer a nice bit of Groupthink (and ironically they are so full of Groupthink that they are incapable of even realising it). https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/
Bari...it all started with you leaving the NYT. Look at the incredible ripple effect of that decision. Honestly, Common Sense and now The Free Press, the Twitter Files and now Julia Stenberg’s testimony before Congress among other important things especially the reporting on October 7. That reporting has probably been the only place to learn the truth of that horrible day. Thank you!
David, meet Goliath. And bring stones. And a slingshot.
I remember when Canada was emblematic of a free country. The fact that Trudeau remains in office is an embarrassment. Or does it say something about what Canada has become?
What happened in Canada is a cautionary tale. According to a recent poll, 73 % of Canadians want Justin Trudeau to step down. Speaking for myself, I can honestly tell you that I had no idea that he and the Liberal Party could do so much damage to our economy and our freedom so very quickly. I can’t wait for the next election!
Let's hope the 73% show up
It's that parliamentary thingee -- even more so that with the electoral college, that 73% must be properly located to have any effect.
Weird because experts have said that only the US' white supremacist electoral college can bring about minority rule. It's almost as if that was partisan self-interest dressed up in jargon.
I just read that 2 people who set fire and burned down a Wendys ina protest just got a 500 dollar fine with probation. I heard the chief of the capital police say that no one in DC was arrester in 2020 for the riots which burned down a church and injured tons of secret service. Bari - you need to do a story in Matthew Perna and what happened to him. (He walked calmly and quietly through the capital without touching anything or hurting anything and took his own life due to what the justice dept did). Have people heard this story?
Just a quickie: Although I'd like to claim Oliver Anthony for my home state of West Virginia, he in fact is currently living in Farmville, Virginia - which, by the way, to many people's surprise is indeed a different state.
OTOH, is it all bad that WV has a so-solid rep for being the likely home of such as Mr Anthony?
No, we'd claim him in an instant, but alas, 'tis not true .... It's sort of like being the Alleged President: if you cheated to win, you didn't win.
Yep. Same here in Southside VA. (Farmville itsownself, to be exact). The general consensus is that if NOVA - Northern Virginia - were to secede, there wouldn't be a shot fired. Hell, I'd help 'em pack ....
Sounds like The Line got drawn in the wrong place. No chance for a Mulligan?
I watched the testimony, but sadly, I could not find the Democratic response to them. I guess the Main Stream Media will work on her being a White supremacist. I think this is the #1 reason I am so anti-Trump. The people in the Biden administration are all part of the mindset that governs Canada. You don't elect a President as much as a team to run the government and enforce the laws. The people who run ours now are people who love the stuff that Rupa is speaking against.
But with Trump, the focus is not on them but him. And he would have it no other way. He is such an awful communicator and only persuasive if you are a fanboy or girl of him. The campaign in 2024 should be against a Man who is declining quickly, a cackling fool who, God forbid, ever gets power, but also the men and women who are ideological and incompetent. They must get soundly defeated, and sadly, Trump can not do that, nor if he happens to squeak out a win, govern competently, and communicate to the country while they are getting rooted out.
"I could not find the Democratic response to them. I guess the Main Stream Media will work on her being a White supremacist. I think this is the #1 reason I am so anti-Trump."
Huh? The very reason these people hated Trump was because he stood foursquare against their agenda. You might have things very backward.
It's not that Trump stood against them but how he does it. He is sadly undisciplined, vain, temperamental, and lacks couth. He offends the sensibilities of people who get so enraged by him that they will not look or listen to the threats of the real enemy in front of us. He does the right thing in the wrong way, thus incapable of forging a movement to depose the people in government.
So your answer is to support the people who do the wrong thing the right way? Trump may be all the things of which you accuse him but our liberties and our nation were safe under him. And until a younger woman or man with his same compass stands to replace him, I'm sticking with Trump. Warts and all.
And that is your right to do so but I feel he can't do the job. Thanks for your comment and enjoy your day.
Thank you, too. We don't have to agree on everything. As long as we agree on the fundamental issue of free speech.
DeSantis has a better compass and a real work ethic.
And DeSantis has a proven record of accomplishment. And he has proven he has the courage to take on woke madness, and doesn't care what pundits or late-night comedians say about him. Alone among all the candidates, he has served in the military. I hope he will be the Republican nominee.
Sadly, he is also "boring" by polictical standards. Americans are not great at voting for people who will actually do a good job unless they also somehow energize people. We like celebrities and drama and excitement. And most of the work of government is boring.
He is a great executive, but a lousy candidate.
People think Trump cares at all about our liberties? Does anyone listen to what he says? He'll try to ban whatever pisses him off at the moment. Trump (and the hard right) is not the fix for the hard left. I support non-extremists.
What liberty has Trump tired to suppress?
"He tries to ban whatever pisses him off"? What has he tried to ban?
When you call someone an "extremist" be careful that you're not simply parroting the cartoon of them by the leftist media. How many here think MTG actually fulminated against "Jewish Space Lasers?"
I am calling the far right and the far left extremist. Thus the 'far' part. My words. Not MSM.
I don't think Trump is effective. He seems uniquely talented at rendering the other side insane AND giving the other side more power. The result is the current mess we're in.
“He does the right thing in the wrong way, thus incapable of forging a movement to depose the people in government”.
As I recall, Trump got 74 million legitimate votes in 2020. The second most votes ever.
To be fair, a good deal of votes on both sides in the last few elections have been AGAINST the other side, not simply FOR the candidate.
To be fair, a good deal of votes on ONE side of the last election were attributed to those who didn't bother.
fair point :)
"does the right thing in the wrong way...." Now where, oh where have I heard that before? Kinda like "too busy to get involved." Buy either, and bye bye all that is good.
Vivek a Ramaswamy has the MAGA ideals without the Trump baggage. He is smart, erudite, and is currently doing the door to door work in Iowa and New Hampshire. If he pulls off an impressive showing, he has a real chance. The uniparty and MSM have been ignoring him outright precisely because he is most threatening to their totalitarian anti free speech policies. I urge people to follow him on YouTube and listen to what he says and how he says things.
He has no chance. And is kind of annoying, too. Got that oily used car salesman vibe going on
Yeah, I have liked a few things he has said, but like you, I get a slimy vibe...like we are getting a show as opposed to truth.
Listen to his interview with Jordan Peterson. After that, you can decide. I also listened to DeSantis interview with Jordan Peterson. DeSantis would be an awesome choice, but I don't know how either of these guys can break through the Trump barrier.
I love Ramaswamy for all the reasons you state but the flaw in your argument is that the deep state and their corporate media flunkies will employ the same playbook against him that they did against Trump. Contrary to your point, the reason the uniparty and corporate media haven't already is because they do not view him as a threat. He’s still relatively unknown but should that change, it’s so much easier to smear an unknown. Just ask RFK. It doesn’t matter if they can’t find any dirt, they’ll just make it up, like the whole Russia, Russia, Russia collusion lie. They’ll smear away because they know that by the time the truth finally comes out, it’s too late because they’ll have won.
The difference is that Trump has withstood all of that already. Their lies and corruption are being exposed daily. What else can they smear him with? People who are inclined to vote know Trump is being persecuted by a corrupt Biden/Obama regime JustUs department and the obedient Beria acolytes charging him with “crimes”. No one, not even the most deranged Trump haters believe there is any substance to them. What they do believe is that Trump is an existential threat to the ultimate authoritarian power they seek and they’re willing to do anything to stop him.
I think you're correct. Our basing our belief in a truth/fact based American reality against the realpolitik of their "willingness to do anything" is exactly the fight we're in. On our side, history says that the commitment to the fight immediately removes fear of the threat and clears the field of vision. Much of the mal force at work in American political reality depends on psyop, propaganda, obfuscation and fear and the amount of effort they have to put into maintaining the front makes me believe they're not as powerful as they would like us to believe.
The "uniparty and MSM" only ignore those that they perceive as being no-hopers. This is bankable.
I disagree. They ignore those they see as a threat. Sometimes they give space to the least bankable over the most threatening to help protect their incumbent choice.
When Mr deSantis looked viable, there was wall-to-wall negative comparison to Mr Hitler in the MSM. When he faded to irrelevance, he vanished. You are, of course, entitled to your opinion -- I'll stick with mine.
He has said he will just let Russia take Ukraine and let China take Taiwan.
He has no governing experience. After the ineffective Trump years I'd like a candidate who atleast understands where the levers are and how to use them.
Whatever anyone thinks of Trump, his ability to stand up under pressure is unquestionable.
Let me also make mention the candidate V.Ramaswamy (no idea how good a President he would be) is trying to have the same conversation we are: 1776, the Constitution, the citizen, and the ongoing American revolution. (And Trump often expresses the same idea's.)
I'll spare you the rant.
"couth" is what Canada where it is today
You have to win to do anything, and Trump is sadly a loser but Biden may be a bigger loser than him. It's an awful choice.
That may be true. I am struggling with that as well, as I don't like Trump. But I am also not sure who the better alternative will be. And it certainly isn't on the Democrats side of things.
If it comes down to Trump vs. Biden, I vote for Trump for the third time. Vivek comes off as too much of a smarty pants with unworkable solutions. Haley is getting sucked into the warmonger vortex and Desantis is still too young and lacks personaity. But I am voting for him as I think he can blow out Biden.
The fact that he lacks personality is what makes him a good executive. He has also withstood the media trying to bring him down.
I loathe Donald Trump. That typed he was effective. Petards work.
Fun fact: Petards are not swords or spears, they are small explosives, like grenades. The word “petard” was also used in French as a euphemism for “fart,” so being “hoist on ones own petard” actually means to be blown into the air by the power of ones own fart!
Igual en Castellano
I'm no longer a Trump fan but today's poll from Morning Consult gives him a 63 point lead over DeSantis, with Haley in third followed by Ramaswammy. It doesn't look like anyone is going to seriously challenge DJT even though he will be tied up in court for the next year or even in jail. While it's not my scenario of choice, four years of Trump would be vastly better than another four years of Biden - or, God forbid, Kamala Harris or Gavin Newsom. So before writing off Trump as a bloviating blowhard, which I understand, look at the likely alternatives. (RFK, Jr. is right on a few things but dead wrong on many more. He's a liberal with a few sensible views.)
Trump speaks the truth and the powers that be at the moment can’t stand it. The USA government needs an exorcism.
I agree, I do not think he can win. I'm ashamed of my party. This could be the easiest election year of our lifetimes if we just went with a non-Trump option.
My one suggestion to Rupa: Please speak more slowly! Unfortunately, she was probably under time constraints and tried to cram as much as she could into her allotted time. Too, bad, for her message needs full exposure to those who think Trudeau is our future.
When you only have 5 minutes and a 10 minute message, this is a pretty good compromise. Remember:
There once was a poet named Wood
Whose poems were not very good.
The problem was this:
He oft went amiss
By putting as many words, thoughts, and syllables into the last line as he possibly could.
Give ‘em hell!
I don't see that helping... given our enemies are obviously big mates with Lucifer. ;-)
I Cheated. I skipped ahead and read the last chapter of Revelations. (Spoiler Alert) He Loses.
Can I leave early now?
I'm 75. REALLY looking forward to going Home.
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man. The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
Paul
"I Can Imagine A Lot"
Hans Solo.
:-)
Amen. I have not frequented a church in many years but I do feel in my soul the anger and sorrow that is currently playing out against my brothers and sisters around the US and around the globe. This is very much a battle of the 'soul' just window dressed as rights, liberties, etc. The wolf is definitely leading many astray and they are too blind to realize it.
"I have not frequented a church in many years but I do feel in my soul the anger and sorrow that is currently playing out against my brothers and sisters around the US and around the globe."
If I may paraphrase Hebrews. Go To Church! :-)
Bingo